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A bill for an ordinance approving an agreement with the University System of New Hampshire for $599,072 and through 8-31-24 to provide training and consultation for the development of a Systematic, Therapeutic, Assessment, Resources and Treatment (START) clinical team for a crisis intervention system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities with mental/behavioral health needs (IDD/MH) and their families or caregivers (SOCSV-202159628-00). Approves an agreement with the University System of New Hampshire for $599,072 and through 8-31-24 to provide training and consultation for the development of a Systematic, Therapeutic, Assessment, Resources and Treatment (START) clinical team for a crisis intervention system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities with mental/behavioral health needs (IDD/MH) and their families or caregivers (SOCSV-202159628-00). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 10-4-21. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 9-1-21.

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Thank you. We're going to go back and try to get Mariana Thompson in the queue. And so I believe we have you moved over to the panelist, Mariana, and so we just need you to unmute, please. Mariana. Okay. It looks like we. Didn't have you accept the promotion. And so. We've tried a couple of times here and it doesn't look like. You're accepting it. Okay. All right. Well, unfortunately, we couldn't get Mariana in the queue. And so that concludes our general public comment session this evening. The next session will be held on Monday, September 27, sine it begins at 12 noon on Friday, September 24th. We look forward to hearing from you all again. Thank you for attending. And please stay with us to attend the Denver City Council meeting. It will begin shortly. Thank you. Well, go to your Denver City Council. Please stand by. Full coverage of your Denver city council begins now. Good evening. Tonight's meeting is being interpreted into Spanish. Alejandro, would you please introduce yourself and let our viewers know how they can enable translation on their devices? Of course. Thank you very much for having me here today. My name is Alex Sandro. Please be patient with me as I give these instructions in Spanish. One of those which is the rest is protected status nominates. Alejandro Arbeit. Elizabeth Nuland The other way to stand escuchar in a legal matter so preference here where they click and globo el mundo was apparently the supreme value they ran up on it and are the original in modo system wasn't the only Tallulah on O'Connell stressful business case. There must have been more. Chuck Grassley, thank you very much. All right. Thank you, Alejandro. Welcome to the City Council meeting of Monday, September 20th, 2021. Council members please rise. Are you, as you are able, and join Councilmember Canete in the Pledge of Allegiance. And experience on hand to reflect and proud. Council members please join Councilmember Kimmage as as the leaders and the Denver City Council land acknowledgment. The Denver City Council honors and acknowledges that the land on which we reside is the traditional territory of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho Peoples. We also recognize the 48 contemporary tribal nations that are historically tied to the lands that make up the state of Colorado. We honor elders past, present and future and those who have stewarded this land throughout generations. We also recognize that government, academic and cultural institutions were founded upon and continued to enact exclusions and erasures of indigenous peoples. Me This acknowledgment demonstrate a commitment to working to dismantle ongoing legacies of oppression and inequities and recognize the current and future contributions of indigenous communities in Denver. Thank you, Councilmember Canete. Madam Secretary, roll call. Black here. See tobacco here. Clark, here. Flynn here. And in here. Here. Cashman here. Can eat here. Ortega here. Sandoval. Here. Sawyer. Here. Torres. Here. Madam President. Here. 13 members. Present. There are 13 members present. Council has a quorum approval of the minutes. Are there corrections to the minutes of September 13? Seen none the minute stand approved council announcements. Are there any announcements this evening? Council member. Sawyer Thanks, Madam President. Just wanted to let the community know our annual mailer, which is which looks like this, dropped late last week and should be in District five resident mailboxes by now. So please take the time to fill out that 2021 resident survey. It's really important. That's how we know what our residents want us to advocate for over the course of the next year. District five also has a fun family event this weekend. We're looking forward to District five neighborhood night with the Colorado Rapids. So it's a picnic starting at 430 and the games at six, and then there'll be fireworks after. And you can purchase purchase tickets at bit .ly/d5 soccer night. And one last quick announcement. The District five cabinet in the community with the mayor is going to be this coming Tuesday, September 28th. Not tomorrow, but next week. And you can sign up to watch it. At the dot. L y slash cabinet in the community. I hope everyone will join us. Thanks so much. Madam President. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Sawyer. Next up, we have Councilmember Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. Just briefly, I want to publicly express gratitude to several people for handling a situation over the weekend that could have been very bad. A constituent notified me just yesterday of a a friend who had just had a baby by a C-section and was being discharged from the hospital but had lost her living situation . And I want to publicly thank Lieutenant Rad quality from District four police Karen via Grana from a district for civilian outreach team British Fisher from host and an and DNA from host and the Volunteers of America for on a weekend and on a during a Bronco game as well by the way, jumping on this and making sure that this woman and her new baby have a place. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Flynn. All right. Seen no one else in the queue for announcements. Will move on. There are no presentations this evening. There are no communications. And there is one proclamation being read this evening. Councilmember Sandoval, will you please read proclamation? 20 1-1086. Thank you. Council President Proclamation 1086 Bike to Work Day in Denver. Whereas Denver City The City and County of Denver partners with the Denver Regional Council of Governments, local biking, bicycling organizations and cycling enthusiasts each year to plan activities and events intended to promote awareness of the benefits of bicycle day bicycling.

AN ORDINANCE relating to termination of residential rental tenancies; providing a defense to certain evictions of children, their families, and educators during the school year; and amending Section 22.206.160 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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The Report of the Sustainability and Renters Rights Commission Agenda Item three Council Bill 120046 An ordinance relating to termination of residential rental tenancies, providing a defense to certain evictions of children, their families and educators during the school year, and amending Section 22.206160 of the Seattle Municipal Code. The committee recommends the Council pass the Council bill with a divided report with council members Swamp Morales and Lewis in favor and Councilmember Peterson opposed. Thank you, Madam. Councilor. So on. As chair of the committee, you are recognized in order to address. I am sorry. In order to provide the committee's report. Thank you. President Gonzalez, this is the legislation from my office banning the eviction of schoolchildren, their families and educators during the school year. It is common sense, but there are also mountains of research showing that when children are evicted, it has devastating impact on their academic achievement and their development and mental health. For example, the Losing Home Report found that code of evicted respondents with school age children 85.7% said their children had to move schools after the eviction, and 87.5% reported their children's school performance suffered very much because of the eviction. And in 2018, the state found that nearly 4200 Seattle public school children were homeless at some point during the school year. That is a staggering 7% of all public school children. And in practical terms, it means that in an average of 30 students, two will be homeless at some point during the school year. This is a racial justice and Black Lives Matter issue as well. Just as Seattle landlords evict black tenants at much higher rates than other tenants, we also see that black students and other students of color disproportionately face homelessness. And we should make sure, of course, to understand the causal link between evictions and the likelihood of ending up homeless. We know the Losing Home report also found that nine times out of ten evictions result in homelessness. The 2018 state data found that fully 40% of homeless students were black and 23% of homeless students were Latino. Even though those communities constitute only 14 and 12%, respectively, of Seattle's public student population. Preventing school year elections will reduce at least this one form of systemic racism that is affecting our students. In the class of 2018, for example, 55.2% of homeless students graduated on time, compared to 85 or 84.5% of students who were housed. So we see a dramatic impact of homelessness and evictions on children, graduation rates and the academic research into the impact of eviction and housing instability on students and children is also revealed, for example, the negative effects of instability on child development. The report, published by the Urban Institute, found that children experiencing residential instability demonstrate worse academic and social outcomes in their residentially stable peers such as lower vocabulary skills, problem behaviors, grade retention, increased high school dropout rates and lower adult education attainment. And similarly, research shows that turnover in school staff significantly harmed the school's effectiveness. And that is why this is such a strong bill where it includes not only school children but all educators, staff in public on public school campuses. And as I've said in the past, the eviction of children from their homes in one of the richest cities in the richest country in the world is a damning indictment of capitalism. But at the very least, the city has the power right now, just drop evictions during the school year and should do so immediately. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember Sawant, for that initial report. I do know that there is an amendment that you would like to bring forward, and there are I think you see at least one other amendment. So I'm going to go ahead and ask you. Councilors want to make your motion for proposed Amendment one. Thank you. A move Amendment One, which is a purely technical amendment, adding a severability clause. It was sent to the council offices last Friday. This amendment was developed based on the suggestion of Council President Gonzales. And I really appreciate your help on this, and I don't have anything more to add, but of course, I need a second . Yeah. Is there. I will second that motion. So it's been moved and seconded to adopt proposed Amendment one. Are there any additional comments or questions on proposed Amendment one? Hearing and seeing no additional questions. Will the Court please call the role on the adoption of Amendment One? Whereas I Lewis. Yes. Morales. As. Muslera. I. Peterson. I. Salon. Yes. Council President Gonzalez. I. Seven and seven unopposed. Emotion carries the amendment as adopted and the amended bill is before the council. Interstate Councilor Mosquito You have another proposed amendment. Proposed amendment to someone many go ahead and handed over to you to make your motion and and we'll see and then have a second and we will then allow you to address your proposed amendment. Thank you very much. Madam President, I move to amend Council Bill 1 to 0 046 by adding language from amendment number 2/2. It's been moved and seconded to amend the bill as presented on Amendment two. Councilor must get him to hand it back over to you to address your amendment. I thank you very much. First, I want to start with a thank you. I want to thank council members, want for all of the work that she and her team and the committee as a whole have done to bring forward this legislation for today. I'm very supportive of the underlining bill, and I want to thank her for her work with me as I brought forward a potential idea for amendment. We had some other ideas that we would have liked to include that we will continue to work on, and I'll make note on that here very soon, but wanted to do everything that we could to address some of the potential concerns that had been coming up for a very small sector of the community that has raised some concerns about potential unintended impacts to housing stability. In the very rare situation that there is a homeowner who has a financial limitation or other life circumstance that necessitates them to potentially move back into their homes. Colleagues, this is a very similar to the very narrow situation that we have included in the just care statute that's already in effect. And the amendment that I have circulated for your consideration today, which is outlined in amendment number two, is trying to make sure that we are addressing those very narrow concerns and applying an owner move in as an exemption during the school year moratorium. This has been discussed with housing activists, tenants, rights organizations and members of the labor community. And I think overall there is a broad understanding and desire to make sure that, A, this bill moves forward and is passed today, which I'm strongly supportive of, B, that we continue to address the concerns that are coming up about potential misuse of any of the exemption statutes across the board, which I'm very committed to and council members want. And I had extensive discussions about. And we will continue to work on and see that if there is a situation that arises for these individuals who happen to be very small landlords with, you know, one of these housing units that they do need to move back into, given their financial limitations or other hardships and life circumstances that we apply the very same language that we already have included, and the other two pieces of legislation in front of us today and that we've already included in the just cause legislation as well. I want to be very clear that this just cause additions here that we're talking about is not is just is just for the owner move in as they just reason for eviction. This is not a loophole, as there are many reasons that many owners may need to move into their homes, including life changes like the birth of a child, the loss of a job which so many folks have experienced, illness or relocation. These cases, which we expect to be very few, have meant that some of the owners who have some of these rental units are concerned about their own ability to have housing stability. The amendment would add in the owner move an exemption for owners to to require them to give the 90 days notice and to make sure that they are adhering to the requirements within the justice cause language. This narrow amendment is intended to be a response to those concerns that we've heard about possibly having instability in the housing market in those very few circumstances where some of these small, very small landlords are income restricted with one single residence, that maybe they can't depend on that residents anymore and they they're sorry their income any more and they need to move into their own families home. We know that Seattle's high cost of housing, there are a few circumstances where the owner residents may not have the financial means to line up other housing options for the length of time potentially required in the legislation as currently written. And so in these very narrow circumstances, we are hoping that this helps to create greater housing stability for folks in this specific situation. I really appreciate that there is a ongoing conversation that we have begun to address here today with the legislation in front of us through the other ordinances that we're continuing to pass today, and that there's a clear understanding that we need to make sure that our language around owner move ins is strengthened, that we make sure that there's penalties for people who are violating any of these narrow exemptions that we have written into statute. I noted earlier during council briefing, I am very interested in treble damages, making sure that renters are receive triple the amount of their rent that would otherwise be paid to in the form of rent had they stayed in the place. If there is any violation of the ordinance and also that we seek to enhance the enforcement statute by requiring a private right of action that includes any damages as well be paid to the renter. I think that many of these things are on the horizon for us to work on and they will apply broadly to the other tenant protection bills that we're considering today and just because language is already on the books. So I know that there's much more work to be done. And I am hoping that in. The case of this piece of legislation. Unfortunately, we were not able to include some of the stronger enforcement provisions that council members want and I had been working on due to the time limitations. But I am very committed to voting on this bill today. Did not want to hold it up. Greatly appreciate that it's in front of us today, know how urgently needed it is and an effort to move forward this narrow provision. I am asking for your support on amendment number two with the commitment, with the full throated commitment that we continue to make sure that there are stronger enforcement standards related to the department's ability to make sure that folks are adhering to our just cause language. I do want to thank Aaron House for the work that she has done with Councilmember Swann's office and a broad swath of stakeholders, including from the tenants, rights groups, labor organizations, housing rights groups as well. I think there is broad understanding that alone this is not enough that this moratorium, including language from this amendment, needs to be coupled with rental relief and repayment for small landlords. One memo that we received said that this more trans important. It's nice, but it doesn't stop it doesn't stop rent debt from accumulating rent relief and other forms of monetary support will definitely help and is much needed. And that colleagues who are providing assistance for Seattle Public School students with immediate health, safety and housing and educational needs show that rent and housing support is one of the highest requests where most of their money goes. So excited to pass this legislation. I'm hopeful that we can include this narrow addition here today, and we know that there's much more to do, both in terms of improving enforcement standards from the department and also making sure that we do more with rental assistance, which were teed up to do in the rental excuse me, which were teed up to do with the federal relief dollars. And we know we will continue to address in this fall's supplemental and budget process. So thank you very much for your consideration today. Thank you, Councilmember Mesquita, for the introduction of proposed amendment to. Are there any additional comments or questions about proposed amendments to. Councilmember Salam, please. Thank you, President Gonzales. And thank you, Councilwoman Mosquito. I really appreciate Councilmember Mosquito talking through this amendment with me in a very thorough manner. And I really appreciate the commitment to not holding up the vote because obviously, overall, I would say on renters rights, the city has a real work to do in terms of making sure that the laws we pass in favor of and protections are actually enforced. And so that's a larger conversation that I would really be interested in having and something that I've been most often and I've been discussing with renters and renters and rental activists over the years. But as I've informed Councilmember Mosquito, I'm not going to be supporting adding this loophole to the schoolchildren eviction ban that would allow landlords to evict children in the middle of the school year in order to move themselves or their family members into the property. I agree that this is a very likely only a very narrow issue. And I also agree that if it's applied in such a way that only small landlords who are facing this specific, difficult kind of situation, then it's then it's not that you cannot characterize it as a loophole, but the reason I would be concerned about it is twofold. One is that I don't think it is needed because with little foresight, with a little foresight, landlords should be able to arrange to move in over the summer so that they don't force a child to move during the school year, because it often also entails having to move schools in the middle of the school year . And that's the that's an onerous burden to put on a child. And so so in that sense, I probably this may not arise very often, but I would also be concerned that it may not be used by genuine landlords. And again, that brings up the overall question of enforcement and the concern that an unscrupulous landlord might, you know, use of also just saying that they intend to move into the unit and they have no and but that they are actually no intention of actually occupying and that after the fact, it's impossible for the renters or nearly impossible to figure it out and then follow up and and get reparations for it. And also, I think this amendment would allow any building on or not just small ones, to move themselves or their family members into the unit. So I still agree that it is probably not going to be very damaging, but at the same time, I would hesitate to be party to opening the door. And so that's why I would not support this amendment at this time. I really appreciate Councilmember Mosquito's interest in improving the enforcement in the future. And as I said before, my office has been eager to look into renters rights enforcement overall. So this is something that we would really be happy to follow up with you, Councilman, was get in any other council member who wants to look into this. And I also wanted to share with members of the public that I have discussed with the small landlord who is facing a specific situation, which sounds extremely problematic. It is an outlier situation, but nonetheless, it seems like a very troubling situation. But the landlord also themselves agreed that it is an outlier situation. And I also wanted to express publicly appreciation for this small landlord saying that they really support renters rights as a whole and that they had some specific concerns and that they would be willing to speak speak out in favor of renters rights as a whole, because as a small landlord, they they understand and appreciate the need for renters rights to be strengthened. So stop there. Thinking. Any other comments or questions on proposed amendment to. And looks like there are no other comments from other councilmembers. Their concern was getting you have the last word. If you could close out debate on proposed Amendment two, that'd be great. We can call it to a vote. Thank you very much. And I just wanted to thank council members want for her comments as well as we look forward to strengthening overall enforcement monitoring and and really compliance with legislation that's already on the books, I think that's important as we also look to expand the moratoriums that are in place because we want to make sure that folks are adhering to the existing laws and that as we allow for greater protections for tenants, that everybody knows both their rights and the responsibilities. So I look forward to that future conversation. Thank you, Councilmember Swan, for continuing to push, for broadening the enforcement elements of this, which I will be there with you to further those discussions. I really appreciate also that folks are acknowledging that this is a very narrow situation that we're talking about here in infrequent situation. But there have been a number of emails that we've received. There's a few stories. One example of a correspondence that we received was a family who has been living with other family, but they've since welcomed a new baby and has always intended to move back into the home that they've purchased and don't have the means to both pay for mortgage and take on additional debt or housing costs. And I want to reiterate that this is intending to try to find stability in the overall market, though we are very, very clear that the overall intent of this legislation is tremendously impactful, very strongly in support of the folks who have been advocating for this and the housing and tenant folks to see sell education. And Martin Luther King County Labor Council really appreciate the strong coalition that's supporting this legislation today. And so this very narrow amendment is, again, from our perspective, not a loophole. There's lots of a language that we already wrote that has already included this type of this type of allowance, which also includes the two other bills that we're talking about today, that look specifically at just cause reason for ending month to month agreements, which is included in Councilmember Silence and Morales right to refuse the legislation. That's also up for a vote this afternoon, which I'm very supportive of. And we're going to be working towards a greater, I think, broader swath of making sure that all of our enforcement mechanisms are properly in place so that if there is any of these situations in which a lease moves automatically to a month to month conversion, that the just cause ordinance and other protections are applied, apply it appropriately , and that we are strongly enforcing who is using any of these standards, because this is paramount that we get this right and we send a strong message to landlords that they are going to be watched if they are using any of these provisions. And overall housing stability is absolutely the goal of the legislation and the other narrow amendment in front of us. So with that, look forward to supporting the overall bill and bills in front of us today and think think very much councilmember support for your comments. All right. Thanks so much for closing out debate on proposed Amendment two. With that being said, will the court please call the roll on the adoption of the amendment? Once I. Lewis. Yes. MORALES Yes. Mosquito I. Peterson. Hi. Want? No. Council President Gonzalez high six in favor one of close. Emotion carries the amendment as adopted, and the amended bill is now before the Council. I am not aware of any other amendments being brought forward on this particular bill. So I am going to open it up for general comments again. Customers want you are the primary sponsor of this particular bill, so you'll get the last word to close out debate on the bill as amended. But before that, just want to see if any other council members have any comments that they'd like to make on the bill as amended. House member Peterson, please. Thank you, Council President colleagues, for those of you who are not on the Ranchers Rights Committee, I offered several amendments which I believe would make this legislation better. I wanted to offer those amendments, then debate those amendments, then that committee, rather than rehash them here. But I do want to explain my vote on this. I agree with the sponsor of the legislation that evictions present hardships for children and families. And no one wants to have this disruption that leads to learning, loss and instability for children. I voted in favor of numerous tenant protections during the past year, including the winter ban on evictions for low and moderate income residents. Free legal counsel for those in need and facing eviction and the payment plans for those negatively impacted by the COVID pandemic. Today, I supported the resolution to encourage another extension of the eviction moratorium to provide more time to have more rental assistance, money flow from the federal and state governments to both housing providers and tenants. Before joining the City Council, I helped to build and preserve tens of thousands of units of low income housing, and I worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, helping to allocate billions of dollars to address homelessness throughout the country. However, I believe a more targeted, direct and efficient solution is to fund tenant and landlord assistance for those in need, rather than adding another regulation that could be legally challenged because it leaves one party, the providers of the House, bearing the brunt of the cost regulating rather than funding the solution on a permanent basis is more likely to have a negative, substantial impact, not on so-called corporate landlords that can absorb these costs imposed by the council, but on the smallest landlords in our city. So for the three ordinances before us today, I had offered amendments that would have exempted small landlords owning four or fewer units in Seattle. Regarding this bill, 120046 this permanent bill that singles out educators or special rental protections. One of my amendments would have targeted the bill to assist teachers and substitute teachers and curriculum specialists, rather than every single employee at the school who might not be involved in the direct education of children. My amendment would still have kept the special new protection for the school children and their families. Another amendment would have made the bill more like the law from San Francisco, which limits the eviction protections to one. It is no fault of the tenant who is an educator. But my amendment would have been broader than San Francisco's because it would have still banned the evictions for school children and their families. Another amendment would have changed this permanent alteration of landlord tenant relations to an 18 month pilot program to determine whether it's effective or what its impact is. It's important for the general public to know that this bill is different from recent COVID relief bills because it would be permanent. I believe we should focus on getting targeted funding to those in need rather than permanently altering the contractual relationships. That puts the burden entirely on the housing provider. So to be consistent with my votes at committee, I'll be voting no on this council. Bill. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Peterson, are there any other colleagues who would like to make comments on this particular bill? I'm not seeing any other hands raised. So I did actually want to just add a little bit of context for the bill that we're about to be voting on. I want to signal that I am very supportive of this particular piece of legislation. And as a reminder, we have I have personally sponsored legislation, and we have all supported multiple pieces of legislation over the last year and beyond to provide additional rental assistance to people who who need it in this space. So, again, I think it's important to understand that in particular, some of these bills have identified funds, very much needed funds for to address the issues related to students experiencing homelessness. And of course, keeping students house has been something that I have personally championed additional resources for during the last three years. Now, for example, our families education preschool Promise Levy includes for the first time ever dedicated funding to the tune of $600,000 a year to address the experience of student homelessness. We've also provided funding for child care, for families experiencing homelessness, and we have added language. We added language the Jumpstart spending plan to require work with small landlords in addition to language focused on families with school age children. Our 2020 budget process ensured that there were additional dollars specifically designated for rental assistance to go to families with school age children of overall rental assistance for overall rental assistance resources. So my support of this bill is recognizing that there is a holistic way for us to continue to support the needs, the housing stability needs of our families and kids. And yes, more rental assistance is needed and yes, more dollars to allow for an invest in investment in the families. Housing stability is absolutely needed, but that isn't enough. We also have have an obligation as policymakers to fix regulations when regulations are part and parcel of one of the causes for why that housing instability begins and continues to pervade within our communities. So I'm excited to support this legislation and I look forward to future conversations with all of you who have expressed interest in identifying additional resources to support families experiencing housing instability. One of the things that my office has been following very closely is spending on the families, education, preschool and Promise Levy. And one of the things that we have begun to learn is that many of the dollars that we have identified to support specifically students experiencing homelessness, have not been able to be spent at the level that we expected, in large part because of at home learning. So there will be an opportunity for us to potentially work together as a council to reprioritize some of those dollars, to still meet the needs of students in our public school system, but be very nimble and quick with some flexibility as it relates to existing revenue resources. So I look forward to having those conversations with you all into making sure that we address those concerns. So I'm excited to vote on this bill. And with that being said, I'm going to hand it over to Councilmember Su want to close out debate and then we can vote on this bill and move on to the other suite of bills. Thank you, President Dallas, and I appreciate your comments on this bill and your support of it. I just wanted to thank the committee members, council members Morales and Lewis for standing with renders in the committee and voting against the amendments that Councilmember Peterson brought forward because they are not in the interest of renters specifically. I wanted to note that one of the amendments which would have divided public school workers into, you know, well-paid employees, better paid employees who would have access to this eviction protection and others who would not. It was important that the committee rejected that amendment, among others, and it reflected the the ideas and the sentiment of many rank and file workers and union members who stand for solidarity among all public school workers. And I really appreciate the Seattle Education Association, among the many other unions representing workers in the public school district who have taken such positions in the past. For example, the Seattle Education Association having public actions in solidarity with the ongoing strike at the time of the Teamsters 174 public school bus drivers. And overall, I appreciate the organizing of the Seattle Education Association. I have spoken out again and again in defense of their students and fellow workers in public schools. Every day, educators see the devastating impact of housing insecurity on young people, and they are organizing. Actually, as he is organizing was crucial also for passing the cap on movement fees that my office developed in 2016 alongside the Washington Community Action Network. And their support for today's legislation is also greatly appreciated. Now, I wanted to especially thank the leadership of the Seattle Education Association, including Jennifer Matter and Judy Hawkins, the president, the vice president, and also all of whom who made time to meet with my office to discuss the legislation and also rank and file union activists from Seattle , like Bruce Jackson, who brought the resolution to the ACA representative assembly supporting this legislation, which passed overwhelmingly, and Matt Neely, who presented to our sustainability committee also as an ACM member. Now I also wanted to thank the Martin Luther King County Labor Council School Board Director Zachary DeWolf, who brought this legislation to our notice in the first place, El Centro de la Rosa Sound Alliance and Seattle Council, Parent Teacher, Student Association, Socialist Alternative and the organizations in the State House, Healthy Coalition, all of whom who have advocated for City Council to pass a strong bill protecting students and educators from school year evictions. And most of all, I want to thank all the rank and file renters, working people, union members and socialist advocates for this bill. Thank you. Thank you so much. Conversant for those closing remarks. All right. That does close out debate on this particular bill. So I'm going to ask that the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the amended bill. Whereas I. Lewis I. Morales Yes. Well, Sarah, I. Peterson No. Silent. Yes. Council. President Gonzales. I. Six in favor one of those. The bill passes as amended and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Right. Close. We're going to move to item four. Will the clerk please read item four into the record? 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.

Rezones 59-75 South Jackson Street from PUD 512 to G-RH-3 in Council District 10. (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Rezones 59-75 South Jackson Street from PUD 512 to G-RH-3 (General Urban, Row House, 3 stories) in Council District 10. IF ORDERED PUBLISHED, A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON THIS ITEM. REFER TO THE "PENDING" SECTION OF THE FUTURE COUNCIL MEETING AGENDAS FOR THE DATE. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 6-24-15.

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Colorado Boulevard has high capacity transit running north and south, and also within easy walking distance is Alameda Avenue, where there is also significant amount of transit service available. Property is just under 19,000 square feet. And it's on the corner of Jackson Street and Bayard Avenue. The property owners requesting to rezone from 512 also to three. And you're probably seeing a common theme tonight, same neighborhood rezoning from PD to the grade three zoned district. Property owner desires or the applicant desires greater flexibility to respond to housing demand that meets current needs and conditions. PD 512 allows for seven attached residences in two structures one four unit building and one three unit building. And the maximum height is three eight feet. I have additional details available if there should be any questions related to the. Beauty standards. The grh3 or general urban road house three storey maximum zone district promotes safe, active and pedestrian skilled residential development and reinforces desired patterns in existing residential neighborhoods. And those specifically are consistent, shallow front yard taper, building heights on the sides or the side street and side interior and the rear. 20% of the lot is limited to one story, while the front 80% of the lot is allowed up to three stories. Now look at the existing context and the surrounding zoning. You see numerous pwds as well as g rh three zoning surrounding the property and you'll see in the existing conditions that much of the housing today is built in that 2 to 3 storey. Townhouse or rowhouse building forms. Also looking at some of the regulatory. Controls that apply to the site would be a look at the Cranmer Park viewpoint. It's intended to protect and preserve a panoramic view of mountains from Cranmer Park. But the maximum height as it would control heights above 100 to 204 feet, and that's well above the 35 foot high maximum in grades three. So now let's look at the existing context, beginning with the land use. So you see the corner property today. It's uses single family. However, it is vacant couple of little single family structures that are no longer inhabited and you see surrounding. On all sides are multi-family structures. Here's a view of the site. The center you see to the north. Well, excuse me. This is. Yeah, just to the north, you see two, two, two and a half storey row homes or multi-family units to the east. Two storey multi units also to the south. And to the west, this would be two and a half story. Multi-unit structure. And then here's a view of the site itself. Looking West facing Jackson Street. Reasoning process to present to present includes outreach to the registered neighborhood organizations listed here. And receipt of application was received for this. Particular project on a rezoning request on March 6th, Planning Board public hearing met the requisite written notice and signposting requirements . And then written notice for the June 24th Neighborhood Planning Committee met the ten day written notice. The planning board hearing was held on June 3rd. There was a Cherry Creek East neighborhood representative that provided a letter of support and also spoke publicly. Supporting the rezoning and also encouraging sidewalks and tree laws which are required at the time of site plan review. Through the development services review process. And Planning Board. Voted unanimously to recommend approval this rezoning application. Now go through the Denver Code review criteria, which begins with consistency, with adopt plans. And Comprehensive Plan 2000 encourages conserving land by promoting infill development that is consistent with surrounding neighborhood character and that provides a range of housing types and prices. Blueprint Denver concept land use as urban residential, which is defined as higher density, primarily residential development and a mix of housing types. And it shows is an area of stability which recognizes the established character of an area, but also encourages or allows. For a. Small amount of investment, whether infill redevelopment to stabilize the character of the neighborhood. Also in Blueprint Denver, we find street classifications for Jackson Street, which is on designated local street, which these streets provide access to homes and circulation throughout the neighborhood and beyond. Avenue is a residential collector and collector. Streets provide access between neighborhoods and are pedestrian oriented with three long sidewalks and on street parking. Next we have the Cherry Creek Area Plan adopted in 2012. Its plan encourages maintaining existing character and a walkable environment. The land use that you see here on the left with the site highlighted with a star is urban residential, which is defined as supporting a variety of housing types, including low and mid-rise multi-family rowhouse, duplex, single family accessory, dwelling unit and garden apartments. The plan also suggests respecting the existing scale, which would be defined as low scale buildings in residential areas. And here we see the maximum building heights map on the right, showing a maximum of three stories for this particular site in the surrounding area. The Cherry Creek Area Plan also recommends rezoning properties to appropriate Denver zoning code districts. The next review criteria. Would be met through General Urban Rowhouse three storey zone district, which would apply uniformity of district regulations on the property consistent with. The Zone district throughout the city, and it would further public health, safety and welfare, primarily through implementation of recommendations in adopted plans. The justifying circumstance would be a change of changing condition of the property in the surrounding area. And specifically the area surrounding the site has evolved into a predominantly multi-unit development and the site condition. Is vacant land and buildings that are prepared for some investment and redevelopment. The fifth criteria would be consistency with neighborhood context and the purpose of the zone district and the intent of the Zone District. So general urban neighborhood context. Is to promote safe, active and pedestrian skilled residential districts in a variety of residential districts. And specifically the general urban road house. Three storey maximum district accommodates the urban house, duplex row house building forms and the garden court apartment. And this would. The Southern District would reinforce desired patterns in the existing neighborhood. Cipd finds that all review criteria have been met and we recommend approval in this application. Thank you. Thank you. We have one speaker today, kelly choppin. So I knew. I'm sorry. Go right ahead. Hi, I'm Kelly Chauvin. I'm here representing the owner of 59 through 75 South Jackson and living in Golden, Colorado. Councilman New asked me to come up and talk about the plans for the site. The owner is currently under contract with a local developer on the parcel. The developer's built several different projects, row homes and duplexes in the Cherry Creek East neighborhood. And so I can't say for sure exactly what that developer plans on building, but I do know it will be within the grade three design guidelines and specifications, and any new development on the site will be a drastic improvement over what's currently there and will for sure help improve the Cherry Creek East neighborhood. And that is why the Cherry Creek Base has given us their full support of this rezoning. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Now time for questions from members of council. Guys. We're gonna take it. I did not hear Tim when you were talking. What? The amount of parking is that would be required for the seven units that are allowed on the site. 512 requires two spaces per unit or a total of 14. Okay. All right. And then on the design, sort of taking off with the questions that Councilman Espinosa was asking earlier. Will the. Design be allowed to have the parking where the driveway is off the street in the the unit, the drive, the parking is underneath the units and they face one another. We've seen a lot of those built in my neighborhood, and I'm just trying to get an understanding. I mean, I see samples of what some of the housing looks like that has been done throughout Cherry Creek. And it looks like most of the housing in Cherry Creek has the parking that's on the back, usually off the alley . But I'm not sure if. And I'm not sure this is the exact point that Councilman Espinosa was was trying to get at, but I think that would drastically change the character of this neighborhood if the parking was underneath the units and you drove into the center off the main street where, you know, they parked underneath. Okay. Just looking here at the rowhouse design standards and specifically under design elements. An attached garage is allowed may follow the detached garage building form side street side interior and rear setback so. I can't answer your question entirely. I can't. That's, I guess you. There's someone else in the audience who can. Would you please introduce yourself? Hi. Good evening. I'm Sarah Showalter, planner with Community Planning and Development. So depending the you know, how the parking is oriented and the units are oriented does vary depending on the building form that they chose to use, since there's a variety of building forms permitted in this zone district, but generally there that is an option of the sites large enough, there's not a there's not something that would specifically preclude that kind of setup, but it would probably be challenging on a lot of sites to do that design and meet some of the other design requirements, specifically if they use the row house form the requirement to have entrances for all of the units that face the primary street. So it'll be very challenging to meet that requirement and also have a design that you just described. So even though that is not specifically not allowed it, there are other design standards that would for that building form prevent that. Okay. Thank you. And answering my question. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Cashman. Thank you, Mr. President. Just a detail. Be sure I understand. I thought you said the P.D. says two spaces per unit required. What would the new zoning require? Is there any the minimum requirement of the new zoning code or the current zone district for three is one space per unit. Okay. Minimum requirement. Good. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. I just wanted to thank you for acknowledging that the garden court form is is also included in that, not deliberately admitting that. And so, yeah, to answer my colleague's question, it does depend on the physical nature of the site. The only way they actually can get those sort of back to back garages is if they have enough land area to have essentially two garden courts where they then can stick a driveway in between them. So. All right. Thank you, Councilman. Any other questions for 24? Scene nine public hearing is now closed. Time for comments, councilman. New. Yes. As the rezoning in their previously talked about, I'm in support of this rezoning. We I think from my discussion with the owner today I think the developers planning on building three duplexes. Not seven years, but six units. And so I think they hopefully should have more room to work with. So again, it's converting the PDS to more attractive homes that we're looking forward to in Cherry Creek East. And I think it's going to be a wonderful addition. And parking has been a big issue and all the Cherry Creek. Fortunately, a lot of the developers are building more than the minimum of one space per unit and I surely hope that the market conditions which will surely apply to these these town halls will probably dictate more than one space. So, you know, I do want to support this. I think it would be a good addition to Cherry Creek East Community and and look forward to this development. Thank you, Councilman. Do any other comments for 24? Katherine Espinosa Yeah. I do think that it's it's just a it's a fundamental difference in, in, in economics. And I don't know how we address this, but I'm going to look forward to doing that, which is in your case, in your neighborhood, you have a demand for large enough units that sort of justify big duplexes on this on 18,000 square foot parcels. But in my neighborhood and that's going to be a rowhouse with a garden court and it's going to be essentially three blocks of eight or something like that. And that's what this zone district allows. So my perspective obviously comes from a less high dollar neighborhood, but it's fast approaching your neighborhood. So, yeah, so there's something about the economics that drives how, how dense these developments are from a. Occupant standard, but it's the same square footage. But that's where it gets really difficult is when you have two dwelling units or four dwelling units, you have less demands, as you do when you put eight units and 16 units or more on that same parcel. And there's something in that delta that it would be nice if we had the mechanisms and means to address. Because when you go from four and the parking associated with 4 to 8 and the number of visitors to 16 and the number of visitors that come along there, it creates different pressures in our communities and the zoning. So somehow is not real cognizant of that. Thanks. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa. Councilman Cashman. Thank you, Mr. President. Just not a comment on really this particular development so much as piggybacking on Councilman Espinoza's thoughts on cleaning up our zoning codes and maybe being more descriptive. And it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me to have zoning accommodate structures, the size that we'll be building here, whether it's six, seven, five or whatever, and have one parking space per unit. So I'd love to see us start addressing a more sane set of parking requirements in Denver. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman. Any other comments for 24? Seen none. Madam Secretary. Roll Call New Ortega Assessment Black Clark High Flynn I Gilmore Cashman. I can ege Lopez. Hi, Mr. President. I. Uh, Madam Secretary, you do not see Espinosa, but I see Espinosa. Yeah, I was going to vote. You can change your vote or. Yeah. In fact, I was clicking on something else and that thing popped up. Thank you. Okay. You want to withdraw that and chime in, and then you can do your voice vote. All right. I. Thank you, Madam Secretary, please cast your vote in the results. 12 Ice. 12 Eyes for 24 has been placed on final consideration and does pass. See no other business before this body. This meeting is adjourned. Now. Denver, 82, New York City, your source? Denver eight. On TV and online. Stay connected to your community, your city, your source.

A RESOLUTION adopting General Rules and Procedures of the Seattle City Council; superseding Resolution 31920.

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Report of the Governance and Education Committee Agenda Item 17 Resolution 32029a Resolution Adopting General Rules and procedures of the Seattle City Council superseding Resolution 31920. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted as amended. Thank you, Madam Clerk. As Chair of the committee and sponsor of the resolution, I'll go ahead and address this item first and then we have a handful of amendments to consider during today's afternoon session here. So really quickly, colleagues, Resolution 31920 would adopt the Seattle City Council general rules and procedures of the Seattle City Council, which govern both our internal management and the procedures available to the public in order to access our democratic process. The City Council typically conducts a bi annual review of its procedures and rules that guide and facilitate councilmember duties and meeting deliberations. This year has represented a much more robust process than usual, as emphasized by the 15 amendments that were proposed and the 14 changes that were included in the base legislation. So I want to thank you all for your engagement on making sure that we get the council rules set on the right track for the next two years . There are many good policy changes in this resolution, but perhaps the most notable change to the council rules relates to the council meeting schedule. I'm very pleased that the committee adopted amendments to the council rules that will shift our regular council briefings to Mondays at 2:00 PM and change the date of our weekly full City Council meeting from Mondays at 2 p.m. to occur now on Tuesdays at 2:00 pm. I believe that this change will reduce the sometimes enormous amount of work that is required of council members and particularly staff on Saturdays and Sundays, including staff members in the city clerk's office and our I.T. department and other support staff, including our deputy city clerks . It is critical for council briefings and city council meetings to occur effectively and efficiently as a year round governing body, and particularly following the last two incredibly challenging years in which we have done our work entirely remotely. We have to acknowledge the limits on our individual and collective capacity and remember that we are in a marathon, not a sprint. So I'm hopeful that this particular change, along with others in the package, including electronic participation, including voting on resolutions and and other really important amendments on the Council, will help create a more efficient, effective and sustainable legislative process within this this legislative body. There were a few proposed changes to the council rules. That committee decided to take back up the amendments today. Those are the amendments that we will be considering during this discussion now and do want to make sure that I am facilitating the process for folks to be able to consider these amendments. So I'm going to go ahead and ask folks to reserve comments on the rules as a whole until we've considered all the amendments. And we will just focus our comments now and our discussion now on on various amendments that are going to be discussed all, again, consistent with comments and the discussion and the deliberation that we had in the Governance and Education Committee meeting last week on December 8th. I'm not aware of any new amendments being proposed. So these are sort of modifications and revisions or enhancements to policy issues or choices that have already been discussed publicly and in in two committee hearings. So this is our opportunity to make a final policy decision on some of these proposed amendments related to how we how the council will do business over the next two years. So the First Amendment is going to be Amendment eight two. This is an amendment that I am sponsoring with Councilmember Peterson. So I'm going to move to amend Resolution 32029 by adopting Amendment eight to that was recently distributed. Is there a second? Second? It's been moved and seconded to adopt Amendment two as recently distributed again as sponsor of the amendment. I'll make sure to address it first and then I will provide council. In an opportunity as my co-sponsor, to address the item. And then. And then we'll go ahead and open it up for public comment from the rest of our colleagues. The Governance and Education Committee took action on December 8th, as I just mentioned, to adopt an amendment sponsored originally by Councilmember Peterson. I was actually he authored it and I was your official sponsor. Since Casmir Peterson was not a committee member, is not a committee member of the Governance Education Committee. This amendment, authored by Councilmember Peterson, would allow council members to abstain from council votes on resolutions that were referred either to the council directly or to most standing and select committees prior to the council vote. However, council members would not be allowed to abstain from council votes on resolutions that come to the Council with recommendations from the Select Budget Committee based on discussions of various options at the Governance and Education Committee. The amendment before us now, which is Amendment 82, would allow council members to abstain on any resolution that in the in the discretion of the Council President does not retain materially to the city of Seattle. As we discussed during the Governance and Education Committee meeting. This amendment in committee, this amendment would not preclude the placement of a resolution of a resolution on the introduction and referral calendar, but rather would simply signal to Council members that they may now that they now have three different ways that they can vote on a resolution at full council. They can either vote yes, vote no, or abstain. So that that is the effect of the resolution that would be before us. So again, we are switching from the base resolution that included Councilmember Peterson's language that identified that a councilmember may only abstain from a resolution that was coming from the Select Budget Committee to making it a little bit more broader. To say that a council member may abstain from a resolution at full council if the resolution, as determined by the Council President, does not materially pertain to the city to the city of Seattle business. So that is the proposed amendment before us. I'm happy to answer any questions about the substantive amendment, which is fairly simple, I think, and provides an opportunity to to again abstain on only those resolutions that the council president determines are not materially related to the City of Seattle business. Councilmember Peterson, would you like to make any additional comments? Thank you. Council President. Just just briefly, it was fun working with you in your office on this amendment and appreciate bringing this option forward to just give council members additional flexibility and choice to abstain on these types of resolutions. And this brings us closer to Robert's Rules Order Standard and what other Washington citizens are doing. So I appreciate collaborating with us. Thank you so much, Councilman Pearson. I appreciate the opportunity to work with you and your office as well. Any other comments or questions on a proposed amendment? A two. Oh. Can't remember her. Please. I'm so sorry to do this, but I. Even though I really like the direction that things were moving in, in committee, trying to define the types of resolutions that council members were seeking the opportunity to abstain on. And I feel more confident in, for instance, the ability to abstain on resolutions that really relate to international relations, like I that is language that I don't think there would be any unintended consequences with. I am concerned about the unintended consequences of saying of the Council taking an action to say that something isn't city business. And I am just recently working sort of through my thinking on on that with some assistance from the city the city light apartment. And given the concerns I have about the potential unintended consequences. I am not going to be able to vote in favor of this amendment, though I did really like the direction it was moving in. Thank you. Councilmember Herbold, any other comments or questions on amendment aid to. Right. Hearing none. Will the court please call the rule on the adoption of Amendment a22 Resolution 32029. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Musgrave I. Petersen I. Strauss Yes. Herbold No. Whereas yes. Council President Gonzalez I. Seven in favor. One opposed. Thank you so much. The motion carries, the amendment is adopted and we now have a amended resolution before the council. I'm going to hand it over to Councilmember Herbold now, who has a motion to make related to Amendment The. Thank you so much. I would move of Amendment B in resolution 31920. Okay. Thank you so much. It's been moved and seconded to adopt Amendment B as recently distributed. I want to hand it back over to Councilmember Rebel to address her amendments. Thank you so much. Glad to have this opportunity to bring forward an amendment that speaks to the consideration of how we will be returning to our civic building in the coming year and doing the public's business. Thank you again, Council President Gonzales, for supporting and encouraging all council members to participate in this conversation. The Committee and for originally sponsoring the amendment that I authored regarding E participation. Also appreciate, of course, the collaboration with Councilmember Mesquita, who is a co-sponsor to this amendment and her office to retain to refine the E participation proposal. And please, we were able to come up with a revised amendment circulated this morning. And just the the intent of the of the amendment underscores that when we are returning to our civic building, it is important that we take advantage of some of the lessons that we learned during the pandemic and that robust electronic participation is possible . Previously, council rules allowed for electronic participation in a very specific, very narrow set of circumstances. We have been able to do electronic participation throughout the pandemic only because of the governor's executive order related to the pandemic. So the current proposal states a preference for conducting business in person, but it also allows for electronic participation whenever technically feasible for any reason. And it asks council members to communicate well with the Council President's office and allow staff to plan ahead by providing 48 hours advance notice of electronic participation when they can do so. I think this threads the needle on broadly allowing for electronic participation, while also recognizing the additional burdens on staff for supporting this hybrid meeting model. Thanks to Customer Mosqueda for working with my office to strengthen the amendment, which will set the tone, I believe, for our return to City Hall, and I urge the full council's adoption. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember Herbold. And I'm going to go ahead and recognize Councilman Christina as one of the co-sponsors of this amendment as well. Thank you, council president. I want to thank Councilmember Herb as well and echoed her sentiment. Appreciate the opportunity to work with you and your team. Christina has been great about working with us to ensure that we have equitable access to electronic participation. Thanks so much to Social Perri for spearheading those conversations and working with your team. And thanks to Dan Peter from central staff for his work on these amendments and all of the time that you all took over the last few days to really finalize this language, I think it's really important to get this right. With the COVID 19 pandemic, we see that there's so many times where public health and equity reasons might cause a councilmember to not be able to participate in person and really appreciate that this legislation and the amendment in front of us today really helps to make sure that no one is choosing between doing their job and ensuring broader participation in the public deliberations of our work and protecting the public's health as well. So thanks so much for all of the cooperation, customer support. It's so much councilmembers Herbold and Mosqueda for making comments on Amendment eight. Are there any additional comments on Amendment B? I'll just say thanks so much to both of you for working together. We had a really robust conversation about it during the Governance and Education Committee, and I'm glad that you all had an opportunity to work offline and thread the needle here in a manner that meets both the goals of flexibility, but also safety, and an opportunity to allow. Our. Technical staff to to really have the opportunity to facilitate the needs of council members who may want to or need to continue to meet in a hybrid fashion. Appreciate your your collective work on that, because remember anything else? All right. I think we're ready. Let's see here. Will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of proposed Amendment B? LEWIS Yes. MORALES That's. Was it a i. Peterson I. Strauss Yes. Herbold Yes. Whereas I council President Gonzales I eight in favor and unopposed. The motion carries an amendment be is adopted. I'm going to hand it over now to Councilmember Strauss to make his motion on proposed amendment c. I think he council president I'm offering amendment C version two to this resolution. And I would like to move Amendment C, version two as distributed to colleagues earlier today and I believe is attached to the agenda as well. Okay. Thank you so much. Just maneuvered and seconded to adopt Amendment C, which was recently distributed as Strauss. Back to you to address your amendment. Thank you. Council President. This amendment was redistributed to add increased clarification regarding the amendment. What I'll say is top line. These rules are already in place because our council rules refer to Robert's Rules of Order as far as deliberations are concerned. This is just taking Robert's rules of order and putting them in our rules so that we know what we are supposed to be doing. This amendment was limited to me by council members to 10 minutes per speech promotion. The rules resolution already states that council members are limited to two speeches promotion. That limit does not include questions. So this ten minute limit is already stated within Robert's Rules of Order, which apply wherever council rules are silent. And this amendment would restate that the ten minute limit on council moves for clarity, for clarity and emphasis in committee are proposed to limit the same amendment, but to limit the debate to 5 minutes per council member promotion. Because I figured if we request the public to address us within 2 minutes, we can do it in five. But the amendment failed and so this amendment would set that limit at 10 minutes, as including Robert's Rules version two of the amendment, which was distributed just before this meeting, simply changes the word voice to unanimous consent at the request of the city clerk's office. Thank you, Councilperson. Thanks so much, Councilmember Strauss. Appreciate it. Are there any additional comments on this amendment? Cosmo Peterson, please. And then Councilman Mosquito. Thank you. Council president. I'd like to speak for 12 minutes in favor. As you all. Know, I have been timing you. I really appreciate this amendment. Thank you, Councilmember Strauss. All right. What about short and sweet? Okay. Any good? I'm sorry. Councilman Moscato, please go ahead. I'm still laughing. That was really funny. Councilman Strauss, thank you very much for your work on this amendment. Appreciate the clarifications that we've also received from central staff and the clerk's office about the ability to answer questions. If I have questions directed at a council member or those, the time that it takes to answer a direct question as amended by the Council President does not count towards the full ten minute to ten minute allotments. Also appreciate that there is work being done through this amendment which puts this Roberts rules recommendation in the affirmative. We will automatically assume that we're going to have these ten minute allotments versus having the body vote to support it. I think that will help with a number of items, and I appreciate that there's some flexibility if the body decides to vote otherwise. But thank you very much for the work that you've done here. And I'm happy to support this amendment in front of us today. All right. Because more stress. You will have the last word if no one else has anything to say, because I do try to enforce the Robert runs for order to the best of my ability. Colleagues, any other comments before we hear closing remarks from Councilmember Strauss? I'm not seeing any other hands raised. Councilmember strauss, you have the last word. I thank you. Council president noting this is my second time speaking in on this motion and both Councilmember Peterson and Councilmember Mosqueda clocked in at just a heckle, a freckle, past the hair as far as timing goes. All right. Back to you. Those 17, 17 seconds, Councilmember Strauss. All right. I'm hearing no additional comments on Amendment C. Will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of Amendment C two Resolution 32029. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Let's get up. Hi, Petersen. Strauss Yes. Herbold. Yes. Whereas. Oh, yes. Council President Gonzalez. I paid in favor and opposed. The motion carries. Amendment C is adopted and the amended resolution is before the council. That is the last, the third and the last amendment that I am aware of related to resolution 32029. Are there any further comments on Agenda Item 17, Resolution 32029? Councilmember please just want to thank you, Council President Gonzalez, for guiding this discussion. At already mentioned, I appreciated the collaborative approach and allowing us all to come to your committee and provide comment and sponsoring amendments on our behalf if we weren't members. But I also really appreciated that we did this before the end of this year so that we could have the benefit of your wisdom, having been our Council President for the last last two years. And I think a lot of a lot of the input has been really well. Informed by. Your another set of your lived experiences. President Gonzalez Well, thank you. Thank you, Councilmember of all. Appreciate it. Okay. Any other comments? I'll just close out by saying a big thank you, colleagues, to all of you for all your engagement in the council's revision process. A lot of work has gone into briefing council members, analyzing proposals and preparing various amendments. And for that work, I especially want to thank the staff members on the Council Roles Working Group from the Office of City Clerk Monica martinez Simmons, Elizabeth Atkinson, Jody Schwinn, Linda Brown and Amelia Sanchez. Thank you. From central staff Esther Handy and Dan Heater. Thanks to both of you. When the city attorney's office, Brandon is leaving Gary Smith and finally, my very own deputy chief of staff writer from my office, who played a very significant role in making sure we all stayed on track and and were able to get this across the finish line in a way that was truly a consensus document. So much gratitude to all of them. We are, as I mentioned before, making a number of proposed changes to the Council rules via Resolution 32029. As always, this was an iterative process that will require feature, revision and refinement by the future council. So many of the things that we are implementing through these rule changes are new to both the Council's culture and the way we do business. And so it will be important for the next council president in two years from now to to have a look back process to make sure that there is an opportunity for all of those representative sections of the council rules. Working Group can give the next council the benefit of any any learning that was had that would necessitate an additional change to the Council. So thanks to everyone for your deep engagement. And with that, colleagues, we are at the place where I am recommending adoption of this resolution and I will ask that the clerk please call the role on the adoption of amended Resolution 32029 Agenda Item 17. Lewis. Yes. Morales. This was set up by Peterson I. Strauss. Yes. Verbal. Yes. Or as I counsel President Gonzales, I aid in favor and unopposed. The motion carries. The resolution is adopted as amended, and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? The Court Please read the short title of Item 18 into the record. The Report of the Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee Agenda Item 18 Council Bill 120215. An ordinance relating to Land Use Review Decision Procedures amending sections of the Seattle Missile Code. Authorized Director of the Seattle Department of Construction Inspection to administratively waive development standards.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Section 21.15.1756 and Section 21.45.600, relating to micro-units, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

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Great. Thank you. Next. Next hearing is turning 50. I'm sorry. I'm 50. Please. Report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and declare an ordinance creating a pilot program to allow up to a maximum of 500 micro unit housing units. Read the first time and later the next regular meeting of City Council for Final Reading Citywide. Oscar Orsi. Development Services Director, will. Introduce the staff for this. Presentation. Thank you, Mayor. Council members. This is a great, exciting opportunity to bring this pilot program to your attention for your review and approval. This is a new housing type that will hopefully be affordable and provide another option to our community. And with that, Patricia will provide you a presentation. Good evening again, Mayor and council members. I'll be very brief for this item. This is a zoning code amendment to allow a micro unit pilot project for up to 500 units. These units would be permitted in the in the eligible area is the midtown area specific plan area and the Downtown Plan Development District. This will help implement the housing element and help us reach our new housing, our main goal of 2600 units that are required by 2029. It implements many different policies of previous studies and reports prepared on housing. It is a pathway to affordable homeownership, these micro units, and they are typically, in terms of rents, they're typically 20 to 30% lower than rent for a studio. So it's a market based, affordable housing solution. This will be a program to allow units and take away some of the barriers that exist towards those units, including open space requirements that are on a per unit basis. It will define what a micro unit is and allow adaptive reuse of michael micro units and but it will prohibit them in buildings that are already developed with residential uses to limit any displacement potential. So there was no outreach done on this ordinance as part of the housing element update process and next steps are to report back to the Council on the Pilot Program and to recommend permanent zoning code changes upon understanding how this is received by prospective developers. So with that, the recommendations are to determine that the zoning code amendment is categorically exempt from secure and to adopt the amendment to establish the micro unit program. That concludes my report and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. There's no public comment. I got a motion and a second, please. I just want to add as we get those motions in, this is something that I remember for sure talking about with then Vice Mayor Susan Lowenthal. It's something that I've always supported. Our Workforce Study Group, Housing Group also put it in their report. This is really exciting. Thank you to the staff. I know I've been pushing you guys on this. Just we got to support all types of new housing. And I think you heard a little bit in the last conversation how important housing is, how important growth is going to be. These are these units are not white picket fence units. They are units that are affordable, that are dense and that have a different type of person that can afford to live there. And so we want to be a city that welcomes and supports all people and all types of folks in these units. And so with that, I have a motion to approve 1/2. But Councilman Sun House and Councilmember Pearce with that roll call, please. District one, district two. I. District three. I. District four. All right. District five. I. District six. District seven. I District eight. Hi. District nine. All right. Motion carries.

Recommendation to declare ordinance adopting an amendment to Ordinance No. C-6496, adopted July 5, 1988, and amended on January 24, 1989, July 11, 1989, December 5, 1989, March 20, 1990, July 3, 1990, September 18, 1990, July 2, 1991, July 7, 1992, January 26, 1993, August 24, 1993, June 28, 1994, July 18, 1995, November 28, 1995, October 1, 1996, March 25, 1997, October 7, 1997, October 27, 1998, April 20, 1999, October 19, 1999, October 17, 2000, October 30, 2001, March 19, 2002, November 26, 2002, January 6, 2004, February 8, 2005, November 1, 2005, December 5, 2006, March 20, 2007, May 22, 2007, December 18, 2007, July 15, 2008, September 21, 2010, September 13, 2011, September 11, 2012, and October 3, 2013, relating to departmental organization of the City of Long Beach, read and adopted as read. (A-12)

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Yes, it is 112 item 1.12. I make the motion to declare ordinance amending the departmental organization ordinance. That makes no sense. What? I make the motion to declare an ordinance amending the departmental organization ordinance reading the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting to the City Council for final reading. Thank you. There's been a motion in a second, and I know that Miss Erickson would like to address this item, please. Thank you, Vice Mayor. This item before you, has been amended based on the mayor's recommendations that were passed just a few minutes ago as item 1.10 and specifically on page ten, online 11. We are renaming the Department of Technology Services to Technology and Innovation Department. So that is the change on this item. So I am in my motion to the recommended change that Ms.. Erickson just articulated. So second to that, there's been a motion and a second. Is there any member of the public that wants to address Council on item 1.1 to seeing nonmembers cast your vote? Okay. Actually, there is a a coming from customary ranga. I'm sorry. Thank you, Mary. I want to also I want to compliment the civil service department for its restructuring and reinstituting the recruitment division into its department, because recruitment obviously is very important when we come to looking at the diversity in the city. As I mentioned in the previous meeting, diversity is an important issue within the city in regards to how we address the needs of our community and the changing demographics that we have in the recruitment division will be one of those divisions that would address diversity in our employment and our representation as to better opportunity and access for people in the community to not only get jobs, but to service our individual residents. So I commend the civil service department for that as well. Thank you. Thank you. We have an item before us. We've done public comment. Any public comments to mayor? I think I think we have comments from Councilmember or at least questions. And I have a question to Mr. Ericson as well. The department change, the name change. Can you repeat that? From what to what? So, Vice Mayor, it's the Technology Services Department and it's actually on page eight and it's now going to be the Technology and Innovation Department. Okay. Thank you. Technology services to technology innovation, correct? Yeah. And then there was a quick ask a question about Councilmember Mongo. I know you didn't mention the director of Economic and Property Development change on 13. Is that part of this this motion as well, or no. Mr. Mayor, that's going to be the next item. 1.13. Thank you. So, members, please cast your vote. Motion carries nine zero. Thank you. Item 1.13. I moved to adopt the amended salary resolution for fiscal year 15, and I believe Ms.. Eriksen has an amendment to that.

Recommendation to request City Manager to work with the Public Works and Development Services Departments, California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) and Los Angeles County, to prepare a report on the status of neighborhood clean-up programs and right-of-way maintenance as impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; and Request City Manager to work with the City Health Officer and various Departments to present recommendations on how to safely restart the Long Beach Neighborhood Clean-Up Assistance Programs and other neighborhood improvement programs that have been discontinued due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Motion carries. Thank you very much. Item 22, you go ahead with the item, please. Communication from Council Member Richardson. Recommendation to request City Manager to work with Public Works Development Services Caltrans in Los Angeles County to prepare a report on the status of neighborhood cleanup programs and right of way maintenance as impacted by the COVID 19 pandemic. And request city manager to present recommendations on how to safely restart the Long Beach neighborhood cleanup assistance programs. I thank you. I know that we have made have a brief staff report on this. So I'm I mean, this is a powerful agenda item. Okay, so rexy. Okay, you go ahead and you comment. Thank you, guys. So. So the last few months obviously have been challenging for the city. We've we've had to face a crisis on multiple fronts here. And and over that time, we've seen some significant impacts to the maintenance of some of our our rights of ways, our freeway on and off ramps, our river, some of our streets . And prior to the pandemic, there were just a lot more hands to contribute to this. Community groups partner with Neighborhood Services Bureau and partnered with Public Service Public Works to facilitate regular cleanups. You saw regular Caltrans cleanups on the on and off ramps. You saw freeway coordination and flood control coordination. But since March, there's been there's been some challenges. We haven't been able to assemble under the health order around large dumpsters and get the community involved in cleaning up the neighborhood. We've seen in certain situations, Caltrans and L.A. County have either changed their schedules or stopped cleaning up some of these rights away altogether. There's also other issues we'll hear about from staff about just the impacts of our work or workforce or the impacts on our local sort of clean team. And and we want to support them and we want to figure out what we can get done. I have a few slides here. We'll go through them pretty quickly. Let's go to the next slide. This is the recommendation. It's already been read by the clerk. We want to look at what we can do across agencies, what we can look, what we can do internally, and how we can work with our health order to really address the barriers to our Neighborhood Clean Up Assistance Program and other programs that we've done. Let's go to the next one. Here's some examples of the things that we've seen. So this you know, this is this is a Caltrans property is not the city's property. Typically, we will be able to report this type of thing, work with neighborhoods, work with the different neighborhood associations, and get in there pretty, pretty easily. We'd help or Caltrans would help and get that done. And what we see now, it's very difficult to get a response from Caltrans and it's having an impact on our quality of life. What's the next? And here's another one. It's a fire hazard. There's an encampment back there. It's yet another Caltrans right away. Let's see another. This year. This was an encampment in a dump site that you can see directly off of Artesia Boulevard. That's the 91 freeway above it. So you can see this from from Artesia Boulevard. And it's over time, it's gone from under that underpass all the way to Artesia Boulevard. I showed this to our city manager. They got out there and cleaned it up in a matter of weeks. The trash all came back. This is another example of what we've seen. What else was it? I think we have two more. This is we had public work come out, help us do a neighborhood clean up. And we heard at some of the, you know, some of the concerns. And and we have, you know, occasionally we get we get assistance with these things. But again, it's it's overwhelming. Let's see the next command. So this is what we're looking to do here. It's a report on what we can do. Let's look at communications. Outreach does work with other jurisdictions. Let's work on the interagency plan. And we and I know that there's concerns from other council members. This is a good platform to put it on the table and let's hear from staff. So that's my presentation and I'd love to hear from staff now. Thank you. Council Member So yes, we can certainly come back with some more information as the item requests. We can give a brief oral report tonight on some of the challenges. This is something we've heard about from every single council office about the need for additional cleanups. We are seeing an increase of trash with COVID and we have had some challenges. I'll turn it to Eric and Nico to give some high level comments on some of the challenges and what we're doing about them. DPKO, Mokonyane or deputy director will give the report. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council, I want to first thank you for the opportunity for us to speak on this topic tonight. It is something that this pandemic has really impacted staff and our ability to provide service. And so I just want to go over a few things, a few statistics and a few explanations as to what is impacting the service and then talk about moving forward. First of all, we start with daily sanitization protocols. Staff spends more time each day to make sure that their vehicles sanitized, their equipment is sanitized. That's wiping everything down at the beginning and end of shift and between certain service provision, certain service provisions. We also, with our clean team, typically utilize community service workers to help supplement our deep cleaning and our cleanup of areas with people experiencing homelessness and whatnot. We typically have eight community service workers a day, but we have not been utilizing the community service program since the middle of March when the shelter at home order went into place. That means that we've lost 320 Labor Hours per week just from community service workers. We have on top of everything well, we'll talk about some increases, but on top of that, we've seen a 23% increase in sick leave usage. We encourage people who may feel they have symptoms to stay at home. We have had numerous occasions where we've had to have multiple staff quarantined during this process, too. We typically have 1 to 3 people a day calling in for childcare issues, and we have had no community cleanups since the middle of March. Typically last year with Brown, this time we had done about 54 community cleanups in the Clean Team alone. This year we stopped at 15 in the middle of March. And, you know, we have the upcoming challenges of furloughs and we have had a hiring freeze. But the city manager has lifted that freeze for those operations because he recognizes the challenges we're facing. So now I'd like to talk about the workload. So pre-COVID through February or March or middle of March versus since COVID, we have seen nearly a 13% spike in the amount of trash that is coming from residential and commercial collection. To put that in perspective, you're talking over 25,000 tons of trash in a year. To further put that in perspective, that translates to about five and a quarter routes per day, which our current staff is absorbing, all while having a higher increase in sick leave. This also results in about $1.5 million in additional disposal fees. So the impact to our residential refuse collection and commercial refuse collection is huge. And I point this out because the clean team supplements the the refugees collection group when we are too shorthanded to be able to collect everything. We have seen a 41% increase in special pickups. We used to average just under 2500 special bulky item collections a month. We are now averaging 3500 bulky item collections per month since the pandemic. We have seen an increase in illegally dumped item reports from nearly 2000 among nearly 2600 a month. Our refuge hotline has increased for calls and our hotline has increased from 9700 a month to over 13,000 a month, with a peak of 14,500 plus in both June and August. Our goal Long Beach requests have increased from 3300 a month to almost 4600 a month, with a peak of 5300 in August. There's also been a corresponding reduction in cleanups or encampments for people experiencing homelessness from about 86 per month down to 45 per month. And that's for a couple of different reasons. One being that part of the pandemic was to not displace people that were homeless too much. And secondly, those are the resources that are going to help support the other operations, the other parts of the operations. And as far as greedy abatement goes, we've gone from nearly 7000 per month to 7500 per month. So you can see that the the pandemic has created a situation where people are at home, they're redoing their homes , children that would normally be throwing their trash away at school or throwing their trash away at home. Adults that might be throwing their trash away at work or throwing their trash away at home. It's resulting in overflowing trash conditions, especially in multi-family areas. And we're trying to address all these issues. We're trying to right size accounts when we see overflowing places. But right sizing accounts means charging more for additional pickups, which some people are very resistant to at this time. The good news is, as I said, the city manager has allowed us to do some hiring. We currently have four people going through the refuge operator hiring process. We're conducting weekly interviews. We are engaging the Conservation Corps to help us pick up some slack in areas where we're struggling right now and we're already having discussions about how to properly restart neighborhood cleanups. That's where I'd like to end. If you have any questions, I'll be available. Yes. There. It's way to. One. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Ever since the day I. Say thank you. I swear if I didn't hear a second. So I would like to. Second, if that's needed on this presentation. I don't know if it's needed. And I just want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Eric. Thank you to two public works. They they have been extremely, extremely burdened during this corona virus times, but they also have been so willing to work with us. And I know particularly that they get a lot of a lot a lot of phone calls from my office and requests and stuff. And I really I really appreciate the a reference that Councilmember Richardson made to the point that, you know, our crews go out there and pick it up and then like a day later or something, the trash is back there again. Of course, that that's going to take a little bit more thought on how to resolve that. But I know that you guys are working really hard in in trying to address this this issue. And I appreciate that. I know my staff really appreciates you guys being very open to helping us clean up in the neighborhood. And, you know, I'm also looking forward to reaching out to our L.A. County so that they can either give us permission to help clean up their area or come help us in cleaning up their areas. So, again, thank you, Councilmember Richardson, for bringing this forward. And I know that this doesn't only affect my my district and that it does affect citywide, but I feel like this has been a continuous issue in my district. So thank you. I'm here. Is to kill. Thank you, Vice Mayor, and thank you, Councilmember Richardson and cast member as in Dallas. I think we've all noticed an uptick in interest in our districts and whether it's in the alleyways or on the street. And it's been it's been frustrating, but recognizing, I think, the balance that Stark laid out is a tough balance. I have a couple of questions. First off, I know particularly in East Village, we had done a pilot program around lock bins. Probably every week I get three or four different people sending me images of the trash bins overflowing there. And I'm not sure if you have a status update on this, but I know that we have had a report back that said that the Lock Bin program was working and it was successful. But I don't recall if we ended up making that a mandate, an ordinance, and if we expanded it outside of East Village. But I think it would be a good time to revisit that. Do you have any updates on that program? Thank you, Councilmember. Yes, we did do a pilot program, as you said, and we saw some success with that. I think part of the problem currently is, as I said earlier, that because of the amount of waste that's being generated with everybody staying at home, that those service levels just aren't necessarily up to par. And we're so we are having investigators go out to each of these locations and monitor the service levels and then come back and make recommendations on do we increase do we increase the number of the frequency of collection at that location? Do we give it a larger container? And making recommendations. And then we have to make adjustments to the rate to those people accordingly. So when you see a lot in a lot of times when you see some overflowing stuff, you'll see the being open and bags just stacked a little higher than the edge. Sometimes with a lot bands, you'll see people just start stacking things on top of it around the bend as well. So it's a challenge, but I think the challenge would be best addressed by looking at the appropriate service levels and addressing them with regard to locking bins. We did not mandate locking bins, but we do have locking bins available now. There is a fee in the fee resolution for for multi-family or other accounts that do want to have a locking bin because servicing locking bins is a little bit more time consuming. So that's just a small fee that goes with it. Okay. And I would ask perhaps the next time we talk about trash, if we could understand how we're notifying people of the options for them to lock their bins. I know that there's a lot of people that don't know that we have that. So whether that's in a bill or something like that, just making sure that we're doing some public awareness around it. So I definitely appreciate that that report back. The other question I had is I know that we've changed our recycling and I know that that. And do you guys plan on doing a stock presentation down the road on some of the changes to our recycling program? We certainly can. I believe the city manager just recently issued a memo to advise the council on the changes and the changes are due to market conditions having changed over the years for what commodities are being purchased versus what commodities are no longer being purchased and put in the recycling stream. Now understand. Thank you. And the reason I brought it up here is because I, I know that I've talked to constituents that are just now putting everything in their trash bin instead of the recycle bin because they don't understand the differences. And so being able to articulate that for our constituents and maybe address some of the issues with the changes to how their bins are filling up would help. And we're planning to have a major press release and public information go out later this week with all those changes and what should go in the bin and what should go in the trash. Wonderful. Thank you. I know that we've got lots of items probably coming up over the next year or two on on trash and waste and recycling. So I appreciate that. As it pertains to the item in front of us with cleanups, I couldn't agree more. I think a lot of different neighborhoods are trying to figure out how to build capacity, whether that means that they're doing 2 hours, 2 hours at a time, or that different organizations are able to adopt different hours to go out and do cleanups, or that there's a pick up station. Like I would happily open up my district office for an entire day on a Saturday for people to come and pick up tools to go out and clean different streets. And so I think that our neighborhoods really need it. I know there are some people that that wouldn't mind getting out so long as their safety protocols in place. So I support that item. I appreciate the thought that went into it. It's x ray. They disagree, which is based. Fishing for. Thank you, Vice Mayor, and thanks to Councilman Richardson for bringing this item forward. Very timely, very much needed. I'd also like to comment for Mr. Marconi and Mr. Lopez. Our own public works department. Their standards are so much higher than other agencies. So I know they're trying challenging, but I just wanted to give you kudos for for the great job you're doing. We get daily calls, daily emails to our office involving us, Caltrans easements. We never like to pass the buck or our you know, it just we don't like the whole concept of the handoff. But Caltrans is a state agency and not under our jurisdiction. So if the purpose of this agenda item is to direct staff, I would say that that's a huge issue. If if staff could get connected with Caltrans, that would be wonderful. We did have quarterly meetings in the past. Those have been canceled since COVID. And when you see the abandoned encampments and all the trash on the four or five freeway easements, I'm just wondering if if this is a public health issue where the California Department of Public Health can get involved. Also, if Caltrans is not cleaning stuff, that it is a public health issue and it's their property. So I'd appreciate the staff could look at that and any other way that we can address this, because as I said, it's daily. We coordinate with the Fifth Council District because a four or five freeway, uh, divides our district, and I could mention L.A. County, but it's just, it's those issues are so small compared to the Caltrans issues. I just would like to live in a capstone right now. So thanks again for bringing that forward and our support to receive it finally. Yes, sir. We completely agree with you. We have been asking numerous times for Caltrans to do the cleanups, especially on the four or five. You're right. It's it's gotten completely, you know, bigger than we've ever seen it. I would also say L.A. County, we have had some success. So after several months of asking, they are now starting their cleanups again on our major rivers. And I think one is scheduled now for October. So we will start seeing progress there. We will keep after Caltrans and use whatever we can to try to get some attention to those, both the on ramps and off ramps, but also the four or five freeway itself. And if I may if I may add, first of all, thank you. Thank you for all the compliments we've received. But really, this is a reflection on our refuge team. These guys are out there doing all this additional work, addressing these issues. The days are getting longer for them, even though the days are getting shorter for everybody else as far as sunlight goes. But they're still sitting there out there and they're making up this difference that we're seeing created here. And that includes maintenance assistance, refuge operators, the refuge supervisory team, all of them but L.A.. I mean, Caltrans is kind of impacted similarly to how we are in that they used 50 or more community service workers a day and they're not using any at all right now. So they have some issues. So we've reached out to them and we're going to try and put some plans together. Thank you. This is five. Thank you, Vice Mayor. A couple of quick things. 1/1, big, big thank you to the rescue workers. I know I try to say it myself when I see them. They collect the trash this morning. I sometimes see them in the district at 530, 6:00 at night, still collecting trash, whether a trash truck's broken down or whatever has caused the delays. And we just really appreciate them. Second, I think that I talked to Mr. Modica about this specifically, but when trash bins are broken, it's taking 3 to 4 weeks to get replacement bins, which is very difficult for neighbors to go that long without trash bins in front of their house or recycle bin. So I know that we have a contract for that, if we can look into that. I know Mr. Modica said he will. Additionally, thanks to the management at public works and nephews for I'm really partnering with the neighborhoods. Some of the neighborhoods over here have found some opportunities to work together to clean out garages and the such and then coordinate getting all the items to the end of every street so that the rescue teams can swing by and pick up as much of it as possible. That's all been great, but I think that the challenge still comes with what I talked about with City Manager was when you call in for a pickup, it's a long time before you can get a pickup. So I would like to explore the idea of a same day pickup charge because a lot of people are more than happy to pay a fee. If we could fund a a vehicle just out of those kind of fees, then perhaps we can afford another rough use truck because there are lots of neighbors who are cleaning out garages, cleaning out other areas, and they don't have the knowledge of how to dispose of all this kind of stuff so quickly. So then it sits out on their curb. Then either they get reported by a neighbor and then they get a fine, which then they would have been willing to pay the fee in the first place. Or they. It sits there until it either gets rummaged by some people driving through your neighborhood who then target your neighborhood potentially in the future to rummage through your trash cans and other things. So we just need to figure out a way where trash gets put in the trash as quickly as possible in a way that supports our rescue workers and our community. So a big thank you to Chico and his team and all the hard work that they're doing. We cannot be more thankful for how hard they're all working on a daily basis. And then when it comes to Caltrans. What are legal opportunities in terms of I know that we've decided to just pay for clean up on their area sometimes, but if you don't clean up an area that belongs to you and you are the owner and you are responsible for blight, what can we do as a city to fine you? Councilmember. I'm not sure we have the answer to that. They are a state government. They're not a private property owner that would normally fall under code enforcement. The city attorney might be able to add a little bit more. That's correct. They would be exempt from certain government, local government regulations similar to the zoning code or planning and building permits. So to make a change, we would need like a statewide ballot initiative or a state legislative item that would empower community so we could work with our state senator and our state assembly members to say, come up with some legislation that would take a percentage of their budget to pay for the the services that we're providing on their behalf. That that could be an option. Yes. I hope that state ledge will consider that at their next meeting. We need a solution. This is just not acceptable. The off ramps are out of control. I was off the 91 in North Long Beach two days ago. Off the four or five. Off the Bellflower. I mean, it's it's bad. We need it cleaned up. And it is a public health issue. So thank you for any help that you guys can provide in that. Thank you. District seven. Thank you very spur. And I totally agree with everything that's been said, especially when it comes down to getting more cooperation from Caltrans and the county in terms of those cleanups. So it would be greatly appreciated if we could just just give a little more to get involved. Appreciate it. I'm also crisscrossed by two crisscrossed by two freeways, four or five and seven, ten. And as you drive over, you could see just the tons of trash that that piles up along this corridor. And then they also have the river as well. That would be all the help that we can get. Very much appreciate it. Thank you. And I want to make a shout out to our rescue workers. Thank you. Comes from Uganda. You know, this to me is a great idea and it's unfortunate it had to, you know, be agenda before this problem was taken so seriously. And I know I brought this issue up as well. You know what, Councilman Richardson, I would like to really, if you would be open to it. And I am hoping that you will be, you know, that like to add that to your motion to include a report back on. Oh yeah. But we have in place to collect illegal dumping items and the statue of each one of them. The status of each one of them. Excuse me. You know, we have a backlog. This is something that needs to be brought to our attention. You know, are you okay adding that to the report that came back to this council? Absolutely. Vice Mayor, it's time we get back to basics and get things cleaned up. Absolutely. Thank you so much. And before I yield my time, I just want to show you all a video. On a serious note and this is this in the sixth District, it's very brief and it concerns me, especially since this along our business corridor at 1511 is Halloween Street. So please roll the tape. You don't mind? Okay. But I think and this is what is should what should be totally unacceptable because the fact that these are neighbors coming out of their residence, I mean, business and putting it in the alley. You know, all we have to do, like we say, we have, you know, all these apps that you could be using and for them to put it in the ad and then they blame it on, you know, our community and everyone else, you know. So this is things that I think we really need to be brought to attention to. And I really want to thank you and your staff, but you guys are just working overload with this. But we have situations like this. It makes you work even harder. And I want to thank each and every one of you. And thank you, Mr. Councilman, which is simple and need to put that on, you know, the item that you had. Thank you very much, sir. Okay. Is there any public comment on this item? There is no public comment on this item. But so. District one is always a good place. Did I get a second on that? I believe Councilwoman Zendejas was a second on this item. Thank you very much. Would you believe that district one. Right. District two, I. District three. District four. I. District five. II. District six. All right. District seven. District eight. High District nine, high ocean carries. Thank you. Now we'll go to item 24, please. But you grew up with.

Recommendation to declare ordinance relating to a temporary limitation on the establishment, installation, placement, construction, expansion, or issuance of permits for the use of unattended donation/recycling collection boxes or bins in or on any private or public lot in the City; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

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Thank you. Next item 15. Communication from City Attorney. Recommendation to declare ordinance relating to a temporary limitation of unattended donation recycling collection boxes or bins in or on any private or public lot in the city, declaring the urgency there thereof and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately. Red and adopted as red citywide. CARNEY Public comment on this item. Please come forward. I support this one 100%, and it's engendered by the experience we went through. I think it was around the year 2002 when somebody who didn't live in the city, I believe the individual with with goodwill wanted to set up a donation spot in at the entrance to Marine Stadium where people would put couches and chairs and whatever stuff they donate. And obviously that would be a blight. And I don't think any neighborhood wants that. There's certain areas. It's certainly things can be put in. No ifs, no answer. No, but. But you don't want to have it in a residential area no matter what district you live in. You just have to find the right place for it. Thank you. Okay, there's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. We've already done 16 and 17, so I believe now we're going to is there any second public comment period? Yes. Okay. Please come forward.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending and restating Chapter 21.11, relating to no net loss of affordable residential housing units in the City, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

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The motion is carried. Nine zero. Thank you. 20, please. Adam 23. Report from City Attorney Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to no net loss of affordable residential housing units in the city. Read and adapted as read city why. Thank you moved Alan's second can you ranga any public comment on this. There are any members of the public that would like to speak on this item. Please use the phrase raise hand feature or dial star nine. Nadia Tushnet. Your time begins now. Nader personally. I I'm speaking as chair of the Long Beach Senior Advisory Commission. We passed a motion at our last meeting about our concern about how the sails of Plymouth West and Providence Gardens will affect low income seniors. Consequently, we urge City Council to include senior housing. In the policy. Of no net loss of housing available to low income individuals, and work with owners and with HUD to enforce the policy. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Thank you. Let's have our roll call vote now. Councilwoman Cindy has. Councilwoman Allen. I think. Councilwoman Pryce. Hi, Councilman Sabina. Hi. Councilwoman Mango. I. Councilwoman Zahra. I. Councilmember Oranga. I. Councilman Austin. Hi. Vice Mayor Richardson. On.

A proclamation honoring the Dire Family and Bonnie Brae Tavern for 88 years of service to the community.

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Thank you, Brenda. Councilmember Cashman, will you please read proclamation 2020 20879? I will be pleased to. And it was very impressive to honor Brendan for his 20 year career. And that was get down to some real history here. This is proclamation number 20 20879 honoring the Dyer family and Bonnie Brae Tavern for 88 years of service to the community. Whereas in 1933, Carl and Sue Dyer bought property on the western edge of the Bonnie Braves subdivision on a then dirt road named University Boulevard. And. Whereas, the Dyers first opened a gas station on their land, and then early the next year added a frame structure for a restaurant at 740 South University Boulevard. And. Whereas, Carl and Sue opened the Bonnie Brae Tavern in June 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, and barely seven months after the repeal of Prohibition. And. Whereas, the tavern developed a widespread reputation for serving a hearty selection of home cooked comfort food, including their namesake pizza, as well as a full menu of classic adult beverages. And. WHEREAS, The Dyer's son, Michael, joined the business in the 1940s, and son Hank followed suit in the 1950s. And as the founders aged, they turned tavern operations over to their boys. And. WHEREAS, continuing the family tradition after growing up working at the restaurant themselves, Hank and Michael's sons Ricky and Michael Jr eventually took over the business from their parents and ended up working at the tavern 44 and 40 years, respectively. And. Whereas, having served Denver family's great comfort food and drink through the 1930s, forties, fifties, sixties, and the heyday of the seventies and eighties, when there was an hour wait for dinner on the weekends as Denver grew, along with more and more options for Denver, diners operating in Denver, restaurant in a nearly 100 year old building became more and more challenging. And. WHEREAS, on June 6th, Bonnie Brave Tavern celebrated 88 years in business. And. Whereas, after almost nine decades in business, the Dyer family has decided to move on to new challenges and turn the property over to new ownership and new uses. Closing the tavern doors forever on June 25th. 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 declares July 25th, 2022, to be Bonnie Brae Tavern Day in Denver and thanks the entire Dyer family and their staff for providing 88 great years of fun, food, drink and community to generations of South Denver residents in Section two that the Clerk of the city and county of Denver shall attest, and a fix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation. And copies be delivered to the Dear Family. Thank you. Councilmember Cashman, your motion to adopt. Yes, Madam President. And the proclamation number 20 20879 be adopted. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of Council. Council Member Cashman. Yeah, 88 years is just a stupendous I mean, Brendan's career of 20 years, that's a long time. That's a long time. Before I ran for council, I spent 36 years running a neighborhood newspaper, which is where I met the Dyer family, and that was the bulk of my adult life. It was a huge part of the lives of my children. You've got that same thing repeated about three or four times with the Dyer family, generation after generation, spending their whole lives in this business. And the unique part of it is they were providing good food, great pizza, you know, but a place for community to exist and to to develop and for friends to meet, you know, the classic classic diner, whatever you want to call it. You know, when I first moved to Denver from Inglewood, we moved moved into a house on Virginia Avenue across from Wash Park. And it was a long day of moving and we're exhausted and went over to Bonnie Raitt Tavern friend recommended to go over to the tavern, get some food. And we did that. And that was my first meal there. And my son Pete worked for me for a little while when when I was on election night in 2015, where we're going to go to have an election night party. We were at the tavern and fortunately it was a happy night all around. And and there have been plenty of days and nights there since that time. And the day before it closed, I was running around too busy to stop for a meal, but had just stuck my head in the screen door and looked around one more time. And it's just such a gift for the community. And I've been I don't know, I think we got three generations as of four sitting there now. And I just want to thank you all most sincerely for for just being there. I couldn't wish you any more of the best and wherever life takes you from here. But yeah, thanks. Thanks a lot to the entire family. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Council President. I wanted to thank you, Councilmember Cashman for bringing this forward. This was such a special place for so many people, me included. I grew up just a couple of blocks away and my childhood is peppered with memories. I think tonight we should probably also consider a proclamation for whoever you got those teal blue booths from. I don't know if they were there for all 88 years, but they were there the longest running upholstery proclamation. I think it should come to whoever did those again. I can see them. I can. I can. You know, it's one of those experiences where I can close my eyes and I can smell the place, I can feel the place, I can see the place. And my childhood is peppered with, you know, celebrations and and of soccer seasons back when they actually let us play youth soccer at Wash Park. And we'd come up after the season and have our parties there and spent, you know, so much of so many times in my childhood growing up there as a place my family would go and then got to create a second set of memories for me at that place as an adult because a good friend gentleman I worked with, Jeff Shoemaker, like many, many people in the city, laid claim to a booth that was their booth. I was wondering how many people also claimed Shoemaker's Booth as a zone? A couple times I walked in when someone was in his booth and he would just be staring them down from the bar, waiting for them. And and I know that, you know, it was a very special place for him and stood in a place of transition in his lifetime. And so I got to spend a lot of time in there, you know, getting to know Shoemaker's Booth and his view. So just a really one of those places that the doors may have closed, but it will be a place that as long as those of us who spent time there, as long as it lives in here, that it will it will be an institution and a part of Denver for for many, many, many years because of what you all and your family gave to our city and creating one of those special and iconic places that that lives beyond its physical doors. So thank you, Councilman Cashman, for bringing this forward. And thank you to this family for everything that you did for my family and so many other people in this city. The Council President. Thank you. Madam Secretary, roll call. Cashman pizza, please. I can eat. I. Ortega. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I'm black. I see. Tobacco. I. Clark. I. When I. Fillmore. I. Herndon Heights. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced the results. 13 Nights, 13 eyes proclamation 20 2-0879 has been adopted. We have 5 minutes for the proclamation acceptance. Councilmember Cashman will start the five minute timer. Please call whomever you'd like to come up to accept the candidacy. About $1,000 back and someone would like to come up. Ricky, any of your family? Yes. I would like to thank everybody for their proclamation. My comments will be short and I won't be as sassy as the guy that just sat on death row. But. And if you could introduce yourselves. Anyway, I would also like to thank my children, Chris and Patrick and my daughter Theresa, who's not here for working for 20 years and helping us stay open when I'm 33. Sorry. Time flies now, but thank you very much. Thank you all. Mr. Cashman, known for so many years and so many faces back here we waited on for years. It's a hard one. We were cleaning out this week and giving up our keys on Friday, so it's kind of a hard one. But my family, those crazies that are sitting with me back here, we did it together and it was it was good. Our our fathers and my grandma and grandpa would be proud. So I hope anyway. Anyway, thank you again. Thank you.

Consider Directing Staff to Conduct a Consultant Study to Determine the Feasibility for a Wetland Mitigation Bank at Alameda Point. (Councilmember Oddie) [Continued from January 20, 2015]

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Considered directing staff to conduct a consultant study to determine the feasibility for a wetland mitigation bank at Alameda Point. This item was placed on the agenda at the request of Councilmember Odie. Member OTI. Thank you, Madam Mayor. So now switching over to the other side of the island. We talked about this in the earlier session of today's meeting or last night's meeting when we talked about South32 and the Northwest Territories. I mean, there's there's two spaces on on the base where there's wetlands, natural wetlands, as well as. Seasonal wetlands over there by the marina area, which is kind of to the to the west of the seaplane lagoon and using wetlands mitigation bank as a possible tool to to generate revenue for the city and generate revenue for Alameda Point. Some estimates say these credits could be worth up to $500,000 an acre and we could have up to 50 acres if the maximum available are the maximum number of acreages available for wetlands mitigation. And that could pay for a lot of what we want to do. I mean, we have a community vision that that includes a park in the Northwest Territories. You know, we've we've heard at least during there in the fall about how much that park is going to cost. Whether or not it's going to go to the East Bay Regional Park District at no cost or whether we're going to be able to get any money from them out of it. And then the measure. WW money that needs to be paid to maintain it. So I think this is not an opportunity that we can explore more in depth and see if if this can generate funds needed to create the park line and create the wetlands that we want out there. I also understand the VA is going to have to buy some credits because they do need to do some mitigation. So, you know, we have a unique opportunity where, you know, we can exchange wetlands mitigation credits with with the VA right there on that spot. So I think it's something that it's worth looking into. And the referral is to have staff look into the feasibility of creating a wetlands mitigation bank. And we do have two speakers on this item. We're going to go ahead and proceed with our speakers, Richard Banger and then Irene Dieter. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Excuse me. And elsewhere. Moroney. Wetlands at the top of the agenda. It's good. There are at least four things that are known about this, and one that's not one. One thing that's known is that wetland mitigation banks are highly regulated entity use for mitigating loss of wetlands. They're also from an environmental standpoint. They are they produce a better outcome than if, say, 12 developers in this watershed had to go chase down three or four acres by it and turn it into wetland to mitigate their project. In the case of Wetland Mitigation Bank, that that mitigation money is all aggregated at one site and so you actually produce a better environmental income outcome. But in our case, we're not really concerned about helping developers in the in the watershed. We're interested in accomplishing a goal. And by creating wetland mitigation bank, essentially we offer a business deal. We're not going to sell them land, but we would sell them a credit. That they could buy to mitigate for their project could even be a Caltrans project that has to impact wetlands somewhere. Second thing that we know is that Alameda Point is surrounded by water and in some cases has water in it. Another thing that we know is that the area encompassed by Alameda point used to be wetland. The last thing that we know is that the areas that Councilmember Odie referenced and the Northwest Territories and the west side of the Sea Point Lagoon are under our approved infrastructure plan, will not be protected from sea level rise. However, when those areas become inundated, just because they have water in them doesn't make them wetlands, makes them land that is wet and has about the same environmental value as a flooded basement. So now the one thing that we don't know for certain is if a wetland mitigation bank is a good idea for Alameda Point. We just don't know that. And I would like to offer for discussion at least a a preliminary step before we hire a consultant to provide a report on forming a wetland mitigation bank. And that would be that we contact our own California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which is one of the regulatory agencies that oversees wetland mitigation banks in California, and ask them to come down and just have a walk through like a lot of people with expertize in a certain field. You can pretty much walk a site and, you know, whether it's a candidate or not. So perhaps we could get some free advice before we take the next step of spending money. Thank you, Irene. I mayor and council. I'm here to support Councilman Otis referral. I know that the. On the city books on the plan everyone. All the boards and commissions and the former city council passed a plan to actually have wetlands. Out at Alameda Point. The only thing. That was lacking was a plan to move forward to achieve that goal, and we were assured that that would happen in due course. And I think this is a perfect. Opportunity to move forward in that regard. Because obtaining. Information can never hurt. So I don't see any. Harm in trying to gain information. And we may think that something is out. Of reach when in reality it's right at our fingertips. So I would encourage you to support this referral. So at least we can make decisions based on real information as opposed to what we think can or cannot go forward with. So please do the right thing and. Support this referral. Thank you. Thank you. You may proceed to make. A couple of quick comments. Yes. And there's also a portion of the of the referral talking about consultants to estimate the cost of removing the concrete over by the west side of Seaplane Lagoon. So that was one of the things I didn't cover earlier. I want to thank Richard and Irene for supporting this and speaking on this. And thank you also for staying late last night and staying late on the sixth and not getting a chance to to speak. So I'm glad to see you up and around, Irene, and and thank you for coming out and talking about this. You know, if if Richard's idea of, you know, an interim step of having somebody come would be helpful. You know, I'm all for that. You know, we're moving on on site A, you know, we're moving maybe not so fast on site B, and I'd like to see us get moving on the wetlands portion in the park portion of the of Alameda Point as well. So would you like to amend your referral to include this intermediate step? Yes. I met a married. Yes. That we just clarify and say an appropriate agency so we don't restricted to just that one body because it may be another body that we would like to talk to. Thank you. So with those amendments, are there any comments from council members? At this point. I'd like to. To move with the amendment if it's in order. I don't need to make every motion. I'll second. So we have a motion that by vice mayor and a second by member. Brody. And then any discussion. Yes. I'll just add that I think it is a good idea. I believe I heard Vice Mayor Madras, he discussed this on the campaign trail, too. And I know I've heard I do appreciate Richard Baron, Irene Deeter keeping us informed about these ideas. It sounds very intriguing. I also heard Mr. Banger say it might not be right for Alameda, and while gaining information never hurts, it does cost money when you're using consultants and as we know, it doesn't grow on trees. So I would favor the just the the cautious route of let's have whatever appropriate state agency come out, take a look, get the information and then go from there in an incremental process. But I think that's what the amended language encompasses. So let me confirm member Odie. That's my understanding also that we would hear back and then pending upon what that person says, then we would review the next step or staff would review the next step. But. You're not at work yet. That's fine. All right. So we have a motion. Second of all, those in favor. I oppose their motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Next item is three C. Consider directing staff to install flashing pedestrian crosswalk signals at two locations, Maitland Drive in McCartney Road and McCartney Road and Belmont Place. This item was placed on the agenda at the request of Councilmember Odie.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 5061 Perry Street in Regis. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C to U-SU-C1 (allows an accessory dwelling unit), located at 5061 Perry Street in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-9-20.

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Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilmember Herndon, will you please put Council Bill 520 on the floor for passage? Yes, Madam President, I move that council build 200520b placed upon final consideration and due pass. Thank you. It has been moved. Can I get a second? Again. Thank you, Councilwoman Sawyer. The required public hearing for council bill 20 dash 0520 is open. May we have the staff report? Let me see here. Tonight Council has received one written comment on Council Bill 520. There is one submitted comment in favor of the application and no submitted comments in opposition of the application. All members of Council that are present have certified that they have read each of the submitted written comments. Do members need more time in order to read all of the written testimony that was submitted? Doing a. Quick. Quick scan of folks. It looks like we don't see none. Council secretary let the record reflect that all written testimony both in favor and in opposition of Council Bill 520 have been read by each member of council and all written testimony will be submitted to the official record of the hearing. We have no speaker signed up on 520 and so we'll go ahead and proceed with the staff report, please. Good afternoon. Can you hear me? And you can see my presentation. Yes. Thank you. Good afternoon. Members of the city council. My name is Frank Benefield and I'm an associate city planner with community planning and Development. I am here today to present an overview of my amendment 5061 very strict. Subject property is located in Council District one. There are just neighborhoods. The property is located north of I-70, along Perry Street, south of First Avenue. It's approximately 9370 square feet. And it it is currently occupied by a single unit residence. The property is currently in the urban single unit, Keystone District, and the applicant is proposing to rezone to urban single unit C1 to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. The USOC, one allows for the Urban House and the detached accessory dwelling unit building sports. The maximum height for a house is 30 to 35 feet and 24 feet for the detached 82. The existing zoning is urban single unit C, which allows for a minimum standard size of 5500 square feet. Most of the surrounding properties are also shown you, as you see. So it's occupied by a single unit, resident residence, as mentioned, and it's surrounded by mostly other single unit residences. This slide shows the existing area with the site of the proposed rezoning on the top. Right, and just some images to show the residential character of the neighborhood on the bottom right, on left. Speaking of the process and informational notice of the application was sent in mid-January 2020. Notice a planning board was sent on May 4th. A notice of public hearing was sent on June 29 and the property was properly noticed. Planning board recommended approval on May 20th and as a result, no comments have been received by the public or registered neighborhood organizations. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria, which I will go over. The first criteria is consistency with adopted plans. There are three plans applicable to lease rezoning. The first one is comprehensive plan 2040. The second one is Blueprint Denver, and the third one is housing and inclusive Denver. The rezoning is consistent with several of the strategies in Comprehensive Plan 2040, but I will just go over a couple of them. This MAP amendment will promote equity by creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood, and it will lead to an environmentally resilient Denver by promoting infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Now, do you think? The subject property is mapped as part of the urban neighborhood context. The context is described as containing small, multi-unit, residential and mixed use areas that are typically embedded in one unit and two unit residential areas. BLOCK buttons are generally regular with a mix of early access, and they have been described as having a high degree of walkability , likability and good access to transit with less reliance on cars. The future places map designates the subject property as low residential place. This place type has predominantly single and two unit uses, and accessory dwelling units are appropriate. Berry Street is designated as a local street, which is mostly characterized by residential uses. The growth area in bloom in Denver is all other areas of the city. These areas are anticipated to see a 10% employment growth and 20% health growth by 2040. Lupron also includes specific policy recommendations. Housing policy number four talks about diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Housing an inclusive Denver encourages expanding the development of accessory dwelling units, doing something device affordable and mixed use housing and as a wealth building tool for low and moderate income homeowners. Therefore, the proposed rezoning is consistent with the recommendations of the Comprehensive Plan Blueprint Denver and Housing and Inclusive Denver because it will expand housing options and allow the development of an accessory dwelling unit. Stuff also finds that their request signing meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations, and it will further the public health, safety and welfare, primarily through its implementation of adopted plans. Stuff does find that there is a justified circumstance for this MAP amendment, with the newly adopted vision for accessory dwelling units in all residential areas of Denver. Lastly, the proposed zoning is consistent with urban neighborhood context, residential district and the intent of the USOC one district. Stuff does work. I'm in approval. Based on finding all review criteria has been met and that concludes that presentation. All right. Very good, Fran. Thank you for that. Questions from members of council. See here. All right. Councilman Flynn. Madam President. Fran, good to see you again. Does the does this zone district define where the ADU goes on the lot? You said this would be a detached ADU. Does this designation also allow an attached ADU? So this particular one would be a deep touch to you because the owner wants to build it on top of the garage. So this would be a detached one, but it could be attached. It could be like if you wanted to. Like the rezoning doesn't specify if it needs to be detached to attach, so it could be potentially detached. Oh, okay. So the zoned as the zoned district itself doesn't differentiate between attached and detached. It either could be done here under this. Yes, in this case. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Madam President, thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Seen no other questions? The public hearing for Council Bill 20 dash 0520 is closed. Comments by members of Council Councilmember Sandoval. Thank you. Madam President, as my colleagues know, we're getting a lot of bees in northwest Denver. And my office has a standard policy where we talk to the applicant. We have them reach out to the registered neighborhood organization and build their case. Do so. My colleagues know a lot of my registered neighborhood organizations are not taking the positions on accessory dwelling units. So this neighborhood is represented by Berkeley, Regis, United Neighbors, which is the predominant R.A. in that neighborhood. And they have decided not to take any positions on an avenue. And so I will mention that as these come forward in each neighborhood, that does not take a position, because I think that's important, because I really do do my best to get letters of support or opposition from an R.A. and from neighbors. I don't live far from here. It's a great little area. This is near Regis University. I think an accessory dwelling unit would be welcome in this area to help some of the housing, as are the students who attend Regis without having to change the density of that, a single family established neighborhood. So with that, I would ask that all my colleagues support this application. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Sandoval. Seen no one else in the queue? Madam Secretary, roll call. In. I. Sawyer. I. Taurus. I. Black. Hi. CdeBaca. I. All right. When I. Heard it. I. I. Ashlan. I. Can I? Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 eyes. 12 eyes. Council Bill 520 has passed. Councilman Herndon, would you please put Council Bill 524.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and all necessary amendments, including term extensions, with the Department of Homeland Security to receive and expend Department of Homeland Security grant funding for the FY 2017 Port Security Grant Program, in an amount not to exceed $2,234,000, for a period ending August 31, 2020; and Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Fire Department (FD) by $274,000 and in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Police Department (PD) by $1,960,000. (Citywide)

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Motion carries. Which aren't actually. Chicken. That's what. I am 20. Report from Disaster Preparedness Fire Police recommendation to authorize city manager to execute a contract with the Department of Homeland Security to receive and expend grant funding for FY 2017 Port Security Grant Program in an amount not to exceed 2,000,300 234 and increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund in the fire department by 274,000, and in the General Grants Fund and the police department by 1,000,960 citywide. Mr. West, a quick update on Ms.. We're fine. We recommend approval. Okay. There's a motion in a second. Any public comment on this? Okay. Please cast your vote. He's. Councilwoman Mongo. Motion carries. 21 please report from Energy Resources. Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute an amendment to the Southeast Resource Recovery Facility Operations and Maintenance Agreement number 23336 with Covanta Long Beach Renewable Energy Corporation in an amount not to exceed 8,700,000 to provide capital investment for facility equipment, replacement city wide where.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the Cedar River Municipal Watershed and amending the Secondary Use Policies, adopted by Ordinance 114632, to provide for the limited application of the herbicide Imazapyr to treat invasive knotweed species.

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Agenda Item 37 Council Bill 118481 relating to the Cedar River Municipal Watershed and amending the secondary use policies adopted by ordinance 114632 to provide for the limited application of the herbicide and Wmas appear to treat invasive knotweed spray species. The committee recommends a council bill passed. Councilmember Bagshaw. Thank you. Councilmember Liccardo, do you want to present your amendments? And I will support them and then I can speak to the amended legislation. Councilmember Liccardo Thank you, Customer Bagshaw And thank you for your work on this ordinance. I have two amendments and I'll read both of them. The First Amendment is I moved to amend the Council Bill 11 8481 with attachment one at page six, third paragraph, third sentence by the reading between early August and mid-September and adding a new fourth sentence entitled Prior to application. Visual inspection is made to verify that the plants are one in the pre bud stage at the time of the application and two are not actively being worked by pollinators and is conductive to such activity as the First Amendment. The Second Amendment. I move to amend Council Bill 11 8481, Section one, the second to last sentence by substituting a sentence with the following sentence. Seattle Public Utilities will provide Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods a committee of the City Council, an annual report on the Knotweed treatment program in the Cedar River municipal watershed, summarizing the effectiveness of the Knotweed treatment program. Evaluating the long term financial and environmental implications for knotweed control beyond 2018. Evaluating the water quality monitoring results. Summarizing the latest available science on the environment and human health effects of IMA Zapper and describing any plans for the future application of a zebra within the watershed, including maps of proposed treatment areas. Estimated quantities of IMA zapper. I'm really destroying this name. Sorry. To be applied. The application methods and schedules and plans for water quality monitoring in front of each of our deaths is the actual wording in red to strike out in blue is the substitute and I'll address both amendments after the second. Secondly, these amendments came forward by those in the Washington Beekeepers Association, and they pointed out that the legislation could be improved by making sure that the guidelines provided were consistent with the guidelines provided by the Washington State Noxious Weeds Department. And that. By codifying them, we assure that we bring forward in the future that we do not fall back on practices that may fall through the cracks and therefore result in harming the population and the ability to pollinate plants in this area. I want to thank the citizens who are beekeepers, including our former mayor, Wes Allman, for participating in a activity that hasn't really been given much, I suppose attention but critical to the sustaining our agriculture that provides many of our food sources. So I'll leave sit at that. So the First Amendment is Mark Amendment number one. Are there any further questions or comments about this amendment? Those in favor of passing amendment number one, vote I. I oppose vote no. The amendment is adopted. Amendment number two is before us. Any questions or comments? One quick, quick comment and that we don't have line numbers on this one, but there's a specific reference to the Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Committee. And there's the intention of this amendment is to bring back regular reports. I would recommend and suggest that we have Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhood Committee or its successor. Yeah, I that's a friendly amendment to the amendment because I caught that as I was reading it. And that's the language that we should be included that's accepted. And we'll we'll make that part of the amendment. Any further comments or questions? All in favor of adopting amendment number two, vote I. By a plebiscite. Vote No. Amendment number two is adopted. We now have the ordinance as amended in front of us. So just to speak quickly to this ordinance, it provides for the continued application of this herbicide. And the purpose of this is to abate the invasive knotweed that's found in the Cedar River watershed. And we've tried to do a lot of things. We first started off by injecting amounts up here into the plants. We tried light starvation by putting black plastic over it. And it really is an annoying weed that was brought here, unfortunately, years ago because somebody thought it looked great. But it's been taking over and taking over around the watershed, which provides the native species, provide the kind of of tenacity to hold the banks together. But the knotweed has proven not only to take over for the natives, but then also begins to diminish the water and the water quality and especially along the Cedar River. It's important because that's where we get our drinking water. We, the council, have twice approved the use of a mouse up here along the Cedar River. This legislation will allow it to continue through 2018. And I do want to recognize the beekeepers concerns. Seattle Public Utilities has reassured me that they are well aware of this, that they do not apply the mouse up here during flowering. They do the visual inspections. But as Councilmember Licata pointed out, this is good to have it clarified in our ordinance. So I certainly support the amendments as proposed. Any other. Councilmember O'Brien. Yeah. Just briefly comment. I. It's really disappointing, frankly, that we're at a point where we're applying pesticides within the watershed. And but for me, this is an issue that was important when I was chairing the committee a few years ago. And the threat of this invasive species in the watershed is so dire that I think it definitely justifies and warrants the steps we're taking. This knotweed has proved to be very hard to get a handle on as it's taken a number of years longer than we had hoped to eradicate it from the watershed. Based on my reading, it sounds like there's about 18 acres of it scattered throughout the watershed, and my hope is that we don't have to keep renewing this. I appreciate that the pesticide or the sorry, the herbicide that's being used has been studied. And has the study seemed to indicate that it has low impacts? I'm always skeptical of those studies and I would just much rather have the knotweed be gone and eliminate pesticides, herbicides completely from the watershed. I fully support this moving forward and I just hope that in the next couple of years we'll get to a point where we've eradicated knotweed from the Cedar River watershed. Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Harrow. McCarter, I. O'Brien, I. Okamoto. Rasmussen. I want. Bagshot. Garden and President Burgess. Nine. In favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item 38.

A RESOLUTION proclaiming that Seattle affirms the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders in the wake of increased targeting of local activists.

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The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Just one moment. Okay. Let's move to our first agenda item, please. The report of the City Council Agenda Item one, Resolution 318 44 proclaiming the yet that Seattle affirms the United Nations declaring declaration on human rights defenders in the wake of increased targeting of local activists. Cast member Herbold Thank you. As we have heard, this resolution is the result of a broad community effort specifically designed to address the targeting of local activists and leaders. Danny, a skinny one such activist and the former director of the Gender Justice League, a local gender and sexuality civil rights organization, reached out to the city council a number of months ago about several concerning threats and experiences of harassment. This harassment ranged from specific detailed threats via email to property destruction and physical in-person person threats. Much of the harassment targeted at Mrs. Kinney included specific anti-transgender language, and we know that the violence experienced in this instance is not isolated. We have heard similar concerns from other LGBTQ leaders and leaders of color in Seattle. This resolution was introduced or we started working on this introduce this resolution before the Trump administration's memo targeting transgender people. This resolution, in support of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders is now Sunday. Since that memo even more poignant in the face of continued federal erosion of civil rights protections, we worked with the four Office of Civil Rights Commissions, the Human Rights Commission, the Women's Commission, the LGBTQ Commission, and the Commission for People with Disabilities. In putting together this language. And in it, we proclaim that Seattle affirms the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. We describe it. The resolution describes the declaration and its history. It outlines Seattle's support of local human rights defenders and recommends that local law enforcement examine current practices with regards to supporting human rights defenders and activists who are experiencing threats and harassment. And as an aside, my office did share this resolution with the police department, and we have heard back from the police department and understand that they have no problems taking a look at what their practices are and making some some joint effort towards addressing the fact that there is very little, if any, enforcement related to cybercrimes. I want to thank the LGBTQ commission, the Human Rights Commission and the Women's Commission and the Commission for People with Disabilities. And Shannon Perez Darby from my office for their work on this resolution. And I would just like especially to thank Jessie Murray, the LGBTQ commission co-chair, for her leadership on this issue. Thank you. Thank you, Kathryn Herbold. With any of my colleagues like to make any other remarks on the resolution. I think we're good. I don't think all of those that came out to testify and think, do you consider honorable for your leadership? Okay. I will move to adopt resolution 3184 for second, somewhat and second it should adopt RESIDENT 331844. Those in favor of adopting the resolution. Please vote i i those oppose vote no. The motion carries and the resolution is adopted. Please read the next agenda item. Agenda item two Resolution 318 45 Setting the public hearing on the petition of Seattle City Life for the vacation of a portion of Bridge Street between Harrison Street and Taylor Avenue North.

Recommendation to request the Climate Action Committee of the City Council to take up a proposal to create a $5 million Long Beach Youth Climate Corps program and provide recommendations to the Council.

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The motion is here. Thank you. I am 43. Please. Item 43 is communication from Eric Garcia. Recommendation two requires the Climate Action Committee to take up a proposal to create a 5 million Long Beach year Long Beach Youth Climate Corp's program and provide recommendations to the Council. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let me go ahead and just chat about this this a little bit that we have in front of us. And then we do have we do have some public comment. And then also take the pick, the city council. I think we all are and have been very supportive of our cap, which is an incredible document that's been developed at the city. And and it's obviously really focused on issues that we are concerned with as it relates to climate, the climate crisis in front of us globally. But here locally, there's been a lot of conversation nationally about getting and creating climate cause at the federal level and at the state level. There are a handful of municipal youth climate courses that are. No. No. Is it on? They're working on. Their work around the mike and. Working on the mix. Okay. So. I want to make sure it's good. I keep going. Well, just give me 1/2 and we'll see if the mikes work. My. No. Okay. Test. One, two. And normally I would just keep going. But I know like the OC we have to record it for the for the, for the public though. Okay. Is it good now? Okay. Let me start over, I guess. What I what I was saying is that right now there are a handful of municipalities across the country and certainly at the federal level are looking at developing and funding Climate Corps programs, which are programs that range in and different in the types of programs that are being developed from youth climate programs to programs that are funding climate protection projects in communities to take other programs that are they're training young people to get involved in climate change issues or in climate adaptation programs in their communities. Now, with the proposal we have in front of us is is a group of mayors from California had asked Governor Newsom to add about $150 million in the budget to fund programs in the 13 largest cities in the state of California. So it was part of a group of mayors that advocated for this funding in this last budget. The governor did include about $150 million to support youth workforce programs in California for the 13 largest cities. That means that Long Beach would receive about $6.3 million in funding for youth development programs. As mayors, we came together and also made the decision that we wanted to fund youth development programs as it relates to climate protection and create these youth climate cause up and down the state of California. These would be workforce development programs for youth employment, youth careers and climate service, strengthening capacity for programs that already exist, and also for partnerships. For example, we have the Conservation Corps in Long Beach, which could be an incredible partner for this type of project that we could also help fund. In addition, we would we would be looking at funding through this through this program. Young people to get involved on on on the many projects that are out there that needs additional support across the city. I want to also that what the request actually is is not approve the full proposal tonight, but the send the resources and a sketch to the climate change committee of the council and to have them work with the community to get ideas and to see what the structures should look like and how the and how the program could look, could work. And then for the committee to come back to the Council with recommendations on what the Youth Climate Corps could actually look like. I will add that this is a significant amount of dollars, $5 million to start for a program like this is is a great start. And so we're grateful for these resources. And the additional 1.3 million is going to be used for use by staff for some admin issues, but also to strengthen some of the other workforce programs that I think already exist in the city, if I'm if I'm not mistaken. So I think Mr. Monica will come forward on those issues. So we have the ability to really develop this program as as we would like to and as the community would like to. But I want to make sure we get started and send this over to the Climate Action Committee of the City Council to create the Long Beach Youth Climate Corps program. With that, there's a motion and a second. Let me start with Councilwoman Allen. Yes. I just thank you, Mayor, for introducing this item and for all your efforts and bring funding for these forward thinking programs. And the the climate crisis can be tackled by the leadership of our future generations of our young people. So this funding is just a tremendous way and transformative way, transformative weight for our entire community. So I love the focus of these dollars on expanding job training for the youth, and I think it will be essential part of a just transition for developing career pathways as well. So as chair of the Climate Action Environment Committee, I can't wait to discuss this in the committee and just thank you, Mayor, for all of your hard work in securing this funding. Count, Councilman. Sorrow. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for bringing this item forward. I just think it's just so crucial that we work on this. I just want to uplift the statement that's in your letter to the city council that this is indeed a wonderful opportunity to expand upon the work we do with the Conservation Corps. Long Beach. They have the experience, resources and expertize to bolster and scale the services that they currently provide to the city. And they have a waiting list of young people, including many that are from my district, eager to join and serve the community. And they've done so pretty much for the whole city. I think that there isn't an area that they haven't touched to make sure that they provide environmental stewardship. And I think they can do so much more to continue to help us combat climate change and meanwhile, providing workforce development opportunities for our youth. So I appreciate this and hope that, you know, they'll be engaged and part of the discussion as it gets developed. So thank you so much. Thank you, Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I think this is a great program. Thank you for your advocacy at the state level to prioritize the big cities. I think it's in alignment with all the things you mentioned, our climate action adaptation plan measure us, our commitment to climate and our commitment to youth and the upcoming youth fund that's rolling out . And I echo I think we have some great partners in your conservation cause building a facility in North Long Beach as we speak, to make a deeper commitment to Long Beach. And so we need to definitely support and work work with them on that effort. I also want to say that with everything ahead of us in terms of climate and the, you know, the end of oil as we know it, it's the future is really going to lean on STEM and in how we design and create a more resilient, sustainable future. And so I know a lot of times when we talk about a climate corps in youth, we're talking about teenagers. But I want to make sure that, you know, we engage with the little ones and we engage in their we inspire little ones, elementary school kids in some way into this process so that they are inspired by STEM and take interest in the things that Long Beach is doing and how we prepare them for what's what's ahead. Because this, you know, talking about climate is really talking about their future. So the more we can engage the little ones. So I'm hoping that the Climate Committee can really think about some sort of a recommendation to partner with schools for the little ones. But I think this is a great proposal and I look forward to supporting it. Thanks. Yeah. Let me just add one thing that to add to that, Vice Mayor and I think one of the when we're looking at we're getting guidelines from the state on flexibility of the dollars. But one small example where a even a small amount of dollars goes a long way is we have so many requests from Long Beach Unified, for example, of these classrooms, of these kids that come together to try to fund these small projects in the community that are climate related. And I'm just I mean, with a few resources, those projects and those kids go through an incredible experience. So whether those types of projects can be part of this broader, you know, youth Climate Corps program, I'm not sure. But I think that that's an idea that I think can be engaged with with the community and to see if something that would fit our work. Councilman Price. A lot. A lot of my colleagues have already mentioned it, but obviously it's no secret. I'm a huge fan of the Conservation Corps. I share an office with them. And one of the things that I was recently talking with their director about was that in some areas and this is something I'd love to be considered as this move through committee is some cities have or some jurisdictions areas have district wide corps teams. And so they'll have a conservation corps like in the city of Long Beach. There could be nine of them, and they could do climate projects, environmental projects that are specific to that district, whether it's a planting project or any type of project , a cleanup project, whatever. But it could be district specific and the Corps could have a team of youth that would work with that district on imagining some options for resiliency and climate action, and they can help implement it through the community and things of that nature. So I really hope that's something we can think about. I feel like that's a structure that would be creative and would help us engage youth from all over the city in different parts of the city. A project might be one thing in one district and totally different and another, but still accomplish the same overall purpose. And I think that really contributes to the beauty and the diversity of the city if we have something like that. So I'm hoping that whoever on the staff is taking charge of this as it goes through committees, that that's something we consider as well. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman House. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for this amazing opportunity and bold and necessary move for our leadership in state capital that recognizes the need to prepare a workforce that accounts for climate change adaptation. The youth are leading the way towards cleaner, a brighter future that protects our environment and our planet. And it is our responsibility as current leaders to support them and equip them with all of the resources they need to be successful and to be able to continue to save our future. I'm very supportive of all youth empowerment programs, but especially of the youth programs focused on climate adaptation efforts. So thank you again for this program. Thank you for giving the youth a space where they can empower themselves to make positive change in this industry. Thank you, Councilwoman. Madam, quickly. I think we have members of the public. Yes, we have six speakers. Teresa marino, Don Knapp, Dave Sugar, Kenny Allen, Michelle Lewis and Elliott Gonzalez. Please come to the podium. Teresa moreno. Good evening, honorable mayor and honorable vice mayor and. City council. Members. As stated, my name is Teresa marino. I live in the second district. I am a retiree. Of the city of. Long Beach, Department of Health and Human Services, and I am the founding executive director of the Conservation Corps of Long Beach, and I'm also the current chair of the board. So I thank you for this opportunity to come forward and just speak a little bit about the Corps. Our history in terms of 35. Years of service with the. City of Long Beach and being a partnering agency and and always having a. Master agreement. So that any department in the city can work with us. We started. With. 15 Corps members. Our first corps members were hired in 1989. And over the last 33 years, we've served more than 10,000 youth with workforce development, skills, training, education and service and. Stewardship to the community. So thank you, Mayor Robert Garcia, for putting the Conservation Corps in your letter and looking at us in terms of a partner, maybe a consulting agency, in terms of we have infrastructure, we have a holistic approach of working with young people. Our core members are 18 to 25 years old, but we also do afterschool programs with younger students. And we also have a model of clean and green, which was for. Smaller. Youth corps, younger youth members, and it was. Instituted and used by the L.A. Corps model, the Conservation Corps. We've done a lot of projects in the communities. We've done neighborhood cleanups. We've done conservation. We've done recycling solar installation. Stewardship, education, about the environment and many more. We work with the neighborhoods and the business districts and all city departments. So in looking at this allocation, we hope that will be at the table. We hope that will be a model. We hope that we can help. Others so. That they don't have to reinvent the. Wheel, but can see a model. That that work that has history and experience here in the city of Long Beach and that have corps members that are out in the community working, but also very diverse young people of every strata of economic in our communities. Working with us will save money because. You will not have to start from scratch. You won't have to reinvent the wheel. We are. I have our boots on the ground. Our young people are ready. We have many. Crews. We have about 80 corps members right now and we have a long waiting list. So thank you for your time and thank you all for this opportunity. Don Knapp. Good evening. And that's Dan Knapp. So good to see everybody. Mayor City Council again, thanks, mayor, for representing while you were up there with the the coalition of big city mayors. You know, we have our own association in California. The Car Conservation Corps is called Cal California Association Conservation Course. And we were also talking to the governor's office, working with California volunteers, Josh, Friday up there on on how is this climate money going to trickle down and how is it going to get to the communities that need it the most? Working with the resources agency, with the secretary, Wade Crowfoot as well. So we're right there with you. We want to bring as many resources as possible to the city, to the young people we serve, and not the director of the corps. I work for the young people that we serve, and I really strongly believe that. And that's why I'm here tonight. We're also right now, we belong to a larger national association. We're working to ensure that the President Biden's civilian climate corps, those dollars, those resources come to the community of Long Beach and help bolster what we're already doing. As Theresa said, it's pretty crazy right now. We pay a. Little bit above minimum wage for young folks coming to our. We pay above minimum wage just a little bit, though. We have a waiting list of young folks trying to join the corps and we're competing against Amazon, you know, 20 bucks an hour. All these other jobs, they want to come here, they want to serve. We couldn't be prouder of our young folks talked about, you know, mental health. We have our own support services department for our young folks who come to our doors to help them with anything that whether it's housing, mental health, parenting, what have you. We also have a very robust academic programs. As Theresa said, we can bring resources to the table. But we're always looking for more resources. This kind of money could help the Corps develop new partnerships with the young folks back here. I love that. I can't wait to talk with them, work with other organizations, help mentor, perhaps help guide, because we've been doing this for a while. We have resources, but we also want to, you know. Engage as many young folks as we can within in Long Beach, so serve the community. It'd be cool to have a team in every council district made up of young folks from that council district doing work. But at the same time, young folks are coming to our doors because they get to go to Catalina Island and work or do Clement work. The fuel reduction in the local national forest, the clearing, the Angeles National Forest. We're doing work on chat lines. We just started a new project at the SEAL Beach Wildlife Refuge working with the sea turtles there. That's why young folks come to our doors because they know we care and we want to build that with you. So again, thanks for including us, Mayor. Thanks for the council. We look forward to working with you. Kenny Allen, Michelle Lewis and Elliott Gonzalez. Please come to the podium. Good evening, City Council. Mr. Mayor. My name is Kenny and I am a resident of the Second District here to speak on behalf of Sunrise Movement. Long Beach. First, I'd like to thank you for advocating for these funds and congratulate you on being one of the cities to receive these funds from the state. And also like to thank you for considering that this money might be well spent in the enormous amount of mitigation and adaptation work we have to do to address the climate emergency here in Long Beach. Sunrise Movement has been deeply engaged at the federal level, advocating for something called the Civilian Climate Corps to be included in the build back better package that is awaiting a vote in Congress right now. We see this as a key program required to kick off the decade of the Green New Deal and provide good union jobs and meaningful work to millions of Americans. As you receive this one time funding from the state, we have three brief points of public input to offer. One of the jobs provided by this Youth Climate Corps must provide a living wage and benefits, and the work must actually pave a path to meaningful, long term career opportunities. Two. When hiring for these positions, the communities most impacted by the climate crisis should be prioritized. This includes, but is not limited to youth living among along the diesel death corridor. Bipoc youth and youth who have come into contact with our systems of incarceration. Finally, we strongly urge the city to look closely at the Civilian Climate Corps program proposed by Senator Ed Markey, as well as the Green New Deal for Cities Act that has been introduced in the House. Having a longer term plan for the work ahead will better position us to receive major funding from the Federal Government. We highly recommend you utilize this initial funding to make our city more eligible for this desperately needed federal funding. My generation is ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work building a world beyond fossil fuels. A world that centers care and community. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Michelle Louis and I'm a lifelong resident of District Second District and a member of the Sunrise Movement, Long Beach. Congratulations on being one of the cities successful in securing this funding from the state. We look forward to hearing the details about how these funds will be invested in our community to address the climate emergency. I'd like to tell you a bit more about the vision for the Civilian Climate Corps, which is a federal program awaiting a vote as part of the build back better package. We hope this vision of a, c, c, c might inform the way you develop this local youth climate corps. Imagine a world where millions of people, recent high school graduates and middle age alike, could work on projects protecting communities from sea level rise, taking care of the elderly, distributing fresh produce and food deserts, restoring wetlands and rebuilding after climate disasters while getting paid a living wage, having access to health care and getting apprentice to continue their career. That is the vision of the Civilian Climate Corps, and it goes far beyond just planting trees. We should use this opportunity, this funding, to actually build back better. If you need help figuring out how to do this the right way, we are here and ready to work with you. Thank you. Good afternoon. Members of the city council. Honorable Mayor. I'm here to speak in support of the Youth Climate Fund. However, there are some ideas I have for this how this process can be improved. First, I would like to ask the council members to reach out to organizations already working on youth climate jobs. Organizations such as Sunrise Movement, which has been active in advocating for a civilian climate corps, which is a jobs program to put people to work, especially young people doing some of the most important work there is to be done that is taking care of this earth and taking care of one another. There's also a student led Green Campus Club at Poly High School. If there is a sincere effort to provide a youth climate fund, the youth voices should go into shaping such a program. I would like to ask the council to adopt a polluter pays model to secure a long term funding source for this Youth Climate Fund. This funding can be generated by, one, increasing taxes, such as the oil tax, which was recently implemented, and two, also implementing fees on oil drilling. Those who are most responsible for creating this crisis should be the ones to pay for it. The oil tax was originally proposed as a way to speed up the phase out of of oil. Increasing the tax can bring additional revenue from the lucrative oil industry and help fund good paying jobs, cleaning up some of the city's most polluted regions. The residents near the these pollution sources, oil drilling refineries, gas facilities are on the are the frontline communities who bear the hardest burden of pollution. And they should be the first in line to receive these jobs by placing fees on the oil industry. We can hold this the city's largest carbon emitter accountable too, for its responsibility to provide funding for living wage jobs as directed by the community, most importantly, by the youth. Finally, I'd like to ask that the Council use the Council Offices, the Climate Committee of the City Council and the Sustainability Commission to gain the vision of the community. The community held a vision for it, for the transition. I believe in the youth and the young adults who are going to be the first to inherit the climate crisis. Their voices should go into providing the vision for the type of work to be done. They have the ability to secure the funding, to hold the oil industry accountable. They are the ones who are willing to do whatever is necessary to ensure that they have a livable future. Thank you. If sugar. Good evening. Thank you for letting me speak last. I am someone who has misspent his youth in the climate justice movement. I have literally aged out. I have gray hair. I have been doing this in some form or another for the past 30 years. I can remember not only James Hansen's testimony before Congress in 1998, but telling my mother not to use VO5 hair spray because of the aerosols and the CFC spec when the Montreal Protocol was being designed. I have a lot of thoughts. The Conservation Corps program idea was something that we advocated for when we organized the first National Green Jobs Day of Action back in September of 2008. It's a good program. My congratulations for the state funding and for your continued support of the Climate Action Plan. I sincerely hope that the youth that are have spoken as well as are listening to this will also stick around for item 58, which directly bears on how much space your future may or may not have in this town. I've been trying to do my best. Perhaps it's appropriate to be a bit more explicit about my goals and methods. As much as these comments are directed at them, they're really for you. They're to you. I'm of buy for from someone from UGA. So some thought having cause in each and every district is a good idea. I support that idea that these jobs should be informed by climate adaptation, environmental justice, best principles, starting with prioritizing the most disadvantaged communities. These jobs should be career path, and they should focus on existing statutes like SB 100 and SB 1000 and other laws that, you know are going to be part of a livable future. It'd be unfortunate if a lot of these jobs became ways to prioritize city trash filler into a fuel source or to prop up fossil fuel jobs that really don't have any future. And in the time that I have, if anyone would like to get started on a project. Prove or disprove the following propositions. Over the past 100 years, the City of Long Beach has one of the largest historical attributable emission loads profiles of any municipality in the Northern Hemisphere. These emissions can be calculated as much from the existing data and back facing estimates, as well as various social and political developments that the city has exported worldwide. Institutional mechanisms like the division in Signal Hill and Lakewood, Levittown town of Suburban Development to you growth overvalue growth in the port. And that historical responsibility is somewhere between two and 4% of all climate forcing in all climate disasters worldwide. From here on and bonus question which actuaries institutional thank. You your time is. The financial advisors would help you. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. I want to thank all the other folks that came for public comment. I do want to add that it was mentioned and I think I maybe should have leaned on this piece a little more. But this is certainly to the committee and to the chair. The idea is that this program would align with the federal civilian corps that is being currently discussed right now. So I want to make sure that I know I mentioned it, but that is it's a current proposal that's right now. Had a lot of vetting at the federal level. And the idea is that this program would align with that program. And so it would serve as an opportunity for us to get ready for hopefully that federal program and those dollars. There will be also additional state dollars for this program we expect in the future. So that should be a big part, hopefully, of a conversation that happens at at the committee. Councilman Mongo. My only question regarding that is the funding that would be coming down from the state or the feds. Do we know if there's going to be any supplementing restrictions on it? Because I don't know how we would be able to ensure that we could then add to it, if that makes sense. So I don't. Just something to talk about for our administrative team because nearly every grant in the last 12 months has had this new clause. And I don't want us to be disqualified by opening an area that we can't close and reopen or expand. I think we're still waiting to see what those admin regulations are going to be from the state. They haven't been published yet, so it is going to take a fair amount of time for them to tell us what we can do in the past to then build those programs. To make sure that we're behind this. I just it's a new thing that started to be a lot more dominant in the grant world. And so I just wanted to put it on the radar and thank the mayor for bringing the thought. This is an amazing idea, and I look forward to all the community partnerships that this could really bring. Thanks so much. Thank you. And I would encourage I know some folks came today, but I would encourage the committee to talk to the community. And I think that there is a lot of work going on in the community right now and a lot of energy around these climate cores that are happening. And we have an opportunity in Long Beach to be really one of a handful of cities to actually have one of the first ones, because we have dedicated funding now. And so if we can get it right and align ourselves with the federal programs that are that are that are being developed, I think that's a really, really great opportunity for for the city and for most importantly, for young people in our city. There's a motion in a second to approve the item. Please cast your votes. The most of these carry. Thank you. Next step is item number 48. Item 48 is a report from City Manager Recommendation to receive and file a presentation on 2020 Census Population Data for the City of Long Beach City. Why? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. So this is a update not not on the redistricting process. That's obviously the registering commission. But this is to use some of the data that came out of the census that the redistricting commission has been working with to look at how our city has changed, the demographics of the city has changed, and also by council district, just so we can get a sense of what has happened over the past ten years from 2010 to 2020. So I will turn it over to Kevin Jackson, deputy city manager, and and Julian Senator, assistant to the city manager, to go through the presentation. Thank you, Tom. And good evening, Mayor, and members of the City Council. I want to thank you for the opportunity to present some of the initial results of the 2020 Census. We do expect that there will be some continuing data releases over the over the next several months of data that's not available now. And we do want to state that if there is an interest in reporting on some of that additional data, we look forward to opportunity to do that either in writing or even an oral report. And tonight's presentation really is just as a representation of the population profile of the city with the data that's available to us today . So before we jump into that data, I just want to do a quick recap on the timeline and activity of the census. The census 2020 census was historic and unusual in a variety of ways, but most notably, it was impacted by the pandemic. And so just let me just just if we don't mind. Is Mr. Cordero here for something? Is he here for the item? Yes, he's here for the item on container stacking. Why don't we just see him and then Dr. Hasegawa here also. So why don't we? If the council doesn't object, let's pause on this presentation. Let's hear the item that relates to the port so that those two gentlemen can. Can head back to the port building, and then we'll come back to the census report. Madam Clerk, can you please read the item? Item 50, please?

AN ORDINANCE granting Grange Insurance Association permission to continue maintaining and operating a pedestrian skybridge over and across the alley between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue, north of Cedar Street; repealing Section 8 of Ordinance 123723; and providing for acceptance of the permit and conditions.

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Gender item ten Council Bill 120074 An ordinance granting Grange Insurance Association permission to continue maintaining and operating a pedestrian skybridge over and across the alley between Second Avenue and Third Avenue, north of Cedar Street, repealing Section eight of Ordinance 123723 and providing for acceptance of the permit and conditions. The Committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you so much. Councilmember Peterson, as chair of the committee, you are again recognized in order to address this item. Thank you. Colleagues, this second item is a renewal of the permit for an existing SkyBridge, and it's described as described in the title of this council bill. It's self-explanatory. Our committee unanimously recommended approval. Thank you so much. Any questions or comments from council members on this item? Seeing none. Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill? So what? Yes. Strauss. Yes. LEWIS Yes. Morales Yes. Let's get to. I. Peterson II Council President Pro Tem. Herbold Yes. Seven in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. The clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Item 11 Will the clerk please read item 11 into the record?

A proclamation in recognition of the second annual Denver Mini Maker Faire, June 13 and 14, 2015.

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Colleges, libraries and arts organizations which develop workforce and entrepreneurial talents in advanced manufacturing and new product invention and which create economic opportunity. Bringing back made in Denver as a phrase that not only celebrates Denver's rich manufacturing and entrepreneurial history, but beckons a diverse economic future that can be made even stronger with a thriving innovation and manufacturing sector creating primary jobs for the local economy. And. Whereas, Made in Denver will be celebrated in the upcoming second annual Denver M.A. Fair, debuting on June 13th and 14th at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, a festival to showcase the work of arts and crafters, inventors, builders, recyclers and other creators in the Denver area. And. Whereas, The Maker Faire will be a multigenerational gathering of 5 to 10000 attendees in its second year, providing the opportunity to participate in interactive exhibits from local businesses, crafters and techies who make, create, engage, learn, invent, craft, hack, recycle, build, think, clay and are generally inspired and inspiring. Whereas The Maker Faire will be the launch of the Colorado Maker ET Initiative, celebrating and sharing innovation and design thinking from leading technology and education organizations that empower educators to hack their classrooms. Creating a maker and innovation approach to Colorado Education. And. Whereas, The Maker Faire is described as the greatest show and tell on Earth, a very family friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the maker movement where people show what they're making and share what they are learning in the process of making building community, in the process of building products. And. Whereas, the original Maker Faire event started nine years ago in California and now attracts some 900 makers and 120,000 attendees, there are now flagship maker events in New York, Detroit, Kansas City, New Castle in the United Kingdom, Rome, Oslo and Tokyo, and a host of smaller, community driven, organized M.A. fairs being produced around the United States and the world, including a National Maker Faire that will take place at the White House on the exact same date as our Mini Maker Faire right here in Denver. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver that Section one, the Council hereby celebrates the June 13 to 14 2015 Makers Fair at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and urges Denver families and residents to participate in and be amazed by the fun filled Penelope of exhibits being offered. And to that the clerk in the city and county of Denver shall have tested and fixed the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and that a copy be transmitted to Elizabeth Van Dyne. Thank you. Councilman Kennish, your motion to adopt. Thank you, Madam President. I move that proclamation. 405 be adopted. Second. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of council. Councilor McKinney Thank you, Madam President. I, as you know, many of you have heard me talk about the importance of making things as a primary piece of an economy. As we see more and more of our jobs in the service sector. We know that there are good quality jobs and it's a balanced economy to be making things. We had the first M.A., M.A. Fair last year. It was at the the National Western Stock Show Center. And I took my son, who's six years old, and it was amazing to watch the things that people were doing with things like 3D printers, which take a spool of plastic and can create anything that you can program in from a vase to a little car to a piece of equipment to, you know, use in an actual manufacturing process in some cases. There were also a lot of science experiments. There was creativity from creating anything you could imagine out of a humungous pile of cardboard boxes. And we all know that kids love a good cardboard box, regardless of what comes inside of it. And there were not just little kids, but there were big kids. Big kids ages, you know, 30, 40, 50, 70, 80 that were making things as well. And so it captured our imaginations. And I know that with a partner like the Museum of Nature and Science, it will be as effective this year. So I hope that folks will come out this coming weekend to the Museum of Nature and Science. And this is something that the museum is very interested in continuing to incorporate as in their regular exhibits. We all can think of if you've been to the museum, the the escalator has glass on it, so you can see how the inside of the escalator works. Imagine that at a greater scale as they continue to evolve so that you can see how things work as they put them together. So with that, I want to urge my colleagues to come out and support it and also to vote for this proclamation. Thank you. Madam Secretary, roll call, please. Can each I. Liman Lopez. Nevitt Ortega, Rob. Shepherd, I. SUSSMAN Hi. BROOKS Hi. BROWN All right. Fox, I. Madam President. High. Madam Secretary, please. Brown. 30. Here we go. Okay, then. Secretary, will you close the voting and announce the results. For Vice. Provost? Proclamation four or five has been adopted. Council McKinnis Is there someone that you would like to invite up to the podium? Yes, Madam President. I would like to invite Elizabeth Van Dyne, who is the producer of Denver's M.A. Fair. Thank you so much, Councilman Mitch and the Council for passing this proclamation. When I started the Maker Faire a couple of years ago here in Colorado, I started thinking of it as serious fun because it's a lot of fun. I mean, who wouldn't want to fly a drone obstacle course or create an art car with cartoonists or paint with code with spark fun? It's a lot of fun, but it's also quite serious. As Councilman Kenny pointed out, that these are these makers are the people who create our economy, who create our future. And so as a result, you have people coming in who are entrepreneurs, inventors, workforce, people whose default expression throughout the fair is one of wonder. The number one thing you'll see is and the very next thing is, I can do that. And so all of a sudden, things that people have never seen before from welding and sciencey, milling to sculpture and arts of all sorts, will go home and go, Wow, I can do that. And so the innovation economy moves forward and it's a great thing. And the other thing that the Maker Faire does is it leverages the event to get great coverage for what's happening in Denver. So, for example, last week I got a call from Discovery Channel saying, can you help us find inventors in Denver that are in the prototype stage that we can film and put up on the Discovery Channel? And I said, yes. And so this week, they're going to be filming in Denver, inventors that are happening here. Another thing that happened out of last year is Shane Evans, who is a sculptor from Denver, had built a 30 foot robot that shoots lasers and fire. And we had him featured at our Maker Faire. And because the Maker Faire is an international organization, the pictures and the and the experience went around the world. And since that fair, Shane Evans and his team have been going from city to city, Utah, Georgia, Florida and showing off and being paid for his art across the country . So he was a small, you know, locally based sculptor who now has an international presence because of it. And I'm very proud of that. The last thing that I want to point out is that this is a community event, and we're primarily run by volunteers. And what happens is people in the community come to me and say, I've got a great idea. So what happened last year was the Colorado Education Initiative came to me and said, Can we leverage the Denver fair for education? And I said, Sure, why not? And then my operations director looked at me and said, What are you doing? But that's her deal to take care of. Anyway, as a result, we're launching the Colorado Maker Education Initiative on Friday. And we have speakers, the CEOs of leading tech companies in Colorado. We have Mod Robotics, we have Spark Fund, we have Sphero, we have the head of Techstars all coming to talk to our educators about how to bring play and making into the classroom. So as I said, this is a lot of fun, but it's serious fun because it's about building our future. And I hope you'll all join me at the fair and and come around. And if you have any great ideas of things you want to do, bring them to me because we'll do them. Thank you so. Much. Q. Madam Secretary, will you please read the resolutions. From safety and well-being for before resolution authorizing approving the expenditure payment from the appropriation account designated a liability claims sum of $437,500 for your loss of Will Atkinson pursuant to the Court approved settlement agreement. Civil Action Number 0700541 to sharpen the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

A resolution by the Council of the City and County of Denver, sitting ex officio as the Board of Directors of the RiNo Denver General Improvement District, approving a Work Plan, adopting a Budget, imposing Capital Charges and Maintenance Charges, approving a Mill Levy, and making appropriations for the 2019 Fiscal Year and approving an Amended Work Plan, adopting an Amended Budget, and making appropriations for the 2018 Fiscal Year. Approves the 2019 Operating Plan and Budget of the RiNo Denver General Improvement District in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 10-31-18.

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Please refrain from profane or obscene speech structure comments to the Council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council is not convened as the Board of Directors of the Rhino General Improvement District District. Councilman Cashman, will you please put Resolution 1242 on the floor? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that resolution 18 dash 1240 to be adopted. The motion and a second. It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Resolution 1242 is open. May we have the staff report? Oh, good evening, board members. I am Michael Kerrigan with the Department of Finance, Capital Planning and Programing Programing Division. I am before you tonight to give a staff report and request approval for the Reno Denver General Improvement District 2019 Annual workPlan and Budget and a 2018 Budget Amendment. The district is located in Northwest and is located northwest of downtown, includes residentially and commercially assessed properties around the Brighton Boulevard corridor. Generally, the Ideas Center is centered on Brighton Boulevard, stretching from I-70 in the north to 29th Street on the south and bounded east by the Union Pacific Railroad and west by the Burlington Northern Railroad Line . The G80 supports infrastructure enhancements and maintenance in the Reno area, including streetscape enhancements to Brighton Boulevard. City approved formation of the Reno Denver by ordinance number 309 Series 2015 and established the City Council as the ex-officio board of Directors for the District. The ordinance also created the District Advisory Board comprised of property owners within the district. The ordinance specify that the that the Advisory Board should subject to the approval of the Board of Directors conduct and manage all affairs of the District as authorized agent for the Board of Directors. The Reno 2018 Budget Amendment reflects total expenditures and funds fund transfers of 364,631. Budget Amendment is due to savings due to Denver, due to lower debt repayments, lower reserve transfers and lower capital improvements. The District Advisory Board has created the 2019 budget before you tonight. The Budget proposes overall expenditures and fund transfers of $1,001,811 and overall revenues of $849,070. Of these revenues, the district will generate approximately 648,700 through the levy of four mills on real property for general operating purposes. And it will generate approximately $175,000 from the imposition of capital charge assessed on a lineal foot basis on properties adjacent to the Brighton Boulevard for the repayment of debt and for the repayment of debt used to fund the capital enhancements along Brighton Boulevard. Ali Sharpe with Centro Ink is here is also here tonight and available to answer questions. You may have city staff has reviewed the 2019 budget work plan and recommended work paint and budget and recommends it for approval. Thank you. Thank you very much. We have three individuals signed up to speak this evening, so if we could make room in this front bench for our speakers, that would be fantastic. If you are one of the three people who signed up, please come up to the front bench because I will call your name and then your time will start. So that ensures that you get all of your time stepping right up to the microphone. First up, Ali Sharpe. Hi, I'm Ali Sharp. I'm here representing the Rhino Denver Guide. And I'm here to answer any questions you may have on the work plan and budget. Thank you very much. Next up, Jesse Paris. Good evening. Members of Council. Mr. President, my name is Jesse Paris. I'm here representing for Denver Homicide Low Black Star Action Moment for Self-defense and Community Community Action, Commitment for Change. And I am also an at large candidate for 2019 City Council member. I am against this proposal today. Rhino is. A cancer to this community, to the city. It should not be in existence. It's not even a neighborhood bias. Natives. We do not even recognize it as such. But this is to go through with the promenade that is planned to be downtown in 2020 or and what they're calling our Toronto district. This is in response to that. Yeah, I'm definitely against this. You keep you're going to continue to sweep the people all in this district. This is not affordable by any means. Who is this really going to benefit? And yeah, it's just another another tourist attraction, which you have no care or regard for the natives that have been here for 20 plus years, when this was known as the East Side, an abandoned warehouse during the crack epidemic, when there was no safe crack houses. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, Chairman Sekou. Yes. My name is Chairman Sekou Found organized the Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense candidate for mayor in 2019. Representing poor, working poor homeless people. This. Resolution. It's already going to be approved by all your alter teeth because it satisfies all the conditions that were set up in order for to get this thing approved. Now, a lot of people think I'm Jimmy the Greek, but I haven't been down in 15 years operating and watching this process go down. So I know this is already a dog and pony show. The decision has already been made so we can start playing the game. That's number one. Number two, there is no transparency on this because what you have been doing consistently over the 8 to 10 years I've been down here is to proven an apartheid system of white supremacy right here in this town. Right here in this town. Look in the audience. And what do you see? What do you see? White people with only fires and buttermilk up here consistently for the last 15 years. And yet we've been saying the same thing over and over and over again. You still don't listen. You don't listen. And so you want to do what you do. But I'll guarantee I'll guarantee you, as the mayor of the city to Denver, all of this comes to a halt, all of it. And then for those who have the courage, you have to worry about it. You know how to hide. You're not to vote for things that you don't approve. You cannot stand on your dime and represent this city the way you did from a position of consciousness. If this ain't white supremacy, I don't know what it is. And it's been that way from day one, and you know that. So what do we do with this? What do we do with this? With all the people that are listening and looking at this mess, do the research. Do the research, do the research on the Rhino district and what a compromise. It has no diversity whatsoever inside the organization and never has been, never will and has been the model of success for every R.A. in this town that is opposed to the participation of diversity in this town, where it is totally exclusive for white people only. So I'm going to close this. Will. Because my family told me not to come down here that night. Yeah. Who's down to pass the too serious about this, miss. You know what? I can't quit. I'm addicted to this to be body got one of them overdose things we need an overdose serum but folks to come down here. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about your time. Your time is up. Thank you very much. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions from members of Council? Councilwoman Ortega. I just wanted to ask Michael a question, if you wouldn't mind, coming up. Just to add clarification for the listening audience, does the city have any funding that they put aside for this, or is this primarily assessment against all the property owners who are contributing towards the the cost of the maintenance of the district? Can you talk about that? Yeah, it's so the budget is funded exclusively from the property owner assessments and the additional property taxes on the property owners within the district. And what was the total amount of the budget for this year? Let's see. Did you do 801 $1,001,811? That's the total expenditures and fund transfers. Okay. Thank you. I have no further questions. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Seeing no other questions. The public hearing for Council 1242 is closed. Are there any comments by members of Council? Councilman Brooks. Councilman Flint. Thank you, Mr. President. Just a point of order. On the screen, it shows that's item 1242. But I believe on the agenda it says 1241. I just wanted to ask if that discrepancy is something that is meaningful and does it need to be corrected? You, as usual, are correct. Thank you. 1241 I see. 1241 on the agenda. Madam Secretary, are we? 1241 or 12 4242? 1242 1242. Okay. All right. So we're all good with 1242, so our emotions. Are. Good to go. Councilman Flynn, you. You satisfied? I don't know if I am. I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning if. If the lawyers come back to us and say you didn't pass it. Well, we've got lawyers right here, so we're still. Trying to talk. Well, excuse me. I did not hear the question. There's some debate about this showing up as 1241 on some documents, and we have it pulled up as 1242 in our system. Just double checking that we have the rate bill number on the floor for this hearing. Okay. I will look at that while you are moving through the agenda. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. It's. The agenda that central staff is looking at has it listed as 1242. Okay. And we have 1241. Interesting. Okay. 42. All right. Well, well, well. You're taking a deeper dove. Councilman Espinosa, did you have something not related to the number of the bill? Right. I do. Go ahead. Yeah. Just. Maybe I'm not reading the budget summary. So can you walk me through it a little bit on how that number that you just quoted in, I mean, you cited is in response to previous question is represented on here. Yeah. Thank you. Comment. And I'm not I'm not certain what you were referring to on here. You said it was 1.8 1,001,811. Okay, that's different. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Are we all good, Councilman, for this? Thank you. I was looking at the bid and not the JID. Thank you. All right. So seeing no other comments. Madam Secretary, roll call. Black. All right. BROOKS Hi. Espinosa. Flynn Hi. Gilmore, i herndon. I Cashman. I can h. Lopez. Ortega. I Susman. Mr. President. Hi. I'm Secretary. Please close voting and notes. Results 12 US. Provides Resolution 1242 has passed. Council is now convened as the board of Directors of the Gateway Village General Improvement District. Councilman Cashman, will you please put Resolution 1 to 4 or five on the floor?

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3880 Holly Street in Northeast Park Hill. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 3880 Holly Street from I-MX-3 to I-A (industrial, mixed-use to industrial, light-use) in Council District 8. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-8-18.

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Now speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments the council as a whole and refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilman Flynn, would you please put. Thank you. Will you please put Council Bill 365 on the floor? Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 18, dash 365 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Well, okay. It has been moved and seconded probably here. Four, three, six, five is open. May we have the staff report? Scott runs. Thank you, Mr. President. And Council Scott Robinson with Community Planning and Development. This is a request to rezone 3880 Holly Street from I Annex three to I. A property is located in Council District eight in the Northeast Park Hill neighborhood. It is at the southeast corner of 39th Avenue and Holly Street. The property is about two and a half acres, so there's a 40,000 square foot building used for marijuana cultivation and extraction. The request is to rezone from I am x three, which is industrial context to mixed use zoning with a three storey maximum height to I.A. , which is still industrial context in the area is the light industrial zoning. The request is to bring the existing uses into conformance. The existing marijuana cultivation use is considered plant husbandry, which is not allowed under the existing. I am extreme that that use is considered non-conforming and the proposed rezoning would bring that into conformance. The property is surrounded on three sides by the same ix3 zoning and to the north by the EIA. The requested zoning to the south across 38th Avenue is a mix of single unit and two unit residential zoning. You can see the surrounding uses mostly industrial in the area. Across Holly Street is the District two police station and then again, south of 38th is a mix of residential uses. You can see the subject property there in the center and then some of the surrounding buildings around it. This went to the planning board on April 4th, where planning board voted five three to recommend approval. There was no public comment at that meeting, went to the Liddy Committee on May 8th. I did notice in the packet you have a letter of support from the Northeast Parochial Coalition and letters of support from seven surrounding property owners . In order to approve a rezoning, council must find that these five criteria have been met. The first criterion is consistency with adopted plans. There are three plans that apply to this property. First plan is comprehensive plan 2000. As described in the staff report, staff has found the proposed rezoning consistent with these three strategies from campaign 2000 relating to infill development and relating to economic activity in the northeast quadrant of the city. Maintaining and strengthening that as a business area, which the proposed rezoning would be consistent with. Movement. Denver is the second plan from 22. The concept land used for this property is industrial, which calls for light and heavy industrial and manufacturing consistent with the proposed zoning. It's also an area of stability which calls for maintaining the character. But rezonings may be appropriate to better match existing uses such as this proposal. Holly Street is an industrial collector and 39th Avenue is a non-designated local, both consistent with the proposed zoning. The third plan is the Park Hill Neighborhood Plan from 2000. The Park Sale Plan calls for keeping a separation between the industrial uses north of 38 and the residential uses south of it. But basically maintaining each of them where they are consistent with the proposed zoning clause for retaining existing businesses that do not propose a nuisance to the residential area and creating a buffer between the industrial area and the residential area. The proposed AIA Zone District is intended to act as a buffer. The definition of area says it is compatible with adjacent residential and this rezoning would not put a directly adjacent to residential. There would still be some Annex three between the residential south of 38th and this property. And it would help act as a a transition from the residential to the Annex three to eye to eye, be the heavy industrial further north north of the railroad tracks. So staff finds the proposed rezoning consistent with the adopted plans and the first criterion met. The second criterion is uniformity of district regulations. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would result in the uniform application of the zoned district. The third criterion is to further the public health, safety and general welfare of the city. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would do so by implementing the city's adopted plans and facilitating the continued existence of a building or a business in an existing building. The fourth criterion is justifying circumstances. Staff finds the proposed rezoning is justified by change conditions. When this property was rezone to I Annex three in 2010 as part of the citywide rezoning and adoption of the new zoning code. Recreational marijuana was not allowed in the state. That was approved later. And as the city's regulatory regime for recreational and retail marijuana has evolved, it ended up this property being non-conforming. As the council amended the the municipal code to limit the number and location of places for marijuana cultivation. It has increased the demand for places like this that are approved and that has increased the need for the zoning in this location because this is an approved location that's likely to stay that way and the zoning is therefore appropriate and justified by the change conditions. The fifth criterion is consistency with neighborhood context. So in district purpose and intent, as I mentioned, the is intended to serve as a buffer, a transition from residential to higher intensity industrial uses, which this location would do and the proposed use would. The proposed zoning would allow uses in development consistent with the industrial context and the purpose of the intent of the design district. That staff finds all five criteria and recommends approval. I'll idea. Answering questions. All right. Thank you. We have three speakers this evening who each have 6 minutes. Please come to the front as I call you up. Daniel Markovsky. There you go. Oh, yeah. Daniel. Kevin Daley and Chairman Sekou. Mr. Markovsky, you are first. Thank you. Good evening, council members. My name is Daniel Markovsky. I am the attorney for the applicant. I have just a brief statement of the reason for this application and the outreach efforts. I'm joined here by the applicant's managing member, Kevin Daly, who's going to speak next. And Jeff White is seated over there, and Jennifer Kelly, the compliance officer and director of operations. And we are all available for any questions council members may have. So the reason we're here is that in January 2010, you have to get at least an empty warehouse. The property at the southeast corner of 39th and Holly across from Denver police district headquarters to the property was zoned zero and plant husbandry was a used by. Right. The applicant obtained a plant husbandry use permit in February of 2010. Then in June of 2010, with the citywide rezoning, the property's zoning was changed to IMX three, which doesn't allow plant husbandry. The use continued as legal non-conforming and the non-conforming status has been maintained with great expense and effort. The non-conforming status creates an increased administrative burden on the applicant and on the city. The non-conforming status gets flagged every time the applicant goes to the city for any sort of interaction, whether it's building permits, inspections or licensing. In March 2016, the Doug Moreland Family Group purchased the property and requested that the applicant pursue this rezoning. So the goal of this reason is to remove administrative burdens and create certainty. We've conducted a substantial amount of outreach in the summer of 2017. The applicant commenced informal outreach to eight neighbors and six registered neighborhood organizations. I made a formal presentation to the Northeast Park Health Coalition and their letter of support. A letter of support is in the staff report. We attended a Greater Park Hill community meeting. They requested that we post a notice to their official Facebook page, which we did. The post received two likes and no other comments. We reached out to I.N.S., the Opportunity Corridor Coalition of United Residents and the Denver Arts and Culture Initiative. And we did not get a response to emails and voicemails that we sent. The final R.A. is the Denver Neighborhood Association, and that one is no longer active. So we also researched the nine neighbors within 200 feet, one of them being Denver Police District two. We contacted the other eight by phone, email and even walk up visit. We've received five letters of support, two letters of no opposition, and one of the neighbors never responded. And those letters are in the application packet. In support we have Marshall Rodino, Associated Metro Taxi, Denver Rescue, Mission Live, Green, Cannabis and PECO Images not opposed as a company called Architectural Doors and Solsbury Hill Land Company. And we'd never heard back from the Church of Pentecost Denver District. So we respectfully request the Denver City Council approve this application. And I will be available for any questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you. Kevin Taylor. Good evening. My name is Kevin Daley. I live here in Denver at 2414 Glenarm place. I am the founder and one of the managing partners of Mindful here in Denver. When we went before the Board of Adjustment, one of the board members asked a question to the city which said it all to me. He asked, Were these guys done correctly when we rezoning them in 2010? And the person from the zoning department answered Yes. The goal of this rezoning is to remove administrative burdens and create certainty. The operations at the property are going to continue unchanged. We have invested approximately $8 million into this facility thus far. We were in front of the Board of Adjustment because the building department thought our use permit would only let us use a small part of the space. We have a 43,000 square foot building, though that variance was granted. Going to the Board of Adjustment is a great burden on our ability to do business, attract investment and make long term plans. Nonconforming use is a great burden on us. Through careful compliance efforts, hard work by our architect, engineers, lawyers and compliance staff, we manage our nonconforming status. It is always an issue. It was an issue when Doug Moreland purchased the property and we had to agree to apply for rezoning. We respectfully request that the Denver City Council approve this application. I am happy to answer any questions anyone may have. All right. Thank you, Mr. Daly. German psycho. My name is Chairman Sekou Blackstock. Movement for self-defense. Defending the human rights of poor, working, poor, homeless senior citizens and youth. We stand opposed. To this ordinance change. And. Yes. All of the. Things that are listed that makes it qualify for it. Is there, except for one thing. You're in the black community. 3530 Holly Street is where I grew up, went to Smith High School. You're talking about a residential area that stops at 38th Avenue. 40,000 square foot facility to grow, manufacture and market marijuana. Are you kidding me? And these are the same folks in the industry who sit by silently and have our sons and daughters locked up in jail without any moral authority to even speak upon it. As they gather up millions and millions of dollars of the blood, sweat and tears of our people. And then you have the audacity to come up in here. And then prior to this, we just give away proclamations about the suffering of humanity. And yet nothing is said about what's happening right here in the city county of Denver, where they're proposing to do this to get rich on the misery of our people. If Candy sounds violently in this room, you pass this. Did everybody need to go through? And stop standing up for that flag because you disrespect the integrity of why it was written. But we're talking about justice for all. And you're talking about justice for the few and the rich for real. And now you have a monopoly cartel where it takes millions of dollars just to get in the game. One of those unintended consequences. Huh? Yeah. So are we going to take a serious for real? How are we going to trust you for real? Tomorrow is the neighborhood day. We're talking about making it funky for real. And the smell of marijuana in those schools in that area. Why do we have to live under that? Why don't you take it to Cherry Creek? Funk up your neighborhood. Have massive traffic jams. And then sit here and smirk as if it means nothing. Nothing. Well, the real test this evening. Because the world is looking just like you're looking at Texas. Let's see what Colorado does and Colorado for its residents. And if you can't do it here at home, how are you going to do it somewhere else with any integrity? Are you serious? So. What are we doing? What we do it this to make the balance of justice. To make those who have privileged opportunity to make millions and million dollars of the suffering of those. Who are in jail now still. Four years. Since 2014. No voice, no reason to look the other way, because the real truth is this industry is putting money in your pockets to finance your reelection. Now tell me a lie. Tell me I'm lying. Jolene taking no money from the marijuana industry to get reelected. And then you vote for this speaks of corruption. So I'll close with this king. One, said the. Truth. Like a mighty river. Will sleep all and justice into the dustbin of history. And those who are in it for the rug gets caught up. In the movement of the river, but there is no return of your humanity. If you vote for the inhumanity and the exploitation of the people that you represent. That's all I got. All right. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions by members of council. Mr. Robinson, can you come up here just for a second? Let me. Do we get a letter of support from the Northeast Park Hill Coalition? I believe you said that. Yes, it should be in the packet here. Let me see if I can. I ended. Yeah. Here it is, dated March 5th, 2018. And who signed that? Michelle Wheeler, President. Thank you. Okay, Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. Scott, if you could stay there for a second, can you tell us what the height difference is for the I.A. zoning? So for the i3, it's obviously three stories. Is there a limit in the idea? There is not. The air is governed by a floor area ratio instead of a height. Okay. So I want to ask the representative, maybe, Mr. Daly, if you can come forward. So there's an operating business in the facility. Is that correct? Since 2010. Okay. And. The nonconforming use is something that. Requires an annual application for their permit or. Help me understand why that's been an issue. Sure. So any time we go to change anything, for example, adding a new grow room or using our trim area differently, whatever under the normal permitting that we're going for, we'd be permitted. To do the same footprint of the existing building. That is. Great, because you just. Can't expand beyond the building. It's yes. It's not. It's not even just that as we can't change and maneuver within the existing building that we have. Are. Does the company have plans to expand the building? We do not. Okay. So it's really just to not have to go through that brain damage each time you want to do something. Right. It's it's extremely costly and time consuming. Okay. I think that's the only other question I have. This is very helpful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Ortega, Councilman Castro. Thank you, Mr. President. From CPD, that five three planning board vote. What was that about? Yes. Yes. Three of the from what they said at the meeting, three of the planning board members had concerns that the request did not meet the fifth criterion consistency with neighborhood context, zone, district purpose and intent. They felt that the. The buffer or the transition between the residential south of 38th and the industrial area was better served by the larger I am x3. That was more appropriate for that context and and the district purpose and intent. If we were to vote no on this, the operation wouldn't cease. It would just continue to be hampered. A bit by regulation. Is that correct? Yes. They can continue indefinitely as a non-conforming use with the restrictions and burdens that have already been mentioned, but they would not have to leave or close the business. Thank you. That's all, Mr. President. Thank you. Councilman Cashman are currently. Thank you, Mr. President. Just heard. I'm sorry. I forgot your name. You said that the facility opened in 2010. Yes, sir. And there was nothing. Are you the owner of the building? We are not. Mr. Moreland. Douglas. Okay. You're the owner of the business. That is correct. I am. The business opened in 2010. That is correct. And do you represent Mr. Moreland? We're here with authority from the Moreland family. When when did when did Mr. Moreland buy the property? In March of 2016. Or just recently. Okay. Okay. So you saw the business opened under the prior owner. Okay. Now, in 2010 is when the zoning code was changed, so this immediately became a non-conforming use. Scott, could you explain the timing? Yes. So this mindset is the business went in in early 2010. Okay, the new zoning code was adopted summer of 2010. So it was June, a matter of months after months opened and when the zoning changed. Okay. So it became non-conforming almost immediately after it opened. Do you know and I don't blame you if you don't stop it. Do you know how many nonconforming uses exist right now in the city? I do not. Who would it be? Like dozens. Or could it be hundreds? Marijuana specific? No. All non-conforming users. Hundreds? Yes, hundreds. So would the fact that a nonconforming would we consider it as a justifying circumstance in all cases of any non-conforming use to change that to a zoned district that would permit. That non-performing used to be an allowable use? Or do you see circumstances where that would not be the case? Yes, I could imagine circumstances where that would not be the case. If it's a sane industrial use embedded in a residential area, right, there would be a non-conforming use. You wouldn't want to resort to an industrial. The changes in the area would notate against zoning to industrial. If the cultivation facility were to. Well, let me let me back up. The extraction the right to do extraction there was obtained subsequent to the 2010 zoning code. When did that. Occur? 2014, I believe. Okay. And what kind of process that required a zip c? Yes. A special zoning permit with special exception review. Right. Okay. If that facility were to close with this new zoning, aia in right in the middle of an image three zone. What types of uses would be permitted there that might not be permitted otherwise under its current zone? I don't have the full list of uses. If you have a couple examples, I would help you out. Yeah. Besides the obvious plant husbandry. I believe it allows more manufacturing uses than the iron actually does. It does not allow the residential that the Annex three does. So, yeah, there's a difference in. Okay. Immediately across 39th. Avenue to the north. Is the idea. Correct. If this building were magically overnight. To move a block. North, this wouldn't even be an issue. Correct. Okay. That's that's all the questions. Okay. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. That's a question for the business operator. And I was really going to comment on it. But since you're here, I might as well ask one of the one of the. Opponents. That spoke spoke about sort of the you know, I don't expect you to solve all the problems of of us as a society. But there is a we do know demographically there is a bigger big difference between ownership of these businesses versus the population in general and the lack of minority representation in these things. You are now obligated to produce a community engagement plan. Do you do you think that there is at least some some daylight or opportunity there in a future community engagement program to maybe make some inroads to sort of that might help introduce or create opportunity for local residents. To work in the facility? Or are you talking about sort of just in work or train or education. Or leadership or there could be so many different things very open. But. So our company has about 20% of our roughly hundred employees are minority at the moment. And several years ago we had engaged in the community by growing organic vegetables and giving them away at the community center just down the road on Holley Street. And that was very successful and a lot of gratitude from the people there. The media ultimately disallowed us from growing organic vegetables in our backyard. So that's that was all I was going to do is in my comment, sort of expressed my my, my desire that you you always maintain that that level of creativity and openness and see what you can do to sort of address just sort of historic inequities that persist in the neighborhood that surrounds you. Absolutely. I think, you know, collectively, our organization, one of the reasons we undertook this business was because of the inequity in in terms of the drug war and how many particular people of color have been locked up. I think that's one of the things we're trying to change through this business. And we've been very active. My partner and I were just in Washington last week for three days meeting with several justices on that very matter. That's that's a great response. And that is one that was one aspect to this. But one part of that problem was the lack of opportunity. And so absolutely, let's hopefully you can help complete that cycle and reverse that trend. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Ortega. Yes, thank you, Mr. President. This question is for Scott. So looking at the PowerPoint presentation, it shows that this site is pretty much surrounded by IMX zoning. And typically the planning department does not like having zoning. That is not consistent. So were there other considerations besides the EIS zoning that could have been? Used as opposed to AA. Well, first the idea was the zone district requested by the applicant. And so we process the application that they submit. But as far as what would work, there is probably the best zoned district that would work for their needs. Plant husbandry would also be allowed in the EIB, I believe, but that's the heavier industrial, so that would be less appropriate and then it would be allowed in some of the open space zoning, which obviously would not be appropriate in an industrial area. Okay. So it really was. Kind of by default that I really kind of made the most sense. Yes. Yeah. For what their needs were. I think the idea was the most logical choice. So even though you all typically don't like changing zoning, that's not contiguous to one another. Mm. Well it is contiguous with the air to the north across 39th Avenue. But yeah. Ah. This map isn't showing that. Sorry. Yeah, the the line is 39th Avenue between the three. So yeah, it is contiguous with the air to the north. It would be contiguous with the air to the north if approved. And yeah, we don't have any longer, we don't have minimum area requirements or these contiguity requirements. So we evaluate the request against the five criteria. And as I said, we found all five criteria have been met. So we recommend approval. So under the IEEE zoning, if they want to expand, they would have the ability to do that. They just have to go through the process with exercise and license to be able to expand their building beyond the current footprint. Correct. I haven't looked at. You know, all the the regulations, the setbacks and my coverage and all of the things in the air. But yet, presumably, they would be allowed to expand the building under the ACA if they got approval from exercise in license. Okay. Thank you. All right. All right. That concludes our questions for members of council. And the public hearing is now closed. Comments by members of Council. Councilman Herndon. Thank you, Mr. President. I've been in this building. I've toured it. I'm very familiar with this because as it was mentioned, it's right across the street from Police District two or Northeast Park. You'll have their community meetings. And so this is something that I am supportive of. We have an owner who wishes to do the right thing by put himself in conformity. It will not be an impact to the community if this council would ever want to have a conversation about marijuana and its impact on communities of color. I've been speaking about that since we legalized it. So anyone want to join me in that conversation? Let's have it. But for this sake, we're having a conversation about changing the zoning, and I believe this is something we should support. Thank you, Mr. President. All right. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Yeah, I just wanted to thank Mr. Markovsky and the rest of the ownership team for hearing my concerns and the things that I expressed at LUDI and doing additional or seemingly doing additional outreach and coming together with a complete for me, a truly complete application. And with that, I will be supporting this rezoning. All right, Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Mr. President. I don't believe that I can support it. I find that it does not meet some of the criteria despite the recommendation of planning. I agree with some of the planning board comments that were related to us. In fact, I don't I believe the current zoning actually conforms to the neighborhood plans better, particularly where it calls for a buffer area between the industrial and residential uses in the neighborhood. Here, we're moving an industrial zone closer to the neighborhood. The other three citations from the Park Hill Neighborhood Plan all are met by the current operation and it's with its current non-conforming zoning. The 2010 zoning overhaul actually violated blueprint Denver's area of stability an area of stability criterion where. Let. Me let you get back to it. Where said that it may be appropriate to change the zoning to better match existing uses. In 2002 and then in. 2010 we changed the zoning to make it non-conforming. So we. Actually the 2010 rezoning didn't meet the criteria, but there obviously had to have been a purpose to it or. We wouldn't have put the. The IMAX three in that location. We wanted to have that buffer with the neighborhood. So I agree with the dissenting votes on the planning board, and I vote no on this. Thank you, Mr. President. All right. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. See no other comments. It's been moved and seconded. Madam Secretary. Raquel Herndon, I. Cashman. No. I. Lopez. I knew. Ortega Black. Clark, I. Espinosa Flynn now. Gilmore, I. Mr. President. I was voting. And as a result. Some people haven't entered this our screen. Madam Secretary is. It's flipping out a little bit. The Council. So I'm just making sure. Okay. Ten eyes, two knees. All right. Ten eyes, two nays. Counsel Bill 365 has been approved for translations. All right. We are moving on to our second public hearing for this evening. Councilman Flynn, would you please put Council Bill 412 on the floor?

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to submit a grant application, through the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services, to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the 2015 Continuum of Care for Homeless Assistance Program, and execute all necessary documents, subgrants and any amendments changing the amount of the award or extending the grant term upon receipt of HUD funding. The grant award amount will be between $6.5 million and $8.5 million for a period of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. (Citywide)

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Item 18. Report from Health and Human Services. Recommendation to authorize the City Manager to submit a grant application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the 2015 Continuum of Care for Homeless Assistance Program Citywide. There's been a motion in a second council for Austin. I move in urging your full support on this. This is something that we have been involved in for many years. And this grant will help. You know, several homeless folks with services. Councilmember Gringa. Ditto. Counsel a supernova. Clear you. Now you're clear. Okay, so we have a motion and a second. Any public comment on the item? CNN, please cast your votes. Vice mayor. Councilman Price. Motion carries nine zero. Mr. Mayor. Yes? Councilmember Kelly, call if you would like to make a quick introduction. For item 18, the one we just voted on. Yes. Okay. If she wants it, she wants. Just an introduction. She wants to make some comments about item 18. So let me just. Okay, go ahead. Sorry. I just thought I'd just like to make an introduction. Mayor and council members. We have our new homeless services officer here in the audience, Theresa Chandler. So if you see her out and about, please let her know. Please like who say hi, welcome her and know that she's out working in our community. Welcome to Long Beach and welcome. Oh, actually not. You know, you're part of the Long Beach family already, but welcome to your new role. So thank you. Next item. Oh, Councilman Superdome. I was just going to say she's already been out in the community. And thank you for attending our our community meeting last week. And just one other item, that path is involved in this item, and that's people assisting the homeless. The same acronym as the last group that presented it. But they're different groups. Thank you. Let's move on to item number 19. Item 19 Report from Public Works and Financial Management. Recommendation to Award a contract to Sally Miller Contracting Company for the rehabilitation of Bixby Road between Atlantic Avenue and Orange Avenue for a total contract amount not to exceed 819,958 District seven eight.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the General Manager/Chief Executive Officer of Seattle Public Utilities to enter into a Memorandum of Lease and Ground Lease Agreement with King County for a radio tower and appurtenances in the Tolt Watershed.

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The bill passes and the chair of the senate. Please read agenda item number nine. Agenda item nine Council Bill 119166. An ordinance relating to Seattle Public Utilities authorizing the general manager, chief executive officer of Seattle Public Utilities to enter into a memorandum of lease and ground lease agreement with King County for radio tower and appearances in the total watershed. The committee recommends the bill pass. Councilmember Herbold, thank you. This agreement allows King County to lease about 8000 square feet of undeveloped land in the total watershed adjacent to the Toll Pipeline Road. The lease is for 25 years and may be extended up to three times in five year increments. The city of Seattle is one of many cities that have entered into it and Interlocal agreement with King County in order to implement a new 800 megahertz emergency radio communication system, sometimes referred to as Peterson, the Puget Sound Emergency Radio Network. King County will pay an annual rent of $20,000, which includes electricity and adjusts over time with CPI. We get any comments or questions that please call the role on the passage of the bill? Gonzalez. Herbold I. Johnson Whereas Mosquito I. O'Brien Sergeant Bagshaw. President Harrell nine in favor nine opposed. The bill passed and chair of the Senate. Please read agenda item number ten.

A resolution granting a revocable permit to Loretto Heights Metro District No. 1, to encroach into the South Pancratia Street, West Frances Walsh Place, and South Loretto Way rights-of-way near 3001 South Federal Boulevard. Grants a revocable permit, subject to certain terms and conditions, to Loretto Heights Metro District No. 1, their successors and assigns, to encroach into the right-of-way with seventy-one (71) linear feet of eighteen (18) inch PVC pipe to pass under South Pancratia Street and one hundred three (103) linear feet of thirty (30) inch by nineteen (19) inch horizontal elliptical reinforced concrete pipe to pass under South Loretto Way at 3001 South Federal Boulevard in Council District 2. Councilmember Flynn approved late filing this item on 9-30-21.

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11 Eyes Proclamation 20 1-1185 has been adopted and we are going to go ahead and keep moving forward with our agenda this evening. And so congratulations to folks from the Park Trust. This evening, we had a late filing or a need. Councilmember Flynn, we need you to please make a motion to suspend the rules of council to allow for the introduction of a late filing. Thank you, Madam President. I move that the rules of procedure be suspended to allow for the introduction of Council Resolution 21 Dash 1184. All right. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of council. Councilmember Flynn Oh, you don't want to hear the comments I had when I first found out that this didn't make the deadline. This was supposed to be on the agenda last week. And frankly, it could have been on the agenda as early as August or even before that. This is a Tier three encroachment permit from the city, that it will allow something that's been happening for 174 years to keep happening. When Loretta Heights is developed, this involves the agricultural ditch, which is a an irrigation ditch that is run through south what is now southwest Denver for 140 days. 174. I mean, 147 years. My apologies. The agricultural ditches run from Clear Creek all the way down through Jefferson County and on into what is now my council district and where it drops into the storm sewer system and then back into the Platte River for 147 years with the layout of streets on the campus for development. The city decided that instead of us asking the ditch, which has been there for 147 years, if I hadn't said that already for permission to put our road over top of the ditch with its water rights, we said no. The ditch needs our permission to continue running under the road that we have yet to build there, but will soon build. Well, this seems like a simple matter, and it could have been taken care of a long time ago. As I said, it should have been on the agenda last week when it failed to make the deadline. We were assured it would make it for this week's agenda. It was filed by the administration. One hour and 53 minutes after the noon deadline. 22 minutes before the deadline. One of the persons whose signature is required to move it. To council by the noon deadline was well, I was sending an email to another reviewer basically complaining that some of the files had been transferred to city council prior to everyone signing off on it. Instead of that person signing off on it and getting it to us by the noon deadline. Madam President, I ask for unanimous consent to permit this to go on the consent agenda so as not to reward continued foot dragging by our administrative agencies. And I have offered to work with with those agencies to find a way to improve these procedures. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Flynn, happy to support you tonight in this. And council members, just a reminder that we will need a unanimous affirmative vote of all those present in voting for this motion to pass the pass for which it would allow for the introduction of this late filing. Madam Secretary, roll call. Flynn. I. Herndon. Hines, i. Cashman. I can change. I. Ortega. Sawyer. I. Black. I. CdeBaca. I. Clerk. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary closed the voting and announced results. 11 Eyes. 11 Eyes Council Resolution 20 1-1184 may be introduced. Madam Secretary, will you please read the resolution title. From Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure 21 1184 A resolution granting a revocable permit to Loreto Heights Metro District Number one to encroach into the South Penn Street, West Francis Place and South Florida way right of way near 3001 South Federal Boulevard. Thank you. Resolution 20 1-1184 has been placed on consent. Madam Secretary, please read the bills for introduction.

A bill for an ordinance submitting to a vote of the qualified and registered electors of the City and County of Denver at a special municipal election to be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2017, the question of whether the City shall be authorized to issue or incur general obligation debt for the purpose of financing and/or refinancing the cost of the construction of a new Denver Health and Hospital Authority outpatient medical center building; providing the form of the ballot question; providing for other details in connection therewith; and ratifying action previously taken. Refers a question to the November 2017 ballot to allow the City to issue general obligation bonds for the purpose of financing and/or refinancing the cost of constructing a new Denver Health and Hospital Authority outpatient medical center building. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 7-24-17.

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All right. Council Bill 813 has passed. And this I'll just name what these bills are. So everyone knows 813 is the Denver Health Hospital Authority Outpatient Medical Center building. All right. It's eight 1414. I'm sorry, 813. Cancer. Madam Secretary, what was a 13 culture? Culture? Oh, yes. For the cultural. Thank you for giving up your time today. That was the the cultural arts was 813 814 is Denver Health Authority. I'm councilwoman Gilmore Police Council built a 14 on floor. I move that council bill 814 be ordered published. All right. It's been moved and seconded some comments by members of council. I'm Secretary Roll Call. Black. Clark. All right. Espinosa. Flynn. I. Gilmore. I. Herndon. Cashman. Can I. Lopez. I knew Ortega. Susman. Hi, Mr. President. I please close the voting and announce the results. 13 eyes. 13 eyes. 814 has passed. We now have 815. Um, and this is Denver Public Safety System Program. So this is all our safety networks. Um, Councilwoman Gilmore, we please put a 15 on the floor.

Recommendation to receive and file the City Clerk's debrief report on the 2016 City of Long Beach Municipal Elections. (Citywide)

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15. Report from City Clerk Recommendation to receive and file the City Clerk's Debrief Report on the 2016 City of Long Beach Municipal Election Citywide. Kim. Adam Quirk. Good evening, mayor and council members before you as a debrief report on the 2016 City of Long Beach municipal elections. The report highlights administrative outcomes of both the primary and general elections, including the election administration, polling place. Consolidation and recruitment. Candidate Processing. Poll worker recruitment and training. Vote by mail services. Early voting. Voter education and outreach. Online services. Election Day. Operations. Canvass of returns and Voter Turnout. For fiscal year 2016, the Office of the City Clerk was budgeted 2.1 million to conduct the primary nominating and general municipal elections. Of the 2.1 million, we estimated 1.2 million for the primary election and 900,000 for the general municipal. The actual cost of the April 12th primary election was approximately $1 million, resulting in a cost savings of approximately $189,000, which will be used to cover the cost of the general municipal election should it exceed the original budgeted amount. We are awaiting the billing from the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder Clerk's Office. So the actual cost of the general runoff election is not available at this time. Approval of the suggested action at this time would allow the City of Long Beach to begin planning and preparation for future municipal elections. This concludes my staff report. I'm available to answer any questions. Councilwoman Pierce. Thank you and thank you very much for the report and the conversation we had just kind of going over how the elections went both in April and June. I think it's great that we were able to consolidate and see that instead of a 14 or 25% turnout, we were able to reach a 40% turnout citywide, which is fantastic. Really looking forward to working with you in November and working to see how we can continue to increase those numbers while saving our city dollars. Yeah. I'll leave it at that. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. Just want to say thanks as well. I know it's a big feat to be able to take on all of this. And so you do a great job. And so it was great working with you on the Elections Oversight Committee. I pass it on to you now. Thank you. Thank you. And I just wanted to thank all the hardworking members of the city clerk department. I honestly I don't remember the last time Long Beach had that high of a voter turnout in any election. And I was trying to look and I actually couldn't find it. And so maybe you guys can can can look through the records, but to go and have that level of voter participation. Obviously thank you to you, but also to the public, because they went out and voted and they were engaged, I think to at least to me, there is there is no question that the consolidation of not having to do two separate ballots at two different tables had an impact on people's ability to go through the process. I'll also say that because this was the first time that we did this, it was new for a lot of people. So there were some there were obviously some challenges as far as not having immediate direct access to the clerk, because obviously it's through the county. I think you and I spoke about. I really missed the fact that we used to stamp the the ballot, which I know you've mentioned that that's not possibly something that we could do and add. So I just I would ask you and your team to see how look at ways with the election, with the new elections oversight committee and how we could make the process even better for the next time. That would bring some of the kind of Long Beach familiarity of the process, the pre consolidation, like the stamps and things that people like, but continue on that, you know, amazing voter turnout. We've got to keep that going. That that's one of the best voter turnouts that anyone had like, you know, locally. So I think that's really I was rereading the Press Telegram Press Telegram editorial about how how terrible it was the last time. And so it's nice to see the change. So with that, any public comment for this item? All right. Please cast your votes. Guess. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, please. I believe it's 17. We did 16.

Recommendation to request City Manager to work with Department of Economic Development to research, prepare, and propose an equitable and effective “COVID-19 Small Business Recovery Loan Plan” for key sectors that have been hit hardest by closures associated with the COVID-19 emergency including but not limited to: (i) restaurants, (ii) retail, (iii) services, (iv) non-profit, (v) property-based businesses, and (vi) other very small businesses that provide employment to Long Beach residents; and, propose funding levels that consider the number of Long Beach business licenses within each category, and the projected needs of those within those categories to rebound.

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Thank you. We still have four more Kogan items, so we'll try to get through these expeditiously. Item six the small business loan program. Madam Court. Madam Clerk. Item six Communication from Councilwoman Mango Councilwoman Zendejas. Councilman Austin. Councilmember Richardson. Recommendation to request City Manager to work with economic development to research, prepare and propose an equitable and effective COVID 19 Small Business Recovery Loan Plan. Mango. Yes, thank you. I would just say that in addition to the loan program, CARES Act funding is available for grants. And so I think that we can look at additional ways to operationalize that funding should it become available. I think that I want to thank all the different businesses that came together in the many forums that we conducted. People and business owners who live, work, own in the fifth District or throughout the city or participated. We definitely had different groups by type, whether it was restaurants, gyms, personal comfort items like hair care and nail care and the others. And each and every industry has its own set of needs. I think that it's imperative that we listen to what they need and then work through what is possible to make their needs fulfilled in any way that's possible through CARES Act funding or loan programs or the such. Thank you, Councilwoman, Councilman and House. You, Mayor. First of all, I'd like to thank Councilwoman Mongeau for bringing this item forward. I personally know that so many downtown businesses that were struggling before COVID and with COVID happening and the closures, it's just been really, really hard for the businesses. So I, I really welcome this item and that this, this help that we're going to be able to provide for our small business owners, I think is very much needed. And through this, I also have learned that a lot, even though a lot of businesses in in the in certain categories, each and every business is individual and have unique needs. So as we go forward, I'd really like us to have that flexibility at looking at each business and its unique needs as we move forward and reopen again. So thank you again. Councilmember one vote for this item. Councilmember Richardson. I just wanted to second the motion. I'm fully in support of the iron ore evidence, but I fully support the item. Thank you. Dr. Pierce. Thanks and thank you, Mungo, for bringing this forward. I think a lot of us have been thinking about how to support our small businesses and second districts definitely lost money. And I just wanted to take a moment to thank economic development for all the work that they've been doing, especially on the front end of this disaster. And then hear one more time from city manager just on the process for reopening. I know that we had a briefing. Yesterday or the day before where we talk about the numbers of covert incidents. And I think this is a good moment just to remind people that while we want the economy to open back up, it it comes at the risk of increased numbers. So if you could just explain to us one more time about the new or the next step and what that's going to take for these businesses to open up. Yes, mayor and members of the city council. So we recently received the ability as a variance county to open up additional items and additional sectors that the Governor announced that last Friday with the ability for counties and health jurisdictions to make those decisions coming up as early as Friday. So we are in the process of that. It was 12 different sectors. That's a lot. Normally in the past, it's been one or two or three sectors. And so we are currently going through all the data to see where we line up with the governor's benchmarks for the ability to, for example, have enough testing, have enough hospital capacity, and then preparing some of those guidances about what can safely open when. And we expect that work to be done at the end of this week. And you're correct. You know, we obviously like to have our economy back up and going again. But it's also a balance with the amount of of cases that we still continue to see that are climbing and our hospitalization rate is up and it's actually higher than the county right now on a per $100,000 or 100,000 population basis. So it is a balance and we're going to have some some recommendations very soon about what we think should open and when and work with the county of L.A. on that. All right. Thank you, Tom. And I just I wanted to go on record in saying that I love our small businesses and I would love for them all to be open. But I am very worried about our numbers going up and so making sure that we have, you know, support for them. The previous item also mentioned, I think you started to support this. Europe, although. District one. District one, district two. I. District three. I. District four. I. District five. District six. I. District seven. I. District eight. District nine. All right. Motion carried.

A bill for an ordinance submitting to a vote of the qualified and registered electors of the City and County of Denver at a special municipal election to be held in conjunction with the coordinated election of November 2, 2021, a proposed amendment to the Charter of the City and County of Denver transforming the offices of councilmember at-large by creating two additional councilmember districts. Submits to a vote of the qualified and registered electors of the City and County of Denver at a special municipal election to be held in conjunction with the coordinated election of November 2, 2021, a proposed amendment to the Charter of the City and County of Denver converting the two councilmember at-large positions into two additional councilmember districts. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 8-10-21.

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I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 13 Hours 13 ies council bill 20 1-723 has passed. Moving on to our courtesy public hearing this evening, and thank you to the CPD staff for being here for the previous public hearing. Councilmember Sandoval, will you please put Council Bill 908 on the floor for publication? I move that council bill nine eight be ordered published. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The one hour courtesy public hearing for Council Bill 908 is open. May we please have the presentation and will allow council members CdeBaca and Flynn to join us at the lectern here. Madam President, in recognition of the headline that was in Westford a couple of weeks ago after the. Committee meeting. We have our walkup music. There you go. Wonderful. Wonderful. We thought you guys would appreciate that one. The odd couple, if you don't recognize it. So we're going to breeze through this kind of give you guys a recap of what we gave you. And committee will go as fast as we can to get on to the public hearing. We are trying to convert our At-Large seats to district seats. We wanted to highlight that this is about representation and equity. This quote here one of the most persistent findings by scholars of urban politics is that single member district elections increase descriptive representation of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups on city council so that to ground us in the context of some background. Denver City Council composition. We haven't always had At-Large seats. Before 1968, we only had nine single district seats. We had a charter change that was advanced in the last minute in 1968 to add our At-Large seats, and we have had those since 1968. Our population growth over the last about 11 years has been over 130,000 people. We are at a critical and unique opportunity as we are redistricting right now and the convergence of the redistricting with both At-Large council seats being open in the next election is what prompted us to advance this to you all. This is a graph showing our population growth, kind of just to show you a visual of the numbers I just shared. This is a heat map showing you where our most concentrated growth has been in District eight and nine. We've had some of the most intense growth. Here are the numbers that go along with those graphs, those visuals. I think that one to pay attention to is the 23% increase or change in the 2020. That's what we're also trying to mitigate here are our districts have grown significantly. Our budgets have not. And so representation has become increasingly more and more difficult, as well as winning seats. If you're running for At-Large seats, because you're now running citywide in a city of over 700,000 people. So the biggest considerations that we're trying to address here are R.A. and constituent accessibility. In my district alone, I have more than 30 RINO's. So even if I tried to meet with one every single day of the week, I wouldn't be able to touch on my RINOs in one month. So that makes it difficult to really be hearing their concerns and addressing their concerns in a meaningful way. In a consistent way. Accountability to Localized Decisions. We have this belief that at large members are accountable to everybody in the city. But the way that that plays out is not necessarily the way it plays out when you have a single district representative. Our council members at the At-Large level often are able to kick an issue down to a single district member instead of having to address it directly. And so accountability in those At-Large seats is a little more challenging for constituents. Competing interests with district members at large. Members, while representing the entire city, have a vastly different constituency than a district member, especially a member representing a less dense population. So what I mentioned earlier, with accountability and being able to kick down an issue, it also works in the reverse. So if there's an issue that is directly affecting a minority in a district, an At-Large member doesn't have to necessarily side or support side with or support that minor minority or marginalized group because they can argue that they're representing an entire city's interest and not necessarily the single district or that minority within the single district. The strained budget and resources, that's a separate conversation that we need to have. In addition to this one, we need to grow our council budgets. We've done the calculation in our district and we have less than $3 per constituent to serve our constituents. We've heard people push back on that and say that not everybody in our district is an adult. Representing over 6000 constituents to me is 6000 76,000 constituents, whether they're children or adults. I feel like we should have the resources available to support them with whatever needs that they have. And $3 isn't cutting it, but that's also something we should be talking about later, regardless of whether or not we're able to convert the At-Large seats. Again what we started with diluting minority minority votes and representation. We know these at large systems dilute the votes of people of color and other marginalized groups. And so we want to mitigate that, and we want to highlight that in Denver's 50 year history about large seats. There's a correction on this. It's not 15 individuals, but 11 individuals have served in the At-Large seats and none have ever been credibly challenged for reelection. And only two out of those 11 have ever been people of color. So just to recap the benefits of single district members localized democracy, tailored and accessible representation, accountability to constituents, minimizing special interests, and more effective use of limited resources. This is our in theory versus reality slides. We touched on some of the. I guess correspondence that's come into our offices arguing either for or against at large seats. In theory, at large members focus on citywide policy. In reality, we have proof that single District Council members, even within very recent history, have advanced successfully citywide policy and in theory, at large members serve as a backup for district members or constituent services and provide additional representation to constituents in practice. As I mentioned earlier, constituents go directly to their district member first if they go to their At-Large member. They're typically kicked to their single district member. And then the last one here, At-Large members serve as a balance to the mayor's power. That one's one of the most important ones to holds here in the in the balance, because in reality, the cost of running a citywide race is very prohibitive. So At-Large members are more susceptible than single district members to the same special interests that the executive branches and often vote in alignment with the the mayor's agenda. And if you go back and look at the campaign finance for At-Large members and the mayor, you'll often find not only similar contributions directly to campaigns, but if you also look at the independent expenditure committees, they're also typically aligned with the mayoral race. So those positions often affirm the mayor's power in our strong mayoral power city. This is a general timeline of how this proposal has come in front of you all. It did not magically come out of nowhere. This has been a conversation for many years, and the original constituents who brought this to the council many, many years ago brought it to council earlier in this year. And we kind of waited for somebody to pick the ball up and run with it and didn't see anyone pick it up. So we picked it up. Councilman Flynn. Councilman Herndon. Councilman Clark, in our own ways, engaged with those constituents and decided to do our own pieces to advance this conversation. Thank you to Councilman Herndon, who kicked us off with the history of our At-Large seats in committee. We did some outreach to our peers and here we are presenting this to you. We know the runway is a little bit short. But given the robust conversation we have, every time we allow the public to comment or council members to comment, we believe it's deserving of going to the voters for that conversation citywide. And we would definitely plan on engaging constituents throughout the city leading up to the November election. So this is not the end of stakeholder engagement, but this would be the beginning. This is the ballot language that we're proposing. Shall the the charter of the city and county of Denver be amended to convert the two At-Large City Council seats to district council seats, forming a city council composed of 13 district members? We are not eliminating any seats. We are just simply converting the At-Large rules to single district roles. And it would work out nicely because we could draw those districts as we redraw our districts. Now in that process. Pierce cities. A lot of you are I know like to look at our peer cities. What we found when we looked at our peer cities is there's no such thing as a best practice when it comes to having At-Large seats. We have many cities who do all at large. Many cities who do know at large. Some cities who do a hybrid like we do. And we have a full list in our appendix of this presentation for you all to check out. If this goes forward, the voters would get this on their ballot on November 2nd. And we hope that that is allowed. We hope that the voters get an opportunity to have this discussion. And I will pass it over to my colleague here, Councilman Flynn, to add some more context to this proposal. Thank you, Councilwoman CdeBaca. As a councilwoman said, I just want to add a little more context to the discussion because it's actually been going on for a lot longer than some of the folks realize in the community. We have a convergence with redistricting and both at large seats being open in the next election that frankly demands that we have this conversation about our structure, because these circumstances occurred only once before in the 50 years that we've had these seats in 2003, when term limits began and removed the two incumbents. They may never converge again. So we at least have to have the conversation. And I appreciate the openness of our colleagues and those in the community who've reached out to at least have this conversation, although many believe it's been too short. And I'll I'll be addressing that here in my part of the presentation. This conversation started among some long, active community members who saw this moment as the opportunity to broaden citizen representation among Denver's 13 member council, keeping district populations lower and reallocating or converting those two seats to district level to represent these smaller communities of interest. I want to emphasize, as I did it committee, I don't know if everyone here was at committee, but I want to emphasize again, there's no right or wrong way to structure your council. There's only how do you want to do it? And it may be right at this point in Denver's history with our population growth and the structure of our communities and the various communities of interest to reexamine the decision that was made 50 years ago to add the large seats to the mix. So there is no right or wrong, but there is a more common practice of 100 largest cities in America. 63. Have governing bodies that have no At-Large members at all. 29 have a mix of at large and district or ward members, and we are among those 29. And some cities such as Austin, Texas, converted about ten years ago from all at large to all district members. So having at large members on the positive side, as I said, this is this is a balance of interests on the positive side, having at large members gives every voter in Denver three representatives. That's that's a distinct positive point to that. There's no denying it. However, as citywide officials, there still is no guarantee that they'll reflect citywide interests. There's no guarantee that they won't be as parochial as a district member in some of their decision making and policy pursuits. I could name At-Large members and I've known all but three of them over the last 50 years. Who would fit that mold right? They didn't spend a whole lot of time pursuing citywide policy. And also there's no apparent correlation in any of the data between the cities that have our At-Large members and those that don't and policy development in those cities. While one can say that At-Large members since are untethered to any specific district, they have more bandwidth to work on citywide policies. There's no evidence that it's necessary to be at large to do so. There's nothing exclusive to Denver's at large members that yields significant policy advances compared to district members. So for every Kasey Reynolds or Susan Barnes gal who I see is among our scheduled speakers tonight who were At-Large members and served together for eight years. There was also a Bill Roberts or a Salvador Carpio or a Kathy Donahue or a Ramona martinez who were served at district level and were very strong in citywide policy development themselves. So there's no correlation that at large produces different or better results than than having all district members. Certainly cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Austin, cities that we look to and look to their policies and in some cases try to adopt or emulate, have no At-Large members. They're all district members. One aspect of the at large that I think we need to talk about is under voting. Under voting is when voters have a long ballot, they vote for mayor, district council auditor, clerk. At-Large Judges. The under voting in the At-Large races is substantial. For comparison's sake, under voting in 2011, the last time that both the mayor's office and the At-Large seats were both open seats under voting in the mayor's contest was less than 1%. Fewer than 1% of voters did not make a selection for mayor. But in At-Large races, it was 38%. You vote twice in At-Large. So many voters chose to vote. That is strategic voting or, as some would say, gaming it a little bit. And they throw away their other vote or they don't vote at all. 38% in 2003, the previous time the At-Large seats were open, along with the mayor's office, due to term limits kicking in that year. Again, the undervote in the mayor's race was less than 1%, but it was 30% in the At-Large races in 2019. In our last election with the mayor and the At-Large races, all featuring incumbents. Under voting in the mayor's race was 3.8%. While the At-Large contests, it was 31.7% higher under voting than those who didn't vote for auditor or for clerks, which generally would be pretty low profile or at least lower profile than the city council. The At-Large seats are the only elected positions of the 1314 of the 16 elected positions in our charter. They are the only ones that do not require a majority to win. They are elected by plurality only. So in one election in which both seats were open. The two winners gained only 30% and 24%, respectively, of the total vote in that election of 16 at large elections since 1991. Only three winners achieved more than 50% of the ballots that were cast, which is a charter requirement for the rest of our elected officials. One of them is with us in the meeting today and it's Councilwoman Ortega who in 2015 had just over 50% of ballots cast. The other two were Kathy Reynolds. In her last of seven elections in 1999 and Doug Linker in 2007. So being subject to that strategic or bullet voting, the average undervote for at large is 37 or I'm sorry, 32%. Nearly one third of voters wasting their ballots by voting only one or none. So it's hard to say that they are representative of citywide interests with that total amount of undervote in my last segment here in the presentation. Madam President and colleagues. Is a little bit of history once again. And I want to thank particularly Alex Hernandez at the Denver Public Library, Western History Department, who did the mind numbing chore for us of looking through all the microfilm and digital scans of the newspaper coverage. When the at large seats were added, how did they come to be? And it turns out that while some of the criticism of this bill and it has some validity, that it is pretty late in the game. We could have been talking about this for four years, but we haven't. But the fact is, the At-Large seats were added to our charter with much less discussion than we have had on this provision. So the background. Up until 1968, the charter required that our council districts boundaries be redistricted based on the number of registered voters rather than the population. I know that sounds unbelievable today. In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court made its landmark one person, one vote decision that extended equal representation to the state and local levels. And that meant that Denver's districts, council districts were completely out of line, for instance. And this then went to the Colorado Supreme Court. We had residents of Denver who sued the Denver City Council because of the makeup of our council districts at the time. One of them was Jerry Kopel. But many of us remember Representative Kopel. He wasn't representative at the time, but was one of the plaintiffs in that lawsuit. And it demanded that Denver redistrict according to one person, one vote we had districts with. Well, let me tell you, District eight centered on five points. District eight had the smallest number of registered voters, despite the fact that geographically it was among the largest. You went all the way from the railroad tracks to old Denver, Rio Grande, north yards up on the other side of Foch Street, clear to the northeast boundary of the city, had the fewest number of registered voters, but the largest population compared to districts in Montclair, Hilltop, Mayfair, the rest of the city. So the Colorado Supreme Court then ruled in 1967 that Denver must redistrict before the 1971 elections. So the council then put together a reapportionment committee headed by Councilman Bob Keating. They studied the issue for several months and in May of 1968, they recommended that Denver Council refer to the voters a charter amendment to expand this body from the current nine members that it had had since 1916 to 11 district members. There was no mention of any at large seats being added. Simply take it from 9 to 11 districts. Keating said at the time, and he was quoted in I think it was in the Denver Post. Adding districts, quote, would produce better representation for the citizens. No talk of adding the at large positions and going to 13. So the council decided we will discuss this when the new council committee assignments come in and in that era they came in July 1st as opposed to we do it usually a third Monday in July. So starting in July, their committee worked for about two weeks on a charter amendment then that not only expanded to 11 district seats, but then for the first time and this is only two months before the September 10th primary election, at which this would be on the ballot. So within two months of that election came the first recommendation to add At-Large seats and go to 13 members. It was ordered published at the end of July by a vote of 6 to 3. It was opposed by Mayor Tom Carrigan at the time. On final passage, there was an amendment by Councilman Keating to remove the two At-Large members and that was defeated. There was a an attempt to put off and delay the charter amendment until a special spring election so that there could be robust community engagement and discussion. And that failed also. So this did go on to the primary election ballot, a very low turnout election generally, and it passed. I don't have the vote totals. I didn't get them. So the decision to create the two at large position was made only seven or eight weeks prior to the time that the voters were asked to vote on it. And that was the first time I heard of it. So with that in mind, Madam President, I think we'd be happy to take questions. I think the only thing I would add and I hope that Councilwoman CdeBaca would join me in this and this really doesn't have anything to do with Councilman Clark's Senate committee , with the individuals who served. I have said many times from my desk that I believe Cathy Reynolds was possibly the most consequential member ever to sit on this body in the last 50 years. She served seven terms here. She served at large. I had just I had a discussion with her with her widower, Rick, over the weekend. And he believes that Cathy would not have been able to do all that she did had she served at large. And I'm not going to disagree with him. He knows her better than I did, obviously, but I believe that she would have. I believe that the National League of Cities, which she served as president, has had many presidents who were district council members from Los Angeles, from Philadelphia. I've listed all the presidents of the National League of Cities. Many of them were district council members as well. So. I don't think that it's true that you need that extra time in order to do this hard work, because we all do the hard work. So I would just ask for a discussion on where we are. Where are our values today at this point in history? Do we value the residents of Denver having three representatives, or do we value the closer to the ground smaller district representation? Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. I appreciate the presentation. Councilmembers Flynn and CdeBaca. And we'll give you a chance to get back to your chairs. We've got 17 individuals who are signed up to speak this evening, and all participants are with us virtually. And so we're going to go ahead and get started. Our first speaker is Travis Leiker. It's. Good evening, Denver City Council. Travis Leiker, president of Capitol Hill, United Neighborhoods. I just want to say thank you so much for this thoughtful dialog this evening, as well as all of the work that you do on behalf of the city. I'm here just to provide additional background information. Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods conducted a survey of its membership, comprising roughly a thousand Denver sites in the central Capitol Hill area. And the respondents to that survey overwhelmingly opposed the proposal to eliminate the two At-Large positions, but were favorable to possibly include increasing the size of Denver City Council to 15 members with two At-Large and 13 districts. And so I feel like I would be remiss in not sharing the perspectives of our organization as well as the members that we represent. But I would also encourage council, as it deliberates this evening, to think about other processes and procedures that we do a really great job of as it relates to engaging community feedback ranging from liquor licenses to rezonings to other, more robust policy discussions such as the the ballot measures that we considered with respect to the bond measures. That has not been done in this case. We have not had any neighborhood meetings, conversations with community stakeholders, formulation of committees at the neighborhood level and the like. And so while our organization did not take a formal position with an up or down vote, I think it is worth mentioning on behalf of our organization as well as neighborhoods throughout the city, that a more thoughtful , deliberative process would have been well-served for this engagement initiative. We heard conversations around the Austin model, the Los Angeles model, and the New York model. I would post to the council this evening that there be a Denver model and that we have the opportunity to co-create something that could be really meaningful, to increase democratic participation, to enhance advance voter notification around measures such as these or others, to boosting the size of council. We should be evaluating that. Organizations like ours can be your champion as it relates to increasing the sizes of your office budgets. We are here to be thought partners and we're here to engage in a robust conversation. But we would have liked to have had that opportunity over the last several years and unfortunately we weren't a part of that dialog up until now and only have weeks to prepare and to engage the citizenry in a thoughtful, deliberative process. And with that, I say thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Our next speaker is Kevin MATTHEWS. Hi. I'm Ken MATTHEWS. I live in Congress Park and I also serve on the board of Be Denver. So I am opposing this for tonight. This has been really not, as Travis said, this is there's not a lot of time given to to think this out. We often talk a lot about needing a lot of time to digest different proposals. And I think it's curious that the same amount of time was not given to this. I'm also a master's student at University of Denver studying environmental policy. And the reason I bring this up is my last term. I wrote a paper looking at the climate policies and the transportation policies of Denver. And compared to another pure city, Portland, Oregon, which is which is similar size about 670,000 people now. Now, Portland only has five city council members, actually six, if you include their mayor. They serve all at large, but they do break it up into they basically have different responsibilities. In terms of the climate plans between Denver and Portland, there aren't a lot of differences in the goals. A lot of they talk about complete neighborhoods. They talk about reducing car dependance and other things like that. The difference is Portland is actually succeeding in implementing those goals through legislation. And this body has not. And I don't know how removing two At-Large members makes this body any more effective. Watching this body the last couple of years. The biggest problem is a lot of council members believe that their individual district is an island that stands independent of all others and has unique challenges, and that what happens in their district does not affect a neighboring district, whether and that's whether it's housing or transportation or bike lanes, we just keep finding out that that's not true. There is a valuable perspective that At-Large members give to balance district members who are only focused on their district and not on the citywide. So I hope you take more time with this and and think it through. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Thaddeus Texter. You all know that I believe that at large elections constitute an instance of systematic racism and should be abolished. Some of you agree with me and some of you don't. But that's not what I'm here to speak to tonight. In a representative democracy, elected officials are chosen to determine what is best policy for a community. However, they are not properly selected to decide what is the best type of government for the community. In fact, given potential conflicts of interest, it's always dangerous when government starts to decide what is the best type of government. That is a decision that citizens must make for themselves. In fact, the city charter of Denver specifically leaves the question of what type of government should exist solely to the discretion of the citizens. Your job is simply to decide whether or not to submit the question to them, and that decision should not be made on the basis of your personal preference for the best type of government. It should be made on whether or not this is an appropriate time to reassess this question. This is, in fact, an especially appropriate time to reassess at large elections. First, numerous courts have ruled that they this type of election constituted is racially biased, and this alone should provide grounds for reevaluation. So also the immense growth of the city population makes the size of districts an appropriate topic for consideration. Finally, the fact that neither At-Large Councilperson is eligible for reelection in the city is required to engage in redistricting, makes this a propitious time to engage in the discussion. Previously, several of you had noted that this issue more requires more consideration and you may well be correct. However, the proper forum for that discussion is not this chamber. Rather, it is the public forum in which all citizens can participate. I know that some of you have taken informal polls on this topic and think that you have a sense of what your constituents believe about it. However, as you have noted, the type of polls that have been conducted are not particularly representative. What is required is a full public debate in the context of an election. As a result, I ask that you not preempt that debate facilitated by referring this issue to the voters. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is David Pardo. Hello. So many of you know me in a large part because I've lived in multiple districts in this city over the last few years. To me, the biggest issue with eliminating the At-Large seats is that it forgets about the 49% of Denver that rents and is. Maybe not going to be in the same neighborhood. In another year if their landlord decides to sell the property they're in or rents increase or they decide they want to move because they just do. And so to me, our At-Large council members represent those of us who rent, who may not have as deep roots in a single district, who don't see a district council member as somebody who is really representing their needs. Because we don't say, Oh, I'm from Highlands or I'm from five points or I'm from wherever we say, I'm a Denver, and that's what I am, because I've been in three different neighborhoods living in the last 15 months alone. So to me, it's it's really important to keep these At-Large seats to represent those of us who don't fit that traditional. Like, I bought a house and I've been here 20 years and I care about what happens in my district. I care about what happens in the district I live in right now, but I care significantly more about what happens in the city. And to me, that really is only represented by our At-Large members. I wanted to add, though, that there are a couple of other options out there. I think it's not a bad idea to expand to 13 districts if you do the math based on the number of council members there, how many sorry, how many constituents each council member represented. Years ago. 50 years ago. Based on those numbers, we should have 16 districts and we should have three At-Large members. I don't know that we need to have a 19 member council. But there are other options. Another option would be, you know, people talk about, hey, there's not enough funding. We only have like we have less than $3 per constituent. And I think that's a totally legitimate crisis. But. You could just increase your budgets. I don't think I'd have an issue with that obvious that we'd have to go in front of the voters. But I just think it's worth discussing other options, whether it's do we increase the budget, you increase the size of council. But I really, really don't feel like I'm going to be represented very well. If the two representatives who've consistently represented me for the last nine years that I've lived in Denver. If those seats disappear, then I have nowhere. I have somebody who who knows that I may be gone in a year and doesn't have to visit. So that's why time and thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Frank Sullivan. All right. We're getting Frank Sullivan up at the Q. Can you hear me now? Let's try this again. My name is Frank Sullivan. I live in Park Hill. I speak tonight in support of the Bill zero nine, a way to place them on November ballot, a proposition to convert the two council lunch petitions to district positions. You've heard my arguments in support of this proposal. You've also heard objections to those arguments, and I think each of those have resonated through the city. This is not a new issue. Discussions have gone on for quite a while in the city about this issue. Several times, one member of council prevented the issue from ever reaching the council floor. We've never been able to get this far. And finally, it should be for you to provide an opportunity for the citizens of Denver to weigh in on the issue. To be clear, two things. One, this is not about personality. It's about structure. Secondly, we are not asking you to convert the council at large positions to different positions. What we're asking is you place the issue before the Denver electorate and let the people decide. A packed house tonight or an empty house? A number of people who are speaking in favor of it or are opposed to it really are not a good gauge of the will of the people of Denver. The will of the people of Denver will gauge at a vote. Not not in this one hour courtesy hearing, as it were. Please place the issue on the ballot and let the people decide. There will be spirited discussion. Between now and November. And finally in November, the people will speak. Let the people decide. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Our next speaker is Darryl Watson. Council. President Gilmore, members of Council, thank you for your service to the city and county of Denver. My name is Darryl Watson. I'm a 30 year resident of Denver's District nine. I'm asking you tonight to vote no on a proposal to create an ordinance asking voters to eliminate the existing two at large council seats. During a community hearing, there were statements providing broad stroke conspiracies that the creation of the At-Large seats were underpinned by institutionalized racism. There is not an origin story of the creation of any governance system in this country municipal, state or federal that was not conceived through a lens of racism and patriarchy. There really isn't. What we are discussing tonight is the value of the current diversity council at large positions. Within this current system. The two current large city council members civil rights backgrounds are undeniable and speak loudly for themselves. Bad public policy process in 1968 should not be get more bad public process. Today, my reasons that I ask you to vote no are as follows A possible seismic change to the structure of our city. Governments should have had a more robust communication and community feedback process before being sent as an ordinance to the people to vote . In reality, micro targeted districts could create a myopic focus on council responsibilities by some members of this legislative bodies. And please note that many district seats have never, never elected a bipoc member. And finally, leaders that are elected citywide can provide a legislative balance to our strong mayor executive structure. I also would like to add that large city council members provide three legislators to reach out to reach out to expanding the reach and impact of the only one district representative. And thankfully, in district in the district that I'm in, that I can reach out to Councilmember Ortega and Councilmember Kennish. I listened intently during the committee meeting when it council members shared their successful process for being available for their constituents. What resonated to me is that it wasn't so much a geographic size and population of the district. The Council persons responsible for that determines the level of constituent services that is provided. A $75,000 council district member does not reach out to 75,000 members. They reach out to a far smaller number. It is the size of the compassion. The interest in listening to constituents within that district is really what resonates and really what creates a level of high constituency service. We need both at large and district council members. We need to keep both of those council seats so that individuals like myself and others who rely on that honest support and the direction of a large council members will return. What remain? Thank you for your consideration and for voting no on this proposal. Thank you. Our next speaker is Dr. Adrian Stefanski. Hello and good evening. Members of Council. I am here to speak in favor of Resolution 908 to convert, not eliminate, but to convert the At-Large seats into two additional councilmember districts. I listened last week as Denver residents were accused of being un-American for being disenchanted with the ballot. This statement neglected to mention that when Denver adopted its mayor and council government in 1904, women couldn't vote. We were just reminded of the patriarchal foundation of our government by the previous speaker. But it is an illusion. The citizens in Denver are represented by three council persons. We heard it again tonight, but I'm here to tell you that that isn't an illusion at best. We are represented by a single one. I have heard that At-Large council people are busy working on legislation, policy or addressing citywide issues, and I simply disagree. I have not seen the results of this. I have not seen the critical legislation we need. What I have seen is At-Large councilors works, criticize and obstruct most meaningful legislation that has come through and to sit on the dias. And critics criticize how residents choose to engage. So I feel very lucky that I have been represented by Councilwoman CdeBaca, who tirelessly advocates for the people of District nine. And I really object to the idea that this proposal was rushed. This proposal started out with my councilwoman showing you a timeline. I object to the idea that any changes that are necessary toward a government need to take years. This is an issue of something getting referred to the ballot, right? So you can't have it both ways. You can't criticize people for voting or not voting and then not not wanting to give them the opportunity to vote. So I think that we've gotten to a point with with this dysfunctional council that you really need to start referring things to the ballot. We don't need to spend years. We need change. This is perfect timing. This is literally the perfect timing. With two At-Large council members turning out at the same time, there could not be better timing. This is not rushed. This is well done. Please pass this on to the voters. Just please, please support this very common sense. Move into the future. Thank you very much for your time. Please support this. Please support. This. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jonathan Patoka. Hello. I can hear you now. We can hear the area. Oh. Okay. Excellent. Hey, good evening. Houses down Tokyo District three. Tonight, I'm speaking against the notion of the Senate conversion of council seats to this false ballot. You've already heard from others that the projects are at large. Representative. Some undertaken are distinctly valuable, are not duplicative of the work our district representatives do, and allow for a wider breadth of legislative focus across one citizen's representatives. Adding to what you've heard already, I'm here to speak to two additional arguments. First up, this is a solution in search of a problem. And to that, placing the question on the ballot for voters to decide. Even if this council doesn't necessarily think it's the best solution is not a harmless act, does not amplify the voices of people. It is ill advised to begin. We've heard the difficulty. The difficulty that you or councilors face when doing your work amidst an increasingly large population of Democrats is understandably challenging for district network members alike to find ways to connect with your many residents, in each being only one place at a time. And we all know how many neighborhood meetings and events overlap on any given day of week. District representatives now represent the voices of over 50,000 residents each, while our at large councilors represent the whole city. And these numbers are rising. But it's clear that converting our At-Large seats today once doesn't solve these problems. If districts become smaller, that does nothing to help you attend multiple simultaneously simultaneous events. It doesn't help you personally research a broader diversity of legislative topics. In short, a smaller district doesn't extend your reach. On the contrary, having more support staff and alternatives that has been resoundingly popular in our discussions and surveys would extend your reach if the issue we were trying to solve is one of reach. We should ask voters to increase budgets for your staff and to note, even if we were to take at face value, that a smaller district would make your work easier or better in quality. This proposed solution would be nothing more than a Band-Aid with the gross history of a councilwoman said about us here. It wouldn't be long before 15 district councilors represent as many as 13 do today. It's clear that this proposal walked backwards from its desired solution to find problems that could passively support a narrative instead of letting problems guide the solution. Further. I've heard arguments in committee and elsewhere that we should place this proposal on the ballot anyhow in order to let the people decide or to let the voters have this discussion. This assertion assumes that placing this question of question on the ballot at worst amplifies the voice of the people and does no harm. That isn't the reality of council sponsored ballot questions, particularly this one. When an initiative reaches the ballot in this council, there's a tacit assumption among voters that this council did its due diligence before sending that question to the people. We, the voters, should be able to reliably believe that this council identified a problem with solutions and determined that the sponsored question was the best solution. When we see these, we think that this council didn't pass what you ostensibly consider to be ideal legislation only because you were prevented from doing so by your charter, not because the idea crossed the desk and said, Why not let them vote? This won't make it for public debate. Here the voters are presented with only one inadequate path for a yes or no. I urge you. Vote no. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is David Hagan. Hi. Thank you, Counsel, for being courteous enough to let me speak this night. I am going to say this should be given to the voters, basically based on. The last the last one we voted are you voted on Sway? Hinds and Clark all said they did not support the last one, but yet they wanted the voters to decide. So I would expect Sawyer, Hines and Clark to all vote yes on this one, to let the voters decide. If not, I'm going to find that quite a bit interesting. We just decided to let the people just decide on a neighborhood how it was going to be. Gentrified, basically. Most of the people are going to understand that they're going to vote however somebody tells them to. Right now we're asking the question that affects every single person in the city, and we need to be letting the voters decide on this one. If you oppose it, maybe you should start a conversation after you give it to the voters, because right now they keep talking about. Three people representing me. Well, I would. Assume that maybe I had four. If you think about the two at large. The president, and then my. My my councilman. Currently, I believe I have one because not as president, not a single At-Large person has ever responded to an email I've sent ever. So to say that they. Represent you is not necessarily true. I just don't see that to be the case. And I actually am curious to find out how they spend their budget. Because I don't know. It's just everything seems a little bit weird here. And they come back and say, this is Rush. When we just went through the whole set, the whole thing about the last one being Russ and you voted for it anyways. Would it have to be black and brown vote? Mostly, mostly brown people. And then now. We have a bunch of white people up here other than one other person, which are white people saying that we shouldn't do this. So I would like to understand where we are and. Yes. Everything has been built upon a racist system. We all know that. But it's our duty to stop that, not to acknowledge it, then continue forward and do the exact same thing over and over again. We should stop it. We should have somebody that represents each and every person in the city. And I also would like to say that my councilwoman, she represents people outside of her district because she cares enough to listen to them, to respond to them, to create relationships with them. I don't get that from my at large people. I'm sorry. I don't mean that, you know, but it's the way it is. I don't ever get a response. And frankly. If our council really gave a damn. About us, they wouldn't shut public comment off 3 minutes early, one minute early, they'd go 2 minutes over, one minute over, because they want to let the people talk because it'll. Take. 1500. Years for all of us to speak. If we want to go there once at a courtesy when our public hearing and 20 people get cut off. Excuse me. That's not courteous. That's. I don't give a shit about anybody but my views. The people are here to speak. You let them speak. If you cared about the people, you would let the people speak. And that's the way it would be. So let the people speak. Let them vote on what is coming down the way. Since we're so adamant about letting them vote on it. We have freed speaker. Our next speaker is Steven Benishek. Oh. Can you hear me? So. Yes, you can. Go ahead. Okay. Hello. My name's Steven Bunch. I live in District six and I'm here to speak against this proposal. So this is going massively over the last ten years. Not to even mention the past 51 last change to the council was made, as we heard. So it's obviously clear the time has come to reevaluate how we can best provide effective representation. However, I do have several concerns with this proposal. The first is in transforming the At-Large seats, which I believe would drastically decrease representation for the people of the city. There are ways to correct the democratic deficit in the current election about large numbers. However, this council, when presented with a report, chose to do nothing but move the election date back. Great city wide initiatives like Group Living have come out of that large seats. And Councilmember CdeBaca explained just before how current council members are swamped just within their own districts. Time is a finite resource, and current district members have to choose between spending their time on representing their districts and working on citywide policy like we heard. Limiting these seats and turning them into district represents also creates major equity concerns with renters who are more likely to move around the city standing to lose representation as opposed to wealthier property owners who are settled in one district. The second problem is in this process, this process through which does come about with public only learning about it may even have discussions have been going on for a while. There are many different paths that this could take and reevaluate the city council from expanding the council its current ratio, adding some large adding some district seats to increasing staff budgets. However, because of the timeline to get this on the ballot for this year, a low turnout election. There hasn't been enough time to properly consider all the possible alternatives. There's plenty of time for these conversations to take place before redistricting in 2022 and elections in 2023. For these reasons, I ask you to vote no to give this topic further considerations. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Tess Dougherty. Hi, Counsel. Thank you for holding this public comment tonight, albeit not enough. I wanted to just talk about equity. So a few things. One, the notion that district council members do not work on citywide issues is a farce. So everybody keeps coming forward talking about that. And there are plenty of things that are brought forward by district. District level council people that impact everybody in the city. There are numerous examples. I don't know why that is continued, a continued narrative that is just not true. The second the if we're going to talk about equity. You know, earlier tonight I mentioned the River North Plan, which, by the way, you know, the name River North in and of itself is, you know. Came out of gentrification. That neighborhood is called Five Points. And they literally they they say it in the. Plan how. They want to rebrand it to make it more marketable. You know, because because prior to that. They prior to all of the white people have come in and literally colonized the land. They, you know, just they couldn't have it associated with the name five points because that is associated with black and brown people. And so, you know, on that plan is Debbie. Ortega's name actually. Because she was she's been around since that since then she's been a part of these plans. So to talk about equity as if the current. At-Large members are doing it for everybody is probably not true. The third is that. You just let the voters decide on a half a billion dollar bond package? And yet you're maybe not going to let them vote on this. That's ridiculous. We're putting into people's hands. You put into all of the voters of Denver to decide on a neighborhood that didn't even get a seat at the table. About what happens to their neighborhood, and yet you're going to let the rest of the city decide. And now you're going to say that the rest of the city can't decide on this. That's absurd. It doesn't even make any sense. Please let the voters decide on this. Thank you. Our next speaker is Douglas Price. Shannon Hoffman. Good evening, members of Council. Can I be heard? Go ahead, chef. Thank you. I am here in support of Bill 21, 0908. At first it was simply logic around numbers. Right. Smaller districts mean that we can have closer representation. But last week during a Denver City Council committee meeting, a person Mr. Thaddeus thank you gave comment indicating that other in other seats, At-Large seats have been struck down by courts due to finding at large voting districts to be racially discriminatory by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. So just to share with you a little bit of that research from an article called Challenging the Racism of at Large Elections. In 2000, the DOJ announced that the At-Large method of electing city council members in Morgan City, Louisiana, violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the strength of black voters in 2002. They blocked the DOJ block plans in Freeport, Texas. This also happened in Charleston County, South Carolina. Fayetteville, North Carolina. Georgetown County, Lake Park in Florida. Fayette County, Georgia. So you can look into the history there. You might be thinking, but, Shannon, this is the South. Well, America is the south. And may I also remind you that Denver was ordered by the Supreme Court in 1973, almost 20 years after board the Brown v Board of Education to desegregate schools. So we have an issue here, too, that we have to deal with with anti-racism in our public systems. You see in our new census data that we have pushed black and brown people out of this city. So we need representation for all people as we continue to make statements about commitments to anti-racism. This is an opportunity to act. This is an opportunity to engage people who have typically been underrepresented and pushed out of the political process. This is an opportunity to do something unlike we have done with the residents of Global Elyria, Swansea. Last week we we passed a bond test, said, thank you, that's almost half a billion dollars and did even less community engagement than what has happened here. In fact, many of those residents were blocked from engaging and they still have no idea about how they will benefit from that project. Please pass this forward to the voters so that we all may engage in this process. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Keith Pryor. All right. It looks like we don't have Keith in the queue. Next up is Jesse Paris. Yes. Good evening, members of the council and those watching at home. My name is Justin with Sam Paris and I'm representing four black socks and move for self-defense causes of massacre. America's also changed was the Unity Party of Colorado in front line black news. And I will be the next mayor of Denver in 2023. I am in favor of passing this on to the voters to decide on what we're going to do with our two at large positions. I'm in favor of converting them into district seats. Representation matters and clearly we are not being represented, especially black people, foundational black Americans, American descendants of slavery in this city. We are not being represented. We are being displaced, continue, marginalized and gentrified out of our communities. So I am full support of passing this on to the voters. Let the voters decide. As seen in Candy, Councilwoman Candy said about this presentation, there has been due diligence done on this. So there has been enough time for the voters to decide. So we just need to go on and pass this on to the voters to decide in November. All this talk about. We're not being. There's a population growth. And. The numbers are not keeping up with the city council. So when we do the redistricting in 2022. We need to keep all that in mind because we are not being represented as a continued state. We're not being represented by people who are not being represented by people who are not being represented, as we seen last week with the Bonn passage of half a billion dollars and the people and the community of which this is going to be taking place where not even at the table. So we have a problem, Denver And our problem is racism, white supremacy. And we continue to perpetuate it by passing these bills, these ordinances and all the above. So just leave it up to the Denver voters to decide what we're going to do with our seats. I get more representation from can Candi see the who's not even in my district. I'm in District eight, Councilman Hardy's district, and I don't even go to him for help. I don't get replies, back, e-mails, nothing. And I don't get the same from the at large seats. And I ran for out of large in 2019, almost 15,000 votes with no money. So I can attest to how racists and white supremacists. Such a racist. Thank you. Thank you. And a quick reminder to our speakers, we ask that you address your remarks to all of council instead of individual council members. Our next speaker is Susan Barnes Guild. Hi. I neutered and started video. Oh, here I am. So pretty much everything I was going to say has been said. I agree. That this. Has been rushed to the ballet. And I guess my big question. Is I'm not clear on what the problem what problem me trying to solve, I would argue, is Kevin Flynn, acknowledge that nothing big got done without Cathy Brown. Every big construction deal, every big policy deal. And she was superb. And I would. Argue with well that I. Worked on my two. Terms on council. Several very important. Issues, perhaps the most. Consequential. Being the transformation of Denver General Hospital to Denver Health Authority, which was big, heavy lifting. And Wellington, of course, was the mayor. And it was he came. To me and he. Said, okay, Barton Scout, I'm going to. Let you handle this, because Wellington was pretty. Close to my. Husband, Howard Delk, because Howard Gilbert tells me that. You are fearless. And to tell you the truth, I think I know this is the right thing to do. I completely support patty gbo. I think every citizen of Denver deserves. The best level one. Health care. Available. But I'm not in a position. To take the flack that this is going to generate. So I think I mean, that certainly is my proudest accomplishment. But I would also argue that. Initiating a comp plan after 40 years without one, redoing the zoning code, which candidly I. Apologize for. And many other land use and preservation. Historic district view planning issues were my purview. So I do think that the district council. I think you should. Add two more district council seats and. Keep the march. Thanks for the opportunity. Thank you. We would also like to acknowledge former council member Susan Barnes, Gil, as well. Thank you for your comments. And our last speaker this evening is Dewey Jackson. Thank you, Madam President. I am Dewey Jackson, a resident of District eight and also the president of the Denver Area Labor Federation, where we we represent over 90,000 plus members in the Denver metro area who work and live in these districts. And I would be opposed to abolishing the last two seats and ask that you would also vote no because it weakens the power of the council. And most of those workers are women and people of color, and that makes them lose two thirds representation. And historically, the model that the council is now has worked up to this point. And I would just say that to consider the alternatives of increasing district and staff funding, to take that to be able to service the new ballot, the new redistricting lines would be better than abolishing the two At-Large seats. Thank you for your time. Thank you. That concludes our speakers this evening. Questions for members of Council on Council Bill 908. And I believe we have Councilmembers Flynn and CdeBaca available for any questions. All right. CNN. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 908. All right. There we go. Council member Swire. Thanks, Madam President. I think this really comes down to a question of good governance and whether it's responsible to refer this proposal to the ballot. Has there been enough community outreach and engagement? Has it been vetted enough for consideration by the voters who are trusting us to do our jobs? As I said in committee, my office in our own admittedly unscientific community survey and found that the majority of the respondents don't support getting rid of the two At-Large seats. And I'm frankly not sure that I support it either. I think the solution is for the mayor's office to fund our council offices appropriately. We simply cannot pay our staff what they deserve and staff at appropriate levels to meet the level of customer service that our constituents deserve. In my office, each of my full time staff members services approximately 22,000 constituents each. My staff works really, really hard and they should absolutely get paid more. But if I paid them what they're worth, I wouldn't have any money in my budget for SurveyMonkey or constant contact or mailers or translation services or all of the things that we are required to fund out of our Council Council budgets in order to assure the excellent ensure the excellent customer service that our constituents deserve. That said, I think that my colleagues are probably right now is the time to look at this issue. And I do believe that the voters deserve to have a conversation. So I will be a yes on referring this to the ballot this evening so that the residents of Denver can engage in this conversation as well. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Sawyer. Councilmember Hines. Thank you. Council President. I want to repeat a comment made in committee because I don't think it really has been addressed. I see this as a, um. This particular question is a combination of two separate questions. Question one Should we have 11 or 13 District Council members? Question two Should we have zero or two At-Large Council members? I'm a little concerned that we're in the interest of expediency mashing those two questions together. So I, I think that if we were to have a public comment or a public stakeholder process, I, I, I personally believe that we would, uh, we would find a lot of people willing to, uh, to address both of those questions on the ballot as opposed to having them arbitrarily combined to this particular question. Another comment I made in committee is that 100% of those who provided feedback to my office all made comments asking me to keep the large seats, which isn't exactly the question that is being asked or asking me not to refer the question of the ballot. The outreach includes multiple constituents who are former Denver City Council members, including former council member Susan Barnacle. I made this comment on the record in committee, expecting a deluge of responses from constituents yet again received not a single email from anyone asking me to eliminate the At-Large seats or to refer this to the ballot. Specifically, one constituent wrote, But I am oppose the elimination of the At-Large districts. I don't even want to see it on the ballot. That is as it is one that can be easily promoted with weird slogans. This is a solution working for a problem. So I ask you to vote to oppose putting it on the ballot. Sure we've bantered this question around for a long time. This banter has been theoretical in nature, and there's a difference between banter and serious consideration now that we're seriously considering. I would strongly encourage us to have the conversation with the community about the two questions before sending it to the ballot. Next. I understand that the original ballot measure that added large was rushed. While I agree that the rushed process then was controversial, I disagree that we should then normalize controversy and refer this one to the ballot because of the same rush process. While District ten does not have a history of Bipoc council members, it still has broken a barrier by choosing a first elected official in Denver's history who uses a wheelchair for mobility. There are other ways to break barriers. Finally, Denver is growing up. We are no longer a cowtown in a flyover state. We're a top 25 U.S. city that continues to grow by leaps and bounds. As we grow up, we will increasingly move toward representative democracy. That's just what happens in most cities, with the two potential exceptions of New York and Chicago. I look forward to a conversation that includes ensuring council has adequate funding to communicate with constituents. I look forward to a conversation with the two questions. Until then, I will vote no to refer this to the ballot. Thank you. Council President. Thank you. Councilmember Hines. Councilmember Black. Thank you, Madam President. And thank you, Councilwoman Sayed Abarca and Councilman Flynn for bringing this forward. I learned a lot from your presentation, so thank you for that. I've been working on a lot of good governance things with the council and with Councilwoman Gilmore this past year. And one of the things I'm kicking off very soon with our clerk, Paul Lopez, is a ballot measure working group. And one of my goals with that is to ensure we don't get into this position in the future where we are deciding to put something on the ballot that we haven't had the time to vet, we haven't had the time to understand it. I think it is our responsibility as legislators to really understand what we are putting on the ballot before we put it on the ballot. I can't say that I would be for or against this proposal, but I just don't know enough about it. I'm going to read a few sentences from a letter that we all received from the League of Women Voters because they they stated very well. It says Our opposition is based on our position on citizen participation in government, which advocates for increased opportunities for citizen input into the governmental process. The process leading up to the August 23rd public hearing does not meet these criteria. Charter amendment consideration should be removed from council proceedings until a broad public discussion has taken place. Our opposition is to the current process because there has not been sufficient discussion of a change with such far reaching implications. Council has known for at least three years that there would be simultaneous turnover of both at large city council positions and a once a decade redistricting. Such a fundamental change to our charter and representation, a staple of Denver government since its installation in 1968, must be widely discussed with widespread forums and speakers generating thoughtful consideration by the citizenry. I agree with what that letter says and I would be very open to discussing this further. I just don't feel comfortable referring it to the ballot. With having so little information. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Black. Next up, we have Councilmember Herndon. Thank you, Madam President. I'm glad that we're having this conversation because I want to share this number with you. So the 1970 census. So when we move to the current configuration that we have right now, the population of Denver was 514,000. You divide that by 11, that's 46,000 per district. You fast forward several decades later, we have the same number of district representatives and we have a population of 200,000 more. Which breaks down to just about over 50% increase when they decided to increase the structures broken. And I have the unique position of representing two districts during redistricting because I represented District 11, which went from 23rd in Holly all the way out to the airport. My district was over 80,000 people. And I can tell you that was too big. And I was thankful for the redistricting that brought it down to 55,000, an appropriate level and number to be able for what we are asked of as local electeds. Because what's unique about this position, what people ask of their city council members are not asked of their state representative, their state senators, their school board members and RTD . In my opinion, what we are asked to go to, what we were asked to participate in is significantly higher. And that's what the question is. What is what is the appropriate size for the districts? If we stay with our current configuration, with the 715,000 as a census brought forward, it's approximately 66,000, 20,000 more than what we had in 1970. Maybe it is. Maybe some people still feel that it's sufficient enough. I think it's worth the question because I believe that due diligence and research has been done to see other cities what they do outside of Denver. I don't believe we should replicate another city, but ask the question, are what other cities are doing appropriate for Denver? I believe the research has been done. I believe this is a valid question. I don't believe that it is. RUSH That's always the argument. People say if they feel as if they don't want something to go to the voters, I believe this is fair. I would look forward to discussion if it doesn't pass. This council should do something when it comes to our size, and I don't believe money is the solution to that. I would have been open if there was a proposal for going to 15 to add more, but that proposal wasn't forward. No one brought anything forward. It was just a matter of debating this one. So I want to I want to thank Council member State of Bock and Flynn for bringing forward a solution to a problem that I believe we need to address. So I will be in support of sending this actually, I'll be supportive of publishing this because this is on first reading, but I do hope that we send it to the voters, if not figure out a way we can better support our constituents in our districts. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilmember Herndon. And we're going to transition online right now or virtually we've got Councilmember Ortega and then Councilmember Cashman. Go ahead, Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I'm going to try to be concise, but I think it's important to capture some of these issues that were brought up. I had an opportunity to participate in a discussion with Inter Neighborhood Cooperation, ANC Councilwoman CdeBaca, who presented this same information to them, and overwhelmingly the majority of the people who were in attendance in that meeting and as you know, they represent neighborhoods all across the city, had very similar concerns as those that were expressed tonight. In fact, some of them were some of the very people that were part of that conversation. I think the argument about renters is a very, very valid concern. So if somebody wants to run for a seat, if they're a renter, they are at the mercy of their landlord. And we've seen this happen with with people all across our city where they have to move. When a landlord decides to either sell or condo, convert a home or scrape it and have something else put on the property, and, you know, you're left with no choice but to have to move. And we have some active renters in our city. Their voice is equally as important. And the fact that, you know, they could only run for that large seat is the only way they be able to represent over half of our population that are actually renters. This is data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Another point that I wanted to make is when you look at the comparison of cities and what structures people have in those cities, the National League of Cities actually looked into this issue and their focus is on equitable civic engagement, and they recommend that the hybrid, which is the At-Large and the district seats, is their model charters that they recommend. And so I think that's important to share. We know that we have people who are active in our state legislature, who attend many of our House district meetings and some of the Reno meetings, most of them not only the state legislature, but our school board members, as well as our RTD district members. They represent much larger districts than what our district offices do. And we have three staff people or can have up to three staff people. Some members of council choose not to fill all three of those positions or they spend the money differently on their staffing. But most of them either have limited staff or no staff and are representing much larger districts. And it doesn't mean to say that they're not receiving and responding to constituent concerns that come in to them on a regular basis as well. Over my 42 years of working with the city or as a staff member to a council person, a staff member at our Office of Human Services and my 26 years on as a council member, I have witnessed many votes and decisions where having At-Large members at the table ensured a more robust debate that reflected the perspectives at a much broader city level rather than just a localized district perspective. Councilman Herndon talked about the how the districts had changed in size over time. I think it's also important to share that as the districts have grown, so have the staffing levels and the amount of money that was budgeted to each office to ensure that we're able to meet the needs of the constituents that that we all represent. And I can remember at one time that large seats actually got more money than what the district seats did. And we have the same budget as the district, but district offices do. It's always been mandated that the At-Large seats are housed downtown. We have a number of district offices, three of whom are supporting this particular measure that have offices out in the community. In some cases, they're in city buildings. In other cases, their rents are paid out of our district. Central budget for central budget. And so. The conversations that I have heard from my colleagues are about, you know, the concern related to being able to pay enough to keep good staff and the issue of, you know, having enough money to be able to do some of the things like newsletters and surveys and those kinds of things. And that's the conversation that we should be having. As as you heard from many of the speakers, part of the concern is the fact that we have not done the same outreach and robust community engagement that we did when we brought the whole package of ballot initiatives , the charter changes that we did last time around when I chaired that committee. We started that six months in advance to, you know, vet the different ideas that people were bringing forward, both from colleagues as well as from internal. Agencies, independent agencies and some of our external partners that are that work with our our city staff people from the Fraternal Order of Police to. You know, those kinds of groups. And in this case, we did not do that. And you're hearing from the public that, you know, we should be looking at maybe adding two more seats, but keeping the At-Large seats in place because people value having that, you know, that diversity of representation. And we we're not having that conversation. That's not the proposal that is on the table for us to consider. And and so that's where I think we're really lacking in this process. And just because timing seems to be an issue about. You know, looking at the fact that. You know, Councilwoman, we can eat. You know, we'll both be gone for this next election cycle. And it's not about us, but it's about the structure. And to do something so drastic in such a quick timeframe without that thoughtful engagement from the public that we heard tonight, you heard it and see, I've been hearing it from constituents that are, you know, sending e-mails and calling my office that they they really do feel like this is worse. And so for for those reasons, I will not be supporting this. I think people have a misconception that by. Basically removing the two at large districts and creating more districts that were going to create some some, I don't know, equalization, some equity in the process. But not all districts are created equal. It depends on the geography that you happen to get. There are certain districts that have far more activity than others that require three units to have three staff people and to maybe attend more movies. So it just depends when the boundaries get reshaped. What geography you happen to have that's going to determine, you know, your your workload. And again, that's the conversation that we should be having. This is not broke. We shouldn't fix it. We don't have clarity of what it is that is broken that we're trying to fix. And I. I just can't support this moving forward. Thank you, Madam President. Councilmember Ortega. Next up, we have Councilman Cashman. Yeah. Thank you, Madam President. I'll try not to repeat too much of what my colleagues have already said as far as the time frame, whether or not we've had enough time. This is a major change to the to the way we're proposing to govern our city. It's been proposed that, well, if it's been too rushed, you know, now we can have a discussion and let the people have the discussion. If we had six, eight, nine months ahead of us to have that discussion, I might think that was a reasonable way to approach it. But by my look at the calendar, this would give us a couple of months and to put forward a proposal of this magnitude, of any similar magnitude, and say you've only got two months to discuss it. I think most of the time the public, including a lot of folks who are presented tonight, would be outraged. So I lean to the point that we haven't had enough time. I think it's an important discussion. I mean, looking at the issues that people like Frank Sullivan and Thad Tex have brought up about equity, you know, racial and otherwise are critically important. I mean, you know, reason would say that this topic would merit a full whether you want to call it a task force or a committee, but a full unveiling of all the issues. The one thing that I find really interesting that I haven't heard vetted in any way. If I remember Councilman Herb Herndon's numbers, I think in the what, the seventies, we had 46,000 a district. Right now, if we stay at 11, we're up to 66,000. Well, when they had 46,000 people per district, those district offices were not hearing from 46,000 people. And I don't believe we have the statistics to tell us how many unique contacts we are getting from our districts. And I think this discussion calls the question that we probably need to figure out a way to begin assembling that data, because whether this passes or not, at some point it very well is worth looking at how many districts we should have. Because, you know, if we if we now had 66,000 people, I know that that's if we're mailing door to door, that numbers are extremely important. And that's a budgetary question. But how much staff we need is more reliant upon, you know, what's the difference in population that we actually need to be in contact with by email, by phone? I think it's a great conversation. I really do. I just don't think we have the time or the structure to properly vetted in this particular issue. And so I think that's all I have to say. And so I'll just say thank you, Madam President. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Cashman. Up next, we have Councilmember Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. I agree that I wish there had been. I agree with the folks who say they wish there had been more time. The fact is, as Alex Hernandez, a Denver public library documented for us, we've probably had triple the amount of discussion on this than they did in 1968 when they added the At-Large seats at the last minute in the legislative process. Things were much different in 1968. I can't I can't really disagree with the folks who say they wish we had more time. I do, too. What I also know is that I'm grateful for having had the discussion. I think it had to occur because of the convergence of the redistricting with the two open seats. If we were to take this up in the next redistricting, we would most likely be looking at a district being out incumbents. That could be done, but it's not politically very easy. So I'm really grateful for the fact that we've had the discussion now. I do want to emphasize one point that I made there at the podium, and that is the nature of the voter turnout for the at large races in historically. The undervote in the At-Large races would raise the question in my mind of how representative are the At-Large positions of the city as a whole when in in one year when they were open seats, 24,000 votes citywide was enough to win a seat. 17,000 votes in one race was enough to win a seat. And so I think we ought to at least consider whether and again, Madam President, I want to emphasize there's no right or wrong way to do this. There really is. And I'm not going to it's not going to break my heart if we don't proceed with this. I just really think that the value at this point in Denver's history, the value of bringing representation closer to the people and creating smaller, more representational districts, it has less to do with the point that Councilman Cashman just made, the fact that we don't hear from 60,000 people. Certainly we don't have 60,000 unique contacts in the course of a year with our constituents. It has more to do with representing tighter, smaller communities of interest at the district level. And the question here is whether you value that or do you value continuing the At-Large positions, which give the people of Denver three representatives to to to rely on. I side with the choice of having the more representative districts. And the thing that pushes me over the edge is the. The low profile that the races get, the low voter turnout that they get, which makes me question how represented representative they are of the the citizens of Denver. So thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Flynn. Councilmember Quinn each. Thank you. Council President. I'm taking my Zen pill today. I appreciate all the speakers. Thank you. To the community who signed up to speak. I agree with those who suggest we should move past the process conversation. Everyone who's described the lack of input and community meetings is correct. And here we are debating the substance. So that's where I will focus. In taking my Zen pill. I'm trying to step back and imagine what this conversation sounds like to others. And I think that I respect that. It might not have been intended this way, but to imply this council is so special compared to other elected bodies perhaps needs a little reflection. The population of the state of Colorado has more than quintupled. Quintupled. The average constituency in a House district office district would have been 20,000 residents in 1950. It would have been up to 34,000 in 1971, the year we've decided to benchmark our conversation to today. Today it's 87,000. And you're right. Our jobs are very different than those of the House of Representatives. They, for example, have to have other jobs, and they're paid a whopping salary of $40,000 today, and they had to fight to double that. If I benchmark their salaries with these years, they might have been virtually nothing. So you're right. Our jobs are different. We're paid full time, year round. We have health care benefits and retirement. They have to have two jobs and they represent more constituents than us. And just as diverse of issues. Just as diverse issues. Let's look at our other boards, our TDI, single issue. Really perhaps less complicated job, perhaps transit dependency versus commuters. They're paid the whopping salary of $12,000. They have to have another full time job, not another part time job. They have to have a full time job to live. And so to suggest that our jobs are different is true, but perhaps not in the way intended. Let's move fast forward to our school board, also a single entity. We could say less complex, except it's children. It is our future that they're responsible for and they're paid a salary of zero. Again their districts, far more constituents, far more constituents than ours. Fewer districts, more constituents. Zero salary. And, by the way, zero staff. I don't point this out to shame anyone I pointed out to say at a certain point, I guess I invite us to reflect on our humility. It is a privilege to do these jobs. And yes, they are hard. But I see no other body. The US Congress. Right. The population of the United States has doubled and the US Congress, every district has gotten larger. I struggle with finding that we are the most special body in the United States of America. That as population grows, the only answer and the only just answer is to try to shrink the district size and to keep up with that no matter what size the body is, no matter what the best practice research is about. For example, when a body functions the best, there are certainly councils that have 50 members and they have smaller districts. I'm not sure they meet the test for the most functional governing body. I'm not sure of a level of collaboration. I don't know what it's like for a member of the community to lobby that body to make change and have to count 50 votes as a as a community member trying to make change. But all of these things. Right. I think the question of. The humility to say it's a privilege to do these jobs and they're hard and we're no more or less important than these other elected officials. And it's simply a point of reference. Right. So that's one argument we've had tonight is this idea that because of population change, we must we must have more districts. Right. So I've just addressed why I think that. I'm not sure that's true. But let's talk about some of the other arguments that have been brought forward. What do you do? So we had two kinds of arguments. In addition to this population, one, we had theoretical arguments, which is really tough. This is why the Zen is so important. So a theoretical argument about how at large council members are more likely to align with the administration? Well, the only way to dispute a theoretical argument is to get into real examples, which is awkward. Right. I voted against the mayor earlier this evening. My council colleague, Councilwoman Ortega, has voted against the mayor numerous times. I voted against the mayor before I voted against a very popular budget. You know, we could start to refute with individual facts. I can talk about Carol Borg and running the first, you know, probably the main budget amendment in a decade, giving a raise to city workers, you know, over the mayor's opposition. I can give the juggling cart fighting the gel. The only way I can fight theoretical arguments is with facts from real life. And then it sounds like we're in the personal and everyone wants to not be in the personal. This is not personal, except when you put a theoretical argument on a slide. Then we have to talk about whether it has proven true in reality, right? Whether the At-Large seats have in fact championed policies that have been counter right. To the interests of people of color. Right. Whether the large seats, for example, have. Proposed. Anti-Discrimination ordinances non-cooperation with ICE ordinances for, you know, for immigrant members of our community, whether they have been the first member from the LGBTQ community or the first Latina to be in this seat, we have to we have to get personal, because that's what you have to do. If you're faced with theoretical arguments, you have to say, are they true? Have they actually been true in reality? And perhaps there are those who feel that they have been. And that's their that's their prerogative. But we can't leave a slide deck with theoretical and then not dig into whether those things have been realities in the actual people who have served in the actual seats over the actual decades that we're talking about. And then we get into some actual numbers. So another set of arguments we heard tonight was about how not competitive the At-Large seats are. You know, that's a that's a fact. And so, you know, so it's interesting, the At-Large seats have not gone without challengers in several decades. There have been challengers in every single race. And yet there have not been challengers. I gave these facts last week. If anyone wants to review, I'll pull them out. But there have not been challengers in dozens of district council seats. So if competitiveness if competitiveness is the factor we're looking at, then we need to look at both kinds of seats. We could go on and on all kinds of numbers, right, about who's been in representative of every fact that was given about an at large seat. We could give a similar fact about a district seat, so it doesn't help us distinguish. So in the last At-Large race, you know, the two winners won by you know, we went in the 70,000 range and the 90,000 vote range. All right. If you divide that by 11, it averages about 6 to 8000 votes. Respectfully, respectfully, there are district council members up here who were elected with fewer votes or about the same. So if we're going to say, well, it's not enough votes, it doesn't count, then are we going to use the same math and the same evaluation stick for the district council seats? Are we going to say that those seats aren't appropriate? I get the majority argument, and if we wanted to have a debate about plurality seats versus majority seats, then that's the debate we should have. But I feel a little bit like it's a debate about spaghetti on the wall. Here's a good reason to get rid of the seat, and here's a good reason to get rid of the seat. And each one of them has the facts on the counter point. So what are we debating? Here's my sense of what we're debating. We're debating whether we think there is a difference. And whether we think that difference has a value. And I can see there are places where there's no difference. I study the bills the same way you do. I, you know, ask questions of agencies the same way you do. Maybe even a little tougher. Sometimes I respect them and love them. I'm sorry. Sometimes my questions are tough. So some ways our jobs are the same, but then there are ways they are different. And I'm going to I'm going to ask rhetorical questions. I didn't ask this during question and answer, but do you open an email and look at the bottom to see the address where the person is writing from? Have you counted up the number of constituents? So in a in a I from many times in this dais have heard council members say I got thousands of emails and 13 of them were from my district and they all agreed with the way I'm about to vote. I never, ever read the address at the bottom of an email, ever. I respond to them all the same. Sometimes I check with a district council member to see if they have already started a case. Whether they have an opinion on this, do they have more information than I have? Right. I check with them. I don't know whether my office has ever sent someone to district council office and said, good luck. Have fun. We check, we collaborate. Sometimes we hear back, sometimes we don't. But I respond the same. That's different. When I was asked to prioritize projects for the bonds. I mean, this is another rhetorical question. Who here prioritized a substance abuse treatment center? Who here prioritized a homeless shelter? Right. Who here prioritized something that wasn't a district asset? It's different. It's different. So we can acknowledge there may be some differences. And then the second question is, is there value? And I think that that is where you get into a personal judgment. Some people who testified today testified that they don't like the votes and the way that they've been served by their at large council members. Interestingly, some also testified that they didn't like or get served by their district council members. So, again, I'm not sure that you can sort through that and come up with an answer. So where we are, I think, is whether there is value in the structure. Is there value in the structure of having someone who doesn't check an address before they respond or, you know, account for the feedback? Is there a value to having multiple representatives to choose from? Is there a value to voters in getting a say over one fifth of this body instead of 1/13? If you think those things have value, then it's appropriate to continue this to to to continue these seats and not force us into an expensive, contentious election when we could be focused on other things. There are other things on this coming ballot that require attention. And by putting every idea that comes along on the ballot, you are asking the community to spend money, resources and energy on something that isn't a high priority, maybe in terms of housing people or fixing our transportation challenges. So so that's my, you know. Way of bringing together the debate I've heard over the last meetings. And that is why I asked my colleagues respectfully to honor the value of their voters in their constituents being able to choose and have these options, have this structure before them, and to vote no on this proposal tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Ken each council pro tem Torres. Thank you, Madam President. It's it's interesting. I've heard two arguments. Tonight for. The proposal. One needing more districts to serve Denver and the other. Do we need or want At-Large members? And I've heard. Statements referring to both things I struggle with this year. Census numbers a lot and fear that my district was one with a severe undercount. Projecting based on the American Community Survey, which was the map in the slide deck, says that my district should be closer to 63,000 residents. The actual census numbers that just came out put it closer to 56,000. I think a citizenship question proposal dampened numbers in my district. I think people didn't want to fill out their census in my district, which means I've got to add 10,000 more residents, and possibly that means two or three more full neighborhoods to District three. And that I really struggle with. I think the resource side is something that we've got to fix. It's not up for the voters to fix. We've got to fix our budget. We've got to fix the way that. We. Request and expand and allocate direct resources to us. I think this is much more about the argument of who are we representing and why. I struggle that the question feels flawed and we didn't have enough time to change it. So why didn't we choose 13 district in two at large? I'll be a guest tonight for publishing and. Will determine kind of final next week. Thank you. Thank you, Counselor Pro Tem Torrance. Next up, we have Councilmember Clark. Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to give. A big thank you to Councilman Herndon, who I know was one of the first. People who talked to me about this and just, you know, as an idea. And throughout bouncing ideas. Big thank you to Councilman Flynn and Councilwoman CdeBaca. For their work in putting this together and getting. Us to this point. And thank you to the citizens. I mean, we heard from citizens who've been trying to raise this issue for many, many years. And are very passionate people. Passionate and people who I. Respect tonight speaking on both sides of the issue. So thanks to everybody for that. I think this proposal is a good idea. I think that, as others have articulated, now is the right time. And I'm sorry that this has turned into something that put people on the defensive and that people thought was personal, because for me, it absolutely was never that. I believe that our citizens. Are better served with smaller. Districts. Our citizens are better served if there are fewer. Of them trying to get the attention of their representative and fewer. Of them fighting for time with their representative. I think, as I said before in committee, I think that's one of the magical things about local municipal representation is its accessibility. And that's something worth. You know, fighting for and preserving. And I think that this proposal would. Would fix. The drift away from that that we're seeing. I think that it will be a real shame that given the timing of redistricting and both of these seats being empty, that voters wouldn't at least get to make this choice at the ballot box. Whether they agree with me in the end or not. I think they should be able to choose. I know that there have been some complaints about not having enough time for us needing. To understand what we're referring. And that's been debated on both sides. But the other thing that I'll just say is that this is not complicated. This is not something that voters will be confused about. This is a simple choice about how our citizens would like to be represented by the city council. There are pros and cons that we have heard. On each side. This is not a 100% on either side, but our citizens can navigate that and they should have a choice on how they want to be represented. I don't mind at all. In the end, if this is referred and it were to fail, if the. People of Denver were to. Disagree with me on that scale of how I've weighed and landed on those pros and cons. But I do think that it would be a real shame if we fail to allow them that choice or fail even here at publication to get it to second reading. So I will definitely be voting to allow to make them to make that choice, not just on publication but also on final. And it looks like it's going to be close, but I sincerely hope that we will refer this to the ballot and let the people choose about the representation. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Clark, Councilmember CdeBaca. Thank you. I just want to thank my colleagues who co-sponsored who supported us up for this conversation and everyone for their robust comments tonight. I think that the quality of the dialog that we've had is what indicates this is important for the voters to discuss. I want to address the comment that we heard during public comment that the racism piece of this wasn't an argument that was valid or that it was a myth. And I heard Councilman Flynn reiterate that it was not a myth. And, you know, anyone who knows history and what was happening in this country in 1968 or anyone who simply listened to our presentation, could see that the Voting Rights Act, the lawsuit against the City Council for Discrimination, and the sheer fact that in a city of our size and stature, we've only had two At-Large council members who are people of color. Councilwoman Ortega and Councilman Santos. That's indicative of, you know, the fact that there is racism and discrimination embedded in the current structure. Debate happens when the voters get a voice. There are very few instances in the work that we do when voters get a vote to make their debate meaningful. We often only allowed debate in the form of one hour courtesy, public comments, or maybe a community discussion where we're making the rounds to tell our communities about our proposals and their decision making power in those instances is nonexistent. We don't ask people to show up and base our decisions on their input as much as we say we do. It's obvious that most of the time the decision is already made by the time the debate occurs. I think that Councilwoman Kenney accurately pointed out that it is a privilege to do our jobs and many people do the job of legislation for free or without staff. That's a problem. That's a huge problem. That's a structure that yields a much more privileged representative who can afford to make. Laws for free or with limited efficacy because their family will still eat. Their family will still have a roof over their head and their campaigns will still get funded. That structure inherently is the problem that leads to not having adequate representation for marginalized people. This is personal. This is personal to every constituent who's not getting the level of service or access they deserve from their council members. It's personal for those constituents who are downgraded when time is limited and a powerful voter or business is competing for council members time. My favorite argument throughout this process came from a supporter who compared the value of this proposal to the value of smaller class sizes. We've said many times that smaller class sizes translate to more individualized attention from a teacher. In this case, the point is exactly the same. Smaller districts translate to more individualized attention and the ability to recenter the margins or what campaigns and candidates call low propensity voters. I love our dialog tonight, but again, the structure of our government should not be decided by 13 of us. We should be allowing the voters their doval voice in this conversation. All we are asking with this proposal is for the voters to have the opportunity to chime in whether they agree or not. None of us here are attached to an outcome. I would love to see my side of it, but I'm not attached to that outcome. I would love to see the voters have this discussion. The small amount of people who've chimed in thus far are not representative of Denver. We have a responsibility to always keep the people at the top of this government hierarchy and depriving them the opportunity to vote on this is demoting them in that hierarchy. Please. We did it earlier. We had this discussion with the bond proposal and their short runway, which was even shorter than our runway on this proposal. Please show the voters of Denver that you think they're intelligent and worthy of governing with those of us who they have given the opportunity to represent them. All we're asking is to send it to the voters. So give them a voice. Thank you. I hope you vote yes tonight. Thank you, Councilmember CdeBaca. And now go ahead and give my comments before we vote to publish this or not. You know what we're really talking about tonight? We've talked about at large, we've talked about the districts, we've talked about our budgets. And it has been a really great discussion. And we're talking about how we can, as elected officials in a very different environment, serve our constituents better, how we can be more intentional in how we're engaging them, what we can do to make sure that their voices are heard. And one of the things that has been very obvious to my constituents in District 11 are the lack of conversation that they've been able to engage in about this very, very short process. We've referenced back to the bond, but there were telephone town halls that were citywide that they used reverse robo calls to try to engage folks . There were many, many different stakeholder meetings. And you can always say that there wasn't enough, but there was at least that. And I am the elect the elected representative of my council district. And I take that very serious because I want to hear from my constituents. I want them to understand what I'm voting on either for or against, and that they'd have an opportunity to weigh in and tell me what they think I should do. And that is something that hasn't happened through this process. I've got many, many constituents that are just asking why? Why are we doing this now? It's too rushed. We haven't had a chance to understand what the different options are. We've talked tonight about potentially going up and the number going down. That's something that I think our constituents should be able to really weigh in on and then we would debate it and then we would refer it to the rest of the voters is usually how the process works. And you know, with group living, we had went back to have that time and still it's on the ballot to possibly be repealed. And so there is no perfect dynamic in this. But what I know is that my constituents have not had the time to really vet this and they have asked me not to support this. And I'm going to do what I was elected to do and represent them, albeit I might feel differently about, you know , having more elected representation on this body. That is a conversation that we need to really have and we need to vet what is that going to cost the taxpayers of the city and county of Denver by adding seats potentially or, you know, with the proposal now still be 13, but that's additional staff, etc.. And lastly, you know, the budget issue and council offices maybe not having all of the resources that they need. I have to commend my colleagues who are serving on the budget working group and then alongside myself and central staff representation. We're working very hard to right size our council budgets and the city council budgeting process that is well documented. We've done a lot of that work. We've communicated to this body through our operations meeting meetings, and we're increasing the amount of money that is going to the district offices as well. And so with that being said, we just need more time to fully vet this and talk with our constituents on why we would be referring this to the ballot at this point in time. Council. Bill 20 1-908 is on the floor for publication. Madam Secretary, Roll Call on Council Bill 908, please. Cashman. Nay. Ortega. They? CdeBaca, I. Flynn. I. Herndon Hines. Can each. Name. Sandoval. Nay Sawyer. I. Torres. I. Black. Mary Clarke. I. Madam President May. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced the results. Seven days, six eyes. Seven nays Council Bill 20 1-200908 has failed our pre adjournment announcement. But before I go there, I'd like to thank the community members who spoke tonight as well, the folks who emailed us and most definitely the council members who sponsored this bill to move it forward.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3255 North Newton Street and 3254 North Osceola Street in West Highland. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-B to U-SU-B1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 3255 North Newton Street and 3254 North Osceola Street in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 9-21-21.

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13 Eyes Council Bill 20 1-1030 has passed. Thank you to the community members and Libby and Nate for being here with us. Moving on, Councilmember Cashman, we put Council Bill 1072 on the floor for final passage. Yes, Council President. I move the council bill 21, dash 1070 to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 1072 is open and we have Fran here for the staff report. Good afternoon, members of City Council. My name is from Pineville City Planner with Community Planning and Development. And today we will be reviewing a rezoning request for two properties one at 3255 Newton Street and the other one at 3254 Osceola Street. Subject properties are in Council District one in the West Highland neighborhood. And the request is to rezone both properties to a district allowing for 80 use. All other form and use of standard would remain the same. The current zoning in both properties is US u. U. SB, which allows for a minimum standard size of 4500 square feet. For reference, the property of Newton Street is 6250 square feet and the one in Nasrallah Street is 6870 square feet, both exceeding the 4500 square feet required by us one. The green land use of the sites is single unit residential and they're both surrounded by other single unit uses the market. The map here also shows some two unit uses multi-unit residential uses in the vicinity, as well as some commercial retail and office uses on 32nd Avenue. This slide shows the character of the neighborhood with the images on the bottom left and top right, showing the subject properties and a couple of extra images to show the mixed use character of 32nd Avenue half so half a block south of the properties and also the residential character of the neighborhood in general. Throughout the rezoning process, application notifications have been provided according to code requirements. Planning Board recommended approval and animosity on September 15, and to date, staff has only received one letter of opposition from a neighbor concerned with short term rentals. The letter of opposition refers to a potential use of the EU for short term rentals. On that point, I would like to mention the Denver Zoning Code and Associated Licensing Regulations allows a resident of the primary dwelling unit to conduct a short term rental, either in the primary dwelling unit or in the legally permitted accessory dwelling unit . Basically any one resident in a primary structure can apply for a short term rental license as long as they live in the property. Not allowing for an 80, you won't prevent an applicant from getting a short term rental. Important to know, though, the property owner would not be allowed to conduct more than one short term rental at a time. Now moving on to the Denver zoning code review criteria, it must be found that the request map amendment is consistent with the five criteria. In regards to criteria number one, there are two adopted plans that apply for the request rezoning Comprehensive Plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver. As stated on the staff report, the rezoning is consistent with several goals in comprehensive plan 2040. This MAP amendment will promote equity by creating a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood, and it will lead to an environmentally resilient Denver by promoting infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Now live in Denver. The subject properties are both mapped as part of the urban neighborhood context. And the future places map designates the subject properties as low residential place type displaced types have predominantly single and two unit uses and accessory dwelling units are probably Newton Street and Sewell Street are both designated as Local Street, which is mostly characterized by residential uses . The growth area and blueprint Denver for both sites is all other areas of the city. This area is anticipated to see 10% employment growth and 20% housing growth by 2040. Therefore, the finding of the request is consistent with the applicable adopted plans. Finally, Blueprint also identifies specific policy recommendations. Housing Policy four focuses on the spring housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Stuff also finds that the requested signing meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations, and it will further public health, safety and welfare, primarily through its implementation of adopted plans. The justified circumstance for this rezoning is a changing condition in a particular area, and a lot of the recent physical changes within proximity to the subject sites include new streetscape improvements along 32nd Avenue, but protests, pedestrians and increased safety along the corridor. Other changes include the construction of a new multi-unit residential project at Lowell Boulevard near the intersection with West 32nd Avenue. These changes demonstrate the transition from a low intensity residential neighborhood to a higher intensity residential and mixed use neighborhood where residential uses are compatible, appropriate and complementary to existing uses. Also, Blueprint Denver Specific specifically recommends the city diversify housing choices to the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. The plan was adopted after the date of approval of the existing Southern District. Therefore, these are appropriate, justified SEC stances for the proposed rezoning. Overall, the proposed zoning is consistent with the urban neighborhood context residential district and the U.S. would be one strong district. With. That stuff. Recommends approval based on finding all review criteria has been met. Thank you, Fran, for the staff report. We have one individual signed up to speak this evening. And it's Jesse Paris joining us online. Yes, good evening. Members of council, those watching at home. My name is just Sebastian Paris. And I'm representing four black star families for self-defense because of us in those times, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado. And for a lot of black males and I'll be the next mayor of Denver in 2023. I'm in favor of this rezoning to my house in crisis. Any time that this council is approve of zoning, so create more housing. I'm in favor of I'm in favor of this rezoning tonight and meets all five of the criteria. Consistency with adopted plans. Uniformity of district regulations by the public health, safety and wellness. Justified circumstances and consistency with neighborhood contents and zone this purpose and since. So with that being said, I just to approve this summary. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 1072. Council Member Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. Fran, could you address some of the issues that were raised by the letter in opposition to the one on Newton? In other words, that this is it's a single family home, but apparently it's been divided into two units. At least was the claim in the letter in opposition, and that both of them are being used as Airbnb at least half of the year because the owner of the property lives in Granby, apparently. So. Yeah, I mean. Anyone going to have a short term rental and anyone can have a long term rental. So. Right. It all depends where you have your residence. I think that the legal description is that you need to leave for six months of a year and you need to receive your bills and it needs to be like your voter address. So that's what defines your residence. So I'm sorry, what defines the residents? I'm sorry. What defines your residents? I think it's like where you receive your voters, your your bills and when where they address and you put it as a voter and I can look it up in the code, but. It's basically where you reside for six months. Mm hmm. So legally, someone could live in a house for six months and have a long term rental. So definition the difference between a long term rental and a short term rental is short term rental is shorter than 30 days. Right. Right. So he could potentially be. Living in his house for six months or eight months and having a long term rental. And then aside from that, you can have a short term rental. Now, you can not have more than one short term rental property. So even if he was a you have three people living in a house, you can not have three short term rental licenses for that property. It's only one for property. So if he if this owner for example builds the 80 you that's another thing he cannot have to wait to use. So if he already has an idea, he's not going to be allowed to build the arena. But he could have a short term rental in one room. Like a short term rental doesn't need to be in NATO. It can be just a room. Yes. Yeah. Okay. In this case, the owner of the property is also registered to vote in Granby. So I'm curious how that. That I don't know how to we can see if the applicant is on line, if he wants to answer that question. But I was not aware of that detail. Okay. So I just wanna make sure you're unclear if this single family house has been divided into a duplex, essentially by having a basement apartment. Would that be an attached adu to you already or what would that be considered? Cannot be divided as a duplex. I mean, so an you can be a basement. Right. So if you. Yes. So he could have an edu. Like if he has a kitchen, a full kitchen in the basement, that would be considered 80. You know, if that's the case, he's not going to be allowed to permit the like the detached accessory dwelling unit. And he knows that. He's aware of that because we always recommend or he should know that I should say, okay, we recommend them to meet with development services to get those details. Okay. So there could only be a single unit and an ADU on the property? Yes. Okay. Thank you. If the owner is there, how could they answer that question as to how do they live in this unit and rent out as an Airbnb, the basement or their living quarters? And would their intent be to use the ADU as a as a short term rental. Name. The floor. Mr. Laffer, did you hear the question? Councilman Flynn, do you want to pose the question? Oh, sorry, I was on. Sorry about that. Yeah. So the my intent is to have the you built so that my elderly mother can live there. My father recently died, and I'm looking to add an extra building on the property for her to be able to move out. She's living with my sister right now in California short term until we can get her additional housing. So that is my aunt. That's. I'm sorry. What's your name? Alex LaFleur. Okay. Now the owner of the property and not Klinghoffer. I have always been the owner of the property of the city of Denver. I made a mistake of the title. I do not live in Granby. I, Carly Klinghoffer does not own the property. I do. So I'm not sure why the website is currently showing that she is the owner. I called the. City today and they made. The change to correct that error. Thank you, Madam President. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Flynn. Councilmember Hines. I thank you. Council President. Ms.. Benefield, the the rezoning will. Considers the five criteria. None of those criteria are about a short term rental are. Is that correct? That is correct. And while there may be a short term rental that is considered later, that is that is something that falls under excise and licenses, not through simply or this this process. That is correct. And while we are hoping that that a property owner will consider their options in advance of a rezoning, it's ultimately the owners prerogative to do that or not. Is that. Is that right? Yes. Anyone. Anyone can apply for a short term rental license. Okay, you are without it, you. And so ultimately, it's the it's the property owners responsibility to follow in this case, follow the five criteria for, you know, the the rezoning or to make sure that the potential rezoning misappropriate five criteria and then later make sure that the property meets the excise and licenses criteria for a short term rental. Should that be in the cards for someone in the future? Correct. Yeah. Okay. So thank you. Thank you. Thoughts, president? All right. Thank you. Councilmember Hines. And seen no other. Councilmember Flynn, you're back in the queue. Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to clarify that my questions were directed at the claim that there already was, in effect, an adult operating on the property. And if that were the case, that would be a different conversation we be having. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Flynn. The public hearing is closed. Comments from members of Council on Council Bill 1072. Councilmember Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. And we all know lots of aid goes to Northwest tember, and we are currently working with this neighborhood or location to see. If they're interested. In doing an entire neighborhood wide rezoning. And so. Given that this meets all the. Criteria, I would like to ask for their support. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval, and agree that this rezoning does meet all of the criteria. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 1072 Ortega. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer, I. Torres, I. Black I. See tobacco i. Far I. Flynn. I. Herndon. Hines. All right. Cashman. I can reach Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes.

A bill for an ordinance reestablishing the board of adjustment and updating board requirements and procedures. Reestablishes the board of adjustment and updating board requirements and procedures. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 1-18-22.

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And we're going to go ahead and move on to our last hearing of the evening. Councilmember Ortega, will you please put Council Bill 20 2-0093 on the floor for final passage? Yes, Madam President, I move that council bill 20 2-0093 be placed upon final consideration and due process. Thank you. Has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 20 2-0093 is open. May we please have the staff report? Hello, Councilmember Kenny. Good evening, colleagues. Playing the role of a staff member today. I am going to drive the PowerPoint. We are going to Co-Present. And so Councilman Sandoval is actually going to kick us off. Good news. And good evening, everyone. Thank you. And thank you for hanging with us. So Councilman Kenny and I are bringing forward an ordinance to reestablish the Board of Adjustment. The zoning code was created in 1923. It was about 15 pages. It talked about height, setback, lot coverages and permitted uses. Now, the zoning code is very complicated. It's about 1500 pages. It talks about building firms, alternative standards, expanded state regulations and modernized community objectives. Next day, this bill will do modernization of the board structure. What's included in this bill is professional preparation for the role. They will be the Board of adjustment. Members will be well trained, they'll be legally prepared, and there'll be consistency, consistency for the community. And we want to make sure that we provide gratitude for the current Board of Board of Adjustment members. They serve a vital role in our zoning code and meet every other week. And it's a very complicated code. I hope I would like to remind all of us that we have two zoning codes in Denver. We have former Chapter 59, and we also have our current 2010 zoning code. Councilman PANITCH So to go into some of the details about the bill that's before you tonight, the first change that will be making is to how the appointments are made. The appointments in the bill before you will be split with the council making two appointments, may you're making two appointments and then one appointment being a joint appointment . We will also split the alternate appointments and the alternates are very important in this sport because currently they are meeting every week. So it's a demanding role in the alternates to serve regularly. You know, the real rationale behind splitting these appointments is we really have distinct roles. We do make zoning laws here in this room and we are that land use authority, but all of the land use decisions on the implementation side are made by the administration. Right. They make all of those day to day decisions, the recommendations that came before you today. And so it's actually really important that we both have a role in appointing this board. And it actually forces us to work together as a member of this council's boards and Commissions subcommittee with Councilwoman Black and Councilwoman CdeBaca on the boards where we have appointments that overlap with the mayor. We coordinate more with the administration on what the qualifications are, making sure we represent the city. It brings a little more scrutiny, and that actually helps us with recruitment, since you have both branches recruiting for the board. So there's a lot of strengths to that. You can see some of the precedents for this type of split appointments in other boards, the boards of ethnic nominating, the Civil Service Commission, the Citizen Oversight Board. We have at least 13 boards that split appointments like this. So it's actually quite common in our own city. It's also a best practice. One of the things we did for each of the things we looked at in this bill before you tonight is to ask what are other cities doing, particularly those that have modernized the same language that we have from from 100 years ago? And so of our ten cities, six have mayoral and four have council appointments. So qualifications it was actually surprising to Councilman Sandoval and I we didn't realize there were no requirements for who would be qualified to serve on this board. Other boards in Denver, the audit committee, the building code board of Appeals landmark. These are really common things when you have a technical board to have some technical qualification requirements. So this bill before you tonight will require that one member at least be an architect. There could be two. Secondly, that that person, a person that either has one of these either urban planning, construction, engineering or development, doesn't need to have multiple doesn't have to, but has to have one of those backgrounds. So it's a broad range of flexibility for those that are recruiting for the board. The third requirement is for an attorney. An admin law is the preference so that this is not about having a land use lawyer on the board necessarily. That's what you U.S. team does, right? Madam Hernandez, they there's a particular attorney assigned to this board to be their attorney. But this is about seeing that the board runs the meeting and they need to have an eye towards things like due process. They need to have an eye towards how they take testimony and evidence. This is a board that takes evidence. It's an appeal process. It is it is as close to judicial as you can get without being a judge. And so having an attorney there that can just have an eye towards that maybe and help as a member of the board to keep a culture that has high legal adherence to the not just the the board of adjustment criteria itself, but also to other legal principles like due process and consistency that are really important. And that could make us as a city liable if the board violates them. So that's really important. This board is a part of the city, and if they violate any laws, the liability falls to us as a city. So having a really good, tight process is really important. So those are the three named criteria, at least one member with each of those, then any remaining members must have a demonstrated interest in land use and zoning. In the past, members have been appointed to this board without experience. That's not a great first experience, right? This is a technical decision making board. They should have some background in zoning. It doesn't mean that they are a practicing professional. It could be that they have been engaged in committees as members of the public. It could be that they have academic background, but they need to have some background in zoning that's demonstrated. So there are a lot of precedents for this in other cities as well. And again, in many cities there is actually a movement away from making these day to day decisions by volunteer boards because codes are so complex because there is a need for consistency. Many cities have moved to professional hearing examiners or having staff make more of the decisions. But of those that still have boards doing this day to day work, there's a number of them that you can see listed here that have requirements. The third change the ordinance is making is to the training we listed out here, the zoning code, legal procedures, the stuff I just talked about in terms of due process, adopted plans. Right. That even though this board is not making policy, it's important for them to understand the policy behind. What it is that they are making decisions on the implementation, appeals for diversity, equity and inclusion. This is a value of this city, the value of this body. And it's important for this board to have training and understanding how their role in particular, you know, needs to be aware of these things. And then the legal network. Right. Many of these federal laws did not exist when this board was created. The ADA didn't exist. Civil rights laws didn't exist for housing didn't exist. They do today. And this board needs to understand how they need to be thoughtful about the types of questions that they ask me, the type of evidence that they're receiving, and making sure that they're compliant with all of those laws. So, again, precedent here, we don't have as much in the city as I might like. If I had two more terms, I might work on some training requirements for all of our boards and commissions. So that's something for those of you who continue on this body might want to think about or the administration that comes next. But we're here today and we should, you know, make sure to fill this gap with this board while we're here. It is a requirement in other cities, Austin being the most robust for all their boards, but also some examples that are just for analogous boards to do zoning. So those are the three main requirements that are changing in the structure of the board. The board will be reestablished with these criteria. And, you know, we've been asked about that question. And the idea here is to have a firm foundation where everyone gets the same training at the same time and they can operate as a uniform board and that we can make sure we have the right balance of all of those qualifications. There is precedent for this in the city in terms of both. Our Sustainability Commission was reseeded as a whole for a new era of our sustainability policy. Our housing committee was reconsidering constituted as a whole. So there is some precedent for this, which is setting a strong foundation. So we do some cleanup in the bill as well. I want to first just remind us, we had a good conversation at committee. The people who might be appealing a decision to this body could be a homeowner or a property owner, and it also could be a neighborhood person. The criteria for an appeal are applied the same no matter who you are. And so what we want to make sure is that those criteria are very clear and they match the intent of the ordinance. So there is some cleanup about the standard of evidence for finding that there was an error. Just as a reminder, these types of appeals are a very small number in front of the board, you know, three, four or five in a year. The vast majority of things they hear are variances. There is not a standard of evidence for a variance. There are a set of different criteria. We're not changing any of those criteria in this bill because they all live in charter. But the criteria for what defines an area for that small number of appeals. We're just changing the language to better match the intent of the ordinance, calling it clear and convincing evidence. That's a term that's used legally to kind of mean deference to the decision maker, which the ordinance does call for. It says that the zoning administrator, we should have deference to her. So so this just matches that language up. And again, that will apply if a developer thinks they were denied something that they want. That will be the standard they have to meet. The same as if someone doesn't agree and a permit was issued, everyone will be having to meet the same standard. Cleaning up the definition of unusual conditions. This is for properties that can't meet the zoning code because maybe the lot size is strange. Maybe there's a river or a natural feature that affects a lot and makes it difficult to do the setbacks or things the way that the normal requirements would be. Or maybe the property itself is is non-conforming and unusual. This unusual conditions included some financial language right in the middle of it. It kind of muddled things. There's a separate section of the ordinance that covers financial things. You can't get a variance just because it's more expensive. That's not an excuse to get a variance, and that's covered elsewhere. It doesn't need to be covered in a section just about the physical criteria of the site. We're making a standard term for the alternates. They had a term somewhere between one and five years in the code. It was a little unusual. The attorneys had not seen a lot of maybe appointed between one in five years. We picked three years. So it's standard for the alternates. And then we also just clarified the attendance criteria. If someone is absent for more than a third of the meetings, that's the current standard for their to be in attendance issue. We made it the same as it is for this body and the same as it is for all other boards and commissions, which is more than three unexcused absences. If you have a serious illness, you can be excused. But if you don't show up. If you don't. Have an excused absence by the chair of this board. You shouldn't miss more than three meetings, and that is standard in many boards and commissions, according to our research. So that is the end of our staff presentation. And I will be available. We'll both be available to answer questions. And then after the hearing. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Councilmembers Meech and Sandoval. And this evening we have seven folks lined up to speak. Our first speaker is Shawn Johnson. You can come up to the podium and if you wouldn't mind introducing yourself and your city or address whichever you feel comfortable providing. Hey. Hey, y'all. I'm Shawn Johnson. I'm from Denver. I live in Councilman Sandoval's district. I'm here to speak in favor of this bill because it makes sense, especially as a first steps towards remedying some of the longstanding issues. Denver residents who have a who have had to present in front of the Board of Adjustments have experienced. It may come as no surprise to those families which have witnessed the board inexplicably reject accept request while also overseeing approving the destruction of some of Denver's most beautiful houses and neighborhoods. Doesn't require any qualifications of or training. I watched testimony from the PowerPoint presentation of this bill and heard how a bill may be a way member testified, how they applied were notified, they'd be appoint, they'd been appointed and were adjudicating cases the next day without even really knowing what's in or required of their powerful position. That's a serious problem because these members hear serious cases that have serious implications on families and businesses and Denver. In my family's experience with the bill, the way we went before them, seeking an additional 95 square feet for the footprint of our EDU project, a new project plan that had been approved. Our city councilperson had been promoted and improved our neighbors. This was a development plan that was aligned with the city's vision, aligned with our district's vision. The additional square space was going to allow our family to enclose the stairway up to the living space so that we could install a chairlift for my mom who was disabled and . At that was trying to recover from me and at the time was trying to recover from a serious health setback. This minimum request was submitted with numerous letters of support to the view away from the Social Security Administration detailing my mother's disabilities. My mother's personal doctor attesting that this housing would be beneficial to her health care. We presented letters of support from three of the four R.A. organizations listed that they'd contacted about our project. Letters from our direct neighbors. Letters from our R.A. in Specific Submitted, which included a unanimous vote by our local neighbors who supported our project. A letter from Denver's Blueprint Task Force member who represented our area as well as our own city councilperson. The bill away, rejected or ignored all of this input. My story may be egregious, but it's not singular. Most people building here in Denver have their own unfortunate story of. Dealing with fraud. That's the time we have a lot of the for each speaker. Each one has 3 minutes. Was that. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. I'm sorry I didn't get to. That, so I. Wanted to brief the guys, but I didn't want to say that I was thankful to the bill or to the city council and I'm sorry for going over time. I didn't know there was. I would have. We can we can call you back up if somebody has a question. So go ahead and please stay. All right. Great. Thank you. On line, our next speaker is LeAnn Anderson. I can hear me. Can you hear me all right? Yes. Awesome. So I just want to say good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you tonight. As you said, my name's Leon Anderson and I am a Denver native and neighborhood advocate. I had the opportunity to present to the BOA on several occasions and have been on both sides of the border decisions as the zoning and land use chair and co-chair for Park Hill. Engagement in the IPO process was why I applied to become a member of the board. I was appointed to serve on the Board of Adjustments as an alternate board member in March of 2019. I'm concerned that as drafted, this bill has the potential to exacerbate the issues the bill is attempting to address. The approach seems counterproductive, unseating the current board in its entirety and replacing them with new board members who may have no knowledge or limited knowledge of the process, has the potential to increase inconsistencies and result in increased complaints from constituents, as well as increased legal liability for the system for the city. New people. Members with the same criteria will likely result in limited process improvement and may very well likely make things worse. I urge you to reconsider the proposal to reestablish the Board of Adjustment Striker from the bill and to focus on modernizing the VOA criteria to meet the needs of a growing city. The current board members have diverse backgrounds and personal experience. Board member terms are staggered and allow for the desire for board member updates to occur naturally over the next two years and allow the necessary time to vet the needed body process. Improvements and training of board members to be. The bill itself provides legal authority for the Board of Adjustment members to be trained to better prepare them to serve in the role and application of the BOA criteria. I also would urge you to require, in the composition of the board in Section E of the bill, to require at least one member to be a neighborhood advocate . Persons who have served on their registered neighborhood organization acted as a zoning or land use chair or co-chair, and presented cases to the Board of Adjustments. Boots on the Ground Experience. And I would also ask that you would consider to add a number five to require all members of the Board of Adjustment to have a demonstrated interest in zoning and land use. I urge you to focus on updating the bio criteria. First and foremost, implore and analyze which VOA approach is best for the city and city and county of Denver, and ensure all citizens are able to serve on the VOA and methodically implement those changes in concert with the. Time we have allocated for each speaker. Our next speaker is Amy SIEGEL. Trying to get you moved over, if you could. Oh, there you go. Go ahead, please. Hi there. Hi, Madam President. My name is Amy Segal. I live in Berkeley neighborhood in northwest Denver. I'm actually speaking on behalf to promote the change to the procedures and processes of the Board of Adjustment. I do believe that it needs to be overhauled as it is not representing the community or the needs of the residents. The VOA members don't have any special training, which I think is important, and we've had first. I have knowledge of how the system does not work. And as an attendee to some of the zoning meetings and also appeal, we have found a lot of inconsistencies that have proven to be detrimental in decisions being made. There were sign up sheets at one of the zoning meetings and the people who came in were not living in the district and were able to sign up, which was inconsistent. They didn't have any proof of residency and where they lived and if it was in the affected area. They should take into consideration the blueprint. Denver in some of the decision making. The experiences that we had were very. Detrimental as far as decisions being made and having alternates on the board and one of our board members recuse themselves. So when 50 residents showed up for a hearing, paid parking took off work. We didn't have a full board there. So those processes did not work in order to have. An. Alternate. And when the alternate did listen to the recordings, it was an antiquated recording. They could not hear nor understood and did not get a clear picture. And while three members of the board voted in favor of our appeal, the alternate voted against, and we were not able to see that through. My career is basically in commercial real estate and having people on the board that have zoning knowledge and. Experience would be beneficial not only for these decisions but for residential, commercial and anything else that takes place in the district. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Our next speaker is Frankie Schulz. The as Henry. Yes. Go ahead. Thanks. Good evening, everybody. First of all, I just want to say thanks for your service. I know it's a thankless job sometimes, and I appreciate what you guys do for the city. I also want to thank the council members that are that that called me back when I reached out about this particular case. I've been honored to serve as a as a volunteer seven years on the Denver Planning Board and as my ninth year on board of Adjustment. And just a quick clarification, Councilman Sandoval, that we meet every week, not every other week. So just a note to listen to in my testimony that we meet every week, 9 a.m., and everybody's committed that i'm the testimony that i'm going to give right now, although it may not make a difference tonight, i'm clear about that. But I wanted to make sure I got it on the record. It's not really so much about me. At this point because I'm off the board very shortly, but it's about my colleagues that I work with every week. I'll also say that I. I support this legislative change. I support the equity component. I think we had more of it and a couple of people got off. That did change that dynamic some. I agree with the training. Different backgrounds. Streamlining the criteria, which is important, and I'll talk about in a minute. Here's the challenge. When we're in there, it's not. Easy. We have criteria. From the city that we have to follow. But each case is different. And if we if we vote against the case, those people aren't happy. And then they call council, they call the mayor, they get upset and calls names. And I'm sure you guys understand that with things, that decision you guys make. So that's a real challenge for us. And I'm going to play onto what Lianne said, that one of the biggest things, the focus should be around this, especially when I listen to Councilman Kennish and a lot of the the reasons for the change, they seem. Very. About the people that are on the board as opposed to as opposed to the criteria. The criteria is what's heart. Hear sometimes because we have to follow a criteria. I'm running out of time. So I got to be quick here. There is a case and Mr. Johnson was there. I challenge anybody to look at the time, to look at the details of that case, because it's not exactly like he said. And to be honest with you, I voted for it, but still got dragged through the wringer on a bunch of investigations of how we are. We're prejudiced to the different cases. So, you know, it's a tough thing when somebody doesn't get approved. I get that. We do our best to grant a variance. When it's needed for minimal minimal for for minimal thing they need to do to get that variance. And that stairwell and closure was not the problem on that. But but furthermore, what's more important is that the that I, I also I also want to say this. I would challenge the knowledge of our board, which a lot of it was learned the hard way. And I'm for the training. But a current understanding of the zoning code to anyone. Including everybody sitting on council. Because we have people that dig very deep. And and know a lot about zoning. I'm fine having formally trained. I get that. Okay. Thank you. So that's the time we have allotted for each speaker. You got it. Thank you. Somebody asked me a question because the only thing. Thank you. We're going to go ahead and move on to our next speaker. We've got Joel Noble. Good evening. Counsel. Go ahead, please, Joel. It. Can you hear me all right? Yes. Thank you very much. My name is Joel Noble. I live in the Curtis Park neighborhood within the five point statistical area. Although I do volunteer as on a number of roles, I am speaking tonight only on my own behalf, and I'm here to speak in favor of this first step to reestablish and modernize the Board of Adjustment for Zoning Appeals. As a community member, I've paid attention to the Board of Adjustment for many years, going with my neighborhood on matters, having peer to peer input with others, whether they were someone bringing an appeal such as a variance or responding either for or against as a neighborhood. And I've seen a lot of cases. I've formed a lot of opinions about how things work and been able to help folks through this process. So when I heard this came up, I had a lot of questions and I want to thank Councilwoman Keech, Councilwoman Sandra Ball and Tina at our zoning administrator for spending time with me to answer all of my questions as the final decision makers on these important appeals, most often for variance, sometimes for other matters. It makes sense to me that we update the appointment qualifications and training requirements for this board, as well as the important clarifications that Councilwoman Keech talked about. It's my understanding that existing Board of Adjustment members will be invited to apply along with other applicants, and, and I hope they will be considered. My my understanding is also that beyond the action considered tonight, there's a second step and this gets what I think both the existing Board of adjustment members earlier spoke to modernizing the criteria especially the with the variance criteria, we put the board of adjustment in a very difficult position. And on the one hand, we need the intent of the zoning code to be upheld and we need it to be flexible when there's a true hardship. But I think the criteria we have written in the zoning code for hardship, other than specific cases of personal disability or a very unusual light configuration, pretty objective, are very challenging. And I can understand that the Board of Adjustment has to find their own way because we collectively as a city and then the criteria we give them don't give a lot of guidance. And so I'd like to see this next phase, and I've given a lot of input to the sponsors as to things that might be covered, results in a clearer process that everyone understands better, including the public, that the same facts will reach the same decision reliably because it has transparency and clarity . But this as a first step I think the council sponsors are bringing forward. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jonathan Capelli. Okay. Everyone hear me? Hello. Go ahead, Jonathan. Okay, great. Thank you, Madam President. My name is Jonathan Capelli, the executive director of the Neighborhood Development Collaborative, a coalition of 19 affordable housing organizations serving about 30,000 households across metro Denver. I am speaking today in support of S.B. 93, and there are three main reasons why we support this bill. One is the professionalization of the body. And two is the enhanced training requirements. And three is a sort of rebalancing of appointment power. Professionalization is really important because our land use policies are very complex and the only way to demystify complexity is with knowledge. It's also really important, though, to balance expert knowledge with community voices. So we're pleased to see that the bill's. Sponsors ensure a guaranteed mix. Of subject matter experts and informed laypersons. We also think these measures so we think that these measures will then lead to the flexible and nuanced guidance of the creation of our built environment that the city needs. We need the members with the technical expertize. To interpret both the spirit and the letter of our. Code and other documents in order to ensure that the values coded within are reflected in their decisions about it. Land is getting scarcer, costs are rising, and this causes development proposals by necessity to become increasingly unorthodox. So a wise and informed interpretation of a variance request is an appeal that's necessary to ensure that affordable housing and other community benefiting uses essential to the city are actually created. We also feel that training is incredibly important, as others have spoken, to ensure that both members are up to date on the complex, legal and zoning concepts that the code is replete with, and also ensures that BLM member, VOA members of the future understand the impact of their actions on things like racial equity. Land use decisions have arguably had the single greatest impact on the history, on the history of how our country and the city have become less of a melting pot and more of a sort of a cafeteria trade all divided up. When it comes to people of different races and ethnicities and incomes and how they're distributed across the city. Finally, we also appreciate the balance of government appointment power. We thank the current VOA members for their volunteer service over the years. Sounds like a tough job. However, today, simply put, we have election season approaching, so having such a consequential quasi judicial branch that's decided only by one branch of government without any stopgaps places it in danger of being politicized over future administrations. So these proposed changes will finally let the body match the precedent of ten of our peers, cities, and most of Denver's other decision making committees in their practice requiring cross cross-brand split sort of appointing power. So in short, we see that this unifying way decision making landscape that the VOA will face over the coming years is more complex than it was in the fifties and never more consequential. So to rise to the challenge of the future. We do ensure it has a diversity. This time we have allocated. We're going to go ahead and move to our last speaker this evening, Brian Connelly. Thank you. Council President Gilmore. My name is Frank Connelly, as many of you know. I'm a land use planner and land use lawyer with the firm of Otten Johnson here in Denver. And I'm also a Denver resident. I in addition to my day job, I teach land use law at both the University of Colorado Law School and at the University of Denver Law School. And the function of the Board of Adjustment and Variances and Appeals are one of the first things that I teach in an introductory land use course. So the function of the Board of Adjustment is very important and very fundamental to land use law into the function of zoning in our city . In my day job, I've had the opportunity to appear before the current Board of Adjustment and Prior Boards of Adjustment on many occasions. And they they do perform a very important role. And I think that the current members of the board have done a remarkably good job of performing that role. Despite the challenges of the role, as you've already heard about this evening. I am in support of the changes that are proposed by council member candidates and council members and of all. And it's really for two reasons. First, I appear before decision making bodies, including city council all around the state, and I've observed that decision making bodies that have a robust training regimen as part of their their process, I think perform their functions in an incredibly professional manner. And so I'm very supportive of the notion of additional training for Board of Adjustment members. I think it's incredibly important given the challenges of that position. And then secondly, I think the fact that we would introduce some requirements that Board of Adjustment members be well credentialed in the area in which they are required to make decisions, I think is a good move. Certainly the other boards in the city that council member mentioned that have credential requirements, I think those boards function very well and those board members bring an important perspective to their decision making authority. So I do applaud the sponsors of the bill for taking this additional step. I agree with some of the other speakers regarding the need for modernization and some of the criteria. I do think the current board members for their service and they've done a good job and I am in support and urge council to. Pass this bill. Thanks. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 0093 Councilmember Sawyer. Things on a President. I have a couple of quick questions, but first, I wanted to just allow there was two speakers that couldn't finish. So you're one of them? Yeah. And then I think there was one on line as well. And I would love to just maybe give them another minute to just wrap up. I really don't think it's an end or a five year anniversary. And we decided to come here to. Happy anniversary. And to speak on this issue instead of just going out to dinner and have something wonderful. So I do it in a do reintroduce yourself for the public record. My name is Shawn Johnson. I'm sure you all familiar with my family's story. I'll try to send you the videos of our hearing. I've tried to contact you. I've tried to speak out. Our family is not trying to demonize any members of the body who try to speak tonight. We think it's important that the city be prepared. As especially as Councilwoman Candace pointed out there, there's a liability issue here that these members are representing the city and that they are not familiar with housing laws, equity laws. The vision of the city, the planning, development of different communities. And that they are not even in the position to sort of here pay attention to are required to adhere to the input that they get from particular communities. This is a simple bill that just makes sense. And I'm really proud of the City Council of Denver for hearing an issue that is not just my own. As I tried to reach out to everybody that existed when this was happening to my family, because it meant that we were going to be displaced from our home and potentially displaced from Denver. While only trying to create a safe, healthy spot for my mom, for our family. That was a huge issue, one that we couldn't ignore. And as I reached out to everyone, almost every department, almost every individual that I spoke to could speak to an issue with this boy and how it functions. So I think that this was a really productive thing and a great thing that you all did to address an issue that is affecting residents and particular developers, everyone in this city. And it's simple. It's asking that people who have a huge power, a huge influence in our city, be trained and be qualified. That's not that's not huge. It's not controversial. These are basic things. And I hope that you guys will support this bill and support the deadline that would require a new board to be set, because the current members are, I think, jeopardizing not all of them. I don't want to say that, but there are members on this board who are jeopardizing this city. Period. I mean, they're jeopardizing the city. The consequences that can come out of their decisions are jeopardizing. The city are going to take money from this city that could go to other issues, important issues, creating housing as opposed to the potential lawsuits and liability that might exist. So I think this is a simple solve, especially as a first step to to start to create change and to start to create a progress that's going to be important for our city. And I thank you for the additional time. I don't want to say too much, but I I'm thankful. It's not a lot of times that you have a problem and you see your government, you see your city immediately sort of respond to it, I think, in a kind, generous way. And this was, I thought, a gracious way to sort of address the issue while also giving the members of this board an opportunity to sort of step down without anybody in particular being called out, anybody in particular being told you have to go for this reason? It's just a gracious way for our city to move forward and in a progressive way, in the right way, and that aligns with our values. Right now, the VOA is even allowed to align with new values that our city is putting forth. And this is a great thing to do, and I hope that you guys will support it because it's it's simple as asking for them to be qualified and for them to be trained. Awesome. Thank you so much. And I believe there was a gentleman online as well who had a few more points I think you wanted to make. Maybe it was Frank Schultz. We yep. We've got Frank. Schultz thinking. Of moving in. I really, really appreciate you. Let me at least get these closing statements and obviously being on the board for nine years. I've got a lot to say. And but I did say I supported this bill. And the point. I didn't get to yet was. Is that you got all these people that serve that that have worked really hard and don't have a prejudice bias at all. They look at the cases. They have tough decisions to make. They try not to play in the gray. But as even Ms.. Sawyer said earlier that we have to look at each case individually. And I'm telling. You, from knowing these people for a long time. They're all good people that are. Judge in these cases because of color, because of sexual orientation. They're judging them because of the stuff that's in front of them. And maybe we had to learn the hard way. Of how to of how to understand zoning, how to understand the different what we can and can't do and the criteria. But well, I've been on there a long time. And if training is we I support the training, you know, but we should have. The opportunity to do it. I know we can reapply, but I. Think there's three people that. Are turning now. There's one that resigned and there's. So it really. Leaves us two that are that have a few years left. But here's the main point is that. The people that are on this board and I'm off and I'm done. But the people that were on this board, I was shocked that they should be able to serve the. Rest of their term because it's only going to be a couple of them. And it helps Austin, the director. Make his transition. And I just it's very hurtful. I was on a meeting with them today before, and I literally had two or four board members that were that were beside themselves when I'm crying, because they've put all this time in nine to noon and they put all this time in and and this is about criteria. If we want to tighten it up, we the criteria. Let's not prejudiced people and we're not against training. We agree with different backgrounds and the. Requirements here actually maybe except the attorney have have pretty much been there since. I've been on the board for nine years. They've just happened to be that way. So anyway, that's there's so much more to say sort of in nine years on this board and and really we all feel like or actually I'm gonna speak for four, five of the seven board members but the rest I just what they weren't on the meeting. Today is we all feel like although we're in support of a lot of these changes that our. Time wasn't valued and you could. Say it, well, we're done. Council gets to speak, you can say, Hey, we appreciate your time. Yeah, you served our city. But you know what? The damage is done if you just throw everybody off and put a new board on because that's what you're saying. Is there the problem, not the changes in the legislation and the criteria? So I'm as lawyer, thank you for letting me finish. And that's all I got. So. I appreciate your perspective. Thank you for sharing it. And and I do want to make sure that I certainly can't speak for other council members, but I think they will all agree with me when we say thank you for your service. We certainly understand how difficult your job is and, you know, appreciate what this must feel like to current board members. So thanks for sharing that perspective. Just one question, Councilwoman Kennedy, I guess, for you and Councilwoman Sandoval while the new board is being convened, should this pass tonight. What is the transition plan? Will. Will the former board continue to? I know we've got lots of things going on and people are, you know, very concerned about the length of time that it takes to get things approved, etc.. So what what's the interim plan? Thank you for the question, Councilwoman Sandoval, and thank you also for letting our two speakers finish. We have a timeline in the appendix of the document that's in your legislative system, and we're actually beginning work this week. So we, as a council boards and commissions workgroup have already discussed, you know, getting recruitment to begin. The mayor's office is already discussing recruitment. So those conversations have begun pending this passing tonight. We have a meeting with the staff for the Board of Adjustment to talk about the training plan that includes some of the agencies that will be involved, including like H.R., for example. You know, we want to add some flesh to the bones of the the training conversation so that, for example, we can maybe have it videoed so it can be consistent. The goal is to have all of the appointments completed by the end of April and then be able to have the month of May for training. And the anticipation is it would be a combination of some self-study materials that will be provided by the agencies along with some, you know, live trainings. Whether that's live in-person or live on Zoom, I can't tell you today, but the idea that the board members would have time together and then they would begin meeting in June. You know, we're we're aware if you know, it is our sincere hope. We we do appreciate the service of this board. And I'll talk more about that in my comments. But it's our hope that the board members will continue to serve through through through the end of May until the new board takes over . You know, we did have someone resign and the administration is responsible still for the appointments. And so they're working on that. A replacement we. So so that's the plan for this phase I was going to because this hearing is only on this bill. I didn't get into some of the discussions about the other conversation. I'll do that again in my comments. But I think I'm answering your question as it pertains to this interim for what happens with this bill. I yeah, exactly. Yeah. Thanks so much. I think that's it. Thanks, Madam President. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Sawyer and Councilmember Canete. Next up, we have Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. First, I want to thank Councilwoman Sandoval in Councilwoman each for their work on this over time. I've worked on many projects that have gone before the Board of Adjustment, and it's not always a clear process, especially for residents who experience it for a first time and really are trying to figure out how to navigate through that process. The one question that came up from a comment that Joel Noble made about current members being able to re-apply is there they'll be given the same timeline notification as anybody else and they'll be encouraged to apply, correct? Yeah, I can take that one. Thank you, Councilman Ortega. Councilman Kenny and I met with all of the current board members and the two alternates and informed them of the ordinance and told them that if they so desire that they can reapply. So when we open up the positions, they'll be notified as well. Okay. I think that's all I have. So thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 0093 and wanted to give our sponsors, Councilwoman Meech and or Sandoval the opportunity to go first since you sponsored this. Thank you, Madam President. And thank you to the speakers who are here tonight. I'd like to start my comments by, you know, really addressing and responding to to the speakers who are here, because I think that basically our speakers tonight were a microcosm of the stakeholders we talk to through this process. And all of you were heard. I want to make clear, first of all, Mr. Johnson and Amy, who spoke, had particular cases with outcomes they were not pleased with. And I heard you I heard your stories. But I also want to be really clear that no one case prompted this bill. In fact, questions and, you know, thinking about what this board's history was and how it compared to other cities began before some of the cases that we're talking about tonight in the testimony. So there is no one case. There's no one decision. This was really about slowly becoming more aware of the board and that the differences between the board and some of the best practices that are emerging in other cities and and what those differences could be addressed. And honestly, this conversation really began with what every speaker tonight talked about, which was the criteria. It began with what have we given this board to work with? And I want to start, I guess, by you know, that that discussion by saying with humility, we have as a city has haven't done well by this board. They are using the same criteria from 1924 to determine whether a property, you know, or a project needs a variance. That's not okay. And it's not okay because our values as a city aren't always served. We don't have, for example, a criteria that says this will save a 100 year old tree in the canopy that we value for our environment. We probably don't have enough criteria to help us save old buildings. I've said numerous times you can always meet the zoning code perfectly if you scrape something and start from scratch. But if our values are to keep old, awkward buildings that don't fit with the zoning code, we probably need variance criteria that work better . And I want to just acknowledge what the board members who testified today and those we talked to said, which is we have given them an impossible job. We've given them a job to try to create just outcomes with very awkward criteria. One group of people we didn't hear well we heard from one tonight is people who testified. We haven't actually been as clear as we could be with our community that these are not policy debates. It's not about the opinions and feelings of communities in the same way that those discussions occur in this chamber sometimes. These are technical conversations about whether criteria are met. So we set up our community with expectations that it's about counting the number of speakers or how much support there is, when in fact the board is given criteria that don't really make those relevant pieces of evidence. So while we give, you know, these board members this very tough job, it became clear that we have improvements that we can make. And those improvements almost all led back first to the charter. And so tonight's presentation was about those things within our ability to change by ordinance only. But we will have that second conversation. And that second conversation will be an attempt to address the feedback of every speaker who spoke tonight, whether they were community or board members or developers or neighborhood leaders that we got to look at and modernize those criteria. But in that process, we also learned that we didn't have the best structure we could. And so our attempt to both take some immediate action that can help us come in a better prepared way for the situation we're in, but then expeditiously have that conversation about the bigger picture issues that folks raise. So so that's what really came together in Councilwoman Sandoval and his decision to work together on first this bill and then the conversation that follows. It was really to try to set the stage and to really get to an outcome that maybe requires less confusion, because maybe some of these things could be decided in a much more administrative way. And that is the trend in other cities. Right. We could do better education. We're going to share with the staff of this board the feedback we got. We should have maybe some information or videos for folks who might appear before the board so they get some better preparation. There are things we can do as a city to support this board that we haven't done previously. So the good news about a focused conversation is we learn things we can change in the ordinance and we learn things we can change in the practices that don't require an ordinance change. So we'll do our best to support both conversations. I just want to say thank you to all the stakeholders who met with us, only a small portion who are here tonight. And I want to thank you, John Griffin from the Legal Council, his predecessor, Kirsten, and others from the CPD staff, Tina and Abe, who really answered our questions and worked with us as well. It was a great team effort to try to get the information. I want to thank the staff of the BOA in addition to the board members who spoke with us as well. Their feedback is all going into that next conversation. So thank you and I'll pass it to my co-sponsor. Thank you, Councilwoman Leach. Councilwoman Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. As I was thinking about the Board of Adjustment, I was also calling out our five criteria in our zoning code. And so I just want to say that when I'm looking at equity and I'm looking at due process in city, when it comes to land use, I take being the land use commissioner very seriously and I take it's one of our biggest responsibilities because we usually have rezonings every night. And so I just want to make it clear that I was not just calling out due process on the Board of Adjustment and Antiquated Systems. I'm also calling out antiquated systems on our five criteria that we vote on here. And therefore CPD reacted and we have a task force. I've looked at ADU standards throughout the city as we rezone neighborhoods, and so CPD reacted. And we have a task force for accessory dwelling units. And this was one area of the charter that allowed city council to have due process to modernize this. This board, when I was talking to people and we were giving our presentations and I made and the fact that the zoning has not changed since 1956, I thought about all of the changes that have happened in Denver since 1956, and to not have updated a board since 1956 is a failure of our system. And so with that, I just ask all my colleagues to think about all of the changes that you can think of since 1956 and how important it will be to modernize this board and bring it up to a new type of criteria. And really, to have training makes our city better. We put these five members and the two alternates every week. We ask them to do and make legal case law with no training and so therefore we make them vulnerable as well. So I think that this is a win win for the entire city and I ask for my colleagues support. And I would just also like to thank all of the speakers. Thank you for spending your 50 year anniversary here with us. I couldn't. I'm a zoning geek, so I couldn't think of a better way to spend it. I appreciate your coming in and saying that you don't often hear a complaint in the city react. And so thank you for your comments. And thank you for the board members comments. Thank you for the mayor's office working with us. And thank you for CPD, Tina and your staff. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. Councilmember Hines. Thank you. Council president. I want to thank the sponsors of this bill. I want to thank also the members of the Board of Adjustment for all their hard work over so long period of time. I also want to thank Catherine, percent of all for calling out the five criteria. I agree with you. Any change to comments that I want to make? First, as a civil rights advocate for people with disabilities, I want to thank the sponsors for including the EEI principles diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion. I'm an elected official today because I perceived discrimination against those with disabilities that led to multiple passed laws at the state level law with my name on it and a successful campaign for city council. Second comment that I wanted to make is I've served on numerous boards, some more effective than others, including the Denver Commission for People with Disabilities appointed by our Mayor. Current Mayor. The current Advisory Council for Persons with Disabilities. Appointed by the Governor. A Health Care and Policy. Health Care Policy and Finance. State Board appointed by the Senate President at the time. President Grantham. Denver. Dumb friendly. Clever. Still museum. And the common thread that I see is that having a matrix makes a lot of sense for boards and commissions, and the most effective boards that I've served on have had a matrix. And based on my personal experience and based on the research I've completed for attending or being participating in those boards and for this discussion, I am really excited that we are adding a bit more meat to the to the process. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilmember Hines. And I'll wrap up. I want to sincerely thank Councilwoman Canete and Sandoval for taking this work on and the public who stayed and testified tonight. It was really helpful to hear that testimony. And then I want to thank the current members of the board for their service and recognizing that change is hard. Change is never easy, no matter what. And I support these changes. But there is still the opportunity for current board members to reapply, to continue serving. And I think the training opportunity, the opportunities for us to modernize are so important and this is important work and we've got more work to do. But this is an important first step and I am happy to support it this evening. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 20 20093, please. See CdeBaca. Can each. I. Sandoval. I swear, I. Torres, I swear I can't. All right. Fine. I. Herndon. Hi. Hi. Cashman. Ortega. I. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 hours, 12 Eyes Council Bill 20 2-0093 has passed. On Monday, March 21st, Council will hold a required public hearing on 20 2-0160, changing the zoning classification for 3759 North Industry and 3760 North Jason Street and Highland.

AN ORDINANCE relating to staffing shortages in the Community Safety Communications Center and the Seattle Police Department; retroactively authorizing a one-month hiring bonus incentive program for hiring 911 dispatchers and police officers; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

SeattleCityCouncil_03012022_CB 120272

Agenda item to the Council Bill one 2272 Relating to staffing shortages in the Community Safety Communication Center and the Seattle Police Department retroactively authorizing a one month Irene bonus incentive program for Harry 911 dispatchers and police officers and ratifying confirming certain prior acts. Thank you. I move to pass council bill 120272. Is there a second second? It's been moved and seconded and let's move forward. Casper Herbert, this is yours. It's all you. He said it's council bill 1202 72 provides retroactive approval for $220,000 in bonuses for five police officers in 14 901 dispatchers who are hired during the month of January 20, 22. Last October, former mayor issued an emergency order to provide for hiring bonuses for officers and dispatchers. Council allowed that emergency order to go forward, but voted to modify the emergency order to limit on his program the end of 2021. No funding was included in the 2022 budget. There were proposals for for funding a bonus program, including one that I co-sponsored. Council adopted a request for a report. Mark would be due on March 1st on a potential citywide bonus program and voted and the emergency order again at the end of 2021. Spoke to the mayor's office about yesterday and we are carefully examining this issue and have let us know that we can expect receive a report on a city wide program in mid-March. To the saga of the n uary extension. Contrary to the council's action. I just want to note that for the for the public record that the departments continued the bonuses after receiving a directive from the former mayor on December 30th, 6 p.m., claiming that the council's action limit executive order was not accurate . And the U.S. Attorney's Office has noted that they provided no such advice and we may not know what more can mean. We wrote based on consultations with legal counsel, it has been concluded the city council's action to limit the emergency order were not effective. I discovered in late January that is incentive was still being offered. I really sincerely appreciate that. Seattle Police Department, with Diaz's direction, provided Mayor Durk and Senator direct of us exactly as soon as I inquired about the situation of the bonuses. And I thank the Herald administration immediately in both departments to cease offering the bonuses as soon as they found out about this. We are committed to working together to ensure the officers and partners for the bonus are provided with it and this legislation is the result. I'm very grateful the administration is taking a collaborative approach to governing is a relief. Have a mayor and an administration that recognizes council support as we work to resolve together. If you cancel a rehearsal, are there any comments or concerns before? If I do need to suspend the rules, which I don't see that happening yet, are there any comments or questions or concerns for cast member her? Okay. I see none. So with that, I no need to suspend the rules. Will the clerk please call the role of the passage of the bill? That's my brother. Is there still a debate happening here? Yeah. You came in a little late. Do you want to speak? You can. I just wasn't quite sure if we were asking questions of central stuff first. Well, I was I got a move to suspend the rules to do that, but I didn't see anyone raise their hand. Okay, now we got to. Okay. So do you have questions for Councilmember Herbold or do you have questions for Ali Petrucci. And some questions for Central satisfy me. Okay. So let me move to suspend the rules so we can allow Ms.. Pinochet to respond. If there's no objection, the council rules will be suspended to allow the new acting director for central staff to address any questions or concerns council any council member may have. All right. See? No objections. The rules are suspended. Go ahead, Casper Mosqueda. Thank you very much. And I did see Councilmember Morales's hand up first before me. I'm happy to wait my turn as well. Okay. Thank you very much, Councilmember Herbold, for the summary of this legislation either. The important thing here, I think, to underscore is that this legislation is not something that was council driven. This is the council trying to be responsive to a situation that's been forced upon this council yet again by the previous mayor. The mayor, former Mayor Durkan, who adopted an emergency order on October 29 of last year, offered dance and bonuses as counts, as Councilmember Herbal noted. But I think what's important to note is that it's very clear that council had expressed that we would be voting to modify that ordinance on November 22nd. In addition to that, I want to just ask Ali Punchy a question about the specific provisos that were placed not on the Community Safety Communications Center, but on the Seattle Police Department. Ali, can you please from excuse me, Deputy Director Fiduciary, could you please remind me about how the letter that was sent on December 31st by the mayor violates what the council had put in place regarding provisos on Seattle Police Department spending. Thank you. Good afternoon. Council President whereas chair mosquito council members and the I don't have the letter in front of me, but in general, when the Council adopted the 2022 budget, they also adopted a resolution modifying the emergency order that former Mayor Durkan had issued authorizing the hiring incentives. The modification to that emergency order only provided authorization to provide hiring incentives to speed officers, as well as DCC dispatchers through the end of 2021. And the assumption was that they would use 2021 salary savings to cover those costs. It did not provide any authorization to offer hiring incentives beyond that date. In addition, the budget adoption ordinance imposed a proviso on Spd's 2022 budget prohibiting the use or the spending of any salary savings that they might achieve in 2022 on any for any purpose without authorization from the Council. So what that means is there was a budget provided for the assumed staffing plan for SPD for 2022. Any sort of delay in hiring or not filling positions results in some salary savings. SPD does not have authorization to spend any of those salary savings unless specific authority is provided by the Council. So that means when Mayor Former Mayor Durkan issued a letter to the Seattle Police Department and the Community Safety and Communication Center, directing them to continue giving the hiring incentives, it was both in violation of the emergency order that the Council had modified, as well as the proviso, because there was no budget authority for SPD to provide those the payments of hiring incentives in it. So so in this bill, what it does is it says that it provides retroactive authority only for those offers made in January of 2022 and allows provides the authority to spend $50,000 of spd's salary savings to make those payments. The CSC does not need that same authority because the Council did not restrict the use of salary savings as long as they are generally using the funds consistent with the intent of the budget summary level that those funds were appropriated to the CSU. So you can just make the payments for speedy needed authority from the council. Thank you. Energy customers are Moscow. Did you have any follow up before I go to Cast Member Morales? Well, I did have one follow up, if I might, Madam President. You know, when I looked at this legislation and again, I want to I want to note the unfortunate situation that we're in. I don't think it's fair to the employees who've been offered employment or a hiring bonus. And it's not fair to this council who was very clear about our intent, both related to policy and the specific provisions placed on the provisos within Seattle Police Department. And I'm thankful to those who've accepted employment offers and want to serve as public servants to the city of Seattle. But wanted to be clear that we had provisions in place expressly trying to have a policy conversation around hiring bonuses for this year that Councilmember Herbold had noted and also on budgetary, had intentionally had a proviso that was in scope intending to really keep an eye on Spd's funding. So as we look at Seattle Police Department specifically in recognizing that's only about $50,000 of the total amount here. I did ask central staff it was possible to amend the legislation to recoup the specific amount that is being offered for individuals to a city. From the author of that letter, being the former mayor is correct that the existing title does not allow for me to make that type of amendment this and this ordinance here today. So did you have a question of Miss Bonacci, or are those your general comments in regards. Know that that last sentence was a question? Deputy Director If an issue, is that correct, that I cannot amend today's legislation given the current title? That is correct. The title doesn't account for that scenario, and we would need to do additional work to understand if that is legislatively possible to do. That's my questions, Councilperson. Okay, good. Thank you. Councilman Morales. Thank you. Council president, I. I think. Councilmember points covered what I wanted to ask and just want to state that I look forward to working with the mayor who understands and respects the separation of powers and brings some management experience to the executive branch. Thank you. Okay. So now that we have suspended the rules, allowed council members to ask questions of the acting director, Ali Panaji, are there any other general comments before I call? Ask the clerk to call the roll or the vote. Oh, healthcare mosquito. Thank you very much. Again, I want to thank the chair of finance as his vice chair of finance, chair public safety for the work that she's doing here. And the senior deputy mayor, along with the Herald administration for quickly calling attention and a stop to this practice, echoed Councilmember Morales's sentiment of the importance of equally important but separate branches of government working together on these issues moving forward. I will continue calling to see what we can do to look for other ways to recoup the expenses specific to SVT. But in this legislation, it doesn't sound like it's possible to do that. I do think it's in on the factors that led us to this decision today are really unacceptable and look forward to addressing those with your colleagues and the current mayor in a different venue. Not supportive of how we got here, but due to the position that we're in, I will be supporting this in this moment, but we'll be looking forward to having greater reconciliation on both the finances and the policy that led us here after today. Member Herbold, is there anything else you want to add before we go to the vote? Over to you. Okay. Thank you. So will the clerk please call rule on the passage of the bill? Councilmember Lewis? Yeah. Councilmember Morales. As Councilmember Mosqueda Councilmember Nelson. I. Councilmember Peterson. I. Councilmember Strouse. Yes. Councilmember Herbold. Yes. And Council President Suarez. I n favor and unopposed. Thank you. The motion carries. The bill passes. The chair will sign it. And will the clerk please affix my signature to the bill? Let's move on to item number three for Councilmember Nelson. Madam Clerk, will you please read item number three into the record?

Recommendation to request City Attorney to draft an urgency ordinance for review at the February 18, 2020 City Council meeting, to address the Substantial Remodel loophole in the Tenant Protection Act. Additionally, temporarily prohibition on no fault notices for substantial remodel until February 18, 2020.

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Councilman Mongo. Ocean carries. Thank you. Let's go ahead and read item 16, please. Communication from Councilwoman Zendejas, Councilmember Pierce, Councilman Austin. Recommendation to request the city attorney to draft an urgency ordinance for review at the February 18th, 2020 City Council meeting to address the substantial remodel loophole in the Tenant Protection Act. There's a motion in a second councilman's in the house. Yes. Amna, go ahead. And one of the reasons why I did this motion is because I've been getting a lot of a lot of residents coming to the first District with with eviction notices and fearful that they're being evicted unfairly in the interests of trying to keep things balanced and making sure that everybody is protected under the loophole of the 1482. I decided to really bring this item so that, you know, recommending the city staff to draft an ordinance. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and reiterate right here what I have. The Tenant Protection Act also called the 1482, which passed in California and legislator last year and went into effect on January 1st , includes a key provision that protects renters from no fault evictions. Essentially, in most cases, a landlord must demonstrate a breach of the terms or lease by the tenant in order to evict them. Just a case in which a no fault evictions are still allowed under the law is in the owners discretion described to significantly remodel the units in the case they are evicted the current tenant to it, you know, in order to ask the tenant to leave the tenant protection. AP 1482 states that the remodel must be significant enough to require construction permits, but it doesn't require the permits actually to be pooled or for the landlord to describe the nature of the remodels. The exact language should be the replacement of of substantial modifications of any, any structural electronico, electronic plumbing or mechanical system that requires a permit from a government agency or. Abate. Hazardous materials, including lead based paint, mold or asbestos, is in accordance with the applicant applicable federal, state and local laws that cannot be reasonably accomplished in a safe manner with the tenant in place. And that requires the tenant to vacate the resident's real property for for at least 30 days. Cosmetic improvements alone, including painting, decorating and minor repairs or other work that can be performed safely without having the tenant leave. The proper gym or vacate the property do not qualify for substantial rehabilitation. The item should required landlords obtain the permit. To construction prior to posting the notice to vacate and include those notices in the nature of the remodeling being done and copy of the permit when presented to the tenant. This does not change the law or policy and it's the rent control in any way, shape or form. All that it does is that it clarifies the existing law and helping bring landlords into compliance with the with the ordinance or with the law by asking them to demonstrate the legal requirements for significantly remodeling before tenants received notice to vacate. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Customer Pierce. Do you want to do public comment or do you want to go ahead and make comments first? We can do public comment first. And then we'll come back. You can come on our behalf. I'll comment. Now, I'm going to be brief. I think that this is a, you know, a great item that doesn't touch with the state laws already put into place. It makes sense that before we uproot families, before children are taken out of their schools and have to move neighborhoods, that we are making sure that the landlords do their part first, which is taking out that permit first. I think I want to thank the councilmember for leading on her first housing item, and I look forward to hearing from our community members and I hope everybody will support this. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. I do have a list of speakers. So we have over ten speakers who will be going down in 90 seconds. And we'll start I'm going to call the first. If you can, please come forward and line up as I call your name, please. So the first five speakers in this order are Hall Stewart, Gretchen Swanson, Hilda Delgado, Katie Douma and Jordan Winn, Hala Stewart, Gretchen Swanson. Hill of the Gotto Katie DOMA or Kate DOMA. Jordan. Jordan Wynn, please. Alice, please. Good Mayor and council. I am speaking in favor of passing this. To close this loophole. Because, by the way. I'm a homeowner here in Long Beach. I'm not a cat. But I believe that justice has to be for all of us, not for part of us, and not just for landlords or not just for tenants. And this closing this loophole will provide the city with a situation where it can hold its head high and sell. So, yes, we are trying to provide justice and equality for tenants in a way that allows them to develop their families, to be part of our community and feel proud of that. So please do pass this and let's close this loophole and make it better for everyone. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Speaker, please. Good evening. I'm Gretchen Swanson in Rose Park, area of District two. First, I want to thank Councilmember Santos for this leadership. Had you not done this, we wouldn't be able to understand the ramifications of a tiny loophole. The loophole has legal implications, loopholes. We hear about tax loopholes and people sort of shudder. They don't want to be, you know, caught in a loophole, but it allows for discretion that does not follow the spirit of the legislation or the regulation. So we know in January of this year we got greater, better tenant protections around California. Yes, but very quickly, an unforeseen loophole here. So my position is requiring permits that meet the standard of substantial remodeling is needed. I, for one, do not want to see landlords prevented from doing this type of remodeling. We have many properties in the city that need substantial remodeling and have for years. This simple and single correction protects both the tenants and the landlords for secure and safe housing. We need to close the loophole and protect our tenant community in Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you, Nick. Speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Helder. Then I'm the district director for Senator Lena Gonzalez, and I am reading this letter on her behalf. Dear Mayor Garcia and council members are right in support of Item 16 tenant protection substantial remodel loophole on the Long Beach City Council agenda for today. It is critical that the city does everything it can to ensure tenants are not wrongfully displaced. Last year, I was proud to vote in support of the California Tenant Protection Act of 2019 to provide a statewide rent cap and just cause eviction protections. Due to the timing of implementation, many cities, including Long Beach, pass emergency ordinances to prevent displacement of current tenants before the law went into effect on January 1st, 2020. Now, many tenants have received notices to vacate properties for what land owners consider substantial remodels without a sincere effort to perform those improvements. The original intent of the law was to provide tenant protections and prevent unwarranted evictions, yet it had it. Yet it does not clearly define the conditions under which property owners can require tenants to vacate for a remodel. Council Item 16 will help clarified what counts as a substantial remodel so our constituents are not wrongfully evicted. Thank you very much. Next week at this. Good evening. You have all heard from me in a variety of ways, and I just wanted to reiterate and thank you. To. Those of you who put this forward. It was great work getting it together and. In counter measure to the discussions that we've heard from property owners, not yet tonight, but in the newspaper, they said they don't know the extent of the work that needs to be done until the tenant moves out. Well, according to the law, they have to know what they want to do in order for the eviction to apply. So if they're arguing they don't know what work needs to be done, then they don't have grounds for the eviction according to the state law. And that is the most basic concept. So this measure will ensure that they have put that into place, that they have a plan, that they know what they need to do before they can send out a notice to evict. Now, you also know that I think this is a great first step. It's a Band-Aid on the bleeding, but that stricter measures would be even better. So I would love to see this pass, and we'd love to discuss what more can be done in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Let's hear from you. And before Jordan speaks, I'm going to call the next five speakers. Sandra Tommasini said I can fee Ankie Zwirner Curtis, Max Norris and Daniel Sherwood. Please come forward. Sandra Tommasini said, I can see an orchestra under Curtis, Max Norris and Daniel Sherwood. I apologize if I if I got any of those names wrong, please come forward in that order. Sure. Hi there. Jordan Wynn, District two resident. I stand in support of item 16 and I want to thank council members S.A. Pierce and Austin, who is not here for bringing this item forward today. It's very important and quick and easy fix for this ordinance. The fix for this ordinance is very modest. It simply clarifies the process. I want to make it clear that it doesn't add any additional burdens or restrictions on landlords, and it should actually help landlords avoid issuing 60 day notices that violate state law and the cost that they would have to incur in doing so, having to defend unjust evictions, reissue notices, etc.. I want to thank the Council for protecting tenants in the winter and keeping tenants home for the holidays by passing an eviction moratorium. Unfortunately, those same tenants are facing this loophole. They are facing these unjust evictions, unfortunately, through the guise of substantial rehab that does not have any papers pulled and does not have any sort of evidence that it will take place. So we ask for this common sense reform and that this loophole be filled. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Speaker eight Thanks for hearing me. I'm Sandor Tommasini and I am currently being evicted under this substantial renovations clause. I've been gathering evidence to see what can apply in my case, and I realize that the only recourse I have is to, after the fact, gather evidence that substantial renovations may not have taken place and then sue the owner or property management in civil court. Well, that seems like a ridiculous way to enforce the law. So going forward, it would be much better if these landlords have to provide evidence by telling city permits, providing architectural plans and so forth before they can evict people, which shows that they are actually following the letter of the law and doing the substantial renovations that they say instead of the cosmetic renovations that they, by observation, seem to be doing. So if you can just put that into law, then we are all protected and do not have to depend on suing these people later, which is pointless because at that point I've already lost my apartment and all of that. So thank you for having me. Thank you. To those of you who have put this measure forward and look forward to this being put into law. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next week, at least. And my name is Angus Warner, and I'm a resident at the same houses as the speakers before me. And I completely agree with everybody. Sad. And as you can tell from my accent, I'm not from here. I moved from Germany being married to a history professor at Cal State. Long Beach was there for 30 years now. And I love being in Long Beach moving here to Germany. But we got the 60 days notice. We got kicked out of our apartment. We had to find a new place even though we made a home, which was for me, Long Beach, the new. Home. Away from. Home. And it was a shock for us. And I said, How can that be as a German? As a German, I would said, there should be some law to protect it. You cannot kick it out within 60 days. I mean, we are two double incomes, no kids. So for us it's okay. We are sitting on boxes and are moving. The end of the week. We found a new place, a nice place. But what about all the other people? It's in the house, in the neighborhoods who don't have that, who don't have double incomes, no kids, and $2,000 for a one or two bedroom apartment . Living in Long Beach is not affordable anymore. Thank you. Maybe I'll move back to Berlin. Okay. So thank you very much. Next is Mr. Norris. Before. Before Mr. Norris speaks. If I can have Daniel Sherwood, Dennis Baltimore. Baltimore. He said after Rosa, Joshua Christian and Alec Forrest, please come up. So it'll be Max Norris, Daniel Sherwood, Dennis Baltimore, he says, and also Joshua Christian and Alex for us. Please line up. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, counsel. I was happy to see Ms.. And Diaz championing this. I'm a District one resident, and it's encouraging considering what we've seen so far. As an attorney by trade, I know that loopholes are often exploited by the bad people in our society, and I do mean bad people. And in doing this, we need to close this loophole. We need a solid definition for what this work is and a burden of proof to be carried by the developer for that. Otherwise, we'll see continued abuse of this. This is a story that happened in San Francisco where I was displaced from years ago. The loopholes in what were thought to be strong laws in San Francisco, much stronger than we have here, have been exploited to the nth degree. And now we have a city in San Francisco where you have to make over $120,000 to afford anything. And it's untenable and it's coming to Long Beach. And you all have been very complacent about it, and I'm very disappointed. But thank you, Mr. Diaz, and I hope to see more from you like this. Thank you next week for please. Good evening. Council members Robert Garcia. I'm Dan Sherwood from the second district and. I've lived in this beautiful city for 36 years, and I've I've been part of the community ministry outreaches and this and that. And I've been in my home for 26 years. This one's been in her home for 28, and we have three back here, all who have been threatened to be evicted because of this new ordinance or loophole that is once again rearing its ugly head. It's only my opinion, but this is such an amazing city and this whole move is just a black smear mark across Long Beach. You know, we have an amazing city here. We're so diverse in so many different areas. And, you know, like the speaker said before me, we don't all make $140,000 a year. And many of us are very happy in our homes. We've we've made our homes where they are. And I look across the pool at the Obispo Building and this new loophole, and I've got six neighbors that I've known for 15 years, and they're all empty windows. We share a pool. I've got three from my building in Coronado who have already been evicted and moved out. This is unjust eviction, you know, we're good citizens. We're community. We hold each other up and we care about each other. And we want to continue to live in this beautiful city. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. So much. Next speaker. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. My name is Joshua Christian. I am the Legal Aid Eviction defense attorney for the city of Long Beach. A notice stating scope, timeline and proof of permits will provide clarity and prevent unnecessary eviction lawsuits. The purpose of these notices is not just to tell tenants to move. It's to assure them that their landlord has respected their rights. The two words substantial remodel. Don't give them confidence that that is the case and they can't verify that it's the case. So they can only stand their ground by going to court. For a landlord acting legally, more information encourages tenants to move by showing them the law has been followed. More information helps tenants evaluate the situation and keeps everyone from playing a game of legal chicken. No one wants to go to court. For most landlords who are acting in good faith, all they'll need to do under this ordinance is give an explanation to their tenants of why those tenants need to go. For the few bad actors, this will stop fraudulent notices at their source. Ultimately, for those few tenants who do have to go to court, it will make sure that they have clear legal rights that need protecting. Thank you very much for me and for my clients for hearing this item tonight. Thank you very much. Next week, a piece. Clearly, too. My name is Dennis Baltimore, and I live in Long Beach, California. Over the past couple of years, I've been a victim of displacement rate increases. I'll just I'll just evictions and landlord intimidation has often left me out on the streets. I'm sick and tired of excuses. Being a formerly incarcerated black man is, for me, culturally a black man. I often find it hard for me to get a job. Many others have experienced similar situations as myself, and I ask you to please fix this loophole. This loophole is making us go in circles. We aren't making any progress with this loop loophole in place. Again, I ask you to fix this loophole so we can have a better system to where the we, the tenants are accounted for. Please. But I beg you. We are leaders. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thanks for Chris's. Hello. Good afternoon. My name is says I am a resident of the First District and a member of Best Art Center of Long Beach. I came here back in December letting you know that my family was facing displacement due to rehab. However, through the help of housing language, we found out that the property owner never got the permit to make repairs. Please support us and. Passing this loophole faces strong. Help us in the strongest form possible. Thank you. Thank you. And before our next speaker, I'm going to call the next five people up forward and that'll be Alex Flores, Malcolm Bennett, Chris Keebler, Cynthia macias and Jonathan Gibson. So if I can have Alex Flores, Malcolm Bennett, Chris Keebler, Cynthia macias and Jonathan Gibson, please line up. That'd be great. Thank you. Yes. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. My name is Alex Flores. I'm a housing attorney with the Legal Aid Foundation here in Long Beach. I'm sorry, Alex, before you, this is Dennis Baltimore. Go speak. That was Dennis. Okay, then. Great. Mr. Barr. Sorry. Start over. Can we start? We start his time, please. Thank you. Thank you. What I wanted to point out tonight was that what's being presented today is a compromise and a modest ask, considering what different cities around the county are doing. What we are asking for is a fix that is locally appropriate for Long Beach and it's cheap for the city and the landlords. We're not asking to create a new department or a new process. We're not asking to create new fines for landlords or new punishments. This would be merely clarify what is a valid notice and what is not. Right now the problem that we are seeing is entire buildings being handed notices which say only two words, substantial remodel. At the same time, we're seeing that landlords, certain landlords are not planning a single permit, are showing no indication of actually doing any remodeling. The problem is that the longer we wait, the more people are going to be evicted. Attaching the permit will be the way to protect tenants and to make sure that both landlords and tenants understand that this is a valid notice. Anything short of that? Asking the landlords to start the process or asking them to file something beforehand is not enough. What tenants need to know the minute they get that notice is Is there a defense? What should I do? And anything short of explaining to them what the plan is and that the permits has already been pulled, that the work is going to be done, will not do. It. Thank you very much, sir. Let's take a piece. Actually Malcolm Bennet is next after Malcolm Bennet is Chris Keebler and Cynthia macias. Guardian American Council. Malcolm Managed Property Owner and property manager and licensed contractor. I'm asking for no vote on this at this time. I believe 1482 just came in. It's only been 40 days. I think we need to allow it to work. A lot of people understand the process in pulling a major rehab permit. It's not something you just just do. And I believe we need to see how this work. And I strongly believe that if a landlord does abuse this and does not permit, I think it would send a strong message out to prosecute a couple of landlords to do that and not put the burden on the amount of money to pay for a permit for a major renovation on property is quite substantial and quite a bit of money. And then you have to wait 60 days to the tenant, move out and then start work. That's causing a delay. And I personally believe it will dissuade a lot of developers from coming in and rehabbing some of these older houses. So I would ask for a no vote and let's look at 1480 to give it time to work and then come back in if there is abuse. There are certainly facilities and I think to prosecute, which we would strongly support as the housing market, those people that try to take advantage of a loophole and do this. So thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is Chris Keebler. I've lived in the city for 20 years. I've worked for Long Beach Unified School District for almost 20 years. I live in the second District. I'm currently in escrow in the ninth District, and I work at Cabrillo High School in the seventh District. I think this is a very important loophole to close. I don't think any developers are shy to come into Long Beach. I think it's also important if we do close this loophole, that it's retroactive to all of those who have received these eviction notices since January. You know, I'm fortunate enough to be able to go into escrow. You know, I have a good job with the Long Beach Unified School District, but I know that it's very hard, even in my circumstance, to own a home in this city. And I think it's even becoming harder for many people to rent in this city. And so I think it's important that we we close this loophole just so that this someone else said it earlier, that we have a city that's tenable for people to to have a take that aren't just, you know, the rich. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next week, this. Hello. My name is Cynthia macias. I want to thank you all for bringing this up and most importantly, for actually seeing the loophole that we all have seen. With that being said, I know like. Previously was that it just started it came. In 40 days ago. Unfortunately, I have more than 25 tenants that are getting evicted. So within those 40 days, more than half of those people will be gone. Right, without this. So with that being said. Close the loop. But we. Also want to make. Sure that. Just like this loophole. Was there, another loophole is not found. What do I mean by that? Well, landlords will not be able to put in for a permit and then kick the tenants out. And then once the tenants are out, pull that permit back out. So just want to make sure. That permits are in hand before they kick these tenants out. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. This is Mr. Gibson. Yes. So before Mr. Gibson speaks, I'm going to call the next group of speakers and please line up in this order. Mike Murchison, Domingo Santiago. I can't re the last names is Fred. Oh. Oh, it's Fred. Big Fred. Big Annie. Kimberly Navas. Eduardo Lara. And Karen Harper. So after Jonathan Gibson, we're going to get Mike Murchison to meet us in Chicago for a beginning. Kimberly Navas. Eduardo Lara and Kieran Harper. Good evening. My name is Jonathan Gibson. I'm a District seven resident and an attorney at Legal Aid. We just heard someone say, give this law time, but we already know that the loophole exists and the law isn't working. This is the right time to close that loophole. Legal aid has been flooded with tenants receiving substantial remodel notices when they receive these notices and ask management for more information. They get stonewalled. This puts them in an impossible situation, and many have already discussed do I stay and fight the eviction filed against me and hope that the landlord doesn't pull the permit before trial? Or do I just leave possibly knowing that the landlord never had any intention of remodeling the place? This ordinance simply asks landlords to be upfront and put their cards on the table regarding the remodeling plans so tenants can make an informed decision. I also want to dispel a myth that there is. We need to know that there's no need to evict tenants before remodeling a unit or pulling permits. That a landlord can already go into a unit, inspect it and see if it needs remodeling. This ordinance would simply give tenants a peace of mind while imposing no additional burdens on landlords. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mayor and council members. My name is Mike Murchison. I'm here on behalf of the California Apartment Association, the Small Property Owners Alliance and the Apartment Association. So all three of the major groups. Number one, I want to point out to you that unlike the tenant groups that knew about this item, none of these groups I just referenced knew about this. I have until Friday at 11:00. As we all know, supplemental goes in to noon. So I guess from a future action standpoint, it would be very helpful for the other side, the rental property owners, to know about these items in advance so that they have time to try to compromise and come up with a negotiation versus 72 hours, which makes it extremely difficult to communicate to the thousands of rental property owners that are out there. That said, here's a brief solution. Pull the permit, make it a generic permit, have the state, add the city, standardize it to say that it's substantial in nature. Have the landlord then have to post that at the tenant's unit, allowing the landlord to come back in and issue the city day notice after that, but not having to pay the permit fees which are substantial for some of these major renovations. So you're asking Mom and Pop to come in there and pay these guys. Everyone gets a chance to speak, please. So now my. Clock is running. One that's. Ahead. So it gives the landlords an opportunity to go in there without the tenant in there to judge what needs to be done, go back, submit it, and then pay for the substantial permit fees. We're not trying to hide anything. We're just trying to say, give us a moment to digest this and go forward. Hey, guys, guys, I seriously I manage the time he lost few a few seconds because of the interruption. So is letting him finish. Everyone gets a chance to speak. Finish up, Mr. Richardson. Thank you, Mayor. All I'm saying is, is that I'm trying to give you an option to have the rental property owner come in and pull a permit without the fees attached. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Which will be Dominga. Santiago. On a memo La Mingus and even Apartamento Cuatro Cuando, though they say have a new apartment there. And then in all honesty, I know there is a review, so call me Familia Esperanza. Marisa is going to use your name, especially not as if you must know that because you know they are local. But the liberals in this society has seen information that they endorse while the trabajo is in the new Burmese source. Los Angeles. Not the official they see, but Robert. And it shouldn't so nice familiar case that someone. Salvador and this is that the system was closed by measles is then completamente forgotten. No sympathy sympathies, sympathy mender and besotted. But I sorry that nozzle notification the SA logo is. Hi. My name is Porfirio Dela Rosa. I live in for four days apartment E and I lived there for 11 years with my family and I hope to continue to live there so my children can continue to be raised there. Myself and my neighbors have received eviction notices because of substantial repairs without any previous information detailing the type of work that needs to be done or permits. All the renters at the Daisy Building are asking that you pass this. This article. So that the families and continued to live there. Thank you. Thank you very much. Right beginning is the next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is Kim. Really nervous. I am. Really. I'm sorry. It's for the beginning here. Yeah. Yeah, for president. Sorry. Right after him. No problem. Yes. Hi. Good evening. I'm a senior tenant in the first district. And thank you, Mary, for taking the lead on this. And I just want to say, we as advocates have worked really hard to pass the relocation or the relocation ordinance, the moratorium and the TPA. And it just doesn't make sense for it to be undermined by landlords who don't want to pay permit fees. So I urge you to go ahead and close this loophole. Thank you. Thank you very much. And now kindergarten. So I am from District eight. This is my second time speaking, the first being almost two years ago when my family and I were being evicted from our apartment we rented over 20 years ago, I mean, over 20 years for remodeling purposes, before the landlord even knew what was wrong with the units I am now. That was at the time asked Lina Gonzalez for help. But to see that my new councilman Austin is supporting this item really makes me proud to see it. So really proud to now be a resident of District eight. This item won't solve the problem in Long Beach, but it is a step in the right direction and I really hope it's passed to close that loophole. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Latta. Good evening, Mayor. City Council. I want to thank Councilwoman Mary San that has Councilwoman Pierson, Councilman Austin for item 16. I'm here to lend my support. About a month ago, I met with residents from two properties on fourth and Coronado, Fourth and Obispo, and I can share with you the pain that they're going through in terms of , you know, being evicted without necessarily the proper procedures being taking place. This is a step in the right direction. I think the city of Long Beach needs to lead forward to ensure that the Spirit of Tenant Protection Act must be maintained. At the end of the day, the spirit behind this initiative and others like this is affordable housing. We really need to ask ourselves, what city do we want to continue to be? A city that economically is for everyone, or a city in which only those that can afford can continue to live here? So I ask us to wrestle with these questions as we move forward, not only in item 16, but in future agenda items that can preserve the city that we all love, which is a diverse economically, racially and ethnically LGBTQ wise and people from all walks of life. And that's at the heart of this matter. So I thank you for moving this initiative forward. Thank you. Thank you to the widow. Karen, please. So last speaker. Yes, good evening. Good evening. My name is Karen Harper. I'm from the third district and I just wanted to stand up in support of agenda item 16 and to congratulate you all for moving quickly, because when people are losing their homes, it's an emergency and we need action right away. And I think this is. A good. Step in in this loophole. And I also have a poem for. Black History Month to give to each of you. So thank you. Thank you very much. We'll just give it to the clerk and roll with us. Thanks, Ms.. Harper. That concludes public comment. Let me just close public comment. We'll go back. Councilmember Pearson. No, you were the last one. Did you have any other additional comments on your second or. I know you turn it over to public comment or no, you're good. Okay. Next step is Councilwoman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So thank you, everyone, for coming out and for your comments tonight. And thank you to Councilmembers and de Haas, Councilwoman Pierce and Councilman Austin for bringing this item forward. I don't think there's anyone up here who wants to see increased evictions or people being displaced. I do think, though, that there may be an opportunity for a compromise here, having listened to everyone. So I'm going to propose that in just a moment as a friendly amendment with the hope that Councilman Councilwoman Zendejas, would be willing to consider it. I myself talked with Linda Tatum just to understand the process better for when a landlord might need to make or want to make changes, significant changes to their properties. And my understanding is that the first step is that a copy of the plans need to be submitted. The second step is that the person who is intending to make the renovations would then go through the plan check process, and with that would come the requirement that fees be paid for the plan check. Process. Once that process is complete, then it would take 4 to 8 weeks for permits to be issued. And then, of course, there would be fees associated with the building permits. My recommendation or my friendly as a compromise to try to meet the needs of everyone here and meet the spirit of what this legislation intends to effectuate, is that at step two, which is where the planned check and the fees associated with planned checks occurs , that that would be required before an eviction notice would need to be given. So it wouldn't be for the full issuance of the building permits before a notification would have to be made, but rather at the planned check stage when planned check fees have been paid by the property owner. So that's my friendly I don't know, Councilwoman Zendejas, if you want to think about it or if you want to accept it or reject it. But that would be a recommendation that I would have. As a friendly. Thank you, Councilmember Price. I'd really like to hear from everyone first. Thank you. Thank you. Account summary income. Thank you. Actually, we would be here discussing this item about a loophole had there been proper notice, proper communication with tenants. Eviction without a reason really brought brought us to this point and brought us to the understanding that there is something wrong with 1482. In regards to evictions. So, I mean, I'm totally supportive. When I heard this the last week or whatever was brought forward to us before that, there were eviction notices being given based on 1482, 1482. What you need to do is Columbus sorry added ten years. The it immediately came to my mind that we needed to we need to fix this. And I want to thank council members in the House for bringing this forward, because it is a way of addressing this. And and it is a way of being able to help tenants and landlords talk to each other, speak to each other to find out what's going on in each of those apartment buildings so that the renovations can be done in a timely manner, so that tenants can find other housing in a timely manner or temporary order or whatever needs to be done. But one of the biggest things for me is that when we have. Make evictions just like that. It puts the burden more on us, on the city to address housing, affordable housing and yes locations. And it increases our how our are homeless count and it just creates a bigger problem. So I mean let's let's be real. We want we want to address our homeless issues. We want to address affordable housing, affordable accommodations. And the only way we could get there is by working together, knowing that if we want to improve our buildings, we want to improve the experiences of our tenants, to keep them there, keep them housed. Let's talk to each other. And I think that this motion here on the floor does exactly that. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is Councilman Mongo. Yes, I think I have an additional question for development services. I appreciate the the work from council and they have evictions are and bad actors are never anywhere we want to protect. I do think we want to make sure though that we know and understand the full scope so we don't get ourselves into another position. Ms.. Tatum Are there any other substantial remodels that could be performed that would not require a permit? I don't know what you could limit. Like what if you're scraping asbestos ceilings? Does that require a permit? No, pretty much. Any time you touch the building or any other systems in the building, it will always require a building permit. And that's for compliance with the uniform bill, the California Building Code. So. If you're not touching the system, but like scraping ceiling. Asbestos like popcorn ceilings that even requires a permit. Or are you saying there's not. Substantial there is nuance to this because, for example, if the ceilings are old, it depends upon when the ceilings were installed. And if it's pre, say, 1960, there is a very good likelihood that there is a substance. And that would require not only building permit but other safety precautions to test it and make sure that the the scraping the ceilings is done properly. And what if you weren't doing a roof replacement, but perhaps a roof repair? Would that also require a permit? Yes. There's very, very little that can be done without issuance of a building permit. Okay. That provides the clarity that I needed. Thank you very much. Luckily, I haven't had to do a lot of those things, so I'm not really aware of that component. Thank you, Councilman Price, for that line of questioning as well. That helps us understand the nuance between the first deposit that a landlord makes and the secondary process. I think that it's also important to recognize that with the exception of bad actors, of course, good landlords don't want to get rid of tenants for longer than is necessary because that's income they're losing as well. And so with the exception of the bad actors, minimizing and limiting that liability is always something that we as a council also want to do to make sure that that future cost is not then burdened on the next tenant. So thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Andres. Yes, thank you, Mayor. First of all, I'd like to thank our council people who brought this item forward. And I see this is a very complex issue. And I can see from both lenses that it is very frustrating. And we must do our part to address this housing shortage and constant displacement of tenants. We need to find a middle ground that keeps people in their homes and allow landlords to remodel if they need to. And I do think that the city and we can do better in expediting permits and processes. I don't think I need to talk any longer. As long as we talk to more people being displaced. If this item doesn't go through. So I truly definitely would support the idea. Thank you. Next up is Councilman Supernanny. Thank you. And a question for staff. And we've heard some testimony here that there have been evictions. Do we have any hard data on that that anyone knows of? Are there numbers we can put on this? Since January one. Councilman. So we're not we do not have data since January one. We had data from before. If you recall, one of the provisions in the tenant assistance ordinance that the city initially passed last year, it required landlords that needed to evict tenants for purposes of a substantial rehabilitation that that be reported to the city based upon that data. Last year we had approximately and this is very approximately 40 evictions that occurred. However, once that ordinance was rescinded, there was no longer a requirement that evictions for purposes of substantial rehab be reported to the city. So the responses we've heard that anecdotally, but none of those have been reported to the city. Okay. So any evictions directly attributable to the loophole, you don't have data on that at this point? That is correct. Okay. You know, first of all, I'd like to thank the makers of the motion for bringing this forward. But we do have a challenge up here, and that is timing. If you can imagine how long it took to put this together at the assembly level, probably thousands of hours to craft this measure, 1482. And at the end of all that time, they ended up with a loophole. What we're being asked to do tonight is to fast track an ordinance with minimal time and make sure we've done all our due diligence. And there are no unintended consequences of what we do here tonight. That's a major, major challenge. And we would like to have. I personally would like to have more data on exactly what is going on here. So I would like to you. Know, everyone, guys, just please, you know. Mystified me why the audience would want to interrupt someone whose vote you want, but I don't want to, you know, challenge your constitutional right, I guess I guess you have that to shout out during a meeting. But for right now, I'm going to support the friendly amendment. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Next up is Councilmember Pearce. Thank you. So I'm going to ask staff a couple of clarifying questions. Councilmember Price mentioned to step two staff, can you walk through what the process is and how long that whole process is for everybody in the audience? Sure happy to do that. And this is I would just note that this is pretty broad brushed because every project is different. The extent of the work that's being proposed, it varies in terms of how long it takes to get through the planned check. So what I would the steps of the process are essentially for a landlord or a property owner to come in with plans that outline the nature of the work that they want to do. Staff would review those plans and accept them into plan check. There is an administrative fee for a few. It could vary any way from anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $1,000 for the planned check process to be completed in that process. And I'm going to say roughly because again, it varies depending upon that the extent of the work being done, it could be anywhere from four, six or even eight weeks. However, the city does offer what we call expedited plan check. And if a property owner wants to pay a a small surcharge, they can expedite the turnaround time of the planned check, and that would reduce it by about 20 to 30% of the time frame. So once you're in plan check and that's completed, you receive a notice from the the city staff that the plan check is complete and you're then able to come in and pay the building permit fees and be completed with that process. Once the the building plan, the permit has been issued, a property owner has up to two years to actually complete the process to final that process. And that approval comes in, I'm going to say nine month increments because once the permit is issued, you have nine months to initiate the work for good, cause that nine months can be extended an additional nine months up to a two year period. And the comment that was made about allowing landlords in the building, right now landlords are allowed to go into buildings. And I mean, my landlord visits my apartment like every three months. He's like my friend. They're allowed to go in right now and take a look and make sure that nothing needs to have maintenance done correct. That is not necessarily a provision of the building code, but generally a provision under the lease and terms and. With notification three days. And then let me ask. So in that two year period, if they get into the building and they then decide that they need to change their plan, check, they can go back to the city and do that. Yes, as a matter of fact, when it comes in, when we assess the plan, check fees as well as the building permit fees, it's based upon the contractors or the plan designers, their estimation of what the valuation is. So we base those fees on the contractors or the plan preparers estimate of the valuation. But during the plan, review the construction and the inspection process. If those numbers need to be adjusted for additional work that is taken into account and the fees are adjusted accordingly. Okay. Thank you for that. And. I guess I would just also say in the in the conversation, colleagues, that we've had about negotiation and finding a middle. The city decided to try to find some funds and have staff really work to identify funds for people that have been relocated because of substantial rehab. Instead of having that be on the landlords and instead of having a conversation around the city going above and beyond what the state did. So in my mind and the grand conversation, it seems like we've we've had a lot of that negotiation and asking for a permit that might, you know, take six weeks, six weeks to a family can be a you know, a godsend. How often do we not looking for a place? How often do we see people start a planned check process and then not go through with it? I don't have percentages, but I'd say that it's not uncommon to start a plan check and never completed or we complete the work and they never get. They never respond to the staff comments and it's never finalized. So it's not uncommon, but it's hard to put a number on that. And I think that that's one of the questions that just listening to Councilmember Rice, when I heard her motion, I thought, that's not too terrible. But knowing that people can pull good, can start at the plan check process, but then not complete it, that still leaves a gap. So I thoughtfully want you to just think about the fact that if staff is saying that some people start that process, but don't finish it, we don't want to have people be put out of their homes if in fact that substantial rehab does not happen and then have tenants outside of that building trying to prove what's happened inside a building now they no longer have access to feels like putting tenants and landlords in a very awkward situation. So those are my comments right now. I see. I'm out of time. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson. Thank you. Just a few questions. And I see the you know, there's one motion on the floor. I just have some questions on that motion. So it. So this is a. Question for the city attorney. The recommendation actually doesn't say very much. So what do you understand the recommendation to mean and how would you approach this item? Thank you for that question. You're stealing my thunder a little bit because I was going to ask for this clarification before you all took a vote. So it's clear everyone knows what you're voting on. I was going to approach it such that, well, first and foremost, what everyone should understand is that in order to make any changes to 1482, local municipalities need to adopt the entirety of section, not the entirety of 1482. But you do need to adopt in the entirety of the just cause provisions and the relocation provisions. So if this passes, the ordinance that is going to come back is going to be a long one because I'm going to cut and paste the exact provisions of 1482 and then I'm going to add what NB 16 here has asked me to add in. I won't just use the recommendation, but I'll take from the entirety of the narrative. And I think it's pretty clear with two exceptions, which I think I need to put Councilwoman Zendejas and Councilman Pearce on the spot a bit for some clarification. Namely, that motion that was originally read was some time ago now. And I want to make clear that in addition to what NBI 16 is requesting, that the motion also would like the ordinance to require that building permits not only be issued in advance of the termination notice, but that they be attached or otherwise referenced to the termination notice. Is that right? Correct. Okay. And I thought that that's what I heard, what I haven't heard from anybody and which is important is that you're asking me and I and I can do this to temporarily prohibit all no fault notices for substantial remodel until February 18th, which of course assumes that an ordinance comes back on that date, which I think I can do and that it passes and that makes sense. But prohibit from when I don't think unless I missed it. We don't say when the prohibition starts. And I think it could be February 7th, which is the date on which this notice went public. That's normally the way things work in the rent control arena, or I suppose it could be earlier than that. I don't know what you all were thinking, and I want to make sure that everyone behind the dais knows what they're voting on. Yes. I would prefer from February. From February. Yeah. So we'll do it any, any notice after February 6th issued on February 7th until the effective date of the new ordinance would be null and void. Landlords would have to re comply with the termination notice. That would only be a 11 day period. I think 11 or 12 days. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I don't know if that answered your question entirely. So. So you would approach this. You would grab that section of the state law, make that the local ordinance, and you would grab these two provisions that are in the discussion and include it. That's right. And my intention would be to bring back a red line, to make it simple for the public and the council members to see exactly what changes were made to the first half of 1482, which is Civil Code 1940 6.2. So those those two areas are one. Obtain all necessary permits from all applicable government agencies before serving a notice, and then to include information in the notice to vacate about the type and scope of the work. Okay. I understand that. So next question. So is there a definition either in state law or within this law on what substantial rehabilitation means? There is it's already in 1482, and we're not going to change that definition. At least this is not requesting us to do that. And that is there's a couple of different requirements. Any work so substantial remodeling has to be work that requires a local public agency to issue a permit. Or it can be work where no permit is required but has to do with hazardous materials abatement. Like the asbestos example. In. I don't I don't have that much experience, but I think that would be rare where there would be abatement work that wouldn't require a permit, but the law allows for that. So it has to be one of those two things. Any work that requires a permit or hazardous materials abatement work, and if it's one of those two things, it also has to reasonably require the tenant to vacate and it's going to take 30 or more days. So it has to be something on the inside of the unit. So if you have to pull a permit I mean, do you need a permit for your irrigation? Well, you might, but presumably that would not require a tenant to vacate. Okay. Installing carpet. I don't think you need a permit for curfew. So where's the threshold? Just curious. What's the threshold? I'm not entirely certain. I think that's best for. The threshold as it's defined in the ordinances that work that requires a permit. And so that typically is work on the interior of the unit. And typically it's major work such as repairing the air, the effects systems or any of the other structure of the plumbing systems. So those all require permits. So replacing the age back would be a justified reason to issue a six day notice. Per the way it's defined in the in the code. And but again, I think some reasonableness is required on the on the part of the the property owner. Okay. So I guess the reasonableness that gets spelled out or litigated in court, whether it was reasonable for did you really need this person to vacate to fix the AC or not? That's exactly right. So so substantial remodeling, even if it requires a permit, it's not going to qualify as a reason to evict someone unless that permitted work cannot reasonably be accomplished in a safe manner with the tenant living there. I mean, that's up to some interpretation, but that's the way the law. Okay. So next question. So the conversation on site plan review, is that required on every substantial remodel project? Again when the project plans are brought in to the counter, staff would look at the plans and make a determination as to whether or not they needed to go through that. What I described as the planned check process, because if it's a fairly simple and straightforward improvement, it may not need a planned check. It could potentially be issued over the counter. It really depends upon the extent of the work, the scope of the work being done. Okay. So if it's a substantial remodel and it doesn't require much site planning, much planned check, you come in, it's a pretty straightforward process. Then they would just move straight to a permit. That's correct. There are cases, limited cases, where a permit could be issued over-the-counter if it's not a major rehab, just they change out of the HVAC system, for example. So if it's not immediately issued, how long does it typically take? Once you pay for a permit to receive a permit. Again, what you're paying for initially is the planned check process, and that's the administrative fee for staff to review the plans to determine code compliance. And then after that process complete, that's when you pay for the actual building permit. And the building permit is what authorizes you to essentially begin the work. So that's that second step of paying for the permits and receiving your permits on a four plex counts. And we have to move on to the time and time's up. So. Okay, great. I know we're going back around to a few other folks, so I'm going to just have a couple just really briefly, just this is the staff because this is the way I've understood it. And if I'm incorrect, please correct me. I mean, state law currently says new state law that's in place currently says that before you can do a substantial renovation, you have to pull a building permit. Correct? I don't know that that's necessarily in the state law because that's currently a building code requirement. That's kind of a standard. I believe that. You mean in 1482 or just in general? I wasn't clear on your question, but in general, yes, you do. You are required to pull a building permit prior to doing substantial work motivation. That that is correct. Right. Mr. Austin, I just spoke about this as well. And again, I'm just going to say generally, because there are always nuances and circumstances where it. Wasn't that also remind me correctly and I'm not an expert in the law, but I thought that was also referenced in the new bill that also just passed was 92. 1482. Yeah. No, 1482 actually says substantial remodel is any work that requires a permit or hazardous abatement work that doesn't require a permit. So it would suggest as though there is something it's possible that there is something that qualifies as substantial rehabilitation under 1482 that doesn't require a permit. I don't know that that's true, but the law reads as such that if someone thought about it, there may be such a thing as substantial rehab that does not require a permit. Okay. I mean, that's not the way that I have heard it interpreted in other discussions. But I think that's what's I think the question. Right. And I think that's what I think is this agenda item is trying to lead to. And so the way I'm understanding what council in discussions is proposing is that before this type of work would happen and there would and there would be eviction notices that the the contractor or the property owner doing the work would pull. The permit, is that correct? That's that's correct. It was to me that what what is being proposed aligns and essentially codifies what is already. The law. Well, it codifies the law in the sense that it's defining what requires the building permit issuance. But the difference is that right now, the the law doesn't require the noticing of the tenant and it doesn't very specifically define the nature of the work. That is a basis for the tenant to be evicted. And that's what this clarifying language proposes to do. Mr.. Mr.. ANTHONY, do you do you feel like I am also getting a sense that you're trying to ensure that what's in front of us, in what's adopted, you're able to to turn into an ordinance. Do you feel that you have enough information about what that about what you need from a definition perspective? I do. Okay. You do. Okay, great. The only other thing I'll add is I support customers and the House's proposal. I will also just add that I think the part that I think is difficult, that I've heard from a lot of folks is it becomes very hard for for folks that are low income, maybe undocumented, may not have a lot of resources to, after the fact, get civil, go through a civil process where they may not be able to have the resources to go through an additional process. And so I think if if if we're able to assist those. Folks. At the start and to ensure that that property owners are pulling the proper permits to do the work, I don't think I don't find this to be a very an overly burdensome proposal. I think to me it's very common sense that to me it aligns with with the spirit of what the state was trying to do and whether, you know, folks agreed or not. Agreed. I don't think I think that's the law that's in front of us in the spirit of that law, I believe, aligns with what this proposal is. And so I just want to thank Councilmember and House for bringing this forward. And I think it's a commonsense proposal. I'll turn this over to Councilman Sunday House. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for your support. Question for the staff. Just for clarification, a unit does not have to be vacant before issuing the permit to the owners. Is that correct? There is no provision in the building code or any local code that requires that a unit be vacant before a permit is issued that is completely at the discretion of the property owner. Okay. Thank you very much for clarifying that just for me. Another thing, I'm going back to Councilmember Supervisor's question about data. I don't have specific data, but I have a long list of people who have already been evicted from their homes right now. And I I'd be more than happy to share with you. But in in the interests of time, just know that yes, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Just in in my district, district one, we have one, two, three, four, five, six in district two. We also have one in District four and three in District six. So and that's only in the short 30 days that we have. I think that, you know, this what we're asking for right now is really a big compromise. What really breaks my heart is to see how many children are among these numbers then. And again, I'm not looking for an applause. Thank you, but no thank you at this moment. I just want to say that, you know, that's why I'm really concerned about uprooting the children from their homes and also to go back to seeing that sometimes I'm a renter myself and I don't have the first or second month's rent and a net positive to be able to move in 60 days from where I am. So I'm I if I'm not able to do that, I can understand how it would be a burden for these folks as well. So thank you. Thank you, counselor. Entrepreneur. Thank you. You know, all in all our thank you's, I don't think we mention city staff. Thank you for all your work from development services on this, and especially Rich Anthony. That must have been a very fun weekend for you. So it was an incredible amount of work. And what we're learning here tonight is that and I didn't realize, not just a few minutes ago, is that we'll have a whole new audience here in line. We said we currently do not have. That's correct. And that will basically basically replicate 1482, which we had at one time or a version of that, and then we reject it. So that's back on. And we're doing that specifically because that is a that is a specific requirement of 1482. Understood. Okay. Well, thank you for all your work. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember consumer appears. I hope that my colleagues don't kill me. But I want to clarify. You had asked the question and Councilmember Zendejas had answered on the day that it's effective and she had clarified February 7th. Is there something preventing us from making it January one? No, but I would I would then limit the language to say it can go back to January one to prohibit all pending pending notices of termination. If any notices of termination have actually been acted upon, a tenant has accepted reload and left. We don't want to undo those. Well, remember, tenants don't get reload for substantial rehab. Under 1482. They do. Okay. Thank you. I didn't want to get confused again, so I. You would just have to change the language. That's right. Is that. But I think I need to hear from them. I understand the move. I would like to make a substitute motion for January one just because for all those that have not been acted upon. We can make a friendly. Also friendly. I'm sorry. A friendly motion. Me? Okay. Got it. A friendly amendment. Councilwoman Zendejas, would you accept that? Yes. Okay. So now we have Councilman Mango. I just want to thank Councilman Zendejas. I know that these items can be contentious. And also a thank you to Councilman Pearce, because I think that one of the things that we as a diocese are trying to do is be collegial and demonstrate the respect for different people's opinions and that. Both praise and scowls towards any council member would not be appreciated. And I really appreciate the class that you brought tonight in bringing forward such an important item. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson. Thanks. You know, last thing, you know, I was getting some clarity. It was just really unclear in the motion. But I think where it's going, I think this makes sense. If I think it's if if the attempt is to close a loophole, I think you want to be as simple as possible in closing a loophole so it doesn't create a loophole. So Councilwoman Sandy has know all the signers. Good work. Councilwoman, your first item and I'm happy to support it. Thank you. Thank you. And that I was I was actually going to close with the just congratulations on your first piece of legislation, councilwoman and Mayor. Just just to clarify. Because I just I got it. Got it. And so, Councilman, today has I know that there was earlier there was a a friendly that was offered up. And I know you have accepted Councilman Pearce's friendly. I'm not sure where the rest of your motion is. Councilman. I think I would like to move forward, as is with the Pierce's family. Thank you. Okay. So the motion is the original motion with the addition of Councilmember Pierce's date change members. Please go ahead and Caspir votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. I know we have a we have a full agenda. So if folks are exiting, please, now would be a good time so we can continue on the agenda. So we're going to go to one more item, then we're going to go to public comment, if I can get item 15 really, really quickly

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record regarding the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) public hearing; and adopt resolution approving the issuance by the Board of Harbor Commissioners, on behalf of the City of Long Beach, of Series 2015 Senior Bonds, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $230,000,000, consisting of Harbor Revenue Refunding Bonds, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $80,000,000, and Harbor Revenue Bonds, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $150,000,000, secured by Harbor Department revenues. (District 2)

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Item 12. Report from Financial Management and Harbor Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record regarding the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act. Public Hearing and adopt resolution approving the issuance of I'm sorry, issuance by the Board of Harbor Commissioners on behalf of the City of Long Beach Series 2015 Senior Bonds District two. Thank you. There's emotion in a second. Vice President Lowenthal, did you have any comments? This is your district. It's okay. It's technology. It's more it makes everything faster. Technology makes everything faster. I got it. I have to be faster about this. I just want to say that I support this and I think the maker. Oh, there you go. Thank you. I'll be more quick next time. Thank you. American Samoa. I do want to recognize that Steve Rubin, the chief financial officer for the Harvard Department, is here tonight to to support this. Thank you. Any public comment on the item? Mr. Hill. Larry could do quick as the address, notwithstanding the fact that we've got some stellar leadership within the board now, I think it makes eminent sense to hold off issuing these bonds until and particularly given the wildlife report that rates this city is the second worst managed city in the country, is to hold off until such time as we have the federal master that will oversee the city and replace the city manager. When you have a reputation. Of being the second worst city in the world. Oh, excuse me. In the countries West management in the country. It has to impact the rating of the bond. Period. And if you don't believe that, I would suggest you go talk to farmers and merchants or go talk to Jan Netherton, period. We will not clearly be able to get the rate we will once we have non buffoonery on the 13th floor which incidentally the definition of. Grossly ill ill educated. Is that have Webster's definition of other buffoon. And that's what we have in terms of the city management. So to get a better rate, it makes more sense to hold off until. The current mayor is in prison. We have a new mayor and a new city manager. Thank you. Thank you. Period. Very excited. I got to tell you. I'm going to start when I start talking like that, actually. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Next item, period. We need to take a vote. We need a vote. Vote, period. The members, please cast your vote. Council motion carries eight zero. Okay. Next item, please. Item 14 Report from Financial Management Recommendation to adopt resolution approving the annual and Five-Year Reports for the Transportation Improvement Fee. Parks and Recreation Facilities Fee, the fire facility impact fee. And the police facilities impact fee citywide.

Recommendation to adopt a motion approving the Financial Policies as recommended by the Budget Oversight Committee on August 14, 2018. (A-10)

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Motion carries unanimously. To 1.10. Report from Financial Management Recommendation to adopt a motion approving the financial policies as recommended by the Budget Oversight Committee. These are the financial policies. One I need a great emotion and a second. And a slight friendly to that. Was. In light of the projected fiscal year 20 shortfall and the fiscal policies proposed by the U.S. have staff bring back a list of positions that were general fund enhancements recommended for structural funding within the last five years. To the B or C. Could there's a motion or a second with that with that addition that's on Richardson. Is there any changes in the financial policy from last year to this year? Mr. MODICA Yes, there are changes. We can go through those if you'd like to. Okay. Why don't we go ahead? We'll go out and go through those. Mr. GROSS. Thank you. There are two financial policies that have been changed. One is the financial policy number 17, which is on grants. This was an item that was reviewed last year but was not adopted. Basically, the change to summarize it is to let council know staff has a responsibility under this policy to let the City Council know about the funding in continuing or discontinuing of programs what the plan is when a grant becomes in front of them. And secondly, if that plan changes after a grant is awarded that we have to let council know in the next budget cycle. So it's more disclosure on grants. There is a second policy change on fiscal policy, which is number 12. This change doesn't even change the short statement for the policy. It actually remains the same. It's it's in some respects some more minor change. But it isn't it is a change essentially for the fiscal impact. The fiscal impact is now required for all fiscal impact statements coming before council, including on city manager departments or elected officials. And effectively, it requires fiscal impact to be reviewed by the financial management department. Unless that is inconvenient. If it is inconvenient, then it simply needs to make a statement that it wasn't allowed in terms of time to have a financial management review. Those are the. Changes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. GROSS. Councilor Pearce. Thank you and thank you for reading. I did have a question on the grants. Does that include whenever the grants that are available that we might decline? I know that there are some departments that they feel like there are grants out there that we haven't applied for, that we've declined. Does this allow for that transparency? It does not specifically address that. I know there's probably a lot of grants that we don't apply for. I guess I would ask that within this financial policy that if there is grants that we were denied for, that maybe those at the end of the year or two from four on, what we could have done to make ourselves more, you know, acceptable to receive those grants. I think if it's acceptable, we would take that as a just an administrative suggestion to come back to you at the end of this year. And then at some future point, if the PSC wants to formalize that in, the financial policy could maybe be the next version. Great. I think that's a great start for that conversation. Thank you. I'm actually slightly uncomfortable with making that change at this time. I know this is a policy we've debated for two years. The number of grants that we choose not to apply for is in the hundreds. What we don't apply for. Right? I get that. However, a lot of them are based on the potential for likelihood of funding. And so what I wouldn't want to happen is for staff to not want to apply, to not appear on the list. So if it's okay, I'd like for Bossy to have a staff report on that. And if we feel that the financial policy needs to be amended again, we could do that at that time. But the D.O.C. has spent literally multiple meetings on this financial policy and in talking with staff on their recommendations. Okay. We haven't had those conversations here. Agree. So that's the first time that I've heard that it's been this two year conversation. But what I'm trying to get at is if we if there are grants that we apply for and we do not get understanding what it is, why we're not getting them, so that if there's something that we can help change or have an eye on to say, well, if we only apply for this money or if we put seed money here, then we would get that grant. So having something on the administrative side, I'm fine with the whole thing at all. Fabianski appreciates your comments and we'll take it under consideration. Thank you. But I'm not open. I'm not ready to take a friendly on that yet just because of the multitude of grants that my department I know I'm not trying to not just have the chair of the EEOC. I don't feel that every single policy has to come to a full council. I feel that the the main bulk of the debate really has to happen because this policy we recommended two years ago. So so let me. Okay, so one, I do have a comment on this, but Mr. City Attorney, I know you're chiming. I did not hear a friendly in there. I think she had asked for a staff report back at their Mr. GROSS recommended a staff report back at the end of the year to give information and then you could consider discuss it at the next block. So I don't think there's a friendly to your motion. Right then that my. Motion doesn't include a staff report and I'm not planning to add one. But you could always ask for information without a friendly to your motion. You could ask for a staff report. It's not a friendly. I think I think I think what I'm interpreting is that Councilman Pearce is asking for staff information to give us more information about our grant process and what grants we what how we can do better as a request of staff for information for the council. So that's the way I interpreted that. And then obviously if there's there needs to be further adjustment to the financial policies, of course, those will continue. To be. Requesting changes to the. Right. But if there was, those would go to the court. And just for the council, I would like to point out that when ever the granting opportunity offers the opportunity to give us guidance on what we could do better, staff always take that call. So we often set up calls with the granting agency, and if they're willing to do it, go through our application and tell us, hey , you got knocked down for this. You did really well on that. And we welcome those opportunities. And my concern as a person who manages millions of dollars of grants for a living is disclosing the weaknesses in our application in a public way gives other people were competing against a leg up an advantage in their next year's proposal for the same funds that we're fighting for. So if you'd like to talk about, I think that's a valid response. Yeah, there's a huge there's a huge like data gathering related to being competitive in grants. And so I would just say that if you'd like to talk with staff about that, I think that that's great. I just don't I guess I just don't understand that we as a council ask for staff reports at the dais that we could just talk to staff. And so if it's out the that you're having a conversation about our policy and it makes sense to me that we all have this discussion versus in a small group. So I understand that, that we're kind of on our on our train and we're moving forward with our budget recommendations. Some of these we have not had a lot of discussions about as a whole body, and I think it's okay to slow down and have that conversation. So your response about being competitive and what process that is a valid response. So I just ask that as we continue to go through the next to them that I appreciate you and appreciate your validation. Thank you. So we have a motion on the floor and we have a request for an administrative update from staff. So, look, I know that we will get that update. And so Councilman Richardson and I will go to a vote. Sure. So about the report that comes back, I know there was a lot of conversation in the past about when we are offered a grant and don't accept it. And I know we had a conversation about disclosing when that does happen. Do we have that policy on hand right now or can that be included in that report? Right. So, for example, years ago when California Endowment offered the money for the I think it was the health element or whatever it was, and we didn't accept it. And the council found out later. I know we addressed that back then, but is that a current practice? So I think something like that happens very infrequently. We look for grants wherever we can. We try to get money. There are some grants that depending on the bells and whistles and hooks, they really aren't a good fit for us. So staff look at each one of those. We have departments lead that and those come to the city manager's office to make sure that we're not over obligating ourselves. And so we go through that. We don't have a specific policy. It's more of a does this make sense for us to apply for it? But if we ever do, is something that the Council has directed us to do and staff are purposely not doing it. That's where we have to have a conversation. I just like when we don't accept one movie, one in a grant, or I've been offered a grant and don't accept it. That's well understood when we apply and then later we say we're not going to accept. Yeah, we can. Certainly those are where we should certainly be informing you when that happens. You ask the question, why would I want to. Keep thinking we do have a motion and a second to approve the grant process. Know what we're talking about. School policy policies. Let's just. Provide a map. Of the whole. School and the financial policy, whatever we're doing. 1.10 is the recommendation to approve the financial policies as recommended by the PSC. Most motion case unanimously.

AN ORDINANCE relating to contracting indebtedness; authorizing and providing for the issuance and sale of limited tax general obligation bonds to pay all or part of the costs of various elements of the City’s capital improvement program and other City purposes approved by ordinance, to refinance certain outstanding City-guaranteed bonds of the Seattle Chinatown-International District Preservation and Development Authority, to provide a portion of the funds necessary to replace the Mercer Arena, and to pay the costs of issuance of the bonds; providing for certain terms, conditions, and covenants and the manner of sale of the bonds; authorizing certain agreements for the use of proceeds of the Bonds; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Agenda item 32 Constable 118 839 Relating to contracting deafness, the committee recommends the bill pass with a divided report excuse me, passed as amended with a divided report with councilmembers Bagshaw, Harrell, Herbold, Johnson, Gonzalez, O'Brien, Swanton Favor Councilmembers Burgess and Juarez opposed agenda item 33 Council Bill 118 837 Building to Levy A Property Taxes Committee recommends the bill pass agenda item 34 Council Bill 118 851 authorizing the levy of regular property taxes for the city sale for collection 2017. The committee recommends the bill passed. And comments from the chair. Please call the role on council 118839 herbold. I. JOHNSON Whereas look. O'BRIEN All right. So on I. Bagshaw? Burgess No. Gonzalez, I. President Herrell I. Six in favor, actually, seven in favor and two opposed. The chair, Pat. The chair passes, the bill passes and and the chair will sign it. Please call the roll on agenda item number 33, which is Council Bill 118837. Herbold. Hi. Johnson Forest. Hi. O'Brien. All right, so on. BAGSHAW Burgess. I. I think I was I didn't harrow. I'm. Nine in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair was signage and please call the role on council bill 118851. This is an item number 34. Herbold. I. Johnson. Whereas I. O'Brien. So I. Bagshaw Burgess. I. Gonzales I President Harrell I nine in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please please read agenda items 35 through 37 into the record. First short title, please. Agenda item 35 Clerk File 314 362. City Council changes to the 2017 through 2018 proposed budget and the 2017 through 2022 proposed capital improvement program. The committee recommends the file be placed on file. Agenda Item 36 Council 118 849 Adopting a budget, including capital improvement program and position modifications.

Consideration of Mayor’s Nomination for Appointment to the Historical Advisory Board, Planning Board, Public Utilities Board, Social Service Human Relations Board and Transportation Commission.

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Sort of the the the board's process. So thank you. Thank you. So now we're on 10 a.m. if you want to read. Yes. And you're down to just the consideration for the Historical Advisory Board, Planning Board, Social Service, Human Relations Board. The other two are done. Okay. So, um. And I appreciate the earlier comments and I want to clarify that I nominate and then council confirmed. So you need to take that into consideration in regards to who actually gets seated. If I nominate people from diverse backgrounds and I don't get the votes from council, they're not going to be seated. So that being said, Historical Advisory Board, Jennifer Witt w i t planning board. Marcia broke this. I'm not quite sure i would say the last name br0 qe d i. S and. As a chef, I have to make sure I get this right. Sorry. The chefs sa harbor a s h e s h h last name as a tba sahaba are the question. Those are for for planning board. Because Marcia Brockett is a she's listed as an applicant for a historical advise for. Both is applied to both. Is. Not on you may not have the updated list. Yes. And give us one social service human relations board. I'm not nomination. Sure at this time. It. All right. So that concludes the nominations. And we will be adjourning in memory of Neil Wilson. I'm sorry, counsel. Comment, sir. Oh. At this time. So well, we have.

Adoption of Resolution Appointing John Nolan as a Member of the Civil Service Board and Brendan Sullivan-Seriñana as a Tenant Member of the Rent Review Advisory Committee.

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A adoption of resolutions, appointing John Nolan as a member of the Civil Service Board and Brandon Sullivan not as a member of the B Advisory Committee. We're going to. Recess. We're going to call for. We needed a short recess because we had a member of the public requiring medical assistance. So we took a short recess and now we will resume with item six, a. The adoption of resolutions, appointing John Nolan as a member of the Civil Service Board and Brennan following the Yana as a tenant member of the Rent Review Advisory Committee. And we do have a speaker. On this item. Katherine Pauline. Hello. I'm Katherine Pauling of the Alameda Renters Coalition. I want to thank you all for the work that you're doing and also to acknowledge, apparently that our newest renter representative is someone other than an attorney or a realtor. And we're very grateful. We want to. Have that. Representation. And I understand at this point there's only going to be one member going forward for the landlord side. I'm Tony Nguyen. And I'm. I'm also hoping that I understand a lot of work and effort has gone. Into the. Rack and the idea of the advisory role and that we've. Had a year. Of both tenants and landlords hoping this would work. Unfortunately, landlords obviously, as shown by the 470 central residents, are not able to completely police their own. And so, again, I'm very grateful that you're going forward with the moratorium and continuing to work on a more permanent solution. So thank. You. Thank you. She was our only speaker on the item. Better. Maybe I'd like to move. Adoption. A resolution appointing Mr. Nolan as member of Civil Service Board and Mr. Brendan Sullivan Sarafina as tenant member of the Rent Review Advisory Committee. We have a second. Well, I'm going to second, but I also want to make a comment that so we have a second to the motion. I have already come to realize that. I think we're moving into some new territory with our landlord tenant situation in Alameda and that having a body that is simply advisory and has, as we've said over and over, no teeth is just not effective in today's the situation that we find ourselves in. So it will be up to the council when we convene again at the to hear what staff has put together based on our recommendations on the moratorium and rent stabilization and more to decide what sort of form or what sort of body might hear landlord tenant disputes. And my preference would certainly be something that actually has authority and probably an actual professional mediator. So but right now before us, we have these appointments and I do appreciate the two members of the community coming forward and volunteering their time. And I imagine we may have a December agenda before the city council comes back. So with that, I will second this motion. Although some favor. I oppose motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Yeah. If. I'm John Nolan, and I want to thank the mayor and the council for this appointment. I just wanted to make a comment that I worked in the Human Resources Department for the city of Alameda for 18 years, and the day after I left was September 10th, 2001. And now this. Appointment at following the French catastrophe. I have no connection with either of those, and I assure you, I'll do my best. Thank you. Thank you very much. Hello. My name is Brendan Sullivan. Thank you for confirming me. I just want. To say that I'll do my best. I know the difference between. Your job and. Mine and advocacy and policy. I'll do my best to uphold that. And my family's been in Alameda for quite some time. My mother knew. But I consider myself an Alameda and. All my best. Okay. Thank you very much. Right now we're on item six de. I believe we're going to jump to 60. So would you consider amendment to fiscal year 28 through 15 Community Development BLOCK Grant Action Plans and authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute related documents, agreements and modifications? Good evening, Mayor, Council members and staff. My name is Claudia Young and I am with the Housing Authority of the City of Alameda. So the city of Alameda is an entitlement city with community development block grants, which are federal funds by the Housing and Urban Development. Each year, the city receives an allocation of approximately $1 million. To receive the CDBG funding, the city has to submit a HUD annual action plan detailing the programs and activities that will address the needs identified in the city's approved five year consolidated plan. When the action plan is approved. The City Council includes these programs and activities and associated funding amounts for the fiscal year. If a program or activity is canceled or does not use the total funding allocation, the remaining funds are carried forward to the next fiscal year. Until these funds are specifically reprogramed, the grant year remains open. Tonight's item is a standard midyear adjustment, since accounting rules have changed. At HUD, it's important to not have leftover funds remaining in the previous years. Staff is recommending adjustments to make sure that funds are expended in a timely manner. In front of you. You have exhibit A, which is the proposed REPROGRAMING and step is here to answer any questions. Amber Ashcroft. Well, if people don't have questions, I was just going to move approval. I'd like to ask a staff could show that attachment on what's on the screen to the audience. Can see when you get it. I've. And if you could briefly show what the discussed this specifically discuss the changes and then that pops up. Walk us through it. Thank you. In the first column you'll see each year and the remaining funds for that year. So that's cumulative of various activities or programs that did not move forward or had money left, left over at the end. So in the first section you'll see for 1516 there are $6,753. And those are the proposals to allocate them to public services. And there is four agencies that are already receiving funding for this year. So we would augment what they have already received and you'll see the amounts all the way to the right column. The second item is for the year of 1112. We have 21,000 $974,000. And we're proposing to allocate the funds to a capital improvement project for the Alameda Parks and Recreation for the Woodstock Park Daub Rehab project. The third is clearance activities, and it's a combination of 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2014 program year funds. And we're proposing clearance activities for North Housing, which is the 13 acres out at the base. And that's going to be for for demolition of some of the buildings and some clearance activities. And the last item is, in the year 1415, we have 33,000 left over in residential rehabilitation funds for another specific category. So we would like to move those funds over specifically for the residential rehab program. And then could you describe the four agencies up at the top and the dollar amount? Just name them. Alameda Food Bank Building Futures. Women and Children. Legal Assistance for Seniors. Family Violence Law Center. Thank you. All right. So we have a motion. I was about to make. A motion that. We? We authorized the interim city manager to negotiate and execute related documents, agreements and modifications. With regard to the amendments to fiscal years 28 through 2015. Community Development BLOCK. Grant Action Plans. I'll second. You. Discussion Council comments. All those in favor. The motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Now we're on item six B. And this one will be only considering one of the two resolutions due to a resignation from Karen Lucas that was distributed at the desk tonight. So it is only adoption of resolution. To consider it is appointing renewing as a member of the rent review advisory committee to a two year term beginning. And it would be tonight, November 17th, 2015. We have a motion.

Consider Directing Staff to Provide Background Information on the Crab Cove Property Prior to Any Council Actions on the Property. (Mayor Spencer) [Not heard on May 15, 2018 or June 5, 2018]

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Wonderful. Do we have any or communications on agenda at this time? No, that's eight. Number nine, Council referrals. Nine. Eight. Consider directing staff to provide background information on the property prior to any council actions on the property. This item was placed on the agenda at the request of Mayor Spencer. Right. And it's just my understanding at some point we're going to have a be asked to take action. And my preference is always to try to get especially legal background information in advance so that we're prepared as much as possible in regards to how to make an informed decision. So that's what that goes to. Without getting into too much detail. Right. Member Ashcroft? Well, I and I appreciate you bringing the staff report. I also note that we received a very nice summary of the history of this property and the legal aspects of it, I think, from our assistant city attorney or deputy city attorney Selina Chen. And I see that. But the settlement agreement with the East Bay Regional Parks Department and the federal government is included. And then I know in my mail I received a copy of the letter from Robert Doyle, general manager of the Regional Parks District, to the Mayor and the council members, stating the park district's position on the property . So I feel that I have the information I need to make whatever decision comes before us in the future, and there will be a staff report attached to that when it does. So I actually didn't think it was comprehensive in regards to the when was it one parcel, when was it two parcels, when in regards to when the people voted or what dates it changed from 1 to 2 parcels. And I don't think that was really addressed, which is just a part of my referral of Vice Mayor. Madam Mayor, I'm just trying to understand the request. There have been questions that have been raised, I think, by various groups. And so is your request that those questions be answered in supporting or supporting information be provided? Yes. And especially in regards to a timeline going back, when was it one person, one was to the subject property? When did it become two parcels? How does that relate to when there was a vote for WW and any other action that was taken? But I'm really looking for a comprehensive timeline so that when it comes to us and I think it will be at some point that we have or that we've already had the opportunity, I wouldn't want to I'm hoping not to slow down the ask when it comes to us, but already have our legal department trying to figure out the timeline of when it was one parcel to parcels the vote and whatnot. So I have. A question for staff. So we have our city attorney here. And I know that there's been preliminary work done on this by your office. Do you care to weigh in at all in terms of. Where things are at or what. Selina Chen, the assistant city attorney, has been working on this project. Selina Chen City Attorney's Office. We have done some preliminary research and answered some preliminary questions. My understanding of this referral is to do some additional. Research to confirm or verify. Some of the. Facts, I think, are facts that have been raised by some other groups related to the timing of the personalization of the Navy owned parcels. I think those things can be researched and we can look into that further. Did you I was wondering if you had specific questions. I think that was just my general question. Some of the questions it looks like that have been raised aren't necessarily things that we can consider as a body. So I'm just wondering whether or not these questions are also being posed to other bodies who would have authority or jurisdiction? You're correct. These. A lot of these. I guess this is more it seems like for background purposes. It seems like the mayor wants to have a complete picture of of what's happened to date some of the things we don't know. For example, when the Navy's personals were. Separated, you know, that's not subject to the state law or the subdivision map act. So we would actually have to ask the Navy to confirm that date. That's not something that we would have, but we can look into it. We're talking about rep. McCain not just USDA. Right. USA. I don't think it's navias. Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. You're correct. I was just referring to the federal government. North. Yes, I was. I think I was confusing the two. So you're correct. But when the federal government's parcels were separated. I'm not. I mean, we can do as much research and try to track down information as the council directs us. It sounds to me like this is more of an informational piece. I mean, we will be bringing back information when we're coming forward with any kind of application on behalf of the the person who ends up with the property and how they want to develop it. And we can have as much information as we can gather. Obviously, we listen to all of your requests for information and try to resolve them. If you're asking us to try to do more research than we've already done and contact the GSA and others and try to figure out if they'll even get back to us in a timely fashion when they might have done personalization, and then just bring it to council or send it to you on an off off agenda memo or something like that. We can certainly do that. I think what what Miss Chen is advising is that there is a lot of a lot of work that's going to have to be done. And we can't control the responses for everybody. But we respect the mayor's request for wanting these kinds of things. And of course, we will move forward if that's what council wants us to do. Member madrassa member. Ashcroft we already have up on the city website. I think if you can, I think it's still there. Frequently asked questions. And I think from the input that I've had, it's important for the public to know what actions are taken by whom in a timeline. And I think that's what I think that can be posted on the website, and that doesn't involve GSA asking them for additional information. It's just what is the timing and who has authority over what action. And then I'm assuming the rest is going to be in the staff report on whatever action that we have to take and . You've heard input on what should be in the staff report. I don't see the need to do anything more than that. So what's my answer in regards to that? My interest. So I think you do. I would like staff to reach out to the federal government or whomever and find out when the parcels went from one parcel to two parcels. And that's not enough for me. So they can request it and try to complete the timeline, not just currently. What's happened historically, especially in regards to when that WW was in 2008, what the property looked like at that time. So that's what I'm trying to get to. And then that. And then I think I'd be fine to have it, and I think it'd be a great idea to add it to the ethic used in the information that I would like staff to go farther back. And that was preliminarily given to us. And you may they may have done it regardless. I just wanted to bring it as a referral because I'm always I don't know. You know, it's good to have counsel when a member Ashcraft and. I certainly respect the mayor or any council members. Right. To bring a council referral. I cannot support this one, though, because I look at the information sought and I ask, what's the relevance and to what end? And I agree that there is information up on the city's website. That was a very comprehensive memo that Mischin provided the council a month or maybe two ago. And to the extent that there are opponents of the proposal to do a homeless accommodation as not only allowed but required to be some right exercise for surplus for federal government property, I don't know that we have an obligation to do the homework for the opponents. I mean, they can they can do research, too. But I just with everything else we throw at our legal staff and, you know, they haven't gotten any bigger. I just don't see that this one needs to be addressed because as has already been stated, this will come back to us in the form of a staff report at such time as an application comes before this body. I swear I actually see this referral a little differently and I may be wrong, but I do think that it's been helpful in terms of at least giving staff, having being able to have a conversation about the types of information that various council members are hoping to have for when this item comes back. I. I do not want to create unnecessary work, but at the same time I do think we have a need that's been demonstrated through the various reports that come through to provide services for homeless and for homeless veterans. That's been something that's been demonstrated through our various reports. So I also see the request for information in the light of if there are going to be different challenges, we need to have the answers for them. And I do trust that that information is being looked at by our staff. I think to the extent that we are getting things, I think it's helpful to clarify and the facts have been very helpful, I think, for a number of people. I think to the extent that we're reliant on information from other agencies or jurisdictions, letting people know that we've requested the information, but we haven't heard back. That to me is it is being as transparent as we can be. We've requested it, we've asked for it. We can't. There's no other function that we can or process by which we can actually obtain it right where we're requesting it. If you would like this information, you can request it as well. So, you know, I do want to be cognizant of where our jurisdiction lies on this issue, but I do want to be responsive. And I think that that that direction has been given to staff and been made very clear. Everybody. Thank you. So my quick comments, somebody could correct me if I'm wrong, but I think my memory is that when this referral came out on April 24th, you know, we did not know that the G overlay removal proposal was going to be done in December. I thought I thought there was some concern in the community from those opposed to the homeless project that it would be quicker. So I do think there's a lot of time now because of all the hoops that they have to go through, that all of the pertinent questions could be answered. So I just want to also remind folks that, you know, when we had our priority setting workshop a year ago or two years ago, I can't remember exactly. And then we reaffirmed it this year. You know, homeless was still the number one thing. I mean, everyone put that is the number one thing. So now we have an opportunity to approve a project. You know, granted, it hasn't gone through all of the steps yet that actually meet that need. So, you know, I'd like to make sure that we're able to do that. You know, one thing that I see every day in my job is connecting homeless people with services is probably the most helpful thing we can do. So with that said, I mean, I'm a little disappointed that like a councilmember can't get an answer to her question and has to do referral to get an answer. So, I mean, I hope that when we ask questions that we get those answers. So I just really want to make sure that there was it sounds like maybe at least three of you are agreeable to reaching out to these different agencies to confirm it. Other entities are saying if if we don't get a response, then so be it. But I think it is appropriate for us to for our legal staff to try to confirm what other organizations are saying. I know if I said. So and maybe you did it so maybe I misunderstood then, but I think. You should have got an answer to your question when you ask. But I would require the referral to it. Okay. So this is why this is. It's hard to know. Can. So, you know, is it appropriate for me and I don't know what all of you are asking for additional data. I would there are a lot of statements that are being made, and I would hope that our legal department would try to reach out to the agencies for confirmation. So we have a complete timeline. And I just try to be transparent, which is why I brought it. Maybe I don't need to bring it. I don't remember matters. And I'm glad. Councilman Brody brought up that the homeless. Situation that we're in is number one of on our list of the council work plan. And this is the this is truly the first tangible remedy that were being offered. We took a step ourselves in contracting with Operation Dignity to do field outreach. And this is. Hopefully the a place where people can get the medical knee service they need. That being said, there's a lot of churn out in the community and I think it's very helpful to have it. So I want to make a motion that we refer this matter to staff. To start gathering the information that has been mentioned. In this referral as well as to post as soon as practicable a timeline that includes the. Decision points that are made and who makes those decisions. So that's posted on the website and. This is in preparation for a staff report that will accompany city council action or actions. That are going to be related to this this partial. I just. Think you. Madam Vice Mayor, I just want to make a comment about staff providing the information. And I think just in defense of the city attorney's office, they provided a lot of information. They did a lot of research. And and I think there was additional research that was requested. And I think staff just wanted to make sure that all the counsel was okay with us doing that additional resources or spending the time to do that and to give you that information. So I just want to acknowledge that her staff actually did a lot of work on this matter already. And this is really in recognition of Councilmember Otis comment that, you know, that you're sad to hear that when a council member asks for information that you have to bring a referral to get that information. That's really not true. So the attorney staff did a lot of work and this is just ask you to do some additional work. And I think, you know. The timeline, how much it had done. If I if I may just add one thing, and I appreciate the acting city manager saying that about this office when we got this when this project came up, the city attorney's office working hard with city staff, the community development department, it wasn't just us work very hard at trying to put together what would happen, what going forward, I mean, what the situation was and then what approvals things would have to happen going forward. What we're being asked for now and primarily by the mayor, which is her prerogative and I'm not objecting to that, is to go all the way back to historically. How did this property come about being put up, which all was the federal government, which is entirely the GSA, the Department of Agriculture, and how they did it. That's what we're saying. We don't have that information. So we're happy to go back and to however historically you want us to. But I don't I appreciate the fact what the acting city manager said. It wasn't that we weren't being responsive. We're getting additional requests for information. And we will provide we will do our best to gather that information and provide it. And I just want to add this referral I wrote a long time ago. I actually probably wrote it before we had information from the attorney's office. If you look at the date that I and regards how much history actually in going back to 2008, which isn't that far back back when WW was voted on, I want to know then, was it one or two parcels? That's my my. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. And then I do need to have a motion, apparently, to consider remaining items 99 C and ten A is this 1030? We have a motion to consider the additional items. The last meeting will have to do that. But second. All those in favor. I, i, i know. I guess we need for votes for this. Sure. Hopefully we can go through it. So just really quickly, it looks like a lot of the information that was requested has been provided and was being worked on at the time that the request went in. Councilmember Morrissey My one question for you is when you talk about the timeline and that sort of thing, are you are you literally talking about a timeline of as we get the information and if we get it and, you know, who can or are you looking like how robust is the information that you're looking for? I'm looking for. We're here right now. The GSA took some action. There were applications. What's the projected timeline? What are the steps that have to happen to the point where a project comes before? First of all, geo overlay comes before the city council. And I'm not asking this mainly going forward. Going forward. Yes. For us, it's for the public to know what's happening. Not going back. I don't see the need to go back except in the staff report and that's going to be published before we take the action. So we have provided, I believe, the timeline that you just described. That was my point. We did the go forward. What has to happen now? And now we're going to we will go back and we will try to find, you know, what is more historic. And I understand Mayor 2008, but it's still historic from this point forward. We do, but we're happy to do that. I remember. I mean, only thing I'll say is, you know. You have. It'll probably come up in December. Oh, I don't know if it's something I would tell you to do now, but I'm sure the question will be asked. So you can you can decide what you want to do based on knowing that the question will be asked. And. Yeah. It's on. I'm sure it'll be on. And for December it'll be asked if it's not in the staff report. So take that for. Right. So I'm not telling you when. We hear you and we don't. Want you to take a vote on this. Yeah. Let's take a look. I don't think we have a second. So my referral goes to wanting to know the history of the ownership of the property back in 2008 when the people voted on w w and it sounds like it may require writing letters and requesting it from other jurisdictions, and we may or may not get a response, but I think it's important for us to have that information. If we can get a response, that'll be great. If not, you know, we tried, but I want to confirm this information. And so that sounds like that's not going to make I don't know if that was included in member mattresses motion or not. I'm supportive of I'll second member Matt Ross's motion. But his motion is not to have the history. It's actually sounds like it's not it doesn't include my referral. My assumption is that that's going to be in the staff report when this comes to us for action. And I stated that at least twice. And I think that there's been sufficient direction in this conversation that the city attorney's office knows that there's expectation that the information that you've requested will be included. And that's what I was saying earlier. I think that we've we've we've collectively let them know that this is the type of information that we think is going to come up as part and has come up and that we would like them to include it in the staff report in December. Okay. So can that be a friendly amendment to your motion? I think it's more clearly articulated. What you said. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. So then there's a motion and then a second, then all those in favor I oppose. No. The motion carries 40 oh oh. An abstain. Oh that. I think, I think. Okay so we. Got it's. One one it sounds like. Okay, okay. The next motion. I'm sorry. The next item nine be.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute documents necessary to establish an agreement with the Long Beach Downtown Development Corporation, a non-profit organization located in Long Beach, CA, to provide services and financial support for economic development activities in the City of Long Beach. (Citywide)

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Motion carries. Key. We have item 13. We had a we had a couple of requests, some just doing the items that are up first, item 13/1. Report from economic development. Recommendation to authorize the city manager to establish an agreement with the Long Beach Downtown Development Corporation to provide services and financial support for economic development activities in the city of Long Beach. Citywide. Mr. CHRISLER. Good evening, Mayor, and members of the City Council and I'm very happy to bring this item before you. This will allow the city to partner with the Downtown Development Corporation, which is a501 C3 nonprofit. The purpose of the EDC is to attract new business and investment, as well as to help the city in economic development efforts that may be unfunded. The DDC will also allow us to apply for grants that may only be eligible for 523 organizations. I am also would like to acknowledge Craig Cogen, who is the Executive Director of the deal. The DDC was originally formed as a as a an organization separate from but in partnership with the DOJ. And so Craig has stayed here tonight to answer any questions that you might have about the DDC and its history. So with that, I will answer any questions and happy to respond. Thank you. And let me let me just also just add that we're we want to thank after the deal for the work in kind of launching the development corporation. We there's been a lot of conversations around working with the DBA, the folks in the business, the nonprofit community, and also the Economic Development Commission. In looking at establishing as well the city wide look at economic development from a kind of not a public nonprofit, private, public nonprofit point of view. For those who may not be aware, economic development corporations exist across the country. Almost every major downtown has them. They are incredible economic engines. The closest thing that we have to Long Beach that works here oftentimes is the L.A. EDC, which are all pretty familiar with, which is the L.A. Economic Development Corporation. So that obviously is a economic development corporation that operates across the county. And so this would be this is really the beginning of the formation of of this type of effort locally. And I'll add and one of the things I'm really thankful was staff with Mr. Cogen with the commission is there's really a focus around economic inclusion and making sure that we ensure that that everyone is being included and that we're focused on all workers of all income levels. And I think that's really important to be a focus as well. And so I want to thank all the folks involved. There's a motion and a second count summary, Ranga. Thank you, Mary. And I totally agree with everything you've said. It's an opportunity as well for the philanthropic community to give them another alternative to donate money so that we can work on two major projects. So I'm very pleased to make this motion. Councilman Mongo This is something that I have looked forward to since the day I was elected. I so appreciate the DBA for stepping up and taking leadership on this. I appreciate Mr. Keisler for following through. It has been a long road of getting here. There are so many small business associations that don't have a place to live, and through the M.O. use with this organization, I really see an opportunity to take business development, our business corridor improvement and our investment in the region related to those improvements just to the next level. So thank you so much for your work on this. It is a long time coming and could not have been possible without a heavy lift from many, many committed people. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Pearce. Thank you. I also would like to congratulate the economic development team and the DBA for your work. I actually was looking forward to hearing from Mr. Cogen on your vision, what you guys have done, and just give a little bit more context to what's in front of us today. Could you do that while doing public comment or don't do it right now? We could do it now. I think that would be sure. Mr. Cogen, you want to give us an update? Mr. Mayor, members of the city council, Craig Koji with the downtown Long Beach Alliance as well as with the Downtown Development Corporation. The DDC was created in 2011, 2012, about the same time that the redevelopment agency was dissolved. And this was created to really pick up the pieces of the downtown project area when it was scheduled to be terminated in June of 2017. Obviously the state had different ideas at the time and so the entire redevelopment agency was dissolved. Statewide, the development corporation was in a position to help business as well as community corridors to eliminate blight. This is the goal and the mission of Development Corporation. It is, as Councilmember Turanga mentioned, a charitable organization. It is citywide. It has no boundaries. So that's the beauty about this organization. And it doesn't have the legal boundaries that, say, the DOJ has with its assessment district. So we've been reaching out to different corridors throughout the city. We are going through a revisioning and reevaluation and repositioning process as we speak. It will no, it won't be called the Downtown Development Corporation. We named that in 2012 because of the as a placeholder and certainly it served its purpose. And now obviously it's expanding its mission and expanding its boundaries to be able to serve on a citywide basis. So we'll be working with different corridors, working with different organizations, as well as with the Economic Development Corporation or Economic Development Commission, as well as DARPA, to further its causes and its mission. Thank you. Thank you. So help Pierce. Thank you. I just thought the context and the history was a little bit helpful and wanted to ask one question on. Sorry. It might not be you might be staff. How do other businesses that are not in business corridors and residents find out about this organization? You guys think we're just going to vote real fast? I'm sorry. COUNCILMEMBER Yeah, absolutely. So. So that's one of the things that we're establishing with this agreement. One of the things that is important when you have a city government private entity, whether it's a private nonprofit or otherwise, is that, you know, we can't we need a partnership agreement to be able to promote each other. And so the beauty of this is that now that this this nonprofit vehicle will be available to help, you know, fundraise on behalf of these efforts to work with small businesses. And they have flexibility to do some things that the city might not be able to. But this agreement will also allow us to advertise what the DDC is doing and direct small businesses or associations or donors or grantors to the DDC to work out agreements. And so we'll be advertising and promoting the great work they're doing, just as they will be advertising and promoting the great work that the city is doing. Great. Thank you so much. And I just want to applaud the leadership. You guys have helped us. We're about to launch our Arts Park work. I know the loop has been something that you guys are revisioning right now. And so I think it's really exciting that the entire city is going to have the opportunity to participate in revitalizing. So congratulations. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you very much. This is a very intriguing idea. I was recently with our board with the BC BIA, and I know they are looking at doing something very similar. I did have some questions regarding the the autonomy. Are they completely or is this organization completely autonomous from the Adobe? And I guess that would be from Steph, Yes. Councilmember Yes. So these are these are two separate entities. So in terms of their their TAC status, they're they're formed as, as different entities and they stand alone. There is separation. And there are a number of things that you'll see in the agreement that we establish that ensure that there's there's not a conflict of interest. There's also different activities that they can engage in. As Mr. Cogen was mentioning, there's certain aspects of the 501c6 the bid or the deal that has restrictions in terms of what it can engage in the members. It serves the boundaries that it's required to stay within. So yeah, these entities are different. And I think that, as Mr. Cogen said, now, that now that the DDC is looking at the citywide mission and how to engage with city wide economic development, there will be a revisioning and how, you know, that board is structured in that that charter changes is part of this next step. And so when we when I read that we are or this this this board or DDC will be have a avoid a conflict of interest when raising funds that advance economic opportunities for workers, investors and entrepreneurs throughout the city. What do you envision and what type how do you envision this this organization helping workers and investors and entrepreneurs and charitable means? Oh, absolutely. So so on one. One example of that would be going out to work with a foundation who may grant funds to a five or 23 or nonprofit agency. In the past, the city, you know, couldn't apply for those funds. So the DDC may apply for funds on on on our behalf that could help with anything ranging from, you know, entrepreneurial support programs to, you know, fundraising for a specific program, maybe loans or grants to two local small businesses. The other thing that that the DDC can do is when we have maybe a new business who's building a project in in the city in the past, you know, the question would be, hey, how can we help businesses on the corridor around us if they're not part of a business improvement district or, you know, there's there's not a place that now these companies can give funds and work in agreement with the DDC to then implement special events, maybe facade improvements or some other economic development projects in the neighborhood that surrounds them and that benefits that that that corporate anchor. So it gives them an option that, you know, we haven't had previously and ultimately will benefit the city both directly and indirectly. And because there is a partnership with the city. I just have to ask because I know we have another item coming up a little bit later regarding audits of the bids. Would this nonprofit be subject to audit? Councilmember So in in the agreement, it actually has a section that talks about part of the terms and conditions is that any, any activities related to the city that the DDC engages in, that they will maintain records subject to audit not only during the term of the agreement, but up to five years after the agreement expires. So, yes, those kind of controls are in place. We actually have this a similar set of controls in place with other nonprofits, whether it's the police foundation, the Long Beach. Partners for parks in Long Beach Care. So it's a similar arrangement where we have, you know, the ability, if with reasonable time to ask the DDC to to share all information and financial records related to activities that that involve the city. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Richardson. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. Just wanted to acknowledge, Craig, we you know, we've had these conversations a long time. And I know that this has been a vision of yours for a long time to get the Economic Development Corporation, the Community Involvement Corporation, off the ground. And and I'm not concerned that it came out of downtown. Frankly, you were the most prepared business district to start this. And you were ahead. And you've done what you've done is help to bring other areas of town on board and to reap the benefits of what you've been able to do. I want to thank you for recently attending the Roundtable on Economic Inclusion for everyone in roundtable, and there were a lot of good conversations. And, you know, we're working on the Kiva stuff. So I know that you received a presentation from one of our from our facilitator to Nuer on that. I want to thank you for for expressing interest and coming on board as a as a trustee to get this program off the ground. John, so little question, are they going to be an official trustee or what is this action going to help prepare the EDC to to play that role? Or what's going to happen with Kiva? What's the relationship there? Yeah. Vice Mayor So the in terms of how our trustees function with Kiva program, there's a couple of roles that the DDC can play. The presentation we received the other day was for the Economic Development Committee of the DOJ, which you're referring to, and ultimately what organizations can do in the city in which I believe they'll be considering at their next board meeting is a recommendation to become a trustee. And what that means is that an organization or an association or even an individual in the city of Long Beach can vouch for individual borrowers. So they would meet with them. They would say, You know what, I met this individual. They are who they say they are. They're going to be using these funds to help their small business. And that helps to build credibility for residents of Long Beach to then become lenders for the Kiva microfinance program. So this is a perfect example of being able to partner with another organization that can both serve as a trustee and potentially even apply for grants or fundraise on behalf of these kinds of programs that help our micro-entrepreneurs. Great. Thanks. Any other public comment? I know that Mr. Guzman already spoke CNN. Then, please. Grace. You are quite. Supernatural. Since entrepreneurs are yeses. Okay, thank you very much. Now we're doing item number seven and then item number six. And then item number ten.

A RESOLUTION affirming the rights of members of the press, legal observers, and medical personnel covering the protests against police brutality.

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Thank you so much. The bill passes and the chair will sign it and ask the Burke. Please affix my signature to the legislation. Okay. Agenda item 15 Will the clerk please read agenda item 15 into the record? Agenda Item 15 Resolution 31961 affirming the rights of members of the press, legal observers and medical personnel covering the protests against police brutality. Thank you, Madam Burke. I will move to adopt resolution 31961. Is there a second second? It's been moved and seconded to adopt the resolution. Cameron will say that you are the prime sponsor of this resolution. I understand that you have a substitute version, so I'd like to suggest that before we make general comments that we get the substitute before us and then we can open up comments on the substitute version of resolution 31961. Thank you, Madam President. I move to amend Resolution 31961 by substituting version four for version to a second. Is there a second? Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Thank you. To substitute the resolution. Councilmember Mosquito, would you like us to just go ahead and take a vote on the substitute and then we can make we can make comments about the substitute version. Yes. And unless our colleagues is there, we did have a conversation about the contents of what is in the substitute version. Is there any need for additional description by the prime sponsor about what is in the substitute? A hearing nun will go ahead and ask the clerk to please call the roll on the adoption of the substitute. Peterson. So what? Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold. Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Let's get to. Okay. Yes. Yes. President Gonzalez? Yes. Eight in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The motion carries, the substitute is adopted, and version three of the resolution is before the council. I'm going to hand it back over to Councilmember Mosqueda to provide us with her remarks about the resolution as amended. And then I will open it up for general comment and debate, and we will then take a final rule on it, because we're just in you, Madam President. And just for the record, I believe we have version four in front of us, given the amendment that was circulated. Just want to double check that. That's what we voted on. Yes. Correct. That was an error on my my part of the script. I apologize. Okay. Thank you. Just wanted to make sure because President, I know it's been a long day, so I. I just thought I'd chime in there. Council calling the resolution in front of us affirms that the free press have the right to cover protests in our community. We know that during the last few months of the protests that we've seen here in Seattle and across the country, journalists have been subject to tactics that serve to intimidate or discourage reporters from performing their jobs, their responsibilities to observe these events and report them to the public. Local media outlets have said that the ruling that we have seen from the local court has and that would require them to turn over photos and videos taken at protests, threatens journalists role and prevents them from being seen as neutral. Observers could further erode trust between the public and the local media. This is a concern that we on city council want to make sure that we address head on. We want to make sure that those who are reporting in our streets are free from intimidation when covering protests. Increasingly, as we saw covered and crosscut recently, journalists have reason to fear for their physical safety. I'm quoting from Crosscut right now when they say that covering events like protests journalists have given I'm sorry, when covering events like protests, journalists have reason to fear for their physical safety. Forcing journalists to give their work to police would make them less welcome and increase those risks. Protests have constantly been some of the most dangerous on the site jobs for journalists working in the United States. And that has increased over the past three years, saying much of the violence comes sorry, much of the violence comes from police committing acts of violence against journalists, but sometimes protesters also lash out. This amendment addresses these issues no matter what our political opinions are. It's important that journalists have the ability to cover protests safely, to be safe, to feel safe, and that they're right to cover the protest is protected. And that's especially true when it comes to our police force. These are members who work for the city. We want to make sure that those who are covering these protests are not subject to the issues that we've seen repeatedly here in the city of Seattle, where reporters have been hit with flash bangs, experienced tear gas and have also been arrested in our city and incarcerated for hours as they awaited release. This resolution also applies to legal observers and medics who are at the protest to ensure that their legal rights and their safety is also protected at protests. These legal observers and medics have also been subject to gassing, flashbangs, arrests and intimidation. Reports from the past month include legal observers who have been targeted by the police and medics who've been trying to aid protesters being pepper sprayed and hit in the face and also experienced flash bangs hitting their bodies. It is embarrassing that the city of Seattle is highlighted in a more recent Amnesty International report. The report is entitled The World is Watching Mass Violations by US Police of Black Lives Matter protesters. It covers atrocities committed right here in Seattle in the chapter that is titled Human Rights Violations in the Policing of Protests. And Seattle is the first story that is highlighted in this report on page 22. And if I might briefly call your attention to one of the stories that has highlighted many of, you know, the story of Rihanna in that a 26 year old student who was struck in the chest by a flash grenade as she was kneeling down approximately 20 feet in front of the Seattle police line. She and her friends had been distributing food that evening at protests. She moved to the front to talk with police to de-escalate the tension. Shortly after talking with the officers, India was hit with a flash grenade. An intensive care nurse who is standing at the aid station behind the protesters said that she could smell the pepper spray and hear what that sounded like when the bombs exploded everywhere as people started rushing toward the aid station. She was treating four different people at the time, flushing chemical irritants from their eyes and trading welts on their arms and legs from being hit with flash grenades as she was treating them. Someone started screaming. She's been hit in the chest. She's been hit in the chest. Yet even as the medic and other medics scrambled to treat in there. Police continue to fired tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets at them and the aid station. Police then advanced on the aid station, firing flash grenades and pepper balls. Inside the station was clearly marked with identifying signs and red crosses and filled with tables stacked with water bottles and first aid supplies. This is why this resolution is important, both for members of the press or legal observers who we've seen on camera repeatedly being sprayed with pepper spray, and for medics who are trying to care for those who've experienced this type of trauma in our streets. We do have some positive news this morning, and that is why the resolution is amended in front of you to include a new Section five. The positive news is that according to a stipulated injunction from the Western District of Washington, SPV will be enjoined from using chemical irritants or projectiles against certain protesters. And the ruling says the federal judge in Oregon also stated that although the First Amendment does not enumerate special rights for observing government entities, the Supreme Court has recognized that newsgathering is an activity protected by the First Amendment without some protection for seeking out the news. Freedom of the press could be eviscerated. This is incredibly important that these decisions were made today. We want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to not only separate members of the press from being seen as an arm of the government or an extension of the police, but that we're constantly thinking about how we protect them in the moments that they're covering folks expressing their First Amendment rights, in addition to making sure that legal observers and medics are protected as well. I appreciate all of your work, council colleagues, as we raise up this resolution and recognize that this follows on the heels of the unanimous votes that we've taken to prevent these types of weapons from being used in our streets. Obviously, much more work to be done. And I know this council's committed to that. But I think that this resolution is an important step in reaffirming our commitment to protecting members of the press, legal observers and medics during this time. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilmember Mosqueda, for those remarks. The resolution looks like we have a I think a couple more folks who are interested in speaking. So I'm going to head over to Councilmember Peterson first as one of the co-sponsors, and then we'll hear from Councilmember Herbold. Thank you. Thank you, Council President and thank you, Councilwoman Mosqueda, for introducing Resolution 31961 and for welcoming me as a co-sponsor. This resolution is very important to me because I'm passionate about the crucial role that a free press plays in a healthy democracy. We must always protect journalists, including those who cover protests and demonstrations so they can shine a light on the truth by providing accurate and independent reports. Social media posts and government issued reports are not a substitute for professional journalists. As a highly respected journalist, Walter Cronkite said, freedom of the press is not just important to democracy. It is democracy. Thank you. Thank you. Peterson comes from rehearsal. Thank you. I want to thank Councilman Muscat for bringing this forward. Back on July 10th, I guess that is a month ago today, I wrote to the mayor in chief regarding the arrest of a journalist, Andrew Buncombe of the Independent and the threat of arrest of other journalists. I have not yet received a reply. And as a reminder, it's really important to recognize that the municipal code and the police department's policies, as it relates to orders to disperse, specifically exempts journalists. Nevertheless, since then, journalists are still reporting having chemical irritants or projectiles used on them and not just reporting it. I viewed it on live stream, including Omari Salisbury of Converge Media, and his threat of arrest was one of the reasons for that. The letter earlier. Using these devices on journalists has in effect the same impact as threat of arrest and arrest. It results in journalists being unable to cover the events that they are there to report on and thereby informing the public. The operation of the free press is a linchpin of American democracy. Thank you. Thank you so much. Councilmember Harold, are there any other comments? Councilmember Swan. Thank you. I will, of course, be voting in favor of this resolution opposing police officers, targeting journalists, arresting and abusing them, and demanding that they turn over their video footage. And of course, the same goes for legal observers and medics. I would just add that this is a resolution, which means it does not have the force of the law. And even if it were an ordinance with the force of the law, we have seen what has happened with the police department and especially under Mayor Durkin's authority. We would need to remember the laws of Seattle have already prohibited police officers from targeting journalists in the way they have done, and it still goes on, which means that the resolution will be insufficient to defend the freedom of the press in Seattle. But it is still important for the Council to pass this resolution. And because this is our final police department related item this summer, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the members of the City Council for their help in preparing the budget amendments from my office. As I mentioned at Wednesday's Budget Committee meeting, city council staff have been working on the agenda items, you know, almost round the clock that day. They were working until just before midnight at least, and that was far from the first time it happened for the Budget Committee was the case the night before. And, you know, that Budget Committee and so on. And I know there are several other examples of it. I want you to particularly thank the people who worked directly on the amendments proposed by my office, of course, Central Staff Director Garrison arrested than either Patty White. Green. Allie Banerjee. Lisa Gay. Aisha Bianca Drummond. Greg Doss. Karina Boyle. Yolanda Ho. Jeff Sims. Lesch Watson, Guido Freeman and Calvin Joe. My gratitude to each and every one of them. They have worked incredibly long hours in the budget in general and our movement has depended on them to write many versions of amendments, to respond to every criticism of the amendments that our communities need. And I know that others in the movement also appreciate their work. I also wanted to quickly also publicly thank all the socialist community organizers in my office Jonathan Rosenblum, Nick Jones and Adams and Koski, who have done exemplary and self-sacrificing work. And, needless to say, thanks to the hundreds, if not thousands of people who have given of themselves in this fight, the fight will go on. I look forward to seeing everyone during the People's Budget campaign in the autumn. Thank you. Thank you. Cause there wasn't any other comments on the resolution. It looks like no other council members have comments on that because we're asking that you have the last word. If you could close out the debate and be great. Thank you. Council president. I want to thank Councilmember Peterson for his co-sponsorship of this resolution. I also want to thank Asha and Ali from central staff and several from my staff for working on this resolution and council members out of Portland, Oregon, who now, I think three weeks ago unanimously passed a similar resolution so that we could we could really build on that across this region. Unfortunately, we've seen very similar tactics used in other cities as well. One element that I'd like to lift from the ruling today, it says, as described by the Ninth Circuit, when wrongdoing is underway, officials have a great incentive to be blindfolded, to blindfold the watchful eyes of the fourth estate. When the government when the government announces it is excluding the press for reasons such as administrative convenience, preservation of evidence or protection of reporters safety, its real motive may be to prevent the gathering of information about government abuses or incompetence. This is a critical time that we're in. This is the tip of the iceberg in times of in terms of the type of accountability that I think our city demands, in terms of the images, livestreaming videos that we've seen. I'm proud of this council for taking this step today to pass this resolution. And I know that there will be more to come to provide safe avenues for journalists, for medics, for legal observers and for protesters. Thank you very much, Madam President. Thank you so much, Councilmember Skinner, for closing out debate on the resolution. So I am not going to ask that the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of the resolution as amended. Peterson I. Want. Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold Yes. Lewis Yes. Morales Yes. Mosqueda. Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Agent Favre. None opposed. Thank you, Madam Sident. The resolution is adopted as amended and the chair will sign it. And please affix my signature to the legislation. Okay, colleagues. Is there any further business to come before the council? Seeing no further business colleagues. This concludes the items of business on today's agenda at our next City Council meeting is scheduled for Monday, August 17, 2020 at 2 p.m.. That again concludes our meeting for today. I hope that you all have a wonderful evening and we are now adjourned. Thank you, everyone. Oh. Councilmember Herbold, I believe you are going to speak to this bill. So if that's the case, I'm going to hand it over to you to address. Things are going to be my rules. I'm going to hand it over to Councilmember Lewis. Thank you so much. Okay. Yeah. Councilmember Lewis. Floor is yours. Thank you so much. You know, I don't know. We discussed this so much, I. I don't really have anything else to had, quite honestly, in the interest of time, given how, how late it is, I'll just I honestly just want to rest on my earlier comments, if that's okay. That's perfectly fine. We have been having conversations about this in council briefings, so totally appreciate that. Are there any other comments on the bill? Okay hearing as he nodded at the clerk gave call the roll on the passage. Up the Peterson. High. The a. Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold Yes. Lewis Yes. Morales Yes. Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Eight in favor and unopposed. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. And I guess that the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation. Okay. Agenda item number 14. Will the clerk please read the agenda? Item 14 into the record. Agenda Item 14 Council Bill 119842 related to gig workers in Seattle establishing labor standards requirements for paid sick and paid safe time for gig. Workers. Working in Seattle and amending Sections 100.0 15.0 80 Ordinance 126091 to make technical corrections. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I moved to pass Council Bill 119842. Is there a second? Second? It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill comes from a state I believe you're you're going to take the lead on speaking on this bill, so I'm going to hand it over to you. Thank you, Madam President. Colleagues, this is a technical amendment that clarifies that this ordinance only applies to independent contractors and not individuals who are already covered by Seattle's paid sick and safe time ordinance. And this should be pretty self-explanatory. But we were told by the Office of Labor Standards it would be helpful to have this in code. So that is what we are doing today. Thank you, Councilmember Mosqueda. Are there any other comments on the bill? Seeing and hearing none. Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill? Peterson. I. So what? Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold Yes. Lewis Yes. Morales Yes. Macheda Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Eight in favor. Nine opposed. Thank you so much. The bill passes and the chair will sign it and ask the court please affix my signature to the legislation. Okay. Agenda item 15 Will the clerk please read Agenda Item 15 into the record? Agenda Item 15 Resolution 31961 affirming the rights of members of the press, legal observers and medical personnel covering the protests against police brutality. Thank you, Madam Burke. I will move to adopt resolution 31961. Is there a second second? It's been moved and seconded to adopt the resolution. Cameron will say that you are the prime sponsor of this resolution. I understand that you have a substitute version, so I'd like to suggest that before we make general comments that we get the substitute before us and then we can open up comments on the substitute version of resolution 31961. Thank you, Madam President. I move to amend Resolution 31961 by substituting version four for version to a second. Is there a second? Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Thank you. To substitute the resolution. Councilmember Mosquito, would you like us to just go ahead and take a vote on the substitute and then we can make we can make comments about the substitute version. Yes. And unless our colleagues is there, we did have a conversation about the contents of what is in the substitute version. Is there any need for additional description by the prime sponsor about what is in the substitute? Eight hearing, none will go ahead and ask the clerk to please call the roll on the adoption of the substitute. Peterson. So what? Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold. Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Let's get to. Okay. Yes. Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Eight in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The motion carries, the substitute is adopted, and version three of the resolution is before the council. I'm going to hand it back over to Councilmember Mosqueda to provide us with her remarks about the resolution as amended. And then I will open it up for general comment and debate, and we will then take a final vote on it because it was great. Thank you, Madam President. And just for the record, I believe we have version four in front of us, given the amendment that was circulated. Just want to double check that. That's what we voted on. Yes. Correct. That was an error on my my part of the script. I apologize. Okay. Thank you. Just wanted to make sure because President, I know it's been a long day, so I. I just thought I'd chime in there. Council colleagues, the resolution in front of us affirms that the free press have the right to cover protests in our community. We know that during the last few months of the protests that we've seen here in Seattle and across the country, journalists have been subject to tactics that serve to intimidate or discourage reporters from performing their jobs, their responsibilities to observe these events and report them to the public. Local media outlets have said that the ruling that we have seen from the local court has and that would require them to turn over photos and videos taken at protests, threatens journalists role and prevents them from being seen as neutral. Observers could further erode trust between the public and the local media. This is a concern that we on city council want to make sure that we address head on. We want to make sure that those who are reporting in our streets are free from intimidation when covering protests. Increasingly, as we saw covered and crosscut recently, journalists have reason to fear for their physical safety. I'm quoting from Crosscut right now when they say that covering events like protests journalists have given I'm sorry, when covering events like protests, journalists have reason to fear for their physical safety. Forcing journalists to give their work to police would make them less welcome and increase those risks. Protests have constantly been some of the most dangerous on the site jobs for journalists working in the United States. And that has increased over the past three years, saying much of the violence comes sorry, much of the violence comes from police committing acts of violence against journalists, but sometimes protesters also lash out. This amendment addresses these issues no matter what our political opinions are. It's important that journalists have the ability to cover protests safely, to be safe, to feel safe, and that they're right to cover the protest is protected. And that's especially true when it comes to our police force. These are members who work for the city. We want to make sure that those who are covering these protests are not subject to the issues that we've seen repeatedly here in the city of Seattle, where reporters have been hit with flash bangs, experienced tear gas and have also been arrested in our city and incarcerated for hours as they awaited release. This resolution also applies to legal observers and medics who are at the protest to ensure that their legal rights and their safety is also protected at protests. These legal observers and medics have also been subject to gassing, flashbangs, arrests and intimidation. Reports from the past month include legal observers who have been targeted by the police and medics who've been trying to aid protesters being pepper sprayed and hit in the face and also experienced flash bangs hitting their bodies. It is embarrassing that the city of Seattle is highlighted in a more recent Amnesty International report. The report is entitled The World is Watching Mass Violations by US Police as Black Lives Matter Protesters. It covers atrocities committed right here in Seattle in the chapter that is titled Human Rights Violations in the Policing of Protests. And Seattle is the first story that is highlighted in this report on page 22. And if I might briefly call your attention to one of the stories that has highlighted many of, you know, the story of Rihanna in that a 26 year old student who was struck in the chest by a flash grenade as she was kneeling down approximately 20 feet in front of the Seattle police line. She and her friends had been distributing food that evening at protests. She moved to the front to talk with police to de-escalate the tension. Shortly after talking with the officers, the was hit with a flash grenade. An intensive care nurse who was standing at the aid station behind the protesters said that she could smell the pepper spray and hear what that sounded like when the bombs exploded everywhere as people started rushing toward the aid station. She was treating four different people at the time, flushing chemical irritants from their eyes and treating welts on their arms and legs from being hit with flash grenades as she was treating them. Someone started screaming. She's been hit in the chest. She's been hit in the chest. Yet even as the medic and other medics scrambled to treat in there. Police continue to fired tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets at them and the aid station. Police then advanced on the aid station, firing flash grenades and pepper balls. Inside the station was clearly marked with identifying signs and red crosses and filled with tables stacked with water bottles and first aid supplies. This is why this resolution is important, both for members of the press or legal observers who we've seen on camera repeatedly being sprayed with pepper spray, and for medics who are trying to care for those who've experienced this type of trauma in our streets. We do have some positive news this morning, and that is why the resolution is amended in front of you to include a new Section five. The positive news is that according to a stipulated injunction from the Western District of Washington, SPV will be enjoying from using chemical irritants or projectiles against certain protesters. And the ruling says the federal judge in Oregon also stated that although the First Amendment does not enumerate special rights for observing government entities, the Supreme Court has recognized that newsgathering is an activity protected by the First Amendment without some protection for seeking out the news. Freedom of the press could be eviscerated. This is incredibly important that these decisions were made today. We want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to not only separate members of the press from being seen as an arm of the government or an extension of the police, but that we're constantly thinking about how we protect them in the moments that they're covering folks expressing their First Amendment rights, in addition to making sure that legal observers and medics are protected as well. I appreciate all of your work, council colleagues, as we raise up this resolution and recognize that this follows on the heels of the unanimous votes that we've taken to prevent these types of weapons from being used in our street. Obviously, much more work to be done. And I know this council's committed to that. But I think that this resolution is an important step in reaffirming our commitment to protecting members of the press, legal observers and medics during this time. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilmember Mosqueda, for those remarks. The resolution looks like we have, I think, a couple more folks who are interested in speaking. So I'm going to head over to Councilmember Peterson first as one of the co-sponsors, and then we'll hear from Councilmember Herbold. Thank you. Thank you, Council President. And thank you, Councilwoman ROSQUETA, for introducing Resolution 31961 and for welcoming me as a co-sponsor. This resolution is very important to me because I'm passionate about the crucial role that a free press plays in a healthy democracy. We must always protect journalists, including those who cover protests and demonstrations so they can shine a light on the truth by providing accurate and independent reports. Social media posts and government issued reports are not a substitute for professional journalists. As a highly respected journalist, Walter Cronkite said, freedom of the press is not just important to democracy. It is democracy. Thank you. Thank you, Governor Peterson, from rehearsal. Thank you. I want to thank Councilman Muscat for bringing this forward. Back on July 10th, I guess that is a month ago today, I wrote to the mayor in chief regarding the arrest of a journalist, Andrew Buncombe of the Independent and the threat of arrest of other journalists. I have not yet received a reply. And as a reminder, it's really important to recognize that the municipal code and the police department's policies, as it relates to orders to disperse, specifically exempts journalists. Nevertheless, since then, journalists are still reporting having chemical irritants or projectiles used on them and not just reporting it. I viewed it on Livestream, including Omari Salisbury of Converge Media and his threat of arrest was one of the reasons for that. The letter earlier using these devices on journalists has in effect the same impact as threat of arrest and arrest. It results in journalists being unable to cover the events that they are there to report on and thereby informing the public. The operation of the free press is a linchpin of American democracy. Thank you. Thank you so much. Councilmember Herbert, are there any other comments? Councilmember Salaam. Thank you. I will, of course, be voting in favor of this resolution opposing police officers, targeting journalists, arresting and abusing them, and demanding that they turn over their video footage. And of course, the same goes for legal observers and medics. I would just add that this is a resolution, which means it does not have the force of the law. And even if it were an ordinance with the force of the law, we have seen what has happened with the police department and especially under Mayor Durkin's authority. We would need to remember the laws of Seattle have already prohibited police officers from targeting journalists in the way they have done, and it still goes on, which means that the resolution will be insufficient to defend the freedom of the press in Seattle. But it is still important for the Council, the resolution. And because this is our final police department related item this summer, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the members of the City Council for their help in preparing the budget amendments from my office. As I mentioned at Wednesday's Budget Committee meeting, city council staff have been working on the agenda items, you know, almost around the clock that day. They were working until just before midnight at least, and that was far from the first time it happened for the Budget Committee. This was the case the night before. And, you know, that Budget Committee and so on. And I know there are several other examples of it. I want you to particularly thank the people who worked directly on the amendments proposed by my office. Of course, Central Staff Director Garrison arrested Dan Reader Barry White. Green. Allie Banerjee. Lisa Kay. Asha Venkatraman. Greg Doss. Carina Boyle. Yolanda Ho. Jeff Sims, Lesch Watson, Keith Freeman and Calvin Joe. My gratitude to each and every one of them. They worked incredibly long hours in the budget in general, and our movement has depended on them to write many versions of amendments, to respond to every criticism of the amendments that our communities need. And I know that others in the movement also appreciate their work. I also wanted to quickly also publicly thank all the socialist community organizers in my office Jonathan Rosenblum, Nick Jones and Adams and Koski, who have done exemplary and self-sacrificing work. And, needless to say, thanks to the hundreds, if not thousands of people who have given of themselves in this fight, the fight will go on. I look forward to seeing everyone during the People's Budget campaign in the autumn. Thank you. Thank you, because there wasn't any other comments on the resolution. It looks like no other council members have comments on that because we're. Muscala you have the last word. If you could close out the debate, I'd be great. Thank you. Council president. I want to thank councilmember peterson for his co-sponsorship of this resolution. I also want to thank Asha and Ali from central staff and several from my staff for working on this resolution and council members out of Portland, Oregon, who now, I think three weeks ago unanimously passed a similar resolution so that we could we could really build on that across this region. Unfortunately, we've seen very similar tactics used in other cities as well. One element that I'd like to lift from the ruling today, it says, as described by the Ninth Circuit, when wrongdoing is underway, officials have a great incentive to be blindfolded, to blindfold the watchful eyes of the fourth estate. When the government when the government announces it is excluding the press for reasons such as administrative convenience, preservation of evidence or protection of reporters safety. Its real motive may be to prevent the gathering of information about government abuses or incompetence. This is a critical time that we're in. This is the tip of the iceberg in times of in terms of the type of accountability that I think our city demands, in terms of the images by streaming videos that we've seen. I'm proud of this council for taking this step today to pass this resolution. And I know that there will be more to come to provide safe avenues for journalists, for medics, for legal observers and for protesters. Thank you very much, Madam President. Thank you so much, Councilmember Skinner, for closing out debate on the resolution. So I am not going to ask that. The Court Please call the roll on the adoption of the resolution as amended. Peterson I. So want. Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold Yes. Lewis Yes. Morales Yes. Mosqueda. Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Agent Faber? None unopposed. Thank you, Madam Sident. The resolution is adopted as amended in the chair will sign it. Please affix my signature to the legislation. Okay, colleagues, is there any further business to come before the council? They seeing? No for their business colleagues. This concludes the items of business on today's agenda at our next City Council meeting is scheduled for Monday, August 17, 2020, at 2 p.m.. That again concludes our meeting for today. I hope you all have a wonderful evening and we are now adjourned. Thank you, everyone.

Public Hearing to Consider Introduction of Ordinance Revising the City’s Sewer Service Charges. (Public Works 602)

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Thank you. Thank you, Staff. Nice to see you. And then we will move on to item six. Be Madam Quick. Public Hearing to consider introduction of ordinance revising the city sewer service charges. All right. And is that his present? Is that Mr. Garland? And this accord myth we're promoting. All right. Yes, I think there's an announcement right soon. When I say anything. City manager. He loves it. When I put him on the spot. Tour and I this was one of my few announcements I was going to make in my same manager report. But today we decided, I announced Aaron Smith is going to be the interim public works director when Liam leaves. All right. Yes. All right. Well, with that, may we call on Nick Smith to give the report on item six be? Hello, everyone. Can you hear me? I can hear you. We can't see you. Yeah, I don't know why. Oh. Oh. I know it. I miss everybody. At like I see your face on the screen, but maybe. There we go. There you go. See? I can see you. Wonderful. Good evening, Madam Mayor. Vice Mayor, members of the council, and Aaron Smith, a current deputy soon to be interim public works director. Thank you for the opportunity to serve. Tonight is public hearings for proposed revisions to our sewer service charge. I also will keep things brief. I appreciate the agenda shifting as we do have a staff member downstairs. Back in April, we presented a rate study to council that was prepared by our consultant, Bartle Wells. That rate study looked at funding needs and revenue sources for the sewer program and recommended a 3% annual increase over the next five years. That's 3% per year for the next five years. Just to be clear, the objectives of that rate increase are multifold. One is sufficient funding for pipeline replacement, capital improvements and operating costs. We want to maintain sufficient operating and capital reserves to meet any debt coverage requirements that we have and of course, mitigate impacts to ratepayers smoothing out the rate and avoiding rate spikes in the future. I want to take just a minute to highlight some accomplishments of the sure program since the federal consent decree was in place in 2014. We have met and exceeded all requirements. And just to refresh memories, the two primary objectives of our consent decree are is to reduce the amount of stormwater entering our sewer system, particularly during rain events where that excess flow exceeds the regional treatment capacity and partially treated wastewater discharged to the bay. The other objective is to minimize or eliminate overflows from our collection system onto streets or back up in people's properties. So to date, in the last six years, under federal court order, we've replaced 20 miles of old sewer main. That's about 15% of our collection system. That shifts the average age from nearly 90 years to 55. So a significant accomplishment, but a lot more to be done to avoid failures. A reminder that this work is guided by a 20 year rehabilitation plan that's in our sewer master plan that is prioritized based upon condition assessment. It's also renovated nearly 80% of our 32 excuse me, 34 pumping facilities. And with the island flat, dependable pumping facilities is essential for continued service. We need to continue forward with this good work. And the study identifies the 3% increase in order to do so. Back in April when the rate study went to council. Council also adopted a resolution declaring their intent to revise the sewer service charge. Shortly thereafter, we sent over 20,000 notices to affected property owners, announcing the public hearing this evening, giving instruction for submission of protest. As of 530 this evening, we had 14 protests and just texting the individual downstairs. We've received none this evening. So that leaves 14 total protest, which is not the majority, which allows council to move forward in voting on the ordinance, which puts forth the rate increase. And with that, I can answer questions and report. Thank you, Miss Smith. Any council questions for staff? Do we have emotion? Do we have any public comment? I'm so sorry. I try. Okay. We have no comment, so we're all right. I'm not. Okay. So no public comment. We'll close up a comment and and I will initiate a movement motion. So move gets then move by Councilmember Odie. And do I have a second? People are going to be here a long time. Councilmember de 6 seconds. With a. Comment. Yes. Comment. Councilmember Desai, quick comment. When you look at the bottles and well study in table three, we have a comparison of the city of Alameda, monthly service charge for a single family residence and it compares it against Berkeley, Oakland, Albany and Piedmont. And we come out pretty favorable in terms of how it what our rates are. The typical monthly rate is for a single family home. Emeryville has a much lower rate than Alameda. But when you look at Alameda relative to other cities in North Alameda County, we come out pretty well. So. So that's why I, I certainly support this and we're paying it right now. And the new amount that we're going to pay next year at 3% increase is relatively reasonable. All right. Thank you for your comments. Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Maybe we have a roll call vote, please. Councilor Dayton, Guy Knox White. Hi. Hi. I may as I carry five fi. All right. Thank you. And please call your staff member inside. Thank you. I'm back. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Nice to see everyone. Staff and consultants. And then with that, we move on to item six. See? Public hearing to consider an appeal of certain conditions of approval imposed by Planning Board Resolution Number PB 2010 approving a waiver of the Universal Residential Design Ordinance Alameda Municipal Code Section 30, Dash 18 for the proposed development and 2229 to 2235 Clement Avenue and adoption of related resolution.

A bill for an ordinance designating 6400 Montview Boulevard as a structure for preservation. Approves an individual Denver landmark designation for property located at 6400 Montview Boulevard in Council District 8. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 1-5-21.

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Councilmember CdeBaca. Will you please put Council Bill 20 1560 on the floor for passage? I move that council bill 2015 six be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved. May I get a second? Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. The required public hearing for Council Bill 20, Dash 1516 is open. May we please have a stop? The staff report, please. Evening Council. My name is Jenny Button. I'm a senior city planner in community development and planning or excuse me, community development. We share my screen here real quick with you guys. Is that coming through okay for you? Mm hmm. Thanks, Jenny. Okay, great. And tonight, I'm presenting on the proposed historic designation of the residential property located at 6400 Mt. View Boulevard in the South Park neighborhood. The ability to designate individual landmarks and historic districts. And the city and county of Denver was set forth in the 1967 Landmark Preservation Ordinance. Since then, the city has designated 351 individual landmarks and 56 historic districts scattered across the city, as you see indicated on the map. This equals roughly 7000 buildings or 4% of the city that are designated landmarks. The designation process is community driven and applications can be submitted by a variety of persons. For this property, the owner submitted the designation application. The owner is Rebecca Rodgers again. This is located in the South Park Hill neighborhood. This is Council District Number eight, Christopher Herndon. And the current zoning is U.S.. A property must meet the following criteria for historic designation. It needs to be more than 30 years old or of exceptional importance. It needs to meet at least three out of ten significance criteria, maintain integrity and be considered by the Landmark Preservation Commission for relation to historic context or theme run through each of these criteria with you this evening. The structure built in 1936 is more than 30 years old. It also makes three significant criteria that you see highlighted on the screen, made see to embody the distinctive physical characteristics of an architectural style or type, it needs to be a significant example of the work of a recognized architect or master builder, and it also represents to represent an established and familiar feature of a neighborhood, community or contemporary city due to its prominent location or physical characteristics. These criteria illustrate what makes a property a 6400 Montague Boulevard significant for historic designation, which is primarily its design excellence. And let's go through each of these criteria. More detail now. The Single Unit residence at 6400 View Boulevard embodies the distinctive, visible characteristics of the Spanish eclectic style. It possesses several identifying features, including an asymmetrical facade stucco cladding with decorative brick tile roof with multiple levels, elaborate chimney top arches above principal windows, arched front entry with decorative ironwork instances, balcony with UN railing and primary facade and second story covered porch and round tower at the rear that you can see just above the trampoline there. The Spanish eclectic style often also includes elaborate landscaping features, and this property is no exception, with its flagstone walkway depicting moon phases leading to the front entry, which you can see in the second image from the left and flagstone back patio with sun imagery. It is one of a few Spanish eclectic style houses in the South Park Hill neighborhood. Its construction occurred at the tail end of the popularity of Spanish style in the United States that spans 1915 to 1940. The property is a significant residential example of the work of recognized architect J. Roger Music and master builder Harry Bittman, often designing in partnership with his older brother G. Meredith, music and civic and religious commissions such as the Masons Stamp Theater and Library on the Loretto Heights campus, which is currently under redevelopment. This venture represents the only known Spanish eclectic style residence designed by J. Roger Music in Denver. It is consistent with his residential designs and that it is a straightforward interpretation of the Spanish eclectic style and includes a prominent main entrance, accented with a large decorative round. It differs in its use of stucco as opposed to brick or stone, which is more commonly found in music's residential designs. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City, music's commercial, civic and religious designs have gained more recognition to date, including the Berkeley Park Chapel that was recently designated as Denver Landmark and the Colorado State Capitol Annex. Music was a Denver based architect from the late 1920s to late 1960s. He partnered with Master Builder and property owner Harry M Bittman on the design and construction of 6400 Mathew Boulevard. Simmons career in Denver spanned from 1928 to 1967 and included both residential real estate development and construction. He served as president of the Home Realty Company, was a founding member of Quality Home Builders Inc and formed the Bittman Construction Company in partnership with Jay Roger. Music on the design of this property influenced Bittman to build a similar Spanish eclectic style residence at 4833 East Sixth Avenue in 1937 that is not credited to Jay Roger Music. This influence took place early in Batman's long lasting career, making this a significant example of his work. And lastly, for the significance criteria, the property represents and established a familiar feature of the neighborhood due to its physical characteristics as the only true two storey Spanish eclectic style residence and its prominent location along Mountain View Boulevard. Miami Boulevard between Colorado Boulevard and Monaco Parkway consists of large residences and lots designed to be prominent with more modest residences tucked into the side streets. This stretch of road and green space that comprises Mont View Boulevard is part of Denver City, beautiful movement, parkways, historic district, which you can see indicate on the map shaded in Brown . The property at 6400 Mountview Boulevard stands out among the other large residences along the Parkway that are primarily Tudor revival and ranch styles constructed of brick. Its stucco clad walls and distinctive design elements stand in contrast to its surroundings, making it a familiar feature of a South Parkdale neighborhood. In respect to change over time, the property retains a high degree of integrity and has experienced minimal alteration. It retains integrity of location, setting, feeling and association as it is in its original location, is still used as a private residence, and the surrounding residential context has been largely unaltered since original construction of the property. Integrity of design, materials and workmanship have been impacted with the replacement of the original windows and garage doors. However, key character defining features of the structure like the tile roof, decorative metalwork and brickwork, stucco cladding, arch surrounds, decorative flagstone walkway and back patio and a rear second story porch and tower are preserved so the property retains the identity for which it is significant. Lastly, the property made several historic contacts with the 1936 period of significance. A historic context refers to the cultural, social, religious, economic and or political conditions that existed during a certain time provides the background necessary to understand how and why a structure or a district may have historic architectural, geographic or cultural significance. In other words, the context is not what makes a property or property significant, but rather provides a framework for understanding what does make it significant. In the case of 6400 Montague Boulevard, the property is significant. Bruce Architecture, Design Excellence. As for its historic context, it was constructed during the Great Depression and represents residential development by the affluent that happened at that time in Denver neighborhoods. It was also built during the time when racial segregation caused by real estate development was occurring in Denver and cities across the nation due to redlining efforts that began with the creation of the Federal Housing Administration in 1934. Harthill was an overwhelmingly white, populated neighborhood. At the time, this property was developed and the building's original owner fit that demographic. The property also relates the theme of housing near Denver's parks and parkways. The Park and Parkway System is part of the city. Beautiful movement was designed to be an integrated system of stately public buildings and appealing surrounding neighborhoods. Development of the property at 6400 MATTHEWS Boulevard occurred much later than the most active years of the original design and implementation of Denver City beautiful movement in the early 1900s. However, it still falls within this context through development of Montague Boulevard as a city beautiful parkway stemming from City Park in bookending at Monaco Street Parkway. As you can see in the image on the screen. In summary, the property meets all criteria for historic designation. It is 84 years old. It meets three designation criteria. See the map? It maintains its integrity and relates to several historic contexts. Five individuals submitted emails in support of the designations and acquisition. Therefore, staff recommends approval to designate 6400 Mathew Boulevard as a structure for preservation. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you, Jenny. And tonight, council has received four written comments on Council Bill 1560. There are four submitted comments in favor of the application and no submitted comments in opposition of the application. All members of Council that are present have certified that they have read each of the submitted written comments. Do any members need more time in order to read all of the written testimony that was submitted? Seen none. Council Secretary. Let the record reflect that all written testimony, both in favor and in opposition of Council Bill 1560 has been read by each member of Council and all written testimony will be submitted to the official record of the hearing. We have five individuals signed up to speak this evening and our first speaker up is the applicant, Rebecca Rogers. Hi. Good evening. Thank you for considering my house for designation. My journey to designate my home at 6400. Mt. View began several years ago. In 2014, I joined the board of Historic Denver because I was passionate about preserving and celebrating the unique history of Denver. As I learn more about the history of this great city, I felt more passionate about working to preserve its unique and limited historic structures and neighborhoods. As a result, in 2015, I hosted a community meeting at the Park Hill Library to educate people in the neighborhood about historic districts. I firmly believed Park Hill was a perfect place to create a historic district and hope others would feel the same. Out of this meeting, a group of approximately ten neighbors started meeting twice a month to work towards creating a historic district. I was really hoping that we would all agree on an area to tackle for the district that would include my house. But we had voted and we had all decided that instead of that we would try and tackle the first subdivision in Park Hill. As we started our efforts in earnest to work on the district, I pledged to seek to have my home individually designated and as the neighborhood historic district has taken many turns and even even more years, I decided to move forward with work on my own designation. When I moved to Denver in 2003 from Milwaukee, I was looking for a neighborhood one like the many neighborhoods that existed in Milwaukee with the large trees, the parkways and the historic homes. I was surprised to discover not many such neighborhoods existed, and when I happened upon Park Hill, I fell in love. I would drive to the neighborhood just to take walks and a house, watch up and down the streets. Even back then, home prices were high, especially for a young, single woman. I eventually found a starter home at right off of Colfax and Jasmine. I fixed up the house and started to move to larger fixer uppers. That led me to a house on 23rd and forest, and then another one in 17th Avenue Parkway and Cherry. And then finally to 6400 Mountview. We have now been in our house at the new home since 2013. We have completed many projects in that time, including stucco repair, masonry, repair of roof restoration, electrical upgrades, replacing many missing bathroom floors, renovating bathrooms and kitchens just to name a few projects. Everything has been done in a way that we hope celebrates the home's historic character and architectural style. We want to designate our home to ensure that it is around for generations to reflect Park Hill's diverse historical architecture along Mount View Boulevard, as Jennifer just spoke about being one of the last houses along that boulevard. Our house stands out not only because of its prominent location on the southeast corner. That's the time we have allocated. We appreciate your comments. Our next speaker up is Kristi minnillo. Good evening. My name is Christy. Minnie Yellow and I live in Denver. I prepared the application on behalf of Rebecca, so I am available to answer any questions council may have. All right. Thank you, Christy. Our next speaker is Shannon Stage. Good evening, council members. Thank you so much for having us tonight. My name is Shannon Stage and I am the preservation coordinator at Historic Denver. We are a membership based nonprofit that provides assistance and resources to help preserve places that matter to our community. Our address is 1420 Ogden Street, Denver, Colorado. We are thrilled to be here tonight to show our support at City Council for the Bittman, our House designation at 6400 Mt. View. As outlined in the preamble of our city's preservation ordinance, one reason we have a designation program is to foster good urban design, and this property is being designated for its design excellence. Has Jenny mentioned and what it contributes to our shared fabric of our city, particularly due to its location at the intersection of two of our city's notable parkways, Mt. View Boulevard and Mt. View Parkway, which are both a part of the National Register and local designation Parks and Parkway System. It reflects design, excellence and artistic merit through its strong and intact Spanish eclectic style and is the only example of this style designed by J. Roger Music, a notable Denver architect responsible for a number of high quality buildings in Denver. This house will be the first residential structure designated on Montague and only the fourth home in Park Hill to be designated, despite the fact that Park Hill has encompasses more than 10,000 homes in total. Among these 10,000 homes, there is a great variety of architectural styles, inspiring stories and historic themes. 6400 Views sits within this larger context of Park Hill neighborhood history from its early development in the 19th century through the first decades of the 20th century to the postwar boom that expanded the neighborhood to the north, to the area's role in the civil rights movement and resident and church led efforts to fight unjust real estate practices and promote integration. I want to commend Rebecca Rodgers and her family for their stewardship of their house so far and their efforts to pursue this designation with the help from many other consulting that who prepared the designation application. We hope Rebecca and her family's action will inspire others in the neighborhood to take similar action, as Parkville is home to many terrific resources, but so few designations. Thank you all. Thanks so much tonight. Thank you, Shannon. Our next speaker up is Jessie Perez. Hello. Go ahead, Jesse. I think you might have to unmute again. Uniform. Only the speaker. Mm hmm. Anyway, my name is. Just listen, Paris. I'm up against the Denver homicide law last night. Law for self-defense, positive for suffocation. It was the Unity Party of Colorado in a mile high. No, that would be the next mayor of Denver in 2020. Group. So here we go again with another historic preservation. I know historically prejudiced and racist neighborhood, but yes. South Park you. So we're going to pass this preservation because it meets all the criteria of whatever criteria is based on it's going to meet the criteria. So there's nothing I can tell you that changed your vote on this. I would just like to acknowledge the fact that the presentation didn't do any kind of justice or injustice in regards to the fact that this was red lives. And this house is one of the main houses that would put a red line in. It was involved included in that red lining. You mentioned it bravely, but then it kind of we didn't go into detail about it. So but those are going in in our home. Prior to 1970, black people were not allowed to live past Colorado Boulevard. The first black people moved to Park Hill, what is now South Park? The North Park Hill in the 1970s. So this is very recent that we were allowed to even live in this neighborhood and campaigning in 2019. And every single door in this neighborhood and this area is still pretty much a red line. Maybe a few black families stay in South Park. Majority of the black families live in North Park. You. And this is by design. So even 40, 50, 50 years later, we still see the effects of rail line in in the 21st century. So I would be doing all my people with the service if I did not bring this up and let people know the historical significance of this. As I stated previously, nothing I'm going to say is going to change. The vote on this is pretty much been bought and sold. So I just want to let people know. Redlining is still in effect in the 21st century. This neighborhood was off limits to black people for a number of years. A number of decades. And I do not feel comfortable in this neighborhood. Still to this day, like I said, I knock on doors in this neighborhood doing my campaigning for city council about large. I do not feel welcome or at home if you don't know how to start with that. This meets the criteria. So once you get past. Thank you for your time tonight. By. Thank you, Jesse. Our last speaker is David Hagan. Hi. Good evening, City Council. Thanks for having me on here. I want to just reiterate what Jessie had said. I'm assuming that the only black people that entered that house prior to 1970 worked at that house to either clean or cook. And I think that that should be stated that we're well aware of the white supremacist past of that neighborhood. And since it was brought up that the home was part of integration, I think that we should also be aware that that that home housed a whole lot of unhoused right now. So I don't know how many bedrooms and whatnot are in there, but I'm pretty sure half of downtown could sleep in that house. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers tonight, questions from members of council. All right. Going once. Going twice. All right. The public hearing for Council Bill 20, Dash 1560 is closed. Comments by members of council. Councilman Herndon. Thank you, Madam President. I am very familiar with this property. I take my view several times. It's a beautiful house for those who have not had the opportunity to drive it, and it certainly meets the criteria. We got a little off comment with a little bit of false information, but I'll let my colleagues, your interested, read the history of Baku when it comes to integration and the work that that community has done. So I just want to just briefly talk about that, since I don't want people to think everything that's said here during public comment is true. But I also want to commend Rebecca Rogers and her family. She's a tireless advocate for making things historic beyond just her household, as she was talking about in the park community. So I want to thank her and her continued efforts for that. I will be supporting this and I would ask my colleagues to do the same. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Herndon and I likewise will be supporting this structure for preservation. It does meet all of the significant criteria necessary. Madam Secretary, roll call, please. Herndon, I. Hines. I. Cashman, Ryan. Can each i. Ortega. I. Sandoval. I swear. I, Torres. I. Black eye. CdeBaca. I, Clark. All right. Flynn. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes. 13 Eyes Council Bill 20 Dash 1560 has passed there being no further business before this body. This meeting is adjourned. Enjoy your evening.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution amending the Master Fees and Charges Schedule adopting new fees and penalties for violations of Chapter 8.81 of the Long Beach Municipal Code, relating to fireworks. (Citywide)

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Council, District two I Council, District three i District four i district by district six i. District seven i. District eight District nine I. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 18. Report from City Manager Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution amending the master fees and charges schedule. Adopting new fees and penalties for violations relating to fireworks citywide. Thank you very much. I have a motion in a second. Is there any public comment on this item? That's one reason Day has. Thank you, Mayors. You know, this is a very important topic to my residents and I and. Just 1/2. Yes. The in the past week, we have begun to hear more and more fireworks being unveiled in our district. That's clearly sending a message that it is really necessary to to look at what what things we can do to prevent anybody from wanting to to light fireworks were they're already illegal here in the city of Long Beach. I think that this ordinance will and will that were voted on today will help us kind of disincentivize those people from wanting to light fireworks that are being very disruptive, not only in my district, of course, but throughout the city. One of the things that is very important is that we create a city that is not welcoming. Well, not that it is welcoming right now, but that is not welcoming to light fireworks. So, you know that that the consequences are greater than than the joy of lighting the fireworks. So I'm very, very happy to be supporting this item. Thank you, Councilman Ciro. I just want to thank all of our residents who have been so active in advocating for, you know, active measures and stronger measures for us to be able to address the illegal firework, especially the Long Beach, against illegal firework groups. So I just want to express my thanks for for all of their time and energy that they've spent on this ongoing issue. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I, too, want to thank the staff and the community groups that have worked so hard to get us here today. And I think it's really important that we work together to ensure that this 4th of July is the safest yet. Thank you. Thank you. With that roll call vote. District one. I. District two, i. District three. I. District for high district I. District six II. District seven. I. District eight or District nine high ocean carries.

A resolution authorizing and approving the expenditure and payment from the appropriation account designated “liability claims,” the total sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($500,000.00), made payable to Killmer Lane & Newman COLT AF Client Trust Account: (Tax l.D. No. 43-106-072), in full payment and satisfaction of all claims related to the incident on January 26, 2017. This item was approved for filing at the mayor-council meeting on 9-10-19.

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It's too late to do that. 970. Nine, 70. I was like, Can you put 97 on our screen? And Councilwoman Tory, can you. Nine 7970. Let's just move that for adoption. 970 for adoption. You want me to move it for adoption? Yep. You just move. Nine seven cell bill 19 0970 he placed for adoption. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. Any comments beyond what you've already made? Just that I didn't get the benefit of getting the briefing to understand this in executive session, so I'm not familiar with what it entails, so I'm going to abstain. All right. I see no other comments, Madam Secretary. Roll call. ORTEGA Abstain. Black Eye. CdeBaca Abstain. Flynn Abstain. Gilmore, I. Herndon, I. Hinds Abstain. Cashman I. Can each. Sandoval, I. Sawyer I. Torres, I. Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary. Please. Because voting and not the result. Nine eyes and four abstentions. Nine eyes, four abstentions. This one has been nine. Seven has been adopted. All right. All good. Nothing else to call. All right. Now, all bills for introduction are ordered, published and are now ready for the black vote on resolutions and bills on final consideration. So, Councilman Sawyer, will you please put the resolutions for adoption and the bills on final consideration for final passage on the floor? I move the resolutions to be adopted and bills on final consideration be placed on final consideration and do pass and a block for the following items. All 19 Series 07570758075908570896089708930894895096908190892089808560861086905030678. And that is it. Thank you, Councilwoman. Those are the moved and seconded. Madam Secretary. Roll Call. Black Eye Seat. Abarca I. Flynn, I. Gilmore, I. Herndon. Hi. Hines. Hi. Cashman. Hi. Kenny Ortega. Hi. Sandoval. Hi. Sawyer, I. Torres, I. Mr. President. I. I'm secretary. Please close the voting. Announce the results. 3939. The resolutions have been adopted and the bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass. Tonight there will be a required public hearing on Council Bill 818 approving and accepting the Loreto Heights small area plan and a required public hearing on Council Bill 577 Changing the

Recommendation to request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission review senior programing offered throughout the City of Long Beach and make recommendations to the City Council on how senior citizen programming can be improved and/or expanded in the City in order to better serve our senior population; Request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission include in their analysis the following elements and report back to the City Council: • The number of senior citizens we have in the City of Long Beach; • The benefits of senior programming for our senior citizens; • The need for senior citizens to have a safe place to go for a hot meal, during extreme weather, and where senior citizens are presented with learning and/or socializing opportunities; • Senior programing in highly dense neighborhoods; • Proximity of senior centers to our senior population and to mass transit; and Request the recommendations made by the Commission include non-fiscal options such as changing program hours or offering different programs in order to promote variety.

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Communication from Councilwoman Price, Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Ranga. Recommendation to request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission review senior programing offer throughout the city and make recommendations on how senior citizen programing can be improved and or expanded. Councilman Price. Thank you. I encourage my colleagues to vote in favor of this item. I'm hopeful that our senior citizen commission will get some opportunities to study this issue for us and come back with some recommendations that will help us enhance our senior programing throughout the city. And I want to thank my colleagues who joined me on this item. Thank you. Thank you, councilman. The second JFC with councilman turanga. Give any comments? Thank you. I want to thank Councilmember Price for putting me for allowing me to participate in this resolution. I think it's going to be wonderful to see what kinds of programs are out there for senior citizens, especially. I'm looking forward to see what we have in seventh District. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. I really want to thank Councilwoman Price for bringing this forward and inviting me to be a part of this, especially, you know, for my district, who has, you know, a very overwhelming number of seniors we hear very often and every single day about how much they need help from us here in the city. And so I know that specifically when we look at this, I know Chavez Park has had a meal program, a senior meal program that was taken away some time ago. So I would certainly like to look into that. In addition, I know that there's also been. A discussion about homebound seniors and including that. So if we can maybe if I can make a friendly amendment into that, including that in our motion, that would be great, because I know that's something that is very important for the research and review of for our commission. Thank you, Councilman. Councilmember Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And also like to thank Councilmember Pryce and the rest of the council members for bringing this forward. This is really consistent with some of the work that we've been doing in my district right now with our eighth District Advisory Senior Advisory Committee. I believe that it actually meets tomorrow and they will be coming back with recommendations on the district level in one of our ah ah ah advisory committee members is actually on the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission. Ms.. Winnie. And so I'm completely supportive of this, and I look forward to to hearing what the recommendations are. I think we do need to do more to to make sure that our seniors are aware of the many great services available to them here in the city of Long Beach. And where we have our shortfalls, we certainly need to address them. Kotsenburg. Yes, thank you. I mean, I am fully supportive, this side of recording, you know, these programs are available to our seniors because it is so important, you know, to all of us to stay as healthy and active as we can. You know, offering a variety of programs added longevity to our lives, I think. And it's very important that we find ways to stay active and keep our social calendar. And I second that motion that Mrs. Gallina made our second in motion. Councilwoman Mango I'm supportive of the motion. I think that when Councilmember Gonzalez brings up the loss of the senior meal program, I know that this is a dialog that I started with our Health and Human Services Director within days of starting in this department. And I don't know that I've received any feedback specifically related to our funding. So for those of you who don't know a lot of the funding for our senior male programs and our homebound seniors that Councilmember Gonzalez and Councilmember Price and Councilmember Austin talk about, that money comes from the federal government. And many of you have heard me say before that when you take the amount of money coming back from the feds to our community and we're only getting back $0.73 on the dollar, where there are communities across this country that are getting $2 and change. And so I'd be really interested in knowing or at least having Health and Human Services provide a report to the commission on those different programs that are coming to us when this gets to them, so that they're informed of the options and then potentially utilizing them as an advocacy group for us at the county and state and federal level for the reallocation of those funds through the state agency that distributes the funds based on a number of factors. So I hope that that report would be available to the Commission and submitted as a two from four to the Council in advance. Thank you. Thank you. Any public comment on the item? CNN. Please cast your votes. Motion passes unanimously. 24. Communication from Councilmember Richardson, Council Member Suber nor Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Urunga. Recommendation two Respectfully request the city manager to present a report within 30 days on the status of summer youth activities citywide. In addition, host a series of pre summer community briefings to educate the public on the city's coordinated summer efforts.

Recommendation to request City Manager to direct staff to implement the 6th District Trail of Infinite Hope.

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Item 12. Communication from Councilman Andrews. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Recommendation to request the city manager to direct staff to implement the Sixth District Trail of Infinite Hope. Okay. Please go ahead, Mr. Andrews. Okay. Let's just keep going. Guys, we just got. Please keep it down on the linguine. I think. You. Mayor, we have a we have created a very unique walking trail that will not only highlight the city of Long Beach, but focus on the central area as well. The walking path will identify unique landmarks within a six digit community. It is designed. To raise awareness of our community and to encourage others to keep hope alive. I will be calling the Sixth District Trail of Infinite Hope, which is named after one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Famous quotes that reminds us that we can we can't accept disappointment, but we must never lose definite hope and hope. My friends, is what removed the blight at its core. To explain this item in more detail, I would like to ask my staff member, John Edmonds, to give a small presentation. Since he's down, probably eating. We will move on. Oh, here he is. I thought he was gone. Okay. Right. Okay. Sorry. No presentation. Would you smoke, please? Yes. Oh, yes. Yeah. Please. I'd like to move to approve this item, please. Is any public comment on the item? CNN members, please go and cast your vote. I'm sorry, but you're doing a presentation. No. No presentation. Okay. Members discussion. Cast your vote. Motion carries. Okay. Item number are we do item we're going to the a couple of the liquor licenses that they've been requests. So I, I think it's 15. Report from financial management. Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing the formation of a Joint Powers Authority with the Housing Authority of Long Beach Citywide.

A resolution approving a proposed Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Montrose Air Quality Services, LLC to provide air quality monitoring services. Approves a contract with Montrose Air Quality Services, Inc. for $1,000,000 and through 12-31-26 for on-call procurement, installation and maintenance of air quality monitors, sensors, and other equipment, and for periodic reporting and analysis of air quality data, citywide (ENVHL-202261734). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 2-28-22. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 1-19-22.

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I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce results. 1st May 1111 I's Council Resolution 20 2-007 to has been adopted. Council Member Sandoval, will you please put Council Resolution 83 on the floor for adoption? Oh, I think you're muted. Council Resolution 83 be adopted. Second. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. Comments and questions by members of Council on Council Resolution 83. Council Member Sawyer. Things that our president this is another airport on call contract that we've talked about before. And I actually am a little confused because I think that it got maybe it's messed up in our script, but we want to double check on that. Okay. Had you called out Council Resolution 83? It's the Montrose Air Quality Services. No, the one that I called out for a vote. The second one I called out for a vote was the was the airport. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. The mantra, it's Montrose air quality on call, correct? Yes. Okay. That's what Resolution 83 is. Got it. Okay, good. I'm glad that is what I called out. I was just making sure because I know council members had some questions and I got a little confused in our script here. Yes. So it's just it's another airport on call contract which talked about reporting and on call contracts repeatedly. So I'm just going to be a know for consistency. Say thank you. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Sawyer, Councilmember CdeBaca. I have quite a list here. I have about ten questions on it. So my first question, the million dollar amount is a maximum spend level over the next five years to ensure that any future air monitoring, air monitoring projects could be funded under the contract. My first question is what future air monitoring projects are anticipated to be funded with this contract? Okay. Thank you, Councilmember CdeBaca. And we have Will Fenton here and then Bill Oberman. Thank you, counselor. President Gilmore. And for the questions, Councilwoman Celia Barker. Yes, I am joined by our air policy program manager, Bill O'Brien. Go ahead, Bill. And thank you for the question, Councilwoman CdeBaca. This this is an contract that will fund. At the most $1,000,000 over a five year period. The the amount of funding maximum that we are actually allocated in our program is around 100,000 a year. That would be the very maximum that we could fund. The other room that we've built into that million dollar limit is should we get any grants because we do competitively apply for grants. We have one right now from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Organization. And part of this contract could perhaps hire contractors and other services need it should we win a grant in the next five years? And how does the department determine what the future projects are that are needed? And how does community weigh in? We we go through the normal city process. If there's a grant opportunity of reviewing all the different departments in the city that are potentially also applying to that grant or may be interested in that grant. A lot of times, depending on the type of grant source and the objective of the grant will will really involve the community . An example is our last grant opportunity that we went for was in partnership with the City of Commerce City and tri county health department, and it was to do additional monitoring of air toxics. We were not successful in that grant. That was two years ago. However, there, as you know, is a new bill that's now been put into to law to actually do the same types of air toxics monitoring in North Denver and around Southport, particularly. How, if at all, are the various air monitoring programs that are being done by us, by DPS, by see? How are they all being coordinated and reported back to the public? So that's a great question. Right now, they're really not coordinated and being reported back to the public in one avenue. And that's a second phase, you could say, of the Love My Air Program, which is a Denver program. That's that program that's funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. One part of that program that we are hoping to launch in the spring, maybe early summer, is an app you could use on any device, iPhone or Android device with all of that information in one place in a smartphone setting where somebody, you know, can rapidly see all of that information as it comes online. So we are working with other entities in the region to incorporate their data in like those who will be monitoring some more cultivars know. Areas from Apache or yeah. Sites that seepage is monitoring near that area as well as well as other communities as they bring on more air monitoring in their communities . And given our office is probably home to where we're monitoring the most error. I would love to have more regular contact. We have a stakeholder group working on this. I'm curious about if this if there's a plan to monitor new chemicals or sizes of particles with this contract. Right now. There are no plans right now to monitor different chemicals or particles that we're than we're currently monitoring. But that science is always evolving. There are smaller and smaller particles that we're more and more concerned about, like particles less than 2.5 micron in diameter of particulate matter specifically. And so monitors are coming out that even measure all the way down to one micron and less. So as those technologies become affordable and reliable, I think that could absolutely be part of what this contract would cover over the next five years. But what are we currently monitoring? So currently in our Denver network, this is specific to what the city of Denver pays for and what this contract will cover is particulate matter 2.5. We also and that's just roughly 40 schools through Denver public schools that we have engaged in the love of my air program. What that program does is use that that data of the particulate matter concentrations right on school property and real time puts it onto a TV monitor inside the school. And then there's a lot of curriculum and education and outreach around that information, but it's literally broadcast in the school 24 seven So that's that's a big part of our air monitoring network. A second significant part of our air monitoring network is a a whole shed at Swansea Elementary, right adjacent to I-70. This is a partnership with CDOT and a federal highway to monitor the impacts of construction and so of the C site, the Central 70 construction project. So we're monitoring their other pollutants than just GM. We're also monitoring nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, black carbon and V and an array of what they call volatile organic compounds, a number of different hydrocarbons, but things like benzene, toluene and other air toxics like that. Thanks, Bill, for that. And Councilwoman CdeBaca, I wanted to we've got three public hearings tonight, and I know we have members of the public here. I don't believe we're going to have committee work here on the council floor. I know you referenced that you had ten questions to ask and I got you up. Is this your final question? Okay. Very good. Thank you. What what are the policy changes that we're considering based on this air monitoring data? And if we don't have any specific policy changes, do we plan to develop some in the near future? So there's specific policies from just our air monitoring network. There are no policies under consideration in either our public health board or that we're planning at this time to bring to city council. The purpose of that program was to be an educational outreach tool to the schools through that Love My Air program. The benefit, though a secondary benefit for sure, is that we have now a wealth of data over at least the last two years. Three years, really, what, 19, 20 and 22 million of of data. We can start to analyze and look at policies. What kinds of things are driving our PM 2.5 concentrations and I'm managing a project right now to look at that data overall. And I also wanted to mention, you know, I've been talking with bring your your aide and I'm happy to to talk with your committee more. In March, we are scheduled to to talk in more detail. So hopefully we can get into more of your questions then as well. Thank you. That's it for my questions. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Bill. Thank you. Councilwoman CdeBaca, we've got Councilmember Ortega. You're up next. Thank you. I just have one quick question for Mr. Oberman. Will this include any new sites or is this just to monitor data from existing locations? No, it will include new sites over time. We will help. Those be determined. Those are partly if it's school sites those sites were selected by. And I don't administer the Love Mayor program, so I may not give you all of. This site back to that program. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I remember when all that came through. So this is to expound on the schools that were identified originally as part of that program, correct? That's correct. Okay. But it also could serve as a contract. I want to be transparent that it's not just that school contract. If there are one reason for calling it an on call contract is on occasion, like during the demolition of the I-70 Viaduct, we had community concerns about the dust that was caused by that action. And we set up temporary sensors, same types of sensors that we use at the schools. But these were six different sensors, additional sensors, I should say. They're not different models. We set them up. We monitor for about four months during that that dusty event, particularly in the Globeville Ilia Swansea area. And we did respond to events when the peaks went up. We had more conversations with Key West and and required them to perform more dust mitigation practices. So if we're going to have this in place for a period of time and we start seeing some work on the I-25 corridor during dirt. Throughout the area from Alameda to 20th Street, where they've been doing the Pell study. And it may be this contract exhaust before they actually start any work there. But if this were in place and there were to be some demolition or whatever, it potentially could set up some sites at that location as well, correct? Exactly. And with this contract in place, we can rapidly mobilize and respond to that need. Okay. Thank you. You answered my questions. I appreciate it. Sure. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega. Councilmember Sawyer in Spanish, president just wanted to point out that, you know, all of these questions sort of indicate why I continue to vote no on these contracts. The answer to these questions is really important and totally normal. And we should have on call contracts. It's the reporting to council piece, the piece where we don't know that kind of information because it's not it doesn't have the same kind of oversight as direct dollars and direct contracts. That is concerning to me. And I think I just wanted to point that out because I think this is a you know, this conversation that just occurred was a great example of exactly why it is that I continue to vote no until the reporting mechanisms get better. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Sawyer. And we don't have anybody in the queue. And so, Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Resolution 22, Dash 0083, please. So you. Know. Torres I. Black I. CdeBaca and Clark. I. Herndon. I i. I Cashman. I can each. I. Ortega I see in the hall i. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. One Nay 11 nice. 11 Eyes Council Resolution 20 2-0083 has been adopted. Thank you, Bill and Will for being here this evening. That concludes the items to be called out. All bills for introduction are ordered published. Council members remember this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote. Otherwise, this is your last chance to call out an item for a separate vote. Councilmember Sandoval, would you please put the resolutions for adoption and the bills on final consideration for final passage on the floor? Yes. Give me 1/2, please. The agenda. Okay. Thank you for your patience. Mm hmm. I move? Oh. I move that? Okay. I move that resolutions be adopted in bills on final consideration. Based upon final consideration and do pass in the past block. Do pass in a block for the following items. Resolution three only recognizes the. Resolutions being. Okay. Zero 72. 73. 79. 83. 95. 98, 99. Okay. Correct. Let me think. I we're I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and run through the numbers here just so you have the motion on the floor. Thank you so much. We got it. We've got 75, 48, 94, 96, 97, one, ten, 73, 79, 95, 98, 99, 85 and 81. Did I get them all council secretary again? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Okay. All right. Wonderful. Thank you. We've got the second by Councilman Herndon. And, Madam Secretary, roll call, please. Black eye CdeBaca. I, Clark. I earned it. I high. I cashmere. I can eat. I. Ortega. I. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I. Torres, I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced the results. 12 eyes, 12 eyes. The resolutions have been adopted and the bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. No worries. Worrying that the script sometimes will move on its own and so totally understand. So thank you. Our pre recess announcement tonight there will be a required public hearing on Council Bill 21, Dash 1437, changing the zoning classification for 901 North Kearny Street in Montclair, a required public hearing on Council Bill 21, Dash 1526 designating 555 East Eighth Avenue as a structure for preservation and a required public hearing on Council Bill

Adoption of Resolutions Appointing Christina Mun as a Member of the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and Appointing Eva Jennings and Dan Poritzky as Members of the Mayor’s Economic Development Advisory Panel.

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Well, we don't have an item six because we don't have any anything continued from the previous agenda. So now we have we moving into our regular agenda. And the first item is item seven. Madam Clerk. Adoption of resolutions, appointing Christina Moon as a member of the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and appointing Eva Jennings and Dan Paretsky as members of the Mayor's Economic Development Advisory Panel. So council it is Ms.. Moon who is? I don't believe she was able to to join us this evening. Is that correct, Madam Clerk? Correct. Yes. So we can still vote on her nomination. Can we do all three of the nominations together? Okay. Okay. Two. I have I have. Councilor, we're not quite stand up as a motion. I remove approval of all three candidates. Thank you. And I see Councilmember Desai with his hand up to second. Correct. Okay. Any further discussion? Singh then maybe have a roll call vote, please, Madam Clerk. Somebody, shall I? PEREIRA Spencer, I'm not. Quite high. I may or as the Ashcroft high that carries by five eyes and we have this Jennings here but it looks like we don't have an mr. Prosecutor. So looks like we're missing the. Cases of missing nominees. Well, Ms.. Jennings, you will just stand in for all of the nominees. But first, we we want the clerk to do the swearing in. Are you ready, Madam Clerk? Yes, if you the way your right hand. You saw me to pull the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution. State of California, that you won't faithfully discharge the duties upon which you're about to enter and do. All right. Congratulations. Perfect. Congratulations. Welcome. Thank you for for accepting this nomination and for which you were just unanimously approved. And we would love it if you would just tell us a little bit about you and your interest in serving on this particular advisory committee. All right. Well, thank you, Mayor Ashcraft and members of the city council. As was mentioned, I think it was mentioned, I am currently the dean of Career and Workforce Education at the College of Alameda. And in this role, I continue to focus on career and workforce education, as I have throughout my entire adult working life. So I taught career ed in high school, in community college. I am invested and committed to educating people for careers and. You know, our economic in order to recover from the economic ills that the COVID pandemic brought upon us, it's dependent upon employing Californians with living wage jobs and the jobs that pay a living wage. Require increasing levels of education and training to meet our ever changing technological demands. So I look forward to sharing my knowledge and experience. In. Workforce education to advise the Mayor, City Council and staff on key economic development issues and initiatives. And I read that off the website because I haven't attended the orientation yet, and I don't know the specifics of what that entails. But I am honored to have been nominated to serve and represent the College of Alameda on the Mayor's Economic Development Advisory Panel. I am thankful to the City Council for approving my nomination and for and for my college leadership. Dr. Nathaniel Jones, the president, and Dr. Diana Bahrami, Vice President of Instruction for their support. I look forward to contributing as best I can and to this important work. And I want to thank you very much for the opportunity. Thank you so much for agreeing to serve. You will be a valuable member and bring a much added dimension to this this panel. So and you will be a quick study once you have. Your orientation. And first meeting and get to meet your fellow panelists. So thank you so much. We are delighted to welcome you on board. Thank you. I look forward to it. All right. Thank you so much. Okay, then we are moving right along to item seven. Be Madam Kirk for you. Introduce this item for us, please. Imitation to provide direction to staff to pursue one or more options for reducing the negative impacts and public safety challenges associated with automobile oriented events at Alameda Point.

Recommendation to approve the use of FY 17 General Funds transferred from the Parks, Recreation, and Marine Department (PR) into the Economic and Property Development Department (EP) in the amount of $100,000 to support the Summer Youth Employment Program; and Increase appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the Economic and Property Development Department (EP) by $100,000, and decrease appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the Parks, Recreation, and Marine Department (PR) by $100,000.

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The 32 next requested food stamps are let me let me do 32 and then 28. Can go seasonal kids. Thank you. Communication from Councilman Andrew's recommendation to approve the use of f y 17 general funds transfer from Parks, Recreation and Marine Department into the Economic and Property Development Department in the amount of 100,000 to support the Summer Youth Employment Program. Councilman Andrews. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to first that as a kid in the appearance of this summer job program to raise your hand. Thank you for coming in supporting this item tonight. You know, I'm asking for the support of this item as it's a job program that is going to benefit kids and we are going to be able to keep an eye on them because they are and will be place in parks and local eligibility working site. I have a staff report ready by one of my staffs who's actually went through this program many years ago and I'm very proud of that. And I always say, and you guys, if you ever listen to me, you know, I talk about jobs. I know what a job would do for an individual. I always said a job would stop a bullet. And I'm hoping that this summer our kids will be employed getting something put in their pocket so they can go back to school and not to worry about whether they're going to get something to wear, a food to eat in their houses, because these jobs not only will happen, the school will help them everywhere else. And thank you, individual, coming out and giving us his support. So now I'd like to show that staff support from one of my staff members. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council. Many years ago, when the Summer Youth Employment Program started for at least two years, it was administered through the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department. After the first two years, this program was administered through workforce development, as they have the infrastructure to better manage the program from beginning to end. Tonight's item requests park funds to be used to hire youth to work in central on beach parks and other eligible work sites. The vast majority of the youth participating. In the program live in central Long Beach. That includes the sixth, seventh, first and eighth District. In the audience, you see some of these youth and their parents. Please once again stand up and wave at the council. Don't be shy. Hey. So up on the screen, you'll see a picture from last year's orientation. And like councilmembers said, I was one of the first youth employees when this first program started seven years ago. I was the sixth district resident. I still am, and I was attending Wilson High. So I'm very proud for Councilmember letting me present the staff report. As a result of the program, I was able to help offset back to school costs, increase my self-esteem, and start a career in public service. So this concludes my staff report. If anybody has any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. Thank you, Mr.. Thank you, Mr.. Andrews. The motion on the floor. Let me go to the make of the second councilman, mango. First, I want to congratulate you on taking the time to become a part of a program such as this and for the hard work that you put in, and to really admire how difficult it can be to work through some of these programs. They're not always the easiest to apply for and maintain. And so the perseverance, I really appreciate that. I do have a couple of quick questions. Is this a drawdown on we Iowa? And this is our share. What are the components of the Summer Youth Program? Are we using OJT funds on the job training funds? What is the makeup of the total cost of the program? And is this coming to us now because it wasn't part of the budget process originally? Or is this a transfer of funds between departments where it's going from one to another? Thank you, Mr. Mangwana, my chief of staff. John, would you please tell me? What is doing. Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the City Council. Actually, this was part of the original FY17. Adopted. Budget and these funds were identified in the Parks and Rec Department, programmatic funds. They're being transferred to economic and property development because. Our workforce development, Pacific Gateway, is equipped to help administer and manage the program. So this is not related to we are funds, although we have programs through federal. Appropriations for youth. Hire and workforce programs. Are we not trying to utilize any we allow or matching or draw down any of these types of. Yeah. How are we leveraging this? Yeah. Councilmember. Absolutely. So this is an existing program through federal funds and this helps to supplement and expand opportunity for youth. So where we're actually limited in the federal funds that we have available. For the Summer Youth program. This will help to actually increase the number of of youth that can participate. So I appreciate that. I appreciate the word supplement. I recognize that this is a transfer in one area to another. And but I also think that it's important to note that when we do utilize these federal programs, they only reimburse at the federal the federal minimum wage rate. And so it is required of us to come up with that variance. And it doesn't always mean additional youth get employed. It often means that we are drawing on the general fund to ensure that they are paid the wage of the state of California through that variance. So I think that that's an important designation and I think that there are lots of economic grants that we can work on. But that kind of those kind of grants take programs like this in an initial year or two to show the results, to really be able to draw down the greater funds. So I appreciate this item. I think that it was worthy of a few extra minutes for everyone to have a greater understanding of these funds. And I strongly recommend that we look at some of the economic driver grants that are coming on board in the next two years. So thank you for that. Thank you. Councilman Price So I support this item and I love, love the fact that Isabel did the presentation of what a great testament to Councilman Andrew's for giving her that opportunity and what a great testament to her for making something out of the opportunity. I'm such a huge fan, so thank you. And I didn't know about this program at all. So I love that we have city funds going to a program like this. I am curious, how are the districts that we work in identified and how many students do we have the opportunity to service and help? I'm sorry, what were the question again? How how do we determine what districts we have the program in and how many students can we there? The parents are on CalWORKs, which is a public assistance. So the kids are are any any parents are on public assistance. The kids are eligible for the program. And how many students or kids are we able to help get secure with jobs? And if we know if we. Sorry, I don't have the exact number, but I know of at least 25 that we did some local outreach in the sixth district and then from the workforce development. I believe it's an additional 50 kids. Well, and it will extend their hours as well. So the federal program only takes up so long, but now they'll work the entire summer as well. Well, regardless of the number of kids or the number of districts or whatever, I think this is an amazing program. I completely support it and I love that every student lives in here who got an opportunity to participate in this program, gets to see someone like Isabel and gets to see that that opportunity can can be a ladder in many ways. So thank you very much for bringing this item. Very, very cool item. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. Yes. Councilmember Andrews, just want to say extend my gratitude as well to you and your team. I know you all work very hard to ensure that not only adults are receiving and able to have opportunities for jobs, but for youth as well. My son just got his first job and it's so rewarding as a parent to have your son finally pay for his own shoes and also for, you know, as a parent, you're just prideful of of what they can do in terms of their own development. So congratulations to each and every one of you for working in Long Beach during the summer. Thank you. Any public comment on this? I. Very good. It's absolutely a great program. And to the extent that it is possible, I would urge the city to try to get as many of the parents involved to the extent that they can, because that is the backbone, the backbone of keeping a program going. The city itself can't do that 100% at the time and so forth. So the more you get the parents involved, the stronger the program's going to become. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor Council audience. I've speaking as a community. Member and as someone who previously worked at. The Boys and Girls Club and hired a lot of these youth. And it's about you did an amazing job on the presentation. You did better than most adults. And I can't tell you how important these programs are to youth, particularly in disadvantaged communities, and keeping them safe and out of gangs and giving them the opportunity to help their families. Many of them, it makes the difference. Between putting food on the table. And having new clothes for start of school. And the only bad thing about it is the program is only in the summer. We really, really. Need employment programs for our youth all year round, not just in the summertime, even if it's. One day a week. So thank you. Thank you. See no other comments. We're going to go ahead and take a vote. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries.

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP CM16-028 for Professional Engineering Design Services for the Colorado Lagoon Open Channel Restoration Phase 2A Project (Project); award a contract to Anchor QEA, LLC, of Huntington Beach, CA, in the amount of $300,000, for preliminary design services, for a period of three years, with the option to renew for three additional one-year periods; authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the Harbor Department and grant first rights of refusal to compensatory mitigation credits generated by the Project to the Harbor Department, in exchange for the Harbor Department’s continued contribution to the Project; Accept a Harbor Department contribution of $350,000 for preliminary engineering design services for the Project; and Increase appropriations in the Tidelands Operations Fund (TF 401) by $350,000 in the City Manager Department (CM) by $350,000, offse

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Report from City Manager A recommendation to award a contract to Anchor QCA for Professional Engineering Design Services for the Colorado Lagoon Open Channel Restoration Phase two A project in the amount of $300,000 execute in MSU with the Harbor Department and grant first rights of refusal to come compensatory mitigation credits generated by the project to the Harbor Department and accept a Harbor Department contribution of $350,000 for preliminary engineering design services for the project district three. Thank you. Their staff report? Yes. Vice Mayor Councilmembers with a brief staff report from Eric Lopez, our Tidelands bureau manager. Thank you, honorable mayor and members of the city. Keep me just for a moment, folks. If you could just quiet down on the way out so we can conduct our our meeting, the business of our meeting. Thank you. Continue. Vice Mayor, Members of the City Council. On June 30th, 2016, the Board of Harbor Commissioners approved. A memorandum of understanding. With the City for their continued participation in the Colorado Lagoon. Phase two A Open Channel Project. The Division of the Open Channel Restoration Project is to improve tidal, flat, flushing and natural habitat and to create new habitat in the open channel footprint. Approval of the MCU would result in an additional 350,000 financial contribution. That is, in addition to an existing $250,000 that is currently budgeted and would allow staff to move. Forward with the project. That includes house staff. Thank you, sir. Councilmember Price. Thank you. Well, I want to thank Eric Lopez and the folks on his team and the city managers team who have been working on this project. This is a priority project for the city, I believe, and especially for the third district. It's a fantastic project and we're very excited about getting this underway. The Colorado Lagoon, it's an incredible asset for the third district and the city as a whole. So including this investment in a beautiful and unique location that is a valuable ecologically as well as for families to enjoy recreationally. The Open Channel project will help improve the environment for marine life, making it a more impressive habitat and creating a more natural vegetated channel further improving title exchange in that body of water. The Port of Long Beach has been a great partner in helping fund this project, and I'm grateful for their role in making this possible. The Colorado Lagoon is regularly rated as at an A by Heal the Bay, which is a huge improvement from years past, and the water quality continues to get better. I encourage everyone to come out and enjoy this great lagoon and I look forward to future improvements as we move forward with this phase of the project. And again, I can't thank staff enough for not only becoming subject matter experts and working on this project, but also for working so closely with the community and engaging in a process that's very open, transparent and open to input from members of the community who feel very strongly without them, this project would not be happening. So thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Price, is there any public comment on this item? I go and state your name, please. Good evening. My name is Dave Paparazzi. I'm a resident of the third district. I live at 445 Los Altos Avenue. And I currently serve on the board of Directors of Friends of Colorado Lagoon. We want to thank the Council for your support throughout this process. We especially want to be thankful to Councilmember. Price for her. Leadership and support in making this a priority of her administration. We also want to thank the harbor commissioners and the Port of Long Beach for their support. They've been a partner. For many years. We're coming on 15 years now. We've been working on restoring the Colorado Lagoon along the way. We also have established an educated and devoted community that fully supports this restoration, and they are excited about the future of the lagoon. And that's something that we couldn't have said just. Five or ten years ago. Through this partnership. We've made great progress addressing the sources of pollution, removing contaminate contaminated sediment, expanding the intertidal zones of the lagoon and revegetated with negative with native plants. Residents from all districts of the city of Long Beach use Colorado Lagoon to swim, to picnic, to relax, and to get close to nature. Since it began, this restoration has dramatically improved water quality, as measured by the Health Department and reported by Heal the Bay each year. I think we all rest easier now when we see hundreds of kids swimming in the lagoon and some adult swimming in the lagoon as well, thanks to that improved water quality. But our work's not done. The Regional Water Board has set challenging targets for the Colorado Lagoon and in order to meet those, like those TMD Isles, the experts all agree that the opening of an open waterway between the Lagoon and Alamitos Bay is required in order to restore full title circulation. Tonight, staff is seeking approval to begin value engineering and design work for this waterway. It's been a long time in coming. We, the Friends of Colorado Lagoon, fully support this and urge you to approve this. Thank you. And I'll just close by saying if any of the council members would care to come down to the lagoon for a visit, or if we can be answer any questions in any way, please contact us. We can be reached at Friends at Colorado Lagoon, dawg. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Very good. Are you fully supportive of this project? And it's important to understand that. Let me share the genesis of how this concept came about. It's not only important to the third district and to the city, but to Southern California and actually nationwide. The concept of the open channel flowed from, I believe it was the 1990 that excuse me, the 2005 Olympic bid when the USOC came to Long Beach and it selected the Long Beach Marine Stadium as the rowing venue for the pending Olympics, which eventually ended up in London. We all knew that it was a it was going to be a very, very tough, you know, tough bid because 84 had just, you know, it's very close behind us and so forth. But the committee came armed with NASA's satellite photos that showed what could be done by opening that up and the concept, in addition to the tidal flow and so forth, the concept was to allow to provide and the channel can be created wide enough not for any racing, but running room after race and entry room from the staging area that would be in Colorado run and on its land areas for the boats after the regatta. In addition to that, it provides people that want to go in and kayak and tour the lagoon 365 days a year. They can do that. The it also will provide an additional over water. So there will be a clear, unfettered 1000 meters within the Marine Stadium, which will not require interfacing with the cross-channel through from the back waters so far. So it's a it's a tremendous project. The port is picking up the the cost from the mitigation, and that's the goal. The port needs that because they are our largest economic engine. So it's a win win situation all around. I'm going to suggest and I mentioned this before, that on every project, every project, no matter where it is in the city. That the project have a the contractors have a public contact so people can keep track of and provide them input if necessary. I'm not qualified to. I know the general specs required, but I'm not qualified. There are other people are and I want to make sure they have a contact and knowledge. Thank you, Mr. Good Counsel. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no more public comment. Will the council cast their votes? That's why I just wanted to clarify one thing, that the just because if people are watching, they might get confused where this is just an item regarding the cost of the design. It's actually not funding the open channel project. That would be many, many, many millions of dollars more. This is just the design. So I just want to clarify that. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Price. Let's go ahead and cast their votes.

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP PW20-084 and award contracts to Bitech Construction, Inc., of Buena Park, CA, EBS General Engineering, Inc., of Corona, CA, and Sully-Miller Contracting Company, of Brea, CA, for design-build services for curb ramps, in an annual aggregate amount not to exceed $15,000,000, for a period of two years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into contracts including any necessary amendments; and Accept Categorical Exemption CE-20-142. (Citywide)

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Okay. Next item, please. Item 12 Report from Public Works Recommendation to Award three Contracts for Design Build services for curb ramps in an annual aggregate amount not to exceed 15 million citywide. Here. There's emotion and I get emotion. The second police motion buys in the house can make it a second place. Second by Vice Mayor Richardson. There is no public comment. Let's go ahead and take a roll call vote. District one. I'm District two. I'm District three. I. District four. All right. District five. I. District six. I. District seven. I District eight. District nine. I motion carries. Item 13. Report from Development Services. Recommendation to declare ordinance amending portions of Part nine of the Youth Use District Map of the City of Long Beach. Red and adopted as Red District six.

Recommendation to adopt resolution approving an exception to the 180-day waiting period for Public Agencies pursuant to Government Code 7522.56 and 21224 to hire Pamela Horgan for a limited duration to work in the Financial Management Department. (Citywide)

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Motion carries. Thank you. 23. Report from Human Resources recommendation to adopt resolution approving an exception to the 180 day waiting period for public agencies pursuant to government code to hire Pamela Hawk Morgan for a limited duration to work in the financial management department citywide. And is in motion at a second. Any public comment on this saying no and please cast your votes. Councilman Austin. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. We're moving on now to new business and the second public comment period. Let me start with is your additional public comment. And I know Mr. Bush. I'm going to be asking also, Mr. Bouchard, if you're able also come forward, please. Did you have nothing else to say? Yes. Plus the comment. Go ahead. And you were asking. I was just saying that also, if you want to speak on every item, I'm going to ask folks to just sit at the front there. Just the time spent up and down is extra time. Please go ahead. Yes, sir. I'm going to acknowledge the guy that I work for, the God of Israel. And he is the reason I'm in this city. And in Jesus name. I ask that as I make this statement tonight that the Court of Heaven be quiet because of this night. Okay. June 12th, in the Pulse nightclub, 49 people were sleep for no other reason than they were in the nightclub. And those are God's created beings. For what? Adam Darwin didn't take any credit for that. And I prayed about it, and especially when I heard that the man who killed those people killed himself in the Pulse nightclub where it was known to be a same sex lover nightclub. And I was reminded in my twenties I'm 58 now and I was reminded in my twenties and God said to me one day in my twenties, you're going to answer this moment right here about my created beings, what I want. Yeah. It. This is. This is. Government. City of government. Long Beach information. And I'm a tell you what was given to me. From now on, I'm cutting the pulse. What happens to people. When they began to function in ways, other ways than when I originally intended. And from here on. This past May 20th, we celebrated what is called Pentecost. And in Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came after Jesus left the Earth. He just made a lighting on 120 people in a room one day, and those 120 people went out and changed the world. In the years to come, the pride parades will be lessened and shortened because of those 49 people that died that night. And without any. More deaths. God's just going to come and visit his own men. His prize creation. He's going to have a conversation with his own men. And as women. That's all. He wants the original intention for his people. What he wanted from their. What I originally intended for my men and women is what I'm coming after. The pulse of what makes people want to be something else. Thank you very much. As we start to see whether a public comment for general public comment. We're going to go ahead, move into new business. I'm going to just start and I just want to publicly, of course, just congratulate both councilmembers Stacy Mongeau and Councilmember Roberto Turanga for both being reelected to the council for another term. And so just congratulations to both of you. That just happened on Tuesday. It seems like such a long time ago, but congratulations to both of you. I also, of course, want to thank the thank the voters, of course, for adopting Measure M.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution amending the Master Fee and Charges Schedule by adopting new fees relating to the shared micromobility program;

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. So we'll be moving those two items to the top of the agenda and then going from there. So let me begin by doing hearing item number one. Report from Public Works recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution amending the master fee and charges schedule relating to the Shared Microbial City program. Declare Ordinance Amending the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to Shared Micromobility. Read the first time and lead over the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and extend the current electric scooter pilot program citywide. Thank you, Mr. West. Mayor, council members, the public hearing the buzz word here is microbial city, but it's mostly about e-scooters. I'm going to turn it over to our public works director, Craig Beck, and the traffic engineer Eric Wickstrom. Thank you, Pat. Good evening, Mayor. Members, city council. Just wanted to remind you tonight's hearing is to adopt a micromobility ordinance and an associated fee schedule. So if we could have that clicker. Hold on 1/2. Okay. So we wanted to start by just giving a brief update of kind of a background on how we got here. If you recall, we issued a pilot program for E-Scooters in July of 2018. We've been monitoring and managing that pilot program ever since. We currently have five operators in the city and about a thousand scooters deployed in different zones across the city. We've had a call center that's been active throughout our pilot program that allowed us to track questions, concerns, comments about E-SCOOTERS. And the data has shown that it's it's been overall a successful program with about 60 rides per month. And at the time we made the presentation back in February, staff made a number of recommendations for implementation of a permanent program. And really what we are here this evening is to adopt those recommendations. So as a reminder, E-Scooters, there are some laws in effect and rules that govern our program here in the city, including riders, must be 18. You are not allowed to ride e-scooters on the sidewalk and you need to make sure that you're appropriately parking them when you're done and that they aren't in conflict with Ada in within our right of way. And even though the state law has changed in January of this year, not requiring helmets for the riders to say, the city still continues to encourage helmet use for riders safety. So what are we talking about for a permanent program? We are bringing back at council's direction. We are limiting the issuance of permits to only six vendors and initially that would be for 4000 total units. Those units would increase to 6000 after six months, assuming everybody are following the guidelines and safely operating the devices. Vendors will be required to provide anonymous data to the city. To our third party vendor. We want to be able to track where scooters are being used, how they're being deployed, making sure that they are appropriately following the requirements and the limits to to align with the permit that they're issued. It's also very important that vendors have the ability to geofence their devices. We believe that this is an important component, and we know now that we will be restricting rider access to certain areas. Parks are an example. Belmont Pier is an example. So there's going to be certain areas within the city that we want to restrict where scooters would go. Vendors must create an incentive for parking within the designated drop zone. So this is proven to be successful. During our pilot program is the placement of drop zones and placement of the scooter devices within those drop zones as they balance them every morning. But we wanted to take that a step further and follow something similar to what we do with our bike share program, and that is actually to incentivize the users to park in a hub. And if they do that, we'll leave it up to the vendors to create that incentive, whatever that may be. It could be a credit for a ride or however they want to do that. But we will be looking for that incentive to ensure compliance with this important component of our program. It's important that they come up with a fair that reduces costs to our low income community that we have in the city. We want riders of all incomes levels to have access to the SCOOTER program, and we'll be looking for the vendors to create that that rate structure. We want to provide support. We want the vendors to provide support for the deployment of their devices and their customers so they can't just drop them in the city and disappear. We want to make sure that they have a presence here and work with our staff to promote safe usage and also educate their riders on safe usage. Vendors must work with the city to provide data. As I mentioned, that's going to include a whole host of things, not only the heat maps of where they're going to be written, but we want to know about maintenance reports. We want to know that the writers are following program rules. We want to know if they have accidents. So if writers are injured, we want that to be in the data. We really want to get a full picture of the usage and what's working well and areas that we may need to focus on for improvement. Lastly, we want to make sure that they work with us for special events that may be moving scooters out of the way for special events. For example, filming in a given area. Or redeploying more units if we have a large event and need more access. We also want to make sure that they'll quickly respond to emergencies and remove their devices if we so desire. Part of the action tonight includes the adoption of new fees. And just as a reminder, when we brought this item forward in February, council requested staff to take a look at our fee structure and look for opportunities to reduce our fees. If you recall, at that time, we were proposing a $120 annual per unit fee and a $40 annual per unit fee in our disadvantaged communities. After we've spent some time reviewing how this would be implemented, we found challenges to add to the fee structure in our disadvantaged in our disadvantaged communities, meaning how would we know what scooters were within those areas and what scooters weren't? And so we're proposing this evening that we have a flat fee of $100 per unit annually, and that that would allow us to fund the necessary elements for this program, including what we would need for staffing to manage this program. Council also asked us to confirm what fees were being charged in other cities. I think that there was an indication at the time that maybe other cities were reducing those fees. We've checked with the cities in Southern California listed here, and the information we received back is that those fees have not changed since we presented in February . And as a reminder, those fees are in this table here. So to successfully implement this program, the fees are an important element. When we looked at the data that we received through the pilot program, we're estimating that the vendors earned about $1.6 million in revenue on about a thousand units that were deployed throughout the city. And we feel that it's important to include the fee elements so we can achieve some of the goals that council has tasked staff with, ensuring that that we're addressing scooters that are parked in inappropriate areas that were there to address concerns expressed by our community and also to do special enforcement. We want to work closely with Long Beach PD to say, for example, to do special enforcement, to address any riders that are using scooters on the sidewalk as as an example. So what are our next steps if council moves forward and adopts this ordinance this evening? Staff will work to implement the new permit application. All current vendors will have to reapply. They'll need to apply under the new permanent program guidelines and rules. They'll have to affirm that they're going to follow those rules. They will be assessed to ensure that they meet all of the program requirements and then issued a permanent permit. So we will also ask staff through the hiring of the the MICRO-MOBILITY coordinator will take on the responsibility of the drop zones. So under the pilot program, the vendors where we're placing the decals. The city wants to take that on to ensure that the decals are kept up and maintained. We're finding that some of the decals out in our communities are getting worn and we want to ensure that they are appropriately placed. A But B, we also plan on changing some of the information in our drop zone decals. For example, we're going to add information to remind scooter riders that they cannot ride on the sidewalks. So the decals would then say no riding on the sidewalk. So that would be an element of the program as as council directed. Once we get this up and running, we would come back to council with a report in six months. And if at that juncture, everyone seems to be in compliance with all the program rules and requirements, we would then move from an authorized number of 4000 units to 6000 units citywide. So that concludes our staff report, and we're available to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Beck. Let me turn this over to Councilman Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So and thank you, Mr. Beck, for the presentation. And we've been following the conversation around scooters for a long time, and we see them distributed and being utilized. And thank you for bringing this this this hearing tonight to adopt this resolution, this ordinance. So we raised up the conversation. And it's not new that we want to make sure with everything we do, we place a lens of equity, economic equity, environmental equity on how we deploy these technologies. And we've seen some examples here in Long Beach where with Bikeshare, for example, we said we will go out and ultimately get to other parts of town, North Long Beach, things like that. And, you know, for one reason or the other, a vendor or whatever it was, things happen and it doesn't. And it never the bikes never made it to North Long Beach. And we have an opportunity and I think we need to. The lesson I've learned from that is that we need to put these things in the policy on day one as we design and build the program. And so I wanted to talk through some different components here, and I'm interested in moving forward with a first reading tonight , but I will have some, some tweaks to the ordinance here. So one, you know, at the conversation at SCAD and you know, I'm involved at SCAD, we're we're we're noticing that these ordinances across the region are intentionally calling out equity. How are we calling our equity in this ordinance, in this program here today? Councilman Richardson? I think we're we're approaching that in two ways. One, as I mentioned, we would be seeking the vendors to create a rate structure to ensure that those of low income in our inner city have access to the scooters. The other is we would deploy across zones and the zones in the city would allow us to authorize X number of units in a zone. So we wouldn't simply, as an example, say vendor A gets a thousand units to deploy wherever they want to. Vendor A would get approval for a thousand units X number in zone one, x number in zone two, X number in zone three, etc. And by doing that, it allows us to align the distribution of our units across our city and across those. Sounds great and I think that's a good foundation and I may want to take it a bit further and just sort of call out some goals or some requirements here. Now, in paying attention to LA's Department of Transportation, they've required their providers to have insurance and liability. Do we have that? Is that a requirement or program that the providers have insurance and liability insurance? Yes, it. Is. Okay. Great. Is and I noticed you referenced that we want them to remain committed to the community. Is that going to be codified in the plan? I believe that's something that will be implemented by staff as part of their program that's so specifically addressed in the ordinance. Okay. So I guess if I could, I think the answer from my perspective would be that if we find that a vendor isn't committed to this program and the program rules, that we would withdraw their application and their permit and they would not be allowed to operate in the city. So I think by doing that, it does achieve a certain element of commitment to Long Beach and success in Long Beach. Certainly. And so the Los Angeles program has it requires the insurance and liability. It requires a community engagement plan. So they call out what their commitment is going to be, and then they measure. And based on that plan and then thirdly, an equity plan. I think we touched on most of that here. And so my hope is that we get an opportunity for them as sort of for us to look at what their plan is for ensuring that they have a rate structure and all those things. The other thing that I think is really interesting that I think we should apply here is that so in LA's program, they set a goal for disadvantaged communities and in 62% of their scooters in the city of L.A. are required to operate in these disadvantaged communities. So they called out 62%. They looked at how many disadvantaged communities that they had in L.A. and said, look, it should be proportional, right, to the disadvantaged communities. And so here in Long Beach and they use the cal enviro screen, they use the Calvin Great Enviro screen, 3.0. Now, what I'd like to see is, since we already have since we already have zones, I'd like to see a goal of 40%, a requirement of 40%, not 62, like L.A. would do 40 in zones that overlap with the coronavirus green rating, 70 or 80 and above. I think we'll give you some flexibility on how you programmatically design that. But I want to set a requirement here in this in this in this motion. So that will be in my motion, hoping for a reaction. Bart's response reaction? Are you asking for a second or are you asking for. It's not emotion yet. I want your feedback. So I think that that is something we could certainly implement. As I mentioned, when you start to look at the zones, we could easily align our zones within our disadvantaged communities and that would allow us to to both implement and then monitor the success of that implementation of a goal or a target for distribution across those communities . Thank you. And I think the way that the ordinance is structured, we should be able to put in a requirement without triggering in the first reading again. Is that correct? I think if you do it as part of the implementation plan by staff, I think that it wouldn't trigger it wouldn't trigger a new first reading. I think if we amend the ordinance, that's not currently something that's in it and it probably would trigger. In the first. Reading. So we can require it as a part of the program. So you can you can direct staff or request that staff implemented. Great. That's what I like to do. And then and then finally, in terms of I know that we initially proposed sort of a two step program in terms of fees where, you know, there were sort of two rates. And now the staff proposal is come up with one rate, $100, and then the programs come up with their all their other fee schedule. I would like to see. So when do we plan on coming to that? Coming back in the next six months. That's correct. Yes. Okay. I would like. I would like to see not just the low income discount, but those operators who are who are operating within those zones that we describe, those disadvantaged zones. I think they should get a discount for having operating in those zones, as well as an incentive to make sure that sort of there's no gaming of the system and that sort of we're incentivizing engagement in these areas that really have been left out of the mobility conversation. So that's something we can do. Mr.. Back in the next six months. Yeah. And I think, you know, the challenge that staff is is faced with currently is that we're not getting good data from the vendors. And so for us to implement a discounted rate structure for X-number of of scooters that align with our disadvantaged communities, we don't know how to verify in an audit that data. So I think the request would be, from at least as perspective, is that we move forward with the $100 rate that we get the data from the vendors as we're were requesting through the program. And assuming that that data is as extensive as we believe it will be, it would allow us then to kind of verify and have kind of a milestone where we would know how many units were within those areas that they are meeting, the targeted goal that's adopted tonight. And then we would come back in and share that with council and then at that time, maybe council could adopt a reduced rate program that would be staff recommendation. Thank you. So I think that satisfies what I need. I think the motion here, the conversation here, we have to intentionally call out the outcomes we want to see in the policies we put forward. And we've, you know, we've done the the hopes and dreams. We hope that the market drives things to go in certain areas. And it just you know, there's too many factors. The technology changes too fast. There's problems with vendors. We have to write into the policy on day one to make sure that, you know, this is, you know, something that's useful to people who actually need it as a transit solution. And in north lobbies, for example, you know, a lot of the technology is being deployed, is considered last mile, but we're well over a mile to connect to the blue line. You either have to head south to the Waterloo Station or you have to head west to the Compton station. So we're really thinking about not last mile, technology's last two mile or last two and a half mile. And so we have to make sure that we're inclusive of all our areas of town when we create these policies. And this is consistent with the movement that's happening all across the region, this conversation on on transit, transit, equity and mobility as as an equity as it relates to mobility. So that's my motion staff's recommendation with the 40% goal of with 40% requirement in disadvantaged communities as defined by cal enviro screen. And we'll leave some flexibility there on whether it's, you know, 60, 70, I think 70 or 80 is the range. And then secondly, that we we come back in the next six months after collecting some data with some sort of incentive fee program for those those operators. So that's my motion. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Andrew. Second that motion. I think we're gonna go back to Vice Mayor. Right. You said okay, considering. I'm actually I apologize. I was scrolled down there. So. Councilmember Pierce, then Councilmember Ringa. Thank you. I think I spoke a lot on this whenever it was in council. The last time I've read through everything, I've had many conversations. I think, is that a good place? I support the motion on the floor by Councilmember Richardson. I did want to just clarify and then ask one one question for the six vendors that could eventually include e-bikes. Is that correct? Yes, Councilwoman. That's correct. Okay, wonderful. And then I wanted to ask. Oh, sorry. It's hard to talk. Thanks. I wanted to clarify that on the decals that we're putting that the city will be implementing those. We had a conversation with your team and one of our neighborhood associations, District one around decals and trying to make sure that we are cohesive, that we don't have five different types of decals on our sidewalks, that there's not enough room for that, that it's ADA compliance. And I believe the conversation was taking a similar design, at least in the downtown area, where it's explicit that you can't ride bikes or scooters. Would that be included in this program outside of just the where they're the parking station? I think right now our recommendation is we're concerned about the proliferation of decals on our sidewalks. Mm hmm. And that we should do that in a cohesive way. And what we're what we believe we can do is accomplish some of the goals of the neighborhood communities, which is to remind riders, both bicycle riders and e-scooter riders, that they're not allowed to ride on our sidewalks. And we think we can do that within our drop zones. We're going to revise the one that we use during the pilot program and shrink the footprint a little bit, but add more information about not not riding on sidewalks. I think that hopefully answers your question. Yes. And I I guess I wanted to make sure that as we come back down the road, that we continue to have a conversation if we feel like those decals are enough, because we did have neighborhood associations that wanted to pay for them themselves and put them on. And so to keep from making sure that we don't have four different kinds out there. I would rather the city do it with the city logo on it and that you manage the entire program. So I just wanted to make sure that we talked about that publicly. And then the other component, I just want to echo Richardson's comments. I mean, I know that we've seen that some people are riding these up to seven miles, you know, distance. And so I again, for that reason, I support the motion that he's made and look forward to hearing the council comments. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilman. Your income. Thank you. For clarification, this is this continues to be a pilot program. Where we with we actually putting it out to RFP for people to apply and get more of a permanent contract. With the adoption of the ordinance. You will be entering a phase where it's a permanent program. I think staff's recommendation tonight is to continue the the the pilot program until the ordinance becomes final. And then at that point, we're requiring those who have already been in the pilot program to reapply for the permanent. Correct. License or whatever. You know, right now you have of what bird line readership and spin and you. We have up to six. So that's five. Is there a61 available or is there one in the loop? Is there an RFP for one or what was the process? So to address that, we purposely are calling this a micromobility program because we we look at the guidelines that we're proposing here this evening would apply to a vendor that wanted to bring in e-bikes as an example. So our goal would be that we would have the ability to go up to to issue up to six permits citywide for both e-scooters and e-bikes not to exceed assuming everything works out after the six month period of time frame. 6000 units citywide between both E-Scooters and e-bikes. We're not saying that the the vendors that are currently operating in the pilot program will get a permanent permit. They're going to have to display that they can implement all of the requirements of the permanent program that they have geofencing as described that they're going to achieve the need for delivering data and that they're going to be responsible for managing their system within our city. So, again, we're not making any guarantees. We're going to take applications on a first come, first serve basis. We're going to evaluate them for compliance with our program and then issue the permits from there. I'm glad to hear that because in your report you did mention that there are some of these vendors who are having been I don't see that compliant but have not been providing some real good data to you for you to evaluate. So I'm concerned that these vendors who already have a track record of perhaps not being as open and cooperative with you and providing you data that they're going to be rewarded with a contract. So, I mean, I don't want to see that. I hope that during the review process that you will be very strict and very forceful in asking for compliance with all facets of the program that we have put in place and that we will get a very good program here in Long Beach. I basically agree with the comments of my my two previous colleagues in regards to the equity components and having the availability of more scooters in other parts of the city that are not traditional for these types of mobility transportation options. I'm talking about the West Palm Beach area in my side of town, and so I'm hoping that we can address those sometime in the very near future. And that's it for now. I'll continue. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you. And I think a couple of my questions have already been answered. So I'm going to do what I can to be efficient with my time here. The. The the term. Abandoned Scooter can cause somebody to define what that actually means. I guess from staff's perspective, an abandoned scooter would be a scooter that maybe was tossed in the Colorado lagoon or was thrown on top of a building. Those are not just misplaced or parked poorly. Those were intentionally. We're using the term abandoned. You could say, um, I don't know, vandalized or something, but. But we're trying to ensure alignment that we're taking care of any wayward scooters out in our community. Okay. Well, it seems to me that that that that that particular term can be misinterpreted by by anybody. Right. It can mean something different to somebody else. And so it probably I would feel a lot more comfortable if we could kind of find that out and be clear specific on what that means. Because I you know, we get constituent calls and, you know, if a scooter's parked in front of somebody's home, you know, there's a neighbor who may may view that as an abandoned scooter versus being found in a Colorado lagoon. So just my comments on that. And in light of just some recent. Current affairs. Is there is the city indemnified for any. Criminal acts that may be. Use for scooter or a scooter may be used for. The city is not not currently the language in the ordinance does not currently address criminal acts. No. Yeah that kind of isn't a standard part of the of public right of way permits. So if somebody assaults somebody with a scooter. Right. Would the city be liable or not? Well, if it's if it's there's I mean, I guess it sort of depends on what area we're talking about. But if there's a criminal act, I would expect that the first thing that would happen would be that the police department would take care of whatever that is. And if there was a subsequent civil lawsuit that involved the city, it would have to get addressed from there. But since that's sort of a circumstance that's not terribly common in this kind of public right of way permit, that's not something that's addressed in the ordinance. That would probably be addressed kind of on a case by case basis as it arose. Unless people anticipate that this is something that will be happening more often. Well, I. Never thought that I would think it was. So some things happen at their unthinkable, but but then they happen. And so you have to think about that as well. And so I think I would love to see an indemnification clause if possible in this, and I'd be very interested in hearing from my colleagues as well about that. And then to Councilmember Richardson's original motion regarding the equity, I certainly support that. You know, we want to make sure that this mode of transportation and these modes of clean transportation are available to everybody in our community no matter what their income level is. And so if there's a way to add in, I think this this ordinance certainly addresses much of that. I did have a question regarding the 40% number and whether or not that is that goes far enough. And how did you arrive at that, that number? Councilmember Thank you. So in looking at the Cal enviro screen, the higher you go in the column virus, Green says, you know, the more pollution or more polluted the environment is in those areas, 70%, 70 or above on cal enviro screen essentially covers all of downtown west central Long Beach and north. 40% go there already doing that. I'm pretty confident they're already doing that by being in the in the downtown. The hope is that the way that staff designs the program of it is distributed across the six zones and prioritized, you know, that 40% is met by making sure that sort of the three or so zones that will overlap north central west those coronavirus green areas have some some goals called out in those areas. So that would be sort of required to operate sort of equitably across town. So that's the idea. So 40, it could potentially be higher, L.A. to 68. I think given this is a new concept, I didn't want to go too aggressive here. I think if they can meet 40 in the next six months and we see data, we can have a conversation about, you know, whether that number needs to be adjusted. I think 40% is. It just seemed like a fair number. So I applaud the effort. I guess it would probably help me if I had a coronavirus screen in front of me. That data in front of me. Okay, I don't need to see that. And it is that is that B and is that the only methodology that we can look at? Now, let's just Los L.A. do what he did. And it made sense. And it's the conversation at SCAD. So this is just sort of a measurement. There could be others, it could be poverty, it could be a number of different things. But CALLEN Virus screen the environment typically tracks along the same indicators as poverty in others. And actually Cal Virus screen actually is a little bit more fair because it says whether you're in poverty or not, if you have, you're dealing with a bunch of automated, you know, a bunch of pollution due to mobile sources, then you need these scooters too. So I think it's a little more sort of bizarre. So you're going to have to share that screen with me. I got you. And then they sent in a spirit of moving this this item. I certainly will support this. But I think we also have some time over the next six months, a year to recognize and tweak the program if necessary. So the ordinance. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you. Excellent comments from my colleagues. And I support anything we can do to incentivize distribution of the scooters throughout the city. Because if I'm not mistaken, the deployment and activation of the scooters thus far has been mostly in council districts two and three. Is that right? Mr. Beck. Council member we have distribution across the city. There have been the majority of them tend to find themselves along the coast line. Correct. So one, two and three. So I think that the biggest concern for my district is, of course, the abandoned scooters. You know, they are resembling a type of litter. In terms of what the residents are experiencing. They're in the middle of sidewalks. So we've had residents trip over them. They end up in planters, roundabouts, traffic circles, Colorado Lagoon, all manner of places. So I think once they're utilized more actively in other districts, some of those impacts might be felt more prevalently by some of my colleagues. And they'll understand that the need for some of the the concerns that I have and the protections that I'm hoping we have in place. We did have a number, a call center number for residents to call and address violations. And my understanding is that that call center is no longer active. So if we roll out this new program, what what is the city going to do to help facilitate resident concerns? So. Councilmember That's correct. We had a POW with a third party vendor that was operating a call center for us and that PO has hit its limit. So we are looking at how we would re-implement that. We'll either do a a new PO for that vendor or B, take it in-house. And we're looking right now at what that would entail to bring the call center in-house and make that decision once we have that data. Okay, that's excellent. But definitely to answer your question, we absolutely believe having a call center is important to the success of this program. Excellent. Thank you. Is it possible for us to be able to add abandoned scooters or dump scooters to the Go Long Beach app as one of the options? I'll have to check. I believe it's on there. I could be wrong. It's well, we have dumped items which, by the way, I use for just about every category that I can't find. But if it's not on there, we can certainly add it. Yes. Okay. And thank you. And the reason for that is I know a lot of the scooter companies like Bird, for example, has a really great feature on their app where you can report dump scooters. But the problem is expecting the residents to have, you know, all six apps on their phone is a lot to ask. So if we could have a go along beach access, that would be fantastic. What I know we talked in the past about selecting vendors that have geofencing, technology available so that we can have some control over speed limits and of course, access points for the scooters. Is that still a priority for us and what's our status on that? Yeah. Not only is it a priority, it's an absolute requirement under the new program if if a vendor does not have the ability to limit or restrict scooter access in certain areas of the city as we designate, then they're not going to be issued a permit. Okay. Excellent. And are they the vendors required to carry insurance? I think Councilman Austin just asked about this, but just a little bit more directly. Is is there is the scooter company required to have insurance? Yes, absolutely. Okay. We have talked a lot about. Resources for enforcement and using the revenue collected from this program to put it right back into enforcement. Is that still our plan? And what does enforcement look like? Well, I think the first goal of staff is to hire a mobile MICRO-MOBILITY coordinator so we can ensure that all the things that we're talking about this evening are being implemented. The goal is that we would hopefully still have some revenue available to a to work with PD to do specialized enforcement. And what I mean by that is it would depend on the chief's direction on how he would deploy this, but maybe either officer overtime or a special unit that would go into certain areas and enforce things like riding the wrong way on the street and not obeying traffic laws, writing on the sidewalk, etc., and kind of do an enforcement zone to ensure we have compliance. And that's great. I would like to take that a step further and ask Councilman Richardson if I can add a friendly to his motion. And the friendly would be that for the first six months that this project is rolled out while we're. Working with the 4000 number. But before we go to the 6000 number that the chief of police work with his command staff to identify one day per month where directed enforcement is conducted on sidewalks or business corridors for scooter enforcement. And the reason I think that's important is because for a lot of our business corridors, this impacts the businesses being able to have clear sidewalks. And the chief of police can determine, based on the hotspots what areas are getting the most use and once a month direct a directed enforcement action in a community where there's a lot of use and so that we can have that data. So I like the idea of doing some enforcement. I would want to hear from staff specifically about the count. So. Yeah, so. So anyway, in the past we've always been careful not to direct very specifically, but in more in general to say work into your work and enforcement program in if you want to make it general and they can respond to it. I'm happy with accepting that, right? Sure. I mean, it would be the chief that would make that determination. But I just want to make sure. That, no. I'm not begging for directed enforcement every month. If I feel like there's a need that it's baked into this policy, that we have some resources that we're setting aside for that. Chief, would you like to just respond. And I'd like to jump in there a little bit. So we like that direction. Please let us know that, you know, in general, you'd like to do that. We'll work that. And I'll let the chief talk in a second. Work that into the program as possible. We will also be bringing back in the FY 20 budget an actual plan for the number of positions that we're going to be hiring. So if you saw in the staff report, we are not going to wait to the 20 budget to bring the first person on and who will bring on the staffing. We need to get this going because we need to be ready day one when this gets going. But then you'll see in the Fy20 budget what our what our enforcement plan will be and the various components. Great. Yeah, except it. Okay, so I think motion's been accepted. Councilman Richardson, you're not sure? Just one more thing. I forgot to. I forgot to mention to raise up. So, you know, I saw a presentation where Uber showed how they're preparing the Uber app to be able to show not just their vehicles, but the transit time on the bus, the transit time on the, you know, the blue line and on bikes and scooters all integrate in one platform. So when someone pulls up, let's say Uber or Lyft, you'll see, okay, it may take me 20 minutes in a car. It may take me 30 minutes on a scooter. It may take me this long. And what the what the prices are. And that's the future of like fully integrated multi modality. That's where things are heading. But we have to make sure that we're starting the conversation now with this ordinance to set some, you know, start thinking about as that technology comes online, how are the vendors we're working with today ready to participate? Should that technology be created? And even metros thinking about doing the same thing where you have one integrated app where everything else can kind of feed in and so have you. Are you familiar with this? Mr. BECK Yes, Councilmember. I think that that not only the app you're talking about, but Google is doing that as well as they start talking about drive time and different modes of travel. And I think one thing that I would add, while we're talking about transportation this evening, many of the companies that are engaged in this are really technology companies. And so they're striving for the latest technology. And and it's a competitive marketplace. So early adopters are going to tend to be more successful in tech as technology changes. Okay, great. So I know there's, you know, more questions and we'll have another bite at the apple on some of this when we talk about the phasing to 6000 bikes. But I want to make sure that we do have the opportunity should technology become available to require require this in the future. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember Super. Thank you. I had a brief follow up on Councilman Price's issue about retrieving scooters via the Go Long Beach app. If that could be, I'm not sure how you would do this, but if it could be brand neutral, then someone who spots a scooter at the curb or on a front lawn in the middle of the night wouldn't have to go outside and identify the brand prior to reporting. It may not be doable, but it sure would be ideal if we had a system that way. The other hour I'd just like to ask staff. So my understanding is that the fee was reduced to the vendors. Did that go from one tow to 100? That's correct. At the stats recommendation and when we made the presentation back in February that we would charge $120 a unit per year and that we would charge $40 a unit per year in our disadvantaged communities. Okay. So so my question is, what for that reduction? If that was in negotiation, what did we get in return? If anything. Staff are recommending the $100 per unit annually, and it certainly counsels discretion to amend that and come up with a different amount. Okay. It. Was there anything? Can you give us any background on on why that was reduced? Because we're just looking at a different figure today than we looked at it February. Help you understand my position. Yeah, certainly. So when this item was presented to council in February, the staff was clearly directed with the adoption of the item to go back and review opportunities to come back with a lower fee. We looked at different opportunities and I want to remind the Council we're not negotiating a contract with these vendors. We're outlining a permit process which vendors can apply for. So this really isn't a negotiation we're going to detail. This is our program. If you want to operate in Long Beach, this is what you're going to have to comply with. And so trying to meet council's request, we're coming back with a recommendation of $100 annually. Okay. So there are not enhanced services or anything like that that that have a nexus here in the reduced fee is just what what staff has set as what would be ideal moving forward. But it's not contractual. It's a guideline at this point in my understanding that I do want to put words in your mouth. But is it fair? Well, I wouldn't say it's ideal or that it's a guideline. It will be the permit fee that we charge a permit to or a vendor that's issued a permit. So what council's adopting tonight would go into the fee ordinance and it would be a fee that is charged for anyone who operates under this program. Okay. I guess maybe I'm mystified how this is reduced from February to today's date and I'm just don't have a good feel for supporting something with with what we an agreed upon amount in February and now it's less so I remain mystified thank you. Thank you, Councilman Gonzalez. Yes. Thank you so much for the report. Just a couple questions clarifying here. The data sharing, when. Would be the soonest. We'd be able to see any data come back and what does that look like? Councilmember Our goal is that we would receive reports monthly. So the ordinance I think would go in effect 30 days after the second reading. So yeah, so sometime in, say, late June, the ordinance would be in effect. Our goal is that by that time we would have the applications out. We anticipate already having permits in hand that we would be reviewing or applications in hand that we would be reviewing and ready to issue those permits. So in general terms, we anticipate starting to receive reports in the August, September timeframe. And then we would build that data and come back to council six months after the ordinance goes into effect with a report. Great. And then the drop zones, there's 230 drop zones right now. I know it's mixed, you know, all over the city. Do we have a general did we get a map before? I'm trying to remember whether we had a map of where the drop zones were at. Yeah, I can provide a map to you. When we came in February, there was a report that detailed some of that, and it also included, I think there was a good page that showed a heat map, so where people were starting and concluding their ride and it really showed some of the more popular routes that people were using scooters on. 230 is what we have today. I don't anticipate that number or I do anticipate that number will significantly grow as we work to achieve all the goals that we've talked about tonight. Okay, great. So I guess we'll look forward to that. More information coming back in August or so. But it'd be good to have an idea of, you know, if anything is changing with the drop zones and where they're located. Exactly. And if I could add just for information for everybody, I think part of the goal here is that we need to work with the vendors. So if a vendor comes to the city and says, we were really interested in deploying on Corner X, that we would be flexible enough to work with them to determine that that is an appropriate location for a drop zone. So maybe they put a couple scooters out for a couple of weeks. They evaluate the success of that location. They come back to city and say, Yeah, this is successful location for us. We want this to become a drop zone. Then the city would go out there and formalize it and put down the decals. So it's it's changing and evolving. Great. Thank you. And then the last comment and I, I speak to a lot of the comments that my colleagues have made as well in terms of ensuring that we're cleaning up our sidewalks. And I know we're on top of all that, and especially the equity piece and making sure we can expand into areas that will absolutely use utilize these these scooters. But my last comment is for I have received a lot of comments, especially with people with different abilities. If there is a way for us to engage the Citizen Advisory Commission on Disabilities, just to put it on the agenda and maybe as we are, you know, working through the various drop zones and with the vendors just to ensure that they have some opportunity to weigh in on this would be very helpful, I think. So thank you very much for the report and I look forward to seeing what we can do here. Thank you. Any public comment on the hearing? We have one on the top. So let me do the one on the top. Go ahead, Mr. Rockwell. And then if you're going to speak, please come forward. I've had problems with the. Mr.. I actually I don't know where the mic is on up there. Yeah. Keep going, Mr. Rockwell. We can hear you, but it's okay. Got it. Some of the scooters have been left in various locations along this street between Magnolia and Pine Avenue, in front of my apartment and front of the building next door to mine at 439 West Fifth Street, also in front of 225 West Street, they've been left in front and blocking the access to get in to Rite Aid at Six and Pine and Walgreens at Saks and Long Beach Boulevard. They have blocked the way to get in to other businesses and get along the sidewalk in front of many businesses on Broadway as well as first while not first Street, third straight. And they have I have found them over my target on Bellflower and Stearns and blocking the access to get off the curb cut at the south end of that mall to cross the street Cross Stearns Avenue, going across to the mall on the south side where it serves as that has been a real pain in my psyche as far as these scooters are concerned. I've seen two people riding the same scooter at least five times within the last two weeks. I had one just of two people, two scooters coming directly at me. One night, about 10:00 at night, as I was going home from First Congregational Church and going up cedar between third and now between fourth and fifth Street on Cedar. And now scooters are coming directly at me. I had no way to go and I didn't know what I was going to do. And both of them helped me one on one side and one on the other side. Not bad enough to cause major damage, but it was very disconcerting and was scaring me half to death because you see these two lights coming down the sidewalk. You know, it's scary. And I feel that for those of us in wheelchairs, that's that's really bad and especially one. And one day I found six of the scooters. Left. And the middle of the curb cut back. Thank you, Mr. Rockwell. Thank you very much. We have I'm going to close the speakers list. So I have the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven folks in line and the speakers list is closed. So no one else, please. And go ahead. Larry. Good. You address on file. At first. An objective person looking at things for a city like a Long Beach, they'd say the very concept is divorced from intelligence. But of course, on that, they'd be wrong. They'd be wrong. Because that implies that at some point, at some point, it had a nexus to intelligence, which clearly it does not in a city. Such as Long Beach. And you just heard some very, very solid reasons why not. Insurance is not an issue. Obviously, they get insurance. But the person that's permanently disabled or seriously disabled for months or weeks. That's irrelevant. Simply irrelevant. There's absolutely no reason why with proper planning. People can not get it. It would stop them from going about their daily routine, whether it be on a bike, at a bus or train. This, though, is just. Absolutely. A financial catastrophe for the city. Period. You can insure just to a certain point that it will get to where it's beyond that is catastrophic. There's no reason why the people can't rely either on the Buster Brown Express to get them from a train or a bike. You've just heard all the other reasons why. But this is going to be a financial disaster for the city, if you imply if you implement this. Consider moving, encouraging people if you have to develop a plan for people, showing them, all right, if you're in this area, you can take this bus, stay there, take the train or take the bus to Brown Express. But this city does not have the money. To cover the liability that will fall upon this city. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Jared and Karen retired, a resident of District one. And Councilmember Richardson, thank you for reminding us that we need. To look forward to what. Our mobility issues are going to be in the future. They're changing very, very rapidly. We're talking about scooters next year. They'll be totally something different. And I have a lot of faith in Eric and his staff to be thoughtful about what kind of mobility issues we're going to require. In the future. You've talked a lot about the technicalities, but not about the people costs. As I was waiting to catch the bus last night over on Fourth in Orange by the senior center, I saw a young man with spy on the scooter. With his dog. It's very dark over there. And I heard a laugh that the dog wasn't laughing. Turned out he had his probably five year old daughter in front of him on the scooter. This is not the first time I've seen parents that are willing to jeopardize their children's lives. To give them a ride on the scooter. I've seen children as young as six driving these scooters. So I think whatever instruction that there needs to be to the community really needs to be emphasized that these are not for children or people under the age of 18. The medical staff that I work with. When I inquired, have Akin indicated that they're seeing more entries, face fractures from scooters because people are not wearing helmets, so they lay on face first. And it's not necessarily with car collisions. It's because the scooters still stop abruptly or they have dramatic drops or shifts in the speed level of the scooters. So people need to understand that these can be dangerous, they're not secure. So I would like to see in the ordinance that. Dogs are not. Allowed to be running alongside the scooters where they can't be seen or anywhere. And that there are the equity provisions include older adults and the disabled so that they have opportunities. I saw that the electric bikes. Have been dropped, were dropped a couple of weeks ago and they're in heavy use. And I'm always surprised about the number of older adults that I talked to that have tried the scooters and really, really like them, but they'd like the more stable platform once so that they can ride them to. And then in the studies they looked at, the lower income communities generally use the devices more prevalently because they're less likely to have cars. Thank you. Hi. Good evening. My name is Michael Parish, member of District seven. I really do support the idea of a micro-mobility for the city. However, I think regulating it to the degree that we expect it to be the regulation that we're expecting to levy on it isn't going to provide those affordability metrics necessary for these companies to be profitable. Just looking at the the earn value they had last year was 1.6 million. As mentioned, there was a thousand units in operation. It's only about 1600 dollars per year for each of these units to to to make. Then you start adding in the acquisition costs of approximately $350 per unit. And in my research, I found that most of these units only lasts for 30 days or less. So these companies are going to have to continually by and by and replace broken units. But then we're going to be placing a very hefty per unit burden on them to continue operations. There's got to be a point where they're going to decide that this isn't really feasible, remarkable for them. And the city is going to be left without a solution. I think the city really should consider reducing the fee per unit for these units until we can understand what the point of the fee is. I understand there's a coordinator coming, but last year we put in coming years are potentially going to raise $400,000 of just unit fees plus the continual licensing for each company to be allowed to operate in the city. And I don't think those fees are going to be. I don't think they're going to account for in what the value is that we're going to receive as a citizen. And then eventually the the companies are going to walk away from the city altogether. And then this affordable solution is not going to be available and people are going to have to go back to driving cars, taking the bus or other mechanisms like writing their own personal bike or own personal scooter. So I think we should really consider the the fee and maybe consider lowering it so that they can stay in business longer. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Eric Garcia Garcia in council. My name is Morgan Roth, and I'm Byrd's community relations manager here in Long Beach. First, I'd like to respond to yesterday's act of violence and say that the entire Bird family is deeply saddened by what occurred. Our thoughts and hearts are with Ms.. Fernandez's family, and we will work with law enforcement to help with the investigation process surrounding the horrific tragedy. Long Beach has proudly been home to a bird for the past nine months. We applaud the mayor, Mayor Garcia, city council staff and all those who worked on the Dockless pilot program for their efforts in bringing forth this ordinance, one that will further expand upon the successes of the pilot program, continue to increase ridership to public transit, and help move the city closer to its sustainability goals. With new shared parking spaces to mitigate sidewalk challenges and an increase in availability of e-scooters and expanded service to more Long Beach communities. We have no doubt that the next phase of this program will continue to positively impact Long Beach residents and visitors. We do have one suggestion for tonight's discussion. We request that council require that all operators physically demonstrate their technology around show speed and geofence before approving being approved to operate. We understand that this has been an important issue to the city and including this provision will ensure the most qualified operators will participate in the program. Bird has already eliminated thousands of car trips here in Long Beach and thus have helped the city reduce its traffic and emissions. Benefits to all who call on beach home. We look forward to the opportunity to continue to operate and serve Long Beach as a committed partner. I want to thank the mayor and council members. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is and I can. Fair success. You know. The school is pretty fine. I don't know if you guys are in this new Broadway corridor. Thank you, Miss Pearce. Councilman Pearce. It's pretty nice. If the road's nice, it's pretty nice. I'm not going to lie. I took a scooter to get here. If you're going to fix one of these decals, I would suggest you fix the one outside because it's trashed. So maybe I'll be the first one, the shoes of, you know, the 230 around I've written now 333.8 miles on a e-scooter. You know, gas right now is $4 a gallon, so it's saving me some money. Thanks, guys. That being said, I think that six vendors might be too much. I think that's what the bird guy was hinting at. You know, the qualifying vendors, you know, maybe we could shorten it because truth be told, people on this anecdotal evidence , because they haven't given you guys the data yet. But, you know, truth be told, I think people are only using bird lime. And thankfully, now that they've gotten the the e-bikes now raised, they probably bumped up a little on the market share. But outside of that, I don't really understand, you know, to the point of Councilman Supernormal, what what's the point of making a drop in price? You know, this city has all the leverage. I highly doubt that any business is going to leave a city of over 470,000 people because the prices are too high. If anything, you know, they'll pay more. If we eliminate some of the vendors, which is probably what will happen if we, you know, have a proper negotiation there. That being said, the affordability. You know, I rode a scooter the other day. I went to one to Councilman Richardson's amazing community meetings at Ramona Park. And I rode a scooter from Ramona Park all the way down from Artesia, all the way down to Anaheim. And I didn't pass one scooter. I look at the map. I was using a lime to be to be frank. But I didn't see one scooter in that 7.6 mile journey that was available. That is a clear sign that they are not coming to up to the standards that are agreed upon in this pilot program in regards to the affordability map. You know, and I think I think 40% is too low. For example, you know, I got the weekends off. I rode a scooter from Vermont and sunset all the way down to South Central. I wrote it to 86th. And when I was in L.A., I rode from Vermont in sunset all the way down to 86. And Vermont. Once you hit south, south, central, south L.A., there are no scooters for over a ten mile radius. You can look at the map and it shows you. And it's amazing that even with that specs, which you said is a 62 or 68%, that they're failing. So clearly we need to make we need to be more stringent and, you know, we need to penalize them for not making this accessible to low income users. Thank you. Thank you very much. Speaker, please. Good evening, everybody. My name. Is Carlo. I am here on behalf of Lime as their community affairs manager. For the region. I would like to start off by. Thanking Council for. Allowing me to speak today. Lime is proud to be serving the Long Beach community by providing thousands of residents with affordable, sustainable modes of transportation. Since we began. Serving the city in. August of 2018, the scooters are proven to be a great new addition to the transportation network, as evidenced by the nearly 250,000 rides that have taken that have been taken on lime since then. Lime is constantly evaluating the effect of higher fees, as they could limit the ability of firms to provide our riders with the affordable and convenient rides that they desire. While we can appreciate the adjustment in the fees and the reduction to $100 per scooter per year, we're still a little concerned that this would add significant upfront costs to the operators. We respectfully encourage the city to once again consider a per trip fee that has been adopted in other cities such as Phenix and Portland. This allows the city to capture revenue from all rides and encourages equitable distribution of scooters across the city. If ridership. Numbers from recent months are. Taken into consideration, the per trip. Fee will in fact. Generate more money than what is currently being proposed. We would also like to point out some concerns with the legal language as it stands. We want to know how to best serve you. And therefore need to have some. Idea of what the city's expectations are. We want to operate up to the level which the city intends, but an ordinance that doesn't clearly outline these expectations will put us all at a disadvantage. To continue a healthy dialog into this permanent program. We're happy to provide staff. With additional comments if necessary. We remain proud of the impact in communities around the globe, and we really look forward to maintaining a meaningful partnership with the city of Long Beach. Again, I would like to thank Council. For your time and for. Allowing Lime to be a part of this decision making process. Thank you very much. Last comment, please. Good evening, council members Mayor Garcia and city staff. Appreciate the opportunity to come speak to you. I'm a resident of the third district. I live in Belmont Heights. And I wanted to say I do. I am for this program. I'd like to embrace the technology that's behind it. And I think that there are some big benefits for the city. But there's a couple of concerns that I have with regards to risk. And I don't believe it's as as risk that's throughout the entire city. But I do believe there are some areas in regions that you have identified. I just want to confirm that those particular areas are going to be geo fenced or for that matter, I, I don't use the word policed, but but I do think that there are some areas that need to be looked at and regarding management of risks. I'd like to reflect back in October, I think I made contact with a Councilwoman Pryce office. Mr. Cunningham did inform me of some of the requirements at that time of the pilot program was my understanding that there was a staff report prepared. It was dated October the second that specifically wanted to address scooters on the bike path and the bike path adjacent to the marina. Those are where I see my most, I should say. My impacts were most, most of the time where I am actually engaging in the scooters is on that bike path. And if it weren't for the few errant ones who seemed to go in packs. It might it might be a little more understandable. But any time I've seen two, three or four of them together, it's a race. It's it's not like a bike path where it's safe. With what was pointed out in the staff report, you have all the different types of users with roller blades, walkers, runners, the bike paths, six and a half feet wide in both directions. And I'm concerned when I see a scooter coming behind us. Bicyclists will usually say on your left or on your right and you're trying to inform me they want to pass. That's not the case with scooters. I'm not witness that any way. And I'm just hopeful if in the future there is more of a policing effort or more of a I say oversight of the scooter users that that that it becomes. More more observable in some of the areas where I traffic. I'm just curious can anybody tell me did this. The City Council. I believe this staff report was sent in October. Was this passed? Did the city attorney's office banned scooters on the bike path, or is there an effort to make sure that it's geo fenced? What is the status now? Can I ask that question? Thank you, sir. Public comments. We have noted that maybe we can get a response to that, or maybe if now is the time or we can do it separately. Mr.. Mr.. Beck. Yeah, certainly there currently there is a restriction for any e-scooters to be on the bike path. I think we addressed that when we made this presentation back in February. Part of our goal in Geofencing would be to address that until council if council were to adopt a change to that. But in the interim, we would have the companies geofence and restrict access to the bike path. Thank you. Thank you very much. Please, members, go and cast your vote on the motion. Motion carries. Thank you very much. Now we're going over to item number, hearing at a number to.

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. ITB ER20-071 and award a contract to ARB, Inc., of Lake Forest, CA, for on-call natural gas pipeline construction and miscellaneous services, in a total annual amount not to exceed $10,000,000 for a period of one year, with the option to renew for four additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments. (Citywide)

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Okay. Thank you. We're going to go back to item 13 here. Let me go ahead and get a couple of three other items that are just quick off the calendar here. Really quick. Item 16, Madam Clerk. Item six this report from Energy Resources. Recommendation to Award a contract to Hrb for Oncor Natural Gas Pipeline Construction in a total annual amount not to exceed 10 million CDI. Can I get a motion in a second, please? I got a motion by Councilmember Austin. Can I get a second, please? Second. I can't remember your ring. I think there's one public comment and we'll go to about. Yes, we have Elliot Gonzalez. Oh. Good afternoon, Mayor. City Council Member. I just wanted to just recognize that what we're calling for is a construction and maintenance of a natural gas pipeline in the year 2021. I just want to say that it's not in line with our climate goals, including. The mayor's compact. Which calls for a reduction in fossil fuels. I want to ask the city council, where is this reduction? When is this reduction? I mean, the crisis is here now. You know, we see California and parts of California catch on fire every year. We we lost our. Whole city of paradise. And I just wonder how concerned you all are over the climate crisis. How sincere is your commitment to preserving a healthy and habitable planet for future generations and for ourselves in the middle of this crisis? How sincere is our commitment to doing something about it when you have the opportunity? And year after year, the city spends millions of dollars on construction and maintenance of natural gas and oil pipelines. And folks, that's always been how the city has done business. This is a city founded on oil and gas. But here we are in this in this, you know, in this climate crisis that will determine the impact of the future of all life on Earth. And you will have this opportunity to spend $10 million on infrastructure. And this is natural gas, fossil fuel infrastructure. This is what warms the planet. So I just want to imagine if the city invested $10 million every year on solar panel, even just this year, $10 million on solar panels in the communities most impacted like we do oil and gas. I understand that Long Beach is all we spend millions on oil and gas, but at this time, given the reality, I think that it's time that we need to see real leadership on the transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy. When we ask for money for public needs, we're often told the money isn't there yet. Here we are in 2021, about to spend ten up to $10 million for an outdated and expensive infrastructure and infrastructure that we know warms the planet. I want to ask the city council to begin looking at ways to make direct investments like being in clean energy procurement like wind and solar. Next time when this budget item is before you. I would like to see direct investments in clean energy equal to the amount being invested in fossil fuels. So 5 million for pipelines. 5 million for solar panels. I don't think that's asking too much. I think that is what this world needs. I am asking for that leadership in council members in their house. You haven't taken natural gas money. This is a way to demonstrate that you're willing to to call for that investment. Mayor Garcia, I want to see you before you go anywhere outside Long Beach. I want to see you do something that shows that you know what it means to honor the legacy. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Thank you. We go and we have a motion in a second. Please go ahead and do Rocco go, please. Councilwoman Sandy. I. Councilwoman Allen. All right. Councilwoman Price. I clansmen soup and. I. Cans woman mango. I can, Councilwoman Sarah. I can't remember. Muranga High. Councilman Austin. High. Vice Mayor Richardson. All right.

A RESOLUTION recognizing the efforts of the Crown Hill community to prepare an action plan for their community; and identifying strategies and actions to implement the Crown Hill Urban Village Action Plan.

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Agenda item 40 Resolution 32035. A resolution recognizing the efforts of the Crown Hill community to prepare an action plan for their community and identifying strategies and actions to implement the Crown Hill Urban Village Action Plan. Thank you, Madam Chair. I move to adopt Resolution 32035. Is there a second second? It's been moved and seconded to adopt the resolution. I'm going to hand this over to Councilmember Strauss was the sponsor of the resolution. Thank you, Council President. And I do need to note that it is a bittersweet and a humble honor to be the last to respond to your request as presiding officer for Council of the City Council in the City of Seattle. I'm glad that this is a three hour meeting, lest you forget the long meetings, and I hope that Cameron is in the background with a way to celebrate once we're done. Conduct business. To the resolution 3 to 0 three five, the Crown Hill Community Action Plan. This resolution recognizes the tremendous effort, a tremendous community effort that went into producing the Crown Hill Community Action Plan, which was finalized this last Friday. The community planning process that resulted in the Crown Hill Community Action Plan began in 2018. The Office of Planning Community Development launched a process to engage with neighborhood, ultimately connecting with around 300 community members through workshops, focus groups, door to door, canvasing, tabling at community events and much more. Those community conversations informed the Community Action Plan, which sets the vision for Crown Hill's future as a walkable, vibrant neighborhood as one of the fastest growing, changing neighborhoods in Seattle. It is one that lacks a light rail station. This Community Action Plan contains steps that the city and community members can take to make the neighborhoods vision a vision for a community light rail station into a reality, something that I support. The plan is broadly oriented around these three priorities a distinct neighborhood with great destinations and a vibrant public realm streets that encourage walking and making it easy to get around in connected, engaged, thriving communities. This Community Action Plan was delayed and put on pause because of COVID. I'm glad that this is another opportunity where the city of Seattle can build back better and bring this forward. Community members contacted me earlier this year with concerns that the plan would be forgotten in the mayoral transition. And so I worked to push the mayor's office to have OK'd complete this work on this plan before the end of the year. OPD took one final round of community feedback and made final changes to the plan last week to add more emphasis on affordable housing and encouraging new indoor meeting and gathering spaces. The next steps for this plan will require us to adopt new design guidelines for Crown Hill next year. And again, if Councilmember Juarez can get 130th Street Station, I'm going to get a Crown Hill station. I hope everyone heard that loud and clear. I would also like to thank Katie Hyman at OPIC for her fantastic work on this. And I would like to thank Karen LaBelle, president of the Crown Hill Village Association, and Selznick and Patty Arroyo for joining us at the Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee recently, as well as everyone else who shared their feedback to help shape this plan. With that Council President, you are nearly released and I that is my report. Thank you, councilmember strauss. Are there any additional comments on resolution 32035? NEARY None will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of Resolution 32035. Agenda item 40. Lewis. Yes. Morales. I must get to Paterson. Hi, Strauss. Yes. You're bold. That's. Whereas I council President Gonzales. I didn't favor none of. Thanks so much. The motion carries, the resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it for the very last time. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? There is one other item of business. If there is no objection that Council members will be excused from today's meeting. Hearing no objection, Councilmember Solon is excused from today's meeting. Colleagues, is there any further business to come before the Council? Ellesmere Mosquito Police. I am so excited, council president, that we were able to surprise you. I do hope that you and your team really heard how much we appreciate you and look forward to continuing to work with you on the future. Thank you for having this marathon meeting and I just want to take a second to say thanks to VanMeter as well. I didn't get a chance to shout them out. Congratulations on their next chapter as well. With all of the work they've done on council for the last 13 years, it's been a really great honor to work with VanMeter as well, but wanted to just get that last thank you. And as council members, I just can't help myself. Council Member. Council. Members I again, thanks for the opportunity to surprise the council. President and president, congratulations again. Well, thank you so much. I did want to also, you know, it was publicly announced today that Dan Itr, our deputy director, is going to join mayors, the mayor's office as mayor elect Harrell's policy director. And we do want to wish him much luck and of course, express our deep and profound gratitude to him for his 13 years of service to the city council in particular, and to council central staff. And so we again wish him much luck and we are deeply appreciative for everything that he is given to us. So colleagues, of course, I cannot adjourn a meeting of the city council that you guys been subjected to, my beautiful daughter. So I'm going to I'm going to. Have. Her come over here maybe for the last your last public appearance, except for now, she's being shy. Well, look, who wouldn't it say by here? Virtually adjourned. Thank you, colleagues. Your next meeting will be sometime in January. I want to thank you all for your your friendship and for all of your amazing work and look forward to seeing you all in New York. So thank you. Share with many by Reserve Bank.

Recommendation to authorize remediation and purchase of a portion of the former Public Service Yard, including grant of reciprocal access easements; Authorize the relocation and limited restoration of the former railroad station building to Willow Springs Park; and Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $3,000,000. (Districts 1,7)

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Next item on item 14 is a report from the city manager with the recommendation to authorize the remediation and purchase of a portion of the former Public Service York and authorize the allocation of limited space relocation and limited restoration of the former railroad station building to Will Springs Park and increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund. Mr. WEST. Mr. Vice Mayor, Council Members will have a quick report by our business services director fresh from his Grand Prix win. Mike Conway. Thank you very much, Mr. West. Vice Mayor Garcia, members of the City Council in 2009 and 2010. City Council authorized the exchange of land between the city and L.C. W Partners, exchanging a portion of the public service yard for a portion of the low street US wetlands as a condition of the exchange. Both parties indemnified the other relative to existing environmental conditions. Additionally, both parties were obligated to work cooperatively to minimize the other parties exposure to remediation costs. At the time of the exchange, environmental remediation costs for the public service yard were estimated at $2,853,300. Since that time, the property was sold to a Leer property group and a leader in the city have worked together to receive environmental closure. To date, nearly two thirds of the property has received a no further action letter from the oversight agency at minimal cost. The remaining property, totaling about 5.2 acres, contains debris from the 1933 earthquake, and it was expected that this debris could be collected and disposed during grading activities at minimal cost. However, during grading, it was discovered that the debris had been systematically burned, resulting in lead based paint being spread laterally throughout the property. Because the lead is immobile and insoluble, it poses no environmental concern while situated in the soil. However, during grading efforts, the LED impacted debris would need to be transported to an appropriate environmental facility at a cost estimated at $7.2 million. In further cooperation, the parties arrived at an alternative solution. Instead of transporting the debris off site, we intend to instead consolidate the debris on the northerly 1.8 acres of the 5.2 acre site, and then reacquire that site in order to control any future environmental issues. The remaining 3.2 acres will have been completely remediated and cost to remediate and reacquire. The 1.8 acres is $2,346,000, with a 10% contingency. Total cost is estimated at $2,581,000. Included in the original exchange agreement was a right of access by the city to the former public service yard property to remove the historic train station. That right of access expires this June. Grading activities will be hampered, but with the train station in its current location. So these activities present an opportunity to address both the grading and relocation. Included within the recommended action is authority to relocate and to the extent possible, renovate the historic train station, the current recipient site for the relocated train station as well as Springs Park. So staff request that council approve the recommended action. And this concludes my staff report and I'm available for questions. Okay. Thank you. Any questions, Councilman Johnson? Well, thank you, Vice Mayor. And I just want to thank staff for what I think is a very creative re-use of this historic building. And I think many of us one thing we love about Long Beach is our history. And here's an old railroad building, which my hope is will be our new visitor center at Willow Springs. So instead of going out and building new center, the tremendous costs for reusing it. So I want to congratulate you with, I think, a great idea. But Kill Me, May Miss Frick. What what can be done with the funding set aside here? Certainly it's an older building. What can we expect when it's moved to. Well, Springs? What kind of condition the building will be in and what might be its potential uses? We are currently undertaking an assessment of the building to determine what kind of improvements and what that potential investment would be in order to upgrade it, to convert it into a visitor center. So I don't have what that number is right now, but I can let you know that we are looking at it and working on that assessment. Okay, great. I just you know, given the city's continued financial constraints, we'll continue this conversation. But I would suggest that there may be non staff uses of the area. In other words, maybe some public educational materials or things that may not require an ongoing staff need so that when when it is closed, people can come there and still enjoy the property. But thank you. I think it's a great idea and I look forward to seeing it at Willis Springs. Thank you. See no other council comment. Is there a motion to get? Is there a second? Yeah, there's been a motion in the second. I mean, open up to a public comment on the item. Thank you so much, Mr. Vice Mayor, for the opportunity to speak to the council and the staff. And if Gary Shelton, the address. Is 240. Chestnut Avenue, about a block away from here. My thought on this is that right now the item seems to lack clarity and completeness. And I would suggest that you listen carefully to the five points I'm about to make in support of that statement and ask staff to delay this and come back with a more complete report. The timing consideration, by the way, is unsubstantiated. There seems to be no actual reason for today being a deadline of any kind. First of all, in the backup information, there is no map of the site which shows where the north portion is either the five point something acres or the one point something acres. And so you and the public are all left in the dark as to the actual site that you're being asked to pay these millions of dollars for. Number two, it's not exactly clear, except from the staff report that was verbally given right now where Mr. Conway suggested that Lear and the city have been cooperating with this. It's not exactly clear whether a Lear actually purchased the obligation to indemnify when they purchased this property that the originally that Al CW partners had agreed to. That's not clear. Third, the staff mentions that the letters, acquisition costs and temporary holding costs of this property equal the value of the north portion. But there's nothing to substantiate that. There's no fair market valuation of the property or any other evaluation of the property and staff refunds that that portion of Lear's payment to purchase the property be refunded without question as to whether its initial purchase price was reliable or whether and made any sense. Fourth and almost last of the staff changes the original sense of minimizing environmental liability to actually eliminating any environmental liability. And it's an overreach of the original agreement's intent. And finally, will the portion that one point something acre is it's going to be capped at this point be of any use to the city. Is there any access by the city to it or preparations to operate that access? Or will Alere use it in some way or another as any agreement to that effect at all? So I submit that without any information as to the answer to any of those questions, you're not ready to decide on this today. Thank you. Thank you. Very good. You click as the address. I think the prospect of of reclaiming that old building realization is certainly intriguing and should be followed. The one thing that does trouble me, though, is they're the same. There are a number of the same ringtones with this relative to the OP's, we found some more toxic items and so forth . We didn't have to think. We deal with those have the same ringtones as when the city went ahead and raised six s in the Marine Stadium and then came back and said, surprise, surprise, we found toxic material in an abandoned oil field. It's just it smells a little excuse me. And I'm I'm not so sure that this. Deal is straightforward and would pass the smell test. I think you should hold it over, take a look at it, and make sure that there's nothing, quite frankly, nothing crooked about it. Thank you. Thank you. Unless you want to address the councilmembers. Senor. The public comment. Councilman Alonso. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. I wanted to just indicate to staff that I was very happy to see that the historic rail depot will be adaptively reused at Willow Springs. I know this falls in line with the larger, broader effort that we've taken on in the city for adaptive reuse. So I'm very appreciative. Thank you. See no other comment from council. From council. There is a motion on the floor to approve the item. Members, please go and cast your votes. Motion carries eight votes. Thank you. Thank you. Next item.

Recommendation to receive and file a report on the development of an Economic Recovery Strategy and provide input and policy direction to staff on economic recovery priorities to address the economic impacts of COVID-19, with an emphasis on equity, to promote the recovery of businesses and jobs across all sectors of the Long Beach economy following the COVID-19 emergency. (Citywide)

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Thank you. We have two other items that are related to economic recovery. I want to get to those. I do have an item with Ford City Auditor Laura Dow, which we'll do right after those two items. So let's let's try to get to 33 and 26 as expeditiously as possible. Item 33. Item 33 is a report from economic development. Recommendation to receive and file a report on the development of an economic recovery trajectory citywide. Okay. Mr. Motueka? Yes. Jenkins, there has a brief report from the Economic Development Finance Committee. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, and members of the city council. As as we covered last week, the Economic Development and Finance Committee met on December 1st to discuss a few of these important items related to the economic recovery and recommended this item in particular to the Council for further consideration. Just as quick background, the Council has passed a number of of historic economic relief packages related to the hardships of COVID 19. Back in March, as you'll recall, when the emergency was declared, the council directed the city manager and attorney and came back with a package of 24 individual recommendations covering worker protections, tenant protections, regulatory reforms, some of which we've talked about tonight in the transition phase, which really kicked in in August of this year. We saw the council also take some some historic action on appropriating CARES Act grant funds, millions of dollars related to economic support programs to help our businesses as they were fighting off the continued push and pull of COVID 19 and restrictions that the virus has caused to businesses. But now, as we are starting to enter a new phase of this economic crisis, we really feel that an economic recovery strategy is needed. And the Economic Development and Finance Committee covered a number of different items that they wanted to be included to to create an inclusive economic recovery . This slide, actually, which was highlighted earlier tonight, is from our economic forum where Cal State Long Beach has been unpacking our economic data to see how COVID 19 has impacted different workforce. You can see, of course, that the economic recovery has been uneven. They call it a k-shaped recovery because those on the lower income legs of the K are actually not experiencing any changes, whereas those in the higher earning areas have experienced greater recovery at a quicker rate. And so the committee was recommending to the council that we develop a comprehensive economic strategy that really is based on on economic data and conducting economic equity studies, identifying key measures, and having shovel ready projects available for for when funding becomes available. Number two is to really work with our community partners, our community based organizations, nonprofit economic development corporations to solicit input and conduct a robust community outreach program to help develop these recommendations. Additionally, the committee wants the Council to consider adding goals from the framework for racial reconciliation to promote a more racially inclusive and equitable economic recovery strategy. And number four, to identify and implement a legislative agenda, to advocate to the state and federal government, advocate for funding so that once this recovery strategy is developed, we have the funds to implement. And finally, in terms of timing, to have this back to council before April 1st, because as we see the strategies to to prevent COVID 19 vaccination and other things arrive, the hope is, is that the health orders can be lifted and people can get back to business. But in terms of the studies, I just want to finish on. We covered at the committee the research that is already underway, which will become the foundation of baseline economic, social and demographic information. There are actually five economic equity studies that are underway now funded by the City Council, this appropriation of Cares Act money, and that includes the trends, analysis and impact analysis on on high need populations and ethnographic impacts, study on individuals and how they've survived COVID 19, financially and otherwise. To refresh our small business survey and ultimately to conduct a restaurant retention study, we'll be partnering with community based organizations, providing incentives to participants. And ultimately, we will bring the results of these studies back in late January and early February as we work with the council and the community to build this economic recovery strategy. So just a couple of next steps. I covered some of the the Economic Development and Finance Committee meeting. This city council kick off the studies that are underway, of course, the community outreach legislative strategy and hopefully have a final report back to the city council in March or sometime prior to April 1st. We'll also need a plan for marketing and promotion, business and implementation, planning and of course, funding. So with that, I'll conclude my report and turn it back over to the Council. Thank you. I have a motion by Councilwoman Mango and a second by Councilmember Richardson. Councilman Mango. Thank you. I had a couple questions for Mr. Keisler. At the meeting, we discussed a memo which I see came out today at 415. So I did a little bit of studying of that in between the swearing in and the first council meeting. And I had some questions on that. And then I wanted to also follow up on specifically the request I made related to the remaining funds for small businesses that would be available to launch the support of reimbursement related to outdoor extensions that small businesses made to continue to conduct business outdoors. And if you would be open to adding a component that if over the next several weeks, if there are additional. Requirements levied upon these businesses that have outdoor spaces based on becoming compliant that those too could be eligible expenses. And when the world watch. I know we were hoping that it would launch this week or able to make that happen. That's certainly a council member. That was part of the discussion last Tuesday night. We heard loud and clear from the city council that we needed to take a look at what CARES ACT funding we had possibly available to put together to address the restaurants and the particularly those that that have invested a lot of money to deal with COVID related costs and outdoor business activities. So we have put together a recommendation for the city council and the city manager is has been working with us to get that ready to go this week. We believe we will have a program ready to launch by the end of this week. It will allow for grants up to $10,000, depending on the costs that these individual businesses have incurred specifically related to outdoor business activities. So that would be food services and otherwise we will have that information available in, of course, a website, a press release and written communication to council within a matter of days. And we hope that we can start accepting applications by the end of this week. Thank you. And I know I specifically discussed a very simple and easy process for these businesses to make sure that those funds are put out quickly. What does that look like? Yeah, that actually has been a conversation the first two days of this week between our different staff and departments about how we can make that as simple but also as accountable and provide the documentation in the event that we have a follow up audit. And so we do a we're keeping this this initial interest form simple. You also have to have an existing approved permit for outdoor dining or food services. So that already provides some really important information from those businesses that have provided that for the permitting process. And then finally, we want to keep the documentation process very simple in terms of demonstrating which costs have have occurred for eligible expenses. So we've taken that to heart and we think we've designed something that will be very, very streamlined. And you mentioned outdoor dining, but any business that's pulled an outdoor permit to conduct business outdoors because of COVID would be eligible. Yeah. So we have to do primary business permits for, for these outdoor activities. We have the parklets in the right of way and then we have these, these occasional event or, or apps that have been issued. So this would be either public or private property. And ultimately we're focusing primarily on food services, and that would include restaurants and bars and other businesses that have received permits for that purpose. Our goal, of course, is to target those first, because that was the direction that we received. Thank you. My next question is regarding the CARES Act update memo that was released. I think my question is for Mr. Parkin. Mr. Parkin, the city council approves a budget every year before the October 1st deadline, and during that approval process, the Council approved specificity of okay, this department is receiving. This much revenue in measure a this much revenue in general fund this much these projects are specifically designated to measure A or measure C funds and so on and so forth. But when I look at the CARES Act update pages 11 and 12, I notice that some of the programs are concluding after the deadline. And so it would be my understanding that we then as a city chose to utilize Care Act funds for eligible expenses, and then we would be freeing up general fund money to then fund these programs that were originally funded with CARES Act funding into the New Year. Would that need an approval of the City Council in a similar way when we would move funding of a particular kind of revenue, funding a project that was approved by the council and then change that. Councilmember I'm going to defer to John Grosso on the finance director. I think he's been looking at how they can utilize these Care Act funds in the most efficient manner in order to continue some of the projects that we know are going to be necessary beyond the end of December. And then thank you for that. And Mr. GROSS, you know, I'm a big fan of yours, and I know that there are a lot of. Movement needs of money to make things available with the intention of the original plan. I just from a transparency point of view, have felt that every year when you bring forward these budget adjustments, even though they don't get a lot of scrutiny from the community because they are pretty complex, I do appreciate reading them and I think they are important for the transparency of the finances of the city. And do you believe that those are required and will that be coming forward in a future budget adjustment for a retroactive approval, or do you believe that's not necessary? I believe Mr. GROSS is on the line. Mr. GROSS either. We may have missed him. We will try to get him back on the line to be able to answer that question. So in summary, the way that we have outlined our CARES Act and we have put that in the memo today and we also put it in the requirement and when we came to council in July is we have some reporting mechanisms for the federal government to be able to meet all of the CARES Act deadline. So it's a process that was reviewed with, you know, and checked on other jurisdictions and what they were doing. And it's called administrative convenience. And it basically does a reporting mechanism to the state on how we're going to be spending our funds. And then we wanted to make sure that we are delivering what we brought to the council to be to be implemented, which is the full plan that was implemented in in July. So that's essentially what we're doing. It is using the funding source. Nothing is not a net impact. It's still the exact same funding source and that is just the way for us to deliver the CARES Act program. But I can tell you that. So there are a. Thank you. Thank you. Council member or Vice Mayor Richardson? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And at the end of this, I'll talk a little bit about procedure, but I want to I want to thank staff for this. This presentation. I think the intent here is to really be very high level about where we are in this moment. So you have it's a great opportunity to use a fresh palette, new counsel, new presidential administration, vaccine conversations are happening. Now is a time where the stars are aligning to really focus all the work that we already have to do around one strategy to best position our city for recovery. We know that the recovery would need to be balanced and inclusive. That means, you know, we look at economics and how economics impacts everyone, but also we look at the social aspects of recovery and the health aspects of recovery, how to make sure that over the next few months, the administer the vaccine is administered in a way that that is equitable. How do we make sure that, you know, we're concerned about the public health of our art? We maintain our concern, but also really are strategic about the things that are going to be important to the recovery, like the reopening process. We've been through that process before. We know what we learn from that process. That's going to have to be factored into this, how we how we strategically figure out reopening. We also know some industries are going to going to be different. They're going to change and never be the same. So now's the time to really think strategically about how we build back in a way that's strategic and investing. And in industries, for example, we know that there's equality mandates coming down from the state in terms of, you know, meeting the sort of automotive, the electric car sort of mandates. And that's going to create demand to produce new technology and new vehicles. Where we have the history here in Long Beach, we have the ABC. The only Toyota body, Toyota manufacturer on the West Coast is in North Palm Beach. We know we have the history of Boeing. We have, you know, in our aviation sector, there's been some construction and capacity to think about manufacturing. Well, how do we factor that in? We know there's going to be a federal package, multiple federal package, as well as a broader transportation moving forward act. What are shovel ready projects that we can start putting forward right now and maximizing the impact? We know that we have more capacity now than we have before. We have both lobbies Economic Partnership, Lumbee Center for Economic Inclusion, a lot of capacity around racial equity, community groups that are doing doing this work on the ground today that are would be ready in the new year to begin to have a discussion about whether whether an inclusive recovery recovery would look like. We also know that in the new year, we beginning to implement some of the work that took place over the summer around selecting a reconciliation initiative. That should dovetail into the idea here is this is an opportunity really to send a very clear message to staff that as we go into the new year, our economic recovery is our top priority. And, you know, the region is focused on recovery, the federal government is focused on recovery. And we should have a plan that really aligns with the region's plan and aligns with our federal plan on recovery. This should be delivered to our city council and by April 1st. So we're ready to go. And we should be working in partnership with Long Beach, with Long Beach, City State, as well as our partners. I want to thank the LBA, the nonprofit partnership in Long Beach Economic Partnership for submitting letters and committing to work with the city. Also want to thank the Economic Development Commission also for stepping up and talking with us about making sure that the update to the blueprint really is coordinated with this to where, you know, our top priorities are economic and social recovery, but it informs the long term and sort of where we go as a city. The last thing is a share of economic development. I know the council committee is going to change. This will be my last motion coming out of the eye of the committee. I'd like to. Councilman, Vice Chairman, go. I want to make sure that I know you cued up and I want to make sure that I'm able to make this motion. You're okay with that? Sure. Councilmember Richardson. Thank you. So those are those are my comments. I want you know, I want to I think, again, this is a great opportunity for us as a city to to focus on our comprehensive recovery. This is what people expect from us. And the timing is right. And I think we really can position our city for a robust recovery. Thank you. Thank you. So I have a motion by Vice Premier concerning the second by Councilman Mongo customary ringa. Thank you, Mary. And I think it's very important that we support this report in regard to our recovery. And that's and that's what it's all about. We want to get people back to work. We want to get businesses open again. But we want to do it in a manner that is going to address the issues of. That I brought forward with the pandemic, and we want to do it safe. So I want to point that we see all of this report making. Count Women's and Day has. Actually, it's. They're having trouble meeting here. And first of all, I want to give a big thanks to our economic and economic development team and to our economic development committee for bringing this forward. I think that this is this is something that is very needed. And this has been an incredibly difficult few months for city staff and for the economic development department, especially, has stepped up this whole year, not just on this item, but this whole year in a huge way to help our local and small businesses throughout this these incredible challenges. As we heard in our study session last week and has and has been reflected by our continued spike in COVID 19 infections, protecting the health and safety of our residents must continue to be a top priority. And just as low income neighborhoods and zip codes representing communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by COVID 19 are nonwhite . Business owners in the city have also been hit especially hard by this crisis. Just yesterday I had a conversation with John about the work that's been happening to connect the the black and Latino owned businesses with resources. And it's important to me that it's important to me that we continue and that we expand these efforts as additional federal aid is received and we begin to move forward towards our recovery. We can't just talk about equity. It has to be something that we devote the time and money to support. One of the primary messages I like staff to receive from this discussion is that we must continue to determine what are not white owned businesses need to survive and then do all that we can to get them the resources that they that they have. Of course, everyone needs help during this big economic crisis, but there's certain things that these communities are lacking. And so we need to really look at it in through the equity lens. The Latino community is especially important to me. And I hear and I hear and see the way that our business is and struggled disproportionately to others. What we cannot afford to see as a city is for this pandemic to permanently close all small businesses that are so important to our community while others survive that that any of the businesses are forced to close is a tragedy no matter what it is, because people have poured their hearts and not only their hearts, but their life savings into their businesses. But it will be so, so devastating for the overwhelming burden of the hardship to continue falling on our entrepreneurs of color. I know that these are sentiments that are shared by our staff, and I look forward to continuing to hear about the efforts around economic equity moving forward towards an economic recovery. And we we must we must make a plan today so that when we do get funding for this, we know exactly when and where it's going to . So with that, I thank you for all the work that you've been doing. And I think, you know that the work is is also coming. The harder work is coming. So I look forward to supporting this item. Thank you. Thank you all for working on this item. Thank you. I believe that the mayor stepped away so I don't have the phone. So guess what? We're just going to have to queue up. If you have any other comments, speak up and we're going to recognize you by voice until we until the mayor gets back there. Any other comments on this item? Yes. This is Councilwoman Zoro. Oh, you are recognized. Okay. Can I make my comment now? Sure. Okay. And I, too, want to thank the Economic Development Team and committee for your hard work in getting us to this point. For myself as an incoming new council member. So that so we're able to continue to put people first. Economic recovery is a very top priority for me, and it's something that I've mentioned time and time again that is important to my district, that we ensure that it's inclusive and it's just an equitable. You know, the people and the small immigrant and people of color owned business in my district have really suffered prior to the pandemic and ensuring that they're able to grow and thrive. And the pandemic has exacerbated their situation. And so for that reason, you know, many other businesses in different parts of the city were able to set up Parklets for their restaurant and, you know, use technology to shift their business and to somewhat survive it. And I know that everybody has had challenges in this pandemic, but I do want to make sure to recognize that it's been so much harder for the businesses in my district to adjust and even to survive and recover. And so I just want to make sure that staff know it's a top priority for me and that it's very important that I heard the goals and objective from the framework for racial reconciliation that's going to be incorporated. So I just wanted to share that and thank you so much again and then I. Certainly thank you. And is there any are there any further council comments? Okay. Hearing. Let's go to public comments and make public public comment on the item. Yes. Our first speaker is Tiffany, D.V.. Thank you. Recognize? Good evening. 15 David address on file. I just want to thank. The development services and all other departments that have been involved. In this work. Leading up and ahead as we tackle. Well, it's. Definitely one. Of the largest challenges I think we've all collectively faced. That being said, I wanted to. Share this quote from John Hanmer. Economic recovery from disaster is about the resilience of local economies, but it is. Also about the. Scale in space and time, the magnitude and distribution of the losses and benefits flowing from the disaster. The impacts on assets and on flows of goods and services, adoption of new technologies, marketing of recovery and ships and local power is the aim of economic recovery simply to restore the pre-disaster state? Or should disasters be embraced as opportunities. To make local. Economies more resilient? There are many that are facing a myriad of different challenges, whether that's economic, social, mental. This will take some time. I believe. And prior comments, I. Did suggest possibly. Looking at the creation. Of appointing a local disaster recovery manager, someone to liaise on with state, federal and other regional. Basically actors that we would need to tackle this behemoth together with. There is. I know there has been also quite a bit of. Discussion in terms of what do we expect the federal government to deliver? How quickly is it going to get to the people? How can we. Make sure. That everyone. Who has need. At this time is met and addressed? I think eventually you're hearing our. Grocery store workers and the. Really the despair. I mean, one of the callers is in complete tears. Every day that we are living through this together. Is one in which we're still not able to completely assess the community needs and concerns. And so I thank you because this will take. Exceptional leadership. This will take. Equity. This will take. Thinking about things in. Ways we have not done before. Because we cannot go back. Businesses may open, but those who have been. Harmed and felt the harm throughout this time. They're going to need more. And I look forward to the continued leadership and those taking those difficult stances to speak up for those that don't get a chance to call their. And those we. Know that are hurting. Thank you. Thank you. Your next speaker is Dave Shukla. Was. Hello. The issue, quote unquote, I like to think, starts with a presentation. And for much of the work over this past month on trying to figure out how to chart our economic recovery. And I on the data work for some of these economic studies. A couple of points. These studies should, of course, include an equity lens. This be a concerted effort at data collection for indicators coming out of the framework for reconciliation process, along with some of the recommendations that the community is making on them. We also need to identify strategic opportunities for attracting new industry, specifically manufacturing jobs, high quality jobs and career ladder ladder that'll help move families in place. The economic recovery strategy has to also confront the reality of the carbon intensity of many of our. Highest performing industry sectors. Intel. Aviation. Shipping. Tourism. The rental market. And also, how structurally reliant are municipal budgets on heavily polluting industries? A new economic recovery strategy or update to the economic blueprint coming out of this COVID 19 pandemic would be complete without recognizing already existing, effective public health interventions. For until we have widespread distribution adoption of the vaccine probably through the end of 2020. One of the existing things that we've known have worked in other countries as well as in the state of California, for limiting the kind of chain of transmission of this virus or things that wouldn't have continued to do. And hopefully the strategy will incorporate some of the key kind of aspects of the two quick requests. Specific to priority number five of the report dated on the third day, the initial report to be presented early next month along with the final report presented in April. I should include I would like to request that they include the possibility of creating a community choice aggregation program, specifically to Joint Powers Authority led by the city for the Greater Long Beach area as. The Southern California Association of Government recently voted in May. This is a priority for governments in the region to explore for equipment. And then the second request would be that only fines for clean energy be included in the process for developing some of these relevant economic indicators and also help in the drafting of the economic blueprint, specifically from science based, equity focused climate stabilization. Thank you. Your next speaker is Karen Jimenez. Karen Jimenez. Hi. Yes, hi. Good evening, Mayor and city council members. My name is Karen Jimenez, and I'm the director of small business support for Ronnie's house. For the past few months, we've been supporting our barbershops and her salons for the COVID 19 shutdowns. And what we've seen is just really heartbreaking. I support a recovery package for all businesses and as the city council and staff to work together to ensure our beauty industry. Which is the heart of many of our communities. We. We urge you to. To create a recovery package so that they don't shut down. In addition, many of our barbershops and hair salons on a month to month lease, which means that when they when the protections are lifted, they will be easily evicted. Moreover, many undocumented owners are four and five months behind, and they're facing harassment. And during this uncertain time, because they are not able to tap into any funding, including they weren't able to fund into any funding, including the latest small business grant. I originally asked the City Council and the Mayor to ensure that a recovery package is created for the beauty industry. And then you take into consideration the undocumented community. When creating this package. Thank you for your time and consideration. Think your next speaker is Manny Navarro. Annie Navarro. Yes. How are you? Good evening. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. How are you today? My name is Manuel Navarro. I am the owner of Manny's Barber Shop in the ninth district. I've been a business owner for about 15 years in Long Beach. I am in support of the economic recovery package and I appreciate City Council for taking steps towards the recovery. Towards recovery. However, I ask that you packages created for our industry to help us navigate through Covi 19. It's been a very, very tough year for us barbers and the industry. I ensure we keep our businesses open. Hopefully, you know, we want to continue giving the best service outside community. We have been closed for about seven, seven months this year. I just want you to imagine the position we are in, you know, trying to pay the rent or mortgage and keep our families afloat. It's been very, very tough. You know, without generating any type of revenue. Many of our shops are behind on rent and some have closed. It's very sad to see that, you know, we can do better. The city, I believe I think we're we can do better and just for our beauty and barber industry and our city council and do this just that, you know, do more and do better so that to do better. And so, you know, our business can make it through this very, very difficult time. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Have a blessed night. God bless. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Sharon Sinegal. Good evening. City Council Mayor Robert Garcia. Vice Mayor Rex Richardson. Congratulations to council members Sally Sara and Cindy Allen. My name is Sharon Cynical, and I'm the executive director of Rodney's house and the co-founder of the Long Beach Beauty and Barber Association. We cannot possibly talk about racial reconciliation without addressing the needs of our beauty and barber industry that employs many of our minority communities as well as women. We are here on behalf of the members to request a recovery package of $5 million to the industry, including our documented businesses, legal support for our shops that are facing eviction and harassment, and funding for small nonprofits that are currently on the ground supporting the beauty industry and other small businesses. We have been asking support from the city to support our small businesses as a nonprofit for many months. But the funding has been moved to larger organizations for business support who are usually not on the ground with our small businesses, but rather at the table with the city. And that concerns me. As for the CARES Act, funding the application process was very disappointing. Many of our small businesses did not know about the available funding and we were with our small businesses up until the last minute on December 11th, making sure they get their applications in. I urge City Council to support our beauty industry that is the heart and soul of our communities. And that has been a part of the civil rights movement and the disbursement of education on health, finance and politics. Thank you so much for your consideration and for your work towards racial reconciliation. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Thank you. Let's go ahead and have our roll call vote. Councilwoman Sun. Has. I'm Councilwoman Ellen. I am Councilwoman Price. I am councilman owner. All right. Councilwoman Mango. Councilwoman Sarah. I as a member of Ranga. I can in Austin. Hi. Vice Mayor Richardson. All right. Motion. Kay. Before I go to the next item, which is going to be for us item 34, and we'll jump back. Mr. City Attorney General, make an announcement about closed session also. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. This evening, in closed session by a vote of 9 to 0, the city council authorized the city attorney to join in amicus participation in the case of RV versus motion. Thank you. Thank you. Let's take item 34. Item 34.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 235 West Evans Avenue in Overland. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from I-A, UO-2 to C-MX-8 (industrial to urban center, mixed-use), located at 235 West Evans Avenue in Council District 7. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-6-21.

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Certainly. Thank you, Madam President. And good evening, Council. This is an official map amendment application for 235 West Evans Avenue requesting to rezone from a of 2 to 8. The subject property is located in Council District seven, represented by Joel and Clark in the open neighborhood. Swimming and a lot closer to the site is at the court, the northwest corner of West Evans Avenue and South Bannock Street. It is just under two acres in size currently used as an industrial warehouse and they are rezoning to see a max eight to allow for residential uses and they believe have a concept plan with development services at the moment. As they stated, the existing zoning on the site is IAU two. That is a white industrial zone district with a built for use overlay. There is plenty of this sign that surrounds the subject property as well as S.R. x eight to the West. You are h two and a half across Evans Avenue in the South and G Avenue three as well. Current land use as industrial is surrounded on both sides by industrial zoning, except for a few single unit residential parcels across Bannock Street to the East. Some office uses scattered throughout and public quasi public uses along Evans. These photos give you a sense of the building performance scale with the subject property. Right now you can see some very significant residential uses across evidence on the top left and then some of those other industrial uses across Phenix Street on the bottom left. So comparing the two districts, you can see that the schematics were introduced at the townhouse and shot from building forms. Now, when we think about height, our industrial districts are controlled by a four area ratio. So in the current zoning, the maximum height is 75 feet, as long as they're within centered 25 feet of the protected district , which they are. The proposed zone district would allow for an increase in heights eight storeys in 110 feet. They would also introduce a bill to ranges and percentages and remove the floor ratio of maximum. There is a proposed affordable housing agreement with this application. It has been reached in principle with hosts, but however, the concept plan has not yet been finalized. Determine the actual count of the units. The terms are 10% of the units will be income restricted, with 90% of those serving 80% AMI and 10% serving 60% AMI. However, out of all the restricted units, one or 50% will be one bedrooms and 50% will be two bedrooms. And those are for a period of 99 years. Speaking to the process information letters were sent last August, revised application received in early, early this year and January. Planning Board was on March 31st where it was voted to move forward nine zero. And we are here today on May 24th. To date, we have received four letters of support, one being from the local R.A., which is the Overland Park Neighbor Association. The applicant has also negotiated a good neighborhood agreement with the R.A. and three additional letter of support from nearby property owners. Moving to the criteria. There are a number of plans impacting the subject property, starting with comprehensive plan 2040. These are the applicable common strategies that staff found consistent with this proposal, ensuring that the residents have safe, convenient and affordable access to basic services, creating a greater mix of housing options, encouraging quality infill and promoting infill info infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place. Moving to Blueprint Denver. This is mapped as part of the urban center neighborhood context, where we see a high mix of uses with good street activation and multi-story buildings with a high degree of flat coverage. The future place type is a community opportunity center. These places offer a mix of office, commercial and residential uses. The building footprints are larger and the heights are generally up to 12 stories. The street types are mostly local, with the exception of West Evans Avenue, the commercial arterial and the South Broadway, serving as a main street arterial. For our growth area strategy. This fits into community centers and corridors where we expect 25% of new housing and 20% of new employment to occur by the year 2040. As this is a rezoning that is going from industrial to a zone that allows for residential. It's important to include our future manufacturing districts map where you can see that this property is located outside of our manufacturing preservation areas. So commercial uses are compatible. Next we have this Evans stationary plan from 2009. This plan sets forth a vision for transit oriented development around the station. Also recommends transforming transformation of the industrial and commercial properties into accurate, active, industry oriented and mixed use communities. The specific land use guidance here is mixed use residential, the primary residence. The primary use is intended to be residential. The office and retail can also be supported and is seeking to have a mixture of housing types and active Graham. Graham for an urban form. We also have a height map in the stationary plan that recommends five stories. However, this is an area that is north of Evans, and the plan says that it is appropriate to develop higher and higher residential intensities for prominent buildings and intersections. Which staff found this intersection being compatible with a higher height, especially thinking about the Good Neighbor agreement they've negotiated with the R.A. and the affordable housing agreements and location . We're really close to the station. Staff found that this extra request is consistent with the height area, but the height map and the station area plan. We also have the Shattuck District Plan, which was adopted in 2000. The vision for this plan was a neighborhood with a mix of housing, employment and services, and it really speaks to putting underutilized commercial and industrial persons and to more productive uses of staff. Found that the proposed zoning district would facilitate a development that has a mix of residential and commercial uses and further the goals in this plan. And lastly, we have somewhat dated over the neighborhood plan from age 93. It mostly groups the neighborhood into sectors for commercial, retail and industrial and speaks to providing adequate transitions between those uses and supporting light rail and improve access to the future light rail station, which has been open since, I believe 2000, and staff found that based on providing a better transition to the residential uses across Evans Avenue, that this would promote greater beautification and clean up the immediate area, which is consistent with the plans in that existing proposal as planned. Moving to the next criteria. This rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations and for the public health, safety and welfare, facilitating increased housing density in amenities and transit and fostering the creation of mixed use and walkable communities. A third justifying circumstance for this rezoning is change or changing conditions in a particular area. There have been a number of physical changes within close proximity to the site, including new streetscape improvements along South Broadway to prioritize pedestrians, as well as the construction of new multi-unit residential projects within the general vicinity and a future pedestrian bridge across Santa Fe. So we find that these conditions that are mostly largely changing justify this rezoning request. Lastly, we find the rezoning to be consistent with the neighborhood context. This understood purpose and intent statements that are further detailed in the staff report. And with that, CPD recommends approval based on planning. All review criteria have been met. I am joined on this call from a colleague and host. If you have any questions regarding the housing agreements and the application is also available. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Brandon. And tonight, counsel has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 21, Dash 0357. And we have two individuals signed up to speak this evening. And our first speaker is Andrew Davis. Yes. Can you hear me? Mm hmm. Go ahead, Andrew. Okay. Thanks. Council member Bob. Yes, my name is Andrew Davis. I'm the property owner at 235. West Evans and. I. Live here in Denver, Colorado. My address is 2372 South Humboldt Street. First of all, thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. I want to say thanks to Brandon Shaver first. He's been a huge help. In this process. And I'm not going to reiterate anything that he's mentioned. Just. For brevity sake. But I think a couple of things that I would highlight in addition to what he mentioned, I think, first of all, was the neighborhood outreach that we went through over the past nine months. And so we worked with your home park neighborhood association. And, you know, before we even got through excuse me, concept design, you know, back in the midst of COVID, met down there with masks on and walked some folks from the Overland Park Neighborhood Association through the site. You know what the vision was, what. Our thought. Process was, and wanted to incorporate as many of the comments that they had into the project. And so really over the last nine months I've been involved with them. And as Brandon mentioned, we've negotiated a good neighborhood agreement. You know, the high levels on that are, you know, the neighborhood association is going to host their future meetings at the site we're going to work on. You know, there's a dual pedestrian bridge that is being planned, so we're going to work with them on that. There is an Evans Bridge mural right now that is close to our site. And so we're going to take upon the maintenance and responsibilities, making sure that that mural, you know, which has been important for the neighborhood, stays intact. I think the affordable housing, which which again, Brandon mentioned was something that we brought up with the Overland Park Neighborhood Association and. Lots the. Conversation about it. One of. The things. That I think actually was was was great that came out of the meetings with the play was the desire to have more two bedroom units. And so initially when we had worked with Andrew Johnson and Brad winding on the host agreement, we had fewer one bedroom excuse me, fewer two bedroom units. But from our discussions with Europeana, they thought of having more two bedroom units would be helpful. So again, incorporating what we saw was good feedback from our neighborhood association into the host agreement. I think last or the last two parts would be local business support. You know, given that this is largely an industrial neighborhood. We have gotten neighborhood. Support from folks that have been in the business for, you know, greater than 50 years looking for, you know, in support of the project. And lastly, was working with Jody on the parking requirements to be a 2.75 ratio. And so we've worked through our concept design. Making sure that we meet that requirement, which. Was again a big requirement or a big request from the city with regards to. That ratio. So that. Thank you again. All right. Thank you, Andrew. And our last speaker is Steve Faris. Steve, you're going to have to go ahead and meet yourself. Oh. It looks like we might have lost Steve. Here in the meeting. So we will give it a second for Steve hopefully to get back reconnected with us since we are in our public hearing right now. Well, just. Give it a second here, I'm sure. Steve has since figured out that he got. Cut out of the meeting. So. And Steve, if you are coming back into the meeting, if you could raise your hand so that we can get you into the panelists. All right. Thank you for everybody's patience here. All right, Steve, I believe we have you back. With us. You're going to need to unmute, Steve. All right. Well, it looks like we have lost Steve again here. And I have that he was only to be answering questions. But we will give it a second. All right, Steve, do we have you? Well, give it a second here and see if his audio will reconnect. Madam President, he just texted me. Steve Ferris works on our team and he said he was only he's out of technical difficulties and he was only there to answer questions if need be. Okay. All right. Sounds good. Well, it looks like we might have gotten him connected to the audio. I don't know, Steve, if you want to try to unmute. One more time. All right. Well, we gave it our best attempt. And if there's any questions, we've got Andrew here to answer those questions. And so that will conclude our speakers this evening. Questions from members of Council on Council Bill 357. All right. Seen no questions by members of council. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 357 Council Member Clark. Thank you, Madam President. And I just want to say thank you to Andrew and team for really the deep dove with the community on this one. Open A is an R.A. that is very savvy when it comes to rezonings, because there has been a lot of change that they have long advocated for and they've been very involved , even though, as you pointed out, we have a neighborhood plan that hasn't been updated since 1990. We do have two different light rail plans that are much more recent that the neighborhood worked very hard on, on creating a vision for what they want for the community. And they're very savvy on this. And I really appreciate how much time you spent with them working through all of this. And I think a testament to that is not just that the neighborhood association voted to support this, but they voted 16 to 0 unanimously to support this. And I think that that is from the time spent working with them, working through things and not just coming forward and saying, hey, this is what we're going to do, and I'll sit here for nine months and listen to you. But adapting that and working with them to update the plan to reflect their vision. And so I really appreciate that. I think that this clearly meets the criteria for rezoning and it will continue to help deliver on the vision that this community has had around that light rail station and for their neighborhood. And so I will be voting to support that and ask my colleagues to do the same. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Clark and I do agree with you that this rezoning does meet the criteria and happy to support it this evening. So, you know, their hands raised. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 357, please. Clark. I. Flynn. I. Herndon. I. I Cashman. I. Can each I. Ortega Sandoval. I swear. I saw as I. Black. I see tobacco. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 Eyes. 12 Eyes Council Bill 20 1-0357 has passed. On Monday, June 21st, Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 20 10498 changing the zoning classification for 1718 North Tamarack Street in East Colfax.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2580 South Clarkson Street in Rosedale. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-D to E-SU-D1, located at 2580 South Clarkson Street in Council District 6. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 10-20-20.

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13 eyes. Counsel Bill 20 Dash 1124 has passed. Councilmember Flynn, would you please put council Bill 1162 on the floor for final passage? Certainly. I move that council bill 20 dash 1160 to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded by Counsel Min Hines. The required public hearing for Council Bill 20 Dash 1162 is open. May we have the staff report? Thank you, Madam President. This is James and his CBD. Are you able to hear me? And soon. We are. Thanks, James. Thank you. Time before you. We have a proposed rezoning of 2580 South Clarkson Street. The rezoning request is to go from VCAT to ESU one to allow for the detached EDU building. Properties located in Council District six in the Rosedale neighborhood. The parcel is approximately 70 to 130 square feet and is a single unit residential use. The ESU D1 zoned district allows for the Urban House and detached accessory dwelling unit building forms at the max building height from 30 to 35 feet and 24 feet for the interview minimum. What size for the center district is 6000 square feet. Existing zoning is sued and is surrounded by other sued parcels. There's OSA in the form of Harvard Gulch Park to the north as well as Camp two and H1-B to east. Existing land uses single unit residential surrounded by other single unit residential uses as well as parks and open space and public and quasi public uses. Some photos of the surrounding neighborhood for context. The proposal in question is the upper right hand photo. This application was heard before the planning board on their consent agenda and recommended unanimously for approval on September 30th on Rudi's consent agenda October 20th, and here tonight before Council on November 30th, we have received no public comment letters on this application. Here are the five review criteria the council must find the application to be consistent with to approve the application. Starting with review criteria. Number one, consistency with adopted plan series. We have that plan 2040 Blueprint Denver as well as housing and inclusive Denver. The application is consistent with several strategies in the Comprehensive Plan 2014, including some strong and authentic neighborhood goals and climate goals. Moving on to Blueprint Denver. This application is located in the Urban Edge Zone District, which is a nursery context, which is predominantly residential homes, are typically low scale and single and two unit with some small scale multi-unit residential embedded. They offer good walkability with short and predictable blocks. Future place type is low residential and predominately single in two unit uses and accessory dwelling units are appropriate in a residential future place type. Clarkston Street is a local street. Growth area strategy because all other areas of the city which you anticipate seeing 10% job growth in 20% housing growth by 2040. Some additional policies that the application is consistent with include. Housing policy number four, diversity of housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas as well as housing policy. Five Remove barriers to constructing accessory dwelling units. The application is also consistent with several provisions of housing in inclusive Denver, including legislative and regulatory priorities. Two Recommendation to expanding the development of accessory dwelling staff finds that the application is also consistent with the next two criteria uniformity of district regulations. There is no. No variation to the districts being requested, as well as furthering public health, safety and welfare predominantly by implementing adaptive plans and providing an additional housing unit that is comparatively integrated into the surrounding neighborhood. Justifying circumstances. City Adopted Plans Plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver have been adopted since the base zoning was implemented. Steph also finds the application to be consistent with the neighborhood context zone, district purposes and intent to. But should say council pass. CPD recommends council approve the application. Apologies for not updating that site, finding it consistent with all five of the criteria. That's it for me. All right. Thank you, James. Council has not received any written comments on Council Bill 1162, and we have one speaker signed up, Jesse, Paris and James. We're going to go ahead and ask if you would stop your screen sharing for us. Thank you so much. All right. We'll go ahead and have Jesse. All right. Go ahead, Jesse, please. A member of the council. My name is just in the past and I'm representing the Denver homeless now. Black Star Action Member for self-professed positive action campaigning for social change after being to be Party of Colorado in Mile-High News. That will be the next November in 2023. And I live in District eight and Christopher Hampton's district. I am in favor of this approval, of this rezoning. Tonight. I have stated previously I support accessory dwelling units. I would love to see them all over the city along with two whole villages and safe outdoor camps. So cashing in once again, it's a slam dunk for you. You should get this approved with no problems. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Bill 1162. CNN. The public hearing for council bill 20 dash 1162 is closed. Councilman Cashman. Thank you, Madam President. Once again, I think this clearly meets the five criteria. My memory is from an early discussion with the property owner that the plans were to use the ADU for a relative. But this property also is directly across the street from the Porter Hospital campus, so it would be a great location for a health care worker. Anybody wanting a spot in a wonderful neighborhood should less, I believe, less than a block from Harvard Gulch, parked about three blocks from a great growing little retail strip along Downing. So somebody is going to get lucky with a nice, nice place to live. And I obviously plan on supporting this and ask my colleagues to join me. Thanks, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. And seeing that it does meet all of the criteria, I will be supporting it as well. Madam Secretary, roll call, please. Cashman. I can reach. That was in. I sorry, Ron, but Ortega, I. Sandoval, I. Sawyer, I. Torres, I. Work. I see tobacco. I. Clark. I. Flynn. All right. Herndon. I. Hines, I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes. 13 Eyes Council Bill 20 Dash 1162 has passed. We're going to now convene as the board of directors for the Reno Denver General Improvement District Council is now convened as the board of directors of the Rhino Denver General Improvement District Councilmember Flynn.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; amending terms and conditions pertaining to the emergency bill assistance program and temporarily expanding access to assistance to certain eligible households for a limited time in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) emergency; and amending Section 21.49.042 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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Agenda item three Council Bill 120328 An ordinance relating to the City Department amending terms and conditions pertaining to the Emergency Bill Assistance Program and temporarily expanding access to assistance to certain eligible households for a limited time in response to the coronavirus disease. 2019 COVID Emergency. Thank you. I moved past Council Bill 120328. Is there a second? Second? Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. Councilmember Nelson, it's yours. Floor is yours. All right. Passage of this bill would extend the. Availability of expanded emergency assistance to low income to income qualifying households without minor children until December 31st, 2023, and prior to the passage of the originally originating legislation for this assistance, which was ordinance 126317. Qualifying households with minor children were eligible for two emergency credits to their utility counts per calendar year, while qualifying households without minor children were eligible for one credit per calendar year. The policy that would be extended in this bill allows two credits to totaling $1,000 to households without minor children as well. The Council has extended this policy once previously, making the expanded assistance available until 20 December 31st, 2022, and this would extend that for one more year. Thank you. Councilor Nelson, are there any comments or questions for Councilmember Nelson? All right. See none. Will the clerk please call the roll on passage of the bill? Member Strauss. Yes. Councilmember Herbold. Yes. Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Morales. Councilmember Mosqueda i. Councilmember Nelson I. Councilmember Peterson. All right. Councilmember Salant Yes. Council President. Whereas I knight in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes. The chair will sign it. And then I'm pleased to fix my signature to the legislation. Moving on to item number four, I see it's Councilmember Peterson. Well, the clerk, please read the title of item number four to the record.

AN ORDINANCE amending Section 23.58A.044 of the Seattle Municipal Code to facilitate the transfer of development rights from Pierce and Snohomish Counties to Seattle.

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President Gonzalez high nine in favor and unopposed motion carries and the appointment is confirmed. All right. Part two of the Councilmember Strauss show continues. Will the clerk please read item 11 into the record? The Report of the Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee Agenda Item 11 Council Bill 120181 Amending Section 23.50 8.0 44 of the set of the code to facilitate the transfer of development rights from Pearson Snohomish Counties to Seattle. The committee recommends the bill pass. All right, back over to Councilmember Strauss, who's the chair of the committee and is recognized in order to provide the committee's report. Thank you. Council President, do I need to move or second this bill before discussing you. Know it's that it's coming to us straight from committee so you can just give the committee report and then we'll go ahead and call the roll. Fantastic Council president. Colleagues, this is possibly one of the biggest bills that we will take up this year that has caught no attention or limelight. And that's and the reason I say that is because Council Bill 120 181 will allow for regional regional transferable development rates program to work with peers in Snohomish County. As many of you know, we already have a TDR Transferrable Development Rights Program here in the city of Seattle working with King County. And we do not have that program set up to work with Snohomish and Pierce Counties. So, for instance, when we stand in Seattle and look east to the mountains, we now see many different suburban developments on the foothills. Before the Cascades, a regional TDR program allows us to preserve that farmland and forestland and turn that development capacity into built and put it in buildings in downtown in South Lake. Union said another way if we had TDR program set up years ago, we would be able to look east from the city of Seattle to the Cascades with uninterrupted views of the forest land. Now for us to be able to retain our uninterrupted use of forest and farmland from Seattle to Mt. Rainier or to Glacier Peak, we need this program, and this program has not been in place. And that's why I say it's one of the biggest things we've done with the little littlest amount of fanfare. Again, I just want to kind of highlight the aspects of this bill. Currently, Seattle Seattle's PDR program allows receiving sites only in certain parts of our city, such as downtown in South Lake Union, to buy additional development capacity by purchasing credits from eligible sending sites to farmland or forest land such as landmarked properties on first hill or farmland and greenspace in rural King County. The program allows us to accept more growth in our urban centers while preserving green spaces, agricultural lands and historic properties that make our region so beautiful. As the supply of TDR credits from Seattle and King County slows. This legislation before us today allows for additional credits to be purchased from Pearson Snohomish County, encouraging preservation in more of our region while allowing for the continued growth we need in Seattle. Throughout the consideration of this legislation, we've heard from Kingston Homes and Pierce Counties about the importance of this change, as well as from conservation groups such as for Terra. Again, this is probably one of the biggest little things that we will do all year because the impact is so incredible. Yet we have to do very little to achieve preserving farmland, forest land and undeveloped land in our suburbs and creating more density here in our cities. Thank you. Council President colleagues, that is the committee's report. Thank you so much. Councilmember Strauss, are there any additional comments on the bill? I don't see any hands raised. So will the clerk please call the role on the passage of the Bill Herbold. Yes. Suarez, I. Louis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Mesquita, i. Peterson. I. So what? Yes. Strauss. Yes. President Gonzalez. High nine in favor. None opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the corpses affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read item 12 into the record? Agenda Item 12 Casper 120 135 Relating to land use and zoning.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Section 5.80.400, establishing a Taxi Regulation Modernization Pilot Program, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

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Communication from city attorney. Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the municipal code by adding a section establishing a taxi regulation modernization pilot program. Read for the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading Citywide. Thank you. Mr. City Attorney, is this the SEC? It says first reading. Is this the first reading nightmare? Yes, that is correct. At the last meeting, if you recall, there was discussion on the notice and the motion and how it was noticed under the Brown Act. So this is back for the first reading of the actual pilot program. Thank you. It's been a motion and a second. Councilmembers. Would you like to address your motion, your anger or price? Thank you. So any member of the public that wishes to address council on this item seeing none. Members, cast your vote. Motion carries eight zero. Item. We're done with that, right? Sorry. It's crossed out. Okay. And this is the time for new business and. Members, if you will. Allow me just one moment on. Have you all queued up. And then what happened?

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. ITB FS15-151 and award a contract to Fleming Environmental, Inc., of Fullerton, CA, for the construction of an above-ground storage tank fuel site at the West Police Substation, in the amount of $623,314, plus a 25 percent contingency in the amount of $155,828, for a total contract amount not to exceed $779,142; authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto; and Increase appropriations in the Fleet Services Fund (IS 386) in the Financial Management Department (FM) by $480,000. (District 7)

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Do you want to go back to item 14? Yes. Report from Financial Management Recommendation to award a contract to Fleming Environmental for the construction of an above ground storage tank field site at the West Police substation. For a total contract amount not to exceed $708,000. District seven. Can we have a second, sir? Thank you. Is there a staff report. Please? Manager Dan Berlin. Good evening, Mayor Garcia and members of council. This project is to award a contract for the replacement of an underground fuel storage tank at the West Santa Fe Avenue substation with an aboveground tank and system. The tank is due for a replacement based on its age and condition. The project includes associated piping, fuel dispensers, alarm and monitoring equipment. The Fleet Services Bureau manages the fuel program for city vehicles, which includes both U.S. cities, which are underground storage tanks, as well as aboveground storage tanks or Estes. Whenever possible, we seek to replace a USB system with an AC to use. These are less expensive to build and to operate due to their simpler design. There are also less regulated in the case of West PD. We work closely with the police department to ensure the tank would meet their needs in terms of size, location and functionality. This tank will be a larger tank to allow for emergency storage of fuel in this part of town. 3000 gallons larger. And it provides unleaded fuel through four dispensers and nozzles available for use. 24 seven. The system is due for replacement this year under our Schedule Tank Infrastructure program and also is only 50% operational currently due to a piping problem that cannot be repaired and must be replaced. The Tank infrastructure program is funded through regular collection of funds from city departments using fuel for their vehicles. Funds are available in Fleet Sub Fund for fuel system capital improvements. That concludes my presentation. I'm available to answer questions. Any public comment on the item? CNN. Please cast your votes. Thank you. Motion carries.

AN ORDINANCE related to the City’s response to the COVID-19 crisis; amending Ordinance 126490, which adopted the 2022 Budget; accepting funding from non-City sources; changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the 2022 Budget; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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And items five and six constable went to 0 to 67 in relation to the city's response to the COVID 19 crisis. Amending Ordinance 126 490, which adopted the 2022 budget. Council 120268 Accepting the gift of Google Ad Grant Credit. Committee recommends both bills passed. Thank you, Madam President. Thanks also for allowing me to address these bills together. As you'll recall, last year we passed the Seattle rescue plans one, two and three throughout the year. And we heard in January of this year a report in my committee on the Seattle Rescue Plan one Funding and Implementation Strategies . What is in front of us today in this set of two bills is Seattle rescue plan for this contains almost $2 million in funding for and excuse me $2 million in both funding and an in-kind acceptance, as well as some other technical changes to money already allocated. And those details were run in detail through the committee by the City Budget Office and Deputy Director Alex Nucci. The technical changes that we're making make up makes the ARPA funding easier to track and report. There are no changes to allocation from one time to ongoing funding or vice versa. Happy to provide additional details if necessary, but thanks very much. Central staff for their robust work on this again, Seattle rescue plan. Number four and look forward to continuing to track the legislative session and any future actions from Congress so we can continue to provide needed assistance to those in Seattle. So Catherine Mosquito, are you going to. That was item five. Madam President, I'm hoping that that addressed both bills together. Council 120267 Item number five and Council Bill 120268. Accepting that if the funds. Go out the Google. Okay, Google now. Okay. So are there any comments from council member mosquito regarding items five or six? Not seen any. We will vote on each item separately. Will the clerk please call the roll on passage of item five Council Bill 120267. Council Member Herbold. Yes. Council Member Lewis. Yeah. S Council Member Mosquito Council Member Nelson i council member Petersen. I. Council member. So what? Yes. Council member strauss. Yes. Council President Suarez. I h in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? So are there any questions regarding item six before we go to a vote on that? See none. Well, the clerk please call the roll on passage of item number six Council Bill 120268. Council member Herbal. Yes. Council member Lewis. Yes. Council member Macheda. High Council member Nelson. Councilmember Nelson. Okay. Councilmember Peterson, I. Thank you. Councilmember Peterson. Hi. Councilmember Swan. Yes. Councilmember Strauss. Yes. Council President Juarez high eight in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? So now we're going to go to neighborhoods education, civil rights and Culture Committee, which is Councilmember Morales, which are item seven and eight. Madam Clerk, will you please read item seven and eight into the record?

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for a short-term lease (Interim Lease) with MWN Community Hospital, LLC (MWN), a California limited liability corporation (Lessee), for the lease of property owned by the City of Long Beach (City) at 1720 Termino Avenue, 1760 Termino Avenue, and 4111 East Wilton Street (Subject Property); and Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Letter of Intent related to the development of a long-term replacement lease between the City and MWN for the operation of an acute care facility at the Subject Property, for approval by the City Council once completed. (District 4)

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Great. Thank you very much. And now, Madam Clerk, if we can move on to community hospital and we're going to also move up after coming hospital, the gondola item, so that we will hear it. We'll move that up as well. Give me the hospital. Report from Economic Development Recommendation to execute a short term lease with MWI and Community Hospital and execute a letter of intent related to the development of a long term replacement lease between the city and M.W.. And for the operation of operation of an acute care facility district for. Mayor Councilmembers in November of 2017. You handed us a very difficult I like to call it a homework assignment in dealing with community hospital. It looked like we were going to lose our acute care facility there, which was our emergency room. And we all know how important an emergency room is to any community throughout this throughout planet Earth. So after negotiating, working with the city council and working with the team, working with MWP and led by Mr. John Molina, we have what we believe are the parameters for a fantastic deal that can reopen the hospital and reopen the acute care facility. Before I turn this over to the staff, who's going to give the presentation, I do want to highlight the people that have put so much passion into this during the past year. I want to highlight John Keisler and his team. John, the Executive Director of Economic Development. I want to highlight Dianna Tang. She's our manager of government affairs and she's been working so hard in Sacramento to keep the doors open for this hospital to stay open. I want to recognize Oscar Orsi, who's our deputy director of development services, who has worked faithfully in the seismic issues there . Also, John GROSS, our finance director, who's guaranteed that what we're presenting to you is something that is sustainable and something that we can do. Linda Tatum, our director of development services. Tom Modica, our assistant city manager, has been inside this deal and has been living the still in and out for the past year. And of course, I have to recognize our city attorney's office, Charlie Parkin and of course, Richard Anthony, who's been doing the doing just the yeoman's work in preparing agreements and working with the team and making sure that we're doing everything according to our charter and according to municipal code. So with that, I do want to turn it over to John Kaiser and his team. I see Diana back there and Oscar know Oscar, but Diana and John. Take it away. Great mayor. Members of the city council's pat mentioned. We have been working on this project for quite some time. Before you have a quick background slide back in November 2017, you directed us to do a feasibility study on cost share for the acute care at that site in May. We conducted some very targeted outreach. We found four bidders or I'm sorry, five bidders for later dropped out. And we have one before you today who we are very confident in. And in June, you allowed us to enter into an INA with and and so with that I'll go into a quick progress update. You'll recall memorial care while they were leaving allowed us to establish a transition agreement which set the stage for what we have before you today in the state. A number of state agencies have been incredibly helpful to us. CDP approved the hospital license suspension while we work through these issues. We at the city have completed the feasibility study, as I mentioned. We also worked with Ashford to complete the nonstructural seismic compliance work required to reopen the hospital. We've also engaged CDP and they have allowed us to begin at the middle of the hospital license application, have been approving each form individually as we send them in so that when the last piece goes in, hopefully in the next week or so, we may have the hospital license approved. We've also been working with Assemblymember Patrick O'Donnell, who has introduced AB 1495 state legislation proposing to extend the deadline for seismic compliance so that we have time to achieve that. And then last but not least, we have been working with Ashford and they have allowed us a six month extension through the end of this year for continued use of the USB-C one rated buildings while we work on a longer extension. So tonight I'd like to introduce you and we'll have them stand up in a little bit. Molina Wou networker M.W. N Molina you are very familiar with. We've got John and Mario Molina with 30 years of experience working in Long Beach health care. We've got Dr. Wu. Dr. Jonathan Wu has 30 years in hospital management. He has seven community hospitals with over 1200 beds and over 7000 caregivers in Southern California. So very, very well established hospital operator. And last but not least, we have Dr. SIM of Network Medical Management, who has 25 years managing physicians and managed care organizations to improve patient care. So we're very excited to have him for you today. Molina Wu and Network. And with that, I'll turn it over to John Keisler to go over a summary with you about the preliminary agreement and the recommendations before you today. So the preliminary agreement, which was recently announced, is I'm going to read some of the terms into the record. So bear with me. But this is. It recognizes the operation of a community hospital as a public private partnership between the city and our partner NWN. The agreement also establishes a 45 year lease term with the option and your extensions at a lease rate of $1 a year. The preliminary agreement shares funding responsibility of seismic retrofit costs between the city and MWI in up to $50 million. And the city will be responsible for up to 25 million of these cost over a 15 year term. NWN is responsible for any additional seismic related costs over the CAP, and NWN is also responsible for securing hospital licensing and managing the seismic construction permitting process. The city is responsible for legislative extension to complete the seismic construction. It requires the lease premises to be used for the operation and maintenance of an acute care facility, professional office building and other ancillary medical uses. It also requests our operator to provide sobering center beds, medical detox beds, recuperative care and psychiatric beds to address community needs identified in the city's Everyone Home Task Force Report. Subject to appropriate licensure and regulatory approvals. And it also requests our operator to rehire community hospital employees. So the recommendations that are before you tonight are twofold. Part one is an interim lease. This recommendation would authorize the city manager or designee to execute a short term lease. We're calling this the interim lease with our partners for the lease of the property owned by the city at Community Hospital. There's actually three different addresses which are included in the hospital site at Termino and East Wilton Street. This interim lease will allow our partner to secure state hospital licensing before it expires next month on April 28th. This interim lease also allows the city and our partner to finalize our long term agreement for cost sharing and seismic retrofit, which is expected to take anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks. Given all the details that will be hammered out, the interim lease will also provide the city and our partner up to a year to complete the long term lease under an agreement at $1 per year and provide for reimbursement of up to $1 million. In the event that this process takes some time and our partner incurs costs. The second recommendation that we're considering tonight for vote of the council is to establish a letter of intent. This recommendation would authorize the city manager to execute a letter of intent related to the development of the long term replacement lease between the city and our partner for approval by the City Council once completed. So that means will come back once the long term agreement is hammered out. This letter of intent would document our commitment for the long term agreement to operate an acute care hospital and cost sharing for seismic compliance as described above. It provides state regulatory and legislative agencies with a plan to reopen and rebuild the facility. This will be essential as they're considering or licensing or operating or business and financing plan, and it will provide time for both parties to negotiate detailed terms of the agreement while the hospital reopens to the public. It also will provide time to secure state licensing and permit approval, even as we're working out the details. So in terms of next steps before you take action, ultimately, we're hoping to execute this interim lease this month. In fact, perhaps even as soon as this week, we're hoping to submit our seismic rebuild plan to the state of California this month, maybe over the next couple of weeks, submit our legislative extension to the state. This could be a bill that would have to happen sometime this month and secure hospital licensing, probably as soon as April, before the April 28th licensing expiration. We have to also move forward with finalizing the long term agreement. Our city attorney has said this could take 4 to 6 weeks. We're hoping to to to really jump on this and get it done as soon as possible. And then we would come back to the city council with a finalized agreement so that the public, the council and everybody could review and comment. And we would hope that once the state licensing is secured, that the rehiring of employees at the hospital would begin as early as this spring with a hospital reopening sometime within a few months after licensing is approved. That would all allow us to begin our construction planning for the seismic retrofit. We would need to approve those plans in mid 2020 and then we would need to complete construction in different phases with the hospital rebuild either by 212, 2022 or 2025, depending upon the response from the state agency. Before I introduce our representatives from NWN, I wanted to hand it back to the City Manager, Pat West. Council members before we conclude. I can't conclude without recognizing the passion exhibited by Councilmember Supernormal, whose district the hospital is in, as well as council members Susie Price and Stacie Mongeau, whose districts are immediately next door to this hospital. That said, a hospital transcends district boundaries. I want to assure everyone here that the entire city council, including Mayor Garcia, have been intimately involved in every step of this way. So, again, this has been involved by the entire city council because a hospital is so special in a city. So with that, I'm going to turn it back over to John to introduce the MWI and folk. Thank you. Pat is the the representative spokesperson for NWN in Mr. John Molina is here tonight and I wanted to give him a chance to speak as part of the staff report and to introduce his partners, which have been incredible through this whole process. It's been an extremely collaborative process with a lot of difficult reports and and decisions to make throughout. So with that, I'll hand it over to John Molina. Thank you. Thank you, John. Mr. Mayor, city council members, I want to introduce my partners in this project, Dr. Ken SIM from Network Medical Management and Linda Marsh from M.S.. They do not have the deep ties to language that I do, but you could not have asked for better partners on this project. H.M.S. operates seven community hospitals here in Southern California. Network medical management manages thousands of doctors and importantly, helps 650,000 patients navigate the health care system. And I think to show you how attuned they are to this community. I also want to introduce to you Virgin Arbutus. Who's going to be our CEO? Verge is a Long Beach resident. So you have someone at the helm of the hospital who really is got his finger on the pulse of the community. This has been a very long process, and I want to thank the staff for putting up with us. Most importantly, I want to thank you, Mayor Garcia, for your unwavering support and leadership and to the city council. All of you, as as the city manager said, hospitals transcend council boundaries. This is a hospital that belongs to all of the city. And it will help relieve a lot of the pent up demand that we're experiencing at Long Beach Memorial and St Mary's. And this wouldn't have happened without the the leadership of councilmember supernova price and Mongo. He did a fantastic job of mentioning the city staff, and I don't want to repeat that, but it's just been a pleasure to work with evokes. Everyone has been optimistic, everyone has been realistic and everyone has been very forthcoming. Community Hospital has a wonderful foundation led by Matthew Faulkner and Ray Burton, who are here, and they have been with us every step of the way, and I really appreciate all the help that they've given us. And most importantly, I want to thank the people of Long Beach, the folks who came to meetings such as this, the folks that came to the listening sessions, the folks that put their signs out that said, Save our hospital, save our E.R.. Without their support, we wouldn't be here tonight either. And it is not just the support in the past, but it's going to be the support when they use the hospital and the services going on in the future. That's going to make this a financially feasible, financially viable, long term solution for Long Beach. I want to go over some of the next steps, so maybe answer some of the questions and then I'll be happy to answer any questions along with with verge on what happens next. We will be submitting our license application by the end of this month. That's a big step and we need this lease. In order to do so. We expect to start hiring people end of April through the end of May. And I'll get to the hiring in just a minute. And we expect that the state of California will do a license survey sometime in mid-June. And if all goes well, as we expect it will, we expect to reopen in the summer, probably July, maybe August. Believe me, we would like to have that date sooner rather than later, but we're not going to open it until we're ready in terms of hiring staff. We're going to give preference to those employees who used to work at the hospital. We welcome them back to the family. They never left. I am sure that you either have received or will receive calls from the unions. At this point, we feel a little premature to talk about the unions. That's really an employee issue and we want to make sure we get the hospital open first. But we're not going to do anything to stand in the way. We believe that when we open the hospital up, we'll have about 200 employees as we begin to get more patients in the hospital and in the E.R. and ramp up other services. We expect that we will add more employees and at the end probably have about 400 people working there. This does not include employees who may be working for physicians in the physician offices, in the medical office building or some other ancillary programs that we intend to bring on. So what services are we going to have there? When we start off, we're going to have most importantly, we're going to have the ER open. And I know that for a lot of people who have suffered long waits because the hospital er is closed, it will be great news. And hopefully soon after that we will be able to add an ambulance, run to it as well and paramedic runs. We're going to have acute care beds, medical, surgical and ICU beds, pharmacy lab radiology, including a CT and MRI and behavioral health. One of the things we heard from the community is there is a lack of behavioral health services in the city. And so we intend to do what we can to alleviate some of those issues. Additional services we will bring on over time. Many of these will be to support the Everyone at Home Long Beach initiative, and that will include outpatient behavioral health for both adults, children and adolescents, substance abuse services, recuperative care and again, other services that we specifically heard the community really want, such as diabetes, care, wellness and other holistic services. We are very appreciative of the $25 million commitment that the city has has made or will be making. And I want you to know that we're putting up an equal amount. And this will go towards the seismic retrofit. And we will do everything we can to bring that cost down. We don't want the city to spend one penny more than it has to, because, frankly, that means we have to spend one more penny than we have to. In addition, we're committing up to $40 million as needed to buy equipment. To do deferred maintenance. The hospital's been closed now for a long time. And there's deferred maintenance. And the fact is we have to carry the employees for probably 3 to 6 months before we start getting paid. And so we're going to commit $40 million to make sure that those things can happen. It is our goal. To make this hospital a long term asset to the community in it. I mean, let's let's not beat around the bush. This has been a challenge for the previous owners, previous operators. Whether it was community hospital as a standalone hospital, part of the Catholic Health Care West System or part of the memorial system. But our commitment to you folks and to the folks in the audience is to make sure that Long Beach is proud of this hospital. And I am. Very happy to answer any questions. I think, Mr. Molina, we're going to continue with the presentation and then if raise questions, we'll we'll we'll have you come back up. I guess. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let me let me take this back to two staff. We're fine. Are we. Are we done with that? Complete with the whole presentation? Okay, great. So let me first go to I think Councilman Superman might make a couple opening comments. We're going actually go to public comment first. I believe he'd like to do it. And then we're going to come back to the council for questions and comments. Okay. Thank you. You know, the folks in the audience have been waiting for about six months and now six months and 2 hours. So I'd like to invite public comment this time. Thank you for your patience. Larry. Good. You say that. Yes, I fully support this concept and particularly Councilperson Susan off. And I'm going to come up with a suggestion of how the possibility that this and I think there's a distinct possibility of getting federal funds. Are. To start to analyze what you've. Referenced as behavioral issues. And Long Beach, unfortunately, is uniquely positioned. Given the fact we have the most criminally complicit mayor at the current time. We our state or U.S. senator per the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court. R is corrupt. So I think what we could use. We'll use those federal dollars to study and to find out what makes people as corrupt as our mayor. As are U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, who the U.S. Ninth Circuit bipartisan panel. Found that she had engendered an epidemic of corruption. And I think that will also be as they will get inside of it. Our new governor. Who is fawning over. The US Ninth Circuit Court Review. Kamala Harris. So I'll take the lead. I'll contact some people in Washington to see if we can get. Federal dollars to address those behavioral issues. There are far greater. Far greater. Then the issues you referenced here before. That's not to diminish those. Those are legitimate causes. But we're uniquely. Suited for this. We know the most corrupt mayor the city has ever had. We know the slot. The US Ninth Circuit rebuked. And I think it would benefit this city and the country. And we'd be at the this city would be at the epicenter of conducting that study. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is and I can pay. Resident Sixth District. It's council and mayor. It is important. It is important that we as a community demand more transparency in relation to where and to whom are elected officials choose to give our hard earned money to. Here we find ourselves witnessing with too many in the community feel as a prime example of corporate welfare. If we are to exist under the current capitalist system that presides over the American economy, it makes no sense for an investment at this level to be covered completely at the expense of the taxpayers of this beautiful city. For many, it is fiscally unsound and inappropriate for our city to be handing over tens of millions of dollars to a private public enterprise at the meager price of $1 a year lease with no proper stipulations. The federal government didn't operate under these pretenses with GM and Chrysler, and neither should we with w. W. H. Not while there is development at the level that it is today going on in the city. I to use a personal antidote was born at Pacific Hospital in the Wrigley area. The hospital was shut down due to decades of medical fraud and malpractise and the. Property. Was ultimately acquired by a private for profit nursing college. We didn't have the great fortune of a public private enterprise such as this coming in to services and our community. I believe that for the city to proceed on with this project, we would like we in the in the community would like to restructure the deal currently on the books and what it means for this amount of city funds to be involved. I and many others recognize the importance of keeping this hospital open. That's not a question here. I believe the hospital should be opened, and I believe that the east side of the city should be serviced by a hospital at this level. However, that being said, this goes beyond financing and as such there needs to be a more involved conversation about possible public ownership of this space ran by our health department rather than a public private enterprise. And. If there is to be a public private enterprise. Such as the listed suitors of the potential lease agreement here, there should be, instead of especially at 45 years, a mandatory reduction in service and care price controls put into place, and beds specific, more beds specifically dedicated to our mentally ill. A goodwill gesture is simply not enough when public funds are being utilized. Until we see that, myself and others will be writing letters both to our state elected representatives. OHS, HPD, the State Department of Health, as well as. Our current insurance commissioners to see how our city found itself in the predicament we are in today. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hey, everybody. Hi. Ellen Markowitz, former employee of Community Hospital of Long Beach. Long Beach Community Hospital. What else was it called? Oh, it's gone through several names, but you get the gist. I would like to personally thank each and every one of you for all of the hard work. All of the hard work, everybody. This is a great moment right now for us and especially for the citizens of East Long Beach and not just East Long Beach, because once everyone knows that that emergency room is open, that's where they're going. That is where they're going. They are going to have ten hour waits to be seen. And it. It is. I have friends and relatives that have had those ten hour waits to be seen at various hospitals. And I also want to thank M.W. and for approaching the mental wellness side of this project, because the other two mega hospitals in the area, in the city don't. They just don't. So a heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you. And I appreciate the 25 million. It's a lot of money to the people who are worried about it. But this decision was not made in a vacuum. It's a big need. And I know you guys put a lot of thought into that. So nothing but respect. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Mike Madani. But he's not my k. Iran is NYC that needs the microphone because I'm the head of the Taxi Cab Drivers Union in L.A. so I'm their voice. So they call me Mike, but they make a mistake. They say, Mike, anyway, I haven't been here for a long time and currently I think my council member would be Rex Richardson, Herman Cherry and Hardy. So. But it's your fault if I don't know, because you never come over the you never knock on the door. You never ask me what's going on. So you just stay in your seat. Not enough. You've got to do work wise. And this is on community hospital, correct, sir? Is about all the hospitals, okay? Not. Not just that hospital. Just. I was currently on Long Beach Memorial in Long Beach Memorial one night. And it was so many people over there that took me the whole 24 hours to get out of there. I got out of there next day, 6:00 in the morning. Why? Because we don't have enough for taking care of the sick people. And that's the major thing. What's going on? And has to be investments. I remember Long Beach before, many years ago. Probably you don't remember. And it was poor city even had a lot of money. But they start investment. And now you see it looks much better and looks really different than Compton or other part of the like, Watts or other part of the L.A.. Anyway, you have to invest. You have to care about the people. You really care about the people. If you're not sick, it doesn't mean that you'll be worry about other people. You have to worry about other people. Why? We don't have no more hospitals in the area. How many hospitals we have. And this is all the same we had before, but we had more people living in this area. In Long Beach, we have more people living recently comparing with ten, 20 years ago that I was going to college here. You need more hospitals. Do you ever think of that? Did you plan to build new hospitals? There is a lot of room. Long Beach. We have a lot of empty spaces and you have a lot of money. Actually, Long Beach after L.A. is one of the richest cities in the area because of the income of the port . Right. But what do you would do with that money? But that money goes if doesn't go to housing for senior citizen, it doesn't go for. I'm on the waiting list for housing for senior citizens. Six years. Why? Because you don't care. I go to the hospital. It takes a long time. Why? Because you don't care. I don't breathe good air. Why? Because you don't care. Thank you very much, sir. That concludes public comment. I'm going to go ahead, go back to the council. Let me start with Councilmember Supernova. Thank you, Mayor Garcia. Thank you to staff for the presentation. John Molina. Thank you very much for your presentation. I'll actually make my comments very brief. I'd like to do some acknowledgments and thank you first to my council colleagues. I'll tell the public right now they have been nothing but totally supportive of this project from the very beginning. Never wavered. Well, there was a couple of weeks ago when that kind of weird newspaper headline came out and kind of shocked a few people. But we got over that. I'd also like to mention that one great byproduct of this project has been getting to meet and work with so many great people, whether they have medical backgrounds or not, they genuinely care so much about the residents of Long Beach. And first, I'd like to mention the nurses. Ellen and Jackie, thank you for speaking tonight and thank you for working so hard on this project. I should I should also mention Patti Eckenroth. I think she's taken every one of my notices in our Friday newsletter and posted it online. So thank you for that, Patti. The doctors, Dr. Andrew Manos, who met with us so many times and Mike Vasyl Mental lack is the only Grammy Award winning cardiologist with a seven syllable last name that I know. So he's been absolutely instrumental in pushing this project forward. And for those who don't know, he caused a paradigm shift to happen in my thinking. And that is we'd heard so much about the legacy of this 94 year old institution. For instance, four generations of my family have used it. So many people say, Well, my kids were born there or I was born there, and we had sponsored the nurses to walk in the Belmont Shore Christmas parade. And Dr. Mike walked along with you and afterwards he said, You know, there are a lot of young families in Long Beach with kids that he noticed down there on the parade route. He said the real story should be what we're doing for this next generation and generations to follow. So I think John Molina hit on that saying it's really the future of this institution that's important here. And that caused us to change our focus from Save Community Hospital to save the East site E.R. And that was our focus from that point forward, because young families, unfortunately, need ERs and it's just a fact of life. I also want to mention the Community Hospital Foundation. Thank you all for being here tonight, Matthew and Ray and Suzanne. Diane. And I also want to mention Ruth Lowell, my neighbor, who I think I've told the story before, but. At our very first task force meeting. She lives two doors down from me, said Darrell, can I get a ride to the house first meeting? I said, Ruth, I'm not at home. I'm down at City Hall. I'll barely have time to get there, she says. That's okay. I'll take an Uber says. But by the way, do you know if they're taking donations tonight? I said, Ruth, that's that's not what we're doing there. But I'm sure someone can take a check from you, but it's a task force meeting. So later I found out that Ruth did donate a check that night for $20,000. So the lesson there is, moving forward, I'll commit to the public that if you want to make a donation of $20,000, I will pay for your Uber to take you to the meeting. Fact I'm going to live here, I'll make it. I'll take it down to $1,000 and we'll do that. I also want to mention staff, I should say CEO, Virgina Brutus up there. He was introduced earlier, but Virgin has been great and patient. I didn't know how patient he could be, but thank you for hanging in there and we look forward to working with you moving forward and then to city staff who've been mentioned. I also want to mention City Manager Pat West. Thank you for recruiting and developing such awesome staff members and kudos to you because they're not too many city managers have a resume that includes a new courthouse, a new city hall. Now you've saved a hospital. So that's pretty impressive. And I'm not even mention that on your watch. City Council approved Meatless Monday, so could it. Yeah. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. Which by far was the most controversial item I voted on I supported. Thank you to my colleagues on that. Yes, it was very controversial, believe it or not. So I, too, want to thank staff and, of course, Councilman Supernova and our partners in this Marlena Wu network. I think for me, the most important aspect of the lease agreement was that we have at least the tentative agreement that we have in place very clearly that acute care services would be part of this contemplated agreement between the parties. And so I just want to ask a few questions from staff just to make sure. I know this has been an issue that's been raised by my constituents. And I want to I want to ensure that I'm I'm analyzing the term of the terms of this agreement accurately so. It is my understanding that acute care services are a fundamental part of this agreement, and if for some reason down the road, acute care services turned out to be not viable, not feasible or otherwise unattainable at this location, would that be considered a default by a molina view? How would we handle that situation? Let's say we're several years in. Councilmember. So under the preliminary terms of the agreement, we have a number of contingencies that we have agreed upon that we've put in place and which we'll flesh out in detail over the coming weeks in the final agreement, depending on the cause of what we would consider a default, the inability to. No pun intended, by the way, given that it's a seismic issue that we're trying to address. But there's a number of agencies that will have a say in as to whether or not we're able to license permit and continue to provide acute care at the site. So if if there was a default, that that was because of some sort of activity or result outside our control. Then in that case, we would both look at the situation and it would be a matter of reimbursing NWN for costs that they've incurred to date. So if that occurred, say, in the next couple of weeks when we are seeking pet approval for permitting or CDP licensing, well then there wouldn't be very many costs to reimburse. But if it were to happen later on in the project, then we have both agreed that the restriction to provide an acute care services at the site would no longer be eligible and that condition would be removed. We would also consider the potential sale of the property to NWN at fair market value less the cost that they've invested to date. So that would be a possible scenario if if the default were to occur for reasons outside our control, we have similar scenarios that we've hammered out in the agreement, the preliminary agreement, if it were to occur, that the costs to operate or some issue that was within the control of our partners, they would, of course, you know, be in default at that point. And we would have to consider whether or not we could find another operator. But we would ultimately, if we could continue to operate an acute care facility, we would deal with our options at that time. And again, it depends on how long this occurs, what the cause is, and ultimately whether or not, you know, we consider it to be an act that was in or outside the control of either the city or of our partner. Okay. Thank you. That clarifies it. I mean, I think for me that we're obviously we're interested in having a hospital, but we're interested in having a hospital with acute care capability because that is what's going to take the pressure off of the other hospitals in the region, reduce wait times and assist with the the overall needs. So I want to make sure that that legislative intent is very clear in addition to what's. Articulated in the proposed agreement that we're voting on tonight. And it sounds like that's very clear in terms of staff's understanding as well. I do have a couple of questions that I've received from residents that I want to just kind of run by staff and perhaps of staff doesn't know the answer to those, which is unlikely. Mr. Molina might be able to assist at some point. Is it our goal or is it the goal that this hospital would be a fully functioning hospital such that if there was a surgery need identified in the acute care facility, that we would be able to do the surgery at the at the facility or would there be a transfer? And if so, have we contemplated how certain insurances like Medicare would be impacted by that transfer? It is our goal and our commitment that it will be an acute care hospital. So depending on the type of surgery, if you needed your gallbladder removed, for example, we can handle it. Okay. If you needed brain surgery, we probably refer you to a tertiary hospital that has that kind of capability. Any ideas about cardiology, stents and things of that nature? Yeah, it's probably not. I mean. Long Beach is fortunate that both Memorial and St Mary's have excellent cardiac surgery programs. And one of the things that. Is counterintuitive. In health care, if everybody has lots of services, costs go up. Mm hmm. So what we really want to do is we want to focus those types of services to the appropriate place. Okay. Of course, I appreciate that. And just the last question. Again, I've gotten tons of, you know, third district residents are, you know, heavy users of community hospital when it is open. I myself have gone to the E.R. There once is a, you know, 18 year old college student involved in a traffic collision and another just recently before I had emergency back surgery on the days before the closure. And so, as you can imagine, we've received a lot of nuanced questions. I'm not going to bore you with those details now, but I think an important one is will be will we be working or will you be working with insurance providers to try to keep costs low for transfer from one facility to the other for the purposes of performing a surgery that was identified in your E.R.? Absolutely. That's one of the reasons why network medical management was brought into the group, because they have an extensive staff and experience in handling issues with the health insurers. Excellent. Okay, good. Well, you know, as I've said to my residents and there are there are folks here with whom I've met one on one. And I'm sure there's going to be more meetings from this point forward. I think what I'm proud to say tonight is that the city is doing everything we can. And I know Molina wewe network is doing everything you can to move this agreement forward. This by no means, however, is the end of the road. And there are a lot of regulatory bodies ahead of us that will need to look at what we're doing and make sure that their the compliance is at a level where they are satisfied. So having said that, you know, this is our we are making a commitment, but the details of what the future looks like will come as we move through this process together and obviously address any concerns that come from other regulatory agencies that we'll have to adjust to. I want to thank you. Our staff has been amazing. Our entire staff who the city manager mentioned, Councilman Super, has had countless number of meetings with constituents on this issue. And of course, Molina, we network has been a tremendous partner. But specifically, I want to thank John Molina. Your passion for the city of Long Beach has had a lot to do with why we're here having this discussion right now. Thank you for investing in the city that you live in and love. So it benefits all of us. Thank you very much. Thank you, Council Councilwoman. I'm going to make some comments as well. And then we're going to go to the rest of the council. And Mr. Molina, if you want to, you can you can grab a seat if you'd like. I think there's other questions. We'll we'll bring you up. Let me let me just begin by saying that since since day one, the city has been committed to reopening community hospital. I think you've heard that from the council. You heard it from the staff, and you certainly have heard that from the community and the foundation. When the. The notice was received by the city and this whole process started. I think there was a lot of concern across the city about losing a hospital and an emergency room, and particularly in an area that is underserved by these services. You often read in the newspaper or see on the news about hospitals closing and other communities. And I'm really proud that Long Beach is right now leading a conversation about keeping a hospital and saving a hospital within our community. And so I wanted to take the moment for also that to sink in with all of this, that we are at a very special and important moment in the process. I like Councilmember Super A.Z.. I want to thank so many folks that have been involved in this process. Most of all been thanked already. I see members of the community that I have met with and the foundation board, of course, are nurses who have been at the forefront of pushing this every single step of the way, our doctors, the community. I want to thank Supervisor Hahn and her commitment from day one. And I especially want to thank our legislative partners and assembly member Patrick O'Donnell, who has been a strong voice and will need to be a strong voice as we move forward to get this deal done through the state process. And I also need to really give a huge thanks to our city staff, everyone from the management team to the team at Economic Development to Ms.. Tang and our city attorney team. I will tell you that they have been phenomenal in getting this to this point, and I really want to thank them for their work. And of course, to me, when we want to thank you for this partnership as we move forward and know that we're committed to the partnership as well. I want to make a couple a couple notes. The first is that I want to reiterate some of what's been said. This is tonight is not the end of this process. And I think it's really important for us to note that. I think while we should celebrate where we are and celebrate this interim agreement and this framework, the real celebration will hopefully happen once the state process is concluded. And so I think that we should not in any way let up. And right now, essentially, this council is ready to move the ball forward. And we are very close to to the end here. But really, the ball is now in the state of California's court and in the agencies in at the state that will make the decisions to to really reopen the hospital. And so it's important for us to take the energy now to our partners in the state and do all of the the lobbying and goodwill that we have there over the next few months ahead. And so I do want to reiterate, again, like was said by the council, that this is not the completion of this deal, but really the beginning of a of a process that will take place over the next few months. I want to note that our commitment to reopening the hospital is not just about the importance of community as it as it relates to emergency response and getting folks to their to their to the health care they need. But it's also critically important to the city when it comes to firefighting and paramedic service. And so I want to thank the fire department and the fire association that's been involved in this. And I'll tell you that reopening community is critical to ensuring that our engines and our paramedics are able to access emergency rooms efficiently and build the type of trust and relationship that they have with the nurses and doctors that were there at community before. Community was closed, the door was closed. And so I think that is incredibly important. And I want to note that I agree that the community is everyone's hospital. And as part of that, I want to thank NWN for their commitment to meeting the goals of the Everyone Home Long Beach report. It's important to note that prior to two community closing, the services that were there as it relate to psychiatric evaluation and and psych services. This was one of the main centers in the city where these activities were happening and to reopen the hospital with a renewed commitment to the to the psych beds. But also looking beyond that to meeting the other needs that we have citywide as they relate to to sobering facilities and detox facilities, as they relate to serving the recuperative care needs that we need. To me, that is absolutely worth the city's commitment and investment in this need that we have on this facility and really across the city. And so I also say to the foundation, who will be entering a different relationship and a new a new relationship as well. These these are areas that we look forward to working with all of you on. And we know that your your hearts are there in this work. And I want to thank you for your commitment to these critical needs that we have across the city. In addition, I want to be clear, it was brought up. The commitment the city is making financially is essentially going towards the retrofit of the buildings that we own. And the city of Long Beach has essentially a facility that has major needs for seismic repair and investment. And what we're putting our dollars to is not towards ongoing operation of the hospital or some or ongoing operations of the of the personnel need. But it is going to ensure that the facility that the taxpayers of Long Beach have invested in in the past is upgraded and that the regulations are met with the state of California so that we can operate a functioning E.R. and a facility that would make the city proud. And so that's where our dollars are going. And I believe those are are wise investments for us to reinvest and to partner in this what will be a unique public private partnership and relationship with MDA when as a city moves forward . Let me also add that and this is something that I talked to Councilmember Supernanny about, and I want to ask the staff as well. We are obviously going to be looking and using our general fund dollars to maintain our commitment. We're making as a staff report notes, a 15 year commitment to to put our portion of the retrofit dollars towards towards the hospital. And so as staff brings back the final lease, which I know is coming in the months ahead, as we bring back the reports from the state of California on the process and we finalize those items, I would like staff to also come back because I know you're already looking at I'm providing this council kind of the options and the way forward on how we look at filling those those general fund gaps that we know we will have. And I think it's responsible responsible for us to have that conversation as we move forward as well. And so Councilmember Supa and I would ask, is part of our motion that staff also brings back those those recommendations when the lease agreement is back to the city council. Okay. Well, accept that. And and in addition, let me just say in in conclusion that I want to I want to thank, you know, Councilmember Superman in particular. I think you've been a great leader and voice on this issue, and it's been great working with you on this issue. But I also appreciate the numerous hours you have spent personally managing and working with members of the community, which is which has been very hard on this on such a big topic. So thank you and thank you to the staff and thank you to everyone out here for for sticking with us throughout this process. And with that, I want to turn this over to Councilwoman Mongo. Thank you. I appreciate the staff and the presentation. For those of you who aren't aware, we've been meeting in close session on this now for several weeks. And so we've had a lot of time to go over a lot of the different components of the agreement. I appreciate the mayor's request for the solutions on how we pay for those revenue options. I think this is a great way to structure the deal as well in terms of how the commitment over time increases when we have the opportunity to find those revenues and grow them appropriately. If you follow any of us on social media, you might know that our economic development team has done an exceptional job, not just growing revenues, but also finding cost savings throughout the city on other things. And so I'm confident that when this comes back with the least, that we'll be able to identify what that looks like and where those things come from. And so I look forward to that. Many know that. More than 80% of our calls for service in the fire department are medical in nature. And so the success of a hospital in our community is critical to the success and health of our community and the families that we serve. And so I look forward to the day the doors reopen. I'm also co-sponsoring some items at council next week that relate to other solutions that will help both before and when the hospital is open. In terms of pilot community paramedic programs that drop off at urgent care centers and other things so that hospitals aren't receiving patients that they shouldn't be receiving in the first place. And so those types of pilots that are going on throughout the state can also be a part of the solution in giving the hospital the best chance at a better survival rate than are their predecessors. So I want to thank John Molina and the team. I know that there's a lot more behind this. And John's been the faith and the spokesperson, but there's a lot that goes into a deal of this magnitude. And so each and every member of your team and your financing and your components. There's a lot of risk. And we appreciate you and the commitment you have to Long Beach and the commitment you have to people over profit and to families. And that's just something that's just so important that we talk about here today. I also cannot let a moment go. And I'm not one who wants to thank stuff publicly as much as I think they appreciate the appreciation quietly, but it cannot go without thinking. Council Member Super. Not publicly. It has been no matter what hour of the day. I get a question on community hospital. I can I can text him and my hours with a newborn are odd and I can text him and he'll usually have an answer for me before 7 a.m.. And so that really that responsiveness and that expertize that he's developed on this matter over time has been a phenomenal resource to all of us. And I can't say enough about him. I mean, I also appreciate working with Councilman Price on this. It's been a big learning opportunity and something that I think our community has grown together with. And when I talk about the community, I appreciate each and every one of you, but a big, big thank you to the foundation, because the foundation and being there and advocating early on putting your money where your mouth is, that's a huge component of what's made parts of this possible. And so I feel like you really need, even if all nine of us say at a public thank you and I really appreciate you again, good time to take a breath, but maybe not celebrate yet. And I will keep on working with staff. I know that we have good hands with Deanna Tang and her work at the state level and a lot of our advocacy from a lot of our local electeds and statewide elected. So let's keep the pressure on. Let's stay positive. And I look forward to getting Lisa back with some of our revenue options. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilmember Pearce. Yes. I want to echo everything that's been said without sounding like I'm repeating myself or anybody on this council. But it goes without saying that something of this magnitude is the hallmark of what makes our civilizations great. When we can take care of our neighbors and our residents and our community members, that strengthens our community. And so I know that when we got the news of what happened, it was heartbreaking and that feeling of powerlessness for a minute. And so I really want to applaud everybody for their efforts for being creative and the fact that we, you know, our city and not a county and not a state, but we're able to be nimble and creative and bring all those stakeholders together. And I really want to applaud everybody. And I know our staff. I just I, I am always impressed with economic development. And I just want to say publicly that I know that, John, this has taken a lot of you coming in and having discussions with us and us, you know, kind of pushing. And so I applaud you for managing nine council members, a mayor, a community that is really demanding the best that we can get. And so I really know that you guys have have worked to make that happen. I agree that our tax dollars need to make sure that they're, you know, put in a place that we have transparency and accountability and that we believe that we're getting the best for our dollars. And there's no better use than than health care at the national level. We have a health care crisis as much as sometimes we're numb to that. And in the city of Long Beach, when this hospital closed down, it meant that, you know, some wait times in the E.R. extend an additional 10 minutes, and that's 10 minutes that can save somebody's life. And so when I think about is this a good use of taxpayer dollars? Absolutely. It's a great use of taxpayer dollars, not to mention doing it locally with with our local nurses, local doctors and our people like John, who continually step up and really are putting their money where their mouth is. And so. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Councilmember Super nono you took. Authority of the meetings. And thank you to everybody on this council for really seeing that this is a citywide asset. And the one other thank you, I'll say is, for know, you guys really work to educate me on thinking about creative funding opportunities and really seeing that while I care very deeply about mental health and recognizing we have a mental health crisis in this country and and in the city as well, that adding those beds to this hospital allow us to have additional funds at our fingertips. And hopefully we when we get to that point, we can see a lot of different funding options to make this a robust, exciting hospital that it should be. So thank you again, everyone. Thank you, Councilmember Councilmember Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I just want to raise up a few points that resound with me. I think I like the approach of lifting up and implementing some of the everyone at home recommendations. And I think if you look at that and other work that the Council has taken on over this last year, this is really about strengthening the safety net of those in need in our city. And so I think that that is, you know, cities are taking on more of these sort of broader issues that traditionally have been taken on by, you know, counties and states. But across the country, cities are stepping up to lead on these issues. And here this is an example of cities leading to provide a social safety net for the community. So I appreciate that. I also love that there's a commitment to rehire the former employees. I think that's that's important. So I wanted to lift that up. So thank you for making that commitment. I also want to want to reinforce again, you know, we have nine districts, but this is, you know, occasionally we're able to to look and support a project that may not be in your backyard because you understand that it's connection to the broader system. And as it relates to hospitals, emergency rooms, they are a vital component to our emergency response systems. And so adding this or making sure that we have that resource in that area, that helps to smooth out response times across the city. And so this is certainly a citywide investment the entire city council should be focused on. And so I do support that. It's also opened up a broader conversation about and Councilman Longo mentioned the community paramedics, an idea or conversation that that will have at council. But I think if you think about, you know, East Long Beach and where the emergency room is and you put up, you know, you grab a map, we actually have quite a few hospitals where a city our size, but where they are, they're all sort of clustered in a certain area of town. And if you think about Islam Beach, this is critical. They're in Norfolk Beach. We both have access to we have access to Long Beach Memorial. But also Lakewood Regional is is directly on the border of Long Beach on on South and Downey. And so we are our emergency responders, our first responders. They transport folks there. But but the need on that side of town maybe, say, urgent care centers or figuring out how to make sure that we, you know, leverage our economic development department or developments across town to make sure that there's urgent care centers that take a that take pressure off of emergency rooms in general. So all of that is sort of come out of this conversation really how do we strengthen our health care network in the city? And so, you know, I have to say, Councilman Super now, this was a crisis that happened, you know, within, you know, to, you know, within two years you were able to really rally and get the community together and unify the council. And so that that really is a compliment to you and your leadership and your style of leadership, where everyone really felt inspired to get involved and contribute in any way that we could. And so congratulations to you. And I know that there's been a lot of credit given a staff, but I got to say, this was amazing work. I've seen a crisis or two in our city, but the way that the team really formed ranks and and delivered brought us to this position a very different place than where we were and in a place where we've we're comfortable with this agreement. And now it's in the hands of other agencies to execute this plan. I think that's that's really strong. And so I want to just congratulate and lift up staff once again. Thanks a lot. Thank you, Councilman Austin. You know, I always queue up late and so I don't know that I can say much more than that has already been said. But thank you. And I know that the public doesn't want to hear me to say how much we appreciate staff, but we do appreciate the staff and their work on this. It has been pretty, pretty amazing to talk to witness. And as a councilmember, Richardson mentioned, this this deal, so to speak, has evolved and evolved and evolved. There's been dozens of meetings and back and forth negotiations, closed sessions with the city council. But the political will and the will of our private partners nwn to get us to this place has been unwavering. I want to just mention that there are some risk here and let's not be sugarcoat this and recognize that there are shared risk. There's shared risks from the private partners when there's risk from the city here. This is a huge commitment. There's a risk from the community. Our the fate of our emergency health care response system is is really, really weighing on on and on this deal to happen. We we need to ensure that we have that those are services on the east side of our city. And if it's not, there does impact the entire city's response system. And so I am super supportive of this. I want to elaborate on on one point in our staff to to please walk us through the public, through what still needs to happen, particularly from the Sacramento legislative standpoint, to make this deal work. And so the city manager. Can you please address that? Sure. Mayor, members of the city council. So the first thing that we need to do is work with NWN and CDPQ to get the hospital license approved for NWN so that it is taken off the hands of memorial slots. Step one, step two. After that. And when that process there is there are a number of steps that need to happen. The forms, of course, but also the surveys. City does come out and do a site visit so that they see the appropriate number of beds are there, the appropriate equipment that the site does and will support . The eight basic services that are required of every acute care hospital in California concurrently will also be working with occupied on an extension for size. That compliance that may involve the state legislature as well, but certainly occupied as a state agency that administers that type of work. And so Oscar Orsi and his team, along with Perkins and Will and the Molina team as well, have been working together to devise a site plan that will meet president compliance and support a functioning and sustainable hospital long term. Those are two primary goals that we need to achieve in the next, I would say, month or so. And so this project has in a couple of months in the making a little over a year, but we have been working very diligently every single day and every moment has counted. So I would say that those two are critical steps. If we don't meet those deadlines, then we've got a problem. But I am confident that we will. And so with that, I think I'll leave it there before we get too much further ahead of ourselves. Well, I just want to take this opportunity. Miss Diana Tang, I want to thank you for your excellent work in inter-governmental relations, not just in Sacramento, but also with the county and all of our public agencies to really get us to the place that we are. And of course, the action taken this evening by the city council is a continuation, is just gives the authority for us to keep moving this this this process forward. But understanding that there's still a lot of moving pieces that that need to still happen to make it happen. And obviously, the city council, the will is behind it to to to support our staff and doing some great work. And obviously whatever we can do to do that, to make it happen as well. And again, I want to extend our congratulations and thank you, super councilmember super and offer your leadership and Councilmember Price standing up for your communities. And then the workers out here who took time out to be here, that the wonderful folks of Sienna, the nurses who have also been a very good partner in keeping this issue front and center throughout this entire time. And, of course, the foundation board from community hospital. Let's continue to to do what we need to do to make this deal happen. You have my full support. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. Yes. I think a lot of what I was going to say has been said before as well. But I will just reiterate as well that, you know, this was a very mindful approach and we became solution providers. It was all of us together really, really doing this. And I, too, want to thank my colleagues, council members, Supervisor Price and. Go for really putting their efforts together to ensure that this was really looked at as a city wide approach. And we also thank M.W. when we are familiar faces with decades of experience here in our city. So it was for me personally as a councilmember here in downtown, it was really I felt confident going into this approach. And I think that our public, our constituents will do the same thing. And to Sienna as well, I know it's always scary when jobs are kind of on the line and having the opportunity to have those back is really fascinating, especially as as the state level. We're talking about cover, you know, universal health coverage, access to health care, and those discussions will continue to just burden the system. We need to have access here in our city, in Long Beach. And I just want to say overall, thank you to everybody to staff as well for their commitment to seeing this through. I think we've done a really great job tonight, and I look forward to seeing the state's results and look forward to having a great ending to all of this. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Superdome. Thank you. I'll wrap up by thanking staff. Yeah, actually, I want to mention a couple of people because Councilman Mongo talked about me responding all hours a day. I'd just like to mention that Diana Tang, our manager of government affairs, has that same quality answered. A lot of questions for me, and I'm sure the partners and everyone else at various times ask her or see our Deputy Director of Development Services. Thank you, Oscar, for getting us to this point. And the tough part when I think of Oscar's job is so much of the heavy lifting is yet to come, so save your energy. I also want to mention Charlie Parker and staff. Speaking of the heavy lifting yet to come, Rich Anthony has done an incredible job, but he has the task ahead of him, too. So we we wish him well with that. One staff member who hasn't been mentioned is my own staff, Barbara moore, who's sitting. So for those of you who don't know, this all started with a preliminary architectural study that our office funded. We came up those funds through operating efficiencies. That is our off council office operating budget. So we had to cut back. We had to run very lean and mean, and we couldn't have done that without. Barbara moore And she it's so tough to run a council office. And along with that, she puts out a world class newsletter every Friday. And I think in that we had 65 or so community hospital updates in that time that everyone really appreciate. So, Barbara, thank you for all your hard work. And then I want to get to John Keisler, because this is just a monumental task. He's taken on someone once put online that words the effect of, hey, if if Darryl and John pull this off, they should build a statue for them. It's like we were co-equal partners. So let me put that in perspective. If I got a lapel pin for this effort, John Keisler should get recognition the size of Mount Rushmore. And I guess I can't say enough about what he's done. He's always cool under fire, and there's plenty of fire on this one. But what I think is so remarkable is he wasn't a hospital expert when this all started, and I wasn't either. But if you asked him today, what are the eight components of an acute care hospital without looking at notes, he would say, of course, that's medical, it's nursing, it's surgical, it's anesthesia, it's laboratory. Let's say it's pharmacy and dietary services. Right, John. Okay. And I see another. Well, I'll leave it at that. Anyway, I'd also like to thank Mayor Garcia. It's especially quality of leader who lets the staff do their thing. And lets them excel and do the very best and come in right at the right moment to make it all happen. So that's a real unique quality, a very great quality and a leader. And we appreciate that. And finally, John Molina, thank you for stepping up. And if there's anyone who saved community hospital is John Molina. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. And to wrap us up, Vice Mayor. Yes, thank you very much. You know, after listening to all our speakers behind the diocese here, it really at one time, even in closed session, I thought this was just a done deal. And then again, I thought, this is a no brainer. And then all of a sudden I said, What are we speaking about? And then it just got bigger and bigger and bigger. But now it seems like this thing is getting ready to come to fruition because the fact that great people have great people just like great minds. Mr. Merlino, you and your staff, and especially Mr. Superman, Mrs. Price and Mrs. Mongo, these individuals, they won't let anything get past them. So I just know that it was going to this is going to work. It had to work. And with Pat, you know, staying honest in a mayor's dinners, you guys and the young ladies who your jobs are coming back, I guarantee you that there is no way that it won't come back, because if this doesn't go through, we probably won't have a consummate career anymore. So I'm pushing very hard for this. I want to thank everyone who got behind this and really making this a really a true, true. Mr. Merlino I just can't tell how much it's you when you get you just like E.F. Hutton. Boy, when you speak, everybody listens. So I want to let you know that you guys are doing a great job. Keep it up and I know we're going to get this hospital open. And guy, Mr. Super now not going to ask you about I'm sick or not you know all these good health care and okay. But I feel good tonight. Thank you guys very much. Let's get this hospital open. Thank you. Thank you very much. And members, please go ahead and cast your votes on the motion by a count from the supernova and Councilwoman Price. With the with the friendly that was accepted. Motion carries. Thank you.

A proclamation recognizing the National Association of Letter Carriers and the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on May 10, 2014.

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We do have two proclamations this evening by Councilman Lopez. Councilman Lopez, will you please read proclamation number 397? Thank you, Madam President. Proclamation number 397 series of 2014. This is recognizing the National Association of Letter Letter Carriers and the stamp out Hunger Food Drive on May 10th, 2014. Whereas on the second Saturday of May each year, our intrepid band of letter carriers fan out across the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the District of Columbia, and carry out an important act of kindness. And. Whereas, on that day, the letter carriers not only deliver the mail, but they also collect food contributed by postal customers as part of the stamp out hunger campaign and drive that in the nation's largest one day food drive and this and distribute the donations to local food banks. A total of £1.3 billion over the past 21 years. And. Whereas, 22nd Stamp out of Hunger Drive will be on May 10th this year. And it is one example of how letter carriers make the difference in the communities they serve. And. WHEREAS, all food collected in Denver stays in Denver distributed by Food Bank of the Rockies, and greatly helps those in need within our community. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by those by the Council, the city and county of Denver, Section one. Now, the City Council hereby recognizes and thanks the National Association of Letter Carriers. And each of our letter carriers for their hard work year round and for their commitment to stamp out a hunger food drive. Section two at the Clerk of the City and County of Denver Store Test and affix a seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and a copy be transmitted to the National Association of Letter Carriers. Thank you. Councilman Lopez, your motion to adopt. I move that council proclamation number 397 series of 2014 be adopted. It has been moved and seconded. Comments by council. Councilman Lopez. Well, I can tell you that I don't expect very much opposition. I think a lot of folks like to receive their letters, but I do have to express that. I was contacted by a bunch of dogs out in the neighborhood and they're very displeased with this. They do not like the idea of postal carriers being good guys and good ladies who apologize in advance for a lot of those dogs on the west side and only about a foot tall, but they're fierce and they chase the letter carriers around. I got to say, most of the people who I have come to know that have not only been very fit and walk fast, but have been very courteous, have been letter carriers. And now that I think of it, some people in my life who are very significant are letter carriers. And they've always they've always been very impeccable with their time. They've been a lot of workers, and they've always been cheery. For some reason, I think that's because they walk around so much and they whistle and you see them around. And, you know, I know our letter to letter carriers that deliver our route and they're amazing people. They're really cool. And actually, the one thing I got to say about them is they are the eyes and ears of the neighborhood. They don't just deliver the mail, but they are a part of the neighborhood. They're a part of neighborhood life. They report, you know, danger when they see it. They report crime. There's been letter carriers that have disrupted bank robbery now bank robberies, house burglaries, things like that. We've had instances where people who had not answered their door in a long time because they are in an emergency and are unable to move, have been contacted by or the first time point of contact. And their I guess their life saving point of contact has been a letter a letter carrier. There's just a lot of honor in what they do. Anyway, if it wasn't for this campaign, it's really hard work. You know, we complain when it snows three feet of snow here in Denver or if it's a hot day or it's very cold. Those letter carriers are out there almost nonstop. For them to be doing this campaign and not only delivering that mail, not only come in to what they do on the job, but to be able to carry canned goods back to their trucks, back to their stations and back to the food bank from our houses. I think that's that's that you got to there's something very honorable in that. I think it's a lot of hard work to be able to do that. And it's a lot of commitment. And, you know, there's a lot of people that are still depending on food banks. And for some people, this is the only nutrition and the only food they'll get that they can afford. Many of them live in food deserts, and these food banks depend on drives like this. So. Madam President, I am very proud to carry this proclamation. I know the letter carriers. I think their local is in Council District three. Right. Right off our Christian shared. And I'm very proud of that. So. Madam President, I support this wholeheartedly. And I saw my colleagues join me and I would ask that folks at home on May 10th leave out some canned goods with their man with their mail. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Councilwoman Kennish, I just wanted to say thank you for what you do. I love that it's. Often on Mother's Day weekend and. In particular, you know, we had a major federal cut to food stamps this year. And so the food bank demand is really increasing. It seems so counterintuitive. Our economy is getting better. But it's just not for folks whose wages haven't gone up. And so I just wanted to. Say thank you for. What you do. And I'm so excited. That my. Colleague, Mr. Lopez, proposed this and I appreciate his sponsorship of this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Monteiro. Thank you. I also wanted to say thank you and also to let you know that there's a big box in the building that I live in. And so now I'm going to go knock on everybody's door and get some food so that we can help contribute as well. But every day when I am either leaving or coming home, my timing is always just right with the letter carrier. And so just the idea that they're sitting there and they're always happy and. They're just whistling and just happy to be alive in and be able to do such a humble service for people is so heartwarming. So thank you very much. And I'll be supporting this proclamation. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Nevitt. Thank you, Madam President. To quote from the letter carrier's credo, neither snow nor rain nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. That pretty much says it all. And they've been providing this service and we've been relying on them since the founding of the republic. So keep it up. Thank you, Councilman. Okay, Madam Secretary, roll call. Lopez Hi. Montero. Nevitt Hi. Rob. By Brooks Brown. I thought I finished Lehman. Hi, Nevitt. I again. Hope you're right. Madam President. I. Councilwoman Fox and Councilwoman Sheppard. Okay. Madam Secretary, close of voting. Announce the results. Tonight. Ten Eyes. The proclamation is adopted. Councilman Lopez, do you have somebody you'd like to call up to the podium? Yes, I would. I wanted to ask Cindy and she come up to the oh, then you can come as well to come up to the microphone and representing the National Association of Letter Carriers. Private army, an army of letter carriers. Go right ahead. Introduce yourself. My name is Cindy Kirby. I'm with the letter carriers and I have some great folks with me today. Introduce themselves individually, however you'd like to. You can introduce them or they can. Is Jasmine Lee Robles. Hello Jasmine I'm Kelly Robles and I'm I carry out of. Aurora Centennial a play. My name's Jeff Frye I carry out of Denver branch 47 and downtown where I think your box was put. Lovely. Thank you for being here. Kelly. Kelly is our statewide food drive coordinator and Jeff is our branch food coordinator. Both of them are new in their positions and they're doing a fantastic job this year. We're hoping we're doing more advertising to get more and more folks to be. Aware of the drives and remember to put the. Can. In the mailbox. Thank you. Thank you. It's nonperishable items. Nonperishable items. Okay. The canned food out $1 by £5 of food. Oh, my. That's a great. It's a very, very worthy cause. And it feeds a lot of kids that are just getting out of school where they have to rely on the school lunch programs for their meals and sometimes their only meal during the day. So this is critical for to stock the food that's during the summer months. Thank you for all you do for our neighborhoods. It just reminds me of Mr. Rogers. And was it Mr. Feely, who was the was speedy. Speedy delivery? Was speedy delivery or somebody and maybe he was on Sesame Street. But anyway, thank you so much for doing all this. It's really great to have you here. Thank you. Okay. We have another proclamation by none other than Councilman Lopez.

A MOTION making an appointment to fill a judicial vacancy in the southwest district judge position number four of the King County district court.

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Wonderful. And colleagues. That takes us to our next in our final item on today's agenda. And we'll make an appointment to fill a judicial vacancy in the Southwest District Court of King County District Court, a process governed by King County Code. Today's appointment will be the first in at least two. The committee will make this year. Applications are currently being accepted for a second position in the West District of King County District Court. I'm going to expect the committee to take up that appointment in February for the appointment before us today in the Southwest District. Members will recall that the Council advertised the vacancy last year and accepted applications until December 7th, 2020. We received three eligible candidates during the application period and will be interviewing two candidates today. The third candidate we withdrew their name from consideration. While the councilors sometimes used a subcommittee process to interview candidates prior to the committee meeting in order to narrow the applicant applicant pool. We did not do that this time, given the number of eligible applicants. So before we proceed further, I want to provide members of the attendees with an overview of how this process will work, given that we've not filled the judicial vacancy remotely before. Let me begin by pointing out that the application materials for both applicants and suggestion questions were emailed to members, most recently at 944 this morning by Terry Rose in. So I would call your attention to that email. They have those materials before us within the packet of application materials. The first applicants materials begin on page one of that packet and the second applications materials continue in that same pdf beginning on page 48 of the packet. Members should. We'll begin today's proceedings with a brief staff report on the proposed motion from Sound Order of Council staff. And then after the staff report, the committee will interview each applicant one at a time. During the interview, the candidate will not being interviewed, will be placed in a zoom waiting room so as to not get an advance review of the interview questions or the other candidates responses. Once both candidates have been interviewed, if there is interest among the council members, the committee will go into executive session to evaluate the qualifications of the candidates. We would we would then rejoin the Zoom meeting to take up the legislation before us and make any decisions. Are there any questions on how this will work from either members or candidates before we proceed with the staff briefing and the process? With that. I miss Porter. The line is yours. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sam Porter, Council Central Policy Staff. The materials for this item begin on page nine of your packet. Proposed motion 2020 10006 that would make an appointment to fill the judicial vacancy and position. Member for the Southwest District of King County District Court. Left by Judge Mark Ayade upon his retirement under state law, the King County Council as the County Legislative Party is directed to fill district court vacancies by appointment. The King County Code provides a merit selection process for filling such vacancies. In accordance with state law. The judge appointed appointed through this process will fill the remainder of Judge Ed's term, which will end in January 2023. District Court is the county's court of limited jurisdiction and has responsibility for traffic infractions, small claims and misdemeanor criminal offenses in counties. Unincorporated areas. Cities that do not have municipal court courts and contract with the court to provide those services and for the adjudication of state offenses, which are violations of state statute within the county, or when the arresting agency is the Washington State Patrol or another state law enforcement agency. The court handles approximately 250,000 filings annually. In accordance with the merit selection process outlined in King County Code by the application deadline, eligible candidates must submit a current rating of at minimum qualified for a district court judicial physician and the King County Bar Association and at least one other eligible Bar Association operating in King County. A Letter of Interest and Resumé. A copy of the completed responses to questionnaires submitted to the King County Bar Association to obtain its rating and any supporting information the applicant would like the Council to consider. As the Chair mentioned, three individuals submitted application. Candidate Michael Franz withdrew his application as of January 18, and the remaining candidates are from Illinois Masonic I and Brian Todd. In its current form, a proposed motion 2020 10006 has a blank for the name of the person being appointed, and a line amendment will be needed to insert the name of the selected appointee. These line amendments appear on pages 18 and 19 of your packet, and that concludes my remarks. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Questions from his partner. Thank you very much. I expect that each interview will take roughly 20 minutes, and I'll ask each candidate and each candidate to provide an opening and closing remarks, each to be limited to 2 minutes. A member should have received the prepared suggested interview questions by email yesterday and again this morning at 944 a. In accordance with past practice members to volunteer to read the interview questions. And before the meeting, we randomly assigned the order of interviews. And we'll begin with Mr. Mason. Mr. Pisani and then followed by Mr. Todd investor. Any questions I'll now ask the clerk to please to please please Mr.. Time the zoom waiting room now and as a reminder to members and staff, please let the clerks and people from the waiting room avoid the temptation to click on the admin button yourself. I know it's tempting. And that is done, I believe. Yes. Mr. Mazzoni, I thank you very much for your interest in the judicial appointment and welcome to the committee of the whole of this morning. I might invite you to begin by offering your opening remarks and ask you to please limit them to 2 minutes. You were unmuted and just re muted. Give us just a moment, Mr. Chair, please. I'll ask Angelika to make him a call up and also train his body on their excellent. There we go. Welcome. We can't hear you quite yet. Give us a moment. You should have the capability to unmute himself. You were unmuted. When? What? I said you. We couldn't hear you. And then your microphone is now muted according to the zoom screen. There we go. Your immediate. But we can't hear you. Not yet. We'll be patient. You should have seen us in March when we didn't know we were doing it. We were all new to this. It looks like he's unmuted, Mr. Chair, and his video should be on I. We have his. We have your video, sir. I'm. Perhaps if you go to the microphone icon and use the up arrow is there, select the microphone choice. To make sure you've selected your head said this is dangerous when I'm playing tech support. The lower left hand corner of the zoom screen should be a microphone icon in the upper right hand corner. It should be an up arrow current. If you click on that, the menu might appear. That includes select a microphone. Meanwhile, you are muted again. Maybe it is for a moment. They expect to reconnect. Enjoying this clock if you can be on the lookout to readmit him. Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will. Thank you. How are you, Mr. Chair? Doing well. The good and. Well. Good. I spent my weekend pulling my desk away from the wall and getting wires that had been running across the room, actually behind the desk and plugged into the outlet that the desk blocks so well. You can't tell any difference. The organization here in my home office looks a whole lot better today than it did last week. I can see it. The background looks nicer. You have a. Vacuum to. Nice and you change your on your shirt to. Dress up for. The occasion today. Yes, you did. Yes. That was very impressive. You were the one who pointed out the other day that I'm usually in collegiate wear and was out of uniform. That's true. That's true. We have to spark things up sometimes, right? Have you read all those books back there or are they for show? They're all intended to be read if they haven't already been read. The shelf, I like to point out, is the shelf of blue binding, blue bound books that are all together. They're my I'm I'm Childhood Hardy Boys collection. Nice. But I couldn't interest my nephews in reading when they hit grade school and started reading. And so they still sit on my bookshelf waiting to go somewhere some day. You may have to wait for their children, but come back again. I don't think anybody will ever read those editions of Hardy Boys again. They're so out of date. They never text. They use a landline. It's good for them to hear ancient history in their. Facial recognition software. Hello? Can you hear me now? Yes. I am so sorry. I apologize. No. Nearly no apology necessary. We were all learning how to do this remotely and completely understand. As I said, you should have heard all of our mistakes and learning curves as we got used to this, and we've just had some practice doing it together to make it all work. I was stunned. I was so mystified by Mr. Daly's presentation that, you know, I didn't check to see if the audio was working properly. So that's my fault and I apologize. Happy New Year to everybody here. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. McDermott, for allowing me to come. Thank you, council members. It is great to see all of you here. Happy New Year to each and every one of you. My name is Farmer William Sonii, and I was born in San Francisco, California. I was raised to the south of market. I moved here to our white center in 1984, where I attended Evergreen High School. I played football there. I played different sports. I was involved in all kinds of activities. I graduated with honors in 1987 and would bestowed the title of Male Student of the Year. Later that year, I attended Washington State University. I attended. I worked on the football team and played for coach Mike Price. I graduated in 1992 with a B.A. in Criminal Justice and Minors in sociology and political science. After that, I entered the workforce. I went to Alaska to work on a fishing trawler without from Dutch Harbor out to the Bering Sea, out to the coast of Russia. I came back and I was a bouncer for several clubs around the Puget Sound area. I eventually worked airport security, and then I started working as a golf course maintenance employee at the City of Tech. Well, as far as the Greens. That led me to volunteer at the Tukwila Municipal Court in 1994, where I worked my way up and became the in court clerk serving judges Jerry Jay Miller and Peter Luke Novick , and both of those judges that requested me to go to law school. I just asked so many questions. You're like, You got to go to law school. I applied to Seattle University, but due to financial restrictions, I was not able to go to Seattle University. So the Honorable Scott Stewart approached me in and we started doing the Washington State Bar Association's Rule six program. It's a four year program. It's a tough program to get through. I graduated in 2003, became took the bar and passed the bar in 2004, worked as a public defender for the cities of of Sammamish, North Bend and Kenmore, Sea-Tac in Kent, Lakewood and Milton. And 2006 I left and went to American Samoa and I took up a position with the American Samoan government at the assistant training as an assistant attorney general. I was assigned to the felony prosecutor level to handle domestic violence, child abuse and rape cases and white collar crime and the juvenile matters. In 2009, I was federally appointed by the federal government to be the independent prosecutor, and my office played an investigation into a. A very large human trafficking scheme involving public officials from America's some one government. We had many convictions and charges then, and we were able to effectuate the change there. In 2012, I relocated my family here to Washington State, and I practiced in the federal bankruptcy court and I entered Chapter Sevens 11 12/13. I represented individuals and banking institutions and the federal and state level for litigation. And I very happily was involved in the Washington state mediation programs here in Washington State. 2014, I began my pro tem career, the City of Issaquah. In 2015, I was assigned as the Pro-Tem Commissioner for the King County Superior Court Juvenile Division under the Honorable Wesley St Clair. And I served that appointment for one year. I also started protesting in cities of Seattle, in Des Moines and Renton and SeaTac and Puyallup. And I also been protesting in the King County District Court level at the Mealing Regional Justice Center for the retired March 18 Judges of Amato and Horn and Green. And here I am now, applying for this position. I am a father of three. I'm happily married. I've been married for 13 years. Just me and my wife works for the Asian Counseling Referral Services. My children attend school at the school district where my son is a six year old Herschel Walker, and my daughters. Two of my daughters attend elementary school at Temple Elementary, and I serve on different committees throughout the Puget Sound area, the Asia Pacific Community Culture Center down in Tacoma. As the president of these Samoan Cultural Week program and I work with the Asia Pacific Organization here on Beacon Hill in Seattle, and we run food drives. And I do a lot of pro-bono work and helping people and direct them to the right attorneys to help them with their legal issues. If I can ask you to wrap up. Yes, that's why I'll wrap up there. I'll stop there. All right. And we have several questions various council members will step up and ask. I'll begin with the first one. What is it about your particular skills and interests that would make you a good fit for King County District Court? The King County District Court is it's a people's court and it changes as the people change. Growing up on the West Side and seeing all the different changes and the gentrification and start areas that used to be very poor, it's changing the clientele of the individuals who are there. And so I think the law has to adapt and has to change along with them at the other. And with that change, you have to be adaptive. And I think that's one of those my strengths is to be adaptive. Every time I was told no, I found a way around it. When I didn't get a scholarship to play football, I walked on when I wasn't able to pay for my law school. I did the robotics program every time I tried to do something. You have to be a doctor. You have to work together with individuals who are around you to make positive and effective change and not just be selfish and try to do things on your own. Growing up on the West Side and seeing all the different changes that are coming to that area, I think we would have to be adapted. There's a large homeless population that lives in Burian. There's also a large Hispanic community and there's a lot of Pacific Islanders and Asians that live on that side and they're not being heard, they're not being represented and they seem lost and confused and there's no voice for them. There's no way for them to express themselves. And so I've been a happy mediator between that and helping them get legal help. And if I was assigned to this position, I would try to educate and I would try to teach and I would try to be a voice in the inner circles of the judicial realm to try to effectuate change in a positive way, not just for the Asian people or Pacific Islanders, but for everybody across the Social Now report. Thank you. Council member Col Wells. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I. My question is whether in line with what you just answered, but what your superiors in your last position say was your greatest strength? Thank you for the question, Councilmember. What? I think I'm personal. I'm a people person. I'm able to get along with different people. I use humor. I use education. I try to use everything as a teaching tool. When people don't understand, when people come into court, they're afraid. They don't understand what's happening. They don't understand the charges. They don't understand the process. I take a great deal of time as a public defender to try to explain to them what's going on, why they're being charged with this, what we can do and what their options are. Most of the time, they want things that we can grant to them, but at the same time, we are able to identify issues that they have in their lives, whether it's mental health, alcohol, drug addiction, anger management issues. And we try to help them get into a position where they're able to receive the help and get the case resolved in a way that won't affect them later on in the future. What we're seeing now is we started seeing a lot of people who are coming back on deferred sentences to some individuals who've been charged and receive, stipulated or two continuances that have immigration issues. And those have been and are now affecting them in a negative way where before it looked like it was a really positive way to proceed. And so trying to educate them and try to explain to them that the decision that you make right here, right now is going to affect your life for the rest of your life. It may stop you from going into law school or getting a medical degree and how, you know, this one little tiny theft case may stop you from living your dreams. And that's not fair. And so I think my superiors would say that I take a great deal of time educating and help guiding them in the right way so that the mistake that they won't come back to haunt them later on in the future. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I follow up on that. Thank you. Conversely, for that answer, what would your superiors in your last position say? What is your greatest weakness? I talk too much. I talk. I take it I take so much time with one individual to make sure that they're settled, that I'm not fast enough to talk to everybody else. And so they would have to take over at that point in time. But I want to make sure that everybody understands. And so I give everybody the adequate time I want them. And when I'm on the bench, I want them to feel that this is their day in court. It was sitting in court for two or 3 hours waiting for that two or 3 minutes that they appear in front of me. I want to make sure that they are heard. So when they leave there, even if I rule against them, they go, You know what? I had my day in court and I don't accept it and I don't agree with it. But you know what? I had my day and I try to make sure that everybody feels that way when I'm protesting. And I definitely make sure that everybody feels that way when I when I'm handling their case. Thank you. It's kind of like turning a lemon into lemonade, right? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Our next question. Councilmember Banducci. Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's been very nice to to meet you, and thank you for your application. It's a very detailed application. I don't know what the public knows how much material you've submitted. And I want you to know that we've looked at all of it. And I think this is the first time we've ever had a Rule six person who got admitted to the bar that way. And you you said it is a major accomplishment that that is the long road around. So congratulations to you and on all your accomplishments since then. Thank you. My question is simple, but so please describe a day we all have had them, especially in the law where things just went really wrong. It didn't go your way. And how do you handle that? How do you how do you how do you react, bounce back, deal with things when they just everything goes wrong? Thank you very much for the question. And thank you for the kind words councilmember about about I. The first thing that comes to mind is I had a young lady appear in front of me at the Mealing Regional Justice Center on a DUI case. And the case was ten years old. And the one of the retired judges had issued a warrant for $25,000 for her arrest. And she's appearing in front of me to quash the warrant. And I'm looking through the docket and I'm like, okay, she didn't meet her probation. She didn't do this. And I'm looking at all the negative things. And her defense attorney came forward and he was arguing that we should quash the warrant. And he presented several things that were really positive and really good and progressive. And as I continue to look through the docket, I'm like, well, this judge really wants your 25,000. So my training and everything is telling me how to take her into custody. So I called for the marshal. I said, I'm gonna have to take you into custody. And as she said over on the side, and she's getting ready to be processed, and my court clerk is giving me the eye. And if you've ever sat a courtroom and you have a quarter given you, the eyes are pretty sure that the young ladies they work with you are giving you the eyes every once in a while. I just in my heart is that, you know what? Bring her back and ask the marshal. Marshal, would it be okay if we can reassess this matter, please? And can we can I talk to one more time? And I brought her back before me and I said, You know what? I'm going to do something I normally don't do. I'm going to go back on my ruling. And I've looked at all the things and yeah, this case is ten years old. You stayed for five of them. You came in and then your case was continue for two years and then you finally pled guilty and you've been sentenced. And yeah, we don't have this and this, but we have the other four things that are required. I'm going to quash the warrant. I'm going to let you go. I'm going to give you another court date to come back. It it's amazing, counsel, remember about it. You want a little bit of patience and compassion can do for that young lady. And she stood up and she's appeared for every court date. I checked, she's appeared. She's provided proof of her treatment. She's doing really well. And we're hoping that the end of 2021, her case will be closed finally. And so, yeah, we we all make mistakes. We're human. You know, the people that I represent and the people that come before me, I understand that. You know, I remember where I came from. I came from a very poor neighborhood. I moved to White Center, which I thought was pretty cool at the time because, you know, it was it had I had a yard and I could climb a tree and and I could do things I couldn't do in San Francisco. And it was great. It was is everybody has a bad day. But there's the mistakes that we learn from the most, not not our successes. And so I'm looking forward to if you ask my wife, I make mistakes all the time, you know, but and so but I try to learn from them and I try not to repeat them, especially when I'm on the bench. Thank you very much. Thank you. I guess. Next question. Councilmember Lambert. Thank you. I'd like to welcome you also and thank you. Say that in the era of oral sex was quite the accomplishment. So thank you for not giving up on your dreams. Because I think about. My I question what is you do you see as the most significant challenge currently facing the district court and how do you think it ought to be addressed? Thank you very much for the question, Councilmember Lambert, and happy New Year to you. And thank you for the kind words as well. The significant challenge we have going forward is that first we have this pandemic. We're not able to have jury trials and we're not able to get people to come into the courtroom like we used to. I, as a public defender and I practice everywhere throughout the Puget Sound area, I'd walk into a calendar of 60 people and then I'd have to rifle through them and make sure that we're able to get them in the right direction. Now, with the pandemic and the spread of COVID, how easy it is, we have to make sure that everybody's health is taken care of. And not just physical health, but mental health. One of the biggest issues I think that we suffer from is that we don't the criminal justice system doesn't treat mental health the right way. I think that there should be programs in place, and there probably are, especially if we get some federal funding. As I was listening to Mr. Daley talk, that not only can we put people instead of an issue where somebody suffers their mental health and putting them in jail, we should probably get them more into counseling. And not just them, but their family. My sister suffers from schizophrenia and I try to educate my parents and all my brothers sisters about. She's not a martyr. She's not. She shouldn't be ostracized. We shouldn't treat her any differently. We should try to understand where she's coming from. Make her feel comfortable. Make her feel like, okay, I'm love. And in that way, when she does have, we can recognize what triggers her and we can try to mitigate those triggers and make sure that she's taking her medication and make sure she's receiving her counseling. And counseling could be not just from training, as if it should be with family members and love in the community. And I really accept that as part of the community court and as a public defender, we try to help everybody. We could understand where they're coming from through the different programs that we made available. We did the REACH program, we did the lead program. We tried to get them into counseling Asian through my wife's resources, were able to get SARS, come down and offer alcohol and drug treatment. It's just a some individuals are not ready for it. They didn't want to make that change because they didn't trust the system. I think the biggest issue that we have in the King County system is getting the trust of the public to make sure that we're doing everything right and that we're there to help them. I really think probation should be changed into more of a court support services instead of being the hammer that tells the court that, hey, they're doing something wrong. One of the biggest things I think a judge should be is a great listener. But I also think a judge should be a cheerleader. And when people are succeeding, we should be in court and we should saying, hey, this person right here succeeded, and this person right here is an example to everybody else. You can do it, too. If they can do it, you can do it. You know, and and I really believe that. And I really am excited to work in the community courts there. And I pro tem the community court in Seattle when they used to run it when it was in operation. And it was a fantastic feeling to give people that self-worth and that make them feel good about themselves. And a lot of these individuals, they feel down about themselves all the time and there's no trust there. So you have to build up the trust with the public. We have to educate them and we have to make sure that we're there for them. Now, there are those individuals who are going to fail and there are those individuals who won't care. And that's what the court needs to be the executioner as well. But do it with compassion and do it by giving them some respect. And I think that we need to have more of a connection with the public. So many times in my career, I've seen judges gotten so old that they weren't connected to the public anymore. They didn't understand what was happening in the community. I grew up on the West Side. West Side is my home. Tom. I want to I. Want to help the. So thank you. Thank you. Gentlemen, Brazil. Hello. Thank you so much for those words and for being here today, Anthony, and I really appreciate that. We're in a global pandemic that makes congregate and confined settings like courts and jails very dangerous. And so I just wanted to hear a little bit from you how our current crisis impacts your decision making. Well, we always lean on when individuals have gone to jail to make sure that we give them the least restrictive means possible. If we're able to use home monitoring or tattoo bracelet or smart start on cases involving alcohol, we make sure that we try to get those people out. I think treatment is better than being incarcerated for people who are mentally ill. We try to make sure that we're plugging into different programs, making sure they're taking their medication. I know that from speaking to my sister, some of the medications they take are terrible. But if we do least restrictive means, I think that's very important. The other issue that we are having is, you know, we're having so many court these words trying to get processed and trying to get information and everybody's trying to learn how to work on Zoom. The good news is that we're able to communicate a lot better with our clients. We're able to have Zoom meetings with them. The bad news is that we have a lot of continuances. So I think what we need to do is we need to make sure that we're able to get plugged in right away with the individuals , make sure that they are set up in a way that's fair, that they're going to be successful, that they feel comfortable in operating in a zoom system. That's the biggest issue we've been having so far, and we haven't been able to do any trials. You know, jury trials are expensive and I love jury trial. Let me do it. I love them. I've done over 100 jury trials on the federal, state, district court and municipal court levels. But trials are expensive. And when I first started as a court clerk, we used to have bench trials all of the time. We can have a bench trial with limited people in the courtroom instead of bringing in individuals from the community. And that way we can alleviate them from being exposed to the pandemic. But individuals who are in jail, we got to find ways to get them out. The jail is just a petri dish filled with COVID that is going to get everybody sick. We can have a lot more video hearings that we have things that are not, you know, continuances or setting matters to trial or exchanges of discovery. Those can be handled by video so that we can try to alleviate the amount of people coming to court. But I think that if we're going to have a jury trial, we're going to have to do it in a way that is conducive to this point, that I'm hoping that this vaccine helps everybody and everybody is able to get vaccinated so that eventually we can approach some type of level of normalcy. But I don't think we're ever going to get there again. I think our new level of normalcy is going to include a lot of Zoom hearings in the future. I hope that answers your question and happy New Year and thank you for the question. Council members are really. Happy New Year to you, too, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Colleagues further questions. The company, I invite you to share with us a closing statement and would ask you to aim for 2 minutes. Yes, sir. I will try to stay under 2 minutes. Oh. Yeah. I like I said, I grew up on the west side. I've watched that area change over the almost near 40 years that I've been there. I've watched my friends places in the park like homes and the other places of low income be rooted out and built new buildings. I've seen businesses closed. I've seen just the face of of the West. I change over a period of time, and the law has been very slow to react to that. I think that if we. I think that if I am given this position, I would love to educate a lot more people. I would love to go into the schools without violating my judicial independence and try to educate the kids at the school if we can get them young and early and try to educate them. I think we can make an effective change that we wouldn't see a large number of individuals being arrested in the future from on May 9th, 1992. I'm going to shift gears here. My dad and I were taking pictures on the stage of Beasley Coliseum when I graduated from Washington State. And he turned to me and he said, You look like a judge in that roadster. From that day to this day. My entire career has been built to this. So I ask that you give me the opportunity to serve the people of the West, and I thank you for your time. Thank you very much for sharing your experience and your perspectives and interest in serving on the District Court with us. We're better for it. Thank you, Madam Clerk. If I can ask you to admit Mr. Matheny to the waiting room and invite back Mr. Todd. Thank you, Mr. Chair. If you'll just give us a moment. Of course. Mr. Todd, I believe you're getting admitted and connecting to the Zoom room itself. Welcome. And good morning, Councilman. Thank you. Good morning and welcome. I want to thank you warmly for your interest in the judicial position before us today and for taking time to join us here at the Committee of the Whole. I invite you to begin with opening remarks, introduce yourself into perhaps shoot for 2 minutes. Very well. Thank you, Councilman, to all the council members. Thank you very much for your time today. I came before you four years ago seeking a position in the same court, and my opening statement began with saying that the Southwest or the district court in general is the People's Court, and it truly is. And that has only been encouraged and supported by the work that I have been doing as a pro-tem in the lower jurisdiction municipal courts that I've been working in recently. I have only improved from when I was in front of me four years ago to the point that the minority bars have found me exceptionally well qualified. I do continue to feel as though I'd be an incredible asset to the King County District Court and would represent you, the Council, with pride in doing this and in accepting the appointment if you were to choose to appoint me. I've always been committed to diversity. I've continued to work with immigrant communities, with their legal issues. As a pro tem, I'm always mindful of the biases that I have. And additionally, as a pro tem, I've conducted hearings in Spanish for clients and for defendants and litigants that come in front of me in Spanish. And I think that that just opens the doors to access to justice. And I be committed to access to justice throughout my entire legal career, but especially in being a pro tem sitting on the bench and ensuring that everybody has the access that they have. And so I do feel as though I'd be a really good fit for Southwest District Court and I would ask for your appointment. And with that I am open to questions. Thank you so much. I'll begin with the first question. And what is it about your particular skills and interests that would make you a good fit for King County District Court? I think my particular skills are that I have a diverse background. I come from the gay community. I come from a rural community. And I come from a community that knows immigrant issues and able to work toward those and resolve those. Additionally, my unique skills that I have, as I said, I am bilingual and I have conducted hearings for litigants in Spanish. They come in front of me. I recently did a hearing and I believe is in federal way, that the litigant was just so happy that the judge actually spoke his language, spoke Spanish. Then he commented, Oh, I hope I can meet you someday. I hope I can meet you. And what I had to tell him in Spanish was that, you know, if we see each other on the street, we can certainly greet each other. And it would be a pleasure to know you as well. So I do come from a unique background, a diverse background, and I do have those unique skills in order to allow litigants to come in and have that access that they have to the courts. Thank you. I need to be on my mute button. Councilmember Caldwell's. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you, Mr. Todd, for your wanting to serve further and the judiciary, the court system. I have a two part question. What would your superiors in your last position say? Which is your greatest weakness, but also your greatest strength? I've always been a strong practitioner, so I don't necessarily have a supervisor, but I will look towards, for example, the court administrators that I work in, in the municipal courts. I think they would say that probably my greatest weakness is that I care possibly too much. I want to make sure that everybody is treated fairly, that everybody is received the same decision, regardless of where they come from, regardless of their background, regardless of what they look like. And so I have been careful and slow and deliberative at times in making my decisions to ensure that I'm providing that exact same result for everybody else and providing a fair and just result. As far as my greatest skill. I think that it would be being able to relate to people, being able to connect with people and being able to make decisions and tough decisions at that. I presided over a criminal criminal suppression motion in Lake Forest Park, and I wrote an opinion for that on my findings of fact and conclusions of law. And Judge Portnoy actually commented that that was exceptionally well written. And so I think, you know, strengths would be the way that I'm able to connect with people, the way that I am able to make decisions and the way that I'm able to write and speak and present myself in court. Thank you. Councilmember Balducci. Look, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Todd, it's good to see you again. Thank you for applying for your interest, for your work. I do like to say at least one thing to each candidate. And the thing that jumped out at me from your application packet was your mediation, training and experience. I think that that is extremely valuable to members of the bench to have that experience, to be able to listen for interest through the sort of what may be presenting on the surface of, you know, anger and emotions that that you get in court. So I'm very that's that's really stands out to me. My question is, so every, you know, everyone has a really bad day and in court that can turn into a really bad day in court that has, you know, ramifications that go on into the future. So if you could describe to us a time when you had just a really bad day and how did you react to that or what did you learn from it? We all do have our ups and downs, good days and bad days. And I think over the past year has particularly been trying for all of us to have those good days and to have those bad days. And, you know, there are times I can bring instances where I can think of when, you know, I might have been anxious about starting the day and then I'm presiding over cases and I have people coming in front of me that are dealing with similar issues. And I just have to remember, you know, they're probably dealing with issues as well. They may be having a bad day as well. And so the way that I deal with it is, you know, first of all, while I'm on the bench, I compartmentalize it, set it aside just to set it aside. And because I have to provide justice for people, that's fair, equitable and and and that appears fair regardless of what I'm going through that day, you know. And so I'll set it aside while I'm on the bench. And then when I get off the bench, I will find a good ear to listen to me. I will find a good shoulder to cry on, which has happened several times when I've been having a bad day and just checking in with somebody to bring me back to reality, to make sure that that I'm doing what I need to do in the way that I need to do it. And so, you know, just number one, realizing that other people go through the same things that we do. Number two, making sure that I'm there, I'm present, I'm doing the job that I need to do. And number three, dealing with my own health and well-being afterwards in between sessions or over lunch or whenever it is, but just making sure that I'm healthy as well. Thank you very much. Thank you. Council member, Lambert. Mr. Chair, there are many issues before the district courts at this point. What would you say is the most significant issue and how would you help solve it? So I think probably right now the most significant issue before so many of our courts is just the backlog of cases that are set to go to trial. And I'm ready to step in and I'm ready to do that. Even the eve of COVID, with social distancing and with all the precautions I recently actually presided over to jury trials in people up in the age of COVID. It was I believe it's November 5th and November six, two separate days, two separate trials that I presided over. And it actually worked out very well. We kept the jury separate or kept them apart, kept them distance. Anyway, we made sure that everything was was clean and secure. And so I think right now, at that point, that's the greatest problem that the district court district and lower jurisdiction courts, municipal court and quite frankly, superior courts are facing as well as just the backlog of those trials. Because obviously our customer remember, you know, when people are charged with a crime, they have a right to have their trial. But recently it has been getting pushback and back and some people have not been getting their day in court as I'm ready to step in and help with that backlog. I also think that, you know, stepping in there with the compassion, with the understanding and with the ability to run a courtroom and a trial efficiently, which I am able to do, would be one of the things that I would step into district court and be ready to go. Thank you. Council members are holding. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Judge Todd, for being here today. We're in a global pandemic that makes confined and congregate settings like jails and courts dangerous. I was wondering how that impacts your decision making. It certainly does impact it a lot. And just as one anecdote, the moment that I realized that I was a judge was when I had to make that first bail decision. And you are deciding whether or not somebody is going to be in custody or somebody is going to be out of custody while their case is pending . And so there are obviously problems with the bail system that we have and whether or not we should be detaining or releasing somebody already. We already know that there are systemic racism that goes through the bail system and making bail determinations. People are disadvantaged from not having a stable residence or disadvantage from having problems going around their home. And obviously, we know that there have been recent movements to try to reform the bail system, go to a different type of system. For example, in Spokane, I know they were trying to go to a risk needs assessment at one point. But part of the problem with going to a risk needs assessment is that a lot of the data on which that risk needs assessment is based is already racially biased. And so it's trying to reform that and trying to come up with a better way to take care of that. And so, you know, in any case, any bail decision that we make as judges, whether a defendant is in custody while in cases pending or a defendant is free while the case is pending, you know, it has to be guided by some of those considerations as well. But, Councilman, as you pointed out, in this age and in this pandemic can only exacerbate the particular problem because it puts people, more people at risk of getting COVID, of suffering the complications from that, and and dealing with the implications of keeping somebody into custody. And so those are certainly all are considerations that I have to look at in addition to obviously the criminal role. 3.2 looking at whether or not they're likely to appear for court, whether or not they're likely to commit a violent offense, looking at their criminal history and just taking those considerations. And so as judges, we have to be mindful of following the rules that we have set when setting bail, as well as looking at the the system, the problems and the individual person that's in front of us. And I'm certainly mindful of that. And I do take that into consideration every time somebody is in front of me. Thank you. I believe that wraps up my questions from members in my mistaken. Thank you, Mr. Todd. I'd invite you to share a closing statement, closing thoughts with us, and ask you to aim for about 2 minutes. But you. Customers. I am extremely humbled to be in front of you here again, and I know that I would take my over 20 years of experience in law and family law, criminal law and courts of law, jurisdiction in the district court and in superior courts, and be a great asset to the bench. The time that I've been serving as a pro tem has been absolutely incredible and I would take that energy and I would take that ability into the super excuse me, into the district court. And you look forward to using my skills there as counsel. Councilmember Bell Duty said. I do have that mediation training and that really has been a way that I've been able to reframe my mind, look at issues and just allow somebody to be heard. That's really the biggest thing, and that's part of what district court can do. District court gives the opportunity for somebody to be heard, somebody to be acknowledged. Have those issues acknowledged as well as have their motions acknowledge? And so that's why I feel as though I would be a really good fit in here. I am committed to diversity. I've been committed to diversity. My practice. I mean, what I do in the clients that I work with and the way that I work with them. I'm glad that my I am bilingual. I am able to conduct hearings in Spanish and it just opens up so many doors and is such a pleasure and such an incredible opportunity that I have. And I would look forward to the pleasure and the opportunity of serving on the District Court. And if he were to appoint me, I would gladly accept your appointment. Thank you so much for your time. Mr.. Mr.. TODD, thank you for joining us today, for your interest in this record and for sharing your perspectives and thoughts. And we're better for it today. We appreciate that. Thank you, Councilmember. Now, if we meet and readmit Mr. Mohseni, I. No inspections and not admitting myself. We've concluded her interviews, and I'm assuming colleagues would like a few minutes an executive session to discuss the qualifications of the candidates under RTW 4231 ten each. The committee is going to go into executive session to evaluate the qualifications of a candidate for appointment to elective office. The committee will be in executive session for approximately 10 minutes until approximately 1147. The committee will be off zoom for this executive session. Committee members we. Have in our. Calendars a Skype meeting to join to conduct our executive session so staff and candidates others can certainly remain here in the Zoom room. Members, please step out and join us in the executive session conversation without we're an executive session. Or. The terrorists asked me to notify the listening public that the executive session will be extended. An Egyptian on 7 minutes. And. Can I. Confirm? My audio is working. But we can't hear. You can't number up the growth. Now you're messing with me? Yep. You know. Point. Just another move to begin. This question. Yes. So whatever we do now will go to the council on Tuesday of next week or two weeks. If we expedite, it would be next Tuesday. That's all I want to know. Thank you. So. Eight. All right. And quick. Is he ready? Yes, Mr. Chairman. We're ready. Just a moment. Okay. We back out of executive session in the regular session and I'd entertain a motion. Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Make sure I get everything right. I would move at this time. Motion approval. Of motion. 2021.06. Counts Number done has moved. Adoption of motion 2020 10006, which would make an appointment to the vacancy in the Southwest District Courts seat for King County District Court. An amendment would be in order. Very well, Mr. Chair, as vice chair of the committee, my pleasure. And to offer Amendment. One be listed on page. 18. Which inserts. Mr. McKinney. Into the position for approval. Now comes. Councilmember Dunn has moved the motion in and the amendment won't be adding Mr. Mason. His name comes from a line right there. I like to second that motion on behalf of my constituent from Federal. We have before us the the motion and the amendment discussion. Mr. Chair. Council Member Vaughan Wright Power. I think we've been very fortunate with the nominees that we've had before us. Today, and both were articulate. And they represent, I think, the best of folks applying for this. Position. I support the recommendation of our first nominee. I felt his background, his experience is a very diverse background. She spoke so loudly to the needs of voices in South Kent County, and I don't think I was looking at the faces of my colleagues on the county council. As you as he spoke and there was an incredible. You want to bring people together. You were you. I wish you I hope you were able to see the faces of my colleagues as you spoke about your work experience, your life experience, your skills that you bring to the position. And I would like to join my colleagues in strongly recommending your confirmation. Thank you for the discussion. Councilmember Belushi. I just want to add that this process is unfortunately awkward, all being remote. We've been through this a number of times, and it's always easier to have these discussions when you're in the same room with somebody and you can look them directly into their eyes. I strongly support the motion and the amendment. I think that Mr. Masonite brings an outstanding level of experience and talent. Talent and skill. His his ratings and his references all reflect that. But there was also, for me, just a very impressive level of humanity being able to sort of hear and feel and reflect the experiences of the people that will be appearing before him in his courtroom and tried to do justice in the sense of having people feel heard and supported and helped to succeed, if possible, from those difficult situations. I also wanted to speak, though, to say that in my going into my seventh year on the Council, it's hard to believe I've been through with you all, my colleagues, quite a number of appointments now. And we have had applicants who were nowhere near as qualified as either one of these two applicants. And so I want to just say to Mr. Todd that I want to encourage you to continue to pursue this appointment because you are also exceptionally well qualified and would make a great judge. We can only pick one here today, but if there were two positions, I would also gladly support you for one of them. So I want to encourage you to continue seeking this job. I think you'll do a good job at it someday and you'll get there. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Member Council member LAMBERT Thank you. I too was probably one of the faces council member on I was talking about. I could feel the compassion, the heart and the warmth of our future judge here. And if I were in need of a courtroom and somebody was going to be changing my life, I would want the judge to have the kind of wisdom and heart that I saw in his answers. And I also was very impressed when I looked at his varied experience with broad, different kinds of case and the different places where he's worked. It's given him a very broad idea of people's needs. And then, of course, the dedication that's been shown over his life over and over. Not the least of which was that he is a lawyer by Rule six, which shows great dedication and the fact that several judges told him when he was younger that he should go to law school because of his inquisitive mind. And I think that having an inquisitive mind obscured no more. I care more about others, and so I hardly endorse him. See no further discussion. All those in favor of amendment one. B. One. I. I. I. I. I. And those opposed. The ayes have it one vs adopted. We have motion 21 six as amended before us into a further discussion. I will ask the clerk to please call the roll. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember WG i. Councilmember Dombrowski. I. Councilmember Dunn. Hi, Councilmember Cole. Councilmember Lambert. I council member of the grove. I. Council member upon return. I council members only. All right, Mr. Chair. Right. Mr. Chair. The vote is 99 zero now. Thank you. By your vote, we have given a do pass recommendation to motion 2021 six and we will expedite that to full council for consideration at the full council meeting this coming Tuesday afternoon. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. My person, village. Council member of Direct Power. Just a one question of our our judge elect. You will. Is your father still with us? Yes. Yes. Oh, I want that. I would be honored to meet him sometime in federal way. Yes, sir. Absolutely. Good. Thank you. And Madam Clerk, I don't believe we've missed any. Any members missed any votes? That's correct, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Then, knowing of no other business to come before us and having completed our agenda on the committee, the hall is adjourned. Thank you and good afternoon.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4401 South Quebec Street in Hampden South. Approves a map amendment to rezone a property from PUD 206 to S-MX-5 (planned development to suburban, mixed-use) located at 4401 South Quebec Street in Council District 4. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-19-22.

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If translation is needed, you will be given an additional 3 minutes for your comments to be interpreted. We'll alternate between in-person and virtual for efficiency by calling in-person participants and then alternating to virtual participants. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council Member State Abarca Will you please put Council Bill 20 to dash for 12 on the floor for final passage? Yes, I move that council bill 22 Dashboard 12 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 22. Dashboard 12 is open. May we please have the staff report? And I am virtual. Hi. Hi. All right. See? Can you all see that and hear me? Okay, great. So my name is Libby Adams. I'm with Community Planning. And Development, and I'll be presenting the MAP Amendment four 4401 South Quebec Street. This application is located in Council District four in the Hamden South neighborhood. The property is located along South Quebec Street, north of I to 25. It's just over an acre and is currently occupied by an office building that is primarily used for mental health counseling services. And the purpose of the rezoning is to expand the permitted uses to allow for short term overnight stays. And the applicant is proposing to rezone from pod 206 to Smic's five. The existing zoning is 206. This is a district within the former Chapter 59 zoning code that allows for office and retail uses. It has a maximum floor area ratio of 1 to 1 and a maximum building coverage of 35%. The site is currently used for office uses. The surrounding area is mostly multi-unit. With commercial and retail self-storage directly to the south. This slide shows the existing building performance scale with the subject property on the bottom right hand side. This map amendment was complete at the end of December. A postcard notifying property owners within 200. Feet of the site was. Sent out on December 22nd and then planning board unanimously recommended approve approval of the rezoning on April six. And to date, no public comment letters have been received. There are five review criteria for rezoning in the Denver zoning code that must be met. The first criterion is consistency with adopted plans. And there are two plans that are applicable to this rezoning. Information on how the application meets the strategies and the comprehensive plan can be found in the staff report and some moving to blueprint. Denver. The Blueprint. Denver identifies the future neighborhood. Context of suburban. These areas have irregular block patterns of curvilinear streets and a range of uses. And then the future place type and blueprint. Denver is high, medium residential. These place types provide a mix of medium scale multi-unit residential uses with heights up to five storeys. It can also accommodate compatible commercial and retail uses consistent with the six five request. In South Quebec, Street is designed as is designated as a commercial arterial street. The Blueprint Growth Area strategy is all other areas of the city. This is where we anticipate to see 10% of new jobs and 20% of new housing by 2040. And then Blueprint also includes specific policy recommendations, as are the land use and built form. General Policy three recommends rezoning properties from the former Chapter 59 Zoning Code so that the. Entire city is covered by the Denver zoning code. Staff also finds the requested rezoning meets the next two criteria. The rezoning will result in uniformity of district regulations and will further the public health, safety and welfare, primarily through rezoning of property into the Denver zoning code and allowing a district with a greater density and greater mix of uses. There's also a justifying circumstance for this MAP amendment because the city adopted the Denver zoning code, and this property remains in the former Chapter 59 zoning code. And lastly, the proposed rezoning is consistent with the suburban neighborhood context and the purpose of the mixed use districts and the specific intent of the six five zone district. So finding review criteria have been met. Staff recommends approval of this rezoning, and that concludes my presentation. Think. Ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding. This evening we have two individuals signed up to speak, but both are joining us virtually. Our first speaker is Alison Hibbs. Good evening, counsel. Can everybody hear me okay? Leah Good evening. My name is Alison. Hibbs with Plan West. I am here tonight to represent EWR Plaza in our request to rezone the property at 4040 4401 South Quebec from the outdated PUD 206 to a current. Denver zoned district. Specifically S-Max five. Plan West is a land planning and design. Firm here in Denver. Our case manager, Libby Adams, has already given you guys a very thorough presentation, so I won't take up your time tonight with too much redundancy, but I just want to let the council know that we are here available to answer any questions that you have. The proposed free zone is to benefit both the owner of EWR Plaza by expanding counseling services, which are currently permitted with the current 5206 to include short term overnight services as well as the city by bringing the outdated PUD into a current Denver's own district. Thank you for hearing our proposal tonight and we appreciate your support. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jesse Perez. Yes. Good evening. Members of Council. May I be heard? Okay. In regards to this rezoning, I'm in favor of it. It meets all five of the criteria. Um. If there is going to be some place here was am I ever going to be it is going to be commercial retail. How many employees are going to be at this location? If someone please answer the question. I really appreciate it. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dashboard 12. All right. It doesn't look like I knew I needed to wait for a second. Councilmember Flynn, please go ahead. Thank you, Madam President. Libya. Do you know, is the Raleigh House the sole occupant of the building or are there other users in there at the moment? And and are they part of this application or do they know about it? Hi. Councilmember Flynn. Can you actually repeat that question? I was being re promoted and so it took me off and then I missed the second half of your question. But halfway between being beamed up. And you're not quite there yet. Thank you. I'm just wondering, is Raleigh how's the sole tenant in this building or are there other users? And if there are other users, are they aware of this? And are they supportive of it or. Or are they impacted by this change? Yeah, that may actually be I may defer to our applicants for that question. I don't know if Alison is able to rejoin. There she is. Okay. Sorry. Technical difficulties on there. I can tell you that Raleigh House does own the building currently and is the primary tenant there. We can try to get the. Owner on as well. We believe there are the tenants that are aware of this. We believe the tenants are aware. Alison, do you know the answer to that question? Yeah, sure. I believe the tenants have been notified. Is that the answer? Does that answer? Your answer was partly cut off. Are the other tenants in the building aware of this and are they impacted by the change? It's like. I. Yes, to the best of our knowledge, the other tenants are aware and are not. Impacted by this change. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. I see no other questions from members of council. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 412. Councilmember Black. Thank you, Madam President. I am supporting this resign because it meets the criteria and to address Councilman Flynn's questions. The the building is a small office building in an area where there are office buildings and public storage. And it's really not changing the use at all. They're just allowing people to sleep there at night if they need to be, which is something we desperately need in our city mental health services and a place for people to stay the night if they need to. So I'm both supportive of the rezoning and the youth, and I hope my colleagues will support this rezoning. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Black. And seeing that it does meet all of the criteria, I'm happy to support it this evening as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 22, Dashboard 12. Black. I see tobacco, I. Flynn. I turned it on hands. I can change. I. Ortega, I. Sandoval. I swear, i. Torres. Hi. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. You have a nice. 11 eyes council bill 22, Dash 412 has passed. We're going to move on to our second hearing of the evening. Thank you, Libby, for the staff report and those community members who testified on the previous hearing. Council member state of.

A resolution approving a proposed Master Purchase Order between the City and County of Denver and Western Paper Distributors, Inc. for janitorial supplies for City facilities. Approves a master purchase order with Western Paper Distributors, Inc. for $10,500,000 and through 7-31-22, with a possible one-year optional renewal, for janitorial supplies for City facilities (SC-00004934). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 8-31-20. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 8-4-20.

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All right. Doing one last look. All right. No hands raised. Next up, Council Resolution 767. Councilman, clerk, will you please put Council Resolution 767 on the floor for adoption? Yes, Madam President, I move the council resolution seven, six, seven to be adopted. It has been moved and. Again. Seconded. Thank you. Comments by members of Council on Resolution 767. Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I call this out because this is a $10 million contract, and we've been working on our revised MWB ordinance for almost three years. It's already been adopted. Agencies all knew that it was coming forward, and part of that commitment was that we were going to break down contracts so that we would create the opportunity for more small businesses across our city to be able to participate and do business with the city. And this one doesn't do that. So I called it out to vote no. I don't know that Sky wants to address this and explain why we did not break this out. I know some of these. You know, it takes a while to go through the whole RFP process. But, you know, we've had a few that we've been told, oh, this was in the works before the ordinance came forward. But the fact that we've been working on the ordinance for three years and everybody knew it was coming forward. Some of the projects actually factor that in to the RFP and to the the contracting process. So I would just ask why this one was not broken out. Thank you. Councilwoman, I believe we have Elizabeth Hughes who's on the phone to you. This is Elizabeth Hughes. I am a procurement analyst for the city and county of Denver. Part of this as this is a goods only master purchase order. Our contract with the established aggregate of being over $10 million, it did not qualify for the defined pool or or gold program. And in this. Instance, say not because I know we have minority businesses and that that could have participated in the process and small businesses who own and manage parking lots that could have, you know, the option of this. So I guess I don't understand that thinking. This this is for a janitorial goods only is not for services it's just to supply the goods. Up with the parking one. Sorry earlier conversation. I had with Jason, but you're right. So it's the supplier would. Yeah. And we did this because if we did that, there will be significant price increases in the products that we currently buy. And also the logistics of breaking a 100 plus items would be extremely difficult to manage and to administer all of those contracts. Do we know what kind of price savings we get by. Doing. This as one contract as opposed to breaking it out? Off the top of my head. I do not know the actual pricing the difference. I do know that we are receiving aggressive pricing because of our volume. And our volume is being. Combined with the state of Colorado's agreement. Okay. Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate it. You're welcome. I have no other questions. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman. See no other questions from members of council. Madam Secretary, roll call on resolution 767. Ortega? No. Sandoval. Yes. Sawyer. Yes. Torres, I. Black Eye CdeBaca. I. Clark. I. Flynn. I Herndon. I Hines. Hi. Cashman. I can each. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 eyes. One day. 12 eyes. Resolution 767 has been adopted. The next items up are council resolutions 844 and 845. Council Member Clark, will you please put Council Resolutions 844 and 845 on the floor for adoption?

A proclamation recognizing the Colorado Municipal League for its invaluable service to Denver and municipalities of the State of Colorado.

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Thank you. And thank you, Councilwoman Black. All right, your second one. Well, thank you, Mr. President. This proclamation is very short. It's proclamation number 17, just 1256, recognizing the Colorado municipally for its invaluable service to Denver and municipalities of the state of Colorado. Whereas, the Colorado Municipal League is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization providing services and resources to assist municipal officials in managing their governments and serving the cities and towns in Colorado. And. Whereas, CML was founded in 1923 and is in its 94th year of service to the municipalities of the state of Colorado. And. WHEREAS, CML is the voice of Colorado cities and towns with more than 97% of the state's municipalities represented in the league's membership. And. Whereas, CML provides high quality resources and services that empower municipal governments to sustain strong, healthy and vibrant cities and towns, and represents Colorado's cities and towns collectively through its advocacy, membership, services, training and research efforts. And. Whereas, the State of Colorado has a multitude of different types of cities and towns, and CML empowers them to enact policy and make decisions that are best for their individual governments, economies and constituents. Because one size does not fit all in local government. And. Whereas, the work of CML unifies the municipalities across Colorado while also allowing them to maintain their own individual identity. And. WHEREAS, CMA has always been a champion and defender of home rule authority, both in the legislature and in the courts. And as a result, Colorado cities and towns, including Denver, enjoy one of the strongest traditions of home rule in the nation on a regular basis. Policy choices made by the Mayor and City Council to pass legislation or make expenditures in the best interest of our own citizens are grounded in the bedrock of home rule. And. WHEREAS, CMS's lobbying role at the state Capitol supports Denver's legislative priorities every session by providing a collective voice for all Colorado municipalities, providing a stronger, more influential position than Denver could gain if acting alone, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver's Section One that the Denver City Council extends a sincere thank you to the Colorado Municipal League for its dedication and perseverance to protect and maintain the rights of the municipalities of Colorado. Section two that the Clerk of the city and county of Denver shall attest and affixed the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and that copy be transmitted to Sam Mamet, executive director of the Colorado Municipal League. All right. Your motion to adopt. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that proclamation. 1256 be adopted. It's been moved. And second, it comes by members of the council. Councilman Black. Thank you, Mr. President. I serve on the CML board, and I just wanted to recognize the work of this important organization. Many people are unaware of the advocacy that they do at the state level on behalf of Denver and our citizens and other Colorado cities. Seamless, Denver's partner at the State House. They work closely with our legislative team. They monitor what's happening at the state capitol, and they advocate for Denver's position and for home rule. Their advocacy for home rule allows us to do our work here in Denver. They're an important partner to the city and county of Denver, and we appreciate Cmll and their outstanding staff. Kevin Volmer, who's their deputy director, will be presenting at our November 14th Finance and Governance Committee with the 2018 State Legislative Legislative Preview. So please watch it on Channel eight or attend the meeting. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman Black, Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. First, I want to thank Councilwoman Plec for bringing this forward and asked that my name be added. I've served on this board as well, and Sam and his very capable staff do an outstanding job not only collaborating with Denver, but actually representing many of the cities that don't have their own legal representation and really trying to be the voice of local government and particularly protecting home rule authority. So thank you. Yeah, thank you, Councilwoman Ortega and our time in here and just talk about the importance of it. I think there are probably people who live in Denver who are like, what is the amount and why is that important to what the heck I'm going through in front of my house today? And and I think that's fair. But, you know, one thing and I'm a little embarrassed because the first conference, the email conference that I went to was just this summer with you, Councilwoman Black, and some others who were there. And the fact that municipal leaders can get in the same room and talk about issues going on in their city, like the opioid issue that's happening all throughout our country that not enough people are talking about. It's very helpful. And KMO is the gatherer of all of that intellectual capacity to help some of these municipalities. And so I'm so grateful for that and so grateful to say a mammoth and promise that Mr. Mammoth, as long as I'm president, which is only about six more months, we will be involved. But I hope that Denver continues to have a presence at all of the events, because I think it's incredibly important. So with that, Madam Secretary, quick black eye. Claire Espinosa. Flynn Gilmore. Herndon Cashman. I can eat Lopez. I knew Ortega Susman. Mr. President. I please I was wondering. And as a result. 1313. ISE Proclamation 1246 is adopted. Councilman Black, could there be anybody want to bring up? Yes, thank you. I would like to ask Sam Mamet to come up. Sam is the executive director of CML and he has been with CML for almost four decades. Sam, I know you're. Yeah, come on, Sam. Come on down. For decades. I sent him a text and told him that made him sound old, but. He's. Like, I've known Councilman Flynn almost that entire time. After saying, Yes, you are old. That's right. You knew me when I was six, five and £300. It's an honor to be here tonight. Thank you very much. Councilmember Black and distinguished members of the city council. I'm very honored to be here on behalf of the league to acknowledge this proclamation. Denver was one of our founding cities back in 1923 and has been a stalwart member of our organization for all those many years. And so I appreciate the the sentiments expressed in the proclamation. I want to recognize Councilwoman Ortega, who was a longtime recent, long time member of our board as well. We've had tremendous participation from Denver over many years, both from the council and certainly from the mayor and the wonderful city staff that serve this great community. So it's an honor to be here tonight, and I want to thank you very much for the proclamation. Council member Cashman said something earlier and it's nice to see my councilman as well. Paul, about elections tomorrow. We actually have about 80 cities across the state with elections tomorrow. Many with very important issues on their local ballots, much like Denver. And this is a very important day. I kind of view it as our report card. We turn in our homework as elected officials and leaders of our cities and towns, and tomorrow we're going to get graded by our citizens and the taxpayers. So it's a very important day. And I also join you in encouraging people to vote, particularly as we celebrate Veterans Day. That's what people have sacrificed their lives for. So tomorrow is a very important day in the life of cities and towns in Colorado because of all of these questions that are on the ballot and people running for office. So thank you very much. It's an honor to be here. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. All right. We are through the proclamations and this is the last night that council may offer amendments to the mayor's proposed 2018 budget. Um, let's see here. So, Councilman Lopez, you want to offer your First Amendment?

Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Negotiate and Execute a $100,000 Contract with Block by Block to Help in the Economic Recovery Efforts from COVID-19 in Alameda’s Business Improvement Areas; and Negotiate and Execute an Amendment to the Agreement with Creative Build Inc. to add $103,970 to Provide Extended Hours of Operation for the Day Center and Related Support Services. (Community Development)

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Recommendation to authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute a $1,000 contract with block by block to help in the economic recovery efforts for COVID from COVID 19 in Alameda Business Improvement Areas and negotiate and execute an amendment to the agreement with Creative Build INC to add $103,978 to provide extended hours of operation for the day center and related support services. Thank you. And oh, we've got a stellar team here. So you've met Debbie Porter, head of community development, Lois Butler, head of Economic Development. And Anna, back just here, we would be lost without in all our social service programs. So who is presenting this one to us society? So with that lead off, I am going to ask Anna to do a brief presentation. And then once again, Lois, Anna and I are available to answer any questions. Perfect. Thanks. You. Justin Bute. They tell me that all the time. It's too muted on the. Great. Perfect. Right. Good evening, Madam Mayor, and members of the City Council. My name is Anna. Back to the Community Development Department. And first off, I want to thank you for your continued support of our unhoused residents, especially during this challenging times with the pandemic and then the fires and the winter is coming. And also, I want to thank you for your consideration to implement block by block in Alameda and to expand the Bay Center and safe parking programs. Both of these proposals totaling $203,000. We understand from your last meeting that you have some questions about the scope of the block by block program, and we're especially concerned about the coverage on evening peak hours after hours on weekends. You also wanted to ensure that block by block ambassadors have resources available to them to refer clients during these hours and on weekends. As we know, a lot of our service providers serving our homeless population do not work on weekends. So that's always a challenge. So bring in block by block will keep our downtowns clean, safe and welcoming, especially during this time of heightened public health concern. Because of the pandemic and expanding the day service center hours as well as the safe parking are especially critical during this time so that our house neighbors have a clean, safe and welcoming place to go as well. The proposal submitted by block by block includes coverage in early afternoons, evenings to 10 p.m. and also on weekends. In addition, the funding for the day center and safe parking the amount of $130,000 will also allow the village of LA, which operates the day center and Safe Parking Program, to extend its center hours to 8 p.m. and also at weekends. The safe parking will also be open with this funding from from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. seven days a week, and that would also include weekends. There will be a flexible account that will be available to pay for emergency motel stays, car repairs to keep vehicles operable, and other items that are ancillary to making sure that our unhoused neighbors are safe during the pandemic. And Village of LA will also be able to add additional staff to do more outreach. They will hire a driver that can pick up and provide rides on demand, which they currently do not have the capacity to do under their current contract. We hope that the information that we provided with you are helpful and answer some of your questions and concerns that came up at the last meeting, and we're here to address any of your additional questions. Thank you again for your support. Thank you. Ms.. Factors. And I will just add that inspectors has been present at a couple of meetings that the city manager and I have had recently with concerns arising from um, just difficulties with the intersection of and has two individuals with a preschool in the area of constitution way and some of our local businesses. So sorry I did that. So thank you very much for bringing this forward to us. Council Do we have do you have any questions or concerns you want to raise? While you're thinking of them. And again, I. I think you touched on this. This fact is and we've talked about this before that. Outreach is really important. It's not enough for staff to I mean, obviously, someone has to staff the data center. That's a very important function. But we do need to have people go out to where the and housed individuals are. And the groups that are working with these these organizations are very adept at the very complicated work of establishing rapport, establishing trust and relationships, because you will remember that this is it's got to be voluntary. We don't have a means of just removing people, although I will say that I have submitted my question to our supervisor, Wilma Chan's office as to whether with any properties that Project Roomkey acquires in Alameda motels, hotels, that if it would be possible to set aside a certain number of rooms to be available for Alameda unsheltered individuals. So I am told that they will get back to us with an answer. And then the other thing that I said before that I think is really important is it is vital that we have these hotels like the marina village in and others extended stay that are being used to get people out, some living in the bushes. I mean, you just think about with this air quality, they kept all of us in our houses, closing our rear windows over the last couple of weeks. Well, what if you didn't even have a window to close because you lived outdoors? But these sites still have to be supervised and make sure that the. Rules. In place are are being followed so that residents. In the area are. Not impacted. I think there's room for everybody that we just need to respect everyone too. So I think this is great and I really applaud staff and and city manager for bringing this back to us. So council. Are we ready to approve? Questions. Councilmember de Daisuke I just. Just a quick comment. I had not I did not support safe parking for the reasons that I said. I thought we ought to focus our money elsewhere. But and I still feel that way. I'm not supportive of I actually don't think it's safe to have people sleeping in their cars in the cold Alameda. And that if we're going to have limited money, we should focus on putting people into shelters. But I think what we're discussing here tonight is not just that, but also funding outreach programs that clearly our businesses have have expressed a need for. So I'll be supportive of this. Thank you. Thank you. And by the way, the city manager the city clerk just graciously reminded me that we don't have any public speakers to thank you, because I forgot to ask of Councilmember Vela. Just wanted to thank staff for their work on this. I know we gave a lot of direction and feedback at the last meeting, specifically around extending the day center hours into the evening and the weekends. I'm glad we were able to get that worked out and with that I want to move approval here. We've had a motion by Councilor Vela, second by Councilmember Odie. Any further discussion? Seeing that maybe we have a roll call vote. Please remember de. All right. Not quite. Hi, Odie. Hi. Bella. Hi. Mayor. As the Ashcraft I. That carries my five eyes. Thank you. That was an appropriate interview. That's another way we will help our business community and our shelter residents. And I will just add that it is no one's choice to have people sleeping in their cars. But. It is also a better choice. While we're finding other places for people to live because there is truly an imbalance of supply and demand for places to live, it's better to be in some place that has supervision overnight. And I know from talking to the women who stay overnight at the warming shelter in the winter months when it's open, that they're very fearful of things like sexual assault, when they just have their car parked on a street, that if they had unsafe parking where they. Knew there was. Supervision, that would go a long way to preventing the sexual assaults that if sometimes happens. And just. Letting people. Relax, get to sleep because they don't have to think. But I hope that we've got, you know, big issues to solve. And this is a step forward. And I thank you all for your time. Thank you so much, staff for your hard work, bringing this to it. Right. With that, I am going to adjourn this meeting. It's 1058, everybody. So we we definitely met our mandate of ending on the same day that we started. Thank you all. You covered a lot of a lot of territory. Good work, everybody. Enjoy the rest of your evening. Go read that good, clean air. Good night. It's at 20. Wow.

AN ORDINANCE related to fees and charges for permits and activities of the Department of Construction and Inspections and related fees by other departments; amending Seattle Municipal Code Chapter 22.900A, Administration and Enforcement; Chapter 22.900B, General Provisions; Chapter 22.900C, Fees for Land Use Review; Chapter 22.900D, Fees for New and Altered Buildings and Equipment; Chapter 22.900E, Fees for Certificates and Registrations; Chapter 22.900F, Compliance and Other Inspections; Chapter 22.900G, Fees Collected for Other Departments; and Chapter 22.900H, Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance Program Fees.

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Agenda item 21 Council Bill 118 826 Related to fees and charges for permitting activities of the Department of Construction and inspections and related fees by other departments. Committee recommends the bill pass. Agenda Item 22 Constable 118 40 relating to the electric system of the City of Seattle Committee recommends the bill pass. Agenda Item 23 Council Bill 118 825 Relating to the municipal water system of the City of Seattle, the committee recommends the bill pass and agenda item 24 acceptable 11883 333 Relating to wastewater and drainage services of Seattle Public Utilities Committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you. And it comes from the chair. Please read the rule on council bill 118826. Herbold Johnson Cortez. Brian Swan Hi Victor Burgess Gonzalez President Harrell I nine in favor and unopposed the. Bill passes can show sign it please call the roll on council Bill 118840. Herbold Johnson. Suarez O'Brien. Sergeant Bagshaw. Burgess. Gonzales. President Harrell. I nine in favor and unopposed. Thank you. Please call the rule on council bill 118825. That's agenda item number 23. Herbold. Johnson. Suarez. O'Brien. Sergeant Bagshaw. Burgess. Gonzales. President Harrell. Nine in favor. Nine opposed. The bill passed and chair of the Senate. Please call the roll on council bill 118833. Agenda item number 24 Herbold. Johnson. Suarez. O'Brien. Hi, Sergeant Bagshaw. Burgess, I. Gonzales. President Harrell. All right. Nine in favor and unopposed. Okay. Bill. Pass and show us. Sign it. I see light at the end of this tunnel, and it's not an oncoming train. Please read agenda items 25 through 27. The short title, please. Agenda item 25 Constable one one 8845 Lean to the Organization of City Government Moving the Office of Labor Standards from the Subsidiary Unit and the Office for Civil Rights into its own executive department. The committee recommends the bill pass.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding, and any subsequent documents or amendments, with Long Beach Cares, to receive and expend grant funding in the amount of $100,000 from the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, for the continuation of the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Initiative and implementation of the MBK Health Equity and Violence Prevention Youth Leadership Program; and Increase appropriations in the Health Fund (SR 130) in the Health and Human Services Department (HE) by $100,000, offset by revenue. (Citywide)

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When Councilman Mongo. Motion carries. Thank you. Will have number 12. Recommendation to execute a memorandum of understanding with Long Beach cares to receive and expend grant funding in the amount of 100,000 from My Brother's Keeper Alliance for the Continuation of My Brother's Keeper. My Brother's Keeper Initiative Citywide. Thank you. Staff report, please. Kelly Colby. Canadian Honorable Vice Mayor and council members. So the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Equity wrote a grant to the MBK Alliance for $100,000. It is required to go through a501c3, so it is funded through Long Beach Cares, which is the 523 for the department. The funding will be utilized to build a Health Equity and Violence Prevention Youth Leadership Program. So we'll be reaching out to 25 youth, ages 16 to 22, who will participate in leadership opportunities within the health department and build leadership skills. Each of those who completes completes the program will get a $500 stipend. In addition, those resources will be utilized to fund an MBK lead. As you know, we had a Fuzed fellow last year and the Fuze fellow her term ended, so we'll be looking to hire someone to help support operating the MBK program as well as additional staffing opportunities to support all the youth meetings and other outreach efforts. And then finally, we'll be utilizing the funding for community capacity building. Capacity building grants will be small grants to local community based organizations who want to help support moving forward toward the six goals under the MBK plan. Thank you. I just wanted to call this out on from the consent calendar because it's kind of a big deal. $100,000 may not seem like a lot of money, but this is one of the first disbursements of the My Brother's Keeper Alliance, which is now aligned with the new Obama Foundation. So it's a real it's a good feather in our cap to be one of the first communities to receive one of these grants. And it really and I think investing in a youth leadership program is certainly the right way to go. So thank you and congratulations, Councilwoman Gonzalez. Great work, Kelly. We always appreciate this this work within the equity lens. And we appreciate all of the work of your staff as well, because I know it's a lot under these grants. Thank you. Thank you. Any public comment saying please cast your vote? Motion carries.

Adoption of Resolution Appointing Christopher Griffiths as a Tenant Member and Suzanne Warner as Homeowner (Non Housing Provider) Member of the Rent Review Advisory Committee.

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All those in favor I motion carries unanimously. But now we're on six a regular agenda items. Adoption a resolution appointing Christopher Griffiths and Susan Warner as members of the Rent Review Advisory Committee. We have a motion. The move second. All those in favor. I oppose motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Do you solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California that you well and faithfully are about to enter? So unfortunately we did have. Speaker six And John Kline, I'm sorry if you could come and speak. My name is John Klein with the Alameda Renters Coalition. And thank you for a new batch of RAC members. It's a distinctly different group of BRAC members that you now have. I have to say, I was a bit shocked and aghast. The first time I looked at the composition of the rack, it was attorneys and real estate agents and had been that way for six or eight years. And so I'm I'm glad that you're diversifying the, you know, the board members on the rack. There's still the issue of that of the 10% rent increases. I'm looking forward to some actual debate on the rack among the members. Those 10% rent increases for years have been handed out unanimously. So this could be a good turning point for the rack. But the real the real test there is going to be how the landlords are going to respond to a recommendation that's 5% increase or 3% increase. That's the real test of the RAC. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh. And now six be. Consider adopting an emergency ordinance to remove certain grounds for just cause evictions by amending Ordinance 3140 an urgency ordinance of the city amount of to imposing within the city. A temporary 65 day moratorium on certain residential rent increases and on evictions from all residential rental units except for just cause evictions.

A RESOLUTION relating to the City Light Department; adopting a 2019-2024 Strategic Plan for the City Light Department and endorsing a six-year rate path required to support the Strategic Plan.

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The bill passed and the chair sign. And thank you again, Katherine Gonzales. Please call the next agenda item from the Select Committee on the 2018 Seattle City Strategic Plan. Report to the Select Committee on the 2018 Seattle City Wide Strategic Plan Agenda Item 11 Resolution 31819 relating to the City Department adopted in 2018 through 2024 Strategic Plan for the City Department and endorsing a six year rate path required to support this strategic plan. The Committee recommends the resolution be adopted as amended. Okay. So, Councilwoman ROSQUETA, why don't you describe the basic legislation and there may be an amendment or two. So, Councilmember Mesquita, you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. First, I want to say thank you to Seattle City Life, the mayor's office, the review panel, community stakeholders at large, our council staff, Tony Kilduff, who's here in the audience with us and the entire council for participating in this process. Just by way of background, Seattle City Late updates its strategic plan every six years with two year updates in between. This was the first opportunity for us to provide the second of two six year strategic plans so far. The first one was passed by this council in 2012, and we now have the opportunity to set the direction, identify priorities, identify strategic initiatives, and really put our fingerprints on what we'd like to see this public utility invest in to meet our public good and our community needs. With that in mind, perhaps I could identify the amendments that are in front of us. And Mr. President, if I might save my additional comments for the end, that would be preferred. Very good. I didn't even like to speak before we get into the amendments. Or should we just dove into the amendments, is what I'm thinking. Okay. Let's go through the amendments now. And Catherine said you had Amendment one. Would you like to start off with that one? Yes, Mr. President, thank you. I'd like to move Amendment One, which is version D three, which has been provided to the council. The second second are those in favor of the amendment, which basically a substituted version that was introduced properly. Any comments on that? Just the amendment. All those in favor of the amendment. But I. I opposed the ayes have it. Go ahead, Councilmember Mesquita. Thank you, Mr. President. And I'll just say a brief comment on the amendment that we just discussed. And then I know our good council colleague Herbert has another amendment. This was an attempt to fix a few technical concerns and edits that a law had suggested. We want to make sure that the work of this council is clear, that our direction is to make sure that we have all the ability for the review panel, which you will see as detailed in the resolution that the review panel has the ability to look at all financial policies and makes it clear that we want to evaluate our existing public utility, but not in a vacuum, that we want to comparison with other public utilities. We want as much as we can to get close to an apples to apples comparison, but that we also recognize that there's varying cigarets, varying state regulations, energy sources, markets and other utilities that are served. So that was more of a technical amendment. And I welcome a good council colleague, council member, Herbert's friendly amendments as well, if we might. Very good. So, Councilmember Herbold, you'd like to amend the introduction? Yes, I would. Like to move Resolution 31819 to add a new Section seven and this. New while I pause since. Their second. Second. Okay. What do we just go ahead. This new Section. Seven combines the two items that we discussed in council briefings meeting this morning into a single amendment that accomplishes both the tasks. One is to relate specifically to the employee to manager ratio and a requirement that Seattle City Light report to the City Council on measures and policies that address that ratio to be consistent with best practices and deal with span of control issues that often are identified. For four large utilities. The second issue relates specifically to the desire to identify efficiencies within the utility, both business practice efficiencies, as well as efficiencies related to project delivery specifically. You know, one of the things that we looked at during the Seattle Public Utilities. Strategic Business Plan discussion. Is that often rates are set within a based on the proposed CIP obligations without. Actually looking at what the actual accomplishment accomplishment rate is. And often that accomplishment rate is more in line with reality and is less than what is actually in the CFP. So the result sometimes is that rate decisions are being made based on much larger numbers than the utility is actually realizing costs for, because they're not they're not they're not finishing these ship projects as quickly as as they anticipated. And so the the request is to look at the CFP accomplishment rate. And together with this efficiency study, look at whether or not rates can further decrease consistent with the timeframe that the council's already identified for for looking at at the rate path. So that's. The over. Arching goals and steps that this amendment to create a new Section seven would accomplish. Very good. This moved in second, and this amendment articulated by Councilmember Herbold or any comments on just the amendment. I'd like to just say thank you. When we start talking about USPI accomplishment rate, I mean, we all are watching closely and very concerned about the cost overruns on several projects and not only the cost overruns in and of themselves, but the processes that lead to them, the whys and. And again, as we work with our utility and it's our utilities of public utility, we have to be that steadfast, I think, in how we approach these issues. So I think this is a really good, good amendment and it's my pleasure in in supporting it. Any further comments on just the amendment? Yes. Yes. Just to clarify, is adding sections seven and eight. My apologies. I did not realize that the second section was incorporated in this amendment. I thought I had gone from potentially three amendments to one, but potentially three of them to two. But it sounds like it's all in one. Okay. So if I could just describe Section eight as well. Yes, please. Fantastic. So section the changes to Section eight are a little bit different than what y'all received via email this afternoon or this morning before noon. What I proposed in that amendment was to actually make a change within the strategic business plan document, and the executive asked that we not do that. Instead, we include this language in the resolution so that they would not have to go through the republishing process. That would. Result in actual changes being made in the in the very large strategic business plan document. So basically what this does, again, it's replicating work that I had the pleasure to do with Seattle Public Utilities and the and my committee members as it relates to system development charges and looking whether or not there is possibility for further increases by making sure that growth is paying for growth and looking that there are these particular types of system development charges relates to customer connections and the fact that some some of these costs are passed on to the general ratepayer rather than to the person who's building the building. And so this is just asking for them to come back to us with a report on how they would go about shifting these practices. There is a nod to their interest in doing it within the strategic business plan. It's just calling it out a little bit more. Very good. Thank you for that explanation. So any other comments on Councilmember Herbert's amendment? Okay. It's been moved in second. And so all those in favor of the amendment please vote I. I opposed. The ayes have it. So Councilmember Herbals amendment has passed as well. Councilmember skater, would you like to describe the legislation as amended a little more? Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. So, again, I want to make sure that everyone has received the comprehensive packet that was compiled by our staff. Michael Maddox thinks that all of his work throughout the last few months here as well, getting us prepared for the strategic plan discussion. As you'll see in this comprehensive packet, we have incorporated various letters from community, from the rate panel, from individuals at Seattle City, like who responded to our requests for information, a question and answer documents, and what you see in front of you as a compiled packet that we are now considering today. I want to thank the specifically the Seattle Satellite Review panel for their work. This is an all volunteer group who was initially tasked with reviewing the original strategic plan and redesign a rate path that was put in front of you. We know that this involved many conversations with the community as well. And I want to thank City Light for your engagement in this effort to be heavily involved in community. This conversation started before I even arrived, and as you will see as an amendment in the packet in front of you, we began receiving letters in the last June of 2017 asking for the Council to consider progressive policies that create more equitable structures so that we can have a city like structure that is well financed and also funded. Any kind of review in a renewed process based on a more equitable structure. As the Chair of the Select Committee, I was happy to receive the draft plan. The second meeting that we had, again, we had three meetings over the last two months and I asked the mayor's office if they would come and do a presentation on how we got where we are, but we received a letter instead. I want to make sure everybody has the chance to receive this. Just a little bit of background for your information on how we received this proposed rate increase and select our strategic plan in front of us. I think that what's been clear, if anybody has had the opportunity, the good fortune, I will say to participate in the conversations that we've had in the select committee, you will hear a renewed sense of oversight, accountability, an interest in working collaboratively to make sure that the rate design mirrors our public utilities needs, and that we're thinking proactively about how we can continue to be the public utility of the green energy economy of the future. What we talked a lot about was making sure that we're reining in cost, that we're looking at oversight and management, that we're creating a workplace environment that promotes equity and safeness. For all those who work at Seattle City Light and for its customers, the rate path has. Receive some attention. And I want to make sure that folks have a clear understanding that the mayor's rate increase does have an impact of about $3.77 a month for the typical resident residential customer. And we know that this will have an impact on some working families and working people, including small businesses. And we're asking for additional feedback and thought about how we can get more folks in the utility discount program as we think about affordability and that we're going beyond that, as we think about greater ways to ensure accountability and oversight. We want to make sure, as Councilmember Herbal, then President Harrell said, that we look at overruns, that we make sure that we don't have 20% overruns or 130% overruns for substations that we find out about after the fact. We want to know about these upfront and be good partners with the public utility and the customers throughout this process. We've made it clear that we want to make sure that our largest and part of the city's overall budget has the oversight it needs, that we have close attention paid to how the utility is running, how workers feel in the workplace, that we're moving forward with good energy economy initiatives, and that we have good governance over the public utility. And I look forward to living and that collaboration that we talk about every day by working together with the rate review panel, with the mayor's office, with the utility, and with the community at large to make sure that we can realize many of the strategic initiatives that are included in this packet. If you have a chance to take a look at the strategic plan, there's four major areas of strategic initiatives. I want to call out just a few, if I might, Mr. President. We talk a lot about affordability, and that includes affordable affordability for residential customers and for small businesses and for large industries. I'm really interested in working with utility as we think more about how we get folks into the utility discount program and the impact that that might have on our rates going forward. We talk a lot about accountability and oversight. I specifically want to draw attention to some of the language that we included in the select committee that I chaired on making sure that we are creating a workplace where people are free of harassment, intimidation, where they don't experience discrimination based on gender or race, and that they also believe that they can excel in the workplace and get promoted and that we've created strategic processes so that we're recruiting more women and minorities and folks from within to move up within the ranks, because we know that these are good living wage jobs in our public utility. We also want to have a clear system in place to manage capital costs, larger capital projects, and ensure that we're catching issues like the overruns that were mentioned before the erupt into overruns and before they're actually noted in the press. I look forward to working with our colleagues here to make sure that we follow through on the customer service initiatives that were really driven by Seattle City life. This came directly from them and some of their internal workings to make sure that they have a better handle on any potential billing errors and that we look at how we implement new technology initiatives in the future. I want to note for the viewing public, if you believe that there is a problem with your bill, make sure you call our office or the number on your bill as the delay is there to help. There has been no rate increases implemented and there will not be the $3.77. You will not see that monthly until 2019. And so if you do believe that you see an increase in your bill, please do call us because we want to make sure that we're addressing any of those overruns now, and that is not related to the strategic plan in front of you. Lastly, I'll just say this. What I'm most excited about in this strategic plan and the accompanying resolution is not just an acceptance of the status quo as it relates to rate design, but that we're actually creating a process led by the review panel in collaboration with the community stakeholders who sent us this letter in June and June of 2017 to work together with the public utility, with the mayor's office, with us as council and with the community at large to address possible rate design changes, to look at progressive rate structures and progressive rate designs. Because in the last two months, we've really talked a lot about rate design, debt service ratio rate classes and rate blocks. And terminology like this can easily exclude many people who aren't living and breathing satellite and public utilities on a day to day basis. Again, I've had the benefit of having folks on central staff and my own staff help walk through the process on how we can actually distill some of these issues so that newcomers to the conversation can be involved. I want to make sure that in the next 12 months, beginning this fall, quarter four, that we're working with the leadership of the of the review panel in collaboration with community partners such as Climate Solutions and our Solar Emerald City. Scott Green, Latino Community Fund. McDonnell Miller, Northwest Energy Coalition. Northwest Energy Efficiency Council. Puget Sound Sage. Robert K Harmon and Company. Washington Conservation Voters. Washington Environmental Council. And so many more. To make sure that our rate design catches up with the modern day needs. As we mentioned, and as the City Light strategic plan mentioned, the rate design has not really been updated since the 1980s. So it's time for us to take a robust look at this. I also want to make sure that folks are clear about the type of impact that this could have with the initial rate that's being proposed. You'll see on this comprehensive packet on pages 32 and 33. Again, for your typical residential customer, we're talking about $3.77 a month. But this is just a placeholder starting position because the review panel is going to come back to the City Council in mid 2019 for considerations for us to take up. That would look at rate design going forward so we could see changes to that process beginning as early as summer next year. So my office will be working hand in hand with you within you and the community, the community at large, the review panel and with the next general manager, with our colleagues, with the Mayor's office to ensure that the utility has the revenue it needs, but that we also rein in cost, that we ensure greater accountability and oversight, and that we continue to grow into the green energy economy that we know we can be. Seattle City Light is the greenest utility in the nation. By 2030, we will have no nuclear energy. We can continue to make great strides on energy conservation by working together and making sure that our public utility remains public and is driven by public priorities. And those who haven't been able to make some of the improvements in their homes or their offices, we want to make sure that you're also able to benefit from green energy conservation strategies and that you see a more equitable and progressive rate design in the future that ensures that all residents can afford to heat their homes or to keep their food cool in the refrigerator, or to make sure that renters aren't overly affected by the fact that they don't have control over their windows or their energy efficiency. Often, I want to make sure that we continue to work to improve our process, but I think that this is a good first start. I think you all see Seattle City Light, the review panel for the community at large who sent the letter in June of 2017 and all of you for participating in the last three months in this process. And I look forward to working with you in 2019 as we consider the recommendations from the review panel. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Kathryn. Mosqueda Any comments? Councilmember. So I want to believe you have a comment. Thank you, Bruno. I want to thank city staff, central staff council senators Jeff, and also those who serve on the City Light panel for the work that has been done year after year. I wanted to thank environmental activists in the city who have over the years pushed for conservation. And you've seen you're seeing some of those impacts to city policy. Over the past several years, I have voted against three large rate increases, and I will be voting no on this resolution also, which will be the basis for a future ordinance on rate increases. There continues to be a structural problem and this is not nothing new with how city lights sets its rates. It's a structure that puts the cost disproportionately on working families rather than on big businesses. And this is especially problematic not only by itself, but also in the context that we have a model where revenues need to be received from ratepayers the same time that the same ratepayers are being told about conservation. And so that is mathematically is it's just not a it's not it's not a program that can work. And it has already shown itself to be quite deficient. Utilities have a process called cost allocation in which they divide customers into clauses and have a formula for deciding which of their costs. Each class is responsible for the result of city lights cost allocation methodology is the average residential customer pays almost twice per kilowatt hour compared to a big business like Nucor Steel. Again, this is nothing new. If you go and watch the Seattle Channel videos, you will have seen me making the same comments for several years. The problem is buried in technicalities, but the solution is not beyond the technical capacity of the city's experts. It's the real question is the of the failure of the political will of elected officials to shift the burden of who pays and making that a priority. My my office headed the Energy and Environment Committee in the past years, and we have discussed the questions of question of rates for City Light a lot. And I have made it clear year after year that I do not support a rate structure that puts the cost rate increases and the cost disproportionately on the shoulders of working families and also those some of the most struggling businesses. In two 2014, my office proposed one solution which which would be to eliminate all the rate clauses if this happened. Residential customers. Would see a rate cut, not an increase. Unfortunately, the majority of the council at that time did not support this. And and if the council today has a desire to support this, then I am happy, more than happy to work on this. At that time, in fact, we requested that we provide council with cost estimates for making this change so the Council can clearly see their choices when voting on the rate bills. But that was never done and that has not been included in this year's strategic plan. Then last year, the Energy and Environment Committee, headed by my office, discussed another solution, which we do include something called the public benefit in the cost allocation structure and applied fairly to all rate clauses. Because utilities are publicly owned utilities, Seattleites are charged less for power than customers of the, you know, profit making utilities and the surrounding region. Like purchasing that difference is a benefit that could be evenly applied to all customers of satellite rather than concentrated in the especially low bills of the largest customers. So as you can see, there are options that we could look at to make satellite bills more equitable. But none of these options have been taken up so far, which is especially galling given how much of satellite's real costs are driven by the changes to the city driven by big business. Amazon's expansion, for example, in Salt Lake Union, has necessitated new substations, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The Alaskan Way Tunnel, which primarily benefits the property values of downtown owners. As for satellite to spend hundreds of millions moving lines. So these you know, these businesses disproportionately benefit from the city's public resources and they also make huge profits. And so in the context of them being the primary beneficiaries, every which way, I think it is absolutely necessary that city council really put the interests of working people first. And it also should be mentioned that many of these businesses were among those who blocked the Amazon docks some months ago, and also they are also the same who don't pay their fair share of city light bills. All of these issues are large structural issues and they are not specific to this or that detail of the strategic plan. They also don't reflect the willingness and commitment of staff at any level. It is a it is a political question of whether or not the city council will fight for a strategic plan that puts the increases rate increases on big business and not on working families. I also wanted to mention one other issue that is not directly related to strategic plan, but is related to City Light and which is the uncharacteristically high utility bills many people are getting. This has been reported in the media. My office continues to hear from constituents both through email and phone who are concerned about this. And I wanted to encourage City Light and Seattle idea to find the root of the problem and look forward to hearing about that. And just lastly, if council members are interested in working together on making the rate structure progressive, then I absolutely welcome that and I'm happy to work on that and look forward to actually making that change. Thank you. Thank you. Comes from our on any ghetto a too. Mr. President. Further comments. I just want to say thank you one more time and I appreciate the interest in working on progressive redesign precisely because of the need to write legislation that makes political steps forward, makes policy change possible. And that is why we have tasked the review panel with coming back to us with recommendations. So this is an ongoing conversation, and I think it's one that will result in a progressive rate structure. My office is always interested in getting edits and amendments so that we can do this all together. And while I understand that we may not have a unanimous vote on this, I look forward to future conversations so that we can have a rate design discussion that is truly reflective of the panel's recommendations that will be coming back to us in the spring. Unfortunately, I just learned about some of the concerns today, but very excited to move forward and ask the design panel in condition in addition to the a dozen or so community partners that I mentioned , environmental activists, low income activists, communities of color activists, and not just advocating for individuals, but directly within the community to come to the table so that we can create a table that equitably hears people and creates design change that is long overdue. Thank you for the comments, Councilman Gonzalez. Thank you, Council President. I just wanted to start off by commending the work of Councilmember Mosqueda, who chaired the Select Committee on the Seattle City Light Strategic Plan. I know it's a highly technical work and very dense and really appreciated an opportunity to attend several of those committee hearings to learn a little bit more about how you were envisioning moving this conversation forward. And I think we've been able to strike a really healthy balance in this resolution, which essentially focuses in on a couple of just from a high level concerns. One is that there is a reality that the cost issues related to capital projects and infrastructure projects that are necessary to Seattle City Lights , ongoing functioning and delivery of service, which the Seattle City Light Review panel acknowledged in their initial letter and I believe it was dated in May. But but the reality is, is that we need to take a look at how the agency, the utility, is forecasting those capital costs to make sure that it is an accurate assumption that we saw that with the advanced metering project, there was a miscalculation in terms of the estimate of those costs. And we need to make sure that there are systems in place to ensure that as the utility is projecting costs related to capital projects, that those costs estimates are reliable, accurate and current so that we add on the City Council as the budget appropriation authority have the best information available to us to continue to support the infrastructure work that is necessary for the utility to continue to do. And it's important for us to make sure that we are being honest and transparent with ratepayers when when mistakes are made so that we don't lose the confidence that we create a clear path forward on how we are going to make sure that this is not going to occur in the future. So this resolution, in my mind, really does address what is the biggest driver of costs at Seattle City Light, which is around the capital cost project. It is. It is it is a reality that the way that that program and those programs are managed right now is resulting in. I think the city light review panel said 48% increase. It represents 48% of the of the increase to the Seattle City Light utility. And so I think I think getting a better sense of how the utility is going to get to get that under control is going to be key to any future decisions on the rate design. And then secondly, the big issue that I think is important is around rate design, obviously. And forecasting in that context was also a significant issue that was highlighted by the review panel that the utility has agreed needs to be tightened up and looked at again. And I think that the reality is, is that that what this resolution has done is doing today is creating a process by which the Utility and city council and the executive can come together with the expertize represented on the review panel to really dig into how to systemically change the rate design at the utility, to be equitable and to be as good steward of taxpayer dollars, and to provide the utility services that our ratepayers expect us to do. And and so I just wanted to sort of frame the conversation in that way, because that's the way I'm viewing this resolution. And I really wanted to just commend you again, because rooms get up for the work that you've done to get us to this point. We went from a letter in May of 2000 and in May from the review panel that was really critical of the proposal that we received at City Council. We went from a very critical toned review panel to a much more positively toned review panel letter that was delivered to us on June 26th of 2018. And I read this part of the excerpt of their letter in committing, and I think it's important to read it here at full council today as well. And they they said in their letter in June of 2018, quote, The issue of rate design was raised at the June 14th Select Council session on the Strategic Plan. We note that rate design is a core part of the review panel's mission approved by the City Council. The nine members of the review panel are prepared to take on that task over the next year. Stakeholder engagement is an important part of rate design, and stakeholder outreach is also part of our mission. Rate design is a challenging. Policy discussion as it is essentially a zero sum game. Any changes to the current design mean some will pay more, while some may pay less. And there is still the issue that Seattle City Lite faces declining demand with a consumption based rate model. Identifying agreed upon principles to guide rate design will be critical. We look forward to engaging with you on that subject. To ultimately be successful, we will need the mayors and councils backing and I think that this resolution is exactly the backing that the review panel is looking for, and I appreciate the opportunity to support this resolution. Very good. Further comments from any of our colleagues. I mean, just say a few words. But Councilmember. O'Brien, you have to say a couple of points. First of all, Councilmember ROSQUETA, thanks for your leadership on all this work. This is complex and really important stuff to get into, and I really appreciate that and I appreciate central staff to be killed off and all the great folks to Seattle citywide for their ongoing stewardship of this public asset. The one thing I want to just reiterate for the public is the importance of conservation in the work that Seattle City Light does. They've been a leader in conservation for decades and continue to be that leader. And as a result, what we see is, despite being one of the fastest growing cities in the country, both in terms of growing employment and people moving here, our load growth is declining, meaning even as the city is growing collectively, we're using less electricity in an individual basis, even more so. And that is in part because of the ongoing investments that the utility and other things that are happening throughout the city allow people to keep their their home, let their business, let their house warm by using less electricity overall. And so when we look at this rate path, what we see is what the actual rates are doing. And I understand why we do that, because the rate is an easy thing to compare from last year to this year, from Seattle to Bellevue or Seattle to San Francisco at the end of the day. What would most consumers really care about is how big their bill is, how big of a check are they riding? And if the rate is going up a little bit because we're making more investments in energy efficiency and the the individuals benefiting from that energy efficiency, whether it's through LED light bulbs or heat pump or whatever it is. And so the bill they're paying at the end of the year is less. And that's what we've seen on an ongoing that energy efficiency is offset a lot of the rate increases. It's a really great thing. And so as we move forward, I think it's really important that we continue to focus on the rates for sure , because that's an important metric, but really prioritize those investments in energy efficiency and what is the net effect to our residential and business customers? Because if they can actually save money through modest investments in energy efficiency, we're all better off. Not even to mention the benefits to the climate and other sources like that. So city like knows this. These guys have done an amazing job on this. And I just want to make sure that we're all staying focused on that piece of the pie, which I think is a really important piece. Thank you. Comes from a Brian said just a few words comes from honorable thank you. I just want to speak a little bit to an action that was taken in committee and I was not there. And my concern about this action is not going to impact my willingness to vote for this resolution today. But there was I just see there's a lot of controversy around the concept of a single. Single rate class rate path. And there was some language that was in the proposed resolution in Section five that was struck in committee. And this. Was carryover. Language from the resolution that had been passed the previous year, Resolution 31, 67, eight. And the work that the council asked in this resolution to be done wasn't done. And I'm just concerned that, you know, even for looking at alternatives that may not be strongly supported by the utility, that when this council asked for that work to be done, it should still be it should still be done. And I'm concerned that simply, you know, not recognizing that, one, the work wasn't done. And to sort of forgiving the utility for not doing the work by simply striking the language, I'm just concerned it creates a bad precedent for. For. The departments, any departments. Obligation to this council to follow through on the work that's requested. And just to for the purposes of knowing a little bit more what I'm talking about, the the amendment language passed in the previous resolution would be that the council requests that city light include with its nest next strategic plan update a report that identifies the impacts on existing customer rate. Classes of establishing. A single rate class while preserving the existing low income discount program. For low income customers. The report. Should identify any legal, technical or practical issues with establishing such a single. Class structure, especially as it. Relates to City Lights franchise agreements with neighboring jurisdictions. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. I'll just say a few words and we could pretty much. Just very briefly thank you for acknowledging that. And I think that as as I learn more about what we would like to see the review panel consider, I would be really interested in working with you to see if we can incorporate that as part of what the panel considers given we've passed them with looking at various rate options. Let's include that back in there. If we could work on that together, I'd love to do that. So thank you for flagging that. So a few ideas. Number one is I think I had the pleasure of chairing this, the utility committee. And I think Tony Kilduff always starts off every chair by saying the same thing. People don't pay rates, they pay bills, and that's what they concern themselves with the most. And I want to thank customers Mr.. For doing the hard work, which is very granular times and making sure that the Select Review Panel has all the information that we have and that the executive has. And by all accounts, I believe they're getting that so such that the utility has opened up the hood. And so to show their soft underbelly to those that are paying rates that are like $1,000,000 a month, bowing as an example and making sure that jobs are depending and are dependent upon a very competitive per kilowatt hour usage rate, whether it's business or residential. And so so thanks for for doing the hard work and making sure that sort of the, the existing ecosystem and how we look at these rates sort of works on this single rate class notion only to take the blame and the credit for talking about that IT committee. No one forgave the utility for not doing it. We just admitted it. I said at the committee and I'll say it now, I just think it's a bad idea. Personally, no utility in the country has one single rate class, and it just seems to me that everything we asked utility to do again results in higher rates, that this is management time, this is operational time. And unless there's some data to suggest this is a path really worth pursuing and there doesn't seem to be any data to suggest that at all. By eliminating that scope of work, we probably could get some very smart people doing some more meaningful activities. And so it wasn't a question of if there's if there's precedent to be set, it's presented look to say we are protecting the ratepayers and our directors. And so I'm very proud of that precedent. But I did suggest we strike that language. It had very little to do with forgiving them and had to do with making sure that they are focused, their resources and attention on at least priorities under the existing council. So that was that discussion was not forgiving. It was in fact, if anything, it was redirecting what they do. Again, this is granular work that has to be done. If you still look at the rates at less than $0.10 per kilowatt hour and you look at the top 25 cities, we are still one of the lowest in the country. And this becomes critically important, as Councilmember O'Brien said, when we look at how much we are pushing conservation. One thing I learned very early in this, looking at the rates is people not only want very competitive rates, very low rates, they want rate predictability. That becomes critical. And so when we look at a rate path that changes the discussion, ten years ago, ten, 11, 12 years ago, there was not this kind of rate assurance of rate predictability. Again, that is a hard work that the utility's doing in conjunction with the executive and the department and the Select Review Panel. But again, if you look at the at the major cities, Seattle remains in one of the like the top three in the country in terms of per kilowatt hour. People are always concerned about outages. Right. And this kind of they're concerned about how we incentivize green buildings. They're concerned about how we subsidize low income. Are people on fixed income. All of these come with a cost as well. So as we continue to talk about low rates and competitive rates, again, we have to make sure that we are using every penny of ratepayer money wisely. And I think that's what this present this plan presents. As so Councilmember said, I want to thank you for this work. And did you want to say anything else before we vote or are we ready? Thank you all for your work. And we know this. There's more there's more to come. So we'll be working on this with the review panel, with the community at large. Thanks again. Okay. Any further comments from our colleagues before we vote? Okay. So those in favor of adopting the resolution as amended, please vote i. I. Those oppose vote. No. No. No. And I believe the motion carries and resolution adopt and Charles, sign it. And that was our last agenda item. Is there any further business cover for the council? Councilmember Johnson. I'd like to ask to be excused on Monday, August the 13th and. August 13th. Very good. It's been moved in second and the council member just be excused for August 13th. Any comments? All those in favor say I. I oppose. The ayes have it. Any further business come up for the council? If not, we stand, adjourn and everyone have a great rest of the afternoon. Thank you.

Amends the Series 1992F and 1992G Airport System Supplemental Bond Ordinances, No. 643 and 644, for the purposes of extending the bond maturity of the Series1992F-G bonds, deferring principal on the 1992F-G bonds, and grants the Manager of Finance the authority to enter into a renewal/replacement structure for the 1992F-G bonds.

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Could you put 828 and 867 on them for final consideration and do pass in a block on the floor. And move that council bills 828 and 867 be placed on final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and seconded. Comments from members of Council. Councilwoman Fox this is the these are the two ordinances I talked about last week that restructure D-I a indebtedness and extend two issues for six more years. And I am not in favor of doing that. You have to pay additional interest on that. And the purpose for doing it gave lopsided help to one airline, I think far more than others. Thank you, Councilman. Thoughts? Do we have any other comments from members of the council? Seen on this is on eight 2867 for final consideration do pass in the block, Madam Secretary, roll call. But no. Carnage. Layman Lopez Montero. Nevitt Hi. Ortega Hi. Rob Shepherd. Sussman. Hi. Brooks. Hi. Brown. Hi. Lopez. Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary. Please, for the vote in the House. The results. 12 one nay, 12. Hours, one nay, 828 and 867 are placed on final consideration. Do pass in a block. Seeing that those were all the bills called out, all the bills for introduction are ordered published and we are ready for the block votes. Councilman Ortega, will you please put the resolutions on the floor for adoption?

A RESOLUTION making a preliminary decision on the University of Washington 2018 Seattle Campus Master Plan.

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The bill passed and the chair will sign it. Please read the next agenda item. Agenda item 25 Resolution 318 39 Making a preliminary decision on the University of Washington 2018. Seattle Campus Master Plans Committee recommends the resolution be adopted as amended. Katherine Johnson Okay, this one I've got a lot of words about. So the Resolution 31839 contains a preliminary decision on the University of Washington master plan. As a refresher, we are at a one spot in a lengthy timeline here for approval of the major institution master plan. It started with the University of Washington preparing a draft master plan, an environmental impact statement for community input. Then they submitted a final version of those two documents. The City University Advisory Committee then produces comments and a report associated with it. The FBI has the Department of Construction and Inspections issued its own recommendations. The hearings examiner then held a hearing and recommended approval with conditions. All of that happened before we then as a committee had a hearing from the that included the University of Washington, the Department of Construction and Inspections, the Community Advisory Committee, and the parties of record that appealed the decision of those hearings. Examiner. After all of that public hearing, we then took a look at different conditions. We adopted 13 amendments to the plan last Wednesday, as follows Those amendments require the University of Washington to provide 300 units of affordable housing 80% ami on top of the 150 units that are conditioned by the hearings. Examiner. The other opposes this condition and argues the city lacks the authority to require housing, but has voluntarily agreed to 150 units. We asked for a reduction of the service goal rate from 15% to 12% in 2028, with interim goals tied to the opening of light rail stations. We included parking associated with residence halls and a cap on parking spaces and removed minimum parking requirements from residence halls with lowered the parking cap from 12,300 spaces to 9000 spaces, which was a part of incredibly wonderful, esoteric conversation about how you can cap something in 9000 spaces when there are already exists more than 1000 spaces. We included showers and other park bike parking facilities as part of the the draft recommendations. Trail widening and pedestrians operations along the Gilman Trail as development occurs along the trail. We exempted child care space. On the gross floor area cap maintain the current zone height limit on W 22 supported the use of priority hire and contracting exempted space for small businesses from the gross gross floor area. Cap. Encourage the incorporation of diversity in retail ownership on campus. Encourage the use of best management practices for reducing stormwater runoff and ask the University of Washington to negotiate an updated City University agreement. Should my colleagues agree that this monumental amount of work is acceptable to them and we pass this resolution today? The resolution then goes to the parties of record for a 30 day comment period, followed by 14 days of replies. Those parties of record include the Department of Construction and Inspections, the University Board of Regents, as well as all of the individuals and organizations that appealed to parties of record in front of the hearings. Examiners. The those bodies all get to make comments on our resolution. And then in December, we will discuss any comments that we've received and discuss whether or not we would like to pass an ordinance that reflects any changes based on the comments that we've received. Likely sometime after the first of the year. Please remember that this is a quasi judicial matter. So the appearance of fairness rules apply and the council rules related to experts. The community location continue to apply even after we passed the resolution today. But just because we are here doesn't mean that we're at the end, that there's more work to come. And at this point, why don't I pause? Because that was a good five straight minutes of opening remarks. Thank you, Katherine Johnson. The floor is open for remarks on the resolution dealing with the master plan. Councilmember Herbold and looks like I would. Say make it really, really short. Specifically, as it relates to the recommendations from the University District Alliance for Equity and Livability, one of the parties of record on at least at least two of the elements that Chair Johnson reviewed, specifically the elements related to small businesses and the element related to the need to address child care within the context of the master plan. We made some proposals for a strategies that were really not there aligned in the goals but not aligned in the methods as was recommended by by the alliance and and cookout. So I'm really eager to get to this next stage of the process so we can actually hear in a way that's consistent with the quasi judicial process, whether or not those are good approaches to address those needs, because I really have no idea. Very good. Any other comments before we vote on the resolution or concern? Just good. Closes out comes from Brian. Just say briefly thanks, Councilmember Johnson for all your work on this. Obviously a lot of staff support. I really appreciate this western's help on that, too. There's still a few months of work to go here, but it's a good benchmark I think we're clearing here. Very complex and important stuff working through. And really, I'm pleased to support this resolution and hopefully some version similar in the ordinance in a few months. There between his work on the convention center and then straight from the convention center here and to the major institution master plan list. Woodson has been a busy dude the last couple months. I'd like to briefly say thanks to no on from my office who's helped shepherd a lot of this stuff across the finish line. And, you know, we've had a lot of incredible conversations about the university district over the last couple of years between implementation of the mandatory housing affordability program that neighborhood design guidelines will get next year. And then also just generally a lot of transportation dollars that are being invested in the neighborhoods. So a lot of really great things that are happening there, a changing neighborhood that's growing. And this is going to be a critical piece to that growth and looking forward to continuing those conversations once we hear back from the parties of record after the first of the year. Very good. Any further comments? Okay. Those in favor of adopting the resolution please vote i. I. Those oppose vote no. The motion carries. The resolution is adopted and chair will sign it. Okay. Please read items 26 and 27 together.

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $1,500, offset by $1,500 of Ninth Council District One-time District Priority Funds transferred from the Citywide Activities Department to provide a donation to Long Beach Blues Society, in the amount of $500; Kahlo Creative LLC, in the amount of $1,000; and Decrease appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $1,500 to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.

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Mix item is for transfers items 33 and you business 52 to 58. Communication from Vice My Richardson recommendation to increased appropriations in the General Fund Group by 1500 to provide a donation to Long Beach Blues Society and Carlo Creative. Item 53. 52. Communication from Councilwoman Price recommendation to accept and expend grant funding from the Port of Long Beach and increase appropriations in the General Fund group by 6000 to support the annual community concert hosted at Marine Stadium Park. Item 53 Communication from Councilwoman Sara Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund group by $400 to provide a contribution to the local Heart's Foundation. 11th Annual Diamond Christmas Toy Drive. Item 54 Communication from Councilwoman Sara Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund group by $400 to provide a contribution to California Families in Focus for the 18th Annual Spirit of Christmas Brunch. Item 55. Communication from Councilwoman Zendejas. Councilman Supernova. Sara Richardson. Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund group by $500 to support the Lutheran Social Services of Southern California Holiday Toy Drive. Item 56 Communication from Councilwoman Zendejas. Councilman Supervisor Richardson. Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund group by $1,000 to support the Philippine Independence Day Foundation Paw Patrol Lantern Festival. Item 57 Communication from Councilwoman Zendejas recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund group by $2,500 to support the Kahlo design. Long Beach International Tamales Festival. An Item 58 Communication from Councilwoman Zendejas recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund group by $1,250 to support the Washington Neighborhood Association Holiday Plaza. That is the end of the phone transfers. Thank you. I don't see any public comment on any of those. No comment on those items. And so we have all the items written to the record. And you have a motion in a second. Unless Councilwoman Price or Vice Mayor, which don't have any comments, I'm going to go and I'll call for a vote. Please cast your votes. And so we price. Motion is carried.

AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending Seattle Municipal Code (SMC) Sections 23.55.002, 23.55.003, 23.55.005, and 23.84A.036; and adding new SMC Sections 23.55.052, 23.55.054, 23.55.056, 23.55.057, 23.55.058, and 23.55.060; to establish a sign overlay district and sign regulations for the Seattle Center, including regulations for subareas containing the Seattle Center Arena and the Bressi Garage block.

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The bill passes and the chair of Senate. Please read the next agenda item. Agenda Item six Council 119 543 relating to Lenny since any amending seven sometimes because sections 23.50 5.002.003.005 and 23.84 8.0 36. To add new assembly sections 23.50 5.0 52.00. 54.0. 56.0. 57.0. 59.0 62. Subject Design Overlay Districts and sign regulations for the Sale Center, including regulations for sub areas containing the Seattle Center area excuse me, arena and the brassy garage block. The committee recommends the bill passed as amended. Thank you very much. So this last piece of legislation is basically creating what we call the sign overlay district, and by that it amends the land use code to define a sign overlay district that basically provides the tailoring of the sign code provisions at the Seattle Center. The both the developers and city leaders and those sort of vested in the project believe this is absolutely necessary incident and sort of a catalyst for wayfinding and for the creation of vibrancy in the Seattle center. And so the signage which do illuminate but they're not like Las Vegas type signs but are necessary for wayfinding and again , creating the vibrancy that we want to see at Seattle Center Arena. We had a robust conversation, I thought, at the committee table, and there was some concern by both the design commission and some folks testified about sort of a be careful approach or whether this is the best approach. But we heard, I thought from the executive and the department some fairly compelling testimony in terms of how they limit the use of signs. There's actually a total reduction of the amount of signage by 2000 square feet that was allowed in the original lease, the hours that science could be illuminated, etc. all seem to be reasonable and as determined by the committee. And so this justice, this legislation was overwhelmingly passed out of committee. And we think it's the wise way to go. Any questions or comments with that? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Mr. O'BRIEN. Hi. Pacheco. Hi. So one big John Gonzalez Herbold President Harrell. I. Eight and favorite on a. Post please call off the bill passed and Cheryl sign it please read the report The Civic Development Public Assets and Native Communities Committee.

Recommendation to: (1) Receive a presentation on the Proposed Long Beach Recovery Plan, provide input and policy direction, and approve the Long Beach Recovery Plan and its priorities to address the public health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic utilizing Federal, State, and County relief funding, with approval subject to confirmation of compliance with American Rescue Plan Act regulations, when issued, with direction to return to the City Council if there are required material changes; (2) Adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute all Block Grant award documents on behalf of the City of Long Beach (City), and any documents necessary including necessary amendments, to accept State Emergency Rental Assistance Program funding for the City’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program; (3) Increase appropriations in the Community Development Grants Fund Group in the Development Services Department in the amounts of $13,754,734 for the Federal Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) and $16,404,412 for the State ERAP, for a total amount of $30,159,146, to provi

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Okay. Thank you. And item 15, please read. Adam, 15, is a report from City Manager Recommendation to receive a presentation on the proposed Long Beach Recovery Plan Adobe Resolution to execute our BLOCK Grant Award documents on behalf of the city. Increase appropriation in the Community Development Grants Fund Group and in the Health Fund Group and approve the Economic Recovery Strategy Report citywide. Well, thank you. I'm going to go ahead and begin by more briefly giving an overview of the Long Beach Recovery Act. Broad proposal and one that we gave last week. And then we're going to turn this over to our city manager, who will then be giving the staff report, which is most of the details around the Recovery Act report. And then, of course, we will go to any public comment and, of course, the motions in the council and go and go from there. So I'm going to go ahead and start us off now. Let me just start by saying that the Long Beach Recovery Act is probably one of the most significant pieces of legislation and proposals that we've had in front of this body and certainly in the last few decades. It's an opportunity for us with a significant amount of federal funds, to make a bold impact on the future of our city. We know what that this crisis is, and it is the most difficult challenge that we have ever faced. Next slide, please. I'm going to have to ask the court to do the slides so we know that we are facing this enormous COVID 19 challenge, the biggest loss of life we have ever had in the city of Long Beach. And certainly for us, it's also been very tragic. We have now almost going to be at 900 lives that we have lost. That's more than the earthquake. That's more than any year of violence. And that has brought us with a very serious challenge and one that this this body has to take up and has to take up take it up in a way that is that is serious and that is important. Let me let me go ahead and just note that the city itself in your next slide has done an incredible job of response. We've tested two 5000 people a day. I mean, hundreds of thousands of tests. Hospitalizations are down, of course, which has been great, and our positivity rate is lowered. So all our response has been fantastic. Next slide. And so now we have a real plan in front of us. And as we go into that plan, we have a national model and vaccinations currently in place. The fact that we're almost 70% of our seniors vaccinated, which is higher than Orange County in L.A. County and our partners, and we have had so many firsts around teachers and vaccinated people, disabilities. It's really been a model and our health department is in a fantastic job of leading these efforts. Next slide. And so we have in front of us is the Limbic Recovery Act. And initially, of course, this was a $207 million plan. There's an additional 12 million, which I'm going to talk about here at the end. And we've divided these buckets up into three areas. It's economic recovery, healthy and safe community and securing our city's future. And I want to start our next slide with economic recovery. Let me just begin by acknowledging kind of where where economic recovery actually comes from. The city council actually took action on an economic recovery plan late last year. The Economic Development Committee, I believe Vice Mayor Richardson was chair at the time with that committee, began that process in the community. And then as Councilwoman Mongeau became chair just recently, she also helped lead efforts with within within within this current year by attending a variety of groups as has been involved other members of the committee. But believe it or not, our economic recovery efforts there has been probably close to 20 or more roundtables and groups of businesses and nonprofits and folks engaged. And so I do want to thank both the former chair of the committee and the current chair of the committee for all their work on on this piece of the plan. And it's and it's robust and includes a lot of the work of the other committee members and the full council. Quite frankly, in this in this plan, there's, of course, money for for testing and contract tracing. Next slide. We have all the investments have already been made by the council, the restaurants and breweries. The personal services were adopted. We cut more and more money for nonprofits and arts. There's moneys for future which have been important to so many of you on on for businesses and nonprofits. Business Improvement District, which are so important to us, are receiving additional support and additional money for tourism so we can get folks back into our hotels, back into our driving that economy that's so important for economic recovery. Next slide, there's support for economic inclusion work, which this council has been really focused on economic empowerment zones with a lot of conversation around what those could look like. We talked about the Mercato a few a few weeks ago. We've talked about other zones across the city, maybe north Long Beach, Central, that can really bring some of these zones together. Small business development is in this plan, the digital divide. And, of course, additional support for our youth. Our next slide and also in this economic recovery work, something that I'm pretty really very passionate about is this includes a significant amount of resources for a major clean Long Beach initiative. We have to recognize that during the pandemic, we have not been at full speed when it comes to cleaning up. People produce more trash in their homes, 25% more in their own homes. There are trash folks have had to pick up. We have a lot more debris in the community. And so this will allow us to double down on graffiti and trash abatement, invest in quarter cleanups, get our business areas looking, looking sharp, and really focus on the loose, clean team programs that we have. And so that's, I think, something that is really critical for us. Moving on to the next section of the plan is really are healthy and safe community resources. Nothing more important than having a healthy and safe city. And we, of course, again, have money for for the health work and then money for so many of the programs so many of you've been advocating for. I mean, we've heard consistently for. From Councilman's in Dallas and in Councilman SA about health equity and reaching out to communities that are impacted. And you see that here. You see mental health programs that so many of you have advocated for that is also here and that we've heard from the community. Our next slide. And then around food security and basic needs. I know that. I mean, Vice Mayor Richardson, you talked a lot about the needs of the funding on basic needs. But we heard this from all of our churches, from our community members. How much how much people are suffering on issues around hunger or access? We have support for truly early childhood education and child care. Again, something that a lot of you have advocated for, particularly in the last few days. Councilman Allen, I know you've been very vocal on that issue and intended assistance for not just for for for tenants to ensure that they don't get evicted and have money to bridge the rent, but to ensure also that the folks that that are housing providers and landlords can actually pay the mortgage. So they're able to actually take care of their mortgages and take care of those important payments. So those are all really, really critical. I want to talk about next slide about people experiencing homelessness. And these are some of the items that we have some additional support from direct allocation, by the way, from the American Recovery Act to get new modular temporary shelters, additional housing options, outreach showers, all the things that we've been asking for in our homelessness work. Next slide. And then I think something that's also really exciting, a lot of programs around violence prevention. So I think one thing we have to recognize as a city is that the pandemic has increased violence not just in Long Beach, but in cities across the country. Kids are in school, more people are unemployed, less people are out on the street. A lot of loss opportunity for folks. That has created opportunities for there to be increased violence within the city. And so part of our recovery has to be making the city safe. And a lot of that are going to be kind of doubling down on our be safe programs. I mean, Councilmember, your engagement engagement supportive of those in the past? Councilmember Austin. I bring up in a basketball court. It's been a big something. You've also brought up a lot in the past, but all these programs that were that are here and are listed are things that a lot of us have been have been talking about and are part of the violence prevention safe city piece. And I want to turn to the last piece that is really, really critical, and that's securing our city's future. I can't tell you how important this part is for our recovery. I want to start by saying that the fact that and I want to thank everyone that's been involved in the budget process currently in in the past . Former budget chair Mungo current budget year Austin. The members of that committee the fact that we are going to able to we drew down our reserves because we had the money there we didn't spend our reserves. There are councils and cities across the country that spend their reserves. Any given year that we saved our reserves and actually saved it for an emergency is really, really important. And so we we can respond to the emergency because we had the reserves to do so. And now part of his plan is to replenish that for the next pandemic or the next natural disaster. And so this is critical for us to do is to not spend this money on programs, but to put this money into the reserves. So I want to also talk on this reserve issue, and I want to thank Councilwoman. Councilwoman Price. She has been also a strong advocate for the preservation of reserves. And I want to thank her again and know her and I've been talking about this over the course of the last few weeks. Moving on. Also, if I can have everyone else mute their. I think. Thank you. Next, I want to talk about the deficit. We just heard a budget presentation. We we have been expecting a deficit in the budget. We don't want to be having debates about what we're going to cut in a year that we need to rebuild. And so instead of having conversations about which library is going to get cut or what street, what streets we being service we're going to dial back on or what park we're not going to be able. Eliminate that deficit that was caused in large part due to COVID, due to a decrease in revenues, and really double down on recovery, which is what we're trying to do. And the last piece of the plan is really about after losing our employees. We have we have when you tie this furlough elimination, where with our removing the deficit, we can focus on programs that are important, on public safety, on fire and customer support. Now has been a strong advocate for ensuring your fire safety programs are in place and furloughs will allow us to bring people back and to get our resources back to where they need to be and get people back to work. So our employees deserve to get back to work and the city deserves to have that support in place. So that's a big overview. I'm going to now turn it over to our city manager. If we're going to go into specifics in all the areas. This is a a a hardy presentation, but also one I hope we consider the amount of money that's in here is is significant. And it's almost like a mini budget that we're getting on top of an event of a normal year. So thank you. Let me turn it over to our city manager. We're going to get into the details of the recovery proposal. So. Mr. MODICA. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So we'll be bringing up a presentation. I think the mayor did a great job, given the overview, and I'll try not to be too repetitive and kind of take a deeper dove into some of the specific programs. So I really encourage the public to take a look at the full plan. We've certainly done some summaries, but there's a lot of work that our city team has put together. Can we get the presentation of police and has really done some thought about how best to help our economy, to help our businesses, to help our residents , and also make sure that we're not in cutting critical city services at the same time. So as we pull up the presentation here, it's great. So in terms of where we are, our team's done an amazing job with COVID 19 response. We are testing. We have the ability now to test up to 5000 people. We've performed more than 725,000 tests. As the mayor mentioned, our hospitalizations are down 86% and our positivity rate is down as of today to 2%, which is one of the lowest you've ever had on record, compared to a high of about 17.4% during the pandemic. We have done 160,000 vaccine doses administered citywide. Over 68% of our seniors have been vaccinated. And we were one of the first in every category where the state allowed us to vaccinate. We were one of the first, if not the first in the state to do educators, to do school staff, to do emergency workers, to to do people with disabilities, people with underlying health conditions. And so Long Beach has really been a leader in the vaccination arena. The reason we're in front of you tonight is the council gave us some very clear direction in December to basically get ready to develop an economic recovery strategy, knowing that city dollars were going to be coming and that we really needed to have a plan. And so we did some economic studies as well, getting real economic data, five different studies utilizing our CARES Act funding. We went out to the community over about six weeks with 30 intense community listening sessions, contacted over 350 community leaders and representatives to really listen about what is needed through this pandemic and how we can recover. And then we had very good input from our Economic Development and Finance Committee and our WHO and who attended a lot of these meetings as well, and also gave specific committee input. And then we also had a hearing last week by the Federal Legislative Committee, where we also took some additional public testimony before we got here tonight. So what did we hear out in the community? We heard a number of things. These are summarized here. One, we heard the importance of service sector vaccinations about how in order for people to rebound quickly economically, we need to really be vaccinating that sector as soon as the state allows us to. We heard that, you know, people will trust to come back to businesses when they feel healthy, when when they're safe . And we really need to focus on public health. We know that our community based partnerships can really help us as as the government. It can't do it all alone. We need those partnerships. Business is asked to really restore trust, to create a defined set of rules so that they're not opening and shutting and opening and shutting based on case rates, but that they can plan for the future. We very clearly heard about the need for both tenant and property owner assistance. We heard that we should be making needs based decision making and really studying the data that businesses and residents need revenue generation to be able to thrive. That we should be looking as we spend our our federal dollars and our local dollars to be as inclusive as possible through our procurement processes, that we should be efficient and we should cut any red tape, and that we should really not just start from scratch, but be incorporating all of our past plans and all that great work that we've done over the past couple of years. And so throughout this whole plan, we really have grounded it in equity. We know that there are historic economic and health inequities that have exacerbated COVID 19 and the impact on our community, and that we really need to focus our resources on the areas of the community that are most impacted by the pandemic. We have to protect public health and relaunch our service sector, and we want to create a more prosperous, resilient and inclusive local economy for everybody. And really build that economic foundation for the next generation of residents so that they can compete. We also know that the things we do in one area of the plan need to be correlated and intersect with the other areas of the plan, and that we have disparate impacts across all communities and that we are really trying to create that intersectionality and have those impacts on the pandemic really be thought through and then addressed through our programs. And so the programs you see tonight are not independent strategies, but rather are a coordinated approach to support that long lasting economic recovery and equity in public health. And of course, we know that there's other programs out there, lots of federal and state programs. So we want to try to avoid duplication. If through these processes, we learn that there's a program that's doing one that we were going to do as well. We'll be coming back to you to adjust and make sure that we're doing this effectively. Foundational to the plan is also language access. We know that we need to communicate with our community in the language that they're most comfortable in and can communicate back to us. And that in means that we're doing multi-language translation, that we're having interpreters that can really speak well and understand our community and also help explain the concepts of city government in in a way that is coherent and, and really impactful. And so in every single program, we have included a language access component. So you won't see a line item in the staff proposal for just one line item on language access. It is really embedded in everything that we are doing. And so we also are really paying attention to those existing city plans as council did a lot of work through racial equity reconciliation, through our economic development plan, our everyone home task force, our, you know, everyone in play on digital inclusion. And so our team, as we were putting together these proposals, really looked at all of those plans and those objectives and tried to move those forward with the dollars that we have available. So the dollars that we have, we had estimated in our city staff report last week about 207 million. And as the mayor mentioned, we are now up at about 235 million across three different funding sources. So those funding sources, the first one is the American Rescue Plan Act, which is 178 million, which has now been signed by the president. We expect 153 million in flexible city funding in the original staff report that was at 141 million. So tonight, we're looking for additional council direction on that $12 million increased 12.35 million. We have a dedicated tranche of 10 million for homeless services and prevention and then a dedicated amount of approximately $15 million for our airport to help pay for operations and debt service. The funding is fairly flexible, but not infinitely flexible, and the eligible uses are the following responding to the emergency and addressing the economic impacts, responding to workers, performing essential work, providing government services address affected by that revenue reduction resulting from COVID, and then making infrastructure investments in the areas of water, sewer or broadband infrastructure. We expect the money to be 50% will come within 60 days of enactment and then the other 50% will come 12 months later. And it all needs to be spent by December 31st, 2024. And so the mayor mentioned the additional $12 million and we had put out a memo to you. And I think we're going to hear some direction from the council tonight. And there's also a letter from the mayor with some additional proposals, areas for the council to consider. So a couple other funding sources. We have our emergency tenant assistance program of about 30 million. The council saw this about a month ago, and we have not yet launched the programs that we are including this into the program because this is really a big part of our response. And then we also have negotiated with the county about $26.7 million of their share of public health funding. This is called epidemiology and laboratory capacity money. It can only be used really for those functions, including testing, data collection, workforce capacity and as our epidemiological arm of the health department. So the three areas are economic recovery, health and safe community and securing our city's future. So the first in the area of economic recovery, unemployment is it continues to be troubling. It was almost as high as 30% during COVID. It is now at about 12.1% and it is up significantly from just before the pandemic at 4%. And we know that it's had unequal impacts on our low income workers, on business owners and service sectors, and that to be successful, we really need to address those economic inequities. These are the categories, and the mayor talked a little bit about those, so I'll just dove right in. So in the area of public protection for businesses and nonprofit at 13 million, that's that county money. In order for businesses to be successful, they need to be COVID free or as free as possible. So we're going to be providing free COVID testing, will provide free contact tracing, will be able to go out to businesses and do if there's a hotspot, be able to do the investigation and make sure that we're addressing that as quickly as possible. The biggest category that we heard from the economic from the business community was that of that section, the vast majority should go to direct business support, which is exactly what we've done. It's about $25 million. These include things like $5 million to restaurants, bars and breweries, $5 million for personal services, including fitness and personal care services like hair salons and others that were impacted. We have direct funding for administrative support grants for our nonprofits of $3 million. We're going to be doing fee waivers of three and a half million dollar program to be able to waive some of the city fees based on need. Our business improvement districts are a huge part of our plan at $2 million. They did amazing work with the CARES Act, dollars of a million. And so we're doubling that. We also want to make sure we're getting back to marketing ourselves and bringing back customers. And so our CVB will be assisting with that at $1.25 million. Those are just some examples of the of the projects there that will be funding. Under the area of economic inclusion, $7.5 million. That's this, you know, another huge category of this plan. And so we're looking at digital divide, $2 million for both resident and commercial sectors combine to really address being able to get online, to get computers , to be able to run both businesses and access services for residents. We're going to be funding our economic and digital inclusion coordination programs at $450,000. We've got economic empowerment zones where we can really do a focused approach on areas that need additional economic assistance at two and a half million dollars. And we're looking at service worker programs, customer protection programs, youth workforce development programs, and the list goes on and on. We want to really invest. As the mayor said, in our clean city, we've seen a huge increase of trash and also impacting our ability to really address that as our workforce was affected by COVID. And so for $5 million, we're going to create an aggressive, multi-year strategy to expand our illegally dumped items, our collection crews, special collection programs. We're going to have dedicated groups that can go up and down our commercial corridors and do litter abatement in order to make sure those customer those quarters look great as our customers come into them. And we also want to help our partners. Both Caltrans and L.A. County have really struggled on keeping their areas clean. And so be able to, as the council directed, take over some of those areas that make sense for us while they do the others and provide some assistance there through. In my view, we want to also support our businesses through technical assistance and keep our business best care call center. Our pop up service centers provide that technical assistance and also fund economic equity analysis to really be informed by data. The next big category is health and safety community. Healthy and safe community. Excuse me. And so before I get into the dollars here, I really want to just show some of the impacts. And we know that are disadvantaged communities or minority communities have been impacted at a significantly higher rate than our white and our affluent communities. And so I just want to underscore that you see the data here. For the example, for example, in our Latino population, the cases are two and 2.7 times higher. Hospitalizations, 3.3 times higher deaths are 2.9 times higher. In the black population, it's 1.4 times higher for our cases through 2.3 times higher for hospitalizations, deaths, or 1.8% or two times higher. So there really isn't an equity in the way that COVID affects our communities, and we want to be very intentional about that in our response. So these are the major categories in healthy and safe community, and we'll dove into those a little deeper. Our residents, just like businesses, need access to free testing, contact tracing, education funding, community partners to be able to go out and speak about the importance of COVID 19 protections and getting tested and so and funding that in different languages. And that county grant is going to help us with that. These funds can't currently be used for vaccine administration, but we're really going to press the federal government to allow us to do that, if at all possible. We know that basic needs is one of the biggest areas that just the ability to call somebody and ask where they can get food, where they can get meal and grocery delivery, how they can get access to senior services, how we can support, you know, our youth as well. And so in this area, we're going to be looking at $4 million for food security. A right to counsel program and housing support in the area in the amount of $900,000 older adult supports and supporting our seniors through mental health and those types of programs. That $800,000. The next category is physical and mental health equity. $5.3 million to create dedicated health equity fund to fund direct grants to nonprofits. We are going to do this based on data. It's going to help us with physical and mental health services. This is where we'll do Latino health programs. This is what we'll do dedicated black health programs. We'll work on programs in the Asian Pacific Islander community, Cambodian community. And we're really going to be leaning into our nonprofit partners to support us with that. We'll also create a $900,000 promoter, a community health worker program, which the council is going to talk a little bit later tonight about people who are able to go out into communities and be trusted community partners to really reach those hard to reach communities. And then we want to provide ongoing mental health awareness and capacity resources as well. We know how important childhood education is and child care support. So there's $2.1 million in this category to both offer supplies and developmental services to expand child care, creating 28 additional slots at the with the west facility of the health department, and also to enhance some of our library programs that deal with bilingual parent engagement. We all know that we've seen an increase in violent crime, not just in Long Beach, but throughout the country. And, you know, we we are concerned about that. And we want to make sure that while our police department is responding and doing everything that they do when there's an increase in violent crime, there were also investing long term in creating programs for our youth. This includes creating new park programing and teen centers, doing B safe type programs. We want to invest in youth health and safety programs like Midnight Basketball and potentially even a police athletic type league program, gym operations, virtual recreation programing, mobile recreation programing. We also have a community interventionist program currently going on in Washington neighborhood that we want to roll out citywide. We also are looking at reentry programs, pilot programs, where we have people coming back out of incarceration that need to get integrated into society and start on a better life. In the area of homelessness, we have $12 million. One of the most exciting programs here is creating tiny homes, 50 modular units that we would set up a lot of them at the Multi-Service Center to create actual housing opportunity right there for temporary housing. We would also want to use some of this money to partner on all of our different assets, whether we're buying additional hotels or we're expanding some of our of our shelter spaces. And we have some flexible dollars there. We also need additional motel vouchers for clients who, you know, we see at the mercy. And we want to get into an immediate housing option. We want to expand our mobile outreach so that we have two mobile outreach stations, something we've never had before. So we have the MSI, and then we'll create basically mobile nurses staffed with a combined six outreach workers for case managers and partner agency representatives that can even be open when the MSI is closed. We're going to support our Heart program, which is being reformed with public health nurses and mental health supports. And we also want to bring mobile showers and restrooms out to encampments so that we can address their services there and help get them services right on scene. And we also want to really address the the people who are not quite who are done with the permanent supportive I'm sorry, with temporary housing, but aren't quite ready for Section eight housing and address that gap and create supportive housing services for that interim bridge. The mayor mentioned tenant assistance. That's $30 million. And the council has directed us to move forward on this. We're going to be launching it in the next probably 2 to 3 weeks. And what we're looking to do is basically help pay 80% of past due directly to a landlord, if that landlord agrees to forgiving remain and the remaining 20%. We'll provide additional details on this specific program as we roll it out. But this is going to be the biggest tenant assistance program we've ever had in our city's history. And it's going to help a lot a lot of people. So the last category is securing our city's future. As we've talked about, COVID 19 has caused severe impacts to our city budget, and we ended Fy20 with that $21 million shortfall. For the first time that we can remember. We've had to draw down on both our operating and our emergency reserves. And we also had some pretty significant department cuts. And our staff took up to 26 days of furloughs, you know, for the 21 fiscal year. So all in all, all of our reserves from all of our different funds has been about $48 million that we have either draw down or would project to draw down in FY 21. And so I strongly recommend that we use this money to replenish those reserves to be ready for the next emergency. We also want to make sure that we're not impacting our residents with through additional service reductions. And so our plan, as long as the federal funds can be used for this, is to use $30 million to balance the Fy22 budget for one year so that we don't have to take those significant reductions in the middle of a pandemic. Also to return our staff so that they can be at full strength to serve people, and so that we would be meeting, conferring, to eliminate those staff furloughs and then make sure that we're and that we're preparing ourselves for the future. We know that there's additional funding out there, that the money that we've outlined here is just the direct allocation. We're still going to be very aggressive in addressing any other pot of money that can help us. There's specific money for vaccines, about $16 billion in grants to health departments that we'll be able to pursue. We also know there's tenant and homeowner assistance. There is emergency rental assistance, help with utility payments, homeowner assistance to prevent mortgage defaults, foreclosures and housing loss. There's also childcare grants that are out there that we're going to pursue as well. Another big component that is coming up is funding infrastructure and it's called the big back build back better plan, excuse me. And so we are preparing right now a list of infrastructure projects that we're going to be pursuing to really both kickstart our economy, invest in our infrastructure and create jobs. And so tonight we're asking the council to provide input. This is really your plan. Staff have created our best recommendations, but it needs to be a document that the Council is very comfortable with and gives us that high level programmatic overview of where you want to invest these dollars. Couple of other quick things. Just please remember, we must really wait for that official guidance. We have some general outlines of what we think the money can be used for, but we expect in the next 60 days to get specific regulations and that we really should not be committing these dollars to anything that we can't undo before before those regulations are out, so that we know that everything that we're planning to do is going to be supported by the dollars. There are some risk areas, so we don't quite know whether restoration of reserves or services is consistent with revenue reduction. We believe that is the case. And so we'll be looking for confirmation there and also that, you know, some of the uses of funds, you know, may or may not be eligible, depending on how narrowly or broad the regulations are written. And we're hoping it's going to be very broad. I strongly encourage the council and the community to think of this money like a two year grant. It really isn't money that we can use to expand services long term because it's not going to be here for very long. And so we really should be thinking of these about two year grants. So any staff positions you see being proposed are really funded for two years and then they would go away. And that's because the City Council's fiscal policies prohibit that, which is a good, sound financial policy. And so the next steps really would be that once we get your approval for these larger plans, staff will really get into the detail of creating specific program budgets. To come back to you with how much staff we're going to need, what are the contracts we're going to be looking for? How are we going to support our nonprofits and ask them to help do that work? What are the individual line items for each one of those buckets and start to create those both outreach plans and the ability for people to apply. This is going to be an incredible undertaking. And as you mentioned, we have, you know, very, very limited staff resources left. So this is going to become one of the big things that we do because of its importance. But it does mean that we're going to have less ability to do other types of projects out there. But this you know, we clearly are going to be staffing up as well with some of these dollars. So I know that was a long presentation. We actually have a lot more detail in the documents. We have all of our team here who helped create all this work and they'll be available for questions and just thank you council for trusting us to bring you a recommended plan. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to really get back on our feet. I think our approach has been intentional. It's been listening to everything you've been saying for the past year about your needs and what you're hearing from your community. And we hope that we've met your your goals and objectives, and we look forward to the changes you're going to make tonight. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Want to go ahead and just add a few things and then we will turn this over to the Council on the Public. So let me just also add, I think Tom alluded to this. It is there when we when the plan was originally being developed, we took a conservative approach to how much money we thought we would have in the plan. There ended up being an additional $12.3 million that when the final bill was signed. We're in that plan for Long Beach. And so I think you'll probably all have a memo that was sent earlier today that outlines some broad strokes and some areas of where there could be need for for those resources. And I want to just kind of list those for the public since they weren't part of the formal presentations. For the additional 12.35 we've got. I propose on the economic recovery section an additional $2 million for micro and public transit pilot programs. That is a program that's been brought that the council has adopted but has not been funded. And I want to thank Councilwoman Price for her advocacy on that program. There's an additional $2 million for direct income pilots. These are happening now everywhere. The state is funding some. The feds are to our ability to micro target communities that need additional direct direct income support. So that's very supportive of that. There's an additional 1.25 million for economic empowerment zones, and most of you've been already advocating for these, but it allows us to grow that pot of money so we can really have some great zones. I know I've been talking to Councilman Austin for particularly his interest around the African-American Cultural Center and the Mercato, which I know has been brought up and so many others that are out there. And so this gives us an opportunity to increase that economic empowerment zone opportunity. There's an additional 1 million for child care in early childhood. Add in here that under the healthy and safe community, there's an additional $5 million on housing support, which is really the big need right now in the city, particularly around down payment assistance, which would be a big chunk of that which I think we all have talked about, is getting First-Time Homeowners the ability to buy their first home in Long Beach. And that's something that's missing in the plan, particularly want to think. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I know you brought that to the council last year. That was supported by all of us. We've all been kind of talking about that, that as a as an initiative. And the idea of beginning a public land trust, I think is very exciting. Also also in here and some rental housing navigation and then and then some other items. Councilmember Durango, Councilwoman Price, others have talked a lot about libraries and the item that just came forward. And of course, from your wrangling, you've always talked about eliminating library fees year after year. So we also set aside some dollars from this additional money to wipe out library fees for the next year so that our folks that really depend on our library system can have some additional support. So not having to pay fee after fee after fee and then there's additional support in here for the justice fund at 300,000 and 500,000 in additional support for language access translation. Our staff did note that while language access is spread out across the entire proposal, which we're glad we could use some additional funding for direct translation of meetings. And so there's an additional 500,000 for just that piece so that we can get all of our meetings translated on the spot. And so that together the micro transit money, the direct income, economic empowerment, child care, housing support, language access, library fees and just as fund rounds out the additional 12.35 million for the full package. So with that, I think most of you have been are queued up here. Let me go first and then we'll go to the public as well. I have Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I want to go ahead and start this. What I want to do is I actually want to want to just give some brief comments, then go to go to the public before we get into motions . But it's been a very difficult year. We all know that we've had a crisis on our multiple fronts here. And what we have today is comprehensive. That's the key here. It's comprehensive. There's so much in this plan. It's focused on the people. There's equity is baked in throughout this this process. We've learned from the CARES Act program, the Long Beach Racial Equity Reconciliation Initiative, lots of our plans, input from the council. And I think what's here is incredibly comprehensive. I think is what's important to note is this is one of the largest investments, one time investments into a grant program, a two year grant program in our in and in a generation. And so we need to make sure that these investments stand the test of time and are here for future generations. So I love that there are significant investments into the future. This has been incredible leadership by our mayor as president. This guy can tell you in the entire six county region, there's one city that has an actual plan on economic recovery in advance of these funds. And that city is the city of Long Beach. So, Mayor Garcia, you've done a fantastic job. The entire region pays attention to that and delivering on time the resources that we need as a community. And, you know, until the entire council and the budget, the Economic Development Committee and the Fed led committee, everyone who's played a part in this, you've certainly helped to put our city put our city in a strong position for the future. So so I want to as vice mayor, as chair of Economic Development, I'm honored to to make the motion here today is based on community feedback. These the economic roundtables and all of these things are factored into the staff recommendation. Staff done incredible job here. I also want to acknowledge Councilman Congressman Alan Lowenthal and that barragan are Senators Feinstein. It would be a for making sure that we bring these resources, these federal dollars back to the city of Long Beach. We also want acknowledge the region, a lot of regional leadership, the mayor, so a lot of regional leadership, regional partners and involved in supporting the proposal for $300 billion, $350 billion in flexible funding, which pay to pave the way for this to happen. So we're talking SCAD, we're talking to colleagues. They all National League of Cities, California League of Cities all advocated for this effort. So all of you have been involved in these regional boards. Thank you. So in terms of in terms of sort of acknowledgments, I know that we need to I know that the council all contributed. I know councilmembers Mongo and Sandy Allen spent a lot of time in the roundtables and off village committees being engaged in this, but staff really has done a great job all year. John Cox, Keisler and Kelly, cowardly ality where you need to have both those departments, a health department and an economic and economic development department. We're talking two sides of the brain. So this proposal really represents sort of the economic future situation within our city, but also the social and the health status of our city. And so I really want to want to thank those two members of our staff and entire staff for helping put together what I think is a great starting point on this on this proposal. So that said, we'll take a deeper dove. I'll accept the mayor's recommendations and talk a few more details after public comment. But I'm happy to make this motion today to begin this to begin this discussion. And after public comment, I'll clarify my motion a bit and then we'll hear from the rest of the council. Thank you. Okay. I have a motion in a second. Let me know if there's no objection. I also. We should go a public comment. So let me go to public comment and then I have everyone queued up. So we'll go through all the queue. So, Madam Court, we can take it away and do public comment. Our first speaker is Beth Sibley Solis. When I started this. What? Afternoon. Hello? I was nominated. I mean, this is a list that I was holding a loaded treatise on federal in. My name is Bits of Sleaze and I work at the Doubletree in San Pedro. Or is it a pyramid anywhere through the them in the they a la pandemia. Today's the first anniversary of my firing due. To the pandemic. Amy Premiere the other I on. My first day coming back to work. Durante La Pandemia. Are you the only seahorse in this glitter? During this pandemic, I was able to help my children through the school year. Poem Mi Familia Interlock computer. There are no clear slices. I supported my family in everything I could, but it was not easy. There is also the noise considerably. Their rent is extremely high. And really the way of life is not really something we can trust very much these days. System. I'm not to a joke on the honor system, Ramos. The system failed. The time when we needed the most. Pursuing as I am, is companeros the trabajo. My concern really now is about my coworkers. Get ready to. I would like them to go back to work. Lott allocated Lott artillery support plus oakamoor. It'll be me. I mean, as opposed to me, that label will throw our whole. Short term rentals like Airbnb, it really put at risk my opportunity to go back to work. Based on Rovaniemi Travel. It's like this. They're stealing my job. This is damage on the moratoria calculator, of course. So we need to have a moratorium on those short term rent places. Our motive for not moratoria. So I ask you, please vote for a moratorium. Yes. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next speaker is Hilda Gaytan. Let's hear this in the portfolio, Senator. I think it gives you an idea instead of coming under attack of every minute, every one day. When I arrived at this country, I was walking around and I got lost and I called my brother to help me. L mi proponents of understanding the complexities of evolutionary languages. They hope we are one. We can not look where there will be that. He asked me where I was and I told him I was at the corner of Hope and one way. And he was laughing so hard. You're Puerto Rico. That said to be here in west with the Sierra Nevada, the supreme leader coming in here. And I recognized like how the lack of access to our own language, really, it's a way of oppressing us. It's a way of eliminating our opportunities and forcing us to work only one way. Navigational trackers and some points of improvement. You know what I'm saying? Even the president. And that one way is one way to failure is where our dreams are destroyed and everything is really a test. Your production times in these stories are viable sources of revenue, in this case extraction, etc.. I love you very much. I think I can tell you a countless number of situations where there is abuse and suffering from people that is going through these very difficult situations. It is, as you know, can be rented for two or more. But I'm presuming luckily they. But those stories are not going to change their future or change the situation in which they're suffering. When the state is Mr. meeting communicate with Carolyn Turner with David Niven opportunity valley and understood to be. When you give us an opportunity to speak up in our own language, you really are giving us opportunity to use all your services. Tambien was an opportunity that they never pressed internal control on Camino Puntos. And, you know, I think it's up to the. And also you give us the opportunity to represent ourselves together in a government that is really more equal for everyone. Only theater can be open and institutionally shattered in that case. Walking past the process of that. And if you stay busy and come from a theater. So I ask you to. They should really institutionalize language access in order to create a more equitable society like you are really intending to create. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next speaker is Billy Brown. Billy Brown. Please limit yourself. Hello? Can you hear me? Yes. Please begin. Good evening, Mayor Robert Garcia and Vice Mayor Richardson. In the City Council. My name is Billy Brown and I'm the director. Of Violence Prevention and Reentry. For the. Ronnie's house. And I'm also the focused founder of Safe Passage. I am a resident of the sixth District. I went to all of. The. Long Beach Unified School. District Elementary, junior high and high schools here. I graduated from Long Beach City College in Cal State, Long Beach. And I really care about Long Beach and. I really care about the community that I serve. As we can see, there's been a spike in. Violence and my family personally has been affected by this. And I won't. Go into detail. But this speaks of the. Large issues in our community and. This. Equity. We know how to take care of my village at one time and the sixth district. I remember that the youth. The youth programs, they were thriving. And we surrounded a lot. Of the youth programs around sports, and that's why Long Beach is known for their athletics. If you think about the history of Long Beach in their athletic programs, in their academic programs. But we need you to invest in the community. As you invest. In other communities. Thank you. Our next speaker is Darlene Mejia. Hello? Yes, darling. Please begin. Okay. Good evening. Mayor Robert Garcia and City Council. My name is early in the year. I'm 21 years old, born and raised in Miami. I want to thank the economic development for allowing me to be part of the Economic Recovery Roundtable that brought attention to our re committee that needs for recovery. I'm working with one to also focus on younger justice system impacted individuals like myself who has been impacted and understand the struggle of overcoming the stigma that comes with making a mistake. Navigating my way back has been challenging as it has for so many without housing and jobs and basic skills, which are challenging for anyone. We have no starting point. Thousands of men and women are coming home each week and we need to ensure we come together as a community to decrease recidivism while we ensure a mother or father stays, while we build healthier communities and ensure children have the pace of parent which decreases their said, We love going to prison. I support the economic recovery plan and encourage the city to continue to engage the community in the work and solutions to support our impacted better than ever. Thank you for time. Thank you. Your next speaker is Fred Sutton. Brett Sutton. Hello? Can you hear me? Yes, please begin. Oh. Hello, honorable. Counsel. My name is Fred Klein with the. California Apartment. Association. We thank you for everything you do. This comprehensive proposal is a critical step in directing resources to those most affected by the pandemic and has rightly garnered national attention for the vaccine rollout and previous recovery efforts. We appreciate the expediency in which the Rental Emergency Assistance. Program is being implemented. We urge navigation, the navigation portal, to include an ability for a rental operator to nominate a resident in need who may not have applied or qualified. We do have concerns regarding the use of these funds for an expansion of the Right. To counsel program in the county. Distributing critical relief funds to. Lawyers for only one party in a private dispute unfairly favors one side. There are alternative. Solutions. These relief funds can be used to expand. Emergency rental subsidies would help residents stay in their home for the long term and would help more people rather than use these funds that encourage protracted litigation. Use them to fund a. Pretrial mediation program that assists all. Parties to come to a mutually agreeable resolution, or use these funds to direct towards a robust education program, ensuring every resident knows their rights. We urge the Council to put precious recovery dollars to. Uses that will be most effective. We request a few lawmakers to meet with housing providers. I think your next speaker is Karen Cervantes. Good evening, mate of the council members. My name is Karen Francis and I work for Irani's House as a director of outreach and support for the beauty industry. I called in today to voice my support for item 15 and the letter submitted by Ronnie South and the LBC Beauty Association, which was signed by Oprah Bath and Hair Salon. Barbershops and beauty salons are. Closing in record numbers. They've been closed for most of 2020 and most of 2021 and without, and have received little to none technical support and proper funding to overcome the losses. I ask you today to invest and create a plan solely for them so that they can get back on their feet and so that they can also get and rehire their . Employees that they've lost. Please consider also adding vaccines so that they could feel safe and that their clients can also feel safe when they are visited. Thank you in advance for your support. Thank you. Our next speaker is Manuel Navarro. Hi. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. How you guys doing today? My name is Manuel Navarro. I'm the owner of Benny's. Barbershop in North Long Beach. I support the letter submitted. To City Council by the LBC. Beauty and Barber Association. For a. Beauty industry recovery package. Our industry has suffered tremendously, and the investments, in my opinion, has to make sense with our losses. We need help to make our businesses, our businesses and communities stronger. Thank you very much. Have a good evening. Thank you. Our next speaker is Maria Grollo. Maria guerrilla. Well. Do you hear me? Yes. Please begin. Okay. My name is Mario Loyola, and I work on the Doubletree Hotel Osaka. I've been working there for 18 years, but it's for a year that I'm the work and I had to take care of my kids during the pandemic. I had to take the hard decision to move to Arizona during that. Election. And it was hard also to. Very difficult. But I feel so proud of her body. But now we need to we need to work. We need to open up a job because we are very bad. So I. I like. Urban bias affects light pollinators. And we need like a moratorium for death. We need support enough to get a job. But in both, life will be normal and many people are waiting for. I'm ready to go to work, but I don't know when that's possible that I go back to work because everyone is starving as job. And we need we need support. We need a moratorium for that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Your next speaker is Mike Berge. Mike Birch. Good evening, Mayor and city council members. My name is Mike Murchison. On behalf of hundreds of rental property owners in Long. Beach, including organizations that you are. Familiar with, such as the Small Property Owners Alliance and the local apartment association. We want to commend the mayor, the vice mayor and council and Mongo for their for their presentation on economic recovery. Specifically, the mayor recently announced a 29 million to terms regarding deferred rent out. I strongly encourage you to consider innovative technologies versus the traditional application method, as tenants all over Long Beach are not truly incentivized, nor is there a high. Percentage taking advantage of this particular. Program as seen in the first round of CARES Act. This technology encourages tenants and landlords to give and work together. This is not something that either side is going to be successful. Unless the other. Side gives in. And that's for both parties. I'm asking you to support an innovative approach as we move forward to allocate these funds out to the tenants, but ultimately to the landlords or all the money on the deferred rent. Let's come up with creative solutions that make sense for both sides so we can avoid evictions later on down this year, which will happen if we stay with the current process. Thank you very much. For your time. Thank you. Our next speaker is Raven McDowell. Hello. Hi. My name is raving about the evening. Mayor Rob regarding city council. My name is Ray McDowell and I am a resident of the city of Long Beach and I have the impossible justice justice system. I would traffic at a young age causes movements for our father. I attended school and working 50 hours a day and working for my son that I am not alone in this struggle. I'm here to support a solid representative to ensure our reentry community has the investment to get back on our feet. We need housing, jobs in health and family reunification services. Please consider the challenges we face being released without support and thousands of logs locked in against us when you are creating programs to support us. Thank you for your time and support. Thank you. Our next speaker is Mike Berg. Good evening, Marion City Council. My name is Mike Birge. I work at the western Long Beach for 23 years and I'm part of a unique community that has fought for good paying jobs with good benefits like health care. During the pandemic, I have had to rely on my wife and I started dipping into our savings account. We are depending on you to make a good decision for us as workers. Until business comes back to our hotels, there must be a moratorium now. Repeat moratorium now. Prioritize. Prioritizes workers like myself. Prioritize my coworkers who are without work because of companies like Airbnb voting moratorium for short term rentals. I'm born and raised here in the city of Long Beach. I love our city. Let's take care of our hotel workers. Hotel workers lives matter. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Clarke, before we go to the next speaker, I just want to make sure that these speakers are in the right. I'm not sure they're signed up for general public comment because I know we don't have, you know, staffers or any sort of moratoriums or anything else on the agenda on this item. So I'm not sure if maybe they that was meant for the open public comment section. So I just want to make sure you double check that as we have speakers moving forward. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Ricky Thomas. Ricky Thomas. Good evening. Mayor and City Council. My name is Ricky Thomas. And I'm the owner of the barbershop. In Long Beach. Bought the letters submitted by the City Council by the Beauty and Barber Association, the beauty industry recovery package. Our industry has suffered. And it has it has to. Make sense what our losses. Our businesses are suffering and we need assistance. Our businesses were stopped, but our bills never stopped. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Our next speaker is sentencing. Good evening. My name is Matt and Sam and I'm with. The United Cambodian. Community. UCC is part of the Language Assets Coalition and even before the code with our community has been impacted by the lack of language support service in the city. So our NDP residents were really. Struggling and. Even hit harder during the pandemic. In. Order to access the city services, the meetings. And getting documents and. Even like critical COVID related information. So like for example, like with the digital inclusion. Program, the city has. Partnered with UCC to have reach out to the community. We have help out. The community applying to get the device help, translating over the phone with the Internet service provider on issues with their Internet connection because those communities and also the services. Also for the code, we receive about 30 calls every day. Seeking help on. COVID related, ranging from finding the test site to making appointments for the COVID test. To getting appointments. For the vaccine. Because when they call the city phone line, it took at least 24 hours to get those answers back. So language access policy has been mentioned generally in the Economic Recovery Fund, but there is no specific funding to support that. So we asked the Coalition asked that the city should dedicate some funds to address those gaps. And. To hire staff to implement the LDP within this. Thank your next speaker is Sharon Sinegal. Cynical. Cynical. Our next speaker is Susanna Seguin. Since a union. Two tips on about mayor and council members. My name is. Dennis Mam and I'm the executive director of United Cambodian Community. As city manager, Modica. Shared during the pandemic, economic and health disparities were exasperating communities of. Color. Many of the residents in my own businesses. That make Cambodia town great are at. Risk of displacement due to eviction or closure. In Cambodia town, we already. Have seen one Cambodian. Large restaurant. Permanently. Closed. And in June, one Cambodian grocery store will be closing. Not only do we need to recover from COVID. 19. Impact, but also invest in new infrastructure and build new systems that will work better. For our communities. Redlining and other racial policies have create disinvestment in communities of color. With this opportunity of recovery, the city can move these areas invest in equitable development. UCC has a business center that has been operating for three years and provide each year business counseling to over. 90. Businesses. As folks are losing jobs. Community members. Are being resilient and starting their own business. UCC has already helped two businesses stepped up to open during the pandemic in alignment with Cambodia Town Thrive and the People's Recovery, UCC urges the City Council to adopt the following recommendations. Some community. Specifically in Cambodia town. With mixed use projects that have business incubators on the first floor and affordable housing in the in the other fourth. Create a rental housing division and specifically fund a right to counsel program to prevent unlawful evictions and invest in minority small businesses, specifically to support community based organizations that do not have beds in the corridors. Thank you. Our next speaker is Suzanne Brown. Good evening. My name is Suzanne Brown, and I'm a senior attorney with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. We submitted a letter, along with our community partners, that include our funding recommendations for recovery dollars. We appreciate that. Some of our recommendations are included in the staff report, but we urge the Council to make adjustments to further fine tune the document and address the community's recommendation. I will highlight a few of the missing items. First, we asked the city to create a rental housing division to act as a point of contact for both tenants and landlords. The housing landscape has become increasingly complex in light of the pandemic and the myriad of new housing laws. And we need the city to play a role in issuing bulletins, answering questions and assisting those in need. The staff report refers to the creation of one new position and the Housing Services Bureau. But we are hopeful that the. Money in the mayor's. Letter means that we will get more for this division. We asked that 700,000 be allocated annually for the creation of a rental housing division in the city. Second, we asked the city to fully fund the right to counsel program a proven program of success. We anticipate a tsunami of evictions as a result of the pandemic. We appreciate that 900,000 was allocated for this, but a fully funded program would cost at least $3.6 million. Additionally, this program is needed to prevent displacement of our most vulnerable residents of color. Third, we asked the city to allocate funds to create a community land trust. The staff report proposes to study them. We would like to see money dedicated to get one off the ground. Thank. Thank your next speaker in Serene Senegal. Good evening. Mayor Robert Garcia, Vice Mayor Richardson and City Council. Thank you for bringing the investment into Long Beach to help us with the economic recovery. My name is Sharon Senegal, and I'm the executive director of Rodney's house and the co-founder of the ABC Barber and Beauty Association. I'm here to support a $5 million recovery package, to support the beauty industry with no less than $25,000 per shop, license fee breaks, rental support, technical support and support for individual barbers and stylists to ensure the industry recovers. We must make a sound investment in the industry. Mayor Robert Garcia I would also respectfully ask you to make a recommendation to the State to ensure that our beauty industry receives vaccinations based on their close contact with their customers. We have submitted a letter outlining our ask from the beauty industry, signed by 100 active barbershops and hair salons in the city of Long Beach. Thank you so much for your support and I look forward to working with the city on the economic recovery. Thank you. Your next speaker is Victor Sanchez. It's a mayor, vice mayor, Councilmember Victor Patches. Of the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community. I want to uplift three elements community. Organizations believe are vital. To be included as part of the economic recovery process. We hope the full. Council to support the first has to do with housing. We asked the city to create a rental housing division that is fully fund the right to council program and to study the creation of a community contract. I want to thank Mayor Garcia for proposing. The city matched its previous investment of $300,000 to the Immigrant Justice Fund. Missing from the initial. Proposed recovery package was any direct relief from our community, many of whom are ineligible for federal benefit or released, yet make up the core of our city's essential workforce. They have been among the hardest hit, and we owe it to. Them and their families to ensure that they have critical legal representation during this difficult time. I hope we can. Count on the rest of the Council. Support. And lastly, I want to ask the. Council consider as part of this recovery process, some additional policies such as a moratorium on. Short term. Rentals. In order to fully support the hospitality sector in recovery. Hotel workers need their jobs to provide financial stability. For their families during this recovery. PR don't provide jobs, hotels do. We must help this overwhelmingly immigrant part of our workforce with the help they need to get back on their feet. Don't let short term rentals operate until hotels can rehire. Their workers back in time. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Thank you very much. We are going to go ahead and go back. So the list I have so I have I have the motion which is made by Vice Mayor Richardson, Vice Manager of additional comments before I go to. I do that. I do so well. First of all, thank you to all the folks from public comment. I think a lot of the comments are already reflected in what's here. And so you may get questions from from from staff, maybe get questions from me or from others on how those things are are reflected. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and jump into this motion. So staff did a high level plan so that the motion is staff's recommendation. We're going to go ahead and include all of the mayor's recommendations, and I'm just going to go through them quickly. 2 million micro public transit pilot program, 1 million for direct income pilot programs, an additional 1.25 million for economic empowerment zones. Additional 1 million per child, child care and early childhood education, 5 million for housing support. And I'm going to ask city manager, how would you break out that 5 million housing support? So if we had an additional $5 million, we would look at a couple of functions. One, we're looking at adding some additional positions. About three, to do our housing navigation. That would be about $1,000,000 to fund them for two years as a two year grant. We would look at about $1,000,000 for the Community Land Trust to get that program started in about 3 million. The balance for for mortgage assistance. Fantastic. Going to make sure that's reflected in the motion. There's 500 K here for language access interpretation at meetings, 300 K to waive library fees. 300,000 in additional support to lobby justice fund. I want to make sure all of those included in this motion. I also want to make sure that the motion reflects there's some things that has as a result of placing in the mayor's thing mayor's recommendations. It frees up additional resources here. There's $900,000 for housing, navigation and right to counsel in this budget since we just placed a million into navigation. Mr. City Manager, that free up this 900,000 for right to counsel. It could in that bucket we had one position for two years at about $400,000. So if that position is not needed because we have three on the other side, those funds would be available for other uses in housing. Fantastic. So I want to make sure that's reflected in this motion. There was also a request on immigrant communities to make sure that there's some direct component support, support on immigrant communities. It's not called out here, but there is a health equity fund. And we want to make sure that a portion of there's, I think, $5 million in health equity. That's where the intention is. It's not called out, hey, this group or that group. But that's where the black health equity work, the Latino Health Equity Access work, the Cambodian AAPI health access work. I think the direct support for immigrant communities kind of belongs there. It's want to make sure it's reflected that 500,000 of that 5 million is reflected in direct support for communities. So those are the changes to my motion here. Now, there are some just questions and some questions here that I want to kind of clarify. So, one, I love that you framed this as a two year grant. And when I think of grants, I think about a grantmaking process. And in that grantmaking process, you really want to ensure that sort of the strategies are coordinated in a way that there's evaluation, there's measurement, there's strategy around the allocation of these investments. And our health director loves to talk about this term collective impact model. We did something like that with $1,000,000 and he'll grant North Hills on North Long Beach. It was over that two or three years. There was a lot of collective impact. I see that there are a number of strategies here that are already sort of aligned to hardest hit communities like violence prevention, food insecurity, economic empowerment zones, health equity. These strategies are already sort of targeted there. What I don't want is a process that's not coordinated. If someone's dealing with housing insecurity, if someone's dealing with, you know, violence issues or food insecurity. They're all interconnected and we need to make sure that it's coordinated with a collective impact model. So necessity manager or maybe Kelly, can you speak to that? Are we are we are we going to utilize the collective impact strategy here? So, yes, you made the point that you raised. There's a number of different buckets that we are looking at to fund, but we realize that they can't work independently from each other. And so the areas where we have food security issues are, you know, in a lot of cases, the same issues where we have violence issues, where we also, you know, have, you know, want to be able to lift up kind of the economy. And so we do see a couple of these buckets of money are going to be overlapping. And we want to take a coordinated approach in the strategy. Again, we're not at that level yet where we program every single dollar and how they're going to go. But we do see the ability to kind of focus a number of these programs on the regions where the data shows that we have the most need and we can make the most collective impact. I think that's important. And so yeah, I want to make sure that that that we do that. You know, another thing, you know, I was noticing there was an opinion editorial to talk about it didn't invest this plan didn't invest enough into equity. And I disagree. I see equity lays throughout the whole plan. We learn from CARES Act. We saw that we implemented a an equity lens through CARES Act. We tested it and we've learned from that. And I see that reflected here. So excluding redevelopment, if you think about it, this represents the most significant investment that we have in these areas in a generation. And we need to make sure that the impacts are felt for generations. Can you speak a little bit to your approach and what you've learned in how you approach an equity lens? Yes, I actually have Kelly, call me, talk a little bit about that. Sure. Evening, Councilmember. Yeah. So we know that when you look at the data across the city, the impacts just generally we see very different outcomes for many in terms around health, around economics, around many, you know, violence prevention and others. And so when we built out the, the sort of the ideas behind the funding, um, partially with CARES Act, but also going forward, we focused very clearly on the areas where we were seeing the greatest impacts. And then and then start to build the basic needs in those spaces, investing more around violence prevention and youth development and others. Really working to make sure that we are sort of creating opportunity and creating opportunity for prosperity across the city. And that that was built into all the efforts that we were looking at, as well as the health equity fund more specifically. Okay. I mean, that 5 minutes. Vice Mayor Richardson, I think, is the make of emotional content for the governor. But I'm almost done. That's have 5 minutes past, mayor. The maker of the motion gets ten and then the rest gets five. But these are what I don't want. I don't want to argue that the technicalities I think the maker of the motion gets ten if it's more item. But not if it's a staff item. But it's okay. Let's just continue. I mean, it's just a few things. I don't have any other amendments. These are clarifications I think are important. So there's a question about the 27 million in rental housing support. Two questions on that. To be clear, some of that goes out to direct rental support and some of the take her back payments on rent zacharek. Yes, that is correct. Okay, great. And when is that going to be available? At the time. But I'm sorry, but the time is up. You only get 5 minutes unless it's an item that you're proposing. That's fine. So I've got to move on. You just. Please, sir. Okay. Thank you. So next. Next up is Councilman Ciro. Thank you, Mayor. Sorry, it took me a moment to unmute, so I want to talk a little bit more about the economic empowerment zone, just to kind of explain a little further. I do appreciate that we've taken an equity lens to to this and really thinking about how we're making investment in our hardest hit and the areas with that that's that's had the highest COVID rates because I really think that this is a way that we can accelerate our long term kind of plans that we've been wanting to address around generational poverty. Right. I think this is a way where we can accelerate economic inclusion because we've heard that we've had the highest poverty rates , you know, during COVID, but we've had them very high in the north west central area prior to the pandemic. And yet at the same time, we don't have these workforce development centers in the west, north, south, central areas, nor and especially in the west side, we haven't we don't have computer labs. So it's a really important we've talked a lot already earlier about closing the digital divide, but I really want to make sure we tie it in with the cultural center while there are cultural centers like the African-American Cultural Center. And then recently we talked about the Latino Cultural Center, that it's important that there is an economic piece to it, which is ensuring that we tie in the economic inclusion and also with the central area. We certainly have a designated Cambodia town and I hope to also talk about cultural center there as well, adding to it. So I think that, you know, again, these are not just centers for cultural activities, but also about how we're addressing the economic disparity that's existed in these communities. And so really wanting to make sure that we think about how it's centered on increasing home ownerships, supporting our small businesses and diverse entrepreneurs, to thinking about local inclusive procurement and contracting, as well as our youth development. Focusing on youth in these work development sites as well within these empowerment zone and ensuring that we also have a strong community development, economic development, so that we can do this possible land trust pilot that that, you know, would land trust. And then also starting our bids and business associations. So that's something that I just wanted to explain a little further as some people wondered, well, what exactly is that and what does it mean? And I think this is important about how we're really building infrastructure to address long term, longstanding issues that existed in the north, west and central area of Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman. Bingo. Thank you, Mayor. Lots of great things in this plan. I want to kind of talk through several of them and some ideas and thoughts that I think are important for the staff to consider as we move forward. I appreciate the comments about our. Our empowerment zones and our cultural diversity zones. I think those are really critical to the discussion. But I know all our colleagues will have a lot of comments on different components of the plan. I do want to talk to a couple of things that I know I've heard, both from the community and some from my colleagues. I won't spend time on giving credit to each colleague that mentioned them, but I think that they really need to be addressed. I appreciate the memo from the mayor today that identifies the micro and public transit pilot program. I think that's really critical in our ability to move people across the city as we try to really engage the community in. Taking opportunities for development of healthy lifestyles and other activities that really help contribute to the overall life expectancy in any one person and then collectively as a community. Some of the amenities are not currently available in some parts of the city. Because of geography, I mean, the ocean is only where the ocean is. We can't drop an ocean in the fifth District, and I know that. But if there were kids that were underprivileged in any part of the city and they wanted to participate in certain programing that's only available in the ocean, we do need access to and affordable ways to get there. I talk a lot about violence prevention and a lot of, you know, the work that I did with the 10,000 Job Summer Youth Program. And I really feel like this summer is an opportunity for that for us. I don't really know which bucket to drop it into. There are so many buckets that it already fits into, but from a violence prevention standpoint, getting our youth to work. I remember one of the roundtables from the barbershops and the Personal Services Division talked about the ways in which they could employ youth throughout the summer as marketing analysts, social media analysts really building up the part of the strategy that talks about by Long Beach shop, Long Beach, spend your money in Long Beach. And so I would love to see us set an aspirational goal similar to the ones that the mayor really led on several years ago of getting thousands of kids internships. I'd love us to do a mirror program similar to the 10,000 summer youth unemployment jobs where we our funds really lifted that up and if possible, added to it with these additional American Rescue Act funds. We talk about our health activity support. So there are only so many facilities in the city and I hear a lot of comments from communities. I'm throughout Long Beach. When I see them in the parks on the east side, 43% of the parks are in our district by square footage . But a lot of the activity of activated space is not always available. Soccer fields are rented at capacity, and so our tennis courts and our pickleball courts and our basketball courts and our are all of these places where kids and youth and teens can go to stay out of trouble and stay active. They're at capacity. And so we really need to look at what is possible today in terms of our investment in additional space for organized activities, so that even if we were to use majority funds or infrastructure funds, we need to do that now so that some of the violence prevention funds can pay the activity fees and the enrollment fees and the league fees for participants in these programs. But we can't grow those programs if we don't have the space for them to do that. So I think we need to really look at what that looks like. There are ways to do it very inexpensively and in a semi-permanent manner. Whether there are drop on arena court like they have in San Diego or repurposing some activity space and just pouring the concrete to get it done. We need to talk about child care. When I when I look at the chart of where you can't even see the chart on the screen, when I look at the chart of where the money is being spent, I think it's great that we're investing in child care. And I really want to recognize Cindy for championing that. I think it's also important that we don't just do what we've always been doing. We appreciate the health department. They run a great program, and the way that they run that program is supporting child care systems that exist already. But what we've learned by listening to the dominant female head of households that have really been holding the economy together is that they work nontraditional hours, and the current childcare available to them through that program does not meet their needs. And so we really need to look at some of that child care money being put over to the economic development side for a re-imagining of how child care can be provided. A lot of that lack of supervision that's in our communities these days is because female head of households need to be at work. There are only so many jobs available and they're taking that investment in themselves to go back to work. But that leaves our youth and our teens at home alone. And we need to talk about our seniors and whether it's through active living, like the senior programs that have been championed at the art center or adding activities across the city like Pickleball. There are small investments in getting people active. I know the seventh District has a walking path that's been pretty great. How we are able to invest that money into a program that's. Five more connections and not one and longer. Thank you. And hold seniors accountable is really important. And then I'll just end by saying and I know Tom knows this mental health is so critical. The county of Los Angeles is launching their 711 program. And we really need to find a way to be able to connect our community to emergency mental health services through programs that already exist. Thank you for all that you've done for this mayor. I may have additional comments, but I'm very supportive of the plan, though I know over the next several weeks many adjustments will need to be made. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Next up is Councilman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I wanted to thank you and staff for putting together the proposals tonight and giving us a framework from which to start our discussions. I think that was a very professional way for staff to approach this because it allowed us to be able to have some general ideas of where the funds were allocated will be allocated, and I personally appreciate that. I also want to take a moment to recognize my colleague, Councilwoman Mongeau, who I believe is the current chair of the Economic Development Committee. And she was on that committee with me. And I know that a lot of the things that we are really advocating for today are things that have been priorities for her for a long time. And so I want to make sure that she's recognized for her work, both on that committee currently and also for her work as the Budget Oversight Committee chair for many years . There's a couple of things that I want to highlight about this budget that I think are are really fantastic are this proposal. The first is the the money that we're dedicating to the mobile outreach teams, you know, throughout the nation, prosecution agencies that I'm familiar with and law enforcement agencies are really looking at alternative response models when we're talking about people that either have mental health, substance abuse or co-occurring disorders. And I'm very excited that this the money that we are receiving through this, a federal relief package, is going to allow us to be able to pilot a few different models. I know Councilwoman Allen and I and I know council woman sorrow and I have talked about some of the different models that perhaps our police department could be involved in, because some of the issues that we're facing in the city with individuals experiencing mental health are not police issues and not issues that police officers should be expected to manage. So I'm really hopeful that this mobile outreach program that we're going to start in this alternative response model includes some data compilations so that we know where to structure our funds moving forward. So I'm asking the city manager to please make sure we have some sort of data collection on the number of people we encounter , how effective we are at linking people to services. It's really important and I think it will form our our budget commitments in the future. I want to thank my colleague, Councilmember Ranga, for his partnership with me in the area of prioritizing our city's libraries. I know every member of this council has been actively supportive of libraries, so I don't mean to single him out because you've all been champions of it. But most recently he and I had the opportunity to really work on the city auditor's report, and I'm hoping that some of the funds that will be allocated to violence prevention and language access will be utilized to enhance the library's digital divide opportunities. The access to services in terms of the number of hours or the days that they're open, and also language access receiving books in other languages. I know as someone who learned how to speak English later in life, English is my second language. I know that my community has reached out to our law library director asking for resources in my native language. And so I'm hoping that we're able to use some of this money to provide that access. I'm really happy for the mayor's recommendation on the micro transit service. I want to be very clear with city staff that I'm hoping that we don't take a whole year to develop a program. We've had numerous reports that have been brought to the council to ask for a micro transit study in the Belmont Shore area to get people from Belmont Shore to Second and PCH to Alamitos Landing. Because right now with the PARKLETS, we've lost a lot of parking spaces. And I know that those business improvement districts where we're willing to help pay for this program, but because of. Or pay for some of it. But because of COVID impacts, they weren't able to because they lost meter revenue. So I'm hoping that we can look at that. And also for the downtown area, the shuttle service that we had, that has to be ADA accessible. Those services were really great and I want to be able to do to collect some data on user ship so that we can plan for the future. So I'm hoping that we can get this process started immediately. And then finally, I want to thank the mayor for prioritizing the importance of having a healthy reserve. We, as a result of COVID, we had to burn through a lot of our reserve. We simply were not in a place as a city to be able to cover the costs of testing and the health response that we needed to deal with COVID. And so we burned through a lot of our reserve, not because we're responsible, but because an emergency hit our city and we had to react in order to protect the welfare of our residents and our businesses. And so building that reserve is prudent. I know that some people think we should not build the reserve to the level that we are. I think that's reckless because we don't know when another emergency situation will hit our city. And I want to make sure that we're prepared for it like we were the last time. So I want to I want to thank the mayor for his leadership and staff for being very mindful in terms of the priorities, and I'm very supportive of the motion. So thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Counsel one. Next I have up is Councilmember Austin. All right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And wow, this is really, really quite a lot to digest. You know, over 200 pages of the staff report on this matter. It wasn't done in a in a week either. A lot of hard work has been recognized here. A lot of great leadership on from our mayor. Great execution from our city manager and city team, but also a lot of thoughtful consideration. This this document and this this item motion before us is really a summary of our dialog as a council with community literally over the last year, recognizing the needs of our city, the vast needs of our city. And this is a really, you know, from a public standpoint, a public official standpoint, we won't see these type of windfalls for our role model. I don't expect to see anything like this in the near future. And so this is this is certainly extraordinary. And I'm very encouraged by the presentation and the direction that this economic recovery plan is taking. I think that this has to be really, really viewed as a relief. It is a sigh of relief that allows us to breathe over the next year, year and a half. I think it's ambitious, even what has been laid out in terms of the amount of resources and the what we can actually deliver. And are we actually ramped up and prepared to deliver over the next three months or six months? It's going to be quite a colossal effort to even pull this out to the to the extent that that we want to do this. And I think we need to be clear with what the expectations on that. I am thrilled that we are eliminating furloughs for our city employees. We went to them first when we realized that, you know, this pandemic was going to set us back $30 million in our budget. And we went to our city employees and said, we need to renegotiate, we need to ask you to take sacrifices. And they stepped up first. And so I'm glad to see that we are restoring or eliminating the furloughs that that impact our city employees. I think the empowerment economic empowerment zones are going to be critical and strategic for us to to really improve economic development in some of our more economically depressed areas. And again, this package presents opportunities for our city that were not there before the pandemic. And so that is a great thing. And I think we should be focusing on those areas and taking full advantage of those areas. And I know our our team is aggressive and looking forward to doing that. Somebody mentioned in public comment about rental assistance. You know, we were able to put about $5.3 million toward rental assistance. We were able to assist about 2000 families in the city. This adds to that significantly. $29 million, we're going to be able to help a lot of families and deal with back rent, as well as housing providers who have missed their rent over the last several months year. This this will help help breathe a sigh of relief. It may not cover everything, but it puts us in a better we're in a much better position today than we were last week or two weeks ago. And so I'm encouraged by where we're headed with this. I do. I think that the BA and I agree with the motion on the floor in terms of budget oversight. I would just say that, you know, we're not out of the woods. We still have to think about the the resources that we have as temporary and then manage expectations as we are rolling out these programs. Because the hardest thing for any body to do is to cut, you know, and so while we are have the position or have the ability to to recover, to for relief, we have the ability to to do some creative things for our community. We still have have had to come to grips with, you know, 2023, 2024. We may have some very, very difficult decisions before us. And so I think we need to be mindful of that throughout the process and and also planning for contingencies. To Councilmember Price's point, yes, we we drew down on our reserves. And it's important for us to, if at all possible, to replenish that for our financial standards or our ability to finance and be able to to provide the services that are at the level that our residents deserve. And so those are my comments. I'm happy to support this item. And again, great work, everybody. We still have to roll our sleeves up. We still have a lot of work to do. Thank you, Councilman. Next up is Councilman Zendejas. Councilwoman Jan de Haas. I think you're on mute. Maybe. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to give great thanks to to you, Mayor, for bringing this forward to our incredible staff that has been working tirelessly on this recovery plan. I think you've done an exceptional job in considering all of the needs of all our community members and really listening to the community and the needs that we have. And it is very important that we continue this process in a very thoughtful and deliberate way and most importantly, in an equitable way. As we as we decide through this process, we want to make sure that we build ourselves stronger than ever before so that we can go through the next year or year and a half. Two to come. I know that. We are definitely looking through an equitable lens through through this process, and that makes me very happy. One of the things that we will see is that as no secret to any of us, the Latino community has been hit very, very, very hard through COVID. And Latinos keep a dying every day of COVID. Still to this day, I know that we went through a very rough patch, and I'm so grateful that our numbers are going down right now. I know that I've been very active in putting together a task force that Latinos contract, COVID task force, to address some of the issues on why and what we can do to stop the spread of COVID within the Latino community. I know that I have an item coming up later on, and that is the meet up with the Latino Health Initiative, which I'm happy to see that $5 million have been allocated aside for four equity health initiatives. And I'm hoping that at least two mil 2 million of this will be set aside for the Latino community because of the fact that data shows that this is the community that has been definitely affected the most. Also looking forward to the empowerment zone, economic empowerment zones, where we can really focus on the item like and like it was mentioned earlier. And that item is so necessary right now, especially when recovering from from this economic crisis in the Latino community. It's going to provide so much outlets not only for our youth, but also for so many of our Latino residents, especially in the first District, who have continuously lost their jobs. And to some of the workers that haven't been able to go back to work, including single moms and single dads, because they have had to make the tough decision of staying home with with their child because they're not in school yet. So I'm very happy to be able to support this plan and and look forward to hearing the rest of my colleagues comments on this plan. And again, a huge thank you to everyone that has worked so very hard on this. Thank you, Councilmember Ringo. Thank you, Mayor. And I, of course, want to thank you for all the efforts that you've done putting this together. You and city manager have put a phenomenal program together in terms of how we're going to address is comprehensive. It hits all the buttons that that are important to me. I want to thank the Councilmember Suzy Pryce from the third district for her shout out. It was a good effort that we put together, and I think the library is a very important event for our kids. And it addresses what are the weather, the motions that we want to address, that violence prevention, and how can you prevent violence when you have kids in libraries learning as opposed to being on the street and doing it, doing the things that they should be doing when they're out there. The other thing, the other components of it is that, you know, we're dealing with those other items that are important to me. Language access. I've been mentioning that for a number of years, Don, and it's been my desire to have language access integrated and baked into our into our culture of the city so that we don't have to have these issues about contracting out here or contracting out there with the different translation services to get bilingual, to get medical services. I think that if we are able to integrate, integrated within the culture of the city, I will be done with that. We need to get more, more staff, bilingually, tested and trained to do the translations internally and not have to always rely on outside sources for that. It addresses, of course, the the economic empowerment zones, which is very important. But there's another point to point of me is to look at our digital divide. I know you addressed it somewhat, but I think that's highly important that we address the digital divide that exists in certain parts of our city and in and of course, having one of the largest impacted areas that does not have Internet in the West Palm Beach area. I think it's very important that we look at getting access to everybody everywhere as soon as we can because we're important. If there's anything that we learned about this this pandemic is that we discovered where our weaknesses are and where we need to focus in and some of our some more resources. And of course, we couldn't be anywhere else, anywhere without having our Parks and Recreation Department with our health department. And I really want to I would say the fact that I want to say it again, I've been saying it for a long time now. We need to institutionalize our health department. 95%, if not more, of their budget is grants oriented. And this grant that we're getting here is a part of that. How do we do that? That's the million dollar question or the multimillion dollar question about that. But I think that if there's anything that came out of this pandemic is the fact that having our own health department was a tremendous resource, a tremendous help, and actually put us out there nationally. And thank you, Mayor, for all the representation you've been out there. I think I saw you on NBC so many times. You should have your own show there now. And when you were all, it seems like every time I turn it on, you were you were saying something about about our COVID response or recovery rollout or our economic development. I mean, great job, Mayor. It was it was it was very proud to see I was very proud to see you there. And again, I mean, you should get your own show on there. It looks like we have a consensus building from everybody to to support this. The motion on the floor. I think it's a it's a great motion. Thank you for putting it forward, Mayor, for working with it. And, of course, our city manager and and his team were rolling aside and like said, it's comprehensive. It's got almost everything we need in there will probably be tweaking it here and there because it needs to be. But other than that. Thank you again and thank you, everybody. For supporting this. Thank you, Councilman. You'll be my first guest. How's that? I'm just kidding. Councilman Allen. But thank you, Mayor. This is. Just a historic day for this city and the beginning of a new chapter. I'm normally not a person of a lot of words, but I do have a little bit to share, so I'm probably going to get that five minute. But I do want to start by just thanking the mayor for his leadership and hard work and just a love for this city. I know that your efforts and advocacy on behalf of our city has empowered us to make major investments in critical areas, and it's just much needed for this economic recovery. So just. Thank you, Mayor. I know how much you care. And just to all my amazing colleagues, this is really an incredible moment for so many people in this city. And I'm so proud of this moment. I was excited from the moment we got word that this money was coming. I just was just jumping up and down. And I'm just so proud to be sitting on this virtual diocese with all of you. So thank you. And I also thank you to the staff. John Keiser, city manager to so many folks. I know how much work and effort and countless hours that you all have put into this. And as we all know, the COVID 19 pandemic has caused more hardship, hardship in this city than anything I can think of in the history of Long Beach. And so many of our neighbors and friends are struggling to get by. Small businesses closed. Our essential workers and health care staff are working harder than ever. In our city. Our crime is up. Homelessness is widespread. And I mean, our city is is dirty. The pandemic has also brought into focus so many systematic disparities in our city. When I ran for office last year, I made a commitment to the second District that my top priority would be to rebuild stronger than ever. And today, I'm so glad that we're able to begin that process. This is truly, truly, truly historic opportunity and a once in a lifetime event that will reshape the future of our city. And it's also an opportunity to honor those that we have lost in our city and make investments that will matter the most. We will be assisting renters, businesses, workers, and directly assisting working parents with more childcare and resources that they desperately need. And I'll also be increasing the much needed resources to address homelessness. The pandemic has shone a light on the and significant. Support for our neglected communities, including our immigrant communities, and which some of those have been hit the hardest. As a member of the Economic Development and Finance Committee, I participated in over 36 hours of roundtables with diverse businesses and community leaders from every corner of the community. And I also want to thank Chair Mongo and Vice Mayor Richardson for their leadership. And most importantly, I really want to thank the hundreds of people who participated for their insights and their perspectives because it was critical in developing this plan. I know all of us understood the pains, the struggles, the needs and the hopes for this recovery strategy. We had so many conversations with businesses and community members. And with groups that represent the interests of so many of our neglected community members, including Lane Black Lives Matter lobbies, forward laughter, child care providers, and just, just so many . And I have to say that this listening process was one of the best experiences that I have had since my election. There's no better way to serve your community than to listen what they need and really try hard to provide it. So business and residents and residents have been hit the hardest. And they need a major lifeline. And we definitely heard that we need to focus on residents and businesses and organizations that need it the most. And this is what this plan does. So I'm really proud of that. I'll queue up again because I have some more comments, but I'm very supportive of this motion and I'm so proud of everyone that worked to make this happen. Thank you, Councilwoman. Next, Councilmember Supernormal. Thank you, Mayor. And I'd like to recognize the mayor for a couple of recognitions. I actually had the Fed Pledge Committee. I recognize his strong advocacy to get the funding here, and he could have taken a break after that. But now he's working hard on on where to spend those funds. So we appreciate that. And staff's time also. Also, I appreciate a mayor for recognizing my advocacy for fire services. At times it sounds like that's that was my obsession. But I was such a strong believer in this. And it's not about this agenda item tonight. I read many, many areas in this item that supports keeping our fire services restored. But I think that this body might be on the cusp of what would be a paradigm shift from where we were in the past. And I have a strong feeling that this group feels that the last thing you should cut in an economic downturn would be fire services. There is such a strong need during times of economic challenges. When you think of folks on the street, arson and just the violence that you might forget that fire response to all those incidents of violence also. So I feel very good about what is stated in this item. But moving forward is probably a separate agenda item that I'll bring forward at a later date that that kind of has a statement saying that we want to maintain these resources and and not balance our budget by cutting those. I'll be very brief and the rest of my comments. But but I just thought of something as Councilmember Arango was speaking about that digital divide. And one thing I'm not sure that we've done is reach out to the school district to see where they are with with this issue and what gas money we might be able to fill. And I think partnering with them like they have a, you know, program where every student gets a Chromebook. And I think we need to take that into our own inventory as we move forward, because that's a huge piece that I think we were all asked about as councilmembers. We're getting school district questions are opening of schools all the time and we need to be there in support of our our partners there. I'll defer the rest of my time to my colleagues. But thank you again to all the are working hard on this. And and I think Alison said this is a daunting task. I'll tell you one thing. It sure beats the alternative. It sure beats the fact that we could be sitting here making huge cuts. So thank you for all of everyone who advocated for this funding. Thank you. I'm going to go back to folks. I have councilman mongo. Thank you, Mayor. So many great comments tonight and so much to build on. But I can't spend any of my 5 minutes telling you all how great it was because I only have 5 minutes. So thank you. And especially to the staff. Cindy's words regarding the staff were just so right on and I just appreciate it. They were so helpful to our committee. I mean, just relied on them and spent hours with them every week. So going back to something that I know the mayor and I talked a lot about, and 2016, 2017 is people's access and ability to get to city hall. And I know Councilmember Orengo, when you were on EDI and you really pushed hard for economic inclusion to be a part of the Blueprint 2.0. And part of that goes to what you said tonight, which is the language access piece. And we talk about coming up with a way for everyone to access City Hall 24 seven. I remember the mayor would say we want access to City Hall 24 seven. We want everything to be accessible. We really championed transparency. But I don't know that the things we had online at that time were the things that people needed. I think during this pandemic, we've really seen an ability to transition to that. We put vaccination numbers, we've put phone numbers and access. We've put the the COVID numbers, and we have that dashboard. I'd really love to see us double down on that 24 hour access. Our goal Long Beach app needs to be expanded into our Long Beach passport. We talk about banking. We talk about. Access to city services. You should be able to go on your app and you should be able to click, okay, here's how I get utility assistance. Here's where I can get food, here's how I can register for a tenant assistance support program. Here's where all that should be in the palm of everyone's hands. The Obama administration worked really hard to get cell phones in everyone's hands. And even I was talking to a homeless gentleman the other day. He has a cell phone. It's a way to access services and now is the time. The agenda item we brought about the the one card slash long passport go along with pulling it all together. Now is the time for us to take a big step forward. So I hope that we can see that I'm kind of expanded as we look through this list and as the programs are developed. And then I want to talk a little bit more about the Down Payment Assistance Program. And this is something that came up. I remember John Edmund was reading the names of these individuals who went through programs in the sixth District and how empowered they were. And I was talking to a sixth District resident and a fifth District resident. Both of them were very low income and gone through the program. And they want to stay where they are. They don't want to leave the sixth District. They don't want to leave the ninth District. They don't want to leave the fifth District. But the homes in those areas or the places where they currently live would not be affordable. I would love to see a part of this $5 million in addition to a down payment assistance program to really facilitate so many multi units, especially small property owner multi units are really turning over as people are not being able to pass on their Prop 13 value to their children as those change hands. We need a program that incentivizes and provides the down payment for the people living in those apartments or multi units or duplexes or triplexes to be able to turn that into a condo association, even if it's only two or three units, and that that down payment would let them by their property. So you try to buy a single family house in the city. You can read the reports online. You're talking $600,000, $500,000. Even for a two bedroom, you can get a triplex for 750 800,000. Now, for you to buy your own destiny of one of your units, you're talking about 250,000. You write about 300,000. So in Mr. Richardson or Vice Chair Richardson. Last week talked about the down payment assistance program and how 25,000 can make a difference. Well, 25,000 makes a lot bigger difference when you're purchasing a unit for 300,000. Because now you're talking about higher percentage, 10% of its 250,000 and so on. And then you can really potentially buy down that risk of the the mortgage insurance and that money that a lot of people feel is essentially being thrown down the drain or not. So or if we as the city can provide that mortgage insurance, if we could be that backer. So they don't have to make that extra $400 payment a month. And that would make the affordability really come down. So. So much good here. But I just want to add those two things. I know that that was also in your Everyone Home initiative, Mr. Mayor, and kind of just we talk about pulling all these plans together, whether it's the blueprint of the everyone home or the everyone in or that there's so many of them. I really am looking forward to seeing how this money can activate not only our city as a whole, but so many of the plans that have been. Little seeds and grow them into amazing gardens. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Sara. Yes. Thank you. I won't be very long. I was just so excited earlier to talk about the economic empowerment zone that I did not have a chance to share my gratitude to you, Mayor, for your hard work and advocacy from the vaccination rollout to our recovery plan and then future conversation about infrastructure. So thank you so much as well as to Vice Mayor Richardson for his leadership as chair on the Fed Legislation Committee. I'm a member of that and also I just want to thank staff so much for their hard work. I know John Kaiser attended every one of those session and wrote the report himself on a very short timeline, as well as our city manager, Tom Monaco, for leading us through this process as far as just, you know, ensuring that, you know, that we're getting making sure we're being comprehensive about it, that we we put a little bit in a little bit of everything to ensure we have this kind of full recovery. But making sure that we also narrow into our hardest hit and high need community as well. So just wanted to share my gratitude because I didn't get to do it earlier. So thank you so much. Thank you. Sorry, Councilwoman Allen. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a couple more comments and I won't be really long, but I had a couple of things that I want to say. As you know, that 30 million in rental assistance is going to be huge. You know, our community should not have to decide whether to pay rent or buy food. And I think getting that to build them as quickly as we can is going to be really important. I love the additional 5 million for housing support that provides the rental housing navigation assistance, which is going to be a huge help. And and I love the idea of offering a down payment assistance for first time homebuyers. It just is going to level the playing field. It's a great equalizer, creating wealth in our new our neglected communities. And I just I just love that. And we talked about childcare a little bit. Thank you, Councilwoman and Mongo. And but one of the one of my ask on that is I know we're creating an additional one in sports that is that that goes directly to providing child care services to our working parents that desperately need the help. And so I just I know there's 2.1. And so and there are some other buckets that's going into. So my ask is that any of that additional money goes directly into child care services. And so I'm city manager. I'm not sure if I need to make a motion on that, but but that is that is a ask. And also, with regards to one of the things I did advocate for, too, is, is just making sure that we have funding for our convention center because our tourism, as we all know, is the nexus. And it drives so many jobs and to into our our city. And then I and the $12 million that's being allocated towards homelessness is huge. I think this is a this is a game changer. I never understood the Multi-Service Center, and I know, as one of my colleagues talked about earlier, is is grant funded. And that is a problem that was on council council member Urunga. That is a problem. The way that is funded. And and so we definitely need to work on that. But the multi-service center not being available longer hours, you know, after that Monday through Friday, 9 to 5 has always been problematic. So I like that we're addressing that and the existing modular units as well. So again, and also one other thing that I wanted to I wanted to ask is with regards to our clean streets with that money, can we also, if there are that there are bids that are currently providing clean streets like the LBA that could jump in immediately and help and some of that money be used to expanding their programs. So that was that was a question that I had. Thank you again, Mayor. And council member to answer the two questions from from that one, the childcare. Yes, we do believe that if there is additional money for child care, one area of the plan that's that could use some additional resources is to directly fund child care services so that people who need to go to work at night and need someone to watch the children or or during the day or any other time that they're looking to be employed, that they have access to those types of services. We do believe there's going to be direct money for child care as well out of the stimulus package that would be able to go to child care providers. But until that money is there and we know about it, we'd like to really focus the 1 million on those direct services for child care. The second question was on clean streets. Yes, we're still developing what that exact plan would be for that $5 billion over the next two years. But we do believe part of part of what we want to do is make sure that business corridors, major corridors, are really clean and picked up and that we're doing these these kind of deep cleanings. Some of that will be done with city staff. But if we have partners that can help us, we would like to engage them. Anyone from the Conservation Corps to potentially some of the bids that are set up to do some of that work. So yes, we would be interested in exploring that and can continue to work through that. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Councilman Allen, do you have anything else? No matter where that was at. Thank you. Okay. Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I thought this was a great conversation. It's great to see so many people on board with so many great ideas. Ready to land this land, this plane here. You know, I talked a lot about the broader stuff, but I wanted to touch base on how you talk about my district. I want to make sure I touch on a couple of things I think are I'm excited about. Two things I'm excited about. First is I'm glad to see so much support on the economic empowerment zones. This allows us to invest in our communities, implement strategies for the racial equity plan. This is an ambitious plan. We have had have funding to implement those things. Things like cultural, cultural centers and cultural districts, special districts. ERISA needs cannabis equity pipeline or equitable procurement processes in our city. All of these things are they're called out in the reconciliation plan. And this allows you to think about those long term investments. Secondly, down payment assistance has been something I've talked about a long time. Other councilmembers talked about made a motion that came back, said, you know, we just don't have money. If we had a pot of funds to start it, you can leverage it and create a larger fund that over time replenishes itself. I think this is a smart investment that makes sure current generations and this investment can be felt for generations to come. So I'm really excited about that and I just want to recognize and find, you know, it's been a lot of thanks on the council and all that, but I really want to thank the speakers and particularly, you know, a lot of these meetings we hear from a lot of the same folks. I was really impressed to hear from so many Barbara. And, you know, I've been going to the same barber. I've been on the same barber since I moved to Long Beach in 2007. And and it's true, these are the community anchors and I'm really glad to see, because they were hurt and they were hit and they really haven't been organized historically. But that's the that's really the heart of it's an important part of black and brown communities. Barbershops and hair salons. So the fact that they were so organized and I was surprised that there was the organized, I think that's important. I think you should know that a lot of your asks are already reflected here. Now you have a standalone category for investment into salons and hair in barbershops, all of those things. And it's and it's a good fund like the Max Max Grant is up to $25,000. So that's significant and I encourage that. Just make sure you capitalize on momentum and make sure the businesses are, you know, seldom represented, you know, that you're working with them and that you get that in. But I think this is a great motion. I'm happy to I'm happy to vote for this and support this. I'm going to ask and I'm going to ask staff to just restate the motion just for the record, restate what you have after you've had everybody's comments, and then and then we can move on with the vote. Thank you, vice mayor. So we certainly were listening. We heard a lot of comments, a lot of what the council has talked about is in the plan and it will be kind of fleshed out as we do the rest of the detail, and we'll do as many of those as we can. And what we heard it for the actual motion was one to adopt the city staff's recommended plan to you two to adopt the mayor's changes as outlined in his letter, with the clarification that the $5 million for housing would be $1,000,000 for a navigator is $1,000,000 for land grant or land grant and $3 million for affordable housing land trust. Thank you. $3 million for additional down payment assistance that then the $900,000 that's outlined currently in the plan for housing legal support would be for right to counsel. Exclusively. That under health equity of the $4.9 million we have for health equity, about 500,000, not about but exactly 500,000 would be supporting immigrant support services and that we would be looking at this through a collective impact type approach and create dedicated areas that align the empowerment money, the food security money, the youth prevention money, and a couple other areas that are location base that are overlap and create the collective impact model for those areas. Thank you. I'm going to I'm going to go ahead. And I think also and obviously, I think every separate of the motion, there's a lot of comment from the council about different parts of the fight, and I'm assuming all those will be coming back in different ways. Mr. City Manager So I know that you're going to be incorporating kind of all of the comments made by the council and and the community. So we appreciate that. I want to wrap up and we're going to go to a vote. I'm going to say a few last, last things. The first is to our business community. As a reminder, what we're doing today on economic recovery is just a piece of what's really happening around economic recovery. We want to encourage folks to remember that the state has set aside $2 billion with a B for recovery grants and economic development. The feds also sent specific dollars in this same bill for economic recovery. Separate of this, President Biden even created a fund just for restaurants within the American Recovery Act. And so pleas from from the business perspective, what we're doing, of course, is to supplement all these amazing grants and work. But I want to make sure that Mr. Modica and our economic development team, that we're ensuring that all of our businesses have access not just to our grants, but when we're promoting our grants, that we're also promoting them to try to get a state grant or a federal grant so that they really have all of the opportunities in front of that. It's really, really critical. I also just want to just want to note that from a from a thankful perspective staff, the team you guys did such a great job of, number one, listening to the community. I mean, you hosted 20 plus roundtables and what you guys put together to present is really what you heard from from so many community members, business owners, nonprofit leaders. That's where this plan is coming from. It's really from from the community. And then at the same time, when when Mr. Moynihan, when you were kind of walking me through what staff wanted to present and some of the ideas, what I really saw was you guys carefully listening to what this city council has been saying for the last few years on what different priorities were. You know, you you focus in on issues around businesses and digital digital inclusion and around equity and around funding types of programs in our parks and violence prevention that have matter to the council or ensuring that certain reforms were in place. So I really saw in this plan just a real listening to the body that is really speaking on behalf of their constituents and speaking on behalf of what they're hearing out in the community. And I don't I there is. There's so much in this plan. Then I have heard all nine of the members talk about for the last few years consistently and for some of the newer folks just in the last, you know, obviously few months. And from what I've heard from the community. So I just want to thank you. I do honestly believe that this proposal is a creation of what we've heard from the community and what we've heard from the city council. And it's also a creation of, quite frankly, being fiscally responsible. And first and foremost and Mr. Markey, you you know, when we talked about this earlier, I told you today one top priority is reserves and making sure that we put money back. Did we prepare ourselves for that next emergency? And I just want to also think the council, for taking that seriously, because I can't tell you that if we didn't have that money set aside and had we been spending that down, we would not have been able to meet the moment of this emergency. So I think that's a great opportunity for us. And then finally, I can't I can't leave the conversation without thinking. President Biden, Vice President Harris and the Congress, we're actually passing this plan. This is a proposal. To be clear, this is a proposal. Of President Biden's. He put this plan forward in front of the Congress, and many of us have the great honor and opportunity to meet with him and members of the administration to craft what this plan would look like, including many of my colleagues from across the country. And so I'm grateful to him. We're grateful to Congress and everyone that actually passed and voted to adopt this plan that's in front of us here today, or this would not be possible. So we're very grateful. And and with that, we'll go ahead and call a roll call vote. Councilwoman Zendejas. I. Councilwoman Ellen. I can swim in price. I can spend subpoena. All right. Councilwoman Mango. I transwoman Sara. I can't remember. Oranga. Absolutely. I. Councilman Austin? Yeah. Yes. Vice Mayor Richardson. I'm Bush and Kerry's. Great. Congratulations, everyone. That's it's going to be a big year for us in recovery. So congratulations. A lot of great work by the staff. Amazing. Amazing. We're going to move on. We're going to take just like a one minute just break, and then we're going to start with item 11 and then I'm sorry, public comment and then item 11 will be first up. Okay. So just one minute break. Thank you. Okay, everyone, we're going to go ahead and restart the the meeting from the recess. We are believe that we do have a quorum. So I'm going to just have the clerk call the roll call to restart the meeting again for the quorum. Councilwoman Sunday has. Both. Councilwoman Allen. Present Councilwoman Pryce. Present Councilman Sabina. I'm here. Councilwoman Mango. Here. Councilwoman Sara. Present Councilmember Ranga. Present Councilman Austin. Vice Mayor Richardson. Here we have a calm.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and take the continued actions necessary to adopt the Master Fees and Charges Schedule and the Water and Sewer Rates as they relate to the Fiscal Year 2022 budget as listed in Attachment A. (Citywide)

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Motion. Scary. Thank you. Next, we'll have item number 12, please. Item number 12, a report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and adopt the master's fees and charges schedule and the water and sewer rates citywide. Thank you. There's a motion for a second. Okay. So we moved in, seconded. There's no public comment on this item. There is one public comment on this item, Mr. Mike Murchison. Okay. Good evening, vice mayor and council member is my name is Mike Murchison. I am a lifetime resident in Long Beach. I live in the eighth. And on behalf of rental property owners who have been hammered during this pandemic, I just want to kind of give you an observation about the water and sewer increases. Chris Gardner explained everything to me and he did a masterful job. So I don't have an argument with the background of Prop 218 and how the water and sewer rates are increased. But the problem that I have is the deferred rent that you all have been dealing with. Those moneys haven't been allocated to the extent possible because of the federal income requirements. So a lot rental property owners have been hammered financially on top of this. Rental property owners make up, in my opinion, the majority of the accounts the Long Beach Water has. Now, the state recognizes one building, meaning if you own 20 units in a building, they only recognize as one building and yet as a rental property owner, you've got to pay for all your tenants in there for your water and sewer rates. So a couple of weeks ago, the Long Beach Water Department had their meeting making a recommendation to you folks. Over 700 emails opposing the water and sewer rate were submitted to the Long Beach Water Department. My only point to you is that increases like this should be deferred at least for another year until we get through the Delta variant and COVID and all that, to continue to hit an industry that keeps getting blasted left and right, it's just not right. I just want you guys to take that into account. I know that this is going to probably move forward in all likelihood, but there's a lot of frustrated rental property owners out there right now . When you get over 700 that submit emails, that own, you know, multiple buildings, multiple units, it gives you an idea of the frustration that's out there right now. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no further public comment. Members, please cast your vote. And Vice Mayor Richardson, there are multiple votes on this item. Right? Trump went after. Ocean is carried. Three had a vote on the second again. This is concluding this is completing the budget actions from our previous council meeting. All right, members, please cast your vote. Motion is carried. Okay. One more time. Motion is very. Interesting. Thank you. So next, we'll take up the fund transfer items. This item 13, 16, 17, 29 and 30 and 31.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending Ordinance No. ORD-10-0012, modifying the assessments to be levied within the East Anaheim Street Parking and Business Improvement Area, read and adopted as read. (Districts 3,4)

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Let me let me just real briefly, if I can have. Hearing one. I know it's very quick. We can do that really quick so we get that out of the way. Item one as a report from Economic Development recommendation to receive supporting documentation and to the record conclude the public hearing and declare ordinance approving the change to the East. Anaheim Street Parking and Business Improvement Area Methodology and assessment for the first time and later over to the next regular meeting for final reading districts three and four. Great. There is a there's a motion and a second. Mr. City Manager. Yes, this. We need to administer an oath. To the clerk. To administer the oath on this one. You or anyone watching to give testimony, please stand. You and each of you. Do you 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. Intuitive presentation, right? So the staff presentation. Today will be done by Eric Romero Economic Development. Good evening, Mayor and Honorable Members of the City Council, the Zakaria Business Association Board of Directors, which serves as the advisory board to the City Council on matters related to the East Anaheim Street Parking and Business Improvement Area made a formal request to the City Council to add new business classifications to the East Anaheim Street Parking and Business Improvement Area method of assessment. The proposed business classifications include financial institutions, which are banks, insurance companies and nonprofit organizations. Approximately 14 businesses nonprofits would be impacted by the change. It is estimated that the changes to the method of assessment would bring in roughly 2500 annually in additional revenue. And the ZAFIRA, a business association, is proposing to add the additional revenue to the organization's marketing budget. At its April nine, 2019 meeting. The City Council adopted a resolution that declared the intention of the City Council to add. New business type, new business classifications, and that today, as a public hearing date. A copy of the resolution and public hearing notice were mailed to all businesses that pay into the Business. Improvement District and were also published in local media as required. The recommended action for this item would amend. Ordinance ten 0012, which established the East Anaheim Street Parking Business Improvement Area by adding the new business classifications to the method of assessment. State law provides that the City Council should hear and consider all protest. Against the proposed changes to the method of assessment. If written protest are received from area. Business owners representing 50% or more of the proposed assessments, the City Council shall not. Approve the change to the ordinance. This concludes my report. Thank you. Good idea. When very public comment on idea. No. But these guys went from an idea. Guys, it's like speaking to Mr. Soprano. Stand in support. Thank you. Mr. Conspiracy. No, my second. One. Would you please cast your vote? Okay. Motion carries.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Sections 21.15.3060, 21.21.501, 21.21.504, 21.25.101, Table 30-1 of Section 21.30.040, 21.31.225, 21.31.235.C, 21.31.255, 21.31.265, 21.32.020, 21.32.110, 21.32.120, 21.32.205, 21.32.210, 21.32.220, 21.32.225.A.1, 21.32.235, 21.39.030, 21.41.253, 21.52.206, 21.52.263, 21.52.283, and Table 54-1 of Section 21.54.170; by adding Section 21.32.275; and by repealing Section 21.32.130, and Tables 32-1A, 32-2A, and 32-3A, all related to the Zoning Code, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

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Thank you. We're going to do hearing item number 2/1, please. Report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing. Declare Ordinance Approving Zoning Code Amendment a-19-002 amending Title 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code read for the first time and late over in the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and Adopt a resolution directing the Director of Development Services to submit the ordinance amendments to the California Coastal Commission citywide. Can I get a second, please? Okay. There's a motion and a second. Mr. West. Oh, the staff report will be given by Linda Tatum. And Alexis, thank you. I'd like to introduce Alexis Oropeza, our current planning officer, who will provide the staff report. A brief staff report. Good evening, honorable mayor. Members of the City Council. This item tonight contains a range of nine zone text amendments for a variety of code revisions that are intended to streamline the zoning code, as well as provide clarity for areas of the code which previously were not as clear. We are asking for all items to be to. Take action on all items, with the exception of item. Number four this evening due to a clerical error. We'd like to request approval of all modifications except for the strike out references. To commercial. Zoning districts for the c0ch zoning districts. With that, we would ask City Council to take. Action and are available. To answer any questions. Is there a public comment on this hearing? Seeing no public comment on the hearing at Concern Richardson. Anything? No. Councilwoman Price. No. Okay. The members, please cast your votes. Motion carries. Q Thank you. I'd also like if I can get a motion also to our postponing hearing at Edinburgh one to the next meeting on May 14th. If I can get a motion in a second, please. Is there any public comment on the postponement?

AN ORDINANCE relating to violations of the All-Gender Restroom Ordinance; amending Section 14.07.040 of the Seattle Municipal Code to clarify a respondent’s right to appeal the violation outlined in subsection 14.07.040.C.

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The Report of the Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development and Arts Committee. Agenda Item to Council 118 652 Relating to violations of the All Gender Restaurant Ordinance and many Section 14 point No. 7.0 40 of the Seattle Municipal Code. To clarify a respondent's right to appeal the violations outlined in subsection 14.0 7.0 40 point C, the committee recommends the bill pass. Councilmember Herbold. Thank you. The old gender restroom ordinance, passed unanimously by the City Council in 2015, established a requirement for gender neutral signage on all single occupant restrooms in public accommodations across Seattle. The legislation before us today proposes a technical amendment to the 2015 all gender restroom ordinance to clarify a respondent's right to appeal the violation. Existing language in the ordinance states that a respondent may appeal the civil penalty by requesting a contested hearing. However, the function of a contested hearing itself is to appeal the underlying violation that leads to the civil penalty rather than the civil penalty itself. Consequently, a technical amendment is necessary to rectify the discrepancy between the appeal and the type of hearing associated with that appeal. Not only does this amendment reconcile a discrepancy, but it also ensures respondents have access to due process. The ordinance unanimously passed out of committee last Tuesday. Thank you very much. Councilmember Herbold, are there any further comments on this bill? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. So on i. Bagshaw. Burgess. Gonzalez. I. Herbold. I. Johnson. Whereas I O'Brien President Harrell. I. Nine in favor and unopposed. Bill passes and the chair will sign it these religion items three through 12 into the record please.

A bill for an ordinance approving a Second Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Ferkam, Inc., d/b/a Extreme Towing and Recovery for citywide towing services. (FINANCE & SERVICES) Adds one year and $1.75 million to the current contract with Extreme Towing & Recovery (for a new end date of 7-31-16, 5 year term, and total contract of $8 million) for citywide towing services (201100630). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 8-31-15. The Committee approved filing this bill bu consent on 7-30-15.

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Thank you, Mr. President. As you may recall, at the mayor council meeting where we discussed this, I had inquired as to the the record of of response times in my district in southwest Denver. And other members may also be interested, but I would like to know if it's possible by next week, if we can get a breakdown of the statistics that staff got us by council by at least by my council district. And also, this is a short extension. And when this contract comes up again next year to rebid, might the administration consider putting it out to bid by quadrants of the city so that we can have towers who can respond more quickly in southwest Denver? So my question was, can we have information broken down? All right. Here. We're going to have Melissa Baldwin from. Thank you for that. Good evening. We're still working on trying to break out our data by districts. The city agencies that use this don't keep data themselves. So we're relying on the vendor to try to break out all that data. Thank you very much. And you had two categories and what these are overwhelming statistics. 15,000 tows last year, but 12,000 of those were impound tows. What were the other 3000, if you know. Those are city vehicle tows. Okay. Thank you. That's all. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Councilman knew I was also just concerned about the overall financial situation with the towing service and support. Councilman Flynn And just really like to get some information which I expressed the Mayor Council but the overall break even point of this program. So I appreciate that information. All right. Thank you both. Any other comments or questions on 530? Scene nine. We have one more, I believe, Madam Secretary. 541. Councilman Flynn, would you like for us to do this? Thank you, Mr. President. I would like this put on the floor for a separate vote so that I can abstain. Certainly, Councilman can ask, would you please have 541 order published? Yes, Mr. President, I move that council bill 541 be ordered published has. Been moved and seconded. Comments. Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Mr. President. Before my election, I was employed at RTD. Under the city's code of ethics. I am not taking any action on anything related to the regional transportation district for at least six months and will abstain.

AN ORDINANCE relating to city-owned property under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation in Blocks 2 and 7, Steel Plant Addition to the City of Seattle, Block 6, Smith’s Replat of Lots 11 to 20 Block 1 Steel Plant Addition to the City of Seattle, and Blocks 54 and 55, Homecroft Addition to the City of Seattle; designating the properties for street purposes; and laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing portions of Delridge Way Southwest, Southwest Orchard Street, and Dumar Way Southwest.

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Agenda item 15. Council Bill 118 613. Relating to city owned property under the jurisdiction of the South Department, Transportation and Blocks two and seven steel plant addition to the City of Seattle. BLOCK six Mystery Plat of lots 11 to 20 BLOCK one Steel Plant Addition to the City of Seattle on blocks 54 and 55 Home Craft Edition to the City of Sale, designating the properties for street purposes and laying off opening widening extending establishing portions of Delbridge way southwest south as Orchid Street and Denmark way southwest. The committee recommends the bill. Pass because remember, Brian. This is an exciting one, folks. This this is we're getting some new right away in the Delbridge neighborhood as a result of work that was done years ago, as far as I can tell. And we're getting the ride away from Ascot property. So it's just a transfer from one hand to the other within the city. But still, there's a lot of excitement about that. And so because of this project in the past, in all seriousness, the land that was formerly Ascot land that they had bought in long time ago is now actually an official part of the right away , thanks to this ordinance, assuming it passes. Thank you. Councilmember O'Brien, are there any further comments and please call the role on the passage of the bill. Suarez i o'brien so want big John Gonzalez purple Johnson President Harrell. I. Eight in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and chair with signage. We have the adoption of other resolutions. Please read to an item 16 in the record.

Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents and subsequent amendments, with Citizens Telecommunications Company of California, Inc., dba Frontier Communications (Frontier), to occupy, place, and maintain attachments on Frontier poles and use conduits for the purpose of extending telecommunication services to the Santa Fe Avenue Synchronization Enhancement Project, in an annual amount not to exceed $20,000, for a period of ten years. (Citywide)

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Motion carries. Thank you. N 36, please. Report from technology and innovation. Recommendation to adopt a resolution to execute a contract with Frontier Communications, to occupy, place and maintain attachments on frontier poles for the purpose of extending telecommunication services to the Santa Fe Avenue Synchronization Enhancement Project and an annual amount not to exceed 20,000 citywide. The motion in a second with no public comment, but Councilman Mongo does have a question. Thank you. And I probably should have done it on 35 over 36, but I'm hoping that in the next several weeks we could also get an update on the citywide infrastructure upgrade that allows for fiber that kind of talks about bringing everyone within. The guidelines of connecting everyone. Everyone connected. Thank you. Thank you. Members, please cast your votes.

A RESOLUTION modifying the Mayoral Civil Emergency Order of October 29, 2021, related to hiring incentives for public safety emergency response.

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Thank you, Madam Clerk. Resolution 32026. Agenda item five is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the Court please read the title of item six into the record and the item six Resolution 32027. A resolution modifying the Mayoral Civil Emergency Order of October 29th, 2021, related to hiring incentives for public safety. Emergency Response. The committee recommends the City Council adopt, as amended, the resolution with councilmembers Herbold, Gonzalez, Lewis and Morales and favor councilmembers Macheda and Serrano opposed and councilmembers Suarez, Peterson and Strauss abstaining. Thank you, madam. Are there any comments on resolution 32027? Agenda item six. Councilmember Herbold, please. Thank you so much. As a clerk, this was approved in the Budget Committee by a42 vote with three abstentions. The CBA and the resolution are intended to amend the mayor's emergency order on hiring incentives to first limit the duration of the emergency order through the end of 2021. And secondly, to limit expenditures pursuant to the order $500,000 in 2021 is the amount his office estimated would meet it in 2021. The resolution works in conjunction with a budget action in the chairman's balancing package, which requests a report from the City Budget Office to the Council on a potential citywide hiring incentive for frontline workers beyond those covered in the mayor's current emergency order. Extending those incentives to to recruits, to departments beyond speed and the Community Safety Communication Center. Item Leaves in place Mayor's Executive Order regarding hiring bonuses for police officer in line areas through the end of 2021. Some of you may recall that there is another proposal not on the agenda today to limit the hiring incentives to only see us seek recruits and not permit the incentives or our recruit. If the vote in favor of action eight does not prevail, we will very likely see the other proposal before us at our next meeting, and that this proposal is related to an executive order promulgated by Mayor Durkan. I believe it's appropriate the executive order and end of her term regardless which action amending mayor and executive order ls. Incoming elect incoming mayor elect Harrell could issue a new executive order in 2022. Support important work of all of our city departments and I recognize the difficulty we are having filling vacancies in this labor market and the impact on the delivery of supply of public services and the impact on morale in each of these departments. And for that reason, I, for one, would strongly prefer of a 2022 fixation, which means indeed, we could add bonus incentives for rather than having a new conversation both this year and again next year, about excluding SPV officer recruits. Finally, as a reminder, the balancing package before us. There is no funding for bonuses in 2022 as a quently then those funds are not in the 2022 budget. It's more important than ever that if we're going to have a bonus program in 2022, we have deliberations about how to fund it before authorizing it. Thank you. He becomes member. Councilmember Peterson, please. Thank you. Council President. I thank you, Councilmember Herbold, for that. I support Mayor Durkin's executive order for hiring incentives, and it seems to have achieved some early success. I believe these hiring incentives are needed after the alarming spike in the number of police officers in 911 dispatchers leaving their positions. At the same time, I agree that today's suggested modifications of the executive order from our public safety chair are reasonable and fiscally prudent as they allow the hiring incentives to continue to the end of this year. And while the Council unfortunately did not approve hiring incentives as part of our fall budget process for next year 2022, today's action still leaves the door open for the incoming administration to reissue a similar executive order if needed, as Seattle competes with other jurisdictions across the nation for emergency response personnel. I would encourage the incoming administration in January to do what it can and not only to hire police officers and firefighters and 9 million dispatchers, but also to retain these valuable employees that we already have. So they continue to serve Seattle. So I will be voting for these modifications. Thank you. I think it comes from Peterson, who has more than one. Thank you. On October 29th, Mayor Durkan issued an emergency order to reinstate hiring bonuses of up to $25,000 for new police officers. Ironically, her excuse for this emergency order was to give police even more money because of the COVID 19 emergency. In other words, even though so many police officers are actually endangering the public by refusing to be vaccinated or to wear masks, they still apparently need to be given more money. Mayor Durkan has shown a shocking double standard when she advocated for hiring bonuses in the Seattle Police Department. The police are some of the highest paid city of Seattle employees, making more than double what is paid to social workers like homeless service workers. The mayor has claimed in the past that she could not that she could she could not open homeless shelters and tiny house villages because there are not enough homeless service workers to staff new spaces. Where are the hiring bonuses then, or just decent living standards for impoverished homeless service workers who actually help people turn their lives around? Most importantly, the size of the police budget is not what has a statistical impact on the amount of crime in a community, and that includes police officer salaries as well, not having a statistical impact on public safety. I apologize for my dog. It is reducing inequality and providing affordable housing and living wage jobs and affordable services, including childcare, but has a greater statistical impact. I absolutely share the concerns that working people have about the rise in gun violence. There is no question that we do need to address this. But if you look at the data, you will see that this is happening. Even though the police budget has been bloated for many years, while the social services and affordable housing that working people, oppressed communities and the poor need continue to be gravely underfunded and at the same time, rents by corporate landlords are skyrocketing. Studies show overwhelmingly the best and really only solution to public safety issues is to fund the needs of our society to address crime, and particularly to stop crimes before they even happen. We need to find affordable housing, social housing that is publicly owned, high quality, affordable housing funded by taxing big businesses and the wealthy. We need to raise wages and and exploitation, not increase repression. We need an elected community oversight committee with full powers over the police. On November eight, my office introduced legislation to modify the mayor's executive order, which would stop the implementation of the police hiring bonuses that the council voted on Loder in September against implementing twice by legislation left in place the hiring bonuses for 911 operators. However, rather than bringing that legislation to a vote, it was delayed by two weeks to give the political establishment the opportunity to bring alternative legislation through the Budget Committee that essentially approves the mayor's executive order, which is the bill in front of us today. I'm confused how this bill, which does not amend one word or a number in the budget, was treated as budget legislation. But regardless, it is the bill in front of us today. This bill approves Durkan the executive order on hiring bonuses for the duration of her term. In my view, those hiring bonuses are a terrible misuse of city resources that should be used for affordable housing, social services and for the needs of our communities. So I will be voting no on this resolution if the majority of the Council agrees with me and votes no on this emergency order. I hope the Council will consider to schedule a will. Agree to schedule the resolution from my office rejecting the mayor's emergency order for a vote next Monday. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Silent. Are there any additional comments on item six, which is resolution 32027? Councilmember, will you have the last word. On the points for the viewing public? I just want to advise that the mayor's office has confirmed that funding is available throughout during 2021 to implement the executive order. I have requested an update from the Mayor's Office on the implementation of the vaccine mandate as it pertains to police officers and 911 dispatchers. I'm confused as to. Councilmember still wants reference of the vaccine mandate and the fact that officers haven't complied as a reason for why a hiring incentive for departments that who for whom their management is enforcing the vaccine mandate event. I mean I think that is what is partially creating the need for hiring incentives is to support the officers in one case and the one dispatchers in the other case who have complied and who are are still with the city, still performing public service and are working in departments that have large vacancies. So I really see the the allowance of of hiring incentives through the end of this year as really being part and parcel of supporting the enforcement of the vaccine mandate. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember Herbold. Okay. With that debate is now closed on this particular agenda item. So will the clerk please call the role on the adoption of resolution 32027? Agenda item six. So want no. Strauss. Yes. HERBOLD. Yes. Whereas. Yes. LEWIS Yes. Morales Yes. Well, Sarah, I. Peterson I. Council president. Gonzalez, I Adan favor one opposed. 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

A proclamation declaring June 1st as National Gun Violence Awareness Day and June as Gun Violence Awareness Month.

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Area. So tourism is a really important part of our economy and also a lot of fun for everybody as well. So thank you so much. Excellent. Thank you. All right, we have. Now Proclamation 594. Councilman Lopez, will you please read it. About Councilman Cashman instead? Councilman Cashman. Yeah. Councilman Cashman. Yes, please. Rita, we had a little typo there. Sorry about that. You know, £1 is as good as another. Yes. This is proclamation number 18 0594, declaring June 1st as National Gun Violence Awareness Day and June is Gun Violence Awareness Month, whereas every day 96 Americans are killed by gun violence. And on average, there are approximately 13,000 gun homicides every year. And. Whereas, Americans are 25 times more likely to be killed with guns than people in other developed countries. And. WHEREAS, in Colorado, 78% of firearm deaths are suicides. Nearly half of all suicide deaths in Colorado involve the use of a firearm, which is the most common method of suicide death in the state. And. Whereas, in 2016, in Colorado, 781 persons died from gun violence, with suicides claiming 605 lives and homicide another 176, with the majority of those dying from gun violence being less than 35 years of age. And. Whereas, in 2016, in Denver, 96 persons died from gun violence with suicides claiming 47 lives and homicide another 49. And. Whereas, the Denver metropolitan area has suffered the devastating impacts of mass shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and the Aurora Movie Theater in 2012. And Denver has had Colorado's highest gun death totals with more than 800 residents killed by guns in the 12 years between those two horrific events. And. WHEREAS, research indicates there have been more lives lost from gunfire in America than in all the wars in which U.S. troops have been engaged since our nation's founding. Whereas protecting safety in the communities they serve is a city council's highest responsibility. And. Whereas, in January 2013, Hadiya Pendleton, the teacher who marched in President Obama's second inaugural parade and was tragically shot and killed just weeks later should be now celebrating her 21st birthday. And. Whereas, to help honor Hadiya and the 96 Americans whose lives are cut short and the countless survivors who are injured by shootings every day, a national coalition of organizations designated the first Friday in June as the fourth National Gun Violence Awareness Day. And. WHEREAS, the idea was inspired by a group of ideas friends who asked their classmates to commemorate her life by wearing orange, choosing this color because hunters wear orange to announce themselves to other hunters when out in the woods. And. Whereas, anyone can join this campaign by pledging to wear orange on the first Friday in June every year to help raise awareness about gun violence. And. Whereas, by wearing orange on June 1st, 2018, Americans will raise awareness about gun violence and honor the lives of violence victims and survivors. And. Whereas, we renew our commitment to reduce gun violence and pledged to do all we can to keep firearms out of the wrong hands and encourage responsible gun ownership to help keep our children safe. 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 declares the first Friday of each year, this year, June 1st, 2018, to be National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and the entire month of June to be National Gun Violence Awareness Month and encourages all citizens to support their local communities. Efforts to prevent the tragic effects of gun violence and to honor and value human lives. Section two that the Clerk of the city and county of Denver shall attest and fix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and it be transmitted to Josie Brady, Colorado Coalition Against Gun Violence. All right. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. Your motion to adopt. I move that proclamation 18 dash 0594 to be adopted. It has been moved and seconded. Your comments. Councilman Cashman. Thank you, Mr. President. I first want to start by thanking those in the audience and those at home that are working against extremely daunting odds every day to reduce gun violence in our community. I also want to thank our Office of Special Events, who to honor your work, will be lighting the city and county building in Orange . The first week in June. But here we are again. We mourn the students and teachers murdered just the other day by a deranged gunman at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. Jared Black 17. Shana Fisher 16. Christian Riley Garcia 15. Aaron Kyle McCloud 15. Glenda End Perkins Substitute Teacher. Angelique Ramirez 15. Sabeco Sheikh 17. Chris Stone, 17. Cynthia Tisdale. Teacher. Kimberly Vaughn. Student Age not reported. Since this Gun Violence Awareness Month proclamation was read last year, communities across the land have mourned dozens lost in school shootings, as well as the tens of thousands of men, women and children lost in random homicides and suicides. From sea to not so shining sea. CNN lists the following school shootings thus far in 2018. Most won't ring a bell because they don't rise to the level of carnage that we saw in Parkland, Florida, or Santa Fe, Texas. May 11th, Palmdale, California A 14 year old boy went to Highland High and began shooting a semiautomatic rifle. A 15 year old boy was struck in the shoulder. April 20th, Ocala, Florida a 17 year old student at Forest High School, was shot in the ankle shortly before students were to walk out as part of the national protest against gun violence. April 12th, Raytown, Missouri A man was shot in the stomach at the parking lot of Raytown South Middle School during a track meet. April 9th, Gloversville, New York A student shot another student with a B.B. gun in Gloversville Middle School, March 20th. Lexington Park, Maryland. An armed student shot two others at Great Mills High School. The shooter was killed. One of the students, 16 year old Jaylen Willey, was taken off life support two days later, March 13th. Seaside, California A teacher accidentally discharged a gun during a public safety class at Seaside High School, injuring a student. March eight, Mobile, Alabama. One person was hospital hospitalized after a shooting at an apartment building on the campus of the University of South Alabama March 7th. Birmingham, Alabama. One student was killed and another critically wounded after an accidental shooting at Huffman High School March seven. Jackson, Mississippi A student was shot inside a dormitory at Jackson State University, and it goes on March 2nd in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, February 27, Norfolk, Virginia, February 27. It had been a mississippi February 24th, Savannah, Georgia, and of course, February 14th in Parkland, Florida. 17 unsuspecting students and adults were lost. February nine in Nashville, February 15. Oxon Hill, Maryland. February one in Los Angeles. January 31st in Philadelphia. January 23rd in Benton, Kentucky. January 22nd in Italy, Texas. In January 20th, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. That's this year. We here in Denver rightfully continue to mourn the horrific losses at Columbine and at the Aurora theater shooting and how fortunate we might think that we are that these most recent student shootings didn't happen to us. But can we be sure that we were actually spared? Our mayor, Michael Hancock, was born in Fort Hood, Texas. Governor John Hickenlooper came from Narberth, Pennsylvania. Robin Wittgenstein, head of Denver Health, grew up on the East Coast. Dr. Rebecca Chopp, chancellor of the University of Denver, came from rural Kansas. Those of you in the audience, please, and my colleagues on the dais. If you'll raise your hand. If you were not born in Denver. So lest you be comforted that these recent shootings haven't torn our community apart, realize that just might be an illusion. It might have been our future governor that died in Texas the other day. Or our mayor. Or Council president. Or a future scientist poised to finally find a cure for some hideous childhood illness at the Colorado Children's Hospital, or a mold shattering police chief or educator. Or maybe just the kid who grew up to be your next door neighbor or your best friend. I want to thank my colleague, Councilman Espinosa, for picking up the gantlet laid down at one of our public comment sessions and putting through a bill that outlawed bump stocks and reduced our allowable size for high capacity magazines. But there is so much more that must be done. We watch with interest to see how the courts will assess Boulder's recent efforts to eliminate assault weapons in their community. But at the same time, we're very aware that the scourge of gun violence goes far deeper than guns alone. We must finally make a sea change commitment to mental health care. We must address the widening income gap and the attendant frustration and hopelessness that shows a few having so much and so many having so little. Our children are becoming more and more frightened with every passing week, less and less sure that they are safe in their schools. I met last week with DPS security chief Mike Eaton to get an idea about what our public school district is doing to protect our kids. He spoke at great length about what the district is doing as far as infrastructure and process and systems and partnership with the Denver Police Department to change the paradigm. But security can only do so much to control the deranged. Again, we must do a better job of healing the sick, repairing the damage. Much of what this council might want to do is preempted by state law. As I've said before, we can't even create a database of gun owners. It's against the law. I am prepared to join with my colleagues Mayor Hancock, Governor Hickenlooper and our state legislators to again change that paradigm so that we might create a new Denver, a new Colorado, where kids get an full night of peaceful rest knowing that the worst that might happen to them the next day at school is a pop quiz that they weren't expecting. Thank you, Mr. President. Wow. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Councilwoman Ortega. I first want to thank Councilman Cashman for bringing this forward and for that very thorough overview of what has become too much of a norm in this country. We cannot accept this being the norm. We have to stand up and keep guns out of the hands of our children and out of the hands of criminals. This is just. We should not have to be doing this kind of proclamation. It's time across this country that we all stand up and make our voices heard loud and clear on behalf of our children, on behalf of our communities, that this is not acceptable. Not long ago, one of my granddaughters was at school and they they had to shelter in place because there was somebody in the neighborhood not far from here, very close to downtown. Their school is very close to downtown where, you know, this person had a gun. And so they wanted to make sure all the students were safe. Kids should. Feel comfortable and they should be safe going to school, going to the movies, going to any public place where they don't have to fear for their lives. Because we have too many guns on the streets in this country. Councilman Cashman, thank you for bringing this forward. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Espinosa. Thank you, Councilman Cashman, for not only bringing this forward, but the comments you just made tonight. You can probably hear my voice. How moved I am by what you shared. But this is in context with the conversation I had on on on Friday. Anyway, the the Second Amendment starts with four words a well-regulated militia regulated being the third word in the Second Amendment. And if you have a well-regulated militia, we don't what we'd have is not a well-regulated militia. When you have this many members of that that militia. The people using that part of the the. Of this provision going off and killing people indiscriminately. You have a problem in your. Militia. And so that's where the well-regulated part needs to come in to effect and. What's interesting is then the next line. I mean, the next part of that first sentence is being necessary to the security of a free, strict, free state. If you have to have checkpoints at churches and schools in the recommendations, a single entry into that location, that's not a free state. That is that is everything that we fought multiple wars against. So there is just a very, very serious disconnect. By logging on to the right, the right of people to bear, keep and bear arms. If you're not doing the first two things, having a well-regulated militia and in maintaining a free state, the security of a free state , that those guns are not performing the function that they are, that that thinking is passé. It is old. And I am glad that on Friday I got two to it to be part of a panel held by Skinner students Lillie, Rachel and Ada led. It led a panel, a very, very capable panel where we learned about what this city in the state is doing. And so the good news is, is that we're making progress on focusing on well-being. I think if we. There's a lot that's wrong in America that we can fix. And there's examples in our own past. There's examples worldwide on how we can do a better America and be a more perfect union. And so we're moving towards that. If we can work on the well-being of the individual, cover their health, cover their education, make sure that they have all the things that they need so that they're not reaching that point. It probably won't matter how many guns you have. But the good news is, is that generation, those middle schoolers, the ones right before them, the Parkland High School students, they're getting it. They're understanding that there's a very big disconnect between a very, very, very vocal and well-funded minority in this country glomming behind a the fourth phrase in the Second Amendment and skipping over the other two crucial portions. And they're going to be the change agents. And so the combination. Let's work on the well-being. Let's work on the individuals. Let's work on the community, culture and environment that schools are, that our society is well, this and nurture a new generation that actually sees a free and secure America as being one that's open and tolerant and caring for one another. So, I mean, that is what's what what we've done in the past clearly isn't working. And it really frustrating thing is is that. Is that is is as depressing as it is hearing about school shooting over and over and over again. The the the I don't know what the total number of middle schools in high schools that were open and closed on that day that didn't experience that. And it's an overwhelmingly large number. The kids that are going to school today. Are fearful and I could not shake that out of in that room. I just couldn't I couldn't imagine it wasn't something that I went through in high school. It never occurred to me that we needed to have a school resource officer and metal detectors. And I went to school in Colorado, but there were two members of that board that had experienced gun violence in Colorado high schools. And so it's a thing that is affecting them. And until we we we we do the heavy lifting ourselves, nothing's going to get done. And until these guys get in charge. And thankfully for us, that's in my lifetime. And I'm looking forward to it. Thanks. Thank you. All right, Councilwoman PANITCH. Thank you, Mr. President. There's little I can add to the. Eloquent words of. The sponsor of this, Councilman Cashman. But where there's a gap, I like to kind of jump in. Which is I think it's really. Important to focus on the school shootings because they have been such a. Visible symptom of the disease. Of guns in our country. But they aren't the only place where moms are losing kids. And I just I have to acknowledge the moms in our city who lose kids every day in individual shootings, in homicides, and many, many women in our city lose their lives at the hands of their intimate partners at the other end of a gun. And so I worry a little bit. That too much of the gun debate has moved to this realm of mass shooting and in some ways has has changed the. Debate. Where we're often talking about mental illness. And I. Think, you know, it is important to bring. More attention to mental illness and treatment. But if we did our. Raising of hands of who here has a mental illness or someone in their close family who suffers from one, I think many of our hands would go up. And so I think that I'm not comfortable with the way the national debate has taken the focus away from guns and tried to put it on mental illness as if , you know, that is the lethal element here. It's certainly an element where we miss warning signs, where we miss opportunities to intervene. Every piece of those systems should be fixed, but that does not replace the need to regulate guns in commonsense ways to save lives, and not just for mass shootings, but for the many individuals, more more individuals than Councilman Cashman read more mothers and more lost kids who lose lose their lives in other types of gun violence. So I think it's just important that those families and those folks be recognized. I don't have a list of their names, but I mourn for them as well and for them to. We need to keep this debate focused on the regulatory side. Again, mental health is important. We need to talk about it. But not as a. Substitute for controlling the lethality of guns. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President. I don't have much to add except one Councilman Cashman. That was a very, very well written proclamation, and your comments were right on point. When I think of when you were. Speaking. I was just thinking of a conversation I had with my daughter, who is ten years old. Goes to school in DPS. And I was just reflecting on how we were talking about tornado safety and. You know, if a tornado hit, you go to a hallway and you do your drills. Those are the drills that I had when I was in elementary school. She taught me something completely different. And she says, Well, we do the shelter in place, lockdown drills and all the lockdown drills. She says, Well. We have to stay away from the windows and we got to go hide and we got to be quiet. And I have a special job. And there was a job, me. And she says, I have to make sure that the closet I have to I'm the one that has to go run and make sure that the closet door is open so that the classroom door does not open. She was the real close together, and it locks. So nobody can come in bumper. I think to myself, man. Just one of those drills with skills. It scared the hell out of me as a kid. Imagine. I mean, I just imagined myself as an elementary school in her same elementary school, by the way. And just being scared for my life. I mean, tornado drills are bad as it is and hiding under the under the desks. You know, for some for some folks that are on the West Coast. That's scary enough as it is. Imagine those drills for lockdowns and. And imagine their reality. 20 years from now. Their deep sensitivity. The PTSD is just doing that and how that it would affect our future, our kids, our society. So I think about that then. Then I saw an update on CNN and it was a number that said there have. Been 2288. School shootings since 2009, which was 57 times more than the other six G7 countries combined. It's going to take a heck of a lot more. And it's becoming cliche than. Just passing the buck to hopes and prayers and everybody asking for action. It's going to take a culture change, a shift in our culture when we go to the flea market. Although there are four boys to play with and they market it right to the boys are the little plastic guns, the little M-16s, not even cowboy shooters, man. These are M-16s that they at their market. You go into any one of these malls in the area. And you can buy guns. And it's not necessarily the the ones that real bullets but they have their airsoft. And here there are replicas. Right. So you just think about that and think about our culture. There's so many different ways that we can change and make these shifts, encourage us, encourage other people to make these shifts. And, you know, there are these cultural psyches that that we create for our society. And it's it's something that we can do. You don't have to wait on Congress to do it or we don't have to wait on government, whether it be local or state to do it. Right. We can encourage them with our dollars. And if I might just add something. I think about growing up in the nineties. In having guns pointed out you are being threatened with weapons because you had a different color on. I those of us who grew up in the nineties just knew how tough that was. It was not uncommon to have a weapon in somebody's locker or to have shootings outside. I mean, we got chased around by the CVS outside of West High School with guns. That culture has to shift. And we can't wait for it to be a school shooting. And we can't just talk about it in school shootings as an everyday thing that we have to change. So and. I don't know. Maybe this is something that we can look into. I never thought I would come to this point or even say this publicly, but. I think it's time to start looking at the metal detectors in our schools, if that's if it means saving people's lives. I folks. My friends that are all the way all across the country, they look at me weird because my high school didn't have a metal detector and. So there are small steps I wish we didn't have to cross, but I think we've passed that threshold a long time ago. So thank you, Councilman Cashman, for for bringing this topic up again. I'm glad that we're not just kind of like a one and done council or, you know, we just have one proclamation or one action and we forget about it. I'm glad that you brought this forward again. Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Councilman Lopez. And thank you, Councilman Cashman, for bringing this for a lot to think about here. It has been moved in second. Madam Secretary, Raquel Cashman. I can each Lopez. I knew. Ortega. Susman. Black Clerk Espinoza. Flynn, I. Gilmore, I. Mr. President. I. Pluto's wondering in the results. 12 Eyes, 12 eyes. 594 has been adopted. Councilman Castro. And is there anybody you'd like to bring up? Yes, Mr. President, I'd like to bring up Jose Brady representing the Colorado Coalition Against Gun Violence. Today, I gratefully accept the proclamation from Councilman Cashman on behalf of the Colorado Coalition Against Gun Violence. When I was 13 months old, Columbine happened. 13 people lost their lives that day. When I was nine years old, I was at City Park Jazz and I fled for my life when my friends and I had to run as a shooting broke out between two rival gang members. Five years later, Officers Officer Selina Hollis was killed at that same event. Seven weeks after she was killed. The Aurora theater shooting happened where 12 lives were taken. The next year I was sent home early from I attended East High School and I was sent home early. Classes were canceled that day because there were threats against our school. That shooting would happen. And just a few weeks ago, I was working with my friends at Regis University where I now attend, and we were working out homework in a classroom. And we learned that two shooters ran on to our campus from 50th and federal, and we had to barricade the doors with our legs and we didn't know what to do. Let's just say I didn't get my homework done that night. What do these all have in common? Well, these are things that have happened in my life, but I'm not alone. I have not felt safe in my schools, in my parks, at my movie theaters, or in my neighborhood. Fear has consumed me and many others in my generation across the country. As of five days ago, 943 young people under the age of 18 have been killed due to gun violence in 2018. That's under the age of 18, not even my age group. That number does not include the people that have been killed for many years, ever since 1970, when the Arkansas shooting happened. This number includes those 17 year old Ty Martinez who was shot and killed in March at West Colfax in law. I initially took this fear and turned it into action. I started a group at East High School to bring in young people to start talking about the issue and what to do about it. I got involved on the national level with Generation Progress to organize young people across the country. And as four years have passed, our leaders have done things. But it's not been enough. We have seen how young people are fed up. The parents like the moms and dads here today, which I would like everyone, if you are here working on this issue currently, if you could please stand and recognize you. The March for Our Lives was just the beginning. The walkouts were just the beginning. This proclamation is the next step. Next, we need solutions to reduce the disproportionate gun violence deaths of young people, and especially young people of color that are not recognized. We should all feel safe in our neighborhoods and our schools. And thank you to Councilman Cashman and to the city council today for sponsoring for you for sponsoring this proclamation, for everyone. Voting yes on this. This population is not the end, though. We all have to keep showing up and working to reduce gun violence. We have to. We have to. For everyone who has lost their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, parents, friends and family members and countless others. Enough is enough. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thanks again, Councilman Cashman, for bringing that forward. Our last proclamation this evening. Councilman assessment, will you please read Proclamation 595 happily.

A resolution approving a proposed Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Perkins & Will, Inc. to add compensation and a new end date for additional engineering design professional services for the Congress Park Pool renovation. Amends a contract with Perkins + Will, Inc. by adding $90,500 for a new total of $738,889 and four months for a new end date of 10-31-22 for additional engineering design professional services for the Congress Park Pool renovation, including a public participation plan, program verification and development, schematic design, design development, construction documents, and construction administration, as part of the Elevate Denver Bond Program located at 850 Josephine Street in Council District 10 (201950352-01). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 3-16-20. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 2-11-20.

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Thank you very much. I'll do a quick recap of the items called out under resolutions. Council member Hines has called that Resolution 120 dash 113 for questions. Council member state advocates call that Resolution 2968 for a vote. And I have called it Resolutions one, 82, 183, one, 84, one, 85, 186 and 187 for a vote under bills for introduction. Note items have been called out under bills for final consideration. Items have been called out under pending. No items have been called out. So, Madam Secretary, will you please put the first item on our screens? And, Councilmember Hines, go ahead with your questions on Resolution 113. Thank you, Mr. President. I actually was able to get my questions answered just moments ago or moments before the council meeting. But I would say this is this is regarding a funding for Congress party pool. And we are also working on the not only the Congress part pool, but also the Congress part playground and the sidewalks around all of Congress park. And it is my understanding that they will not be timed to be constructed at the same time. And I would request and suggest that they do be constructed at the same time to minimize disruption to the residents of Congress Park and the park goers. So thank you, Mr. President. All right. Thank you, Councilmember. Seen nothing else on this item? I'm sorry. Did you put this on? I'm sorry, ma'am. Secretary next item, 68. Yes. Councilmember Hines, you just had your comment. QUESTION You're good.

AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of Finance and Administrative Services or the Director’s designee to execute a license agreement with the Department of the Army for the City’s continued use of an approximately 13,000 square-foot warehouse facility at 1555 Alaskan Way South for the operation of the St. Martin de Porres shelter for homeless men over the age of 50, and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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The bill passes and the chair will sign it, please. Oh, yes. Well deserved. Please read the agenda. Item number four. Agenda and for accountable 11909 to authorize and director of finance administrative services and the director says you need to execute a license agreement with the Department of the Army for the city's continual use of an approximately 13,000 square foot warehouse facility at 1555 Alaskan way south for the operation of the Saint Martin, the waters shelter for homeless men over the age of 50 and ratifying, confirming certain prior acts. And I turn this one over to you, Councilmember Bagshaw Very good. Thank you so much. And this comes out of now, Mayor Burgess. This committee, this particular bill, will authorize our director of Seattle Finance and Administrative Services to enter into a new license agreement with the Department of Army for approximately 13. Thousand square feet of federal warehouse space, an Alaskan way south. And the shelter has been used for over 30 years now for Saint Martins to poor as a shelter. It will continue being operated by Catholic Community Services. It is actually a license that will run through the end of July of 2018. So just next year we recommend approval of this bill as presented. Questions colleagues like I would move to pass countable 119092 moved and seconded. Seeing no further discussion, I'd ask the clerk to please call the roll in the passage of the bill. Marez I O'Brien. Hi. So on. Make sure Gonzales Herbold Johnson. Hi seven in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Thank you. I would ask the clerk to please read the report from the Planning Land Use and Zoning Committee. Agenda Number five.

A proclamation celebrating and thanking Kelly Velez for 33 years of outstanding service to the City and County of Denver upon her retirement.

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Then the new Madame Secretary. Thank you, Councilwoman Black. See no other announcements. We're going to move on. There are no presentations and there are no communications. We do have two proclamations this evening and we're going to do it a little bit different. We're going to do these two proclamations in a block because they're brought forward. They're internal and very close to home for us with a couple of our longtime staff members who have given so much to this body and to the city. And so we're going to bring them forward as a body. And Councilwoman Sussman is going to be the voice of the body to bring this forward. And we're going to vote on them in a block instead of separately. So, Councilwoman Sussman, could you read Proclamation 1090 and 1091? It is my pleasure, Mr. President. Thank you. The first one is celebrating and thanking Kelly Velez for 33 years of outstanding service to the city and county of Denver. Whereas Kelly has announced her retirement from city and county of Denver after 18 years with city council and 33 years total of loyal and dedicated service. And. Whereas, Kelly began her distinguished career with Denver City Council in 2000 as Council Secretary, organizing and overseeing procedures in council meetings, correcting and assisting council members with motions, tallying and verifying votes, and often staying late in the night as council members in the public debated legislation in over 800 council meetings, Kelly is well known across the city for her quick speaking skills, reading all the bill titles into the record. And. Whereas, Kelly is known for her professional and institutional knowledge of city government training new council presidents every year or every other year incoming council members, central staff, executive directors and aides. And. Whereas, Kelly was the go to person for the Sayers system. And now and then GRANICUS, which are the technology systems that manage council and committee meetings. And. Whereas, Kelly is famous for her creativity best exhibited exhibited in diverse training, she designs for council members and staff making council members comfortable performing from the dies during council meetings through prizes, noisemakers and jokes, softening the mood and relaxing everyone so they don't take themselves too seriously. And. Whereas, Kelly is black belt trained and certified in lean business processes and had contributed many innovations to the Denver City Council, making the body's operations more efficient, she was instrumental in revamping the legislative workflow process and consent calendar. And. WHEREAS, Kelly makes every person and every issue the most important when brought to her attention, dropping everything she is doing to listen to a request from a council member, staff member, or a member of the public in person or over the phone and immediately addresses it. If she doesn't know the answers, she researches it and provides it through information, anticipating the next question and answering it without even being asked. And. Whereas, Kelly coordinated the Denver Employees Charitable Campaign for City Council, inspiring employees to donate part of their salary to charities and worthy causes. And due to Kelly's organization, Advertising and Engagement Efforts, City Council exhibits one of the highest percentages participation in the campaign and raises the most money and has inspired other coordinators and other departments to replicate Kelly's best practices on how to make campaigns more effective. And. Whereas, Kelly proudly shares the talents of her grandsons, Isaac and Jessie, who excel in soccer and music, Kelly taught Jesse to play the fiddle, and he has become a national success. Winning small fry competitions at the National Western Stock Show and the National Old Time Fiddlers Contest and Festival in 2016, one of the top fiddler competitions in the world. And. Whereas, Kelly takes pride in her work and is committed to providing high quality and all that she does, Kelly's work ethic, commitment, organization and energy for her job are unparalleled and unmatched by anyone when training employees to cover for her during council meeting, Kelly advises, If you mess up or the system doesn't work , just smile. And. Whereas, Kelly was a willing mentor to new staff, a repository of council, history records and institutional knowledge for colleagues, and an inspiration to others to be kind solely by example. Kelly was is a true joy to work with as a colleague or in any interaction, and now therefore be a proclaimed by the council, the city and county of Denver. That Section one the Council hereby recognizes and thanks, Kelly Velez, for her 33 years of service to the city and wishes her a wonderful retirement in Section two that the clerk of the city and county of Denver shall attest. And a fix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation. And that a copy be delivered to Kelly Velez. And in addition to losing Kelly to retirement, we are also losing longtime colleague Shelley Smith.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Woodland Park; transferring jurisdiction of a portion of Whitman Avenue N from the Seattle Department of Transportation to Seattle Parks and Recreation for open space, park, and recreation purposes; transferring a portion of Woodland Park adjacent to East Green Lake Way N from Seattle Parks and Recreation to the Seattle Department of Transportation for transportation purposes; and finding, after a public hearing, that the exchange of property meets the requirements of Ordinance 118477, which adopted Initiative 42.

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Agenda Item 11 Constable 1200 32 relating to weapon park transferring jurisdiction of a portion of Whitman Avenue north for the sale department transportation to Seattle Parks and Recreation for open space park and Recreation Purposes. The committee recommends that the bill passed as amended. Thank you so much. Because mirrors this one is also an item from your committee. So I'm going to hand it back over to you. Thank you. Council President. Yes, this has to do with parks and stop. It's basically a land swap. So this allows for a land swap from Seattle Parks and Recreation to the Seattle Department of Transportation. It would transfer three feet of land, the same parks along East. Green Lake, way between Northeast 50th Street to. Northeast 57th Street to escort, which is Seattle Department transportation. Which it was inadvertently included as park property. So we want to right that wrong. The legislation clarifies that the land is the property of Esther. You also see in your materials the bill passed committee as amended to substitute two technical corrections to the base legislation. It passed unanimously, and I'm asking that council. Pass this bill as amended. Thank you so much, Councilmembers. Are there any additional comments as members stress, please? Thank you. Council President. Thank you, councilmember suarez, for bringing this forward. This is a highly technical piece of legislation that is required, the parks department and that work together in great partnership around many of the aspects of the paving project around Green Lake Way. This is one of those small details that needs to be ironed out. I'll use this moment to again make my pitch to the Seattle Department of Transportation and the Parks Department to do something similar along West Green Lake, way north, where we have a two way bike lane and a two way traveling street for cars. Thank you. Council President. Thank you. Council Memorial's. I mean, a lot. Despite her worries. Any closing remarks? Thank you, Councilmember Strauss, for making a pitch for a bike lane. Appreciate that. So anyway, I know that city council president. I think. All right. We're debate is closed down on this bill now. Will the clerk please call roll on the passage of the bill? Lewis. Yes. MORALES Yes. Peterson. Yes. Yes. Sprouse. Yes. Verbal? Yes. Whereas I council President Gonzales I would in favor and then oppose. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Okay. Well, the clerk please read item 12 into the record. Agenda Item 12 Council Bill 1200 69,000,000,002 Independent Contractors in Seattle Establishing Labor Standards Requirements for Independent Contractors Working in Seattle. The committee recommends the bill passed as amended.

Recommendation to conduct a Budget Hearing to receive and discuss an overview of the Proposed Fiscal Year 2022 Budget for the departments of Fire, Police, and Parks, Recreation and Marine. (Citywide)

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We're going to hear all of the presentations at once. And then after we go through all the presentations, we'll do all the all of the questions at once and then any any public comment, and we'll go from there. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. It was our pleasure to give you an overview of the budget last Tuesday, we transmitted that officially to the mayor and city council and the public. And now we're looking to really dove deeper in some of the key departments. Today, we want to go through three key departments, the fire department. Then we'll go through our police department and then Parks, Recreation and Marine. So I will turn it over to Chief Espino and his team to go through the fire department presentation first followed by police, followed by Parks and Rec. It's. Thank you, Mr. Monaco. Good evening. Mayor Garcetti and members of the City Council. This evening, I will be providing a brief overview of the fire department, highlighting the key services that we provide to the community and some of our recent accomplishments. Additionally, I will share our focus proposed budget changes and some of the major challenges and opportunities that we foresee for the upcoming fiscal year. The Long Beach Fire Department delivers fire rescue, emergency medical services, marine safety response, hazardous materials response, and non-emergency response services. We provide a 24 hour operation 365 days a year. Our personnel are well-equipped and highly trained to mitigate all emergencies. The fire department strives to make Long Beach a better place to live, visit, work and own a business. Additionally, we work to ensure the safety of the community through proactive fire prevention activities, including code enforcement, fire investigation and proactive community outreach. We also provide training and education that is essential to the delivery of our core fire and rescue services. I would now like to present some of the fire department's accomplishments and highlights for the current fiscal year. Over the past 12 months, we've responded to over 80,000 fire, emergency medical services, marine safety and other emergency incidents, a 5% increase from last year. Since many incidents require multiple units to respond. These 80,000 incidents equate to more than 155,000 unit responses. Included in this number are over 55,000 medical calls and over 7500 fire calls. This number has steadily increased over the years, approximately 35% since 2005, when the department had even more resources. This number also includes hazardous material responses, airport responses and other non fire responses. I continue to be very proud of the work that the men and women of the Fire Department do for the community. Since the first days of the pandemic, they have come to work every day, answering every call, despite the danger and potential harm to themselves. In January of the third year of the pandemic, our first responders provided uninterrupted emergency services to the community during the COVID omicron surge. While nearly 100 fire personnel were in isolation. Our arson staff remained very busy. As a number of arson related fires continues to increase. Arson staff investigated 381 arson fires, which resulted in 78 arrests. These numbers continue to increase. One of the driving factors for this is the sharp increase in outdoor fires, specifically those near freeways and rivers. These types of fires have increased by 320% since 2018, from 199 to 637. As in all fire responses. These fires require a large amount of fire resources for a prolonged period of time. In an effort to reduce the number of injuries to fire department personnel caused by heavy lifting. We have purchased and installed an innovative patient lift system on all of our ambulances. With these lift systems, one individual first responder can safely and efficiently load a patient weighing up to £700 into an ambulance. Expanding our partnership with the state of California. The Long Beach Fire Department took delivery of a Type six fire apparatus from the State Office of Emergency Services. This apparatus is being used for statewide mutual aid incidents as well as local all risk events, emergency incidents and disaster responses. This apparatus is currently in Northern California assisting in the McKinney Fire, which has caused four deaths and is at 55% containment. In the current fiscal year, we've received over $4 million in Homeland Security grants through a combination of urban area security initiative, state homeland security grant program and port security grant program funds. These funds allow us to make one time purchases of equipment that is critical to our mission. Grant funds also support training to staff in many in many of our specialty programs, such as Hazardous Materials and Urban Search and rescue. Of the 29 local fire agencies that compete for these grant funds, Long Beach typically receives 20% of available funds. For comparison purposes, Los Angeles County and Los Angeles City fire departments, who are approximately seven times our size each typically receive 30% of available funds annually. In our continuing effort to eliminate bias and foster an environment of diversity, inclusion and equity staff from our Diversity Recruitment Program partnered with the City Manager's Equity Office to deliver the racial equity one on one course throughout the fire department. To date, over 70% of staff have received this training, and our goal is to have all fire department staff trained by the end of fiscal year 23. We continued our participation in Jordan High School's Public Safety Pathway Program. Through the efforts of our Diversity Recruitment Program in partnership with Long Beach Unified School District. We are introducing more students each year to the possibility of a career in the fire service. This is one of our long term strategies for increasing diversity in the Long Beach Fire Department. The Diversity Recruitment Program will also host the second annual Long Beach Fire Department Female Firefighter Career Workshop later this month. This is a one day event that prepares candidates to succeed in the fire recruit examination by providing information on the application and testing process. It continues to be a popular and highly successful event. But. Through the efforts of our Fighter Diversity Recruitment program, we graduated a diverse class of 20 firefighters. We also conducted multiple ambulance operator academies, resulting in 40 new ambulance operators. Two staff are increasingly busy basic life support units. Additionally, we conducted a successful Fire Engineer Academy with 16 promotional candidates in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID 19. Fire department staff from our Fire Boat program partnered with the Department of Health and Human Services to provide COVID 19 vaccinations to crew members on commercial ships that were docked in the Port of Long Beach. Additionally, fire staff continues to assist the health department with their mobile vaccination clinic, reaching those who are unable to get to vaccination sites. Finally, over 900 youth participated in the Junior Lifeguard program this year due to the proactive outreach efforts of our Marine Safety Division in recent years. This summer program, which has been in operation since 1969, continues to grow in number and diversity. The fire department has several major areas of focus for fiscal year 23. The first is to address the steady increase in coal volume and to maintain or improve response times to fires, emergency medical and other emergency responses. We are working with our medical director to analyze and provide recommendations. For adapting how we respond to incidents and perhaps what incidents we respond to in an effort to minimize response times. Innovative solutions such as telemedicine and alternate destinations may be explored. Firefighter safety and behavioral health continue to be significant issues in the fire service. Firefighters are under a tremendous amount of stress working on the front lines during the pandemic, witnessing tragic events firsthand and working long hours. They and their families are impacted by all of this. The health and Safety of Fire Department staff is one of my highest priorities as fire chief. To that end, we have trained peer counselors and made the services of mental health clinicians available to all staff. We need to ensure that everyone in the department is aware of these services. Remove any stigma associated with obtaining help and increase these services as funding allows. Another priority is to increase diversity in all ranks of the fire department through recruitment and training opportunities. Programs like the Female Firefighter Career Workshop prep sessions and the Fire Services curriculum at Jordan High School are all part of our short term and long term solutions to improving the diversity of the department. A significant focus area for the fire department in fiscal year 23 is to maintain staffing and resources to meet service demands of citywide growth. The demand for fire and emergency medical services will increase with the vertical density in the downtown areas and throughout the city. The continued increase in EMS calls and the increase in outdoor fires, especially those near freeways and rivers. The anticipated retirement of our leadership in the management and supervisory ranks creates a great opportunity to develop the next generation of leadership. This has always been a focus of mine and it will remain so in the next year. Officer development efforts include participation in the Leadership Long Beach Institute and Executive Leadership Program, USC, Sol Price Leadership Program and other local and regional training. The Fleet Services Bureau continues to update fire's front line vehicles that respond to fires, emergency medical services and other incidents over the next three years. We will replace ten fire engines, one airport crash rig, hazardous materials vehicle and our mobile command center. I want to thank the Fleet Services Bureau for their support and partnership in this area. Another focus area is to improve compliance with mandated fire prevention inspections. This includes hotels, apartments and residential care facilities. To help us to meet these requirements. We've hired three additional civilian inspectors approved in the fiscal year 22 budget and are now fully staffed in this area. Finally, we continue to streamline the fire plan check review process to meet service demands while ensuring the public safety. Despite the pandemic, we have been able to keep up with the workload and are committed to this continued level of service. We are currently collaborating with the Department of Technology and Innovation to increase efficiencies through an electronic inspection program. Other fire agencies who have used this technology report significant increases in efficiencies up to 40%. The Fiscal Year 23 budget includes several important investments for the fire department. The first is to structurally add measure funding of 609,000 to provide the anticipated city match for the Schaefer Grant to help fund the continued operation of Engine 17, which has been funded through one time investments since October of 2019. This amount represents the difference in the cost to operate Engine 17 and the amount of grant funding we're expecting to receive. We expect to find out whether we will be funded by the end of September if the city is not awarded the grant. Staff will revisit the measure, plan allocations and bring back to the City Council an alternative funding approach for Engine 17 operations. Additionally, we're requesting the addition of an administrative analyst to improve our admin administrative investigation and public records processes. Public Records Act requests continue to steadily increase. Fire staff currently handle 1400 requests per year. Since fiscal year 20, the City Council has supported the Fire Diversity Recruitment Program with one time funding. We are grateful for this support, which has resulted in the implementation of community partnerships and short and long term strategies to improve diversity in the fire department. The proposed fiscal year 23 budget includes structural funding for the fire captain, who functions as the diversity recruitment and partnerships coordinator. This ongoing structural funding is critical for the continued long term success of this program. The next two investments are program enhancements that are fully offset by revenue in fiscal year 22. The city began a partnership with the UCLA Medical Center in which a Long Beach Fire Department firefighter paramedic staffs UCLA's mobile stroke unit along with a stroke neurologist, critical care nurse and CTE technician. The Mobile Stroke Unit responds as part of the 911 emergency response system and delivers proven stroke therapies to patients in the field, improving immediate patient outcomes and reducing patient long term disability. The fiscal year 23 budget proposes to add this position structurally. Finally, we are proposing additional non-career lifeguards staffing to provide the staff support needed for our growing junior lifeguard program. The cost of the additional staff are offset by the increase in Junior Lifeguard program revenue and our agreements with the Long Beach Unified School District. Outside of the summer season. These lifeguards will be available to staff COVID 19 testing and vaccination sites. The fire department continues to work closely with public works, management and staff to improve our fire facilities. This slide provides an outline of these facility improvements. First is a relocation of fire station nine. The five year plan includes partial funding for a new fire station, which will be strategically located on Long Beach Boulevard to better serve the community. Improvements to fire stations 11 and 13 are also planned. These addressed deferred maintenance as well as kitchen and bathroom renovations. Funding for Fire Station 14 will address workforce privacy needs, deferred maintenance and energy efficiency upgrades. Finally, the plan includes partial funding for the expansion of the David Rosa Regional Fire Training Center. Improvements include additional space for classrooms and offices and workforce privacy renovations. The department will face several significant challenges in fiscal year 23. First, as I mentioned earlier, service demands, staffing levels, the pandemic and the types of calls that we see have led to firefighter safety and behavioral health concerns. Increased development, specifically vertical density in the downtown area and throughout the city will increase service demands, leading to an increase in emergency responses and response times. On a related note, the Department will also need to begin preparing for the upcoming emergency service demands brought on by the 2028 Summer Olympic Games, which will significantly increase the daily population in the city. We have front line safety equipment that is nearing the end of their useful lives and are in need of replacement. Items such as the breathing apparatus that the firefighters use are due for replacement in the next couple of years at a significant cost. The fire department will continue to explore additional grant funding for these items. Similarly, our first responders work 24 hour shifts, living in and responding from fire stations and marine safety facilities, some of which are old and have significant health and maintenance issues. A plan for repair and replacement of these facilities, including identifying a funding source, will be necessary to respond to this challenge. Finally, wildfires throughout the region and the state continue to pose a challenge as they grow in size and frequency. We also have several opportunities coming up. First, while anticipated retirement of our leadership in the management and supervisory ranks creates somewhat of a challenge. It also is a great opportunity to develop the next generation of leadership. As I mentioned earlier, the fiscal year 23 budget proposes the continued support of the FIA diversity recruitment program. This structural funding provides a great opportunity for us to continue our short term and long term relationships and recruitment strategies with the goal of increasing the diversity of our staff throughout the organization. I want to again thank the City Manager and City Council for your continued support of this program. Another opportunity is the potential for grant funding to support training for our specialized programs such as Hazardous Materials, Urban Search and Rescue Fiable Program and Airport Rescue and firefighting. As well as to support the acquisition of needed equipment, including breathing apparatus and personal protective equipment. Finally, we have an opportunity for improved efficiencies in the EMS system. We are working with our medical director in the Los Angeles County EMS Agency to explore the possibility of implementing alternate destination and telemedicine pilot programs. Thank you for for front for providing me this opportunity to present the fire department's fiscal year 23 budget. We're available to respond to any questions you may have. Thank you. We're going to have to move on to the next presentation. The next presentation will be if you wish. So I'll cover just a couple. Thank you, Mr. Modica. Ms.. Tatum. Good afternoon, Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council. I'm very excited to be presenting the Police Department's proposed FY 23 budget. My first as Chief of Police for our great city. The last few years have been unprecedented. Our police officers and professional staff have experienced increased anxiety and feelings of depletion, yet they return to work each day to serve our entire Long Beach community. They do this because their work has purpose. They do this because they are needed. Although some have chosen to leave the department or the profession altogether, the vast majority, the vast majority have chosen to spend their entire careers with the Long Beach Police Department. I believe this is because we're not your typical major city police department. We're large enough to be a world class organization offering specialized services and innovative training, but small enough to maintain close relationships centered around problem solving and innovation. Our mental evaluation teams, quality of life teams and outreach programs such as neighborhood walks are excellent examples of how we listen, learn and respond to the needs of our community. We know that we've made mistakes and we're not perfect. No person, no group, and no police department is. However, regardless of the circumstances or situation, the police officers and professional staff of this department continue to be here each day, providing a multitude of services to our community. They listen. They engage. And they strive to enhance the quality of life for all people in our city. In the face of a nationwide pandemic, rising violent crime rates and unprecedented attacks on police officers, their commitment to serve is unwavering and inspiring. They're always willing to do more to ensure everyone in our community has opportunity to thrive. Every year we discuss a variety of public safety services we provide, including emergency response and calls for service criminal investigations, including victim support and advocacy, and safeguarding our public while protecting critical infrastructure and key resource locations from international and domestic threats. However, we should also discuss the resources we dedicate to our many partnerships and collaborations, like working with the City Prosecutor's Office on Alternatives Incarceration. Partnering with community organizations such as TIP, the Trauma Intervention Program to provide support to people after critical incidents. Collaborating with the Fire Department and Emergency Communication Center to better link public safety responses. Or joining with our health department as part of the city's interdepartmental team addressing homelessness. These and so many other partnerships are the reason we're able to do the work that we do. Here you see the call volume we're currently experiencing, which further exemplifies how hard our officers are working. Year to date, officers have responded to over 100,000 calls for service, which is nearly 600 calls a day. Although we've had to make several operational modifications through the years, our response time to priority one or emergency calls continues to be one of the best in the nation at an average of about 5 minutes. Like many major cities, we experienced an increase in violent crime at the beginning of 2022. However, we remain focused and resolute. We developed strategies and our employees adapted to several operational changes. Our efforts have resulted in a notable downward trend in violent crime. And after starting 22, 2022, with a 17.4% increase, we've now seen that number shrink to a 5.4% increase year to date. The accessibility of firearms has also contributed to some of the violence we're experiencing this year. Our officers have worked vigorously to address gun crime in the illegal possession of firearms. Oftentimes, they do this at great risk to their own lives. As of June, we've had a 16% reduction in shootings, and we've made over 350 arrests for firearm related crimes. That's an increase of 6% over last year. 51% of these arrests involve people forbidden by law from possessing firearms. And this year alone, officers have seized over 450 firearms, which includes a 23% increase in the recovery of personally manufactured firearms known as pimps or ghost guns. Moving into the second half of this year, we'll continue analyzing data, identifying trends and strategizing on creative ways to address gun violence and other crime. The most devastating crime we experienced is homicide. And while every homicide is tragic, we are not dissuaded and we continue to work toward bringing justice to the families and loved ones of victims . Among our accomplishments, you'll see we have a homicide clearance rate of 77%. This is well above the national average, which is a park which is approximately a 50% clearance rate. There are many factors that contribute to our effectiveness in this area, including a rapid reaction and response by patrol officers, immediate follow up by our Special Investigations Division and the excellent investigative efforts of our homicide detectives. In addition, when communities trust the police, people are more inclined to become witnesses to violent crime. We understand this, and all of these factors combined are necessary to achieve the results we're seeing. I'd also like to highlight the work we've done to address dangerous, illegal street racing exhibitions known as street takeovers. Recently, the City Council supported our efforts and voted on a street takeover ordinance to assist us in combating this extremely hazardous trend. In addition, the police department joined other agencies to work collaboratively and improve information sharing. We deployed extra resources to serve as a visual deterrent, and we conducted proactive traffic enforcement whenever we became aware of a pending street race street racing takeover event. To date, our officers have issued 240 citations related to street racing takeovers. We've also continued our work supporting city efforts to address homelessness. Our community outreach response and enforcement model consists of quality of life officers, the mental evaluation team and Los Angeles County clinicians, along with many of our other partners, are doing amazing work. Year to date, they've offered services to over 5000 persons experiencing homelessness and have found temporary and permanent housing for over 200 people. The wellness of our employees is a top priority and must be supported through strategy and practice. We're making tremendous strides in addressing employee wellness and overcoming the stigma associated with trauma in law enforcement. We've onboarded a new administrator to strengthen our worker's compensation and employee leave programs, and we're implementing a structured peer support program along with trauma resiliency training. We also recognize the intersection between employee wellness and community wellness, and we continue supporting trauma informed care in a variety of ways, such as having community liaison officers available on critical incidents, facilitating and coordinating responses from TIP volunteers, and engaging with our health department to provide emotional support to those impacted during a traumatic event. I can't discuss Officer Wellness without acknowledging that one of the biggest challenges facing law enforcement today is recruitment and retention. And unfortunately, the Long Beach Police Department is no exception. Staffing shortfalls in a diminished interest in the profession are plaguing our department. Hiring, training and keeping police officers has never been more critical to the evolution and advancement of this organization. We're constantly assessing recruitment efforts and working to implement ways to reach future police recruit candidates, including those from underrepresented groups in law enforcement. We've signed on to initiatives like the 30 by 30 campaign with a focus of increasing female representation to 30% by 2030. And thanks to the recruitment and hiring efforts of our employees, we've increased female representation in our next Academy class by 114% over the prior class. We've also continued our collaboration with civil service, working on new projects such as our newest recruitment tool, the HLB PD Fit Truck, which is now used to engage community and potential recruits at various events and parades. To help increase our communication, transparency and engagement, we've developed a community advisory committee to help inform and shape department policies, and we engage our neighborhoods through division, specific events and commander forums. Our Office of Constitutional Policing works to ensure practices match policy through ongoing collaborations, such as our Current Data Analysis Project with the Center for Police Equity. And our media relations team has created a communications plan to better engage the public by delivering information more efficiently and effectively . We've increased our social media footprint and even created a daily crime blotter on our department website. As we move beyond the tumultuous past few years and as our city now experiences an economic health and public safety recovery, we realize that the Long Beach Police Department is well positioned to expand on past advancements and explore new transformational opportunities . Today's FY 23 budget proposal reflects a unified vision for the department focusing and prioritizing in the following key areas crime and homelessness. Acknowledging and supporting employee and community wellness and enhancing internal and external communication models. Built on a foundation of accountability, trust and transparency. Although we're proposing many unique and creative changes, the police department's structural budget request for FY 23 our cost neutral to the general fund offset by a strategic reorganization that realigns the Department budget and operations to address current and anticipated needs and provides a more efficient coordination of police services. To fulfill this vision. Significant focus and structure are needed. That's why I'm proposing the creation of a new bureau in our department. The new Collaborative Response and Engagement Bureau, or CRC for short. This bureau will be overseen by our newest Deputy Chief and focus on goals that enhance collaborative public safety models and build meaningful relationships between the police department and the public. Kerry will be responsible for many of the programs and partnerships that currently promote these goals. And the new bureau will consist of two divisions the Community Outreach Response and Enforcement Division and the Youth and Community Services Division. Kerry will prioritize efforts aligned with disrupting primary factors of crime through relationship based community policing models. To accomplish this, we propose the addition of 20 new police officers comprised of 16 new bike officers, four per patrol division assigned to divisional areas such as open spaces, parks and corridors or any areas in the division with immediate public safety needs and for additional quality of life officers to augment our citywide efforts to address homelessness. These four quality of life officers will join our current cadre to form two officer teams. Each team will represent a specific patrol division while also maintaining the ability to work as a single quality of life officer when necessary. For altogether as an entire eight officer quality of life unit for large citywide operations. All 20 police officers will be able to respond to calls for service and service patrol officers as well. Youth engagement is critical to successful public safety. The Department proposes moving the Community Engagement Division under the CRC Bureau and renaming it the Youth and Community Services Division. Additionally, we propose to structurally fund a police cadet program of up to five cadets annually. The cadet program will introduce law enforcement careers to young adults and help establish a pathway for future PD, police officers and civilian employees, all while providing paid work experience to our community's younger demographic. We're proposing additional department adjustments to assist us in supporting community needs and organizational growth while providing fair, just and ethical policing in our city. Will accomplish this by expanding the scope of the Internal Affairs Division and renaming it the Professional Standards Division. The division will add a new professional development section with two new civilian police investigators, while the Internal Affairs section will continue investigating allegations of misconduct. The Professional Development Section will focus on employee development and professional success to reviews of early warning signs and identifying areas for improvement through retraining or counseling. To better reflect the mission of being a data and form department, we proposed reorganizing and renaming the Administration Bureau to the Strategic Initiatives Bureau. Under the Strategic Initiatives Bureau, the Office of Constitutional Policing, OCP will be expanded from three four years to nine FTEs transferred from other divisions. This increase in OCP staffing will help us broaden their scope to include the manual orders and policy section responsible for ensuring policies are aligned with legal mandates, best practices and community expectations. Also under strategic initiatives were adding two administrative aid positions to the Public Records Compliance Division. Their workload is increased by 46% since 2019, and it's expected to continue to increase based on legal mandates. Effective communication shapes both the delivery and perception of services we provide. That's why I'm proposing a communications division which reports directly to the chief of police. The communications division will include our current media relations team and executive communications administrator. In order to replenish our ranks. We're currently recruiting candidates for back to back to back police academy. Class 96 begins on August 29th with 59 recruits. Class 97 is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2023, and we anticipate being ready for a third class sometime in FY 24. In addition, we're proposing a new administrative analyst position to focus on expanding inclusion and advancement efforts and to further support labor relations and move new initiatives forward. A clean and professional workspace for our personnel is central to maintaining a workforce that feels respected and valued. This budget proposes increasing the hours of current staff and adds two new part time employees so we can provide evening and weekend custodial services at our facilities that operate 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Finally, responsibility in the Business Operations Bureau has grown significantly and now includes oversight of department fleet and body worn camera programs. We propose adding a contract and grants officer to provide dedicated oversight in support of department wide operations. In addition to structural programs funded through our operating budget, I'm grateful to the Mayor and the City Council for their proposed additional investments in public safety, including funds for two years of outreach and cleanup along the river beds and additional overtime funds for crime and violence prevention. Additionally, as part of the city's new five year infrastructure plan, we're thankful to receive one time funds necessary to start the rebuild of our police academy. An initial funding for a new crime and evidence lab. The challenges ahead must be met with sufficient resources to manage the rigorous pace of requests and expectations that exist in today's law enforcement environment. We've weathered some of the most dramatic increases in violent crime in a decade. A stream of unfunded legislative mandates with unworkable timelines and antiquated technology and paper processes that hamper operational efficiencies. This, in addition to an already exhausted, stressed and disillusioned workforce, exasperate the challenges. But in these challenges, we find opportunity. The ability of our employees to serve through crisis and remain vigilant during difficult times is impressive. Yes, I'm concerned about our capacity for the challenges ahead, but I'm also encouraged by the service and resilience of this department and all those that work here. We look forward to developing new strategies that promote relationship based policing, models that engage our community and that build partnerships to reduce crime and improve everyone's quality of life. We're committed to promoting fair and equitable systems in all areas of the department. We'll continue exploring ways to leverage new technology and improve operational efficiencies to help modernize our services or seek new grant opportunities that enhance employee and community training and develop partnerships with research and educational institutions. In closing, I'd like to again express how honored I am to lead the officers and professional staff of the Long Beach Police Department and how appreciative I am for the dedicated service they provide each day. Our department will continue to evolve and move forward, building on our existing strengths and taking advantage of opportunities for growth and renewal. Our priorities around crime and homelessness, employee and community wellness and open communication will help guide us further into 21st century policing, while also supporting the shared responsibility of public safety in the city of Long Beach. Thank you. Myself and Bureau Chief Josie Murray stand ready to answer any questions they can. A presentation, please. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and members of City Council. It's my pleasure to present to you the Department of Parks, Recreation, Marine and Animal Care Services 2023 proposed budget. The proposed budget will allow our department team members to continue passing forward their passion to bringing joy to all from infants to older adults and our companion dogs and cats . The department's key services are aligned to implement the Department's Strategic Plan, which was adopted by City Council earlier this year. The Strategic Plan focuses on park equity, community identified goals, values and actions to guide operational staffing and budgeting decisions through the department. The Department is committed to providing a vibrant park system where everyone is welcome and can thrive. Our dedication is further reinforced by performing maintenance and stewardship for all of our parks, facilities, beaches and open spaces. We're very proud to further promote responsible pet ownership and the humane treatment of animals in alignment with our Compassion Saves model. Saving every treatable animal that comes into our shelter requires significant resources, and we work hard to provide care for our furry friends. We're fortunate to have the largest municipally run marina system in the nation, and it's our goal to make sure our marine facilities and waterways are fiscally sound in order to repay bond debt and be of excellent quality for the enjoyment of our local boating community. Developing strong partnerships that supplement and complement our award winning parks and recreation programs continues to benefit the community. For example, we've been able to take our partnership with the Boys and Girls Club at Martin Luther King Jr Park to the next level with an amazing transformation and upgrade to the gym. Thanks to the support of the Steph Curry Foundation and under armor, another dimension of the project is Snoop Dogg's underwriting of a marvel comic artist to refresh and enliven the facility's décor. Partnerships can also help fulfill community needs, such as our relationship with food finders at Admiral Kidd Park. Nearly half a million Long Beach residents benefit each day by services and programs that are offered by our department. 6 million visitors travel to Long Beach each year, many of whom enjoy our nationally acclaimed parks, beaches and open spaces. The department has the capacity to contribute to the local economy by having events at our facilities, parks and on our beaches. The scope of how large our department is and the diversity of the amenities and services we offer take a strong, supportive workforce at the peak of our busy summer season. Our department is a local workforce powerhouse, employing over 700 staff, many of whom are experiencing their first job ever. We're extremely proud of the many accomplishments this past year, including the completion of our strategic plan. All year, staff collaborated with our partners, provided recruitment and training of our employees, and processed thousands of permits and reservations. Staff also secured 11 park grants totaling over $28 million. Grant funds afford us the opportunity to provide community services, new amenities, and new and improved parks. I'm happy to report that Animal Care Services reached a very high adoption rate of 60% and achieved a live release rate of 92%. Our increased focus on the FOSTER program has resulted in many positive outcomes. This could not be done without our dedicated staff, volunteers and community partners. As our department eases out of COVID restrictions and we see our programs returning to pre-pandemic levels, we're very proud of these accomplishments. We've implemented violence prevention programs for youth through the Long Beach Recovery Act and provided free in-person programs for youth and seniors, as well as camps when schools are out on break. Once again, we participated in a great partnership with Long Beach Unified School District to offer meals to school age children by the end of this summer. Well, that provided 54,000 meals to youth through the summer food program and an additional 62,000 meals to seniors this year. Through our senior nutrition program, our department stretches across the entire city and is able to serve all of our Long Beach communities. As a department, we continue to focus on enhancing park access throughout the city and improving our parks, open spaces, beaches and marinas. We've been very busy this year with reopening Lincoln Park and Harry Bridges Memorial Park, celebrating two new playgrounds at Recreation Park and Colorado Lagoon, as well as a new floating playground at Alamitos Beach. We also introduced beach access mats at Alamitos, Granada and mother's beaches. A big thank you to our collaborative partners at Public Works Department and the beaches and marinas. We maintained a 94% marina slip occupancy rate and successfully performed the annual beach renourishment. We completed 4500 maintenance work orders to repair and improve facilities, grounds and equipment in addition to upgrading irrigation and the landscape of Daisy Lane. And transformative improvements at Sunnyside Cemetery. Well, we are extremely proud of all our accomplishments this year. We're very excited about the proposed investments for fiscal year 23. The budget proposes to establish the Park Safety Ambassador program, which adds a second shift team to address park and restroom cleanliness and safety. A team of six maintenance assistants and a supervisor will be able to lock gated mini parks and all freestanding restrooms at night. At 39 parks, this innovative approach will promote cleaner and safer park restrooms. The proposal allocates park ranger funds of $575,000 in the police department and incorporates the budget into a larger initiative and approach in the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department. Our department will establish the Park Safety Ambassador Program that will expand coverage of park facilities and promote cleaner restrooms. The gated many parks and parks with freestanding restrooms that will be serviced throughout this program are shown on the map. The Park Safety Ambassador Program will offer expanded coverage and maintenance of parks, allowing staff to lock gates and restrooms, making observations regarding overall park etiquette, encampment activity and the presence of graffiti to enhance this program. The budget proposes one time funds of $600,000 for new park restroom infrastructure upgrades and door replacements with automated time locking doors. This investment will further support safe and secure park restrooms. This initiative will involve citywide collaboration with several other departments for the most strategic coordination of resources, safety for staff and residents, and synergy with the citywide collective approach towards addressing public safety. Additionally, new positions will further support the Clean Restroom and Safe Playgrounds initiatives. For maintenance assistant positions will be added to support core services in park facilities. Also proposed is additional staffing to monitor park usage and permit compliance to ensure patrons are aware of and adhering to park regulations such as the recently adopted Kids Zone Ordinance. Overall, this plan would take the city from 3.5 FTE covering five parks to 12.3 budgeted positions, covering 39 parks and funding for restroom infrastructure upgrades. These strategic investments aim to enhance the cleanliness, safety and the welcoming quality of our parks. I'm happy to say that the proposed budget includes enhancements and one time funding for maintenance. Urban forest management will be enhanced with funding of $400,000 to establish a seven year cycle of tree trimming. The budget also includes a one time resource of $1.8 million for dead tree removals. In our efforts to address weed abatement in a more environmentally friendly way by eliminating the use of glyphosate in parks, funding to support using alternative herbicides will positively impact the quality of our grounds, maintenance and landscaping. To keep parks and open space usable and clean. Each year we deploy services for special park cleanups to address encampments, illegally dumped items and other waste. We're happy that one time funds are proposed to continue and enhance these essential services next year. The proposed budget also includes a structural investment in water for irrigation. This allows us to keep our parks green due to previous water rate increases and increase irrigation levels for healthy park landscapes. These maintenance investments align with our strategic plan and are a critical part of providing safe and accessible public spaces. Other proposed critical investments are in our Animal Care Services Bureau. The proposed budget adds staffing in several critical areas. It adds for maintenance assistance to provide increased shelter. Custodial services. Internal and external customer service will be enhanced through realign clerical positions and an upgrade of our volunteer leadership position. To advance. Compassion saves a budget increase of nearly $500,000 for contract. Veterinary services will support the medical costs needed for animal care services. This investment will help save lives and increase positive outcomes. Our strategic plan highlights the need to offer meaningful recreation programing and events. The Long Beach Recovery Act funding will continue to allow the department to provide violence prevention programs such as Be Safe Hoops after Dark Mobile Recess and other teen programs, as well as senior fitness programs. Investments in our aquatic facilities will keep pools open for residents, community groups and visitors, which can also generate revenue. The budget adds a general maintenance assistant for pool maintenance and one time resources for pool equipment. With the aging infrastructure of our pools, these strategic investments will greatly benefit our users. We work hard to provide access to healthy recreation opportunities in safe environments for the community's youth teens, adults and seniors who use our programs throughout Long Beach . Within the next half decade, over $97 million are proposed to be invested in our parks and recreation facilities as part of the proposed budget. A new five year infrastructure plan includes many park projects such as new playgrounds at Hartwell, Howden and Silverado Parks and Park Improvements at 14th Street, Cesar Chavez and MacArthur Parks, just to name a few. The plan also includes facility improvements and animal care services, several park community centers and the Martin Luther King Jr pool. Other infrastructure projects in the plan will support improvements to green belts, park restrooms. And our community gardens. Other projects in the plan include improvements to athletic courts, fields and turf. We're delighted to have so many park projects included in the new infrastructure plan. Even with many strategic investments next fiscal year, there are still challenges. Deferred maintenance, along with the continuing impact of vandalism and the abuse of our facilities, continue to be challenging. We collaborate with our partners to address the safety, health and environmental concerns related to people experiencing homelessness in our parks and on our beaches. These challenges must be addressed to enable us to provide core services and safe facilities for our community to enjoy while remaining empathetic towards the unhoused. Keeping our spaces clean and safe takes a lot of resources. With rising costs for equipment, services and materials, maintenance of our facilities and grounds requires our department to prioritize resources. Given that our services are deployed in parks, beaches and waterways, environmental sustainability and climate change are serious issues that the department must keep at the forefront of future planning. We are proud stewards of our natural areas that are home to urban wildlife. We continue to consider animal health and well-being as the foundation for all we do at Animal Care Services. It is a challenge to provide every animal daily care and enrichment according to their needs and in alignment with compassion saves. Of course, all of our services cannot be provided without people. Our department is a people driven department. Recruitment and retention of a diverse, dynamic and skilled workforce is paramount to our service delivery. It can be a balancing act of resources to strategically address critical priorities while looking to the future. I thank the city manager for including in the proposed budget strategic investments, which help to address many of these challenges. With challenges do come opportunities. New projects, parks, playgrounds and equipment provide us with the opportunity to address unmet needs of the community. Community engagement is a cornerstone of park equity in that it helps us learn where and how we can make strategic investments that will benefit our communities. Parks, stewardship and partnerships continue to prove to be very beneficial for our department. Seeking and successfully obtaining grants helps us to offer scholarships for programs and classes, beautification of our park spaces and future park development for our great city. New revenue generation can help to offset costs of services. However, we must be cognizant when setting fees. To be sure, essential park programs are affordable, equitable and accessible. We'll continue to explore more partnerships, collaborations and funding opportunities. Our participation in the Lower L.A. River Recreation and Park District is another opportunity to help promote open space and connectivity for the benefit of our community, as well as other communities along the lower L.A. River. By increasing inner jurisdictional coordination and maximizing our resources. Development of master plans provides with community provided with community input on its needs and wants. Strategic plans, vision plans and feasibility studies have all been useful tools to really look at how a park meets the needs of a neighborhood. Parks provide many benefits to the community, such as encouraging physical activity, improving health and fitness, and mitigating against air pollution. We look forward to optimizing these opportunities to create a park system for all. After all, people make parks. Parks make Long Beach and parks make life better. Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council. I thank you for your continued investment in Parks, Recreation, Marine and Animal Care Services. Your support helps us meet the needs of the communities across our city, our dedicated employees, and I thank you for your support. And this concludes my presentation. Thank you, Vice Mayor. We are available to answer questions on any of the presentations. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you to our department. Heads will now take public comment before we to order council deliberation. If there are any members of the public that would like to speak on item seven in person, please line up at the podium in Zoom. Please use the race hand feature or dial star nine now. We'll take an in-person first and you'll have 90 seconds. Good evening, honorable mayor. Vice Mayor, Council. I'm Natalie Gonzales. Long Beach City Employees Union President for iam local 1930. As you've already heard, we have critical staffing shortages in almost every department and are at risk of no longer being able to provide essential city services. Members are working overtime hours on a mandatory basis in a number of divisions, one of which is under investigation now. Our members have been given more duties and less resources, more stress and less compassion. This continuous and accelerated loss of institutional knowledge impacts our efficiency through low morale and elevated call outs. We can't continue to place the burden on our backs to subsidize the mission of our city with our mental and physical well-being, our family time, or with our pocketbooks. We hear all the time about the cost of paying employees more, but no one seems to discuss the costs of not paying us proper wages. Simply put, we're asking you to put in cost of living adjustment to your budget for our members. In addition, we're asking you to invest in keeping your current employees. Now, recruitment without appropriate retention policies is ineffective. Retention is investing. We spend money on recruiting and training for members to leave. And then we started zero again. City budgets are the guys we use to invest in the issues we value most. We can talk numbers, we can talk line items in a budget, but we're more than just at ease on your Excel sheet. So I'm asking you to be bold, take the long view on this budget. I applaud your investment in infrastructure, but remember the people who deliver the work. I know the challenge is never easy, but the cost of inaction is severe and I am happy to take questions. Thank you for your time today. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mayor. And City Council. My name is Natalie Mifflin. I'm a nine woman dispatcher on the PD side of the pack. I have worked for the city of Long Beach for. 28. Years. Today, most of my colleagues. Are here with the story of our department, and I ask you for your help. The truth of this story is that we are suffering and so are the community members calling 911. We've been chronically understaffed for as long as anyone can remember, and these shortages have become. Critical. Threats to our communications infrastructure. Currently, our members are working over 2200. Hours of overtime, mandatory overtime. In a month. So far this. Year, which is only been seven months, our members have worked more than 24407 hours of. Mandatory. Overtime. That is a lot. We are public safety. The consequence of error in our position is very high. It is a high stress, high trauma job that leads to burnout. And psychological harm. Even at the best of times, with these chronically extended hours, this job has become a danger to our bodies. 15 of our 31 employees on the PD side of communications have some level of medical restrictions, some of which are severe. That restrict them from working overtime. Every time another member has to go on a restriction, those of us who are not. On one can find ourselves working 3 to. 416 hour. Days in. A row. One of our members recently worked 88 hours in one week. That kind of hours and working conditions are not sustainable. We know that all of our brothers and sisters. Throughout the city are experiencing similar shortages, and we stand in solidarity with them for a cost. Of living adjustment. But we are also asking that Council take a real look at how our emergency communications are being. Operated and funded. Thank you. Your time is up. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Speaker What? Mayor and City Council Members My name is the honorable, our whole summer city employee of packing and I am member. We're here to support our colleagues and to ask for your support as well. I was hired in November of 2012 as part of the city's first attempt to consolidate both call centers. We were understaffed then, and we're understaffed now. We went from working 18 hour mandatory to 16 hour mandatory. Aside from working the weekly 16 to 24 hours of overtime, my center also suffers from having to work on our days off. We're understaffed. Underpaid and overworked. It's now at a point where we are terrified to get behind the wheel and drive home after our shifts. Some even like to sleep in the dorms because it gives us more sleep. We go our workweek without seeing our families having to pay for extra childcare and meals for ourselves and families. And yet, even with the overtime, we're still not meeting the state requirements. California requires that 95% of all night long calls be at within 15 seconds. However, we're falling short of that and too that at a rate of just about 77% for 2022, approximately 4% of our 7000 calls this year are. Held for over a minute before. You retell. I personally have my wife call 911 yesterday and we had about a minute before she reached a dispatcher. I helped the man keep from getting stabbed by a woman armed with the kitchen knife. This is a terrifying reality for residents such as myself. We stay committed to serving the constituents of Palm Beach. However, our pleas for help have been continuously ignored by city management and has now become detrimental to our health and those experiencing an emergency in our city. We ask for you to make this a priority immediately, not only for our health, for our community as well. And view and execute the place. Hi, my name is Michelle Sellers. I've been with Long Beach for three years as a dispatcher. My experience as a dispatcher has impacted me in different ways, including becoming hyper vigilant. I came in right before the height of the pandemic and civil unrest, watching the victims faces on media, hearing the college screaming at the top of their lungs, or a victim gasping for air after an injury or all types of stressors that we deal with. A variety of us constantly work 14 to 16 hour shifts, eating our lunches on our break breaks to on our desk to take calls is more frequent option rather than leaving our desk. At this point, I have just defaulted to telling my friends and family that I would most likely not be able to make an event or simple dinner due to being held for overtime. The stress has affected my body as well, causing my hair to fall and causing me inability to bear children due to high stress, high levels of adrenal and cortisol levels. My husband was hurt from all the call entries typing quickly so I can take the next caller. The calls are constant with little time in between. This is a disservice to the Long Beach community. We have 31 dispatchers now, including myself. That's one dispatcher per 14,711 people in Long Beach. It's not just our job. It's our livelihood, too. There's dispatchers that have families and children to take care of, along with others that take care of older, disabled adults. With the increasing cost and inflation, the quality of our livelihoods outside of work also declines. My request is that you please take care of us the way we take care of the community and compensated to equip the demands of this profession. Thank you. Thank you. Let's keep the peace. Good evening, Vice Mayor and city council members and staff. My name is Michael Jubilee. I'm a resident of Lakewood. I've been employed with the Long Beach Police Department for over 24 years. In those years, I've seen many changes. We are short staffed and overworked. Though I enjoy my job. Law enforcement has changed. The stress of being overworked and underpaid is then placed upon my family. After working my regular hours plus overtime due to staff shortages, no one wants to work with us long term because people get burnt out and because of the monetary pay is not enough. According to Out of Reach report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition dated July 22, the average California in L.A. County needs to earn an age of 3931 per hour. And in Orange County, it's 44.69 an hour, according to the city's salary schedule. The website of today's top step is 30, 79, an hour and so forth. Top pay is 35, 85 an hour with current housing, fuel cost, etc. The ability to make ends meet is difficult on the current salary, especially being a parent of three, one in elementary school, one in high school, and one who just turned 21 but is not able to move on his own due to high cost. I'm sure I'm not alone in this situation. Please consider a cost of living pay increase as soon as possible to aid with the continued rising costs in California. Thank you. Thank you. Next, keep the police. Good evening, mayor and councilmembers. My name is Jeanette Marie and I work for. Long Beach Police Department as a marine patrol officer. I've been with the city for 23 years to be an asset. So Special Service Officer for Marine. Patrol, you are required to complete a lot of arrest and firearms course to be able to enforce. The laws. Marine Patrol definition is we enforce laws in the marinas and beach areas. We provide services for the boat owners in our marinas that pay for slip fees, the laws, ordinance, rules and regulations that we enforce. Our California Harbors and Navigation Code Sections. California Code of Regulation, Title 13 and 14. California Vehicle Code Sections. Long Beach Municipal Code Sections, California Penal Code Sections and California Code of Federal Regulations are starting pay at step one is $21.79 in our highest pay rate. At step seven is $29.44. You reach the highest pay after working for approximately five years. I have worked. For the city for. 23 years and have reached my highest pay, making $30.78 for the past 15 years. I have been an acting supervisor for this deployment and get a higher class pay of a dollar for taking and taking on the responsibilities of a supervisor. I would normally make at least $3 more if the. Position was open. We are down six officers and a supervisor as of today. In the next few months it will be eight officers. Inflation and cost of living is at 10% higher than what our salary is today. Making overtime is every cent lower than what our cost of living is. We can't afford to live in this city. Thank you. Your time is up. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Good evening, ladies. My name is Blake. I also work for Long Beach PD, Marine Patrol Officer. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you. Marine Patrol Officers Cover Alamitos Bay, Marina, Shoreline, Rainbow Harbor. The launch ramps could only be permitted to assist police officers on a beach. We also have two special events. We are currently understaffed by six officers and one supervisor. Our officers work 20 to 40 hours overtime every week. We are absolutely overworked and underpaid. Our officers are tough. They step seven that they reach five. We, after five years working on the field, maxes out at $29.44. We hire recruits, try to hire recruits from the police academy who fill out the starting pay is $36.65. Our officers who have been on the field for five years, they have to train these police recruits who are coming in at higher pay than our top pay for our officers. We have officers who have quit the field training program because they don't feel that this is fair, that they have to train officers, future officers, for signifying significantly. Less money than what they earn. We have responded for in the month of April and May, which orient our. Thank you. Just one more thing, if I may. When the city under the pandemic needed extra funding, the city asked our officers to furlough our time and help to save labor costs. We did that. And now our officers and our employees like you are asking the city to do this for us. Thank you for your time. Hello. I'm Tatiana Williams. I am the president of Olive Court Italy. And I have a lot on my heart just from hearing the public comments before me. And with that, I will work with my councilwoman on many of the other ideas that I have. I'd like to thank you to the officers and to the pub, the Parks and Rec. That won't be that spoke. I've used all of your services. I appreciate every thing that I heard today and everything going forward. The one comment that I would like to make, especially for the fire department and for the police department, is we can recruit, we can graduate, we can train officers and firefighters. And that is a big investment emotionally and financially. If there's not opportunity, if there is not a sense of belonging, that work is for naught. So I would ask you today, please, when you recruit people with brown skin like me, when you recruit women, please also make sure that there is opportunity and that there is a sense of belonging. Because when those people go out and they put their very lives on the line and then they feel like you don't belong. Put your life on the line, but you don't belong. It does something to them. That's all I have to say today. Thank you. Thank you. Let's keep the police. Son. I can face six district residents. It is easier to build strong children and to repair a broken man. That is a quote by Frederick Douglass. It's something I always am reminded of when the budget season, because I'm always thinking about the children. I'm an advocate of children because I was a child once. And so I know how this works, the cycle of life. With respect to today, I'm here to advocate for the department that makes the most sense in terms of trajectory in my life, which is Parks and Rec. I think that we have a phenomenal director. I've got to be honest, I wasn't a real big fan of the last one, but I think the one we have today, he's he's doing a great job. And I think for him to do an even better job, he's going to need more money. This is a surplus year. This is a historic year. There's never been this much money floating around. Shout out to Gavin. And I think that right now we need to dedicate some of that money towards our park spaces. There's a lot of disinvestment over the years throughout various parts of the city. I can only advocate for my part of the city. I grew up at Kings Park. We have right now $1.8 million dedicated towards the implementation program. I think the director would agree we need more money. We need about 3.5 million. So let's get that. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I'm Karen Recite. I'm the president of the Long Beach Gray Panthers and we are in sympathy with the employees. I am always impressed by the extent of caring and. Knowledge that our. City employees put forth. They are not always treated with the respect and the dignity that they deserve. That's why we're. Losing some really. Key people within our city. And I'd like to see that changed. But I want to talk about seniors, because. Nobody hardly did. In their presentation, Brant mentioned a couple of things. We're not using all our resources when we have tight budgets, we can't afford to waste resources. Seniors are a huge resource untapped in our community and in training in place. I've had seniors tell me that the paramedics come to pick them up and they're discussing how hard they should try and revive them. They need to be trained on how to deal with seniors. That's just not appropriate to talk to seniors like that. Police. I have so many issues. In my building. I talked to had the. Prostitution is a problem. In all the buildings, not just mine. So it's something the police department needs to begin to deal with drugs. We have people that are addicted. They try and come in and steal people's medication. The buildings are not secured. They're not safe. So let's look. And you can see included parks. We need the seniors strategic plan done. I think is worth more than the animals. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Lee Charlie, district one. I just heard that the really nice presentation and I want to say thank you. I read the statistics and I want to say that just in my district at 9:09 p.m. this Saturday, a woman was shot in the upper body. And so crime is still very relevant and very important in our parks, especially Great Park. But I want to talk about two things. First of all, the money, 2.4, 2.4 million to clean up the river beds, over $3 million to clean up encampments. Can you maybe look at solving and addressing the issue of housing and getting these unhoused people jobs and stop spending millions and millions of dollars? Second thing is these time locked doors. I mean, a homeless advocate just today, these these these doors that the parks are these are time locked, are magnets. And I'm going to tell you that it takes our driver's park. They don't tell the people when they're when these locks are going to the time's going to go off. They're magnets. And almost every day a homeless person is locked in the bathrooms and can't get back out into the morning. So they're vandalizing and sawing off these doors and that's a waste of money. So please reinvest them reimbursed at these time locked doors, the restrooms. Because I'll tell you, the more money you spend, the more homeless people we're going to thaw those off. It's going to be an endless cycle of waste of money. And please, please, please stop wasting money on doing homeless work with this encampment sweeps. You move a homeless person from there to there. $2.4 million. Why don't we start and address that issue of homelessness and instead of spending millions to just move them around? Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is Laurie Logan and I live in the Washington. District, Washington neighborhood, which is in District one. And I noticed you. Bundle three. Budgets. To one minute and 3 seconds, which means that you're really not looking for much community input. So I'm forced to bundle my comments. So I can basically say the police. And the park and our community, they both are the West Division. They harass and they kick it out. If we complain and there's no community engagement, they're not even doing meetings and they basically leave. People feel unsafe to leave their houses. So clearly we can't go to a park. Now that leads. Into the park. I made calls to the. Director. To improve the 14th Street Park and he doesn't. Return. Calls or emails. He's very not responsive. The park. Too, needs to engage the community. And not use nonprofits to speak for us. Because that's the problem. That they're speaking for. Us. So that's it. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I wanted to talk about I spoke last week about the overpolicing of our Long Beach community, and I want to speak on that today especially. It was a part of the budget today. I find it interesting that both the mayor and the city manager mentioned last week that they were referring to the racial equity and reconciliation report. And that very report talked about that the city of Long Beach, the number two reason that people believe they were experiencing racism was through police profiling. In addition to that, in that same report, it was found that the top reason or the top response to helping our community was to reduce police funding and instead invest in community and social services. That very same report also stated that they were looking for police officers to explore higher standards of education and also look at methods of exploring anti-racism and also racial sensitivity. Yet none of that was referenced in the budget meeting today. I know there was a lot about professional development, a nice social media post and a nice mobile cart for community events. But there is no commitment to anti-racism. There's no commitment to acknowledging that black lives do matter in the city of Long Beach. And if that makes the police department uncomfortable or city council members, and that's a real problem that really needs to be acknowledged not just in the police department, but in the city as well. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good evening. About this budget here, I can commend the fire department and all the things that they're going to. I agree to that. The police budget needs to be stripped because they only make up 2% of our community, yet they get 50% or more the general fund. And that really doesn't make any sense because like I said, they only make up one or 2% of the community. They only stop 1% of violent crimes, rapes, murders, so on and so forth. The other 50% of the time, they're nonviolent crime, and 50% of that time is actually even write a report. So what are they really doing besides hassling intimidating people and dragging people out of their homes because they're living on the riverbed and living on the street because we don't have enough affordable housing. I spoke last week again about building houses. They're not you have units available until the city comes to terms with the fact that the reason why we have crime, drugs, if people want to talk about those things, is because we're failing people at a level and not giving them take care of their basic human needs. How about even a toilet? The bathrooms being locked, where people are being locked in and or they're happy to defecate and urinate on the street? Come on. Police budget cut at fire department. Given that the Parks and Rec. Yeah, do that thing too. But in the meantime, in between time, y'all need to get straight with this. What was that? The housing envelopment law that was established in 1969. What it made, it mandated for the city to provide housing for all of their community residents. We're gonna leave that curve ball there. Where's the budget on that? Where is. It? Thank you for your time is up for that. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Hello. Good evening. My name is Rodolfo Cortez. So, first of all, on this item of the budget, I really wish that actually the mayor was here to listen to the community's concerns, because, I mean, a mayor has so much you know, he doesn't vote, but he does, you know, sign and kind of serves as the voice of the city. So why is it, you know, we're hearing about all sorts of concerns about the budget and he's not here to listen. And then I especially want to bring this up right now, because I was censored on social media by the mayor for talking about this, for talking about the budget, for talking about how he's using money here in Long Beach and how he wants to use money, how he wants to get to D.C.. So I'm very concerned about that because like, look at all of these numbers. Like, people you you know, you guys are bringing up, oh, there is the fires on the highway and it's next to the river. So you're implicitly obviously blaming the unhoused people, right? So that's what you're doing. You're attacking those who are suffering under the system, and that's just egregious. What we actually need is a major investment in the community, in housing and education. And why are we not talking about that again? Why is he not here to talk about how he's going to deliver for these things for us in Congress? Why? You know, why is that? Come on. We need housing that's truly affordable. We need education that's truly affordable. And we need to stop being censored on social media from the mayor's office. Thanks. Thank you. Next, could you please. Hi. Good evening. My name is Tiffany, and I proudly serve the city of Long. Beach as a. Fire dispatcher for 24 years. For 22. Of those years, I have been a. Supervisor and a trainer. And we not only produce, we not only train, but we develop leaders in dispatch. It's frustrating when you watch other dispatchers leave and they they leave with our training model. They leave with our leadership skills, and then they go to work for departments. That consistently. Pay more and work less mandatory overtime. It's very hard to watch that. We need a competitive salary to not only. Attract entry level dispatchers, but we need it. To keep the seasoned. Dispatchers we have happy. At their current jobs. And to serve the city of Long. Beach. It's just if. Not, it's just a vicious. Cycle of retraining. And then that leads to burnout, low morale and loss of more, more employees. Our staffing has been critically low for too long. There are times that I've been. So exhausted after working long weeks that. I didn't remember driving home. And it's hard to admit a competitive salary. It keeps staffing up. It keeps. It means more family time. And I'm not talking. I'm going home to my family. I have enough time to sleep, shower, maybe eat. But quality family. Time for. The dispatchers. I'm a single parent of. A disabled child. It's very clear. Your time is up, ma'am. I think you. Make three times. Next week at this. Hello. Honorable Vice Mayor and City Council. My name is Devin. I'm a business representative for the Longview City Employees. I am 1930. You've heard a lot of stories here today from city employees. I was the first time many of you have seen this many city employees come down to city council. They're you're talking about their issues because they're very serious and they're very important. And not just for them, but to continue giving the services that the community needs and to make them more robust than they've been. Right. I'd like to address a few things for staff that wasn't able to make it for positions that weren't able to be here in the police department. Our admin staff are constantly under filling positions and doing duties way outside of their responsibilities for way less pay. The park ranger program, I guess, is being cut. We were not notified about this or they did not discuss this with us. We found out in the budget presentation that's a missed opportunity to save money and keep security services the same in the city because they cost less than police officers and care services. I really appreciate the investments go in their direction. We need a lot more. The animals are suffering. The people are suffering. I invite all of you to come down with me and tour the animal shelter. It's not good. And our ambulance operators, vice mayor, you know, it's been rough getting coverage there right in the ninth district and places. We need to invest in them. They're making $15 an hour. They're doing the job of paramedics, not just transporting folks. So thank you. Your time is up. You can do that. And also, really quickly, I do support our groups over here going for the $25 minimum wage. Thank you. Thank you. Next, could you please. Hello. My name is Patrick Gleason, and I live on Cherry Avenue in the sixth District. I was disappointed in the police budget before and it's really disappointing now to know that 40% of our city budget is not even getting to the front lines and the dispatchers who run the department. So you would benefit by focusing on crime prevention and to prevent crime, you should expand investment into the root causes of crime, which are poverty, pollution, lack of education, high unemployment, discrimination of all kinds, social inequities, and lack of opportunities that cause crime. But police don't prevent it. They respond to it. They investigate it. Sometimes they solve it. It's really frustrating to hear the police budget expand year after year. And once again, it's not reaching the people who are kind of. Responding. So when crime is up, police tell us they need more money to fight it. When crime is down, they tell us they need more money to keep the peace. But then we see spending on tear gas and we see spending on armored vehicles and helicopters and lots of things that are buzzy and exciting, but obviously neglecting the people. So I encourage you to think about that and really focus on root causes. I know you all know this. You know the root causes of violence. You know what the good departments are? Health departments, education. Youth parks. Great opportunity with this budget. Don't just chase the ambition. Thank. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Dave Shukla Third District President Thank you for the opportunity to speak on the presentations. I'd like to reiterate a question that I asked the Budget Oversight Committee during its presentations earlier today on revenue sources. Specifically, since the price per barrel of oil is considerably higher than was budgeted for fiscal year 22, exactly how much surplus is there ? You know, if it's averaging $90 per barrel and it had been budgeted for 55, uh, back of the envelope estimates is that that's a yearly surplus of about $200 million. It would be helpful to know how much of that is already being allocated for which departments and which programs. Thank you. Thank you. Next week, the police. Good afternoon. My name is Nelson Grundy. I am resident in District one. I wasn't going to come up here today. This is my first time in the city council meeting and I'm extremely impressed by the engagement from the public. Normally I've been in different meetings and very few people are on the audience, so I'm very, very encouraged by that. Having said that, I appreciate the council putting this this meeting here forth and I appreciate putting the budget forward now. What I'm seeing, however, is I believe there seems to be some sort of a disconnect between the folks, as the gentleman mentioned a couple of before me, the folks in the trenches. So I'm asking you if possibly some of the employees, city employees, were considered when this budget when some of these budgets were were authored, if there was maybe a poll. How can we, as people on the trenches do a better job or how can we better be used? How can we better be? How can we better use our skills? And of course, compensation if need be. There's a lot of beautiful, trendy, beautiful bullet point feel good bullet points of some of these budgets. But I don't think anything was mentioned as far as like what they're doing to take care of, of, of their current employees. Um, I think it's important before setting up a budget and putting it forth, it would be good to pull the audience rather the public, including the city employees. And lastly, I would really like to use this to segway into a larger point in stating that we should really importantly bring back the representative government. The gentleman in front of me, Vice Chair, with all due respect, sir, you're stretching and you're moving around. Thank you. Your time is actually. Deep about their problems. Thank you. I think that's a little disrespectful. But with all due respect, thank you very much. Take care. Thank you. Do we have additional public comment online? We have two members in Zoom. And a Christiansen. Your time begins now. Okay. I wanted to. Comment. I was googling of salaries of 50 city employees make over $200,000 a year. I think we ought to create a system where there's the highest paid city employee cannot make more than a certain amount of times more than the lowest paid and have some trickle down of the city money. To. Employees. I would like to comment on the park budget and a good presentation from our park director. As usual. I am alarmed about tree trimming. Apparently now there is going to be a cyclical tree trimming in parks, and I would only ask that it not be done during nesting season and that trees, especially palm trees, not be trimmed annually so that we can provide nesting sites for birds and roosting sites as well. I would point out that you can save money by doing less. And a great place to do less is in our parks. You don't need to be mowed. They don't need to be edged as we watch constantly. They don't need leaf blowers in them. Every second a leaf could fall, you know, and it would still be okay. Sections of the park could be returned without batting bright green lawns, especially on artificial turf. But even the lawns could. Be restored as natural meadows. So if you, you know, and that saves a lot of money and it saves a lot of water. So that's just one suggestion. And then my man can thank you for your time as a service. Our next speaker. Steve Hoy. Your time begins now. Yes. Good evening. Hopefully you can hear me. My name's Boy. I live in the third district Marine Stadium. Just wanted to share an incident last Monday that we had at our home where we had a man climb up our fence in our backyard, threatened to kill us as we were sitting in back. And it was only that our dog saw the man and started barking, that he stopped jumping over. And I wanted to just report that it took the police nearly an hour to arrive to to our home. And unfortunately, the man was never found. He had gone behind the boathouse lane building. So our guests were with us for my son's wedding from South Africa. He immediately asked where we had our gun, which we don't have, and he mentioned that the response time was rivaling his third world country policing response times. And I just wanted to just reiterate the importance that we support our police, both financially and in the work that they do is vitally important. And as we hear people talking about defunding police and all that's really doing is discouraging our officers, I have three friends that are officers that are all can't wait to retire because of the environment. So I think we need to get behind them. We can we can find alternative policing ideas. We can solve root causes that people have talked about, but we have to support our police. So I urge you to do so. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Thank you. And we'll take it back behind the rail. First of all, thanks to everyone who came out and spoke during public comment. It was very well attended. And thank you all for your service to our city and to chiefs Espino and he Bish and Brant. Great job on your presentation. I'll just add a couple of notes, then I'll go through go through the council comments. We have five or six council members queued up on fire. I'll just say, you know, thank you for the accomplishments that you listed. I'm interested in continuing to follow particularly, you know, this progression to now fully funding or structurally funding the firefighter diversity program. That's a program, you know, that is important. And the council will pay some attention. And I remember when we began funding that with one time. So we want to continue to see the progress. Best of luck there. We also want to continue to understand and see progress on the Junior Lifeguard program, which I know is now connected to North Long Beach and other areas of town on, I would say Chief he bish it's this is your first budget as as chief. And I definitely see your fingerprints all over this thing. Some of the things that you mentioned early on when you expressed your interest in and you became chief and you talked about better communication, and I see that you've, you know, presented a new you know, a new apparatus around communication, your passion for community and community engagement. So this new bureau, the collaborative response and engagement, I think that's a good thing. And I would encourage you to continue to invest and see how we can build trust and congruence and partnership with the community. I love that you now have named the Community Engagement Division, the Youth and Community Services Division. I know we used to do things like police, athletic leagues and, you know, you know, the power center and things like that. And I think this is a step back in that direction, which is great. I think Professional Standards Division states very clearly that you have a goal of being a best in class, the police department, and that it takes not just investigating when things go wrong, but investing in mental health and professional standards and training as you move forward. So. So I want to just recognize those things in your budget. I also just want to want to note that, you know, I'm glad to see the community policing investment. That's something that's been important to the city council. I, you know, the community walks was something that, you know, I witnessed and participated in in North Long Beach and fully support this this city wide expansion of this program, along with the quality of life onward to the Parks, Recreation and Marine Branch. I think we're you know, you're building a lot of a lot of respect in the community. And I saw you last night at the hoops after dark lunch, and you have a true passion for the community. I think that's evident in what we see here. I would say we should continue to invest in you know, we talk a lot of times during the summer about budgets and programs like that, but then sometimes the community comes out and says, that's great, but we also want this right. And I think it's been very, very clear that whoops, after Dark is a program that that needs the city's focus, its ongoing focus. So we want to continue to support that program and see how we can expand it to other groups across town. So I'd love to see some moves after dark on the West Side or North Long Beach. So it's a great program, but I think the highlight in this budget is the focus on clean restrooms and safe playgrounds. This is something that I can tell you is a challenge. The fact that we can't we don't have the ability today to lock our bathrooms at night sometimes since we can't, you know, there have been situations since we couldn't lock them. They just stayed locked all day while people are using the park during the day. And I don't think that's okay. And and we invest in our restrooms and it seemed like two months, three months later, they're back in bad shape. So I think it's going to be smarter for us to be able to invest in keeping our bathrooms clean and safe and our playgrounds as well. So I just offered those brief comments. I'll you know, if I have further questions, I'll be sure to follow up with you in our briefings. We're going to go through the counsel list I have. I'm going to read off the list first. I have Councilwoman Sara, Councilmember Urunga, Councilmember Price, Councilmember Austen and Councilmember Mongo in that order. So, Councilman Zoro, you're recognized. Thank you, Vice Mayor Richardson. I also want to thank Fire Chief Espino and Chief Heber and Mr. Brant Dennis for the great presentation. I know that there's so much more in your budget than you could possibly present in the short frame of the time that you have. So I encourage those who felt like it wasn't enough as far as an opportunity to have dialog to come out to our community budget meeting. That's going to be this Thursday, August 11th, as well as next week in the following week. And there is a lot and I just want to just start out by saying how much I appreciate seeing the investment in infrastructure for our fire department around equipment, as well as making sure that we invest more in diverse recruitment. It's really important, and I know that the fire department's been working hard on making sure it's diverse in gender, racial and ethnic and ethnicity as well. And the other thing I want to also congratulate Chief Heber on is six months, I think is about six, seven months that he's been chief. And I think that it really shows that you are being creative with the budget we have. I agree with the vice mayor that it's important we see investment in community policing because it is about engagement and building relationship with the community. But I think more so that that you're kind of switching up the restructuring in so many ways. That's really emphasizing around the thing I know we've had ongoing discussion about around transparency, accountability, and that shows because you're making huge investments in communication because that reduces and that increases in transparency by sharing more about what's happening on a regular basis, not just social media, but newsletters and emails and also getting boots on the ground and our police officer out in the community to build their relationship and to get to know the beats in the community as well as our businesses too. And also making sure that officers are reflective of those who are the community that they're walking in as well. So I really appreciate the creativity that's being taken around how you're doing engagement. And I see that and I appreciate it because that's some of the stuff that I've been I know that has been asked for. And the other thing I want to note is that, you know, we've come a long way in thinking we are going to go into a $36 million deficit to now closing that. And so I do appreciate all of our city staff figuring out how to make sure we continue to provide the services we do, but also make sure we consider how we appreciate staff at all levels for their service and the work that they put in, especially as we continue to recover from the pandemic. And just want to make sure to comment around parks, Rex, Marines and Animal Services how much that is also part of our public safety continuum because it is part of our violence prevention based on the whoops after dark program that was just mentioned by the vice mayor, as well as many other services and program to making sure we activate our parks, to making sure that we get young people and our elders out into the park doing programing. And I hope that, you know, the investment plan that's been shared is really making sure that we continue to get people to come out and be in our parks keeping it clean. I'm just really proud of how much that's going to be invested in improving MacArthur Park, thanks to Senator Lena Gonzalez, as well as making sure we create a vision plan bill, a dream for King Park. This coming very soon and where we want to hear back and how we can make this place the park better that work for everyone. Getting the funding we need to finally finished building the Kim the Killing Field Memorial Garden with the Cambodian Veteran Memorial Monument to making sure there's a place for Cambodians to remember the genocide and honor those who have passed. So there's just so much to this budget that I think is about adding and adding to values and adding to people's lives and adding to culture and also making sure that we connect more in person than we do online. And that's what our parks do for us as well. So there's much more, does it definitely say about the budget? But I just want to thank staff. All your hard work and then it day in and day out every all of our city staff, you really do make our city run and and definitely make it better. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Urunga Thank you, Ms.. Mayor. And I want to thank also staff for the great presentations you brought forward today. A lot of information in there. And I think it really shows that they're listening. You're listening you're listening to the comments that city council members have made. I know we meet on a regular basis talking about what our region is and what our needs are and what we see or what we would like to see from each department in terms of their services and the the infrastructure and the hiring. And. And one of the things that came out tonight in terms of the public comment, it was a recurring theme. And the recurring theme was about retention. And it's something that is very important, obviously, to our employees. And and I hear it as well from the from the unions themselves, police included, how they feel, stressed how they feel on the and on. And I'm not saying undesired. What's the word I'm looking for? Unwelcome talk, don't talk. But, you know, the point is that I think nothing says about retention than salaries. And I. Think we might want to look at. It and i guess it would be directed more to the city manager and to our h.r. Director. In terms of when was the last time that we did a compensation study for our for our salaries in the city? Because I know we continually it seems like the year in, year out, we're at the lower part of the median as opposed to being at the median in salaries. And we can't I mean, a city our size with all of the resources that we got, with everything that we've got going for us, which is great and we're . A great city. We're still, you know, either at the at the median or below in our salaries that we pay our employees. And I. Think that we need to finally address that somehow. In the next. You know, I'm not saying it's English because that's not something that we could do right away. But obviously start looking at. How we can. Raise our level of. Quality of our salary to get more. Retention. People just want to work with us. I mean, I've seen and I heard it today. You know, employees who've worked for. You know, 15, 20, 30 years with the city and yet, you know, they're capped out, but they continue to work with us. And there are, of course, others who left us because there's no growth there for them. So I think we really have to start looking more seriously at and how we can provide better retention. Services, if you will, for our employees. And of course, salaries is a big part of that. I mean, you feel good when you going to work and you get a nice. Paycheck where you can go. Back home and entertain your kids or buy them a nice dinner. So I think we need to look at that again. In regards to a compensation study, perhaps, Mr. Walker, you might want to. Look at that. And when was the last time we did one, do you recall? So as we did negotiations with our contract with AM, I believe was in around 2018, we did some preparation as part of that. If you remember in Closed Session, we talk a little bit about where we are in terms of the marketplace. We are currently in a long term agreement. We just did a I think a 2% increase just last year. We've got a 2% increase for our IAM staff coming up in September and then there's another 1% increase coming up in April of 2023 and then the contract ends after that and it'll be a chance to look at some additional negotiation. But we can get you the specific information on compensation study believe that does if it's any different than what I told you. You know, I think that, you know, we should do one of those studies every five years or so since our economy changes so much. And it's in flux at that point to keep up with what's going on in the real world in regards to how. Far a person's salary can go in terms of their quality of life. But other than that, you know, I love the presentation for Parks. From Police. And Fire. All the great. Things that they're doing out there in terms of retention, freeze at recruitment. And. Partner retention. But I mean, we still need a lot more to do it. Obviously, we're we're making some gains in some of the restructuring and reorganization that's going on in all three departments in regards to answering the call for needs that the. Residents want to see is great. And so I'm looking forward to further discussions with the budget. This is just a first. Review at it, if you will. I know there's going to be some. Deeper, more. In-Depth discussions about more specifics as we get as we go with with the the study that equipment has. So I'm looking forward to that as well. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Price. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. So a couple of things. I'll start in the order that we did our presentations tonight. So for fire, you know, I wanted to talk to the chief a little bit about the increase in activity in Alamitos Bay. We are getting more and more calls for service in Alamitos Bay, and this is mostly a lifeguard response issue, but also a marine patrol issue. So I wanted to talk to the chief and perhaps the PR director on how this budget reflects the increase in boating activity in the bay. I know that may not be an issue that affects everyone, but it certainly is an issue that affects a lot of residents and renters who maybe don't have the money to have their own boat, which is most everyone. So they're doing a lot of the rental businesses. And so that conflict has really come to fruition in a big way in Alamitos Bay. And I kind of want to get a sense from the chief and perhaps even director Dennis, how does your budget reflect that increase in activity? Because I really didn't see that reflected in the proposed budget. Thank you, Councilwoman, for your question in regards to our budget currently. I can tell you that we have currently. Hired up a security. Company to help us out there. Now, let me just Bay, specifically with the with it and the activity that we're getting after. Dark Chief Medina actually came up with the idea, and I think it's a fantastic idea to get somebody to dissuade those folks from being out there. But it is a team approach. The security guards are only meant to identify folks that aren't supposed to be there when they're there. And then we notify PD. They come in and they assist us as well. Going forward, we're going to have to look at that. In the upcoming budget. We have budgeted. For additional lifeguards, which is going to help us. But it may be that we're going to have to just change the way we do things in the evenings. Okay. So I'm not talking specifically about the the with it y the way we've we've shopped it around and we understand that the correct pronunciation is with it too, although we keep calling it the wee bit, I don't know. But we and our team, we call it the whip it. So the whip it is one factor. And I think Chief Medina has done a really great job with the innovative ideas of how to control some of the evening activity. But what I'm talking about is the increase in activity in the bay. I think we're putting a lot of stress on our lifeguards with the activity in the bay, and I don't know that we really do not have the support that we need for our lifeguards on the bay. There's bridge jumping going on. There's a lot of activity with the boat rental companies going on. And Chief Medina has been unbelievably amazing to me as a partner in trying to figure out how to increase the lifeguard presence there. But, you know, he can't do it alone. So how does the budget support him? So at the current time we haven't specifically address that with our budget chief. Medina is doing everything that he can with his current lifeguards that he has. They've increased the patrolling and we're going to continue to do that and look at next year and see how we can increase those numbers even further. But there's nothing. Concrete right now. Okay. I get that. Chief Espino I get that. I understand that. But perhaps this message is for the city manager. Oil is trading at way over the budgeted $55 a barrel that we have. We've been talking a lot about the Tidelands budget. I fully expect that we will be listening to the community on these issues and considering the changes that we've seen in activity along the coastline in the bay. And I can tell you and I so appreciate Chief Espino and the limitations that are placed upon him, and I know he's probably not going to say this in the way that it needs to be said, but we need more resources to go to our lifeguard division. We have people now, we've got the with it in Alamitos Beach. We've got the women in Alamitos Bay. We've got increased activity in the bay with boat rentals. And we absolutely need some more resources to our lifeguards. We just simply cannot continue to do it with the resources that we've had in the past, because I think everyone will agree that COVID was a game changer in terms of recreational activities throughout the city, but especially along the coastline, which is a good thing. I think Councilman Ranga would applaud the fact that people are using the coastal amenities more so than ever before, and that's a good thing. And we want to make sure that every resident in the city has access to the coast. But in order for us to be able to accommodate that increased use, we need to have more support for our Marine bureau. So a marine safety division. So, Chief Espino, you don't have to say it because I know it puts you in a difficult position. But I'm sharing with the city manager that we absolutely need more resources for our Marine Safety Division in the fire department. And I'm hoping that the city manager can take a look, a look at that and see what we can do to augment those resources in terms of innovative proposals to the chair of the BMC for ways that we can augment that budget. So thank you, Chief Espino. But I think know, I think Chief Medina will tell you that he gets probably more calls for service and more community meetings than he probably can share with you. Councilwoman, your time is up. It's it's really a lot for one person to handle. Understood. Thank you. Thank you. So with that, I want to move on to fire. And I want to thank. I mean, I want to move on to police. And I want to thank Councilwoman. Your time is Chief. You are? Councilwoman? Yes. Your time is up. Wow. Okay. I'll recuse. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Alston. Yes. Thank you so much. I want to just say thank you to all three departments who gave presentations today. I'll just try to, you know, highlight a couple of things that I've heard and a few questions. But if you can get everything in within 5 minutes, if not all with you. I'll go and order. Start with the fire department. This fire department is top notch. Thank you all for your great work, Chief, and your department. There are a few things that I wanted to just. Just get some clarification on. You requested a position for do the administrative investigations, the love for you to follow up on that, explaining more about the functionality of the position and why of it in terms of administrative investigations, what type of investigations will they be doing administratively? Internal or external? Just curious about that and then the related the issue of diversity and thinking in a full time position. I think obviously we want more diversity in our fire department and what our same in every department, by the way. I would love to know the results of the diversity recruitment over the past couple of years since we've had this position in place. So will be, if you can put forth a memo to the council to show how our diversity is improved for this period of time, that would be greatly appreciated. But I'll let you respond to the administrative investigation question about that position. And Councilmember, if I can ask a clarifying question, was that specific on fire or other departments? That was a fire. That was a fire position in the fire presentation. I was writing notes for. Understood. Got it. Councilman Austin to ask for an administrative investigator or an administrative position to do administrative investigations. Yes. Thank you for the question. Specifically right now, our admin officer is conducting all of the administrative investigations. Quite a lot of paperwork, quite a lot of bandwidth is needed for that. So we looked at the fact that we have investigations that are both internal and external. We found it to be very, very important for our department that we were able to to get through these, expedite, getting through the investigations, do a good job with the investigation. So we asked for an additional position to help out with the investigation process and also to help out with the PR process. We've, as I stated, were receiving 1400 praise per year. And so the only way that we're covering those periods now is with overtime throughout our department, with other civilian staff. And so now having a dedicated administrative assignment for that person, that's going to help us out quite a bit down the road. With your other question. Thank you for that clarification. And also, I had questions at the end, and you may not have to respond to that tonight, but please provide the council with some sort of data or information memo to highlight the diversity achievements in recruiting department over the last couple of years since we've funded this position. That's it. That's all. I'll move on to Penny. I want to just say to Chief, he this your first budget. I want to just salute and say this was an excellent presentation. It was encouraging to hear and I applaud the creative reorganization and thought that you put into the department and we're really addressing and listening to the needs of the system today. Much of what we see in this budget and which I'm trying to do with the department, attempting to do with the department, is this is in response to a lot of what you've heard from the community, but also of the council. And and I think that really what we're doing today needs to money in many respects. I believe that models, you know, should change, particularly in government of police department and every department. I mean, if we we can tweak our models to make them more efficient and more responsive to our public. We're doing the right thing. So I'm encouraged by what you're attempting to do with this budget proposal. Obviously, there I have some questions. I want to go into some detail at some point, and you can probably do that during the DLC. But it is it is encouraging to see this focus on on better communications of wellness internally and externally, thinking about the community, but also the officers and obviously crime. And you mentioned homelessness. Well, I will put on your you're something to think about and then I'd like to see accomplished in that no chief has been able to do in my ten years on the city council, and that is to open our Northwest Police station right from work to business station and basically maybe all of the stations to make them more serving to the community. You can spend all your time is up. I'm sorry. But let me finish my point. Thank you. I think in doing so, we do go a long way to better engage our community and improve accessibility to our public safety officials. And so I'll get to Parks and Rec. I can't wait to talk to you guys. Thank you for the time. Thank you. And I couldn't agree more. Councilmember Mongo. Thank you so much. What excellent presentations tonight. Having been on the city council for eight years. I know that there are things that come up year after year and changes that we make and some of them are minor. This year I feel like I see major changes in the right direction and I'm really, really, really impressed with the work that you guys are doing. First and foremost, I look through the budget book and I see the policies are at the front like we as a Budget Committee discuss and how important that is for all of us to be reminded of the policies that we adhere to as a council that we all agreed upon. Next, I really want to applaud fire. There are lots of questions that I've asked year after year related to grants, related to percentages, related to opportunities. And I feel like every single one of those questions was answered in your presentation tonight. I think that the community has asked the same questions over and over again, and I think that all of them are answered in advance this year. And so I think that that will be a huge success for us. I want to finish by giving a focus on Parks and Rec police great budget. Thank you for all that you've added. I can definitely see your mark on this, Wally, but with Parks and Rec, what a great budget to talk about the real big steps that this Council has made related to eliminating the herbicides in our parks, making sure we have water to water our parks, and then the park restroom issue, park restrooms have been something that I have just harped about year after year after year. We come up with creativity. I remember when I was first elected, I had a staff member who now works for Culver City PD, and on Saturday mornings he would do an inventory of what was needed. He would go to Ace Hardware and he would literally buy soap and toilet seats, not 20. He covers paper actual toilet seats that had been stolen the night before so that our kids who needed to use the bathroom during the day would have something to sit down on. And now for Parks and Rec to take ownership of their parks in a meaningful way is just so great. I want to echo the comments of Councilman Sara. I know these are truncated meetings, but our community budget meetings are really where additional information and feedback can be provided so that our city staff hear you. Thank you so much to everyone and just what a great budget. I'm so proud of the work you guys are doing and the focus on infrastructure and how we're going to see that develop over the next 12 months budget. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Allen. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I really appreciate all of the presentations. I was just telling. Councilman Ringa I really appreciated especially appreciated his comments. You know, I think we as a council have always been really concerned with workers, whether they're health care workers, grocery store workers. And that's always really important to us. But we also need to take care of our own. And, you know, we need as we start these meeting confirms. I just I think that we just need to think about that. This is our city family. And I just feel like even the years when long time ago, when I was a police officer, I always felt like we were one of the most underpaid in the state . And so I just think that we need to look at that and recognize that we've got some work to do there. I also want to recognize all the speakers that came out tonight. I know there were a lot of. You know, concerns. And we have some work to do. But I'm committed to listening to building trust and to addressing the issues that are important to so many people. I'm Chief Habash. Thank you for your amazing presentation. And I just want to thank all of our officers for all their hard work. And I know it's a tough and demanding job. So thank you. And I under I really just appreciate all the sacrifices that you make and you your families make to protect our city. I also appreciate hearing the department's continues to prioritize building strong relationships with our residents and community and and still addressing crime, homelessness and also our employee wellness. That's the important things. Also the fire chief. So there you. Are. Thank you for your presentation as well. I appreciate your work. I know that our response times are really extremely fast, which save lives, and it's great to see that our focus for this year is to continue to improve those response times for all emergencies and minimizing. A fire loss. So I also like reading about your mental health and wellness initiatives. And also, as you know, many conversations that I've had with you personally, I love to see that, you know, you're looking at hiring more police women. And I loved hearing about your the workshop that you'll the female firefighter career workshop. That's all really good stuff. So thank you for sharing. That with with everybody publicly. Brant, someone said so many nice things about you. I agree. You're amazing. We're so lucky to have you and our Parks Recreation and Marine Department. And it was also wonderful to hear about all your accomplishments throughout the year from the openings of Lincoln Park to making sure that all of our beaches and marine areas are free of trash. And. And just maintaining all of our park facilities. It's a lot of work. You've got a lot under. You're under your umbrella. So I just really appreciate you. And also, I was reading the river debris was removed from the harbor areas and you were targeting 1500 tons and you end up doing 2500 tons. That's really just really incredible work. So appreciate appreciate you. I'm also excited about the about the pilot magnet door program. So I know we've had a lot of issues, especially out at Bixby Park. So just I'm excited about that. And let's see if this can solve some of the the, you know, the issues that we're having out there. And I'm also looking forward to seeing all the improvements over at Bixby. Park as well as. Well. So just appreciate all the department heads. Thank you so much. And we're so fortunate to have each and every one of you leading our departments. And and then I do. Have I know my time's. About to be up, but I do have some questions regarding 911 and just some of the issues that were brought up and this remote occur. So maybe in the days ahead, we can just, you know, clarify some of those those those issues. So thank you very much. Great work, everyone. Thank you. And just to follow up, we are working on a separate memo on 911 dispatching and is answering some of the questions that we've gotten about the status of that operation and. That should be out fairly shortly. We heard some other input today. Will be sure to address some of those. Make sure the council's got that information. Thank you. Just to clarify, is the dispatch all in the police department or don't we don't we have it in the disaster preparedness department? Yes, it's actually not in the police department. All dispatch is in disaster preparedness and emergency communications. When are they presenting engineers? Are they. Scheduled to present. Right now? They are not. But if that's the request of the council, we can talk about that a little bit as well. Okay. Thank you. Next is council members and has. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to literally echo everybody's comments. I know that everybody has made some fantastic comments here. I want to thank the three percenters, chief, chief and five year female chief who have this. And, of course, Director Denis for their great presentations. I think it's very important that we as as the council, take into consideration all of the hard work that is being put into all of these budgets and also take into consideration all of the comments that were made from our audience as well. So thank you, everybody, who came to speak. I very, very much appreciate your comments. I know that. First of all, Chief Basch, I, I'm just so, so very proud of you and all that you have accomplished in this very short time of being our chief. It's been amazing. I know we've done some incredible work together. It's really great to have a strong partnership with you. And I think that also with Parks and Rec, I'm just so thrilled of all the work that that we've been doing together in trying to upkeep our parks and make them a place where where our community can enjoy. And I know there's still a lot of work to be done, obviously, but I'm really, really excited to be working together towards that goal. There's some really, really exciting things coming our way, and I think that that's very, very important as well. I just wanted to make sure that I also. You know, acknowledge the fact that, you know, there are like I think it was Councilwoman Allen that mentioned this, that along with Councilmember Dunga, that we are always, you know, champions for our workers in in the city. Me personally, you know, hero pay was very, very important to me. But we also got to look inside, you know, in our homes. And it's very important to be able to feel good about what we have in the house and how we, you know, compensate all of our employees who help us make the city run as efficiently as possible. And as we all know, this pandemic has hit us hard and especially within our employees. And I just want to reiterate to all of our city employees at all levels that you are a priority to us and that. You know, we can. And I think it's very important that we continue doing that and to continue finding ways to to be able to do that. I think it's very, very important. I also want to say that it's also very important to me that we do see more activities for older adults, not only activities, but programs and ways to help our seniors. One, because they are a big, big group in our city. And also because it's we're all headed in that direction. So I want to make sure that they also feel supported by us and by this budget. Again, I want to thank all of my council colleagues for all their very, very informative and very wise comments and and suggestions. And I absolutely support all of all of what has been said. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Price. Bank? Very much so. A lot of great feedback there. I wanted to go to police now. The five. Was it am I correct that the slide that you put up, Chief Bush said that 5.4% increase in violent crime. Is that correct? Thank you. Councilwoman? Yes, that's correct. 5.4% increase year to date. That is after starting this year with a 17.4% increase in violent crime in January. Okay. And we're talking about violent crime. How do we define that as that pursuant to what qualifies as a strike offense? No, Councilwoman, it is from the federal UCR data. Part one Crime and violent crime is categorized based on those guidelines. Okay. Do you think you can send me an email with those guidelines and we'll make those available for our constituents because we get asked that question a lot. Absolutely. Thank you. You talked a little bit about recruitment. I will say I'm in the law enforcement industry, so I talk with police departments all the time. And I know that recruitment is an issue statewide, probably nationally. But I will say it's a little bit more of an issue in Long Beach. When I talk with police officers from other areas, I asked them a lot of times, you know, why don't they apply to Long Beach? And what I hear repeatedly is that, you know, we're not paying competitive salaries for police officers. We're just we're not in terms of what what is being paid in the region and. You know, the level of support for police officers fluctuates depending on politics and things like that. So they don't feel like there's a consistent set of support for them. And I think that's really something we need to focus on as a city and, you know, as elected officials, like, do we support our police officers or do we not? Because I think it's important for them to to feel that, because retention and recruitment is a huge issue. And I think that's a structural issue that we need to think about, not just for this year or next year, but for the years to come. And I think that's something that we just need to have on our frame of mind in terms of how do we recruit the best and the brightest. We can talk all day long and have a lot of rhetoric about what that means, but what does that mean in terms of who were attracting to actually the fire chief? I love the creation of the new bureau. And I just want to take a moment. All politics aside, I think everyone here knows that the city budget that was prepared by the city manager that was submitted to the mayor's office that no council member was privy to. Officially on on July the first involved your recommendations. For this community policing proposal and your recommendations for the bike patrol officers that you referred to as the stop program. That was your idea. And I think it's really, really important. You don't have to comment on it. But for us to acknowledge that on July the first, when this budget was presented to the mayor's office with limited accessibility. Your proposal for community policing and bike officers was the proposal that made it into that budget. It is your proposal, and I want to thank you, Chief, for listening to the community and working hard to make sure that your proposal made it into the budget. Those of us watching know that this was your idea and we're really grateful for it. I want to talk to you a little bit about the professional development section that you're creating. Can you talk a little bit about how the ABLE program, which is something that came forth to the Public Safety Committee when I was chair of the Public Safety Committee, which focuses on bystander liability, fits into that program, and how programs like bystander viability are going to help with some of the public trust issues and culture change issues that we've been talking about. Thank you, Councilwoman. The ABLE program is that that grant opportunity will be coming to council on the sixth. But we've already started our programing for able within the department. ABLES ran out of our training division, so that's under a separate bureau where Internal Affairs now the Professional Standards Division will investigate misconduct but also look into body worn camera early intervention programs and find ways to address behavioral issues that can ensure employee success and growth we're able is separate from that, but all connected on on demonstrating our commitment and investment in our employees in this department, in this community. So able is still moving forward and that's going to be a department wide operation, a department wide roll out for all of our employees, where the conversion of the Internal Affairs Division is more specific to that, and adding another layer of what we do within that division to ensure our employees can be successful. That's wonderful. And I think anyone who's watching tonight, if you just Google the terms by standards ship liability, you'll find that that is an incredible resource. There's a ton of white papers on it in terms of police reform, and I'm so grateful that our police department's participating in that. I want to ask you a little bit about cameras. We have cameras all over the city. What is the plan to get those cameras tied into the police department? I get this question all the time. Do we have any funding for that? Thank you, Councilwoman. The camera system in our city is under the Department of Technology and Innovation, so that's under a separate department director. However, the police department does have access to security footage, and we do use that, as I've spoken about that before, for the investigation of crimes and developing investigative leads and that type of thing. So the city camera structure is run out of the Department of Technology and Innovation. Okay. All right. We'll save those questions for them. And then the other thing I just wanted to put on screen and price love all the innovative programing that we're doing. I like the allocation of new staff as I see it in the proposed budget. But one thing, Chief, that we. Have a moment is your time is. Up. No matter what district residents live in, they want to make sure that they have. The best. Response times. And that's the one thing I think probably me and all of my council members, all my council colleagues can speak to unilaterally is that residents can. Always price your time. Making sure that when they call the police, there's someone that's going to respond. And I think that's really important. And I know if you can just make sure that you're focused on that. Councilman Price, your time is. Up get some folks is response time and I think we need to focus on. Thank you. Councilman Allen. Yes. So I have a question probably for I think is probably for Tom. Can you speak specifically about turnover, cost and recruitment versus retention spending? I just want to make sure that we're looking at flexible ways to keep valuable employees and avoid having to replace them at. You know, even greater cost. Yeah. So it certainly is a challenging time right now to both hire a new staff and and keep our existing staff. People have a lot of options out there. It's a very low unemployment rate. And so people are able to move around and and move from job to job. We see that. We love to keep our city employees here as much as we can. Part of our strategy and programs is we do have a lot of promotion activities right now as we do have open positions. We are looking to promote our city employees, but we're also looking to bring on additional city employees to keep hiring going and make sure that those who are here have some support and aren't always having to do overtime shifts. We heard clearly from our employees, you know, I think you've heard this from me several times. We have a lot going on in our city. We do care very much about our workforce and try to manage their workload because they are being asked to do a lot of extra time, extra work. One thing that we did last year is we created our new performance incentive that would never existed before for anyone that was not in the management ranks. And so that's available to all employees. And we've been using a fair amount of that to acknowledge amazing work. What I get feedback from employees a lot is not just on the dollar amount, but it's just the recognition. We sign a certificate. Everyone who gets one of those gets a certificate from the city manager. And it really does help, I think, a little bit with morale. In terms of retention, we do have in our contracts, we've been trying to structure these as long term contracts so that there are projected increases and those are coming. We mentioned some of those and then of course, we did do equity adjustments in our AM contracts and others for not just every position across the board, but those where we were having some specific issues and we can go a little bit further into that. But yeah, one of the other things we're doing is we are investing in this budget, in civil service and in H.R. we have a number of efforts going on right now to try to streamline our hiring processes and also to bring more resources to civil service so that they can do, you know, open up our our our list faster and higher, faster, so that we can help support employees by bringing people in to make sure they're not having to do other jobs for those that are vacant. Awesome. Thank you, Mr. Murdoch. I also want to know. Looking at the police budget so it looks like it's not much of a change. Here we are. So is it already what we're talking about, additional officers like and the bike officers, is that already planned in this budget currently? Yes. So the budget proposal includes 20 new officers, 16 bike officers and four quality of life officers. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. Thank you. My zoom had a quick blip. So if another council member stated this already. I just want to take a quick moment to acknowledge our dispatchers. I heard staff come to the podium tonight to discuss the demand on our dispatchers. And dispatch is a very, very straining occupation. And I would like to see us look towards better supporting our dispatchers. I would love to see. Obviously, pay is a component, but pay is a part of a negotiated process. There are still other things that agencies have done for their dispatchers that have been helpful, including refurbishing restroom rest areas because of the stress and the quality of their break times that is necessary. There's lots of other things we can do, and I'd really love to see an investment in that. Thank you. No more comments. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you. I'll just follow up with my comments. I did appreciate the presentation by Parks Recreation Marine. Again, one of our asset departments that's public facing that. It's always engaging for a community. I think most people experience our parks have a positive experience and that's positive for the city. Much of the public comment and I did appreciate hearing from our city employees because of week after week after week. There's a common theme not only in our city but for us in our society, and that's workforce challenges of recruitment and retention is a it's a serious it's an issue that we have to grapple with as a city council, not just with public safety and police and fire, but what our employment ranks in the city. And so I'd like to see us obviously give a lot more attention to that, because obviously we want to ensure that all of our city employees are coming to work and feeling dignified and respected for the work that they do. I'm really interested also as well, remember with the dispatch emergency dispatch operators of 12, 18 hour shifts. That's really happening. And I've talked to the director who's shared with me the challenges that he's having with with hiring and retaining employees and that as well. So I think we need to take a stronger look at that. But also, I'd like to see us in all positions, you know, look at internal career ladders in recruiting internally, filling positions internally. People should not have to be feel like they're stuck in the role that they're there in forever, particularly in a city like Long Beach that has so many options for you to learn as well as as an employee. Right. And so we should be when you talk about diversity in hiring. Yeah, we want to know what it looks like, but we also want to know that we I'd like to know that we're looking at our candidates internally and promoting people within team to maintain a culture of of of excellence. So those are my comments. I look forward to obviously continuing the conversations around, you know, the X's and O's and the dollars and cents of the budget. But we also need to promote a solid workplace culture. I think we're moving in the right direction, but we need to look within to build people up as well. X. Thank you. Council member Super. Thank you. Great presentations. By Chief Steven and Espinal and Director Denis and also great. Presentations by our. Dispatchers. Fantastic job tonight. And I'll just say here, I would like to see a presentation. By Reggie Harrison as part. Of the budget process or at least bring us a wish list, because I'd like to see this fixed as soon as possible. And I just have everything's been covered, I think. But I just also. Wanted to thank Chief Espino particular for this statistics that he brought forth. These are things that I knew anecdotally. I'm not sure what term he used on on point. They call them vegetation fires. But I know over the weekend we had. The 405 freeway shut down at. Lakewood Boulevard due to a vegetation. Fire. And then I think about 21 hours later, there was a flare up of the same spot. Two weeks prior. We had a. Vegetation fire. Adjacent to the nature center that shut down the nature center for a day. So the stat I heard, Chief, was. 381 arson. Investigations. I know that's probably different types of fires. But the number that was so staggering to me of these types of fires. You went from around. 200 to over 630 and that in that range of more than 3% increase. So what I would like to suggest is that we need some type of effort here. And it might. Be that all the departments presenting tonight and the city manager's office, if we can have. Some type. Of fire prevention effort, I don't know what exactly it is, but somehow we're taking a look at this issue because if we don't, I don't see it improving. And what we can do in terms of prevention would be something I'd like to look at. And so I thank you. Thank you. Councilman Price, I'm not sure if this is the custom on price. This is from before I transitioned. Wasn't sure this is. No, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I recused because I think I'm perfect. I was. I was in the middle of talking when I think my mic was turned off, so I just recused. So. Yes, thank you. So I just have a couple more questions. So going back to police. I know police doesn't oversee dispatch, but when people want to call for police response, they call dispatch. And sometimes they don't know that our internal structure makes dispatch a different department than police. And so a lot of times, if they don't get a good response from dispatch, they attribute it to police. And our dispatchers are under tremendous stress. I cannot even imagine how difficult and challenging their work is. So I agree with Councilman Super not anything we can do to be further educated on what we are doing to support them and give them the tools that they need to succeed. We get so many calls from residents and emails from residents saying that they were dissatisfied with dispatch. And sometimes I find myself getting very defensive on behalf of our dispatchers again, because of my line of work on a daily basis. I know the stress that our dispatchers have and they're getting faced with a lot of questions that are beyond just general police or fire response. And so making sure that they have the right training and they have the resources so that it doesn't fall on their shoulders entirely is critical. And so anything that we can do to support our dispatchers, I'm more than happy to do. They deserve our full support and beyond, frankly, because they they are the first line of defense. When residents call for help for 90% of the calls to the city, their touch point is dispatch. We cannot forget that their touch point is not the council office or the city manager's office or any of our departments other than dispatch. 99% of the calls from residents throughout the city that Touch City Hall are through dispatch. So we need to make sure we support our dispatchers. So I want to transition over to PR and fantastic presentation. Brant, I know that whoops. After dark last night you and I were talking and I did not realize this is your third budget. You came in during COVID years and so it just flew by. But you did an excellent job on that presentation and I know you're working really hard. There's a couple of things I wanted you to expand on, but first I wanted to say our bathrooms. I know you know, Mr. Janice, that I did my own personal audit of the bathrooms and I had myself and staff point to different bathrooms and looking at their condition. And we really need to make sure our bathrooms are clean. I mean, they just that has to be a focus for our city because taxpayers aren't feeling like they can use the restrooms when they go to the park or with their children or by themselves, and they feel like the bathrooms are not accessible to them, then we're really rendering those who use those public facilities useless to residents , and we want to make sure that we don't do that. Residents should be able to use the restroom. You go to the park. I know this is a mom of two kids. You go to the park for an hour with your kid. The chances are either you or your child is going to need to use the restroom. And if the restroom is is not in a condition, you're not going to use that. And I think that's one of the core services that the city has to provide. So I'm really grateful for our investment in bathrooms. But can you, Mr. Dennis, talk a little bit about the Rancho budgets for for both Rancho La Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos? They are in the budget. And I would like you to talk about them specifically, and I would like you to also touch on Pickleball. So if you could talk about those two things, and I think I will be done with questions after that. Mr. Mayor, thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman Price. So I do want to make a comment regarding restrooms. So I'm very optimistic and fully committed to this new initiative with the Park Safety Ambassadors. I think our park maintenance team has worked very thoughtfully to craft together second shift and have all the resources that from the get go, we'll have trained team members out there really doing the best job to secure our restrooms overnight and also maintain them because bottom line is we want them to be safe, clean and welcoming. So I think your comment about young families in particular nature will call and certainly we want our restrooms to be available. So the ranchos in the five year infrastructure plan, as I met with both the executive directors and their boards, they are identified as a top priority and for obvious reasons, because of the beauty of their historic structures, a fire detection and suppressant system. And they've worked with actually the same internationally acclaimed engineer for those systems that are very sensitive to the for the Rancho, the Adobe walls and some of the historic attributes where you want to have a system that's effective but not that obvious. So they have gotten to about 100% final design level, and we had recommended allocating $600,000 for each of the ranchos. And I think that was a. Very important high priority improvement for both of those great facilities. Pickleball I know we have a TFR for the citywide pickleball master plan summary that's going to be distributed. I know over the past week or so we've made some really great are we call although we call them low hanging fruit improvements but we introduced for new dual use or dual straight courts out at Marina Vista Park. We've gotten really great accolades from the Pickleball community there, and we're also moving forward with some improvements at Somerset Park and returning some attention back to Bayshore and College Estates is a little bit more challenging, but we're trying to be thoughtful to the neighbors. But the growing interest in Pickleball citywide, I think, has been very surprising and it's also very significant. So in the five year infrastructure plan, you'll notice that there were dedicated pickleball courts proposed for Veterans Park to Forest Park and also recreation park adjacent to the Billie Jean King Tennis Center. So we're thankful for that. And I also always like to give a shout out to our Long Beach Pickleball Advisory Group. They're self-identified ambassadors that have a great passion for what I call their nucleus groups that are scattered all over the city. Now we've got a new group that's formed up at Halton Park and also, you know, good news while we were at Hoops After Dark, the Salvation Army, it's a new facility or gym at Long Beach Boulevard in spring. Last night, two Saturdays ago, they actually added pickleball striping to their basketball courts. So they're anxious to work with us to have a pilot, three months league to see if there's enough interest in that part of the city. So I think that's the best update I can provide on my favorite sport. Now talk about and I do like basketball too, but but pickleball is important to a growing number of people. Do you have any other questions? No. Thank you so much. And thank you for your show, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you to all the councilmembers for the comments. We were going to go ahead and receive and file. There is a motion and a second, a roll call to receive in the budget hearing. And it just gets continued, of course, to the next budget hearing. Councilwoman Cindy has. A. Councilwoman Alan I. Councilwoman Price. I. Councilman Sabina. I. Councilwoman Mongo. I. Catwoman. Ciro. I. Councilmember Muranga. I. Councilman Austin. Hi. Vice Mayor Richardson. Hi. The motion is carried nine June. Thank you very much. We will. We're going to go and do. Audience 27 And then the aquarium bond items. AUDIENCE The 27 is the first reading of the ordinance, please.

A bill for an Ordinance authorizing and approving an amendment to the Welton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan to add the 2801 Welton Street Project and to Create the 2801 Welton Street Property Tax Increment Area and the 2801 Welton Street Sales Tax Increment Area (FINANCE & SERVICES) Approves an amendment to the Welton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan for the 2801 Welton Street Project in Council District 8. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 12-16-14.

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Councilman Ortega, will you please put 1103 on the floor for final consideration and do pass? Mr. President, I move the Council Bill 1103 of 2014 be placed on final consideration and do pass. It has been moved in second seconded public hearing on 1103 is now open. May we have the staff report? Me again. Mr. President, members of council, you are going to hear me repeat, much of which you just heard me say, because this is an amendment to the same urban redevelopment area and state statute requires that there be a public hearing on each amendment. So bear with me as you going to say, gosh, didn't I just hear that? And the answer will be, yes, you did just hear that. But I'm obliged to go through it again, and I will try to do it as quickly as possible. So the Walton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan was approved by council in September of 2012. In doing so, you found that the Urban Redevelopment Plan was in conformance with the Denver Comprehensive Plan 20 and its applicable supplements. While the Urban Redevelopment Plan authorizes the use of tax increment financing, TIF cannot be used until it is specifically approved for a project. Therefore, Debra is here this evening requesting City Council's consideration of an amendment to the Walton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan to add the 2801 Walton Street Project and create the 2801 Welton Street Property Tax Increment Area and sales tax increment area. The Urban Redevelopment area was established to encourage redevelopment along the Welland corridor. The Urban Redevelopment area is comprised of approximately 29 blocks, generally and approximately bounded by Broadway Street on the West Glenarm Place and 24th Avenue on the South Downing Street on the east and on the north by either California street or the alley between Welton and California streets. At the time the plan was originally approved, no projects were identified. However, the plan allowed for future projects to request tax, income and assistance and contemplated tax increment areas would be approved as projects were brought forward within the area to date. Following the outcome of the last public hearing, two projects have now been approved. The Affordable Housing Development at 2300 Welton and the mixed use predominantly residential project at 2460 Welton. The project, being considered through an amendment to the Urban Redevelopment Plan in this public hearing is the redevelopment of the site located at 2460 Welton Street. The project site, which includes a 5000 square foot vacant structure, is located at the northwest corner of 28th Street and Welton Street. The building was built in 1895 and has had a variety of uses over the years, including a tavern, a hotel and an apartment complex. The building is credited with being instrumental in the Five Points jazz scene as it once served as home to Rice's tap taphouse and played host to musicians. The last tenant of the building occupied the first floor until 2011. Thereafter, a nonprofit was allowed to use a portion of the first floor until the use was suspended due to code violations. This is not the first floor. This is the second floor. The proposed project will renovate the entire building and bring its history and heritage back to life. The renovation calls for demolishing the interior of the building, stabilizing the existing structure, exposing the brick which has been plastered over adding windows which have been removed or hidden over the years, and with it modern standards. It is intended that the first floor, totaling approximately 2500 square feet, will be occupied by a destination restaurant. The second floor, again, approximately 2500 square feet, will be marketed as unique office space. The Urban Redevelopment Plan authorizes TURA to finance projects within the urban redevelopment area by the use of tax increment financing. The Urban Redevelopment Plan Amendment will add the 2801 Welton Street Property Tax Increment Area and sales tax increment area during staff has reviewed the budgets and performance submitted by the developer and believes there is a financing gap in the project of $350,000. This financing gap will be addressed through property tax and sales tax increment generated by the redevelopment of the property. The site is currently owned by the developer who is paying approximately $5,200 per year in property taxes. This amount will constitute the base taxes from which property tax increment will be calculated. Given that the building is vacant, there is no sales tax currently being generated. Upon completion, the project is projected to generate approximately $50,000 per year in net property and sales tax increment area. These incremental tax revenues will be used to reimburse the developer for eligible expenses of $350,000 over 25 years. As noted previously, City Council found the Urban Redevelopment Plan to be in conformance with the Denver comp plan 2000 and its applicable supplements. Accordingly, any amendment to the Urban Redevelopment Plan must also be in conformance with the Urban Redevelopment Plan objectives to maintain the continuing conformance with comp plan 2000. The general objectives of the Western Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan are to reduce or eliminate blighted conditions and to stimulate the continued growth and development of the urban redevelopment area. The proposed project meets the following objectives of the Whelton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan to eliminate the present and growing factors which contribute to the blight in the urban redevelopment area. To renew and improve the character and environment of the urban redevelopment area and its surroundings by preventing or ameliorating economic, physical and environmental deterioration. To encourage residential retail and commercial development and redevelopment that is socially and economically inclusive and from which the urban redevelopment area can draw economic strength to encourage land use patterns within the urban redevelopment area, which will reduce dependance upon private automobiles for transportation, to encourage land use patterns within the urban redevelopment area that result in a more environmentally sustainable city. To encourage the participation of existing property owners within the urban redevelopment area in the redevelopment of their property, encourage the re-use of existing buildings where appropriate, including historic preservation and adaptive reuse, and to promote a diverse, sustainable neighborhood economy, including mixed use and commercial development opportunities along the redevelopment area. Again, there are another a number of findings that city council must find in making this urban redevelopment plan amendment. Those include a finding that the 2801 Welton Street Project is located within the 29 BLOCK Welton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Area, and will promote the objectives set forth in the Welton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan that a feasible method exists for the relocation of displaced individuals and families and business concerns. The project area contains no residences. Therefore no individuals or families will be displaced. Additionally, due to the vacancy of the building, no business concerns will be displaced by the project. That written notice of this public hearing has been provided to all property owners, residents and owners of business concerns in the resolution setting this public hearing. City Council requested Dura to undertake this task. Written notice was mailed first class mail to all known property owners, residents and owners of business concerns in the Welton Corridor, Urban Redevelopment Area . On December 5th, 2014, which is at least 30 days prior to this public hearing. The statute requires that no more than 120 days have passed since the first public hearing before City Council on the Plan Amendment. Tonight is the first public hearing before Council on this Urban Redevelopment Plan Amendment. The statute also requires that two years must elapse before council can consider an urban redevelopment plan amendment if they previously failed to approve an urban redevelopment plan amendment for this project. This is the first consideration by City Council of an Urban Redevelopment Plan amendment for this project. Also, the plan amendment contains no property that was included in a previously submitted urban redevelopment plan amendment that was not approved by the City Council. As such, the requirement to wait at least 24 months since any prior public hearing is inapplicable. Conformance with the Denver Comprehensive Plan. On December 3rd, 2014, the Denver Planning Board unanimously found that the proposed amendment to the Welton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan conforms to the Denver Comprehensive Plan and applicable supplements. A letter to this effect has been submitted as part of the record of this hearing, and during request the Council find and concur with that finding. A planning board in the Welton Corridor, Urban Redevelopment Plan, as amended by the proposed amendment, will afford maximum opportunity consistent with the sound needs of Denver as a whole for the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the Welton Corridor. Urban Redevelopment Area by Private Enterprise SMP 2801 Welton LLC, a subsidiary of Star Mesa Properties LLC, is the owner and a private development entity who intends to undertake the redevelopment project. This amendment to the Walton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan contains provisions for property tax increment financing. Accordingly, Denver Public Schools District Number one has been permitted to participate in an advisory capacity with respect to the inclusion in the plan of the tax allocation provisions authorized by Section 31 does 25, DASH 107 and nine of the Colorado Urban Renewal Law. Finally, the city and county of Denver can adequately finance and agreements are in place to finance any additional city and county of Denver infrastructure and services required to serve development within the 2801 Welton Street Urban Redevelopment Project area for the period during which the incremental property taxes are paid to the authority. The plan allows for cooperative agreements between the city and Doura to address additional infrastructure requirements and city services should they arise. Again, we're very pleased to be working with the city. And with the Five Points Business District and with the developer in bringing this project forward. The redevelopment of this site and the adaptive reuse of a 100 plus year old building into mixed use space, including restaurant and office space, is wholly consistent with the redevelopment vision of the Welton Street corridor, a corridor that has seen limited development activity in many years. Its proximity to and presence along an existing transit corridor captures many city wide goals, objectives and strategies that are found in the comp plan. The Northeast Downtown Neighborhoods Plan and the Wilton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan. This project, particularly taken in connection with the two other residential projects along the corridor, begins to put together the pieces necessary for a vibrant community. We ask for your favorable consideration of this amendment, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Ms.. Higgins. We have two speakers for this one. Traci Winchester You may come on up and begin your remarks, followed by Mr. Sekou. Thank you, Mr. President, and members of the City Council. My name is Tracy Winchester. I reside at 217 South Jackson Street, but I am the executive director of the Five Points Business District. At 2444 Washington Street and had been the executive director since 2011. As I mentioned in the previous project that we did put together a revitalization study that was funded by HUD, and we had six urban planners that developed the strategy that came out in 2013, August of 2013. And one of the guiding principles in that plan was preserving our historic cultural district, that it is a valuable asset for the neighborhood, and that to keep history and culture visible within the district by balancing the preservation of the district culture with new development. I can't tell you how happy we are about this development. This beloved building resonates in this community. I mean, really? BJ's Port authorizes hotel pub. I mean, it has had so many names and so many iterations over the years and the history is still alive and well and everyone is excited about this developer Stamas coming in and preserving this property. What is interesting, although it is in the cultural district, the historic cultural district, it is not a contributing building. As you know, a contributing building means it cannot be torn down. Well, even though they had the option, it was never even put out there for consideration. Their whole intent was to preserve the history of this building. And so we couldn't be any happier than to have this developer come in and redevelop this building and bring it back to its life and the history that it has enjoyed over 100 years. So without much ado, I just give full support and I encourage you all to please support this historic district, this historic building within our urban renewal district, because, again, it's part of the bigger vision, the wider vision to have new development, as well as preserving our history and our culture here on the Welty Street corridor. Thank you again. Thank you. Miss Winchester. It's your second. There was a song that was popular the 1980s called Another One Bites the Dust. Slowly but surely, the buildings are being preserved. And they're going to be nice and pretty interesting and the bricks are going to be blasted. But now who now owns the building? I think the ownership has changed culturally from black to white, and then there's going to be a restaurant in there or proposed. Now, one of the criticisms of this plan that we had with this thing that everybody's up on board for was there was a overabundance of barbershops and beauty shops and under-development down here on the Five Points. And now we got an overlay of nothing but restaurants and bars come. There's no mix in economic development going down here. So you tell me where in the plant that's at. And then we have these organizations in our neighborhood. And it's no criticism of Tracy because she don't live in a neighborhood. She lives in Cherry Creek making policy decisions for our neighborhood that she don't even live in or have any historical relationship to the building or the neighborhood. So what outpost is she working for? Because most of these developers are coming from outside our neighborhood. So we're at the black economic development for the black community happening in the black community. Hmm. Thank you. Yeah, it's crying. It makes me want to sneeze, too, because when it's all said and done. You have a phasing out of a culture and now you're getting ready to turn black folks into museum relics where this is the building they used to be in. And this is a neighborhood that used to be kind of like Arapaho Forest, but this is where the Indians used to be. But then they're eaten and left. And there's something very dehumanizing about that. There's something very criminal about that. I think there's a United Nations law against ethnic cleansing and gentrification. It's called genocide. Removing populations with pencil and pen and government audiences. And then folks go to jail for that. I think the guy in Yugoslavia went to jail for that. What he did to Croatia. But you're missing the prosecution because you haven't been brought on the carpet for the work that you're doing. And it's okay because you're going to vote unanimously for this, too. Mr. Speaker, your 3 minutes are up. Thank you. And thank you for you. Thank you for your time. You. We do appreciate that as well. That is all the speakers. Time for questions of members of council. Councilman Brooks. Yeah. Just two questions. Tracy Huggins. You don't need to bring all that up there. I just I just I think I missed the year that this building was developed in 1895. Wow. Okay. Thank you. That's it. And then I'm going to invite, if you don't mind, Mr. President, Kelly Slater up here from Star Mesa. And I just have a couple questions for you on. Can you just give us an idea of, you know, the restaurant type? I mean, maybe you can't see everything. And then when do you guys plan to start redevelopment? Yeah. So I'm Kelly Slater from Star based Properties. Thank you for. Being here today. So we're really excited. About a restaurant. Going in maybe two ways. We haven't exactly picked out a restaurant tenant, but we think it would be perfect for a destination type. Idea with the light rail being in there and. It's proximity to downtown, it's actually only a about a ten block walk from the central business district. So it could be a nice place for people to go after work. So we are exploring. A lot of options for different tenants. Right. And in the time that you guys are thinking about oh yes. We are hoping to start construction in March or April. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Ortega. Tracy Higgins, can you clarify if the tool of that Dora has the authority to use of eminent domain has been used at all in this in any of the in this particular project or the last one that we just talked about? No, it has not. In fact, we are not authorized under the urban redevelopment plan to use eminent domain. We would have to come back to council to get that. But it is not been used on any of the three projects that. We have brought. Forward for council. So any of the current ownership or previous ownership were willing sellers to who the existing developers may be on these projects? Yes, they have all been brought to us as as that transaction has already occurred between the purchaser in the seller. I just want to clarify that. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. And the questions on 11 03c non public hearing, 1103 is closed time for comments. Councilman Brooks. Thank you, Mr. President. And actually, I want to thank Councilwoman Ortega for for bringing that up. This property was owned by Charlie Cousins. And since, you know, Charlie Cousins was a huge business owner in the area and has since passed and was owned by his daughter, Dr. René Cousins, and they own quite a bit of property on Walton. And you know, as someone who is has been down there for years, they actually want to see development get going and some of their properties, they thought that it would be advantageous for them to sell. So this was all kind of willing participants. But again, this is the third project of our urban renewal area. And, you know, I keep I keep bringing this up. We we. Passed. The formation of the area in September 2012. Here we are in January 2015. And there are projects that are going through there. And and let me just let the public know and let let the folks up here know something that doesn't get advertised enough. But I think in the five points area we get criticized a lot for is the indigenous ownership. What is the percentage of indigenous ownership that's on Walton? Has anybody answered that question? Well, it's 55%. And I heard in a meeting the other day that it was 10% ownership in the area. And it is pretty spectacular seeing that there is indigenous ownership for 50 years who are still redeveloping their properties, revisioning their properties because they're working with the five points, the business district with Tracy Winchester, who is going door to door, working with folks, making sure that they get every tool available to them by the city of Denver . And so I just want to make that clear, but we're very excited for Kelly and her team coming in and giving us another use some more office space and something that doesn't get talked about a lot using tax increment financing dollars for the preservation of a building that they didn't need to preserve. But I can tell you right now, there are residents all over this area that if you to torn it down, there have been another 300 emails for me and, you know, all this other stuff. But thank you for having a very. Vision for the area saying we want to have adaptive reuse. We would love to rethink kind of this building and this this whole area. So we look forward to to the restaurant. I know you say that there's some other space that potentially could be used for something else. Have I ever mentioned this grocery store idea? On what? It could be amazing. Fresh produce. It's tough to get a salad on Welton. And so this could be a great opportunity. I'm just saying. But thank you so much for your investment and where we are. We're excited about the future and council and folks in the public. You will not see every development come up front in front of council, but there 6 to 7 more redevelopment opportunities that we're really excited about coming up in the next eight months. Traces, traces and I's favorite word is $200 million of redevelopment is coming on Welton in 2015, which is extraordinary and it's because of all of the partners. OED Urban Renewal, Denver Urban Renewal Authority, the city, everyone has just been great. And so I want to thank my colleagues as well and I hope you'll support this. Thank you, Councilman Brooks. Councilwoman Robb. I just wanted to add an exclamation point to the historic preservation side of this, to everyone involved from Duryea to Tracy Winchester to Councilman Brooks, and particularly the property owners. That vision for what the building is going to look like is pretty exciting and a real treasure. Thank you, Councilman. Um, Councilwoman Chabot. Oh, thank you. I just wanted to clarify with Councilman Brooks what he means by indigenous ownership. Usually when the word indigenous is used, I think of it as native peoples. So I just want to be clear that I understand what you mean when you say that. Yeah. So indigenous to this street in this neighborhood would be African-Americans and Latino individuals who actually own the property in this neighborhood. So that's it's exciting, exciting news for us as we went in and actually went by from and we're talking about let me clarify this. We're talking from 23rd and Welton all the way to Downey. And so it's it's very exciting. I think. All right. Any other comments on 11 03c None. Madam Secretary, Rocco Brooks. I. Can each layman. Lopez Monteiro. Hi, Nevitt. Hi, Ortega. Rob. Hi, Shepherd. Hi, Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and ask the results tonight. Tonight's 1103 has been placed upon final consideration and does pass now. Council. We're going to vote on the companion bill 1104. Councilman Ortega, could you please put 1104 to be placed on final consideration and do pass I. Move that council bill 1104 series of 24 be adopted on final. Yeah you said 2004 I make sure it correct corrected 2014. I'm sorry I didn't mean 2014. All right. It's been moved in second and seen no comments. Madam Secretary, roll call. Brooks. Yes, I sorry. Can each layman. Lopez Montero, Nevett I Ortega, I Rob I Shepherd. Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary. Please close the door. You announce the results tonight. Tonight's 1104 has been placed upon final consideration and does pass. All right, we are halfway there. We're now moving on to Council Bill 1071. Councilman Ortega, will you please put Council Bill 1071 on the floor?

A bill for an ordinance amending the health and sanitation chapter of the Denver Revised Municipal Code to align testing for sexually transmitted infections with state statute. Amends Chapter 24 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code to align requirements for testing for sexually transmitted infections with state statute. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-23-21.

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All right. Thank you, Councilmember Sawyer. And thank you all for being here as well. We're going to go ahead and move on. The next item up is Council Bill 697. Councilmember Herndon, would you please put Council Bill 697 on the floor for publication. And move that council Bill 21 that 0697 be ordered. Published? So I could. Thank you. It's been moved down. We have the second by Councilmember Flynn, council member state Abarca. Your motion to amend. Thank you. I move that. Council bill 21, dash 697 be amended in the following particulars on page one Strike Online 28 Strike Knows or has reason to believe and replace with nos on page two. Line four Strike others and replace with others or on page two, line four strike lines four through eight. On page two, line nine, strike four and replaced with three on page four, line 30, strike section. And the manager shall may pursuant to state law and replaced with Section An on page four strike line 31. All right. Thank you. It has been moved. Then we get a second. Second. Thank you, counsel. Pro Tem Torres Questions or comments by members of Council Councilmember CdeBaca. Thank you. Council President. This amendment was brought forward. By stakeholders in the industry. This amendment eliminates departmental discretion of ordering testing of sexually transmitted. Infections. For individuals arrested for prostitution by the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment. Thank you, Councilmember CdeBaca. Council Pro-Tem Torres. Thank you so much. I have two questions, just technical ones. Councilwoman CdeBaca. One is on the amendment document. It refers to the designated consumption areas set back requirements. Just wanted to make sure that's an error on the amendment document that's uploaded. I believe so. I think Zach drafted this one for us, and I don't. Have the bandwidth to pull the one that's uploaded, but I believe that's an error. Okay. Shouldn't be. Yeah. Do we need to do anything on that? If the if it's in the document, an error. If it's it, I'll have all double check that and make sure that that gets cleared out for second reading. Okay. The other is numbers number two in in the amendment changes line. Page two, line four is not the one I think that you're referencing. It's page two, line three. But I want to double check that with you. Line three is the one that says others. So let's see. We're getting. You are correct on that. Okay. And then just and I think everything else checks checked out. But I just wanted to double check on impact of these, particularly think of the fifth one where you strike the May pursuant to state law kind of a position. And if there was any kind of legal parameter where that had to be in kind of what either from your side from imposing or the organization that is opposing the changes or even if there was a reason that that had to be in there. I mean, the state law piece of it is. The I guess you would call it the floor. But the point of it is to remove the departmental discretion for the ordering of the STI testing. And so this sentence here combines what the manager may do plus or in alignment with state law. Okay. And I hear that I'd like to hear from you if there's somebody who can testify about whether or not that changes substantially what you were drafting. Just any feedback. Kevin. Thank you, Councilwoman Torres. So you want to introduce yourself, Kevin? I'm sorry. Thank you. My name is Kevin Kelly. I am a program administrator with the Department of Public Health and Environment. Thank you all for having me today. In answer to your question, Councilwoman. What we were attempting to do when we drafted this language was to align with state law. The the former version of 20 4-1 31 was written in 1973, was very outdated and specifically targeted at sex workers, which had a a racist outcome where we saw a disproportionate number of black women being affected by it. We drafted the or chose to draft the state ordinance because it's a more nuanced approach to mandated testing. It doesn't single out sex workers, and it provides people with a path to challenge any order if an order does come through. Why would you need to mandate? A medical examination? It's a good question. It's the biggest concern at first was with so mandate and testing for perpetrators of violent sexual crimes. In the interest of protecting the security. The survivor of the crime, if that makes sense. And also just in case of any other sort of emergency scenario. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Those are my primary questions. I'll jump back in those of all. Thank you for the tip. All right. Thank you. Pro Tem Torres. Councilman Flynn. But thank you, Madam President. Councilwoman CdeBaca. I just saw this this afternoon, and I was trying to read through it, and I'm not quite where I understand the intent. And I'm concerned about one section in particular. And that was the First Amendment. The first line was being amended, line 28, where the manager knows or has reason to believe because of evidence based medical or epidemiological information that a person has an STI. And your amendment takes out the or has reason to believe. And that gives me pause. Because then the only the only condition under which the manager could mandate a test would be if the manager already knows that the person has an STI. But the purpose of the test is to find out or to verify based on medical or epidemiological information whether the person has an STI. It would almost make more sense to amend out where the manager knows. Take out the word knows because how can the manager know and keep in the has reason to believe? So I'm confused and I'm not quite ready to vote I on this. This is on publication, so I'd be happy to entertain it next week if it makes sense to me. But let me ask Kevin Kelly. What is the impact of. These changes on how we would operate this program? A D for the question. Councilman Flynn So I should leave this up with a caveat. After this bill passed the Safe House Committee. Councilman CdeBaca office and the stakeholder groups she was referring to reached out to to my office to discuss some changes that they would like to see in this. Excuse me. And we suggested an amendment, and I actually did help answer questions within the drafting of these amendments. However, I hope that that office and that stakeholder group, an apology didn't involve the right people with entity to to fully vet the outcomes of that of some of the changes which has led to some concerns with them. I spoke to Bob McDonald this this afternoon about this specific piece and his concern is that it would limit exactly to your concern as well would limit the authority that she has to to mandate testing. Okay. That's that's kind of the way I read that first change. I want to I want to more fully understand what the stakeholders were asking for and whether this amendment actually does that or maybe frustrates that. And so I would vote no on the amendment this week, but be willing to study it more deeply and consider it again next week on final. Thank you, Madam President. And if there's any interest in pulling up promoting Becky to her Blue and Disraeli Collins. They're members of our stakeholder. Group that can speak to why. Eliminating that departmental discretion is. Desirable. All right. Thank you, Councilmember CdeBaca. We can ask the city staff to or our central staff to maybe promote them to answer a question on that. We're going to go ahead and go back to the queue. We've got Councilmember Herndon. You're up next. Hey, man, I was just going to second what Councilman Flynn talked about. This is on publication. So there are opportunities to get more information on time, recognizing that there are multiple public hearings tonight. And honestly, I believe it's necessary now to have these dialogs. But the fact that he doesn't appear to have such a concern gives me pause enough that I wouldn't support these, but also recognizing we have time next week to learn a little bit more. So I will be a know today. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Herndon. Councilmember Black. Thanks. I'll be really brief for the reasons that Councilman. Herndon just mentioned. But if I recall from when this was in committee, there was a very lengthy stakeholder process. I think it was up to two years long. So I wasn't aware of this amendment until today. So I definitely wouldn't vote for something I hadn't seen before tonight. Especially now that we've learned that Didi doesn't support it and the fact that it was not part of. The stakeholder process. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Black. And in the interest of time, because this is on first reading, regardless of if it passes or fails or will, if it passes, it would be a different conversation. But it sounds like there was a bit of confusion as to the document that got uploaded, and I believe the central staff is fixing that , but we would have time to re entertain this next week on final as well. And so we're going to go ahead and. Move forward. And in the interest of time. Madam Secretary, roll call on the amendment, please. CdeBaca. I. Clark. No. Lynn Bell. Herndon now. Cashman? No. Sandoval. No. Sawyer now. Torres. No. Black. No. Madam President. No. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. One I. Nine nays. Nine nays. The amendment to 20 1-0697 has failed. We will go ahead and we've got to comments by members of council on council bill 20 1-0697 as it is or I'm sorry. I believe that the. Madam Secretary, can you clarify because I have it repeated in the script, and I just want to make sure you don't need me to do anything additional on this since it failed. That's correct. We're going back to the first motion which would be ordering published. All right. Perfect. All right. We are going to then, Councilmember Herndon, did you have a question? Does it matter that I was just going to raise my hand and say we still need development? Very good. All right, wonderful. Then, Secretary, would you please. I'm Councilmember Herndon. Sorry. We need you to go ahead and move to put this on the floor for final passage or for final. I'm sorry. My script is resetting, as were we're here. All right, Madam Secretary, we are going to do roll call then on the publication of Council Bill 20 10697. Black. I. Slovakia. I. Clark. I. Flynn. I. Herndon. I. Cashman. I. Sandoval. Hi. Sawyer, I. Torres, I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. Ten Eyes. Ten Eyes Council Bill 20 1-0697 has been ordered published. All right. It's not a good thing when you're when you're resetting and it moves your script where you're at. Councilmember Herndon, would you please put council bill 661 on the floor for final passage? I move that council bill 20 1066 wanted to be ordered. Be placed upon final consideration and do pass. I can. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded and thank you for that catch. It's on. Final passage. Councilmember Herndon, your motion to amend. And move the Council Bill $21 0661 be amended in the following particulars on page one line. 21 Strike. June 18, 2021 and replace with July seven, 2021 on page one line 22 Excuse me, strike 20210056a and replace with 20210059.

AN ORDINANCE relating to residential rent payments; requiring receipts and non-electronic payment options; and amending Section 7.24.030 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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Bill passenger of assignment please read the next agenda. Item agenda item five Constable 119 620 Relating to residential rent payments require receipts and non electrical payment options and amending section 7.20 4.0 30th said I misspoke. So the committee recommends the bill passed. Member Herbold. Thank you. This bill has been put forward by CCI because of the issues that they have identified in responding to tenant calls associated with some property owners who require payment be done electronically. Not everybody has a means to electronic payment, and often there are fees associated with electronic payment. So this bill ensures that property owners do not limit payment of rent by electronic means only. There was some concern that this bill would preclude a property owner from all other non-cash payment options and become more vulnerable to risk of fraud and theft. The language of the bill specifies that electronic payment options are okay as long as they also accept other options like cash check or other payment means like money orders. The the goal is to give the tenant choice. Thank you, Captain Herbold. Any questions or comments that please call the rule on the passage of the Bill MACHEDA II. O'Brien. Pacheco. Hi, Sergeant I. Bexar Herbold Hi. Juarez. President Harrell I Adan favor and unopposed. Bill Pass and Sherwood Senate. Please read the next agenda item.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing and consider an appeal by Supporters Alliance for Environmental Responsibility; Adopt resolution approving and certifying an Addendum (EIRA-02-19) to the Environmental Impact Report for the City of Long Beach Downtown Plan (EIR-SCH# 2009071006) related to the project at 131 West 3rd Street in accordance with the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and State and local Guidelines; making certain CEQA Findings and Determinations relative thereto; and adopting a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program in accordance with those measures set forth in the Downtown Plan; and Approve a Site Plan Review (SPR 18-038) for a project consisting of 345 residential units in one 23 story mixed-use tower, and one 8 story mixed-use building, 14,481 square feet of retail space, 563 parking spaces, and 128 bicycle parking spaces; find that the proposed vacation of a segment of Roble Way, a named alley, and vacation of portions of Pacific Avenue are in conformance with the

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Councilmember Pearce. Councilwoman Price Councilmember. Councilwoman Mongo. Vice Mayor. Andrew's Councilmember. Urunga. Councilman. Your Compton member Richardson. Mayor Garcia. Thank you. We are going we have a third hearing, so we're going to do the third hearing, which is hearing number eight. Orphan Development Services recommendation received supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and consider an appeal by supporters. Alliance for Environmental Responsibility. Adopt a resolution approving an addendum to the EIA related to the project at 131 West Third Street. Making certain secure findings and determinations. Adopting a mitigation, monitoring and reporting program and approve a site plan review. Find that the proposed vacation of a segment of. Roadway way. A vacation of portions of Pacific Avenue are in conformance with the general plan. District one. Thank you. And we know this is a this is a de novo appeal. So the applicant itself has the burden of proof. We're going to begin with the staff report. There is an oh. So if anybody who will be testifying can stand and raise your right hand. Do you and each of you solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the courts now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Christopher Coons, planning bureau manager, will be presenting the staff report. And I'm going to introduce Marianne Cronin, who was the planner on this particular project. Thank you. Thank you. Good and good evening, honorable mayor and members of the City Council. Before you this evening is a request to receive supporting documentation to the record, conclude the public hearing and consider an appeal for a project consisting of the approval of a mixed use project located at 131 West Third Street in the Downtown Plan PD 38 Incentive Area. The project was approved on September 19th by Planning Commission and a subsequent appeal was filed on September 27th. The site is located on the east side of Pacific Avenue, between West Third Street on the south and West Fourth Street to the north. And Solana core an alley to the east in the downtown plan zoning district. The site encompasses six parcels and a portion of an east west alley away that is proposed to be vacant as part of the project for a total project area of 1.22 acres. The project site is currently developed as a paved at grade parking lot with parking spaces. Adjacent uses are typical of the downtown setting, including the historic Walker building to the north and hotel restaurant and multi-family residential uses nearby. The site is well-served by public transit and is in proximity to the I-70 ten freeway to the West. The proposed project consists of a new mixed use residential development. The project will replace the surface parking lot with two mixed use buildings, including one tower with 23 stories in height and one mid-rise building eight storeys in height with parking structures above ground and at subterranean levels in each building. The project includes a total of 345 market rate dwelling units and would range in sizes from studios to three bedrooms. There is no city requirement for the project to incorporate affordable units at this time, and the project includes approximately 14,481 square feet of retail spaces, over 500 parking, 563 parking spaces and 128 bicycle parking spaces. The applicant has indicated the project will be constructed in phases, which is worth noting for the provision of the open space for sale between the two buildings. During the first phase of the project, the mid-rise building would be constructed as well as the four Paseo alley improvements and adjacent improvements within the right of way. During phase two, the construction of the South Tower will commence. A tentative track map combines the existing lots and vacated portion of the alley into a single ground lot and create six vertical airspace lots between the two buildings. The site is within the height incentive area of the PD 30 plan area, a sub area that does allow building heights up to 500 feet when certain development criteria are met. The proposed development bonuses are subject to three criteria that have been established for this project and are included in the project description, which includes LEED Silver certified or equivalent green roof or eco roof with an option to for 31 to 60% of the building footprint to be for green roof standards as well as public open space option one, which is equivalent to 10% of the site, which would be satisfied by the open space paseo between the two buildings. The overall floor area ratio for the project would be 9.48, where a floor area ratio of 11 is maximum permitted with the incentives. The total height of the South Tower is proposed to be 269 feet above grade, and the North Mid-rise building would be built at 85 feet in height, which is within the base height limit for the area. As aforementioned, the proposed pedestrian paseo provides a mid-block pedestrian crossing and amenity space that satisfies the PD 30 criteria for a floor area ratio. The Planning Commission found that the project is compatible in design, character and scale with its surroundings, which include the adjacent mid-rise residential uses on the north side of West Fourth Street. The 23 storey tower would be substantially taller than the nearby mid-rise buildings, but the incorporation of offsetting building faces, balcony patio areas as well as other architectural features, would break up the massing of the building to soften the presence of the tower structure in the downtown setting. The project's form and massing have been designed to be respectful of nearby buildings while making a positive contribution to the streetscape and downtown skyline. Additionally, Planning Commission considered and accepted the addendum that was prepared for the project. The required findings can be made in the affirmative. Okay. We're going to have the applicant presentation and the appellant. We're going to put a maximum time of 10 minutes if that's appropriate for both sides, unless there's an objection to that of the applicant. Mr. MODICA Did you want to have the applicant? I think we have a couple more points that we have to make for the record. Okay, sure. Thank you. As noted on this slide. Pursuant to Secure the California Environmental Quality Act and the guidelines that were established, an ER addendum was prepared consistent with the program air for the downtown plan. And the EIA addendum determined that the project would not result in any new impacts that exceed those that were analyzed in the Downtown Plan Program air with mitigation measures incorporated. The appeal that's before you today asserts that the project introduces new environmental impacts that were not considered and that a tiered air must be prepared. Staff has prepared supplemental responses and subsequent to the filing of the Application for Appeal, which are included in your packets, that note that the use of a secure air addendum was determined to be appropriate for the proposed project. Its application was duly noted pursuant to the Long Beach Municipal Code. Five comments were received and are included in your packets before you staff finds that positive findings can be made in support of this application, and staff recommends the City Council adopt a resolution approving the ER addendum and upholding the Planning Commission decision to approve the project subject to conditions. The applicant is present and available for any questions you may have. Thank you. Does the applicant want to make a presentation? In addition to that, please come forward. Dale Goldsmith representing the applicant. I think it might be a better use of your time if I was to provide rebuttal of the appeal, given that the Planning Commission approved the project. Staff prepared a very comprehensive presentation and the appellant may raise some new issues. And you'll have an opportunity to do that as well, if you like. So that's okay. We can we can keep going forward in the hearing. You'll still have an opportunity to do a rebuttal. Thank you very much. The appellant. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, honorable. Members of the Council. My name is Brian Flynn here on behalf of the Supporters Alliance for Environmental Responsibility. Here to urge the council to not approve the addendum for this project. Instead, send it back to planning staff for any to prepare an air. I'd like to use my time to quickly discuss two of the issues with which highlight why this. Addendum is not appropriate for. This project. First off, the city is improperly relying on an addendum. Addendums are intended for minor. Minor modifications made to existing projects. The plain language of the school guidelines on which the city relies do not allow for an addendum in the scenario and rather relevant case law in the school statute itself require the city to. Prepare any air. And second, there is. Substantial evidence that this project will have significant impacts that were not analyzed in the. Downtown plan air and not analyzed in this addendum document. So as to my first point, the improper reliance on the addendum section 15162 of the school guidelines explains the criteria for when an air has been certified or a negative declaration adopted for a project, and then whether a subsequent EMR must be prepared for quote, that project. Here in air was developed. For the downtown plan, not for this project. An addendum may be proper if the city were making changes to the downtown plan, but that's not what's happening here. You're analyzing a specific project within an area for which an air has been prepared. So no air has been prepared for this project. And by the plain language of the guidelines. An addendum is not appropriate. Instead, when there is an overarching. Programmatic air like the downtown plan, the first consideration is whether the new proposed project is covered by the programmatic air. The second consideration is whether the later activity, meaning this. Project, would have effects that were not. Analyzed in the downtown plan. Air Program. Air may only serve to the extent that it. Contemplates and adequately analyzes the potential environmental impacts of the project. If a programmatic air. Does not evaluate the environmental impacts of a project, a tiered EIA must be completed before the project is approved. And for these inquiries, the fair argument test standard applies. So in this situation, CPA requires the city. To prepare an initial study to determine if the. Project may cause significant environmental effects not. Examined in the downtown plan program air. And there is substantial evidence supporting the argument that this project may result in significant environmental impacts that were not previously analyzed in the downtown plan. Air. So there is. Substantial evidence in the record, some of it in that lengthy comment that you just received. That the project will have significant. Indoor air quality impacts, significant health impacts from emissions during construction. And operation of the project and greenhouse gas impacts. We had a certified industrial hygienist, Francis Offerman. He looked at the addendum and concluded it's likely that the project will. Expose future residents to significant impacts related to indoor. Air quality, in particular emissions from the cancer causing chemical formaldehyde materials commonly used in residential buildings for flooring, cabinetry. Baseboards, window shades, interior doors. Window trim, door trim all contain an off gas formaldehyde. Mr. Offerman calculated that the future residents of the project will be exposed to a cancer risk from formaldehyde of approximately a 125 per million. The full time employees in the commercial spaces may be exposed to a cancer risk of 18.4 per million. And these calculations. Are, even if the materials meet the most recent. Standards from the California Air Resources Board. And these calculations both exceed the South. Coast Air District's threshold of ten in 1 million. Now this impact can be mitigated. It's pretty simple. It's done in other projects. You just require them to use no formaldehyde added materials that can reduce. The impact of formaldehyde emissions. To less than significant levels. In addition, there are significant impacts related to. Construction and operational air quality. The addendum determined that the project would result in a less than significant health risk from diesel particulate matter emissions. However, this conclusion is not supported by. Substantial evidence because a quantitative health risk assessment was never prepared for the project. The expert environmental consulting firm Sweep did a health risk assessment based on the data provided in the addendum, and they. Concluded that the excess cancer risk to adults. Would be 31 in a million. To children. 280 in a million and to infants, 240 in a million. Again, the threshold. From the South Coast Air District. Is ten in 1 million. And even if you use the less conservative, you know, those previous numbers all deal with that age sensitivity factors. Even if you use a more conservative. Health risk assessment. That the risk. To adults is 31 in a million children, 93 in a million. In infants, 24 in a million. So these greatly exceed the South Coast thresholds and the addendum never attempted to quantify this impact and now must do so in light of expert evidence. In the record demonstrating. The significant impact to human. Health. Also issues with the greenhouse gas calculations. The analysis is deficient because it. Relies on South Coast 2020. Service. Population. Thresholds. It's improper because the project's construction and development continue beyond 2020. It's not even become operational until 2021. As a result, the greenhouse gas analysis should have compared the emissions from this project to the South Coast 2035 efficiency. Standard. In order to evaluate the project's emissions from 2021 and beyond. When that threshold is used, the project's 2021. Exceeds these exceeds the 2035 thresholds. And again, this constitutes substantial evidence that the project will have significant. Greenhouse gas impacts that must be analyzed in. An air. So little time left. Really, the city should not approve this addendum at this time. Instead, the city should prepare a yes to proceed under sequence hearing provisions and prepare an air as required by law. Importantly, we're not saying that this project should never be built. It's just that when we do these sort of things, let's go through the proper environmental review to ensure the health and safety of the neighborhoods and the future residents. Thank you. Thank you. And now we're going to hear the appellant, please. Rebuttal. I'm sorry. The applicant. Please go ahead. Good evening again, honorable council members once again, for the record, Dale Goldsmith. I'm a lawyer with the law firm of Archbishop Goldsmith, the Dail back representing the applicant. I'd like to refer to two letters that were submitted today. I apologize for them being late, but we only got the safer letter. Late yesterday afternoon we worked late into the night to respond to it. And those letters, both from our firm and from the expert air quality firm of ramble, thoroughly refute the the late comment letter that was submitted yesterday. I'll briefly touch upon some of the issues in those letters regarding the claim that an ER is required or a tour de air. The city determined in its discretion as lead agency that the addendum was the appropriate level of seek review. It tiered off the downtown plan which analyzed the full impact of build out under that plan, including build out of the project site. So contrary to the comment, the the project was covered by the air and the city prepared the addendum to determine that and to investigate whether there was any project specific impacts that would be greater than or new beyond those set forth in the program. Air. The addendum and its expert studies provide substantial evidence that no such impacts exist, and therefore the addendum was the appropriate level of seek review. The appellants interpretation of the law is just wrong. There's a case called Monti Brothers versus City of Los Angeles with completely refutes his contention earlier. Happy to discuss that case further. In addition, as set forth in the program, this er was intended to streamline, seek review and avoid redundancy of the secret process. The program the EIR provides that projects that are consistent with the develop ment intensity. Intensity the plan shall not be subject to additional review except to the extent that they may result in project specific, new or substantially greater impacts. The project is fully consistent with the downtown plan. The addendum confirms that there are no such project specific impacts, so therefore under secure guidelines, section 15183 no further seek review is required regarding the assertion of indoor air quality impacts as set forth in the expert letter from Ramble, Safer uses a number of flawed assumptions in calculating these really scary numbers of cancer deaths. Indeed, unbelievably scary numbers. The flaws include a failure to include the voluminous regulations that have been adopted both on the state and local level, to address indoor air quality, including ones that limit the amount of formaldehyde in building materials. In addition, formaldehyde emissions decrease over time. The analysis didn't take that into account. It also assumed that workers would remain in the same job in that building for 45 years and that residents would remain there for a 70 year lifetime. Those assumptions are just overly conservative and quite frankly, not realistic. The Ramble letter confirms that the project will not have any significant air quality impacts regarding the health risk assessment. The appellant asserts that the city should have prepared a quantitative health risk assessment for the project's construction and operational emissions. Neither the city nor the South Coast Air Quality Management District requires health risk assessments or areas for short term construction activities due to the limited duration of exposure of emissions from those activities. According to the air district's methodology, health effects from air contaminants are assessed based on a lifetime that's 70 years. In this case, the construction would be 20 months, a fraction of those 70 years. Therefore, under the applicable methodology of the Air District in the city, no quantitative health risk assessment is required. In addition, the current SC HQ, M.D., HRA guidance recommends recommends an operational source HRA only if a project will generate a substantial amount of diesel particulate matter from diesel vehicles. So therefore they would call for such an assessment, for heavy fruit, for for projects with lots of heavy duty trucks, including truck stops, warehouse distribution centers, transit centers, ship hoteling IT ports and train idling. None of those uses are part of this project as projects in urban infill project consisting of residential and retail that will not generate a substantial number of diesel truck trips and therefore no quantitative HRA is required. Moreover, as set forth in the Ramble letter we submitted today, the crude screening level health risk assessment submitted by the appellant in their last minute letter yesterday is based on a number of flawed assumptions, including substantially overstating both the operational and the construction emissions and is simply not credible regarding greenhouse gas emissions, the appellant asserts. The Dentons GHG analysis should have used a decade old draft numeric threshold that was never adopted by the academy or the city, and indeed there is no applicable threshold. And therefore sequel allows the city's lead agency to come up with its own threshold. In this case, the threshold selected consistent with both the school guidelines and school case law, was consistency with applicable greenhouse reduction plans. The addendum concluded that the project was so consistent and therefore properly concluded that impacts were less insignificant. And keep in mind, this is an infill project that's well-served by transit. It's going to have a green roof and achieve LEED certification. This is the sort of project that represents smart growth and that will reduce greenhouse gases, vehicle miles traveled and impacts on the climate. Lastly, I just want to reiterate that the project will have a lot of important public benefits. It's going to increase the city's housing stock without displacing any existing homes. Elad Housing within walking distance of transit jobs, retail entertainment uses downtown. That will reduce help reduce dependance on automobiles, which will in turn reduce vehicle miles traveled and associated air emissions, pollutant emissions, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. It will provide public open space in the form of a pedestrian paseo, and it will promote sustained sustainability in water and energy conservation by including a green roof and achieving LEED silver certification or equivalence. In addition, it will implement and is fully consistent with the downtown plan. Therefore, we respectfully request that you deny the appeal and uphold the Planning Commission's well-reasoned approval of the project. I'm available for any questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you very much. And with that, that concludes the rebuttal. We're going to go ahead to any concluding remarks by staff. Are there any. Preferable, only four questions. Okay. We're going to go and go to public comment. Those are two here to speak on the hearing. So let me go to you here. No, I mean, is Brian Flynn, Leona Noble, Christine Boss and Lillian Chen, those first four speakers, please come forward. Brian Flynn. O'BRIEN okay. Liana, Christine, Lillian and Sam. Then those will be the first four. My name is Lana Noble. I'm here tonight on behalf of the North Pine Neighborhood Alliance. I live in the Walker Building, which is right adjacent to this project. But I'm speaking on behalf of our neighborhood group. And we are not here around the environmental issues that have been raised by the appellant. But we're seizing this opportunity to tell you as our counsel, that having worked with staff and we appreciate the accessibility and the patience of the staff and working with us as a neighborhood group. But we have been consistently saying to anybody that we communicate with what our neighborhood needs is not market rate housing. We need affordable and low cost rental housing. And nothing in this project addresses that for us. Our other concerns about being next to a 23 storey tower are that you are going to have a major impact on commuter and daily traffic trash delivery and pick up, which is a horrendous problem. It's cowboy Wild West in our neighborhood because of all the private haulers that all of these day to day issues that are very real to us as residents downtown are going to be. Exacerbated. By this density. We support density. That's why a lot of us live in downtown. But this project does not serve the residents of our neighborhood. Thank you so much. Kristine Boslough, Ian Chen, Sam for Zena for if I mispronounce some of these names. Right. Good evening, Mayor Garcia. Council members and staff. My name is Christine Voss. I serve as the government affairs manager for the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. I'm here tonight on behalf of our 800 members, leadership and community stakeholders to express our support for the approval of the Third Pacific Project. The Chamber has a long standing position of supporting projects in a similar scope. Currently, a main public policy goal of our organization is to support more housing development in Long Beach, especially housing that's located near public transit. In addition to the increase in housing, the project will also offer commercial and retail space, which in turn will create more local jobs in the downtown area, complementing our goal to support and encourage economic development in Long Beach. We support the project to Third Pacific because it will make the most of its location offering housing located near transit while simultaneously increasing jobs and walkability in the downtown area. We appreciate your time and thoughtfulness on these considerations. Thank you. Thank you. Lillian Chen, please. Good evening, everyone, and thank you so much for your time. And then I am Lillian Chen. And 1/2. I'm sorry. Is Sam next? Yes, Sam, please come forward. I want people just to line up behind Sam present. John Connally is and. Oh, no, no, no, no. You're going to continue. I just need to call my folks up. Lillian Sam. And then is. Is John Connelly here? Okay. Is Ken controlling to speak to this? Please come forward in behind John and then call this rally right behind and control. Thank you. I am the second district resident and my story of moving to Long Beach about a year ago has motivated me to stand here and tell you my story. One thing that I like the most about downtown Long Beach is that it's an incredibly walkable and transit friendly city. I have been living in Long Beach for more than a year and working in downtown, and I don't have a car. I take the bus, I take the metro to L.A., I take the bike, and I sometimes scooter with my friends. And I think it's a big part of my enjoyment in living in downtown Long Beach, which is why I believe that a project like this in the high density area in downtown Long Beach would encourage people to start using their car less and taking the transit more often. In addition, I really like the idea that more developments are coming to market as the streets start feeling safer and I start seeing more people on the street and it makes the city feel more lively and more pleasant to live in. So I fully support this project and thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much. Next week, please. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor and council members. My name is Sam Zina. I'm a resident of the second district. I also serve on the board of the DLP and I am an employee of Long Beach based on some real estate investments. I just wanted to vocalize my support for the project. I believe it's a tremendous contribution to the Renaissance. It's already well underway in Long Beach. As Long Beach begins to. Transform into more of a Class. A, you know, walkable, urban waterfront that people want to live, work and visit, I think it does fantastic things in terms of enhancing the pedestrian experience and creating new connectivity between area Pacific right now that's underutilized and pine, creating this great new pedestrian sale and activating the streets with new retail. In addition to that. With the 345 units. Going in in the 500 plus new residents that this will surely bring about. That's 500 new people that are activating our streets, contributing to our community and supporting local businesses. So, again, it's here today to support the project. Thanks. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. John. After carelessly Austin is going to come up and after ostensibly be Joannie Cunningham and then during. Good evening, Mayor Garcia and council members. I'm here to talk about an issue that hasn't really been brought up other than the fact that 563 parking. Spaces are supposed. To be produced in this building. For any of you who live in the First District, as I do, you already know that on street parking is a nightmare and there's totally inadequate. Preparation on behalf of the existing buildings. To accommodate. The people who. Don't have assigned parking. It is a critical situation. To watch people. In the evening driving around looking. For a parking space for a half hour, an hour. Or more. In the previous letter to our departed first District Representative, somebody was complaining that he was going to run against her simply because he couldn't find a parking space at night. This was in our local run, your newspaper. What we need is. To establish a parking. Program that meets the needs of the upcoming population that we now have. As it grows in this area. Thank you. That's my statement. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Good evening. And Cantrell and I first learned about this project at the Planning Commission hearing, and I was astounded to find out that the city owned this property. Two parking lots. And now there's going to be a 269 foot building built. When there is no parking available. Well. There's going to be parking for 128 bicycle riders. I'm surprised that you can find. That many people riding bikes, living in this area. When there is not one affordable unit planned. For this building, you could have used the city owned property to build affordable and low cost housing, which is desperately needed. It's also not going to be a gold LEED. It's going to be silver, which means it's not going to have solar. Unless it's going to be sold or ready. But they are not having solar on the roofs. Those. If you're going to allow this to be built, I urge you to require some affordable units and premium. Thank you so much and lead. Thank you very much. I closely. Carelessly. I'm here in support of the appeal. I was really surprised to find out that there was going to be 23 stories built and another one with eight stories at market rate. We hear over and over again from the city how we need additional low income housing and affordable housing. And this is an opportunity where you could have made that happen. Additionally, there's the town looking looking at the Internet. I checked out the word gentrification and Long Beach and all of downtown is colorized to show that it's been gentrified. So that basically tells you the data is in and the intent is there to move low income people out. There's going to be increased traffic problems, potentially between 507 hundred more cars rolling out the driveway. I don't see how that cannot be an air issue. And if you look at the parking, there's 563 parking spaces, which I think should probably really be about 700. So you're going to have 150 people looking for parking out on that street. This seems like it's a bad experiment. I, I met a man named Jack Broten, who was a colonel in the Air Force, who was in the foremost air base close to Hanoi back in the days when I worked for Rockwell. Thank you very much. Mostly. I'll tell you that story another time. I said. It's on him. Perfect. All right. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and City Council. My name is Oscar Montoya. I am with the downtown Long Beach Alliance, and I'm here to speak in favor of the 13 Pacific Project. Some of you may know the downtown Long Beach Alliance is a nonprofit organization that manages the two business improvement districts in downtown. And our stakeholders are comprised of business owners, commercial property owners, as well as residents. And through that community based process, the deal, they came to support this project, particularly through our Economic Development Committee, which is comprised of business owners along in North Pine, as well as on Pacific residents in the North Pine area, as well as property owners. And they all unanimously, unanimously chose to support this project. We believe that the project aligns with the downtown plan. The downhill mine has served as a guiding document for encouraging impactful, community oriented and mixed use development. And Third and Pacific Project aligns with those goals. And moreover, we agree with the city's assessment that this project itself aligns with the development standards and the program air prepared in the downtown plan. One final piece to note is that we believe that the project will be able to connect both Pine Avenue, North Pine and Pacific Avenue. Supporting a lot of our new investment are new businesses along Pine Avenue and helping them. To create foot traffic for. People to experience what is happening in downtown. So I appreciate your time and the opportunity to share our support tonight, and we encourage the city council to vote in favor of this project. Thank you. Johanna Cunningham and then Jordan Wynn, and we'll go back to the council. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and City Council. My name is Johanna Cunningham, founder and CEO for National Short Term Rentals, and I'm here to express my support for the Third and Pacific Project. As a downtown business owner on Fourth Street, I'm excited to see the ongoing revival and investment in this downtown area. Particularly, I'm happy to see the site along Pacific Avenue between third and fourth Street being developed. The nearly 345 residential units will help bring increased resident traffic to North Pine and Pacific Avenue. The third and final project plan of 345 residential units assists in that goal by creating a consistent flow of pedestrian foot traffic by potential customers throughout this downtown corridor. I thank you for your time and I encourage you to support the project. Thank you. Jordan. Hi there, Jordan Wynn, recent second district resident. I actually just moved downtown and I have two concerns about this project. One is similar to the appellate. I do see that there are some significant environmental impacts that I do believe require an area that is more than just, you know, an addendum. I think that, you know, moving into this new neighborhood has me a bit concerned about the environmental impacts that the development will have on me as a new resident. And the second concern that I have is, of course, about affordable housing. One stat that's not really talked about very much is the vacancy rate in our city, and that is the number of units that are sitting vacant. It's very low, it's below 3%, which is considered not healthy for a cityscape. Many of that vacancy currently sits in our downtown area as certain units that are gentrifying. People out of the first and second districts are pricing up the market in sitting vacant. Unfortunately, I don't want that to be the case here. I do think it's a bit of a shame that there aren't affordable units in this development. I do support density and I do think that density is an important part of building an efficient and effective city of the future. But I also believe in affordable housing for all, and that housing is a human right. And so I urge you to consider those two things. Thank you. Thank you. We're going to close the public hearing and go back to the to the council. I'm. The vote itself, of course, is to deny the appeal. That's correct. Mr.. Mr.. Mr. Mays. Correct. That's not the recommended action. Okay. And there's a motion and a second. Councilmember Pearce. Yes, I had a few questions. One is on timing. Obviously, we don't have a councilmember in the first district. And so just wanted to be clear that this was a vote that we needed to, in fact, take today. Yes. Councilmember under the municipal code, it's 2120 1504b. This action has to be taken within 60 days. We're hitting that 60 days. If you were to fail to take an action tonight that the appeal would be deemed denied. So there is no opportunity to extend or delay this. We need to take an action tonight. Okay. Thank you for that. Just a little bit of context before I make the motion. Obviously, with the downtown plan that happened in 2010, there was overall E.R. that was done as part of that. There was a process that said how many residential units we would have, how many hotels we would have as a community member on the outside of of city hall at that time, we advocated to include some affordable housing, some set aside, and we were not able to get those things at that time. And so it's my understanding that this item in front of us is in alignment with the downtown plan. That's correct. This item meets all of the provisions of the downtown plan. And what's in front of you is just an appeal of a planning commission consistency finding. So we're not determining whether the project is good or bad or making a policy analysis. We are looking at the more narrow issue of whether it complies with the downtown plan as adopted. Right. And I wanted to lift that up because we do have opportunities coming up, whether it's in PD six, whether we're talking about the land use element, where community members should be advocating for affordable housing as a general policy of the city versus project by project. If I felt like there was a way to have a discussion around including affordable housing in this project that is not in my district, then I most certainly would. But that is not what is before us today. And so, again, I applaud the affordable housing advocates that have worked hard on other issues and want to make sure that you don't mess up other opportunities to advocate for inclusionary housing. It is, you know, after reviewing everything and talking to several folks, I would like to deny the appeal and move forward with this vote today. So thank you. Thank you. That's the motion that's in front of us today. There's Rosemarie Andrews and any comment on the second? Then the motions on the floor as recommended by staff. And it's to conclude the public hearing to consider an appeal. Right. And deny the appeal. That's correct, Mayor. Thank you. Motion carries. Thank you. That's the last hearing on the agenda. We're going to move on to the other items on the agenda, beginning with item 13, please.

Councilmember Ortega – Plastic and paper bag fee proposal. Proposed CB13-0501 to Amend Chapter 48 (Solid Waste) of the Revised Municipal 6 Code to add an Article IX (Disposable Bag Fees). a) Presentation. b) Fifteen (15) minutes of public comment on proposed CB13-0501. c) Discussion. (Health, Safety, Education & Services) Amend Chapter 48 (Solid Waste) of the Revised Municipal 6 Code to add an Article IX (Disposable Bag Fees).

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on. As you all know, you heard lots of testimony about how this is part of the cost that we see at our various waste streams, because the bags jam the machines at our recycling facility at Waste Management, that that are bad facility, that waste management runs, they have to hire someone to pick up the plastic bags. I mean, I could go on and on. But basically what we're doing is postponing this for a year to allow that process to take place that will incorporate bags into part of that conversation and ensure that we have some concrete effort that comes out of that overall process dealing with plastic bags and hopefully plastic bag reduction and encouraging the use of reusable bags. Okay. Just to let everybody know, we have we have a first of a motion to take it out of order and then we are going to have a motion to amend. And Councilwoman Ortega is going to give the particulars to the amendment. And then we are going to have a motion to order it published as amended. So we have three motions that we are going to go through. The first one is to take it out of order. Mr. Secretary, roll call. Ortega. I. Rob Shepherd, i. Brooks, i. Brown. No. I. Herndon. I can teach my layman. Lopez, I. Montero I. Never i. And I'm president. I mean, we're waiting for Brown, Montero and Ortega to vote. Montero just loaded. Okay? It's just not showing up there. All right. You got her vote, though. It hasn't. It hasn't gone in. I don't know. She verbally said. I. Okay. All right, Mr. Secretary, close the voting, announce the results of those. One day. 12 eyes one. Nay, it is passed that we take this out of order now. Councilman Ortega, we need your motion to Madam President. Now I move to amend Council Bill 13 five one the following particulars on page six strike lines 26 to 28 and insert the following sections 48 through 128 effective dates. The provision of this ordinance shall be effective April 22nd, 2015, which happens to be Earth Day. The manager shall develop and implement the administrative and financial process for collection of the fee between the effective date of this ordinance and April 22nd, 2015. On page eight, lines 21, 23 and 27, strike 2013, insert 2015. Okay. It has been moved and seconded. Sorry, I just said oh, okay. It's been moved and seconded. Comments by Council Councilman Rob. Can I explain this before we go into. Oh, sure. Okay. I'm sorry that you had to. So the amendment changes the effective date of Council Bill 451. The implementation due to the proposed one year postponement of the Council's final consideration of the proposed ordinance. As you know, the current ordinance had Earth Day 2014 in it, and this changes the effective date to 2015. So all we're doing is changing the date in the ordinance to be to reflect the 2015 date.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the permission granted to Fremont Dock Co. by Ordinance 121706 to use and occupy a portion of Fremont Avenue North under the Fremont Bridge North Approach lying north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and south of the former Burlington Northern Main Line Right-of-Way; providing for the acceptance of the permit and conditions; amending Ordinance 121706, repealing Exhibit A to Ordinance 121706, and adopting a new Attachment A to Ordinance 121706; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Agenda Item ten Council Bill 1186 11 relating to the permissions granted to Fremont Dock Company by ordinance 121706 to use and occupy a portion of Fremont every north under the Fremont Bridge north approaching lying north of the Lake Washington ship canal and south of the former Burlington Northern Main Line. Right of way. Committee recommends double pass. Trying to be recognized. I can't remember, Brian. If I went first, I would get in trouble. So. So this is underneath the Fremont Bridge on the north side. The, uh. The city owns the footprint underneath the bridge, but doesn't actually own access to it. And so this swaps some of the square footage underneath the bridge in exchange with the Fremont Company, in exchange for access underneath it and around the edges of it. The there's no money that changes hands because the value of the swap was valued to be about equal. We did notice just to the last minute that there were a couple blanks on this bill and one typo that needed to be corrected. So I would like to move to amend Council Bill 118611, Section ten a first sentence by deleting these tags and adding this to this and then filling in the blank with council bill number 118611 and then also in section 13 C by filling in the blank with council bill number 118611. Thank you. It's been moved to a second. Thank you, Councilmember Brian, I believe before we entertain that amendment, I'm going to have to suspend the rules. And so I will need to suspend the rules to consider this amendment, since it wasn't previously circulated to us by 12 noon. So I moved to suspend Council Rule three, a62 considered an amendment to Council Bill 118611 that was not previously circulated. So all those in favor of the suspension of the rule vote i. I those opposed vote no, the motion carries. And now we could proceed with the consideration of the amendment that has been moved and seconded already. All those in favor of the amendment vote i. I. I. Those polls vote nay or no. The motion carries and we should proceed with consideration of the amendment. Uh, is there any further comments you would like to say on the underlying bill? It comes from Brant. Are we good to go? Good to go for my. Okay, so please call the rule on the passage of the amended bill. Whereas I O'Brien. Hi. On Major Gonzalez Herbold Johnson, President Harrell Aden favor and unopposed. A bill passes then Charles sign it. Agenda item number 11.

A RESOLUTION relating to Seattle City Councilmember participation, for 2020 and 2021, on King County Committees, Regional Committees, State Committees, and City of Seattle Committees; and superseding Resolution 31923.

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All right. Look forward to seeing you again. So other business, adoption of other resolutions, please read into the record. Item three, agenda item three, resolution 319 27 relating to the sale City Council Member Participation for 2020 and 2021 on King County Committees, Regional Committee, State Committees and City of Seattle Committees and Superseding Resolution 319 23. Thank you. So this resolution updates the councilmember assigned to the MOVE Seattle Levee Oversight Committee in order for it to be consistent with ordinance 12 4796 Ordinance 12 4795 was adopted to place the levy on the ballot and specify that the Chair of the City Council. Excuse me, can you take your conversation out front, please? We're trying to conduct business. Could you please take your your conversation out front? Thank you. I appreciate it. The ordinance was passed in the in the past to place the move Seattle levee on the ballot. And it specified that the chair of the City Council Transportation Committee should sit on the oversight committee for the levee. The resolution also adds an assignment for the King County Affordable Housing Committee of the Growth Management Act I'm sorry, the Growth Management Planning Council. And it also finally removes an assignment to the Trade Development Alliance because it is no longer pending. I moved to adopt resolution 31927 second. I must also now move to amend Resolution 31927 Section one B by substituting the Council member assigned to the Advisory Council on Aging and Disability Services to change it from assigning Council member Debra Suarez to the Council and swapping out for Council member Tammy Morales as presented on Amendment One. May I have a second? Second? Okay. It's been moved and seconded to move, amend the resolution and I've addressed the amendment before us. Are there any comments? Seeing no comments. Those in favor of the amendment vote i. I. I. Those oppose vote no. The resolution carries and the resolution is amended. Are there further comments on the resolution as amended? Seeing none those in favor of adopting the resolution as amended. Please vote. I. I. I. Those opposed vote no. The motion carries, the resolution is adopted as amended, and the chair will sign it. Is there other business to come before the council? Councilmember suarez thank. You. I respectfully request. To be excused on Monday, January. 27th and Monday. February. 5th. I will be in. Portland at the affiliated tribes of Northwest. Indians and I'll be at the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C. should move on that 1/1. I don't too. We don't vote, do we? We just we hear them. We do get we do vote. Okay. I'm sorry. You do together or separate. We must be together. Together. Okay. Can I just put them both in? All right. Thank you. None opposed. Nobody. All those in favor vote. I opposed, not abstain. One more note, Madam Chair. I'm designated as Council President Pro tem for the month of February. So thank you, Councilmember Mosqueda. Who will be. Taking my place while I'm gone on. February four. Fantastic. I believe we have another absence. Yes, thank you. Council President Pro-Tem Herbold. I would like to be request. I mean, I would like to request to be excused on Monday, February as our January 27th City Council meeting. Those in favor. But I. I am not opposed. I'm standing. Yes, you are excused. And if there is no further business to come before the council, we are adjourned.