* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:01] THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. [00:05:04] IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN ZOOM THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEMS NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA, PLEASE USE A RAISE HAND FEATURE. IF DIALING IN, PLEASE PRESS STAR NINE NOW. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE. TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING, PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, [00:10:01] STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS YOU. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AND ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT [00:15:01] TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AND ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT [00:20:01] CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST COMPLETE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, SHEARING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT OF DISRUPT THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPT YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED IN, NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT, HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AND ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN ZOOM THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, ITEMS ON THE AGENDA OR A SECOND PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE USE A RAISE HAND FEATURE. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. [00:25:01] THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AND ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNSELOR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENT PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNTER MEMBERS AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AND ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PICTURE PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNSELOR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPT THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO [00:30:01] BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. [00:35:05] IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION. WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE MEETING IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE TO HELP MAINTAIN AN ORGANIZE AND PRODUCTIVE MEETING. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN TODAY'S MEETING IS YOUR RIGHT AND THE CITY COUNCIL STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND VALUES YOUR INPUT. HOWEVER, THE RIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST BE BALANCED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONDUCT CITY BUSINESS. YOU ARE REMINDED TO ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING RULES. SPEAKERS MUST CONCLUDE THEIR REMARKS IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEIR TIME IS UP. PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE ITEM. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO SUBJECT MATTERS WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S JURISDICTION. PUBLIC COMMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL OR STAFF. WE APPRECIATE YOUR COOPERATION IN USING RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE AND AVOIDING PROFANITY SO EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT INTERRUPT THE COMMENTS [00:40:01] PROVIDED BY OTHER PUBLIC SPEAKERS, STAFF AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND MAY NOT ENGAGE IN CLAPPING, CHEERING, WHISTLING, OR OTHER SUCH CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. ANY PERSON ENGAGING IN CONDUCT THAT DISRUPTS THE MEETING WILL RECEIVE ONE WARNING, ONCE A WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED, IF THE DISRUPTIVE CONDUCT CONTINUES, THE DISRUPTIVE PERSON MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. IF YOU WITNESS CONDUCT OR BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT DISRUPTS YOUR ABILITY TO REMAIN ENGAGED OR PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING, PLEASE NOTIFY CITY CLERK STAFF YOUR EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY ENVIRONMENT. HELP ENSURE THAT ALL VOICES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? ALRIGHT, THANK [CALL TO ORDER] YOU. IT'S CALLED A MEETING OF THE LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER ROLL CALL PLEASE. [ROLL CALL] COUNCILWOMAN SINJA PRESENT, COUNCILWOMAN ALLEN PRESENT. COUNCIL MEMBER DUGGAN. COUNCILMAN SUBINA COUNCILWOMAN KERR. PRESENT COUNCILWOMAN SORROW. PRESENT VICE MAYOR ORANGA COUNCILWOMAN THRASH AND TUCK. COUNCIL MEMBER RICKS ODI HERE. MAYOR RICHARDSON. I AM HERE. WE HAVE A QUORUM. THANK YOU. I'M GONNA ASK COUNCIL MEMBER [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE] SORROW TO LEAD US IN A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. LET US REMEMBER AND HONOR ALL THE INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES WHO, UH, EXPERIENCE PROFOUND SUFFERING, SEPARATION AND LOSS. WE HOLD IN. OUR THOUGHTS DO HAVE BEEN DETAINED, SEPARATED FROM THEIR LOVED ONES INJURED OR WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES UNDER THE CRUEL ACTION AND POLICY ICE. WE RECOGNIZE THE DEEP TRAUMA FELT BY FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES AND WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH EVERYONE IMPACTED BY THE SYSTEMIC HARM AND DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY. THANK YOU. UH, FOR THOSE WHO CAN RISE, PLEASE STAND AND SALUTE OUR FLAG. RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER YOUR HEART AND READY TO BEGIN. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN. UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TODAY FOR OUR OCTOBER 20TH MEETING OF THE LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL. WE WELCOME YOU. UM, UH, I WANNA REMIND YOU THAT THIS IS A BUSINESS MEETING OF THE LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL. WE ASK PEOPLE TO BE RESPECT OF EACH OTHER, RESPECTFUL OF EACH OTHER, AND TO THE COUNCIL AND TO FOLLOW THE RULES OF CONDUCT FOR THE MEETINGS, WHICH INCLUDE COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST BE SPECIFIC TO THE AGENDA ITEMS. COMMENTS MUST BE PERTINENT TO ITEMS OR ISSUES WITHIN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE COUNCIL. STOP SPEAKING WHEN YOUR TIME IS CONCLUDED. PUBLIC COMMENT'S, NOT A DIALOGUE WITH COUNCIL, WITH CITY COUNCIL OR STAFF. UH, DO NOT INTERRUPT THE MEETING IF THE MEETING, IF ANYONE DOES INTERRUPT THE MEETING, I'LL GIVE THAT PERSON ONE WARNING. IF THE DISRUPTION CONTINUES OR IF THERE'S ANOTHER DISRUPTION BY THE SAME PERSON OR GROUP, YOU'LL BE ASKED TO LEAVE THE MEETING. THANK YOU. SO WE'RE GONNA START WITH, UH, PRESENTATIONS. WE HAVE TWO THIS EVENING. FIRST IS THE 30TH [ 30th Annual Historical Cemetery Tour Presented by the Historical Society of Long Beach] ANNUAL HISTORIC CEMETERY TOUR PRESENTED BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH. I'M GONNA GO TO COUNCIL MEMBER KERR. YES. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. TONIGHT I'M PLEASED TO WELCOME JULIE BARTOLOTTA, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH, AND SHE WILL SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THE UPCOMING 30TH ANNUAL HISTORIC CEMETERY TOUR. WELCOME, JULIE. GOOD EVENING. IN THE CENTER OF THE CITY ARE TWO OF THE MOST INTERESTING PLOTS OF LAND, LONG BEACH, MUNICIPAL, AND SUNNYSIDE CEMETERIES ON ORANGE BETWEEN CALIFORNIA AND ORANGE. THESE ARE THE OLDEST OFFICIAL CEMETERIES IN THE CITY. COME OUT TO [00:45:01] THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S 30TH ANNUAL CEMETERY TOUR ON HALLOWEEN THIS YEAR WHERE THE PLACE COMES TO LIFE WITH ACTORS, SINGERS, HISTORIANS, EXHIBITS, AND MORE. WE TELL THE HISTORY OF THE CITY, THE COMMUNITY AND ITS PEOPLE. 18,000 GRAVES CONTAIN THE STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED HERE. SOME OF THEM LIVED HERE BEFORE. IT WAS CALLED LONG BEACH. THE EARLY EARLIEST BURIAL AND THE, I'M SORRY, THE EARLIEST MARKER AT MUNICIPAL CEMETERY IS 17-YEAR-OLD MILTON NIECE WHOSE MARKER IS FROM 1878. THE TOUR INCLUDES 14 ACTORS WHO RECOUNT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE BURIED AT THE CEMETERIES, INCLUDING DICK EZ, WHO WAS THE FIRST LATINO PGA CHAMPION. AND HE TALKED THE CITY INTO PURCHASING THE LAND THAT IS NOW RECREATION PARK AND, UM, MAKING THE GOLF COURSE THERE A PUBLIC COURSE INSTEAD OF THE PRIVATE VIRGINIA COUNTRY CLUB THAT IT WAS. ALSO ON THE TOUR THIS YEAR IS ARTHUR BRANSON. ARTHUR WAS THE FIRST PERSON HIRED WHEN THE CITY CREATED A WATER DEPARTMENT AND THERE WAS A HOME BUILT FOR HIM BY THE CITY IN WHAT IS NOW WILLOW SPRINGS PARK, UH, WHERE HE COULD WATCH OVER THE WATER TANKS AND THE EQUIPMENT. ALSO ON THE TOUR ARE SPENCER SPENCER AND LILY DECKER. UH, SPENCER WAS HIRED IN 9 19 0 5 AS THE FIRST MANAGER OF SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY AND THE DECKER FAMILY MANAGED SUNNYSIDE FOR THE NEXT 82 YEARS. WHAT HAPPENED IN 1921 WHEN OIL WAS DISCOVERED IS SOMETHING YOU'LL HAVE TO COME TO THE TOUR TO FIND OUT, AND YOU'LL ALSO LEARN ABOUT HOW THE CITY TOOK OVER SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY AND REALLY SAVED IT IN 2019. ANOTHER STORY ON THE TOUR THIS YEAR IS THAT OF ABRAM KLEE, WHO WAS BORN ON A PLANTATION, SERVED IN THE CIVIL WAR, AND AFTER EMANCIPATION MOVED TO LONG BEACH, HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE CITY AS A JANITOR AND IN, IN 1908 AND UNFORTUNATELY HE DIED ON THE STEPS OF CITY HALL, THE CITY, UM, BOUGHT HIM A BURIAL PLOT AT MUNICIPAL CEMETERY AND MARKED HIS GRAVE. BUT TODAY, THAT GRAVE MARKER IS MISSING. OTHER EVENTS AT THE OTHER ATTRACTIONS AT THE EVENT EVENT INCLUDE AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHORUS SINGING A TRIBUTE TO THE COLORED LONG BEACH COMMUNITY CHORUS FROM THE 1920S. THE 11 OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE CHORUS ARE BURIED AT SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY. WE ALSO HAVE A DIA DE LOS MUERTOS, UH, A CAMBODIAN MEMORIAL FLAGS AND A BUDDHIST BLESSING. THE STORY OF HOW GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BECAME A HAVEN FOR THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY AND HISTORICAL EXHIBITIONS, LOCAL AUTHORS SIGNING THEIR BOOKS AND MUCH MORE. THE 30TH ANNUAL HISTORICAL CEMETERY TOUR WHERE HALLOWEEN AND HISTORY MEET SUPPORT THE LOCAL HISTORY AND THIS ALL AGES EVENT ON HALLOWEEN BY COMING OUT FROM 8:30 AM TO 3:00 PM I'D LIKE TO THANK THE CITY FOR THEIR SUPPORT FOR, I'D LIKE TO THANK PARKS, RECREATION AND MARINE AND OUR SPONSORS, ESPECIALLY OUR PRESENTING SPONSOR. VISIT LONG BEACH, PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE AND PURCHASE BEFORE SUNDAY THE 26TH TO SAVE AND YOU CAN PURCHASE@HSLB.ORG. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU JULIE. I KNOW, UM, SO MANY OF US LOOK FORWARD TO THIS TOUR EVERY YEAR AND IS WITH EVERYTHING THAT THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH DOES. THIS ANNUAL TOUR HELPS BRIDGE THE GAP OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT AND CREATING ENGAGING STORIES FOR US TO LEARN ABOUT THE FASCINATING FOLKS WHO HELPED BUILD OUR CITY. SO HAPPY TO SUPPORT THIS EVENT AND THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT TO SHARE IT AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE COMMUNITY OUT THERE ON HALLOWEEN. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, UH, LET'S HEAR IT ONE MORE TIME FOR OUR HISTO HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH AND, UH, HAUNTED CEMETERY TOUR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. OUR NEXT PRESENTATION [ National Arts Month] IS NATIONAL ARTS MONTH, AND WE'RE GONNA, UH, WELCOME UP OUR O COUNCIL FOR LONG BEACH FOR A PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. CITY COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER, TOM MOCA. WE'RE VERY EXCITED TONIGHT TO PRESENT FOR NATIONAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES MONTH. I'M GONNA GO QUICKLY THROUGH SOME OF THESE SLIDES JUST TO SAVE TIME. UM, EVERYBODY'S TIME HERE. I DO WANNA SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS PAST YEAR WITH THE ARTS COUNCIL AND SOME OF OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE YEAR LOOKING AHEAD. UM, WE, WE WORKED ON A LOT OF PUBLIC ART, UM, THROUGH THIS YEAR AND, UM, SOME NEW PROJECTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO ARE PHASE TWO OF THE CAMBODIA TOWN MURAL PROJECT. UM, WE'VE BEEN PARTNERED ON THE VACANCY TO VIBRANCY PROJECT, UM, AND ALSO WE'VE BEEN WORKING [00:50:01] ON RESTORING AND PRESERVING PUBLIC ART IN LONG BEACH, WHICH INCLUDES A PUBLIC ART, UM, MICRO GRANT THAT SUPPORTS, UM, GRAFFITI AND, UM, RESTORING PUBLIC ART. OUR ARTS LEARNING PROGRAMS HAVE SERVED OVER 3000 STUDENTS IN THE PAST YEAR AND CREATED 13 CREATIVE JOBS AND WE SERVE FOUR SCHOOLS. I ALSO WANNA REALLY HIGHLIGHT OUR SUMMER PROGRAMS. SO WE WERE PART OF THE YOUTH POWER PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROCESS AND HAD A SUMMER CAMP CALLED HEALING THROUGH COLOR. THAT WAS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. UM, STUDENTS GOT TO LEARN ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF ART. THEY GOT TO GO ON A FIELD TRIP TO, UM, THE NATURE CENTER AND DO PLAN AIR PAINTING. UM, AND THIS ALL TOOK PLACE AT MACARTHUR PARK. SO IT WAS A REALLY AMAZING PROGRAM AND WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR THAT FUNDING, UM, TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. WE ALSO DID THE PORT ART SUMMER CAMP THAT WAS FOR FIFTH GRADERS, UM, AND THAT WAS REALLY SUCCESSFUL AS WELL. THAT WAS AT THE MICHELLE OBAMA LIBRARY AND AT SILVERADO PARK. UM, I WANNA SHARE SOME OF OUR GRANT MAKING SUCCESSES. UM, SO THROUGH MEASURE B, WE, WITH THE CITY'S, UM, SUPPORT, WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE OUT 1.84 MILLION IN GRANTS TO, UM, MEASURE B ORGANIZATIONS. UM, THE PREVIOUS YEAR, 60,000 IN CREATIVE ECONOMY GRANTS AND, UM, 311,000 TO 49 IN ANNUAL GRANTS. AND I HAVE SOME REALLY EXCITING NEWS FOR EVERYBODY TONIGHT. THIS IS HOT OFF THE PRESS. UM, JUST ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE ARTS COUNCIL IS ONE OF 29 RECIPIENTS FOR THE NIGHT CITIES CHALLENGE. SO WE WERE ONE OF 3000 APPLICATIONS. SO THIS IS REALLY EXCITING FOR THE CITY, AND WE WANTED TO MAKE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY. UM, IT, THIS NEWS JUST CAME OUT. SO LOOKING AHEAD TO THE OLYMPICS, THIS FUNDING WILL GIVE $144,000 IN DIRECT GRANTS TO ARTISTS TO PAIR, GRANT TO PAIR ARTISTS AS ARTISTS AND RESIDENTS WITH EACH OF THE DIFFERENT OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES. AND SO THAT FUNDING IS MATCHED BY THE 135,000 THAT THE CITY HAS PUT FORTH FOR THE IMAGINE 28 GRANTS, WHICH WE ANNOUNCED AT STATE-OF-THE-ART. SO THERE'S 11 GRANTEES FOR THAT THAT ARE CURRENTLY DOING THE TESTING PHASE. WE'VE ALSO SET ASIDE WITH THE SUPPORT FROM THE CITY 310,000 FOR ACTIVATIONS DURING THE GAMES. SO THE, SO THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY THAT WE'RE ABLE TO LEVERAGE AND BRING IN OUTSIDE FUNDING FROM A FOUNDATION, UM, TO BE ABLE TO INCREASE SUPPORT AND GRANTS OUT TO ARTISTS, ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY. SO RIGHT NOW, JUST IN GRANTS ALONE, AND THIS IS MONEY THAT WE GIVE OUT, $589,000, UM, FOR OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES THAT'S BEEN RESERVED FROM THE CITY AND FROM OUTSIDE SOURCES AND WE'RE CONTINUING TO FIND MORE FUNDS. SO THAT'S, THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. I WANTED TO SHARE THIS EXCITING NEWS AND SHARE ABOUT, UM, NATIONAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES MONTH. ALL RIGHT, WELL THANK YOU LISA AND I INTRODUCED ALEX COUNCIL. I SHOULD HAVE, UH, INTRODUCED LISA, LISA DE SMIT. THANK YOU. UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ARTS COUNCIL FOR LONG BEACH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. CONGRATULATIONS, UH, ON THE KNIGHT CITIES CHALLENGE GRANT. WE ARE ONE OF A FEW KNIGHT CITIES IN AMERICA AND THAT CHALLENGE ENCOURAGES US TO BE INNOVATIVE ABOUT COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY ABOUT ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY INTO ACTIVITIES LIKE THE EVENT OLYMPICS THAT ARE COMING UP. SO WE LOOK FORWARD, UH, TO THOSE GRANTS, THOSE IMAGINE 28 GRANTS AND ALL THE WORK, UH, WE WILL DO TO SUPPORT OUR ARTS AND OUR COMMUNITY BETWEEN NOW AND 2028. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I ALSO WANNA JUST THANK OUR BOARD AND STAFF, SOME OF WHO ARE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE AS WELL ALL STAND. WE COULDN'T DONE THAT WITHOUT THEM. BOARD AND STAFF. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, WELL THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATIONS. WE'LL HAVE OUR REPORT OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION, PLEASE. YEAH, THANK YOU MAYOR. UM, WE HAVE TWO CASES THAT WE SETTLED A CLOSED SESSION, IRE VERSUS CITY OF LONG BEACH, UM, THAT WAS SETTLED IN THE AMOUNT OF $250,000 A VOTE. SIX ZERO, UH, THREE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WERE NOT THERE. THAT WAS, UH, CD THREE, CD FOUR, AND CD EIGHT. UM, AND IT WAS SIX ZERO FOR THE REST OF THE COUNCIL. THE OTHER MATTERS WERE TUCKER, UH, VERSUS THE CITY OF LONG BEACH THAT WAS SETTLED FOR THE AMOUNT OF 292,500, UM, AGAIN WITH A VOTE OF SIX ZERO AND CD THREE, FOUR, AND EIGHT. WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THAT VOTE. THEY'RE NOT HERE TONIGHT. UH, THE LAST MATTER IS NEED THESE VERSUS CITY OF LONG BEACH AND THAT WAS SETTLED IN THE AMOUNT OF $70,000 VOTE SIX ZERO WITHOUT CD THREE, FOUR, OR EIGHT. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. WE'LL NOW GO TO [CONSENT CALENDAR (1. – 14.)] CONSENT CALENDAR. WE NEED A MOTION. AND SECOND ON CONSENT, PLEASE. AND IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT ON CONSENT? WE HAVE FOUR SPEAKERS. PLEASE ADMINISTER PUBLIC COMMENT. SAM WISE, DITO, [00:55:01] JIM HANNIGAN. ELLIE, CAN YOU PLEASE APPROACH THE, THE LECTERN, SAM WISE IS FIRST. OKAY, SO ANOTHER CONSENT CALENDAR, UH, SECTION OR ITEM ONE IS RECOMMENDATION TO SUSPEND COUNSEL RULE CONTAINED IN MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 2.0 3.020. SO JUST TO GO OVER THAT REALLY QUICK, THAT IS REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL SHALL BE HELD IN THE CITY CHAMBERS OF CITY HALL AT FIVE O'CLOCK ON TUESDAY OF EACH WEEK, EXCEPT THE LAST TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH ON WHICH THERE WILL BE NO REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE YOU SUSPENDING? LIKE WHICH PART OF THAT RULE IS BEING SUSPENDED OR WHAT RULING ON THAT SPECIFIC SECTION IS BEING SUSPENDED? I'M JUST NOT REALLY CLEAR ON THAT. AND THEN FOR, UH, ITEM TWO, IT'S ABOUT INCREASING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE GENERAL FUND GROUP IN THE CITY MANAGER DEPARTMENT. AND THREE IS ALSO ABOUT INCREASING APPROPRIATIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND GROUP FOR THE CITY MANAGER DEPARTMENT. AND AGAIN, DOES THE CITY MANAGER'S DEPARTMENT NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY? IS IT ALL GOING TO TOM MONIKA'S SALARY, $450? LIKE YOU CAN PROBABLY FIND THAT IN TOM MODI'S BACK POCKET 1300. HONESTLY, THAT IS ALSO A POCKET CHANGE FOR TOM MOCA. SO WHY ARE WE APPROPRIATING THIS FROM OTHER CITY DISTRICTS? DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME. AND THEN, UH, IN ITEM THREE, I SEE THAT THERE'S $500 GOING TO COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR ORLE FOR THE FOURTH ANNUAL LIBERATION WALK AND RUN. THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY GOOD MOVEMENT. MOST OF US THAT COME HERE EVERY WEEK AGREE THAT WE WANT A WORLD WHERE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES LIVE IN DIGNITY AND FEEL SAFE AND HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO THRIVE. LOVE IT. YEP. BUT THE CITY COUNCIL IS GONNA HAVE TO DO A LOT MORE THAN A $500 TO THE WALK AND RUN FOR THAT, ESPECIALLY AFTER WHAT WE SAW HAPPEN THIS WEEKEND. YEAH. AND THIS, UH, DYSTOPIAN B******T THAT WE HAD TO SIT THROUGH IN THE BEGINNING, LIKE, THAT'S NOT GONNA F*****G WORK. I'LL YIELD THE REST OF MY TIME. WOO. THANK YOU DIA DETO. THE CLOCK IS RUNNING. YEAH, NO, I SEE IT. ALRIGHT, SO IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA SPEAK, THEN WE'RE GONNA REACH NEXT. NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. THIS IS MY TIME. THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS. YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY SPEAK DURING PUBLIC COMMENT. WHAT? DON'T TALK BECAUSE LET'S PAUSE THE TIMER FOR A MOMENT. YOU OTHER PEOPLE WITH SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAST TIME BY KISSING THEM? OKAY. NO, NO, NO. I'M GETTING TO WHAT I'M GETTING TO. THANK YOU. PLEASE FOCUS ON THE TOPIC. THANK YOU. WHY DON'T YOU FOCUS ON YOUR CITY BECAUSE IT'S BEING F*****G TAKEN OVER BY ICE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. UH, 26 DASH 5 6 4 7 7. AND YEAH, SOMEONE ELSE SAID THAT. WHAT THE F**K? , YOU SHOULD BE LITERALLY GIVING MORE MONEY TO ORLE TO, UH, YOU KNOW, LIBRE TO OTHER PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT NEED IT, THAT ARE ACTUALLY F*****G DOING SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR CITY. AND UA, THAT B***H IS IN HERE AND YOU KNOW, MARY, F**K YOU FOR TAKING AWAY DE LOS MUERTOS AGAIN. YOU DID IT LAST YEAR. AND I'M WEARING THIS BECAUSE WE CAN'T GET WHAT WE WANT WHEN WE'RE ASKING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU TO DO SOMETHING. YOU'RE TAKING OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT OF SPEECH AWAY. YOU LIKE TO INTERRUPT REX, HOW COME YOU WEREN'T OUT THERE? HOW COME YOU WEREN'T OUT THERE SATURDAY? HOW COME TINO WASN'T OUT THERE SATURDAY? IF YOU WERE TO GIVE MORE MONEY TO ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS ORES, SUCH AS LIBRE, YOU KNOW, LONG BEACH, UM, LBR, UH, RNN, BASICALLY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE OUT DOING YOUR F*****G JOB AND F**K LBPD, YOU GUYS ARE F*****G ICE TOO BECAUSE YOU, YOU LET THEM BE COMPLICIT IN TAKING AND TRY TO TAKE SOMEONE. AND NOT ONLY THAT, BREAKING SOMEONE'S ARM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LUCKY THAT IT DIDN'T ESCALATE FURTHER. I, I HAVE THIS SIGN AND I WEAR THIS MEXICO SHIRT LOUD AND PROUD BECAUSE VIVA LAA F**K ICE. F**K YOU GUYS. AND I, YOU KNOW WHAT [01:00:01] THAT IS VERY DYSTOPIAN AND IT'S AI. YOU KNOW, AI IS RUINING OUR SOCIETY. AND ANG I SWEAR TO GOD, YOU DO THAT AGAIN. WANT TAKE I PAUSE THE TIMER ONE MORE TIME. YOU KNOW WHAT? THEY SHOULD SUE YOUR ASS FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT. AGAIN, THIS HAS REMAIN ON TOPIC. F**K ICE FREE PALESTINE, FREE GAZA. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? MORE PEOPLE NEED TO COME OVER HERE. ALL WE'RE GONNA CALL THE NEXT SPEAKER AND MORE PEOPLE NEED TO TALK AND F**K YOU. TELL MONICA, BECAUSE YOU'RE TAKING AWAY PEOPLE'S MONEY. NEXT, LET'S BRING THE NEXT SPEAKER. F*****G VOTE. JIM HANNIGAN HERE UP. THIS IS THIS. THANK YOU, JIM. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. OKAY, IT'S NICE TO HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK, UH, SOON TO BE A VANISHED, UH, OPTION. I'M SPEAKING ON CONSENT ITEM 13. I WANNA TRY TO STAY ON TOPIC. THIS IS A WEIRD CONTRACT WITH OPTIMIZELY, A COMPANY THAT YOU'RE EXTENDING FOR TWO YEARS FOR HALF A MILLION DOLLARS A LITTLE OVER THAT THE STAFF REPORT IS EMBARRASSING. IT BASICALLY, THERE'S NO CONTRACT, BUT IF YOU'RE EXTENDING SOME, SOME CONTRACT THAT MUST EXIST SOMEWHERE. STAFF REPORT SAYS THAT, UH, YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, A SOLE SOURCE BECAUSE BASICALLY THIS COMPANY DOESN'T DO WEB HOSTING. THAT'S WHAT THEY DO FOR LONG BEACH. THE ONLY OTHER COMPANY I COULD FIND IN CALIFORNIA WHERE THEY DO ANYTHING IS BURBANK. I GUESS BURBANK HAS ALSO GOT A PROBLEM WITH THEIR MANAGEMENT, BUT THE, THE COMPANY MAINLY DOES ISOLATED TESTING. BASICALLY SANDBOX WORK IS WHAT THEY CALL IT WHEN THEY TEST THINGS IN ISOLATION FROM THE REST OF THE INTERNET. SO WHAT YOU HAVE IS APACHE ONE-OFF BIZARRE SYSTEM THAT'S DOING ALL THE, THE CITY'S WEB HOSTING. AND BECAUSE IT'S SO WEIRD, YOU CAN'T CHANGE, YOU CAN'T GET OFF OF IT. YOU'RE STUCK WITH A, WITH A SINGLE SOURCE AND YOU HAVE TO DO A SOLE SOURCE. YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU DON'T PUT IT OUT FOR A, FOR A BID LIKE YOU SHOULD BECAUSE THE DETERMINATION IS JUST MADE THAT IT'S SO STRANGE. YOU CAN'T DO THAT. I ALSO WANTED TO TALK ON 14, ANOTHER DATA RELATED THING WITH THIS COMPANY. NDL FOR MAINFRAME SERVICES. NOBODY EVEN DOES MAINFRAME STUFF ANYMORE. THIS IS SUPPOSEDLY, IT'S A HUGE CONTRACT. I MEAN, IT'S 12 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS. YOU'RE INCREASING AT SIX AND A HALF. IT WAS, IT GOES BACK TO 2022 WHEN THERE WAS A CONTRACT. IT'S GOING UP $1.1 MILLION A YEAR, JUST POCKET CHANGE, WHATEVER. AND YOU, YOU'RE GONNA BE HIRING A NEW IT GURU TO TRY TO MAKE A, MAKE A, SOME KIND OF SALVAGE OUT OF THIS MESS FOR 240,000 A YEAR. THAT POSITION IS OPEN. I, WHAT I SEE IN THE CITY IS THAT YOU GUYS ARE POLITICIANS, YOU'RE ACTIVISTS, SOME OF YOU, BUT YOU'RE NOT TECHNOCRATS, YOU'RE NOT IN THE WEEDS. YOU LEAVE THAT TOTALLY TO THE CITY MANAGEMENT AND YOU ROUTINELY APPROVE MILLIONS BY CONSENT WITH NO ANALYSIS, WITH NOT EVEN A WHIMPER. YOU JUST HAD A HUGE DEFICIT. AND WHO'S TO BLAME? THEY ARE WHEN A PRO TEAM IS LOSING AND THEY HAVE A BAD RECORD, THE OWNERS FIRE THE MANAGER. JUST SAYING. TOM, THANK YOU ALI IS NEXT? HELLO? HELLO. THANK YOU JIM, FOR DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB OF SPEAKING ON ITEM 14. HONESTLY, PROBABLY BETTER THAN I'M ABOUT TO DO, BUT I'M, I JUST WANT TO READ THE WHOLE THING. UM, LET'S SEE. RECOMMENDATION TO AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER OR DESIGNEE, THAT'S HIM. TO EXECUTE ALL DOCUMENTS NECESSARY TO AMEND CONTRACT NUMBER 3 6 3 8 1 WITH NDL INC. OF NEW YORK FOR CONTINUED HOSTED MAINFRAME SERVICES, DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES, A MAINFRAME OPERATING SYSTEM AND PLATFORM UPGRADE MAINFRAME APPLICATION AS ASSESSMENT AND RELATED SERVICES TO INCREASE THE CONTRACT AMOUNT BY $6,498,000 FOR A REVISED AGGREGATE CONTRACT AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $12,464,000 FOR THE INITIAL THREE YEAR RENEWAL TERM AND EXTEND THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2029 WITH THE OPTION TO EXTEND DA DA DA INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE GENERAL SERVICES FUND GROUP AND THE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION DEPARTMENT BY $1,106,000 OFFSET BY FUNDS AVAILABLE. SO I, I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING THE, THE MATH ON HOW WE'RE INCREASING THE CONTRACT AMOUNT BY 6 MILLION, BUT WE ARE ONLY ALLOCATING 1 MILLION TO THIS DEPARTMENT. EVEN IF IT'S A THREE YEAR CONTRACT, THAT'S STILL A DIFFERENCE OF LIKE $3 MILLION. ALSO, UH, JUST TO DO MY DUE DILIGENCE, I LOOKED AT THE, UH, THE BUDGET BOOK FOR THIS YEAR AND LOOKED AT THE, UM, THE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, UH, COLUMN IN THE GENERAL FUND. AND THERE [01:05:01] WAS JUST A DASH THERE. NOTHING WAS LISTED AS BUDGETED FOR THE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION DEPARTMENT. SO IT, IT'S STRANGE THAT WE BUDGETED NOTHING FOR THIS. AND THEN RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FISCAL YEAR, WE ARE INCURRING A MULTI MULTIMILLION DOLLAR EXPENDITURE IN THIS DEPARTMENT. IT FEELS JUST LIKE EXTREMELY POOR PLANNING ON THE PART OF EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN PUTTING TOGETHER THE BUDGET. UM, ALSO JUST LIKE TO, UM, SHARES AND BRIEF, VERY BRIEF RESEARCH THAT WAS ABLE TO DO INTO, UH, NDL. UM, THEY DO HAVE A LENGTHY PARTNERSHIP WITH MICROSOFT WHO IS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN SUPPORTING THE CURRENT GENOCIDE IN GAA. UH, JUST WANTED TO SEE IF THAT WAS ANYTHING THAT THE CITY HAD LOOKED INTO BEFORE, UH, ENTERING INTO THIS CONTRACT. IN ADDITION, AS OF VERY RECENTLY, UH, NDL IS APPLYING A NEWENT AI FRAMEWORK TO THEIR, UH, THEIR AI CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR TOYOTA. UM, JUST WANNA SEE, THERE WAS NO MENTION OF ANY AI FRAMEWORK, UH, IN, IN THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS WITH THE AGENDA ITEM. I WANNA SEE IF THERE WAS ANY DISCUSSION OF THIS WITH THE CITY. IF THE, THIS COMPANY DOES WANT TO START USING AI AMONGST OUR CITY'S IT, UH, WHAT RESOURCES WE HAVE TO STOP IT BECAUSE IT, THAT'S A VERY, VERY CLEAR DATA SECURITY ISSUE FOR THE CITY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WOO. I'M SORRY. PLEASE CONTINUE. YOUR MIC WASN'T ON, IT'S ON NOW. PLEASE CONTINUE. NOT SIGNED UP FOR, UM, SORRY SHE'S NOT SIGNED UP FOR CONSENT. COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL ALLOW ME TO, WELL, I'M SORRY. I THINK YOU, WHAT'S YOUR NAME? TAMIKA HAWKINS. OKAY. TAMIKA, YOU MIGHT BE SIGNED UP ON GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT THAT'S NOT, THAT'S COMING UP NEXT. YES, THIS IS, YEAH, THIS IS CONSENT CALENDAR, PUBLIC COMMENT. SO YOUR NAME WILL BE CALLED SOON. GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU TAMIKA. I APOLOGIZE. ALRIGHT, WELL I THINK THAT CONCLUDES ALL RIGHT. MEMBERS, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE. MOTION IS CARRIED. ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE ON GENERAL PUBLIC [PUBLIC COMMENT: Obtain speaker card from the City Clerk Opportunity to address the City Council (on non-agenda items) is available to the first 10 individuals, combined across in-person and remote participation, who submit a request to speak beginning 15 minutes before the meeting starts. Each speaker is allowed up to three minutes to provide comments.] COMMENT. WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IS THEY'RE GONNA READ 10 NAMES. IF YOUR NAME IS ON THE LIST FOR SIGNING UP, LINE UP IN THAT ORDER AND YOU'LL HAVE YOUR TIME TO SPEAK. PLEASE PROCEED. THE FOLLOWING SPEAKERS, IF YOU COULD APPROACH THE PODIUM CHRISELLE, SAM WISE, FB TAMICO, ROBERT. IN ZOOM WE HAVE CJ AND JEANNIE GONZALEZ, SEYMOUR ACCOUNTABILITY. MATTHEW GLA, IVAN MARTINEZ. IF YOUR NAME IS CALLED, PLEASE PROCEED TO THE LECTERN. KELLE. HI CHRISL DOMBROWSKI, UH, I'M IN DISTRICT TWO. THANK YOU MARY ZENDEJAS FOR HELPING ME WITH HOUSING. YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE THAT DID. UH, I AM JANE DOE. UH, THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT BESIDES THEM KILLING MY OLD, UH, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS WITH MELANIN IN THEIR SKIN LIKE THAT ONE AND ICE. YEAH, THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE REASONS. WHEN I WAS, UH, 14, I WAS SKATEBOARDING TWO AND A HALF BLOCKS FROM MY HOUSE. MY MOM KNEW WHERE I, I WAS THERE WITH MY FRIENDS HANGING OUT. UH, LET'S SEE, LET'S SEE. I AM JANE DOE. UM, YEAH, THERE WAS A 30 SOMETHING GUY OUT THERE THAT WAS HANGING OUT WITH THE SKATE RATS, BUYING BEER, SEND TO ON TOOLS, ERRANDS. AND UH, OH. THEN THE ONE GUY THAT WOULDN'T LEAVE ME THERE BY MYSELF WITH THE 30 SOMETHING YEAR OLD GUY, HE GAVE HIM SOME QUAALUDES AND SOME BEER. SO THEN THE 30 SOMETHING YEAR OLD MAN DRAGGED ME OUT TO AN OPEN LOT, BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF ME, CUT OFF ALL MY CLOTHES AND LEFT ME FOR DEAD LONG BEACH PD. DID NOTHING, NOTHING. MY MOM PRESSED CHARGES. CRICKETS. WE'RE TALKING CRICKETS. SO WHAT I DO, 'CAUSE I AM KRISELDA BROWSKI, WHAT I DID, I WENT, 'CAUSE I DID NOT FEEL SAFE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. SO I BORROWED A GUN, LEARNED HOW TO SHOOT IT, TOLD MY SKATE BACK FRIENDS WHAT I WAS GONNA DO. SHOWED THEM THE GUN, TOLD THEM THE DAY I WOULD BE THERE, KIND OF LIKE, OKAY, CORRAL. BUT GUESS WHAT, BY THE TIME I GOT THERE, 30 SOMETHING FLED THE STATE. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER IS SAM WISE. DO YOU WANT ME TO HOLD THIS OUT? [01:10:04] SO FIRST OF ALL, UH, THIS IS HOW YOU ENGAGE YOUR PUBLIC BY FILLING THE FRONT ROWS WITH YOUR CRONIES. SO IT'S HARDER FOR US TO GET UP HERE, OKAY? UH, FREE PALESTINE, WE WILL NEVER STOP. NOT UNTIL US TAX DOLLARS STOP FUNDING ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE AND ALL OF THE COLONIZERS LEAVE. AND PALESTINE IS TRULY FREE. MEANWHILE, NETANYAHU STILL WALKS FREE AND OUR COUNTRY IS SANCTIONING THE ICC LIKE, WHAT THE F**K? F**K ISRAEL AND F**K ICE. THIS WEEKEND WE MADE A POINT OF REMINDING THE NO KINGS PEOPLE, THAT KINGS DO NOT HAPPEN IN A VACUUM. A TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT TAKES HOLD AND MAINTAINS POWER FROM THE COOPERATION OF A BUNCH OF LITTLE KINGS. OPPRESSION THAT FACES NO OPPOSITION DOESN'T STOP. IT GROWS. THIS COUNCIL CANNOT PRETEND IT'S SEPARATE FROM THE PROBLEMS OUR D*****S PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT IS CREATING WHEN IT ISN'T DOING ANYTHING TO OPPOSE HIM. TRUMP IS A FASCIST AND HIS LITTLE MASS GOONS ARE ALSO FASCISTS, OR AT LEAST UNDERLINGS OF FASCISM. AND AS LONG AS THIS CITY COUNCIL CONTINUES TO HOLD CONTRACTS WITH COMPANIES THAT SUPPORT THE DHS AND ICE, LIKE LEXI LEXISNEXIS AND GENERAL DYNAMICS AND ANDROID INDUSTRIES AND FLOCK, THEN YOU'RE ALSO AGENTS OF FASCISM. WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY. ICE AGENTS BROKE RICARDO GONZALEZ'S ARM. IT'S NOT LOST UPON US THAT THIS SUPPOSED ARREST WAS FAR AWAY FROM BIXBY PARK. GUESS THEY WERE TRYING TO AVOID FIRSTHAND WITNESSES THAT DID NOT WORK OUT SO WELL FOR THEM. SO AFTER THEY STRUCK RICARDO GONZALEZ WITH THEIR VEHICLE AND ATTEMPTED TO KIDNAP HIM, THEY BROKE HIS ARM. LUCKILY, BECAUSE THE GENERAL PUBLIC, THE ICE TERRORISTS WERE NOT ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS. THANK GOODNESS FOR LONG BEACH RESIDENTS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS CITY WOULD DO WITHOUT THEM. AND BECAUSE THE ICE TERRORISTS WEREN'T ALLOWED TO SLIP AWAY, THE NEWS'S GOT INVOLVED WITH THIS STORY. K-T-L-A-A-B-C, FREAKING AL JAZEERA REPORTED ON THIS STORY. IT'S NOT A GOOD LOOK, NOT HERE, NOT IN VIBE CITY. UH, REX RICHARDSON CALLS FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THIS BOTCHED DURESS, BOTCHED DURESS BY, UH, IMMIGRATION, CUSTOMS AND ENFORCEMENT AGENTS. HONESTLY, I JUST THOUGHT THIS WAS AN ATTEMPT TO GET US OFF YOUR BACK BECAUSE YOU KNEW THAT WE WERE GONNA COME HERE THIS TUESDAY AND GO AT YOU HARD ABOUT THIS. BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE AT THE TIME HOW BIG THIS STORY HAD GOTTEN AND HOW FAR IT HAD GOTTEN. I DIDN'T REALIZE ROBERT GARCIA HIMSELF HAD TO DO A PRESS CONFERENCE TO ADDRESS THIS SITUATION. YEAH. WHERE WERE YOU REX? OUR CONGRESS PERSON HAD TO COME DOWN TO TRY TO CLEAN THIS METH MESS UP. DO YOU THINK HE'S DISAPPOINTED? I WAS DISAPPOINTED WHEN I SAW HOW FREELY ICE WAS ABLE TO OPERATE IN AND TERRORIZE THIS CITY. SO I'M WONDERING, DOES HE KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE? BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN HERE WEEK AFTER WEEK TELLING YOU THAT YOU WEREN'T DOING ENOUGH TO PROTECT YOUR RESIDENTS HERE. WE WANTED YOU TO STOP WASTING ALL OF OUR MONEY ON POLICE, POLICE FORCE THAT AIDS ICE. AND EVERYONE WHO WAS THERE ON SATURDAY SAW IT. LOCAL POLICE WERE ONLY THERE TO PROTECT ICE, TO KEEP OBSERVERS AWAY FROM ICE, TO THREATEN OBSERVERS WITH ARREST FOR INTERFERING WITH ICE. WE TOLD YOU THIS WAS HAPPENING. WE'VE BEEN WARNING YOU EVERY WEEK WE HAVE BEEN WARNING YOU ABOUT ICE, ABOUT POLICE COLLABORATION, AND ABOUT MASS SURVEILLANCE, ALL OF WHICH LED TO THIS MOMENT. AND INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO US, YOU VOTE TO REDUCE OUR PUBLIC COMMENT. DOES OUR FORMER MAYOR KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE? BECAUSE THANK YOU. YOUR TIME HAS CONCLUDED FB. EVERYBODY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? YOU FAILED. YOU FAILED CITIZEN. WOO. NEXT SPEAKER IS FB, F**K YOU. AND F**K ICE WRECKS YOU F*****G LITTLE B***H. SO HERE'S THE THING. I DON'T HAVE REALLY ANYTHING WRITTEN TONIGHT EXCEPT THE SAME STUFF THAT I COME AND DISCUSS WITH CITY COUNCIL. I WANNA THANK THE LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOR STEPPING UP AND DOING THEIR PART AGAINST ICE, BECAUSE YOUR LITTLE B***H ASS HASN'T DONE S**T EXCEPT TAKE ON, UH, UH, PRESS CONFERENCES THAT GO LEAD TO NOWHERE, LEAD TO MORE OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES BEING KIDNAPPED, RAPED, AND KILLED BY ICE. AND THIS TIME, I MEAN, WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE? THERE'S NO EXCUSE. YOU SHOW UP FOR A PRESS CONFERENCE. GET YOUR FLOWERS. ACTUALLY, I MEAN, LIKE, THANK YOU CINDY ALLEN FOR, UH, LIKING THE VIDEO OF ROBERT GARCIA STATING THAT HE IS GOING TO STOP FUNDING ISRAEL AND HE'S GONNA DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE YOUR COWARD ASS IS DOING NOTHING ABOUT A GENOCIDE RIGHT NOW. F**K ISRAEL. F**K ISRAEL, AND F**K ALL OF YOU. YOU, YOU'LL ALL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS GENOCIDE SUPPORTERS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT COME OUT AND SAID ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT ISRAEL'S DOING. IN FACT, YOU ARE ACTUALLY GIVING ISRAEL ALL THE BUSINESS. I MEAN, LET, LET'S RUN IT DOWN AGAIN. WE HAVE LEXINEXIS GENERAL DYNAMIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, CDW, GOVERNMENT GOV, INC. CONNECTION, ANDROID, A WEAPONS MANUFACTURER FLOCK THAT, I MEAN, HERE'S THE THING. WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW, AND WE KEEP GIVING YOU THE SAME INFORMATION. WE KEEP MAKING SURE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE AN [01:15:01] OPPORTUNITY TO DO RIGHT BY YOUR CITIZENS AND ARE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES AND YOU'RE FAILING HORRIBLY. UM, YOU NEED TO MAKE A STANCE OTHERWISE, I MEAN, YOUR CHILDREN AREN'T GONNA ASK YOU WHEN THEY GROW OLDER AND ARE IN COLLEGE AND SEE YOUR UGLY ASS FACES NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT ICE. YOU FASCIST F*****G C***S AND ABOUT A FREE PALESTINE BECAUSE PALESTINE WILL BE FREE. MARK MY M***********G WORDS. AND GUESS WHAT? Y'ALL FACES ARE GONNA BE AGAINST THAT AND THAT'S GONNA FOLLOW YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR F*****G CAREERS. F**K ICE, F**K ISRAEL. PROTECT BLACK WORKERS ALWAYS BECAUSE WE KNOW REX DON'T DO S**T ABOUT BLACK WORKERS IN THIS F*****G CITY. FREE PALESTINE ALWAYS PALESTINE WILL BE FREE. FREE THE WORLD OF JEWISH AND WHITE SUPREMACY. ICE IS THE IDF. AND ONCE AGAIN, GAZA IS A F*****G BLUEPRINT. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS HOLD A REAL, UH, YIELD MY TIME TO, UH, THE ICE VICTIMS AND ALL OF THE VICTIMS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, FROM THIS FASCIST ASS GOVERNMENT AND THIS LITTLE B***H ASS F*****G LOSER THAT'S LOOKING AT HIS PHONE AND THIS F*****G WHITE SUPREMACIST PIECE OF S**T OVER THERE. ANYWAY, I'LL BE QUIET BECAUSE I WANNA BE SILENT FOR ICE AND, AND GAZA. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER IS TAMIKA. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS TAMIKA HAWKINS AND I AM THE CEO AND FOUNDER OF FUZZY BLINKEN FOUNDATION. I WANNA START BY SAYING THANK YOU FOR, UH, MR. RICHARDSON AND CITY COUNCIL FOR ALLOWING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE FUZZY BLANKETS. UM, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MYSELF. UM, I'VE WORKED UNDER THE KAREN BASS ADMINISTRATION, UH, THROUGH URBAN ALCHEMY AND WORKING THROUGH OUTREACH WHERE I HAVE SEEN COUNTLESS, UH, HOMELESS POPULATION, UH, MOTHERS AND CHILDREN THAT WERE UNHOUSED LIVING IN TENTS. AND THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR NOWHERE FOR THEM TO GO. I WOULD ACTUALLY WOULD BE ENGAGING WITH OUR FAMILIES AND, UM, I WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE TO LEAVE THEM THERE, UM, BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO FULL. AND THAT REALLY BROKE MY HEART AND IT, UH, IT CAUSED ME TO, UH, HAVE A STRONG COMPASSION WHERE I CAN HELP UNHOUSED MOMS AND CHILDREN. SO, UM, I, OUR WEBSITE IS, UH, FUZZY BLANKETS.ORG IF YOU WANNA LEARN MORE ABOUT IT. UM, IT'S A HUGE NICE LITTLE PROGRAM I HAVE PUT TOGETHER. UM, I'M ASKING FOR, UH, FOR THE CITY OF, UH, LONG BEACH, UH, TO BECOME A PARTNERSHIP AND FUNDING AND CONNECTIONS. IF YOU COULD HELP THIS CAUSE THAT IS SO PROFOUND. UM, LIKE I SAID, IT IS JUST, UH, BREAKS MY HEART AND I UNDERSTAND. THE ONE THAT WE DO HAVE IN LONG BEACH IS CALLED LYDIA HOUSE. AND I DID, UH, TRY TO CONTACT THE DIRECTOR, MS. GUTIERREZ, AND I STILL HAVEN'T HEARD BACK FROM HER BECAUSE I WANTED TO CONNECT WITH HER TO FIND OUT HOW DOES YOUR PROGRAM RAN. BUT MINES IS INCREDIBLE AND I JUST NEEDED SOME SUPPORT AND WOULD LIKE ANOTHER INVITATION, UH, TO VISIT THIS, UH, THIS INVITE TO HELP ME IN DEVELOPING THIS PROGRAM, UH, FOR THESE UNHOUSED MOTHERS AND CHILDREN. BECAUSE THE CHILDREN ARE BEING AFFECTED. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO SCHOOL. UM, THEY'RE GONNA, IT'S CAUSING THE CHILDREN TO GET BEHIND IN SCHOOL. WHAT THE MOMS ARE DEPRESSED IS CAUSING THEM TO SEEK MENTAL HEALTH. MY PROGRAM IS GOING TO HAVE, UH, COACHING, IT WILL HAVE MENTAL HEALTH AND, AND VOCATIONAL PROGRAM WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE TO GO TO BACK TO GET A CERTIFICATE WHERE THEY CAN GET BACK INTO THE, UH, WORKFORCE WHERE THEY CAN BECOME EMPOWERED, LIFT SELF-ESTEEM. WE NEED TO GET THESE MOMS BACK ON TRACK AGAIN AND TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES INTO A POSITIVE DIRECTION. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MISS TAMIKA. UM, I'LL HAVE ONE OF OUR, UH, MANAGERS ON DUTY, UH, TALK TO YOU AND CONNECT YOU WITH OUR HOMELESS SERVICES BUREAU, SO YOU CAN TAP IN WITH, UH, OUR GROUP THAT ARE OUR GROUPS THAT ARE DOING THAT WORK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. ROBERT COLLINS. UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR REX. UH, GOOD MOR. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR REX. HOW YOU DOING? UH, GOOD. UH, GOOD, GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL, I JUST WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN BY SAYING I DO NOT STAND WITH, WITH THE LANGUAGE THAT WAS USED AGAINST YOU WRECKS. I THINK WE CAN HAVE OPINIONS, BUT I [01:20:01] JUST DON'T, AND I THINK IT WAS REALLY WRONG BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT BEING HUNTED. THANK YOU AGAIN. CAN I HAVE MY TIME TO SPEAK? SO I'M GONNA, UM, I'M GONNA STATE THAT YOU CAN'T DISRUPT THE MEETING, UH, TO THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE SECOND ROW WITH THE CAMERA AND THE FLOWERS AND THE HAIR. UM, IF SOMEONE HAS THE MICROPHONE, THANK YOU. THAT'S A DISRUPTION. AND IF YOU'RE, AND THIS IS A WARNING, IF YOU DISRUPT AGAIN, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO LEAVE THE MEETING. ROBERT, PLEASE PROCEED. THANK YOU. WHEN CITY COUNCIL DEBATED COMMENTS ABOUT PUBLIC SPEAKING, RESPECT WAS BROUGHT UP. NOW, I BELIEVE IT IS DISRESPECTFUL OF A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER TO NOT RETURN A PHONE CALL FROM HIS OR HER CONSTITUENT. AFTER THE RECENT WINDS AND RAINS, PALM FRANZ COMPLETELY DOTTED BLUFF PARK, MY CAR WINDOW HAS BROKEN, HAS BEEN BROKEN TWICE BY THESE BRANCHES. I CALLED SIDNEY ALLEN'S OFFICE AND WAS TOLD SHE WOULD CALL ME BACK THAT DAY OR POSSIBLY THE NEXT DAY. NO PHONE CALL. I CALLED AGAIN A COUPLE DAYS LATER, AGAIN SAYING THEY WOULD LET HER KNOW THAT SOMEONE CALLED MY ISSUE. AGAIN, NO PHONE CALL BACK. AI HAS SAID THAT THESE TREES SHOULD BE TRIMMED EVERY YEAR, BUT TRIM THE TRIMMING CYCLE WENT FROM SIX YEARS TO EVERY EIGHT YEARS. SO I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BE ANSWERED. NUMBER ONE, WHY CAN'T COUNCIL MEMBER ALLEN RETURN PHONE CALLS TO CONSTITUENTS? ARE THERE PRESS CONFERENCES AND SOCIAL MEDIA EVENTS THAT MORE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN CONSTITUENT RE UH, CONCERNS? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THESE PALM FRONDS HIT CARS AS THEY WERE DRIVING DOWN THE STREET IN BLA PARK? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THESE PALM FRONDS HIT THE HEADS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WALKING ARE THE OTHER ANIMALS IN BLUFF PARK. I KNOW THAT PREVIOUS COUNCIL MEMBER SUSIE PRICE, ACTUALLY GAVE SOME OF HER CITY COUNCIL MONEY TO HELP TRIM THESE TREES. THEY COULDN'T DO IT AT CERTAIN TIMES OF THE YEAR, BUT THEY GOT THAT DONE. I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE COUNCIL MEMBER ALLEN TO DRIVE DOWN SECOND STREET, OUR FIRST STREET TODAY. TONIGHT WHEN YOU GO HOME AND SEE ALL THE PALM FRONTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AGAIN, WHAT HAPPENS IF A CAR HITS THOSE PALM FRONTS? SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO PHONE CALLS AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO ANSWERS TO MY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. IF YOU GO RIGHT HERE TO THE SIDE, I'LL HAVE ONE OF MY TEAM MEMBERS COME OUT AND TALK TO YOU RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY OUT. ME, DO YOU? THANK YOU, ROBERT. GREAT. THANK YOU. DO YOU ALRIGHT, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. WHY LEAVE? THE NEXT SPEAKER IS ON ZOOM. CJ, CAN YOU UNMUTE YOURSELF? COMMENT, UH, TONIGHT. WE CAN'T HEAR HER. UH, CAN YOU PAUSE FOR ONE MINUTE? UH, CAN YOU SPEAK LOUDER? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? NO. IS THAT BETTER? NO. NO. IT'S STILL VERY FAINT, RIGHT? OH, NO FACTS. EVERYBODY DOESN'T MAKE IT BETTER. NO, NO. IT'S STILL VERY FAINT. WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU. NEXT SPEAKER IS JEANIE GONZALEZ. JEANIE, CAN YOU UNMUTE YOURSELF PLEASE? JEANIE ON ZOOM. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. YOU CAN BEGIN. MY NAME IS, UH, MY NAME IS JUDY GONZALEZ. I AM FROM THE NINTH DISTRICT. I HAVE A COMPLAINT. UM, UH, I WAS DOING THE TOUR OF NINTH DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS FOR A WHILE, AND THEN I HAD TO DO SOMETHING ELSE. AND THEN I WENT BACK AND I SAW WHAT WAS GOING ON. AND I WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT HAMILTON LOOP NEVER, NEVER HAPPENED FOR HAMILTON NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU KNOW, 10 YEARS AGO THAT THEY WERE, UH, LAID, IT WAS LAID DOWN ON PAPER WHAT HAMILTON LOOP WOULD BE. AND, UH, UH, THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S DISAPPOINTED. THEY HAVE, UH, NO GREEN SPACE WHATSOEVER, AND THEIR KIDS RIDE THEIR BIKES ON THE STREETS COMPARED TO, UH, THE, THE AREA AROUND BELMONT POOL. YOU KNOW, UH, THEY GET A LOT FOR THEIR TAX DOLLARS, BUT, UH, AND, AND, UM, AND HAMILTON NEIGHBORHOOD PAY THE SAME RATE TAX, AND THEY GET NOTHING IN TERMS OF GREEN SPACE. SO I'M JUST COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT. AND SO I YIELD THE REST OF MY TIME. . [01:25:01] THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER IS SEYMOUR ACCOUNTABILITY. PLEASE STEP TO THE LECTERN. GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. UM, I'M HERE TONIGHT TO FIRST OFF, SAY JUSTICE FOR RICARDO GONZALEZ AND, AND EVERY OTHER PERSON IN OUR COMMUNITY AND IN THE COUNTRY THAT HAS BEEN TERRORIZED BY ICE ACTIVITY. UH, WHETHER THEY HAVE PAPERS, WHETHER THEY'RE DOCUMENTED OR UNDOCUMENTED. NO ONE DESERVES TO BE TREATED THE WAY THAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING PEOPLE TREATED IN OUR CITY THIS WEEK. UM, AND OVER THE PAST ALMOST TWO YEARS NOW. UM, SO A COUPLE QUOTES FROM ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, ICE HAS NO PLACE IN LONG BEACH. HELL NO. REX RICHARDSON, MARY ZENDEJAS, F**K ICE. OKAY. THOSE ARE SOME STRONG WORDS. OKAY, THAT'S GREAT. BUT A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, HERE WE ARE WITH REALLY NOT MUCH TO SHOW FOR ANY DEMONSTRABLE ACTION OTHER THAN I, I DO WANT TO GIVE SOME THANKS, MAYOR REX, YOU MADE YOUR STRONGEST STATEMENT AND HAVING A FORMAL COMPLAINT TO DHS FOR AN INVESTIGATION IS SOMETHING. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. MEGAN KERR, YOU CAME OUT RIGHT AWAY AND, UH, YOU KNOW, SAID SOME STUFF AGAINST ICE. THANK YOU. I NOTICED THRASH TOOK, I WISH SHE WAS HERE TODAY. COUNCILWOMAN THRASH TOOK, SHE PUT OUT A REALLY STRONG STATEMENT SAYING SHE WANTED THIS AGENDA IMMEDIATELY TO DISCUSS. IT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT, RIGHT? AND SHE'S NOT EVEN HERE TONIGHT. SO IT JUST LEADS ME LIKE, HOW BIG OF A DEAL IS THIS FOR OUR CITY? THE MAIN REASON I'M UP HERE TONIGHT IS WHEN THIS IS AGENDIZED. UH, I'M JUST A CITIZEN, A RESIDENT, A PERSON THAT LIVES AROUND AND COMES TO THESE MEETINGS, BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHO'S IN CHARGE OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. I SAW THE STATEMENT THAT POLICE CHIEF, UH, WALLY ISH OR WHOEVER PUTS THAT TOGETHER. THERE WAS A LOT OF INCONSISTENCIES IN THERE FROM WHAT I FIRSTHAND LIKE SAW ON SATURDAY. BUT WHAT I'M WONDERING IS, AT WHAT POINT CAN OUR CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT BE INSTRUCTED NOT TO ASSIST ICE? AND I KNOW THAT MANY WOULD SAY THEY WEREN'T ASSISTING ICE. WHAT I SAW WAS LBPD SHOW UP AND IMMEDIATELY CLEAR THE STREETS OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WERE THE ONLY REASON ICE HADN'T ALREADY ESCAPED WITH, UH, THE PERSON THAT THEY HAD DETAINED. COP ICE COPS SHOWED UP AND IMMEDIATELY WANTED TO CLEAR THE STREET. IF THAT'S NOT ASSISTING ICE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS. SO WHO IS IN CHARGE OF DIRECTING OUR CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT? I'VE HEARD IT'S NOT YOU MAYOR REX. IT'S, WE HAVE LIKE A WEAK MAYOR, LIKE SET UP, UH, WHATEVER THAT IS. WE SEE A WEAK MAYOR DAY IN AND DAY OUT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. IS IT STRONG CITY COUNCIL, UH, MANAGER TOM MOCA? IS HE IN CHARGE OF THE POLICE? IS IT JUST THE CHIEF OF POLICE THEMSELVES? WE WANNA KNOW BECAUSE WE WANNA KNOW WHO TO BLAME FOR WHEN LBPD SHOWS UP AND HELPS US. THANK YOU. YOUR TIME HAS CONCLUDED. MATTHEW IS THE NEXT SPEAKER. MATTHEW. MATTHEW, YES. I JUST WANT TO, UM, THE APPROACH FOR THE PENINSULA AND THERE SEEMS TO BE A LACK OF LOOKING AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL SORT OF HISTORY IN THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THAT AREA. I'M JUST SORT OF WONDERING IF WE ARE GOING TO START CHANGING OUR APPROACH TO HOW WE HANDLE CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE COASTAL EROSION ALONG THE PENINSULA, GIVEN THAT REALLY SINCE THE FORTIES, THAT AREA WITH BREAKWATER CHANGED HOW WAVE FUNCTIONS WORK. SO WE DON'T REALLY HAVE THE REGENERATION FROM SED THAT USED TO COME FROM THE RIVERS. AND I THINK IT IS WELL PAST TIME THAT THE CITY COUNCIL CHANGE OUR APPROACH TO, ARE WE REALLY GOING TO SPEND UNGODLY AMOUNTS OF MONEY TO TRY TO PROTECT THIS AREA? OR SHOULD WE START LOOKING AT OTHER ALTERNATIVES GIVEN THAT WE CAN'T REALLY ENGINEER OUR WAY OUTTA CLIMATE CHANGE. SO ALL I REALLY AM ASKING IS THAT WE START LOOKING AT THE SCIENCE THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN BY A LOT OF COASTAL EXPERTS ABOUT HOW WE APPROACH THIS. THERE IS AN APPROACH THAT'S BEING PUSHED BY MOST COASTAL EXPERTS. I REALIZE THAT IT IS A POLITICAL CAN OF WORMS THAT IS MANAGED RETREAT. HOWEVER, I DON'T REALLY SEE HOW OUR CITY CAN AFFORD TO KEEP KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD WITH A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR PROJECTS WITH, YOU KNOW, RETURNING SAND TO THE BEACHES AND ALL THESE OTHER METHODS. SO I ONLY REALLY ASK IS WHAT ARE WE PLANNING TO DO FOR THE FUTURE THERE? I KNOW THAT THERE WERE SOME ORIGINAL PLANS AT LOOKING AT THIS FOR MANAGED RETREAT, AND I THINK WITH WHAT'S [01:30:01] HAPPENING WITH EL NINO THAT WE NEED TO REALLY START THINKING ABOUT THAT. I REALIZE WHAT I'M ASKING. IT COULD END SOME OF YOUR GUYS' POLITICAL CAREERS. HOWEVER, WE'RE KIND OF OUT OF TIME, SO MAYBE WE SHOULD START EXAMINING WHAT WE CAN DO TO START APPROACHING AND HAVING REAL CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT OUR FUTURE LOOKS LIKE. BECAUSE IT SEEMS VERY CLEAR THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO CONTINUE TO LIVE ON THE PENINSULA, CONTINUE LIVING IN LIE LOW LYING AREAS. HOWEVER, THAT'S NOT REALLY AN OPTION IN THE NEXT 20 TO 30 YEARS. NOT TO MENTION IT BY THE END OF THE CENTURY. MAYBE WE SHOULD START THINKING ABOUT THAT NOW. THANKS. THANK YOU. NEXT, NEXT SPEAKER IS IVAN MARTINEZ. THANK YOU EVERYBODY. HI, GOOD EVENING. MY NAME'S IVAN MARTINEZ AND I'M A REFUSE OPERATOR FOR THE CITY OF LONG BEACH. WE'VE BEEN BARGAINING, BARGAINING FOR OVER 10 MONTHS ON OUR CONTRACT, AND IT EXPIRED SEPTEMBER 30TH. WE KEEP LONG BEACH CLEAN, YET THE CITY CONTINUES TO INSULT US WITH THEIR OFFERS. WE SHOW UP EVERY DAY AND DO OUR JOBS. IT'S TIME THE C THE CITY LEADERSHIP DOES THEIRS AND IT WRECKS. THE CITY CALLS US ESSENTIAL WORKERS WHEN IT NEEDS US. BUT AFTER 10 MONTHS OF BARGAINING AND AN EXPIRED CONTRACT, ITS OFFERS. TELL US A DIFFERENT STORY. WE HANDLE HAZARDOUS WASTE, PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND RESPOND DURING EMERGENCIES. STOP CALLING US ESSENTIAL WHILE TREATING US AS DISPOSABLE. OUR SAFETY IS NOT NEGOTIABLE EVERY DAY. REFUSE OPERATORS RISK THEIR LIVES. UM, WE ALL, WE OPERATE HEAVY EQUIPMENT. WE HANDLE DANGEROUS MATERIALS, AND OUR CONTRACT EXPIRED SEPTEMBER 30TH, YET WE'RE STILL FIGHTING FOR OUR PROPER STAFFING SAFE EQUIPMENT, FAIR TREATMENT. OUR SAFETY SHOULD NEVER BE COMPROMISED BECAUSE OF THE CITY'S REFUSE TO PRIORITIZE ITS WORKERS LONG BEACH NEEDS EXPERIENCED REFUSE OPERATORS GET. THE CITY CONTINUES TO CONTINUES PRESENTING OFFERS THAT FAIL TO RECOGNIZE OUR VALUE. HOW DOES THE CITY EXPECT TO RETAIN SKILLED EMPLOYEES WHEN IT REFUSES TO OFFER COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION? IF YOU WANT QUALITY SERVICE, INVEST IN THE WORKERS. PROVIDING IT. RESPECT IS MORE THAN WORDS. FOR OVER 10 MONTHS, WE'VE BEEN NEGOTIATING IN GOOD FAITH. WE'RE TIRED OF BEING PRAISED IN THE PUBLIC WHILE BEING DISRESPECTED ON THE BARGAINING TABLE. OUR RESPECT IS IN A SPEECH. RESPECT IS FAIR. CONTRACT MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. LONG BEACH REFUSE OPERATORS DESERVE BETTER THAN THE INSULTING OFFERS THAT DELAYS THE DISRESPECT. WE'RE THE WORKERS WHO KEEP THE CITY CLEAN AND WE REFUSE TO BE UNDERVALUED ANY LONGER ENOUGH. DELAYS ENOUGH, DISRESPECT ENOUGH EXO EXCUSES. WE WANT RESPECT, PROTECT US AND PAY US. THANK YOU. WHAT DO WE WANT? THANK YOU. NOW WHAT DO WE NOW WE DON'T GET. SHUT DOWN. SHUT DOWN. GET IT. SHUT DOWN. THE NEXT SPEAKER ON ZOOM. CJ ON ZOOM. WE'RE GONNA GO BACK TO YOU. BABY RECORD. COME ON. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? CJ, CAN YOU UNMUTE? CAN YOU HEAR ME? OH, GIMME ONE MOMENT. CJ GIMME ONE MOMENT. ALRIGHT. ALRIGHT, MA'AM. MA'AM, THANK YOU. JUST HAVE A SEAT. LET'S JUST GET THROUGH THE MEETING. UH, IT IT, IT'S OKAY TO SIT RIGHT THERE, BUT WE CAN'T INTERRUPT THE MEETING. OKAY? ALRIGHT. THANK YOU CJ ON ZOOM. CAN YOU UNMUTE YOURSELF? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. YOUR TIME STARTS NOW. AMAZING. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL THE FOLKS GIVING PUBLIC COMMENT TONIGHT. I AM SO INSPIRED BY ALL OF YOU WHO CHOOSE TO STAKE, TAKE A STAND WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WE VOTED FOR IS TAKING A S**T ON US. LAST WEEK, MY FRIEND FOR UH, IN PUBLIC COMMENT SAID THAT THEY REGRET EVERY SECOND OF SLEEP THAT THE COUNCIL IS GETTING. AND I AGREE, YOUR SLEEP IS EXPENSIVE. IT'S [01:35:01] COSTING US PRECIOUS F*****G RESIDENTS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL F*****G CITY. I HOPE THAT THIS EARWORM THAT I WROTE FOR YOU STICKS IN YOUR BRAIN AND KEEPS YOU FROM SLEEP THE SAME WAY THAT I KNOW EVERY ORGANIZER, ACTIVIST, AND PERSON WITH A HEART IS STRUGGLING TO SLEEP THESE NIGHTS. IF YOU CARED ABOUT YOUR CONSTITUENTS, YOU WOULD'VE CHOSEN BETTER. IF YOU CARED ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE, THEN YOU WOULD HAVE CHOSEN US. WE TRUSTED YOU WITH POWER, BUT YOU DIDN'T REPRESENT US. WE'RE TAKING BACK YOUR POWER. YOU'LL REGRET NOT CHOOSING US. YOU CHOKE US AT THE D AND LET ICE KIDNAP OUR NEIGHBORS. WE'RE TAKING BACK YOUR POWER NOW. YOU SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN US. RECALL THEM ALL. Y'ALL. THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES NON AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT. ALL RIGHT, UH, WELL THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING. UH, MA'AM, JUST GO AHEAD AND HAVE A SEAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S UH, HEAR ITEM 15, [15. 26-56404 Recommendation to continue the local emergency proclaimed in response to damage sustained from Hurricane Marie and the imminent and proximate threat to the safety of persons and property within the City of Long Beach (City) associated with the developing 2026–2027 El Niño event and winter storm season, pursuant to Section 2.69.060 of the Long Beach Municipal Code (LBMC). Approve extending the renewal period from 14 days to 30 days to support continued emergency response, recovery, preparedness, and mitigation efforts during the 2026–2027 winter storm season. (Citywide)       Office or Department: Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications         Suggested Action: Approve recommendation. ] PLEASE REPORT FROM DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS RECOMMENDATION TO CONTINUE THE LOCAL EMERGENCY PROCLAIM PROCLAIMED IN RESPONSE TO DAMAGE SUSTAINED FROM HURRICANE MARIE AND THE IMMINENT APPROXIMATE THREAT TO THE SAFETY OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF LONG BEACH. ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPING 20 26 20 27 EL NINO EVENT AND WINTER STORM SEASON APPROVE EXTENDING THE RENEWAL PERIOD FROM 14 DAYS TO 30 DAYS TO SUPPORT CONTINUED EMERGENCY RESPONSE, RECOVERY, PREPAREDNESS, AND MITIGATION EFFORTS DURING THE 20 26 20 27 WINTER WINTER STORM SEASON CITYWIDE. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. THERE'S NO REAL, UH, LARGE SCALE PRESENTATION BEYOND WHAT WAS READ INTO THE RECORD. THIS IS RELATED TO OUR, UH, PROCLAMATION OF EMERGENCY. UM, UH, I WILL SAY THAT WE'VE HAD THREE STORM EVENTS DURING THE EL NEO SEASON, UH, POTENTIALLY MORE TO, MORE TO COME. THE EL NEO SEASON IS AN EXTENDED, UH, UH, SEASON. UH, WE WANT THE WHOLE CITY TO PREPARE BECAUSE THERE'S MORE RAIN AND OTHER THINGS COMING. SO THERE, UH, WE DO WANNA SHARE THAT THE CITY'S PARTNERING WITH LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE TO HOST TWO UPCOMING SANDBAG DISTRIBUTION EVENTS. THE FIRST IS ON OCTOBER 24TH FROM EIGHT TO 2:00 PM AT THE TRADE TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY LEARNING CAMPUS. THE SECOND IS ON NOVEMBER 7TH, FROM EIGHT TO 2:00 PM AT THE LIBERAL ARTS CAMPUS. AND SO RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PREPARE. NOW, IF YOU KNOW THAT YOUR PROPERTY IS FLOOD PRONE, YOU CAN PICK, JUST PULL UP, POP YOUR TRUNK. VOLUNTEERS LBCC STAFF CITY STAFF WILL HELP YOU TO LOAD 10 BAGS AT A TIME INTO YOUR CAR. IF YOU GO HOME AFTER GETTING THOSE 10 AND YOU NEED MORE, YOU CAN ACTUALLY COME BACK AROUND AND GET MORE SANDBAGS IF YOU NEED THEM. SO YOU JUST NEED TO PULL IN AND WE'LL HELP YOU. MORE INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE CITY OF LONG BEACH EVENT CALENDAR VIA THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNEL CHANNELS. AND ALSO WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO SIGN UP FOR ALERT LONGBEACH@ALERTLB.COM. UH, IS THERE PUBLIC COMMENT HERE? WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER, DAVE SHUKLA, IF YOU COULD APPROACH THE LECTERN. THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, I SUPPORT THIS ITEM. I THINK IT'S INCOMPLETE. UH, SANDBAGS ARE GREAT. EVERYONE SHOULD GET AS MANY AS THEY NEED. UM, HOWEVER, UH, THE CITY NEEDS TO, UH, EXAMINE ITS ROLE CULPABILITY ATTRIBUTABLE, UH, SHARE OF CLIMATE IMPACTS SUCH AS SUPERCHARGED STORMS DURING EL NINO SEASONS. AND WE KNOW THE PROBLEM IS JUST STARTING TO GO UP THE GLOBAL HOCKEY STICK CURVE OF GLOBAL TEMPERATURES. SO IT'S SOMETHING ADAPTATION FOR IS WOEFULLY, WOEFULLY, UH, UH, UNDER PREPARED FOR IN A, IN A CITY WHERE OVER 50% OF THE LANDMASS IS FLOOD PRONE. UM, THE CITY SHOULD LOOK AT AT THINGS LIKE, UH, CLEAN ENERGY, UH, INSTEAD OF SOME OF ITS, ITS USES, UM, CURRENTLY IN THE CITY. UH, BUT ULTIMATELY THERE'S SO MUCH THAT THE CITY TRAFFICS IN THE WAY OF MORAL HAZARD THAT, UH, ONE HAS TO WONDER, YOU KNOW, JUST TO WHAT EXTENT REALLY THEY SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN IT OR SEEK, UH, REDRESS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT. ALRIGHT, MEMBERS, PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE. MOTION IS CARRIED. ALRIGHT, UH, THAT'S OUR FINAL AGENDA ITEM. WE'LL NOW GO TO CLOSING [PUBLIC COMMENT: Immediately prior to adjournment Opportunity is given to those members of the public who have not addressed the City Council on non-agenda items. Each speaker is limited to three minutes unless extended by the City Council.] PUBLIC COMMENT. WE HAVE 10 SPEAKERS WITH THE FOLLOWING 10 SPEAKERS, PLEASE APPROACH THE LECTERN. HENRY CORZO, DEBRA DAVE SHUKLA, LIZ, THE RUBY JIM AMY IS ON ZOOM GHETTO [01:40:01] G I'M SORRY, G GECKO AND A-H-O-L-E. ALRIGHT, PLEASE PROCEED. MY NAME IS, UH, HENRY CORSO. I'M SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF, UH, THE LONG BEACH ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERING EMPLOYEES REGARDING OUR ONGOING CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CITY. OUR JUNE PRESENTATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL, WE CHAIR THE CITY'S OWN FINDINGS SHOWING THAT A EE FACES SIGNIFICANT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION CHALLENGES. THE CITY'S DATA IDENTIFIED AT 21% VACANCY RATE. WHILE ITS COMPENSATION STUDIES SHOWED THAT 87% OF AE CLASSIFICATIONS WERE PAID BELOW MARKET 87%, WITH SOME SIGNIFICANTLY BEHIND COMPARABLE EMPLOYERS. SINCE THEN, INFLATION HAS CONTINUED TO AFFECT THE PURCHASING POWER OF OUR MEMBERS. THE LATEST FEDERAL DATA SHOWS ANNUAL INFLATION OF AT 3.7%, MAKING IT INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT FOR EMPLOYEES TO KEEP UP WITH THE COST OF LIVING WHILE THE CITY CONTINUES TO FACE SUBSTANTIAL COMPENSATION GAPS. WE ALSO EXPLAINED THAT THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF A EE SALARIES ARE FUNDED THROUGH ENTERPRISE AND OTHER REVENUE GENERATED FUNDS RATHER THAN THE GENERAL FUND. COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION IS THEREFORE NOT SIMPLY AN EXPENSE. IT'S AN INVESTMENT IN THE SKILLED PROFESSIONALS WHO DELIVER THE CITY'S INFRASTRUCTURE, ENGINEERING, AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT YOUR PORT, YOUR PB REAL FACILITY, YOUR AIRPORT, YOUR PUBLIC WORKS, YOUR WATER AND UTILITIES, YOUR ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE. THESE ARE THE ASSETS AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES THAT KEEP LONG BEACH GOING. WE RECOGNIZE THAT REACHING AN AGREEMENT REQUIRES BALANCING DIFFERENT CONSIDERATIONS. HOWEVER, A MEANINGFUL AGREEMENT MUST ADDRESS BOTH ANNUAL WAGE INCREASES AND THE LONGSTANDING IN INEQUITIES AFFECTING OUR CLASSIFICATIONS. WE ASK THE COUNCIL TO PROVIDE ITS NEGOTIATING TEAM WITH ENOUGH AUTHORITY AND SUPPORT NEEDED TO REACH AN AGREEMENT THAT REFLECT THIS REALITIES AND MEET OUR MINIMUM EXPECTATIONS. RECRUITING AND RETAINING QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES IS ESSENTIAL TO THE CITY'S LONG-TERM SUCCESS. WE ARGUE TO HELP ENSURE THAT LONG BEACH REMAINS COMPETITIVE IN ATTRACTING AND RETAINING THE EXPERIENCE WORKFORCE ITS RESIDENTS DEPEND ON. BECAUSE WITHOUT THE ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS WHO PLAN, DESIGN, BUILD, OPERATE OUR ESSENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, THE CITY'S ABILITY TO FUNCTION AND MOVE FORWARD WILL BE LY COMPROMISED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DEBORAH. DEBORAH, YOU'RE THE NEXT SPEAKER. HELLO EVERYONE. MY NAME IS DEBORAH MITCHELL. MY REASON FOR BEING HERE IS I'M DOING SOME, UM, RELATIVE SEARCHING. MY FATHER NAME IS HERMAN DUDLEY, SUPPOSEDLY, I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE, BUT HE'S A LONG TIME ARMY VETERAN, LIKE FIVE TIMES. AND, UM, I COME HERE TO SEARCH FOR MY HISTORY, HOLLYWOOD, RONALD, REAGAN, CARTER, ALL OF THOSE GUYS. AND I'M TRYING TO WATCH MY PROPERTY AS I SPEAK. SO IF YOU GUYS CAN BE EYES FOR ME BEHIND MY HEAD, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT. BECAUSE IF THEY PUT THEIR HANDS ON ANY OF MY PROPERTY, WE'RE GOING OUT TOGETHER. BUT ANYWAY, YEAH. SO I COME HERE FROM, UH, COLUMBUS, OHIO. I'M FROM GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. I I'VE BEEN ROBBED DOWN ON GRAND STREET. THE POLICE WROTE MY, MY MY CASE UP. AND IT'S NOT ME, IT'S NOT DEBBIE, NOT DEBORAH MITCHELL. IT MIGHT BE RACHEL DOZA. CINDY NORTON, HATTIE MITCHELL, MEYER DUDLEY, RONNIE MITCHELL. MY FAMILY SINCE IDENTITY 1961. BUT ANYWAY, MY BANK NAME IS TELE OHIO. THEY HARASS ME COMING OUT OF, UM, COLUMBUS, OHIO. AND THEY'RE HARASSING ME NOW HERE IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. CURLY BELL, SUPPOSED TO BE A COUNSELOR OF MINE, A REAL GOOD FRIEND OF MY SON'S. SHE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH MY SON'S MURDER IN COLUMBUS, OHIO. OKAY. SO NOW I'M HERE, BEEN ROBBED BY MY BANK THAT WOULDN'T GIMME LICENSE AT THE DMV IN COLUMBUS, OHIO. SO I'M STRIPPED OF MY CONDITIONS RIGHT NOW. I HAVEN'T EATEN. I'M BEGGING PEOPLE FOR LITTLE THINGS LIKE POTATO [01:45:01] CHIPS AND POP AND, AND AND POP AND JUICE. I HAD $4,000 ON ME. I WENT TO SLEEP ON GRAND AND SEVENTH IN BETWEEN HOPE AND THE POLICE OFFICER WROTE IT UP AS A WHOLE, ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SITUATION. AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE I KNOW OF MYSELF 2015 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, CLARK COUNTY. SO MY THING IS THIS, I NEED MY MONEY. I'M TRYING TO GET MY WORD OUT THERE. I KNOW NOBODY HAS HELPED ME AND THEY PROBABLY NOT GONNA HELP ME, BUT SO LONG AS I HAVE BREATH, I'M LOOKING FOR MY CHILDREN. THANK YOU. YOUR TIME HAS CONCLUDED. HELP OUT REX. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. HELP OUT REX. ALL RIGHT. LET'S CALL THE NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS DAVE SHUKLA. OH, WE HAVE MORE THAN YOU EVER. DAVE SHUKLA ARE GOING SOMEWHERE. IT DON'T MATTER THAT DAVE SHUKLA. UM, I'M GONNA ASK YOU ALL TO CLEAR THAT AISLE. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A AISLE FOR WALKING, NOT FOR GATHERING. JUST MOVING. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, DAVE, YOU'RE UP. YOU CALLED ME A B***H. NO. ALL RIGHT. I'M GONNA, UM, I'M GONNA ISSUE MY FINAL WARNING TO YOU ON THE END. PLEASE DON'T ADDRESS THE OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT THE PROCEEDING. THIS IS A FINAL WARNING. I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO LEAVE IF THAT HAPPENS. OKAY. DAVE, YOU'RE NOTED. YOU, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . FOR THE RECORD, THE, UH, RECORDING OF, UH, THE, UH, NEW RULES AND CULTURE THAT YOU WANT TO, UH, TRY AND ESTABLISH WAS PRETTY DYSTOPIAN, EVEN THOUGH ONE WE CAN CERTAINLY, UH, SYMPATHIZE. UM, IT REMINDED ME OF THE, UH, NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY. YOU KNOW, UH, WHEN THERE'S ANYTHING PRESCRIPTIVE, IT'S A FRIENDLY WOMAN'S VOICE. WHEN THERE'S ANYTHING THAT'S A DIRECTIVE, UH, AND COMES A MAN'S VOICE, IT'S A REAL SHAME THAT THE OWN GOAL OF, UH, NOT MANAGING TO DEAL WITH LEGITIMATE PUBLIC FRUSTRATION, EVEN IF IT'S NOT EXPRESSED THE WAY ONE MIGHT LIKE, OR YOU MAY LIKE AS MAYOR, AS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS OR CITY STAFF, UH, YOU KNOW, HAS LED NOT ONLY THIS CHANGES, BUT ALSO GENERALLY TO FURTHERING SENSE THAT, UH, LESS IS POSSIBLE IN THE CITY. AND, UH, IF IT'S NOT, UH, BOUND UP IN THE ECONOMIC PROJECT OF THE OLYMPICS, OR INCREASINGLY TAKING PEOPLE OUTTA DECISION MAKING BY, UH, TECHNOLOGY OR BY DUMB CHOICES, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S, UH, IT'S NOT REALLY RELEVANT, UH, TO PEOPLE'S LIVES OR, UH, THE LIVES THEY MAY WANT TO LEAVE LEAD, UH, OR IT NOT FOR CERTAIN PRESSURES. UM, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO BE A UNIVERSALIST AND A GENERALIST IN, IN CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS. I CAN CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND, UH, THE DIFFICULTY IN MAKING POLICY FOR LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE. UM, I, FOR THE RECORD, WOULD LIKE TO STATE, UH, BEFORE, UH, WE TAKE AWAY MY ABILITY TO SAY THINGS AFTER THE MEETING, THAT THERE SHOULD BE METRICS ON WHETHER THINGS ACTUALLY IMPROVE ACCORDING TO WHO'S EVER STANDARD OR NOT. THERE SHOULD BE WAYS TO VERIFY THAT, UH, THE CHANGES MADE, UH, SERVE LEGITIMATE PURPOSES AND NOT WAYS TO, UH, CRIMINALIZE THINGS THAT SHOULD BE SAID ABOUT THIS CITY. UM, AND YOU KNOW, THE FUNNY THING IS, IF PEOPLE REALLY CARED, I MEAN, I COME FROM A TRADITION OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION, BUT PEOPLE REALLY CARED. UH, THEY'D FIND WAYS NOT ONLY TO MAKE THEIR MEDIA SAVVIER, BUT THEY DO THE THING THAT THE CITY CLEARLY DOESN'T WANT, WHICH IS GET ARRESTED. GET ARRESTED FOR HAVING YOUR, YOUR VOICE TAKEN, TAKEN AWAY, YOU KNOW, PEACEFULLY NONVIOLENTLY. NOT IN A WAY THAT'S, YOU KNOW, GONNA CAUSE PROBLEMS, BUT IF YOU REALLY WANNA MAKE THE POINT AND REALLY WANT TO SCORE MEDIA WIN AND REALLY WANNA MAKE THE MAYOR LOOK BAD AND WIN THE BATTLE OF THE STORY, THERE'S WAYS TO ESCALATE, FRANKLY, THAT, UH, WELL, IT'S NOT UP TO ME TO, TO PROPOSE OR TO SUGGEST, UH, WOULD BE NECESSARY. BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF A SHAME THAT PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, IF THEY REALLY WANNA GET SERIOUS, UH, DON'T FIND BETTER, MORE EFFECTIVE WAYS OF MAKING THE CHANGE THAT, UH, THEY WANT OR THAT WE ALL NEED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER IS LIZ. HELLO. SO THIS IS, WHAT MEETING IS THIS? LIKE MY THIRD MEETING COMING HERE? UM, I'VE BEEN IN LONG BEACH MY WHOLE LIFE. I DID LEAVE TO ARIZONA FOR THREE YEARS, AND I [01:50:02] HAVE BEEN BACK SINCE I RUN A SOCIAL GROUP WITH THE COMMUNITY. UM, I JUST RECENTLY STARTED A GRASSROOTS TO TRY TO DO DIFFERENT THINGS AND KIND OF BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER AND HELP JUST PROVIDING RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE CERTAIN GAPS. UM, I KNOW WE HAVE FOOD BANKS AND WHATNOT, BUT THERE ARE ALSO FAMILIES WITH KIDS WITH DISABILITIES WHO CAN'T PHYSICALLY GO. AND ONE OF THE THINGS FOR ME RIGHT NOW, IT'S LIKE I'M IN THIS GAP FROM ONE STATE TO ANOTHER, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO BRING MY BROTHER HERE. 'CAUSE HE'S IN ARIZONA AND HE'S IN A GROUP HOME. AND MY BRO, MY, MY PARENTS ARE SENIORS. SO WHEN I STARTED COMING HERE, IT'S JUST TO UNDERSTAND MORE HOW THIS WORKS. AND AS I'VE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT LIKE THE MENTAL HEALTH SITUATION AND THE RESPONSE TEAMS, FINDING OUT THAT THERE'S ONLY A HANDFUL OF FIVE RESPONSE PEOPLE, IT DOES WORRY ME SOME BECAUSE THE TIMES THAT MY BROTHER HAS COME, AND HE DOES HAVE, UM, HE HAS AUTISM, BUT HE ALSO HAS A, UM, COMMUNICATION DELAY WHERE HE CAN'T FULLY COMMUNICATE SENTENCES TO YOU, BUT HE WILL GIVE YOU WORDS TO TRY TO TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING ON IN ARIZONA. THERE'S BEEN SITUATIONS THAT I AM ADDRESSING, I'M BRINGING TO THE LIGHT ABOUT THINGS. AND IT'S ALWAYS, WELL, THERE'S NO PROOF, THERE'S NO, IT'S JUST THAT HE SAID, SHE SAID WITH THE GROUP HOMES, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S PHYSICAL PROOF AND BRUISING. AND IT WASN'T UNTIL A NEW EMPLOYEE RECORDED AND THEN EVERYONE DECIDED TO SPEAK ON IT. EVERYONE WAS TRYING TO GIVE ME ANSWERS AND BE ON MY SIDE. AND I THINK ABOUT HOW IT IS HERE WITH ALL THE FAMILIES THAT I AM, YOU KNOW, IN COMMUNICATION WITH THAT HAVE SIBLINGS AND KIDS IN MENTAL STATES. AND RIGHT NOW IT'S LIKE HEARING THEM GO THROUGH THESE THINGS. IT'S LIKE, WHAT, WHAT CAN I DO? WHAT CAN WE DO? HOW CAN WE HELP? BECAUSE ANYTHING I READ ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH CUT AS IT'S ALL JUST LIKE ANYTHING ELSE. IT'S JUST BUDGET CUTS. THERE'S MUCH, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, BUT HERE WE HAVE THE REQUEST FOR MONEY FOR OTHER STUFF. AND IT'S LIKE ONCE THEY AGE, ONCE THEY COME OUTTA SCHOOL AND THEY BECOME ADULTS, LIKE MY BROTHER, HE'S 26. MENTALLY HE'S A KID AND EVERYTHING IS ACCESSIBLE TO HIM WHEN THEY'RE LITTLE. BUT ONCE THEY'RE AN ADULT, OH NO, HE'S AN ADULT, BUT MENTALLY HE'S STILL A KID AND THERE'S NO RESOURCES TO HELP HIM. THERE'S NO HELP. AND I'M LOOKING FOR THINGS HERE AND I'M IN THE SAME BOAT. SO HOW AND WHAT CAN WE DO? THANK QUESTION. YOUR TIME HAS CONCLUDED. I WANT TO CONNECT YOU WITH, UH, OUR CITY MANAGEMENT ON TEAM MENTAL HEALTH IS MOSTLY A COUNTY FUNCTION, BUT WE WORK WITH THEM AND WE CAN, WE CAN TRY TO POINT YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. THANK YOU. FEE. I AM LOVING THE NEW, UH, COURTHOUSE, UH, HUNGER GAMES, 1980 WAR VIBES THAT YOU GAVE AT THE BEGINNING. UM, ICE IS HERE, BY THE WAY, NORTH LONG BEACH RIGHT NOW, JUST IN CASE YOU GUYS CARED. BUT, UH, COUNCILMAN KERR, YOU MENTIONED HOW PROUD YOU ARE ABOUT THE LEGACY YOU'RE LEAVING IN LONG BEACH TODAY AS YOU CELEBRATE THE NEW FIRE STATION. AFTER CLOSING THE OTHER ONE, A LEGACY WILL REFLECT THE LARGER PICTURE OF YOUR CITY. HOW IT IMPACTS ALL OF US. WE DON'T LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. THE AREA BREEDS OPPORTUNITY, ADVANCEMENT AND POTENTIAL FOR UNLIMITED POSSIBILITY. IT HOLDS A LOT OF POWER BECAUSE WE ARE MANY. IT'S BEEN DOCUMENTED THAT EQUALITY IS THE ARCH ENEMY IN A HIERARCHICAL SOCIETY. I FIND THIS IMPORTANT WHEN EVERY DOLLAR OR $1 OF EVERY $3 IS HELD BY THE TOP 1% COUNSEL, YOUR CHOICES IMPACT ALL OF US. WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO IGNORE, IGNORE A PORTION OF YOUR COMMUNITY. IGNORE THE STRUGGLES OF YOUR PEOPLE. IT LEADS TO COGNITIVE DISSONANCE BY SUPPRESSING OUR RIGHT TO SPEAK AT THESE MEETINGS. BY NOT SHEDDING LIGHT ON VIOLENCE, RACISM, INEQUALITY, THE CITIZENS MUST FEND FOR THEMSELVES. ICE IS HERE. WE HAVE HIT THE 500TH DAY OF THE SIEGE IN, IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. WE DEMAND THAT YOU PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND NOT JUST SHOW UP FOR PHOTO OPS. HOPEFULLY 10 IS THERE RIGHT NOW. I DOUBT IT. WE DEMAND THAT YOU DOCUMENT THESE ATROCITIES IN THE CITY AND NOTIFY THE PUBLIC IN REAL TIME, NOT SIX HOURS LATER. WE DEMAND THAT YOU ACTIVATE YOUR COMMUNITIES AND EDUCATE THEM ON HOW TO STAY SAFE. WE DEMAND THAT YOU PREP PROVIDE ADEQUATE CARE AND LEGAL RESOURCES FOR THE FAMILIES THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. YEP. WE [01:55:01] NEED LEADERS AND NOT SOCIAL PERSONALITIES. YOU CLAIM THAT POWER IS NOT WITHIN YOUR REACH YET. WHEN THERE'S AN EVENT THAT CAUSES THE MEDIA TO SWIVEL, YOU ARE ALL FRESH WITH IDEAS AND ACTIVISM. WE ARE HAVING F*****G CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN OUR COUNTRY RIGHT NOW. OUR COMPANY, OUR COMMUNITY IS BEING INVADED BY MASKED AGENTS. AND YOU DO NOT CARE THAT THEY'RE LOCKING ANYBODY UP DAILY. IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, PEOPLE ARE BEING BRUTALLY INJURED BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. WHY IS ACTION NOT IGNITED UNTIL IT FALLS ON YOUR DOORSTEP? YOU RECEIVED RECENTLY DECIDED TO GIVE LESS TO THE IMMIGRATION JUSTICE FUND. MEANWHILE, YOU HAVE MONEY TO BLOW ON YOUR VANITY PROJECTS, ALLOWING ENDUR A GENOCIDAL DEFENSE TECH COMPANY TO HOUSE A NEW CAMPUS ON THIS CITY. MEANWHILE, ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE BEING KIDNAPPED FROM THEIR CHECK-IN APPOINTMENTS. CHILDREN ARE AFRAID TO GO TO SCHOOL. LEGAL CITIZENS ARE GETTING HURT FOR THE MERE AUDACITY OF TO HOLD A PHONE AND PRESSED RECORD, GET IN THE GAME OR STEP ASIDE. WOO. NEXT SPEAKER IS RUBY. AND AFTER RUBY, IT'S JIM. I GOT LONG BEACH. I SAW LONG BEACH. I MAYOR. JUST A POINT OF ORDER. LONG BEACH. I GOT BEACH, I GOT LONG BEACH. I GOT LONG BEACH ALL. DON'T START IT. SO WE'RE GONNA ASK THIS GROUP TO LEAVE. I KNOW WE'RE P MAYOR. JUST A POINT OF ORDER. I'M SORRY. A POINT OF ORDER REAL QUICK. YEAH. THE, THE CAMERAS FOR THE PUBLIC, THEY'RE NOT SHOWING THEIR FACE. THEY'RE SHOWING IT FROM THE BACK OF THEIR HEAD. IS THERE A REASON WHY THAT'S BEING SHOWN FROM THE BACK? YES, THERE IT IS. OH, IS THAT THE NEW POLICY? UM, THEY THERE, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ZOOMED IN ON THEIR FACE. OKAY, BUT LET ME HANDLE THIS. UM, SO JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR, UH, THAT'S A DISRUPTION. SO WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA PAUSE AND ALLOW THIS TO BE, UM, ALLOW THIS GROUP TO LEAVE SO WE CAN GIVE THE ATTENTION TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. F**K YOURSELF. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. YOU'RE RECOGNIZED. PLEASE PROCEED WITH YOUR COMMENT. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, COUNCIL, WOMEN AND COUNCILMEN. I WANTED TO START WITH THE VANDALISM THAT'S BEEN OCCURRING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD IN DISTRICT SIX. I NOTICED THAT THE SAME LITTLE NAUGHTY CHARACTERS, MOSTLY UNHOUSED ARE NOW THEY'RE SPRAY PAINTING ARE KEYPAD TAKING SCREWS OUT OF OUR GATE, AND, UH, SPRAY PAINTING OVER ALL OF THE NO PRE NO TRESPASSING SIGNS. AND THE COMMUNITY IS COMING TOGETHER, BUT ALSO IT'S, IT PEOPLE ARE BLAMING ONE ANOTHER FROM THEIR TRASH BINS MISSING AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. BUT THERE IS A CAMERA AT THE LAUNDROMAT AND IT DOES DOCUMENT THE CHARACTERS. HOWEVER, I WAS SAYING, I WOULD SAY IN THE HOMELESS UNHOUSED INITIATIVE, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO GIVE AREAS FUNDING BECAUSE WE'VE NOW HAD TO PAY FOR A $7,000, UH, DAMAGE THAT'S COST OUR COMMUNITY $7,000. AND, UM, THEY'RE STRIPPING COPPER BRASS, AND I KNOW THEIR AGENCY'S PROBABLY ACCEPTING THESE STOLEN ITEMS. SO THEY BASICALLY SHOULD BE FLAGGED. I DON'T WANNA SAY SHUT DOWN BECAUSE I DO SUPPORT BUSINESS, BUT I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THAT ICE, ACCORDING TO MY, UH, HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE, WAS CREATED IN 2003, UH, BY GEORGE BUSH'S INITIATIVE, UH, IN REGARDS TO HOMELAND SECURITY. SO I, I WAS BROUGHT UP WHERE YOU DON'T BLAME, YOU QUESTION THE MESSENGER, BUT YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY. I'M NOT FROM HERE. I'M ACTUALLY FROM OHIO. I'M FROM OHIO. AND, UM, MY FATHER WAS A DOCTOR AND HE SERVED THE COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF THEIR ABILITY, ABILITY TO PAY. HE SERVED KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, AND [02:00:01] OHIO. HE HAD PATIENTS THAT WERE RACIST. HE HAD PATIENTS THAT WERE RICH, HE HAD PATIENTS THAT WERE POOR. BUT HE, HIS GOAL WAS TO SAVE THEIR LIFE. IT ULTIMATELY COST MY DAD HIS LIFE. AND I SAY THAT TO SAY THAT MY MOTHER TOLD ME TONIGHT. SHE SAID, PLEASE LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT WHEN YOU THREATEN SOMEONE'S LIFE, THEN IF THEY SOMETHING HAPPENS TO THEM, YOU ARE PART OF THE CAUSE. I THINK AS A COMMUNITY, AS THE THE CITY, WE SHOULD BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION, UH, IN TERMS OF WORKING WITHIN OUR HOMES AND SPRINKLING THAT OUT. IT, IN THE PAST, IN THE SIXTIES WHEN MY FAMILY WAS INVOLVED, YOU MORTGAGED HOMES, YOU SAVED MONEY, YOU ORGANIZED, BUT YOU WERE NEVER THREATENING THE LIFE OF CONGRESSMEN AND WOMEN. AND THE MAYOR, MY MOTHER SAYS, THIS IS AWFUL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER IS JIM. THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT. THANK YOU. HELLO, UH, CITY COUNCIL AGAIN. UH, IT'S GOOD TO BE ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE THAT'S GONNA BE ABLE TO COMMENT AT THE END OF A MEETING. I JUST WANTED TO TALK ON TWO THINGS. ITEM 26, LAST MEETING STARTED AS AN ORDINANCE FOR PUTTING UP A FIVE MINUTE CLOCK, TURNED INTO AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND VERY LONG SERIES OF AMENDMENTS, FRIENDLY AND OTHERWISE, INCLUDING COMMENTS LIKE, COULD YOU REPEAT WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO WANT TO SAY THEN? THE CITY ATTORNEY WHILE THEY SAT MUTE, OR IS IT MUTE? THE CITY MANAGER OFFERED A BUNCH OF LEGAL ADVICE THAT NOW THE VOTE WAS ON A POLICY NO LONGER AN ORDINANCE, THOUGH THERE WAS NOTHING PUT INTO, UH, ANY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE ABOUT THAT. BUT WAS NO TEXT, NOTHING DEFINED A PROMISE THAT SOMETHING EVENTUALLY WOULD BE WRITTEN UP. YOU ALL VOTED FOR IT. ABSOLUTELY BIZARRE. YOU CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE, LOOK AT THE VIDEO. IT'S , IT'S, IT'S A SILLY PRECI PROCEEDING. ALRIGHT, NEXT ITEM IS WHAT HAS BECOME SATURDAY'S MEDIA EVENT? DEFINING THE CITY AT THE COST OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO, IF YOU WERE TRYING TO DO IT FOR PAID MEDIA. SO LONG BEACH IS NOW A CITY WITH WAVES HITTING A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR HOMES AND ICE BREAKING THE ARM OF A CITIZEN WHILE LONG BEACH PD STOOD BY. I REALLY AM SHOCKED AT THE POLICE COOPERATION WITH ICE MEDIA REPORTS ON A BC SAID LBPD RESPONDED TO A CALL FROM ICE AFTER A CALL GATHERED. MY QUESTION IS, WILL A FOIA REQUEST FOR THE 9 1 1 CALLS AND DISPATCH MESSAGING PRODUCE THAT OR THOSE CALLS FROM ICE? HOW DO THEY ID THEMSELVES, HI, THIS IS ICE, WE'RE HAVING A PROBLEM. OR DOES ICE HAVE A BACK CHANNEL TO LPPD THAT WOULDN'T SHOW UP? BODY-WORN CAMERAS, WHERE'S THAT INFORMATION? THEY JUST CLEANED UP ICE AS A MESS. WHEN LBPD RESPONDS AND ENCOUNTERS ICE, WHY IS THE VEHICLE CODE NOT ENFORCED? ICE VIOLENCE ALMOST ALWAYS INVOLVES VEHICLES, YET VEHICLES WITH NO PLATES SWAPPED PLATES, MISMATCHED PLATES OPERATE IN THE CITY WITH ABSOLUTE IMPUNITY. CAN ANY OF US TAKE THE PLATES OFF OUR CARS? GREAT. REGISTRATION COSTS A LOT. IT'S INCALCULABLE WHY THIS HAPPENS? WRONG WAY. DRIVING WEAPONIZING A VEHICLE, ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A RESIDENT AND CITIZEN DOESN'T HAPPEN WITH TRAINED PROFESSIONAL. LAW ENFORCEMENT HAPPENS WITH THESE GUYS. SO WHY IS IT TOLERATED SOME KIND OF PROFESSIONAL COURTESY? THE THIN BLUE LINE, THE ONLY THIN BLUE LINE WITH ICE, IS A LINE STRIKING THROUGH THE RIGHTS ENUMERATED IN THE CONSTITUTION. ENJOY YOUR WEEK OFF NEXT WEEK AND THE WEEK AFTER THAT AND ENJOY THE SILENCE OF THE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS AMY IN ZOOM. CAN YOU UNMUTE YOURSELF? HI, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. YOUR TIME STARTS NOW. HI, MY NAME IS AMY. I AM A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT TWO AND I JUST WANNA SAY, F**K YOU REX, AND F**K YOU, YOU RAGGEDY ASS B***H. TUA, YOU'RE NOT EVEN HERE, BUT I HOPE YOU WATCH THIS. UM, YOU GUYS HAVE DONE NOTHING ABOUT ICE FOR F*****G MONTHS, YEARS. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COMING AND ASKING YOU TO DO MORE AND EVERY SINGLE TIME WRECKS YOU STAND UP THERE WITH YOUR DUMB F*****G FACE AND YOUR DUMB F*****G WORDS, PUTTING OUT THESE SORRY ASS VIDEO OPS THAT DO NOTHING FOR THE COMMUNITY. THEN YOU GUYS COME IN HERE AND YOU WANNA PLAY LIKE YOU ARE SOME TYPE OF KING, AND YOU WANNA HAVE PEOPLE STAND IN LINE AS IF THEY'RE KINDERGARTNERS. AND YOU GUYS WANNA KICK PEOPLE OUT, GIVE 'EM ONE WARNINGS AND KICK PEOPLE OUT WHEN PEOPLE ARE P****D. YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR PEOPLE CUSS LIKE YOU GUYS ARE MAD AT THE WRONG THING. YOU GUYS ARE MAD THAT PEOPLE [02:05:01] ARE UPSET, THAT YOU GUYS CONTINUE TO FAIL THE CITY WASTING MONEY ON WHO KNOWS WHAT OUR BUDGET IS. WE'RE IN DEBT AND YOU GUYS CONTINUE TO MAKE DUMB DECISIONS THAT THE, THE COMMUNITY COMES OUT AND SPEAKS OUT AGAINST. AND YOU STILL CONTINUE TO, TO DO WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU WANNA DO. LIKE WHAT IS IT THAT YOU GUYS DO? YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY DON'T PROTECT YOUR COMMUNITY. YOU DON'T PROTECT THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY. YOU DON'T PROTECT US CITIZENS. YOU DON'T PROTECT YOUR RESIDENTS, YOUR CONSTITUENTS. THE THE MAN WHO WAS INJURED ON SATURDAY WAS A FORMER LONG BEACH EMPLOYEE AND YOU GUYS DID NOTHING TO PROTECT HIM FOR WEEKS, MONTHS, YEARS, NOTHING. SO WHAT IS IT THAT YOU GUYS ARE GONNA DO MOVING FORWARD BESIDES PUTTING OUT YOUR STUPID ASS INSTAGRAM VIDEOS? LIKE HOW IS IT THAT YOU GUYS SLEEP AT NIGHT? HOW IS IT THAT YOU GUYS THINK THAT YOU'RE DOING A GOOD JOB? BECAUSE LIKE SOMEBODY SAID, FASCISM, FASCISM WORKS BY ALL YOU LITTLE PUPPETS PLAYING THIS PART AND CONTINUING TO DO THIS AND ABIDING BY THIS AUTHORITARIAN REGIME BECAUSE LIKE, WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? THEY'RE NOT. THERE'S NO WARRANTS. THEY'RE TARGETING BROWN PEOPLE LIKE IT, IT'S JUST COMPLETELY WRONG AND IT'S SO DYSTOPIAN AND YOU GUYS ARE JUST GOING ON ABOUT YOUR LIVES AS IF THIS IS NORMAL. GO F**K YOURSELVES AND DO SOMETHING FOR THE CITY. AND WITH THAT, I YIELD MY TIME. F**K YOU REX. THANK YOU. KO IS THE NEXT PERSON. REX. HELLO CITY COUNSEL. HELLO REX. I AM HERE TO SPEAK ON THE INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY. I ARRIVED AFTER THE INCIDENT HAPPENED. MANY PEOPLE WERE FRIGHTENED, MANY CHILDREN WERE CRYING WHEN I ARRIVED. AND LIKE, WHERE WERE YOU, MAN? LIKE YOU RESPONDED SIX HOURS LATER WITH A SAD VIDEO SAYING, OH, I'M HERE FOR THE COMMUNITY, BUT YOU ARE NOT THERE, MAN. YOU ALREADY GONE FOR LIKE THE WHOLE DAY. YOU RESPONDED TOWARDS THE END OF THE DAY. BUT BESIDES THAT, IS IT THAT YOU WERE USELESS FOR, UM, I'M GONNA SAY A POEM THAT SHOULD IMPACT THE COMMUNITY AND THE ENTIRE COUNTRY? JUSTICE? SUPPOSEDLY I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BUT THE FABRIC FEELS HEAVY TONIGHT. SOAKED IN QUESTIONS WE'RE TOLD NOT TO ASK. AND TO REPUBLIC WITCHES STANDS STANDS ON WHOSE BACKS EXACTLY ON TIRED MOTHERS COUNTING DAYS WITHOUT THEIR CHILDREN ON WORKING, FATHERS BREAKING THEIR BODIES JUST TO KEEP A FAMILY, BARELY TOGETHER. OUR NATION, ONE NATION UNDERGRAD. YEAH. FAMILIES ARE SEPARATED BY PAPERS AND POWER KIDS GROWING UP, LEARNING GOODBYES BEFORE THEY LEARN THEIR TIMESTABLES INVISIBLE. BUT TELL THAT TO THE HISPANIC COMMUNITIES LIVING IN FEAR, TUCKED INTO THEIR DAILY ROUTINES, AFRAID A DRIVE TO WORK OR SCHOOL MIGHT BE THE LAST NORMAL THING THEY DO. TOGETHER WE HAVE LIBERTY, INJUSTICE FOR ALL OR REALLY TELL THAT TO THE PROTESTORS. MET WITH BATONS AND SHIELDS, VOICES RAISED FOR DIGNITY, ANSWERED WITH, WITH FORCE INSTEAD OF LISTENING, TELL THAT TO THE UNITED, TO THE US, US CITIZENS WHO DIE PROTECTING THEIR NEIGHBORS, WHO STEP UP WHEN SYSTEMS STEP BACK, WHOSE COURAGE IS PRAISED QUIETLY AND FORGOTTEN LOUDLY. TELL THAT TO THE GOVERNMENT THAT TIES ITS GRIP WHEN SPEAK TOO CLEARLY THAT CAUSE TRUTH DISORDER THAT WANTS SILENCE MORE THAN SOLUTIONS, OBEDIENCE MORE THAN JUSTICE. WE DON'T HATE THE FLAG. WE'RE ASKING IT TO MEAN SOMETHING. WE DON'T REJECT THE PLEDGE. WE'RE DEMANDING. KEEP ITS WORD BECAUSE JUSTICE FOR ALL AINS A LINE, UM, MEMORIZED, OH MY BAD. UM, IT'S PROMISED TO FIGHT FOR FULFILL. AND UNTIL EVERY FAMILY IS SAFE, EVERY VOICE IS HEARD, AND FREE FEAR IS NO LONGER A POLICY. THE PLEDGE IS UNFINISHED. AND SO ARE WE. AND I JUST WANNA SAY THAT YOU NEED TO A LITTLE BIT MORE OF HELPING OUT THE COMMUNITY, MORE LIKE CLEAN UP THE STREETS INSTEAD OF JUST ARRESTING THE LBPD THAT'S DIRECTED TO YOU ALSO, INSTEAD OF, UH, JUST PICKING UP THE HOMELESS PEOPLE AND WHEN THEY'RE, OR OBVIOUSLY HAVING A MENTAL, UM, EPISODE, INSTEAD OF ARRESTING THEM, YOU SHOULD HELP THEM AND TAKE 'EM TO AN AREA WHERE THEY COULD GET HELP AND RESOURCES AND HELP OUT. THE MORE UNHOUSED, LIKE THERE'S A BUNCH OF UNHOUSED AND YOU'RE JUST LETTING THEM SLEEP ON THE STREETS, WHICH IS, THEY'RE NOT DESERVE. THEY'RE HUMAN BEINGS, THEY'RE NOT ANIMALS. AND YOU NEED HELP OUT MORE. UH, LISTEN MORE TO YOUR COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF JUST WATCHING YOUR PHONE AND MAKING THOSE LITTLE VIDEOS AND MAKING ALL THOSE LITTLE FACES. I SEE YOU'LL SEE CANCEL. SO I'M HEAD OUT, I'M GONNA JOIN MY COMRAD AND HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. THANK YOU. LAST SPEAKER IS A-H-O-L-E-A-H-O. THAT CONCLUDES SECOND ON AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT. ALRIGHT, WELL THAT CONCLUDES, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT. WE'LL NOW HAVE ANY CLOSING COMMENTS FROM [ANNOUNCEMENTS] THE CITY COUNCIL. QUEUE UP NOW IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS. ALL RIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBER ALLEN? [02:10:01] YES. UM, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE CITY CLERK, UM, WHO AUTHORIZED YOU TO SHOW THE BACK OF PEOPLE'S HEAD DURING PUBLIC COMMENT AND NOT THEIR FACES LETTER QUESTION FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY. I THINK CITY ATTORNEY. AND THIS IS, THIS ISN'T ON AGENDA. SO, UM, SAY WHAT YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH. WELL, THIS IS NOT ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE COUNCIL, SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION, WE CAN HAVE THAT, BUT THIS IS NOT ANNOUNCEMENTS. OKAY. SO, UM, THEN I WILL DO MY ANNOUNCEMENTS. I THINK WHOEVER, UM, AUTHORIZED TO SHOW THE BACK OF THE PUBLIC HEADS AND NOT SHOW PEOPLE'S FACES ON PUBLIC COMMENT IS UNDEMOCRATIC. I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT AND CHANGE THAT. I THINK THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW WHO IS BEING, WHO'S BEING TAUGHT, WHO, WHO'S TALKING AT A PUBLIC COMMENT. AND, UH, IT WAS, UM, THOSE WATCHING ON ONLINE CAN'T EVEN SEE PEOPLE'S FACES ANYMORE. SO WHOEVER MADE, UM, THAT DECISION TO SHOW THE BACK OF PEOPLE'S HEAD ON PUBLIC COMMENT, I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO HAVE, UH, UH, A TALK ABOUT BECAUSE IT IS EXTREMELY UNDEMOCRATIC. THAT'S YOUR, THAT'S YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT? YES. OKAY. UM, JUST TO BE CLEAR, WE HAVE DO HAVE TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS. WE CAN'T SHOW THE AUDIENCE AND FACES AND ALL OF THAT. AND SO, UH, MADAM ATTORNEY, LET'S MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION OFFLINE ABOUT WHAT OUR TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES ARE. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S A VERY SIMPLE OPERATION THAT, THAT WE HAVE. WE CAN'T CAPTURE THE WHOLE ROOM AND A FACE, BUT WHATEVER WE CAN DO, WE SHOULD CERTAINLY DO. COUNCIL MEMBER SORROW. YES. I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE EVERYONE TO THE PARIS PEACE ACCORD COMMEMORATION, UM, THE SATURDAY FROM 9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM HERE AT CITY HALL. THIS IS A CELEBRATION OF A HISTORIC MILESTONE THAT OPENED THE PATH FOR PEACE, NATIONAL RECONCILIATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY, AND THE RULE LAW. UM, AND IT'S VERY, IT'S HOSTED BY MEMBERS OF THE CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER KERR. YES, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. UH, THERE'S A NUMBER OF WAY UPCOMING WAYS TO CELEBRATE ARTS, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY IN THE FIFTH DISTRICT. EXCUSE ME. THIS WEEK I, I INVITE YOU TO HISTORIC RANCHO LOS CERRITOS FOR EITHER OR BOTH OF THEIR UPCOMING EVENTS ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24TH, CELEBRATE DIA DE LOS MARTOS AND LEARN ABOUT THE SYMBOLS OF REMEMBRANCE THAT THE ARTIST LED WORK UP FROM 10 TO 12:00 PM AND THEN ON SUNDAY THE 25TH, YOU CAN JOIN THE B-K-B-I-A FOR SALSA ISA BOR FROM ONE TO FIVE, A SPECIAL CULTURAL CELEBRATION COMPLETE WITH SALSA, THE DANCING, UH, LESSONS, A LIVE CONCERT AND SALSA, THE FOOD, A COMPETITION. YOU CAN ALSO CONTINUE CELEBRATIONS OF OCTOBER AS ART MONTH SUPPORTING STUDENT PERFORMANCES AT LCCS SONGS AROUND THE CAMPFIRE CHO CONCERT ON SUNDAY THE 25TH. WE'RE CONNECTING WITH ART AND NATURE AT WILLOW SPRINGS PARK, UH, EXPERIENCING PAINTING IN THE PARK SUNDAY ON THE 25TH AT 3:00 PM LOOKING AHEAD, I INVITE YOU TO TWO UPCOMING EVENTS HOSTED BY MY OFFICE. OUR NEXT CD FIVE COMMUNITY MEETING WILL BE ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29TH AT 6:00 PM AT THE EXPO ARTS CENTER WILL BE JOINED BY GUEST SPEAKER SENATOR GONZALEZ AND ASSEMBLY MEMBER LOWENTHAL AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COUNCILMAN THRASH AND TUCK'S OFFICE AND JACK AND JILL LONG BEACH CHAPTER. WERE HOLDING A BLOOD DRIVE AT THE EXPO ART CENTER ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30TH FROM 9:00 AM TO 3:00 PM THERE ARE GIFT CARDS IN ADDITION TO GIVING THE GIFT OF LIFE THROUGH BLOOD. SO PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING UP@REDCROSSBLOOD.ORG SLASH GIVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBERS IN DEJAS. THANK YOU. YOU WANTED TO INVITE THE COMMUNITY TO DI LOS MUTOS ON NOVEMBER 1ST AT RAINBOW LAGOON BETWEEN ONE AND FIVE. LOOKING FORWARD TO CELEBRATING THIS TRADITIONAL HOLIDAY. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. AND COUNCIL MEMBER TI UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. UH, I'D LIKE TO EVERYBODY TO INVITE EVERYONE OUT TO OUR COUNCIL DISTRICT NINE VIRTUAL TOWN HALL. UM, IT WILL BE ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29TH, UM, FROM FOUR TO 5:30 PM IT'S A VIRTUAL, UM, WEBINAR ON ZOOM. SO YOU CAN EMAIL MY OFFICE AT DISTRICT9@LONGBEACH.GOV AND WE CAN SEND YOU ALL THE INFORMATION FOR YOU TO SIGN UP. UH, AND THEN ADDITIONALLY, ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30TH FROM 8:00 AM TO 9:30 PM WE WILL HAVE, UH, OUR BUSINESS BREAKFAST CLUB COME. UH, WE'RE INVITING LONG BEACH, UH, NORTH LONG BEACH BUSINESSES TO COME OUT AND LEARN ABOUT LOAN AND CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS, BUSINESS INSIGHT TOOLS, AND MORE FROM THE CITY OF LONG BEACH BIZ CARE PROGRAM. UH, WE ARE HOSTING THIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR LONG BEACH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND OPPORTUNITY, UM, DEPARTMENT. AND SO COME ON OUT. IT'LL BE HELD AT THE NORTH LONG BEACH HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER AT 6 3 5 EAST SOUTH STREET AGAIN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30TH FROM 8:00 AM TO 9:30 AM ALRIGHT, WELL THAT CONCLUDES, UH, CLOSING COMMENT. WE WANNA THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING. UH, WE WON'T SEE YOU AGAIN UNTIL THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER. SO WE WISH YOU A HAPPY DE DE LOS MUERTOS AND HALLOWEEN AND A A, A SAFE END OF THE MONTH. AND, UH, MAKE SURE YOU GET OUT, CAST YOUR BALLOTS AND VOTE THIS ELECTION SEASON. UH, LOTS OF IMPORTANT ISSUES. SO MAKE SURE YOU GET OUT AND CAST YOUR BALLOT [02:15:01] AND WE'LL SEE YOU IN NOVEMBER. THANK YOU. MEETING ADJOURN. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.