Recommendation to, subject to review and consideration by the Personnel and Civil Service Committee in accordance with Long Beach Municipal Code Section 2.03.065, confirm Charter Commission appointments pursuant to Section 509 of the City Charter and Section 2.03.065 of the Long Beach Municipal Code; or in the alternative, if for some reason the Personnel and Civil Service Committee does not meet prior to or on August 11, 2015, waive the requirement for consideration and recommendation by the Personnel and Civil Service Committee in accordance with Section 2.03.0650, and confirm Charter Commission appointments pursuant to Section 509 of the City Charter and Section 2.03.065 of the Long Beach Municipal Code.
And we have items 24 and 25. We're going to do item 24/1. Communication from Mayor Robert Garcia. Recommendation to confirmed charter commission appointments. Thank you. I'm going to turn this over actually to Councilmember Austin. Okay. So thank you, Mr. Mayor. As a chair of the Personnel and Civil Service Committee, we met a little earlier today and we unanimously voted to accept the recommendations for charter commission appointments. There were a number of eight members either appointed or reappointed to the Citizen Police Complaints Commission. And to give them honor, I'd like to at least acknowledge them. To see PCC Josie Josephine Castellanos is the eighth District resident. She's appointed to a second term, if I can ask you to please stand. Alvaro Castillo, a fifth District resident appointed to a first term. David Clement, a third district resident, reappointed to a second term. Jose Flores, a sixth District resident appointed to a partial term. Richard Lindemann, a fourth District resident appointed to a first term. Miles Nevin, a second District resident appointed to his first term. Jeff Pryce, the seventh District resident, is reappointed to a second term and Tooley Sorrell is At-Large and a seventh District resident is appointed to a partial term. Let's give all of the new PCC commissioners a. Round of applause. We're not done yet. On the Civil Service Commission, which is also a charter commission. We have Ms.. Phyllis areas. She's an eighth District resident, and she's been appointed being appointed to her first term on a term on the Civil Service Commission. And she has more than 30 years of experience in higher education in Long Beach City College, including work on personnel policies and procedures, budget management, governance structures, planning processes and curriculum development. And she served on the college's academic Senate Synod Executive Committee, Academic Council and College Planning and was elected President of the Academic Senate. Congratulations, Ms.. Areas. You are also on the civil service commission. We have Mr. Rick middleton, mclemore. He currently serves on the service. Civil Service Commission is being reappointed to a third district to a second term to his first full term. And he's a third resident. Excuse me. Rick has 25 years of federal government experience serving as an equal opportunity specialist with the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Customs Service. And Mr. Middleton McLemore was also appointed to the Civil Service Commission by Mayor Foster in 2014 to fill the final year of an open term. Congratulations, Mr. McLemore. And we also have one. Parks and Recreation Commission appointee. And that is Ms.. Stella Ursula. She's filling in At-Large seat. She is a second district resident and she's been appointed to a partial term. She's the president of the Green Education Inc. and principal at Stellar Sustainable Consulting. She has served as a commissioner with the Long Beach Sustainable Cities Commission, with the Long Beach Community College District Citizens Oversight Committee, and a steering committee member with Building Healthy Communities. Ms.. SEWA is a founder of Local Earth Day Events and Green Praise Festival and launched the Southern California Green Art Council. Very impressive. Congratulations to your appointment to the Parks and Recreation Commission and. And lastly, we have four new members or appointed or reappoint members to the Planning Commission. I would like to recognize Mr. Ronald Cruz to win that large seat. He's a fourth District resident and it's appoint an appointment to a partial term. He graduated from Cal State University, Long Beach, with a degree in geography and took his first job as a city planner here in Long Beach. He spent five years at City Hall before moving into a private development firm and has no nine years of planning experience. He lives in the fourth District and has a master's degree from Cal State University, Long Beach. Andy Perez is being appointed to a At-Large seat. He's a second seventh District resident. He's been reappointed to his first full term, and he currently is a public affairs bureau manager with Union Pacific Railroad as a director of port affairs for Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco. He's a graduate of Cal State University, Dominguez Hills. Mr. Perez served long has served long on the board of directors with the Long Beach Boys and Girls Club and the Regional Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Congratulations, Mr. Perez. And I'd also like to recognize the re-appointed Mr. Anita van Warwick to an at large seat. He is an eighth District resident and is a Long Beach City College scholarship recipient and graduate of Columbia City. She has also attended Cal Poly Pomona with a B.S. cum lady in business management. She has had many years of leadership and volunteer experience in many organizations, including the Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership. She's volunteered with the Long Beach Day Nursery, Long Beach League for John Tate, John Tracy Clinic, the Long Beach City College Foundation, Board of Governors and the Long Beach Museum of Art. Thank you, Mr. Van Horn, for your service and congratulations. And our final appointment to the Planning Commission and we're asking for a component of this full city council is Mr. Eric Verdugo Vega, Brazil's produce. Go figure. I'm sorry. He's being appointed to an at large seat. He's a sixth district resident. He's been reappointed to his first full term. He's the president and CEO of the South Bay Latino Chamber of Commerce and a South Bay Latino Community Development Corporation. He also manages real estate and restaurant investments and has served on the Los Angeles County Workforce Investment Board as his vice chair. Congratulations, Mr. Reduce Gall Vega. And so with that Council, it is the recommendation of the personnel of the Civil Service Committee that we accept the mayor's nominations for all these charter commissions. I want to just add my personal comments that all of them are very well qualified and a very impressive group of commissioners who definitely have the city's best interests at heart, and they all are true public servants. And so with that, I would recommend full support. If you want to put the motion in council member short for. It's done. Okay. It will get some. Someone sick in there. Okay, great. We have a couple folks I want to do public comment. Councilman Gringa. As a member of the Personal Civil Service Commission, I want to welcome all the new appointees. As I looked into the crowd, I got to see some old faces and new friends. Let me change that. Some old friends and new faces that that are that are coming and joining the city family and their service on these commissions . So I welcome you and look forward to working with you. And I always know that my office is available to you at any time. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Price. I want to welcome all of you as well. Just Alvaro Castillo and I have been friends for 20 something years, and I'm very proud to see that he's getting he's always been very involved in his community. But to have him be involved in the city is it's an honor. And I'm very proud of you. So thank you. And of course, Ricky Rick is as a resident of the third district. And I fully support your work and all the things that you do for this city and your service on multiple commissions. This isn't your first one and not your first term, so thank you for your service. I'm grateful to have you in my district, and I'm grateful that you're a resident of Long Beach. So thanks, everyone else. Thank you. And Councilwoman Gonzalez, I. Wanted to thank each and every one of you for your commitment to Long Beach and your service. I know many of you have full time jobs for doing this. In addition to is just commendable. But I've talked to a few of you as personal friends and you're so very excited to serve and that is what makes this position most amazing. So thank you. Thank you. Okay. And I want to also thank you all for your service before we take the vote. And, you know, it's interesting, one of the interesting things that Councilman Price oh, actually have one more Councilman Mongo and then I'll see my comments. I, too, want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you. The the citizen engagement process is one of the most important processes that we have next to our right to vote. And so thank you for each and every one of you for first going online and applying to serve. And I encourage anyone watching at home to take a moment and see the new revamped online website where you can apply to serve your constituents, your neighbors, and the city of Long Beach as a whole. Because without the citizen participation model, we're up here representing all 500,000 people. And so we really appreciate the ability to work through each and every one of you each and every week. So thank you very much for your service. Thank you all. And before we take the verdict, I want to say I love seeing so many folks that I kind of knew through college when I was in school, including Councilman Price and Alvaro and Ron and Eric and all guys and gals that we all knew each other through our Cal State Long Beach days in some way or another. And so it's it's it's nice to be here at this point and to see everyone working, working together 20 years later. So with that, we can go ahead and take a vote. It'd be great. Great. Congratulations to all of you. And now we have our second set of commissioners, which is 825.