Recommendation to approve a new list of City Council Standing Committees and request City Attorney to draft a resolution reflecting the changes as approved by the City Council.
Thank you. And let's read item number two, please. Communication from Mayor Garcia recommendation to approve a new list of City Council standing committees and requests city attorney to draft a resolution reflecting the changes. Thank you. I just want to first thank the city manager's office and the city attorney's office for their help in putting this item together. We have been talking as a as a body in the past that at different meetings and council meetings about just the need to kind of clean up our our council committees. And so what this document in front of you essentially does is it really just consolidates some of the committees that we already have. It moves around some of the the committee names and really kind of focuses on nine major committees. That will be our standing committees moving forward as well as, of course, does some consolidation work around these? And so briefly, I know you have an extensive memo in front of you, but I just want to just kind of briefly go over what will be the new nine standing committees of the city council. And you'll notice, of course, some things have been combined as a part of this. In addition, I just want to add that one of the things that we'd like to see moving forward, I think some council members have even discussed this is we really want to empower our new committees to really take on issues and really become experts in those areas. We oftentimes items and agenda items come up before the council, oftentimes with little time to do a really strong analysis by the body. And so this gives us an opportunity to really hopefully get items to these committees, have them do some analysis, have the public an opportunity to really delve into community participation and then come back to our council with recommendations. Well, while at this time there is no proposed changes or council rules as far as how committees work or might work. We I know I know some have discussed this. We can look at that certainly in the weeks ahead. But for now, I just want to go over those committees. So we have of course, we retained the Budget Oversight Committee, which, as we all know, explores our public policy positions as it relates to the budget and is an important committee every single year. The second committee is a new Port Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that, of course, combines some of our of our efforts around Tidelands, but also around the CHP, major street and road improvements and all of the infrastructure around the port. So this becomes a real critical committee on port, on the harbor and all the transportation across the city, including infrastructure. When we're talking about the next phase of measuring street investments and all the great work, I think this is going to be a really critical committee for us in the years ahead. The next committee is Economic Development and Finance. This committee, of course, will continue to do some of the work it's been doing around around financing and around possible bonds and revenues. But also, most importantly, the broad work of economic development, particularly as we look at economic recovery. So that is going to be that new committee. Then, of course, we have two committees that really aren't changing much. Those are going to be the federal legislation and state legislation committee. Those are those stay in place. Again, public safety committee also just stays in place. Then we have our new Climate Action and Environmental Committee, which is a little bit of an expansion of our former environmental committee. And again, that's a critical issue, particularly as we have the cap in front of us and then we have a new public health and housing committee. I think we all know that public health is the challenge of our time. We didn't have a committee specifically focused on that. And this combines public health and housing, which really are linked into a new committee to look at our our housing and homelessness crisis that that exists. And finally, we have combined different pieces of different committees into the new government personnel and Elections Oversight Committee. This committee takes pieces of the former personnel and Civil Service Commission. It takes pieces of the Elections Oversight Committee. And it takes even pieces of the Economic Development Finance Committee as it relates to smaller litigation, settlements and charter committee appointments into one new committee that really looks internally at the way our government functions. So those are the new committees. All the other kind of, you know, different smaller authorities or committees still exist, of course. But I wanted to go ahead and put these forward for all of you and and get these adopted. I think it's an exciting time for us to rethink our our committees. So with that, let me first get a motion and a second. We do have the cue system now working. So. Let me check really quick. If I can get a motion and a second, please. So moved. I have a motion by Councilwoman Price and a second by Councilwoman Zendejas. Is there any public comment? There is no public comment on this item. Okay. Councilwoman Price, any comments? No comment, Mr. Mayor, I support the item. Councilman's and has any comments. No comments. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for. And Councilman Richardson. I certainly support this. I'd love to take a deeper dove on the Environmental Committee conversation. I know that when it relates to infrastructure and tidelands, all that there there's sometimes two conversations. It's you know, it's an infrastructure conversation. Then it's your policy around oil and climate and all that. And I want to I want to make sure that, you know, it's clear that the Climate Action Committee can think about oil and policy around oil and those things, which a lot of times will be connected to. Traditionally, they're connected to pipelines and things like that. So, you know, moving forward, I mean, I think some of someone's results tonight, but I'm really certainly interested in how that how that all will work together from a policy standpoint that really anticipate what the next couple of years. A lot of focus on air quality operations and oil policy are going to confront that are. But I support I support this motion I think is the right. Is there any problem? And you said there's no public comment, Madam Clerk. Not on this item. Okay. Real call, but please. District one. My District two, i district three. I district for. My. District five. District six. High District seven. District eight. High District nine. All right. Chris. Thank you. And now I'm going to turn this over to Vice Mayor Richardson. I'm going to go and get ready for the state of the city. So I will see you all later tonight. And Vice Mayor Richardson, if you want to do just the few items that are left with a lot.