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 September 15, 2020, waive the requirement for consideration and recommendation by the Personnel and Civil Service Committee in accordance with Section 2.03.065, and confirm Charter Commission appointments pursuant to Section 509 of the City Charter and Section 2.03.065 of the Long Beach Municipal Code.
Thank you. We are going to come back to item one after a couple of items here. We'll be right back to that item. We're going to do it in 29, which is the commissioner appointment, since I know a lot of them are watching the meeting. So, Madam Clerk, please. Communication for Mayor Garcia. Recommendation to confirm charter commission appointments. Thank you. I have a motion by Vice Mayor Andrews and a seconded by Councilmember. You think? And let me go ahead and first Vice Mayor Andrews read the motion and then I will yield over to me and I will go over the commissioner. So. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I want to thank you for these recommendations. Unfortunately, the Personnel and Civil Service Commission was unable, of course, yesterday, despite our best efforts to coordinate. Therefore, I would like to make a motion to approve these appointments pursuant to Section 2.0310657 letter to also include waivers of the confirmation procedures of the commission appointments and get them approved tonight in front of the entire council. I hope I can get a second. I think it is a second by Councilmember Ranga Councilmember. I'm going to move on to talk about the members unless you wanted Councilman Durango to add to that. A good mayor of clay. Okay, great. So let me go ahead and go through our commission appointments. We have a slate of commissioners. So I just want to go and just just talk a little bit about each of them. So let me begin first on our Board of Examiners Appeals and condemnation are we have a Kim Chambers. A Kim is a third district resident and a senior program manager with Jacobs Engineering. Really amazing firm. He has more than 20 years of experience in planning and construction and has managed more than 25 projects across the country. So just a wonderful addition to that commission. So congratulations to her. Kim Chambers Also on the commission, we have Robert Daughtry. Robert is a fourth district and the operations and project manager of this area, which is the Los Angeles County Business Federation. We are all familiar with that organization. He serves on many boards and commissions, including at Whittier College, the Alumni Association, Their Honor PAC and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. So I want to congratulate Robert Doherty for the Airport Commission to the Board of Health and Human Services Commission. I want to appoint Rebecca Ruiz. Rebecca is a District two resident and is currently a social media specialist at Planned Parenthood for both Orange and San Bernardino Counties. She's also the sexual reproductive health educator for the Community Education and Outreach Department of Planned Parenthood. Dr. Michael Cerone or Dr. T, as most of us know him, is also being appointed. Dr. T is, and of course, an M.D. and a CEO and founder of Med. Well, he graduated his residency, USC and is a board certified and is board certified in internal medicine and specializes in geriatrics. Dr. Tehrani and his patients know him really well. He's, of course, very involved in the city of Long Beach, also to the Cultural Heritage Commission, or appointing Mary Hynes, married to lifelong resident of Long Beach, lives in District eight. She has a deep love for our city. Those that know her know how involved she is in the historical society, the Long Beach Women's Shelter in Rancho Cerritos. A congratulations to Mary and also Mark Bishop. Mark is a District five resident at the CEO of Christopher Architecture, and she's a wonderful architect and actress degree in architecture from Pomona, from Cal Poly Pomona. And he's also received numerous awards in residential projects and is a great, a well-respected architect within our community as well. To the Citizens Police Complaint Commission, we're appointing Brett Walmsley Brant as a District nine resident and a teacher as well. And Brett has been in a variety of community organizations and has also been a board member of Long Beach Echo and the New Leaders Council. We're also appointing John MATTHEWS. The second John of the District six resident is currently the senior legal counsel for the Justice Collaborative. Previously, John served as an assistant United States attorney in Puerto Rico. He has a B.A. in policy and a Spanish minor from the University of Los Angeles and a J.D. from Harvard Law. And also appointing to the IPCC is Nigel Lipsey. Nigel, the District two resident and a senior front account with Post Advisory Group in the L.A. region. He also co-founded the Urban Society of Long Beach, an entertainment company that hosts community and social events across the city. He attended Boston University and has a degree in arts and economics to the Citizens Advisory Commission disabilities. We're appointing Elsie Areas LLC. He's a senior program development specialist at Children 316, and a current will also provides educational programing, an advocate at a local, state and national level for children with special needs. Since to her and our very own Jennifer Jamar Jennifer is a first district resident. She believes that Long Beach should be a place where people can watch your concerns and share their ideas. Our community involvement includes being a board member of the Asian Pacific Islander Board with people with disabilities in California. Vice President of Miss Wheelchair America. And Board Member on the Disabled Student Resource Center. Congratulations to Ms. Commissioner on the Economic Development Commission will be appointing Brenda one each. Brenda is a third district resident and has called Miami home for more than 32 years. She has been involved in a variety of organizations, particularly, of course, in marketing as a founder of West Coast Marketing, which is a advertising and marketing company and also has had many clients, including Four Seasons Hotel in the Wall Street Journal. As part of her broader portfolio network. Also is Vivian Shamir, much of the Economic Development Commission. Many of us know Vivian while she's currently the chief operating officer at Scale Smart Partners. Previously, Vivian served as the regional executive director of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program. She's internationally recognized for her work of small businesses and women entrepreneurs. She also served as a US delegate to major conferences across the world to the Homeless Service Advisory Committee. We appointing Desiree Rioux Desiree as a third district resident and has been a clinical therapist for over 25 years. She currently works with the salt fruit or the travel social worker. She is also Bishop Long Beach and a member of the Delta Sigma Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. Also is Janine Solano, who is a District six resident and is currently a mental health administrator for Star View Community Services. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Chicano Latino Studies from Cal State, Long Beach Beach. And lastly, the Homeless Service Advisory Committee were appointed Jeanette Perreira Jeanette of the District two resident and has been a mental health provider with experience working in L.A. County and the Mental Health and Children's Family Court. She's been involved in numerous intervention programs around homelessness and assist and assisted families that are struggling with low wages and affordable and unaffordable housing. Being appointed to the Human Relations Commission is Lisette Flores Lisette of the District eight resident and is currently vocations consultant with Estrella PR and Marketing. The a computer coursework in Spanish literature and linguistics and has also a B.A. in journalism with an emphasis in PR from Cal State Long Beach. Also to the HRC commission is Jeremy Gonzalez Delaney, the District nine resident, is currently an outreach analyst for the California Department of Insurance, and she received her B.A. in communications. Also from Cal State, Long Beach to our Marine Advisory Commission, we are appointing the very well-known Bruce McRae. Our Bruce is a District four resident, and the vice president of State Government Affairs for the Western region of Up's objective force has been involved in almost every organization you could imagine in the city of Long Beach is a second generation Long Beach native and is just so well known across the city for his amazing and outsized personality. He's gonna be a great addition to the Marine Advisory Commission. So Long Beach Transit Board of directors, we are appointing Connor. Locke. Connor is a fourth District resident and a graduate of Cal State University, Long Beach. Connor currently serves as the Chief of staff to the Mayor and City Council for the City of Costa mesa, where he manages the city of Costa mesa. Government relations, including Census Outreach, City Council Liaison Services and City Council event management, and of course is also well known for being involved across the city as well to the Pacific Gateway Workforce Development Board we're appointing. AJ Tesfaye, a desert District seven resident and a senior community development manager at HSBC Bank and is more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry. Received a degree in mathematics and economics from Cal State Dominguez Hills. We're also appointing Sandra L.A. Sandra as a District eight resident and team manager with the California Department of Debilitation. She got an MBA and master of science in counseling for marriage, family and child therapy from the University of Phenix. And also to that commission is Kenneth Gomez. Kenneth is District two resident and is a deputy division chief for the State of California Employment Department, Employment Development Department, Workforce Services Branch in Compton, California. You've got more than 25 years of the private and public sector experience in H.R.. And now to our public, it's our Parks and Recreation Commission. We've got three new members. First, we have Rob Livingstone. Robert is a lifelong resident of Long Beach. He was appointed by Ernie Kell to serve on the Municipal Golf Commission back in 1986, when he was 23. Robert is also probably best known for his many years of service to US and Long Beach within our Parks Recreation Marine Department as well is very well known, particularly within the golf community and the parks community. So congratulations to Robert will be a great addition. Also Casey, Shaun Casey is a District One resident and is currently the marketing event coordinator with Jane, our studios. Casey served on the California Parks and Recreation Society as a representative for Long Beach and Casey as a member of the Junior League of Long Beach and an alumna of Cal State, Long Beach as well. And finally to the Parks and Rec Commission is Susan Redfield, who many of us know as well. Susan is a District seven resident and a retired attorney. Her community involvement includes being a Long Beach Public Library Foundation Board member, Assistance League cameo board member involved in so many organizations across the city. She received her J.D. from the from the Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago with honors and a masters of social work from all university in Chicago. She the Senior Advisory Commission. We have Phyllis Schmidt. Phyllis is the District three resident and special education in Artesia and our teacher, Dominga and Westminster high schools before retiring in the late 1970s. Through the long history of community involvement and volunteerism. Phyllis has been selected to honor the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award back in 2015 for the Press Telegram's Amazing Woman program to the Technology and Innovation Commission where appointing Andrea white. Andrea White cues and Andrea as a District three resident is called Long Beach Home for the past 15 years. She is the co-founder and CEO and CEO of Extra Vallas, a company that helps technology startup companies. And she received her bachelor's degree in international business from Saint Cloud University. To the Water Commission, we're appointing Naomi Rainey Pierson. Naomi, of course, is an award winning educator, philanthropist, huge supporter of Cal State, Long Beach, and her anthropic work and a civil rights advocate and activist has had a huge impact here on thousands of community members, particularly with her incredible work within the ACP. She's been, of course, leading the ACP for many years and has been involved in our local chapter here since the age of 14. Naomi is well known for her philanthropic work across the city for her commitment, of course, to racial justice. Congratulations to Naomi. And then, of course, there is our series of re appointments, which I won't read each individually, but those are the three appointments to the commission. We know, I know it's a long list, but we wanted to get these folks appointed as soon as possible. And so with that, let me go ahead and turn this over to some of the folks that are queued up. We do have a motion and a second. Now on to Councilwoman Zendejas. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much for that. I just wanted to welcome all the new city commissioners to to this new role. I'm super excited for them. Having served on commissions myself, like Cape Cod Citizens Advisory Commission on Disability and the Board of Directors for Long Beach Transit has it has really helped me along the ways and it really gave me an opportunity to give back in my group to my community. So I am very excited for each and every one of our commissioners. And the city of Long Beach is lucky to have you and I look forward to working with each one of you guys. So thank you. And congratulations to all of our commissioners also who are being reappointed tonight. Maybe a. Councilmember. Yeah. Councilmember Pearce. Councilmember Pearce. Okay. I'm a customer and we'll come back to Constable Pearce. Thanks. A like. I just like the voice of support. And congratulations and welcome to all our new commissioners. I think this is an excellent lineup of hard working people who are making a difference here in our city and will continue to do so in a new capacity as commissioners, city commissioners in various areas. You know, I've also sent a personal congratulations to those who I've worked with for some time also, and obviously extend a special congratulations to those eight district residents who are stepping up to serve. A couple of the commissions obviously have big, big. Big responsibilities, and we'll definitely have a lot of work ahead of them, particularly the Citizen Police Complaint Commission. I want to congratulate those those new commissioners. There's going to be obviously a lot of serious work ahead and impactful work ahead for for that group. But I just want to, again, congratulate everybody and also say good job on the appointments, Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much. Thank you. Council member Vice Mayor Andrews. The man being the chair of this committee. I want to congratulate each and every one of you individuals who are selected. And I know you guys know what you're doing because in fact, I know you're going to put all your heart and soul into this. So congratulations to each and every one of you. Thank you, Vice Mayor, Councilman Ringa. Thank you, Mayor. And I also want to offer my appreciation to these individuals who have stepped up to serve on the various commissions. It's how they get the training to know how the city is run. And I really appreciate their civic engagement and help and see me the best it can be. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I want to congratulate all the appointees this evening, especially those living in the third district. I'm grateful for your participation in this process, and many of you have already been very engaged with the city. And I want to thank you for your continued participation. And I especially want to call out Naomi Rainey. Naomi is as a friend and a mentor to me, and she recently participated in the Third District Diversity and Inclusion video series that we have and shared with us some very personal experiences to challenge us all, to think about the world and those living around us from different perspectives. And so that's just a testament to how she and so many others on the list that was read by the mayor earlier contribute above and beyond being appointed or serving on a commission. They just help every day make our community better. So thank you very much and congratulations to all of you. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilman. Super now. Thank you, Mayor Garcia. Congratulations to all the commissioners. And I just want to give a special shout out to the four from the fourth. So the commissioners McCray, Livingston, Forte and Locke. Thank you for serving and go forth. Thank you, Councilmember and Councilman Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I know it's been a while since we've done some of these appointments. Thanks to everyone for their patience and know that some of these coalition seats. Is that vacant for a while, particularly? You know, we've been talking with our newest KPCC commissioner, Brant, about his interest in this in this for a while, it was held by our planning commissioner, Johnny Rick's Odeon, when Johnny was the planning commission investigated. And so I'm glad to see this appointment with Brant, also see a number of just great individuals who've done incredible job in the community. Already stepping up and serve in a new capacity, I think is a great sign for the leadership that's been developed and cultivated in different non-profits and community groups. Library Foundation. I see a number of folks here that are that I think are just great personalities to bring in. So congratulations to all of you. And thanks, Mr. Mayor, for these appointments. Thank you, Councilmember. And with that, I don't see any public comment. Madam Court, we can go to a roll call. District one. I. District two. District two. District three. II. District four. II. District five. District five. I. District six. By. District seven. By District eight, District nine. I motion carries. Thank you and thank you to everyone. It's one to congratulate all the commissioners. I mean, traditionally we have a big picture with everyone. This is virtual. And also once we are able to get out there again, I look forward to those commission receptions and opportunities to thank everybody in person. So just congratulations, everyone that. That is certainly. Thank you.