Recommendation to request City Manager to authorize the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine to conduct a parks facilities and recreation programs analysis report to inform the development of a pilot program designed around new public-private partnership proposals to benefit community programs, facilities and services, and report back to City Council with progress update within sixty (60) days.
Item 40. Communication from Councilwoman Mongeau Councilmember Super Nine, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Richardson. Recommendation to request Parks, Recreation and Marine to conduct the Parks, Facilities and Recreation Programs. Analysis Report to inform the development of a pilot program designed around new public private partnership proposals to benefit community programs, facilities and services. Councilwoman Mongeau. Yes, I'm very excited that we have heard from the community that there are so many opportunities for our nonprofit partners and our community groups, whether it's Friends of the Dog Park or any other group, to step up and provide a proposal on things that they believe would be of value to the city. And so there's no better way to move the city forward than through partnerships. We've done that very successfully in many ways, and I'd like this to be an open door for our Parks and Rec department to see where those opportunities are, see where we can move the city forward, see what partnership opportunities are available to provide a better opportunity for our youth and our summer programs and our youth throughout the year. And I look forward to seeing the great proposals that come forward because I think that this is another form of really embracing the community and their input. Councilmember Supernova. No comment. Thank you, Councilman Andrews. Yes, I'm very excited about signing on to this item to discuss the new ideas, possibilities for our parks. Because at this point, we don't have or know any other options. But this will allow us to open doors to see how we can utilize the space. Thank you. Councilmember Richardson. Thanks. And I rise in support, exploring opportunities. And I just want to make sure that I'm aware of, you know, like, I want to, like, supplement work that city employees are doing. I don't necessarily want to run any prop issues. But I do think there are, you know, with some of our existing contracts like Azteca and things like that, you know, we always hear about how much the workload is on Azteca to take on things like, you know, additional medians and additional parks that are brought in and dog parks, things like that. So I think we do have to think about innovative ways to supplement what's what's already there. I also want to say, you know, you know, I think that we should also explore, you know, at some point a pilot of, you know, we need to revisit our ability to do, you know, commercial sort of vendors and things like that in the park as well. Since we're looking at different partnerships, I think it might be some interesting revenue generators for some of our youth programs. Thanks. Thank you. So any member of the public that wish to address the Council on item 40. Vice Mayor or member of the Council? Just a question on for the maker of the motion, I believe when she was speaking, this appears to request a report. And then I heard you say request for proposals. I'm not sure on what the action items are requesting of staff. It's for a report they can come back with whether they want to do requests for community input and how they situate that. I think that we've had lots of dialogs about things that community groups have asked for, but only Parks and Rec can really know and understand their needs and the stuff support that they have available to put together whatever will come back in the report. Yes. Summers, I do want to. We will try to be as responsive as possible that the 60 day period right now, it's just we're hitting our 100 days of summer. And we definitely will come back with a report or two from for within the 60 days. But I'm not sure we'll be able to fully address everything that is in the agenda item within the six days through Parks and Rec in the middle of summer. But we definitely will come back with where we're at within 60 days. So I think that we had originally planned to try to get this on the agenda earlier in the year. So with that input, I think that all amend my motion 120 days so that be helpful. Certainly we will come back as fast as we can. And again, we recognize that a good and thorough report is more important than a quick report. So if council member super open to it is 120 days work. Wonderful. Let's do that. Thank you for the comment. It is summer and it is busy. And Parks and Rec is the busiest of the mall during this time of year. Can. Sir. Any member of the public that wishes to address council. I'm sorry, Councilman Austin. Yes. I just need some some clarification. I think this this sounds very. This is an interesting proposal and very innovative. And so I think the council members who brought this forth, including Councilmember Mongo, but I need to just get some clarification before I vote, because Councilmember Richardson did raise a an issue regarding Prop IL, which is significant . And we've been down that road very just recently with the agenda item. Before this, we were talking about, you know, our our our ability to improve our management of contracts. But what specifically are you looking to achieve here? Because as I read this, it says, develop a pilot program designed around new public private partnership proposals to benefit community programs, facilities and services. What specifically do you have in mind in terms of community programs, facilities and services? So I think that in the 22 months that I've been a councilwoman, I've had many different neighborhood groups and parks and rec groups come to the table and say, we would like to help and there needs to be a process by which they're provided that opportunity to assist. So an example might be that within the the Little League Baseball program, the Little League Baseball Program does a mini sponsorship where they are able to sell advertisements that go up on the baseball fence that's owned by the city. But soccer came to the table and said, We'd like to help raise money for the city and we'd like to have a sponsorship role, but you can't really put advertisements on a goal. Those are one of many. Councilmember Richardson mentioned Azteca. There are medians that need to be supplemented and maybe either a Job Corps program or a youth program that could help supplement new corridors. I mean, anything is possible. And I know, like myself, Parks and Rec has heard a gamut of opportunities and ideas, and I think that they know areas that they are having the most. I think it's really a pairing between where's the most need and where's the most interest in either volunteerism or sponsorship or any kind of public private partnership available. And I think that they know that best and it could really be arrange the cap program with your earlier today I'm Derek Simpson does a lot of job programs that would be possible to supplement Azteca or pick a corridor that we could utilize some of our needy areas to supplement nonprofit programs. But I really think that that's for Parks and Rec to develop a process by which community partners would be able to engage and have that dialog because they know best what they can provide. And then we need an evaluation tool because we've talked it at community meetings where there might be five or ten really great ideas in a room. But we need to concentrate our efforts on the highest return on investment and the greatest. Ability to get a program off the ground. And so it's really a pretty open request for a report back considering all the input that they've received. I know at least at my community meetings they received significant input and then we would go from there. Do you envision contracting out existing. No. Positions? No. I just want to be be very clear on that, because there are a lot of words here. You. If you request Park Wickham is the Marine to conduct Park Facility and Recreation Program Analysis Report to inform the development of a pilot program designed around new public private partnership proposals. Right. So Pop Warner came to us and said, we have a facility in the park. It's a snack shack. It's terrible. It's not really the city's responsibility. What can we do? But there's no structure of. We'd like to donate this much money and. Do we pull the permits? Do they pull the permits? And it's just kind of messy right now. And I think that Marie has a significant expertize on this. And so I think that she would be able to bring back a way for us to work through all of the people who want to help and be supportive and work through that process. Well, to the extent you your motion and your item seeks to help streamline processes and make us help the city do business smarter. I am supportive of that. But I just want to be very careful that we don't go down a slippery slope and of course, invoke unintended consequences. Was was your your thought for the report coming back in 120 days for Parks and Rec to give us some some ideas or to give us something specific? I think that's within the context of the information. They know they could probably come up with a couple of ideas. But I believe that they would go through a process that would solicit additional community input. And what that looks like would be what we would would like to hear back from them. So an example is there's a question of. Over the years. We've always done it that way, where baseball has always been able to sponsor field sponsors and raise money and put advertisements on a fence. But soccer's never had that opportunity. And then the police foundation was able to sell bricks. But then the nonprofits that support the dog park haven't. I mean, it's very it varies so greatly through the years that we need a process. And Marie has a level of expertize and working in this area. And I think we should trust her to bring back a comprehensive report at which time we can evaluate the direction we would like to encourage them to go. All right. Thank you very much for clarifying. Thank you. Mr. City. Attorney. Vice Mayor. Thank you. I was just wanted to follow up on councilmembers because I believe from what I was hearing, I was concerned also with the possible proposal or meet and confer issues that a report like this can raise. And so if this is staff evaluating the current process and maybe where they can improve on efficiencies and comes back with recommendations at that point, you may start looking at proposal issues or meeting confer issues with staff and I'd like to avoid those if possible, prior to coming back. We are not looking to outsource anything that's currently offered. We're looking at finding ways for nonprofit organizations to partner and grow anything in our city, whether it's support of our park programs, our archery programs, whatever it is to support growth and extend services and or facility maintenance, I mean, whatever it is. It would not be any outsourcing of any current. City work. And I know and I just want to say that I actually don't think this needs to come up. We had 3000 people volunteer in the parks last year and painted equipment that hadn't been painted in 40 years. And if if we as a community can come together and volunteer in any way, we should embrace that. We are not looking to eliminate or outsource any city work. I would just say the volunteer work is completely different than private partnerships. Right. And so I think that's where we need to just be very careful. I'm going to support the motion because I'm interested in. Hearing the information back. But I just want to be very cautious that we don't do anything that we we don't intend to do here. I would be very surprised if the director of our Parks and Rec program brought back proposals that would put us in that position. Councilmember Richardson. Thank you. I understand loud and clear where Councilmember Mongo wants to know, wants to go. And it sounds like the city attorney knows how to tread this water without crossing a line. And I think I think, you know, I think there's a way we can get the information that we're looking for here. And I want to you know, I brought up just a little while ago that I do. Since we're talking about public private partnerships and I was working on an item later and we talked about doing an item, but I'm really intrigued by some of the work like at Harvey Milk Park with the improvements, they're going to put in some kiosks. And I'm just interested in in learning more about how we can improve on our public private partnership with respect to vending in the park. So I'd like to just ask that you include that in your. Absolutely would love to add in the word vending. I hope that that would have been considered, but I'd love to call it out. I think that's a great idea. Thank you so much. Thank you. There's been a motion and a second. Is there any member of the public that was to address council on item 40? He's come forward. I had to laugh a little bit about the I. Nomenclature was used to describe the proposal. It's not a new proposal, and it's always been. Acceptable for. Pub for corporations to submit ideas where the public can help serve them voluntarily. It's just a request for volunteers to work for nothing but to get the wonderful feeling of accomplishment that it brings to them, and more importantly, to all those that they favor. The thing being requested is ideas that would make. Make public enterprise grow, and that's always been available or maybe should be made by the mayor calling them up on the phone or staff and asking, Hey, is there something we can do to help you out? That's all that's required. That new. Are you coming forward to speak? No. All right, members, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Okay. Are we at new business? What is the item? Announcements? Yes. Announcements. Council member Andrews. Yes. I like to give an update on one of my staff members, which is down Isabel today. At about noon time, my staff member was seriously attacked today and struck in the head. And for a moment she was unconscious. Our thoughts and prayers will go out to her and her family, and we wish her a speedy recovery. I would also like to take this time to thank the longest fire department for their excellent care and as well as a quick reaction by the Long Beach Police Department. We hope that we can find justice for her and violent act will not go unpunished. That was Isobel. That was my new staff assistant. And we'll quickly I'd like to go over my announcements. I'm happy to announce that the annual Six District three summer events in Long Beach, they start on June and run through September. But the first put two tonight to a two night at the museum there. There's a lot of family fun. For more information, please call my office and please join me for the free movies in the park and an outdoor movie experience future movie pan on Wednesday, June 29th, starting at Dusk and Mac. Others Park 1321 East Anaheim Street, Hotel Transylvania two on Wednesday, July 13. Start two deaths in Mac That's it Mac. Right, I park. So please, for more information, please call my office. Thank you very much. Thank you. Councilman Andrews and I failed to call for the second opportunity for public comment on nine agenda items. Did you want to come forward and make public comment? Thank you. Thank you. You're here. An honorable city council and mayor. This is a little bit off of Long Beach, and I wouldn't normally do this. But I was wondering if we could please say a little prayer. We're a little SEAL Beach, California.