Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the City Manager Department (CM) by $6,500, offset by the Second Council District One-time District Priority funds transferred from the Citywide Activities Department (XC) to provide funds to Fix Long Beach who will be hosting a Spay and Neuter event in the Second Council District; and Decrease appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the Citywide Activities Department (XC) by $6,500 to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department (CM).
Motion carries. 22. Item 22 is Communication from Council Member Peers recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund in the City Manager Department by 6500, offset by the second Council District one time district priority funds to provide funds to fix Long Beach who will be hosting a spay and neuter event in the second Council District? Council Member Pearce Thank you. And I want to thank FICS Long Beach for all their work and working with our office to make sure we had secured dates location. I'm really excited to put this event on with you on March 9th, so thank you. Thank you. As a public comment on this item. Of course. And then I'll go to comes from Gonzales and Councilman Pierce Price. That last appearance was just an audio check. I came up here to thank you. My name is Kate Karp. I am a volunteer with FICS Long Beach for. God, there's only one person here. We are a spay neuter. We provide free spay neuter procedures for people who couldn't otherwise afford it. And we also provide free microchips, very, very low cost vaccines and a few other goodies. I'm here, first of all, to thank you, Councilmember Pierce, for being so ready to accept this and then to extend it. In doing that. I also want to thank a couple of other council members here, notably Suzy Pryce. Darrell, super poor. That's my new name for you and Sue Lowenthal, who used to be in that chair a couple of years ago. Susie and Suja co-sponsored an event for us, and then last year, Susie and Darrell co-sponsored an event for us, and they were absolutely magnificent bathrooms there for us. I want to tell you that spay neuter, the audit mentioned the need for available spay neuter resources for people who either don't know about the mandatory spay neuter law and want to get their pet fixed or do know may have violated it and need to come and get their pet fixed. The. The shelter is not going to become. This is not spay neuter is not going to be a full solution. There are so many. Facets in the solution. But spay neuter is one very important element of it. Or ingredient. I want to ask all of you council members to please help us in like fashion, help us get this off the, you know, going with the spay neuter. Help us save a lot of unborn lives and certainly tamp down the number of unwanted animals that are placed in our shelter with uncertain futures. Thanks very much, all of you and you especially. Thanks so much, Ms.. Karp. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Diana Cliche. I'm the president of Long Beach. And again, Councilmember Pierce, thank you so much for hosting. And sponsoring this event with us. It's very, very important. All of our events last year were fully booked and we had wait lists for every single. Spot. This year. All of our events that we have scheduled are. Booked and we have. Waitlists for every spot so. The public understands the. Need to get their pets fixed. It's the law. So just thank. You so much for. Always. Supporting us and all the council. Members that have sponsored. Events for us and helped us out. And Mr. Mayor, you've contributed as well through the. No. Drag Queen. Bingo. You donated. So you helped fund one of our clinics and Susie Darrow. I was not in drag, by the way. No. And yes, you were off. Time. Enjoying your lunch. So thank you for for stepping up and supporting us. But it's super important. If you don't know, we've seen a drastic reduction in the intake in euthanasia. At the local shelter between 70 and 90%, depending. On what you're looking at since our inception in 2013. So super important. We're trying to continue and we. Really appreciate the support. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilman Gonzales. I just want to say thank you to Councilmember Pearce and to Cate and fix Long Beach. I know having it in our district as well had been amazing. I hope we can continue to do more on the council for you and for everything that you do and stand for. So thank you so much for taking that on on our behalf. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Price. Kate, I cannot believe all of you that you stayed here for this entire meeting. I when you first came up and said 22, I did item 22. I didn't put two and two together until right now. Your dedication is amazing. And I you're absolutely right. I when I first started on council Suja and I hosted a clinic together and then one of my favorite people in the world, Councilman Super Power, and I got to host one and we just love working with you guys. Thank you for everything that you do and we hope that we can have another. I'll speak for the two of us that we hope we can do another one with our fabulous bathrooms in the near future. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you, Councilmember Ringo. I'm a little broken hearted. Yeah. We've had three events, too, in the seventh District, Silverado and Cherry Parks. And we're co-sponsor with my good colleague here, the Andrew's at Vets Park. So just to remind you that, you know that the six in the Senate are in play and we will continue to work with you. Thank you. Thank you very much. We are we have a motion in a second. Please cast your votes.