Recommendation to request City Manager to work with our Police Department and the Multi-Departmental Team to report back on the feasibility of creating collection, inventory, and storage teams that are on-call to work with City departments so that those departments can efficiently maintain public spaces, conduct arrests, provide services to those with large numbers of belongings, and improve the ease for individuals to accept services knowing they will not be abandoning their belongings.
Russian case. Now we're going to move to item 16, please, with the item club. Item 16 is is a communication from Councilwoman Price Council member. So Pinol and Vice Mayor Andrew's recommendation to request city manager to work with police department and multi departmental team to report back on the feasibility of creating teams that are on call to work with city departments. Thank you. Count on price. Thank you. I'm asking my colleagues to support me on this item as our ongoing efforts to try to create an environment where homeless individuals are being offered services and having incentives to allow them to get into services with some provisions regarding their property in the city of Long Beach. As we all know, we're taking huge steps to improve our ability to provide assistance to those in need while also minimizing the impacts homelessness has to the communities. Tonight, I would like to have us look into the possibility of Long Beach taking another step to improve our ability to address homelessness. We have an amazing staff and city team and our homeless outreach team, our police department, our quality of life officers, our fire departments, heat heart teams, and they work tirelessly every day to get homeless people the help they need. We've seen over and over that getting people into services is the most successful way of helping them to make major life changes and long term transformations. Through rehab, shelter or bridge housing or through detox treatment, they can obtain the first steps they need to get on that journey to recovery and or the assistance that they need to make life time changes. It can be time consuming and difficult work to convince our first responders and our homeless outreach team to finally accept services. And we want to make it easier for individuals experiencing homelessness to be willing to accept those services. One of the hurdles that I have personally observed through many homeless outreach ride alongs is that people living outdoors do not want to park from their belongings. Their belongings can, in most cases not be brought to the treatment center, which forces the individuals to choose between getting help or keeping their property. We should be able to offer another option where we have a dedicated team that can be called to inventory, collect transport and store the property for people, giving them peace of mind that they're not giving up their belongings in order to accept services. Instead that the city is working to help make accepting those services less difficult. This could be done for any part of our multi department team that works to address the issue of homelessness from police to fire to our health department. This could also be used to assist police when conducting arrest or when quality of life officers are transporting someone to a treatment center or facility. It could be used when our Hart team responds to a call and we want to get someone into the help that they need. This could be used when homeless outreach teams meet with an individual for the 17th time and they finally agree that they're going to enter into a program that gets them back on the right track. But they don't want to abandon their property, which is incredibly reasonable. Any department who would want to work to safely itemize and store property would be able to contact a team, a city team for that purpose, making it easier for staff members, working to get someone into services to be able to focus their attention on the individual. Removing this reason for someone to refuse services helps us make it more likely and more attractive for people to get into the services that they need by accepting services on the spot. It also helps free up existing city staff working with homeless individuals to do their work and not be forced to spend long periods of time inventorying property. Further, this inventory team could help us be more proactive in getting public spaces cleaned up by giving individuals experiencing homelessness greater confidence and security that their property will be kept safely in a secure location. It's a major way that we can reduce barriers to accepting services, help our multi department teams be more efficient and effective, and improve the maintenance of our public spaces. And with the purchasing of the building that will become the navigation center, we have an opportunity here. As a city, we can be more efficient with our specialized staff in ways that help city staff be more effective in police work, public space maintenance, providing homeless rehabilitation services and maintenance of our parking spaces. I believe this team could this inventory team could really become a huge asset to the city as we continue to work together to better help the homeless and to maintain our public spaces. So I ask my colleagues to approve this item, which allows us to explore the possibility of creating inventory teams to assist our first responders. Thank you, Councilwoman Price, Councilmember Supernova. Thank you. Great report, Councilman. I think that this is all about giving support to those who do the outreach and giving them a broader range of resources to help folks. And who knows? With this in place, maybe that average number of 17 visits will come down. Thank you. Thank you, Ms.. Mary Andrews. Yes, thank you, Mayor. Council County Councilwoman Price. I think that this is an excellent idea to be able to help our homeless situation, because a lot of individuals do not want to depart from anything that they have created or stored. So I want to thank you for bringing this item forward. And I think any time that we can encourage homeless individuals to accept service is worth exploring. I am sharing with you all of the photos. If you can get a chance to see those. I have photos of this ongoing encampment along nine corridor in my district. I've gone out and spoke to these individuals. Some want to help. Some do not. But if they can make it easier for them to trace the transition and openness, this mechanism can help them. It's a lot of individuals and I know a few individuals pray to God that you never, ever have to be homeless, that you will be able to understand that a lot of these individuals. They're not really looking for help. But we're going to continue to stay and do everything we can to try to get them any kind of help that they need. So I thank you very much, Mr. Rice, for bringing this item forward, and I will totally support it. I don't see any public comment, any members of the public here on this item here. So we go ahead and please cast your votes.