Recommendation to suspend Council rule contained in Long Beach Municipal Code Section 2.03.020(B) relating to the meeting schedule of the City Council in order to cancel the meeting of  June 3, 2014 due to the City's General Municipal Election.
Communication from the Office of Mayor Bob Foster with the recommendation to cancel the meeting of June 3rd due to the general municipal election. Members, it's customary. I'll need a motion to move moving. Seconded. Any member of the Public Trust Council. Mr. Good. You. Sorry I left the glasses here. Very good. You clear as the address as I did on April three. Good. Name's Larry Goodhew. Clerk as the address of. I oppose this motion and I do not think the council should council cancel the meeting for next week. I think it should follow through the on my suggestion that I may on April 15th and also made last week that instead of certifying the election, what you should have done and what you should do have an opportunity to do now is declare a state of emergency. Suspend the election for a year and hire a federal judge to oversee the city to be squared away. And then go for an election. If you'll turn to the screen or look here. We've got I want to emphasize what I think brings into sharp focus the need to do that. Try this the other day, the Premier. Can we focus on the motion? This is the motion, sir. You'll hear. What if you could turn. The volume up, the kill or be in all three holes and in volume six? That's right. When can we get on the way? Dammit, that's five compartments. She can stay afloat. But the first four compartments breached. But not for. Excuse me. It's not. Fate. No, I don't have to excuse you. Out of the water. To show a. Film. Is not it for one? Not a film. Back and back. It's in such a blessed. You know, this is the only open the door. To the time. It's not staying here for another year. From this morning are very fortunate on that. Trust me, nobody wants that more than I do. I can. But here's my point. Here's my. Point. What's your point? She's made of irons. Her point is we're facing a disaster such as they this ship here faced on April 15. All right. Yeah, we're by about what measure? By what measure. To what measure? Finances. Environment. What measure? This city has it an iceberg. No, it has not had an iceberg. In an iceberg. We've had several iceberg. You might want to get checked out, actually. Thank you for making my point. Why? We need to suspend it. All right. The voters have already spoken. Mr. Mayor, you haven't seen that message. Two of the most putrid candidates available. All right. We need to get a better sense of the public, all right? And we need to find a mayor who understands protocol, who understands Robert's rules of order, and that when one is entitled to speak for 3 minutes on a subject and this is a subject. All right. That we are able to find one. We have not been able to find. Obviously, you don't understand it. So we need to take the time to search out a mayor like that. We'll put you in charge of that. Good luck in finding one. And good luck. Find something that works for you, buddy. All right. Mayor Members, we have a motion in a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries five votes. Yes. Thank you very much. Okay. Of those, the city council. If I can adjourn in the memory of Doug Carpenter. Doug was a lifelong Naples resident, was the president and co-founder of Paragon Steel, and known to many as a fun loving man with a big heart.