Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Chapter 8.81 relating to fireworks; and by repealing Section 16.08.600 of the Long Beach Municipal Code; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Next step. Let's do let's have a quick votes on the UN. Well, actually, that may not be quite right to have some public comment. We have we have three votes on audiences that are, I believe, second readings or first readings that were already adopted by the council. And in 13, 14, 15 will take a vote on each of those individually. Item 13. Item 13. Communication from City Attorney. Recommendation to declare ordnance. Adding Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 8.81 relating to fireworks and declaring the urgency thereof. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting citywide. Thank you. I have a motion in a second to approve. What's your public comment? This. Philippe Herrera. Just. Philippe Herrera, please unmute for item 13. Hi. Hi. I live. In District. Four, and I'm just here to make a request of city officials to give a little bit more attention to our district due to the constant, um, fireworks that have been going off nearly every night. I realize there has been many city attempts to correct this in the past, but I feel it's important to. To dedicate an earnest effort to. To make this a little better for everybody. So this is just an honest plea. And I don't have any any suggestions as I'm. I don't have much knowledge of how to fix this issue. I'm just kind of hoping my my request is is heard. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Okay. Members, please go ahead and do recovery. Mr. Mayor, can we have the mover and seconder, please? Well, I'm sorry. I got some of your ranga and councilmen. Mongo and I queued, sir. I'm sorry. Just in motion. So I just thought you were just making the motion. So countering negative. Any comments? No comment. I'll refer to the CD by Councilman Mongo. And this item 13 was their staff presentation. Dear Members of the council, the city's city attorney park. And this is an ordinance. This is not a second this is not one of the second readings. The other three ordinances were second reading. Right. And yes, we do. Art Sanchez from my office can give a summary of the ordinance. Linda Tatum can certainly discuss the Fire Works Committee. And we have the city prosecutor, Doug Howard, available and the deputy police chief. Art, could I have a few questions? But they might be answered by the presentation up to Mr. Mayor, how you'd like me to proceed? No, I was under the impression we were that there were questions here so that there was just an ordinance going back. So we can go ahead. If city attorney, did you want to kind of give a summary of the ordinance? Art Sanchez? Yes, council. Mayor this item came to our well, this item was brought to our attention by the fireworks committee. Our office was directed to prepare an ordinance to increase enforcement measures for the use of illegal fireworks. The focus of this the language of this ordinance was to address those issues. One, been increasing the scope of individuals that could be held responsible for violations, as well as to increase the penalties. One aspect of the increase in the scope of responsibility or the scope of people that could be held accountable for illegal fireworks was to create a host liability ordinance, which would include property owners, tenants, landlords, property managers , as well as any individual that organizes, supervises, officiates or conducts any type of firework event at a particular private location. The second main point in the language of the ordinance is the response costs. So anyone that is found to be held in violation of the language of the ordinance would be responsible for the cost. The actual costs of fire PD and any kind of emergency personnel responding to a call relating to illegal firework activity. And so those are the two main points of this ordinance. I am available to answer any questions that Council may have. I also want to remind Council that this is an emergency ordinance so that it would require two separate votes. Once the Council's concluded discussion. And that's the that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Them among us. Thank you. So I just want to thank the fireworks committee, the city attorney staff. And I know Linda Tatum's been a big part of this. Two questions. I want to make sure you both questions, because I know we have a limited amount of time. And when we talk about all the parties that could be held liable, I think it's important for there to be a process or a way where we ensure that the individual putting off the fireworks is actually the one that is held accountable. And so I know that there are situations where there are minors involved. I know there are situations where there are tenant landlord issues, property manager issues. So I guess I would want to know what. Our methods of ensuring that the process, if a landlord or a property manager appropriately notices the tenants of the legal requirements not to use fireworks inappropriately, then it sounds like as a component of that the ordinance the landlord could still be held liable. Or is it that in that case, if proper noticing went through, it would be the tenant? And then what kind of costs are we talking about? What is our estimate of what we're talking about? Where a current fine is $1,000? I don't know a Captain Bill that. How much an hour or how many hours are we talking about to input it, or are we talking about an increase? I would hope so, because we came to the city and said we need these to be more. Larger penalties, but in cost recovery, it doesn't always turn out that way. We want to make sure that we have an understanding of the magnitude of what we're passing tonight and how that could be held by a landlord who could be a 85 year old person in a senior community who uses their rent for their fees to take care of themselves in a single community. So I just want to make sure we know what we're passing here. A Councilwoman, this is Linda Tatum. I can speak to several of the issues you raised there. You you talked about who is responsible. And that is one of the things that the fireworks, the working group spent a lot of time on looking at this ordinance in terms of the actual implementation of it. And at the heart of this ordinance, the new concept that is introduced here is the notion of what we call host responsibility or social responsibility. And like many other property related ordinances, the ultimate responsibility is to the property owner. So the wave of the ordinance is written when a a property owner is assumed to know or be aware or be responsible for any activities that a tenant, a visitor, or even someone who is just as long as they're on their property, they're responsible for those costs, those costs that are associated with the violation. That's the fundamental premise of this ordinance. And we talked among our group about how it would be implemented. It's very much the same way you investigate any other crime is if there is evidence either from a complaint, the police department would go out, they would take a report. They provide that the evidence of that information to the city attorney, the city attorney would thereby issue the citation. And we talked about the costs. The citation state law limits the citation to $1,000, which is why it was necessary to increase that penalty to include the cost recovery. And at this time, we are not addressing the actual cost recovery fee. That is what will come back to you next week. And we hope to in the staff report when we present that item to have some approximate costs that we can share with the council. So tonight, you're just approving the ordinance language. Next week you will consider what those fees are or what those potential fees could be, because we're not. The only reason. You're only adopting the concept of the cost recovery. And that would include not only fire and police as as Art noted, but it would also include the cost of the city attorney to prosecute the fees. And I would like to just take a little bit of time to talk about some of the other activities of that working group. They have been very active in terms of designing an outreach program. The direction that we got from council last July when fireworks kind of went through the roof is just to to attack this from more than just one perspective. One of those was increase in the penalty, but the other one was to do a much broader outreach and education campaign, and that has started in earnest. The other thing that we've been really active in is collaborating with neighbors. We've been very active in trying to collaborate across the state with other approaches and strategies for how other cities are addressing this. So all of that went into our consideration of proposing this ordinance. Again, we're looking at best practices. Two other things that will be a factor, at least for this 4th of July is the fact that the city council last week approved the free block parties. We're still hoping that that will be a deterrent in addition to those block parties. The other thing that we will continue to do is to start data collection so that we know the number of calls for service and we can track those over time based upon different activities that we put in place there. So we're trying to look at this from a number of different perspectives to to really get a better handle on this and to prioritize the issue in the community based upon the council direction that we received. So thank you. Thank you. Is there a toolkit for landlords and property managers or information that they can provide as a notice to their tenants? And when we did the suspension of rent, I did hear from a number of senior citizens who said, you're literally taking away my rent and grocery money because I live on that income. And so I'm very cautious when we pass ordinances like this that we both want to hold the individual who's terrorizing the community with illegal fireworks accountable. And what we don't want to do is then rack up. A fee that we're we're passing an ordinance today with no fee attached to it. So, I mean, it could be anywhere from $1,000 to. I imagine it wouldn't be as high as $10,000, but I just don't know. And the reason that that council came together and said, you know, we really want the fees to be higher is because we wanted those fees to fall on the people who are willing to spend thousands of dollars on illegal fireworks. We didn't want those to land on our elderly residents who are providing housing for the community. And so I just want to make sure that through that social responsibility and host responsibility, you discussed that there's a process where if a landlord and or property management company could demonstrate that they did their due diligence and that there's still a way to hold the right person accountable for these fireworks and those fees. So that that would be my concern. Otherwise, I'm very supportive of the item as long as those are met. Councilmember this is city attorney. The fee is in the ordinance. It's a $1,000 fee. The fees that were referenced by the assistant city manager, Linda Tatum, will be the cost recovery fees. So they will be in addition to the $1,000 fee that is established this evening in this ordinance. If that helps in my question. Yes, I definitely understand that to be the case, but I don't see any cost estimates and they said they're going to bring those next week. But today we're being asked to approve the the structure by which we come up with those cost estimates. So that's all. And Mr. Parkin, are you of the mind that are our residents that are not setting off the fireworks, have done proper noticing and would be protected from burdening these fees and fines as the landlord who appropriately goes out and or hires resources to manage their property to ensure that those tenants aren't terrorizing the neighborhood . And what what what does that process look like? So so the process of the ordinance would would be to hold the host or the property owner responsible for this conduct. However, there is an exception that it does not apply to a host who initiates contact with law enforcement or fire officials to assist in removing the person or terminating the activity in order to comply with the chapter. So. So there is for those landlords that are working with the city and trying to eliminate this, there is an exception. And this is Art Sanchez. Just to follow up on Mr. Parkin's comment in regard to how these fees or the enforcement against a property owner would go, they would have an opportunity to respond and provide information similar to what Councilwoman Mongeau was referring to in terms of if they provided notice to a tenant or if they provided specific information to whoever was occupying the property that they were not to use illegal fireworks. That certainly can be taken into consideration when we're evaluating whether or not to proceed with the prosecution of the citation. Oh, wonderful. Thank you. I hope that and his team can bring back some samples that we can circulate in our newsletters and on social media in multiple languages. Some landlords may have tenants that don't speak the same language as them, and it's really important that language is integrated into all components of our city. And so for those reasons, I would hope that a flier and or acknowledgment tool could be provided for property owners and property management companies. I think that will go a long way in getting those entities to help with our campaign to notify people that illegal fireworks are not going to be tolerated in Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you. A councilman in the house. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, for all of those listening to our city council meeting, one of the things that I want to make very clear is that fireworks are illegal in the city of Long Beach, any kind of fireworks. And we have been having this problem for four years now as as was mentioned a lot last week, city council last week, city council meeting fireworks are not only disturbing, but because they set up current norms and don't let people sleep. But they are also very dangerous and triggering for events that that, you know, occur or when through violent and gun battles and stuff like that. So it brings back a lot of PTSD. Yet despite the $1,000 fine that we already have imposed for fireworks citations in the last couple of years, we have seen an increase in the number of illegal fireworks. One of the things that I would like to see and like Councilman Mongo said, is I would not want any unintended consequences to our property owners and landlords when when they are not aware of. Of the illegal fireworks that are being lit by maybe some of their tenants. I do worry about that. I was wondering, is there a way? I mean, I am sure that there could be a way where if a landlord does not know and does not obviously approve of their tenants doing or lighting up fireworks on their property , that they have the freedom to be able to pass that fee onto them. Is that something that is possible? So this is city attorney Art Sanchez. So in answer to that question, one of the main issues relating to enforcement measures of illegal firework activity is finding the violators. So if a property owner is in a better position to identify who these individuals are that are setting off the fireworks, then yes, we would take that into consideration . Depending on what the information is and what and how much how we could identify the individual who set off the fireworks. So that would be something we could take into consideration. But as a whole, regarding the way host liability works in this situation, I think the focus is on being able to enforce against individuals and what hosts liability does in the language of this ordinance increases the scope of people we can hold accountable so that we can get to the actual individuals that are setting off these fireworks or have possession of these fireworks or selling these fireworks. And, you know, and so that's that's one of the reasons for having this type of language. And, you know, again, those are things that we can address as we seek to enforce this ordinance. Thank you. Three. Thank you. Another thing for those that that are caught dead lighting of fireworks. I know that other cities such as Pasadena, which has been thrown a lot around when it comes to fireworks and I was wondering, they have an ordinance that impels the cars that that the person lighting the fireworks has. Is that something that we can consider in this ordinance? So this is our attention that again, I have reviewed what the city of Pasadena has in its ordinance, and I didn't see anything in their actual fireworks ordinance relating to the empowerment of a vehicle. I don't know if that's related to someone that is discharging or selling or possessing the fireworks in their vehicle. But it may be that the vehicle is part of, I guess, the committing the violation or the crime. And that may be a basis why I just don't have enough information to know what Pasadena is doing in terms of the empowerment of vehicles. And when doing some of my research, I did come across that. And I do believe that it was, you know, for having these illegal fireworks in in the car that they were being impounded. But I will look further into it and maybe we can talk through it. And I think some. My second question would be, is it possible to issue like or come up with an incentive program to help residents identify who is lighting up fireworks and possibly, maybe even when we have the if we we identify someone that's lighting up fireworks and that's doing this, and then we give them the fee, which is the thousand dollars plus. Right. Is there a way that we can use maybe some of that money from the peak fee to create an incentive program? The city attorney that that could be considered during your budget application process as whatever money that's coming in for the program. The cost and the fees that you'll discuss next week are to recover the cost of the services to implement the program. So if we start giving the money or you return the money or it sounds like you're creating some sort of an incentive or reward program for reporting, that would have to be additional monies that the city would have to make that decision on how much how you would distribute that, how you would award that, and that could be considered during your budget cycle. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. It gives me a little bit of hope. Third question, and I may be afterwards and another time. Okay. Thank you. I'll call you back up. Thank you. Council member, Austin. Thank you. I just need a little bit more clarity on that. The host you'll remember I brought forth the social host in order is related to alcohol consumption. I want to say maybe eight years ago and and I think our city prosecutor and I think a lot of this is based on on that the host is not necessarily the owner. I just want to be clear on that. Is that correct? City Attorney Yes. Councilman Austin That is correct. Okay. So it could be the tenant. It could be a landlord. It could be a property manager. But it's trying to assign responsibility to someone at a specific address. That's how I understand this. And so with that in mind, that may address some of the scenarios related to fireworks in our city, but it may not all. And so I'm just going to ask how we or how does this ordinance address potential situations where individuals may be setting off fireworks in an alley or in the middle of the street? So to answer your question, Councilman, the ordinance does have language that allows for a adjacent property or adjacent public right of way to a property where individuals are setting off fireworks and then return to a specific private property that can be identified. It allows for a violation to be attached that way. And so what that would require, unless the fire or the police officer is able to identify the individual setting or identify that the individual setting up the fireworks where he was located and where he went into or what location he went into would require residents or witnesses to identify one, the activity that's adjacent to the property. And then second, the property where that person that was setting up the fireworks ended up. And so that's it does have a provision for that. To answer your question, if the alleyway is adjacent to a specific property where the individual goes, then that could be assessed as a violation. Well, thank you. And I think this is a tool that we haven't had in prior years. And I'm you. Well, I don't necessarily like to see enforcement measures, but this is one that has the attention of so many residents throughout our city. And this is more than an annoyance or a nuisance, fireworks or impacting on sleep. I mean, people are deprived of sleep. They're animals that are having, you know, hard times dealing with these these fireworks. They're are veterans that are impacted. And so I think it's important for us to send a strong message. I think the takeaway from this is, you know, moving forward, if you choose to do legal fireworks in our city, you are putting your own housing at risk. And I think that is a strong message to take away from this. Thank you. I'll be supporting this. Thank you, Councilman and House. You are mute, Councilwoman. Thank you, Mayor. My third question would be, is there a way to penalize, certainly or legally discourage people from even participating in close proximity to illegal fireworks being lit as a way to discourage people from not only lighting up these fireworks, but also from being complicit in in a way, you know, like if they're involved in. You know, the the whole show thing. Like, is there a way that we can also cite them, even if it's like a $50 citation or something like that for those that are encouraging the your lighters. And to answer your question, Councilwoman Sanders, the ordinance does have language that allows for what includes the definition of a host, as any person who organizes, supervises, officiates, conducts, controls or otherwise is in charge of an activity at a property. I mean, the best example I can give for that is someone that maybe has organized some kind of, you know, firework party at a particular location. And based on the information that either PD receives or information received from witnesses at the scene that they can identify this person who organized the event, that that person could be held accountable as a host. And so I think that answers part of your question. It doesn't necessarily apply to all the individuals that are participating at that location, but it does provide for that type of liability as a host for the person that can be determined to have a coordinated or supervised event. A great and is if we wanted to do something like that. How would we go about it? Is there a way to to do something like that? Councilmember invite and this is city attorney if I understand your question correctly, this ordinance does not and I don't think legally you could craft an ordinance that would cite someone who's watching a fireworks. It may be somebody who's just walking by it, maybe a resident or a neighbor. I think what Art was explaining that we're trying to capture in the ordinance is if someone is is participating, organizing it, or at the host location and in setting off fireworks, we can certainly go after them. But I'm not sure where you would we would have to do a lot more research on where you could draw that line. Okay. Okay. Understandable. And yes, more research would be welcome to try to see, you know, because usually from what I hear from my residents, it's usually a little group that, you know, gets together, likes the fireworks and tries to disappear after they light it. So that that was my my reasoning for asking that question. Also, one more question. The city has in place a system to track down the sales of fireworks as as another approach to stopping the practice of of a fireworks being set off in the first place. Correct. I mean. Do we trip? Do we track it by the the cars? I just want to make sure that my my residents and actually other residents are informed on how we track the fireworks and the calls that are being placed. I can speak to that really generally. We have through the emergency services, the emergency line. Whenever a call for service comes in regarding fireworks, it is tracked by that by that office. And they track what they track, whether or not you see a fireworks activity in a specific address. They also track whether or not you hear what you think is a firework, and they will note that it sounds like a firework. So we track all of the data related to what we think are fireworks calls. Now, I wasn't clear that I hear you ask a question about confiscation of fireworks or fireworks sales, because that is something that PD also that was one of the other priorities that we were asked to look at to see if a police could step up the efforts to confiscate fireworks. And I know since the beginning of this year, there have been a couple of confiscations, and I think the chief is on the line and he could probably speak to that a little bit more specifically. I'm thinking. Yes, I thank you very much, Linda, for that explanation. I think that it would be great to share what what the conflict station successes have been. So, Chief, I might have to cue in again, but I'd like to give you time to answer that and to share that with our residents. And this is Linda Tatum again. Our staff is also finalizing a report, I think we mentioned during last week's meeting that we are preparing a report so that council can see since the the the that the working group came together last July, there have been a number of successes and a number of new, new initiatives that were done by this group. And we'd like to just lay those all out for for the the city council. And that report will be coming out to you within the next within the next ten days. And that will include the confiscations data as well. Okay. Wonderful. Did, Chief, that you want to share, Chief Luna? Did you want to share about your lust confiscations or. Or should we wait for that report? And I think. Not available. Stafford I think Stafford mentioned that they wanted to they're still putting a major report together that they. Mr. Modica, I know you had mentioned that you guys were putting together a report that will include the PD involved. Yes, we we are planning. A written report that will have a lot of information that you can share with the community. So we can do a quick oral report and our wait for the written report later. Councilwoman. Yes. Did you want do you want a quick oral report now? Yes. If possible, please. Just a small one. That would be great. Can you give a quick report? Yes, sir. Robert Luna here. Mayor and members of the City Council. So we were allotted funding that all of you made sure that we had. And part of our strategy was to give this money to some of our narcotic teams and directed enforcement teams. And and this is a warning to everyone who's listening out there. We're doing by bus. That means if you're out there selling fireworks. Our intent is to arrest you or cite you and confiscate the fireworks. And our teams have been doing that. We've confiscated close to £1,000 of fireworks thus far, and we plan on doing many more. So, again, just a warning to anybody who's out there. You're going to get a very heavy fine for trying to sell fireworks in the city of Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you very much, Chief. And I know that you had a commander also in New Hampshire that with me, as well as city manager. And, you know, I that's one of the reasons I wanted our residents to hear that we have been confiscating fireworks. With that said, one last question, and I may have to queue up right back up, but hopefully I have enough time to ask this question. I know that using your time is up. I will come back. Thank you. By Summer Richardson. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. Just a couple comments. You know, this is a difficult issue every year. You know, it's a cultural issue within our city. Fireworks. And every year the city council demonstrates that they're working on it. And city staff also brings their best foot forward as it relates to policy and enforcement, culture, education. And so I want to just acknowledge the city attorney's office, the police department and city staff for really taking the feedback from the council over the course of the past few years on this issue and coming forward with a new tool in our quiver. I think it's important every year that we do let the residents know that it is a process, but we are continuing to work on this issue. It is frustrating. We know that, you know, veterans, folks with animals or people who just want, you know, calm and quiet in the neighborhood, it's that it's a difficult issue and we need to continue to figure it out. The one thing the one question, one request that I would make to staff is I know and I am supportive of the strategy around block parties this year that Councilman Mongo Councilmember Mongo talked about supportive of that. We do those things in the ninth District and the culture here, too. But I would like to know, as we approach particularly the 4th of July, if we need to do more outreach in key areas or, you know, if folks don't know about the program, about the the way fee waiver or if they're not particularly engaging at some of the high fireworks neighborhoods, if we can just, you know, give some periodic updates, a city manager memo or two from for just on how we're going by district, that would be helpful, particularly for me to understand what's happening in the community that I represent. But I just wanted to just chime in. I know it's an important issue. I want to thank staff and I want to just offer encouragement to the residents that will continue working on this. Thanks a lot. One mango. Thank you. My comments actually fall in line with this. Mary Richardson So when I look at the high firework areas, we know what streets typically have calls and these are the streets that have calls all year round. So I guess my call to action and we only have 30 days is we know the addresses of the property owners of those properties on those streets and I would love to see a notice seen to those communities and to those groups. The Situs address is the address that the property owner requests that property tax paperwork is mailed to. A lot of mailing list by those from the assessor's office regularly to solicit them with advertisements about refinancing and such. But we as a city can work with the County of Los Angeles to get that download of the this addresses for the whole city. We could easily gioco those pretty quickly or have they have a GIS guy in the assessor's office. If you ask them to geo code the specific areas you want and download those addresses, you then have the exact addresses of the property owners, you know, the addresses of the renters because they live in the addresses that you were searching and you'd be able to mail out those notices and alternatives, including if your neighbor is someone who you believe to be someone who interacts with illegal fireworks, perhaps we offer a reward and or we say, here's a tool in the free block party to ensure that you and your neighbors are out in the community, all watching to be good witnesses and prevent, through peer pressure, the use of fireworks. And as Councilman Sun has said, all fireworks are illegal in Long Beach. So I say illegal fireworks. All fireworks are illegal in Long Beach and they do terrorize our community. So I just want to make sure that we work with the resources available for notice that I know that today or last night, I should say in my newsletter, it was sent out to thousands of people about these resources. But again, 50% of the block parties are already on the east side. And I think that it's been an effective tool for keeping illegal fireworks down as I've driven around the city on the 4th of July. And I hope to partner with any councilmember who wants to help their neighborhoods get those tools and resources to make sure that every single block in this city has a chance at a peaceful 4th of July. Thank you. Thank you. Go back to customers in their house and then we'll go for a vote. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor and City Council Member Members for bearing with me. You all know how passionate I am about this item. My last question is let me get to it real quick. My last question is, are we expecting to have on the go Long Beach are activated? I know that I heard that we were working on being able to have that available for our our residents to be able to report the fireworks that are being lit. Do we know if this is a function that will be available to us before the 4th of July? Councilwoman. This is Linda Tatum's responding. The the go Long Beach app is still in development. But given that we still have some work to do to marry or to make sure that the Go Long Beach app is compatible with the prosecutors website, we are not going to attempt to do that prior to the fourth. Rather, we are driving all of the the complaints right now directly to the prosecutors website. That website is up, is familiar. Residents know about it already, so we'd like to not confuse them and have two separate websites that they could report to. But shortly after the fourth, we will we'll continue to work on that so that we can somehow make the two compatible and speak to each other so that they both essentially do the same function or we'll somehow combine them. But but we're looking at all of the options. But for this coming forth, we want to make sure we're driving all of the traffic to the prosecutor's website because they've had some successes with prosecution as a result of the uploaded video and other data that provides evidence for them to follow up with actual court filings. So we're hopeful that we'll see a lot more of that activity this this holiday. Thank you, Miss Tatum. Thank you very much for the that information. I know that I get a little bit anxious and I want things done right away raised. But I think the best thing to do is to do it accurately and efficiently. So if we have to wait a little bit longer to make sure that we have a successful go Long Beach up where we can really, you know, report through there, I'm I'm really looking forward to seeing that in the coming months, hopefully before New Year's. But thank you very much, Miss Tatum. Thank you, everybody, for answering my questions. This is something that has been very important to me, you know, since before I was on council. I want to give a huge, huge thanks to city staff for your willingness to address this issue continuously. I want to give another huge shout out to our city prosecutor, Doug Kopacz, who has been amazing in creating a portal where we can have these instances recorded right directly to him. And I think that that is been a lifesaver and I'm very happy that we have had success with that. I want to give another big thanks to our fireworks committee. And I just could not could not pass up this opportunity to also give thanks to our amazing Facebook group, Long Beach against the illegal fireworks. Thank you for all the input that you have given us throughout this past year and a half. And thank you for working with all of the above mentioned to make sure that we have a fire firework free city as we move forward. And thank you for caring for the whole community. Ricky Ricardo, please. This vote is the first vote of two votes that will be on the urgency. A first vote, Councilwoman Zendaya's. I compliment Alan. I. I'm Samantha, but I. I can tell you in mango. I. Councilwoman Sarah. I. Councilmember Oranga. I. Councilman Austin. All right. Vice Mayor Richardson, I motion carry a second vote. Councilman Sun has. Did we? I'm sorry, did we ask for public comment on this item? Yes, we had public comment on this item. We don't have any public. We did. And as speaker, we had a speaker and they spoke prior to council. Okay. Thank you. Councilwoman Sun has. I. Councilman Allen. I councilman's subpoena. All right. Councilwoman Mango. Yes. Councilwoman Sara. I. Councilmember Muranga. I. Councilman Austin. Hi. Vice Mayor Richardson. Yes. Bush and Kerry. Thank you. Let's go ahead. And we have two more audiences to approve. Let's get these approved. First, item 14, please.