Recommendation to request City Manager to report on a new Clean Long Beach Initiative in 120 days. The report should include goals and an update to City Council at a special study session set by the Mayor.
So one announcement and then we're going to move on to our our items. Our first item is item 21, Madam Clerk. Communication for Mayor Garcia recommendation or request of city manager to report on a new clean Long Beach initiative. Thank you. So I wanted to just begin by saying this is on the agenda. Tonight is really a culmination of a lot of conversation that the council has had on a variety of topics when it comes to ensuring that we have a clean community and a safe community that's litter free. I believe that a clean and beautiful city is a core service and a core thing that people look for and in every neighborhood across the community should have access to a clean neighborhood, a well manicured, street efficient trash services, clean alleys, clean walkways. And so we want to make sure that we kind of redouble our efforts in this area, if we remember the city. Probably ten, 15 years ago had some real issues when it came to cleanliness. We had graffiti that would often stay on buildings for weeks at a time. We had a lot of trash all over the city, and I think we got pretty serious, particularly about ten years ago, and focusing on those issues. We started a rapid response around graffiti and eliminated that time to about 24 to 48 hours. We put in some teams and dedicated code enforcement that would do proactive code enforcement, which was great. And then during the recession, we lost actually some of those efforts. And so a lot of the work around code enforcement, around proactive cleanup and proactive beautification really slowed down. Now, fortunately, over the last few years, the city council has been very committed, whether it's to focusing on dumped items or whether it's been focusing on expanding clean team service across the city. But I know I believe I know the council believes that we can do a lot more. We should not be satisfied with the level of cleanliness that we have on our streets today in Long Beach. While we have some streets and communities that certainly are are maintained, but by local residents more and are cleaner, we still have large parts of our city. And really, every part of our community can be cleaner and better maintained. And so there's a variety of actions on here. And I want to just kind of briefly go over some and why they're why they're important. The motion asks the city to review all of our efforts around clean out of the clean and safe team and our investments that we've made to improve response capabilities. I want to review the work regarding the illegal dumping action plan that the Council requested earlier this year. It's a review of the clean team operations for improvements or efficiencies. This one's important. I want the city to officially map every single freeway onramp and off ramp and work to improve cleanliness and conditions across the city. Caltrans has indicated to me that they're willing to work with us more in this, but we have to also be aware of where exactly every off ramp and onramp is and which ones are problematic across the city. Because I don't know about you, but I'm tired of driving on to an off of our freeways with large trash that we can't clean because it's Caltrans property. This includes a review of all of our trash cans citywide to identify opportunities to replace and or add trash cans to our budget process . I'd like to explore a city ordinance around locking trash cans in alleys. There are some cities that require dumpsters to be locked in their alleyways. We don't require that whether or not we want to pilot that in Long Beach. I have heard from some neighbors. There have been some businesses that have done this on their own. And it's unbelievable how much more clean those alleys have become overnight when they lock their large trash bins. And so it's happening already across the city. We don't require it. Should we require it? I want to see if that's something that we should do or not do. I want to review all of our supermarket and retailer shopping cart theft technology systems. This city passed probably an ordinance. I want to say maybe 12 years ago that required major retailers to begin to include shopping cart locks systems on their shopping carts. How should we expand that and go and add additional stores, including smaller stores that still include shopping carts? We're seeing more shopping carts across the city. I think we have to review the current technology. Is it working in all of the stores and tighten that up? We want to modernize our Golden Beach app, something this council's brought up numerous occasions. We need to, once and for all purchase a customer relationship management system so that every time a resident can communicate with the city about an issue, it's available online. And a record of that person is kept for every department to look at over one interface. We should review our graffiti standards. We should look at the staffing levels for proactive code enforcement, which we don't do currently because we lost during the recession. Also, laws around private and public lots and how we can strengthen those lots from being left with the trash. It is the responsibility of the property owner to keep those up. It doesn't always happen. We want to work with Long Beach Transit to ensure that every bus stop is well lit and. Has trash can service. We'd love to revisit a new litter free Long Beach campaign with our schools. We'd love to work with our kids more. And then the last two things is one is consider establishing a citywide volunteer corps that would work with neighborhood services staff for citywide cleanup events. I know that we do these regularly through council offices, which is great, but it would be great to have a consistent volunteer corps that's accessible to the city for large scale cleanups. And finally, explore any marketing campaigns that the city can be involved with. To do this, I'm really hoping that that staff will put this on the agenda because this is important. I've told staff that every city, every single city employee should be involved, whether it's a manager to a employee doing code enforcement involved in making our city look better and be a better place for our community. It's a I think it's a basic service we should be providing. And right now, the city is not the level of cleanliness that it should be, and we've got to do a better job. And so I hope that this organizes this effort. I'd love to get a report back from staff about what we're doing. I've asked all of this information to come back at a study session to the council, can ask a lot of questions and that we can get a plan in place so that one year from now we can look back and see that the city is dramatically a cleaner place. And so that is the item. I know there are some comments. I'm going to start with the maker of the motion by Councilman Gonzalez. Yes, Mayor, I'd like to thank you. I know this has been a major sticking point for you personally, having worked with you for many years. But for our city, I know just driving anywhere in the city, we see this abundance of litter and it doesn't make us put on our best impression to outsiders of the city. So I would certainly love this item. And I want to thank you, Mayor, for bringing this forward. A couple of things that I want to add in addition to what the mayor had addressed. For one, I know many people have asked, as we were talking about expanded polystyrene, etc., is about a litter audit. Perhaps this could be entertained, but it'd be an annual litter audit to ensure that we're understanding what the physical makeup is of the trash that pollutes our streets and waterways. And secondly, he mentioned the trash receptacles, which I think is great. I know big bands are often, you know, talked about in our districts. I think those would be beneficial as well. I would also like to see a way we can get creative with our city prosecutor's office in terms of our volunteerism as well. I know we have the program where they come out, they volunteer and pick up trash or they do some, you know, some minor work at some of our events. And so perhaps that's another opportunity or other volunteers, whether that's through, as the mayor mentioned, through this corps or perhaps youth opportunities through Pacific Gateway, through our workforce development . And then lastly, the CRM or the constituent relationship management system. I can't speak enough to that. I know that it's still very important. Currently in my I work for Microsoft and we use Google at my office, if you can consider that. But we, we, we really need something like that. I think that just goes beyond just litter and tracking that. I think just for constituent cases in general, it's definitely needed. It's something that will keep us efficient, keep us on track in our city council offices, but also just citywide. So I definitely recommend that as well. And then lastly, as a lastly, a breakdown of current code enforcement timely timelines to clean up a property based on violation, a current list of properties that have received extensions for cleaning up their property and opportunities. And I think that's already included. But I would also like to just emphasize that we need to get a little bit more aggressive on that as well. I think far too long, so many property owners are given some extensions and it just delays the process and cleanliness. So thank you again to the mayor and I look forward to seeing this return. Thank you. The second councilmember Orengo. Thank you very much. I want all to want to thank the mayor for bringing this forward. I know it's one of those situations where we look at the city as our pride and joy and there's nothing else like we treated our own house. You know, we have been my guests. We want to make sure that it's clean, that it's litter free, that it's acceptable for treating our guests here. So that's the way I look at it. And as far as having a clean city, we also look at what our infrastructure is. And I think this goes very well with our major aid moneys in terms of getting our potholes fixed and our sidewalks and our trees trimmed and keeping our our neighborhoods up to speed in regards to making it a welcoming environment and clean our trash and keeping our streets passable and our sidewalks. Certainly adds to all that. And I know, Councilmember. Gonzalez added a few. I'm sure I'll have a few, but I don't have any today. But during a study session, when our staff comes back with their recommendations, I'm sure that there's going to be some additional things that we can add to it. But I want to I want to start this conversation and looking forward to the study later on. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. So I want to thank the mayor for bringing this item to and beyond just bringing the item and opening the discussion. I want to acknowledge the quality of the item itself. This item is is expertly drafted in the sense that obviously someone put a lot of time and effort into identifying and providing very specific suggestions. And I think that's really important. I appreciate items like this. I have in the past tried to bring items like this, and I think some people might think they're intense or a little, you know, too specific. But I think it just shows that you have given thought to every aspect of the particular item and evaluated opportunities for the city and provided suggestions for the city of areas that they can explore, that staff can explore and provided some direction. So I really, really appreciate items like this because it gives a lot of direction. Not that people need direction, but I think it's important kind of to get a starting point. So I really appreciate the item. I think that the trash cans in the alleys is a fantastic idea. I think it's it's something that we hear about from our residents all the time. In addition to cleanliness, I think there some public safety benefits of having locked trash cans in the alley because we do have a lot of people going through the trash cans at night and a lot of our homes back up to an alley. So I think that would be fantastic. I would support that tomorrow. The other thing that I've I've often talked to our Parks Rec and Marine team about is the possibility of having consistent trash cans throughout the city. So we have big bellies in some areas. We have some of the blue trash cans in the parks. Some of our trash cans are covered. Some of our trash cans are not covered, allowing trash to blow, especially near bodies of water. So if we could consider having consistent trash cans, I think that would be good. The on ramp, off ramp, our staff actually today aborted a mission that they started a couple of weeks ago, which was taking photos of every on ramp, an off ramp off the 405 in the city of Long Beach, because this is an item that we had planned to bring to council because the condition of the off ramps and on ramps are horrific. They it's not just trash. There are potholes. The paint has completely worn off some of the on ramps and off ramps. There's weeds growing completely out of control. And it doesn't matter what part of the city you're in. They all every single off ramp, an on ramp looks terrible. And I don't understand why that's not the same situation in other cities. You know, when you get off the off ramp in Irvine, for example, you're you're not, you know, rupturing a tire because of the level of the potholes that you have to drive over. So I don't understand that. And so I would love a report back on how that resource is allocated within Caltrans and how we can maybe work towards bettering that. I mean, I really like the idea of a volunteer corps. I will say one of the things that is very frustrating for me and perhaps some of my colleagues is we often hear that there's a lack of resources, and I understand that in response to that, we try to get creative and we organize the community and we try to get community cleanup efforts and community planting efforts. And then we're then there's a lot of why we can't do those things. So whether there are legal parameters or organizational parameters, whatever the case may be, it's like we don't we don't want to hear is we don't have the resources and we can't use volunteers because then there's no response. There is no answer. So I would love for this report to include some sort of a mechanism that takes away that level of frustration. I understand resources are limited, but if we're willing to get the workforce in place to try to mitigate some of these issues, why can't we do that ? Why can't we find a way to make that happen? So bravo to the mayor for bringing this item. Oh, the other thing is, I think the report should really include some more education for us on noticing requirements. So when people leave items behind, there's a noticing period prior to the removal of the items that are left in public. Would it be possible for us to reduce the number of days that are required for something to be noticed prior to removal? That would be great. And I think that that when we don't pick things up as quickly as we can, I think there's a lot of negative feelings that develop among the residents because they're continually looking at these items for days on end. So with that, thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I completely support this discussion and where it's headed. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilmember Pearce. Yes. I also really appreciate the item and I know it's something that you've talked about a lot and it's something I fully support a proactive, integrated approach to cleaning up our neighborhoods. I feel, deputy, since our first month in office, has been doing two days a week where he drives around and does proactive field work. And I wanted to share some of the numbers to demonstrate what a difference you can see. The first month that we the month prior to us being in office, there were 167 reportedly illegally dumped items reported and resolved in that first month. After April, we are April numbers were around 357 resolved issues. And so you can see whenever you're being proactive, you can really have a double the impact. And so I think going back to our trash cans, I think one of my big things I've talked to staff about and talked to will be transit about is the big belly trash cans are a great way to make sure that people aren't digging through our trash and then leaving trash around that we should have those at every single bus stop. Bus stops are where you can see a lot of trash that gathers around. And not only that, but they're also a great opportunity to use for whether we're doing education campaigns around some of our health initiatives, whether it's around recycling. But they provide us another avenue to communicate with residents. The other thing that I think has been really helpful and I want to say that we support is looking at getting volunteers out. What we've done in my district is also doing neighborhood audits. So we go out with Craftsman Village or we go out with Rosa Parks and we walk every single street talk about where the trash is due, their graffiti pickups, and really try to identify those areas so that we can have volunteers out there. I would like to also have an understanding of what the education is around big item pickups. So it particularly in my district where we have a lot of turnover and resident because we have a lot of apartments. How are we making sure that residents in those buildings understand what's available to them? And is there a way for us to increase that? Because maybe you guys staff have you could answer for me how many large item pickups does a building get per year without having to pay a fee? Sorry, I know that's a spring on you question. I think it's one you can it might be more. For residential households. I believe it's two in terms of buildings that have to be more. We'd have to get that information for apartment buildings. If we can include that in the report, I think that would be a way for us to make sure that we have less illegally dumped items, and that is it. So congratulations on bringing this item forward. Thank. Thank you, Councilman Andrew. Yes, thank you. You know, first of all, I want to thank you for bringing this item forward. I'd like to suggest that the code enforcement be added to the go along with APP also. And my staff does weekly drive through the district and report illegal dumping and graffiti, which is why I know how our streets are looking . You know, the thing I think that we have, you know, as various ways that we can do more, which is why I support this item. But the biggest part about it, I think you as a resident and a person who lives next to an individual, like we just said, we get free dumping. So if you know someone, if you're planning on moving, just don't throw your whole furniture out in the middle of the street. You know, tell someone and we will help you get that taken care of. You lobby individuals, you move and you throw everything out in the middle of the street. We'll get it up, but just don't leave it out there. So I'm making this a suggestion for you as an individual. If your neighbor, you know, their moving, say, hey, we can get that taken care. So that's the only thing I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. And, you know, just to that point and then I go to Councilman Mongo and this is something to add to what Councilman Andrew said is we should also work with our apartment owner partners. And I know some of them are here and how do we get information to them so that the tenants are aware that there are pickups and that we can help instead of seeing all the stuff out on the street? Councilman Mongo. Yes, I am excited about this item. It is a lot similar to item 24, which is proposed tonight by Lena. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilmember Super not myself related to similar issues that we have in the parks related to this item. I want to make sure to emphasize how proud I am that the mayor's including an item that has been near and dear to my heart since the day elected and I have not been able to see the movement I have encouraged for our CRM system. It is unmanageable that we don't have a system that connects with our community in a meaningful way. I love the goal of reach out for the ways in which it does work, but I love that the logo along each app is included in this item because it still needs significant improvement. Furthermore, I think that it's time to address, and I can say it here and now and put it in this item as well as item 24. The condition of our public bathrooms throughout the city, the condition of our public bathrooms in some cases is exemplary and in other cases it's just not acceptable. And we need to work on that. Additionally, weeds on our corridors and. The timeliness of weed removal and how we can better partner with a lot of our nonprofits in the community with that workforce. I know that in the fifth District we've done that a lot, but it needs to be something that's regular and scheduled and thoughtful in terms of a schedule. And finally with the trashcans, I agree it would be great if we had universal trash cans that were similar and branded throughout the city. I would also like to recommend a Adopt a Trashcan program so that when these trash cans are put out into the city, many people don't realize how expensive they are. They can be upwards of $5,000. And so when there are fundraising campaigns and they exceed their goals of a nonprofit, wants to adopt a trash can and pay for a trash can to be branded with their nonprofit. I think that there's just a lot that can be said about that. We currently have the Parks Partnership Program that was brought to this council several months ago, and the partners, the partnership opportunities are available within Parks and Rec to sponsor a trash can, sponsor a bench, sponsor any of those things. But citywide, that should be an option. You should be able to adopt a trash can on any commercial corridor. So there's also in our commercial corridor, we are allowing businesses to adopt the trash can in terms of there's no trash can here. We in this business corridor want trash cans. We recognize there are some specific issues related to the city being able to maintenance those trash cans. So each of the business owners has come forward and said, I'm going to bring that trash can. And every night it's not one of the affixed ones. And or I will empty it every night if it is affixed because of the issues related to not having lids in the things. So there are communities out there that want to help with this and we need to make sure that there are methods and avenues for that to be a possibility. So thank you again for the opportunity. And I know we're going to have a little bit of a repeat on item 24, but for the community to know how important this is to us, both in the community and in the parks, I think is important. So thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I want to say thank you and acknowledge you for for thinking broadly and including a lot of the work that our city staff is working on, a lot of the issues raised by the council in the past, and they want to be careful that we are very specific in terms of what we want to see. What I don't want to happen is we raise an expectation and it's and is difficult to meet. So I want to be as specific as we can about, you know, where we want to be in terms of like where we're going to prioritize our focus here in District nine. So the 91 freeway only bisects it only it only sort of goes through District nine. So we deal with these on and off ramp issues pretty regularly. I actually remember grabbing the when I was chief of staff to Councilman Neal. We are I got the district director for our local senator. We got the Caltrans representative and we literally got on a van and drove on and off every off ramp. And we accomplished that with about 75 letters from residents to Caltrans about the condition of the off ramps. And it made a difference for a little while because like Councilwoman Price said, you know, since we border a lot of other cities, we would see the difference when you leave Long Beach, an entire Bellflower complete difference in terms of the offering. So I want to be real specific about, you know, let's think about let's think about what we can do specifically in Long Beach, just last week, just last week, I believe me and Mr. West went on and off an off ramp in Bellflower to show on the difference between a Bellflower the belt with bell flowers done. And I remember, Mr. West, you said it took about ten years or something to get to get there. What they've done, they've literally enhanced it. They did bio soils, all this other stuff. But it's a beautiful entryway to the city, but it took them about ten years and the city took over that off. So so I do want to be really specific about what we want to do. There's a lot of interest to do in the Bellflower off ramp, and I don't know that that's actually possible within the scope of what we're talking about here, but there are some things we can do. I also want to suggest, you know, someone brought up the adopt to adopt a highway. Our residents, our neighbors in the in the Hamilton neighborhood in Long Beach just finished the process of adopting the 91 embankment adjacent to their neighborhood. They they're beautifying it. They've got a mural going up. They've they're literally taking that work on. And I want to continue to encourage work like that, people to sort of reclaim those on off ramps and those embankments. Next, I think one of the most dramatic changes I've seen on the Atlantic corridor and our in Artesia Boulevard is when we actually brought out and Mr. Mayor, you were with us when we deployed those green uptown trash cans. They made a big difference. Occasionally someone kicks them over, but in general, it makes a huge difference to have them deployed along the corridors. It'd be difficult to do. But I do recognize that we have there are budgetary concerns but it made a. Huge difference. Whether someone's picking up trash or not just made a huge difference to have those there. And the final thing I'll say is that we've tried, you know, it's all hands on deck approach in North Long Beach . We've we've tried this thing called the ninth District Spring Cleaning Challenge. We've done it probably the last four or five years. And what it is, is simply challenging the residents to do as many cleanups on their block, on their street as they can within a, you know, a month or so. And we recognized them. What if we were to take a concept like this and just put a challenge out to all the neighborhoods? And I know there's neighborhood associations in every district just said, hey, this month we're going to focus on service. We focus on cleaning up, and we're going to recognize the people who really step up and and stand out in terms of clean up their neighborhoods. So those are just some of my suggestions. I think this is certainly a step in the right direction. I just want to have some some real red meat, some, you know, some real red meat to show to the residents at the end of this effort. Thanks a lot. Thank you, Councilmember. Super Non. Thank you, Mayor Garcia. This is quite an item and we appreciate you bringing it forward. Just a couple of points here. Just following up on what the vice mayor just said, our office actually did an adopt a highway on the four or five freeway. And you don't have to have a neighborhood group to go out there and do the work. You can pay for a service to have that done. I think here across the board, education is the key and we have to get everyone educated and I think we have to enlist the help of the private sector for that. We have private recycling waste haulers that can all be a part of this solution. And I have to give recognition to Frank Ramirez of Public Works, because I've had this discussion about locking dumpsters for a long time. I think the official position of public works right now is that we do not like locking trash cans. The net effect is that more trash is left outside the trash can for folks who can't get in. Now, I don't think that policy has to stay static. I think with education we could come up with a solution. But we're back to that education word again. I think the well, really, that's that's the key. And all the neighborhood cleanups and whatnot, we can coordinate those better, I believe. And and really that's it. I think education is the key outreach. In fact, one piece that we try to do in a business friendly way is just to tell business owners what their responsibilities are. Most people are shocked that they're responsible for all the sidewalk and the top of the curb. The horizontal part not as a curve goes down vertically. So if there's weeds on the sidewalk, some people think that the city is going to come by and pick those. That's not the case. And alleys and residential areas, same thing that the resident is responsible for maintaining the alley. That's all I have thinks. Thank you, Councilmember. And I want to thank everyone for their comments. And just to close. Just as a reminder to you that this is cleanliness has, you know, key connections to public safety. And we've all read all those reports that essentially show that that the cleaner community, the more that's invested when it comes to ensuring that dumped items are off the street, there is a connection to public safety and civic pride in that neighborhood. And so I hope that we view this also with a an eye towards safer communities for everyone. And and with that, I'll just send it to Mr. West. I, I think I shared with you and you can hear it from the council tonight. I view this as a top priority. There's a lot of things that are important that we're doing citywide. It's public safety. We're making sure that we've got great jobs, we're fixing our infrastructure. But I think it's time that we that we really from the top down and from you down. And I've said you have a reputation of being, you know, Mr. Clean and what you did in Paramount and as head of the redevelopment agency in a city manager. And I think that this is something that you that we could own and and really aim to being the, you know, the cleanest large community anywhere. And I think we can do it, but it's going to take everyone in the organization to focus on it. And so I'm looking forward to the results. So there's the motion of no seconds or any public comment on this. Please come down. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. My name is Danny Flores Owens, City Council Staff. My name is Danny Flores. I'm a single father. I'm a resident for 20 years. I'm a homeowner for the past ten years. And I'm also recently hired as the central child safety and justice manager. I'm in full support of your initiative. I brought some parents with me. I brought some youth with me. We feel that is an important initiative because it's evidence proven that clean communities, the businesses thrive. The children are healthier. Clean streets provide a safe community, healthier environment for everybody. A lot of council members talked about driving around the city. Well, we do a lot of walking around the city. And when you when you walk in certain zip codes, there's gum like massive gum all over the place. It's like thousands of pieces of gum on the floor. And sometimes I'm speaking to the community members or the residents, and I say, man, we just need to get some spatulas and clean this up ourselves. Because it's like Councilman Supernormal said, it's education. It's education that needs to be taught to the children and to the apartment owners and the highways and the property managers. I remember once the Chief Luna said at a public conference here in Long Beach that it was small things, it was a small things. And he was talking about when dogs poop on the floor and everyone started laughing. And I only thing I thought is, why. Is everyone laughing? You know, it is a small things, you know. And if somebody poops on your front yard, you know, people get angry, you know, and it causes problems, you know, and and when. You see there's gum all over the place or trash everywhere you go, it does cause problems and it's unhealthy. And it can bring violence in your in your community. And I just want to say. That. Central Cha, we're really anxious to be part of this solution and that we are here to support you, Mr. Mayor, and city council. And I think I just want to thank you for this initiative. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you so much. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. I'm Robert Fox, executive director of the Council of Neighborhood Organizations. Thank you for bringing this forward. Wonderful idea. We would like to participate, of course. And you're calling for volunteers and we represent the neighborhoods and we'd like to participate in a constructive way. I know you're going to be having a study session and we'd like to participate as much as possible that if you would invite us. We do have a few suggestions because we did think about this before we came to council. And today we do have like free pickups for large trash per owner twice a year, but we do have some problem properties and we just organized a neighborhood association on Wilton Street near Community Hospital and there was a problem property there and it's overwhelming to the owner. We get some I've been on the hoarding task force where and we're dealing with somebody who can't really handle the issue. And when we have a pickup problem like that, where it's to the benefit of the community, I put forward to you that maybe could we possibly tweak the pickup to include instances of major hoarding or major debris around problem properties in our neighborhoods? I don't know if we have a mechanism for that. We only have like a you can pick up a mattress or a chair, but what if there's just a ton of stuff and these people don't have the money to really address the issue? So those are the kind of little things that we'd like to bring to the table. But all neighborhood associations in the city of Long Beach are right on target with you in terms of cleaning the city and making it beautiful. It improves our quality of life tremendously, and we want to be a partner with you and doing this major vision. So we will be volunteers for you and we will spread the word for you. And I hope that you will invite us to the table to discuss more. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thanks, Speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Jane Templin, 63 Rose Avenue. I'm very excited about this being brought forward. There were a couple of things that we expect. My husband and I caught our eye in discussing the one modernizing the Go Long Beach app. We think that would be awesome. It used to be if it's used more, it's more effective. The mapping, the freeways, I mean, finding all of them. I think we all know you can leave here. And if you hit the 710, those gateways are not very nicely representative of our city. We would really like to see those type of things addressed. All of them are good issues. The last one that is especially awesome and the previous speaker and all considering the ongoing volunteer development. I think the more you have residents involved, the more ownership they have, the better it is. And we do love our city and being involved in it, people getting out and showing that it gives them stronger ownership. It can only get better. So thank you for bringing these forward. I appreciate you're looking at these issues. So Long Beach. Oh, and just one other issue. Congratulations on your new status. Oh, thank you. Next speaker, please. Very good you, Kirk, I suggest. Certainly a commendable project. I've echoed the support of every other person that has spoken. I would extend it, though. I do. I would extend the new clean Long Beach initiative to also clean up an out corruption period as well as as well as the malfeasance of but a few but a few that undermined the good professional work that is done by the overwhelming majority of employees in the city. Period. There's no question we've we're very fortunate to have a Legion's legions of good, dedicated employees. But there are a few that are problematic. They need to be eliminated as well as the corrupt and the nation. Tomorrow will see on tape the manifest evidence. Other support the corruption gets. From the highest level of this city that's now will be played in the United States Senate and Congress. So I would suggest and I really mean if we start taking the needed steps to eviscerate that corruption. And don't wait for the pending arrest and trial. Thank you. Thank you. Any other speakers? Okay, there's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. There's been a request to move up item 28. No, 30. 30. The 32 next requested food stamps are let me let me do 32 and then 28.