Recommendation to adopt ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Section 1.27.010 School Board Districts established; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopt as read. (Citywide) (Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-21-0041)
Thank you. And our last item on the agenda is item 51. I will ask the clerk to give us a short or whoever, whoever I think has a short presentation on the item or once every ten years. Redistricting happens in this case, it was Long Beach Unified School District. I was hoping also that maybe the court can kind of explain what the city's council's role is in this process, because it does happen once every ten years or we adopt both the school districts and the city councils, I'm sorry, and the three year colleges maps. And so if we can, please have that. Thank you. So once every ten years we go through the redistricting process. This year was unique in that we had the Independent Redistricting Commission who created the Council district boundaries. However, in our charter, the Long Beach Unified School District does fall under us in the election process and we do approve their redistricting boundaries. And we did receive the boundary maps from the Long Beach Unified School District, and we will be passing those on to the county on their behalf. So that is this item. And does the charter speak to Long Beach City College or is it silent on Miami City College? The charter does not speak to language City College. They are independent of our charter and our municipal code. So they are sending their maps directly to the county and their board has designated their their areas and is responsible for communicating that to the county. However, we still do. Take care of the long unified school district in improving their boundaries and communicating that information to the county. Okay. Thank you. I think it's important that we've been asked a couple of questions and a couple of customers asked, like there's three different processes for all three redistricting levels. I know that both the school school district and committee college have been engaged heavily, obviously, in getting the maps forwarded. I mean, in the case of Washington. But of course, I wanted to utilize maps. So thank you for explaining that process. We have a motion in a second. I public comments only do that first and then I'll go to the motion. Is Mr. Egan's or evidence here? Please come. Forward. So legitimacy of the school board, approval of the boundaries that the parents and our first school board meeting is questionable, that it was not on their agenda at the time the discussion began. And he appeared on the agenda as discussion continued. Ask the board secretary for an explanation of this rather than explain, she simply denied the fact. Which creates further suspicion of wrongdoing. Brown Act provisions for the agenda. May have been violated. Approve of the boundaries should be postponed until these issues are can be investigated and resolved. That concludes public comment. Vice Mayor Richardson. So I understand this this process. And just one simple question for staff or the clerk, based on your analysis, is this what they present presenting? There's no red flags. Everything's been presented as it should in compliance with law. Anybody. We have no. Reason to doubt it hasn't been. I have no evidence of anything that's not compliance with the law. Well, given that our counsel didn't get to draw. Lines this time to at least participate in. Somebody's process. So. So I'm happy to make this motion, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Vice Mayor. Councilman Sorrell. I just support the motion. Thank you. Members disco and Castro votes. And as folks vote, I just want to just congratulate Long Beach Unified. They put in a lot of work into getting these maps through a public process. And so these now going forward to the county, I believe, then become the official maps for the next ten years. So that is the process on these maps. And I was not aware that the Long Beach City College maps go straight to the counties. That's interesting that it's that's the charter separates it to out that way. So that's good. That's good to know. Thank you so much. And motion very generously. With that, we have the second public comment period. If I can add, Mr. Shukla. Mr. Battams, I think it says and Leigh, maybe Ms. Leigh. Deborah Britton say it is Satori.