Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents, and any subsequent amendments, between the City of Long Beach and the State Water Resources Control Board, to receive funding in the amount of $100,000 to provide beach water quality monitoring, for the period of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.  (Citywide)
Next item. Report from Health and Human Services recommendation to execute all necessary documents with the State Water Resource Control Board to receive funding in the amount of $100,000 to provide beach water quality monitoring citywide. Thank you. Your income. I don't know. Councilman Andrews. Any public comment on the item? Seeing Nazis cast your votes. Well. We do have a question. Oh, sure, Councilman Price. Sure. I just wanted to thank staff for this great effort. You know, our city has done such an amazing job in terms of making sure that we have. Hmm. Okay. Thank you. Since we deal with this issue a lot. To make sure that we have that water quality is such an important part of our story here in Long Beach and what we have to be proud of. So I want to thank staff and thank my colleagues in advance for supporting this. Vice Mayor, did you have any comments? I just had a question. Is this the same monitoring that we had developed and expanded in conjunction with Heal the Bay and their report and all of that? Nelson Kerr, our bureau manager from Health Services. Yes, honorable mayor, members of the City Council. Yes. This is the same hill. The Bay uses our test results to calculate their grade, so they're using our data. I appreciate that. Thank you. And I appreciate the continued work. Thank you. Sorry. One more thing. Would this be a good time to report that in 2015 we got a ratings and all of our waterways as opposed to 2008 when we had a bunch of FS. This is a great time to report that. Was it is it 2008 we had to write these. Yes. And dry weather. Yes. Yeah. And then 26 vice mayor was saying. So for a long time we had bad grades and we're doing really well. This city council has spent millions and worked diligently over the past ten years with its own city council committee to clean the water. The City Council has worked diligently with Heal the Bay so that we have independent third party people that are evaluating our water. Mr. Kerr Behind us, he has health experts that collect samples. They have scientists that test the samples. So these are legit. And again, they're supported by Heal the Bay. Mr. Ker, did you want to say anything? I concur with what the city manager said. You know, we just had an interview regarding Colorado Lagoon and the water quality there. And we were talking about the great. Work of the. The residents who live in the area and instead of a grassroots effort. So we're going to call it the eel grassroots efforts because the water quality at that body of water is so amazing and a lot of people don't know and they're still not going in. So we're hoping that Mr. West's concept of swim ability really takes flight in 2016. So think Colorado Lagoon is our shining star. That used to be a perennial. Beach bummer. For years and years, and now it is actually our best water quality in the city and has been since the project's been almost completed. Okay. Councilman Fischer, you will read the. Yes. Councilman Mungo. I just wanted to remind everyone that Councilman Price did such an excellent job reminding us how clean it was by having that water dumped on her head for ALS. And we really appreciate her showing us the cleanliness of the water. And I'd be willing to find another charity to have this same experience again. Swimming in it. We could do a swim. Thank you. Any public comment on this item? Vice Mayor Lowenthal You know. Right. So Councilmember Price reminded me I know we take this for granted now because of how far we've come, but at the same time, there are a couple of things that I think we should at least share with the public. And one is something that Councilman Price just mentioned off the mic, which is we will be posting these grades at our beaches. Is that correct, Mr. Kerr? Just say yes. Yes. Okay. And so it's similar to our restaurant grades. Where is it? By flags. Will the grades be posted using a flag? Mr. Modica. Yes. We going to post at four beaches where we'll give the grades? Well, actually, I'll be in colors so it'll be safe to swim or rain advisory or don't swim in red. So green, yellow and red. Occasionally we do have a sewer spill or something and we'll have to put that out there. But normally in dry weather, we'll have greens out there. We'll also have the water temperature and we'll also have a QR statement. If you have a smartphone and if you want to get into how the sciences of how we test our water, you can run your smartphone over that and go straight to Mr. Kerr's website and health services to determine all that. And these will be at Mother's Beach, at Colorado Lagoon, at Bay Shore Beach, and also at Kite Beach. I appreciate that. I think just separate in and of itself, it's a very significant thing. But when you start looking at what makes the city attractive, whether it's for cycling or for tourism, these are all things that get widely publicized. I've been on the Hill, the bay board for almost ten years now, and it is something that's widely publicized and which we should be proud of. They're proud of where we came from and how far we've come, actually, and it is a big deal. So I'm looking forward to announcing those grades and and that will keep us motivated. There are some things that we cannot control. We just were reminded that we probably have not knock on wood had a spill in quite some time, but there are effluent issues that we aren't able to control, but we are on top of what we can and at least being able to alert our residents and visitors when it's not quite. Safe and pristine. I think it's a good thing. Thank you. Correct. We'll be very, very honest about it. And also, we want to shout from the rooftops so much so that we're going to be placing shortly 17 swim ladders at all of our public docks throughout Alameda space to just encourage people to be in the water. Thank you. See no other public comment. Please cast your vote. Motion carries.