Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 35502 with Shree Ganesh, Inc., of Long Beach, CA, for providing temporary lodging and emergency shelter for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, to increase the contract by $1,028,785, for a revised aggregate contract amount not to exceed $2,778,785.  (Citywide)
Emotions carry. Thank you. Number 22, please. Item 22 A report from Health and Human Services. Recommendation to amend contract with Shri Ganesh for providing temporary lodging and emergency shelter for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Contract amount not to exceed 2.7 million CDI. Thank you. Just a brief, brief rundown on this, Mr. Modica. So these are part of our housing voucher system. So when we have ability to place people in our emergency shelters and we also have the ability to place them into motels, said this is what you're authorizing. And tastic. Thank you. I see one public comments and I can fill you up. Thank you, Vice Mayor, City Council. My name and I can say I'm the sixth district resident using some of the terminology of Mr. Soup Supernormal. I'm mystified that the city is interested in renewing this contract with three ganache, specifically because this motel is a known nuisance motel. It's Colonial. It's on PCH. For those that don't know, I spoke originally in 2020 when this item first came up, the contract first came up. It was for $350,000 on premise. That's great. The idea of housing our unhoused, our homeless population. But this space is a known sex trafficking and criminal entity with respect to who inhibits it, people in the community complained dozens of times. I'm actually surprised, compliance wise with the amount of police calls that are referencing this specific property, how this even was able to get pushed for a renewal. You know, I just think that all respect to the motels, the vice mayor a couple of years ago pushed for the Nuisance Motel designation with respect to, you know, getting rid of these types of entities. And this is a nuisance motel. So if the city is going to, you know, push forward with my my understanding of the RFP program, this was a minority owned business. So I think that's probably why I was able to skate around some of the compliance issues, but $2 million to essentially put people who are trying to recover from living on the streets into a space where the streets are central. And it doesn't really seem like it's cost effective with respect to the state. And I just I'm just concerned with people in the community. I'm a part of a neighborhood association called Central Neighborhood Association Committee, and we've written letters in the past about this space. And so it's just concerning that Colonial will be able to get more city funding to, you know, push criminal elements into our community in central Long Beach. So thank you. Thank you. Members, please cast your vote. Councilwoman Sandy has. In Mango. The motion is carried.