Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare a resolution in support of California Clean Air Day, October 6, 2021. Additionally, request City Manager disseminate information to residents about the Clean Air Pledge and how their actions and self-education can promote a cleaner-air future.
Thank you. Next up is 1035. Communication from Councilwoman Allen. Vice Mayor Richardson recommendation to request city attorney to prepare a resolution in support of California Clean Air Day on October six, 2021 and request city manager disseminate information to residents about clean air pledge. I'm 35 and 35. There is a clean resolution mission, a second public comment on this. There's no public comment on the. Councilwoman Allen. I'm. Thank you, Mayor. And first of all, I'd like to thank Vice Mayor Richardson for joining me on this item. Poor air quality causes, asthma, cancer and just overall shortens our lives in Long Beach and across the region. I spoke about this many times, but I grew up on the West Side and every bit of data we have points to major impacts from the detailed that zone between our horrible freeways. I am a breast cancer survivor with no family history of cancer. And it's important that we understand the causes of air pollution and how we change our behaviors and how we start advocating for structural changes in society and the economy. As Chair of our Climate Action and Environmental Committee, I am focused on taking small and large steps to improve our air quality and reduce our impacts on the environment . This has been brought into sharper focus with a recent oil spill on federal waters off of our coast. Our committee is working with city staff to advocate for cleaner transportation, to support the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, and to investigate innovative approaches elsewhere to reduce air quality impacts, especially those from transportation. Additionally, as a member of the Energy and Environmental Committee, I see regularly the data on the impacts of energy generation on local air quality. I brought this resolution to remind residents of our commitment to cleaning up our air. For the benefit of residents today and for the children of tomorrow. We must get better. It will literally saved many lives. Please go to Clean Air Dork Pledge to learn more about how you can clean up our air. Thank you. Thanks, Matt Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you, Councilwoman Allen, for for partnering up on this resolution. There was an article today in the press telegram, the vicious cycle, fuel, so-called pollution, worst air quality in decades. Well, it's true. We have some of the worst smog that we've seen in L.A. County region and in the south coast basin in decades at a time when we have more stringent rules than we've ever had. How does that happen? Well, the vicious, vicious cycle that they're talking about is we're seeing urban heat, island effect. We're seeing hotter temperatures while we also see the diesel particulate matter accelerating the air quality issue. So we have higher standards because of climate change, the urgency has significantly increased. What does that mean? The actions that we take on climate action and on air quality together are necessary in order to improve air quality, reduce asthma rates and extend life in our area. Earlier this year, I was elected or joined the county board for the first time in a decade that we've had a representative here in Long Beach. We're really engaged in Clean Air Day, which is today, and I represent 51 cities, HMD partners with other agencies. Councilwoman Allen mentioned Sky and others, and we allocate over $100 million in funding for low emitting vehicles and equipment. We have some critical deadlines to meet on air quality here in Southern California. Particularly the 2023 federal payment deadline. What that means is if we don't make some significant changes. You're going to see some changes in the way all of us move. You're going to see days. EPA will impact implement days where you can't drive in L.A. County, where only essential workers can drive. You may see days where the ports. And right now, there's all the ports are backed up. You know, all across America, you may see cargo be diverted to other ports if we don't address this. And that can have significant impacts to our local economy if we don't do the right things on clean air today. Earlier this year, we passed a warehouse indirect source rule, a first of its kind, which regulates the types of trucks that can go into Southern California warehouses. That makes a huge difference in areas adjacent to the ports and out in the Inland Empire. We're also in discussion on a memorandum of understanding with both ports. It's incredibly important you talk about labor standards, air quality issues and all of that in an agreement with AT&T to address some of the air quality issues that impact our very neighborhoods here in Long Beach. So they have a lot of work to do. It's important on clean air to acknowledge that it's more than a resolution. It's time to make sure that we're all getting plugged in on this important goal to achieve a cleaner future that improves our environment, protects jobs, and creates thousands of jobs in a process. That's incredibly important. There are a lot of things that we all can do to fight every day for clean air carpooling, mandatory walking, making online purchases in one order instead of cleaning. By now on every one of your purchases you should think about. Those are things you should be able to do locally sourcing your meats and your food. All of those things have an impact on our air quality. And so thank you again and adopt this resolution for clean air. Thank you. Councilman Sunday House. Thank you to Councilmember Allen and Vice Mayor for advocating for California Clean Air Day educational campaign. I'm happy to support this item. We all are too familiar with the negative health effects of air that air pollution causes to everyone, but particularly to our children and to our elders. Though these issues certainly require larger scale national and global actions, there are a lot of individual community actions that can be made and that can make a difference. So I'm happy to support this item and I encourage everyone to inform themselves and and to take the clean air pledge that is being made available to all community organizations and members. Thank you, Councilman. Sir. Yes, thanks, Mayor. I just wanted to express my support of this item. I mean, you know, we have a city that is adjacent to the 710 freeway corridor, and my district is adjacent to it. And while we have a higher, you know, it's read in the enviro screen chart reading one area of Long Beach where where the air quality is, that impacts all of us throughout. So I think that it's an ongoing daily. I think it's a daily clean air day in all the ways we can do to be conscious of our actions that contributes to our collective action in improving air quality. Thank you. Thank you. There's a motion in a second. No public comment. Please cast your votes. Just one person. Bush cares. We will do item 38 next, please. Item 30 Report from Economic Development Recommendation to adopt resolution declaring city owned property located at 854 East Seventh Street as exempt surplus land District one.