Recommendation to authorize City Manager to allocate Public, Education, and Government (PEG) fee revenue equally among the three categories of cable access providers, each receiving one-third of the total available; and increase appropriations in the General Services Fund (IS 385) and the Department of Technology and Innovation (TI) by $1,026,288.  (Citywide)
Item number 35. I can get their report from Technology and Innovation recommendation to allocate peg fee revenue equally among the three categories of cable access providers and increase appropriations in the Department of Technology and Innovation by $1 million citywide. Yeah. It's an emotion by Councilwoman Gonzales and a second by Councilman Austin. Councilwoman Gonzalez. I guess I just wanted to thank our Technology and Innovation Department and as well as our I know patent is here and they do tremendous work. So this, I'm sure, will be a great benefit. That's all I have. Thank you. Councilman Austin, did you want to comment? I'll get this. I support this as well, Pat. That community television is a very important to community education and engage in our community and what's going on throughout the city. And so we should support this. Great. Thank you. Is there any member of the public that wish to address this item? Oh, Councilmember Monga. I, too, wanted to thank all the great work that Patina has done. They've really done a lot of outreach in the community and been a staple that all of our neighborhood organizations can really rely upon along with. Now some of your business partners that you've really worked with. We appreciate the hard work that you've done. Thank you for the outreach outside of your your geographic area and going citywide. We appreciate that. Okay. With the motion on the floor, is there any public comment on this item going forward? Good evening, Mr. Mayor, and members of the Council. Derek Simpson, executive director of Long Beach Action Partnership and Patent TV Eastern Match. Mr. Mico We also operate our public access television program and make sure that it does provide the great service that you have all acknowledged this evening. I just want to say that long acting partnership continues to make a great investment of our resources to ensure that it continues to be a stellar operation. In fact, we remain the only public access operation to come back since the difficult legislation was passed. And we're doing that now only through the original grant that was written to the Knight Foundation, which this council supported and bringing back net back and public access back. But we're also doing it to the tune of $200,000 of our own agency funds to offset the capital investment of the funds that we look forward to improving tonight to ensure that the operational side of the House is taken care of. And that's just 200,000 of the total of 300,000 that it takes to actually operate pad net. So you can be assured that you can be very proud of that. In fact, tomorrow we interview Congressman Lowenthal for one show. We look forward we on on the council. We've had everyone there except our vice mayor. We look forward to having you sometime soon. And our new councilperson, Mr. Super Now. And we also interview John and Michelle Molina on one show tomorrow. It's a big day for us tomorrow. So we continue to do good work and we appreciate your support. Lisa is going to give you just an idea of some of the numbers that we've been able to generate with pay net recently. Thank you, dear. Yeah. Not only do. We produce content. And it produces content, but of course, our our goal is to serve the community. And give them the tools and resources. So we currently have 178 members, which includes 38. Groups, which are nonprofits and businesses, 142 individuals, which includes seniors, students and youth. Since 2013, when NET came back, when our public access station, after four years of absence, came back on the air, we've trained 331 people in basic production. 317 and full production, 202 and final cut pro editing 332 in. Studio production. And since 2013, our field cameras have been checked out. 1172 times members have spent 928 hours editing and members have spent 1700 hours producing in the studio. The content they've produced is about 826 shows, which includes about. 756 hours of content. So that's amazing after having been dark for four years. So Mr. Mayor, we currently have four interns and we would love to have a lot more if they're interested in video production. We're the place to be and we support your internship program citywide. Thank you. You guys are doing great work over there, obviously, and the facility looks great and keep up the good work. Very nice. Thank you. So there's. There was that was a any more public comment on this item saying non there's a motion and a second to it please cast your votes. Motion carries, etc.. Next item, please.