Recommendation to increase appropriations in the Special Advertising and Promotion Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $1,500, offset by the $500 of Fifth Council District One-time District Priority Funds, $500 of Eighth Council District One-time District Priority Funds, and $500 of Third Council District One-time District Priority Funds transferred from the Citywide Activities Department to provide donations to the Long Beach City College Foundation to support the citywide Long Beach Reads One Book event held on March 19, 2020, at the Long Beach City College Liberal Arts Campus; and Decrease appropriations in the Special Advertising and Promotion Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $1,500 to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.
3640. That's ZIP 32 or 36, which was 36. Item number 36 Communication from Councilwoman Mongeau. Councilman Austin Councilwoman Price Recommendation to increase appropriations in the Special Advertising and Promotion Fund Group in the City Manager Department by 1500 to provide donations to the Long Beach City College Foundation to support the citywide Long Beach Reads one book event held on March 19th, 2020. Councilman Mangum Thank you. I'm very blessed to hand over the microphone for just a few minutes to two of the committee members who have worked so diligently on this project, and the new appointed executive director of the Long Beach Community College Foundation. Thank you, Councilman. Council member. Sorry, Honorable Vice Mayor. My name is Susan Redfield, and many of you may remember Long Beach reads one book that ran out of the Long Beach Public Library Foundation. It stopped six years ago. I wanted to bring it back. And Long Beach City College agreed to sponsor it. And we are doing that this year. Long Beach reads. One book is back. The program is to encourage everyone to read the same book. This year's book is George Takei's graphic novel memoir about his experiences as a young boy in the Japanese-American internment camp and later his experiences as an actor on the movie the TV show Star Trek. And later as a gay Asian man and how difficult that challenge was. The book is appropriate for middle school and up. It's been vetted by our Long Beach Unified School District. My ten year old granddaughter read it in 2 hours, absolutely loved it, and sent a video to Mr. Takei about how good it is. It touches many values and themes that are important to us. We have five high schools reading the book right now and we have it. I wanted to confirm that I'm doing this right. Five high schools, librarians, librarian book clubs. Our city is known to have 145 book clubs, and they've been told about this program. The goal is to get everybody to read the book and then to come and hear Mr. Takei speak at a free an event that will be free for all students with a small suggested donation. But it's really a free event for Mr. Takei to speak on the campus of Long Beach City College a week from Thursday, March 19th. I think that's it. Thank you so much, I. This agenda item under advisement of the city attorney commits three councilmembers to each, giving you a $500 commitment from each of our sappi funds. And I would ask any other council member that is open to joining me. I would be happy to take a friendly amendment if you're open to making such a donation as well. Anyone else. Okay. Mr. Armstrong. Which? Usain Bolt. So prices next. Oh. That's one place. I wholeheartedly support this item and thank you for everything that you do and I'm happy to be contributing to the allocation. So thank you. As well. Thank you, Vice Mayor, Councilwoman Mongo, thank you for the invitation to join in. And Susan, I know we spoken about this. And, you know, I'm a big fan from, you know, I wasn't alive when the Star Trek show was out. But I do know Mr. Sulu and I know about this book. So you can count me in. So you can accept this as a mr. Sulu else's name on Star Trek. Anyway, thanks. Come on. I'm so thankful. I know my stuff. I'm thankful to the Trekkie in the ninth District and your commitment. Oh, this is a you know, I'm offering. Absolutely. I'm happy to support it. And like we talked about, the more we can make sure that we advertise this at the Obama library so people know about it, this free event of the better. Library and all the other libraries as well. Thanks so much. Thank you. Thank you, council members for bringing this item forward. We wholeheartedly believe in reading across every single age group and sharing and participating in as many book clubs as possible. So you can count us in for 500 as well. And again, a great book. I mean, I think it's a great book on so many levels and I really look forward to to finishing this. So thank you so much. Thank you, Councilwoman. And there's. Thank you. Ditto with all of my colleagues have said congratulations and I'm very happy to support this. I encourage everyone to participate and everybody, you know, reads a book because I think it also builds community. And I think that that's very important, especially when you have a shared common interests like this, and especially if you have a fun act for live action kind of book in all different levels. So thank you and I look forward to supporting you and spreading the word about this as well. Thank you. Do I hear a friendly amendment for the council colleagues not mentioned on the agenda? Item two also commit 500 from their SFP. Is that the friendly? Yes. Yes. She each said they they each said they supported you. I just want to make sure it was heard. Yes. Yes. Okay. So that makes it 30 $500 on. You guys got that? I move that we include Supernanny ranga to. I second that. Okay. I'm I'm happy to. I'm not going to do that. Okay. Way to go, Rick. I mean. You know, to the, you know, that motion that was drawn. I was going to say, when's the next time Rex is absent from council? That's what's. Thank you for your support. And I appreciate those who are able to come together. I mean, it's very tricky to be able to get council members to agree in advance because of the Brown Act requirements. I met with County Council, our city. See? Now look at me. I'm at my work job, the city attorney to figure out how that works. And so hopefully in the future there'll be a mechanism where we wouldn't have to gain compliance in advance, but there has to be a mechanism where if we all wanted to pitch in on something, that that would be possible . So thank you for opening the door to figuring out what that looks like in the future. For those of you who didn't know, today's recognition of the women's suffrage was a case in which there was originally an intent by one or two council members that were looking to donate. And then we said, let's bring it to the full budget oversight committee and find a way to give as a whole to the organization. So that worked out. But this is seed money and so we look forward to being self-sustaining next year. Thank you. May I ask a quick question? May we say that this is a partnership with the city of Long Beach then? Okay. Thank you. We're your sponsor. Thank you, Mr. Parker. The recognition that comes with a donation of that magnitude. Thank you. And before you leave, Mr. Perkins, you want to. I just clarifying that it was 30 $500. We have CD 1 to 3. Five, six and nine. Eight, nine? Yes. Okay, fine. Thank you. Thank you. That was the quickest money I've ever seen. Oh, that's not true. I remember the Budget Committee meeting this year. It was a last minute swap in your district. She's good. I don't forget. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. And we hope to see you all there on March 19th. Fine, thank you. I'm fine now. Could we have any further comment on this item? CNN. Cast your vote. Motion carries. I think, you know, we're comfortable in Mongo. Did you want to move up 3 to 5.