Recommendation to declare ordinance approving and adopting the official budget of the City of Long Beach for the Fiscal Year 2017-2018, creating and establishing the funds of the Municipal Government of the City of Long Beach and appropriating money to and authorizing expenditures from said funds for said fiscal year; declaring the urgency thereof, and providing that this ordinance shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on October 1, 2017, read and adopted as read.  (Ordinance No. ORD-17-0020) (A-17)
Motion carries. Thank you. Item 24, please. Item 24 is a report from financial management. Recommendation to declare ordinance approving and adopting the official budget of the Long Beach of the City of Long Beach for fiscal year 2017 through 2018. Creating and establishing the funds of the municipal government of the City of Long Beach and appropriating money to and authorizing expenditures from state funds for safe fiscal year, declaring the urgency thereof and providing that this ordinance shall take effect on October 1st, 2017. Read and adopted as read. Is there any public comment on this? Please come forward. Very good. I'm suggesting, again, as I referenced earlier, that you really get some guidance relative to the bioterrorism, notwithstanding the comments from a well-intended lady speaker earlier there referenced a situation where, quite frankly, it's a city we're doing the job in the first place. A lot of that wouldn't have been necessary. But but. A well-trained Eagle Scout troop could have addressed those issues. I'm talking about bioterrorism. I'm not going into the specifics of them because I'm not planning I don't want to plan any ideas, but that's an entirely different world. And again, it goes back to the fact that, again, the classic example came up 3 to 3 weeks ago. It's not that you don't know. You don't know. You don't know. And I would strongly suggest you reach out and get some experts in that field and get some guidance. Right now, as I pointed out. The police department fully can't grasp how to deal with the broken window paradigm, let alone bioterrorism. So I think you should take the needed steps. Spend what money you have to if you have to get out. Since consultants are work with the federal government zero in on specifically that. Don't wait for it to happen. As too often is the case. Just like you waited too long. Why do we had all these power outages? You didn't zero in on the electric companies to see and find out they were skimping and not bringing everything up to code. As a result, many buildings were out of power. Now, that's not a catastrophe, the first order. It's something they can work through with a good group of Boy Scouts to help solve that immediate problem. But I think you have to come into the 21st century. Spend some money, find some experts to guide you through that. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. And so first, just before you begin. To talk. About. My time. The moment you get off topic, let's talk the time for a moment. The moment you get off topic, this exercise is over. Okay, so I order. Time out. You let me explain this to you the way this is going to work. You have 3 minutes to speak. You can speak and say what you want to say, but you need to remain on topic. There is an opening public comment at the beginning of the meeting, a closing public comment at the end, and you can speak on whatever topic you like, but this one just stick on this particular issue . And that way you can get your 3 minutes. Okay. So now it's time to start. Yeah. Anyway, so given that it's a law in which you need to start reading the Bible so you can be fair. Remember what you were taught when you were young. Okay. Now, as far as dealing with this term fiscal year, we need the budget and everything done right and we need the many money spent right. We need the money spent for the people, money spent for the city. Not all this finagling help. The homeless are not going to go off and just say anything. This is real. That was real to do for the people. The people really need it. I keep on hearing about these bills for the homeless in everything I do for the people. Every time you ask Where's the money going to go to? Yeah, somebody says, okay, we'll figure that out. The third time I heard it was $225 million bills before, and I heard it. And like I say, hey, I guess I am about to go off topic because you need to quit now. I'm about to quit this off topic. Quit. Ginny Pierce. Thank you for your time. So, members, please cast your vote.