Recommendation to receive Charter Commission appointments and reappointments pursuant to Section 509 of the City Charter and Section 2.03.065 of the Long Beach Municipal Code.
The charter commission. The next one. It's item 34, I believe. 30. Thank you. Communication from Vice Mayor Andrew's Chair, Personnel and Civil Service Committee Recommendation Received Charter Commission Appointments and reappointment. These are commission appointments coming from the the committee. And let me go through this first over to Vice Mayor Andrew says. Yes, thank you very much. At this time, we have two appointees, I think, and that's Mr. Porter Gilbert and Justin Morgan. So could we please, if you like to stand up and say a few words, you can. Let me go ahead and read their we want to read their their bios really quick. And so we have two appointments to see. PCC The first one is is Porter Gilbert again. Porter has been a resident here in Long Beach for now almost 15 years, and is the executive director of the LGBTQ center here in Long Beach and currently oversees the operations, programs and outreach efforts. He serves currently as a commissioner for the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations and has been involved in numerous organizations here locally in the city, including the Fourth Street Business Association, our Everyone Home Advisory Task Force and Advisory Boards for both the Lumbee Trauma Recovery Center and the Cal State University, Long Beach Master of Public Health Program. So congratulations, Porter, for joining this commission and also Mr. Justin Morgan, who is a fourth District resident. Justin Johnson lives in the fourth District and is an educator and teacher at Westerly School, where he teaches math to sixth and eighth graders and is the department head of mathematics . So very smart, Justin. He he's also a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Phi Delta and the Phi Delta and Kappa International Education Academy Academic Honor Society member. And so, Justin, also congratulations on joining the PCC. And with that is your public comment on these two on these still seeing nine? Let me turn this over first. Councilmember Pearce. Thank you. Thank you again to all of our newly appointed commissioners. I did want to take a moment and just say that tonight we are making history in the city of Long Beach where we have the very first non-conforming gender non-conforming commissioner being appointed to our city PCC and to our charter commissions. And so I'm really proud of Porter Goldberg, who I would call a friend who have got to see a start as a volunteer and make his way to this position and educating all of us on how we can be more inclusive and thoughtful in our policymaking. So I'm just really proud of Long Beach today. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Councilmember Warringah. I totally agree in that the Long Beach is one of the most progressive cities in Southern California, in California, and probably in. The United States. Thank you for your service. All you volunteers. Great. Thank you very much. So with that members, I did call public comment. And so members with that, please cast your votes on these two appointments. Of motion carries. Great. And with that, we're going to go ahead and go and take the photos of all the commissioners that are here to please meet us here in the front and the council members to also please meet us in the front. When his service members. Oh, really? Yeah. I got older, man. Good. Thank you so much. Yeah. I know you're not a hugger. You're getting a hug. Thank goodness. Why is it so slow. Down. Again? Thank you very much, Mr. Supernova. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Can we get a picture? Can we get everyone on the right side of move in, please. All right. All right. Want to. Three. You. Oh, wait. Oh. More or less. No more. One more. Okay, we are. Thank you. That we're going to go ahead and take a one minute recess. We're going to get set up for the presentation for Senator elect Gonzalez, who just joined us. And I know. Like I mentioned, she just joined us from her son's graduation. So I know she was rushing. And so thank you for for being here. One minute recess and we will meet when we come back. We will be beginning the presentation. You. You know. No. Okay. Mm hmm. Okay. Oh. But I'm going to go ahead and call this meeting back to order here. So we have folks I know in the back. If they can hear me, just please come back and we'll get this meeting started again. Hmm. Okay. We're going to start in just a minute. If I can have folks take their seat, please. So I'm going to start in just a minute. Madam Court, could you please do that? We're going to call this meeting back to order. If he can please you. The roll call, please. Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilmember Pierce County Councilwoman Price. Councilmember Suber down here. Councilwoman Mongo. Vice Mayor Andrews. Councilmember Your Honor. Councilman Austin. Councilmember. Mayor Garcia. Thank you. And I'm here as well. We're going to go ahead and begin our presentation tonight. And it's like we do as a tradition here at the city council. We do our farewell presentations to any member of of the council body that is ending their tenure within the city.