Recommendation to inform the Harbor Department of the following City Council recommendations and requested actions and coordinate with them as necessary to explore discussions with another major international port city with the intentions of creating a green shipping corridor similar to the one in development between the Ports of Los Angeles and Shanghai, including exploring joining the Los Angeles/Shanghai clean shipping corridor as a partner; Add support for legislation or administrative action to rapidly decarbonize the maritime shipping industry and to create green shipping corridors along the California coast, the West Coast of the United States, and across the trans-Pacific trade route to the City’s 2022-2023 State and Federal Legislative Agendas; Request City Attorney to draft resolution calling on top maritime importers to Long Beach to adopt existing emissions-reducing technologies and take steps towards making port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex on zero-carbon ships by 2030; and Pursue all the above items with a focus on incentives and provide input on incenti
Thank you. Item 30, please. Item 30 is a communication from Councilwoman Allen, Chair of the Climate Action and Environmental Committee, recommendation to inform the Harbor Department of the following City Council recommendations with the intentions of creating a green shipping corridor at support for legislation to rapidly decarbonize the maritime shipping industry and to create green shipping corridors to the cities 2022 through 2023 . State and federal legislative agendas require city attorney to draft resolution, calling on top maritime importers to Long Beach to adopt existing emissions reducing technologies and take steps toward making port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex on zero carbon ships by 2030 and pursue all the above items with a focus on incentives and provide input on incentive types. All right. Great. Councilman Allen. Thank you. Vice Mayor, can I kind of request that we go to public comments first? Great. Is there any public comment on item 30? Yes. Dave Shukla. Patricia Chen. Grace Lawrenson. Do Denuncia hinder. Anna Kristiansen, please approach podium. All right, come on down. Who's first? Dave Shukla. All of you. Okay, well. Every one of them first. Okay, fine. Whoever is in front. Chen Grace. Good evening. I'm Patricia Chen, and I'm a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach. And I am here to support or to express my strong support for item number 30. Um, our faith centers around eight principles, and I'm just going to tell you, the seventh and the eighth are about focusing on respect for the environment and responsibly dismantling racism in ourselves and in our institutions. Um, I see supporting the proposed resolution and the item in general as an opportunity to support our principles in improving environmental quality and addressing harm to the many people of color who in the past had very little choice in their housing, and thus they have been in close proximity to uh, harmful emissions from the port area. And particularly, I've seen maps of cancer in the city of Long Beach and they're very tightly clustered around the port, and that makes me feel very strongly on these issues and just really want to express support for, um, asking our large major retailers to please insist on clean shipping , uh, for the goods that they're importing to sell here in Long Beach. Thank you. We'll let you finish. But we I don't think we have quorum right now. When we pause. When we pause for a moment, we establish quorum. Is that councilman super over there. Does that count for quorum? Nope. No. Okay. Councilman Suber. No. We're going to need you to come back behind the rail. Sorry, buddy. All right. I think we're going. To end with a thank you to you for bringing this item forward. And it's very important. Thank you. Certainly. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, I'm Bruce Lawrenson and I'm from the seventh District. And I do appreciate everything that the city has been doing to combat climate change. And the, uh, the, the part is a particularly difficult issue and it every little bit helps and decarbonizing shipping will be a big step in creating clean air and preventing disease in West Long Beach and will also help to stop global warming. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, Mr. Vice Mayor and members of City Council. My name is Daniel Heydari, and I am the Sheppard Zero Campaign Lead with Pacific Environment, which is a global climate NGO that focuses on serving poor communities and advocating for zero emissions ocean shipping. We possess rare consultative status at the United Nations International Maritime Organization, and I am based here in Long Beach. Pacific Environment. Cyber Monday 2021. Report Shady Root How big retail and their carriers pollute along key ocean shipping corridors can target an Amazon to be top big retail contributors to Long Beach ship congestion and pollution crisis. And these companies reliance on the dirtiest fuel in the market for ocean shipping. Heavy fuel oil is causing high rates of asthma, cancer and premature death in West Long Beach, where residents experience up to eight years shorter life expectancy than the Los Angeles County average, according to the city of Long Beach is 2019 Community Health Assessment. Indeed, Black Long Beach residents are hospitalized with asthma at eight times the rate and Latinx residents are twice the rate as white Long Beach residents. The problem has only worsened during the pandemic. In 2021, cargo ship congestion at the San Pedro Bay ports caused an increase in nitrogen oxide emissions, equivalent to adding 5.8 million passenger cars to the region and an increase in particulate matter emissions equivalent to 100,000 big rig trucks per day. Both pollutants are associated with higher risk of premature death. The global shipping industry accounts for 3% of global climate emissions, more than global air travel. If shipping were a country, it would be the world's sixth largest polluter, about the same emissions as the entirety of Germany. On its current trajectory, ocean trade is projected to grow as much as 130% by 2050. Over today's trade volume. If ships remain on fossil fuels, they will represent 17% of global carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century, as the most recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warns. If we hope to limit global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit and save our home on Earth, we must have our greenhouse gas emissions from 2019 levels by 2030. This includes demand, including industries like cargo, cargo shipping work alongside ports, governments and retailers to transition to 100% zero emission shipping this decade. Otherwise, we risk frequent power outages, deadly heat waves and uncontrollable wildfires. All life as we know it is on the line. We must do everything in our power to save everything we can before it's too late. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. And a kristensen. He had me at all. Life as we know it is on the line. Just saying. I really want to thank Cindy Allen for this, introducing this item as well as the next one, which has a lot of lines crossing it out because apparently our city attorney needs to take a harder look at it. But I think we're coming to the point here where our city, our city council, our city manager are all of our staff. We need to pull together to realize that it's racism. Environmental racism and environmental justice and environment, period are all, you know, needing an awful lot of attention here. And it's really weird how when you think like growing up, how Signal Hill got separated precisely because the oil industry didn't want to have to contribute to the well-being of all the people whose oil that they were drilling. And now we have a port that's a very wealthy port. I mean, it just grows and grows and grows. And we have the president making special effort to keep the cargo moving. Right. But what about the quality of life? It's kind of stunning that you can't it doesn't make sense. Why should Wilmington be so, so poor when the port is creating so much wealth? So this disconnect, I'm not saying anything new here. Not like the guy behind me. I mean, there is your expert. When the city outsources and looks for experts, hire that guy. I mean, pay him because this is an NGO. An NGO appeared before you today that that is government standing he government his organization has government standing before the United Nations. He knows a lot about this. You know, my son did tell me this week that one cargo ship generates an incredible amount of pollution, more than so many cars. So it's good that we try to drive electric cars and conserve and do all of that. But these are the big polluters. They're are also the big job creators. And the unions back them. And that's our other issue with workers. Workers whose lives are at risk, whose own family's lives are at risk, are showing up to support big pollution. And that's something also quite unfortunate. I just came here to say that we know in the world when the oil terminal issue came up, the room had a lot of people from out of town. I don't think we are SEAL Beach. I don't think we are suspicious of someone who didn't grow up in Long Beach. That were bigger than that. We're the largest city in California. But but I do think we should pay attention when people bother when these and I know probably a lot of people were planning on coming tonight for the next agenda item as well . I saw the list of people supporting or taking a hard look at what we're doing right here in town when it comes to ending our own pollution creators, our own oil industry. So thank you for this opportunity to speak. Thank you. David, your last speaker. It's okay for me to speak last. Gave me time to caught the world, so to speak. Thank you for letting me speak last. It gave me time to look up my comments on Earth Day that are not part of the comment on legislative. But it doesn't matter. Very briefly, Councilwoman Allen, thank you for bringing this forward from Earth Day to today. The issue of green shipping corridors isn't just an environmental one. It's an economic one. Being able to control these shipping corridors, being able to control where the ships are charging up, especially about 200 mile marker where we were just breathing in all that pollution over these past month. That's going to matter for competitiveness for our port. As I've explained to Director Cordero and others there, it's an important item, and it may well be that the Port of Los Angeles is as much a frenemy and competitor as it is as a partner, specifically on this issue of the offshore wind leases, because that's where you can get all the juice you need to cool down the ships. I would love to see what the incentives and some of the details are of a detailed guide. Sure. But overall, thank you so much. It's a really great idea. Happy to support it. Thank you. That satisfies public comment. Take it back behind the real councilwoman Allen. Yes. I just want to say thank you to all the members of the public that came here and commented and thank you to Daniel Heydari from ship at the zero four. You said it all. I agree with everything that you said. I appreciate the advocacy of all of our allies. We're fighting the good fight. So I appreciate you showing up and speaking. This is a great item that signals our city's alignment with the green shipping goals. And I want to thank the Port of Long Beach for joining the ally Shanghai Green Shipping Corridor. This was absolutely great news. And I know that we heard this in committee and it hadn't happened yet. So. So just. Thank you. It's just positive news, you know, all around. Once this agreement is finalized, I would love to see it become a playbook to work with other ports to create more green shipping corridors. The city of Los Angeles passed a green shipping resolution on October 9th, 2021. And tonight, I hope that Long Beach will do the same and approve this kit, this committee recommendation. Our two ports, one beach and alley, both represent much economic activity and also incredible opportunity to improve our local air quality. So by working together to clean up our regional air quality. Long Beach and L.A. will continue to make a very significant and big impact. So thank you all for being here. And tastic. Thank you, Councilman Zoro. Yes. I want to thank Councilwoman Allen for her leadership on this item. You know, I think that it's important that we really look into all avenues of ways that we can reduce climate change. And I think this is a really important item that we begin to work on. So I support this item. Fantastic. I also want to just say great work to Councilwoman Allen and your committee. I've been briefed by this group and I'm happy to support the resolution today. I, I understand. Is the staff have any comments or the. From a staff perspective, I think this really is something that we'd be asking the port to take the lead on, as they're kind of the experts. We would certainly added in to our legislative agenda and be able to support the concepts and we haven't had a chance yet to really have that discussion with the port yet. But it's my understanding they're prepared to start looking at this. Okay, great members, please cast your vote. The motion is carried. Thank you. Item 32, please. Item 32 is reported from Economic Development and Public Works recommendation to execute a Supplemental Agreement to Management Agreement with ASEM Global to complete various capital improvements at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in the amount of 1.4 million. District one. Mayor Can I just say something? I mean, I'm sorry, Vice Mayor. Let's just get the motion cleared up. I just want to go through it, Councilman. Alan, 1/2. I know I have to recuse myself because I do own two properties that are within the the FT 500 feet of the convention center. But does that lose quorum? Okay. Great. All right. Is there a staff report here? Yes. Johnny Vallejo can give a very brief staff report. Yes. Good evening. Vice Mayor and city council decided is for a supplement supplemental agreement with ASM Global to complete various capital improvements to the Long Beach Convention Entertainment Center. These improvements would include improvements to the areas of the Beverly O'Neill Theater, Terrace, Theater, Terrace, Plaza and Promenade, among others.