Recommendation to declare ordinance approving and adopting the official budget of the City of Long Beach for the fiscal year 2016-2017, 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, 2016, read and adopted as read.
Motion carries. Thank you. Item number 23 Please. Report from Financial Management Recommendation to declare ordinance approving and adopting the official budget of the City of Long Beach for the fiscal year 2016 2017. 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 on October 1st, 2016. Read and adopted as read. There is a motion and a second. Is there any public comment on this item? Seeing none. Please cast your vote. Councilor Pearce. Motion carries. Thank you. We've already handled items 24 and 25 and 26. I understand. So that satisfies the agenda. So we want to open it up now to public comment. This opportunity is given to members of the public who have not addressed the City Council and non agenda items. Each speaker is limited 3 minutes unless extended by the City Council. Is there any public comment? Good evening. My name is Renee Lawler. And I'm actually here to speak about agenda item number 20, which I don't see that you actually addressed. I provided a letter that I submitted to the clerk. So you skipped item number 20. And I wish to read this letter. I'm. Oh, it was withdrawn. It was withdrawn. Okay. And forgive me. When is it going to be reinstated? Miss Clark, do we know? No. No date was given. Okay, it'll be placed. It'll be agenda and notified publicly. Okay. So then I will provide my comment at that time. Thank you. Thank you. Any. Any further public comment? Seeing none. Let's go ahead to new business. I want to begin just by adjourning in memory of someone very special. I'm sorry. Do we have another? Okay, let's have one more. Is there anybody else? Thank you. Please. Please. Come on down. Now is the time. Thank you. Name for the record, please. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. And City Council. My name is Tanya and I'm the VP Development from the Association of U.S. Army Greater Los Angeles Chapter. I would like to take the opportunity to make that announcement for our upcoming veterans honoree. Is the second annual. And we last year we. The purpose of this event is to honor veterans from all services our branches and also to raise funds to support the Veterans Service Center located at the Joyful Training Base in Los Alamitos. Last year we started the right at the joyful training base. We stop at the VA Long Beach here to honor veterans, and then we end arrive at the American Legion in Los Alamitos. This year, we planned to start the ride to Huntington Beach Pier, and we still cannot stop the rate at the VA Long Beach. We planned to go inside the hospital to visit the wounded and sick veterans on the weekend of the Veterans Day. Actually, the event going to be on Sunday, November six. And and we're going to end right at the American Legion as 716 in Los Alamitos. AM 100% proceeds of this event is again going to support the Veterans Service Center located at the joyful training base. This center opened its doors in 2008 and the nonprofit support and we step. In to. Make this fundraising efforts to and efforts to expand the center with the upgrade and hopefully bring in more service. Providers. To serve our troops veteran and their family. So we we hope to see the community participate. And this will be a great event. Oh. Thank you. You have any questions? No, ma'am. But thank you so much for for that. And so public comment is now closed. We want to adjourn in memory of someone very special we lost ten days ago in a tragic accident. Maria mendoza was the mother of a member of the City Hall family, Isabel Avia, who works in Councilman Andrew's office.