Recommendation to adopt resolution requesting the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk to call, provide, and give notice of a General Municipal Election to be consolidated  with the Statewide General Election to be held in the City of Long Beach (City) on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, and include the proposed Charter amendment to a vote of the qualified electors of the City relating to consolidating the City’s public utilities under Article XIV; directing City Attorney to prepare an impartial analysis of the Charter amendment; and, providing for the filing of primary and rebuttal arguments and setting rules for the filing of written arguments regarding a proposed Charter amendment to be submitted at said election.  (Citywide)
Index is item 20, please. The gas and water ballot measure. Item 20 is a report from City Manager Recommendation to adopt resolution requesting the L.A. County to give notice of a general municipal election to be consolidated with a statewide general election to be held in the city of Long Beach on November 8th, and include the proposed charter to consolidate the city's public utilities, directing city attorney to prepare an impartial analysis of the charter amendment and providing for the filing of primary and rebuttal arguments and setting rules for the filing of written arguments. City Wide. Public Comment. Please, please come forward. If there are any members of the public that like to speak on item 20 in person please on up at the podium in zoom please use the raise hand feature. Thank you. In person. Good evening. Dave Shukla, Third District. I'd just like to state for the record that most, as we saw from the presentation last month, most entities that have consolidated utilities include electricity. Many of them do not have the complications with an oil and gas department that is historically responsible for, depending on some calculations of two single or even 2% of global emissions carbon worldwide. Perhaps electricity can be included in this, perhaps not. Perhaps there's some other way to achieve some of these ends. Perhaps as advertised, this won't deliver as many of the goods as we think it will. I think these are open questions. Thank you. Thank you. Neither public comment. Please. Please come forward. Where? On the one. On utilities, right? Yes. Okay. Uh, I'm cluelessly and, um, the. Comments that I would have on the utilities. Are. That we have spent a number of years now working on the water department, trying to bring money from the water department into the general fund. And that hasn't worked out. And so, you know, it's been declared. Illegal in a. Couple of. Cases. So then I look at it and now we're talking about putting it together with the gas department and um, and that we're doing that for economies of scale, that there's ways to save money by doing that. I've been involved in a lot of this kind of activity when I worked in aerospace. And when you make a statement like that, there should be reports behind it that give you what an industrial engineer would say. And they have tools and, and, uh, software where they can go through and time, study things and tell you if your assumptions are correct. So to believe that this is really about economies of scale. I would like to see professionals involved to put that together. Otherwise, what I'm afraid of and the elephant in the living room to me is that this is going to be another way to try to skim money out of the water department. Um, we've. Grown accustomed to using that money, so I would object to put it in this on the ballot. Thank you. Thank you. The public comment is only public comment online. Nope. We have a roll call vote, please, on this item. Councilwoman. Councilwoman Sun has. All right, Councilwoman Allen, I. Councilwoman Price. I. Councilman Sabrina. Hi. Catwoman. Mongo. I Catwoman zero I Councilmember Ranga. Hi. Councilman Austin. Hi, Vice Mayor Richardson. Yes. The motion is carried nine zero. Thank you. That concludes those items. We're going to go to police oversight, the PCC. We are going to get a presentation from staff on this just because there has been some clarifying questions from from the council. And so we'll go through the presentation and then we'll go into any public comment and then council discussion. Mr. Morgan. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So we do want to take the time today to really dove a little bit deeper into this issue. There's been a lot of discussion going back to reports that we did independently from consultants going out to the community.