Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any necessary documents, subcontracts or subsequent amendments, including amendments to the award amount, with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to accept and expend grant funding in the amount of $1,500,000 for the Futures First, Office of Youth Development, for a three-year period beginning May 1, 2022, with the option to extend for three additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and Increase appropriations in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $1,500,000 offset by grant revenues. (Citywide)
Yes. The motion is Cory nine zero. Thank you, Adam 23. Item 23 Report from Health and Human Services Recommendation to authorize city manager to execute an agreement with Conrad and Hilton Foundation to accept grant funding in the amount of 1.5 million for the future first Office of Youth Development Citywide. There's a motion for a second, Councilman Austin. Any comments? Yes, I think this is a great opportunity. $1.5 million that's going to benefit youth in our city. I did have a question regarding the grant. Did we apply for the grant with the. The nature of the grant? And is this the same Hilton, Conrad Hilton, with the hit associated with Hilton Hotels? Yes it is. And we have our homeless services manager, Paul Duncan, available to answer any questions you have. But yes, that is the same Hilton. It's their charitable foundation. Great. Good. Glad to see them giving back to our community. It's personal time by Wendell and ask and answer any questions. She's much more informed on the specific grant. Why? Or were you looking for a presentation or was there a specific question? The question was whether or not we. Saw that was okay. Thank you, Paul. I think we're good. I. Good evening, Carol. Mayor and city council people, this is. Dr.. Davis, so we can get back to you about that. I'm not 100% sure if we applied or how exactly the. The. Process went for us to receive this grant. But I can get. Back to you. On that. I thank you. I'm supportive of that. Either way, I think this is a good for the city. Are you. Thank you. Any public comment. That there are any members of the public they would like to speak on item 23 and person please, please line up at the podium in the zoom. Please use the raise hand feature podcast are nine now. We have one member in person. Your time begins now. Thank you. Dave Shukla again. It's wonderful to be in person. You can catch things in real time and wonder why they're happening. Like item 17. It's really kind of funny, you know, that we have a couple of years left. If you've read the latest APEC report on climate impacts, only a couple of years left to do anything to have a livable future for any of us. And uh, we have a couple of proposals here for half of the grant money that we're supposed to have a presentation about November 18 regarding our youth climate program, state funding for which but this is private money from the Hilton Foundation, which apparently has deep reserves after the pandemic to direct Pacific Gateway. If any of you can read or have your staff even read the staff report for either the 17 or 23, I mean, it's fucking ridiculous, you know, like, oh, we're going to take disadvantaged youth, you know, a couple hundred of them and stick them in space. The moment where you use all the last resources, we have to send a couple of balding white assholes to space. I mean, seriously, like, what is this all for? But more generally, I mean, when it comes to the fact that I mean, this is a city government and you are charged technically with the safety and security and well-being of all of your residents. Uh, it's kind of surprising that we would direct our social and public resources in this way. Um, the data collection protocols will be developed by the evaluator and the Institutional Review Board to allow for the use of data in future publications. Uh, yeah. I mean, you know who's going to read them? Thank you. That concludes public comment. Restaurants in the UK up again that. So just wanted to highlight this program. I think this is incredible. So based on the staff report and based on what I understand from the program, it's you know, the Office of Youth Development is going to start a really great program for 300 youth from, you know, different communities, disadvantaged communities across Long Beach. And half of those youth will be connected directly with the Pacific Gateway Space Beach program. So they're going to get access to the emerging aerospace jobs that are in our city. I think that's incredible. I think also just to acknowledge that this is the first year that we actually have an Office of Youth Development, the youth of these office youth development's brand new. And we already see really good things. One and a half million dollar grant. So special thanks to the Conrad Hilton Foundation for for helping, you know, provide some much needed resources to this brand new office youth development that's going to make a real difference. All of this is sort of in alignment with the initial work around youth development with the boys, Women of Color, My Brother's Keeper work, which was the roots of this years ago. So I'm excited to see this. This is great. And I look forward to seeing, you know, following this program in the years to come. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Councilman's in the house. I think you just briefly wanted to say how much I appreciate this item. The Embraer forward. Thank you. I truly believe that empowering and investing in our youth is a key driver to a strong and growing future local economy. So thank you for this program. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Let's go ahead and. The roll call. Vote on this, please. District one. I am district two. I did it. Three. I. District four. I. District five. I. District six. I. District seven. I. District eight. District nine. Yes. The motion is carried. Nine. Jo.