Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to grant permission to ASM Global to operate a professional boxing contest at the Long Beach Convention Center on May 21, 2022.  (District 1)
Thank you. And let's move on to I believe it's new business 26. Report from City Manager Recommendation to Authorize City Manager to grant permission to ACE and Global to operate a professional boxing contest at the Long Beach Convention Center on May 21st, 2022. District one was in motion and a second is your public comment on this. No customers. And I'm sorry, Councilmember Superhot, did you have any comments? Yes, I do. Thank you, Mayor. I would just like to commend staff for bringing this item forward so quickly. It's also kind of a version of it takes a village in. Terms of council process as well. That is. It takes a village within total compliance. Of the Brown Act. So it's interesting that this involves Jack Rabbit, boxing from District six, the Convention Center and District one. The supplemental item to bring it here tonight was signed on to by districts two, five and eight, and it originated in District four with a call to myself from Pastor Gregory Sanders, who said the applicant had approached him needing to get something passed at the convention center. And Pastor Sanders didn't know exactly who to turn to. I said, Well, the applicant probably did the right thing because to get this scheduled when you want it scheduled might require divine intervention. And I would just like and so I told the pastor to have the applicant contact our office. And. Barbara moore shepherded the applicant through the process. And I'd also like to commend the applicant for really doing the legwork to get this forward and for that effort. I think we should pass this unanimously tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Can I get a seconder on this motion? Vice Mayor Richardson generally comments? No. And Councilman Nelson. Yes, I think. Council Member Supernova thank you for for motioning this. Thank you to the city manager's office for for bringing this forward. This is an archaic piece of ordinance that really needs to be cleaned up. And I'm looking forward to hopefully getting something back very soon before it is council because events like this can be very positive for the, I think the image of our city but also for for economic development and just just celebrating particularly our young talent here in our city. This this particular event will will feature a young up and coming boxer who is really the pride of Long Beach today. He's a Polish student. I met his father many years ago and have been trying to coach him into bringing his gym up into the north Long Beach area. But he reached out to me with this this issue, and it didn't seem like a big challenge to to to fix. And so I'm glad to see this being moved as quickly as it is. I'm looking forward to attending this event and supporting other events like this because I think really Long Beach is long overdue to have in May. Boxing is entertainment events and us to be able to showcase our city on a broader level. So I'm happy to support this and encourage my colleagues to as well. There's emotion and a second, there's no public comment, you mentioned. So we will go ahead and cast her votes. Motion is carried. Thank you. We're now down to the second public comment period. I think you have a couple of people and I'm quick.