Recommendation to receive and file a new list of City Council Standing Committees, Authorities and Memberships.
Okay. Then we will move on to the regular agenda. We do have a lot of items on the agenda, so I want to go and go through those. Let's begin with item 13. Communication from Mayor Garcia. Recommendation to receive and file a new list of City Council standing committees, authorities and memberships. Thank you very much. I want to go ahead and go through some of these committees really quick. And I just first want to just think, just the whole council. I know that just recently, of course, they approved kind of some consolidation that happened around committees. And I want to thank them for that. And I want to talk about our standing committees that we have put out forward here on the agenda. Let me just first say that we have condensed our standing committees now down to nine. That way, every single member is chairing a committee. Every single member is the vice chair of a committee. And then every single member is a member. So everyone has three committees. And then, of course, we still maintain all of the special committees and authorities that people are a part of. And of course, those range from the actor authority to the the the ICE Reference and Oversight Committee to the the Parking Authority. And we, of course, we have some of the memberships like we cities and the selection committee in California City. So all of those are part of it. But today's item is to approve all of it, but especially the focus on the new committees. I want to just highlight those. They think really there's a lot of thought that went into these new committees and the folks that are leading them. And I just wanted to briefly share some of that. I think it is important. I want to kind of redo standing committees. I want to first start with budget oversight. This is the one committee where we did not. Every committee, by the way, has new chair people. So we changed the whole system to just mix it up. I'm the only one that does not have a change is budget oversight. And that's because, of course, Councilman Austin, I was just appointed to that just last year. And so that's the one that retains the same chair. And that committee, of course, will be that is chaired by by the councilman. And we'll continue to do similar work as that has happened in the past. Then the next committee is our new Port Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and that of course is being chaired by Councilwoman Price and that will include Councilwoman and House and Councilwoman Mango. And this committee, which I'm actually very excited about, is a combination of all the work that's happening at our ports, which of course is our biggest industry in the city. It's all of our transportation work. Which is everything from transit to goods movement to all of the kind of interconnectivity that we have across across the city, to the region and the country. And then, of course, infrastructure. And for for us, we're going to have an enormous infrastructure bill coming down the pipeline this year out of the White House. And so the building of that bill and how we can get as much possible back into the city is going to be really, really critical work, I believe, for this committee. And also what we talked about at State of the City, which is I'm really hoping this committee immediately takes up Measure eight and not just looks at how have we done with infrastructure across the city, but how are we going to spend these additional measure, $8 that are now in perpetuity for the city? So I think there's a lot of opportunities there. And I'm really grateful to Councilman Price, who I think is a kind of our leading voice and one of our leading voices around infrastructure for chairing this committee. Then we have economic development and finance, which is going to be chaired by Councilman Mongo and include Vice Mayor Richardson and Councilman Allen. This becomes also kind of job number one coming out of the COVID pandemic around economic relief and economic recovery. It's been, of course, Councilwoman Mango's kind of main issue as a member of this body is economic recovery. And so we're very excited about her chairing this as well. And I think a lot of our economic recovery efforts are going to come out of this committee, which is also very exciting. So I want to thank her for for taking on that challenge. Now we have our public safety committee, which will be chaired by by councilwoman sorrow. Again, I think that this is a moment we're all talking about about safety and we're talking about reform, and we're talking about how we create a just public safety system, more just public safety system. And I think that Councilman Sauro also brings the experience of having formerly chaired the PCC. We know that this committee will be looking at PCC possible ballot reforms and changes for that for the next election cycle. And so we think that is going to be a great conversation. And in this committee, not just around the traditional safety issues that need to be discussed, but also around the city. PCC So I want to thank Councilman Sauro for taking on that challenge, and I think he's well equipped to lead that conversation. The next two committees, I think, are pretty standard, but they're always important, and that's the Federal Legislation Committee and the State Legislation Committee. Those are being chaired on federal side by council member, by Baxley Richardson. And then we'll have Councilman Super now and Councilwoman Sara and for state legislation will be chaired by Canterbury Tauranga and vice chair will be Councilman Austin. And then we have Councilmember Richardson. We are living in a moment where we have an opportunity to bring down a lot of our support from the feds over the new administration to that committee will be critical to doing that work. And on the. And Vice Mayor Richardson also brings already some really great relationships there, especially with a lot of members that are now involved in committees and has work with the Congressional Black Caucus, which has been very active in over the last few years, is important. Also important is the why I think he's going to be a good chair is his work on Skaggs directly has a federal ledger link as president, and so I'm hoping that there's synergy there between those two so we can use both his work on Skaggs to help us at the federal level at the State Legislation Committee. We have come from Eureka, who again has really strong relationships in Sacramento. And so I'm looking forward to him chairing that committee and getting our state legislation approval through through all of our our committees in the state legislature on climate action, which is to get a new committee. We have Councilwoman Allen, then we have council member mango and council members. And there's probably no bigger issue that faces us in our future long term as as as climate change and climate action. I know Councilman Ellison very involved in that, and she talked a lot about that in her last campaign. And so there's a lot of work around the cap and a lot of work for us to do in the future there. So I look forward to that, to her leadership on that committee. We have the new Public Health and Housing Committee, which is a new committee and combined with the House, the former housing committee. Now, there's certainly probably no one better to chair that than councilwoman. Industry has been a strong advocate around housing and has really made that a kind of cornerstone of her work. I also want to congratulate and thank Councilwoman Sorrow and Councilmember Superhot for serving on that committee. And we also add the public health component, which we haven't had before on the council. And of course, having covered it as a as the key issue right now and all of our public health work, I think customers in their house will do a great job of leading the work on that committee. And finally, we have another great new committee, which is a combination of a different few others, and that's a new government and elections oversight committee, which will be chaired by council. A number supernova now included Councilwoman Allen and Councilmember Austin. Quite frankly, this is a very exciting new committee. It combines our personnel committee and it combines our elections, oversight work and really just government oversight. This is going to be the committee that internally looks at the systems and looks at our at our city, everything from who we're putting on commissions to how our elections are being run and to working with with some of our new commissions like the Ethics Commission, like redistricting. And there's so many other kind of internal kind of. Reforms. That the public has put in place that I think this we have we need to have this committee to be able to take an important but also oftentimes critical view of how we do things within the city. I've been customer super now we all respect is fair and balanced and I think you're going to do a great job chairing this. And so I'm really excited about kind of everyone's strengths and these committees. The last thing I'll say before we before we move on on this is that we are I'm hoping and it's not part of this motion, but something I've talked to a couple of members of is I'm really hoping and this might be an agenda item that comes forward at a later date, but that we establish some additional council rules around committees. And the reason why we are streamlining is, is because in an ideal scenario, we would have major issues that come in front of us, would first go to a committee or be forwarded to a committee to really vet it and to show that the folks on there have an opportunity and the public to really get into an item before it comes to the full council. And oftentimes I've heard from folks and I've noticed that an item will come on the supplemental or with a week's notice, and it's a major policy issue and has not been really vetted or discussed. I think I'm hopeful that the council can use this committee system to really vet items before they get to the full body. Of course, that's only going to be as successful as all of the council members want that to be. So we can't and unless we put a rule in place. But I'm really hoping that. We can bring something forward soon, that that strengthens these committees, encourages participation from the public at the committees. And then so when the item actually gets to the full body, it's been heard, it's been debated, there's a recommendation and we can move forward with a little. Bit more. Confidence that it's been well vetted. And by the way, this system is not new. This is most major cities across the country have have have structured committee systems. And I think we're at the point where we need to move a little bit closer in that direction. So I'm really hopeful that we can work on this over the next few months as these committees get going. So. So with that, let me first go. I do have 1/2. Thank you. I have a motion by Vice Mayor Richardson and seconded by Councilmember Austin. Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I like the alignment of new committees. I think it plays to a lot of the strength of the members of the body. We have a difficult road ahead in terms of the recovery, and a lot of the committee work aligns with different aspects. We know Fed Ledge is going to be incredibly important in terms of federal relief. We know that economic recovery, the strategy for that is rolling out now. The committee adopted that, council adopted that. That's important. State led is going to play a key role in infrastructure. And I think each of the members really brings a really strong really brings a lot of dedication and focus. And I'd love to actually see these committees remain in place for some time so committee members can really deepen their relationships and their expertize on a subject matter and really have a command of these details. So I'm happy with this. I really like these nine committees, the approach where everyone's equitably easy to understand. Everyone gets one committee, one vice chairmanship and one chairmanship. And I think that that makes a lot of sense. So I'm happy to make this motion and support the recommendation of others. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I second the motion and I congratulate all of my colleagues for their committee appointments. Thank you for being thoughtful and making me the appointments. I look forward to serving as Chair of Budget Oversight and on the other committees that are that I've been asked to to participate on. Thanks. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman, Mongo. Oh. Thank you. I echo the comments that you made, Mayor, about utilizing committees to really vet and go through the details of these types of agenda items. I hope that we can get to that point. I know that a lot of great work happens in these committees, and I would love to see some staff support in the way where Council on Price has been an example. When I served with her on public safety and how her staff have done real reporting out of what happened at committee, but I think that all committees could have that kind of support and staffing. And I know that each of us have had different roles and different responsibilities and different methods, but I think unifying how that happens is also important. Thank you. And I don't believe there is any public comment. Right, Madam Court? No, there's no public comment for this item. Thank you. In a roll call vote, please. District one. I. District two by district three. I. District four. I. District five. I. District six. I. District seven. I. District eight by district nine I. Motion carries. Thank you very much. We're going to continue on with the agenda. So let's go into M 20, please.