Recommendation to request City Attorney and Department of Health and Human Services to draft an ordinance requiring all restaurants within Long Beach who have bundled Kid's Meals to offer water, milk or a 100% pure juice beverage that is under 60 calories as the "default" choice.
Wow. Congratulations. Congratulations. Now we'll move on to item number ten with a clerk. Please read item number ten. Communication from Councilmember Pearce, Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Your Honor recommendation to request the City Attorney and Department of Health and Human Services to draft an ordinance requiring all restaurants within Long Beach who have bundled kid's meals to offer water. Well, I'm sorry. Just just for a moment, we're going to take a two minute recess just so people can we'll just take a 20 minute recess. All right. Thank. The organization. Okay. Madam Clerk, let's call the council meeting back to order. Please call. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilmember Pearce. Councilwoman Price. Councilmember. Super Now. Councilwoman Mongo. Councilman Andrews. Councilmember Urunga. Councilman Austin. Vice Mayor Richardson. I am here. Let's have item number ten, please. Communication from Councilmember Pierce, Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Your Honor. Recommendation to request the City Attorney and Department of Health and Human Services to draft an ordinance requiring all restaurants within Long Beach who have bundled kids meals to offer water, milk, or a 100% pure juice beverage that is under 60 calories. As the default choice. Councilman Pearce. Thank you. And as you can tell by the empty left side, this is the easy item. We'll try to make it smooth tonight. And I want to thank all of those that are here tonight to speak on this item that have been doing a lot of hard work on this, not only with my office, but with the community members and the small businesses doing great outreach. So thank you so much for that. Before we move forward to the presentation, actually, I'll do the yeah. Before we move forward to the presentation, I want to make an amendment to the recommendation. So that amendment should read to request the City Attorney and Department of Health and Human Services to draft an ordinance requiring all restaurants within Long Beach who have bundled kids meals to offer water or milk as the default choice. No, you got that. I think that that was pretty easy, just removing a part of that. So I'll explain that as we go through the PowerPoint. And then I want to hear from community members and then we can take it behind the dais. Okay. So obesity is an epidemic in our community with more than 2 billion adults and children around the world who are obese or overweight, that's equal to one third of the world's population carrying excess weight with help of our Department of Health and Human Services, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. We were able to study Long Beach residents, but among adults, 31% are obese, 37 are overweight by children between the ages of two and five are overweight or obese. 27% of fifth, seventh and ninth graders are considered obese. The Food and Drug Administration recommends that people age three and older should consume more than no more than 12.5 teaspoons of sugar added each day. Our problem here in Long Beach, most recent adult numbers that we have is that over the past 30 years, obesity among adults and children has increased nationwide. So for California, we have adults at 25%, fifth graders at 40%. And in Long Beach, the number is 25% for adults and 44% for fifth graders. Approximately another 30% of children and adults are overweight as well as dental health. So some of you guys might not know. I worked at a pediatric dentist office for, I don't know, six years. My aunt is a pediatric dentist and I got to help assist. And so I personally saw the effects of sugary beverages, particularly juice that was impacted on children because juice is higher in sugar and calories, water and milk are always the best options for your little one. This is from the Association of Pediatric Dentist. In fact, a child under one years old in a pediatrics academy suggests completely removing juice from their diet. And there are some other recommendations around juice, but it basically says that it should be minimal. And often with, you know, my daughter Jubilee, who's five, if she has juice, it's half water, half juice, because we see a lot of times people believe that juice is healthy for you, but it completely takes away the enamel on your teeth. And we know whenever your dental health is impacted, it can get into your bloodstream and have a really negative impact on children. So for that reason, we removed the juice from this motion. The risk of sugary beverages among children. Sugar sweetened beverages are single, largest contributor to caloric intake. I'm so tired. I can't believe I'm doing this at 930 at night. Children who drink at least one sugar sweetened beverage per day have 50, 50, 55% greater odds of being overweight or obese. So the consumption clearly doubles the risk of dental cavities for children. Once they are obese, then children have increased risk of type two diabetes, heart disease, asthma, sleep apnea, social discrimination, tooth decay and poor academic performance. So we definitely want to make sure that we are doing everything that we can as a community to prevent that from happening. We want to provide healthy choices to make it easier for children's and parents to make healthy food choices by creating environments that support healthy habits. Audience Requiring that all restaurants with bundled kids meals to offer milk or water parents will still have an option to choose other beverages upon request. We know we have over a thousand restaurants in the city and about 209 of those restaurants actually provide bundled kids meals. So this isn't something that is, you know, broad and would tackle every business in the community. We also know that other governing bodies like Santa Clara, Stockton, Paris and Davis have implemented this as well. These guys all agree milk and water should be a first choice. I mean, come on. And on top of these guys, we had a letter today from McDonald's that said that they support our policy. We met recently with Coca-Cola Brand and they talked to us about how they do zero branding at events at parks or anywhere else for Coca-Cola products where the children might be present. So even doing something like a soccer club where you might want to have corporate sponsorships, they wouldn't do that because there are kids around. And so if industry leaders in other cities are saying this is the right choice for our community, I think it's time that Long Beach take that step, too. Plus, you know, are a little cute kids here. We want to make sure we benefit all the community. Increasing the number of healthy beverages consumed by Long Beach children establish healthy behaviors in childhood that continue for life. And create a better future for our children. I'd like to additionally say that we know that while parents are doing what they can at home, a lot of times we go out into the community and we see standards that are normalized. That is what we we base our culture off of. And so going to a restaurant where they're saying, water, milk first, water, milk first. It's going to help parents understand that might not have had the education around the impacts of sugary drinks. And there is a lot out there. I know that a lot of us feel like kids not having soda is a no brainer. Those six years that I worked at the dentist office, you would be surprised at how many four year olds came in with no front teeth because parents didn't understand the impact, even if it was a no sugar soda pop that the the impact it has on our kids. And so I think it's great that we've got other cities that have done this. I think it's great that we have corporate sponsors that have said they're doing it. And we had four small beach, small beach, small businesses that were lined up to speak tonight but weren't able to stay as long. So I hope that my colleagues will support this item. I look forward to hearing public comment and getting a nice, robust conversation. So thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Bianca. Thank you. And I want to thank Councilmember Pearce for bringing this forward. It is long overdue. We've known about the impacts of sugary drinks and the impact they've had on our children. And I really appreciate bringing this forward. I was part of a household cohort years back and we dealt with this in regards to the impacts of sugary drinks to children as well as at that time because of this several years ago now. But the number to the growth of fast food chains and how you could see them and course, for example, Long Beach. All right, a rule there is a Burger King a with a local, a culture, a subway and the McDonald's. All right, there. Corner where? The corner. So the the the influx and the impact that these businesses have on our health is can be understated. And your report right now really stated that. So thank actually the point. I wholeheartedly support this. Thank you. Councilmember Andrews us. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Also, I'd like to thank Councilwoman you to. Hear from me. Oh. Oh, no, no, no. Okay. All right. So we're going to take public comment first. And while we're waiting for public comment, I would like to say how much I appreciate the work that the vice mayor did on this item before it fell into my hands. I don't know what you're talking about. Thank you. You have 3 minutes. Thank you. Wow, 3 minutes. Thanks. Chef Paul Buchanan have a business here. And I've also been teaching at the at some of the Columbia schools about days of taste, which a child learns from. About food and nutrition. From three main places. One at home. Two at school. And now from TV and social media ads. So children are going to school to have chocolate milk with sugar added with salt added to the chocolate milk. I don't think that's a really great, healthy choice. So I hope that's not going to be included in the milk that can be offered to promote soda and sunny delight, which is not really an orange juice. It's just it's just the food coloring and sugar water at home. We can only hope that a beverage can be given to our child that is not laden with sugar or food coloring or phosphoric acid like Coca-Cola. So that being said, I'm happy to see that you're proposing that we encourage them to have something water. I don't know why you took away the juices, because I think lemon juice and two teaspoons of sugar and water would be 60 calories. That would be much more healthy than some of the other sugary drinks. So I think that would be a great option. My child in 16 years has never really ever had a soda at the at any place because she hasn't bought any of those packaged meals because they are usually fried food. And that's not what we really encourage because there's no vegetables usually involved. But thank you for for your efforts. And I think this is a good direction for us. Thank you, chef. Paul, just a moment. Councilmember Pearce has a suggestion for public comment. Oh, you can put it on me. Oh, I'm okay with reducing the public comment time since it's ten 930. Are you guys good with that? So you guys want to do a minute and a half in one minute. All right. All right, guys. Let's see now. Support, we're going down to one minute. Lightning round. Thank you for self-regulating. You have the floor. Hello. My name is Chu Irrational and I live in District eight and I've lived in Long Beach for 27 years. I also work as a health education education advocate at the Choices Clinic. I am here to speak in support of the Healthy Kids Choice Ordinance. I am pre-diabetic and I have made many lifestyle changes to ensure that I do not become diabetic. Cutting out sugar sweetened beverages such as soda is one of the lifestyle. Changes that I have made. I am also. Pregnant. I am looking forward to becoming a first time mom. I know that is. It is very important for me to continue to set a good example for my children and make sure that they do not become diabetic. I know that I can control the items that are in my home, but it is much harder to control the temptations that my kids may be exposed to outside of the home. By making the healthy choice the first choice, my children will have less, one less temptation to face. Thank you very much for your consideration. Considering this item tonight, please make the right choice and vote yes. Thank you. Thank you for your testimony. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Joyce Flynn Adams. I'm a member of Long Beach Alliance for Food and Fitness LeBoeuf. I support this. We have gathered over 250 signatures in three different languages from Long Beach residents supporting this measure. All of them support the adoption of a healthy drinks and kids meals ordinances in the city of Long Beach. So the city council members, city officials, we thank you very much for this opportunity and we hope you'll vote for this. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Vice Mayor Richardson and council members. My name is Claudia Gauthier. I am the government relations director for the American Heart Association. I want to thank you for your leadership in bringing this item forward. And part of my work has been. To talk to the community, talk to businesses, talk to all of you about the goals of this ordinance and and your leadership and bring this forward is is much appreciated. As stated by Councilmember Pearce. This effort will help. Reduce the amount of sugar kids consume. It's going to help parents access that same environment and same messaging that kids get from then from home and in school. So let's adopt this and make healthy options. The first default for kids in Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Vice Mayor, City Council, City Staff, everyone. My name is Alfred. Montoya with Public Health Advocates and the Healthy Eating Active Living Cities Campaign. I manage our Heal Cities campaign here in Southern California, and as many of. You know, Long Beach joined the campaign. In 2012, committing to making the city a healthier place. And today's discussion about the healthy default drinks and kids meals is right in line with that healthy eating, those healthy eating efforts. And I'm here today on behalf of my organized organization, Public Health Advocates with along with these folks from the Long Beach Healthy Kids Choice Coalition to speak in strong support for tonight's item. By voting yesterday, you're saying you want to make the healthy choice, the easy choice for young kids in the city. And you're shifting norms so that when you think of that drive through and the nagging child in the back, that that first option is going to be water or milk, right . Very simple, but beautiful idea. I think so. I applaud you all for taking leadership. Being the first in L.A. County to look at this ordinance. And I want offer myself and my organization for support for next steps. Thank you very much. Please vote yes. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I think this is a great idea, but I would ask if you could also include the schools, not just the restaurants. Have them just offer the water, milk or 100% pure juices. And Long Beach Unified School Districts is what you have governance? Well, they're separate entities. However, I think that they should also be included in a conversation for them to. Join this recommendation. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. When I was Leslie Wilks, founder CEO of Little Enterprises 2016, rolled out a happy, healthy mind and body program. I'm also an author of children's books, and these are the first two books that we came out with Eating Bad for Good Health and Eating Backwards to move Forward is the first two of a series of six books. 2017 we start. We moved over to consulting, which we are targeting our school districts, also any youth organizations. And we came out with a series of many books and it's the first book that we came out with is Why Is My Sugar So Sweet? And it talks about sugary drinks. The effects of the has is brief and to the point how much sugar are in these drinks, how much are needed for the body, and what the effects are on the youth? And we are here to offer our assistance any way we can to the sea Long Beach with our book program . And we have another book coming out, check and see what's inside of me. And all of these are children's books that are focused from the age of five and up for the illustrated books. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Hello. My name is Jennifer Pond. Say hi, Janine and I am here to speak in support of Healthy Kids Choice Ordinance. I live in Long Beach and District eight with my ten year old son and husband and have worked at the Children's Clinic for the past 17 years. I see how hard I have seen how over the overconsumption of sugar sweetened beverages have affected my neighbors, my friends, my families and community members throughout Long Beach. I see how hard parents work to provide a healthy home environment for their children while managing family and work responsibilities from one or two jobs. For many busy parents, keeping up with everyday circumstances is difficult, and we often turn to outside food as one of those parents restaurants that offer healthy beverages for my son as a first a possibility and not as a last possibility is helpful. It's supportive. It's a it's a way to let us parents know that we're supported and that our community supports healthy beverages. Lastly, I just want to thank you for beach streets, uptown, the. Streets. Up, and it's a great event and I'm looking forward to riding our bikes. Fantastic on Atlantic thing. Make sure you make your way to the village first. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Dr. Jessica Schumer. I'm a pediatrician. I work in District one at the Children's Clinic and a resident of District three. Honestly, I think medical. Residency was easier than city. Council just putting it out there. So, you know, it's pretty it's pretty simple. Sugar is killing us. Actually, the most. Recent recommendations are less than 25 grams a day of sugar for kids. Which is a can of coke is about somewhere between. 40 and 50. So I would say this is one. Step and is a no. Brainer. It's less than 50 for us adults. Just ask why. But the American Academy of Pediatrics absolutely supports this recommendation. And juice, no matter what. Is is not healthy either. So sugar is killing us. We have to do something about it. And I need your help. I counsel about this every single day to pretty much every single patient and their family. So they can make informed decisions. But we need to have just common sense legislation to support healthy environment so that kids can thrive. Thanks again. Fantastic. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, everyone. I'm the director of communications for Pizza Rev. Surprisingly, I'm speaking in favor of the ordinance. We are a build your own. Pizza concept that has grown to 20 locations. Including one at the Long Beach Town Center. We have always been committed to giving everyone options to meet their dietary needs. And we know that. When it comes to kids meals, we're. We're putting a lot on parents to make good decisions. And so we've actually always. Had milk and juice that only has 40 calories as the default option as part of our kids meals. So we support, you know, improving the health and. Healthfulness of kids meals served by all restaurants. Including in Long Beach. And therefore are in favor of the ordinance. And I will be leaving kids vouchers up here for anyone who's still here, who has children. All right, help yourself. Yeah, let me have one. Thank you, guys. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Natalia Kabaka. I live in the fourth district. I'm a proud parent of five year old. I'm Vizsla Buff, and I also volunteer for the Headstart Preschool Program, as well as a policy conference as well as in the classrooms. And while hoping during the classrooms the headstart serves low fat milk or water to their children and they haven't seen or heard from anyone of them that they're not happy with the choice. They bring their milk, they enjoy it. And no one will ever ask that if they want saw the in there. Or even juice. And in the past few months, I have seen so many parents faces getting excited when they come to know about this initiative. And they have heard from that that I'm always. For healthier choices. So young children, they usually want what is promoted, what they can go to right away. I was happy to see that some restaurants already supporting this. Town. Hosted drinks and kids news. And I would ask you, please oppose this proposal. Yes. And hope parents of Long Beach too to grow up healthier kids. Thank you. Testimony next speaker, please. When I started. Almost double the time. I mean, I'm kind of in check on a point on this thing. I mean, they started the NSF program, this program and medical school committee that thera estao ka sunanda Yosuke brother the ATC because they were not familiar list in front of me that your field commando commander Marcello Laplace Mr. Seahorse near lost in that unknown photo Remy Nystrom all of you the city and myself. Lebanon illegally the moochers amphetamine crats. Good evening. My name is Carolyn Chacon. I live in the ninth district. I unconditionally support this ordinance because of the medical problems that eating fast food causes. I suffer from diabetes and I come from a family who also suffers from this illness. I believe that by eating healthier meals, our children and grandchildren will have a better future. Also, our lifestyle would be better off as well. Thank you. Thank you for your testimony. Next being please. Here we come in the name of Jesus once again. Okay, this is good and nothing bad about it, but I think more study needs to be done. I saw some documentaries and high fructose corn sirup. Seems to be the mirror seems to be the problem over in Mr. Austin's district. I live over it. Well, no, that ain't him in his district. That's Lakewood. We got a fresh and easy over off of Paramount. I went there one day. I hadn't been there for a while. I go there. Boom. It's not there. It doesn't divide it. I see. I saw in the documentary how the high fructose corn sirup when it gets in your body. It was made in Japan lab so the body doesn't recognize the sugar, doesn't make insulin, so therefore the liver and the kidneys have to filter it out. My ex wife, she needs a new kidney. Everybody's coming down. If you can really do something about. We've got to get that out. Consider when I was a kid, wasn't killing off like that. We weren't highly obese, that high fructose corn sirup. So I'd say. All right, thank you. So that concludes public comment. And we will now take it behind the railing. Remind the city council that the public did a fantastic job making their comments as they got it down to one minute. Let's see if our city council can do the same. Councilman Andrews No. Councilman. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Yeah. I just like to say, you know, I'm. A mom of a little. Two and a half year old and I really appreciate both the medical field as well as the advocates for being here. Joycelyn I, we've talked about many different. Initiative. So I really appreciate it. And I know from my house personally that it is only good when my child has the ability to drink only water or milk. And I think for many other kids I remember back about I don't know, I want to say about eight years ago, I actually walked the first District from parks. We started at a park and we walked to the nearest food establishment. And on the way to the from the park to the food establishment, there were billboards advertising unhealthy meals. There are cracked sidewalks. So kids are having a tough time getting places, of course. And then, of course, at the even the little convenience stores, healthy, unhealthy food options are right in the front for kids to purchase right after school. And so I think this is a fantastic initiative. Thank you, Councilmember Pearce, for bringing this forward and I hope our council colleagues will vote in support. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. I would just like to make a friendly to add back in juice up to 40 calories. So I know you said no to the 60 calories. We have a business who's already making good choices and proactively doing the right thing in the community. And so I would hope that we would be able to thank them and use them as an example and allow them to maintain themselves. I'd like to hear from the from my my colleagues first. Sorry. Councilman Price. So I want to thank Councilwoman Pearce for bringing this item to and for taking the lead on it. I know she's done tremendous outreach and has genuinely expressed a willingness to incorporate other ideas and concepts into tonight's agenda item. And I appreciate that. I will say we do. Several of us here have business corridors in our district, so we wanted to make sure that the businesses were okay. And and I know I spoke with some of you who have been leading this and actually the businesses or most of them very, very supportive of this idea. I mean, they they're parents, too. And so it really wasn't something that many of them they couldn't really measure any sort of financial impact that it would have. And so I was very pleased to hear that and the support of the majority of the folks I spoke with and my business community. And I appreciate the folks that are bringing this forward because you did your own outreach, which was really fantastic. You went and you talked to business leaders and business communities and educated them about the benefits. And that really helps us a lot on our end, because then you've already done that work of educating them and letting them know what the options are. So I really appreciate that and I'm happy to support this item. And again, I want to thank my colleague for bringing it forward. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you. And I'll support this motion. I've been a long time champion and believer of healthy options and choices, particularly for here at the city. I'm not exactly sure what happened to our efforts to do that. We'll have to get a report back. But healthy children grow into healthy adults. I think most of our businesses are actually doing this already. And so this is, I think, just a great step. And I'd like to see us do this even further for to encourage a healthier living for for all of our residents. Thank you. I'll have my comments here before Councilmember Pearce closes it out. Obviously, this as this has my support. You know, five years ago when we when we passed a resolution become a heel city, we looked at the landscape and what this look like. And the politics were very different. And today you've seen that McDonald's and others have embraced this. And it makes a lot of sense. And frankly, you know, eating healthy shouldn't have to be the choice. That should be the standard. Eating bad should have to be the thing that you think about. Right. So we have to sort of rework how we sort of retool and break these cycles that have happened for generations about bad eating. So this this has my, my, my strong support. And congratulations, Councilmember. This is a great item for Councilman Pearce. Thank you. I do want to apologize for running through the presentation kind of quickly. When I sat down, I had ran upstairs and run back downstairs. And so I definitely want to make sure we recognize that you guys really did a lot of the work when I first came into office a year ago. I spoke with a couple of my colleagues who had met with you guys, and we decided to start working on this. And when we talked about the businesses, we said, Well, we've got to do business outreach, you know, and you guys really did it. We mapped everything. We worked with our health department and really went out there and engaged with residents and businesses in the right way. And so I want to really just applaud Claudia, Alfred, Katy, you guys have really been fantastic. I also want to say how much I appreciated Kelly and our very own health department on this, and I wanted to just hear any last thoughts from you, Kelly, because I was going to call on you earlier, but I just went right on through. Go for it. Okay. My right. Is that at the time that we have been participating in this partnership as part of the outreach and the design, and. We are in full support. Of this effort. So thank you. Thank you. In in reference to the friendly, I don't think I'll be accepting the friendly because I feel like, you know, sometimes we craft policy and we fear about which side is going to support us and which side isn't. I feel really confident that the businesses we've reached out to feel good about the choice without juice. That's what we talk to the businesses about up until the very last minute. And so knowing that knowing that the Pediatric Association and the Dental Association all say we need to reduce juice as much as possible, I feel like it's the right choice for our families. And because it is a choice and not a ban, that it's the right move to make. So I hope that you guys will vote in full support. Thank you. I want to thank my colleague for for trying to engage on it. I just feel like the work has kind of been done for a long time and that it's the right vote. So thank you. Councilman Longo. I urge you to reconsider. I mean, the work has been done, but that doesn't mean that it's 40 calories. It's a small amount and it's 103 calories. It's not a milk. It's not about the calories. Stacy went on mango. When we talk about juice on our on our teeth, we talk about decaying teeth. We talk about it eats away. It's not necessarily a calorie intake, 40%. Or 40 grams. And when I hear from doctors that say they don't recommend it at all, I want to I want to govern based on that. You know, it's a choice. It's not a mandate. You can say, I want juice. It's first choice. So if you if you go in and you say, I want to order this, you know, this kid's meal for my daughter, and you forget to say, Oh, I'll have a Coke with that, then the worker is going to say , Well, would you like milk or water with that? If you say No, I'd rather have apple juice, then you can have apple juice. So you're saying that on the menu it can show all three options. It'll have all the beverages somewhere else. But yeah, it's. What if you forget to offer something? That's the question. I excuse me. The conversation, the orientation behind the rail. To make sure they have a choice. This is about choice. That's saying first healthy choice student. They could still order whatever they want to have to drink for their kid. I just feel like we have businesses who have proactively make it made steps to move in the right direction and now they're being subjected to additional regulations. And I feel that this I don't want to go into the details of it not being comprehensive, but I appreciate that doctors make recommendations. I appreciate that there's a best case scenario. I also appreciate the option for free choice and the ability for a community to make their own decisions. And they can say, honestly, sorry, and quite honestly, there are people who have had a terrible sugar upbringing and still seem to have excellent teeth and excellent gums and excellent athletic ability and are below the average weight of people of their height. It's a very comprehensive option and I'm just asking for a small friendly and I am very disappointed in the decision because I appreciate that there's 25 of you here who've done a lot of work and there are a thousand businesses in our community who may choose not to have kids meals. You've already taken out the main component of the original driver of the motion, which was that items I'm sorry, that packaged children's items were incentivized by toys. You already eliminated the toy component and made it food groups as a whole. And so I'm I'm shocked that there would be no option for compromise. I've even asked for it to be a lower calorie count and. Thank you anyway. Councilmember Sabrina. One of the speakers tonight asked about the school district. I just went online and I wanted to ask staff if you have any coordination with the school district because they offer 100% free fruit juice with their meals and milk. The school district has their own policies and to the day set, they set that structure. So we will if this when this goes through if this goes through, then we'll continue to have those conversations. We do a lot of health, education and nutrition eating. We run community gardens, all those kinds of things. But we would after this conversation tonight, we would continue to have that conversation with the school district. Okay. Thank you. Councilman Austin. Just have to ask the question. And this may maybe for the city attorney or health department. But if a restaurant is found to not be in compliance with this ordinance, what would be the consequence? So it is at this stage, the Environmental Health Department is it's doing its restaurant inspections will be adding a box as to whether it's complying with this. And they may be utilizing, as they do. For other times when it's safe from real safety issues. They do a lot of education around why things. Are needed to it, to actually an opportunity for the health department, to the. Environment through environmental. Health to educate folks about about why this is in place in. It would be found, as you know, roads and roads. Not taking place and we would be able to circle back in the future. And if every time that we go back after a couple of times in a certain place, then we would start here and. Possibly be unfound. But at this rate, this is an educational tool. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember council members. You know, I think one of the reasons why I felt passionate about not accepting the friendly is because of my experience of working in a dental office and watching how much damage this does to kids and feeling like this is an item that is about first choice. We just went through a three plus hour exercise on compromise. I do hope that we as a council can recognize the work that's been done and the thought that's gone into two policies when they come up here and respecting that that process. So I will accept your friendly. At 14 at 40 calories. I think that this is a great policy moving forward and I think that people have done a great job. I hope that we can continue to see milk and water as the first choice. And the conversation around use and education is something that I hope, as we do our education campaign and outreach in the videos and things that we're working on that we highlight a difference in between that and water and milk. So I accept your friendly. All right, Councilman Mondo. I appreciate you accepting the friendly, especially because if we're going to have a talk about things like this, where the item published and circulated in the community says one thing, I think it's disingenuous to change it at the dais. And so if you weren't going to accept my friendly, I was going to ask that we even delay the motion a week to give the community the opportunity to read the item differently, because there are businesses that make decisions about the things they provide, and I'm happy to still advocate for them not to allow those juices, but for businesses that do, I think it's the right thing. And it also did a little bit of research and I talked to Vice Mayor Richardson about this earlier today, that some of our local smaller businesses that purchase bulk products at Costcos and Smart and Finals and the such, there are nearly no juice options under 90 calories that are 100% juice available for purchase in bulk, almost none. I walked the aisles, I looked into this and I did it because the item was published to the community in a way that included juice. And so I appreciate you accepting the friendly. Thank you. And it seems like the theme of the night is consensus. Members, please cast your vote. I think. Motion case. Fantastic. Congratulations. We will now move on. We've already handled the consent calendar. We've had the public comment. Now we'll take item number nine.