Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute the First Amendment to Joint Application and Indemnification Agreement No. 35623 with Centro C.H.A., Inc.; and Increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Economic Development Department by $292,450, offset by funds available, to facilitate the transfer of ownership of 1850-1862 Atlantic Avenue (Subject Property) from the Refuse and Recycling Fund Group in the Public Works Department to the General Fund Group in the Economic Development Department. (District 6)
Thank you. Item 12, please. Report from Economic Development Recommendation Execute the First Amendment to joint application and indemnification agreement with Central Asia and increase appropriations in the General Fund group by 292,450 to facilitate the transfer of ownership of 1852 1862. Atlantic Avenue District six. A motion mechanism in SA. A second to Ranga. Why don't we go to public comment? Our first speaker for item 12 is Edith Price. Edith Perez. Our next speaker is Jennifer Maguire. Good afternoon. Medical student and members of the City Council. My name is Jennifer Gary. I live in the First District. I work as a community health volunteer for Central China for over ten years, specializing in helping families and essential workers with health, education, public safety and emergency services. As a 30 year resident and professional grow my daughter and mine, which I am fully I fully support, I am proud that will help build and sustain community based workforce and business owners in Long Beach. Thank you. Think your next speaker is Jessica Quintana. Jessica Quintana. Our next speaker is Manuela Almaguer. Good evening, Mary Garcia and members of the city council. My name is and all of my guests. I live in the sixth district. I work as a youth reentry. Workforce. Program coordinator for. Central Trial back. In 2014 and to get an opportunity to be employed as a youth intern at the age of 16. I then continued my education at Cal State Long Beach. Receiving my bachelor's in. Social and social work. In. 2019. And my job development and academic success has been attributed to an. Internship and services through workforce things like temperature. And with that, I try to also support. The items. That will help. Build and. Sustain a community based workforce and business. I think your next speaker is Robert Castillo. Good afternoon, Mayor Garcia and members of the City Council. My name is Robert Castillo. I live in the seventh district. I work as a program manager for Central China for over five years, specializing in adult and youth entry integration and employment training services, helping over 700 justice involved men and women. I currently manage the Adult Reentry Program funded by the California Board of State and Corrections Community and also by Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn. As a resident, a professional service provider in Long Beach, I'm in full support of item 12 that will build and sustain a community based, community based workforce and business center. Thank you. Thank you. Your next speaker is Edith Perez. Good evening. Mayor. Members of the City Council. My name is Edith Perez. I live in the seventh district. I work as a reentry case manager for Central Asia in a program called Wages 19, funded by the Department of Labor. I was employed as a summer youth ambassador for Long Beach, Be Safe program, etc.. Sorry, Silverado Park back in 2014. In 2019, I graduated from Lombard City College with my associate's degree in Business Administration. As a resident and professional youth advocate in Long Beach, I am fully support of the Item 19 that will help build and sustain a community based workforce and business center in Long Beach. Thank you. Think your next speaker is Jessica Quintana. Jessica Quintana. Presets. Star six Turn Mute. Jessica Quintana. That concludes the conference item. Hey, Councilwoman. Sara. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to share that, you know, Senator has a long standing, important and well-respected organization in Long Beach and has provided a variety of services that range from immigration, workforce development, reentry programing, as you heard from some of our many of several of the people who provided comments. And this kind of really speaks to just our previous item when we talked about violence prevention is this is the organization doing prevention and intervention work to ensure that we break the cycle of violence as well as poverty. So I think that they're bringing important needed business and workforce development center to the central area that will serve all residents. And I want to ask my colleagues for your support on this item. Thank you. There is a second by Councilmember Ringa, as a reminder. Thank you, Mayor. I want graduate center Cha. It's an opportunity here to find a permanent home that they've been searching for, for so many years. And this is well deserved. Very glad and happy to support them through the hardest working nonprofit in Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you and come council America Sunday has. Thank you, Mayor. This is a bittersweet moment for me. I'm so happy for Central Park getting their new headquarters, but I'm also sad that they're leaving our first district. But the good thing is that even besides the fact that I may distinguish, you know, on district lines, my my residents don't. So they will still be able to benefit from from their services and continue being being involved with central charm. I know that they will that Central Cha will continue to be invaluable to our community as a partner. And I really appreciate them. And they are one of the biggest, if not the biggest Latino community serving nonprofit organization in our city. And they have been, you know, serving our community for many, many, many years. They have also stepped up to the plate in some really enormous ways during COVID and to help to still distribute food, to help with other resources , and to making sure that our hardest to reach community is vaccinated and they work tirelessly to create a better future for our residents. And I am so, so proud of the work that they do. And I just want to say congratulations on on their new location. I'd be remiss in not taking the opportunity to highlight this amazing essential work and just express my gratitude to Jessica, the executive director. I know we were having technical difficulties, but day in and day out, she truly is a champion for our community, especially our Latino community. And as always, feeling from the bottom of her heart and really working from her heart to be able to provide for all of our residents citywide. So a big thanks to Jessica and to the board of Central Short for all the work that they've been doing across the city. It's just been incredible and I'm so happy for them and I know that I leave them in good hands with councilmember and sorrows. Best of luck. Thank you, Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just wanted to chime in and just congratulate all who were involved. This is impressive. Back when the in the days of redevelopment, the city would invest in public buildings, public facilities to community based organizations. And, you know, that hasn't taken place in a long time, not just in Long Beach, but in many cities. And it's a testament to Jessica's leadership that to remain focused and have that tenacity to say, hey, I want to make this project happen, but also to our team in the economic development that they figured out a way to make this to make this work. And the benefit will be the community center lobbies community to have a center that can focus comprehensively on the needs of the community from food, workforce services, intervention, I mean, everything. And so that's that's really incredible to know what was able to be done without the significant investment redevelopment style investment . And so once this is done, let's continue to be creative, figure out ways to make it actually work to many areas of town that don't have basic amenities or resources. Workforce centers not reliable on the list of different things that need to happen as a basic common denominator within our communities. And I just want to take a moment to say congratulations to Centro Chocolate, congratulations to all of its area councilmembers, councilmember sorrow and also Councilmember today, Councilmember Durango. This is this is fantastic work. And I look forward to thank. Thank you. And please go ahead, members, and cast your votes. And of course, a very supportive. So we're very excited for a person that's going to cast our votes. District one. I'M. District two. I. District three. I. District four. District five. I. District six. I. District seven. I. District eight. Hi. District nine? Yes. Ocean carries. Madam Clerk, District four was an eye. Confirm. Thank you.