Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a new Cooperative Agreement and any necessary documents with the Friends of Long Beach Animal Shelter, doing business as Friends of Long Beach Animals, to provide for the shared use of a newly-installed dual-purpose veterinary clinic at the P.D. Pitchford Companion Animal Village, for a term of five years, with two, five-year renewal options at the discretion of the City Manager, or his designee.  (District 5)
Thank you. Next item. Item 18 Report from Parks, Recreation and Marine. Recommendation to execute a new cooperative agreement with the Friends of Long Beach Animal Shelter to provide for and shared use of a newly installed dual purpose veterinary clinic at the P.D. Pitchford Companion, Animal Village District five. Thank you. And I'm going actually have staff do a short. This is actually a really great partnership and a really great use. It's going to happen at the animal at the animal care shelter. So if I can turn this over to staff to let the council give them a heads up on what's happening over there. Thank you, Mayor, and members of the city council. I'll turn it over to Ted Stevens, who's been working with the friends of Long Beach Animal Care with this veterinary clinic. Thank you, mayor and council members. I'll try to keep it brief, but this will be, you know, there when the facility was originally built, there was not much thought given to veterinary care for the shelter, to provide veterinary care for the animals. And so this. Donated building will. Give much needed space for our veterinary and medical team to be able to provide veterinary care for the animals that come in that are injured or ill from the community. And then as part of the arrangement with friends of Long Beach Animals, they'll be able to operate a to provide spay and neuter to the public at a free or very reduced price. And that will go a long way in assisting with the mandatory spay neuter, which was passed last week. Thank you. Vice Mayor. Low info. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I know that over the last few weeks we've had a really robust discussion about the successes and challenges of our Animal Care Services mission of reducing pet overpopulation. We heard lots of comments on the issue, and I mentioned to you that pieces were beginning to fall into place from all the hard work of our staff at Animal Care and the animal care community, as well as the city council. The vet clinic is just one more important piece in that puzzle, and I want to thank everyone for a great job, everyone that's been involved, and I'm just very happy to see this come forward. Thank you. Any public comment on the item? Seeing none. And I want to make sure that we think friends of the Long Beach Animals, because if it wasn't for them, this new building would not exist. It's there fundraising efforts that have helped us get this new vet clinic. So thank you very much. If you're out there watching and please cast your votes. Motion carries eight zero. Next item. Item 19 Report from Parks, Recreation and Marine. Recommendation to execute a First Amendment to contract with Merchants. Landscape Services for Supplemental Landscape Services for a total amount not to exceed 936,000 citywide.