Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare an ordinance for an updated City of Long Beach Job Order Contracting Program and return to City Council for review in 45 days.
Great now that we have just gone through through consent. So we are on to the regular agenda. We're going to let's go ahead, take item 16/1, please. Madam Clerk. Item 16. Communication from Mayor Garcia. Recommendation to request the City Attorney to prepare an ordinance for an updated city of Long Beach job order contracting program and return to the City Council for review in 45 days. Great. Thank you. You have a request in front of you. I've been working our offices and working closely with our city auditor is a city auditor's office on our Jose contracting program. This is a program that is used by the city, as we all know, for a variety of smaller construction projects like roof repairs, doorway replacements, other parking improvements. A lot of these programs that are that are in place have ordinances tied to these programs. So we wanted to make sure that there was also an ordinance and a legal framework for for this program, so that we're always improving it and making sure that we're always providing the the best possible program that's transparent and that is also uses best practices. So that's what we have in front of us. And with that, if I can get a motion in a second, there's is there any public comment on this item? See no public comment. Members, please go ahead and ancaster votes. Can I speak? Yes. First, I just wanted to like to commend the mayor for bringing this item forward. This is a good legislation and it simplifies JLC process while creating more transparency. This is a wonderful legislation. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. And Councilman Gonzalez. I too. I just wanted to thank our mayor, as well as our city auditor, for coming up with a very mindful approach. And so I appreciate this and thank you very much. Great. Thank you. Members, please go ahead and cast your vote. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. And I want to I just want to make sure also, we took a moment, our city auditor, who was very instrumental in this also today, and her team won an award that we probably all heard about that we read about in the newspaper. So let's congratulate Laura and give her a round of applause and her team as well. I believe it was a it was an award just in there from a pretty prestigious, pretty prestigious award that looks at audits. And it was one that was focused here, here for us, for our city to make obviously, obviously continuously improve our operations here. So thank you, Laura, for for that work. Next item is go to the regular agenda, which I believe is number ten.