Recommendation to authorize City Manager to create and implement a Partnerships to Enhance Parks, Programs and Services Program for the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Let's have item number 2025. Thought we took 24. Well 25 lots have. I'm number 25, please. Report from Parks, Recreation and Marine. Recommendation to authorize the City Manager to create and implement a partnership to enhance parks, programs and services program for the Parks and Recreation and Marine Departments Citywide. Thank you, Mr. West. We have a quick report from our Parks Recreation. Marine Director. Marine Knight, supported by Assistant Director Steven Scott. Good evening, Vice Mayor. Members of the council. This evening we're bringing to you a proposed program to enhance partnerships in our parks, programs and services. In 1996, there was a city wide policy on sponsorships developed for city wide agreements. In 2012, that policy was updated to allow for more competitive proposals, donations, programs and service sponsorships. In 2016, the Council requested the development of a new program to include public private partnerships benefiting programs, facilities and services. The program that we are bringing to you tonight was researched and informed by best practices and modeled after successful programs throughout the nation, including the cities of San Francisco, Minneapolis, Seattle, Kansas City, Sacramento and New York. The program that we're bringing to you tonight has a few things that we've done. We've taken all of our city wide policies on sponsorships, and we've put them into one program and one policy. It also includes our public or prime fee waiver policy, our right of entry permits and existing agreements for uses of facilities and provisions of services and programs. Currently, we have over 100 existing partnerships and they range from anything to some of our garden clubs, groups and organizations that support animal care services organizations and nonprofits that is existing currently use our city facilities and some of our businesses in town that support our programs and services. The staff looked at our current needs where we would enhance programs and services or need to fill some gaps or expand our programs and services. And those needs fall into three categories of needs for our parks and facilities, needs for additional and expanded programing, and needs for additional new and expanded services. So I proposed new program partnerships to enhance parks, programs and services incorporate incorporates our existing policies. It includes current partnerships and allows for expanded partner opportunities and provides a more consistent framework. It is intended not to supplant existing programs or services, but to either enhance services and programs or bring new services and programs or revenues. Fill gaps or bring more programs than we are able to do with our existing resources. This new policy includes several partnership opportunities, includes donations, sponsorships and programmers, service delivery partnerships, revenue sharing, volunteer support, park or beach maintenance and stewardship facility amenity naming opportunities through sponsorship, user fee waivers and appropriate commercial concessions. There are several guiding principles that any new partnership under this policy should bring. There should be new revenues, resources, ideas, technologies, programs, or services that meet a community need. Partnerships should have a positive social, financial, cultural, environmental impact. The partnership should protect and enhance the city brand and image, meaning the organizations and businesses that we partner with should be in good standing with the city and they should have a proven track record of success. They should also demonstrate the financial capacity to take on the partnership that they are endeavoring. The partnership should be self-sustaining and not needing additional resources from the city. It should be inclusive and free of participation barriers, not conflict with existing policies and practices, and follow all current laws. A process for a business or an organization would be to submit a letter of intent. It would go through our review process so that we can make sure it meets the guiding principles outlined in the policy. And if so, then it's moved on to the existing approval processes that we have in place. There are a few recent examples that we are working on that would meet this new policy. The first is a dog play yard ax has identified that one of the things that will help us socialization and adoption of our dogs and the health of the animals that we have at the shelter would be to have an expanded playard. But as you know, we are very constrained with our footprint at the current facility. So we are looking at moving into part of our corporation yard for our maintenance facility and expanding that into a dog playard. Resources are needed to do that and the friends of the Long Beach Animals has come forward willing to fund the construction of that playard. We have another great partnership right now with an organization called Heart of IDA. Part of it provides a lot of free senior services, mobility classes and information for our seniors. And they came to us a little while ago and needed some extra space to operate. So in exchange for some space at the Fourth Street Senior Center, they are providing free services to our seniors and our older adults in our community. And finally, we're working with our Conservation Corp partners on a partnership that would help us move forward community enhancement projects. We often have members of the community coming to us wanting to do enhancement projects in our parks. However, we don't have the current resources to sit down with those organizations, plot out their plans and programs and move those forward. So the Conservation Corps is going to be our subcontractor, so to speak, in this endeavor, and they will work with the community organizations and move that forward. That will also give them the opportunity, as is one of their core service models, is to provide job training as they do that. So the next steps would be approval of the policy this evening. And we will market this new policy and program once it's approved, and we will be seeking letters of intent from interested parties. And that concludes my report, and I'm available for questions. Thank you. And we'll go to counseling in the Mongo. Thank you. I want to thank Parks Recreation Marine, along with the city manager for their work on this. I know that when we started getting questions from different community groups about the deals that had been made or not been made and the the terms of who between the City Council and the Parks and Rec Commission had jurisdiction over different kinds of partnerships, the types of partnerships that were available. People would ask questions like, Why does this business have a poster on a fence in the baseball diamond? But the soccer fields don't have the same kinds of opportunities. And I think that putting everything in one place where we can all start to know and understand the rules by which things are made would be a huge help to all of our nonprofit groups. I think that there are a ton of people out there with great intentions who are out in the community wanting to better the city and to donate that money and or time to the city. But it has to be done in a meaningful way and an efficient way because you and your time is also very limited and you have a lot of acreage to cover. And every park is a priority and every program is a priority. And so putting it all together in one place is an amazing opportunity. I received some emails. Specifically asking, can volunteers clean up the park? Can the start of the other happen? And I think that through discussions with you about your projects and timelines that you have in mind with working with the Conservation Corps and other things, our parks will be cleaner. Our youth will be better trained. The partnership programs available will be. More. And we'll be able to fill those gaps areas at some of our parks that have really struggled. I know that Councilman Andrews and I spoke at length a year ago when this started and then most recently a few hours before this meeting about some of the partnerships that he's desired to have at MLK Park, but that they're the process by which a nonprofit comes to the table and fills out what to whom, by when and what is. That need was not really clearly defined. And so now I'm in the pocket. It has a sample sheet that the Parks and Rec Department has, so you can fill out your request. There will be a record and a file. And when I started in this office, there were lots of questions about what had and had not been approved because almost everything was required to come through the city council and no one really knew what had and had not been approved. And so for that, I really appreciate the work and diligence of this because I feel that it'll be a much more transparent process with open lines of communication that will benefit everyone. So I look forward to hearing the feedback and I hope that we get a lot of applications over the next 12 months to fill in those gaps in the areas that I know you've identified and taken a lot of time to identify. So thank you for your hard work. Thank you. And I'll speak to my second now. So this my thoughts here are, you know, there's certainly need to count on the private sector for certain things. You know, I can say it's not clear right now how to say raise money to support the building of a facility. We we just finished the the construction of the Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library. And concurrent with that was the endowment to help support library programing, you know, and maintenance of the building and things like that. And and we it was very clear we were able to work with the Library Foundation. We've raised over $1,000,000. We're really proud of that. At the same time, we have a convention center out in park as an example, and we don't know the process to go solicit private dollars. And this helps for us to streamline that process, to find private dollars should we need it in the expansion or the improvement of how in part there's been interest in, you know, doing things like, you know, using creating kiosks and things like that to make, you know, help those areas where the park transitions into a business corridor. And it wasn't even clear on how we engage in those discussions with the business improvement district or businesses who may want to have a footprint there. I think with respect to our monuments and memorials that are in our parks, we have to have a clear understanding on like facility and amenity naming processes because that could be a part of how we establish endowments and structures to pay for the ongoing maintenance of these facilities in the long term. And that should be clear. I do want to you know, I see the point that it says we are, you know, just the pivot for a minute, that we're filing all laws and and things like that. And I just want to go to staff with with a question when, you know, I do see program and service delivery here. I want to be crystal clear that we you know, whether this requires and have we followed any labor requirements in terms of meeting confer I mean, consult additional? Will this trigger any requirement for us to have any negotiation as it relates to services that currently are delivered by the rank and file or services that may be become delivered by the rank and file? So can you speak to that just for a moment? Absolutely. So on page three of attachment C, which is the actual policy under program and service delivery, about halfway into that paragraph, it says these programs or services should either be new to the community or something that enhances existing programs or services. Proposals will not be considered that seek to assume the delivery of an existing program or service whereby that action would create a violation of Proposition L. Great. I think it was important that we draw that part out, that what we're talking about is, you know, and what what we initially that's consistent with what we originally requested with this study. And I'm glad to see that that's the intent as we move forward. So I want to say, I'm look, you know, we are going to embrace this opportunity and look for new partnerships to improve our parks and our facilities. And I and I want to thank Councilwoman Mongo, all the council members who've been involved in this, and particularly Marie and her staff for really helping clarify this. This is really solid work. Thank you. So next is Councilman Austin. Thank you. And I think some of my questions were actually addressed. I briefed earlier with the director of memory for Parks and Recreation Marines and expressed some of my concerns regarding what's not written here. And that is and that would be the the unintended consequences. I want to be clear as well, and I'll be a little bit more clear that I am not interested in contracting out any existing work as a result of public private partnerships with the Parks and Recreation and Marine. I'm not interested in violating any existing collective bargaining agreements or prop properly in any way. And I would just hope that that we we move forward with this, that we don't. We don't get into those issues. We can. We seek to avoid them. Now, what has been also stated is that you said that existing services would not be impacted. But if we're creating new opportunities, it's not going to preclude our city employees from being involved in those. I don't think it would preclude our city employees from being involved in those. I think each partnership opportunity and we we have sort of a catchall category here for innovation because there are things that we probably haven't even contemplated yet that businesses or organizations could bring forward, that there may be an opportunity for the city to partner with someone in the provision of a service where maybe they underwrite our staff providing the service. So I think that there are those opportunities there. But I would clarify again and reassure you that, you know, as throughout here, we talk about new and enhanced programs and services and new and enhanced revenues. So the intention is not to take away from our employees or the services that they're provided, but really look to fill the gaps. And there are large gaps in our service provision here and the needs in the community. So this really will hopefully help us move forward and fill those gaps versus supplant what we're already doing. Okay. Well, I think that this is a policy that is going to work. I mean, obviously, I'm going to support the what's on the proposed to do tonight with with those that that clarification and when those provisions that I. I set forth. I think the language in here is pretty good. I just you know, there's a. Under the guiding principles. The the last bullet point states that partnerships must not conflict in any with any existing city policy practice initiative or procedure and partners would be required to follow all city, county and state and federal laws. I would just like to to add any existing labor agreements to to that if as a friendly amendment or to. To the guiding principles. We could add that under that section and we could also add it on page three at the end of program and service delivery. Just to reiterate that point, if that works for you as well. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Price. Thank you very much. I too want to thank staff for their work on this. I just wanted to ask a few questions about this. Is this going to be a pilot program? It's not intended to be a pilot program. It's intended to be a program that we once approved by the council will be able to immediately implement. There will be, I guess, a pilot piece of this as things come to us that, again, we haven't contemplated or done before. But we want we intend to be able to move forward immediately with some of the requests that we've received. We have a few things on hold, as well as seeking out what we feel are some of the service needs. So we'd like to move forward with it. There may be some things that come forward and we discuss at a staff level and bring that up through the council that maybe it's not something, a direction that we want to go in. Some of the what's contained in this policy already exists, as I mentioned. So we've pulled and cobbled together a few existing policies and then there's some new things in here that we're going to be trying. So I guess in that sense it's a pilot in that we're going to be trying something new. Our hope is that it moves forward. We may come back to some point in time down the road to tweak it a little bit or add to it. If we find that there are things that we didn't think about and we want to be able to add to this, that makes sense for the community and services. Okay. Are we going to have any sort of an outreach campaign to inform people of these partnerships or partnership opportunities? We'll do our standard marketing, so we'll use our social media sites and our website, and we'll reach out to some of our current nonprofit organizations or those that have reached out to us in the past. Some of our other user groups or people that we have had, some of the previous types of agreements that now we're going to fold into this. So we'll be doing a little bit of outreach on all ends. Okay. Now, is this I know that throughout. The report, though, the. Term park is referenced, but does that include medians, parkways and roundabouts? It would include anything that comes under the purview of Parks, Recreation and Marine. And I ask that because, as Ms.. Knight knows, and I'm very proud at some point we're going to do a presentation at council. One of our staff members is a member of this year's Leadership Long Beach team and one of her. Her idea of adopting a media and a kind of a a program that we could implement citywide for community groups that might be interested actually was one of the projects that was selected. And so it's Antonella Schaub who's here. So we're going to be working on a partnership and with leadership Long Beach to make that project a reality. And of course, that involves the media. So I wanted to make sure that this this this policy that we're contemplating would encompass those areas as well in regards to community groups. Can they, if they wanted to partner. Would. PRM be providing them a list of partners that they could connect with to do community service? I'm sorry. Can you say that again? Sure. As far as like community groups who may want to do an enhancement project would PRN be providing them with a list of community partners that they could work with? I guess I'm not quite sure what you're asking for as far as community partners. Would we be part? Would we be matching them with other groups that want to do projects that have come to us? Is that what you're asking or. Well, I guess I'm kind of going off of your PowerPoint presentation. And in terms of your partnership with Friends of Long Beach Animals. Your partnership with Heart of Ida. So some of our existing. Partnerships or existing or future partnerships. So how would a community group know about that, those partnerships? How would they know? Well, that's a great question. That could be something that we could add to our website. The existing partnerships that we have so folks could get an idea of what we're already doing. We would also not want to take away from if we have a very successful partnership right now with one of those organizations , have someone else come in and, you know, try and take over that partnership as well. I think there's plenty of needs to go around, so I'm not so concerned about that. But we could certainly list those on our website. Just just to give community groups a little bit of assistance. If they wanted to get involved in a particular enhancement project, like how would they go about, you know, what, what would be the partners that the city has already worked with, like Conservation Corps, which is the medium project that we're doing or other groups that they could work with. Right. So we have several that do enhancement and cleanup projects. For example, the Friends of Bixby Park. They do regular monthly cleanup projects in the park. They do some other programs and service projects for us. So we have neighborhood groups throughout the city. So when when we do get phone calls from people and they're interested in participating, we often do hook them up with the key members of those organizations so they can reach out to them. And that similar partner would be maybe the like the stewardship program that we have with Lenny, Arkansas. Yes, I know he works with community partners and organizations all the time. We have often sent people towards Lenny's way that he could use all the volunteers he can get. That's perfect. That's great. Would a community group be able to submit a one time intent to partner on a particular community project, or would it have to be like an ongoing thing? Yes, they can do a one time, for example, of a one time park enhancement or park cleanup or park project. Or it could be a partnership over the next five years. It could be that they submit it for a long term. Depending on if they are able to show that they have a proven track record of success for a long term agreement, we may start out with maybe a one year or shorter agreement that's renewable, depending on how they do after their first year. But absolutely, there's latitude to do short term one time or long term. Okay, that's great. Well, I think it's great that we are looking at opportunities like this because I know resources are limited in terms of financial resources, but in terms of volunteer resources and and a heart for the community and a willingness to do things in the community, we're certainly not limited in that area. So to the extent that we can kind of use that that desire to fuel some projects, that would be great. I do want to ask that because outreach and communication and encouraging these partnerships is so important. I want to encourage PRM to continue to work with community groups or interest groups who might be interested in getting the word out and providing information to community partners of how this could happen and how we could effectuate these policies at the, you know, at the very local level in neighborhoods and to kind of use use other agencies, as, you know, ambassadors to help us get the word out about these opportunities. I think that would be really great. Absolutely. Thank you. Councilmember Pierce. Thank you so much. I also want to say just great job to Councilmember Mungo, who I know began this conversation. Anne Marie Knight, for your hard work on this, partnerships obviously is something that is really important to me and my district. And we have unique opportunities in our district like Arts Park, like Bixby Park, that really are going to require partnerships to help us create an above and beyond experience for folks. And so I just wanted to ask a couple of questions. One is, if an organization that's a listed in the sheet is fundraising for, you know, like the friends of Groups, if they're fundraising for a park, what is the process that they go through before they can spend those funds or fundraise in the first place? Is there an agreement where that fall into this category where they would have a form that they could work on? It would fall under this policy, and there has not been a consistent policy in the past. So that's one of the benefits of this, is that we would be able to have a, you know, a running total of who's doing what. It's been approved. So we know that their fundraising, we know what they're fundraising for. And if it is for something in the park, then we've approved that because we have we have a lot of great groups out there. They're very well-meaning groups. But we get calls all the time about someone being approached by someone who's fundraising for something that we're not even aware of. So this process will help us solidify that. Absolutely. Great. Thank you for that. And then I wanted to ask a question around the revenue sharing. I know it doesn't exactly say that every project would share X amounts. Can you talk about when we do revenue sharing, say with like an arts park, we are going to do a partnership with the Arts Council and the Dolby and hopefully have some concessions there . What would happen with the revenue sharing percentage that the city would get from that? So each contractor agreement is going to have to be negotiated separately because there's going to be there are so many opportunities that it could be such a broad spectrum of what they're raising money for, what they're charging for. It is a is it a concession versus is it fundraising? So each contract, as they propose to do some type of concession in the park, we would then look at and negotiate separately with each one about the revenue sharing that would come back. Some may be doing that concession or raising funds, and none of those funds would directly be related to that park. But we would be asking for some of that to come back to take care of maintenance and needs in the park that they're using to fundraise for or to sell their concessions in. If it's a straight concession agreement, then we would negotiate that as we have some of our other concession agreements, for example, down at Rainbow Harbor or in the Marina. So each one is going to be different. Great. Thank you so much for your time and effort on this. And I hope that we can really look at the form and make sure that as we move forward, if the form is getting to our needs, that there might be an opportunity to adjust it just to make sure that we're doing checks and balances with some of those agreements. So thank you. Absolutely. Thank you, Councilmember Durango. Thank you, Mayor. This is more like a general big picture type of thing. I guess what we're trying to do here, you're getting principles, new revenue sources, ideas, technologies, programs, services, positive social, financial culture, environmental impact, protect and enhance the city brand and image. And of course, somebody must have a proven track record of success. In your guiding principles, you have in there to protect and enhance the city brand and image. What is it? So that means that we would want to partner with we want to make sure that the individual businesses, organizations that we partner with have the same mission as the city, has the same service, excellence of service that we have as a city. And so that when we partner with them, they are at the same level we are as far as what our city brand is. So we just want to be protective of who we are because oftentimes when these groups are out in the community and doing what they're doing, the average citizen does not know that they are not part of the city. And everyone looks at that as a city program or a city project. So we want to make sure that the customer services at the level that that we would require as a city and our standards as well as the end product. In the other sense, it also is that, you know, many I have been approached by. Community groups wanting to. How about as my assistance in sponsoring an event that they want to put through in a in a community room or a corner of the park? And one of the considerations here that we always are confronted with is that they may not be a federal agency. Whatever I want to see free or nonprofit, and they ask for that kind of assistance in order to get whatever they want to put in there. They want to do it for a benefit, for some for a cause of, let's say. Asthma. I had asthma. But they don't have. If I want to see how we're going to handle that with the in terms of the application process, are we going to require that they be a nonprofit and eventually a nonprofit, or are we going to host them in one way or another? Well, we're going to waive the fees for them in order to be able to do the. So that's a great question. So this policy encompasses, as I mentioned earlier, several of our existing, one of which is our our fee waiver policy. So the Council has given our Parks and Recreation Commission the authority to entertain those types of requests and grant fee waiver approvals. So if someone wanted to use one of our city facilities or parks, they would have to go through that application process. And it is actually heard at the Parks and Recreation Commission. They are not required to be a501 C3. What they have to demonstrate, though, is how their activity that they want to have the fees waived for. How does it serve our community? How does it benefit the community? So we have several a month that come to the commission. So that's the current process that would be covered under this and it would still remain that way. What about insurance? For some types of activities, they may have to provide insurance, others they don't. So it really depends on the activity and what they're doing. But that process is included and covered under here. So they would go through that process, and that's been in existence for quite some time. Well, in principle, yeah, I agree with the effort here because I think that we've been remiss in a lot of opportunities to have major projects here that would be self-funded or funded in other ways that would help a brand in that way. And I think that this would be very helpful in getting more out, more participation from major sponsors to come in and hold events here. I see I see the potential for this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Mongo. I want to appreciate the comments of my colleagues because a lot of what they spoke to was the original intent of this. And early on when I was elected, the transparency factor was the key concern for me because I was being told one thing by a community group, one thing by the attorney, one thing by a department head. And I really just didn't know what was the truth. So I would like to ask and I won't add it to the motion, but for you to find a way to work with data, L.B., that every application that you approve gets scanned and posted on the city website somewhere, because then we will all know who has been approved and perhaps if it's going to be rejected that it's a discussion on Here's why this is not a good time for us. We already have enough programing at that park. We already have what? And the other. But all approved city related organizations, whether they're using, let's say the Conservation Corps, is a legitimate partnership and they wear their t shirts and they're cleaning up the park. They are certified to be there versus someone who wants to just clean up the park on their own. That's fine to do, but we need to know who's verified and who's not verified. Would that be something that you can work towards? Absolutely. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Thank you, Councilwoman Pier. Yeah. I just wanted to ask that Marie Knight, if you guys could, outreach to nonprofit partnership as a way to get the word out. That that would be helpful. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Price. Just to echo what Councilwoman Mongeau just said, I think it's a really good idea to have that information and make it easily accessible. And one of the things Miss Knight's been working on with Antonella Schaub from my office is what leadership Long Beach wanted to do with this project is come up with an actual like brochure or kind of educational piece of what people would have to do in order to be able to do a partnership like this, like with a Conservation Corps or another group, and so that they can help the city. Because, again, our resources are are somewhat limited in terms of staff resources. But that's another way to get a community leadership organization to educate the neighborhood organizations about what the what steps they need to go through if they wanted to do an improvement project. Because like Council member Mungo just said, we get requested requests all the time from community groups who want to do things. And just through this process I've learned that there are different steps that they have to go through. And Councilmember Yanga is absolutely right. I mean, we need to we need to know exactly what they have to do, make sure that we comply with everything, educate people, things like insurance of the legal issues. Those are all very important. So I think having, you know, some consistency in place and taking advantage of partners who want to work with us to get the word out and educate the community and make it easier for those partnerships to happen. I think we should be embracing those at every opportunity and encouraging that kind of partnership from our local interested organizations and allied partners. So thank you. Thank you. And before we cast our vote, I just want to say that, oh, we have to get a couple of comments, so I'm gonna make a comment here. So, Parks people really care about their parks. I mean, parks are really important. I get it. And so I would say that it you know, these policies have been looked at in a long time. And we should not ignore the fact that this is probably a really heavy undertaking on behalf of staff. And so, you know, staff, thank you for taking this on. I hope that this is successful. I hope you continue to defend it like you did tonight. And and let's and let's see what comes out of this. Sometimes you have to take a risk and try something new to, you know, to shift an outcome. And so I'm hoping that that happens. Is there any public comment on this item tonight? Karen retired, and I'm a resident of the First District, and I also represent a number of community groups, and I also am a part time worker with partners of Parks. And I can assure you this is going to be a great opportunity for community groups and for partners of Parks, too. And as your question, Councilmember Turanga Partners of Parks does do fiscal sponsorships for organizations that don't have a5013501c3 and for all of the council members. And we do that for any organization that is going to be doing events in parks, we charge a 10% administrative fee, which is very, very low if you look at other organizations. And we also are able to provide insurance certificates at no cost to people that affiliate with us. So those are part of the services that Partners of Parks offers. And I think this will be a wonderful opportunity. Speaking for Gray Panthers, we have a great partnership with the senior center and with parks, been there a number of years. We loved the park scene being at the senior center. So thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. When I was not. Yes. My name is Priscilla Suarez. I'm the executive director of the Arts Council for Long Beach. And first of all, I really want to thank the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine for updating and clarifying their parks sponsorship policies. Thank you so much. Community partnerships between local organizations and our city's parks help fill the gap in many ways for our resources and in some cases, activate underused space and bring residents together. As the Arts Council, I know the value of as head of the Arts Council, I know the value of community groups. And many times we get artists and creative organizations wanting to use the parks as a place to bring everyone together to do creative work. And so this would help greatly. A lot of those organizations are willing to create sustainable partnerships and bring together a shared vision. We are currently working as an Arts Council where Councilmember Janine Pearce, the downtown Long Beach Alliance, the East Village Association and local businesses to activate East Village Arts Park, which has been closed for three years. And so even in in in asking the question, there were other questions to me and I was like, I don't know. So thank you so much. Again, this is really, really opens up many avenues. So our collaboration with East Village Arts Park is the perfect example of how business and community groups can come together to activate public spaces. I look forward to being part of the process. As an arts council. We can educate our creative organizations. We can educate our artist. Our musicians are performers on how to go about this. So count on our support on that and we look forward to leveraging some more resources for our parks and our communities. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is Mary Martinson I with friends of El Dorado Dog Park. And I'm the president of a nonprofit. 501c3 And we've been here since 2010 and I feel hardly support this. It's just been. Type of. Where you don't really know what's going to be approved. What is it? We've fundraised first. We were supposed to fundraise for the dog park. And an. Infrastructure. Gerry ships. Keep it the infrastructure. Through. And we were really happy about it and was a one time. Infrastructure. We've spent close to $8,000, which is not a lot. But the problem was we wanted to go after corporate. Sponsorship and we. Didn't have any guidelines. For it. And it would really. Help our. Group and our nonprofit to. Have some type of guidelines. To work through this. So we. Appreciate this. I thanks Stacy Mongo for bringing it forward. I thank the Parks and Recreation. And I am so. Happy that this is going to. Finally. Be something that we. Can look at and say. Yeah, this is going to work. This is really. What we. Need. So thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Larry. Good. I haven't had a chance to go over the details with this night. I did. With the predecessor and so forth. But a. A program, a paradigm that will be set, ready to go is will be centered around what used to be Marine Stadium three s, which was raised as a result of a criminal ruse. What's going to happen with that? And this will probably take place later this fall, before the end of this year. It will be rebuilt in the same footprint, no larger than the old footprint. And we'll get somebody like Schooner or later that will operate what will be open for breakfast and lunch only period. Half of a probably 80% of the seating will be portable chairs and tables that they will bring out in that location. It will do a land office business, and a percentage of the profits will go to offset the fees that are being charged for to the nonprofit. Cal State and Long Beach Junior Crew. A percentage of the profits from sooner or later will go there. We've already got a name for it. It's going to be called the brig and it will do an absolute fantastic business for breakfast and lunch. It will not it will not be open for dinner. But that's something we we're coming up with in three or four months that will come forward. I'll give you all the same, all the details. And you don't I haven't given you all the details of the background of that. I'll give you the same the information that James Comey has. And you'll see you'll understand the full history of that. Thanks. Thank you. So seeing no further public comment members, please cast your vote.