Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to approve an Agreement between the City of Long Beach and The Volunteer Center South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach Volunteer Center for their expertise and guidance in volunteer management and the use of their online volunteer opportunity platform in order to launch and execute the City’s upcoming inaugural “Volunteer Campaign.”  (Citywide)
Councilmember most motion carries. Okay. Item Karis, thank you. Now we're moving on to item 16, please. We have the hearings, Mayor, right here. In one of the hearings right after this. Report from City Manager Recommendation to approve an agreement with the Volunteer Center for their expertize and guidance in Volunteer Management citywide. Councilman Gonzales. Do we have a staff report on this? Yes, we do. This is a fantastic opportunity for us to encourage volunteerism in Long Beach. This is based on some council member outreach, particularly in the fifth District and others that have worked on volunteer days in the last year. And so we are partnering with the Volunteer Center to basically kick off about a month of service for volunteer projects in Long Beach. And we do have a very short presentation from the volunteer center, who's going to be our partner in this effort. Thank you very much. My name is Sarah Myers. Many of you know me. I had a passion for libraries for eight and half years in Long Beach. My new home is the president, CEO of the Volunteer Center, South Bay Harbor, Long Beach. And I have a quick presentation about the Long Beach Service project. I'd like to start by thanking Mayor Garcia and the council, especially those council people, Councilwoman Mango, who have championed volunteerism. Many of you in your districts have. And I'd also like to say a special thank you to the city staff, especially Ryan Murray and Mark Marlee Williams and Tom Monaco, for their help in and assistance in this project. The Volunteer Center quickly is a nonprofit organization. While it is a new home, to me, it is not new to Long Beach. It was actually founded in 1963 by the Junior League of Long Beach. We have an office here in Long Beach on Fourth Street. Our mission is to mobilize people and resources to deliver creative solutions to community needs. We work with all kinds of volunteers, retirees, corporate employee volunteers, teens and millennials. If anyone has that passion and that spark to wake up and say, I'd like to give back, we are the place that connects them to hundreds of nonprofits that need their time and talents. Our motto is that we are at the heart of helping and we've been at the heart of helping for more than 50 years. The Long Beach Service Project has several goals. I think you all know and we see constantly in social media how fantastic our volunteers in Long Beach are. There are so many examples of amazing residents doing amazing things and this project is to bring it all together and to really celebrate it and give it some visibility. In addition, we are launching a brand new online tool for Long Beach residents. This is the pilot Long Beach Service, where people can log on and sign up for these opportunities. However, it's there for the rest of the year and we hope it's an ongoing partnership. And we also will provide a highly visible platform again to celebrate those volunteers and their activities. We've relaunched our website. It is up this evening. The residents at home and any viewers can go to WW Dot Valle Center Dawg and under what's new there's a Long Beach service icon and that will be hope. That will be up and running tomorrow. And this new pilot, this online tool, we're the first volunteer center in the nation to implement this 3.0 version. So this is the fastest in the easiest implementation. And we're very proud of this tool. So residents can go on, they can sign up and register. They're going to see a quick fields like this. And what they can do is they can say, you know what, I'm free on Saturday, I'm interested in animals and they can browse through opportunities. Long Beach Serves. We'll have 20 opportunities up tomorrow and they'll be city hosted opportunities and then more will be joining the whole thing every day. The opportunities will start on October 1st and they'll culminate with Make a Difference Day National Make a Difference Day on October 22nd. So we are very excited about this partnership. I think it celebrates Long Beach being such a together community where we do give back, but this is one time where the entire city can get involved and we can really celebrate all of those activities and do what we do well. And I did hear earlier when they said that there were 2000 volunteers in the 1980s for the Olympics. We have the new Queen Mary. Everything I heard, my ears perked up. Volunteers, volunteers, volunteers. So this is the start, the catalyst of something that I hope becomes a longer platform and a longer partnership to celebrate volunteerism citywide. So thank you for your time. Great. Thank you. I'm going to try. Did you have city staff to do anything else to add to this? Okay. Councilman Gonzales. Sara, congratulations. This is great. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this evolves. And I think there are so many people and residents in the city of Long Beach that come to our offices to volunteer. And now this will be a great nexus for them to be able to see all sorts of opportunities in the city. Great job. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Austin. Thank you. I'm happy to see this. And welcome back, Sara. Your your bubbly personality is perfect for volunteer coordinating. And so I think this tool is going to be a great resource as well and looking forward to working with you. Thank you. I've missed you all. Thank you. Councilmember Pearce. Yeah. I just want to say thank you so much. I know you guys are in the second district and anything that we can do to partner with you. I know that you also work with organizations like the LGBT Center, and so thank you for your work and look at us as a resource to help with anything. Thank you. So much. Thank you. Vice Mayor Richardson, thank you. And we're looking we've got a couple of projects queued up this district. I'm looking forward to it. One of them's going to going to hopefully turn into a dog park when we're done with it. So that's going to be pretty cool. Outstanding. We look forward to it. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you all for your work. I know that Councilman Mongo, who's not here, has been really spearheading this and I want to thank her and all of your support as well. So thank you. Thank you. And thank you to all your city staff members. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Any public comment on this item? Seeing none. Please cast your votes.