Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary with private property owners in Long Beach to identify economic development projects and share costs to implement the Business Corridor Improvement and Property Beautification Partnership Program on private property, in an amount not to exceed $25,000 per property, as funds are available to support the program.  (Citywide)
Lucian Case. 25. 25 is a report from economic development. Recommendation to execute all documents necessary with private property owners in Long Beach to identify economic development, project and share costs to implement the Business Corridor Improvement and Property Beautification Partnership Program on private property in an amount not to exceed $25,000 per property citywide. Give us a motion in a second or any public comment scene. And did you want to we have to do a very brief going to just go to John, very brief taking this address. I was going to get to that. So Mr. Geisinger report. Thank you, Mayor, and members of the city council. There's just a few things I need to read into the record as part of this presentation. As you know, on September 5th of 2017, the council approved a corridor improvement fund of $450,000 for three boulevards. And I'm trying to get my clicker to work here. This included it's buzzer me. Here you go. This included Carson Avenue, Pacific Avenue and Anaheim Boulevard. The goals of this program were to improve property values, increase customer traffic, and help individual property owners, groups or associations of property owners located within the project areas. On a first come, first served basis, the preference for these projects will be given to those that have the greatest potential for significant economic impact in projects may include signage, painting, windows, awning removal of external security gates, lighting, landscaping or the development of business improvement districts, among other projects as identified by the property owners. As I mentioned, this is a one time $450,000 allocation from the City Council for 2018. But staff will be seeking additional funding sources such as the Community Development BLOCK grants for businesses that fall inside those eligible areas or matching funds from the private property owner if the private property owner offers that. Additionally, tonight, we're asking the City Council to approve the partnership agreement between the city and the private property owners with the following terms and conditions. This must be new work or improvements to the property up to $25,000 per property. The scope of work must be approved by the city prior to any work or project. Kick off payments will be made on a reimbursement basis. Contractors will be required to pay prevailing wage and contractors must maintain current Long Beach business licenses. One other note is that the partnership agreement may be used for properties outside the project area if funding becomes available for those projects in the future. Construction. That was my report. Sorry. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. Mr. Mayor, may I please speak out? I'm sure. I have a note from Mr. De Andrews who had to leave. To be in Sacramento in a few hours. He wanted to thank the staff for their hard work on this, and he'd like to. Ask specifically about the eligibility of the. Funds for the creation of the Property or Business Improvement. District on Pacific. And just I know that I'm supportive of this idea and I just want to make sure that the staff were supportive. And COUNCILMEMBER Yes, the we will be reaching out to business owners and property owners on Pacific and if they wish to aggregate their funds toward the establishment of a business improvement district, that would be considered eligible as well. Wonderful. And then last question. Will there be priority to projects. That have matching funds from the business owner? Yes. So what we're going to be doing is compiling a list and trying to maximize the amount of the funds by leveraging matching funds or outside sources. So absolutely, the projects where we can have the greatest impact would be those that we can actually leverage additional funding from the participants. My only last comment is before anything is spent outside of. The zones that were designated by the Council at the Budget Oversight Committee and the full council, and to note that it comes back to this body for review. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Please cast your vote.