Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to accept an easement deed from Long Beach Unified School District, the owner of the property located at 4840 Lemon Avenue, for the installation of public utilities; and accept Long Beach Unified School District’s Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration for a new early childhood learning center at Barton Elementary School.  (District 8)
Carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Next item is we're going to do item 12. Report from Public Works. Recommendation to accept an easement deed from Long Beach Unified School District located at 4840 Lemon Avenue for installation of public utilities and except Long Beach Unified School District's initial study and mitigated negative declaration for a new Early Childhood Learning Center, District eight. Nothing at all. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to get a staff report from Public Works. Yes, Councilman. There are Austin members. City Council. This item was brought before you at the last council meeting and it was asked to be held over to give staff an opportunity to review the secret document, the mitigated negative declaration, and some of the traffic analysis done as part of that process. After you've had a chance to go into. That in more detail and understand what. Some of the mitigation measures staff has reached out to the Lumbee Unified School District and propose an alternative at this location. It's adjacent to Barton Elementary School, which is essentially a at the Alamo. And LEMON That intersection does not currently have a traffic signal. However, it was rated one of our more challenging intersections in the city, and it is deemed to be included on a future traffic signal list. So the city staff is working with Long Beach Unified School District staff to share in those costs so we can advance when that traffic signal would come forward. That isn't specific to the easement. The easement is a different matter. It is for utilities. But we do feel that we have positive momentum. In. Addressing bringing. A traffic signal to the line one. LEMON And that concludes. My staff report. Thank you. There's a motion and a second on this. Councilman Austin thank. You. Excellent report. This is a this EDUCARE facility with the Long Beach Unified School District is going to be an excellent addition to our district. Prior to the aged care facility actually coming online and being actually a vision of the school, Barton Elementary School and many of the residents in the area requested a traffic signal at Limon and Del Amo because of a high volume of accidents. The educator will add another 200 students plus another 50 staff. And so I think it merits a greater conversation. And I'm glad that our public works department and Lomas Unified are actually talking about that. And I'm very encouraged. So I support this item and encourage my colleagues to do so as well. Thank you. Councilwoman Price. This sounds like a great partnership. I'm happy to support it. Thank you. Thank you. And I'll just chime in and say this is a really exciting project, some very high quality child care and sort of preschool early learning facility in North Long Beach. This is going to be one of the one of the most spectacular child care facilities in the region taking place in North Long Beach, excited to partner with school district, excited to partner with Councilman Austin. I just think I'm just really excited about this project. Councilman Andrews. Yes, excellent job, Councilman. Awesome. Because the fact that that's where our future starts, it's a good place where we'll be starting. Thank you again. We thank you for any public comment on this item saying nonmembers, please cast your vote.