Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and take the continued actions necessary to adopt the Master Fees and Charges Schedule and the Water and Sewer Rates as they relate to the Fiscal Year 2022 budget as listed in Attachment A. (Citywide)
Motion. Scary. Thank you. Next, we'll have item number 12, please. Item number 12, a report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and adopt the master's fees and charges schedule and the water and sewer rates citywide. Thank you. There's a motion for a second. Okay. So we moved in, seconded. There's no public comment on this item. There is one public comment on this item, Mr. Mike Murchison. Okay. Good evening, vice mayor and council member is my name is Mike Murchison. I am a lifetime resident in Long Beach. I live in the eighth. And on behalf of rental property owners who have been hammered during this pandemic, I just want to kind of give you an observation about the water and sewer increases. Chris Gardner explained everything to me and he did a masterful job. So I don't have an argument with the background of Prop 218 and how the water and sewer rates are increased. But the problem that I have is the deferred rent that you all have been dealing with. Those moneys haven't been allocated to the extent possible because of the federal income requirements. So a lot rental property owners have been hammered financially on top of this. Rental property owners make up, in my opinion, the majority of the accounts the Long Beach Water has. Now, the state recognizes one building, meaning if you own 20 units in a building, they only recognize as one building and yet as a rental property owner, you've got to pay for all your tenants in there for your water and sewer rates. So a couple of weeks ago, the Long Beach Water Department had their meeting making a recommendation to you folks. Over 700 emails opposing the water and sewer rate were submitted to the Long Beach Water Department. My only point to you is that increases like this should be deferred at least for another year until we get through the Delta variant and COVID and all that, to continue to hit an industry that keeps getting blasted left and right, it's just not right. I just want you guys to take that into account. I know that this is going to probably move forward in all likelihood, but there's a lot of frustrated rental property owners out there right now . When you get over 700 that submit emails, that own, you know, multiple buildings, multiple units, it gives you an idea of the frustration that's out there right now. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no further public comment. Members, please cast your vote. And Vice Mayor Richardson, there are multiple votes on this item. Right? Trump went after. Ocean is carried. Three had a vote on the second again. This is concluding this is completing the budget actions from our previous council meeting. All right, members, please cast your vote. Motion is carried. Okay. One more time. Motion is very. Interesting. Thank you. So next, we'll take up the fund transfer items. This item 13, 16, 17, 29 and 30 and 31.