Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute the Funding Agreement between the County of Los Angeles and the City of Long Beach, for community engagement activities related to the Countywide Parks Needs Assessment; receive and file the project lists from the five Planning Areas and two regional parks in the City of Long Beach; and Increase appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department (PR) by $12,500. (Citywide)
There's been a and councilmember your anger. Good. All right. Councilmember Richardson. So any member of the public that wished to address Council on item 17 seeing none. Members Cast your vote. Motion carries. Item 18 Report from Parks, Recreation and Marine recommendation to execute the funding agreement with the County of Los Angeles for community engagement activities related to the countywide parks needs assessment citywide. Councilmember Richardson. Is there a staff report? Certainly our interim director, Steve Scott, and our project manager, Meredith Reynolds. Honorable Vice Mayor and members of the City Council understanding that we all need parks. Over the last 12 months, the County of. Los Angeles has been conducting a countywide assessment of needs for parks and recreation. Opportunities in both cities and unincorporated areas. The goal of the countywide park needs. Assessment is to engage all communities within the county. In a collaborative process to gather data and input regarding these park. Needs. To that end, approximately 175 community workshops have been held throughout Los Angeles County, including six in Long Beach over the last three months. With that, I'm going to just. Very quickly hand it over to Meredith Reynolds to just provide a few details regarding the process that was utilized by the county. Good evening, Mayor. Members of the City Council. In February 2015, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a plan to produce a county wide, comprehensive parks and recreation need assessment to analyze current public parks and open space and cultural and recreational assets and needs. The effort dictated by the county but led locally by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine included providing data on the condition of park amenities in the city, hosting six community outreach workshops and bringing the community's prioritized list of park projects to the City Council for approval, which is presented for your consideration this evening. The assessment is on an aggressive timeline with a final summary report demonstrating park funding needs from across the county is anticipated to be completed by the county in June 2016. The county divided the city into five planning areas of roughly equal population for the area of northeast, southwest and central for the purpose of gathering comparable information throughout the county. A community workshop. Was held in each of the five planning areas. In fall of 2015. Staff performed an inventory of existing conditions of all park amenities, park location and acreage for regional parks. Community parks. Neighborhood parks and pocket parks. The city also prepared prioritized project lists for each planning area that reflected priority capital and rehabilitation projects for presentation and community outreach workshops. The result of each community workshop was a list of these prioritized projects for that planning area, which were included in your staff report. The county will develop a summary report that will include an executive summary, a description of existing conditions, the community outreach process, a list of Future Park needs, an appendix containing the full list of projects countywide. Should Future County Park funding become available. The county has indicated funding will not be limited or restricted to the submitted projects and will consider all funding priorities from cities. Should funding become available in the future, staff would return to council for approval. To apply as. Well as grant award appropriation per city policy. Contract costs for the outreach workshops, translation services and tabulation of community input totaled just over $19,000 and are currently unbudgeted. The county will provide a $12,500 stipend to help support these efforts. The city must enter into the funding agreement for community engagement activities related to the countywide park needs assessment in order to be eligible for the stipend. This concludes the presentation and staff is available to answer any questions. Thank you. Any public comment on the item? Larry. Good. You work as the address. I have not seen and study the staff report on that and where the. Parks specifically are located in the areas targeted. But I want to make sure that if it is something that has to be pulled from it. I read an article in the paper over the weekend about a. Half court, basketball court in Marina Vista Park. Which suggests that whoever suggested it is unfamiliar with the park are. Which is slated to be altered significantly in terms of the open channel project that is coming down the pike. And the Parks and Rec. The Parks Department did an excellent job in re-arranging the space. So currently there will be there will be no loss of sports paradigm that were there. But I want to make sure somebody doesn't slip in a way approving this measure that ill advised halfcourt basketball, fully support basketball, but there's not the room for it. So they've got to be some other place. But I wanted out of the record that that should not be included in any funding arrangements. Of that are flowing out of the county for this. Thank you. Thank you. There's been a motion and a second. Members cast your vote. Oh, I'm sorry. Councilmember Your Honor, I'm so sorry. And I did just want to make a comment and thank Parks Recreation staff for conducting these these workshops. These are these are opportunities for the public to weigh in on improvements that they see. And I especially want to thank them for offering a sixth workshop with that was done completely in Spanish that really engaged or Spanish speaking community in this process. Councilman Gonzalez. I was about to say the same as well. I want to thank park staff for doing the Spanish only meeting as well as, of course a meeting in the West Side as well, which I think was really important for us. So we really appreciate it. Thank you. Members, cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 19 Report from Public Works and Financial Management Recommendation to award a contract to Cycle Hub for the operation of the Bikeshare program at no cost to the city for a period of five years citywide.