Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by repealing Chapter 8.97, relating to Tenant Relocation Assistance; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect at 12:00 a.m. on January 1, 2020, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Council members have been. Bush and Kerry. Okay. Thank you. Item number 27, please. Item 27 is communications from city attorney. Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by repealing Chapter 8.97 relating to tenant relocation assist in declaring the urgency thereof and declared that this ordinance shall take effect at 12 a.m. on January 1st, 2020. Read and adopted as Read City. Why? This is the last reading of the ordinance. There's three speakers. Please, all three come forward as Andrew Amanda HANO here. Maria Lopez. And I believe that, says Isaias de la Rosa. Please come forward. If you are. If the three can come forward now, please. Hello, everyone. My name is Andrew, with whom I know I'm here today to just highlight various issues that are currently going on. The building that was here that advocated for that eviction moratorium is still continuing to be harassed. Right. Are still being served. Three day period quits through this repeal of tenant reload. The amount of relocation assistance they will get will go down from 3000 to 1000. One of our partnership members for best, our central Long Beach Affairs District resident of the name of X Dela Rosa. His aunt was just served 60 day notices to vacate during the fact that we have an eviction moratorium. The reason these companies do this is because they know oftentimes the tenants don't have the knowledge to defend themselves. And when they go to court. They are not provided legal representation. So that way they don't even know what they're fighting for. They don't know the language. They don't have someone there defending them. These families are being torn apart. So she has actually grown up with Maria and played soccer with her. Now he's seeing his whole family be torn apart. Whatever politics is behind this repeal, whether it's my emergency or whatever it may be, it needs to stop because these families are being ripped apart. Those children, ages zero through five, are being are growing up with adverse childhood experiences, something that you all individually voted to be of importance . I really want us to see what they're feeling, because when you get to go home and celebrate the holidays and celebrate the new year and plan out your New Year's resolutions, these folks are going to be. Served with another 60. Day notice to make it. They won't be able to write the resolution. Their resolution is to survive. Where will they be displaced to Moreno Valley, Riverside, where there's basically no resources. San Bernardino County, which is one of the most counties with the highest rates of crime. I just can't fathom that this is the type of leadership. That is here. And I kindly urge you, I kindly add this is out of respect and love, because I've seen you all up there on the 14th floor before I've shaken your hands. I've complimented you on that elevator back there. I've seen you advocate alongside Jennifer. I've shown respect to you. Please show respect to the communities that you serve. Because this is continuing to happen. Thank you very much. Andrew next with Maria Lopez, please. Good evening. In the last meeting. Good evening. Maria Lopez. Undocumented, unafraid. Unapologetic. A proud D-1 resident. Since I migrated here at the age of three. And now I'm the director of Community Organizing for Housing Long Beach, and I organize with the Long Beach Tenants Union. And today it's clear that you will repeal Rila, a locally fought and won policy, which is really rare for all of us to stand here and even hear this right, regardless of the fact that those same communities that came to you and told you were being displaced, were being out priced and were being uprooted. Those same communities letting you know of an Internet, an alternative option to keep our local amounts, which ultimately help more low income, disabled, marginalized communities that we so adore, like our trans communities. Right. We know that displacement for communities like that that are very vulnerable can lead to death. Why? Because your connection, your community is all around you. You need access to your doctors. You need access to your village. You need access to neighbors who know about your sensitivity and your cultural needs. So basically, you need your community, right? So if I may remind us of what was first proposed was not just this simple repeal, right, which is very sour to my mouth. However, my work does not stop there and my work continues as families are continuously uprooted, displaced and in danger of becoming homeless, full families with kids living in their cars during the holidays. Right. So not just this repeal, but a senior and people's disability program was proposed. We have not received a report on it. So I would kindly bring that up to your radar and request information on that as soon as possible. January 7th can be a date that we could put on it. If you are so you know, enclose to do that for us today. And also the I appreciate Councilmember Richardson's effort to close the gap for folks who are still being displaced on the loophole of substantial rehab. So I also want to hold you all accountable to that promise. We would like to see some follow up on that second piece, not just this repeal. We want follow up on those programs that you all promised. So accountability here it is. Right? We want these programs. And we also would like to start thinking about enforcement mechanisms. So we as a community have come together to want to sit down with you and your staff and really bring people from L.A. County, from the state to talk about all these programs. You all hear from us inclusionary housing enforcement mechanisms, community owned housing, all those things. So please see an email from us. We will be reaching out, inviting you all to deep a deeper dove in this conversation. Thank you. Thank you very much. And then he says the Rosa. Oh, my boy. I just want to give context that we received this notification like a few minutes before. Is is this is okay. He walked from. Is going forward. Hello? Hello. Well, my name is Isaiah de la Rosa. Okay. Look here, speaker for my family member, they live in for 37 days Avenue. Well, actually, I've seen her two in the morning and she told me that the owner from the building she's living in is trying to evict him out. I forgot the reason why, but that I remember she said that a they tried to sue the owner or taken the court that they had to pay for the. What's it called? The fine, in other words. And well, she'd been living there for quite a penny a year already, and she's just don't know why she's been evicted . And I'm here, like I'm here with my family. For them not to be evicted. Thank you, sir. So let me as you conclude. Thank you very much, concludes public comment. Let me just add two things. The first is, Mr. Molko, can you have I know that obviously there are some that folks guys feel free to grab a seat. Thank you. I've concluded public comment and thank you. Two things. One is that I know that Mr. De La Rosa, there are some legal protections that the Council adopted for folks facing evictions. And just want to make sure, Mr. Modica, that if we can have someone from our team connect with Mr. de la Rosa in the back , can we do that? Okay. So certainly so Mr. De La Rosa, if you can just hold for a minute. So I'm going to come talk to you in a minute to share with you what the what the what those are. And then the second thing I'll say is, I think that the request, as far as when the the fund is coming back is a reasonable one. Do we have a timeline before we vote, Mr. Modak, on when that's going to come back to council? So the timeline of the fund will likely be in the spring. Part of that. Reason is the funding that we are. Using is going to be the state funding, which is we get to submit our application, I believe, in March and know what all the funding restrictions are. So we will be creating the fund, we'll come back to the council and update you and then the funding will be available in the spring. Is it possible to at least get an update maybe towards the end of January? I think that's fair, even if it's an update. So we have that. We understand. I think we'll have a better idea on the funding. Sure. And we. Can give you because we're using. Two different funding sources. We can start with the. CDBG and see where we are with that and give you an outline and a structure of how we believe the fund will work. That's I think that's that's more fair. Thank you. With that and members, please cast your votes. This is the final vote on the ordinance. Councilmember Unger. Well, she carries. Thank you. Next up is we're going to be doing item. Where did it go? Oh, I hear that for the consent calendar. Even though we had a motion in a second, maybe the vote wasn't taken on that. Is that right?