Recommendation to increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $35,000, offset by the First Council District one-time District Priority Funds transferred from the Citywide Activities Department to support infrastructure improvements at 14th Street Park.
Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, please. 2027 Communication from Councilwoman Gonzales Recommendation to Increase Appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by 35,000 to support infrastructure improvements at the 14th Street Park. There's emotion in a second. Is there any public comment on this item? Seeing none. Please, is there? Please come forward. Hi. My name is Celia McGill. I have been living here for 30 years and I represent the association neighborhood of Washington. And I have noticed eight other families here need a safe, safe space for for Labor. The funding for 14th Street Park will help create a social cohesion if will create recreational activities in the center. The community always like to showcase them all until they party the party protest community in which leader will be updated on the progress and where they are aided by community. This process will help the resident on this then be part of the improving community pride. And also, you know, it is because I support I support, but also because I like to be provocative. Right now right now, in this moment, you pass by your brother of the park 14. You saw it is a chain for my community. Represent the poorness, the shame, the negligence of my community. That's why. And really, I gave invitation to both roles. The restrictions for people to use over there because I like the park will be for families for children. And that's the basis for what we need funding for support the bar for my community. It's take away for the negligence and for bodies, for families together. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Is there any other public comment on this item? Yeah. Yeah. Please go ahead. My name is Catalina Munoz. So Representative Ella is going to Washington, a neighborhood. Poor. Would you mind speaking into the mic about a microphone? Okay. So, resident. There, there. La la la. Washington neighborhood. Poor quality areas. A. Los Fondos de there's the park. There are collectors. They argue that here are la salud and physical elementally. That there are ninos adultos. They are commonly. De La Comunidad in Estep Park. Your pueblo man in futuro familias they will need us can be combined. It is through tandem in our community that in El Paso. Como a como Mali has. Labor. Appropriate that they will study Gehry's fruit. Dudamel's la familia. This is. This is it. This is eaten all over their recreation. Are you there? Are you out here? April Morales. Si la seguridad de todos. Gracias. Clashes. Vessels. So. Um. My name is Catalina Munoz. I am a resident of Washington neighborhood, and I've lived there for 40 years. Um, the funds for the park on 14th Street would help the physical health and mental health of the children and adults and for the community and whole it. In this park, I can see a future for the families that meet and so they can live and enjoy it in our community. This park. It's like our property and I would like to enjoy it and for the families to because the families need a place where they can have recreation. It would help to promote security for everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much. Speaker when I started this. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. My name is Judith Cottrill. And this is called Campaign Saddle and Infrastructure for Thursday. I said that I would. Like to thank you, first of all for thinking about the infrastructure of the park on 14th Street. For example. That will now be a family friendly, familiar goal. This will give us of a familiar environment in which we can feel secure. If I say the emperor told. And it'll be a good thing for everyone. E Damian Campbell. Sorry, sir. I see that you look like a total setup. It's Completamente cruiser mustang. I would also. Like to suggest for 14 on the site what's to be blocked off so that the children can be secured. Ideally without being used. I will say. I'm a voluntary I. I help the children to cross the streets. And we were stationed there. The iris partial of the castle. And there's a space there where a car can sit. It way past and. It could go right behind you without you even notice in. Those four awarenesses it can be open an and. If you could make a change here, that would be for the safety of everyone. Thank you. Thank you neither. Yeah. Please come. Forward. Yes. Hi everyone. My name is. And money and only I'll be talking about. Um, three days in the park and changing the community. First, I will start out with a lot. A lot of kids play there. And the families play there. A family makes us a family to us. It's like a family to them. We get we get add baby swings and regular swings. Add a baby structure. And we can make everything new. Thank you. Yeah. Hi. Vitamin neighbor. And today I'll make the flag. And when? Okay. Okay, down. It's okay. Go ahead. Take your time. You know. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. She did a great job, too. Excellent. Hi. Good evening. My name is Crystal Jones and I'm a resident in a small business owner, family childcare provider in the Washington district and me and my daughters in the daycare children play at the 14th Street Park. Park. Make life better. And I think it's very important that we improve and change the park for the better and the safety of the community as a whole for all children and the neighbors within the community in the 14th Street District and all the kids that I take there, they love it. They always want to go back there looking for new things and exploring the different sections is a joy for me to see the impact of the park on their afternoon activities and physical activity or exercise. And I feel like everything's going to be changed for the better. The community will produce stronger socialization for the kids and the parents to come together to not only help the kids socialize, but interact one another to grow and learn and develop. Thank you. Thank you very much. Your last speaker. Good evening. My name is Alan Butler. I've been in. Long Beach Community now going on 16 years. I'm also the council vice chair for the Boy Scouts with the community. A lot of my children and my particular troop that I'm responsible for in the Washington neighborhood live in that area. The improvements that the park is being suggested with this agenda item basically are long overdue and very much needed. And would help as other people have already said. So I'm not going to repeat a lot, but the. Other things that it will do. It provides. Over. 1700 families that live in that. Area, a place for their children to have to go, particularly during this summer. Also, as. Some of the people that I mentioned before me, we need to have possibly. Have our police department provide a little more assistance because right now, on a daily basis, anywhere from about 215 to 230. To the next morning until about 715 to 8:00. That four strip block area of park has. Turned into a homeless encampment. And that makes it an issue for the children when they're on the way to school. There will also be one because as most of you know better than I do, are children will be out of school this coming Thursday. So that would be a place they would be looking it up to get to go. And that's what they would have to face at that park. And if any improvements would be made not to try to degrade anybody, but how long would those improvements last and be in place? Unless we can make that measure to help move those people out of that area to help those children have a. Place to play. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much, sir. We have a motion. Please go ahead. Good afternoon. My name is Alejandro Lujan. I have three children. If you go to Washington and I live in the area. Washington. I remember setting up a bar. As a parent, I would like the idea for my children to enjoy that area. I'd also lament the Commodores. I've only been to the park twice for a start because it's always dark. Especially gruesome. Is dangerous. Is so social. It's very dirty. You put it so well. And that is the reason why no longer take my take my children. They're being so colorful. And I feel that the funds would help a lot that for there to have that there be security. And so and as a parent I feel that cannot always that it be narrow. It's not just the giving of the funds making their construction. And then that's it. It's elemental. But to maintain it. SIMON As a man, I'm. Amazed week after week, month after month. YOKO My mama. As a parent would ask him if he could come in and put aside. I don't feel sure having my children walking in that area. It'd be fun to tell you that. I would do that, and I feel that the funds would also help to have some security and for my children current activities. What are they watching? What to how to look for activities outside of the outside of Washington, but to find activities right there. Thank you. Thank you so much. So with that kicking in motion in a second, please. We got those to appropriate the the funds listed for 14th Street Park and please cast your votes.