Recommendation to adopt ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Section 1.27.010 School Board Districts established; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopt as read. (Citywide) (Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-21-0041)
The motion is carried. Thank you. Next up is item 40. Item 14, report from City Attorney and Report from City Clerk. Recommendation to adopt ordinance amending the Lombard Municipal Code by amending school board districts. Establish declaring the urgency thereof and declared that this ordinance no take effect immediately read and adopted as read citywide. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. I do believe there's public comment. Dave Shukla. Here's the issue. As I stated at the last meeting in December evening, it meant that a 12 year old can understand a independently of LP with d uh keep me keep making. I kept making redistricting maps. And I'd like to to point out, not only do I support this motion and support what he did with their map , but that if we'd had it, if he'd had an expert so called, uh, contracted for us, they clearly would have hit upon the same kind of logic that will be widely used to not overreach across the signal hill boundary and specifically over a temple street. For anyone who's interested, I was never interested myself in making the map, the redistricting map for the council districts of Long Beach, where I was interested in. Ah. Uh, the reason why we didn't just do the obvious thing, which was make historical Cambodia town as whole as possible, given the one chance we had with that aging population and why we didn't just use Temple Street the way the zip code map does, the way the city council district map used to and why we didn't doing the exact same weeks. We're not only are we getting an infrastructure bill passed for the first time, but some of those crucial components of that infrastructure bill are electrical vehicle charging stations. And where those charging stations are matter. It matters to Southern California Edison, for instance, for a kind of refilling of their existing assets. It matters for the rest of everyone else to not have a grid that is centralized around the wrong things. So there are major questions not only about our physical infrastructure, but about who owns and who controls them. And we don't have the time space to even begin to scratch the surface of them because, you know, frankly, I to come here and, you know, sit through our long redistricting meetings, they don't go anywhere because there seems to be an agenda in. And I would gladly sit here for a minute and just stare at you, if that's what it takes. It's really, really unfortunate. School board believed in itself and in the students and people of this city. Why didn't the Independent Redistricting Commission, why didn't the city manager's office and the consultant working with them? Why didn't you believe the people of the city? To do it themselves. I was sitting here each week making a map, making another map, people that do it themselves. I'm not the only one. Why don't you believe in essentially do it right. But you're going to you're going to represent us in Washington, yet you're running. Roberts running. Thank you. That concludes public comment for more than 40 members, including Castro votes.