Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary to enter into an agreement with Code for America, a not-for-profit corporation of New York, NY, to participate in the Code for America Fellowship Program, for the period of September 28, 2015 to November 16, 2016, in an amount not to exceed $220,000.  (Citywide)
Motion carries eight zero 29. Report from City Manager and Technology and Innovation Recommendation to execute an agreement with Code for America in the amount not to exceed 220,000. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Any public comment? See. Now, please cast your counsel and roster. Yes, I recall the Copa America proposal. Coming before us about a year, year and a half ago. And I'm not. Exactly sure what our action was then. And and how is this different to that? Perfect. You are correct, Mr. Alston, that we did have code for America here last year that had to do with a discrete issue regarding Canada over utilizers of our fire system and looking at an application to really help with what we call the super utilizers of the of the system. This is a different application for code for America. This is actually tying into the innovation team. One of the things the I-Team has found is they went out and did a tremendous amount of outreach is that language really needs a system that helps people guide how to do business with the city? What are the different steps? How do you create a system that gets you resources to the Small Business Development Center before you get a business plan before you come to the city? How do you do business licensing? How do you do plan check? How do you interact with all of the things that you need to do to start up a business in a very intuitive fashion? So code for America to be working with the I-Team to create that system, to be one of the one of the premier startup Long Beach type systems in the nation. Okay. And as I read this and understand it, this won't this is this money has always been already been appropriated for the innovation team, correct? That is correct. Thank you. Any public comment? See nine members. Please cast your vote. So. Motion carries eight zero 30. Report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive and file the second budget performance report for fiscal year 2015 citywide.