Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents with the LA84 Foundation to accept Learn to Swim 2022 grant funds in the amount of $15,000, for summer aquatics programs targeting economically disadvantaged youth at Belmont Plaza Temporary Pool, Silverado Pool, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Pool, from July 6, 2022 through August 26, 2022; and, execute all necessary documents to implement and administer the grant including any amendments. (Districts 3,6,7)
District nine. High. The motion is carry. Thank you. Items now. Item 16, please. Thank you. So read the item 16, please. Item 16 is a report from Parks, Recreation and Marine recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all necessary document with L.A. 84 Foundation to Accept Learn to Swim 2022 Grant funds in the amount of 15,000 for summer aquatic programs targeting economically disadvantaged youth at Belmont Plaza, temporary pool, silver pool and Martin Luther King Junior Pool from July six, 2022 through August 26, 2022, two, six, three, six and eight. Thank you, Councilman Toro. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just first want to thank L.A. 84 Foundation for providing the funds for the three pool, particularly the Martin Luther King Jr. Pool. I just had a question about this because, you know, about a few months ago, Long Beach, six district residents and leaders just walked through the the pool with the city staff and found that the pool and the area to be in terrible condition. So and right away staff took action and is going through a renovation process but I wanted to make sure we got clarification of that's going to affect what is that renovation timeline and how is that going to affect the programs for this pool? Eric Lopez. Thank you, Tom. Councilwoman So we're we're doing see some of the repairs that we can do now. We can do fast that hab and that will have minimal impact on on the on the users of the poor. So we're going to be doing plumbing repairs, painting the cleaning of floors and other areas. We're going to be just there's a series of other improvements that we have planned, but they will not impact the actual operation of the pool. We will need to come back either in the fall and winter to do more improvements. That will be more impactful. But we will we will have time to plan those out, and it won't happen during the busy summer, summer season. So we'll be able to plan those out. But the current summer programing will not be impacted by our improvement plan. Great. Thank you so much for clarifying that. Thank you. Can I get a second on this motion, please? There's emotion and a second is really certain. Thank you. I'm happy to take in the motion. Just a quick question. So I see the three city pools are included here in North Long Beach. We've typically used Jordan High School through the Joint Use Agreement. Was it not included in the application for this program? It is. Brant is on the line. Do we have him available? Yeah. Tom, this is Brian here. I also have Ted Stevens, who oversees our aquatics program, which would include the swim program. My recollection, though, the grant application, because of its funding limit, we've historically just applied for our three pools, although I would say in the future, because we're really working closely with Long Beach Unified School District to improve our joint use agreements. And I know they're renovating all of their high school pools and updating them. So there are some greater opportunities in the future. But for this coming summer, which actually starts tomorrow and runs through the final Friday in August, that will be our summer swim program for Kings, Silverado and Belmont. Thanks, Brian. I would just say, you know, I know that we don't have our pool in North Lombard yet. We will have one someday. But the joint use that Jordan is is available to us. So as we apply for grants, we should keep that in mind because, you know, a fifth of the city's youth live in the 925 zip code. Thanks a lot. Good boy. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Is there any public comment on this item? If there are any members of the public that would like to speak on item 16 in person, please line up at the podium in Zoom. Please use the raise hand feature or dial starting nine now. First, I want to thank, um, Councilman Sorrells, successful office as well as L.A. 84, for this opportunity to peer together. I think it's great that the surplus money from the Olympics, the only Olympics to ever be profitable, is still positively impacting the lives of children in Southern California. In the meeting that our councilman just referenced, which I was present and, um, you know, one of the things we brought up to um, Mr. Dennis were relation to the pool was that there's an issue with capacity and space for children in the neighborhood. Um, currently my pool is, uh, and a temporary pool. And so there's a shuttle process between the children and elderly in the Belmont area to the Kings Park pool. I was just there over the weekend and witnessed it with my own eyes as I brought some of my seniors in the neighborhood to the pool where there's a space capacity. And so I'm just curious what relation to this funding. How is it that we're going to be able to impact the lives and target specifically economically disadvantaged youth if the economically disadvantaged youth that live in the neighborhood are still unable to use the pool during the busiest time of the year due to, um, you know , the swim, uh, spots being taken up by people outside the sixth district. I can't speak for relation to Silverado. Um, but I did bring it up to the Director of Parks that the people from our neighborhood in the Kings Park area are told by staff at the pool that they should go to Silverado Park to swim. So I'm hoping that if we're going to be getting some of this money, that we can somehow prioritize or make some type of quota system for residents in the area rather than, uh, continually being directed to go to a pool on the west side. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Members, please go out and do the roll call vote. Mr. Gunn. District nine, District two I. District three I. District four, District five i. District six. District six. I. District seven. I. District eight. District nine. I. The motion is carry. Thank you. I'm not going to turn this over to. Actually, we do have some fun transfer items, I believe. Right. So let's go and do the fun transfer consent items. Think are 23, three, 26, 37, 340. If I get a motion and a second for all those and let's read those please, Madam Quirk into the record.