Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement, and any necessary documents and amendments, with the County of Los Angeles to receive and expend $650,000 in grant funds, to operate a Youth Jobs Program that will assist approximately 309 youth, ages 14-24, for the term of July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017.  (Citywide)
Next item, please. Item 17 Report from Economic and Property Development. Recommendation to execute an agreement with the County of Los Angeles to receive and expand $650,000 in grant funds to operate a youth jobs program citywide. Councilmember Richardson. Thank you. I just want to is this this the funding that we use for our summer youth, our jobs? Again. It is a portion of that. So it's an augmentation to the we are funding that you saw in the previous item. Again, it's an annual allocation that's gone on for several years. This is the highest allocation that we've gotten initially in the city of Long Beach, partially based on the performance in the placements that we've we've achieved . It does allow us to extend the programing down from our 18 to 20 4 to 214 year olds. And again, it's direct work experience money. And with this money, it actually allows us to put about an additional 310 Long Beach youth to work each summer. And and is this some of the funding? We're, you know, forget all that. But this is this is fantastic. And the Summer Youth Hire is that program is a phenomenal violence prevention program, along with the spirit of everything we've talked about tonight. I think the fact that you expand on that program, adding 300 additional positions for youth 14 to 24 is outstanding. I know that we've talked and we've set a goal this summer for 150, hiring 150 North Lombard youth over the course of this summer. And so I just want to say, keep up the great work. I'm this is a really tremendously important item, and I'm honored to help you again spend this money. Councilmember Gonzalez. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Yes. Thanks again, Nick. Again, this is also I know it's annual, but we're expanding it to include, you know, four years younger for our youth, which is great. I just did have one question really is whether we can receive, because I'd like to see how this is performing. And what do you think would be the best time to find out to get like a two from four back to the council to evaluate the performance. So most of most of the work experience will happen before the end of August. There are some participants whose circumstances will change over the course of the summer, and we're able to carry some of this money forward and carry them forward. BULK But the bulk of the expenditure and program activity will occur before the end of the summer. So we would be happy to come back to you with with the TFF in September to let you know where, what the placements were by district, what businesses sponsored our youth, how they performed some of the, some of the performance reviews that the employers put forward. That's great. I know you get excited about numbers just like I do sometimes. So thank you. Appreciate that. That's wonderful. Council. Councilman Austin. Thank you. And I see a note in the staff report that the average youth will get about 125 hours worth of work. I think that's that's significant and certainly falls in line with the summer months. I see here that this goes into effect July 1st, 2016, 18 through June 20, 2017. The question is when will we start ramping up to hire these 300 youth? Have they been hired already in anticipation of this? I'm sorry. Actually, as of this afternoon, 92% of those slots are already full. So it's we anticipate the annual allocation. Again, there's there's other funding that serves use. There's certainly always other opportunities through through our work with the private sector or the or the foundation community to bring more money then to serve the youth. So so we keep this cycle of applications on, on a rolling basis in our work and to have youth eligible and ready to go when they have the the bulk of their schedule open in the summer. Well, thank you. This is great news. And I will be supporting this hardly. Thank you, Councilmember Austin. Is there any member of the public that wish to address Council on item 17? Sing None. Members cast your vote. Motion carries. Next item, please.