Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Chapter 8.101, relating to tenant harassment; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
However you'd like to take them there. Okay, so let's do 73, which is the second reading, and then we'll do the modification in order. So. Item 73. Can we do that one, please? Recommendation to declare an ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to tenant harassment, declaring the urgency thereof, and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately. Read and adopted as read. I have a motion going to get a second to the motion in a second. Is there any public comment on 73? Yes. Our first speaker is Tiffany Davey. Good evening. Tiffany and I are going to shoot this very short. I submit this item with no amendment. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Hollis Stewart. Hello counseling there. I am speaking and I am 67 here. I do want to work 73 so I can. Oh, okay. I'm on that second thing of this. I am in favor of the ordinance to protect tenants. I don't want to see a weakened because I think that at this particular time in our city, with COVID and with so many other problems, we have got to make sure that people have a place to live. And to be putting people out would be a terrible thing for our city. I live downtown. I see many homeless people sleeping analogies under the rug underneath them, just any kind of thing. So let's keep this thing so we can stop harassment, so we can make sure people are safe. Okay. So thank you very much for your time. It's good to keep this and make it good and take care of our all of our citizens. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Lianna Noble. Vienna, Nobel. Our next speaker is Jordan Wynn. This is Lana. I live downtown. I'm. Go ahead. The end of over. Okay. Thank you. Smartphones are difficult with this process. Our access is an ongoing adventure. I guess I am in strong favor of the anti harassment ordinance to protect tenants. I hope that the Council is aware of the fact that in order to protect their rights, including with this particular ordinance, tenants are forced to go to court. And it is important that we have an ordinance that has language that is clear and does not allow for a loophole. All of the language in this current ordinance is very clear, and we do not want, as residents here, to have it watered down or made difficult for the tenants to then exercise their rights when they have to go to court. We are an 80% tenant neighborhood downtown and most of the surrounding neighborhoods are way more than majority tenants. We desperately need our neighbors to have this protection against harassment. We need. To. Keep our neighborhoods as stable. As. Possible. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jordan Wynn. Hi, this is Jordan win with District two. I also feel director for everyone in Long Beach. I'm speaking in strong support of the Tenant Anti Harassment Ordinance as it was passed on November 2nd. I don't think the city should be making any amendments to this at this particular time. This is important legislation that we've been working for months on and that need in order to not be illegally retaliated against or affected or harassed by landlords that continue to pursue that. Let's be clear here. This is mostly bad actor corporate landlords that are doing this in our neighborhoods. And this is exactly what the policy is meant to certify in the first place. All of these actors are already acting in bad faith that is assumed. Don't make it more legally difficult for tenants to assert their rights and pass item 73 as is. Thank you. I yield the rest of my time. Thank you. Our next speakers, Andrew Mann to honor. Hello. My name is Angela, the one to a community organizer with lobbies forward. Over this past year, countless constituents of yours have demonstrated their resiliency and built tenant power across the city. They've shown up to action to demand tenants rights. They've made public comments and ultimately want to keep their families safe from displacement. This ordinance is more than just a policy change. It is a testament to the countless hours they put in to protect their families. The Andrews You chose to champion this policy and with that you chose to defend it in its purest form. This bad faith language is an undermining of communities hard fight to protect their families and is just meant to provide slumlords with coverage. And like you said, if you're a good landlord, nothing to worry about. You've known these tenants for years. You've broken bread with them, you've watched their kids grow, and those very same children are the ones up at night. You said something to me that's been sticking. The system is called, you've experienced it yourself, and now you must prevent it from happening to others or council members or agendas in the renaming of civic school sports facility in your name so that your legacy lives on. And I hope they aren't holding the vote on item 75 against you. Rest assured the community knows you and will ensure your legacy lives on. But No. 175 and don't allow any changes to the anti-harassment ordinance. Lastly, Mr. Mayor, you said we want to be a city that supports all types of housing. Let's also support the tenants who live in the. Thank you. Our next speaker is also tongue. Honorable Mayor and city council members. Hi, my name is Alpha Tung, District seven, resident and member of the Long Beach Housing Justice Coalition. In solidarity with Long Beach's renter majority who deserve dignity, safety and health, especially during the raging pandemic, we thank you for adopting the Tenant Anti-Harassment Urgency Ordinance on November 2nd and urge you to keep it as is with no amendments. Council Members. This is not a controversial issue. If you are a good landlord, this ordinance does not apply to you. If you are a kind landlord, this ordinance does not apply to you. If you are a landlord who treats your tenants with basic decency and respect, this ordinance does not apply to you. So to the good, kind, decent landlords, in the words of Bobby McFerrin. Don't worry, be happy. This ordinance only applies to bad actor landlords who abuse their power to abuse their tenants. City Council has the responsibility to legislate against abuse. Council members preserve the ordinance as adopted on November 2nd and reject any amendments like item 75 to weaken this ordinance by adding the words bad faith, which puts an impossible burden of proof on tenants and effectively erases the adopted protections from landlord abuse. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Melody Ozuna. Mayor, members of the City Council. My name is Melody Osuna. I am a homeowner in the eighth District. I'm also an attorney with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Long Beach. I run a medical legal partnership at a county run medical facility in District one, which means I provide free legal assistance to low income tenants here . Long Beach. I am thankful to the Council for passing this anti-harassment ordinance for recognizing that we are in unprecedented times. Adding a blanket bad faith requirement would ruin the protections you provided your residents. You took an important step and what was needed for the tenants in our city to be free from harassment. I also want you to recognize that it's ordinances like this that bring race equity to Long Beach. As we continue into month nine of the pandemic. Study after study show that people of color are the hardest hit by COVID 19, both in health and economic impacts. When working with medical patients here in Long Beach, I hear story after story about how stressful it is when a landlord threatens them. One of the biggest issues I see now is landlords using their power to misrepresent the law to tenants. They provide false information in documents requiring tenants to sign contracts not needed for the legal protections provided by the Long Bay, Long Beach, the county and the state for tenants who are scared of losing their housing but have no control over their economic situation during this pandemic. They're forced into a bad situation. As their attorney, I can now affirmatively, affirmatively enforce their rights. A blanket ban would be. Thank you. Our next speaker is Natalie Diaz. Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. My name's Natalie Diaz, and I'm a tenant in the third district and a nonprofit attorney. I'm urging the council to keep the ordinance as is written. As a nonprofit attorney, I've seen firsthand how important strong protections are for tenants. This ordinance, as it's written now, is especially important because it doesn't force tenants to prove that their landlord acted in bad faith, which is impossible to do. I understand that there's another item on today's agenda, item 75, which moves out of bad faith requirement and the ordinance, which is absurd. How would a tenant prove what is going on in the mind of their landlord when they are harassing them? This is actually something that you believe a tenant can do. This is an impossible requirement. This anti tenant harassment ordinance was meant to protect vulnerable people during an unprecedented pandemic where black and brown communities have been disproportionately impacted . I know that at this point my 90 seconds and comment is probably not going to sway the council members that are truly against this anti tenant harassment ordinance. All I hope that the council members hear that this ordinance is important, should be left there as is. And changing it to bad faith means that protecting vulnerable communities in Long Beach in the midst of a pandemic is just not something that is. Valued that. You think. Thank you. And give us a moment while we transition to the Spanish portion of public comment. Our first speakers are Velasco. Is the translator online. See our first pictures are of Alaska. Senora Aura Velasco documentary about power. I see. It's $1,000,000,000 festival claiming the lack of control and global. The most fun was this kind of weather. You know, you're so lucky you're in the neighborhood. What a normal life has been facing. Okay. So I'm asking to approve the ordinance as it was presented, and I ask you to please vote no on 75. Hello. Think of oh, hockey. Okay. Grasses. Okay. That was my comment. Thank you. That's just. Thank you. Our next speaker is Ariella Quintana Ortega. Si Senora Aurelio Quintana. Sympathetic Documentary. Supplementary Power. Emma. Good to see you. Good to see. All of you know, when a father would say, how is the ego so that that your. Let's be look at the dramatic get a good idea what it looks like to keep us out of Natal in November. Look at the end of the. You might get a lot of support of that. You get a business. You can work in. Well know that they think of. Get the hang of it just feeling miserable. But they have a sore throat. They cannot seem to get. Well, you know. I would promote them and say good on someone. Hi, my name is Aurelia Quintana. First of all, I just want to say thank you, thank you for the r for approving the ordinance. And like I said, I want to thank everyone. I thank you for approving number 75. And I would like to ask you to leave it as is and so that we can be protected. Alabamans quickly agree garcinia. If the. I must say, most of the people, for the most part, are not. I. With the hands of Assad. The bodies of. It's common to see Musketeer on General Mills. I also. Yeah. We want to be protected when we are harassed by the rent, by the renters. I'm sorry about the owners of their properties. It feels as if they want to humiliate us. And that is not fair. Whoo hoo! Erato Look at us. Well, let me see if I walk away. And I think Mr. Campbell will forget none of the lessons, which I can say. Yes. Well, for wages important for. Okay? Yes. I just want to live it as is. Honestly, it's not a good situation when the way they treat us. And it's not only my situation, but a lot of people are in the same situation. They saw as a. Yes a letter penalty imposed on your gracious. Of. Okay, good offense, which is aggressive. That's all. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Our next speaker is Maribel Marin, Mary Ellis. He went through. This is number one ridiculous season. You know, this documentary about power. If the government is not going to help you, Andrew Kemp can get a laugh out of things like this. Well, good then. And we'll go to a coastal city. Improve your life a lot worse. Improve your visa is enough to send some city back. This is some of the concerns, of course. Want to see more rain, that there's something that's in place that he can not carry on communicating. The political landscape. You're going to. See. You know, I think. Yes. Okay. Nina, this is for council member Andrew. I just want to ask you to don change anything to article 73. I can talk from personal experience. We are constantly harassed or water and or gas is turned off without prior notice. If you modify it, it's something that will affect us in a negative way and also don't make any changes. 25. Album. I said, You know what I thought? Well. My. That was it. Thank you. Our next speaker is Porfirio de la Rosa. Susan, your principal has said it's a commentary about power. Why not. See the supplementary. Premium over popular offer? You're looking at lots of current deals. DC Avenue is looking at a few more vehicles that are looking for you for care and those of us with an LA. Hello in Burma. Sorry, I never thought I get this done. We will rebuild the family in which a lot of people care. What them. All of it that they think single. They c us. But it was a mistake. They think of. Okay when you interpret that. People. Hi, my name is Poppy de la la Rosa. I would like to ask you to leave the ordinance as is. We are constantly harassed. Trash is thrown near our windows. This has caused a roach infestation. I would like you to vote no on number 75 and leave. Leave it as it is. Album. I said, You're right. I thought. This is it. The mink is the bouquet that you're gonna throw. How to give this a girl, a little fella, you know, by a lawyer that is brought up all our security there. But if you look at them, it'll be like of taken. Images of the animal character forever migrated from the opera before. Grass is ahead of them. Yes. Also, they are constantly coming. They're doing the work. They turn up the water. They turn up the electricity work prior notice. They throw their trash or their dirty water. And this has caused an infestation. Thank you for listening. And I would like you to just leave number 75, as is. Thank you. Our next speaker is Rosa VILLASENOR. Senora Rosa. Zero seven U.S.A.. C.S. Lewis and the commentary apocalypse. When an artist's concept is also. Yes. And your your outlook. But what if I work and I'll see you end up with all. Well no in love with them, I think in the other things, I think. But if you set it up also, I think, you know, I mean, they come in. So if they have also some impact on the pandemia embedded on this. Is this what media? Isn't war beyond war? Both and no. Know it's up in the. Maybe, but I could comment that I didn't have all this. Of course, I didn't get that honest with much of the appointed. But only if they both get out of it. You see, if you. I. Then you're gonna see. I knew that. I think. Grass doesn't get interpreted. Hi. My name is Rosa. Um, I would like to say, first of all night council members and Mayor, I would like to ask you to please vote no on Amendment 75 to avoid harassment. It all started with the pandemic. It has been an agony. Council Member Andrew, please vote no. They took the doors away. They turned off the lights for eight days on the street. There's a lot of homeless. Please, Mayor, please help us. Please vote no on 73 and 75. That is. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Silvia de la Rosa. Senora Silvia dela rosa. Thing when I started you the la rosa senora regarding equal time is better for five or. Get Egan Mulligan, Lester Barela, Cosmo Ebert and Lasseter, Julianne Moore, Murray Campbell, any potential? Gwendolyn, you really concern me. Equal man all together. Yummy. Yuck. I'm Lucas Murray. Sequel Acusado. Beetle, but they're more alike than they think of you. GRASSLEY Senator, good afternoon. My name is Sylvia La Rosa. Mr. Mayor, council members, I would like to ask you to please vote no on 75. I am a mother and I cannot tell you how frustrated I feel. When. My son and I are harassed. There is nothing that I can do. So please, I ask you to vote no. Getty Aggregate albums, signora or anything that was said. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Thank you. We we have a motion us again. I was going to do a roll call. Mayor, can you please share who the motion in the second. Motion by Councilmember Ringa and a second by Councilmember Pearce. Thank you. District one I. District two. I. District three. I. District four. I. District five. I. District six and District seven. By District eight. I. District nine. All right. Ocean carries.