Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a contract and all necessary amendments, including term extensions, with the City of Los Angeles to receive and expend Department of Homeland Security grant funding for the 2015 Urban Area Security Initiative Grant, in an amount not to exceed $5,377,994 for a period ending May 31, 2018; and Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Department of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications (DC) by $200,000, in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Fire Department (FD) by $2,319,098, in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Health and Human Services Department (HE) by $225,500, and in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Police Department (PD) by $2,333,396. (Citywide)
Motion carries. An exciting report from Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications and Fire and Health and Human Services and Police recommendation to execute a contract with the City of Los Angeles to receive and expand Department of Homeland Security grant funding for the 2015 Urban Area Security Initiative grant in an amount not to exceed 5.3 million citywide. It was emotion and a secondary public comment on this item. Please come forward. Very good. A heads up relative to the specter of having all federal money suspended for any purpose to the city of Long Beach. These are the the Sorento. Pathway project. That has not. The Sorento pathway project has not come before this council yet. But in essence, this Sorento pathway project is supposed to be finished or started. At the conclusion of the current phase of the Naples Seawall Project. The Feds have approved that project to finish that first phase off. What is in jeopardy is the Sorento. Pathway. Because of the chicanery used in designing the plans. Those plans, which are now marching in formation, are directly at war with federal l federal aid laws. What the feds are going to require is that the Sorento pathway be completed. And completed in a manner that someone in a wheelchair. Can start at the Eastern End at the Bay Shore Bridge and travel all the way down through the end. If not. If not. And until that's done, all federal grants. For any purpose to the city of Long Beach will be suspended because they don't want the Gloria Allred of ADA knocking under general law. More importantly, to do so, to give the middle finger to the ADA community by doing what the Sorento packed some of the Sorento path residents want, i.e. they don't want them in their front yard. And part of this problem belongs to previous city councils that look the other way and allow them to build out onto public walkways or public areas and so forth. So I caution you very carefully in terms of federal grants. There's a good possibility they're going to be suspended until the plans for Sorento pathway are approved by the feds, and that pathway is completed. Then and only then will the money flow to the city of Long Beach for any federal, out of any federal, and which will also then trigger a suspension by county and state. You don't mess with the admirals. Thank you. No other public comment. Cast your vote, members. Motion carries. Excited report from Financial Management Recommendation to adopt resolution approving the annual and Five-Year Reports for the Transportation Improvement Fee Park and Recreation Facilities Fee via facilities impact fee and police facilities impact for you citywide.