Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing, and adopt resolution continuing the Bixby Knolls Parking and Business Improvement Area assessment for the period of October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to extend the agreement with the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association for a one-year term.  (Districts 7,8)
Motion carries. Great. Thank you. Were going to go into our third hearing. Report from economic development recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record to conclude the hearing and adopt a resolution continuing the Bixby Nos parking and Business Improvement Area Assessment for the period of October one, 2017 through September 30, 2018. District seven and eight. Thank you, Mr. Modica. Our staff report will. Be given by Eric Romero, the development project manager for the Economic Development Department. Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council. Since Eric Ramirez, representing us. At the International Shopping Center Conference, recruiting new businesses to. The city tonight, I am here to to give you a report on the Bixby Knolls. Business investment area. And ultimately this is. To continue the contract. And on September 12th, the city council approved a resolution granting approval of the annual report and set today's date for the public hearing. The recommended action on this item continues the assessment. For another year. There are no proposed changes to the basis of assessment nor significant changes in proposed activity. Therefore, staff requests that the City Council received the supporting documentation into the record, approve the resolution and continue the levy of the assessment and authorize the city manager to extend the agreement with Bixby Knolls for one additional year. And that concludes our report. Thank you. Is there any public comment on this item? Please come forward. Any other public comment. Okay, now close the speakers list. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Council members, city management. First of all, happy birthday, Blossom. It was a good one today. This past year, Will called. We called it a stay the course year. And we really focused on our clean and safe programs. Work with Seaside Patrol and Language PD to address any issues in the area. We also were out making sure that we were replacing or installing new security lights up and down the districts to keep it lit and safe. And we also consider this a crossroads here. We have a lot of moving parts on our chessboard of Georgia's fifties. Diners now building out after their fire, the new cheese addiction. And Nicky Sports is building out. E.J. Malloy's is renovating their space. Ambitious ales and liberation brewing are going through their process and will soon change our name to Brewery North. We will see an expansion for one more wine bar. The owners of the former Nino's property will begin their construction this month, building out a for a restaurant retail, the Bixby Business Center on Atlantic and San Antonio. It's about to get a major facelift beside Edgar and James and all the market's open. Lazar Fish purchased the land at 35th and Language Boulevard and are looking to expand their operation there. Harbor Freight is in escrow of the former Royal Buffet property on 33rd. The former Harborside space will become the Greens, the submitted plans for a multi restaurant space and will have a new restaurant opening on the 12th at 40 to 62 Atlantic. Also, Powell came and got us another mural on Atlantic Long Beach Boulevard and also received another mural through the Arts Council. And we're working on a third one on the boulevard through Howard City. Let's hope the big thing for us to finally remove a big eyesore on Language Boulevard, which are the oil tanks at 35th right next to Phil trainees property. So we're very close. The owners seem to like the concept and just really matter of of us hand-holding them through it and giving them some renderings of what those tanks could look like. But it'd be a fun project. We also have a Boy Scout that is in line to do an Eagle project there. He'll take care of the landscaping and the shed that's on the site and we'll have our artists come in and paint those tanks. We also welcomed the merchant, a coffee and bakery, some of Jack's Razorback green olive, encore fitness, Torquay hashtag burgers, Bixby Trading Post Sister LV and first floor at last bar this year big shout out to to seal craft game changer for the whole district not just out of the boulevard but it's our go to spot and it's really the example. If you build it, they will come and they certainly are. We maintain our multi program so the community is eating, drinking, walking, reading, cycling, dancing at concerts in the parking lot stores and enjoying first Fridays together. Our quarterly business breakfast remain our strongest member outreach. We bring 90 plus business owners together to discuss current issues and resources that are pertinent to them. We're getting ready for Beat Streets to come through on October 28th, and we just launched our own Small Business Saturday promotions for the upcoming November 25th to tell story. Now just a few shout outs. Okay, I'm going to I'm here because it's a hearing on an extended time just by its public comment. So we really got to be people said, well, this is just a thank you because we don't operate alone. So we have to think, of course. Well, I think our staff Kate Yoshioka and to go to Ashcraft, all of our board members, the seventh and eighth Council officers are sparring partners in the city management office. Of course. Mayor, thank you very much. Craig Beck, Art Cox, Frank Ramirez and Public Works, Long Beach PD for Chief Durant, Terry and Brant. And of course, all those and development services that help us all the time getting people through the process. So again, thank you to all city staff. Thank you very much. Pleasure. Big round of applause. Good job. A great organization, as always. I'm gonna turn this back to to the council. And Mr. Cohen got I think the only thing we were missing out of there was a 40th anniversary of the best car wash and anywhere, anywhere , which is the biggest, you know, car wash, 40 years. We had employees there, some as old as 39 and 38 years at that place. Long Beach folks. So congratulations, Councilman Austin. Yes, and thank you there, Blair, for the very detailed report. And I'm will make the motion to approve the recommendation to to extend the the agreement with Briggs Minerals Business Improvement Association for one year. I wish we could do a four or five year term. The the productivity and the the results speak for themselves. Um, our business district is, is, is alive and well and improving more and more. Every day. And so a large thank you to a big black hole in the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association, but also to the many businesses, the small business owners in that association. Along those both corridors, Atlantic and Lamberts Boulevard, who are working very hard on a daily basis to to upstate, to to maintain and improve the quality of their business district. So thank you very much. And so moved. Councilman Turanga. Thank you, Brian. I want to echo Councilman Brosnan's comments. I also want to thank Blair for his work with the Bixby Knolls Improvement area. Does fantastic work. He's always been innovative. I don't know where he gets his ideas, but they're they're great. And they're always an opportunity to expand not only the the footprint of the Bixby Knolls neighborhoods, but also in terms of creating a good economic development area for people to enjoy in and a shop and just have a great time along the corridor. Councilmember Archer, a good point. There was he said you wish you could get, you know, three or four or five year contract. Is there a reason why it has to be year to year? Where can't we just go ahead and move to towards having a an extension that would be multiyear as opposed to just a single year ? Seems like every year we come back with the same thing and I enjoy your report. Obviously, I think they're great, but I think if we were to have a multi year service contract with with you, I think it would be a lot more helpful and less stressful, I would think, in terms of your your being able to keep the organization going to the attorney, is there a reason why we we only have to go year to year. We can't go on a multi-year contract. Many members of council councilmen ignoring it. Yes, there is a reason it's under the streets and highway code. It's required that they this is approved annually. I tried to look at that. I wholeheartedly endorse and support this the second this motion. Q Thank you. A Councilmember you spoke already. So with that, there's motion in a second for the last hearing. Congratulations. You guys do a great job and cast your votes. Motion carries. It is difficult. Earth hasn't popped up yet. But then I think some folks missed the motion. They knew it was a90. Okay. For some reason that my my advice to you got stuck a little bit over here. Okay. So motion carries. Thank you for the third hearing. I'm going to take the consent calendar minus someone has pulled 16. So consent -16. Can I get a motion in a second? Candidate. Any public comment on consent. Mr. good here.