Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Chapter 8.120, temporary enforcement of Long Beach health orders related to COVID-19; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Next item is going to be 27. Report from City Attorney. Recommendation to declare ordinance amending Long Beach Municipal Code related to Temporary Enforcement of Long Beach Health Orders regarding COVID 19 and declaring the urgency thereof. Read the first time and lead over the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading Citywide. Okay, I. I have a motion by Councilwoman Sara and a second by councilman today. Is there any public comment on this? If any members of the public wish to speak on this item, please press star nine or use the raise hand feature. If Shukla. Good evening. I support this item and this motion. It's an ugly thing that we've had done to us in this country. I think we all deep down know that if it was COVID 15, it would have been handled differently. We're going to have over a million people dead in this country just from Coban easily. But the true cost in lives. The total number of excess deaths. Because of the pandemic and the resultant. Economic recession and slow recovery. K-Shaped recovery. Um. That's going to be a drag. And it's going to be one internationally that, you know, people are going to compare this to the Kansas City flu and they're going to make a lot of conclusions about how far American society has or hasn't come since a lot of our. Creaky 19th century in origin institutions have kind of proven their limits, frankly. But moreover, I mean, I don't care if you like math, you don't like masks for vaccines, not for vaccines. I think we could all agree as Americans that. Yeah. It'd be great to end this pandemic and be allowed to do your job or get a better one. You know, I think we're we're all team like one country could get better after this and. I'm really looking forward personally to seeing. Not only positive vision for the future of our region and our city and our state lucky to be in the state of California, but really how we're going to pull people together out of this. Just coming out of this. Uh, I think you can lay every single excess death over the past two years at the feet of the past Republican administration. And I don't think that's a stain that just goes away. I don't care how often or how hard they have to lie to people. People go and every 17 to 41 year old in this country, you know, we can just walk. We don't have to put up with any of this. We can just move to Canada. Can you imagine the Republican Party trying to move towards fascism if we all just fucking voted with our feet? Remember that this is a democracy. Thank you. That concludes public. Comment. There's a motion and a second member. Three square and Castro votes. As a reminder, Mayor, this item does require two votes. The first vote Council. District one, high council. District two. I Council, District three. I Council District for. High. Council District six. I Council District seven. I. Council District eight. I. Council District nine. My motion is eight zero. And they will take the second vote, please. Ah the mover in the secondary or sirens in the house. Councilman So on. Councilwoman Didn't they have to? If I have councilman serum shoot up. Okay. Council District one. I. Council District two. I. Council District three. I. Counsel District four. I. Counsel District six. I counsel District seven. I counsel District eight. I counsel District nine. I motion carries eight zero. I think you know, I think we have our last item, which is item 23.