Recommendation to approve the transfer of the Ninth Council District's Fiscal Year 2014 one-time infrastructure funds in the amount of $100,000 to the Uptown Property and Business Improvement District (PBID) to fund early action community services during its initial start-up period; and Decrease appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $100,000, and increase appropriations in the General Fund (GP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $100,000. (District 9)
Item number 11 is a report from Councilmember. Rex Richardson, ninth District with a recommendation to approve the transfer of nine districts fiscal year, one time infrastructure funds and the amount of $100,000 to the Uptown Property Business Improvement District to fund early community services during its initial started period. How much of this over to Councilmember Richardson. Thank you, Mayor. So the this this item is pretty self-explanatory. At the beginning of this year, the Uptown Property and Business Improvement District began operations and their essential purpose is to revitalize the Artesia and the Atlantic corridors. Along those corridors, the city, our school district, is making immense investments from our new library. We've had a lot of discussion on today to the revitalization of Jordan High School, to the new Halton Park Community Center that's proposed. And so this group has really stepped up in terms of agreeing to help keep our investments maintained in these last six months. They've taken great steps in creating a youth program to hire youth to help maintain these investments. But given that this is the first established business district post redevelopment, it's it's they're having some tough times getting off the ground. So what I'd like to do is make an appropriation to help them out from our ninth District Infrastructure Fund on a one time basis to help some of their startup costs associated with sort of, you know, uniforms and and getting their programs up, up and going. And and we work together on establishing an ongoing structural budget, not based on this, that they can continue to to to operate. But at this point and I don't know if is appropriate, but I want to introduce as you can see, there's some youth here. I'd like to make I thank you. So I'd like to make a motion to I'd like to mention one word. Oh, here we. Make a motion to approve this as a as written. Okay. This motion has meant it as written. Got it. But. But what I'd like to do is just introduced before. We do that. There's a there's a motion headed the second seconded by Councilmember Austin Councilmember. Thanks, but I want to introduce Lorraine Parker, who's our program manager, and Shawn, during who's our program coordinator and all these youth who are working with this bid through a special program with Pacific Gateway. And I don't know if it's appropriate time for them to say a few things now or just wait till public comment. Your pleasure. This is fine. Is part of the presentation. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Garcia and councilmembers. My name again is Lorraine Parker and I am the program manager. I am joined by Shawn Durham and the. Youth group that's with me here today. First of all, I want to say congratulations to Mayor Garcia and all of the new councilmembers. I was privileged to attend the inauguration ceremony last week. Many of your words and messages were inspirational. Speaking of inspirational, I wanted to introduce you to the rest of my team. A couple of weeks ago, they arrived as youth workers from Pacific Gateways Hire Youth Program. Today, they are transitioning into a solid leadership team to help transform the Uptown Property and Business Improvement District into a thriving community by keeping the district clean, watering the newly planted trees that Mayor Garcia helped us plant, and interfacing with the business community and even participating in economic development discussions along with my team. Our goals are to develop a series of programs to improve the overall economic vitality of the uptown people. And we are carving that path through the various programs that we have already started to develop, such as our maintenance program. We are also currently working on implementing our own facade improvement program in conjunction with the one that's offered by the city a security program, an economic development program, and a marketing program. This proposed motion before you will help us to provide some of the financial resources that are much needed in order to kick off and accelerate these programs. And we thank you again for for your support. And I hope that you will support us in this endeavor. Go uptown. Thank you very much. And thank you all for the work of the speaker. Absolutely. Please come forward. Hello. My name is Irwin Galarza and I'm part of the Uptown Clean Team. I'm proud of it. I'm proud to be making a difference in their community. I'm looking for way to make it make it to like a better in their head for all of us. And thank you, Rex. And thank all of you guys. They gave us the opportunity to work and how they. Great job. Thank you. Thank you all for your service. Giving them a round of applause. Thank you. Thank you. At this moment, I'm going to take it back to the council. An additional public comment will do that. Councilmember Austin. Thank you, Mayor Garcia. And I want to thank Ms.. Parker and the Uptown Clean Team for coming out to the city council meeting this evening. The work you are doing is important and exciting. Exciting. It's exciting to watch the transformation of the North Atlantic corridor. And I want to commend my my new colleague here, Mr. Richardson, Councilmember Richardson, for his vision and leadership on this and very, very bold investment in the business district, as well as to the youth. And having having an out of the box vision. So thank you very much for what you're doing. And you can count on my support here this evening. Thank you. Got somebody, Ranga? I do want to express. Excuse me. I do want to express my. My presentation to Councilmember Richardson for his willingness to share his funds to fund such a program. It's always wonderful to see young people doing such good work. I also want to thank Mayor Garcia for his work on the of the day of service for the tree planting. I never worked so hard, not even in my own yard. But I'm going to tell you. I you watching. But what I. Want to also express is. That it's so. Great to see young people out there willing to participate in programs like this, because there are so many youth out there that don't take advantage of programs like these available that this program is able to grow and prosper. Thank you. Without any additional public comment on the item C nonmembers, please go out and cast your votes. Motion carries eight votes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to the next item. Adam 12, is a report from Financial Management with the recommendation to adopt specifications and award of contract to Chevrolet of Watsonville doing businesses wonders for recoup for the delivery of police pursuit vehicles an amount not to exceed $162,000 from.