Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement with Centro CHA, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, to occupy Room 112 at the Jenny Oropeza Community Center at Cesar E. Chavez Park, at 104 Golden Avenue, from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026, with the option to renew for two five-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement with Centro CHA, Inc., to occupy Suite 104A, B, C, D, and E, at the Long Beach Senior Center, at 1150 East 4th Street, from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023, with the option to renew for an additional one-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Districts 1,2)
Adam 19. Report from. Perth. There's been a request on item 19 for a short presentation. Please report from Parks, Recreation and Marine recommendation to execute agreements with Central Asia to occupy Room 112 at the General Officer Community Center at Cesar Chavez Park and Suite one, or for A, B, C, D and E at the Long Beach Senior Center Districts one and two. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We're very excited to be here today with these two agreements that support a wonderful partner in our nonprofit community center. And I'll give it to Brant to talk a little bit about what these two items are. Thank you, city manager. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and council members. I think on the coattails of last Tuesday's significant community support for the Latino Cultural Center and also naming Central Cha as the lead not for profit to move that project forward. I think our department and citywide are continuing that partnership in a very supportive way. We have two operational agreements before you this evening. One is within Cesar Chavez Park at the center. Basically giving center some office space and underutilized corner of that facility. It is for a period of five years with the possibility to add two additional five year periods. And I think long term the purpose of that was once the Latino Cultural Center is identified, that a more permanent home would be located within that facility. The other realization is Central CHA continues to provide significant community services and they do utilize the Jennifer Payson Center as a home base for a lot of the programs they deliver. The accompanying agreement, operational agreement, is again realizing that Central Cha, a new headquarters building on Atlantic Avenue, probably to be completed within the next 12 to 18 months. They'll be utilizing some office space at the Fourth Street Senior Center that's recently been vacated with the relocation of Partners of Parks over to the Recreation and Parks Administrative Building in Eldorado Park. So and that again, is of a more temporary nature, realizing that probably within the next year to two years that they would be relocating back over to the Atlantic facility. So with that, I'm available for any questions that you might have. Thank you. Councilman's in the house. Thank you, Mayor. I'm so excited for Central to having a space in our Jenny Oropeza Community Center at our beloved Cesar Chavez Park Central Chantelle's amazing work in the community. And that is a big, big thing for our community and for our residents. They really thrive off of being able to have central trust so close to them. So I really think central time for all the amazing work that you do and that you provide for for our communities, especially for our communities that are hard to reach, especially for those communities that are the most in need. So thank you from the bottom of my heart. And I'm just so glad that we were able to work together as a city. I really want to thank city staff for all their amazing work and their willingness to collaborate and make this make this agreement possible for Central Time. I also want to give a huge thanks to our Parks and Rec and Marine staff, especially to Director Denis, who was able to see the need that central chair had for for space and was able to to provide this space and work with them. And your willingness to always provide for the community is just amazing. So thank you very much for your collaboration with this and for realizing that this is a community that really, really, truly needs these services. And that tenure piece is the journey out of business center is the right place for them. So thank you again to everybody who made this possible. Thank you, Councilman Allen. Yes. Just completely support this item. It's just great to have a partner with Central try and with just this great community organization. And I also look forward to having your offices in the second District, at least for a little while. Congrats. I thank you. I look at my comments here. I think every time we're able to figure out partnerships with community based organizations to provide services, it's a great outcome. We see that in North Long Beach with what's happening with Camp Fire. We lost our after school program services. Camp Fire was able to come in and help out. Conservation Corps has moved in and has reactivated that space, and I have no doubt that central charge is going to have a tremendous impact on the park and the broader community. So congratulations to everyone. Councilwoman Zoro. Yes, thank you. I wanted to express my support on this item and that I know that when center to finish building their facility in the sixth district, they'll be circling, spreading their resources in this variety of areas and then coming back home to the sixth district. So thank you very much. Thank you. We have one public comment, Jessica Quintana. Thank you so much. Good evening, everyone. On behalf of Center Child, this is just truly an exciting time, a moment for us to demonstrate this, this partnership with the city of Long Beach. Once again, I know we were here last week and I lost all my colleagues and crew because tonight's the Dodger game. And so they're all here in spirit and they should just get you go. We'll be here in spirit. But you know, this this truly really solidifies and advances, you know what we're all saying in our community and to promote and expand public benefits for our community members. You know, prior to the pandemic and currently now with the economic recovery, we've seen more of a higher need within our community to have access to benefits and services. And so we just want to thank our partner, Brant Dennis and the city manager and the city council member team and everybody at Parks and Recreation for being so supportive and welcoming us to the space. We truly appreciate that. You know, it's a lot of people don't know the story, but I moved to Long Beach in 1964. We moved on fourth and main. And so I grew up here in the city. And, you know, I have three folks who who inspired me throughout my life. One was also Travis. I had the opportunity to march with him when I was only 15 years old. He came to Long Beach and we marched to Wilmington. And we all know he's a labor leader and a civil rights activist. And so through working at the center of Back in the Day with Professor Armando Vasquez, who was here last week, we were boycotting grapes up and down Anaheim market, you know, and we had the opportunity to march with Cesar. Then the next inspiration of my life, who inspired me to do the work that I do, is the three folks who are memorialized. Associate Chavez Park is Jenny Oropeza. So Jenny, as you know, was the first Latina on city council and then went on to be our state senator who fought and championed for the quality of life for women, children in our communities. And then maybe a lot of folks may not know him, but there is a bench that's memorialized for John Northmoor. And John Northmoor was an advocate on behalf of youth. He's the one that brought things post to our city, into our community. And so I was a youth growing up in Long Beach with the first team post that was in West Long Beach. So I have the honor and privilege to go back to the area and really, you know, inspire my community and provide community benefits with three of the most influential leaders who made a difference in my life in the work that I do to provide services. And our community center, Chuck, for years have been in the city for over 25 years. We have an infrastructure that has brought many, many, much needed services to the community and bringing millions of dollars to the city of Long Beach and we're going to provide legal services were a part of Immigrations Appeals Agency and we'll be providing immigration, legal services, business development and workforce development services. And then we come with so many partnerships. We focus on job training and workforce development and have contracts with the Long Beach City College and other institutions for certified training. So we're just so ecstatic for the the excitement for this partnership and to provide services to Cesar Chavez Park and at the senior center. So it benefits so much. I know I'm over my time, but thank you, everybody. It's truly privilege. An exciting day for for center time for myself. Fantastic. Thank you. Members, please cast your vote.