Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $23,156.50, offset by the Fourth Council District one-time District Priority Funds transferred from the Citywide Activities Department to provide funds to the California Dental Association who will host CDA Cares Long Beach in July 2020. Decrease appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $23,156.50 to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.
. And so thank you. And much work ahead of us. But thank you very much for all of you for being here. I want to I want to briefly do item number 12, which I know is also related to the convention center. Please please read the item. Communication from Council Member Super or Not recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $23,156.50 to provide funds to the California Dental Association who will host Cares Long Beach in July 2020. So we're superannuation to do public comment first or. Actually I would like to ask Steve Goodling not to leave. I don't think he got enough praise on the last item. So we'd like you to stay here for for this one. I'll go ahead and make my comments first. And that is I'm asking for my council colleagues support to allow our office to spend $23,158.50 to bring the Cedar Cares event to the Long Beach Convention Center. Kate Carer's Allowance Volunteer. Dennis With the assistance of other health professionals and community volunteers to provide dental services at no charge to an estimated 2000 people at the event from July 17 through 18th, 2020. We have a couple of guests here tonight. Dr. Gary Glass Band is here and along with Steve Goodling, Dr. Glass Band brought this idea to me a couple of years ago. So what you're seeing tonight is the fruition of a project that has been very long in the making. And so, Dr. Glassman, if you would like to come up and say a few words about this, it it looks like Gary Glassman is ready to go to work right now. So thank you for being here. Thank you very much. Not very professional clearing my throat. No, actually, I know. I know. I know that some excited folks in the back as well. If we can kind of just exit quietly and speak in the in the foyer, that would be great. Going to my Harbor Dental Society hat for just a moment. First of all, I want to thank the the city council, the honorable mayor, the vice mayor and Mr. Goodling, who we've actually never met, but we know each other. And speaking to the mike, please. Thank you. Briefly speaking. What I'm representing is the chair of the California Dental Association Foundation. In just from a housekeeping standpoint, if in your agenda item, the funds are not going to the California Dental Association, they're going to the California Dental Association Foundation. CDA CARES is a two day charitable event where we will treat approximately 2000 patients. There's no means testing, no questions asked. Anybody that shows up can receive care. We will provide $1.5 million in two days, 800 to 850 volunteers. Professionals such as myself, physicians, nurses, dental assistants, lab technicians will all volunteer their time. No one is being paid for this event. 1200 volunteers from the community will show up and volunteer their time as translators, providing food, doing maintenance on the line, anything that needs to be done, it's a it's a great coming together of the community . I've participated in this particular event all over California for the last seven years. We've provided over $26 million worth of dental care for free for anybody that shows up. And I have a slide deck at some point I'd like to share with the full council, but a city of the gravitas of Long Beach, of the presentation of Long Beach. Unfortunately, like any other city anywhere in the United States, it's said you can walk ten blocks in one direction from any major city and see what's going on with the rest of the community. And this is a community that we want to help serve. It's the homeless, it's the working poor, it's the uninsured families, it's the uninsured mothers, it's the uninsured children. They'll all receive treatment at this event. And to Long Beach is a unique venue in that it has a convention center where we could hold an event. We need 100,000 square feet to put an event like this on. And there's there's suitors all over the state of California that are interested in this. And because of our limited budget of the California Dental Association Foundation, there's only going to be one event next year. It's the first time in seven years that we've gone from two events to one, and the city of Long Beach was vetted and it's the appropriate venue. And because of your largesse, we've secured the convention center for July 17th and 18th, but this free dental clinic costs $500,000 to put on. We have to rent dental equipment to be here. It comes from the American Dental Cares Foundation. It's brought in on larger. 18 wheelers. We have to provide food, set up, tear down. We have to provide security, insurance. All the things, plus the dental supplies, all of this. And so I, as the chair of the Local Arrangements Committee, is tasked with raising $300,000 of this money, which is something that's new to me. We've had a quite a generous support from our supervisor. Janice Hahn has announced a couple of weeks ago that she was going to put $100,000 into this event. And she is our flagship sponsor at this point. And to date, we've raised over 153. Three. And we probably have commitments for another $80,000 from various dental entities. Anyways, I come before you to thank you and to clarify something. Why I'm here tonight. So. In addition to the money that needs to be raised for this event on, I appointed someone to chair what's called an in-kind donations, things like food, and we feed all the people in line. The 1200 or so patients. We feed all our volunteers. And so this person was in charge of bringing together in-kind donations. And I was told by the foundation in Sacramento that Councilman Super and I had managed to commit or wanted to commit $23,000 that goes towards the labor at the Convention Center as an in-kind donation. And I was just floored. So I called him up to thank him and he says, well, come down and speak to this a little bit. There may be other people on the council that are interested in supporting this cause to some extent. So I'm halfway there. I guarantee you will be there in force. We'll have everybody. I'll have all the the workforce will be in place. But right now, it's the rolling up the sleeves and raising the money time. So like I tell people, I want your time and I want your treasure, but right now, I want your treasure . So that's why I'm here. Thank you very much. Councilor. Mr. Brown. Thank you, Dr. Glass Ban. And thank you for your perseverance and staying after me for so long. And I just wanted to say that that the services go citywide. The fourth district is supporting this, but the participants will come citywide. And I also have to mention Steve Goodling. I had no idea how he would react to this idea when I brought it to him and he did not bat an eye. He was he was into it from the very beginning. So. Well, thank you for that. And also acting city manager Tom Modica, you helped us do an and it was just a pleasant surprise to see how everyone was on board from the get go. So thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember Austin. Okay. Before I go to counseling customer Pierce. Yeah, I just wanted to say thank you to Councilmember Supernova. I know you and I had a conversation about this. My aunt is a pediatric dentist, so I spent six years working in her office. She very much tried to get me to buy to be a hygienist. Your work is very difficult, and I recognize what a labor of love it is that dentists come out and really do great service. So I'm not sure what our budget has right now, but I'm going to have Carla come out and speak with you and we definitely want to support and thank you, Steve. You always really do step up for organizations like this. So thank you. Thank you. And I have two members of the public that want to speak and control and learn. Goodhew Knope and control? Nope. Okay. There's motion in a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. We have three hearings to do and then we're going to do we have a time certain 630 and then we have public comment as well and we have a very long agenda after that. So let me begin with here, and we're going to we're going to go a little backwards.