Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending and restating Section 2.03.040 and Section 2.03.060, all regarding City Council Meetings, read and adopted as read.  (Citywide)
Well, thank you very much. And with that, we have a motion in a second. Please cast your votes. Ocean carries out in 16. Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code regarding City Council meetings red and adopted as red strike. Thank you. This is the second reading, Mr. Goodhue. Ms.. Cantrell, a mislead. Please come forward. Grand Prix P2. It was in tone earlier. We should have. We should go back to work. Would go back to what worked so well for so long. Period. No limitations on you. We have the three minute time limit, which is 3 minutes should be enough. Whether it be a consent item. Or an irregular agenda. But don't mess with that. If you don't like that, consider another. Occupation. Part time job. Period. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Lee, please. I'm sorry. Miss Control's next. And Cantrell. I have a lot of problems with this ordinance, starting with the fact that I think there's been a number of violations of the Brown Act. Start looking at. The description of what this ordinance is about. Is very vague and no one reading this would know all the changes that you are making tonight. Changes requiring people to sign up before an item is heard. Changes that if there's more than ten speakers, we only get 90 seconds. It even has changes for you. 5 minutes on an item, but you get to talk multiple times, whereas the public does not. The worst part of the violation is that you started implementing this. Three weeks ago. We were required to fill out the cards. Before. The item was written. That's why I have signed up for every item tonight. I don't know whether I'm going to want to speak on an item until I hear usually of our staff report. You aren't doing much of that tonight. But we should not have to sign up before we've heard what the item is going to be about. If your council meetings are too long and I agree they are. Put back the fourth Tuesday of the month and have a council meeting then. I think you can amend this. Or nets to make everyone a little happier. And I suggest that if there's a lot of people signed up to speak, the first ten get 3 minutes. The next ones get 2 minutes. Or if there's a lot of people towards the end, you could cut it down to 90 seconds. When people start repeating themselves. I understand. But this 90 seconds, especially last week to speak on all of the budget in 90 seconds was impossible and I think a violation of the Brown Act. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Lee. I also oppose the streamlining ordinance as written. I would also suggest 3 minutes be given to the first ten people and then restricted to 2 minutes after ten speakers. But after people take the time to drive all the way down here, it's because they are passionate about that subject and you owe it to them to listen to what they have to say. And 2 minutes is not too much. Last week I attended to speak on on the agenda item about the water rate increase. It was item 110, one, dash ten. There were four people here to speak on it, although like about 20 people had showed up at the water board. I was about. It was about the budget. There were like 16 different topics listed under line item one and then the interests of streamlining. The mayor lumped all 16 under one and gave each person 90 seconds. This ordinance had not been voted on and passed. Additionally, the Council was not asked to restrict their speaking time, which according to the same ordinance, proposed ordinance should have been 5 minutes or less. This is clearly an attempt at restricting Democratic free speech by the public, and I don't intend to drop this. I don't know what I have to do to turn it in, but I don't intend to stop. I think this is wrong. Thank you, Miss Lee. We have the first and second reading. Vice Mayor Andrews. Any comments? No concern. Response? Any comments? Okay. Councilor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And, you know, and supportive in in in general of of doing this. But I do want to say that I consider this still a test run and we need to be open to making adjustments as needed. And so I'm just looking to Mr. Modack or whoever is monitoring this. We have an opportunity to check in six months, see how it's going and if there needs to be some adjustments. You know, from one standpoint, I understand making meetings more efficient, but from the other standpoint, I know it's a big shift. The sign up for each card is a big shift for some folks. And I want to make sure we are getting some kind of feedback and not diminishing folks participation in the meetings. Certainly these are your roles, so we can certainly look at those and six months or nine months or a year in terms of the sign ups that actually is going to be continuing to change as we get technology, it'll be a little bit easier. So we're currently looking at some technology solutions, but we can certainly come back and change this. This is an ordinance, but it's not set in stone. Thank you. Customer Pierce. Thank you. I also wanted to check in and just what's the notification in the hallway as to what the rules are so that people know that typically don't come to meetings, that they need to sign up for each item. If I can have the city clerk speak to that, we did put some messaging out so that people know what they need to do when they get here. There's no notification in the hallway. We've had an employee in the hallway handing out cards and not talking to people when they enter the council chambers. We've also put something up on our Link Elbe to notify people of the change and put it out there on the agendas as well. Maybe Madam Kroger we could do also, I think would be helpful is where we have the table out. If we could have some visible signage as to what the procedure is so that folks, it's very clear and I think we appreciate the staff member as well. If it came can be having the signage would be great as well. Fantastic. We'll do that. That would be great. And then just also to clarify, at any given time, we can suspend part of that if it's one of those heated nights. That's what I recall the mayor saying. Before. Council can always suspend the rules. That would be up to majority of the body. Mr.. That's correct. The first line of this ordinance is this is your order of business that you're adopting this evening. However, you may waive that with the consent of council at that meeting that night, you don't have to come back and amend the ordinance. So if there was a specific item you wanted to address. Yes. Thank you so very much for answering those questions. Please cast your votes.