Recommendation to receive a report from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Public Works on the status of the North Long Beach HEAL Zone Initiative, with an emphasis on activities related to mobility and active living; and Request both departments to explore a partnership with the Uptown Property and Community Association on the creation of a mobile application focused on mobility, health and local businesses as part of the North Long Beach HEAL Zone.
Okay. Now we are moving on to the regular agenda. We have we do have one piece of unfinished business first, which is item number 20. So I'm going to go, Mr. Kirk, January 20. Thank you, Mayor. It's a report from the Office of Council Member Rex Richardson and Council Member Alison with the recommendation receive a report from the Department of Human Services and Public Works on the status of the North Long Beach Hills own initiative and request that both departments explore a partnership with the Uptown Property and Community Association on the creation of a mobile application focused on mobility, health and local businesses as part of the North Long Beach Heal program. Councilor Richardson. I'd like to ask for a staff report first. Certainly mayor and council members. I'm going to turn this over to our Health and Human Services Director Kelly Hall to report on the heels on. Good evening, honorable mayor and Council Members. Just thank you for this opportunity to provide an update of the Hill Zone. And we've had a couple of different fitness zones go in. The College Park was completed with the Clippers event last fall and we also are in the current are currently implementing a fitness zone in Halton Park which will be in place by the end of September. At the same time, we're looking at hydration stations. It was one of those things that during the youth photo voice project, they talked about it a lot. And so hydration stations allow you to fill up your water bottles and things in the different parts. So there'll be two in Hilton Park and one in College Park that are aligned with the fitness zones. In addition, we've implemented a walking loop in Hilton Park with City Fabric. They worked with our staff from the Community Health Bureau and they finalized the route and the signage has been installed so people can walk around and read different exercises to do. We've also worked very closely with the Cal State University, Long Beach Department of Kinesiology, the Beach Wellness Program, and they're conducting fitness classes at the Hutton Park Community Center, and they've developed really a great following. A lot of neighborhood residents are there. They're doing that. They're doing the fitness classes also as part of the grant. We do have an MOU with the Department of Public Works to create an app, and this app is to encourage walking, bicycling, healthy choices by helping people find nearby events and local community resources, as well as good walking and bicycling routes. This is the app is really focused at the hills zone, but we're also focused to build it. So it's scalable to include other neighborhoods. Community resources might include nearby activities, events, opportunities for active living at local parks, um, health centers, libraries, schools, farmers markets, community gardens and other points of interest. And they also for healthier trip making that might include walking your bike routes as well as transit options with recommended routes based on the user's location and chosen destinations. The Coalition for Healthy North Long Beach will be meeting on January 21st to discuss all of the final deliverables. And the Coalition is planning to host a broader community meeting in February to ensure that the current implementation strategies incorporate all of the local resident feedback. Um, we invite the Uptown Property and Community Association to participate in these meetings with the Healthy North Long Beach and in the community meeting in February to engage in the dialog about the app to determine its functionalities moving forward. And with that, I take questions. Thank you. Councilman Richardson. Thank you. So I just want to say that in 2012, City of Long Beach received this grant from Kaiser Permanente to establish the Hill's own program. And now we're and we've just entered 2015. It was a three year commitment of $1 million over the course of three years. I think the health department has really demonstrated over this time how to squeeze blood out of a turnip, not only to do that, but how to really make a major impact here. This zone was designed to help help folks to make healthy choices about access to fresh fruits and vegetables. We've seen a lot of work, a lot of of positive outcomes as a result a direct result of this grant. The purpose of this was not only just to receive an update, but secondly, to to acknowledge that when we began this process and we set out some goals like creating a mobile app, like starting a farmer's market , the communities changed. There are a lot, lot more partners, a lot more activity here. And so what might have begun as a concept for a simple, safe, rustic school mobile app has turned into something totally different and much greater now with the potential partnership of our business community as well as other departments. So the purpose of this was really to encourage our Health Department and the Department of Public Works to work with our business district to to change this mobile app and expand to expand its potential. You know, there an opportunity for us to, you know, we've got this open streets event happening in in the spring. And I'd love to see how we can align the launch of this app with that event somehow. I'd love to see how we can integrate our businesses and and and a lot of the other excitement that's happened in the area with the new community center, so on and so forth. So that's really the gist of this. And that said, I make the motion as written. There's been a motion seconded by Councilmember Austin. Any public comment on the item? So please cast your votes. Oh, there is. Please come down. There's a comment. Okay. Make. Good evening, Mayor. Councilmembers My name is Lorraine Parker. I'm the property manager for the Uptown Property and Community Association. I'm here this evening to express my support to explore the partnership with the North Long Beach Hills own initiative, the Uptown Property Community Association. I wanted to say we are celebrating our one year anniversary, so we're very proud of the programs that we've accomplished over the last year. And we're really looking forward to upgrading the city in the heel zone district, as you guys have done here this evening. And looking forward to this mobile app and really ramping up the the North Long Beach area with this initiative. And we look forward to the partnership. So thank you very much and have a good evening. Next week. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and council members. My name is Phil Phillips. I'm here. I am in the ninth district. I'm on the board of the. Top Town Property and Community Association. I was at a CORNISH Club breakfast this morning in Bixby Knolls, and Shawn Durran, who is Lorraine's assistant manager, was the guest speaker after his presentation on the organization's accomplishments in its first year of operation. He was asked about the organization's. Cooperation with the neighborhood. Associations if they engage the neighborhood associations. He said that was planned for the next for the future. His Uptown business. District is new and it's had a lot of accomplishments this year. It's one of the goals of this organization is to foster greater interest by the community in the businesses in the North Palm Beach area. And it is incumbent on these businesses to contribute to the well-being of the residents in their community. And I think this. Motion is a first step in doing that. So I urge your vote on this. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no other public comment, we do have a motion. Please cast your vote. Councilwoman Miller. Thank you. Motion carries a protest. And. Next item, please.