Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing and take the actions necessary to adopt the Fiscal Year 2016 budget as listed in Attachment A.  (Citywide)
Report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing and make the actions necessary to adopt the fiscal year 2016 budget citywide. Thank you. We have the the hearing. I'm going to go ahead. And, Mr. West, did you have anything to introduce as part of this budget hearing first? No, sir. Okay. Then what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to turn this over first. Any public comment as part of the hearing? Please come forward. Very good. You click as the address. Full disclosure I have not studied the entire budget, but from what I can see it is but ugly. It's the only way to describe our financial situation. So much so. I'm going to suggest that notwithstanding the tremendous effort and tremendous results that our good chief of police are doing is doing , is that this be the last? Council meeting held in the city hall. Given the number of shootings in close proximity and that we consider having. The City Council meetings, perhaps out in the fifth District. Well aware away from the gunfire. Period. And I see this situation continuing. And in addition to that, I would suggest this, that the council declare a state of emergency. And take the necessary steps to dissolve the office of full time mayor. And wait, you know, until next year when obviously we will be having a new mayor and a new city manager anyway. The financial situation in this city, I think warrants that type of action. But particularly relocating the city council meetings to a district where there's not gunfire within four or five blocks away and the number of killings that are at a record level. Thank you. Thank you. Now we're going to move on to the budget hearing item. So I'm going to turn this over actually to Vice Mayor Lowenthal, who is going to walk us through the items as a remembered reminder to the council. There's a these are a series. There's going to be a series of recommendations on a variety of items, and there has to be a vote on each one. Vice Mayor Lilienthal. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I wanted to acknowledge that we don't have member Your Honor here. And so for for the City General Fund related items, we will wait for Council Member, Your Honor, and take those up at the next council meeting. We've had a series of Budget Oversight Committee meetings with co-chair, Councilmember Mongeau and committee member Councilwoman Pryce. And we've had lots of discussion about items that council members have raised earlier and during the budget presentations when we've had departments make these presentations. And so we've also had community members come out and speak for issues that are important to them. Notably, Mr. Aaron Fletcher was there at every single budget oversight committee meeting, as well as each of our offices, reminding us of the importance of of what lifeguards do and what cuts to that department or that division mean to all of us in the city, not just along the coast, but our entire city. So with that, Mr. Mayor, what I'd like to do is ask our council colleagues to consider adopting a certain number of these items. They're more or less ministerial items. And if I may ask Mr. City attorney for his opinion on whether I do have the items correct. I am looking at items 1.1 through 1.9 as ones that we can take today. That would be non. General fund items, which I hope to hold for next week. That's correct. Okay. So I proceed. Mr. Mayor. So we thank you. Okay. So I'd like to recommend to receive the supporting documentation into the record and conclude the public hearing and take actions to adopt the following items. Item 1.1 Actually, Mr. City Attorney, do we need to do item 1/1? Yes, we need to do. Well, you can start at 1.1. Okay. Thank you. Item 1.1 recommendation to adopt resolution approving the fiscal year budget for the Long Beach Harbor Department as adopted by the Board of Harbor Commissioners on May 27th, 2005.