Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Memorandum of Understanding, and any necessary amendments, with the Long Beach Community Foundation, a California non-profit corporation, to establish and administer a disaster relief fund; and, authorize a one-time initial investment of $2,500 from the General Fund (GF).  (Citywide)
Motion carries. Great item 12. The final report from Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications Recommendation to authorize a city manager to execute a memorandum of understanding with the Long Beach Community Foundation to establish and administer a disaster relief fund and authorize a one time initial investment of 2500 citywide. This is actually a really great project, so let's see if we can have a short presentation. Reggie Harrison And then we also have Marcel Epperly in the audience remembers City Council. The item. Before you is a request to authorize the city manager to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Land based Community Foundation in order to administer a disaster relief. Fund. Incidents throughout the country and California, in. Particular, over the last couple of. Weeks and months dictate a better understanding and alternative ways in which we can assist residents during manmade and natural disasters. The Land based Community Foundation has agreed to. Partner with the City of Long Beach to manage such a. Fund that it would operate year round and it would provide businesses and and residents an opportunity. To contribute at their leisure, to provide safeguards in terms of contributions that that are made, that the moneys would be applied as dictated. Our concept would be. That the foundation would reimburse nonprofits that provide assistance to our residents. And we're really, really fortunate. That we have an outstanding foundation in the city of Long Beach that's willing. To partner with us and provide this support. Marcel Epperly, the president and CEO of the Long Beach Community Foundation. Has waded throughout the evening to be here to show her continued support for this item. And with that, I conclude staff report. Thank you. So do you want to add anything or. You don't have to. It's just. It's up to you if you want, if you'd like to be here. Sir Derek, at any minutes to this marsala plate. I just want to. Say thank you for your support and that with the disasters. A lot of them that happened. Last year, if you look at Oakland with the warehouse fire and you look at the hurricanes. That happened in Palm Beach and in Houston and all. Over, it was the residents of those cities. The second thing they say after. You know, am I okay? Is my family, my peers okay, is what can I do to help? And a lot of times that's donating and. With this fund. Residents of Long. Beach can donate year round and the city can then use that as a resource to help us when we have things like power outages and flooding and things like that. And so thank you, Reggie. For working with us on this. And thank. You, city manager Pat West and Tom Monaco and the mayor and. Everybody for your support. To look at half an hour overlay on that. Thank you. Thanks for being here for being with us here as well. So no the public comment to please cast your vote and. But one more item. Forgot motion carries an item five. Can you get a motion in a second, please?