Recommendation to adopt resolution supporting President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” Community Challenge; and receive and file a status report on efforts with the City of Long Beach in support of this initiative.  (Citywide)
Item eight. Item eight. Report from Development Services. Recommendation to Adopt Resolution Supporting President Obama's My Brother's Keeper. Community Community Challenge and Receive and File Status Report on efforts with the City of Sit with City of Long Beach in support of this initiative. City Wide. Mr. City managers are report. Yes. We have a quick report from Angela Reynolds and Tracey Ilunga. Thank you. Good evening, Vice Mayor and City Council. On October 14th, the City Council requested that the city manager provide a report within 90 days. I think we're right there on President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Community Challenge. The MBK Community Challenge encourages cities to implement a cradle to college and career strategy for improving. The life outcomes of all young people to ensure that they can reach. Their full potential. Regardless. Of who they are or where they come from or the circumstances under which they are born. There are several city programs. That support MBK currently. These include the Long Beach. Gang. Reduction Intervention and Prevention Program. Long Beach Grip. We are already designated. A U.S. Department. Of Justice National Forum City on Youth Violence and Pacific. Gateway Investment Network, which provides internships and summer job programs for youth. Are in partnership with the Long Beach Unified School District. And of course. Many, many supporting community based organizations that work in the city of Long Beach. Currently. Staff recommends adopting the MBK resolution to support these efforts. And in terms of next steps. Within 45 days of the adoption. Of this. Resolution, we are required to have a summit of all the. Stakeholders. For this. Initiative. That concludes my report, and we're here for questions. Thank you, Mr. Reynolds. Councilmember Richardson. Thanks, Vice Mayor. I'm thrilled to see this resolution come back to the city council so that our city can be placed on record in support of this important initiative. I was pleased to see that city staff stepped up to rise to the challenge. Since we placed this on the agenda a while back and I want to thank you and your work so far. I look forward to the next steps, more specifically the summit, and looking forward to working with our mayor and our fairly fellow council members, our community organizations, some of which I see here in the audience on our next steps. So that said, thank you. And it was, let's get moving. Councilwoman Gonzalez. I just wanted to say thank you as well. It just really brought light to a lot of the program programs that we're already doing in the city. And I think it's amazing that, you know, we don't have to add additional funds, hopefully not. But just to be able to highlight those programs is wonderful. And thank you, Councilmember Richardson, for bringing this forward. Do we have any thoughts at this point of where the summit summit will be held? I know it's been a little back and forth, but just a preliminary question. What are we allowed to say? Councilwoman Gonzalez. No, we don't have any idea of that yet. But I'm sure after the adoption of this resolution, we'll be working together with the city council. Okay. Thank you for. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. There's been a motion by Councilmember Richardson and a second by Councilman Andrews. So any member of the public that wishes to address Council on item eight. Please come forward. State your name and your testimony. Good evening. My name is Pedro Jimenez. I am a youth organizer in Central Asia. I live that. Way to East Forehand. Ninth District resident. I graduated from Jordan High School in 2013, and I was a model academy youth leader with Alina Gonzalez on behalf of Central Cha sons, brothers and fathers, we service. I would like to thank the city of Long Beach for setting My Brother's Keeper challenge for Long Beach. I believe it's much needed in our community and school systems. I live in North Long Beach by Jordan. There is gang violence, drugs and poverty, and we are put in a situation where it's harder for us to be successful. There's not much guidance is normal for a young man to get jumped, not graduate and go to school, go to jail than to be successful and be guided in the right direction. I have worked with boys and men of color in making a change in our community and school system, in changing the school to prison pipeline that pushes young men of color out of the schools and into the prison system. The school climate resolution. Our youth do not. So our youth do not get kicked out of schools or suspended for willful defiance, Prop 47 so that many of our young men of color may have a second chance for past mistakes that are holding them back to a brighter future. The local control com ability plan to make sure that the students and schools with the most need receive the funds necessary in order to graduate and succeed. We have been working with the Brothers, Sons and Selves Coalition and Long Beach Youth Committee accomplishes these goals so our boys and young men of color may have a bigger and brighter future. Myself and Central appreciates and wants to reach out to you if you need any help or assistance with My Brother's Keeper challenge. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is Edgar Ramirez. I live on 1023 Louis Avenue on the Lake District. And I'm Cal State, Long Beach social work student. And I am a center child case manager, mentor. And I have the honor and privilege of working with these young men right here, um, for the last couple of months. And some of them actually have worked with the last couple of years. And I've seen these young men grow in their leadership, in advocacy roles. I get encouraged every single day by the passion energy they bring in, working and making a change for themselves and other boys and young men of color like themselves in creating more equality and fairness in our community and school system. I would like to thank the Sea of Long Beach for accepting the My Brother's Keepers challenge. There is a great need for boys and young men of color. I believe we need to invest more in these young men with summer youth employment, mentoring, health, mental health, education in safe and safer neighborhoods. These young men need to know that they don't only have the support of their loved ones, but their community as well. I grew up in Long Beach on 10th in Lewes and I can personally tell you, if you don't give these young men, give these young men a good education, a good paying career, and pair them with positive mentors and role models. There are other people in the streets that can show and give them those things, but in a negative way. My hope is that the city of Long Beach and Long Beach Unified School District and the Long Beach Business invest more in our youth and find and innovate in a bit of ways that keep our boys and young men of color off the streets. Gangs in prison. I want my boys to be the model for other cities and working in create an opportunity for these boys and young men of color in the nation. My Brother's Keeper Alliance aligns with the Central Charles Mission goals and objectives in helping young men reach their full potential. Central shot and the one Long Beach Alliance has been doing this work and will be continue to do this work. We're going to have our second Boys and Women of Color Summit May 16th, 2015, and will focus on fathers and young men of color in our communities. In the past, we did it at Cal State Long Beach, and it was with. With the academy and all the youth from we had over 500 youth that came out and we all we what we did was we broke out in different sessions and they tackled issues that they're going through and things that they're fighting for. And I just want to thank you guys because for me, it's a passion. I live on 10th. And also, like I said, I know the Andrews is familiar with the area. That area is it's a hot area. And I've seen too many youth die, pass away. They need all the help that they can get, you know? And when these kids come through our doors, you know, they're broken, you know, and and they're broken. We don't fix them. They fix themselves. We all we do is give them the tools that they need necessary to build themselves at Central CHA. But it just my hope that we could help more youth in Long Beach. And I thank you guys again for all this. Thank you. Councilmember Andrews. You know, I think you vice mayor, a message that I you know, I just want to thank Mrs. Jessica contents because the fact that she now we go at it in our own way. But I have to give I have to really commend her and the young man who just spoke because he know the area and I know it. I lived in it, raised in it. But I think you guys are doing a great job, especially with that gang situation and these these companies that we're going to have with these youth. I tell you, it's going to it's going to make a difference in all these individuals lives. Like you say, you guys don't do it. They do it. And I want to thank you again. Mr. Just continued, but really seriously work on the program and I hope the city will continue to support this financially, socially, in every other way. Thank you guys again. Councilmember Richardson. So I just want to chime in and say congratulations and good job to those young guys who stood up there and addressed the council. I want to see you all participate in the upcoming summit. We want to make sure you're at the table as we plan this together. Great. Thank you. Madam Clerk, I thought there was a maker of the motion in a secondary. It doesn't show anymore. Oh, I see. Thank you. I see it now. Thank you. All right. See? No further discussion. Members, please cast your vote. Motion carries seven zero. Item nine. Item nine. Report from Financial Management. Recommendation to Award. Contract to Chandler Asset Management to provide investment advisory and management services in an annual amount not to exceed 300,000 citywide.