Recommendation to receive and file a report on travel to Los Angeles, CA for the California League of Cities Annual Conference and Expo.
Next item item 27 Communication from Councilmember Durango Recommendation to receive and File Report on travel to the California League of Cities Annual Conference and Expo. There's been a motion in a second. Any public comment on the item saying none comes from hearing a no, no, no report. All those in favor, please raise your hand. Motion carries unanimously. Now we're going to be Business Council member. ANDREWS Oh, man. A mr.. Let's do it. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I will be hosting my six year free food distribution from 9 p.m. to food is distributed on September 19th at McBride's Park. I'll be teaming up with the Cambodian American Business Association to host the fourth annual Cambodian Business Expo. That is an 8 to 5 p.m. Sunday, September the 28th, at Mark Twain's Library parking lot. More information. Please contact my office. I would also like to invite everyone to the Long Beach Open studio tour. That will be October 11, 12 and from noon to five. I have seven professional artists and six districts that are participating on this tour. I would like to thank them for opening their homes and sharing their talent with everyone. For more information, please call my office. Thank you very much. And good night, Mark. Thank you. I'd like to make a request of city staff. I'm so thankful that Councilmember Price has joined me in the paperless world of council agendas. And so I would like to request that the study session information be posted with the agenda. And when it is printed in the future, that is printed double sided so we can save our trees. And then also that the city staff come back to us if there is a possibility of using the OCR settings on the scanner so we can fully utilize the tools available. And I legislate for highlighting and commenting directly on the agenda so we don't have to bring additional paper and trees to our council meetings. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to invite the public to join me this Saturday, September 20th, for a memorial tree planting for Lillian Kawasaki. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m.. The tree planting will start at 9 a.m. and the trees will be dead and a tree will be dedicated in our memory at Little Cerritos Park at 11:30 a.m.. We're meeting at the corner of San Antonio Drive and Country Club Drive by Los Amigos Park. Neighbors, community members, community groups, city staff and volunteers will be planting up to 100 trees around the little Cerritos neighborhood. Please join me in celebrating the life of Lillian Kawasaki, who was a dedicated environmentalist, public servant and resident of the Little Cerritos neighborhood. For more information on this event, please contact my office at 5625706685. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Great. Thank you. Councilmember Price. Thank you. I want to start by thanking, I think, our mayor and the city manager's office for having us here tonight. I'm not sure who's responsible for that, but I have to say, I'm a creature of habit and and yet I enjoyed having a different place to convene tonight. So and the fact that it's on a college campus makes me feel very youthful and smart. So thank you for bringing us here tonight for for this meeting. I think it was a really nice opportunity to attract folks who don't normally come to city hall. I wanted to make sure that the residents of the city of Long Beach know that tomorrow night at 5:30 p.m., the city will be hosting a study session on the Belmont Pool Revitalization Project. The meeting will be at Rogers Middle School at the auditorium. Again, that's from 530 until 10 p.m.. I know that the city staff and the stakeholder committee have been working very diligently on their proposals and are excited to get public input on this particular item. So please join us. We will. Have a friends of Colorado Lagoon Clean Up Science Shack at the Colorado Lagoon on September 20th from 9 a.m. to noon. Please join us for that cleanup and as well at the Alamitos Bay under water cleanup at Alamitos Bay Beach on September 20th at 9 a.m.. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Gonzalez? Yes. I'd like to invite the community to 3/1 district events. The first one is Twilight Walk Get Lit this Friday, September 19th, from 6 to 10 p.m.. Third Friday Twilight Walk is a monthly event held during those times on Pine Avenue from first to eighth Street. Enjoy. Delicious food, wine, live music, art and entertainment in the heart of beautiful downtown. I invite you to experience this glow in the dark theme for this month's Twilight Walk. The second event is Our Walk Forth, which is also on September 19th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.. I invite you to walk for the Community Pop-Up Street installation again from 11 to 6 p.m.. This event is happening along fourth fourth Street starting at Long Beach Boulevard all the way to Alamitos. And then the last item is the Smart Parking Meter meeting, which will be held on September 22nd at 7 p.m., hosted by Hope at our historic old Pine Avenue group. To learn more about the proposal to replace coin meters with smart parking meters, this special meeting will take place on Monday, the 22nd again at 7 p.m. at our wonderful Kress Market on 443 Pine Avenue It. Thank you. I want to congratulate the Highland Park neighborhood on another successful Lime Avenue block party and also want to recognize church one on a very successful job fair this past Saturday, this coming week. Join us on the 17th of September at 9 a.m. at Highland Park for free exercise class with the Long Beach Community Wellness Program in partnership with the Health Department in the CSU will be kinesiology department. There will be Zumba yoga circuit training and more geared to meet your needs. Also, we have three neighborhood association meetings this week. The St Francis Neighborhood Association meeting will be held this Wednesday, September 17th, at Community Grace Brethren Church 5885 Downey Avenue from 630 to 7:30 p.m.. That same night, the Coolidge Triangle Neighborhood Association meeting will be held on Wednesday at Coolidge Park at 7 p.m.. That is 352 East Ninth Street. Lastly, the Forest Park Neighborhood Association meeting will be held this Thursday, September 18th, at the the Forest Park clubhouse, 6255, the Forest Avenue from 7 to 8 p.m.. Thank you and good night. Okay. Thank you, Councilmember Gringo. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to move that. We adjourn this meeting and the memory of Rustica Rose Carbon. Ben Minsk. Bam Bam was a teacher, community activists and was very active in the West Long Beach Association, including being president for a number of years. She also taught catechism at St Lucy's church, which included one of my staffers, Mike Mireles, one of her students. Her funeral services will be held this coming Saturday, September 20th, at 11 a.m. at also Cemetery 4400 Cherry Avenue in Long Beach. I also want to extend a big thank you to the California Heights Neighborhood Association for hosting an alley and community cleanup this past weekend, followed by a block party. I especially want to recognize Mr. Hugh Little, the president, for his bringing the community together on that event. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. I just have a couple of brief announcements. One is I want to thank Larry Herrera and the entire staff and team at the clerk's office. Moving a council meeting is not it doesn't happen overnight. And it's a difficult process actually to get everything organized. So to Larry and put him in the whole team, just on behalf of us, thank you so much for making everything run smoothly. I really appreciate. It. I have had considerable assistance from the City Manager, Technology Services Department, Public Works. They've done really well and as well as our city hawk security staff. And the police department. Great. Thank you. And I also want to again thank Lambert City College for hosting us. And I wanted to make an announcement and congratulate a new Lombard City College trustee that was just selected by Lombard City College on Tuesday. Irma Archuleta is a long time resident and community leader in Long Beach. She is has a long and extensive resume in the community college and at the university level and was a former administrator and instructor at Cal State Long Beach and has been a community college vice president for many years and is now will be serving to work to replace Councilmember Urania and in his seat on the Community College Board. So I wanted to congratulate and welcome her to this new challenge that she has moving forward. And finally, I'll just say to continue what Larry said, thanks to all the city staff that made tonight happen. I know it was very it was not easy. And thank you all for watching. And with that, I can get a motion to adjourn. Meeting adjourned. Thank you all. Okay. Is there any any members of the public for the second public comment period hearing? Thank you.