Recommendation to request City Manager report back within 180 days on the feasibility and possible implementation strategies for an internet-based app program to help manage parking impacts during weekly scheduled street sweeping.
Thank you. That's the last hearing on the agenda. We're going to move on to the other items on the agenda, beginning with item 13, please. Communication from Councilwoman Price, Councilmember Pearce, Vice Mayor Andrews, Councilman Austin, recommendation to request city manager to report back within 180 days on the feasibility and possible implementation strategies for an Internet based app program to help manage parking impacts during weekly scheduled street sweeping. If I see a person in second then only public coming. It's quite. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I want to begin by thanking our public works department and especially Dikko for his amazing work related to street sweepers over the past few years and implementing the technology that's available. Obviously, we all know that street sweeping is not one of the most interesting topics that our city works on, but it's absolutely essential and it's so relied upon by residents to keep our streets clean and well-maintained. The Public Works team has committed to finding ways of improving the service by changing all of the street sweeping hours citywide to make it easier on residents. And that was a huge endeavor that resulted in very positive quality of life impacts for our residents. Our public works team has worked hard to upgrade our street sweeper fleets to ensure that they're using up to date technology and modern equipment. And so with this progress, we're now at a point where we have the potential to take another big step to improve resident experience during suite, sweep street, sweeping hours, and to use technology that can help manage the impacts on parking in our parking impacted areas during Sweet Street Sweeping. Parking is very difficult in many parts of the city, and allowing this item to move forward to create street sweeping app technology that allows us to be smarter and letting residents know when street sweepers have left the particular street or area is very important and promising. Our residents deserve this council to look outside the box and find ways of making their quality of life and user experience more positive and hopefully helping them reduce tickets and parking impacts in their communities. I ask my colleagues support and in this item and moving it forward so that we can explore what the options are for us and using our current technologies to enhance the user experience for our residents by making it possible that we can alert our residents when the street sweeper has passed their street so that they can be free to park in the area, especially if there's still an hour and a half or an hour left in the blocked out periods of time. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mrs. Spears. Yeah, I support this item. I guess I would ask. I'm. I'm curious. I know we have a lot of apps, parking apps for our meters and everything else. I'm curious if we can get some data on the usage of those apps, because I feel like a lot of my constituents, every time I bring it up a community meetings that we have these apps, they're not aware. So in bringing this item back, if we could just include kind of where we're at on some of those parking apps already. That would be. Helpful. Thank you. Thank you. Announcements open all. Thank you. I support this item and I don't know if this rises to the level of a friendly amendment, but what I'd like to explore, what I've been asked about is will the app enable us to or enable residents to see the street sweeper coming? And is will they be able to see it 10 minutes, 5 minutes ahead of time to move a car as it approaches? So if that's not decided yet, I'd like to include that in the item. Well, so if I can just speak to that. I was trying to tread lightly with this item because I realize that it could impact budgets and the like. So where I thought we could start is with whether we can get residents can get similar to a like an alert Long Beach where they can get a notification if they're signed up for the service after the street sweeper has left so they can go and park there if that technology is available, then of course, the next inquiry would be whether or not they can get an alert that the street sweeper is coming. So but that that is another phase. And I'm hoping to tread lightly on this as we move it forward. But I think if the technology is available for one, it should be available for the other. But I was hoping that this item could be limited to the Post. Street Sweeper Alert. Thank you. Asked and answered. All right. Now I'm going to go back to the public because I didn't call the names out as Mr. Larry got here. Okay. Mrs.. Mr. Shelton. Okay. And Cantrell. Fine Cinnamon, because would you please cast your vote in? Motion carries.