Recommendation to request City Manager to prepare a letter in support of Assembly Bill 1839 (Gatto/Bocanegra) also known as the California Film and Television Job Retention and Promotion Act.
Business. That's right. Item 23 is a report from the Office of Councilmember Patrick O'Donnell, Councilwoman Geri Sheepskin Councilmember Stephen Neil with a recommendation to request city manager to prepare a letter of support for Assembly Bill 1839, also known as the California Film and Television Job Retention and Promotion Act. It's on the calendar. Joining us over to Councilmember O'Donnell. Thank you. I take council I ask you to weigh in in support of AB 1839. That's the California Film and Television Job Retention and Promotion Act. Since the late 1990s, film production has been lured from California to other states. Louisiana being a key state that has been stealing our our jobs, our film production. In 2009, the state legislature passed the California Film and Television Tax Credit Program to promote film production and create and retain jobs in California. Tonight, we ask that you support a rebooting and revamping of that effort by supporting AB 1839. California's current incentive program is one of the smaller programs nationally, and expanding it will allow for more jobs and tax revenue to be created in California and actually in Long Beach, because we are a very film friendly city and consider it our job to act as a partner with our region to keep the film industry in California, tax revenue generated from filming helps to pay for teachers, police officers and infrastructure throughout the state. So Council, I'll make a motion that we weigh in in support of AB 1839 to keep quality jobs in California. So second. There's been a motion and a second, any public comment on the item, please? Patrick Kelly, Teamsters Local 952 Joint Council 42. We strongly urge support of this. I think most of you saw the article in the L.A. Times the other day that 16,000 jobs have been lost in California alone over the last several years. New York State is providing between 400 and $500 million in film credits to basically raid California. So whatever you can do to encourage and keep film production here is great. Thank you. Councilmember Neill, did you have a comment? Okay. There's a motion on the floor and the other public comment. Who made the second councilman. Okay, great. All right, so let's go and take a vote. Councilmember Andrews, please. Councilor Dylan. Motion carry symbol? Yes. Okay. I think those are last item. So we're going to go ahead and move on to new business. Kathryn Brosnan No.