Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution amending the Master Fees and Charges Schedule.  (Citywide)
Go ahead. That concludes the item. Thank you. Item 22. Item 22 is report from financial management. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation and to the Let the record conclude the public hearing and a DAB resolution amending the master fees and charges schedule city. I'm not sure on the second. Do we have a mr.. Mr.. Mr.. MODICA, do you have any report on this or are we just moving forward? Okay. We don't have to. We can go straight to comments if there are any. We did a huge presentation on this as a study session about two weeks ago on the on the general philosophy. And we're available to answer questions now. If there's any specifics. I don't think it's any I don't think is any public comment. Correct, Madam Court. There's no public comments on this item. Okay. Let me go to Councilman Pryce, who has the motion. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a couple of questions I wanted to ask staff. Can someone from the staff talk about the public outreach or noticing requirement that was effectuated for this item? It looks. Like. Mean to do now. I'm sorry. Can you hear me? Yes. Councilman. Councilmember. Hi. Yes. So, noticing requirements. I went out 14 days in advance of the hearing. This is within California state law and it went out via on our website posted as well as I'm posted on facilities and emailed through those interested parties. To the city clerk's office. Okay. And I just wanted to confirm that the master fee schedule that we're voting on today still has in place discounts for youth, seniors and nonprofits so that they're not going to be charged at the same rate as the general public or for profit organizations. There are no changes that were presented as part of the May or April six and the May 4th presentation. So those are still included. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Bryson. And that's a motion, councilwoman. It is. Thank you. Okay. Vice Premier Richardson. So just a couple comments. So so one thing that really stood out to me and I want to lift up, I was encouraged by the airport shuttle pick up and drop off these guys. All so so. Fleets with at least 25% of cleaner vehicles are per hour. Murphy has reduced 25%. Whereas if you have at least five vehicles and 75%, clean air vehicles is reduced by 75% using price in the clean the air thing. I think it's great. I think it's great that Long Beach is doing this and I think it needs to be lifted up. And also, I'm heartened by the consideration or comments last time you all weighed in and you know, I spoke to, you know, you and a number of people talked about youth and parks. I was glad to see that, you know, a lot that that was considered and what's what was brought forward to us. So I'm happy to support what's in front of us. Thanks. Thank you. Council member Austin. I support the item. I was queuing up to the motion, but I think our staff has put in a lot of our work. I mean, obviously the council has has reviewed these schedules and had the opportunity to review them for a few weeks. Now I'm prepared to vote. Thank you, Councilwoman Mongo. I want to thank that's where Richardson for his compliments. I've worked on the Clean Air Vehicle Incentive for three years. It has not been without its struggles and looking for a way to recognize the impact of those vans on the neighborhoods around it. Mr. Mayor, Garcia and I have worked hard to become the cleanest airport in America, and I think that clean vans is a step in the right direction. We did something meaningful with taxis many years ago, and I think the vans is the next step that we needed to get to, and I look forward to getting those fleets in line. I did have some questions. I met with every department head and that we had questions with and I had some questions related to some of the fees in here that staff had some information they were going to research and get back to us. On whether or not certain fees were set by the county, specifically with a mandate that we charge fees that are lower than our costs, which the county would then be creating a an unfunded mandate. And so I was just reaching out to health services to see if they got an answer to that. I know it's been about a week. Have you? I know there's a lot going on. I can't remember. Yes. The the the fee for specific to vital records, which was the conversation we were having is set in the state health and safety code. We can't charge more than the base rate. The remainder of the costs that are in this fee study are related. That's the $28, the additional costs, the expedited emergency weekend and others are are not established specifically. We do have some flexibility in those rates. However, the increases that were proposed, the conversation make us significant would be make us move higher than others. So just to be clear, they are state mandated. Therefore, that is an unfunded mandate and we have a process annually when we close the cap or to then pull out any unfunded mandates and forward those to the state for requests for reimbursement. And we're doing that with all of these final record. When we spoke, we didn't know even if the county was mandating it or the state. Now that we know that it's the state, can we ensure that it's a part of that annual closure process to potentially bring in that additional revenue? I will work with will work with the financial management team and look at that option. That's great. And for those department heads that aren't privy to this detailed conversation that Ms.. Colby and I had on any fee that is set by the state that exceeds our cost to provide it is an unfunded mandate. And there is an unfunded mandate, cost recovery strategy that is court regulated. And so we have that option. They often pay four or five years later, but it is still local funding that we should have available to our local kids. So thank you for doing the research. And even if it's only tens of thousands of dollars a year, tens of thousands of dollars a year over ten years, 20 years, it's a lot of money. And the more of those that we catch along the way, the better. We are representing our residents and able to provide those funds locally. So thank you for doing that research. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Ciro. You, Mayor. I want to thank staff for their hard work in getting this report together. I know that it takes a lot of staff time to review these fees, and I do want to address that. You know, I think that there's always a concern that I think our residents will have, various stakeholders will have with an increase in fee and also just, you know, having them hear this in light of the pandemic. Right. I think that that's my concern is we're talking about recovery and wanting to make sure we help businesses and residents recover and then all of a sudden we come out with our fee increases. Right. So I'm just interested in hearing how, you know, if we're going to be moving forward with these recommended fee increases. What will be the communication process, especially in sections where they have more than doubled and sometimes quadruple? They're very few cases. But I think it's just really important that we do provide information ahead so that in light of just the current economic situation we're in. Right. So I do want to be sensitive to that, where we're going to be announcing this in this in light of this condition, economic condition. Councilmember and Development Services. We don't automatically turn on the switch and start charging the new fees. We do provide public notice to our customers well in advance of the changes in fees to allow them the opportunity to come in and. Submit their their applications to us. And in light. Of COVID and our permitting, we will be very. We will. Allow enough time to for the community. To submit their applications with under the. Existing fees. Thank you as well as the other departments as well. And. And Health and Parks and Rec. That's Councilwoman Services. Brant Davis, director of Parks Recreation Marine, something similar to what director R.S. explained. We would also have a very proactive communication model in place through our website, our nature center, our community centers. And we'd also be reaching out directly to a lot of our stakeholders or community groups who have had a history and any type of event reservations. And so we will be very forthcoming during them. Plenty of notice of any anticipated increases above or beyond what they've been expecting historically. Thank you. Good question. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. See no other council comment. We have a motion in a second. Please go ahead and do a roll call. Compliments. And they asked me. Councilman Allen, I'm Catwoman Pryce, I councilman supporter. Right. Councilwoman Mongo. I. Councilwoman Sara i. Councilwoman. Councilmember Oranga. I. Councilman Austin. I. Vice Mayor Richardson. Yes. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. We're going to do all the funds transfer items together, which is item 24, 25, 26 and 32. So if I can have you please read all those, please.