Recommendation to declare ordinance approving and adopting the official budget of the City of Long Beach for the Fiscal Year 2021-2022, creating and establishing the funds of the municipal government of the City of Long Beach and appropriating money to and authorizing expenditures from said funds for said Fiscal Year; declaring the urgency thereof, and providing that this ordinance shall take effect at 12:01 A.M. on October 1, 2021, read and adopted as read. (Citywide) (Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-21-0030)
Motion is carried. Thank you. If I can get a motion on item 14, please. And this is the final item that adopts the budget. And so can I get a motion any second please, on that? I think I'm going to I have some comments I want to make generally about the budget and then we will take the final vote. If anyone has any final comments, this would be the time to do so. I want to I want to just start by really thanking the Budget Oversight Committee. I want to thank you, Councilmember Austin, the chair, and the other members of the of the committee. Councilman Gringa and Councilwoman Price, for your really, really hard work and commitment to the city and the budget process. I also want to take a moment to thank the budget staff headed by Ms.. Yoon and Mr. GROSS, of course, and the entire team who work on the budget, not just during budget season, but all year long. And so thank you very much for your incredible work as well. And, of course, to the really hundreds of people that were invested through community surveys, community meetings, attending the council meetings in a variety of ways. I just want to thank everyone that was a part of the budget. I want to also just note that this budget that we have in front of us, the 22 budget, is balanced. It's responsible. And it reflects the city's strong recovery from this historic economic and public health crisis. This budget includes no cuts, no deficit. Replenishes our reserves and positions. Long Beach to continue building back stronger than ever before. We are making historic investments. In public health. And in securing our city's future. And in violence prevention work across the community. I want to thank this Council for their leadership and work throughout this year. It has been a difficult year, but we are grateful to all that. We've been involved in this process and in passing a budget that is responsible and reflects what our needs are is really important and really glad to see that happening tonight. And as we move forward on with that, again, I want to thank the makers of the Motion Councilmember Austin Councilman Ranga Guzman. Ask and give any final comments. I think I gave my comments. I just want to say thank you to everybody who participated in the process. Thank you, Mayor, for working with us and all of my colleagues for the confidence and collaboration to make this happen. Thank you. And Councilman Garrincha. Great work on everybody's part for everything that has been done today. I want to especially thank the staff. I mean, they were really wonderful in doing the most difficult part of the heavy lifting, if you will, for this budget. Thank you. Councilman. Councilwoman in the house. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you so much again to our oversight committee for all the hard work. But I also want to uplift all of the community organizations that worked really hard on the budget and really came to to a lot of meetings with me and my office. And I really got a chance to get to know them and get to see where they're coming from and the needs in the community. So I just really wanted to uplift them and and also say that years ago, years ago, the people's budget was only a dream. And I think that throughout the years we've been taking as much as we can and implementing it into our budget. And I'm glad to see that there's a lot of focus on on our youth because I really think that there is a key in us. Investing in them is definitely the key to, you know, to ending hopefully are violent crimes in our city. So again, I think this is very hard work but very balanced and responsible budget, as you said. Mayor. So thank you, Chair Ashton, for all your hard work in the committee and I look forward to another great year, especially seeing this this amount of dedication to a budget and being able to not come out in a deficit is something that we as a city should be very proud of. Thank you. Councilwoman Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just want to take a moment and just acknowledge the significance of this budget. I want to thank all the community members who participated for a very long time. It seems like we've talked about this budget and it's, you know, the recovery plan and conversations and through the budget process. And then we here we are tonight, and it's significant because we don't typically have these types of resources, but also we have a new revenue source with Measure US that we look forward to doing a lot of good, touching a lot of people in the areas of public health, climate and youth. And so tonight we made a significant commitment to youth in our city. We established our first million dollar youth fund. Our entire city council should be proud of that and should get out and make sure that community based organizations are engaged and support is going their way to make sure that we're supporting and have a world class youth development program here in the city of Long Beach. I want to thank Councilman Austin are chair of the Budget Oversight Committee for being a good steward of this process. Thanks to our mayor for his leadership, the federal legislative committee, for working hard on the that resources and city staff. Thank you so much. Thank you. Councilman. Yes. I just want to add my thanks as well to staff and to chair Austin of the Budget Oversight Committee, as well as the committee members and staff as well. It's been an interesting first budget process for sure. It's historic in the sense of this kind of resource and the challenge we face. I can't think of a better way, I guess, to learn about budgeting. So I appreciate everyone's patience around the process. And, you know, it's, you know, just thank you for everyone's hard work. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes comment on the budget members please Gordon, cast your votes.