Recommendation to approve renaming the Bixby Dog Park as the "Dr. Myrna “Mickey” Donahoe Dog Park” and the Long Beach Performing Arts Center as the “Beverly O’Neill Performing Arts Center”.
Great. Thank you. We're going to go in and go back up to item 22. Item 22 is communication from Councilman Super Knoll, Chair of the Personnel and Elections Oversight Committee. Recommendation to approve renaming the Bixby Dog Park as the Dr. Marina, Mickey Donoghue Dog Park and the Long Beach Performing Arts Center as the Beverly O'Neill Performing Arts Center. Thank you. That's number two from. Thank you, Mayor. These both items have been vetted by our committee, and so we forwarded to the City Council for discussion. Thank you. Is there any public comment? I believe there's 1/1. No. We don't have anyone that called in for the seven. Okay. Great. I have a I have a motion. I have a second backed by Councilmember Ellen. Also. Amir, I have some comments. Yes. Please go. I want to start. I did receive some of some messages I'd like to read from the community regarding the dog park. And so the. The first one is I received a message just just 1/2. I'm trying to pull up the letter here. So. So here it is. Bye bye. It's my president, Robin Richardson, and and this is his statement. He says, Mickey's kindness and dedication to the community engagement through the dog park has been an inspiration to all of us. She gave her expertize in community activism to our group. She also generously gave her own time and efforts to make sure the dog park is the best it can be for the members of the local community and their dogs. And I also want to share a few words from Nikki's husband, Tommy, who wrote this. Said. Dr. Donahue was a leader in the formation of the Friends of Bixby Dog Park from the park's inception early in 2017. As such, she was elected by the community as a first president of the Friends of the S.B. Darke Art Association . Through her tireless effort efforts, the dog park has grown to be a jewel for dog owners and the densely populated neighborhood. As a professor of emeritus at California State University, Mickey possessed the organizational skills to coordinate many improvements to the dog park. As a community organizer. Mickey knew how to involve the whole community in these efforts. So the part belonged to the dog loving public who shared a stake in the park. Until the day she was taken from us. Her love of the dog park was instilled in her. It's only fitting that the dog park be named in her honor. I look forward to seeing her name at our dog park. So thank you for submitting those comments. It was just my pleasure and honor to be able to read those. And then with regards to the mayor, Beverly O'Neill, I just want to start by thanking the community members who organized and came together and a way to honor Mayor Beverly O'Neal. And she has done more than anyone to uplift the many forms of art than any other elected person in the city. So I look forward to honoring her generous contributions and talent and with our entire community with this well-deserved honor. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I want to thank Councilman Sucre not for taking these two items. To get the full. Counsel. I'm very happy and pleased with the naming of the dog park. The dog park, for those who may not have the institutional history, has equal funding from District two and three. So I very much consider that a joint asset between our borders. And I'm so grateful that we're able to put some love behind the name to remind people of the love that's in that space. And I very much enjoyed hearing those letters. Councilwoman Allen, thank you for sharing those. I know we talked a lot about Mayor Beverly O'Neill when this item first came to council. And I certainly don't want to rehash a lot of the statements that we made, but I'm just very, very excited about having her name attached to a place that brings so much light and culture to our city because she brings so much light and culture and kindness to our city. And I just wanted to just acknowledge that again and just I can't wait until her name is on on the marquee outside of the Performing Arts Center. And I just wanted to ask staff, do we have any update? I know the cost for that is, is was something that was being considered and contemplated, but I just don't know. Is that something that we are going to be able to get up there soon? Because I would love for her and her family to be able to see it as well. And during this time in her life. Councilmember. We'll get that information to you. Okay. Thanks. Thank you very much. That concludes council comments. Please, members, go ahead and do a roll call vote. Councilwoman Sun has. I. Councilwoman Ellen. I can swim in price. I can summon subpoena. All right, Councilwoman Mango. Hi, Councilwoman Sara. I Council member Oranga. I mean, Austin. All right. Vice Mayor Richardson. Vice Mayor Richardson. Vice Mayor Richardson has left the meeting. He has actually had an outage at his home. So he's just informing me right now. So he's had a power outage. Not sure if it's just his home or how big it is, but he is unable to join us. Bush and Kerry's.