Recommendation to suspend Council rule contained in Long Beach Municipal Code 2.03.020 (B) to cancel the City Council meeting of January 11, 2022.
Thank you very much. I appreciate that. We're moving on to our next item, which is going to be item 27. Item 27, communication from Mayor Robert Garcia Recommendation to cancel the City Council Meeting of January 11, 2022. If there's a public comment, please come forward. If Shukla. Please, Sugar. It must be said that the work of your office has not ended. You can have the meeting, you can cancel the meeting, you can have the meeting in person. You can have the meeting in a hybrid way. You can have the meeting, uh. Uh, online. There are words to express how disappointed I am that you could not control your worst impulses, Robert, and that you interfered, in my view, with the redistricting process. Every cloud has a silver lining. And I suppose I don't have to go in there again. Not if. Today. Today. Without any relish or rancor. I can look you in the eye and say, this city would have been better off past eight years. Bonnie Lowenthal had been mayor. If for no other reason than this wouldn't have happened. Now, I sincerely think that this city shouldn't contract with redistricting partners again. I also think that even if in the next five years. Even if, you know, next week you give us the best possible, you know, State of the City address or whatever. In the next five years, we're able to to deal with some of the inequities that are built in structurally to the redistricting process. There's a whole group of youth voters that are going to be disenfranchized regardless. For more over the next few months, Robert, you're going to have to show us that the heat working in the best interest of the city while simultaneously making the case that you've got to leave the city to keep working in the best interests of the city gives you security. And I appreciate everything you're saying. I want to make sure it's about the cancelation of the meeting. Please. I think the meeting shouldn't be canceled. And I'm telling you why we want to break ground and to again. This is a difficulty for me. It's a difficulty for me because there is a lot of things that I'd like to be able to do to do, or at least try and do the city things that aren't easy from a technical perspective, from an intellectual perspective, from a planning or, you know, community organizing perspective, it can get sort. I mean, why build a nonprofit on climate stabilization in Long Beach? Why not just, you know, sort of program in Duluth or Ortega? I mean, why is the source worth my time? Why is next week worth my time? Thank you, Mr. Sugar. Killers are in motion in a second. Please cast your votes. The motion is.