Recommendation to approve the use of FY 17 General Funds transferred from the Parks, Recreation, and Marine Department (PR) into the Economic and Property Development Department (EP) in the amount of $100,000 to support the Summer Youth Employment Program; and Increase appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the Economic and Property Development Department (EP) by $100,000, and decrease appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the Parks, Recreation, and Marine Department (PR) by $100,000.
The 32 next requested food stamps are let me let me do 32 and then 28. Can go seasonal kids. Thank you. Communication from Councilman Andrew's recommendation to approve the use of f y 17 general funds transfer from Parks, Recreation and Marine Department into the Economic and Property Development Department in the amount of 100,000 to support the Summer Youth Employment Program. Councilman Andrews. Thank you, Mayor. I would like to first that as a kid in the appearance of this summer job program to raise your hand. Thank you for coming in supporting this item tonight. You know, I'm asking for the support of this item as it's a job program that is going to benefit kids and we are going to be able to keep an eye on them because they are and will be place in parks and local eligibility working site. I have a staff report ready by one of my staffs who's actually went through this program many years ago and I'm very proud of that. And I always say, and you guys, if you ever listen to me, you know, I talk about jobs. I know what a job would do for an individual. I always said a job would stop a bullet. And I'm hoping that this summer our kids will be employed getting something put in their pocket so they can go back to school and not to worry about whether they're going to get something to wear, a food to eat in their houses, because these jobs not only will happen, the school will help them everywhere else. And thank you, individual, coming out and giving us his support. So now I'd like to show that staff support from one of my staff members. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council. Many years ago, when the Summer Youth Employment Program started for at least two years, it was administered through the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department. After the first two years, this program was administered through workforce development, as they have the infrastructure to better manage the program from beginning to end. Tonight's item requests park funds to be used to hire youth to work in central on beach parks and other eligible work sites. The vast majority of the youth participating. In the program live in central Long Beach. That includes the sixth, seventh, first and eighth District. In the audience, you see some of these youth and their parents. Please once again stand up and wave at the council. Don't be shy. Hey. So up on the screen, you'll see a picture from last year's orientation. And like councilmembers said, I was one of the first youth employees when this first program started seven years ago. I was the sixth district resident. I still am, and I was attending Wilson High. So I'm very proud for Councilmember letting me present the staff report. As a result of the program, I was able to help offset back to school costs, increase my self-esteem, and start a career in public service. So this concludes my staff report. If anybody has any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. Thank you, Mr.. Thank you, Mr.. Andrews. The motion on the floor. Let me go to the make of the second councilman, mango. First, I want to congratulate you on taking the time to become a part of a program such as this and for the hard work that you put in, and to really admire how difficult it can be to work through some of these programs. They're not always the easiest to apply for and maintain. And so the perseverance, I really appreciate that. I do have a couple of quick questions. Is this a drawdown on we Iowa? And this is our share. What are the components of the Summer Youth Program? Are we using OJT funds on the job training funds? What is the makeup of the total cost of the program? And is this coming to us now because it wasn't part of the budget process originally? Or is this a transfer of funds between departments where it's going from one to another? Thank you, Mr. Mangwana, my chief of staff. John, would you please tell me? What is doing. Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the City Council. Actually, this was part of the original FY17. Adopted. Budget and these funds were identified in the Parks and Rec Department, programmatic funds. They're being transferred to economic and property development because. Our workforce development, Pacific Gateway, is equipped to help administer and manage the program. So this is not related to we are funds, although we have programs through federal. Appropriations for youth. Hire and workforce programs. Are we not trying to utilize any we allow or matching or draw down any of these types of. Yeah. How are we leveraging this? Yeah. Councilmember. Absolutely. So this is an existing program through federal funds and this helps to supplement and expand opportunity for youth. So where we're actually limited in the federal funds that we have available. For the Summer Youth program. This will help to actually increase the number of of youth that can participate. So I appreciate that. I appreciate the word supplement. I recognize that this is a transfer in one area to another. And but I also think that it's important to note that when we do utilize these federal programs, they only reimburse at the federal the federal minimum wage rate. And so it is required of us to come up with that variance. And it doesn't always mean additional youth get employed. It often means that we are drawing on the general fund to ensure that they are paid the wage of the state of California through that variance. So I think that that's an important designation and I think that there are lots of economic grants that we can work on. But that kind of those kind of grants take programs like this in an initial year or two to show the results, to really be able to draw down the greater funds. So I appreciate this item. I think that it was worthy of a few extra minutes for everyone to have a greater understanding of these funds. And I strongly recommend that we look at some of the economic driver grants that are coming on board in the next two years. So thank you for that. Thank you. Councilman Price So I support this item and I love, love the fact that Isabel did the presentation of what a great testament to Councilman Andrew's for giving her that opportunity and what a great testament to her for making something out of the opportunity. I'm such a huge fan, so thank you. And I didn't know about this program at all. So I love that we have city funds going to a program like this. I am curious, how are the districts that we work in identified and how many students do we have the opportunity to service and help? I'm sorry, what were the question again? How how do we determine what districts we have the program in and how many students can we there? The parents are on CalWORKs, which is a public assistance. So the kids are are any any parents are on public assistance. The kids are eligible for the program. And how many students or kids are we able to help get secure with jobs? And if we know if we. Sorry, I don't have the exact number, but I know of at least 25 that we did some local outreach in the sixth district and then from the workforce development. I believe it's an additional 50 kids. Well, and it will extend their hours as well. So the federal program only takes up so long, but now they'll work the entire summer as well. Well, regardless of the number of kids or the number of districts or whatever, I think this is an amazing program. I completely support it and I love that every student lives in here who got an opportunity to participate in this program, gets to see someone like Isabel and gets to see that that opportunity can can be a ladder in many ways. So thank you very much for bringing this item. Very, very cool item. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. Yes. Councilmember Andrews, just want to say extend my gratitude as well to you and your team. I know you all work very hard to ensure that not only adults are receiving and able to have opportunities for jobs, but for youth as well. My son just got his first job and it's so rewarding as a parent to have your son finally pay for his own shoes and also for, you know, as a parent, you're just prideful of of what they can do in terms of their own development. So congratulations to each and every one of you for working in Long Beach during the summer. Thank you. Any public comment on this? I. Very good. It's absolutely a great program. And to the extent that it is possible, I would urge the city to try to get as many of the parents involved to the extent that they can, because that is the backbone, the backbone of keeping a program going. The city itself can't do that 100% at the time and so forth. So the more you get the parents involved, the stronger the program's going to become. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor Council audience. I've speaking as a community. Member and as someone who previously worked at. The Boys and Girls Club and hired a lot of these youth. And it's about you did an amazing job on the presentation. You did better than most adults. And I can't tell you how important these programs are to youth, particularly in disadvantaged communities, and keeping them safe and out of gangs and giving them the opportunity to help their families. Many of them, it makes the difference. Between putting food on the table. And having new clothes for start of school. And the only bad thing about it is the program is only in the summer. We really, really. Need employment programs for our youth all year round, not just in the summertime, even if it's. One day a week. So thank you. Thank you. See no other comments. We're going to go ahead and take a vote. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries.