Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to disburse direct relief grants for the Long Beach Recovery Act (LB Recovery Act) programs, consistent with City Council approval of the LB Recovery Act.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Next, we're going to do item 21, please. Report from City Manager Recommendation to authorize City Manager to disburse direct relief grants for the Long Beach Recovery Act program citywide. We have a motion in a second, but I want to let this staff give us a presentation on this. Meredith Reynolds are especially happy the city manager can give a presentation. Community. Mayor, Member City Council. Tonight's item for you is an administrative item really focused on the ability to distribute our direct grants as a part of the Long Beach Recovery Act. The Long Beach Recovery Act that was adopted by city council in March 16th of 2021, provided for a variety of these programs that allow for direct relief grants for businesses, for arts groups and several others at that particular time. That did not include the adoption of that plan, did not include some of the administrative actions necessary to actually physically distribute those grants. So that is what is before you this evening in particular, the directory of grants were posted in previous months and the some of the business grants just closed on Monday. And we have some additional nonprofit grants that are closing in a month. And so this provides the opportunity to be able to distribute those swiftly to those who have who have been applied and who have been selected. So there's no fiscal impact associated with this action. This is an administrative action allowing us to distribute those grants. I'm here for any questions. Should you have them? Thanks very much. Let's move, Richardson. Thank you. This is an incredibly important I know a number of folks have signed up for these relief grants. Congratulations to the whole team and the economic development team for going out and doing the outreach so that people can get these grants in their hands. So are we talking about all of the grants are finally ready to direct relief, like the restaurant, the personal service and fitness, the small business relief grants? Vice Mayor That's correct. So the direct relief grants include a variety of those that you mentioned, and shortly they will also include the nonprofit grants as well as the arts grants. Okay. So the small business are ready to go, the restaurants and the bars, and then afterward will be the nonprofits and some of the others. How far along is the the difference in time. From the difference in time? The nonprofit grants were just extended by a month to give folks more time to those close. June 15th and the arts grants have a variety of deadlines here and the coming month. Thank you. Well, this is certainly well received. We look forward to getting these resources out to help support our recovery. Thanks. Councilman. Screw you, Mayor. I just want to thank Miss Reynolds for going into this role so quickly and being able to get this process set up and disbursing it as quickly and as organized as possible, given the time limit and the amount of process it takes. So and I look forward and receiving an update because we know this is a special one time fund that we don't get and we look to seeing. I look forward to seeing the impact that we have in our recovery efforts. Thank you very much. Thank you. You're probably coming here. If there are any members of the public that would like to speak on item 21 in person, please line up at the podium in Zoom. Please use the raise hand feature or dial star nine now in person. Your time begins now. Soon I can face six district residents. I would love to know what respect to the nonprofits. What are the current deliverables for one, and what does the audit look like? Because to my understanding, I have no disrespect intended, but you know, I don't necessarily agree as a taxpayer that the federal war chest should be distributed out to people who aren't doing work in the communities. And a lot of these nonprofits, when COVID happened, suddenly emerging communities and speaking towards a neighborhood that they weren't president up until, you know, billions of dollars of federal money became available. So I'm just lacking the understanding of how can we as a city discern who is doing the work and who is and how can they prove it? And the second part that I would like to ask, especially with respect to nonprofits, is, you know, the fiscal language. A lot of people are familiar with people who are doing service in communities and as a result, they get left behind. I'm speaking specifically towards people who don't have five own fees, who operate in community. So I just would like to understand how is the city bridging the gap of disbursing funds that makes no impact on our general fund to these types of providers who are operating in a community who don't have five agencies, because there's a lot of organizations in neighborhoods and communities that don't have the fiscal sponsor who's going to tax you ten, 15% in hand. And everyone else goes through or they don't have access to these right in these rooms. And as a result, they they miss out on doing more impactful work work that they are already doing anyways just for the fact that they don't have capital investment from the federal government. So if it's possible, is there, is there some opportunity that we can just create some type of small pipeline towards the communities that organizations in community that aren't? 501c certified? That would be great because if we can if we can have thousands of people working as food vendors with no paperwork, I'm sure we can figure out a way to do something similar towards our community providers. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Thank you. Just for also wanted just to thank the staff. I know this has been a lot of work in putting this all together and just grateful this money's been been organized well and going out. There's emotion and a second. Please do the roll call vote. District one. I'm. District two I. District three. I. District four. All right. District five. District six, i. District seven. I. District eight. High. District nine. High. Motion is carried. Eight zero.