Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent amendments, with the Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach, Inc., dba Arts Council for Long Beach, a California nonprofit corporation, to fund Long Beach Recovery Act (LB Recovery Act) grant programs, in a total amount not to exceed $681,000, for a period of two years with the option to renew for one additional year, at the discretion of the City Manager, consistent with City Council approval of the LB Recovery Act; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Agreement No. 28164 with the Long Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc., a California nonprofit corporation, to provide LB Recovery Act funding, to increase the contract by $900,000 for a total amount not to exceed $5,508,676 for Fiscal Year 2022, consistent with City Council approval of the LB Recovery Act;
Great. Thank you very much. Thank you all. Next up is Adam 15, please. Adam 15 Report from City Manager Recommendation to DOT Resolution to execute a contract with Arts Council for Long Beach to fund Long Beach Recovery Act grant programs in a total amount not to exceed 681,000. I'm in agreement with Long Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau to increase the contract by 900,000 for a total amount not to exceed 5.5 million, and a resolution to execute contract with modern market for all in a total amount not to exceed 26,000. Think we get a short report on this, Mr. Modica. Yes. These are part of our Recovery Act. I will ask Meredith Reynolds, our special deputy city manager, over recovery, to give a report. Thank you, Tom. Good evening. Member of Mayors City Council. Standing before you tonight is a single item inclusive of multiple contracts that are necessary to implement programs approved by the City Council in March 2021 under the Long Beach Recovery Act. The following programs require the City Council to adopt resolutions and or authorize the city manager or designee to execute contracts with selected vendors to continue implementation of Long Beach Recovery Act programs. First, the City Council approval is requested to adopt a resolution authorizing a contract with the Arts Council of Long Beach to administer the Creative Economy Grants Program. The Arts Council is a clearinghouse for for all arts, culture and historical organizations and is leading the Creative Economy Grants Program. This action enables the distribution of grants that close on July 7th. City Council approval is also requested to amend the city's contract with the Convention and Visitors Bureau to support visitor attraction activities. The CVB will use funds to coordinate marketing campaigns in conjunction with the States, visit California campaign and reach businesses and leisure visitors and bring them to Long Beach. City Council approval is also requested to adopt a resolution authorizing a contract for modern markets for all, for the enhancement and expansion of the app that supports the work program . This pilot program was launched in 2020 by Pacific Gateway in partnership with Modern Markets for All. City Council approval is requested to adopt the resolution authorizing a contract with California State University Long Beach Research Foundation for the Economic Recovery Analysis Report. That's part of one of the recovery economic recovery programs. And finally, the city council approval is requested to amend the city's contract with Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab. That will allow the continuance of technical assistance that is helping to study and improve the city's procurement process, which was part of a previous council action. This recommendation requests the City Council to grant this authority to the city manager, and no funding changes or appropriations increases are necessary at this time, as these are part of previous budget actions taken by City Council. So these are simply the contracts that allow us to execute. That concludes our presentation and we're available for questions. Should you have them? Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Is there a public comment on this item? If there are any members of the public that would like to speak onsite in person, please line up at the podium. And if there are any members of the public that would like to speak on this item in Zoom, please use the raise hand feature or dial star nine now. The first speaker. Please approach the podium. Thank you. Good evening. Honorable mayor, vice mayor and council members and city staff. My name is Dan Cypresses. I'm the president of the Arts Council for Long Beach. I would just like to say thank you, thank you for your continued support of the Arts Council. I've been on the board for five years now. With me, I have my board member and former vice president and vice president, Mr. Greg Johnson of former President Tarja Hunter. And and I also have my advocacy chair, Mark Davidson. That's going to give more of why we're here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Your garcia and vice mayor and city council. It's great to be here. And specifically representing, uh, and appreciative of the continuation of the Creative Economy Grants Program. I wanted to just kind of remind the Council, uh, specifically the four grant opportunities that this program represents. The Organic Organizational Recovery Grants will be available to support the operational recovery of large arts, cultural and historical nonprofit organizations in the city of Long Beach. The second program is the Public Mural Program, a Creative Economy Grants program that includes funds to support a public mural program for which the city has created sites at public facilities citywide that will be made available to artists for mural art work, which has been incredibly successful and and really quite a visitors attraction, I might say, for anybody visiting the city of Long Beach. The third program is the community project grants. These are grants to support one time projects by arts, cultural and historical organizations in Long Beach, the arts one week's existing Community Project Guidelines. The fourth program is the Artist Fellowships. These are professional artists who live, work and actively create in Long Beach and demonstrate an active exhibition in or production record. They are eligible to apply for artist fellowships to the Arts Long Beach, uh Program Arts. Long Beach Arts for Long Beach was selected as they are. We are the only organization with the necessary experience, qualifications and institutional knowledge to successfully administer the City Arts Supporting Program in Long Beach. Our leadership and oversight is represented by individuals with diverse professional backgrounds, many speaking right behind me with a profound understanding of community. I think this is incredibly important. The Arts Long Beach acts as a clearinghouse mentioned for all the arts, cultural and historical organizations within Long Beach, and has had a longstanding contractual relationship with the city to manage city funded art programs, including program for public art and grant programs. Again, quite appreciative of your support and continued support. Thank you. Honorable mayor and council members. When I was Charles Brown. I'm a board member of the African-American Cultural Center of Long Beach. But I'm speaking from a general cultural community perspective for over 50 years, starting at the age of 19. Being appointed to a community advisory committee by then Mayor Ernie Cahall. I I've been working with a number of organizations and for agencies and governmental groups that have tried to do their best to address the issues of equity inclusion from a social lens, from an employment lens. But very often there was no inclusion or view in regards to a cultural. Or arts. Perspective. One of the things I'm pleased to see that in the language that has been introduced, especially by the city of Long Beach, with the Recovery Act resources that are being involved, arts and culture is being included. And I want to stand here in support of this contract, as the Arts Council has served as the hub for a number of our cultural organizations in the city and addressing and speaking to the community's perspective on how we can best use those resources. So, again, I stand here in support of this contract. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Sarah. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to. Thank the board members of the Arts Council of me, just all the staff and all the supporters for your hard work. It's evolved a lot. I remember the Arts Council back. In the days. When it did distribute grants for performance arts as. Well, and many other was a really. General. Grant making in the arts. General arts community. So I really appreciate all the work in that and the difference that you've made in all of our communities in Long Beach and how much culture is such a part of our neighborhood now because of what you you've all been able to do. So thank you. Councilman Austin. Yes, I'm happy to second this motion and support the continued funding of our Arts Council. It's the gift that keeps on giving a lot of creativity, culture, arts. I think Mr. Brown said it best and obviously continuing to fund our CVB. And, you know, we know that our Convention and Visitors Bureau is an investment in our city that will continue to to promote economic development. And and, you know, the best of Long Beach. Catwoman price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and I appreciate all the comments tonight from all of the speakers. And it's great to see the commitment of these funds to so many important organizations throughout the city of Long Beach. I wholeheartedly support this. I do have a couple of questions for staff. Do we have any information on any future recovery funds that we would expect from the state or federal government? Councilmember Price in terms of future funding, we are tracking a variety of sources at the federal level as well as the state level through our federal and state legislative work. We are also actively pursuing a variety of grants from county, state and federal opportunities that have been funded by the American Rescue Plan Act and will continue to do so as those budgets are adopted and appropriation processes happen and matching our local needs to a variety of those services. We have been reporting also biannually on our website and through a variety of other methods of additional funds that our office and our colleagues at different city departments have been securing over the the time since council adopted the original Recovery Act and will continue to do that as we do successfully secure those additional funds. Great. Thank you for that. The funds that we're approving tonight through this item, how do those compare to any that we've previously allocated in terms of uses, amounts or eligible organizations? Councilmember Price. These particular entities and amounts are those that come from the original Long Beach Recovery Act that council adopted and were contemplated as a part of that. This is the kind of technical action that council needs to take in order to grant authority. So these are existing organizations that we have relationships with that require council authority to extend the ability to either provide the funding for grants or to execute contracts to continue the work. We do have a variety of other entities, community based organizations, nonprofits, etc. that will come to you in future council items that were done through a competitive bid process centered in equity and collective impact that will provide for additional funds to those groups for the continued implementation of other programs that you don't see here this evening. So this is one of several actions we will take over the next couple of months to ensure that the adopted programs are implemented as council directed. Okay. Great. And then just out of curiosity, do we have any metrics that we're employing to see the impacts of funds like these and and their impact on our community? Do we. Is there any way that we can, you know, moving forward, know that, you know, this investment of these dollars resulted in this economic benefit for the city, or are this type of engagement or access or whatever for the city? Are we following any any sort of metrics? Yes, Councilwoman Price, every of all of the 80 plus one Beach Recovery Act programs, each one of them has a program plan, which includes the metrics that that program will follow and report on actively throughout the process. And so as programs get rolled out, or if we're entering into contracts with partners or program or service providers, those metrics are ones that either we as city staff or those partners are capturing. And we will be reporting those in a variety of ways. And those metrics will be reported as part of our biannual reports that go to the city council as well as on our city website. And we are providing a variety of those metrics also to the U.S. Department of Treasury when we report our our include our federal report by their deadlines. And so those are metrics include, you know, basic things like number of grants given out, but also the quantitative metrics and measures about the impact, as well as qualitative measures related to the stories and storytelling from our community members or other nonprofits that are providing these services. So you'll get to see that data in a variety of ways and through a variety of people's eyes as we move through and implement these programs. Is it sort of like like you would have with a grant, like a quarterly report on performance metrics or things like that? That's right. So. Councilwoman Pryce, as we enter into contracts, for instance, those that we are proposing to you this evening, these are metrics that are built into the contract requirements. And then those contract with those vendors or groups that we are contracting with then provide that information on a periodic basis. Some are monthly, some are quarterly, some are. If it's a one time thing, it might be a one time sharing of data. But depending on the way that the program is designed, all of that is coming from the partners and we'll be able to communicate that back to city council and to our public. Excellent. Thank you so much. I appreciate your work and this is a great item. I look forward to supporting it. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to add, it's really great to see all the kind of the work that we initially put in. Mr. MODICA When the team came together to kind of figure out where we were going to propose to spend all these resources and how we bring this in front of the council to allocate resources into what kind of areas and what buckets on the on on the federal dollars that that we went out and we worked really hard to get and to compete for. And that's especially happy that we made an early decision to put significant funding into arts organizations. And I was saying that was important, that we felt that that if we're going to have a full recovery, that our arts organizations needed to be a part of that and needed to be at the center of what we're doing. In addition, we had some early conversations. I'm really happy to see the research component in here. I think, Mr. Monica, you and I talked about that specifically and the fact that Cal State Long Beach is involved and that you brought the Arts Council so active and they were ensuring that our our our CVB and Convention and Visitors Bureau as is SAT and so many artists is, is really, really great. I know this is just some of the grants and some of the other money that's being distributed. I look forward to the rest of the list. I think you've done a great job of bringing forward some how we're spending a lot of these resources, but it's good to see all the kind of large buckets of money that the council approved. It seems like maybe a year ago or so finally in front of us to to to put out and I was wondering once these are approved tonight and as we approve these moving forward, because as you know, I've been a little anxious and have felt that things have taken a little bit long to get to us. But I understand it's been complicated. But when when these can approve tonight, how quickly is the resources and the money distributed? Mr. Mayor, in terms of the resources being distributed, those are things that can happen immediately. So, for instance, with the Creative Economy grant for the Arts Council, though, those programs have been available for a series of months. They were actually extended just to maximize the amount of applicants. They closed on July 7th. They're in the process of making those decisions, and the money will be available to the Arts Council to issue those at such time that they are ready for the artist that they are giving grants to. Same thing with the CVB and the others that are on the list in terms of being immediately available to implement those programs. Great. And let me also ask the as far as all the broader economic recovery programs that we adopted. How many more are still on or on their way to council? Have we gone through most? I know many of them are going through an RFP process, but what percent of the money spent in the programs has actually gone out? In terms of the the percentage of funds we can provide that to you very detailed case and we have begun to do that. And through our biannual report in terms of the number of programs in the economic recovery and healthy and safe communities buckets. All all except one have been internally approved and many are out and live. And there's a variety of others that are coming and anticipated during the summer, including our Universal Basic Income Program and some of those that have come to council. So we can provide a full accounting of everything that you have seen for council action to date. And any that will ah, excuse me will be anticipated in the coming months for City Council contract authority approval. Great. I personally and if the Council agrees, I'd like to get a public presentation from staff on all of the entire economic recovery package that was adopted. And just the status update of where of what money has gone out, what is still outstanding and where we are in the RFP process. And we can wait a little bit. I know, I know a lot of these are kind of on the verge of happening right now, but it'd be nice maybe and you know, six weeks or a couple of months just to get a full update once you're feeling really good about where those programs are, because I'd like to come back and see the success of what we've done as a city. And I think the public a good time to remind the public as well of all the great things that the city is doing and how we're spending these funds. Mr. MODICA Yeah. Happy to do that. And we're also in the process of building a very interactive dashboard that can show you all of that as well. We have a lot up already and then we're putting in a lot of the financials as well, so we'd be certainly willing to come and talk about it. There's a lot of successes that have happened. Have the grants gone out like the restaurant grants and the fitness grants and all of those they have, right? Yep. Okay. And so it sounds like a vast majority of these of the grants have already gone out. And maybe there's some more that are still on the way to the council, but a major majority are out. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. Excellent. Well, there's a motion and a second. Members, please cast your votes. District one. My district, too. I disagree. I. District for my. District five. My. District six. I. District seven. Destroy District eight. By. District nine. The motion is carried nine zero.