Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and adopt resolution continuing the Long Beach Tourism Business Improvement Area assessment for the period of October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017; and authorize City Manager to extend the agreement with the Long Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau for a one-year term.  (Districts 1,2,4,5)
Okay. Thank you for those presentations. So let's go ahead and begin with our first hearing. This is item number three. Can you please go ahead and read the item. Report from Economic and Property Development Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the hearing and adopt resolution continuing. The Long Beach Tourism Business Improvement Area Assessment for the period of October 1st, 2016 through September 30th, 2017, and authorize the city manager to extend the agreement with the Long Beach Area Convention Visitors Bureau for one year term districts one, two, four and five. Thank you. So this is a pretty big presentation combined with an item. So we're going to start by just hand it over to our city manager who's going to introduce a number of people to speak and some presentations. Then we'll hear, you know, the maker of the motions, comments and move forward from there. So. City Manager West. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. We will hear a staff report from Jim Fisk and then we will turn it over to our convention and Visitors Bureau. Honorable Vice Mayor and City Council Members. This item is the annual. Approval of the Lambie's Tourism Business Improvement Area Annual Report and Ongoing Assessment. On September 28, 2016, City Council approved a resolution granting approval to set today's date for a public hearing. The recommended action on this item continues the assessment for another year. There are no proposed changes to the basis of assessment nor significant changes. In proposed activity. Therefore, staff requests. That City Council received a supporting documentation of. Record, approve the resolution. Continue the levy of assessment and authorize. City manager to extend. The agreement for another additional year. That concludes my. Report. And Mr. Vice Mayor, at this time, I'd like to ask Steve Goodling to come up and give us a presentation. This is a time we always look forward to, to hear of the tremendous success that the CBD has had over the past year. Thank the board and everyone who participates in making Long Beach such an amazing tourist destination, keeping our hotels full and generating tremendous amount of economic activity for our city. So thank you, Steve, for all you do. And let's hear from Steve. Thanks. Thanks, Tom. Also, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Council members. Thank you. And also Mr. West. Thank you. As you all know, the economic impact of tourism and overnight visitors in the city of Long Beach is a substantial one. It generates over $300 million a year into our greater Long Beach area and especially into our downtown area this year. It's exciting to report that there's a $26 million estimated collection in total for this fiscal year. That's the $6.14 for every dollar invested. And for eight years, Dan, I have figured out how we could invest our money into the same profit sharing program. I But it really, when you think about it, for every dollar we receive, there's a $6 return and it's quite a phenomenal return. The growth over the last five years has been. $8 million. Or 46%. And so as we've come out of the recession and as our hotel partners have renovated their hotels and offered new, new product, and as the economies continue to gain strength and as our conventions have picked up over their anticipated room blocks in our city, the cities continue to benefit not only in the economic activity, but in the direct bottom line of just real hard green dollars into the city coffers. In addition, our strengths as a city hospitable customer service. And I know that we all are aware of that downtown development that continue to build out continues to be noticed by our convention planners. Long Beach Airport and its awards. And it's been getting one of the top ten airports by Fodor's. ET cetera. And then the other activities of creating special turnkey spaces at our convention center. Here's a shot of a typical experience in Long Beach as you attend a convention, as we all know, and we hear it often, we hear it from our convention attendees or hear from our convention planners. There is no attitude in Long Beach. When people come here, they feel hospitable. They feel welcomed. They actually feel embraced. And we see this all the time. In addition, they're commenting about our buildout, in addition to the city hall project. All the other condominiums going up this bridge connecting the Terrace Theater Plaza to the promenade is a major point of excitement for our convention planners. They are so thrilled to be able now to not have to walk down the ocean, take a right, and then are right back into the terror Cedar Plaza to go into the rest of the building. So, once again, thank you to council. Thank you to city management. This is a huge project and it's going to make a great impact. In addition, Long Beach Airport and the sociality of it, the planners and our attendees keep talking about how exciting this airport is. And so we're thrilled with our partners at the airport, both management and the airlines. And JetBlue has been a wonderful partner with us throughout the community and doing a lot of different things. Ted was a major inspiration for us as we hosted the TED conference for five years. We looked at how they use this space and we modeled after them. We noticed that where there was open space, they would put seating pods and they would put cool lights and they would create a cool atmosphere. And so we thought, okay, wonder if we can take their strategy and adapt it to the public spaces at the Convention Center. And we did it with the arena. The arena was a $10 million project. We've already booked over $180 million in three years into that space. There is rarely a weekend that you can find now. In addition, the Terrace Theater Plaza is being activated as we speak with, again, more trusses and lighting. It's there permanently on a turnkey basis, which means we don't have to rent them, pay people to construct them. And we'd like to share with you what we're sharing with our customers about these turnkey spaces, because this is another competitive asset or perspective for Long Beach. Our people loved it. We couldn't stop taking pictures. Feels new. It feels fresh. It's so configurable. I can have it one way, one minute. And one way or another minute. The Long Beach. Convention Center really has it all. But what does that really mean? Simply that we've created the best place for you to have any event, indoor or outdoor. Anything that you want with that rigging, lighting. And decor all in one place. Just like one planner told us, it usually takes 23 production. Trucks to create an event. With them. But here at Long Beach Convention Center, we have everything you can possibly need, which saves you hundreds of. Thousands of dollars. There's really no other place in the country like this. So let me start. By showing you some of the. Spaces at the Long Beach Convention Center. Starting with. The Pacific. Lobby and Plaza. Cool, right? But you haven't seen anything yet. The Pacific Rim is truly spectacular. Think of a venue that can go from having a horse competition. To a. Classically themed Italian party. The possibilities here are. Endless, and. It's all included. Where else do you get that? This room is a complete turnkey. Just take a look. Amazing is all I can say. But there's still more. Consider the Terrace Theater Plaza, which has beautiful LED lights, city views and fountains that are included in the decor. The possibilities for this venue are unlimited. As I said earlier, Long Beach is way up front ahead of the competition. And to make matters better, they're building a new, unique venue called The Cove, which will be out next year. To have a place like this that is so flexible and so beautiful. At the same time, I think that the. Event planning. World. Is going to love it and keep coming back. For more. So we'd like to thank each of you for your support and Pat and Tom and the city management team because your support has enabled us to remain competitive. When we were back in DC for our sales mission this year, one of the clients who has a convention coming in August said to us he can't wait to come out and play with these different spaces and decide how to maximize his special events. And that's what separating us from a lot of new large hotels that are 1000 1200 rooms, with over 300 to 400000 square feet of space that we're now beginning to compete with. So this is keeping us at the forefront. And in addition, we also have they've cut us off back to the agreement here for a second. So let me continue on the. We also have the Beverly O'Neill Theater. And the Beverly O'Neill Theater was a space that I said has occupied and done a wonderful job in showing and showcasing theater for many years. But there were also other organizations that wanted to be in that theater. And so we also had Long Beach Opera that expressed to be in there, and we had musical Theater West that had talked about being in there, and we had Camerata singers that wanted to be in there. And so this year, SMG and the Convention Center staff were able to incorporate and bring all these wonderful arts organizations into the newly named Beverly O'Neill Theater. We now have five organizations, again, like the Arena. This theater is busy almost all the time now. You can't find a weekend date in it. And so with that, this is, of course, what it looks like at nighttime. It's absolutely gorgeous. And we'd like to share what we've done. From opera to Broadway showtunes, the Beverly O'Neill Theater is now home to five of long beaches, premier professional performing arts groups, Long Beach, Camerata Singers, Musica Angelika, International City Theater, Musical Theater, West and Long Beach Opera. We are very excited about it. I think it's wonderful to have so many performers in Long Beach. This theater has been used, but not to its full capacity. I think it's just fabulous and it's. Great for the city. And I'm seeing. Like a lot of young audience, which is great. You know, I mean, Long Beach, to get on the map and to be an international city, you have to have all the arts. And this is an important step in getting in that recognition that we deserve. Recently renamed the Beverly O'Neill Theater. This intimate performing space up until this year was home to only one company, International City Theater. Then last year, for their 20 1516 season, world renowned Musica Angelica moved from Santa monica to Long Beach. Now, for this diverse and exciting inaugural season, three more companies are joining the growing list. It's so nice that we have a venue now. Where all the major performing groups in Long Beach are together under one roof. And what it means is that the citizens of Long Beach can see the Beverly O'Neill Theater as a destination for culture. Together with the Terrace Theater, where the Long Beach Symphony will be presenting their 82nd season. Long Beach now offers two venues in one space and for their inaugural 20 1617 season. Over 30 shows will be presented. So the full spectrum of. Performing arts can be celebrated. I travel a lot, go to Europe and I consider this as. Good as anywhere I've seen. I think that's great because we live in lounges in a community. So instead of going up north to downtown or to Hollywood, it's very convenient for us to have like all these performers in Long Beach. So looking forward to it. Join us for this amazing inaugural season. And so I'd like to recognize all the partners who worked with us this year to make all this happen. Gerald with Long Beach Opera. Also Paul Gorman, who is here. Kelly from the symphony. Karen Dhesi who's here. David Wilcock and David Bunker. Could you all stand up? These folks bring us such great talent and such great productions, and it's really thrilling. We now have our own. One could call it Music Art Center, just like Los Angeles and Orange County does, and it's totally activated. The Convention Center and the CVB partnered together to send out a direct mailing of 125,000 pieces, which is exactly what Cerritos and the other cities do. This is the first time ever and we've had really great results with it. I This is the piece that won out. Davis Gaines with Musical Theater West, a new concept, Broadway and beyond. Davis had had over 500 people in attendance for his performance just a few weeks ago. In addition, Camerata Singers performed the other weekend. They had over 300 people in attendance for their production and music. Music Angelic also performed this past weekend with close to 400 people. So the theater is being used, it's being activated, and the community is getting a great enjoyment out of it. In addition, we've also worked closely with Powell, with Julia Wang and Ron Nelson, and we brought Powell back for a second year. They've done wonderful work. Of course, the music at the Aquarium of the Pacific with that great manta ray painting on the front. And of course, those of you who have taken any of the Catalina Express, you're seeing that wonderful painting on the side of the bridge. And Powell has continued to elevate us. And we had a lady here in town just last fall, and she walked around the city and she fell in love with the vibe of the city . She also fell in love with the art murals and with powwows returning. She came back, looked at it, posted a story. The San Francisco Chronicle picked it up, and over 250,000 readers were exposed along beach. And that article was before you. But I think it succinctly captures the essence of where the city city's going. And it's the collaboration with Powell and all the other arts communities and the downtown. And we're we're now being recognized. In addition, our team worked very closely with the convention center staff to bring the Longines Master Equestrian Competition, which was two weekends ago. And it's Paris, it's Hong Kong, and it's Long Beach, actually, L.A. But we say Long Beach and and with that, it's kind of like the Grand Slam of tennis, where if you win all three, you collect a purse of $5 million. And we had horses that were flown in from Belgium, and they had to have 48 hour quarantines and people and space outfits because they couldn't touch them. And actually, when they left, they left two horses behind for us. So yeah. So but it's it's it was a wonderful, wonderful event. And their ticket sales were up substantially over last year. And as a community, we're looking forward to growing it with them. But they too had a huge BuzzFeed, both on social media and print media, and we were also on television for an hour on a major sports network. In addition, we had a six year old volleyball this summer, same thing, great BuzzFeed, great social media and typical Southern California beach scene. And of course, our other events, the JetBlue, Long Beach Marathon, Grand Prix, and also Pride. All of these events are continuing to build our social media. Our social media team has done a really wonderful job this year in growing our connections. And in Facebook we had 15.1 million additional over last year on Instagram, 18 million more. And Twitter we had 96 million more. Instagram, we have 11,000 followers. Facebook, we have 40,000 followers. And Twitter we have 17, almost 18,000. So from a social media perspective, our social media team has been highly engaged in these areas. Also, we've collaborated with the Queen Mary and the aquarium. We came out with a wonderful joint ad, which they paid into and we paid into, and they went into Sunset West Ways and Heroes Magazine, over 11 million in circulation. So the readers of these publications got to see Long Beach as a summer destination, which ran through April through July. But our bread and butter still as a community is our convention business. And it's a continued investment into the convention center that continues to reap the dividends that we've been enjoying as a city. And with our turnkey facility. You'll see what our customers have to say is right there and it's all walkable. You can walk to everything entertainment, shopping, amazing food. It's just one big ball of energy and a lot of fun. I love Long Beach Love, which is a terrific place to be. It has a great young vibe. Felt like. It was in a resort town, but also in a meeting location, all in one. It just had a perfect dynamic. As a foodie. In the city of Long Beach, you have so many options. You have steaks, you have American cuisine. Seafood. Of course, being by the water, you can sit outside. It's not just. The options of the. Food, but. The ambiance that surrounds you. Long Beach is ever evolving. I think the great thing about this city is always thinking to have. Chef ahead of thinking about innovation step ahead and thinking about what type of venue is the venue of the future. So unlike other convention centers, Long Beach does have a lot to offer. Leaving your meeting, you have great lobby space lighting and you go outside and they've got this trendy furniture. And once you go into the night, I mean, it's a whole nother party. The Pacific Rim, one of the most user friendly, gorgeous. Flexible, innovative. Dynamic places. No place exists. Like this in North America right now. I mean, the fact that the ceiling can come down and create different atmospheres and that the lighting and the rigging is involved, I mean, this is truly, truly amazing. Having amenities like ping pong tables, the lounge seating and the palm trees and the environment that has been created there is phenomenal because it allows for great networking and it really sets them. Apart from the competition because when you go to another city, you have to pay. Somebody to put all those things in place for you. Yeah, the cost of using a destination that has a convention center sometimes can be quite alarming. But in Long Beach with the center, it's all inclusive, it's turnkey. There are no surprises. You know what you're paying for and. You know what you're going to get. I think that Long Beach. Is special because. Of the people that are. There. It's all about. Creating community and relationships. And Long Beach always is a welcoming city. They all know each other, they're a community. And what they express and what you see when you go there. Is they want the business to come to Long Beach. I think Long Beach sets itself apart nationally. The Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau is. Second to none in. Terms of. Customer service. They work very closely also with the city. And so you feel that the city supports your event when you're working with them. They're not just looking for your business, actually looking at the relationship and it makes people keep coming back. The people of Long Beach really make you and your client feel special. They are always bringing new ideas to your event. They're looking to reinvigorate the event. They're always present, really makes them and their partnership unique to other locations. The convention center makes it so much easier for us to hold our events. You like it so much that we're going to hold our event there for the next couple of years. Our attendees loved every. Single bit of it and it was so great. We're even coming back again next year. Long Beach. There's nothing like it. And that is what our customers are saying about Long Beach. Again, thanks to each of you this year, we've worked with all of you closely. We appreciate your support. We appreciate all that you do to help us sell Long Beach. And in addition, there's a few people I'd like to recognize and have you also know who they are. Robert Schmidt was our chair on and off for the last two years and always jumped in and was wonderful. Robert Smith is a vice president for his Marriott Hotel Management Company, which also owns and operates the Holiday Inn at the airport area. So we appreciate Robert's leadership. The past two years, he's been wonderful. And in addition, Bill Collier is our new incoming chair. And many of you know, Bill and we look forward to having Bill guide us into the next two years. And, of course, many of our other chairs are sitting in the front as well with Jane and Bill and and and so forth. So we we're very blessed with leadership. In addition, our board is just wonderful. If our board could stand to be recognized, that would be appreciated. The. And if the board could stay standing. CVB staff if they could stand to. This team also helps to perform a lot of magic, and we really appreciate and love them all. And in addition, convention center staff, we couldn't do it without them. Charlie Byrne and Veronica Quintero if they could stand as well. He. And and as you heard on on the video, it takes a whole community and we have 400 business members. Part of the convention visitors bureau. Our hotel partners are absolutely phenomenal. Are boards phenomenal? Are other business members, whether it's florists, whether it's restaurants? Terry Antonellis here tonight with opera. And so we have really just great members. If everyone could stand, these are the folks that help us sell Long Beach and deliver every day in. Lastly, there is a lady who has been behind the scenes for 30 years. I as a single mother, she raised two sons and at the same time sold Long Beach for over 30 years. She's our executive vice president, the number two in our organization. She helped us bring Ted. She helped us bring lawn jeans along with Heather Gonzales. She's been a stalwart. She knows how to how to squeeze nickels into the convention center. She knows how to make the space work. And we're so fortunate to have had her. And if we put it in economic terms, literally, if you look at 300 million a year over 30 years, yours is clearly generate over $1,000,000,000 for the city. I'd like to recognize Iris Heimer or Executive Vice President years. As I mentioned, she also raised two two sons and her one son, Eric, is here. He's an officer in Huntington Beach. Eric, where are you? Here we go. That made me cry. There you go. We really have been fortunate to have Iris with us for 30 years. Anyway, again, thank you so much for all your support and Pat Tom as well. Charlie. Everyone's been wonderful. It's an awesome team. We love doing what we do. We love selling the city. We love bringing business the city. And we appreciate that you support our efforts. Thank you. Thank you. So, Steve, I'll just I'll just mention, you know, every year this presentation gets more and more exciting. I think that I love that you demonstrate to the public the economic impact. You can take as much time as you want up here speaking as long as you start with the economic impact. I was at the League of Cities event this this past week and the excitement and the things people were saying about being here in our city, learning how it's the transformation has been fantastic and folks exploring our venues, it's really palpable. So I really want to just say great work to you, your entire your board, your entire team. You guys are experts and you're doing a fantastic job. So thank you so much. I want to there's there's a number of council comments here. I'm going to start with a statement that Mayor Garcia sent for me to read on his behalf, says, I want to thank the council for supporting this item in continuing our relationship with the Convention and Visitors Bureau. There isn't an organization or city that does more to promote, promote and support Long Beach than the CVB. And we really want to thank the one and only Steve Goodling for his amazing leadership, his knowledge of the tourism industry, and his devotion to Long Beach and his tireless, tireless work on behalf of our city. I regret I couldn't be with you tonight, but I want to make sure we recognize and thank Steve and his and his outstanding team, because they're working 365 days a year to ensure our convention center, hotels and local economy contribute, continue to thrive and grow. They do an incredible job and we greatly appreciate it. So next, we're going to hear from Councilmember Pearce. Thank you. The one and only, Steve. Fantastic presentation as always. And I really want to thank the CVB board. I spoke, I guess, last month at your board meeting and really appreciated the opportunity to have some face time with you all to talk about our vision for tourism in Long Beach, some of the opportunities we have to work together, some of the challenges we have and really just I mean, 46% growth, that's fantastic. And I know that that's due to the hard work of all of you every single day promoting everything, thinking outside the box from the turnkey to the horse races, which were phenomenal. And really, I'm excited to support this item. I'm excited to continue to support our tourism industry growing. I'm also excited to continue to thank and support those over 3000 employees that work at our hotels, our convention center, everybody else that is serving everybody every day. And so I know that one of the things that makes Long Beach great is the fact that we get together and we sit down at the table and we dream big together. And so I'm really looking forward to continuing to be a partner with everybody on Dreaming Big, and I'm excited to say that I'm going this Friday to A.C.T., so really looking forward to continue to support our arts as well. And I hope that you guys will continue to meet with me and with everybody in the city that we're visioning big and dreaming together and making sure that we all move in the same direction. So thank you, guys. Appreciate it. Thank you. Councilmember Supernova. Okay. Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you. I echo what my colleagues have already said. I, too, want to thank the board and all the folks that are involved in this operation. It's huge. The work that you do is amazing. The team that you've built is really impressive. I think for me the most impressive aspect of the operations is the diversity of the space. Having gone there for the Longines tournament and seeing how that space was completely transformed was incredible. And also just walking around the area and seeing a different group of folks there enjoying the property and enjoying the event was impressive to me . I mean, there were certainly a lot of people there who I could tell my husband said there's a lot of blazers and nice, you know, straight cut pants here. It was just a very hip kind of audience there. And it was impressive because they fit they fit right in. And I think we did a really nice job of rising to the occasion, rising to the occasion for the level of customer that that competition is used to having. And I was very impressed with that. I think that the bridge is going to be a great addition, and I'm very happy to support that city project. As a council member and as a as a member of the. Two Council districts that actually get to implement Tidelands projects throughout the city, because I think that's an excellent asset for the city and I'm very happy that that's happening. And finally, you know, I think customer service is such an important part of the experience that people get. I think we do a really nice job of it. I notice now when I go to events outside of the city with my family, how much of an impact customer service has? It's probably something I really never noticed before. But recently we went to the forum for a concert and there's something that they do with their training of their staff there. I don't know how many people have been there recently. The staff really seems to enjoy working there and it makes you excited to be there at the event, and I've really only seen that here in Long Beach. I think there's just something about the people who work our events that really conveys a welcome ness that people take away with them. And so whoever is working on that on your end, I think that's a really important part of the events that we bring. And I love this. This this mailer that you passed out. I'm looking at it right now and putting, you know, checkmarks onto the events that I want to go to. I think it's really a really great document. I think it would be good to have something that's expanded so that we have the schedules for all the different art groups beyond just at the Terrace Theater, because there may be some performances that are at your home venue, I'm sorry, at the Beverly O'Neill Theater, because there may be some events or programs at your home theater that people may want to go to that aren't on here. So maybe for next year we could list somehow figure out how to put all of that into one mailer. I think that would be really great. But congratulations to all of you for everything that you do and for the team that makes it happen. You really do make Long Beach look great. You're definitely a bright spot on everything that we do. And thank you for giving all of us the opportunity to participate in the many events that you host. I think it's a great education for all of us to be involved in things like Musica Angelica, which I was involved in a lot last year, and and the many other programs that you invite us to participate in. It allows us to educate our communities about what you have to offer. So thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. Yes. I, too, want to say thank you very much to you, Steve, and your whole team. I not only live in downtown, I represent part of downtown. And it's exciting. I know that there's so much going on. I get to walk with my family to various destinations and it's just really exciting. And I fall in love with the city a lot more, especially learning about the presentation and all the five organizations I am very familiar with. I love Karen and all of her work and all of the organizations that are there, and I just hope to continue to hear more. I really also appreciate, Steve, that you also email us and let us know ongoing what is happening, even if it's something as small as a chandelier that is just beautiful. I love hearing about it because then the next week and I'm probably at the Convention Center seeing this glorious thing. So thank you so much for your wonderful communication and your amazing team. I see all of them patronizing the downtown and local businesses and I really, really appreciate that because that's really wonderful that they go to the local restaurants, the pie bar, the restaurant, you know, everything that's going on in downtown, they're there. So thanks a lot to all of you. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you, Steve. I want to congratulate you again. This was a great presentation. Made me I know the entire council and anybody paying attention at home feel really good about living in Long Beach, let alone visiting Long Beach. And so I want to thank you and your staff turn out each every and every year that you are able to to bring to this presentation. Each year speaks volumes about your leadership, but also the commitment of your board, your your partners, your employees at the CVB. And so, you know, there's a good energy happening obviously there. And we heard from that the testimony from so many people that it makes us all feel welcome and it takes a village, it takes a team to make that happen. And so congratulations. Obviously, our guests are welcome. You guys do a great job of doing that. You do a great job of helping us celebrate arts and culture, which makes our city so special. But more importantly, you're helping us generate good revenue for the city. And so we very much appreciate that as well. And so, again, I wanted to thank you and just my continued support. Thank you, Councilmember Durango. Thank you, Mayor. Nothing says. Success more than what was up here in terms of the testimonies that we heard as was as was described earlier. We had our Legal Cities conference last week here in Long Beach, and all I kept hearing was testimony about what a great city we have, what a great set of people you have , what a great convention center you have. And it was it was all so positive. I felt embarrassed that I felt so shy to go watch it. All these accolades. And it's not me, it's our visitors bureau who's done all the work and continues to do a lot of work. And I'm so proud of the work that you do. That there were some individuals, council members, because it was a convention of council members and mayors from up and down the state. There were a couple of council members that mentioned to me that they want to hold their council meetings from here in Long Beach because they didn't want to leave. They didn't want to go back home. So I congratulate you for a great convention that we had last week. But for all the work in the great conventions that you bring to Long Beach and the great and wonderful experience that you give each and every one of them, because that's what makes people come back . So I appreciate that very much. Congratulations. Thank you. Councilman Andrews. Yes, thank you. Well, Steve, you've done it again. And I really thought it was all, you know, until I. Yeah, I really didn't. Huh. How blind him my, you know, really is to all of the individuals there but I just wanted to let you know, see, this is something that being here as long as I have and knowing Long Beach the way I do, you know, I used to run track inside of the feel conviction tune of the long way back when Muhammad Ali and all of this was around. But I let you know the things that you guys have done in the way you approve the city of Long Beach. This is something that when I walked in here tonight, I thought it was about my pool, you know, I said, Oh, no, but this is why this is why I can see why you guys get a yearly contract, because we would not be able to get this if you didn't come out and show it to us because we gave you any more time. We'd have billions of dollars. Steve You guys and your crew is just fantastic, and I wouldn't miss it. I mean, I dressed up for this tonight and thank you guys again. Congratulations. Keep making those nickels turn into dollars. Thank you. Say thank you, Councilman Andrews, Councilmember Suber now. Thank you. And that's a tough act to follow, I'll tell you. But and I agree with Councilwoman Price on the Blazers and the straight leg pants, and that was just on the horses. But seriously, congratulations to the board and the entire team. And you know that customer service. I think it absolutely starts from the top. I think I've been in office about one week when I got a text on my cell phone and it was from Steve and he referenced my wife by her first name and inviting us to something. So I was very impressed by that level of customer service. So keep up the good work. Thank you. Council Member Super nice. So we will at this point accept any public comment on this hearing. Seeing none. We're going to go ahead and close the hearing and let's. Members, please cast your vote, your ballot.