Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents and take all actions necessary to implement a First Source Hiring Pilot Program (Long Beach First), to apply to awards for non-professional services above $100,000, and construction projects between $100,000 and $500,000 for a period of two years.  (Citywide)
Thank you. And moving on now to item. And I believe we're going to do the first source item, which, if I can have the clerk read, should be item number 11. Report from Human Resources recommendation to implement a first source hiring pilot program to apply to awards for nonprofessional services above $100,000 and construction projects between 100,000 and $500,000 citywide. Okay. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Mayor Councilmembers. I'm going to turn this over to our executive director of the Workforce Investment Board, Nick Schulz. This is a fantastic program that we've been working on since back when we were first starting with the play. This was something that we're doing on a parallel course. Our time energy went to the play and then worked over to two local hires, and I think we have something we're quite proud of. I'm going to turn this over to Nick and I understand the new name is not first sources. Now Long Beach. First source. Nick. Long Beach first. Good evening, honorable mayor garcia and members of the City Council on April 7th, U.S. Pacific Gateway to lead a study on how the city could qualify local residents for employment opportunities generated by city contracts for services and construction projects not covered by the recently executed play. You also asked us to engage the community with regard to our research and to return back with a recommendation, which I'm happy to do tonight in our secondary and some primary research we found promising and expanding practice across the country called First Source or FCA. It's taking root and what it is, it's a pipeline process, process to move locals to job opportunities created through municipal contracts. We actually studied seven cities in the secondary research portion and some outreach that we did to the cities directly to understand their program or their ordinance. And just for your information, those cities were Somerville, Massachusetts. Cleveland, Ohio. Berkeley, California, Baltimore, Maryland. Denver, Colorado, Washington, D.C. and city of Richmond, California. We chose those seven to focus on because in in the course of our research, there was something on paper, a specific program or ordinance that the city had either a report or a specific frame of reference for, rather than just an effort that had been labeled. As we went through our research, we found fundamental tenants. Present in all those seven cities that we thought were important to bring and weigh the value of with the public so that those seven best practice sites all had a defined city action, either an ordinance or a dedicated program related to first source hire. There were specific compliance requirements required of contractors in relation to the first source program. The outreach and the recruitment mechanisms used to push the opportunities out to the community and the residents was clearly defined. The types of positions and number of jobs in those in those first source programs was also clearly defined, and the threshold at which a contract would be made subject to first source was also clearly defined. After we did our secondary research, we set about to gather community feedback and present that research in a manner so that the long, Long Beach residents and interested parties would have an opportunity to respond to that and let us know what specific requirements would be acceptable or they thought would be best utilized for the City of Long Beach program. We're now referring to that program as Long Beach. First and just briefly, our outreach included a 1 to 1 or facilitated dialog with the Ministerial Alliance. On April 30th, 2015, we did three community outreach events on July 27, 28th and 29th in the guidance center on center in central Long Beach District nine field office in North Long Beach in Silverado Park in in west Long Beach . After these sessions were completed, we came back and. Put together the following recommendation for you to consider. I won't read you all the bullets, but the highlight of our recommendations, and again, consistent with what we find to be best practices nationally, are that Long Beach First would apply to all contracts for non professional services above $100,000 and also city construction projects including right of way between threshold amounts of 100 and $500,000. Long Beach first program will require qualified city residents be given first consideration for hire through a referral system. That referral system would be administered by the Workforce Investment Board, Pacific Gateway. Long Beach First would cover all net all net new jobs created through the awards of the contracts previously referenced. The period of reservation held for Long Beach residents to get the first crack at those jobs would be ten calendar days. The ten day local reservation period would run concurrent with other contracting processes in order not to delay the beginning of any work or contract or preparation. All outreach methods, including canvasing, traditional social media, activation of existing networks, email, mailings, etc. would be used to. Mask the community to refer residents to the opportunities. Again, Pacific Gateway will act as the essential intermediary between all the potential sources for referral noncompliance with Long Beach. First will result or may result in liquidated damages assessed per day at the discretion of our city manager. And as we move forward, we also found that we believe there will be minimal administrative costs associated with the implementation of a pilot process. We're asking that you consider this recommendation as a pilot process for two years when we would come back to you with a subsequent report that would include administrative and overhead costs that we would track during that time. That would conclude my report at this time, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank think I'm actually now going to turn this over to Councilwoman Gonzalez, who's the maker of the motion. And I guess she's going to make some comments and then we'll go from there. Thank you. Yes, thank you, Nick, for your staff report. First of all, I just want to say I'm really thrilled that we're bringing this full word. It has been renamed as Long Beach first, because I think it will truly represent that Long Beach locals receiving Long Beach jobs first. And so, you know, I've often said and I will say it again, you know, as far as us being able to create jobs, we can't do that directly. But we can certainly look at good policies that can support those good jobs. And so while this is a pilot project, we must also work to find creative ways to fight high unemployment rates, especially in places like the 90813 with rates of 19%. But also, this is a program for all residents and also localizing our economy where the play doesn't cover. I think this will do a good job of that. So hiring local language residents can create so many more benefits, as many of us know, improving quality of life for those families, adding to our economy and tax base and much more. It's also of great benefit to our business owners as well, who have local residents in their employee group. So I want to thank the folks that are here, the Ministry Serial Alliance, Local Hire Coalition, the PHC Building Healthy Communities or Cambodian associations. There were so many community groups that came together in various parts of the city to be able to put their opinions in place, to talk about how to formulate a good plan for local jobs. And while that is all said, I also want to thank PG, Wynn, Pacific Gateway and Nick Schultz for their hard work in this as well. I think we learned, you know, the place served a different purpose. Construction jobs over $500,000. The first source, the Long Beach First program, looks at taking a different approach with different professional services, with different types of jobs. So I have a few questions. Nick, I can barely see you there. First off, I wanted to ask about how I know there's been a lot of talk about youth and perhaps maybe a gap in finding youth employment. Can you emphasize how this would help or how we can maybe collaborate with other programs? What can we do in this sense for from the first source program? Well, it certainly dovetails with some other efforts in the city and specifically some other efforts that we're involved in. I know the mayor's internship initiative comes to mind, so the opportunity for us to engage with with the contractor at the point that they're ready to to do business with the city, gives us another avenue or another venue for it to talk about the benefit of internship and engage them not only in their hiring needs, but also in helping us to find a place for an intern in the city of Long Beach. Great. So we could certainly partner with that program to make this a more robust program, especially for local youth. And I think it's important, as we've worked on the play, we're now undergoing a study for the minimum wage. I think it's important that we emphasize local are our local youth. Next, I wanted to clarify a few things, because there's a few things that seem a little unclear in the report. So what would. I mean, many of us know, but just to clarify or give examples. What would be non professional services and also the referral system, how that would work? So I'm going to defer to the city attorney on the distinction between the professional and the non professional services. But let me let me handle the piece. As far as the the excuse me. The referrals. The referrals, yes. So it would work typical to to how we do with either our internship program or the PATH program that we're building with with Councilman Richardson's office. So there are various sources that are that have an expertize with with target populations who are disconnected or who do workforce development services for people looking for a first job or to to change and actually move to move to a higher wage job. So just as in our name, Pacific Gateway would act as that intermediary or that gateway. So at the during the ten day reservation, we would use the available forms of outreach to outreach to our community partners, let them know that the position was open, what, what the requirements of the position were, and then arrange to handle that referral of all the clients to the community as a single point of contact to the contractor or the given employer at that point in time. There's two advantages to that. One, again, the single point of contact aspect for for the employer, the opportunity to open and close the windows seamlessly. And second of all, it's Pacific Gateways ability, given some of the tools at our disposal through our federal funding to actually be able to track the higher forecast or look out over time and see that the person is still retained in the labor force in subsequent quarters, post employment and see that they're earning wages if there's increased wages, those type those types of things. Okay. Councilman, there's also a question on what's. Not professional. Services. Yes, that would be. Primarily custodial work that we would offer landscaping and tree trimming, things like that, as opposed to professional services, which would include engineers, attorneys, nurses, things like that. Okay. Great. And then the noncompliance. How would that be enforced? If a business is non-compliant. And I see that there's. A discussion here about that. But I don't know what the enforcement would be on the back end. So I cannot speak to how the liquidated damages would be calculated. I think that specific to size of contract in each individual circumstance. But we would move to have the process of a liquidated damage being assessed and initiated by the fact that the specific employer or contractor completely failed, neglected or refused to engage with the first source process. Okay. But we would have some sort of we would have a tracking mechanism. We would be able to know if if it was clear that they didn't. Participate or had. No, uh. Opportunity or no inclination to participate. Right. Right now, what we've engaged with procurement to do is actually to embed the first source language in in bid requirements and then actually to have the first source language at Long Beach versus, excuse me, language in the act, the actual contract. And there would be an introduction or a bridge to Pacific Gateway at the point in time when the contract would be executed with procurement and they would already be cognizant of the requirement and have the opportunity to reach out to us to ask any questions when the bid process was initiated. Okay, great. Thank you. And another couple of questions. What I just wanted to clarify that at this point, we can identify a significant fiscal impact. I mean, of course, there will be staff costs, but I mean, there's nothing on the front end now that we can foresee would be a major impact to the city. Our our major concern when we did the research was could we find anywhere that this limited the number of bids or increased cost of bids? And in the cities we studied, we could not establish that that was the case. The other thing, in terms of staff time, it's mainly staff time in a modified process and some of that process is in procurement, but that's somewhat negligible. Once the language is in inserted into the documents and this is core staff time for Pacific Gateway with with a private employer or somebody who engages with us to source talent . This is the process we use with with any employer. So the city and a city contractor would be no different. And it's just an enhancement of the of the number of employers in our portfolio. Okay, great. And then last question. Last question was the departments and the separate legal entities that are excluded, can you or someone explain what those are exactly and why they're excluded? The two that are excluded would be not under the jurisdiction of City Council, the harbor department and the water department. Just and it's just those two at this point, I think. And also the affordable housing projects, I think those are federally regulated. Perfect. Um, okay. Cause there was also, I think there was a, uh, perhaps I was getting it mixed up with something else, but harbor water and affordable housing. Okay. Thank you. Well, I would encourage my colleagues to support this. I think, you know, this is certainly a win for the city. I think this is similarly what we've done with the play, but it's looking at other nonprofessional, uh, opportunities for people that certainly need these jobs. So I would ask that my colleagues support and thank you very much. Mayor, if I could expand on the answer to the Councilwoman, I think other separate legal entities may include the successor agency or the CIC or the oversight board. So there would be possibly other non entities that aren't subject to the jurisdiction of the council. Thank you, Councilman Richardson. Sure. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. And I want to start by thanking Councilmember Gonzalez and the other signers. I believe it was Councilmember Ranga and Councilman Brand Jews, I believe and we worked really hard for a number of months on this to make sure that it's meaningful and it's tangible and that it has an impact on folks. We intentionally asked to call this Long Beach first because that's just it. We are. This gives Long Beach residents a shot at going through the process for all net new jobs first. And I'm confident that if Long Beach residents are given an opportunity, I'm confident they will rise to the occasion. So I am in complete support of this. The focus group in North Long Beach was very well attended. I believe staff did a fantastic job, so I'd like to acknowledge Pacific Gateway and their whole team on all of the work that went into putting together a really comprehensive focus group and making it and making the results of that reflect in this in this pilot today. President Obama's My Brother's Keeper program that we've talked about for months now. Milestone five is providing youth and young adults access to jobs and the White House and Policy Link List's first source policies and agreements as the top recommendation to meet Milestone five and have a direct impact on youth and young adult employment employment. And I think that this is smart that we this this policy allows us to align policy with some of our initiatives, like My Brother's Keeper and like the PATH program, which which diverts disconnected young adults into the workforce as an alternative and keeps them on the right track. So for those reasons, I'm in complete support for this. There were some comments that compare this to the project labor agreement. I'm a bigger fan of this than I am of the project labor agreement because I think this is what broader and more impactful to get directly to jobs. So I'm really interested in this and I want to see see how this rolls out. I have a question. I see that we're asking for to a two year pilot. Are we? I would like to see some some check ins on how we're doing, some analytics on how this process is rolling out, maybe on a every six month basis. So. Mr. City Manager And maybe, maybe could you respond to that? Councilmember We can certainly provide you a report every six months on. The. Performance measures of the program. Sure. What sort of measures would you think that reflect? The number of people that have applied, put up their names with the workforce, number of people who have been referred to projects, the number of net new hires that have been created when we award contracts, things like that. Great. And then the second thing is, I know that Councilmember Garcia excuse me, Gonzalez mentioned that the other agencies it may not it may not include. And that's and that's fine. But I want to just have clarity that it doesn't stop them from doing something similar, having similar agreements at the same time. They could very well do so. Correct. I believe they could very well do so. And I think in the research we've seen maybe similar entities to to those that we're excluding initially voluntarily participate. Great. So so that's it. Again, I'm in complete support Ion and I want to thank again Councilmember Gonzalez on her leadership and all of the city council members for their hard work on this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Munger. Yes. I want to thank Mr. Schultz for his hard work on this. I appreciate the dialog that we've had. Many people cite statistics that only a third of those that are employed in Long Beach actually live in Long Beach. And I think that this is a great step in the right direction towards helping our local and helping our neighbors work close by and reducing our emissions, helping them spend their money where they live, not having to venture out into other cities for those jobs. And so this is fantastic. I'm very supportive, great work and I look forward to the reports. Thank you. Councilwoman Price. Thank you. I've had the opportunity to meet with staff regarding the recommendations. And from what I understand, this policy will allow for workers throughout all of Long Beach to be given the first opportunity to obtain jobs that are tied to our city projects and programs. I believe this is sound policy. I support this policy because, one, it applies citywide and is not limited to any particular area where the applicant lives. And two, it gives companies an eligible pool of local candidates, but still allows them to exercise their discretion in accepting or declining to hire candidate based on the company, culture and environment . This discretion and making hiring decisions is critical to a sustainable policy, in my opinion. I thank my colleagues for bringing this item forward and I will be supporting it tonight. Thank you. Count summary Ranga. Thank you, Mayor. I have a few questions. I know some of them have already been addressed by Councilwoman Gonzales. When we're looking at the point with the, the, the noncompliance issue, um, I still have some issues. Issues questions about what is that definition of a non-compliant contractor. Um, there are, you know, it's complex. There's a lot of issues going on here. For example, when we're looking at a contractor making a, an appointment or giving being given names of qualified residents that Pacific Gateway has already vetted to a certain extent, what is that good faith effort, quote unquote, as it says here, that they're going to look at these individuals and then hire them? What is what is the definition of a good faith effort? What is. So as as the recommendation is presented, it is actually to to that the resume and from their decision on the resume either bring that candidate in for interview or decline to interview that particular person. The freedom of the hiring decision is still in their corner. But again, they would need to take time to sit down and that the referrals, the qualified referrals that were passed along. And when you say you have the a local reservation period of ten days, is that I see it in the portion where you have maybe two portions. We're talking about unions like you have regularly. Isn't that too short of a period? I mean, most contractors and most employers nowadays require that an applicant go through a life scan or some kind of background check, a drug test before they get they get selected, which is ten days enough. Ten days has nothing to do with with the process when when they choose a candidate. The ten days is the is strictly the reservation period. So they cannot open that vacancy up and begin to source other applicants for the ten days or we or until we notify them that the qualified pool of local residents is exhausted. So it would be your responsibility to get Pacific Gateway responsibility to vet these potential employees. So it's it's a joint responsibility. It's a joint responsibility between Pacific Gateway in our community partners and again, to get the most access to the available jobs to the most residents. We need that community partnership to finalize folks. We need time to activate that. We need time to make sure they have the job description in hand to do the screening of their database of clients. We would actually then be the single point of contact to make the comprehensive referral list of the folks from the community who qualify to be evaluated for the position. Okay. And when it comes to the non professional definition, I heard custodian, tree trimmer, gardener, those types of things, those are. Low wage occupations. Is there a of an opportunity here to create a living wage type of opportunity for these contractors? I know some of these contractors are going to come in and in nonprofessional $10 an hour, not a living wage. Is there going to be a requirement that they provide at least a living wage opportunity for these individuals? Again, some of the things that you referred to will be subject to prevailing wage anyhow. So that's that's certainly a living wage. When you look at union jobs that that aren't covered or are below the threshold of of a play, I believe those are already living wage jobs. So I think we have we have that covered in those regards. The other thing I would say is that there are some residents who will qualify for work who need a first job, who need some stabilization service, stabilization of a first job. And we wouldn't want to exclude any of that in how we approach that. But yes, as always, and our metrics are driven by ensuring that the majority of folks we serve are in living wage jobs. Well, I certainly hope so. That's that's important to me in regards to individuals that we are hiring, especially at entry level positions, that there's an opportunity for not only to provide for their families, but to also have an opportunity for growth in that area as well. Other than that, I want to thank the participants here, the building of the Community Alliance, Legal Aid Foundation and others who participated in the in these work groups. Certainly your input was very important and I hope that nothing's perfect. I know that because it never is. It seems like, you know, the city council where we're trying to do things right and most of the time as I think we get it right. However, I'm looking forward to two comments from from the audience. Councilman Andrews. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I'd like to thank our Lena for bringing this forward on the diocese, because the fact that I, I think everyone realize how important it is for jobs and we talk about first, you know, I want to thank the Pacific Gateway as well as all of the organizations involved in the community feedback session. And I would also like to thank the Ministers Lyons for their involvement, because sometimes it still takes a village. Every day I've had, you know, young men approached me on, you know, the streets, you know, I need a job in this program like this allows me to give them, you know, the young people, you know , an answer like where you truly deserve that. And, you know, and the biggest part about all of this, I think that in vetting all of these jobs, I'm hoping that we can even go even further because, you know, and I know that most of these jobs they will be speaking about, the first thing you're going to ask you about your background check, you know what that involves in various individuals and that will almost eliminate them completely from these jobs. I'm hoping that we will take this and take it very seriously to let you know that we talk about Long Beach versus job offers, that these individual have enough, you know, a passion and concern and know that if you say you're talking about hiring me, please, when you vet this, you know the application that these people will not be thrown out because of their background. You know, a lot of it is because of the fact that, you know, first time, you know, they ask you, have you ever been involved? You know, I have a felony. You know what that does to any, you know, applicant, it throws them out of the loop. So I would just hope that we can go a little further and hope that we can get a little more to help these individuals get further down the line. And thank you again, Nina, for bringing this forward. And I think this is one of the better things that we've done for the community, for the city of Long Beach, giving them a chance to know that we do have a program that we will be hiring here in our local cities first. Thank you again. Thank you. Public comment now. Any public comment? Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Council My name is Derek Simpson, resident of District two, executive director of the Long Beach Community Action Partnership. And also tonight is a member of what has been a local hire or coalition started coming to these meetings and speaking on this subject on April 7th and been very involved since that date, speaking with many of you as council one on one, try to understand this process so that I could speak intelligently to the community about what's going on, how they can get involved and how they can be supportive. I have to tell you that even though I was really involved, I was also disappointed to find out that as I attended some of the meetings that were mentioned, that though I thought we were going to be able to speak to the local hire policy as a part of the play. We were told, no, that's not going to happen. And because Long Beach first was the subject at hand, and I applaud the staff for the work and the energy that they put in to it. But the fact remains that we have a public project labor agreement that's passed without a local hire policy. And just as the councilman just asked Councilman Richardson, how will we measure this? Can we get six months reports on this? I don't know that we have a report that will come back to you that says, in fact, with this play being passed as it is, how will we measure that jobs are being made available through the play, such as they will be made available with this Long Beach first. So I would ask at a minimum that you consider tonight, just as you've considered adding a reporting process and six months for language first that you consider adding also maybe an annual report to see that maybe some of what we've been expressing is our concerns for six months in these meetings and as a result of even what one of the councilperson said about showing up for something only when it's about their agenda item. I showed up for meetings even when I didn't need to be here because I wanted to see what was I missing, as intelligent as I think I am. Clearly something was not clicking with me on this whole subject. And so, though I'm no longer a member of PG when the only commission that the mayor appointed me to. I'm here as an individual representing Long Beach Community Action Partnership, representing this local hire coalition to say to you as a city council, we indeed need to at least consider how we measure what is said is actually getting done when it comes to a policy that's local hire policy for the project labor agreement. I stand ready to help anyone behind the rail in this process and any member of this city management team in this process to make sure that it happens. Thank you. Thank you, Derek. Next week, a police. Good evening, Mayor. And city and city council members. My name is Brian. There's a meeting. Um, I live in the first district, and I'm current instead of Columbus City College. Um, I'm happy to say that the City Council is taking up the issue of jobs for our community. It's important that we have policies that prioritize hiring Long Beach residents, especially those living in areas of high unemployment. And I'm speaking tonight because many people in my community, including my mom, struggle to find work. Um, as a result myself, I think that it's very important that there are jobs available because having a job is key to a better future and a better life. Whether it's this first source hiring program or the labor agreement that targets work hours for local residents and disadvantaged workers, it's important that the residents of most cities jobs get them. We also need to be able to evaluate how well this policies are working to benefit residents who live in parts of the city that are most impacted by unemployment and the problems that go and the problems that go along with that. And with our age, it's going to be important to develop ways of doing outreach that find those who are hard to reach and who might not have regular computer access. These policies are just the beginning of what we need to do to address joblessness in Lombard. As a city, we need to continue to look for ways to build upon the strategies, efforts with our jobs available. The unemployment rate goes up and residents can see a brighter future. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks, public speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Alexander Herndon. I'm an attorney with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and our Long Beach office. I'm here tonight to raise just a few important points that should be addressed through a local hire policy. And we feel merit discussion one last time. What we understand it's not the current will of the council. We feel the local hire policy item represented a missed opportunity to resolve some key unanswered questions regarding implementation of the place local hire requirements. These unanswered questions include what steps a contractor needs to take before they hire outside of Long Beach and what the penalty would be if they don't follow those steps. How the city will monitor the success of the place. Local hire requirements through periodic reporting by contractors. The city specific roles and responsibilities with regard to ensuring proper implementation and success of the local hire provisions, and how the community can participate in oversight, monitoring and evaluation of the play. Resolving these questions in a local hire policy could translate the good intentions of the play into meaningful hiring for Long Beach residents. And so therefore it echoed the recommendation for an annual report to be given regarding the PLA local hiring component and for that report to be given at a public meeting, a meeting of the Council so that the public has an opportunity to review that information and to weigh in from the community perspective. I would also urge the Council to appoint community representatives to the two vacant seats on the Joint Advisory Committee called for by the play again to ensure community oversight and transparency in this process. This would give the community and the Council the opportunity to learn from any failures and build on any successes as these policies unfold. So what? We applaud you for taking the first steps to establishing local hire programs for the city of Long Beach. We feel that more can and should be done to ensure that Long Beach jobs go to Long Beach residents. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Okay. My name is Tania Reyes Ranga, and I'm a former city councilmember and a 25 year workforce development professional, ten years here in Long Beach and ten years in West Orange County service delivery area. Working with the Workforce Investment Board, I was first director of the first Work Stop Center Workforce Center in the County of Orange and later consulted with the Department of Labor on how works for centers can be more integrated with union apprenticeships and nontraditional careers for women. A little of my background and why I'm so concerned about this report, this report submitted to you either gives the council members from the one, six, seven and nine districts what they requested and it was seventh. Nor did it give the community what they needed in regards to assurances that the city understands and has the will to develop a local hire plan. The request on April 7th specifically stated, and I quote, for a specific, comprehensive local hire program that will work to give people the tools and resources to secure a good job with good wages and benefits. The report was neither specific nor comprehensive. One local hire was never addressed or defined. What is local hire? No definition can. No definition, even through the council even know that the council requested. The Council request included an attached map delineated delineating unemployment clusters by zip codes. No definition of local hire was given or even referred to in the report for purposes of play and non-players. Two. There was no definition of low income and no verification process for low income eligible residents. It was neither outlined nor suggested. Three The scope is so narrow 100000 to 500000 nonprofessional and construction projects and did not include any detail regarding the scope of the universe and universe and the number of jobs that may be available for the definition of local hire jobs and how they would be quantified on any tier one hires was submitted, as it were, for non-player hires. Five. There are no goals, no measurements, no enforcement, only good faith efforts and first considerations. And most of all, there was no job coordinator identified other than the vague reference to the Pacific Gateway Center. Six. Utilizing the Pacific Gateway Center as an essential intermediary is duplicative as workforce centers are already charged with this task. And this report doesn't provide the Pacific Gateway with details and specifics on goals or measurements of success. The community had high hopes for this report, but soon after the first community session, it was clear that the city had no intention of having a local hire policy. And the first source hiring pilot program does anything but make Long Beach first for those most in need. I want to thank the local hire coalition and the ministerial alliance and the over 20 churches who were involved in the push to get the city to detail a local hire program. I also want to thank councilmembers Gonzales, Andrews, Warren and Richardson because they were doing what they were supposed to do, and that's watch out for the well-being of their constituents. I'm only sorry that the city could not deliver. I expected much more because, quite frankly, our residents deserve much more. Thank you. Thank you. I'm turning it over to a public comment. Please come forward. Is there anybody else in public comment? Because I mean, of course, the speaker's list. Okay. Speaker, this is close your last one. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And Council. My name is Steve. I am a fifth district homeowner and fourth district business owner. My only suggestion here is that the service industry, bartender servers and all of that throughout our city are included into this whole process, especially through the convention center and its contractors that locally that were we're forcing those agencies or contractors to hire locally. These bartenders and servers make approximately 15 to $30 an hour once you include earned tips. And it's a very, very good living. And I just want to make sure that that's who were included into all of this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Richardson. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to take a moment and just respond to Derek Simpson cap and ask the city manager just to respond to the question about the question about the Pele's actual live reporting. I remember that there was report back mechanisms put in and and these are separate things. But I just want I don't want to sort of run over that. So. City Manager, could you just quickly respond to that? Mayor Councilmembers are required to come back with an annual report. That's what I thought. So there there are these are distinct issues, but the play does have annual report mechanism. And this what we're asking for isn't, you know, an elaborate report, another convening at city council. What we're looking for is a report like a written and analytical report here to City Council on the results of a, you know, first source or Lambie's first. So I just want to make that distinction. Thank you. Councilman, Councilwoman Gonzales. All right. Well, I thank you for the comment. I mean, you all are, you know, telling it like it is, which is always so wonderful. And I know that many of you have been here for so long. I still do think that this is a program that we can all stand behind. I really do believe that. And it's not perfect. We have opportunities now to look at it. The play, it's never you know, nothing is ever going to be perfect. But I still do believe that we will. We have a local hire element in there that was pretty fruitful. And we have a lot of many of our city staff here who are Long Beach, local residents themselves. They live here in Long Beach and they care and they're invested in this as well. They are staff members that have really put together a great framework for our residents and our business owners and in making sure that they are keeping your your community input in mind. And although, you know, we'll continue talking about this and make sure that it evolves and it's a progressive policy that will encompass all of the things as as it goes along. I do still thank you for your comments in that sense. So thank you again to Nick. I know that he worked very, very hard on this. I think after the play was complete, I think we talked about an alternative. And his experience in organizing an FSA in Alameda County I think was very important for us. So I just want to thank him again for that as well as our city staff. And I failed to mention my thanks to my council colleagues, Councilmember Andrews and Councilmember Suranga, who really worked hard on this as well. So appreciate it. Thank you. Before we go to the vote, I'm going to a couple of comments. The first is I want to thank start by thanking Councilwoman Gonzales and the members that brought this forward. It's, you know, within the span of of eight or nine months, the city has had have gone from having no project labor agreement and no local source hiring agreement to having both. And we don't you know, we don't always get exactly what what everyone wants out of every agreement or ordinance. But I think this is something that the city should be very proud of. I think the community put in a lot of work and want to thank the community members. That did put in a lot of work. I'm a little disappointed that there is some disappointment from from some members of the community. And I think there's this actually is a very good effort. And I want to thank the councilwoman, but also the members that were involved. I also want to thank Nick Schulz and the entire team at Workforce Development. You guys did great work with the outreach. There was a lot of effort. I know the amount of hours you guys put into into doing this. And and I'm pretty proud of the fact that Long Beach after tonight will have both a project labor agreement and a first source for local hire agreement, which I think both are pretty significant. And so I want to thank you again, Councilwoman, and the other members that were involved. And please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Let's go to item ten. Is item ten or is that item. Actually. Item ten. Ten, correct. All right, Madam Kirk.