Recommendation to adopt the Budget Oversight Committee’s proposed funding recommendations, as amended, to the Proposed FY 21 Budget.  (A-2)
Thank you. Second budget item, please. Report from Financial Management Recommendation to adopt the Budget Oversight Committees proposed funding recommendations as amended the proposed FSI 21 budget. Delimitation. It's over now to a two chair. Austin, obviously. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I guess I want to thank you and all my colleagues and the rest of city staff for allowing me the privilege and honor to be chair of this year's budget process. It was quite tough. This was unlike one that we've ever seen or we've seen in recent years. And at the beginning of this year, no one would have foreseen what 2020 would have been like and the amount of economic hardship that has been created by COVID 19 throughout our community. Faced with a $30 million budget shortfall, much of it due to the projected revenue shortfalls caused by the pandemic, we're faced with many difficult decisions. We're also working to implement a new framework for reconciliation that addresses many of the ways we provide our services to the city. How we envision our services and ensure that there's more equity in these services. But I believe that there are city that our city is responding to new challenges that have been presented to all of us over the past several months. I'd like to thank my colleagues on the Budget Oversight Committee, Vice Chair Pryce and Councilmember Yar'Adua, who spent many hours going over the details of the budget and having many insightful discussions. I'd like to thank the mayor for his recommendations to the budget and for his leadership throughout this crisis as well. Thank you, Mr. Garcia. Mayor Garcia. And we as a city council, I believe, have listened and had many thoughtful conversations during these past months with our constituents. As I know, we have all taken this responsibility very seriously and are trying to find the right balance. We owe a great deal of gratitude to our city employees who've stepped up to share the sacrifices by agreeing to furloughs to help minimize the reductions in essential services to our community during this crisis. And tonight the city council is voting to take a voluntary pay cut ourselves. I'd like to thank the many residents, workers, business owners who participated in this year's budget process as well. Whether it was participating in a community budget meeting or council meeting or taking the online budget survey or email in our offices, your input is important. And like our city, represents a very diverse array of viewpoints and priorities that we must try to balance. I'd like to especially thank our city's budget team, our city manager Tom Modica, financial management director. John GROSS, our budget manager Grace Yoon, and her entire team. They have responded to the rapidly changing financial picture with fairness and have been tremendous. I've been a tremendous resource for information and help in understanding the budget and crafting these recommendations tonight. Thank you all for indulging me in researching and responding to my many thoughts and questions and that of the Budget Oversight Committee. And from the beginning, all three of us on the BSE expressed serious reservations about drawing any further on our general fund reserves, given that reserves will already be needed to you to balance our FY20 budget. And there's still a great deal of uncertainty about the financial picture for Fy21. So we tried to offset. Other often find offsets other than reserves for many of the recommendations we are making to you this evening. This budget probably won't make anyone completely happy. But we did try to listen to the many stakeholders and voices to find a balance to move our city forward during this challenging fiscal year. And so with that, I'd like to read the Harvard Budget Manager, Gratian read the bank's recommendations and turn it over to her. Thank you. And make the motion and ask my colleagues to support this this Budget Oversight Committee recommendations. All right. Thank you. Here are the Budget Oversight Committee's recommendations. A motion to support Mayor Garcia's proposed budget recommendations with the following changes. Add the African American Cultural Center as one of the organizations receiving support. The revised allocation of funds are as follows. $841,000. $841,500, or 49.5% for the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center. 60,000 or 3.5% for the following organizations the African-American Cultural Center. The Camerata Singers of Long Beach, Long Beach Playhouse. Musica Angelica, the International City Theater and Long Beach Opera. $120,375 or 7.1% for Long Beach. Museum of Art. Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Museum of Latin American Art. Musical Theater, West and $17,000 or 1% for the Measure B Budget Stabilization Fund. The motion to delay the transfer of the Hart team from the fire department to the Health Department for an estimated six months, until staff reports to City Council on the details of the proposed new model and plan, including information on how the transition will be implemented with no gaps in service. How the plan compares to national best practices and how any medical regulations requirements are being addressed. Recognize a one time savings in the Health Department of $207,200 and a one time cost in the fire department of $435,232, resulting from the delay for a total city wide impact to the General Fund Group of $228,032. The motion to revise the proposed business license tax increase on cannabis businesses from a 1% increase to a 0.5% increase and extend business hours for dispensaries by 2 hours, resulting in lower projected general fund group revenues by $200,000. The motion to add one time funds of $350,000 in the general fund group for a fireworks enforcement team pilot in Fy21 to mitigate the illegal use of fireworks and explosives in Long Beach. Motion to appropriate $95,374 in the general fund group and the police department to structurally support the expansion of coverage and services typically done by park rangers to include Bixby Park in MacArthur Park. Request the city manager to report back early in FY 21 on an implementation plan, which could include the hiring of a park ranger position or other operational models to accomplish the service goal. F pushing to appropriate $339,044 in the general fund group and the police department to structurally restore the two detectives and the violent sexual predator unit detective division and as a result not include the proposed addition of a police investigator non-career position. These positions are assigned to monitor and investigate officer compliant chief motion to appropriate 213 $320 in the general fund group in the police department to structurally restore one police officer position in the K-9 unit. The proposed budget had reduced three police officer positions, and this motion resulted in a total of only two police officer positions being reduced each motion to reduce 600,000 in the general fund group on a one time basis with the Police Force Division Pine Overtime Program, leaving 125,000 remaining in the program for FY 21 to help temporarily offset the restoration of the violent sexual predator unit and the K-9 unit position and the additional support for Park Ranger related coverage and services . I motion to request the elected department to contribute additional structural reductions from approximately 4% to approximately 5% of their budget for an additional general fund group savings of $188,655. This would be an additional reduction of $27,982 for the city auditor. $64,375 for City Prosecutor. $62,834 for the Legislative Department and 33,464 for the city. Attorney Chain Motion to increase the current 1.5% General Fund Group Vacancy Factor Non sworn personnel to 1.8% for FY 21, only generating one time savings of $465,606 in FY 21. To reflect potential budget reductions in FY 22 include a technical adjustment to the existing 1.5% vacancy saving factor budget saving an additional $171,509 in the general fund group. This results in a total FY 21 savings of $637,115 in the general fund group pay motion to increase appropriation by $292,521 in the Tidelands Operating Fund group in the fire department to restore the Marine Safety Officer position and as a result not include the proposed upgrade of type of street to an assistant administrative analyst. One position and to restore the reduction of the non-career lifeguard staffing which was proposed to go from 20.3 FTE to 18.75 FTE. This will be funded from Tidelands Operating Fund Reserves as needed include in the review of the marine safety operation. Include the review of the Marine Safety Operation as part of a comprehensive study of fire department in FY 21 l motion to request the City Manager to pursue potential waivers for some requirements of the State grant. Specifically regarding the maintenance of effort provision and the grant period timeline that currently make it prohibitive from a financial and budgetary viewpoint to accept the grant. Staff should report back to City Council during FY 21 with the status update. M Motions request the city manager to study and report. Back to City Council during 521 and options for restructuring library services, including the potential of expanding library hours at some location. Studies should include use of statistics, building conditions, changing usage of library facilities, and other factors appropriate for decision making on future changes. And motion to request the city manager to study and report back to City Council during the FY 21 on potential organizational changes that will reduce costs for FY 22, with the least impact on services and ability to manage and control operations and finances. Oh. Motion to request the city manager to hold positions. Make it more practical and feasible to maximize vacancy savings in FY 21 and to prepare for potential staffing reductions in fy22. Keep in total there is a net general fund group structural impact of $487,574, offset by net one time savings of $487,574. Additionally, there is a Tidelands Operating Fund group structural impact of $292,521 to be offset by Tidelands Operating Fund Reserves as necessary. That concludes the reading of the Budget Oversight Committee. F y 21 proposed budget recommendation. You think you, Miss Yoon? I do have a second on that. Which is counterclockwise. Councilman Austin. Did you want to go back to you are just going to go straight to Councilman Price? I think I've made my comments. Again, I want to encourage us to to to adopt this budget. It has been a painstaking process. And but I believe that this budget will again reflect, as we said from the very beginning, we would pass a budget that reflects the values of the city, the diversity of the city in terms of viewpoint, and puts us in a place to continue the service delivery that our residents expect from from the city. And so those are my comments. Would love to see full support from the Council on this. Thank you. Councilman Price and Q Mr. Mayor, I want to thank Chair Austin for his excellent work and service as his first year on the Budget Oversight Committee. I think he did a great job of balancing a very difficult situation, and I'm grateful to staff for having worked with him on developing the proposals for today. I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to participate in all four of the community budget meetings. So I did have an opportunity to listen to the comments from the residents who participated in those meetings, as well as all the residents who have participated in the meetings for both Bossie and City Council since late July until today . I've also had the opportunity to read thousands of emails from my council district that were sent to our office regarding priorities and of course, the budget survey, which the Third District heavily participated in. From a city wide standpoint, I think there's definitely some consensus consistency in regards. To what the. Core services are, and I'm grateful that this budget allows us to be able to mitigate the loss of those services, although there will be a loss to some of those core services, and I think we're all mindful of that. But I think that the proposals that the BMC is putting forth mitigate those losses quite a bit and I'm grateful for that. I'm also very pleased with our ability, thanks to our city manager, to be able to restore some of the proposed cuts that had been made. To our. Lifeguard and junior lifeguard programs. Those are really important programs. For the city because they provide every child in the city the same opportunity to participate in an excellent program that's built on health, socialization and safety skills. And so I'm very happy about that. I think all in all, there's a lot of great things in this budget and they address a lot of the needs that council members have individually shared with Councilman Austin, with those of us on the BMC, as well as budget priorities that the community has shared with us through their comments. So I'm happy to support the proposals that are coming out of the PSC and urge our colleagues to do the same. Thank you, Chair Austin. Thank you, Councilwoman Vice Mayor Andrews. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. You know, this has been one of, I think, the roughest budget we have negotiated on this diocese since I've been here on the city council. You know, no one likes to see cuts. With everything going on in the world. We must take a step to create reform across the different sectors of our city. With that being said, I want to thank Councilman Austin and his entire Budget Oversight Committee for their recommendations. I'm glad to see African-American cultures, you know, being in combat for funding as I to be committing one time funding for my budget in the upcoming days. I'm supportive of a report back on the employment of a new model to address the world. Our team. Yes. And I want to see you know, one would call that being explored in this report. But I have one question for Chief Lunar. What are we going to get? You know, the staffing for the helicopter unit. And response, if you don't mind. Yes. Chief Lynas is coming up to answer that question. Thank you. Stand by. Good evening, Mayor, and members of the City Council and Vice Mayor Andrews, in our plan, again, this is a proposal. So if all of you vote this in, that's when we'll start working on it. We anticipate that the operations will stay in place for at least the remainder of this year. As we are looking at or working through all the options that we have on the table to see how we can best provide service. And if the proposed reductions go through, there is going to be an impact in helicopter service. There's no doubt we're not going to have the helicopter up as much as we had in the past. But we're in a world now where we're all taking cuts, even though we don't like to or want to. It's a world we live in. So we had to propose everything we could to meet our budget numbers. So I predict it'll take up to approximately 5 to 6 months to get there. And this is Tom. So one thing that is built into this budget is a delay for the items that were civilian izing. We built in a natural delay, I believe, of six months to be able to continue to put those plans together to hire the additional civilian staff so that we could do a smooth transition. Thank you, John and Chief. Okay. And lastly, I want to go on record opposing. A half percent tax increase on the cannabis industry. You know, I understand the intent, but with the current economic crisis we are facing due to the COVID, it seems difficult to impose a tax without doing an economic impact study. And I would like to make a motion to defer this tax increase until an economic impact study comes back in six months to determine the effect of this increase on our general funds and consumer market. Can someone give me a second on this? I have a second buy councilman's in Dallas. Thank you very much counterbalancing that. And finally, I would like to close by saying back in the day, as you know, you know me about fostering leadership. We got through to over 90 session. And I'm hopeful that with the leadership and the effort, I mean, of course, you know, and my colleagues will do the same. And thank you very much. Think before I just continue on I want we do have a motion on the floor so vice mayor and I'm not sure if this was brought up to the B or C. So Councilman Austin, can we fold that into your motion? Is that is that an easier way of doing this? Miss Moon? I am, ma'am. I'm amendable to 40, not into the motion, but I would offer or ask for how we find about balance there. And and I will I'm going to defer to staff on that because I know that there is some specifics in terms of numbers, in terms of this this motion before us. What is that cost us? Projected Council member. So if we do know what tax increase, though not the 0.5% tax increase that the GOP has recommended, but we still keep to our extension. That's part of the motion. Then there is an additional structural cost of 40 400,000, and council would either need to identify an alternative offset for that 400,000 or other recommendations , such as using reserve. And to the maker of the motion and the secondary, if there is a you have some ideas to give us some structural direction on how to make up that $400,000. I am open to that discussion as well. Yes. I always like to keep the conversation going, my colleagues, my concern. Okay. Okay. So then what? I think the way we'll do this is I think, Councilman Austin, you've heard the request by Vice Mayor Andrews and the support on that by customers and De Haas. And so I think we'll keep going. And that's one of the things on the on the table before we get to a vote, we'll try to resolve that one issue. So I'm I will continue on the speaker's list. Councilmember Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a few things. First of all, a good job. Councilman Austin, on your first budget here, I think I see the method in which the these recommendations reflect all of the council's input as well as the things we've we've heard along the way. I think that that's that's good. So I'm proud to support these things. It's a lot of good things in this budget. Thank you for highlighting some of the Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative recommendations. You know, there's a lot here. There's a lot within, you know, from restructuring off the equity this started years ago. And now in this moment, we're going to count on this department. So moving it into city manager shop makes a lot of sense. There's you know, there's a commitment within the city manager's budget to to begin the process reform of the PCC with funding to begin that. That's important. I see that the step to sort of phase in this is this alternative mobile response unit. I gave comments on that in the last item. I'm supportive of that. I want to make sure that those things, you know, we have the time to fold in the input from the community and some of the input from exceptional models. There's a lot of good things here, particularly within within the health department. I see there's we know that there's dedicated reconciliation funds, about 3.2 million, but 1.5 is within the health department that dedicates about 700,000 to create this Office for Youth Development, which has centrally coordinated resources to support our youth. Incredibly important. About 400,000 to support our state. Long Beach violence prevention plan. Upstream violence prevention. You know, there's funding here for the Center for Health Equity, Housing Equity. So all in all, when I do when I take a look at about 40 of the 107 recommendations, about 40 who are represented here within the first year. That's impressive to be able to get to 40 of the initial 107 recommendations in year one of this budget. I think that says something about the seriousness and the commitment that the city council staff put forward to address this issue of this issue of racial equity in our city. There's a few things I want to I want to highlight. I know that we have a right to counsel. We have funding in the mayor's. But no, the right. The council. I have a question with staff on how we plan to to sort of utilize it. It's my opinion. I don't think that we should, you know, take any time, you know, creating a new program. The county just rolled out a program I'd love to see. I'd love to see us or us, you know, utilize these funds in in in partnership with the county to leverage our funds locally and work with a local a local agency that's already established by the county. By the county. So if staff. Mr. Modica, could you speak to your approach on the right to counsel? Yes. So we agree. We would love to contract with the group that has done this work already or has experience doing it. If the county's got a good, sustainable program. We'd like to piggyback on on other successful efforts. So we would start there and see if there's groups that they have that could expand their services. We think that that could go faster or quicker and bring knowledge, and then we'll work to see if we need to do that through an RFP or other type of model. Fantastic. That's what I want to hear. I think that's the best way to go about it. Thank you. Secondly, I know that there's a community interest in a rental housing division. I personally support this. I support getting there. I know it's going to take time to sort of build this capacity. We talked for years about, you know, actually aligning all of our housing work from the housing authority to some of the housing workers and development services. I know staff has already taken certain steps by creating this this all aligning all the housing work under Christopher Coombs. But what the community is really asking for is really some apparatus to really focus on developing a division and actually sort of addressing some of the shifting landscape. There was just a state legislation that just came out. People don't really understand. It's been changing month to month. And we've seen, you know, some of the council offices. We've simply been forwarding out memos and fact sheets from legal aid from other agencies. I think we should be able to produce our own capacity. So I want to want to ask that I know that there is are funding within the reconciliation for housing equity. And I know that we are already counting on on our our city attorney's office in many ways to evaluate what's going on. Are you Mr. City? City, city, Mr. City Manager, is there a way that you could come back and tell us how we can utilize the housing equity position to start putting out notices and fact sheets that are actually city like the city can put forward, not necessarily recirculating things that came from the community. How could you respond to this, this interest in a rental housing division? Yes. So we've taken a look at the request for a rental housing division to create something robust like that actually would take some significant resources. We've costed it at around $1.1 million to create a five or six person division with legal counsel and support. We do think there are other ways to get to the question of how do we provide better housing assistance and resources if that's what the council wants to do? The right to counsel is going to be very helpful. The 250,000. We have a position of reconciliation that doesn't quite do that. It would do something different. I can turn it to Kelly to see are there other dollars within the reconciliation that can help? But if we're starting a new service, we're going to need some additional bodies, though. Kelly, if you can answer that, I know we're at the zero time, but if we can answer the question. One more. Any mayor and council members. So within their funding of the reconciliation. We currently have funding set for the Office of Youth Development, Violence Prevention and Reentry Programing and then public health equity. Going forward, there are some additional funds set aside to be able to support additional investments under those three opportunities. And we also are hiring currently in the process of hiring with homeless services, funding a person to do to really focus on homeless services and housing. And the intent there was to really engage from an equity lens to be able to ensure that we are are ensuring that all of our services have an equity runs across. Homelessness and housing. So there are some funds available that we were looking to further invest into. Other reconciliation opportunities, but we. Could make some of those funds. Available for. The housing equity person. If that's. The intent of the. Council. So I want to that say thank you. SALIBY So that said, you know, I think it's important. I think it is a racial equity issue. I mean, 70% of Latinos in the city of Long Beach are renters. 80% of black folks in Long Beach are renters. I think we have to think about this. I completely understand building out of division may take time. That's not something we can do here. But when the parameters of what we have, I want to make sure that those resources we have within the reconciliation dollars can be used to actually make sure we get started in that work. So I don't know that we even need to make a motion because you already have those funds dedicated within there. I just want to make sure that's reflected and that's that. Now's the time to come back and handle that. The last thing I would say is I see there's a lot of interest in language access. I have more of a common sense question here. Every time we have we have council meetings, we have Spanish interpretation, and we know that there's always issues related to the quality of information . I don't think that we should have to request Spanish interpretation. I know we don't get as many compliance. The bills should remain by request, but I think it might even be more cost effective to simply have Spanish interpretation available at every city council meeting. And so I want to have staff respond to that. If that agrees with this, then great. If not, I'd like to just make a motion that we figure out as a part of this how to make sure that Spanish interpretation is available, available at every city council meeting without without request, given the demand that we've seen. Could you speak to that, Mr. Martin? So I asked the city clerk to talk a little bit about the cost. Their office organizes the the translation. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson. So we do have a cost estimate to provide Spanish translation services at every council meeting, and that estimated cost annually is $64,000. And that's having two translators for approximately 4 to 5 hours at every council meeting. We can do this through an outside vendor. It might be another option to look at hiring a full time translator for the city. And that's something we haven't costed out yet. So I think we should figure I think we should figure that out. So. Mr.. Mr.. Chair, is that just making sense to you? Do you want this as a motion or this is city staffer receiving this other sentiment? I must say that. Can you repeat what you are proposing here? I mean. What it is, is there's every council meeting we've had, there's been Spanish interpretation. I just don't know why we are still going through the process of requesting it when we know we get a different person every time and the quality is not great. So we should be thinking about making sure we should still do by request our compliance. We don't have the same demand on Spanish. It happens every council meeting. Why are we still going through requesting it for council meeting? It should be standard. And so I think that's a more realistic commitment that we should make the language access instead of nickel and diming it here and there. So I don't I want to figure out, you know, what's the best way to go about this need to be in a motion or can staff make this happen? But I think that with all due respect, Councilman, I think staff has heard this, and I think it's the will of the council to improve our language, access on whether or not requesting or where we are with the process to me is a more of an administrative issue and less of a budget matter. And so I would I would, you know, use the direction that you are providing, listen to your concerns, the concerns of others that have been relayed throughout not only this budget process, but but in other forums as well throughout the past couple of years. I do believe it's important that that we provide interpretation. I'm sorry. We've got no pages. Yeah. And I was actually talking about. And. I think we have an open mic. Mr. Mayor. I might. Just. I get where you're going. Councilman Tom. Mr. Modica, after receiving very. You put the network putting down. Yes. So I understand that language access. We'll take a look at what we can do and whether we can do different models. And we were planning on using some of the money that was put aside for language access to invest in this area because the clerk does not have full staffing and money to do the level of translation that we're currently providing. So, yes, we'll look at that. I would say, though, I would request, if you're looking at adding a position as part of the $1.5 million, that that be part of the motion. So that is a substantive budget that that be considered as part of the motion. That's fine. So I'll make sure those are reflected in and my friendly to Councilman Austin the comments about how to treat the 1.5 to make sure rental housing position is reflected within that budget neutral and to also give direction to staff to figure out a way to make sure that Spanish is Spanish is not by request. There may be a number of ways to get there. It doesn't have to be a position, but that staff that staff knows council meetings will have Spanish interpretation available, not necessarily by request. Thank you, Councilmember. Okay. Next up, we have Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I would like to share my congratulations to the Budget Oversight Committee and specifically Chair Austin in the great work that he's done over the last several months. It's a daunting process and he did it with Grace and I appreciate him and the work that he's doing. I also want to thank the city staff. I know how much work goes into the budget and all the questions all of us have behind the scene and how excellent you have been in providing additional resources and discussions for us to have something that was started as a discussion on the EEOC a few years ago, and I brought it up during the budget hearings last week. Again, is that our fleet fund is often looking for maintenance reductions and that a lot of our investments go to help reduce the maintenance costs of our fleet. And one of the ways that we can do that is actually by repairing our streets, our streets, our what are causing our fleet to have so many bumps and bruises. And those bumps and bruises and additional insurance costs are not just burdened by the city, but they're also burdened by residents. So I'd like to propose a friendly that I know to be nothing new to members of this committee and this council, because we've talked about it before. But I'd like to see us redirect 70% of the general fund department capital contribution. That's a fraction of the 45 million in revenue a year that goes into that fund. It's literally only the general fund capital contribution to the Fleet Fund. And I'd like to redirect it to a street and alley fund focused on the worst streets and sidewalks and serve the worst streets and alleys in the city. Percentages approved in a previous motion I made several years ago where you take what the worst street data is and then distribute the which streets will get usage based on the worst 80% of streets and 20% to alleys. Is that something that you would consider? Mr. Austin. Well, first I would ask the city manager, is that is that feasible and doable? And then secondly, would you be opposed to divide by nine in that regard? So on the divide by nine, typically we have funds that are already divided by nine. And the challenge with that is there are certain districts, Councilmember Muranga is one of them, where when we started on the council together into District one and District two had $10,010 million in street repair need where Councilmember Odinga had $20 million in street repair need. And so until we the contributions in the district have the worst streets and alleys, we won't be able to. Furthermore, we did the alley money based on dirt alleys alone. And so we really need to focus on our worst allies next. A divide by nine would put some alleys at the top of the list in districts that their alleys are. Beautiful and amazing compared to what some of the other districts are experiencing. So it's not a lot of money, so it won't go super far. But I do believe it's a good step in the right direction. And you'll notice that every council member received a email of support from or construction trades and they would like to get back to work as well. And this is just a small investment both in the economy and in the needs of our residents. We have committed to our residents that we will repair these streets and we consistently do our best to catch up. But as fast as we are cutting up, more are deteriorating, which is why the based on need is the most important component of the motion. We continue to provide money divided by nine even though the public works director. It stated that he made a mistake in the next revision to the three year plan, that it should have been by need only so that districts could catch up. But it was once again done with the divide by two in percentage. So I would ask that this specifically go towards the worst streets. And I think that it's kind of a blind roulette for us because I don't think any of us know what those next worst streets, the worst alleys will be. But I think that we all know that it would be a good investment. I think the second. So I will I will let the city manager respond to that. And I'm I'm I'm open to to accepting your friendly to do that because I do recognize the importance of infrastructure repairs in my district and in every district in the city. I know that there's tremendous need for street repairs and alley repairs throughout our city. And, you know, I'd be interested to find out if there are other districts that feel like they don't need it. And so the the divide by nine recommendation or thought was was one to, you know, be be more equitable for for everyone in the city, for all of our residents. But I'll turn it over to the city manager to to address the the feasibility of making that happen in this budget. Thank you. And so I will start with infrastructure. It is it is absolutely a fact that our infrastructure does need additional funding. We do have a fair amount of money going to streets this year, actually a little bit more than we do even last year. And I believe it's almost $40 million. I would point out that, you know, we do have some also concerns with sidewalks where we are under litigation to basically meet certain deadlines related to our ADA sidewalk compliance. That said, I'll talk a little bit about the fleet idea. It is a technically feasible idea. We do pay money from the general fund into the Fleet Fund to basically get caught up with our fleet capital replacement. Our fleet has done an amazing job and are under a manager of getting the fleet replacement cycles down from in the past. They'd been in the ten and 15 years down into the into the 5 to 7 year time frame, which saves us maintenance. So this is something you're able to technically do as it's proposed? I do I do want to caution us that this doesn't come without a cost. It would increase our replacement cycles are most of these are PD cruisers. So our PD cruisers are currently at about a five year funding cycle. They're actually at six years because we didn't fund it last year. This would take us to somewhere between 6 to 7 years. And so with breakdowns and maintenance costs that there will be an impact. So it is a politics policy choice that does come with some ramifications to our fleet. Okay. Why don't we come to my office and I know you're considering accepting our friendly. Did you want to? Councilman? WOMAN Margot, do you have any additional other comments? Well, I think that the representation that a majority of them would be PD cruisers is not fair. I only 70% of the fund would be a move. That means 30% of the fund would still be there. And currently approximately 40% of the fund is for Haiti. Cruise or so. It really is management's choice on which department they would have hit the hardest, and I would hope that they would use a strategy and model that would replace the vehicles that were most in need first. I know that vehicles when maintained well, I drive a 26 vehicle with 250,000 miles and it never gives me any problems. I make it every day go and I rarely have any repairs. I think that my mom drives a 1996 vehicle with 100,000 miles on it. I know that's not the same as a 24 hour day, seven days a week vehicle, but not all of our vehicles are 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and looking into some of the vehicles that are a replacement. I think that it's a prudent decision at this time when when you look at how small the $40 million street repair budget gets us and it's great. It does a lot, but it doesn't attack what we at council said a year ago, which is getting rid of the worst streets in the city. We talked about the ten worst streets and the ten worst alleys. We were on national news about our streets and that street has still not been repaired along with others across this district, across the city. And I think that we really need to make that investment for our residents to making those changes. And this is a small amount of money. It's a one year. It's not a multiyear request. And that one year request would go very far. If you think about how many streets it could repair and how many alleys it could repair, and you average of 40 houses per street, which is a very low estimate you're talking about thousands of households would have a higher quality of life because the street outside of their house was repaired because of this kind of motion. And this was something that we all were working on together. And I know that it's difficult when we have a lack of continuity, when we lose a public works director. But I think that it's important that we focus on a two part strategy, one that repairs our streets that's really of utmost importance to our residents. And to that focus is on getting our trades back to work. Okay. Thank you for that. Councilmember Austin, I think you have that friendly to consider. And do I move on or do you want to respond? I am open to the friendly arm, but I'd like to hear from other council members to comment on this as well. And I think, again, the the the eyes wide open again, it's just whether or not it's worth streets or divide by nine. We need to figure out how that should be allocated and directed. Okay, great. And I think I just want to make sure, Councilman Alston and maybe, maybe Miss Yoon, are you also kind of keeping keeping notes on all of the kind of front and Lee requests that the council is making for for Chair Austin so we can kind of review those at the end of the motion or maybe the city attorney doing that. Okay. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Well, I mean, keep going. Councilman, Mango, anything else? For their. Yes. I want to thank Mr. Austin and the mayor for their recommendations related to our Parks Department and our youth sports programs. I thought those were impeccable. I appreciate the committee's decision to spare our K-9 dog officer. I think that was really important as well, along with our our violent sexual assault crime unit. I think that that's critical. I wish we could have kept an additional or to a sworn. And by merging it with a couple of other units. But I hope that over the next year that PD can come back to us with any other savings that they can find throughout the year with this reduction in the number of sworn positions department wide. I know they'll realize other additional savings that they were counting on, including utilities, gas equipment. And I hope that those savings can come back to us in a way that could either potentially reorg the air ops unit. As one of the callers said, perhaps instead of civilian izing, it just cut it in half or put a detective into that detail. Because if we don't have the detectives out there doing the work, we're not going to have the great outcomes like we had today, where we solve crimes, where individuals with that horrible gang murdered on Halloween night. And so we just really appreciate our detectives and the work that they're doing to make sure that those gangs are on held accountable to the families that are mourning. So, again, thank you to all of that. I have one last recommendation, which is actually a part of item 26. And this council asked the city attorney to come forward with a recommendation on how we could participate in the 10% pay cuts early or at Bossi today, I heard members discussing in the community concerts, discussing library hours, things that are of importance to each of us. And I know we talked about donating back 10% of our salaries to stand in in support of the citywide furlough program. And I am 100% committed to that. What I would also make a recommendation to is that if a councilmember chose to donate that back into the city, that's great and it could go to the general fund. I don't know what it would be allocated toward since they're it's not a part of this budget. But if that councilmember would prefer to make a exact same sized donation to the Library Foundation or the partners of Parks, then that money could be committed back to the city through other programs that would really help and support our parks and library budgets, which are being really hit during this time. So that would be something that I'll be making a recommendation on a number 26. But I really think you guys did an excellent job. Thank you for all of your hard work. Thank you, Councilwoman. Next up is Councilmember Pierce. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, BMC. Thank you, city staff. I really believe that this budget is not only the most difficult budget that we've had to pass, it also provides a lot of opportunity and a lot of room for growth for those that need it most. And I think that that's what we've heard from our community members through this process. And so I appreciate the comments made by the previous council members. I wanted to ask staff on the right to council what is the quickest timeline that we can expect something on that? I know you mentioned that we might have to go to an RFP and I know that the last time we did something like this, it was new and it just took a really long time to get out. So I don't think we have an estimated timeline right now. We're talking about steps to make it go a little faster than a typical procurement process. We understand the urgency. I think understanding if there is a scope of work already written by the county that we agree with and meets the council's needs, that cuts a significant time off. And then if we can use their vendor list and open up an RFP quickly to that vendor list, things can go a lot quicker. So the funds will be available on October one. We would start and then put a process in place. Certainly before the end of the year we would be allocating money, hopefully even sooner. Great. I was going to ask the chair of the see if there was openness to try to put a 90 day, if it hasn't been scoped out in 90 days to have a report back to council. Does that seem like a time period that I even need to make a motion on? I think that you guys can probably. Do a. Guess. I would ask the city manager, is this something that he can work with? Yeah, I think that is the target that we would look to do is 90 days. Beautiful. Thank you so much. On the rental housing division that Councilmember Richardson brought up, it's something I definitely wholeheartedly support. I think that there's a couple opportunities in the budget and I just want to say I think this a Thursday. Sorry, Mike. She got teary. Okay. I think that there are a couple opportunities in the budget for just reorganization and that this is definitely one of the areas that we've got staff in different departments that are working on these programs. And so I appreciate the motion or the conversation that's been had around this. I look forward to seeing what staff develops in full fully support that. The one area the other area I also support the language access conversation. I do know that before the last big budget cuts that the city had under Bob Foster, that people didn't have to request translation. It was just a given. And it wasn't just for the council meetings, it was for the council meetings for any chartered commission meetings. And so I think the commitment that this council continues to make every year, if there's a way to figure out how we can make sure we have somebody and hopefully the same person every week, I know that we've heard many different translators and that sometimes they're not saying exactly what the community members are saying. And we know that it continues to be a challenge. So whatever we can do to get to that I think would be wonderful. On the most the emotion that's already been included around looking at new models. I think it would be very helpful, as I mentioned earlier, if we're working, especially if we've got six months to kind of put together this new community model, working with our community partners, not only those that have come out and supported this, like the community organizations that spoke tonight, or Nathaniel Brown, who's done an op ed on it, but also including mental health organizations, suicide prevention team and trauma informed partners to ensure that we're being thoughtful and thinking outside of the box on how we can provide services for those that are most impacted. And so the only thing that I have that really is, in addition to what community members have already spoke to, is I'm wondering, staff, if you guys could provide a list of organizations to the City Council for organizations that we pay membership that exceed $3,000 a year to the Council for review at a later date. Is that something that that would be possible? I don't think it's going to be that many. Mr. Modica, can you do what you counsel on that. If that's something that you want to include in the budget direction, we can do that. Yeah. Just to to from for that that has the membership, the cost and where the fund comes from. Can I suggest that the amount be a little bit higher than that? That could be hundreds. You know, you might have individual memberships for individual employees. I think you're looking at organizations like Organizations of the city belongs to. Yeah. That we pay annually. So not like a one time fund, but something that we're annually paying membership fees. So you're not if I can ask for an exclusion for like, you know, certain professional fees might be paid for if you go to a, you know, if you get a certification or something. So I'd like us to focus on the organizations for like the city. I think that's your intent. Is that is that correct? And we're going to go for the full city. Yeah. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Okay. I think those are my I, I think that, you know, I really applaud the mayor. The budget that was presented to us was a great step in the right direction, including everything from climate work to work on housing and also our small business support. So I think we're in a a good place considering where we thought we might be. So I look forward to the continued work on our police reform, on our community organizations, our housing models, and making sure that that work is not something that's one in one night. It's not something that's achieved in one day, but really is a culture shift for the city and recognizing that it is hard and uncomfortable and that's okay. But I feel good about where we're at tonight, so thank you. Okay. Thank you. Council member. Council. Council member. During the. Thank you, Mary. And I want to thank all the commentary has come forward so far. I think it's a great conversation and some real good suggestions and good ideas out there as well. And I want to thank you for joining me to the B or C. It was a quite a an experience, my first time ever being in that in that committee. And it was quite a quite a learning process. Obviously, it was a very difficult budget this year with COVID 19 and the downturn in the economy and all the other obstacles and challenges that we face. This budget is one that can we can build, could be good. We could not proud, but we can we can look at it as being one that that meets what we need to have worked for this year. In regards to my participation in it, it was eye opening in regards to where we're at and where we need to be. There's most of the things that I'm really pleased with is that we're really looking at institutionalizing some of those money that I think are very important for us to do, such as those that are going to be with the Office of Equity, the movement of some of the programs into the city manager's office and making them structural. There are some friendlies that are here at this budget right now that we're hearing that I am certainly in favor of. I want to thank customer Richard. So for bringing forward the Spanish translation issue to the forefront. It's something that, again, that I think it should be institutionalized and should be present at all of it. It is something that is very important and that we've seen during this process that there is a lot of interest out there from Spanish speakers to participate. And we are in the political process and it's very important that we provide this kind of service to them as well and making sure that everybody's voice is heard. I also want to encourage the staff to look at the possibility of a full time staff person to do that. It's not it's not easy. Translating translation services is a very difficult thing to do and learn. And it's it's one that requires a very special skill that is not easily required and requires a lot of work get into it. And obviously, as we've heard, not all translation services are are the best, but they certainly try to give credit for it for making that effort. There's the other friendly that that I heard and they want to support is the friendly put together by councilmember Mongo in regards to streets. She's absolutely correct. And when I look at my street in the seventh District that we had some of the worst out there and they've been that way for a long time. And so the damage done to vehicles, both both personal and city, are tremendous. And it's because we are we defer maintenance of the streets to another year in the year. And as we continue to do so, they deteriorate even more. So we do have some bad streets. And I would look at it, I respect they were streets first because that's where the damage is being created. Now, there is a concern about 70% of the budget being moved towards that. I would be I would leave that up to the two staff to work that out in regards it doesn't need to be 70% to deal with the worst streets. That's something that they would have to pencil out. And also in regards to the continuing efforts of riot of re instituting the re lifeguard program and with the EMS. So certainly very supportive of that. And and I'm hoping that we can make that can help that continue. One last thing is that there was another motion apparently with that councilmember Vice Mayor Andrews for 4.5%. And the two days in the cannabis issue, there's something there that I think we really do need to look at it. I don't know Councilmember Austin carousel we'll see was concerned about that $400 $400,000 difference that it would create if we were to hold off on 2.5% tax increase to study it further. And I think it would behoove us to look at that. I think we should give the industry an opportunity to look at their possibilities of what the difference will make in being open an additional 2 hours, as opposed to what was the recommendation of one additional hour or so. I think we need to look at that seriously. And and nobody likes taxes. Nobody likes to increase taxes. I certainly don't. But, you know, if it's going to help us balance our budget, so be it. However, let's do it because we need to and not because we think that we have to. Again, it was quite an experience working on the BRC. I want to thank member also for leadership of the DLC and of course my colleague on their up to the price of your customer price for also being a member of that. And I've learned quite a bit this year on what's going on and they are hoping that we can learn about the budget tonight and let's get this behind us and move forward with the city and advancing, really making the city of Lomita great city that it is. Thank you very much. Thank you. Customary Ringo. Next up is council member Zendejas. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you very much to our Budget Oversight Committee chair Austin. For all the hard work that you put in on the budget and all the great recommendations as well as from the mayor and the and our city staff. I. I do have a couple questions for you, but I also wanted to say thank you to Councilmember. Richardson. For talking about, you know, the need for our Spanish speaking translations and needed on a on a every every week basis, at least for City Hall. I think that's very important. And I also at the same note, I also wanted to thank our city staff, Tom and Becky, who have been continuously working with me on the translation portion. And we've been working on it for weeks and we continue to work at it. We have also realized that one of the hardest things to do, while we're not seeing each. Other, we're not. Face to face, is that when somebody was translating and they're right next to you, they can easily tap on your shoulder and ask you to stop speaking so that they can translate for you. So we. Found that that's a. Problem. And I know that thanks to Tom and Becky for both working with me and trying to address those issues and smooth that out a. Little bit more. So I thank you for that. I also wanted to ask the city staff, I, I said, as you know, I seconded the motion for Vice Mayor Andrews. And I want you to know, with those 2 hours that we that we are expanding for the cannabis industry, our businesses. Is that a way to offset the 4000 that is needed, 400,000 that it's needed? So the the original proposal was a 1% tax, which generated over $800,000. The revised back proposal is a half cent tax, so cutting it in half and then trying to make up the rest of the dollars through the the two hour extension going up to 11 p.m.. So Grace, can you tell us the value of that of those two together? Yeah. So the BBC has already recommended going to half a percent and then the extension of the 2 hours. And so from the original proposed budget of generating 800,000 in revenue, the Bossi recommendation generates 600 an estimated 600,000 of revenue. So it was a hit to revenues of 200,000, which is in the current proposal, balanced out from that point. If we saw the 2 hours extension, it's already included in the number and included in the BBC recommendations that are all accounted for in terms of usage and sources. If we go back down and don't increase any of the tax at all, so we don't increase the 0.5%, an additional 400,000 would need to be identified. Thank you for explaining that, Ms.. Hoon. I also wanted to say thank you very much for all everyone that has been able to participate in this conversation. I know that everyone before me has said some great stuff about the budget. I am. This is my first time, so I was pretty excited to go through this process and I know it has been hard work, but I'm really glad that we are coming to to this point and that we're considering everybody's input. So that's very important. Another question that I had is. In regards to work Councilmember Mango said regarding the of the helicopter is it is that and this is probably. This question is probably for a. Fire chief. Would that purchase affect any of our engines and fire engines. If it's been a. We'll answer that. Yes. Thank you, Chief. And as he is coming to to the mike, I also wanted to know if one if that purchase would affect our fire engines and also would it affect the Carl Moyer grant that is pending to receive? From. Thank you for the question. As far as the actual purchase, are you talking about the 1.9 that we're giving back or what purchase are you talking about exactly? The one for the. Helicopter that we were talking. Well, the motion that our friendly that counsel Mango had had said earlier. And so it's curious, the ending of that purchase was going to be affecting any of our engines. Fire engines. Yeah. That wouldn't impact fire in any way. Oh, came. Thank you. Thank you, Chief, for addressing that. Okay. Thank you, Councilmember. Our next topic, Councilmember Supernova. Thank you, Mayor. I'd also like to commend our committee chair, Austin Vice-Chair Price and member Turanga for just a fantastic job, in particular for Chair Austin. First time out, just really hit it out of the park. So congratulations on that. I'd like to follow up on Councilor Mungo's friendly on repairing the worst the worst streets. That really got my attention. And I think at least one of those streets goes from the fourth District to the fifth District. So we would certainly share in that. But my question is for fire in particular, just because I've been studying it and the grants available to fire. And I think Mary's and somebody touched on it. But so we have a Carl Moyer grant for I believe it's for the purchase of new engine companies. What if we delayed or canceled an order on one of those engine companies? Would we potentially lose that grant money? Is Councilman Supernova. To my understanding, there is a time limit on that grant and I would have financial management speak to that more closely, but I believe it's an 18 month performance period. This is Sandra. And yes, we are at the end of the time period for the Grand Prix delayed any of the vehicles and those vehicles we delayed, we would lose. So would there be a possibility to make an exception for the apparatus, those bigger apparatus? Would that be for this friendly amendment if if it's going to cost us money to delay this? Obviously, we wouldn't want to do that. Also, I think if the chief could maybe speak to just maintenance in general. Is there anything you can tell us on the maintenance cost of of older apparatus? There's there's got to be a break even point to where you're better off to buy new. If there's anything you can enlighten us about on that, I'd appreciate it. The issue with having the older apparatus is that the the equipment becomes outdated. It becomes more difficult to get the repairs taken care of. It becomes more difficult to locate the the actual parts and equipment. And the repairs seem to be coming up quite a bit more often. So at a certain point, it is more cost effective to replace rather than repair. Councilmember. This is Tom. If I can provide a little bit of clarity, because this is a complex area. The the fire fleet purchases are on the agenda tonight. And they would be separate from any budget discussion you're talking about because of the size of the fleet purchases and our fiscal difficulties. In the past, we hadn't been able to fully fund the fleet capital replacement for our pumpers. And so what you have in front of you tonight is both a committee grant, that's item number 17, and number 18 is the lease purchase of two fire ladder trucks and ten fire pumpers. So that would be one action. The motion on the floor, the friendly being considered is for our other vehicles, which is about 63% of our vehicles are our police type vehicles. Those would be we have about 800 and and we get the number 823 vehicles that we fund through the general fund. So about 62 and a half percent are police. And then the others are things like sweepers and code enforcement and and our public works vehicles, those types of things. So that is would be what you were delaying and extending the fleet replacement by a year. Okay. So thank you, Mr. City Manager. So what you're saying is the friendly here stands alone to address those issues and the new at the purchase of the new fire apparatus is a separate item. Correct. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Okay. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilwoman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I do have a question regarding the recommendation that was made by Councilwoman Mongeau. Regarding our. Infrastructure. And I think it's important to clarify this for the public. So I know that our. Sales tax measure. Had a capital improvement project that identified the projects that would be. Focused the focus. Of that measure money for a period of time. If we were to adopt a Worst Streets program, how would that impact the infrastructure plan that we've already put out and advertise to the community as the streets they can look forward to having repaired in the coming years? So I'll take a first crack at that and turn it over to Eric if I missed anything. So if you're adding new money, it should not affect the map that has been put out already. We could always use more money to complete everything that's on the map and accelerate it, but you could add new projects and new dollars. The worst Streets approach would be a little bit different than the pavement management plan that we funded. We tend to look at how much money, what is the need for replacement and typically the worst streets cost the most to repair, which is why they're in the worst condition. So that is certainly a direction we can take it. Would we have not been able to focus money on the worst streets? We've been basically using the pavement management plan to inform street decisions. Got it. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I appreciate Mr. Motorcars clarification on my friendly. I think that I often forget that I talk in budget speak and that when we outlined the general fund capital improvement and sorry capital purchase budget that the leases and other things would would be exempt from that because those are different strategies. I just also wanted to add in 2018, we as a council made a commitment to focus infrastructure money on the streets that were the worst. And unfortunately, our public works director at the time did not take our direction. And at that time that the specific motion was that on a go forward basis, the city shall make citywide investments in streets, alleys and sidewalks based on need. And we did that. We made millions of dollars of investments in the worst alleys in the city, but we didn't follow through with that on the streets. And like Councilman Price said, it would not impact anything we've promised to the community thus far. It's new money and I think moving the black eyes of our city. And we all saw what a huge impact it was to remove all the dirt alleys, to remove the next worst alleys and the next worst streets. Most of those streets span multiple districts. And so you're really getting a huge investment. I'm also, to Mr. Frangos point, an alley in the seventh District may cost more than an alley in the ninth district, and that's because of the composition of the alley and what they were made of at the era in which the alley investments were made. And so we as a council discussed that policy. And and so this is nothing new. And I hope that Councilmember Austin will consider adopting it, having heard so much support from my colleagues. And furthermore, I just want to say once again. There's a lot of priorities here and a lot of things that we've come together on. And I'm really proud to be a member of this council and the great impacts that we're able to make this year. So congratulations to everyone should this pass. Councilmember Pearce. Thank you. Real quick, I have a question for city staff just on the standards. Whenever we replace our fleet, disregarding our fire fleet, do we have any standards for what cars were purchasing? Yes, we absolutely do. So one of the things that we do when we buy new vehicles is we always look first to see if we can use an EV vehicle. So every replacement actually helps us with our climate goals. John Groce can give us more information. Yes, we are just about to buy 50 hybrids for the police department everywhere and replace them when it becomes available. And I will not only blame the police, but we reduce our maintenance costs and. Awesome. I can't hear you any more. But that was the perfect answer. My my second question is for the materials. I recall talking about the new road material and there being option to use rubber and recycled tires. And I'm wondering if that's a standard that we that we have right now to use for green. Street repair products. Eric Lopez, if you can address that, please. Eric, can you hear us? We'll try to get the answer to that question, Councilmember. So I do know that we do use recycled content. Just not sure exactly how much and what product. But we do wherever we can, try to use some of the tires and put back into our asphalt. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman's in Dallas. Fair. I also wanted to comment on Stacey Mungo's council member Mungo's comment earlier in regards to the street and the alleys and being from a district who has one of the I want to say very, very bad streets and very bad alleys, not only because we're in downtown, but because of the usage. I remember that when I got elected, I said, you know, one of the first things that I want to work on is on fixing our streets. And then I realized, you know, the whole process that it takes to do that and how long the wait is for it to be able to fix certain streets. So I am extremely supportive of being able to fix the streets in a most need basis. And I think that that that's a really good move for us to go into. Another question that I had, again, maybe mishear and you can help me with this again, I'm back into that. I'm going back into the cannabis tax and the 2 hours of operation that are behind those 2 hours of operation be bringing in, in addition to ours, to what they're doing right now to the city. So we also have a jay here who can linger on it. But I'll jump in first to say that, you know, the additional hours of operations could potentially generate more sales. It's not clear right now or the extension of the hours if they will generate the same average amount of sales that. An hour a day. An hour of open hours right now. And there is some data that shows that at different points of the day, there are different. Levels of sales. So just extending hours. Of operation doesn't automatically mean the same level of average sales. However it is, there is an assumption that extending the hours will generate some additional sales. We're just not quite sure exactly if it's at the same pace. So at the moment, we're projecting for each hour. For the 2 hours that the boss has recommended, for each hour, a 100,000 of sales being generated. That answer your question, councilwoman. Yes. You know, and one of the things that I was looking at here in my notes is that, you know, previously we were looking at extending that just one hour, which would mean more or less that it would probably generate. And like you said, we're not certain, but we were projecting that it would bring in $1.6 million more. And so I'm thinking, you know, with the 2 hours, it would probably double that that amount. And so I was thinking that it would be a really good, you know, starting point for us. But with going ahead and and asking for for us to delay this and bring a study forward, I think would be the best thing to do, only because that way right now we have uncertainties and that we may be able to have more data in our hands to be able to move forward on this. So thank you. Thank you for that. No problem. And Councilman, I just want to clarify. That at the moment. While it is still an estimate and an assumption at this point, until we get data each hour of additional hours, we are projecting. 100,000. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes council comment on this item going back to Councilmember Austin. So, Councilman, we have your motion and second by councilman, which was to adopt these recommendations. Thank you, Mayor. And then also in the elements. Go ahead. I want to. So not amused, councilman. And so and then we also have out there were some friendlies or requests that were also made to that. And so I don't know if you and you want to go through those and then find out what what Councilman Austin's decision on on taking those in. Sure we can do that. So now. And I may need some additional clarifications is a motion or a. Friendly to. Continue to extend the business hours for cannabis businesses by 2 hours per the Bossi recommendations. But not. To increase cannabis business license tax until an economic impact. Study can be conducted and. Evaluated. That was a friendly by Councilmember Andrews, and the comment here was. That we still need to find if this friendly work is. Excepted, we still need to find an additional 400,000 if we wanted to offset it within. The item itself. And then we have a council member state. This motion to use 70%. Of the general fund contributions. For Fleet Capital and F 21 to. Fund street and alleys based on the worst streets and alleys. With 80% going to streets. And 20% going. To alleys. And that's the note. That we have here. And then. The third from Councilwoman Pierce to request city manager to report. Back to city council in a memo on any city. Annual membership. Fees for organizations that exceed. $11 or worse. And I believe that's all. The what officially requested. To be. Is there any clarification on those. Items. That each of the councilmember want to correct or decrease? GRACE This is Tom. I'd like for the record, I think we had two from Councilmember Richardson. One was to do an exploration about housing possession and using some of the reconciliation dollars for creating a position that could help coordinate housing. And also, the council, just so we captured in the motion to make language access available at council meetings upon request or not upon request, and for staff to look at different motion or ways to fund language access or provide language access. And then the only one that I have down from that list was just two for four back from staff to the Council on memberships and information back. So I have that written down here also as just I'm not sure if that's part of the motion, but certainly part of the requests of what's coming out of the out of the discussions. Let me go to go back to Councilman Austin. We can take those individual want. So why don't we why don't we go take this council? Thank you. So, Mr. Mayor, and to more council colleagues, I want to thank you all for your your very thoughtful input and suggestions, the the friendly amendments as well. I'll take them from the top. The one that is glaring is the the the cannabis tax, retail tax. And I've heard from enough council colleagues to understand that there's some unsteadiness to move forward with that. But there is except there is a everybody seems to be okay with extending the hours and and studying that. I would ask and I would accept this amendment, but I would ask that this issue come back at midyear for review . And and we would we should have some some data and a better idea as to how this is working at that time. Again, this is a budget that is an unconventional this we have have not faced these type of challenges in many, many years. And so I would I think we need to have some flexibility to to to look at this. And I would just say that to the the cannabis industry out there, they are doing pretty, pretty well and are exceeding our expectations in terms of generating revenue here in the city. We are asking a lot are several of our departments all close to 5000 employees. Everybody is taking sacrifices and in impacts as a result of this budget. And I think we need to come together. And so with that, I would accept the friendly amendment with the condition that we come back to review the the tax at midyear . Secondly, in terms of Councilmember Richardson's recommendations, understanding that there is some money in the the reconciliation process. Housing is an important issue. I'm open to accepting that, as well as the recommendation or amendment friendly amendment for language access. And then as it relates to the Fleet Front Fund, I do understand that there's this is a this is a bold move. We as a city council have made a lot of major commitments to our residents, and we have a lot of needs in terms of residential streets. And so to councilman goes a friendly amendment. I do support that and I am making note of seems to be there needs to be seems to be some consensus around we're streets but I do understand that there is a measure a plan already in this should supplement and be on top of whatever that measure a plan is . And so I do not think one year is going to to hurt our fleet operations drastically. And I certainly hope not. And so I'm willing to accept these amendments and move forward with the vote. Amendments then are accepted and then we will we do have a motion any second. So let's go ahead and do a roll call vote. Mr. Mayor, can we get a little bit of clarity on just the I heard use the measure a plan to to fund streets if we can get a little more clarity on that just so we're. I know we already have a measure, a plan for for residential streets. This makes the. Clarity. The clarity, I think, is that this is not going to affect our measured rate plan that measure moving forward. This is on top. On top. Yeah. So you would be adding streets on top of this. Are you still adding the worst streets or are you using a different method methodology to to add in? Or is it divide by nine? I'm sorry, we just need that clarification. I know of a couple of worst streets in eighth district that I'd like to get paid for. I think. Yeah, I think what I have heard is it is the measure rate plan is intact. That does not change. Separate of that for the additional streets, it's off of worst streets as set by staff. And there is a system the way staff has identified those. And that's what we would look to is the the professional. That's what I heard. At least that would come from staff CPI. The pavement management plan, right. CPI. So we would look at the the pavement management plan, the PMP, we would identify those worst streets. And then honestly, that amount of money could go to one street. And I don't think that's your intent. So then we would look at the worst streets and try to get that geographically spread as is. Am I headed in the right direction? Yes. That's how I understand it. I understood. Thank you. Great. Rock cover, please. District one. I a district two. I. District three. I. District four. II. District five. I. District six. Okay. District seven. By. District eight. By District nine. All right. Motion carries.