Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents and any needed subsequent amendments with CAMEO, a professional auxiliary of Assistance League of Long Beach, to accept $13,696, in grant funds for the period July 1, 2017 through November 30, 2017, to support paid youth internship programs; and Increase appropriations in the Community Development Grants Fund (SR 150) in the Economic Development Department (ED) by $13,696, offset by grant revenue. (Citywide)
Motion carries. Great. 16, please. You. Report from Economic Development. Recommendation to authorize city manager to execute documents with cameo to accept $13,696 in grant funds to support paid youth internship programs citywide. Councilmember Ringa. Thank you. Better I yes, I want to pull this program out because it's very special in terms of what we do with here Long Beach and trying to provide internships for students not only from the Long Beach Unified School District, the Long Beach City College as well. I've had the student intern who worked for my office last year. I had one working for me this year. It's a wonderful opportunity for students to learn about not only city government working for the city, but in other internships that they might have throughout the city. It's a mentoring program. It provides mentors with an opportunity to meet with students, to learn about their experiences, and gives them an opportunity, a heads up, actually, on what to expect in the world of work. It exposes them to how to work computers, how to how to meet people, public speaking and just general good work behavior. So I strongly endorse this program and I hope that we are able to not only support it now, but grow it in the very near future. So I strongly support it and make a motion to support this funding. Vice Mayor. I'm good. That's when I said yes. I'd like to just echo the comments of Councilmember Yolanda. The bicameral program I was a beneficiary of in turn, this this past year as well. Actually, last week was his last day with us. But the young man was is a student at Jordan High School, lives in the community. And I want to say it's probably been one of the best in terms that we've had the opportunity to work with. This program works and they give provide quality in terms of beyond just just giving opportunities to young people. They really work hard to place the young people in the settings and work environments that they can thrive in. And so I'm happy to support this as well. Thank you. Going to do. I'm actually going to go take a bow because I wouldn't speak already. I'm sorry. You're absolutely right. Is your comment on the counter pull consent cameo item? Please calm down. Just go ahead. Good afternoon, Honorable Mayor and City Council. I'm going to jump right in because we have a pretty packed agenda. So I'm going to start with a quote. And in a 1982 interview with Claudia Tate, the incomparable Audre Lorde articulated how black women write from a space, a personal and emotional. This interview has been a powerful tool for reflection. As I spend time envisioning my own future and I quote Our real power comes from the personal or real insights from living come from the deep knowledge within us that arises from our feelings. Our thoughts are shaped by our tutoring. As black people, we have not been tutor for our benefit, but more often than not, for detriment. We have been tutored to function in a structure that already existed, but that does not function for our own good. Our feelings are the most genuine parts to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into these feelings and begin to extrapolate from them. Examine them for new ways of understanding our experiences. This is how new visions begin, really, how we begin to posit a new future nourished by the past. This is what I mean by matter. Following energy and energy, following feeling our visions begin with our desires. And if you repost this, please kindly credit me as the artist Melanie Cervantes and I am living, breathing proof of what Cameo is capable of. Moreover, I'm also a graduate of the Youth Leadership Lab in Long Beach, Class of 2016, and I sat in your chair in the 2016 Government Day, Mr. Garcia, and it has been integral to my emotional development. Additionally, Honorable Roberto Oranga has been the most memorable pillar in my life, and I really look forward to working with him and along with all you council members and an honorable member to run his words, Viva la Revolucion. And so I recommend City Council unanimously vote yes on this item and continue to support Cameo because we, as our son stated, are quality interns and we devote our entire lives really mostly because of lower socioeconomic status. And I've lived in the West Side my entire life, 19 years in the West Side, and I'm a proud diehard West Sider until the day I die. So thank you and I look forward to your vote. Thank you very much. And as to any public or other public comment, please come forward right here. Okay. My name is Robert Pete representing Jesus. Okay, as far as this. Okay, could be good, but I didn't like the way he rolled a few too many eyes. That sound like La Rosa to me, you know? So I'm here to. I'm here to go against Brown try. It may not be the way, but anything you do. I was this cesspit, actually. You know what, sir? You know, you have to start to the internships. And actually, we're actually going to talk about the internships. Go ahead. Talking about a point of order, Mayor. This conversation is, you. Know, you know, you're not in charge. You'll have a. Meeting, so you don't say nothing. So continue on the cameo internships. Okay. That's what I'm talking about. Okay. Now what I'm saying, my point is this. I just hope some black folks get involved because I see black people in this city. Your city, you're the mayor, my cabinet interns. You do America about changing that. And we have white people. Everybody else's district. So, sir, we have to talk about the cameo internship. I'm talking to you about that. You're sure you're not talking to the county? I'm saying I hope so. You're you're not muted, so. You're wasting my time. You're right. We can't hear you now, so go ahead. I'm trying to say something. On the topic. We're off topic. I'm not after to something but I'm saying I heard the. Yeah. Good time. Time's up. Okay. Thank you so much. Okay, so now go ahead and take a seat. Take a seat. All right. Black and white. Okay. Go ahead. Thank you. You're not. You're not talking on the topic. Thank you. You can do it. Thank you. Okay, guys. So listen up. Listen up. Just an announcement. Number one, people in the audience. There's no booing. If you like something. If you don't like something. Someone saying there's no hissing. No one's please talking. Okay? You got to just all keep it. Keep keep it respectful. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. So everyone needs to please keep quiet. And I just told everyone to be respectful. And also, you have to stay on topic or you will get cut off. That's just that. Just a rule. And if you start if you keep disrupting the meeting, I will ask you to leave. So keep disrupting the meeting if you want to leave. Okay. So we have the motion in the second, and I would like to also ask the council to please do the same. I will. I am going ahead and moving forward with the meeting. So next up, we have custom directive. Any additional comments? Nope. Councilwoman Price. Thank you. I want to focus of refocus on the positivity of this program. My office, too, has had the pleasure and the honor to host cameo interns. They've been of all colors. Brown, black, white. We're very proud of the program. And I want to give. I just want to let the speaker who spoke about Councilman Ranga know that it really warmed my heart to hear your comments about what a role he's played in your leadership and in terms of leadership for you. And I think that says a lot for all of us council members, because as you might be able to imagine, there are times when we sit here and listen to things and wonder why it is we're doing what we're doing. And when we hear comments like those coming from you, it reminds all of us of the great work that we do because of people like you. So thank you and thanks for being here and thanks to all of you. Thank you very much. There's a motion and a second. Please go ahead and cash for votes on the consent calendar item. Motion carries.