Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all necessary documents to receive and expend proceeds from the U.S. Small Business Administration in the amount of $50,000, for the express purpose of participation in the Start-Up in a Day Prize Competition, of which Long Beach is an award winner; and Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the City Manager Department (CM) by $50,000. (Citywide)
We'd like Mr. John Keisler to make those comments for us. The innovation team leader. Mayor and members of the city council. Thanks so much. The Innovation Week is actually 20 days of activities. It goes from October the second through the 22nd. And this is a partnership with the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, L.A., EDC, the first innovation. Hold on 1/2. I think that's a different item. I said I have number ten, which was the US small business start up problem. My apologies. I'm looking at the wrong notes. My apologies. Startup in a day. I'm going back to the content item. It's very. Fast. My apologies. Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council hit the reset button. Started the U.S. Small Business Administration issued a competition nationally to to come up with a tool to help small businesses start up in a day. And there were there are 26 cities selected nationwide to receive prizes of $50,000 and one prize, which was received by the city of Los Angeles in the amount of $250,000 to develop a online business tool. And essentially the purpose of this is to make the application process for small businesses easier and to to bring city process online so that people may access it any time of the day. And so we we submitted and won an award, and we are now asking for the city council to to accept the award so that we can proceed with the project. I'm happy to answer any questions. And thank you so much for for allowing me to speak on this. I apologize for the confusion. No worries. I think there was a there's a confusion about consent as well. So any public comment on the item? See nonmembers. Please, Gordon, cast your vote there. Maybe they've already. Oh, that's right. We were going to pull it, and I thought I had gotten told, and it clearly did not. So. Yeah. So it's been voted on already. So, John, great job with that report. Great. Moving on to item number 22. 22. Okay. Thank you. Let's let's just let's do item 21 since John has already started.