Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute any and all documents necessary or desirable to enter into leases with public or private parties for terms not to exceed six months, with an option for one six-month extension at the sole discretion of the City Manager, to lease or occupy real property in response to the proclaimed emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and Adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents, including subcontracts and any subsequent amendments, to apply for, accept, and expend grant funding for financial assistance to respond to the proclaimed emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Citywide)
District six. By District seven. So District eight. High District nine, high ocean carries. Thank you. Item 14 Staff. Report from Economic Development. Recommendation to enter into leases with public or private parties to lease or occupy real property in response to the proclaimed emergency due to the COVID 19 pandemic and adopt a resolution authorizing to execute all necessary documents citywide. For the mayor and council. This is the ability for staff related to go go quickly to lease property when we have a need related to COVID response and to also accept grant dollars for groups that want to give us money. And then we would come back at the next available council meeting the next opportunity and get that ratified. So with that, we ask for your support. Okay. Thank you, Vice Mayor Andrews. You know, I just like to come in and and say, I'll be friends on this because I like let's reflect on some of the possibilities into the item. You know, I hate to see I keep bringing this up, but we really need to start looking at the private parking lot and attempted to do a contact with them for temporary parking. So, for instance, you know, I know that the work is in the detail and the liabilities, but looking at this item, I think that this is the kind of work that we are going to be doing anyway. So please that we can allow, you know, the city managers to enter into this contract to facilitate the parking. I would really appreciate it because like I have spoke with some of the few people in my district and they want the kids in a central role. These are three parking lots and only one of them are getting used and they also allow library in the Wrigley that also has two parking lots. I would really like to see that work a little more with the Private Friday during this crisis. And thank you again for this item. Yeah. But the members. And they have. Thank you, Mayor. Was that a motion by mayor? I don't know. Mayor, is that a motion? Yes. I would like to speak in that motion. Big, bad business, very clear. And I really welcome this type of creativity during this crisis. The last thing we know right now, the last thing we need right now is to be caught up in the people know. So I really support this item having the second motion. Thank you, Councilmember Austin. Thank you. I just had a question for staff from the staff. And for the benefit of those, I mean, what type of role on music would we be looking at on all the pieces I've heard properly on the record the multi. Yeah. So I'll give you thank you account number. I give you an example. We needed to bring on a warehouse to be able to accept all of the material that we as a health department get from the seat in order to put out the PPE to our first responders and to our medical providers here locally. Thankfully, we had already been working on that and we were able to have a council meeting and bring that to you. And but we did have to wait until we had a chance to get that signed. It was all paid for. We all had the money coming in from the grant, but we did have to line it up and call a special meeting to have you do that. So that's an example. We could also be looking at things like if we needed to do drive through testing and lease somebody like for a little while to do a huge drive through testing capability, we could do that as well. So those are some certain examples. I think what Mr. Andrews is talking about is parking. You know, that is certainly something that we could look at. We have in the past, you know, we wanted to bring our parking assets on very quickly. And so a lot of times the property owner requires a lot of us in order to do parking. You know, they want us to pay their insurance. They we have to look at A.D.A. responsibilities and those types of things. So we can certainly use this to look at those opportunities further as well. Thank you for that clarification. Or I just think that I'm supportive of this item, but I also support the comment and requests from our Vice mayor regarding parking, because I'm hearing from a lot of our residents who want to do the right thing, particularly when it comes to moving more vehicles to them purposes there, because everybody is home right now working from home on a school home either makes it a lot more challenging, can't get around and we have problems getting up. And so if we can find the creative would be retailers, large retailers and retail groomers, the beacon of light that would be doing that. And someone hit me hard on that. Can someone mute their phone? Thank you. Customer Anger. I just want to let my support to say to them I think it's a very creative way of being able to deal with open spaces. Thank you. Thank you. And that concludes comments for this item. So please do the roll call vote. Council District one. I can't tell district to. I. And so District three. I. Council District four. I cancel District five? I Council District six. Yes. Council District seven. High Council District eight. Oh. Council District nine. My motion carries.