Recommendation to support the 35th Annual Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival and Parade by examining ways to reduce city and staffing fees pertaining to the event, and report back to City Council within 30 days.
Thank you. So next, we'll have item number 14, please. Item 14 is communication from Councilmember Pearce. Councilwoman praise councilmember turanga and Vice Mayor Richardson recommendation to support the 35th annual Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival and Parade by examining ways to reduce city and staff fees pertaining to the event. Councilmember Pierce I have a presentation for us, so I want to thank the. Gay and lesbian pride. Long Beach Gay and Lesbian Pride for being here tonight. I'm delirious. This is the third time we've been here this late. I want to thank you guys for your work and your supporters for being here. I do have a presentation I think they have ready in the back. And so I want to do the presentation first and then have you guys speak and we'll try to go through it. You know, not super duper fast, but fast enough to get us home before one. I know vice mayor is like, what? Okay, in the back. Could you guys play on the video? We got a little video to wake you guys up with. Hopefully it works. Let's try it again. No. We'll give you, like, one more. We go. There we go. So I believe this video was done. By I'm not sure who. It was done by, but. Enjoy. Both. David Memory is my first here living in Long Beach and going by the is the first time there has been a. Felt really comfortable just being in a city that. We loved and feeling like just having challenges, whatever I. Had nobody judges at all. My Oscar and my stage name is Mia Farrow, and I'm also the current 46th elected president of the International Import of Palm Beach launch party. Was the first time ever something like. Artist like in the first year that he represented. And I was a lot of. You guys have enough? Yeah. So if you could go back to the presentation, please. Yeah. There you go. Next slide. Okay. So this year is the 35th year that we have had Long Beach Pride, rock and roll in our streets and really bring a sense of celebration to the community. I know in the eighties and particularly in the eighties, our community was struggling and having a moment to celebrate and a weekend to really lift up . The fact that we're stronger together and to celebrate the diversity of our community has been fantastic asset to our city. In three decades. And over the last three decades, Pride has been a grant giving organization where they've used their funds to give over $1,000,000 to other nonprofits, whether it was to youth services, mental health services, transgender services . And so we are really thankful that in Long Beach we have such a robust giving organization that supports all aspects of the LGBT community. And one of the most exciting things is that we have an organization that really is not a district organization. It's not a second district, a first district. A third district is an organization that brings an event that is an a regional event. And with that regional event, we get $12.3 million annually to Long Beach's economy and 23.4 million to the regional economy. We also make sure. That we celebrate the corridors that. Embrace that community, and we have new residents that come as a response to it. Be culturally diverse. Diverse? Yeah, I'm tired, guys. See? Okay. So one of the challenges that our organization that we're very proud of is struggling with is over the last four years, the revenue has fallen. This is reason cited to this are performance cost changes to ABC regular regulations as a result of an expanded process that they've had in making sure that we. Are. ID'ing everybody at the right areas and that we're protecting our residents and following code as needed. We've had lower ticket sales and I want to be clear that these changes are not necessarily a direct result of the city increasing fees, but that the costs have become more because we've changed the way that we've operated, from what I understand. So my goal today was to ask my colleagues to support Pride as a. Regional. Asset to our city and to explore a couple of options. One thing I want to be clear is that Pride Parade. And festival is not a city sponsored event like MLK, like the Veterans Parade. And so we have not in the past reduced any cost for this organization. All those costs have been paid for by this organization's ticket sales and and garnering individual support. So what I'd like to. Ask for today is to make sure that they provide their plans for 2018, no later than April 1st to special events. And we're actually trying to get them a little bit earlier. I would like to ask that the organization work with special events and economic development, which they have not done in the past, to identify cost saving measures like parking plans, smaller footprint, maybe shorter days, advertising opportunities. And then the next 40 day. 45 days. Return to council. I know in the agenda item it says 30, but I've talked with special events and I know that it's a little bit challenging. So we'll try to get as close to the 30 days as possible, but give us a little bit of extra time on that. I also spoke with the city auditor previously today and spoke with her about wanting to. Support this organization, continuing to grow and to thrive. And I know that there's conversations out there around the audit that you guys have been trying to work with somebody. And so our city auditor would like to sit down with you and try to identify some best practices so that. We can come back and see how we as a city really support you. I know that in cities. Like West Hollywood and other great cities. Their charter allows them to support. The organization in a different way than we do in Long Beach. And so as city attorney, I. Did want to ask one question, because they're not a city sponsored event. Does the charter hold us. Back from removing costs like police and fire and issues like that? I don't believe it's the charter that holds you back. I believe it's the policies established by the city council. Okay, so I had some this. Information given to. Me. So if in the next. 30 to 45 days when we're working with special events. If we could identify. What opportunities the city has to help reduce some of those costs, at least for the next year. That would be my intent of this item. And so I want to thank my colleagues for signing on to this. I know that it's an organization that we get to see our senators, our assembly members, our Congress members in this parade. And it. Really is a great opportunity, especially when every year we have different hate. Crimes that happen in our community. And I find that this is the moment when we really get to rally around with all the events that come with pride. And so, again, I want to thank you all for doing your due diligence for coming to the city and asking for some partnership. And I know that my colleagues, I expect, would support this, and I want to hear from any public speakers. Sorry. Thanks. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. Oh. Are we going to public first? Okay. Public comment, please. Uh, your honorable vice mayor and city council members. My name is Denise Newman. I'm the president of Long Beach, Lesbian and Gay Pride. I've been a member there for five years and it has been a tumultuous five years, but it's been a rewarding five years. When I became a member, I stepped into an organization that was completely in flux. We sat in our first city meeting and for me it was absolutely horrible because I heard about an organization that was out of alignment with the city, ABC guidelines, etc. because our festival was primarily supported by volunteers. The volunteers didn't have a stake in whether or not they did things right or wrong. And as a result, it kind of tarnished the name of Long Beach Pride. So for whatever reason, I got dubbed that person to come and be a part of Long Beach Pride and fix it. So my nickname became Fix It. I am so proud today to stand before you and say that we have done what I said we were going to do. When I came and spoke to you about four years ago, we now have a very flourishing relationship with special events and filming. We have an excellent relationship with Long Beach Police Department. I too am tired and fire. We went from a meeting where people glared at you to a meeting where we can now hug. But the first time we held a meeting at Long Beach Pride versus the Convention Center or at special events and filming. And that's something I think that we should be proud of. Councilwoman Pierce, you actually made a number of my points in regards to how we can partner together. I think we have a unique opportunity in front of us, as this organization has had to move from pretty much a mom and pop type of thing. We've had to kind of grow up. And unfortunately and fortunately, the organization is made up of volunteers. Volunteers like me. I have a full time job 10 hours a day. I got to be up at 445 tomorrow morning. However, we are bound by the level of talent that's within the organization. So we had questions in regards to why do we use so many consultants? Well, the primary reason why we had to do that is because we didn't have the talent within the organization to do some of the duties that were required of us to do . We didn't have someone who could do festival setup. We didn't have someone who could do parade. Right now, we struggle with we're slow to get talent and even slower to do marketing in order to put that information out to the community. Thank you so much for your testimony. I'm sorry, I forgot I had. You got like an extra. Minutes, so you're good. Okay. Thank you for your time. Speaker, please. Good evening. Honorable mayor, vice mayor and City Council. My name is Judy Horne and I'm a member of the board of directors of Long Beach Gay Pride. Thank you for allowing me to make. Not really a presentation, but an opportunity to address things in several areas. And not just the LGBTQ team, whatever population, but overall senior age groups. I've been connected to Long Beach gay pride since the late 1980s, and finally, six years ago I decided, well, I'll just join this organization and see what I can do within it. I've always been impressed with the outreach to all communities, but especially with the gay community population. I received my my first mailing from AARP. You know, when you turn 50, you get that. I thought that 23 years ago. Okay, 23 years ago, I got that. But I guess I want to bring out the fact that there are so many challenges that crop up as you age. Some of you may already know that. I don't know. Okay. But but I've also found that getting old is not not for sissies in any community. It takes guts. It takes determination to weather the storms as you would begin to age. I'm a good example of that. But Long Beach has always been the pride. It's always been a forerunner in community issues and help. And you saw some things on the video up there that explained that at Christmas time, we even have a toy giveaway in there and the community and those parents bring their kids because they know every year they can get a brand new toy, at least one brand new toy, and they come to Long Beach Pride to get it. There's just a small elementary school right behind us, and we have interacted with them and their principal and one time send them somewhere like to Knott's Berry Farm. So there's a lot of interaction there within the entire community. So but now going from the childhood years, this is my segway here from the childhood years that we help, we're going to go to the senior hood years. I made that word up the senior. Hood years. In 2018 at Pride. I'm especially excited about a whole brand new annual event beginning its maiden voyage at Pride 2018. It's called the Senior Fun Zone. The Senior Fun Zone. You know, a couple of years ago, I think that they had a place where they would play some oldies but goodies, music, and the seniors would sit around and listen a little bit. Well, that's not what this is. Key word is fun, and the key word is interactive because we're going to have bingo games, we're going to have karaoke, you know, all those people that can sing or think they can. Okay, we're having bingo games and karaoke and we games that be okay. Anyway, it. Really does sound like a lot. Of fun. It is. I do have to let you know that we were up on our. What? You all can come and join us if you're at least age 50. Saying 20 years. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Paula Goldberg and I serve as the executive director for the LGBTQ center of Long Beach. The LGBTQ center of Long Beach strongly supports this agenda item for the City Council to explore ways to reduce city and staffing fees pertaining to the annual production of the Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Festival on Parade. The center also strongly encourages the city of Long Beach to actively and consistently support this event on an annual basis by a sponsorship or significant reduction in fees associated with renting city property, street closures and staff expenses, as it has done in many major metropolitan cities in the United States. Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride is one of the oldest continuously operating LGBTQ organizations in the city and continues to serve as a vital institution responsible for the city's outward facing presence as it relates to demonstrating LGBTQ inclusion and integration within our city. As the city is aware, our Pride celebration also has a tremendous positive economic impact in the millions of dollars on an annual basis. Pride also serves as a vital charitable funder for hundreds of local nonprofits and individuals. Through their annual grants and scholarships program, many cities can currently provide fee reductions to their pride organizations, including the city of West Hollywood, which continues to lead the way in California as a model example for prioritizing LGBTQ equity through their many policy initiatives, work groups and public programs. The City of Long Beach has an increased. The opportunity to demonstrate leadership and make an impactful commitment to supporting our LGBTQ community by supporting Long Beach lesbian and gay pride again for these reasons and so many more. The LGBTQ center of Long Beach enthusiastically supports the current agenda item. Thank you very much. Thanks, Porter. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Honorable Vice Mayor. City Council members, city attorney and city staff. My name is Leslie Smith, and I've been practicing law in this state for 27 years. I'm here today to express my opposition to Resolution 14, which seeks ways to reduce fees and the 2018 Pride Festival. I've been investigating the Pride Organization and its affiliates, and I have special knowledge about the pattern and practices of this organization's current regime. The investigative knowledge I've ascertained reveals the following. Sexual harassment settlements involving several sitting board members, including its current president, Denise Neumann. Fraudulent activities involving the operations at the Pride Office and the festival event. Misappropriation of charitable funds and gross mismanagement of the organization, including failing to perform background checks and live scan of its members and volunteers. Violations of codes of ethics and other statutes. Exposing the PRIDE Organization and any affiliates to extensive liability. Engaging in a pattern of collusion in awarding special favors and lucrative final financial contracts to the field. Representatives of high ranking public officials such as Tanya martin, the field representative for State, Senator Ricardo Lara. Ms.. Martin alone has received over $100,000 from Pride in the past few years. Additional lucrative contracts have been awarded to other friends of Pride's current administration, some of whom are unlicensed or unqualified to perform the task for which they were paid. It is further evident that this practice of collusion has extended to many local political clubs whose boards are staffed with yet more employees of current elected officials who have the political power and control to influence and manipulate nonprofit contracts. The city of Long Beach has been unfairly blamed for Pride's inability to provide community grants and scholarships. It's no coincidence that Pride's net revenue has fallen the same number of years. This current regime has been leading the organization. Sadly, the regime is led by a president who has a history of fraudulent and deceitful conduct, as demonstrated in these public records. You would be rewarding illegal, fraudulent and unethical behavior by giving any concessions to pride at this time. At a minimum, before giving any concessions, you should first demand an independent financial audit the removal of those board members who were the subject of sexual harassment. Thank you for your time and you're more than welcome to submit back their comments in writing. Scans. Thank you. Next to your police. Thank you. I am not speaking for the religious community in Long Beach. I am speaking as an individual pastor. Tonight. When I first heard that the city was allowing a. Rainbow flag to represent same sex relationships. I just pondered for a moment. And. There. I felt in myself. I felt God was saying it's being flown because now it is time for the religious community to openly address the issue. That is why the flag is being flown. So since the flight, I don't know if it's still up, but since it was flown when it was last when I was last here a couple of years ago, I thought, okay, I'm here tonight. And it's that issues on the agenda, so let's address it. I just. Be clear. The meeting's not about the flag. It's about the. I understand. Okay. I just used that as a pointer. You. You took some of my minutes. Can I have them back? Thank you. To first of all, the definition of gay dating back to Merriam Webster's dictionary and all the way back to 1948 means the state of being emotionally happy. It had no sexual connotation whatsoever. It means the state of being happy. Like I'm gay to be here tonight. I'm not gay that it is going on 1:00. But I'm gay to be here tonight. To know how someone pleasures their sexual partner is none of my concern. To have a flag flown in that regard. I could say let's fly a flag for all people who are menopausal. Let's have a menopausal flag. That we're having to have a discussion of that. I like people. God likes people. And I'm not going to think one way or the other. On gay porn, same sex pride day that okay, this is what we're doing. We're celebrating people who have same sex relationships. I rather believe it's frivolous. That the only celebration we need is that these people are breathing and that they're that they're human, as I that we're able to stand here. I celebrate that. I don't take anything away from a person because they have a same sex relationship. Nor am I granting anything because they have a same sex relationship. God's intent for men and women stands. That will not change because we have decided that we want to go one way or the other. God said, Let us make man in our image, male and female. Next picture, please. And good evening, Vice Mayor Richardson and city council members. Thank you so much. It's kind of late, but I'm here to just share with you just a personal story. I was an associate member of Long Beach Pride, and Long Beach Pride gave me the opportunity to be a part of the organization, especially somebody who was just coming back in reentry into society. So very, very grateful to this this organization. But I'm here in support. I'm here in support from project. All of a recipient of the Long Beach Pride Grant for the last three years. And in our inception in 2013, we were 12, formerly incarcerated, LGBTQIA, gender nonconforming, loving individuals who needed a safe space . And we were embraced by Long Beach Pride. And we were given the opportunity to build a movement, but more importantly, a loving space that has now flourished with a documentary that has gone to San Francisco, Boston, another one releasing this Friday at Long Beach City College. But it's that funding that gave us the courage to build our voices, but more importantly, to build community and to build love within our community. And this past year, although Long Beach Pride did not give any of the community organizations a grant, I was fortunate enough to be the recipient of the scholarship for the last two years , and it's because of Long Beach pride that I'm thriving. I will be graduating June 7th from Long Beach City College and I am going to be attending Cornell University in the fall. And when I was a homeless person who was formerly incarcerated and was stigmatized by many people in our community, even those within our LGBTQ community, my marginalized voice was embraced by Long Beach Pride, and I will continue to support this organization. And I feel that when we reciprocate this law of reciprocity, where we can take a look at some some of the loopholes in opportunities for us to give back to our community, because let me tell you, I know we all enjoy pride . We all have a great time at Pride. So whatever we can do to take a look at saving and reinvesting back into our grants and scholarships, I'm hoping we can build more courageous change agents that will step forward, come forth and build. City of Long Beach. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Final speaker, please. Hello. My name's Tanya martin and I wish I had $200,000. Sorry. I came here tonight to thank the City Council and vice mayor for considering this item today. For those of you that don't know the history behind Pride. It's it's been a long battle. It's been a hard battle. And to be here with the organization today in front of you, it took a lot from us because of the fear and then in the things that we have been through since we've been a part of the organization. Me, myself, I met my first pride in 1992, straight from Alabama, and for the first time, I could hold the person I cared about. I could hold their hand. And I felt safe. I felt protected. And it gave me strength to do the same thing outside those festival walls and that protection so much that helped a lot of people. Today, all the pride's around the world to help us fight for equality and the right to marry. To marry, which I'm now married to a beautiful woman and we have four kids. So I just want to say thank you for this opportunity. Thank you. Special events and filming for working with us. And we hope that you will consider to vote. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. All right. To no further public comment. We'll take it back behind the rail. Councilmember Gonzalez Yeah, I, I really do love this item. I think it's definitely warranted that we look into options and supporting pride. You all have supported the community so much. It's not just pride that you're out. You're at Belmont Shore helping Belmont Shore as volunteers, you're helping MLK as volunteers, you're out in the community. So the reputation that I know of you has been such a stellar one. And so I just want to thank each and every one of you for your work. And it goes far beyond the weekend of pride, and we know that. But I will say to, you know, we have a I think what Councilmember Pearce brought forward was fantastic to look at a plan because we do need to look at, you know, what the city is going to look like. We treasure the pride. You know, we treasure the parade. We treasure the. A festival. This is something that makes our city so very unique, and we need to make sure that we support it as much as possible. So private funding. You know, having a large downtown parade or downtown festival, you know, how can we help you with with what we're doing and collaborating with special events and with some outside promoters to really assist everything that you're doing. So we'll continue the discussion. I thank you for bringing it forward and just know that I'm here to support you as well. Thank you, Councilman Brice. Thank you. I, too, want to thank you for being here tonight and the gentleman that spoke. Absolutely. I think every single one of us has a great time at Pride. It's a fantastic day. It's just there's no question about it. It's it's a really great event that we have in the city. And I'm I'm I'm proud to be a part of it. There are a few things that I do want to highlight, though, and I signed onto the item, so I support the item, but I think one of the speakers said this is a great opportunity because the event has changed. It's changed from where it started. The organization has gone through a lot of changes and there probably are a great deal of efficiencies that can be found if there is more direct partnership with the city. So I my my ask of the city would be if we're truly going to have a partnership that we sit down and we think about some efficiencies that can be had. Are we paying you know, are we are we paying too much? Are you paying too much for things that you could be saving money on? Are there vendors that you could be using that would ultimately result in your costs being less? So I really would hope that staff could come to the table and give us some honest feedback regarding some efficiencies so that we can move forward in that light. The city hosts and assists with so many special events and every single one of them is incredibly important and special to our city, not just for the communities that are bringing them forward, but for all the for all the diversity of our residents that we have. And I think we need to be mindful that when we do something special for one organization, we have to be willing, ethically and morally to do the same for everybody else. So what I don't want to do is enter into kind of a slippery slope where there's an expectation that year after year we're going to be subsidizing or helping or there's an expectation because I think what we could really do is maybe this is the year, what we get on track, figure out what the efficiencies are, and maybe change some things in the model that allows us to have better results in terms of our financial status after the parade. So that's what I'm really. Helpful for. And I think this is a great opportunity to do that. I also think that so there's so you know, I have two parades in my district and they don't receive any city subsidy. And I know it's always stressful for the organizers of that event. They have to run things so efficiently to make sure that they don't come out in the red. And so maybe even talking with other event program organizers to find out, you know, what is it that they do? How can we learn some of those backpack best practices? Now, you've probably already done that, but if not, that's something I would recommend because I know for them it's always to the penny what they've budgeted. So so I'm in favor of of using this year as a time to figure out what efficiencies can be made and seeing what we can do to help. I will say one thing, since I have you all here last year there were some amazing concerts that happened very late at night. In fact, they were so amazing that on the eastern most part of the city, our windows were rattling because the concert vibration was heard on the east side of Long Beach. It was. And I was communicating with special events. They were actually there trying to turn down the noise. I don't know what happened, but when I was getting bombarded, it was it was a Sunday night, so kids were trying to go to sleep. I kid you not. The windows in our house in Alamitos Heights were rattling. We were getting text messages from residents all over the city on the east side. It was on next door dot com. Everybody was saying, what is going on? We couldn't figure out. It sounded like the concert was at Rec Park, which was down the street from our house. So kudos to you for maximizing the volume of efficiencies. But please, please, if we're truly going to have a partnership, I think after such a beautiful weekend of pride activities, it was such a negative way to end that weekend. And so I asked you guys to please if we can be mindful of that partnership. But, you know, I love the event. My my staff and I participate. We have a fantastic time. Anything that we can do to help you guys keep this going, you've expanded it to a new level. Now you have a new norm. And that new norm is going to. Evolve a new model, a new business model. So I thank you for being here, for allowing me to say my piece. Thanks. Thank you, Councilmember Bianca. Thank you, Mayor. My first pride parade was back in 1990. I was the recruitment officer for the city of Long Beach at that time. And I asked the the organizers if I could have an information booth at the actual events park to try to recruit knowledge, recruiting police officers and firefighters at the time. And they were so welcoming. I did have some difficulty at that time to get some firefighters and police officers to join me, because at that time it wasn't an acceptable. Acceptable, except it's late, acceptable, acceptable, I think, to accept it or to come out at that time so that that didn't happen till later. But I see this parade and this event as one that is has been breaking barriers for for a long time. And it seems like every time that that comes forward, there's something new that's being presented or being and another barrier is coming down is being broken. So I'm I'm very supportive of this. And that's why I signed on to it, because I think it's it's an event that needs to be sustained, that we need to continue. And if the partnership with the city would make it all that much better. And and, you know, to a casual woman, prices are concerns. We probably do need to work together and and create those parameters that we can all work together within. So, I mean, I'm very supportive of this and I look forward to working further with gay pride. Thank you. Councilman Andrews. Yes, thank you, Vice Mayor. I'd really like to say more, but I didn't put this on the agenda for 12:00. So kudos to you guys. Good luck. And also in Austin, thank you. And I appreciate the item coming forward. You know, 35 years, something is working. The pride parade has grown every year and become more and more of a, I think, exciting event. I think because it is a volunteer organization, you're going to have some natural challenges with with that. And, you know, I'm glad that we're having this conversation because I think we can the city can the council offices can be of assistance to to making sure that there is a consistency. Right. When you have elected nonprofit boards. Information is lost. Often times the leadership changes and organizational changes. I know for a fact that some of the people who were very involved in planning this parade are no longer with us. And they were they were key key to key actors in the in the planning process, you know, over the years. And so I understand that hearing the the public comment understand that there are challenges within the organization. But I got to tell you, each and every year, it doesn't show, you know, and oftentimes, you know, those challenges are very, very painstaking when when you're actually planning an event. But from the outside looking in, if you're not involved in the nuts and bolts, I think most of us appreciate, you know, the experience that pride provides everybody year after year after year. And so to those involved in the Pride organization, I just would salute you for the the dedication that you have put forth, understanding that it is a volunteer organization. And, you know, nobody's or most of you aren't getting paid to do the work that you do. And I'm glad that Councilmember Pearce brought forth some some more recommendations that I can certainly support this evening. I will just to say that I think it's it's really good if our city auditor can get involved and provide some some guidance. I mean, many of our our departments are run a lot better because of her, her hard work and her eagle eye. And inside of our department, they can give you some best practices and practices and ideas on, you know, how to make the pride parade more efficient, but also ensure that I think the operations are more standardized and that hopefully, you know, we can we can celebrate, you know, 50 years in another 15 years. So with that, I'll be happy to support item Councilmember Silvano. Thank you. I'm just looking at an email I got from Danny at nine this morning, so thank. You for staying up late. But I was so impressed by it because she put seven letters into one email and I actually called her to compliment her on that. Our offices would run so much more efficiently if everyone did that instead of seven emails. This is a great system, so I have high hopes based on that efficiency. It's just how well you guys are doing in the future. And also, thank you for the video. It actually had a shot of the Pride headquarters building, which is in the fourth District. And Councilmember Andrews and I talk about this all the time. There's not too many shots of the fourth District or sixth District in citywide video. So thank you for that. And also, I know you reached out to our office recently and please continue to do that if we can help in any way. Thank you. Thank you. I'll just add my comments here. I know when it gets late, sometimes council members we turn into pumpkins or gremlins or whatever it is. But please don't count that against us. This is it's good. It's a good parade. We want to see it indoors. Got a great legacy in the city. So we want to want to do whatever we can to do that. And that also goes to the broader conversation around, you know, last year, the big issue was the Veterans Day parade and special events. We were able to figure out some ways to improve it and make it better. And so I see a good future there. And so if that's what this year is for the pride parade, then then I encourage a lot of cooperation to figure out how you can get to the next I mean, how many years? 35. So the next 35 years. We've already done public comment. We've heard from the council members, please cast your vote. And this this motion carries. Thank you. Okay, so these next few items, when we call it, I'm just going to look to the left and the right signal if you guys want to want to speak to it , because I'm just going to straight go straight to Stanford Court. So most of these these last ten. So I'm number 15 please.