Recommendation to declare ordinance approving and adopting the official budget of the City of Long Beach for the Fiscal Year 2019-2020, creating and establishing the funds of the Municipal Government of the City of Long Beach and appropriating money to and authorizing expenditures from said funds for said fiscal year; declaring the urgency thereof, and providing that this ordinance shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on October 1, 2019, read and adopted as read.  (Ordinance No. ORD-19-0020).  (A-16)
Motion carries. Item 19, please. Final budget vote. For financial management a recommendation to declare ordinance approving in adopting the official budget of the city of Long Beach for the fiscal year 2019 2020, declaring the urgency thereof and providing that this ordinance shall take effect on October 1st, 2019. Read and adopted as read. Mr. Goodhue and Ms.. Control. Mr. Goodhue, any comments? Mr.. Good to hear any comments. Please come forward. I would hold off approving any any budget factor. Until we decide. Not to try to reconvene the Council of Trent. In approving. A new city manager. The City manager that is in queue and will hopefully be formally confirmed. Is with us now. And hopefully will be in the future. If we have the right people sitting in the right place. Period. It makes no sense to do what is a reference tantamount to reconvening the Council of Trent. Period. It's a waste of time and a waste of money if you can't see that now, again, I would suggest. Particularly those who are criminally complicit in going to jail to resign now. Thank you. Thank you. This mango. I'm sorry, Miss Cantrell. No. Okay. Let me just. Before we vote, I just want to, first of all, just thank the staff for this amazing, amazing work. I know we were pretty late last time when we adopted the budget. And I do want to thank the entire finance team, particularly Mr. GROSS and Ms.. Yoon, for their work. And I want to also thank the work of the council. I want to personally thank the BFC Chair Mango and also Members Pryce and Austin and the entire body for their work in the many meetings that were hosted across the city. I believe there were over ten community meetings that happened and those took a lot of work by both council staff as well as city staff to organize. And I just want to thank everyone that's been involved with those. I also want us to say that, again, the Council is adopting a budget that is responsible. It's balanced. We continue to maintain our Double A credit rating, which is an independent review of how well this body continues to manage its finances. And we continue to, I believe, live within our means while also making important investments as they relate to public safety, our public infrastructure and programs that matter to our community within our parks and our community centers. The budget, also, thanks to the work and creative work of the Council and the BFC, is looking to really bring additional support and needed attention to things that happen in our community that are unexpected, like our firehouse challenge out in Bixby Knolls and in the Crown Heights area, as well as other needs as they relate to policing that happen throughout the year. And so I just want to thank everyone for their hard work, and we look forward to the year ahead. And with that, please, members cast their votes.