Recommendation to respectfully request City Manager to present a report to City Council within 30 days on the status of summer youth activities citywide, including Be S.A.F.E, summer youth jobs, summer programming, summer school, and violence prevention strategies. In addition, as part of public outreach and engagement, host a series of pre-summer community briefings in North, East, Central, and West Long Beach by the end of June to educate the public on the city's coordinated summer efforts.
Communication from Councilmember Richardson, Council Member Suber nor Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Urunga. Recommendation two Respectfully request the city manager to present a report within 30 days on the status of summer youth activities citywide. In addition, host a series of pre summer community briefings to educate the public on the city's coordinated summer efforts. Council Member Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Brought this item forward tonight in the same spirit as the after school item last week by a council member, Councilmember Price, as well as the senior staff. I mean, we have a real focus on on on programs right now, but we're heading into summertime. So that said, I want to make sure that we that the public understands the city's coordinated efforts that we have in place to ensure a safe and engaging summer for our youth. These efforts don't just include various department activities and summer jobs, but also a number of public safety strategies that our North Commander briefs me on regularly . Our city has an outstanding reputation for youth programing, particularly in our Parks and recreation department and our libraries, and essential that our public not only knows about these opportunities, but utilizes them. And I understand that my request is on a tight timeline, and I understand that. So I'm open to having some of these pre summer community briefings as a part of larger events that might already be planned through the month of June. So so that would be my motion. Yeah. There's been a motion in a second. Councilor Marie Ranga. I want to thank you for bringing this up. It's important that the community know what's going on this summer, because I think it's one of those situations where we have to keep our youth busy. Thank you. Councilor Andrews. Yes, thank you, Mayor. I also would like to thank our contribution to bringing this item forward, because it's important that we do have a variety of summer activities for our youth. And my greatest concern is that we don't have enough activities going on, you know, in each park. And I say it, I've said it several times before, and I will continue to say it. Like you say, I'm a busy child. It's a good challenge. And I'll keep that theme, you know, out the trouble. Okay. Thank you. We like that. Councilman manga. I think I'd like to add a small friendly to have them also provide something that we as council members can put into our newsletters and a Twitter and the such. Because each and every one of us has a constituency and a following, thousands of community members that could could really take advantage. And while a report is important for all of us to know, I think that short picture oriented links to where kids can go in the community. And then I'll also use this as a quick forum. I'm a supporter of people making a living. It's just also important to know that the city of Los Angeles and the. The decision that they made today to increase up to $15 an hour without minimum wage for minimum wage, without an exclusion for our youth programs, actually dilutes the number of youth jobs available because the feds don't take that into consideration. So if we're going to have this dialog locally about minimum wage, we need to be advocating at the federal level that cities that have a higher minimum wage would receive an apportionment of funding that would be equivalent to the work hours of the summer youth and or an exemption for summer youth programs. Because these entry level jobs for youth that are coming out of mixed shop workforce development are critical to their ability to hold a job long term. So just looking into how the summer youth jobs fit into all of this and finding a way that those aren't depleted dramatically with the the future of wages in our community. Councilman Gonzales. It's great that we're looking. We just looked at after school programs and we're looking at summer programs. And I'll tell you, you know, our city staff is amazing in the sense that, you know, when we especially with communities that certainly need it, like Washington neighborhood, I'm hitting it pretty hard and I know that we have be safe there. We have be safe at Drake Park and it's really working collaboratively with our departments as well. Health Department, we're going to be doing a canvass out in Washington neighborhood to make sure that people know about the summer program. So I would even encourage my council colleagues to do that as well. And I think our development services, our health department, Pacific Gateway for collaborating with us on that, because otherwise, you're right, sometimes these folks would not know about these summer programs. And I think every effort that we can take to do that at the council offices and just as a city is is great. So thank you for bringing this forward. Thank you. Any public comment on the item? CNN. Please cast your vote. Councilwoman Pryce. Motion carries unanimously. And finally, 25. Communication from Councilmember Richardson, Councilwoman Gonzalez, Council member, Super Nine Council member, your UNGA recommendation to request a resolution in support of the James Zadroga 911 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act.