Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Sections 8.63.020, 8.63.030, 8.63.050 and 8.63.070; all relating to prohibiting the use and sale of single-use food and beverage containers, packaging and food service ware made of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam, rigid polystyrene #6, and non-recyclable and non-compostable material for prepared food distribution, and the distribution of plastic for bio-plastic straws, read and adopted as read.   (Citywide)
Thank you. Okay. Thank you. I know we have a we have a full agenda. So if folks are exiting, please, now would be a good time so we can continue on the agenda. So we're going to go to one more item, then we're going to go to public comment, if I can get item 15 really, really quickly . Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to prohibiting the use of and sale of single use food and beverage containers, packaging and food service where made of expanded polystyrene foam. Read the first time and lead over the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading. If I can have folks exit and speak, not talk to exit, please, that would be appreciated. There is a motion and a second. I don't have any public comment in front of me. Is there ever. Is Craig Cadwallader. Walter here? Oh, please, Craig, come forward. Right. Craig, what's your last time? How are you? Craig had Craig Cadwallader. I'm speaking on behalf of the Surfrider Foundation South Bay chapter. And thank you, Mayor Garcia and Garcia and Councilmembers. I just wanted to say I'm very happy for the improvements made to this ordinance. Hold on a second, sir. Everyone in the. Everyone that's here, please. We have someone speaking. If I could ask all of you, please, to exit the chambers and stop speaking out of respect to the person at the podium. Thank you. Thank you. These improvements are very important. It's items that we had hoped to get in the original ordinance, and I'm glad they finally have bubbled up. This is something we're working on not only locally, but for the unincorporated areas of L.A. County. And just today, the on the federal level, the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act of 2020 was announced by Senator Tom Udall and Congress member Alan Lowenthal, who is one of my heroes locally here. And it is in the same spirit as SB 54, AB 1080 that we're doing it for the state of California. So this is very important that the City of Long Beach set this example to help us move forward, to clean the environment and to make a better standard of living and to protect our wildlife. The ADA addition was very important. We're glad that was included. And I did want to point out two items. They made a comment earlier on this, but there are two issues I'd like to address in the definition for directors that refers to two chapters, chapter 1.25 and 1.26 to the Long Beach Municipal Code. That, from my reading, 1.25 is on nominating petitions and 1.26 addresses mass mailings. I believe the correct reference should be to Chapter 9.65, which is administrative citations and penalties. So I think that ought to be fixed. It's been dragging for some time. Then my only other comment would be the definition in paragraph Q, which refers to recycled code. The proper definition of that is a resident code. So it's a little thing, but it's important. There's no such thing as a recycled code, but it is resident code to identify the type of plastic resin for recycling purposes. So I think this is really important and I really applaud the Council for moving forward on improving this ordinance. We have 136 in the state now and this is extremely important. It is not harmful for businesses and it's good all the way across the board. So thank you and I hope you'll go forward with this in Adopted at the next reading. Thank you very much. Councilman Mango. I'm sorry. Actually, I'm sorry. Councilman Price of everything addition? Nope. Our councilmember hearing anything in addition of Councilman Mongo. I just wanted to know if those changes were insignificant in nature or significant. We can make those and continue with the first reading and bring back for a second reading next week. Is that okay, Councilman Price? Thank you. Excellent. There'll be adopted members. Please go and cast your votes. I just want to also add on this topic. I think it's the way that public opinion is turned on this topic I think is so great to see. I sent out a message a few weeks ago, a week ago on this on this. And I was I always used to brace myself for the responses. And we probably got 100 responses of mostly just glowing reviews about this. So very, very good work. I think the motion carries some excellent motion carries. And with that, we move on to the of the speaker's list for the evening and I have Mr. Boland, Robin King, Marcell Alonzo Snake, Ken Fay and Darlene Broom, if you can, please.