Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to submit a grant application to the Federal Aviation Administration, for the of capital improvements to Taxiway C; accept said grant, if awarded, in an amount up to $25,000,000 in Airport Improvement Program for Fiscal Year 2019 funding; and, execute all documents necessary, including any amendments, to accept and expend the funds.  (District 5)
Okay. Thank you, guys. Have it. Next up is 34. Report from Long Beach Airport. Recommendation to submit a grant application to the Federal Aviation Administration for for the capital improvement to taxiway C accept said Grant if awarded in an amount up to 25 million District five. I know, I know we're anxious here but really briefly staff do you talk about why this is important? Because I thought it was is it's good for the council to make sure. Claudia Claudia Lewis, come on down there, our interim airport director. Why is this important? While we're waiting for her to come on down. Come on down. What a great job she's been doing as the interim airport director. Accessible, knowledgeable, very professional. Just. I've had so much great respect for you in the short amount of time, how seriously you've taken this and what a fantastic job you've done. Thank you. I appreciate that. Honorable mayor and members of the council. This is very important to us. This funding will go towards rehabilitation of Taxiway C, one of our largely used taxiways. We're currently on a two year program for grant funding. That's why this amount is fairly large. But with your approval, we can accept this grant money and continue to improve the airport and create the best passenger experience, both airside and landside. Are there any questions? Any questions? CNN Councilman Mongo has a comment. Maybe I was just commenting on how great of a job she did and I wasn't cleared. So I'll just say it again. I think. Thank you. I think there's no public comment. Councilman, actually in motion in a second district, too. I disagree. High District. Four. High District five six, seven, eight, nine. OC motion carries. 0a9 was an I. I think that is all of the agenda items are correct, Madam Clerk. Yes. Okay. So we're going to go now to the second public comment period, because any items that are not on the agenda.