Recommendation to receive Charter Commission appointments and reappointments approved by the Government, Personnel and Elections Oversight Committee pursuant to Section 509 of the City Charter and Section 2.03.065 of the Long Beach Municipal Code.
Thinking that we're doing the two commission items. We'll start with the charter commission item and then the general commission item, which is 17 and 15. Communication from Council Member Super Nature of Government Personnel and Elections Oversight Committee Recommendation to receive Charter Commission appointment and reappointment approved by the Government Personnel and Elections Oversight Committee. There's also a. Communication from city attorney recommendation to adopt a resolution making findings. Now. I'm sorry. Just item. 17 recommendation to receive the charter commission. Appointments. Thank you. Councilman. Okay. Thank you. We would like approval of this motion from the committee. Thank you. Thank you. And as we as we approve this, I want to go ahead and just read a little bit like we have traditionally have about each county commissioner. I know that pre-COVID, most of our commissioners would come to the council meetings. There might be a few of them that are here for their appointment. If they are, feel free to to stand or wave over or give us a wave. We know most are at home watching, but I wanted to still recognize them and read their their short bio as we appoint them to the Citizens Police Complaint Commission. We are appointing Michael Soto. Michael Soto as a Council District three resident and has called on him for over a decade. He is a police special investigator with the Office of Inspector General, which provides oversight to the Los Angeles Police Department on behalf of the L.A. Police Commission. Michael is also an attorney in California and is practice law in the area of criminal defense for over ten years, primarily as a deputy public defender in both L.A. and Orange County. Michael is a graduate of CAO of University of California, Hastings College of Law. I'm sorry. You refer to California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. Also, we were also pointing to the Citizens Complaint Commission, a Dr. Mary to Harry. Dr. Mary to Harry is a resident of Council District four and is currently working as a clinical director nurse practitioner for the L.A. County Department of Health Services. Mary's also served as a sexual assault forensic nurse, completing exams and collecting forensic evidence for both victims and suspects in collaboration with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Dr. Harry holds a doctorate in nurse practice from the University of California, San Francisco. And also being appointed is Michael Bates. Michael Bates is a Council District six resident. He currently works as a design and environmental consulting engineer and the technical services. Mr. Bates previously served on the city's Board of Examiners Appeals and Condemnation as a member and later as chair. Michael holds a B.A. of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in Indiana and also Michelle Anderson. Michelle Anderson of the Council District eight resident. She is a prosecutor with the city of Los Angeles, working at the deputy city attorney and the L.A. City Attorney's Office. Michelle is a member of the Sierra Club, Black Women Lawyers, Negro Lumbee chapter and is active in many other organizations. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from UC Irvine and a Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. Being appointed to the Planning Commission is Alvaro Castillo. Alvaro is a fifth District Council resident. He previously served on the Airport Advisory Commission. Mr. Castillo, the small business owner and a parent of two L.B. Unified School District students, he is employed by the extended Stay America by In America as a divisional director for Human Resources in the Western US, yielding a bachelor's and master's degree from Cal State Long Beach in Business Admin , where he continues to be involved in alumni activities. Being appointed to the water commission is Courtney Pugh. Courtney is a second district resident and Courtney has lived in Long Beach for over a decade. She's a partner at the nationwide public affairs firm and leads her California operation. Prior to that, Courtney spent over a decade working for organized labor and was the first woman and Asian-American to serve in many roles, including as the executive director of SEIU California and the political director for the L.A. County Federation of Labor. She graduated with a B.A. from Bell State University in Indiana. Our re appointments are to the Harbor Commission. Bobby Olvera and Frank Colonna both being reappointed and to the Citizen Police Complaint Commission, Veronica Garcia and Danny Buchanan. And also being reappointed is to our Ethics Commission, Margot Morales, James Shotwell and Susan Wyatt. So those are all of our charter appointments. I'm not sure if any of them are here as I read their names. I know we're not generally generally for during COVID. We don't have folks coming or anyone here in case we want to stand. Yeah, please stand. If I called your name. Oh, yeah, I see some of you aren't here, actually. Let's give them a round of applause, and I'm going to have you guys just come forward in just a minute. But thank you all for being here. And I mean, honestly, you're just an incredibly impressive group of individuals. Just really, really proud to appoint all of you. We're going to do the additional commissioners in just a minute. But we've got to do that. These these charter commissioners first. Captain Boston. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I just want to take this opportunity to say how proud I am to second the motion, also to serve on the committee that made the approval for these charter commission appointments and welcome all these new commissioners and reappointed commissioners to their roles and respective roles. I know that on the CBC we are putting forth from some very strong and competent individuals who are going to have a big job in front of them because this commission is going to go under some dramatic change over the next year or so. And so I thought it was very important to make some recommendations, at least on my end, for somebody who was going to be very strong. And I want to just take this opportunity to congratulate the eighth District representative. There's Michelle Anderson. I know you're doing very, very well, but congratulate everyone in the hall. This is this is a great responsibility. Charter commissions are part of our Constitution, I guess, is the city. And the role that you have are extremely important. So. Thank you. Thank you, councilman. Councilman. Sorry. Thank you. I just want to congratulate to all the commissioners who have been appointed and reappointed. And one is just thank Michael Bates for serving to represent the sixth District for the Citizen Police Complaint Commission. Appreciate your service and stepping up for the for for this and to all of you for your time and your service to the city. Thank you. Councilman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I, too, want to congratulate everyone. I know that the representative from the third Council District for the PCC is someone with whom I've had the. Pleasure to work with on the opposite side. Of the courtroom. And he will bring to the PCC, I. Think, a very balanced approach, having been a public, having served as a public defender for so many. Years, and now being involved in police reform. And police investigative issues. I think he's going to be a fantastic addition. So congratulations. Michael. I think you're going. To do a great job. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Please cast your vote on these commissioners. Motion is carried. Great. Congratulations to all of you. And just we're going to take a photo, so just hold on 1/2 if you can just stay here. Thank you all very much. And now I want to we have the next item, which is our general commissioner's.