00:06
give me one second to get him up onto
00:08
the
00:15
oh jon i think you beat me to it
00:21
all right you got me go ahead
00:22
commissioner
00:24
hi good evening everybody um i'll be
00:27
very brief this evening
00:29
there's just uh several events that
00:31
occurred within the city of long beach
00:33
in the last week
00:34
involving the long beach police
00:36
department which my office has received
00:38
numerous calls on
00:40
and i i feel need to clarify
00:43
and and get the facts out there on each
00:46
one of these instances
00:48
firstly this past saturday which was
00:51
october 3rd
00:52
2020 we uh and the first saturday in
00:56
october
00:56
as we know it was traditionally the aoh
00:58
festival and parade
01:00
that festival parade were cancelled for
01:03
all the obvious coven 19 reasons
01:07
i just want to go on record and say
01:10
thank you to both the aoh for their
01:13
cooperation
01:15
their understanding and working with us
01:17
and getting the message out that this
01:19
event would be cancelled
01:22
secondly i'd also like to thank our
01:25
licensed premises our restaurants
01:28
our bars throughout the city and
01:30
specifically in the west end
01:32
the vigilance uh has been unparalleled
01:36
certainly uh during this pandemic and
01:40
on saturday i had spoken to all the uh
01:42
the owners of these restaurants and bars
01:44
and explained the need to be extra
01:46
vigilant because
01:48
well a lot of people know the young
01:50
adults that
01:51
it's the first day of october and
01:53
they're gonna come out for an impromptu
01:54
party
01:56
i can say that we did not have one sla
01:59
state liquor authority violation
02:00
in any restaurant or bar uh i was out
02:03
there
02:04
um they really were diligent in doing
02:08
their duties
02:08
and um it was an excellent job so it's a
02:12
tough time for all of them
02:13
and they did a great job and i want to
02:14
thank them there were a lot of impromptu
02:17
house parties from the young adults that
02:18
came out
02:19
we had police officers bike patrol extra
02:22
bike patrols out
02:23
and we policed it accordingly and it
02:25
went pretty much
02:27
without incidents they were out loud
02:29
house parties but
02:30
it really went smoothly and um it was a
02:33
cooperative effort
02:34
from everybody from the bar owners the
02:36
restaurants
02:37
our police department and the city
02:40
management
02:42
secondly i'd like to speak to an event
02:45
that occurred this last sunday october
02:47
4th
02:48
i've received numerous calls about this
02:51
um
02:53
at 2 p.m this past sunday there was a
02:55
home invasion robbery burglary which
02:57
occurred
02:58
within the city of long beach um
03:01
the door was pushed open a man was
03:04
assaulted
03:05
they committed a robbery our police
03:08
officers responded swiftly and promptly
03:10
and made a summary arrest at the scene
03:12
of one of the subjects involved we have
03:15
one more subject that we
03:16
have identified and our detectives are
03:19
looking for
03:21
there has been some concern from our
03:23
residents
03:24
believing that there's possibly a uh
03:27
serial burglar robber on the loose i
03:30
just want to reassure everyone
03:32
that in fact uh all parties involved in
03:35
this incident were known to each other
03:37
they were acquaintances
03:38
uh there is nobody out there who is a
03:40
serial burglar
03:41
that you need to be concerned about we
03:43
know who this person is
03:45
and i can't really go further into it as
03:47
it is obviously an active investigation
03:49
but if there's any concern i did i have
03:51
received calls about it
03:53
um there is there isn't anybody out
03:55
there
03:56
that you need to be concerned about
03:58
committing burglaries at homes
04:01
uh the last thing i want to address and
04:03
i've received
04:04
many calls on this um on october 1st
04:08
last thursday at 6 00 p.m there was
04:11
a demonstration a protest
04:15
and a subsequent march that occurred
04:18
and the theme of it was police reform
04:21
which we obviously respect everyone's
04:23
right
04:24
to protest to demonstrate and to
04:27
exercise their constitutional right of
04:29
free speech
04:31
um this event started at 6 p.m at
04:35
kennedy plaza
04:36
and the actual um
04:39
protest itself and the speeches
04:43
uh ended closer to eight 8 30
04:46
and a march subsequent to that
04:49
went down park avenue up long beach
04:52
boulevard
04:53
and ended at the mlk center at
04:55
approximately 9 20 p.m
04:58
um we had to staff this accordingly
05:01
it turned out there was a very small
05:04
turnout
05:06
maybe 50 or so protesters
05:09
came out but the police department had
05:12
to be ready for the worst
05:14
i mean i say the worst i mean the
05:15
largest crowds and to police it
05:17
safely so there was an overtime cost
05:19
that was incurred
05:20
and it cost the city eight thousand
05:23
eight hundred thirty two dollars to
05:25
uh police this uh this protest
05:29
and to uh subsequently uh police the
05:32
march
05:34
i have to say the the one thing that was
05:36
a little unsettling to me
05:38
during and i was there during the actual
05:41
um protest itself there were profanities
05:46
and veiled threats used and i can tell
05:49
you from my 34 years doing this
05:51
that's no way to bridge any gaps and
05:54
um i respect everyone's opinion about
05:58
police reform and there's
05:59
there's always room to do better and i
06:01
know that
06:03
but cursing threatening even veil
06:06
threats
06:07
um are really not the way to do it and
06:09
we have video
06:10
of of all of it and it's being reviewed
06:13
by the lbpd
06:14
detective division as we speak i can
06:16
only say an appeal
06:18
to all all our civics throughout the
06:20
city
06:21
uh my door's open and i think what we
06:23
need to do
06:24
if we want to bridge uh these gaps
06:27
between communities
06:28
is walk through that door come to me
06:32
i think a dialogue an open conversation
06:35
is the key to community policing and the
06:38
key to solving any issues and problems
06:41
your problem is real to you it's very
06:44
real
06:45
to anyone who has an issue and i'd like
06:47
to hear it
06:49
profanities threats it's just no way
06:53
to get the message across and that's my
06:55
opinion
06:56
um i'm here for all civics and i think
06:58
what we need to do is
07:00
do it better and kind of come together
07:02
and not come apart
07:04
those are the three issues that have
07:06
come across my desk this week that i
07:08
felt the need to address today and thank
07:09
you donna for uh
07:10
allowing me to speak thank you thank you
07:14
um miss freeman are you
07:17
on i see the pictures
07:20
i think so for some reason my camera
07:23
seems to be having a problem um my
07:26
background's there just i'm not there
07:28
but i'm here um and as long as you can
07:30
hear me
07:31
i'll go okay go ahead so i just wanted
07:35
to give a couple of updates uh
07:36
one we've been getting some emails
07:40
and some calls i understand about uh the
07:43
polls
07:44
and the elections so we will have
07:46
polling places
07:47
uh and i have personally overseen the
07:49
execution of polling agreements uh for
07:51
city hall and also the mlk center
07:55
uh there is no issue with either
07:57
facility and
07:58
both will be operational and both have
08:02
as i said
08:02
we have polling agreements uh with nasa
08:05
county board of elections for both
08:07
uh so there should be no issue there uh
08:09
in addition to that i know that we've
08:11
gotten
08:12
a number of additional emails this week
08:15
uh regarding the mlk center and the
08:18
status
08:19
with them um particularly in light of
08:21
the demonstration that was held
08:23
last week so just to again reiterate i
08:27
know i've gone over this before but just
08:28
for public comments especially
08:30
considering that we are still getting
08:31
emails that
08:32
um seem to indicate there's some
08:35
confusion
08:36
um oh and just backtracking i'm sorry
08:41
for the polling places in addition to
08:43
that we will have you know proper
08:45
policing and security there so there
08:46
should be no issues whatsoever
08:49
um again just going along with the whole
08:50
idea of the protests the rally from last
08:52
week
08:53
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08:55
we are continuing to try to work to
08:59
ensure
09:00
that the community particularly the
09:03
students of the community and the
09:04
children of the community that are
09:06
currently
09:07
um it's our understanding from many
09:09
sources struggling with remote learning
09:12
and or
09:12
you know distance learning given
09:15
potentially you know an inability or
09:18
not having the availability of internet
09:21
and or devices you know digital devices
09:23
that allow them to
09:25
have the same advantages that other
09:26
members of the community may have
09:28
so we are still working toward being
09:31
able to service this community properly
09:34
and
09:34
get these types of you know resources
09:37
available for this community so
09:39
we have continued to reach out to the
09:41
mlk center continue to request that they
09:44
work with us
09:45
to develop and to properly implement
09:48
a reopening plan a programming plan
09:52
a site safety plan we have been in
09:54
communication with nassau county
09:56
inside recording the same simone
10:00
i'm sorry i'm sorry to interrupt i'm
10:02
really sorry but i think it's important
10:04
can you please clarify who you're
10:07
talking about
10:08
you said mlk center but all i know is
10:10
that there's an mlk center
10:12
inc non-profit is that what you're
10:14
talking about yes i'm sorry the mlk
10:16
center
10:16
inc not-for-profit so yes and sorry i
10:19
just referred to them as mlk center
10:21
so yes the mlk center inc not-for-profit
10:24
we are continuing to reach out
10:28
i reached out again today continuing to
10:31
try to resume discussions with them uh
10:34
regarding as
10:35
like i said their reopening plan getting
10:37
a programming schedule that works
10:38
for the community also works to
10:41
accomplish the needs that you know nasa
10:43
counties
10:43
has has seized the need for uh you know
10:46
the family
10:47
i'm sorry youth services funding that
10:49
they receive
10:51
um you know our you know what we have
10:53
now
10:54
you know the information we're receiving
10:55
from the community and the types of
10:56
needs that are currently
10:58
need to be met as i said we continue to
11:01
do this
11:01
we had started our
11:06
outreach in july we had some discussions
11:10
in august
11:11
and the mlk center inc board had and
11:14
their chairman
11:15
had requested that we hold off on
11:18
further discussions until they retain
11:20
legal counsel
11:21
and you know we continue to reach out
11:24
there has been
11:25
no action taken because i know i've seen
11:27
a couple of emails in the last couple of
11:28
days that have indicated that the board
11:30
has taken some type of vote
11:32
taken some type of action to try to get
11:35
them out of the building
11:36
that is absolutely untrue
11:39
there has been no vote there has been no
11:41
action taken
11:42
the only action that's been taken is to
11:44
try to reopen
11:46
the building in accordance with the
11:47
governor's reopening plan
11:49
which just provided for the reopening of
11:54
educational facilities in september and
11:57
also some
11:58
minor recreational activities so
12:02
you know as you're aware the building as
12:04
in as
12:05
every other building in the city was
12:07
closed to the public
12:08
due to the governor's poor's order in
12:10
march um
12:11
and we have complied with the governor's
12:13
orders and reopening
12:15
with every staging phase so you know
12:18
phase two we you know started working on
12:21
our site safety plan to open the
12:23
building for administrative work only
12:26
um you know we actually didn't open as
12:28
early as we were able to because we
12:30
wanted to make sure that we had a full
12:32
site safety plan that protected everyone
12:34
in place
12:35
so that is what we are trying to
12:38
accomplish
12:39
now when we are trying to get a site
12:41
safety plan in place
12:43
and a schedule of programming in place
12:45
and trying to assist in any way that we
12:48
can
12:48
so that the mlk center inc
12:52
can continue to provide services and
12:54
also we can assist in
12:56
ensuring that this community gets the
12:58
services that they deserve and that they
13:00
need
13:01
so that's where we are
13:04
um simone i just have one quick question
13:07
for every program that's
13:09
out there whether it's educational or
13:12
whether
13:13
it's um
13:16
whether it's educational or whether it's
13:19
activities
13:20
there is a site safety plan for each
13:22
correct
13:24
yes and the site safety plan must be
13:26
specific to the type
13:27
of activity um or whatever activities
13:30
being conducted in the building so if
13:31
it's office work
13:33
you know that's that's one site safety
13:35
plan if it's for example with our beach
13:37
and our boardwalk
13:38
we had a completely different site
13:39
safety plan um even our our
13:42
farmers market has a set a separate site
13:45
safety plan
13:46
so yes and each activity so for the rec
13:48
center the limited activities like
13:50
swimming
13:51
that we have going on in there we have a
13:52
site safety plan for that type of
13:54
activity as well
13:57
okay are there any questions
14:02
i just have a i just have an update um
14:05
i i i'm not copied on every al on a lot
14:08
of emails but i just
14:09
wanted uh simone i just wanted to know
14:12
that i was copied on an email
14:14
at 5 23 this afternoon um where
14:17
uh mr of the law offices of frederick k
14:20
brewington uh responded to an email
14:24
uh yes i do have that he indicated that
14:27
next they're working toward coming up
14:29
with some dates and they hope to tell us
14:31
next week
14:31
basically that's how i read it i know i
14:34
thought you've been reaching out to him
14:35
for over six weeks
14:37
is that true we've been reaching out to
14:39
him since july yes
14:41
thank you um
14:44
donna i just have one general basic
14:46
question for simone
14:49
sure mike um when you enter
14:52
a building whether it's city hall the
14:55
rec center
14:56
the mlk center inc or any are
14:59
all of the protocols the same for
15:02
example
15:03
when i enter let's say city hall they
15:06
take my temperature and so on and so
15:09
forth i sign in
15:10
would that be the same for everybody
15:13
that would enter the
15:14
mlk center inc as well yes
15:18
right now for the purposes of office
15:20
work
15:21
the city has a city-wide office based
15:24
office work based site safety plan so
15:27
with that
15:28
protocols are in place that are specific
15:31
to office
15:32
type work so you know as we're working
15:33
and functioning every day as
15:35
i mean it's administrative office work
15:37
in the building yes any of our buildings
15:39
that are functioning for that purpose
15:41
um and during whatever hours they are
15:43
open because some of the hours are
15:44
limited in certain buildings
15:47
we are operating under one site safety
15:50
plan for office work so
15:51
yes it would be the same take your
15:53
temperature in in town you know in that
15:55
time
15:56
city hall sorry uh you take your
15:58
temperature
15:59
you sign in um and put down your
16:03
information
16:04
for the special you know that's working
16:05
at the desk that provides for contract
16:08
contact tracing and also ensures that
16:11
you don't have a temperature
16:12
um and i believe you're also asked a
16:15
couple of questions
16:16
yes
16:21
so i just want to make sure i understand
16:25
this correctly because there was a
16:28
based on what i just heard there was a
16:29
different narrative
16:31
put out at this
16:34
protest that was on thursday so if i
16:36
understand correctly
16:38
so tell me if i'm correct
16:41
the hold up at mlk on getting
16:44
programming going
16:46
is that mlk inc
16:49
has not provided the city with a list of
16:53
programs
16:54
that are in accordance with the state
16:56
executive orders and site safety plans
16:59
for those programs yes
17:02
so it's mlk inc is the hold up right now
17:05
we're waiting on mlk inc and have been
17:09
yes thank you because that's not what
17:11
was put out at the protest
17:13
you were correct it was not but that is
17:16
the truth it is we are waiting on them
17:18
okay uh donna or
17:22
looks like phil dropped off uh i heard 8
17:25
800
17:26
in police over time that was just the
17:28
police or
17:30
was that all over time including like
17:31
the maintenance department that also had
17:33
to put barricades up and things like
17:35
that
17:35
that was just police yeah that's just
17:38
police
17:39
we don't have the numbers for the uh
17:42
additional staff yet
17:44
okay so we're probably looking i'm
17:47
ballparking it here but we're probably
17:48
looking at 12 000 bucks
17:52
uh yes between 12 and 15
17:56
because 8800 is really closer to 9 000.
17:59
um
18:00
and so that's for overtime so you
18:04
you know so everybody else so
18:07
so for 50 protesters it cost the city
18:10
about 250 bucks a protester right i mean
18:14
uh it appears phil is still on
18:17
uh well i think i think that the bottom
18:21
line here is that everyone has a right
18:22
to protest
18:24
i don't know who protested who the
18:26
protest was by i don't know if it was by
18:28
the nonprofit organization
18:30
or if it was done by a bunch of
18:31
individuals
18:33
so i'm not i'm not arguing that people
18:36
don't they certainly have a right to
18:37
protest they do
18:39
um absolutely um
18:42
just people need to understand there's a
18:44
cost
18:46
rather yes when you're a private citizen
18:48
and you want to protest there will be a
18:50
cost to
18:50
all of the taxpayers of the city right
18:53
the taxpayers are picking up the tab
18:55
for all of these um okay
18:58
i just uh phil is on if you have another
19:01
question for him
19:02
no i i was just uh i was i was just
19:04
trying to figure out
19:06
what this cost us um because i know
19:09
obviously the
19:10
the uh the earlier protests the larger
19:13
one that also
19:14
there was state police involved and the
19:16
county police involved that i'm sure had
19:18
a
19:19
very large price tag to the taxpayers as
19:22
well
19:22
yes i mean there's a balance there's
19:24
always going to be a balance between the
19:26
cost of doing business and exercising
19:28
our freedom
19:29
absolutely so um but it does have a cost
19:32
a real cost right right absolutely no no
19:36
i'm not
19:37
not at all implying people shouldn't be
19:39
exercising their rights not at all
19:41
correct i know um
19:45
um john was traffic interrupted at all
19:47
or phil phil
19:48
uh is the commissioner on was traffic
19:50
interrupted at all during this
19:52
protest yeah am i on can you hear me yes
19:56
you're unmuted all right great um yes it
19:59
was
19:59
actually it was one of the more involved
20:02
um marches that we've had simply because
20:06
um between six well started at six but
20:08
at eight o'clock at night we had to shut
20:10
down
20:11
park avenue from national boulevard
20:13
going east which as you all know
20:16
is the center of our business district
20:18
and we had it shutter
20:20
going down east all the way to long
20:21
beach boulevard
20:23
and when we came to long beach boulevard
20:25
which is and park
20:27
which is the biggest intersection we
20:28
have in the city we had to shut
20:30
everything down and divert traffic
20:32
um as uh the protesters marched
20:35
northbound
20:36
uh on long beach boulevard um in the
20:39
northbound lanes of traffic
20:41
up to market street and then at market
20:43
street we had a cut down
20:44
shut down traffic at pine no cars could
20:47
go southbound
20:48
and we had to divert the the group of
20:50
protesters
20:51
westbound on market around jj evans and
20:54
back around
20:55
so it was a very involved
20:59
traffic assignment and traffic was
21:01
absolutely
21:02
um uh shut down
21:06
for quite a bit of time um on the main
21:09
areas that we have which is park avenue
21:11
in the center of town and long beach
21:12
boulevard
21:15
just a question on that um
21:18
do we have some kind of criteria on when
21:22
we do or do not close the streets for
21:24
activities let me i guess i'm
21:26
why why would the streets close for 50
21:28
people
21:30
when they could have used the sidewalk
21:32
it seems and
21:33
not disrupted traffic right so you know
21:36
uh president bendo we traditionally
21:40
um hope for the best but we have to plan
21:43
for the like i said earlier when i say
21:45
the worst i mean the largest crowds
21:47
not the worst but the largest so we've
21:49
had crowds of 800 to a thousand
21:52
and the worst thing that you can do is
21:54
not plan for that
21:56
and not have a contingency plan set up
21:59
in regards to shutting streets down and
22:02
you have a thousand people come out into
22:03
the middle of park avenue
22:05
and it's difficult to stop them and then
22:07
you have public safety uh
22:08
issues yeah so we didn't know we're
22:10
gonna have 50. when we did have 50 the
22:12
march was already scheduled we were
22:14
committed to having it go that way we as
22:16
a city
22:17
committed to um uh mr hodge and
22:21
and and the groups that were protesting
22:24
that we would in fact
22:25
go that route um so we only had 50
22:28
we really anticipated having way more
22:32
so that's the reason if we knew prior to
22:35
it starting
22:36
that they were expecting 40 50 60
22:39
demonstrators it could have been a whole
22:41
different story but
22:42
we didn't know that so so did did you
22:45
get in
22:46
in your discussions with the organizers
22:47
did they give you an
22:49
estimate on how many people they
22:51
expected
22:52
yeah you know quite evasive to be quite
22:54
frank with you
22:55
um and i was told we can get anywhere
22:57
from several hundred to a thousand
23:00
and and that really it was it was um
23:03
publicized quite broadly on social media
23:06
and we had our uh tarot attack
23:10
technical assistant response unit
23:12
lieutenant moderning monitoring
23:14
all the chatter on social media uh for
23:17
the days leading up to it and
23:18
actually that day and there were plenty
23:21
of hits on it
23:22
and we had every reason to believe
23:25
that in fact that it could have been a
23:27
larger number um
23:29
obviously it was not bill phil this is
23:33
karen um
23:34
is it fair to say that the uh closure of
23:37
maine thoroughfare such as park avenue
23:39
had um negatively affected um many of
23:43
our local businesses who are already
23:44
struggling
23:46
yes as a matter of fact i can tell you
23:49
personally um
23:50
because i deal with the restaurant
23:52
owners daily
23:53
um i spoke to a number of them from long
23:56
beach social on
23:57
um and they were all concerned they said
24:01
their customers weren't coming out this
24:02
was prior um
24:05
i didn't see any customers out on the
24:06
sidewalk and it was not a bad night out
24:09
um you know dining so in my opinion
24:12
without being a restaurant owner it
24:15
obviously appeared that it had shut down
24:18
um people from coming into the uh the
24:20
area
24:21
yes phil i just have a question so
24:25
initially the request came in in
24:27
connection with the
24:29
39th anniversary of the mlk center and
24:33
they because i had actually thought they
24:35
were organizing it and that's why they
24:36
had their banners so i
24:38
correct me if i'm wrong just for the
24:39
clarification but that's i was a little
24:41
bit confused as to that myself
24:44
well initially um there was conflicting
24:47
um requests
24:51
initially it came in that the martin
24:52
luther king jr center
24:54
was going to celebrate 39 years of
24:58
an organization being inside uh that
25:00
center
25:01
um i consulted with corp council
25:05
um and we we knew that you can only have
25:07
40 people out front and we they couldn't
25:09
really run contemporariously with this
25:11
demonstration
25:13
um so there were many offers made
25:17
to the organized mr hodge that in fact
25:20
you can
25:21
have that event earlier to commemorate
25:24
the
25:24
martin luther king junior center and
25:27
then we will be there to
25:28
um assist and facilitate your protests
25:31
which is
25:32
karen said earlier is certainly a
25:34
constitutional right um
25:36
and and and your march um
25:39
so that that didn't obviously the uh
25:42
celebration
25:44
to my knowledge didn't really occur in
25:46
the way it was supposed to
25:47
and it was the protest and the
25:48
demonstration which was strictly
25:50
uh to uh demand police reforms
25:55
okay thank you yeah i was i was still a
25:57
little bit confused about how that
25:59
how it ended up after our discussions
26:09
are there any other additional questions
26:13
all right mr mcnally
26:18
shifting gears ever so slightly
26:21
everybody i just have a quick
26:22
two quick uh community-wide
26:24
announcements
26:25
there was in the calendar that got
26:27
distributed to everybody early in the
26:28
year there was
26:29
evidently a misprint that said recycling
26:32
wouldn't knit would not be happening
26:33
tomorrow
26:34
october 8th that was a misprint uh rese
26:38
citywide recycling will be happening
26:39
tomorrow
26:40
oh sorry seventh
26:43
misspeak on top of the misprint um and
26:46
then the only other one in addition to
26:48
that
26:48
is long island cares through funding
26:51
from nassau county has been doing food
26:52
distribution out of magnolia senior
26:54
center every monday
26:56
for the past several months and have
26:58
committed to do that really through the
26:59
end of november
27:01
because of columbus day on monday they
27:03
are closed as our city facilities so
27:06
that service will not be provided this
27:09
coming monday
27:10
the 12th but will resume on the 19th and
27:13
those are my only two quick
27:14
announcements all right
27:16
any questions thank you
27:19
so now we go to cma um when
27:23
we discuss cma contract we discuss
27:26
having a quarterly report
27:28
which was sent to all of you and
27:31
um miss james nikita
27:34
is going to did i say that right james
27:37
or close you get close enough close
27:39
enough okay
27:40
um he's gonna go over the report
27:43
and we have a powerpoint he has a
27:46
powerpoint presentation for you on
27:48
something that we have been working on
27:50
um it's in its early stages but i
27:52
thought it was
27:53
um a good time to show you all
27:56
and show the public all what we've been
27:58
working on in the city manager's office
28:00
so go right ahead james absolutely i'd
28:03
like to thank donna and the city council
28:05
for
28:05
inviting us to speak this evening we've
28:07
been very active with the city over the
28:09
past several months
28:10
um over the last year really on a number
28:13
of different
28:14
engagements you know the first part of
28:17
our engagement with the city was to
28:18
develop something called a fiscal
28:19
conditions analysis
28:21
uh now that analysis is a little bit
28:23
more of a i consider it to be like a
28:25
past and a present
28:27
it discusses the current conditions the
28:28
fiscal conditions of the city
28:30
how it got there and it identifies a
28:32
number of things that can be done
28:34
in order to bring the city into a better
28:35
financial position
28:37
the second part of that engagement was
28:38
to develop the long-term plan
28:41
the forward-looking plan and that's a
28:42
multi-year plan
28:45
in doing that we've identified you know
28:47
a number of recommendations a number of
28:48
initiatives
28:49
and we've recently been assisting the
28:51
city with the development of fiscal and
28:53
operational management policies
28:55
uh to assist and make things more
28:57
transparent
28:59
now in making things transparent
29:02
one of the areas that we've started to
29:04
look at is developing
29:06
a what we were referring to as a fiscal
29:10
transparency portal or website for the
29:12
city
29:13
it encourages innovative thinking it
29:16
engages
29:17
stakeholders from the city and it
29:19
fosters the efficient use of resources
29:23
you'll see both the office of the new
29:25
york state comptroller
29:27
and the government finance officers
29:28
association consider financial
29:30
transparency
29:31
to be one of their best practices so we
29:34
thought today
29:35
we would show you a couple snippets from
29:37
the website that we're working on um
29:40
you know with the city administration
29:41
right now so i believe that i can share
29:43
my screen
29:43
i'm going to give this a try so if
29:46
anything happens
29:47
we do have a backup plan in place but
29:49
let me try to see if this works
29:54
okay
30:02
please bear with me here i think i'm
30:06
allowing
30:20
okay
30:27
all right are you able to see my screen
30:32
yes okay excellent all right so this is
30:35
a powerpoint uh as i mentioned that
30:37
we've developed which kind of shows you
30:39
some snippets
30:40
of the of the transparency portal so
30:43
what we envision here is this would be
30:45
the top portion of the page
30:47
what you'll notice here is there's two
30:49
buttons i don't know if you can see my
30:50
mouse pointer
30:51
um but there's going to be two buttons
30:53
at the top portion
30:54
of the the website here and what this
30:57
would be utilized for
30:58
is to you know kind of highlight either
31:00
plans that we're working on
31:01
uh or if there's other items the city
31:03
want to bring to the attention
31:04
of uh you know the residents or of any
31:07
of the stakeholders
31:08
um this would be the spot that they
31:10
would be showcased um so for the
31:12
purposes
31:13
of of you know the demonstration tonight
31:16
we put the fiscal conditions analysis
31:18
there in the multi-year plan obviously
31:19
these are still plans that
31:20
uh are being reviewed with the city you
31:23
know once they're publicly available
31:25
this would be the spot that they may be
31:27
showcased so if somebody wanted to
31:28
review them
31:29
they could easily go to the website and
31:31
download them they'd have full access of
31:32
those plans here
31:35
moving down on the page we'd envision
31:37
something a message
31:39
from the city manager's office this
31:41
could be updated on a monthly basis
31:43
it could be updated on a weekly basis
31:44
it's really the decision
31:46
of the city at that point we'd work with
31:48
the city to help craft a message and
31:49
this is just again to highlight
31:51
you know some key hot air hot topics of
31:53
the city
31:54
some areas that may be in question or
31:57
anything the city wants to wants to
31:58
highlight
32:00
below that we envision what i what i
32:02
call kind of our dashboard section
32:04
and you'll notice over here on the left
32:05
side there's a bunch of different tabs
32:08
now on each one of these
32:09
tabs you would see that there's going to
32:11
be a little snippet
32:12
that gives you some um just some text
32:15
version of
32:16
what's been going on in the city and i'm
32:18
going to get into these
32:19
there's a little button here that says
32:20
we'll say click here and when you open
32:22
these there's a dashboard that's going
32:24
to open up we'll get to those in just
32:25
one moment but what i want to show you
32:27
first is over on the right hand side
32:29
here this would be an area
32:31
where again you'll see a number of
32:32
different tabs and these would be a lot
32:34
of
32:34
either financial operational policies
32:38
um you know documents that stakeholders
32:41
could go to
32:42
and they would have you know quick
32:43
access they could pull your audit
32:44
reports
32:45
budgets uh we have a section here for
32:47
emma filings and what that is is you
32:49
know once a year the city has to go
32:51
through
32:52
and provide to investors a
32:56
an update of their operations and this
32:58
would give you a quick link where all of
32:59
that data would be
33:01
able to be you know quickly downloaded
33:02
by anybody visiting the site
33:04
so now what i want to show you is again
33:06
these fiscal health indicators these are
33:08
where the dashboards would lie so i want
33:10
to show you what a couple of those
33:11
we envision that they'll look like so
33:13
the first one that i'll show you
33:15
is the economic and demographic
33:17
highlight you know the data for this is
33:18
extrapolated from
33:20
essentially the us census bureau it's
33:22
updated on an annual basis with interim
33:24
data
33:25
um and then you know obviously there's
33:27
every 10 years the
33:28
the normal census so this is the
33:30
information that we're pulling from that
33:32
and it would give an idea as to you know
33:34
the
33:35
the population trends the breakdown of
33:37
the population
33:38
uh a number of other factors of you know
33:41
that would measure
33:42
income you know housing in the city and
33:44
this would be updated
33:45
you know as frequently as as we possibly
33:47
can
33:49
financial highlights this is a dashboard
33:51
that we've compiled
33:52
which is going to show the general
33:54
fiscal health of the city uh it shows it
33:56
in a trend basis
33:58
uh what we could develop is as we're
34:00
working on the multi-year plan when we
34:01
have the
34:02
you know the forecasting of the data we
34:05
can expand this out
34:06
in which case it would show you you know
34:08
if you do these different initiatives
34:10
these would believe this is what we
34:11
believe
34:11
the fiscal impact could be on a long
34:13
term basis
34:16
we have a real property highlight this
34:18
is showing you know the assessed values
34:20
um you know the largest taxpayers of the
34:22
city and some of the trends that would
34:23
focus
34:24
in that area and the final dashboard
34:26
that we had highlighted here
34:27
is just a breakdown of the city's debt
34:29
the obligations that are presently
34:30
outstanding
34:32
um at a certain point of time so this
34:34
would need to be updated
34:35
you know perhaps once a month perhaps
34:38
you know every couple of months but we
34:39
would update this probably
34:40
a little bit more frequently
34:43
moving on down the page you would see
34:45
something that we refer to as a monthly
34:48
budget tracking report what we envision
34:50
here
34:51
is providing to the council a number of
34:57
you know we're going to look at the
34:58
different funds of the city and we want
35:00
to show
35:01
what the expectation is throughout the
35:03
year you know how much of the budget has
35:04
been utilized at that point
35:06
perhaps we may looking to see uh you
35:08
know what was it in previous years are
35:10
you tracking
35:11
in accordance to the budget you know are
35:12
there areas that you know
35:14
could be in danger are there areas that
35:16
you're doing you know well in
35:18
so we would have this here right now we
35:19
only have one month shown but we would
35:20
just you know it's month
35:22
after month we would just you know add
35:23
it out for each year
35:25
uh this is just a snapshot of we what we
35:27
kind of envisioned the cover pager that
35:29
may look like
35:30
and i also included the table of
35:31
contents just to show you
35:33
um we would be looking at some of the
35:34
you know the city's major operating
35:36
funds and give a breakdown of
35:38
you know revenues and expenditures we
35:40
would obviously be working with the city
35:41
comptroller's office
35:42
to get that information
35:46
one of the components towards the bottom
35:48
of the page would be
35:50
key departmental metrics we would be
35:51
working with the city in order to
35:53
develop
35:54
a number of metrics for the departments
35:56
to to just track the efficiency
35:58
you know are they doing their ex you
36:00
know they're expected jobs are they
36:01
following through are they going to hit
36:03
their budgetary marks
36:06
moving down this would be the tail end
36:07
of the page we have a contact section
36:09
where visitors could go and pull up
36:11
information for key contacts at the city
36:13
city's municipal advisor or there's a
36:15
section here where they could even
36:16
you know send a question and um to have
36:19
that submitted and we were planning on
36:21
perhaps putting an area
36:22
on the website where um you know there
36:25
could be potential
36:26
responses so that's essentially
36:30
the breakdown of what we're uh expecting
36:33
to see on that site
36:34
as donna had mentioned it's still a bit
36:36
of a work in process
36:38
but this is kind of you know what we're
36:41
envisioning
36:44
okay questions for james
36:49
uh james the the data that's on the
36:52
website is it
36:53
dynamically generated auto generated or
36:55
is it
36:57
input manually updated manually a little
37:00
bit of both to be honest with you
37:01
um it would be sent to us and we would
37:04
be updating it and i have you know the
37:06
way that i've set it up i have some of
37:08
it um you know populating automatically
37:10
um other things that would rely on the
37:11
city to then you know give me some
37:13
information which i would populate
37:15
or our team would populate manually okay
37:18
thank you
37:19
absolutely so james your your trends
37:23
um these are monthly reports basically
37:26
when the data comes in it gets updated
37:28
compared to the budget um whether it's a
37:31
positive a negative variance going
37:33
forward
37:35
but this is based upon a the budget
37:39
that was adopted do you know
37:42
if any of the we're entering a covet
37:45
pandemic right now
37:47
um do you know if any of that
37:51
will eventually be i'll say slightly
37:54
explained
37:55
like we anticipated this but due to that
37:59
that this is the favorable or
38:01
unfavorable variance
38:03
that would certainly be something that
38:04
you know could be incorporated the nice
38:06
thing is you know us having you know
38:08
full control over this if there's areas
38:10
that the city would like expanded upon
38:12
if they'd like explanations
38:13
we'd certainly be able to incorporate
38:15
that
38:17
okay and um all of the
38:20
the buttons that you had um demonstrated
38:24
which by the way pretty nice i i might
38:27
add
38:28
is available to any party
38:32
through our website it was our
38:35
recommendation that there'd be a link
38:37
placed on the city's website that
38:39
would you know bring folks directly to
38:41
uh you know to this area so
38:43
once it is publicly released that would
38:44
be that would be
38:46
what we would expect would happen yes
38:48
and the multi-year
38:50
plan will always be not always be
38:54
it'll be modified from time to time
38:56
because it is a multi-year plan
38:58
as information comes in we could
39:01
100 we always refer to that as a living
39:05
document and it should it should be
39:07
updated frequently okay we want to use
39:10
it to
39:10
measure well you know if we do x y and z
39:12
this is the expected result
39:14
right i thought so thank you absolutely
39:17
good job by the way
39:18
thank you very much hi james it's karen
39:22
it's nice to
39:23
meet you uh zoom i had a few questions
39:26
for you
39:27
100 it looks great
39:31
i love it um it was a nice surprise
39:34
so thank you donna and james um
39:37
and then for questions um is the
39:39
software that runs this program is that
39:41
proprietary and who owns it yes it is it
39:44
would be
39:45
uh owned by us uh we're not you know
39:48
charging
39:48
a fee to the city for utilizing this uh
39:51
we consider it part of our engagement
39:52
with the city to help with the
39:54
implementation of the plan
39:56
okay so so there is there could be a
39:58
future annual cost for
40:00
such a dashboard correct if it extends
40:03
past
40:03
our engagement with the city and you
40:05
know if that's something that they would
40:06
like to
40:07
you know maintain we would discuss it
40:10
obviously at that point
40:12
and and who where is the host where is
40:14
it hosted
40:15
uh it's hosted through our you know i
40:18
mean our through our firm
40:19
so and you know it's yeah
40:22
and then who has access from the city to
40:24
that uh to the portal
40:26
uh we have access to it you know we
40:28
would designate somebody at the city
40:30
perhaps donna who we would provide
40:32
um you know login information to as well
40:35
all right i found um i had actually
40:37
asked for some of the statistical
40:38
information that you had provided
40:40
um recently so um that was really
40:43
helpful and it really shows that um long
40:45
beach is open for business
40:46
so that when people want to win best or
40:49
in long beach
40:50
they can see our financial health for
40:52
good or bad
40:53
but that at least we're transparent
40:55
about it so i was really happy about
40:56
that
40:58
um and then separately on the um
41:01
on the quarterly report um
41:05
the fiscal conditions analysis is an
41:08
extensive document
41:09
and it's not final yet um is that
41:13
is there a timeline for when that would
41:14
be released to the public
41:17
um we're waiting um for you all to send
41:21
back any remarks so we can finalize it
41:23
yes so that's my bad i still haven't
41:26
read it
41:27
but it's not i printed it out well it's
41:29
a lengthy document
41:31
and i just sent you what 13 new policies
41:34
that we need to go over by the end of
41:35
the month to hold on
41:37
and so you have a lot of reading to do
41:39
um
41:40
i will say that the fiscal analysis
41:44
of policies adopted
41:47
and then we can go back to the fiscal
41:49
analysis so if we can get to the fiscal
41:51
analysis by the end of the year i would
41:52
be very happy
41:54
yes ma'am okay and then
41:57
in addition to that the strategic plan
41:59
the quarterly update
42:01
um i don't know if it could be edited so
42:03
that it could be posted on the website
42:04
so that the um
42:06
so that the residents can review it and
42:08
actually see and monitor our progress
42:11
and see the um the strong and positive
42:14
relationship that we have with cma
42:16
something that i'm i'm very proud of and
42:18
thank you for all your work
42:20
and of course donna and nina of course
42:24
thank you thank you are there any other
42:28
comments
42:30
so i just want to reiterate thank you
42:32
very much a lot of work was put into
42:34
this
42:34
and it is truly appreciated by myself
42:38
by the residents thank you
42:43
so um in the strategic uh planning in
42:46
the quarterly report
42:47
there are what a few a few
42:50
policies um 13 of them i sent to you all
42:53
and hopefully the last thursday of the
42:55
month we will have gone through those
42:58
answered any questions james and i and
43:00
then we can have a special meeting to
43:02
pass all of those
43:03
and those policies then will go on the
43:05
website
43:07
there are two policies that you don't
43:09
have one
43:10
is um the travel um
43:13
which we will send to you in revenue
43:15
which we're working on
43:17
um those two policies we will get those
43:20
so that you can review those for the
43:22
month of november
43:24
and then the last big policy we have is
43:26
the employee manual that we're working
43:28
on
43:29
so you'll be able to get that along with
43:32
um the fiscal analysis for december
43:36
um and the goal is that we get this site
43:39
up and running
43:40
and we get things done uh accordingly
43:43
um so that it will be it will show our
43:46
transparency
43:47
it definitely will show the financial
43:49
review board and the state comptroller's
43:51
office
43:52
that we are moving forward um
43:55
the last note that i have is that we are
43:58
starting the budget process for the next
44:00
fiscal year the next couple of weeks
44:03
we're going through the multi-year plan
44:05
and the goal is that the budget that
44:07
will be in the multi-year plan for the
44:09
next fiscal year
44:10
will close to being accurate there will
44:12
be some adjustments
44:14
but we are starting with the department
44:16
heads and we announced it in announced
44:18
it on monday in the department head
44:20
meeting that we will be starting the
44:22
process in the next couple of weeks and
44:24
we're fast forwarding
44:25
so we can finish the multi-year plan um
44:29
at least get a draft of it out and
44:31
that's what we've been working on
44:33
so that's the end of my report unless
44:35
someone has questions
44:36
i'm done i just have one question the
44:39
the budget that we
44:40
presented to the public this past
44:43
summer from may um
44:47
had a lot of input from the department
44:49
heads
44:50
yes okay thank you
44:54
all of our budgets we give the a rough
44:57
uh guidelines and a worksheet to the
45:00
department heads they fill in what i
45:02
call
45:03
what they want what they need and then
45:05
what they want
45:07
then we go through a session that we cut
45:09
down what they want
45:10
and make sure we got what they need in
45:13
and that if there's any money left over
45:15
then we can hit some of the little items
45:17
what they want
45:22
okay end of my report all right
45:25
thank you uh lots of good stuff going on
45:30
so we'll keep marching forward
45:33
so uh with that i guess we can move on
45:36
to the agenda dave
45:42
okay first one one note folks that item
45:45
five has been taken off the calendar for
45:47
tonight
45:48
and our first item is a public hearing
45:51
for gra
45:52
resolution granting wave of war street
45:53
parking requirements for six park
45:55
avenue uh for a health products retail
45:57
store
45:58
and let me bring the proprietor up to
46:00
the
46:01
to present
46:10
okay mr taylor i've allowed you to to uh
46:14
give you permission to talk please on
46:16
your microphone hey can you hear me
46:18
yes all right
46:22
all right well uh welcome mr taylor
46:25
and uh can you tell us a little bit
46:28
about
46:29
uh your business oh uh yeah sure
46:32
it's uh it's a health and wellness uh
46:35
franchise that i started
46:36
uh here on long island back in 2010
46:40
uh at several family members passed from
46:42
cancer
46:43
especially one at a young age of 28 and
46:46
uh after she
46:47
had passed i uh started doing research
46:50
on health and disease and found out that
46:53
we've kind of been led into this whole
46:54
reactive lifestyle where everything's
46:56
based on cure
46:57
and nobody's focuses on prevention and
47:00
uh
47:00
started a little small company out of
47:01
west islip new york and has expanded it
47:04
into 11 locations you guys will be the
47:06
potential 11th location
47:09
uh we're just there to teach people uh
47:11
uh there's other alternative
47:12
ways to be proactive you know i'm saying
47:14
before we get down the road
47:16
to disease that you could do you know
47:18
build some fences
47:19
before you go over the cliff so to speak
47:21
you know what i mean
47:24
okay uh how many employees do you expect
47:27
to have
47:28
and what do you expect your hours to be
47:30
it's going to be a one-man show it's uh
47:32
it's all due to covet uh we we did this
47:36
we're trying a new concept store with
47:38
you guys
47:39
virtually everything the same thing we
47:40
do is but uh everything's gonna be sold
47:43
it's gonna be like a retail store for
47:44
the home so the people can buy well
47:46
health and wellness products saunas
47:49
uh whole house water filtration systems
47:51
uh
47:52
air cleaners you know all this stuff for
47:53
the home uh it's like a fountain for the
47:55
home kind of thing instead of
47:57
we usually have a typical store has a
47:58
membership where customers come
48:00
they have a membership and they come and
48:02
you know use the sauna and the services
48:04
and like i said this is going to be an
48:06
inside out version where we're we're not
48:08
doing any of that we're just going to
48:09
have a salesman in there
48:11
to uh sell the equipment and then we're
48:12
going to have a small little water
48:14
refill station in there
48:15
where people can get clean safe healthy
48:17
filtered water
48:18
uh and our own little mineralized
48:20
proprietary uh blend
48:24
okay uh what do you expect the hours of
48:27
the store to be
48:28
um i'm looking like ten to seven okay
48:31
seven days a week um yes seven days a
48:35
week yes
48:36
okay monday modified hours was yeah
48:39
uh do you expect uh any deliveries and
48:42
things like that
48:44
um i have most of the stuff that the
48:47
customer is going to be able to buy and
48:49
they'll be shipped to their house
48:50
do you follow me because there's large
48:52
stuff there's some little stuff but most
48:54
any stuff would be probably brought in
48:55
by my uh
48:57
a small box by myself or one of my
48:59
assistants
49:01
okay and just uh just for information
49:04
for the public that might be watching uh
49:07
this is gonna be located in the space
49:10
on park avenue next to five guys that
49:13
used to be the taco
49:15
restaurant it was group six uh yeah it
49:17
was called six so that's that's the
49:19
space we're talking about
49:22
um all right uh any other council
49:25
members have any questions
49:27
good evening mr taylor this is elizabeth
49:30
truston
49:31
hi hi do you have a website that
49:35
people can look at your products
49:37
absolutely it's uh
49:38
everything's spelled with a ph so it's
49:40
fountain.com p h
49:42
o u n i
49:47
it's probably it's probably most of your
49:49
guys new favorite place you just don't
49:50
know it
49:52
thank you sir
49:57
all right any more questions from the
49:59
council
50:03
okay i guess uh we'll go uh
50:07
see if there's any comments or questions
50:08
from the public
50:10
i see no hands raised at this time
50:14
okay uh
50:18
all right so with that being said then
50:20
uh
50:21
dave why don't we uh quickly uh
50:25
move item two up and then vote on that
50:28
now so mr taylor doesn't have to uh
50:31
absolutely unnecessarily stay on okay
50:35
so item two is a resolution granting
50:37
waiver of war street parking
50:38
requirements for premise 6 west park
50:40
avenue street floor
50:41
for health products retail store who
50:43
introduced move the adoption of this
50:44
item
50:47
second i will
50:52
voting council member delorey yes and
50:54
welcome to long beach
50:56
council member mandel yes councilmember
50:59
treston
51:01
yes vice president mcginnis
51:05
yes and president pendo yes
51:08
welcome to long beach and uh we look
51:11
forward to having you
51:12
as a new business in town thank you
51:14
thank you very much i uh actually went
51:16
to long beach schools uh sixth seventh
51:18
eighth and ninth grade it was the best
51:20
years of my life i love long beach
51:22
well welcome back all right all right
51:25
you have a good night
51:27
all right thank you guys take care
51:31
okay okay so on to the onto the regular
51:34
calendar as i said item number five
51:36
has been taken off the calendar for this
51:37
evening and item one is approval of
51:39
minutes from prior meetings september
51:40
1st and september 15th 2020.
51:44
okay uh i know i had just a couple of
51:49
things on the september
51:51
first meeting on page
51:56
three um it says second paragraph
51:59
it says council member trusted confirmed
52:01
that they did work off an older plant
52:03
since that was what the city paid for
52:05
and it was what uh for the new jetties
52:08
and not the beach replacement
52:10
uh this was a conversation about the the
52:12
army corps project with the
52:13
jetties
52:16
the city didn't pay for anything it was
52:18
what congress authorized
52:20
to be paid for so uh you might just
52:23
verify what she has actually said but
52:26
that was
52:27
that was yeah uh and then on page eight
52:33
uh page eight
52:37
uh one two three
52:41
i guess the sixth paragraph the first
52:43
one's kind of partial
52:45
uh this was about uh
52:48
the ida and the super block
52:52
and the last sentence there it says mr
52:55
bendo also noted that the city was not
52:57
receiving anything from the superblock
52:59
but the ida
53:00
was and he was not an advocate of this
53:02
project i had said
53:04
i was not an advocate for the pilot
53:07
because that's what this was about the
53:08
pilot
53:09
the project um you can certainly review
53:13
those two and go against the uh
53:15
uh check against the video okay and then
53:18
for the
53:18
15th on page four
53:24
um this was about mlk
53:28
uh and it says city manager gayden
53:30
stated she wanted everyone to note the
53:31
city was not trying to move mlk out of
53:33
the building
53:35
uh which was why the city was trying to
53:36
work on a lease with mlk
53:38
that should be mlk inc so again we just
53:42
again we'll we'll check the we'll check
53:43
check it against the uh
53:45
transcript and on page six uh
53:48
under the voting portion uh the very
53:51
first one it says august 18th and it
53:54
says the year 2020 twice
53:56
no that that one already we already got
53:57
that one okay so that's it for me
53:59
any anyone else have any
54:02
um okay you know it's just uh on the
54:06
september 1st
54:08
uh minutes on page 12.
54:11
uh one two three fifth line down
54:14
it's just removing the second year
54:18
2020. yep yep we got that one too that's
54:20
it missed that one
54:25
all right anything else folks anyone
54:27
else
54:29
do you want to hold off proving these
54:31
till the next meeting or do you want to
54:32
approve them with the pending changes
54:35
uh i think we could approve them with
54:36
the pending changes okay
54:38
no you can't because you can't approve
54:41
them because he said he needs to go back
54:43
and listen
54:44
all right we'll put it back on for the
54:45
next meeting okay right for the next
54:47
meeting
54:48
so what we'll do in the future so that
54:50
everybody knows
54:51
we'll try to get the minutes out earlier
54:53
so that if there are any changes to the
54:55
minutes we can change them prior
54:57
to bringing them forward to vote on okay
55:00
um so all that can be corrected
55:04
all right so we'll move on to item three
55:06
which is a resolution authorizing the
55:08
city manager to amend
55:09
the current agreement for asphalt
55:11
overlay work at various locations
55:12
throughout the city on an as needed
55:14
basis
55:14
wait they just one quick question sure
55:17
sorry do we need the table
55:18
number one then um it's not a resolution
55:22
um it's it's just an approval so it's
55:24
not approved so
55:26
it'll it'll just get moved to the next
55:27
meeting okay that's fine
55:29
yes you need yeah you don't need to
55:31
table it's fine you sure you don't need
55:33
to table it it's it's not right
55:35
you want to just to be extra but no
55:37
because it's not it's
55:38
as dave just said it's not actual it's
55:40
not really not real but it's not an
55:42
agenda item that your agenda item
55:44
that you're required to vote on so if
55:45
you'd like to table it you can but you
55:47
don't have to
55:48
my suggestion is that you table it
55:50
because you're asking for an
55:51
approval of minutes and so you need to
55:54
table their approval
55:56
okay do you have a motion to table my
55:58
recommendation motion to table
56:00
the minutes second
56:04
second
56:07
voting council member delorey
56:10
yes thank you councilmember mandel yes
56:14
councilmember treston yes vice president
56:16
mcginnis
56:17
yes president banda yes okay
56:21
thank you i just like all bases covered
56:24
thank you that's good i'm good with that
56:28
all right uh back to item three
56:31
resolution authorizing the city manager
56:33
to amend the current agreement
56:34
for asphalt overlay work at various
56:36
locations throughout the city on an as
56:38
needed basis
56:40
all right and i see commissioner mirando
56:42
joined us so i assume
56:44
he's gonna enlighten us yes
56:47
one moment while i uh on mute
56:54
you should be good to go go ahead john
56:57
uh so when we finished the uh our
57:00
contract for carbon sidewalk on our
57:02
purchase order we still had twenty two
57:03
thousand five hundred and eighty six
57:05
dollars left
57:06
so what we're asking is to take that
57:08
twenty two thousand eight uh 586 dollars
57:11
transfer it to the purchase order we
57:13
just uh put out for
57:15
uh asphalt overlays which would add you
57:18
know another little section of asphalt
57:20
we'd be able to do
57:21
we have approximately seven locations
57:23
we're going to do this year we're just
57:24
finalizing them we had sent out a
57:26
an email with the locations we were
57:28
doing and we did get some feedback from
57:31
councilman de laurie but uh to a place
57:33
where he wanted to do it on national
57:35
uh we're going to be doing that as part
57:38
of our drainage project next year so
57:40
it didn't make sense to do it but this
57:42
will give us a full 250 000
57:44
this year for uh overlays
57:49
okay any questions from any of the
57:51
council members
57:55
all right here are none any questions
57:57
from the public
57:59
i have no hands raises this time
58:03
okay then i guess we can move on to the
58:06
next item
58:09
um i'd just like to thank thank the
58:10
commissioner um and
58:13
joe fabrizio and the staff because i
58:16
find it very
58:17
informative when i can see the actual
58:20
areas that they're proposing it's just
58:22
helpful for me
58:23
thank you thank you
58:28
okay okay item four is a resolution
58:30
authorizing the city manager to renew
58:31
the agreement with east end atlantic
58:33
beach fire district
58:39
our fire commissioner has joined us
58:43
and i'll also bring up mr barrios
58:46
oh two for one yes okay
58:50
scott and rich you guys are able to
58:51
unmute
58:55
hello good evening can you hear me yes
58:59
okay uh commissioner do you want me to
59:00
go first or you want to go first
59:02
i i think you should uh
59:05
talk about how we got here and then i
59:08
can fill in any of the statistical data
59:10
and
59:10
any of that information you got it okay
59:12
i'll start us off
59:13
so good evening again uh rich perrius
59:15
from corporation council's office
59:18
so as the agenda indicates this is a
59:20
renewal
59:21
of um of an ima inter-municipal
59:24
agreement between the city
59:25
and the east atlantic beach fire
59:27
district which is its own little entity
59:31
for the provision of fire protection
59:32
services and ems services
59:35
uh this is a relationship that's gone on
59:37
for probably in excess of 70 years
59:40
it may seem a little familiar to the
59:41
council and the reason for that is
59:43
because this very item
59:45
was up for resolution on the april 7
59:48
2020 meeting at that meeting
59:51
if you recall the council successfully
59:53
voted on a motion which
59:54
basically modified the terms of the
59:56
proposed agreement and so we had to
59:58
submit that agreement back to the
59:59
district
60:01
add to that uh a number of circumstances
60:04
related to the covet 19 pandemic
60:07
and that agreement the parties had to go
60:09
back to the negotiating table
60:11
without disclosing the entire history of
60:12
negotiations here
60:14
but after months of negotiation between
60:17
the city and the district
60:18
the parties have come up with the
60:20
proposed agreement that's up for vote
60:22
tonight
60:23
the final version has already been
60:26
approved by the fire district
60:28
and in terms of the overview and
60:30
highlights
60:31
instead of the previous agreement for
60:34
five years at three percent it's now
60:37
a three-year term with two separate
60:39
three-year renewals
60:40
each at one percent every single year so
60:44
uh over the life of the contract that's
60:46
almost a million dollars total that the
60:47
city will be bringing in
60:48
for providing these services and um
60:52
i'm glad to present it to the council at
60:54
this time
60:59
all right i i can bring in a little bit
61:02
of the statistical data
61:04
in in 2018 we responded to 162 alarms in
61:09
the east atlantic beach fire district
61:11
of those 71 of those were ems calls
61:14
in 2019 we had a 158
61:19
calls and 80 percent of those were ems
61:21
calls
61:23
so far in 2020 where we're
61:26
nine months over nine months through the
61:28
year
61:29
uh we've only responded down there 45
61:31
times obviously the fire department's
61:33
call volume is down
61:34
overall over 400 calls mostly related to
61:37
covid
61:39
based upon the average amount of calls
61:43
and the 2020 uh fees for the contract
61:47
it actually works out that every time we
61:49
go down there we get about 672
61:52
dollars per call on top of that
61:55
we bill for our ambulance transportation
61:59
and you know one year period we collect
62:03
over 50 000 for ambulance billing for
62:05
the ems calls in the east atlantic beach
62:07
contract
62:08
so that even being uh conservative uh
62:12
you add 50 000 so the the one-year
62:15
contract between the ambulance billing
62:17
and what they're paying us is close to
62:19
160
62:20
000 a year we're taking in
62:23
there's no real extra expenses to the
62:26
city
62:27
other than some wear and tear on the
62:29
vehicles and fuel costs
62:31
all the other costs are already in place
62:33
whether it be the salaries of the paid
62:36
staff
62:36
that here and being paid whether we had
62:39
this contract or not
62:41
obviously there's no direct cost for the
62:44
volunteers
62:45
the low sap program cost would be
62:49
not changed from the amount of calls
62:52
that they would respond to east atlantic
62:54
beach
62:55
so other than the wear and tear in the
62:57
vehicles and the fuel
62:59
there really is no extra cost to the
63:01
city so it's really
63:03
just income for the city
63:07
okay uh scott is this one of these do
63:10
both the
63:10
volunteers and the paid firefighters
63:13
respond in ea b or is this just the
63:15
volunteers
63:16
no this is both it is in the paid
63:18
firefighters contract that this is part
63:20
of their response area
63:21
okay all right um
63:27
on as for the extensions who approves
63:30
the
63:30
extensions if they go into effect
63:34
i can speak to that so the way that the
63:36
way the contract is kind of drafted now
63:39
um was again the product of a lot of
63:41
negotiation
63:42
right now the renewals will be at the
63:44
option of the district but they do have
63:46
an obligation to notify us of their
63:48
intent
63:48
to renew by a date certain should they
63:51
fail to do so there's obviously
63:53
legal recourse you know to that and
63:56
there's also
63:56
another cancellation provision in the
63:59
contract
64:00
to protect the city's rights in the
64:01
event that they're unable or where
64:03
unable to provide the services is
64:04
provided in the agreement
64:09
okay any questions from the council
64:12
members
64:13
uh scott i just have a general question
64:15
um first off i wanted to thank you for
64:17
providing the statistical data that you
64:19
did from 2018 to 2020
64:22
regarding the uh the number of alarms
64:24
that we've uh
64:25
that you've uh you've answered it is
64:28
down almost
64:30
theoretically it will be down over 50
64:33
versus last year at this current run
64:35
rate
64:36
um but my other question is my bigger
64:38
question is that um
64:40
this morning you had written us that
64:42
we're down 462 alarms year to date
64:45
versus last year
64:46
for the entire fire department can you
64:49
give me the
64:50
decrease on a percentage basis versus
64:53
last year
64:54
uh i can't right now i could definitely
64:58
forward you that information either
64:59
related to tonight or first thing
65:01
tomorrow
65:02
i have to get into the computer program
65:04
system but
65:05
that would be easy i could print the
65:07
report and send it to all of you guys
65:09
for that
65:09
okay yeah my bigger question is is to
65:12
see that if the alarms theoretically are
65:14
down at least i think over
65:15
i think you have over 4 000 calls a year
65:18
right well
65:18
typically we do over 5 000 calls a year
65:21
so
65:22
you're down versus 10 versus last year
65:25
on a run rate for the entire year so
65:27
you know how does that translate into
65:28
the cost to run the department is of
65:30
course my question
65:31
well a lot of those costs don't really
65:35
come out of let's say the fighter
65:36
problem budget per se so
65:38
i mean unfortunately unfortunately the
65:40
salaries are there
65:42
no matter if we have five thousand calls
65:45
or two thousand calls
65:47
those are fixed costs in the budget uh
65:50
obviously the less amount of calls we'd
65:52
use less fuel
65:54
that would be a savings to the city i
65:57
wouldn't see that that comes out of the
65:58
central garage budget
66:00
and less wear and tear on the truck
66:02
would probably mean uh
66:03
less money for repairs of the vehicles
66:06
but
66:07
the fire department cost per se really
66:10
isn't going to change out of the fire
66:11
department budget the
66:13
majority of the fire department's
66:15
budgets are salaries
66:17
okay that really helps me understand how
66:18
the department works so thank you just
66:20
on that
66:21
commissioner just because i i have the
66:22
notes from uh the monday department head
66:25
meeting so we're at
66:27
3653 alarms this year
66:29
which is down the from the previous year
66:32
at this time
66:34
whatever the math is on that but we're
66:36
at the 3653
66:37
so you answered my question thank you
66:41
commissioner mike delore here thank you
66:43
for uh
66:45
the report i think i have a simple
66:47
question
66:49
what is the geographic area of the east
66:52
and atlantic beach fire district okay
66:56
so it nevada avenue is the last street
66:59
in long beach
67:00
so obviously west of nevada
67:03
and it encompasses part of what they
67:05
call atlantic beach estates
67:08
so typically the cut-off point is the
67:11
actual at the atlantic beach club
67:13
so the atlantic beach club is in east
67:15
atlantic beach
67:16
the sands beach club is in west atlantic
67:19
beach a different fire district so the
67:21
cut-off is at the atlantic beach club
67:22
which is
67:23
like richard street
67:26
okay and then it would be on both sides
67:29
nor uh
67:29
south and north of uh was a park
67:33
beach correct it's beach street then it
67:35
changes over to
67:36
park park okay
67:39
that i just would never knew but thank
67:42
you for uh clarifying that appreciate it
67:44
no problem any other questions from the
67:48
council
67:50
i don't have a question but i want to
67:52
thank richard
67:53
uh mr berrios and commissioner kemmons
67:56
for
67:57
their hard work on this project you're
68:00
very welcome
68:01
yes indeed
68:04
all right uh dave do we have any
68:06
questions from the public
68:07
yes we do um mr lester has his hand
68:10
raised i will unmute him
68:12
okay go ahead mr lester you can unmute
68:16
yourself
68:17
aye okay eight minutes can you hear me
68:20
yes
68:20
yes okay um i guess there's a taxpayer
68:24
kind of bothers me every year
68:25
our fire protection budget goes up by
68:28
about two percent
68:29
and yet we sell our protection for one
68:31
percent i don't see why the two
68:33
aren't related it's not a lot of money i
68:36
know
68:37
but it just seems if we're going up for
68:39
two percent
68:41
and we're selling our services for one
68:44
percent over a nine year period
68:46
it just doesn't seem fair now i know
68:48
that you say
68:49
or we're being told oh it doesn't cost
68:51
us anything extra
68:53
yet we have 550 000 budgeted for
68:57
overtime
68:59
550 000 for this year budgeted for
69:02
overtime
69:04
i i don't know if we're saving any money
69:06
on the overtime we're down 10
69:08
on our calls but we still have 550 000
69:11
budgeted for that
69:13
and you're telling me that this doesn't
69:15
affect our overtime at all
69:17
i you know what i i just i know that's
69:20
what i'm hearing but
69:23
it just stretches credibility
69:26
i i'd like i'd like to respond to that
69:29
if possible at least
69:30
some of it go ahead uh we are under a
69:33
state supreme court settlement agreement
69:36
that
69:36
there are four career firefighters
69:38
working at
69:39
all times uh due to the limited manpower
69:43
that we don't necessarily have enough
69:46
guys to fill that
69:47
agreement with out over the time
69:50
whether we have this contract or not it
69:52
would not affect the overtime
69:55
there would still be four paid firemen
69:56
working all the time
69:58
which has no bearing with
70:02
this contract that's a separate
70:04
agreement
70:05
and up for negotiations for upcoming
70:08
contracts
70:09
but yeah scott just if i understand
70:13
correctly we need 16
70:16
firefighters to man the four four-man
70:19
crews but we only have 13
70:21
correct we have 13 working correct yes
70:24
right so with
70:25
we're back filling those positions with
70:27
overtime so that's why the overtime
70:30
now the firefighters get their overtime
70:32
is at straight time correct
70:34
uh a certain amount of hours first are
70:36
based upon that agreement are at
70:38
straight time
70:39
and then beyond that it goes to time and
70:41
a half but a majority of it is at
70:42
straight time
70:44
okay and and theoretically if we
70:47
filled those three positions they would
70:50
be it would
70:51
lower paid individuals so the overtime
70:53
should drop
70:55
significantly in that case right but
70:57
benefits would go up
70:59
correct but i'm just saying and i'm not
71:02
saying but if they were to be filled
71:04
right right
71:08
okay so of course
71:11
my question is i mean we're talking 550
71:14
000
71:15
and that's not including the benefits i
71:18
don't think
71:19
uh that's just the overtime so
71:22
three firemen would cost us it wouldn't
71:25
cost
71:26
us 550 000 even with the benefits
71:29
so why aren't we doing that
71:32
i address that go right ahead for a
71:34
moment mr lester i understand your point
71:37
um the idea is what commissioner kevin's
71:40
talked about is kind of right
71:41
it's um the overtime's not going to be
71:43
effective one way or another why can't
71:45
we hire
71:46
other firefighters at that rate well
71:48
it's kind of a confusing question but
71:50
you can kind of analogize it to the pba
71:52
interest arbitration that just happened
71:54
we had a contract that's been expired
71:55
for a number of years
71:57
there uh the firefighters are currently
71:59
under an expired contract for a certain
72:01
number of years
72:02
so what it may cost us today may not be
72:05
the you know less than 550 it may cost
72:07
us more down the road
72:08
if we don't have an agreed upon
72:10
agreement that covers this
72:12
expired date um so there's like a number
72:14
of variables that go into that
72:17
but i do understand your point about
72:18
kind of just filling it up it's just a
72:20
it's a bit more complicated than
72:22
just hiring people and and
72:25
and seeking a fixed cost and how many
72:27
years have we been without a contract
72:29
with the fire department
72:30
i believe that contract expired back in
72:32
2010.
72:34
so we're talking about 550 000 or
72:37
something like that a year for the last
72:40
11 years
72:41
10 years because we don't want to hire
72:44
someone
72:46
all right it's just okay that's all my
72:50
questions
72:51
donna i i hear what you're saying we'll
72:53
look into it i'm not going to say
72:55
and we can't say that we have that
72:58
amount of money in overtime because we
73:00
don't want to hire
73:01
um so i will look into it i understand
73:04
your question
73:06
and um we will talk doc yeah but donna
73:09
that's exactly what was said
73:11
that money is because that that we
73:15
have that overtime because we are short
73:17
the firemen
73:18
that's exactly what i was just told yes
73:21
and that
73:22
but the fact that the calls are going
73:24
down and the fact that we're doing
73:25
atlantic beach in no way affects the
73:28
overtime because the overtime is
73:30
something that we're mandated to do
73:32
because we have to have that
73:33
certain number of vitamin and yet
73:36
if we hired them we wouldn't have it
73:38
that's all i'm saying
73:40
right i understand what you're saying
73:41
roy i completely understand
73:44
okay all right thank you thank you okay
73:46
thanks roy
73:51
um thank you rich for that clarification
73:53
by the way
73:54
no problem okay uh
73:58
do we have any more questions dave from
74:00
the public
74:02
uh no that was the only hand that was
74:03
raised on that item okay
74:06
then let's move on to item five
74:09
okay item item number
74:12
five has been taken off the calendar oh
74:14
sorry yeah it's okay items item six
74:16
item six is a resolution authorizing
74:18
budget amendments to the general
74:20
and sewer fund budgets for the 2020 2021
74:23
fiscal year
74:26
okay i have on the on
74:29
she can explain
74:42
tina go ahead and unmute
74:54
you're still muted hina
74:57
i'm here there you go
75:00
can you hear me yes go ahead yes we can
75:05
hello yeah hi good evening
75:09
um so uh this uh resolution uh was
75:12
prepared
75:13
to uh basically um get
75:17
uh the funding where the people
75:20
are gonna be working and there's been
75:23
couple of transfers
75:25
from um departments in
75:30
operational departments uh such as
75:33
municipal building and beach maintenance
75:36
um to the
75:40
sewer uh department and uh that that
75:43
than
75:43
one of them back so um
75:46
this is basically to fund the positions
75:50
where they are going to work
75:57
hello
76:00
okay so just uh to summarize then all
76:03
this is doing is putting the money
76:04
where the person is being paid from
76:07
where they actually work
76:09
correctly yes so they started the year
76:13
in different departments and now
76:15
[Music]
76:16
whatever operating reasons they need to
76:19
be transferred between the departments
76:21
and
76:22
to make sure that we maintain
76:24
appropriate financial
76:26
controls we want to make sure that the
76:29
budgets follow with them
76:31
okay so this just makes now it'll line
76:33
up with people are being paid from where
76:35
they actually work
76:37
in this instance absolutely absolutely
76:41
just just another best practice that we
76:43
weren't following
76:45
yeah all right uh any
76:49
questions from the council
76:53
seeing none dave do we have any
76:55
questions from the public
76:57
yes mr lester has his hand up i will
76:59
unmute him
77:01
go ahead mr lester okay you can hear me
77:04
yes yep i i'm sorry i keep picking on
77:07
the numbers but
77:08
i'm sorry um does that mean that we are
77:11
increasing the
77:12
budget amount for the regular salaries
77:15
in the sewer department
77:18
okay so this is um mr lester this is a
77:21
transfer
77:22
uh we're taking money from one place
77:26
and moving it to the other uh
77:29
the no budgets are being no budgets are
77:32
being increased
77:34
so we our regular salaries on the sewer
77:37
department
77:38
stays at the 670 850.
77:43
no they will be increased by the amount
77:46
of this
77:46
transfer but the money is going to come
77:49
from
77:50
where these people were regionally
77:52
budgeted for
77:53
i know i know the budget
77:56
the budget is being increased i
77:59
understand it's a net zero
78:01
between the operating funds of the city
78:05
the impact okay all right i understand
78:09
that
78:10
but it's not hundred seventy thousand
78:12
eight hundred twenty
78:13
fifty dollars anymore it's six hundred
78:16
eighty two thousand now
78:18
the but that's well one budget will
78:20
increase one budget will decrease
78:22
i know but donna here's my problem we
78:24
borrowed 4.2 million dollars
78:27
that we have to pay back okay we were
78:30
going to try to pay that back by cutting
78:32
by you know if we didn't need somebody
78:35
we wouldn't have them
78:37
so now we're going to be stuck remember
78:40
that's due next year
78:41
well okay mr lester mr lester i'm sorry
78:45
first of all borrowing the money has
78:47
absolutely nothing to do with this line
78:49
item
78:50
what this is saying is that we had
78:51
people working in one department
78:54
we didn't hire new people to go in the
78:56
department we needed them in
78:58
we transferred them from one department
79:00
to another department
79:02
and the money transferred with them so
79:05
they are
79:05
being paid so it doesn't have anything
79:07
to do the budget overall is not
79:10
changing no i understand that donna
79:13
but what i i'm asking you to remember is
79:16
when you asked us to borrow the 4.2
79:18
million
79:20
we had to have an idea of how we're
79:22
going to pay it back
79:24
and we were talking about cuts now
79:26
originally the sewer department
79:28
only needed 670 000
79:31
to operate now it needs 682 000.
79:35
so if we didn't need somebody in
79:38
one department we moved them to another
79:42
department that doesn't save
79:43
us any money i know it's not costing us
79:46
mr lester
79:48
mr master about i'm not i'm not
79:51
a i'm not a person i'm not going to do
79:55
commissioner morando's job i'm not going
79:57
to do any department his job
79:59
if they're saying that they needed
80:01
additional people
80:02
for whatever reason we they determined
80:05
that some additional people were
80:07
needed in that department maybe
80:08
somebody's retiring
80:10
what we said was that we could afford to
80:13
take people from one department
80:15
and move them to another department that
80:17
doesn't mean anybody is doing anything
80:19
wrong
80:20
that doesn't mean that we're not
80:22
identifying that we do have to pay
80:24
money back what it means is that we're
80:27
using the resources that we have
80:29
we're using the people that we have and
80:31
we're moving them from one department to
80:33
another
80:34
and so maybe when they initially said
80:38
this is all they needed as you know
80:40
budgets are a guideline and maybe
80:42
something different happen
80:44
that is for those people that we pay big
80:46
bucks to
80:47
to make those decisions what they need
80:49
to run their departments
80:51
and if we can transfer money from one
80:53
department
80:54
to another department without changing
80:56
the budget the overall budget
80:59
that is then fiscally being responsible
81:02
i i'm glad you think that donna i look
81:05
at 4.2 million
81:07
and i've seen nothing nothing that we
81:09
are doing
81:10
to be able to pay that back but anyway
81:13
thank you
81:16
all right dave any other uh comments
81:19
from the public
81:21
uh nope there are no other hands raised
81:22
at this time okay then let's move on to
81:26
the voting
81:28
okay one second
81:36
all right
81:40
we're going to start with item number
81:42
three
81:43
which is a resolution authorizing the
81:44
city manager to amend
81:46
the current agreement for asphalt
81:47
overlay work at various locations
81:49
throughout the city on an as needed
81:51
basis
81:52
who introduced move the adoption of this
81:53
item i will
81:56
second i will uh
81:59
preston councilwoman trust him okay uh
82:02
council member delorey
82:04
uh yes councilmember mandel yes
82:07
uh councilmember treston yes vice
82:09
president mcginnis
82:11
yes and president bendo yes
82:14
and item four is a resolution
82:16
authorizing the sydney manager to renew
82:17
the agreement with
82:18
the east end atlantic beach fire
82:20
district which just removed the adoption
82:22
of this item
82:23
i will second i will
82:27
voting council member delorey
82:30
yes councilmember mandel yes
82:34
councilmember truston yes vice president
82:37
mcginnis
82:38
yes president bendo yes
82:42
and finally item six is a resolution
82:43
authorizing budget amendments
82:45
to the general and sewer fund budgets
82:47
for the 2020-2021 fiscal year
82:50
who introduced to move the adoption of
82:52
this item i will
82:55
second i will voting council member
82:59
delorey
82:59
uh yes councilmember mandel yes
83:02
councilmember truston yes vice president
83:05
mcginnis
83:06
yes president pendo yes we'll make a
83:09
motion to close the meeting
83:13
i will second
83:16
i will vote in council member delorey
83:23
yes thank you that's remember mandel
83:26
yes councilmember treston yes
83:29
vice president mcginnis yes president
83:31
bendo
83:32
i think mike wanted to keep going uh yes
83:35
[Laughter]
83:36
i know i did i wanted dave to look up
83:41
sorry sorry dave
83:45
all right uh on to on the good and
83:47
welfare
83:48
okay and uh
83:52
let's see all right who's who's up in
83:55
the bullpen
83:57
all right folks if you want to speak at
83:58
good and welfare please raise your hand
84:00
at this time
84:03
the raise your hand function should be
84:05
uh yep there we go at the bottom
84:07
screen okay so we have uh charles picnic
84:10
hold on one second
84:14
mr pecnik you're unmuted you can fire
84:17
away
84:18
three minutes yes okay uh good evening
84:22
name and address for the record please
84:24
charles pecnick p
84:25
e k nic 1005 west beach street long
84:29
beach new york one one
84:30
five six one uh good evening everyone
84:34
uh i just wanted to go i sent an email
84:38
earlier today regarding a topic that i
84:40
think the board
84:42
at the council as well as the
84:45
building department should bring up and
84:47
it's regarding 530 west broadway
84:50
i'm sure uh the board members and the
84:52
city council are aware
84:53
that there was a zoning hearing in
84:55
regard to this matter on tuesday
84:58
at that zoning hearing the
85:01
owner of the property who was also the
85:03
developer
85:04
put forth a case uh in order to support
85:07
his variances
85:08
part of that case were at least two
85:11
dozen letters in support of it
85:14
as well as a letter from the pba the
85:17
long beach pba
85:18
and testimony from some of the
85:21
supporters
85:21
as well as testimony from a police
85:23
officer
85:25
from the long beach police department i
85:27
wanted to bring this to the council's
85:29
attention
85:30
because as i'm sure you're aware that
85:32
property
85:33
has become a blight on the neighborhood
85:36
unfortunately
85:37
um and the owner of the property
85:41
actually admitted it he sent letters
85:44
uh to the zoning board and the letters
85:48
stated
85:49
that the property is and i quote a
85:51
vacant and deteriorated
85:53
building this is this was in at least a
85:55
dozen of the letters in support of
85:58
the owner's application in the pba
86:02
letter the pba stated that it will
86:04
remove the biggest blight
86:06
on the boardwalk so the owner of the
86:09
property who's responsible for that
86:11
property
86:12
admitted through his own case that
86:16
the actual property that he's in charge
86:18
of
86:19
is vacant deteriorated and a big blight
86:22
on the community
86:23
uh then that was followed up by
86:26
testimony
86:27
of residents that supported it as well
86:30
as an actual police officer
86:32
who during his testimony stated that the
86:35
building is abandoned
86:36
vacant dangerous that they're called
86:39
there to
86:40
to remove trespassers stop
86:43
criminal activity and he said that
86:46
himself as well as numerous other police
86:48
officers have to crawl through the
86:50
building
86:50
in order to get this done which he
86:52
stated was dangerous and very unpleasant
86:56
based upon the owner's own admissions
87:00
his own case that he supported with
87:03
letters and testimony i'm requesting
87:05
that the city council in the building
87:07
department
87:08
deemed the 530 west broadway is in
87:10
violation of section 13-22
87:13
of the long beach code for being
87:16
an a nuisance
87:19
and in violation of that particular
87:24
chapter it's an unoccupied hazard
87:27
as far as the city is concerned and as a
87:30
result
87:31
the developer and owner must immediately
87:34
either
87:35
be ordered to remedy the situation
87:38
or demolish the building if he's not
87:41
able to remedy it and
87:43
will not demolish it i would request
87:46
that
87:46
the city council as well as
87:50
the building department and the
87:52
corporation council look into
87:55
uh commencing a proceeding to compel
87:58
demolition
88:00
uh i understand that you know you may
88:02
not be aware of everything that
88:03
transpired at the zoning hearing
88:05
but i'm requesting for the good and
88:06
welfare of the community that the city
88:08
look into this
88:10
i do believe as well as i think
88:13
the building department will see that it
88:15
is actually
88:16
an unoccupied hazard under the chapter
88:20
and should be violated as such and that
88:22
was your three minutes sir
88:24
thank you okay uh just a quick question
88:28
uh charlie have you have you spoken to
88:30
the building commissioner about this yet
88:32
uh no i just i just sent an email
88:34
because the testimony was
88:36
just on tuesday so this morning i sent
88:40
an email i did some research on it based
88:42
upon what the testimony was
88:44
and i just sent an email uh this morning
88:47
to the building commissioner he was
88:49
unaware of it before today
88:51
as was uh corp council and yourselves
88:55
okay so this is the first i'm bringing
88:56
it up okay thank you
88:58
yeah i just want to confirm that uh mr
89:00
picnic i did receive it
89:02
you sent it at 10 35 this morning
89:05
okay thank you okay
89:08
uh all right thank you and uh
89:11
we'll uh we'll uh make sure that uh
89:15
the building commissioner reads that
89:20
all right uh do we have anyone else dave
89:25
nope at this time there are no other
89:26
hands raised okay
89:29
i guess roy's letting us off the hook uh
89:32
so with that
89:33
uh thanks for uh thanks for joining us
89:36
tonight i know right mike
89:38
who who would have thought he's giving
89:40
us a night off
89:41
uh can i raise my head so uh
89:44
uh with that uh folks thanks for joining
89:46
us and you get to fill out your senses
89:49
don't forget to fill out your census
89:50
please so we can get as much aid as we
89:53
are entitled to
89:55
um it's easy to do and quick
89:59
and the deadline was extended to the end
90:01
of the month for those that don't know
90:03
okay it was no excuses
90:07
just to your point i did uh meet some
90:10
census takers they have been in the area
90:12
in the walk so i just
90:13
said hello they weren't mine is done
90:15
already but i just wanted to
90:17
say hello good job keep up good work
90:20
yeah they're coming around they knocked
90:21
on my door too even though mine was done
90:23
they seem to be just blanketing the
90:25
neighborhoods right um
90:27
all right so uh thanks for joining
90:31
what's that be safe be kind okay thanks
90:34
for joining