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all right good evening folks and uh
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welcome to a
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special meeting of the city council
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uh before we get going uh
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i think probably most people remember
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but this is the
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anniversary of super storm sandy and uh
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councilwoman trust and uh is going to
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just say a few words
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can you hear me okay i didn't do him
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check
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yep okay great so as everyone knows
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today is the
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eighth year since super swan sandy it's
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also hard not to remember
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as it's constantly raining outside today
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and the wind is whipping
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and over the weekend we're going to have
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a full moon
00:59
today our city looks different our homes
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are raised and words like mitigation
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sustainability and flood protection are
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part of our vocabulary
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i know many of us still continue to
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advocate for funding and support from
01:13
the state and feds
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we call consumer affairs in the da's
01:17
office to get updates on those that not
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only mismanage the projects
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that they bought us financial ruin and
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emotional devastation
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we didn't see coming yet we continued to
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move forward
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we did so together in light of the
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unprecedented times we now find
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ourselves in
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i'm asking you to remember that we're
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all on this barrier island together
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we hear your frustrations that things
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aren't normal
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they're not not unlike sandy we are
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going to have to
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adapt to new ways so we don't leave
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anyone behind alone
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so thank you long beach for looking out
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for each other
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being understanding as our nation and
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global community
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clash with cobot 19 as we weather more
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storms together
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thank you everyone for this time
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president bendel
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okay thank you so um
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okay uh why don't we get going then okay
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good evening
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and welcome to a special meeting of the
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council of the city of long beach held
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tuesday october 29th 2020 at 7 p.m
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we have a roll call council member de
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laurie president
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councilmember mandel president council
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member tristan
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president vice president mcginnis
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president
02:38
president bendo present let the record
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indicate the presence of city manager
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donald gaiden and corporation council
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simone freeman will have a salute to the
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flag
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simone would you please lead us
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i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
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united states of america
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and to the republic for which it stands
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one nation
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under god indivisible with liberty
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and justice for all
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okay thank you uh so
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just uh so everyone's aware as this is a
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special meeting
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uh there isn't a good in welfare at the
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end we just uh do the items that are on
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the
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agenda and that's it so there's no of
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the
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normal city manager report and things
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like that
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so with that uh why don't we get
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uh rolling okay uh
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first off items four and item seven have
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been taken off the calendar
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item one is a resolution adopting a
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capital asset policy for the city of
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long beach
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okay um we have james from cma
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um the policies were written by staff
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and cma
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um to for especially for finance
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actually all of them um but dave enoch
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is not owen
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yeah she just texted me and i told her
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to
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try again okay so
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james you want to talk first about the
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capital asset policy
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absolutely good evening can can you hear
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me okay
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keeps uh saying i'm muted but yes
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okay so i mean the the purpose of the
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capital asset policy
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is just you know essentially
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to establish principles relating to the
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accounting of the city's you know
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capital assets
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there's a number of different um
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tangible properties that the city
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obviously owns including streets
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buildings
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parks recreational facilities sewers um
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vehicles and other types of small
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equipment
04:49
so the you know essentially the purpose
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again of this policy is just to make
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sure
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um that those items are you know
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appropriately
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inventoried um and taken care of by the
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city
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in the policy it identifies uh
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capitalization
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thresholds as to you know
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what levels of assets will be both
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recorded and depreciated by the city
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and it outlines you know methods for
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doing that
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it outlines inventory tracking for the
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different assets of the city
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including you know what should be
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inventoried
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descriptions of the capital assets
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location of it
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documenting any types of warranty
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information conditions or rating reports
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the properties any impairments of the
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properties so
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the numbers of different items that are
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listed there
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assets that exceed those thresholds will
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be given a
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categories useful life as far as their
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classification for the
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depreciation there's a list of those
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different items on page
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number three of that policy
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there are policies relating to donations
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of capital assets
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as well as assets that are then provided
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to city employees
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leased equipment and other types of
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assets are also included within the
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policy and
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res uh residual value
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there's a section i'm sorry ms gayden
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have we have did we have a capital
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asset policy before this
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okay um as far i'm not quite sure we
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couldn't find one
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um um ina do you recall i don't recall
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seeing one
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no we create that's why we created this
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one
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um so i don't have i'm not aware of any
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capital s
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i i find that completely unacceptable
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and embarrassing for a 100 million
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a year organization just on its
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operating budget to not have a capital
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asset policy i'm disgusted
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and i'm very proud of this
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administration for having it
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for instituting it thank you thank you
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one of the other important elements that
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was incorporated into this document was
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uh the disposition of capital assets so
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essentially you know how they will be
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sold
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and you'll see that that kind of follows
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the talent you know pages five and six
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of the of the policy
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um does anyone have any questions about
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the capital asset policy
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okay
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all right hearing no other questions
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from the council uh
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anna did you have anything to add
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um no i think um
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that james did a fine job at the
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introducing again okay
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uh dave do we have any questions from
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the public
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uh yes we do we have uh roy lester
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okay
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right good hello okay
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what a wonderful night guys huh
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um a couple of questions the
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definition of the capital assets you
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have vehicles
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but then you have capital assets uh
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they don't own considered capital assets
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if they're under five thousand dollars
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uh established is that brand new
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in other words if a car at a certain
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point a car becomes
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worth less than five thousand
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it then it goes into the thousand
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category
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the formalized inventory system is that
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correct
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or is it from the beginning it's from
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the beginning
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okay so if do we have any vehicles that
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are under 5000
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initial cost
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not that i'm aware of now okay
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and um on inventory that's under a
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thousand dollars
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that's just up that's just uh
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roy you keep breaking up i i'm sorry
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it's um the when it comes to
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the inventory worth
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less than a thousand dollars that's if
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it's a thousand dollars in excess of a
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thousand it's under the formalized
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inventory system
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under a thousand dollars that
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uh is strictly up to the department
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heads that's the only inventory
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so um when we purchase
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um equipment or any other kind of
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capital
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assets at the city we expensive
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and when something needs capitalization
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or or otherwise other words
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it's an asset with the purchase price of
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over five thousand dollars we capitalize
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it
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and depreciate it so it's not it's in a
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system
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but it's not being depreciated
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capitalized and depreciated
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does that make sense no how is it
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tracked
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let's say you buy a a and i know in the
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old days shows my age you buy a
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typewriter for 250 dollars how is that
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tracked it's tracked as a purchase in
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the system
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so if you wanted to know if you bought a
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typewriter let's say
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you would have to go into
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the expand ditchers of that
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fiscal period and uh
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search on the the either the vendor
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or if you know uh which account it
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hit uh that's how you would locate it
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the purchase
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is in the system it's not like it's
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outside of the system
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it's just not being depreciated right
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right
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a typewriter for 250 would not be a
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capital asset therefore it would not be
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tracked
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in the asset system it would be expensed
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right but what i'm saying is so
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basically so basically a typewriter is
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not a capital asset
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so it's not expense so it doesn't need
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to be in the system that's the answer to
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your question
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but but the other things that are under
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a thousand dollars those are not capital
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assets and therefore they're not tracked
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in the capital asset system
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well it's right in here under inventory
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tracking karen
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and right down to inventory look at the
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the
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heading inventory tracking you're
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talking about
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you're talking about things that are
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under a thousand dollars that are
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there are things that we purchase like
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if we buy a computer that's under a
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thousand dollars
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we will track that computer because we
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want to know
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how many computers we have that's what
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i'm asking
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that's what i mean capital assets are
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things that we depreciate
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not capital asset policy is for the
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assets that we
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actually depreciate there are other
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assets that we do
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keep track of but they do not go into a
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capital asset system
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because they are below the threshold
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but if you're talking about the
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inventory tracking
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you're not appreciating yes so this
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inventory
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tracking is part of your capital asset
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policy draft
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the capital the tracking the inventory
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tracking we have to track
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any capital assets over five thousand
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dollars
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those assets are depreciated i
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understand that donna i'm talking about
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hold on yeah anything under 5 000 we
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keep track of it
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however is not in the same inventory
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system
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so the capital asset policy is only a
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policy for the
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inventory that we track over five
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thousand dollars
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then why do you have in the policy
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why do you have in the policy of the
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capital asset policy the inventory
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tracking
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because we understand what i'm saying
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roy
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that's your time
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all it's doing is delineating all it's
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doing is delineating
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what you do for this stuff that's less
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than five thousand dollars that's the
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track
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it's just it's just defining how that's
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for informational purposes
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okay well anyway uh dave anyone else uh
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have their hands raised no that's it
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right now okay
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why don't we move on then to the next
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item the next item is the capital budget
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policy
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okay so item number two is resolution
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adopting a capital budget policy for the
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city of long beach
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uh james would you like to start
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absolutely so you know the capital
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budget policy essentially has
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established principles relating to
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planning maintenance and replacement of
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of capital
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assets um obviously the city's made some
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you know rather large investments
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in streets buildings parks recreational
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facilities sewers the water facility
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um including vehicles and again other
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other types of equipment
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so this policy you know is essentially
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relates to the planning of how that
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equipment will be maintained replaced
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and it sets forth you know different um
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different policies uh to ensure that
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that you know that that occurs
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um these are typically the policies
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are um identify different funding
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sources
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uh plans whether the you know the
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equipment's gonna be purchased from city
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funds or if it's gonna be
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perhaps borrowed for or if there's going
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to be you know some sort of grant or
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state aid that would be
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utilized to to purchase or fix or
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replace the
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the equipment so the policy itself sets
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parameters around
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um you know how the budget itself will
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be prepared
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okay any questions from the council
16:06
all right dave any questions from the
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public not at this time
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okay let's move on to item three
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item three is a resolution adopting a
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debt management policy for the city of
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long beach
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i assume that's you again james oh sorry
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yes does james i was having some
16:29
problems
16:30
with my computer all right so the debt
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management policy
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certainly is a very um important policy
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uh the city has you know debt
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obligations that are outstanding
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and you know debt is issued in a
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strategic fashion
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on an annual basis so the purpose of
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this policy
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is to make certain that the city is
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operating within
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its allowable debt limits and that it's
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following
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um you know set procedures for the
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issuance of its debt
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it discusses both short-term and
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long-term borrowing
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how debt will be structured uh it
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includes discussions of
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the utilization of something called a
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period of probable useful usefulness
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uh that is essentially the time frame in
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which you can finance
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uh a a tangible piece of equipment
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or project it discusses the different
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methods of debt financing you know
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competitive financing versus
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negotiated financings uh the method of
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which the city will sell its debt
17:31
obligations again it discusses the
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the debt limit by law the city is only
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allowed to issue
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a certain level of debt so there's
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discussions in the policy
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as to how that debt limit is calculated
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um
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in here the capital uh budget is also
17:51
again mentioned
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uh and that you know the debt component
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of the capital budget will be considered
17:57
uh along with the debt management policy
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it discusses how
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bond proceeds will be invested it
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discusses the repayment of debt
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obligations
18:07
it discusses refunding of outstanding
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long-term debt obligations
18:12
long-term obligations from time to time
18:14
are able to be refunded or refinanced
18:17
in order to achieve uh debt service
18:19
savings
18:20
it discusses credit rating strategies
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similar to
18:23
you know any person the city does have a
18:26
credit rating
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so there are some parameters around its
18:29
credit rating and setting up strategies
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to
18:31
both preserve and enhance that rating it
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discusses something that's called
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continuing disclosure
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when the city issues long-term
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obligations or even sometimes short-term
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obligations it will make a pledge to
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provide investors with
18:44
certain types of continuing disclosure
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although they provide you with the funds
18:49
they those debt obligations can continue
18:51
to be traded
18:52
in the secondary market so the city is
18:54
making a pledge to provide investors
18:55
with updates to inform their investment
18:57
decisions
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that's essentially the the general
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parameters of the debt management policy
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the one thing i want to say is that
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there are a couple of typos that are in
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the debt management policy but it does
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not change the policy
19:14
at hand and so where we notice the typos
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we will fix those
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okay any uh questions from the council
19:24
members
19:27
all right anybody got their hand up dave
19:30
uh rory lester okay welcome back
19:35
guess i'll get my questions out before i
19:37
get cut off
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okay uh the city shall use short-term
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borrowing to finance operating needs
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except in the case of financial
19:45
necessity
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is there any definition of financial
19:49
necessity other than we need the money
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that's number one number two is
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the we have a we can borrow up to seven
19:58
percent of the five year
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average taxable full valuation of
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property
20:03
what does that mean taxable full
20:05
valuation is that the tax
20:08
that can be collected or is it taxable
20:11
property
20:12
and what is the amount of that uh full
20:14
valuation
20:15
the taxable full valuation
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sure so i could i could probably jump in
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so that so the debt limit it's
20:24
it's seven percent of the the full
20:25
valuation of property
20:27
so that's calculated you know the
20:29
assessed value is
20:31
you know uh calculated on an annual
20:33
basis there's
20:35
a equalization rate that's provided by
20:37
the state that
20:38
uh calculated into the assessed value
20:41
which you're able to then calculate
20:42
a full valuation you look at five years
20:45
valuation
20:46
you take seven percent of of that
20:48
average
20:50
what is it that's the question uh i
20:53
don't have it right in front of me but i
20:54
can
20:55
if you bear with me for one moment i can
20:58
i can get it for you
20:59
as long as it's not out of my tongue
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let me answer your other question in the
21:10
in the
21:11
interim and your other question was
21:15
relating to
21:17
the what was your question again
21:21
is there any definition of financial
21:23
necessity in order to borrow money to
21:26
finance operating costs i mean
21:29
ultimately would be a decision that the
21:30
council would make
21:31
anytime you're issuing you know debt
21:33
there's a formal resolution that needs
21:35
to be
21:36
adopted um you know by the council
21:39
that's called you know bond resolution
21:41
um
21:42
and within that it discusses any of the
21:44
parameters
21:45
around uh what's being financed it'll it
21:48
will include
21:49
discussions of the useful life uh so
21:51
that would have to be formally adopted
21:52
there's generally processes that have to
21:54
go through after the
21:55
after the adoption of that um we know
21:57
that but you're
21:59
according to this policy you're limited
22:01
to only
22:02
except in the case of financial
22:05
necessity
22:06
this is for borrowing for operating
22:07
needs not for capitals or anything like
22:10
that
22:11
is there any definition of financial
22:14
necessity
22:15
well i mean it would be a decision that
22:17
would have to be made by the city so if
22:19
for instance there's a gap
22:21
in cash flow and a you know a tax
22:23
anticipation order
22:25
a revenue anticipation note needs to be
22:27
issued
22:28
um you know that would constitute a
22:30
financial necessity
22:32
so if you don't have money it's
22:33
financial necessity
22:35
if you don't if in other words you can't
22:37
pay off your
22:38
uh your payout outs at the end of the
22:41
year
22:42
that's a financial necessity i would
22:44
assume
22:45
um the question on the the property
22:49
so exempt property that's valued
22:52
is that part of the seven percent
22:57
hang on i'm trying to pull open your
23:00
asses values
23:15
i believe the exempt values are not
23:18
included in that i believe it's just the
23:19
full taxable value
23:25
so it's only taxable property the
23:27
average full valuation of taxable
23:29
property
23:30
correct okay that's what i wasn't sure
23:33
about all right and you don't know what
23:35
that is
23:36
i'm trying to pull down i'll tell you
23:39
just one moment i have the document open
23:41
here
23:48
james is probably the total of all total
23:50
full of assessed value by
23:51
property class it it is yes
23:54
so okay so right now the debt
23:58
limit is roughly 370 million dollars
24:04
what the city has outstanding
24:07
i mean this was calculated back in april
24:09
what i have open right now but it was
24:10
about
24:10
100 million dollars 101.
24:15
okay all right thanks
24:18
okay uh dave anyone else have their hand
24:21
up
24:22
oh that was it okay let's move on to
24:27
item five item four has been taken off
24:30
the calendar item five is a resolution
24:31
adopting
24:32
an information technology policy for the
24:34
city of long beach
24:37
okay james all right hang on i'm just
24:39
opening it up
24:43
all right so the i.t policy
24:46
all right so i t especially uh now is a
24:50
very important
24:51
function uh in the in the world of covet
24:53
so the the purpose of the it policy
24:55
is to protect uh data in the city's i.t
24:58
systems and to make
25:00
sure that efforts are being taken
25:03
for cyber security to make sure that
25:04
there's no types of breaches
25:06
so there's a number of policy statements
25:08
within the policy
25:10
a couple of them you know on an annual
25:12
basis it's requiring
25:14
a cyber cyber security self-assessment
25:17
which would be you know completed by the
25:18
city in order to make sure that the
25:20
systems are both safe
25:21
and secure
25:24
there's parameters in here advising that
25:26
you know
25:27
unused computers should be locked there
25:30
should be proper inventories maintained
25:32
of of it equipment
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separate employees will need to
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immediately return
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any types of i.t systems or digital
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information they may have so again this
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policy
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the basis of this policy is to make sure
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that all
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information in the system itself is
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protected and safeguarded from
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you know potential breaches
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um um donna did we have an i.t policy
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like this
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prior to tonight
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um to be honest i don't believe we had
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any of the policies that we are
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presenting tonight prior
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to us presenting them so i was going to
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say i don't think we had
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i i don't know of a debt management
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policy either
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and so this was one of the things that
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we are trying to
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um build a book for
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a policy book so just just just in case
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i haven't made it
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clear i find this utterly completely
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unacceptable that we did not have these
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policies in force
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until until tonight's meeting and i'm
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embarrassed for the city
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that we didn't have this it's completely
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completely
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unacceptable thank you
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i have a comment uh question actually on
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page one section three one
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a it reads to protect its data and
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information the city will
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on an annual basis the i.t department
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will perform a cyber security
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self-assessment
27:04
which will and then it goes into
27:06
determine what personal
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private and sensitive information the
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city collects
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we may want to consider just looping in
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corp council
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as part of that determination i don't
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know if that's something we could
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revisit
27:18
but just to make a determination as to
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what would be appropriate to collect
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from
27:22
personnel regarding personal private and
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sensitive information
27:26
okay i would just say there should be no
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personal or
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no personal information on a city email
27:34
i think maybe we should leave that to
27:35
corp council that's the whole point of
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my suggestion
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sometimes personal information is
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required so as long as it's kept secure
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which is the purpose
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why don't we leave that to maybe corp
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council can uh
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for civil service or hr purposes we do
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have to transmit personal information
28:03
among in between so yes i mean that
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probably is a good idea
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um and it's confidential employees and
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counsel
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our department usually is the go-to
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department for the hr
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you know assessments and things like
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that so i would agree with scott
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right so might that require
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an amendment uh to
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part a there and if so
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well what i'm getting at is that we need
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to table it to in case it needs to be
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amended
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which we don't wouldn't have the right
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words right now
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unless we just put in that section a
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determine comma
28:43
with consultation of corporation council
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comma what personal
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private and sensitive information that
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was corrected
28:50
i second i didn't move i'm suggesting
28:55
i agree with that i mean okay
28:59
so let's just add that to uh today that
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would be great
29:03
all right so but we i'm assuming we have
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to do that as an amendment then to this
29:07
and then we vote as it mentions so scott
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you want to make
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you want to do that now unless there are
29:11
any other questions and we also should
29:13
hear from the public if they have
29:14
anything
29:15
well there's usually discussion after an
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amendment is seconded
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i didn't move no no no but what i'm
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saying is if if you make the amendment
29:24
in the second
29:24
under robert rules that's when a
29:26
discussion takes place on the amendment
29:28
okay so i'm going to make the motion
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that at
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page 1 section 3 1 a
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it reads as follows determine comma
29:38
with consultation of corporation counsel
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comma
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and then it goes back into the text as
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written
29:47
i'll second that
29:50
okay now i'm just writing this down
29:55
okay well before we vote then
29:58
so now there's discussion on the
30:00
amendment if anybody
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no we'll usually we vote on on the
30:04
amendment and then
30:05
because you start the vote on the item
30:07
at the end i
30:09
yes but under robert's rules after an
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amendment is seconded then if there's
30:12
any discussion on the amendment
30:15
does anyone have any comments right
30:20
i'm assuming not but not that you don't
30:21
have to worry about it right
30:24
okay okay okay um
30:28
voting on on the to amend item five
30:30
council member delorey
30:33
uh yes on the amendment council member
30:36
mandel
30:36
yes councilmember treston yes vice
30:39
president mcginnis
30:40
yes president bendo yes okay
30:46
all right
30:49
all right uh oh wait we do have our hand
30:51
raised we have mr lester has his hand
30:52
raised
30:54
well i must is that would
30:58
i'm assuming that's for the actual when
31:00
we get to public comment for the
31:03
this item for the item right so
31:07
uh any other questions or comments from
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the council on the item
31:13
okay let's bring in mr lester
31:18
okay roy go ahead and uh unmute
31:23
okay am i unmuted yes you are
31:26
okay um just a observation i don't think
31:31
uh annual basis is often enough to
31:33
perform uh
31:34
self-assessment i know in our office we
31:37
do it about every month
31:38
just because of the way cyber security
31:40
is these days
31:42
so you know listen i'm not an expert but
31:44
i don't think it's enough and
31:46
looking what happened to the county of
31:48
nassau this year and they
31:50
they're a lot more sophisticated i i
31:52
think it's something we should worry
31:53
about
31:54
the other thing is do we have off-site
31:57
storage
31:58
for as a backup
32:02
yes okay so we if somebody
32:05
said you know we're going to freeze your
32:08
system unless you pay us ransomware like
32:10
they've done to
32:11
quite a few municipalities we could
32:13
basically tell them to
32:15
to you know blow off because we can just
32:19
take download from our own off-site
32:26
system
32:28
dollar you want me to answer that yeah
32:30
uh someone
32:32
close you're the closest site we have
32:34
here yes
32:35
yes yes we have we have um we have
32:39
backups in place to um take care of a
32:43
situation like that
32:44
great okay thanks okay
32:48
any other uh comments from the public
32:51
dave
32:52
no that's it okay let's move on
32:56
to item six item six is resolution
32:59
adopting and information technology
33:01
disaster recovery policy for the city of
33:02
long beach
33:03
which kind of goes to what roy was just
33:05
talking about
33:08
so okay
33:12
so this is a essentially a piggyback of
33:14
the information
33:15
uh technology policy um you know the
33:18
scope of this
33:19
is just you know what do you do if
33:22
there's an unplanned
33:23
i.t disruption how does the city
33:26
you know maintain its services how does
33:28
it provide its services and how does it
33:29
get itself back in
33:31
up and running as quickly as possible
33:34
there are backup procedures that are
33:36
listed in the policy there's discussions
33:38
of the
33:39
off-site uh backups within this policy
33:42
uh there's a continuity plan that's
33:44
outlined uh
33:46
and then again this policy um
33:49
kind of discusses the you know the roles
33:51
responsibilities of what um
33:53
you know should be done in the event
33:55
that there is an unplanned
33:57
uh you know uh shutdown of the
34:00
equipment
34:04
all right any questions from the council
34:10
all right dave any questions from the
34:12
public nope
34:14
all right then uh
34:17
i guess item seven's removed so seven
34:20
has been taken off the calendar so we'll
34:21
go on to the voting
34:22
right and just before we go to the
34:24
voting so just everyone understands
34:26
um so what you're seeing here tonight
34:29
is uh you know uh
34:33
the cities now starting to for lack of a
34:37
better term
34:38
codify or put in writing policies and
34:41
procedures so there's standard
34:43
practices and and that are followed
34:47
uh going forward for all the staff so
34:49
things are done with consistency
34:52
and in a in a defined manner they as
34:55
you're hearing
34:56
basically didn't exist in the past so
34:58
now what we're trying to do is start to
35:00
formalize this stuff this is just the
35:02
beginning there's going to be more
35:03
coming
35:04
um so um
35:07
so there will be more of these uh coming
35:09
in future meetings
35:11
so okay dave let's okay
35:14
all right so item one is a resolution
35:16
adopting a capital asset policy for the
35:18
city of long beach
35:19
who introduced to move the adoption of
35:20
this item
35:23
i will second i will
35:28
morning councilmember delorey yes
35:30
councilmember mandel
35:32
yes councilmember truston yes vice
35:35
president mcginnis
35:36
yes president bendo yes
35:40
item two is a resolution adopting a
35:43
capital budget policy for the city of
35:44
long beach
35:45
who introduced move the adoption of this
35:46
item
35:48
i will not president bennett
35:53
either second i'll say okay
35:57
voting councilmember delorey yes
35:59
councilmember mandel
36:00
yes councilmember truston vice president
36:04
mcginnis
36:05
yes president bendo yes
36:08
item three is a resolution adopting a
36:10
debt management policy for the city of
36:11
long beach
36:12
wouldn't you just move the adoption of
36:13
this item
36:16
i will second
36:20
voting council member delorey yes
36:23
councilmember mandel yes councilmember
36:26
tristan
36:27
vice president mcginnis yes president
36:30
bendo
36:31
yes and four has been taken off the
36:33
calendar item five
36:34
is resolution adopting an information
36:37
technology policy for the city of long
36:38
beach
36:39
who introduced remove the adoption of
36:40
this item as amended
36:45
second i will
36:48
voting council member delorey yes
36:52
councilmember mandel yes councilmember
36:55
trusted
36:56
yes vice president mcginnis yes
36:58
president pendo
36:59
yes and finally item six is
37:04
excuse me resolution adopting an
37:05
information technology disaster recovery
37:07
policy for the city of long beach
37:09
who wouldn't you just remove the
37:10
adoption of this item i will
37:13
second i will
37:17
voting council member delorey
37:21
yes councilmember mandel yes
37:24
councilmember treston first century yes
37:29
uh vice president mcginnis yes president
37:32
bendo
37:33
yes we'll make a motion to close the
37:35
meeting
37:36
i will second
37:40
i will voting council member delury
37:45
yes thank you councilmember mandel yes
37:49
councilmember treston yes vice president
37:51
mcginnis
37:52
yes president bendo yes
37:56
okay thanks for joining us folks like i
37:59
said since this was a special meeting
38:00
there's no good and welfare tonight
38:03
uh we thank you for joining us but uh
38:06
we'll be back on wednesday not tuesday
38:09
because wednesday is election day so
38:10
we'll be back on
38:11
a tuesday's election day we'll be back
38:13
on wednesday for the city council
38:15
meeting on wednesday and
38:17
don't forget to vote on tuesday if you
38:19
haven't
38:20
vote if you're not voting early get out
38:22
there and vote
38:24
so everyone have a good night be safe
38:27
for halloween
38:28
and we'll see