02072023eCommentsReport.R.pdf — Long Beach City Council, February 7, 2023

eComments Report for City Council Meeting Agenda of February 7, 2023 Item Name E-mail Address Comment Received

4. (23-0097) Recommendation to receive and approve Initial Conflict of Interest Code filed, in compliance with State law.

Dave Shukla [email protected] Hello. Is it a spreadsheet, or a 3-D interactive matrix that is used o track the changes to these Codes?
2/7/2023

9. (23-0108) Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. ITB CE-22-164 and award a contract to Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc., dba All Phase Electric Supply Co, of Burbank, CA, and Walters Wholesale Electric, of Long Beach, CA, for furnishing and delivering as-needed Electrical Supplies, in an annual aggregate amount not to exceed $800,000, with a 20 percent contingency in the amount of $160,000, for a total annual aggregate amount not to exceed $960,000 for a period of two years, with the option to renew for three additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary subsequent amendments. (Citywide)
Dave Shukla [email protected] "These contracts will provide continued support to our local economy by assisting in preservation of employment for 34 full- time employee residing in Long Beach."
Not just from Walters Wholesale Electric, right?
2/7/2023

11. (23-0103) Recommendation to receive and file the application of Lorraine Portia Halder, dba United Drive & Wine Market, for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) License, at 6203-6205 Orange Avenue, determine that the application serves the public convenience and necessity, submit a Public Notice of Protest to ABC; and direct City Manager to withdraw the protest if a Conditional Use Permit Exemption (CUPEX) is granted. (District 9)
Darlene Broom [email protected]
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I'm writing to oppose the ABC license for the liquor store located at 6203-6205. It serves no purpose and is not a convenience, it is a nuisance generating loitering and a criminal element. Not to mention there is a liquor store diagonally across the street, there are at least 6/8 liquor stores in the immediate area. You can't use convenience as a reason to saddle the community with another liquor store. Selling bread does not make you a convenience store, please do not grant the license.
2/7/2023

11. (23-0103) Recommendation to receive and file the application of Lorraine Portia Halder, dba United Drive & Wine Market, for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) License, at 6203-6205 Orange Avenue, determine that the application serves the public convenience and necessity, submit a Public Notice of Protest to ABC; and direct City Manager to withdraw the protest if a Conditional Use Permit Exemption (CUPEX) is granted. (District 9)
Monica Keller [email protected] Good evening, I am a long time resident and neighborhood leader in North Long Beach. I am in opposition of the approval of another ABC application in our district 9 community at 6203-6205 Orange Avenue. We have a high concentration of liquor stores already.

Recently we have worked hard to rid our community of nuisance bars and liquor stores near homes and schools, such as, Jordan High School. I ask that you deny this application and consider the overall well-being of our residents, especially our youth. Thank you.
2/6/2023
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12. (23-0104) Recommendation to receive supporting
documentation into the record and conclude the public hearing and consider two third-party appeals by Laurie Angel and Kirk Davis (APL 22-006); and
Deny the appeals and approve a Site Plan Review (SPR 22-078) for the development of a 303,972 square foot concrete tilt-up building including 9,000 square feet of office space approximately 51 feet in height on a 14.16-acre lot at 5910 Cherry Avenue in the General Industrial Zoning District. (District 9)
ale PS alejandra.perez-
[email protected]
Mayor&City Councilmembers
Ale Perez, LB resident.Project does not meet criteria 15332 IN- FILL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Class 32 consists of projects characterized as in-fill development meeting the conditions described in this section.Association of Environmental
Professionals 2023CEQA Guidelines 314(a)The project is
consistent with the applicable general plan designation and all applicable general plan policies as well as with applicable zoning designation and regulations(b)The proposed development occurs within city limits on a project site of no more than five acres substantially surrounded by urban usesâ€
per Notice of Public
Hearing lot size is 14.16-acre&per Land Use Element of the General Plan, area is considered Neo Industrial-light industrial use hence contradicts the IG zone description of Heavy Industrial Use.

Request a small study report[traffic,air,water,etc] from the developer with proof the project will not have Environmental affects or a full EIR. AleP 1111 E 11th st LB 90813
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12. (23-0104) Recommendation to receive supporting
documentation into the record and conclude the public hearing and consider two third-party appeals by Laurie Angel and Kirk Davis (APL 22-006); and
Deny the appeals and approve a Site Plan Review (SPR 22-078) for the development of a 303,972 square foot concrete tilt-up building including 9,000 square feet of office space approximately 51 feet in height on a 14.16-acre lot at 5910 Cherry Avenue in the General Industrial Zoning District. (District 9)
Vanessa
Covington
[email protected]
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My name is Vanessa Covington and I have friends that live in the area of this proposed project. According to CalEnviroScreen, North Long Beach has high levels of air pollution that endanger human health by causing respiratory conditions like asthma and decreased lung function. Traffic is already bad, and noise would increase, and as a constituent that lives in the 6th district next to PCH I know firsthand the effects of having to deal with trucks and the damage it does to the air and roads. Having lots of trucks parking and idling for hours outside happens a lot in underserved communities already. Adopting better policies to guide warehouse development in the city's general plan will also help comply under SB 1000. This requires local government general plans to identify objectives and policies to reduce health risks in disadvantaged communities and promote civil engagement in the public decision- making. Support the Appeal and Protect our health from
environmental hazards.
2/7/2023

Not only the mass of the structure but the constant truck related activity which would create constant in/out traffic along with adjacent street impact - much like going into the PORT of LB.

Which we know has had and continues to have significant enviromental burden to the surrounding residential areas. 2/7/2023

12. (23-0104) Recommendation to receive supporting
documentation into the record and conclude the public hearing and consider two third-party appeals by Laurie Angel and Kirk Davis (APL 22-006); and
Deny the appeals and approve a Site Plan Review (SPR 22-078) for the development of a 303,972 square foot concrete tilt-up building including 9,000 square feet of office space approximately 51 feet in height on a 14.16-acre lot at 5910 Cherry Avenue in the General Industrial Zoning District. (District 9)
Raul Cedillo [email protected] It's a shame that you continue to push forward with projects that are detrimental to the health of thousands of residents in North Long Beach, but here we are. At the very least, you must perform a full environmental review and hit the brakes if we are going in the wrong direction. There's still time to correct course and bring a greener future to our community. Thank you.
-Raul Cedillo
2/6/2023
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17. (23-0106) Recommendation to void, vacate and set aside the Planning Commission and City Council prior approvals of a Site Plan Rev
iew (SPR20-015), Standards Variance (SV20-006),
Conditional Use Permit (CUP20-010), and Lot Merger (LMG20- 009), relating to the proposed construction and operation of a three-story, 152,745-square-foot commercial building for self- storage, in conjunction w
ith an accessory recreational vehicle
parking lot and patron (priv
ate) car wash at 3701 Pacific Place,
Long Beach;
Adopt resolution voiding, vacating and setting aside Resolution Number RES-21-0034 in its entirety related to the adoption and certification of Mitigated Negativ
e Declaration MND07-20,
adoption of a mitigation monitoring and reporting program (MMRP) and approval of the Pacific Place project located at 3701 Pacific Place, Long Beach, including all findings adopted by the Planning Commission and City Council as part of the Project approvals; and
Dave Shukla [email protected] Horrible project. Should not be approved. There is a better use for that site and location.
2/7/2023

18. (23-0081) Recommendation to receiv
e and file a presentation
on the Analysis of Local Preference in Contracting;
Direct City Attorney to prepare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code Section 2.84.030, Local Preference, to raise the preference cap to $50,000 from $10,000 in determining the low
est responsible bidder for furnishing materials, equipment, supplies, or non-professional services, as applicable; and Direct City Manager to develop guidance for City staff to promote and prioritize the use of local v
endors as practical for purchases
within the discretion of Department Directors and for Requests for Proposals. (Citywide)
Van Bui [email protected] On behalf of Long Beach Residents Empowered (LiBRE), I am writing in support of item 18 to support local hires. This is crucial to progressing towards increasing the proportion of city dollars that are kept local. LiBRE supports this item to ensure the overall success of local businesses and organizations. I believe that the city should prioritize local hires to have a positive fiscal and local job impact on the city.
- Van Bui, Housing Justice Coalition Organizer
2/7/2023
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18. (23-0081) Recommendation to receive and file a presentation on the Analysis of Local Preference in Contracting;
Direct City Attorney to prepare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code Section 2.84.030, Local Preference, to raise the preference cap to $50,000 from $10,000 in determining the low
est responsible bidder for furnishing materials, equipment, supplies, or non-professional services, as applicable; and Direct City Manager to develop guidance for City staff to promote and prioritize the use of local v
endors as practical for purchases
within the discretion of Department Directors and for Requests for Proposals. (Citywide)
Gretchen
Swanson
gretchen.swanson3@gm
ail.com
I am in support of this action. I live in Rose Park Neighborhood; an old neighborhood filled with family and locally owned busineses that operate on a shoestring. Having the opportunity to contract with the service could be a sustaining lifeline for our small business community. And increase their involvement with our city. 2/7/2023

19. (23-0115) Recommendation to receiv
e and file the Fiscal Year
2022 Year-End Budget Performance Report and increase
appropriations in sev
eral funds across several departments for
v
arious purposes to reflect final expenditures and carryover clean- up. (Citywide)
Kimberly Lind [email protected]
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The 10th St-Termino Greenbelt Park is unfinished and the walkway in the 7th St-Termino section of the Greenbelt is in need of repair. The Greenbelt Heights Neighborhood Association respectfully requests that funds be allocated to remedy these issues before they are allocated to advance new projects. We are concerned about the 10th St-Termino Greenbelt Park project being left unfinished because if it is, the greenbelt will quickly devolve into a place for vagrants to shelter, ppl to do drugs and trash to accumulate. This project must be completed to realize its potential as a safe w
alkway for neighborhood residents and for the 5,000
students of Jefferson Middle and Wilson High Schools that traverse this neighborhood. That means not just leaving a walkway in the middle of dirt but finishing the green space to make it the park it was intended to be - a park that kids, families, the elderly - all can enjoy equally & safely. Please complete and repair of the heart of our neighborhood first.
2/7/2023
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19. (23-0115) Recommendation to receive and file the Fiscal Year 2022 Year-End Budget Performance Report and increase
appropriations in several funds across several departments for various purposes to reflect final expenditures and carryover clean- up. (Citywide)
Karen Blair karensblair@veri zon.net
The addition of money for 4 additional Full Time Employees for the Mayor of Long Beach is disastrous. Assembly Woman and former Long Beach City Councilperson, Senator Lena Gonzales has written many disastrous Assembly Bills. The most recent assembly bill passed removes the local revenues cities have gained, (Long Beach oil revenue), and place that revenue into the state general fund. Who is going to pay for the water pumps in our local water ways to keep the environmental balance of clean water with in the marina district? Instead of the extra's and endless spending downtown, maybe Mayor Richardson needs to direct revenue city wide? By the way, please don't spend any further money on breakwater studies, what a tragedy of financial government waste!
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20. (23-0109) Recommendation to adopt Specifications RFP No.

HE22-158 and award a contract to HOME EC, Inc., dba Connect Homes, of Los Angeles, CA, to provide the design,
manufacturing, delivery, and installation of 30 to 35 modular non- congregate shelter units to safely house people experiencing homelessness at the Long Beach Multi-Service Center (MSC), located at 1301 West 12th Street, in the amount of $2,318,419 with a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $231,842, for a total amount not to exceed $2,550,261 for a period of two years, with the option to renew for three additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments; and

Increase appropriations in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $5,616,752, offset by grant revenue. (District 7)
Karen Blair karensblair@veri zon.net 270 St. Joseph Ave. Housing ne eds: 1. People who have hit financial bottom, provide housing. 2. Addicted homeless, please find rehabilitation services, almost impossible to fix, commit these people! 3. The severely mentally ill person who are in need of services, housing is only one part of their problem. Unfortunately, the only category that needs housing is the lowest percentage of homeless, situation #1. The others, #2 and #3, they need commitment from a team, a large team, that includes, psychiatric services, social services, pharmacological services and lastly housing. All the government does is continue to throw money at housing, that wonâ€™t work.

Take another case to the ninth district court of appeals, take it to the Supreme Court, find a better way to spend money than what is happening now. By the way, can you please find housing for the residents living on Marina drive in the San Gabriel River. Has the California coastal commission approved of their building residences in that water zone.
2/6/2023

22. (23-0111) Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent
amendments, with Mallory Safety and Supply, LLC, of Longview, WA, for Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system equipment, on the same terms and conditions afforded to the County of Fairfax, VA, in total amount not to exceed $1,208,372, until the County of Fairfax, VA, contract expires on September 30, 2023, with the option to renew for as long as the County of Fairfax contract is in effect, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
Dain Lopez [email protected] 90806 I would like to express my strong opposition to this contract for ALPR equipment. I urge City Council to vote no on this item. This technology is not something that will improve the safety of our community. This technology is not something that the community is asking for. LBPD has not demonstrated that they will use such a powerful surveillance technology responsibly. In fact, only a few years ago it was discovered that LBPD was still sharing license plate data with ICE, contrary to their own statements on the matter and in opposition to the Long Beach Values Act. It is unacceptable that this request is even being made after such a breach in trust between LBPD and the community they are supposed to serve.

Please vote no on this item. Thank you.
2/7/2023

That million dollars could be spent in many other more important areas. There is no oversight on how the equipment would be used, and historically it has been used against people of color. 2/7/2023

22. (23-0111) Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent
amendments, with Mallory Safety and Supply, LLC, of Longview, WA, for Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system equipment, on the same terms and conditions afforded to the County of Fairfax, VA, in total amount not to exceed $1,208,372, until the County of Fairfax, VA, contract expires on September 30, 2023, with the option to renew for as long as the County of Fairfax contract is in effect, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
Regina N. longbeachplantclub@gm
ail.com
90814 We do not want this! These funds would be better used if d irected towards social services that actually help our community. People need care and safety now and not surveillance. Tracking people does not help those that work and live here. Sounds like this would be over 1 million dollars thrown into a dumpster that could be directed to different city departments that actually help people and NOT the police department.
2/7/2023

22. (23-0111) Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent
amendments, with Mallory Safety and Supply, LLC, of Longview, WA, for Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system equipment, on the same terms and conditions afforded to the County of Fairfax, VA, in total amount not to exceed $1,208,372, until the County of Fairfax, VA, contract expires on September 30, 2023, with the option to renew for as long as the County of Fairfax contract is in effect, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
Melissa Banda [email protected] 3728 Chatwin Ave
long beach ca
90808
I do not support this agenda item. The concerns of the community are valid as history has proved giving unregulated access to th e
police has adversely affected our community members. The focus of our city council should be to listen to community organizations that are on the ground doing daily work to better Long Beach for all of it's citizen and to gain the trust of the community by active listening. We have tried it the "police" was for so long, we have tried to increase funding and police to make our communities safer. Time and time again we are shown this does not work. Can we please try a different way ?
2/7/2023

22. (23-0111) Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent
amendments, with Mallory Safety and Supply, LLC, of Longview, WA, for Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system equipment, on the same terms and conditions afforded to the County of Fairfax, VA, in total amount not to exceed $1,208,372, until the County of Fairfax, VA, contract expires on September 30, 2023, with the option to renew for as long as the County of Fairfax contract is in effect, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
Emma Roy [email protected] 441 E 5 St Long
Beach CA 90802
LBPD keeps asking for more funding and we still do not have any alternative crisis responses team launched in our city. Neighbors have been asking for alternative crisis responders for YEARS and the program keeps being "about to be" launchedâ€”while $1.2MM is casually proposed for spending on high tech surveillance equipment. We have been asking for services that care for our city and its residents, not surveil us, and are literally begging for you to take these demands seriously. Please do NOT adopt this
resolution and focus on what your constituents are actually asking for.
2/6/2023
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This will only antagonize and persecute people in our
communities. This type of technology will not make us any safer.

The police department has everything they need to run licenses plates on their own. This software is not free of errors and could create unnecessary work for the police. The data could also be shared with organization like ICE who target hard working community members trying to survive on little to no resources. 2/6/2023

The proposal has grossly insufficient oversight, leaving far too much discretion to LBPD in when and how the technology is used.

LBPD has demonstrated untrustworthiness with scandals such as Tiger Test self-deleting text messaging a few years ago. The expansion of police surveillance poses a danger to all in Long Beach, especially immigrants and people of color. The proposed safeguards are not sufficient.
2/6/2023

28. (23-0084) Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by adding Section 2.84.170, to temporarily suspend certain provisions of Chapter 2.84 during the proclaimed local emergency caused by homelessness; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopted as read. (Citywide) (Emergency Ordinance No. ORD-23-0003)
Janet West [email protected] 2051 Palo Verde
Ave. Long Beach,
CA 90815
I oppose this Agenda Item which will give unlimited spending power to a single unelected person, the City Manager, who may be influenced by developers and other people who have a monetary incentive.

Janet West
District 4
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