Upcoming City Council Meeting Highlight
On Tuesday, September 10, the City Council will hear the following items of interest:
Item #17: Adopt the Fiscal Year 25 Budget. This item is taken in several actions. To review the full proposed FY 25 Budget, please visit here.
Item #22: Recommendation to authorize the City Manager to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 36395 with Circuit Transit, expanding the service area of the micro-transit shuttle program.
Also on Tuesday, September 10 at 3:00 pm, the Budget Oversight Committee will hear the following topic of interest:
Item #2: Recommendation to receive and file Mayor Rex Richardson’s FY 25 Budget recommendations.
Item #3: Recommendation to receive and file a list of follow-up items from the Budget Hearings and/or Budget Oversight Committee meetings.
Item #4: Recommendation to forward the Budget Oversight Committee’s Fiscal Year FY 25 Budget recommendations for Council consideration.
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Summary of Previous City Council Meeting
On Tuesday, September 3, the City Council heard the following items of interest:
Item #26: Budget Hearing for Health and Human Services and Economic Development for the Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 Budget. See the presentation here.
For Health and Human Services, Councilmember Duggan asked that the department look at the data collected from the Homeless Data Dashboard and other program data to see what's working, what's not, and why. The City started publishing data during the declared homeless emergency and we should be using this data to guide our decision-making.
Item #28: Request the City Attorney draft a resolution recognizing every 8th of September as "908 Day", a citywide celebration of pride in the City of Long Beach. This item passed unanimously.
Also on Tuesday, September 3 at 3:00 pm, the Budget Oversight Committee will hear the following topic of interest:
Item #2: Receive and file a presentation on Grow Long Beach, in addition to revenue opportunities (inclusive of the proposed regional tax) as a part of the November 2024 Ballot. This item was a report with no action, and it passed unanimously.
All City Council, Committee, and Commission agendas can be found here.
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