Speaker 1: Okay. Thank you. Now on to item 25.
Speaker 2: Report from Development Services Recommendation to Execute Mills Act Historic Property Contracts with owners of historic landmark properties for the preservation and rehabilitation of eight properties districts one, two, three and eight.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm Jenny Silver Staff.
Speaker 0: We have a report from Development Services Director Amy Barak and also Chris Coons.
Speaker 6: Mr. Mayor, and members of the City Council. First, I would like to formally introduce you to Christopher Coons, our advance planning officer. He also serves as our historic preservation officer. And the report that we're going to be giving tonight is largely the result of his efforts since he's been on staff. So I want to publicly acknowledge his involvement in moving the historic preservation program for this city forward. We are pleased to present to you tonight the First Mills Act contracts that have been adopted by the city since at least 2007. We are presenting to you a number of contracts that.
Speaker 2: Cover.
Speaker 6: Our residential and commercial buildings. This, as you know, was the first year that we.
Speaker 2: Instituted the Mills Act.
Speaker 6: And we went through a very extensive screening and education process with members of our historic community who may qualify for a Mills Act contract. This year, we were a little bit selective in only choosing to work with those properties who have already been landmarked within the city of Long Beach.
Speaker 2: And offered the Mills Act process to.
Speaker 6: Those existing homeowners or property owners. We hope to expand the program to a larger audience next year, and for those property owners who do have properties who are interested in Mills.
Speaker 2: Act but may not be historic landmark.
Speaker 6: Designated. We would do a combination process of we as we have detailed to you in the past. So I believe we have nine different contracts that we would ask you to consider entering into. This is a ten year contract with each of these individual property owners. There is a detailed contract that spells out what their requirements are. There is an obligation for the city to provide regular inspections to make sure that the contracts are being adhered to. There is a continued process that we will be involved in in the regular monitoring of these properties. I would say.
Speaker 2: Without hesitation that these nine properties.
Speaker 6: Represent the entire spectrum of the historic properties that are landmarked within the city. They do cover very unique single-family residential homes, and then they do cover some of our commercial buildings that are also landmarked. And you probably know most of these just by looking at their name and address, which which should point to their notoriety.
Speaker 2: If you've got specific.
Speaker 6: Questions about any of the applications, we are here to answer any questions. But that does conclude our initial staff report.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We have a motion in a second on this on this item. Councilman Austin.
Speaker 7: So moved.
Speaker 1: Councilman Price, your comments. Vice Mayor Lowenthal Thank you.
Speaker 4: I wanted to thank Ms.. Burdick for all the hard work that she and her department has put into this. And for the presentation tonight, and also John Thomas, who's been patiently waiting in the audience for us to hear this item, I'd like to congratulate and thank the property owners for buying these historic gems and being interested in preserving them. And again, my thank you to development staff services and our Cultural Heritage Commission for delivering this program to us.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Is there any public comment on the item? CNN. Please cast your votes.
Speaker 2: Motion carries.
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute Mills Act historic property contracts with owners of historic landmark properties for the preservation and rehabilitation of the Opdahl House, Espey/Lochridge House, Residential Home No.1, Olan Hafley House, Kimpson Nixon House, Gaytonia Apartments, Insurance Exchange Building, Ocean Center and Killingsworth Office.  (Districts 1,2,3,8)