Speaker 1: Item number eight. A communication from Councilwoman Mingo. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Councilwoman Price. Recommendation to request the city attorney to draft a resolution in support of Women's Equality Day.
Speaker 0: Okay. Councilwoman Mango, is it?
Speaker 1: Yes. So thankful to have Councilmember Urania as my second on the motion. When the resolution comes back to the Council will be excited to share with you some exciting things. This is the 19th. This is the commemoration of the 19th Amendment to the United States that allowed women the opportunity to vote. And it's really important for us to recognize this historic occasion. So thank you for my colleagues for joining me in this important effort.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Council member You're invited to the second of the motion. Do you have any comments?
Speaker 7: I want to thank the thank the ladies for bringing this forward. It is quite, quite an event. And I look forward to working with you because you bring a different voice as elected officials on this council. Thank you for working with us.
Speaker 0: Thank you. And Councilwoman Gonzalez.
Speaker 6: That was very kind. Thank you. Yes, I I think Councilwoman Mongo for bringing this forward. And I know I think many of us ladies here on the council, we use councilwoman because we're very proud of our gender and who we are. But certainly there are different challenges of being a woman, and the equality issue is always still a problem to this day. So I thank you for bringing this forward.
Speaker 0: Vice Mayor Lowenthal.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I wanted to thank the author of the motion, as well as the supporters and really council member. Your longest comments as well. Actually, that's very personal touch. I don't think we often recognize each other for the different points of view that we bring. And sometimes those can be a sign to nothing more scientific or profound than just our gender and and and our own experiences. But I do think we are very privileged in the capacities that the voters have given us. And for us to be able to commemorate.
Speaker 1: Any opportunity.
Speaker 8: To bring equity is something that we can do and we should do with pride. So. Just shortly, among the measures of a just and civil society, I think most of us believe that the treatment of women is considered a very important milestone. We often take that for granted when we live in developed societies, but I don't think we can take that for granted. The 19th Amendment signified a turning point in a very male dominated society and political structure. However, we still struggle for equal pay, for equal work and qualifications, as well as updated family leave laws continue. They continue to be a hurdle, and I think most of us know where the U.S. ranks when it comes to family leave laws throughout the world. We have developing nations that far outrank our own efforts here, or at least our own accomplishments here for that level of equity. And I think we have a long way to go as much as we have to celebrate. So I want to thank Councilmember Mongeau for this reminder and our charge as elected leadership to continually reach for a more just and civil society and to not take for granted that because we have been placed in positions of privilege and equity, that that is the same for everyone. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Councilman Branch Yes, thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Vice Mayor, for that robust, you know, type of explanation you just gave. Because there's no doubt that the you know, the improvement of the women has improved every aspect of our lives. You know, to commemorate a day of this honoring women would be in my own honor to let you know, you know, honor that also. So with that said, I would like to give you my sincere gratitude of all my female colleagues for their contributions to this item and for all the work they do each day to inspire all women. And I want to thank you again.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Supernova.
Speaker 4: Just on a personal note, I my mother wouldn't forgive me if I let this go, but she's still worth us. But she was born on August 24th, 19, 22 days before women had the right to vote. And she reminded me of that fact all my life. And she voted in I think your first election was 1944, and she actually voted in our April election just past. I think she voted.
Speaker 2: For me, too.
Speaker 0: She's a fourth District resident.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 0: Keep it in the family. It's good. More votes.
Speaker 13: Councilmember Richardson just wanted to chime in and say I'm in complete support of this and I don't really see why it's necessary, because when I was raised, the women have run the show all my whole life and it's still that same way in my household today. So all jokes aside, I'm complete support and count me on the sign in sign up for the resolution next year.
Speaker 0: And councilmember Mongo.
Speaker 1: Yes. I was just sent an email from my staff asking me to read in Councilman Price's comments as she is watching this from her hotel room in D.C.. Except that it thanks me and I hadn't gotten to that. I want to thank Councilman Mongo and Councilmember Urunga for moving and seconding this motion and for Councilman Mongo bringing this item forward with the ladies of the Council. It is my honor to support it, and although I can't be there tonight, I'm watching from my hotel room and very appreciative of the remarks thus far. I especially like Councilmember UNGA on his remarks and I want to remind him that. The meeting went long even though I was not there. Thank you to everyone and the women that have been in my life that have made everything possible. I'm very lucky to have such wonderful female mentors and male mentors alike. But we've come a long way. And as Vice Mayor Lowenthal alluded to, we have a long way to go. Thank you.
Speaker 0: And because Councilman Price was watching us because we had a hearing, so we figured we got to apply that with no hearing council meeting. We'll see how that goes. Just kidding. And let me move on to the vote. We have a motion with a second o public any public comment on this item? Okay. Please cast your votes.
Speaker 1: Councilman Andrew Motion carries 809, please. Item nine Communication from Councilmember Richardson. Councilwoman Gonzalez Councilwoman Price recommendation are received from a presentation on participatory budgeting in Long Beach.
Speaker 0: Okay. Go ahead, Councilmember Richardson.
Speaker 13: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and good evening. And I want to just acknowledge our residents who are ninth District residents who came out tonight in support of this item. I know that it's it's kind of late, but when you're number nine, you're called on last. And sometimes it takes that to make sure that, you know, you are represented here. So so thank you. And this is what civic participation looks like. I want to begin the presentation with a short video on the participatory budgeting process that much of the council in the city has come to know over the last year or so and that we completed a few months ago. So let's go ahead and hit play. I am so excited about.
Speaker 2: This project because folks have.
Speaker 13: Literally invested hundreds of man hours making sure that this is a quality process and is a demonstration.
Speaker 2: For what could be considered a long and.
Speaker 6: Participatory budgeting to the democratic process that allows local residents to directly decide how to spend a portion of the public budget. It's real people will be real decisions about real public money. TB has actually been happening for over 25 years around the world, but it's relatively new here in North America and especially here in the United States . When I started with PDP about three and a half years ago, Chicago and New York were the only two not on the map.
Speaker 2: And they are the most important part of the process. They're the ones deciding how to spend the money and they're the ones coming up with the idea, developing the proposals. A lot of people, especially families, have reported increased skills and public speaking, negotiating, building agreement, contacting officials and consistently those with low incomes and less education. So it is actually a complicated process. You actually learn by different government.
Speaker 1: Many of us on the different committee of conservative delegates.
Speaker 14: We don't take your ideas and your collected.
Speaker 1: Into the footwork and research that you.
Speaker 14: Stand to create for people.
Speaker 1: The city.
Speaker 6: And those better proposals of what you think is playing out in the state.
Speaker 2: Participatory budgeting for me.
Speaker 13: Is about the power we've demonstrated where we can show that we do have an.
Speaker 2: Informed, empowered and engaged constituency that pays attention. I am participating in a program called Budgeting. I got it through a mega high school. I actually really liked them. You know, it makes me feel like you have a say in what's going on around the community. It makes me feel like I can make a change. I feel like I finally have a voice. Not just helping others, but all the way around.
Speaker 6: Now. I think some.
Speaker 14: People get excluded when public servants start talking about getting involved because they think that you get all their time and consumed doing things and then they'll have nothing to show about their accomplishments. But why do you power is that we have relatively great guys here and we are the mainstay in our community.
Speaker 15: And then Apple TV is on the back.
Speaker 13: Thank you. So. So tonight I want to share some outcomes and evaluation results from our PB process as well as I'd like to invite my colleague Councilmember Gonzalez to or Councilwoman Gonzalez to share her experience. I've also asked that Josh Lerner, executive director of the Participatory Budgeting Project, who's joined us from New York City, to share more about participatory budgeting and where that process is going. So let's start with the numbers.
Speaker 2: See? All right. Okay.
Speaker 13: I envision this going very differently.
Speaker 0: Ari, figuring out the technical issue?
Speaker 2: I hope so. Hmm.
Speaker 13: We're going to wait it all night. I'm going to give them their presentation.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Darrell. He.
Speaker 0: Tissue. We go into a couple other items and come back to this or do you want some time? Okay. We're gonna go to the next item so we can go and call item number 11.
Recommendation to request City Attorney to draft a resolution in support of "Women's Equality Day," on August 26, 2015, commemorating the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.