Speaker 0: Okay. Thank you. That approves staff recommendation on that item. And now we have our final hearing hearing at a number two.
Speaker 1: Item two is a report from financial management. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the hearing and grant an entertainment permit with conditions on the application of Eagle 562 2020 East Artesia Boulevard for Entertainment with Dancing District nine.
Speaker 0: We have a motion in a second and may go back to the staff report, please. I believe it also. Is there an oath for this?
Speaker 1: There is an oath. What is required? Okay.
Speaker 0: So let's do the oath, please.
Speaker 1: You and each of you do solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the court now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Speaker 2: So help you God.
Speaker 0: Mr. MODICA Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Again, the staff report for.
Speaker 5: This item will be given by Sandy Tim Palmer, our purchasing and business services manager.
Speaker 2: Good evening, Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council tonight you have before you before you an application for entertainment with dancing for Eagle five six to LLC doing business as Eagle 562. Located at 2020 East Artesia Boulevard, operating as a bar, tavern, lounge and Council District nine. All of the necessary departments have reviewed the application and have provided their recommended conditions as contained in the hearing packet, as well as the police department stand ready to answer any questions council may have. And that concludes staff's report.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much. They actually in any public comment on this when we go to vice mayor.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Shirley.
Speaker 0: These are have two public comments. I'm closing the speakers list after this. Thank you, Mr. Sir.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Congratulations. District nine. What? What? A lot of positive. There are so many talented people in that district, and I. I was. I was waiting to hear a business that would step in and have this sort of venue become part of the artist culture of that district. I believe nothing but good is coming from the advancement. And for those for those children whose minds are not smoked out, we're going to see so much creativity coming out of this. Again, for those minds that are saved. Parents do your work. Nothing but good is going to come from a creative mind and being able to have a venue to go in your neighborhood and and express your creativity, I'm not sure what type of entertainment, and I'd like to hear more of that, but I'm glad to hear that this is a this is coming to that district. Thank you very much.
Speaker 0: Thank you. And the last public comment, please come forward. Hello. My name is Sergio Maldonado. I'm the manager from the apartment building located about 50 feet from the lounge. The address is 6530 Cherry Avenue. Most of the tenants didn't want to come because they didn't want to get involved in all this legal. They call it legal issues, but obviously it's not. It's just it's a hearing. The for the past few months, we've been having a lot of problems with this lounge. I have called the cops. I, I call the city and seem like nobody wants to do anything about it, because so far, it's. It's legal. But I call the cops because they play music till two in the morning. A lot of us go to work next day. Maybe I wake up at 530 to be at work at 630. And so far, nobody seems to care. And now they're going to have live entertainment. All the dancers in the past three months. It seems like now and then they do have this type of event. We drive by the alley. There's an alley next to the business. And it's the. Let's look at it behind our building. We're seeing dancers weigh nothing but just some really tight shorts, male dancers. My daughter started asking, what are these people doing? I mean, we we were the managers of the building. So we we sweep and clean the back of the building and we find a lot of use condoms. I don't know about you, but if my kids walk in the back and see all these things, I don't I don't know. What's your reaction to what would you tell them? What are they for? Especially for their use and just laying there on the floor. I have pictures of parking cars, parking all the way in the alley, making it hard for us to park in the garages. The the the lounge itself. I don't think it's big enough to maintain a lot of people. I don't know how how big exactly it is, but it is it's been horrible these few months since the new owners took over. There was a hearing for ownership change. Atari is supposed to have won, but didn't. So if you can please do something about it, myself and the rest of the tenants and people that live close by this lounge. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, sir, very much. We've closed the public comment so we have a motion in the second Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Let me walk, folks, through a little bit of the history on Artesia Boulevard and our strategy to sort of improve it. It's pretty common knowledge that Artesia Boulevard has quite a few history of quite a few shady dove bars. And over the last few years we've been doing the hard work of figuring out how to improve the conditions of these bars, to make them have less of an impact or be less of a nuisance on neighborhoods. Now, the most important thing that we can do is bring in property owners who have a vision for the future and on board with the larger vision for the corridor. An example is the last strip club in Long Beach was on Artesia Boulevard. Entertainment, live entertainment, dancing, you know, that sort of thing. And we were able to work with that property owner to surrender voluntarily, surrender that license for entertainment and convert it to a restaurant. And there was a conversation in partnership that helped us achieve that outcome. Now, some of the property owners have not been so willing to come and come forth. The reason I want to recognize this specific project, this this specific deal is that the property owner came to the city in advance and talked about that vision and agreed to a number of conditions that will outline. And and I have confidence that in the approach that they've that they've attended this, we've taken one potentially terrible dove bar off the table and created a brought in a leader for the corridor that can help us to get some of the other guys in line, because it's not as simple as people may think that we can just point at a dove bar and say, hey, you know, stop being a nuisance on the neighborhood. You have to have some level of partnership with the owner unless it or else it leads you down a very arduous administrative path. So. Just a couple of things and one question. So there's a number of there's a number of key conditions in here, but one that's really key and I would hope that we can walk through are the tiered conditions, these tiered conditions sort of outline a progressive like progressive discipline. It outlines a process to hold the whole folks accountable on this license. Should folks step outside of the conditions that we that we set out on? So necessity manager, whoever else can can answer. How can can you walk us through what that tier condition process looks like?
Speaker 2: Yes, the way that the tiers work is that for if there are problems with the business operation and their complaints that are received by the police department.
Speaker 3: If three or more.
Speaker 2: Noise complaints come in and are found to have been as a result of the activities happening at this establishment, the hours of activities allowed for entertainment will be rolled back by 2 hours. If three additional violations occur within another 30 day period that are found to violate the noise ordinances, it will be rolled back another 2 hours . So we have a three tiered arrangement here to ensure that if there are any problems with operations, that we are able to change the operating conditions built into this agreement. And that was something that was discussed between the police department and the business operator to ensure that they understood and were willing to comply with that requirement.
Speaker 0: Thank you. So what I'll say is this particular establishment on three sides is surrounded by commercial and industrial space. If this had been anywhere in one of the residential neighborhoods, my position would be very different. But this for the most part, is an industrial space. There's some apartments sort of maybe a block down. And I want to make sure that my staff meets the gentleman who came here and talks to some of those concerns and make sure he has a good relationship with the property owner. I'm seeing some nods from the property owner. He's willing to sit down and talk with this because it's literally one of one group of residents that I want you to sit down and build a good, productive relationship with. But aside from that, I've gotten sort of the property owners indicated the willingness to work with the community. And so for that, I support moving forward with Eagle 562 on Artesia Boulevard. So thank you. And that's my motion. I encourage the city council to support it. Thank you, Councilman Gonzales.
Speaker 2: Yes, I just say I support this as well as Vice Mayor Richardson had mentioned. I know this is not the first turn or the first location for this property. Owner has other incredible establishments and not only that, but is willing to come to the table and work with many of us. So for that reason, I'll be supporting this and I look forward to seeing more happen on Artesia Boulevard. Congrats.
Speaker 0: They kick us over?
Speaker 2: Yes. I also wanted to just lend my support. You have two of your other locations in my district and are in on a business corridor with residents behind you. And I think that you've done a fantastic job at both of those locations. And so I want to applaud you for going and opening somewhere new and stretching your legs a little bit. And I want to applaud the vice mayor for putting in some implementation and a tiered approach that I think us on council often are trying to figure out those conditional use permits and how we do that in a way that's respectful of the businesses and of the residents. So congratulations on the new endeavor and congratulations to the ninth District.
Speaker 0: Great. Thank you. With that, we will move to a vote to approve the the conditions. And again, I want to thank the the property owner and the team. They have some already great establishments in Long Beach and I am certain that will continue to please cast your votes.
Speaker 4: I.
Speaker 1: Councilmember Andrews.
Speaker 0: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Motion carries.
Speaker 0: The eagle has landed. Thank you. Thank you. Great. We will. That concludes our hearings. So we will move on now to the regular agenda. Just give me 1/2.
Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing, and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions on the application of Eagle 562, LLC, dba Eagle 562, 2020 East Artesia Boulevard, for Entertainment With Dancing.  (District 9)