Speaker 2: Thank you. And now we're going to go back to item four, which is pulled from consent. I can read that item, please.
Speaker 0: Report from Economic Development Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary for a lease with Platinum Capital Inc for office space at 500 West Willow Street, District seven.
Speaker 2: Thank you. We can, Mr. Councilman, regular. Do you need a report or anything on this or.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'd like to.
Speaker 1: Bring up Mr. Nick Schultz from the Pacific Gateway.
Speaker 7: Programs so he can give us a little bit of an update as to what this project is all about. That's in the Senate district. And I think it would be very.
Speaker 1: Beneficial to get more information as to what is coming to the seven.
Speaker 4: Council member. Yeah, good evening. This is really an exciting project for us in.
Speaker 1: Economic development and a wonderful economic development resource for our youth. I actually have Nick Schulz, our deputy director and executive director of Pacific Gateway, to talk a little bit about the services and resources that will be available.
Speaker 4: Thank you, John. Honorable Mayor, members of council. What we're looking at with this item is a satellite center to our workplace at 4811 Airport Boulevard. It's about a 7900 square foot facility on the on the block of Willow between Daisy and Magnolia. It would actually be the furthest west workforce services have ever been located in the city. It also places us in close proximity to our youth Starbucks store at Willow in Long Beach, as well as Silverado Park and Cabrillo High School, where we have some workforce programing continually going specifically to the Teen Logistics Academy with the Port of Long Beach at Cabrillo Cabrillo High School. It's along a major corridor and near the metro will stop and service by bus lines one or 2104 and 181 along Magnolia. It currently provides a a much needed space for our youth program services given the. Rejoining of our city staff at 4811 Airport Plaza by the Employment State Employment Development Department. Everything that we're doing at the site is funded through federal and special grants. No city funding is dedicated to this space so far. You'll be seeing a new future. L.B. Brand. That will. Co-design the space around specific input and a human centered design process with city use city youth. 4700 square feet of the 79 is dedicated to the youth center. It includes spaces for mental health training, afterschool homework, mentoring, meeting areas and conference room for other academic projects. Will House projects in this site, delivered in conjunction with the Health Department for Precariously House Youth, and it will serve as a portal to training and services citywide, not just those federally funded programs. We may include other partners like Job Corps in the center. Six staff will be dedicated there, teaching and leading our programs, and it will have both day and evening hours. Also, what we're excited about is we're going to dedicate 3200 the remaining 3200 square feet as a full satellite extension of the work place and on spring for staff to provide a whole host of adult career advisement. And we're also negotiating with other partners to provide adult services in that space. Normal work hours and some evening activity well will transpire for our adult clients. A little bit about the design. The rear entrance from the parking lot will be for adult services under the workplace banner and the front willow street entrance will be the future will be youth service entrance. It's a flexible modern design. New staff. New storefront windows will allow you to see right into the lobby area. It's a bright and inviting space. Classrooms will have walls, glass to see deep into the building and watch programs as they happen. So youth who wonder and can actually see what's going on. A pause there and I'll take any questions that the council might have.
Speaker 1: A very extensive description of the facility there. I could see that you're going to be providing services for both youth and adults, as well as adults experiencing other kinds of challenges. As you mentioned, there are some behavioral health and some perhaps some housing as well. You also, during our discussion earlier yesterday mentioned that there were some other facilities that are there. So what's what makes this facility unique in than other facilities that you might know exist for this type of services?
Speaker 4: Sure. And I think that ties directly to the point about homeless the homeless or transitional youth that we talked about many times. We experience the fact that that youth or even other customers don't want to enter into the facility because they're they're bringing possessions, their belongings with them. They don't have any place to store them. There is dedicated storage at this facility for youth and adults to store belongings as they as they seek to access services. There's also a very extensive remodel to that, to the restroom facilities that allow for our participants to take some time, get themselves cleaned up in a way that in other facilities we don't have the opportunity to offer them.
Speaker 7: And that sounds great.
Speaker 1: Now, the the funding is current is currently targeted towards federal funding or state funding or a combination of the two.
Speaker 4: Right now, the facility would be supported by our federal formula funds and a series of competitive grants that we have for youth.
Speaker 1: And with the upgrades and the remodel that you have to do with the what do we anticipate in terms of opening, getting this ribbon cutting? I'm certainly looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: Second quarter of 2020. We hope to be in there by April, May at the latest.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So given that this is a new facility, that going to be sure we've seen.
Speaker 4: A lot of.
Speaker 1: Youth and adults in the seventh District, especially when you're looking at the West Long Beach area where a lot of services are most desperately needed. I would.
Speaker 7: Hope that I could get the support of my my council colleagues to.
Speaker 1: Move this forward. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Thank you. There's a motion and a second count, Richardson.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I wanted to chime in and just say, first of all, congratulations. This is this is a big deal. We've been talking for over a year about decentralizing work force, particularly for youth who have, you know, transportation, transit issues. And so you've you know, we've talked about this. The Local Workforce Workforce Development Coalition has talked about it. Everyone in committee has talked about it. And here we are. You've you've identified a great space, you know, former, you know, former swap meet, right. That's been redeveloped. And, you know, it's got some great retail in the space now. And so now is going to be a hub for for jobs. I think that's great. And I want to I want to acknowledge that lift that up. Councilman Urunga, great job in landing this. And I know we have more conversations about continuing to expand into our parks and other things. So I wanted to just lift that up and say, this is great work and I wanted to recognize it. Thank you.
Speaker 4: I want to say thank you, Councilmember. We heard you. We heard the conversations and more to come in terms of expansion of services in 2020.
Speaker 2: Thank you. There's a motion in a second with no public comment, so please cast your votes.
Speaker 3: Councilwoman? Yes.
Speaker 0: Motion carries.
Speaker 2: Thank you. We are now we have two hearings which we need to do. And so we have both hearings at 715 and 16. They both require an oath. So I'm going to go ahead and have Vice Mayor Andrews begin the first hearing.
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for a lease with Platinum Capital, Inc., a Delaware corporation, for office space at 500 West Willow Street.  (District 7)