Speaker 1: Item 20 East Communication from Vice Mayor Richardson Council Membership in Councilwoman Mango and Council Memo Durango. Recommendation to request the City Manager to work with South Coast Air Quality Management District to report on the impacts of the City of Paramount air quality to Long Beach residents.
Speaker 4: Councilmember I'm sorry. Vice Mayor.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Here in Long Beach, we border a number of cities, and in the ninth district border, the cities of Paramount, Bellflower, Bellflower, Lakewood, Compton, and the community of Rancho Dominguez, an unincorporated section of L.A. County. So issues commonly across across commonly cross city boundaries. What's important that we stay up to date on manner matters that can potentially impact our residents? Our request today focused on a recent air quality concern with businesses located in City of Paramount, which are both only about a half mile away from District nine Long Beach neighborhoods. In October 2016, the South Coast Air Quality Management District began investigating two metal processing facilities in the city of Paramount after detecting hexavalent chromium, a potentially cancer causing metal. And in the interests of transparency, we placed this motion on the agenda to request city staff to do our diligence and coordinate with HQ, M.D. and City Paramount to better understand any impacts that this incident has had on our Long Beach residents and their quality of life. So tonight we're beginning that conversation and that discussion and will ask city staff to come back to the City Council with their full findings after engaging HQ, M.D. So we'll start with a brief staff report in a few questions now.
Speaker 2: Diana Chang, our manager of Government Affairs. I can talk a little bit about this item.
Speaker 3: Vice Mayor, Council and mayor. We are aware that there are concerns that the City of Paramount and accused have around their metal.
Speaker 5: Facilities without.
Speaker 3: Getting into too much detail on on.
Speaker 5: The findings that a Camden Paramount have been.
Speaker 3: Discovering. We are willing and interested in working with the Air Quality Management District and our neighbors on figuring out any impacts to Northampton and the city of Long Beach.
Speaker 0: Okay. And I just have a few questions, Miss Mustang two, and I would hope that the responses could be included in whatever report comes back. I'd like to better understand what hexavalent hexavalent chromium is. I'd like to know the difference between a regular metal shop and the ones that have hexavalent chromium emissions. I know that we have Weber Metals here in Long Beach and Paramount and a number of metal shops that are not necessarily hexavalent chromium emission emitters. And so we want to understand the difference between those two and understand where they where they are that are in Long Beach and close to Long Beach. So we want to understand that and we want to confirm and maybe you can answer this for us now, who is the lead agency that does evaluate potential potential impacts of air quality of businesses that surround Long Beach?
Speaker 3: Sure. So the US EPA establishes health based air quality standards that all states must achieve. And in California, the California Clean Air Act also establishes requirements for cities and counties to meet.
Speaker 5: It is the company's responsibility for developing plans and regulations to.
Speaker 3: Achieve these public health standards by reducing emissions from business and industry. So and it appears that ACME is is the lead on this.
Speaker 0: Okay. And we have already engaged them, correct?
Speaker 3: Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 0: Okay. And so when do we anticipate to have some report of the findings of that discussion back to city council?
Speaker 3: We think we can have something back to you in about 45 days.
Speaker 0: Okay. Have we spoken with the City of Paramount as well?
Speaker 3: Yes. Our office has been in contact with the city manager's office and Paramount.
Speaker 0: Okay. So and so in 45 days, we'll have a report back. And can that include potential next steps if we do find that there is some impact along beach neighborhoods? Yes, certainly. Well, thank you very much. And so that's my motion to come back in 45 days with a report.
Speaker 4: Any other accounts, comments, seen, any public accounts of your anger?
Speaker 2: I want to I want to thank Vice Mayor Richardson for bringing this forward. I know how equality is important to his neighborhoods as it is in mine. So I'm glad that you're bringing this forward and I strongly support it.
Speaker 4: Katie, public comment CNN. Okay. We'll go ahead and do the this motion for this for this report. Then with consensus, no objection. Next item.
Speaker 6: To.
Speaker 1: Item 21 is a report from financial management recommendations received for the fiscal year 2016 year end budget performance report citywide.
Recommendation to request City Manager to work with South Coast Air Quality Management District to determine potential health, safety, and/or environmental impacts to Long Beach residents caused by the high levels of hexavalent chromium found recently in the City of Paramount, and report back to the City Council.