Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Report from City Manager Recommendation to enter into an agreement with Fuze corpse to participate in the Fuze Corp's fellowship program in an amount not to exceed $300,000 citywide.
Speaker 1: Councilmember Richardson.
Speaker 4: I want to just request the staff report. But I do want to say fantastic job. So far, we've been hearing about some attempts to find resources to focus on some of this work. I'm really proud to see this move forward, but I do want to hear that report.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Vice Mayor Council members. Arturo Sanchez, our deputy city manager, will give the staff report as he will be ultimately in charge of the Fuze fellows.
Speaker 12: Vice Mayor Lowenthal, Members of the City Council. The item before you is to authorize the city manager to execute all documents necessary to enter into an agreement with few score a nonprofit corporation of San Francisco, California, to participate in the Fuze Core Fellowship Program in an amount not to exceed $300,000 and increase appropriations as necessary by $300,000 to offset by grant funds from the California Community Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, and up to 100,000 in savings from fiscal year 2016 election expense. We are really excited about this particular program. We have an opportunity to get executive level experience, experienced folks with executive level experience in private corporations who are willing to take time out from their from their current employment to provide their expertize to us as new as a new fresh set of eyes to work on initiatives that they have their heart and souls committed to. And so for this particular fellowship program that we are that we are pursuing, we will have an opportunity to have two fellows, one who will be assigned to work with us on the Safe Long Beach Initiative, in particular, focusing and really drilling down into the My Brother's Keeper initiative. And a second fellow who will be and that fellow will be reporting to me directly in the city manager's office as we try to coordinate the safe Long Beach through development services and My Brother's Keeper initiative as well on a citywide basis. The second fellow will be reporting to the director of health out in the Health Department and they will be focused on homeless issues and really focusing on the work that needs to be done to take an already great program and our Continuum of care initiative and take it to the next level and figure out where we can we can leverage the existing programs and make them better. With that, that would complete the report for staff and available for any questions if you should have them.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilmember Richardson, when you finished. When you.
Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah. I'll defer to the rest of the council.
Speaker 1: Councilmember Alston.
Speaker 10: Thank you. And this is a great news. I am going to support this enthusiastically. I want to congratulate our staff and and acknowledge your work to make this grant and this fellowship happen and just say how enthusiastic I am that it's going to be going towards safe Long Beach and somebody to help coordinate our homeless issues here in the city. I think that's a great use of resources and like I said, I support it wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilman Price.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I, too, think this is a really great development and I want to thank staff for their efforts on this. I do have a question regarding violence prevention. I spoke with the city manager earlier today trying to get an understanding of the scope of that. And I hear you, Mr. Sanchez, talking about a focus on My Brother's Keeper. When I spoke with the city manager earlier, I I was under the impression that it was more part of the Be Safe program and that there would be programs offered throughout the city. There would be a focus on programs throughout the city to focus on things such as bullying or school violence, things that may not fall directly under My Brother's Keeper. Is that true?
Speaker 12: The fellow will be working under the safe Long Beach umbrella and looking at a citywide basis across the continuum of work that we do. Yes, but one of their subsets will be to try and develop a strategic roadmap for us. And then My Brother's Keeper. We will continue to work on the initiatives so such as the bullying efforts. And I believe we have a community forum and Ms.. Columbia should be behind me. And she could talk about the fact that we will be having a a forum out in District three to talk about bullying and our efforts to try and address those issues throughout the city.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah. And that's one of the things we've talked about. But in terms of this position where they develop, will they be developing kind of new programing going forward?
Speaker 12: We will be looking at ways to build on all, both safe Long Beach and My Brother's Keeper. So they're they're all interconnected. But we'll be looking to strengthen what we already have, including the bullying efforts.
Speaker 2: That sounds good, because I think the violence prevention piece of it really affects, you know, every district, especially right now. And if we can try to target the violence prevention message to the different communities, especially with our youth, I think that would be a really great way to use this money more broadly. So thank you. Thanks for.
Speaker 0: Your work.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Is there any member of the public that wishes to address the Council on item 14 saying none? Members cast your vote.
Speaker 0: Motion carries.
Speaker 1: Next item, please.
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary, including any amendments, to enter into an agreement with FUSE Corps, a non-for-profit corporation of San Francisco, CA, to participate in the FUSE Corps Fellowship Program, for the period of September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017, in an amount not to exceed $300,000; and

Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the City Manager Department (CM) by $300,000, offset by grant funds from the California Community Foundation, the Irvine Foundation and up to $100,000 in savings from the Fiscal Year 2016 election expense.  (Citywide)