Speaker 1: Motion carries.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Item 22.
Speaker 1: Report from City Manager. Recommendation to Request City Attorney to prepare a resolution to oppose Proposition six. The voter approval for future gas and vehicle taxes and 2017 tax repeal initiative citywide.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilmember Ringo.
Speaker 2: Yes. Given the importance that SB one has provided for not only the city limits, but for the state as a whole, I think it's very important that we oppose this proposition because it would have a devastating effect on all the projects that we currently have going in the city alone, which because of SB one, and when you look at what's going on with the replacement bridge at the replacement Desmond Bridge, it would be a bridge going to nowhere if we didn't have the funds to finish that project. And we have as well some other projects in Long Beach, including the Long Beach Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway and a lot of other projects that we have because of SB one. So I would strongly suggest let's just so strongly support the city council opposing measure. I mean, Proposition six.
Speaker 0: Becky, there's a motion and a second seconded by Councilman Austin. Councilman Austin.
Speaker 8: Yes. I'd also like to just weigh in and say, I think it's important for us to to stand by what we've worked for as a council and support it for for several years. It was the Fix Our Roads kind of campaign through the League of California Cities, a lot of our legislative advocacy for infrastructure support and dollars for state highways, but also for local roads as well, that this these dollars actually will go a long way, if I'm not mistaken. Stephanie, can you tell me specifically how much if SB six does pass, how much we would stand to lose as a city?
Speaker 2: Diana Chang.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Mayor.
Speaker 5: And Members of the City Council. SB 145 19 We've budgeted $8 million for.
Speaker 1: Projects in all nine council districts, and so those revenues would would likely.
Speaker 7: Be.
Speaker 5: Repealed and, and the projects would be without.
Speaker 1: A source of dedicated funding.
Speaker 8: So that's that's $8 million annually, correct?
Speaker 1: It's $8 million for FY 19.
Speaker 7: And as the revenues continue to be implemented as part of SB one, we're expecting them to grow to.
Speaker 5: 11 million in about FY 20 and then indexed to inflation thereafter. I would also like to note that this essentially doubles what the city currently receives from the state for streets.
Speaker 3: Streets and.
Speaker 1: Roads.
Speaker 5: Currently with just hooda the traditional source of state funding for streets and roads. Our our budget, it's about 10 million annually. So with SB one, we add another eight for FY19.
Speaker 7: About 11 for FY 20, and then adjusted to inflation every year thereafter.
Speaker 8: So I think it's a the the, the gas tax that we have is a small price to pay for, for good infrastructure investing in our future. The impact would be obviously significant for our public works infrastructure budget. And if we didn't if we lost those dollars, we'd have to be made up elsewhere. We and that would be less dollars that we could actually put toward residential streets, which I think are so important to our residents. And so for those reasons, I support this this motion to support to support or oppose. SB I'm to be very clear to oppose SB six.
Speaker 0: Six and let me add one thing that wasn't, I think unless I missed it in Dana Takes presentation, which is that the SB one not just not only includes all the street work and the annual funding that comes in, but they're also doing specific, larger streets. And part of SB one separate of what we're getting annually this year is the entire reconstruction of PCH from our entrance point in Orange County, all the way through the city to our exit point in in western Long Beach. And so that is a project that the state's doing that's in Long Beach that doesn't count towards our our amount. And so that that's a huge project that is obviously incredibly, incredibly expensive. And so that's why work goes through most of the city. There's a motion of seconds are public comment on this item saying none please cast your votes.
Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare a resolution to oppose Proposition 6, the Voter Approval for Future Gas and Vehicle Taxes and 2017 Tax Repeal Initiative, which will be considered by voters statewide on the November 6, 2018 ballot.  (Citywide)