Speaker 0: Okay. We actually have one more presentation, which is an agenda item. But, but we're going to take that up now because it's a CVB presentation. And so it's actually item eight on the agenda, but it's a presentation by the Convention and Visitors Bureau. If I can get a motion and a second. Okay. And I'm going to turn this now over to actually, madam, quickly, you want to read the presentation number?
Speaker 1: Communication for me or Garcia recommendation to receive and file a report from the Convention and Visitors Bureau regarding the the due tour. The A6 World Series of beach volleyball and POW Wow. Long Beach.
Speaker 0: Okay, thank you. And I'm turning this over to Mr. Good Lee.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Mayor. Also council member city management team. In addition, Janine Al de and our congratulations on your wins. And I hope I reached 93 and doing the same thing. I we have. This is a summer of fun. All of you are getting this. We hope you go out and have some fun with it in your backyard. We've had over 40 artists from POW Wow in this past week. They painted some great urban landscape. And we'd like to share with you our various presentations with that. In addition, we have the founder of Powwow here tonight, Jasper Wong. And I like to invite Jasper just as background when the when Mayor Garcetti in Los Angeles saw what Jasper was doing here in Long Beach, he sent down his deputy of of arts tourism. And they tried to steal Jasper away to L.A. and Jasper and Jasper said, no, he really enjoyed his his time and experience here in Long Beach. And all of that had to do with all of you here, city management team. And also Mayor Garcia when he stopped and visited POW Wow in Japan. So first, I'd like to introduce Jasper. And Jasper is the founder of POW Wow. And he brought POW out to Long Beach. Jasper. Thank you everyone, and especially thanks to Steve Gatling at the LP CVB. The past week we spent painting murals all over the city and we had about over. We paint over 20 murals. And with over 40 artists painting from. Like huge, like 30 or 40 feet foot murals, some of them 100 to 200 feet wide. And they came from all over the world from now, from the Netherlands, from Spain, France, all over the place. And we connected with local Long Beach artists. There's about six that were involved this year, as well as Native American artist and and tons of volunteers from every corner of the city that came out to work with us throughout the whole week, painting these large scale murals and beautifying the city. We started doing this project about six, seven years ago, an effort to just bring more life to walls. We spent a lot of time near blank walls that are beige or tan or just they just have no life to them. And when we add artwork to them, they change the way that people see their neighborhood. This only become alive with color and people stop by to take pictures in front of them. People try to find them. And and it makes it it makes the city safer to a degree, because then there's more people walking around and there's more people visiting businesses that are nearby. And we also try to bring people together through the act of creating art and through the simple act of putting paint on walls. And so it's thanks to the city next to me. Garcia Thanks to everyone at the LP, CVB, to the Port of Long Beach, to AirTran and everyone, the community that really went out and just helped us make this project reality into a John Hall.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Jasper.
Speaker 5: In addition, Julia Wang and John and Ron Nelson from Long Beach Museum of Art were instrumental last year in bringing power here and continue to be instrumental. So we appreciate their efforts. There's a great exhibit at the museum. It's awesome if you haven't seen it as well. John Hall is our local representative for POW Wow, and John was very instrumental this year. In addition, the engagement we had over 23,000 people engage via social media this past week. That translates into over 4.2 million impressions. We were on NPR also last week that during the drive time. So it really has proven to be a great not only a great local program, but it brought tourist in, it brought visitors in, but it also enhanced and beautified our area and gave us some additional outreach. With that, we'd like to share with you a video of what transpired this past week. Jasper also says that he's showing 23 million and actually 20 million impressions. So it's off and running. In addition, coming up this weekend, for those of you are skateboard enthusiast or have grandchildren or children that are skateboard enthusiasts. Long Beach will be ground zero for those those folks. The sport, the Dew Tour will be here. In addition, thanks to Charlie Bern at the Convention Center and his team for really working out a lot of logistical details. We were actually sold out. Charlie was able to work with other groups in the space and help help everyone kind of move around, which opened up space for this tour. In addition, Melody, I'd like to introduce Melody and the new tour, and then our next Melanie.
Speaker 10: Thank you. Hello, city council members. Hi, Robert. Long time no see. We went to college together. Thanks for having me. I'm along these local. I'm very excited to have due tour coming to the Long Beach. I do public relations and I've been so excited to have this event come into our backyard. It's the first time due tour is coming to Long Beach this upcoming weekend, July 22nd through 24th. It's a free family fun event happening Friday through Sunday. If you like world class skateboarding, we're going to have a fun sponsor village with sponsors like Mountain Dew, U.S. Army, Motorola doing really fun activations that are, you know, fun and interesting for the whole family and will have an innovative tech zone run by Mountain Dew, where we're going to have virtual reality painting and drone racing. We'll have 40 world class athletes here in Long Beach, skaters skating an epic four part skate course, something that's never been done before in the history of skateboarding competitions. So it's pretty exciting. We hope that you all come and we've been working really closely with another skate organization here in Long Beach. A lot of you guys know them already. The Ask Foundation. I'll let them speak just after we show this video, but I'd like to give it out to Shawn Molto, who is a Mountain Dew athlete. And we did a video with him here skating in Long Beach. And I'd like to show the video now.
Speaker 7: This year, Detour is coming along beach and it's going to be completely different than what it has been in the past. It's not going to be a conventional skate park. They're going to break the course down in four different sections. One course is all gaps. One course is all rails. And then there's a tech section, and the last one is transition. So we're still going to have the individual pro contest. But another change is a contest between nine invited teams consisting of four skaters, each team. Each team will have to pick a skater to skate a certain section, so it'll be cool to see which team is the most well-rounded. So another thing that's going to make this different is the individual contests. They're going to have to skate all four courses. I think that's going to show amazing skating from everybody.
Speaker 5: Electricity. These guys are.
Speaker 9: Just so gnarly. Hard, so heavy right now. The last is so you switch flip backs.
Speaker 7: I love that the contest is going to be video premieres and concerts, some of the biggest artists. It's going to.
Speaker 5: Be a crazy weekend.
Speaker 10: And like I mentioned, we have been working really closely with the Ask Foundation to promote the event, get out into the community. And I would like to introduce Albert from Ask to just talk a little bit more about ask and do tour.
Speaker 5: Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Albert McMillan, former intern, team co-founder and captain, currently a member of the board of Directors for the Ask Foundation.
Speaker 4: First of all, I want to thank you guys for so many years of support.
Speaker 5: Special thanks to Steve Girling and LBC, VB.
Speaker 4: Parks and Rec and the.
Speaker 5: Dudes who are Long Beach has been.
Speaker 4: Labeled Skate Park USA by the Tony Hawk Foundation and always has.
Speaker 5: Been a vision to have a major.
Speaker 4: Skate event in Long.
Speaker 5: Beach and in like.
Speaker 4: Utah. And now we have, due.
Speaker 5: To our Long Beach attracts visiting skateboarders from across the USA and the world is a destination spot for thousands of youth people because. Thousands of young people because of our skate scene in Long Beach. The pride and excitement from the skate community is what helps us do what we do make a difference in the life of kids through skateboarding.
Speaker 4: I just wanna thank you guys again. And remember, skateboarding saved lives.
Speaker 10: Thank you. Thanks for having us. We hope to see you all there.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: So with this weekend and Albert and Mike Donlin, Mike is on to his eighth park for skateboarding. In addition, right after that, three weeks later, we're going to have the Olympians in the city of Long Beach for the A6 volleyball turner Leonard and Amber Leonard is bringing world class volleyball to our beaches. And it's with pleasure to introduce Leonard. Leonard. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. This is very exciting. Mayor Garcia, hello and thank you for everything. And hello to you, ladies and gentlemen of the City Council.
Speaker 8: We have an opportunity.
Speaker 5: To talk to you for a moment tonight about a great sporting event. It's the most important beach volleyball event in the entire world outside of the Olympic Games, and it's coming to Long Beach. Just to put it in perspective. 3.25 million people watched our event last year live on NBC, the Olympic Network. To compare with the Long Beach Grand Prix, that's three times the audience that watched the Long Beach Grand Prix on TV. So we have a big TV audience, plus 25 million people outside the United States. Watch us live. It's a showcase for the city and all the wonderful attributes of the city of Long Beach. And I believe the city of Long Beach is a complete undiscovered gem. I've put on hundreds of events all over California, and and this city is the easiest to work with. It has the best set of city services and wonderful administrators. So we're delighted to be here. And we're doing our part. We're bringing economic impact to the city. You'll see a week after the Olympic Games, 32 countries will descend upon Long Beach with their great athletes. Hopefully, we'll be celebrating. Kerri Walsh Jennings winning her fourth gold medal in Rio in the Rio Games and come back here to Long Beach and everybody can be high fiving each other. Steve Goodling has been nice enough to to orchestrate a great event to welcome home our athletes and kick off our event on the Tuesday night before the event. So it's going to be super exciting for all of us here. I also want you to know that we care deeply about the city and want to make a big impact here on an ongoing basis with underserved kids. Standing next to me is Amber Reed Stevens. She's been working she's my colleague and she's been working tirelessly with the Boys and Girls Club of the City of Long Beach to institute programs to teach kids about volleyball, to teach kids about life skills. In fact, I think as we sit here today, there's a clinic going on at Petro Lane, which is obviously in a very, very difficult part of the city. And we go in there every week and we try to give those kids a little bit of glimmer of hope, and they seem to really be appreciating it. And by the way, everyone should give Amber a round of applause for what she does. Thank you. You do? It's amazing. So, you know, we look forward to this great event. We're going to show you video in a second. Another thing that happens every single year at our event is on Thursday. We have kids day. We bus in Kids, Boys and girls clubs come down and they get to see what it's like to go to the beach. Some of them have never been to the beach. What it's like to play the sport of volleyball, what it's like to learn to exercise and enjoy life in a way that maybe they don't otherwise get the opportunity to do. Last thing I want to say is our event concept is really cool. You'll see in the video it's not only about watching the best in the world, it's about getting to play. So you're active. You'll see everybody can play if they want to. It's about listening to cool music. This year we have a slate of tropical house deejays that come down and play while you're on the beach. And it's all about the beach lifestyle, which is what Long Beach is known for. So I'm just going to ask you for your help. Please come to our event. Support our event. Tell your constituents to support our event. We sell suites, we sell tickets, we sell special access passes. And we need your support because it cost us a lot of money to put this sucker on. So thank you very much for your support. Play the video and look forward to seeing you there. He wanted to.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: So we hope you're planning August 21st. In addition, the last event for capping out our summer and more Olympians coming to the city of Long Beach. Longines Equestrian Tournament, Paris, Hong Kong. L.A. is how they promote it, but we are the L.A. component. I'd like to share with you. A great group of events this summer, putting Long Beach on the map. Thank you for all your support. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Steve. There's emotion in a second. No public comment. Is there any public comment on this item? See, now I know it's a presentation. Members, please go. And Kaster votes to receive and file the presentations.
Speaker 1: Motion carries.
Speaker 0: Thank you and thank you all. I know there's a lot of presentations tonight, but I want to thank everyone for their for their patience through. We're going to transition now to the agenda. The first order of business is going to be the election of vice mayor, which we're going to do in just a minute.
Recommendation to receive and file a report from the Convention and Visitors Bureau regarding the Dew Tour, the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball, and POW!WOW! Long Beach.