Speaker 5: I think you started something, Councilman. All right. Any public comment on this item saying nonmembers, please cast your vote. On Panther way. I mean, brewing way. Sorry, I'm a yes motion case. Thank you. Next, we have item 24. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Item. Go ahead. It is late.
Speaker 1: Item 24 is communications from Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilwoman Mango Vice Mayor Richardson recommendation to receive and file an update from economic development regarding the submitted Amazon Coast proposal in partnership with the city of Huntington Beach.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'd love to hear a staff report. I'm very excited about this coming back. It just kind of blew up for in a good way. And I think Councilmember Mango and Vice Mayor Richardson and the original signer as well, Councilmember Supernova for being on that. And I look forward to seeing the presentation. So thanks so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you. We have a short presentation from the Economic Development Department. The thinking we had initially had.
Speaker 4: A 45 minute presentation, but we're going to cut that down to 2 minutes. Be as brief as possible just to kind of just summarize. On September 7th, Amazon issued an RFP soliciting.
Speaker 5: Proposals for its second headquarters, HQ two, as has been done, which will essentially bring a new headquarters the size of the existing campus in Seattle, which would trigger about an investment of about $5 billion and generate as many as 50,000 jobs. On September. Next slide, please. On September 12, the entire city council approved and directed staff to form a red team to respond to the RFP and the requests of councilmembers. Gonzales supervisor, Mongo and staff was directed to work with all city departments, county and state agencies and all other city partners. Next slide, please. Given that language does not have population of a million people, the city had to entered in partnership with other MSAs. Fortunately, because Long Beach is part of the Los Angeles, Long Beach, Anaheim MSA, we were allowed to partner with other agencies in both Los Angeles and Orange counties in Los Angeles. We partnered with L.A., EDC with Project Constellation and Constellation include several sites in Long Beach, as well as other sites in Los Angeles County, which include Santa Clarita, Pomona and Los Angeles. In Orange County, we partnered with neighboring city of Huntington Beach for approval entitled Amazon Coast, which highlights the Southern California Beach lifestyle while presenting various key opportunity sites and highlighting the the opportunity for labor workforce that exists. The existing.
Speaker 4: Transportation.
Speaker 5: Logistics, infrastructure and the diverse and sense of community at both communities offer the Long Beach Peace in.
Speaker 4: Communication firm of inner trend was commissioned to develop the proposal and they produced a short film entitled Amazon Coast The Shipment, which created kind of.
Speaker 5: Quite a buzz in the community and had over 4500 views on both YouTube and Twitch.
Speaker 4: Let's. I think we're going to skip the video. I think everybody's seen the video.
Speaker 5: The deadline for submittal for the Amazon RFP was October 19th. Amazon received over 238 proposals from various cities and counties, including two from the city of Long Beach. It is anticipated that Amazon will be making its announcement regarding Q2 in late 2018. Due to the high competitive nature of this bid.
Speaker 4: Details of the proposal are remaining.
Speaker 5: Confidential until a selection has been announced. Staff would like to thank Council for directing us to form the red team and respond to the RFP. We hope we've represented the city of Long Beach well in this competition. Additionally, we like to think.
Speaker 4: Various city partners.
Speaker 5: Who helped us with the the proposals both in L.A., EDC, Barbara Levine, Ms.. Barbara Levine and Mr. Lou Horn with CBRE at for Amazon COS, Ms. Lawrie and Farrell, assistant city manager for the city of Huntington Beach and her team. And as of course our own Steve Girling with and with our CVB and his team and her staff, Mrs. Christine Gar, who worked tirelessly day and night to make sure that we had the proposal completed in the timeline. This effort really, you know, really brought and kind of showcased the caliber of the Steve Languages team and our city partners. It kind of showing kind of the the the response that we have for visitor attraction in in a very short timeline, we were able to partner with over two dozen city partners and, you know, leverage resources and really put, you know, respond and really put a great foot forward. The city of Long Beach has proposals, received great notoriety in the press. And we're very happy and and we're excited and hopeful that, you know, we'll be receiving good news from Amazon in 2018. With that will conclude our presentation. Be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. You good?
Speaker 11: I just want to say thank you, Sergio and John, for your work. We really appreciate it. It just kind of came together and you guys made it happen. We appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Is a question. Where's that surfboard? Oh, we had a surfer.
Speaker 4: We had a surfboard. And we're going to tee it up earlier today. But I think as you kind of grew later and later, we have it back in our offices. And so.
Speaker 5: It'll circulate. And definitely we're going to try to have some photo ops for each and every one of you. I move that. The council gets surfboards if we win this. There you go. Council gets. So I got to try out that surfboard. Got drafted to take some pictures and give a little interview with. It's pretty, pretty cool board. Good. Good job, Councilmember. Next, Councilwoman Mongo.
Speaker 2: I want to thank everyone for doing a great job. I think that we are competitive. I saw a news article that we were in the top seven, which I thought was neat, and I think that that's a testament to the work that was done by the red team. Congratulations and great job.
Speaker 5: Thank you. And Councilmember Pearce.
Speaker 7: Yes, I have a question. How many other California cities put their hat, put their name on all of them.
Speaker 4: We will get back to you. We know that a total of 238 proposals were.
Speaker 5: Submitted from various cities and counties. But we will we will circulate back with you now and the number of cities in California that responded.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just curious if we are in the top ten. I understand that. I think New York City or one of them partnered with the state in their proposal. So if we are in the top ten and there aren't other California cities in the top ten, we might want to reach out at the state level and see if there's something we might be able to do. Okay.
Speaker 5: Definitely. Thank you. And confirm this for me. We're part of multiple proposals, right? Long Beach is a part of a few. Right. Yes. So we were part of two proposals, one with L.A., EDC, Economic Development Corporation and the Los Angeles County proposal, and one with the city of Huntington Beach. With for that proposal. With like I'm sorry, Amazon Coast. Great. Thank you so much. As any public comment on this item, seeing no public left here. I guess not. Members, please cast your vote in. I'm a yes.
Speaker 6: I can't.
Speaker 1: Pierce, Bush and Kerry.
Recommendation to receive and file an update from Economic Development regarding the submitted Amazon Coast proposal in partnership with the City of Huntington Beach.