Speaker 2: around our community that needs to trickle down to our communities as well. Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Councilman Ortega, see no other comments on that one. We're going to move on. Councilman Lopez, what would you like to call it was.
Speaker 5: Resolution 37. So, yes, 2019.
Speaker 0: Just a just for a comment. Madam Secretary, you already have that one. Go ahead.
Speaker 5: So this may just seem like a simple dedication of of land. Right away, we see hundreds of these things fly by, but change is inch by inch. And sometimes it's taken 25 years to do this particular alley wasn't even an alley. It was space that should be an alley in between federal and grow from Mississippi to Tennessee. And it was in the worst blighted condition that you can ever find a piece of property. It was muddy. There was all kinds of shady things happening back there. There was no lighting right behind the Little Saigon business district out here on South Federal Boulevard about I think it was November 1st week in November. We had a council meeting in 2013 and I was very critical that we were extending urban renewal monies and. And not doing it in an equitable way and really questioning what we really considered blight. And I brought that up, had a protest vote on it. And here is the result we were able to get. And then this, not just this, this, but this is like it's been an eyesore for such a long time and has really been a drain on that neighborhood for such a long time, especially those those business owners and Little Saigon business district. We were able to not only acquire through urban renewal funds that folks had paid for for almost a decade and a half into, we were able to acquire this land right be right behind these businesses. We were able to create an easement. We paved the alley with concrete. We undergrounding the utilities. We were able to create a safe lighted passage through that. Now you just drive through. You just think it's not that bad of an alley. It's just an alley. Right. But it's things like this. I wanted to point this out and I wanted to thank Adriano and my staff, the business owners on South Federal Boulevard and also like on business district door folks in the city to really identify this as a as indeed blight and address it. And so if you like I said, we drive through there now it's just a regular alley, but we are officially dedicating it an alley, a public ride away tonight. And I, I wanted to highlight that because not all this stuff happens automatically, ladies and gentlemen, it takes pushing. It takes a lot of hard work. And and it's moving an entire bureaucracy to get something like an alley done. There's a couple of others on there. But as you see these alleys come through, it's been a lot of work and a lot of just a lot of just city work, getting it done, a lot of advocacy . So I wanted us to celebrate that.
Speaker 0: Thank you, Councilman Lopez. All right. That concludes our the items to be called out. All bills for introduction are ordered published and we are now ready for the black vote on resolutions and bills on final consideration. Council members remember that this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote.
A resolution laying out, opening and establishing as part of the City street system parcels of land as a public alley bounded by South Federal Boulevard, West Mississippi Avenue, South Grove Street and West Tennessee Avenue.
Dedicates a parcel of land as public right of way as public alley, located at the alley bounded by South Federal Boulevard, West Mississippi Avenue, South Grove Street and West Tennessee Avenue in Council District 3. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 1-22-19.