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Okay, so we will close comment on non-agendized items and move to item A1 consideration of approval for both outdoor dining tents and closure of the street in front of Spago restaurants and New Surrets. And who's going to be presented? Dr. Neumere and council members, this is Laura Byrie, Marketing and Economic Sustainability Manager for the City of Beverly Hills. Also joining me for today's presentation is Magdalena Davis, special of that and filming coordinator. We do have several other staff on the line as well as our applicants for the project, with our film business, Stavo Restaurant and Newtoet Restaurant that will be joining us for today's presentation as well as the Q&A. We do receive one late public comment regarding this item that I just received via email. So once we're done with the staff presentation, we can go ahead and read down into the record if you're okay with that name. Yes. Wonderful. So we'll go ahead and get started. If we can go to the next slide, please. As you are aware, the City of Beverly Hills created the Open B.H. program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We created a program for allow businesses to open up outside, to be able to stay open during a time when it was very challenging, and when the LA County Health Order required businesses to operate almost exclusively outside and outdoors. The program has over 104 businesses participating in it that ranges from restaurants, salons, fitness uses, and even our faith-based organizations that have also participated in the program. Today, we're going to be talking about proposals to expand the program to include a street closure and large tent structures on a temporary basis in the Canaan Closure area on North Cannon Drive. Next slide, please. You've always had to be silver-barring the tent structures and going to turn over some magnetolina Davis and Martin. We also have Darren Grilley, our city engineer on the line who can also answer questions to stick it through the closure as well as some of the topic patterns. Magdalena, I'll let you take it from here. as well as some of the topic patterns. Maglina, I'll let you take it from here. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Before you use the proposal for the North Cannon Drive Closure, associated with this expansion of the Open B.A. program, you see two types, plus the shape and the balance of the home, are proposed for Spago restaurants and New Threats, a new restaurant here to the area. The closure also includes public access to the sidewalks, to Welsher and the Canaan Miro Wall, as well as a necessary fire link and all of the appropriate safety items for the temporary structures including their caves. A full traffic control plan has been submitted and will be evaluated and approved by staff for the future. Next slide, please. This bother time that you'll see before you on the next slide can be proposed to include dining for over 100 guests. This temporary structure will be the closest structure to the Canon neural wall directly in front of fogos in the steam brick and mortar restaurant. This guest will be spaced safely with an overhead blue tent that you see in front of you to offer circulation ventilation and airflow that is recommended by health experts. There is also indoor electrical heating from the stem of power from the north to the power from the nearest power. Two non-connecting walls are now allowed by state and county health departments, and the final plans turned into staff will reflect that. Next slide, please. K-rail barricades will provide a necessary safety barrier, and the open nature of the tent allows for the recommended circulation while also providing a view of the mural wall. Next slide, please. The football has gone through and continues to go through with staff a rigorous review process. While it does not yet have helped to partner and improve the ball, we asons recommended that the final building plumes not be submitted until a health department approval is in. The restaurant as well staff have been in contact with local health department officials to be able to get their review and approval both for this project goes forward. Next slide please. Those four else be the news threat proposal. Just north of this fog out temporary structure. The new news threat, new restaurant news threat would bring its international players to Beverly Hills. This is a state house with different locations. And while their proposed opening date for January 2021 has been pushed back, they are hoping the two open up temporarily in this outdoor fashion so that the entire opening of their restaurant does not need to be pushed back any further. This structure is also situated in front of their brick and mortar location. Next slide please. All the things that you see before you for both tents are based on health department approval. This proposal can currently handle up to 60 plus guests for this tent and more if we go back from ACC to 60 or whatever the current health orders may dictate. It's worth knowing that the Moustra Group is working to obtain a health permit sign off for their actual Beck and Mortar mortar restaurant location so that they may then receive a review and approval for this contemporary expansion. I'll turn it back to Laura and perhaps here as well for this next slide on the Metro mitigation measures for the state. Next slide, please. And we'll go one more slide. Thank you. So we do have Darren really a sit at the city and is near on the line, but just to kind of give you a great overview, the applicants both met with Metro to discuss extensively regarding mitigation that would be necessary with the construction of these tents. As you may be aware, there are survey monuments that are survey instruments, excuse me, that are located underneath the street in this particular area of Ken and dry. That need is to be mitigated so that those survey instruments could so be monitored during the time when these temporary tents would be installed. Through those conversations that we had with the community applicant, Metro and City staff, costward associated with the effort will be paid for by Spago and NewsRit directly through the special event permit process to the city. We'll be utilizing the memorandum of an understanding, also known as the MLA, a memorandum agreement, payment process to credit Metro for the cost and receive the payment through the applicants passed through to the city and on to method of pay for these services. There is anything else we would like to add regarding this particular item. I'm going to know you're talking about it. Great. We'll go ahead and go on to the next slide. To the traffic circle and the river's support. So it's particularly a project that received feedback both during the liaison meeting and went out between two businesses north of the project on North Cannon Drive, of the importance of the ability to do a due turn in this area. That was needed in order to be able to assist the businesses that are further up the street to be able to allow patrons to maybe do turn this area and return up north on Cannon Drive. In particular, there were requests from the property owners related to the mass-grove building, but they have patients that would need to be able to make a state future in this area. In a goal of finding a way to get to the US, our traffic engineer team and traffic engineering division found a way to create a temporary new turn in this particular intersection at the location that you see on the screen. The proposed stack topics are going to be adjacent to the street closer and we utilize silver green ballads as you may have seen as temporary ballad structures in other communities surrounding us, including the neighboring city of West Hollywood. The cost for this would be approximately $14,600 and that was the cost for the third cost of the equipment as well as the staffer would install it. And that cost is being recommended to be explored by the city so that we can have control over the safety and ensuring that the safety would install and maintain during the full duration of the temporary closure. We'll go ahead to the next slide. So we'll conclude with the IOS for Council consideration. Before we go into public comment, as well as the report from the liaisons, and then we do have the applicants also on the call to be able to answer questions. So the items for consideration for you this afternoon. There are four items in particular to on this item to on the next item. The first item is simply the request to actually install a temporary outdoor painting print at both 176 and 184 North Cannon Drive with the closure of outdoor painting in front at both 1.76 and 1.84 North Cannon Drive with the closure of the street in front of the rest lot. So that is the baseline request to expand the open VH program to be these large-scale temporary tents. The secondary request for health and consideration of this afternoon is the waiver of the Appleple piece, including the street closure fee and anyway, meter revenue and a city exhaustion of that suffix civil equipment and staff time cost that was referenced on the previous slide. Next slide please. The third request for item for Council consideration is afternoon is requiring that the condition be put into the approval that no building permits are issued until the projects are approved by LA County Department of Public Public Health. The caveat to this item number three, the request from New Suret that they be granted the ability to install their tent without LA County Department of Public Health approval. It wants to install the tent the same time that Spago received their LA County Department of Public Health approval. As Magdalena had mentioned, New Suret that is in somewhat of a test-20 season situation and that they cannot get approval for their temporary structure and so they have health department approval for their brick and mortar actual physical structure. So in order to not disrupt the street and the traffic flow and have additional impacts on construction twice, they would like to have the ability to construct their temporary site at the same time as the cyber temporary time is constructed. Although knowing they are accepting the risk, that they may or may not receive health department approval, and that they will not be able to receive their open belief permit or in habit attempt or do any type of algorithm until that health department approval has been granted. And then the fourth and final item for council consideration today is the season of the review of the project with the applicant and Council liaison roughly six months a month in relation to the time. As you may recall, the mural wall is up for discussion again in the September timeframe with regards whether or not you can either have the candidate closure and the mural wall in place. By the time the tanks are constructed and yet health department approval, it would roughly coincide with that six month timeframe. Question is out to about the August September timeframe. We would align up with when that six month review would occur. The applicants however have requested that these projects be up for the full duration of any pandemic restrictions. That's any type of percentage restrictions or spacing restrictions on outdoor or indoor dining, who allow them to get the full return on investment of the temporary constructions. But that concludes before items for conflict consideration and the staff presentation portion. As mentioned before, we did have some late ad of an email on public comment and we do believe we have a couple of callers in this item this time. We'll turn it back over to you, Ian. Thank you, and we will now go to public comment before we go. I'm sorry, then we'll go. There are aspects of the latest on report. Public comment, who has that? Who might, you have it? Yes. Our first caller is Ms. Barbara Lazaroff. Good afternoon and thank you for having an echo. Yeah, let me try to make you write a comment. I'm going to try again. So we'll go to the next caller. Mr. Michael Newman. Hi, good afternoon folks. Design-wise, this is a stounding beautiful set of two designs. However, I don't see any of the folks from the medical COVID task force participating in today's discussion. Also, I think it's, once again, it's very exciting. I'm not opposed to it. Just wanna be, you know, understand a few aspects. It would have been much nicer to have this at an eye-time meeting. And I think a lot more audience folks would be interested in participating. What concerns me is really the County department of health. Here's the directive. There's actually one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Faith coverings must be worn and I is emphasized until your food or drink, drinks are at your cable. Of course, six person maximum, six feet apart. You're not move cables, ask for assistance. Socializing after meals is a scourge. And one that's really difficult, that's, I did not see any enforcement of course, is it all must be from the same household. So those are the real important and interesting issues. It might be good if a council member could call one of the three people from the county that are in charge of up to dining. The one I interviewed had a very lazy fair attitude about these requirements. And I don't know what their background is in evaluating a semi-closed structure. It sounds dumb, but I just wonder what would happen if he just had 100 tables in the middle of the street. And is that how is that different and less safe than what's being constructed? I say once again, the design is phenomenal. The real amount of cost is probably going to be $100,000 in the city, going by how cost budgets have expanded. And there are so many other restaurants, especially smaller ones in need. It's just hard to understand why they're not getting a penny from the city so far. So I think that it would be awfully good to really understand that the county has kind of had the worst record so far in dealing with COVID. As a week and a half ago, one person dies of eight minutes. That might have been proved since then. We don't have good tracing in Beverly Hills. We're across our city. It's really a crossroads of people that come in to work, come into visit, you know, tourism, et cetera. It's an important quadrant of a city, you know. Our city services, our tourism, our hotels, our emergency services, and to hurt one quad, one of the quad elements to be, is terrible and that's why we're in a crisis with our restaurants. So again, I'm no way against this project. I just don't think there's any way to enforce any of the rules. We only have five code enforcers. You know, that's could be considered an eye area that we could improve on and bring in more code enforcement. Anyway, I see the times up. And thank you very much for taking my time and your time. Thank you. We're going to try to go back to Ms. Lazaroff again. She is being able to log on. I apologize for piercelessly sitting. First of all, I'd like to thank the City Council. Mayor who thought of wrongly-believeable in the worst in the City Council about the option at least. Roundabout and little question to make it workable for the people north of us. I'd like to thank all the stakeholders on Canon who have been incredibly cooperative up and down the street. Darren and Aaron working with traffic, Madeline and Laura, who have done an exceptional job with OpenDH and Rob Welch and the Metro because just the cooperation has been phenomenal. We desperately need to answer this gentleman's query and the rest of it. When you have a business model for a restaurant, you have a certain amount for a seed and you have 160 employees that you let go and you have a business model of that milk as opposed to a small restaurant, which by the way, all should have open VH and all should be utilizing any means necessary to make the businesses work. We have a business that just isn't working and obviously the business is, I'm a 30 plus homeowner in Beverly Hills, too, I pay taxes. But the business is, you will tell the restaurants that we take pay taxes to the city that support all the phenomenal services from police to fire department to road works to all of it. We cannot sustain ourselves any longer. We have tried every which way. I think Magdalena will confirm the fact that all the way back in August, most of her very early on, about the need of pens for employment weather. And she said, good as far as we are starting quite early. And I said, well, Magdalena and Laura know, I said far as we are starting quite early. And I said, well, in the migralian and more and no, I said, you will see what will happen. It will be, you know, machination of all these different issues, all the liaison requirements, the health department, everything else, traffic control, before this really comes to fruition and here we are. And now we are in the middle of the rain season. The restaurant cannot sustain itself. And we have a new, by the way, I want to thank us for it too because we, they've been very cooperative, we've been trying to help them, they've been trying to help us. The point is we need this project, OpenBH has been essential to the city city we need to have 10 subprint climate weather. We are not going to make this business work unless we can do this. So I want to thank everybody that has worked so hard and has been so cooperative to make this a reality. So thank you all and I, of course, hope it comes to fruition for our business and for all the staff. There's been very happy some of them to be brought back. So thank you very much. Thank you, Ms. For. We have one written comment. Susan, please go ahead. Okay, this comment comes from Kevin A. Kourmy, the Chief Investment Officer. I'm writing on behalf of Douglas Emmett to express our support of Spago and NewsRet's petition to temporarily close the 100 block of cannon boulevard in order to provide tentative outdoor dining. Douglas Emmett owns the office building at 94-01 Wilshire Boulevard which is located across cannon from both restaurants and we fully support our neighbors' efforts to keep their restaurants open during these trying times. After reviewing the traffic plan that Spago provided we support one, the closure of North Cannon Drive at Clifton Way to Zootrathic, two, the placement of tents on Cannon for both Spago and Nuzerat. And three, the creation of a valley zone in front of the Haiman building. However, we do ask that the valley operation be mindful that cars do not stack up and block the entrance to our parking garage, which is located on the east side of Canada, quick and way. Before they understand that the petitioners intend to restore the cannon cold effect within two months after the lifting of Beverly Hills for supporting a creative solution that allows these restaurants to provide our community with great food and a much needed refuge from the pandemic while we wait for our lives to return to normal. Let's see in in the comments. That concludes public comment on this item. Okay, so with that, we will close public comments and Council Member Bostey and myself or the layers on us and Council Member Bostey, do you want to give a brief while ladies on report? I think you may see who this hand is up to. Forgive me. I think we have one video caller, David Nuremuni. He'd like to comment. Is that acceptable? Yeah, that sign looks like Murray might have a comment. Still, if I was mistaken, so let's be that. The time I was about to go, okay? Of course. You want me? Before I did. No, let David go satisfied I am over the last two weeks. You know, Councillor Maribossi mentioned that, you know, she always starts with the yes and tries to figure things out. And I plot City staff for coming up with a solution that takes into account some of the stakeholders needs on the 200 block of cannon. And so this roundabout that city staff has come to me seemed like it will work temporarily. And so I wanted to just say thank you. And from my perspective, from a traffic standpoint, for the next six months, that definitely will work for us. And I spoke to some of the city engineers and they said they will be reviewing traffic patterns. If the city council does approve this plan, they will be monitoring it and making sure and making adjustments as needed. So I appreciate that. I also appreciate Douglas Emmett's comments with respect to stacking. We definitely don't want to see stacking on the 200 block of canony there because we want traffic to move. And lastly, from my position, this is a temporary thing I absolutely want to start to generate revenue during this pandemic. I would just hope that this can be looked at in six months and review based where we are in the COVID cycle and where we are in this pandemic and how traffic will be at that point in time. So again I want to thank everybody for their time in this and look forward to a successful outcome for Fogel and Newstra. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And Huma, I think we're going to go to Murray now. Yes. Thank you all very much. First of all, I'm about to have a both Fogel and Newstra rep. We really thank the council and most importantly staff for helping us so much regarding all of the issues that we've been facing. The last council meeting, we were asked to gain support from the stakeholders in the 200 block. Since that period of time, I've submitted to the City of Beverly Hills over five support letters which included obagi at the north end where Dayton Way is a submitted uh Kirk Rapaport who has his business here of submitted rodeo reality on the corner of Fifton in support. I support a submitted Richard New and there's one other one I can't think of right now but on top of that, just a few minutes before this phone call, I even got the owner of the government island building to Grand Derze Port with respect to this particular endeavour. We've told everybody and showed them the last, oh I know the other one was the pump. I got the palm oil so Jeff Cummstead, anything. And both Lauren and Magdalene are having with all of those. So I want them to make sure that they tell you that they have all that support because I was very important to cause an embassy at the last time and I went out and made every effort and told them all it was a temporary facility that will be up for at least six months and a little longer, depending upon the pandemic. I also showed wherever people asked the circle, the traffic circle, and I explained the whole process regarding that. So nobody should be in the dark. Everybody that approved it understood what the trailers were, et cetera. Our big decision was one of the asks, and that was that we would really like the opportunity to put up our tech. We're willing to substitute the Grads Arty. The Nusorette, at the same time, as the SpagoTemp.light, it will be, it will be disrupted to the area and everything will be done in concert and at the same time they misdirect and see Magnus is on the call and he can confirm all of this We will understand and we will take and assume any responsibility and if we can't get the opening Which we've already gotten a preliminary review from the early health department that's approved Our tent in a preliminary manner and we're in a catch 42 because we need to know the permit from the city of Beverly Hills in order to get the LA Health Appermite. Beverly Hills says they need the report from LA Health to get that so we're in a catch 42. And we don't know how to solve that problem. So we're asking that we be at least able to put up the tent at the same time that we continue to work with both departments in order to get back. We know we're very confident that the health department is going to do it. They see on the deck their life got tent. They like the fact that we have all these operations that are in the take whatever is necessary. Both myself or Steve Magnus have here answered questions. Steve Scott's bringer, who is the general manager of the Spargos, he's here to answer any questions that you have regarding any of the operational aspects or any other things that you may have. Thank you for this opportunity. We look forward to it and it's really a much needed event that makes you think like thank you. to it and it's really a much needed of that that makes the state like state. May I also thank David Mironi for coming on board and I know he had missed meetings and I spoke to Eugene Leonard from the Mayborn yesterday who was completely on board as well so thank you to everyone. Okay thank you and Mr. Mag, did you want to comment also? Yes, please. You have to get your muted right now. I'm going to answer any questions that somebody might have that's all me or for. Okay. Okay, so with the close public comment together, we have anything else. I believe that concludes public comment. Okay, so I will go once again to Councilmember Ross and for the way it's on report. Thank you Mayor and I do want to say firstly that this is a perfect example of our community working together. It really is something that we should all be very proud of. When we had our ways on meeting, there were a few loose ends that needed to be tied and clearly as you see, everybody works so hard to do it. So I think we should be really proud of our community. This is exactly why we love our city and it feels such a small town. We as a lay is on a prove this proposal. We felt very strongly that we need to continue to partner with our restaurants and help them and it's just been the most challenging time for them and we clearly have to all pivot. With having 104 open BH permits, we felt that this was a new way of continuing along the lines of what we've done. And what was being presented was absolutely in line with our brand as you've seen, the PINC that is being presented is in absolutely the way Spago presents themselves as well as Beverly Hills. So we were very impressed with that. And the direction that we had given, which was to reach out to neighboring businesses, to work with NCA, to make sure that the Crop2C-Cole plan had no significant impact to maintain the U-turn and the valet. With all of that being said, they accomplished all that and more. So we as a way of on, who hardlessly supported this and feel very excited about having this in our city. Thank you. Thank you. And I echo a question number, bossies, comments and sentiments. This was a really an effort of all the businesses on the tenant to come together. I think David Meta-Rooney for working with Barbara and Steve and their teams to come to a solution and also to, you know, Aaron and his staff in terms of coming up with that ability to use, listen, as a turnaround, that looked like it was going to be a real stopping point of doing this, but somehow they all figured it out and it was as a member of Aussie says, start with yes, and then we'll get there and that's what we did. So with that, I will go on to Councilmember Collins and Director of the meeting there. And I congratulate everybody. I will support this, but not having had the benefit of having prior conversations about I do have some questions I'd like to ask and understand. So in no particular order, but I thought your estimation $300 a month in meter relative was low, but if that's true, if that's true, that's paracstatic to the whole thing. So you referenced the metro. In fact, these monuments need to move to the metro actually side off on it. So they approved it? So yes, we've been working with them on this on coming up with an alternative. But seriously, we were looking at, or on this coming up with an alternative that is originally we were looking at or they were saying that they would need to do manual serving at these points and that would be very costly and coming out every week to have a quick setup. And so they've been very good to work with on coming up with creative solutions as well as an applicant team and some experience with this. And so we've got them together and talked about ways that could be this. So there's nothing that they've approved and signed off on. But we're definitely at point where they're in agreement that they've worked with their contractor on what can we do. So prior to proceeding, or coincidentally, where you get something from them that says they have agreed to it. Now, in Britain, that understanding that these vitamins moving all the rest, have anything that not adjacent to staying, so that in fact there were some sort of issue either by virtue, apart from the data or something like that, as relates to the metro, and there was some event on that free who, who saw our ability? Thoughts from that over source data training. I'm very glad. Do you know that? So I'm not sure what you mean by whose liability is it? Are you talking about an accident or are you talking about if the stressors need to be removed? I'll come to removal a bit, but I'm just talking about some sort of misadventure, some sort of ground subsidence, significant enough to create an issue. Well, for ground subsidence, I imagine that would be a methorosponsibility if there's some sort of traffic accident, which I don't anticipate, but if there were to be such a thing, that would be the responsibility of either, well, either a new set or a spondle. That would be part of the permit they'd have to minimize for that. So where we're asking is, in doing this, do we protect or really increase our lives, building these would be natural, balancing the land. And if we do, or we could, there's a some way we can put in this new ring of the natural weld. We need to think that we can protect ourselves so that we have no greater life than what we have today. I don't believe we're increasing our liability from metro by doing this. So, I am at a bit of a loss to say what we could put in the agreement to protect us, because again, I don't think that we would be increasing our liability's metroid, but I will certainly give that some thought as to what could be implemented. I think we'll have to come back to that and say, well, yeah, put the pen job whatever the edges would that. Yeah, I think I would agree that Nancy said that by doing this, they therefore are not going to be responsible for something that would otherwise be responsible. Just think about it. I have a lot of money. Let me think about that in terms of our agreement with Metro, but I'm not picturing how that would happen. Where would you all in cost for the city for doing this? I think that my delina has those numbers. She got some updated numbers right before the meeting. So maybe we want to see how they're all in cost. Absolutely. So there are two portions. They are soft costs and hard costs. Their soft costs include the waiver of the permit fees for special events, which include approximately $950 per month. Depending on how long we keep the structure up, it's recommended for a minimum of six. In addition, there is a flat rate or past long-term three closures for special events. That's a little is $13,000 just over. Those are our soft costs with the addition, as you mentioned, of the per meter, per month meter revenue fees, that's $300 approximately per meter. So besides those, there are the hard costs of approximately $12,000 for equipment for the traffic circle and the 40 hours of staff time, which equals $2600. Again, a soft cost that would be absorbed by the state. All in, not including the straight closure, which is rather up in the air, we're looking at an approximate measure of $26,000 or six months. For the wave cost and $12,000 for the hard cost. I'm sorry, I didn't even wrote up there. What was it for everything? For a stick month for the wave to permit fees. That does not include district closure fee as that has for any long-term project, such as vanity fair, been approved as either a waiver or a flat rate by Council. But the flat rate was determined to be at approximately $13,000 for our previous long-term street closures and that could either be paid or wage for that bigger. They are rather astronomical hourly rate if we took the actual rate as listed in the piece. And something that Mr. Newman said that's a random quote, concerns what we've done with other restaurants. We've allowed them to have the parfaits for free, that's rare. We got to our free rate. And this is free. We're free. You know, I was figured that a parfait, but what I'm doing is I'm not leaving the cost for that we're denying him. Other than the parklet? So for the temporary expansion of outdoor dining into a parklet or a sidewalk area, they're not paying the lease fees that people can, you know, are permanent outdoor dining pays. What we have weighed, counsel has weighed, is the approximately $950,000 in permit fees, as well as associated meter costs, or meter revenue per month. Hard costs towards the parklets that we have cost with the 24, and put about $2,000 in equipment provided and installed by a public. But there is a is also an advantage here which is a jargon of people who were the resident of the dining hall. For permanent outdoor dining, nothing has changed I believe through this open-based program, Laura, you can confirm if any patio permanent had a prep change. Right, can we also have a unwronged work being developed in the department on the line as well? There's any disincircification you know that. Our permanent outdoor dining continues to pay their permanent outdoor dining fees. But any of the expansions that we love temporary we are not charging for those. So they're not paying a least fee for the additional sidewalk tables. If you, if they had regular outdoor dining prior to COVID, they're still paying those fees. Those were not weighed as part of the pandemic. Well, I would, I mean, if you think that this is a, the way we're going to start to rank on this, I mean, if we were going to do a light we'd get a permanent outdoor dining, so I'd rather, so you know, the position's a bit error. That's correct. So, to make your question, the authors would be, if we're thinking about doing something like this and never find parity, maybe we ought to consider it and get indigestion for this. But maybe we ought to think about what we're doing with our time, or buying the stuff here at the time, although it doesn't come equal. It is a bet, which are our other people. Also, that's right. I just want to just take the gaps and say, this is the primary public health approval. Is it very likely we're going to get this? Is it, I think I guess this is it. Monopoly likely to be going to get worse. We're all in that. Where's that? Can provide a more, you can jump in with more detail. It is likely to get approval with or without modifications. And how many? We cannot pay. But nearly all projects that have gone before, County Health Department, for review and approval for expansion of their dining have been approved with, again, caveat or modifications made by their on-site environmental specialists. Laura, if you'd like to provide the time line as to when they last approved. Sure, the County Health Department actually did not walk the site with staff and they actually did walk it with the applicant to be able to look at it. One of the biggest concerns in counting health was with regards to the number of walls, interior walls, exterior walls, and these group structures. The ventilation is the utmost important time health. During the process of when the tent was originally proposed so now there was a modification that was done by the state. So we'll allow you to now have two walls, two parallel walls as it prayerified. So it's been some creating like a wind tunnel, but it allows for ventilation. You're also allowed to have a roof. Entire interacene from LA County Health will be allowing one wall and a roof. So this is now been the opportunity that LA County Health can now approve two walls and a roof. Okay, and if there were, what happens if it doesn't get approved? The ability doesn't start. The item for the duration for council is to put a caveat in here that we will do not release the building permit or the spa-gotten, the L.A. County Public Health has signed off on the concept, meaning the two walls or one wall with roof and the layout design as proposed. 8 feet apart on facing roof tables. Newsorette, however, is asking for the ability to build a tent without LA County Public Public Health because of the test 22 day fireman's talton with their physical structure. Okay. I'm going to come back to this for a minute. But, um, okay. Well, um, what do you do private private industry, is this directly with private private industry? No. Um, you can't prioritize the streets. Uh, you know, as a private entity, you can't acquire descriptive rights of rights to a street. Of course, here we're going to group them the rights to a street so they would require it anyway, but no, they can't. The private has a street that's not possible there. It is clear in our, it will be clear in our understanding that this each have to wear. on Redilwell-Meclear and our understanding that this is a chequer. And although there's a timeline that's been asked for, is it a provision that, or any reason the city should choose, we can set it down if we ask you? Well, certainly. No, that night, the Linus speaks the fact that we are using R.C. use temporary special this and some de-flexically we do have at that moment. Absolutely. For the special event permit, there are conditional uses set upon for each temporary installation. If you had broken one of those conditions, such as not allowing for public right away, failing to build an inspection, or not obtaining a ballet permit, we would be able to either have cumulative measures to find or to shut down. If you think of the more typical event permit that we have issued in the past, we have certainly taken those measures and this would be no different. Does the city need a cause? Well, is renewed or reapplied for a 30-day cycle? So in essence, there is that every 30 days when you re-evaluate and re-issue the permit. The applicants are requesting for the insurance and the investment level that they're making that they can also allow it to be replaced with fixed ones. You would still do those 30-day with them, in case for whatever reason, the health department modifications had come out, saying that the tables have to be fixed differently. You would want that as soon as the home investment would be guaranteed for six months. But in an offense, it's a 30 day permit. We're gonna say our intent would be all things equal six months, but if it's in 30 days, does somebody say no, then it's still not. And that is correct. A renewal is required by code for special event permits for 30 days max. So each of them have to be re-evaluated on that basis. There are, unless the council decides to adjust the code. And embedded in our agreement and understanding that at the end of the time period, the rest of us would be fully responsible for restoring the straight back to the way it looked at their soul clock. This is a health off for that. That is correct with the exception of our traffic circle. And I believe you can speak to their restraight beam and other costs too. Put this beam back as a work. So our estimate is around $15,000 for the installation and the mental removal of this temporary traffic circle. It would involve the restriping north of the intersection to merge this effort into one-stop housing. And we accept this out for the turning radius to make sure that we can handle the most common vehicles, specifically very large trucks, who have so far. So we confirmed that turning radius. And so we would be, you know, with our internal staff, we'd be goers and type of full devices so there's still a lot of others this is going either, so we're going and I'm going to do both. If I heard correctly, both restaurants are often running in this space. They'll have over 150 people in this space between those two restaurants. How do we propose to keep them from convivating as they wait for their tables to be ready as that work? So part of the health department requirement is that we're going to be able to utilize a reservation based system. I can assure you, if you have a sentence, you can spot one the line that can speak to the reservation based system that they currently have in place and what they've been doing to manage their queue. It's in this over to Steve, Springer or Bob Realizer. I have to talk about your reservations. I remain in trouble. I could, but I think Steve, to speak to this, we're certainly not going to have a hundred people come and go ahead Steve. Yes, hi everybody. Yeah, this is something we're well accustomed to now with our existing week. We've got more than 150 guests now on the sidewalk for you. And so, you know, there's a second system, there's a two layer second system where you get checked in at a front second station where the tempers were taken, we were to the other mass before we enter the space. And then there are dots on the ground where we separate each of the parties together. And then we also control, very carefully, the amount of covers that we take every list, the few rivals or sagels as well. So we've become pretty, pretty bustly crowded as well. And keeping everybody safe and that's a big priority for us. As I said many times here, this is our method of keeping back to normal so we can raise these requirements. And I want to keep everybody safe and clean. And then we can go to the road. And you through it, we have a road for lots of other cities and states throughout the United States. We have similar measures where we are staggering them, where it used to be like a 10 minutes spread between reservations. It's more like a 20 minutes spread between reservations. It's the flow of traffic moving. We also have temperatures, skaters, and major readers and dots as well. And everybody loves spread apart. We are also talking with students.springer by the way we make sure the majors between our two restaurants should be known slowly between both restaurants and we plan to continue to work together and make sure this is a very successful operation. Well, so what about as well was that because we have at least as restaurant our staff, our staff is more skilled and also in the kitchen, we don't have the capacity as many people on the phone. So we have to stagger it to that reason as well. Yeah, I'm just concerned because we certainly have seen in the city areas where people wake up to their reservations at the time of the day and it's not good for them and I was to hear about it a lot and so we just wanted to ensure that we agreed that other else to move them down. So we started to say that you're here to make that work, you know, I think that's a good thing. But I also think people would be watching that. How far up in the law, how far from the euro is the 10th? Anybody still see the euro? Yeah. I'm not going to get that for you in just a moment. But there is a space between the wall and the tent. And then the backside of the tent is open so you can see through it and you see it from the side. And also we also both elected the Hattler and Yerker Roots Resents. We can't do anything to tie in for the R at all. Apparently, I think here's just clear. So the engine is designing it, which we can all put in a tie together up here. And we also put some more decal pieces but it against the brick and mortar side. And we left it a three clear runs. We could see that back while fossil fruit and isarette tent as well. Great. I already had a minute about this with that. We honestly have a long history with Sado, and know that very well. Here's to it, not so much. And so, you know, some of my concerns about the ability to deliver honest and financial wear of it all in terms of the labor event. Occasionals there are and you don't pay the rent down. No things like that. I as higher level of, I don't know if they can turn, but I found that or a risk of that. It does not get exist here and down. And I don't know. You do well to address it. I think it's on a some level. Maybe some of the conditions. I missed the answer question. It was frozen. This can't be questioned as frozen. Well, if this is not a mindset, really what I'm saying is it's a new restaurant in town, not having the history that's thought of us with us. We probably, you do, there are probably a little scrutiny for this and those in terms of financial resources, identification, the ability at the end of the solve, things like that. And I was a curious person to talk about that. So, Jolyann, let us tell you a little bit about Mr. Rack, which is an international restaurant. And we have places in New York, Boston, Miami, Dallas, and soon to be in Los Vegas. So Steve, why don't you tell them about who we are and why we've been successful all these years. This is right at a very high end, where we'll beat aisle stakeouts. We have a variety of products that we serve as our restaurant. We stand up by our chef, Misforette, who is, if you've seen his brand, as he got it is a little small. It's extremely well known and has an extremely large following of 20 million people on Instagram. It's a concept which has a lot of financial backing. And the end of all the inferences in place were following all the same rules that Spago has. Whatever inferences are required is to have been asked by the City Council. We've met the challenge. We've given the challenge and we're very happy to follow the rules that have gone along. I've been going in more of a kind of this pretty entire process. And I think they've done an excellent job in making sure that the concerns of the city are clearly met. When we're going up with challenges in the city, I work with Darren and Metro to come up with solutions on how to solve those problems as they've done in New York and Boston. I'm very excited about being part of a state that has such a great plus that Beverly Hills has and we're looking to be fantastic neighbors and be there for a very long period of time. So I understand you're concerned but we're extremely well-established business and we're looking forward to being part of a community that I think that we really can help enhance and we're looking forward being great neighbors with Spado. If any give us our answer or we'll tell you something and we're looking forward being great neighbors with Spado. If any D. R. R. R. will tell you something and where the restaurant was and I was a normal restaurant tour, that the more good restaurants you have in the same area, it brings more value to not only the restaurants that are there, but to see that they're in. And I really feel very strongly about this. You know, a week has went through a public hearing with the planning commission regarding our extended hours at that location. And one of the first things that the Peter Ostrom who is the planning commissioner chair, even he mentioned in the mayor's cabinet, he said, this must be a fantastic restaurant because one of their dishes is a thousand-dollar steak that they offer on that basis. And he did a thorough analysis of, I was at thorough, he did a substantial analysis of who knew Surrat was. And they were so extremely pleased to know who they were, what they bring to the different cities that they're in, where they're continuing, and I can tell you, they are well financed and well prepared to go forward with any requirements at the city, equally with sparrows, are prepared to present. And by the way, if we're up with those gold tanks for a month, and not an easy thing, they are a single novelty. What's really even good is we're buying to be doing something very special for Beverly Hills tonight, so we've got someone on with Dan Todd and to really invite you as thousands of the city. So we have to fund with that. Sorry. I'm familiar with your brand and I'm certainly going to be successful. I'm going to be successful. And I don't mean to be disbarring in any way. I merely point out that as new business is found without, it's like credit for you, right? And so we don't have any track records whether you have a debt age or a spa, or if you know a spa is not. And I go somewhere that the CEO that has the move forward and that are to the attorney has to move forward and that are to the attorney and to the manager of the company that whatever it is that we need to do in order to ensure that the affected gets out. That's the question. Well, whatever insurance requirements are needed with any endorsements that are required to the insurance and down the citations, which I'm sure that everybody has to supply. We're very happy to supply and we've already talked to our insurance carriers, which are very happy to provide once the exact insurance requirements and bonding is needed. We're happy to play it out. So as soon as I assume it's Mr. Wiener and Laura and Magdalene get back to me with whatever those requirements are, We'll begin the research certificate for 25 of the endorsements as well as the polls, except for your review and the one thing that insurance for not color is the removal of the tent. So we would need a need a bond for that or a year and a team from the corporate level because I think that I imagine I have not looked at it that this will be a single asset entity to just this restaurant. It has that. But yeah, without the vacuum, the corporate entity. So we'll work that out, but we'll need something to make sure that the two of us have to be put together a 30 bond 40s for that particular aspect. Thank you. You're welcome. The closing right question was, I said at the beginning. I'm supportive of this. I'm sorry if you both do you. And I love the else's set. Thank you and go to councilmember Bosse, please read the questions comments. I think you are actually Julie's very quick line of questioning, getting a couple thoughts that I wanted to just reiterate. And I also addressed Mr. Michael Newman's comments that Julian did address as well. I just want to remind all of us that when we rolled out the OpenPH program and we had our meeting about the Open VH program, it specifically reached out to all the businesses and offered to them the ability to close the street to decide what to do or to do your parklet seating or use a parking lot. That was part of the Open-age program and we had a whole meeting about it because there were and still our residents had asked why aren't these dreams closed and so what is being presented to you by Spago and Missorette is in line with everything that we had initially asked for when we rolled out this program. So in my mind this is not a special ask, this is in line with what we as a city flew out to the restaurants and this is the first time so far that we have two amazing restaurants that want to do it. And I do know, I just want to further record say that Musilette is an amazing restaurant and the caliber that we would be thrilled to have in our city. So really welcome to Beverly Hills. I know that you will be very successful here and we're very excited about having you here. So the only question that I have though is it was briefly touched on during the report was the potential opening of 10 and drive in September. Can you, I think Laura, can you imagine that in your report? Just for everybody, including these businesses that are planning on having this pent up for at least six months and it's my understanding that they're looking for more time than that. What is the analysis that we will be going through to decide whether or not we want to open up the street? Because I don't want anybody to be surprised. I want myself to be on the same page to understand what would be the trigger or not the trigger regarding opening a candle drive. Certainly. And I'm going to turn that over to you, Erin and Sana, who are on the call. To speak, really, to see what Metro's evaluation is going to look like in partnership with the city as we get close and close for the September. They have been instantly involved in those conversations. So, Darren, all that you take out. So, when the wall first came to council, or maybe our first time in council, when it was agreed upon, there was a discussion about bringing this back in, I think it says a minimum of years, but it, council could keep the wall up through the construction, the measurement construction of the metro project. And so, there's not a contractual or any council commitment to review this on a certain date. It's just pre-coated. We assume that we would be bringing this back around September of the year. But obviously things have changed. And so, if this open-H program is still going on, it would be our recommendation that we would postpone the council's desirations of removal of that role and fellow after open VH and the pandemic has gone past. When is there really advise schedule to be closed? close. I don't have a schedule right now we're just now putting that RFP for the design of them and so we'll put together the schedule but that is sometime off. Okay wonderful that was my only question and as you know I partly support this I think it's a wonderful thing for our city and as I said earlier this is something that we as a council had reached out to restaurants initially asking them if they wanted to have one of these options and here we are having some restaurants that are taking advantage of something that we had specifically incorporated into OpenBH. So I support this. Thank you Mayor. Thank you and Councilmember Merrick. Thank you. Obviously a lot of issues and questions were addressed. I do want to say at the outside I think it's important that I know that there was some pushback and that it was able to be resolved with the other business owners on the other street. I think that's the way things need to work. Very well as if that happened. But if I just stood correctly, outdoor dining is only available at this stage for people who work from the same household, correct, or the same table. That is correct. How is that going to be enforced? So the health department has put recommendations that businesses put signage that reminds guests that they are to be dining with individuals in the same household. Enforcement is obviously going to be a challenge. Well, I mean, I understand and I can't imagine a restaurant would turn somebody away, but to me that kind of is a weak link when it comes to perhaps not stopping the spread of the diseases, actually as some of the more infectious varieties are now present in California and unfortunately, we're not equal to get our act together and vaccinate people. I think in Israel, I read 60% of the entire population has already vaccinated their vaccinating 30-year-old now. I mean, it's a complete, still a complete mess here. So, you know, my only fear is that it backfires in some case, and there is still some level of contact raising, although it's not great. And it's traced back to one of these restaurants. That's going to be a backfire in a way that's going to maybe forces the stuff things down. How do we, I like to get ahead of that curve and figure out ways for us to avoid those situations. So it doesn't come down to that. I'm wondering if there are any suggestions that we could do again above and beyond maybe recommendations from the Department of County Department of Health which as we've seen in many cases unfortunately lacks or contradictory or don't seem to make a lot of sense which is one of the reasons that we are self suggested that we wanted to oppose their arbitrary closing down of restaurants without the specific data. So to rely on them, I'm not sure if the best thing to do. What can we do to ensure that that that rule which does seem to make sense because if people are from their own household or dining together. That's one thing, but if they're intermingling, I mean, isn't that where there's a potential spread? And I think we want to avoid that. That's not only real concern. I'd love for us to figure out a way to deal with that. I understand that we need to be trying to help the rest of us to operate in a safe way. I think this allows it, as Barbara it may rain and this is a way although again I guess we haven't seen the statistics as to semi-close aerial like it can't be infectiousness compared to completely outdoors but also what about the various new strains and that sort of thing. So that's my concern. I'd love for us to figure out something on our own to be able to do it, but other than that, I think the recommendation is fine. I welcome, you know, to SRED as well, and I'm guessing that Spago obviously was disgusted not having a problem. Or I guess I could ask you, you didn't have a problem with this red having the antider, did you? No, we're welcome in and I do believe what Steven said is true. I think that more fine dining, worse times the more vitality on the street, it brings more energy to Beverly Hills. As I had been mentioning, Beverly Hillsally well-seen to revitalize the certain point, actually, green after the war went up, we saw people coming in after 10. And I wasn't actually, I saw I'm very happy to have them next door. It's really, it's very important to have empty spaces sitting on the street as we did during this. And I do want to say, I wasn't going to comment on this Council in Marish, but I do want to say not being a physician like this going to make a general commentary that I think when outdoor dining halls supports people indoors, people are having parties, people are having gatherings, you saw a rise in the threat, people are losing outdoor in the environment where, you know, they're dining as far as family members. If we have enough vaccines, if I was in charge of vaccines, I would make sure everybody in the same household got vaccinated. It's almost ridiculous, you're vaccinating certain people, and you have the other people in the household, not vaccinated. As far as time to temper this and to hold this, we have worked very hard to live up to all the mandates, to a very strong, the top, the staff, the testing, and when people come, we don't allow gathering. I used to joke there was the Angie Dickinson of their restaurant this, handing out their talent people. We can't stand them in front of our restaurant. We can ask, please don't do this. And we should have more insects. But it's very difficult for us to be to be police to really police situation that really people should honestly think about and they're not educated enough. And so do we have concerns? I have concerns, I work here, who masks and buys, that we're concerned about our staff, we're concerned about our guests. But the reality that we are going to do our most as I know even is and other restaurants hopefully really well. But I'm saying this closure on out here dining is a problem. We also have been a host department who are emulating in a latent, we're trying to adhere to everything they feel that would mitigate as much as they can for our development. Thank you. Thank you. And so I think it's great that you know that attitude, that other fine dining restaurants are not actually bad, that kind of competition actually is good for everybody's business. And there are some people who don't think necessarily that way, unfortunately, but I completely agree to how that stimulation is really important. And I also do understand it's very difficult for a restaurant that is supposed to be serving customers to be the police people. And that's why we need to figure out at risk is it's a fine line. And as we also know that the Department of Health, but publicly you can go on their website and see if there are places of business, restaurants or whatever that have been struck with COVID. They've made it very public. And of course, the one thing we want to avoid is to have to have any of our restaurants on there and we want quite to be the opposite. So that's my one concern, especially where we're doing such a poor job of vaccinating people. I don't mean we the city, but I mean collectively, I guess the state you would say, and that we were able to be as safe as possible. And my concern is I don't know that we've seen these more infectious strains, what kind of impact that's going to have, that's a new thing that's coming. And so if we could, I think someone mentioned this as well before, you know, way back when when we were discussing, there were a barely hill sort of thing that people can feel even safer coming here. That's also perhaps a selling point. So other than that, I'm going to support this. I'm really happy that you were able to figure something out that works for those on the 200 block. I do agree with the sort of basic principle that Dr. Gold spoke about being fair to everybody else, but it does sound like, you know, I know we did discuss. I kind of thought way back when that maybe the 400 block of Canvas should be, maybe that block should be, said, you know, maybe you want to do it. I guess it was their choice. Make sure that the plane field is level for everybody. And I thank the subcommittee for their work. Okay, thank you. And by some year, I'm going to look at the map. I just want to go with this. My only concern is that we do it safely. Many others have already remarked upon that, but let me just confirm with a couple of questions. At a certain point, it can't become another indoor structure. The difference would seem to be the amount of ventilation. So presumably, the county health department has the expertise and is going to be reviewing this stance to ensure that there is adequate ventilation to them to be safe. Okay, thank you. It's also just a county order specified that outdoor dining is limited to a percentage of capacity. I know it has the separation of tables as the water household that it tables is also a percentage of capacity. is it also a percentage of capacity? The planning help order has two numbers in it. There's the 18 to 15 tables or 50% capacity, and most restants have offered for the 18 to 15 tables, so 50% capacity of other venues is very confusing. It was utilized as more the way for those that had permanent structures in place. I think everyone's going to start out with, I really answer this question because there's an order there is more of the way for those that had permanent structures in place? I think it was a little absurd. I really answered this question because there's an order there as opposed to an ad. My question would be related to having you define the capacity if you have to be me both of those criteria. And so we've been talking about making greater use for public space really for quite a while now we've been centred from the pandemic. In fact, I know when we first went in the coldest Saturn canine, I at least was advocating for having better use of the public space back then so that people can experience what happens when you have more public space available. Then with the problem, you can start the OpenBH program. But the initial focus of that program was on tables on the sidewalk or parking spaces in front of the stowers. It really was only gradual as people became exposed to what was possible that some of the resistance against greater use of public space came about and that more people were interested in greater use of public space. And so I certainly support making this very useful to public space here. But I think one of the lessons that we can learn is that it helps for people to experience something. It ought to be them to appreciate that they may actually like it, that they may see the benefits of it. Barbara Lazo, our throat is in nodding now. You know, so I'm about to be a bit of an sensation that she saw with the mural, with our increasing some public space and for just, excuse me. I just like to throw out there to see if we can return with our photos in the of impact on the Ontario, if you could turn off your mics. I did. If we can return to what I'm on the agenda in the near future. To revisit another sort of opportunity for people to take advantage of the pandemic and to get a chance to experience something. And that's related to a slow streets program. That also was something that we spoke about at the beginning of the pandemic. We did not adopt it. Many of our surrounding streets have adopted programs like that quite successfully. And I think it's still not too late unfortunately the pandemic is not on this long. It's still not too late for us to have some sort of pilot program to let people experience it. And then with the benefit of that experience, to see whether or not that's something that we'd want to be in place. And then so I would ask if some evaluation of that, some review of that would be placed on a agenda item for the future. And also, as regards this particular program, we've spoken about reviewing it, that the experiment would be monthly reviewing it at the some time period. I think we should be open to the possibility that when we do review it, we may find that people have really liked this. We may find that we want to make this more permanent, or at least aspect of it more permanent. And we should be open to that. We should let people experience the benefits of something and see whether or not we want to keep those benefits more permanent. We will have some benefits in the pandemic as people say all turn these through ways of life and we should be trying to keep the ones that are positive. People have spoken about arrangements for others as opposed to Spago, and I think it is clear that this is not just special treatment of Spago, that I think we all would be open to arrangements for other restaurants, the best one, the specifics of the sites, what might be available, but I would encourage, and I think we all would encourage people to come forward with their concepts for what could be done, but I would encourage, and I think the all would encourage people to come forward with their concepts, who what could be done. We would certainly consider that subject to the specific insights. And then Julian, Dr. Gold mentioned whether or not we should consider relaxing the fees for permanent outdoor dining. And I think there is a logic to that. We are doing a variety of things to try to help our businesses out during this time period. And I can see an equity where if you had permanent outdoor dining facilities and so it wasn't necessary for you to add any that you're being charged with at the parties and now are adding some disupplement what wasn't there before. Our charge since why would we be open to revisiting that. And then there were some specific questions that were asked, so what I do support this. I support the city observing the themes as we spoke about. I support the note building permits for spot going to the county approval. And I support, if I got that one right, and I support, did I got that one right, and I'm support allowing the other restaurant to build and stand with the knowledge that unless it gets the county approval then could it be occupied? Okay, thank you and I'll just make some closing comments. Once again I want to thank everyone for their cooperation in working this through. This was really a team effort with all the businesses, with city staff and thank you all very much for getting to the earth. Barbara this was really an example of making them manate out of lemons. I know that we were questioning having the closure of the cannon. And who would have guessed that this pandemic would have put us in a situation that having the outdoor space available would be there. And it certainly has turned into as positive a apostles as it possibly can be. So, you know, I applaud everybody for making the best of the situation. I want to ask a question, if it's a great secret or anything like that, you know, if you have a answer, but how much is a cost that is being incurred by Spoggle for the item. There is a mask in here to compare what the city can't produce it is to making this work. Well, presently, I think at the end of all of this, it's going to be close to $300,000. And to Mr. Ed, this is a $220,000, $42,000. This is just the 10th alone. So we've got legal fees, we've got other things going on. We have to consider the cost for everything. It's a huge receiving and for ourselves, for our organization. It's a huge investment. It's monumental, but we don't see any other way. It was a trade-off. We don't see any other way to survive at this point. We're basically just going to have to shut down. When outdoor dining sets down and employment weather, we're back to the village. It can't sustain it. Our staff was so ecstatic, some of them to get their jobs back, to have people back at work. We have people, I've been putting it on my Instagram, I've been interviewing staff, they've been there 20, 25 years, 15 years. It's really been heartbreaking to some people we know, they can't feed their families, they can't pay their rent, they can't provide medical care, it has their travesty. And as far as the wall goes, initially, we were hoping to have city events. We never expected COVID. But just the same way we had an authority sort of the wall itself, we thought we would do charitable events, we would do events to raise money for the city, for the parks, for other things. And we thought of the usage of the public space is going to be great. But we, you know, that was prior to our restaurants being shut down. Nobody would ever, could ever have anticipated something like this pandemic and certainly nobody wishes that it ever happened. We lost so many people. I lost friends. I know you all lost friends. But you said talking about making lemonade and something, I think, I think what everybody's done here today, and what all the stakeholders did, and what you left to do, and what Lily has done, what the full city council has done, and everybody from Magdalena and Laura and Murray and Steve and organization and Steve, everybody, all those stakeholders we spoke to came together and really understand and trying to make this happen. And hope it happens for other people as well because this is what we need in our city to sustain it, keep it going, and keep people coming so that when we have our new normal, you know, people say, Spago, Nusselet, you're fine, but it was really the city of Beverly Hills that really came through for everybody in the city and supported the businesses and made the city vital again. In your honor, just to want to add one more point to a bar was that Nusraet was actually going to walk away from the location and not build a project out when we reached out by the city, Mageelina and her team, to actually talk to us about some of the options. And we rate all the options out with a help of Murray Fisher and In to know everybody on the team and then get to the very and everybody else they convinced us to invest into their relief and Who calls it their heartfelt issues and how they persuaded and really sold the city on us and for my experiences We decided to move forward with this and you know, I want to tip my hat to you. I mean, it's not a big change, I can say this in the United States, I really go out of the way to really help the public. And such a way that this happened into really still the city, it's a good way. You guys did an amazing job. You know, really hard job, right, Steven? There and then a hard job to create that. It was a hard job and it didn't always, but I believe that this special call opportunity did an amazing job. So we're blessed to be here. We're looking forward to being here for a long, long time and hopefully having a table and having a chef kind of a stake for it. Okay, very good. And just things for the questions that were asked, I think we, there is unanimity in terms of the request of the fence. In terms of the waiver of the fees, I think there's unanimity on that issue also. The conditions that is at the health department issue, the permits for Spago prior to the building permit and not saying for New Surret because of the people that they're in, I think we're all in agreement with that. Obviously, the opening will be dependent upon the Department of Public Health issuing the permit and that a review of the project should be scheduled in six months for a show. I think that we all want to take a look at what we want to do with Canada at that time. I have no doubt that we're going to still be under controls at that point that time anyway. So living at it, I think it has been a fiscal, but I think that in good conscience, it will be up for at least a month plus whatever other period of time is necessary. And then the last request that I have is Barbara that you create a signature limiting drink during the moment. So with that, I thank everybody and unless there's any other comments we'll go on to the next item. Thank you. That will be out of questions. Chair Hector, does this now go to the City Council for formal hearing? Or are we clear once we continue to work with Laura and Agulina? Are we clear to go ahead? What are our directions as far as where we go from here? I can answer that. We'll be working with you directly on the next step. This is the approvals that we need to counsel. We do not need to take the item to the almost lesson, also known as our living lesson. If there's any agreements that need to be worked out with the City of Twentieth Office, we'll do those offline and work directly with you and take them as appropriate. But we have the direction we need to go through. Thank you so very much. You're with your commentary. I like that of the House of both Spago and Missorette. I've worked for coordination for this whole thing. The month's now. We thank you so very much for making this a reality. Thank you. Thank you very much, Donald. Thank you, Thank you very much, Donna. Thank you, Seacuff. Okay. Moving along to item number 82, review of the City of Beverly Hills proposed 2021 legislative platform. Look at that, Peter. It's the council. I am City of O'Neill and policy management analyst with the manager's office. Preciting provides an overview of the revisions made to the 2020 legislative platform for the upcoming 2021 legislative session and requests to seek counsel input on proposed modifications. The objective of the legislative platform is to outline the city's position on legislative matters. And it serves as our foundation for the city to support or oppose various local and state as well as federal legislation. The platform seeks to not only secure critical resources for our city, but also it outlines policy statements that allow city staff and our legislative lobbyists to more effectively respond to an influence legislation at the state and federal levels. Next slide, please. This year there were 11 changes to the legislative platform. All 11 are listed in the staff report. Examples include removal of the keeping California's safe act as a primary legislative focus as the initiative did fail to pass on the November 2020 ballot. I do want to mention that some of the items contained within the keeping toll for you to say that are a part of our legislative platform in the public safety section. So we'll continue our advocacy efforts there. Another distance to our platform is to support legislation that provides funding to local governments for COVID-19. This is actually a direction provided to City staff in the spring of 2020, and we've now captured that in our platform. And following the ad as a position of support for legislation, the protects areas designated for single family homes. As a city does recognize the benefit of having single family homes as an alternative for housing. Next slide, sir. On January 25th this year, the Legislative Lobby Committee, please, on Vice-Senior Wunderlaking Council member Mirish, reviewed the proposed 2021 legislative platform. Please, please, on-supported the proposed changes to the platform and recommended some additions and modifications which were included in the report. Staff is seeking direction from City Council and the same include a provision to let the State of Platform as it is proposed for the day. You may request a modification to the platform and any modifications suggested today by a council member would require a support of the majority of council for its being included in the final adoption of the platform. And then staff will bring forward the adoption of the majority of council for it being included in the final adoption of the platform. And then staff will bring forward the adoption of the platform tentatively scheduled for February 16th at this time. And with that, I'm available for questions. Mayor, we do not have any public comment on this item. Okay, so we will close public comments and go to the Layows on Report with Councilmember Vice Mayor Wondering or Councilmember Wyrth. I'll do a forecast member. I think the changes to the legislative platform are largely consistent with the principles that we already had in the legislative platform, John, as an amazing event. I don't think so. I think it's all relatively straightforward, but if any of the other council members have questions about how we arrived at recommendations, happy to answer them. Thank you. Then we will go to Councilmember Boulot. Well, thank you, Mayor. So certainly most of this is the same thing before. So many other couple of questions though, is there something in the report that we were 14 categories that are in it? And is there something that they are arranged by a category in significant? So does that presume that this is a primary and number-wide is the factor of the people we're in number two and so forth and so on? What was the meaning of that? So the read the categories were arranged to put what has seen as most important to the city at the front of the document rather than it being arranged alphabetically. And that was a change we made a couple of years ago to the legislative platform. I can't recall exactly what year that we've been away from an alphabetical arrangement of those categories to buy significant to the city. OK. So in fact, they are now in a primary correct image worth living having some conversation around what that were it. So for instance, I think public health in today's time, there'd be, I think it was someone here to buy them. I think it would be our make a case for public health here to buy them. So two things like, I don't know how you would do this. Everybody probably tried to wrong, but I can't say what my aunt, but I don't think that that's written. They represent my grandma. It is what. They are areas of focus, but not in that world. And so, how do you want to manage that? Or, nobody raises their hand? And so, I think that's what I'm saying. I think that's what I'm saying. They are areas of focus but not none. And so, how do you want to manage that or knowing, knowing what it really is that we've done? If we did not actually, Bob and I did not place this in any order of priority correct, and I do it during the order of what's like a my concurrence, not agreeing with this order in terms of priority. Right, we never discussed that. Okay, well I'm just saying the report says arranged by category and significance. And so if we wanted to determine significance, I think we should have conversation around that. Or maybe when I said a little poll or something that would allow us to, I would always think it's most important, at least important. I was just a teenager to a range by category. For a range of kindergarten, or a range of the bed, but I mean, right, I would make to see where it's probably also number 11, this list. 11 and 14. I think we've got been crazy to say that. So I wanted to go back to 80 by a thing I think that stood up. I was a lot of time and just saying that I think that the environment needs to stay a building, needs to be a buyer. And I'm going to see needs to be aware. And I'm going to see anything specifically about drought. But we're probably headed to that direction too, and in anticipation of the drought with storm. And then maybe we should get ahead of it. And in the nearest past, we highlighted drought with something that we would totally storm. And we're going to have for three inches below, so to be this month. I think we're going to have, we're going to be hearing a lot about drought through the song. And the exact thing is too, although the keeping tail from the elements that reflected in the passage in Prop 47 and 57 and 80 while on on in particular are things that we need to keep an eye on. And so I personally would like to follow this concern as I add up those any circumstance, I'm more concerned now with the current electronic district attorney who has indicated a preference, not to prosecute people and not have cash fail and things like that. Many of the issues around crime, especially local crime, are going to be increasingly important, we just saw the crime work from LA, and obviously their crime rates are up. I think we need to keep a focus on that also. So I'd like to see that highlight, highlight the part of our legislative platform. I don't know if we're going to hear the last sport as a second now for it, because they will see this as an issue. But nonetheless, I do think that for our work, this is a huge issue. And lastly, something that's a flip-touch time gets off though in that environmental piece, but I would just like to highlight too. In some conversation around infrastructure improvements in general and specifically, and I'm towards the electrical grid. In California, really moving to electrification of R3 and if we're all going to be expected down electric cars and all of that, it is very clear that we do not have as much of an electrical grid to provide power to that. And the infrastructure and dollars of the taking order to get us there are enormous and we'll easily take a decade or two in order to get us there. So I think that is really important for us. And we see the impact of the failing electrical grid in our own young last week's fellow-cowell failure. That reflects the infrastructure of this above ground and things like that. So I like to see us also highlight in this the improvement in the structure improvements that surround the electrical grid. Now I know that it has the own grid and I know all the politics around it. None of the rest I think that A is local government. We can first add something to do better. I think as a coalition through things like planning power lines, we have a cloud in that area also. And I have to say to all of you that I always highlight my event. Those who do my recommendations for this support, thank you for the committee and thank you. Thank you. Okay, thank you and I'll tell you a little bit more about this. Yes, thank you, Mayor. And Cindy, just a few questions because I just for the benefit of myself and anybody who's watching because I'm not sure that everybody has a chance to read this. Just want to make sure that in terms of the proposed platform that we have legislated for COVID funding, you can say yes, no. Yes, maybe. Yes, maybe. And then in terms of public health for residential and business assistance, I can also specifically around COVID-19 that we have us a statement around that particularly. Okay, so when you have a statement under COVID-funding, is it maybe you could elaborate then? Because to me, COVID COVID funding also would encompass whether it's residential as we're seeing with the victims and such and as well as business assistance. What are we doing in terms of COVID funding in terms of this platform? So in general when we see legislation introduced in perhaps at the health representatives and the senate that were more talk about the care fact that was passed the spring or the legislation that was recently passed this December and it's talking about funding. While funding for local jurisdictions may have been in the first bill, it wasn't in the second bill, and yet we were still advocating for signatures of that second bill because it did provide funding for rental housing assistance. It did provide funding for vaccination sites. It provided funding for personal protective equipment, which again, falls back to our hospitals, our medical community, and even our businesses. And so we do advocate for those things. We have like 15 funding for local jurisdictions, containing what was recently passed to two wood, but that didn't stop us for still advocating for what was right for our community. Lily also, I'd like to add that the policy, I think we saw some of the funding, COVID funding was only for cities with a population of over 200,000. Our platform was that it should be obviously for all cities and that there should be more funding available directly for cities. That's our platform and unfortunately as Cindy says, it's not the way the legislation always is but you made it clear that that's our platform. Perfect. And instead of the precedent, it's not only not. I'm sorry, Julie. I wasn't saying it was God, but it's saying it yesterday. I think the funding is getting smaller and 200 thousand. Okay. But basically what you're saying, John, that is part of our platform going forward is to. Absolutely. All things. I mean, we want direct funding. There should be as much funding as not just for us, but for all cities under 200,000 direct funding to cities and communities for infrastructure, for all of these purposes, for every not not just what Cindy said, but to help us do any of the things that we know that we're all doing to try to improve the lives of the people who are suffering under COVID. That's our platform. Good. Cindy, what about emergency assistance for wildfires, water, you know, emergency situations outside of COVID? So we do have some statements contained in the public safety section around fire and providing support for legislation around the point of school to where that is at. So I do apologize. We don't have a full platform memorized. So one of the things we're supporting is development and the use of new firefighting technology and our group reduce higher levels of help and save people their vehicles fire department. And we do see some of that new fire technology coming online with not necessarily in our jurisdiction but in jurisdictions that we do have mutual aid agreements with. So like the fire hot said, I believe it was Ellie City. It could be Ellie County. I need a fire chief to confirm that for me. But those are our hot says in firefighting technology. And there were several of those purchased and put into service in the last year where they could respond the fires throughout the state. And under, I believe the center and hour of people being in half hour, but again, I'm not the fire chiefs alone, I just speak directly to that. We also have support legislation that would aid our paramedics and other emergency medical service practitioners and their ability to be responsive to community needs. There's some of the things that are working on around that, and especially in this day and age with COVID, is how can we get our paramedics to be able to administer the vaccine if we're able to be a vaccination site? What would that look like? How do we have to work with the county health officer for that? And how would that have to be modified in order for us to be able to provide that to our community? And we've also been working closely with our federal lobbyists and trying to figure out how to get reimbursement to the city from Medicare and Medicaid for our nurse practitioner program. So those are three of the things right there for fire that are in the platform. Great. And to further elaborate on Julian's question regarding public safety. I share the same concerns that he does regarding the district of journey. How are we addressing that in terms of public safety for our city in the platform? So some of the things that we put into the platform is the post legislation to expand early release for low risk offenders, opposing legislation that would further decriminalize existing crimes in California. We've advocated quite substantially against legislation that would end bail, both in our state and as well as the federal level, because I realize how important bail is to our system and for keeping criminals, you know, unfortunately, you know, if they can't make bail, then they're in jail where they cannot pervert the victims or they cannot hit the crime again or commit a more serious crime because if I'm already in for a foot, maybe I should be in for a mile. And so those are types of things that we've consistently advocated for. We would love to see religiousism at reverse and is you know, A.D.109 and early release for low risk offenders. And we've been trying our hardest ever since. We got that into our platform as well as language against clock 47 and prop 57, and seeking to repil what those two have done. But every year it seems like a legacy we're just trying to decriminalize more and more things that are families and making them misdemeanors, or making misdemeanors for where you don't even serve any kind of person. Thanks, Denise. I wanna thank our liaison, liaison too for the hard work. You've done a great job and I completely support this. And thank you, Cindy. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. And tell us where you're from. No, thank you. And vice mayor, what else? We want a digital comment and this is picking up on Dr. Gold's point, perhaps, for the future we should spend the time to try to prioritize things. There are so many things listed here that it probably would be helpful us to know here as a smaller set of the higher priority items. So, if we have the opportunity to speak about them, we have agreement done, which are higher priority items. And we don't have to resolve that today, but perhaps that's a direction we can move in. On the other hand, if I may just add, sometimes the drought can be extremely important, but still can't have threat to something else. It's sometimes difficult, or so can I thread to, there's something else, it's, it's, it's sometimes difficult, I would say, to prioritize. It's all, I think we're all, we're dealing with things that in their own right can all be very important. And so, we're making it terribly, they're probably evergreens, and then ones that are more timely, they're very specific, yes. Right, there may be timely issues, and issues about that, but I don't know that in the past, we actually have done it after the most important. And I think as long as we keep it to a reasonable number, this is our platform, they're all kind of important in their own ways. It's sometimes difficult to compare player safety with urban planning, for example. So if I understand that in terms of changing anything on here that we want to get rid of the worst significance that just arrangedraigned by category. Is that a common theme that we all have at this point? The city did say that several years back they were listed by significance. Do we want to eliminate that word now? Yeah, I think so. Is that a great matter? I'm probably wanting to rearrange it alphabetically now. Is that what a brain matter? We're going to have a brain matter. Are we wanting to rearrange it alphabetically now? Is that what I'm hearing? So I'm just like categorized. Just like categorized. It can't exist. It has the word should be written in a report. Does it have it in regenerative? In the black line. So. in the black ones. No, it doesn't stay quiet or organized. I don't want to end this initiative that we're equally important or that depending on the time they're changed, that I think we need to remove the word. But I don't think we can say it or not. The book that sounds if the word significance appears only in the staff report as opposed to the actual document, at least my quick reading of the chapter. So if that's okay, then we'll just leave it the way it is, and then we'll be understanding that we, from this example, that these are just the raised by category. Is that acceptable to everyone? Yes. Yes. And just one other comment, some people who are listening, but what this document really is, it's a blueprint for positions taken by legislative advocates that we have and positions that we take as counsel, correct? Correct. For instance, we'll get to this on the next slide and you're going to see really quick and I'm going to summarize that at the 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 because there are contained not only in the current platform, but they are contained in our 2020 platform. We don't necessarily need counsel concurrents on that for you to sign a letter because counsel has already said this is a priority. So we don't need to bring that to counsel for approval and it allows us to respond very quickly to legislation. We're things that fall outside of the platform. We do need counsel concurrents, so I'm being able to move forward. And that's why we really have this document so that it's easy to take the systems when they need to be taken because you're already as counsel concurred. Correct? Correct. Especially on fast-moving legislation. Sometimes, and we saw this happen two years ago, where a bill got edited amended like on June 30th, and I think it was signed in the law by July 6th or 7th, and we're bringing up at a council meeting a day after it was signed. It was all on the bailout of the utility of Pugetany. That said, last, I think one could argue that the next point is something that falls within our platform, but we thought that argue that the next point is something that falls within our platform, but we felt that it was important to point it out to the council and to at least, you know, to give that hat up. So there are some ways that should be. The suspecting will be having time to do so. Yes. time to do so. Yeah. With that, I'm in concurrence also with yet. And unless there is anything further, we will move on to the next item which is related. I am a three recommendation of the Beverly Hills State Council and legislative lobby. It is on committee on positions of support or opposition on state legislative bills and Cindy I think you're going to present on that too. That is correct. Mayor and State Council today I'll be presenting you because this is a support of our post on state legislation for concurrence of the recommendations of our legislative lobbying liaison. Next slide, please. Our list is the VA's on January 25th. Did recommend supporting Assembly Bill 15, Assembly Bill 16. The California Contract Studies Association proposal to establish regional housing trust funds and create retrib of housing funding programs. And also hiring a public relations firm, the diversity in better communicating information is state elected officials on why local control of zoning for housing is best left in the digital jurisdictions. Next slide, please. So AB 15 and 16 would have extended residential tentative access through the end of June and would have established a state rental assistance program. However, the components of these two bills were combined in the Senate Bill 91, which was tasked by both houses late last week and signed into law by Governor Newsdon. These two bills may be amended later on in this legislative section and the offer has indicated he may do so for other rental protections. be amended later on in this legislative section and the offer has indicated he may do so for other rental protections. So you'll see in the wrap up for this report, Ben, so issuing letters of support for these two items we're now going to be asking for you to make a decision between taking a watch-visistant and still issuing letters of support. Next slide, please. So this is real quick. Run down the Senate bill 9, you want to take too much time on this, but it did extend the state's presidential of the Chamorra Tourant Region, very of the 2021. Pannasters Service was also propane unpaid amounts to the property owners, but you cannot evict them for the pain that passed you rent. Senate bill 9, you won. It also established state frontal assistance program. for not paying that pass to rent. Senate Bill 91 did also establish a state frontal assistance program. It allocated $2.6 billion in federal rental assistance. But California is expected to receive due to the latest COVID-19 bill that passed. And the programs that have targeted aid to income qualified tenants most at risk with unpaid rent. These systems can also be given to property owners who have really to wait 20% of the unpaid rent. The assistance can also be given to property owners who agree to wait 20% of the unpaid rent, and by agreeing to that waiver, the property owners will become eligible for 80% of rental reimbursement from this state program. For back of April for 2023, March 31, 2021. SD 91, this is something, unfortunately, we just could not work around with how quickly it did fly through. It's going to provide direct funding to resident or jurisdictions over 200,000 residents, but we are going to be able to receive funding indirectly through our county for this program. And we were looking through to take a position on this bill today, but again, it was signed in a lot over the weekend. Next slide, please. The College of R and Connect Studies associate is developing a legislative proposal for the Director of Regional Housing Trust Fund and other as a good home base funding program for our housing projects. The proposal is something that we still get as a formal bill, but legislative offices do have until Friday, February 19th to introduce bills for this 2021 legislative year. Staff is continuing to monitor newly introduced bills and reaching out to the advocates for California and Congress to be as associated for information about this proposal. Potential authors and also the timing for its release. Next slide slide please. The legislative lobby raise on support of higher-end public relations firm. The PR firm would work with city staff and the city state lobbyists to develop and distribute information in Sacramento to our state legislature. With the goal being to better communicate information on why local control is only for housing as best left individual jurisdictions. Next slide, please. Thorla, the site of lobby committee, they had a very busy Monday. They did oppose Senate Bill 6789 and 10, as well as the governor knew some fiscal year 21, 22 budget proposals to create a new housing accountability unit within the Department of Housing and Community Development. The first slide bills are consistent with our city's platform, as I mentioned earlier, and therefore we're already working on drafting letters for the mayor's time. However, concurrences required on opposing the Governor's grace for the new housing accountability unit. is required on opposing the governor's grace for the new housing accountability unit. Next slide, please. To the governor's proposal to create a new housing accountability billy unit within HDB is so the unit can provide technical assistance to local governments. However, this unit would also be responsible for monitoring city council meetings, meetings before the super owners and planning commissions as related to housing. The unit would also enhance the administration enforcement of housing obligations on local jurisdictions. Next slide, please. So today I'm asking the city council provide direction on still lending letters of support on AB 1516 or recommending watch positions. I'm also requesting the City Council authorize the mayor to send a letter of support on the California Contract City's associations of the legislative proposal. As a slain staff, as the City Council director on authorizing the mayor to send a letter of office decision for the governor's 21--22, Federal proposal to create a new housing accountability unit within HCB, and finally, staff seeking direction and approval on hiring a public relations from those distant developing our messaging to the state legislature regarding housing legislation. Thank you very much. Okay, thank you, and who would we have anyone online? Oh, we do not have any public comments on this item. Okay, so we can go to the latest on report by Senator Wunderlough and our customer or customer-awareness. You're on mute. My college was related to getting off mute. Again, most of these work-up-advider existing platforms, the ones that were not explicitly, I think, were still consistent with the general direction of the platform on one-head and actions that we ourselves as a city estate in resorting, really for reddors and about housing issues. A person about assembly bill 15 and 16, what is the status of planning for smaller cities? How is that wrapped up with assembly bills, 16 and 16, and their potential replacement? So, Assembly Bill 111 was the replacement for Assembly Bill 15 and 16. Our city will not be receiving money directly from the state for that federal assistance. However, we are eligible to reach out to the county and receive funding through them for our tenants. And so, Helen Morales will be working on that for us and working on that. Training at the end of the story is to wait on that. It's a way to identify either governor. And I was talking with Andrew at the latest hour just going because even assembly member Plume realized West Hollywood is like 90% runners and they're going to be left out on this as well. To animal, it isn't even 200,000 people. They're going to be left out on this. So, you know, and he's devoted in support of this bill because of that indirect funding stream that will be able to have access to. And so, 15 and 16 have been replaced. What's the impact of us laying in on them now? What was the impact of us laying in on them then? So in speaking with our state lobbyists on that, he did say we could still take a position on support as they sit today because they sit on amended. And in the 16th there was no limit on the funding. The funding was just going to be open for really any jurisdiction. If they don't have the 200,000 keep person limit on it. So you could weigh in on support, but those bills will be amended. Some remember, true, has indicated that he wants the week from open because he doesn't think June 30th for tenet of extents is going to be long enough. He thinks they're going to be coming back to the table and trying to get the tenet of extents more foreign extended from June 30th to some other date. And he didn't indicate whether, you know, if that's that be July 3rd, August 3rd, September 3rd, but he just has a feeling that that is what's gonna happen for AD 15. So he's leaving that bill in place with the intent of looking at that for sending the direction more foreign. And then 16 may become a vehicle rather than for funding for other tennis protections, but he would not clarify what those other tenet protections were going to be. Well, we didn't support them as written. I think our support for the masquerade will still be the recommendation. Perhaps it sends a signal about our view about the direct funding for smaller cities. And so I would suggest continuing to support them if they get amended in the direction we don't like it, but it would be changing. Do I anything to add at this point? Yeah, I just wanted to add the notion of maybe hiring a PR company. That was something that we wanted to explore with Keith. Have Keith look into it and see if he felt it would be helpful before actually committing to it. But part of the problem is, is that right now there is a narrative created by Sacramento that, you know, Staltweeners always is boaking Beverly Hills. We're the bad guys. We're why there's no housing and that sort of thing. It's way too complicated and long to go into, but it's basically an attack on single family homes which people like we are considered to be races, demoral, evil, that sort of thing. And so really, the notion was maybe that we could get some not like, know crisis or whatever but help with messaging about what this is really about. I'm packing the issues to make it clear because it does seem very much that the media, the mainstream media is very much buying into this kind of nonsensical trickle down vertical, triple down, rate andomics theory of housing, which basically says if you build more luxury housing, you know, we'll get more affordable housing. Of course, that's nonsense because, you know, if you, you know, building more courses doesn't reduce the price of free businesses. But that was just the thought there. We let Keith look into it and see if he felt it could help. But we really should be prepared to counter some of this narrative that we're going to hear as to why we're opposing some of this, which is really has to do with our community and how we all view it and what we think our community should be in that we feel we should be making more decisions closer to home and not fewer. And that the narrative scapegoating stage is wrong on so many levels again without going to be built. So that aside from that, as I said, I think these other bills that we're recommending opposition of are basically literally zombie bills from bills we opposed in the last term. There just, you know, SB9 was SB57 or whatever, or 247 whatever it was. They're literally just reading. And so I think it's important for us to, we felt it was important even to those bills that could, we could have asked the mayor to write the letter and opposition based on our overall platform to just point them out so everybody sees them and understands that what Sacramento is trying to do is also taking not taking into account at all the pandemic or what we've seen in many cases, I'm sure many of you have read that the growth levels of California are at an all time low and people are leading the state. So we think there needs to be a better approach and we're happy to talk about that. But anyway, I just wanted to put that in the context. Okay, thank you. And go to the Council Member of the Council for the direction of work questions, Council Member Boul. Go ahead, now I see you see me at how much money direction, work questions, uh, customizable. So I know I think we are 100 money, LR residents, dot, and from the general. As of today, we've been able to discriminate $57,000, um, to the FS for landlords, um, to be distributed and they have distributed some of those funds already. I don't know the exact amount. The harmony was a kind one. No, that's the city's one. The city's better than us. Yeah, but the concept of path through the county is really where I'm focusing on. Have we seen any money from the town? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yes, we had 27 applicants be qualified to county. The majority receiving, they were only one received $3,600. The balance received $1,500 to $10,000. And then they have received those plans already. The county also put out a new notice that they have another $400 million apart from the $2.6 billion that it's coming through. They have $400 million and they're going to be opening up a new rent subsidy. So we have e-blocks of that information out to everyone so that they can apply to the county because their subsidy is greater than ours. And we are connecting up and I've been collaborating with the county in order to get the list of people who are qualified so that we make sure that there's no duplication from our rent subsidy and their subsidy. That's kind of a delay. Some of the payments because if they have a letter of intent saying they've already qualified it, but they haven't yet received the distribution of funds, we will de-case for a little bit. We go to the process, but we don't make payment because we don't want to have duplication and efforts in the rent subsidy. If it does occur, however, what will happen is let's say, for example, we give ourselves to the county, give their subsidy. The county is going to absolutely give the difference. So they will credit the $3,000 from the county distribution as well, so that there's no duplication. Because it's safe to say that we have to be careful about duplication of rent subsidies. So no one is there. There's so many crappy, either on a cabinet basis or on percentage of people who apply based on that. We know that our residents, our record, are getting their fair share of down money. How does that from there, the cities that don't have to go through the town? And so, what does the average distribution, how many of that go off-hand? Those record, and are we being treated unfairly in that way? So the county had to different funding sources. So 50 million first for went to those that were lower income. And then the balance 50,000, which is about $50 million, went to the rest of the balance that were 80% AMI. And so our families are receiving an equitable fair share, so what they do is they allocated that $50 million for the 80% AMI to our tenants according to this fall flight area. So that would be West Hollywood's and Atlantic and us all share in those funds. And we are getting equitable. So I actually have a contact with the county and so I frequently get updated lists of those people that are on the list. So we know the entire body that applied in Beverly Hills and we know that the amounts the number of individuals who were selected. So I guess the sum of the five word that I answered the question, does it make a difference to our residents of our neighborhood? Whether we get direct money from the county, directly from the state, or as and through the county. Are we just advantage by having a bad city town? I don't think we are just advantage. We're still a lot of the 10% as by population by the area, so we are not this advantage. I think the biggest advantage we have is not having cost associated with the distribution of funds. Okay. So I'm okay former public relations firm. Then I, okay, I got a piece to look at it and give us a opinion. I'm a little concerned that we're really, you're, you're doing, we need more than just us. I don't know how we get fast flow of stability to it. Who cares? I think that when we first started, somebody had to get through that. I figured what the issue was. That we needed to find a sister city that was out of a single problem, might be confident. And if we could together with them then we'd get some attention. So, you know, if we really were going to talk about some of my own public relations person, I'm in person for us in the fourth year and I really like to have some sense of how I can get over that hurdle. And it might be better if we were together with college city or a thought, or something like that. Unfortunately, I think we've certainly been failed, and this is sort of the next time. We fail by the reason the ladies seem that are supposed to do that for us. And I think Skager has done a great great job and they don't think the ladies have done a great job representing our interests. And I think the absolute reflection of that is kind of bills that we're seeing at. So the non-attractive is supporting our interests. And so that back to the public, the way it's in, if you have organizations of that size who are not going to support us, you know, how are we gonna compete in that environment? You get anybody's ear, you know, they're gonna look at us and say, well, if they're really open, we've got a lead here saying something different. Well, yes, yeah, it's something different, maybe it's something else, it's something different. to be there something else that you've something to work. So I don't know what that strategy looks like, but I'm a little concerned that we'd be struggling with life. I don't know what an objection to exploring this. But I do think we have to, if we go explore it, it should be with an eye to it overcoming or identifying a strategy that will compromise it. I hate to use the words, is implicit bias against us. And so I, as a subgroup, want to mention that. But I don't hate the rest of the day. OK, thank you, and I hope you're welcome. Thank you, Mayor. So Julian and did where I want to begin, I also feel very uncomfortable with the hiring of a public relations company. To me, even the fact that one has the higher one, I think already works against us, because I think people say, oh, well, they had a higher public relations company. Do we have an I don't know who I can send this to Cindy? Do we have a cost that we're looking at? Well I made a suggestion and the answer is no we want to keep to simply look at and again it's not just PR, it's skin things, it's about a strategy. It was good, very well involved with Tooling and Set. We need to figure out a way to combine with other areas throughout Southern California and create a cohesive strategy that says why their narrative is wrong. And I think certainly, I said, it was simply the key to Certainly I said it was simply the key to explore and then report back and there's no amount of funding right now to discuss because he needs to look at that and make a recommendation. And I agree I do think that it would be helpful to have other partnering cities with us. I also firmly believe in Keith. Anyway, I think that Keith could do this with us. I'm not sure that we necessarily need to hire out. I think Keith understands us better than anybody, but in terms of exploring and seeing where Keith comes back with, I would support that. But I do agree that it would be helpful to have others to be dealing with us, if we miss forward. But, and I also support the recommendations of the liaison committee. Thank you, sir, your work. And thank you, Mayor. There's two. I'll leave this empty. The Council member of the Hitting Media in Iraq just wanted to pop it and just say hello that as Council member Mendes mentioned it, we had a brief discussion about this haven't had a chance to explore yet or what it might look like, my understanding and the brief discussions was that this would be something that would be beyond public relations, but more aesthetically legislative level on some of the talks, and the about that too, about exploring possibilities. So early in the process, but the happen if they could look at it. And I probably not always to work with Keith, but also with our lobbyists, too, we have, Andrew and Sly. It's just, and to do it is pointed about how the league and to an extent, but static is really not an organization that's supposed to represent us. It's a, you know, it has another function, but the league is. And the league has not been doing a great job. And I guess that's why we'll get to the next recommendation, which is when we pay our dues. We need to send them a letter saying, we're not really happy, we'd like you to do a better job. And so I think it's born of that. And I can say that, you know, and I'm sure Julian has for contract cities as well, a billion tests with representatives of other cities who are not necessarily happy about this. And this is not us leading the chart at all, but it's actually trying to build a team and build a community of communities that are unhappy about this. These assaults on local democracy and local decision-making and communities. And you know, done, which are being done in the name of something that we all agree with, which is an ocean of affordable housing, but it's completely a smoke screen and it is completely, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, there's a total false narrative at work there and part of it is state-building savings and that's just not true. So I think it was fit to get through that. And so as that, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I convinced the Keith, who were just about our image or fit to get through that. And so as that, I convinced the Keith that we're just about our image or whatever Keith to do that. I think we need to dig a little bit deeper and see what else we can do. And I'm glad that Keith's going to be exploring out with Cindy with Andrew. Maybe he'll come up with some ideas that we can do beyond just press releases or whatever. And aside from that, I think we have to be extremely careful, extremely vigilant about all of these terrible bills that are happening right now. Again, it's almost as if certain Sacramento legislators have ignored the fact that we're in a pandemic. They don't believe that there will be any lasting effects. They want, it's just, it's, it's making many ways. And yet there we are. And again, we could discuss this at length, but I think strongly opposing these bills, as we're recommending is the right thing to do right now. And Ms. Mayor, if I'm mad, just on the saying, we passed over it quickly. But I did think that the conflict cities, efforts were a reasonable housing alliance, if you will, are a black and blue society. There is growing strength as a reasonableization around that issue. And it may well be that we can build on it. The details of that are not fully far-fetched, but we're conceptually the contracts that you've come together to borrow it. And I think that it really may be some reasonable to some of these other goals, which is to influence the Sacramento, or the local cities and all these things. So there may be an opportunity to use that to leverage other things, just to thought. And I actually, on that point, I understand that assembly woman, Lori Gainey, is going to be introducing a bill that would maybe allow for arena training, if you will. But of course, the problem is if you're going to do trading and regionalize it, having Reena at these completely weaponized unrealistic ridiculous levels is in and of itself a problem. And that's something that we should work together with other cities. We see there is a non-president, a number of cities at Skag and around the state that have appealed the arena numbers. There's a reason for that. And so we need to get at the root causes as well. I know that contract cities and other organizations have talked about regional housing trusts. I think that's something that we said that we support maybe also together with a regional land bank. There are all sorts of things that we can and should be doing, but the punitive measures from the state are making it very difficult to have any dialogue because, you know, as said, there are just so many ulterior motives at that state there. Anyway, there is going to be a bill introduced to allow that sort of regionalization. And obviously, I think we suggested that something we support. There's a lot of data. The greater people would, the greater people would carry a number of other bills. I know that it hasn't been proposed yet, but I'm guessing we'll support it because it's completely in line with our philosophy. There's a session of Elmer Asuji from the South Bay introducing what would be a proposal for state constitutional amendment which would clarify the urban planning zoning and land use are inherently municipal affairs. And that obviously would be a tremendous step forward. But anyway, this is where we're at. Okay. I'd like to see if we can get through item number four quickly after we're done with this. I'll ask a vice mayor Wendell if he want to add on this item. Nothing else. I'm also supportive of the recommendations of the liaison for the various reasons that have been stated thus far. So with that, let's see if we can quickly go through item number four, since it's in the same topic area, and if we can go to a full recommendation by the Beverly Hills City Council, legislative lobby. Legislative lobby layers on committees that are letter to the blue of the California cities. Cities, if you can give us a presentation. You. Thank you very much. So before you, we have a letter to send the Believer California cities. Also there are Calary Brandenman's, Delta Point and the South Cal cities. So I won't be referring to them as the week. The center varies aware and next slide please. The missing statement of Cal cities is to extend a particular control for cities. Through education and advocacy to enhance the quality of life for all California cities. Additionally, they have adopted these statements to several of which metronome importance of supporting local autonomy. This includes local self-government, is the core stone of democracy, as well as the vitality of cities that depend upon their fiscal civility and local economy. Next slide please. In 2020, Health Cities failed to oppose bills that corroded local decision-making authority on housing and landmills. The table here shows just four of those bills where they failed to take action or they took action at Steve's Cockrobe 3 to their mission statement. 80, 725 would have actually did establish new mental and density requirements on a portion of sites identified by a city and its housing element. To comply with its share of the regional housing needs for moderate and above moderate income housing. 82, 3, 4, 5 revised that speed bonus law to increase the maximum allowable density and the number of concessions in incentive developer could see. In return for inclusion of affordable housing units, in my development, developers are given an increase in density over a city's zone density among other concessions and incentives. SB902 would have permitted a local government to pass an ordinance allowing the utilization of a streamlined approval process for rezoning parcels of land to allow for increased density. And while this bill failed, it has come back and it is one of those SP6 through 10 bills that you saw just in the last presentation. And then SC1120 would require cities and counties to ministerial, commit a duplex to locate it on a parcel zone for single family housing, or the subdivisional parcel zone for residential using a two equal parcels. Count cities, you're requesting several amendments to SB 1120, including only allowing property owners to construct the duplex and not a duplex plus no accessory dwelling in it. Both, again, SB 9 or SB 1120 have been reintroduced in the state legislature in 2021. So from a stable to city, should the position of a pose are opposed and less amended on these four housing related bills, while CalCities either are ticket with much position or a support of the amended position. Next slide, please. On January 25th, the legislative lobby committee did recommend the City Council operate the mayor to send a letter to CalCities requesting they renew their focus on issues that impact global governments when the City renews their dues and we just received that dues for a dual letter last week. City is seeking city council direction on this recommendation. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Do we have any public comment on this item? No, we do not have any public comment on this item. And then we will go to the liaison for a brief liaison report. I think sending this letter is consistent with our prior discussion about being part of a greater group who is advocating for the positions that we favor. And I think that's a primary reason for supporting sending the letter. And I agree. And now, sad, I think really in sort of alluded to it, I disappointed by the fact that they've taken such weak positions on critical matters of local democracy and community self-determination. And they need to just do a better job. I get it. They sometimes say, you know, if we're not on the table, we're on the menu, but that's just not always true. I don't know if any of you, you know, you probably have seen Alice in Wonderland as well. You know, remember the walrus and the carpenter invited the oysters to see it at the table and remember what happened to them. So I think they need to do a better job of doing what they exist for, which is to protect local democracy under the understanding that decisions are made better at home than in Sacramento, and especially in these critical times where when cities are under attack. in these critical times when cities are under attack. Okay, thank you and going to Council Member Comments, direction, questions, Council Member Gold. Well, I agree with writing the letter, I think, I think it does make sense. So, there is a manner of process. The delegates to the Cal State, do they vote their position or do they vote the position on their seat? Unless it's a single vote. I would the Board of Directors, I would have to look into that. I don't know if they're, I mean, you would hope they'd be balanced to what the League of Mission Statements and belief statements are, but you would really have to take a look at how are they voting is that consistent with that mission statement and belief statements, or is it more consistent with this direction that their cities are going in? And I have to go back and do some research on that. Well, it would be interesting. I would be interested to make a team of work. But I would be in, I would be in, I'd say maybe two months were. But I would be curious. If you took like four bills you just told us. Each of the cities have been taking a position and how did they represent it and go on the bill. And nothing else, it tells us if the issue is the manner in which the board is constructed or we're just in a minority of cities thinking of certain way. I think it might help us to own forward further ahead by the problem of trying to fit. But I really support that anyway. Okay, Councilmember Bossi. But I really support that anyway. Okay, Councilmember Bossi. Thank you, Mayor. I, of course, support sending a letter by Heather. A follow-up question. You know, a letter is great, but what are the next steps available to us if even after sending a letter, we don't see that there's any change. Where else is available to us besides a letter is maybe? Well, we could leave. We could in theory leave a league, but I don't think that we should. I mean, I would hope maybe we could work with other cities as well who are disappointed, but the problem is that, you know, sometimes the board members, and it's a good question that Julian has, you look at where they're from, and they're not impacted by these issues as much. And they enjoy going to, you know, being in the room with the big, big legislators of Sacramento, and that sort of thing. And they're not necessarily impacted. And so I think you asked a very good question and short of leading the league, which I don't think we should do. I think it's a question we should all be asking ourselves and thinking of ideas of things that we can be doing. It's a great question. Thank you, John. Cindy, is there anything you could suggest at this point or something you could think about and get back to us on because I completely agree that we need to send the letter but unfortunately sometimes the letter is just the letter and it doesn't create change. And I think our goal is for change. So Dr. Gold, that actually statistic a years ago, and we did join the California Contract Cities Association, and in the past year, they advocated for more housing, for or against more housing legislation than we did as far as I could tell, and oftentimes the positions they took aligned with our city. And I think some of it has to do with their legislative committee that they have formed through the California Contract Cities Association pretty much if you're a voting member and a voting representative, you can go to that committee and cast a vote. And so it's more, I think, open to the membership and deciding the direction that they'll go. And California Contract Cities Association started only with cities in LA that contracted with O.A. 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And are we? They are a good organization, I sit on that. I think your style, I think, did very much about it. Well, we're all great, but they're very much about local government. And easy, it's very focused on low control and low income. Absolutely. At Orange County, actually a number of cities of Orange County back in the day left the league for various reasons. I'm not sure they were unhappy. And they formed their own organization, you know, a number of them rejoined the league. But that organization in Orange County still exists. Maybe we can, you know, again, the more the merrier, maybe we should look to see if we and other cities can join with them because I believe they're also very concerned as contract cities is as I'm guessing Julie and ICA is with these issues that the league is unfortunately glad to be. Yes, that was the next question. Are we aware of how many other cities are upset that we could join with them as well? So it's not just once again Beverly Hills being unhappy. It's not real. Are we aware of how many other cities feel as we do? And perhaps we send our own letter but maybe it would make sense to do something as a group as well. Well we know that I believe Cupertino and one other city of St. Letters as well to the Lee and you know I think we'll we should share our letter with other cities. I think it's a good idea to maybe run this through contract cities and maybe touch space with your Orange County group and let them know and try and see if this can grow organically because outside you look at the number of cities in the Saga region which isn't the whole state that have appealed the arena figures and it is it's an unprecedented historical number So obviously when you've got something and it gives you majority of cities like this or this amount that feel there's something wrong with the system, it makes sense for them to want that their representatives and they are going to do a better job of representing our positions. So we don't get forced into a situation where we've got these unit figures. Great. Well, thank you to the lay of us and obviously Mayor, I support this. Thank you. And it's a direct and I can or can even send it to the conference of the day of the meeting from our IPRIT through the many Mayor of the Castle Walk. That would be a place to throw all of that. I think we should copy contract cities on it. I don't know if you want to do a blind copy or I don't know that you know, as the Senate's Securaling Coal Minute, the league, you write CC contract, maybe. Maybe that's the right thing to do to the Orange County Organization. And going back to the other letter that the mayor is going to send opposing the governors or the secret police housing police thing, we should definitely copy Ben Allen and Richard Bloom and copy the, you know, our representatives there when it comes to that. We absolutely, this is nothing that we're hiding. We're making it clear that we, you know, how we look at things. Good, thank you and, uh, Boyser. I support the lender. And I just have a couple quick questions, cities. In terms of these, they're good that they come due. What are our dues to the California New City? I have not opened the dues letter. It was actually another staff number. Or for that open the letters. I know they're due. I just don't know how much we pay. So I do apologize for not knowing them. Okay. If you're anyone online, it does know. And it's not that fun to just get back to me or us with that. I don't think we can take off the table, not being or terminating our membership in health cities. I think that if that's off the table, then the letter is not going to be sufficient at all. I'm not advocating to leave the leave, but I think that should not be off the table at all. I think that we shouldn't see where what other alliances we have. If the lead is not doing representing us the way they should be, then I don't see any reason to be involved with them. On the other hand, I know that being a part of it has benefits also, but again, I just think that it's going to be cost-thickable. I agree with the recommendations of Rayazons and I would support that. So with that, we will take an eight-minute break. We are adjourned to those items on the closed section agenda, and we will be back at 7 o'clock for our formal meeting.