Everyone, this is the Beverly Hills City Council Special Study Session. Today is October 10th, 2024. It's a little after 2.30 p.m. and we will open the meeting with oral communications on items not on our agenda. If there is anyone in chambers, if they could please fill out a speaker card. This is for non-agentized items. Not seeing any if there's any one electronically. We do not have any comments for non-agentized items. Okay, very good. We'll move on then to item A1, city of Beverly Hills Community Security ad hoc recommendation for safety and hospitality services presented by our director of community services, Stephanie Harris with an assist, perhaps by Chadlin. Yes, I am here today with assistance with both Chadlin and Chris Paulson, so they will play back up and help me answer any questions you all may have. So good afternoon, Stephanie Harris, Director of Community Services. Here before you today to present the Community Security Adhoc recommendations for the Beverly Hills Ambassador Services. To give you a little bit of historic, the historic nature of the program, the city launched the Safety and Hospitality Program in 2015 as a one year pilot program at approximately $500,000. The focus at this time was 21 hours of service provided in the business triangle to educate and address aggressive panhandling. In 2016, the program expanded to also include field permit management services at the three schools during the city's JPA usage. In 2017, the services again expanded to include 24-hour coverage, expanded footprint, which included the Civic Center and Self Beverly from Wilshire to Gregory. Currently, the Ambassador Agreement sits at about $1.4 million, and includes 24-hour safety and hospitality services, consisting of hospitality and safety escort, homeless outreach and hand handling education, overnight parking garage checks, tobacco education, electric scooter pickup, and supported school district fields during the JPA usage. Over the last year and a half, the City Council has focused efforts on expanding city-provided services throughout the community associated specifically with homeless outreach and community security. The city has developed a mental health evaluation team known as our met officers, expanded our Beverly Hills outreach team, Behaught, to seven days a week and increase their staffing from two to five members. BHPD has also incorporated private security services, consisting of community patrols, footbeats, in the business area, as well as support and transportation services for the unhoused. The expansion of these services has resulted in some overlap services being provided by both agreements. The Community Security Adhoc has reviewed and recommended changes for the Ambassador program. One of the proposals is to consolidate overlapping services. Parking garages are currently being patrolled by both private security as well as the Beverly Hills Ambassador team. This security function is better suited for the private security company as they are integrated with BHPD and engaged throughout the city with deployment and best practices as it relates to loitering. There would be no additional positions needed as the function is already being provided by the private security company and a more detailed mission would be provided by BHPD to this agreement. This would allow for a reduction in hours for the ambassador program as well as the staffing needs associated with that service. Adjustments to hours and area service has also been recommended. The ad hoc identified a value to the community to continue providing safety and hospitality services. However, a reduction in the footprint and more specific times focused in our high business, our highly trafficked business areas, would reduce the staffing needs and future agreements. The recommendation is to reduce the footprint to the business triangle. I'll show you a map on the next slide. The footprint will consist of camdain to crescent between Wilshire and North Santa Monica Boulevard and maintain services on South Beverly from Wilshire to Gregory. The additional areas that are currently being covered are also included in the city's private security companies patrol, including the Third Street bus toward loading zone, the city hall campus, as well as the city hall campus. And BHPD again could also direct a more focused patrol in these areas if it was required. In regards to the hours of services, by tailoring the services to a more specific closely, a more specific time that's more closely aligned with the business hours in their coverage area. Please note that in the staff report there was a typo. The proposal is actually Sunday through Wednesday, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Thursday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to midnight. I had listed it incorrectly. So the proposal is once again Sunday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to midnight. I had listed it incorrectly. So the proposal is, once again, Sunday through Wednesday, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to midnight. The new proposed hours of operations, again, more closely aligned with the local retailers and restaurant businesses here in Beverly Hills. Here are the maps. The map on the left here is the existing coverage area. And the map on the right is the proposed reduction in the footprint. The proposed service area would reduce the ambassador footprint to provide services in the area with the most foot traffic. The business triangle in South Beverly, which are considered our tourist dense areas, they would also continue to provide hospitality as well as outreach effort in the areas that they patrol. The reduction in the footprint would remove ambassadors from the areas that are also being patrolled by private security as well as areas with less foot traffic throughout the day. Here you have our RFP timeline and some of the terms that was recommended to be included in the RFP. So this timeline would ensure that we have the responses provided and reviewed and able to award an agreement with an April start date. Some of the items to be included in the new agreement would include a detailed scope of service and area of coverage as well as hours of operation. Some details on metrics and reporting requirements, recommendation on patrol deployments, and standard of conduct and uniform appearances. The staff is requesting the community service, sorry, community security ad hoc to provide their full report to city council seeking any additional direction and feedback. Staff is also looking for direction on the consolidation of services, the focused service area as well as the reduction of hours of services. Following today's conversation and direction provided, staff is ready to release an RFP and return to City Council for approval of the new agreement. With that, I will turn it over to you. Okay, thank you. So we will take public comment on this item. If there's anyone in chambers, if they could bring up a speaker card, not seeing anyone, we'll go to electronic means. We do not have any comment for this item. Okay, so we will go now to the Layers on Report. Let's start. And with Council Member Corny. Sure. Now that's Stephanie's presentation was very thorough. I don't have much to add. The only thing I would just mention is that in our staff report there is a discussion of possibly having an alternative in the bid for continuing service at the bus stop in city hall. I'm not sure that's, I think the idea with that is if it was really cheap, we could consider it. But I don't know if we are, I don't think our recommendation was to do that at Perse and I certainly wouldn't want to recover that area unless somehow we found that we were having a problem. But again, there's an overlap of covered six in the BHPD in that area, somehow we found that we were having a problem. But again, there's an overlap of covered six in the BHPD in that area, so we don't anticipate they're being a problem. Yeah, and that's my understanding also. I think what we wanted to do is really see, you know, sometimes when you cut back something because of scheduling, it doesn't help the bottom line. And sometimes it, hopefully most of the time, it will. But I think that was really part of our analysis is that if somebody has to be there a certain amount of hours anyway, and now they have to be paid for being there, but they're not covering a certain area, and that doesn't make any sense. So I think it's really just something to have in our back pocket in case it is economic to do so. Obviously the intention of this is to consolidate some of the services we've had. There's been a natural expansion as Stephanie told us from an original cost of $500,000 to now $1.4 million, and we're still at the end of a contract that will undoubtedly cost more money per hour than the previous contract. So we know that it wouldn't be 1.4 million per year the next time around. And I think we want to just get ahead of it because we do have duplicate of services in some of these areas. And we've heard from the community regarding the efficiency in certain areas of the ambassadors and perhaps the excess in other areas. So that's how we came to the original determination that we could cut back some of the expansive area. And we had a little bit of a discussion as to how much the cutback could and would be. And this was something that we as layazons felt comfortable with in terms of the footprint that is there. And that covers my part of it and it was a recommendation by the ad hoc to set this out for the RFP. Okay, so with that we will go to Councilmember questions and comments. Starting with Councilmember Wilson. I have a question about the areas that you're that would be eliminated. Those will be covered by covered six and are patrol services correct? Yes. Okay. And then is there any plan for the patrol or covered six to do any, you know, walking as opposed to driving around since you had these, this patrols from the ambassadors before that? I'm going to turn over specific questions regarding that to a chief's name, Rick. Good afternoon. So they do walk around. It just depends on the mission and time of day, what crime we had in any given area. So each day, they're assigned different missions, depending on what information and intelligence we have about where and how they should be deployed. Terrific. Is there any concern about when looking at looking at an RFP and other providers for the ambassador service in terms of their overall capacity? So should we get into a situation where you might want to increase that for whatever events or something's happening in the city? Is this an area where you need to have that increased capacity? Are do you rely more so on covered six for that type of increased manpower, so to speak? So I think if I understand correctly, so if we needed to staff up for ambassadors. So we would be able to incorporate a total not to exceed amount in the agreement. So we can do our base coverage with as needed services if that was the direction of city council. So we could staff up. It would also be dependent on whatever agency we enter into an agreement with. What their capacity is is how fast they would be able to deploy additional ambassadors for us. So we would have to make sure that we included such language in the RFP so that they know that that could be a potential. And how much of a priority is that capacity? Is how necessary is that capacity for us as we're looking at this? Or do we look at that more so from covered six to have capacity? I think they both provide a little different service, so it would most likely be dependent on the service. If we needed additional eyes and ears in a hospitality function, at the moment we would request additional ambassadors. If it was more of a security function, we would turn to BHPD and potentially covered six. Okay. I think it's great that we're looking at this and streamlining it. I do think that we've had a lot of overlap in certain areas and I like making the area more concentrated. So I really do support going out for the RFP on this. So thanks for all of the work and it's very clear what all of the thinking. So thank you. And Councilmember Korman, if you have any other comments? And let me just piggyback some of the councilmember Wells just mentioned. When we talk about ramping up the ambassador program for certain events, have we ever had to do that in the past? We haven't had to bring in additional ambassadors. I believe what we've done, the community. We have in additional ambassadors. I believe what we have done because we have always had a standard not to exceed amount is we have reallocated current resources. If there was something that we needed more eyes in an area or more support in an area, we would instead of having them on south Beverly, maybe move them down to Roe Deo for a set hour or vice versa. So I don't believe we've actually brought in additional services versus just reallocate our current services. And the program allows that flexibility to reallocate people internally. As it currently stands, yes, sir. So I mean, I would be in favor of whatever not to exceed language you need to continue that to continue having that option And it sounds like that's the option not bringing more people in more bodies in for events. So that's great. Thanks Council Mayor Miersh. Thank you So I would support this the one thing though that I do think we should actually extend the Coverage to Beverly Gardens Park to at least those three blocks where you have the Beverly Hills sign, the Ringo on the other side, and then the hopefully soon the Kusama. There are a lot of people there. We talk about foot traffic. I think probably the Beverly Hills sign is among the most foot traffic places in the city. So I think it makes sense to have ambassadors cover those blocks. So currently the park is actually under the purview of the park rangers and we do have park rangers deployed there. And the only area that we do have an overlap of park rangers and ambassadors is in Beverly Canyon Gardens based on MLU requirements. So I'm not entirely sure that we would be able to add ambassadors on those blocks, but that's something that we can look into further. Well, ambassadors and rangers aren't providing the exact same service. And rangers are keeping the order and that sort of things. Ambassadors are especially ambassadors, you would think, that they are not only helping the police in certain things, but they're also when it comes to tourists, they're able to answer questions and in ways maybe that the rangers can't. And certainly the block with the Beverly Hills sign is that's almost all tourists. So I just think it would make sense to provide those services there and but aside from that I'm in favor of this. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Yes, thank you very much. Thank you to the Liaisons and thank you for the report. What was the original role of the ambassadors when they were hired? So when they first came on in 2015, they were strictly hospitality of friendly welcome face. They used to wear bright, brightish green t-shirts or polo shirts as part of their uniform. They would provide direction, they would welcome individuals into the city. They also were helping educate individuals that were coming into the community at that time we had a campaign that was titled, Positive Change, Not Spare Change, and it was to help individuals not hand money to the hand handlers but instead provide to the organizations that we partner with. I mean this was a big push through our human services department at the time or division and the Human Relations Commission. Right and so from what I'm hearing their scope and their role has changed since that originally, that was the goal of the Ambassador Program. Do they know what the new rules are? Absolutely, the agreement from 2015 was amended, I believe once the agreement in 2016 was probably amended once or twice. And then each agreement after we've had to amend it to include additional things. That one included at this point. At this point, it includes homeless engagement. So outreach to the individuals. And again, I want to specify that engagement is really asking if anyone needs help. If they do say that they are interested in help, then it's a referral to our B hot team. That is the agency that we have that's able to provide any services. The ambassadors are only able to help connect individuals to our B hot team. So engaging in that, enforcing, I wouldn't even say enforcing, educating is probably the best term to use all around educating individuals on the cities, ban on smoking. So encouraging individuals to keep walking if they are smoking a cigarette informing them that our ordinance does not allow for individuals to stand in smoke. Continuing hospitality, showing people which direction the Beverly Hills sign is, which direction rodeo drive is, where to eat. The ambassadors do go above and beyond, I will say, as far as looking at what's going on in the community that day and sharing with tourists. We have an individual that does the tour bus load in and load out right there in Beverly Canyon Gardens in front of the Beverly Hills' beautiful sign. You'll often see him taking photos of tourists as they ask him to, so there's that. In addition to that, they continue to be the Eisen Ears. If there are people selling candy or puppies or things as that on Roe Dayle or in other areas of the business triangle, they refer, they refer to code enforcement and have code enforcement come out or BHPD come out. So the services have expanded. They also still continue to provide services at the high school specifically and some of the middle and elementary school as needed for field permit management. What if somebody is sitting on a chair in front of Aeroan and Panhandling or in front of one of our parking lots? So they will engage with them inform them that is against the law. They will help detour individuals from handing them money, but at the end of the day, we rely on BHPD or code enforcement to come out and issue a citation. They are unequipped to issue citations. Okay, and do they have a course of action as far as who they contact and how that works? Yes, they will contact BHPD and I actually have Chris Paulson who helped manage that this agreement more specific so if I am missing anything he could also help clarify but they do reach out directly to BHPD to come out or they will reach out to code enforcement. So it's not allowed to have a chair in the middle of rodeo drive and sit there. Or can you? I would have to look at our municipal code. I don't know that you are unable to have a chair and sit. However, you would still need to maintain five feet of public access so we couldn't be blocking the public right away. I think that is the issue. But if somebody wanted to prop up a seat and sit for an extended period time, I don't know that there's anything against our code to allow that. Larry, were you going to say something? Yeah, I don't think that you can direct a chair there on Roodeo Drive or anywhere else in the public right away That would require an encroachment permit if someone were to Attempt to have a chair out there on the street. Great. So I would think the chief would you agree with that? Yes, I think from a pedestrian point of view, you can't block sidewalks from pedestrian access either. Okay, so why am I bringing this up? I think that we need to have very clear courses of action. Who is responsible? If something like this is seen, who do they contact, and who's supposed to come out? So that we are able to address these issues. A lot of times I've seen the ambassadors, they do a great job. I would recommend giving them a calendar of what's happening in the city every day, including if we're having any kind of rallies or situations that they need to be mindful of because people come in and that way, if they are, telling people where to go, that would be a great thing. But we also have people panhandling in front of our parking lot and that's not a good look for our businesses. We want to ensure that everybody's safe and they have clear right of passage on our sidewalks. So if they do see that, I think what I'm trying to say is whatever we write as their scope of work it needs to be very clear as to who they contact, and then the person that they're supposed to contact, they also need to be clear that that's gonna be their job to go out to address that. Few more questions. You mentioned that tobacco education, does that include vaping and marijuana? Yes, that includes educating them on the rules associated with both of those. Yeah, because you know, sometimes again, on rodeo, you're walking and it's just there's a lot of that happening. So perhaps finding again, their course of action. I noticed the Bedford is not included and we have a lot of new restaurants coming to Bedford. Is that something that we've thought about? Is anybody going to be covering that part of town during this? I feel like you want to answer. So it was discussed. It was ultimately decided to stop at Camden. However, it is a free discussion and direction from the full city council so we can include that. And again, I do want to just mention that even the areas that are no longer going to be concentrated for whatever our ambassador program looks like, there is still the private security patrols that are taking place throughout the community. And so if we did need some more focused effort on Bedford and it wasn't going to be from the ambassadors, we would look over to BHPD to help include that in the private security patrol. Okay. And is this only for this part of town, for example, what are we doing in other parts? LaSianna, Robertson, we have restaurants in those areas as well. Are we, who's keeping an eye on those folks? So for the ambassadors, it has since inception, solely been the business triangle. Not to say we could not expand, it's entirely up to the council's discretion. However, it has ultimately always been the business area. The only expansion we did do from the inception was self-bevely. Currently, the like the La Sianna area again, it would be Beverly Hills PD and the private security company who are doing community patrols. All right. Do they have to always move in twos? Because I'm thinking even if somebody's patrolling the same street for safety issues, I understand sometimes they need to move in twos, but wouldn't it make more sense if they were overlapping on the same street so that it's covering more space at one time as opposed to both of them going and then something's happening in this part? Is that something we could include in our request? Yeah, we can definitely include those specifications in our RFP. As long as it's not against any agency's safety protocols for their deployment, I don't see that being an issue. I know sometimes we do see them in twos coming out from the parking structure and your whole food. A lot of times that is where their hub is. So they go and check in and check out of that station. They're office area there. So you can see them walking into sometimes threes to then continue to split up. But if that was the direction is have them on opposite streets moving in the same direction we can definitely reiterate that to the company that is awarded the contract as well as our current company. Great and I noticed that so council member Korman said that the city hall and bus station would not be included is that but is does somebody monitor that area? I've noticed certain things happening in front of our city hall that I don't think would be a good look. So City Hall is patrolled. Currently City Hall is patrolled by multiple agencies. So we do have our NAS Tech security who does our metal detecting at the front of City Hall. They also do perimeter patrols. that's a great deal for the community. We have a couple of people who are ready who does our metal detecting at the front of city hall. They also do perimeter patrols. Covered six is also patrolling this area on their footbeats. And chief can speak to that more specifically. And we also have our park rangers that part of their duty if they are assigned to the city hall detail is to do perimeter patrols as well. The third street bus area at this time is our dark blue area on the map that you see here and that is patroled as part of the ambassador agreement and community patrols recovered six and BHPD. So we would reduce that as far as having somebody that be their specific beat and that was the area that we would be including as a bid alternate. So if we felt that there was a need, we would be able to issue that as well. Right. So overall, I agree with this. I think that it's a good idea. It's very important that we start streamlining and especially with our budget looking at overlapping services that are unnecessary. I think that there are certain areas that we should look at, for example, if they are patrolling at the same time, because I have seen many of them patrolling on their own as well. So, their scope of work needs to be crystal clear. If somebody is going to serve as an ambassador for our city, they need to have very clean uniforms, make sure that, as it's mentioned in the report that those things are ironed out, perhaps giving them a calendar of what's happening during the day so that they know what to expect and how to be able to actually assist people if that's part of their role. And also educating them with regard to what their scope of work is and I know that we're focusing on getting the help that our on-house need and also a lot of people are concerned about certain issues that are happening near our restaurants and whatever people are selling with the outdoor dining, this is going to be key to work that into our contracts with them. So thank you very much. Thank you for that feedback. OK, so one of the things that Councilmember Korman and I wanted to be sure of in our meeting, and we specifically asked Chris Paulson this was that to make sure that the homeless issues that we have are adequately addressed and Chris maybe you can just go into that a bit. Absolutely. Good afternoon. Mayor and members of council. We would be looking to, well, a couple of things. Our complete homeless outreach team is made up of many different teams. So it currently includes park rangers, the ambassadors, be hot, human services, PD, specifically the MET team, the fire department, nurse practitioner, AP-1 team, and by reducing this scope of services, it sounds like we're still looking at including the homeless outreach aspect for this territory. So that would still be handled by the ambassadors. In the areas that we are looking at changing the time such as eliminating the overnight patrols of the parking garages in particular. That would be an area where we would work with the police department to inform the scope of service for the private security detail. To help coordinate, we would ask them to use a log into the apricot system and participate in much the same way. So once again what we were looking at at the lay is on level was over time the duplication of services that has occurred because back in 2011 when the program started we didn't have the beehawt and we didn't have coverage six, we didn't have NASDAQ, we didn't have all of this. So over time we've layered on and layered on and you know the time to look at it was appropriately now to see and we did get assurances from the chief that some of these services would adequately be covered, either by coverage six or the police department. And it is true that we have, you know, at some point in time, we have to tighten our belt. We can't just go on with duplicative services and this was a way to get to that point efficiently because of the other resources that we had. So with that, it looks like we have concurrence and direction. Thank you all for the presentation. So much. Okay we will go on to item number a 2 Golden Globe Awards ceremony 2025 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday January 5th 2025 and we will be joined by Patty Betencourt, who will with the special events in film and coordinator, who will present on this item. Yes. I got a note. Okay, good afternoon. Mayor Friedman, members of Council, City, staff. My name is Patty Bentchart with special events and filming division. Today I'm also joined by members of the Dick Clark productions team as well as the Beverly Hilton hotel. Dick Clark productions and the Beverly Hilton hotel are here requesting approval of street and sidewalk closures, notification letters, and fee waivers associated with the 82nd annual Golden Globes Award ceremony scheduled for Sunday January 5th, 2025. All street and sidewalk closures would be managed and implemented by a professional traffic control company hired by Dick Clark productions. All traffic control plans must be approved by the city traffic engineer prior to the event. A public works inspector will be on site each day of the street inside wall closures to ensure traffic control equipment is set up properly and according to the approved plan. As for Santa Monica Boulevard the 2025 request is similar to the 2024 plan with the differences being the request for Westbound curbling use is one day earlier and the reopening a couple hours later. The same for the reopening of the full closure for West and Eastbound is an additional hour added to the 2025 plan. The proposal will be in the 2025 request. The proposal will be in the 2025 request. The proposal will be in the 2025 request. The proposal will be in the 2025 request. The proposal will be in the 2025 request. The proposal will be in the 2025 request. The proposal will be in the 2025 request. The proposal will be in the day earlier and lasts just about three days longer. In general, the 2025 closure is requested to begin one hour earlier and last one hour longer. But the timing of key disruptions is similar in both years. As for Whittier Drive, Greenway Drive, Carmelita Avenue, El Avado Avenue, and Lomita's Avenue, the only difference compared to 2024 is a request to begin at 5 a.m. versus 6 a.m. Also in 2024 streets reopened at 4 a.m. and in 2025 the request is to reopen at 5 a.m. Dick Clark productions at the Beverly Hilton Hotel are responsible for all related expenses including but not limited to city permits, street closures, and or street use fees, city personnel, traffic control plan, and equipment broadcast event fees, and any other costs associated with the award ceremony. Dick Clark has requested a fee waiver as discussed in the slide with the two proposed options. Council can approve the fee waiver option to be applied to the 2025 Golden Globe Permits option one option two Waved no fees or recommend another suggestion to be voted on During the liaison meeting the fee waiver was discussed and liaison's recommended not waving any fees stated above Notifications will be a team effort between the city, Beverly Hilton Hotel, and Dick Clark Productions. Notifications will be sent out to all businesses and residents within 1,000 feet of the affected event area as a standard for events that include street closure. The city communication team will send out NICSLE alerts, citywide announcements, post on all social media platforms and will place ads in local papers. City staff will be available to staff a hotline number and answer any questions the community may have. I'd like to note that at liaisons, I'd like to note that at the meeting, the liaisons recommended to send out two notification letters and sending out the letter to a two mile radius which would include our neighbors and nearby Los Angeles. Staff recommends City Council approve the request by Dick Clark Productions and the Beverly Hilton Hotel for approval of street and sidewalk closures and notification letters as recommended by the liaisons associated with the 82nd annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony scheduled for Sunday January 5th, 2025. That concludes my portion of the report. I'd like to call up Rick or Barry. Barry with Dick Clark Productions to say a few words. So we all call him Barry if you will please introduce yourself formally to our. Yes, thank you. Meeting. I'm Barry Edelman. I'm an executive vice president of television with the Clack Productions. And I guess this is about my 28th Golden Globes. All done in Beverly Hills. And it's nice to see friendly faces that I've appeared before in the past. And happy to report since our show last year when there was some questions about the popularity of award shows in general and how we were gonna do. Award shows are making quite a strong comeback on television right now. And we last year on our show saw a rise in ratings of over 50%. And we were very pleased with that. It was our highest rating since the pandemic. And we're looking, excuse me, we're looking forward this year to having even more success. We think that there's a momentum going with the ward shows in general. And we have thanks to the use of the Beverly Hilton Hotel and your city, the most star-studded group of celebrities that appear on any show that hasn't changed and it won't change. One of the big things about this coming year is that we already have our host, Nikki Glazer. And for those of you who may not be familiar with her work, she one of the most popular and hottest comedians at the moment. Her Netflix special set all kinds of records. She was the main comedian who stole the Tom Brady roast on Netflix and she's got a reputation for being funny, clever, quick and irreverent. She's sort of, I think, our answer to the Ricky Gervais kind of comedy that has worked so well with our show. So she will be a part of it. She's ready to go. She's going to do a lot of publicity. And we think it's going to stimulate a lot of tune in. And those of you who may have seen the show last year, we made some changes in the look of it. And I think I've said in front of this group before that Dick Clark was very superstitious about the Beverly Holton Hotel in the ballroom. He thought it was, he thought it was, there was a magic there in a chemistry that can't be really duplicated anywhere else. A lot of it has to do with the fact that the stars really feel at home in Beverly Hills. And that hotel is a place that they gather for many reasons, but the globes has been a yearly tradition now for, well, this is the 82 82nd I think, 82nd Golden Globes and most of them have been done at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. So there is a magic there but when we have a new owner of the company, very young dynamic entrepreneur named Jay Penske, and he had this vision of doing the show in the round last year. And I must have been after doing the show all these years with the same prosinium look. It shook me a little bit, but I was willing to go along with it. I have no choice. But we had a big center stage in the middle, and it did not hurt the magic in that room at all. It just continued the way it always has. And I think it's the main reason for the success of the show and being in Beverly Hills and having that glamour attached to it is something that the show thrives on. And I think we feed off each other. So we're looking forward to another great year. And I know Rick will have a lot of the technical things to talk about. And if you have any questions, I'll be able happy to answer them with Rick or separately whatever you need. So Rick, do you want to come up? And thank you, Barry. So Rick do you want to come up and? Thank you, Barry. Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council Members. Sorry. Thank you for having us. It's always nice to be back in the city and frankly we're here every day because we office just down the street so we walked here. Clearly I just want to touch on some of the challenges that we've been facing that the city departments and various agencies have been very kind to work with us on solutions for related to the development and beautification of Beverly Hilton and the one Beverly Hills development project with the Beverly Hilton itself and Keith Sterling and Patty and everyone's been very, very helpful. We've had several meetings about this that relate to red carpet and access and some of the staging for our trucks. And the timeline that we're requesting related to the street closures and pedestrian closures, the sidewalks relate specifically to some of those challenges. We have one way in to the ballroom this year. We used to access the ballroom from the breezeway that led to the parking lot, which is now gone. So we have had to amend our plan for load-in, which has impacted the schedule. So that's part of the reason we're asking for those extensions. In addition, you know, the, I'm just moving through my notes. I'm sorry, my apologies. We've been proactively addressing some of the solutions not only for this year, but for next year. The construction plans are obviously a moving target. They're planned, but we've been very flexible in working with the hotel and Cain to work through planning for that. And we have submitted plans for not only this year, but for next year, which is in our deck, which I'll get to in a moment. And we're just looking to, based on some of these meetings we've had, and with the new ownership, moving forward and building a long lasting relationship or ongoing relationship with the city. We'd like to embrace some of the, you know, the Chamber of Commerce, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and just involve more city and community efforts to really extend our relationship. And I think under this new ownership, we're going to be here for a while. And in addressing our deck, which is being brought up as we speak, obviously it's had quite an impact. You're filling space right now. I am, I'm stretching. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm waiting for the cane to come out of the line. So, obviously the viewership, we had 10 million views on broadcast television. We had, I think, 50 plus million impressions on social. I think we bring a tremendous value to the city and to the exposure of our event. And I'll allow you guys to review the deck out of your own time as well. I'll touch on some of these things but obviously it creates, it has an economic impact on the community, craze jobs, etc. Brings visitors to the city as well. So in that... Hang on, I'm going to play the end music right now. Thank you. Have I running over time? No, go ahead. So you know, and further, we want to create like further music right now. Thank you. Have I running over time? Go ahead. So you know, and further, we want to create like further exploration and ideation, allowing access to the Golden Globes. I am an alumni of Beverly Hills High School 1987, so I've been a resident of this city and I have a tremendous history and great memories of it and I think part of what we'd like to present and we'd like to come back to you with an extended plan is working with Beverly Hills TV, K Bev, which is my alumni and maybe finding some ways to get creative about some of these relationships. And what we'd like to work toward, and we had met with the ad hoc committee obviously in presenting, but we'd like to work toward a longer term relationship. And maybe try to work out some kind of a flat fee moving forward, our cost of increased exponentially, and they will this year related to the schedule. And we are very thankful to have the police and fire and all the agencies working to keep us safe, obviously through a very challenging period in the world. But I think the goal is to really build that longstanding relationship. So what we'd like to do is try to request your permission for the street closures and the extensions related to that and then come back to you with some plans to maybe get more creative on that flat fee proposal for this year and possibly next year as a pilot program and working with those different community efforts to extend our bond and relationship. Okay, thank you. If I could have someone go back to the screen with the options that the liaison were presented with and I'm going to make a comment as soon as that comes up. See if that is in accordance with what your suggestion is. So I believe as to options number one and two, which were presented to the layas on, I believe what you're asking is that we defer that issue at this time for further negotiation in terms of the extension of time for other years and other items that we can deal with in that respect. Is that correct? I think that's a fair assessment. Yes. So really, I think that at this point, if all my colleagues are in agreement with that, that we will just talk about the street closures and times and in terms of the fiscal components that will come back to the layers on it and ultimately back to the council. Although I think it wouldn't be a bad idea if some of us have feelings about these options to discuss them since it was agendized. Well, the only thing is that I believe that these are kind of off the table now because there's going to be further discussion on it. So it may be premature at that point. Yeah. If I may. Yeah, I think, you know, our goal is to bring a swift closure to this. Obviously we were now in October. We'd like to appear again in November, if possible, if we can get on the schedule to present some of these exploratory options and maybe for your consideration arrive at some kind of a flat fee proposal to extend for those, at least the first two years and possibly longer, based on some of these ideas that we're exploring with. And certainly at that point in time, I mean these are out here and that can be discussed at that time. I just think that until we know what the other option is, it's really premature to go into that. Okay, so with that, let's go to public comment. And I have one speaker card, Julie Wagner. Good afternoon, honor Mayor Friedman, members of City Council. It's nice to see you all. We did not have the opportunity to write a letter, so I wanted to just make sure that I voiced the CVB's thoughts around the Golden Globes. And as many of you know, this is a legacy event. I just found out today it's been here since 1961. And the advertising value alone, that the city receives as well as the Beverly Hilton for hosting this event is in the millions of dollars. When you're thinking about what they charge to do a 15 second or 30 second spot during the programming. The show with its cachet and the glamour and the fashion and the entertainment industry creates just the halo effect that we're looking for when we consider viable strategic partnerships that we want to leverage in the city. And then the other piece of it, which in me, in my mind, is a home run, is that it also drives hotel room nights. And not just for the week that it's here, but also longer term because this program is broadcast into 185 regions. And so people all around the world see it. They associate Beverly Hills with the glamour and the celebrity that is attached to the show. And that very much touches aspirational customers who want to go places where celebrities can be seen. So the CVB is 100% behind trying to keep this award show here. We would hate to see it go elsewhere. And we really value what the Golden Globes has to bring to the table and we're just happy that everything got straightened out and last year they got back on track. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Anybody else in chambers or electronically? We have no other public comment for this item. I believe Mr. Psonton wants to come back and ask us something to show us. Yes, so I touched on the plan for this year, which is the red carpet plan you'll see on the screen right now. The construction has narrowed the fire lane and the access point from the corner of Wilshire and Merv Griffin Way on the opposite side of Wittier to the degree that we've had to work very closely with the fire department to create a turnaround for equipment to be able to get into the driveway if there were an incident. So that is part of the meetings that we've had. And for all intensive purposes, the access to the lobby area and the pathway down the red carpet remains the same. We've adjusted some of the platforming and worked with the Hilton to remove part of the planter system. And in essence, it's basically about the same. But our trucks with all the scenic and lighting and audio and all the things that we have to bring in from a production standpoint have to come down that path and into the ballroom from the driveway. So that creates a backup staging area that directly impacts our schedule, which extends to a cost to us as well to the production. Now going to any questions relating to that, it's basically the same as just the access points that have been reduced. That's fine, we'll go around to the next question. Okay, that's fine. Now I'm gonna show the preliminary plans for next year, the 2026 plan. And most of this is being impacted by the construction schedule that we've met extensively with Cain about and the Hilton about, which now limits our access point into the drive, from Merv Griffin Way into the drive, in from Merv Griffin Way, into the driveway. So we have been proactive to try to work with the city and our amazing production design staff to create a suggested route on Wilshire Boulevard next year, not completely allowing access. We know the access points into the city, our major arteries for the city on Wilshire. But to try to work a schedule that is palatable for everyone, oh, excuse me. I mean, I'm a Mac user, I'm sorry, I don't know. Thank you, thank you, Patty. So this is a preliminary plan for Wilshire, which would head from eastbound on Wilshire, and then create an alternate path through the lobby, just past the Wilshire cut out into the Hilton and through the lobby, which we feel is actually a very clean path, almost similar to the Oscars that you'd find on Hollywood Boulevard, which would allow for tenting, a straight path, and into the lobby, which creates a whole other level of excitement. It also sheltered us from, hopefully, without we'll be able to avoid some rain, and like last year, which was a beautiful event. And you know, that plan will have to go into effect next year due to the construction. So once everyone reviews that and hopefully we get approval at least for ahead of the curve in reviewing these plans and presenting them to the council. Okay, thank you. We'll go to the liaison report on Report and I can you can take a seat and I'll call you up. Well, you may have questions as we come along, but if you take a seat, now it's fine. Okay, so Layers on Report, if I may, I will start it. Council Member Wells. Okay. So, there is no question that we were told, presented with the challenges that Dick Clark production has in terms of the construction that is going on. And if we can go back, Patty, maybe to the other one, because let me say something about this first, but then we'll change it. You can change it in the meantime. This was not something that I believe we saw at all. And it's not something we discussed at the meantime. This was not something that I believe we saw at all, and it's not something we discussed at the liaison. So I just want to comment just on the plan that we had for this year right now. That one map that Mr. Pizante was talking about a original way. I mean, I can talk from the packet one. I just want to make sure that everybody has a copy of it. If it's easier, Patty, it's the slide in in their presentation also has the map. There we go. Oh, no, that's the new one. There we go. Okay. There we go. Oh, no, that's the new one. There we go. Okay. So, what we're looking at right now has been the, quote, traditional path that was used in the past for entry. And due to the fact that there is the only acts, one access point whereas previously there were multiple access points, the ask was I believe one day more in the front and one day more on the back end. Is that sound right, Patty? Plus a couple of hours here and there. Okay. So that was the additional ask in terms of timing because it does, as Mr. Pesante was presenting to us, it's going to take them longer to do their setup, their drive-in to get the materials. And, you know, it's something that can't be helped. I mean, it's just going to take them longer to set it up because of that. So that is what the ask was for. And it seemed reasonable to the layazon. In terms of the closures, similarly, it was extended just a bit. And it was specifically due to the challenges that are there. We did not review any further plans for the year after, and I don't have any comments on that because I haven't studied that at all. In terms of the speak closures and notifications, et cetera, that was discussed and the layers on were comfortable with that. We had the further discussion regarding permitting fees and as was stated in Patty's report, we did not feel that it warranted at that time, although there was an indication that there would possibly be some other alternatives. And that is why I believe that any discussion at this point is premature. We still have the option when it comes back to council to either have option one, option two, and perhaps option three. It's just that we really shouldn't even spend the time on it. I don't believe until we have that other option that is available to us. So with that I'll give it to Councilmember Wells if she has anything to add. Sure. Just to help maybe make things clearer. On the chart that you had that showed last year versus this year for street closures, can you put that back up for a second? Okay, so what we're looking at here is you can see the dates from last year. It's January 2nd to January 8th. And then this year the request is for December 30th to January 8th, which is the equivalent of one day earlier and to opening two hours later, re-opening two hours later. So, and then as well when you look at the other days you can see it's one hour later for the westbound and eastbound it's another one hour later and that's just on Santa Monica. And then when we go to Wulcher it's if you look at the eastbound curbling closure, in last year it was January 2nd to the 8th and this year would be December 30th to the 8th. So it would close one day earlier and it would, it sounds like it would be up three days longer. That, not exactly sure. And then you can see on the others, it's just that it's an hour earlier, an hour later. And in two cases, it's an hour later. So when we're talking about, if we're just gonna talk about street closures today for the event, that's really the net difference. The thing that does stick out to me that didn't, I didn't pick up on when we last met is that last year it was January 2nd, our January 5th, January 6th, you can see. And this year, the first closure is December 30th. So, and as well for Santa Monica, I think it's the same if you wouldn't mind going back to Santa Monica for one second. Where the westbound is, year was January 2nd to the 8th and for this year it's December 30th to the 8th. So the only question that I have actually and we didn't bring this up in our liaison meeting because I didn't realize it at that point is it will be over near as Eve and as well New Year's Day. So I just want to make sure from a staffing standpoint for the city if that creates any issue for those for that time period. Just those holidays because before it was after January 1st. We first spoke about this during our meeting and I'll have Darren answer that. Okay. When we first talked about it, it didn't seem like it was that much of an extension in terms of number of days or number of hours. But I'm just realizing answer that. Okay, when we first talked about it, it didn't seem like it was that much of an extension in terms of number of days or number of hours, but I'm just realizing now that it is on a actual New Year's even in January 1st holiday. Hi, I can only speak to, for public work staff, we would have an inspector that would be there for to check out the traffic control plans and things like that. But for the actual event it would be the same as previous. So what about for traffic control? Traffic control would be set up according to the plan during the beginning of the street closure to the very end including the 31st and 1st. Perhaps I've said has a comment. Patty. So for the street closure for that period that council member Wells pointed out what staff would be assigned. We have the traffic control officers and a sergeant possibly would have to oversee the entire project. Okay. So for me, or even me,'s Day is really what I'm pointing out. Right, so it depends a little bit on who's assigned to the work. So I don't know exactly how PD intends to assign that. If it is somebody who's already assigned to work, of course, we're already paying them, they're already here, that sort of thing. If it's on an overtime basis, I'd have to look at holiday overtime, I believe is double time. Yeah, so we'll have to get back to you on that. We're still learning about the public safety. MOUs, unless our partners and public safety back there ran to Lieutenant Moreno. Come forward. Thank you, Ren. Good afternoon, Mayor. Vice Mayor and Council Members. The question came up about how we would staff the lane closures. We will ultimately have a traffic control plan that is submitted to the police department and to the city traffic engineer Darren Grille. We will sit down and look at it and from there we will be better able to strategize where we will need the traffic control officers and for how long we will need them. And preliminarily what it looks like now is when we begin that closure of the Wilshire Boulevard Lane and Santa Monica, we will have traffic control officers assigned, even including the holiday. And it will begin, it's probably going to be two traffic control officers that are going to be required and a sergeant that will be able to oversee it and to answer the question about billing. It is holiday pay for our traffic control officers and that is part of their MOU. It specifies what it is and generally it is about a double time and a half on holidays. Traditionally, Dick Clark productions has covered the cost of the staffing. So they reimburse the city for or sometimes pay up front the cost of the staffing. I don't know what the terms of the fee waiver request will look like. You know, we don't quite know that yet, but it is something that will keep it the forefront of our mind as far as holiday overtime costs. And if I could add to that, we always use the traffic control officers on overtime, meaning we bring in additional staffing so we don't take away from the traffic control officers that are assigned to enforcement and handling traffic collisions. Right. I guess that was my other part of the question. Will you have the staffing for it? Part of this is during the holiday moratorium period of metro. So we have some staff, additional staff available, I would suspend. Which we will be coming forward to Council for approval or denial in November. Okay. Terrific. Thank you. That's the only thing I wanted to point out that we didn't talk about at the liaison meeting, but it's definitely, this is a wonderful event for us, and it is such a great match for our city and the goals that we have established in terms of positioning our city and the history and entertainment and all of the aspects that we were just talking about in terms of what it brings to the city. And it's very exciting. So I just, this is just for working around a few of these other things that are a little different this year. Thank you. And if I can just wrap it up, Dick Clark Productions obviously has been with us and in fact is part of our community. They have their offices here. They've been very easy to work with. Former Lieutenant Blake Nance who was a Beverly Hills police officer, he's always a Beverly Hills police officer, has been a key element in communication with Dick Clark Productions and our security staff. So, you know, I feel really good about the fact that they have committed to staying in Beverly Hills, look forward to it. I think it is a signature event for the city of Beverly Hills and I commend them for staying with us, working with us and I'm sure we'll be able to come to a mutually acceptable agreement once we get to that level and point. Okay, but that we will go to council comments anything further? No, I just, you know, like you said, I think it's great that the, you know, the program had a 50% increase in ratings. I think there's a lot of opportunity there. We did talk about in the liaison meeting that, you know, we really also have to cover our security costs and it's part of what makes our city successful is to have a safe city and we spend so much of our city budget towards public safety and we want to make certain that recovering those costs but there's also potentially other opportunities for partnership where we can really utilize our assets in a different way not necessarily from a permit reduction because we want to make sure covering our security costs and those items but there may be other ways. So I'm happy to hear that there is some thoughts there about how we can make this a long-term partnership and what those opportunities may look like. Okay, thank you and we will go to Councilmember Quarment. Thank you. So I have some questions too. But first of all, I agree with everyone up here obviously, you know We want to be as supportive as possible to Clark productions the golden lobes is a tremendous asset of the city We want to keep it here in perpetuity and we'll do what we can to to work with you to make sure you know You stay you stay at the Hilton and stay in Beverly Hills I do have some questions about the street closures. So a couple things, so one of the things that's not on the, wasn't on the presentation of street closures of residential streets. Some of them have increased and I was curious why. And I know what we have here are the comparison, is a comparison between 2024 and 2025. But I asked after what were the street closures like, particularly residential areas back in 2020, which was the last big year before COVID. And a lot of the street closures in the residential areas ended at midnight, as opposed to last year 4 a.m. And now it's going to be 5 a.m. in some of the areas. Trenton and Greenway and place like this. So I'm just curious. And what was the reason for the expansion of the street closures and the residential streets beyond midnight? Absolutely. Thank you. So on show day is where we would normally shut down certain streets or block off access. And that is just to maintain the integrity of the neighborhood without adding additional traffic to the neighborhood. Anybody who's familiar with the Beverly Hills area, even without the use of a navigation system, could probably figure out ways around and through the neighborhood. Anybody who is familiar with the Beverly Hills area, even without the use of a navigation system, can probably figure out ways around and through the neighborhood. So we'd rather keep the majority of the traffic or all the traffic as much of the traffic as we can on the major thoroughfares, whether it's be using South Santa Monica to get around the Santa Monica closure or stick to alternate routes to get back over to Beverly Glen streets west to get into west Los Angeles. So that's just a way we keep traffic a little bit more controlled. Were we experiencing in the past situations where we would open up the streets at midnight and there'd be a lot of traffic coming through those streets? Is that what happened? Santa Monica Boulevard is a heavily trampled street even overnight. So it always helps when we get it open earlier. That's always preferred. But we're not seeing at those times when we've opened them earlier. Not too much traffic gets diverted into the residential area. So then why are we worried about extending the three closures in Trenton and Greenway in Carmelita to 5 a.m.? That's what. That's what Dick Clark Productions requested. We can change it if that's something that you want to do. But a thing to note is that residents have access at all times. I'm just trying to get an idea of what the rationale was. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, maybe good for the neighborhoods. I think that the reason this may be occurring, it might have been a communication issue because we were also discussing the bigger plan of putting the red carpet on Wilshire Boulevard, and that's now going to be used for 2026. And when we were looking at that, one of the suggestions made by the Declare Production Steam is that it's going to be an entire closure of all eastbound lanes, and that would make it difficult for traffic. And it would be several days, and in order to protect the integrity of the neighborhood and not put additional traffic into those neighborhoods. That's where that was likely come from. That's right. The use of the 2026 plan. This would be the 2026 plan. So, yeah, 2025 is back to what we did last year. So the other question I had, and this goes to the Wilshire Eastbound lane. In the graphic, it says that it's going to last about three days longer. My math's a little different because I have Monday last year on Monday at 4 a.m. and this year would be opening on Wednesday at 6 p.m. And then it's starting a day earlier. So I've got four basic days of additional three closure. I've got, because before, I would open at 4 a.m. on the Monday after, and so would be open to traffic for the entire week. And now it's really going to only be up into traffic from Thursday and Friday during the business hours. So it's really four days, right? One at the outset and three at the back end. They're going to start with a one lane, starting to be closed. E-spelling curbling, that would be the number three only, closest to the top one. I'm going to have the top one, yes. Correct. So that's, right. So it's really four additional days for the curbling. Essentially. Not three. So it would be the 30th, the 31st and the 1st. So I think you're... So before I started on Tuesday at 6am, now we're going to start on Monday at 6am. That's one day. Correct. And then before it ended on a Monday at 4am, and now it's going to end on a Wednesday at 6pm. PM. So we lose. So before it would open up the Monday morning after the event and you be open on Monday morning. Here it's going to be, well, it's going to be closed. That Eastbound curbling is going to be closed Monday morning, all Monday, all Tuesday, and most of Wednesday. Plus, you're going to add, it's going to be closed one additional day at the front end. So it's really four days, right? That's what we're talking about. Council member Corman, I think it's just confusing the way it's written. It's actually the one plus three in that top right. Why is your saying? Never mind. My mistake. All right, so it's about four days. So there is a lot of information on the right hand side. No, it's my fault. My fault. Absolutely mine. But one question I have is access point now to the stage. But why do they need three days to break it down? I'll turn that one over to Rick or a member of his staff to explain why. So we have to not only load out the international ballroom, but the red carpet as well. So that access point has been reduced as well to be able to get out of the Beverly Hilton. So we have to extend. I understand it's the same problem going in and going out. Correct. All I'm asking is you need one day, in addition to the front end, to get in, how can we need three additional days in the back end to get out when it's usually I thought easier to break down and set up? I'll defer to my. I'm read. I'm exactly director of production for Dick Clark productions. It's because of the way that we stack and build in. We can continue to use the driveway going in until we build the red carpet. We cannot take anything out of the the bottom until the red carpet is struck. So it just takes additional time to pull things through. We don't have access to pull things out of the bottom and tell the red carpet is struck. We cannot get the trucks into the drive. And so it's just piece by piece. It's just going to take longer. Okay. So, so how long does get rid of the red carpet then it's one additional day Right one day to come in one day to come out So I'm just try to get an idea because it strikes me that even if you said okay It takes me a day to get rid of the red carpet that's still only two days not three days So I'm yeah, I think it's partially. I mean we want to be safe too. We don't want to sell ourself short and then keep the streets closed longer than they need to be. But the, it's just not having Merv Griffin go through either to Santa Monica. That used to be a one way route. Getting all the trucks through. It's trucks coming down loading up, turning around, going out. It's just a, it's a heavier dance. Okay. It's heavier to get out and in. It can be just the dance with the trucks and loading it in and out. It's just not as easy a flow this year. Yes, it comes out quicker. The loadout can be quicker, but just loading them out. It's going to take longer. It's going to be and we don't want to underestimate either. We haven't done this loadout yet, and so we just need to kind of protect that as well. Okay. Question for staff. If they're able to finish earlier, do we open, do we automatically open the lanes earlier? That's our goal, yes. It is absolutely our goal to enjoy our view here. I mean, obviously this is a major artery in the city. People can't, if they can't come down, we'll sure boulevard. They don't come to the city sometimes. And that's obviously hurts our businesses. And that's something we want to avoid as much as possible. Yeah, and that's a curvallain that's already closed due to the cane construction right now. And so hopefully the residents and people are kind of used to it. Already it's just that one addition in front of the Hilton that gets taken for loading in and out throughout the day. So it's already kind of existing right now and we're just going to steal it from Cain for a week and then give it back to Cain. Okay. Thank you, Council. Okay. Thank you. Those are my questions. Given the difficulties with the construction site, I can support these street closures. I'm not sure why we need to have such lengthy street closures in the residential areas for this year given the fact that we were heard from the police in the slarsie due to the closure will sure next year. But I suppose that it to the extent that the streets are closed and residents can still access their properties that doesn't hurt anybody. I just want to make sure that there's no intention on Dick Clark's part to use those street closures or use those streets because they're closed for any kind of staging of the event. Not at all. All right. Thank you. Councillor Mabra-Mirish. Thank you. A few years ago there was a bridge built over Santa Monica, Boulevard. Is that happening this year as well? No, that's not in the plan for this year. Would that if that were done would that mean that street there could be fewer street closures? And I don't know. I don't know maybe someone who was here before. So why did they have it before and why are they not having it this year so the Council member marriage Council member marriage so I'm gonna ask mr. Gullick to Respond to that so we we have the mobilization of the one Beverly Hills Project that's happening on that T zone right now. Okay, so there's no spaces. The T zone is not available the same way it was last year and also the bridge was really cabling another equipment so it's just a different configuration this year. You mentioned that Dick Clark was sold, Eldridge, used to own it before, you talked about Pensky media. Is Eldridge no longer involved at all in Dick Clark or do they maintain a piece? What's the situation? They do maintain a piece that's investment between Eldridge and Pensky. So Pensky is the operational, but Eldridge who is also Cain and is also the project and is also the hotel. There are still owners of Dick Clark. So by having it at the Beverly Hills and it also helps promote their property. Absolutely. Okay. Great. Well, I agree that there can and should be a long term partnership. It makes sense for everybody. That said, I also think we need to cover our costs, but that's a separate issue and I would support the recommendation. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Yes, thank you. Thank you for the presentation and to the liaison's and thank you all for being here. Really, you honor us. I really think it's so important to have these types of events in Beverly Hills it's only becoming and it's the perfect partnership so I want to start with saying that and we we do also have to make sure that with with what's happening with the hotel right now our concerns are that the residents and the community have easy access and are able to move freely and as easily as possible, especially during the holidays. The last thing I would want is for somebody not to be able to get to their home or get to a festive event that perhaps they're having or spending time with family because of construction issues. And the other issue is I don't want to get calls on New Year's Eve because that's usually what happens. And it's really important for us to iron out these little details that will make a huge difference later on in the future. So we want to be able to set everybody up for success and really make sure that whatever the process is, not that we're not in favor of it, but we want to make sure that it moves as smoothly and it flows properly. So if you could do me a favor and put up the map that you have and just walk me through what the drop off and pick up is going to look like Because I'm not sure I'm where is the red carpet going to be exactly Where the limo's gonna go after they're dropped off and and and that would be really helpful sure Would you mind scrolling up the other way? Just at the top of this page, there you go. So the checkpoints are at Comstock and Wilshire and then continue into the LA Country Club or the... The LA Country Club? The Country Club. Yeah. That's the country club. It's the Country Club. And basically, the show for driven cars had eastbound on Wilshire and drop just above where you see the green rectangle where the entrance to the red carpet would be to your right. There's an archway entrance and then the talent proceeds through security and down the red carpet. So one second before we move on. So there's the green part. Right now there are barriers there. Are you saying that those barriers are going to be removed and that's where the limos are going to be lining up or is that going to be an additional lane next to, because right now I believe there's only two lanes there. So is it going to be an additional lane next to because right now I believe there's only two lanes there. So is it going to basically create a one lane in that area? So we believe that Cain will be moving their K rails and- They're going to remove it. Yeah. Okay so it's still going to stay relatively the same. Is that right? I would think that's fair to say. Because right now we have one lane that's closed off. If Cain is going to remove that, am I on the right path? Yes, correct so far. I believe so, yes. So then they drop off and the limos go to. I believe they go Santa Monica and around Comstock back to the country club and stage there. So they're waiting. They're staging eastbound on the water. All right, great. When the loading and unloading happens, is that lane still going to be available? Has Kane agreed to allow that lane to be available for you or is it going to be available? On Show Day when they're unloading. Are you talking about equipment or the Show Day? Well first we talked about Show Day so now we're talking about equipment. And now I want to know the process. So for drop off, is that lane still going to be available or is that going to be closed off? I believe that lane actually becomes the staging lane for the trucks that are picking up on the loadout when they make that right turn heading into Merv Griffin way and into the driveway. Where do you see those green rectangles? I believe that is the staging lane for the trucks. Right. I guess I would wonder, so the hotel ceasing working during that time. Is that what's happening? It's not working. Yes, Kane has agreed to stop working during golden gloves being there. OK, all right. OK, so far so good. We're on the right path. Excellent. I've gone to many events recently at the Hilton. And when you pull in, it becomes this really ridiculous bottleneck area. So they still are going to have hotel guests staying at the hotel, and they need to go through that roundabout. Or is there a different plan? OK, good. What is the plan? This is Ryan Patterson, Director of Sales and Marketing at the Beverly Hilton. During the weekend of the globes, we closed the hotel to the public. The only people in the hotel are either production crew or attendees of the show and not coming in and out of the hotel operation. And you have an entrance on Wilshire. Is that going to be the entrance you have people use or you're still going to be okay with them using the roundabout? For in and out of the hotel would be on Wilshire, not the roundabout once the build-out of the red carpet. Okay. Alright, so excellent. Those are my questions for that portion. So thank you. The other issue that I wanted to make sure that we have addressed which I know in the report it said that we have is outreach to the community. Our community you could tell them something several times and they're very surprised on the day that it happens. So are we doing any kind of perhaps the mayor could do a robo call? Yeah. I've been working with the communications team already. We're ready to go. We're just waiting on a vote. There's going to be citywide announcements, Nick Sillerts, Robo calls, as well as a recommendation of the liaisons to send out two letters of notification to a two mile radius. I saw that they increased the radius including two Los Angeles. So that I think that's a good idea because there are people driving through our city. Are we going to be putting it on the message boards? Yes. That's part of the traffic control plan. That's one. Okay. Good. Oh, are there any programs or incentives that we're doing in partnership with our city to encourage the guests to stay at the Hilton or the Waldorf or or surrounding hotels just to kind of keep everybody in town. We have the chamber here. We're working with them and they're in support also of the event to try to get people to stay here and use the hotels and restaurants. But what steps are being taken? Is there something maybe on the invitation? Like here are some hotels in the area that you could stay at, perhaps we can add a lot. Like, you know how they always say accommodations, here's where you could park, here's where you could drop off. But are the hotels in Beverly Hills going to be included in those options? I see some people nodding yes and- Hill is going to be included in those options. I know the Beverly Hills. I know the Beverly Hills. I know the Beverly Hills offers a package with bleacher access and a whole, an experiential event and extends that to guests of the hotel. As far as the remaining hotels in the city. Let's get out of it. I'm not sure. Excuse me. Didn't he just say the hotel would be empty except for staff? Oh, the people attending the event. But I'm talking, yes. You mean guests invited people, yeah. What? It's all them tickets. They're invited, you know there are we do sell packages. Part of that package is an awareness that you're not going to be able to come in and out in normal ways. Most people are flying in from elsewhere. They'll Uber to the hotel and stay on campus throughout the week. Okay, but with regard to other hotels, just Todd, is there any or Julie, is there any partnership that we're doing or any encouragement so that these guests have options and there are many wonderful, amazing five-star hotels in Beverly Hills? So we have a campaign that we'll be going on throughout the holidays that's actually going to be targeting drive market because we've found that during the holidays, people unless they're visiting friends and family, they like to stay in close proximity. So that will run through December 31st and then in terms of trying to boost hotel stays during the award week, the hotels don't usually need help during that time because the show and the parties tend to fill up the hotels and drive business. It's right after then that they need assistance. Okay, that's excellent. Thank you. Thank you. That's great. And you know that El Rodeo doesn't have school during that time. So if you do need additional staging areas, I don't know that perhaps that could be a conversation that could be had with the schools because they have a very large parking lot behind it just think we discuss that Just so that it's out there Okay, so I'm I'm very excited about this. I think it's gonna be fantastic It's only becoming that you stay at Beverly Hills I think everybody's gonna be expecting you to be here. And we love having you here. It's a huge celebration and it celebrates the history of our city and the partnership that entertainment and Beverly Hills have had for so many years. Can you provide any kind of direct number to our staff so that if there is an issue that they're able to directly speak to somebody immediately and try to address that issue right away. We have a hotline number that's going to be staffed during the closure times and if they have any questions they're welcome to call. That will also be on the message boards. Okay, excellent. So we're very excited to see it. We like celebrating all of our different events that come to the city, Vanity Fair, and this will be another one. Thank you. Thank you for coming here and continue to stay here. I might also add that we have Greg Letterman who is our site manager. So he oversees the entire operation and staging and parking and all the things that we require. So if there are any issues, we have to go back to the city. who is our site manager, so he oversees the entire operation and staging and parking and all the things that we require. So if there are any issues, we have a direct response to that. Excellent. All right, wonderful, thank you. Okay, so just to wrap it up, again, thank you very much for presenting this. I know that there's always an attempt to get whatever closures are instituted done earlier. It saves money, saves time and all of that. So my understanding was that the limit of the amount of time that was necessary in terms of the extension is really what you're asking for. There's always a hope that it'll be done before that. So thank you for that. Look forward to hearing from you in the near future, and then we will go on to the next portion that we've deferred thus far. So again, thanks all for being here today to present this to us. Look forward to hearing from you soon, and there is Lieutenant Nance, who has something he would like to say or point out. It's a flash drive. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Okay. We will. I guess go on to our closed session agenda and we'll start with any phone calls, any public comment? There are no closed session public comments. Okay so we will turn. We want to call the take roll. We do need to call roll, of course. Thank you. There are two roll calls. The first one is for the City Council. Council Member Wells. Here. Council Member Corman. Here. Council Member Mirish. Here. Vice Mayor Nazarian. Here. And Mayor Friedman. Here. The second is for the parking authority. Close session. Director Wells. Here. Director Wells here, Director Cormin, here. Director Mirish, Vice Chair Nazarian, and Chair Friedman. Here. So now we will adjourn for those matters on our closed session agenda. Yes.