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Votes at a glance: Long Beach City Council, Feb. 4, 2025
Summary
Summary of formal council actions and outcomes from the Feb. 4 meeting, including grant acceptances, hearings and contract awards.
The Long Beach City Council recorded the following formal actions during its Feb. 4 meeting (motions recorded as carried where noted):
- Consent calendar (Items 1–22): adopted as presented; item 13 pulled for amendment and handled separately. - Item 13: Accepted a $250,000 REAP 2 grant from SCAG for housing infill and public/private lands program; motion carried. - Item 14: Accepted a $500,000 grant from the James Irvine Foundation for workforce development (see separate article); motion carried on the consent calendar. - Item 23: Continued the Fourth Street Parking and Business Improvement Area assessment for 10/01/2024–09/30/2025 (Retro Row); motion carried. - Item 24: Continued the Long Beach Tourism Business Improvement Area assessment for 10/01/2024–09/30/2025; motion carried. - Item 26: Received and filed the presentation on the city’s 2028 Olympic and Paralympic strategic roadmap; motion carried. - Item 25: Council requested an audit of the Tidelands Fund group and agreed that any $200,000 appropriation should be considered through the normal budget process; motion carried. - Ordinance (short-term rentals): Read the amended short-term rental ordinance for the first time and laid it over to the next regular council meeting for final reading; the council also adopted a resolution directing the city manager to submit the ordinance amendment to the California Coastal Commission for a conformity finding; motion carried. - Item 27: Awarded a professional-services contract to John Lehi Hunter and Associates for MS4/NPDES compliance and support services in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000; motion carried. - Item 28: Approved a lease-purchase financing agreement with Bank of America Public Capital Corp. for refuse and recycling containers; motion carried. - Item 29: Approved contracts with EPIC eDiscovery Solutions (noticing and call-center services) and Experian (credit monitoring services); motion carried.
Where votes were recorded on the transcript, council clerks noted "Motion is carried." Individual roll-call tallies were not read into the meeting record for many consent and administrative actions shown above. Items requiring further action (ordinance second reading, coastal review or budget allocations) were laid over or referred to the standard budget/review process.
