Friday Newsletter Friday

Feeding Frenzy
Gourmet Food Trucks Come to Long Beach

May 6, 2011
 City of Long Beach Memorandum
Working Together to Serve

Date: May 6, 2011

To: Mayor and Members of the City Council

Patrick H. West, City Manager
From: Suzanne Frick, Assistant City Manager
Subject: Friday Newsletter

Zaferia – South Design District: Here Comes the Food Trucks

Through both the efforts of the Design District and Councilmember O’Donnell, we
had five very, very popular food trucks come to Long Beach on Coronado Street,
just north of Anaheim on Wednesday. This was a popular event and attracted
approximately 500 people, many from out of the area. These food trucks are
extremely well liked and have their own websites, and are followed religiously by
a fan-base loyal to each food truck. With Council direction, we have been
working to help facilitate these types of food trucks to be in Long Beach. This is
an event, which will go on every Wednesday through August 2011.

Summer Youth Employment: Hire-a-Youth

As far back as anyone can remember, each year the federal government
provided the City of Long Beach approximately $2 million dollars to hire summer
youth. This provides young men and women from ages 16-24 the opportunity to
work for public, private and non-profit entities, gaining great work experience to
enter the job market. This year the federal government dropped that number to
zero. Basically, no city in America is getting any youth employment dollars in
the coming year…..That did not stop Bryan Rogers from Workforce
Development. Bryan was able to anticipate this and craft together approximately
$250K from various funding sources to continue our “Hire-a-Youth Program” in
some fashion. Attached are three flyers that Workforce is putting out: one for
the youth, one for parents; and one for employers to get people into internships
and job opportunities.

More Workforce Information

Attached is an employment opportunity flyer from Workforce Development,

“Pacific Gateway.” We are trying to reach out to show people how to access
the Project Labor Agreement (PLA) jobs at the Harbor and the Airport. We have
already had two placements into administrative jobs for the Airport Terminal PLA.
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Black Hawk Meetings

Councilwoman Schipske hosted a meeting on Wednesday evening of this week

to solicit public input regarding the proposed relocation of Black Hawk helicopters
to the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos. These helicopters have
specific flight plans and hours of operation and it is important to get input from
the communities where the helicopters will be flying. The General in charge of
the Joint Forces Training Base was present to answer questions.

Hot August Nights

It was a terrible blow to find out earlier this week that the Hot August Nights event
has been cancelled for Long Beach. A lot of energy was put into the event,
primarily through the CVB and the Mayor’s office. It had the ability to perhaps
even match the Grand Prix attendance throughout a one-week period.
Additionally, through the sales of many of these vintage cars, we would reap
sales tax advantages. The bottom line is, the city of Reno made a huge effort to
make sure that they were able to keep this event. Both mayors of Reno and
Sparks evidenced this by joining the Board of Directors for Hot August Nights just
this month.

Redevelopment

Obviously, there was a lot of discussion regarding the Redevelopment Agency at

Tuesday night’s meeting. Just a fun fact, all nine council districts have some
redevelopment portions. District 3 has a small site off Bellflower Boulevard in
the Spinnaker Bay area that was created to address a Brownfield site, and
District 5 has property south of the Airport on the north side of Spring.

Memos to the Mayor and City Council

• Response to Contracting Out Question from the February 22, 2011

Special Meeting of the City Council
• Mandatory Grants Training
• Notice of Public Hearing – County Boundary Changes
• Response to Contracting Out Question from the February 22, 2011
Special Meeting of the City Council

Attachments