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(Nov. 17, 2016, 3:30 a.m.) -- Vice Mayor Rex Richardson, joined by Councilmembers
Lena Gonzalez, Stacy Mungo and Dee Andrews, have agendized an item for the The action follows-up on a pledge by Vice Mayor Richardson to pursue restoration of Rescue 12, made to his NLB constituents at an August community budget meeting, and a verbal promise he subsequently extracted from Mayor Robert Garcia during September Council discussion of City Hall's FY17 budget, in which Garcia indicated the City would find a way to restore Rescue 12 during FY17 after the outcome of November 2016 revenue/tax ballot measures.(and the Council's FY17 budget vote included a request that City staff "conduct an analysis of revenue opportunities that include Measure M, Measure MA, and the first responder fee, to study options of restoring Fire Apparatus (including Rescue 12 and Engine 17) by January 2017." [Scroll down for further.] |
In their agendizing memo, the four Councilmembers list increased LB Fire Dept. response times and say "now, circumstances have changed" to address the issue because LB's General Fund "stands to benefit" from voter-approval of a LB sales tax increase (June Measure A), LB's marijuana tax (November Measure MA), an L.A. County sales tax increase (November Measure M/Metro transportation projects), an L.A. County property parcel tax (November Measure A/park-open space projects) and a LB Council imposed first responder fee (July, 2015). The Councilmembers state in their agendizing memo: "Now is the time that we can and must provide the level of public safety services that Long Beach residents need and deserve by adding an additional Paramedic Rescue into the system. Additionally, evaluating the feasibility of'a long and short-term plan for further public safety restorations will ensure a path to a safer Long Beach."
In their agendizing memo, Vice Mayor Richardson and Councilmembers Gonzalez, Mungo and Andrews state: Discussion
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