(Sept. 4, 2014, 4:15 p.m.) -- LBREPORT.com has learned that LB's grassroots Central Project Area Council has added an emergency agenda item for its meeting tonight (Sept. 4 at 6 p.m.) to address the City Council's Sept. 2 adoption of a FY15 City budget [email alert text] "without full community input, and without considering the input of the community that was given." The Council's voted budget action could have been held on Sept. 9 -- after a scheduled Sept. 4th Seventh Council district budget meeting (similar to meetings held in other Council districts, conducted by staff, at which public comment and questions are invited.) But instead, at the Sept. 2 Council meeting, in a series of motions by Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal explicitly invited by Mayor Robert Garcia who was presiding -- the Council voted without dissent to approve the budget mainly as proposed by management and the Mayor with some modifications. On Sept. 3 (the day after the Council vote) newly-elected 7th district Councilman Roberto Uranga trasmitted a mass CPAC President Annie Greenfeld says in an email advisory obtained by LBREPORT.com: [CPAC president Greenfeld taxt] After a brief discussion, I will entertain a motion to write a letter to the Mayor, Council and City Manager to start scheduling meetings on the budget at the end of July [2015], so that residents of this great city will have an opportunity to discuss the proposed budget and be advised if any of their suggestions or wishes will be included in the actual budget. The Long Beach Central Project Area Council, Inc. (LB CPAC) replaces the Central Project Area Committee for Redevelopment which ceased to exist when the Redevelopment Agencies were eliminated by Governor Brown in 2012. The group says "all are welcome to attend the meetings and the group is actively recruiting new members. There are individual, business and community group categories of membership." CPAC's meeting tonight will be held in the Community Room of the Long Beach Blvd. / Burnett Apartments at 2355 Long Beach Blvd, Long Beach, 90806. Further to follow on LBREPORT.com.
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