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Recommendation to request City Manager and City Attorney to review the drafted Neighborhood Transformation Partnership Agreement and report back within 45 days on the feasibility of participating in the program.
DISCUSSION
Roles being requested by the City of Long Beach:
1. Designate a Councilmember that serves West Long Beach as co-chair of the Leadership Team.
2. Direct appropriate administrative and other personnel to compile and share data about the City services provided in the designated community, including entering into any requisite legal agreements to allow and facilitate the sharing of such data among the Partners.
3. Dedicate available existing resources to the extent possible and join with Partners to seek additional public and private resources as needed and agreed to by all Partners.
4. Assign City personnel to serve on the Integrated Services Team(s), including at least law enforcement (to foster community policing), recreation, and any workforce preparation and/or training services, to help drive the 5 Big Outcomes: Education, Employment, Crime, Poverty and Health.
5. Ensure that consolidated family plans for each household are developed and implemented and that impacts are monitored and assessed to generate aggregated data.
6. Cooperate in ongoing monitoring of progress in the completion of consolidated family plans and assessment of impacts, tracking of collective overall results in the community and ensuring a public report is published at least annually.
BACKGROUND:
The City of Long Beach is a leading city in both technological advancements and innovation, being named a "top ten digital city seven years in a row." However, certain sectors within our community continue to remain affected by the digital divide. Roughly 25-percent of the City facing some sort of digital divide, and in January 2018, the Long Beach City Council, led by Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez, took actions to close that gap by working on a digital inclus...
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