{"id":5609,"date":"2010-03-03T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/a-momentous-night-at-city-hall\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:29:00","slug":"a-momentous-night-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/a-momentous-night-at-city-hall","title":{"rendered":"A Momentous Night At City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

7:30am |<\/strong> Last night’s City Council meeting was indeed momentous for our fair City. The Council unanimously approved 5 important arts-friendly proposals, each targeting a specific aspect of the City’s unfolding vision as a cultural and artistic wellspring. You can read my brief summary<\/a> of the proposals, posted yesterday. A sixth agenda item, relating to TED, was also approved. <\/p>\n

You can also watch the video archive<\/a> of last night’s meeting. Please note that, when you click on the link, it will require that you have the Windows Media Player plugin. Also, there’s an index below the player and by clicking on any of the items, the video will jump to that spot in the proceedings. I spoke on Agenda Item 18, which is about half way down the list. <\/p>\n

I am so pleased and proud to have witnessed and participated in this process, and look forward to seeing the results of these efforts. My kudos and thanks go out to Robert Garcia, Suja Lowenthal, Craig Watson, Justin Hectus, Kamran Assadi, and Antonio Pedro Ruiz for their leadership and vision in advancing these ideas. They, and countless others, helped to bring these ideas forward. <\/p>\n

Let us not forget, though, that we’ve taken a small step in the right direction, but our Council and Mayor need our on-going support and encouragement to see this through, and to make sure that they produce the changes that will ultimately tap into the enthusiasm and energy just waiting to be unleashed.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read our policy on covering the Long Beach City Council.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, the City Council unanimously approved five important arts related proposals. Sander Wolff takes a look at what it all means for the arts community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}