Long Beach says City Council meetings will be in person again starting Sept. 6
The move away from hybrid meetings means that people who want to address the City Council directly will have to show up in person to give their public comments.
Long Beach to consider raising minimum wage for health care workers
The initiative, which would impact Long Beach’s largest hospitals and smaller clinics, would cover a broad range of workers in a health care setting, including technicians, maintenance workers, janitors, housekeeping staff, groundskeepers and food service workers.
City to extend ban on development along two West Long Beach corridors until June 2023
A ban on standalone residential developments along segments of Santa Fe Avenue and Willow Street in West Long Beach was set to expire this month, but the City Council appears likely to extend that moratorium through next June to allow new zoning policies to be approved.
Election results for City Council show one decisive victory; multiple runoffs in November
Councilmember Roberto Uranga appears to have won a third term representing the 7th District on the City Council, and incumbent Downtown Councilmember Mary Zendejas has holds a slim margin that could see her reelected, according to early election results released Tuesday night.
Small businesses, restaurants and nonprofits to soon see COVID relief grants
The funding comes more than a year after the city approved its recovery plan and received more than $60 million in federal COVID relief aid to address fiscal issues and urgent needs in the community.
Long Beach rolling out relief programs a year after receiving millions in COVID aid
Long Beach last year received more than $60 million in federal COVID relief aid to address fiscal issues and urgent needs in the community, but a year later, the majority of those funds have yet to be spent.
City Council approves ‘kid zone’ law that bars adults from playgrounds unless they’re supervising children
The new law would bar adults from playground areas unless they’re supervising a child under the age of 12. Violating the new law could be prosecuted as a misdemeanor.
City Council meetings will soon be in-person again
The March 15 City Council meeting will be a hybrid format, and the March 22 meeting will be fully in-person as Long Beach transitions back to in-person public meetings, the city said Wednesday.
City Council votes to change Community Hospital lease, ending requirement for emergency room
The lease change signifies the end of a failed effort to save the nearly 100-year-old hospital after it was shuttered in 2018 due to seismic compliance issues, leaving the East Long Beach area without an emergency room.
City to submit new 8-year housing plan for state approval
Long Beach was assigned the goal of creating space for more than 26,000 units between 2021 and 2029, and nearly 60% of those units must be affordable.