Good morning and welcome to Monday Morning Coffee — your weekly roundup of upcoming city meetings and business news. It’s time to find out what this week will bring. Grab your coffee and let’s get to it.

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City meetings

With at least two meetings already canceled ahead of the holidays, the City Council will have a jam-packed session Tuesday. 

Council members will consider several important matters and hear updates on pivotal issues. This includes asking the city’s police department to draft a presentation on its rules for dealing with squatters and trespassers of abandoned buildings. The city’s top brass will update the council on its study of how to allow cannabis at certain events and will bring forward two loans totaling $56 million to pay for affordable housing projects at 912-946 Linden Ave. and 1401 Long Beach Blvd. 

The meeting will take place at 5 p.m. Tuesday, inside the Civic Chambers. 

The following morning, the city’s Civil Service Commission will give an update on its efforts to relocate dozens of city workers laid off by the closure of programs under the Long Beach Recovery Act. This meeting will take place at 9 a.m., also inside the Civic Chambers. 

The Oct. 24 meeting of the city’s Climate Resilient and Sustainable Commission is canceled. 

Elsewhere in Long Beach, the Harbor Commission on Tuesday morning will consider a $16.5 million contract for the Supply Chain Information Highway Project and another $5.5 agreement for the construction of an electric charging depot in the Harbor District, among other items. 

And, at the Los Angeles County Board Supervisors’ meeting on Tuesday morning, supervisors will hear an update on the county’s goal of ending homelessness and approve a $147.5 million stormwater program, among other items.

Business events and information

  • Long Beach Chamber of Commerce President Jeremy Harris has been tapped by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to sit on the Midwest Board of Regents. On the board, Harris will be tasked with recruitment, retention and marketing of the federal Institute for Organization Management, the development wing of the national Chamber. “I am honored to join the Midwest Board of Regents,” Harris said in a news release. “The Institute has played an integral role in shaping my leadership within the Chamber, and I look forward to contributing to its mission of strengthening organizations and helping business leaders become even more effective advocates for their communities.”
  • Stephanie Montuya-Morisky was named by the Long Beach Harbor Commission to lead the Port’s communications and community relations team. Previously the vice president of communications for InductEV, Montuya-Morisky will now be responsible for public messaging at the Port, where she previously worked in the communications division from 2019 until earlier this year.
  • First District Councilmember Mary Zendejas has been named Grand Marshal for Long Beach’s Día de los Muertos Grand Parade on Nov. 2. In a release, officials announced several other grand marshals who will lead the parade: Long Beach Latino Employees Organization, Latinos in Action California, Mariachi singer Julian Torres and Centro CHA. The parade will commence at 11 a.m. at the intersection of Pine Avenue and East Third St. before traveling along Pine Avenue toward East Shoreline Drive. It will feature live music, performances and vendors, and will coincide with the Arte y Ofrendas Festival at Marina Green Park (386 East Shoreline Dr.) For more information, click the link. To purchase tickets, visit here. 

ICYMI — California and national news

  • The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into Tesla’s self-driving technology, following a string of crashes and a death. (LA Times)
  • On the confidence that nationwide mortgage rise would drop, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates. Then mortgages went up again. (NPR Business) 
  • Rent across California is too high. Here’s (potentially) why. (CalMatters)