Composition
9 members of people at least 50 years of age.
What is the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission?
This commission oversees the goods that are imported and exported by sea in and out of Long Beach.
What is the Harbor Commission?
This commission advises on one way to access Panama Joe's, Legends, and George's Greek Cafe.
What is the Belmont Shore Parking and Business Improvement Area Advisory Commission?
This commission was created after the former Mayor and City Council announced a new tax measure to ensure more oversight about how the new revenue would be spent.
What is the Transaction and Use Tax Advisory Committee?
This commission advises on matters pertaining to residents who have served time in the military and face more barriers to health and opportunities.
What is the Veterans Affairs Commission?
11 members that must include representation from business associations, education, tourism, labor, and legal sectors.
What is the Economic Development Commission?
This commission tells people how much they should pay for water and when they should not water their lawns.
What is the Utilities Commission?
This commission provides oversight and fee waivers for community groups at 169 parks, 26 community centers, two historic sites, two tennis centers, and five golf courses across the city.
What is the Parks and Recreations Commission?
This commission denied a permit and zoning change to allow an automated car wash in Central Long Beach before the car wash owner hired the former City Manager as their lobbyist and successfully got the City Council to overturn the commission’s decision.
What is the Planning Commission?
This commission helps ensure equal employment opportunities for people applying to city jobs.
What is the Civil Service Commission?
15 members that must include a nurse, physician, pharmacist, and a dentist.
What is the Board of Health and Human Services?
This commission studies different ways the city can become more climate resilient.
What is the Sustainable City Commission?
In November 2018, Long Beach voters approved Measure DDD, which amended the City Charter to create a commission of residents tasked with determining the boundaries of council districts every 10 years after the national census.
What is the Long beach Independent Redistricting Commission?
This commission spent a year studying facial recognition technology and recommended the City impose a moratorium on the technology only to have the City Manager advise the City Council to not approve their recommendations.
What is the Technology and Innovation Commission?
After numerous calls about the ineffectiveness of this commission before and during the George Floyd protests, the commission was retooled by the voters in November 2022.
What is the Citizen Police Complaint Commission?
7 members, two of which are appointed by the Mayor, two appointed by the City Auditor, and three appointed by the Commission itself.
What is the Ethics Commission?
This committee gives direction in granting over $45 million towards community organizations and local community events.
What is the Port of Long Beach Community Grants Advisory Committee?
This commission advises the city on providing services and support for the 3,447 houseless neighbors living in the city.
What is the Homeless Services Advisory Committee?
During the public debate about raising the citywide minimum wage in 2016, this commission weighed in and made a recommendation to the Mayor and City Council that highlighted the benefits of a $15 minimum wage from an equity lens.
What is the Equity and Human Relations Commission?
This commission makes recommendations to the City Council on ways to eradicate artificial barriers to a full and productive life for people with disabilities.
What is the Citizens Advisory Commission on Disabilities?
7 members, including people with construction experience and a person with disabilities.
What is the Board of Examiners, Appeals, and Condemnation?
This board oversees public aquatic transportation that operates Fridays through Sundays between Alamitos Bay and Rainbow Harbor.
What is the Long Beach Transit Board of Directors?
This commission was restructured by the City Council to coincide with a youth-led campaign that won the creation of the city’s first Children and Youth Fund and citywide Participatory Budgeting process for young people.
What is the Commission on Youth and Families?
This commission which advises on job training opportunities went from over 40 members down to 19 members after a restructuring that removed many representatives from community-based organizations.
What is Pacific Gateway’s Workforce Development Board?
This commission approves over $10 million a year in investments for housing rehabilitation and affordable housing production, including housing specifically for families, older adults, and disabled residents.
What is the Long Beach Community Investment Company?