The annual budget dictates how the city will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on city services like street repairs, and park maintenance and how many police officers and firefighters will be employed in the coming year.
Leaders this week discussed ideas for increasing the ranks of police Tuesday night, but whether Long Beach can add personnel will likely arrive after the city budget is publicly released in a few weeks.
The city first introduced the rainbow-striped crosswalks in 2016 along the Broadway Corridor as a way to symbolize pride for the LGBTQIA+ community while creating safer intersections for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.
The number of people experiencing homelessness in Long Beach increased by over 1,300, according to the city's point-in-time count data, which the city released Friday afternoon.