Long Beach Speech Analysis

Mayor Robert Garcia’s 2015 State of the City’s Speech of Long Beach highlights his vision for expanding the welfare of the city’s residents, businesses, and environment. Mayor Garcia’s plan of action to broaden and improve the city’s educational system, develop more economic growth within the city’s investment projects and local businesses, and sustain the environment with upcoming technology and efforts of the city council and its residents, are now in full effect and progressing as of 2016 and the city’s upcoming future. Unity is a prominent value in Mayor Garcia’s campaign because he emphasizes the collaboration of the city as a whole to generate positive outcomes for Long Beach. Providing unity as a driving force in his speech, Mayor Garcia also delves into these challenges with the support of everyone’s liberty, equality, individualism, and diversity, taken into consideration. First, Mayor Garcia extends his top priority to the educational system in Long Beach and announces the city as a full …show more content…
Some include, Live After 5, Summer and Music, POW! WOW! Murals, all based in Long Beach. The New 1% for the Arts Program will provide permanent funding to expand the creativity and support within the arts community. This large and diverse community in Long Beach attracts people from different regions that then creates a sense of unity amongst supporters of the arts and startup businesses. Having a larger network of common interests creates more publicity for Long Beach and therefore, investments are in progress to appeal to the public. The $68 million investment for the Pike in Downtown Long Beach has revamped its store with retailers such as H&M, Nike, and the expansion of Restoration Hardware and are generating revenue back into the city’s welfare. Also, the new Civic Center includes a modernized library, a seismically sound city hall, an expansion of Lincoln Park, and the Long Beach Port