Unidentified Speaker, Presenter: Love Your Block is a national program that supports neighborhood-led projects, organizers said. Long Beach announced that five projects on the city's West Side were selected for the program and that staff are meeting with the five awardees to plan implementation.

The projects announced include two community cleanups, one described by the speaker as a vape buyback program in a BAP area, and a community garden. The speaker said the program's local focus is transportation and clean air, and that all selected projects are intended to improve those outcomes on the West Side of Long Beach.

Officials cited the "West Side promise" and local pride as reasons the area was chosen for this round of awards. According to the speaker, the first round of projects is scheduled to be completed by March 2026. Staff said the current meetings with awardees are intended to identify what each project needs to be implemented successfully.

No formal funding amounts, specific awardee names, or detailed project budgets were provided in the remarks published in the transcript. Additional details about individual awardees, budgets, or implementation timelines were not specified.