The Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community is one step closer to gathering signatures for its proposed Hotel Workplace Requirements and Restrictions ordinance, which the nonprofit hopes to place on the November ballot. The measure would impose various safety and workload-related requirements on Long Beach hotels with 50 rooms or more. Hotels with collective bargaining agreements would be exempt from some of the rules.

Long Beach City Clerk Monique DeLaGarza sent the city attorney-authored ballot title and summary of the measure to the coalition on February 8. She told the Business Journal that the group is now required to publish this document and then submit proof of publication to her within 10 days. After that point, signatures may be collected to place the measure on the ballot. About 27,000 signatures are needed.

Victor Sánchez, director of the coalition, told the Business Journal on Friday, February 9, at press time that he hoped to publish the ballot title and summary on Monday, February 12. Ideally, the coalition would begin its signature-gathering campaign as soon as possible, he said. Sánchez also serves as the campaign director for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy’s Long Beach hospitality campaign. The pro-labor group has been behind an effort to get some version of the currently proposed ordinance approved in Long Beach for the past few years. A similar proposal that applied to hotels with 100 or more rooms failed to pass the Long Beach City Council last year.