[0:00] if we can stand for the Pledge of
[0:02] Allegiance
[0:04] right hand over your heart
[0:08] Allegiance
[0:12] and to the Republic for which is
[0:16] under God the visible with liberty and
[0:19] for all geez I better start
[0:22] while practicing that
[0:25] oh my God
[0:27] okay we'll go ahead and go with roll
[0:29] call so Roman is not here Amy here and
[0:34] Cecilia
[0:35] so we'll go ahead and move to the
[0:37] approval of certificate of posting for
[0:39] February 6 2023
[0:43] oh we need emotion a second all in favor
[0:48] aye okay
[0:50] um certificate posting for February 6 is
[0:53] approved so we'll go on to Public
[0:56] Communication
[0:58] we like to open that up
[1:02] I see no interest so we'll go ahead and
[1:04] close that
[1:06] and we will go to the report of officers
[1:10] Commissioners or committees
[1:14] we have our
[1:16] manicario
[1:18] check check okay here we go
[1:22] Madam chair if you don't mind we'll move
[1:25] Lunar New Year celebration update to the
[1:29] final one staff member Irma Garcia is on
[1:33] her way and with that being said uh with
[1:37] your approval I will move on to homeless
[1:39] count update like to go ahead and give a
[1:43] brief update uh Armando was invited to
[1:47] attend but he is not feeling well today
[1:50] so he cannot make it with us but we did
[1:53] have a very very robust turnout in
[1:58] regards to the homeless count we had
[1:59] about 40 individuals show up
[2:02] um and I know last year we had our
[2:05] commissioner appear on the front page of
[2:07] the Sanger Valley Tribune we did not get
[2:10] that type of coverage this year but we
[2:13] were out there in force we had the
[2:15] police department we had Public Works
[2:18] and non-profit agencies uh city managers
[2:23] office a Community Development and of
[2:27] course our Recreation and Community
[2:29] Services Department our church uh our
[2:33] faith-based uh volunteers our soccer are
[2:37] coaches that volunteered we had a
[2:40] numerous individuals one person we had
[2:44] was from San Diego Valley Homeless
[2:48] Coalition and that was a a great
[2:51] addition they were supposed to help us
[2:53] ask her but they they also were ill and
[2:56] couldn't make it but they were out this
[2:58] year and we had Lasha something unique
[3:02] this year we utilized uh two elements to
[3:06] count we had the paper element so when
[3:10] you would go out you would you would
[3:13] count but as technology improves they
[3:18] had a uh app that you could download on
[3:22] your cell phone uh regardless if it's
[3:25] the iPhone or the Android phone and that
[3:29] seemed to work out well as as uh as well
[3:33] some individuals uh were a little uh
[3:38] confused and or intimidated on how that
[3:41] was how that worked uh but we had groups
[3:45] of three or four and usually one
[3:48] individual within the group of three or
[3:51] four was able to utilize the app and for
[3:55] some individuals they used both uh they
[3:59] counted on paper and they utilized the
[4:02] app so it is too early to tell what our
[4:06] homeless count is uh but from uh the
[4:09] last few years we have been able to cut
[4:11] it in half uh so we are hoping for uh a
[4:17] very good count in regards to possibly
[4:21] lowering our account
[4:24] count I believe last year was 276. uh so
[4:29] we are hoping for a similar number or a
[4:33] little bit less uh it's uh really hard
[4:37] to tell uh personally when I was out
[4:40] there counting I came across two
[4:43] individuals and I guess my spot was a
[4:48] little popular because I had Yum Yum
[4:50] Donuts uh and there's two individuals
[4:54] usually hanging out in that area and
[4:57] there were other groups that had zero
[4:59] zero zero and there was a few others
[5:02] that counted a handful of individuals so
[5:07] we will hopefully have the count by June
[5:10] and we will go ahead and share that with
[5:14] the commission as well as the community
[5:17] and we are looking forward to a uh
[5:20] hopefully a lower count nonetheless over
[5:24] the few years with 50 beds at serenity
[5:28] homes and 25 beds at Esperanza via we
[5:32] have at least 75 people that are
[5:36] unhoused but they have a roof over their
[5:39] head
[5:40] very very proud to to say we have those
[5:44] Services
[5:45] versus a handful of years ago those did
[5:49] not exist
[5:50] I was very happy to say that any
[5:53] questions in regards to the homeless
[5:56] count we had Lasha here San Gabriel
[5:58] Valley and sarsum and we had numerous
[6:02] numerous volunteers probably about 40 uh
[6:07] combination of Staff members and our
[6:10] volunteers and maybe even a little bit
[6:13] more
[6:15] I have a question yes um so on the
[6:18] serenity uh
[6:20] I know we have 50 beds right yes yes so
[6:24] um if those
[6:27] were out in the street last time would
[6:30] you be counting because those those are
[6:32] families correct yes but would you be
[6:34] counting each individual
[6:37] great great question uh that was one of
[6:40] my questions because as we get deeper
[6:42] into the homeless uh worry we are
[6:45] learning as staff members as as well
[6:48] using Serenity and Esperanza via as an
[6:52] example uh they are considered homeless
[6:56] but they are housed so in the past uh we
[7:00] did not we wouldn't have we would have
[7:02] counted those individuals as homeless
[7:06] okay so uh but they are they are housed
[7:11] at least for right right now and
[7:14] hopefully everyone will transition out
[7:17] of both of those facilities facilities
[7:19] and they will find permanent housing so
[7:21] we could get some other folks off the
[7:24] street because we have a waiting list on
[7:26] both sites
[7:29] games uh depending on what day it is we
[7:33] have a lot of adults and then from time
[7:35] to time it's very uh
[7:39] very sad to see the families let me know
[7:42] living in the car or couch surfing or
[7:46] whatever the case is
[7:47] but we have a waiting lists on both of
[7:50] them and both of those facilities are
[7:52] Grant funded so in order for us to
[7:55] receive reimbursement we need to keep
[7:58] both of those sites at 95 percent
[8:01] occupancy and we usually do very rare
[8:05] that we that we don't
[8:11] anything else in regards
[8:14] um the homeless count
[8:17] um I did take the um
[8:19] the video training and it was very well
[8:22] put together because my intentions were
[8:24] to go but then we had the emergency with
[8:26] the Flores family so I wasn't able to
[8:28] attend
[8:30] um who who put that together was that
[8:32] lhasa or was that yes the uh the actual
[8:35] video and all the trainings are from our
[8:38] partner with lhasa okay and they they
[8:41] did a wonderful job they actually sent
[8:43] out two staff members on the day of the
[8:47] training we also had the uh another
[8:50] faith-based group there uh Sangre Valley
[8:55] Valley Homeless Coalition they were on
[8:59] on hand as as well we had Armando Nava
[9:03] uh who who also assisted and uh Eureka
[9:08] Ruiz Esparza assisted with some of the
[9:11] pre-work but she was not available to
[9:13] assist on the night of so we've been uh
[9:17] assisting with the homeless count for
[9:19] probably about eight years now maybe 10
[9:23] years uh so uh it can it seems to be
[9:27] changing from here in and there it's
[9:30] moved on to a app now but uh staff did a
[9:34] fantastic job kudos to Armando in
[9:38] particular he uh really led the charge
[9:41] the night out awesome very good job
[9:45] you have any questions yes well first
[9:47] off I wanted to say I was so sad that I
[9:50] didn't get to participate this year
[9:51] because me and my husband were looking
[9:52] forward to it but the day that you know
[9:55] we had a plan on that day and we're like
[9:56] we can't change that so we hope to
[9:58] participate next year one of the
[10:01] questions I did have was regarding the
[10:03] paper and app was so last year I know we
[10:07] were sticking primarily to the app so
[10:10] how was the paper implemented this year
[10:12] was that something that both of them
[10:14] were required to complete or how how was
[10:17] that last year it was paper uh and City
[10:21] because we've had some challenges uh in
[10:25] the past with Lasha we didn't
[10:29] necessarily believe our count had
[10:32] doubled right one year to the next they
[10:35] had larger count in Pasadena and
[10:39] Ramona so we we didn't feel the count
[10:42] was was
[10:44] 556 uh but nevertheless we didn't have a
[10:48] say-so uh and uh
[10:51] without number uh but it was paper last
[10:55] year the city utilized an app or we made
[10:59] an app we also counted and it was more
[11:03] for an internal mechanism but at the end
[11:07] of the day lasha's paper was the final
[11:10] say so so we utilize it for hot spots so
[11:15] you you must have played with the you
[11:17] must utilize the app last year yeah last
[11:19] year I I did primarily the app so that's
[11:21] why I was wondering about that because
[11:23] they were giving us such full training
[11:25] on the screen using the app and so when
[11:28] you mentioned the paper I was curious
[11:29] because I didn't see the paper so I
[11:31] wasn't sure how that what what what was
[11:34] different that's why my memory is
[11:36] failing me I thought last year was uh
[11:39] paper and then the city utilized the app
[11:41] but maybe I'm thinking two years ago it
[11:44] might have been maybe two years ago so
[11:46] uh I think last year we had the option
[11:49] of the paper or or the app uh because
[11:53] the even the app for me was a little
[11:57] intimidating I downloaded I took the
[11:59] training I probably spent several hours
[12:02] because I I didn't want to make any
[12:05] errors so I I they needed a driver so I
[12:08] volunteered to to drive and we had
[12:12] another staff
[12:13] for the most part on this time around
[12:16] most of the individuals utilizing that
[12:19] yeah
[12:20] cast members uh or volunteers that we
[12:24] have a very good relationship
[12:27] about it so there was still one or the
[12:29] other yes okay
[12:32] it was a good experience everyone seemed
[12:35] to have a positive experience I was one
[12:38] of the first ones back uh primarily
[12:41] because I'm not a fast driver but my
[12:45] zone was Sarah Vista High School
[12:48] a large portion of my zone
[12:51] was
[12:53] we went driving through all the all the
[12:56] crevices a lot of dead end streets a lot
[13:01] of private roads so very interesting
[13:05] I've gone out for probably over a decade
[13:08] each time I drive out I find a new
[13:11] section
[13:15] pretty pretty home I was looking for
[13:18] landscaping ideas
[13:21] it's very very nice
[13:24] and I think last year we did also ask
[13:26] about the possibility or just to
[13:29] question the possibility of moving the
[13:34] moving the count to like a later month
[13:37] so that maybe we would see more people
[13:40] was that something that was ever that
[13:43] that's something that we we mentioned
[13:46] but Lasha is uh set in firm that they
[13:51] have it on those three or four nights of
[13:54] the week if you watch much TV it was all
[13:58] over the news all over the radio they
[14:01] were out they gave most of the attention
[14:03] to Los Angeles because of of new mayor
[14:07] mayor bass
[14:09] and Pasadena some of the larger cities
[14:12] they were out in force uh on those I
[14:17] think it was a three night the Tuesday
[14:18] Wednesday Thursday so it was uh and then
[14:22] there's other counts that that happened
[14:24] in the riverbed during the day during
[14:27] the day yes special teams that know how
[14:30] to de-escalate uh because we are not
[14:33] able to get out of the vehicle
[14:35] you know some people are well I I want
[14:38] to go put a flash setting back no you
[14:41] cannot
[14:42] you just know the van and that's pretty
[14:45] much it Lasha has a form a formula of
[14:49] how they create the university and then
[14:52] they they follow up with what teams and
[14:55] they'll specifically uh like I was a
[14:57] little nervous personally uh of the
[15:00] riverbed I want to make sure that they
[15:03] are counting the people correctly but
[15:07] they assured me you know they know the
[15:09] boundary lines if they're in a different
[15:11] city if they're over this line then
[15:13] they're not in Baldwin Park there and
[15:15] right now
[15:17] yeah if if you've ever been on the on
[15:20] the riverbed
[15:22] there's a whole Community down there's
[15:25] actually a lot of different communities
[15:27] in different areas on the on the
[15:30] riverbed I spoke with uh lasa they
[15:33] actually rent from the church so we
[15:36] speak to them all the time you know so
[15:38] we were talking about the how they went
[15:40] out during the day to the riverbed and
[15:42] you know
[15:43] um the different sections that they went
[15:45] to and
[15:47] um and yeah it is real strategic you
[15:49] know and it and it's dangerous you know
[15:51] so
[15:53] um but yeah I didn't very exciting don't
[15:57] see me no how was it thank you
[15:59] thank you very much
[16:01] okay and then next since we have uh
[16:05] Irma Garcia our program supervisor she
[16:08] would go ahead and we will we will move
[16:10] back up to number one Lunar New Year
[16:14] celebration update and it was a
[16:16] beautiful event but I will have Irma
[16:18] chat a little bit about it
[16:20] first time
[16:22] no worries
[16:24] um we did have we had a fan a wonderful
[16:26] wonderful event this is the annual event
[16:28] that has just really grown so much uh so
[16:31] very proud of it this was the year of
[16:33] the rabbit and we did have a wonderful
[16:35] program we had the
[16:39] several dancers they came in and
[16:41] performed for us
[16:44] I like one I think close to like seven
[16:47] dancers they came in to know a Chinese
[16:50] lion dance
[16:52] well and uh this year we had two lions
[16:56] so therefore I would really turned out
[16:57] to be a great great event we kicked it
[17:00] off in the morning early in the morning
[17:01] with some
[17:03] an opportunity
[17:06] oh we have close
[17:09] wow
[17:10] and we provided them with a stem film
[17:13] and also a little dessert
[17:15] it's a white rice and orange slices also
[17:19] provided um
[17:21] pop sticks
[17:23] almond cookie
[17:26] it was just like a really wonderful
[17:27] event
[17:29] we several of the dancers that came in
[17:45] oh yeah they traditionally we give them
[17:48] a red envelope and usually the mayor and
[17:52] whatever of the I think
[17:54] Philadelphia
[17:58] I don't like bait
[18:02] you tease them and then they'll go ahead
[18:03] and they right there they open the big
[18:05] old mouth and it goes oh yeah
[18:09] a red envelope and they continued to
[18:10] dance but this year we did have drums as
[18:13] well
[18:18] all the other dancers
[18:21] it took pretty much the
[18:25] nine o'clock and then
[18:28] by the time we finished with all the
[18:30] serving and everything
[18:34] everybody had an opportunity they had a
[18:36] little plate
[18:40] everybody got a Red Envelope as well
[18:43] candy
[18:47] the dramas were they um from within the
[18:50] city or you
[18:52] it's a a team
[18:54] well this team I hadn't heard from them
[18:57] in a long time I thought they had
[18:58] disbanded but I was able to get a
[19:01] there's an owner and to my
[19:04] I mean it was wonderful opportunity to
[19:08] I hadn't I mean
[19:10] I still bought his whole
[19:23] wow
[19:25] it started with just myself and Sally
[19:26] one of the part time for us
[19:31] well we haven't haven't seen any
[19:36] we did and that program started with
[19:38] just them speaking not Italian USA Today
[19:42] stuff and then we also um hot and nuts
[19:45] and
[19:46] all of us
[19:49] nice
[19:51] following year with bigger and bigger
[19:53] she was uh fired through the adult
[19:56] school
[19:58] old school they made a lot bigger so I
[20:00] think we had coins with something 100
[20:01] people there
[20:06] hmm
[20:07] wow growing
[20:11] so of the 200 is that um seniors or
[20:15] that's including
[20:17] um wow
[20:24] Ah that's great
[20:32] nice nice
[20:37] it was it was a really really nice event
[20:41] you missed it
[20:43] yeah exactly all this new stuff they
[20:46] want to attend everything what is our
[20:48] attendance on a on a regular basis
[20:51] moms we're only serving our hot meals uh
[20:54] twice a week
[20:59] we still have all of our programs uh so
[21:01] I stay for the hot meals we have like
[21:02] close
[21:07] 60 on Wednesday
[21:09] oh and once a month you know we have our
[21:12] senior grab and go program and that
[21:14] one's at 300 oh okay
[21:18] so they come and pick up
[21:21] oh that's awesome
[21:24] the the center's really busy amounts
[21:27] that coming in they provide free
[21:33] and then we have the computer classes we
[21:37] have the weight lift
[21:39] oh ping pong ping pong is out the door
[21:42] they are busy and then we have the
[21:44] Billiards uh needless to say they also
[21:46] have um
[21:48] of the international defense team
[21:52] aside from having those activities I
[21:54] want to make sure we have other events
[21:56] that are going to ever take to that
[21:58] particular
[22:01] it's great I did bring along a couple of
[22:03] things that were going to be um
[22:06] in this class and has a couple of other
[22:08] items
[22:10] are going to be happy
[22:14] next week
[22:16] that's once a month right the birthday
[22:18] celebration
[22:23] and so that way the other items that we
[22:25] have going on aside from our trip
[22:34] coming up and they are so excited oh I
[22:36] bet I think I filled up so fast
[22:41] do we have a
[22:43] program for
[22:45] seniors that
[22:48] that need food like hot meals or
[22:53] that that are delivered but we we um the
[22:57] day that we deliver all of our meals
[22:59] um
[23:01] the ywc fight a home
[23:05] also actually do the or that particular
[23:09] but for hours
[23:12] currently right now since we have a meal
[23:14] program from Monday and Tuesday
[23:18] iwca
[23:20] that hot meal
[23:24] and deliver it
[23:29] okay
[23:31] um so if I want to direct them to the
[23:34] YWCA home delivery program can you send
[23:37] me that contact info
[23:40] yeah because I know of a resident that
[23:42] lives on um
[23:44] on um I forgot the name of the street
[23:47] well with the YWCA they don't just have
[23:49] to be
[23:51] oh okay
[23:52] oh nice
[23:56] sure okay very good all right we're also
[24:00] gonna know we had some interests that
[24:02] were asking us to do like chair
[24:03] volleyball
[24:06] team
[24:07] all right we want to go ahead and
[24:10] we're interested and uh yeah we have a
[24:13] pretty
[24:15] very soon
[24:18] hear me up let's do this
[24:21] exciting that sounds really exciting I
[24:25] just have one little concern with that
[24:26] and the stability of the chair
[24:29] because of the seniors you know we don't
[24:31] want one of them
[24:32] falling over and so it probably would
[24:35] need to be more of those sturdy or are
[24:39] all the ones in the dining room yeah
[24:43] yeah exactly oh that sounds so good how
[24:46] about the other cities like irwindale's
[24:47] doing
[24:48] uh we have reached out to see oh nice
[24:53] sure that we're yeah very good
[24:58] well that's good
[25:00] I had a question regarding the Lunar New
[25:02] Year celebration what day was that on
[25:05] was that on a weekend day or a weekday
[25:08] it was on a week that week that day
[25:10] January the 9th and I got it okay
[25:14] um I was curious to know if it's some
[25:17] type of event that I don't know like
[25:19] Youth and teens within the community
[25:22] would be interested in participating in
[25:25] um to make it more I guess inclusive of
[25:28] all ages too because it would be really
[25:30] cool to see exactly because it is kind
[25:33] of like honoring the seniors as well so
[25:36] it would kind of give them like a space
[25:37] to maybe learn up something from the
[25:40] seniors and like their experience in the
[25:42] culture and the the youth learning and
[25:45] kind of like sharing in that you know
[25:48] um experience with with the seniors so
[25:50] something I was just thinking about
[25:52] because as someone who does celebrate
[25:55] Lunar New Year it's really about like
[25:57] respecting the elders and giving your
[25:59] wishes to the elders and the elders
[26:01] giving you wishes here's to them and so
[26:03] I feel like it could really be an
[26:06] awesome like wide range Community event
[26:08] and like the youth can also youth that
[26:11] are not part of the culture can also
[26:14] learn about it and see how valuable it
[26:18] is to gain wisdom and you know like uh
[26:22] I don't know how to say like yeah learn
[26:24] the culture and like support and you
[26:27] know um like learn from your elders and
[26:31] have that day be like learning about
[26:32] your community and your family and
[26:35] respecting elders and stuff
[26:38] that because of the
[26:41] right questions
[26:46] I'm sure that in the future like for
[26:48] probably
[26:52] that was a possibility we were thinking
[26:53] about moving it that way
[26:57] yeah I went to other communities in
[26:59] Orange County and they do like huge
[27:02] festivals outside right so it would be
[27:05] really interesting to see if we had
[27:07] something like outdoors and I don't know
[27:09] if firecrackers are allowed but like
[27:11] those the ones that are reasonable to
[27:13] add that and just make it something fun
[27:15] or with little Fair things too that
[27:17] would be
[27:19] um another event that community members
[27:20] can participate in
[27:23] about it as well baby
[27:25] right
[27:29] but yes absolutely
[27:32] Amphitheater will probably be the best I
[27:34] always know
[27:36] right yeah thank you thank you Irma
[27:43] you're doing amazing
[27:46] yes she is yes she is
[27:49] and uh Madam chair the last item on the
[27:52] agenda is the annual calendar so if
[27:56] you'd like to take a look at that
[27:58] um we are uh working out some details
[28:01] towards the end of the year in December
[28:03] it looks like the parade will stay on
[28:07] the first Saturday in December who will
[28:09] most likely be adding snow or chipped
[28:12] ice to that Saturday we were thinking
[28:15] about having that the parade in the
[28:17] evening but it just doesn't look like we
[28:19] have an opportunity yet added to the
[28:22] evening so we will proceed with the am
[28:25] uh parade and I think that's that's
[28:28] pretty much it if you have any questions
[28:31] comments
[28:33] regards to the calendar it should be up
[28:35] on our City website as well and
[28:40] um we uh summer months we have our
[28:44] popular six weeks in the concerts part
[28:46] uh concerts in the park and then six
[28:48] weeks out out in the street we're
[28:50] proposing to have Fourth of July on uh
[28:54] the actual fourth oh nice
[28:57] see how that girl seeds
[29:00] no questions I don't have any questions
[29:03] thank you all for what you guys do it's
[29:05] awesome
[29:09] please please let all the staff know you
[29:14] know they did an amazing job I know we
[29:16] haven't been haven't had our meeting so
[29:17] we haven't been able to tell them what
[29:19] an amazing job they did in December we
[29:21] know how crazy it is back to back to
[29:23] back to back
[29:24] um but you know they they always shine
[29:27] they you know the mayor's so proud of
[29:29] them I could hear the chitter chatter of
[29:31] you know the council and so just pass
[29:33] that on to them we really appreciate it
[29:35] say the city scheduled for a Thursday
[29:40] 30th March 30th okay that March 30th
[29:44] not be on your uh list of surely been
[29:47] saying we'll reacted to the
[29:54] video and the venue and
[29:56] some okay with that want to move for
[30:00] adjournment
[30:02] um emotion
[30:04] um I second all in favor
[30:06] aye Nina adjourned at 5 30 33.
[30:12] thank you Irma