[3:38:45] [ gavel strike ]

[3:38:47] >> good evening, ladies and

[3:38:48] gentlemen and welcome to the

[3:38:49] regular meeting of the antioch

[3:38:50] city council for tuesday, august

[3:38:52] 25, 2026.

[3:38:57] Do we have the mayor on remote?

[3:39:01] >> mayor bernal: yes, can you

[3:39:02] hear me?

[3:39:04] >> yes.

[3:39:05] >> mayor bernal: okay,

[3:39:07] perfect.

[3:39:08] I ron bernal, mayor of the city

[3:39:11] of antioch am unable to attend

[3:39:14] today’s meeting due to aa

[3:39:18] contagious and am re illness.

[3:39:23] My wife irma will be the only

[3:39:26] adult in the room with me and I

[3:39:28] will participate both audio and

[3:39:32] video technology throughout the

[3:39:33] entirety of the meeting.

[3:39:34] Mr. Clerk I ask that you please

[3:39:37] record my remote appearance

[3:39:41] under just cause under the

[3:39:43] meeting minutes for the record.

[3:39:44] >> the clerk: so noted.

[3:39:45] >> thank you very much.

[3:39:47] Mr. City clerk please call the

[3:39:49] roll.

[3:39:49] >> the clerk: thank you.

[3:39:50] Council member wilson is absent.

[3:39:53] Council member rocha, here.

[3:39:55] Council member torres-walker,

[3:39:57] present, mayor pro tem freitas,

[3:39:59] present.

[3:39:59] Mayor bernal.

[3:40:01] Here.

[3:40:01] Thank you we have a quorum at 7

[3:40:05] cologne 01 p.m.

[3:40:06] >> if you could all rise for the

[3:40:08] pledge of allegiance.

[3:40:17] I pledge allegiance to the flag

[3:40:17] of the united states of america

[3:40:18] and to the republic, of which it

[3:40:19] stands, one nation, under god,

[3:40:19] indivisible, with liberty and

[3:40:21] justice for all.

[3:40:31] >> council member freitas: all

[3:40:35] right.

[3:40:38] City attorney could you please

[3:40:39] report out on the chosed session

[3:40:41] held earlier this afternoon.

[3:40:44] >> there were two items on

[3:40:45] today’s closed session agenda.

[3:40:47] The first was a

[3:40:49] conference with labor

[3:40:49] negotiators - pursuant to

[3:40:50] california government

[3:40:51] code section 54957.6; city

[3:40:53] designated representatives:

[3:40:54] jason ewert and ana cortez

[3:40:56] acting city manager; employee

[3:40:57] organizations: antioch public

[3:41:01] works employee

[3:41:01] association (apwea), antioch

[3:41:03] police sworn management

[3:41:04] association (apsma)

[3:41:05] confidential unit, and

[3:41:06] management unit

[3:41:09] and there’s nothing to report

[3:41:10] out on that item.

[3:41:12] 2. Conference with legal counsel

[3:41:13] - significant exposure to

[3:41:13] litigation pursuant to

[3:41:15] government code section

[3:41:17] 54956.9(e)(2): number of

[3:41:17] potential cases: (9). The city

[3:41:21] is in receipt of information

[3:41:22] concerning facts and

[3:41:23] circumstances that might result

[3:41:24] in litigation against the city

[3:41:24] which are known to a potential

[3:41:25] plaintiff or plaintiffs

[3:41:25] pertaining to possible

[3:41:28] labor code section 1102.5, and

[3:41:28] fair employment and housing act

[3:41:29] violations.

[3:41:32] And there’s noticing to report

[3:41:33] out on that matter.

[3:41:35] >> council member freitas:

[3:41:36] thank you very much.

[3:41:37] Under public comments how many

[3:41:38] individuals do we have for

[3:41:39] public comments?

[3:41:40] >> the clerk: we currently

[3:41:41] have eight speaker cards.

[3:41:43] >> council member freitas: are

[3:41:44] there any remote comments?

[3:41:47] >> the clerk: none so far.

[3:41:49] >> council member freitas:

[3:41:50] okay, could you please call the

[3:41:52] first speaker.

[3:41:52] >> the clerk: could we please

[3:41:55] have mark jordan followed by

[3:41:58] raquel herrera.

[3:42:05] >> good evening, city council.

[3:42:08] I come to speak to you tonight

[3:42:11] about code enforcement.

[3:42:15] Primarily, the lack of code

[3:42:18] enforcement.

[3:42:20] I have worked with code

[3:42:21] enforcement on a couple of

[3:42:23] different issues over the last

[3:42:24] few months.

[3:42:25] And I’m going to primarily talk

[3:42:29] about lion tree way adjacent to

[3:42:32] my office building.

[3:42:33] The gas station next door was

[3:42:36] allowing their property to

[3:42:38] deteriorate considerably.

[3:42:40] And code enforcement did address

[3:42:42] the issues initially.

[3:42:44] However, as I have couldn’ted c

[3:42:49] report issues, I have run into

[3:42:52] some feedback which I find

[3:42:55] unacceptable.

[3:42:55] I could go through all of the

[3:43:00] codes that are necessary to

[3:43:01] support my position but I’m not

[3:43:02] going to waste your time with

[3:43:04] that today.

[3:43:04] I’m just going to say it in

[3:43:07] plain english: covering exposed

[3:43:10] electrical with cardboard does

[3:43:12] not meet any code within the

[3:43:17] state of california.

[3:43:18] Installing electrical above

[3:43:20] ground in plastic does not meet

[3:43:23] any code within the state of

[3:43:25] california.

[3:43:25] On a commercial location.

[3:43:29] Having trash containers smell

[3:43:32] and remain uncovered, having

[3:43:35] debris about your property,

[3:43:36] having it unmaintained, is

[3:43:40] unacceptable.

[3:43:41] The property on the other side

[3:43:43] is rarely open.

[3:43:44] It’s a modular home sales

[3:43:47] office.

[3:43:47] They have decided that they can

[3:43:50] park a dump trailer on the

[3:43:52] property.

[3:43:52] They have a special use permit

[3:43:54] that was issued years ago by

[3:43:59] michelle before she left the

[3:44:01] city.

[3:44:01] There was no public hearing.

[3:44:03] There was no discussion, there

[3:44:05] was no notice, it just occurred

[3:44:07] after the rembolts sold the

[3:44:10] property.

[3:44:11] I have reported this several

[3:44:12] times.

[3:44:12] I have indicated to code

[3:44:14] enforcement that they have a

[3:44:15] special use permit.

[3:44:16] And that it does not include the

[3:44:19] storage of construction

[3:44:21] equipment.

[3:44:22] This has gone on for some time.

[3:44:25] These are just the examples that

[3:44:27] I have, that are next to my

[3:44:29] building.

[3:44:29] This is going on all over town.

[3:44:33] Code enforcement needs to

[3:44:34] understand that we can read the

[3:44:39] requirements of construction.

[3:44:41] We can read the municipal code.

[3:44:43] And we want them to act

[3:44:47] diligently.

[3:44:47] I understand that you have hired

[3:44:49] somebody new.

[3:44:50] I sent an e-mail saying I needed

[3:44:52] a report back by the 21st or I

[3:44:53] was going to come down here.

[3:44:55] I did not get a response of any

[3:44:58] kind.

[3:44:59] And that, too, is unacceptable.

[3:45:01] Please talk to your staff.

[3:45:05] Thank you.

[3:45:06] [applause]

[3:45:08] >> the clerk: raquel herrera

[3:45:11] foaled by joy mots and then

[3:45:15] dennis rodriguez.

[3:45:17] >> hello, good evening, I’ve

[3:45:18] come to talk about the --

[3:45:21] >> council member freitas:

[3:45:22] excuse me could you move the --

[3:45:23] right.

[3:45:24] >> efforts to preserve our local

[3:45:27] theater, good evening mayor and

[3:45:28] councilmembers, my name is

[3:45:30] raquel herrera and I’ve lived in

[3:45:32] antioch my entire life.

[3:45:33] My family’s history is deeply

[3:45:35] connected to the city.

[3:45:36] My father has owned and operated

[3:45:39] shoe stop the shoe repair

[3:45:42] business at summersville town

[3:45:50] center.

[3:45:51] Serve local families and keep

[3:45:53] something valuable alive through

[3:45:54] decades of change.

[3:45:55] My history with the arts began

[3:45:58] at the nick rodriguez community

[3:46:00] center where I joined the

[3:46:03] academy, by the time I was eight

[3:46:05] my two older sisters and I were

[3:46:08] performing at el campanile.

[3:46:12] One of my sisters have continued

[3:46:15] performing there for roughly the

[3:46:15] past decade.

[3:46:18] For many families, the nuk

[3:46:23] nutcracker and other perform

[3:46:29] performances, art education

[3:46:31] culture and shared experiences.

[3:46:32] I firmly believe we must give

[3:46:35] residents especially our younger

[3:46:37] generations reason to believe in

[3:46:38] antioch.

[3:46:39] Remain connected to it.

[3:46:40] And invest their talents here.

[3:46:42] Our city has a rich history.

[3:46:45] Antioch grew beside the san

[3:46:47] joaquin river and a visit to

[3:46:49] black diamond mines just two

[3:46:51] weeks ago daughter me how much

[3:46:53] history surrounds us.

[3:46:55] Our continued efforts to

[3:46:57] remember and preserve that

[3:46:58] history can build pride,

[3:47:00] encourage civic participation

[3:47:03] amount inspire people to support

[3:47:04] local businesses and care for

[3:47:06] their community.

[3:47:06] We do not have to look far to

[3:47:08] see what public investment can

[3:47:12] accomplish.

[3:47:12] Pittsburg preserved and

[3:47:13] renovated its california theater

[3:47:15] including additional restoration

[3:47:18] work in recent years.

[3:47:20] El campanile’s preservation

[3:47:25] dealt back 20 years.

[3:47:26] I believe its greatness or its

[3:47:28] greatest value to our community

[3:47:30] lies in remaining a fully

[3:47:32] functional arts venue.

[3:47:34] El campanile is one of the few

[3:47:39] historic coirlt space owes and

[3:47:42] remains accessible to everyone.

[3:47:44] I ask to create a public-private

[3:47:48] partnership to strengthen its

[3:47:49] role in our community.

[3:47:51] City involvement could protect

[3:47:52] public access, support local

[3:47:54] access and youth programs,

[3:47:57] attract visitors and make el

[3:48:02] campanile in rivertown’s

[3:48:06] requisition.

[3:48:07] Funding and community

[3:48:08] partnership before this

[3:48:09] opportunity is lost.

[3:48:10] El campanile is part of antioch

[3:48:15] and greater east bay history and

[3:48:17] I deserves to remains part of

[3:48:19] our history.

[3:48:20] Thank you.

[3:48:20] [applause]

[3:48:22] >> the clerk: joy mots

[3:48:25] followed by denise rodriguez and

[3:48:33] michael sobil.

[3:48:34] >> good evening, council.

[3:48:35] It has been common knowledge by

[3:48:37] the city for over a year that

[3:48:39] the el campanile theater was in

[3:48:42] a tire situation.

[3:48:44] Yet there were no conversations

[3:48:45] or efforts made by the stir

[3:48:47] until now to stop the unfolding

[3:48:51] tragedy for us losing this

[3:48:53] historic and iconic building for

[3:48:55] its purpose in bringing life

[3:48:58] entertainment, movies and

[3:49:00] theater, children’s recitals and

[3:49:03] more to the people of east

[3:49:06] county.

[3:49:06] It is difficult to do anything

[3:49:07] when forced with a $54 million

[3:49:10] budget deficit.

[3:49:12] But let’s be honest, there has

[3:49:14] not been any strategic plan to

[3:49:18] vitalize or store vibrancy or

[3:49:23] protect our buildings by a

[3:49:25] majority in decades.

[3:49:26] Even getting the river town

[3:49:31] marquee whereas a battle.

[3:49:35] People of antioch have worked

[3:49:37] and volunteered and raised money

[3:49:39] to try and make a difference to

[3:49:41] try and bring equity to the

[3:49:43] downtown.

[3:49:43] But the aa, individually owned

[3:49:46] businesses and investors and

[3:49:47] community groups are trying and

[3:49:49] begging for your support.

[3:49:51] Nonprofits like celebrate

[3:49:54] antioch foundation, we raise the

[3:49:56] money to pay for market lights

[3:49:57] to be installed on second street

[3:49:59] and g street, brought you and

[3:50:02] residents a downtown tarmers

[3:50:03] market only to have you reduce

[3:50:05] our grant funds request when 85%

[3:50:08] of that money was going to help

[3:50:10] the farmers market.

[3:50:11] Just two weeks ago, over 900

[3:50:13] people asked you to take a

[3:50:15] chance on obtaining 8 million in

[3:50:19] state grant money on the beady

[3:50:22] parcel that might well have been

[3:50:25] a catalyst in supporting our

[3:50:30] downtown struggling businesses

[3:50:31] and restaurants and all of you

[3:50:33] said no except for council

[3:50:35] member rocha.

[3:50:35] Thank you louie.

[3:50:37] The loss of the el campanale

[3:50:40] theater will be a loss the

[3:50:41] downtown will never recover from

[3:50:43] around the people of antioch

[3:50:44] will never forget.

[3:50:45] We all know you must stabilize

[3:50:48] the city budgetary but you will

[3:50:49] never fight your way out of this

[3:50:51] economic hole by sitting on your

[3:50:53] hands.

[3:50:53] You’re going to have to find

[3:50:54] ways to create growth, you’re

[3:50:55] going to have to find ways to

[3:50:58] invest when opportunities arise.

[3:50:59] If you have been working on a

[3:51:01] plan to save the el campanale I

[3:51:06] hope you will execute your plan

[3:51:09] now, because the sale is in

[3:51:10] escrow.

[3:51:11] I pray you will do it now.

[3:51:13] Otherwise you need to let us

[3:51:14] know as soon as possible so we

[3:51:16] can once again bring a coalition

[3:51:18] of people together to try to

[3:51:19] save our historic theater in

[3:51:21] downtown.

[3:51:21] Thank you.

[3:51:25] [applause]

[3:51:27] >> the clerk: denit rodriguez

[3:51:31] followed by michael sobil and

[3:51:34] aaron green.

[3:51:36] >> good evening everyone, my

[3:51:37] name is denit rodriguez and I’m

[3:51:40] a lifetime resident of antioch.

[3:51:42] I want to explain to you how

[3:51:43] important the arts are to me and

[3:51:45] why I think the el campanale is

[3:51:51] such a vital part of my time

[3:51:55] here.

[3:51:55] Picture the warm glow of the

[3:51:56] theater lights on a crisp night

[3:52:00] out and think of house welcoming

[3:52:02] they are.

[3:52:03] One foot through those doors and

[3:52:04] you are immediately transported

[3:52:07] into what feels like a different

[3:52:10] time.

[3:52:11] There’s no space like it

[3:52:12] anywhere else in our city and in

[3:52:15] fact there are not many spaces

[3:52:16] like it at all that nourish the

[3:52:20] arts culture and our dploount.

[3:52:22] Forwards the entire summer, kids

[3:52:24] were not able to enjoy our water

[3:52:27] park.

[3:52:28] We don’t have a thriving ma’am

[3:52:30] and don’t get me started on the

[3:52:35] wringle theater.

[3:52:36] If this space was no longer

[3:52:39] available for the public to

[3:52:41] enjoy.

[3:52:42] Wonder why people leave to go

[3:52:44] spend their time and money in

[3:52:46] other spaces.

[3:52:46] We must invest in ourselves and

[3:52:48] in what makes our town so

[3:52:50] fortunate and unique.

[3:52:51] For as long as I can remember,

[3:52:53] there have been talks of

[3:52:55] revitalizing downtown.

[3:52:56] Here is yet another opportunity.

[3:52:59] We recently got a farmers market

[3:53:01] and it’s been really nice to see

[3:53:03] people here on the weekends.

[3:53:07] El campanile is a valuable

[3:53:09] asset, one of the places I love

[3:53:11] to show people when they come

[3:53:12] and visit.

[3:53:13] How many cities can brag about

[3:53:15] having an almost 100 year old

[3:53:17] institution like it?

[3:53:19] I implore you, city council, to

[3:53:21] find a way to preserve this

[3:53:23] landmark for generations to

[3:53:25] come.

[3:53:25] Ask yourself not if we can

[3:53:30] afford el campanile but if we

[3:53:32] can afford to lose it?

[3:53:35] Thank you.

[3:53:36] >> the clerk: michael sobel,

[3:53:39] aaron green and then crystal

[3:53:43] law.

[3:53:44] >> good evening, ladies and

[3:53:45] gentlemen.

[3:53:45] I’m here on behalf of the el

[3:53:49] campanale theater.

[3:53:51] Again I teal that this theater

[3:53:52] should be preserved.

[3:53:55] It should be capable of going on

[3:54:00] because I see it is generations

[3:54:07] of young people coming up

[3:54:08] through the years that wirm

[3:54:10] enjoy the arts and entertainment

[3:54:11] in this theater.

[3:54:12] I have a lot of memories in this

[3:54:15] theater.

[3:54:15] I have been an usher there for

[3:54:18] the last 17 years and I enjoyed

[3:54:19] it all.

[3:54:20] In fact three days ago I was

[3:54:22] there for the tribute to the

[3:54:25] paul mccartney tribute band

[3:54:27] and I thought that this was a

[3:54:29] great musical along with films,

[3:54:32] showing backgrounds of paul

[3:54:35] mccartney when he was a young

[3:54:37] man.

[3:54:37] And I thought this is the kind

[3:54:39] of thing that I not only myself

[3:54:41] but other people would enjoy

[3:54:44] watching and enjoying the music

[3:54:46] because paul mccartney was

[3:54:49] such a musical genius.

[3:54:51] And I was just really taken

[3:54:53] back.

[3:54:53] Personally, I would be sad and

[3:54:56] I’m sure everybody else in here

[3:54:57] would be sad to see this theater

[3:54:59] go.

[3:55:00] I really heap that you guys can

[3:55:01] figure out some way to save it,

[3:55:04] because if it goes, I feel it’s

[3:55:06] never going to come back.

[3:55:09] We know what happened to the

[3:55:11] stan theater.

[3:55:12] It was a theater at one time, a

[3:55:14] church took it over and it never

[3:55:16] came back.

[3:55:17] So I just kind of feel that way

[3:55:18] about this theater.

[3:55:19] So I just want to let you guys

[3:55:21] know how I feel and how other

[3:55:24] people feel to preserve this

[3:55:26] theater.

[3:55:26] Please, please, please, save the

[3:55:29] theater.

[3:55:29] Thank you.

[3:55:32] [applause]

[3:55:35] >> the clerk: erin green

[3:55:36] tolled by crystal law and leslie

[3:55:39] may.

[3:55:51] >> okay, I actually came

[3:55:52] prepared this time.

[3:55:55] Hello, my name is erin green and

[3:55:57] I’m a local business owner here

[3:55:59] in downtown antioch.

[3:56:02] has had a lot of hits

[3:56:04] lately, and we all know it.

[3:56:09] But despite all the hits,

[3:56:11] there’s some of us that are very

[3:56:15] still optimistic and still

[3:56:15] believe in antioch.

[3:56:17] Myself included.

[3:56:18] Which is why I located my

[3:56:21] business in antioch.

[3:56:22] I went to pittsburg.

[3:56:23] I went to oakley I won’t to

[3:56:26] brentwood, and I still chose

[3:56:29] antioch.

[3:56:29] And the theater is a big part of

[3:56:30] that reason.

[3:56:32] Antioch has the opportunity to,

[3:56:34] in my opinion, be an arts and

[3:56:36] cultural hub of east county.

[3:56:39] And the theater is a big part of

[3:56:41] that.

[3:56:42] We’ve already lost the stan

[3:56:46] theater, we’ve lost the movie

[3:56:48] theater on lone tree.

[3:56:51] We’ve lost golf n games, so this

[3:56:54] means that increasingly our

[3:56:56] residents are going outside of

[3:56:58] our community for entertainment.

[3:56:59] And taking their dollars outside

[3:57:01] of our community.

[3:57:04] I know that the city council

[3:57:06] can’t necessarily get in the

[3:57:06] middle of a private sale.

[3:57:09] And you don’t have the power to

[3:57:11] stop anything.

[3:57:11] But you do have a great amount

[3:57:14] of influence.

[3:57:17] What you guys may not know is I

[3:57:21] actually used to work there so I

[3:57:22] love that building and I love

[3:57:23] the people in it and I know that

[3:57:26] building.

[3:57:26] And if the building could talk,

[3:57:28] it would say let me be a

[3:57:30] theater.

[3:57:30] That’s all I can be.

[3:57:39] It’s basically a giant box with

[3:57:41] a stage that performers come on

[3:57:43] and an auditorium for people to

[3:57:46] witness the performances.

[3:57:48] And there’s a handful of very, small offices along the

[3:57:53] front of the facade.

[3:57:56] So in terms of this potential

[3:58:02] congregation, there is no room

[3:58:04] for meeting spaces, there’s no

[3:58:06] classrooms, there’s no play

[3:58:07] room, there’s no kitchen and we

[3:58:09] know there’s no parking.

[3:58:11] We already know that.

[3:58:13] So placing this in the middle,

[3:58:17] smack dab in the middle of our

[3:58:19] commercial business district is

[3:58:20] not only a bad idea for antioch,

[3:58:25] it’s not really even a good fit

[3:58:27] for this congregation to be

[3:58:29] honest.

[3:58:29] So I’m asking the council to do

[3:58:31] whatever possible to save el

[3:58:35] campanale theater.

[3:58:36] Leave it accessible for the

[3:58:37] public, for the arts.

[3:58:38] And keep the arts in antioch.

[3:58:40] Thank you.

[3:58:43] [applause]

[3:58:48] >> the clerk: crystal law

[3:58:48] followed by leslie may and

[3:58:51] nicole hall.

[3:58:55] >> hello to everybody, city

[3:58:57] council.

[3:58:57] First of all I want to thank

[3:58:59] everyone including a lady from

[3:59:03] brentwood, and tamisha, all the

[3:59:09] motorcycle group who came to

[3:59:11] support the n woman, I’m sure we

[3:59:14] saw that go viral online.

[3:59:16] This went on for two years of an

[3:59:18] issue.

[3:59:18] He is now sending messages to

[3:59:21] people who went to support

[3:59:24] calling them chimps and monks by

[3:59:27] the ways.

[3:59:30] The message from the mayor was

[3:59:31] more about how backlash and

[3:59:34] intimidation and violence was

[3:59:35] addressed more than the fact

[3:59:36] that the man was a horrible

[3:59:37] neighbor and how he was

[3:59:39] disgusting with his words and

[3:59:41] how racism should not be

[3:59:42] allowed.

[3:59:43] Not to mention the fact that

[3:59:45] this was written by a pr person

[3:59:47] who is a black man.

[3:59:49] You should have wrote it

[3:59:51] yourself.

[3:59:52] That just shows me that you

[3:59:53] don’t care about the situation

[3:59:55] or the circumstances.

[3:59:57] I’m also disgusted that all that

[3:59:59] I’ve been hearing are things

[4:00:01] that you have inherited from the

[4:00:04] last city council, when you were

[4:00:05] city manager from 2017 to 2021.

[4:00:09] Make this make sense!

[4:00:11] Maybe some of the ways we can

[4:00:14] make more money is by having

[4:00:17] investors that are our friends

[4:00:18] pay some of the same permit fees

[4:00:20] and licensing fees that everyone

[4:00:23] else has to pay instead of

[4:00:26] letting them go without.

[4:00:27] Because I have done my homework

[4:00:28] and my research.

[4:00:30] I’ve also sent letters and proof

[4:00:32] to the do diswrmplet and contra

[4:00:34] costa county.

[4:00:39] >> the clerk: leslie may

[4:00:40] followed by nicole hall and then

[4:00:44] melissa.

[4:00:45] >> good evening, council, I’m

[4:00:49] the victim so I did attend, I

[4:00:50] have pictures, I’m going to file

[4:00:53] a report with the police

[4:00:54] department before I leave from

[4:00:56] here this evening.

[4:00:57] I did attend the event to

[4:01:00] support the young lady that was

[4:01:02] being attacked by her neighbor.

[4:01:14] Talked to many neighbors about

[4:01:15] what was going on.

[4:01:16] Out of all those 100 people

[4:01:19] someone saw I guess my picture

[4:01:21] online, when the perpetrator’s

[4:01:24] trends and decided to tell him

[4:01:26] to come after me.

[4:01:27] So he’s come after me.

[4:01:30] This is reported, I had to sit

[4:01:32] up half the night to report it

[4:01:34] to the fbi, cyber crimes also,

[4:01:39] this is another division that

[4:01:40] deals with racism and racial

[4:01:43] attacks.

[4:01:43] So I filed it with the fbi.

[4:01:45] They will be investigating,

[4:01:48] they’ll tiend out, which we know

[4:01:49] is the same man because they

[4:01:51] were able to pull up his private

[4:01:54] account.

[4:01:55] So they will be -- I’ll be

[4:01:57] filing charges against this same

[4:01:59] young man for intimidation as a

[4:02:03] senior, use a black, a woman, a

[4:02:07] senior citizen and a disabled

[4:02:09] person.

[4:02:10] So I’m going to be going after

[4:02:12] him.

[4:02:12] I’m pressing charges.

[4:02:14] But I also want anybody that’s

[4:02:15] listening to this, and anyone

[4:02:18] whose little friends you think

[4:02:20] you’re going to send after me

[4:02:21] and there was another man that

[4:02:23] attacked me online too, he’s

[4:02:25] been reported.

[4:02:26] They can’t get into my facebook

[4:02:28] so they send me messages on

[4:02:30] facebook.

[4:02:30] You can keep on, this is not

[4:02:32] going to bother me, at 74 years

[4:02:34] of age I live through the worst

[4:02:35] of it, over 60 years ago.

[4:02:38] When I was out there.

[4:02:39] So I’ve lived through the worst

[4:02:41] of the worst, the white only

[4:02:45] black only town tans, I’ve lived

[4:02:48] through that.

[4:02:48] This is not intimidating me.

[4:02:51] I just let the community know

[4:02:53] anyone that comes after me I’m

[4:02:55] using every inch of the law, the

[4:02:58] california doc, the federal doj,

[4:03:00] the fbi, and I will make a

[4:03:04] report, you got to make a report

[4:03:07] with antioch police department,

[4:03:09] I’m okay.

[4:03:09] I’m using every resource

[4:03:12] possibly to come after you and

[4:03:14] anybody who peampts in this kind

[4:03:16] of action I will prosecute you,

[4:03:18] I will walk you to the gates of

[4:03:21] hell.

[4:03:21] Leave black people alone.

[4:03:22] Leave me alone.

[4:03:24] If you don’t have anything nice

[4:03:25] to say, keep your mouth shut.

[4:03:28] But I’m not going to be

[4:03:30] intimidated and they know where

[4:03:31] I live.

[4:03:32] And all I say to them is, know

[4:03:35] where I live, you want to make

[4:03:37] thefts, step up.

[4:03:38] Please step up.

[4:03:44] [applause]

[4:03:47] >> the clerk: thy cole hall,

[4:03:49] followed by melissa and jose.

[4:04:05] >> good evening, I’m nicole

[4:04:07] hall, another lifelong resident

[4:04:09] of antioch.

[4:04:11] I grew up going to the stan

[4:04:15] theater, nick rodriguez

[4:04:17] community theater.

[4:04:18] I was devastated when the

[4:04:22] theater closed, historic theater

[4:04:24] is amazing.

[4:04:26] And this is going to be I think

[4:04:28] the third time that it will have

[4:04:30] been closed and possibly brought

[4:04:33] back to life for a third time.

[4:04:34] I remember the first time it

[4:04:36] closed down, I went to the movie

[4:04:39] screenings, it was a double

[4:04:40] feature.

[4:04:41] And it was sad to see it close.

[4:04:43] When it reopened with a

[4:04:46] community group who spent time,

[4:04:49] their own money, days off, going

[4:04:51] and refur beneficiarying it,

[4:04:53] painting, doing whatever work

[4:04:54] needed to be done to bring it

[4:04:55] back to life, I was thrilled.

[4:04:58] At that time I wasn’t able to

[4:05:01] engage or be involved.

[4:05:04] Third time around I’m going to

[4:05:05] try to be involved as much as I

[4:05:07] can.

[4:05:08] Within my limitation and my

[4:05:14] time.

[4:05:15] But I’ve always wanted to have a

[4:05:17] dance dude grow downtown.

[4:05:19] I’ve always wanted to host dance

[4:05:21] events at the el campanile or

[4:05:25] even the stan when it was

[4:05:27] around.

[4:05:27] My only option is the el

[4:05:30] campanale, I think it’s

[4:05:32] beautiful, major history and if

[4:05:34] people can bring it back to life

[4:05:35] as a theater that would be

[4:05:37] wonderful.

[4:05:38] I’m not against church,

[4:05:41] religion, worshipping, I’m all

[4:05:42] for it but I really think the

[4:05:44] arts could use a grand theater.

[4:05:46] We have the nick rodriguez

[4:05:48] community center which has a

[4:05:51] cute limb boutique theater, el

[4:05:55] campanale is a grand theater.

[4:05:58] I’d love to host dance events.

[4:06:03] Prior to covid I was a teacher,

[4:06:05] el campanale would be a great

[4:06:07] loss for the arts and the

[4:06:09] community.

[4:06:09] Thank you very much.

[4:06:10] [applause]

[4:06:14] >> the clerk: melissa followed

[4:06:16] by jose and margie corrall.

[4:06:23] >> okay, just want to say

[4:06:24] support all of you guys.

[4:06:26] But I went on everybody’s

[4:06:28] website because it’s campaign

[4:06:29] season and I went on your past

[4:06:31] websites too.

[4:06:35] So when you -- the people that

[4:06:36] ran in 2024, I specifically

[4:06:39] looked on the platform ron of

[4:06:43] your homelessness about

[4:06:45] incentivizing new housing

[4:06:46] solutions, connecting new

[4:06:49] residents with addiction job

[4:06:52] training, this all came from

[4:06:53] your website.

[4:06:54] And expanding partnerships with

[4:06:58] the county to pursue outside

[4:07:00] funding.

[4:07:01] And that’s what a lot of people

[4:07:03] myself included voted for, one

[4:07:04] of the reasons we voted for you.

[4:07:07] Yet we’ve lost another housing

[4:07:09] coordinator and I’m unsure if

[4:07:11] this position is now troazen or

[4:07:12] not.

[4:07:13] I was paying attention to the

[4:07:15] last meeting and I didn’t seize

[4:07:16] that it was frozen, I’m not

[4:07:19] sure.

[4:07:19] But I think we need a type of

[4:07:20] person since we lost the hotel,

[4:07:22] a type of person with good

[4:07:24] follow through, type a

[4:07:26] personality, high organizational

[4:07:27] skills to fill this position and

[4:07:29] make it effective.

[4:07:30] I feel like the last two people

[4:07:31] that were in that position were

[4:07:33] not effective.

[4:07:35] And at the recent meet and greet

[4:07:38] when I was at ron’s when I asked

[4:07:40] you about this you said you’re

[4:07:42] continuing to implement the

[4:07:44] previous council’s plan.

[4:07:45] And I understand the value of

[4:07:47] that because it’s continuity of

[4:07:49] continuing what’s working.

[4:07:51] But that answer doesn’t quite

[4:07:52] match the campaign that you ran

[4:07:55] on, continuing what’s already in

[4:07:56] motion is not leading a new,

[4:08:00] more collaborative service

[4:08:01] connected approach, which is

[4:08:02] what you campaigned on.

[4:08:03] They’re not the same thing and I

[4:08:05] notice the difference.

[4:08:06] And what I’m asking for isn’t a

[4:08:09] reversal of anything it’s just

[4:08:10] follow through on what we’ve

[4:08:12] promised.

[4:08:13] And I’d like to see the whole

[4:08:15] counsel activity take a lead on

[4:08:16] this rather than just manage

[4:08:17] what’s already on the books and

[4:08:19] I’d like city staff to

[4:08:20] communicate clearly and

[4:08:21] regularly with specific steps

[4:08:22] that council is taking towards

[4:08:25] goals people have campaigned on.

[4:08:27] The partnerships, the outside

[4:08:29] funding pursued, the service

[4:08:31] connections that are made and

[4:08:33] right now residents don’t have

[4:08:34] any visibility into that.

[4:08:36] And without that it’s hard to

[4:08:38] tell the difference between what

[4:08:39] we are progressing on and what

[4:08:41] is business as usual.

[4:08:44] Rocha, I went on yours, your

[4:08:47] campaign website said you would

[4:08:49] provide resources to unhoused

[4:08:50] community.

[4:08:51] I’d like to know what you’ve

[4:08:53] done to move that forward,

[4:08:55] beyond voting for things that

[4:08:56] the city already had in motion

[4:08:58] before you got to that seat.

[4:09:00] And marathon freitas, you did

[4:09:03] say you talked about expanding

[4:09:04] code enforcement to protect

[4:09:07] public health, property values

[4:09:08] and all welfare of the city.

[4:09:11] Code enforcement an harmlessness

[4:09:13] are tied to directly in the

[4:09:17] city, I’m running out of time

[4:09:18] but I’d like to seize future

[4:09:21] candidates put together some new

[4:09:22] ideas for economic development.

[4:09:26] [applause]

[4:09:29] >> the clerk: jose foaled by

[4:09:32] margie and ron.

[4:09:41] >> all right, thank you bro.

[4:09:43] Good evening council and antioch

[4:09:46] community.

[4:09:46] My name is jose cordone, I’m a

[4:09:50] local poet and resident of

[4:09:51] antioch.

[4:09:52] I’d like to share a few things.

[4:09:54] Number 1 I’d like to shout out

[4:09:56] the rec department, y’all are

[4:09:58] doing a great job, second, our

[4:10:04] youth arts workshop will be back

[4:10:05] in session the week of september

[4:10:07] 8th.

[4:10:07] We are servicing both districts

[4:10:10] 3 and district 5 in antioch.

[4:10:12] And until the library reopens,

[4:10:15] antioch library reopens we’ll be

[4:10:19] at antioch high school on

[4:10:20] tuesdays and at the prewett

[4:10:22] library on thursdays, from 4 to

[4:10:25] 6 p.m, completely tree for youth

[4:10:27] ages 12 through 18.

[4:10:28] Each week, the youth, the

[4:10:30] students will receive free food.

[4:10:32] Opportunities to win gift cards.

[4:10:35] And we’ll learn and engage in

[4:10:37] creative activities.

[4:10:38] My third and fourth points are

[4:10:41] connected.

[4:10:41] There’s a lot of talk of the

[4:10:43] downtown being a dead zone, and

[4:10:45] at times it’s difficult to make

[4:10:48] a strong argument against that.

[4:10:50] With that said I will say that

[4:10:52] my girlfriend and I spent the

[4:10:55] full day out here on saturday

[4:10:57] there 9:30 a.m. To 9 p.m.

[4:11:03] We started at the marina, went

[4:11:07] kayaking in the delta and dinner

[4:11:12] at the four seasons stake house.

[4:11:14] The crowds were amazingly

[4:11:16] diverse and it made me proud of

[4:11:19] rivertown.

[4:11:19] We did not make it to the show

[4:11:21] at el campanile but I have

[4:11:25] hosted and held two free events

[4:11:28] there.

[4:11:28] I am planning on attending a

[4:11:30] show there again soon and with

[4:11:32] that said I would also like to

[4:11:34] express my hope that the council

[4:11:36] would do everything in their

[4:11:37] power to help preserve the

[4:11:40] historic theater of gathering

[4:11:42] and community entertainment.

[4:11:43] There is a lot more that I can

[4:11:45] share for this topic, but I’ll

[4:11:48] save it for another meeting just

[4:11:50] for sake of time and I will be

[4:11:53] sharing more about the events

[4:11:55] coming up during the events

[4:11:59] moderations portion, thank you

[4:11:59] very much.

[4:12:03] >> the clerk: margie corrall

[4:12:06] followed by ron.

[4:12:13] >> my naming is margie carol and

[4:12:17] I just want to clear something

[4:12:19] up about what you guys are

[4:12:21] saying the mayor inherited a

[4:12:25] miss.

[4:12:25] The mayor and city council did

[4:12:26] not leave antioch without a

[4:12:28] plan.

[4:12:28] They spent years building

[4:12:30] programs, partnerships, securing

[4:12:31] funding to address homelessness.

[4:12:34] Whether you agreed with every

[4:12:35] decision these were some of the

[4:12:37] issues that were already

[4:12:38] underway.

[4:12:39] Established the homeless

[4:12:44] encampment task force, to

[4:12:46] address the impact of

[4:12:48] homelessness instead of waiting

[4:12:49] for the county to act.

[4:12:51] Partnering with executive inn to

[4:12:54] launch antioch’s first

[4:12:57] transitional project, which

[4:12:59] helped transition 140 into

[4:13:01] permanent supportive housing

[4:13:02] over four years.

[4:13:04] Point in time count from 400 to

[4:13:10] around 250 over a two year

[4:13:12] period, a lot of laundry

[4:13:16] vouchers for unhoused residents

[4:13:18] with work for local church

[4:13:23] services, created antioch’s

[4:13:26] mental health crisis response

[4:13:27] team, secured state funding to

[4:13:29] establish antioch’s own core

[4:13:32] coordinated outreach referral

[4:13:34] engagement team, transferred the

[4:13:36] delta fair property to the

[4:13:37] county for a dollar so it could

[4:13:40] be used for shelter for people

[4:13:43] experiencing homelessness,

[4:13:45] prioritize any antioch residents

[4:13:47] helping many move into permanent

[4:13:49] supportive housing, established

[4:13:51] a motel voucher program to

[4:13:53] provide emergency shelter for

[4:13:55] unhoused residents, secured a

[4:13:57] $6.8 million state drant to

[4:14:00] continue transitional, created

[4:14:05] funded antioch’s first unhoused

[4:14:07] resident coordinator.

[4:14:11] To improve coordination between

[4:14:12] advocates, nonprofit city staff

[4:14:14] and unhoused residents.

[4:14:16] Held regular community meetings

[4:14:17] to discuss homelessness and

[4:14:19] develop solutions.

[4:14:20] Launched the louie rocha

[4:14:23] project, honoring a member of

[4:14:25] antioch’s unhoused community

[4:14:29] while expanding traditional

[4:14:31] housing efforts, connecting

[4:14:33] persons with opportunities,

[4:14:37] organized community resources

[4:14:39] events that brought services to

[4:14:40] the people experiencing

[4:14:43] homelessness.

[4:14:43] So you guys went after thorp and

[4:14:48] saying he left you guys in a

[4:14:50] mess, false, false mayor, you

[4:14:52] know that.

[4:14:57] [applause]

[4:14:59] >> the clerk: ron mohammed.

[4:15:06] >> greetings to the mayor and

[4:15:07] the rest of the council.

[4:15:08] My name is ron mohammed.

[4:15:10] I came here tonight because of

[4:15:16] wanting to be perfectly clear, I

[4:15:17] haven’t said anything or any of

[4:15:20] the other brothers that attended

[4:15:22] over there with sister ethel at

[4:15:25] our property, where this

[4:15:26] incident that has gone viral all

[4:15:29] over the country happened.

[4:15:32] This was not an instantaneous

[4:15:38] thing, this is a thing that

[4:15:39] happened over a period of

[4:15:41] months.

[4:15:41] So just to give you a superbrief

[4:15:45] synopsis, ethel, single parent,

[4:15:47] divorced parent, has a child who

[4:15:52] is disabled, immune system is

[4:15:56] supercompromised, she works in

[4:15:58] the east bay.

[4:16:00] And she is having a situation

[4:16:03] with her next door neighbor who

[4:16:06] has entirely too many cats.

[4:16:08] They can call them neighborhood

[4:16:10] cats or whatever but they reside

[4:16:12] in that house.

[4:16:13] Those cats are using the

[4:16:14] restroom all over the entire

[4:16:18] neighborhood.

[4:16:19] And they’re compromising her

[4:16:21] son’s immune system.

[4:16:23] The son is wheelchair bound.

[4:16:26] So when she spoke to them out of

[4:16:30] a deliberate dialogue, that was

[4:16:32] very respectful, the young man

[4:16:35] kept going on the tirades and

[4:16:38] this has been happening month

[4:16:41] aafter mow after month to the

[4:16:42] point that he is being so

[4:16:45] disrespectful to the point where

[4:16:48] it’s impactful.

[4:16:48] All around the country people

[4:16:49] are calling in, man, what the

[4:16:51] hell is going on.

[4:16:53] So I’m a shareholder here.

[4:16:56] A resident is a resident but I

[4:16:58] am a homeowner by the grace of

[4:17:00] god.

[4:17:01] This hoa needs to be demolished.

[4:17:06] For them not taking action and

[4:17:08] then them allowing the city to

[4:17:09] take the brunt for not taking

[4:17:11] this on.

[4:17:12] The hoa should have handled this

[4:17:13] from the beginning.

[4:17:15] Those cats are running and

[4:17:17] jumping from house to house over

[4:17:18] the roofs and they’re using the

[4:17:21] restroom all over.

[4:17:22] She’s redone her backyard two or

[4:17:24] 30 times.

[4:17:25] So cre we did go over there to

[4:17:27] support her.

[4:17:28] Never said nothing to the young

[4:17:29] fellow or his mother, never even

[4:17:32] looked at them, never pointed

[4:17:35] their way, it is all about her,

[4:17:38] they happened to be living next

[4:17:40] to each other.

[4:17:43] Beautiful diverse block, he has

[4:17:45] been terrorizing these people,

[4:17:47] seniors all up and down the

[4:17:48] block and the hoa hasn’t done

[4:17:50] anything.

[4:17:50] So I’m not a big government kind

[4:17:53] of fellow, and certain things

[4:17:56] don’t need to be said, they just

[4:17:58] need to be understood.

[4:17:58] You can’t do that young ladylike

[4:18:01] that.

[4:18:01] I’ve been knowing her, I knew

[4:18:03] her mother and her grandmother.

[4:18:05] I didn’t even know that she was

[4:18:07] their child.

[4:18:08] It’s just wrong, and right is

[4:18:12] right.

[4:18:12] So I would hope that you guys

[4:18:14] would take some kind of action.

[4:18:17] [applause]

[4:18:19] >> the clerk: johnny.

[4:18:33] >> I’m not going to speak about

[4:18:35] the closed session today but I

[4:18:36] want to talk about the procedure

[4:18:38] that you guys used.

[4:18:40] Now ron you’re pretty good with

[4:18:41] your numbers tonight so pursuant

[4:18:43] to california government code

[4:18:49] knife

[4:18:55] 54957-6 and the fair employment

[4:18:57] act, now the city went into

[4:18:59] closed session tonight facing

[4:19:01] nine lawsuits, possibly dealing

[4:19:05] with somebody being fired, ore

[4:19:08] something to do with the fair

[4:19:12] employment act, so nine people

[4:19:13] are suing us or there’s nine

[4:19:15] separate acts.

[4:19:19] Okay.

[4:19:19] So who do I guys send in there

[4:19:21] to negotiate with the lawyers?

[4:19:22] You send in ana, ana was the

[4:19:28] head of human resources when

[4:19:30] this all happened.

[4:19:32] Ana is going to go into the

[4:19:34] closed session and what is she

[4:19:36] going to say?

[4:19:37] I know you can’t tell us but I

[4:19:39] did something wrong let’s pay

[4:19:41] them.

[4:19:41] So I know you guys don’t

[4:19:43] understand the brown act at all,

[4:19:44] most of you.

[4:19:49] But this is a conthricts of

[4:19:51] interest, okay?

[4:19:52] Why is she going and

[4:19:54] negotiating, telling the lawyers

[4:19:55] how to settle a case, when she

[4:19:57] fired somebody?

[4:20:00] Or bessie told her to fire

[4:20:02] somebody or who knows what

[4:20:04] happened?

[4:20:04] You guys won’t even tell us.

[4:20:10] So there was significant

[4:20:15] exposure to litigation pursuant

[4:20:16] to the government code.

[4:20:17] The city is under reseat of

[4:20:20] information that might result in

[4:20:22] litigation against the city

[4:20:23] which are known to a potential

[4:20:25] plaintiff or plaintiffs.

[4:20:28] So nine people are suing us.

[4:20:32] Probably because of what bessie

[4:20:35] told ana to do and instead of

[4:20:37] recusing herself she goes in

[4:20:39] there and negotiates with the

[4:20:41] lawyer.

[4:20:41] Who are we going to sue, who are

[4:20:42] we going to pay, are we going to

[4:20:45] settle this case?

[4:20:47] So what when is this going to s

[4:20:51] when is it going to stop?

[4:20:54] I told you guys not to hire

[4:20:57] bessie.

[4:20:57] You hired her anyway.

[4:21:00] What is the first thing she do

[4:21:02] when she got here?

[4:21:04] She hired brad as her assistant

[4:21:06] city manager, someone to go to

[4:21:08] starbucks, right, they took brad

[4:21:12] out of recreation department,

[4:21:13] though put the new guy in there

[4:21:15] six figures right?

[4:21:16] What is his experience?

[4:21:18] Then they promoted brad, we’re

[4:21:21] going to talk about that later

[4:21:22] in the consent calendar.

[4:21:23] Why was brad even promoted, no

[4:21:26] experience, no experience with

[4:21:27] computers.

[4:21:28] He was giving 15-year-old girls

[4:21:32] swimming lessons ana and you

[4:21:35] guys promoted him to six

[4:21:38] figures.

[4:21:38] [applause]

[4:21:41] >> the clerk: we have no

[4:21:42] further public comments and no

[4:21:43] comments on zoom.

[4:21:47] >> council member freitas: on

[4:21:48] zoom.

[4:21:48] We will now move to the

[4:21:50] calendar, the first item is

[4:21:51] introduction of new city

[4:21:55] employees, promotes is and

[4:22:00] ms. Cortez.

[4:22:00] >> we’ll start with introducing

[4:22:07] our new assistant city clerk,

[4:22:13] latonia peoples-stokes.

[4:22:14] Supporting executive teams

[4:22:16] advances strategic initiatives

[4:22:18] and strengthening organizational

[4:22:20] operations.

[4:22:21] Throughout her career she has

[4:22:22] served in senior administrative

[4:22:24] and chief of staff roles,

[4:22:27] feeding conflicts and human

[4:22:30] resources, budgeting,

[4:22:32] governance, executive support.

[4:22:35] Recognized for her collaborative

[4:22:37] leadership style, operational

[4:22:40] excellence and commitment to

[4:22:42] complents, fostering strong

[4:22:44] partnerships, and creating

[4:22:46] lasting positive outcomes for

[4:22:47] the community she serves.

[4:22:48] We are excited to welcome home

[4:22:53] latonia to our organizations,

[4:22:54] looking forward to her positive

[4:22:56] impact she will bring.

[4:22:58] Welcome.

[4:22:59] [applause]

[4:23:04] >> council member freitas: do

[4:23:05] you have any words?

[4:23:11] >> hello everyone.

[4:23:12] Thank you for welcoming me to

[4:23:13] the city of antioch.

[4:23:15] I used to live here for about 20

[4:23:18] years before I left the city but

[4:23:20] it’s been a pleasure to work for

[4:23:21] the city that I once lived in so

[4:23:23] thank you for having me.

[4:23:25] [applause]

[4:23:32] >> around now I think we’ll turn

[4:23:33] it in, I’m thought sure if code

[4:23:36] enforcement manager is here.

[4:23:37] Is he here?

[4:23:43] >> good evening, mayor and city

[4:23:45] council.

[4:23:45] It gives me great pleasure to

[4:23:49] introduce joe losado, prior to

[4:23:52] working for the city of antioch

[4:23:53] he worked for contra costa

[4:23:55] county for 25 years his last 12

[4:23:58] as code enforcement manager, in

[4:23:59] addition to being the city of

[4:24:01] antioch employee he has lived in

[4:24:02] the community for 50 plus years

[4:24:04] and he’s excited to make a

[4:24:07] positive impact on the city

[4:24:08] where he lives.

[4:24:09] Welcome joe.

[4:24:11] [applause]

[4:24:12] >> thank you.

[4:24:13] I just want to thank everybody

[4:24:15] for the warm welcoming I’ve

[4:24:16] received since I started here at

[4:24:19] antioch.

[4:24:19] The first week was a little more

[4:24:21] than warm, it got a little hot

[4:24:23] but we made it through it so I

[4:24:25] look forward to making some

[4:24:27] positive changes in the city of

[4:24:28] antioch.

[4:24:28] Thank you.

[4:24:30] >> council member freitas:

[4:24:31] thank you very much.

[4:24:32] Joe hold on.

[4:24:33] Council member rocha.

[4:24:34] >> council member rocha: I

[4:24:35] just wanted to acknowledge code

[4:24:38] enforcement manager joe, yost

[4:24:40] hef losado.

[4:24:42] You hit the ground running.

[4:24:46] I’ve been communicating with

[4:24:47] code enforcement about the san

[4:24:48] jose drive, delta fair and the

[4:24:51] two properties, the boat store

[4:24:52] and also the tire company.

[4:24:56] And immediately I saw a

[4:24:59] difference with those two

[4:25:00] properties being cleaned up.

[4:25:01] And so I called to acquire inqu

[4:25:07] happened, because we were trying

[4:25:08] to get those areas addressed for

[4:25:10] some time.

[4:25:10] And what I learned was that you

[4:25:12] apparently took it upon yourself

[4:25:14] to make contact directly with

[4:25:16] the property owners, of the two

[4:25:19] locations and it may be the same

[4:25:21] owner and from your conversation

[4:25:23] from your action you were able

[4:25:24] to get the property owner to

[4:25:27] step up and participate in

[4:25:29] getting those promulgates

[4:25:30] cleaned up.

[4:25:30] So I just want to give a shout

[4:25:32] out to you for being a new

[4:25:35] member of our city, as an

[4:25:37] employee, but making a

[4:25:39] significant difference right

[4:25:40] away.

[4:25:40] We have a lot of work to do in

[4:25:42] that area but I just wanted to

[4:25:44] acknowledge your efforts when

[4:25:45] you first arrived.

[4:25:46] It’s greatly appreciated.

[4:25:47] Thank you.

[4:25:48] >> thank you sir.

[4:25:51] >> council member freitas:

[4:25:51] before you go could you please

[4:25:54] contact mark jordan and have a

[4:25:55] discussion with him for all of

[4:25:58] our benefits.

[4:25:59] >> I did go to his business

[4:26:02] office, contact was made, he

[4:26:04] just hasn’t contacted me back.

[4:26:06] But I will go back tomorrow.

[4:26:10] >> council member freitas:

[4:26:10] thank you very much.

[4:26:11] We appreciate it.

[4:26:15] Ms. Cortez.

[4:26:16] >> yes, so I am going to present

[4:26:18] on behalf of director brad

[4:26:29] helfenberger, please join me in

[4:26:32] welcoming jonathan carter as a

[4:26:34] newest computer technician.

[4:26:37] Jonathan will begin which

[4:26:39] supporting parks, rec and

[4:26:42] community resources, he will

[4:26:44] later be supporting pd and

[4:26:47] public works.

[4:26:47] Jonathan has lived in the area

[4:26:48] for over 20 years and has worked

[4:26:51] with several local

[4:26:52] organizations, most recently

[4:26:53] with a managed security services

[4:26:56] provider.

[4:26:56] He has built strong

[4:26:58] relationships and community

[4:26:59] member across animal services,

[4:27:01] public works and the fire

[4:27:03] department.

[4:27:04] Jonathan has a strong interest

[4:27:05] in cyber security, automation.

[4:27:10] , playing games with friends.

[4:27:12] Welcome jonathan.

[4:27:17] [applause]

[4:27:17] >> good evening, mayor,

[4:27:19] councilmembers, just want to say

[4:27:20] I appreciate the opportunity and

[4:27:24] excited to continue working with

[4:27:26] all the staff that I’ve got to

[4:27:28] meet and who I haven’t got to

[4:27:30] meet yet so thank you.

[4:27:32] >> council member freitas:

[4:27:32] thank you.

[4:27:37] [applause]

[4:27:56] >> all right, good evening.

[4:27:57] My name is shahad wright, I’m

[4:28:00] the parking lot director.

[4:28:03] We have alisa millhighways, she

[4:28:08] is our new parking rec

[4:28:10] coordinator.

[4:28:11] She has been with us for seven

[4:28:13] years.

[4:28:13] She started from the bottom, 90

[4:28:15] she’s here.

[4:28:15] She started with maintenance,

[4:28:17] she did building attendance and

[4:28:18] then she was also a program

[4:28:21] specialist with us doing several

[4:28:23] years of our junior giants and

[4:28:25] sports programs.

[4:28:26] We’re very happy to steal her

[4:28:28] from the school district where

[4:28:29] she was doing, what was it

[4:28:32] special education and wellness

[4:28:34] at bellshah elementary, she has

[4:28:36] a passion for making a

[4:28:38] difference in youth lives and

[4:28:40] aspiring others, without further

[4:28:44] ado, alyssa.

[4:28:46] >> hi everybody, I just wanted

[4:28:48] to say I’m very grateful for the

[4:28:49] opportunity and I’m really

[4:28:50] looking forward to doing more in

[4:28:53] recreation.

[4:28:53] And continuing to grow.

[4:28:55] Thank you.

[4:28:56] >> council member freitas:

[4:28:57] welcome.

[4:28:57] [applause]

[4:28:59] >> all right, even though

[4:29:00] they’re not here I love my team

[4:29:02] and we’ve got two other

[4:29:05] coordinators.

[4:29:05] We have jamie pitcher, brings

[4:29:07] more than ten years of

[4:29:09] experience to our team.

[4:29:11] She comes from the pitcher

[4:29:12] family which was also aquatics

[4:29:16] based, justin pincher worked for

[4:29:17] many years for the city at the

[4:29:19] water park.

[4:29:20] So we have a system member

[4:29:21] coming back.

[4:29:23] She graduated playing water polo

[4:29:25] there san jose state and we also

[4:29:26] have our newest member, vaughn,

[4:29:30] who graduated from sac state,

[4:29:32] the taking over for our admin

[4:29:35] position 3.

[4:29:36] He’s going to all our fields and

[4:29:39] facility rentals, superhappy to

[4:29:40] have him.

[4:29:41] He’s been with our team for

[4:29:43] three years as a part timer.

[4:29:45] It is good to know that our

[4:29:48] people born and raised in the

[4:29:50] city have a opportunity to have

[4:29:51] a full time role with the city.

[4:29:53] They are very passionate and

[4:29:56] enthused to serve.

[4:29:57] Thank you.

[4:29:58] >> council member freitas:

[4:29:59] thank you.

[4:30:00] >> okay so we have the police

[4:30:02] department next so chief will

[4:30:03] come down and present them.

[4:30:09] >> good evening, everyone.

[4:30:11] We’ll start first with

[4:30:20] ezmarelda, graduated from

[4:30:22] prospect high school in 2015.

[4:30:25] Prior to working here she served

[4:30:28] as a dispatcher for the city of

[4:30:32] richard.

[4:30:35] Richmond.

[4:30:38] She enjoys spending time

[4:30:40] outdoors especially hiking and

[4:30:42] swimming.

[4:30:43] Ms. Rodriguez.

[4:30:47] >> just really quick, I want to

[4:30:48] give the city of antioch thanks

[4:30:51] and I’m grateful for the

[4:30:52] opportunity to be back in the

[4:30:53] town I grew up in and to help

[4:30:55] the community here.

[4:30:56] >> council member freitas:

[4:30:58] thank you.

[4:31:01] >> next up is a promotion,

[4:31:08] corporal ashley allen.

[4:31:10] Earning a ba, during her senior

[4:31:14] year she was hired by the

[4:31:16] antioch police department and

[4:31:18] later attended the police

[4:31:20] academy.

[4:31:20] Variety of roles including

[4:31:23] patrol cadet advisory, crisis

[4:31:26] negotiator.

[4:31:27] As a cadet vier she men towards

[4:31:34] several young people.

[4:31:35] Specialized cases involving

[4:31:38] vulnerable victims and partnered

[4:31:40] with the internet crimes against

[4:31:43] children task force.

[4:31:45] The online exploitation of

[4:31:47] children.

[4:31:47] Outside of work, corporal allen

[4:31:51] spends quality time with her

[4:31:54] family.

[4:31:54] Ladies and gentlemen corporal

[4:31:55] allen.

[4:31:56] >> thank you.

[4:31:57] I just want to thank chief for

[4:31:59] giving me this opportunity.

[4:32:00] I really look toward to it.

[4:32:02] I love working in this city.

[4:32:04] I told the former chief that I

[4:32:06] would retire here when that time

[4:32:09] comes I plan on being here for

[4:32:11] the long haul so thank you.

[4:32:19] >> corporate neilson.

[4:32:21] Earned his bachelor in

[4:32:23] economics, worked in the

[4:32:25] financial industry before

[4:32:26] beginning his law enforcement

[4:32:27] career.

[4:32:27] He started his career here in

[4:32:29] 2017 as a community service

[4:32:31] officer.

[4:32:32] In 2018 he became a sworn police

[4:32:36] officer after also graduating

[4:32:37] from the alameda county sheriffs

[4:32:42] academy.

[4:32:42] Patrol and investigations, filed

[4:32:45] training officer, drone

[4:32:48] detective, crime

[4:32:50] investigatorror.

[4:32:51] Swat team honor guard the

[4:32:52] recruiting team and the use of

[4:32:54] force review board.

[4:32:56] Corporal neilson is a department

[4:32:59] instructor in the force options,

[4:33:03] deescalation and tactical

[4:33:04] operations, ladies and

[4:33:06] gentlemen, corporal neilsen.

[4:33:09] >> also just real quick want to

[4:33:11] say thank you for the

[4:33:11] opportunity and I look forward

[4:33:13] to working with the community

[4:33:14] and the other officers I work

[4:33:15] with.

[4:33:23] >> sergeant josh egan.

[4:33:26] Enlisted in the u.s. Army where

[4:33:28] he served in executive

[4:33:30] protection for the native

[4:33:33] commander.

[4:33:34] Serving in several assignments

[4:33:36] including field training

[4:33:37] officer, traffic officer and own

[4:33:38] the crime reduction team.

[4:33:40] Sergeant egan joined the antioch

[4:33:41] police department in 2020 and

[4:33:43] has since served as a motor

[4:33:46] officer, field training officer

[4:33:47] and drug recognition expert.

[4:33:49] He also serves as the

[4:33:51] department’s sole accident

[4:33:52] reconstruction list and is an

[4:33:55] instructor in emergency vehicle

[4:33:56] rations and crisis intervention.

[4:34:00] Ladies and gentlemen, sergeant

[4:34:01] egan.

[4:34:02] >> I will keep this short and

[4:34:04] sweet.

[4:34:04] Thank you chief, thank you

[4:34:06] council and that’s all I have.

[4:34:08] >> these are always the shortest

[4:34:13] speeches.

[4:34:17] >> lieutenant gary lowther, born

[4:34:21] and raised in yoint and,

[4:34:25] baseball scholarship to old

[4:34:27] dominion university in norfolk

[4:34:30] virginia, where he served a

[4:34:32] bachelor of science in

[4:34:34] communication degree.

[4:34:35] Served in a variety of roles

[4:34:38] including field training

[4:34:40] officer, detective, swat team

[4:34:42] member, firearms and active

[4:34:44] shooter training, instructor,

[4:34:46] sorry.

[4:34:47] As a sergeant he supervised

[4:34:50] patrol teams, hiring and

[4:34:53] recruiting internal affairs and

[4:34:54] hostage negotiating.

[4:34:55] And the field training program.

[4:34:57] Prior to his promotion,

[4:35:02] lieutenant lowther, mentoring

[4:35:07] developing department

[4:35:08] supervisors.

[4:35:08] Ladies and gentlemen, lieutenant

[4:35:12] lowther.

[4:35:13] >> thank you chief.

[4:35:13] Thank you all for this public

[4:35:16] acknowledgment.

[4:35:17] I spent nearly half my life

[4:35:18] serving the antioch community in

[4:35:20] law enforcement and I’m looking

[4:35:21] forward to this next chapter in

[4:35:24] our future here as a city, so

[4:35:25] thank you so much.

[4:35:27] [applause]

[4:35:28] >> and if I can just end I too

[4:35:31] love my team and I have some

[4:35:32] people who are not here and I

[4:35:33] just want to give them an

[4:35:35] honorable mention if I can.

[4:35:37] Our newest dispatcher, mardz

[4:35:42] tina espinosa, sergeant adam

[4:35:47] duffy and last but not least

[4:35:49] sergeant zachary sampson.

[4:35:51] Don’t be surprised if you see

[4:35:54] any of these shining faces in

[4:35:59] various community events.

[4:36:01] Thank you all.

[4:36:18] >> good evening, mayor, city

[4:36:19] council.

[4:36:20] We have a number of new hires

[4:36:21] and promotions within public

[4:36:23] works, whether they are here or

[4:36:25] not I’m still going to read

[4:36:27] their bio because I think they

[4:36:30] disesh it.

[4:36:33] Gabrielle amada, heavy equipment

[4:36:36] operator at the silver gates for

[4:36:38] the last five years.

[4:36:40] Gabrielle is currently in

[4:36:41] college for a degree in computer

[4:36:43] confines, he lives in antioch

[4:36:45] with his wife and three dogs

[4:36:47] enjoys sports and most outdoor

[4:36:49] activities.

[4:36:50] Help me welcome gabrielle to the

[4:36:52] team.

[4:36:56] >> council member freitas: is

[4:36:56] he here?

[4:36:58] >> no.

[4:36:58] Next I’d like to bring up james

[4:37:02] bell.

[4:37:02] Hired at the water treatment

[4:37:03] plant as a water treatment plant

[4:37:06] trainee back in july, he was

[4:37:09] previously employed at the

[4:37:11] mountain valley environmental

[4:37:13] services in raymond, california.

[4:37:15] James was an operations

[4:37:16] supervisor there for seven years

[4:37:18] and has his t-2 and d-3 that is

[4:37:21] a treatment 2 and distribution 3

[4:37:24] and 4 stirveghts as well as his

[4:37:27] waste water treatment

[4:37:28] certificate.

[4:37:28] He currently lives in mod toes m

[4:37:34] and his family and two yellow

[4:37:36] labs.

[4:37:37] Let me welcome home james to the

[4:37:38] team.

[4:37:39] [applause]

[4:37:40] >> I’d like to say thank you for

[4:37:41] the opportunity to work for the

[4:37:43] city of antioch and I look

[4:37:44] forward to many years of

[4:37:45] service.

[4:37:45] Thank you.

[4:37:50] >> next up, I would like to

[4:37:53] bring up juliana bruno, she was

[4:37:59] hired an as administrative

[4:38:01] assistant back in may.

[4:38:02] Worked on capital improvements

[4:38:04] contracts, responded to

[4:38:04] complaints and took notes for

[4:38:07] public meetings.

[4:38:08] Julian anna anna has a paralega

[4:38:17] certificate.

[4:38:17] She enjoys hanging out with her

[4:38:19] friends and family.

[4:38:24] Let’s welcome julia to the team.

[4:38:28] Next up I’d like to bring up

[4:38:33] asina egtar senas, environmental

[4:38:38] resource coordinator on june

[4:38:40] 29th of this year.

[4:38:43] She previous work for the city

[4:38:46] of san jose, oversaw climate

[4:38:48] action planning, sustainability

[4:38:50] and resilience initiatives as

[4:38:52] well as the citywide

[4:38:53] implementation for the last

[4:38:54] seven years.

[4:38:55] He has a bachelor of science in

[4:38:58] environmental studies with a

[4:38:59] minor of steenable energy,

[4:39:04] hobbies are building cars,

[4:39:06] lifting heavy weights, strength

[4:39:08] training and most outdoors

[4:39:10] activities.

[4:39:11] Let’s welcome sena to the team.

[4:39:15] >> thank you, honorable mayor

[4:39:17] and city council, mayor pro tem,

[4:39:19] thank you for having me and

[4:39:21] thank you city of antioch for

[4:39:21] this opportunity.

[4:39:22] I look forward to this

[4:39:24] opportunity and bringing some

[4:39:25] expertise from the great city of

[4:39:27] san jose but bringing some of

[4:39:29] that tech flavor and expertise

[4:39:31] here and I do also want to

[4:39:33] mention that I grew up in the

[4:39:34] county and I’m happy to be back

[4:39:36] here back in the east bay.

[4:39:37] So thank you for this

[4:39:39] opportunity again.

[4:39:39] Appreciate it.

[4:39:41] >> council member freitas:

[4:39:42] thank you.

[4:39:46] >> all right, next up I’d like

[4:39:48] to bring up omar guillen-lean.

[4:39:59] Worked in the water utility

[4:40:01] department, changing meters for

[4:40:02] about a year and currently as a

[4:40:06] distribution 1 certification

[4:40:07] with the state water resource

[4:40:09] control board.

[4:40:16] O mar mar let’s welcome him to t

[4:40:22] theme.

[4:40:22] There seems to be a dog theme

[4:40:25] with our new hires.

[4:40:26] That’s okay, we like dogs.

[4:40:29] Michael nazario, michael was

[4:40:32] hired as a general laborer in

[4:40:35] june.

[4:40:36] He previously worked for service

[4:40:38] masters for approximately five

[4:40:39] years where he was a senior lead

[4:40:42] technician, completing

[4:40:44] abatements for contra costa

[4:40:45] county, demolition of damaged

[4:40:47] properties, he has a certificate

[4:40:50] in water trauma and heavy

[4:40:51] equipment operations, he has

[4:40:52] lived locally with his family,

[4:40:54] cat and dog, and his free time

[4:40:58] michael enjoys working outside

[4:41:00] in his yard.

[4:41:01] Let’s welcome michael to the

[4:41:02] team.

[4:41:05] >> I’d like to thank you guys

[4:41:06] for the opportunity and the

[4:41:09] opportunity you provide and like

[4:41:11] to thank the collections team

[4:41:13] for their knowledge and training

[4:41:15] experience.

[4:41:17] Thank you.

[4:41:19] >> next on our list is our river

[4:41:23] ortega.

[4:41:23] River was hired in the streets

[4:41:25] department as a streets

[4:41:27] maintenance worker in june.

[4:41:29] He was previously employed in

[4:41:32] the traffic division for two

[4:41:34] years, he graduated from antioch

[4:41:36] high school and lives locally

[4:41:38] with his family.

[4:41:40] He enjoys taking his family to

[4:41:43] the beech in pacifica, let’s

[4:41:47] welcome river to the team.

[4:41:53] >> good afternoon.

[4:41:53] I’d like to thanku for the

[4:41:55] opportunity to be here and I

[4:41:56] look forward to the changes I

[4:41:57] can bring of the expertise from

[4:42:00] vallejo to antioch and if it’s

[4:42:02] okay I’d like to say to my

[4:42:04] children at home it is 8:00 and

[4:42:07] it’s time for bed.

[4:42:08] Thank you very much.

[4:42:12] >> robert pizarro.

[4:42:15] Robert earned his bachelor of

[4:42:17] science of civil engineering

[4:42:18] from the university of milan

[4:42:26] philippines, he moved to the

[4:42:27] states in 2018.

[4:42:29] He enlisted with the u.s. Air

[4:42:31] force as an engineering

[4:42:32] technician and was based in

[4:42:34] tucson, arizona for four years.

[4:42:36] He was deployed to saudi arabia

[4:42:38] after his internship with

[4:42:44] klinefelter, he began working

[4:42:45] with trc companies as a

[4:42:47] construction supervisor

[4:42:48] providings support with various

[4:42:50] government agencies.

[4:42:51] Then he became assistant

[4:42:53] engineer with the city of

[4:42:55] vallejo before joining the city

[4:42:56] of antioch as an assistant

[4:42:59] engineer.

[4:42:59] Outside of work, robert enjoys

[4:43:02] working out and spending time

[4:43:04] with his team.

[4:43:06] Robert loves singing karaoke.

[4:43:10] Let’s welcome home robert to the

[4:43:12] team.

[4:43:13] >> good evening, city council,

[4:43:16] councilmembers.

[4:43:17] I’m very dreafl for the

[4:43:19] opportunity to serve my local

[4:43:21] community, because I live here,

[4:43:23] and I’m looking toward to

[4:43:25] contributing to the city and to

[4:43:28] the capital improvements

[4:43:31] infrastructure projects, and

[4:43:32] very dreafl.

[4:43:32] Thank you.

[4:43:34] >> council member freitas:

[4:43:35] thank you.

[4:43:35] [applause]

[4:43:37] >> I didn’t mention, robert’s

[4:43:38] been brought on as assistant

[4:43:41] engineer within the capital

[4:43:43] improvements department.

[4:43:46] All right, theodore rom anno.

[4:43:54] Ted was collections worker 2,

[4:43:59] then became equipment operator.

[4:44:01] Ted was promoted in april of

[4:44:02] this year.

[4:44:04] Let’s congratulate ted on his

[4:44:08] promotion.

[4:44:09] [applause]

[4:44:13] michael walch, michael was lierd

[4:44:15] with the water treatment plant,

[4:44:18] as a trainee, with had his t-2

[4:44:22] in may of 2006.

[4:44:26] Michael was previous cloudy in

[4:44:28] stockton as a water treatment

[4:44:31] plant manager, treatment 2

[4:44:33] operator certificate.

[4:44:35] Michael lives locally with his

[4:44:37] family and two dogs.

[4:44:39] In his spare time he enjoys

[4:44:42] woodworking and metal

[4:44:44] fabrication.

[4:44:45] Let’s welcome michael to the

[4:44:46] team.

[4:44:46] And last on my list but

[4:44:48] definitely not least, salvador

[4:44:56] zestai, salvador was hired as a

[4:44:58] maintenance worker 1 in may.

[4:45:01] He previous was an underground

[4:45:04] locator in martinez where he

[4:45:07] completed utility locations for

[4:45:08] about 17 years.

[4:45:09] He graduated from antioch high

[4:45:11] school and currently lives local

[4:45:13] with his family and pet dog.

[4:45:16] Let’s welcome salvador to the

[4:45:17] team.

[4:45:19] Thank you for your time.

[4:45:20] That’s what we have in public

[4:45:21] works since we met last time.

[4:45:24] >> council member freitas:

[4:45:24] thank you.

[4:45:24] Any other comments on this?

[4:45:26] >> no, I just want to say thank

[4:45:29] you to the hr team for all their

[4:45:31] hard work on hiring and all the

[4:45:33] promotion, so I do want to

[4:45:34] highlight my team for that,

[4:45:37] thank you.

[4:45:39] >> council member torres-walker:

[4:45:40] mayor pro tem I would like to

[4:45:41] make a motion to suspend the

[4:45:42] rules and move item 8 on the

[4:45:45] agenda up to right after item 2,

[4:45:48] write is the proclamation in

[4:45:53] recognition of zeta phi beta

[4:46:00] sorority.

[4:46:01] Move item 8 after the

[4:46:04] proclamation.

[4:46:05] >> council member freitas: is

[4:46:05] there a second to the motion?

[4:46:07] >> I’ll second.

[4:46:08] >> council member freitas: on

[4:46:09] the question, all in favor,

[4:46:10] please say aye.

[4:46:11] Roll call vote.

[4:46:13] >> the clerk: roll call vote.

[4:46:16] Council member wilson is absent,

[4:46:18] council member rocha, yes,

[4:46:21] council member torres-walker,

[4:46:24] aye.

[4:46:24] Mayor pro tem freitas, present.

[4:46:27] Mayor bernal, yes.

[4:46:29] >> the clerk: motion passes

[4:46:31] 4-0 to move item 8 to after

[4:46:34] number 2.

[4:46:39] >> mayor hernandez-thorpe: all

[4:46:40] right, the next is the

[4:46:43] proclamation.

[4:46:43] Could I please ask jocelyn

[4:46:47] norman to please come forward.

[4:46:49] And if you have a team, team can

[4:46:51] come toward as well.

[4:46:58] And my son was in a fraternity

[4:47:01] but I never learned the greek

[4:47:06] alphabet.

[4:47:06] I apologize right at the

[4:47:08] beginning.

[4:47:09] It is zeta,.

[4:47:12] >> zeta.

[4:47:12] >> council member freitas: boy

[4:47:13] it is going to be tough.

[4:47:25] Honoring zeta phi beta sorority,

[4:47:26] incorporated, omega kappa zeta

[4:47:26] chapter

[4:47:29] whereas, zeta phi beta sorority,

[4:47:30] incorporated is an

[4:47:31] international, community

[4:47:31] service-driven organization

[4:47:32] founded on january 16, 1920, at

[4:47:33] howard university in washington,

[4:47:34] d.c.; and

[4:47:34] whereas, on april 12, 2012, the

[4:47:41] omega kappa zeta chapter was

[4:47:42] chartered as a graduate chapter

[4:47:44] serving san joaquin and contra

[4:47:45] costa counties, with a

[4:47:46] longstanding commitment to

[4:47:49] scholarship service, sisterly

[4:47:50] love, and finer womanhood; and

[4:47:52] whereas, for more than a decade,

[4:48:22] the omega kappa zeta chapter has

[4:48:22] strengthened local communities

[4:48:23] through meaningful service,

[4:48:24] including feeding the unhoused,

[4:48:24] awarding scholarships supporting

[4:48:25] youth and education initiatives,

[4:48:26] and promoting elder care and

[4:48:26] wellness; and

[4:48:26] whereas, through its z-hope

[4:48:27] (zetas helping other people

[4:48:28] excel) program and other social

[4:48:28] action initiatives, the chapter

[4:48:29] raises awareness and connects

[4:48:29] residents with resources

[4:48:30] addressing domestic violence,

[4:48:31] breast cancer, human

[4:48:31] trafficking, autism, mental

[4:48:32] health, black infant health

[4:48:33] and other important health and

[4:48:34] social issues; and

[4:48:37] whereas, the omega kappa zeta

[4:48:40] chapter advances social, health,

[4:48:43] and economic justice through

[4:48:44] advocacy, civic engagement,

[4:48:46] voter education and

[4:48:49] mobilization, and initiatives

[4:48:50] such as zeta day on the hill and

[4:48:51] zeta day at the capitol; and

[4:48:53] whereas, the chapter promotes

[4:48:55] stronger communities by

[4:48:57] fostering collaboration between

[4:48:58] law enforcement and residents

[4:49:05] and advocating for equitable

[4:49:06] access to education, healthcare,

[4:49:07] and other essential resources;

[4:49:07] and

[4:49:09] whereas, the city of antioch

[4:49:10] recognizes the omega kappa zeta

[4:49:15] chapter as a valued community

[4:49:17] partner whose continued service,

[4:49:18] leadership, and advocacy help

[4:49:19] empower individuals, strengthen

[4:49:21] families, and improve the

[4:49:22] quality of life throughout the

[4:49:23] region; and

[4:49:28] now, therefore, I, ron bernal,

[4:49:29] mayor of the city of antioch, on

[4:49:30] behalf of the city council

[4:49:40] do hereby honor and recognize

[4:49:40] zeta phi beta sorority,

[4:49:41] incorporated, omega kappa zeta

[4:49:42] chapter for its outstanding

[4:49:43] community service and advocacy,

[4:49:44] and extend our sincere

[4:49:47] appreciation for its unwavering

[4:49:48] dedication to uplifting and

[4:49:49] empowering our communities

[4:49:54] thank you for being here

[4:49:56] tonight.

[4:49:56] >> thank you.

[4:49:58] >> council member freitas:

[4:49:58] please.

[4:50:00] >> we definitely want to thank

[4:50:01] you for having the opportunity

[4:50:02] to be able to serve in your

[4:50:04] community.

[4:50:04] We do serve in, you know, many

[4:50:06] communities but you guys have

[4:50:08] been very welcoming to us and we

[4:50:09] are thankful for the opportunity

[4:50:11] to be able to promote

[4:50:13] scholarship and other things

[4:50:17] that zeta hope provides.

[4:50:21] >> council member freitas: if

[4:50:21] we were interested in joining

[4:50:23] you?

[4:50:23] >> it’s not that easy.

[4:50:25] >> council member freitas:

[4:50:26] perfection is tough to reach, I

[4:50:27] dote it, I get it.

[4:50:28] >> but we have many programs,

[4:50:31] things that -- of that nature.

[4:50:33] You guys are more than welcome

[4:50:34] to go to zetas.com, our social

[4:50:41] media, we’re actually going to

[4:50:42] have a very large program in

[4:50:44] january if you guys wanted to

[4:50:46] attend, it would be in concord,

[4:50:50] california.

[4:50:53] Is that right?

[4:50:54] The last friday in january I can

[4:50:55] get you guys the information,

[4:50:57] we’ll have an opening program at

[4:51:00] 7 p.m. At the hilton concord it

[4:51:03] is open to the public and you

[4:51:05] can see what zetas all over

[4:51:07] california can dough.

[4:51:09] Sf we can actually put it on the

[4:51:11] agenda as an upcoming event

[4:51:12] which might help you.

[4:51:14] So city council is there a

[4:51:15] motion for approval of the

[4:51:19] proclamation?

[4:51:20] >> so improved.

[4:51:25] >> second.

[4:51:25] >> council member freitas:

[4:51:27] tamisha torres-walker moved,

[4:51:34] council member rocha seconded.

[4:51:36] [ roll call.]

[4:51:39] >> the clerk: motion passes

[4:51:43] 4-0.

[4:51:43] >> council member freitas: if

[4:51:43] you wait we’ll be down and

[4:51:44] present this to you.

[4:51:45] If you want to take pictures

[4:51:47] that’s fine too.

[5:03:42] partner up with the chamber to

[5:03:44] \hpartner up with the chamber to

[5:03:44] receive feedback and

[5:03:45] communication with them and

[5:03:46] where they are.

[5:03:48] the chamber of commerce will

[5:03:50] host a lunch and learn event

[5:03:52] wednesday, september 2nd, 11:30

[5:03:55] at the chamber of commerce

[5:03:57] building located on second

[5:03:58] street.

[5:03:58] It’s open to the community and

[5:04:00] public.

[5:04:01] We invite people to come down,

[5:04:04] community member, business owner

[5:04:05] to learn what’s happening down

[5:04:07] there and to get feedback and

[5:04:11] potentially develop a task force

[5:04:13] of stakeholders to address the

[5:04:15] issue so we can come together to

[5:04:17] make improvements that we would

[5:04:18] like to see.

[5:04:20] That’s it.

[5:04:25] >> councilmember torres-walker?

[5:04:27] >> thank you, mayor pro-tem.

[5:04:31] I attended the first -- none of

[5:04:33] my committees met, meetings

[5:04:37] scheduled for september and

[5:04:39] october for the cdbg and october

[5:04:43] for cannabis standing committee.

[5:04:47] I had an opportunity to attend

[5:04:50] the event at the theater with

[5:04:52] the downtown antioch association

[5:04:54] to talk about all things small

[5:04:57] business downtown and also

[5:04:59] security.

[5:05:00] Saturday, I had an opportunity

[5:05:03] to join the contra costa care

[5:05:06] event that went from antioch

[5:05:09] high to the state park.

[5:05:12] It was an amazing event.

[5:05:13] You want to shout out to back on

[5:05:16] track services and nwacp and

[5:05:20] others, boilermakers, unions,

[5:05:22] all of the other sponsors for

[5:05:24] putting that on.

[5:05:25] I’m looking forward to the

[5:05:26] event.

[5:05:26] I believe it’s in pittsburgh

[5:05:28] next year.

[5:05:29] Looking forward to next year.

[5:05:31] I attended the 40 voices

[5:05:35] campaign one year celebration of

[5:05:39] the african-american wellness

[5:05:39] hub in the city of antioch.

[5:05:42] That was an amazing experience.

[5:05:45] I want to continue to thank the

[5:05:46] 40 voices and efforts around

[5:05:49] african-american wellness in the

[5:05:50] city of antioch.

[5:05:56] It seems like every time the

[5:05:59] city of antioch makes national

[5:06:01] news, it’s always for human

[5:06:04] rights and equity violations

[5:06:07] qensviolations against the black

[5:06:09] community and other communities

[5:06:11] of color.

[5:06:12] This time the violations were

[5:06:14] not city departments but

[5:06:16] neighbor to neighbor verbal

[5:06:21] violence, physical assaults, and

[5:06:23] intimidation that has gone

[5:06:25] unchecked in the neighborhood

[5:06:27] for more than a year.

[5:06:30] Last monday I was invited to

[5:06:33] meet ethel by brother mohammed

[5:06:39] to come to her home because a

[5:06:42] group of men had to show up to

[5:06:44] check her property and house and

[5:06:46] that she was safe.

[5:06:47] I got an opportunity to talk

[5:06:50] with ethel and hug her and it

[5:06:53] felt similar to the same hug I

[5:06:57] gave angelo quinto’s thea after

[5:07:03] what happened to him.

[5:07:04] The experience might seem

[5:07:07] different to others, but things

[5:07:09] happen to people and impacts

[5:07:12] them individually.

[5:07:12] Not only their families --

[5:07:14] >> you’re out of order.

[5:07:16] >> it’s not on the agenda.

[5:07:18] >> you are out of order.

[5:07:20] >> that was an amazing

[5:07:22] experience to be invited to the

[5:07:24] space, to have a conversation

[5:07:25] with the young mother, first

[5:07:27] time homeowner and put her

[5:07:29] wishes and hopes and dreams in

[5:07:31] the city of antioch only to be

[5:07:34] continuously called monkeys,

[5:07:36] aprils and racial slurs for what

[5:07:39] seemed like forever from what I

[5:07:41] saw on social media.

[5:07:45] Also, saturday, I was able to

[5:07:48] attend the second gathering of

[5:07:50] pouring of love back in the same

[5:07:52] neighborhood.

[5:07:53] I was not surprised the amount

[5:07:55] of welcome from the neighborhood

[5:07:57] and the residents in the area.

[5:08:01] They were happy to see people

[5:08:03] show up, happy to see people

[5:08:05] show up in love, solidarity and

[5:08:08] in kindness.

[5:08:08] They want to see more of that in

[5:08:12] the community.

[5:08:13] Why is this so harmful to the

[5:08:16] community?

[5:08:17] Why should we consider it to be

[5:08:20] a harm on all of us not just

[5:08:22] black people and black women?

[5:08:25] Since 2025, 20 plus black

[5:08:28] americans have been found hung

[5:08:31] from trees across america.

[5:08:34] 64,000 black women and girls

[5:08:36] have gone missing across this

[5:08:40] country.

[5:08:42] That’s just a slice of what

[5:08:46] people have been experiencing,

[5:08:49] particularly black women in the

[5:08:51] black community.

[5:08:52] We also have a city that 46% of

[5:08:56] the makeup of the city identify

[5:08:59] as foreign born.

[5:09:01] When we think about the violence

[5:09:05] impacting the communities today,

[5:09:07] we have to think about what is

[5:09:08] our responsibility as a city and

[5:09:10] neighbors and residents of

[5:09:14] antioch?

[5:09:15] As brother mohammed said, we are

[5:09:17] stakeholders in the corporation

[5:09:19] called antioch.

[5:09:20] We don’t only have to show up

[5:09:26] with demands, we have to work

[5:09:28] against human rights and racial

[5:09:30] equity violations in the city of

[5:09:32] antioch and say the things that

[5:09:35] happened to ethel and her family

[5:09:38] won’t be tolerated in the city

[5:09:39] and we need to have a

[5:09:42] confirmation to bridge unity so

[5:09:45] we are all on the same page

[5:09:48] moving forward.

[5:09:50] >> mayor pro-tem: next is

[5:09:53] mayor’s comments.

[5:09:57] Mr. Mayor?

[5:09:57] >> mayor ron bernal: thank

[5:09:59] you.

[5:09:59] Before I do that, on the 13th,

[5:10:03] the board met.

[5:10:04] We had an update from tridelta

[5:10:08] transit on the budget and

[5:10:10] service plan for the upcoming

[5:10:13] year, the reduction in service

[5:10:16] they are projecting and budget

[5:10:20] challenges exacerbated if

[5:10:23] proposition 63, sales tax

[5:10:25] measure does not pass this

[5:10:27] november.

[5:10:28] There was discussion about

[5:10:28] that.

[5:10:30] We reviewed and approved

[5:10:32] transportation fund for clean

[5:10:34] air tfca which contributes

[5:10:40] $200,000 toward trauma as well

[5:10:42] as another program called rock

[5:10:44] ’n’ roll which is about $60,000

[5:10:48] towards services that promote

[5:10:52] walking and riding bicycles to

[5:10:56] elementary schools trafficking

[5:10:57] in the neighborhoods.

[5:10:58] Those are a couple of things we

[5:11:00] were talking about at that

[5:11:03] meeting.

[5:11:03] I was able to attend the ribbon

[5:11:07] cutting.

[5:11:08] Mayor pro-tem was there for

[5:11:09] that.

[5:11:12] Councilmember -- not mayor

[5:11:13] pro-tem, councilmember rocha was

[5:11:14] there as well.

[5:11:16] I attended the daa that

[5:11:22] councilmember torres-walker was

[5:11:24] there as well as pro-tem for

[5:11:25] that meeting as well.

[5:11:28] On the 21st, the jacobson park

[5:11:32] ribbon cutting used to be called

[5:11:35] jet park because there was a jet

[5:11:37] parked in the park that kid

[5:11:40] played on.

[5:11:41] It was a wonderful event when we

[5:11:43] were able to bring, I don’t

[5:11:46] know, 70 or 80 people from the

[5:11:48] neighborhood.

[5:11:49] Rising juntas was there,

[5:11:52] different folks.

[5:11:52] It was nice to be able to get to

[5:11:55] meet the young people, the young

[5:11:57] families that were super excited

[5:12:00] about having a beautiful new

[5:12:02] park and playground, basketball

[5:12:08] court built in their

[5:12:09] neighborhood.

[5:12:11] That was positive.

[5:12:11] As far as councilmember

[5:12:17] torres-walker’s comments, the

[5:12:20] racist comments and activity in

[5:12:21] the neighborhood where

[5:12:24] miss baker lives are

[5:12:26] unacceptable, and will not be

[5:12:28] tolerated in our community.

[5:12:30] There needs to be a discussion.

[5:12:32] There needs to be a venue for

[5:12:35] people to come together to be

[5:12:37] able to discuss this really

[5:12:40] important, very volatile

[5:12:45] subject, so I intend and want to

[5:12:47] be part of the discussion with

[5:12:48] the community, and figure out

[5:12:52] how that will happen soon.

[5:12:54] I want to mention that -- I want

[5:12:57] to thank our parks and

[5:13:00] recreation department.

[5:13:01] I stopped by the 101st birthday

[5:13:06] at the community center on lone

[5:13:09] tree.

[5:13:09] The seniors have been at lone

[5:13:12] tree community center for the

[5:13:14] past six months or so, nick

[5:13:18] rodriguez in the process of

[5:13:20] being redone for roof and air

[5:13:22] conditioning and plumbing and a

[5:13:24] lot of things.

[5:13:25] They have been patient in that

[5:13:26] project getting completed, but

[5:13:28] when I went out there, it was a

[5:13:31] really wonderful, beautiful

[5:13:35] event.

[5:13:35] People are dancing.

[5:13:37] June, who runs the recreation

[5:13:39] and senior program, people were

[5:13:43] happy and making the best of

[5:13:46] being displaced, basically, and

[5:13:48] so I want to thank parks and rec

[5:13:51] for stepping up and never

[5:13:53] complaining, always finding a

[5:13:54] way to create not just mediocre

[5:14:01] solutions, but excellent

[5:14:03] solutions when we have to pivot

[5:14:04] and do other things.

[5:14:06] Thank you jim, renee, care

[5:14:11] karen, everyone that works for

[5:14:13] parks and recreation and

[5:14:16] everything you do to make

[5:14:18] antioch a beautiful community as

[5:14:21] it is.

[5:15:15] >> I have my remarks on page 72

[5:15:18] of your packet.

[5:15:19] This is the june 30th report

[5:15:21] that covers the investments that

[5:15:25] we manage on behalf of the

[5:15:27] city.

[5:15:28] Our current market theme

[5:15:30] summarizes what drives markets

[5:15:32] and the factors that we consider

[5:15:34] as we continue to manage the

[5:15:37] portfolio.

[5:15:38] Overall, we characterize the

[5:15:41] current market as remaining,

[5:15:43] noting there are interesting new

[5:15:45] dynamics, contributing to

[5:15:47] economic growth in the united

[5:15:49] states.

[5:15:50] This is ai investment and

[5:15:53] technology spending, namely.

[5:15:57] It looks like we might on the

[5:16:00] cover page if you don’t mind if

[5:16:02] we can turn to page 72.

[5:16:05] Thank you.

[5:16:06] As I’m talking to ai investment

[5:16:09] and technology spending, it

[5:16:11] seems this emerged as an

[5:16:13] important factor contributing to

[5:16:15] economic growth in the u.s. As

[5:16:16] we think about gross domestic

[5:16:20] product.

[5:16:20] That’s the name of the game for

[5:16:22] most of the economists,

[5:16:24] investments we make on behalf of

[5:16:26] the city, we want to see

[5:16:28] continued growth that propels

[5:16:31] and drives the investments we

[5:16:33] make on the city’s behalf.

[5:16:36] Ai has helped to offset what

[5:16:39] might be characterized as a

[5:16:43] modernizing consumer who has

[5:16:44] pulled back on spending with

[5:16:46] declining sentiment we have seen

[5:16:48] over the past several month.

[5:16:50] You may remember from prior

[5:16:53] conversations, I spoke to the

[5:16:55] fed dual mandate speaking to

[5:16:57] their setting of key interest

[5:16:59] rates.

[5:17:00] That defines the fixed income

[5:17:03] bond investments and yields

[5:17:06] generated on investments we make

[5:17:07] on behalf of the city.

[5:17:09] We purchase fixed income assets

[5:17:12] in the portfolio, bonds

[5:17:15] including u.s. Treasuries.

[5:17:16] The fed has a dual mandate for

[5:17:20] maximum good price affordability

[5:17:22] and maximum employment.

[5:17:23] As we think about inflation, the

[5:17:26] real question is whether higher

[5:17:29] energy prices might eventually

[5:17:32] spill over into core goods like

[5:17:35] food, energy, those sorts of

[5:17:38] factors.

[5:17:39] We have seen some uptick in

[5:17:42] those inflationary measures,

[5:17:45] including consumer price index

[5:17:48] and price expenditures.

[5:17:50] Labor, on the other hand, that

[5:17:52] continues to generally remain in

[5:17:54] balance.

[5:17:56] Unemployment has remained steady

[5:18:00] at 4.2%, but as I noted earlier,

[5:18:03] consumer spending is down as

[5:18:05] real wage growth that is after

[5:18:08] inflation has been modest and

[5:18:10] may be pressuring households at

[5:18:12] this time.

[5:18:12] The one other notable factor we

[5:18:16] saw during the quarter since we

[5:18:18] last spoke was the new federal

[5:18:22] reserve chair.

[5:18:24] Fed chair kevin error rorche has

[5:18:30] taken the seat, but the fed left

[5:18:33] key rates untouched but we

[5:18:37] noticed the tone more hawkish

[5:18:43] higher rates coming forward

[5:18:45] toward us.

[5:18:48] Nine anticipating one rate hike

[5:18:51] for 2026 at the june meeting.

[5:18:52] With respect to the markets,

[5:18:54] treasure yields moved higher

[5:18:56] over the quarter over fears that

[5:18:59] inflation might continue to be a

[5:19:01] concern and the fed might be

[5:19:04] leaning hawk issueish,

[5:19:08] increasing rates.

[5:19:08] We continue to find -- a strong

[5:19:35] demand for corporate bonds

[5:19:37] including ai issuance and u.s.

[5:19:41] Treasuries that remain strong.

[5:19:42] >> page 73, the next page speaks

[5:19:45] to treasury yields rising across

[5:19:49] the curve.

[5:19:49] You can see the one year range

[5:19:52] in the blue shaded area, the

[5:19:54] most recent quarter in the dash

[5:19:55] line and where we are june 30th

[5:19:58] on the solid line.

[5:20:00] We are very much on the high end

[5:20:03] of the most recent one year

[5:20:04] range.

[5:20:05] The other change we saw this

[5:20:08] quarter is continued positive

[5:20:11] slope yields within the two to

[5:20:15] ten year maturity ranges of u.s.

[5:20:19] Treasuries.

[5:20:20] The curve has flattened, notably

[5:20:23] in the belly of the curve.

[5:20:25] is within the

[5:20:28] short-term inflation rather than

[5:20:32] long-term growth.

[5:20:34] Page 74 speaks to the two year

[5:20:36] treasury yields.

[5:20:38] I encourage our clients to think

[5:20:41] of this as a wilmington you put

[5:20:43] on the phone as you think about

[5:20:45] where for example the city of

[5:20:48] antioch portfolio is invested.

[5:20:49] You can see the yields moved

[5:20:51] higher over the second quarter

[5:20:57] through june 30th to 4.13%.

[5:21:01] During the quarter, it move up

[5:21:05] 30 basis points, since

[5:21:07] january 1st, the two year

[5:21:09] treasury is 70 to 80 basis

[5:21:13] points higher.

[5:21:14] Some may think the market may

[5:21:17] have overshot this sort of

[5:21:18] pricing, but we would argue that

[5:21:21] we think at a two year -- about

[5:21:25] 4.17% june 30th, this still

[5:21:29] remains to be an attractive

[5:21:31] place for entities, agencies

[5:21:33] like the city of antioch to park

[5:21:36] assets as we think about one

[5:21:39] historic tenure average yields

[5:21:41] for the two year treasury, 20

[5:21:44] year as well, shown on the

[5:21:47] orange and yellow dash lines, as

[5:21:48] well as the monetary policy rate

[5:21:51] set the upper bound has a range

[5:21:55] of 3.75 to 4% at this point in

[5:21:58] time.

[5:21:58] Speaking to the portfolio itself

[5:22:01] on page 75, you will observe

[5:22:03] that the portfolio continues to

[5:22:06] be growing in a solid size of

[5:22:12] 122,000,000.

[5:22:12] This is separate from another

[5:22:16] portfolio managed by pfmam, the

[5:22:20] portfolio that holds about

[5:22:23] 43,000,000.

[5:22:24] As a performance measure, we use

[5:22:26] one to five year u.s. Treasury

[5:22:30] index out performing 46 basis

[5:22:33] points.

[5:22:33] On this page you can see yield

[5:22:36] at cost representing the yield

[5:22:39] portfolio as purchased 4.13% and

[5:22:43] yielded market 4.30%.

[5:22:46] Credit quality continues to be

[5:22:48] high with aa and higher rated

[5:22:52] credits accounting for more than

[5:22:54] 60% of the portfolio, and the

[5:22:57] majority of assets continue to

[5:22:58] be invested in u.s. Treasuries,

[5:23:01] but we continue to diversify

[5:23:03] into other sectors of fixed

[5:23:07] income investing to generate the

[5:23:09] yield on the portfolio.

[5:23:11] The next page speaks to -- let’s

[5:23:16] see.

[5:23:17] Portfolio performance on page 76

[5:23:19] of your packets.

[5:23:21] You can see here quarterly

[5:23:24] interest earningsings during the

[5:23:26] three month period

[5:23:28] $1.2 million.

[5:23:29] There was a negative change in

[5:23:31] market value as rates rose of

[5:23:35] about $536,000, but total

[5:23:37] dollars were returned to the

[5:23:40] portfolio of $675,000.

[5:23:42] The change in market value might

[5:23:44] jump off the page, but this is

[5:23:47] really just a sort of -- I’m

[5:23:49] going to say paper adjustment at

[5:23:51] this point in time.

[5:23:52] These do not reflect realized

[5:23:55] gains or losses, but as a

[5:23:57] performance measure on a total

[5:23:59] return basis, we like to show

[5:24:01] the numbers to you.

[5:24:02] Relative to the benchmark I

[5:24:04] mentioned earlier is a one to

[5:24:06] three year treasury index out

[5:24:09] performed by 17 basis points.

[5:24:12] If we annualize that figure,

[5:24:16] look to 68 basis points during

[5:24:18] the quarter.

[5:24:19] We continue to feel confident in

[5:24:22] the strategy that we pursue on

[5:24:24] behalf of the city relative to

[5:24:26] the annualized results you see

[5:24:28] on this page.

[5:24:29] The in the case page packet page

[5:24:31] 77 shows accrual basis earnings

[5:24:37] that include the earned numbers

[5:24:40] as well as actual realized gains

[5:24:42] and losses that we took as we

[5:24:44] actively managed the portfolio,

[5:24:47] swapping in and out of various

[5:24:49] securities as we found

[5:24:51] appropriate value opportunities

[5:24:53] to invest on the city behalf.

[5:24:55] You can see we tried to minimize

[5:24:57] the realized losses on the page

[5:25:00] during the quarter and there

[5:25:05] were 2,075 in realized losses.

[5:25:09] This quarter a cost of $40,000.

[5:25:13] You see total earnings in excess

[5:25:16] of $1.2 million for the

[5:25:17] quarter.

[5:25:18] So, with that, there is one

[5:25:21] other set of slides I want to

[5:25:24] speak to that begin on page 83

[5:25:26] of your packet.

[5:25:32] Council raised questions about

[5:25:34] potentially extending duration.

[5:25:35] Now, as a reminder, state code

[5:25:38] does allow for holdings that

[5:25:41] mature out to five years.

[5:25:47] Historically there has been a

[5:25:49] preference for safety and

[5:25:52] acquitty by choosing a

[5:25:56] conservative benchmark.

[5:26:04] Prior to 2002, the benchmark was

[5:26:09] shorter, one year u.s. Treasury

[5:26:15] the preference for liquidity has

[5:26:15] been strong.

[5:26:16] What I want to show on these

[5:26:19] slides are historic performance

[5:26:21] for benchmarks that would

[5:26:23] generally be selected by

[5:26:25] california agencies showing

[5:26:29] duration, actual returns as well

[5:26:30] as cumulative growth of

[5:26:34] approximately $100 million.

[5:26:34] I think that’s approximately the

[5:26:36] size of the city’s portfolio.

[5:26:39] This first page shows growth

[5:26:41] over the past ten years.

[5:26:41] %-

[5:26:45] duration strategies in general

[5:26:45] %-

[5:26:48] duration strategies in general

[5:26:48] including the city’s current

[5:26:51] strategy have out performed

[5:26:53] longer duration strategies.

[5:26:54] You can see here the zero to

[5:26:57] three, and the one to three are

[5:26:59] u.s. Treasury index have out

[5:27:03] performed the one to five year

[5:27:06] or what one might characterize a

[5:27:09] longer duration index.

[5:27:11] Despite the duration, one would

[5:27:14] expect, perhaps, higher total

[5:27:16] return, higher cumulative

[5:27:18] growth.

[5:27:18] Over the past decade, that did

[5:27:21] not take place.

[5:27:21] There were factors like the

[5:27:25] pandemic.

[5:27:30] The yield curve that the city

[5:27:31] did purr pursue.

[5:27:34] The story is different on page

[5:27:36] 84.

[5:27:37] If you now look further back to

[5:27:39] 20 years, and this is what one

[5:27:41] would usually expect, longer

[5:27:44] duration strategies have out

[5:27:46] performed shorter duration

[5:27:49] strategies.

[5:27:50] Here you can see a longer

[5:27:53] duration, one to five year

[5:27:55] strategy out performed shorter

[5:27:57] duration strategies including

[5:27:59] the zero to three year by 40

[5:28:02] basis points at the most to

[5:28:05] around 30 basis points relative

[5:28:08] to the current one to three year

[5:28:10] index that the city currently

[5:28:14] pursues.

[5:28:16] The next page speaks to that

[5:28:20] tabular form.

[5:28:20] I wanted to show you rolling

[5:28:23] one, three, five and ten year

[5:28:27] benchmark returns for each of

[5:28:28] the strategies that we pursue,

[5:28:30] and again, you can see that,

[5:28:32] like I mentioned earlier, ten

[5:28:36] year performance has been strong

[5:28:39] for shortage duration strategies

[5:28:42] like the cities.

[5:28:43] One, three and five year returns

[5:28:45] have also been stronger than

[5:28:47] those longer duration strategies

[5:28:49] that again, one would usually

[5:28:55] expect to out perform as one

[5:29:00] would anticipate.

[5:29:00] If I invest longer, I should

[5:29:05] expect to earn more yield from

[5:29:06] my investment.

[5:29:07] In this case, with the

[5:29:09] environment we have been in,

[5:29:10] this has not played out over the

[5:29:13] past ten years.

[5:29:14] Now, the one or two tradeoffs I

[5:29:16] should speak to on the next

[5:29:19] couple of slides, the first one

[5:29:22] is total return volatility.

[5:29:26] As you extend duration on an

[5:29:29] investment portfolio, you would

[5:29:32] expect increased volatility,

[5:29:35] increased changes in total

[5:29:37] returns, and that’s what we

[5:29:39] illustrate on this slide

[5:29:42] historically all the way back to

[5:29:45] 2016.

[5:29:45] You can see here the lighter

[5:29:47] blue line is less volatile than

[5:29:51] the darker blue line than the

[5:29:53] city is currently invested in

[5:29:55] and is even more less volatile

[5:29:59] than the bright yellow line

[5:30:02] showing one to five year

[5:30:04] treasury.

[5:30:04] In addition to potentially

[5:30:07] anticipating that one might have

[5:30:10] additional growth in their

[5:30:12] portfolio for investing longer

[5:30:13] on the yield curve, longer

[5:30:16] duration, one should also expect

[5:30:19] increased volatility.

[5:30:20] That’s the sort of what some

[5:30:24] might characterize as a risk

[5:30:25] return as you think about

[5:30:27] investing further out your

[5:30:31] money.

[5:30:32] Finally, on page 87, I just

[5:30:34] wanted to show you one lever

[5:30:37] that the city actually has taken

[5:30:40] full advantage of that I think

[5:30:44] council should short of pat

[5:30:48] yourselves on the back with.

[5:30:49] The left side of the page shows

[5:31:05] benchmarks in california.

[5:31:07] We are now focused specifically

[5:31:09] on one to three on this slide.

[5:31:24] At the bottom of the page, this

[5:31:27] is the full spectrum of what

[5:31:30] california state code, for

[5:31:32] example, might offer flt at this

[5:31:34] point in time the city

[5:31:37] investment policy takes full

[5:31:39] advantage of california state

[5:31:40] code.

[5:31:40] The right side of the page shows

[5:31:43] the yield pickup or return

[5:31:46] pickup as you increase

[5:31:48] diversification among your

[5:31:50] investment strategy and for a

[5:31:52] one to three year strategy, one

[5:32:03] would expect a return of 2.14%.

[5:32:09] In this case, looking at what

[5:32:11] the city is invested in, the

[5:32:13] full breadth of the state code,

[5:32:15] you see a 20 year total return

[5:32:21] of 2.436% in excess of 20 basis

[5:32:24] points, 22 basis points picked

[5:32:27] up by deploying diversification

[5:32:30] alone.

[5:32:30] I know there is a lot of desire

[5:32:33] perhaps to potentially extend

[5:32:36] duration.

[5:32:52] The city current one to three

[5:32:54] year strategy has done quite

[5:32:56] well and in fact, it has out

[5:32:58] performed the longer duration

[5:33:00] strategies that we might

[5:33:02] typically see from other

[5:33:04] california agencies.

[5:33:05] With that, I’ll pause for any

[5:33:07] other remarks from director

[5:33:11] merchant or manager cortez and

[5:33:14] any questions from the council.

[5:33:15] >> questions or comments?

[5:33:17] >> that concludes the

[5:33:20] presentation.

[5:33:30] We’ll turn it over for

[5:33:33] questions.

[5:33:33] Otherwise, pfm will be back next

[5:33:35] year for the next presentation.

[5:33:38] >> pro-tem: I have a question

[5:33:40] with regards to the portfolio

[5:33:43] snapshot, credit quality, s &

[5:33:46] p.

[5:33:47] I notice 6% not rated.

[5:33:50] What are you investing in?

[5:33:54] >> thank you for the question,

[5:33:57] pray mayor pro-tem freitas.

[5:34:01] The holdings are in compliance

[5:34:04] with california state code as

[5:34:05] well as the city investment

[5:34:07] policy.

[5:34:08] The portfolio snapshot page

[5:34:11] shows the rating from standard &

[5:34:15] poors.

[5:34:17] It is rated by other rating

[5:34:21] agencies including fitch or

[5:34:22] moody’s ratings.

[5:34:25] I know that, that green sliver

[5:34:28] might seem alarming in that it’s

[5:34:30] not rated.

[5:34:31] It is in fact rated.

[5:34:33] We can only show s & p with the

[5:34:36] pie chart, the holdings are

[5:34:38] rated.

[5:34:38] >> when I saw 6%, I have to tell

[5:34:43] you, I became immediately

[5:34:44] concerned.

[5:34:45] I might suggest that you simply

[5:34:48] put in parenthesis -- standard &

[5:34:55] poors rated.

[5:34:56] Anyone reading that in the

[5:34:59] financial markets would have

[5:35:01] concerns.

[5:35:01] Other questions of city

[5:35:04] council?

[5:35:17] >> mayor ron mayor ron bernal: thank you

[5:35:24] for your explanation and how

[5:35:26] ours has performed well, which

[5:35:28] is great news to hear.

[5:35:30] >> pro-tem: city treasurer, do

[5:35:33] you have comments to council?

[5:35:36] Are there any public comments or

[5:35:38] remote comments?

[5:35:39] >> clerk: we have no public

[5:35:41] comments.

[5:35:43] No remote comments.

[5:35:44] >> pro-tem: thank you for the

[5:35:46] presentation.

[5:35:47] >> pro-tem: I would like to

[5:35:50] suggest to council since we have

[5:35:52] been in session since 3:30,

[5:35:54] we’ll take an eight minute

[5:35:57] break.

[5:35:57] We’ll come back at 9:05.

[5:36:11] Meeting is in recess at

[5:36:17] 8:58 p.m.

[5:45:03] >> pro-tem: council is back in

[5:45:07] session.

[5:45:07] Please call the roll.

[5:45:08] >> thank you, councilmember

[5:45:11] monica wilson absent.

[5:45:13] Councilmember rocha?

[5:45:15] Councilmember torres-walker.

[5:45:17] Mayor pro-tem?

[5:45:20] Mayor bernal?

[5:45:20] We have a quorum at 9:07 p.m.

[5:45:24] >> pro-tem: next is the

[5:45:27] consent calendar.

[5:45:27] Is there any item the public

[5:45:30] wants pulled?

[5:45:31] >> we have no items to be pulled

[5:45:33] for the public.

[5:45:34] >> from the city council?

[5:45:37] >> mayor ron bernal: I would

[5:45:40] like to pull item k.

[5:45:47] >> pro-tem: so far, it’s h and

[5:45:51] k.

[5:45:51] Is there a motion approving the

[5:45:53] rest of the consent calendar

[5:45:56] minus items h and k.

[5:45:58] >> councilmember rocha moves.

[5:46:08] >> second.

[5:46:09] Councilmember torres-walker

[5:46:13] seconds.

[5:46:14] I tell ya.

[5:46:20] Taco, walker -- I don’t know.

[5:46:21] Can you please call the roll?

[5:46:27] >> clerk: councilmember rocha in

[5:46:28] councilmember torres-walker.

[5:46:30] Mayor pro-tem.

[5:46:32] Mayor bernal?

[5:46:33] Thank you.

[5:46:34] Motion passes, 4-0.

[5:46:36] >> we move to item eight,

[5:46:40] consideration of bids for the

[5:46:44] traffic calming improvements,

[5:46:50] >> I’m not pulling the item

[5:46:52] because I’m not supporting it.

[5:46:56] I pulled the item for

[5:46:58] information.

[5:47:00] James donlon has been an ongoing

[5:47:02] concern to the community because

[5:47:03] of the tragic auto accidents

[5:47:07] that occurred.

[5:47:09] It has come up before.

[5:47:13] I support item h, but I would

[5:47:14] like to know more about how the

[5:47:18] projects move forward, one

[5:47:20] before the other.

[5:47:21] I’m not sure how that happens.

[5:47:23] I’m not speaking against the

[5:47:25] item.

[5:47:25] Time and time again I get calls

[5:47:28] and concerns from the community

[5:47:30] related to james donnellan.

[5:47:33] I continue to question, what

[5:47:35] about james donnellan?

[5:47:37] If you can please clarify where

[5:47:39] we are with the project and

[5:47:42] others in the pipeline

[5:47:45] accumulating to move forward?

[5:47:46] >> I would love to.

[5:47:48] Keep the projects within the

[5:47:50] traffic calming portion of what

[5:47:52] we do.

[5:47:53] This project we are looking at

[5:47:57] tonight is traffic calming on

[5:48:00] sycamore, the entire length of

[5:48:03] sycamore project queued up a

[5:48:05] year or two ago.

[5:48:06] As a result, there are other

[5:48:09] accidents out there.

[5:48:09] were accidents brought up

[5:48:12] as an area of concern.

[5:48:14] James donnellan had the same

[5:48:17] issues, also brought up as a

[5:48:18] street of concern as well as

[5:48:21] tenth street, three projects set

[5:48:24] up to implement traffic calming

[5:48:26] within.

[5:48:26] At that point, sycamore was the

[5:48:29] priority at the time.

[5:48:30] That’s a project we worked on

[5:48:32] and are now rolling out.

[5:48:34] James donnellan is the second

[5:48:35] project.

[5:48:36] We have a good set of plans to

[5:48:38] work with.

[5:48:39] That project will be out forbid

[5:48:40] this fall.

[5:48:42] Then there will be construction

[5:48:45] happening in winter to spring

[5:48:48] depending on how that goes.

[5:48:49] That’s in the works.

[5:48:51] That project will be out to bid

[5:48:53] this fall, and that will be

[5:48:56] followed up.

[5:48:57] Tenth street a residential sort

[5:48:58] of area, not as easy to

[5:49:02] manipulate as other roads.

[5:49:03] It’s in the works.

[5:49:05] It’s similar to what we are

[5:49:09] working on, separation between

[5:49:11] bikes and cars, putting up new

[5:49:14] striping and signage in the

[5:49:15] area.

[5:49:16] James donnellan has a mechanism

[5:49:20] to help with a crossing on the

[5:49:22] trails out tr.

[5:49:23] There.

[5:49:24] \hthere.

[5:49:24] The prompt project is in the

[5:49:27] queue.

[5:49:27] A lot of design is done looking

[5:49:29] to roll that out in the fall.

[5:49:31] When this was set up a couple of

[5:49:33] years ago, it was sycamore,

[5:49:36] james donnellan, tenth street.

[5:49:39] That’s how we are rolling it

[5:49:40] out.

[5:49:41] Things are delayed a bit.

[5:49:43] There is limited staffing.

[5:49:44] Another thing having to do with

[5:49:46] traffic calming, we did just

[5:49:49] open bids today for neighborhood

[5:49:52] traffic calming project which

[5:49:54] people typically call speed

[5:49:56] bumps.

[5:49:56] We had a good price on the

[5:49:58] project.

[5:49:58] It looks like we might be able

[5:50:01] to extend the facilities, add a

[5:50:04] couple of more to the contract.

[5:50:05] We’ll reach out to a few other

[5:50:08] neighborhoods we didn’t think we

[5:50:09] would get to with this contract

[5:50:12] and install traffic calming.

[5:50:15] There are speed bumps in this

[5:50:17] case.

[5:50:19] The program isn’t designed just

[5:50:21] for speed bumps.

[5:50:23] That project was open today.

[5:50:25] We saw what the bids would look

[5:50:27] like.

[5:50:27] I’ll be coming back to you at

[5:50:29] our next meeting to hopefully,

[5:50:33] award the project.

[5:50:33] >> I wanted clarification.

[5:50:35] I have seen the work done on l

[5:50:38] street to the high school, looks

[5:50:40] wonderful.

[5:50:40] There is a need in sick more in sycamore to l. Street.

[5:50:49] There is a need for that.

[5:50:50] I’m not questioning the

[5:50:52] project.

[5:50:52] I wanted to know whatever you

[5:50:56] can do to help better

[5:50:58] communicate to our residents

[5:51:01] where things are.

[5:51:02] I get calls, e-mails on a

[5:51:05] regular basis about james

[5:51:08] donnellan and I’m always looking

[5:51:09] for an answer as far as where we

[5:51:13] are and a timeline.

[5:51:14] Your information tonight is

[5:51:15] helpful.

[5:51:16] >> that’s where we’ll be.

[5:51:18] It will go out this fall.

[5:51:21] Capital improvement trying to

[5:51:22] staff up, get back in order.

[5:51:24] Give us a year, and we’ll lay

[5:51:26] things out better.

[5:51:28] Yeah, that’s the plan.

[5:51:29] This is an excellent project to

[5:51:32] help pedestrians in the areas.

[5:51:34] I like to say sycamore is out

[5:51:36] there.

[5:51:36] This is a project recently

[5:51:39] completed as well as the second

[5:51:41] phase of l street that will roll

[5:51:43] out in a year or so.

[5:51:45] It’s all working in the same

[5:51:48] corridor.

[5:51:48] >> pro-tem: any other

[5:51:52] questions?

[5:51:53] Mr. Mayor?

[5:51:54] ron bernal bidding opened

[5:51:57] today.

[5:51:57] Are there intersecting calming

[5:52:00] traffic improvements?

[5:52:01] One of the biggest complaints I

[5:52:04] hear about is side shows and

[5:52:08] don’ts at intersections.

[5:52:09] Other cities have measures to

[5:52:11] reduce those, the possibility of

[5:52:13] those happening.

[5:52:14] Are those built into our traffic

[5:52:17] calming project that you

[5:52:20] mentioned?

[5:52:40] We are working through the

[5:52:42] geometry of that.

[5:52:43] We are aware.

[5:52:44] Hopefully there are key

[5:52:47] intersections to get traffic

[5:52:48] calming out there to reduce

[5:52:49] this.

[5:52:50] It’s in the process as you might

[5:52:53] know.

[5:52:54] We are trying to find something

[5:52:56] lay out to work.

[5:52:57] We have tried to use pavement

[5:53:00] markers.

[5:53:01] They are not much of a

[5:53:02] deterrent.

[5:53:03] To put something out there to

[5:53:05] minimize the area within the

[5:53:07] middle, likely it will be

[5:53:09] bringing something to the

[5:53:11] intersection, almost an

[5:53:12] extension of the center median

[5:53:13] that comes in to go into the

[5:53:16] intersection, keeping radiusable

[5:53:22] to happen and a speed bump

[5:53:25] someone would not want to drive

[5:53:26] over.

[5:53:26] >> similar to what we did at the

[5:53:29] dallas ranch in pruitt top of

[5:53:31] the hill, delineators at the

[5:53:35] street to stop the side shows

[5:53:37] and people racing at the

[5:53:39] intersection.

[5:53:39] Is there something to try on an

[5:53:44] interim basis to try to get

[5:53:45] something on the pavement.

[5:53:46] >> that is my plan.

[5:53:48] I have been working with the

[5:53:51] traffic consultant laying it out

[5:53:52] to work.

[5:53:53] It will be done with striping

[5:53:57] changes.

[5:53:58] It wouldn’t be major

[5:53:59] construction.

[5:54:00] I want to get something rolled

[5:54:02] out relatively soon.

[5:54:03] We are working on it.

[5:54:05] I need to see what the geometry

[5:54:09] looks like.

[5:54:16] Frederiksen has issues.

[5:54:18] There are two major issues for

[5:54:21] residents that might need side

[5:54:24] show deterrent, I would call

[5:54:26] it.

[5:54:26] >> thank you.

[5:54:30] >> councilmember torres-walker:

[5:54:32] my question is, do we

[5:54:34] \hmy question is, do we

[5:54:34] understand the difference

[5:54:36] between a large scale side show

[5:54:39] at an intersection and someone

[5:54:41] burning out in one car in the

[5:54:45] neighborhood.

[5:54:52] The main difference for us in

[5:54:54] terms of engineering, the things

[5:54:55] are happening in residential

[5:54:57] areas, two lane roads, easier

[5:55:00] for me to control to build

[5:55:02] something into the intersection

[5:55:03] take the two lane road and make

[5:55:05] it a closed off intersection.

[5:55:09] Larger intersections, four lane

[5:55:11] intersections, that’s more

[5:55:12] difficult to put something in

[5:55:13] the road to deter it.

[5:55:17] Major v. One person, a lot of it

[5:55:20] may be the complaints we are

[5:55:22] getting.

[5:55:22] How often is it happening?

[5:55:26] Once, not something we’ll react

[5:55:29] compared to calls keep coming.

[5:55:31] There are areas you can see on

[5:55:33] the pavement it’s happened more

[5:55:34] than once.

[5:55:35] >> councilmember torres-walker:

[5:55:37] the reason I asked the

[5:55:39] \hthe reason I asked the

[5:55:39] question, I’m not against

[5:55:45] focusing on smaller

[5:55:50] neighborhoods.

[5:55:58] The small two lane roads in the

[5:56:01] neighborhood, getting something

[5:56:03] to happen there.

[5:56:03] The larger intersections, blue

[5:56:07] rock and east 18th, cavalo and

[5:56:12] east 18th.

[5:56:13] The bigger intersections, what

[5:56:15] is possible there?

[5:56:15] >> again, there is

[5:56:17] possibilities, but they are not

[5:56:20] typically what I’m looking at

[5:56:23] now.

[5:57:10] >> we have no public comments.

[5:57:13] >> council, consideration?

[5:57:15] >> I move to approve.

[5:57:16] >> rocha moves.

[5:57:18] >> torres-walker seconds.

[5:57:24] >> councilmember wilson absent.

[5:57:28] Couple rocha?

[5:57:28] >> councilmember torres-walker?

[5:57:30] >> mayor pro-tem freitas?

[5:57:33] Mayor bern nal?

[5:57:34] Motion passes, 4-0.

[5:57:40] Item k, professional services

[5:57:43] agreement with consulting llc

[5:57:46] for settlement agreement

[5:57:48] requiring services $150,000

[5:57:52] annually fiscal year 2026-27

[5:57:54] budget amendment.

[5:57:58] Captain?

[5:57:58] >> good evening, mayor, council,

[5:58:00] city, staff, members of the

[5:58:03] community, I’m here to answer

[5:58:04] questions you may have regarding

[5:58:06] this proposed amendment.

[5:58:10] >> mayor ron bernal: thank

[5:58:14] you, captain bower.

[5:58:15] The request is for an amount of

[5:58:19] $150,000 annually, and we talked

[5:58:22] about how the compensation

[5:58:23] occurs, it says to be paid

[5:58:26] monthly in $12,500 installments,

[5:58:30] so, first of all, this will

[5:58:33] create a $400,000 annual budget

[5:58:36] for both the doj and the alan

[5:58:41] the allen settlement.

[5:58:43] That’s at the consultant’s rate,

[5:58:46] which I believe is $210 an hour,

[5:58:49] 2,000 hours a year, full time.

[5:58:52] This is like a full time gig to

[5:58:55] do both of these.

[5:58:56] That was the first question is,

[5:59:01] now that he has been doing this

[5:59:04] for a while, I’m sure he has a

[5:59:07] good understanding of what it

[5:59:08] takes to do both of these.

[5:59:10] The allen will be newer.

[5:59:12] There are new measures.

[5:59:14] The other part of it is, my

[5:59:17] understanding this is paid on an

[5:59:19] hourly basis on the part of it

[5:59:24] that’s $250,000 portion of it,

[5:59:26] so I was wondering why this is a

[5:59:28] flat rate of $12,500 a month,

[5:59:33] hourly as well based upon the

[5:59:34] need, and then if it’s 150, it’s

[5:59:38] 150 or less, it’s less.

[5:59:40] That’s my question.

[5:59:43] >> per the original contract as

[5:59:45] you stated, it’s based on hourly

[5:59:49] not to exceed $250,000.

[5:59:51] Both of these agreements or

[5:59:54] settlements overlap in a lot of

[5:59:55] areas, there are separate and

[5:59:57] distinct portions of the allen

[5:59:58] agreement.

[5:59:59] This way the billing would not

[6:00:02] be convoluted in that.

[6:00:05] The 12,500 is a flat rate easier

[6:00:07] for the city to track.

[6:00:09] Essentially, we would likely get

[6:00:11] more hours out of it than the

[6:00:17] 210-dollar rate that he’s

[6:00:19] working on the doj agreement.

[6:00:22] If it’s billed solely as hourly,

[6:00:25] it could convolute what work is

[6:00:28] done in each area separate from

[6:00:31] what overlaps.

[6:00:33] >> let me tag on here.

[6:00:35] I’m opposed to 12,500 quarterly

[6:00:39] billing.

[6:00:40] I think it’s wrong.

[6:00:43] I also have an h rbac ground.

[6:00:46] The 250,000 on $210 an hour,

[6:00:55] 1,190 hours of work, 150,000,

[6:00:59] 71% increase, that’s an

[6:01:01] additional 714 hours.

[6:01:04] It is -- 1,905 hours.

[6:01:09] If an employee were to work 40

[6:01:11] hours a week for the whole year

[6:01:14] never take one hour for vacation

[6:01:16] or one our for sick leave,

[6:01:22] that’s 2,080 hours.

[6:01:23] This is almost a complete full

[6:01:26] time position which I question.

[6:01:30] The other part of this is that

[6:01:34] not only am I opposed to the

[6:01:37] quarterly billing, because

[6:01:39] it’s -- you have to have two

[6:01:40] work order numbers.

[6:01:42] Are you working on one, if it’s

[6:01:44] one part of the doj agreement,

[6:01:48] or the other, charge to the

[6:01:50] other order.

[6:01:51] Lots of people in city

[6:01:53] government have multiple work

[6:01:55] hours an charge that come out in

[6:01:56] finance.

[6:01:57] The other concern that I

[6:02:00] understood is that basically,

[6:02:03] when he leaves his home in

[6:02:06] martinez and comes to antioch,

[6:02:08] charges an hourly rate.

[6:02:09] I have a problem with that.

[6:02:11] If it took an hour -- I commuted

[6:02:16] 30 years between antioch and

[6:02:19] martinez, morning commute an

[6:02:21] hour or hour and a half, the a-

[6:02:26] afternoon, the same thing.

[6:02:32] That’s $105 we are paying for

[6:02:33] him to come to this office.

[6:02:37] No.

[6:02:37] I have supervisorred hundreds of

[6:02:39] thousands or millions of dollars

[6:02:41] in contracts.

[6:02:41] I have no problem paying

[6:02:44] mileage, but not to use the

[6:02:46] labor rate.

[6:02:49] That’s wrong.

[6:02:51] I am asking the city manager, if

[6:02:57] our consultant services

[6:03:00] agreement are paid by the labor

[6:03:02] rate, then we need to find that

[6:03:04] out, and we need to delete it.

[6:03:07] We need to pay mileage.

[6:03:09] That’s why mileage reimbursement

[6:03:11] exists.

[6:03:12] That’s why the federal

[6:03:14] government establishes it.

[6:03:15] I have a very difficult time

[6:03:16] with the 71% increase for

[6:03:22] $400,000 contract for work that,

[6:03:24] as you mentioned, there is a lot

[6:03:27] of similarities, and I am

[6:03:31] absolutely opposed to the 12,500

[6:03:33] quarterly.

[6:03:34] That could mean you could be on

[6:03:36] vacation for a month and get

[6:03:39] $12,500.

[6:03:40] That’s wrong.

[6:03:42] I’m not supporting this.

[6:03:44] The other part I have a problem

[6:03:46] with the staff report is that,

[6:03:48] excuse me, I specifically asked,

[6:03:51] and the reason why this is on

[6:03:52] the agenda tonight, I wanted to

[6:03:55] see the billings.

[6:03:57] I wanted to see what was being

[6:04:00] charged for what type of work.

[6:04:02] It was not included.

[6:04:04] So, that’s still an outstanding

[6:04:07] question I want to see what we

[6:04:08] are paying for.

[6:04:12] This contract for 400,000 if a

[6:04:42] motion is made, I’ll be voting

[6:04:44] against this.

[6:04:45] Comments?

[6:04:46] Consideration?

[6:04:47] >> mayor ron bernal: I have a

[6:04:49] question for the city manager.

[6:05:22] >> the invoice -- I’m not sure

[6:05:28] what the invoices look like

[6:05:30] prior to cost.

[6:05:31] >> I don’t know.

[6:05:31] I didn’t know that was requested

[6:05:33] in the staff report.

[6:05:36] >> that’s the reason it’s back

[6:05:39] here.

[6:05:40] I would like to see, you know,

[6:05:42] all of the hours.

[6:05:45] It’s not your fault.

[6:05:46] It was requested.

[6:05:47] I was surprised not to see it

[6:05:50] attached.

[6:05:51] It is what it is.

[6:05:52] The other question, I don’t know

[6:05:55] if he is a calpers member, but

[6:05:59] is there impact between the

[6:06:00] services agreement and calpers

[6:06:04] retirement and obligation the

[6:06:05] city has with regards to

[6:06:08] calpers?

[6:06:09] >> we would need to be sure the

[6:06:12] services he’s provided, he’s

[6:06:15] acting as a consultant.

[6:06:18] >> we have other individuals

[6:06:20] with consulting services

[6:06:21] agreement.

[6:06:22] I’m curious if there is issue

[6:06:24] that we need to take a look at

[6:06:26] and review.

[6:06:27] >> yes.

[6:06:28] I can go back to make sure that

[6:06:30] the scope of work being

[6:06:32] performed is completely

[6:06:35] separate.

[6:06:36] >> pro-tem: is there any

[6:06:39] consideration?

[6:06:39] >> I have a question for captain

[6:06:42] bower.

[6:06:42] What is the time line for this

[6:06:46] needing to be executed as far as

[6:06:48] this work?

[6:06:49] I know the allen agreement is

[6:06:52] completed.

[6:06:52] I suspect the police department

[6:06:54] is pursuing working on terms.

[6:06:56] What is the timing of this being

[6:07:00] approved?

[6:07:00] >> currently, we are in the

[6:07:01] process.

[6:07:03] The agreement -- the settlement

[6:07:04] has been inc.ked. I thinked.

[6:07:07] We haveiinked.

[6:07:15] It’s important that though they

[6:07:17] overlap, there is a lot of

[6:07:20] additional work.

[6:07:22] It’s in the doj report or

[6:07:25] agreement.

[6:07:25] I think it’s also important to

[6:07:27] understand how much work that

[6:07:28] is.

[6:07:31] The early intervention system

[6:07:32] alone, the draft he has written,

[6:07:38] not even part of the doj

[6:07:40] agreement, just preparation for

[6:07:42] this, looking at that, my

[6:07:45] experience with early

[6:07:47] intervention in the department,

[6:07:48] this exceeds what you find?

[6:07:51] Most places and implementing

[6:07:53] that will be a challenge.

[6:07:54] There is a significant amount of

[6:07:56] work.

[6:07:57] I understand the percent

[6:07:59] increase and dollar amount, but

[6:08:01] there presents challenges as if,

[6:08:03] not this, what is our

[6:08:05] alternative?

[6:08:06] What does that do?

[6:08:07] It puts us behind the curve on

[6:08:10] meeting the substantial

[6:08:13] compliance requirements.

[6:08:14] >> mayor ron bernal: correct.

[6:08:16] That’s not my goal here to put

[6:08:18] us behind the curve or delay the

[6:08:21] satisfaction of the settlement,

[6:08:25] so --

[6:08:25] >> my comment is that there is

[6:08:27] no question.

[6:08:29] I support working with the

[6:08:31] existing consultant as

[6:08:40] identifying as the reason for

[6:08:42] this t. The main issue is

[6:08:44] questions about

[6:08:46] transportation -- you said

[6:08:48] mileage v. Being paid point a to

[6:08:52] point b, compensation is the

[6:08:53] only question.

[6:08:54] We need to work through that,

[6:08:56] come to agreement and move

[6:08:57] forward.

[6:08:57] I think some of these matters

[6:09:00] need to be resolved in terms of

[6:09:02] the driving issue.

[6:09:03] I think that definitely needs to

[6:09:05] be resolved.

[6:09:08] >> is it true for all

[6:09:11] agreements?

[6:09:11] Is it the standard for the city

[6:09:14] of antioch?

[6:09:15] If it is, it needs to come back

[6:09:18] for discussion.

[6:09:18] >> I support the item before

[6:09:20] us.

[6:09:20] I think we need to adjust how we

[6:09:23] are being -- how the individual

[6:09:25] is being compensated with one

[6:09:28] contract versus the other,

[6:09:32] making sure it’s consistent, how

[6:09:34] we are doing business and being

[6:09:37] fiscally responsible in all

[6:09:39] contracts we do.

[6:09:40] There are valid questions of

[6:09:42] points being made here.

[6:09:44] There is no doubt in my opinion

[6:09:46] that we need to proceed forward

[6:09:48] for reasons identified in the

[6:09:50] particular report.

[6:09:51] >> pro-tem: the question is,

[6:09:56] the fiscal nature of this.

[6:09:58] I have objection to paying

[6:10:03] quarterly.

[6:10:03] That’s me.

[6:10:05] >> councilmember torres-walker:

[6:10:09] thank you for the report.

[6:10:12] \hthank you for the report.

[6:10:12] My biggest concern was similar

[6:10:14] to the question around the mayor

[6:10:17] related to compliance.

[6:10:18] What is the potential timeline

[6:10:20] on getting some of these

[6:10:22] questions answered from the city

[6:10:24] because it’s not lost on me that

[6:10:26] all of these meetings and

[6:10:28] conversations are being observed

[6:10:31] and what I don’t want is for

[6:10:33] there to be like a complaint

[6:10:39] filed that we are not moving

[6:10:44] forward to be in compliance by

[6:10:48] the arpa settlement agreement.

[6:11:09] >> we signed agreement seven

[6:11:12] months ago.

[6:11:12] The expectations are that we

[6:11:14] begin work immediately.

[6:11:16] He is not being compensated but

[6:11:20] he’s been working on it since we

[6:11:23] inked the deal.

[6:11:24] They have concerns over the lack

[6:11:26] of movement in particular to

[6:11:28] some things outside of our

[6:11:30] control as it relates to city

[6:11:32] staff.

[6:11:33] The biggest point they brought

[6:11:38] up and why the agreements take

[6:11:39] so long to get off the ground,

[6:11:42] the interpretation of said

[6:11:43] agreement changes and we see

[6:11:46] pieces of that with miss scott

[6:11:49] not being here anymore.

[6:11:50] It came up in the last meeting

[6:11:51] with the law firm.

[6:11:52] They have concerns and whether

[6:11:54] this will move forward or

[6:11:56] continue to be kicked around.

[6:11:58] We assured them we are doing

[6:11:59] everything we can to move it

[6:12:01] forward.

[6:12:02] If it’s a matter of working on

[6:12:04] some of the financials within

[6:12:05] the agreement, I have no doubt

[6:12:07] in my mind we’ll have something

[6:12:09] back to you asap.

[6:12:18] There is more work in this

[6:12:20] agreement than the doj.

[6:12:21] We are talking about building

[6:12:23] systems that don’t exist in this

[6:12:25] city and agency right now.

[6:12:27] We are talking about building

[6:12:29] analytical requirements that

[6:12:33] don’t exist.

[6:12:52] We are ready to move forward in

[6:12:54] different areas already.

[6:12:55] This is one more thing we are

[6:12:58] waiting onen.

[6:13:01] I’m sure we can work out the

[6:13:05] financials.

[6:13:05] We wanted to see the billing for

[6:13:07] the other agreement.

[6:13:08] That’s an easy fix.

[6:13:09] This is a totally different

[6:13:11] agreement than the doj

[6:13:14] agreement.

[6:13:21] >> I would thank you, chief.

[6:13:26] I would suggest to the mayor and

[6:13:28] this council that maybe there is

[6:13:31] a special meeting that needs to

[6:13:32] be called to address this

[6:13:36] because as far as I’m aware,

[6:13:38] there are concerns on the other

[6:13:41] side that we are dragging our

[6:13:43] feet and I also get the concerns

[6:13:45] on this side around getting

[6:13:47] clarity, and I would hate to see

[6:13:50] us back in court litigating this

[6:13:52] all over again.

[6:14:00] >> pro-tem: this could have

[6:14:04] been done.

[6:14:06] If a councilmember makes the

[6:14:07] request and it’s ignored, that

[6:14:10] causes a delay.

[6:14:12] >> is this something to put on

[6:14:14] the calendar for the 8th.

[6:14:16] >> pro-tem: I won’t be here.

[6:14:19] I understand the urgency.

[6:14:21] We have a fiduciary

[6:14:25] responsibility, oversight

[6:14:26] responsibility.

[6:14:26] That is our role.

[6:14:28] There are issues that frankly, I

[6:14:31] feel, need to be addressed.

[6:14:32] If the council wants to make a

[6:14:34] motion to approve it, go ahead.

[6:14:39] >> councilmember torres-walker:

[6:14:41] I’m not suggesting the a, I’m

[6:14:45] \hi’m not suggesting the a, I’m

[6:14:45] suggesting that we are in risk

[6:14:48] of being in violation of the

[6:14:51] settlement agreement and we call

[6:14:52] a special meeting for any and

[6:14:54] everything else.

[6:14:55] Can we call a special meeting to

[6:14:58] address this issue before the

[6:15:00] eighth?

[6:15:01] >> we can.

[6:15:02] We need to confirm we’ll have

[6:15:06] quorum.

[6:15:07] That’s up to the mayor if he

[6:15:10] wants to authorize that.

[6:15:12] >> is the motion to table --

[6:15:15] >> there is no motion, so there

[6:15:18] is no action.

[6:15:19] Unless you want to make a

[6:15:20] motion.

[6:15:21] >> councilmember torres-walker:

[6:15:24] we need action for it to come

[6:15:27] \hwe need action for it to come

[6:15:27] back.

[6:15:27] >> pro-tem: the city manager

[6:15:31] will coordinate it to bring it

[6:15:33] back.

[6:15:35] Miss cortez?

[6:15:36] >> yes, I have to make sure we

[6:15:39] have a quorum.

[6:15:42] I’ll pool the quorum.

[6:15:47] >> pro-tem: no action on item

[6:15:51] k.

[6:15:56] Public hearing, item 7,

[6:16:06] resolution accepting and

[6:16:08] adopting the 2025 urban water

[6:16:10] management plan and water

[6:16:12] shortage contingency plan.

[6:16:13] >> thank you, city council.

[6:16:15] We have a public hearing

[6:16:17] regarding the 2025 urban water

[6:16:20] management plan and water

[6:16:22] shortage contingency plan.

[6:16:24] Our staff recommends approving

[6:16:26] the plan and authorizing the

[6:16:30] city staff to submit the

[6:16:32] documents to the department of

[6:16:34] water resource incorporating

[6:16:36] comments we have at the close of

[6:16:37] the public hearing.

[6:16:40] I have beau with black water

[6:16:46] engineering consultants

[6:16:47] proponent for the public

[6:16:48] hearing.

[6:16:49] Thank you.

[6:16:50] >> pro-tem: I will open up the

[6:16:53] public hearing.

[6:17:12] >> hello, mayor, mayor pro-tem,

[6:17:16] city council members and city

[6:17:19] staff.

[6:17:21] My name is beau.

[6:17:24] I’m here today to present the

[6:17:27] 2025 urban water management plan

[6:17:29] and also the water shortage

[6:17:33] contingency plan for the city of

[6:17:36] antioch.

[6:17:46] Per the urban water planning

[6:17:50] management act, ab797, the state

[6:17:54] choirs requires that an agency

[6:17:59] serving 3,000 connections or

[6:18:02] providing 3,000-acre feet of

[6:18:04] water for the water management

[6:18:06] plan.

[6:18:06] Since the city supplies water to

[6:18:09] 34,000 service connections, the

[6:18:11] city is considered an urban

[6:18:13] water supplier and is required

[6:18:15] by the state to prepare and

[6:18:19] adopt the urban water management

[6:18:22] plan every five years.

[6:18:23] This is required in order for

[6:18:25] the city to be eligible for

[6:18:26] state grants and loans.

[6:18:29] The purpose of the urban water

[6:18:32] management plan is to evaluate

[6:18:36] future demands, assess available

[6:18:38] supplies, prepare for drought

[6:18:40] conditions and identify

[6:18:43] conservations and infrastructure

[6:18:45] improvements, maintain reliable

[6:18:47] service.

[6:18:49] Basically, the main goal is to

[6:18:50] make sure the city has enough

[6:18:52] water supply to serve existing

[6:18:55] and future customers.

[6:18:59] The slide shows an overview of

[6:19:04] the 2025 urban water management

[6:19:06] plan prepared to meet the

[6:19:08] requirements of the 2025 urban

[6:19:12] water management plan guide

[6:19:12] book.

[6:19:13] The document goes over the state

[6:19:16] requirements needed to prepare

[6:19:18] the urban water management plan

[6:19:22] supply the city’s water supply

[6:19:25] and demand and the baseline and

[6:19:28] targets in which the city has to

[6:19:30] meet.

[6:19:31] The document goes over the water

[6:19:33] service reliability, drought

[6:19:35] risk assessment, water shortage

[6:19:39] contingency plan and demand

[6:19:41] management measures.

[6:19:44] Finally, the urban water

[6:19:47] management plan goes over the

[6:19:50] adoption implementation.

[6:19:54] There has been a few changes to

[6:19:56] the urban water management plan

[6:19:57] since the last update.

[6:20:01] Per section 1.1 of the urban

[6:20:04] management plan guide book

[6:20:06] finalized in january 2026, the

[6:20:09] section shows the minor

[6:20:11] adjustments.

[6:20:12] The first one is minor

[6:20:15] adjustments to water code.

[6:20:17] This has been reflected in the

[6:20:21] city’s 2025 urban water

[6:20:22] management plan.

[6:20:23] There is classification for

[6:20:25] supplier with multiple water

[6:20:27] systems.

[6:20:27] This does not apply to the

[6:20:29] city.

[6:20:30] does not have multiple

[6:20:32] public water systems.

[6:20:34] Additionally, the 2020 table has

[6:20:38] been changed to 2025.

[6:20:42] One major thing added to the

[6:20:44] urban water management plan is

[6:20:46] the 2028 water loss vendor

[6:20:50] reporting.

[6:20:50] This is something I’ll talk

[6:20:51] about more in the next few

[6:20:53] slides.

[6:20:53] The state has provided

[6:20:55] additional guidance for lower

[6:20:57] income housing and also for

[6:21:00] ground water recharge and

[6:21:03] storage.

[6:21:09] In 2025, the city supplied

[6:21:13] potable water to about

[6:21:17] 5 billion gallons to 34,000

[6:21:19] water service connections.

[6:21:21] The city currently has a

[6:21:23] population of about 120

[6:21:26] residents.

[6:21:26] As part of this urban water

[6:21:29] management plan, the water

[6:21:31] category use includes a single

[6:21:34] family, multifamily, commercial,

[6:21:38] industrial institutional

[6:21:39] governmental landscape other and

[6:21:41] water loss.

[6:21:42] Other is defined as a metered

[6:21:46] and unbilled water consumption

[6:21:50] data.

[6:21:50] This slide shows the historical

[6:21:53] and current water use for the

[6:21:55] water use categories.

[6:21:58] As you can see, the water has

[6:22:00] remained fairly constant from

[6:22:03] 2021 to 2025.

[6:22:08] The next slide shows the current

[6:22:10] and projected water use for the

[6:22:12] city of antioch.

[6:22:15] Projection was water use was

[6:22:17] assumed to increase by 0.65%

[6:22:22] annually from 2025 to 2045 based

[6:22:26] on historical water usage data.

[6:22:57] Gpcd and the estimated baseline

[6:23:03] of 206 gallons per capita per

[6:23:05] day.

[6:23:06] 2020, the city met the target

[6:23:08] and in 2025 the city continued

[6:23:11] to meet the target.

[6:23:20] By 2028 the city is required to

[6:23:22] meet the rail water standard of

[6:23:28] 9.5 gallons per service

[6:23:28] connection per day.

[6:23:30] That is gdpscd.

[6:23:34] The standard was calculated

[6:23:36] using the economic model

[6:23:38] developed by the state water

[6:23:40] board.

[6:23:41] The city currently has a water

[6:23:44] loss value of 19.6 gallons per

[6:23:48] service connection per day.

[6:23:50] The city is actively working on

[6:23:53] improving the water distribution

[6:23:55] system in order to meet the

[6:23:57] target by 2028.

[6:24:03] The slide shows the city’s water

[6:24:07] supply liable.

[6:24:09] The city currently diverts

[6:24:11] untreated surface water from the

[6:24:15] san joaquin river to the

[6:24:17] brackish water desalination

[6:24:19] plant for treatment and potable

[6:24:21] use.

[6:24:22] That plant has a permitted

[6:24:24] treated capacity of

[6:24:26] 6,000,000 gallons per day.

[6:24:28] The city also purchased and

[6:24:30] treated surface water from the

[6:24:33] contract costa water district

[6:24:34] which is delivered through the

[6:24:40] contra costa canal under

[6:24:41] agreement with ccwd, the city

[6:24:45] can purchase 10,000,000 gallons

[6:24:47] of treated water to supplement

[6:24:51] existing water supply.

[6:24:52] The city received recycled water

[6:24:56] from the delta diablo plant for

[6:24:59] landscape irrigation.

[6:25:01] As part of the urban water

[6:25:04] management plan, the city has to

[6:25:06] complete the water shortage

[6:25:10] contingency plan.

[6:25:10] The plan is to identify and

[6:25:13] respond to potential water

[6:25:17] shortage.

[6:25:17] Here on the slide shows six

[6:25:20] storage levels, level one is the

[6:25:22] city has to reduce usage 10%,

[6:25:25] level two up to 20% and so on.

[6:25:28] There are some actions in which

[6:25:30] the city can take and that is to

[6:25:33] limit landscape irrigation,

[6:25:36] limit filling of swimming pools

[6:25:38] or maybe restriction for water

[6:25:42] features.

[6:25:44] The city has implemented the

[6:25:49] following demand management

[6:25:52] measures to conserve water.

[6:25:55] First the water prevention

[6:25:57] ordinance which the city has

[6:26:00] adopted.

[6:26:00] There is water metering,

[6:26:04] conservation pricingpublic

[6:26:08] education outreach.

[6:26:11] The city has a program

[6:26:14] coordinator to conserve water.

[6:26:16] There are additional dms offered

[6:26:20] in which the city implements.

[6:26:32] This slide shows the passes,

[6:26:36] april 8th, 2026 the city sent

[6:26:38] letters to delta diablo, ccwd,

[6:26:43] contact contra costa county and

[6:26:44] the cities of brentwood, antioch

[6:26:51] and martinez.

[6:26:53] August 5th and august 12th, the

[6:26:56] city published a notice of

[6:26:57] public hearing, and as of today,

[6:27:00] it’s the public hearing in which

[6:27:02] we are presenting the urban

[6:27:05] water management plan and water

[6:27:07] shortage contingency plan to

[6:27:09] city council for adoption.

[6:27:12] After the urban water management

[6:27:14] plan and water shortage

[6:27:16] contingency plan is adopted, the

[6:27:18] city has 30 days to submit the

[6:27:21] document to the department of

[6:27:23] water resources.

[6:27:25] The california state library and

[6:27:28] other local agencies.

[6:27:30] The urban management plan is

[6:27:32] available to the public.

[6:27:35] That concludes the presentation.

[6:27:38] I’m happy to answer any

[6:27:40] \hi’m happy to answer any

[6:27:40] questions council or the public

[6:27:42] may have.

[6:27:43] >> pro-tem: any questions at

[6:27:45] this point, council?

[6:27:47] Mr. Mayor?

[6:27:49] Are there any requests for

[6:27:51] public comments?

[6:27:53] >> clerk: no requests for

[6:27:56] public comment.

[6:27:56] >> pro-tem: thank you very

[6:27:58] much.

[6:27:58] We appreciate the presentation.

[6:28:01] I’ll close the public hearing.

[6:28:03] The matter is before council.

[6:28:04] Is there a motion for approval?

[6:28:06] >> I’ll move to approve.

[6:28:08] >> councilmember rocha moves.

[6:28:10] >> torres-walker seconds.

[6:28:13] On the question, roll call?

[6:28:15] >> councilmember wilson is

[6:28:17] absent.

[6:28:19] Councilmember rocha?

[6:28:20] Councilmember torres-walker?

[6:28:24] Mayor pro-tem freitas?

[6:28:28] Mayor bernal?

[6:28:28] Motion passes, 4-0.

[6:28:31] >> sorry you had to wait so long

[6:28:34] to make the presentation.

[6:28:36] We’ll now move to item nine,

[6:28:41] authorizing city manager to

[6:28:53] authorizing the city manager to

[6:28:55] execute a sole source agreement

[6:28:58] with axon enterprise inc. For

[6:29:03] automated license plate

[6:29:04] recognition.

[6:29:04] >> staff is asking the council

[6:29:06] to authorize a 49 month sole

[6:29:10] source agreement with axon

[6:29:12] enterprise, not to exceed

[6:29:16] 61,688.

[6:29:17] This agreement has three main

[6:29:20] components.

[6:29:20] 55 fixed axon out posts,

[6:29:25] automated license plate reader

[6:29:26] locations.

[6:29:28] The antioch police department

[6:29:29] currently operates a separate --

[6:29:32] two separate systems.

[6:29:41] Motorola is decommissioning the

[6:29:43] platform.

[6:29:43] Some of the equipment is

[6:29:45] offline, not working.

[6:29:47] This proposal consolidated and

[6:29:50] replaces both fixes into one

[6:29:54] network.

[6:29:55] The second component of this

[6:29:57] agreement is the addition of

[6:30:00] additional dash camera systems

[6:30:03] with automated license plate

[6:30:07] reader capability.

[6:30:09] We already use axon branded dash

[6:30:13] cameras and the six additional

[6:30:15] systems are for additional

[6:30:17] patrol vehicles, the fleet has

[6:30:19] expanded recently.

[6:30:20] We need to purchase more dash

[6:30:23] cameras.

[6:30:23] We want to make sure they use

[6:30:25] the same platform and have the

[6:30:28] same capabilities as the rest of

[6:30:29] the fleet.

[6:30:30] The third part of the agreement

[6:30:32] is the addition of 120 licenses

[6:30:35] for axon ai assistant which is a

[6:30:40] feature within the body warn

[6:30:43] cameras that the officers have,

[6:30:45] that I have.

[6:30:46] The ai assistant is going to

[6:30:49] give officers quick access to

[6:30:52] language -- two way language

[6:30:54] translation in 50 languages.

[6:30:56] That supports, as council knows,

[6:30:58] that supports the language

[6:31:00] access plan under the doj

[6:31:04] memorandum of agreement to

[6:31:06] expand to the community we

[6:31:09] serve.

[6:31:09] It’s an assistive tool.

[6:31:12] It doesn’t replace qualified

[6:31:15] interpreters.

[6:31:15] Adp has used axon for years for

[6:31:19] body warn cameras, and they

[6:31:21] remain evidenced where we store

[6:31:25] some of the most digital

[6:31:27] evidence.

[6:31:28] This proposal builds on the

[6:31:29] existing environment.

[6:31:32] Instead of another audit and

[6:31:34] support system.

[6:31:35] Another part of my presentation,

[6:31:37] I want to talk about why license

[6:31:40] plate reader technology matters

[6:31:42] in antioch.

[6:31:45] Vehicles are central to a large

[6:31:47] part of crime we investigate.

[6:31:49] More than 75% of crimes

[6:31:52] committed each year involve

[6:31:55] motor vehicles.

[6:31:56] That is consistent with what we

[6:31:59] see locally.

[6:32:00] Part of shooting, robberies, hit

[6:32:05] and run collisions, organized

[6:32:07] theft, side shows and serious

[6:32:11] investigations.

[6:32:12] A witness may have a partial

[6:32:14] license plate, vehicle

[6:32:16] description or direction of

[6:32:17] travel, but the license plate

[6:32:19] system can turn the limited into

[6:32:21] a focused lead still useful.

[6:32:23] We went back to look at our

[6:32:26] statistics, specifically

[6:32:28] antioch.

[6:32:29] We have had license plate

[6:32:31] readers in antioch several

[6:32:32] years.

[6:32:33] Since august last year, the

[6:32:36] existing system has led to "at

[6:32:39] least" I believe the statistics

[6:32:40] are more, we are trying to

[6:32:42] improve the tracking system, but

[6:32:44] we have located at least 42

[6:32:47] stolen vehicles with the help of

[6:32:50] automated license plate reader

[6:32:53] technology.

[6:32:53] 23 of those have led to arrests,

[6:32:57] and since august of last year we

[6:32:59] have had 19 significant

[6:33:02] documented investigative assists

[6:33:03] as a result of automated license

[6:33:07] plate reader technology, a

[6:33:09] conservative count.

[6:33:10] These are antioch results.

[6:33:12] They are not vendor produced.

[6:33:15] I’ll give a couple of examples,

[6:33:18] last year a fatal collision

[6:33:20] where ar license plate was

[6:33:25] captured before the collision

[6:33:26] and there was no other camera

[6:33:29] that captured the plate in the

[6:33:32] vicinity.

[6:33:32] There was a piece of evidence

[6:33:34] that led to the apprehension of

[6:33:36] the responsible person.

[6:33:37] There was a shooting

[6:33:39] investigation at sycamore square

[6:33:41] this year following a shot

[6:33:43] spotter investigation, obtaining

[6:33:45] a license plate from

[6:33:46] surveillance.

[6:33:47] They used the technology to

[6:33:50] locate the vehicle resulting in

[6:33:52] two arrests and the recovery of

[6:33:54] a firearm.

[6:33:54] This is a good example of how

[6:33:57] license plate readers work with

[6:34:00] evidence.

[6:34:00] Surveillance produces the plate

[6:34:01] and alpr turns it into an

[6:34:05] investigative lead.

[6:34:09] This is a investigative tool.

[6:34:10] It helps identify vehicle,

[6:34:13] reconstruct movements and

[6:34:16] timelines and corroborate or

[6:34:19] challenge statements and direct

[6:34:21] investigators toward evidence.

[6:34:22] There is a lot of discussion

[6:34:24] about technology, specifically

[6:34:27] governance and sharing,

[6:34:29] especially sharing with other

[6:34:30] agencies or federal entities.

[6:34:32] I want to discuss that clearly

[6:34:34] here.

[6:34:35] This discussion makes data

[6:34:37] governance an important part of

[6:34:38] the discussion.

[6:34:39] The value of the technology does

[6:34:41] not eliminate privacy concerns

[6:34:44] the public has.

[6:34:45] The system has to be controlled,

[6:34:47] and used for legitimate law

[6:34:50] enforcement purposes.

[6:34:50] Under the existing policy for

[6:34:53] operating rules, searches must

[6:34:55] be tied to a police case and

[6:34:58] have a specific investigative

[6:35:01] reason.

[6:35:01] Searches are logged and subject

[6:35:03] to audit, and a license plate

[6:35:06] reader alert has to be verified

[6:35:09] before action is taken based

[6:35:10] solely on the alert.

[6:35:12] The axon vehicle architecture is

[6:35:17] different from the model we have

[6:35:18] currently with the two existing

[6:35:21] systems.

[6:35:21] Axon governance materials have

[6:35:24] sharing off by default.

[6:35:26] Antioch would have to establish

[6:35:28] a specific sharing relationship

[6:35:30] with another agency, one-to-one

[6:35:33] relation.

[6:35:34] It’s not an opt into a network

[6:35:36] which is how the current system

[6:35:38] operates.

[6:35:39] If someone wanted to share data

[6:35:40] with antioch, it would require

[6:35:43] specific action on both sides to

[6:35:46] initiate the sharing.

[6:35:48] Our agency would have to accept

[6:35:50] the sharing request and the

[6:35:52] other agency would have to

[6:35:53] accept the request.

[6:35:55] That relationship is visible,

[6:35:58] logged and revokable.

[6:36:00] Antioch uses axon for body warn

[6:36:03] camera, dash cam and data

[6:36:06] repository and the system would

[6:36:07] operate in the same controlled

[6:36:09] environment with common

[6:36:11] permissions, auditing and

[6:36:12] support.

[6:36:14] That summarizes what we are

[6:36:18] requested, why it is needed and

[6:36:22] I have several more examples if

[6:36:25] council is interested.

[6:36:27] We have numerous case solves

[6:36:29] with this technology.

[6:36:33] Very serious violent crime

[6:36:35] investigations, hit and runs.

[6:36:37] The first place investigators go to help.

[6:36:42] I wanted to mention that since

[6:36:43] we expanded the network, auto

[6:36:47] theft in about I don’t antioch,

[6:36:52] down 44%.

[6:36:53] With that, I turn it over to

[6:36:55] council.

[6:36:55] I’m sure you have questions.

[6:36:57] >> pro-tem: councilmembers?

[6:37:00] Questions or comments?

[6:37:02] Mr. Mayor?

[6:37:03] >> mayor ron bernal: thank you

[6:37:05] for your presentation.

[6:37:10] There was an item that came

[6:37:12] before us several months ago for

[6:37:14] community cameras, correct?

[6:37:17] >> yeah, I believe lieutenant

[6:37:20] whitacre presented to council on

[6:37:23] community cameras.

[6:37:24] This request is specific to

[6:37:27] license plate reader cameras.

[6:37:30] >> mayor ron bernal: how many

[6:37:32] will be within the vehicles?

[6:37:34] >> we outfit every marked patrol

[6:37:37] car with a dash camera, and

[6:37:41] every dash camera will be

[6:37:45] enabled for license plate reader

[6:37:47] abilities.

[6:37:48] In addition to that, we have

[6:37:50] several strategic locations in

[6:37:52] the city that operate two

[6:37:55] systems, the flock and motorola

[6:37:58] systems.

[6:38:00] It’s not the best practice to

[6:38:02] use different systems, so we

[6:38:04] want to consolidate under one

[6:38:06] platform, that includes 55

[6:38:08] locations in antioch that over

[6:38:10] the next two years with this

[6:38:13] technology.

[6:38:14] >> mayor ron bernal: so, my

[6:38:19] question, they’ll be implemented

[6:38:20] or installed over the next two

[6:38:23] years, then?

[6:38:23] They can’t be done sooner than

[6:38:25] that?

[6:38:26] >> we can certainly check with

[6:38:29] axe on to see what the timeline

[6:38:31] is, but it does require -- they

[6:38:35] have other folks ahead of us in

[6:38:38] line.

[6:38:38] Essentially, there are other

[6:38:40] communities in the bay area

[6:38:41] signing on to their platform.

[6:38:43] We basically fall in line with

[6:38:45] them.

[6:38:46] I can certainly ask, mr. Mayor.

[6:38:48] >> my questions, also based upon

[6:38:52] the pay schedule, we won’t be

[6:38:54] paying for something we haven’t

[6:38:56] received yet, correct?

[6:38:57] >> it’s a multiyear contract.

[6:39:01] I’m glad you brought that up.

[6:39:03] We are currently paying $99,000

[6:39:08] for the cameras we currently

[6:39:10] have.

[6:39:11] Under this proposal, 101,500 per

[6:39:15] year over the next 49 months

[6:39:17] gives us 55 cameras under the

[6:39:21] axon platform.

[6:39:22] To put it simply, it’s a

[6:39:24] difference of $2,500 more per

[6:39:26] year than using flock alone and

[6:39:28] we have two symptoms, one of

[6:39:30] which is being decommissioned.

[6:39:34] 2500 more per year but we are

[6:39:37] getting more cameras out of it.

[6:39:38] >> mayor ron bernal: we are

[6:39:42] not going -- we are going to pay

[6:39:44] as the cameras come on line.

[6:39:46] If it takes one year, we’ll pay

[6:39:49] more than if it took three

[6:39:52] years, correct?

[6:39:52] >> it’s an all encompassing

[6:39:56] agreement, not just for the

[6:39:58] cameras, but ai translation and

[6:40:00] dash cameras.

[6:40:01] That’s the package for all three

[6:40:02] items over the next four years.

[6:40:05] I will clarify to ensure that we

[6:40:08] are not paying for something we

[6:40:10] are not going to receive.

[6:40:13] It’s broken up over four year.

[6:40:15] >> mayor ron bernal: the

[6:40:17] information, you have given us

[6:40:19] data about how this is served

[6:40:22] recovering stolen vehicles and

[6:40:24] arrests and things like that.

[6:40:26] Will the community be able to

[6:40:28] access information about the

[6:40:30] effectiveness of the

[6:40:31] technology?

[6:40:32] >> yeah, so we were pretty

[6:40:35] forward thinking and transparent

[6:40:37] when it came to flock.

[6:40:39] Some of the questions that came

[6:40:41] about with the flock platform in

[6:40:44] other communities, we have the

[6:40:48] transparency side that the

[6:40:49] public can access now to see

[6:40:51] what our data governance

[6:40:53] policies are, how long we hold

[6:40:55] on to data, how many inquiries

[6:40:58] are made by other agencies.

[6:41:01] We intend to do that also.

[6:41:03] I talked to axon today.

[6:41:04] We can public our statistics,

[6:41:08] policies on a forward looking

[6:41:09] website that the public can

[6:41:11] access.

[6:41:11] >> mayor ron bernal: thank

[6:41:12] you.

[6:41:13] I appreciate that.

[6:41:15] >> pro-tem: councilmember

[6:41:19] torres-walker?

[6:41:20] >> councilmember torres-walker.

[6:41:23] Thank if you you for the

[6:41:25] presentation.

[6:41:27] I’m happy to hear there are more

[6:41:28] in the city rolling out.

[6:41:31] My question is to -- there’s

[6:41:38] flock, motorola, now axon.

[6:41:41] Is there a plan to consolidate

[6:41:43] and move away from even flock

[6:41:46] cameras?

[6:41:47] >> that’s a great question.

[6:41:49] That’s this plan.

[6:41:51] We would like to move away from

[6:41:53] two different systems and live

[6:41:55] in one system.

[6:41:56] One of the things we like about

[6:41:58] the axon system, we own our own

[6:42:01] data.

[6:42:01] We are not putting it into a

[6:42:04] cloud and sharing it with a

[6:42:06] network of agencies, and we like

[6:42:09] the opt-in policies.

[6:42:11] We like that there is no back

[6:42:14] door federal sharing, and a lot

[6:42:16] of the direction that the state

[6:42:17] is going in with the pending

[6:42:21] senate bill 1013, I believe.

[6:42:26] As council likely knows, there

[6:42:28] is a pending senate bill and a

[6:42:31] lot of requirements of the

[6:42:33] senate bill -- it passed third

[6:42:36] reading at the assembly.

[6:42:37] The axon system is already

[6:42:41] capable.

[6:42:41] We are compliant with how it’s

[6:42:43] being structured with the

[6:42:45] system.

[6:42:46] We don’t want to live in

[6:42:48] multiple systems.

[6:42:49] We want everything in one system

[6:42:51] with the same training, same

[6:42:54] platform, same auditing

[6:42:56] abilities, instead of different

[6:42:57] systems, things get lost in the

[6:43:00] shuffle.

[6:43:00] >> easier to track and

[6:43:04] consolidate across the board.

[6:43:06] Happy to hear we are moving away

[6:43:08] from flock systems.

[6:43:09] They are not as secure as

[6:43:12] concerns have come from the

[6:43:14] public.

[6:43:15] Yes, senate bill 1013 for the

[6:43:17] public that does not know, this

[6:43:19] is a california senate bill that

[6:43:23] is moving through the senate now

[6:43:26] to address restrictions and

[6:43:28] rules around privacy for license

[6:43:31] plate readers in the state of

[6:43:32] california.

[6:43:33] The intent of the bill is to

[6:43:35] have a 30 day deletion limit for

[6:43:39] license plate reader -- I

[6:43:42] guess -- data that is gathered,

[6:43:44] I’m assuming, and this is

[6:43:47] strictly for public agencies.

[6:43:48] You are saying that this is

[6:43:50] already something that the city

[6:43:51] of antioch is at the forefront

[6:43:55] of being compliant with.

[6:43:57] >> we are at the forefront even

[6:43:59] with the flock system.

[6:44:01] Hopefully, we have not endured

[6:44:03] the level of concern other

[6:44:09] communities.

[6:44:09] Our reader data is 30 days

[6:44:12] currently.

[6:44:13] We have a forward facing

[6:44:16] transparency website.

[6:44:18] We prohibit outside agencies

[6:44:21] querying our system.

[6:44:22] They have to give a verifiable

[6:44:25] criminal investigation,

[6:44:27] reference a police case number.

[6:44:29] We are not sharing with out of

[6:44:31] state entities 6789 entities.

[6:44:34] We don’t share with ice or

[6:44:37] federal government agencies.

[6:44:38] We did that with flock alone.

[6:44:41] The thing we like about axe

[6:44:45] axon, with flock, it’s a network

[6:44:48] at the state level.

[6:44:49] With axon, if they want to share

[6:44:52] data, they have to make a

[6:44:54] specific request, reciprocated

[6:44:56] one-to-one.

[6:44:57] It’s not us opting into a whole

[6:44:59] network.

[6:45:01] The data retention -- we own the

[6:45:05] data.

[6:45:06] Our data is not going to a cloud

[6:45:09] that’s shared with multiple

[6:45:10] agencies.

[6:45:11] All of our scans in antioch live

[6:45:14] and stay in antioch.

[6:45:15] They are not being shared with

[6:45:17] anybody else.

[6:45:18] There are a lot of by design

[6:45:20] features of the axon system that

[6:45:22] put us in compliance if 1030

[6:45:28] passes.

[6:45:29] >> councilmember torres-walker:

[6:45:35] thank you for the information.

[6:45:44] \hthank you for the information.

[6:45:44] I’m excited to see there will be

[6:45:46] ai translation for the peace

[6:45:48] officers in the city.

[6:45:50] I had somebody from atp -- I’m

[6:45:55] stumbling now.

[6:45:58] Atb translate for me between me

[6:45:59] and the community member doing

[6:46:02] national night out.

[6:46:03] It was amazing, and I was like,

[6:46:05] you know, we should all have

[6:46:07] availability to that type of

[6:46:10] technology to communicate with

[6:46:12] residents.

[6:46:13] I’m excited about that as well.

[6:46:14] >> I appreciate the comments.

[6:46:17] It’s really cool.

[6:46:18] They push a button on the side

[6:46:20] of the body warn camera

[6:46:22] activating the assistant and

[6:46:24] tell the assistant what language

[6:46:25] to translate.

[6:46:27] It covers all of the major

[6:46:29] languages that folks speak in

[6:46:32] antioch.

[6:46:32] In a perfect world we would have

[6:46:35] an officer to translate that,

[6:46:37] while we have hired a number of

[6:46:40] bilingual officers over the last

[6:46:43] couple of years, there are times

[6:46:44] the officers are not available

[6:46:46] and waiting on hold.

[6:46:47] I was told the other day that an

[6:46:49] officer needed to speak to a

[6:46:53] translator for an incident and

[6:46:55] the language line had nobody

[6:46:57] available.

[6:46:57] We are not able to communicate

[6:47:00] with that person.

[6:47:02] With this technology, the

[6:47:03] officer will be able to push the

[6:47:05] side of the camera and it will

[6:47:08] translate one-to-one record it

[6:47:10] and retain it.

[6:47:11] I think it will break down

[6:47:13] barriers and make folks want to

[6:47:15] come forward to know they are

[6:47:16] not going to encounter the

[6:47:19] obstacle to speak to and report

[6:47:20] things to police.

[6:47:22] >> so much progress has been

[6:47:24] made you all should be proud and

[6:47:26] we all should be proud.

[6:47:28] We continue to be watching.

[6:47:29] Thank you.

[6:47:30] >> thank you.

[6:47:32] >> pro-tem: any other

[6:47:34] comments?

[6:47:35] >> we have zoom comments.

[6:47:38] Frank sterling.

[6:47:51] We’ll move on to mike.

[6:47:56] See their hands.

[6:47:59] It’s not giving me the option.

[6:48:04] Let me check.

[6:48:30] >> good evening.

[6:48:31] I want today know, like the

[6:48:34] extra cameras that you will be

[6:48:37] putting around, are they only

[6:48:39] going to be in the troubled

[6:48:42] areas, or will they be all over

[6:48:45] the city?

[6:48:46] That’s my only question?

[6:48:47] >> another great question.

[6:48:50] They are in all locations of the

[6:48:53] city.

[6:48:53] We try to cover all of the major

[6:48:57] entry and exit points of town,

[6:49:00] the major thoroughfares.

[6:49:02] We are not concentrating on

[6:49:04] specific neighborhoods.

[6:49:10] >> let’s try this now.

[6:49:13] There we go.

[6:49:15] Okay, mike, you are up.

[6:49:19] You have three minutes.

[6:49:20] Can you hear me?

[6:49:21] >> thank you very much.

[6:49:24] Good evening.

[6:49:24] My name is mike, director of

[6:49:28] research for oakland privacy.

[6:49:30] I urge a no vote.

[6:49:31] The staff report fails to

[6:49:33] provide enough information to

[6:49:37] justify the $660,000.

[6:49:39] The agenda item is for a sole

[6:49:41] source contract with the vendor,

[6:49:43] no comparative bidding process

[6:49:45] as part of the procurement.

[6:49:47] There are others that provide

[6:49:51] such products.

[6:49:52] How can residents be assured

[6:49:55] taxpayer fund are stewarded

[6:49:57] responsibly?

[6:49:58] Motorola is decommissioning the

[6:50:01] platform.

[6:50:01] As a researcher into the use of

[6:50:05] surveillance technology, this is

[6:50:08] highly suspect as law

[6:50:10] enforcement purchase alpr

[6:50:13] surveillance technology from

[6:50:15] motorola.

[6:50:17] The presentation lacked analysis

[6:50:18] of the effectiveness of the

[6:50:21] currently deployed readers.

[6:50:24] In the absence of analysis how

[6:50:27] can members of the city council

[6:50:28] or public know if the expansion

[6:50:30] of the surveillance program is

[6:50:31] justified?

[6:50:32] What criteria was used to access

[6:50:35] the effectiveness of the current

[6:50:37] system.

[6:50:38] How will we know if the

[6:50:40] expansion is effective or not?

[6:50:43] No analysis if whether license

[6:50:46] operate readers had an impact on

[6:50:50] crime.

[6:50:50] Before the police department had

[6:50:52] license plate readers, I would

[6:50:55] hope crimes were being solved.

[6:50:58] Stating auto theft is down 44%

[6:51:00] when crime is down everywhere,

[6:51:03] including places without license

[6:51:05] operate plate readers is not

[6:51:07] useful information.

[6:51:10] The antioch police department

[6:51:11] shares information with 230

[6:51:17] agencies.

[6:51:20] The one to one sharing will

[6:51:22] improve thing, I think that you

[6:51:25] will encounter the same problems

[6:51:26] with axon or any other

[6:51:29] surveillance vendor that you do

[6:51:30] with flock.

[6:51:32] The problem is, these are

[6:51:34] technologies of mass

[6:51:34] surveillance.

[6:51:36] The most of the information

[6:51:38] collected by the cameras is

[6:51:41] people going about normal daily

[6:51:44] business not suspected of or

[6:51:46] charmed with charged with

[6:51:49] crime.

[6:51:51] That information is held for 30

[6:51:53] days.

[6:51:54] Eventually the information is

[6:51:55] going to find its hands into

[6:51:58] people who shouldn’t have access

[6:51:59] to it.

[6:52:00] will be abused same way flock

[6:52:03] is being abused to stock people

[6:52:06] including ex-wives, spouses and

[6:52:08] people the police disagree

[6:52:09] with.

[6:52:10] I urge a no vote on the item.

[6:52:12] Thank you for your time.

[6:52:16] >> clerk: thank you.

[6:52:19] Now, frank sterling.

[6:52:20] Please un-mute.

[6:52:21] You have three minutes.

[6:52:23] >> frank: thank you for the

[6:52:26] previous speaker.

[6:52:27] I’m not as well prepared to

[6:52:28] speak on that but I’m concerned

[6:52:31] about mass surveillance.

[6:52:32] Thank you for being able to

[6:52:34] present these one-to-one sharing

[6:52:37] things.

[6:52:37] I’m learning more about axon as

[6:52:40] you all are, I’m sure.

[6:52:42] One thing I have been following,

[6:52:44] and I have been following it for

[6:52:45] a while is that the abuses have

[6:52:47] been happening where people will

[6:52:49] take advantage of the system.

[6:52:52] Right now, I feel that although

[6:52:58] gp hill is making the attempts

[6:53:00] and the federal oversight and

[6:53:03] steps you talked about tonight

[6:53:04] and thing happening, things are

[6:53:07] changing, there is still room

[6:53:09] for abuse there.

[6:53:10] I know personally that some of

[6:53:12] the officers, you heard my

[6:53:16] story.

[6:53:16] I don’t need to repeat it now,

[6:53:19] being kicked in the face, are

[6:53:20] floating around.

[6:53:21] People that joked about dead

[6:53:25] edwards are still floating

[6:53:27] around in our department.

[6:53:28] I think the possibility of abuse

[6:53:30] is still there.

[6:53:33] And, it’s quite an increase in

[6:53:35] the cameras.

[6:53:36] I don’t know if you noticed, but

[6:53:38] there is a lot of municipalities

[6:53:42] that have reconsidered the

[6:53:44] surveillance system, flock or

[6:53:49] other surveillance systems, and

[6:53:50] again, we do know that the

[6:53:52] abuses have happened, and if we

[6:53:55] look into the future, if we can,

[6:53:57] with our imaginary crystal

[6:54:00] balls, we see other uses of ai

[6:54:03] in mass surveillance and one of

[6:54:04] the things the person before me

[6:54:08] talked about was patterns of

[6:54:09] life.

[6:54:10] That is some of the things I

[6:54:12] have looked into regarding

[6:54:15] volunteering and other things

[6:54:17] that use data in tracking and

[6:54:19] how they use it.

[6:54:20] Basically, they can follow my

[6:54:23] movements through town.

[6:54:24] I can go to dennys.

[6:54:26] Say I go to dennys every tuesday

[6:54:29] and to the bank to do business.

[6:54:31] It starts developing hot spot

[6:54:34] patterns of what you are doing

[6:54:35] and that data becomes trackable

[6:54:37] and they say, we need to

[6:54:40] intercept frank somewhere.

[6:54:42] He’s at dennys every thursday at

[6:54:45] 3:00 and he goes to the bank

[6:54:48] after.

[6:54:48] I used that as a simple

[6:54:50] example.

[6:54:50] I know there are precaution

[6:54:52] about not sharing with ice and

[6:54:54] federal agent, but how long do

[6:54:56] we trust that?

[6:54:58] We see where our world has been

[6:55:00] changing lately.

[6:55:02] Maybe we won’t have control over

[6:55:04] who looks at it in the future.

[6:55:07] Maybe it will be in place and

[6:55:09] our safeguards won’t matter

[6:55:11] because the people that want it

[6:55:12] will have the authority to take

[6:55:14] it.

[6:55:15] Thanks for listening to me.

[6:55:17] I’m home listening, doing other

[6:55:19] things.

[6:55:20] I didn’t completely leave you.

[6:55:22] Thanks for hearing me.

[6:55:25] >> clerk: we have no further

[6:55:28] comments.

[6:55:28] >> pro-tem: any comments?

[6:55:30] >> I think there are very

[6:55:33] legitimate questions and

[6:55:35] concerns.

[6:55:35] I want to be clear about so the

[6:55:39] public knows, just kind of about

[6:55:41] the technology.

[6:55:43] I don’t think anyone in the room

[6:55:45] wants to have their movements

[6:55:49] tracked with specificity.

[6:55:53] I don’t think we want to live in

[6:55:55] that type of society.

[6:55:57] I certainly don’t.

[6:55:58] This technology doesn’t track

[6:56:00] people.

[6:56:01] It tracks vehicles.

[6:56:04] It does not maintain a live

[6:56:07] location feed on a person.

[6:56:09] Only an authorized person can

[6:56:12] view when a license plate was

[6:56:16] capturedded and that must have a

[6:56:17] legitimate purpose.

[6:56:18] It’s logged audited and

[6:56:21] tracked.

[6:56:22] Cities that have problems are

[6:56:25] using ambiguous search reasons

[6:56:28] or no reason at all.

[6:56:30] Antioch requires a specific

[6:56:32] case, investigative reason and

[6:56:33] case number.

[6:56:35] We reject requests or inquiries

[6:56:39] ambiguous.

[6:56:39] As far as mass surveillance, the

[6:56:41] system records a plate image,

[6:56:43] vehicle content image and

[6:56:46] vehicle characteristics in the

[6:56:47] time and location of the

[6:56:49] detection.

[6:56:50] Historical searches can be

[6:56:52] useful because they show where a

[6:56:54] vehicle was observed.

[6:56:55] We had a recent, over the last

[6:56:57] weekend on friday, we had a

[6:57:00] major collision on hillcrest

[6:57:02] highway 4 where the pedestrian

[6:57:04] was seriously injured.

[6:57:06] Her condition is quite grave.

[6:57:08] The officers are able to use the

[6:57:10] technology to trace back,

[6:57:12] recently reported in the media

[6:57:14] today, so I’m comfortable

[6:57:16] speaking about it.

[6:57:17] The officers are using

[6:57:19] technology to track the driver’s

[6:57:21] movements and support the

[6:57:22] identification of the driver.

[6:57:24] If this technology had not

[6:57:26] existed, I don’t know that we

[6:57:27] would have had that result.

[6:57:32] I think our technology here that

[6:57:35] we audit it and put knit it in a

[6:57:40] forward facing website for the

[6:57:41] wub public to see what the

[6:57:45] searches are conducted and what

[6:57:46] the reasons are sets us apart

[6:57:49] from the concerns.

[6:57:51] The public has legitimate

[6:57:52] concerns.

[6:57:52] Anyone with a device in their

[6:57:54] pocket is tracked by all kinds

[6:57:56] of company and the police

[6:57:58] department is not tracking to

[6:58:01] the level that all of us have a

[6:58:03] smartphone in our pocket are

[6:58:07] being tracked.

[6:58:08] We are tracking vehicles for

[6:58:11] investigative reasons and

[6:58:12] retention limited to what the

[6:58:15] law prescribes.

[6:58:17] >> pro-tem: the matter is

[6:58:20] before council.

[6:58:24] >> councilmember torres-walker:

[6:58:26] I understand the community’s

[6:58:28] \hi understand the community’s

[6:58:28] concerns around hyper

[6:58:30] surveillance because there is

[6:58:34] already a camera on any door in

[6:58:38] any neighborhood at any time.

[6:58:40] Privacy concerns are top

[6:58:43] priority and how the systems

[6:58:44] will be used.

[6:58:48] Ai being introduced in all of

[6:58:51] the systems is different.

[6:58:53] Of course we have strong

[6:58:56] regulations coming everyday, and

[6:58:57] it’s not like -- and things are

[6:59:02] constantly changing with systems

[6:59:04] related to ai.

[6:59:05] Long gone or the fusion centers

[6:59:07] on the hills of 911 enter agency

[6:59:12] task forces full of people

[6:59:14] sharing information.

[6:59:15] It was like a counter terrorism

[6:59:17] type of position to be in,

[6:59:21] right?

[6:59:21] The pros and cons of the systems

[6:59:23] were the risk to civil

[6:59:26] liberties, mission creep and

[6:59:29] ambiguity.

[6:59:31] Are we violating civil

[6:59:33] liberties?

[6:59:34] Are we violating privacy?

[6:59:37] Is the technology beyond the

[6:59:40] purpose?

[6:59:41] Are valid concerns of the

[6:59:43] community.

[6:59:43] We discussed data limits and how

[6:59:46] to hold data.

[6:59:47] There are concerns around -- I

[6:59:50] think some of the original type

[6:59:52] of settings, data overload, who

[6:59:55] is holding the data?

[6:59:57] Who is reviewing the data?

[6:59:58] How long is the data stored?

[7:00:01] You have people doing it not

[7:00:03] systems constantly learning and

[7:00:05] growing at a pace none of us

[7:00:07] know if we can control.

[7:00:09] My position is, I want to get

[7:00:12] flock out of antioch.

[7:00:16] If moving forward with this axon

[7:00:19] system is going to do that, with

[7:00:23] potential reviews along the way,

[7:00:27] and some guardrails to make sure

[7:00:28] we are not violating people’s

[7:00:30] civil liberties, that the

[7:00:33] license plate reader data is

[7:00:34] being used in a case of

[7:00:37] investigation and not monitored

[7:00:40] like on a daily basis, then I

[7:00:44] could support that.

[7:00:47] My main position now is I really

[7:00:49] want to see flock eliminated and

[7:00:52] the community also has concerns

[7:00:56] around safety while balancing

[7:00:58] against the concerns around

[7:01:01] privacy and mass surveillance.

[7:01:03] So, when is the -- I guess, how

[7:01:09] often is the plan -- when a lot

[7:01:12] of this goes into place, what is

[7:01:14] the plan from the police

[7:01:17] department to kind of have

[7:01:19] consistent reporting to this

[7:01:21] council and the public on the

[7:01:25] outcomes of the data and

[7:01:27] surveillance being gathered any

[7:01:30] potential manipulation to the

[7:01:32] data, anything that might be a

[7:01:33] red flag, how soon will the

[7:01:36] community be made aware?

[7:01:36] >> the community should be made

[7:01:40] aware immediately.

[7:01:40] We are doing it now.

[7:01:41] We have a website even with the

[7:01:44] flock data, controversial as

[7:01:46] that is, anyone that goes to the

[7:01:49] transparency site on the antioch

[7:01:50] police department, we have a

[7:01:52] portal for alpr flock

[7:01:55] transparency site.

[7:01:56] It will tell you the number of

[7:01:58] detections.

[7:01:59] It will tell you the number of

[7:02:02] outside agency inquiries we have

[7:02:04] received, the case number

[7:02:06] associated with that.

[7:02:07] It gives the entire policy.

[7:02:09] You mentioned guardrails.

[7:02:10] I wanted to hit on that.

[7:02:12] Mission creep and you mentioned

[7:02:14] so many concerning things I

[7:02:16] think for all of us, the only

[7:02:18] assurance that I can -- the best

[7:02:21] assurance I can give the council

[7:02:22] and community is that we are

[7:02:25] auditing the system.

[7:02:27] We require specific criteria.

[7:02:30] We reject ambiguous criteria.

[7:02:34] We have a policy about it

[7:02:36] already.

[7:02:36] We are not sharing with the

[7:02:38] network.

[7:02:39] We’ll do one-to-one sharing.

[7:02:41] The first speaker mentioned nick

[7:02:44] rick for the bay area that a

[7:02:47] number of agencies are part of,

[7:02:52] and nick rick assured us there

[7:02:54] are state officers assigned to

[7:02:56] the fusion center and california

[7:02:58] police officers at nick rick are

[7:03:01] authorized to view flock data is

[7:03:03] the assurance that we received

[7:03:05] that no federal officers are

[7:03:07] reviewing or severing the data

[7:03:08] is what the director reported to

[7:03:10] us.

[7:03:10] We have not received a request

[7:03:13] for axon.

[7:03:14] If they make the request, we’ll

[7:03:17] evaluate that in a very strict

[7:03:19] manner to ensure that it meets

[7:03:22] california law and policy and

[7:03:24] community values.

[7:03:26] As far as guardrails are

[7:03:28] concerned through auditing,

[7:03:31] strong policy and tracking, I

[7:03:32] think that’s how we prevent the

[7:03:35] mission creep or some of the

[7:03:37] concerns that have been

[7:03:38] identified in other communities,

[7:03:39] people are using it for personal

[7:03:42] reasons to track ex-girlfriends,

[7:03:45] things like that, we have

[7:03:46] nothing like that here.

[7:03:48] With the axon system, the data

[7:03:50] is not used to train other ai

[7:03:53] models.

[7:03:53] It’s a closed system we have

[7:03:55] complete control over with the

[7:03:57] vendor.

[7:03:57] >> can you explain the

[7:03:59] justification for the a sole

[7:04:01] source agreement?

[7:04:02] >> there are a few reasons.

[7:04:03] We are looking for a unified

[7:04:06] platform, axon body warn

[7:04:09] cameras, digital evidence

[7:04:11] platform.

[7:04:11] We have trusted ag axon with

[7:04:16] evidence.

[7:04:16] Sexual assault investigations,

[7:04:19] child abuse investigations.

[7:04:21] All of that evidence is stored

[7:04:22] in the axon environment.

[7:04:24] We have trusted them to do

[7:04:26] that.

[7:04:26] They have never had a data

[7:04:28] breech.

[7:04:29] All of our personnel are trained

[7:04:32] in that system.

[7:04:34] It’s one consistent system.

[7:04:36] I can run it on one system,

[7:04:39] train folks on one system.

[7:04:41] The body warn camera uploads to

[7:04:43] the evidence system.

[7:04:45] The translation records and

[7:04:48] seamlessly uploads with the

[7:04:49] system in axon, same with the

[7:04:51] license plate reader data.

[7:04:53] It feeds to the same system.

[7:04:55] That’s one of the main reasons

[7:04:58] we sought sole source.

[7:04:59] We don’t have multiple systems.

[7:05:02] We train dispatcher, officers,

[7:05:04] support staff, one unified

[7:05:06] system.

[7:05:08] >> councilmember torres-walker:

[7:05:11] we fought for dash camera

[7:05:14] \hwe fought for dash camera

[7:05:14] systems and language access.

[7:05:17] I support those in this

[7:05:21] agreement while having concerns

[7:05:24] still around monitoring.

[7:05:27] >> pretty

[7:05:30] >> councilmember rocha?

[7:05:33] >> I think the way it’s written

[7:05:37] is attractive to me.

[7:05:40] I would like to move to approve

[7:05:45] this agreement with the

[7:05:48] resolution for sole source

[7:05:49] agreement with axon enterprise.

[7:05:51] >> pro-tem: is there a

[7:05:53] second?

[7:05:56] >> I’ll second it.

[7:06:05] >> pro-tem: I have a question

[7:06:07] from councilmember

[7:06:09] torres-walker.

[7:06:09] If the council is to approve

[7:06:12] this, when would they be

[7:06:14] implemented in the first phase?

[7:06:16] >> I don’t have the exact

[7:06:18] information timeline, but I know

[7:06:22] that we are following behind

[7:06:25] different implementations in the

[7:06:26] bay area.

[7:06:26] I don’t have the exact schedule

[7:06:28] for it.

[7:06:29] I can report back to council on

[7:06:31] that.

[7:06:31] I don’t think it will be a

[7:06:33] lengthy implementation.

[7:06:35] >> the reason I’m asking the

[7:06:39] question, because I think

[7:06:40] councilmember torres-walker

[7:06:41] brings up a good point.

[7:06:44] When we have implemented I

[7:06:46] suggest annually a report come

[7:06:48] back to the city council giving

[7:06:49] us the detailed information,

[7:06:52] both positive or negative.

[7:06:54] I think you’re asking for us to

[7:06:57] somewhat monitor, so I would

[7:06:59] request the maker of the motion

[7:07:01] and seconder of the motion to

[7:07:03] include that, that once

[7:07:07] implemented annually from that

[7:07:08] date up and operational, a

[7:07:10] report come back to the city

[7:07:11] council.

[7:07:12] >> I’m agreeable to that.

[7:07:14] >> I am as well.

[7:07:15] >> okay.

[7:07:17] >> I have one more question.

[7:07:22] What is the timeline or

[7:07:26] approximate timeline for moving

[7:07:28] away from flock with the new

[7:07:32] system?

[7:07:32] >> I think a lot of it depends

[7:07:35] on how soon we get the new

[7:07:37] system up and running.

[7:07:38] We are using the dash cam

[7:07:42] products and turned on the

[7:07:44] license plate reader

[7:07:46] capability.

[7:07:47] We don’t want to go without the

[7:07:49] previous system and compromise

[7:07:51] serious case investigations or

[7:07:53] if we have a serious crime that

[7:07:56] occurs next week, we don’t want

[7:07:57] to have a gap.

[7:08:00] If at all possible, I would like

[7:08:01] to report back to you on that or

[7:08:04] have the chief report back to

[7:08:07] you on implementation schedule

[7:08:08] and fully move away from the

[7:08:11] flock platform.

[7:08:12] I see it’s a priority.

[7:08:16] >> two year, three years, six

[7:08:18] months?

[7:08:19] >> I don’t believe so.

[7:08:21] >> when you have the

[7:08:23] information, could you have the

[7:08:24] chief or you provide us with

[7:08:26] it?

[7:08:26] >> we will.

[7:08:28] To reiterate it, the flock

[7:08:33] system is calling $99,000 and

[7:08:36] axon is giving us more

[7:08:38] capability.

[7:08:39] We are anxious to maximize the

[7:08:42] value to the taxpayer.

[7:08:44] >> would the flock cameras go

[7:08:48] first, then?

[7:08:48] Is that the strategy?

[7:08:58] >> would the new cameras replace

[7:09:00] the flock cameras first, to

[7:09:03] reduce that bill and that type

[7:09:05] of technology in place of new

[7:09:07] technology?

[7:09:07] >> I would make it certain that

[7:09:10] the people involved in the

[7:09:12] project, myself included

[7:09:13] understand that we want to

[7:09:15] replace the flock cameras as a

[7:09:17] priority.

[7:09:19] Motorola cameras, a number of

[7:09:20] them are not working and we have

[7:09:22] serious gaps in the system.

[7:09:25] I know it was a priority to

[7:09:28] replace cameras not working.

[7:09:30] I’ll report back to the team

[7:09:31] working on this that it’s a

[7:09:34] priority to replace the flock

[7:09:35] system.

[7:09:36] >> and I’m not telling the

[7:09:39] police department which cameras

[7:09:41] to replace first as far as

[7:09:43] greatest need, but I think the

[7:09:45] flock cameras built into the

[7:09:48] model is important to look at.

[7:09:50] >> yes, we are.

[7:09:54] >> off the top of my head

[7:09:56] because this is a conversation

[7:09:57] we had earlier, we have 12

[7:10:00] months left in the existing

[7:10:02] contract.

[7:10:03] >> that could end soon.

[7:10:07] >> we have to get with the city

[7:10:09] attorney on terms of ending the

[7:10:12] contract, but as far as what we

[7:10:13] are contracted for, we have

[7:10:15] about 12 months leflt.

[7:10:17] Months left.

[7:10:18] \hmonths left.

[7:10:18] >> pro-tem: before I call for

[7:10:21] the vote, it would be

[7:10:25] appreciated the next couple of

[7:10:26] weeks or so that you would

[7:10:29] communicate to the council

[7:10:31] questions raised.

[7:10:32] Clearly the flock decommission

[7:10:34] and axon implementation is

[7:10:37] critical.

[7:10:37] >> I definitely will.

[7:10:40] I would like to reiterate our

[7:10:42] responsibility use of the flock

[7:10:44] technology continues to this

[7:10:45] day.

[7:10:45] If you click on the website I

[7:10:48] mentioned, you can share every

[7:10:50] agency with share with.

[7:10:52] We publish it.

[7:10:54] Statistic, scans on the website

[7:10:55] and we are committed to being

[7:10:57] open and transparent.

[7:10:59] We recognize the community

[7:11:00] concern.

[7:11:00] >> a motion by councilmember

[7:11:04] rocha, second by mayor bernal to

[7:11:08] approve the sole source and once

[7:11:10] taken place there be an annual

[7:11:13] report made to the city

[7:11:14] council.

[7:11:15] >> councilmember wilson is

[7:11:17] absent.

[7:11:18] Councilmember rocha?

[7:11:21] Councilmember torres-walker?

[7:11:23] Mayor pro-tem freitas?

[7:11:24] >> mayor bernal?

[7:11:28] Motion passes, 4-0.

[7:11:28] >> public comments, are there

[7:11:31] any public comments?

[7:11:33] >> clerk: we have no public

[7:11:35] comments.

[7:11:36] >> staff communications?

[7:11:38] >> no staff communications.

[7:11:40] >> council communications and

[7:11:42] future agenda items?

[7:11:44] >> I just have one item I wanted

[7:11:48] to bring up.

[7:11:48] I had the opportunity, mayor

[7:11:51] bernal and I met with juliet

[7:11:55] dawn of republic services on

[7:11:59] august 12th.

[7:12:00] I wanted to discuss asking the

[7:12:03] acting community manager to

[7:12:05] continue the conversation.

[7:12:08] Recently, delta fair area, san

[7:12:10] jose drive, there has been

[7:12:13] illegal dumping, a lot of

[7:12:14] concerns about that in the

[7:12:15] community there.

[7:12:16] I eluded earlier to the new

[7:12:19] employee who had taken upon

[7:12:21] himself to go and address it

[7:12:23] with the owner.

[7:12:25] What came out of that

[7:12:26] conversation was the signage has

[7:12:30] been put up for a hotline for

[7:12:33] illegal dumping.

[7:12:35] Is that numbing utilized?

[7:12:37] Is there responses occurring?

[7:12:39] I don’t know necessarily the

[7:12:41] activity that’s taking place if

[7:12:43] there are results from that?

[7:12:45] We also discussed at that

[7:12:49] meeting the potential for having

[7:12:52] cameras to help assist with

[7:12:55] identifying vehicles with what

[7:12:57] we discussed with identifying

[7:12:58] vehicles that are illegally

[7:13:03] dumping, and then the other

[7:13:04] thing we talked about was the

[7:13:10] city wide cleanup.

[7:13:15] We had councilmembers that had

[7:13:18] unfortunate circumstance.

[7:13:19] I happen to be one of them.

[7:13:22] Mrs. Freitas was another.

[7:13:23] So, I just think from talking

[7:13:27] with juliet, one of the things

[7:13:29] she suggested is looking at best

[7:13:32] practice strategies utilized

[7:13:33] before.

[7:13:34] I think doing it regionally,

[7:13:36] looking at district one, two,

[7:13:38] three, four, but looking at a

[7:13:40] better way to provide the

[7:13:44] service in a controlled and

[7:13:47] supportive environment so we

[7:13:48] don’t run into the traffic

[7:13:50] congestion and out of control

[7:13:58] incident that occurred.

[7:14:00] I wanted to ask if you could

[7:14:02] follow up with republic

[7:14:05] services, illegal dumping.

[7:14:07] I think you have met with them.

[7:14:10] >> we met last week.

[7:14:11] They are putting together a plan

[7:14:13] for us.

[7:14:15] We should be getting something

[7:14:16] back within a week or two from

[7:14:19] the general manager.

[7:14:20] At this point, I was not aware

[7:14:21] of the hotline, so I’ll follow

[7:14:23] up with that.

[7:14:24] >> it was on the news.

[7:14:26] It was channel 4.

[7:14:28] They showed signs going up and

[7:14:31] were talking about the

[7:14:32] challenges with san jose drive

[7:14:35] corridor and the lot line was

[7:14:36] going up.

[7:14:37] I don’t know if there was

[7:14:40] activity.

[7:14:41] If you could follow up and give

[7:14:43] us a report on that?

[7:14:45] >> I will.

[7:14:45] >> and when you do get the plan

[7:14:49] could you share it with the

[7:14:52] council before it gets

[7:14:54] implemented so we can see what

[7:14:56] it’s about and provide comment?

[7:14:57] >> absolutely.

[7:15:02] Could we have one person that

[7:15:03] would still like to make public

[7:15:05] comment.

[7:15:07] >> mr. Becker just hung up when

[7:15:18] you mentioned that.

[7:15:19] >> oh, there he is.

[7:15:21] >> you are on.

[7:15:22] >> thank you so much.

[7:15:26] I appreciate the chance to

[7:15:28] submit my public comment.

[7:15:29] I just wanted to raise up that

[7:15:34] we are coming up on the close of

[7:15:38] the public comment review period

[7:15:40] for the state of california’s

[7:15:45] submitted opportunity --

[7:15:46] proposed opportunity zones with

[7:15:49] a few of those proposed zones I

[7:15:54] believe being in the city of

[7:15:57] antioch.

[7:15:59] I don’t believe the city of

[7:16:01] antioch has appropriately looked

[7:16:04] at the zones that would be most

[7:16:07] beneficial to the city, and I am

[7:16:12] a little saddened that not only

[7:16:14] did we lose out on last

[7:16:19] opportunities development but

[7:16:20] once again, as we talk about

[7:16:24] economic development, as we talk

[7:16:26] about regional growth and

[7:16:28] infrastructure growth, as I work

[7:16:31] with local developers and hear

[7:16:35] daily about the infrastructure

[7:16:37] needs or deficits in the city,

[7:16:39] we continue to pass up these

[7:16:45] incredible opportunities that

[7:16:46] when matched together really are

[7:16:53] the central pieces that build

[7:16:55] large scale developments.

[7:16:56] You look at the rail yard

[7:16:58] development in sacramento.

[7:17:01] You look at san diego and their

[7:17:05] harbor district.

[7:17:07] The infrastructure we can build

[7:17:09] here in our city is what is

[7:17:11] going to speak to the final

[7:17:13] opportunity, and I think mayor

[7:17:16] pro-tem freitas said it best at

[7:17:18] a previous meeting when he spoke

[7:17:19] about the opportunities in

[7:17:21] downtown antioch and how we can

[7:17:24] become a hub.

[7:17:26] The infrastructure can’t come at

[7:17:29] the city’s cost.

[7:17:31] We talk about finance district,

[7:17:34] surplus land disposition,

[7:17:36] economic development, but we

[7:17:39] also say how city staff is not

[7:17:41] present to be able to do the

[7:17:43] work.

[7:17:43] Let’s be realistic, economic

[7:17:46] development director coming in

[7:17:48] will not do the work either.

[7:17:50] It’s a long-term structural

[7:17:52] problem that we have to solve,

[7:17:54] but what we can do today is look

[7:17:57] toward consultants like kosmont

[7:18:02] realty the development arm for

[7:18:04] the town of ma rah ga, did the

[7:18:08] feasibility study in san pablo,

[7:18:10] handle surplus land throughout

[7:18:13] the state of california and can

[7:18:16] come in and match our surplus

[7:18:19] land with opportunity zones, tax

[7:18:22] credit opportunities and enhance

[7:18:24] finance district.

[7:18:25] That’s my time.

[7:18:27] I hope you heard my comment,

[7:18:28] thank you.

[7:18:31] >> we have no further comments.

[7:18:33] >> I would like to know where we

[7:18:36] are with the opportunity.

[7:18:37] >> I will check with the acting

[7:18:41] director.

[7:18:42] >> and particularly what the

[7:18:44] deadline is coming up.

[7:18:45] Anything else?

[7:18:46] Is there a motion?

[7:18:49] Nope.

[7:18:50] >> first, I want to thank mayor

[7:18:54] pro-tem, don freitas for running

[7:18:58] an efficient meeting tonight.

[7:19:00] So excited to get out of here

[7:19:02] before midnight.

[7:19:02] I would like to say first that

[7:19:07] councilwoman monica wilson

[7:19:09] couldn’t be here tonight because

[7:19:10] she had an urgent family issue.

[7:19:14] Please make sure you keep her in

[7:19:20] your prayers.

[7:19:20] I want to request that the

[7:19:26] council reconsider and place the

[7:19:32] lumberyard back on the cap.

[7:19:34] The reason I’m making this

[7:19:37] request because if the city ever

[7:19:39] turns this lot back over to the

[7:19:41] speculative market, it may fall

[7:19:45] under the surplus land act and

[7:19:48] the first developers that we

[7:19:51] have to concede to will be

[7:20:00] housing developers.

[7:20:01] It might not meet the need for

[7:20:04] the lot.

[7:20:04] I want us to have further

[7:20:07] discussion for what the vision

[7:20:08] is for so it doesn’t -- so this

[7:20:11] piece of property doesn’t fall

[7:20:13] victim to the surplus land act.

[7:20:15] I want to raise up that I’m

[7:20:22] greatful for the encampment

[7:20:27] cleanup.

[7:20:28] Every time we clear the

[7:20:31] encampment people end up

[7:20:32] somewhere else.

[7:20:35] The rite aid parking lot was a

[7:20:37] mess.

[7:20:38] I understand people are not

[7:20:40] blight, but if we are going to

[7:20:42] clean encampments, we need a

[7:20:44] strategy to place people so we

[7:20:45] are not pushing them from corner

[7:20:48] to corner.

[7:20:57] Lastly, myself and mayor freitas

[7:21:02] started having conversations

[7:21:04] about the theater in 2025 when

[7:21:07] we started the dialogue.

[7:21:30] We have been having the

[7:21:31] conversations since last year

[7:21:33] and trying to see what the

[7:21:35] solutions are and how can the

[7:21:37] city step in given the budget

[7:21:39] process and significant deficit

[7:21:42] we were facing due to low tax

[7:21:46] revenue.

[7:21:46] Due to the lack of sales tax

[7:21:50] revenue, we were not looking at

[7:21:51] other options.

[7:22:05] I would appreciate if people got

[7:22:08] clarity before saying we have

[7:22:13] not paid attention to this

[7:22:17] issue.

[7:22:17] >> mayor bernal, any comments?

[7:22:22] Is there a motion --

[7:22:23] >> do we have time for one final

[7:22:25] comment?

[7:22:25] >> no.

[7:22:27] Is there a motion to adjourn?

[7:22:29] >> motion to adjourn.

[7:22:31] >> second.

[7:22:31] >> motion has been made by

[7:22:35] councilmember rocha, seconded by

[7:22:40] councilmember torres-walker.

[7:22:44] To adjourn.

[7:22:45] \hto adjourn.

[7:22:45] Roll call?

[7:22:47] >> councilmember wilson is

[7:22:49] absent.

[7:22:51] Councilmember rocha?

[7:22:52] Councilmember torres-walker?

[7:22:54] Mayor pro-tem freitas?

[7:22:57] Mayor bernal?

[7:22:59] Motion passes 4-0.

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