[6:36] All right, before we start, the city council just met on one closed session item and there is nothing to report out at this time. Thank you for viewing the September 2nd meeting of the Arcada City Council. The city council meeting is being held as a hybrid meeting with both in-person attendance and teleconference access via Zoom. The city of Arcada acknowledges that the lands we are located on are the unceded ancestral lands of the Wiat tribe. The lands that Arcada rests on are known

[7:06] known in the WIOT language as Goudini over in the woods or among the redwoods.

[7:10] Past actions by local and state federal governments removed the WIOT and

[7:14] other indigenous peoples from the land and threatened to destroy their cultural practices.

[7:20] The city of Arcada acknowledges the WIOT community, their elders both past and

[7:25] present, as well as future generations.

[7:28] This acknowledgement seeks to aid in dismantling the legacy narratives of settler colonialism.

[7:33] If you'd like to join me, please, for the flight salute.

[7:39] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the Chief of the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[7:55] Will the city please call rule?

[7:58] Mayor White, President.

[8:00] Vice Mayor Atkins Salazar, here, Council Member Schaeffer, here, Council Member Stillman, President.

[8:07] Councilmember Matthews is absent, but we do have a quorum.

[8:11] And I just wanted to mention that Councilmember Matthews is not feeling well today, but she would have been here otherwise, so thank you.

[8:19] Okay, so if you wish to make a comment during the meeting, either for an individual agenda item or during the second and written oral communication period under the agenda item 11, there are three ways to do so.

[8:32] If you are in person, please line up behind the podium when the item that you wish to speak on is accepting public comment.

[8:40] If you are logged on to Zoom, click and raise your hand when it is time for public comment on the item that you wish to speak upon.

[8:47] And if you're on the phone, press star nine on your phone to raise your hand and when it's your turn, you'll be prompted to dial star six on your phone.

[8:55] for these items, we will be taking in-person public comment first, and then we'll move online to online comments.

[9:03] We will not be going back and forth, so if you're wanting to comment, please light up at the podium.

[9:08] Or raise your electronic hand as soon as public comment for that item has been requested.

[9:14] That brings us to ceremonial matters, proclamation in recognition of Coastal Cleanup Month for September, 2026.

[9:22] And this proclamation will be read by Vice Mayor Atkins Stacey's Atkins Sousa.

[9:30] Thank you.

[9:32] Whereas the state of California has a varied coastline of sandy beaches,

[9:37] rocky shores, productive estuaries, marshes, tidal flats, urban areas, and

[9:42] harbors.

[9:43] And whereas the marine environment is one of the most valuable resources for

[9:47] recreation, tourism, fishing, coastal activities,

[9:51] and maintaining coastal biome health.

[9:53] Coastal protection as a responsibility shared by residents,

[9:56] the business community, and public institutions.

[9:59] And whereas, the North Coast Environmental Center

[10:02] is the Humboldt County Coordinator for 2026,

[10:06] Coastal Cleanup Month taking place every weekend in September,

[10:09] during which hundreds of people will clean beaches, rivers,

[10:12] streets, estuaries, and watersheds throughout Humboldt County,

[10:15] collecting trash, upriver, and in urban areas helps prevent plastics and other debris from

[10:21] accumulating in ocean and marine habitats. And whereas the North Coast Environmental

[10:26] Centers adopt a beach, began in Humboldt County over 45 years ago, and is now celebrated

[10:32] throughout California and around the world. Last year, Humboldt County volunteers picked

[10:37] up over 1,500 pounds of trash from our shoreline and coastal region. And whereas residents

[10:42] residents can be proud that year after year, Humboldt County continues to be among the state's leaders in coastal and environmental stewardship, helping to keep our ocean rivers and coastline clean.

[10:53] Now therefore be it proclaimed that the City Council of the City of Arcada recognizes the month of September 2026 as coastal cleanup month, and encourages individuals, businesses, service groups, and public institutions to safely hit the beach, streets, and watersheds to jointly promote a healthy and productive coastal environment.

[11:12] is dated September 2nd, 2026, and signed by our mayor, Kimberly White.

[11:17] And today, it will be accepted by Laurel McKay, Operations Manager, and

[11:21] Kennedy Violin Court, Coastal Coordinator for North Coast Environmental Centers.

[11:33] Okay, hi, my name is Kennedy, and I am the Coastal Programs Coordinator with the North Coast Environmental Center.

[11:40] Is this Laurel McKay?

[11:42] First of all, to our mayor and council members, thank you so

[11:46] much for recognizing and pro-claiming September as Coastal Cleanup Month.

[11:50] We cannot do this without the support of our city and are honored that you recognize this each year.

[11:56] Coastal Cleanup Day started at the NAC over 45 years ago and has since been turned into an international affair and is one of the largest volunteer driven events in the world.

[12:07] Our organization serves as Humboldt County's coordinator for the California Coastal Commission and we work with other nonprofits, businesses, schools and

[12:15] community members to pick up thousands of pieces of trash each year.

[12:19] Locally, we turn Coastal Cleanup Day into a full month of events trying to keep the

[12:25] energy high, foster ongoing stewardship, and create more opportunities for people to

[12:32] join in in the fun.

[12:34] This year is no different.

[12:36] We have events every single weekend of September, and I would love everyone here to be able

[12:41] to join us if you can.

[12:42] one. Please see a list of our events at your NEC dot org. That's Y-O-U-R-N-E-C dot org.

[12:52] And once again, thank you. We are happy to serve the city.

[13:01] Thank you.

[13:03] Oh, of course. Can we do it without you guys?

[13:09] Okay. So that brings us to reports by commissions and committees and there are no commission committee

[13:17] reports agendas for this evening's meeting, and that will then bring us to staff reports.

[13:24] All reports shall be limited to city business and shall not request or lead to action by

[13:30] the council at this meeting, and I believe we have no staff at this meeting.

[13:33] We have no staff reports this evening.

[13:36] Oh, well not great, but moving on.

[13:39] The city council values your comments, and the public comment period allows people to address

[13:44] the council on matters not on the agenda.

[13:46] This early section of public comment is limited to 15 minutes and speakers are limited to minutes each.

[13:52] If you prefer to have a full three minutes of your time for your public comment, this item is continued at the end of the meeting under item 12 where speakers are granted the three minutes.

[14:01] Please know that pursuant to the Brown Act, the Council cannot discuss or take action on items not listed on the agenda.

[14:07] The Council may respond to statements.

[14:10] There will also be time to provide public comment specific to each item when that item is being

[14:15] reviewed by the council reviewed by the council. So please make your way up to the podium now.

[14:24] Thank you. My name is Anton Susa and I'm here today to represent the Sunset and Arcada

[14:30] Elementary School's own neighborhood and voice our disappointment with the city's

[14:35] paving project for Ross Street. The city has claimed that it was not required to contact residents

[14:40] because the project is part of the annual pavement maintenance. This is neither routine nor maintenance.

[14:46] It is the largest project our neighborhood has ever experienced.

[14:50] Although the residents of Ross Street unanimously signed a 2021 petition requesting

[14:55] street calming, that request was denied.

[14:59] Now the-

[15:00] City without new data or notifying the residents is repaving and adding speed humps, thermoplastic bicycle lanes, ADA compliant sidewalk on only the east side of the street, while leaving the sidewalk on the west side incomplete, and adding numerous bull bouts on the corners and by the two utility poles for a total of nearly 70 feet, eliminating an additional seven parking spots. Four parking spots were eliminated in 2020 when the city narrowed

[15:29] road road with thermoplastic striping. The city has stated that parking is not a priority,

[15:36] but I think it should be. The residents pay the city for preferential

[15:39] parking on our block. There is zero enforcement to prevent unpermitted parking by parents

[15:45] of students at the elementary school, Cal Poly students, open door clinic staff and patients,

[15:51] people using Larson Park, the skate park, and the Arcada High Field all in our neighborhood.

[15:56] The council has also publicly stated that they prioritized the safety of students in our community.

[16:02] However, this project fails to do that by refusing to address the issue of traffic going

[16:07] the wrong direction on grant, which is a one-way street in the school zone and connects

[16:12] to a pedestrian way and three blind intersections.

[16:16] Nor have the safety and directional signage for Grant Street been returned, which was promised

[16:20] over a year ago.

[16:21] Please return the signage and prioritize safety in our neighborhood.

[16:26] Thank you.

[16:28] Thank you for your comment, Anton.

[16:31] Is there anyone else who would like to make public comment at this time?

[16:35] If not, we will go to online.

[16:39] Okay.

[16:41] We do not have any hands raised online.

[16:43] Okay, thank you.

[16:44] All right, so then that will bring us to a meeting of the successor agency

[16:50] to the Arcada Community Development Agency at this time, the members of the City Council

[16:55] act as the governing body of the Successor Agency to the Arcada Development Agency.

[17:01] The Successor Agency is the legal entity that manages the remaining bond debt service

[17:07] from the City's original redevelopment agency, so we may act on these matters separately.

[17:14] First, we have the consent calendar A. Successor Agency consent calendar all matters on the

[17:19] The consent calendar are considered to be routine by the agency and are enacted in one motion.

[17:26] There is no separate discussion for any of these items if discussion is required that item is removed from the consent calendar and considered separately.

[17:34] At the end of the reading of the consent calendar agency board members can request that an item be removed for separate discussion.

[17:41] Members of the public may comment on any items remaining on the consent calendar in the comment period before the vote.

[17:47] So one, approve the Secretary and clerk of the Board's filing of the 2026 Notice of the

[17:54] Biannual Review, Conflict of Interest Code with the City of Arcada and ratify the determination

[18:00] that no amendment is required.

[18:02] Would any agency board member like to remove an item from the successor agency consent calendar?

[18:11] Is there any member of the public waiting to comment on the successor agency consent calendar?

[18:18] If so, make your way up to the podium at this time please.

[18:23] Hi, my name's Joanna Gary and I recall something similar happening at previous meetings I've attended, and my understanding is because the state of California no longer operates a redevelopment program, this is a requirement while we still have potential outstanding redevelopment funds to be utilized on something like the property.

[18:49] in the marsh that had been discussed at previous meetings.

[18:53] So I guess, you know, with all that legal language, it would be sort of wonderful to explain

[19:01] why we step out of council and into an agency thing so that those who are bothering to

[19:08] watch this have an understanding of why this exists.

[19:15] Thank you for your comment.

[19:17] And I would defer that to possibly our data there.

[19:22] Can you possibly explain why we do that?

[19:27] I can do a brief, I wasn't expecting this, but I can do a brief under statement.

[19:32] Essentially you serve as the board for the successor agency.

[19:35] And yes, it's the successor agency to the redevelopment fund that was disbanded by the state back in 2012.

[19:44] And the primary reason you meet is because we still have outstanding debt.

[19:49] I believe it's through 2031 that is repaid through the successor agency.

[19:55] And so once a year there are these basic business requirements that we go through.

[19:59] And so you go through, you know, convening, unconvening as the city council convening as the successor agency.

[20:06] And then adjourning back into your city council meeting.

[20:10] The only time we would probably do something outside of this just perfunctory annual process

[20:17] would be if you took some action on the debt, for example, re-financed it or had some

[20:22] other action that impacted it, but that's kind of a brief explanation of what we're doing.

[20:28] So we'll see you next year on that one, meantime.

[20:32] May, is there any other member of the public who would like to make a comment on that and

[20:36] do we have anyone online?

[20:38] We do not have any hands okay so if we don't have any further comment or any

[20:44] questions or clarification from council do we have a motion? I'm sure I'll move

[20:50] to approve the successor agency consent calendar and we have a second okay so we

[20:59] have a motion from go ahead we have a motion from council member Schaefer in a

[21:04] second from councilmember stillman all those in favor hi hi and I say I so the motion passes now we

[21:11] adjourn the successor agency meeting and we will move back to the council meeting consent calendar

[21:17] all right so all matters on the consent calendar are considered to be retained by the city council

[21:21] and are enacted in one motion there is no separate discussion for any of these items if separate

[21:27] discussion is required that item is removed from the consent calendar and it will be considered

[21:32] Separately A, approved to weigh reading of the text and consent to read by title only for any ordinance on this agenda.

[21:39] B, approve the minutes of the City Council's special meeting of August 19th, 2026.

[21:45] C, approve the minutes of City Council meeting of August 19th, 2026.

[21:50] D, by weekly report on disbursements.

[21:54] E, approve the city manager's filing of the 2026 local agency.

[21:59] the biennial notice, conflict of interest code, and with the City of Arcada and ratified the determination that no amendment is required.

[22:08] F, continue to find the emergency procurement to repair the failed culverts at 4,700 West End Road is necessary.

[22:17] I think this might be the last one, and authorize the City Manager to execute all applicable documents.

[22:23] Advanced G, adopt resolution number 267-16, revising the fiscal year for

[22:30] 2026, 2027, budget for measure G, renewal, flyer, printing, and

[22:35] mailing, H ratifying an extension of the employment agreement with Merit Perry for

[22:40] the position of city manager for the term of August 19th, 2024, to August 19th,

[22:47] the 2029 and just to know that this item does not include any modification to compensation.

[22:54] I approve an amendment to the construction contract for

[22:58] Centigrow, WWT, Incorporated for the 2026 Digestor Cleaning Project in the amount of $193,375 and 59 cents,

[23:10] and approved necessary and associated related actions.

[23:13] Would any council member or staff like to remove an item from the consent calendar at this time?

[23:21] I don't want to remove it, but I just wanted to offer a clarification that some people might find helpful.

[23:27] I noticed mayor that on H, you did read regarding our city managers' employment agreement that there's no change in compensation.

[23:35] And I did ask, I was wondering why at a previous meeting director Darts was on, was an agenda item and why our city managers was only a consent item and that is because it's, we simply extended the length of it so there's no change in the benefits or financial compensation.

[23:52] So, thank you.

[23:57] Correct. Do we have any members of the public wanting to comment on this consent item?

[24:03] Please make your way up to the podium, please.

[24:05] It's, hi, my name's Joanne McGarry and I didn't do my homework on this meeting in terms

[24:12] of disbursements or anything, but I did ride my bike up to where the culvert and the emergency,

[24:20] the failed culvert area and as you said out loud just now that it's potentially the last

[24:27] time you'll be reading this, I just have to say the more I wrote by that site, the more

[24:34] incredibly significant it was so I'm glad it's being fixed but that's a pretty

[24:43] significant and especially with storms coming in so I'm glad we're getting ahead

[24:47] of that. Also the digester cleaning I'm assuming that's out at the sewage

[24:54] treatment plant. Again it's a lot of money but I guess it's something that's a

[24:59] the standard and allotted for in budget so it's nothing necessarily new or different in

[25:07] routine maintenance and cleaning of that piece of equipment.

[25:14] So I had a tour of the Suge treatment plan a couple of weeks ago and I'm very impressed

[25:20] by the staff there and the operation.

[25:24] Thank you for your comment.

[25:26] If there are no other members in public, do we have anyone online?

[25:32] No, we do not.

[25:34] Okay.

[25:35] So, may I have a motion to adopt the consent calendar, please?

[25:40] So, I'll adopt the consent calendar from A through I.

[25:46] I will second.

[25:47] So, we have a motion from Councilmember Stilman.

[25:50] And a second from Vice Mayor at Concelsor. All in favor?

[25:54] I.

[25:54] Hi.

[25:55] So motion passes, brings us to old business.

[25:58] We do not have any this evening.

[26:01] So new business, a proven application for funding from the Great Redwood Trail Agency

[26:06] for the Arcada Gateway Trails Project.

[26:08] May we have a staff report from the Director of Environmental Services, Emily St.

[26:13] Court, please.

[26:15] Great.

[26:16] Well, good evening, Council, and thank you for the opportunity to present this evening.

[26:20] The Arcada Gateway Trails Project was recently adopted as part of this fiscal year's capital improvement program.

[26:29] And the purpose of that is really to enhance walking and biking in western Arcada neighborhoods,

[26:36] as well as implement much of the non-motorized proposed improvements within the gateway area.

[26:44] So the city has an opportunity to apply for funding to the Great Redwood Trail Agency and we wanted to get your input on just the scope of that proposal.

[26:56] So the GRTA is the steward of the former rail corridor around Humboldt Bay and is now tasked with completing the Great Redwood Trail between here and San Francisco.

[27:08] the city's in the midst of delivering our third project, third trail project along the GRTA corridor.

[27:17] And as a public commenter had noted, you can ride your bike up to a long western road now.

[27:25] So the city has made a lot of progress in enhancing non-motorized transportation and

[27:32] And what is exciting is that we don't just have anecdotal evidence of how much use our trails are getting.

[27:40] We have recently installed trail counters along a couple's locations along the Arcada Indian Mary at the Ridge Trail Junction along Weston Road and at the Skate Park.

[27:52] And so since those were installed this summer, we've seen on average 250 daily trail users at the Skate Park.

[28:00] work. So we're seeing a lot of use and the trail isn't really even officially open yet

[28:06] all the way up to West End Road. So that project is on track to be completed this calendar

[28:14] year in late fall, early winter. We look forward to celebrating that. But admits completing

[28:22] that construction, staff have been busy to plan proposed projects for future walking and

[28:28] biking improvements. I would say all of the trail projects have really been with a great

[28:34] partnership and working relationship that we have with GRTA staff. So the GRTA has received

[28:43] $50 million through the Prop 4 climate bond that California had recently passed and the

[28:52] But the purpose of that, much of those funds are for trail design and construction along

[28:58] priority segments that were outlined in the GRT's master plan.

[29:04] So in June of this year, the GRT first made some allocations of funds to partner agencies

[29:12] to develop some of those priority projects.

[29:16] And a key note about this funding is they have if there's a time component and looking

[29:22] at completing and utilizing those funds by the end of 2029.

[29:28] And Arcada staff feel we are well positioned to be competitive for those funds and we've

[29:34] shown progress at delivering excellent projects.

[29:38] The GRTA master plan does highlight a priority opportunity to connect Western Arcada and the Samoa Peninsula to the main line Humboldt Bay Trail that we all love to walk in and bike on through the creamery district and down through the marsh.

[30:00] I really saw that this is a great funding opportunity, city staff, between environmental services and engineering, put together an informal proposal to GRTA staff to get their feedback on what could potentially be competitive that the GRTA board could fund. Our original scope, and I'll pull up a map in a second. Our original scope focused on the scope of our CIP project of trail improvements through

[30:29] through the Gateway area and then continuing west on the rail corridor out towards V Street and the Winsong neighborhood in Western Arcada.

[30:42] We did receive feedback from GRTA staff that the project could potentially be more competitive for funding through their board if the city partnered with GRTA to expand the geographic scope and develop the trail.

[30:58] West towards the small peninsula and of ending at the Mad River slew.

[31:05] So I did just want to walk through those two kind of segments on the map.

[31:12] So hopefully there is small text.

[31:18] I apologize, but we will just walk through what we are looking at.

[31:24] So, in the green line is the existing Humboldt Bay Trail through the creamery, here's the plaza just for orientation.

[31:35] The green line is our north-south bay trail through the creamery district, up to Alliance, and then we're heading towards the Shea Park and Skate Park.

[31:47] The red dash line runs along another segment of rail that is owned in fee and rail banked

[31:59] by the Great Redwood Trail Agency, and this is paralleling M Street, again coming down

[32:08] through the Western Creamery District, and then starts to head west towards V Street,

[32:16] and here is the Winsong neighborhood.

[32:19] You will see some connections here east west

[32:22] of looking at opportunities to make sure there's connection

[32:26] between our class one walking, biking, rolling trails.

[32:30] And so the city staff had originally proposed a scope

[32:36] of from here at V Street through kind of downtown

[32:42] in the gateway area.

[32:43] So this red line also matches to a tee that proposed trail network within the gateway area plan.

[32:56] Then I'm just going to scroll here for a second. Sorry, this is not the best presentation format.

[33:04] For some additional context, the scope that was just outlining is about a mile and a half

[33:12] through downtown and out to Western Arcada neighborhoods of Winsong at V Street.

[33:20] A proposed scope to expand west would be another 2.3 miles.

[33:29] As we kind of included, the Arcada Gateway Trails main scope area in our capital improvement program,

[33:40] You know internally city staff had recognized that this is a you know meeting the goals of the gateway plan

[33:48] Meeting increased demand for walking and biking connectivity and that we would have the the staffing resources to

[33:56] Operate and maintain

[33:59] that that segment

[34:01] In our discussions with GRTA staff and you know, they're they're inquiry of a

[34:09] partnership to expand further west we've been very clear that while we have been a leader

[34:17] of developing trails around Humboldt Bay the city itself would not have the long-term operations

[34:24] maintenance staffing funding to be able to be responsible moving forward for ongoing operations

[34:32] and maintenance of this Phase B segment, which is well outside of city limits.

[34:40] Fortunately, GRTA staff are certainly very understanding, and they have been working at

[34:47] building their internal capacity of trail managers, trail developers, and operational and

[34:55] maintenance staff.

[34:59] So just to kind of bring back to just the conversation tonight, city staff really does

[35:10] recommend pursuing a combination of working together with GRTA staff to plan design and potentially

[35:21] construct the phase B segment along with phase A. But through developing a memorandum of

[35:30] understanding that clearly outlines the roles and responsibilities of both the city and

[35:37] the GRTA. In particular of, you know, we really see an opportunity of an economy of scale to

[35:46] develop these two segments together as one project.

[35:56] Also, we've really been developing

[35:59] our internal capacity, particular within our engineering department for design and construction

[36:07] management of Class 1 trail projects.

[36:11] A scope and budget of developing a budget would include the cost of needing to work with

[36:22] consultants full cost for both planning, permitting design, construction and construction management.

[36:30] So just to make that more clear, internal staff are excited about furthering this project,

[36:38] furthering the plans in the Gateway Area Plan, continuing to enhance trail connectivity around Humboldt Bay.

[36:49] And we're building into the budget if we need to work all of those phases with project consultants.

[36:58] plus planning for 30% contingency since, you know, it is unknown of how the economy will be, you know, next month versus a year from now.

[37:11] So as the geographic scope of this Arcada Gateway Trail project has a potential to expand, we wanted to receive your feedback and input

[37:26] but on pursuing just the phase A segment for planning design and construction, or partnering with the GRTA with clearly outlined rules and responsibilities to develop phase A and phase B together with the city only taking on maintenance of the phase A segment out to V Street.

[37:51] So I'm happy to take any questions you may have.

[37:57] Thank you, Emily.

[37:58] I appreciate you outlining all of the phases and what that would look like in class for

[38:04] us with a memorandum of understanding.

[38:07] Do we have any questions?

[38:11] We do.

[38:13] I would like to take public comment.

[38:15] I have feeling that we have people in the audience that came specifically to talk to us

[38:19] to do that first then.

[38:20] And so any member of the public that is here in person, please step up.

[38:25] Carol, please come on up.

[38:33] Hi, everybody.

[38:34] I can't tell you how excited I am to be here tonight.

[38:37] I'm Carol Vandermeer, and I live out in Manila.

[38:41] I'm also part of the peninsula community collaborative, and we have a subcommittee called Peninsula Moves,

[38:47] and some others are here who may comment tonight.

[38:50] And I'm also on the board of the Great Revital Agency.

[38:54] and as a board member I'm also on ad hoc committee to look at fundraising and long-term support for ongoing maintenance of trails because that's a really important issue.

[39:07] I really want with those hats in mind when it encourage you all to be supportive of extending this scope that goes beyond the city limits it's a bit of a stretch but as a cyclist who does cycle that stretch and

[39:23] the stretches that are like six inches wide shoulder.

[39:27] It's really imperative that something be done for the safety of those who commute.

[39:35] I think there'd be a lot more people riding their bike, Sarcada.

[39:40] Also, as a member of Friends of the June's Board, there are so many resources, beaches,

[39:46] access area.

[39:47] We have just world-class variety of beaches that are managed by,

[39:51] you know, the Fish and Wildlife Service, Friends of the Dunes.

[39:55] There's like a couple thousand acres out there.

[39:57] So this really fits in well as an excellent spur

[40:02] of the Great Redwood Trail.

[40:04] And I appreciate the staff who has got the expertise

[40:08] to really see a project like this through

[40:11] and history track record of doing that.

[40:14] And I appreciate economies of scale.

[40:17] And also, please, I did have an opportunity to work

[40:20] on the South Arcade of Multimodal, you know, Safety Improvement Project and we definitely

[40:25] heard a lot of voices from the community who wanted to see this happen. And lastly,

[40:31] I just want to emphasize to the city that the Peninsula Community Collaborative now exists as

[40:39] under the physical sponsorship of the people as a dream maker project. We're a nonprofit

[40:44] and hope to partner with the city in terms of doing community outreach and potential for mobilizing volunteers.

[40:53] We do, you know, clean ups and things like that and could be hopefully a real useful partner.

[40:58] And we've been talking about this for a long time so I hope we can work together on that.

[41:05] So thank you so much.

[41:07] Thank you.

[41:09] Do we have other members of the public?

[41:11] Please make your way up to the podium.

[41:13] them. Thank you.

[41:17] Hi there. My name is Colleen Clifford and I want

[41:20] to do everything Carol just said, including that I'm a co-lead of the PCC. I live in Manila

[41:25] and we would love to see this project come to fruition. Segment A is great for Arcada

[41:30] but please push and prioritize segment B as well. This has been an ongoing issue for years

[41:36] the connectivity between Arcada and the peninsula has been difficult and challenging, very dangerous

[41:41] for people to commute on by bike or by walking to and we encourage that to be part of this

[41:48] project because it will really add to the overall safety of our community and I wanted

[41:53] to add that the Great Redwood Trail doesn't have any coastal access besides this segment.

[41:59] So bringing people out to the coast is such an important part of showing the California

[42:04] community and what a great starting and stopping point for the Great Redwood Trail enthusiasts

[42:09] to be able to dig their toes in the sand and feel that ocean water after they've done the bike from Santa Rosa or just from Eureka.

[42:17] So yeah, we just encourage this to continue and for you to apply for the funding and continue the priority of bringing people out to the similar peninsula.

[42:27] Thank you.

[42:28] Thank you.

[42:29] Do we have other members who would like to speak on this topic, please make your way.

[42:43] I'm Carla Osborne, I live in Manila as well, and also part of the same groups, these

[42:49] Gauss are PCC and Manila moves.

[42:53] But I'm really humorous just a citizen of Manila, who comes to Arcada almost daily.

[43:01] I'm so excited to hear you talk about this Emily.

[43:06] Thank you for even considering it, and yes, please, that's all I have to say.

[43:11] Please I'm more of a walker than a cyclist most days and the idea of being able to go four miles with my dogs and

[43:19] Come to Arcada is really thrilling will it be eight miles and be a big walk?

[43:25] Please and thank you

[43:27] Thank you next

[43:32] Hi, my name is to amigurri and I too applaud

[43:37] Adding this spur to a trail that's a very linear trail that goes a long way

[43:44] because going off the beaten path and going on to something as they suggested is the resources,

[43:51] coastal resource on a trail that won't see the ocean until it gets here is really valuable.

[43:58] And I take the bus often between Arcadia and Eureka and occasionally I will get on the bus route

[44:04] that goes through Manila. And it is a community that vitally needs alternatives

[44:12] to car travel and I just think this is the way of the world working together in a future

[44:23] that's hopefully less focused on automobiles and more focused on moving on foot and on bicycle

[44:32] and wheels to places that we really want to go and be inspired by.

[44:38] Okay, so I, too, I think this is a great connection for the community to be involved in.

[44:50] If there are no one else in person, shall we go to online?

[44:54] Aye?

[44:56] Aye.

[45:00] Go ahead. Thank you.

[45:03] Hi, hi, council. Dan Jean here. I'm running for city council. And I think that this is one of the greatest ideas I've seen presented at the city council meetings. I've attended or watched online. I think I've seen so many people walking or biking that area that it's really a vital safety issue. And as was stated, the connectivity to the coast and the resources

[45:32] there including the disc golf course. If there was a safe way to bike there with my kids now,

[45:39] we would be doing it constantly. So I want to encourage you to pursue this as far as it can go

[45:46] and really even consider trying to reach out to Eureka and get them to connect all the way to

[45:52] Samoa where the people in Samoa don't even have a bus route at the moment. So making these connections

[45:59] And even figuring out a way to make it safer to cross not some old bridge some day would be amazing and

[46:07] Honestly, an economic booster for the entire community as well

[46:10] Thank you

[46:12] Thank you for your comment. Is there anyone else online?

[46:16] Yes, there's one other hand

[47:52] Nancy, can you please try? We have some audio issues here. Can you please try speaking?

[48:04] Okay, perfect. Thank you. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I am pressing all kinds of things and wasn't getting it. So my name's Nancy Har. And I'm also a resident of Manila and a member of the PCC and Manila moves. And I guess my comment would be, I mean, I support everything that everybody said so far.

[48:29] And I just want to come and that there are a lot of young people, young families now

[48:35] moving to Manila, my neighborhood is definitely much younger than it was just a decade ago.

[48:42] And I have been in meetings where people just said, oh, I wish my children could, I wish

[48:48] we could bike to Arcada.

[48:50] So there's the wonderful things that people from Arcada coming to Manila and the ocean and

[48:56] beaches, but it's also wonderful for people here to take their children to Arcada and just

[49:08] kept wanting to talk about the safety because 40 years ago, I took my daughter on a bike

[49:16] to along 255 and we were going into Arcada, saw a little kitten on the side of the road and didn't

[49:24] have time to do anything coming back. We did something we shouldn't which is right the wrong way.

[49:30] You know, you know, you supposed to go with the traffic not against and a truck came by my daughter

[49:36] who's young. I think she was 11 or so kind of when swinging out into the road. So, fortunately,

[49:45] didn't get hit and always well but but it's just such an unsafe road for biking and walking

[49:54] and so I really support yeah that phase B and I hope that you will as well and thank you for

[50:04] considering it. That's all. Thank you for your comment Nancy.

[50:11] Do we have anyone else online?

[50:13] No, we do not. Okay, so we'll bring it back then to council. And I will popcorn it. So whoever wants to start go for it.

[50:24] I will ask the opening question of I mean, what do you think is more likely to get grant funding if we just do phase A?

[50:31] If we go for this phase A or B is it too ambitious and is not going to be funded?

[50:35] But it seems that if you know GRTA is giving granting the money then if we partner with them that would maybe be an incentive to want to do phase A or B.

[50:43] So that I was just curious what, you know, you think that process looks like.

[50:49] You know, just based on so far, we've just been working at the staff to staff level,

[50:54] and I've definitely gotten feedback that given the, just all of the priorities across the GRT scope,

[51:07] hope that the larger connections between communities around Humboldt Bay is a top priority.

[51:16] So based on that feedback, we felt this would likely be more competitive for funding by adding phase B.

[51:25] Again, this is working with great working relationships with GRT staff and it is not a

[51:39] submit your application by September 3rd and then it will be reviewed.

[51:46] I think we're building that relationship and part of staff's thinking was to make the

[51:54] The project as a whole had a more competitive.

[51:59] The city has a lot of walking biking infrastructure priorities as well as other infrastructure

[52:05] priorities.

[52:06] And we try to tailor projects to what could be some good funding sources.

[52:11] That really precipitated the original phase A segment of this project.

[52:18] And we certainly see how it fits in our regional perspective.

[52:24] So that is just how we more of suggested adding on the phase B to be more competitive as

[52:31] a whole.

[52:34] And I know we talked about this, like I feel like a long time ago, I guess that's V street

[52:38] not.

[52:39] But there's that segment of Q street that connects to the marsh that didn't we get some easement

[52:45] from Cal Poly Humble for that and would that be something that we would want to include on part of this project as well or is that just kind of something we're not, you know, focusing on anymore.

[52:54] Thank you. You bring up a good point that I did not touch on this detail.

[53:01] So the what is also likely to be most competitive for funding is projects that are directly on the GRT corridor.

[53:12] and also of key connections that may be out off the corridor.

[53:18] I had highlighted what city staff saw as a key connection between the proposed trail

[53:25] through the gateway area and the existing Humboldt Bay Trail.

[53:28] Also, we see the connection on V Street from the GRT corridor up to North to Winsong

[53:36] as also being like very critical to meeting Western Arcada's, you know, transportation needs.

[53:45] Those, right now those segments are proposed as city matching funds to the project.

[53:51] That the city would develop with our annual sidewalk projects,

[53:57] that we could do enhancement on 8th Street to make that connection.

[54:01] So, you know, your question of the potential at Q Street, that could be a future connection.

[54:11] The city does not have the full right of way along Q Street.

[54:16] Part of the challenge of this project in developing this scope was to ensure that everything

[54:24] kind of on the map that we would have right of way for.

[54:29] or since, you know, right-of-way acquisition or improvements across the CalTrans corridor

[54:36] would likely take us beyond the funding timeline of completing the project by the end of

[54:43] 2029.

[54:44] So, that's why we really focused on the, you know, GRTA corridor and what we saw as key

[54:51] connections on city to connect to city neighborhoods.

[54:54] I

[54:59] wanted to ask you what it would look like, right now at 255 looks like it's really narrow.

[55:06] Would there be a way to add similar to what we have between Arcadia and

[55:10] Eureka, would that be the way the connector would look?

[55:13] And I was out in Alder Grove Industrial Park today and across 255 the bridge there.

[55:19] Now you have new bollards that go across to create walking and biking on either side of the bridge.

[55:25] Is that what would be the concept for making this safe and what would it look like?

[55:31] Yeah, so yeah, great, thank you.

[55:34] The project is proposed to look like the Humboldt Bay Trail through the marsh or

[55:41] the Arcada Annie and Mary Trail on top of the existing rail that is out there and

[55:47] now just to the north of 255.

[55:51] The 255 is the Caltrans corridor and the rail corridor is owned and rail banked by GRTA.

[56:03] So the project would be really focused solely within the corridor in control by GRTA.

[56:11] Okay, Caltrans has more recently updated their Highway 255 corridor management plan.

[56:22] And while there are some have been proposed for some additional non-motorized improvements,

[56:30] crossing improvements elsewhere on 255 for this segment, through the Arcade of Bottoms,

[56:36] There are not current plans from

[56:39] CalTRANs in that corridor management plan to, you know, expand at a separated walking and biking facility.

[56:46] I certainly see opportunities for GRTA to partner with CalTRANs for this, you know, phase B segment and kind of ongoing operations.

[56:58] But this project is really of proposing solely the improvements in the former rail corridor.

[57:04] Well, I was just also thinking about timber heritage and I don't know how far they're going with whatever it's called and do they, I don't, you probably know if they go through Manila or not but I'm just curious about if that's it conflict at all.

[57:23] It is my understanding and that is something that again of this is a lines on a map and the.

[57:29] The outreach and planning phase would only really just begin if funding would be awarded.

[57:39] And Timber Heritage Association has been a good partner in salvaging rail from the former

[57:47] Arcada and Mad River Railroad, so there could be partnerships there.

[57:54] But I will say the GRTA, you know, has the rail banked corridor for the purpose of utilizing that rail corridor for interim trail use until such time that a viable, you know, railroad operations could continue.

[58:12] And so, you know, GRTA is their scope is to really complete these trail segments throughout humble county and beyond communities.

[58:21] Thank you very much.

[58:23] I definitely support this concept.

[58:25] I think it will be a good way to connect things

[58:27] for the whole community and give us another.

[58:32] Well, anyway, everyone else has to talk about this

[58:35] before we do anything more?

[58:37] Yeah, I support it.

[58:40] Also, we do know that trails and connectivity

[58:43] are important to our community at large

[58:46] and it would be, I have no doubt that people

[58:49] people would ride their bikes or walk out to those communities or back and forth.

[58:54] I mean, I would, I don't know because it's scary on Samoa but it would be great to have

[58:59] that space.

[59:00] And also, just practically, it's another way to keep our staff busy with a big project

[59:08] with outside funding, which is not nothing like that's important.

[59:14] I have two questions, one is since I can see people having some of those destinations

[59:22] of the different beach access spots, will we be providing parking for bikes out there

[59:29] if we're creating the trail, and then also you might not have the answer to this, but do

[59:35] you know if there are plans to continue at Pass Manila to Samoa?

[59:39] Great,

[59:43] so I think again these are lines on a map in order to make our case for the proposal

[59:50] and the details of bike parking locations would be worked out in that design phase.

[1:00:00] In getting out to the end of the trail and taking a walk, and that is a key opportunity that could be included, especially when we're doing outreach and getting community members feedback, and also in the design phase.

[1:00:17] This phase B would only be proposed to the arcade aside of the Mad River slew. I know the GRTA is looking at logical segment.

[1:00:29] to work to develop, and that being a logical destination point and overlook, they've discussed

[1:00:40] of potential for future connections for kayaking and water trails in the Mad River

[1:00:47] Slough. These are big picture ideas.

[1:00:53] Developing

[1:00:54] then non-motorized improvements, over-mad river slew,

[1:00:59] and then to connect with the Manila Trail

[1:01:02] that is in the CalTrans corridor through Manila.

[1:01:06] And that's a great half-mile segment

[1:01:08] and connects Key Manila neighborhoods.

[1:01:12] I think that would come at a later date.

[1:01:15] And again, GRTA will be the kind of the lead

[1:01:19] in looking at partnerships for trail development.

[1:01:22] So

[1:01:25] when I first moved here back then HSU, I lived in Manella and I used to ride my bike and it was really sketchy so this has been a long time coming I'm super excited at the possibilities that you talked about that will extend even beyond phase B and I also just want to thank our staff for working so hard and bringing this, you know, to us as well as Carol and Mayor and working so hard and everyone else.

[1:01:55] Just having that access, the beach access is another boon to not just arcade it, but all of humble being able to

[1:02:03] Provide that all the way through would be amazing, but I'm thrilled that we can just bring it to as far as we can within

[1:02:11] The constraints of our jurisdiction, so yeah, and I think that Sarah still wanted to say something

[1:02:18] Oh, I was just going to add that I did speak to the president of the THA board and they're,

[1:02:22] obviously, never happy when they want to rip the rails out.

[1:02:26] But this is also a segment that they've not really gone far enough to be able to run trains on.

[1:02:32] And there's a couple sections that are pretty, that would be difficult to rebuild between where they currently run and

[1:02:38] Mo and where, you know, this would link up in Manila. So, you know, they're always at the table

[1:02:44] and are very aware of what's going on as well. So unless there are any other comments from Council,

[1:02:51] do we have a motion? Yeah, I will make a motion to approve an application for funding from the GRTA

[1:03:01] A for the Gateway Trails Project, including Paises A and B.

[1:03:06] Second.

[1:03:07] Okay, so we have a motion from Council Members.

[1:03:09] Shaffer.

[1:03:10] A second from Council Members.

[1:03:11] Stillman.

[1:03:12] All those in favor?

[1:03:14] Aye.

[1:03:15] And I say aye, so motion passes.

[1:03:18] And thank you for coming.

[1:03:20] Yes, thank you so much.

[1:03:23] All right, so that brings us to item B.

[1:03:25] Consider approving playhouse arts permit application for the sunny break porch fest special

[1:03:31] event on October 4th, 2026. May we have a report from Deputy Director of Environmental

[1:03:39] Services, Emily Bendby, please.

[1:03:42] Sure. Good evening, Council and community members. I don't have any visuals this evening.

[1:03:48] I usually do, but we have been here before and we're here again for the Council's consideration

[1:03:54] of the annual, now becoming annual porch fest event to be held on October 4th of 2026.

[1:04:01] Before I jump into the details on the specific event, I did want to frame the context for

[1:04:07] this item being before you, which is to say that typically our recreation division receives

[1:04:12] special event applications on a very regular basis and it's not typical that we would bring

[1:04:17] those events for council consideration. However, there have been times where the city has received

[1:04:24] special event permit applications that have been less traditional. So for example, not in a

[1:04:30] specific public park, not in the plaza, or perhaps in a specific public park or plaza

[1:04:36] or public space, but for late night hours or something, you know, not typical.

[1:04:41] And so a porch fest is one of those events.

[1:04:43] It is proposed to be held in the sunny brain neighborhood and consists of both acoustic and

[1:04:50] amplified music that would be performed on private residences, front porches, front yards,

[1:04:56] that sort of thing backyards perhaps, but there is an intersection with the city in that the attendees travel in the city public right of way, and so it's a non-traditional event structure and so staff finds it appropriate to bring to council year after year for the specific consideration review and potential approval of the event.

[1:05:16] That being said, this would be the third-a-time porch fest would be held.

[1:05:22] Has been held, will be held.

[1:05:25] Last year was very similar to what is proposed for this year.

[1:05:30] The first year definitely was bigger than anticipated, and so last year the event organizers

[1:05:34] had the opportunity to really work through the flow for the appropriate scale of the anticipated

[1:05:40] event.

[1:05:42] The event would run during the daytime, 12 to 6.

[1:05:46] There is a street closure on Beverly, which would be the same street closure that occurred last year between Chester and

[1:05:53] Buttermilk Lane.

[1:05:54] That street closure allows three portable restrooms as well as trash and

[1:06:01] recycling receptacles and sort of a main hub, if you will, for the event organizers to be stationed at to support event attendees.

[1:06:10] Additionally, there would be about 25 playhouse staff slash volunteers roving around the event

[1:06:17] and ensuring that folks are maintaining a safe and happy and healthy environment.

[1:06:23] And then the other difference this year, which deviates from years past, is that this year

[1:06:29] the event organizers are proposing to hold music at three Sunnybrae businesses.

[1:06:36] Those would be the carriage house.

[1:06:42] Why am I forgetting the name?

[1:06:44] El Chipotle, I was there last week, and then Coffee Break.

[1:06:49] And so I think, and the event organizers are here, sorry, one more.

[1:06:53] Okay.

[1:06:57] It's actually Coffee Break and Murphy's.

[1:06:59] Coffee Break and Murphy's, thank you, if that was incorrect.

[1:07:03] But the purpose of bringing in the businesses, regardless of the specific ones that are participating,

[1:07:07] is really to have that economic development piece

[1:07:09] as well as have a place where folks can purchase food,

[1:07:13] for example, and not have to bring their own.

[1:07:16] So just kind of wanted to tie that piece in.

[1:07:19] Other than that, the event, like I mentioned,

[1:07:21] will be very similarly structured too last year.

[1:07:24] We have received a mix of feedback over the year.

[1:07:28] Generally staff receives positive feedback,

[1:07:31] but there are some community members who reach out

[1:07:33] about expressing the negative impacts that the event has on them.

[1:07:38] And so our approach has been this year whenever we have received negative feedback is to

[1:07:42] let them know that tonight is the night, so they can share their comments of the City Council.

[1:07:49] We work with them to the best of our ability to factor in the feedback we get.

[1:07:53] We work with the event organizers.

[1:07:55] I think the feedback that they've received has been similarly.

[1:07:57] really, this is the night to be Council is meeting to review and really trying their

[1:08:02] best to be able to meet all the needs of the community. And then the last piece I will

[1:08:08] add is that in the past 2025, I believe the outreach method was door hangers. Not everyone

[1:08:15] got the door hangers, whether they were tossed as junk mail or blew away or whatever might

[1:08:23] have happened. This year the approach has been shifted to have a number of yard signs placed

[1:08:29] in public leave-viewable areas of the neighborhood just so that people have that frequent reminder.

[1:08:33] I believe there's been flyers at some of the Sunnybury businesses as well, letting the community

[1:08:38] know. And then finally there will be a changeable message system. So that's like the systems you see

[1:08:46] when there's road work ahead. I believe there will be one stationed at Bayside Road just because

[1:08:52] because that is a busier public road closer to the event happening.

[1:08:57] With that, that concludes my staff report.

[1:09:01] I would open it up, depending on the pleasure of the council,

[1:09:04] either for council comments,

[1:09:05] and then additionally, our event organizers are here

[1:09:07] so they can potentially answer comments as well,

[1:09:10] so whatever it's best to count.

[1:09:11] We would normally do questions and comments from council,

[1:09:14] but I think that I will defer to the public first,

[1:09:17] so please make your way up to the podium, please.

[1:09:20] Yes.

[1:09:26] Sorry.

[1:09:27] Okay.

[1:09:28] Hi, everyone.

[1:09:29] Thank you.

[1:09:29] Thank you, Emily.

[1:09:31] Covered most of what I was going to say.

[1:09:33] I also brought maps.

[1:09:34] So just yesterday, we finalized our map of hosts.

[1:09:39] It's really nicely spread out.

[1:09:42] Like she said, it's our third year.

[1:09:44] And it just continues to grow.

[1:09:46] And so it's exciting.

[1:09:48] And I think it reflects the neighborhood's kind of positive attitude towards the event that

[1:09:53] every year of neighbors kind of witnessing it and experiencing it more and more

[1:09:58] want to join in and have music on their porches and their driveways including

[1:10:03] the businesses so we're really excited to welcome Murphy's is gonna have some

[1:10:08] in the grassy lawn right next to where their store is and then coffee break is

[1:10:11] excited to host some there as well and you know I you covered most of the stuff

[1:10:22] there's anything else? What was that? Oh yes. Also in our blocked off zone this year we're

[1:10:30] going to have a kid zone and we're going to have a kid's children's musician playing in the

[1:10:35] kid zone and the kid zone is going to be the Wonder Wagon if you guys are familiar with the program

[1:10:39] of Playhouse Arts. So we'll have the Wonder Wagon in that zone. Another thing that we are incorporating

[1:10:47] into porch fest this year is as you all know with art around Arcada we've been having the fire

[1:10:51] hydrants. They've gotten painted all throughout Sunny Rae. So we're going to be sort of like

[1:10:55] officially launching that at Portschfest as well with maps and things like that so folks can go

[1:11:01] check out Portschfest. One of our artists did a fire hydrant themed Portschfest, which is very cute.

[1:11:12] And yeah, we hope that having the signs will be more effective. I think that's the main change

[1:11:17] that we are making from last year is that everyone who drives or walks or bikes or whatever

[1:11:23] comes in and out of sunny ray generally comes through two entrances and that's where the

[1:11:28] roundabout is and where, you know, El Chipotle is that entryway right there.

[1:11:35] And so having those two like Emily mentioned electronic big signs I think will really help

[1:11:40] because we want to make sure that people who don't want to be there that day as well as

[1:11:45] people who do want to be there that day all know it's happening.

[1:11:50] And then the last thing to mention is that last year we were pretty successful in trying

[1:11:55] to solve some of the traffic issues that came up the first year.

[1:11:58] And what we do for that is the entirety of buttermilk, no one hosts in their front yards.

[1:12:05] So no one is going to be standing on buttermilk as one of our high traffic roads there.

[1:12:10] And then on Chester, no one can host in the front yard all the way up to Virginia.

[1:12:17] And then on Beverly, no one can host in the front yard all the way up to also Virginia.

[1:12:22] That feels like kind of like a central zone where there was a lot of traffic issues last year.

[1:12:27] So we do have hosts in those locations, as you can see here.

[1:12:31] Those are all in their backyards, so they're not going to have folks standing in the middle of the road watching the show.

[1:12:36] Yeah,

[1:12:40] yeah. Thank you. I know what I'm just going to add. The event is we don't sell

[1:12:50] anything at the event. So, if there is, you know, thoughts about us selling alcohol

[1:12:55] or anything at the event, it's a no vendor event. And that's part of what we want the event

[1:13:01] to be is a free no vendor event. So, there will be nothing for sale in the middle. And

[1:13:07] And we do patrols, we have some electric bikes and people with electric bikes, so we'll

[1:13:13] be going around and making sure everybody's staying where they should be staying and

[1:13:17] doing what they should be doing.

[1:13:19] And then we do a cleanup afterwards, so we do a sweep of the area and see, you know, sometimes

[1:13:24] you just can't help it if someone's walking around with a beer in someone's neighborhood

[1:13:28] and they leave it on a fence post.

[1:13:30] So we go around and do a sweep on that and make sure that all the garbage is picked up

[1:13:34] and everything's picked up and you know part of the playhouse is the leave no trace.

[1:13:39] So that the kinesthetic response to the space the next day is like wow I was here yesterday

[1:13:44] and there are all these people and there's no one here and there's nothing to indicate

[1:13:48] that people are there.

[1:13:49] So that's part of our aesthetic is that kinesthetic response to space so that's very important

[1:13:55] to the event.

[1:13:56] I wanted to say those two things.

[1:13:57] Thank you Jackie.

[1:13:58] All right, looks like we have many people. Stepana.

[1:14:13] Hello, Councilmembers and community members. My name is Tia Nolan and I'm a homeowner

[1:14:18] in the residence area of sunny break in Arcada. I would like to first kind of try to get

[1:14:26] my nerves down a little bit because I've heard some new information that I hadn't heard yet,

[1:14:29] so I'm going to try to call myself down. I will say that I see that I'm getting counted

[1:14:33] on but they didn't get counted on so I'm just going to comment on that a little bit.

[1:14:38] I appreciate what Arcade of Playhouse is doing. I appreciate the idea of porch fest. I

[1:14:43] live there and I have experienced a lot of very unsafe things happening since the precipice

[1:14:49] of it. There was a port-a-potty that was parked on my street with no knowledge to the residents

[1:14:54] on that street in the 24 event.

[1:15:00] Thankfully, but that that port of potty was on a trailer, so if there was a disabled person, there was no way they could access that. So I'm going to leave that at that. I will continue with the points that I would like to make. I would like to express my opposition to the Port Chess event that hosted by Arcada Playhouse and respectfully request that they're permit for the 26 event be denied. Port Chess 25 had multiple violations of city laws and ordinances, rules and regulations, as well as a special event condition summary that was provided to the executive director of the Playhouse.

[1:15:29] including but not limited to open alcohol containers throughout the

[1:15:34] neighborhood attendees blocking roads and intersections unaccompanied

[1:15:38] minors and roadways intersections with some on bikes with no helmets dogs

[1:15:42] inside the event closure area defaced event signage people smoking cigarettes

[1:15:47] in the closure area people rolling joints and smoking marijuana inside the

[1:15:50] closure area and outside illegal parking parking double parking parking on

[1:15:55] illicit language at amplified music locations, musical performances that were

[1:16:01] happening on properties that were not on the approved list. And in fact there

[1:16:06] was a person selling alcohol out of a cooler in the enclosure area right in front

[1:16:13] of event stuff that nobody did anything about. I watched that man there for a

[1:16:18] long time. He came and went many times. There was an ADA port-a-potty but it was

[1:16:23] placed inside of somebody's yard about two feet into the grass. If you're in a wheelchair,

[1:16:27] that's not an easy situation to get around. People were going into people's yards, laying

[1:16:32] there, smoking and drinking, nobody did anything about it, nobody seemed to care. There was trash

[1:16:37] that was up through the neighborhood, I will say, and I will commend you guys on that. The cleanup

[1:16:42] for the event was spectacular. They did a great job. There was no identifying clothing for any event

[1:16:50] staff at all at either of the years that it happened. So if anybody needed something they

[1:16:55] had no clue who to go speak to.

[1:16:59] Sorry you went off track. And they're saying now that

[1:17:02] the enclosure area is going to include a play area which is frightening and they're also

[1:17:06] saying their paperwork that they're supposed to be able to allow the residents in the closure

[1:17:11] area to come and go as they need to. So that means that you're relying on events staff

[1:17:16] to safely be able to get people in and out of that closure area with vehicles and children.

[1:17:21] I don't feel that that's proper.

[1:17:23] In conclusion, due to the safety and liability risks in the lack of oversight and regulation,

[1:17:28] and the playhouses disregard rules, I strongly feel that it's any risk.

[1:17:31] Thank you for your comment one, wanted to give you a chance to finish your sentence though.

[1:17:35] What's that?

[1:17:36] I said one to give you a chance to finish your sentence.

[1:17:37] Thank you, I appreciate that.

[1:17:39] I strongly feel that Sunny Bray is not a safe location for this event, and I kindly urge the council to deny the permit.

[1:17:45] Thank you.

[1:17:46] I appreciate your time.

[1:17:47] Absolutely.

[1:17:49] And we have another public comment, please step on it.

[1:17:52] And just to answer the question in case folks are wondering, I did consult with the mayor on the timer and because the playhouse is a guest and part of our staff presentation, that's why they're not timed and we might be pulling them up again for questions.

[1:18:06] So that's so they won't be timed because they're here to give us knowledge about the event, so that's why they were the presenters as opposed to public commenters.

[1:18:15] and that was on me I should have announced it differently

[1:18:18] and then asked for public comment.

[1:18:20] So my apologies for that.

[1:18:24] So my name's Dremg Gary, I'm giving public comment.

[1:18:28] And I attended, I did not attend the first porch fest,

[1:18:32] I attended it last year on my e-bike,

[1:18:35] not for a long period of time,

[1:18:37] I just was able to ride around and enjoy

[1:18:41] what I thought was a festive time and I didn't pay a lot of attention to where

[1:18:47] porta-potties were located or people in bi-been or anything like that but my

[1:18:54] issue often has been car traffic and other ways for people to get around and so

[1:19:01] Sunnybury is an up and down neighborhood and there will be people who won't be

[1:19:11] easily. And I just really hope like we do with the Lantern Ceremony shuttle service exist.

[1:19:19] And somehow mitigate car travel during the porch fest so that it's really, really, really

[1:19:26] limited and that people who want to go around to the different stops have a shuttle option,

[1:19:34] and ideally something like an electric shuttle.

[1:19:38] A few weeks ago, a book-leger posted a story

[1:19:41] about Henderson Center's kind of trolley

[1:19:45] that they apparently have for special events,

[1:19:47] maybe at Christmas time, to go and see the lights.

[1:19:51] Something really special like that would be kind of cool.

[1:19:56] But if not that, just a 13 passenger, something or other.

[1:20:02] or if there is such a thing as a zoo trolley, a zoo shuttle thing and an open-air type thing,

[1:20:09] but I really want alternative ways to get there to really be thought about and not having people

[1:20:19] drive cars because they can't walk up the hill. So an alternative for them.

[1:20:28] And it looks like we have another public commenter.

[1:20:31] If not, then do we have anyone online?

[1:20:38] Yes, we have one hand raised.

[1:20:41] Dan, please go ahead.

[1:20:45] Yes, hi, council.

[1:20:47] Forgefest is amazing.

[1:20:49] It's a kind of event that is fun for a lot of different groups of people,

[1:20:55] all young, all between celebrating local music and human-made created music.

[1:21:03] as well as supporting, I love the fact that it's not just going to be a bunch of vendors selling a bunch of stuff from outside of the community, that you're including the local businesses.

[1:21:14] That's the way the sort of community events should operate.

[1:21:19] I hope it's not an either or that it has to be given the permanent or not.

[1:21:23] I hope we can come up with some kind of solution to address the homeowners really legitimate rights.

[1:21:29] come up with a way to try and help them out without resorting to, like, too draconian of a police presence.

[1:21:37] I think everyone would appreciate that. Thank you.

[1:21:42] Thank you for your comment. Do we have anyone else online?

[1:21:45] No, we do not.

[1:21:47] Okay, so then I will bring it back to council and I will, I guess, to the left to me this time.

[1:22:01] Well, I always think it'd be fun to move this around from one neighborhood to another.

[1:22:06] I've mentioned it several times, I thought, well, what about the SAID subdivision?

[1:22:10] I think sometime, but I know that you're focused on Sunny Bray and Sunny Bray's been able to do that for a while.

[1:22:17] But I think one of the things would be to figure out other neighborhoods to go to occasionally.

[1:22:23] And then you could spread the wealth.

[1:22:24] That's how you could look at it or whatever the opinion is.

[1:22:28] But so I think it's a porch-fest is not just an arcada, it's elsewhere in the nation,

[1:22:36] and it's something that's come about.

[1:22:38] And so we're just doing something that happens elsewhere.

[1:22:43] And there's always issues with no matter what event we have, there's things that work and

[1:22:48] things that don't work.

[1:22:50] And we're always trying to make the things that don't work better and always trying to figure

[1:22:55] out how to make things much, much better.

[1:22:57] It sounds like this year you're working to fix a lot of the things that didn't work in the past two years.

[1:23:04] And so I would like to see it go ahead and let's see what happens and what issues.

[1:23:09] If we have a lot of issues, then I'd say try to say so, thank you.

[1:23:17] I haven't been able to attend it, I've wanted to, so I am excited to be able to do that.

[1:23:21] I do have a question about the traffic that was one of my main concerns when I was reading through the packet.

[1:23:28] Okay, I think I'm wrong, but my assumption was, is that outside folks like myself wouldn't be able to drive into the Sunnybury neighborhood.

[1:23:36] I was assuming that only the people that live there can drive in, and it was kind of like a car-free zone unless you live there.

[1:23:45] Is that, am I wrong?

[1:23:48] Could you use the mic, yeah.

[1:23:50] I think that would be amazing, that is not the case, I'm not sure what kind of permitting

[1:23:55] we would have to do, that sounds like it would probably be a really big deal to close

[1:23:59] off an entire neighborhood, I know, I don't know, and then we'd want to definitely step

[1:24:04] up the, like what Joanne mentioned, we definitely want to have shuttles for folks who can't

[1:24:09] walk or bike around if they can't drive either, but I would definitely be open to discussing

[1:24:15] that for a future year for sure.

[1:24:17] Yeah, I just think, I mean, I can see where that would be a big lift, but if it's something

[1:24:23] that we want to be sustainable and really safe, it would be great to have it as car-free

[1:24:29] as possible.

[1:24:29] And wouldn't that be amazing if we had a little cute, arcade-a-trolley shuttle that we could

[1:24:35] use for these type of events?

[1:24:37] Oh, so Jack is going to make that happen.

[1:24:38] Awesome.

[1:24:38] Thank you.

[1:24:40] Well, it's like the, I'm going to continue because I'm still on this side.

[1:24:44] So one of the things I was thinking about is, like the Oyster Festival, how they use the high school parking lot.

[1:24:51] People park there and then they transport them to wherever.

[1:24:56] And so maybe that would be a way to help take care of the density of parking is to figure out.

[1:25:03] The Cal Poly, one of the parking laws set up for

[1:25:09] I'm not too sure what the condition of that is, but that was also used in the past as a place that people could park and then be shuttled from there.

[1:25:17] So I'm just, you brought that up and I'm thinking about how that could be a possibility, maybe not this year, but in the future.

[1:25:26] And I'd like to make our way then to my right.

[1:25:28] I think the comment about having event staff being identifiable, whether it's a vest or a T-shirt or something bright, I see some thumbs up that that's going to happen.

[1:25:39] I think that is a very important suggestion.

[1:25:43] I rode my bike last year from my hometown town here over there.

[1:25:47] It was a great way to get around the whole neighborhood, see things all the way out into the corner up towards Shirley and down buttermilk and everywhere.

[1:25:56] And so, you know, I think being able to maybe even partner, I don't know if you guys are like working with CRTP to do a bike valet or anything like that to encourage more people to like be able to bring their bikes, leave them somewhere safely, get on them again, go to another end of the whole shindig and so I think, you know, to really encourage that bike transportation is going to be great.

[1:26:17] I, yeah, I have enjoyed this event, I will be coming back from out of town and

[1:26:23] hurrying my butt back up from the barrier to get to the event and time and be able to enjoy.

[1:26:29] I think it's a really great community event and a great way to bring people together.

[1:26:33] And I think every neighborhood needs their own little porch fest.

[1:26:38] Or we just folks that live downtown get to have a, I don't know, a porch fest every weekend at this point.

[1:26:45] but I like the idea of bringing it to other neighborhoods as well and I know I have a lot of

[1:26:50] folks that friends of mine that live in the neighborhood behind the Westwood Murphy's and

[1:26:54] I remember we were all there and they said we should do this in our neighborhood why aren't we

[1:26:58] doing this over in Westwood so you know it's a really it gets people thinking and just thank you guys

[1:27:05] for being thoughtful because it's gotten better each and every year and I hope it continues to be in

[1:27:16] So, you know, this could be your intention or you might have a very specific reason for keeping it in sunny break, but the idea of spreading it around to other neighborhoods would not only get people that want it in their neighborhood, but that would also give folks who don't want it in their neighborhood a break.

[1:27:33] So it's, you know, and I'm sure if we move it to another neighborhood, we will have some folks from those neighborhoods that don't want it there either so that it could be a win-win for those that want it and those that don't.

[1:27:51] So I sort of started as the organizer and I live in Sonny Ray and so that's why we're

[1:27:59] doing it in Sonny Ray is because I live there and so as we've done it for three years

[1:28:06] now, another thing that's kind of nice about doing it in the same neighborhood is like

[1:28:10] I said where it's like the neighbors get to know the event, they decide, you know, maybe

[1:28:14] first year the folks who signed up were like, I don't even know what I'm signing up for but

[1:28:18] but by year three, more and more folks are kind of learning

[1:28:21] what it is and saw their neighbor do it.

[1:28:23] Now they want to do it.

[1:28:25] So it's kind of a nice, keeping in the same location

[1:28:27] does build momentum.

[1:28:28] With that said, we are open.

[1:28:31] I think what I would want if we were to move it

[1:28:34] would be someone in that neighborhood who lives there,

[1:28:37] who wants to be the main organizer.

[1:28:40] I don't, like because I live in Sunnybury,

[1:28:43] I feel comfortable being the representative

[1:28:46] of Sunnybury for the event.

[1:28:47] If it were a different neighborhood, I'd really like someone else who wanted to do organizing

[1:28:52] within their neighborhood to take that on and I'd be happy to talk with someone if that

[1:28:57] person is listening and wants to.

[1:28:59] Okay.

[1:29:00] That makes great sense, totally answered my question and so I guess that's a call to action

[1:29:06] for Sarah's friends.

[1:29:08] All right.

[1:29:09] So finally, I get to talk.

[1:29:10] I'm super excited about the porch fest, but I really do appreciate the folks that are

[1:29:16] living in the neighborhood and some of the issues that come up there.

[1:29:20] I do appreciate very much that you have pivoted and have really tried to accommodate

[1:29:25] and take care of some of the issues that have risen.

[1:29:29] And I do like to piggyback on what Vice Mayor Atkins Salazar said is that maybe we could rotate it.

[1:29:37] And while you are building momentum and I do understand that you'll get better at it if you stay in the same neighborhood.

[1:29:42] each neighborhood is going to bring its own opportunities and its own challenges.

[1:29:47] So you'll get better at it if you start rotating and to speak of we would love

[1:29:51] and I would love to offer myself up or Kuna to bring some.

[1:30:00] I see this as a porch vest that could rotate around, as, you know, said to various neighborhoods. I love the idea of doing some kind of trolley. We definitely should incorporate CRTP to have a bite valet. And depending on what neighborhood, you know, we could make that happen easier than other neighborhoods because there will be spaces for that already. I also like the idea that you would have a vest or a t-shirt or something to designate, you know, who, to go

[1:30:29] to if you have issues and again I do very much appreciate that you're listening to the community

[1:30:36] that is most affected by that and making sure that you pivot and try to accommodate and once

[1:30:42] again do thank the folks that have come forward. I know that's probably not the easiest thing to do

[1:30:48] but we appreciate it we want to hear all voices and whether they are in agreement with everyone or not

[1:30:54] It's important to hear your voice, so thank you for that.

[1:30:57] And that's all I've got, so I will bring it back to the council and see if there is any final comments and if there is a motion.

[1:31:08] I will make a motion to approve the major special event permit application from Playhouse Arts for Sunday Ray Portch Fest, October 4th, 2026.

[1:31:16] Okay, we'll second.

[1:31:18] So we have a motion from Councilmember Schaefer and a second from Vice Mayor Ed Cancelsar, all those in favor?

[1:31:26] Aye.

[1:31:26] I say aye, so motion passes.

[1:31:28] Aye.

[1:31:29] I just want to thank you for coming and expressing your the difficulties with this event.

[1:31:40] We're almost through with our meeting and so if this time we could talk to you about it.

[1:31:44] So,

[1:31:52] I would invite you to absolutely send an email for safety.

[1:31:56] You can also CCAPD, all of us are accessible.

[1:32:01] And also, it looks like the presenters of the program are absolutely open to hear that.

[1:32:07] And hopefully, we can definitely address that for you before the event happens.

[1:32:11] So, very much again, do appreciate your input.

[1:32:15] And I'm sure that we can come to some consensus to make sure that we make it work for everyone.

[1:32:23] Thank you.

[1:32:24] All right, so that brings us to oral and written communications.

[1:32:27] The City Council as indeed value your comments.

[1:32:30] The public comment period allows people to adjust the council on matters not on the agenda.

[1:32:35] Speakers will be limited to three minutes each.

[1:32:37] Please no pursuant to the brown act.

[1:32:39] The council cannot discuss or take action on items not listed on the agenda.

[1:32:44] The council may respond to statements if you are in person wanting to give public comment.

[1:32:48] Please line up at the podium, raise your hand if you're on Zoom,

[1:32:52] on the webinar, or press nine if you're on the phone line and if you'd like to make public comment.

[1:32:57] When we move to public comment, yeah, just make your way at the podium, that's enough said, come on on.

[1:33:03] Hi, my name's Joanna McGarry, I always wait till the end so I get an extra minute because I like to talk about three things.

[1:33:09] So the three things, I think I'm going to talk about are fire, trees, and sandbags.

[1:33:16] so I brought some to model. I shared glass meeting that I live in the

[1:33:24] neighborhood near the marsh actually in that redevelopments patch little

[1:33:27] lakes area where we had that brush fire it appears it was a deliberately set

[1:33:33] brush fire it was a little scary briefly because the winds were really picking up

[1:33:39] and the police knocked on our doors and we had to evacuate for a short period of

[1:33:43] time. So my question to what's going to be done about it, and I'm just curious. I

[1:33:51] know it's starting into the wet weather season, it seems, but the fuel load of

[1:33:56] that area was some non-native plants like papas grass that are real high volatile

[1:34:01] fire things. Can we or will we be doing something to, first of all, keep people out

[1:34:07] of that area as an encampment and what we can do to reduce the fuel load.

[1:34:14] So this weekend, I'm going to talk about trees.

[1:34:17] I'm on the Somalabullavard thing, and the man spoke at the last meeting about how arcade

[1:34:22] it doesn't have a lot of trees, and all of a sudden they're cutting down trees to quote

[1:34:29] of Joni Mitchell, but they're cut down trees in front

[1:34:34] of the forestry market.

[1:34:35] They cut them back, and fortunately they cut back

[1:34:38] the pamphus grass, but they also cut the big, huge,

[1:34:42] beautiful tree on North of Somal Boulevard at G Street,

[1:34:47] and that is gone now.

[1:34:49] And if they're on private property, nobody really knew

[1:34:52] what was happening.

[1:34:53] It was really kind of odd that it was all happening

[1:34:55] at the same time.

[1:34:57] You know, people in the neighborhood, as this was expressed with porch vest, we like

[1:35:04] to know what's going on, and it would be sort of nice for us to find out what's happening

[1:35:09] there.

[1:35:10] So I only have 54 seconds left.

[1:35:14] Climate change.

[1:35:16] I am really, really concerned about my neighborhood and super El Nino possibilities, and last year

[1:35:25] I actually filled a few sandbags down at the sewage treatment plant on my own.

[1:35:31] But in a preparation for the future, as our community prepares for a different type

[1:35:37] of lifestyle that may exist with the extreme weather that are potentially going to come

[1:35:43] our way for the rest of our lives.

[1:35:47] We have great fun at Friday night markets, at Oyster Fest, at North Country Fares, but can

[1:35:53] And we do something fun together in a community like Phil Sandbags for each other.

[1:35:58] And Moe Lawns without gas powered moors, climate change is real, we've got to start acting.

[1:36:06] Thank you for your comment.

[1:36:08] And because we are allowed to respond to statements, I would love to respond to sandbag statement.

[1:36:14] Today we were talking about, I went to a disaster preparedness and so we're talking about doing exactly that.

[1:36:22] As doing sandbag demonstrations, do sandbag races, turn it into something fun as well as educational because, as you said, we have big storms coming.

[1:36:33] So keep your ears and eyes peeled for that because we will be doing that very thing so that everybody can practice to keep their property safe and have some fun while we're doing it.

[1:36:44] Do we have anyone else who would like to make public comment on items not listed on the agenda?

[1:36:50] please make your way to the podium, please.

[1:36:59] As of Arcada, good evening, City Council, staff and citizens.

[1:37:04] Last week I came to speak about housing stocks,

[1:37:10] unhoused conditions in our city.

[1:37:13] And I spoke of that ugly,

[1:37:15] derogatory word that I never want to use.

[1:37:20] I left the meeting and I was informed by staff

[1:37:22] the city council used that word. Unhoused conditions are policy. Through no fault of a person

[1:37:33] themselves, could they be unhoused without the support of public policy that creates that?

[1:37:40] Gentrification does, and for 50 years I've seen it, I've experienced it, and I've spoken to the

[1:37:52] find ways to house the meek and the weak among us.

[1:37:57] Those who have no resources, with which to stand on their own two feet,

[1:38:04] stand tall, how's this all?

[1:38:08] Thank you.

[1:38:11] Thank you for your comment.

[1:38:13] Do we have anyone online?

[1:38:18] Yes, we have one hand raised.

[1:38:19] Stan, please go ahead.

[1:38:20] Hi,

[1:38:24] Council. I just wanted to say a couple things about comments that were made at the last

[1:38:32] Council meeting regarding Arcada's data center over on 11th Street. And there's been a lot of

[1:38:38] talk flying around about it's nothing. It uses barely anything, any power, water at all. It's got

[1:38:45] two toilets and that's all. The truth is is that water and power usage by data centers is a

[1:38:52] trade secret. There have been bills floated to try and get more information about their

[1:38:59] impacts and many of those have been struck down. There are others that are coming online.

[1:39:04] The truth is this is small as data centers go. I pulled the plans and I did a little research

[1:39:10] and you know this has a max capacity of about 1.5 megawatts and honestly that's not a lot

[1:39:17] But there was a lot of talk about this just being like a big internet router and that there's it's nothing else but that

[1:39:24] The truth is is that if you look at the resources that were provided by the staff last time you can see that this is a

[1:39:31] cable landing center and a co-location center

[1:39:34] What is a co-location center? It's a place where anybody can rent space on

[1:39:42] racks that are

[1:39:43] In a data center like this, almost certainly ultra dense water cooled server racks.

[1:39:51] And these cables are all owned by, mostly owned by Google and Meta.

[1:39:57] And so we know that they're building out data center capacity right now, in a big, big

[1:40:03] way across the country.

[1:40:04] And this physical location is so close to the edge of the network that goes across the ocean

[1:40:12] that it's a quite a valuable site to have this little piece.

[1:40:16] Now it did provide cable to the homes in Arcada, which is great, fiber to the home rather.

[1:40:24] Unfortunately, the Internet service is not even being provided out of the State of

[1:40:28] the Center.

[1:40:28] If you check from your home network, you can see we're being served our Internet from Seattle.

[1:40:34] So the biggest problem here is that this did not go before the Planning Commission or City

[1:40:40] Council in any way.

[1:40:41] It's sort of snuck in in the middle of the night and during the pandemic and is really

[1:40:46] ugly.

[1:40:47] That fence is super ugly and there's giant diesel generators on top of that.

[1:40:51] That will fire up as soon as the power goes out and is directly across the street from

[1:40:56] residential homes and a daycare center.

[1:40:59] So what can we do council to make sure these kind of things don't sneak in without a little

[1:41:05] bit of a review from the people who are surrounded by it.

[1:41:09] Right now, Rokana is sponsoring a bill to ban data centers and

[1:41:14] residential neighborhoods altogether.

[1:41:16] Now, this is a mixed-use neighborhood with light industrial,

[1:41:20] so that's why this was principally permitted as I understand.

[1:41:24] However, we realize now that there probably would be significant

[1:41:28] outcry from the community.

[1:41:29] Thank you for your comment, Dan.

[1:41:32] Okay, so do we have anyone else want to ask?

[1:41:35] Absolutely.

[1:41:36] Absolutely.

[1:41:37] And just to respond to that, you know, our council did unanimously decide to move forward

[1:41:42] on a data center moratorium, just for the reasons that you just claimed that the whole

[1:41:46] council is on board with doing that to really understand better what is appropriate land

[1:41:51] use for where they should be, what scales should they even exist at all, et cetera, right?

[1:41:56] This is something that our council pretty much unanimously decided we wanted to move forward

[1:42:00] with.

[1:42:00] And so, you know, thank you to Vice Mayor.

[1:42:02] I can silence our for bringing it up and having us be able to talk about it.

[1:42:07] Eureka also just move forward on a moratorium yesterday.

[1:42:10] The county is going to be as well and so it seems that our elected officials in office in Humboldt County right now are pretty united on moving forward on that.

[1:42:20] And I believe it will be on our next agenda from what I've heard.

[1:42:23] Correct, great.

[1:42:25] So tune in for more as we get to figure out those parameters and really figure out what's best for our community.

[1:42:31] Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. Okay, so that brings us now, then, do we have a assisted city manager report tonight?

[1:42:40] We do not. Thank you. All right, so then council reports. All reports shall be limited to items relating to city business.

[1:42:47] Shall not request or lead to action by city council at this meeting. How about I start on the right?

[1:42:54] All right, well, I had a Revocuss Energy Authority meeting last week and it was great.

[1:43:01] We had a presentation just giving an overview and kind of reminders for all of our board

[1:43:07] members about our CEA's different customer programs, which includes things like free energy

[1:43:13] efficiency kits, a lot of rebates for induction stoves appliances, weatherization, and then we

[1:43:20] We talked a lot about heat pumps and then also the rebates for e-bikes in electric vehicles,

[1:43:27] but our presentation went deeply into heat pumps and how they work and the different rebates

[1:43:33] provided and really a new program that our CEA is working to get off the ground, which

[1:43:38] where they will partner with local contractors to be able to do these rebates kind of direct

[1:43:45] on install instead of having to front the cost up front and have it installed and then get

[1:43:50] your rebate back later and so it will be kind of these for both commercial and residential

[1:43:56] kind of real direct install programs which is really exciting and kind of creates better

[1:44:00] incentives for people to do that and also those direct installs are going to include enhanced

[1:44:07] incentives for qualifying customers and so if you qualify for care for example on your PG&E bill

[1:44:12] or reduced utility rate, you can get a greater rebate and incentive to install heat pump.

[1:44:20] And I didn't even really know.

[1:44:21] I thought heat pumps were just for like your furnace situation, but they also make dryers

[1:44:27] that run off heat pumps for clothes and hot water heaters and other different products.

[1:44:33] So it's exciting and they're kind of, I think, solidifying which contractors they're going

[1:44:37] to be using for that but more to come on that.

[1:44:39] And then they share a really helpful tool too, because RCEA is the program administrator for

[1:44:45] the Northern Regional Rural Energy Network, so the N-REN and on NorthernREN-R-E-N.org.

[1:44:54] slush residential dash rebates. They have a rebate.

[1:45:00] Installing in your house or on electrification step, you're wanting to take you kind of look what rebates are available. And so that was fun to look at. And we also had a really interesting presentation about public power options or like municipalization of power and what that basically is not possible. And it really, but to me it just answered a lot of really interesting questions. And I learned a lot of things I didn't know about like power co-op.

[1:45:29] that exist in the state of California, and that shelter cove doesn't buy power from PG&E didn't know that.

[1:45:35] So there's some interesting things that I learned, but it really also just brought to my stark

[1:45:42] attention, and so I'm going to talk a lot to you guys, because I didn't have an update last time, but

[1:45:47] that we really need people, especially in state and national politics, that really want to put

[1:45:54] people and livability and affordability ahead of corporate profits and the head of investor owned utilities.

[1:46:02] And so if you see that maybe a candidate that you're really excited about in the city of California gets a bunch of money from PG&E, that might be a question mark.

[1:46:11] So it was really interesting to just hear about, and the city of San Jose and San Francisco have both made some pretty significant efforts on that front.

[1:46:20] And, you know, just to really admire the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, aka SMUD.

[1:46:27] So it was a fun presentation, and if, you know, I think you can go back and watch previous RCEA meetings, if you are interested in that.

[1:46:35] I also had some Accredi Arcada stuff I actually was not able to attend our advisory committee meeting, that was this last week, because I got a little caught up at school, but we had had a leadership meeting the week before, so I don't know if you were at that meeting, you might have some more to share, but.

[1:46:49] But just some exciting stuff coming up, we talked about this heart and soul grant that

[1:46:55] equity arcada is hopefully going to be receiving.

[1:46:57] We met with the foundation that's kind of behind that and just talked about the parameters

[1:47:03] for implementing that, so that's exciting to kind of, again, it's about kind of telling

[1:47:07] stories and building community and how those connections exist kind of across age lines

[1:47:13] in a community.

[1:47:14] And so that's really, again, what equity arcada is all about is connecting and students

[1:47:18] of the community, and then just also at our leadership meeting kind of went over recent

[1:47:23] budget items, and so just, you know, excited that Equator Arcada supported the Obon Festival,

[1:47:28] and then looking at the upcoming I block party, Sanctuary Day, that Central Del Playblows

[1:47:34] putting on, as well as the city, and Equator Arcada both supported, and that's going to be

[1:47:40] coming up this Monday, September 7th, on the I block in front of those bagels.

[1:47:47] and then I'm going to be attending the othering and belonging institute conference in Kentucky

[1:47:53] with some of the ODEI team in Ecuador, and Fernando got approved to present a poster about

[1:48:01] just Ecuador, what we've been doing, so I'm going to present with Fernando, which is really

[1:48:05] exciting and the poster that he has put together and that we've been working on looks awesome

[1:48:11] and it's going to be a really cool experience.

[1:48:14] And then, Seedore, the campus and community dialogue on race is coming up on October 19th through 23rd, and Equity Arcada has also been approved to lead a workshop in session during that, which I might have some involvement in.

[1:48:30] I have to still check if I'm going to, but it will be Fernando and Marit and most likely Chifortega as well.

[1:48:37] kind of doing a similar conversation and dialogue that we did at de-street neighborhood

[1:48:41] center, like a year and a half ago now at this point, just around community safety and

[1:48:47] ICE and immigration and, you know, what that looks like in Arcada.

[1:48:51] And then lastly, kind of ending off CEDOR is the equity arcade event that Fernando has been

[1:48:57] working with the working group on putting together, which is the Solidarity Day, which will

[1:49:00] kind of be a wrap-up of CEDOR as well, hosted at the de-street neighborhood center.

[1:49:05] And that will be on October 24th from three to seven PM.

[1:49:09] And so there's going to be community crafts and hopefully doing this mosaic project to maybe

[1:49:15] show somewhere in the community, hopefully at the D Street Neighborhood Center and leave

[1:49:19] up as kind of an art installation, as well as just different speakers and food and just

[1:49:24] getting the community together and all of our different partners.

[1:49:26] So that was a lot but that's what I have for you and I've been busy and back doing things

[1:49:33] and feeling the need to update.

[1:49:34] So, thanks for listening.

[1:49:37] Congratulations on the event that you're attending and being a presenter.

[1:49:41] That's a cool opportunity.

[1:49:43] I'm sure you guys will all represent our area well.

[1:49:46] My list is shorter. You're welcome.

[1:49:49] I had a meeting with the principal and staff at Arcada High School,

[1:49:54] and we had both Merit and Tabitha were there as well as my intern from Cal Poly,

[1:50:00] just working on the program that I've been working on for the past year.

[1:50:03] And we will be hopefully giving some, the government kids from

[1:50:08] Mercayda High, starting with an introduction to City Hall.

[1:50:12] And all the things that happen here and out and about in the community.

[1:50:17] So I'm excited about that. That will be happening soon.

[1:50:20] The Friday night markets have been amazing.

[1:50:23] The first one was very unexpected. All the people, all the energy.

[1:50:29] It was great. Second one was also nice.

[1:50:32] It was smaller and a little more manageable to visit, so totally different vibes and wonderful.

[1:50:38] And after the Friday night market, last week I went out to Valley West to the illumination.

[1:50:45] And that was also very amazing.

[1:50:47] Hundreds of people were there, and I took lots of pictures and videos.

[1:50:52] It was just, it was really neat.

[1:50:54] I love outdoor art spaces, especially at night, and to have hundreds of people walking around.

[1:51:01] and it was really quiet because everybody was just engaged in the different art that was going on

[1:51:06] and so you would have never known so many people were there but it was, it was impressive and culminated with a

[1:51:13] pretty big event down on the river. So just congratulations to Playhouse Arts for such a wonderful event.

[1:51:25] Okay, so I just wanted to say that the Earth Center had the Gold Shovel event and that was last week and so that's the beginning of the Transit Center and Eureka with housing on the second and third and fourth floors and so that'll be ready ready for ribbon cutting and it'll probably be in early fall, 2028.

[1:51:51] So the other things we talked about at HTA, Humboldt Transit Authority, is the green and gold route which was specifically put in place when we had the comfort and had students living there in order to get them to meals and to get them to their classes.

[1:52:06] And that has been terminated.

[1:52:08] I know that Kimberly is really sad about that because I've heard and mentioned several

[1:52:13] places, but it doesn't meet the ridership needs.

[1:52:18] Also, Cal Poly Humboldt has a service with the HTA until December 19th and at that time

[1:52:30] we're hoping to be able to figure out another way to provide them with service or us or somebody

[1:52:35] else that maybe can come forward with a charter system.

[1:52:38] So if there anyone out there thinking about, would it be fun to actually run a charter

[1:52:43] system in our area?

[1:52:45] There's a lot of possibilities, because there's so many people that are asking for chargers

[1:52:49] all the time, and it could be a business entity for sure.

[1:52:55] Our ridership is really increased, and we're above what we had now before COVID, which is

[1:53:01] really exciting. And the North State, which is the 101 program, our bus that goes down to

[1:53:06] Yucaya is doing very well. It's increasing all the time and ridership. And HTA, we talked

[1:53:14] about today participating in the Regional Climate Action Plan and how there'll be two levels

[1:53:20] from HTA. There'll be a staff committee, sort of like they have at HCOG. And then there'll

[1:53:26] be another one that will, a member of the HCOG Board will be attending.

[1:53:32] So I just wanted to also mention that a week without driving is October 1st to the 8th,

[1:53:38] and we had a proclamation on that today.

[1:53:41] So that's basically my HCA report.

[1:53:45] Thank you, and thank you for all the wonderful work that you all are doing.

[1:53:51] Sarah, I had a question.

[1:53:53] You can read my own writing here.

[1:53:55] So these, I learned a whole lot extra tonight again, so thank you for bringing that wealth

[1:54:01] of information.

[1:54:02] It was not too long, it was just right.

[1:54:04] The rebates, can it also work for commercial businesses, nonprofits, and I had no idea

[1:54:13] that heat pumps could work for other applications, so that's wonderful.

[1:54:18] And I would just recommend to like, yeah, because they'll do a free consultation too with commercial residential, you know, yeah, they do it for public agencies, nonprofits, all that stuff.

[1:54:32] And so I would just call our CEO up and say, hey, come down to our building, let us know what maybe we should do and install.

[1:54:37] And so yes, I think would be a great thing.

[1:54:39] I think I missed out on a rebate for Kuna. We got an induction stove top. I should have done my

[1:54:44] I might be able to get it. I'll look into it. And also I love that we can look at REN.org

[1:54:50] And it's a rebate tool finder. So definitely folks should be utilizing that.

[1:54:56] And yes, I am a little bit sad about the green and gold. But I do understand,

[1:55:01] you know, it's costing 45% for 14% usage. So

[1:55:06] So, however, we now have reduced our routes from 15 minutes to 45.

[1:55:13] If we want people to do public transit, we need to improve it, not go in the opposite

[1:55:19] direction.

[1:55:19] But I do get, you know, it's Cal Polyhumble that is funding it, so maybe we can find

[1:55:24] another way to fill in that gap.

[1:55:27] Also, there was another question, well, must not have been that important.

[1:55:33] Oh, yeah, the illumination event that was hosted by Playhouse Arts at Carlson Park, as pointed out by Vice Mayor Atkins-Salsar, it was a huge turnout.

[1:55:44] I guess there was like 500 plus folks that did that and are came.

[1:55:51] And I'm hoping that it is going to be one of many events at Carlson Park to come.

[1:55:57] And that also brings me that we will be having a final,

[1:56:01] Well, there will be a beach cleanup at Carlson Park on the September 19th, from 10 to 12.

[1:56:07] So please come join us to help keep the park, the river access, and that beach clean.

[1:56:12] And that event is in collaboration as we heard earlier from North Coast Environmental Center.

[1:56:17] And it's organized by a Valley West North Arcada Advocate, Lucy Salazar, and they'll be partnering with Kuna.

[1:56:25] Today, I had an opportunity, oh, yesterday, actually Arcada Park and Recreation, but their

[1:56:31] very first Valley West hoop night back this year, it will be through the entire month

[1:56:37] of Arcada.

[1:56:38] It poured down rain and then it stopped and the sun came out and the court was dry and

[1:56:43] we had kids and parents come out so it was wonderful.

[1:56:47] That starts at five o'clock every Tuesday as I shared through the month of September.

[1:56:52] I also had an opportunity, or I attended the elected officials to protect America's climate leadership training program yesterday.

[1:57:01] And I'm learning so much, hopefully at the end of six weeks I'll have something to bring to the table.

[1:57:08] Today I had an opportunity to attend an all day training with Listas and a Spongebob that means ready.

[1:57:14] It was a disaster preparedness program, but I learned today there's a big difference between being prepared and

[1:57:21] be in ready. So you can have all the resources and be prepared, but you might not be ready.

[1:57:26] And I can teach you a little bit more about that as you come visit going on our website.

[1:57:30] But the program focused on helping individuals and communities that are sometimes fall between

[1:57:36] the cracks. And so ready for emergencies and disasters. And we know that folks that sometimes

[1:57:43] are marginalized are disproportionately affected by emergencies and disasters. So it was a great

[1:57:50] A great way to find opportunities to learn more how we can strengthen the preparedness for everyone,

[1:57:56] not just those who fall between the cracks, but every resilience across our entire community.

[1:58:01] I'm really hoping that we can do something here citywide for the city of Arcada to bring more disaster

[1:58:07] preparedness, energy, and education to everyone.

[1:58:11] Next Thursday on the 10th, I will have an opportunity to attend the Redwood Coast Wednesdays conference.

[1:58:16] And I'll be bringing back on our next council meeting report on that.

[1:58:21] I'm also excited that now I'm gearing up to do the North Coast Catalyst convening on the 15th.

[1:58:27] That's going to be another all day focused on bringing community leaders and

[1:58:31] partners together to build relationships and develop some practical strategies for

[1:58:37] addressing both local and regional challenges.

[1:58:40] And let's see.

[1:58:41] Oh, yeah, just on the note of coastal cleanup,

[1:58:44] Pumble County is doing it the entire weekends in September,

[1:58:48] so there will be lots of opportunities to get involved.

[1:58:52] And then of course, there's the big statewide California coastal cleanup,

[1:58:56] which is also on Saturday the 19th, and that will go from 9 to noon.

[1:58:59] So you can start at whatever beach you want at 9, come hop over at 10 to Carlson Park, and yeah, share the love.

[1:59:08] So I guess, yeah, you can beach it all day.

[1:59:11] Anyway, I think that's all I have so yeah, this meeting is adjourned thank you

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