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So we're going to call, first of all, give you a closed session report that we didn't actually

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give you yet. We had a closed session at 5.30, and it's a special meeting to review the city

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manager and performance review. And we have no report out from that, but I just have to

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say that. So now we'll go on to our regular meeting of the city council, City of Arcada.

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And would you please stand for flag salute by Sophia Pereira?

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Thank you mayor

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Patino here vice mayor Ornelas

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Here councilmember Pereira here councilmember Wheatley here councilmember Winkler here all present

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Thanks, Bridget. Next we go to our ceremonial matters. Our first thing is, oh, I don't have

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the proclamations.

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Somehow I didn't. Excuse me for a second. I forgot that step. It's

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probably sitting on the table.

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We could start reading it, maybe.

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Let's see, Susan, would you like to do the Arcada High School Career and College Center

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Week?

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Sure.

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And you can go ahead and start reading it now, if you like.

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I'll do that.

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This is the proclamation designating February 1st through 5th, 2016 as Arcada High School

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Career and College Center Week, whereas the Arcada High School Career and College

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center's mission is to provide students with the information they need to take the critical

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steps after high school. The center uses career and college exploration software, career guides

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and counseling to help students identify their interests and evaluate options to pursue these

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interests after high school. And whereas the center offers unique programs aimed at

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the special needs of students with different interests and at various grade levels and

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provides information for parents and the community both at the center and through internet tools.

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Over 350 students visit the center annually, including half of the senior class.

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And whereas the Northern Humboldt Union High School District nor Arcada High School are

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able to provide critical financial support for the center, hence the center seeks

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support from fundraising events, private donations, and volunteers to continue the

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important work.

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work. And whereas the annual pancake breakfast fundraiser for the center will be held in memory

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of Jackie Foote, who worked with the center from its founding in 1995 and was its coordinator

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until her untimely death in March 2008. Now therefore, be it proclaimed that the City

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Council of the City of Arcada, in recognition of the Arcada High School career and college

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center's preparation of our community youth for college and careers, does hereby declare

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of the week of February 1-5, 2016, as Arcada High School Career and College Center Week

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in the City of Arcada, and urges the Arcada community to support these efforts by attending

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the 9th annual Pancake Breakfast fundraiser at the D Street Community Center on Saturday,

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February 6th, from 8 to 11 a.m. Signed January 20th, 2016, by Mayor Paul Petino, and we

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I don't know your name. Jim. Jim Ritter. Thank you.

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My name is Jim Ritter. Is this on? Yes.

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And with Darcy Robbins we coordinate the programs and services that are available to Arcata

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and Six Rivers High School students through the Career and College Center. On behalf

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of our students, their families, and the faculty and staff of the schools, we'd

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I'd like to thank the council and city staff

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for your ongoing support of the Career and College Center

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and for your proclamation that encourages people

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to attend our annual pancake breakfast fundraiser.

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This year is our ninth annual pancake breakfast

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which honors center founder Jackie Foote

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and is sponsored by Arcata Rotary, Sunrise Rotary,

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Arcata Suroptimus, Los Coast Rotoract,

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Arcata High School Interact,

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Tiger's Inc. and numerous businesses throughout our community.

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As most of us probably remember from our own experiences,

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high school is not an Indian itself,

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but hopefully a foundation that can help students move forward with their own goals,

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whether those are getting a higher education in college,

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finding a job in the workforce,

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or pursuing gap year travel, community service, military, or other opportunities.

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The Career and College Center exists to help students plan for their next steps after high

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school.

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Under Darcy's leadership, the Center coordinates one-on-one counseling appointments for students

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to talk about college search and applications, scholarships, financial aid, job search, internships,

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and summer programs.

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We also offer a comprehensive career exploration program, including our Career Speaker Series

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that give students the chance to learn firsthand what it is like to work in

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different careers, job shadow placements, and new this year our career readiness

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workshops with themes including writing a resume, interview skills, tips about

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success on the job, and our field trips to local businesses including

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Jessica Curl, Coca-Tat, Macaulay Construction, and O&M Industries. As noted

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in the Council's proclamation, the Center receives minimal direct financial support

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from the school so the success of our pancake breakfast and other fundraising efforts is

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crucial to keeping the Center open into the future.

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Thank you again for your support, and we look forward to seeing many of you at the

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D Street Center on Saturday, February 6th, for the breakfast.

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we have a proclamation designated in January 2016 as National Mentoring Month,

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and Sophia Pereira will read that for us.

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A proclamation designated in January 2016 as National Mentoring Month.

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Whereas this year, Big Brother's Big Sisters of the North Coast celebrates 47 years of service

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to over 4,000 youth in Humboldt County who have needed and wanted mentors.

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big brothers, big sisters of the North Coast recognizes that the future of Humboldt County rests on the success of its youth.

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And whereas a mentor is a caring, consistent presence who devotes time to help a young person develop personal strength

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and achieve their potential through a structured and trusting relationship.

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Quality mentoring encourages positive choices, promotes self-esteem, supports academic achievement

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and introduces young people to new ideas.

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And whereas research shows that young people matched with a caring adult through a quality

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mentoring program are 46 percent less likely to use illegal drugs, 27 percent less likely

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to start drinking, 52 percent less likely to skip school, and are more trusting of

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their parents or guardians.

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And whereas youth development experts agree that mentoring is critical to the social,

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emotional, and cognitive development of youth, helping them navigate the path to

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adulthood more successfully.

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And whereas our community has a number of community

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volunteers, teachers, and many others who support

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the mentoring movement and work selflessly to

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improve our children's odds for success.

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Currently, a quarter of Big Brother, Big Sisters of

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the North Coast participants are Arcada residents.

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Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the City

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Council of the City of Arcada hereby designates

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January 2016 as National Mentoring Month.

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And thanks all of our local heroes who

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participate in quality mentoring programs and who equip our youth with the tools to

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lead healthy and productive lives.

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The City Council also calls on residents to help close the gap between the availability

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of mentors and the number of children facing challenging circumstances who would love to

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spend time with a big brother or big sister.

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Signed today by Mayor Paul Petino, January 20, 2016, and we have some representatives

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from Big Brother's Big Sisters.

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my name is Bonnie Fierro, I am the President of the Board of Directors of Big

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Brothers Big Sisters of the North Coast.

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Thank you so much for making time on your agenda this evening and also for proclaiming

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January 2016 as National Mentoring Month.

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National Mentoring Month is an annual campaign that draws attention to the need for more

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volunteer mentors.

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mentors. Mentors are needed to help youth who are facing adversity, develop confidence, and

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learn how to build relationships with an adult they can learn from. Big Brothers Big Sisters

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offers a mentoring program in Arcada communities that matches adult volunteer mentors with

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children who have similar interests. Many youth in our community can benefit strongly

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from spending time with someone who has the same interests, like watching movies, cooking,

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or even learning a new hobby, such as photography, horseback riding, or collecting agates.

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Sometimes mentoring includes the youth talking about being bullied at school, not being

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chosen for a part in a play, or even being excited about winning at a sporting event.

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The mentor could offer someone to listen or even share their own experiences which

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which in turn would assist the youth in building coping skills or other skills that are beneficial

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long term. Mentoring is believing in someone. Mentoring is encouraging someone. Mentoring

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is enjoying someone's company. Mentoring is Big Brothers, Big Sisters of the North Coast.

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Mentoring is everyone of you. Thank you. And I also have Christine Miller here, who's

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Executive Director.

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Thank you.

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Very quickly, the work that we have been doing for the past 47 years

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is funded almost entirely from our fundraisers.

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So I just wanted to hit a couple of ones that are coming in the near future.

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For National Mentoring Month, our signature event is the Big Chili Cook-Off

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that takes place on January 30th at Saturday

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in beautiful Blue Lake at the Mad River Tap Room.

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It's only $10.

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dollars, you get a bowl of chili, all the tasters of everyone participating, a vote

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for the popular choice, salad, cornbread, and a cookie for $10. It's a pretty sweet deal.

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Also for $10, if you have a great award-winning chili, we're still taking participants, entries

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for participants, so I'm sure one of you has an awesome recipe up there. So we encourage

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you to come out to that. Not only is there the chili, and we usually have sunshine,

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but we also there'll be the undercovers will be playing a very popular local band

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and there's some really fabulous silent auction items that'll be there Disneyland

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six flags of big bottle of wine that we just got in today so I would encourage

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you to come out for that with that in mind to have some fliers I'm just gonna

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leave right here for people so you can get more information on that and I

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encourage you to pass those around the other fundraiser quickly that'll

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tell you about that I know I think all of you are familiar with is bowl for

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kids' sake. It makes up over 70% of our annual budget. And this year's theme on March 4th

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and 5th is Monster Bowl. So costumes are encouraged. I think it'll bring out the inner monster

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in all of us at that time. And the City of Arcada has been an awesome fundraising team

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for that. So I'm hoping that's going to happen again. And I'm sure either myself

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or my program person is going to be pestering you guys about that. So thank you very

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much for your time and it's always fun to come speak here. I do live in Arcada and it

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feels like home. So thank you very much.

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The next item on our agenda is early oral communications

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and this 15-minute time period is provided for people in the rest of the Council on matters

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not on the agenda. At the conclusion of all oral communications, the Council may respond

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to statements, any requests that requires, uh-oh, I forgot.

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Excuse me.

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Yeah, the planning commission.

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I didn't mean to get around you.

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What we did?

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I'll stop there and ask for the report from the Planning Commission.

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Daniel, report.

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Well, good evening all.

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I'm Rob Flint, Chairman of the Planning Commission.

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And it is time for the year they report from the Planning Commission,

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which you all have in your packets.

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I'm sure you've all read and really I'm just here to answer any questions that's

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You know one thing coming up as I'm really looking forward to our study session

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With with you all with the planning commission and next week

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And that's kind of been sitting on my head,

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you know, making sure that we're ready with

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our, yeah, Larry, with his presentation and you and your commission and us to have a good

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study session, work together on looking at the big picture.

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Right, right. For me, I have a problem with it and that I work for the big developer who

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owns the biggest project that's going to be before. And for me, I don't think I can

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separate the big picture from the biggest piece of the puzzle. So I don't know that I

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can be at that. Sure. You've talked about it with Larry. You might need to refuse

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myself. I might need to refuse myself. It would just be hard for me to comment on a

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few of those smaller pieces without looking at it as a whole. I'm a big picture guy

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in general. It doesn't make sense. Thank you for doing that or thinking about that.

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Well, we all play different roles in the same time.

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And Rob and I, what is the connection counter of the specialty connection campaign?

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Rob, I just want to thank you and the commission,

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because you all have had a pretty heavy workload over the last year,

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especially with the turnaround on the MMIZ stuff.

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So thank you.

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And pass that over to the other commissioners.

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Well, it hasn't gone yet.

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You know, I think the Commission looks forward to it.

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And I guess I'll say that I didn't read it in the report,

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but I think it's unfortunate that in a city like Arcada

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we have so much trouble staffing commissions.

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There are a lot of people who are very aware and active

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short-term, you know, they'll be active for a little while and then stop. And to me it's

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just sad that we can't, you know, even when you get a vacancy on the planning commission,

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it's hard to fill.

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So I have a question in the report. It talks about, you know, one of the goals is providing

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local trainings for the commissioners. And I'm just wondering, since it looks like,

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you know, obviously you have to take the ethics trainings and there's been, you know, historic

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preservation webinars. But have there been any other trainings or webinars that the

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Planning Commission would think would be beneficial that can be part of that goal for the next

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year? Because I know that's something that we've talked about before. And I know resources

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obviously are very limited in terms of travel, but I just didn't know if there was anything

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else identified that could be useful. Maybe that's more of a staff question, but I

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That's probably more of a staff question because they tell us what's available and then we pick and choose and you know back in

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So some of those perks might be nice for some people for me. I'm not interested with that help with retention. Is that what you're saying?

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on to the planning commission that there may be some design training and some historic

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preservation and other aspects of training.

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And so David and I were going over the, basically we're preparing for the mid-year

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budget report and we were looking at our training budget and we do have a little bit

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of funds in the training budget and David and I were going to meet and talk about

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different training opportunities that we could do for staff and the commission.

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but I think definitely the historic preservation and general design, we had also talked about,

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you know, kind of how do you make a walkabout community, because the Planning Commission

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typically looks at the big picture, as Rob said, but when you get down to the design review,

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we're looking more at the micro level, and it's taken a little bit more microscope than

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the Planning Commission usually does on the project, but obviously the Planning Commission,

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when they take over design review, ultimately if that is the decision,

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and then they will make it their own.

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Thank you for mentioning that walkable community thing

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because I remember when we had a co-meeting

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a couple years ago, and we were using terms

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because we go to trainings and felt like

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this isn't working, because we have to kind of keep up

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with the trainings amongst the whole group

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or it's sort of meaningless in a sense.

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So that's something I had as a note,

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so I want to appreciate you bringing that forward.

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just because I'm on the board of the local government commission.

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And they really do a lot of livable communities training.

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And possibly I wasn't even sure that maybe we could bring someone up here

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and even cooperate with City of Eureka or something like that

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and do some of the planning commission training on that.

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I mean, I've also brought forward to the local government commission

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that in rural communities we have to use different words

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for the way we talk about livable communities and walkable communities

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because people oftentimes perceive it as bringing urbanism to a rural situation.

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And that's not what we're really trying to do.

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I mean, we understand we're interpreting it for our own cells in our own place.

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So that's just a little sensitivity I have to that,

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that we have to be kind of careful about that,

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like we want to bring fortuna in or something like that,

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because you use the wrong words and people just feel like you're offending them almost.

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So that was something I was just wondering forward.

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maybe we could look for, you know, you know, video kind of trainings or maybe bring someone

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up and share it with the county or the cities and things like that.

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Yeah, besides that, just want to thank you.

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You guys do, I always thank you guys really where the river hits the road.

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So I think you could do some deep good work for the community.

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So thanks.

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Thanks, Susan.

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Thank you.

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Rob, I'm looking forward to Bayview finally getting done.

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That's a goal.

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You have that as a goal.

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Yes, that is a goal for the next year.

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you know that's been cooking for a long time yeah if I remember it's got to be

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out there for a while you know the Bayview community neighborhood

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conservation area so thanks for staying with that being persistent about getting

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that done sure sometimes sometimes things take a while yeah there's the

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Foster Avenue extension I think people started talking about that like 20 years

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ago years yeah so it's nice to see things finally happen and thanks rock

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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At this time, we'll actually do the early oral communication, and it's a 15-minute

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time here provided for people to address the council on matters not on the agenda.

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At the conclusion of all the oral communication, the council may respond to statements.

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Any request that requires council action will be set by the council for a future

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agenda or referred to staff.

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Speakers addressing council at this time may be limited to two minutes.

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All other oral and written communications will be heard at this meeting under Agenda

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Item 11 at the end of the meeting.

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So if there's anybody here to speak at early oral communications, it's time.

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Good evening, Council and City staff.

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I was here a couple weeks ago and I asked if I could do a PowerPoint presentation.

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I want to apologize because maybe I didn't give my phone number or something.

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So it's 616-1182.

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It's very important to do this PowerPoint presentation to let you guys know what we've

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grown up to and how we've expanded our business, because we're working with Caltrans on a piece

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of property over there off of Jintoli that's going to be given over to you guys.

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It gives us a great opportunity to show from start to finish how new direction works.

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It gives a great opportunity to see the arcade where I actually created this program

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for to actually see how it can benefit communities and stuff.

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stuff. So a PowerPoint presentation, and here again I'll take it on me. I did not give

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my phone number and I haven't called Karen because I'd just been waiting by that phone

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waiting going, okay, they're going to call. So I'm very anxious to get this out, very

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anxious to see what we've grown up to and show you what we can do. And then hopefully

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that meeting with Caltrans and you guys will work out well and we'll get on the

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ground and start cleaning out that area and getting it to you guys. Thank you

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very much.

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Hi

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Maggie Gaynor from Zero Waste Humboldt. I live in Bayside. I'll take a moment to remind

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you about an event tomorrow evening that you're invited to. 6 to 8 o'clock at the Humboldt

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Bay Aquatic Center. Two very successful businesses that have achieved zero waste data. Sierra

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Nevada Brewing Company and Fedser Vineyards are going to be explaining how they did it.

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And in October, we're going to have a training here from the U.S. Zero Waste Business Council.

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And so they're going to explain what the rigors of the process that they went through.

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So I hope you'll come.

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There's another event.

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Our series is really an important part of our public education program.

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There's one in February, in March, and in April.

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And they're all different topics that have to do with zero waste solutions.

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Thanks.

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Can you remind people where it is tomorrow?

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John, I'll address what you said.

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There's no other early oral communications than nobody else.

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John, how long does that PowerPoint take?

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And could you make sure that the part that has to do with the Gintwilly Lane,

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in Mad River Park area to make sure that that's in there.

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Great.

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Well, thanks.

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We'll see what we can do about getting that on.

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And thank you, Maggie.

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I'm not gonna get to all five of them

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because I already missed one of your events

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and I have a meeting tomorrow night,

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but I will go to whatever I can get to.

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Thank you.

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Well, the other meeting should be over by...

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Is that four o'clock?

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Yeah, I have one in the evening also, a different meeting, yeah, thanks.

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Thanks a lot, thanks everyone.

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We're on to the meeting of the Successor Agency to the Arcada Community Development Agency.

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At this time members of the City Council act as the governing body of the Successor Agency to the Arcada Community Development Agency in accordance with health and safety code section 34173D1

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and the City of Arcadia Resolution number 112-10.

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All actions taken by the successor agency are authorized by Part 1.85.

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Commencing with Section 34170 of Division 24 of the Health

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and Safety Code, liability of the successor agency

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for any action taken is expressly limited

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by the Health and Safety Code 34173E.

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So, the first part of that meeting is the successor agency consent calendar.

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All the matters on this consent calendar are considered to be retained and are enacted

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in one motion.

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There is no separate discussion of any of these items.

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If discussion is required, that item is removed from the consent calendar and considered

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separately.

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At the end of the reading of the consent calendar, members of the governing body

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for the successor agency or members of the public can request an item be removed for

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a separate discussion.

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The items are, number one, approved minutes of the regular meeting of September 16, 2015.

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Number two, approve a bond proceeds expenditure agreement between the successor agency to

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the Arcada Community Development Agency and the City of Arcada for the 2003 tax allocation

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bond proceeds and the bond spending plan.

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Item 3, adopt the 16-slash-17 recognized obligation payment schedule for the ROPS physical periods

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July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, and the administrative budget for the physical year

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of 2016 and 17.

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So anyone that would like to remove an item from the successor agency's consent calendar?

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here. I want to remove item number two. Item number two.

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Okay. I'll look for the approval

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of the successor agency consent calendar minus item two. I'll second. So we have a motion

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and a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye.

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Item number two. So Susan. Okay. This item,

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I just found really interesting and I feel like it was a little frustrating for me to

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read it because while it's going back, let me see if I can get this here now.

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So what this is doing is approving the bond proceeds that since we have sort of finalized

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our relationship with paying back the state on redevelopment, we now can re-access

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our bond funds. And I think that's great. I'm super excited about it. But then I just

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realized that it's a little frustrating because there is no spending plan that's laid out.

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I mean, it's referred to, and I even tried to find it online and look back at 2003

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and I looked through our economic development plan and I couldn't find, except for, you

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have something written in here, and I'm sorry that our council isn't here today, but I want

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to have something written in here to bring this back to the council that once the oversight

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board has accepted it, for us to actually kind of look at it, look at the projects

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we're thinking about. I mean, we're now, it's 13 years later, a completely different

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council except for some repeats. And so, you know, I just feel like that's really

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important. I mean, we're putting our name on this. We're saying this is what we think

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it should go to and we actually have no direction except for vaguely inferred of what the money

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is actually going to. And it's a lot of money. So I feel like just to be responsible to

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the

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It's important for us to kind of look at it and give some direction to staff before staff

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goes off with, you know, what should we be doing with this money?

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Yeah, I can address a couple of those issues, and I agree it's unfortunate that, you know,

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city attorney isn't here tonight because hearing it from her would probably give you a lot more

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confidence in hearing it from me. But I can tell you that I'm not going to be

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I have studied the issue and Nancy has not had the time to research this very much.

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And I looked at the way that other jurisdictions have done their resolutions and their bond

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expenditure plans, and we're essentially, we're mirroring what most of the agencies

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have done.

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I worked with the Department of Finance before I prepared this resolution and the

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expenditure plan and made sure that I wasn't missing anything because that was

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one of the questions that I had as well. Some agencies prepared a very detailed

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bond expenditure plan. Most of those agencies that I saw actually had bonds

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issued for a specific purpose, so it was for, you know, downtown bike lanes or

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something like that, and so they had detailed expenditure plans. Some had

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absolutely nothing, even though it referred to an expenditure plan, there

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There was really nothing.

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Basically the process allows the agency to assign, instead of project by project, all

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of the bond proceeds to the city to continue to do what the bonds were issued for.

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In our case, the 2003 bond proceeds, which we're dealing with here, they were just

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general issue bonds.

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They had to do with anything that's basically redevelopment related, anything that's

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in the implementation plan and or the documents that it refers to.

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And so the spending plan that's associated with this bond expenditure plan, it really

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at this point ties to the Happy Valley project, which will require the majority of the funds

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that we have in bond proceeds to get up and running and off the ground as far as we're

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estimating at this point.

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Once the successor agency transfers those bond proceeds and this enters this agreement and then it is in control of those funds at that point, it can amend the expenditure, the spending plan.

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So long as it's consistent with the bond proceeds, redevelopment law, and our implementation plan.

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plan. The implementation plan is pretty broad. So I would say that the city council, not the

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success rate to see, but the city council can take on study sessions, do public outreach,

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whatever they choose to do at that point, if there's a sense that we need to go in

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a different direction than the direction that we've been on for the past several

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years.

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And the reason why I would suggest that we do it this way is because the actions

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of the Successor Agency are subject to the Oversight Board and the Department of Finance

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review.

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The Department of Finance isn't really all that interested in that phase of this process.

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Their primary interest was making sure that the agencies expediously wound down their

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affairs, paid off all their obligations.

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The other key thing that this ties to is that, as you'll notice in Item 3, I'm

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You notice that there was a change instead of doing a six-month ROPS.

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We're now doing an annual ROPS.

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And so you get one chance to get back on the Ferris wheel.

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And so this agreement can only be approved in conjunction with a ROPS item

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that transfers those bond funds to the city of Arcada.

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So we can either do it now or we can wait a year and do it again next year.

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The other thing that we're actually going to be – is going to be an option for the

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city's success rate agency now that we're essentially down to just paying off bond proceeds

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is last and final ROPs.

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And so we'll be coming back to you in the near future with this last and final ROPs

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as long as we don't have any of these other items hanging out that we need to deal with.

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And so, you know, I think that a lot of the concerns that I hear you making,

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making the fact that we may want to spend the money in different ways than on the Happy

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Valley, which is kind of what I was my impression of what the council direction over the past

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couple of years were.

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Yeah, we're going to get through this redevelopment process and then we're going to move on to

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getting the Happy Valley done.

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But we can certainly change direction so long as it's consistent with the plans

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when we get to that decision point.

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And then the city council is making those decisions, not the successor agency.

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Okay. And I appreciate that. I just feel like at this point in time, I mean, I don't think

455
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that this council has had much discussion about that. We've basically been dealing with

456
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:06,680
the dissolution and stuff. And so, I mean, I'm not – I haven't talked to anyone else

457
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:11,060
whether we're interested in the Happy Valley. And of course we are, you know. But I just

458
00:35:11,060 --> 00:35:15,680
felt that it was important to bring this back. And I'd like to see if other council

459
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:20,400
members agree so that we, you know, maybe re-give approval or we thought – and

460
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:21,960
And it's just so people even get reminded

461
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,040
what it was we were doing because 13 years later,

462
00:35:26,220 --> 00:35:27,540
you're like, well, wait, what were we doing?

463
00:35:28,060 --> 00:35:31,080
And even if we've sort of been talking about this,

464
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,860
we haven't been talking in any positive forward thinking

465
00:35:34,860 --> 00:35:37,340
future way for a while about redevelopment.

466
00:35:37,420 --> 00:35:40,960
We've been kind of slogging through the state process

467
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,640
for the last, what, since 2012.

468
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,420
So I just felt like this is kind of a point in time

469
00:35:47,420 --> 00:35:52,400
That is important, I think, to engage the council, make sure the direction is the way

470
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,700
we really want to be going with it.

471
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,740
And so, I mean, the only thing I kind of wanted to add legally, although we don't have our

472
00:35:56,740 --> 00:36:01,940
legal counsel here, but is that we request some kind of a public meeting or agendized

473
00:36:01,940 --> 00:36:06,520
on a council meeting that we have a discussion about it, and so we can just reassess where

474
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:06,880
we're at.

475
00:36:07,340 --> 00:36:07,660
Yeah.

476
00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:12,620
Again, I think that the – I'm sorry, but I just wanted to say, when we – we

477
00:36:12,620 --> 00:36:14,960
initially – there were these couple items that were on the agenda.

478
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:20,300
Initially, what staff wanted to do is we wanted to have this item be on the 17th.

479
00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:24,200
And then basically in our staff meeting with the city attorney and the finance director,

480
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:32,060
because of what David said about the annual ROPs, it was decided as a group that we needed

481
00:36:32,060 --> 00:36:36,300
to have this agreement approved at the same time as we submit the ROPs.

482
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:41,740
And then what David was alluding to, we can come back in, you know, a couple weeks

483
00:36:41,740 --> 00:36:48,000
or a month and reassess what we need to do because we need to have the agreement in order

484
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:53,060
to have a recognized obligation for the Department of Finance to approve.

485
00:36:53,380 --> 00:36:58,720
I understand that and I'm not going to try to hang this up. I just kind of wanted to

486
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:02,860
look at my other fellow council members and see if they agree that they do want to see it come

487
00:37:02,860 --> 00:37:07,480
back, you know, before it's nine months down and we're half into spending the money

488
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:13,780
And then we decide if that's what we wished we had done, you know, I think it's important that we kind of

489
00:37:13,780 --> 00:37:16,560
Schedule it say for a month and a half or something like that

490
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:21,520
And I I think you know, I mean I agree that we should you know we can take a look at it

491
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:27,300
But I I would I would think our best move is to move forward with this so that we can

492
00:37:27,300 --> 00:37:32,180
Close this part out and finish complete the unwinding of redevelopment

493
00:37:32,180 --> 00:37:37,300
So we don't get caught up with that, and then we're done with the Department of Finance oversight

494
00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:43,320
and approval part of this, and then we can, as a council, revisit this and amend the rubs

495
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:43,820
later.

496
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:44,320
So, yeah.

497
00:37:44,620 --> 00:37:45,980
Michael, did you have something?

498
00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:47,780
Yes.

499
00:37:48,180 --> 00:37:49,960
Well, I agree with Mark.

500
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:54,320
I don't want to hang up the process, but I think it's important that I would follow

501
00:37:54,320 --> 00:38:00,160
the suggestion that you're making, Susan, to be able to review that and have it

502
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:05,080
be more of an informative session rather than an action session to review where we are?

503
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,020
Well, I don't know if I would make it so that it's not an action session. I mean, I think we should,

504
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,740
I mean, I'm ready to move this forward, so don't worry. I'm not going to hang this up.

505
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:22,080
But I just, I feel like, let's see, it was in section 4.3, and I'm trying to remember exactly what I was referencing there,

506
00:38:22,460 --> 00:38:27,380
where it says, being as, I mean, I'm paraphrasing here, it was something like,

507
00:38:27,380 --> 00:38:32,880
Like, being as the council knows what the spending plan is, and so I'm like, oh, okay,

508
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:33,700
I guess we do.

509
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,040
So then I'm looking and trying to find the spending plan.

510
00:38:37,140 --> 00:38:38,100
I can't find it anywhere.

511
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,780
I get the general idea of what the spending plan is.

512
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:47,420
I mean, I could probably explain it to a citizen, but I realize I don't really know.

513
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:53,460
And so I thought it would be really nice if we could have a more detailed discussion

514
00:38:53,460 --> 00:38:55,480
about it here.

515
00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:06,300
Susan, yeah, I think that at this point, as I understand it simply, we're getting the

516
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:14,880
successor agency's funds coming over to the city, and then as a city council, we'll make

517
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:21,560
the decisions when we have the opportunity, over the next few months or a year or whatever.

518
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:26,500
Okay. And I just kind of want to acknowledge publicly that other people think we should have this discussion

519
00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:29,780
reasonably in the time. So, just so that we know that we will.

520
00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:34,620
I'll make a motion then that we approve a bond proceeds expenditure agreement between the

521
00:39:34,620 --> 00:39:38,160
Successor Agency to the Community Development Agency and the City of Arcadia for the

522
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:44,600
2003 tax allocation bond proceeds and the Spond Spending Plan and direct staff to

523
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:50,580
to come back with some options in terms of how we might amend that plan at future date.

524
00:39:51,340 --> 00:39:52,120
I'll second.

525
00:39:53,140 --> 00:39:56,080
Okay, we have a motion in second. All those in favor?

526
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:57,100
Aye.

527
00:39:58,140 --> 00:39:58,700
Thank you.

528
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:03,580
I do want to mention that, you know, the first thing you said regarding the staff report

529
00:40:03,580 --> 00:40:07,000
that it's amazing that we're at this point, I think that, you know, that can't be underscored enough.

530
00:40:07,180 --> 00:40:08,740
I mean, we had our detractors early on.

531
00:40:09,020 --> 00:40:10,680
And so, you know, congratulations to you all.

532
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:11,120
Yeah.

533
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:11,980
Well, thank you.

534
00:40:11,980 --> 00:40:13,740
You're the one who slogged through it.

535
00:40:14,140 --> 00:40:15,080
We just cheered you on.

536
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:15,520
Yeah.

537
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:23,940
So in the confusion of the consent calendar, you know, I'm not quite sure whether we do

538
00:40:23,940 --> 00:40:27,880
public comment before the consent calendar or after it.

539
00:40:27,980 --> 00:40:29,700
You can take it actually public comment.

540
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,820
I mean, we've already voted on it, but we could have public comment on that.

541
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,120
I understand that.

542
00:40:34,340 --> 00:40:39,880
I just, you know, in the future, if there's like a flag for me that tells me public

543
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:45,340
public comment before the consent calendar or public comment after we, it's read off.

544
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:51,180
No, typically you would not take public comment in the consent calendar unless somebody pulled

545
00:40:51,180 --> 00:40:51,560
an item.

546
00:40:51,980 --> 00:40:52,080
Yeah.

547
00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:53,440
Just pull the street like a random.

548
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:53,700
Okay.

549
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:54,240
Okay.

550
00:40:54,740 --> 00:40:54,900
All right.

551
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:55,560
Thank you.

552
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:59,680
Public comment like any other new business or old business, I'm correct.

553
00:40:59,680 --> 00:40:59,920
Right.

554
00:41:00,020 --> 00:41:00,260
Okay.

555
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:01,500
So I understand my confusion.

556
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:07,220
So if there is any public comment for item two, it's your opportunity now.

557
00:41:07,860 --> 00:41:16,300
If not, we're done with it and we're on to old business, which we have done tonight.

558
00:41:16,900 --> 00:41:24,280
New business, none, and then we're done with the successor agency part of the meeting.

559
00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:32,200
So we're adjourning as a successor agency and going on to the city council meeting.

560
00:41:33,060 --> 00:41:42,900
So for the City Council, now we go to our Consent Calendar and I'll read this little bit here.

561
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:49,080
All matters on the Consent Calendar considered to be routine by the City Council are enacted in one motion.

562
00:41:49,620 --> 00:41:52,020
There is no separate discussion of any of these items.

563
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:57,660
If discussion is required, that item is removed from the Consent Calendar and considered separately.

564
00:41:57,660 --> 00:42:03,020
At the end of the reading of the Consent Calendar, council members or members of public can

565
00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:08,220
request an item be removed for separate discussion and if they do that, we'll have public comment

566
00:42:08,220 --> 00:42:08,700
for that.

567
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,060
So, I'll go ahead and read this to you.

568
00:42:12,300 --> 00:42:17,740
Item A is approve the minutes of February 4, 2015, Regular City Council Meeting.

569
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:23,280
Item B, approve minutes of December 16, 2015, Regular City Council Meeting.

570
00:42:24,140 --> 00:42:28,120
Item C, by Weekly Report on General Warrants.

571
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:34,280
Item D, reappoint Daryl Burleson and Maureen Hart to the Economic Development Committee

572
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,780
for firms expiring January 31, 2019.

573
00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:43,900
Item E, approve City Support for the 2016 Godwit Days Festival.

574
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:50,620
Item F, approve the recycling memorandum of understanding between the Humboldt Waste Management Authority

575
00:42:50,620 --> 00:42:57,660
and certain of its member agencies to participate in a recyclable materials processing contract

576
00:42:57,660 --> 00:43:02,400
to continue to receive recycling services and revenue sharing proceeds.

577
00:43:03,020 --> 00:43:09,620
Item G, adopt resolution number 1536, approving the application for grant funds

578
00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:13,560
from the Division of Boating and Waterways Local Assistance Loan

579
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:18,720
and grant programs for the South I Street boat launch facility upgrades.

580
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:25,600
proceeds. Item H, adopt resolution number 15637, adopting the Bonds Proceeds Expenditure

581
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:30,720
Agreement for the 2003 Tax Allocation Bonds and the Bond Spending Plan.

582
00:43:31,620 --> 00:43:41,180
Item I, approve a letter in support of Assembly Bill 21, Bonita, Bonta, Cooley, Jones, Sawyer,

583
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:46,640
Lackey and Wood, Medical Marijuana Cultivation Cleanup Legislation. Now, is there any

584
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:52,240
member of the city council wants to pull an item or first yeah I'd like to pull

585
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:59,220
item F because I think there may be interest in that okay I want item let me

586
00:43:59,220 --> 00:44:04,160
see it was E and G I'll

587
00:44:09,340 --> 00:44:12,740
make a motion of proof consent calendar minus items E F and

588
00:44:12,740 --> 00:44:20,840
G I'll second okay we have a motion to second all those in favor hi hi okay

589
00:44:21,780 --> 00:44:25,880
Okay, let me go with student item E.

590
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,060
Okay, item E, approved city support

591
00:44:30,060 --> 00:44:32,180
for the 2016 Godward Day Festival.

592
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,180
Well, this is a really difficult one

593
00:44:35,180 --> 00:44:36,720
because of course I love Godward Days

594
00:44:36,720 --> 00:44:39,740
and I love Alex Harris and I mean Alex Stillman,

595
00:44:40,180 --> 00:44:40,860
all those things.

596
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,180
But I'm struggling with this one

597
00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:46,960
because there isn't any justification

598
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:56,400
in the build-up to it of why are we particularly pulling one non-profit out and supporting them

599
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,960
when, I mean, I know this was born out of the city of Arcadia.

600
00:45:00,740 --> 00:45:06,820
The first one was the Archaeta House. So was Main Street. So how are we differentiating?

601
00:45:07,020 --> 00:45:13,600
We are actually making a gift of public funds of $6,000 to God with Days, nonprofit. How do

602
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:19,700
we justify that? We don't have it. And I did a little research on this and it's a gift

603
00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:28,020
of public funds. And we have to show the community that somehow this event, or our

604
00:45:28,020 --> 00:45:34,120
support of this event is worth it to put public funds in. So we have to justify some

605
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:39,500
public benefit. No one says that Godward Days doesn't have public benefit, but it doesn't

606
00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:45,640
have distinct public benefit better than, say, other nonprofits have. And it's like

607
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,820
if I was looking to it and I looked at Godward Days schedule events and I was thinking,

608
00:45:50,580 --> 00:45:55,620
hmm, well, maybe I could justify this if there was a bunch of school days where

609
00:45:55,620 --> 00:45:59,200
kids were able to go on these events, and I'm not trying to give you more work. Don't

610
00:45:59,200 --> 00:45:59,660
get me wrong.

611
00:45:59,980 --> 00:46:04,560
But I'm just trying to figure out, how do we actually justify this? Because we're actually

612
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:09,580
setting ourselves up to be potentially sued. I mean, why do we charge Main Street to put

613
00:46:09,580 --> 00:46:15,400
the banner across G, and we don't charge God with days? It doesn't actually make sense.

614
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:22,020
And yet, I understand there's emotional reasons why we do this, possibly. But I just

615
00:46:22,020 --> 00:46:30,060
can't really support it at this point until someone articulates how the expenditure of

616
00:46:30,060 --> 00:46:40,080
these public funds is actually benefiting enough of the broad public that it's worth it. And

617
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:45,800
we can then turn to any citizen who asks us, why did you put $6,000 towards Godwick

618
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:51,380
days? Because that's basically what we're giving them. We'll have a good answer for

619
00:46:51,380 --> 00:46:52,940
But right now I don't.

620
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,300
I mean, except for, oh, we love God with days,

621
00:46:55,460 --> 00:46:56,400
and we all love birds.

622
00:46:56,620 --> 00:46:58,560
Could we get staff to...

623
00:46:59,240 --> 00:46:59,640
Sure.

624
00:46:59,780 --> 00:47:02,440
I just have to put that question out there.

625
00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:05,300
And actually, it's kind of worth it.

626
00:47:05,380 --> 00:47:06,580
I want you to almost...

627
00:47:06,580 --> 00:47:07,080
Okay.

628
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,520
I think the history of this item goes back to what

629
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,780
Councilmember Anelis did allude to,

630
00:47:13,820 --> 00:47:15,840
which was at a certain point in time,

631
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:20,040
the city operated this actual event as a fundraiser

632
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:24,560
as part of a community event to try to start to bring additional interest to the birding

633
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:29,060
community, to our Marshall Wildlife Sanctuary, and hope that that turned into additional

634
00:47:29,060 --> 00:47:29,980
tourism dollars.

635
00:47:30,780 --> 00:47:35,540
At some point, that's transitioned through nonprofits, and they ultimately became their

636
00:47:35,540 --> 00:47:36,700
own nonprofit status.

637
00:47:37,420 --> 00:47:43,080
At that point, the municipal code allows the council the option of waiving certain

638
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:48,640
fees, and the Parks and Rec Committee, historically over time we have sent all the

639
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:54,240
request through Parks and Rec Committee. And they've told the line pretty tight about trying

640
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:59,120
to treat everybody equally and basically most deny most requests. And we've sent, historically,

641
00:47:59,780 --> 00:48:03,460
all of them to the Arcada Foundation, which was sort of what the Arcada Foundation was

642
00:48:03,460 --> 00:48:08,620
originally funded for, was to take these requests off of the Council's meetings and

643
00:48:08,620 --> 00:48:13,380
off of the Council's discussions. At that time, I'd have to look back in the history

644
00:48:13,380 --> 00:48:18,260
to see. I know Godwood Days has been discussed at Parks and Rec. I can't recall what

645
00:48:18,260 --> 00:48:22,880
their recommendation was, but as an entity they chose to bring it forward to the city

646
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:28,160
council as the city manager that is not authorized to waive those fees and only the council is

647
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,560
based on our Muni code and so they came forward to the council and they received that fee

648
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:36,680
waiver for those and then it's carried through and each year we say we need to bring this

649
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,320
back to the council. We don't have the authorization to waive those fees again.

650
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:47,660
I would guess that it's been 8 to 10 years. I'd like to say it's only been three

651
00:48:47,660 --> 00:48:48,900
but time goes really fast.

652
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:51,160
So I'm guessing it's probably been about 10 years

653
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,520
that this has been a practice of the city and the council.

654
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:56,980
But it is your discretion and it is your discussion

655
00:48:56,980 --> 00:48:58,980
and it needs to be your comfort level to be able

656
00:48:58,980 --> 00:49:02,180
to justify that, you know, that waiver of fees.

657
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,480
We'd be happy to invite them to come and speak to this

658
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:07,860
and schedule this for another meeting

659
00:49:07,860 --> 00:49:09,120
if that's the will of the council

660
00:49:09,860 --> 00:49:11,340
or render a decision tonight.

661
00:49:12,620 --> 00:49:15,020
I'd like to hear from any of the council member

662
00:49:15,020 --> 00:49:17,040
that might want to speak about it at the moment?

663
00:49:19,150 --> 00:49:21,310
I'd like to hear from staff, too.

664
00:49:21,590 --> 00:49:28,810
But I mean, I think we have a longstanding and as, you know, the city did, you know, create this event.

665
00:49:29,230 --> 00:49:36,430
And I understand that Susan's argument, but I think it's also been one of those events where we,

666
00:49:36,650 --> 00:49:40,630
I think as a city and the community, benefits greatly from, you know,

667
00:49:40,630 --> 00:49:47,730
There's hundreds of people that come into the community and the bed tax and all the other revenue that is generated through this event.

668
00:49:48,070 --> 00:49:58,670
So I think, you know, the cost share and the offsetting is, you know, I think we make that up in other ways throughout the city.

669
00:49:58,970 --> 00:49:59,390
So, yeah.

670
00:49:59,910 --> 00:50:01,110
Sophia, did you have something?

671
00:50:01,850 --> 00:50:08,350
Yeah, for me, I mean, and I, in terms of the question of, you know, what is the rationale?

672
00:50:08,350 --> 00:50:10,830
I mean, for me, the first thing that came to mind is,

673
00:50:10,870 --> 00:50:12,950
well, I don't have the specific numbers, you know,

674
00:50:13,090 --> 00:50:15,850
that it seems like there is this economic development aspect

675
00:50:15,850 --> 00:50:18,230
to it that's really beneficial to our community.

676
00:50:20,170 --> 00:50:22,350
But in terms of bringing up that question,

677
00:50:22,470 --> 00:50:25,450
if that's aligned with what our processes have been,

678
00:50:25,590 --> 00:50:28,110
I mean, I think that's a worthy question to ask.

679
00:50:28,590 --> 00:50:31,470
So, but for me, I definitely see

680
00:50:31,470 --> 00:50:33,230
that there's a public benefit.

681
00:50:34,450 --> 00:50:36,370
But so I'll leave it at that for now, so that.

682
00:50:36,970 --> 00:50:37,550
Michael?

683
00:50:38,990 --> 00:50:41,350
Well, I think that if you contrast it with

684
00:50:42,770 --> 00:50:45,610
Oyster Festival, Oyster Festival is highly profitable

685
00:50:45,610 --> 00:50:48,170
on the main fundraiser for Main Street,

686
00:50:48,170 --> 00:50:52,330
and this is not a particularly profitable event,

687
00:50:52,530 --> 00:50:55,370
but it is something that brings a lot of people

688
00:50:55,370 --> 00:50:58,810
into the area, either from completely outside of the county

689
00:50:58,810 --> 00:51:00,830
or at least from the surrounding areas.

690
00:51:00,870 --> 00:51:02,690
So I think it generates a substantial amount

691
00:51:02,690 --> 00:51:04,370
of positive economic activity,

692
00:51:04,370 --> 00:51:09,490
activity and I think a reasonable cost to the city and so that's why I would like to

693
00:51:09,490 --> 00:51:10,250
continue it.

694
00:51:10,990 --> 00:51:13,430
I think it's a reasonable expenditure for the city for that reason.

695
00:51:13,950 --> 00:51:17,930
I do think it's fair for me to just be clear, it's not that I don't support Godwood Days

696
00:51:17,930 --> 00:51:18,470
at all.

697
00:51:18,790 --> 00:51:23,230
I hope you all understand that and it's also not that I don't, I understand the economic

698
00:51:23,230 --> 00:51:29,130
development aspect of it but as also the Creamery District brings in economic development

699
00:51:29,130 --> 00:51:32,810
as does the Oyster Festival brings in economic development, I do a lot of different efforts

700
00:51:32,810 --> 00:51:39,290
at the one here. And I guess, I mean, if you, what was I looking at today? It was something

701
00:51:39,290 --> 00:51:43,290
where I was just researching as gift to public funds, you know, when do we start to cross

702
00:51:43,290 --> 00:51:51,890
that line? And it was talking about how you really have to have statements in your staff

703
00:51:51,890 --> 00:52:00,350
report or in, you know, of why this particular event deserves a special consideration because

704
00:52:00,350 --> 00:52:01,770
because we're giving it special consideration.

705
00:52:02,370 --> 00:52:04,530
We did give birth to it, you could say,

706
00:52:04,810 --> 00:52:06,310
but as we did arcade house,

707
00:52:06,430 --> 00:52:08,230
yet we charged them to use the annex.

708
00:52:08,850 --> 00:52:11,870
So how are we differentiating these things?

709
00:52:12,370 --> 00:52:14,090
And it's not clear to me.

710
00:52:14,910 --> 00:52:17,130
So if I vote against this,

711
00:52:17,310 --> 00:52:19,590
it's not because I'm voting against the God with Days

712
00:52:19,590 --> 00:52:21,330
at all, and I love the God with Days,

713
00:52:21,810 --> 00:52:25,550
but I just, I personally can't look a citizen in the eye

714
00:52:25,550 --> 00:52:27,310
and tell them why this is different.

715
00:52:28,530 --> 00:52:29,410
It's grown up.

716
00:52:29,690 --> 00:52:32,930
We nurtured it for a while, but it's grown up at this point.

717
00:52:34,210 --> 00:52:39,610
And so I'm not even sure we legally could have nurtured it, because you have to actually

718
00:52:39,610 --> 00:52:41,410
really look at what is a gift of public funds.

719
00:52:42,010 --> 00:52:46,910
But, you know, we've been able to do that, and it's been fine.

720
00:52:47,110 --> 00:52:51,950
And like I said, it was even very difficult for me to have to bring this up, because

721
00:52:51,950 --> 00:52:56,310
this is a heartfelt thing for us all, and Alex Stillman's behind it, and we love

722
00:52:56,310 --> 00:53:00,470
and there's so many reasons that this is not an easy thing to have to sit here and say.

723
00:53:01,110 --> 00:53:08,030
And yet, I feel like we actually have to look at it dispassionately and with a clear understanding

724
00:53:08,030 --> 00:53:13,850
that we have to treat everyone equally, and I feel like I can't back out why we're particularly

725
00:53:13,850 --> 00:53:14,670
supporting this one.

726
00:53:14,690 --> 00:53:15,750
I understand that.

727
00:53:15,950 --> 00:53:23,250
Now, we've all talked except myself, and, you know, when you brought it up, I remember

728
00:53:23,250 --> 00:53:27,130
I remember this coming up, I don't know, ten years ago,

729
00:53:27,270 --> 00:53:28,690
whatever, when I was on the council before,

730
00:53:28,830 --> 00:53:30,270
and I had some of the same reservations.

731
00:53:30,590 --> 00:53:33,350
I thought, you know, why dogwood days?

732
00:53:33,550 --> 00:53:38,850
And then I realized, where does it happen at the marsh mostly?

733
00:53:41,030 --> 00:53:46,830
Who's involved in it is people that come to use the marsh

734
00:53:46,830 --> 00:53:51,730
and build up our city and the birding community

735
00:53:51,730 --> 00:53:55,450
that look at the marshes being the jewel.

736
00:53:58,220 --> 00:54:01,440
It feels to me and it felt like then that

737
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:10,320
I was convinced that it is different than other activities because it does focus people

738
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:15,260
and bring them into the marsh, which is not a money-making place.

739
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:21,880
And it felt like this

740
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:35,240
This kind of expenditure or subsidy to the Godwit days is a kind of a blended situation

741
00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:43,740
that is not clear like Arcade Main Street or Chamber of Commerce, who get funds from

742
00:54:43,740 --> 00:54:50,040
us time and again separately for other reasons, yeah.

743
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:56,600
and I just I thought yeah I had some of the same feelings years ago and today

744
00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:01,140
I it's settled in my mind and it feels like God what days is something that is

745
00:55:01,140 --> 00:55:08,560
so married up in our city and does so much for our larger intention that we

746
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:13,400
should continue to do that so that that's my statement on that up I guess

747
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,920
we're ready yeah I would just I would just point point out to you

748
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:20,800
I want to say, Julie, help me out, Julie.

749
00:55:20,980 --> 00:55:27,000
We did a presentation at the International Watchable Wildlife Conference.

750
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:28,960
And your point is exactly right, Paul.

751
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,840
You know, it's difficult to charge revenue or to generate revenue

752
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,360
or to charge to go out and watch wildlife.

753
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,080
And that's what it kind of comes down to as part of,

754
00:55:38,180 --> 00:55:40,760
and that's why we hosted and sponsored this event.

755
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,100
And but I think Susan's question is a good question

756
00:55:45,100 --> 00:55:50,260
and maybe we should take a look at those kinds of issues.

757
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,540
I would not want to pull the rug out from under them

758
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,640
right here at the 11th hour for their event for this year,

759
00:55:56,980 --> 00:55:59,320
but maybe taking a look at the bigger picture

760
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:01,760
and other events, because I agree.

761
00:56:02,060 --> 00:56:03,340
There's other events that go on.

762
00:56:05,300 --> 00:56:06,520
You have a soccer tournament.

763
00:56:06,660 --> 00:56:09,380
They always ask for a waiver, a reduced fee.

764
00:56:09,740 --> 00:56:11,060
So there's other things, too.

765
00:56:11,740 --> 00:56:12,360
So stuff it.

766
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:23,140
Just to clarify, for a change, I got the staff report in a few months ahead of time, so it's not the 11th hour if you wanted more information from the sponsors of the event.

767
00:56:23,540 --> 00:56:28,540
They could come in and talk to you, but it's in April, so we're pretty early in getting this.

768
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:33,320
And, you know, I appreciate the...

769
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:37,860
You know, I actually want to say that the Mayor just said something that kind of changed my mind a little bit.

770
00:56:37,860 --> 00:56:43,080
It's like we actually do have budget items for the Chamber, for Main Street, and we don't

771
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:48,620
for, you know, I mean, and it's, I mean, I'm not sure it quite still fits the category

772
00:56:48,620 --> 00:56:54,040
of being fundable compared to other nonprofits, but that helps ease me a little bit of like,

773
00:56:54,220 --> 00:56:55,400
oh, okay, that's true.

774
00:56:55,500 --> 00:56:57,200
We do kind of support those other organizations.

775
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:58,960
I just didn't think that through.

776
00:57:00,060 --> 00:57:05,240
So just to add a little bit, they do offer certain programs for free to anyone in the

777
00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:06,740
community who wants to come to them.

778
00:57:06,740 --> 00:57:09,540
And I don't know if that would help, but they've done that traditionally.

779
00:57:09,820 --> 00:57:13,980
They offer programs for children both at the Marsh and at the community center during the

780
00:57:13,980 --> 00:57:17,820
Godwood Day events as well as some other ones that are open to the public in general.

781
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:18,520
Right.

782
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:18,800
Yeah.

783
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:22,580
I did notice that when I looked at the registration, but there was like room for 10 people here,

784
00:57:22,700 --> 00:57:23,260
10 people there.

785
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:27,280
And I was kind of like, it's not really the community, exactly, you know.

786
00:57:27,700 --> 00:57:30,320
But I just feel like what you said kind of helped.

787
00:57:30,620 --> 00:57:31,120
Thank you.

788
00:57:31,860 --> 00:57:36,100
Can we have any public comment that would like to, I need someone from the public

789
00:57:36,100 --> 00:57:38,320
I'd like to talk about Godwit Days or this item.

790
00:57:39,620 --> 00:57:41,040
Seeing no one, we'll go ahead.

791
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:44,120
I'll make a motion that we approve the city support

792
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,020
for the 2016 Godwit Days Festival.

793
00:57:47,740 --> 00:57:48,200
Second?

794
00:57:48,900 --> 00:57:50,540
We have a motion in the second.

795
00:57:50,780 --> 00:57:51,460
All those in favor?

796
00:57:52,100 --> 00:57:52,380
Aye.

797
00:57:53,140 --> 00:57:53,500
Opposed?

798
00:57:53,820 --> 00:57:54,600
Well, I guess I'll say no,

799
00:57:54,660 --> 00:57:56,560
just since I was having questions about it.

800
00:57:56,860 --> 00:57:58,580
And maybe what I would like to just request

801
00:57:58,580 --> 00:58:00,780
for next time, if you're looking to this next time,

802
00:58:01,140 --> 00:58:04,480
have some community data, some thoughts about it,

803
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,000
how the money is used, help us defend this decision.

804
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:11,440
I see the name for both the findings in this document.

805
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:12,100
Thank you.

806
00:58:15,980 --> 00:58:21,320
OK, that was item E. And I'd like to look at item G also,

807
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:25,600
Susan, at this point, because I'd like to pull F after.

808
00:58:26,900 --> 00:58:27,800
Oh, so go through G.

809
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:29,000
If you don't mind.

810
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,560
Yeah, I just wanted to bring this forward

811
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,260
that I was at Foam.

812
00:58:33,380 --> 00:58:36,760
And they were really confused about this idea.

813
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,480
They didn't understand at all.

814
00:58:38,540 --> 00:58:42,920
They were talking about, they thought that the new sort of,

815
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,360
what am I trying to say, if I'm the right word here,

816
00:58:45,500 --> 00:58:49,880
the boat launch facility was actually at the end of I Street,

817
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,960
not like on the side where it is now.

818
00:58:52,180 --> 00:58:54,460
They thought it was at the end, like behind the rock

819
00:58:54,460 --> 00:58:55,800
or something, they were trying to figure out how,

820
00:58:56,100 --> 00:58:57,060
and they thought it went like,

821
00:58:57,460 --> 00:59:00,140
they were saying that they heard it went 50 feet out.

822
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:02,000
And they were going, huh?

823
00:59:02,500 --> 00:59:03,180
Does this make sense?

824
00:59:03,300 --> 00:59:05,200
And it was a whole like spirited discussion

825
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:07,960
with a lot of maybe misinformed information.

826
00:59:08,300 --> 00:59:09,720
So I didn't know anything about it,

827
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:11,000
so I had nothing to offer actually.

828
00:59:11,580 --> 00:59:15,160
So anyway, I just wanted to kind of let you be aware of that,

829
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,640
that there would seem to be some misunderstandings.

830
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,000
Good to know about that.

831
00:59:19,260 --> 00:59:21,720
And first, I want to take the opportunity to introduce

832
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:25,240
Emily Benvy, our environmental programs manager

833
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,600
who started a couple weeks ago with the city.

834
00:59:28,180 --> 00:59:30,980
And she's joining us here at the staff table.

835
00:59:31,060 --> 00:59:33,920
We're glad to have her working in environmental services.

836
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:42,320
Thank you and I tasked her with this project. Just a little bit of background. There is

837
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:47,500
a water trails concept for Humboldt Bay. This was one of the nodes on that water trails

838
00:59:47,500 --> 00:59:57,040
route. There were two concepts for improving the current boating, launching or dock situation

839
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,520
at South I Street and

840
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:07,420
The one that I think you're mentioning, Councilmember Ornelas, is the short one straight to the south,

841
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:17,320
to the channel. We discovered how much work the Harbor Conservation District and Recreation

842
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:22,360
District have done on CEQA towards the other option, which is basically extending the

843
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:29,000
floating boat dock. I'll turn this over to Emily in a minute. But one thing I need

844
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:33,800
to do is get this on the capital improvement program list. There's some grant funding

845
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:37,780
opportunities. We're just trying to move this along and have our partners, the Harvard

846
01:00:37,780 --> 01:00:42,940
District and RCAA, kind of help move this along because there's been a lot of public

847
01:00:43,500 --> 01:00:52,000
comments about improving the – or extending the time when you can't access the channel

848
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:56,380
and not just have our boat dock, which sits on the mud for hours when you could

849
01:00:56,380 --> 01:01:02,660
actually get out to the the channel into the bay so um but I'll turn this over to

850
01:01:02,660 --> 01:01:05,800
Emily right now she's she's been spearheading this effort and this is a

851
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:10,780
grant just a grant application to kind of get the process moving but I think

852
01:01:10,780 --> 01:01:14,200
there's two options both could be standalone and viable in their own

853
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:18,620
right but once we realized how much work have been done engineering wise on

854
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,900
extending the existing law. So there was a discussion of far the one out okay

855
01:01:22,900 --> 01:01:25,300
That's probably a lot, if everyone was confused.

856
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,640
Good evening, council members. Can you hear me all right?

857
01:01:28,860 --> 01:01:31,820
This is my first time dealing with the mic over here.

858
01:01:33,420 --> 01:01:36,980
So, yes, as Mark mentioned, I think you did a really good job

859
01:01:36,980 --> 01:01:39,640
of kind of explaining the two options,

860
01:01:39,660 --> 01:01:43,580
and there was a little bit of a lack of communication at the outset

861
01:01:43,580 --> 01:01:45,880
as to which option we were going to pursue.

862
01:01:46,860 --> 01:01:50,440
Based on Mark's explanation, it sounds like extending the dock

863
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:57,260
makes the most sense considering all the work that has already been undertaken in that option.

864
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:03,320
And so I have been in coordination with Gretchen over at the Interpretive Center who has been

865
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:09,360
relaying my comments to Foam. She made me aware of the concerns and so we went back and forth

866
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:16,260
and clarified that, spoke to a couple of their other concerns. So it sounds like that confusion

867
01:02:16,260 --> 01:02:21,720
confusion should be cleared up for the deadline that they want to submit their letter of support

868
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:27,040
under. What else can I say about this? We're meeting with the Harbor District tomorrow to

869
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:31,680
solidify our plan. So really, we're early in the concept and preliminary design and

870
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:36,900
there was that last-minute lack of communication to add to a little bit of confusion. But

871
01:02:36,900 --> 01:02:41,160
does that answer your question? Yeah, just the historical context. There were the

872
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:45,220
two sites. So one is exactly where you said going straight out I Street, out the

873
01:02:45,220 --> 01:02:51,440
parking lot and basically going straightforward. And there is a nice deep channel there. Going

874
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,420
through the sequel process, or the second option is off of our existing boat ramp and

875
01:02:55,420 --> 01:03:01,080
extending it out. Going through the sequel process, we ran into a significant impact

876
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:07,880
potential to the aesthetic historical natural resource of the war that runs right along

877
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:12,880
kind of parallel to where that southern option was going to go. And that's really

878
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:17,760
what at that point steered us to the existing boat ramp area that we were

879
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:21,720
in. I mean one thing some of the phone members brought up was it seemed like it

880
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:25,940
would be good to connect to a deep water but you know like maybe where is it

881
01:03:25,940 --> 01:03:28,800
James Creek that comes out there or what does that what creek is that that

882
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:32,660
comes out right? It's actually butchers lute kind of winds around there or

883
01:03:32,660 --> 01:03:36,920
tributary kind of yeah. Okay well I mean I don't have any problem with that I

884
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:41,680
just wanted to wanted to share that people didn't know exactly what was

885
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:46,340
being referenced, and they were talking about something going off the edge, and it was like,

886
01:03:46,460 --> 01:03:47,720
isn't that a big sequel issue?

887
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:51,340
It's surprising we're not talking about that, or, you know, just things like that.

888
01:03:51,540 --> 01:03:55,200
So, anyway, I'll make a motion to approve consent.

889
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:59,820
And then we have a public, I'll try to do that first, before.

890
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:00,520
Okay, sure.

891
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:00,780
Yeah.

892
01:04:01,180 --> 01:04:06,540
So is there anybody from the public that would like to talk about the voting facility,

893
01:04:06,540 --> 01:04:09,580
the grant program for the I Street boat launch.

894
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:11,760
That's on our consent calendar.

895
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:12,860
No?

896
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:14,020
Okay, go ahead.

897
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,560
Okay, I'm the commotion to approve consent calendar item G.

898
01:04:17,460 --> 01:04:20,940
Okay, we have a motion in second.

899
01:04:21,140 --> 01:04:21,920
All those in favor?

900
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:22,780
Aye.

901
01:04:23,140 --> 01:04:23,260
Aye.

902
01:04:26,390 --> 01:04:30,970
The next item that we have pulled is item F

903
01:04:30,970 --> 01:04:33,950
and Sophia has pulled that, so go ahead.

904
01:04:34,290 --> 01:04:36,350
Oh, well, I'm pulling it

905
01:04:36,350 --> 01:04:39,730
because I imagine that there's some great public interest

906
01:04:39,730 --> 01:04:41,210
in this discussion.

907
01:04:41,790 --> 01:04:44,110
So actually, can we just start with a staff report

908
01:04:44,110 --> 01:04:45,350
and kind of go from there?

909
01:04:47,780 --> 01:04:48,980
Sure, okay.

910
01:04:51,730 --> 01:04:56,120
Yeah, we were recommending that the city council

911
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:58,820
prove a recycling memorandum of understanding

912
01:04:58,820 --> 01:05:00,700
between Humboldt Waste Management Authority

913
01:05:01,490 --> 01:05:03,860
and certain member agencies to participate

914
01:05:03,860 --> 01:05:06,940
in a recycling materials processing contract

915
01:05:06,940 --> 01:05:10,900
and to continue receiving recycling services and revenue-sharing proceeds.

916
01:05:11,620 --> 01:05:19,300
Currently, as the Council knows, the HWMA receives the material from our curbside program

917
01:05:19,300 --> 01:05:23,120
where it is transferred to the solid waste of willots for processing.

918
01:05:24,180 --> 01:05:29,320
And Arcada is the only agency that's not a signatory to that contract

919
01:05:29,570 --> 01:05:33,880
that binds that material to the processing facility in willots,

920
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:40,360
although we've enjoyed the benefits of being part of it and do receive the proceeds from

921
01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:41,380
the recyclable side.

922
01:05:44,510 --> 01:05:51,410
The past year or two we've been pursuing the avenue of putting out an RFP for a long-term

923
01:05:51,410 --> 01:05:53,770
recyclable processing contract.

924
01:05:54,670 --> 01:06:02,130
And due to certain circumstances, one would be the markets for recyclables are low.

925
01:06:02,130 --> 01:06:09,030
So to enter into a long-term and or 20-year agreement may be not the best option right now.

926
01:06:10,310 --> 01:06:16,930
And the member agencies, you know, and through HWMA have been discussing this.

927
01:06:17,430 --> 01:06:25,990
We brought this to you because basically the HWMA requested on November 12th at their board meeting

928
01:06:25,990 --> 01:06:29,790
to extend the HWMA agreement with solid waste of will.

929
01:06:29,790 --> 01:06:36,070
it's an additional two years so we can get organized on the RFP process so it's not pushing

930
01:06:36,070 --> 01:06:42,730
the timeline too tightly for a respondent to secure a facility because the local facility

931
01:06:42,730 --> 01:06:48,350
is still, I think, the desire for most everybody, local jobs, local facility. But to gain

932
01:06:48,350 --> 01:06:57,970
two more years and at that meeting they requested the City of Arcada enter into the MOU,

933
01:06:57,970 --> 01:07:01,670
which we currently haven't signed on to for that two-year period.

934
01:07:03,670 --> 01:07:09,890
So, you know, I know we did receive some comment, and you'll hear tonight,

935
01:07:11,510 --> 01:07:16,250
an offer to operate and to receive our recycled material.

936
01:07:17,210 --> 01:07:21,890
Some pros and cons, I guess, it would be just to consider.

937
01:07:24,110 --> 01:07:29,290
It's pretty low overhead for us right now to have HWMA run this agreement and in terms

938
01:07:29,290 --> 01:07:33,650
of our administration of a contract and an agreement with solid ways to will it.

939
01:07:33,750 --> 01:07:36,030
So that's pretty smooth.

940
01:07:38,670 --> 01:07:43,810
Keeping materials kind of bound together as much as possible I think achieves that

941
01:07:43,810 --> 01:07:47,990
economy of scale we're looking for in a long-term arrangement and hopefully that

942
01:07:47,990 --> 01:07:50,070
arrangement is going to end up in Humboldt County.

943
01:07:52,750 --> 01:07:55,650
Actually, I'll just, I'll wait on the

944
01:07:55,650 --> 01:08:01,810
other issue of the comment letter you got today and I think you'll get some comments

945
01:08:01,810 --> 01:08:08,790
and maybe I can answer or clarify some things. But I just wanted to say this was, you know,

946
01:08:08,810 --> 01:08:15,230
your choices are you could not act on this and we could still, you know, probably

947
01:08:15,230 --> 01:08:20,590
keep going with HWMA, but a member on prayer

948
01:08:20,590 --> 01:08:23,530
might want to clarify too, this was brought

949
01:08:23,530 --> 01:08:27,170
to you at the request of HWMA Board for us

950
01:08:27,170 --> 01:08:32,350
to formally sign on as they extend their

951
01:08:32,350 --> 01:08:35,570
current arrangement for two more years, so.

952
01:08:42,490 --> 01:08:43,530
Can we take this?

953
01:08:43,730 --> 01:08:45,330
And on that revenue sharing, I should say,

954
01:08:45,810 --> 01:08:48,190
the current revenue sharing is $8 a ton

955
01:08:48,190 --> 01:08:50,890
for the mixed recyclables and $55 a ton

956
01:08:50,890 --> 01:08:51,590
for Cardboard.

957
01:08:53,730 --> 01:08:56,850
That's what the Revenue Sharing Agreement is.

958
01:08:57,370 --> 01:09:02,990
I think I'd like to take the public at this point on this item. So if there's anybody

959
01:09:02,990 --> 01:09:10,130
in the public that wants to speak on this item about the recyclables and the MOU, tell

960
01:09:10,610 --> 01:09:14,350
me who you are. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. My name is Rick Powell

961
01:09:14,350 --> 01:09:19,250
and I represent Eel River Resource Recovery. As staff mentioned, we sent a letter to

962
01:09:19,250 --> 01:09:23,470
to all of you. Yesterday, hopefully, you all got it and had a minute to read it. I won't

963
01:09:23,470 --> 01:09:29,070
go through the entire letter, but as you know, we own and operate the Samoa Processing Facility,

964
01:09:29,150 --> 01:09:36,130
formerly ACRC. Since we bought the facility, we have made changes to the facility to convert

965
01:09:36,130 --> 01:09:41,350
it from a dual stream to a single stream. We've also turned it into a permitted it

966
01:09:41,350 --> 01:09:47,210
as a medium volume transfer station. We had hoped that the RFP that was mentioned,

967
01:09:47,210 --> 01:09:51,510
then the RP process would go forward and we would have an opportunity to submit a proposal

968
01:09:51,510 --> 01:09:56,570
to process all the recyclables in Humboldt County with the exception of some that are

969
01:09:56,570 --> 01:10:01,150
currently contractually obligated otherwise. Unfortunately, that process unraveled.

970
01:10:03,950 --> 01:10:10,210
We would like to see the City of Arcadia table this MOU at this time and explore the

971
01:10:10,210 --> 01:10:15,790
opportunity to have their recyclables delivered and processed at the Samoa Transfers Station

972
01:10:15,790 --> 01:10:21,530
rather than trucking them 140 miles away to another county, which takes along with those

973
01:10:21,530 --> 01:10:27,150
recyclables in that truck, local jobs, tax dollars, additional revenue to the city.

974
01:10:27,610 --> 01:10:30,130
As staff said, you currently receive $8 a ton.

975
01:10:30,430 --> 01:10:35,350
We've offered $10 a ton, and we'll also match the $55 a ton for cardboard.

976
01:10:35,930 --> 01:10:38,270
And we will not deduct an admin fee.

977
01:10:38,450 --> 01:10:39,350
You don't receive $8.

978
01:10:39,730 --> 01:10:41,050
You receive $7.20.

979
01:10:41,050 --> 01:10:48,870
sense. We understand that the city would probably like to participate in future RFPs and we have

980
01:10:48,870 --> 01:10:54,410
no issue with entering into an agreement that expires at the end of the two-year extension

981
01:10:54,410 --> 01:10:58,250
that was just granted, which then two-year extension starts in November. It doesn't

982
01:10:58,250 --> 01:10:58,830
start now.

983
01:11:01,980 --> 01:11:11,060
Local jobs, tax dollars, parts, services sourced locally. You're supporting

984
01:11:11,060 --> 01:11:16,260
supporting all of the community. You're supporting your businesses in town. We use several businesses

985
01:11:16,260 --> 01:11:22,320
in this town. And with increased tonnage at the facility, all of those will increase.

986
01:11:22,540 --> 01:11:27,940
We currently employ four employees full-time out there. One-cent facility is fully operational,

987
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:32,340
which we fully expect it will be. We'll have a staff of approximately 24 people.

988
01:11:34,340 --> 01:11:38,840
Unfortunately, processing facility is very expensive to operate and maintain. So there's

989
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:44,040
a lot of additional services and parts that are sourced locally, not in Mendocino County

990
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:45,680
to support that facility.

991
01:11:46,220 --> 01:11:52,620
So once again, we ask that you please table this, explore the option of entering into an

992
01:11:52,620 --> 01:11:59,160
agreement with our company, and keep that material local, generate more jobs, tax dollars,

993
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:01,600
and support the local community.

994
01:12:02,380 --> 01:12:03,180
Thank you very much.

995
01:12:03,380 --> 01:12:03,720
Thanks, Rick.

996
01:12:11,090 --> 01:12:11,250
Hi.

997
01:12:11,450 --> 01:12:12,070
Mayor, Councilman Peoples.

998
01:12:12,450 --> 01:12:14,170
Chuck Scharder with the River Resource Recovery.

999
01:12:14,170 --> 01:12:20,650
One of the components in the RFP was outreach, and one of the things that Il River does do

1000
01:12:20,650 --> 01:12:21,210
is outreach.

1001
01:12:21,390 --> 01:12:22,190
We do it for businesses.

1002
01:12:22,530 --> 01:12:32,150
We do it for community business or any community committees, anything like that, schools.

1003
01:12:33,890 --> 01:12:44,150
I've done outreach for Ferndale Village Club, Redwood Prep Elementary School, Royal

1004
01:12:44,150 --> 01:12:48,030
the Conservation Crew Corp, each new member crews that come through each year.

1005
01:12:48,370 --> 01:12:53,810
I do a series, so each crew member knows what not only at their facility, which is recyclable,

1006
01:12:54,190 --> 01:12:58,090
but when they go out in the field, they also know how to separate the garbage from the

1007
01:12:58,090 --> 01:12:58,650
recyclable.

1008
01:13:00,050 --> 01:13:06,850
Fortson Middle School, St. Joseph's Hospital, Zane Middle School, I'm not sure where

1009
01:13:06,850 --> 01:13:07,290
it was burning.

1010
01:13:07,550 --> 01:13:11,830
Letty was here or not, but we've been working with them to get to zero waste.

1011
01:13:12,630 --> 01:13:14,370
He calls me up occasionally and says,

1012
01:13:14,670 --> 01:13:16,450
we have this item, what can we do with it?

1013
01:13:16,530 --> 01:13:17,530
How do we recycle it?

1014
01:13:18,270 --> 01:13:19,890
One of the latest things they called up

1015
01:13:19,890 --> 01:13:23,910
and says we have our plastic utensils.

1016
01:13:24,230 --> 01:13:25,810
And I says, you bet we can recycle those.

1017
01:13:26,350 --> 01:13:28,310
And so we came down, we did a tour,

1018
01:13:28,430 --> 01:13:31,250
and he brought me 120 pounds of plastic forks and spoons,

1019
01:13:31,890 --> 01:13:33,370
and the kids were really excited.

1020
01:13:33,770 --> 01:13:37,910
So Zane Middle School is one of the great success stories there.

1021
01:13:39,310 --> 01:13:40,290
Humboldt County Fair,

1022
01:13:40,290 --> 01:13:44,970
Two years ago they asked me to come on over there and start working with their recycling

1023
01:13:44,970 --> 01:13:50,610
at the fair because their garbage rates were so high and we were discounting it, but we

1024
01:13:50,610 --> 01:13:52,790
felt they really needed to get in a recycling program.

1025
01:13:54,030 --> 01:13:58,710
Working with the fair people, one of the people we called in also to help up was John

1026
01:13:58,710 --> 01:13:59,970
Shelter, who's here tonight.

1027
01:14:01,250 --> 01:14:04,550
Our first year we made 25 percent diversion.

1028
01:14:05,330 --> 01:14:07,050
Last year we made 40 percent diversion.

1029
01:14:08,150 --> 01:14:18,710
John was one of the people that, when his crew were on the floor of that, and I got to give him mostly credit for it, because his crew, when they do their presentation, they're fantastic.

1030
01:14:19,390 --> 01:14:31,190
They really helped out. They were going through. He helped me set up where the recycling center should be, what kind of materials were being diverted, which was being thrown away.

1031
01:14:32,170 --> 01:14:34,350
They were working with the benders at the fair.

1032
01:14:35,050 --> 01:14:41,290
I'm working also with the Fair Committee to make sure that the benders bikes more material that is recyclable.

1033
01:14:42,510 --> 01:14:46,710
So we do do outreach and it's one of the big things that we're proud of at Il River Resource Recovery.

1034
01:14:47,330 --> 01:14:50,610
And I just want to let you know that that's one thing that is available.

1035
01:14:51,050 --> 01:14:59,710
There's anybody out there, whatever if you're a school or if you have a committee that you want to clean up an area, give us a call.

1036
01:14:59,710 --> 01:14:59,910
with

1037
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,400
We'll be happy to work with them. Thank you.

1038
01:15:02,620 --> 01:15:03,240
Thank you.

1039
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:13,920
Good evening. John Shelter again. I'm here to speak in support of the Ill River Disposal.

1040
01:15:14,380 --> 01:15:18,140
We worked with them at Humboldt County Fair and two years ago he was right. He brought

1041
01:15:18,140 --> 01:15:24,000
us in also. We worked hand in hand with them, very understanding people and want to do

1042
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:29,780
the best for the community. They asked, they did exactly what I asked them to do.

1043
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:34,160
We

1044
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:40,020
was escaping me, but that's a great mark. As we keep moving forward, these are the specialists

1045
01:15:40,020 --> 01:15:45,820
that we want in place. Besides that, it does keep our jobs local. And if you understand

1046
01:15:45,820 --> 01:15:51,300
what I do for a living, I get the homeless back to work. This is one of the places that

1047
01:15:51,300 --> 01:15:57,560
they thrive at. This is a good opportunity to kind of change the way we do things and

1048
01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:00,300
bring back the money here local. Thank you guys very much.

1049
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:04,580
Thanks, John. Anyone else? Maggie?

1050
01:16:07,750 --> 01:16:11,030
I'm Maggie Gaynor, and I'm a board member of Zero Waste Humboldt.

1051
01:16:11,870 --> 01:16:13,810
This is the only way I can be brief.

1052
01:16:15,190 --> 01:16:19,330
Given the high public interest in both the loss of the ACRC contract

1053
01:16:19,330 --> 01:16:23,970
and Humboldt Waste Management Authority's proposed regional recycling RFP,

1054
01:16:24,550 --> 01:16:29,290
which placed an emphasis on finding a local processor at a competitive price,

1055
01:16:29,290 --> 01:16:34,310
I'd like to request that this item be removed from the consent agenda and rescheduled as

1056
01:16:34,310 --> 01:16:36,330
a business item at a future meeting.

1057
01:16:36,830 --> 01:16:43,250
This will allow for a presentation from ill-rivered disposal and a full public discussion by council

1058
01:16:43,250 --> 01:16:47,710
members and the public could be in a better position to provide informed comment.

1059
01:16:48,610 --> 01:16:53,090
With solid waste of will, it's, when solid waste of will, it's asked at Humboldt

1060
01:16:53,090 --> 01:16:58,470
Voice Management Authorities meeting last week for a subsidy.

1061
01:16:59,050 --> 01:17:06,310
It really triggered for us that the next logical step is to return to looking for local opportunities

1062
01:17:06,310 --> 01:17:12,950
for local businesses to bring back those jobs and also something we haven't considered

1063
01:17:12,950 --> 01:17:19,270
very much until really of late the carbon footprint of our recycling services.

1064
01:17:20,830 --> 01:17:27,910
Bigger picture for us, our emphasis is not on managing waste, it is on preventing it.

1065
01:17:28,890 --> 01:17:34,490
It's really nice to have local businesses that you can connect with quick and fast and

1066
01:17:34,490 --> 01:17:36,970
easy and eyeball to eyeball when you're working on prevention.

1067
01:17:37,630 --> 01:17:43,530
And then the goal, the long-term goal for recycling should be to incorporate those

1068
01:17:43,530 --> 01:17:50,930
locally collected process materials into our own local regional economy with our own local manufacturers.

1069
01:17:52,010 --> 01:17:54,690
So that would make it easier also.

1070
01:17:55,050 --> 01:17:56,890
So I hope that you'll pull it from the agenda.

1071
01:17:58,090 --> 01:17:59,030
Thanks, Megan.

1072
01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:03,180
Maureen.

1073
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:06,360
Hi, Maureen Hart. I live in Arcada.

1074
01:18:07,780 --> 01:18:11,440
Five years ago, some of us were all here,

1075
01:18:11,440 --> 01:18:21,040
year, and we lost 50 jobs, 50 jobs. And we were given the, we accepted that, okay, at

1076
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:30,400
a certain point in time, we have five years to bring it back. Now, I see over and over

1077
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:36,080
again in cities, they spend millions of dollars trying to create jobs in their economic

1078
01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:43,000
development departments. And then I saw in this situation where another department destroyed

1079
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:51,920
50 jobs. Now, it costs a lot of money to create jobs locally, and we all know that. So when

1080
01:18:51,920 --> 01:19:00,140
I see that there was some money coming back in, 149,000, and we spend millions of dollars

1081
01:19:00,140 --> 01:19:07,900
creating jobs that doesn't sound like a very good deal and I just want us to look

1082
01:19:07,900 --> 01:19:15,840
at returning a few of them have been four jobs over there whatever but we need

1083
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:21,840
to return those jobs as soon as possible so I support the point and the full

1084
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:27,660
discussion of that contract. Thank you. Thanks Marie.

1085
01:19:31,070 --> 01:19:32,290
Anyone else from the

1086
01:19:32,290 --> 01:19:43,450
public like to speak on this item. Okay. There is. Come on up. Thank you. Tell us your name.

1087
01:19:44,310 --> 01:19:49,810
Good evening. My name is Juliette Bond. I live in Arcata and I've been involved in

1088
01:19:49,810 --> 01:19:58,430
waste and recycling, mostly diversion here for the last, gosh, nine years or so. So

1089
01:19:58,430 --> 01:20:04,250
So, I've definitely, you know, when I first moved here, I got my little bins from Arcada

1090
01:20:04,250 --> 01:20:06,110
Garbage Company and I separated everything out.

1091
01:20:07,490 --> 01:20:13,950
And then I remember when we got curbside and I remember when the economic downturn

1092
01:20:13,950 --> 01:20:19,670
hit and ACRC and, you know, was ceased to be in operation.

1093
01:20:20,150 --> 01:20:21,670
I was working at H-1 Way at the time.

1094
01:20:22,150 --> 01:20:27,170
I've seen all of this happening throughout time, including the strategic plan and

1095
01:20:27,170 --> 01:20:29,190
And including the last five years,

1096
01:20:31,490 --> 01:20:32,890
you know, has gone by so quickly.

1097
01:20:33,050 --> 01:20:37,810
And here we are again, looking at what are we going to do with the same truthfully, relatively

1098
01:20:37,810 --> 01:20:41,610
small bundle of recyclables that Arcada is responsible for.

1099
01:20:43,630 --> 01:20:47,710
And when we sit here and say that we want the local jobs and we want this local firm,

1100
01:20:48,790 --> 01:20:50,710
I just want to say there's one right over there.

1101
01:20:51,330 --> 01:20:52,570
We have it today, tomorrow.

1102
01:20:52,570 --> 01:20:58,890
You could decide tomorrow to enter into a contract if you wanted to for just the two years that gives you more money

1103
01:20:59,650 --> 01:21:04,110
Does give the local firm a chance to prove its capabilities and serving the city of Arcada?

1104
01:21:04,610 --> 01:21:10,610
Arcada does not have to keep the tons bundled together. We are very small and rural up here. We are tonnage

1105
01:21:10,610 --> 01:21:12,590
it is important, but

1106
01:21:13,770 --> 01:21:15,150
And as much as it is important

1107
01:21:15,150 --> 01:21:18,290
It's you know how they say vote with your dollars sort of vote with your recyclables

1108
01:21:18,290 --> 01:21:23,290
If you want to see a local facility, but with your recyclables, send them to the local facility,

1109
01:21:23,510 --> 01:21:25,430
see if they serve you well over the next two years.

1110
01:21:25,770 --> 01:21:31,170
If you don't want to have hassles with contract management, make that a term of the agreement.

1111
01:21:33,150 --> 01:21:35,110
You know, these things are resolvable.

1112
01:21:35,390 --> 01:21:39,710
So I would agree with Zero Waste Humboldt and others in the room that this item should be pulled.

1113
01:21:41,070 --> 01:21:45,730
The, everyone involved should have a chance to look at the full range of, you know,

1114
01:21:45,730 --> 01:21:49,330
to compare the offers on the table and make a really informed decision that's going to

1115
01:21:49,330 --> 01:21:49,930
benefit our community.

1116
01:21:50,390 --> 01:21:51,750
So thank you for your time.

1117
01:21:52,730 --> 01:21:53,490
Thanks Juliet.

1118
01:21:55,130 --> 01:21:56,530
Okay, again anybody else?

1119
01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:06,260
So I'd like to turn it back over to Council and hear your opinion after the discussion.

1120
01:22:06,900 --> 01:22:12,440
Well, I think, you know, overwhelmingly, you know, I think that's the right course

1121
01:22:12,440 --> 01:22:16,440
of action right now is to table this item, especially in light of we've had a lot

1122
01:22:16,440 --> 01:22:21,300
a lot of change in circumstances here locally very recently and in addition we also have

1123
01:22:21,300 --> 01:22:28,080
a study session coming up with zero waste humbled just next week so I think this item

1124
01:22:28,080 --> 01:22:33,640
would benefit from a more rigorous discussion so I would make a motion to table this item.

1125
01:22:34,420 --> 01:22:39,260
I'll second that motion because I agree and I think we do want to look at jobs. It

1126
01:22:39,260 --> 01:22:44,180
is a deeper issue than just recyclables. I'd almost like to hear from Council Member

1127
01:22:44,180 --> 01:22:49,360
prayer if this was discussed at HWMA in any way or if you want to put you on the spot

1128
01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:49,820
if it's not.

1129
01:22:49,900 --> 01:22:56,340
No, the thing that I actually wanted to bring up when we were at HWMA talking about the

1130
01:22:56,340 --> 01:23:02,860
RFP process and kind of part of what also played into not having all the member agencies

1131
01:23:02,860 --> 01:23:07,420
wanting to sign on is because some of the member agencies, my understanding is actually

1132
01:23:07,420 --> 01:23:15,560
have contracts with Eel River and that would extend, you know, basically there was an overlap.

1133
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:21,920
And so there are currently other member agencies that are sending their recyclables to Eel

1134
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:22,140
River.

1135
01:23:22,380 --> 01:23:26,140
So I'm supportive of tapering this item.

1136
01:23:26,260 --> 01:23:29,920
I don't think it's at this point urgent.

1137
01:23:30,340 --> 01:23:32,940
I don't think it's drastically going to change anything.

1138
01:23:33,120 --> 01:23:36,060
I think it's an important conversation for us to have.

1139
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:40,060
So I'll just say that.

1140
01:23:40,940 --> 01:23:45,700
Well, I was the HWMA representative at the time that all this was happening as far as the contract.

1141
01:23:45,900 --> 01:23:51,140
And there was very strong community sentiment here in Arcada and from the majority of the council

1142
01:23:51,140 --> 01:23:54,060
that we did not want to go with woe.

1143
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:55,160
And so we wanted to keep it local.

1144
01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:58,260
And I don't see that as changing.

1145
01:23:58,460 --> 01:24:00,640
We never signed a contract to be part of this.

1146
01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:06,960
And now that this whole RFP process is being extended for two years,

1147
01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:10,260
I see no reason why we should be signing this and agreeing to this.

1148
01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:13,700
And so I agree with the other council members that, I mean,

1149
01:24:13,740 --> 01:24:19,520
I would have voted against this, but I think tabling it is a very reasonable thing to do.

1150
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:28,160
As part of the tabling this, then we'll have an agenda item that will come back

1151
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:33,560
and give us kind of two sides of this or not?

1152
01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:34,600
Yeah.

1153
01:24:34,780 --> 01:24:37,080
If you table it, you can table it to a time specified,

1154
01:24:37,080 --> 01:24:40,280
or you could table it to sort of a general period of time,

1155
01:24:40,840 --> 01:24:42,360
something that obviously we're going to wait.

1156
01:24:42,540 --> 01:24:44,720
I mean, next week we have the zero waste,

1157
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:46,920
the study session was zero waste humbled,

1158
01:24:47,480 --> 01:24:50,260
but it seems like you might decide at that meeting

1159
01:24:50,260 --> 01:24:52,940
sort of some course of action that you want to take out

1160
01:24:52,940 --> 01:24:55,640
and we could determine an agenda that would fit

1161
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:56,720
within that timeframe.

1162
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:05,300
It also direct staff if you want them to be looking at whatever your entire range of options is for recycling.

1163
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:09,200
I mean, there are alternatives of just signing on to this contract.

1164
01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:15,820
There would be the alternative of the City of Arcada doing its own RFP City of Arcada going back to HWMA and saying, you know,

1165
01:25:15,840 --> 01:25:17,280
the council is not interested in waiting.

1166
01:25:17,440 --> 01:25:18,380
We're going to move forward.

1167
01:25:18,480 --> 01:25:20,440
Are any of you interested as other member agencies?

1168
01:25:20,720 --> 01:25:23,400
I mean, they could lay out other options if that was of interest to the council.

1169
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:29,100
So we could do that within a month, you think?

1170
01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:32,040
Have it back on the agenda?

1171
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:33,540
Have it back on the agenda.

1172
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:35,060
Second meeting in February?

1173
01:25:36,160 --> 01:25:38,380
Is it going to be crowded or is it October?

1174
01:25:38,580 --> 01:25:39,340
It's going to be crowded.

1175
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:40,360
I mean, the March.

1176
01:25:41,060 --> 01:25:41,940
Wherever that is.

1177
01:25:42,060 --> 01:25:42,520
It's going to be crowded.

1178
01:25:42,700 --> 01:25:44,480
But you never know how things roll.

1179
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:45,280
Okay.

1180
01:25:45,980 --> 01:25:47,920
It seems like it has a little bit of a time pressure

1181
01:25:47,920 --> 01:25:50,020
because it's kind of a two years to the end of the MOU.

1182
01:25:50,020 --> 01:25:51,380
I think sooner we make it.

1183
01:25:52,560 --> 01:25:57,420
We don't need too much more data, and I think we can make a decision in a month.

1184
01:25:57,820 --> 01:25:58,220
Thank you.

1185
01:25:58,540 --> 01:26:04,500
So I guess we need a motion on that.

1186
01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:06,240
We're already going to motion that again.

1187
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:07,100
Motion second.

1188
01:26:07,380 --> 01:26:11,520
So all those in favor of tabling this and bringing it back at another time.

1189
01:26:12,480 --> 01:26:12,600
Aye.

1190
01:26:12,820 --> 01:26:12,940
Aye.

1191
01:26:19,150 --> 01:26:20,530
We could have actually done it tonight.

1192
01:26:21,770 --> 01:26:23,110
If we could schedule this.

1193
01:26:23,110 --> 01:26:27,730
Because, you know, in the thing I also was thinking too is, you know, because HWMA had

1194
01:26:28,350 --> 01:26:34,590
been, you know, doing this without officially being on the MOU, I mean, I think it is good

1195
01:26:34,590 --> 01:26:39,130
to also give them a heads up, you know, hey, you know, we're wanting to have this conversation.

1196
01:26:39,250 --> 01:26:43,370
So I think it is good that we were able to table it so it wasn't just a total blind

1197
01:26:43,370 --> 01:26:43,630
side.

1198
01:26:43,770 --> 01:26:47,670
Yeah, and I think it's necessary to kind of clear the air, make a decision and then

1199
01:26:47,670 --> 01:26:52,650
move on and it feels like we have a lot of options or at least a couple.

1200
01:26:53,670 --> 01:26:55,010
So thanks.

1201
01:26:56,110 --> 01:27:01,230
Our next item is old business and we don't have any of that tonight.

1202
01:27:01,890 --> 01:27:09,910
We have new business that's item A, adopt a resolution number 15633 authorizing a grant

1203
01:27:09,910 --> 01:27:16,270
application for the 2015 housing related parks program grant to fund improvements

1204
01:27:16,270 --> 01:27:21,630
of up to $300,000 to improve up to four Arcada parks.

1205
01:27:22,210 --> 01:27:24,610
The State Housing and Community Development Department,

1206
01:27:25,010 --> 01:27:29,570
HCD 2015 Housing-Related Parks Program awards

1207
01:27:30,650 --> 01:27:34,050
prorated grants based on construction of low-income housing

1208
01:27:34,050 --> 01:27:36,130
that satisfies the housing element goals.

1209
01:27:36,690 --> 01:27:40,010
Eligibility is based on having a compliant housing element,

1210
01:27:40,670 --> 01:27:42,610
reporting annually on the housing element,

1211
01:27:43,090 --> 01:27:45,510
and demonstrating that building permits were issued

1212
01:27:45,510 --> 01:27:48,890
to units restricted to occupancy by low-income residents.

1213
01:27:49,550 --> 01:27:59,850
City staff is preparing an application by the February 4th, 2016 date, oh, it says 2106.

1214
01:28:00,430 --> 01:28:03,750
It means 2016, okay, due date.

1215
01:28:06,070 --> 01:28:12,590
The Housing Development or Housing Community Development Department also requires a governing

1216
01:28:12,590 --> 01:28:15,370
body resolution authorizing the submission.

1217
01:28:16,810 --> 01:28:24,810
And so we have a recommendation that the City Council 1 adopt Resolution 1563 and direct

1218
01:28:24,810 --> 01:28:28,670
staff to submit all necessary documentation to state to finalize the application.

1219
01:28:29,410 --> 01:28:31,610
So do we have a staff report on this?

1220
01:28:32,630 --> 01:28:33,810
Good evening, Council.

1221
01:28:34,470 --> 01:28:35,050
Can you hear me?

1222
01:28:37,050 --> 01:28:40,810
I'm really excited to be able to provide a staff report on this.

1223
01:28:40,810 --> 01:28:44,490
So we've been working, the Environmental Services and the Community Development Department have

1224
01:28:44,490 --> 01:28:45,770
been working together on this.

1225
01:28:46,470 --> 01:28:52,270
And this is funding that's available because of the city's really great track record in

1226
01:28:52,270 --> 01:28:54,630
terms of trying to provide affordable housing.

1227
01:28:56,450 --> 01:29:00,090
And what we're applying for is up to $300,000.

1228
01:29:00,570 --> 01:29:06,870
So what we've determined is we think we're eligible for a little over $200,000.

1229
01:29:06,870 --> 01:29:13,610
So last year, there was more money available, and so when we were speaking with the grant

1230
01:29:13,610 --> 01:29:17,810
funders, they said you should apply for and make your resolution be for more in case there's

1231
01:29:17,810 --> 01:29:18,890
additional funding available.

1232
01:29:19,830 --> 01:29:26,690
So based on kind of the different metrics that the state uses, we get additional funds

1233
01:29:26,690 --> 01:29:32,910
if we make sure that we're allocating all of the money to certain parks that are

1234
01:29:32,910 --> 01:29:37,590
considered to be in underserved neighborhoods. And the state has a metric for that, which

1235
01:29:37,590 --> 01:29:42,330
is an area and a community where the amount of reusable park space for every thousand

1236
01:29:42,330 --> 01:29:46,410
residents living within a half mile radius of that park space is less than three acres.

1237
01:29:47,090 --> 01:29:51,650
So based on the state's metrics, the four parks that we have that are eligible are

1238
01:29:51,650 --> 01:29:58,510
Mountain View, Green View, Cahill and James Creek Meadows. Mountain View Park and Green

1239
01:29:58,510 --> 01:29:59,570
Park are also

1240
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:06,220
In our five-year capital improvement program to be, you know, have an upgrade. And we have

1241
01:30:06,220 --> 01:30:12,880
some photos of those as well to let you know. So what's really exciting, so that's Greenview

1242
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:18,580
Park right there. And what's exciting about Greenview Park is that we have a very active

1243
01:30:18,580 --> 01:30:25,940
neighborhood effort to create the first all-inclusive park in not just Arcada, but really all

1244
01:30:25,940 --> 01:30:26,700
of Humboldt County.

1245
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:29,360
And this community group has met.

1246
01:30:29,500 --> 01:30:31,480
They've met with Parks and Recreation.

1247
01:30:31,980 --> 01:30:35,340
We have kind of a concept plan of what they'd like,

1248
01:30:35,420 --> 01:30:38,340
which includes a playground, a gazebo,

1249
01:30:38,480 --> 01:30:40,120
and then a multi-use sports court

1250
01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:43,380
that would be really for individuals of all abilities.

1251
01:30:44,020 --> 01:30:45,320
They've been working actively,

1252
01:30:45,580 --> 01:30:49,080
and they have support from Cypress Grove Shev

1253
01:30:49,080 --> 01:30:50,020
has given them money.

1254
01:30:50,380 --> 01:30:52,960
Wild Berries has pledged funds as well.

1255
01:30:53,420 --> 01:30:55,480
They've opened up an account with Humboldt

1256
01:30:55,480 --> 01:30:57,720
foundation and they're actively doing fundraising.

1257
01:30:58,500 --> 01:31:01,480
So this grant will really help support those efforts.

1258
01:31:02,040 --> 01:31:05,680
And then what's wonderful as well is that the other park

1259
01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:08,160
in the same neighborhood is eligible as well.

1260
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:11,060
All of the neighborhood is already aware of this one.

1261
01:31:11,160 --> 01:31:14,600
And so the idea now is to look at whatever we have in this

1262
01:31:14,600 --> 01:31:14,980
park.

1263
01:31:15,440 --> 01:31:18,340
The plans for Mountain View would really be ones to

1264
01:31:18,340 --> 01:31:20,580
complement this park as well.

1265
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:24,920
And the Greenview neighborhood group is really interested

1266
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:29,100
and going around and getting the neighborhood back together to talk about Mountain View and

1267
01:31:29,100 --> 01:31:35,700
what the possibility is. So that's really a great opportunity and really wonderful.

1268
01:31:36,260 --> 01:31:40,540
We added the other two parks. So this is Mountain View Park. So you can see there's very little

1269
01:31:40,540 --> 01:31:43,820
there. I'm sorry, the lighting isn't so good, but there is a swing set there.

1270
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:52,800
That's right. There's something. So the opportunity to really look at this park

1271
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:56,440
and really add a lot of different recreational elements that's really exciting.

1272
01:31:56,540 --> 01:32:04,020
I like the logic of making an all-inclusive park that may have a lot of equipment that

1273
01:32:05,500 --> 01:32:12,560
is more specific for all-inclusive and then this park to have stuff that you wouldn't necessarily

1274
01:32:12,560 --> 01:32:15,740
have in the other park. I mean, is that what you're saying?

1275
01:32:16,380 --> 01:32:20,260
Well, I think we will have a neighborhood meeting and really talk about that, but there's a lot

1276
01:32:20,260 --> 01:32:27,060
of opportunities. There's a lot of different options in terms of play equipment for, you

1277
01:32:27,060 --> 01:32:31,320
know, TOTS as well as older children. And then really looking at how do we provide recreational

1278
01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:37,240
opportunities for our teens as well as adults. So really looking at all of those different

1279
01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:44,740
users. Another park that is eligible for funding is Cahill Park. So this is what

1280
01:32:44,740 --> 01:32:48,640
this playground looks like. And there's also green space around there as well.

1281
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:55,520
And what we put into the grant application is looking at how we could add to the existing

1282
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:56,440
elements that are here.

1283
01:32:56,600 --> 01:33:02,160
So looking at opportunities for older, you know, for adults and our older children to

1284
01:33:02,160 --> 01:33:04,360
have some opportunities in these two parks.

1285
01:33:04,660 --> 01:33:07,300
If funds allow, I mean, we really don't know.

1286
01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:10,820
If we get our 200,000, we'll be really thrilled.

1287
01:33:10,920 --> 01:33:15,520
If we get 300,000, there might be some opportunity for some funding at these other two parks

1288
01:33:15,520 --> 01:33:15,920
as well.

1289
01:33:15,920 --> 01:33:17,700
And the other one is Chains Creek Meadows.

1290
01:33:18,700 --> 01:33:19,420
Okay.

1291
01:33:20,180 --> 01:33:31,260
And the metric that you talked about is population, immediate vicinity population versus acre of park.

1292
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:32,820
Is that what you're talking about?

1293
01:33:33,040 --> 01:33:33,380
Yes.

1294
01:33:33,820 --> 01:33:43,700
So their metric again is usable park space for every thousand residents living within a half mile radius of that park is less than three acres.

1295
01:33:44,960 --> 01:33:47,840
Well, there's an income component too, isn't there?

1296
01:33:49,000 --> 01:33:49,500
No.

1297
01:33:49,900 --> 01:33:52,560
Actually, it's defined as a park-deficient community.

1298
01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:56,180
So what this is is this is really an incentive.

1299
01:33:56,480 --> 01:34:01,520
The state is providing this as an incentive to communities to provide affordable housing.

1300
01:34:01,920 --> 01:34:05,040
So it's one way to really try to get communities to work towards that.

1301
01:34:05,460 --> 01:34:10,300
And so this is kind of a bonus that they give to those communities that actually meet those requirements.

1302
01:34:10,300 --> 01:34:18,280
But then there's an additional bonus that goes towards taking all the funds they are for you

1303
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:25,100
and putting it towards park-deficient communities, which means it gives us an extra $40,000 roughly

1304
01:34:25,100 --> 01:34:30,040
by saying, okay, we're going to direct all of our funds to the parks that they've identified

1305
01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:34,660
as being the ones that are in neighborhoods that are considered park-deficient.

1306
01:34:35,440 --> 01:34:38,020
Great. Thanks, Julie. Anything else you have?

1307
01:34:38,680 --> 01:34:39,300
Oh, great.

1308
01:34:41,020 --> 01:34:42,060
I have a question.

1309
01:34:42,660 --> 01:34:42,940
Go ahead.

1310
01:34:44,300 --> 01:34:47,280
James Creek Metals Park, didn't we just renovate that?

1311
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:49,660
I thought that was, like, really newly renovated.

1312
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:51,180
It's, yeah.

1313
01:34:51,680 --> 01:34:55,180
It has a lot of wonderful amenities already, yes.

1314
01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:59,200
What we did was we put every park in that the state designated,

1315
01:34:59,380 --> 01:35:01,900
because we wanted to keep our options as open as we could.

1316
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:04,860
I guess I think I can bring this up,

1317
01:35:04,920 --> 01:35:06,380
because I think I'm 500 feet away from it.

1318
01:35:06,380 --> 01:35:11,500
But I think about Sunnybrae Park and, you know, Councilmember Pereira and I have worked

1319
01:35:11,500 --> 01:35:12,020
together a little.

1320
01:35:12,180 --> 01:35:14,500
We've had a few getting rid of invasives.

1321
01:35:14,980 --> 01:35:18,540
But it's, you know, I mean, was, did that not fit the criteria?

1322
01:35:19,180 --> 01:35:20,420
It did not fit the criteria.

1323
01:35:20,880 --> 01:35:21,820
Because it's big.

1324
01:35:22,520 --> 01:35:24,300
But there's no real recreation.

1325
01:35:26,260 --> 01:35:30,520
Well, I'm happy to meet with you on other options that we could pursue to add.

1326
01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:33,560
I think that actually, because there are people who have been wondering, like, how come

1327
01:35:33,560 --> 01:35:35,520
and we can't seem to drum up something around that park.

1328
01:35:35,700 --> 01:35:38,260
And so it would be nice, I'll meet with you.

1329
01:35:38,460 --> 01:35:38,820
Absolutely.

1330
01:35:39,380 --> 01:35:39,880
Thanks, Susan.

1331
01:35:40,480 --> 01:35:42,460
Anybody else that had a comment on this?

1332
01:35:43,100 --> 01:35:45,620
I think the application looks good

1333
01:35:45,620 --> 01:35:47,740
and you put us in the most competitive light.

1334
01:35:48,320 --> 01:35:50,200
You know, there's other parks around town too

1335
01:35:50,200 --> 01:35:51,940
that I kind of wanted to, you know,

1336
01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:54,520
Innis is one that kind of, you know,

1337
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:56,100
it seems like it would be right on the edge,

1338
01:35:56,200 --> 01:35:58,000
but I know we have the proposed expansion too,

1339
01:35:58,040 --> 01:35:59,280
so that might have taken out of the running.

1340
01:36:00,500 --> 01:36:05,860
And even though we have done some recent upgrades, both at James Creek and Cahill, I think keeping

1341
01:36:05,860 --> 01:36:11,320
them to make it the application competitive is a good idea, so I support it.

1342
01:36:12,020 --> 01:36:17,580
So did the state actually – pardon me – did the state actually give you the list?

1343
01:36:17,840 --> 01:36:23,500
Yes, we had to go to a state website and then they showed you which ones were eligible.

1344
01:36:23,880 --> 01:36:24,440
Oh, okay.

1345
01:36:25,240 --> 01:36:25,560
Interesting.

1346
01:36:25,980 --> 01:36:26,700
I'd like to make a motion.

1347
01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:28,000
Right.

1348
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:36,360
I move that we adopt Resolution Number 156-33, authorizing a grant application for the 2015

1349
01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:42,660
Housing-Related Parks Program grant to fund improvements of up to $300,000 to improve up

1350
01:36:42,660 --> 01:36:43,780
to four arcaded parks.

1351
01:36:44,500 --> 01:36:44,860
Second.

1352
01:36:47,300 --> 01:36:47,620
Okay.

1353
01:36:47,740 --> 01:36:48,940
We have a motion in the second.

1354
01:36:49,520 --> 01:36:57,240
Do you need the other part of the recommendation in terms of directing staff to submit all

1355
01:36:57,240 --> 01:37:00,280
necessary documentation to the state to finalize the application.

1356
01:37:00,700 --> 01:37:01,040
Okay.

1357
01:37:01,380 --> 01:37:01,680
Here you go.

1358
01:37:02,300 --> 01:37:08,280
And if there's any member of the public that would like to talk on this item, the park's

1359
01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:09,140
related grant.

1360
01:37:13,540 --> 01:37:14,000
Okay.

1361
01:37:19,170 --> 01:37:19,630
Okay.

1362
01:37:26,130 --> 01:37:29,270
If you're going to, they're telling me that you have to be up here because the people,

1363
01:37:29,430 --> 01:37:30,630
they don't, they don't hear you.

1364
01:37:30,810 --> 01:37:31,050
Yeah.

1365
01:37:31,050 --> 01:37:31,350
Yeah.

1366
01:37:31,570 --> 01:37:32,230
Yeah, no.

1367
01:37:32,230 --> 01:37:32,790
Thanks, Megan.

1368
01:37:33,030 --> 01:37:35,410
It's probably an item from the Parks and Rec Committee.

1369
01:37:35,690 --> 01:37:35,850
Thanks.

1370
01:37:36,930 --> 01:37:39,810
So we have a motion, and do we have a second?

1371
01:37:41,150 --> 01:37:42,410
So a motion, a second.

1372
01:37:42,630 --> 01:37:43,310
All those in favor?

1373
01:37:43,870 --> 01:37:44,230
Aye.

1374
01:37:45,450 --> 01:37:46,350
Thank you for this.

1375
01:37:46,450 --> 01:37:47,850
This looks like a good project.

1376
01:37:48,270 --> 01:37:48,530
Great.

1377
01:37:48,810 --> 01:37:49,570
We're very excited.

1378
01:37:52,090 --> 01:37:52,550
Okay.

1379
01:37:52,970 --> 01:37:55,910
At this point, we have oral and written communications.

1380
01:37:55,910 --> 01:38:03,290
So anybody that wants to talk about something not on the agenda at this point, it's another

1381
01:38:03,290 --> 01:38:04,690
opportunity to do that.

1382
01:38:07,670 --> 01:38:10,310
So you can come on up.

1383
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:12,690
Seeing no one.

1384
01:38:13,010 --> 01:38:14,010
Okay, we're done with that.

1385
01:38:14,750 --> 01:38:21,860
Council and staff reports, would you, would someone like to start?

1386
01:38:22,500 --> 01:38:22,740
Sure.

1387
01:38:22,960 --> 01:38:23,260
I'll start.

1388
01:38:23,260 --> 01:38:30,540
report. Just a few things to report. Well, obviously, I think all of us attended Bull

1389
01:38:30,540 --> 01:38:40,620
Beans, and it was a great event, as always, and also attended a seismic safety commission

1390
01:38:40,620 --> 01:38:47,860
meeting this past week and sort of been decked on with that since Senator Cooley is also

1391
01:38:47,860 --> 01:38:53,060
on the commission with me. I had lunch with him and discussed our experience with

1392
01:38:53,060 --> 01:39:00,920
to MMIC and I'm glad to see that we, on our consent calendar, did the support letter for

1393
01:39:00,920 --> 01:39:01,780
Assembly Bill 21.

1394
01:39:01,920 --> 01:39:06,840
So I had the chance to explain to him some of the challenges that we had faced in Fracata

1395
01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:13,140
with regard to the MMIC area and why we were supportive of this, you know, all the cleanup

1396
01:39:13,140 --> 01:39:13,900
legislation.

1397
01:39:15,040 --> 01:39:20,560
And then, let's see, we had a couple of things moving forward.

1398
01:39:20,560 --> 01:39:25,020
was mentioned earlier the Greenview Park project and went through Parks and Rec and then also

1399
01:39:25,020 --> 01:39:30,200
the Futsal project is moving forward through Parks and Rec also, so that was great to hear

1400
01:39:30,200 --> 01:39:38,500
and that looks very promising. And then Mayor Patino and I attended the fundraiser for

1401
01:39:38,500 --> 01:39:47,060
Greenview Park at the D Street Center. I showed Selma the movie Selma the night before

1402
01:39:47,060 --> 01:39:49,040
for Martin Luther King Day, so it was great.

1403
01:39:49,340 --> 01:39:50,140
That's all I have to report.

1404
01:39:50,780 --> 01:39:51,380
Sophia?

1405
01:39:52,380 --> 01:39:53,700
Just a couple things.

1406
01:39:54,400 --> 01:39:57,560
On Monday, we had the Arcada House Partnership Board meeting

1407
01:39:57,560 --> 01:40:00,980
where the new executive director, she was present,

1408
01:40:01,100 --> 01:40:02,800
her name is Darlene Spore,

1409
01:40:03,540 --> 01:40:07,280
and she recently moved to the area,

1410
01:40:07,580 --> 01:40:11,000
and she actually has over 20 years of experience

1411
01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:13,000
in nonprofit management,

1412
01:40:13,000 --> 01:40:15,740
has worked in affordable housing and development,

1413
01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:19,580
And most recently, she was a college administrator.

1414
01:40:20,720 --> 01:40:23,480
So she has interesting diverse background.

1415
01:40:24,460 --> 01:40:28,140
And so, yeah, I'm sure you all get to meet her at some point.

1416
01:40:28,320 --> 01:40:33,200
I think they're working on putting together some sort of event where, you know,

1417
01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:37,080
it's a fundraiser and also an opportunity for the community to meet her.

1418
01:40:37,440 --> 01:40:39,420
So that's going on.

1419
01:40:39,620 --> 01:40:43,640
And then just another thing with Humboldt Waste Management Authority.

1420
01:40:43,640 --> 01:40:45,480
already. We've been talking lots of trash.

1421
01:40:48,380 --> 01:40:51,740
So I just wanted to talk, you know, it was

1422
01:40:51,740 --> 01:40:57,160
kind of alluded to by someone in public comment about solid waste of billets and a request

1423
01:40:57,160 --> 01:41:05,640
that they had made for their solid waste contract with HWMA. And basically, this contract

1424
01:41:05,640 --> 01:41:10,740
is a 10-year contract where a year and a half into it there was an RFP process

1425
01:41:10,740 --> 01:41:15,980
but solid waste of bullets got the contract and basically a year and a half

1426
01:41:15,980 --> 01:41:22,120
in they've requested for whereas the current contract doesn't require HW may

1427
01:41:22,120 --> 01:41:27,820
paying anything they were asking for about a six-month period for us to pay

1428
01:41:27,820 --> 01:41:34,140
nearly $60,000 because they felt like they did not receive the amount of

1429
01:41:34,140 --> 01:41:37,440
profits that they had initially anticipated because they were relying

1430
01:41:37,440 --> 01:41:41,180
heavily on kind of this backhaul concept of we already have trucks going down south

1431
01:41:41,180 --> 01:41:42,560
and so we can just add to it.

1432
01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:47,560
So there was obviously a lot of discussion about that and the concern about the precedent

1433
01:41:47,560 --> 01:41:52,340
that that would set, especially since we had received other bids a year and a half ago.

1434
01:41:53,040 --> 01:42:00,940
So we did not take action on their request to make any changes to the contract.

1435
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:06,140
So I just thought you should know about that because I would have obviously an impact

1436
01:42:06,140 --> 01:42:13,800
on our ratepayers. And then, also, we did vote to extend the solid waste of

1437
01:42:13,800 --> 01:42:19,420
Willett's recycling contract for that additional two years, which obviously

1438
01:42:19,420 --> 01:42:24,320
kind of came up tonight. So those were kind of the two big items at HWMA last

1439
01:42:24,320 --> 01:42:25,840
week. That's all my report.

1440
01:42:29,010 --> 01:42:31,970
Yeah, I don't have too much. I just wanted to let

1441
01:42:31,970 --> 01:42:39,410
the public know that the Redwood Coast Energy Authority, we're moving along on still exploring,

1442
01:42:39,750 --> 01:42:44,050
but moving farther into exploring the community choice aggregation idea.

1443
01:42:44,630 --> 01:42:51,490
And so there is an information period. There's information time for people to come to it

1444
01:42:51,490 --> 01:42:58,010
at the Arcata Community Center next Wednesday night, January 27th, from 5.30 to 7.30.

1445
01:42:58,010 --> 01:43:04,330
People can come there and people from RCEA will be there to help discuss and, you know,

1446
01:43:04,410 --> 01:43:08,750
clarify and help people understand how Community Choice Accordation works.

1447
01:43:09,150 --> 01:43:10,090
So that's a D-Straight?

1448
01:43:10,810 --> 01:43:12,390
No, it's at the Arcata Community Center.

1449
01:43:12,410 --> 01:43:13,050
Arcata Community Center.

1450
01:43:13,150 --> 01:43:18,610
Yeah, 530 to 730, Wednesday, a week from today, January 27th.

1451
01:43:18,990 --> 01:43:20,570
Yeah, that's it.

1452
01:43:20,670 --> 01:43:23,250
In the top case, Community Choice Accordation.

1453
01:43:23,370 --> 01:43:27,370
Yes, it's basically kind of an explanation, question and answer.

1454
01:43:29,010 --> 01:43:34,650
Is there any indication of the proposals coming in?

1455
01:43:35,310 --> 01:43:39,170
You know, we didn't really talk about it because they hadn't come in yet when we had our meeting,

1456
01:43:39,310 --> 01:43:42,930
because we had our meeting a week early because of Martin Luther King.

1457
01:43:46,710 --> 01:43:51,110
Well, speaking of Martin Luther King Day, I attended the event at the community center.

1458
01:43:51,110 --> 01:43:59,510
It's always great, the interfaith gospel choir is always excellent, and the storyteller

1459
01:43:59,510 --> 01:44:08,330
and the children, and just thinking about Dr. King, and all he did, even though he had

1460
01:44:08,330 --> 01:44:14,230
a short life, he certainly did a tremendous amount and is very rightly honored by all of

1461
01:44:14,230 --> 01:44:14,370
us.

1462
01:44:15,850 --> 01:44:21,070
And as I mentioned before, I had the opportunity to hear and speak in Chicago in 1964,

1463
01:44:21,330 --> 01:44:23,490
which is certainly a wonderful opportunity.

1464
01:44:26,010 --> 01:44:36,230
So today was an HDA board meeting, and we approved a new contract with the existing company

1465
01:44:36,230 --> 01:44:41,410
that does ads on the buses, and I think that, you know, we're happy with them,

1466
01:44:41,410 --> 01:44:45,130
We don't want to drop them, and so we approved, essentially,

1467
01:44:45,330 --> 01:44:48,390
continuation of the existing contract, but at a higher price

1468
01:44:48,390 --> 01:44:50,090
because there was competition last time.

1469
01:44:50,150 --> 01:44:52,930
So that's more revenue for HTA.

1470
01:44:54,950 --> 01:44:56,270
Still no labor agreement.

1471
01:44:56,550 --> 01:44:58,730
This is taking a very long time.

1472
01:45:00,500 --> 01:45:08,980
Let's see. And then also that we approved funding requests for an electric bus and a charging

1473
01:45:08,980 --> 01:45:13,400
station, which is going to go before HCOG tomorrow night.

1474
01:45:15,700 --> 01:45:16,580
That's exciting.

1475
01:45:16,880 --> 01:45:19,400
The Labor thing you were talking about is with HTA employees.

1476
01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:21,160
HTA employees, right.

1477
01:45:22,440 --> 01:45:23,040
Thanks.

1478
01:45:24,520 --> 01:45:25,640
Anything else, Michael?

1479
01:45:26,100 --> 01:45:26,400
No, nothing.

1480
01:45:27,860 --> 01:45:29,400
Mark, did you have something additional?

1481
01:45:29,400 --> 01:45:35,300
I just wanted to add, because I just wanted to thank city staff, because with all the

1482
01:45:35,800 --> 01:45:40,420
local flooding that we had here recently, I know city staff did an incredible job to

1483
01:45:40,420 --> 01:45:47,560
alleviate and keep the streets open where they could, and minimize the damage we had.

1484
01:45:47,700 --> 01:45:52,320
And I know they were out there, they were all over working around the clock, so thank

1485
01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:54,180
you, thank them.

1486
01:45:56,310 --> 01:46:00,430
For myself, I went to Bola Beans'

1487
01:46:02,670 --> 01:46:05,510
hazmat.

1488
01:46:06,350 --> 01:46:12,930
We have our quarterly meeting on hazmat, and I continued to go on Friday at 1 o'clock

1489
01:46:12,930 --> 01:46:18,530
to clean the plaza with the Community Pride Project, and hopefully we continue to have

1490
01:46:18,530 --> 01:46:23,030
people come out because a few people can do a great job at an hour.

1491
01:46:24,670 --> 01:46:27,630
And I'd say that's probably it for me.

1492
01:46:30,070 --> 01:46:31,910
Anything else from staff?

1493
01:46:32,610 --> 01:46:34,130
Just a couple of quick things.

1494
01:46:34,690 --> 01:46:37,890
The first one is we've had a commitment to staff training this year

1495
01:46:37,890 --> 01:46:40,670
and one of the big emphasis is on customer service training.

1496
01:46:41,350 --> 01:46:43,770
We are bringing a woman by the name of Jean Steele,

1497
01:46:43,870 --> 01:46:47,510
who does work really nationally and internationally in customer service,

1498
01:46:47,770 --> 01:46:49,090
up to work with our staff.

1499
01:46:49,090 --> 01:46:54,070
We've opened it up to some staff from other local government agencies as well to do really

1500
01:46:54,070 --> 01:46:59,590
an all-day training with all of our frontline staff, which is going to be on February 4th.

1501
01:46:59,870 --> 01:47:01,430
We have, she's a very dynamic speaker.

1502
01:47:02,250 --> 01:47:07,030
We have asked her to spend the night and do a half-day session that we're going to

1503
01:47:07,030 --> 01:47:10,670
take our management to be part of our management team day, but we've also opened it up

1504
01:47:10,670 --> 01:47:14,750
to the public and they're advertising in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce.

1505
01:47:14,970 --> 01:47:18,630
So we do have reserve spaces for any of the council that is interested in attending

1506
01:47:18,630 --> 01:47:20,130
meeting that half-day session as well.

1507
01:47:21,450 --> 01:47:22,030
And we're fifth?

1508
01:47:22,330 --> 01:47:24,710
It's February 5th, so we'll send that out to you.

1509
01:47:24,870 --> 01:47:26,670
It's from 9 to 12 on February 5th

1510
01:47:26,670 --> 01:47:27,890
at D Street Neighborhood Center.

1511
01:47:28,190 --> 01:47:31,350
We do also still have spaces that we're selling for $50 each

1512
01:47:31,350 --> 01:47:33,690
in the community, and they can register through

1513
01:47:33,690 --> 01:47:35,510
the Chamber of Commerce's website for that.

1514
01:47:36,110 --> 01:47:37,790
So I don't know if we'll completely fill,

1515
01:47:37,830 --> 01:47:38,730
but we might get close.

1516
01:47:38,790 --> 01:47:40,210
When you were talking about training,

1517
01:47:40,690 --> 01:47:43,390
this is a model that we're working on a little bit

1518
01:47:43,390 --> 01:47:46,390
to see if we can bring some higher-level capacity

1519
01:47:46,390 --> 01:47:49,850
training, share it with the local area because we have some great facilities.

1520
01:47:50,890 --> 01:47:54,750
We're hoping to get our money back via this model and we'll see how it works.

1521
01:47:55,570 --> 01:47:56,550
It should be a good training.

1522
01:47:57,670 --> 01:47:58,730
That's worth the money.

1523
01:47:59,350 --> 01:48:02,270
The other thing, just quickly, I wanted to pass out for you, actually,

1524
01:48:02,430 --> 01:48:04,350
Director Andres here and could answer questions.

1525
01:48:04,910 --> 01:48:07,850
But at the study session with the Open Space and Ag Committee,

1526
01:48:08,030 --> 01:48:12,270
a question came up about hunting on the property along South G Street.

1527
01:48:12,270 --> 01:48:15,810
And we researched that through our municipal code,

1528
01:48:15,990 --> 01:48:18,530
and although the title is Sectioned Upland Game Hunting,

1529
01:48:18,970 --> 01:48:22,350
it does allow for both upland game and migratory waterfowl.

1530
01:48:22,690 --> 01:48:25,990
So Director Andre also looked at what the fishing game code was

1531
01:48:25,990 --> 01:48:28,930
in terms of safety zone from various buildings,

1532
01:48:29,570 --> 01:48:32,570
and it really requires 150-yard safety zone.

1533
01:48:32,670 --> 01:48:34,230
So he actually went ahead and mapped that,

1534
01:48:34,290 --> 01:48:36,090
and we'll just pass it out so you have it.

1535
01:48:36,430 --> 01:48:38,650
You guys haven't requested this as an agenda item

1536
01:48:38,650 --> 01:48:39,590
since it came up.

1537
01:48:39,650 --> 01:48:40,950
We thought at least you'd have the knowledge

1538
01:48:40,950 --> 01:48:46,210
of how, you know, where is it legal to hunt on that particular property does seem to be

1539
01:48:46,210 --> 01:48:49,830
the only property within the city limits that we're seeing hunting on actively.

1540
01:48:50,210 --> 01:48:52,670
So I'll pass that out right before we leave and I think that's it.

1541
01:48:53,410 --> 01:48:53,570
Great.

1542
01:48:54,410 --> 01:48:54,730
Karen?

1543
01:48:56,090 --> 01:49:01,250
I'm a little confused that training on February 5th, what's the title of that?

1544
01:49:01,610 --> 01:49:02,890
What am I going to learn there?

1545
01:49:03,470 --> 01:49:04,750
Learn to run wild.

1546
01:49:04,970 --> 01:49:06,070
Happy people win.

1547
01:49:07,630 --> 01:49:09,730
And it's customer service training.

1548
01:49:10,630 --> 01:49:12,550
I think it's called customer service training.

1549
01:49:12,630 --> 01:49:13,730
She's got a fancier title.

1550
01:49:13,870 --> 01:49:15,710
But the title of her book is Happy People Win.

1551
01:49:16,150 --> 01:49:18,370
And her concept really is about what makes us happy,

1552
01:49:18,470 --> 01:49:19,590
what makes other people happy.

1553
01:49:20,130 --> 01:49:22,190
Why on earth would we not go the extra mile

1554
01:49:22,190 --> 01:49:23,410
to make everybody feel good?

1555
01:49:23,610 --> 01:49:25,230
I mean, that's, you know, a nutshell,

1556
01:49:25,350 --> 01:49:27,430
but she does it much more eloquently than I do.

1557
01:49:27,930 --> 01:49:28,350
Well, thanks.

1558
01:49:28,850 --> 01:49:31,350
I'm excited to put that in my calendar.

1559
01:49:33,830 --> 01:49:40,690
anything else from anyone there's a vetted wing inflatable fun that's kind of

1560
01:49:40,690 --> 01:49:44,170
that's for the public so for the public it's kind of a press event but it is the

1561
01:49:44,170 --> 01:49:48,050
council has all been invited and it's Friday I believe it's at 12 30 I'm

1562
01:49:48,050 --> 01:49:52,670
actually gonna not I'm gonna miss that event that opening I'm gonna be leaving

1563
01:49:52,670 --> 01:49:56,190
actually tonight to head down to the annual ring of board meeting in

1564
01:49:56,190 --> 01:50:02,010
Sonoma County so I appreciate we're getting out kind of early as noon rather

1565
01:50:02,010 --> 01:50:09,470
than 12 o'clock at noon okay okay at 12 o'clock that's a really exciting huge

1566
01:50:09,470 --> 01:50:12,910
you know yeah yeah and we did close on that loan as you all know you receive

1567
01:50:12,910 --> 01:50:17,830
emails and although I have to say the email at first said like wing inflatable

1568
01:50:17,830 --> 01:50:18,470
close.

1569
01:50:27,510 --> 01:50:30,050
I had a heart attack for a minute, Mitch.

1570
01:50:32,910 --> 01:50:39,930
So in order to get you out and on the road, well let's look at dates of future meetings

1571
01:50:39,930 --> 01:50:45,830
and at this point we have a joint study session Tuesday, January 26th, 6 p.m.,

1572
01:50:45,830 --> 01:50:53,330
Council chamber and then we have a study session with zero waste Humboldt Thursday the 28th at

1573
01:50:53,330 --> 01:50:56,330
the council at 6 p.m. in the council chambers, so

1574
01:50:57,130 --> 01:50:58,530
those two will be

1575
01:50:59,370 --> 01:51:00,410
next week and

1576
01:51:01,290 --> 01:51:06,590
Have a good time at remit. Thank you for representing us safe drive work here