[0:01] Good evening. I want to call the meeting of the British City Council to order. And before we can be in the open session, I need to say that Vice Mayor Massensky, it will be participating remotely, pursuant to government code 54953.

[0:19] Vice Mayor Massensky's teleconference location has been properly noticed on the agenda and is open to the public.

[0:25] So, if anybody's in gray eagle, and they want to join Vice Mayor Mascensky, they can do so members of the public may observe and participate for me as a council chambers or the notice to remote location.

[0:36] So, I asked, I know that the Internet connection might be a little sketchy in gray eagle, Vice Mayor, are you with us?

[0:48] Okay, we will ask that he joined us when if he is able, so with that we'll start with the roll call, Ms. Wolf, please call the roll.

[1:01] Council members, birds aye here, Larga Spada, Ms. Sensky, Scott here and Mary Young here.

[1:08] And now please join in the pledge, Mr. Smith, would you like to lead us in the pledge?

[1:18] I'd like to be notified for the United States of America.

[1:23] Do you want to come up with a question?

[1:25] I want to make sure you have the opportunity to understand.

[1:36] A plaque stating the fundamental rights of the public is posted

[1:39] at the entrance to this meeting room,

[1:41] per section 4.04.03 of the city of Adetia's open government ordinance.

[1:46] Under announcements, I have mayor, I have office hours on the first and third Wednesdays of each month and if those from 430 to 6pm and if that time is not convenient, you can make an appointment through the city manager's office.

[1:59] We have no proclamations, we have no appointments, but we do have a presentation.

[2:04] And so we're going to hear from former Mayor Jerry Hayes. Mr Hayes, the floor is yours.

[2:19] Thank you, Mary Young, and Council members.

[2:25] First, let me extend my thanks to the invitation from City Manager Goliwani to address you on a subject that will impact myself, my family, and all the citizens of Venetia.

[2:41] The subject of concern is the closed IT Pinoche Poxic Waste Facility, which is located

[2:52] on our northern border just off Lake Herman Road into those who don't know our city limits

[2:59] run on Lake Herman Road.

[3:03] Let me be clear why I am bringing this to your attention.

[3:06] I am a long time resident of Venetia, my children and grandchildren live in Venetia, and I

[3:17] will always be concerned about their health and welfare.

[3:22] When I was elected to public office in the 1990s, I accepted responsibility for the health

[3:32] and welfare of all Benetians has have all of you currently serving on our city council.

[3:42] When I took office as a council member in 1992,

[3:49] I was made aware that we, i.e.

[4:04] the city of

[4:04] the road's drive bridal property without proper remediation of our former city dump site.

[4:15] Our city was dealing with a flood of costly lawsuits actually over 100.

[4:22] And a reputation as a refinery town in a former toxic waste disposal destination

[4:30] that depressed property values for all of our homeowners. The packet of documents

[4:39] I submitted to you a few weeks ago contains numerous records of the nastiest and

[4:47] most hazardous materials deposited on our doorstep over the 20 year operation of

[4:56] facility. In addition,

[5:00] To extensive records of off-site leakage and pollution onto adjacent properties, including the verified pollution of eddy creek located on city owned property.

[5:18] Although this class one toxic dump east operations in 1986 and was officially closed in the early 2000s,

[5:31] not one gallon of the millions of toxic gallons. Yes, millions.

[5:38] He posited onto this site, nor one ton of the millions of tons of highly hazardous materials

[5:51] dumped there, including, for example, arsenic, asbestos, PCBs, et cetera, has been removed

[6:02] during or since closure of this site, allowing any development on properties adjacent to

[6:14] and down slope to a closed-class one toxic waste dump would expose future residents to

[6:24] potentially irreversible health risk, no amount of signage and seeing landscaping or marketing

[6:35] can change this basic reality. It would also set a troubling precedent. It would signal

[6:45] that Venetia is willing to lower its safety standards and gamble with public health and

[6:54] safety in order to meet development goals.

[7:00] What I am asking of this council is that you fight for us, the residents of Venetia.

[7:09] Mary young, you in particular, but long and hard against aphos to prevent a daily oil train from rolling into our community.

[7:25] That effort in my opinion contributed to our citizens using you to the office of mayor.

[7:34] That was a commitment to smart, safe, and responsible planning.

[7:42] Today, the initiative can and should pursue additional housing that does not place current

[7:51] and future residents at risk, or burdened future generations with preventable health problems.

[8:01] The leading leaders' first responsibility is to protect the health and welfare of our community.

[8:12] The responsible choice is clear.

[8:16] Now, any of my fellow clinicians who wish to verify the sad record of contamination from this abandoned toxic dump

[8:28] And easily access the data from the records of the regional water quality control board for WSUCV,

[8:41] citing a notion of Venetia. In addition, the state agency, which by law, is required to ensure

[8:53] that all closed toxic waste facilities in the state of California are safely and properly monitored

[9:03] is the Department of Toxic Substance Control, Reviation DTSC.

[9:13] All inspection and violations are available to the public.

[9:19] on their website under the heading in Viro Store as ENVI ROS TOR followed by Penoche Venetia.

[9:34] The most recent inspection of the Penoche Venetia site was conducted in February 2026 this year,

[9:46] And it noted four violations of the site closer to permit.

[9:54] This site has leaked from its very first day of operation in night.

[10:01] 1966. And it leads today. My question to our city leaders, as well as all of our residents, is simply this. Is anyone watching? And does anyone care? Thank you for your attention.

[10:23] I'd be glad to answer any questions if you had it.

[10:27] Thank you, Mayor Hayes.

[10:29] First of all, I want to thank you for your time and the effort that you put into this presentation.

[10:34] And for the kind words that you said about me,

[10:37] but I should think in fairness, I also need to acknowledge that Councilwoman Murders, I was with me on the planning commission.

[10:43] He dealt with the crude-by-rel project.

[10:46] I want to recognize her contribution to that effort as well.

[10:51] But I don't see any lights on.

[10:54] I do see a light came on from our city manager, Mr. Giuliani.

[10:57] Thank you, Mayor. I just want to ask that our city attorney read something into the record prior to public comment when council's ready to do that.

[11:05] Hi, everyone. I'm Mariam. I'm here filling in for Ben.

[11:09] Yes. Good to be here.

[11:10] I just want to confirm for the record that this item is a presentation specifically about the disposal facility and its history and not an item about any development in

[11:19] or around or near the city, as such discussion is limited to any discussion of development

[11:27] is outside the scope of the notice agenda on this item.

[11:30] Thank you.

[11:31] Thank you, Mayor.

[11:33] Appreciate it.

[11:33] Thank you.

[11:39] We'll now move on to the adoption of the agenda.

[11:42] Mr. Giuliani, are there any changes to the agenda?

[11:45] No changes, Mayor.

[11:46] Do we have a motion a second to adopt the agenda?

[11:48] So move second you got a motion a second this will please call the roll

[11:54] Compton members for it's aye. Yes, Larguis Bada Scott. Yes, and Mary and yes, yes

[12:00] And we assume may have misunderstood vice-marammer sense because he hasn't been able to join us yet

[12:05] Okay, not yet mayor. He did note prior to the meeting that he was in a rural area where

[12:10] Reception might be difficult, so he might be on late. Okay, so that takes us to the opportunity for public comment

[12:16] And this is the time when anybody can speak to a matter not on the agenda and we would ask only that you limit your comments to think that are within the subject matter and discretion of the city to act upon.

[12:30] So with that, is there anybody in the audience who would like to make public comment on an item not on the agenda?

[12:42] I'm here to follow up on what Jerry Hays has told you from his own experience and because I was around at that time and participated, cutting my teeth really.

[12:55] And the very earliest days that I was here following the IT closure and it was a perilous job for the Maryland or the mayor at the time spent two terms.

[13:08] trying to close that dump.

[13:10] And when we're talking about a class one has a swastone,

[13:14] there are only nine in California.

[13:16] That one was built at the time we got our refinery.

[13:19] And it wasn't closed until, I mean,

[13:23] Valera at that time, exon had enough time for 20 years

[13:27] to send toxic from their waste stream to that dump.

[13:34] There's no doubt.

[13:34] There was refinery waste found on Rose Drive as well.

[13:39] So what I want to tell you about is this book that's my gift to Jerry, and I was going to bring it tonight to give it to him.

[13:47] It's called Petroleum 238.

[13:50] And on it, it's by a young man who spent seven and a half years investigating across the country,

[13:56] the kinds of ways that refineries and anybody operating an extraction well,

[14:03] or a fracking site, or an injection well,

[14:08] where they put waste brines from extraction processes,

[14:12] what they do with them.

[14:14] And this book is so frightening, quite frankly,

[14:20] what's gone on for all these years without us knowing.

[14:23] It says, they've known for 110 years,

[14:26] but haven't done a thing to stop it.

[14:28] It's the secret of the century.

[14:30] So as a refinery with the House with Christmas decorations right in front of it, it says,

[14:36] in an extraordinary seven-year investigation, Justin Noble traveled the United States reporting

[14:41] on the oil and gas industry and learned a disturbing and little-known fact.

[14:47] A lot more comes to the surface at a well than just the oil and gas.

[14:51] Each year, the industry produces billions of tons of waste, much of it toxic, and radioactive.

[14:58] That's what we don't know about.

[15:00] The fracking boom has only worsened the problem. So where did it set all go? And we have evidence that

[15:08] there will be an injection well out in your Brentwood used for putting toxic waste down into the ground.

[15:17] And we know those wells leak. Anyway, the main point here, and the reason why I want to give this book to Jerry is because we know there are refinery waste

[15:26] at IT. It only cements the fact that it's a very dangerous

[15:30] empowerment of toxic waste of all kinds, whether it's herbicides or

[15:37] every sort of chemical that you can't put in a regular dump at that time.

[15:42] And there is record from Jerry's record that in 1996, for instance,

[15:47] there were such rains that percolated through the cap,

[15:51] for that impounded dried out toxets and so water if it

[15:56] seeps through the cap takes those toxins and can spread it

[16:00] in groundwater or into paddy creek or wherever. So, this isn't over, guys.

[16:06] What is in that hazardous waste dump stays with us? And we shouldn't.

[16:11] One of our general plan goals is to not build housing near toxic waste sites.

[16:17] Thank you. All right. Thank you, Ms. Bardet.

[16:20] Is there anybody else who would like to make comment on an item not on the agenda?

[16:26] Mr. Smith.

[16:29] Hi.

[16:30] Good evening.

[16:31] I'm Dan Smith.

[16:32] I'm representing the leadership friends of the playground, a group of parents and grandparents

[16:36] and some of whom helped build a playground.

[16:39] I want to give you a very brief update on the playground of dreams and city park.

[16:44] In 2025, our organization solicited donations from Venetia parents and we bought a swing set

[16:54] approved by the city because all the swings had been removed from city park.

[17:02] We picked one that the city had approved and it arrived at this past February.

[17:07] In March, the city manager told me now we just have to hire someone qualified to install it.

[17:16] In April, one hour before I made a presentation to you guys in April.

[17:22] He called to say that they had a contract and he said at the meeting that it would be installed in five to six.

[17:29] It was no.

[17:31] Here we are, another summer past with no swings in our highest profile park in town.

[17:41] If I had to guess, I would say that that's because we don't have a parks department,

[17:46] dissolved into the public works.

[17:49] Now, I realize that for many people, it's much more important for public works to fill

[17:56] in the town, and that's understandable.

[18:01] I just want to say that small children live in this town,

[18:06] hundreds of them.

[18:07] And I would venture, I guess, that they would rather

[18:11] simple, hot swing set was installed in the playground

[18:15] than a pot holder was built.

[18:18] Unfortunately, they don't pay taxes.

[18:23] One last day.

[18:24] But last three October and many before that our organization has helped lead a volunteer work day in October

[18:33] in order to make the playground safer and relatively sprint to free.

[18:41] The city has thus far postponed giving us a date to have this work party.

[18:47] I just don't know what to think.

[18:54] All right, thank you.

[18:55] And since we're here, could I ask Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Martinez, what's the status of the wing installation?

[19:05] Yes. So as noted, contractor was hired.

[19:09] It's a small job and that contractor's designed to do that work in September.

[19:14] And y'all do we have a date?

[19:17] They're wrapping up their end of summer programs right now.

[19:20] So it could be made September, but if they have an opening prior to that, they're going to

[19:25] give us a 24 hour and then they'll be on site, just because it's a very small job.

[19:29] It's a one day job.

[19:31] And the ability for the work party day, we've talked about that.

[19:37] Yeah, we responded to Dan earlier, I want to say in the month, to notify him that as we

[19:43] got closer to the Halloween and the holiday seasons that we didn't want conflicting items

[19:47] at the park and that we would be in contact soon.

[19:50] But we haven't picked a date yet.

[19:52] We have not.

[19:55] You had 30 seconds left and when I cut you off,

[19:58] but you realize with a volunteer of it.

[20:00] The sooner the better the publicity, the more successful it's going to be. We've had this swing set since February. We have this workday every year. Still, they can't even give me two weekends of a possibility.

[20:17] I think you've been heard of. Thank you. Is there anybody else who would like to make public comment on the item not on the agenda? Mr. Moderator, is anybody online who would like to make public comment?

[20:28] All right, then we'll close the public comment period and move on to the consent calendar.

[20:34] We've got four items tonight, the minutes from the August 4th, regular meeting.

[20:40] A note of intent to vacate a portion of the right away at 650 East End Street,

[20:45] and setting a public hearing for September 1st,

[20:49] an authorization for the Sloan Transportation Authority to claim

[20:54] Transportation Development Act funds for the Fiscal 2627

[20:58] Venetia Lift Program and Approval of Program modifications.

[21:03] And the approval to weigh the reading of all ordinances introduced

[21:06] or adopted pursuant to this agenda.

[21:09] Is there anyone on the council who would like to pull any of these items?

[21:13] Councilor Scott.

[21:14] I'd like to pull 14.

[21:15] Please, me.

[21:16] All right.

[21:16] 14.

[21:17] Thank you.

[21:19] Anybody else?

[21:20] Okay, and is anybody in the audience? Who would like to pull an item? Anybody online who would like to pull an item?

[21:27] All right, then I'll look for a motion on item 14 AB and D

[21:33] So moved second. I'll get a motion in a second. Ms. Wolf, please call the roll

[21:38] Council members, Bird's Eye. Yes, Larga Spada. Yes, Scott. Yes, and Mary Ann. Yes, and so we'll come back to 14 C and Council member Scott

[21:48] Thank you, Mayor.

[21:50] I'm representing not only the City Council, but I'm in kind of a interesting position

[21:56] of also representing Seoul Trans.

[21:58] I would like to offer two changes to the recommendation, and the two changes are one that

[22:11] We placed in the modification of the raised structure for the $3 and the $4 rate increase to move up a dollar.

[22:23] That's really only going to raise $1,300, but that is really targeted to Medicare low-income handicapped people.

[22:32] It seems like that would be a significant penalty to go from 3 to 4 or 3 to 5.

[22:40] So I'd like to suggest that we keep it at $3.

[22:43] The impact is only $1,300.

[22:46] And the second suggestion is we are reducing the amount of ridership from 60 to 20 passes

[23:01] per month per month. I'd like to suggest that we consider adding a hardship

[23:08] application that if we have a number of residents who work in

[23:13] Venetia or live in Venetia and work in Venetia and they use this as their vehicle

[23:19] to get back in fourth and need to increase it to 30 or 40 rides that for that

[23:26] hardship that we would then review that hardship and then make a decision.

[23:32] I just want to remind everyone that the success of this program has skyrocketed

[23:37] from 343 rides coming out of COVID to almost 11,000 in five years.

[23:46] And the cost is now being transferred to utilize our TDA funds that come from the state

[23:55] to MTC to STA and that are held at Sultrans and so now we have the opportunity to claim

[24:05] that dollar so it shifts the burden of all of that from the city of Benicia over to

[24:12] STA to claim the funding and by taking this action we provide a hardship for any kind

[24:21] transportation and issue of people who live and work in the city.

[24:26] All right, thank you.

[24:27] I'll hold back comments on that until after we hear from the public.

[24:32] Is there anybody in the public who would like to speak to the question of the list program?

[24:36] Any changes that were contemplating?

[24:38] It's Grundman.

[24:44] My bad.

[24:45] I didn't read this one before commenting.

[24:50] I apologize for that.

[24:51] Is the only change to cost proposed to read to $4?

[25:00] Or there's also a change that the bigger change is the people who are not low when come, who are not disabled, the normal, I don't say normal.

[25:11] The non-disabled portion of the community who uses a lot more, that fair is proposed to go from five dollars to seven dollars.

[25:20] Okay. And you don't have a problem with that increase?

[25:26] No. In the number of years in the success of this program, this program has become wildly

[25:33] successful because it brings people into the downtown. It relieves parking into the downtown.

[25:40] It allows people to not have to worry about a designated driver or whatever. And the popularity

[25:47] of that program for the $2 increase, I don't think it's going to have any impact on a person's

[25:54] night out.

[25:55] And the subsidy amount, the actual cost of a lift or an Uber ride is around $20.

[26:02] So, go from five to seven for people who are not low income, I think is a reasonable increase

[26:08] after five years.

[26:09] And, and that's not for get the fact that we are transitioning the full cost of it from

[26:17] put between the city and Seoul trans is now going to be a burden that will be on the

[26:23] TDA dollars.

[26:24] It will be off of the city.

[26:26] So that 100 and out of the $123,000 would be coming out of TDA dollars, not the city dollars.

[26:35] We know what percentage are low income.

[26:41] It's very small.

[26:42] The numbers are in and the staff report.

[26:46] They're just in the low hundreds.

[26:50] Okay.

[26:50] The number of rides over, fortunately here.

[26:53] All right.

[26:54] All right.

[26:56] Support.

[26:57] All right.

[26:58] Thank you.

[26:59] Does anybody else would like to make public comment on this item?

[27:02] Mr. Monitorator is anybody online who would like to speak to the side of him.

[27:07] All right, then I'll close the public comment period and bring it back to the council.

[27:11] I'm going to support what Vice Mayor Arsari, the council member Scott did.

[27:16] He's speaking to this, he's been the chair of Soul Transfer four years running out or if not more.

[27:23] So he's four years, four more years.

[27:28] So he is intimately aware of these issues.

[27:33] And these are dollars that come through MTC to STA.

[27:38] A lot of acronyms that I apologize for.

[27:41] Those dollars in are split up put on the seven cities by population.

[27:45] And we get a chunk of that.

[27:48] And part of that money is been used.

[27:52] Well, not much, you know, $20,000, but we're at.

[27:55] And basically, as Councilman Rift said, moving those dollars away from the general fund

[28:00] to these $TD-8 dollars, so I think, as a long run, it's a good move on.

[28:05] I'm going to support this emotion.

[28:07] You want to make a motion in that?

[28:09] Before you do that, Councilman.

[28:13] Okay.

[28:13] Let's, before you do that, Councilman.

[28:15] I would like to respond.

[28:16] Thank you, Mayor.

[28:16] Do the chair.

[28:17] Councilman Scott.

[28:18] What?

[28:19] So you want to go from.

[28:23] So the staff recommendation is to lower the subsidized fairs from 60 to 20, but you want

[28:29] to bring it up to 40 potentially for those that can demonstrate hardship.

[28:36] Well, the increase would be determined by this group, but my suggestion is to take it

[28:44] 40, so that would be a work day.

[28:47] Every work day they would have a back in a tune from work.

[28:53] Do you have an idea what the cost of that would be?

[28:55] It doesn't, the cost doesn't really impact us

[28:58] because we, the principal issue on the table,

[29:01] is transitioning the dollars from the city to TDA dollars.

[29:09] So the cost would be,

[29:12] Well, the entire revenue increase was $23,000 going from $5 to $7,000, which is not really large.

[29:25] So maybe $10,000 of TDA dollars, $15,000?

[29:30] I think it would really depend on how many people are talking about.

[29:32] How many people are there to actually?

[29:34] And we don't have that number.

[29:36] That's the problem.

[29:37] The system does not have, because it's a private contractor's mover.

[29:42] we can't tell how many times people are using it.

[29:46] Well, we can tell that we don't know.

[29:49] There's only a handful of people who use it more than 15, 60 times a month.

[29:53] Those are the ones we can't track.

[29:55] But that's a lot.

[29:57] And so to reduce that, 62.

[30:00] 40 in the instance, where it's a person who works in the lives of the Venetia.

[30:05] Why was it never touched him to begin with? Why are we talking?

[30:09] Because there was a belief, I think, that 60 was a little bit excessive.

[30:13] That some people were overusing the program.

[30:19] And that part of the way we wanted to do is, okay, we could move this TDA money, but we also should look at ways of reducing the cost of the program.

[30:28] Through the check, who would bear the administrative responsibility of determining this hardship?

[30:36] How would the STA get?

[30:38] That's right.

[30:39] Yeah, they managed the whole system.

[30:41] What if we just left it at 60?

[30:44] Well, you wouldn't say much money.

[30:46] We're trying to both move money for the TDA,

[30:50] it moved off the general fund,

[30:52] and established some tighter guidelines.

[30:54] We had different programs at SDA that sold transit ministry where it was called, like, uh, last

[31:02] right home or last year.

[31:04] Yeah, where people would, you know, say that, well, I missed the bus, and so, by me and

[31:09] Uber from El Salvador, and there were people who were abusing that.

[31:13] They would just order it, and as soon as they got there, whether the bus was coming out.

[31:17] And so we had to figure out some way to try to limit that type of abuse.

[31:21] Yeah.

[31:22] I'm not saying anybody's abusing it here, but if somebody's using it 60 times a month in Banesha, that's a lot.

[31:31] But we're also trying to establish a guardrail.

[31:33] And that guardrail says we're going to limit to 20 rides and be cognizant of that.

[31:43] Because this is growing so exponentially that at some point we're not going to have the funding through TDA dollars

[31:51] in order to maintain it, and then we would get to where we were and we were at a crossroads

[31:57] where the city could no longer afford to continue to fund this. So we went to TDA, they said they

[32:06] could claim that the money from TDA, we get, I'm sorry to talk in acronyms. The TDA dollars

[32:12] is $1.5 million dollars. That is the out of that is the amount for a Venetian. That covers

[32:18] the 40, the 70, the red, and yellow, and includes the express, and includes the...

[32:26] And this comes out of that pot.

[32:30] So at some point, if it keeps growing, we're not going to have to make some hard decisions about

[32:36] mass transportation compared to micro transportation.

[32:40] Yeah, I think what I'm going is whether it's 1300 or 20,000 bucks is it like to say it's like budget dust where I'm going is like

[32:51] Why not just keep the numbers where they're at if people are using whether it's for hardship or last mile last mile in and of itself I think is a legitimate use of this kind of transportation.

[33:05] But I'll follow your direction on this one.

[33:08] All right, so you want to make a motion?

[33:14] So the motion would be to accept, I'm sorry.

[33:17] No, we've done it.

[33:19] So the motion would be to accept the consent item

[33:24] as written with the change of maintaining

[33:28] a $3.00 and the $4.00 rate as is.

[33:33] And having STA prepare a hard ship application

[33:37] for those Venetians who live in work in the city and request a higher number of five dollar

[33:47] rides. $7. $7. $7, excuse me. Yeah, thank you. All right, I will second that motion.

[33:56] We got a motion. A second, Ms. Wolff, please call the roll.

[33:58] I have some members, birds, I am, yes, Larga Spada. Yes, Scott. Yes, and Maria. Yes. And that takes us to the

[34:07] to tonight. The first is an introduction and the first reading of an ordinance of

[34:11] Mending, various sections of the initiative, Municipal Code, to update the Finance

[34:17] Director references, clarify procurement, and contracting authority, and make

[34:21] related administrative clean-up amendments, and this will come from our administrative

[34:25] services director, Mr. Shuddy.

[34:31] Thank you, Mayor Young, and Councilor Mike. The proposed amendments are administrative in

[34:36] And to address specifically two needs, the amendments do not enhance, constrict or otherwise change, procurement and contracting requirements, methodology or authority levels.

[34:49] No red line version is presented as is customary with code changes based on city attorneys advice that these changes are prick.

[34:58] Cheers.

[35:01] The proposed municipal code amendments are recommended for two reasons. The first is to reestablish a second authorized

[35:08] signer. Code prescribes two positions as authorized signers, the city manager and the finance director.

[35:16] With the change of finance director to the administrative services director, the city is in a precarious position, where we only have one authorized signer.

[35:23] It is recommended that we reestablish the second signer to protect the city from unintended consequences should the city manager not be available to sign and for administrative efficiencies.

[35:36] There are 50 40 instances in code where finance director or director of finance is stated and those instances will be replaced with the administrative services director.

[35:48] The second need is for clarification and consistency of language for procurement thresholds in six different sections, affecting the purchasing regulations for goods and services and contracts for services.

[36:01] The transition threshold amounts, specifically 20,000, 50,000, 100,000 and 200,000 are the specific amounts which are not clearly identified in the existing language.

[36:13] The proposed language is stated as equal to or greater than, and in other cases equal to or less than,

[36:22] where existing language varies and is stated as between the amounts or up to an amount, leaving that discrete amount,

[36:31] up to interpretation, and subject to inconsistent application.

[36:36] The administrative procedures are in place and working well to ensure that compliance with

[36:41] municipal code requirements for all procurement.

[36:45] Further, our annual independent financial audit reviews internal controls and compliance

[36:50] with policies and procedures including procurement and periodically samples procurement activities.

[36:56] Through the auditing process, no compliance deficiencies have been identified and no policy

[37:01] changes are recommended.

[37:02] The policy limits and procurement methods are working well to meet the needs of the organization and respond to community needs.

[37:10] Staff recommendation is to read by title only and introduce the ordinance,

[37:15] amending various sections of the Benetian Municipal Code as it is presented.

[37:22] Thank you.

[37:24] We'll take it first to the council for clarifying questions.

[37:29] I don't see lights, so I'm going to start it off with a couple of questions.

[37:34] 2.6.03 is appointment of deputies and it says that you, the administrative service director would be authorized to appoint a deputy administrative service director.

[37:47] My question is does that position already exist in the city?

[37:51] That classification does not exist, no.

[37:53] But why would we give you authority to appoint to a position that doesn't exist? Why would we first create the position?

[38:02] That's a good question, and again, the intent of this item is to address the precarious

[38:08] nature of only having one signer and it is not intended to be a comprehensive review

[38:13] of all code sections.

[38:15] If there was a desire to create a deputy administrative services director, that position would

[38:20] return to council for creation of it.

[38:23] That would happen first before you would appoint somebody.

[38:28] If I made further clarification, we also had a previous assistant finance director, which no longer

[38:38] exists.

[38:39] The position has been eliminated.

[38:41] We haven't had such a position in a long time.

[38:45] But the position still exists.

[38:46] The position still exists.

[38:48] But we could switch that to this, so I think what Jeff is highlighting is we're changing

[38:54] of the inactulars on certain positions and so we're just noting that we at one time had an assistant

[39:00] finance director for which the finance director was able to designate and we're making that

[39:06] consistent with the same type of structure that we have within other departments. That's not to say we're

[39:13] hiring a deputy administrative services director. We're just making consistent with the

[39:19] titles of that department now. Okay so giving you that authority does it necessarily mean you

[39:24] and exercise it, because there is no position.

[39:29] It would take additional steps in order for that to be accomplished, yes?

[39:34] Two, one, six points, zero, seven, talks about duties that would be transferred,

[39:46] transfer

[39:47] of duties,

[39:50] the financial and accounting duties are imposed upon the city clerk by section

[39:56] 1, 2, 37, 2, 1, to 37, 2, 10.

[40:00] Would be transferred to the administrative services director. What are these duties that the city clerk has that would transfer to you?

[40:09] There are no duties that the city clerk currently performs, which are going to be transferred. This is carry over language, which former duties were transferred to the finance director and we're replacing the language of finance director with administrative services director.

[40:22] So that where historical purposes the duties that were the city clerics which have already been transferred

[40:28] are still identified as having been transferred to this position.

[40:32] So would it be cleaner just to wipe out this section altogether if it's not you didn't?

[40:37] I would defer to the city attorney for that.

[40:42] Okay, a similar, but I'm not expecting you necessarily have an answer to that.

[40:48] But if you want, we're certainly willing to listen.

[40:51] And my next question is similar, 2.48.01 says that

[41:05] talks about duties which are not performed

[41:07] by the city treasurer, are transferred to the city clerk who's ordered to form all such

[41:13] duties.

[41:14] What you just said is there aren't any such duties for the city treasurer that are supposed

[41:22] to be moved to the clerk and through the clerk to you.

[41:27] The next sentence in that section identifies that the city

[41:30] treasurer still countersign warrants and serve on the local tax oversight board.

[41:34] Those duties are not transferred they remain with the city treasurer.

[41:40] So those that would be the only duties of the treasurer.

[41:47] But nothing would be entrancered from treasurer to you or the treasurer to the least of

[41:53] you.

[41:53] We would need to review the duties of the treasurer as identified in code to conform that to confirm that, but again, this, this item is is only narrowly looking at the position description of finance director and replacing it with administrative services.

[42:06] I'm just thinking if we're looking at the code and making changes, but as well, I understand that intent.

[42:13] I'm telling you that this item was brought forward to Council to address a very discrete

[42:18] precarious situation, I'm only having one signer, and we did not do a complete review of

[42:23] all positions identified in code, and to affirmatively answer that question, we'll require

[42:29] further review.

[42:31] Okay, 3.08.08 makes reference to a purchasing officer.

[42:38] Who is that?

[42:38] Are you the purchasing officer?

[42:41] Yes.

[42:43] So why wouldn't we, since we're making these changes, change all references as a

[42:49] pertinent, seeing officer to administrative services director

[42:55] instead of having to come back again and do it a second time?

[42:59] It is the opinion of the city attorney and myself that that is not necessary and that

[43:05] replacing the finance director with the administrative services director retains all the

[43:09] rights of the purchasing officer as they exist in code today.

[43:16] Okay, well, it's seen that we're going to come back and do this again, probably if what you're saying is we have to do further cleanup.

[43:23] There is no intent to do further cleanup at this time. The intent is to address the precarious nature of having one signer and to provide clarity on those threshold transition amounts.

[43:35] Okay, let me move on.

[43:36] So, the next sections sort of have to do with using, well, two different things.

[43:47] Using informal contracts,

[43:53] the threshold of those contracts, 50,000, 100,000 or 200,000,

[43:57] if it's public works,

[44:01] and the idea that we can, or that we allow contracts to be let,

[44:08] If they were bid by another agency, not by ourselves, but by another agency, with, quote, substantially the same requirements.

[44:20] Do you consider this a good practice?

[44:23] I do consider that a good practice, and I also believe that is an opportunity for the city to leverage further than we do today.

[44:30] There are state contracts, which would fall under this clause.

[44:34] There are cooperative purchase agreements, which are designed to be bid specifically for the purpose of other agencies using them by taking advantage of larger volume, which results in lower cost.

[44:44] And there are discrete one time contracts that one agency may issue, which generally meet the needs of another agency and the city has taken advantage of those situations as well.

[44:58] Let it all fall in, but...

[45:00] In all of those situations, a cost savings and a time savings has been realized in the procurement methods.

[45:06] But it also leaves out certain companies or vendors who might have a alternative product and alternative ability to provide what we're looking for, but they haven't been approved by some third party agents.

[45:22] The example I have is an electric police car that, in the past, we were told, well, it

[45:32] doesn't really exist in the condition that we want.

[45:36] It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that police want in terms of base for computers

[45:41] and the like.

[45:43] But there was, in fact, a company that said, oh, no, we are making exactly that thing and we're

[45:48] providing it to other police departments and we're doing it at a cheaper price using this process

[45:54] that company wouldn't be even allowed to bid and we would not have the advantage of a

[46:01] couple of car at lower price. I think that you're making some general statements about

[46:08] a specific situation which I can't validate because I don't have those materials in front of me and that

[46:14] Any company is able to bid on any RFP offered by any public agency, the timing of which might impact which companies are soliciting for responding to those proposals, right?

[46:28] And the timing on when the our city might utilize one of those contracts might impact which agencies are part of that, but in no way is any company restricted from participating.

[46:37] But they would have to go to that other agency.

[46:39] No, they would have had responded to the initial request for proposals, and so there is a timing of impact of that too, and when we utilize a contract from another agency, we look at the timing when that contract was offered.

[46:52] And if it is not current, it is not valid, right?

[46:55] So it has to be within a reasonable amount of time for it to be considered a similar process.

[47:01] Well, I had larger issues. I had a long conversation with the city manager today. He sort

[47:08] of talked me down on a lot of it that had to do with my concern, and this is something we

[47:15] can talk about at goal setting next winter, is that I don't think the council has enough

[47:25] oversight on the spending side. We have oversight on the revenue side. We have long

[47:30] larger budget responsibilities that happen in a very large context, but actual decisions about

[47:38] contracts, they don't come to us. They don't come to us unless it's a past a certain number,

[47:46] and in many cases it's after the fact. And I'm not going to ask for any changes at this time,

[47:52] but I wanted to sort of say to my colleagues up here and others that my preference would be a

[47:59] a little bit more council involvement in the not the development of an RFP review of an RFP,

[48:09] something that would get us involved on something more than a after the fact basis.

[48:16] Now, we have a budget committee, a council budget committee that has I think been helpful in terms of getting that kind of

[48:23] are understanding of spending. We're going to have a different council budget committee next year,

[48:28] or perhaps have a different council, but maybe not. But I would like you to think and the staff

[48:35] to think about, how is there a way that we can involve the council on a little bit more granular

[48:42] basis that simply a oversight after the fact review. So that's, I'll leave it at that. I'm not

[48:51] asking for any action or necessarily responsible as you want to.

[48:54] Yeah.

[48:55] If I may.

[48:57] I think that that's starting to blur the lines between policy and administration.

[49:00] And it's important to recognize what the role of council is as the policy setting

[49:04] body.

[49:05] And if there is a desire to have greater control over the approval of contracts at a lower threshold,

[49:13] the results will be that work takes longer to complete because the contract in the process

[49:18] will take longer because there will be more items that need to come to council.

[49:21] And there is a timeline and an energy and a amount of staff that is required to bring things to council.

[49:28] And so warf will slow down if we lower the thresholds for procurement.

[49:33] If I may may.

[49:35] Robust conversation.

[49:36] One that I think we can tee up when we talk about our two step requests and really think our

[49:43] teeth into when you as noted, we can talk about this in goal setting.

[49:46] So, I want to kind of bring this back to specific task at hands, which really is administrative

[49:51] clean up with idle change as well as clarifying the language with regard to the thresholds

[49:59] of their all-consistent.

[50:00] Okay. So, a couple of lights up, one on and came off. You were no longer, now, or are you?

[50:07] If I may, I would also jump in and say we could take public comment and then bring it back for actual discussion, because I think it was going into discussion.

[50:16] But if you have more questions, please.

[50:18] So, I don't see any other questions, so let's thank you for the prompt. We'll move it to public comment on this item. Is there anybody in the audience who would like to make public comment on this item?

[50:31] And is there anybody online who would like to speak to the side of them?

[50:36] All right.

[50:36] Then I'll bring it back to the council.

[50:39] I don't see any other lights.

[50:40] I've made my comments.

[50:41] And now I do see council.

[50:42] My regards for that.

[50:43] I was just going to add.

[50:45] I appreciate the direction and the feedback from the city manager.

[50:50] I would just ask that you continue to refine the request.

[50:55] Because my slight pushback is that we see these budget items in the consent calendar, and as business agenda items, the terms, the contracts, the bidders, I mean, is all there.

[51:10] I think we are-

[51:11] If it exceeds that price, we don't see it if it's under $100 or $200,000.

[51:16] I don't know what costs under $100,000 these days, but that's a whole other conversation.

[51:22] But again, the point is, I'm good with what we see now, I'm good with our level of participation,

[51:30] but look forward to what you add to it and just encourage you to kind of refine specifically

[51:36] what would satisfy you.

[51:38] Yeah, well, I'm not suggesting anything at this point.

[51:42] I was going to talk about the threshold of miles.

[51:45] But the issue of pulling things down is real when we have an emergency, it's real.

[51:49] We've got everybody's spot on this spot.

[51:52] There are other things that are a little bit longer in nature, and when we're hiring consultants, for example,

[51:59] I want to be sure that we have that we're open enough to the larger consultant community

[52:05] who might want to bid rather than, you know, two years ago, they didn't get on a list that somebody else put out,

[52:12] and therefore we're not going to consider others.

[52:14] Yeah, I mean, the only thing I will add, just to kind of expand on what the

[52:21] Jeff, what's your new title, the administrative officer and the director.

[52:26] Administrative Services Director.

[52:27] I like Chief of Staff, but we'll go with the administrative officer.

[52:30] But seriously, Jeff was going down his path.

[52:34] Again, it's been my experience both as a council member and as a professional that deals with

[52:39] a bidding process is anything that takes a dollar from a city, a county, a jurisdiction, a state,

[52:47] the Fed's, etc. is publicly advertised. So with the electric car example, I think just

[52:53] response was appropriate. It could have just been timing that at that time, this organization

[52:59] of this company just hadn't submitted and or wasn't qualified to submit a bid, best for them,

[53:07] maybe now that we will see them in the future.

[53:09] Should that be a picture of my item?

[53:12] All right, Councilwoman, where is that?

[53:15] So I'd like to introduce the ordinance.

[53:19] And it will be brought back by, or a second reading.

[53:26] So do we need a vote or a roll call now?

[53:30] We do.

[53:31] Okay, so is my just making the first motion?

[53:38] Well, the motion, the recommended action,

[53:42] wave the first reading, read by title on them, and introduce an ordinance

[53:45] of the City Council of the City of Malaysia,

[53:48] demanding various sections of the Malaysia Municipal Code

[53:51] who update references to director of finance

[53:53] and finance director to administrative services director

[53:56] to clarify procurement and contracting authority

[54:00] to make related administrative clean-up amendments.

[54:04] And I'm going to stand.

[54:06] I got a motion. I'll second it. Ms. Wolf, please call the roll.

[54:11] Council members, for it's aye. Yes. Larga Spatez. Scott? Yes.

[54:16] And Mary Ann. Yes. And that takes us to 15B, which is an approval of the revised fiscal

[54:23] 27 capital improvement program, and that will come from our Public Works Director, Ms. Martinez.

[54:35] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[54:37] Neil Larry will be given the presentation tonight, who is our Deputy Director for Public Works and our City Engineer.

[54:45] Good evening, Mayor.

[54:46] Council members.

[54:47] I'm happy to present the capital improvement program,

[54:49] fiscal year 2627 for your approval tonight.

[54:57] The capital improvement program.

[55:00] This plan addresses city capital needs in the next year, so I'd speak to the purpose. It's a financial planning tool to address annual fiscal constraints on spending, denote funding sources and operating impacts of project.

[55:18] The CIP is drafted every five years, but updated annually, and the next five year CIP will be presented to Council in 2027 for approval.

[55:33] The next slide is short, it speaks to state law that requires the city to prepare and adopt a capital permit program,

[55:40] Otherwise, no, as a CIP, and to annually updated by resolution and the government code is there.

[55:53] The guiding documents in our CIP, there's a list of them here. General plan, certainly a guiding document.

[56:00] The utility master plans, both water and wastewater are guides.

[56:05] We, every two years, we update the pavement management report, and that is a source of information for us.

[56:13] The Parks Master Plan, we work with our partners at STA, this salon and transportation authority, and a number of arenas, and they put out a bike and pedestrian plan that helps us with the CIP, the traffic impact.

[56:29] program, another guiding document, the STAC for us to school plan and the transportation and

[56:38] employment center plan. The CIP is a needs-based program.

[56:45] There's a list of goals here.

[56:48] The CIP must align with the general plan and we've highlighted a few here in this slide.

[56:55] I'll go through a few, goal 2.12 is to strengthen the downtown as the city's central commercial zone.

[57:04] Another one here, goal 2.20, provide a balanced street system to serve autos, pedestrians, bikes, and transit.

[57:13] And finally, the last one on this list, the goal 4.17, worked to secure and maintain a sustainable and resilient water supply for Venetia.

[57:24] There's certainly a series of funding sources that back our CIP, a portion of them are here,

[57:32] gas tax, and Senate Bill 1 is a big source for our Streets program grants.

[57:38] We're always looking for grants to bolster our CIP, and there's a number here.

[57:44] A lot of an acronyms there, you got the Highway Safety Improvement Program,

[57:47] safe routes to schools, state transportation program, transportation

[57:51] development act, priority development area, and one bay area grant.

[57:56] These are a few of the fund sources that we go after consistently to support our

[58:01] CIP.

[58:03] Other funding sources, we got the utility, enterprise funds, water waste water.

[58:09] We, of course, rely on the general fund for peace of the CIP.

[58:12] Measure F, measure that was brought at the voters approved in 2024 provides 4 million annually to our roads program.

[58:24] We have the traffic impact fee fund and finally in this list we see the landscape and lighting assessment district fund.

[58:33] So we split the CIP up into four categories here.

[58:36] I'll start with the second one is the streets program.

[58:39] We have seven projects listed under water.

[58:42] we have one under wastewater, we have five, and then we finally have this other catch-all category

[58:48] called other, which has nine projects and that focuses on Marina facilities, parks and

[59:00] other CIP.

[59:06] In this CIP that we've presented tonight, we provide all the projects with the funds

[59:13] that have been obligated to these projects.

[59:18] Starting here with the other category, I'll highlight a few.

[59:23] We recently brought the Marine Breakwater Repairs Project

[59:27] for the construction award to council in that project

[59:32] is a $4 million project on the fiscal year, the current fiscal year.

[59:39] Another one to highlight here would be the Corporate

[59:42] bathroom remodel, which was the award of that project was brought to council last, council meeting.

[59:50] And you're seeing it here for 280,000 total on fiscal year 27,

[59:56] and we will be bringing you the

[59:58] train depot preservant.

[1:00:02] I believe we're targeting September 1st for the construction award and we're showing that at 360,000 total on fiscal year 27. The total of the other, you're seeing here at 7.3 million.

[1:00:16] Next category is the streets, and we're showing the streets coming in at 7.4 million in fiscal 27.

[1:00:26] Of course, the headliner there is the 26-pavement job, which is at 5.7 million.

[1:00:33] You also see the 27-pavement and 28-pavement. These are all measuref funded.

[1:00:40] And those are, they're showing up as design tasks in fiscal 27.

[1:00:49] And I would highlight that the 2027 pavement project, which,

[1:00:54] and 28, which focuses on the downtown in 2027,

[1:00:59] it will also include in the bid Westeye.

[1:01:03] A portion of Westeye, I believe, is the 100 block and Bayview Circle.

[1:01:11] And then finally we have the utilities represented in the last two categories.

[1:01:16] Start with the water.

[1:01:17] We have one project that loaves road, raw water, transmission line, emergency, permanent restoration

[1:01:23] project.

[1:01:25] This is a project that's funded by, we're looking to be reimbursed by FEMA.

[1:01:30] We're showing it at 3.6 million in fiscal 27.

[1:01:33] That's the sole water project that we're showing for this fiscal year.

[1:01:37] wastewater has five projects that are in the fiscal 27 budget or plan and they total 3.3 million

[1:01:48] approximately and they are spread between collections projects and treatment plan upgrade projects.

[1:01:58] The total through all four categories in fiscal 27 is 21.5 million.

[1:02:06] The next steps will present

[1:02:08] the five year CIP to City Council in 2027,

[1:02:13] and without it invite any questions that the council

[1:02:16] may have.

[1:02:17] All right, thank you.

[1:02:20] We'll start with clarifying questions that I'll start with, Council Member Largisvata.

[1:02:25] Thank you, Mayor.

[1:02:26] Thank you, Mr. Larry, for the presentation.

[1:02:29] Three quick clarifying questions.

[1:02:31] These budgets include the contingencies as well.

[1:02:41] Yes.

[1:02:42] Okay, great.

[1:02:42] And then, we're going to spend about $5 million dollars to get item to break water.

[1:02:52] I'm just kind of curious.

[1:02:55] I mean, the question.

[1:02:56] Council member, if you can.

[1:02:58] Thank you.

[1:02:59] I was saying, you know, we're going to spend about $5 million on

[1:03:02] Rita infrastructure improvements.

[1:03:03] So my question is, is the team have a bigger plan in place, a vision of other

[1:03:13] improvements out on the horizon or are these just kind of like one time improvements?

[1:03:24] Good question. The Marine of Rakewater is coming in and we're seeing it as a $4 million

[1:03:29] project and that is a project that's we've been working on for a number of years and bringing

[1:03:38] it forward. At this time that is we are reaching out and doing a five year next five year

[1:03:46] we're going to bring to Council in 2027 and we'll be researching the needs out there in the

[1:03:51] Marina and updating at that time.

[1:03:55] And then the second question is,

[1:03:58] he tells more about the simple crossing shoreline path and

[1:04:02] improvement.

[1:04:03] Specifically, I'm just kind of curious, is that also going to include

[1:04:08] landscaping improvements.

[1:04:10] I understand that there's a mural that will be going in that area as well.

[1:04:15] So we'll just surrounding property, I don't know if it's a park, a median, I don't know what it's dirt, but does this project entail landscaping improvements as well?

[1:04:32] There are no landscaping improvements in this project that we're calling the simple crossing shoreline path improvement project.

[1:04:42] It focuses on the stairs and the replacement of the stairs as a upgraded path along the shoreline

[1:04:54] as that connects between up to the cold of sac.

[1:05:00] On west page.

[1:05:02] Oh, so it's not like the path that comes back to the neighborhood. Is that's kind of?

[1:05:08] Yeah, there's a path that goes to the houses.

[1:05:11] Correct. It's the paving of that rocky, not unpaved path and over that paved path that comes

[1:05:23] down to that house on that point.

[1:05:25] And the final follow-up. I'm sure you're going to have a great answer here.

[1:05:28] I know that the following year that zone is planned for street improvements,

[1:05:35] simple crossing, simple port.

[1:05:39] So, the reason why we're not doing those at the same time,

[1:05:43] like when we do the path improvement, is the reason why it was kind of separated by a year.

[1:05:52] That is correct. The streets in that area are part of the 2028 pavement rehab program we're doing.

[1:05:59] the west side of first street in 2028, the east side goes in 27, and the shoreline path

[1:06:09] project, we're showing in fiscal 27, so it would precede the pavement work, and I think

[1:06:16] that's appropriate to get the pavement work done and not have the machinery coming over

[1:06:25] the freshly paved roads.

[1:06:31] Thank you.

[1:06:33] I had a couple of questions.

[1:06:37] One, we update annually.

[1:06:41] How do we see where we were that was modified to get to the 27 budget?

[1:06:51] What items shifted in and what items shifted out?

[1:06:54] That would question number one, and question number two, well, I'll ask question number one first.

[1:07:03] So, that review, we are establishing our annual tradition during goal setting.

[1:07:10] So, you were called that we'll have a portion of that session talking about the CIP and that helps to inform the budget,

[1:07:19] and this is kind of the annual review of what's going to happen in the year ahead.

[1:07:25] So, the goal setting really is that sometimes a one, two to five year review of certain projects that the council has said this is a priority and you're directed staff to kind of work to figure out how to fund this is really just a review in one year.

[1:07:43] Right, and I understand that, but it's a goal setting is still in a evolutionary project where we continue to add stuff or subtract things.

[1:07:57] How can we approve a capital improvement project?

[1:08:02] Budget with all of these line items that perhaps we haven't fully embedded?

[1:08:07] And you

[1:08:11] have a previous, either independent actions, recognizing that we highlighted the work

[1:08:19] that was being done on our roads in May.

[1:08:21] We talked about our breakwater project, I believe that was also in May.

[1:08:27] So independently, you have reviewed these projects.

[1:08:31] You're just listing them out as required by state law on one sheet.

[1:08:37] That's what tonight's about.

[1:08:38] Thank you.

[1:08:40] Then let me ask a second question.

[1:08:42] The Benecia Train Depot Preservation and Maintenance Project.

[1:08:46] Isn't that money coming out of settlement money?

[1:08:51] And so the settlement money just shifts into the CIP budget.

[1:08:58] Has taken out of that special account?

[1:09:02] The train depot project is funded by the import settlement money.

[1:09:08] I would add for the record that tonight's action is to prove the plan, not a budget.

[1:09:16] This is not a budget approval item.

[1:09:19] It's strictly a plan.

[1:09:21] And it was previously based on a two year budget that had a two year CIP program that was brought to Council in May of 2025.

[1:09:30] Right. And my only comment on that is my concern is that that was brought back in 2025 and we're

[1:09:39] looking at 27 with perhaps a fairly significant fiscal cliff. And there are things perhaps

[1:09:48] on in here that we might want to rethink. Thank you.

[1:09:57] So, how much of this Toro budget?

[1:10:00] There has been paid for by other sources of funding other than the city of Benisha.

[1:10:17] I could direct back to the funding sources. We have some grant participation in the budget that comes from outside sources,

[1:10:31] looking through it.

[1:10:35] The majority is enterprise and gas tax incentive bill one is a portion.

[1:10:46] I don't have the exact numbers of the breakout for, or your council member, but there

[1:10:53] is certainly some participation by outside sources.

[1:10:57] Right, because at the beginning of the presentation, you listed all the sources of funding.

[1:11:03] And it would be good to see how much money came from each source and what's not coming out of our taxpayer pockets.

[1:11:15] So, while this is a lot of bull plan, I feel like I want to approve the plan, but I want to make sure that I understand how it's getting paid for.

[1:11:27] Great, great question, Councilmember.

[1:11:29] A majority of it is the general fund and a lot of these have already been either budgeted or approved through council from our contract being brought.

[1:11:36] Obviously, we have the raw waterline, which we will be funding out of the utilities fund, but it will also hopefully be reimbursed within a couple years afterwards from FEMA along with other government agencies, but majority of this is the enterprise fund.

[1:11:54] Thank you for that.

[1:11:57] All right, I've got a few questions on the other,

[1:12:08] it's a small one, the diversity art

[1:12:10] mural project listed at $20,000.

[1:12:14] Are you aware that the air district has also made us a grant of $25,000 for that same project?

[1:12:20] And if so, is this a, are we going to need $45,000 for that project?

[1:12:25] or can we back this one out and you see your district money is dead?

[1:12:30] So again, to reiterate, this is not a budget, this is a plan for which we are aligning

[1:12:35] the cost for those projects.

[1:12:38] But I want to be sure that the work is aware that there is this other source coming in.

[1:12:45] And there's Dan, it's not a budget, but it is for planning purposes.

[1:12:48] staff is aware and staff is working with the Air District, however, there have been some hiccups.

[1:12:55] Really?

[1:12:56] I'm securing those dollars.

[1:12:58] But again, this isn't identifying the budget or the source of funding.

[1:13:03] It's just itemizing the work that will be done for our CIP plan.

[1:13:08] I hope you'll let me know about the hiccups that might be able to help with those.

[1:13:13] Are you aware that there is a meeting happening tomorrow at the Chamber about downtown Parking and I assume you guys are participating in this?

[1:13:26] Yes, Mayor.

[1:13:28] We are presenting.

[1:13:29] Okay.

[1:13:30] It's based on the 2728 pavement rehab program for the downtown.

[1:13:37] Well, it all happened to the downtown.

[1:13:38] And it will then also include discussion of potential changes

[1:13:42] to one way streets, two ways streets.

[1:13:48] That's currently not on our agenda.

[1:13:51] But there's something we've talked about at least up here

[1:13:54] is whether or not it makes sense to maybe move to one way

[1:13:57] from two ways to allow for perpendicular parking instead

[1:14:01] of parallel parking.

[1:14:03] Our consultants are looking into that currently

[1:14:05] when we do the actual projects scoping.

[1:14:08] But I think for the people who are going to show up tomorrow, they might ask that question.

[1:14:14] Or you might want to be prepared to discuss that.

[1:14:17] I would still respond the same way with our consultant.

[1:14:21] It will be investigating that and provide our feedback.

[1:14:24] If I really quickly jump in, it sounds very fruitful.

[1:14:30] But I think the item tonight is really about, you know,

[1:14:38] conformity with the general plan. So tomorrow's meeting sounds interesting, but is outside

[1:14:44] the scope of the item tonight, which is reviewing the capital improvement projects in

[1:14:49] conformity with the general plan.

[1:14:51] But presumably, we can add questions about those projects that are listed.

[1:14:57] Yes, in evaluating their conformity.

[1:15:00] Governments with the general plan and the city's actions on the budget and the city's action on the general plan.

[1:15:11] All right. Greenage improvements, project is listed somewhere here.

[1:15:18] And my question on that is it would it include concerns that people who live in the

[1:15:26] condos have raised about flooding. Is there that part of this drainage improvement project?

[1:15:35] Yes, it is. We are looking to provide backflow devices on the per-preventors on the drain

[1:15:44] which is that feed into the brain of property outside the brain of property.

[1:15:49] And I see that on the pavement, we have projects.

[1:15:51] You've got two 27 and 28, and that's, you said, for design purposes.

[1:15:58] 400,000 for 27,100,000 for 28.

[1:16:01] If you're going to do them both next year, why wouldn't you just do them all together in one project

[1:16:05] design for both years?

[1:16:08] That's the plan.

[1:16:11] We are looking at the downtown pieces collectively to make sure that we're not missing an opportunity to do the design together.

[1:16:22] But the reason you see a larger amount for the 2027 project is because we will come to completion of the 27 project in fiscal 27.

[1:16:30] the design of it, the completion of the, we will begin with planning elements of the 28 projects.

[1:16:39] That's why you're seeing a lesser amount for the 28 projects.

[1:16:42] All right, and one more, having to do with the, and I read it wrong initially, on the East

[1:16:50] Age 7 Street, I thought we don't have West 7 Street.

[1:16:54] So an ongoing issue in the community is a conditional West 7 Street.

[1:16:58] And when people ask about it, I say, well, we're waiting on doing a sewer line or a water line replacement.

[1:17:06] And then after that, we can actually repay it.

[1:17:10] So two questions.

[1:17:13] When is that scheduled to happen?

[1:17:15] The replacement of that water slash sewer line, I'm not sure which it is.

[1:17:19] And when it happens, will it also include repaying the road?

[1:17:24] assume that once the work is done, a contractor or somebody's going to have to repair and

[1:17:29] repave that section of 7th Street. Am I right on the last part?

[1:17:36] As it relates to the utility work, we are doing a condition assessment to verify the work

[1:17:41] that's needed on the utility. Underneath West 7th and confirm what's needed in that area,

[1:17:48] simultaneously we've planned to do the work on West 7th, the pavement

[1:17:55] we have, no later than 2029, we have a grant application in safe streets for all to do the

[1:18:03] that could potentially accelerate the work that's 2028.

[1:18:07] But we wouldn't do it before we actually replace the water line.

[1:18:10] Correct.

[1:18:11] We're looking at the utility piece and we'll have that in line so that neither of those schedules

[1:18:18] are.

[1:18:19] No later than 2029 would West 7th be done.

[1:18:23] I was going to be happy for a lot of people, but that is the answer and all except.

[1:18:30] Okay, that's the last question I had.

[1:18:31] Is there any public, let's go to public comment?

[1:18:34] Is there anybody on the audience who would like to make any public comment on the capital on public land?

[1:18:40] All right, seeing none, is there anybody online who would like to make comment on the public on the CIP?

[1:18:47] All right, so the request is to

[1:18:52] Dr. Ruthelution approving the revised fiscal 2016-27 capital improvement program.

[1:18:59] I'm looking for a motion in that regard.

[1:19:01] I'll move it.

[1:19:04] And I'll second it.

[1:19:07] So, Ms. Wolf, please call the roll.

[1:19:10] Council members, part-time?

[1:19:12] Larguis Fata?

[1:19:13] Ms. Sensei?

[1:19:15] Yes.

[1:19:15] And that takes us to the act.

[1:19:19] report this is our individual reports on different parts of the

[1:19:24] Valero transition and so I'll start on my left.

[1:19:30] Do we have anything to report from Mr. Largis Fata?

[1:19:33] Right, this word says.

[1:19:34] Yeah, mayor.

[1:19:36] Council members got.

[1:19:37] Short one spoke to you signature.

[1:19:40] Talk to Mike said that they're continuing to do their outreach programs.

[1:19:45] There's another open house in the library in September.

[1:19:51] There are a number or more planned throughout the September October time frame and that.

[1:20:00] That they're looking for a, they're continuing to look to a false middle of a land use plan or pre-application.

[1:20:07] All right. And I will report as I usually do on air district grants. It's getting down to the point of actually

[1:20:17] We've still haven't heard what the recommendation is going to be from the air district in terms of the catalyst grant with us and the school district who are

[1:20:27] in line to split or

[1:20:30] some portion of the $40 million that's in the catalyst grant.

[1:20:35] We hope to hear something by the end of the week.

[1:20:38] The board itself will act on that catalyst grant on September 2.

[1:20:42] Well, that'll be a big day for the community

[1:20:45] and depending on how the recommendations come down.

[1:20:49] And then the other one is for the opportunity grants.

[1:20:52] And if you are a representative of a group that

[1:20:56] applied for opportunity grants, you should know,

[1:20:59] if you haven't heard already, that the district will be

[1:21:02] having a meeting of the equity and housing

[1:21:06] and justice committee,

[1:21:08] And reviewing the recommendations from the staff on September the 9th at 1pm.

[1:21:16] And so I asked for a list of all the Venetia related opportunity grant applicants, so that they can be notified that this is going to happen.

[1:21:25] It will be available on Zoom or you can come down to San Francisco or else a read-o to participate in person.

[1:21:31] But I've got some concerns about how the Optine Grant program has been designed and is

[1:21:39] functioning that I'm going to be asking, talking about, but I would like to get some support

[1:21:43] from others who are the actual applicants and get their experience on the record and let the

[1:21:49] other directors hear about it because I think we need to make some changes in how that program

[1:21:54] has been designed and this is you know we're the first applicant the first round of grants

[1:22:01] and it'll for us will be the last one but for other parts of the Bay Area under the

[1:22:06] air district jurisdiction they're going to be doing this routinely and I think we need to

[1:22:11] make some fixes to make this a little bit more reasonable and equitable and a program that is

[1:22:17] currently out there. So September 9th is a date for I'm looking at Maryland but if you're

[1:22:22] anybody else out there who was an applicant, they should be aware that September 9th

[1:22:27] at 1 o'clock is something that you should set aside to talk to the district and the board

[1:22:32] members about opportunity grant. And that's all I have on that. And I do want to say one

[1:22:43] thing before we adjourn. If I take a moment to remember two individuals who had significant

[1:22:51] portions of their lives spent in Venetia and serve the community in a number of ways.

[1:22:58] We recently learned of the passing of Will Tarbo, who was our public works director.

[1:23:04] And also today we just learned that Pierre Bedouf, former police chief and

[1:23:10] Biti Council member passed away today.

[1:23:14] Both Mr. Tarbo and Mr. Bedouf serve the city in leadership positions.

[1:23:19] It made significant contributions to the city and we're grateful for their years of public service and extend our sincere condolences to their family and friends and former colleagues and everybody who knew them.

[1:23:34] And so I would like to just ask for a moment of silence in their memory.

[1:23:43] Thank you and with that we are adjourned.

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