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You can download the agenda for this meeting at www.

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bakersfield City. us. Preceding over this evening's meeting, the Honorable

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Mayor Karen K. go. Good evening. It's my pleasure to

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call it to order the 515 Regular City Council meeting

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of August 26, 2026. Madam Clerk, please call the role.

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Here. Council Member Arias. Here. Council Member Gonzalez. Here. Council

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Member Weir. Council Member Smith. I'm here. Council Member Coeman.

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Here. Council Member back here, Tash. Here. Thank you and

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welcome to all of you. Thank you, the Civic Pro.

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To not interpreter, time elects the interpreter come forward and

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very quickly let the audience know that equipment is available

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in Spanish.

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Hola, muy buenas tardes a todos. Bienvenidos a esta reunión

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el día de hoy. El día de hoy vamos a

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tener interpretación simultánea a través de la reunión para acceder

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a la interpretación si tenemos el equipo justo atrás de

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la sala para quien aún no ha recibido equipo. Cuando

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usted tenga venir a acompañarle. Thank you. Statements portion of

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the meeting you'll need to pre - register at the

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kiosks in the backstaff is there ready to assist you

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if needed. And before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge

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that PurSTAF's recommendation, Public Hearing Item 8A. That's the vesting

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tentative track map appeal. We'll be open and continue to

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the September 16th. While the today we inheld September 16th

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meeting. Tonight we have the pleasure of having

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Father Jimmy Milan, who's Vicker at St. Joseph Catholic Church

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to offer the invocation. Thank you, Father, so much for

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your service to our community. I know your church is

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actively involved in food drives and outreach. And you just

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recently performed the Westfield Beauty Money. Jen Michelle Antonio Donnie,

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who is a senior at Garthus Memorial High School will

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lead us in the pledge. Michelle is a Ford Dimension

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Dream Builder and she's here with her mentor and advisor

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Peggy. Michelle has a 4. 8 GPA.

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Wow. She's National Honor His Country Trust Soccer and Tennis.

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She's founder and president of the on - campus club

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got the dot. She's president of C. S. F. President

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of Helping Hands. Student Council President and Vice President of

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the Bass Club. She's the leader of the Healthy Committee

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and the Inrect Club. Link Glut Cancer Money Sampas Leadership

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Program. Michelle, what an incredible person you are and we're

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just so proud to have you in our community. Father,

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would you all please stand now. Let us gather for

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prayer.

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Almighty God. We give you thanks for the blessing of

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the wrist of the gifts them and there is and

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bless them as they work for the common good.

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Bless the people of Bakers Field, especially our families, our

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children. Those who are most struggling at this time may

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our city of Bakersfield continue to grow in prosperity, peace,

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and goodwill. Guide all who participate in this meeting today

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at their deliberations may bear good fruit for our community.

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Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United

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States of America. And to the Republic for which it

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stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice

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for all. Thank you. And Michelle, would you like to

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officially introduce your advisor.

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And you all make you. And Director of the Ford

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Dream Builders and Dimension Program, which I'm very excited to

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be a part of. And yeah, I look forward to

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getting to know her more throughout the course of the

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year. Thank you so much. Thank you, Michelle. Father, thank

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you so much.

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Here a few guidelines to help our meeting run smoothly.

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We request that you turn up. Applause is allowed during

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the presentations portion of the meeting only, but not during

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other portions of the meeting. Everyone in attendance or by

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phone is expected to adhere to the rules of decorum

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established by Resolution of the City Council. Failure to abide

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by the city's rules of decorum, including any disruptive behavior

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that INT meeting business first warning to everyone participating that

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conduct, that disrupts this meeting may result in expulsion and

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or the chambers being cleared. Behavior that disrupts the meeting

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includes repetitive statements, shouting, hate speech, interrupting staff or presenters

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during the meeting, speaking out of turn outbursts, or exposed

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attending Madam Clext item, please.

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Presentations item 4A, proclamation to Leslie Bloomquist and Mary Stanley

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of Baby Cafe, Monica De Los Santos of Clinica Serra

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Vista, WIC, Marissa Reyanoso Ortiz, and Katie Reynoldso of the

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Corn Breastfeeding Month August 2026.

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Thank you. Strengthening breastfeeding support and Resources promotes healthier beginnings

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for Children and families and contributes to the health and

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well - being of our community. It's my honor to

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read this proclamation. Whereas August is recognized nationally as national

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breastfeeding meeting, mother, families, and communities. And whereas breastfeeding provides

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infants with essential nutrition and protection contributing to healthy growth

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and development while also benefiting the health of mothers. And

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whereas organizations and professionals throughout Bakersfield and Kern County, including

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baby Cafe Bakersville, Gradidiac on Ebres, families with breastfeeding education,

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support, resources, and services. And whereas the city of Bakersfield

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is committed to supporting children and families within our community.

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Now therefore I, Karen Gomir, the city of Bakersfield. Do

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you hereby proclaim August 2026 as National Presidents to Rest

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Beating Education, support, and Resources. It's data this 26 -

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day of August. It's my honor to build a present

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this proclamation.

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Good evening, Mayor Council members and staff. My name is

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Marissa Reynoso and I'm the original breastfeeding community. National Breastfeeding

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Month reminds us of the important role breastfeeding plays in

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supporting the health and well - being of both mothers

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and babies.

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The American Academy of Pediatric recommends breastfeeding exclusively for the

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first six months and continuing breastfeeding alongside solid foods through

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age two and beyond. It is also a time to

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recognize the often fishing life. Their dedication, perseverance, and love

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to be celebrated and supported. Today I'm honored to stand

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alongside our partners from Clinica Sierra Vista. Baby Cafe and

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the Corneet County Breastfeeding Coalition as we work together to

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support and power and advocate for breastfeeding families throughout Bakersfield.

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Thank you again for your recognition.

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Oh, my name is Reva. I'm an IBCLC and the

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co - chair for the current county breastfeeding coalition. Our

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coalition brings together Community Partners to provide breastfeeding education, lactation

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support, resources, outreach events, and advocacy through compassionate support and

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collaboration, re - enreast feeding world breastfeed theme is rise,

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strengthen with works. So together we're strengthening families, educating and

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creating healthier beginnings for all of Kern County. And I'm

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going to pass it over to Mary.

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Good evening, everybody. My name is Mary's. My name is

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a baby Cafe. We are a nonprofit 501C organization providing

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cost - free, professional breastfeeding support to our community and

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beyond. It is imperative that we recognize breastfeeding as a

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biological norm. And create an environmental culture

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that makes it easier for others to breastfeed in public

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breastfeedings to multiple, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, who,

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which is the World Health Organization, recommend exclusive breastfeeding for

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six months and continued breastfeeding for two years as complementary

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foods are added. And you just heard that. Increasing breastfeeding

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rates is a Public Health issue.

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The more babe communists have recognizing August, 2026 is world

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breastfeeding month. And improving this proclamation. And I'm going to

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introduce, I think it's Monica. Is that right? There we

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go. Thank you. You're welcome.

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My name is Monica DeLosandra. The first thing you breastfeeding

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is healthier Future by improving outcomes for babies and parents

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alike. When we promote, protect and support breastfeeding, we strengthen

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not only individual families, but our entire community. Together, we

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are investing in the health, well - being and success

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of future generations. Thank you.

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Thank. You so much.

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Madam Clerk, next item, please. Preset 4B2

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- Jason Guerrero, President and Claudia Guerrero, Vice President of

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Gigi, the Warrior, declaring Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in Bakersfield

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during September 2026. Colleagues Childhood Cancer is one of the

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leading causes of death for children in the United States.

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Each year nearly 16, 000 children between birth and 19

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years of eight are diets, sir. No cancer cancer. It's

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my honor to read this proclamation.

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Whereas cancer knows no boundaries affecting all ethnic and socioeconomic

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groups. And whereas increase awareness and research will help educate

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the Public on early diagnosis and provide readily accessible clinical

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care to patients in need. And whereas dedicated health professional

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agent cancer, but there's children deserve the chance to dream

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big, discover new interests and live to their absolute potential

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while fighting the disease. Now therefore, I, Karen Gomer, the

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City of Bakersfield, do hereby proclaim September, 2026 as childhood

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cancer awareness month in our city and urge all residents

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of fighting to August. Been through some, sorry, you've been

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through some challenging times with Gigi and all. And so

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inviting you now to offer some. Thank you so much

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for your support.

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Good evening, Mayor Go, members of the city, Community Leader,

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Fronts, and everyone else who's here at her cancer. And

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to every your justice cancer. For our family childhood cancer

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isn't just a cause. It's our story. On February 14th

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of 2019, our world changed when our daughter, Gio, was

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diagnosed with leukemia.

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Gigi spent two and a half years going through intense

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treatment. There were difficult days, scary days, and days where

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we simply had to take things one day at a

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time. But the words like her can to watch her

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move forward. I also know that her story. Is only

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one. Their children currently fight in cancer, family sitting in

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a hospital room and parents praying for the same outcome

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that we were blessed to receive. That is why

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our awareness matters. September gives us an opportunity to make

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Chagart cancer visible to wear gold to talk about it

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to some appointments childhood candidate also represent. GG is leaving

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is living proof that there can be a life after

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Chahedher diagnosis.

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Her journey has inspired our family to turn experience into

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a purpose and to continue advocating for the Children and

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Families affected by cancer. So this September, I ask everyone

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to go gold with this, not just for Juju, but

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for every child fighting and every.

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There's a period for items listed on the meeting agenda

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and items not on the meeting agenda. Additionally, pursuant to

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changes in state law. The City Council will now accept

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Public Statements via phone and in person.

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Statements for items listed on tonight's agenda are given a

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two - minute time limit, 10 minutes for participants by

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phone. The consent calendar as a whole constitutes one agenda

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item. Statements regarding items not listed on the agenda are

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given a two - minute time limit.

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10 minutes for participants by phone and 10 minutes for

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in - person participants 20 minutes total. If you have

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written comments that are longer than your verbal statement, give

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them to the clerk who will give copies to the

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council. Kia available to select whether you're here to speak

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on an item listed on tonight's agenda or in a

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matter not on the agenda. Speakers who do not identify

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specific agenda item will be presumed speakers for the non

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- agenda portion and will be called during the non

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- agenda portion of the meeting.

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If you're here on consent calendar public hearing item 7A8A

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now is not the time to speak. You will be

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given an opportunity to speak when those items are called

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later in the meeting. Madam Clerk, do we have any

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public speakers for items not listed on the agenda. Marigo.

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We have received. Four requests. To speak by. Phone.

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And 21 requests to speak currently connected. We Alejandra Sia.

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And as you can tell by that number of speakers,

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uh, we're going to run out of time. So I

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would ask that you make your comments succinctly and we'll

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try to get in as many people as possible. Also,

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this is only our third time using this new system.

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And so if we have a few challenges, we're just

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going to give each other grace. And I hope you'll

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do that also. First speaker.

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Member. My name is Ali Hadrath with building healthy community.

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S current. We've spent years working alongside residents to cause

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biggest fields, including any spaker field to build healthier, senior

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neighborhood. We're here semantic that it was the city succeed

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in creating a general plan that for every part of

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making so not just the fear. We agree with the

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data and partners that leadership council share. The city map

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shows a nice expensive gap of up to 20 years.

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Between east and. West basics. That's how those exactly why

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this general PN update is our best chance to get

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legal strike. With them. So base this process takes success.

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We support the standalone environmental justice. Elements. We believe putting

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these goals in a dedicated aging element gift to city,

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a better path. To address these long study health camp.

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And finally, we also agree on the need for BILEGO

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DD works. Breaking technical documents into real Spanish language. Conversations

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help us continue building trust and gain real feedback. Thank

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you for your time. Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Next speaker.

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Ariel. Dyer. Ms Dyer.

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Hi. Everyone. My name is Ariel. Dyer. I am a

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li. And co - founder of. Anti - capitalist. Pearclub.

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When I attended June City Council meetings to address concern

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about the lack of transparency, oversight and Public Input regarding

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the city's contract, the surveillance technology that cities have by

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the debt of space and healthy neighborhoods committee meeting. Since

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then, that committee has been twice. But has yet approached

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the topic of flock. Meanwhile, we've been addressing it. We

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hosted a town hall last Wednesday and over 50 people

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showed up to learn more about this technology and to

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share their own concerns. City Council members mayor, vice mayor

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staff and civic chill police department were notably absent from

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this generative and informative discussion. In fact, instead of engaging

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in direct dialogue with us, BPD has been busy at

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our community. And in some cases has given them information

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that directly contradicts that they have told us. BPD allegedly

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has a policy requiring officers to include case numbers and

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FOC database queries. And yet, the laws we received show

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many entries that lack supposedly required information. According to Lieutenant

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Backbeat, the Department regularly ought to state a big churches.

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But when we submitted a CPRA request, we were told

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this is. The Public deserves transparency, a chality, and a

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voice as to what the Bakersfield Police Department and the

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city uses to monitor us. In our town hall last

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week, screws that constituents want their voices heard. Will you

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listen. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dyer. Next Speaker, please.

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Just a reminder. Applause is not allowed other than during

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the presentations portion. We know that you're passionate, but we

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just ask that you be respectful. Thank you. Madam Clerk,

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next speaker, please. Council Member Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. Uh,

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Mr. Clegg, if I can, I'm going to make a

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referral tonight that we reach out to Miss Dyer and

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have a conversation. I believe I made a referral. Over

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a year ago regarding the use of lock systems and

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the protocols. That should be established. Um, I think it's

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important that we address this concern with our community members

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and have this conversation with them. I am sorry, Mr.

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I wasn't aware of this community meeting. Um, and, uh,

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I'm sorry, I missed it. But, uh, would hope that

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the city manager can have a conversation with, uh, these

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community members. Thanks. Thank you, Councillor Memphis. Madam City Attorney

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Next Speaker, please. Marigo, we're moving on to the in

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- person speaker's next. The first speaker is Denise Gary

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Pandal. Very, Pandal, thank you

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very much. Um, I appreciate the opportunity to be here.

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Thank you. And I want to raise the issue of

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the rule of law resolution. I'm asking tonight that it

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be brought before you on the agenda. And there be

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an up and down vote. What is it concern. The

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Resolution, the rule of law Resolution for the Public who

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doesn't know.

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Has to do with the issue of sanctuary city state.

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Very concerned that you're hiding behind, I believe, political considerations

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as opposed to not putting it on the agenda and

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having an up and down vote. I remind all of

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you that you are elected to be representatives within a

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constitutional republic. And therefore have a duty under the supremacy

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clause. The supremacy clause makes clear. That federal law and

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constitutional law Trump or take precedent under local or state

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law.

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Therefore, since you all took an oath to uphold the

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Constitution, you're holding a constitutional trust as an office holder.

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Futection and safety of every individual in the community and

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their property, first enforced most. It's part of our declaration

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of independence. It's part of what our founding fathers said

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in the Declaration of Independence when he wrote that we

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are all given an alienable rights and among these are

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the right to, this is two, our Constitution. And it's

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a critical. That you put the rule of law. Thank

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you, Ms. Garrett Penny, of the agenda and have an

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up or down vote. Thank you. If not, you should

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design. Next speaker, please. Natalie Santa Maria.

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Welcome, listen to these yourself. Good afternoon. Um, my name

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is Nathalie Santamaría. I am a promotora and I'm here.

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I'm representation of my organization visioni compromiso.

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I'm here to talk about the general plan and to

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make, uh, two requests of and create with to do

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Community Forums so that we can allow Community members, especially

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those that are monolingual in Spanish to understand what the

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general plan is. The draft was being proposed and have

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an opportunity to have some input. Um, again, we're willing

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to work with the city. I know we've been very

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successful in the past. So I hope that this leads

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to speakers evocated. I know it's included some environmental justices

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included in the quality of life. However, um, link to

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SB, Senate Bill 1000, we are asking that environmental justice

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chapter standalone be created. There's a lot of this advantages

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as you've read between the east and the West average

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to the decisions that have been made. So again, we

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look forward to continuing the conversation and that collaboration with

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the cities so that we can create this forums. And

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we can also look to a way of having an

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environmental justice chapter standalone for this general plan. Thank you.

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Thank you Mr. Maria. Madam Clerk, next speaker, please.

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Welcome, please turn to dish yourself.

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Thank you. Good evening Mayor and City Council members. My

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name is Abby Power. I work with leadership council for

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justice and accountability. And the comments I'm sharing tonight reflect

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feedback from Community members. All of your support. What I

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wanted to show is a map of disadvantaged communities in

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Bakersfield. If you look at that map, you'll see that

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almost all of e - speakers - field communities are

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designated as disadvantage. According to Colin Virus Green, many of

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these Communities also face a pollution burden that is higher

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than 90 percent of all census tracks in the state.

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You'll also see that there are very few disadvantaged communities

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on the West side of the city. This map displays

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what many of you already know pollution. This health outcomes

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and lower life expectancy. According to a map in the

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city's existing conditions report, the majority of residents of e

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- speakers field have a life expectancy that's between 57

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to 78 years, which compares to a life expectancy for

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residents of West Bakersfield that is on average between 78

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to 97 years, which is a huge difference. SB 1000

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requires that the general plan consolicy plan which states maintains

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many of the plans EJ policies, but this is not

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a dedicated EJ element. And EJ policies are not woven

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throughout all other chapters. It did. The general plan also

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does not take enough meaningful action to reduce the unique

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and compounded health risks faced by disadvantaged communities, which SB

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1000 requires. So we're asking the city to show a

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commitment to reversing the harm of previous playing decisions CISES

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LEM also language workshops as participation and feedback is crucial

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to creating policies that address the needs of disadvantaged communities,

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which is a requirement of SB 1000. Soley publishing a

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technical document on the website does not do enough to

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facilitate resident input and it has not been published in

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any language other than English. Thank you. Thank you, Ms.

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Powell. Madam Clerkneck, speaker, please.

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Rod. Geiss. Oh, thank you. Uh, good evening City Council.

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Um, after July 15th, my name is Rod Geiss, G

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- U - I - C - E - Made

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call and back forum. In response at the August 5th

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meeting, I was proud to submit a resolution by Dr.

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Angelo Frazier to designate Bakersfield a rule of lost city.

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And I urge the council to act on it. Unfortunately,

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there's been no action. And this is, uh, this is

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a little disappointing. And

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I don't know where sanctuary city policies stand or proposals

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to answer is your opportunity to produce something tangible. It

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avoids the waste of time, money, and resources that a

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truth act for them would incur. It mitigates the accelerating

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cost of sustaining a growing population of foreign nationals.

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A rule of law city, Resolution would also show that

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we honor our veterans who fought to provide citizens, California

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opposed sanctuary city policies such as Santa Clarita, Corona, Huntington

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Beach, and more, as well as cities in Texas, Florida,

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and Iowa. America is a nation of law, and most

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citizens agree to support, defend, and abbail. This is your

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opportunity to show the citizens that you stand with us.

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President Ages, one more of you to please stand and

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champion the rule of law city resolution. We the people

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are not going away. Thank you for your service to

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our community. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Geiss. Next speaker,

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please. Reverend Dr. Angel Frazier.

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My name is Reverend Frazier. Thank you, council member Zach,

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for your previous actions regarding the Pudding or Tabling of

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the Sanctuary Policy. We are the same when I play

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basketball in Germany. It was a GNU, that's the GNU.

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And it means enough is enough. Current and former city

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and state elected officials have confirmed to me or resume

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law Resolution can help prevent that sanctuary city proposal from

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ever returning. Have we moved so far away from the

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fundamental principles of our Constitution that we can no longer

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stomach the idea of the rule of law.

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The Constitution and your oath of offers must guide less.

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I am the agenda for an up and down vote.

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Thank you for your consideration. Thank you, Reverend Frazier. Next

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speaker, please. Andrade Capolino.

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When us, my name, I'm a resident of Southwest Bakersfield

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Ward VIN with Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, among

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other organizations. Social Advocate and Proud Daughter and Granddaughter of

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Immigrants. I'm here tonight to speak to you about the

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Bakersville General Plan. Something I love about this city is

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the joy we have in coming together in community.

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The countless, the way we have full cities, view things

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that instantly come to mind, trees, fresh air, walkable areas,

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and places together in community. That is the vision I

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have for Bakersfield.

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Clean air is a right, not something earned. The disproportioned

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rates of pollution and the disadvantaged areas of Bakersfield is

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a deep concern. And to be taken seriously. Environment Concernant,

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heart lung cancer, and more.

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The general plan must include actions to appropriately zone the

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city and reduce harmful pollutants as outlined in SB 1000.

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As B - 1000 is the law requiring that the

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general plan in cities with disadvantaged communities aimed to reduce

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harmful pollutants associated with health risks. I ask the city

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to commit Justice LM's opponent in the way to reverse

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the harm in disadvantaged communities.

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I was here a few weeks ago with the ask

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to actively engage with the Community. I thank you for

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extending the date for Community Comment. However, at this time

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we are still waiting for Spanish and Pujambee translations and

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active Community Workshops and Engagement. It is also a requirement

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of the plan to be transparent and include Community Feedback

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or Health and the Ends can. Thank you. Thank you,

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Ms. Andrade Capolino. Council Member Gonzalez. Thank you Mayor. Thank

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you so much for your comments tonight. And I just

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want to thank all of the Community members who have

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joined us this evening to talk about the general plan

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and to offer up some of your ideas. I need

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to do some research on some of this. But I

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do want to say a couple of things tonight so

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that they may make copies. I think we do have

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copies. Perfect. Uh, because I would like to review that

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map and respect the fact that you prepared that for

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us. And I think the Full Council should be able

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to review that. Thank you so much. The other thing

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is, um, I do think that, uh, we ought to

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prepare documents in multiple languages. We can ensure bilingual or

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in some cases trilingual so that we can reach out

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and have meaningful conversations with many of our stakeholders. But

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as somebody who's been working in East Bakersfield and trying

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to revitalize the east side for 20 years now, uh,

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you know, this is a big passion of mine and

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something that's dear to my heart and would like to

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see many more in this process. Speaker, please. Klaus Valenti.

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Welcome, please interduce yourself.

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You guys address concern all over the city. I'm not

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necessarily anti - please, but with my experience growing up

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in Bakersfield, I do not trust the information and mass

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surveillance will be used ethically by our law enforcement and

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officials. We're already seeing examples of nationwide of law enforcement

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using Inflation recorded by flock cameras to track and stock

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personal contacts.

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And I don't know how I can attention of their

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books right for privacy. Statements such as you're fine if

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you have nothing to hide or as long as you

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aren't doing anything wrong, you'll be fine. Are not encouraging

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when our government is actively changing what is considered wrong

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and unacceptable.

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And in regard to our officials and law enforcement saying

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flock cameras have helped them solve vehicle related crimes. Hearing

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this is not encouraging. They can't do this of AI.

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I'm not necessarily anti - police. I do appreciate seeing

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if our officials and law enforcement could develop a spine

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against float cameras moving forward. Thank you. Thank you Mr.

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Filanti. Next speaker please. Maria Stahlcup.

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Welcome, please turn to Deduce Yourself. Good evening. My name

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is Maria Stalkup. I'm here to talk about flock cameras.

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I have lived in Bakerfield for almost 20 years as

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a private citizen. And I believe that still means something.

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I am a private person. I raise both of my

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sons here, worked here and kept to myself for these

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00:53:55,823 --> 00:53:57,962
20 years. This is the first time I've ever been

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00:53:58,002 --> 00:54:00,122
to a city council meeting, but I felt compelled to

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00:54:00,162 --> 00:54:02,682
be here issue. I've ever been arrested in Grounds. Be

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00:54:02,682 --> 00:54:05,242
surveilled by flock cameras. When I drive around, I see

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00:54:05,423 --> 00:54:08,202
endless amounts of Cyber Junk cluttering our street corners and

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00:54:08,202 --> 00:54:10,362
parking lots until recently I thought that I was the

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00:54:10,362 --> 00:54:13,322
only one who didn't understand why these were here. That

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is until I started reading about flock. It turns out

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00:54:15,922 --> 00:54:18,042
that people all over the country are wondering the same

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00:54:18,223 --> 00:54:20,202
things that I am. Where did these cameras come from

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00:54:20,463 --> 00:54:23,402
and why? And growing numbers, members of the Public are

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00:54:23,423 --> 00:54:25,962
rejecting this technology come to City Council. Other and many

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00:54:26,063 --> 00:54:30,082
now neighborhood of Northwest Bakersfield from our neighborhood app. My

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00:54:30,082 --> 00:54:32,042
truck was stolen 41 days ago from the parking lot

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00:54:32,223 --> 00:54:34,282
at Home Depot on Rosedal Highway. I failed a report

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00:54:34,383 --> 00:54:37,002
immediately and my truck still has not been located just

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00:54:37,002 --> 00:54:39,382
saying these flock cameras are not all that great. The

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00:54:39,583 --> 00:54:42,442
flock cameras aren't really going to help normal people. They're

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to protect businesses and sell your location data. These flock

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00:54:45,802 --> 00:54:49,082
cameras are BS at the lawsuit benefit stand for makes

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00:54:49,082 --> 00:54:50,602
me think we are a bunch of sheep that need

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00:54:50,642 --> 00:54:53,402
to be herded. These are the quotes that I've received

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00:54:53,442 --> 00:54:56,682
from this app. Overall our community members do not seem

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00:54:56,722 --> 00:55:00,202
to understand what flock cameras are for. Why would they?

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They were put into place without prior approval and no

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00:55:02,863 --> 00:55:05,962
oversight or voting on the matter. At the very least,

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00:55:05,962 --> 00:55:07,802
why is the search data not being audited by the

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city? How are we to trust our most core until

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this surveillance like this. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Stoker.

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00:55:16,657 --> 00:55:23,743
Madam Clerk. Next speaker, please. Brandon Bane.

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00:55:40,506 --> 00:55:47,525
Talk about fluff. Since 2024 1550 cases of Misuse of

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00:55:47,546 --> 00:55:52,165
Flock cameras have been noted state countrywide by law enforcement

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and on law enforcement visuals mainly used to stock X

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00:55:55,765 --> 00:55:58,245
- Partners, current partners and just random individuals.

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00:56:08,944 --> 00:56:15,870
In 2025, Johnson Howling shares roughly 6, 000 networks. To

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00:56:15,870 --> 00:56:18,910
locate a woman who is trying to get legal health

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00:56:18,931 --> 00:56:22,110
care and an abortion and another state world health that

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00:56:22,110 --> 00:56:27,502
is illegal. But that is legal. These cameras are invasions

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00:56:27,542 --> 00:56:31,190
of privacies. They are down their harassment.

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00:56:40,342 --> 00:56:42,481
Many of us feel like we are being constantly harassed.

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Like we're being German Franklin of their safety either. And

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I ask you, please do review. And honestly end our

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00:56:48,761 --> 00:56:51,421
contract with flock and to remove these cameras. As soon

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00:56:51,461 --> 00:56:55,021
as possible. Please and thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bain.

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And Madam City clerk. Our final speaker.

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Well, please introduce yourself. Good evening. My name is Jason

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00:57:16,796 --> 00:57:21,672
Cipriano. Yesterday, August 25th at Norris Middle School Dismissal, Officer

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00:57:21,773 --> 00:57:25,832
Chrisman ID 119 cited me for parking behind a line

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00:57:25,832 --> 00:57:27,912
of other parents while picking up my son.

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00:57:41,213 --> 00:57:44,152
Before she even spoke to me, drivers who saw parking

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00:57:44,192 --> 00:57:47,672
enforcement arrived began erratically accelerating through the parking lot full

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00:57:47,712 --> 00:57:50,392
of fairs complaining the ticket, but that's not what her

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00:57:50,392 --> 00:57:53,272
about. I'm asking for written answer from the city manager

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and the police chief on whether BakerShield Police Department has

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00:57:56,493 --> 00:58:00,792
a policy governing parking enforcement during active school dismissal while

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00:58:00,792 --> 00:58:04,232
children are walking between vehicles. Because yesterday, the way that

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00:58:04,272 --> 00:58:07,632
enforcement was being conducted didn't make dismissal any safer. It

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caused panic drivers to accelerate through what should have been,

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00:58:11,512 --> 00:58:13,752
what it should. Damn it. Thank you. Thank you Mr.

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Chapurano.

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And so this ends this portion of our meeting. This

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00:58:36,630 --> 00:58:38,950
is the allotted time. You're welcome. For those of you

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00:58:38,990 --> 00:58:41,110
who didn't get a chance to speak to come back

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00:58:41,611 --> 00:58:44,370
at other meetings, to write to us, but thank you

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00:58:44,370 --> 00:58:47,830
for being here to participate. Metal clerk, do we have

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00:58:47,830 --> 00:58:51,750
any public speakers regarding items that listed consent KINIS item

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10A? That's the Interfund Loan or New Business Item 11A

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00:58:57,131 --> 00:59:00,230
Clean City Special Project Funds. Now is the time to

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speak. And the clerk will call for Speakers, but we're

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00:59:02,870 --> 00:59:06,950
going to, it was 11A and I didn't tell them

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it was 11A. Okay, thank you. So go ahead and

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00:59:09,630 --> 00:59:11,730
sit down. We're going to let, for those of you

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00:59:11,730 --> 00:59:15,710
who'd like to write just for the City cleric, if

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00:59:15,710 --> 00:59:24,305
you heard Mr. Ologas, it's for 11A. Margot, we have

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00:59:24,345 --> 00:59:31,046
received. 12 requests to speak on the Consent Calendar one

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by phone and 11 in person. And then we've received

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four requests to speak. I apologize. Five requests to speak.

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00:59:43,350 --> 00:59:47,049
On new business I at 11 person. The first, it

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looks like the individual who signed up to speak by

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phone has not connected. We will start with the in

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- person speakers. For the consent calendar. The first speaker

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00:59:59,942 --> 01:00:02,922
is Karina. Funez.

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Welcome, please introduce yourself. Good evening, honorable members of the

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Bakershield City Council. My name is Karina Funes and I

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am the policy manager at Blues Zone's Project Bakers Field.

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01:00:28,673 --> 01:00:30,772
On behalf of Blue Zone's Project BakerSield, I want to

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express our sincere appreciation to the city of Bakersfield for

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taking this important step. Towards creating healthier, safer, and more

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01:00:40,106 --> 01:00:43,266
welcoming parks for our community by moving towards Smoke Free

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01:00:43,367 --> 01:00:45,586
Parks. We are great friendship and for the collaboration with

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manager's office office and our city council members.

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Creating smokery parks is an important investment in the health

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01:00:59,450 --> 01:01:03,530
and well - being of Bakersfield residents. Families and visitors,

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01:01:03,530 --> 01:01:05,050
and we are excited to see our city take this

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01:01:05,231 --> 01:01:09,930
step. In 2024, Blues Zone's Project Bakersfield began conducting tobacco

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01:01:09,970 --> 01:01:13,690
letter cleanups at Parks throughout Bakersfield. Unfortunately, we found tobacco

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litter at every park we visit adult park around the

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most litter around benches, picnic tables, and in parking lots.

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Because of what we have seen firsthand through these cleanups,

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we do have one small recommendation that we believe could

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help strengthen the policy and insurance intent is clear. We

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respectfully ask that parking lotsby explicitly included in the language

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or that including BeChange to Intections Open to however we

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want to emphasize that this recommendation comes from a place

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of support for the policy and appreciation for the Worth

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01:02:02,821 --> 01:02:05,181
the City has already done. We are very excited about

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01:02:05,221 --> 01:02:07,501
the direction the city is taking and are grateful to

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01:02:07,541 --> 01:02:09,901
see Bakers - Living towards healthier, smoke - free public

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01:02:09,941 --> 01:02:13,101
places. We look forward to continuing to work alongside the

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city to make bakery a healthier, safer Community where we

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can all Burgess.

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Mayor Gus Crystal. I work into backup - prevention education.

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01:02:55,114 --> 01:02:58,714
I advise a youth coalition that advocates against tobacco and

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01:02:58,754 --> 01:03:00,874
serve as a member of the tobacco - free coalition

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01:03:00,914 --> 01:03:03,274
of Kern County. I want to be transparent about that

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01:03:03,295 --> 01:03:05,914
connection, but tonight I also want to speak from personal

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01:03:06,015 --> 01:03:09,594
experience as a mom and as a family who spends

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01:03:09,615 --> 01:03:12,074
a lot of time in Bakersfield Parks. I've been a

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01:03:12,114 --> 01:03:14,234
mom for over 10 years and our family uses part

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01:03:14,274 --> 01:03:18,874
of spending at Bakersfield Parks. I don't smoke, but my

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01:03:18,874 --> 01:03:22,154
children can still encounter second - hand smoke and tobacco

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01:03:22,175 --> 01:03:25,754
product waste when we are enjoying these spaces. Um, the

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issue is especially personal to me because a few years

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01:03:28,314 --> 01:03:31,194
ago my daughter stood here in this very room as

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an underage young person who purchased a vape.

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She came here and advocated for stronger tobacco retail retail.

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It would be proud that worked by making sidewalks athletic

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fields, playgrounds, recreational areas and Public Buildings within Park's Smoke

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01:03:53,116 --> 01:04:03,036
Free. I also

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01:04:03,137 --> 01:04:06,236
asked the council to consider including parking lots and other

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01:04:06,276 --> 01:04:08,956
areas associated with these facilities to not leave the policy

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01:04:08,977 --> 01:04:11,756
open for interpretation. We see a lot of smoking and

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01:04:11,796 --> 01:04:14,316
tobacco litter in those areas as well. Please also consider

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ClearSignage and cessation range and people that meet your families

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01:04:18,716 --> 01:04:22,156
can enjoy public spaces without exposure to smoke. And tobacco

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was, if we can spend hours at a restaurant or

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01:04:24,097 --> 01:04:25,996
sports arena without smoking, I believe we can do the

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same at our parks. Thank you for taking this important

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01:04:28,436 --> 01:04:31,756
step towards healthier cleaner parks for Bakersful Families and Future

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Generations. Thank you. Thank you Ms. Burgess and all the

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01:04:34,396 --> 01:04:36,556
best to you as you go to UC Davis, young

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01:04:36,556 --> 01:04:45,966
lady. Next secret place.

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Welcome, police introduce yourself. Perfect. Uh, good evening Marico and

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01:05:03,156 --> 01:05:12,735
City Council and City staff. My name is Bernardo

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01:05:12,836 --> 01:05:15,455
Ochoa and Ph. I'm here tonight as a chair of

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the tobacco - free coalition of Kerrn County. I think

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01:05:18,375 --> 01:05:21,935
the basilism, which could prohibit smoking in all areas of

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01:05:21,975 --> 01:05:25,333
Public Parks. This has surely been a collaborative effort involving

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01:05:25,354 --> 01:05:29,013
our community, multiple agencies across current County. And our coalition

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01:05:29,053 --> 01:05:32,853
partners who care deeply about the places, our families gather

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01:05:32,954 --> 01:05:36,666
in play. Some of our first conversations regarding the need

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01:05:36,706 --> 01:05:40,346
for Smoke Free Parks took place with Council Member Eric

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01:05:40,447 --> 01:05:50,197
Arius. And thus safe and healthy

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01:05:50,298 --> 01:05:55,477
network. We sincerely, we encourage to see our community voices

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01:05:55,978 --> 01:06:00,997
reflected in today's propose amendments and reflecting cities ongoing commitment

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01:06:01,037 --> 01:06:06,126
creating a healthier, safer, and clear Bakersfield. So our children's

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01:06:06,227 --> 01:06:09,726
seniors and families are free from exposure to secondhand smoke.

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01:06:18,739 --> 01:06:22,158
We strongly support this proposed amendment. Changes our community.

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We are proud to stand alongside the city of Bakersfield

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as a longstanding partner in this worked. Did theback go

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01:06:36,915 --> 01:06:39,275
- free coalition of Kern County is committed to supporting

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the Public Education, social media outreach and Community Awareness efforts.

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Thank you for your leadership, your partnership, and your commitment

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01:06:48,256 --> 01:06:52,955
to making Bakersfield a healthy. Thank you, Mr. Careful. Get

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it out to the council. Madam Clerk, next speaker, please.

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The TCA. Levano.

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This is for our council. Welcome. Buenas

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tardes, mayor, consult. Mi nombre es Leticia Loevano, tengo un

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negocio en el 601 Avenue Avenue. Ah, estoy aquí.

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Por su unión a ser lunes hubo disparos en nuestra

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cuadra. Mi oficina en el 600 Junior Avenue fue impactado

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01:08:02,034 --> 01:08:06,493
el caso, se le llamó a la policía el caso

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de la Policía de Deckers, y es el 26168, 760.

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01:08:22,251 --> 01:08:26,310
Se llamó a la policía, van a entre las 10

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pies del 901 Junior Avenue en la histórica union Avenue,

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una ruta 99. Los

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miembros, los mismos 300 pies que caminan, clientes, niños, a

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01:08:48,033 --> 01:08:52,513
diario. No estamos en contra de ayudar, estamos para proteger

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nuestra cuadra. SolicitoNNONCIA horas, los siete días de la semana.

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Dos, el protocolo de respuesta rápida. Tres, no acampar, merodear

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a 500 pies.

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Cuatro, una junta de seguridad antes aprobada. Por favor, aquí

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está el expediente que yo sometí el día de ayer,

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se agregue. Es todo. Muchas gracias. Thank you. And now

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interpreter, please. Y puede ponerse los audífonos para escuchar.

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Good evening, council. My name is Leticia Lovano, and I

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have a business on 600 union Avenue. I am Heat

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because of the Punitch 90 union. On Sunday, evening, heading

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into Monday, there were gunfires on our blog. My office

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at 600UN Avenue was HIIT. It was impacted. And we

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did call Bakersfield Police Department. The case number is 26

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- 168760.

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Department. IEM and Fidel. This I am here to state

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that this was at 300 feet from 901 Avenue. The

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Historic Union Avenue on Route 99.

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The same 300 feet that customers and Children walk every

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day, we are not against helping Avenue 24 - 7.

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24 hours a day, seven days a week. Two, I

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asked for rapid response protocol. Three, no camping or loitering

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within 500 feet.

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And for a Public Safety Meeting before approval. That I

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did PM, you also add annex E to the file

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that I did submit yesterday. Thank you. Thank you, Ms.

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LaVano.

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Council Republic Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you Ms.

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LeMo for coming today and speaking to us. Thank you

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for your phone call also a few days ago foundations,

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01:12:30,832 --> 01:12:32,512
guys. Definitely think there needs to be a zero tolerance

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on union Avenue. Um, we were heading the right direction.

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Uh, we had BPD code enforcement. Um, and many others

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out on union. And we did some proactive work to

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address some of those issues. Um, but I think that

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was over a year ago. And I think we need

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to do, he is a shoe for, it's taken us

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01:12:54,213 --> 01:12:56,512
a long time to get to this state. It's going

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to take us a while to get out of it.

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But we need to start this work. Um, and I'm

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encouraged by some of the investment. Uh, I know it's

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a little solace to you right now given the immediate

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01:13:07,152 --> 01:13:10,352
issues. Um, but there is some private investment also in

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the area. We're working with some, um, private developers, resources

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01:13:15,333 --> 01:13:19,232
of a PODO overstate the possibilities here. But we have

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been working on things on the, in the background to

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try to improve the condition of union avenue. Um, but

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I, a hundred percent agree with you. We ought to

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get, um, aggressive in this area. And I want to

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make a referral tonight to the City Manager that we

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bring together safety for Smevius, maybe even the Park Rangers

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in some respects. Uh, that we bring them together so

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that we can develop a proactive and consistent strategy to

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01:13:47,173 --> 01:13:49,872
address these issues on union Avenue. And then the last

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01:13:49,872 --> 01:13:52,432
thing is there are residents. There are business owners. There

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01:13:52,432 --> 01:13:55,632
are people in the community who really care about union.

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01:13:55,973 --> 01:13:59,632
There are families who live in and around union avenue.

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01:13:59,632 --> 01:14:03,472
Billy Avenue somewhat, uh, you know, second tier to the

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01:14:03,493 --> 01:14:07,069
rest of the city. We have to reject that notion.

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01:14:07,069 --> 01:14:10,269
And we ought to bring our community members together, business

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01:14:10,269 --> 01:14:15,069
owners, property owners, family members, residents. Let's come together and

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01:14:15,109 --> 01:14:17,949
have that safety meeting that Ms. LeBuno has recommended.

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01:14:25,924 --> 01:14:27,823
And let's have a conversation about what we can do

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01:14:28,244 --> 01:14:31,343
this. All, so thank you for being here tonight. Thank

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01:14:31,343 --> 01:14:39,706
you Madam Clerk. Next speaker, please. Denis. Gary Pandal.

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01:14:58,457 --> 01:15:00,996
Came up. It's been a mistake made by the City

727
01:15:01,177 --> 01:15:05,802
clerk's office with respect to. The minutes. And it clearly

728
01:15:05,842 --> 01:15:09,542
pointed out that I supported a sanctuary city status. And

729
01:15:09,542 --> 01:15:12,139
that was brought to my attention the other day. And

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01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:14,299
I just wanted to make sure that the record was

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01:15:14,480 --> 01:15:15,019
corrected.

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01:15:24,623 --> 01:15:26,362
And I wanted to make it clear to the public

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01:15:27,583 --> 01:15:32,242
as I've stated before that it's a section, it's a

734
01:15:32,242 --> 01:15:35,642
violation of the supremacy clause in article six of the

735
01:15:35,663 --> 01:15:39,402
Constitution. And basically in light of the fact that there's

736
01:15:39,583 --> 01:15:43,962
been over tens of thousands of murders, just murders alone,

737
01:15:43,962 --> 01:15:48,202
not counting human trafficking. Fentanyl, uh, drugs being brought into

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01:15:48,242 --> 01:15:50,042
the country cartels.

739
01:15:59,228 --> 01:16:04,087
Fraud, really integration based on the law. Um, aside from

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01:16:04,108 --> 01:16:08,247
that, I pointed out for the record during that last

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01:16:08,588 --> 01:16:10,407
meeting we had on August 5th.

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01:16:28,670 --> 01:16:32,729
That the good people in Washington, D. C. had made

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01:16:32,830 --> 01:16:36,649
an effort to provide everyone who broke the law and

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01:16:36,689 --> 01:16:39,609
entered the country illegally to have 2, 000 back to

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01:16:39,609 --> 01:16:42,809
their... This will make justice and the Department of Transportation

746
01:16:43,470 --> 01:16:46,409
that those federal grants would be withheld and that other

747
01:16:46,670 --> 01:16:50,329
monies would be withheld from those cities in any state

748
01:16:50,590 --> 01:16:55,609
in the union that embraced a sanctuary city. I also

749
01:16:55,790 --> 01:16:58,409
made clear that it was disrespectful to the people of

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01:16:58,449 --> 01:17:02,009
this country who came here lawfully. In the record city,

751
01:17:02,009 --> 01:17:05,536
Clarence, thank you City Clerk. Next speaker, please.

752
01:17:22,730 --> 01:17:24,629
Margo, I just want to note that we're allowing the

753
01:17:24,650 --> 01:17:29,909
additional 10 minutes since we had no phone speakers connected.

754
01:17:40,969 --> 01:17:42,868
And just encourage all of you to be a succinct

755
01:17:42,868 --> 01:17:46,460
as possible. Hello again.

756
01:18:10,450 --> 01:18:18,109
Um, Natalie Santamaría with Visión y Compromiso. And this amendment

757
01:18:18,850 --> 01:18:22,269
to prohibit smoking in part. I am here also as

758
01:18:22,309 --> 01:18:25,549
part of the tobacco - free coalition, which you all

759
01:18:25,549 --> 01:18:27,949
know that most of you know that we've been working

760
01:18:28,130 --> 01:18:32,429
for many years, along with other organizations to pass several

761
01:18:32,690 --> 01:18:35,869
Resolutions. So I'm here to thank you. I know we

762
01:18:35,869 --> 01:18:39,309
presented and also on behalf of the promotors that they

763
01:18:39,309 --> 01:18:41,949
couldn't continue in that forward to looking at how enforcement

764
01:18:41,970 --> 01:18:45,549
is going to look. Um, some signage too. And the

765
01:18:45,549 --> 01:18:51,389
parts will be very helpful. And, um, some education and

766
01:18:51,389 --> 01:18:54,989
also including parking lots. Again, we're looking forward to collaborating

767
01:18:55,170 --> 01:18:58,509
on that education when something new arises right in our

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01:18:58,549 --> 01:19:01,149
community. And we want to be as proactive as possible

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01:19:01,810 --> 01:19:05,389
with green education in the parts, as you all know,

770
01:19:05,389 --> 01:19:07,869
she has a passion for that. So again, thank you.

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01:19:07,869 --> 01:19:10,105
And looking forward to working with you all. Thank you,

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01:19:10,145 --> 01:19:17,953
Ms. Central Mario. Medal clerk, we have additional speakers. Ricardo

773
01:19:18,454 --> 01:19:20,113
Del Hoyo.

774
01:19:33,172 --> 01:19:35,962
I'm a proud resident of Ward One. Shout out to

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01:19:36,063 --> 01:19:39,802
Councilwoman Arias. Um, good afternoon to Mayor Go and Council

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01:19:39,802 --> 01:19:44,122
members. Before I get into agenda item 6D point two,

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01:19:44,122 --> 01:19:45,882
I'd like to take a moment and think the city

778
01:19:45,903 --> 01:19:50,442
council for extending the Public Remarks period for the 2045

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01:19:50,623 --> 01:19:51,642
general Plan Update.

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01:20:06,086 --> 01:20:10,065
However, after on the general, that's measurable change and action

781
01:20:10,246 --> 01:20:15,505
plans. I too hope all communities can rise together, especially

782
01:20:16,006 --> 01:20:19,545
underserved communities. You see, I grew up in Bakersfield. I

783
01:20:19,545 --> 01:20:23,325
attended local schools. I graduated from Cal State Bakersfield. And

784
01:20:23,325 --> 01:20:29,265
although much has changed, some areas and some statistics have

785
01:20:29,286 --> 01:20:33,985
not changed. Nathan, one period with lack of infrastructure. This

786
01:20:34,025 --> 01:20:36,982
has been the case since I grew up. And continues

787
01:20:36,982 --> 01:20:46,572
to be true today. I

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01:20:46,833 --> 01:20:50,732
applaud the Resolution on approving the Application for the Climate

789
01:20:50,833 --> 01:20:55,052
Bond grants fund. Yes, we need more trees in downtown,

790
01:20:55,052 --> 01:20:59,292
but we also need more trees outside the downtown corridor

791
01:20:59,313 --> 01:21:05,692
of Ward 2. And you passed Brendage Avenue past 58,

792
01:21:05,953 --> 01:21:11,132
pass Bill Terrace to truly amplify and beautify the Chester

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01:21:11,172 --> 01:21:16,172
to South Chest Recorridor with trees, greenery, and green pedestrian

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01:21:16,353 --> 01:21:23,355
corridors. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Mr. Del

795
01:21:23,376 --> 01:21:25,915
Hoyo. Madam Clerk, next speaker, please.

796
01:21:48,533 --> 01:21:51,592
Welcome. Please, Center introduce yourself. Hi, hello. My name is

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01:21:51,592 --> 01:21:53,872
Lawrence Lacido Jr. I am a proud member of the

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01:21:53,973 --> 01:21:56,912
Cholon Indian Nation. And I'm also here representing with tobacco

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01:21:56,952 --> 01:22:00,912
- free current and my place of occupancy, Beckers Little

800
01:22:00,912 --> 01:22:03,792
American Health Project. Uh, we are here in support of

801
01:22:04,613 --> 01:22:08,192
the Spokebree Parks and the Ordinance that is going out.

802
01:22:08,192 --> 01:22:14,832
Uh, we do... Area's a Native American tobacco is a

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01:22:14,832 --> 01:22:18,032
very spiritual and traditional medicine for us. So we do

804
01:22:18,072 --> 01:22:21,232
want to make the distinction between traditional tobacco and commercial

805
01:22:21,333 --> 01:22:26,512
tobacco commercialized tobacco, which is the heavily processed industrialized version

806
01:22:26,552 --> 01:22:31,392
of it versus traditional spiritual tobacco, which we use in

807
01:22:31,413 --> 01:22:39,543
medicine, which we use as gift. So next speakers. Josie

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01:22:39,964 --> 01:22:40,503
Sarulo.

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01:22:52,863 --> 01:23:02,338
Please for to douce yourself. Councilmember

810
01:23:02,519 --> 01:23:07,961
Jose 600. And Letitia has run a successful business there

811
01:23:08,062 --> 01:23:13,782
for over seven years. She pays taxes. Employees locals, and

812
01:23:14,143 --> 01:23:19,362
wants to stay. But the constant business interruption. From the

813
01:23:19,543 --> 01:23:24,082
chronic offenders is forcing her at other tenants to close

814
01:23:24,082 --> 01:23:34,000
their doors. Sight

815
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:39,805
neighborhoods. Our areas already hurting from high crime, open drug

816
01:23:39,906 --> 01:23:45,805
use, vandalism, fights, threats to store workers, open sex, threats

817
01:23:45,845 --> 01:23:51,245
to customers, loitering, constant storefront trouble. The list goes on

818
01:23:51,266 --> 01:23:51,805
and on.

819
01:24:01,098 --> 01:24:05,077
The city cannot just fix housing for one group. Natural

820
01:24:06,378 --> 01:24:09,533
job, or they will leave. And this will cause more

821
01:24:09,634 --> 01:24:12,733
empty buildings in the area where half of the stores

822
01:24:12,754 --> 01:24:19,843
are already shut down. True compassion requires balance. If you

823
01:24:19,944 --> 01:24:23,523
move a high risk group here, you must protect us.

824
01:24:32,066 --> 01:24:37,565
We demand that the conditional use permit for the 24

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01:24:37,826 --> 01:24:41,245
- 7 security guard looping our streets and alleys within

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01:24:41,245 --> 01:24:47,818
a four block radius. Second. Install high definition cameras that

827
01:24:47,858 --> 01:24:57,727
link right to the police. Third,

828
01:24:58,308 --> 01:25:02,287
gift security and police immediate power to remove trouble bankers.

829
01:25:02,788 --> 01:25:07,327
Fourth, get businesses, owners, fast. You spring your competence without

830
01:25:07,348 --> 01:25:11,252
securing our businesses first. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rivel.

831
01:25:11,584 --> 01:25:17,033
Next speaker, please, Madam Clerk. Guadalupe Silva.

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01:25:36,591 --> 01:25:39,130
The next person, please. Magnus, lightborn.

833
01:25:47,032 --> 01:25:49,891
Well, completion to do yourself. Thank you. Good evening, Marigold

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01:25:49,931 --> 01:25:59,483
City Council members. My name is Magnus Lightborn, representing

835
01:25:59,504 --> 01:26:03,083
Ripple Fiber, California. I'm here with our chief legal officer,

836
01:26:03,083 --> 01:26:06,683
Josh Lauren. I just wanted to miss heist to the,

837
01:26:06,683 --> 01:26:08,603
uh, we'd like to do it in the most innovasive

838
01:26:08,643 --> 01:26:11,783
manner as most non - invasive manner as possible. And

839
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I look forward to working with you guys. And thank

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01:26:13,083 --> 01:26:19,059
you for your cooperation. Thank you, Mr. Thiper. Madam Clerknick,

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01:26:19,059 --> 01:26:19,379
Speaker, please.

842
01:26:38,538 --> 01:26:42,715
Mayor, the next four speakers are in person. Regarding item

843
01:26:42,816 --> 01:26:46,775
11A. The first speaker is Abby Power.

844
01:27:04,301 --> 01:27:06,360
So this is on the Clean City special. I'd like

845
01:27:06,360 --> 01:27:09,522
to give my. Clerk, could you call the next speaker,

846
01:27:09,522 --> 01:27:11,878
please? Thank you. Neuras, Torres.

847
01:27:45,522 --> 01:27:49,981
Gracias por escuchar nuestras inquietudes y tomar en cuenta las

848
01:27:50,021 --> 01:27:56,301
necesidades de nuestra comunidad. Valoramos su atención y esperamos seguir

849
01:27:56,402 --> 01:28:03,021
trabajando juntos para mejorar nuestra ciudad. También queremos solicitar su

850
01:28:03,042 --> 01:28:07,741
apoyo para que los ayude a realizar una investigación sobre

851
01:28:08,162 --> 01:28:13,101
unas personas que inquietan, que vive abandona una arma. Me

852
01:28:13,202 --> 01:28:17,661
gustaría programar una cita para discutir los detalles. Muchas gracias.

853
01:28:18,389 --> 01:28:20,208
Thank you and interpret your police.

854
01:28:38,276 --> 01:28:41,535
Good afternoon. My name is Nodis Torres. Thank you to

855
01:28:41,535 --> 01:28:45,415
our council member Arias for listening to our concerns. We

856
01:28:45,796 --> 01:28:49,695
want to talk about communa in our better our community.

857
01:28:49,695 --> 01:28:52,815
We also want to ask for your support to be

858
01:28:52,815 --> 01:28:57,055
able to do an investigation regarding some people who are

859
01:28:57,076 --> 01:29:00,095
concerning our communities. There is a man who lives in

860
01:29:00,276 --> 01:29:03,535
a lot that has been abandoned by the Community who

861
01:29:03,535 --> 01:29:06,895
has a weapon. And I would like to establish a

862
01:29:06,935 --> 01:29:11,490
meeting so that we can go over the. Miss. Thank

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01:29:11,490 --> 01:29:14,770
you, Noodis, for everything that you do for your community.

864
01:29:14,791 --> 01:29:16,690
It was a pleasure just a little bit more than

865
01:29:16,730 --> 01:29:26,569
a week ago. Being

866
01:29:26,590 --> 01:29:29,849
out there in your neck of the woods, getting to

867
01:29:29,870 --> 01:29:32,329
walk the community and see all of the many challenges

868
01:29:32,350 --> 01:29:35,049
that you all are navigating. And so my heart goes

869
01:29:35,089 --> 01:29:36,969
out to you and I just want you to know

870
01:29:36,969 --> 01:29:40,409
that we certainly hear you. And we want to do

871
01:29:40,590 --> 01:29:46,089
right where your advocate for help to reconvene, I'll call

872
01:29:46,089 --> 01:29:49,209
it a task force address. Addressing some of the neighborhood

873
01:29:49,470 --> 01:29:53,529
level challenges in Southeast Bakersfield that we get some police

874
01:29:53,529 --> 01:29:57,769
department, the city attorney's office together to meet with Nuries

875
01:29:58,030 --> 01:30:01,336
to talk about some of the safety challenges there. Thank

876
01:30:01,376 --> 01:30:11,286
you. Thank you, Ken Speaker, please.

877
01:30:16,357 --> 01:30:21,032
Welcome, please introduce yourself. Hello, my name is Johnny Olagas.

878
01:30:21,570 --> 01:30:26,823
Check the timer. I was here for something else. Actually,

879
01:30:26,844 --> 01:30:27,863
flock and 11A.

880
01:30:36,903 --> 01:30:41,042
One of the issues with the dump site out there

881
01:30:41,082 --> 01:30:44,242
were to find these individuals that were dumping the trash.

882
01:30:45,847 --> 01:30:49,646
I am now trying to be solution - based. And

883
01:30:49,646 --> 01:30:53,346
one of my proposals is instead of finding these individuals

884
01:30:53,927 --> 01:30:56,546
that dump the trash, how about we open the wood

885
01:30:56,647 --> 01:31:02,467
site for accepting trash. So the wood site, they open,

886
01:31:02,467 --> 01:31:05,492
I believe it's Tuesday through Saturday. From 8 a. m.

887
01:31:05,793 --> 01:31:09,692
to 3. 30. My brother actually called me on Monday.

888
01:31:09,692 --> 01:31:12,172
He was going to take some wood from his house,

889
01:31:12,172 --> 01:31:14,652
some tree trimmings or whatever. And he couldn't get to

890
01:31:14,692 --> 01:31:16,732
the wood side. He called me. He's like on Monday.

891
01:31:16,732 --> 01:31:19,052
He goes, hey, is the woodside open? I said, no,

892
01:31:19,052 --> 01:31:22,146
it's not. And so he's like, I don't want to

893
01:31:22,146 --> 01:31:25,186
go to Beena, the linefill, right? Which you guys, I

894
01:31:25,186 --> 01:31:27,306
don't know if you know Orbina is. And so what

895
01:31:27,306 --> 01:31:29,386
ended up happening was my brother turned around, went back

896
01:31:29,386 --> 01:31:33,389
home. Right? And he wasted his gas. And as we

897
01:31:33,389 --> 01:31:36,909
know, gas is really expensive right now. So my account,

898
01:31:36,909 --> 01:31:38,969
you know, I'm going to ask Zach. If you can

899
01:31:38,969 --> 01:31:42,049
please look into this because we have a lot of

900
01:31:42,049 --> 01:31:45,149
trees in our area, a ton of trees, uh, we're

901
01:31:45,149 --> 01:31:47,069
about to go into that season where I will probably

902
01:31:47,170 --> 01:31:50,437
take two trailers full of trees. Of just my art

903
01:31:50,858 --> 01:31:53,317
is just a ton. So I was Zach to look

904
01:31:53,338 --> 01:31:56,851
into that. Um, but I will ask, you know, I

905
01:31:56,851 --> 01:31:58,751
will tell Eric, you know, as far as the, uh,

906
01:31:59,112 --> 01:32:02,194
when. The camera suggests, I think that's just a terrible

907
01:32:02,234 --> 01:32:04,674
idea. I think we should provide solutions and look at

908
01:32:04,775 --> 01:32:08,994
why people can't take the trash or their tree trimmings.

909
01:32:08,994 --> 01:32:11,474
Let's be more proactive about it. And as a community

910
01:32:11,514 --> 01:32:14,434
members, um, I work in the trash industry. So that's

911
01:32:14,434 --> 01:32:18,674
how, you know, so anyway, the other thing is sanctuary

912
01:32:18,714 --> 01:32:22,108
city. Let's do it. You guys suck. Thank you Mr.

913
01:32:22,449 --> 01:32:29,081
Lagus and next speaker, please. Go. That was our final

914
01:32:29,342 --> 01:32:37,893
speaker. Thank you. Next item, please. Yeah. Yeah. Um, we

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01:32:38,314 --> 01:32:40,453
need a break at this point, I think. So let's

916
01:32:40,954 --> 01:32:45,215
take a break for 10 minutes. And we'll be back

917
01:32:45,396 --> 01:32:48,255
for more City Business.

918
01:41:24,251 --> 01:41:27,110
Let's start gathering together and if we could have staff

919
01:41:27,131 --> 01:41:29,350
in the back just help to close the doors please.

920
01:41:30,374 --> 01:41:31,313
It's close enough to 10 minutes.

921
01:41:41,844 --> 01:41:43,942
Council Member Common. We're ready to start.

922
01:41:58,795 --> 01:42:00,614
Let's all sit down please so we can continue the

923
01:42:00,654 --> 01:42:04,971
meeting at 647. And Madam Clerk Would you please read

924
01:42:04,971 --> 01:42:11,786
the next item. Consent calendar. A staff memorandum was provided

925
01:42:12,047 --> 01:42:20,135
transmitting correct admits for item 6A1. Item 6F3 transmitting correspondence

926
01:42:20,556 --> 01:42:25,575
item 6F 15 correcting the item title and also pleased

927
01:42:25,596 --> 01:42:29,095
that it one contains a staff recommendation to adopt resolutions

928
01:42:29,276 --> 01:42:33,737
approving salaries and benefits for specified units. Thank you and

929
01:42:33,777 --> 01:42:36,857
we've had a request by Council Member Smith to poll

930
01:42:38,158 --> 01:42:44,617
6C4. Is that just number two Councilmember. Okay. Thank you.

931
01:42:45,544 --> 01:42:48,083
And I don't see any other requests for items to

932
01:42:48,083 --> 01:42:53,395
be poll Council Member Gonzalez. Motion to approve consent calendar

933
01:42:53,435 --> 01:42:59,237
with the exception of 6C4. You have a motion please

934
01:42:59,277 --> 01:42:59,637
cast your votes.

935
01:43:25,949 --> 01:43:29,288
With council member We're voting no and vice mayor corps

936
01:43:29,288 --> 01:43:37,991
absent Thank you and Council Member Smith now 6C4. Thank

937
01:43:37,991 --> 01:43:42,871
you mayor this is the item that addresses the smoking

938
01:43:43,372 --> 01:43:46,471
in Public Parks and I think that's a good thing

939
01:43:47,692 --> 01:43:50,311
to move away from smoking in Public Parks, but reading

940
01:43:50,492 --> 01:43:54,391
the original Ordinance I also noticed that it also prohibits

941
01:43:55,692 --> 01:43:58,951
bicycles and unicycles and I think that all of our

942
01:43:58,991 --> 01:44:02,231
children have ridden bicycles and parks and that we should

943
01:44:02,972 --> 01:44:05,351
since we are kind of cleaning this ordinance up that

944
01:44:05,372 --> 01:44:08,631
we can go ahead and allow bicycle unit hike hearts

945
01:44:08,652 --> 01:44:12,211
So make that change to this cleanup ordinance. Thank you.

946
01:44:13,263 --> 01:44:15,682
Thank you. You have a motion please catch you. Oh

947
01:44:15,682 --> 01:44:25,207
Councilmember Arias. Thanks Mayor really quickly

948
01:44:25,788 --> 01:44:27,767
just wanted to thank the advocates for their work on

949
01:44:27,807 --> 01:44:29,927
this item They brought it back to safe and healthy

950
01:44:29,927 --> 01:44:34,087
neighborhoods not too long ago made a wonderful presentation And

951
01:44:34,108 --> 01:44:36,887
I just think this signifies the continued work to make

952
01:44:36,887 --> 01:44:41,767
sure Thank you so much. We explicitly call out that

953
01:44:41,868 --> 01:44:45,367
our parks are also smoke - free zones I have

954
01:44:45,407 --> 01:44:48,407
not had a chance to look through the entire document

955
01:44:48,508 --> 01:44:50,407
itself But I would like to make that ask that

956
01:44:50,447 --> 01:44:54,192
we make that explicit. Thank you. So you have a

957
01:44:54,192 --> 01:44:59,435
motion to approve six C4. You have emotionally sketch your

958
01:44:59,475 --> 01:44:59,595
votes.

959
01:45:20,641 --> 01:45:23,020
The motion is approved with council member We're voting no

960
01:45:23,361 --> 01:45:26,252
and vice mayor corps absent. Thank you next item, please.

961
01:45:37,958 --> 01:45:42,017
Consent calendar Public hearings Item 7A Public hearing to consider

962
01:45:42,038 --> 01:45:45,537
the Planning Commission's approval of General Plan Amendment and zone

963
01:45:45,638 --> 01:45:52,177
change number 23 - 0560 And it's proposed mitigated negative

964
01:45:52,358 --> 01:46:01,872
declaration. Item 7B Public hearing to consider planning commission's approval

965
01:46:01,893 --> 01:46:06,752
of General Plan Amendment Zone Change number 25 - 0

966
01:46:07,013 --> 01:46:11,816
negative declaration. Thank you. It's time for the consent calendar

967
01:46:11,837 --> 01:46:14,376
Public hearings as the clerk said the purpose of this

968
01:46:14,376 --> 01:46:17,336
section is to vote on all the items listed under

969
01:46:17,517 --> 01:46:21,656
consent calendar hearings in one motion without further comment If

970
01:46:21,696 --> 01:46:23,736
anyone would like to speak on any of the hearing

971
01:46:23,837 --> 01:46:27,896
items Listed the item must be removed from the portion

972
01:46:27,917 --> 01:46:30,696
of this agenda If an item is removed it will

973
01:46:30,736 --> 01:46:33,656
be placed at the end of the regular Public hearings

974
01:46:34,157 --> 01:46:37,750
portion of the agenda. So at this time I will

975
01:46:38,571 --> 01:46:44,070
open consent calendar public hearing item 7A B is there

976
01:46:44,110 --> 01:46:45,750
any one of the audience who would like to request

977
01:46:46,171 --> 01:46:48,790
that a hearing item be removed from the consent calendar

978
01:46:49,211 --> 01:46:51,510
If so, please come forward This isn't the time to

979
01:46:51,550 --> 01:46:54,870
take testimony only remove the matter from the consent calendar

980
01:46:54,910 --> 01:47:00,955
hearing. Mayor Go we did receive a request to remove

981
01:47:01,056 --> 01:47:06,236
item 7A. From the consent calendar Public hearings. Thank you.

982
01:47:07,128 --> 01:47:09,907
And then does any council member wish to remove any

983
01:47:10,008 --> 01:47:10,467
other item.

984
01:47:24,529 --> 01:47:30,028
Right so at this time consent calendar Public hearing items.

985
01:47:33,387 --> 01:47:36,806
Mayor I'll make a motion to adopt Consent calendar Public

986
01:47:37,067 --> 01:47:43,085
hearing item 7b. You have a motion. Please cast your

987
01:47:43,125 --> 01:47:43,245
votes.

988
01:48:03,238 --> 01:48:12,807
Council Member Thank. Hearings item 8A Public Hearing Public Appeal

989
01:48:12,847 --> 01:48:16,167
hearing of Planning Commission's approval of vesting tentative tract map

990
01:48:16,207 --> 01:48:25,252
number 7451 phased. MAntosh and associates representing Diamond Farming Company

991
01:48:25,513 --> 01:48:31,892
is proposing to subdivide 40. 77 acres into 313 single

992
01:48:32,073 --> 01:48:35,092
- family residential lots 1 Multi - use trail lot

993
01:48:35,673 --> 01:48:39,332
and 1 Park lot R2. single located Generally southeast of

994
01:48:39,513 --> 01:48:42,931
En Santa Fe way. Sierra Club appealed the Planning Commission

995
01:48:42,952 --> 01:48:48,131
decision Developer Tom D. from RFG Properties Inc. requested the

996
01:48:48,171 --> 01:48:51,731
Public Appeal hearing Be Opened and continued to September 16

997
01:48:52,232 --> 01:48:55,971
2026 since they are negotiating a settlement with the appellate

998
01:48:56,232 --> 01:49:01,980
Sierra Club. I'm sorry did we skip 7A. We'll come

999
01:49:01,980 --> 01:49:07,222
back to that at the end of the hearings. So

1000
01:49:07,723 --> 01:49:10,262
for the Public hearings each side will be allowed 20

1001
01:49:10,302 --> 01:49:13,702
minutes It's 20 minutes for all speakers per side 10

1002
01:49:13,723 --> 01:49:16,102
minutes for in - person speakers 10 minutes for Speakers

1003
01:49:16,203 --> 01:49:19,782
by phone It's important that you identify yourself Make your

1004
01:49:19,822 --> 01:49:22,982
statements succinctly so others may speak If there's testimony on

1005
01:49:23,003 --> 01:49:25,542
both sides Each side will be allowed to 10 -

1006
01:49:25,542 --> 01:49:28,182
minute rebuttal There's clock on the TV screens behind me

1007
01:49:28,363 --> 01:49:31,622
which indicates 20 minutes When you're called on please identify

1008
01:49:31,803 --> 01:49:34,662
yourself You may ask questions during your statement But they

1009
01:49:34,662 --> 01:49:38,502
won't be addressed until the Public hearing is closed If

1010
01:49:38,502 --> 01:49:40,742
you written Comets that are longer than your verbal statement

1011
01:49:40,763 --> 01:49:42,982
Give them to the clerk and she'll provide copies to

1012
01:49:43,022 --> 01:49:45,702
the council Please be courteous to others who wish to

1013
01:49:45,742 --> 01:49:51,570
speak. So at this time Public hearing item 8A is

1014
01:49:51,610 --> 01:49:54,690
open Before we begin I'd like to acknowledge that staff

1015
01:49:54,690 --> 01:49:58,530
recommends that we open and continue this Public hearing to

1016
01:49:58,711 --> 01:50:03,650
the September 16 2026 City Council meeting pending negotiations of

1017
01:50:03,690 --> 01:50:06,290
the settlement while the Public can still make Public comments

1018
01:50:06,311 --> 01:50:09,410
today We encourage you to wait until the item is

1019
01:50:09,450 --> 01:50:13,170
heard on September 16 Madam Clerk Do we have any

1020
01:50:13,431 --> 01:50:19,553
speakers in opposition or in favor of this item? Mayor

1021
01:50:19,553 --> 01:50:21,793
Go we have not received any request to speak in

1022
01:50:21,793 --> 01:50:26,113
opposition or in favor of this item either by phone

1023
01:50:26,134 --> 01:50:32,827
or in person. Thank you Next item please. Don't we

1024
01:50:32,827 --> 01:50:34,587
need a motion to continue? Oh yes We do need

1025
01:50:34,848 --> 01:50:37,067
a motion to continue I would like to make that

1026
01:50:37,568 --> 01:50:40,507
Council Member Smith made a motion to continue this item

1027
01:50:41,168 --> 01:50:42,907
You have a motion Please cast your votes.

1028
01:50:52,272 --> 01:50:56,576
The item is approved with Vice Mayor Corps absent. Thank

1029
01:50:56,616 --> 01:50:59,270
you. Madam Clerk next item please.

1030
01:51:07,337 --> 01:51:13,360
Item 7A. Public hearing to consider the Planning Commission's Approval

1031
01:51:13,400 --> 01:51:17,200
of General Plan Amendment and Zone Change Number 23 -

1032
01:51:17,781 --> 01:51:25,601
0560 and its proposed Mitigated negative declaration. And Clerk What

1033
01:51:25,622 --> 01:51:33,577
about 8B. Oh Somebody made a mistake. Alright there is

1034
01:51:33,598 --> 01:51:38,948
no AP. Alright we're on to 7A Council members Smith.

1035
01:51:40,448 --> 01:51:43,067
Are you the one who pulled it initially? Nobody else

1036
01:51:43,088 --> 01:51:48,242
did. City Manager colleg. Uh Mayor and Council our Development

1037
01:51:48,242 --> 01:51:50,642
Services Director Phil Burns can just give a quick summary

1038
01:51:50,682 --> 01:51:54,722
of this Um pending any questions Um... In response to

1039
01:51:55,463 --> 01:51:58,082
those that wanted to have this item and discuss separately.

1040
01:52:01,050 --> 01:52:03,749
Council Members Uh we have in front of us is

1041
01:52:03,770 --> 01:52:09,540
General Plan Amendment 230560. Property owner HEG Investments LLC Project

1042
01:52:09,561 --> 01:52:13,300
description is the General Plan Amendment Zone Change for 24.

1043
01:52:13,481 --> 01:52:18,100
86 Acres The Project intends to develop 6. 36 acres

1044
01:52:18,121 --> 01:52:20,980
commercial LAN on the northern person of the property and

1045
01:52:20,980 --> 01:52:24,260
a project intends to develop 18. 5 acres as multifamily

1046
01:52:24,281 --> 01:52:33,571
residential on the southern portion of the parcel. Conceptual plans

1047
01:52:33,571 --> 01:52:36,611
have been submitted for commercial portion But no development planted

1048
01:52:37,112 --> 01:52:47,100
slowing ash Revenge CECO document is an MND. Planning Commission

1049
01:52:47,121 --> 01:52:51,020
approved this project until I 16th No speakers in favor

1050
01:52:51,281 --> 01:52:55,180
or opposition at that hearing stack recommends the project has

1051
01:52:55,220 --> 01:52:57,660
been found consistent with your general plan policies and city

1052
01:52:57,660 --> 01:53:01,900
zoning ordinances requirements for these reasons city staff recommends approval

1053
01:53:01,940 --> 01:53:04,620
of the General Plan Amendment and zone change for Project

1054
01:53:04,641 --> 01:53:05,020
23.

1055
01:53:49,818 --> 01:53:58,935
So at this time Public item 7A is open. Madam

1056
01:53:58,935 --> 01:54:01,735
Clerk Do we have any requests to speak on this

1057
01:54:01,735 --> 01:54:06,391
item. Mayor Go we've received one request to speak in

1058
01:54:06,391 --> 01:54:10,933
opposition to staff's recommendation. And go ahead and call that

1059
01:54:11,034 --> 01:54:20,225
speaker. You said draw Osby. Is that person in person

1060
01:54:20,486 --> 01:54:23,932
or was that supposed to be on the phone. May

1061
01:54:23,972 --> 01:54:25,932
I go with the request was for in - person.

1062
01:54:26,644 --> 01:54:28,863
Thank you and I don't see that she is present

1063
01:54:28,964 --> 01:54:33,488
here. My assumption Mary GoFame is that it may have

1064
01:54:33,488 --> 01:54:38,048
been another item Uh... Besides this item that was made

1065
01:54:38,088 --> 01:54:45,383
perhaps Mislabeled. Okay Thank you. So. Does anybody want to

1066
01:54:45,383 --> 01:54:48,183
make a motion on this item Council Member Smith I'll

1067
01:54:48,223 --> 01:54:52,056
make the motion to approve. You have a motion on

1068
01:54:52,717 --> 01:54:59,493
7A Please catch your votes. The hearing is closed now

1069
01:54:59,493 --> 01:54:59,973
You have a motion.

1070
01:55:13,910 --> 01:55:16,049
Coming from somewhere steps So if you tend to that.

1071
01:55:17,510 --> 01:55:26,405
S a. Game. Yes Did you already vote.

1072
01:55:35,045 --> 01:55:40,343
The item is approved with Vice Mayor Corps absent. Thank

1073
01:55:40,343 --> 01:55:45,832
you. Next item please.

1074
01:55:57,102 --> 01:56:01,773
Item 10A. Interfund loan to complete the acquisition of 1430

1075
01:56:01,874 --> 01:56:05,853
and 1440 Truxton Avenue pursuant to council approved purchase agreement.

1076
01:56:07,650 --> 01:56:11,789
Thank you Sorry Margo There was a blue memo prepared

1077
01:56:11,789 --> 01:56:16,886
for this item. Uh transmitting data mission.

1078
01:56:22,084 --> 01:56:24,783
As we jump into this item I will remind your

1079
01:56:24,884 --> 01:56:27,903
council that this was before you in March of this

1080
01:56:27,943 --> 01:56:33,349
year earlier. Your City Council approved a purchase and a

1081
01:56:33,389 --> 01:56:38,869
lease and purchase and sale agreement Uh... Contingent on a

1082
01:56:38,890 --> 01:56:43,969
due diligence period Uh... For this site. Um... We'll walk

1083
01:56:43,969 --> 01:56:46,369
through the background again on this because it is a

1084
01:56:46,409 --> 01:56:50,305
large decision A large item. Uh... But in quick summary

1085
01:56:50,806 --> 01:56:54,545
Uh this project really was initiated out of an effort

1086
01:56:54,726 --> 01:56:59,929
to save our operating dollars to gain efficiencies. And to

1087
01:57:00,430 --> 01:57:04,099
Focus on a long - term solution. Uh... Aed that

1088
01:57:04,099 --> 01:57:10,739
we had that was Uh... Our operations.

1089
01:57:18,140 --> 01:57:19,353
I'm. Having Ike in this advance.

1090
01:57:28,609 --> 01:57:35,516
Thank you Mr. Marcus. So again This goes all the

1091
01:57:35,516 --> 01:57:38,716
way back to 2021 We did we were in a

1092
01:57:38,756 --> 01:57:41,596
mode where we were in the process of hiring 100

1093
01:57:41,617 --> 01:57:44,856
police officers as well as some support staff and the

1094
01:57:44,856 --> 01:57:48,956
police Department We had significant space challenges Did a space

1095
01:57:49,297 --> 01:57:52,796
at identified Space needs But also we did not have

1096
01:57:53,137 --> 01:57:57,836
the capacity at the time to address those with expensive

1097
01:57:58,017 --> 01:58:02,167
new build projects. And so we were in a position

1098
01:58:02,268 --> 01:58:05,847
where we needed to lease office space to house our

1099
01:58:05,887 --> 01:58:11,916
growing police Department. We also did citywide office - based

1100
01:58:11,916 --> 01:58:14,556
assessments in 23 and 24 Uh... But we have been

1101
01:58:14,737 --> 01:58:18,076
leasing space in a building that is outside of our

1102
01:58:18,097 --> 01:58:21,916
downtown core since 20 to 1 Those lease payments Uh

1103
01:58:22,257 --> 01:58:25,436
have been escalating up towards last year It was 900,

1104
01:58:25,436 --> 01:58:27,916
000 dollars And next year we anticipated would be over

1105
01:58:27,937 --> 01:58:31,773
a million dollars. For those lease payments. At the time

1106
01:58:32,034 --> 01:58:35,533
there was limited suitable office space in the downtown core

1107
01:58:35,874 --> 01:58:38,893
But yeah the council at the time approved that move

1108
01:58:39,474 --> 01:58:42,253
Uh out of the urgency that we had But gave

1109
01:58:42,274 --> 01:58:44,493
direction to try and look for long - term space

1110
01:58:44,994 --> 01:58:47,453
back in the downtown core at some point in the

1111
01:58:47,453 --> 01:58:54,595
future. So there were multiple properties test 24 5 to

1112
01:58:54,635 --> 01:58:59,175
think about those long - term needs. Uhm we found

1113
01:58:59,215 --> 01:59:03,495
that the truckston tower became a realistic option in 2025

1114
01:59:03,916 --> 01:59:07,095
and started Uh, the process of doing the analysis and

1115
01:59:07,436 --> 01:59:12,135
approaching the property owners And again There's a unique opportunity

1116
01:59:12,396 --> 01:59:16,880
that this move will offer us significant savings. While addressing

1117
01:59:16,880 --> 01:59:20,000
that long - term space needs into the future Uh,

1118
01:59:20,341 --> 01:59:24,240
just in summary There is an immediate savings of 350,

1119
01:59:24,261 --> 01:59:28,547
000 dollars a year of our operating dollars. Uh after

1120
01:59:28,968 --> 01:59:35,587
the payment for our internal Umd loan That would represent

1121
01:59:35,627 --> 01:59:37,507
a savings of more than a million dollars a year

1122
01:59:37,928 --> 01:59:39,747
Uh... After the 12 - year term of that loan.

1123
01:59:41,314 --> 01:59:44,173
This is just to orient again Uh, council and Community

1124
01:59:44,194 --> 01:59:48,093
to where this location is It is the taller tower

1125
01:59:48,093 --> 01:59:51,693
portion as well is that Uh... Orange color They're labeled

1126
01:59:51,714 --> 01:59:55,773
11, and the parking garage behind it Significant parking space

1127
01:59:56,274 --> 01:59:59,213
Uh... To the advantage of the tenets of the building,

1128
01:59:59,213 --> 02:00:03,133
the city And ultimately our parking enterprise Uh... That will

1129
02:00:03,234 --> 02:00:06,893
make that parking available in the evenings to customers downtown

1130
02:00:07,874 --> 02:00:11,613
to expand our enterprise beyond our current parking garage.

1131
02:00:18,757 --> 02:00:21,616
Uh, this is mostly for the Public Record to just

1132
02:00:21,656 --> 02:00:25,056
reflect the space and where we're going to initi space

1133
02:00:25,477 --> 02:00:28,976
for moving into floors of office space and one floor

1134
02:00:29,317 --> 02:00:32,816
Uh the ground floor for some training space Uh... And

1135
02:00:32,917 --> 02:00:35,936
that is already subject to the least agreement as approved

1136
02:00:35,976 --> 02:00:39,296
by council But as we move forward with purchase Uh,

1137
02:00:39,317 --> 02:00:42,336
then we would still occupy that space But it is

1138
02:00:42,437 --> 02:00:47,216
122, 000 square foot Um... building... That allows us to

1139
02:00:47,216 --> 02:00:49,456
have many other tenants that help to pay for the

1140
02:00:49,496 --> 02:00:55,095
net operating costs of that building. And that gets us

1141
02:00:55,095 --> 02:00:58,455
to the rationale again It gives us the opportunity.

1142
02:01:11,369 --> 02:01:14,948
Um... Manage our timing costs on our space needs... While

1143
02:01:15,049 --> 02:01:17,348
getting a long - term solution We don't need to

1144
02:01:17,369 --> 02:01:21,028
occupy the entire space Uh... We can slowly over time

1145
02:01:21,449 --> 02:01:26,148
as our Community grows And we have additional Um... Needs

1146
02:01:26,148 --> 02:01:30,148
to serve our community to potentially occupy additional space But

1147
02:01:30,188 --> 02:01:35,108
we don't have to... And having those... Uh... Revenues come

1148
02:01:35,108 --> 02:01:38,788
in to help again with our net operating cost is

1149
02:01:38,809 --> 02:01:41,828
a huge advantage Uh... And in particular it was the

1150
02:01:42,169 --> 02:01:45,508
very expensive least Uh... Payments... Uh... That we're able to

1151
02:01:45,929 --> 02:01:53,588
eliminate Consolidate staffional efficiencies Uh... Again, and it is in

1152
02:01:53,588 --> 02:01:56,868
the heart of downtown and positioned very close to City

1153
02:01:56,908 --> 02:02:01,908
Hall Uh... That allows us to continue Uh... Move forward

1154
02:02:02,889 --> 02:02:06,868
in working closely together as City team And would just

1155
02:02:06,868 --> 02:02:11,988
note lastly that... We were able to... Have a favorable

1156
02:02:12,329 --> 02:02:15,908
Uh... Purchase price... Given some of our market purchasing the

1157
02:02:15,908 --> 02:02:17,588
praise and long - term tenants.

1158
02:02:28,083 --> 02:02:30,462
We completed our due diligence period at the end of

1159
02:02:30,462 --> 02:02:35,982
July We saw no red flags There are not any

1160
02:02:36,003 --> 02:02:39,822
facility issues that aren't beyond what we would consider regular

1161
02:02:39,923 --> 02:02:42,702
maintenance Uh... We did through the process identify some of

1162
02:02:42,702 --> 02:02:45,422
those maintenance needs that are gonna come up in the

1163
02:02:45,422 --> 02:02:47,982
next 5 to 10 years And that's important Small 4

1164
02:02:48,963 --> 02:02:52,302
Consideration for our maintenance costs in the first year Because

1165
02:02:53,043 --> 02:02:55,662
we do anticipate needing to do some maintenance in year

1166
02:02:55,702 --> 02:02:59,902
1 The we already had a 425, 000 dollar deposit

1167
02:03:01,283 --> 02:03:05,982
on this property that would go towards the purchase price.

1168
02:03:11,874 --> 02:03:16,333
Um... And... We were underway in the planning process that

1169
02:03:16,333 --> 02:03:19,053
we had the choice that we were just moving to

1170
02:03:19,053 --> 02:03:21,053
other least costs that were facing at the other location.

1171
02:03:22,171 --> 02:03:26,230
So again in short summary Uh after our due diligence

1172
02:03:26,891 --> 02:03:29,670
Staff is recommending that we move forward Because there are

1173
02:03:29,851 --> 02:03:33,270
no issues that suggest that we shouldn't acquire the building.

1174
02:03:43,610 --> 02:03:47,349
A few more... I think just valuable Reflections on why

1175
02:03:47,690 --> 02:03:50,869
we move for the same tenants You see that there

1176
02:03:50,890 --> 02:03:53,909
on the screen Uh... There are a variety of different

1177
02:03:54,490 --> 02:03:58,149
tenants and varying lease agreements But several of those are

1178
02:03:58,189 --> 02:04:01,509
also long - term tenants We do have about 21

1179
02:04:01,549 --> 02:04:05,989
percent vacancy The average vacancy for office space in downtown

1180
02:04:06,250 --> 02:04:08,869
is closer to 6 percent City - wide It's closer

1181
02:04:08,869 --> 02:04:11,429
to 8 percent And so we think there's work we

1182
02:04:11,469 --> 02:04:14,949
can go due to acquire additional tenants Uh... That would

1183
02:04:14,949 --> 02:04:19,029
help us continue to offset our operating costs The performer

1184
02:04:19,050 --> 02:04:23,029
that's before your council does not include assumptions of additional

1185
02:04:23,210 --> 02:04:26,149
Revenues from those leases Where he took a conservative approach

1186
02:04:26,490 --> 02:04:30,549
And it's based on current plus 1 That's based on

1187
02:04:30,890 --> 02:04:36,309
a notable letter of interest that has been... Issued Uh...

1188
02:04:36,490 --> 02:04:40,549
Occupy that space And so any additional space that gets

1189
02:04:40,650 --> 02:04:45,509
leased Only helps improve RENET Operating... Again, achieves 1, 000

1190
02:04:45,509 --> 02:04:49,890
dollars EVs are year. But also very importantly It preserves

1191
02:04:49,911 --> 02:04:54,530
a very important Uh, building in the core corridor for

1192
02:04:54,631 --> 02:05:00,850
trucks and... And... Preserves our economic activity downtown. Uh... And

1193
02:05:01,111 --> 02:05:09,511
again that phased City expansion as needed. These are numbers

1194
02:05:09,532 --> 02:05:11,911
that were provided in the administrative report And these are

1195
02:05:11,911 --> 02:05:14,711
the numbers where I'm giving you again our least pain

1196
02:05:14,732 --> 02:05:21,191
Ever in this coming YON Our total payments Uh... Against

1197
02:05:21,212 --> 02:05:26,631
this Enrefund loan would be 636, 000 dollars Which is

1198
02:05:26,671 --> 02:05:30,711
why I'm saying the million minus the 366 That's your

1199
02:05:31,052 --> 02:05:35,831
350 I rounded down 350, 000 dollars in savings every

1200
02:05:35,871 --> 02:05:40,951
year And those payments that were making from our capital

1201
02:05:41,052 --> 02:05:45,751
Um... Improvement Program each year... Free up the operating dollars

1202
02:05:45,852 --> 02:05:49,111
on the police side And they go towards the acquisition

1203
02:05:49,111 --> 02:05:51,271
of this long - term asset And so instead of

1204
02:05:52,012 --> 02:05:54,711
throwing money away to a lease that didn't result in

1205
02:05:54,812 --> 02:06:00,799
any long - term asset ThisNOW does. Um... Put us

1206
02:06:00,799 --> 02:06:02,747
in a position. To have acquired this long - term

1207
02:06:03,008 --> 02:06:10,680
asset. Lastly I noted earlier Um... That we had space

1208
02:06:10,720 --> 02:06:13,960
that we could continue to lease These are just some

1209
02:06:14,301 --> 02:06:20,280
square foot estimates And some conservative... Uh... Estimated least revenues

1210
02:06:20,381 --> 02:06:23,560
that could come from those additional spaces And as you'll

1211
02:06:23,600 --> 02:06:29,160
know that would significantly again Increase that revenue And notably

1212
02:06:29,341 --> 02:06:32,680
decrease the amount of capital dollars that would need to

1213
02:06:32,680 --> 02:06:36,440
go towards debt service each year And we feel that.

1214
02:06:37,109 --> 02:06:42,128
Several years into this... Um... Our Inner Fund loan That

1215
02:06:42,229 --> 02:06:44,528
we're likely to be in a position Where the full

1216
02:06:44,568 --> 02:06:48,128
debt service is being paid by the net operating revenues

1217
02:06:48,149 --> 02:06:56,205
from the building. There are act front of us Uh,

1218
02:06:56,226 --> 02:07:00,445
there is the option to move Uh... With purpose and

1219
02:07:00,445 --> 02:07:03,105
to close by the end of this month. And that

1220
02:07:03,145 --> 02:07:06,225
would represent a significant savings 800, 000 dollars And I

1221
02:07:06,225 --> 02:07:08,705
don't see any reason not to move now Um... If

1222
02:07:08,806 --> 02:07:13,745
we chose to... Exercise our purchase option at a later

1223
02:07:13,745 --> 02:07:18,322
date. Uh... The price would change notably. And our deposit

1224
02:07:18,823 --> 02:07:23,522
again has... Uh... Already... Uh... Where passed our due diligence

1225
02:07:23,562 --> 02:07:25,602
period Deposit has gone hard And we would not get

1226
02:07:25,642 --> 02:07:28,962
that deposit back if we don't move forward Um... And

1227
02:07:29,783 --> 02:07:34,482
again Significant savings with the early exercise option That's... That

1228
02:07:34,663 --> 02:07:38,579
we're recommending in front of you. This is a lot

1229
02:07:38,620 --> 02:07:42,039
of numbers But we wanted to be transparent and demonstrate

1230
02:07:42,540 --> 02:07:46,013
What our debt service payments look like. Again This is

1231
02:07:46,034 --> 02:07:52,328
a 2. 5 percent interest loan over 12 years. At

1232
02:07:52,328 --> 02:07:55,208
this time We're using some of our Capitol Facility about

1233
02:07:55,248 --> 02:07:57,848
2. 5 million dollars in total And we're gonna pay

1234
02:07:57,848 --> 02:08:00,808
that back Uh... over the next five years to make

1235
02:08:00,808 --> 02:08:04,471
sure that that is restored. Um... And I probably should

1236
02:08:04,471 --> 02:08:06,631
have done this at the Out set I apologize I

1237
02:08:06,631 --> 02:08:10,048
did not. As a recommendation to use an inner Fund

1238
02:08:10,048 --> 02:08:12,048
loan What this means What we're doing is we have

1239
02:08:12,389 --> 02:08:15,744
reserves in our equipment Fund. That we're gonna borrow against

1240
02:08:16,245 --> 02:08:19,606
or borrowing against our own reserved dollars. But it's at

1241
02:08:19,646 --> 02:08:22,406
a 2. 5 percent interest rate because we don't want

1242
02:08:22,406 --> 02:08:26,646
to lose value that our reserves would have gained Had

1243
02:08:26,646 --> 02:08:29,366
they been invested in the market And so we always

1244
02:08:29,787 --> 02:08:35,366
invest our reserves And... This represents a five - year

1245
02:08:35,387 --> 02:08:41,164
average Of what our reserve interest income has been. And

1246
02:08:41,345 --> 02:08:43,244
that 2. 5 percent is a fair way to make

1247
02:08:43,244 --> 02:08:46,924
sure that we're not losing money in our reserves By

1248
02:08:46,945 --> 02:08:53,504
making this enterfund loan. Uh, some might question Why do

1249
02:08:53,504 --> 02:08:57,104
we choose this particular way of financing? Um... It's far

1250
02:08:57,144 --> 02:09:00,224
more cost - effective than going out and trying to

1251
02:09:02,165 --> 02:09:04,784
loan or bond in the private markets Because you have

1252
02:09:04,784 --> 02:09:07,184
to pay higher interest rates You also have to pay

1253
02:09:08,005 --> 02:09:13,496
transactional costs. Um... And it's endoscope. Uh... At 12 million

1254
02:09:13,536 --> 02:09:17,896
dollars It's in the scope that our interfund reserves can

1255
02:09:17,917 --> 02:09:21,176
handle Uh... We can't do larger projects that might be...

1256
02:09:21,517 --> 02:09:24,317
Tens of millions or 100 million dollars. But we have

1257
02:09:24,338 --> 02:09:27,837
a reserve Uh... That is over 100 million dollars in

1258
02:09:27,837 --> 02:09:31,677
our equipment Fund And we have a 54 million dollar

1259
02:09:31,698 --> 02:09:34,397
unrestricted reserve in the equipment Fund And so this is

1260
02:09:34,738 --> 02:09:37,597
about the right size for us to do A very

1261
02:09:37,597 --> 02:09:39,517
meaningful project That's gonna save us a lot of money

1262
02:09:41,058 --> 02:09:45,757
And a short timeframe Still make that... Equipment Fund whole

1263
02:09:45,797 --> 02:09:49,772
again. So that is our recommendation For review The City

1264
02:09:49,812 --> 02:09:53,877
Council A 12. 1 Million Dollar Interfund loan. That we

1265
02:09:54,138 --> 02:09:56,757
were appropriate those to our Capitol Outlet Fund and appropriate

1266
02:09:56,778 --> 02:10:00,037
the remaining 2 million from the Capitol Facility Reserve to

1267
02:10:00,037 --> 02:10:03,397
our capital Outlawe Fund Uh... It's a total of 2.

1268
02:10:03,418 --> 02:10:06,757
5 towards this Project from the Capitol LA Fund The

1269
02:10:06,757 --> 02:10:10,155
other 425 is the Deposit that we already made. And

1270
02:10:10,256 --> 02:10:11,515
with that I'm happy to answer any questions.

1271
02:11:31,611 --> 02:11:33,670
General fund and several of our other funds, but they

1272
02:11:33,670 --> 02:11:35,990
have to be protected only for the use of purchase

1273
02:11:35,990 --> 02:11:40,180
of equipment. But again, as a healthy reserve sits over

1274
02:11:40,180 --> 02:11:44,980
there, it's an opportunity to borrow against that from ourselves.

1275
02:11:44,980 --> 02:11:47,420
But because it is dedicated to a specific purpose, it

1276
02:11:47,420 --> 02:11:50,340
does have to be paid back with interest. So when

1277
02:11:50,361 --> 02:11:53,300
we say that we're saving money, we are saving money

1278
02:11:53,481 --> 02:11:58,180
because today we are spending money on a current lease

1279
02:11:58,180 --> 02:12:01,140
agreement for space that we need for big so police

1280
02:12:01,180 --> 02:12:05,094
department. And we pay a million dollars annually. And where

1281
02:12:05,094 --> 02:12:07,574
did those funds come from? Thank you, Council Member. That

1282
02:12:07,574 --> 02:12:09,894
is coming out of the general fund. The savings that

1283
02:12:10,155 --> 02:12:12,534
we're achieving is going to be to the general fund.

1284
02:12:12,555 --> 02:12:16,694
So we will, because we have to pay ourselves back

1285
02:12:17,835 --> 02:12:20,694
in these additional, these other funds, we will be saving

1286
02:12:21,195 --> 02:12:25,254
350, 000 dollars a year. And then in the 13th

1287
02:12:25,294 --> 02:12:27,974
year, then, we will be saving a million dollars at

1288
02:12:27,974 --> 02:12:32,614
least because these lease agreements, they don't get cheaper over

1289
02:12:32,635 --> 02:12:36,821
time. You know, just like my rent. It's only gotten

1290
02:12:36,861 --> 02:12:40,661
more expensive. You know, the lease agreement will likely be

1291
02:12:40,682 --> 02:12:44,181
even more expensive in the future. Is that right? That

1292
02:12:44,221 --> 02:12:46,661
is correct. It's a conservative savings of a million dollars

1293
02:12:46,682 --> 02:12:49,381
a year. It will only increase over the life of

1294
02:12:49,802 --> 02:12:55,621
this loan payback. So over the next 12 years, we'll

1295
02:12:55,621 --> 02:12:57,781
be paying 12 million dollars if we choose not to

1296
02:12:57,882 --> 02:13:01,821
pursue this correct. The other thing is the thing I

1297
02:13:01,821 --> 02:13:06,981
really like about this project is that it occupies a

1298
02:13:06,981 --> 02:13:11,381
building that currently has a 21 percent vacancy rate. You

1299
02:13:11,421 --> 02:13:15,221
mentioned the current 21 percent vacancy rate. Is that including

1300
02:13:15,322 --> 02:13:21,099
the anticipated use from basal police department and city. Yes.

1301
02:13:22,932 --> 02:13:26,511
When police occupies it, there will still be 21 percent

1302
02:13:26,612 --> 02:13:31,391
vacancy. Got it. But we are already having conversations with

1303
02:13:31,492 --> 02:13:35,791
potential tenants in anticipation of the city's purchase. Is that

1304
02:13:35,831 --> 02:13:39,591
right? Absolutely. And it has been actively marketed. I think

1305
02:13:39,591 --> 02:13:41,871
it's fair to know that. But also we feel that

1306
02:13:42,372 --> 02:13:47,791
as the city enters the building as the owner and

1307
02:13:47,831 --> 02:13:52,751
as an attendant, who look at that and make some

1308
02:13:52,791 --> 02:13:55,391
considerations, but we also think some potential tenants would see

1309
02:13:55,391 --> 02:14:00,191
that as an attractive relationship. We'll leverage all of our

1310
02:14:00,231 --> 02:14:02,191
relationships that we have as well to make sure that

1311
02:14:03,012 --> 02:14:05,711
we can fill that space as much as possible. Great.

1312
02:14:06,636 --> 02:14:09,960
Second to last point. Parking is a huge benefit because

1313
02:14:10,221 --> 02:14:12,920
parking is limited in downtown. And it is one of

1314
02:14:12,960 --> 02:14:19,640
the most controversial issues in downtown Bakers given its scarcity.

1315
02:14:19,640 --> 02:14:22,520
How much does it cost to build a parking structure.

1316
02:14:25,220 --> 02:14:27,599
I think Council Member Mayor and Council to build a

1317
02:14:27,599 --> 02:14:29,879
parking structure depends a little bit on the size, of

1318
02:14:29,879 --> 02:14:34,399
course. But a parking structure that would be 300 plus

1319
02:14:34,420 --> 02:14:38,319
stalls is a 323 stall parking garage. Could be easily

1320
02:14:38,740 --> 02:14:42,639
50 million dollars. 50 million dollars to build a new

1321
02:14:42,679 --> 02:14:46,079
structure. Correct. Yeah. That's not going to happen anytime soon.

1322
02:14:46,079 --> 02:14:48,159
At least with the city of Bakersville, given our current

1323
02:14:48,260 --> 02:14:51,039
condition. So I think this is a good move even

1324
02:14:51,039 --> 02:14:53,821
for that. And then my last point is. Tonight we're

1325
02:14:53,821 --> 02:14:56,781
also considering an item related to a vacant property that

1326
02:14:57,122 --> 02:15:03,021
is seen many code violations. And we know all too

1327
02:15:03,061 --> 02:15:07,181
well in this city what happens when buildings remain underutilized

1328
02:15:07,202 --> 02:15:10,541
or even vacant. And it becomes a huge liability to

1329
02:15:11,362 --> 02:15:15,261
the city because we have to expend resources by way

1330
02:15:15,261 --> 02:15:20,301
of code enforcement, police department, fire department, uh, and also

1331
02:15:20,341 --> 02:15:24,601
becomes just a nuisance to the surrounding community. There are

1332
02:15:24,601 --> 02:15:27,341
a lot of negative externalities related to some of these

1333
02:15:27,362 --> 02:15:31,181
buildings. Uh, then unfortunately are in the urban corps. There's

1334
02:15:31,181 --> 02:15:36,061
just a higher concentration. Um, and the thing that I've

1335
02:15:36,061 --> 02:15:41,181
always worried about is to see this building, um, fall,

1336
02:15:41,181 --> 02:15:44,621
uh, fall into disrepair and to see many of the

1337
02:15:44,722 --> 02:15:49,581
tenants leave as a result. And, um, and then the

1338
02:15:49,762 --> 02:15:53,101
whoever the future owner is seeing them not really caring

1339
02:15:53,101 --> 02:15:57,661
for this property, um, and it becoming a major liability

1340
02:15:57,701 --> 02:16:00,941
for all of us in this community. And so I

1341
02:16:00,981 --> 02:16:06,381
think this is a really big win for not only

1342
02:16:06,421 --> 02:16:08,781
the city of Bakersfield from a business perspective, but also

1343
02:16:08,882 --> 02:16:14,381
for downtown and for the future of downtown Bakersfield. So,

1344
02:16:14,381 --> 02:16:15,821
uh, I'm going to make a motion tonight that we

1345
02:16:15,861 --> 02:16:19,261
prove this. Thanks. Thank you. Council Member Bashir Tash.

1346
02:16:30,139 --> 02:16:33,318
So we have to borrow, we have to be interested

1347
02:16:33,318 --> 02:16:35,638
on the money that we borrow from one account, Randy.

1348
02:16:36,972 --> 02:16:46,472
That's like a, that's a mandatory thing. Good evening. Council

1349
02:16:46,512 --> 02:16:48,952
member, that is really a best practice. So what we

1350
02:16:48,952 --> 02:16:52,232
did is we built this inner fund loan policy based

1351
02:16:52,232 --> 02:16:56,472
on other comparable cities. And it really is because it's

1352
02:16:56,512 --> 02:17:01,526
an enterprise fund. It really is the property approach. Those

1353
02:17:01,526 --> 02:17:04,886
funds are really belonging to the equipment fund. And so

1354
02:17:04,926 --> 02:17:09,286
we want to really return those dollars with what they

1355
02:17:09,307 --> 02:17:10,726
would have earned if they would have had to remain

1356
02:17:10,907 --> 02:17:14,006
in an investment fund. So that's really a best practice.

1357
02:17:14,006 --> 02:17:16,486
Cool. Thank you. That's, I promise you, Rayni, I want

1358
02:17:16,486 --> 02:17:17,686
to ask you any more questions. That was the only

1359
02:17:17,726 --> 02:17:26,834
one. So the, the freezing in vocabulary behind the conversation

1360
02:17:26,834 --> 02:17:29,394
that I just listened to was a little bit bothersome

1361
02:17:29,394 --> 02:17:32,434
to me because it's not our money. It's taxpayer money.

1362
02:17:32,434 --> 02:17:37,332
We're going to, we're going to pay interest. On tax.

1363
02:17:37,332 --> 02:17:40,852
We're going to pay interest with taxpayer money on taxpayer

1364
02:17:40,873 --> 02:17:46,499
money. For something, uh, just that just, I mean, that

1365
02:17:46,539 --> 02:17:48,499
makes me sick to my stomach. We're going to pay

1366
02:17:48,520 --> 02:17:52,339
interest on taxpayer money because we're not making money by

1367
02:17:52,360 --> 02:17:55,779
investing it. That just sounds so backwards to me. We're

1368
02:17:55,779 --> 02:17:58,458
going to take more money from the people. To pay

1369
02:17:58,498 --> 02:18:02,433
for the money we already took from the people. That

1370
02:18:02,473 --> 02:18:05,159
doesn't make sense to me. Um, this is going to

1371
02:18:05,380 --> 02:18:09,439
be so much more costly. It's a 1974 building. Every

1372
02:18:09,439 --> 02:18:11,439
year that goes by in my life and I'm not

1373
02:18:11,439 --> 02:18:13,759
even a building. I break down and cost more. I

1374
02:18:13,799 --> 02:18:16,639
can only imagine what the floor space of this, that

1375
02:18:16,639 --> 02:18:19,039
parking structure looks like. I think it would be very

1376
02:18:19,620 --> 02:18:21,599
cheap to have parking. If we twe it all down

1377
02:18:21,639 --> 02:18:24,079
and had a gravel a lot with striped lines, like,

1378
02:18:24,079 --> 02:18:26,559
you know, the current county fair would cost maybe half

1379
02:18:26,599 --> 02:18:28,959
a million dollars. But this is going to cost so

1380
02:18:28,959 --> 02:18:32,144
much money. And in a time when we're listening to

1381
02:18:33,525 --> 02:18:36,224
people that have businesses on union that are getting shot

1382
02:18:36,264 --> 02:18:38,944
up and we can't do anything to help with that.

1383
02:18:38,944 --> 02:18:41,504
Or we're trying to create jailbed space, but we're moving

1384
02:18:42,805 --> 02:18:45,584
real slow. I don't understand how we can allocate money

1385
02:18:45,624 --> 02:18:48,704
to anything outside of fixing the problem that is plugging

1386
02:18:48,885 --> 02:18:50,864
business owners that are coming here on a Wednesday night

1387
02:18:51,045 --> 02:18:55,784
to speak and begging for help. Uh, I just, I

1388
02:18:55,784 --> 02:18:58,224
don't support this. I think it's going to cost us

1389
02:18:58,264 --> 02:18:59,824
so much more money. I don't understand how we're going

1390
02:18:59,824 --> 02:19:02,064
to pay interest on taxpayer money by taking more money

1391
02:19:02,104 --> 02:19:10,838
from the taxpayers. Um, but those are my comments. Council

1392
02:19:10,878 --> 02:19:20,651
Member Coleman. Thank you, Mayor. So I wanted to

1393
02:19:20,752 --> 02:19:26,251
address two things. I wanted first address this inner fun

1394
02:19:26,512 --> 02:19:31,485
transfer. Because there's, there's people been out there talking about,

1395
02:19:31,485 --> 02:19:35,725
uh, how it's some kind of accounting trick or we're

1396
02:19:35,765 --> 02:19:42,338
doing something shady. The inner fund, first of all, that

1397
02:19:42,759 --> 02:19:46,818
inner fund that we're going to borrow the money for,

1398
02:19:46,818 --> 02:19:51,348
that's the equipment fund. Can you please tell me where

1399
02:19:51,529 --> 02:19:56,119
that money in the equipment fund. Comes from. Yeah, I

1400
02:19:56,140 --> 02:19:59,576
think you council remember. Coleman. The equipment fund, by the

1401
02:19:59,576 --> 02:20:02,936
way, is principally vehicles, although there are a few other

1402
02:20:03,277 --> 02:20:06,616
large value pieces of equipment that we include in the

1403
02:20:06,616 --> 02:20:09,656
equipment fund, but we're not talking about equipment like shovels

1404
02:20:09,696 --> 02:20:13,976
and rakes. This is high dollar value equipment. And so

1405
02:20:14,157 --> 02:20:19,656
that equipment, um, fund is funded by almost all of

1406
02:20:19,656 --> 02:20:22,216
our funds. So some of it comes from the general

1407
02:20:22,216 --> 02:20:26,296
fund. Some of it comes from our other enterprise funds.

1408
02:20:26,296 --> 02:20:28,616
But because they're coming from other enterprise funds, let's say

1409
02:20:28,656 --> 02:20:33,072
it comes from the water fund. Those are protected dollars,

1410
02:20:33,072 --> 02:20:36,112
rate payers may, you know, paid those dollars. And so,

1411
02:20:36,112 --> 02:20:38,672
uh, that's why we feel it is appropriate to pay

1412
02:20:38,712 --> 02:20:42,672
back the interest on that loan because it is a

1413
02:20:42,672 --> 02:20:45,232
best accounting practice to account for each of these funds.

1414
02:20:46,388 --> 02:20:49,487
Distinctly and openly. And I think I'll read a little

1415
02:20:49,487 --> 02:20:51,807
bit into your question as well, Councillor McCominay, which I

1416
02:20:51,807 --> 02:20:55,875
think is a good question. In our annual financial reporting

1417
02:20:56,056 --> 02:21:00,835
documents, we report on each of these funds independently. They

1418
02:21:00,835 --> 02:21:06,032
are accounted for separately independently. And those dollars are collected

1419
02:21:06,133 --> 02:21:08,192
from each of the other funds to buy all the

1420
02:21:08,232 --> 02:21:11,152
equipment we need across all of the funds. Um, but

1421
02:21:11,573 --> 02:21:16,232
again, uh, that is one of our funds that, of

1422
02:21:16,232 --> 02:21:19,552
course, it represents the value of all of that equipment.

1423
02:21:19,552 --> 02:21:21,712
And so we, if we had multiple large pieces of

1424
02:21:21,752 --> 02:21:24,992
equipment that went, you know, out. And we had to

1425
02:21:25,032 --> 02:21:28,672
replace those. That's where our reserves come in. But we

1426
02:21:28,672 --> 02:21:32,592
have a fairly healthy reserve by comparison there. And so

1427
02:21:32,632 --> 02:21:35,552
it is available for the inner fund loan, but it

1428
02:21:35,552 --> 02:21:39,312
needs to all be a documented and accounted for very

1429
02:21:39,312 --> 02:21:47,428
clearly that these are separate dollars. Okay. So, uh, so

1430
02:21:48,249 --> 02:21:50,148
first of all, this is not new to the city

1431
02:21:50,188 --> 02:21:55,078
of Bakersfield. That is. We've done it before. That is

1432
02:21:55,078 --> 02:22:01,238
correct. We have, cause I remember in the, uh, redevelopment

1433
02:22:01,278 --> 02:22:05,647
days, we did that. From time to time to make

1434
02:22:05,668 --> 02:22:08,087
some of the mill creek projects and that kind of

1435
02:22:08,087 --> 02:22:12,796
thing work. Uh, has all that bad money been repaid,

1436
02:22:12,796 --> 02:22:17,612
you know. It has, I think, as it relates to

1437
02:22:17,652 --> 02:22:20,572
the redevelopment fund, of course, there's, you know, when the

1438
02:22:20,572 --> 02:22:24,892
state shut that down, the lots of complications, uh, but,

1439
02:22:24,913 --> 02:22:27,612
but of the city's interfund loans, yes. All of that

1440
02:22:27,652 --> 02:22:32,865
has been repayback. Okay. So this is something that's, uh,

1441
02:22:34,906 --> 02:22:37,525
recognized, and I did a little bit of my own

1442
02:22:37,546 --> 02:22:39,925
research on this. I just kind of wanted to make

1443
02:22:40,346 --> 02:22:44,165
a comment about this because, uh, there have been people

1444
02:22:44,186 --> 02:22:48,325
out there saying that this is, this are accounting tricks.

1445
02:22:48,325 --> 02:22:53,525
And this is recognized by the California state controllers office.

1446
02:22:53,525 --> 02:22:57,905
And they have very strict rules on, on this, uh.

1447
02:23:00,720 --> 02:23:06,539
It is common for municipalities to use inner fund borrowing.

1448
02:23:06,539 --> 02:23:08,539
That is correct. It is very common. And also the

1449
02:23:08,579 --> 02:23:12,059
government finance officers association has a set of guidelines that

1450
02:23:12,240 --> 02:23:15,231
govern this as well as the state of California. Okay.

1451
02:23:15,252 --> 02:23:17,551
And then can you tell me what the balance is

1452
02:23:17,652 --> 02:23:21,269
and the equipment fund right now? The equipment fund balance.

1453
02:23:21,269 --> 02:23:27,029
Let me pull it up. Plus reminder. It's about 120

1454
02:23:27,050 --> 02:23:33,069
million dollars and unrestricted is about 54 million dollars. So

1455
02:23:33,069 --> 02:23:34,629
we're going to be taking you out of the unrestricted

1456
02:23:35,370 --> 02:23:38,149
amount, correct? Correct. And so what will the balance be

1457
02:23:38,149 --> 02:23:42,080
after we borrow the money. Sorry, Councilmember. We'll have to

1458
02:23:44,621 --> 02:23:46,120
Mr. McKegan, you have it off the top of your

1459
02:23:46,160 --> 02:23:51,335
head, feel free. I do have it. 50, you say

1460
02:23:51,375 --> 02:23:55,255
it's 54 million. We're going to borrow 12. So 42.

1461
02:23:55,516 --> 02:23:57,095
Simple man. I could have done that other look at

1462
02:23:57,095 --> 02:24:00,672
my notes. Oh, there's somebody to call an account. I

1463
02:24:00,672 --> 02:24:04,752
guess my, my, my question then becomes, uh, we're still

1464
02:24:04,773 --> 02:24:09,527
going to have 40 million dollars in an account. Are

1465
02:24:09,527 --> 02:24:11,767
we going to need this 12 million dollars that were

1466
02:24:11,767 --> 02:24:15,367
borrowed any time soon? We do not believe we do.

1467
02:24:15,367 --> 02:24:18,787
In fact, we did some analysis and we have, uh,

1468
02:24:18,828 --> 02:24:21,207
have a very high level of confidence that we'll be

1469
02:24:21,207 --> 02:24:24,167
able to back any equipment purchases that we need to

1470
02:24:24,428 --> 02:24:28,327
over the full 12 years of this loan repayment with

1471
02:24:29,468 --> 02:24:34,611
the unrestricted balance that remains. Okay. Uh, I think I

1472
02:24:34,651 --> 02:24:38,771
made my point about the inner fund loan in our

1473
02:24:38,811 --> 02:24:43,571
fun borrowing. It's been done. We've cities of Bakersfield has

1474
02:24:43,571 --> 02:24:51,616
done it. Frequently in the past. Other communities, uh, California.

1475
02:24:51,616 --> 02:24:55,776
And outside of California, uh, use this practice to finance

1476
02:24:55,816 --> 02:24:58,896
deals. Um, it's a good way to do it because

1477
02:24:58,896 --> 02:25:01,996
you don't have to go out in the market. And

1478
02:25:01,996 --> 02:25:04,816
you mentioned that you would have to pay broker fees

1479
02:25:05,157 --> 02:25:07,456
for somebody to put a bond out and that kind

1480
02:25:07,456 --> 02:25:09,536
of thing. And then you would probably have a higher

1481
02:25:09,637 --> 02:25:14,085
interest rate. So I like the inner fund borrowing as

1482
02:25:14,085 --> 02:25:18,340
a tool. I like the fact that we're not talking,

1483
02:25:18,340 --> 02:25:20,780
putting it out there for 30 years. We're going to

1484
02:25:20,780 --> 02:25:24,180
pay it back in 12 years. And frankly, if you're

1485
02:25:24,180 --> 02:25:28,020
going to have some operating gains, then you might be

1486
02:25:28,020 --> 02:25:31,871
able to pay that down sooner. Uh, but I did

1487
02:25:31,911 --> 02:25:36,671
want to talk about the deal itself. Because in my

1488
02:25:36,711 --> 02:25:39,631
history of things, I've done, I've done these kind of

1489
02:25:39,892 --> 02:25:44,191
real estate analysis for, uh, for investment groups. And we've

1490
02:25:44,191 --> 02:25:49,431
gone and assessed a property to make a buyer, no

1491
02:25:49,431 --> 02:25:54,777
buy recommendation. And so, uh, to me, this is not

1492
02:25:54,878 --> 02:25:59,444
a spectacular real estate deal. You know, yeah, we'd like

1493
02:25:59,484 --> 02:26:03,443
to be buying it for less. But it's a solid

1494
02:26:03,464 --> 02:26:09,660
deal. And it's a defendable deal. And, uh, it pencils.

1495
02:26:11,342 --> 02:26:16,281
Uh, even without making any assumptions about being able to

1496
02:26:16,702 --> 02:26:22,170
knock that 21 percent big C factor down. Uh, in

1497
02:26:22,170 --> 02:26:26,813
the bank. And we have an appraisal. That supports a

1498
02:26:26,813 --> 02:26:30,910
value above the purchase price. Correct. That is correct. Okay.

1499
02:26:33,613 --> 02:26:37,352
There was some concern about the, uh, the high cost

1500
02:26:37,453 --> 02:26:39,992
of utilities, but there's been some progress on that, correct?

1501
02:26:40,333 --> 02:26:42,392
Yeah, I think accounts, member. That's a good question. That

1502
02:26:42,493 --> 02:26:46,472
is also correct. There have been some energy efficiency measures

1503
02:26:46,733 --> 02:26:50,792
to switch to LED lights throughout the building. But we,

1504
02:26:50,832 --> 02:26:53,992
there are a couple additional energy efficiency projects that we

1505
02:26:54,032 --> 02:26:56,952
think we could invest into further lower the energy costs.

1506
02:27:01,478 --> 02:27:03,457
And I guess I wanted to make a point. We're

1507
02:27:03,457 --> 02:27:06,257
not buying a vacant building for us to use all

1508
02:27:06,518 --> 02:27:09,857
the space. So it has some preset income coming in.

1509
02:27:11,751 --> 02:27:15,250
From these rentals. You correct? That's correct. One point of

1510
02:27:15,290 --> 02:27:19,970
now rental beliesing. Yeah. 1. 4 million dollars in annual

1511
02:27:20,391 --> 02:27:24,690
lease income. It's significant. Which is not, is that include

1512
02:27:25,431 --> 02:27:27,730
the money worst bending for the lease or not? It

1513
02:27:27,730 --> 02:27:32,210
does not. All right. So, so this, uh, repayment can

1514
02:27:32,231 --> 02:27:35,650
be largely paid out of either the R least savings

1515
02:27:35,690 --> 02:27:38,450
or the money we earned from the billing. It can

1516
02:27:38,711 --> 02:27:40,930
council member for just for a sake of clarity and

1517
02:27:40,970 --> 02:27:45,250
transparency. There's, the other building operating expenses as you noted

1518
02:27:45,671 --> 02:27:49,650
the utilities and some of the maintenance and the management.

1519
02:27:49,650 --> 02:27:55,490
But the, the total net operating costs, um, plus the

1520
02:27:55,511 --> 02:27:59,010
savings from our lease, uh, elimination at the other building

1521
02:27:59,591 --> 02:28:04,610
is that 350, 000 dollars net savings that does come

1522
02:28:04,610 --> 02:28:08,770
to the city and that net operating savings helps to

1523
02:28:08,770 --> 02:28:11,090
pay down our, our debt service. All right. Thank you.

1524
02:28:11,511 --> 02:28:15,810
Um. The other point I wanted to make about is

1525
02:28:15,911 --> 02:28:19,970
that, uh, a lot is made about, you know, the

1526
02:28:20,010 --> 02:28:26,996
cost of the building. But. Municipalities typically hold these things

1527
02:28:28,457 --> 02:28:31,125
for 50 years or more. And when you start to

1528
02:28:31,125 --> 02:28:35,525
do, you know, time value and money calculations, which brand,

1529
02:28:35,525 --> 02:28:37,365
you can probably figure out it's a little beyond me,

1530
02:28:37,365 --> 02:28:41,765
but, uh, it makes that those investments a lot more

1531
02:28:42,186 --> 02:28:48,126
reasonable. But then we get down to, so for me,

1532
02:28:48,126 --> 02:28:51,966
when I, when I analyze it, I analyze first, does

1533
02:28:51,966 --> 02:28:56,286
it make financial sense? And to me, uh, the purchase

1534
02:28:56,286 --> 02:29:01,086
price, uh, the money we're going to save from lease

1535
02:29:01,086 --> 02:29:04,286
payments that we're currently paying other people, uh, the money

1536
02:29:04,286 --> 02:29:09,646
that we're going to potentially earn from, uh, rents and

1537
02:29:09,646 --> 02:29:14,286
parking and whatever else is there to take advantage of.

1538
02:29:18,085 --> 02:29:21,504
Makes that a good, a good deal for me. It's

1539
02:29:21,525 --> 02:29:23,904
a pencil. It pencils. It's like a good financial deal.

1540
02:29:24,960 --> 02:29:27,559
Then the question becomes, why should you buy it? And

1541
02:29:27,559 --> 02:29:33,979
then the strategic intrinsic issues that I think are real

1542
02:29:34,019 --> 02:29:39,179
important. And, uh, that is the location of this property

1543
02:29:39,680 --> 02:29:44,307
being, uh, in the, I mean, that's. The key one

1544
02:29:44,328 --> 02:29:47,027
there. It's on a very critical corner in our downtowns

1545
02:29:47,128 --> 02:29:50,307
across from the superior court. It's catty corner from City

1546
02:29:50,347 --> 02:29:57,623
Hall. It's in a strategic, excellent location. It gives, uh,

1547
02:29:57,984 --> 02:30:01,585
the city control not only that corner. Uh, but it

1548
02:30:01,686 --> 02:30:05,905
also gives us control 300 and some parking spaces, which

1549
02:30:05,905 --> 02:30:13,909
we desperately need in the downtown. It gives us a

1550
02:30:13,909 --> 02:30:19,453
little bit of flexibility for the city. Um, I don't

1551
02:30:19,453 --> 02:30:22,893
think it's our intention to take it all for us.

1552
02:30:23,678 --> 02:30:26,297
But it gives us the ability to scale up and

1553
02:30:26,297 --> 02:30:29,393
down as we have other needs. This building we're in

1554
02:30:29,433 --> 02:30:32,113
right now is getting pretty close to the end of

1555
02:30:32,113 --> 02:30:34,753
its useful life. At some point, it's going to need

1556
02:30:34,753 --> 02:30:40,113
to be remodeled or rebuilt or something. And it would

1557
02:30:40,113 --> 02:30:44,113
give us an opportunity to relocate functions that we do

1558
02:30:44,153 --> 02:30:47,873
here during that period of time, something for future city

1559
02:30:47,873 --> 02:30:51,873
councils to worry about, but it'll be a resource that

1560
02:30:51,913 --> 02:30:56,212
they can use. At that time. And the other thing

1561
02:30:56,212 --> 02:31:00,452
I was encouraged by was that in my research, I

1562
02:31:00,473 --> 02:31:05,412
learned that other governmental and public entities have been purchasing

1563
02:31:05,593 --> 02:31:10,614
property downtown. It is downtown Billy. Rather than leasing them.

1564
02:31:10,614 --> 02:31:15,094
And that's a critical distinction is that businesses just being

1565
02:31:15,115 --> 02:31:18,931
in the downtown is great. But are they leasing or

1566
02:31:18,931 --> 02:31:22,911
are they only these buildings? And these government agencies, uh,

1567
02:31:23,352 --> 02:31:29,091
the current county, superintendent schools has 1675 Chester Avenue 1200

1568
02:31:29,112 --> 02:31:33,502
truckston avenue, which is the old church. And the county

1569
02:31:33,542 --> 02:31:39,342
occurring in CAPK have 1318th street. So, uh, that's encouraging

1570
02:31:39,382 --> 02:31:42,302
to me when this, when these agencies are buying property

1571
02:31:42,803 --> 02:31:50,782
downtown, it signals, uh, faith, uh, in those neighborhoods. So,

1572
02:31:50,782 --> 02:31:55,147
um. So anyway, I'll get back to my point. I

1573
02:31:55,147 --> 02:31:59,307
think it's a fair financial deal. And it's a good

1574
02:31:59,328 --> 02:32:03,307
overall purchase for the city. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember

1575
02:32:03,408 --> 02:32:04,667
Common. Council Member Weir.

1576
02:32:16,160 --> 02:32:19,019
I'm a little confused here. On page nine that you

1577
02:32:20,080 --> 02:32:25,651
have here. It shows that.

1578
02:32:30,535 --> 02:32:34,034
On page nine, can you explain to me what in

1579
02:32:34,034 --> 02:32:39,634
the world leave savings from California Avenue space a million

1580
02:32:39,655 --> 02:32:44,997
dollars. That's a savings that we're achieving by not leasing

1581
02:32:45,338 --> 02:32:48,597
the other space or the police department has had office

1582
02:32:48,597 --> 02:32:56,615
space on California Avenue. Okay. So that. You're seeing we're

1583
02:32:56,655 --> 02:33:02,200
getting more money now. We're not having that million dollar

1584
02:33:02,381 --> 02:33:05,320
expense any longer. But those folks have to go somewhere.

1585
02:33:09,684 --> 02:33:12,383
We're going to have an expense. I mean, that building's

1586
02:33:12,484 --> 02:33:16,351
going to cost money. If I may, Councilmember, we're just

1587
02:33:16,391 --> 02:33:21,686
to clarify. That is not the training academy. I'm not.

1588
02:33:23,130 --> 02:33:25,109
A training account. To me. I'm just trying to figure

1589
02:33:25,149 --> 02:33:30,990
out. If a million dollars in here is money a

1590
02:33:31,030 --> 02:33:33,836
one - time deal. We're not, we're not going to

1591
02:33:33,836 --> 02:33:37,556
get that every 12 months. We're not going to get

1592
02:33:37,577 --> 02:33:44,826
savings from, from, um, California avenue space. So Council Mayor,

1593
02:33:44,927 --> 02:33:49,226
we're the police department is leasing on an annual basis

1594
02:33:49,727 --> 02:33:53,466
numerous office spaces in an office building on California Avenue.

1595
02:33:53,466 --> 02:33:55,746
So that is an annual expense that we're going to

1596
02:33:56,047 --> 02:34:00,348
get that savings every year going forward. But I thought

1597
02:34:00,849 --> 02:34:06,555
you were stopping that. Correct. By stopping that lease and

1598
02:34:06,595 --> 02:34:10,555
moving them instead into this building, we moved that million

1599
02:34:10,595 --> 02:34:15,675
dollars to those lease payments that are just gone each

1600
02:34:15,715 --> 02:34:21,655
year and into the value of acquiring this building, the

1601
02:34:21,655 --> 02:34:25,647
Bank of America building. Because those same dollars are paying

1602
02:34:25,828 --> 02:34:31,087
into repayment of that loan essentially to acquire that building.

1603
02:34:31,678 --> 02:34:36,457
Okay. But the way this reads is, you know, it's

1604
02:34:36,497 --> 02:34:42,473
projected net operating income is the minus 206, 000. Right.

1605
02:34:42,574 --> 02:34:47,295
Correct. Then there's a savings. So we don't have to

1606
02:34:47,396 --> 02:34:53,479
pay them lease anymore. So as many dollars there. Correct.

1607
02:34:53,500 --> 02:34:55,719
Okay. And then it comes down. And then the next

1608
02:34:55,740 --> 02:35:00,043
year, we're not going to have savings from that. We

1609
02:35:00,043 --> 02:35:08,188
will. How will we. Because it's an annual payment to

1610
02:35:08,209 --> 02:35:11,468
the other building. We'll have to pay a million every

1611
02:35:11,489 --> 02:35:14,588
year. Every year it's another million dollars to that other

1612
02:35:14,628 --> 02:35:19,641
building. Okay.

1613
02:35:25,589 --> 02:35:29,894
Okay. Maybe I'm confused. We're buying a building and we

1614
02:35:29,894 --> 02:35:33,941
already have a building. We don't own the other building.

1615
02:35:33,941 --> 02:35:36,101
We're just leasing it. I know. And that's what's confusing

1616
02:35:36,141 --> 02:35:41,445
me. We were releasing it. Boom. The lease is over.

1617
02:35:43,017 --> 02:35:47,682
Now we're on our own. It's a million dollars. Okay.

1618
02:35:48,503 --> 02:35:54,019
So we have that savings. But that doesn't continue on.

1619
02:35:54,019 --> 02:35:58,099
We don't get a mean, 12 million dollars for 12

1620
02:35:58,139 --> 02:36:01,915
years. I suppose if I could put it a different

1621
02:36:02,096 --> 02:36:06,315
way, Councilmember, we're, if we stayed at the other building,

1622
02:36:06,315 --> 02:36:14,787
we would pay a million dollars every year. What I'm

1623
02:36:14,787 --> 02:36:17,324
trying to say is. For one, the first year you're

1624
02:36:17,324 --> 02:36:19,724
going to get a million dollars because you're not paying

1625
02:36:19,825 --> 02:36:23,453
that. You're not paying that at all. Correct. The next

1626
02:36:23,954 --> 02:36:26,653
year you're going to say that you're going to pay

1627
02:36:26,834 --> 02:36:28,813
that. You're not going to pay it again. Or you're

1628
02:36:28,813 --> 02:36:30,493
going to bed again. We're not going to pay it.

1629
02:36:32,304 --> 02:36:37,202
Okay. So. We're not going to have a million dollars

1630
02:36:37,242 --> 02:36:39,877
in here as income. We're not going to have that

1631
02:36:40,058 --> 02:36:48,442
the next year. I'm doing my best council member, but,

1632
02:36:48,442 --> 02:36:51,722
uh, I would just reiterate that is an ongoing savings

1633
02:36:51,762 --> 02:36:52,042
every year.

1634
02:37:02,781 --> 02:37:12,280
It's ongoing same. That doesn't make any sense. Doesn't make

1635
02:37:12,320 --> 02:37:15,560
any sense whatsoever we're going to pay this off and

1636
02:37:15,560 --> 02:37:17,620
pay a million box. We're not going to, we're not

1637
02:37:17,620 --> 02:37:20,280
going to get that money on million dollars every year.

1638
02:37:23,381 --> 02:37:26,960
So and then we're going to take that money. Do

1639
02:37:27,000 --> 02:37:28,960
whatever we want to, but it's not going to be

1640
02:37:29,000 --> 02:37:33,410
a savings of a million dollars every year. It's a

1641
02:37:33,450 --> 02:37:35,090
one shot deal. One year deal.

1642
02:37:44,120 --> 02:37:46,579
Again, I feel like I've answered this question best I

1643
02:37:46,579 --> 02:37:53,393
can. It isn't annual savings. Okay. Well, maybe in yours,

1644
02:37:53,393 --> 02:37:56,864
but in the real world. You get one million dollars.

1645
02:37:57,364 --> 02:38:00,434
The next year you don't get a million dollars. You

1646
02:38:00,474 --> 02:38:05,036
have to pay it. In the whole thing is just

1647
02:38:05,537 --> 02:38:15,213
ridiculous. Council membersmith. Thank you

1648
02:38:15,474 --> 02:38:24,368
Mayor. I think the city beggars field has been fiscally

1649
02:38:24,549 --> 02:38:30,327
responsible over the years. With various city councils. And I

1650
02:38:30,327 --> 02:38:36,007
think that this purchase is very similar to what past

1651
02:38:36,108 --> 02:38:42,313
city councils have done. Our existing planning building department are

1652
02:38:42,313 --> 02:38:45,673
in a building that we purchased. That was already built.

1653
02:38:46,262 --> 02:38:51,410
City hall north. Is a building that we purchased that

1654
02:38:51,410 --> 02:38:55,414
was. Already built. And it's been 20 some years since

1655
02:38:55,595 --> 02:38:57,653
we bought that building. Do you, I know you weren't

1656
02:38:57,674 --> 02:39:02,498
here, but do you know any details on that. Mr.

1657
02:39:02,519 --> 02:39:04,658
Helen has done some of that homework. I believe it

1658
02:39:04,658 --> 02:39:08,658
was purchased in 1993 for 13 million dollars. I thought

1659
02:39:08,698 --> 02:39:13,247
it was early 2000 or 2000s. Okay. How that compares.

1660
02:39:13,247 --> 02:39:17,027
Yeah, I did some research. So in 2005, it was

1661
02:39:17,027 --> 02:39:21,076
purchased for 13 million. 13. So 21 years ago 21

1662
02:39:21,076 --> 02:39:24,756
years ago, it's half the size. And we paid 13

1663
02:39:24,937 --> 02:39:30,036
million. And so we're getting 21 years later. We're getting

1664
02:39:30,057 --> 02:39:33,397
twice the building. For the same amount of money. Correct.

1665
02:39:34,058 --> 02:39:39,265
Seems like a good deal to me. Ownership to me

1666
02:39:39,846 --> 02:39:45,826
is always better than leasing. I mean, leasing. As was

1667
02:39:46,167 --> 02:39:49,586
stated goes on forever. In 12 years from now, we

1668
02:39:49,767 --> 02:39:54,306
would continue to pay that million, probably me and two,

1669
02:39:54,306 --> 02:39:59,584
million three by then. And instead of paying that out

1670
02:39:59,845 --> 02:40:03,904
as lease payments, we now own the building. And that

1671
02:40:04,085 --> 02:40:07,504
may and two, main three can go to hire more

1672
02:40:07,544 --> 02:40:12,966
police. So I think it's a great deal. And I

1673
02:40:12,966 --> 02:40:16,294
appreciate. Staff working on it. And I'm in favor of

1674
02:40:16,334 --> 02:40:20,800
it. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Arias. Thank you,

1675
02:40:20,840 --> 02:40:23,200
Mayor. Um, thank you to staff for all the work

1676
02:40:23,200 --> 02:40:25,600
that they've done on this, uh, I think it's a

1677
02:40:25,600 --> 02:40:29,180
great opportunity. I just have a couple of comments, but

1678
02:40:29,180 --> 02:40:31,520
I would like to ask whomever was a part of

1679
02:40:31,520 --> 02:40:34,640
the team who kind of did the walkthroughs and did

1680
02:40:34,680 --> 02:40:40,160
the due diligence work, taking the tours, uh, taking a

1681
02:40:40,160 --> 02:40:41,920
look at all of the deferred maintenance. If I could

1682
02:40:41,920 --> 02:40:46,460
ask you to come to the mic. Would love to,

1683
02:40:46,460 --> 02:40:51,100
to learn more about what that deferred maintenance, um, investigation

1684
02:40:51,121 --> 02:40:56,771
looked like, uh, what were the findings. Looks like it's

1685
02:40:56,771 --> 02:41:01,736
just me. So, uh, we actually received direction in closed

1686
02:41:01,776 --> 02:41:06,936
session to have, um, external vendors come in and look

1687
02:41:06,957 --> 02:41:13,158
at all of the, everything. Uh, and we did, we

1688
02:41:13,379 --> 02:41:18,558
used, um, we used several vendors to look at elevator's

1689
02:41:18,598 --> 02:41:25,693
roof, windows, all of our systems. Plumbing electrical. I believe

1690
02:41:25,693 --> 02:41:29,613
we had 11 different vendors come through and look through

1691
02:41:29,653 --> 02:41:33,753
the building between end of March, uh, all the way

1692
02:41:33,753 --> 02:41:39,293
up until July. There were some, some concerns that we

1693
02:41:39,314 --> 02:41:43,373
saw coming through the building, because as was stated, it's

1694
02:41:43,373 --> 02:41:46,453
a 50 year old building, right? So there's going to

1695
02:41:46,453 --> 02:41:49,433
be some things that do need to be fixed, but

1696
02:41:49,433 --> 02:41:53,453
nothing that wasn't, uh, that was a red flag as

1697
02:41:53,474 --> 02:41:56,333
city manager, Claire said nothing that couldn't be fixed over

1698
02:41:56,373 --> 02:42:00,093
the next, uh, five years, 10 years that we could

1699
02:42:00,133 --> 02:42:05,693
schedule in regular CIPs over time. So, um, some of

1700
02:42:05,693 --> 02:42:09,453
the things that, uh, we said, Hey, these, these are

1701
02:42:09,493 --> 02:42:12,253
really big fixes. Uh, we did go back to the

1702
02:42:12,434 --> 02:42:17,070
seller. Uh, during that period of time between, uh, July

1703
02:42:17,571 --> 02:42:20,895
and coming back to council. And we had some more

1704
02:42:20,916 --> 02:42:25,135
negotiations to say, Hey, these are some very large items.

1705
02:42:25,135 --> 02:42:27,295
We would like you to come down on price because

1706
02:42:27,335 --> 02:42:31,007
those are going to be heavy costs. Uh, for us,

1707
02:42:31,007 --> 02:42:32,607
uh, that we need to consider over the next five

1708
02:42:32,628 --> 02:42:35,628
years, 10 years. Uh, and so we did get a

1709
02:42:35,729 --> 02:42:39,468
deduct and we showed that in the presentation, um, today.

1710
02:42:39,468 --> 02:42:45,708
So partly we feel that those ongoing maintenance things we

1711
02:42:45,708 --> 02:42:49,228
can solve over the next, uh, five years. We have

1712
02:42:49,649 --> 02:42:54,348
an excellent property manager. So the property manager is mill

1713
02:42:54,388 --> 02:42:58,811
Atkinson's MD Atkinson's group. They had been property manager there

1714
02:42:58,912 --> 02:43:02,971
for, I don't know, as long as anyone can remember,

1715
02:43:02,971 --> 02:43:06,171
they know that building, uh, really well. And we've already

1716
02:43:06,352 --> 02:43:09,931
started to work with them to try to address some

1717
02:43:10,032 --> 02:43:12,251
of the immediate things that we can get done before

1718
02:43:12,432 --> 02:43:16,891
we move in. So, um, hopefully it answers your question.

1719
02:43:16,992 --> 02:43:19,771
I would just add two quick items as Mr. Helen

1720
02:43:19,811 --> 02:43:23,191
pointed out. It's been professionally managed over the years. And

1721
02:43:23,191 --> 02:43:25,691
so they've had a robust maintenance schedule. They've kept up

1722
02:43:25,872 --> 02:43:29,611
on the regular maintenance. They have about a half million

1723
02:43:29,632 --> 02:43:33,191
dollars a year in just maintenance costs. That's, you know,

1724
02:43:33,552 --> 02:43:38,631
typically, um, expended, you know, keeping up on things. And

1725
02:43:38,631 --> 02:43:41,531
when we talk about things that, you know, repairs we

1726
02:43:41,571 --> 02:43:43,051
know will need to happen in the next five to

1727
02:43:43,091 --> 02:43:46,971
10 years. There aren't deferred things that have fallen behind.

1728
02:43:46,971 --> 02:43:49,051
They're just the useful life of the elevators. We know

1729
02:43:50,032 --> 02:43:51,771
is going to be, you know, up at a certain

1730
02:43:51,792 --> 02:43:54,491
point. But that's, that's the price of owning and building

1731
02:43:54,531 --> 02:43:55,891
is you're going to have to, every once in a

1732
02:43:55,891 --> 02:43:58,091
while, replace a roof every once in a while, we're

1733
02:43:58,091 --> 02:44:02,891
replacing elevator. And nothing is beyond its regular life cycle.

1734
02:44:02,891 --> 02:44:04,171
We just know in the next five to 10, we're

1735
02:44:04,171 --> 02:44:08,257
going to have some of those replacements to make. And

1736
02:44:08,257 --> 02:44:11,137
I'll just point out that it was just last summer

1737
02:44:11,238 --> 02:44:14,737
that we had to replace, uh, several elevators in city

1738
02:44:14,777 --> 02:44:18,817
all north. This is standard practice for owning any asset

1739
02:44:18,838 --> 02:44:22,017
or building. Um, so I appreciate that. I know that

1740
02:44:22,038 --> 02:44:23,777
there were some out in the community that had questions

1741
02:44:23,798 --> 02:44:27,857
about due diligence and the deferred maintenance. So I appreciate

1742
02:44:28,198 --> 02:44:30,877
you stepping in, Gary, to share that with us. Um.

1743
02:44:32,613 --> 02:44:35,372
I would just like to make a comment that, you

1744
02:44:35,372 --> 02:44:39,731
know. We have a responsibility to a certain degree to

1745
02:44:39,771 --> 02:44:45,651
make sure that, uh, we are, uh, ensuring that these

1746
02:44:45,752 --> 02:44:50,771
properties, especially these larger buildings, uh, do not lay vacant

1747
02:44:50,771 --> 02:44:55,814
for very long. In 2009, I'm reminded that, uh, it

1748
02:44:55,814 --> 02:45:00,214
was, uh, previous council that stepped up, um, when the

1749
02:45:00,235 --> 02:45:04,434
Padre Hotel fell short by almost 2 million dollars, uh,

1750
02:45:04,555 --> 02:45:09,894
during their construction and renovation project, a multimillion dollar project,

1751
02:45:09,894 --> 02:45:14,454
uh, they had tapped out all other financing, uh, mechanisms.

1752
02:45:14,454 --> 02:45:17,414
And they had, nobody to look to other than the

1753
02:45:17,454 --> 02:45:20,214
city of Bakersfield. And the city Bakersfield and the council

1754
02:45:20,315 --> 02:45:24,214
at that time stepped up and, uh, borrowed money from

1755
02:45:24,235 --> 02:45:28,054
the federal government to actually make good on that shortfall

1756
02:45:28,475 --> 02:45:31,494
for the property owner. Um, and so I shared that

1757
02:45:31,995 --> 02:45:34,774
because this is not something new to this council. This

1758
02:45:34,774 --> 02:45:37,334
is not something new to this administration for the city

1759
02:45:37,374 --> 02:45:39,894
of Bakersville. This is something that, you know, previous councils

1760
02:45:39,894 --> 02:45:43,494
have done to get creative, to innovate, um, and to

1761
02:45:43,534 --> 02:45:47,094
continue to fight for downtown Bakersfield. So, uh, with that,

1762
02:45:47,094 --> 02:45:50,214
I'm happy to join my colleagues in supporting this item

1763
02:45:50,214 --> 02:45:54,131
tonight. Thank you, Council Member Aryas. I don't see any

1764
02:45:54,232 --> 02:45:56,851
additional request to speak. So you have a motion by

1765
02:45:57,432 --> 02:46:01,331
Council Member Gonzalez to support staff's recommendation. Please catch your

1766
02:46:01,331 --> 02:46:10,879
votes. The motion is approved with council

1767
02:46:10,879 --> 02:46:14,639
members. We're in Bashirtash voting no and vice marcor absent.

1768
02:46:15,429 --> 02:46:21,101
Thank you. And next item, please. New business item 11A

1769
02:46:22,002 --> 02:46:26,381
contingency funds for clean city special project, 500, 000 dollars

1770
02:46:26,482 --> 02:46:29,581
for cleanup of a major illegal dumping site consisting of

1771
02:46:29,842 --> 02:46:34,381
50 acres located in the southeast south of Brook Street,

1772
02:46:34,381 --> 02:46:37,261
east of Hail Street and adjacent to East Plans Avenue.

1773
02:46:38,382 --> 02:46:41,401
Mr. Clegg. Thank you, Mayor and Council, Mr. Gary Helen.

1774
02:46:41,401 --> 02:46:47,395
We'll present this item. All right. Um, so Council Arm

1775
02:46:47,395 --> 02:46:52,835
Gonzalez talked briefly about this. There are several very large

1776
02:46:52,936 --> 02:46:56,275
chronic nuisance properties in the city. Um, we have a

1777
02:46:56,376 --> 02:47:00,995
clean city's team that focuses on many of those chronic

1778
02:47:01,016 --> 02:47:05,836
nuisance properties. Clean cities. Not only focuses on properties that

1779
02:47:06,577 --> 02:47:09,116
are of major issue, but also, you know, in our

1780
02:47:09,116 --> 02:47:12,796
right away and other areas. But, uh, this has been

1781
02:47:13,697 --> 02:47:17,736
one that they are code enforcement, a rapid response, all

1782
02:47:17,736 --> 02:47:20,396
of the teams have been focusing on over the last

1783
02:47:21,537 --> 02:47:25,996
several years. In fact, um, to date, I don't know

1784
02:47:26,036 --> 02:47:29,756
the exact number, but I know we've had multiple rounds

1785
02:47:29,777 --> 02:47:33,756
of cleanup from our code enforcement team of this site.

1786
02:47:33,756 --> 02:47:37,756
And as you will see through the presentation, it's just

1787
02:47:37,857 --> 02:47:40,636
band - aids over at bowl hole. They're making small

1788
02:47:41,057 --> 02:47:44,136
dents and trying to do some cleanup here. But, uh,

1789
02:47:44,417 --> 02:47:47,276
the scale and the condition of the site is getting

1790
02:47:47,297 --> 02:47:50,316
to a point where it's becoming a real health and

1791
02:47:50,356 --> 02:47:52,776
safety risk. And so that's why we're before you, uh,

1792
02:47:53,057 --> 02:47:56,825
tonight. Um, the other thing I want to add is

1793
02:47:59,326 --> 02:48:03,065
there, the images you're seeing are because of our excellent

1794
02:48:03,166 --> 02:48:07,385
drones, uh, the talk about cameras and drones. I mean,

1795
02:48:07,806 --> 02:48:10,265
I'm a believer in technology. So I believe that let's

1796
02:48:10,265 --> 02:48:12,825
use it if we have it. Our water department has

1797
02:48:13,006 --> 02:48:16,025
some incredible drones because they need them, uh, to monitor

1798
02:48:16,286 --> 02:48:19,465
and manage our water facilities. So they've helped us out

1799
02:48:20,046 --> 02:48:24,185
taking some still shots of some of the most difficult

1800
02:48:24,366 --> 02:48:28,985
areas. I will say the majority of this, uh, debris

1801
02:48:30,286 --> 02:48:34,025
is probably construction debris is what I would call it,

1802
02:48:34,025 --> 02:48:37,385
whether it's, um, I don't think we'd have, we have

1803
02:48:37,425 --> 02:48:40,185
too much, uh, wood debris. There was a comment about

1804
02:48:40,926 --> 02:48:44,585
the wood debris out there. There are some wood debris

1805
02:48:44,686 --> 02:48:49,612
out there, but mostly construction. You'll see. Uh, chunks, massive

1806
02:48:49,652 --> 02:48:54,092
chunks of asphalt. Massive chunks of concrete. So instead of

1807
02:48:54,273 --> 02:48:58,092
going to the dump, they use the site. You'll see.

1808
02:48:58,999 --> 02:49:03,298
Palettes. You'll see drywall. You'll see a boat. You'll see,

1809
02:49:03,298 --> 02:49:08,238
uh, abandoned cars. You'll see abandoned trailers. So it's, um,

1810
02:49:08,599 --> 02:49:12,798
again, one of our, one of our largest efforts. And

1811
02:49:12,798 --> 02:49:18,018
it's been difficult for the private property to defend it.

1812
02:49:18,018 --> 02:49:20,258
And we'll talk a little bit more about, um, our

1813
02:49:20,279 --> 02:49:23,538
work with the private property owner. And, uh, and he's

1814
02:49:23,559 --> 02:49:27,766
here tonight. Representatives are here tonight as well. I think

1815
02:49:27,947 --> 02:49:31,526
another major issue on this site is there are a

1816
02:49:31,526 --> 02:49:34,886
large number of people living there. This is where they

1817
02:49:34,907 --> 02:49:38,886
call home some of these drone images you'll see where

1818
02:49:38,926 --> 02:49:44,566
they've created these, um, tents and shanties and, and villages,

1819
02:49:44,566 --> 02:49:49,286
uh, which that's a very unsafe place to, to call,

1820
02:49:49,286 --> 02:49:53,606
uh, a place of, of home there. So part of

1821
02:49:53,707 --> 02:49:58,006
this cleanup is a coordinated effort, uh, with making sure

1822
02:49:58,027 --> 02:50:00,646
that homeless resources are brought out there. So these people

1823
02:50:00,667 --> 02:50:09,964
can, can be moved off. On the appropriate way. Just

1824
02:50:09,964 --> 02:50:13,484
a little bit on clean cities. There's probably seven departments

1825
02:50:13,985 --> 02:50:18,364
that are hands - on in this effort. So I

1826
02:50:18,364 --> 02:50:22,204
think it's probably the largest multi - department effort that

1827
02:50:22,244 --> 02:50:25,180
we've got in the city. Uh, I'm proud of those

1828
02:50:25,180 --> 02:50:28,860
teams. I know we did a larger presentation to council

1829
02:50:28,881 --> 02:50:31,900
previously on what's going on there. But that image to

1830
02:50:31,940 --> 02:50:38,360
the right, um, is, uh, really probably the most, um,

1831
02:50:39,281 --> 02:50:41,980
inhabited part of that area. And it's right in the

1832
02:50:42,081 --> 02:50:45,500
heart of, of, uh, some of the parcels. And we'll,

1833
02:50:45,500 --> 02:50:47,080
we'll zoom out to some of the, some of the

1834
02:50:47,080 --> 02:50:50,220
maps. But these teams work very well together. I will

1835
02:50:50,220 --> 02:50:54,220
say the coordination is excellent. Uh, impact team or BPD

1836
02:50:54,260 --> 02:50:57,820
team is working well with, uh, rapid response. They have

1837
02:50:58,161 --> 02:51:00,860
co - response teams that work hand in hand and

1838
02:51:00,881 --> 02:51:03,500
solid waste, um, is right there with them. Again, we've

1839
02:51:03,500 --> 02:51:09,980
got a river water department that helps us park rangers

1840
02:51:10,401 --> 02:51:13,073
or helping. And then we've got our outside partners. With,

1841
02:51:13,073 --> 02:51:17,313
um, other vendors that come and help on private jobs.

1842
02:51:17,313 --> 02:51:22,515
And then obviously a property owners. So this is the

1843
02:51:22,696 --> 02:51:27,635
effort that we're asking to undertake with some of these

1844
02:51:28,136 --> 02:51:31,475
funds that we're asking to come out of contingencies. Obviously

1845
02:51:31,475 --> 02:51:34,515
we need to remove the debris and, and help remove

1846
02:51:34,555 --> 02:51:38,355
the homeless, um, we need to make sure that we're

1847
02:51:38,355 --> 02:51:44,515
continuing to take appropriate steps and appropriate measures. Obviously the,

1848
02:51:44,515 --> 02:51:46,115
this is going to happen over time. This is not

1849
02:51:46,216 --> 02:51:48,675
going to happen tomorrow. We're not going to run out

1850
02:51:48,715 --> 02:51:51,875
there and do this. Um, if approved, but it'll take

1851
02:51:51,896 --> 02:51:54,909
some time to tee some of this stuff up. Um,

1852
02:51:55,730 --> 02:51:59,629
and then lastly, uh, the biggest problem is people can

1853
02:51:59,629 --> 02:52:01,949
just drive in here and I'll show you some of

1854
02:52:01,989 --> 02:52:05,789
the, the sections of the maps where this is why

1855
02:52:05,970 --> 02:52:08,269
construction debris is on this site is because people just

1856
02:52:08,530 --> 02:52:11,069
drive their trucks in and, and unload here. And so

1857
02:52:11,490 --> 02:52:14,429
we've got to pinch those off and put barriers there

1858
02:52:14,850 --> 02:52:17,269
in some of these locations. And we've got kind of

1859
02:52:17,410 --> 02:52:22,127
a plan and a map that, that outlines. Up. So

1860
02:52:22,708 --> 02:52:26,687
this is that some of those maps. So to, to

1861
02:52:26,788 --> 02:52:28,927
share a little bit of where this is. So this

1862
02:52:28,948 --> 02:52:31,727
is, we're calling it our East plan site because it's

1863
02:52:32,068 --> 02:52:34,287
basically as far east as you can go on plans

1864
02:52:34,327 --> 02:52:37,947
before you get to the, uh, treatment plant too, um,

1865
02:52:39,588 --> 02:52:44,038
it's right next to hail. Hell street and brook street.

1866
02:52:44,038 --> 02:52:49,398
It's just east of cottonwood or South MLK. And some

1867
02:52:49,398 --> 02:52:53,158
of these barriers that we've been able to track down

1868
02:52:53,819 --> 02:52:56,918
is actually through our code through our public works department

1869
02:52:57,579 --> 02:53:00,918
has done a killer job of finding about a hundred

1870
02:53:00,918 --> 02:53:04,758
sticks of KRO, which is about 2000 feet. We would

1871
02:53:04,758 --> 02:53:07,401
need to procure that with some of this money. That

1872
02:53:07,441 --> 02:53:11,321
we're asking to be set aside, uh, we've worked with,

1873
02:53:11,321 --> 02:53:13,801
um, the property owner and they have agreed to put

1874
02:53:13,902 --> 02:53:17,557
in some gates. Um, at some of these difficult points,

1875
02:53:17,557 --> 02:53:20,277
uh, there's already some berms there. So if you're saying,

1876
02:53:20,277 --> 02:53:23,477
why aren't we just putting the whole thing with electrified

1877
02:53:23,498 --> 02:53:25,957
fence and K rail, we just don't have that much

1878
02:53:25,997 --> 02:53:32,506
money. But some of the berms provide a barrier. The

1879
02:53:32,527 --> 02:53:35,786
other site that's just south of this isn't really not

1880
02:53:35,786 --> 02:53:37,626
saying this is an area that needs to be cleaned

1881
02:53:37,626 --> 02:53:41,706
up, but it's an access almost like a highway to

1882
02:53:41,746 --> 02:53:44,586
get to this dumping site. And so this is a

1883
02:53:44,586 --> 02:53:49,886
little further south. It's south of Brooklyn. You can see

1884
02:53:50,447 --> 02:53:52,426
goes dead ends right into the middle of this site.

1885
02:53:52,878 --> 02:53:58,577
But we've identified K rail and barriers and gates. Part

1886
02:53:58,577 --> 02:54:01,617
of having gates there, you may be asking that question

1887
02:54:02,918 --> 02:54:05,777
because fire, uh, fire does need to get into this

1888
02:54:05,798 --> 02:54:08,817
site. And so it'll, they'll have knocks boxes on it.

1889
02:54:08,817 --> 02:54:11,297
So fires the only one can access it if they

1890
02:54:11,297 --> 02:54:12,977
need to put out fires. They're in the middle of

1891
02:54:12,977 --> 02:54:16,177
this site. Uh, they'll be able to, um, access it

1892
02:54:16,278 --> 02:54:18,737
again, fire was a part of this team to help

1893
02:54:18,777 --> 02:54:28,671
us identify appropriate, uh, locations. So this

1894
02:54:28,692 --> 02:54:31,871
is the funding and the plan. Um, we're asking for

1895
02:54:32,372 --> 02:54:35,842
500, 000 dollars. To make a really big dent in

1896
02:54:35,882 --> 02:54:39,042
this health and safety, um, area. This is a referral

1897
02:54:39,042 --> 02:54:42,722
from council member RAS to set aside some money and

1898
02:54:42,722 --> 02:54:46,939
contingency funds. And, um, really to partner with the property

1899
02:54:46,979 --> 02:54:51,099
owner, um, the key point as part of this is

1900
02:54:51,520 --> 02:54:54,619
whatever resources we're spending, we are going to lean the

1901
02:54:54,640 --> 02:54:58,881
property owner. Uh, we've told property under this, this is

1902
02:54:58,881 --> 02:55:02,481
part of what we do is ultimately, if there's a

1903
02:55:02,502 --> 02:55:05,901
transaction and they sell those lanes are paid off. And

1904
02:55:05,901 --> 02:55:08,801
so we do recoup our money when there's a transaction

1905
02:55:09,222 --> 02:55:14,081
that's a part of this. So, um, there's one piece

1906
02:55:14,121 --> 02:55:17,581
of property that's an outside area owner. And then the

1907
02:55:17,581 --> 02:55:20,801
rest of the, uh, property is, is owned by Mr.

1908
02:55:20,982 --> 02:55:25,281
Sarah. So, um, some of these liens, you know, if

1909
02:55:25,281 --> 02:55:28,801
transacted on, could be repaid, which is, which is a

1910
02:55:28,801 --> 02:55:31,313
good thing for us. To recoup some of this investment.

1911
02:55:32,108 --> 02:55:36,327
Uh, obviously there needs to be ongoing enforcement after this.

1912
02:55:36,327 --> 02:55:39,447
And so that again is a part of the plan

1913
02:55:39,868 --> 02:55:45,088
for this, this major site. Able to answer any questions.

1914
02:55:45,088 --> 02:55:46,928
Thank you, Mr. Helen. Mr. Clegg, do you have any

1915
02:55:46,968 --> 02:55:50,128
further comments? Thank you, Mayor. I do not. Thank you.

1916
02:55:50,389 --> 02:55:53,008
And, uh, Madam City clerk for the record council member

1917
02:55:54,149 --> 02:55:58,317
where has left, he loved it eight PM. Council Member

1918
02:55:58,338 --> 02:56:03,558
Aryas. Thank you, Mayor. Um, thank you, Gary, for the

1919
02:56:03,598 --> 02:56:07,158
presentation and thanks for, we call Gary, our quarterback or

1920
02:56:07,158 --> 02:56:09,878
our head coach, uh, for all of the major master

1921
02:56:09,878 --> 02:56:12,818
planning and development that's happening out in MLK Boulevard. And

1922
02:56:12,818 --> 02:56:17,478
he's just been amazing with every, uh, punch that has

1923
02:56:17,478 --> 02:56:21,718
thrown our way. Gary's ready for it. So, uh, definitely

1924
02:56:21,758 --> 02:56:27,501
appreciate you, Gary. Last Tuesday, uh, I was out at

1925
02:56:27,501 --> 02:56:33,386
this property. Went there around 730. Nuries, who was here

1926
02:56:33,386 --> 02:56:35,946
earlier today, uh, made comment about some other issues that

1927
02:56:35,986 --> 02:56:38,666
we're having in the neighborhood walked it with me and

1928
02:56:38,666 --> 02:56:42,666
actually organized a good group of about 12 different residents.

1929
02:56:44,220 --> 02:56:48,279
And imagine this, you walk behind your property into what

1930
02:56:48,319 --> 02:56:53,339
should be your backyard. And you've got mountains of debris,

1931
02:56:53,339 --> 02:56:57,499
uh, concrete, uh, just spread everywhere. You've got homeless encampments

1932
02:56:58,080 --> 02:57:02,859
all around. In fact, there was about, you know, six

1933
02:57:02,859 --> 02:57:05,179
or so dogs, uh, that were trying to chase the

1934
02:57:05,219 --> 02:57:09,639
softer property. Um, and as we walked deeper into, uh,

1935
02:57:09,680 --> 02:57:14,699
this, uh, essentially dump site, uh, we were actually getting

1936
02:57:14,880 --> 02:57:17,819
yelled at by some of the individuals who were homeless.

1937
02:57:19,766 --> 02:57:24,859
And requesting that we get off of their property. Can

1938
02:57:24,899 --> 02:57:28,606
you imagine that. As a property owner, if your house

1939
02:57:28,787 --> 02:57:32,240
is just a rocks throw away. From where you're at.

1940
02:57:33,036 --> 02:57:35,735
Uh, that was the reality, uh, for so many of

1941
02:57:35,836 --> 02:57:39,495
these individuals, uh, later that evening, uh, there was actually

1942
02:57:39,916 --> 02:57:43,555
a vehicle, uh, that drove up, right beside us. Uh,

1943
02:57:43,836 --> 02:57:46,919
they waived right past us. Um, and they, I thought

1944
02:57:46,919 --> 02:57:50,019
that they were going to pull into their backyard, uh,

1945
02:57:50,300 --> 02:57:52,559
instead they pulled into one of the homeless enchantments. So

1946
02:57:52,860 --> 02:57:56,199
there are vehicles in use. There are vehicles that are

1947
02:57:56,239 --> 02:57:59,159
out of use that have been dumped on this site,

1948
02:57:59,159 --> 02:58:01,790
uh, it's, it's out of control. Um, and there are

1949
02:58:01,830 --> 02:58:06,910
certainly other hotspots in ward one and in Southeast Bakersfield.

1950
02:58:08,210 --> 02:58:11,549
Nothing quite like this. Um, and so I would just

1951
02:58:11,570 --> 02:58:15,309
ask that this, uh, council take this into serious consideration

1952
02:58:15,650 --> 02:58:19,469
that, you know, this is not just an investment on

1953
02:58:19,490 --> 02:58:22,269
this particular property, but actually I see this as an

1954
02:58:22,269 --> 02:58:26,029
opportunity for us to, uh, procure some of the materials

1955
02:58:26,290 --> 02:58:27,709
and equipment that we're going to be able to need

1956
02:58:28,610 --> 02:58:32,029
to prevent future dumping, because we know that as soon

1957
02:58:32,029 --> 02:58:36,429
as we block off this particular 40 acres, uh, folks

1958
02:58:36,429 --> 02:58:39,743
are going to go somewhere else. And so I hope

1959
02:58:39,783 --> 02:58:41,983
that we have our teams ready as soon as we

1960
02:58:42,564 --> 02:58:46,283
bait this. We're going to have to prepare for, um,

1961
02:58:46,564 --> 02:58:48,943
where folks are going to go next in order to

1962
02:58:48,964 --> 02:58:52,783
dump. I might also add, uh, that also towards the

1963
02:58:52,783 --> 02:58:56,383
end of last Tuesday as we were, um, getting ready

1964
02:58:56,423 --> 02:59:00,783
to finish the conversation. There was a, uh, clearly a

1965
02:59:00,884 --> 02:59:05,012
company vehicle who had just gotten done dumping. Just a

1966
02:59:05,012 --> 02:59:06,692
few moments before we were able to actually see them

1967
02:59:06,732 --> 02:59:11,252
do get caught in the act. So, um, it's an

1968
02:59:11,252 --> 02:59:14,692
ongoing problem. Um, I think that, uh, there are certainly

1969
02:59:14,732 --> 02:59:17,412
some things that we could do better on the enforcement

1970
02:59:17,673 --> 02:59:24,595
side of the problem. I'm grateful to chief Stradden. We

1971
02:59:24,616 --> 02:59:26,595
had a great conversation about some of the ways that

1972
02:59:26,595 --> 02:59:31,795
we can tackle from an enforcement standpoint, but certainly in

1973
02:59:31,795 --> 02:59:35,635
order to move projects forward, I'm going to see growth

1974
02:59:36,056 --> 02:59:39,634
out in Southeast Bakersfield. This is going to be one

1975
02:59:39,634 --> 02:59:42,534
of the essential steps in order to make that happen.

1976
02:59:42,534 --> 02:59:45,574
So with that, I would like to move approval of

1977
02:59:45,574 --> 02:59:48,040
this item. And looking forward to any questions or comments

1978
02:59:48,061 --> 02:59:50,920
for my colleague. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Aryas. Council

1979
02:59:50,920 --> 03:00:00,548
Member Beshir Tash. Is this city property or is this

1980
03:00:00,588 --> 03:00:05,567
owned by a private person slash company. It is private

1981
03:00:05,567 --> 03:00:08,207
property. And why is the city spending the rest of

1982
03:00:08,207 --> 03:00:11,087
the taxpayer money on to help one person in his

1983
03:00:11,087 --> 03:00:15,776
property. Council member, I think that's a good question. Typically

1984
03:00:16,117 --> 03:00:18,976
when we have large appetites like this that pose a

1985
03:00:19,016 --> 03:00:24,176
public health and safety risk will do code enforcement action

1986
03:00:24,677 --> 03:00:29,136
abate the property and then assess the costs to that

1987
03:00:29,176 --> 03:00:33,469
property that we're taxpayer costs to later be recovered. So

1988
03:00:33,570 --> 03:00:37,069
I have like 10 acres down by Cal State LA,

1989
03:00:37,069 --> 03:00:38,989
just vacant land. As soon as the grass gets over

1990
03:00:39,170 --> 03:00:40,889
like a certain height, I get a letter in the

1991
03:00:40,889 --> 03:00:43,709
mail threatening thousands of dollars that they're going to cut,

1992
03:00:43,709 --> 03:00:44,989
put a lean on my property and take my property

1993
03:00:45,090 --> 03:00:48,649
away. If you're just thinking about all the mom and

1994
03:00:48,649 --> 03:00:50,669
pops that are closing doors, just got notice of a

1995
03:00:50,669 --> 03:00:53,109
grocery circle is in my ward because of this, I

1996
03:00:53,109 --> 03:00:54,829
don't understand why we're spending. We're going to spend a

1997
03:00:54,869 --> 03:00:57,949
half a million dollars to clean up. Um, with all

1998
03:00:57,989 --> 03:00:59,949
due respect, I mean, if you buy a peace property,

1999
03:00:59,949 --> 03:01:01,549
you should take care of it. I would hate to

2000
03:01:01,589 --> 03:01:04,029
call the city if someone's dog pooped to my front

2001
03:01:04,029 --> 03:01:07,597
yard and made the city come pick it up. Am

2002
03:01:07,597 --> 03:01:12,997
I, am I missing something? Was this, what are we

2003
03:01:12,997 --> 03:01:15,197
doing? Why are we on the hook for this? I

2004
03:01:15,298 --> 03:01:20,189
don't understand. Again, council member three different thoughts. One, this

2005
03:01:20,189 --> 03:01:22,749
is at the council discretion whether or not to allocate

2006
03:01:22,770 --> 03:01:27,509
additional dollars to go and, uh, pursue this abatement. We

2007
03:01:27,509 --> 03:01:30,589
don't have the money in our budget to do an

2008
03:01:30,589 --> 03:01:33,309
abatement of this size proactively to then assess it against

2009
03:01:33,490 --> 03:01:38,109
the property. And so, uh, this would front load that.

2010
03:01:38,109 --> 03:01:40,909
But that's subject to the purview of the council. Number

2011
03:01:40,909 --> 03:01:46,269
two, uh, we have, to some of your points, we've

2012
03:01:46,309 --> 03:01:50,429
done, um, much of the same things you mentioned. We've

2013
03:01:50,429 --> 03:01:53,629
sent letters. We've done code enforcement, you know, actions on

2014
03:01:53,669 --> 03:01:58,349
this property. But they're at a certain point there is

2015
03:01:58,610 --> 03:02:02,269
a public good need to do some of these large

2016
03:02:02,269 --> 03:02:04,509
abatements to ensure that, you know, these type of conditions

2017
03:02:04,530 --> 03:02:08,189
don't continue. But, and I've sort of already mentioned it.

2018
03:02:08,189 --> 03:02:13,469
But lastly, uh, ultimately it is the property owners responsibility.

2019
03:02:13,469 --> 03:02:15,789
We're stepping in for the public good to make that

2020
03:02:15,890 --> 03:02:19,789
happen more quickly. And again, try to recover those costs

2021
03:02:19,789 --> 03:02:23,650
later. So this is a hundred percent. The owner's responsibility

2022
03:02:23,690 --> 03:02:27,130
to do. That is correct. Might I just add, I

2023
03:02:27,130 --> 03:02:30,350
think there is an enforcement aspect that I think, uh,

2024
03:02:30,791 --> 03:02:34,690
that it is appropriate for us to, um, to aid

2025
03:02:34,791 --> 03:02:37,090
in and assist in, but it is the property owner

2026
03:02:37,090 --> 03:02:41,070
responsibility. Yeah. I mean, I, I definitely feel because, you

2027
03:02:41,070 --> 03:02:42,930
know, we deal with, I mean, they go out and

2028
03:02:42,930 --> 03:02:44,890
if they arrest every homeless person there, they're going to

2029
03:02:44,890 --> 03:02:46,510
be in and out of laredo the same day. And

2030
03:02:46,510 --> 03:02:48,270
we're going to be dealing with the same problem. But

2031
03:02:48,270 --> 03:02:50,690
that's despite, that's besides the point because every other business

2032
03:02:50,791 --> 03:02:53,170
owner that gets terrorized by these people that we seem

2033
03:02:53,271 --> 03:02:55,490
to not be able to deal with, uh, because we

2034
03:02:55,490 --> 03:02:57,490
don't have the money to deal with them, um, they

2035
03:02:57,511 --> 03:02:59,570
have to pay to fix their businesses. That lady who

2036
03:02:59,591 --> 03:03:01,890
got her business window shot out probably had to pay

2037
03:03:01,890 --> 03:03:06,109
for her window to be repaired. This sets such a

2038
03:03:06,210 --> 03:03:10,357
dangerous. Precedence as a council for the rest of the

2039
03:03:10,397 --> 03:03:13,557
city. I mean, that's, this scares me. I mean, I

2040
03:03:13,597 --> 03:03:15,957
could only imagine what would come down the dupe when

2041
03:03:15,997 --> 03:03:19,397
any other business. I mean, I spend 360, 000 dollars

2042
03:03:19,658 --> 03:03:21,397
a year in private security to deal with this kind

2043
03:03:21,397 --> 03:03:29,796
of stuff. It would. I have nothing else to say.

2044
03:03:29,796 --> 03:03:31,716
I mean, I'm just, I'm kind of shocked.

2045
03:03:41,146 --> 03:03:47,546
Membersmith. Thank you, Mayor. So I want to explore the

2046
03:03:47,887 --> 03:03:52,346
lean idea a little bit. So you said there will

2047
03:03:52,346 --> 03:03:56,812
be a lien on the property. Yeah. I mean. Mr.

2048
03:03:56,913 --> 03:04:00,517
Burns can probably speak to it. Codenforce been on a

2049
03:04:00,517 --> 03:04:06,197
regular basis brings their liens to council. And I think

2050
03:04:06,298 --> 03:04:08,437
monthly. Yeah. That's what I was going to say every

2051
03:04:08,437 --> 03:04:11,957
time we've got them 40 millions, thousand bucks a piece.

2052
03:04:11,957 --> 03:04:16,237
That's every councilman significant. So it's very similar situation. We

2053
03:04:16,298 --> 03:04:18,117
do it all the time. We go out and we

2054
03:04:18,618 --> 03:04:20,437
clean up property and we put a lien on it.

2055
03:04:20,477 --> 03:04:26,105
That's correct. But I mean, this obviously is much more

2056
03:04:26,366 --> 03:04:31,701
substantial. We big one. So. This is future development property.

2057
03:04:33,062 --> 03:04:38,564
Yes. And so if they come in with a final

2058
03:04:38,665 --> 03:04:42,804
map, I mean, I'm trying to visualize how this lean

2059
03:04:42,844 --> 03:04:45,764
is paid back is that as you sell a house,

2060
03:04:45,764 --> 03:04:49,424
as you record maps, is it all one shot? But

2061
03:04:49,705 --> 03:04:53,044
how do we really visualize how it's getting paid off.

2062
03:05:02,465 --> 03:05:06,684
The liens get placed on the actual how it would

2063
03:05:07,105 --> 03:05:09,964
roll to some subdivision? I'm not sure how that would

2064
03:05:10,065 --> 03:05:13,794
play out. Um. You know. This is kind of a

2065
03:05:13,834 --> 03:05:17,049
typical process of a good enforcement case. If you think

2066
03:05:17,049 --> 03:05:20,809
about like our demo on Chester Avenue, same thing. Very,

2067
03:05:20,849 --> 03:05:25,529
very sizable wague seeds our budget funds to do an

2068
03:05:25,529 --> 03:05:31,681
action. So, um, I guess I see this like similar

2069
03:05:31,782 --> 03:05:37,256
to others, large cleanups that we have. Um, not exactly

2070
03:05:37,277 --> 03:05:42,776
sure how a track map would impact funding or if

2071
03:05:42,776 --> 03:05:46,823
that would, uh. Have to ask a title person how

2072
03:05:46,823 --> 03:05:49,383
that would work out. Well, I mean, do we, the

2073
03:05:49,383 --> 03:05:51,223
question is, do we expect it to be paid back

2074
03:05:51,324 --> 03:05:58,131
all at once or as it's parceled out. We typically,

2075
03:05:58,131 --> 03:06:00,451
uh, our liens are not paid back all at once.

2076
03:06:01,545 --> 03:06:05,077
And often they're part of a payback pool. That just

2077
03:06:05,077 --> 03:06:08,117
get, you know, that comes in in smaller increments over

2078
03:06:08,138 --> 03:06:13,077
time. Well, I mean, typically it's random lots here everywhere.

2079
03:06:13,077 --> 03:06:18,117
But if this is one, so then anyway, food thought,

2080
03:06:18,157 --> 03:06:20,877
as, as it gets subdivided, how are we going to

2081
03:06:21,258 --> 03:06:25,280
work through that. Um, but the point is, is it

2082
03:06:25,301 --> 03:06:32,384
will get paid back. It's developed. And it's got a

2083
03:06:32,384 --> 03:06:34,544
lot better chance of being developed if it's cleaned up.

2084
03:06:37,087 --> 03:06:40,266
The access, you mentioned there's berms. I mean, it looks

2085
03:06:40,306 --> 03:06:43,706
like from the picture, yeah, I could just drive my

2086
03:06:43,706 --> 03:06:47,306
dump truck on plans road, but there is, I didn't

2087
03:06:47,306 --> 03:06:51,833
see a picture. Yeah. We, we didn't show pictures. So

2088
03:06:51,833 --> 03:06:56,431
there are berms all along those other access. Yeah. So

2089
03:06:56,452 --> 03:07:02,271
you, uh, I think the significant berms on the very

2090
03:07:02,452 --> 03:07:05,431
east side, you can see that there's that road. So

2091
03:07:05,492 --> 03:07:08,698
adjacent. If you, if we zoomed out a little bit,

2092
03:07:08,698 --> 03:07:11,418
you'll see that we have our farm, one of our

2093
03:07:11,519 --> 03:07:13,938
farm. Right to the east. Just to the east. So

2094
03:07:13,938 --> 03:07:18,618
you see that, that road, that's it on that side.

2095
03:07:18,618 --> 03:07:20,698
And then on plans, there's also a burn. Oh, okay.

2096
03:07:21,599 --> 03:07:27,491
So the K rail is so that. All along plans

2097
03:07:28,072 --> 03:07:31,811
is difficult access because of the berm. It's just the

2098
03:07:31,912 --> 03:07:35,897
roads that go through that we need to. The section

2099
03:07:36,238 --> 03:07:40,377
that's in that northwest corner is where people are entering

2100
03:07:40,398 --> 03:07:45,104
now. You can drive along the very western edge. Down

2101
03:07:45,525 --> 03:07:47,984
and then loop down. Or you can just, uh, get

2102
03:07:48,085 --> 03:07:52,384
in immediately. And then head over on the east side.

2103
03:07:52,384 --> 03:08:01,553
So. Is there existing signings? I mean. That is part

2104
03:08:01,553 --> 03:08:04,190
of. What's going to be added in part of its

2105
03:08:04,230 --> 03:08:06,910
education. If it looks like a dump, it must be

2106
03:08:06,931 --> 03:08:09,530
a dump and I go take my stuff there. You

2107
03:08:09,530 --> 03:08:13,794
know, I mean. If there's no signing saying, you know,

2108
03:08:13,975 --> 03:08:18,594
the real dump is at this other location. We can

2109
03:08:18,634 --> 03:08:22,034
certainly add that to the project that's easy to post

2110
03:08:22,135 --> 03:08:25,154
signs. Uh, we did just, um, a few weeks ago

2111
03:08:25,495 --> 03:08:29,634
got the no trespassing. And so we'll be installing those

2112
03:08:30,295 --> 03:08:38,158
trespass passing signs with this project as well. Great. Well,

2113
03:08:38,158 --> 03:08:39,998
I think it's a good investment. We're going to get

2114
03:08:39,998 --> 03:08:44,094
paid back and we clean up the neighborhood. And move

2115
03:08:44,134 --> 03:08:47,525
it forward just like we do. All the other property

2116
03:08:47,546 --> 03:08:50,445
abatements that we see. It's just a different scale. So.

2117
03:08:51,481 --> 03:08:55,843
Good work. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Smith. And city

2118
03:08:56,504 --> 03:09:00,243
clerk Councilmember where his returned and he returned at 809.

2119
03:09:01,218 --> 03:09:05,853
Council Member Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor. Um, okay. So I

2120
03:09:05,893 --> 03:09:08,253
appreciate in the presentation. You said the cleanup alone will

2121
03:09:08,274 --> 03:09:10,413
not solve the problem because that had been on my

2122
03:09:10,434 --> 03:09:13,853
mind for a few days now. Um, the last thing

2123
03:09:13,853 --> 03:09:15,193
I want us to do is try to bait the

2124
03:09:15,193 --> 03:09:19,053
property only to see this problem continue. Um, and, and

2125
03:09:19,074 --> 03:09:21,213
have us, you know, back here again, trying to resolve

2126
03:09:21,394 --> 03:09:24,573
this issue. Um, I just need to clarify. I thought

2127
03:09:24,613 --> 03:09:30,372
I heard there's two properties. That are problematic. Or. All

2128
03:09:30,393 --> 03:09:34,130
town go back. Between this map. And so there's actually

2129
03:09:35,271 --> 03:09:39,130
five parcels that are in between these two maps. So

2130
03:09:39,191 --> 03:09:44,320
there's two parcels on this map. There's the northern parcel

2131
03:09:44,360 --> 03:09:48,640
that is adjacent to each plans. And then if Brooke

2132
03:09:48,640 --> 03:09:52,720
kept going, you'd see that there's that parcel that's just,

2133
03:09:52,720 --> 03:09:57,080
um, above Brooke. And as we go to this, so

2134
03:09:57,080 --> 03:10:01,000
this is just south of that, uh, Brook Street. So

2135
03:10:01,000 --> 03:10:04,960
between Brooke and White and between white and it's the

2136
03:10:04,960 --> 03:10:08,832
end of that map. Um, those are, there are three

2137
03:10:08,872 --> 03:10:12,112
more parcels in that section there. Okay. So with all

2138
03:10:12,152 --> 03:10:17,312
those five parcels, how many unique different property owners are

2139
03:10:17,312 --> 03:10:21,552
there? I believe there's two owners. Yeah. Two unique owners.

2140
03:10:21,552 --> 03:10:25,472
Okay. And one owner has been responsive or have they

2141
03:10:25,573 --> 03:10:27,552
have both been responsible. So one owner is here tonight

2142
03:10:27,653 --> 03:10:30,992
at this meeting and a one owner is been very

2143
03:10:31,032 --> 03:10:37,472
difficult to, uh, be engaged with. And so this 500,

2144
03:10:37,472 --> 03:10:42,451
000 is to address all parcels. All five parcels. It's

2145
03:10:42,552 --> 03:10:46,483
to address. All five parcels related to being able to

2146
03:10:46,584 --> 03:10:51,252
get into this site more to make it impenetrable. And

2147
03:10:51,252 --> 03:10:54,772
then the majority of the cleanup is here on the,

2148
03:10:54,812 --> 03:10:58,532
on these two parcels. That's where the majority of where

2149
03:10:58,572 --> 03:11:01,172
the homeless are living where most of the dumping has

2150
03:11:01,172 --> 03:11:06,752
occurred. There is some dumping on these two parcels, but

2151
03:11:06,752 --> 03:11:11,172
the lion's share of what the team has assessed and

2152
03:11:11,212 --> 03:11:14,932
some of the, uh, bids that we're starting, not bids,

2153
03:11:14,932 --> 03:11:18,532
uh, evaluation that we've gotten from some of the teams.

2154
03:11:18,793 --> 03:11:22,132
It's in this, these two parcels is the word most

2155
03:11:22,132 --> 03:11:25,472
of the dumping's medicuring. Okay. Got it. Okay. Because, you

2156
03:11:25,472 --> 03:11:28,692
know, typically when we have chronic nuisance properties, the reason

2157
03:11:28,692 --> 03:11:33,412
why they're chronic nuisance properties is because the property owner

2158
03:11:33,593 --> 03:11:39,652
has been unresponsive for extended period of time code enforcement

2159
03:11:39,993 --> 03:11:43,012
has done a great job trying to address the issue,

2160
03:11:43,012 --> 03:11:47,012
trying to cite the property owner much to Mr. Beshurtashi's

2161
03:11:47,113 --> 03:11:51,588
point with his experience and properties in LA. Code of

2162
03:11:51,588 --> 03:11:55,388
forcement does that, but still the property owner remains unresponsive

2163
03:11:55,809 --> 03:11:58,748
does not do anything with the property. And so it

2164
03:11:58,748 --> 03:12:01,548
leaves the city with no other choice, but to take

2165
03:12:01,969 --> 03:12:07,294
some sort of action. Because without that action, there's such

2166
03:12:07,395 --> 03:12:11,454
a negative impact to the surrounding neighborhood, to the poor

2167
03:12:11,555 --> 03:12:17,214
residents like Mr. Aryes'constituent. And they end up having to

2168
03:12:17,254 --> 03:12:21,959
pay that negative externality. By being impacted by all of

2169
03:12:21,999 --> 03:12:25,399
these things that happen on this property. So ultimately the

2170
03:12:25,399 --> 03:12:30,039
city has to respond through code enforcement. The issue here

2171
03:12:30,700 --> 03:12:38,039
is that the cost to mitigate, to address this problem,

2172
03:12:38,039 --> 03:12:42,839
far exceeds the code enforcement's budget to address these issues.

2173
03:12:42,839 --> 03:12:45,399
And that's why this item is coming today. This is

2174
03:12:45,399 --> 03:12:48,599
not unique to the city. I mean, city does this

2175
03:12:48,620 --> 03:12:52,279
stuff all the time. But what is unique is the

2176
03:12:52,300 --> 03:12:56,743
dollar amount for this particular property. And I think that's

2177
03:12:56,924 --> 03:12:59,663
the, that's the challenge that I'm trying to kind of

2178
03:12:59,663 --> 03:13:04,141
wrap around in my head because I'm not sure. Just

2179
03:13:04,141 --> 03:13:13,572
as a policy matter. I'm not quite sure

2180
03:13:14,233 --> 03:13:16,372
as a policy matter given the fact that we have

2181
03:13:16,412 --> 03:13:21,492
a responsive property owner, um, how we should best proceed.

2182
03:13:22,195 --> 03:13:28,414
You know, one of the ideas that we've initiated a

2183
03:13:28,414 --> 03:13:30,314
few years ago that I think is one of the

2184
03:13:30,314 --> 03:13:33,614
best ideas for the city of Bakersfield is this receivership

2185
03:13:33,654 --> 03:13:36,974
program is allowing for us to bring in the courts

2186
03:13:37,014 --> 03:13:40,334
to help us take, make some action on these properties.

2187
03:13:40,334 --> 03:13:43,274
And we've done some good work in my ward. And

2188
03:13:43,274 --> 03:13:45,914
actually throughout the city now, because of that tool, uh,

2189
03:13:46,035 --> 03:13:48,974
to address some of these chronic nuisance properties. But here,

2190
03:13:48,974 --> 03:13:52,494
um, that's not the case. Let me ask you a

2191
03:13:52,494 --> 03:13:55,834
couple more questions before I throw out some ideas. One

2192
03:13:55,834 --> 03:14:00,334
is, um, have we spent some time observing the rate

2193
03:14:00,835 --> 03:14:08,774
at which the construction debris has accumulated the property. Um,

2194
03:14:08,875 --> 03:14:16,101
I think, you know, code, code monitors this property. And

2195
03:14:16,101 --> 03:14:21,301
they would be the best, um, answer that. Um, I,

2196
03:14:21,322 --> 03:14:24,181
I know in the last four years that we've been

2197
03:14:24,221 --> 03:14:28,661
talking about this property, um, it has ebbed and flowed

2198
03:14:28,701 --> 03:14:32,821
because of code has taken certain actions to reduce some

2199
03:14:32,821 --> 03:14:35,461
of that construction debris. And then it just comes right

2200
03:14:35,501 --> 03:14:38,981
back. And I don't know the, how fast it comes

2201
03:14:38,981 --> 03:14:43,221
back and the frequency. And when are the peaks and

2202
03:14:43,221 --> 03:14:45,621
valleys of that? I'm not sure. But we can, we

2203
03:14:45,722 --> 03:14:47,861
can research that. It would be helpful to know because

2204
03:14:47,882 --> 03:14:53,301
I mean, pretty nasty photos. It's awful looking. But is

2205
03:14:53,301 --> 03:14:56,741
that after a year? Is it after a week? Is

2206
03:14:56,762 --> 03:14:59,381
it after a month? It would be helpful to know

2207
03:14:59,642 --> 03:15:03,941
really the severity of the issue. Because there are some

2208
03:15:03,981 --> 03:15:06,021
other steps that weren't listed here that I think we

2209
03:15:06,122 --> 03:15:09,301
ought to take. Number one is, you know, we invested

2210
03:15:09,402 --> 03:15:15,455
significantly. This council has invested in bulky waste cleanups. Uh,

2211
03:15:16,036 --> 03:15:19,335
in doing mobile cleanups and mobile pick are, what do

2212
03:15:19,335 --> 03:15:22,975
we call it? Mobile pickup mobile locations drop off. Thank

2213
03:15:22,975 --> 03:15:26,175
you. Thank you. Uh, but you know, again, part of

2214
03:15:26,215 --> 03:15:30,895
our clean city initiative, uh, we have more services now

2215
03:15:30,916 --> 03:15:36,830
available to residents than I think ever. We need to,

2216
03:15:36,830 --> 03:15:41,390
I like Mr. Logi's comment. We need to be more

2217
03:15:41,811 --> 03:15:46,010
proactive in our effort to do outreach to these, um,

2218
03:15:46,451 --> 03:15:52,670
construction companies. And also, um, I would like us to,

2219
03:15:52,670 --> 03:15:54,270
perhaps has already been done, but I would like us

2220
03:15:54,310 --> 03:16:01,048
to spend some more time. On site. Either through private

2221
03:16:01,069 --> 03:16:07,048
security, existing private security contract or by staff, uh, to,

2222
03:16:07,088 --> 03:16:12,568
to monitor those, uh, bad actors and to, in real

2223
03:16:12,568 --> 03:16:16,968
time, provide them some education of what the appropriate process

2224
03:16:17,149 --> 03:16:19,928
is that this, in fact, is not a dumping site

2225
03:16:20,029 --> 03:16:28,716
to Mr. Smith's comment earlier. But the last thing I

2226
03:16:28,716 --> 03:16:32,811
think is that. This really is about economic development. This

2227
03:16:33,072 --> 03:16:35,611
really ultimately, what we want to do here is not

2228
03:16:35,611 --> 03:16:39,144
just clean up the site. If we zoom out from

2229
03:16:39,325 --> 03:16:43,544
a city council perspective, what we really want to see.

2230
03:16:43,544 --> 03:16:44,744
And we really want to see with all of these

2231
03:16:46,125 --> 03:16:49,249
chronic nuisance properties. Is a better and higher use of

2232
03:16:49,270 --> 03:16:52,423
that property. What we want to see on this particular

2233
03:16:53,884 --> 03:17:00,023
property, all these parcels are new construction, new homes, housing

2234
03:17:00,023 --> 03:17:03,383
development. We want to see, um, families living on these

2235
03:17:03,404 --> 03:17:07,750
properties. Ultimately that is the solution. So the question now

2236
03:17:07,931 --> 03:17:09,556
in my mind is how do we get there. How

2237
03:17:09,577 --> 03:17:18,500
do we get to that development. Obviously this particular. Problem

2238
03:17:19,401 --> 03:17:23,300
is a real burden, a barrier to, uh, to see

2239
03:17:23,340 --> 03:17:27,540
that property developed. And so from my lens, I don't

2240
03:17:27,580 --> 03:17:31,797
see this as a response to a nuisance. In the

2241
03:17:31,797 --> 03:17:33,797
way of code forcement. I really see this as an

2242
03:17:33,818 --> 03:17:38,010
economic development tool. So similar to what we do with,

2243
03:17:38,010 --> 03:17:41,742
um, tax increment financing, for example. Where again, there is

2244
03:17:41,763 --> 03:17:48,645
a president set. Where we may offer a certain incentive

2245
03:17:49,706 --> 03:17:55,125
to a developer. Because we know that over the course

2246
03:17:55,226 --> 03:18:01,063
of the. Project that their revenue generated by a better

2247
03:18:01,324 --> 03:18:06,183
use through property tax increases will allow the city to

2248
03:18:06,223 --> 03:18:10,067
actually recoup those funds in the future. That's the way

2249
03:18:10,107 --> 03:18:12,367
I kind of take a look at this project. And

2250
03:18:12,367 --> 03:18:16,787
so I understand there may not be, you know, I

2251
03:18:16,787 --> 03:18:19,747
know that there may not be a TIFF mechanism for

2252
03:18:20,168 --> 03:18:25,987
this particular development, this particular use. I know that is

2253
03:18:25,987 --> 03:18:31,346
it, the EIFDs. Typically are related to. Public infrastructure investments

2254
03:18:32,327 --> 03:18:35,346
and specifically for affordable housing. Um, so I'm not sure

2255
03:18:35,607 --> 03:18:39,486
the good mechanism yet that the state has provided, uh,

2256
03:18:39,847 --> 03:18:43,226
four cities. But I think that through that lens, I

2257
03:18:43,226 --> 03:18:48,866
can see us pursuing this strategy. You know, again, for

2258
03:18:48,906 --> 03:18:56,885
the purposes of economic development. So yeah, I'll support it.

2259
03:18:56,885 --> 03:19:06,007
Thanks. Thank you, Council Member Gonzalez. Council Member Coleman. Thank

2260
03:19:06,007 --> 03:19:12,610
you, Mayor. So I have similar policy matter concerns about

2261
03:19:12,711 --> 03:19:20,527
this. First of all, is this the same property that

2262
03:19:23,268 --> 03:19:26,607
the more partners were here about last meeting where they

2263
03:19:26,647 --> 03:19:32,127
had spent money and then, you know what I'm talking

2264
03:19:32,167 --> 03:19:36,757
about. Yeah. Let me go there. That's, that's the property

2265
03:19:36,778 --> 03:19:40,437
that they. Okay. So they already spent money cleaning this

2266
03:19:40,437 --> 03:19:45,145
up. And then the offenders went and dumped more stuff

2267
03:19:45,145 --> 03:19:50,905
on there. Correct. All right. So is there a breakdown?

2268
03:19:51,166 --> 03:19:52,985
I don't, maybe you showed it to me. Maybe I

2269
03:19:53,006 --> 03:19:57,157
missed it. Is there a breakdown. Of, uh, how does

2270
03:19:57,258 --> 03:20:01,117
500, 000 dollars. Is going to be spent? Did I

2271
03:20:01,117 --> 03:20:03,497
see that in there? Did I miss that? No. Um,

2272
03:20:05,298 --> 03:20:10,697
I think there's, uh, kind of multi pronged approach. Uh,

2273
03:20:10,697 --> 03:20:13,597
we don't have like a line item budget in this

2274
03:20:13,778 --> 03:20:20,557
presentation. But based on the teams recommendation, obviously barriers will

2275
03:20:20,578 --> 03:20:24,557
be of a cost, um, it's we have an excess

2276
03:20:24,557 --> 03:20:29,277
of 200 trucks, truckloads of, uh, how, how many trucks

2277
03:20:29,277 --> 03:20:31,837
have to go to the dump to put this where

2278
03:20:31,837 --> 03:20:34,717
it, where it belongs. So that's really the majority of

2279
03:20:34,757 --> 03:20:38,602
the cost. I mean, the barriers are some cost. Uh,

2280
03:20:38,943 --> 03:20:43,570
getting the, the, uh, heavy machinery out there. To, to

2281
03:20:43,610 --> 03:20:46,944
move, you know, the massive piles around. But, uh, it's

2282
03:20:46,944 --> 03:20:52,621
equipment trucks and manpower to get stuff done. So, so

2283
03:20:52,621 --> 03:20:56,701
one of the things I struggle with here is that,

2284
03:20:56,701 --> 03:21:00,381
and I appreciate the more a partners and their diligence

2285
03:21:00,381 --> 03:21:04,541
on this part, this parcel, uh, and the things they're

2286
03:21:04,581 --> 03:21:09,181
doing on the east side of town. But, um, you

2287
03:21:09,181 --> 03:21:11,421
know, at a time when, you know, I get beat

2288
03:21:11,421 --> 03:21:15,021
up every time I see Richard Chapman from Economic Development

2289
03:21:15,122 --> 03:21:18,841
Corporation because he's on me about the call cut, uh,

2290
03:21:19,522 --> 03:21:23,021
buildings that have burnt over there are just piles of

2291
03:21:23,061 --> 03:21:26,141
rubble and we can't seem to get those cleaned up.

2292
03:21:26,808 --> 03:21:29,027
Uh, we don't have money in our budget for us

2293
03:21:29,027 --> 03:21:32,635
to do it. And so, you know, but now we're,

2294
03:21:32,675 --> 03:21:34,875
we're looking for half a million dollars to clean up.

2295
03:21:35,667 --> 03:21:39,006
You know, some other plays. And so that's, that's what

2296
03:21:39,006 --> 03:21:43,031
I get into that policy, that policy question. If we

2297
03:21:43,031 --> 03:21:46,311
do it once, we got to do it everywhere. And,

2298
03:21:46,311 --> 03:21:49,031
you know, where do we draw the line? How do

2299
03:21:49,031 --> 03:21:53,828
we make that. How do we make that case. And

2300
03:21:53,828 --> 03:21:56,859
so I'm struggling a little bit. Uh, with this one.

2301
03:21:59,055 --> 03:22:03,354
Any of you talk about, uh, prevention besides these barriers

2302
03:22:04,895 --> 03:22:07,514
like, uh, you're going to start having the police helicopter

2303
03:22:07,615 --> 03:22:11,514
fly over it, you know, whenever they're around or whatever.

2304
03:22:11,514 --> 03:22:14,959
I don't know. Uh, to start trying to do some

2305
03:22:14,980 --> 03:22:19,700
enforcement. So in, in our, uh, secure column there, we

2306
03:22:19,801 --> 03:22:24,340
talk about bringing in some, before this develops bringing in

2307
03:22:24,340 --> 03:22:29,300
some temp lighting, uh, obviously what was talked about was

2308
03:22:29,401 --> 03:22:33,540
maybe some onsite surveillance having some extra security out there.

2309
03:22:33,540 --> 03:22:36,180
We, we would not be using any of our dollars

2310
03:22:36,220 --> 03:22:41,540
to do this. This would be, uh, private, uh, property

2311
03:22:41,580 --> 03:22:43,460
owner would need to need to do some of these

2312
03:22:43,500 --> 03:22:47,060
things. We, we would just want to make sure there's,

2313
03:22:47,100 --> 03:22:50,602
it's impenetrable from a barrier standpoint. Um, and then they

2314
03:22:50,602 --> 03:22:56,362
would need to do some investment of lighting on site

2315
03:22:56,783 --> 03:23:00,202
private, uh, surveillance. I think the one thing I would

2316
03:23:00,303 --> 03:23:03,802
add to what Gary had shared was that, um, we

2317
03:23:03,823 --> 03:23:09,322
have discussed, uh, the, you know, as the concept of

2318
03:23:10,063 --> 03:23:12,442
changing a little bit how we do a legal dumping

2319
03:23:12,703 --> 03:23:15,962
enforcement has come up. Can we put some cameras up?

2320
03:23:15,962 --> 03:23:21,242
Can we do some, some additional illegal dumping enforcement. That

2321
03:23:21,242 --> 03:23:24,582
has been contemplated for this site and just, you know,

2322
03:23:24,943 --> 03:23:26,762
I know you were saying it tongue in cheek council

2323
03:23:26,802 --> 03:23:29,002
member, but I have to clarify for the public record.

2324
03:23:29,002 --> 03:23:37,048
We do not have a police helicopter. All right. Um,

2325
03:23:37,309 --> 03:23:42,897
so yeah, so. You know, I see the need, but

2326
03:23:44,698 --> 03:23:49,160
I'm hesitant to support this. Not that I don't want

2327
03:23:49,160 --> 03:23:51,320
us to do this, but I'd like to have a

2328
03:23:51,320 --> 03:23:55,400
more comprehensive understanding of what are policies going to be

2329
03:23:55,400 --> 03:23:59,134
about these. And I, I know it's not just the

2330
03:23:59,555 --> 03:24:02,494
call cut. There's other ones around too. I mean, we

2331
03:24:02,494 --> 03:24:05,490
could dump a couple million bucks on these things. Pretty

2332
03:24:05,530 --> 03:24:09,949
quickly. And so two things. One is things like K

2333
03:24:09,970 --> 03:24:12,897
rail and those kinds of things. Uh, we ought to

2334
03:24:12,897 --> 03:24:15,937
have if we need to have it, is there some

2335
03:24:15,977 --> 03:24:20,097
other means by which we can buy those and have

2336
03:24:20,137 --> 03:24:23,851
them to where we use them on different projects. Uh,

2337
03:24:23,872 --> 03:24:31,931
but I'd like to have, uh, maybe more robust conversation

2338
03:24:31,971 --> 03:24:34,731
about what we're going to do about all these sites

2339
03:24:34,832 --> 03:24:38,651
around. And then, you know, we can all think of

2340
03:24:38,912 --> 03:24:41,996
two or three off the top of our head. And

2341
03:24:41,996 --> 03:24:44,316
what the city's approach is going to be to those.

2342
03:24:44,316 --> 03:24:46,476
Because I don't want to dump a 500, 000 dollar

2343
03:24:46,657 --> 03:24:51,016
lean on guys property, uh, that we may, you know,

2344
03:24:51,857 --> 03:24:55,303
we may see it. But, you know, if you have

2345
03:24:55,324 --> 03:24:58,583
it out of town investor, they don't land that he,

2346
03:24:58,583 --> 03:25:01,463
you know, his father bought him before him. I don't

2347
03:25:01,463 --> 03:25:05,623
know the case exactly, but he might not care. So

2348
03:25:05,663 --> 03:25:10,343
we might be, you know, uh, 10, 20 years before

2349
03:25:10,604 --> 03:25:14,423
that property's ever developed. So, uh, I don't know. I

2350
03:25:14,604 --> 03:25:17,943
just, I just, I'm struggling with this right now. If

2351
03:25:18,044 --> 03:25:23,863
I may, Council member, um, just as we developed our

2352
03:25:23,964 --> 03:25:28,023
economic development strategic plan, this council asked us to also

2353
03:25:28,044 --> 03:25:32,103
develop a rubric set of criteria for making decisions about

2354
03:25:32,364 --> 03:25:37,967
economic development incentives. There could be an opportunity to also,

2355
03:25:37,967 --> 03:25:41,007
we have a chronic nuisance program that the staff actually

2356
03:25:41,108 --> 03:25:45,647
spends a lot of time ranking properties that our chronic

2357
03:25:45,748 --> 03:25:50,027
nuisances under certain set of criteria. Uh, another, you know,

2358
03:25:50,148 --> 03:25:54,607
potential, you know, thought from the council going forward is

2359
03:25:54,708 --> 03:25:59,297
for staff to develop. A set of criteria. Um, that

2360
03:25:59,297 --> 03:26:02,177
could be used as a framework for making decisions about,

2361
03:26:02,177 --> 03:26:05,897
um, these very unique large chronic nuisance properties. It would

2362
03:26:05,897 --> 03:26:07,217
be, in my mind, it would actually be fairly similar

2363
03:26:07,238 --> 03:26:11,617
to the economic development, um, incentive criteria. And we have

2364
03:26:11,657 --> 03:26:13,757
a few different tools in the tool belt. You know,

2365
03:26:13,757 --> 03:26:16,017
we do have the abatement process. We're working on a

2366
03:26:16,038 --> 03:26:23,057
lien forgiveness policy that would be available in instances where

2367
03:26:23,638 --> 03:26:28,657
it's creating, uh, you've got a new ownership. And you're

2368
03:26:28,657 --> 03:26:32,017
going to generate, you know, new economic activity. Do you

2369
03:26:32,017 --> 03:26:35,697
look at those liens? And so, um, just food for

2370
03:26:35,737 --> 03:26:37,617
thought for the council that could be a future action

2371
03:26:37,638 --> 03:26:40,417
for staff is to develop a set of criteria that

2372
03:26:40,457 --> 03:26:44,497
council could use in making these kind of decisions. Because

2373
03:26:45,558 --> 03:26:48,817
there are rare number of times where we would suggest,

2374
03:26:48,817 --> 03:26:52,797
Hey, let's use, you know, additional dollars to address, you

2375
03:26:52,797 --> 03:26:57,137
know, a significant issue. But to some of the points

2376
03:26:57,158 --> 03:26:58,977
that have been noted tonight, there are times where you're

2377
03:26:58,977 --> 03:27:04,737
going to create opportunities, um, and address problems, um, that

2378
03:27:04,838 --> 03:27:08,097
come to the good of the community ultimately, um, and

2379
03:27:08,678 --> 03:27:12,897
there's probably ways that we could, um, measure that in

2380
03:27:12,918 --> 03:27:18,666
a reasonable framework. One other idea just to add to,

2381
03:27:18,666 --> 03:27:23,706
uh, C manager, KLEG is also in kind of the

2382
03:27:23,746 --> 03:27:29,946
economic development, uh, mindset, having the property owner have some

2383
03:27:29,946 --> 03:27:32,586
sort of commitment. And I, what I'm hearing you say

2384
03:27:32,607 --> 03:27:36,106
is maybe we want to see this developed in five

2385
03:27:36,146 --> 03:27:39,786
to 10 years. Maybe they have some sort of, well,

2386
03:27:39,786 --> 03:27:42,426
if we invest 500, 000 that there needs to be

2387
03:27:42,767 --> 03:27:46,666
some sort of additional commitment out of them that we

2388
03:27:46,687 --> 03:27:50,430
see this property develop. You know, and in some sort

2389
03:27:50,430 --> 03:27:54,750
of criteria that aligns to what city manager was talking

2390
03:27:54,750 --> 03:27:59,032
about with the economic development framework. Yeah. I don't know

2391
03:27:59,032 --> 03:28:01,432
if I know the answers to those questions. I think

2392
03:28:02,013 --> 03:28:05,732
I'm imposing the question more than answering them. So, uh,

2393
03:28:05,853 --> 03:28:07,752
you know, from my money, I'd like to see us

2394
03:28:07,792 --> 03:28:14,125
have a further discussion about that. Uh, I, in support

2395
03:28:14,165 --> 03:28:18,605
of it, I will make one comment, uh, the council

2396
03:28:18,605 --> 03:28:23,496
took a very, very conservative approach. To preparing this year's

2397
03:28:23,536 --> 03:28:33,433
budget. And we purposely didn't act on some CIP. We

2398
03:28:33,433 --> 03:28:39,345
decided to pull that. In and wait till mid -

2399
03:28:39,345 --> 03:28:41,905
year to see how our numbers are going to work

2400
03:28:41,905 --> 03:28:44,925
out before we committed any of that. So, you know,

2401
03:28:44,966 --> 03:28:54,059
we had made some reservations money set aside. For these

2402
03:28:54,099 --> 03:28:57,077
kind of project. I just like to know. I have

2403
03:28:57,077 --> 03:28:59,237
a better understanding of what our policy is. So we

2404
03:28:59,237 --> 03:29:01,717
don't have to have these to conversations when these things

2405
03:29:02,298 --> 03:29:04,997
come up that we know what we're going to do.

2406
03:29:04,997 --> 03:29:06,997
Uh, we know what we're capable of doing what we're

2407
03:29:06,997 --> 03:29:12,317
not going to do. So. I guess I'm going to

2408
03:29:12,378 --> 03:29:14,757
have to think about if I would make a motion

2409
03:29:14,858 --> 03:29:17,892
or anything. I don't know. That's all the questions I

2410
03:29:17,892 --> 03:29:21,012
have, Mary. Thank you, Councilmember Council Member Aryas. Thank you,

2411
03:29:21,052 --> 03:29:23,052
Mayor. I just, I just want to share that. I

2412
03:29:23,052 --> 03:29:30,532
appreciate the honest thinking and scrutiny of this allocation. I,

2413
03:29:30,532 --> 03:29:33,892
too, share some of those concerns, uh, because I agree,

2414
03:29:33,892 --> 03:29:38,132
you know, particularly in Council Member Gonzalez's district in mind,

2415
03:29:38,132 --> 03:29:42,212
we have numerous of these properties. Um, and so I

2416
03:29:42,252 --> 03:29:44,932
know that I can't come back for a second time,

2417
03:29:44,932 --> 03:29:48,532
uh, when the, uh, 40 acre lot with the similar

2418
03:29:48,633 --> 03:29:51,092
problem. Um, and so I think this is a unique

2419
03:29:51,273 --> 03:29:57,572
opportunity. But I also want to make sure that we're

2420
03:29:57,612 --> 03:29:59,892
also not losing side of the fact that this is

2421
03:29:59,993 --> 03:30:03,952
a compounding problem, not just for future economic development, but

2422
03:30:04,553 --> 03:30:09,972
it's, it's an immediate public safety issue. Um, that the

2423
03:30:09,993 --> 03:30:12,452
trash, it's not on the screen anymore, but the debris

2424
03:30:13,273 --> 03:30:16,292
stretches all the way back to our spreading fields and

2425
03:30:16,313 --> 03:30:20,932
connects and abuts immediately, you know, an entire section of

2426
03:30:22,073 --> 03:30:26,772
R1 residential homes. Uh, so there are many community members,

2427
03:30:26,772 --> 03:30:30,852
Nuries along with her neighbors who are very concerned that,

2428
03:30:30,852 --> 03:30:35,332
uh, when, not if, but when another fire breaks out,

2429
03:30:35,332 --> 03:30:37,972
that that fire may actually pose an immediate threat and

2430
03:30:37,972 --> 03:30:42,532
harm to their property. And so, um, as Council Member

2431
03:30:42,572 --> 03:30:45,172
Gonzalez mentioned, we just don't have the funds and the

2432
03:30:45,172 --> 03:30:48,852
budget today to abate this project. Um, and so we

2433
03:30:49,113 --> 03:30:52,372
need an additional allocation, uh, like the one tonight in

2434
03:30:52,372 --> 03:30:57,755
order to be able to, uh, abate this property. I'll

2435
03:30:57,776 --> 03:31:01,835
share that just a couple of weeks ago, um, from

2436
03:31:01,856 --> 03:31:04,875
my count, it was the fourth fire in the span

2437
03:31:04,875 --> 03:31:08,775
of, of about three months. Uh, that fourth fire, uh,

2438
03:31:08,816 --> 03:31:12,455
was the largest that I've seen on the property. But

2439
03:31:12,896 --> 03:31:18,615
it actually saddled, uh, two of the parcels. So, uh,

2440
03:31:19,136 --> 03:31:23,391
you know. Some of the investors had control and oversight

2441
03:31:23,812 --> 03:31:25,791
over part of it. But the larger part of it

2442
03:31:26,132 --> 03:31:30,031
in chunk was on the property of the property owner

2443
03:31:30,772 --> 03:31:32,991
who we cannot get in contact with. And so even

2444
03:31:33,012 --> 03:31:37,631
if we were to ask the investor to, uh, abate

2445
03:31:37,671 --> 03:31:41,391
their side, the more than 50 percent that we could

2446
03:31:41,391 --> 03:31:45,071
not, um, get under control. So just, just wanted to

2447
03:31:45,071 --> 03:31:50,351
share that and share that I appreciate the concerning actually

2448
03:31:50,372 --> 03:31:52,831
would like to ask what the appropriate committee would be

2449
03:31:53,252 --> 03:31:56,751
for us to make a referral that committee take a

2450
03:31:56,751 --> 03:32:00,511
look at, you know, what is that threshold for council

2451
03:32:00,551 --> 03:32:06,111
to consider, uh, a level of investment and attention, frankly,

2452
03:32:06,111 --> 03:32:13,348
like this. Council Mary. At first blush, but we could

2453
03:32:13,388 --> 03:32:17,028
also always come back and, and revisit that. But I

2454
03:32:17,129 --> 03:32:20,308
actually think probably safe and healthy neighborhoods makes the most

2455
03:32:20,409 --> 03:32:24,597
sense. Okay. Then with that, I'll make that referral tonight.

2456
03:32:25,018 --> 03:32:34,704
Thank you. Council Member Smith. Thank you, Mayor. The referral

2457
03:32:35,205 --> 03:32:40,264
does not apply to this. That's a separate referral. Is

2458
03:32:40,264 --> 03:32:48,801
that what I'm hearing. I'm just thinking that. I am

2459
03:32:49,222 --> 03:32:53,121
correct in the developer, the one of the landowners is

2460
03:32:53,161 --> 03:33:00,429
here. Is that correct? And that we've talked about. How

2461
03:33:00,770 --> 03:33:02,669
it gets paid back or if it gets paid back

2462
03:33:02,669 --> 03:33:08,550
over time or how we can. Work through that. And

2463
03:33:08,550 --> 03:33:13,990
perhaps it would be a good idea to continue and

2464
03:33:14,030 --> 03:33:20,720
have conversations. With the developer and come back at another

2465
03:33:21,701 --> 03:33:26,870
meeting. So I'm not going to make that motion because.

2466
03:33:27,535 --> 03:33:32,154
It's inward one. And so I'll let him think about

2467
03:33:32,175 --> 03:33:35,834
that. But that would be something that I think perhaps

2468
03:33:36,095 --> 03:33:40,074
we could address some of the concerns that other council

2469
03:33:40,074 --> 03:33:47,914
members are having fine solutions. If I may council member

2470
03:33:48,015 --> 03:33:52,874
Smith and the spirit of trying to help address some

2471
03:33:52,914 --> 03:33:56,134
of the questions and concerns as well. I think, uh,

2472
03:33:56,415 --> 03:33:59,094
if, if we were to take just a little bit

2473
03:33:59,094 --> 03:34:03,674
more time, we could potentially refine numbers for what are

2474
03:34:03,674 --> 03:34:08,884
the costs of the securing versus the abatement. And the

2475
03:34:08,924 --> 03:34:11,844
signage versus the abatement. And also what would be the

2476
03:34:12,025 --> 03:34:15,364
costs for the abatement of the northern portion. So just,

2477
03:34:15,364 --> 03:34:17,844
just for some additional clarity, what you see on the

2478
03:34:17,865 --> 03:34:22,004
page on the screen right now, there's a northern portion

2479
03:34:22,004 --> 03:34:24,884
that is the separate property owner in the southern portion.

2480
03:34:26,514 --> 03:34:31,613
Um, that has, you know, is I may be slightly

2481
03:34:31,653 --> 03:34:35,133
off on this either in the process of acquisition or

2482
03:34:35,154 --> 03:34:39,453
has been acquired by other, you know, property owners. They

2483
03:34:39,453 --> 03:34:41,773
have it. Okay. It has been acquired by other property

2484
03:34:41,813 --> 03:34:47,436
owners. We could potentially try and also, um. Separate out

2485
03:34:47,476 --> 03:34:49,756
what the costs may be for abatement of the non

2486
03:34:49,937 --> 03:34:53,596
- responsive versus the responsive. That might help look at

2487
03:34:53,636 --> 03:34:56,876
those dollars more specifically. And then I think it's also

2488
03:34:56,897 --> 03:35:00,396
worth noting. I'll just take a moment to clarify this,

2489
03:35:00,396 --> 03:35:04,316
that the ownership of the larger section to the south.

2490
03:35:04,316 --> 03:35:07,676
That's fairly recent ownership. They've come into that ownership in

2491
03:35:07,716 --> 03:35:10,684
more recent years. And cleaned it up. And then the

2492
03:35:10,705 --> 03:35:13,564
ownership, if you go back to the other one, Gary,

2493
03:35:13,564 --> 03:35:17,835
thank you. The southern portion of this property very recently

2494
03:35:18,096 --> 03:35:20,635
acquired. And so, you know, we're not, I would think

2495
03:35:20,736 --> 03:35:23,835
it's, it's worth noting that we're not talking about the

2496
03:35:23,835 --> 03:35:27,835
same actors over multiple years. This is a new owner

2497
03:35:27,875 --> 03:35:31,995
who's trying to be responsible. And, um, and in a

2498
03:35:31,995 --> 03:35:35,195
spirit of, um, the long - term solution, we're looking

2499
03:35:35,195 --> 03:35:37,915
at ways to help secure the site and force the

2500
03:35:37,955 --> 03:35:41,595
site. But then also address the abatement costs to the

2501
03:35:41,635 --> 03:35:44,315
cost of the property, if that helps. But there may

2502
03:35:44,315 --> 03:35:49,515
be ways for us to, again, in summary, refine the

2503
03:35:49,515 --> 03:35:53,915
numbers that would help give clarity and potentially options for

2504
03:35:53,936 --> 03:35:57,595
how to spend those dollars and maybe work on some

2505
03:35:57,595 --> 03:35:59,755
of the other, you know, questions that have been raised

2506
03:35:59,936 --> 03:36:06,275
at the same time. Thank you. Council Member Gonzalez. Thank

2507
03:36:06,275 --> 03:36:08,035
you, Mayor. I just wanted to make a referral that

2508
03:36:08,035 --> 03:36:13,235
we pursue the receivership process for those parcels under the

2509
03:36:13,256 --> 03:36:18,435
ownership of the Unresponsive owner. Um, because even if we

2510
03:36:18,435 --> 03:36:25,235
do see development on these sites, um, those existing parcels,

2511
03:36:25,235 --> 03:36:29,555
um, will remain a nuisance and a problem for the

2512
03:36:29,555 --> 03:36:34,995
community moving forward. So if it makes sense, um, I

2513
03:36:35,016 --> 03:36:37,795
would like us to at least consider or explore that

2514
03:36:37,816 --> 03:36:42,010
option for that property. Thank you, Council Member Gonzalez. Council

2515
03:36:42,050 --> 03:36:47,429
Member Aryes. Thank you, Mayor. Given the feedback from some

2516
03:36:47,469 --> 03:36:50,389
of my colleagues and also given that we are approaching

2517
03:36:50,730 --> 03:36:55,429
9 p. m. I would like to withdraw my motion.

2518
03:36:55,610 --> 03:36:58,469
I'm going to introduce a new motion to bring this

2519
03:36:58,490 --> 03:37:02,616
item back at the next council meeting. Thank you. Thank

2520
03:37:02,656 --> 03:37:06,445
you any other request to speak. Seeing none, you have

2521
03:37:06,485 --> 03:37:08,062
a motion. Please cast your votes.

2522
03:37:21,088 --> 03:37:23,867
The motion is approved with council member Bashir Tash voting

2523
03:37:23,968 --> 03:37:28,754
no. And vice marcor absent. Thank you. And now next

2524
03:37:28,775 --> 03:37:37,679
item, please. Counsel and mayor statements. Can you clear the

2525
03:37:37,679 --> 03:37:39,787
screen so I can see with there. Any comes to

2526
03:37:39,787 --> 03:37:44,013
me or bash your tash. Can we get a presentation

2527
03:37:44,354 --> 03:37:47,533
on municipal code and the standards that we are supposed

2528
03:37:47,573 --> 03:37:50,233
to, I heard Councilman Gonzalez talking about some of the

2529
03:37:50,233 --> 03:37:53,213
things that we can do. Um, I just, I'd like

2530
03:37:53,234 --> 03:37:55,533
a presentation and then some, some thoughts on how we

2531
03:37:55,573 --> 03:37:57,933
can put more teeth in it. Uh, to hold people

2532
03:37:57,954 --> 03:38:00,973
accountable and taking properties that are just kind of destroying

2533
03:38:01,794 --> 03:38:05,773
and not just commercial residential. I mean, we need to,

2534
03:38:05,773 --> 03:38:07,613
just something. I want to know what our policy is

2535
03:38:08,114 --> 03:38:10,093
and some ideas on how we can actually hold people

2536
03:38:10,274 --> 03:38:13,453
accountable so that we're not, uh, wasting taxpayer money for

2537
03:38:13,474 --> 03:38:19,013
clarity council merit. Needs chronic nuisance properties? Uh, yeah, I

2538
03:38:19,013 --> 03:38:21,453
would even chronic newsome properties. I don't know what our

2539
03:38:21,453 --> 03:38:24,253
standards are for, even front yards. If there's a grass

2540
03:38:24,293 --> 03:38:26,373
levels and cars parked in, I'm sure they're just, I

2541
03:38:26,434 --> 03:38:30,493
get constituent. We need something that's got teeth, real teeth,

2542
03:38:30,493 --> 03:38:35,146
uh, that's that. For real. Second, um, can we begin

2543
03:38:35,327 --> 03:38:39,946
to look at the adoption of the, um, best practices

2544
03:38:40,287 --> 03:38:45,822
toolkit for homelessness and addiction. For treatment first policy that

2545
03:38:45,822 --> 03:38:48,142
just came out and was published. I think I received

2546
03:38:48,163 --> 03:38:51,582
a copy of it. Carlos, the director of the mission.

2547
03:38:51,582 --> 03:38:55,182
It's just, it's fantastic. It's what, uh, all sides used

2548
03:38:55,182 --> 03:38:57,182
to work on to actually get in front of this

2549
03:38:57,222 --> 03:38:59,422
issue that we've gone away from the last two decades

2550
03:38:59,763 --> 03:39:03,182
that is really created this, this problem, uh, and so

2551
03:39:03,222 --> 03:39:06,622
I think that that would be incredible to get done.

2552
03:39:06,622 --> 03:39:08,542
Um, we need to figure out how we can start

2553
03:39:08,582 --> 03:39:11,102
rolling out the adoption of that instead of continuing to

2554
03:39:11,102 --> 03:39:14,509
waste millions of dollars on, uh, what's not working. Uh,

2555
03:39:14,530 --> 03:39:20,740
that's it. Thank you. Council member Gonzalez. Thank you, Mayor.

2556
03:39:20,740 --> 03:39:25,220
Uh, you know, after the recent events, um, over the

2557
03:39:25,260 --> 03:39:28,800
weekend and the tragedy, uh, there has been a lot

2558
03:39:28,800 --> 03:39:33,040
of questions about youth violence and gain related shootings, uh,

2559
03:39:33,241 --> 03:39:36,740
and homicides. And I think it would be worthwhile for

2560
03:39:36,740 --> 03:39:41,540
this council within a council meeting to have a workshop

2561
03:39:41,721 --> 03:39:45,140
related to some of our violence intervention work. Uh, so

2562
03:39:45,140 --> 03:39:48,740
that the community can have a fuller understanding of some

2563
03:39:48,740 --> 03:39:51,620
of the work that, uh, we're already engaged in because

2564
03:39:51,620 --> 03:39:55,200
the ideas out there, um, a lot of great, um,

2565
03:39:55,200 --> 03:39:57,700
great conversations, um, but I think it would be helpful

2566
03:39:57,740 --> 03:40:00,580
for us to at least establish a baseline of what,

2567
03:40:00,620 --> 03:40:03,940
what's already taking place within the city of Bakersfield along

2568
03:40:03,980 --> 03:40:09,614
with many other community partners. Thank you, Council Member Bringonzale.

2569
03:40:09,614 --> 03:40:14,881
Let's Council Member Aryas. Thank you, Mayor. I'll just share

2570
03:40:15,062 --> 03:40:20,958
that that's a wonderful idea given all of. Interest in

2571
03:40:20,998 --> 03:40:25,118
this topic, but also, uh, just the communities outpouring of

2572
03:40:25,158 --> 03:40:30,638
support and concern rather about, you know, safety in our

2573
03:40:30,638 --> 03:40:33,838
community. I also just would love to add on some

2574
03:40:33,878 --> 03:40:37,758
of the investments this council has made into the partnerships,

2575
03:40:37,758 --> 03:40:41,598
uh, between BPD and our school resource officers, um, and

2576
03:40:41,598 --> 03:40:46,478
placing those at particular sites of interest. There's so many

2577
03:40:46,579 --> 03:40:50,478
different things that we have done to, you know, make

2578
03:40:50,499 --> 03:40:52,958
our community safer, but also in partnership with some of

2579
03:40:52,958 --> 03:40:55,918
our key partners, like our school districts. And so we'd

2580
03:40:55,918 --> 03:40:57,518
love to make sure that we're taking full stock of

2581
03:40:57,779 --> 03:41:01,823
all of that. Um, all of that worked. Mr. Claig,

2582
03:41:01,863 --> 03:41:04,383
did you have some things? Thank you, Mayor. I just

2583
03:41:05,204 --> 03:41:08,623
would appreciate the opportunity. Just reflect very briefly a couple

2584
03:41:08,623 --> 03:41:13,643
of overarching thoughts on this topic because it is, um,

2585
03:41:14,964 --> 03:41:17,343
a large conversation that's going on in the community right

2586
03:41:17,343 --> 03:41:23,663
now. I would first say that, you know, any act

2587
03:41:23,663 --> 03:41:28,223
of violence, any tragedy, uh, loss of life is so

2588
03:41:28,263 --> 03:41:31,743
unfortunate. Um, and we are very sad and by the

2589
03:41:31,764 --> 03:41:35,423
incident that occurred last week. I think it's also important

2590
03:41:36,084 --> 03:41:42,170
to reflect. That Bakersfield from a gun violence perspective. Has

2591
03:41:42,210 --> 03:41:44,090
not been as safe as it has been the last

2592
03:41:44,090 --> 03:41:47,699
two years in more than a decade. The efforts that

2593
03:41:47,800 --> 03:41:51,859
have been underway have made incredible progress. Every incident matters

2594
03:41:52,280 --> 03:41:55,219
and we want to make sure that we stop every

2595
03:41:55,240 --> 03:41:59,059
incident we can and that we respond to every incident.

2596
03:41:59,747 --> 03:42:03,646
But because of the efforts of, uh, the Bakersville Police

2597
03:42:03,646 --> 03:42:06,846
Department, our office of violence intervention and prevention, our community

2598
03:42:07,347 --> 03:42:10,366
- based organizations. We saw more than a 70 percent

2599
03:42:10,406 --> 03:42:15,446
reduction and homicides and shootings from 2021 through 2024. We

2600
03:42:15,446 --> 03:42:19,566
saw a very slight plateauing and uptick of last year.

2601
03:42:19,566 --> 03:42:24,166
If you reflect in 2021, we had 60 homicides, 17

2602
03:42:24,166 --> 03:42:30,598
of those were gang violence related. And in 2025, we

2603
03:42:30,699 --> 03:42:34,838
had 33 homicides, three of those were gang violence related.

2604
03:42:35,793 --> 03:42:40,572
In 2026, we've had only 10 homicides. One, the one

2605
03:42:40,572 --> 03:42:44,412
last week was gang violence related. It is remarkable the

2606
03:42:44,412 --> 03:42:49,132
reduction in gang violence. I would argue that our community,

2607
03:42:49,132 --> 03:42:53,237
I may gun violent standpoint has become very safe. And

2608
03:42:54,058 --> 03:42:59,317
again, every incident that concerns our community that is different

2609
03:42:59,317 --> 03:43:03,254
than that is important to us. Uh, but, uh, the

2610
03:43:03,355 --> 03:43:05,494
gains have been significant and we're going to continue to

2611
03:43:05,515 --> 03:43:08,034
make those gains and work hard on this topic, but

2612
03:43:08,034 --> 03:43:11,574
there's lots of work that's been happening. And, uh, I

2613
03:43:11,675 --> 03:43:15,814
will express, you know, just some concern that as we

2614
03:43:15,854 --> 03:43:21,334
were rallying partners in 2021 to do this work for

2615
03:43:21,334 --> 03:43:25,654
many of the young people and our disadvantaged neighborhoods who

2616
03:43:25,915 --> 03:43:30,294
were experiencing, um, these incidents at a too high of

2617
03:43:30,334 --> 03:43:34,214
a rate, we didn't have the same community impetus at

2618
03:43:34,235 --> 03:43:37,734
the time. We were welcome any energy that is created

2619
03:43:37,995 --> 03:43:41,414
from these type of incidents. But we've rolled up our

2620
03:43:41,454 --> 03:43:43,334
sleeves and been doing this work for a long time.

2621
03:43:43,334 --> 03:43:46,614
And we've seen really big results and we'll take the

2622
03:43:46,654 --> 03:43:50,194
opportunity to make that even bigger. I would note, uh,

2623
03:43:50,715 --> 03:43:53,974
our overall crime also significantly down, but we're very frustrated

2624
03:43:54,155 --> 03:43:57,334
about the chronic low level quality of life crimes that

2625
03:43:57,374 --> 03:44:00,214
continue to plague our community. That is issue number one

2626
03:44:00,315 --> 03:44:04,054
for your counsel. You've made that issue number one for

2627
03:44:04,075 --> 03:44:06,774
our staff to address. But our gun violence issues have

2628
03:44:06,814 --> 03:44:10,294
been dramatically different. And it's fortunate that these are isolated

2629
03:44:10,555 --> 03:44:18,228
instances today. Thank you, Mr. Clegg. Councilmember Coleman. Thank you,

2630
03:44:18,249 --> 03:44:23,206
Mayor. I wanted to reach out to Angel of Fraser.

2631
03:44:23,206 --> 03:44:26,566
You've been sitting here. Dr. Angelo Fraser. I've been sitting

2632
03:44:26,566 --> 03:44:35,882
here all night. And I appreciate that. Unfortunately, Johnny Olaghi

2633
03:44:36,783 --> 03:44:42,696
made some remarks as he exited. Which were, for those

2634
03:44:42,696 --> 03:44:46,536
people that don't know, Mr. Logge, uh, that can be

2635
03:44:46,717 --> 03:44:50,728
offensive. Some of his comments. So. Uh, I apologize that

2636
03:44:50,768 --> 03:44:54,968
we didn't react. I know you wanted to be able

2637
03:44:55,008 --> 03:44:57,688
to respond to him. And we didn't give him an

2638
03:44:57,688 --> 03:45:00,822
opportunity to do that. And so I apologize for not

2639
03:45:01,003 --> 03:45:02,902
understand what you were telling me at that time. So.

2640
03:45:04,223 --> 03:45:06,682
Thank you for sitting through this whole thing. I hope

2641
03:45:06,682 --> 03:45:11,250
you learned something. And, uh. That's all I have to

2642
03:45:11,250 --> 03:45:13,865
say about that. So thank you. I don't see any

2643
03:45:14,046 --> 03:45:17,065
other requests. So we stand adjourn at 851.