Mayor Quarty, I see you on the call, but I don't see that you have a microphone and Mr. Denopoli, Nick, I do not see that you have a microphone either.
Etaara, are you there? Yes, I am. You know, em, em, less time, time is wrong. It says that our meeting
will be starting in three minutes. I have 63 on my phone. We have now just 3654 on my cell phone.
Okay, let's see.
I just want to make sure, because I looked in, I don't see a few individuals in the
UC.
I'm going to stop my screen share right now, so if you could see everyone.
Well,
yeah, because I see the names, but I just don't see that individuals.
Yeah, a lot of people still have their video turned off.
All right.
I don't want to see my, my heavy face on the screen.
What would I have to set your settings so that you see a like a break of much mode with more people and now I know I see Jesu Rie
I see Cody Thompson. Okay, okay, I'm starting to see a
You said maybe I should set my set my what so I can see some see some faces. Yeah, I went. We'll check your settings on your zoom meeting when we get a break after this meeting. I should say and then see what settings you've got
But we'll see Tara. I don't want to see I don't want to see any ugly faces, okay
We better all turn our cameras off
I figured that would get them a small smile. Hey, I'm looking at the skin right now, and I'm seeing all kind of smiles right now
Okay
Now, hey, now I'm starting to use a beautiful faces. That's why she has smart. There you go
But look, look like Cody got some extra gray in his beard today from just this morning.
Cody wants to have quite a day today. My goodness. Yeah. Don't worry Cody. I got
extra gray here too today, man. It's been one of those Mondays, you know? Okay, let's see.
Yeah, it has been. Yeah, it has been. I know. Yeah. I see, I see money. Let's see. I see money on the screen.
Let's see. Is there an attorney on the screen? Oh, there we go. There's the money right there.
money man. I get kind of forget that. How are you doing a attorney arrogant?
I'm talking
while I'm muted. Okay, yeah, I'm like the attorney is like on the cover right now. What
are here? What are here? Nothing, nothing out of his, out of his mic, besides ching, ching, ching,
yeah. I'm doing well, Mayor. How are you? Hey, I'm living a dream. There you go. We're a little
to gray here today. Hey, you don't have to tell me about it. I'm just hoping I can grow a little
more. Oh, okay. Hey, hey, I, I feel you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, well, let me take it. If you guys
can see my, my screen says 656 p.m. It kind of feels odd, you know, there's no close session before
and I'm just like, man, it just like feels good. I don't have any close session before, you know,
Like for two hours. Yeah, hey. Well hey, what's good to see a C. We see Mayor Pro Tem, Barbara Rose. Hello Barbara. Okay. All right.
Okay, let's see if we have no one to close.
Let's see. Good evening. How's everybody doing this evening? Hopefully everybody's staying warm.
They're in the grave. It's freezing cold outside. It is free. Uh-oh, there's under your floors and the mango and there's the chief and the other chief
Tell him silver. Hey, hi, do you write it? That's hi. I did. Yeah, you had a big smile. She must have been a bunch of bills today
Yeah, I kind of figured that you got to make a look on a face
Let's see if anybody else is
Let's see. Oh, there's other money man. Mr. Michael Lewis and as Mr. James number
how you doing James. Good, Mayor. Oh, good. And we get your James's voice tonight too. Okay. Good. Let's see.
Chris Helgis, Christina. Yes, come in.
Mr. Mayor, you're muted. If you didn't know that.
Oh, yeah, I didn't. Okay. I'm glad I could see that there. Tara, you did. You didn't mute me. Okay. I did mute you earlier when you had.
Okay, so Tara was watching now. She's up. I'm gonna, I'm gonna moody right now.
Hey, I've been watching too much of social media. Hey, you know, I'm just messing with you, Tara.
But thank you for, for, for, uh, moody me on that. Okay, let's see. What time is it right now? Is it about
time to get started?
Let's see, let me go back over here. I got a seven o'clock. Okay, I got, I got a
We're just below my nose, you can actually see my whole face now, you know, I got it looks to see.
Yeah, Cody made a possible for me to get a new chair here. Yeah, with a booster in it. So people would actually see my whole face. Thank you Cody. I appreciate that.
Okay, I'm going to go in and I got the presenters menu here. The did I'm going to get a civil water.
I want to go ahead and go ahead and call the meeting in the audience in just a moment here.
Let's see here.
Do we have seven o'clock?
Is it seven o'clock?
I show seven o'clock too.
Seven o'clock too.
You know, it's amazing.
Everybody's times a little bit different.
Because my, my cell phone says,
says,
seven.
Oh, yeah.
It's a cut with your cell phone.
Okay.
I'm going to call the meeting the order. It is 702 per our city clerk and I'm going to ask Mr. James
Noble if you would lead us in the invocation this evening.
Councilman James Nobles.
Yes, ma'am.
Those heavenly gracious Father, we come before you this evening to say thank you. Thank you for
allowing each and every one of us to be in your mess. Father God, we ask that you continue
watch over our sick and our shut in. Father God, we ask that you continue to watch over each and
every one of us as we conduct our meeting this evening. Father God, we ask that you be with us
throughout this entire meeting and give us the guidance in wisdom that you may feel that we need.
Father God, we ask this in your name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you for that.
Let's see here.
I'm going to ask Mayor Prochem,
Barbara Rose, could you lean this in a salute to our nation's flag?
Absolutely.
If everybody can please rise and place your arm over your heart
and ready, begin.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands.
One nation, under God is visible with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you.
And if for us to do, I do a role call, please.
Yes. Council member Selva.
Present.
Council member Noble.
Present.
Council member Cruz.
Ascent, Mayor Pro-Chem Rose, President, and Mayor Courtney.
President, and here.
All are present.
Okay.
I'm going to go ahead and read the Code of Ethics.
As you're elected, Governor, we will remember the Code of Ethics that we all voluntarily
in Yankee approved.
We will treat each other as well as a public with patience, civility, and courtesy.
The decisions made tonight will be in the benefit of the Bosch community.
And not for personal gain. Okay, we're going to open up this evening with presentations. I did number one.
Procubation and recognition of the Vietnam War Veterans Day. Okay.
We do have a proclamation for our veterans day for the Vietnam War Veterans. And this will be presented
actually tomorrow, and I will prepare to be presented to the recipient organization.
Number two, Previsation of Senate Bill 133, Regiment Action, Information Only, and the
is that administration?
Unless that's where we just go.
Hello, meeting Mayor Council.
Everybody, I'm going to get my screen up here for you guys.
Bear with me while I do that.
Just what you wanted to send them.
Can you?
I think I got it hold on here.
I'm so sorry.
Can you.
How about now?
Can you see it?
Sorry, I can't seem to bring it up here.
Can you tell this is my first time doing this?
Okay, it was up for a moment there.
I've got, um, I've got Ken coming down to help you out real quick.
So, there we go.
I just want to hang tight for just one moment.
We'll get you straight.
Thank you.
While we're hanging tight, I do have this approximation.
I'm just going, just so, there we go.
This is the information that's going to present it tomorrow, to the reference, right here, so I can just see it right here.
It's fine.
It's clear, do we want to go on to the next presentation and come back to just, I think.
There we go.
Finally.
Thank you, Ken.
There you go.
So sorry, everybody.
Well, that's okay.
Okay.
So.
Good evening.
I'm going to be giving a overview of Senate Bill 1383, reducing short-lived climate pollutants
in California, and what this means for jurisdictions like the city of Arsto.
So before jumping into the city, I want to touch based on some of the basics.
Senate Bill 1383 was signed into law in 2016 and establishes methane emissions reduction
targets in a statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in various
sectors of California's economy. SB 1383 is the most significant waste reduction mandate
to be adopted in California in the last 30 years. SB 1383 requires that the state reduced organic
waste disposal by 75% by 2025. Organic waste includes materials such as food waste, green waste,
and paper products. The law also requires the state to increase edible food recovery by 20%
by 2025. This has significant policy and legal implications for the state and local governments.
Given that it is a statewide target and there are not jurisdiction targets,
the regulation requires a more prescriptive approach. The law requires the
Congress cycle adopt regulations that impose requirements necessary to achieve the statewide targets.
This makes the regulation more similar to other environmental quality regulations where regulated entities, i.e. jurisdictions are required to implement specific actions rather than achieve unique targets.
These regulations will take effect on January 1, 2022.
So during this presentation, I'm going to cover the background in context of S31383, take a big picture look at the laws requirements and objectives.
will go over jurisdiction responsibilities, so what this will require
global governments, some key implementation dates, key jurisdictions,
dates, and color cycle oversight responsibilities.
So when we were talking about organic waste for the purpose of S.P.
1383, we were talking about green waste, wood waste, food waste, but also
fiber such as paper and cardboard.
Organic waste comprises more than one third of our waste stream.
Our cycle of latest waste characterization study in 2018 to get closer to look at our food waste stream of the 34% of organic waste is exposed up in California, approximately 15% is food waste.
As I mentioned, SD3 also requires California to recover 20% of currently at a fairly disposed edible food.
The results of the study is helping to determine how much edible food waste is lab-filled on average through the state.
Here's what we do now.
One in five children go hungry every night in California.
Redirecting perfectly edible food that is currently being disposed of to feed those in need can help alleviate this.
Also, for every two and a half tons of food rescued, that's the equivalent of taking one car off the road for a year.
California's disposed of approximately six million tons of food waste every year.
SB 1333 builds upon existing mandatory commercial
organics recycling law known as AB 1826.
AB 1826 requires that local jurisdictions begin implementing
a mandatory commercial organics waste recycling program
starting in 2016.
The program also applies to multi-family residential dwellings
with five or more units, but limited to green waste recycling only
and not food waste.
Shortly after this law was adopted,
Barser began the process of implementation of its program establishing a rate for collection service and conducting outreach to affected enemies.
Barser was awarded a grant to construct in organic processing facility and Victor Bill in response to AB 1826 facility and infrastructure needs.
In July 2020, BERTEC opened their composting facility, which was a huge milestone,
though it allowed us to more easily achieve our compliance goals by creating a processing facility
close to BERTEC, reducing transportation costs ultimately saving the right pair of money.
In September 2020, Calversycle conducted a progress assessment and determined that the statewide
reduction targets were not being met. As a result, the organic, recycling, requirement
expanded to commercial entities that generate two cubic yards or more of commercial solid waste for
week. In November 2020, the city council adopted ordinance 968 providing an enforcement mechanism
for entities subject to 1826. Currently, the solid waste department is working with vertex to make
the organic collection service available to all convert entities in May of 2021. This full implementation
in a baby 1826 will be a hugely towards achieving the target set forth by a baby 1383.
S.B. 1383.
Okay, so just briefly, the requirements, again, they take effect on January 1,
2022. As I mentioned, the aggressive organic waste reduction targets require California's
due to organic waste disposal by 75% by 2025.
These targets use the 2014 waste characterization
study measurements when 23 million tons of organic waste
was supposed.
These disposal reductions will reduce at least 4 million
metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually by 2030.
Additionally, as part of the disposal reduction targets,
the legislature directed tower cycle
to increase edible food recovery by 20% by 2025,
which is a major component of this law.
Highlighted on this slide are the key dates for SB 1383 implementation and milestones going back to when it was adopted.
The law, the targets, and the requirements for our cycle to adopt regulations were adopted in September of 2016.
Towers cycle conducted two years of informal hearings with local governments and stakeholders to develop regulatory concepts.
How are cycles started the formal regulation rule making in January of 2019, the regulations were adopted in fall 2020, and stipulate that jurisdictions must have their programs in place on January 1, 2022.
In 2024 jurisdictions will be required to take enforcement action against non-compliant entities, and in 2025 the state must achieve those 75% reduction in 20% food recovery targets.
We need to plan and secure access for recycling and edible food recovery capacity.
In addition to recovering 20% of edible food for human consumption, we must identify
tier 1 and tier 2 commercial edible food generators and funding for edible food recovery
infrastructure.
To meet the deadline of January 1st, 2022, powder cycle expects that jurisdictions will
be planning and making programmatic and budgetary decisions regarding the requirements
in advance of this deadline.
Health or cycle can begin enforcement action on jurisdictions and other entities starting on January 1, 2022.
The enforcement process on jurisdictions stipulate that a city can be issued a violation and be subject to enforcement for failure to comply with any aspect of this regulation.
Like most regulatory enforcement programs,
This tower cycle will have discretion to determine the level of penalty necessary to remedy
any given violation.
These timelines mean we need to be planning now.
This slide outlines the major programmatic activities for jurisdictions and the following slides
will cover more detail.
Starting January 1, 2022, we must first provide organic collection service to all residents and
businesses.
We must establish an edible food recovery program.
We'll need to conduct education and outreach meet procurement targets and plan for capacity.
Starting January 1st, 2024 jurisdictions will be required to take enforcement action against non-compliant entities.
Congress cycle has some funding through competitive grant programs, as well as a loan program for establishing the infrastructure for recycling organic waste and recovering edible food.
However, for programmatic activities such as enforcement, instruction, education, collection,
we need to plan for budgetary changes to address that, please. In late 2020,
color cycle issued a number of tools that we can begin utilizing, such as a model
enforcement ordinance, franchise agreement model, and educational materials.
Using the latest statewide waste characterization studies, jurisdictions will have data needed
to conduct some of the capacity planning requirements.
We need to be planning now to have the programmatic
and budgetary changes in place by January 1, 2022.
So jurisdictions will be responsible
to adequately resource all of these programs shown here.
The first is ProviderGanniquest Collection Services
to all residents and businesses.
This means for all organic waste, including green waste,
wood waste, food waste, fibers, et cetera.
Containers have prescribed colors, any shade of gray or black for trash, green for organic waste and blue containers for traditional recyclables.
There are container labeling and contamination monitoring requirements.
The color cycle has indicated that the average cost increase to households is estimated at three to five dollars per month,
while the average increase to businesses is estimated at $70 to $90 per month.
We're currently assessing our existing collection programs to determine what may need to be expanded or changed.
Item 2 is establish an edible food recovery program for all tier 1 and tier 2 commercial edible food generators.
Tier 1 food generators are supermarkets and large grocery stores, food service providers, food distributors, and wholesale food vendors.
to your two generators are large restaurants, hotels with on-site food facilities and 200 or more rooms,
health facilities with an on-site food facility and 100 or more beds, large venues, and large events,
state agencies with large cafeterias and local education agencies with on-site food facilities.
This means we must strengthen our existing infrastructure for edible food recovery and food distribution.
Even where existing infrastructure already exists, there are new recordkeeping and inspection tasks that we'll need to be implemented.
We're going to need to assess things like how many commercial generators do we have in bar still, how much edible food could they donate?
How many food recovery organizations exist and what is their capacity to receive this edible food?
What gaps do we have in our current infrastructure and what do we need to do to close them?
How can we fund the expansions of edible food recovery organizations through grants, partnerships,
partnerships, et cetera?
What partnerships currently exist already and what new partnerships we need to be established?
Next is item 3.
We have to conduct education and outreach to all businesses and residents regarding collections
service requirements, contamination standards, self-haul requirements.
Governments and overall compliance with 1383, including edible food donation requirements and available edible food organizations, recovery organizations.
Educational material must be linguistically available and accessible to our non-English speaking residents, so we'll provide printed materials, online resources as well as additional media and social media platforms to reach all generators.
I don't for is we will be required to procure certain levels of compost, mulch, renewable gas or electricity from biomass conversion produced from organic waste.
Each jurisdiction will have a minimum procurement target that is linked to its population.
Power cycle will notify jurisdictions of their target prior to January 1, 2022.
We'll be able to decide what makes the compost, mulch, biomass arrival, electricity, or renewable gas we want to use to meet our target.
Power cycle will provide a calculator with the conversion factors for us to use to calculate progress towards meeting our target.
It's important to note that procurement doesn't necessarily mean purchase, but jurisdiction that produces its own compost,
multiple gas or electricity from biomass conversion can use that towards the procurement target.
Same goes for jurisdictions direct service providers for example, it's haulers.
We can use compost or mulch for erosion control, soil amendments, soil cover, parks, and
open spaces, as well as giveaways.
We could potentially use renewable gas to fuel fleets, or our waste haulers to use renewable
gas to fuel their trucks.
Renewable gas can be used for transportation fuels, electricity, or heating appliances, applications.
SB's are to need to be also requires that jurisdictions procure a recycled content paper
when it's available at the same price or less than virgin material.
Procured paper products must meet the federal trade commissions, recyclability guidelines,
essentially products we purchase must be recycled.
recyclable.
Item 5, we need to plan and secure access for recycling and edible food recovery capacity.
Again, we must plan to recover 20% of the edible food for human consumption.
Identify tier 1, and tier 2 commercial edible food generators, and funding for our edible food recovery infrastructure.
Each county will lead this effort by coordinating with the cities in the county to estimate existing new and organic capacity.
Counties and cities must demonstrate that they have access to recycling capacity through existing contracts, franchise agreements or other documented arrangements.
For edible food recovery, the county and city must contact edible food recovery organizations that serve the jurisdiction to determine.
excuse me, how much, how much existing new and or plan capacity is available? If capacity cannot
be guaranteed, then each jurisdiction within the county that lacks capacity must submit an
implementation schedule to cover cycle that includes specific specified timelines and milestones,
including funding for necessary recycling or edible food recovery facilities. The county must collect
data from the cities on a specified schedule and report to cover cycle. Cities are required to
provide the data to the county within 120 days.
The start year for planning and reporting is 2022,
and the report must cover 2022 through 2025.
So subsequent reports will be due every five years,
and will plan for a 10 year horizon.
Finally, item six is we will be required
to monitor compliance and conduct enforcement.
By January 1st, 2022 jurisdictions are required
to have an enforcement mechanism or ordinance in place,
yet we are not required to enforce until 2024.
The focus during the first two years is on educating generators.
The goal is to make sure every generator has an opportunity to comply the
for mandatory enforcement comes into effect.
After January 2024, jurisdictions must take progressive enforcement action against
organic waste generators that are not in compliance.
The progressive approach allows for notification to the generator and provides
ample time for the generator to comply before penalties must be issued.
Our cycle sets the maximum time frame that a jurisdiction has to issue a notice of violation and issue penalties to the generator.
We will have the flexibility to develop our own enforcement process within these specific parameters.
The regulations give more detail on what a jurisdiction is required to do if they determine a violation occurred.
So talk about the local government roles and responsibilities.
This law extends beyond directing waste management and recycling operations and staff.
Each department will need to understand how SB 1383 impacts their work.
Record keeping and reporting requirements extends to all of these departments.
And jurisdiction leaders like a self-clea vital role in ensuring compliance.
City Councils and Board of Supervisors will need to pass local enforcement ordinances
to require all residents and businesses to subscribe to these services.
City managers and Chief Administrative Officers will be involved in capacity planning, directing,
procurement of recycled organic products like compost and renewable natural gas, and establishing
at a both food recovery programs.
Finance and legal staff should be involved in local and forced ordinances, new collection
fees, and ensuring programs are adequately resourced, purchasing staff will be central to
procuring recycled organic products including paper.
Public work staff may be involved in civil engineering activities where compost may be
used as an erosion control along city streets and embankments public park staff may be involved
with assessing the need for local compost application to park city landscape areas and
environmental staff will be tasked with enforcement duties including inspection inspections
of at commercial food generators for compliance with edible food recovery requirements.
Public transportation and fleet departments could also be involved in preparing renewable
natural gas for city and county on vehicles.
And it is shins, jurisdictions will have to adopt
an ordinance or enforceable mechanism that requires compliance with Cal Green and water-efficient
landscape ordinance requirements, which will involve the participation of building and planning
staff. The requirements include providing readily accessible areas for recycling containers and
commercial and multi-family units, recycling organic waste co-mingled with construction and
to need Calgary and 65% requirement for C&D recycling and both residential and non-residential projects
and requiring new construction and landscaping projects to meet water-efficient landscape requirements for compost and mulch applications.
jurisdictions will also have to maintain all information and implementation record.
This graphic is a snapshot of items to be kept in the implementation record.
Calercycle staff may review the record as part of an audit of our program and the implementation
record needs to be stored in a central location.
It can be kept in a physical or electronic record, but must be accessible to Calercycle staff
within 10 business days and must be retained for five years.
Finally to discuss Calercycle over site, beginning 2022, Calercycle will authorize low population
in rural area waivers in the case of entities such as location, local education agencies,
which may be exempt from local solid waste oversight.
Calvers cycle will be directly responsible for ensuring compliance.
This will be monitored through Calvers cycle's existing state agency monitoring process.
Calvers cycle will be actively evaluating our compliance, for example,
verifying that all organic waste generators have service,
that we're providing proper education and issuing notices of violation within the correct time
Again, SB 1383 is a statewide target and not an individual jurisdiction, diversion targets, so unlike AB 939, where there was a specific target for each jurisdiction, SB 1383 prohibits a jurisdiction target.
Due to this structure, the regulations require a more prescriptive approach and establish statement of standards. We must be able to demonstrate compliance with each of the prescriptive standards.
Under SB 1383 regulations, if color cycle determines if jurisdiction is violating, one or more of the requirements, a jurisdiction will be noticed and will have 90 days to correct.
Most violations should be able to be correct within that timeframe, but for cases where jurisdictions may need a little additional time, the time frame can be expanded to 180 days.
for violations that are due to barriers outside the jurisdiction's control and which may take
more time to correct the regulations allow for a jurisdiction to be placed on a corrective
action plan, allowing up to 24 months to comply. In these cases, it must be inherent that the
jurisdiction has taken substantial effort to comply but cannot do to accentuating circumstances,
such as the lack of capacity or natural disaster.
So, in closing, I would like to encourage
the council, the community, to stay engaged in this process.
You can do so by subscribing to Calaricycle's listserv
to receive emails with the latest updates.
You can also visit Calaricycle's SLCP web page for information
or you can contact me directly for updates specific to barso.
Since coming on board to Solid Waste in July 2020,
I've been participating in various Calaricycle public webcasts,
training, workshop sessions, as well as meetings with BERTTEC and our JPA
to learn more about this and discuss the regulatory process.
It's certainly a lot to digest, but our staff and partners are definitely
strategizing on the best approach for successful implementation.
I want to thank you all for listening through this very high-level view of SB 133.
Your support with this is very crucial to its success.
And then also wanted to introduce some folks joining us tonight for
representative from Cali Cycle, we have the local assistance in marketing development branch chief,
Karen Morgan, senior environmental scientists, supervisor Kathy McDonald's and environmental
scientists during the specter. In addition, we have Vice President Bertekwis, Mike Erigan,
and we welcome many questions you have.
I guess I have a question. So this is a huge task and
I know that we're up to it with our partners.
But I do want to ask, are we already starting with the plan?
I believe we're probably there.
When is the actual deadline that we have to submit?
January 1st of 2022, we need to have an ordinance in place.
So an enforceable mechanism that lays out basically
the ground work of the program.
But this is, again, building upon the existing organic waste law.
So currently, there is a law for commercial organic waste recycling.
But it only affects commercial entities who are generating at least two cubic yards of solid waste per week.
So we are in the process of rolling that program out and, you know, it's going to help us towards the
ultimate targets that SB 1383 has, so yeah we are we are definitely on track to
getting the word out there of the importance of the organic waste recycling and educating folks
which I think is going to be the most important thing on the forefront in making sure that everyone
is aware of this is coming and and how it will affect everyone in the community, city staff, etc.
And the wind is, is the ordinance already being looked at to, to revise the language, and when is it, when are you planning to bring it to city council?
Yes, ma'am. So back in fall of last year, we amended our, our BMCA brought forward an ordinance to include the requirement to separate the organic waste material.
But we are now, well, I'm comparing with the model ordinances, that color cycle put out as a tool to ensure that if there are additional updates that are needed to the code, that they are consistent with what's required under the law.
So that tool is going to be really vital in developing that. I hope to bring that to you all. As soon as possible, I'm going to I'm starting to work on it now.
My main goal was to get this presentation out as kind of an introductory.
And yeah, we welcome any feedback questions concerns as we do start the development of that ordinance.
I just want to finish off by just saying thank you so much Jessica.
this is a lot to absorb, but behind the scenes staff at City Hall is continuously working very hard and this is not the only thing you're working on.
So I just want to say thank you to you and all the other staff and the partners that are working on this.
I really appreciate it.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you. Thank you.
And definitely have a great leader by the Buzzy to motivate and inspire Cody.
Thank you for making this a reality.
The education is definitely going to be the key to educate our community.
Because this is a major undertaking for our community, which is going to make it even bigger.
I'm making for the rest is our community, and to have our partners and our primary partners on this.
Mr. Mike Erigander, I see Mike up there, in Vertag and in their partners to bring this
reality to our community because it's definitely something that's necessary, that educating
gradually implemented. Just a little note, Mike, on the last time that we checked at it,
it was a very, very productive conversation. I want to thank you, Mike, because, wow,
It was good. It was a good talk. And the deliverables are a wonderful. So I just want to personally thank you.
Thank you for doing what you had to do.
That's it. It's definitely working.
Very good. Thank you, Mayor, and it is continued.
I continued work in progress.
But we're a team.
Berthek and the city of Barstone. I can't thank you enough for the staff that we're able to work with.
a level of understanding.
Again, with the city manager that he and I go way back and knows what we're capable of doing. And I do appreciate you bringing certain issues to our attention, but we will continue to work forward. Thank you.
Well, thank you. Thank you very much. Great presentation, Jessica. Great presentation also to your supervisor, Cody.
Yeah, just because we've been doing a phenomenal job and as soon as we had that ordinance, we'll get it to rule the policies for review and get it back to council as soon as possible.
Okay, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Mayor, if I may.
Councilman, Maryland, dire crews.
With being on the solid waste and the wastewater committees also had my first meeting with the JPA and.
It was very enlightening that meeting, seeing what's ahead of us, and after that two hour meeting, I did speak with Cody Tomkins and with Jessica, and it just trying to get a grip on exactly what's going to be required of the city and its residents.
And it is a huge undertaking that I hope the community understands just how serious this is and how there is no choice in complying and making this work for this community.
I'm hoping that they get involved in it just as strongly as they did on our recycled program, which was which was a huge success compared to the other cities in the high desert.
So I know this is going to be a large undertaking for us, and it is going to be a financial
responsibility for every residents that live here and use the facility.
I have to say, though, Jessica and Cody made arrangements for us to go see the composting
department that's over in Victor Bell and it's a good thing they started during the pandemic
because I think once all the restaurants really come on to on board of the organic waste will be
a much larger production that they have there but they really have they really have
organized it well. I explained it extremely well when we took the tour
So, I'm sure that they're up to that path.
I'm just hoping that our community understands
just how important it is that we comply
with cow recycles requirements.
So, with that said, we do have a tremendous amount
of work ahead of us.
And thank you so much, Jessica.
I know this was extremely overwhelming for you,
and to Cody or just how are we even going to begin on this. And even though it has been
in the plans for the last couple of years, the last year has kind of put a stall to many things,
but now they really want it to really get started. And so now we've just really got to
like in our belts and get down to the task of this.
But thank you.
Yes, ma'am, thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you.
Okay, we're going to go and move to item number three,
is economic overview, and our presenter this evening
is economic, endless, and manga, or nervous.
Hello, thank you for having me, Mr. Mayor.
Thank you, Council, and thank you
to the members of the public.
So I am going to share my screen and I also just want to say just fantastic presentation.
Thank you.
It was really good.
Yeah, it's such a, such a big topic.
So it was great.
All right, so I'm going to chill a little bit.
I'm going to have, I'm not going to put up the presenters view.
So everybody can go ahead and just see my presentation.
So I'm going to give the update as of March 2021.
And before we hop in, I'm going to share just a little bit about
the economic development department. What it looks like within the city and what it
includes.
So this is a screen grab of the latest budget. You can see the link down there at
the bottom. You can see where the economic development department fits with in the city. So it's
under the city manager and then it is, it works hand in hand with honestly all of these different
apartments here. So we do have an economic development
webpage. You can visit at the city of Barsto. And if you do
visit that webpage, you are able to locate a potential
development brochure. I'm so I'm going to go ahead and open
the webpage here and you can see the link right here. And if you
open that, then you'll go ahead and find some of the overview of the
city of Barsto. You can see a message from our mayor. You can
see just some of the different demographics, some of the
for an opportunity that are available within the city and soon we will be adding a
Parks and Rec update as they're in there as well.
And then you can also see some information about opportunity zones in the city.
So Barso is very special in that we have a majority of our downtown area located within an
opportunity zone.
As some of you might notice, some of that has located on the railway and if you can
big to different whether or not that's actually usable space, but nonetheless it is still within an
opportunity zone which is a federally designated zone that intends to benefit economically
distressed communities where new investments under certain conditions may be eligible for
preferential tax treatments. And there are three different opportunities under the opportunity
these zones. And one is a capital gains tax deferral. One is a capital gains tax reduction. And
one is a elimination of taxes on future gains altogether. And because we have the beauty of being
on a virtual format where I can share my entire screen with you, I'm going to show you the opportunity
zones website and show you how easy it is to navigate. So if you just go to opzones.ca.gov,
you can open up this map here and you can see all the areas in California that you can find
opportunities zones and then just learn a little bit more about it as well.
And we have fantastic partners that help us learn a little bit more about these areas and
and connect our businesses with people who are experts in this area at both the California
governors, business office, it's called GoBiz and then both at the economic development department
at San Bernardino County. So I'm going to go ahead and talk about some of the projects in forest
show and one of the exciting ones while they're all exciting. But one of the exciting housing
products that we're able to talk about is the Lennwood Estates and this is a series of what
used to be eight homes but is now seven. On Lennwood Road it is not where the outlets are so
on the other side of Lennwood. Those were city owned property as of last year. I forget the
that it officially became the Lennwood Estate's owned by
ad-bric investments, but those are on their way to becoming fully
furnished and functioning homes, and there are seven of them right now.
So I have an update from Alexander Bourd Bar, and he is of Lennwood
Estate, and he let me know that they have a night watchman who watches
the properties all night, and there's a security fence to keep the
was in the area safe. They are still in the demolition phase, although it looks like some things
are going up and they're still taking some redoing some renovations on the inside. But they're
definitely progressing over there. And they also have some exciting news that they are using local
labor and local suppliers as much as possible to finish these. So they had a requirement in the
agreement that when we sold the property with them that they would have these homes ready to be
sold within 18 months. So they, from what Alex Alexander has let me know that they are on track to be
able to do that. So that's really exciting. We're happy to see some new housing features out there
one would area. And then one of the other things that we have another exciting project in the
city is Spanish trails. So this will be coming to Council actually, within the next few months
there we have Joseph Brady. He is up doing the DDA with the community development department right now.
So he's working hand in hand with Chris and Chris Heldreth and Brad Merrill and just working on
on updating this area.
So this you can see half of it is in that opportunity zone
that we just talked about.
So it's a good opportunity for local investors
to be able to have prime access to the downtown area of Barso
and then as well as be able to take that benefit
of the opportunity zones.
And then these are just some of the other developments
that we've had throughout the year. I won't go ahead and I won't read all of them, but some
of them are pretty exciting. Reebok, Spanish Trails, or they've done some tenant improvements.
And then, of course, I'm sure everybody knows that there is a raising canes coming to
our cell. I think that they are supposed to anticipate an opening towards the end of April, maybe May,
of course in Amaria and then we have American courts who is on track to be able to open up on their schedule.
Again, our community development department has worked really hard to be able to get them to all their different access to equipment and inspections.
And they are really great partners here in the city of Burstow.
So I'm going to go into a few of the different grants that we have on schedule here at the city too.
One of the greatest ones in the Economic Development Department is the Community Development Block grants.
Which I know our council is, I would say very familiar with them because on the 23rd we had our community development,
our hearing and the council got a chance to look at this year's CDBG.
So there are two different ones that are running through the city right now as community development
block grant, the normal one that runs every fiscal year, and then there's CDBG CV, which
will also here as an agenda item later this evening.
And this one was designed specifically to target coronavirus-related relief.
And a good overview of just understanding how the community development block grant affects the city.
So these are the areas within San Bernardino County that the county and ministers CDBG and this is the block group that that is affected by it.
And then it goes down even further where within the city there are CDBG areas. So this is the area within the city.
When we are, or when this, the county is reviewing applications on a year to year basis,
they're ensuring that it actually falls within the CDBGA area.
Every year, we have the, or organizations have the ability to apply for CDBG.
So like I mentioned, there's a couple different CDBG running right now.
The CDBG CV is separate, but this one applies for the year leaf fiscal year CDBG.
And around the same time every year, it's October 13th, so that maybe second week in October,
you'll see the application open up, and then that first week in December is when the application is closed.
And then at that time, in the county, they review it, they determine whether or not that project is eligible,
and then it comes back to us, and then that's when the council and when you see it, and we go through the process of what we just did.
and we'll go ahead and continue that tonight too.
We have that on a as an agenda item later as well.
And then we also have the affordable housing
and sustainable communities grant program.
So we have done an update or I have done I guess I should say,
an update to the council previously on this.
So if there are any questions I'm happy to answer them
after that, but for the community who might not be aware,
this is a project on seventh avenue and it is intended
to be a transportation focus and green house energy focus housing community.
So there's going to be a proposal for new transit opportunities for new bike paths,
for new walking paths, just really a component of everything that meets what's called
the Strategic Growth Councils goals.
And we will be applying to this in June and we have held numerous community engagement workshops
we intend to hold a couple more before the application is due in June and then just some of the other
grants that we've been working on and Domingo will be chatting about a couple of these tonight.
Well, Domingo will reveal to you the active transportation program. We're really excited to be able to
to see all of his hard work come through so I will let him take the limelight on that and I believe
that is Brad, who's doing the first Avenue Bridge project update. So I won't take any of that from him either.
And then we have the leap grant in the SB2 grant, which has been really helpful in us
of doing our general plan update in the specific Avenue 7 or the 7th Avenue specific plan.
And then we also had Domingo, Domingo Gonzalez and Kyle Woolly apply for the Prop 68,
which is Parks and Recreation Funding. So fingers crossed for that one. But we just have had
numerous grants running throughout the year and how worked really as a team to be able to
get some of those across the finish line. And Domingo has worked very, very hard and we're
really proud of him on that ATP one. And just some other items. So I would like to think that the
out and for
Offering the city of Barso, a scholarship for an intro to economic development course, which allowed me to cover some of these topics that are here.
So if the council has any desire to learn a little bit more about these topics, more of the council, maybe you want to just discuss what this intro to economic development course is.
Feel free to let Dr. Hart know.
You know, again, we were very thankful to receive that Caled scholarship for this program, but feel free to just let Dr. Hurt know if this is of any desire to any of the council members.
And then we also last year had the census 2020.
It was obviously a little shaken up, but they normally thought it would have been due to COVID.
So it wasn't what you thought it might have been
where you could have host big events
and get people to fill out the census.
Like we had maybe had hoped.
But we did, we were a strong partner with the census
and we worked collaboratively with the county
and because we recognized the importance
of completing that to our full stability
because it does affect our community for the next decade.
And this is just a little snapshot from the census website where you can see some of the top programs where the funding goes to and what the census affects.
And this of course is just a little plaque that the city got in response to helping with the census.
And then one other exciting thing that we have in the economic development department, so we are thrilled to be doing a transition at the Harvey House.
So we have retail space there right now, and we are taking over the property management at the Harvey House.
So we are excited to be able to work with not only the tenants that are there now, but to continue reaching out to the community and make sure the community is aware
that the beautiful Harvey House has historic retail space or a commercial space available for any of the local bar still businesses that may be interested.
And then just some public information updates that may have been provided to the Council in a report before, but I'll just go ahead and provide that now as well.
So for our Facebook, over the last year, as you can see,
we have had an increase in engagement.
I think that a lot of this is attributed to the city,
really focusing on making sure that we can
reach the community in response to what you can consider as a crisis
throughout the last year.
So we've just really been focused on making sure
that we share pertinent information, whether it's from the county,
whether it's from our supervisors, or the county board of supervisors, or our state senators,
just making sure the community continues to get that engagement and that response from us.
And we have been fortunate to see that the community is responding in our engagement on our social
media channels. And this, again, just shows you that just over time, the engagement has gone up and
are using this as a really strong platform
to be able to communicate with the community.
One of the areas where we could improve,
might be Twitter because based on the other platforms,
the engagement is a little bit stronger,
but here, admittedly, this is an opportunity
for us to grow here on Twitter.
And then I will also do an update for Channel 6
because I know that there was a question last,
I believe last council meeting.
So I believe in April, fingers crossed, they are supposed to be able to get that ready to go.
The channel six will be continuing to improve even after it's live.
I know the audio is going to take maybe about a month or so before it's fully, fully functioning.
So that is just in the works. People may have seen some testing that we have been doing.
It was not necessarily somebody else taking over our channel.
It was just some background testing that they didn't realize that our IT department
or the contractors did not realize that was getting broadcasted there.
But that hopefully should be coming up soon and then we'll be able to broadcast more there.
It's a peg channel, which means that it can broadcast education and just community updates as well.
And of course, we have 18, so the economic development department, although I'm the economic development administrator, it really is just a component of everybody at the city of Barsdale.
So if you open that development brochure that I had mentioned early on in my presentation, and at the very end of that, you will find the development team members, but it does not stop here.
It includes people like Rebecca Thorpe, who was our consulting city planner, Brian Merrill,
who is our city engineer, Chris Heldreath, obviously. We are excited to have Anthony Riley as
our as an economic development consultant and we're just really excited to be able to have a team
that focuses on economic development and it's not really, it's not happening in a silo. It's happening
within the whole city of Barsau.
So it is just all of these staff members coming together
to be able to meet the goals and the desires
for the community.
And with that, must there are any questions?
I am done with my presentation.
I have a couple of questions, Mayor.
Yes, go ahead, I'm Mayor Porto.
So, Amanda, can you please go back to slide two?
Of course.
Can you make that a little bit larger please?
Yeah.
It's so hard to read.
Can you show me where the economic development is?
Yes.
So, right here, I'm not sure, can you see me toggle?
Yes.
I see it.
I'll see it now.
Okay.
Thank you.
And just a quick question on the org charge, do we not have somebody that has updated that?
because I see that there's some cross-outs,
probably from,
it's an outdated one.
Correct.
So this is from the city's website on the budget.
So it wouldn't,
there are websites still has incorrect names.
Outdated names, should I say?
I thought you can check into it,
but I was just curious,
I was just wondering so if you can check into that because I think that I'm hopefully that with that, you know, our website is updated with the current names right I guess wanted of course this was so since this was from the budget and this was just, you know, I I pulled it from the budget I had previously been approved this is just within a standing document but I do I do see what you're saying I'm not sure whether or not this is housed anywhere other than the budget, but I that is definitely something that I can look at.
to. That would be great. Thank you. And I just want to tell you, thank you for for a really good
presentation. I do have another question for the Lennwood estate, seven homes. Who's the
realtor? Is it the actual owners that are going to be renting these out? And if so, is there a
contact or a process that a residents could, who are interested they can contact and maybe get their
applications in. Yes, so I'm not sure about the realtor that they are going to eventually use,
but there is a point of contact. His name is Alexander, and the Lennwood Estates is the title
of the company. So you can go to lennwoodestates.com. You can type it in right here. Lennwoodestates.com,
and then either you can reach out to me and I can put you in contact with Alexander or
On here, there might be a way to locate a contact info there, too.
I'm not sure if they've chosen an actual realtor yet.
When is the anticipated date for completion?
I don't have the actual anticipated date for completion.
They are just on track.
According to what the requirement was when we had sold the property,
was within the 18 months of that contract was signed.
I appreciate it. So when we do find out the
information, it would be nice to put this on our website because I know that housing is so hard to
come by here in Bursu and I would love for us to be transparent on this so that those that are
interested can apply and find out what the process is with the deadline is, et cetera.
So thank you
the office, that's exciting to hear that, you know, we're going to be offering these.
Is it easily accessible?
The pricing of various offices and, you know, if I wanted to rent an office,
per se, can I go somewhere on our website to look at the different dimensions of the offices and the pricing?
Currently no, so we like it's mentioned here, it was previously managed by a property management company and since the city is taking this over.
We are in the idea phase right now of taking all these ideas where you're saying, you know, we should.
It'd be easier to have it on the website so any other recommendations for this.
This is a great opportunity to hear them and we'll be able to put those in the implementation phase.
So, right now as it stands, no, but it is the intention to make it available where you can look at the different retail spaces, almost as if it's a map.
And then to be able to see the different offices that are available.
We do have the intention of making that available at some point.
But any other recommendations we would love to hear them.
Okay, we still need help.
Thank you so much. One more thing, and then I'll be done.
So, channel six. So, you know, we're, we're looking and I'm excited. We're looking at, you know, potentially first of April, may or may not happen because I think that, you know, we're hopeful. But can you please let everybody know what the hold of us, why it has been taking so long. I think that we own explanation to our, to our residences to why we still are not up on channel six.
Yes, so our IT department has been working with a contractor to be able to update
Channel 6 and to be able to get a little bit more modernized and easier to watch for residents
in their home. We had used some CARES funding to be able to update Channel 6 and when we had
initially applied for that CARES funding it was, I believe the deadline was end of December.
So we had to finish whatever we were doing to the end of December. Then the government realized
that that was maybe a little bit too short of a timeline,
so they extended that.
So our IT department, thinking, you know,
we would be really should put some more time into this
and make sure that we do it right,
given that now we have the time for it.
They have been working with the contractor
to be able to make sure that we have pulled that up to speed
appropriately and adequately to make sure
that the improvements that we're doing
are actually going to be noticed.
So it is a bit of a delay
from what we had initially anticipated just because of the rules changed for some of that
care funding. And our IT department has been working incredibly hard being able to make sure
that this is done right. So that is why that is why there's a little bit of a delay and there
will be a little bit more of a delay until we make sure that everything is done to the us of our
Thank you now. Do we have an update like on our website to say, you know, like an anticipated, you know, date of maybe first of April so that if a resident want, you know, is not watching tonight that they can actually go to our website and they can say, oh, I can find out what's going on with Channel 6.
I don't know. I don't think it's, it's been posted to the website. I know that it's been posted to social media quite a few times, but I don't think that there is a Channel 6 update page.
So, I'm opposed to our website.
There are a few people who post our website right now.
So, each department post our website depends on who is managing it.
And we all kind of take turns on helping each other out.
So, Christina Redsole has actually been a ton of help being able to get some things up.
I have offered my assistance in putting some things up to the website as well.
Anthony has pulled through and helped update the website.
site recently more recently as well. So we can add this definitely. If there is in a channel
section, I forgive me, I don't know if there's a channel 6 page off the top of my head,
but we can most definitely add this there, either as a news item. I can, we'll fluently
we can check it now too. Well, you know, I just recommend that you have a conversation with Dr. Hard
and how he wants to move forward and should come through him, but I was just curious if it was on the
website. I really appreciate you know everything you've done. So thank you.
Of course. Yeah. Thank you.
Let me just chime in with just a couple of things.
The org chart has been updated on the city website.
So if you go to the city website with the org chart, you'll see this updated.
So that is that has definitely been brought forward.
Okay. On the seven homes out and then with the in what the states, I have walked through
those homes myself. I just did that week before last, along with Chris Elder, and they're
right on target and they're making tremendous progress. And there's definitely a guard on do
get night to make sure people go ahead and do what they have done in the past. When it comes
the Harvey House, the Harvey House is a proud on track and the back under the direction of
city staff. It's quite exciting. I was actually out there today.
In contractors last day for the Harvehouse Act, it's Friday. And then as of Friday at the transition, city staff will be lead in charge, and that will be another exciting move, movement for our community.
They really utilize the Harvehouse and the potential behind the historic local site.
the development, the potential development brochure, great job on that, Amanda, and get
then out together.
It had been a long time coming with all the detail information and Amanda had to charge
with that.
I encourage residents to request that and we can get that to them or I can come into the city hall
and it has a available land, potentials of movement forward, it just kind of was on
It's really, the screen is kind of like popped over to it right now, but that brochure, it's a good brochure, and it really gives potential investors and venture cap was kind of over what's happening in Marshall, because we two there are the gross rows of opportunity and the brochure really taps on that because the city of Marshall, and I'm sure in that would agree, we're open for business.
We've never been open for business in a long time, and we want people to really take a second look at Barcelona, because it's all available here.
Great presentation and then thank you.
Thank you.
So if there's nothing else on that, we're going to go to the Treasury Report, and that will be done by our city trader, Mike Lewis.
Now, in the opening of this, Mike was, I didn't want us to write a couple of comments.
If those were then following, we do a treachery report every single month.
And we have, if you've been notice on our reports, you know, something like this, we are
putting it not every month.
And they have, probably have noticed that our available, let's see, it's our available,
discretionary, any book-value and debt service as well as a little discretionary expenditure costs,
the money that we can spend is grown by almost a million dollars in over the last 88 days or so.
And we want to keep our residents. I'll brush some of our financially, so I'm excited to hear
our treasure report. This evening, present by our elected city treasure, Mr. Mike Lewis.
evening Mayor and council members, thank you for having me tonight. Let me share my screen real
quick.
Did it come up?
Yes. Can everybody see that now? Just making sure.
Hello.
How's that sound? Not quite yet. Not quite. All right. Let me let me try something else here.
Did that one show up?
Not quite yet, did Mr. Lewis.
Oh, okay, I'm having technical difficulties in that.
I apologize.
Well, why you're doing that?
I can go and share with the general public as well as the fellow governors and those who are interested.
Today, bills or payables are approved every single week and we do it.
Can we do expenditures for pay bills?
So, just today, we approved 233 bills, per bills, to be paid today,
totaling one million, $190.992, $323, the dollar is at $3,000.
Just so, this is the public record available for our citizens, if you want to know how
we're spending our money, the dollar is at pressure information, and this is done today.
payables of a few every single week, personally, about myself as well as staff, and the
original payable, received approval, received two signatures. One is my signature as mayor,
and one for our city manager Mr. Mike Lewis. So we've keeping an eye on every single penny in nickel,
so we're not to worry about the dollars. So I just want to assure the residents that it's something
really really important to each area one of us that we know where our our our money and our money is going.
How's it going there, Mr. McRoyce? On my end it says that it's live and sharing and you guys see it.
Would you pay a little to send it to Tara and maybe Tara could share for us and with that maybe work?
Not yet. I just email you, Mike, and asked if you wanted to do that.
Do you have to have dual monitors and you have your presentation on the second monitor?
No, I only have one, and like I said, on my side, it's saying that it is actually sharing and I've never experienced this before.
Yeah, and the last two presentations were wonderful.
So I apologize here, give me just one second.
Let me find it in my document so that I can send it to you.
Also, something else I wanted to share with the general public, those who are watching here in my
hand, those who kind of see, this is our agenda for today's meeting. It's hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages. This is the homework that your electric governor
is all of a staff. We're engaged in this on a regular basis to make sure that when we do present
and make decisions and thought that if we do our due diligence as well as a homework to make sure
we'll make an important decision in the best interests of our community. Just to demonstrate once again,
we are making decisions always in the best interests of our community and what's for best for
Moffy treasurer reports to make sure there's no question as to what we're at
Where we've been and what we are going
So how's it looking there Michael? I'm having I'm having technical issues and unfortunately
I'm not there so can't can't run down and help me so give me just a second if you want to go on to the next item
So if it's okay with the governor's we'll come back to the treasurer what was I done before and we're just going over to
item or five on the first
and new grades replacement budget update
and our presenter is the
Mingo.
Does all of us, are you there in the
Mingo?
I am here.
I believe Brad's going to take this one.
Yeah.
Let me see if I can share my screen.
Oh, there's Brad right there.
Why are you doing Brad?
Good, you.
Hey, living a dream.
Can you see my screen?
Yes, I can see your screen.
that's amazing.
It's the most nerve-wracking part of this whole thing used to share your screen.
Yeah, this technology thing is interesting to say at least. So I was thinking we could just
skip on down to the last one and say, is there any questions?
Is there any questions before I get started?
No questions at this point. I don't believe so. No, okay. I'm really excited about this project right here.
It's big deal. I could talk online about this project, but I won't. So the first, the North
First Avenue Bridge replacement projects, we'll just jump right into some some phrases here
that we use a lot of acronyms working with CalTrans. The first one is PE and that's preliminary
engineering phase. You've also heard a term PAD a lot that stands for planning approval
environmental documents phase and then PS&E and that's probably a little bit more
familiar to a lot of people and that's plan specs and an estimate phase and
then the fourth phase would be the the right away phase and then on the
construction. With CalTrans and local assistance it's kind of like a game of
monopoly or a game board you have to get authorization before you can move a
on your project. So first off, you have to request a federal project number, and then we have to
get a request for authorization. They call that an RFA. And you cannot proceed past go before you get your
RFA, or you get the next one, the authorization agreement summary, and these are called E76's.
And that's just another, don't ask me what E76 stands for, but local assistance, you get an E76
for the BAD, for the PS&E, for the right away, and the construction. If you do not get your authorization,
agreement summary, you cannot proceed to the BAD, PS&E, right away, or construction. So I won't
bore you with all that tonight. This is basically our project. It's kind of an aerial view.
Looking down at first Avenue Bridge, you can see the Harvey House there in the middle. Over here,
where my culture is, that's Del Taco on Hudson Sun and first.
This is the old bridge that will stay up during construction
for the two years of construction.
And then the new bridge here goes off to the west
and comes back in a big 800 foot radius.
Then our next project would be the Mojave River Bridge,
which touches down at Hudson Sun.
I'm sorry, at Riverside Drive and Croix.
And then it goes over the river, east of the existing bridge, east of Buzzer Rock.
And then comes back at Irwin Road.
And then there's a third bridge.
A lot of people don't know about that's called the Mauvi River Overflow Bridge.
And that's over here.
So these two are tied together.
The Mauvi River Bridge consists of two bridge structures.
The Mauvi River Bridge and the Mauvi River Overflow Bridge.
So if you put that all together, these are the project numbers for each project as they go through local assistance of CalTrans.
We have the first avenue bridge, which we call the BNSF bridge, then we have the Mojave River Bridge, and then we have the overflow bridge.
And there's a couple of different names that these bridges are called, or called overheads are called Viadux, we won't get into all that tonight.
This is the actual budget that we have showing Cohen back and estimated causes in 2015.
You can see the first avenue bridge, BNSF overhead, was at $50 million in 2015.
Currently, right now, the project is slated at $64 million.
And I, yes, and the escalation on this is a lot of this is there's about seven million dollars in there and financing funds.
And there's a whole history there. We can talk about, but basically each structure is funded by federal money out of the HPP program, which is the highway bridge program.
And we get 88.53% of federal funds and then our match, our 11.47, is coming out of our shared regional major eye money, which we share with San Bernardino County.
So I really don't have a lot of time to get into the numbers but I'll take questions on that and we can come back to it.
Let me just kind of give you a little schedule.
We started this project in 2012, actually 2011, 2012, working on the first street bridge.
We started with the PAD, which is a planning approval and engineering documents in 2013.
We've been working on that. We were delayed on that on the first 70 bridge for 22 months on one noise study.
One noise study took 22 months to complete in which got the results of that noise study with a one page letter that said do nothing.
Again, I could spend hours talking about this project, but I'll move on.
We are in the right away.
Where the red line is here, where my cursor is, that's kind of where we are right now with the two projects.
Based on our old schedule, we were supposed to be under construction by now, with a completion in 2022, as you can see, we are looking at maybe the end of this year for construction, definitely this year for construction on the railroad work, the mitigation work, actually the right away work.
And then it is a two to three year project and we're looking at the end of 2024 for the completion of the first bridge, the BNSF overhead.
The Mojave River Bridge, we're in the preliminary engineering phase right now.
We have completed the PAD and we're moving towards the actual E76 for the right away in the PS&E.
But we are being held up based on going back to the original RFA, the request for authorization.
We haven't got a request for authorization for funds to be moved for the actual work to continue.
So we're kind of like in a circling pattern on the Mojave River Bridge project right now.
going back to the BNSF project that overhead.
This is kind of an overlay of all the right-of-weigh
acquisitions that we've had to do.
The pink here is construction temporary construction
easements that we have to acquire from the railroad.
And we have completed the actual construction
and maintenance agreement with BNSF that's taken over
three years to complete.
We are at the process now where you guys approved it
last council meeting, SPCTA approved it in their last board meeting, and BNSF is now getting
it signed. So as soon as they get that signed, we will have that under our belt,
which is a long time coming. So this green area here, we pretty much have
All the property and the stuff here from the city and we can talk about right away acquisitions and orders of possessions and determine of anyway.
These are some of the homes here that we took down. We actually acquired these got right a possession of them and then did as best as statement on them and then actually had them demolished.
Here's another look at the old Martin garage crossing in Del Taco and you can see some
cottages down here.
We had a lot of problems with code enforcement and that these are all torn down now and
that was all paid through through the project and we're now in the process of trying to
get all the funding on that cleared up with our requests for authorizations.
Moving right along the bridge replacement, the design features of the new bridge is kind
cross section of a concrete box girder. It's post tensioning. So after the bridge is poured,
they come in with big cables and tension the bridge and it kind of lifts out of the forms.
But it's a 800 foot radius. We're going to have an eight foot sidewalk on one side with guard
rails protecting the pedestrians from the traffic.
It will be built parallel to the old bridge and
will be able to maintain access throughout the construction. And then once we shift traffic onto
this new bridge, the old bridge will then be demolished. The old bridge has to be removed because
of several issues and we'll talk about that in another slide here. This is kind of a profile look
of the new bridge over the railroad and this is just a plan view showing the lanes and the configuration
And there will be two 12 foot lanes, two eight foot shoulders.
So if you break down on the bridge, you can pull over to the side and you won't be blocking
traffic.
And there'll also be an eight foot sidewalk and then right here in the middle we're trying
to build an outlook where people can walk out to it and sit out there and a lawn chair if they
want to carry it out there with them and look at the change for a while.
That's one of the nice features of the bridge we'll talk about with our additional funding.
So the replacement of the bridge, the existing bridge must be removed.
It's no longer needed.
It's a public safety issue.
The continued maintenance and cost on the bridge.
You can talk to our public works.
Cruise on how they have to go down there and tighten up the shins on the forms and its a liability.
So currently this is what is holding up the bridge when I started on this project in 2011 we had a weight limit on the bridge.
We had a seven ton weight limit, our fire trucks were having a hard time going across it.
We came in and put in a false work which what you're looking at right here is the latest set of false work that our public works crew put in.
our public works crew, not a contract source, came in, put in the false work under engineering
direction and jacked it up and this is what is taken the bridge from a efficiency rating of
a 2 out of 100 to a 37 right now. So this is one thing that we go down, you can see some of the
shims here that we have to go in and tighten every month. The crew came up with some innovative
of mechanical tight wedges here that seem to be working pretty good.
Some of the architectural features of the project, we're trying to tie the bridge into the
Harvey House with its architecture so that when we're done this bridge looks nice.
We're looking at on the abutments, putting some sculpture that kind of matches the Harvey
House sculptures, maybe some archwork and all this stuff is in design right now.
We we have decided on on this circle floating here and and that's actually in the plans right now and we're working on this cornerstone look.
Also we're going to be putting some nice lights on the bridge that kind of match the Harvey house.
These are going to be built custom to match the Harvey house and these will be along the the traveled way along the pedestrian walkway.
And these are some of the architectural features on the Harvey House that we're trying to incorporate into the bridge.
It's kind of a nice touch.
Then there's a big retaining wall looking back at the area of B.B. Hill where we tore down the Martins mechanic shop.
There is a retaining wall in there and we're looking at putting some art on that retaining wall.
And this is some artwork that the Domingo spent a lot of time on fancy and it up and we're
hoping to do this, we were hoping to do this in the concrete work on the wall, but our
latest estimate was a million dollars and we've scrapped that because those funds aren't
eligible for federal funding. So we're going to be looking at trying to do something maybe out
of laser cut metal and mounting it to the wall instead of trying to port in the concrete.
But this is one of our designs that we're looking at and we'll be bidonet.
So tonight on the consent agenda is a section 190 grade separation grant funding that we're asking to be approved.
And basically we have filled out all the paperwork and we are on the list.
I think we're number 23 out of 26.
Basically, the California Public Utilities Commission gives away, it's a grant, a $15 million
year, and it will award $5 million to each project every year, so as long as we get on the
list and we meet these five requirements, we can get that money allocated.
That money, since we're the ones that put together the grant, comes to the city of Barcelona,
is our share of the project. And hopefully this five million will help pay for those fancy
lights. They look out and the artwork on the bridge which are not eligible by the federal fundee.
So the environmental document is completed. We did get our her E76 on that. The main
disagreement here, the public highway overpass crossing agreement with BNSF that, like I said,
you guys voted on that and that's getting signed right now. We do have the CPUC order authorizing
the alteration, the GO808B, we do have that. And the last one is a resolution note in that the
city has matching funds to complete the construction. That is on the agenda tonight on the consent
agenda and that will then be sent on to SBCTA. There's a lot of things I haven't talked about here
tonight, and I'll try to bring that up in questions that we go along because of the size
of this project and the three different bridges that are involved in here, we are well
over a $20 million project and we have to have what they call a high cost agreement with
CalTrans for us to carry on this project. That was kind of like a block wall that we hit
on this project as we went along. The federal government let us know that we had to fund
project on our own and then get it reimbursed. When we were in that meeting we concluded that
there's going to be some delays as a project because we do not have the means to carry the
funding on this project. So we've entered into a cooperation agreement with San Bernardino County
Transportation Authority, SBCTA, and they have the the means to carry this project out and they will
be the ones putting this project out the bed, bed, and construction, and carry the cash flow.
And we have already been working with SBCTA with the agreements in place. They have already selected
a construction management firm to manage this. And I'm sure you've read about that in the article
that was in the paper here a couple of weeks ago, a week ago. That's another 5.9 million dollar
part of this project that a firm will come in and manage the construction for SBCTA in the city.
So with that, I don't have anything else to say, but I'll answer your questions if I can.
I'll turn it over to you and I'll shut up.
Well, a grata, you know, once I just want to say congratulations on moving this project forward.
and for definitely having us having a great relationship with the SBTCA, the Serminal County,
Serminal County, Transit Authority, I guess you used to be called Sambag.
Now, it's got a new new name and for them to step up and to carry the financial burden up front.
I must admit, just tonight I was surprised to see that that 54 million with the 54 million and relatively short time, you know, since 2012 and now we're at 21 so it's like, you know, it is what it is.
But one thing, Ray Wiff and the other, what members at the SBTA, which I actually said is
of what members also, they're definitely committed to making this happen in Barsha.
No question about it. Yes, they are. They've been in a huge help. Oh, they're just
unbelievable. And they're here when the meetings take place. Barsha comes up in conversation
on a regular basis, so that they're just as excited almost as we are on making this thing really
happen. And I'm looking forward to, you know, I'm not trying to speed up the year, but you know,
2021, you know, we'll definitely be another great year here in Marshall,
really see that, that bridge, just want to see the dirt move. Even if it just moves us a little bit,
We know it's moving forward.
So definitely congratulations to you and your farm and Mingo and staff.
Everybody, that's been working on this since 2012.
And now it's here.
That's right.
There I have a couple of questions.
Yes, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Thank you.
So so Brad, I have a couple of questions.
And I think that it just basically goes back to,
I mean, it's exciting that we're going to be joined in the new bridge, I think this is just a wonderful opportunity as long as we have, you know, those partnerships for the funding and that we're moving forward, but it's it's it's been extended to out to 2026 I so 2024 24 26 with the with the and again that's that that's a that's a testament right now.
Okay. And so, you know, not taking away the excitement to have any new bridge, but I am concerned because you, I mean, it was alarming for me to, you know, when you talked about the public safety and I've heard through the great line about the tightening of that woodwork or whatever that thing is called under the bridge.
So my question would be, you said we went from a three
at 100 to a 30 is what you just said on the safety of it.
So my question is, because that's a warming to me.
At, you know, are a, do, who's doing the inspection on that?
Is it internal or do we have an external expert coming in to do an inspection?
Because at what point in time will it be to where we, we should have be using it?
If it is a liability, you will set word this evening.
If it's a liability, at one point at what point in time, do we actually, you know, stock traffic from going over it, and can it be sustained on tiny to monthly, you talk about it monthly till 202426. That is alarming to me. So can you explain that?
Sure. So this efficiency rating takes in a lot of factors. One is the structural integrity and a big portion of it is the geometric of the bridge.
This bridge, if it was structurally sound, would only get a sufficiency radio about a 60,
yet it's most because it's such a narrow bridge and it doesn't meet the safety factors
for guardrails and the geometric on the bridge. Because it had a sufficiency rating of 2 was alarming
because that meant the structural integrity of it was almost gone. But now when we put the
the false work underneath and that was done with an engineer and inspection of an engineer
and all this false work is inspected by engineers all the time and the bridge is safe.
But when we did do the false work, it shoved it up to a 57 and it's crap back down to a 37
and for reasons, you know, they have the state structural engineer comes out and we shut down
traffic and they get lifts out there and they go over the bridge and they look at it. And
it, like I said, it has more to do with the geometric than just the instructional integrity on it.
But there is no weight limit on the bridge right now. I only fear with this bridge right now
as if it caught fire. You'd want to get off of it because it's all timber right now.
But other than that, it's safe. Is there a plan for the weight limit to moving forward knowing that
We're at a 57.
Well, right now there's nothing wrong with this bridge going to be, it's not going to be falling down. It's structurally sound. I mean, this false work that we put here that's on the screen right now that was because we were getting excessive deflections.
And a lot of it was due to the pavement on the road surface and we went out there and we paved the road surface.
This bridge is caught fire several times, sparks get down into the asphalt in between the cracks and there's a wood deck.
You can see the wood deck in this picture.
There's actually a concrete slab and then there's wood below it and that wood catches fire every now and then.
And our fire department keeps going out there and putting it out.
Like they're supposed to do.
So...
I don't want to say it's unsafe. I mean, it's been this way for years. I remember growing up on this bridge and writing my bicycle across it and you took your hands in your life in your hands with a bicycle out there because it's not very friendly for pedestrians.
So I thank you for saying that it's safe because it's a swallow that you told me that the public
was a public safety issue. So it was a alarming saying if it went from a three to now to a
30 of a hundred. So it's sounding better right now. So how often do the inspectors or the
engineers come out to review it? Do they come on a monthly basis? You know, I am so concerned
and we have public works crews down there inspecting it monthly, but our engineers probably look at
but two, three times a year.
Is that sufficient, or should we be having them come out a little more often?
No, you're plenty good. You're plenty good.
There's so much redundancy in the false work that we have underneath there.
Yeah, you could have several columns of wedges fall out. You'd still be fine.
But that we don't let that happen.
Yeah, public works was down there every month,
inspecting and tightening the wedges was needed.
One of the reasons it's a liability to us, it's because it's over the three main lines
of BNSF's, they're really hard.
So if this was Bridge was the fall down on their tracks, I think the estimated cost during
peak season is about 30 to 40 grand per hour that we would be build for holding up their
trains.
So this is a bridge we have a license to go over their facility if it was the fall down
their facility would be our liability. And that's the reason it's a liability. I mean, there's
there's many liabilities out there, but that's for the main liability. We just can't leave the
bridge up after it after we get the new bridge built. Thank you. There are I have a couple of questions.
Sure. Go ahead. Go ahead. I'll come tomorrow. So you mentioned the 22 month delay for the noise element
for the park crossing the classification park.
So should we have concerns crossing the river regarding wetlifts?
So our big issue on the Mojave River was not,
it was the environmental issue and it did hold us up a bit.
But it wasn't on the wetlands.
There is no wetlands on the Mojave River Bridge.
but there was a lot of issues over with a colleague, a trash scatter, an old dump that was on the
east side of Erwin Road from Jack's Cafe. And Jack's Cafe was right there up against Buzzard Rock
and it's the one that the water tanks on the hill there. So there was a lot of argument. We went through
multiple reviews. I think we were at seven or eight in Mingga, I can't remember, but I think it was like
our seven, the very review, finally of the same stuff that we finally were able to get the clearance
on the environmental. And that came to an agreement that we're going to have inspectors out there
during construction to sit through the trash gather.
And for a when it might be watching for
the first time that we've been on this for a long time, I might even take it back to before 2012.
Well, if you can explain to the public how we came to chose the choose of a case.
That's the never-win question.
Okay, yeah, there's a lot of, this is the final alignment that was chosen.
We had several alignments.
I don't have those up where you can see them, but we had an alignment that went out here and
straight across the Mojave River to Erwin Road, connecting with Radio Road.
That was another alignment.
We had barster road extending and then coming back around.
This alignment that we came up with by far is the most cost effective way.
I mean, the project going down barster road and across the river,
it wasn't the cost of the building that we had to buy, it wasn't the cost of.
It was the cost of getting over the railroad tracks and the river at that location.
that added over a hundred million dollars to the project. And we just could not do it.
This at the time when we did the study was only a thirty million dollar option versus over a hundred.
It was like a hundred and thirty million to go down Barsal Road.
The other alignment going straight out here, the river is wider. If you can notice where the bridge is now,
It's protected by buzzer rock and it keeps the channel and that's one of the reasons
there's an overflow bridge is that the water can't fit through that narrow channel and
so it has to overflow around cross first avenue and then on through this other bridge.
So this is the most economical crossing of the Mojave river because of the flow is narrowed right there.
If we were to put the bridge in front of Bussert Rock, it would be, you're looking at $30, $40,
$50 million more because it's all based on the span of the bridge. So this was the most economical
place to cross here for the Mojave River and this was the most economical place to cross at the railyard.
So those two combinations plus with the Harvey House, we didn't want to lose the connection to the
in the two streets, crooks, and river side.
This is kind of the alignment that we went through
probably 10 different alignments, different configurations.
On this one here we had probably three or four different configurations on this
when we settled on this one.
And that was all done through a VA study and a lot of the stuff
to mingle participated and going down to local assistance
and working through a lot of this stuff.
But that's kind of a nutshell why we ended up with this
alignment here. Thank you, they just go so far back. Thank you to update that. So thank you very much. That's all there.
Thank you. Thank you.
The language I'd like to add anything to to I have number five as we transition in item number six.
Then we'll come back and do the traffic report.
I'd like to reinstate what Brett says. The liability is really leaving the existing bridge there.
There's a lot of maintenance and upkeep that would cause a light bulb to the city if
If the bridge was to remain because it was discussion about making it a pedestrian bridge and everything
But it's a really costly
expenditure if if that would take place
And like Brad said there was about five different designs just with our current
Consultant to do
uh, pick out the design. Uh, that's about it. Okay.
Okay.
I'll just make her if I may ask a question.
Go ahead.
That's a woman.
Bruce.
Thank you.
Um, Mr. Merrill.
So is the elevation of the new bridge a little bit higher than the existing bridge?
It, uh, well, the new bridge won't have the trust system on it.
So, but the deck where you're traveling is about at the same height.
It might be a little bit higher because it is a box cutter.
But you know, I've never really studied it that much,
but it will probably be, it'll look like it's about the same height.
Okay, look, I like the softer curve going over the bridge.
And if I can add, if I recall in one of the open house
of the study sessions that they had on the bridge
and they discussed going over where you were talking about going to west of buzzard rock
and coming in on borderland road. If I'm not mistaken, they said that only part of a part of
the bridge then would be funded. We were funding for and the remainder would have to come out of the
city, which again, as you were saying, was 30 to 50 million at that time, and that was just
just not very realistic. The span to go over the river was massive and so that didn't make any sense.
Yeah, the way the funding source looks at this is that they look at the shortest distance that you cross that object or that river that train track and anything beyond that you have to pay for.
Correct. I do remember that coming up at one of those meetings.
So, okay, no, no, I was just curious on the elevation because I do remember at one of the meetings that when Hill side like the apartments that are right there, they were concerned about maybe Claire, but that was also also a dress about I believe some kind of protective shields just in case there wasn't a glare from any headlights coming over the bridge and going into their properties.
but I think that was addressed and never became an issue.
So that was my only comment.
It's going to be exciting when we get started on that.
Yes, this will be very exciting.
And if I'm not mistaken though, what's in the first phase actually going to be the smaller,
the smaller bridge there, and then the actually second phase was going to be the actual bridge over the track.
or was that a it seems like I thought that that was going to be the first part and then the
second part was actually going to be the bridge over the tracks. Now the first phase would
build two apartments on each side and put the bridge over the tracks and then once that was built
then then we would tear down the old bridge and then go to the next phase. Right and yeah that next phase
would start somewhere in here actually right here this this is the second phase here and we're trying
to get these two combined into one project,
because you can't really build one without the other.
Correct. Correct.
Okay, that was my only questions. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
Councilwoman Cruz as well as Councilman Salah.
If there's nothing else,
I'm going to go ahead and go ahead and add
to the Active Transportation Program
that ATP presentation to make up.
Mayor, did you want to go back to your financial report?
You know, since we're already on the track, we're going to do six, they will come back to
for you.
Okay.
Spare with me.
I've got to share my screen just like every else.
Are you going to see in a PowerPoint or are you seeing icons?
I guess the whole bunch of senior Minion, or there we go.
Is there?
All right.
So, thank you, Mayor Council members and staff and public, tonight I am pleased to inform
that the city received an email. No saying that we will be awarded a grant that we applied for
for $6.9 million. Congratulations. Yes, very excited. Congratulations. Yeah. The city will be
responsible for our local match about $496,000 dollars, but that will come from our
measure I or SB1 funds to me our match.
This grant helps the city achieve goals,
not only of active transportation,
but further addresses complete streets requirements,
a healthier bar still and also reducing accidents,
which is a big emphasis right now in all the meetings I tend.
In cycle one, we were actually awarded a grant,
And we made a plan for our active transportation plan.
That plan was actually used to get a word of this grant of cycle five.
And what I'm going to do tonight is kind of give you a brief overcome of what active transportation is.
And the grant that we're going to be awarded.
So, the same vision was to make see vibrant where people want to walk by school and do
alternate methods of transportation and spend more time in the areas.
Make it safer for the children and parents to schools, shops, restaurants and other
destinations here in Barsdale.
The goals were primary folks on safety.
We want to make sure that there was no accidents that we enhanced all the traffic elements that we can to make
pedestrian and bicycle easier in bar still and safer.
We want to look at the connectivity and access points in this throughout the city where people
coming and where people going. We definitely want to increase the health in bar still and the quality in
So whether you're older, young, no matter what race you are, or age, you would have the same
aspects.
We wanted to create something that we can keep up and use forever. And of course,
like I said before, we want people to stand more so little bit longer and enjoy the areas.
So if you can make people stay in the downtown area, walking there or bicycling,
There's reports that prove that the economic development increases.
So one part of the aspect was that we talked to a lot of people in Barcelona.
We found out where they started from and where were they going and they created this map.
Through this we had public meetings and surveys and also we went out to the events.
So we actually went out to the people.
We went to the schools.
We went out to this is the Main Street car show that we went to.
We actually set up demonstration of tracks and curb extensions,
and what happened is,
through all of the studies, it came out with a given us a report of where people were
walking or where some of the corridors should be for bicycles and pedestrians.
So on cycle five, we've really focused on these following roads. There were mainly safe routes to schools. So was armory road, barster road, florist street, matera road, bound view, burial drive, and rimrock. And the next slides will show you kind of what we're talking about in those areas.
So in Army row, we're concentrating on, this is by the junior high, we're going to upgrade all the crosswalks to the more visible ladder type, the ones around the school be all, the one over there in the residential area will be white, but we're also going to put speed limit science so we can lower down the speeds.
We're also going to redo all the science and make sure that people know that there's pedestrians or students much cross.
On our rear and Higgins, we've had a lot of requests and lot of concerns from the parents that there was no controls for Higgins and people were getting close to the end of the students.
So, what we're proposing is actually to make the crosswalk shorter by doing a ball
belt, which is, if you see my arrows right here, or painted, but painted they still
drive through.
When you actually construct it, it actually makes the crosswalk shorter, and it makes
it safer.
One of the other elements is this is an actual activated flashing beacon, so as soon as you
click on that. It flashes like this and works the drivers that there are somebody across in
the street. It only is flashing when somebody activates the button.
On Barsco Road we want to
make it a consistent pathway from downtown all the way up to Virginia way and also address
Remrock. We want to make sure that the crosswalks are visible and actually show a corridor so
When you're walking, you know that you're on a walking corridor, and we'll be addressing
all the curb ramps, making sure it's ADA compliant.
On floor history, we want to make the passing shorter.
Again, we're going to make a bulb out and also put the flashing lights so that the students
go into the defined art school now has a safer way to get across and that they're alerted
that they're suddenly crossing the road.
And of course, like on floor history and all the way to the high school, again, we're going to make sure that all the crosswalks are repainted with the safety or the most current crosswalks, standards, and make it really define pedestrian corridor.
On my chair of school, this has been one of our biggest requests, is addressing the kids crossing
across not my chair. And what we're proposing there is what's called a hot system or like
hot system. This is actually a traffic signal light that's only activated when the students
press the button. And across you push the button, it goes yellow and then goes red. The students can
process but it only activates the single light when somebody pushes the button so it doesn't
impact the traffic the rest of the time when the students are not using that or or off throughout
the day. Again we're looking at ball bouts to make the crossing shorter. We're enhancing all the
signs we're playing crosswalks in to just make it another corridor safe for the kids and the parents.
Now, in view, it's going to be a corridor all the way from
basically Florida all the way down to Main Street.
Again, we're going to make sure that all the crosswalks are indicated.
Speed signs are put by the high school.
Hock system is actually being proposed right there on Mount Vernon and
in the high school where the students cross.
And that would also address the STEM school,
a county where they can cross safely through a traffic single type system.
You
know, drive. It's a part of the corridor again. We're talking about bulb outs and redoing the crosswalks with speed limit signs,
slorn down people by the school.
And again, right there by the school, it's Carson and across from
Tamasko, there's going to be a bulb out to make the crossing shorter and also to slow down the traffic.
Real Drive, we're talking about doing the speed limits, the signs, and then all the ramps and crosswalks.
And then Rim Rock Road is being one of my biggest complaints and one of the works I've been working on with grants for a while is the students cross Rim Rock Road.
They are very hard to see, even the crossing guard is very hard to see one that people are driving there.
And the speeds are quite high, even though we've tried to do many measures to slow them down, they actually drive pretty fast there.
So the Hawksystem there is a preventive measure to try to keep the students and parents and guardians safe.
Mary, it was the same thing, we're just making sure we have all the crosswalks and making it a pedestrian corridor.
But through this grant, we're also talking about bicycle improvements.
We want to increase the students' rights to schools.
And then we also have a lot of citizens that are right bikes, but they say they don't feel comfortable.
So we're trying to address that through the different type of pathways.
So barcial right now and this proposal we're going to have class 2 and class 3 type
bicycle lanes.
A class 1 is completely dedicated where it's off the side of the road and it's dedicated
for a bicycle pass.
I type 2 is kind of a dedicated bike lane, it's painted on the side but it's still sharing
the roadway. Type 3 actually shares the roadway with the vehicles but it's indicated by the
share sign and then we're going to have to educate the citizens about what's the sign
mean because it's kind of a new sign so we're going to do an educational process and it's part
of the grant and then plus 4 in the future we're looking at doing a class 4 but that is really a
operation, where it's either by a median or put in billboards in, where the cars are separated
from any of the bicyclists.
And then finally, we're also looking at bike facilities.
So you might have seen these around town, they're actually bike racks.
We just had a grant for these, and we got it to be a little bit more artistic.
So there's eight signs on Route 66.
So each of our science represents a state and with of course with our Route 66 concepts.
But we also installed some bike repair stations so when the people are riding through Barstone,
they have a place to repair their their bicycles.
And then if a lot of people don't know this but even at Walmart when our development comes in
and we're asking them to put facilities to enhance the bicycle riding.
So, warmer actually has some bike lockers.
Those are bike lockers. You can actually put your bike in them and lock it up while you're going shopping.
I didn't know that.
In the future, the trend is being able to rent bikes or scooters and to encourage the more active life.
So, we're looking at the big picture and then taking a little bice to improve the city to enhance all the elements.
That concludes my presentation about the grant that we're about to receive if I'm here to answer in questions and answer in questions you may have.
Well first, I just want to say congratulations to our staff and congratulations to you, Chris,
letter from the 6.9 main on a grant for this specific undertaking.
I just want to acknowledge
a couple of things that there's been some perhaps misunderstandings on how the grants work
in quote reimbursement. And I'll just use this explanation on the on the on the private sector site.
You know, as a contractor, you know, we are actually always writing bids, and then we get the bids, and we re-a Congratulations.
And then we went for the money to, to basically get reimbursed in the cost that we acquire from staffing, and so on and sometimes it will take us 30 days, 40 days, 45 days, 60 days.
of the 90 days for the money that's coming in. And then now on the municipal site, it's basically
called reimbursements, but on the private sector, it's called the cost of doing business.
And so it's refreshing to learn that especially here specifically in the city of Barcelona,
that are grant lighting staff, as well as our growing barcial staff understands that basic principle of doing business.
And so when you hear me say often, the city of barcial is open for business, we really are.
And I would definitely encourage that we continue to acquire these, quote, grants, but in the private sector, called Beds, and sometimes, you know, we'll get awarded and we just simply can't afford to take it.
And so we passed it, we passed it up.
But it does not prevent us from a grocery going after these, these, these Beds on the private sector.
And it doesn't prevent progress of cities going after the grants on the missiles on the
missile site.
So, I understand, thanks to you, thank you, and I'm going to speak on the missile site.
I've been blessed with the ability to visit lots of progress in cities, and it's called
California Distinguished Cities, and they have a full grant-writing department, and they accept
about 75% of the grass that we see because, you know, oftentimes, they can't afford all of them,
but, you know, to hear that we're getting these grants into our CD, it's like a really good thing.
It's a really good thing, and I just want to say congratulations, congratulations, and congratulations,
and that's my commitment to this site 6.9 million dollars. Where do you go?
That's my setting five cents. Anybody else?
Yes, Mr. Nobles.
Good presentation and I look forward to all the improvements as we move forward.
I also have we continue to look into the wheelchair accessible when we talk about these improvements
and so forth, because we have had increased wheelchairs within our city, especially along
Barcelona, Rome Rock, where I am pretty much located most of the time, but I know it is
increased throughout the city of Barcelona, so have we continued to look at those items
as well as proved much for as we move forward.
Yes sir.
Matter of fact, if on one of my presentations here,
all of Worcester Road, we're looking at all the AD ramps
on that to address them and get constructed
with this ground on Worcester Road.
And I believe Mountain View and Rim Rock,
I'm not sure if we're hitting every single one,
but that is part of the consideration
of this amount on this ground is to address those,
make it more pedestrian friendly for the people with disabilities and that was one big component of this grant.
That's the cost is is taken off the existing ramps and then put in these new AD ramps.
Yeah.
Okay.
I appreciate it.
Thanks.
Just on the ADA, many of you have noticed in the City of Barcelona as we speak right now,
all the state accessible on and off ramps, freeways, as well as major throwways.
They are on the construction.
As we speak right now, they are all being updated to be ADA compliant.
We will take accessible, etc.
So I would definitely encourage that you have not driven through our City of Barcelona.
So it is actually taking place as we speak.
I actually spoke to a couple of the private counter engineers,
because I was just curious as what they were going.
They clearly indicated that all of the on-off ramps
that are under the state jurisdiction could say
will be finished by the end of next month,
that actually by the first of May,
they said all of them should be completed.
And it was just refreshing to see that that's that's taking place and that is a great question
if you brought up a Councilman Dave Zumbles because the other state is on top of it and the
great thing is we are too. So thank you. Councilman doubles for that inquiry and once again thank
you the Mingo for your hard work along with our engineering department and staff. Thank you all.
Great presentation.
Supply, I want more things.
I would like to thank Desert Discovery Center, Barbara Rose, and then also the Safe Routes partnership.
And the county health, they all partnership into this grant to make this grant happen.
So the education part is going to be probably done with the county.
Health and also desert discovery. So I didn't want to leave them out. They've been a big part of this grant and it takes several entities to make the grant successful.
Yes, most definitely. Thank you. Yeah. Great. I have one question. Please, if I may with for to me go.
So, are we going to be doing the work ourselves?
city? Yes, this is a grant to us, so we will have to go through a whole process if we have to
part of it is actually designing it, we're part of this money is goes to design, but we have to follow
the protocols, we have to go out to bid, we have to do interviews and the valuations of the
the consultants, submit it, get approval from account trans. So even though we got the grant right now,
It's probably going to be about two years before we actually see the construction,
because of all the protocols that we have to go through.
But it will be a city project.
Okay. All right. Thank you.
Thank you all for that. So with that, we're going to go see the treasure either.
Michael Lewis, uh, agenda item number four. Michael Lewis are either.
Here I am. Okay. Beautiful. Okay. And number five.
All right. It's going to share my screen good evening again.
Sorry about that miss hat for earlier.
On page one here is our memorandum.
This just basically goes through and summarizes
cash holding right now with 6.1,
almost $6.2 million and like the mayor pointed out,
we have been increasing that.
Do you wanna caution against that?
Again, this is a bird tech and with our utility billing.
Finance department has been working very hard
to get that paid up with the computer programs and things like that. So of that cash holding
and I believe Heidi and I talked about this today. We're about $400,000 would be the account
payable part that would be going to vertex out of that just so that you're all aware.
So the total available for you guys to have discretionary spending on right now is literally the
$6.2 million minus the AP-2 bird tech.
Tars, you could put up screen two, please.
On here, you can see cash and union bank
is $4 million.
Our local agency, which is our life account,
is still $2.1 million.
We've added on the side there what we make on that,
0.458%, which is crazy, but it's better than nothing.
And Petty Cash that we have at City Hall of $1,940,
gives us our total available cash of almost $6.2 million.
Again, the $1.83,000 is the amount held by the third party
to pay off our trip financing, which is coming up in May.
So that will be gone, as far as we won't be over our head anymore,
to pay that will be completely paid off and if you could go on to page, oh I'm sorry,
on back one more second, Tara, thank you. At the bottom again, the 20% and the 5%
emergency reserve, of course that has not changed. We are doing very well, we only need 4.4
and we have right at 7.2 currently. So we are in good shape there, page 3 place Tara,
And here is all of our fun balances.
There was a question today about the money from trash and the trash portion that we collect.
And that actually goes into account number 650, the solid waste disposal fund.
About three quarters of the way down on the page.
I misspoke last time when I said I went into the general fund.
It actually goes into the 6.5 O.O. account, so that's where that lies right now.
See, these numbers all tie back into the front page of our $7.2 million total.
That's the end of my presentation. Any questions or comments?
Well, I just want to say thank you. Thank you, Michael Lewis, for this monthly treasure report.
very much appreciate it. I just want the local residents and then getting to this and know
that we'll be reporting every single month, so people know actual infrastructures, so we don't,
you know, they depend on hopefuls and emotional moments. I see you, thank you, Michael.
I see Heidi, Heidi Riley on the screen, but Heidi?
Yeah. Yes. Did you want to, did you want to add anything?
Oh, I was just going to add what Michael said just to further clarify, I'm sorry Michael, but just payments that we receive for sewer and trash go to 605 and 650, but
BERTEC payments specifically come out of 650.
Okay, perfect.
Thank you for those there.
And just one thing for you, Mayor and Council Member, the report does run as you can see.
This is the January report.
We're always about two months behind and I should say behind but by the time we get our bank statements and all of our documentation so that we can prove it.
So yeah, we're operating on one level but we're always reporting a few months back just to make sure that we do actually fully balance with our GL side and our bank accounts and any bonds or anything that we're carrying.
So with that, I have nothing else.
So if there are any questions, happy to answer.
So with that, great presentation.
Thank you, CD Treasure, Mr. Michael Lewis,
as well as the Finance Department here
at the Senior Barcloth.
Thank you.
So Dr. Hart, I believe you're out there.
We're now going to the public here in part.
It says, let's go ahead and be done.
Call on the presenter, okay?
So it is, this is 909, we're going, we're open up, we're open up public hearing on each
one of the items that's one, two, and three of that correct, Dr. Hart.
Right, we have item number seven, is the public hearing on the protest hearing on the
the first reading of the ordinance, reclassifying 7th Street, or 7th Avenue's property,
which is a project that was discussed a little bit earlier by Amanda, but the housing
project.
Then we have item number nine, which is the CDBG CV3 prioritization project, so it'd be appropriate
now to ask the city clerk if she has any public comments and then for you to go ahead and open the public hearing.
That's four public comments for item seven. Okay, so there's four public comments for item seven. Okay.
So this is um Jessica wait were you going to do the presentation?
Yes sir. Okay, just just keep it in mind. Our our public comments falls are
public comment, protocols, our city court will state the number of public comments,
as she then provides a copy of the public comments to all the governors, however,
no public comments are right out loud.
Okay. So, Jessica, we have four public comments on this.
Okay.
All right, so, so hello again, Mayor Council members, this item is being brought forward
pursuant to the Varsomeness Book Code to conduct a protest hearing for proper owners who have
been notified about the intent to lean their property as a result of unpaid trash and
sewer.
These births took waste acting as the city's billing agent for the billing period of March
1, 2020 through October 31, 2020 has mailed individual notices to each property owner of record
having a delinquent account.
Additionally, the notice of hearing was published
in the daily press on February 27, 2021.
Staff's recommendation is to conduct the hearing
and subject to testimony received to adopt the resolution
with the reading and providing injection to staff
to resolve any conflicts with protest owners
before the final lien list attached
is filed with San Rino County.
That is all I have.
Okay. Well, I certainly hope that our general public, our residents do understand, there is
no intent of the city of Barcelona municipality to track a better term to punish anyone for
not being able to meet their obligations, which they volunteer to sign up to undertake.
often times especially many individuals will forget fall will be high and
where the case may be and we all do understand that we are right now
come off the quote United States at COVID-19 and all the things that we've been
faced we've faced in 2020 and we're still kind of facing them in 2021. I call them
trials and tribulations. So we've been going through many trials and many tribulations. And I, and I just, what I want to assure the general public and the engaged citizens that we are committed to educate them and to inform them, the more important to work with anybody who may be going through some challenging times.
And at the same time, I'd be want to thank our vendor for being on top of a very
response period to notify those who are obligated to take care of obligations that they
voluntarily accept them.
So thank you for the reading Jessica and we will definitely take a look at every one of the
fair and put it decision, which is the best interest of everyone, and always what's best
from Marshal. Thank you.
Yes, sir. Thank you.
I had a number eight.
Mr. Mayor, before you came to the bottom of my number seven, then you did all the work we need.
That's right. We got to do a motion in that. Okay. That's right. That's right.
And before you take the motion, that's right.
That's right. And before you take the motion, that's right.
That's right.
I would add that if we can pull item partial number 760 and have staff work with them on a plan.
And there was another item, item number, I believe it was item number 23 however, the item doesn't match the actual
names and I can't find it nowhere else on the property list. So if we can pull those two items and have staff, we look at those two items.
Excuse me, I need some clarification from Council. Was the public hearing open?
Yes.
Thank you, Governor.
Let me finish a couple of points on that.
As noted, we are in the Zoom time under the pandemic rules as approved by the governor's executive orders.
As such, the city has been taking public comments by email.
Up until the close of the public hearing, the public hearing is still open.
We will close it.
The mayor will be closing shortly before moving to council deliberation.
At this time, I'll ask the city clerk or Ms. Ratzel to confirm that all emails received until this moment in time
have been provided to the city council and in particular to identify if any additional emails were
received beyond the four that were previously received and provided to the city council
and which are available from public review upon the quest.
That was a direct question to Christina Russell, staff.
Yeah, this is Christina Russell and we have not received any additional comments since the point
that I last contacted the council.
Thank you, Ms. Rodsell.
So that means that the list of public comments was
four a cent by email, the council has received those,
and has considered them.
The next step would be to close the public hearing,
and then to confirm with staff,
and I confess, I guess it'd be Mr. Tompkins,
if not, someone else, perhaps Ms. Reed,
to note that there is an updated final,
we list, I have to ask and properties were pulled off,
the lean list on the basis of labor and the information.
And I would ask staff to confirm which ones are being pulled off
before the council would deliver it.
I have a clarifying question if I may.
Yes, go ahead.
Thank you.
So the comments that we were that we received prior to the meeting.
So we will hopefully take those in consideration for these residents
that sent us requests to work with them.
Of course.
Yes, absolutely.
And Sandy, the motion of the tip.
That would be correct.
It'd be mentioned to your motion if you wanted to direct staff to further evaluate those properties of identifying them by number and pulling them off the lean list for that for the conversation we have.
And this is where I'll note to staff.
What were the, and I know we had three or four of them will pull off the list.
Those should provide this moment.
And then the mayor closed the year and then take out the deliberation.
Okay, so in the agenda packet, we had to refer to it as a preliminary lean list as of March 8.
Today, why we received a final lean list with those who paid him.
And if there are items on that list that you'd like to pull and provide your action to staff to, you know, work with them, that's, that's what I would need. So I heard councilman nobles say item number 760, but I need to clarify whether that was item 760 on the final lien list or the preliminary lien list that's in the packet. Does that make sense?
And I do have another clarifying question on that because we got that if I'm not mistaken that final leanless came late in the day.
And so is that the norm that we would get a revised list just short before the meeting?
Because you didn't have time to go through that. It's a long list.
It is fairly jibbable and the key that's worth noting in all last month's reading confirmed that I'm not in direct.
The final leave list is a subset of the original list.
No new properties are added, rather properties are taken off the list if people may claim it through today.
Students close out their accounts, providing that last opportunity to make a payment before it goes to the end.
Thank you.
And so it sounds like what staff might need to do, at least if not tonight, then the future
because you have a separate list that I identify exactly what would take an awful list.
Okay, yes. I can definitely make sure to provide that.
Although I do believe since this is the last, you know,
lean cycle that are bird text accounts.
Yeah, this all this, these lists were provided by them. So in the future, you know, it would be
city staff that would be providing these updated lists exclusive to the ones that
were removed. So now, let's go ahead.
Just for clarification, public, this is a list from bird tech. This money goes to
bird tech, not to the city. So it's to pay leans for bird tech itself. And so that was the,
list that they provided. What the Council may want to consider is in the final action, I think
Council member Noble identified some parcels. You can either give us numbers and we can cross-check
or give us the name, and maybe not publicly, but at least if you email the name so we can make sure that
if it's not on the final list, her, I mean if it hasn't been taken off of that final list,
So we go ahead and remove that for consideration in that way, the Council can still act
tonight, but this sure is the staff to make sure that those people that you wanted
looked at are actually looked at.
And I would recommend to think of if I'd recommend citing, so it may not be, I need probably
to have to be something cited publicly.
So I'd cite the APM, which is a constant number that does not change.
as opposed to the first column in the list, which seems to be depending on which list you're using.
Or the address would work too.
Just unfortunately, the four of them are addresses, not APNs in the letters.
I believe we can address the four letters that identified five properties.
It's very confusing having public session with that public comment.
So, council will know why believe you're making a motion.
You can just state that all of the five properties
identified before letters.
I think that would take care of it.
Yes, and Mary, if we can do that,
I would prefer to do that one for those four items,
that are in the public comments from the lane list.
Yes, I would concur.
This is just for information for the general public who may be watching, you know, the total lanes, and we've got to understand, you know,
you know, obviously it's identified by the partial number. It has a current past you, then has a 10% late fee, which is a 10%
It has a penalty, which is 18%, there's a administration fee of $45, there's a release lane
$20, processing fee of $10, and it has a current total. So right now we're looking at
lanes, a total of $647,000 and $1,000 and some change. And then when you go through this,
We have individuals who owe 2,000, 3,000, 4,000,
39,000, it goes on and on and on.
And so this has been a growing issue that's been going on for a long time.
So I would definitely encourage all the governors as well as the staff
that is in the position to move this forward to really take a close look at
all these lean because there are several pages of lanes and when you see individuals are
APN numbers that owe $39,000 in lean that definitely signifies that there's something
going on and then at the same time you look at links that are of $200 or $120 and so we're
about, you know, two different perspectives. When you look at the, the
amount of lanes, because when I received this, I was alarmed. First of all,
the CMS mind that was owed to, to a, to a business, and it is a business, and then
to see that amount of individuals who've seen, and they go through a situation where they've,
they've put themselves in a position that they've probably been linked. So, definitely those who
of an inquiry and put a public commentary quest, we definitely want to acknowledge
those four as Councilman, and normal as indicated, that we pull those off, and that's a
great starting point.
So, I'd like to really make the motion that we go ahead and move forward with the lean list,
but mine is to four items that we're in the public comments.
If we need to close public public.
First, close public.
The American close public airing, and then most of them in order.
Okay, so there's nothing I said at this point in time.
We'll definitely close public comment.
And then what time do we have 9 24 p.m. public comments close?
And then I will I will second that as a behind council and nobles.
So we have a first and a second.
Is there any further comment at this time?
I just want to.
Yes.
Okay.
Discussion.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Councilman Silder.
Yes.
I just want to clarify.
Yes.
There's four letters.
There's five properties.
identify we are pulling all five. Yes, that is correct. Okay, yes. May I vote 10 Rose?
Yes, now that we close it. Can I please ask Councilman Noble to state one more time what the
what his motion is? Councilman Nobles. May I vote 10 Rose S treat a restate your motion?
Yeah, that we move forward with the lean list minus the four items from the public comment
which is five items on four public comments.
Yeah.
So that the five properties and four public comments, okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
Any further?
From the governor's.
Okay.
Let's call for the vote.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Well, wait.
is now, is this discussion time?
Or do we vote and then have discussion?
No, no, no, no, no, this is the,
right now we're in discussion time as okay.
Okay, so, well, looking through this,
I have several questions.
There are two on here that the people owe one penny,
and they're having a lean on for one penny.
One is there's two for one penny.
There's one for 30 cents.
there's one for three dollars and 20 cents, there's one for four dollars and so much
cents, one for five dollars and sixty seven cents. My question is, what is the policy
that we're tech or that we have implemented on when do we designate an amount for a lean? And if we
do not have a policy, then we need to implement a policy for the city going forward. Why
earth would we be leaning somebody for one penny and by the time they add all the other costs
it's $75 for owning for owning one penny. So there's I don't see I don't see a reasonable
balance here. Why would it that one penny just be written off? Why would you go through all the
stance of doing a lean and all of this for one penny.
So I don't know if that's something that
that bird-tap can answer or is that part of our responsibility too.
I would like some information on that, but if we do not have a policy,
then I think we need to, as the city going forward,
taking care of our own billing, that we be sure that we implement or
need a policy on an amount before we decide before a lean is placed on a piece of property.
So I don't want to tell you that. In regards to any policy, I mean we go by the municipal code,
which outlines the various steps from when a count becomes delinquent, which is when it's passed
do, up through the lean process.
So there's no separate policy per se.
We just abide by what the municipal code says.
I think it's important to note that this
is kind of the last of Berthek accounts.
So we're trying to capture all of those remaining accounts.
No matter the dollar amount, it's just anything
that remains to link what with Berthek
through the end of when they were billing.
that's October 31st. So, yeah, the amounts or balances may be very minimal and I completely understand
your point about the cost, the lean processing and so on and so forth, being significantly
higher than what's actually due, but yeah, in our code it states that any account that remains
past due is the lean point.
of the price.
Correct.
Okay.
My question would be that if it's a penny, why aren't they paying the penny?
And if I'm not mistaken, Matthew, can you turn it on this?
If we settle in it, let's say it's only $5, would that be considered to give the public
funds if we were to just write off the penny that the $5, because we're talking 23, you know,
how much how many, you know, residents we have here in Burstow, and if everybody owned, you
know, $05, we could, you know, hurt ourselves in the long run.
Is it called, would it be considered a gift to public funds?
A couple of points, and would not be considered to give the public funds that the city
adopted policy, the delinquent accounts below a certain amount, say $5, we're not to
in the mean because there's a middle ground between sending it to the mean and writing it off.
Not sending accounts that are delivered in that amount to mean collection, but still for
student collection by other methods would not write off the debt, but would also not be
imposing a mean even if the city were to write off the debt. Writing off the debt that's
uncollectable or difficult to collect is not a gift to public funds because the city can't take
account the cost and current collection, as many of you are collecting the lead has some cost
and while it can be collected in the end, you can really collect through the lead process,
still takes time and staff time which is valuable and can be weighed against the small dollar deaths.
I think the key here on this lean list is to think from the typical lean list that the
council sees is as noted by this reader. This is vertex final list, so they throw at
with either of the penny against the against the system.
I would expect and would recommend that the council might look to a future agenda item
to assuming they're supporting at least two months of the council to have a policy that
developed for when the city would be looking to impose leans on the account's collection
by the admins over the city. Now collecting leans are not collecting these payments and doesn't
currently have a minimum debt that goes to lean policy. It might make sense for that to be
said if I counseled my builder maybe some more than one view on counsel, have that as an agenda item and then consider where where that policy would be set that also provides an opportunity for staff to show the rest of the collection process that's behind.
Here we see the lean process, but there's a fair amount of several other steps that are in the mix as well.
They're designed to get the one penny that's taken care of before it gets to graduate to the leanless level.
Well, let me say that this Matthew, you know, I concur what Mayor Prochim, a Rosa sin, whether
it's one penny, our five cents or five dollars or five thousand, and when we're talking
about best business practice, we're talking about best business practice, because I shared
at the open of this discussion to get to this lane list, that's a process.
And it's a process from being a current pastor, then you go to always late feeds, you've got
penalties, administration of fees, you have to feed on top of feed on top of feed before
it gets to a current total.
So what counsel women who's a sand, yeah, whether it be in the penny, yeah, that's a big
ordeal.
But at the same time, it's a process.
s.
To the letters and the reminders, it just goes on and on, so a penny turns into a hundred dollars, because on my side, this is called personal responsibility, I have failed for some reason to make this obligation, even it was a penny.
And so, birthday, there are business. I mean, there are business, and there, you know, and every penny matters, because I am a foreign believer if you take care of the pennies and the nickels, you have to worry about the dollars.
So, we have inherited this discussion and I'm this evening being mindful that Birchek is a business and they are out to collect every single penny to make sure not to worry about the nickel or the dollar.
And that's just best business practice.
So I can understand their discussion as well as the
similar argument about this particular subject matter.
And I can see it, you know, it's going to come before the
governors at the city, we're going to be in the same predicament.
And when Council of Mayor for 10 asks,
you know, about the the gift of public funds, that's a big go.
That's a big question. It's a very delicate question.
And thank you, Matthew, for your clarification at this point in time.
However, this is something that we're not there to really take a quick, take a thorough look at moving forward.
Since we now do the billing, we're going to make a situation that we're going to be in a collection,
and this is going to be on and on, and the question is, where do we decide what's in the best interest of Marshall,
opposed to what's in the best interest of maybe somebody who legitimately have fell
and fell behind for some great reason, because I can trust that Birch at also
considers the same practices that we would consider as a municipality. But more
importantly, as governors, we come from a mix of backgrounds and when it comes to
business, you take care of your pennies and your nickels, because the last thing
to do is worry about the dollars and that's just that's my opinion on this and I believe we have a
motion of Lord we have a second by myself you know we're having a discussion and if there's
continued discussion we can gain the discussion if not I'm going to call for the vote well I would
just like to clarify that what I'm what I'm referring to is that when for us going forward
Do we set a limit before we put a lean on something?
I'm not saying that's what we don't try to collect.
I'm just saying, do we set a limit?
Because, I mean, I'm sorry, just for just owing a penny.
However, however, they probably thought it's just a penny.
And had no idea that it was going to become $75.
And I think we can take in Google's and policy and bring it back to council, but I think the key here is is this is the closed out field.
You might look at that way for bird check and that's why we're looking at every penny because I've never seen pennies on the least before.
So it's because they're closing it out.
Okay, that's fine.
Well, I'm definitely looking forward to the discussion on this particular topic.
So if there's nothing else,
we'll see the clerk and your thoughts from the call for the vote.
Council Member Silva? Yes.
Council Member Noble? Yes.
Council Member Cruz? Yes.
Member Pro Temros? Yes.
Mayor Courtney? Yes.
Your motion is passing unanimously.
Mayor, Mayor, back up, we all, I thought except for I think, Mayor pretend to have extensions and they are posted by the city, so I just want to put my extensions in there.
Okay, thank you very much. Council, Council and so on.
Yeah. Okay, we're going to go and go to,
I did number eight, this is the opening of the public hearing, so we're back a thore
part either, we're back a thore, we're the presenter,
there you are, all right, so if you
just go and rate this particular item number eight and then we're going to open up the public hearing
part.
All right, so you heard this exactly a month ago, this is a bit of a procedural correction.
You go to it on three of the items and two of them are resolutions and it turned out
these own change needs to be specifically in ordinance.
So you'll be voting on this meeting and the next meeting.
If the public wants more information, this is part of 7th Avenue specific plan.
If you go to Mountain View, the middle street right there across from the hospital, which is the large parcel at the bottom.
The old bar so hospital has been torn down, the city is looking at renovating and rebuilding and putting some housing in that area.
And so we need to rezone it to allow housing because it's currently public facilities.
So, this lot right here will be divided and the top one will be medium density.
The bottom one will be diverse use and there's other parcel on the other side is also owned by the city and it will be zoned for diverse use.
We talked the meeting is recorded. We talked about this fairly extensively on February 15.
Okay,
public comments. I'm going to come up. You have public comments on this one, Andrea Flores.
So we have no public comments for this item.
Okay, so the, so no public comments. One of the public hearing is open.
And if there's nothing.
I'd leave it with the appropriate.
This is a city manager, in terms of city manager of you there, Dr. Hart.
Yes, sir.
This is the appropriate to open up public comment hearing time as well as I let the close to this point time because there's nothing on this.
I would say,
procedurally, you would want to open it.
Then the city clerk said that there's no comments.
and you want to close the public hearing.
Okay, just one more.
Before you close the Mr. Mayor, just to reach
and hear two confirm under the pandemic executive orders,
the up to this moment, no additional emails were received.
That's the one step we got to do differently
to make sure we don't arise in cross-arties.
Thank you.
So would that be nothing else at received
as of this moment at 940 dam,
is that correct city clerk under a floor?
We have received any additional comments.
comment. So, the public hearing is well-closed. Okay, now it would be time for a motion, a second,
and then the discussion that correct, Dr. Hart? Yes. Okay. Well, on this particular thing,
I'd make the motion. I'll be happy if this does move forward to sign this ordinance,
because it's definitely moving bar still,
I'm moving our city, I believe in the direction that we want to go.
I was active that site today,
at the site today, kind of walked around.
And the second look at what has taken place
in a great job that was done in the nation,
and as well as the preparation for what is next.
So I'll make a motion that we move forward with this item
and I'll entertain her second. I'll second. So I have a motion by myself a second by
Councilman Silver. Any further discussion? I would ask for the vote, please.
Andrea Flores. Councilmember Selva? Yes. Councilmember Noble? Yes. Councilmember Cruz? Yes.
Mayor Pro-Chem Rose? Yes. Mayor Courtney? Yes.
Your motion has passed unanimously.
Beautiful. I'm looking forward to spending this morning across from this.
General Speaker, one note on that. Yes.
This ordinance requires second meeting
and then we'll be ready for signature.
So we turn to your next meeting
for adoption by the City Council and then for their signature if no
we have an engagement file and we go inspect one as we haven't heard any opposition could.
But beautiful. Yeah, I'm just looking at the packet here and I just see the signature line and I'm just excited from whenever we can do it.
But this is best for a bunch of moving muscle for it. So thank you for that city attorney Matthew Summers.
So we're going to move the item number nine.
They present it on this is Amanda Hernandez.
Amanda, are you there?
I am here, Mr. Mayor.
Okay. All right. So if you could go ahead and read what this is, and then we'll
then once again, we'll ask our CD clerk for any public comments.
We'll open up for hearing.
Okay. I can go ahead and jump in to the presentation.
Yes. I think I have a question though.
And it was a normal air city clerk that would read what's next on the agenda so that it's clear for everybody that's viewing.
Perhaps it would be normal, however, I'm really aware of the agenda myself.
I have no problem reading what's next on the agenda, as if I was a city clerk.
But thank you for that question.
I was asking for the for the viewers for the people that they know for our public for our representative.
Do you have any thing you want to add to item number nine?
There are no public comments for this item.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you.
A men are an endless presentation.
Secretary the presenter on this one.
Okay.
Well, thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Members of the Council.
And of course, members of the public.
So we are taking a second look at what we had initially taken a look at.
And I believe it was February 23rd from the initial CDBG for the fiscal year 2021, 2022.
And we actually did take the council's request to the county for one more conception project or to allow another project to our list.
And they approved us. So this is taking a look at the.
Great. I think Amanda number nine is the CDBG CV 3 project.
Oh, I apologize. Thank you. That's my point. When we adjourned to public hearing,
I think it should be very clear that we're adjourning to public hearing, and then we announce
which item we are on, because it can be confusing. And I would like for everybody to follow
along, including myself, but more so for the general public, because if there are comments,
they should be able to follow where we are so that they, if they do have that comment, they know
what's coming up. So it's just, I think, a proper, some type of protocol that we should establish.
Thank you. Thank you for that. I may approach him by the rules.
And, uh, city manager, Dr. Hart, thank you for catching that. Thank you. Yeah. As, uh, as Amanda
And the part of the presentation.
I'll add a number line, the CDBG,
slash CB3,
the realization of recommended projects.
And it talks about the recommended actions.
The language.
Although brief on the agenda.
Call for a met our NANAS to make the presentation.
So you're going to go and get started over there, Amanda?
Yes, yes, we'll start on over.
on another CDVG, so CDVG, CDVG, CV-3. This is a prioritization of recommended projects. So the city requested a project and was approved and deemed eligible for the project that we submitted. And it is rental assistance. So our intention at the city is to partner with a non-profit or a different subcontract agency to be able to administer that program on behalf of the city of Barclay.
So for CDVG, CDV3, we were awarded $169,232, and we were approved again in deemed eligible from the county for this funding.
So without having to go into any of the background of CDVG, because we'll again talk about it a little bit later when we talk about the construction projects.
This is just the opportunity for the council to discuss whether or not they want to accrue this funding for the rental or rears program.
Okay. I have a question.
In the, this 179,000, 203 dollars.
You know, it's wonderful that we, we have been in one of these funds.
However, the, for us, designate these funds to a non-profit, or a four-profit, or a
shooting staff, if we're not discussing that, the, the, the allocation of these funds
at this time, we're only discussing the exception of these funds, is that correct?
That is correct, sir.
So, yes.
It will then be, if, if the council chooses to approve this funding, if then goes again
back to the county, it becomes official, and then we are allowed to, however, the council
sees fit if we want to do an RFP process, then we will go out to find a subcontractor
for the program.
But this is just improving the program itself.
Well, the reason I asked the question is, I've had the opportunity to meet with a couple
of the local non-profits, as well as in respect.
We have been discovered and witnessed and seen as well as observed.
I'm a foreign bliver that if I'm not
going to put my head down on the pillow and sleep at night, we should not be in a position to
expect anybody else to do that. It requires of their condition, or non-condition, where they
have millions of dollars in the bank, or no, many dollars in the bank, humanity is humanity.
And I'm just really concerned that some of the properties that I've seen that we have asked
subcontractors or vendors to deliver to residents, whether their barcelerations are just passing
through.
This is some of the conditions are horrific.
So it's great that we have this money, but I say moving forward, we should proceed with caution
on whom we give money to and at the same time to understand it of accountability.
So when a position where we're providing decent money to providers and these providers
are putting these residents in places that are not even humane in my observation, as well as
So if there's no comments, I will go ahead and close public hearing at 949 and
is there any discussions on the government?
No discussions on the government.
I would entertain a motion, as well as a second, to accept these funds.
I would think the conditions that before we award, I give them out, we really take close
look at who we're expecting, the tater of the residents, visitors, our transits, our non-house,
people who happen to spend the night in Barcelona.
Is there a motion?
I will second it.
So, the motion of four by Councillor Tim Psoha, I will second that. Any further discussion?
Andrew Flores, aren't asking the call for the vote, please?
Council Member Selva?
Yes.
Council Member Noble?
Yes.
Council Member Cruz?
Yes.
Mayor Pro-Cham Rose?
Yes.
Mayor Courtney?
Yes.
Your motion is passed unanimously.
Thank you.
There's no report of close session today, which is with the great sign.
And so we move forward to public comment and I will read this.
I do a pause at those individuals with the look at the top of my head.
However,
I have to read it.
So let me just read this.
Public comment.
This is a time in place for the general public to address the governing board on matters with
the jurisdiction that are not currently on the agenda.
State law prohibits the governing board from addressing any issue not previously included in the agenda.
The go-and-bort may receive comment and set the matter for a supplement meeting and to
further notice, public comment must be submitted by email to the city clerk at public
comment, at barcelo.com, please include the agenda item number on which you are coming
on in the subject line of your email.
If your comment does not apply to a specific agenda item, write, general public comment in
the 70 blind, will come to write it, come as well then be provided to the city council and maintain for the public record for review.
Public coverage received in writing will not be read out loud at the meeting.
Come as much as you've seen by a 4 PM on the date of the meeting and in this case it's March 15, 2021.
Okay, Andrew Flores, public comments at this time.
Yes, we have received three public comments for tonight's meeting.
And all of the public comments have been received and forwarded to you and each of the council members.
And we'll become part of the public record for tonight's meeting.
Thank you very much for that.
a view and a pool of the agenda.
This is the time for members of the governing board
to call for a great ranking of the agenda.
Any items, too, or the move item from the agenda,
or the move items from the consent column
for the discussion panel or second action.
At this point, this is a call out and a question
through the governance.
All the move the agenda has presented a second.
So we have a motion and a second
on moving the agenda, as presented, any further discussion.
And City Clerk, we call for the voice vote.
Council member Silva.
Yes.
Council member Noble.
Yes.
Council member Cruz.
Yes.
Mayor Pro-Cham Rose.
Yes.
Mayor Courtney.
Yes.
The motion has passed unanimously.
It's time for a staff reports, so we'll start off this evening with a police sheet, I'll
put Remaris.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and City Council.
It's one of the committee to know that the Police Department has been working continually
with the Sanctuary County District Attorney's Office, the Victim Services Department.
For some time now, we've been trying to get a victims advocate here assigned to our department.
Recently, the Sanctuary County District Attorney's Office applied for and received a grant for the County Victims Services Program.
Because of this grant, an architectural efforts in working with the District Attorney's Victims Services Department,
we will be getting a victims advocate assigned to the police department.
The victims advocate is going to be a side guard department.
It is going to be having an opposite of our police annex at 500 Melissa Avenue.
And the victim of the advocate will provide victim advocacy services to improve the health, welfare, and quality of life for our crime victims in March.
So it's going to be a great addition to our department and a great addition to our community.
Of all of our victims of crime to provide them assistance and provide them to help and assist us through the court system.
And that's all I have right now.
Well, I want to say congratulations, Chief,
to get an advocate that that's going to be
invited to our community, to the county, for individuals who feel that they have been
victims of wrongdoing, and to have this individual sign in Barcelona as part of our community,
It's another step forward, whether it's all making a collaborative decision to do what is best for a Barcelona
and looking forward to meeting the victims advocate over on Melissa Street as we can in the move Barcelona right directly.
And I say thank you to congratulations.
Thank you.
Far cheese, patain cheese, nick de Napoli.
There are, oh, there you go.
Mr. Nick de Napoli.
Anything Mr. Mayor and Council members, we really don't have much to report other than the fact that the COVID is on the decline.
We continue to work with our partners at San Bernardino County and sort of management team as well throughout this event.
Barcelona fire continues to run and take care of the citizens of the community.
We're just grateful that we could serve.
Have a great evening. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Speaking of COVID-19,
Sometimes, I kind of forget the names of providers, but I have the opportunity to go over to
Dr. Chinatink of the provider because of my mind's system, but I get posted.
We have the free vaccine here in Barcelona that's provided by a provider.
I actually posted on social media. I'm sorry.
this can't be called an M right now. However, I was over there on Saturday and in the, and
it's just the, it's a one shot, it's the Johnson Johnson shot, it's free to anyone who goes
and makes the appointment there, they're right on one of this stuff. And it was very, very, very,
we weren't going there. And the find out that the, the, the COVID-19 one shot vaccine was available
in the city of Warsaw for free and they were actually at very few people who could
actually signed up and they were expecting a big line and how it was and I was
there for quite a while and I do apologize that at this point or not have an
information when it comes to the final remarks I will definitely have the
content the information. Mayor Courtney. If I may remod my
It's called the Mission City Community Network.
There you go.
Thank you, excellent.
Thank you.
Yeah, 406 east one of this stuff and there's a number 818-895-3100 extension 722 or 724.
And I would ask Mayor Paul Jim Rose if you could repeat that again when we do our final
comments, it would be absolutely wonderful.
I guess that I know I had here, but thank you for catching that.
It's it's really important. We do have the single shot vaccine available in the city of Bosco
And it's actually almost no one's restricted, you know, it's a list of it's just unbelievable
It's available to one shot and it's a job to Johnson Johnson and they started delivering this past this past Saturday
I've actually over there, you know, this is exciting to be there. No, it's here in Bosco
So thank thank you for that
and thank you for that far opportunity to make Donato.
Okay, city manager, comments, Dr. Hart.
You know, I see Brett and Merrill on the screen.
Brett, you wanted to add something, right?
Merrill, either?
Yeah, no, I did not.
Oh, okay, because you're like, over the entire screen.
That's, oh, Brett must have something he wanted to add.
Okay, no problem.
You look good there, Brad.
Yeah.
Somebody want me to add all that.
Hey, I'm sure you know when you're Brad, you're at when you want to add.
So I'm trying to be quiet.
Be good.
So Brad, just add some more reinforcement to that first street bridge.
That's what I'm asking.
There you go.
Definitely.
Yes.
I'll get under it and hold it up.
Okay.
comments. Good evening Mayor, members of the council. The last council meeting council member
Noble asks for an update as long as well as the Mayor Pro Temp roasted on the public communication
component of the city council agenda. It sort of ductels with the information received earlier
from Amanda regarding Channel 6. The equipment and things that were necessary to make both of those
components work. It's supposed to be shipping this week. And what's that equipment comes in.
It's going to be put in place and then there'll be some training and things that'll be done
with the city staff as well as the council. Our goal is to have both the public comment and the
channel six up and ready to go in April. We're shooting for early April, but we can't guarantee that
because there's testing and training that things that need to go on, but it will be an April that
we'll have the ability for public comment to take place.
So that concludes it.
I'd be happy to answer any questions.
Thank you, Dr. Hart.
We appreciate you.
Okay, we're gonna go to this is of the council,
a successor agency, which we serve on,
as well as Odessa, where I district and then some.
So we'll start with Councilman Tumso.
Yes, thank you, Mayor.
First off, I wanna thank the staff
from all the updates today, that was very informative.
So, that looked forward to the more of those in the future.
Last meeting on March 1st,
I question the cancellation of a contract
and also the ending of a contract at the Harvey House.
And I do get my reply and in fact,
when I got the reply, I found out also
the Council of the Contract for the state law abuse.
Now, on agenda item 14, the minutes from March 1st, when we get to that, I'm going to call
for correction because it says there that I asked why the federal and state lobbyist contract
for council.
Now, I didn't go back and watch the video, but I could not have asked about the state lobbyist
because I did not know it, but that time that the state lobbyist was canceled.
I found out about the Harvey House country because I got a call from outside party and I
found out about the federal lobby, this contract been canceled because I got a call from
outside lobby.
So, the public has the question about transparency, if the council doesn't know what's going
on, where is the transparency?
And just a little bit of history of Harvey House because we're going to take the management back
there.
We had to manage it when I was first elected and in the Harvey House was two museums and the Chamber of Commerce, that's it.
Now we used to get reports on the Harvey House and at one time it was 90% to 100% leads. How do we get it there?
We got it there while first with a contract with the Chamber of Commerce and then a contract with the last property manager.
So basically, we, with the second kind of track, we got not just the leasing, but also security.
So if we're going to bring that back in, that would have been a good thing to bring.
I try to put the state lobbyist. I got no call for many beyond that, so I have no opinion. But on the federal lobbyist, what he answers, I got, and it seemed to be a big reason for counselling it, because the main project they're working on is having no action. Well, that's completely false.
And the project discussed, I'm the only person in this city, past Council, staff, anybody that's
saddened the last meeting to get an update about that project.
And I was not contacted by anyone for an update on that project.
And that project has seen some progress in fact, the prior council last year approved a new agreement
on that project.
We didn't approve it just to approve it and dust it off. We approved it because there is some
actual on that project. The answer I got was a city manager got input from staff and
property owners, property owners, but not an council member.
Now, why are we doing this?
These contracts were approved by council. These contracts, if we're going to change them, need
come back, Kansas. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If I could, I
can't submit. So I will actually make comments on on that when it comes to me to make my comments.
Because when we're sharing transparency, I do ask some numbers to speak on me. You know, I'd like
more than numbers bearers. I would like to know who gave you the city manager. I cannot see an
from City Manager making this decision on his own. He got input from somewhere to cancel these contracts
and the citizens of Barcelona deserve it where they came.
Thank you, Constance Silva.
Do you want to make a remark, Dr. Hart?
You know, I think that part of what I was asked to do initially when I came here was to identify
funding that could be saved because of the city's financial situation.
I looked in files. I talked to staff. I tried to find that information.
I'm what was going on with the federal lobbyist and there was no reports.
Nothing that I could find that justified the $84,000 a year contract.
So, based on that, I did make the decision to go ahead and cancel that.
Same with the state lobbyist, Joe Gonzavis, and Sun.
Again, we were getting reports from them that we get for the League of California cities.
Contract with them was about $50,000 a year, and then what we looked at with the Harvey House was
the ability for the staff to be able to take over that
and to program it and use it in a more productive way.
And after discussion with the staff, there was a sense
that they could manage it and probably program it
a little bit better and make the bringing the revenue in
that could be generated there.
So we made that decision, and that the contract
was about $70,000.
So I made the decision to do that.
And when doing that, I have contacted David what more since our discussion through the email
who gave me an update on the on the casino and basically they're hoping that something
will happen with the new administration.
They've got the lascoities and bots of property.
They're hoping that that will set the interior department on a path to approve it, but there's
still no guarantee that's going to happen.
and I told Mr. Whitmore once that process begins if we need to reengage them,
then certainly we would want to do that.
A Gonzalez and Sons said that they appreciated the relationship with the city so much
that they're doing pro bono work for us now and they'll continue that until the city is
in a financial position where we could pay that. So that was the thinking that went into those
contracts and the cancellation of those contracts. Thank you for that.
especially the manager. All due respect, I can appreciate you looking in the financials,
but I still believe you need to bring that back to the council. We have an agenda item later here
in number 24. We're going to take power away from the city manager. I believe the three
least three council members are in favor of this, so I cannot see them agreed then with the
power you put upon yourself. These need to come back to the council.
And point well taken, Council Member Silva, you know, I did what I thought I was asked to do if that was wrong and I take full responsibility for that.
And I recognize it in the future of before any action was taken like that I would bring it back to the council.
Thank you, Dr. Hart.
Thank you, Councilman Sullivan.
Councilwoman Merlin Cruz,
any comments at this point?
Yes, yes, just some brief ones actually when I one morning I popped in early to City Hall and I met a gentleman his name was Lawrence and he was in.
Take maintenance being there, cleaning there at City Hall, and just introduce myself and
he also shared with me, he works in maintenance prior to going up to City Hall and showing
some pictures of like our parks and the bathrooms and the brand new bathrooms that we're
Dean of Park and how, unfortunately, they've been
vandalized and graffiti and how much time maintenance takes
a daily on keeping our bathrooms and our parks.
As best as they can in good shape for our community use.
So I thought that was very, it was, I really enjoyed talking with him
And he showed me many pictures of things that go on on a daily basis, that the maintenance department deals with.
So it was that was very enlightening. I was very happy to see Abigail wheel him back at the main desk up in the front coming back from maternity leave. It's very nice to see her smiling face and I'm also very pleased to see.
I do not know Jessica's last name,
but she was brought in, I believe,
from the Park and Rex to help Mandy in the Bertec building
in our sewer and trash building.
And my understanding, she's had already a very positive
effect in that area as well.
It only took a couple of days to get all the emails answered
and get all of the billing or payments that have come in all recorded and up, and I know
that's got to be a very big relief for Mandy, as well as remainder of staff there who always
tries to catch the phones and answers questions that they really don't have any answers to
and take messages. So that was very nice to see that. And I have a question on the building that's
I call it the old doctor channels, these optometrist, on 1st Street, kind of right between
Fredericks and William Street. I know it's been, they've tried to set it on fire a few times,
and if that is going to be doing no when that is hopefully going to be demolished
because they just kind of wanted to start it on fire every chance they can get.
I know that's more of a building and safety question, but that was just a comment.
But I'd also like to thank staff for all of this hard work.
It's a tremendous amount of work trying to get the grants and with Jessica and Cody and
the community services and the planning, I don't think the community really realizes just
how much it takes of their time, even for the extra projects
on top of the regular job,
the regular requirements to fulfill the,
for in the planning department and the building department.
So I really like to thank all of them
and I know finances is really trying to get themselves
up to speed with Mary, hopefully,
I know Mary is going to be here for I believe in other couple of months, but we've just got, we've got some work ahead of us, but we've also got everybody that's pulling their weight and even an additional trying to help out their co-workers.
But it's nice to see that the smiling faces that are there back and it was very nice meeting Lawrence and really just taking the time to listen to him.
with Ferry. I know he appreciated it and I appreciated what he had to share. So that's really about it,
but I am concerned about that darn building and hopefully it's going to come down. So that's
really all that I have to share this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Cruz.
Thank you, Mayor.
A couple of things.
Tender the military affairs meeting last week.
A couple of hot items that are coming up.
They're going to be a few change in commands coming up.
MCLB is going to be changing our current claimants with a kind of Gregory Peck.
Somewhere around mid July timeframe.
so keep that available. The Ford Erwin, Brutal General, Lesbron is going to be leaving us here
in the next month. He's going to be heading to Korea to take a man of the second ID between
now and then he's going to have a promotion and from what I hear it's probably going to be
virtue, but there may be limited invites to that on the 24th of March of this month.
And then he's going to be replaced by a Brigadier General Curtis Taylor, who's coming in to take
take a man in April of 22 April of this year. Also, we'll be losing our
Gareth and Commander Colonel Martin, who will be also chaining out somewhere around mid-May
time frame or in the May as she moves on.
Opportunity had opportunity to attend the BBTA meeting this morning.
A lot of good information came out.
One in particular is a contract that was approved for an improvement at the bar still.
VVT improvement station to increase the availability of the hybrid, not the hybrid, but the
electric car system that is being upgraded in the bar store area.
Also last month, I brought up about the public comments and that article was brought up that I read that
Garstil may be a violation of the Brown Act and I haven't received any update on that if staff or someone can get back with me on that on where we at on that article and
we are in violation of the Brown Act when it comes to public comments. That's all I have for this
evening. Thank you, Councilman Novels. Mayor Approach him or the Rose. Thank you. So I am
going to ask again again for an update by next meeting for a status of us going into chambers.
You know, and as far as us being able to have the public comments, I know other cities are allowing or they have the capabilities to allow the citizens to chime in.
Zoom, like we are.
And I'm hoping that if we can't get into the chambers and we can't get the channel six up that we can at least allow the citizens to zoom in and then they get access to speak.
we're doing it with all the other committees.
They're able to do that during other committees.
So I'm hoping we can get there as well.
Also, not allowing the public comments to be read out loud
is that a violation of the Brown Act or violation of Matthew,
can you please speak on that?
Because I think you wanted to say something.
Yeah, thank you, members.
I mean, thank you, Council Member Noble,
for that's the question twice over.
The short answer is no.
The city is not in violation of the Brown Act because the Brown Act as adjusted by the governor's
executive orders issued during this pandemic mindful of social distancing requirements
have validated the practice by which the city council receives public comment through electronic
means which includes through emails and nothing requires the elected city clerk misflowers to
read out those emails. Instead, of course, they're provided to the city council. They're made
available to the public, and we receive the emails up through as we saw tonight, up through
the opening of the clothes of public hearings on those items, for every other item, emails
that we receive through 4 o'clock today.
So with you respect to the newspaper, the city is not in violation of the Brown Act as it is
presently constituted through the governor's executive orders.
As is noted, of course, there's a key caveat, the governor can change his executive orders.
And we also recognize that I think I wouldn't be too far outside of my role to say that the council all five strongly valued public comment in transparency, and on that front, I has no extra support.
House, once the council is back in chambers developing a method to allow folks to comment while still maintaining social distancing.
And I think the goal is to have that in place.
If one of the two April meetings, ideally the first, but perhaps the second April meeting, as Dr. Hard noted before.
Thank you so much for that.
Thank you. That's you for that.
Matthew, I just wanted to thank for you to say that one more time for clarification, because I understand it as what you just said.
I also want to say that we're trying to come together as a council, and we're not there yet,
but I heard some contention tonight, and it's this heartening because we're all engrowing pains.
There was something that was kind of beat around the bush from what I was understanding by
on something that was eluded in regards to the contracts.
I don't know what the protocol is.
If the contracts come through the council for approval,
it makes sense that if we're going to cancel a contract
that it go back to the council for approval,
I don't know the protocol,
so maybe somebody could help me understand that protocol.
Is it the protocol that the city manager has that authority
to do that or that, you know, to do that.
I also, on the same breath, want to say that,
Dr. Hart, I want to thank you for your hard work.
Yes, you are an interim city manager.
But you are coming in and we have given you,
we have given you the duties of our city manager.
And I, I want to say that while you're sitting in that seat,
you should make these hard decisions
as our city interim city manager.
there's no caveat to say that you cannot make this decision, but this one, just because
you're in trim, I think that you should continue to move full steam ahead to make the best
decisions that you can make is our in trim city manager. You come with a length of the, you know,
an extensive experience. You have hit the ground running. And yes, you've had to learn bar
still, but I have full confidence that you're able to move as forward where we need to be while
we're looking for a permanent city manager.
Where are we with that?
That's another conversation as to what we're going to do
is for moving forward and when,
what is the expected timeframe from where we start aggressively
looking for a city manager,
permanent one, to when we anticipate that person coming on board.
But in the meantime, I cannot say it enough.
Dr. Hart, you are our interim city manager
and you have all those authorities to move forward
with making decisions that are in the
distance, just a bar still.
The only other thing I want to say is
I do want to thank the staff for
everything that they do.
Thankless jobs that you have.
You continue to work hard and we're
doing more for less so I just want to
say thank you for that and I just want
to continue to say thank you to
Chief Romeras and in terms of Chief
Nick Denopley for everything that
you and your staff are doing.
trying to keep us safe, every gate is heard.
So I just want to continue to say thank you for that.
Thank you, Mayor Pro Chin, environmentalist.
And that's my question.
Thank you.
Mayor Pro Chin, thank you for council member Silva.
I worked in different scenarios.
Councils approve a contract that says that it can be
terminated with written notice within 30 days, five days,
whatever it is. In the manager has the authority to do that. The mistake that I made is what was pointed out by Council
Moor Silva's. I did that, but then I neglected to let the council know that had occurred and I took responsibility for that.
As you said, I came in. I was inundated with the million things and I was trying to act and do I felt was the appropriate thing for bar stuff.
And I failed in one area and that was to communicate with the council.
And I've got the message now.
If the council proves the contract,
they, in fact, want to be the ones to cancel a contract or discuss cancellation,
fully understand them from now on.
That would have been.
Thank you.
Thank you for that, Dr. Hart.
And like I said, my, my hats off to you.
You've done a tremendous job.
And one thing that is definitely clear is you take a full responsibility for your decisions
and at the same time you're very, very aware and you become more, or in light and as we speak.
Okay, thank you. So I'll go make comments at this time. Okay, this is our person's policy
for the City of Arshino. It hasn't been updated since 2015. Okay, I know this person's
policy a well because I went through it several times. This is something else that Dr. Harded
inherited, our personally policy. And so I'm not going to get into details on the person
policy right now, how it is a public information that's available.
So with Dr. Harder's authority
to be our senior manager, I can't say it better than our Mayor for Tim has made it clear. He is our
of these contracts. I'll open up, doing back in October. It was reported that the senior
Barso had re-worked a redistress and we signed there. I'm not sure what the time was,
what the union tribes of the casino and then saw them. At that point in time,
Council woman, new to the council, corrected the statement, because she has lineage with the Indian tribes.
And she quickly informed us of reality of the Indian tribes based on her homework and conversations being a direct descendant of Indian tribes.
So that particular thing, it was kind of, it was no comment.
The, the councils agreement are,
discussions or whatever it was with the tribes was never validated,
nor any documentation was ever discovered,
validated that thing that was made.
So they make a long story short,
with our federal, with our federal lobbyists.
We have been paying, since April of 2008, and we have paid them $1.8 million on EFK,
which means that I turn it, funds, automatically out of our accounts, everything I'm on.
Okay, prior to Dr. Hart coming on board, a request is made on what has this,
these federal group have died for us in 2008 and why would we have paid them $1.88?
This would take a lot of this firm as well to this day to provide this any proof of
eating that they've done. They have done nothing besides students' bill. And we have paid them
$1.88 7,005,000,00, EFT each month is 2008 and until this day they provided us no proof of
they have done. Nothing. What really alarm me is less than a month and a half ago, the American
courts, they needed intervention on their passports to get, actually, people from China
become to America, and they needed letters of, basically, letters of North Lawrence. So at that
point in time, our ISU, my federal lobbyists would have been able to intervene and help us,
Well, long story short, they could not.
So myself, as well as Dr. Hart, and I believe HR here at the city, we actually wrote the
letters, you know, signed them and delivered them to the American courts because our federal
lobbyists that we've been paying since 2008, $1.8 million, that's something they said they
can't do until, to this day, still nothing for the $1.8 million on record, because we can
validate.
that's on the federal side. Now we'll talk about the state side. This is
Gonzales and Sons. Same thing, we've been paying them, we paid them 4,500 per
month, EFT. We've been paying them a part of the same period of time. We've
paid them 5,585,114 dollars. Same thing, they could not provide us any
information that what they have done besides information that we get on a regular basis from
California, New York City. And it was very interesting when it was bought to my attention
by our internal security manager, because look at these reports and look at these,
it's the same thing that we get, we already get from the health of New York City, and we
were paying that to to the Clause and Clause. I sense same thing for $85,000 for the same
information. Well, because off and signed, Mr. González acted, reached out to me twice, you know, on a
on a, you know, a meeting over, over, led client meeting and said, first of, he was very gracious
that he's done business with Marshall Augustine. We've paid him, however, they treasure relationship,
and they are willing to keep it on their books, pro bono, and right now they're doing pro bono
until a decision is made on what's going to happen.
And he took full responsibility for lack of a term.
We were just paying them, and they were just giving us
standard reports because that's how it's been.
And I was really taking that.
And so I applied to Dr. Hart for doing this due diligence
in efforts and recognizing, you know,
if you take 1.8 million and in 5.85,000,
That's our two-man dollars. We paid to just two lobbyists, which I assume are really
rethought. They were live in for the decinos or whatever the case didn't be. But still for this day,
there's no proof for what they were doing because we have no documentation supporting that
besides we've been paying them by EFK since 2008. Now at the time, our contractor for the
Harvey House, we paid them 84,909 signals per month and we've been doing that for over a half of that
and most in a video that I understand what happened that came in five years.
So if we just paid 84,000 times five years,
that's a lot of money that we've been paying to this one provider,
which I believe has done a very decent job.
However, at the same time, we look at staff, city staff,
who's on part-time or laid off.
Looking for something to do.
So, for Dr. Sala, the doctor, um,
hard to recognize that we can,
we can pick that same 84,000,
96 dollars and pay it to existing city staff,
who are on reduced hours,
and we have the capability to do,
uh, the same type of deliverables,
especially for Harvey House being,
a economic development draw,
a father of self,
what a great opportunity to empower city staff,
to recognize the value of the Harvey House, and at the same time, we can hear them
the 84,000, 1996, opposed to a contractor.
And I found, totally makes sense, totally makes sense.
I mean, totally makes sense.
And so, Mr. Councilman said, well, clearly indicated that he was contacted
by outside party or outside influence and outside people.
He's not to tell him that contracts have been severed or case may be.
That is very interesting because none of those outside parties, whoever it might be,
as, you know, I've heard from anybody about Wisconsin contracts, and as just like the
city manager is recognizing ways to recuperate money or save money and using the money
particularly on what's best for a bar show, not best for
two-labority, a contractor, or what's best for a
fitness associate, a contractor, or what's best for
his loss and son, a contractor. So if we just take these
numbers along, you know, we're going to say hundreds of
thousand dollars in just 12 months, and people who were not
delivered, both contractors, or a contractor who was under
But we can spend that money on city staff and in power of city staff.
Thank you, Robert.
Our people are opposed to pan and out.
And in some way, question, wait a minute.
You know, I'm in the contract business myself.
I would love to be able to provide services too,
to where it might be.
However, when organizations are trying to empower the staff,
they eliminate contract positions.
and all Dr. Hart has been able to recognize is the value for the city of Barsiv, make the
city what's best, and at the same time to empower our style. So, I mean, I plot Dr. Hart
from making these decisions. Now on, you know, this is with the Councilman Nobles. Yeah,
There's usually, to man-chains marine-based as well as for early.
I was best at being the company of Colonel Dr. Martin, as well as the B.G. Lesteron out
at a local eatery just last week, the specific OGs, and they both did advise on what the
situation is.
They're going to be moving on, however, they have assured that their replacements are
the same page of, um, they are moving partial for it to be more specific.
I will be at Fort Urban tomorrow, which is Wednesday, and yeah, no, two days on Wednesday,
and I will be with B.G. Lesserman, as well as Colonel Dr. Martin, to discuss the whole thing
about bridging the gap between Fort Urban and Bursham.
This evening, the change of command at Marine Base, as well as at Fort O'er. So thank you for that, Colonel, on the council and nobles for that. I appreciate that update.
And that's all I have at this point in time. However, I see council and nobles on the big screen. Did you have something you want to add to council and nobles? But you're like all of my big screen.
Yeah, no, I didn't have any fault, but that's that's Colonel Martin not Dr. Martin. Well, she actually has her has her doctorate in the public administration. So when I see her always a dresser that's Colonel Dr. Martin.
Okay, her education. Yeah, so yeah, she's she's quite a dynamic lady, but thank you for that.
Councilman, Councilman, and others. So that's all I have to put it this time.
Continuing on the agenda,
city clerk and your floors, we're at the consent calendar
at its 10th to 2021. This is your time.
The consent calendar items for the minutes for all
agencies item number 10 minutes of desa water annual meeting, March 16th, 2020 at 630 p.m.,
Recommended action is to approve the minutes as presented item 11 minutes for the joint special meeting city council successor agency and barcifier protection district on October 19 2020 at 7 p.m.
Recommended action is to approve minutes as presented item 12 the minutes for CDB gene special meeting held February 23 2021 at 5 p.m.
the recommended action is to approve minutes as presented.
Item 13 minutes for closed session meeting on held March 1, 2021 at 530pm.
The recommended action is to approve minutes as presented.
Item 14 minutes for joint special meeting held March 1, 2021 at 7pm.
The recommended action is to approve minutes as presented.
This is the end of the consent calendar for the minutes for all the agencies.
That's item 10 to 14.
Okay, I will entertain a vote.
I'm going to call for a correction on item number 14 in the minutes. This is the council.
I could not have stated questioning why the state lobbyist contract is cancelled because I was not aware on March 1.
that the state lobbyist contract was canceled.
I'll ask that staff, please go back and listen to the video.
I'm sure I asked only why the federal lobbyist contract was canceled.
That will be important for future reference.
Thank you so noted.
So I will then hand her a motion as well as a second.
Take a motion.
Councilman Solos concerned which would mean I can turn also.
So there's a motion by Councilman Nobles, is there a second?
I have a question on the motion, because you're moving Councilman Nobles with the motion
be that if, if in fact, the video shows that Councilman Silva did not ask for that,
that we'll make that change, but if he did say it, then we would not make the changes.
Is that what I'm hearing?
It's just a motion with the corrections, if there's a correction that needs to be made, it would be made in the agenda, but if it's not, then the motion will carry as you.
Thank you for the clarification. I'll go ahead and second that.
Thank you for the question there.
May I go to him? Rose, that was a good question.
Okay, so a first and a second. If there's no further discussion, I'm just fortunate to call for the vote, please.
Director, Council Member Silva.
Yes.
Director Council Member Noble. Yes. Director Council Member Cruz. Yes. Vice Chair Mayor
Protem Rose. Yes. Chair Mayor Courtney. Yes. The motion has passed with minutes.
Thank you. For the successor agencies. This is you again.
Yes, yes. Sorry. This is the consent calendar item for the successor agency item 15.
The ratification of successor agency for the barster redevelopment agency accounts payable
expenditures. The recommended action is to approve and ratify expenses as audited for checks number
$82457 and $8134 totaling $38,589 and $773.
That is the end of the consent calendar for the successor agency.
Mr. Mayor.
I'm going to call for any questions.
If not, entertain a motion in a second.
I'll move the motion.
I'll second it.
Any further discussion?
I'll call for the vote.
Councilmember Silva.
Councilmember Noble.
Yes.
Councilmember Cruz.
Yes.
Mayor Pro Temrose.
Yes.
Mayor Courtney.
Yes.
Your motion has passed.
The consent calendar item for the Odessa Water District
are as follows, item 16, reference items regarding the history of the Odessa Water District,
the recommended action is reference items only no action is required.
Item 17, the 2020 Odessa Water District Financial Report, the recommended action,
the Odessa Water District Sport is asked to review and accept the district's basic financial
statements and independent auditors report for the year ended June 30, 2020, and authorized
the filing of the report with the state of California's controller office.
Item 18, change of officers for year 2021. The recommended action is to
approve the 2021 change of officers for the Odessa Water District and accept the statement of
tax form 405 that is the end of the consent calendar items for the
Odessa water district. Any comments or remarks from the
governors? If not entertainer motion first in a second.
I'll make a motion. Okay. The motion before by Councilwoman
Roland Cruz. Is there a second? Second.
Okay, there's a motion by Councilman Cruz as one of the second of the council members.
There's no further discussion on call for the vote.
Director Selma?
Yes.
Director Noble?
Yes.
Director Cruz.
Yes.
Vice chair Rose.
Yes.
And chair Courtney?
Yes.
Your motion has passed unanimously.
The consent calendar items for the City Council are as followed, item 19, the ratification
of accounts payable expenditures, the recommended action is to approve and ratify expenses
as audited for checks number 83263 through 83451, totaling $467,000, $444.98.
and wires 722 through 725 totaling 303,620 dollars and 17 cents.
Item 20, the acceptance of irrevocable offer of dedication for APN-0421-313-333.
The recommended action is to approve the acceptance of the irrevocable offer of dedication for APN-0421-313-33
Find the acceptance example from review under the California Environmental Quality Act under CEQA guidelines
Signs, sections 1, 5, 3, 0, 1, 1, 5, 3, 0, 4, and 1, 5, 3, 0, 5, and authorize your appropriate
officials to execute and have the documentation officially recorded as needed to complete
the acceptance.
Item 21, the Resolution of Proving Application to California Public Utilities Commission,
The recommended action is to adopt resolution number 5033-2021, authorizing the city manager,
interim city manager, or his representative to submit the application to the CPUC.
To to authorize the city manager, interim city manager, or his representative to pursue an execute amendments regarding the application to the CPUC.
That is the end of the consent calendar items for the city council.
Thank you.
I just want to make a comment on this is on the forest payables or expenditures.
I would definitely encourage all governance of all city.
Anybody from the general public.
We do do payables on weekly or by a weekly basis.
Like I indicated today.
We're doing payables of one million.
$1.90, $3.23 and $0.50, which is all right here.
These are all approved and we will, whatever today, it's very enlightening the expenses that go out,
but the fact that matters, we pay what is necessary and we pay what we're obligated to do.
So I just want to make that comment.
And I copied this as available for anyone who wants to see it.
If there's no other, there's a comments from the floor, if not, I will entertain a motion in the second.
There, I'm going to have an extension on item number 19, check number 723, a portion of that.
A pair has been paid to me in the amount of 542.
I'll just stay on that.
Okay, so noted.
With that, with that come been made by a cost man,
Soma.
I will note that.
I will then hand a motion.
First, first of the second.
Is there a move?
Second.
Okay.
With a motion on by a cost man, Soma.
With a note made in a second by a mere co-chair in Lowe's.
If there's no further commentary discussion, I will call from the vote.
Have your thoughts?
Council Member Selva?
Yes.
Council Member Noble?
Yes.
Council Member Cruz?
Yes.
Mayor Pro Temros.
And Mayor Courtney?
Yes.
The motion has passed unanimously with the note with Council Member Selva.
Okay, excuse me, I'm sorry. Could we have a five minute break please?
You know something that's actually a good idea because it's 10 according to my screen is 10.
So, I would say in the best interest of all governors at this time, it can be recessed for a five minute break.
Does anybody have, okay?
So, I'm seeing like this, that means we are in unison.
Okay, it is 10, 35, I will leave back in our big seats at 10, 50.
Okay.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
All right.
We're just waiting on Councilman Nobles and we can get back to the business.
Matthew Summers, are you out there? Yes, of course, Mr. Mayor.
Well, there you go. Okay. We're just waiting on Councilman Nobles.
James Nobles, are you there?
There we go. Cody Chompkins, I see you here on the screen.
So Matthew Summers, can we go ahead and move forward?
Yes, the Council can resume return to session and take up item number 22.
Hey, we project up to this 1052.
We're back from our five minutes time out.
Okay, these are business action items number 22.
This is a construction process and they told funding allocations.
The presenter is economic development administrator and mentor Hernandez.
So thank you, again, Mr. Mayor,
I remember it's a big council on members of the public.
So we're going to try around two on this.
So this is, again, CDBG, a CDBG project
for fiscal year 2021, 22.
And we're taking a look at the construction projects
that we had previously taken a look at
towards the end of last month.
So like I had mentioned, when I accidentally
started presenting on this earlier,
The county has approved funding a third project but they have only approved funding the eligible projects from the eligibility list.
There were only three projects that were submitted and three that were deemed eligible.
So, two of those were previously approved by the Council for the Mojave River Valley Museum
Roof Replacement, and then for the Memorial Park Restaurant Rehab.
So, that would leave the Desert Manif Food Bank.
That project, it has the ability to be funded right now, should the Council choose that.
And then there is also another component to this agenda item.
The county has updated their allocation for the CDBG fiscal year 22.
Initially it was $264,749.
But after a San Bernardino took a look at the allocations,
they came back and notified us on March 2nd.
at the actual allocation is $263,471, which is the reduction of $1,278 in total.
There are a couple of different options with how to decide what the council does with this
allocation and how to make up for that shortfall in funding since we already did allocate for
public service programs and for the other construction projects. I am happy to open it up to
discussion if there are any questions of myself if the council wants to discuss this agenda item.
Okay, so this is the, if I could just add on to that, Mr. Mayor, thank you, Amanda.
Staff would, I'm in to present it a couple of options to you for how to cover the $1,200.
That was reduced.
I would recommend that we would recommend to you that you take that $1,200 out of the unallocated funds
so that we don't reduce any of the allocations that we've made to the organizations, but it'll reduce our
program money by about $1,200. And then also with the Desert Manor Project, I think it was
raised by Mr. Hill with the other time that a parking lot's not an approved use of
block grant money. So, essentially, all that's available to allocate would be that for the
the roof project and then potentially an alarm system if you want it to do that.
So we're recommending that you allocate, if the council chooses to allocate, that you
would allocate money for the roof and if you wanted to allocate something for the alarm
system that you do that, they didn't identify the specific costs of the roof, but in their
application, they have $66,000 for construction.
I'm assuming that included the parking lot.
So we may want to reduce that some,
but they do have the alarm system at $13,500.
So if it was council wants to allocate to the roof
into the alarm system, I would suggest maybe
that $66,000 for probably cover both.
And if you didn't want to do that, then I would recommend
to probably $50,000 for the roof repair.
Understanding that may be more than they need,
but anything they don't spend,
goes back into our unallocated funds.
Dr. Harty, if I remember correctly,
our last meeting, they had said that their roof was,
well, about 3,000 square feet.
It was about the same and Mr. Heldworth, maybe you can help out.
about the same size as the museum.
And we were giving the museum about 65,000
for the Ripple loan.
So the one difference between the museum's roof
and this roof that is over there at the Desert
Mount of Facility is the museum's roof
was a rock roof.
So it actually has tar on top of the plywood and stuff.
and then they put rock on top of that,
that was the style back then.
Now, the Desert Manifacility is just comp-chingles,
which is your average, just a comp-chingle.
So it's easier to tear off.
It's easier to replace.
The other thing with the museum facility is
there's a lot of dry rock with a lot of the boards
around that we can see from underneath.
So they were actually gonna be replaced.
the majority of all the wood, the face of boards, all that stuff too, with the cost of the roof.
So it wasn't just the replacement of just that, but it was replacement of some structural stuff as well.
I don't know the desert amount of facility, I just know it is a comp shingle roof,
but I don't know if they were trying to replace facing boards or any of that kind of stuff.
I don't know if that was in their price or not.
Well, just as a reminder, I mean whatever is a side that they're going to do, we actually
manage the project as the custodia for the CBG monies, as well as inspect and make sure
the work is done according to the stipulations, so laid out in the grant, is that correct?
Yes, that's correct.
The only other thing that I want to clarify is if we give them let's say 65,000 and they don't use the 65,000, the money will come back to us, but if we undercut and we only give them 50,000 and they cannot complete the project, what happens, they would ask for a change of order and ask for more.
Yeah, they would the Mingroking jump in here too. I know he's still on here, but basically it's a change order that they request
There's it's a lot of paperwork. Basically the Mingo would would process the paperwork. You would turn around and send it back to CDVG and
Obviously there'd still be some funds left over if you know however you guys decided to do your the allocation
There there's still funds left over in that account to where CDVG could award additional money is to cover
The cost of anything. It was an expected basically as long as it was in that
But what the county is recommending is that we overallocate to make sure that you cover your
costs and that you take anything and stuff to over and put back into your own program.
But again, it depends on the projects that you want to approve.
They approve only the alarm system for 13,000 if you want.
So it's up to the council to decide how you want to help keep funding.
Well, I would recommend if we were the funding available and this is something that we
can actually do and we actually manage the project as an overseer from start to finish
to whatever contractor, I don't see any reservation if we got the money to do it, why not
do it, as long as we are the ones that control the expenditures outcome and the workers
aren't correctly.
That's my two cents. Anything else from the governors?
I do. I have a question. So I realize this also has to be prevailing wages that correct.
that I was looking here to see really quick but none of time to let on what they submitted
they as in Desert Manna for their request. Did they break it down for the roof and then for each
individual thing or did they just didn't they just give us like a lump sum of what they were asking for
and then they had prioritized what they wanted to do with each other age 359 of the agenda.
They'll see where they paid their request. It was $66,000 for construction, but that included the parking lot.
They included the parking lot. Yes, correct. You wanted $13,500 for the alarm or security system.
So a total of $7,9,500.
I think you know the parking lot's not inappropriate.
You go back to what Pierre Pro Tim Rose was saying,
deallicated, let's say $65,000, $6,000, $6,000, $6,000, $6,000, $6,000, $6,000, $6,000, $6,000, $6,000, $6,000.
If you're doing just a regular roof job with the composite tiles up there are singles, you probably
are in the 50,000 zone, I would thank someone 50, 55. So if you're to allocate, what I was
saying, the full 66 that could potentially do the roof and the security system, if you wanted
to do that, or you could do the roof only, or the security system only.
I see.
Can I also jump in on what they might possibly have assumed would go towards allocation on
page 337.
There are some dates and milestones here.
And then a milestone for the roof repair is November 30th, 2021.
that data reimbursement request was only $8,500.
So I'm not sure if that one's to be taken into consideration as well.
Thank you.
Thank you for that, Amanda.
Any other comments from the governors?
As we're on item number 22?
I have no comment on it.
I move that we go ahead and do the 66K for the construction of the roof and the along system and what is not used be returned back.
I will second that.
I will include the 1278 to be funded from the on a lot.
Can you please repeat that?
So, Kim Sola, Council on Summer. Can you repeat that? That's for the, for the, for the
interesting to make it one motion because also include funding the shortage of call
78 from the on-alligated balance.
So noted.
I'm going to remove what would have to agree to that. Yes.
And I have.
And the second.
Yeah. Okay. So we were first in a second, any further discussion?
Okay, we'll call for the vote.
I'm for Selva.
Yes.
I'm for member Noble.
Yes.
I'm for member Cruz.
Yes.
I'm for Tem Rose.
Yes.
I'm there.
Courtney.
Yes.
Pass you unanimously.
Okay.
We're going to go to item number 23.
In the presenter is consulting analyst.
and subject matter expert planner Rebecca Thorpe.
Mr. Mayor before Mr. Thorpe begins a presentation.
There is one refusal required here.
Okay, I'd be that is a councilwoman.
Cruz.
Yes, I need to recruit myself please for just a conflict of conflict.
No problem.
We understand.
Okay.
And I have a question, yes, I'll solve if I don't believe I need to refuse myself.
I did have a family member that was a real estate agent in the sale of a car, but that
is a closed deal.
And Council Member Silva, I will assume that the family member at the state being cited
is not your spouse nor a dependent minor children.
If neither is true, then you are not required to refuse.
That's far enough distance that no recusals require.
Thank you.
And with that, for Council Member Dyer Cruz, having reduced that thank you in the Zoom world
that having dropped off audio and video, Council is having left the room as we're doing in person.
And with that, I will turn it over to Ms. Thorpe for the presentation.
Thank you.
I do have a question.
Because for transparency, would it be okay for us to understand why she recuse for herself from this?
I can provide a brief explanation in compliance with local law.
Council over dire crews as employer is Mr. Lewis, Mr. Lewis is the property owner of
this, the underlying property owner of the proposed site.
And as her employer is subterred at the application, we can use the required.
Thank you.
Thank you for that.
Subterred, may I have an expert, Rebecca?
Thorpe.
Thank you, Mayor and Council.
This item is a conditional use permit.
It was appealed from planning commission.
Conditional use permit 20-0015 to allow for the use of a cycling center and storage containers within the human services zoning district.
The address is 2160 East Main Street.
The APN is at 0, 4, 2, 4, 1, 0, 0, 3, dash, 1, 4, the parcel is about 450, and 100 feet wide
with the existing vacant building on the north side and an existing vacant residence on
the south end.
There is an existing 12-foot utility easement.
You guys can just see the Google map correct?
Yes.
For me, my screen is split.
But there's an existing 12-foot utility easement on the storage facility side that's incorrectly labeled in the report as a road but it's a utility easement.
The staff is requiring a 12-foot farling so that emergency vehicles could reach the back house of the property, a commercial driveway, curb gutter and sidewalk or fee and lieu of the sidewalk shall maintain landscaping.
They will provide vector control if there are any rodents mosquitoes or birds, so if they have open
top containers, they need to be covered when not in use.
The site will have material or paving in any area used by the recycling center, so the middle
area cannot remain as dirt.
This is also reflected in the Mojave Desert air that is attached.
The North End is industrial, the BNSF railroad.
The South End is a residential parcel.
The East End is a storage facility.
The West End is Desert Sun's Outdoors.
And the application was denied by planning commission in a two-to-one vote.
The reason is giving for the denial of application around the grounds that is too close to residential.
So, it has been requested that I show you how close residential is in other locations of the city.
So, this is GNS recycling.
Oh, is it requested by me?
It was requested by me, ma'am.
Thank you so much.
So, I'll just jump in really fast to help her back on this part.
Basically, what we wanted to do is the main concern of our planning commissioner was that the location of the proposed recycling facility is extremely close to a residential neighborhood, which will jump back to that eventually, but you can stay right there, Becca.
So basically the planning commissioner had a objective of there was one residential home directly behind this facility as you can see, you see those two, you see where the yellow yellow pan is, this is where the majority of the containers will be and then the recycling facility will be up towards the top, that's where you would the clients will be, there's a home, there's an existing vacant home that's right here on the property and there were back a circling.
And then the occupied residence is the one that's all the way in the back, back here.
Everything to the left are to the west of the property is actually a tow yard, that's not a 24-7 operation.
Then you have the recycling facility, a storage facility that is to the east.
And that's what is surrounding it.
But the reasoning for denial from the planning commissioners were from the one kept planning commissioner was,
that it was too close to neighboring residential community, which is Arbor Way, which if you scroll back,
keep going a little bit more, Rebecca, down. You can see Arbor Way and all that is over here.
So what I asked Rebecca was to do is to provide the location of two existing recycling facilities
that are in our community and show exactly how close they are to residential properties on those ones.
So that you guys can have a better understanding of the other facilities that are in our community as well.
And the main thing that's driving this recycling facility is there's a state law that came out is it's calorie cycle.
They are requiring parties, parties meet and also Jack's liquor, it's on the corner.
Since they're within a half a mile of what they consider, like a grocery store, which is Walmart.
Since the news, since it became a super Walmart, they consider that a grocery store now.
So that facility, any location around that has to, they have to pre-el the provide within
a half a mile of location, they have to provide recycling, which takes back your CRD, you know,
your soda cans and your milk jugs and stuff like that.
So, the other facilities are what we believe put us on the map was, so pretty much Jack's
liquor and parties meet, has both received letters that they're going to be find by a
calorie cycle if they do not start accepting recyclables at their facilities.
So now, whenever this facility came up, we told them to hold off until maybe because neither
one of them want to accept recycling at their facilities because one of them is a meat market
and they feel that it would be detrimental to their clientele to have that there. So that's why
whenever this project came forward, they held off, but they're actually getting fined by the state
with color cycle on not providing the CRB redemption. We're under $1 a day if they don't provide
So that's one of the main things, and that's why I asked Rebecca to also provide the additional locations of our other recycling facilities where they can actually, she can show you how close they are to residential neighborhoods as well.
So go ahead Rebecca, sorry, sorry for so long on that.
No, I was good.
You just took the second half of my presentation.
I'm not complaining at all.
So you can see this is the all recycling center.
And for a few years, this is all residential here,
and this is still residential at the back.
And then down here is residential as well.
It's actually recently been bought
By another organization that's going, I believe they're putting houses back in that area that they've cleared out was there at the moment.
And then this one right here, this is GNS recycling.
And there's a residential house right here, and there's other residential looks.
I'm still in this circular.
That's about 200 feet away from the recycling center.
So that's the existing, the two existing recycling centers and the residential next to them.
So if you wanted to put that into perspective, these ones right here,
that's probably where they're going to have their last container.
So that one's also about 200 feet away.
Let's see.
And just to point out, we condition the CUP, like we do every single CUP, if there's issues
at that property code enforcement will be involved. If there's other issues at the property,
you know what we'll get every department involved that needs to be involved. We've been working
with the applicant to mitigate any issues that we see that they're showing the containers off the
They're trying to do the best they can, they complied with AQMD on putting down the base material throughout the property so that they've satisfied their requirements.
So all this was presented to the Planning Commission and they chose not to approve this and now the applicant has basically objected to that and now it's come to Council for your guys's recommendation on.
What would you guys see fit with this?
Well, I have a few questions about the match.
I did go through the site.
I actually walked the site to look at.
And I didn't realize that there was a resonance on the property far back that was occupied,
because it didn't appear as though either was occupied.
Actually, one is not, you can't even occupy on the property.
Then obviously there was one in the back.
Then I found out about the penalties that are being levied upon two local businesses.
In the necessity of having a recycling center within the appropriate proximity.
Then I, when I visited the other two, I'll recycling sites because one of the actually is a neighbor to where I have, I have interest in a property.
And residents were much closer.
I mean, it just, you know, and...
I thought, man, you know, the distance, the residents are actually closer to the other sites, you know, how
our why would we actually not approve a business that wants to do business in March, don't first of
all, which is, I think, God for anybody at this point, because after visiting a lot of locations
and cities, we're one of the few cities where people aren't lying up to new business. And we also
way he wants to do business. And they're going to provide a business that's necessary to avoid penalties
of two existing, this is done quite well in their town.
I was as far as I guess at the, why would it have been denied at the Panic Commissioner
Local?
Because I was actually delighted to see this show up on the agenda because I don't know
the details of the history, but it definitely appears as though the Panic Commissioners
definitely made a incorrect decision based on the reality,
proximity, doing business, saving expenses on existence,
business, et cetera.
And so Chris, I would actually, you are a top building
official as well as our farm marshal.
You've been around for 14 years or so.
You've seen this coming all over the place.
You know, what would you, what would you,
What is your opinion on this particular business as, you know,
expert in this area, as well as, I mean, also put the same question to our city planner
because, you know, that's why she's here, you know, we, we just depend on our staff
to make decisions and recommendations to us to what's to do with the best for Barshton.
With all fairness, Mayor, our city planner doesn't have an opinion on this one.
Let me jump in.
Me and Brad can talk about this a little bit.
I wanted to add, these are just two of the facilities that have reached out to us
that have received letters.
There's also another facility over there, which is a MPM.
They're a larger corporation, so we haven't heard from them.
So I don't know what they're planning on doing.
But basically, any facility that sells the CRV product within a half a mile, Walmart is going to get hit with fines and different things until they start accepting the CRV.
So, I think what happened was, is what put this all on the radar was whenever the facility in the state or brothers shopping center, whenever they had a business.
That's a large corporation that was doing the recycling in Staterburg's shopping center.
Whenever that one went out of business, then I believe Calre's cycle for, you know,
because it was a large corporation and they pretty much left California.
So whenever this happened, I believe that's why super Walmart and all those places got put on the map,
and that's why these are businesses that are getting targeted for this.
Do I, the only other option is, is someone's going to have to put a facility somewhere, and that's the whole thing, so you either, and the other facilities do not want to have these at their location, because for example, parties meet, they're regulated by the health department.
Whenever you have these types of operations, sometimes you know there's just other things that are involved with it, but they just don't want to have that at their facility because they don't have space for it.
We want to allow them to just put containers out in the middle of their parking lot like, so this facility that is being proposed I think is a good compromise.
Instead of putting in the middle of the parking lot, so I mean, there's it's ultimately up to council and what they see is the best fit for our community.
But I think it's a good compromise of the location.
You can't make everybody happy and that's the ultimate.
That's the ultimate thing here.
Well, and true, let me let me chime in here, but as staff members, we took this complaining
commission and recommended it. So we came up with the conditions. We outlined all the
problems that we thought we're going to be with the site, and then we conditioned it accordingly.
So we took that the planning commission with our recommendation to approve it. Okay. Okay, thank you,
Thank you, Brett Murl, for clarifying that and as well as stating that you took it to the
planning commission as the experts on this particular new business that's willing to invest
and it helped improve our community and you recommended it and obviously your recommendation
wasn't embraced or embraced or for like a better term, the value at the time. Therefore,
this applicant is now submitted to the governor's and we're in a position to do what's best
for Barstho. And then we just heard from our talk, Bill in the official, and he is clearly stated
that it is a suitable compromise.
So, you know, known afters and factors and the penalty,
being a part of existing businesses that are doing well and that have not made a decision
to leave our town who have not given up. I've seen the best inches of doing what's best
for personal. It sounds like to me. This is the new business that can mean the need that's necessary
and important. Jessica reads, letify the trash situation with recycling and online in
in our opening presentation.
So based on Jessica Wade and her presentation
with recycling and movement for it,
based on you being an expert in this area,
did all the things to mitigate the reality
of having a problem and it's no better than me.
I mean, this is no better than me.
This is how the question for staff.
Good for business.
Yes, Councilman, Councilman Soma.
Yes, Ms. Marl, could you have been back the map of the property that we're looking at approving?
And my question is going to be on the one letter we have complaint.
You know, not that one, but the, I'd like to go with them.
Yeah, I mean, to go there.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yes. Okay. So the one letter of complaint, it gives an address on East Main Street,
which would make him a neighbor, but you're saying the only residents are up on armor play.
Yeah. That's one right. Now there's there's one direct right there. Right there.
Right there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the one on the one on Main Street,
don't want the one cut on the letter complaining. Okay. So is that a residence?
That right there is actually the tow yard facility. Okay. So it's not a residence.
That, that location, no, maybe maybe to the further to the east or I mean to the west, Rebecca, if you go, or maybe that location is one, I'm not 100% sure, but that is a tow yard in between.
Okay, so there is no residential other than the one behind it, which is right here.
That's up to property or the eastern west side.
Yeah, so so here's the one thing I want to add to this is that house that she had that Rebecca has her
purse or thing on that house. So there's here's the thing there's an access.
So is there is a utility easement that goes right down the right next to that storage facility.
It's a I believe it's 12 foot wide. There's a sewer main that actually goes through that area right there
and there's some power bowls there.
The owner or the renter of that facility,
he actually drives it off a maister
and drives down that utility access.
I watched the planning commission meeting,
so I got all that.
So now I only concern is the address
2150 East Main Street.
He's the one complaining and asking that we do not approve this.
So I'm just trying to find that location,
because he's make it so like he's a resident,
Next to 2160, our subject property, is can you pull that up Rebekah?
Just click on that house Rebekah of that APN on Google, and it'll
should show the address.
Unfortunately, it shows the mailing address, too.
So I don't want to click it well.
I'm sharing it.
Okay.
I just want to clarify.
That's a toll in yard on the website.
the right side.
2160.
Desert and Suns is 2150.
Yeah, and Desert and Suns is the actual.
That's the total.
And that's the total yard.
Okay.
Yeah, 2160 is the total yard.
2150.
I believe it's the total yard, right?
2150.
Thank you.
That's all I had.
Thank you.
You're welcome, Councilman.
Sova.
You mean he else from the governors?
If not all that.
We see any other public comments.
In reference to this, it's be kickla property.
I don't know about public comments, but there was two letters dropped off by the business owners,
which was parties, parties meet, the owner of parties meet.
And there was another letter dropped off by the owner of Jack's liquor,
and both of those facilities have dropped off letters and support.
We've had during the planning commission, I think there was three or four letters,
which I believe both of them were the one from the 2150 and Mr. Silver
referring to, and then also that property directly behind,
which is owned, both of those properties are owned by one gentleman.
And I want to stay for the record. I do not receive the letters in support.
Okay. I did. I received them today. What happened was they were they were dropped off and I took those.
They didn't put them into the public comment. They just dropped off letters in support of it.
I can afford those off to you guys or I can have Mr.
They were emailed to the council, but it was late.
It was about six, something so it's very possible that you guys didn't get a chance to look at your city and not see them, but they were sent off.
And as they were emailed to the full council, they are part of the record for this project.
They were emailed to the whole council.
Okay, so the the property under where the hand is right now
Down go back to South right there
What is the who is the owner that and has that owner?
Said anything about the existing
recycling center. Yes, so
Property owner owns this long property and these two properties. Yes, so it's it's all one owner and then there's a
ten it that's in the residential home right there and there's a ten it in the front
commercial property which is the tow facility but there is its one owner they own the whole thing
and then Rebecca if you can keep going on that long behind the tow yard no behind the tow yard
the tow yard if you keep coming all the way down the tow yard there's a big metal building no
over one go to the east no the other way there right there that she has her mouse on that's actually
metal building, that that owner installed, and that's, basically, it's a commercial facility too.
And so it's all one, it's all one owner that owns all that property right there.
Okay.
That's one of the questions I had.
Anything else from the government is not a offer of vote?
I'll move I will second it
if there's no further discussion. Let's call for the vote.
Councilmember Selva. Yes. Councilmember Noble. Yes.
Mayor Pertem Rose. Yes. Mayor Courtney. Yes.
Your motion is passed. Okay. We're going to go to the agenda item 24.
The President or this agenda item is CD Attorney Matthew Summers.
We need to get there.
There she is, Council member of the Senate.
I pause there to give her a chance to return, so this is item number 24, which is the proposed
city administrator ordinance.
I'll provide a very brief report mindful that all I'm sure have read the report.
This is the ordinance that the council, consider the question of how to restructure if at all the city manager position into a different approach at the meeting in January, not the seventh, the one after that, the 21st and the council provided direction to me to draft a city administrator ordinance, I recognize it was a divided vote.
But acting as directed by the majority, I prepared the attached proposed ordinance which
re-forms the position of city manager to instead be city administrator.
It provides in summary that anywhere in the code, that is the varsity of municipal code,
that whether the term city manager is used shall be reformed to be city administrator.
The powers and duties will be the same as the city manager with several key exceptions,
including that the city council will have the power to hire and discipline and terminate
city department heads as defined by the city's personnel policies and procedures.
The city administrator would have the power to hire, discipline, and terminate all other city employees.
minus, of course, the elected officials, myself, city attorney, and the elected city
treacher in city clerk.
The election's predictions period that existed previously in 90 days would be adjusted
It's gonna be 30 days, that is...
This is the provision that provides that the city administrator cannot be removed. Currently, it's city manager cannot be removed 90 days after an election. That would be revised to be 30 days after an election.
The existing provisions requiring a hearing and certain specified notices to the city manager upon his or her removal would be deleted.
And instead, the city council could remove a city administrator at any time provided, of course, they act in compliance with the putable law, including a recorded majority vote of the mayor and whole council in a doing notice council meeting.
The city council would be permitted to consider the aforementioned city department had employment actions in a closed session.
With the note that there are several other requires at the employees option to consider specific charges to be in open session and otherwise adjustments throughout to adjust the balance of power between the city council and the city administrator to favor the city council.
the entire approach is lawful because government code section 34851 at sec
allow the city council to adopt the council manager form of government
as has currently in place and has been for some time.
The government code also allows the city council to not select the city manager form of government
And instead, the council, the default would be what's often called the city administrator form of government and operates under government protection 30505 provided that the city council would be the one to appoint the city's department heads.
Last, I'll note that department heads would be defined by the council at present using the adopted 2022 to through 2022 by annual budget.
Department heads would be the commitment director, the finance director, the fire chief, the police chief, the assistant city manager which would be reformed to be assistant city administrator.
Obviously, all of those positions minus the fire chief and the police chief are vacant, so it would fall to this to the council where this ordinance to be adopted to decide
A, which of those positions to maintain and be if maintained would have the power to affirm
Promotion or hiring of persons in those positions upon the recommendation of the city administrator.
With that, I am available for questions.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for that Matthew Summers.
I'll at this point in time I'll open the floor for a discussion from the governor's, and I will start with
May I put you on the ropes?
I've had a chance to review the ordinance proposed ordinance, so I really don't have any comment.
You know, it's pretty straightforward, and it's similar to what we're going, you know, if it's approved
we were doing this in 2013 if I'm not mistaken it was already being done and it's kind of
similar to what we do in my opinion it would be like what we do with K through 12 and even at
the college district that everything would go through their the border trustees so it's familiar
to me on how the structure would be so I think that it gives it provides good checks and balances
to give the council the latitude to also be involved with some of that decision making. So it's pretty
straight forward. So that's pretty much all I have to say about this. Thank you. We have to return
our referrals. Councilwoman Rowan Cruz, you're the one that introduced this initially. I don't
I see the work Merlin cruise.
I do have just a couple of questions.
I am looking at Section 2.08.030.
Council member eligibility.
And so my question is actually to our city attorney.
Is that something that's new or has that always been in our code?
Council member eligibility has always been in the code in the ordinance and this is for those
following along on page 360 of the packet section 20803O. All of the text here that is straight
text neither underlined nor struck through is the current code. This struck through text is the
current code that's proposed to be deleted and the underlined is the current is new text that
be proposed to replace it. So the current code prohibits any person who is elected to the city council
after their election to be eligible for appointed a city manager for a period of their service
on council plus one year. That's the current code prohibition. All I propose with this ordinance
to update the reference to city manager to be city administrator. Okay, I mean I was never, I was never
really aware of that.
Maybe I just, obviously, didn't, didn't really research that, but when I saw that, I
thought a council member being eligible, I was a little thrown on that.
Well, the entire part of my name is, council members are not eligible.
Right.
Exactly.
Is that eligible during their circumstances?
I wanted that to, to definitely understand that.
Now the other and just one more question quickly.
The part here about 30 days to evaluate or we have 30 days and I know previously it was 90 days.
So is that is that I don't want to say normal or is that average for a 30 day?
I mean, 90 days seems a little long, but so I was wondering, 30 days, is that, is that, and you think that's an acceptable amount of time?
I want to chime in on that if I may. I also think that the 30 days is a short. I mean, a new council member coming in like me, 30 days to evaluate a city manager or to get rid of them. I don't even have my feet wet on knowing what the policies procedures are.
So I'm thinking that 30 days is kind of short, I honestly think that 90 days is fair.
That's three months to get to know that city manager and to do an evaluation if we want to do an evaluation.
Thank you.
May I vote?
No.
That was just something that really kind of threw me and I thought, geez, I wanted to ask on that.
Is that something new or has that always existed?
So, no, that was really, that was really only my only comment. Everything else is, as the councilman rose stated that, you know, I don't think the community realizes that we had always been a city administrative rent city and in 2013 it was changed. So, that's, we're just kind of going back to.
more eyes, more checks and balances, just being able to have a stay in it, it's still a majority.
It's still a majority vote of the council as well as the city administrator slash manager.
So it's not it's still a majority vote on something like this.
But no, that's that's my only question that that really kind of threw me a little bit.
Thank you. Thank you very much, Nelson and Cruz. I want to go to the point where he may I go may I ask one clarification because I didn't hear anything from Matthew Summers. The 30 days if we wanted to extend that to let's say 60 days. Would this be the time to do it if it worked, you know, to recommend that.
Be careful.
Go try.
If Casa wants to adjust the proposed substitution of 30 for 90 days, either keep it at 90
for dropping set the middle of 60, this would be the time in the motion that introduced
the ordinance as maybe desired.
The other point to answer the other line question comes over to our cruise.
The cities have this clause rate.
It varies fairly heavily.
I'm not sure there's a standard length.
I've seen anywhere between 3060 and 90 days, the wisdom of the lengths is a pure positive choice
I will leave to the council, but any of the three are defensible.
It is what's noting that there's nothing that in state law that requires on election protections
clause, it doesn't have to exist.
It's fairly common, because in most cases, councils who hired a city manager will want to
ensure that the decision that they've made require some of the evaluation before they can
under as this council has well experienced. So somewhere in that 30-60-90, all of those are
typical and within that choice it's really just about where the council finds it.
Okay, thank you very much for that Matthew Summers. I'm going to go, I'm going to move to
a councilman James Noble for comments then council and so on. And then if there's any further
discussion we'll go here and then we'll call for the councilman. So what?
Let me tell you something else from the noble.
Yes, ma'am.
As I read this, some of the same things that we have discussed over the last couple of
council meeting about this, this ordinance.
The ordinance that was previously on day was nothing was wrong with it.
Now we're changing it to the language to where the council now can make some decisions based
on city manager, not being able to make those decisions that he or she had in the past.
And I just feel that the changing the language so that council members who are elected officials
who have no date of the interaction with city employees will now make a decision on an employee
or hiring and hiring in a head of a department. I don't think that's fair. I don't agree with this
change, but
I'll leave it at that. I just don't agree with it. Thank you. Thank you very much,
Councilman Sola?
I have a couple of questions and I'll save my discussion for after motion.
If there's a motion in second.
I'm going to start with section two zero eight zero five zero temporary manager.
So I'm going to do these there.
The managers subject to approval of this and the council.
We'll select the department head to serve as the pro-temp.
So that's fine.
We got to have somebody not ready to go second and charge.
But if we go to 208070,
Section 18, it says in the absence of the city administrative
the Marin City Council, so higher or point, an employee to serve as acting in the Interim City
Manager.
It's administrative.
So, you can have a little bit of conflict there, and that one's under removal of the
City Administrator.
So, if we remove the administrator, we're going to have the second-in-command, taking
second-in-command and a council thinking, no, we've got ready to the administrator, so you're
not in command.
We're going to put somebody in command.
I think we need some clarification between 2, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0 and section 18 or 2, 0, 0, 7, 0, which ways are
going to be, do we have a second-in command or if we get rid of city administrator, then second-in
command is gone too.
That's it. Would you like to chime in on that? I have it to provide some clarity. Of course, the
It's intended to structure 208.050 applies in the temporary absence or disability, and
absence of disability that is not permanent and is expected to resolve with the return
of the existing currently city manager as proposed city administrator.
Then that situation, the number two, the second in command, would be designated and would
Another situation covered in 208-078, it's the complete absence of the City Administrator,
meaning that the position is vacant, or the person is on leave not expected to return.
In that case, the Council could hire an acting or an interim administrator, and we could
in the permanent absence at the work permanent, the permanent absence of the City Administrator,
the Mayor of Council shall hire or appoint City Glory to Service Acting or Interim.
And I recognize those a little bit of an overlap, but it's sort of because both sections require
consent of the council, it gives the council a little ability to select where we are,
and the allowance under 208.050 for the City Administrator to make an appointment allows the City Administrator to make an appointment before Council consent can be secured ensuring there's never a gap in service.
Thank you very much for that clarification, Matthew Summers.
We have a further question on that clarification. So on on stuff such an 18 where it says, okay, so it says the mayor and city council shall, that word shall hire, it doesn't mean that we have to hire within we could go outside correct.
Yeah, because here shall hire or appoint a city employee, that means you're required to hire someone to be a city employee, not that they have to be an existing city employee.
And that could be clarified further if desired.
Yes, I would like that. I don't want any gray areas, and that should be I think clarified.
So that we could be shall hire or point a person to serve as an acting or an interim.
That would I think make that point planer.
I don't I still don't think or person because a good, you know, person could say, well,
it person within I think that we need to clarify that we could still have that liberty to go out.
Outside of City Hall.
A person who may be a city employee or mayor may not be a city employee.
Yeah, may or may or may not be a city employee to serve as an active or in our interim city
administrator and they're on that would cover that point.
Thank you for that Matthew Summers with the concurrence of the council. Of course.
Any any any further discussion from the yes, the section to zero eight zero to zero under
Residency. If this was to pass just to keep it in conformity, you still have city manager versus city administrator in line number three.
Thank you for the correction.
Thank you.
There's no further discussion.
I'd like to go further discussion on the 36 year 90 days.
But I still don't believe the 30 days, I think that 30 days is too short.
I don't believe in the motion.
I thought we were going to go to 60.
I believe Matthew, we're going to meet the mental, but maybe I'm not for me to make a recommendation.
I didn't hear consensus on 30, 60 or 90.
And I propose, honestly, I think 90 is fair.
That's what I would propose.
So 90, that's three months.
That's a very short period of time.
Merbaton, that could just be put in the motion.
So are you making a motion?
Merbaton,
that this moves forward with a 90-day
recommendation as far as the review period.
I would like to go ahead and make the motion
to move forward with the changes that we discussed this evening,
which Matthew, if you can repeat those changes to us along with the 90-day after an election.
Yes, happy to all summarize those. That would be a motion to introduce the ordinance in the changes in order.
Section 208O20 residents, correct, city manager in the third line becomes city administrator.
In section 208O70, subsection 18, removal of city administrator.
And the final sentence would be revised to read as follows.
In the absolute, in the permanent absence of the city administrator.
And actually if you'll allow me expected permanent absence.
of the city administrator, the mayor and city council shell hire or a point, a person who may or may not be a city employee to serve as an acting or interim city administrator under the provisions of sections 208O 208O 303O and 208O 50 of this code and other applicable law.
and any acting or in terms of the administrator shall reside at a location within 60 minutes
standard response time to bar stows to be all and then in section two,
fo 8, 070, subsection 20, to keep that at and this is where the motion was 90 days,
may I put on rows rather than 30 days?
Yes, and did the 60 minutes change as well?
I don't, is that new the 60 minutes because I thought it was 30 years.
Oh, I trust it was 30 minutes.
I apologize for not calling that out of my earlier staff report.
That was actually changed that I made on the recommendation of Dr. Hart reflecting a certain reality setting at 60 minutes
As the recommendation from staff rather than 30, of course, it's staff's, it's council's choice.
And I apologize for not calling that out in the earlier brief summary.
Part of my motion, I mean, I would like to change that back to, you know, 35 minutes, 60 minutes is an hour away.
It's not longer.
If I could, here was by thinking on that, it takes me about 45 minutes from 395 in Victor
Rill and Bear Valley Road to get here.
So if you make that 35 minutes, you're pretty much limiting your, I guess, eligible group
to probably north of Apple Valley or, and that's about it.
So I was saying 60 minutes just to give you a greater circle to choose from and that was what my thinking was kind of recommended
that you're muted.
Thank you. My way of thinking is that we're talking to the city manager and and you know 35 even 40 minutes.
I'd like that city manager if they cannot make it within 35 40 minutes, they should be living in Barsdale.
That is our city manager, and that's what I would like to see that I think just think 16 minutes is too long.
Because we really ideally have that city manager live in Barsdale.
But what does everybody else think?
I'm just asking before I add that to the motion.
First of all, the permanent city manager.
Should live in 92311 automatically, because if he or she is only the permanent city manager,
the only way the permanent city manager knows what's going on on bar stuff is their
engaged in bar stuff.
Therefore, that means they're a resident of bar stuff.
If they're in Apple Valley or are a victim of the or the city manager, I'm not saying
that they don't care about what happens in Marshal,
but you don't realize varsune and turn your resonant here,
because then all you see what's happens
in two and a afternoon, at two and a two at night.
And when you sort of experience in that,
that reality checks it in.
I'm only speaking for myself,
I've been a resident of Marshal since birth,
how I live in 90 in the beach for 30 years.
I thought I knew Marshal.
I moved the Marshal 2018, and wow,
what a difference I'm living here.
It's a whole different reality when you live here,
opposed to go back and forth every day to a different area.
And so I was mentioned to say,
yeah, 30 minutes is a good time, but 35,
but an hour that that puts us right back in the same situation again,
people can tune up the live here because, you know,
it's to live in Barça, you've got to love some Barça of the live here,
because I can very easy myself, give you living in the screen when you're late,
where I own a hole or I can live on the beach.
I have a condominium down there,
but I choose to be here in a like, wow.
It's pretty interesting living in a 24-7.
This is where I think just to clarify,
that section relates to interim manager,
not the permanent manager, and that's what my thought was.
And it, and I'll also add the point,
stay on for history from requiring any city manager
permanent order in term to live in the city limits, however, the city is instead allow
to set this required response time.
I would expect that the council in searching for a permanent city manager would take into
account any particular candidates response time to city hall and could set a minimum response
time in the city manager contract and the city council can also, as was done previously,
although subject we're not going to come on, provide for incentives for someone
does a living city to move into the city again as maybe individually
we go shaded comma candidate and certainly that can be part of the
recruitment effort for the permanent city manager.
So, as to the
choice in this moment, 35, 40, 60 council policy choices. So we'll all look
for the motion as it may be said. Okay, you know what, I think that Dr.
heart you actually said it in where I actually wanted it again and you are correct that is
that section subsection 18 is talking about acting or interim city manager now I understand why you
put the 60 minutes there and now that Matthew has spoken about putting it into the contract it makes
sense that we can revise that in an actual contract for the actual permanent city manager so I'm okay
with the 60 minutes on the interim.
Thank you.
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
I'll just note the permanent provision is the 208 O20.
And that require that reflects state law.
It doesn't require residents within the city limits.
But it does provide for the required.
The required permanent city manner response time or permanent city administrator.
Response time to be that set by the personnel policies or a political employment contract.
So that last piece is being added, and that would reflect the council can negotiate how far away the city manager will live and then that's bound by the code and the contract.
So that creates some flexibility there under what's proposed.
And there'll be last piece on if I could raise it on election days just to make sure again that it's conscious choice.
Section 20870, Subsection 3, Power of Equipment, also adds as proposed subject to Council
Choice on Election Protection Section for Departments, reflecting that they're now being
decisions being made by City Council.
The question would be if you wanted to set that at the same number of days as the City
Minister.
I would like to speak on that and I think that is absolutely fair as well, but that's my opinion.
So, you know, I'm waiting for the consensus of council because right now we have a motion on the floor and that would be part of the motion.
So, if you allow me, I was a little summarizing the motion when a couple of points came up.
I'll re-summerize what I understood your motion to be subject to your confirmation
Mayor Pro Tem, Rose, and it is your motion.
So, it would be to introduce the ordinance adjustment to Section 20802O residents, replace
City Manual Administrator. Second, in section 208, 070, subsection 3, provide 90 days
election protection for department heads. Section 208, 070, subsection 18, that last sentence
would read as in the absence of the in the expected permanent absence of the City Administrator.
The mayor and city council shall hire or point a person who may or may not be a city employee to serve as an acting or or interim city administrator.
Under the provisions of sections 208 020 208 030 208 050 of this code and other applicable law.
and any acting or interim,
sitting in the hospital shall reside
at a location within 60 minutes,
stand a response time.
Again, that's for the acting or interim,
and then in subsection 208-070,
subsection 20,
to provide 90 day election protection clause
rather than 30 for the permanent city administrator.
That's what I understood to be your motion subject to your confirmation.
Yes, that's what I would like to propose as a motion.
And what that will require a second and then be appropriate for discussion.
I will second that.
Okay, now we're open for discussion.
Any further discussion?
From the governor.
Just a quick, just a quick question.
Referring to the 60 minutes.
Really, only time that will be used in the event of the crisis that the city manager or acting.
city management needs to be here but not we're not referring as a day-to-day operation
when back and forth to work in this net because there could be an accident on 15 or
whatever the case may be. You got to allow some some leeway. So I think 60 minutes is
a reasonable amount of time regardless where anyone is if you have to drive.
Okay, make sense. Yeah, definitely. Well, I, you know, when I get what you're saying,
but those are anomalies. And my opinion, those are anomalies. You know, a traffic accident.
And it's not the day to day. The day to day would be the expectation that the turnaround time,
but that would be in the contract of the permanent city manager, just anomaly, you know,
a fire on the road, an accident, bad weather just anomalies. So I think that when we get to that portion,
when we are hiring a permanent city manager, that would be...
Thank you for that Mayor Pro Tem. Does that address your concern there? Councilman Nobles? Nobles? Okay, thank you, sir.
Yeah, it's not fine. Any further discussion? Yes. Yes. Councilman Timson.
Yes. This passes. This will be the way we do business. So, no one take the vote personal. We just have differences on the way.
Business should be there, but we'll do it the way the majority says.
Okay. Thank you, sir. Okay.
I'm going to call for the vote, Andrea Flores.
Council member Selva?
No.
Council member Noble?
No.
Council member Cruz?
Yes.
Mayor Courtney?
Yes.
Your motion has passed.
I want to thank everybody for their contribution on a very, very vital topic.
I want to thank their protein, rosis specifically for highlighting a lot of very, very necessary topics and specific matters.
I want to thank our senior attorney Matthew for providing clarification on the on the on the on the on the topics as well as Councilman Sava thank you for your specifics you're input as well as Councilman Noble and thank you Councilwoman Cruz for bringing this topic for it because it was necessary and I I know for a fact that
and so I kind of cleared up the majority of spoken.
This is what we're going to do with the business
and we're going to move forward.
Let's see, I think we'll...
I think you have a clarification.
This was first reading correct.
Yes, sir.
That's correct.
It will return for adoption as desired
at your next meeting on consent.
Thank you.
Okay, so there's no deferred items.
Are there any further committee reports
from Councilman Solo, Councilwoman Cruz,
Councilman Noble, Miracle Tumbo Reyes at this time.
I did attend a scrutin meeting on March 3.
The chair for that committee is the Council member
Dreyer Cruz, I'll let her give them minutes.
And Homer Bound on Wednesday, March 10th,
and the chair for that committee is Mayor Perth,
Temprims, so I'll let her give the minutes on that meeting.
Thank you.
Thank you, Kazman Tumsova. We'll go to Marrapo Tim, Robert O'Se, going to your report
as well as a minutes on the community that you lead home at now.
Thank you. So we did meet on March 10th, and we had discussed the COVID-19 crisis update. Amanda
Hernandez had shared at that meeting that there were vaccines being rolled out to food industries,
These agricultural industries, teachers, and so on, and that there was a vaccine expressed
in Victorville, in coordination with the BVTA, the transportation, but I believe that's just
within Victorville area.
We also discussed the Desert Regional Steering Committee update, and there wasn't much there,
but we are going to continue to discuss that.
And then I'm really happy to announce that we did receive
four really strong applicants to fill the vacancy
of the committee member for this committee
and Councilman members Silva and I discussed
four applicants, it was a tough decision,
but we landed up selecting EDC for,
not sure if I say her name correctly, her last name. She brings a wealth of knowledge as
the others, but we're really excited that not only is she going to be a committee member, but
the other three applicants are going to remain very active in our forum. They bring some valuable
inputs, so I'm excited about that. And let me see, then we talked about our strategic plan,
homeless actions to teach you a plan and what I would like to re-emphasizes that every homeless
individual that we deal with, there's not a one case fits all. It's every individual has
their challenges and their goals as to what they may want to do and they may not even have the
capacity is to where they want to be, but we are, we are diving deeper into our plan as a
fluid plan, and we are going to be coming back. We have homework, each committee member,
because we want to dive deeper into saying, okay, where do we really want to be from here?
We have a plan now, let's do actions. So we're working on prioritizing what we should do next,
and that's in regards to funding because we need funding, we need a building, we need sustainability
and we also need to dive into our county resources. Partnerships are very important. So we're
working on that and I'm looking forward to continuing with this committee and with more partnerships
when COVID, when we can actually meet, we would like to meet with the local churches because they
have a wealth of resources as well that we would like to come together with. Our next meeting
is April 14th and on rules and policies we don't need until March 30th looking forward to
that one. And I just want to double back on what Mayor Corny was talking about for the COVID-19
vaccine. This is a free vaccine. Barcer residents and surrounding communities. This is at the mission
City Community Network 405 east one of this stuff the telephone number for an appointment is 818-895-3100
Extension 72 or 724 and I'll say that one more time mission city community network
telephone number 818-895
3,100, extension 72, or 72,4, and they are located at 405 East, one of this is street.
Please call for the appointment, if you Friday 8 a.m. to 430 p.m. and right now the eligible
people are for the food workers, transportation, construction, finance, ITT communications, public relations, energy, law, media,
First responders, wholesale service, manufacturing teachers, education sector, daycare centers, and corrections.
55 plus years, and that was actually put on on the on Facebook by Mayor Corin.
So I just wanted to circle back on that and that's the end of my report.
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much. Councilman James Noble.
Father, I have nothing to report. I've put it out already.
Thank you. Council Merlin Cruz.
Yes, good evening. So we did have a street committee meeting on March 3rd.
And we had new business through Merrill, gave us information on the reimbursement agreement for the owner improvements made in West section 7.
We also discussed some old business as far as the phase one of West section 7 is now completed, though the high park and commerce way,
The regrindings and repaving of the road has been put on hold until April 5th just due to weather.
We also just discussed that there is going to be a meeting with the Golden State Water, just for updates on some projects that they would like to do.
south-west gas that they are in their neighborhood that they have quite a few projects that they'd
like to bring forth in the future here. So we discuss a little bit on that. Also the repair on
Rimrock Road and in the in the medium where water has actually got underneath the asphalt. So we're
going out for, they'll be going out to, to bid or to find the repairs on that and that funding
should come through measure I funds. And, oh, the BNSF, of course, negotiations are complete.
And of course, we got an update on the bridge this evening. So that was just information that was given
to us then, and of course, we just talked about that this evening.
Let's see, Highway Safety Improvement Programs, the status on that, on the new lighting and pedestrian heads and signal timing on Main Street.
And I understand the survey is kind of, they're already in the process of seeing where the needs are and that type of thing.
And of course we already brought the pavement management program, the RFP, already went to City Council, so we've already dealt with that.
And basically that was about it. There was no public comments.
And our next meeting is scheduled for May 5th.
And not unless Councilman Silva has anything to add.
That's all that I can come up with at this time.
Thank you very much.
I just got a couple of things.
I did attend the Chamber of Commerce meeting.
I addressed their governing board.
This was a pretty many update on what's going on in the city of Barcelona,
and actually went quite well.
Chamber of Commerce is they're excited about the city of Barcelona,
being in the red as of Sunday.
and code on code. We're kind of opening up.
Sandbag, which is now called the SBCTA,
December now County Transit Authority.
Their board meeting went really well.
They acknowledged Bosco and they are supporting us all the way
and then some on the opening of the first week grid,
which you heard some great explanation about in our presentation tonight.
I just want to once again put a shout-out to the volunteers
who were now at the 13 volunteers who were actually engaged and who had been
Marshal streets picked up and swept up from a run-right road to
Trattachop and back both sides of the street. We now also clean down to
Marshal on Saturdays and Sundays. So even the downtown has been clean on the
weekends and you perhaps have seen some of the volunteers out.
And one last thing on March 27th at 9 o'clock,
it's a community clinic that the amount of you in Memorial Park.
I definitely encourage any of you have a lot of some free time
come out to the cemetery on the 27th at 9.
And then the hand on the hour or two would be great.
Just continue to do what's best for Barcelona.
And that's really all I have this time.
I appreciate each and every one of you.
And it is 12, 15 a.m. in the morning.
And so with that being said, I think it's time to perhaps
a journalist's media with no action.
So let's see.
James novels.
Good.
Our customer novels.
Go ahead.
I'm good.
Hey, Charles was so.
Good.
I'm good.
Thank you, man.
OK.
Mayor for September rose.
Good.
I'm really tired.
I could say I'm good.
but I am actually really tired.
You know, everybody, let's tired.
I just wanted to thank everybody for sticking in with us.
And everybody, please be safe going home.
I know some travel outside of Warsaw,
so please be safe and thank you for your time and your patience.
Okay.
Councilwoman Cruz?
Yes, I'm good and good night to everyone.
Hey, Matthew, you're so much good.
Okay, so our city clerk,
We're gonna go ignore by the unanimous consent. We're gonna adjourn this meeting at 12 16 AM. Good night, DJ one of you. Good night.