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So, reconvening for the special meeting. Do I have a motion to adjourn that meeting?

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Some moved. Sorry. And can we get a roll call, please? Council Member Maloney. Yes, Vice Mayor Pearson.

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I'm here present, be exempt, and I'm on a medical exemption. And are you voting yes to adjourn the meeting?

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from close session. Council Member Mendoza.

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Yes. Council Member Orlemans. Yes. Mayor Mayer.

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Yes, there's nothing to report and we are adjourned from this special meeting.

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Moving into our regular city council meeting, we have a quorum if so we can begin and can I have a roll call please.

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Council Member Maloney. President. Vice Mayor Pearson.

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President, I'm here in a room and I'm here on a medical attention.

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Councilmember Mendoza.

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Councilmember Orlemens.

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Here. Mayor Mayer.

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Here, please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the Black, the United States of America, and to the Republic for which

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it stands. One Nation, under God, individual,

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Well, we'll leave it easy, just as far.

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Moving into public comments.

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The time for tonight's meeting is three minutes each

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in order to ensure that all speakers feel welcome

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to share their views.

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Members of the audience are kindly requested

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to refrain from applauding or speaking to the council

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from the audience without being called upon first.

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And this is public comments for items not on the agenda.

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Thank you.

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to address the city council on items

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or on the consent calendar, requests for future agenda items, new requests, comments for the

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meetings detailed agenda items or business items should be made. When those items are

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called, please limit your remarks to three minutes. Your microphone will be muted when the

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timer expires. The first speaker I have is Terry.

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Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council

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and community partners. My name is Terry Hunter and I'm the proud representative of Celebration

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Center, a nonprofit faith-based school serving toddlers through fifth grade.

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We are located off the bypass on Jeffery Way.

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We started a preschool almost 26 years ago.

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12 years ago, we began offering after-school care to meet the needs of the community.

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We are currently picking up five local elementary public school kids as schools every day.

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Three years ago, at the request of our families, we began offering elementary grades as well.

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We employ about 40 staff.

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Celebration Center is dedicated to serving and educating students with excellence.

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In fact, we are an accredited early education school focused on play-based education.

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We believe in partnering with parents and the education of their children.

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We believe strong schools and strong businesses go hand in hand in building the thriving city.

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over the past 26 years we've served approximately 7,000 students.

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In fact, some of our previous students are now parents bringing their children.

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We are here tonight because it's been a while since we've attended a city council meeting

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and we want us to reintroduce ourselves.

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Thank you for your leadership and your commitment to the city's future.

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We are hopeful the city council will continue to make it easier for private schools to grow.

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So we would love to invite all the city council to our, we have a great event this week.

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It's a Grandparent stay celebration.

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This Thursday from 1015 to 1115.

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We will have hay rides, pumpkin pie, and fall activities.

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We look forward to seeing you.

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Thank you.

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Next speaker is Danny.

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Good evening.

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I'm going to be free styling tonight because most of my comments are going to be on H.

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is one other time about the real world and the world of social media.

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there has been commentary on certain actions taken here at the last council meeting.

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honestly, it would be borderline harassment to me. And I know a thing or two about

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harassment. I know where the line is. Some people don't. I have had conversations

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and made assertions online. Now at least for me the difference is I'm willing

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to come here and do it in person. I'll do it to your face. But these keyboard

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cowards.

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That's all they are. Cowards. Doesn't mean you shouldn't take them

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seriously.

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There we've seen way too many stories of Bravado and then all of a

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sudden we have an open shooter. It can happen here. That being said, for those who

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want to spit their bile on decisions that are made here or people who are

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hired anything along those lines with all due respect, man up and come down here.

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don't intimidate or harass when people are just trying to do their job.

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veiled language or dog whistles, just be straight up and honest about it.

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a man who isn't

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demonstrated anything, but

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positiveness

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I'll just say it the way it is,

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a lot of people don't like certain

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men because they are black

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and they're from Oakland.

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At least be a man

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and say it here.

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So if you'd like to make a public comment, be a Zoom,

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please raise your hand now.

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Albert, go ahead.

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And I reiterate comments are limited to items

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Then I kind of go ahead.

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Good evening, everyone.

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Can you hear me?

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Yes, we can.

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I'm here to speak on the vote today

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on, uh, city. I'm going to show you the hell, Duffy.

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Blit in the city council. Excuse me, that item, that item will be heard at a later

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time. Right now, we're on items that are not listed on the agenda. Okay, copy that. Thank

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you.

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The next speaker is Albert.

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And he's lowered his hand. I have no additional speaker cards on zoom, but I do have one.

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Joey?

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It's a consent calendar item, I believe?

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Yes, please.

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Hi, I'm Joey Ogo, and I'm with the exceptional. And I just want to say that we appreciate working with the city very much. And we want to invite all of you to come and check out our dances coming up.

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This Saturday, it's at the senior center, yeah, and we just want to let you know how much

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we appreciate working with you.

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That was it.

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I have no additional speakers at this time.

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Thank you, moving into informationals.

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This portion of the agenda is to provide an opportunity for council members to report on

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attendance at events, subcommittee meetings, and entities upon which this council member

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has been appointed as a liaison, and for staff to provide brief updates and or information

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to the City Council, we will start to my left with Council Member Orleman's.

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Good evening.

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Welcome, everyone.

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Since the last Council meeting on October 14th, I attended the Tri-Delts Transit Board of

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Directors meeting, Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting for Scholar's Academy, just over

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on Sunset, amazing of little after school program, little nothing, it's a huge after school

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program with indoor basketball, study sessions for the kids, study rooms, places for them

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to go after school. It was a great, great event and it looks like an awesome place. Attended

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of the farmers market and makers of Boulevard, the press conference at the senior center,

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the swearing in of two new police officers at the Brentwood Police Department.

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I met with Sarah from planning with a couple of residents that had questions about an

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upcoming event and they asked me to tag along to see if I could help them figure out what

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was going on or the answers. And then the closed session this evening. And that's it.

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I did leave the state for about a week. So I had a grand daughter's birthday party down

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in Texas. So that was it.

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Council member Lenny. Good evening, everyone. Since our last meeting,

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I visited some of our businesses at the San Creek Crossing and the streets of Brentwood.

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I also attended the 10th Anniversary Celebration event for Bynangrain.

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Again, congratulations to Alice and Anthony Roost and your entire amazing team and what you do in our community.

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During our last council meeting, we also had a proclamation for Italian Heritage Month.

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I invited LaConda Capri to accept the proclamation, but they had a schedule in conflict.

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So instead, we scheduled a meeting last Friday where Mayor Meyer and I presented them with a proclamation.

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Thank you for everything that you do as well in our downtown and our community.

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And I was able to make it to Harvest Fest at the Streets of Brentwood.

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Thank you, Senator Kyle, for what you bring to our community as well.

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The event was adorable, it brought so many members of our community out to see everything

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that they had there.

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Also, Brentwood PD is hosting their Drive Through a Trick or Treat event tomorrow.

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So we would love to see everybody there, please drive through.

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I also spoke with several residents from the Alder Creek Highland neighborhood.

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Unfortunately, the vagrant activities continue.

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I've been receiving several of their videos

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and some of the social nuisances that are happening.

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So the social nuisance ordinance update

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will be coming back to us next council meeting.

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So if you're all listening, please come stop by

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and tell us your frustrations and everything that's going on.

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For all of our commuters, roadway improvements on Vasco

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are gonna be taken place from October 27th to November 14th.

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please follow the Contracosta County Public Works pages

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to stay up to date.

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And as far as the last update I've heard regarding

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the Empire and Amber, lighted stop sign,

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it's actually being shipped October 31st.

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Thank you, Alan, for providing me with that information.

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As soon as it gets here, we'll give an update

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on when it will be installed.

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There are still people running that stop sign.

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And happy and safe following to everyone.

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Council member Medusa.

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Hello, since the last time we met, I went to the town hall that we had at the senior

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center, attended also the streets of Brentwood Harvest Festival, attended an immigration

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forum last night with Assemblywoman Avila Ferrius, and that is it.

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Please, Mayor Pearson.

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Sorry about that.

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Well I was unable to attend the last city council meeting, although I did watch it.

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Um, since our last my last city council meeting, I attended the League of Conference, California

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City's conference and went to several meetings and events, um, the Green Empowerment is

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on meeting attended the power board meeting.

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I watched the press conference, um, attended the closed session, and I watched a single member

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of Ela Ferris's amazing immigration town hall, um, and I have been out, um, for medical, I'll

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be out for a while, and even though he has been a pain in my side, I want to say happy

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birthday to Danny Dormey.

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Thank you for that. Are you done?

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Okay. Since our last meeting, I attended the Transplant East County specific transportation

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meeting. I joined the Brentwood Lions to Distribute Mental Health Materials to the Leo's Club at

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Heritage High School. I listened to a presentation of Congressman Mark de Sonier regarding HR1 and

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Prop 50, attended the press conference and community meeting at the senior center, a

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tri-delta transit board meeting, an event with East County mayors to meet with

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optometrists in the four East County cities to plan a free vision click clinic for

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our residents with the Lions Foundation Foundation, attended the League of California

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cities, Latino Caucus, Ison, California, legal legislative and community response

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I attended a U.S. Conference of Mayors Water Council meeting in Livermore.

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There were mayors from across the country and Water Board members, a lot of discussion

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around PFAS.

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So I learned a lot there.

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I did mention our resident expert on that.

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I joined Council Member Maloney and members of DBC and the Chamber to present a proclamation

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to LaConda and recognition of Italian-American heritage month and the streets of Brentwood

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Harvest Fest and Darren, do you have any updates for us?

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I do, thank you, Mayor.

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First, I wanted to recognize I attended Scholar's Academy's new opening.

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The reason I mentioned this one is staff worked for Scholar's Academy was located on Balfour.

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Economic development staff worked with them for three years to find a new location.

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They have a new location out off a sunset, and they've expanded a lot of the services

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that they're providing to the community, so congratulate them for their opening.

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I had jury duty for a couple days, unfortunately they did not pick me.

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That is one thing that I want to do, but unfortunately in a criminal case being as a city manager,

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I was asked to, I was graciously thanked for my service.

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Next is, I'd like to thank Public Works staff.

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We had two illegal donation, clothing donation bins that were placed on city property,

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and within hours of calling, Public Works had removed those, so thank you, KC, to your

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staff.

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When I attended a meeting with animal services, the city council has talked about animal services

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in the past, and changes they'd like to see as relates to rules, regulations, and ordinances

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that they follow.

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So, I brought that to their attention and also learned a little bit about their proposed

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budget for the coming year.

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Next, I want to go to my thank you.

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So, I had an opportunity to participate in our all dispatchers meeting.

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The city started a dispatch center not too many years ago and it provides amazing services

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to our community.

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They're a small but very strong group.

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We have ten positions that are open, not all are filled.

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They work 12 hours shifts, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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So when someone is out sick, when someone's having a child, when someone wants to do their family,

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when they pick up overtime, they're working 16 hours shifts, right?

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They're helping out their co-workers for another 4 hours or they're picking up a shift back to back to back.

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And I want to thank them.

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I think anyone who's ever called and talked with our dispatch knows all that they have to do.

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they treat us with kindness and compassion as there are, they're also kind of guardian angels

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of our police officers that are out there on the street. So I want to thank all of our dispatchers

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for all that they do for us. And then finally, there will be a few changes. The next city council

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meeting up here. So I want to first thank Teresa, who's been our acting human resources director,

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and it's just an absolute amazing job. So Teresa, thank you for leading the team with human resources.

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services. And then I'd like to thank Sikari. She has served as our interim city manager

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for the past, I'll call it the Feb and Month. What did I say? Sorry. Interim Assistant City

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Manager, thank you Sikari. But Theresa and Sikari have just done an amazing job and appreciate

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all that they've done in those roles and sort of wanted to express my appreciation to both

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then publicly so thank you. And I think any comments from council will come

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later on that. Okay moving into consent calendar the proclamation for item E3 will be presented

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after the vote. Can I pull F10? Please. Very definitely yes.

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Do you have questions you would like

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to ask about that? Yes. Do you want me to ask now? Yes. So for item F10 I was just kind of curious

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where the increase in $10,000 previously, we have given $25,000 multiple times to this grant.

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I was just curious about the increase and if we were presented with something new that we're increasing the amount.

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Thank you for the question. We're going to have a recreation manager, Tien, respond.

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Tien, can you clarify if it's a grant or how that funding is provided?

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Sure, so thank you for the question, Council Member Muloney.

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So just to clarify, yeah, this item is for fee waiver, it's a fee waiver application.

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As mentioned in the staff report, any non-profit organization is eligible to apply for fee waiver.

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For this particular case, we've been working with the exceptional for a number of years.

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Because the application exceeds $5,000, it's brought forth to Council for their review and approval.

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So it isn't a grant, it is a fee waiver application.

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and specifically for this case, it's the way rental fees.

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For your specific question, Council Member Maloney, the increase is for a couple things.

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First and foremost, we've been working with big social for a couple of years.

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Roughly $25,000 has been what we've granted them in the past.

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They've used the majority of that in past years.

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So this past year, when we worked with them and talked them further,

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they wanted to actually expand the programs in our office that they had for

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individual's with disabilities. So that was something that was really attractive to us as we look to expand our adaptive program offerings.

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I'm a couple other kind of factors that played into that as well as as I mentioned in past years, there were really close to that $25,000.

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So we didn't want to impact or, or again, to a situation where they weren't able to offer all their programs because they were coming up on that few ever amount.

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And the last thing that I wanted to note as well as that $25,000 has been pretty consistent with the exceptional since fiscal year 2122.

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As you all know, we have had increases in CPI that were applied to our rental fees as well.

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So over the years, as our rental fees have incrementally gone up, we actually haven't

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changed them out.

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We were giving them for that fee waiver.

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So a couple different factors there.

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Hopefully, that answer your question, Councilmember Meloney.

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It does.

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Thank you very much for the thorough answer.

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Are there other questions?

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Not for me.

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I had one.

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Sorry.

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You already asked this via email, but I figured I might as well ask this question again.

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And can you comment on whether this is a competitive situation with any other non-profits

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doing similar work?

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No, not exactly, Mayor Meyer, because this isn't kind of a competitive grant.

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It's literally a few-wave application, any non-profit or any organization that was providing

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community benefits eligible for that fee-wave application.

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So it's not a competitive thing in the case of the exceptional if you do offer them that.

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It doesn't mean there's any less funds or resources available for other organizations, so it's not a it's not a competitive type situation

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Thank you. That was just for clarification. Do I have a motion to approve consent at this point?

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I'll make the motion to approve to items in the consent calendar second

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And it will call vote please. Councilmember Maloney. Yes, Vice Mayor Pearson. Yes

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Councilmember Mendoza. Yes, Councilmember Orleman's. Yes, Mayor Meyer. Yes, the item moves forward

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So I'm going to ask if anyone would like to join me at the podium to present Proclamation

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F3, which is a Veterans Day recognition.

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So I can see we've got several veterans here with us today. We also have several proclamations available, so hopefully we have enough for everyone who's going to come forward. And now is your time.

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Why aren't you? Why? Are we ready? Okay, any others, any on staff? Okay, moving forward.

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Proclamation. Whereas veterans stay as a time to honor and recognize

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the men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces, demonstrating extraordinary

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courage, sacrifice, and dedication in defense of our freedom.

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And whereas the theme service to our nation reminds us that veterans embody the highest

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ideals of citizenship, having answered the call to protect and preserve our country's values

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at home and abroad.

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And whereas veterans from every generation and background have strengthened our democracy,

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safeguarded our liberties, and contributed to the safety and security of our communities.

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And whereas the City of Brentwood acknowledges with gratitude, the families of veterans who support and sacrifice our integral to the strength and resilience of those who serve.

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And whereas it is fitting that we pause on Veterans Day to express our deepest appreciation, honor their service, and commit ourselves to ensuring that their legacy of bravery and devotion continues to inspire future generations.

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Now, therefore, I had to catch it up somewhere.

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Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the City Council of the City of Brentwood does

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hereby recognize November 11th, 2025 as Veterans Day, and encourages all residents to join in

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recognizing and honoring the courageous men and women who have given their service to our

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nation.

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Dated this 28th day of October 2025,

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and which of you would like to speak?

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I said which.

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I didn't say which one.

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So

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I'd like to say good evening and thank you all for coming out tonight, not because

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I know that you're here to show appreciation under this proclamation, but because when

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we sign up to serve the country, it is to ensure that the Declaration of Independence and

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the subsequent documents that govern this country stand firm against tyranny and the forces

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of evil around the world. So tonight my thanks to you is for making our sacrifice worthwhile.

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By coming here, exercising your civic duty, your civic right, and being heard through regress

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and in holding your local politicians accountable. But more so for just showing that you have the civic

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to come out and be a part of the process.

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There are 80-something thousand in this East County area.

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What do we got in Brentwood, 65-ish.

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And we've got 40 here tonight.

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So you are what we do this for.

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And thank you to those who are online who can't make it in

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and who are here in absentia.

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So thank you very much.

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Anyone else?

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You don't

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have to, what if you would like to speak?

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On behalf of City Council, we would like to just really express our appreciation and

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our gratitude for what you have all done to serve for our country and it means a lot

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that you come to our meetings and you speak your truth when you come and you let us have

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it if you need to let us have it because it's absolutely your right and you all fought for

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it.

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So thank you, thank you for coming over and over again for showing up and for just the

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wonderful presence that you have in Brentwood and your events and your honors and your all

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of everything that you do. We appreciate you. Thank you for that. And we have actually

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a certificate for each of you.

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Make sure you guys give me a shot.

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I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

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Moving into public hearings and item G1, Ken Murphy, Chief Building Official will present

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an ordinance amending title 15 Building and Construction.

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Good evening, Mayor and City Council.

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Council, that's actually going to be me, sorry, substitute for Ken, but here I am, good evening.

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This is our routine adoption of the California Building Standards Code that we undertake every three years in order to be up to date with the state's latest building regulations and contra costifiers regulations.

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The process tonight amends Title 15, chapters 1504 and 1506, and

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adds local amendments that were allowed to make as long as we adopt our building code prior to January 1st,

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which is a timely adoption of that code of council should adopt it tonight.

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That said, it's fairly straightforward, but Ken and I are here to answer any questions that you may have.

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Thank you.

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Do we have any clarifying questions for staff?

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Okay. Somebody spoke.

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Did you have a question right behind your head.

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I did have two questions. I wanted to know what the implication of this will be the implications of AB 306 will be to this amendment.

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AB 306 as you all know was by Schultz and Speaker Revis on building regulations and so I just wanted to find out the implications. The other question is will these amendments be filed with the California Building Standards Commission?

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So, yeah, AB 306, which got signed in as AB 130 or a part of AB 130, it doesn't affect

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this because it's about things that happened after October of this year.

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So, the, and what it mostly affects is residential construction.

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So all of the codes that we're adopting now, there's no changes to it.

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This code cycle adoption happened just like every other code cycle adoption.

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And the amendments that we have made locally have been filed with the Bill of Standards Commission.

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So they will be able to continue forward because anything that wasn't on file before October 31st,

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I believe, of this year couldn't go forward with respect to residential construction.

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But because hours are on file, they can continue like normal.

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So, AB 130 doesn't affect us in this instance, or AB 360.

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And I was just figuring out what you can't up there too.

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Thanks.

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Appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Can any other questions?

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Okay.

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Moving into the public caring.

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Do we have any speakers?

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At this time, the public is permitted to address a city council on this agenda item.

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If you're participating via Zoom, please raise your hand to speak.

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if you're in person, please file a speaker card. Your microphone will be muted if you speak on

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items that do not pertain to this agenda item or after the timer has expired. I do not have

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any speaker cards in person or hands raised at this time. Thank you. We need a motion to close

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the public hearing.

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I think everybody said that. Which one of you wants to second? Do we?

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and use the second.

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I will second.

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Thank you.

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Okay. Can we have a roll call though, please?

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Council Member Maloney.

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Yes.

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Vice Mayor Pearson.

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Yes.

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Council Member Mendoza.

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Yes.

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Council Member Orleman.

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Yes.

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And if we could have Vice Mayor Clarify,

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if there's any other members with me, thank you.

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Thank you, Mayor Meyer.

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Yes.

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Any council discussion?

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Thank you, Amanda.

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Okay. Do we have a motion?

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I'll make the motion.

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As set forth in the staff report, I move to wave the first reading and

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introduced an ordinance adopting reference portions of the 2025 edition of the California Code of Regulations.

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Title 24 with local amendments.

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Second.

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And Amanda, would you like to read the ordinance?

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I would love to.

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An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brentwood adopting by reference portions of the 2025 edition of the California Code of Regulations Title 24, California Building Standards Code with local amendments.

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amendments amending chapter 15.04 and amending and adding to chapter 15.06 of the

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Brentwood Municipal Code and making required findings of local,

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thematic, geological and topographical conditions and for a role-called vote,

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Council Member Maloney. Yes, Vice Mayor Pearson. Yes, no one is present in a

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member. Council Member Mendoza. Yes, Council Member Orlandon. Yes. Mayor Meyer. Yes,

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in the guidance passes. Thank you. Moving on to G2, Michelle Inglis,

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Management Analyst 2 will present the fiscal year 2025-2026 cost allocation plan

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and schedule of city fees.

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Good evening Honourable Mayor and City Council members.

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Tonight we are presenting the fiscal year 2025-26 cost allocation plan and schedule of city fees

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referred to as the cap. Please note the fiscal year 2024-25 cap was not presented to the

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City Council, as employee salary and benefit data were unavailable, pending the conclusion

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of the ongoing labor negotiation.

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The document is structured into two primary sections, hourly rates by classification and

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fees.

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The hourly rates are developed using the city's adopted pay schedule and operating budget.

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From there we calculate both a departmental overhead and citywide overhead, factor based

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on budgeted costs.

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These overhead rates are then applied to each job classification listed in the cost allocation plan.

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This process results in what is referred to as a fully loaded hourly rate,

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which is a comprehensive figure that reflects the total cost of service delivery for each classification,

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inclusive of salary, benefits, and overhead.

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Now turning to the fees section of the document.

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This portion outlines all fees that have been previously approved by the City Council,

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along with those collected by the city, but governed by external agencies.

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To ensure fees remain aligned with inflation, most are adjusted annually on July 1.

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Using one of three indices, the Consumer Price Index, CPI, engineering news record, E&R, or the Employment Cost Index, ECI. For fiscal year 2025-26, CPI increased by 1.56%, E&R decreased by 0.6%, and ECI rose by 4.3%.

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Because ENR declined, fees tied to that index remained unchanged for this fiscal year.

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There are also fees that are regulated by other agencies or legal requirements.

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These fees may be adjusted by different percentages or take effect at various points throughout

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the year.

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The method of adjustment for each of these fees is outlined in the fee schedule included

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in the document.

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Additionally, certain fees such as those for water, waste water, and solid waste are governed

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by separate studies approved by the City Council.

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And finally, although the fiscal year 2024-25 cost allocation plan was not presented to

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the City Council due to ongoing labor negotiations, the fees were still updated using the applicable

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indices or approved methodologies.

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For that year, CPI increased by 3.96%, E&R remained flat with no change, and ECI was not yet in use, so it had no impact on the fiscal year 2024-25 fee adjustments.

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In

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April 2025, the Contracosta County Office of the Sheriff transferred the responsibility

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for issuing carried concealed weapon CCW permits to local police departments.

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This change was based on the applicant's city of residents.

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As a result, the Brentwood Police Department is now responsible for processing CCW applications

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for Brentwood residents.

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To support the administrative costs associated with reviewing and issuing these permits, the

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city is enacting CCW permit fees.

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These proposed fees are outlined on the slide and are designed to reflect the reasonable

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costs of providing this service.

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In addition, the police department performed a review of their fees and are recommending

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a reduction to two specific fees.

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This adjustment is being proposed to ensure that the fees remain reasonable and accurately

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reflect the actual cost of providing the associated services.

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The adoption of the fiscal year 2025-26 cost allocation plan and schedule of city fees

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is being recommended to ensure the city continues to recover the reasonable costs associated

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with the services we provide.

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All of the fees included in this publication except for the four newly proposed fees by the

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police department have been previously approved by the City Council. The new fees have been thoughtfully

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developed to support fair cost recovery and to remain in compliance with state law. In addition,

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as mentioned earlier, this year's publication includes adjustment to two existing fees to better

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reflect the actual cost of service delivery.

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In closing, I would like to express appreciation

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to the City Council for their guidance and to staff from all city departments for their

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contributions to the development and publication of this document. Each department is responsible

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for its respective fees and staff from every department are available to address any questions

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you may have regarding their specific fee structure. Thank you.

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Thank you, Michelle. Do we have any clarifying questions for Michelle?

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Okay, moving into public hearing.

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At this time, the public is permitted to address the city council on this agenda item.

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If you're participating via Zoom, please raise your hand to speak.

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If you're in person, please file a speaker card with the city clerk.

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00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:26,700
I have no speaker cards in person or hands raised in Zoom.

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00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,740
Thank you, Amanda. We need a motion to close the public hearing.

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No moved.

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I'll second.

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And roll call vote.

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Council Member Maloney.

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Yes.

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Vice Mayor Pearson.

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Yes.

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Council Member Mendoza.

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Yes.

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Council Member Orlemans.

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Yes.

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Mayor Mayer.

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Yes.

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And any council discussion on the item?

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I just want to say thank you because I don't think people realize that without that our city

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doesn't stay in the black and we continue to offer services because of all the hard work.

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you all do. Staff does. It takes a lot of work to gather all these numbers. So thank you

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and your team. And I have a thank you I forgot about. I'm going to slip it in if it's okay with

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the mirror. Harith, I'd love that playground. We've been asking for theme playgrounds again,

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again, and I loved it. And I just forgot to say that when we did consent. So thank you so much to

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you and your team for that design.

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Any other comments? Okay. Do we have a move?

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So I just want to make one other one.

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Yes.

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I want to thank Michelle.

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This is her first time presenting to City Council,

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although been an employee since early 2000s.

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But it's a great example of someone who started

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with the city has moved in multiple departments

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and is now a management analyst in the finance department.

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We have amazing staff as you described.

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Councillor Mendoza, but Michelle, great job.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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We weren't too scary, were we?

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Thank you very much again.

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Do we have a motion?

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I move to adopt a resolution adopting the 2526 Cost Allocation Plan and Schedule City fees.

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That's second and we'll call vote.

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Council Member Maloney? Yes.

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00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:07,040
Vice Mayor Pearson?

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Yes.

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00:51:08,420 --> 00:51:10,960
Council Member Mendoza? Yes.

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00:51:11,180 --> 00:51:12,680
Council Member Orlovans? Yes.

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Mayor Mayer.

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00:51:13,740 --> 00:51:16,400
Yes. And the item is forward. Thank you, everyone.

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Item G3.

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Herrith and Leme Director of Prex and Recreation will present the next item regarding the formation

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of a landscape and lighting assessment district, number 25-1.

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Good evening Honorable Mayor and City Council members.

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In accordance with the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, and Proposition 218,

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this item represents the final step in forming landscape and lighting assessment district,

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number 25-1, the Meadows.

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00:51:45,980 --> 00:51:53,180
Upon formation, the city will be authorized to leave the annual assessments on 140 single family residential properties

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within the metals development located along Marsh Creek Road west of Highway 4.

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00:51:58,660 --> 00:52:03,260
These assessments will fund the ongoing operation and maintenance of city street lights,

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00:52:03,580 --> 00:52:09,540
parks, trails, landscaped areas such as the project's frontage along Marsh Creek Road.

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00:52:09,900 --> 00:52:18,580
On September 23rd, 2025, City Council adopted resolution 25-100 initiating the formation

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of the district and preliminary approving the Engineers Report.

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00:52:22,180 --> 00:52:36,520
The proposed maximum assessment rate is $849.62 per single family parcel, therefore estimated maximum annual revenue that can be generated is $118,947.

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00:52:37,100 --> 00:52:51,340
These figures are in fiscal year $25, $26. The maximum assessment rate will be increased each subsequent year by the annual change in the consumer price index.

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The formation of the new district requires property owner approval, and notice and ballot was mailed to the effective property owner as required by proposition 218.

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The ballot can be opened and tabulated by the city clerk after the close of the public import portion of the public hearing this evening.

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If the property owner's ballot is favorable, city staff recommends council adopt the resolution which will give your approval of the final engineers report and confirm the formation of the landscape.

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and lighting assessment district number 25-1, the Meadows, myself as well as Ed Mendoza.

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00:53:28,420 --> 00:53:32,640
Ed Espinosa of Frank Francisco and Associates are here available for any questions.

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00:53:33,660 --> 00:53:34,280
Thank you.

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00:53:34,620 --> 00:53:35,240
Thank you, Ruth.

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00:53:35,820 --> 00:53:37,680
Do we have any clarifying questions for Seth?

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00:53:41,030 --> 00:53:43,650
Okay, moving into the public hearing.

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At this time, the public is permitted to address a council and this agenda item.

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00:53:48,310 --> 00:53:50,290
If you're participating in the Zoom, please raise your hand.

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00:53:50,470 --> 00:53:52,210
If you're in person, please file a speaker card.

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00:53:52,210 --> 00:53:56,270
Your microphone will be muted if you speak on items that do not pertain to this agenda item.

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00:53:56,550 --> 00:54:01,710
I have no speaker card request in person and I have no hands raised in Zoom.

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00:54:03,630 --> 00:54:04,270
Thank you.

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00:54:04,470 --> 00:54:06,110
The election in this matter is here by call.

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00:54:06,270 --> 00:54:07,850
Are there any additional ballots to be submitted?

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I show none.

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00:54:15,710 --> 00:54:15,910
Okay.

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00:54:16,950 --> 00:54:19,970
And if no speakers, we need a motion to close the public hearing.

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00:54:20,510 --> 00:54:22,050
I move to close public hearing.

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00:54:22,290 --> 00:54:22,650
I'll second.

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00:54:23,430 --> 00:54:24,550
And we'll call vote please.

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00:54:24,870 --> 00:54:25,630
Council Member Maloney.

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00:54:25,870 --> 00:54:26,030
Yes.

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00:54:26,470 --> 00:54:27,170
Vice Mayor Pearson.

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00:54:29,750 --> 00:54:36,290
Yes. And I'm in a room alone. Sorry about that. Thank you, Council Member Mendoza. Council

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00:54:36,290 --> 00:54:42,510
Member Orlanz. Yes. Mayor Mayer. Yes. And moving into Council discussion.

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00:54:43,830 --> 00:54:46,210
Mayor Mayer, I have some discussion. I just have a question. Okay.

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00:54:46,990 --> 00:54:50,370
Director Leigh Moose, that's your first presentation before let's see, Council.

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00:54:52,590 --> 00:54:56,150
No, my first presentation was at Dolphin Park, I believe.

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00:54:56,790 --> 00:55:12,310
Oh, okay, great. Well, anyway, thank you. It was excellent. Thank you for showing that there is excellence that comes from the city of up and by council member Windows and myself and other people who could be potential candidates and thank you that excellence comes in all colors, shapes and sizes. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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And thank you, vice mayor for your comment.

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00:55:16,570 --> 00:55:21,750
We will need, let's see, we need to confirm there is no majority protest to the formation

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based on the tabulation of return ballots, we did by assessment amount.

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00:55:30,390 --> 00:55:38,210
I believe there's first a vote or a motion and a second in a vote to declare that that's

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what we're looking for.

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00:55:39,930 --> 00:55:40,110
Okay.

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So as detailed in the staff report, I move to adopt resolution ordering the formation of

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the landscape and lighting assessment district number 25-1

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and taking all implementing actions.

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Also, we're going to rewind one motion prior to that one.

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The one prior, the one says I moved to confirm

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there is no majority protest to the formation

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based on the tabulation of the return ballots

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weighted by assessment amount.

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All second.

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And we'll call vote please.

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Council member Maloney.

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Yes.

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Vice Mayor Pearson.

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00:56:09,410 --> 00:56:10,670
Yes, and I'm going to move on.

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00:56:11,010 --> 00:56:11,990
Council member Mendoza.

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00:56:12,450 --> 00:56:12,590
Yes.

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Council member Orlemans.

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00:56:13,650 --> 00:56:19,670
Yes. Mayor Mayer. Yes, thank you. And I would ask that the City Clerk tabulate the ballots and read the results.

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00:56:35,500 --> 00:56:38,500
The ballot reflects 100% in favor.

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00:56:41,310 --> 00:56:47,690
Thank you. Any clarification? We have no discussion. Do we have a motion at this point?

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00:56:48,310 --> 00:56:55,350
As detailed in the staff report, I move to adopt a resolution ordering the formation of landscape and lighting assessment district number.

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25-1 and taking all implementing actions.

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And we'll call it, please.

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Thank you.

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00:57:02,090 --> 00:57:02,870
Council Member Maloney.

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00:57:03,250 --> 00:57:03,450
Yes.

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00:57:03,730 --> 00:57:04,430
Vice Mayor Pearson.

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00:57:05,190 --> 00:57:05,390
Yes.

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00:57:05,590 --> 00:57:05,930
I'm in a room.

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00:57:06,410 --> 00:57:07,610
Council Member Mendoza.

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00:57:07,990 --> 00:57:08,150
Yes.

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00:57:08,450 --> 00:57:09,270
Council Member Orleman.

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00:57:09,770 --> 00:57:09,950
Yes.

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00:57:10,230 --> 00:57:10,610
Mayor Meyer.

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00:57:11,110 --> 00:57:11,550
Yes.

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00:57:12,010 --> 00:57:12,370
Thank you.

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00:57:12,430 --> 00:57:13,150
The item passes.

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00:57:13,410 --> 00:57:17,530
And before we move into business item H, I've had a request for a very short break.

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We will take five minutes.

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Thank you. We are returning to our council meeting with item H1. Casey Wichert, Public Works Director will present the next item regarding the Fleet Electrification Project.

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Thank you, please share my screen.

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Meeting mayor and council, staff is bringing this item forward to give you an update on the Fleet Electrification Project and present a construction contract amendment for your consideration.

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This project is the result of a 2020 state order that requires public agencies to convert

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01:06:34,940 --> 01:06:37,100
vehicle fleets to zero emission vehicles.

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01:06:37,620 --> 01:06:41,440
Staff has been planning for this project for several years and first included it in

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01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:44,080
the CIP book in fiscal year 2425.

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01:06:45,260 --> 01:06:49,780
In February of this year, Council approved a design build contract with Schneider Electric

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to begin the first phase of work on this project.

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01:06:54,270 --> 01:06:59,510
In total, this project will install 18 charging stations and solar panels at the maintenance service

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01:06:59,510 --> 01:07:05,710
center on Elkinsway. Staff anticipates ultimately replacing 37 vehicles in the current fleet

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with EVs. Those replacements will happen over time when the existing vehicles cycle out of the

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fleet at the end of their evaluated life cycles. We will not be prematurely replacing any vehicles

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01:07:17,090 --> 01:07:23,770
just to convert them to EVs. Staff recently solicited bids for the first several EVs and we'll be

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01:07:23,770 --> 01:07:27,550
bringing a contract for those purchases back to council for approval later this year.

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And we expect to take delivery of the first electric vehicles in 2026.

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The funding for this project has been complicated.

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01:07:37,140 --> 01:07:43,140
The project was originally identified in 2425 CIP book as a $1.3 million project.

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After identifying the project, staff was able to work with Schneider Electric to identify

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grant funding for the project.

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In order to secure as much grant funding as possible, the scope of the project was increased

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to $4.5 million.

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01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:04,720
This summer we were notified the project was approved for 3.2 million in funding from the Bay Area air quality management district.

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01:08:05,020 --> 01:08:16,180
In an effort to make the project completely grant funded, staff reduced the project scope and budget from 4.5 million to 3.1 million to stay just under the 3.2 million grant.

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grant. After doing so, staff was notified by Bay Area air quality management district

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01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:27,600
that the grant funding award was not for a fixed $3.2 million, but actually a percentage

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of the project. In this case, 65%. The Bay Area Air Board also deemed a small portion

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01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:38,440
of the project costs ineligible for the grant funding and notified us that the grant funding

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was being decreased from $3.2 million to $1.9 million.

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This left us with a funding gap of $1.2 million.

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01:08:46,780 --> 01:08:51,740
Staff looked at several additional grant opportunities and as identified, some grants

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that will cover most if not all of the $1.2 million shortfall.

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This project is eligible for an inflation reduction tax credit of $460,000 and an EV charging

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infrastructure credit of $100,000.

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These two grants cover about half of the remaining shortfall, leaving roughly $640,000 to

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be covered by city funds. Of the city funds to be used for this project, 200,000 would

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01:09:17,140 --> 01:09:22,000
come from the general fund and 440,000 from the various enterprise funds.

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01:09:24,670 --> 01:09:25,170
These tables

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are included in the staff report and summarized the previously approved funding amounts and

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the final project funding needs that have changed since Council authorized the work to begin

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01:09:33,930 --> 01:09:39,070
in February. Now that we have a design and a firm price for the project, we are able to

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project the fiscal impacts. And as you can see here, of the entire $3.1 million project,

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only 640,000 city funds will be needed with over 2.5 million coming from grants.

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In addition,

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staff is still pursuing other grant funding. We've applied for two additional grants that would

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cover the remaining funding needs for this project. Should these grants be awarded, no city funds

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would need to be expended to complete the project. Staff does not anticipate receiving notification for

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for these grants until early 2026.

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And in order to lock in the 560,000

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in inflation reduction at credits,

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construction on the project needs to begin in December.

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For this reason, staff is presenting this contract amendment

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and funding authorization for your consideration

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with the assumption that 640,000 city funds will be necessary.

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01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:29,440
If the additional grants are awarded,

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the city funds will not be needed

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01:10:30,820 --> 01:10:32,660
and will be returned to their respective budgets.

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01:10:35,230 --> 01:10:37,330
While this is a regulatory mandated project,

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It is a sound financial project for the city, analysis of the projected cost savings from converting the eligible portions of the city's fleet to electric vehicles shows a 30-year savings of over $5 million.

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That savings is derived primarily from fuel savings and long-term maintenance savings on the vehicles themselves.

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As always, there are alternatives to staff's recommendations.

697
01:10:59,700 --> 01:11:05,860
If Council chooses to not award this contract amendment tonight, the project can be halted with no additional funds being expended.

698
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:13,000
In that case, staff would need to explore alternative ways to comply with the regulatory mandate to transition away from gas-powered fleet vehicles.

699
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:20,780
Choosing to look at alternative methods of compliant will likely result in the loss of the roughly 2.5 million in grant funding.

700
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:26,100
And for that reason, staff's recommendation is to adopt the resolution as detailed in the staff report.

701
01:11:26,100 --> 01:11:31,770
This concludes my presentation and we have city staff on a representative from Schneider

702
01:11:31,770 --> 01:11:33,590
Electric available to answer any questions.

703
01:11:34,950 --> 01:11:35,710
Thank you.

704
01:11:35,830 --> 01:11:37,350
Do we have clarifying questions for staff?

705
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:40,740
I have just one question.

706
01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:42,680
Thank you very much for the presentation.

707
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:49,180
When did the city get the notification that the grant funding is not going to be what we

708
01:11:49,180 --> 01:11:49,680
anticipated?

709
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:58,640
We got that notification later this summer after we had lowered the project scope to be underneath

710
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:00,480
the grant amount that we were previously told.

711
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:02,640
Thank you.

712
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:08,320
So it seems like there was some miscommunication in the grant.

713
01:12:09,460 --> 01:12:13,240
How did we miss what the grant was going to offer or did the scope of the grant change?

714
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:19,500
It's buried on page 15 or 16 of the grant agreement from the Bay Area Air Board.

715
01:12:19,660 --> 01:12:22,960
The communication that we got from the airport and I went back and verified this this morning

716
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:28,060
is very plainly says, we are awarding your project $3.2 million.

717
01:12:29,060 --> 01:12:33,340
It did not say percentage, it did not say portion, it did not say this will change.

718
01:12:33,860 --> 01:12:37,840
None of that existed, so whether that's a communication error on their part or

719
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:42,320
we just didn't read all the fine print well enough, I'm happy to take that blame, but

720
01:12:43,900 --> 01:12:49,940
in truth, if we would have left that project higher at $4.5 million to get the $3.2 million grant money,

721
01:12:49,940 --> 01:12:53,580
We would have had to spend more city funds to make up that difference anyway.

722
01:12:54,020 --> 01:12:56,480
So in reality, we're spending less city funds this way.

723
01:12:57,340 --> 01:12:59,600
I guess we can leave it for discussion.

724
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:03,520
How many total cars are going to be converted to all electric?

725
01:13:05,060 --> 01:13:10,240
Of the 219 vehicles currently in our fleet, we anticipate 37 being converted to electric vehicles

726
01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:10,700
ultimately.

727
01:13:11,180 --> 01:13:12,840
So we're spending how much total on this project?

728
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:19,920
City funds, if we don't.

729
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:28,840
$3.1 million for 37 vehicles. When does this technology go obsolete? Because you have to replace

730
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:35,100
this every when do you expect having to replace the solar panels? The solar panels aren't

731
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:41,080
necessary for the vehicles and we're not spending $3.1 million on vehicles. This money funds the

732
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:46,400
infrastructure and the PG&E power to put the charges in place to be able to operate these vehicles.

733
01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:49,020
If we buy electric vehicles with no way to charge them, they're useless.

734
01:13:49,460 --> 01:13:50,840
So, this funding doesn't buy any vehicles.

735
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:52,260
Okay, maybe I'm not asking questions.

736
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:54,980
So, this does not cover the panels.

737
01:13:54,980 --> 01:13:57,420
This is just the equipment to someday have panels.

738
01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:00,920
No, it covers the panels and the infrastructure to charge the vehicles.

739
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:05,200
So, my question about the panels is at some point they start producing less and less energy.

740
01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:08,340
What time frame do you think you're going to have to replace these again?

741
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:12,560
Maybe Schneider can tell us better, but I think it's a 20 or 30-year period.

742
01:14:14,690 --> 01:14:18,510
Can you see what percentage of the power would come from the panels versus through PG&E?

743
01:14:19,290 --> 01:14:20,090
Very small.

744
01:14:20,330 --> 01:14:24,350
The panels themselves help to offset some of the cost of the power, but the way it works

745
01:14:24,350 --> 01:14:28,370
is you charge the vehicles at night, and the solar panels generate power during the day

746
01:14:28,370 --> 01:14:30,750
that feeds back into our grid to offset some of the usage.

747
01:14:33,690 --> 01:14:34,110
Yeah, hi.

748
01:14:35,370 --> 01:14:36,150
Do you want me to be here?

749
01:14:36,310 --> 01:14:36,610
Thank you.

750
01:14:36,830 --> 01:14:37,570
Okay, everyone, hear me out.

751
01:14:37,810 --> 01:14:38,050
Okay.

752
01:14:38,590 --> 01:14:43,490
So to address your question first, solar panels degraded about a half percent per year.

753
01:14:43,490 --> 01:14:48,510
They're warrantied for 25 years, but the useful life of the system is 30 years.

754
01:14:48,930 --> 01:14:49,890
And we're buying, we're not leaving?

755
01:14:50,350 --> 01:14:53,470
Correct. You'll own it, funded primarily through those grant funds.

756
01:14:54,190 --> 01:14:57,930
I believe there was one other question that I didn't hear as I was walking up, but.

757
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:15,040
I'm also asking about the infrastructure, the length of service of that. I think we should maybe leave that to all to discussion, because I think there's going to be a lot of discussion on this. Let's do that in public comment. Then we'll go from there. I do have one more question. Go ahead and did I have a question you're done asking you that question.

758
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:23,580
I'm sorry, one more question about the upcoming grant funding in January 2026 once that grant cycle opens up.

759
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:31,040
Would any of it be able to reimburse any of the fees that or the money that we're going to spend or is it going to go into maintenance of this project?

760
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:34,440
No, you're correct. That money will take the place of any city funds that we would expense.

761
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:39,300
So if we were to get both of the grants that we've applied for, there would be zero city dollars spent on this project.

762
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:40,500
Perfect. Thank you.

763
01:15:41,060 --> 01:15:45,520
Actually, I think if I was doing my math correct, the two grants would cover more than

764
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:47,740
what we were going to take, so what happened with the access?

765
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:50,160
That's a good question.

766
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:54,620
I think one of the grants would probably lower their award so that we wouldn't get, we're

767
01:15:54,620 --> 01:15:57,580
not going to pocket access money for it, they would just cover the cost of the project and

768
01:15:57,580 --> 01:15:58,600
shut off the grant at that point.

769
01:15:58,980 --> 01:16:00,340
So there's nothing else it could be used for?

770
01:16:01,440 --> 01:16:03,260
Nothing that we've identified in a current project.

771
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:04,140
Okay.

772
01:16:04,700 --> 01:16:06,220
I have one more, but Vice Mayor, do you want to go?

773
01:16:07,700 --> 01:16:09,040
No, go ahead, I'll go up to you.

774
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:10,020
Thank you.

775
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:15,820
My other question is, why are we including the 5% continued to see what 10% are typical?

776
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:17,840
So good question.

777
01:16:18,020 --> 01:16:22,540
10% is typically what we use when we anticipate there might be changes on the contract.

778
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:27,380
This particular contract is a design build contract with a fixed firm price.

779
01:16:27,940 --> 01:16:30,800
So the quote that we got from Schneider Electric is a not to exceed amount.

780
01:16:30,980 --> 01:16:33,380
So any overtures on this project will be to them.

781
01:16:33,780 --> 01:16:37,760
The reason we add the 5% is if there's something that comes up during the construction of

782
01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:40,720
this project where we find that there's added value

783
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:43,760
for the city to modify the project some way,

784
01:16:43,860 --> 01:16:45,460
to better fit something else.

785
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:47,120
We have some funds available to do that.

786
01:16:47,180 --> 01:16:49,300
We don't anticipate needing any additional money at all.

787
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:51,800
Okay, thank you, Vice Mayor.

788
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:54,160
Yeah, I'll have a couple of questions.

789
01:16:54,340 --> 01:16:55,700
One is, can we even count on the better

790
01:16:55,700 --> 01:16:57,600
on the PlayStation Reduction Act tax credits

791
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:00,820
that was in the staff report?

792
01:17:00,900 --> 01:17:04,540
If I think about 560,000 right now,

793
01:17:04,540 --> 01:17:07,600
and then also knowing that we might not be able

794
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:12,680
to count on them, so I'll speculate that should the contract include the requirement for Schneider

795
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:19,380
Electric to meet off federal inflation reduction acts compliance with proof of documentation.

796
01:17:20,300 --> 01:17:23,500
We've had a lot, a lot of contract misses.

797
01:17:25,780 --> 01:17:27,520
So I'll take the first part of that.

798
01:17:28,620 --> 01:17:32,220
The inflation reduction act tax credits, it's not something you apply for.

799
01:17:32,860 --> 01:17:36,600
It's just qualified for by the project, so you just submit the paperwork at the end of the

800
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:37,780
project and to my knowledge.

801
01:17:37,780 --> 01:17:39,000
I would say we have five for it.

802
01:17:39,060 --> 01:17:41,460
I say, can we count on receiving the funds for it?

803
01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:45,120
To my knowledge, everyone that has put in

804
01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:47,500
for those tax credits up to this point has been granted.

805
01:17:47,980 --> 01:17:50,220
What we've heard in the news and what I've talked to

806
01:17:50,220 --> 01:17:53,100
from other consultants is the large gas related project

807
01:17:53,540 --> 01:17:55,880
and wind related projects are having trouble meeting

808
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:56,600
those tax credits.

809
01:17:56,760 --> 01:17:58,240
Those are the ones that the federal government's

810
01:17:58,240 --> 01:17:59,000
trying to pull back on.

811
01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:01,120
So I don't have any reason to expect this not

812
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:03,660
to be available this tax credit.

813
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:05,800
Regarding the second part of that is if you would like us

814
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:10,400
to renegotiate this contract with Schneider to require that of them, we can certainly go back

815
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:16,200
and look at that. We are going to risk losing those credits if we don't begin construction

816
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:18,520
on December, so we'll be of a fairly time-sensitive nature.

817
01:18:22,630 --> 01:18:25,710
Would Schneider Electric like to address that?

818
01:18:26,630 --> 01:18:31,630
Yeah, so that's a great question. It's absolutely something we could consider, but the way the law

819
01:18:31,630 --> 01:18:37,910
is currently written is that the project has to essentially begin construction and equipment needs to

820
01:18:37,910 --> 01:18:43,190
be ordered about 5%, which is called a safe harbor rule before the end of the calendar

821
01:18:43,190 --> 01:18:43,610
year.

822
01:18:44,110 --> 01:18:48,190
And, again, as Public Works Director Weikert mentioned, that's why this is being brought

823
01:18:48,190 --> 01:18:54,450
forth now to ensure that the federal piece of the funding, those obligations are met,

824
01:18:54,630 --> 01:18:57,630
so that the $560,000 is not missed out upon.

825
01:18:58,470 --> 01:19:03,270
I do understand absolutely your concern around using city funds towards this project.

826
01:19:03,270 --> 01:19:13,010
Again, but we've tried to do our best to sharpen our pencil right size the project to maximize the amount of grant funding coming your way.

827
01:19:13,570 --> 01:19:25,950
And again, we're optimistic that future funds could also replace any city dollars that were spent, as well as we've seen proof and have a very detailed policy team who tracks all those federal incentives

828
01:19:25,950 --> 01:19:32,370
and have confirmed that the changes in the one big, beautiful tax bill, which is kind

829
01:19:32,370 --> 01:19:37,890
of making these changes on the federal incentive side, we've confirmed that the requirements

830
01:19:37,890 --> 01:19:44,030
of starting the project by end of this year would then make the city eligible for that $560,000.

831
01:19:45,130 --> 01:19:47,670
Vice Mayor, did that answer the question more?

832
01:19:50,070 --> 01:19:53,110
I danced around it, but I'll go ahead and save everything for discussion.

833
01:19:53,310 --> 01:19:53,570
Thank you.

834
01:19:53,570 --> 01:19:58,830
Okay. One final question, Casey. Can you briefly go over the scope of the difference between

835
01:19:58,830 --> 01:20:02,790
the project initially versus what you've reduced it to?

836
01:20:03,510 --> 01:20:08,830
Sure. So when we went to start applying for the grants, we said let's make the project

837
01:20:08,830 --> 01:20:14,530
as big as it would ultimately need to be to service all of the future vehicles that we

838
01:20:14,530 --> 01:20:18,670
would convert to electric vehicles. That way the project is larger and it will be eligible

839
01:20:18,670 --> 01:20:21,050
for a eligible for a larger grant.

840
01:20:21,430 --> 01:20:22,990
That's how we got to the $4.5 million.

841
01:20:23,510 --> 01:20:26,050
Once we were awarded the $3.2 million grant,

842
01:20:26,210 --> 01:20:28,450
which we thought was a firm number, not a percentage,

843
01:20:29,030 --> 01:20:31,210
that's when we said, let's scale the project down

844
01:20:31,210 --> 01:20:35,410
and not install 37 chargers and 200 solar panels,

845
01:20:35,490 --> 01:20:36,790
but let's solve enough solar panels

846
01:20:36,790 --> 01:20:39,010
and enough chargers to do roughly 10 years

847
01:20:39,010 --> 01:20:40,150
worth of vehicle conversions.

848
01:20:40,370 --> 01:20:42,670
So the 18 charges that we would put in now,

849
01:20:42,750 --> 01:20:44,510
we anticipate we'll get us through about 10 years

850
01:20:44,510 --> 01:20:45,810
of vehicle conversions.

851
01:20:46,990 --> 01:20:50,410
Okay. Anything else before, thank you, before we move into public comment?

852
01:20:50,810 --> 01:20:58,910
If I may, just to say, I'd like to also just take responsibility on the miss between the dollar, exact dollar amount and the percentage as your project manager and partner,

853
01:20:58,910 --> 01:21:02,530
that should have been something that I caught and was a little bit more communicative on.

854
01:21:02,690 --> 01:21:09,630
So just want to say Schneider accepts that responsibility as well, sorry for the inconvenience there and miss setting of expectations.

855
01:21:10,410 --> 01:21:11,070
Thank you for that.

856
01:21:11,210 --> 01:21:11,270
Yeah.

857
01:21:11,270 --> 01:21:13,390
Moving into public comments.

858
01:21:14,270 --> 01:21:17,730
At this time, the public is permitted to address the City Council on this agenda item.

859
01:21:17,770 --> 01:21:19,570
If you're participating, please raise your hand.

860
01:21:19,730 --> 01:21:21,190
If you're in person, please file a speaker card.

861
01:21:21,650 --> 01:21:25,030
Your microphone will be muted if you speak on items that do not pertain to this agenda item.

862
01:21:25,650 --> 01:21:28,050
I do have one comment in person, Danny.

863
01:21:33,940 --> 01:21:34,600
Okay, well,

864
01:21:37,730 --> 01:21:42,150
for the record, Madam Vice Mayor, if I didn't like you, I wouldn't be a pain.

865
01:21:44,050 --> 01:21:48,560
Now, I wasn't expecting to speak upon this.

866
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:52,040
So it's going to sound disjointed.

867
01:21:53,900 --> 01:22:02,240
I'm trying to understand the disconnect spending three million in change is it worth

868
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:09,860
it for 32, 37 cars because our president has made it clear that he's not an electric

869
01:22:09,860 --> 01:22:10,240
guy.

870
01:22:11,260 --> 01:22:18,100
Considering he's willing to let children starve by holding back snap and unless we get this

871
01:22:18,100 --> 01:22:25,740
money the day after tomorrow, should we trust any assistance from the federal government?

872
01:22:28,250 --> 01:22:34,170
Because when we start, that's how we wound up losing the $500,000 a few weeks ago.

873
01:22:34,650 --> 01:22:35,810
We wound up stuck.

874
01:22:36,350 --> 01:22:39,030
Oh, well, you know, good or what it should have.

875
01:22:41,830 --> 01:22:46,410
Now is it possible we can lose the tax credits?

876
01:22:46,410 --> 01:22:55,450
Yeah, I mean, it makes sense if it's by the end of the year, but with the stroke of a pin we can lose those

877
01:22:56,170 --> 01:22:56,750
credits.

878
01:22:59,110 --> 01:23:02,670
I would suggest looking at the long game.

879
01:23:04,290 --> 01:23:10,290
Even if that means we're gonna have to pay a few more dollars in a year, year and a half,

880
01:23:11,890 --> 01:23:17,510
because right now, honestly, and I'm not trying to be political about it,

881
01:23:17,510 --> 01:23:19,390
But I'm trying to be realistic about it.

882
01:23:19,870 --> 01:23:28,870
We are putting a lot of hope in what we expect the government to give us.

883
01:23:29,910 --> 01:23:32,350
And I think that hope is misplaced.

884
01:23:37,410 --> 01:23:39,470
And no additional cards in person.

885
01:23:39,630 --> 01:23:41,250
I do have one hand raised in Zoom.

886
01:23:41,470 --> 01:23:45,510
A reminder, this is to speak on the item that we're currently on.

887
01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:48,320
Senator, go ahead.

888
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:57,100
I'm sorry, am I able to speak on item H2 yet?

889
01:23:57,360 --> 01:23:58,260
Not yet.

890
01:23:58,900 --> 01:24:00,060
Okay, my apologies.

891
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:00,880
Thank you.

892
01:24:01,420 --> 01:24:02,940
I have no additional hands raised.

893
01:24:03,780 --> 01:24:04,280
Thank you, Amanda.

894
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:06,180
Moving into discussion.

895
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:08,460
I would like to start.

896
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:10,020
I would.

897
01:24:12,300 --> 01:24:12,600
Okay.

898
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:13,200
Okay.

899
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:13,520
Go ahead.

900
01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:22,640
I have a couple of issues with this one is that I think we have had other issues with other

901
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:28,860
projects to start construction, change orders, additional unexpected costs and issues with the

902
01:24:28,860 --> 01:24:34,060
wages. I would really like to see that we have a contract with the requirement for

903
01:24:34,060 --> 01:24:38,620
Schneider to meet all the iron compliance criteria with documentation. And I think

904
01:24:39,980 --> 01:24:46,200
I know that if construction does begin by December 31st, 2025 that we can risk losing the eligibility

905
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:51,460
but I'd like to be more safe and sorry. And I feel like we always get these dates where it's

906
01:24:52,360 --> 01:25:04,860
So we are two months before and I don't see why we couldn't have that addition. We have legal staff. We have a company here who should have legal staff to get this done and get this construction started. So I do take issue with that.

907
01:25:06,500 --> 01:25:07,660
That's my discussion.

908
01:25:10,120 --> 01:25:11,000
Thank you.

909
01:25:11,460 --> 01:25:12,060
Go ahead.

910
01:25:12,060 --> 01:25:15,840
Council Member, I think that some of the same concerns as Vice Mayor Pearson,

911
01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:24,880
I just, we've had a lot of issues lately with a lot of items, and I don't, we need better checks

912
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:30,740
and balances for this department because we can't keep doing this to our residents,

913
01:25:31,580 --> 01:25:36,860
because it's, again, I see enterprise funds and it's just like, it's more taxing on them.

914
01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:43,320
I think that we should probably not go into contracts going forward if you don't can't

915
01:25:43,320 --> 01:25:46,960
guarantee your grants, which is sounds like we're getting contract, we're getting ahead

916
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:47,320
of it.

917
01:25:48,940 --> 01:25:52,880
I'm just like, I'm just flabbergasted at this, and my question, and my other question is,

918
01:25:53,260 --> 01:25:59,320
so the additional grants, the IRA tax credit and the IRA EV charging, there could be a chance

919
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:03,820
we don't get it, so what portion of that would be enterprise and what portion of that would

920
01:26:03,820 --> 01:26:05,280
be general fund if we don't get it?

921
01:26:10,990 --> 01:26:15,190
It would be the same split, roughly one-third, general fund, two-thirds enterprise funds.

922
01:26:15,770 --> 01:26:20,690
I will point out, clarify, the $1.9 million grant is from the Bay Area Air Quality Management

923
01:26:20,690 --> 01:26:24,230
District. It's not a federal grant. It is state money, and that money has been awarded.

924
01:26:24,810 --> 01:26:29,230
That's the largest chunk of that. That's two-thirds of this project costs. So, if we choose to slow

925
01:26:29,230 --> 01:26:34,330
down and revisit the contracts, we'll start it. That's one thing. But the $1.9 million

926
01:26:34,330 --> 01:26:37,730
that money is already awarded, that is ours. It's been granted.

927
01:26:38,150 --> 01:26:42,550
Can you re-scope the project smaller or does it have to be this big?

928
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:47,060
We can certainly do whatever the council would like us to do.

929
01:26:47,340 --> 01:26:49,800
We could re-scope it and go smaller.

930
01:26:49,940 --> 01:26:53,140
That would, I would imagine we would have to re-apply for the grant.

931
01:26:54,380 --> 01:27:00,360
Maybe I can help with that piece, I don't, it would certainly change things and we would certainly

932
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:03,300
not meet the IRA grant requirements at that point.

933
01:27:03,400 --> 01:27:07,660
So we'd lose that on half a million in funding, potential funding there, but we certainly

934
01:27:07,660 --> 01:27:12,180
could and whatever we were you scoped a project to to make it smaller the grant from the Bay Area

935
01:27:12,180 --> 01:27:16,180
Board that we currently have we might not get back and if we did get it back it would certainly be

936
01:27:16,180 --> 01:27:22,620
lower yeah yeah I wish someone had modeled that out too um and I know it's what the council says

937
01:27:22,620 --> 01:27:28,220
but we count on you guys to be subject matter experts and right now it just doesn't feel like that

938
01:27:28,220 --> 01:27:33,060
yeah it feels like we're all flying blind like this was on a contract this didn't happen no one

939
01:27:33,060 --> 01:27:40,460
read this on a contract and it's just it's a disservice to our residents and it's egg on our

940
01:27:40,460 --> 01:27:44,820
faces council people. Well I absolutely hear you concerned and I guess let me just clarify

941
01:27:44,820 --> 01:27:49,620
a couple things so we've done a lot of these projects recently all throughout your neighboring area

942
01:27:49,620 --> 01:27:54,860
Modesto City Schools a client of mine we've done about $60 million of infrastructure projects for him

943
01:27:54,860 --> 01:28:00,820
they've just received $5.9 million dollar check from the same exact program so I think we have

944
01:28:00,820 --> 01:28:03,900
validation that those federal funds are applicable.

945
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:07,420
It's under the investment tax credit direct pay option.

946
01:28:07,900 --> 01:28:10,100
So we feel really good about those dollars coming in.

947
01:28:10,480 --> 01:28:13,840
I think more broadly, unfortunately, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District,

948
01:28:13,940 --> 01:28:18,480
they have taken an approach of only awarding a percentage as, again,

949
01:28:18,600 --> 01:28:23,800
which was a miss on my part, where other air quality districts have funded 100% of the project cost.

950
01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:28,640
And so we did try actively to work with them to better see if there's a way to meet the middle,

951
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:33,980
especially after we refined our project scope and showed a smaller overall project number,

952
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:38,920
unfortunately they just weren't budging there. And I guess zooming out more broadly,

953
01:28:39,320 --> 01:28:43,580
you know, we're faced with mandates, which in a lot of ways I don't think are fair for local

954
01:28:43,580 --> 01:28:50,460
agencies like you to be pushed down, but that's what the state is doing. And so we have a path forward

955
01:28:50,460 --> 01:28:56,400
here where we can find a way around these mandates, we can leverage as much grant funding as possible,

956
01:28:56,400 --> 01:29:02,780
and then have a net savings of over $5 million that actually can go back into your different accounts.

957
01:29:03,140 --> 01:29:06,120
And that's really my goal at the end of the day to try to help with.

958
01:29:08,480 --> 01:29:10,240
It's just, I mean, I don't know what to say anymore.

959
01:29:10,460 --> 01:29:13,620
I'm just disappointed overall and we've got to get better.

960
01:29:13,980 --> 01:29:17,300
And if this came in late summer, I wish we would have seen an ASAP.

961
01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:21,420
I've asked for agenda item list all like constantly from our staff.

962
01:29:21,420 --> 01:29:22,480
I have not gotten them.

963
01:29:22,860 --> 01:29:25,880
The reason we need to see an agenda item list because if we would have seen this,

964
01:29:25,880 --> 01:29:27,580
We might have said, hey, can we move this up?

965
01:29:27,700 --> 01:29:28,820
This looks really important.

966
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:29,520
Sure.

967
01:29:29,840 --> 01:29:33,580
You know, and I know sometimes it's hard to move things up,

968
01:29:33,660 --> 01:29:36,420
but something like this, which probably should have seen

969
01:29:36,420 --> 01:29:37,260
it a little bit sooner.

970
01:29:38,780 --> 01:29:41,940
Yeah, and that's good feedback on our end is we need

971
01:29:41,940 --> 01:29:44,080
to be checking in on timelines more broadly

972
01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:48,040
and maybe speeding things up to give enough time

973
01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:50,900
to digest something like this, which has a very short

974
01:29:50,900 --> 01:29:51,820
end of the year deadline.

975
01:29:51,820 --> 01:29:53,260
So I appreciate that feedback.

976
01:29:54,060 --> 01:29:59,980
And you're always, I appreciate this. I'm sorry, Madam Mayor. I hear the speaker from Schneider.

977
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:28,260
We're taking responsibility. I don't, and I'm, I'm never here. If you've looked over my trajectory, I don't really publicly try to shame or and I'm not doing that anyway for city staff. But sir, you don't work for the city of print, but there's has to be some level of responsibility that we got an agreement on a grant. And we didn't even know it was five percentage. And so while I appreciate you accepting responsibility, I don't feel like the fault falls all on you because we are responsible as well.

978
01:30:28,260 --> 01:30:30,580
So, I just want to acknowledge that.

979
01:30:32,500 --> 01:30:34,640
Thank you, Ms. Mayor, Council Member Orleman,

980
01:30:34,700 --> 01:30:35,400
so you had a statement.

981
01:30:36,780 --> 01:30:39,200
Yeah, I'm just trying to clarify,

982
01:30:39,540 --> 01:30:41,960
when we very first started looking at the project,

983
01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:46,840
maybe last year, and we were just talking about putting

984
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:49,420
an infrastructure, and then you guys came back to us

985
01:30:49,420 --> 01:30:51,400
and said, hey, we found these grants,

986
01:30:52,020 --> 01:30:57,720
we can get it paid for by something other than the general fund.

987
01:30:58,260 --> 01:31:03,280
And we started moving forward the same project right that we asked you to move forward on.

988
01:31:03,460 --> 01:31:08,000
That's correct same project. Okay and it's just the miscommunication of

989
01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:13,820
maybe how much the grants were going to cover that's the issue and but we

990
01:31:15,300 --> 01:31:21,140
all of our staff does believe that we're going to be able to cover the cost of the installation of

991
01:31:21,140 --> 01:31:25,880
this project probably, I mean, nothing's guaranteed.

992
01:31:26,540 --> 01:31:28,900
I mean, Mr. Dornham was 100% correct.

993
01:31:29,100 --> 01:31:31,180
The federal government could step out and say,

994
01:31:31,320 --> 01:31:32,360
we're not doing that anymore.

995
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:35,720
And then we may end up changing the scope of the project, yes?

996
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:37,480
You're correct.

997
01:31:37,660 --> 01:31:41,140
The federal portion of this grant is $560,000.

998
01:31:41,300 --> 01:31:44,960
So even if that gets taken away, the $1.9 million grant

999
01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:46,420
that we currently have is through the state

1000
01:31:46,420 --> 01:31:48,940
and that money is guaranteed and it's already been awarded to us.

1001
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:50,360
We don't have the check in hand yet.

1002
01:31:50,360 --> 01:31:53,500
but we do have a grant funding agreement in place that's signed.

1003
01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:58,380
The other two grants that we are chasing are one is through PG&E and one is through what's

1004
01:31:58,380 --> 01:32:04,300
called the Incentibized Grant and those are more in total than the federal funds.

1005
01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:08,400
So even if the federal funds were to be taken away, these additional grants that we are

1006
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:12,820
reasonably confident that we'll get will make up for that loss of federal funds even if

1007
01:32:12,820 --> 01:32:13,460
it does go away.

1008
01:32:13,680 --> 01:32:17,520
If we happen to get both, the city will be able to do this project with absolutely zero

1009
01:32:17,520 --> 01:32:18,260
dollars spent.

1010
01:32:24,140 --> 01:32:31,680
We have to replace 50% of our currently eligible gas combustion vehicles with EVs.

1011
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:36,600
50% of the vehicle, we buy every year, have to be EV going forward.

1012
01:32:36,740 --> 01:32:40,320
And then we have to have 50% of our fleet done by 2030, something like that.

1013
01:32:40,940 --> 01:32:45,780
It's been pushed out a couple of years with a delay from the area airborne recently.

1014
01:32:45,820 --> 01:32:49,040
But I think it's 50% by 2030, I have to verify that.

1015
01:32:49,900 --> 01:32:55,800
Thanks. Go ahead. So a quick question. So we have a budget subcommittee. Why didn't this come

1016
01:32:55,800 --> 01:32:59,860
back to the budget subcommittee as soon as you found out about it? We discussed everything else

1017
01:32:59,860 --> 01:33:05,040
to that point. We've been working through the contract for the last couple of months. We hadn't

1018
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:11,220
tried to get this on the last council meeting agenda. That council agenda was full and for other

1019
01:33:11,220 --> 01:33:16,260
projects that we were presenting. We elected to push this because it wasn't ready through legal. We didn't

1020
01:33:16,260 --> 01:33:22,020
the contract completed done yet. We have been trying to get this wrapped up for many months.

1021
01:33:22,620 --> 01:33:27,260
These things, there are a lot of moving parts behind the scene. Schneider has to get plans

1022
01:33:27,260 --> 01:33:32,400
and specs ready for us to approve. They have those plans done now. We're working through the contract

1023
01:33:32,400 --> 01:33:37,420
after that, so it just takes time to get these. We brought this to one meeting later than we wanted to,

1024
01:33:37,480 --> 01:33:39,680
but this was about as fast as we could get it back to you.

1025
01:33:42,610 --> 01:33:44,970
So I have to share the frustration,

1026
01:33:44,970 --> 01:33:49,370
though. I mean, I think the problem that we're seeing is that we end up seeing a budget increase

1027
01:33:50,070 --> 01:33:52,850
unexpectedly with a very short turnaround and decision that has to be made immediately.

1028
01:33:53,590 --> 01:33:58,790
And so I think that's the part of it for me that's a challenge having nothing to do with you,

1029
01:33:58,910 --> 01:34:01,170
sir, and thank you for being here and for answering questions. You're welcome.

1030
01:34:01,410 --> 01:34:06,410
I just want to just add to the conversation here and say that I think that's what I'm finding

1031
01:34:06,410 --> 01:34:09,970
frustrating. It sounds like what other people are finding frustrating as well because it's not the

1032
01:34:09,970 --> 01:34:15,170
first time. And we would like to see things buttoned up a bit tighter. I believe a year

1033
01:34:15,170 --> 01:34:20,170
ago, if I recall correctly, we were motivated to move forward with this. We felt good about

1034
01:34:20,170 --> 01:34:26,250
it, especially considering the long-term savings and hopefully understanding that things aren't

1035
01:34:26,250 --> 01:34:31,570
going to change to a huge degree when it comes to regulations around electrification. It's

1036
01:34:31,570 --> 01:34:38,050
the process itself that has become frustrating. So I would ask that you take that back, think

1037
01:34:38,050 --> 01:34:42,750
about a process that maybe could be a little bit buttoned up a bit tighter. But thank you

1038
01:34:42,750 --> 01:34:45,650
for the report. Does anyone have any other comments, darlings, do you want to?

1039
01:34:46,370 --> 01:34:53,810
Yeah, if I may. So just a couple options. So first, let me step back. The city is required

1040
01:34:53,810 --> 01:35:00,110
for we're going to have to put in infrastructure as relates to EV charging for our fleet. That's

1041
01:35:00,110 --> 01:35:06,510
a state requirement. That date continues to change so we cannot tell you and say, you know, you

1042
01:35:06,510 --> 01:35:10,990
It has to be done by a certain date because the state continues to push that data.

1043
01:35:12,170 --> 01:35:16,070
What we have here is we had a project that we knew that we needed to do.

1044
01:35:16,590 --> 01:35:22,650
And we weren't sure exactly when we were going to bring it forward through public works

1045
01:35:22,650 --> 01:35:27,090
and being connected with Schneider Electric, we identified that there was a grant.

1046
01:35:28,010 --> 01:35:33,550
And so as our Director of Public Works has clearly kind of stated, we have a little under

1047
01:35:33,550 --> 01:35:39,270
two million dollars to help us with this project that we are going to have to do sometime in

1048
01:35:39,270 --> 01:35:46,450
the future no matter what. Unfortunately, it only covers 65 percent of the cost. There

1049
01:35:46,450 --> 01:35:53,350
is a chance that, for example, let's say, if six of the months down the road, the council

1050
01:35:53,350 --> 01:35:57,690
says, hey, let's not move forward with this grant, we might be required to make these installations

1051
01:35:57,690 --> 01:36:04,330
all with their own funding. Basically with kind of the same funding description as our

1052
01:36:04,330 --> 01:36:08,530
director stated with two-thirds coming out of enterprise and one-third coming out of the

1053
01:36:08,530 --> 01:36:15,610
general fund. So tonight, the only part that's kind of hurried is that we have found some

1054
01:36:15,610 --> 01:36:19,110
additional funding to help cover some of the costs as relates to federal. So understand

1055
01:36:19,730 --> 01:36:26,850
the frustration with that. We definitely don't need to move forward with the contract tonight.

1056
01:36:26,850 --> 01:36:31,810
It just might put into jeopardy that funding that we know has of the portion of the project

1057
01:36:32,310 --> 01:36:38,910
as Snyder's Electric has described we have to initiate construction and purchase 5% of

1058
01:36:38,910 --> 01:36:39,630
our supplies.

1059
01:36:40,210 --> 01:36:46,730
I'm not saying that by November the next council meeting that we couldn't complete a contract

1060
01:36:46,730 --> 01:36:53,770
amendment, not a contract amendment, an updated, I'm hoping that Snyder Electric's here and

1061
01:36:53,770 --> 01:36:58,930
And that they want to get this project done also, that we could bring this back at the

1062
01:36:58,930 --> 01:37:04,270
next council meeting in November, and still hopefully possibly meet the requirements of

1063
01:37:04,270 --> 01:37:05,010
the federal standard.

1064
01:37:05,170 --> 01:37:11,090
The funding mix will not change, but we could add the language as described by Councilmember

1065
01:37:11,090 --> 01:37:13,010
Pearson in the contract.

1066
01:37:15,870 --> 01:37:18,290
And our public work structure is correct.

1067
01:37:18,730 --> 01:37:21,510
We were trying to get this, but we were actually working on the contract.

1068
01:37:21,510 --> 01:37:28,410
that's the reason why it took a little bit longer. So my, maybe my suggestion would be if we've

1069
01:37:28,410 --> 01:37:33,310
just pushed this off, I'll call it table it, allow us to work which night are electric

1070
01:37:33,310 --> 01:37:37,210
and bring this back at our next council meeting. Do you still believe that we could,

1071
01:37:37,510 --> 01:37:42,530
if could we negotiate a contract, bring back on the 12th and steal meets other requirements

1072
01:37:42,530 --> 01:37:50,210
of the federal grant? So to clarify, it sounds like there is a little bit of wanting more

1073
01:37:50,210 --> 01:37:56,370
more concrete and more risk on our part to bear responsibility around the $560,000 of

1074
01:37:56,370 --> 01:38:01,950
the investment tax credit that is sort of up in the air. Is that one of the main items

1075
01:38:01,950 --> 01:38:05,910
to potentially renegotiate? I think that's right. I ask the vice mayor to clarify since

1076
01:38:05,910 --> 01:38:10,970
that was her point. Yes, thank you. I think for me it's a shifting

1077
01:38:10,970 --> 01:38:17,930
the risk from us from the city's perspective. Yeah. Sushi Niders and accountability and the

1078
01:38:17,930 --> 01:38:20,030
the risk transfers to the contractor.

1079
01:38:20,370 --> 01:38:22,730
So I don't see why we would not take that on.

1080
01:38:23,110 --> 01:38:24,670
I mean, I'm okay with moving forward.

1081
01:38:24,690 --> 01:38:26,450
If we can do the risk transfer,

1082
01:38:27,510 --> 01:38:28,790
even moving forward tonight,

1083
01:38:28,790 --> 01:38:31,590
so long as that is to be added to the contract.

1084
01:38:32,390 --> 01:38:36,870
I'm just, I mean, look like we change city attorneys

1085
01:38:36,870 --> 01:38:40,530
and I know our city attorney doesn't like,

1086
01:38:40,710 --> 01:38:42,630
I don't have my glasses on, but the hair look long

1087
01:38:43,690 --> 01:38:44,990
in the shot to deer.

1088
01:38:44,990 --> 01:38:52,270
But I'm not asking for legal advice on the diet, but what I am looking at is we should

1089
01:38:52,270 --> 01:38:55,930
be able to get this done by the next meeting so that we can move forward.

1090
01:38:56,450 --> 01:38:58,990
I don't know why this would take an absorbent amount of time.

1091
01:38:59,250 --> 01:39:01,830
Yeah, well, I have to be absolutely upfront with you all.

1092
01:39:02,110 --> 01:39:06,290
Schneider Electric is not in a position to bear responsibility for decisions made by the

1093
01:39:06,290 --> 01:39:06,970
federal government.

1094
01:39:07,190 --> 01:39:13,950
So if the question really boils down to in a scenario where you all do not get that $560,000,

1095
01:39:13,950 --> 01:39:18,370
could that cost be directly absorbed, I can't sit here in front of you and say

1096
01:39:18,370 --> 01:39:22,950
that's something that the company could accept. Funding and procurement obviously

1097
01:39:22,950 --> 01:39:29,170
falls to the public agency. What I can say is that if there is that scenario and you

1098
01:39:29,170 --> 01:39:34,930
don't get funding, would we look to find a way to partner together? Discope within

1099
01:39:34,930 --> 01:39:40,370
the project confines and try to make it work or look at other projects we might be

1100
01:39:40,370 --> 01:39:45,590
be able to do. That's absolutely something I can guarantee, but I have to be up front

1101
01:39:45,590 --> 01:39:49,930
with you that we could not bear that risk in contractually, unfortunately.

1102
01:39:50,390 --> 01:39:55,510
But contractually, we require you to, one, that construction will begin. So I'm not

1103
01:39:55,510 --> 01:40:00,030
asking you, we would ask you to guarantee the federal funding. What it will ask you is

1104
01:40:00,030 --> 01:40:04,490
to guarantee that one construction will begin before December 31st, and that you have documentation

1105
01:40:04,490 --> 01:40:10,150
of prevailing wage and apprentice. Oh, we have. So, that's all the requirement would be. So

1106
01:40:10,150 --> 01:40:11,470
I think that that's what needs to be done.

1107
01:40:11,470 --> 01:40:12,770
That's already in the contract.

1108
01:40:12,950 --> 01:40:14,470
So I apologize if there was a misunderstanding.

1109
01:40:14,550 --> 01:40:16,350
This is a full prevailing wage job.

1110
01:40:16,530 --> 01:40:19,050
We intend to hire out of the local trades unions.

1111
01:40:19,470 --> 01:40:22,130
We have a project schedule put in place to meet that.

1112
01:40:22,230 --> 01:40:24,410
We've actually ordered the material already.

1113
01:40:24,590 --> 01:40:27,390
And all we have to do is ship the panels to your public works

1114
01:40:27,390 --> 01:40:28,830
before the end of the year.

1115
01:40:29,250 --> 01:40:32,030
So every one of those requirements that you just laid out

1116
01:40:32,030 --> 01:40:33,870
is in the contract and we can guarantee.

1117
01:40:34,370 --> 01:40:35,950
I just wanted to be totally upfront

1118
01:40:35,950 --> 01:40:41,070
that we could not bear full risk of you not getting the federal investment tax

1119
01:40:41,070 --> 01:40:44,090
grades as it's just outside of something that we could obviously control.

1120
01:40:45,910 --> 01:40:47,930
Vice President, do you have any other questions on that?

1121
01:40:49,410 --> 01:40:55,190
Okay, with that, have we changed our recommendation to move this to the next meeting?

1122
01:40:56,010 --> 01:41:02,150
I think based on the information that I heard, I feel that our City Attorney's Office has a

1123
01:41:02,150 --> 01:41:06,230
contract that meets the requirements, and I would recommend that the City Council move

1124
01:41:06,230 --> 01:41:09,930
this forward. If you wanted to move it to the future meeting, just tell us what you'd

1125
01:41:09,930 --> 01:41:15,310
like spring back, bring back on the most, the November 12th City Council meeting. We've

1126
01:41:15,310 --> 01:41:19,750
come back with an additional report, but only if we knew what you wanted to, what information

1127
01:41:20,190 --> 01:41:24,790
you needed to be able to make a decision. So, the Council's spending money, and we understand

1128
01:41:24,790 --> 01:41:28,850
that, and the Council needs to be able to feel comfortable with any expenditures of taxpayer

1129
01:41:28,850 --> 01:41:29,130
funds.

1130
01:41:29,130 --> 01:41:35,990
I didn't see any contract of guarantee to the project, but I did not think this contract

1131
01:41:35,990 --> 01:41:37,630
is compliant with that.

1132
01:41:38,970 --> 01:41:44,850
So if you don't mind to clarify a potential approval tonight and then written notice

1133
01:41:44,850 --> 01:41:49,790
to proceed can contractually means that the project does start before the end of the calendar

1134
01:41:49,790 --> 01:41:50,170
year.

1135
01:41:50,610 --> 01:41:56,690
And then that 5% safe harbor, we have all plans in place, we have the panels in a warehouse

1136
01:41:56,690 --> 01:42:01,170
Right now, my logistic team is ready to ship upon that notice to proceed.

1137
01:42:01,730 --> 01:42:21,290
Shipping takes about 10 days in as long as form and we've already been working with public works about where those panels would arrive, document, as well as additional preliminary site work that we could document to, you know, to again show that work has started for this calendar year making that funding eligible.

1138
01:42:21,630 --> 01:42:23,590
Those requirements might as well as how I should say that.

1139
01:42:24,150 --> 01:42:29,310
Thank you. I think the federal language says the construction has to be a knock that we have

1140
01:42:29,310 --> 01:42:34,630
to have the firmance of the contract. Not for projects under one megawatt, which this falls under.

1141
01:42:34,810 --> 01:42:38,970
So we just have to meet the 5% safe harbor rule. That's a great point. That's for more utility

1142
01:42:38,970 --> 01:42:43,390
scale larger projects. This classifies as the smaller under one megawatt rules.

1143
01:42:44,450 --> 01:42:48,910
So again, I appreciate all of that commentary and that's not in writing. So I would like for it to

1144
01:42:48,910 --> 01:42:55,030
actually say in writing that if the construction does not begin by December 31st, so I like

1145
01:42:55,030 --> 01:43:00,770
the shift there and I do not see that in disagreement. So I am okay with this move forward to the

1146
01:43:00,770 --> 01:43:06,050
whole entire council if that language can be added. Can we make the motion dependent on that,

1147
01:43:06,170 --> 01:43:12,250
that they prove would only be based on that being in the contract? I think based on what I've heard,

1148
01:43:12,590 --> 01:43:18,650
we could amend the final contract to include that say, Barbara Languages met before the end of the year.

1149
01:43:19,850 --> 01:43:26,910
If it's to be made a motion for tonight, I think I could pass that along to my team if that's the direction you all are looking for.

1150
01:43:27,150 --> 01:43:30,050
It sounds like the approval to move forward with you based on that happening.

1151
01:43:30,510 --> 01:43:33,610
I think I could, yeah, absolutely, it could make that happen if that's the request.

1152
01:43:36,100 --> 01:43:36,960
So, we're going to make a motion.

1153
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:44,740
I don't have a full-righted agenda, so somebody wants to add in all of my little commentary.

1154
01:43:45,080 --> 01:43:45,860
I'll make the motion.

1155
01:43:46,920 --> 01:43:50,920
I move to adopt a resolution approved, oh wait, hold on, I'm sorry, wrong motion.

1156
01:43:51,840 --> 01:43:57,240
As described in the staff report, I moved to adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager

1157
01:43:57,240 --> 01:44:02,220
or does it need to execute a construction amendment to the turnkey design and energy services

1158
01:44:02,220 --> 01:44:08,460
agreement with the addition of vice mayor Pearson. Do you want to add your commentary?

1159
01:44:09,720 --> 01:44:17,480
With the addition that there will be a guarantee that a construction, if construction does not begin by

1160
01:44:17,480 --> 01:44:23,420
Addison for 31st, excuse me, five, with wage documentation and should be added to the contract.

1161
01:44:24,540 --> 01:44:25,540
I agree with that.

1162
01:44:29,020 --> 01:44:29,460
Second.

1163
01:44:30,320 --> 01:44:31,900
Oh, in favor with the roll call vote, please.

1164
01:44:33,760 --> 01:44:38,540
Council Member Maloney, before we move on, any final questions from Schneider Electric or staff?

1165
01:44:39,220 --> 01:44:44,180
No, we just want to thank appreciate the Council's discussion and moving this forward and appreciate

1166
01:44:44,180 --> 01:44:48,240
Schneider Electric working with us, and we will make sure and work with the City Attorney's

1167
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:51,700
office and move forward as described in the motion if approved tonight.

1168
01:44:52,060 --> 01:44:59,970
Thank you. Council Member Maloney. Yes, Vice Mayor Pearson. Yes, and I-

1169
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:16,880
The only addition in my room is a fluffy multi-poo dock. Otherwise, I'm a councilmember Mendoza. Yes. Councilmember Orleman. Yes. Mayor Mayer. Yes, and the item moves forward. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much for. Thank you, sir.

1170
01:45:21,280 --> 01:45:28,780
Moving into item H2. Katie Zinsky, city attorney will present the next item regarding an employment agreement with G. Harold Duffy.

1171
01:45:45,830 --> 01:45:47,570
Good evening, mayor and city council.

1172
01:45:47,570 --> 01:45:53,690
Tonight we are presenting for the City Council's consideration and employment agreement for a new city manager.

1173
01:45:54,350 --> 01:46:05,530
After the departure of the former city manager some six months ago, the council named Darren Gale as the interim city manager and began a nationwide search through the recruitment firm Peckham and McKenny.

1174
01:46:06,510 --> 01:46:13,390
Peckham developed brochure that shared the council's vision of the ideal candidate and expectations for training and experience.

1175
01:46:13,390 --> 01:46:18,830
In addition to the attributes listed in the staff report, some of the other things that

1176
01:46:18,830 --> 01:46:24,910
the council listed as important were being visible in the community, having a track record

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01:46:24,910 --> 01:46:31,830
of identifying, hiring, promoting, and developing great staff, demonstrating an ability to define

1178
01:46:31,830 --> 01:46:37,750
complex issues in plain language, and being collaborative and willing to offer frank and honest

1179
01:46:37,750 --> 01:46:43,430
advice reflecting the community's interests and best practices for innovative municipal government.

1180
01:46:44,530 --> 01:46:49,070
Dozens of applications poured in, which the recruiter evaluated.

1181
01:46:49,930 --> 01:46:55,570
Peckham then sent follow-up questionnaires to 12 candidates and after reviewing those responses,

1182
01:46:56,050 --> 01:47:01,250
sent a list of nine candidates forward for the City Council's consideration for panel interviews.

1183
01:47:01,770 --> 01:47:06,290
The council chose six of these individuals to sit for those panel interviews.

1184
01:47:06,290 --> 01:47:12,930
news. After an initial round, three candidates moved on to a second interview with the City Council.

1185
01:47:14,210 --> 01:47:19,690
Finally, after a thorough background investigation was conducted, the City Council chose Glenn

1186
01:47:19,690 --> 01:47:26,630
Harold Duffy as their finalist. Mr. Duffy's experience includes over 30 years of public service.

1187
01:47:27,110 --> 01:47:33,070
He has worked with cities such as Oakland, Grant Terrace, Compton, and Auroville, and has

1188
01:47:33,070 --> 01:47:36,270
likewise served in County Administration in Yolo County.

1189
01:47:37,510 --> 01:47:42,130
If approved tonight, the new City Manager's contract will include a number of features,

1190
01:47:42,570 --> 01:47:52,590
which include a base salary of $304,515 per year, annual performance evaluations as well

1191
01:47:52,590 --> 01:47:59,470
as an initial six-month evaluation, paid time off and sick leave to be accrued in the same

1192
01:47:59,470 --> 01:48:07,430
numbers as accrued by department heads, 16 hours of vacation leave each month, eligibility

1193
01:48:07,430 --> 01:48:13,150
to participate in the city's deferred compensation plan, and provisions that govern determination

1194
01:48:13,150 --> 01:48:19,830
with or without cause. There are, of course, other provisions in the contract as well, and

1195
01:48:19,830 --> 01:48:24,030
that contract is attached for the councils and the public's review to this agenda item.

1196
01:48:25,650 --> 01:48:30,350
Mr. Duffy's employment would begin on November 3rd if this item is approved this evening.

1197
01:48:31,790 --> 01:48:35,290
That's my report, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

1198
01:48:36,130 --> 01:48:36,930
Thank you, Katie.

1199
01:48:37,210 --> 01:48:38,550
Any questions for staff?

1200
01:48:41,360 --> 01:48:41,580
Okay.

1201
01:48:42,100 --> 01:48:43,460
Moving in to public comments.

1202
01:48:45,320 --> 01:48:49,020
At this time, the public is permitted to address the City Council on this agenda item.

1203
01:48:49,020 --> 01:48:50,580
If you're participating, be a Zoom.

1204
01:48:50,680 --> 01:48:51,880
Please raise your hand to speak.

1205
01:48:52,360 --> 01:48:54,660
If you're in person, please follow Speaker Card with the City Clerk.

1206
01:48:54,780 --> 01:48:55,780
Your microphone will be muted.

1207
01:48:55,780 --> 01:49:07,240
If you speak on items that do not pertain to this agenda item or after the timer has expired we did with these six written public comments in advance of this evening and those are displayed on the screen.

1208
01:49:08,580 --> 01:49:11,940
I don't have or I have one speaker card in person Danny.

1209
01:49:22,210 --> 01:49:23,670
Let me set the record straight.

1210
01:49:25,680 --> 01:49:31,560
I can actually support additional scrutiny when it comes to hyena city manager.

1211
01:49:31,560 --> 01:49:37,180
That's what's out there in the Netherlands called Facebook in next door.

1212
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:45,980
What I am against is the sudden urge now to voice your opinion on who gets the gig.

1213
01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:49,420
I want to thank Darren for his time.

1214
01:49:50,120 --> 01:49:54,880
I've often mentioned that the council should take the interim office title.

1215
01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:58,960
I don't know why the decision went in another direction,

1216
01:49:58,960 --> 01:50:06,040
but I can say that Darren helped clear the stench from the last guy. I do not

1217
01:50:06,040 --> 01:50:13,560
know the German. When I meant him, I commented on how he will be scrutinized. I

1218
01:50:13,560 --> 01:50:18,600
only had slight knowledge of his tenure in Oakland. When asked, he answered

1219
01:50:18,600 --> 01:50:27,760
directly and I believe honestly. Of course, the keyboard cowards try the muddy

1220
01:50:27,760 --> 01:50:37,680
the waters. I meant what I said earlier, tear away the veneer of the dog whistle, and the

1221
01:50:37,680 --> 01:50:47,460
crew is clear. I for one will give the gentleman a chance. I also advise him, as I advise

1222
01:50:47,460 --> 01:50:50,240
others, stay off social media.

1223
01:50:52,690 --> 01:50:58,650
It's not for the faint of heart. Although I suspect this

1224
01:50:58,650 --> 01:51:00,590
This isn't his first rodeo.

1225
01:51:01,190 --> 01:51:01,510
Thank you.

1226
01:51:04,040 --> 01:51:04,480
Mike.

1227
01:51:11,740 --> 01:51:12,300
Thank you.

1228
01:51:12,480 --> 01:51:12,980
My name is Mike.

1229
01:51:13,060 --> 01:51:13,980
I'm a Brentwood resident.

1230
01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:18,960
I do, like Danny said, want to thank Darren for serving the city and doing a commendable

1231
01:51:18,960 --> 01:51:24,340
job as in-term city manager and assistant city manager before Tim as well.

1232
01:51:25,660 --> 01:51:30,800
I want to say this, I'm excited that we are hiring new city manager.

1233
01:51:32,640 --> 01:51:39,160
I'm not sure I want to yet endorse who I think should be City Manager, but it is important

1234
01:51:39,160 --> 01:51:45,680
to me and Brentwood residents that we have a City Manager or hire someone that can galvanize

1235
01:51:45,680 --> 01:51:46,340
this community.

1236
01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:52,880
I do not want a City Manager that pits council members against residents and vice versa

1237
01:51:53,260 --> 01:51:56,740
and works behind the scenes to muddy up the waters.

1238
01:51:56,740 --> 01:52:04,220
I want a city manager that does not infringe upon my first amendment rights to come up to this podium and speak to my council.

1239
01:52:04,460 --> 01:52:10,440
I don't want a city manager that targets individuals or family members or staff members from getting up here to speak.

1240
01:52:11,160 --> 01:52:16,400
I want a city manager that is inclusionary and makes parent would a welcoming place for everybody.

1241
01:52:17,720 --> 01:52:26,520
That means to me that I want a city manager, I think that is an afraid to wear a pride pin on his or her lapel during the month of June.

1242
01:52:28,240 --> 01:52:32,960
I want to see the manager that works for the people and puts the people before special

1243
01:52:32,960 --> 01:52:34,140
interests and developers.

1244
01:52:35,720 --> 01:52:40,080
I'm worried about, I guess, some people come in here that are going to speak online about

1245
01:52:40,600 --> 01:52:41,780
keeping Brentwood Brentwood.

1246
01:52:41,860 --> 01:52:42,680
I hear that all the time.

1247
01:52:42,780 --> 01:52:46,280
I come to a lot of council meetings and I actually don't like that phrase very much.

1248
01:52:47,040 --> 01:52:52,900
But in this instance, I want to see the manager that keeps Brentwood Brentwood literally.

1249
01:52:53,620 --> 01:52:56,020
That means I don't want to cozy up to special interests.

1250
01:52:56,020 --> 01:53:03,380
I don't want landowners and special interests and favors paid out to ANX County land into

1251
01:53:03,380 --> 01:53:03,800
the city.

1252
01:53:04,120 --> 01:53:09,260
I don't ever want to see another special election like Measure L. I want to keep Brentwood

1253
01:53:09,260 --> 01:53:09,740
Brentwood.

1254
01:53:09,900 --> 01:53:11,800
I want to preserve our urban limit line.

1255
01:53:13,260 --> 01:53:17,000
It should not be that difficult to fix the sound wall.

1256
01:53:17,340 --> 01:53:22,320
It shouldn't be that difficult to elect our planning commissioners out in open public.

1257
01:53:22,320 --> 01:53:26,360
I don't want a city manager that is efforting to hide things.

1258
01:53:26,580 --> 01:53:31,780
I don't want a city manager that sneaks enough on city council or on consent calendar

1259
01:53:31,780 --> 01:53:34,660
rather, that is completely infuriating.

1260
01:53:35,280 --> 01:53:40,820
And thankfully we have a city council here of five people that put in their homework now

1261
01:53:40,820 --> 01:53:43,980
and stuff like that doesn't happen as much, but that has happened in the past.

1262
01:53:45,280 --> 01:53:55,960
So that being said, as I'm hearing myself speak, I think I would like to see the City Council move our city forward.

1263
01:53:56,300 --> 01:54:02,240
I think what Mr. Duffy brings most importantly is we got to move this city forward from an economic perspective.

1264
01:54:02,920 --> 01:54:12,560
We need to be a jewel and we need to start stepping our game up because we're starting to get lapped by surrounding cities and counties when it comes to economic development.

1265
01:54:12,560 --> 01:54:13,380
I

1266
01:54:16,860 --> 01:54:21,020
have no additional speaker cards in person, first hand raised.

1267
01:54:22,460 --> 01:54:23,620
Sena, go ahead.

1268
01:54:28,590 --> 01:54:28,810
Yes.

1269
01:54:29,030 --> 01:54:29,170
Hello.

1270
01:54:29,330 --> 01:54:29,770
Good evening.

1271
01:54:30,030 --> 01:54:32,350
Mayor Mayer, members of the City Council.

1272
01:54:33,070 --> 01:54:34,310
My name is Sena Kaskat.

1273
01:54:34,490 --> 01:54:36,010
I'm the host of Gotham Oakland.

1274
01:54:36,330 --> 01:54:40,450
I'm an investigative media platform because of a local government in Oakland, California.

1275
01:54:41,150 --> 01:54:45,090
Also a long time community organizer from Oakland, California.

1276
01:54:45,090 --> 01:54:51,650
also helped lead the successful recall of our former mayor, Shantyle, who now faces serious

1277
01:54:51,650 --> 01:54:56,610
corruption charges in life in prison. During her tenure, she worked very closely with

1278
01:54:56,610 --> 01:55:03,070
Harold Duffy, while he served with the City of Minnesota, and we saw firsthand a dysfunction,

1279
01:55:03,810 --> 01:55:10,770
dishonesty and erosion of public trust that followed. Mr. Duffy has a troubling record that

1280
01:55:10,770 --> 01:55:13,430
It deserves worse scrutiny before your city moves forward.

1281
01:55:13,930 --> 01:55:16,490
I urge you to look closely at its application

1282
01:55:16,930 --> 01:55:19,150
and whether he had disclosed that he was fired

1283
01:55:19,150 --> 01:55:20,910
from the city of content and why.

1284
01:55:21,430 --> 01:55:22,930
This was a matter of public record.

1285
01:55:23,330 --> 01:55:25,570
Failed to disclose it on a job application

1286
01:55:25,570 --> 01:55:28,350
but raised serious questions about honesty and transparency.

1287
01:55:29,110 --> 01:55:30,750
But the record held if you did lie

1288
01:55:30,750 --> 01:55:33,630
on the city of open job application about the interminated,

1289
01:55:34,090 --> 01:55:37,050
he said that he left his own regard, that was not true.

1290
01:55:37,870 --> 01:55:39,730
In Oakland, Duffy's tenure left behind

1291
01:55:39,730 --> 01:55:42,770
and demoralized style, retaliatory reassignment,

1292
01:55:43,470 --> 01:55:45,130
and serious concern is the whistleblower,

1293
01:55:45,670 --> 01:55:47,550
including the deputy director of Public World,

1294
01:55:48,150 --> 01:55:49,790
who was removed after the Red Flag

1295
01:55:49,790 --> 01:55:50,750
about his conduct.

1296
01:55:51,550 --> 01:55:53,230
I personally reviewed this documentation

1297
01:55:53,230 --> 01:55:54,410
from the whistleblower,

1298
01:55:54,870 --> 01:55:56,930
and it's clear that Mr. Justice Management's style

1299
01:55:56,930 --> 01:56:00,510
created a cultural fear, bad bars,

1300
01:56:00,710 --> 01:56:02,310
or whatever they call it, or not accountability.

1301
01:56:03,170 --> 01:56:05,610
So I'm asking one simple question tonight to start it.

1302
01:56:05,610 --> 01:56:10,310
But Harold definitely disclosed that he was terminated from the city of Compton, if so,

1303
01:56:10,550 --> 01:56:11,670
that he's disclosed why.

1304
01:56:12,230 --> 01:56:17,310
If not, why was that not caught by your search fund before he was brought here?

1305
01:56:18,090 --> 01:56:23,190
Open learned the hard way what happens when experience, outweighs integrity, urging Dr. McLean

1306
01:56:23,190 --> 01:56:24,670
to get the state in work work.

1307
01:56:24,950 --> 01:56:25,250
Thank you.

1308
01:56:31,130 --> 01:56:32,150
Next speaker is Carolina.

1309
01:56:34,600 --> 01:56:35,500
Carolina, go ahead.

1310
01:56:37,750 --> 01:56:38,430
Thank you.

1311
01:56:38,430 --> 01:56:46,290
So to the previous color, I would just like to let him know our previous city manager was also fired from his job.

1312
01:56:46,870 --> 01:56:47,950
We hired him anyways.

1313
01:56:48,630 --> 01:56:57,030
I went to the meeting on Monday and I spoke at length with Mr. Duffy and I paid attention to everything he had to say.

1314
01:56:57,650 --> 01:57:04,130
And what stood up to me was that he was able to persuade and get investment dollars at all of these previous positions.

1315
01:57:04,550 --> 01:57:06,410
This is something that we desperately need.

1316
01:57:06,410 --> 01:57:10,650
So, you know, we just have this long conversation about EV vehicles.

1317
01:57:11,090 --> 01:57:13,890
Maybe there's more money out there and he knows how to get it.

1318
01:57:14,410 --> 01:57:22,670
We need investment dollars to help keep city finances healthy as we continue to grow and can create more opportunities around the city.

1319
01:57:23,490 --> 01:57:30,790
It shouldn't all fall on the residents where paying way too much in city taxes as it is.

1320
01:57:30,790 --> 01:57:36,690
He also understands the importance of widely marketing the awesome benefits of Brentwood

1321
01:57:37,090 --> 01:57:38,970
to attract employers.

1322
01:57:39,810 --> 01:57:42,610
He talked a lot about marketing, which is my wheelhouse.

1323
01:57:43,210 --> 01:57:49,330
And I was very happy to hear that because we are no longer corn festival, we're no longer

1324
01:57:49,330 --> 01:57:52,810
mayor Bob and his loud suits, we are no longer any of that.

1325
01:57:53,150 --> 01:58:00,690
We're a bona fide city with 65,000 residents who are very well educated and who have great

1326
01:58:00,690 --> 01:58:07,550
jobs and we would like to attract employers to Brentwood so we can get rid of the, we have the

1327
01:58:07,550 --> 01:58:14,610
longest commute in the country, badge of dishonor. I would love that to go away. I would love to see

1328
01:58:14,610 --> 01:58:22,610
some companies come in here and people be able to work and eat and shop where they live and then watch

1329
01:58:22,610 --> 01:58:30,910
our opportunities for shopping improved because right now, the offerings are very scarce because

1330
01:58:30,910 --> 01:58:38,510
there's nobody here during the day. I understand that there may have been some miscommunication

1331
01:58:38,930 --> 01:58:46,030
with his last job, but he spoke a great length on Monday last week about the moral code and about

1332
01:58:46,030 --> 01:58:52,430
the organization that he belongs to as a city manager and how a city manager should perform their

1333
01:58:52,430 --> 01:58:56,370
duties. Also, I was very excited to see that he has a

1334
01:58:56,370 --> 01:59:00,990
Masters in Public Administration from UC San Bernardino and has

1335
01:59:00,990 --> 01:59:05,290
extensive experience. Coming from a city as huge as Oakland,

1336
01:59:06,450 --> 01:59:11,330
excuse me, will mean that he can very much harness that

1337
01:59:11,330 --> 01:59:16,150
experience with a city that big and help us move forward

1338
01:59:16,150 --> 01:59:19,850
economically, which is what we need desperately. Thank you.

1339
01:59:23,720 --> 01:59:25,680
Next speaker is Tyree.

1340
01:59:26,260 --> 01:59:27,260
Tyree go ahead.

1341
01:59:32,120 --> 01:59:36,080
Great. Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor, members of the City Council.

1342
01:59:37,100 --> 01:59:41,660
My name is Tyree Jackson. I'm a current resident and employee of the City of Oakland.

1343
01:59:42,280 --> 01:59:45,440
And I'm a former direct report of Mr. Gerald Duffy.

1344
01:59:46,380 --> 01:59:48,340
I'm joining you in this meeting.

1345
01:59:48,620 --> 01:59:54,440
This evening you speak in strong support of the confirmation of Mr. Duffy for the position of City Manager.

1346
01:59:55,160 --> 01:59:59,820
in my role as a compliance officer in the office of the director.

1347
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Public Works, I've seen first hand how Mr. Duffy's professionalism and expertise and experience and really a wide range of municipal management and service roles and responsibilities will be a great benefit out of the way to the city of Brentwood. As both a resident and an employee of Oakland, I admire and appreciate the what I feel is very pragmatic and proactive approach. Mr. Duffy took in his efforts to address

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the many challenges we faced as both an organization and as a city over the past four or five years.

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It's specifically or particularly I'm thinking about his work with financial institutions, the feds, vendors, and both employee and community stakeholders to ensure both continuity of service and most importantly payroll.

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during what ended up being a major cybersecurity incident in the city of Oakland.

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I'm not going to belabor too much on the accolades in Mr. Duffy, but I really believe that he has the ability and the vision and the commitment necessary to provide impactful executive leadership for the city of Brentwood.

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And for these reasons, I would urge you to confirm Mr. Duffy as your new city manager.

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Thank you. And I wish the city and the community of Brentwood and of course Mr. Duffy the very best and hopefully congratulations.

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The next speaker is Ian. Ian go ahead.

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02:01:45,980 --> 02:01:47,060
Can you hear me?

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02:01:47,780 --> 02:01:49,020
Yes, we can hear you.

1357
02:01:49,720 --> 02:01:54,480
Good evening, Council. First of all, I want to say thank you to Darren for all this

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type of facility. We hope to not lose you. We hope you continue kicking butt back to your

1359
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original roles. You know, remember the first time I met you and I was just a maize. The first

1360
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time I met you, I think it was a bruised open park or wherever parking on here at the ground

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opening or the ground real opening. And again, ever since a new friend was passed in a good

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hand the field and I haven't done that much research. I'm a student. I work seven days a week.

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I'll probably be coming back into city limits after being at work in central county.

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But while I want to speak,

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I'll say, you know, a no-see-est manner to our city

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of Brentwood is such a

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wonderful city. And I do not want any department being run-of-backer unless it's any member

1368
02:02:46,680 --> 02:02:54,540
I'm not sure it's a safe space, because there was a certain department which we all kind

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02:02:54,540 --> 02:03:00,260
of know was first to rack under the order that kind of thought that it was and you know

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that the director that's left and the new director seems to be doing a good job both

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I don't work for that department anymore, but I'm impressed by it and I hope that the new

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city manager can keep up all the departments to the standards.

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Secondly, as everyone has already said, economic development, I have to commute to concourse for work because I think there's not that many jobs out here in Brentwood.

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At least no one that was hiring in the pay is better out in concourse there is in Brentwood, unfortunately.

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To, you know, speak these allegations of Brentwood being the worst commute ever, which I do commute, seven days a week, all the way to the Hayward.

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I really want to see some great quality employers, maybe a job near hospital, come out here to the city of Brentwood.

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And I'm really hoping the next city manager can make rights in that, as we already made one great price in Tolstow.

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And last week, this city manager is just going to be one out there of the community.

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I want to be able to go out to the parade, to the festival, like I was working for an nonprofit work with.

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And we're coming to Brentwood for one of the parade, because I endorse Brentwood and

1381
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I convince the CEO to let us spend money to come up to Brentwood even though it's a little

1382
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bit out of our area, but we do partially service for Brentwood.

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02:04:16,960 --> 02:04:21,480
I want to be able to see the city manager be like, hey, here's the nonprofit hope to work

1384
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first for the city of Brentwood, just so much without dark inclusionary and with the community.

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02:04:26,520 --> 02:04:31,820
And very last point is I want a city manager who makes sure I know where my tax money is going.

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I am proud to spend my tax money if rent was. When I'm in the city of Hayward at school,

1387
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it kind of pays me because rent wasn't, it's not, but it's Hayward is an economic trouble.

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There are budgets, it's not good. There are whole fiscal scenes of mess and I'm still researching

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02:04:48,280 --> 02:04:52,420
Hayward because that's why I might move after I need rent. Because the

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speaker's timer has

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expired. I did receive two additional speaker cards in person. Ron,

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was it Rod?

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02:05:10,540 --> 02:05:12,760
Jeffrey Parker perfect

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to wonderful mayor and vice mayor of this city and to all the council members and

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02:05:30,100 --> 02:05:39,320
staff I've met most of you over a week ago at the senior center and had a great time meeting everyone. My

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02:05:39,320 --> 02:05:44,960
name is Reverend Dr. Jeffrey Parker I'm a senior pastor in Oakland and happy to be the pastor of

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Mr. Duffy and I just want to share, it's dangerous when you give a pastor a mic and I see the clock up there.

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02:05:54,140 --> 02:06:00,660
So I just want to just share, I'd be here all night talking about how great he is, I don't want to do that.

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I wasn't going to say anything until I heard some other comments, but I just want to focus on three things about Mr. Duffy.

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These are what I call the three C's. Character, competency and chemistry.

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Mr. Duffy has the character. Without character, we can't do anything. Without integrity and character, it just everything falls apart.

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Knowing him, he has the character, he has integrity. But also, as many of you have witnessed or read over his

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Vida, his resume, he has the competency to add greatness to the city of Brentwood.

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02:06:48,010 --> 02:06:54,020
And I'm not just in that, but the research and we trust their judgment.

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He has the competency so a person could have character and competency, but it doesn't mean

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anything without this third C that I call chemistry.

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If you can't get along with people, if you can't talk to people, if you can't collaborate, then things will not be successful.

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I'm proud to say and I'm in support of Mr. Duffy that he has all of these in an excellent manner of character competency and chemistry.

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He knows how to talk to people, he knows how to collaborate, he knows how to get along.

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So I just wanted to stand in support and I trust the judgment of this wonderful council.

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First time being here at this meeting and I'm glad to be in the city of Brentwood.

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Thank you very much.

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02:07:50,250 --> 02:07:51,710
The last speaker, George.

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Thank you and good evening, ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors.

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My name is Jorge Lerma, I'm a lifelong educator and former school board member of Oakland Unified School District.

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I am aware and have seen, there's a relationship between the school district and the city.

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I'm aware of the abilities, the skills, and the experience that Mr. Duffy brings.

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02:08:20,980 --> 02:08:28,040
And even though I'm a resident of Oakland, I'm an Abbott fan of my neighboring community,

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02:08:28,040 --> 02:08:46,780
such as Brentwood, who have a visionary mission and support social programs to develop and grow this city in the way that you want it, and he is the right person to nurture that desire.

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Thank you very much.

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You can speak now and fill out a card after if you'd like.

1422
02:09:03,620 --> 02:09:07,980
I just wanted to say that although we get a lot of comments about

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commuting and things like that, there's a lot of us that just bite the bullet

1424
02:09:13,900 --> 02:09:15,440
to raise our family you're safe.

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02:09:17,500 --> 02:09:21,860
And we want to keep the agriculture and farming life here

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02:09:21,860 --> 02:09:24,340
and I would love to see that get supported.

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02:09:24,340 --> 02:09:33,180
it. And I haven't heard that being supported and we have infrastructure and there's lots of

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02:09:33,180 --> 02:09:41,440
neighboring counties and cities that are doing agro-terrism and like farm to fork and all

1429
02:09:41,440 --> 02:09:47,800
those things. And I'd love to see more of that with the new city manager and focusing on

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our roots, which I really love. And I think they're wonderful. That's all.

1431
02:09:59,710 --> 02:10:05,010
I have no additional speaker card. But I might have one more hand.

1432
02:10:05,250 --> 02:10:10,560
I do. That's all right. One more hand. Jan. Jan.

1433
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Go ahead.

1434
02:10:25,420 --> 02:10:26,720
Last call for Jan.

1435
02:10:31,350 --> 02:10:34,350
Hello. Yes, if you'd like to speak, you may go ahead.

1436
02:10:34,350 --> 02:11:02,570
Okay, hi, I'm Jamf Hensett, and I recently sent you some comments regarding Mr. Duffy and the process of hiring a city manager, and I just learned about it, and I just wanted to say that I was a little bit taken back by some of the information that was on the Internet, and I forwarded that to you so you could look at it, because I believe

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that where there's smoke, there's fire, and not to say you shouldn't hire the man or that there is anything wrong with his background, but just as a red flag, I think it's something worth evaluating and doing a deep diet one.

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As far as his contract is concerned, I think at this point in time, if you're confident that he has the character and he has the background to fulfill the position, I think moving forward on a contract is appropriate at the same time, I'm thinking that if there is any residual doubt.

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given for some of the remarks that we've heard about his background that maybe we should

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02:11:56,750 --> 02:12:03,270
put in a temporary contract instead of one that is an ongoing contract. And that's

1441
02:12:03,270 --> 02:12:04,370
my two cents.

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02:12:10,510 --> 02:12:14,350
Did receive one more public comment in person, Brian?

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02:12:23,160 --> 02:12:32,000
Hi, my name is Brian Calderon. I'm a long time resident of Brentwood. Basically, I do appreciate

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the process that the council has gone through in terms of looking for a city manager. I mean,

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panel interviews, multiple rounds of interviews. I'm certain that they were very thorough in terms

1446
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of background checks that were conducted with all the candidates. So I have no issue with the process

1447
02:12:48,400 --> 02:12:55,140
is there in terms of the next city manager, I would suggest and I would ask for full transparency.

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02:12:55,920 --> 02:13:01,480
I have heard about what happened to the last city manager and wasn't great, but I would

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say that I do look forward to just giving the next person that becomes a city manager a chance

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and just being completely transparent of what they're doing because I hear the phrase keeping

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being Brentwood, Brentwood. To me, that means keeping Brentwood basically a community that's

1452
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safe to raise a family. And that's what Brentwood is to me. And growing up in Brentwood as a kid,

1453
02:13:25,300 --> 02:13:31,100
it was a farm town to me. And it was a farm town trying to be a city, but now it's actually a city.

1454
02:13:31,740 --> 02:13:38,100
So for me, I would like to see a combination of being a city as well as acknowledging our farm

1455
02:13:38,100 --> 02:13:44,200
town routes and going forward and creating that cohesion of the future when it comes to the

1456
02:13:44,200 --> 02:13:45,660
city of Bratwood. Thank you.

1457
02:13:52,760 --> 02:13:56,880
I have no additional speaker cards or hands raised in Zoom.

1458
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Thank you. Typically the mayor goes last. I'm going to take a moment to make a very brief statement

1459
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and then say more later. I would like to say that I think those of you watching virtually or

1460
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sitting in the council chambers can hopefully tell that we are not a council that rubber stamps.

1461
02:14:16,560 --> 02:14:23,460
We are not a council that says yes blindly to anything. We challenge, we question, we research,

1462
02:14:23,780 --> 02:14:31,880
we do our homework, we spend hours and hours and hours before every meeting, and then hours outside

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02:14:31,880 --> 02:14:39,360
of that for meetings with residents and committees, et cetera, et cetera. This job while we are elected

1464
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And while we serve residents is a huge challenge, I'm not going to lie, there are times when I wonder why I've done it, especially right now because, frankly, some of the things I've seen have been incredibly embarrassing.

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And I'll get into more of that later.

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02:14:52,480 --> 02:14:59,800
But what I wanted to say was, you've heard some of the process that went into our selection process, our interview.

1467
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I hope you can tell that not one of us up here is stupid. And I'm just putting it out there. We are not stupid. We are not blind. People are sending us things that we've already seen.

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02:15:30,000 --> 02:15:34,800
incredibly frustrated and I'm going to say more later but I know the vice mayor would

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like to speak next and I will come back to this in a moment. But I hope that all of

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you can listen with open ears and watch with open eyes to what you're seeing here is a

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very, very transparent and justifiable due process. Thank you.

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02:15:51,880 --> 02:15:58,960
Thank you so much, Mayor Meyer. You are a badass for that just now. Thank you so much.

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02:15:58,960 --> 02:16:09,960
Um, and I want to say good afternoon to pastor Parker, the church of all face Oakland. I'm so sorry that I couldn't be in the room. He served, but I've written a statement because my experience week.

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I think no one will ever know how much time was spent in this process and no one has ever complained about the process will you hire in the city attorney or any other in any other capacities until now. So here's my statement over the past several weeks.

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I've listened carefully to the comments made by some members of our community regarding

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the hiring of Mr. Herald-Duffy as our next city manager.

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First, I want to affirm that every resident has the right to question and evaluate the

1478
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qualifications of anyone seeking a position as important as a city manager.

1479
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That's what civic engagement looks like, asking questions, expecting transparency, and holding

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leaders accountable.

1481
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But with that right also comes responsibilities, the responsibility to fact-checked, to base

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02:16:53,380 --> 02:16:58,880
opinions on accurate information, not just what you read on a blog, and to consider the whole

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02:16:58,880 --> 02:17:04,840
picture, not assumptions, serial types, or rest in fear. As I've listened, I've heard comments

1484
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that while framed us concerns about Mr. Duffy's age, his retirement benefits, where he's worked,

1485
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it's revealed something deeper or something that reveals vibes. I can say that this because I know

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it when I hear it. As a black woman from Oakland, I've spent my life navigating spaces where

1487
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excellence is questioned simply because it doesn't fit a certain mold. I know what it feels like

1488
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to have questions and qualifications scrutinized more harshly and contributions minimized way too

1489
02:17:36,600 --> 02:17:43,300
quickly. As I also recognize a pattern in our city, this is not the first time members of our

1490
02:17:43,300 --> 02:17:50,200
community has spoken against highly qualified black professionals and leadership. Similar comments were made when H.R.

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02:17:50,200 --> 02:17:56,400
director Sakari Bashir is elevated to service and trauma system city manager. And when parks and reg director Harifa

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then was hired. Despite the fact that both of them bring more than 45 years of combined government experience, excellence and

1493
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unwavering records of service and competence. When excellence continues to be met with skepticism, only when it comes in

1494
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black skin. It is not a coincidence. It is a bias. So when I hear coded statements that

1495
02:18:17,340 --> 02:18:21,880
amount to I don't want him because it's black, I feel a responsibility to call that mess out.

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I'm going to name it. The kind of thinking, this kind of thinking does not serve our community.

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It doesn't serve us in Brentwood. It actually divides us. And if we're going to act like this,

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we shouldn't say we're better in Brentwood. Mr. Duffy's record speaks for herself. He has decades

1499
02:18:37,320 --> 02:18:42,980
a public service, fiscal leadership and proven success guiding cities through growth, recovery,

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and change. To suggest that that council did not do is do diligence is not only inaccurate,

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but as a woman who votes three professional degrees of bachelor's in psychology,

1502
02:18:52,560 --> 02:18:56,320
a master's in organizational development. And yes, I'm a doctor, a jurist,

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02:18:56,420 --> 02:19:02,180
doctorial involved. It is an insult to the professionalism and integrity of the entire body of each

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and every person sitting up there on that city council. I also want to express my gratitude to

1505
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those who helped guide us through this transition.

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I want to thank the Association Management Company

1507
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they helped, but I want to thank our city attorney, Katie.

1508
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I want to thank HR, our interim HR director.

1509
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I want to thank all those who have their hand, Tim Davis,

1510
02:19:26,500 --> 02:19:27,000
our attorney.

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I also want to express my gratitude who have also guided us

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to Darren and Darren Gail.

1513
02:19:32,760 --> 02:19:33,440
It's a private year.

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Thank you for stepping in at a time when the city

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need is that fast leadership. Thank you for reconnecting the council with staff during

1516
02:19:40,580 --> 02:19:45,900
a really difficult time and helping us navigate a difficult moment with grace and straight

1517
02:19:45,900 --> 02:19:51,200
up professionalism. To Teresa, I want to thank you for stepping up as our interim director

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02:19:51,200 --> 02:19:55,800
of human resources. Thank you for your diligence, your hard work and commitment to keeping this

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02:19:55,800 --> 02:20:02,160
organization of stable and strong every phase of this process. Brentwood deserves leadership

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02:20:02,160 --> 02:20:04,540
with the reflects both competence and compassion.

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I believe that Mr. Duffy brings both.

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02:20:08,440 --> 02:20:10,700
His hiring is not just about feeling the position,

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02:20:11,140 --> 02:20:12,880
it is affirming who we are as a city.

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Forward-looking, fair-minded, and unfair,

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and unafraid, I'm sorry, to lead with integrity.

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And I wanna say that as your vice mayor,

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I believe that when we stand for what is right,

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02:20:24,480 --> 02:20:26,760
even if it's uncomfortable for someone else,

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02:20:26,840 --> 02:20:28,980
we move our community closer to justice, equity,

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unity, and true progress.

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02:20:30,900 --> 02:20:33,080
Thank you Madam Mayor for allowing me to speak.

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02:20:34,400 --> 02:20:35,400
Thank you very much for your comments.

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02:20:35,520 --> 02:20:36,180
Who would like to go next?

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02:20:38,930 --> 02:20:39,090
All right.

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02:20:42,230 --> 02:20:47,490
First of all, I want to start off by thanking all the staff that filled in for the positions

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moved out of their normal positions into more challenging spots, spots that were unique.

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You guys did an amazing job.

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02:20:57,370 --> 02:21:05,430
Like the vice mayor had said, bringing that relationship back between staff and council,

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you did a phenomenal job of doing that.

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02:21:09,890 --> 02:21:15,750
And I think it will carry on and make the City of Brentwood a far better place for years

1541
02:21:15,750 --> 02:21:16,330
to come.

1542
02:21:16,770 --> 02:21:23,530
So Cara, you stepped into a position that isn't a normal position for an HR director and

1543
02:21:23,530 --> 02:21:30,610
you jumped in with both feet. You were willing to take on every project I asked and reporting back

1544
02:21:30,610 --> 02:21:37,250
and you did an amazing job and I truly appreciate everything you did. And Teresa, you did an amazing

1545
02:21:37,250 --> 02:21:45,050
job. You're very soft spoken but you did a very very good job stepping into that role and getting

1546
02:21:45,050 --> 02:21:50,690
the information out, guiding me through a very challenging testing process of making sure I got all my

1547
02:21:50,690 --> 02:21:54,190
classes I was supposed to get done, so thank you very much.

1548
02:21:54,870 --> 02:22:02,010
But truly what we're here to talk about is Mr. Duffy and I appreciate the citizen

1549
02:22:02,010 --> 02:22:04,010
to Brentwood that reached out to us.

1550
02:22:04,930 --> 02:22:08,030
Now some of the questions were a little offensive.

1551
02:22:08,510 --> 02:22:16,950
Some of the questions were I felt challenging to us as individuals and maybe not trusting

1552
02:22:16,950 --> 02:22:20,990
that we had the best interest of the City of Brentwood.

1553
02:22:21,350 --> 02:22:23,430
But if you didn't bring the concerns to us,

1554
02:22:23,730 --> 02:22:26,010
you wouldn't know, we had already hired,

1555
02:22:26,470 --> 02:22:29,650
we had already had a company, Peckham and McKenney,

1556
02:22:29,650 --> 02:22:32,690
that is gonna do all of those backgrounds for us,

1557
02:22:32,770 --> 02:22:35,550
that's gonna have researched all of that information.

1558
02:22:36,130 --> 02:22:38,930
And Mr. Duff, he brought it up in his interviews.

1559
02:22:39,590 --> 02:22:42,790
So he brought in the interviews, but he brought it up to us

1560
02:22:42,790 --> 02:22:45,050
and let us know that this existed

1561
02:22:45,050 --> 02:22:48,030
so that we had the opportunity to look into it.

1562
02:22:48,610 --> 02:22:56,990
I've spent many, many years in the law enforcement world, interviewing police officers, interviewing

1563
02:22:56,990 --> 02:23:04,530
people, moving into city government, and I was amazed at the interview that you gave

1564
02:23:04,530 --> 02:23:07,410
to City Council when you first walked in the door.

1565
02:23:07,410 --> 02:23:30,190
Your leadership experience is going to stand out and help the city of Brentwood grow and develop and become a much better place, so I truly appreciate the fact that you were very upfront and that you made this process a lot easier for all of us. So thank you and thank you guys for everything you did.

1566
02:23:32,310 --> 02:23:36,290
I echo all the sentiments. I'm going to start with Teresa. Teresa, thank you for filling

1567
02:23:36,290 --> 02:23:41,690
in. I appreciate you. You are so kind. And thank you for being here at every meeting and

1568
02:23:41,690 --> 02:23:48,610
guiding us through our HR issues. Well, Sikari, you got to do a role that really stretched

1569
02:23:48,610 --> 02:23:54,710
your skills set. But I think it's, I think it, and it's something, I don't know if I can say this,

1570
02:23:54,770 --> 02:23:58,610
but simply we talked to Harold about, we want to make sure other people get opportunities

1571
02:23:58,610 --> 02:24:04,230
to stretch themselves and see what else they might want to do, because that's what a good leader does.

1572
02:24:04,750 --> 02:24:08,370
And that's the questions that we ask that I ask and were important to me.

1573
02:24:08,750 --> 02:24:13,570
So I appreciate you stepping up and thank you for all you've done. I've heard nothing but great things, so thank you.

1574
02:24:14,230 --> 02:24:16,550
Darren, I just appreciate you.

1575
02:24:17,950 --> 02:24:21,290
If you knew me in my real life, you would know that I curse a lot.

1576
02:24:22,310 --> 02:24:27,830
And Darren lets me curse with him on the phone and let out all my frustrations and then I move on.

1577
02:24:27,830 --> 02:24:35,550
so thank you for supporting us. I think a few people have mentioned it. I don't think it's

1578
02:24:35,550 --> 02:24:41,050
a secret that our relationships with staff could be strained and what you did during this time

1579
02:24:41,050 --> 02:24:46,730
to try to bridge those relationships is really appreciated. Thank you for accepting me for me

1580
02:24:46,730 --> 02:24:50,610
because that could be hard sometimes but thank you for everything that you've done.

1581
02:24:51,210 --> 02:24:53,390
Oh, why do I feel like guys, you're leaving. You're not leaving.

1582
02:24:56,710 --> 02:24:59,490
Harold, I appreciate you sticking with us through this process.

1583
02:25:00,130 --> 02:25:05,370
This process was a little bit longer than usual, and it was because we wanted to do our due diligence.

1584
02:25:05,990 --> 02:25:10,690
When we get the calls, like Tony was saying, I'm like, why did you think it took so long?

1585
02:25:10,850 --> 02:25:14,970
Like, we can't talk about it, but it took so long because we all felt great.

1586
02:25:15,090 --> 02:25:17,970
I'm not, we all, I'm not going to speak for you guys. I felt great about the decision,

1587
02:25:17,970 --> 02:25:23,270
and we went through our due diligence to make sure that our residents would be okay

1588
02:25:23,270 --> 02:25:23,970
with the decision.

1589
02:25:25,510 --> 02:25:31,210
I appreciate you, you know, Patricia brought up earlier Vice Mayor, you know, it's

1590
02:25:31,210 --> 02:25:35,750
weird to me the connotation that people bring up when someone says they're from Oakland.

1591
02:25:36,250 --> 02:25:42,290
I don't understand it, and it's embarrassing that I hear that in Brentwood because there

1592
02:25:42,290 --> 02:25:47,490
is a lot of us out here from San Leandro, Oakland, Hayward, and we didn't invite ourselves

1593
02:25:47,490 --> 02:25:49,850
someone approved the homes that brought us out here, right?

1594
02:25:50,150 --> 02:25:52,090
So if you didn't want us out here, you should probably

1595
02:25:52,090 --> 02:25:54,690
send a loud, your city council to build some houses,

1596
02:25:54,690 --> 02:25:55,830
which is what people are doing now.

1597
02:25:56,150 --> 02:26:00,770
So, you know, I appreciate you and I welcome you,

1598
02:26:00,830 --> 02:26:03,070
and I want people to really give you a fair shot.

1599
02:26:03,830 --> 02:26:06,250
You know, I think once they get to know you,

1600
02:26:06,350 --> 02:26:07,450
they'll really appreciate you.

1601
02:26:07,590 --> 02:26:08,990
So thank you for that.

1602
02:26:09,590 --> 02:26:10,890
The young lady who spoke about Ag.

1603
02:26:11,710 --> 02:26:12,970
Ag is not forgotten.

1604
02:26:13,770 --> 02:26:15,050
He knows it's not forgotten.

1605
02:26:15,050 --> 02:26:22,290
it's important to us. I think that we know we need to grow, but we need to also always embrace

1606
02:26:22,290 --> 02:26:28,650
our heritage as a city. I, as a Latina, embrace all of the field workers and all of the agriculture

1607
02:26:28,650 --> 02:26:33,050
that they do in the city, so that's not going away, so please don't be scared about that.

1608
02:26:33,570 --> 02:26:40,410
But I appreciate everyone who's come and spoke. I don't like all of the comments that we see,

1609
02:26:40,410 --> 02:26:43,990
like, you know, Vice Mayor Pearson said on the blogs, it's pretty disgusting.

1610
02:26:45,690 --> 02:26:51,670
You know, people who run blogs could make choices to hide comments and delete comments.

1611
02:26:52,510 --> 02:26:57,990
I wish that there was a higher calling for these people to actually say, you know what?

1612
02:26:58,230 --> 02:26:59,450
That sounds really racist.

1613
02:27:00,130 --> 02:27:01,210
Let me delete it.

1614
02:27:02,370 --> 02:27:05,770
Because someday we're all going to be gone and we're all going to go to the pearly gates.

1615
02:27:06,230 --> 02:27:08,810
And we'll be judged by the way we treated others.

1616
02:27:09,570 --> 02:27:11,050
And that's all I got to say about it.

1617
02:27:15,920 --> 02:27:16,980
So much to say.

1618
02:27:17,760 --> 02:27:21,060
I am going to start with thinking staff as well.

1619
02:27:21,700 --> 02:27:22,880
I am going to thank Teresa.

1620
02:27:23,260 --> 02:27:24,980
Teresa, thank you so much for all your help.

1621
02:27:25,640 --> 02:27:30,580
During the last few months, stepping into the HR role, especially while we're going through contracts and everything.

1622
02:27:31,260 --> 02:27:32,260
Thank you very much.

1623
02:27:33,400 --> 02:27:38,460
Your calmness brings a lot more than to any situation, so I appreciate that.

1624
02:27:39,180 --> 02:27:42,620
So, Kari, thank you so much for all your help with economic development.

1625
02:27:42,800 --> 02:27:48,280
We've heard nothing but raving reviews and compliments and everything about how you

1626
02:27:48,280 --> 02:27:51,600
navigated with certain people and how you brought some things together.

1627
02:27:51,780 --> 02:27:56,500
So, thank you so much and you're always so open and inclusive and we be on appreciate that

1628
02:27:56,500 --> 02:27:56,960
about you.

1629
02:27:57,200 --> 02:27:58,020
Thank you so much.

1630
02:27:59,320 --> 02:28:01,400
Darren, you're very vivacious.

1631
02:28:01,600 --> 02:28:07,680
You bring life to so many different situations and you brought a huge connection to the

1632
02:28:07,680 --> 02:28:12,900
disconnection that was here when I first came on so I really appreciate that. I'm looking

1633
02:28:12,900 --> 02:28:19,880
forward to what a lot of the future is going to come especially with your guidance. Katie, I really

1634
02:28:19,880 --> 02:28:24,920
want to thank you as well because you were a huge pillar in us going through this whole process

1635
02:28:25,540 --> 02:28:30,180
and we would have not been able to navigate a lot of these situations with you so I have to say

1636
02:28:30,180 --> 02:28:34,760
thank you very much for that and also to the consulting company that really helped us.

1637
02:28:36,380 --> 02:28:43,900
When it came to the city manager hiring process, it's probably the most intricate process

1638
02:28:43,900 --> 02:28:46,380
that I've ever been a part of and I work for city government.

1639
02:28:47,380 --> 02:28:53,980
And the collaboration and the different people that were involved in everything, it really

1640
02:28:53,980 --> 02:28:55,280
took a lot of time.

1641
02:28:55,520 --> 02:29:03,060
It took a lot of energy from every single one of us here to come to this decision that is

1642
02:29:03,060 --> 02:29:10,840
going to be in front of you guys shortly. And when we saw Harold, like Harold, when I saw

1643
02:29:10,840 --> 02:29:16,500
your interview, I was totally impressed. You were a leader, you were a mentor, you knew how

1644
02:29:16,500 --> 02:29:22,880
to coach and develop and have a succession plan already. And the way that you kind of looked at every

1645
02:29:23,640 --> 02:29:28,820
different job that you've had, you've put in role, you've put in people in roles where succession

1646
02:29:28,820 --> 02:29:33,940
planning was a high priority and you didn't want to hold all the cards to yourself and that's

1647
02:29:33,940 --> 02:29:38,840
something that I really really enjoyed about learning to get to know you more that you're not the

1648
02:29:38,840 --> 02:29:43,580
kind of person where you're going to keep everything to yourself you want everybody that is working

1649
02:29:43,580 --> 02:29:49,380
for you to actually be better than you and that is something that really made me admire you to the

1650
02:29:49,380 --> 02:29:55,380
point where I even thought I was like oh my god I want to be mentored by him so you were amazing

1651
02:29:56,120 --> 02:29:58,060
So I really want to thank you for that.

1652
02:29:59,000 --> 02:29:59,960
I do have.

1653
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,980
I have to apologize for our community. I do take, as us being city leaders, some people's comments were very derogatory in whatever nature. I am sorry that you have to go through that and experience that. And to those folks, I hope that you do give him a chance and give you a chance to see what you bring forward. And some of those commentaries, I have to condemn completely their disgusting. I am appalled by them. And I welcome challenges.

1654
02:30:29,980 --> 02:30:45,480
I welcome questioning. I welcome transparency. That is our job. The one thing I will echo that all of us had said here is that we're not, again, rubber stampers. We do not say yes to everything. We question every single thing.

1655
02:30:46,240 --> 02:30:54,900
And the one beautiful thing about this process is that we were able to turn every rock that was put in front of us and a lot of it was brought forth by you.

1656
02:30:54,900 --> 02:31:00,680
So, um, I am fully trusting my decision, um, that is to come forward.

1657
02:31:00,840 --> 02:31:03,240
So I really appreciate that. Thank you.

1658
02:31:04,660 --> 02:31:06,320
Okay, I'm going to take my regular turn now.

1659
02:31:07,400 --> 02:31:09,900
Um, I'd like to start by asking everyone a question.

1660
02:31:10,160 --> 02:31:13,680
How many people in this room, um, were born in Brentwood?

1661
02:31:17,680 --> 02:31:23,040
Okay, one, one person. Um, for those of you who are not born here,

1662
02:31:23,040 --> 02:31:27,220
it means that you moved here, most likely, because you liked the lifestyle,

1663
02:31:27,220 --> 02:31:30,640
style. You're like the quality of life. You're like the community. You like the farming.

1664
02:31:30,940 --> 02:31:36,040
There was something about Brentwood that attracted you. I did the same thing. 16 years ago,

1665
02:31:36,120 --> 02:31:41,200
I moved to Brentwood from Pleasanton. Pleasanton was nice, but frankly, it was it was overgrowing.

1666
02:31:41,220 --> 02:31:45,840
It was getting too many high-rise buildings and too many high-density apartments and it

1667
02:31:45,840 --> 02:31:50,900
was not the Pleasanton I loved. Brentwood is now the longest period of time I've ever in

1668
02:31:50,900 --> 02:31:56,120
my entire life lived in one city. And I'm living here because I choose to live here and

1669
02:31:56,120 --> 02:32:01,420
because I love this city and I'm serving this city because I love this city because I love this community.

1670
02:32:02,060 --> 02:32:07,480
I have no desire to change Brentwood into anything other than Brentwood. That doesn't mean

1671
02:32:07,480 --> 02:32:12,040
that we don't need to make some changes to make our quality of life better. We talked about a little

1672
02:32:12,040 --> 02:32:20,360
bit about the commute. The job's housing balance here is way off and our council has fought really hard

1673
02:32:20,360 --> 02:32:25,900
to keep control on the housing boom that the state is forcing on us. That's a constant fight.

1674
02:32:25,900 --> 02:32:29,200
We're going to have to continue to fight, and if you haven't recognized that, that's

1675
02:32:29,200 --> 02:32:32,360
something that we do a lot behind the scenes, you don't even know about, that we spend

1676
02:32:32,360 --> 02:32:37,220
time on, because we know how important it is to Brentwood to try and keep the community

1677
02:32:37,700 --> 02:32:39,580
quality of life that we all moved here for.

1678
02:32:40,180 --> 02:32:45,360
So the idea that we bring in people from the outside because we want to turn Brentwood into

1679
02:32:45,360 --> 02:32:50,320
another city, nobody on this up here, nobody on staff was born here.

1680
02:32:51,440 --> 02:32:53,380
So we're not, we're clearly not trying to do that.

1681
02:32:53,380 --> 02:32:57,300
And again, we go back to that, Oakland just somehow being a trigger word for people, which I,

1682
02:32:57,340 --> 02:33:04,860
again, find offensive. I will say everyone has the right to speak. I have received, as the mayor,

1683
02:33:05,240 --> 02:33:10,300
a little bit more attention on this because I did the press release, working with staff and thank

1684
02:33:10,300 --> 02:33:16,020
you for that, to introduce Harold. And the reason we did a press conference and the reason we did

1685
02:33:16,020 --> 02:33:21,240
that meet in great last week was because we were trying to get a handle on some of the negativity that

1686
02:33:21,240 --> 02:33:24,840
was out there, we were trying to give people a chance to really get to know Mr. Duffy,

1687
02:33:24,980 --> 02:33:27,220
to understand who he is and what he could bring to the table.

1688
02:33:28,060 --> 02:33:31,380
And actually, I think the press conference in the meet and greet went pretty well.

1689
02:33:31,760 --> 02:33:32,680
We'll do another one.

1690
02:33:33,660 --> 02:33:36,020
And most of the people there felt pretty good about it.

1691
02:33:36,160 --> 02:33:39,420
We did get a lot of questions, we got some comments.

1692
02:33:40,080 --> 02:33:43,680
I would say in general about 50, 60 people, something like that.

1693
02:33:44,500 --> 02:33:47,500
And in the end, there might be some people that still have some doubts.

1694
02:33:47,980 --> 02:33:50,440
But there was nobody that was incredibly rude.

1695
02:33:50,440 --> 02:33:51,660
And I felt good about that.

1696
02:33:52,520 --> 02:33:55,060
I've been trying to stay off of social media.

1697
02:33:55,620 --> 02:33:58,060
Danny, I think, was speaking to me directly when he said to do that.

1698
02:33:59,200 --> 02:34:02,400
Since this whole thing went down, I've been threatened with recall three times.

1699
02:34:03,260 --> 02:34:11,560
One of them is from a gentleman in Brentwood that has called and left increasingly aggressive and angry and frustrated messages saying

1700
02:34:11,560 --> 02:34:13,300
he will do everything this power to recall me.

1701
02:34:14,500 --> 02:34:15,880
That's your right to say that.

1702
02:34:15,880 --> 02:34:30,680
But I'm not going to call you back, sorry, because I don't make enough to sit and listen to being abused like that and harass like that and yelled at and screamed at because you're angry because you have a bias against Oakland.

1703
02:34:31,400 --> 02:34:32,360
I'm just not going to listen to it.

1704
02:34:33,160 --> 02:34:40,700
I have tried as a council member since 2020 being elected to be responsive via emails, and I think I've done a pretty good job of that.

1705
02:34:40,700 --> 02:34:44,680
I have not found a way to respond to the emails that I'm getting.

1706
02:34:44,820 --> 02:34:48,840
Now, some of them are going to all counsel, but I want to remind all of you I'm one person

1707
02:34:48,840 --> 02:34:49,700
and one vote.

1708
02:34:50,080 --> 02:34:54,560
And I might be the assigned media person and so my face is out there a little bit more

1709
02:34:54,560 --> 02:34:58,220
on things like this, but I can't move anything forward on my own.

1710
02:34:58,440 --> 02:34:59,640
It takes the majority of us.

1711
02:35:00,340 --> 02:35:01,680
So that's a reminder too.

1712
02:35:01,920 --> 02:35:06,560
I've not been good about responding to emails on this because I've been really frankly

1713
02:35:06,560 --> 02:35:11,180
does heartened by it by the response that I'm seeing and by the accusations that I'm seeing

1714
02:35:11,180 --> 02:35:17,520
and the aggression and the anger and it's not the city that I love. I'm not seeing it right now.

1715
02:35:17,740 --> 02:35:23,520
So I'm going to get back into this swing of responding to people and I hope that people watch

1716
02:35:23,520 --> 02:35:31,740
this meeting after the fact. I hope that our local media and online media write about this and

1717
02:35:31,740 --> 02:35:37,180
And quote, some of what we've been saying, because we can be better, we should be better.

1718
02:35:37,540 --> 02:35:42,440
We talk about being a city that is warm and welcoming and community driven and resident

1719
02:35:42,440 --> 02:35:45,800
driven and inclusionary, and we're not being that right now.

1720
02:35:45,980 --> 02:35:51,040
So I really hope that we can be better and that we can give Mr. Jaffee a chance.

1721
02:35:51,340 --> 02:35:56,020
I think he will all be pleasantly surprised if you just spend some time talking to him.

1722
02:35:57,700 --> 02:36:01,820
I'm going to also talk a little bit about the farming thing just because it was brought

1723
02:36:01,820 --> 02:36:02,020
up.

1724
02:36:02,440 --> 02:36:03,800
I'm on the Ag Enterprise Committee.

1725
02:36:03,940 --> 02:36:06,640
I love the farm to table and I love the agritourism thing.

1726
02:36:07,120 --> 02:36:08,940
We're doing a lot of really good work in that area.

1727
02:36:09,160 --> 02:36:15,380
So you might want to sign up for the agendas for that committee and you can learn more about

1728
02:36:15,380 --> 02:36:17,760
the Ag Innovation Center that we're going to be bringing forward.

1729
02:36:18,020 --> 02:36:19,520
There's some really great things happening there.

1730
02:36:21,860 --> 02:36:35,880
I'm going to, again, remind everyone you have the right to speak, but I hope that when you speak, when you speak, here is obviously it's different from when you're speaking online because the people that said the horrible, horrible, horrible things online that said the worst things online, they're not here.

1731
02:36:37,480 --> 02:36:45,460
They didn't even, they didn't even call and zoom in. They sent emails that were really nasty or they made comments on Facebook or next door, wherever.

1732
02:36:45,460 --> 02:36:49,440
that were really nasty, and they thought they were done, and they thought they were

1733
02:36:49,440 --> 02:36:52,080
going to intimidate us into making a decision that we didn't want to make.

1734
02:36:52,340 --> 02:36:56,160
So I'm sorry if I'm losing a lot of friends and fans right now.

1735
02:36:56,540 --> 02:37:01,640
I don't really, it's not going to bother me because we need to stand up and do the right thing.

1736
02:37:01,840 --> 02:37:05,080
And I feel like council right now is the way they've all expressed themselves,

1737
02:37:05,080 --> 02:37:07,320
they're doing the right thing, and hopefully people are listening.

1738
02:37:08,020 --> 02:37:11,060
I'm going to end my comments by thinking staff, everyone else started with that.

1739
02:37:11,060 --> 02:37:17,640
And I want to say Teresa, you actually, you've been so patient with me because I have

1740
02:37:17,640 --> 02:37:23,780
been a little stressed lately, and I have not done my training, the council member Orleman's

1741
02:37:23,780 --> 02:37:27,720
referred to, and I know I have to, and you've been so patient and you've sent me the things

1742
02:37:27,720 --> 02:37:30,560
to do it correctly, I have not, but I promise you I will.

1743
02:37:30,700 --> 02:37:35,100
And I honestly, what you bring in addition to the call, everybody talks about you're always

1744
02:37:35,100 --> 02:37:36,480
smiling, you're always very welcoming.

1745
02:37:36,480 --> 02:37:41,220
I mean, I can't imagine a better position for you than being HR, because that's what

1746
02:37:41,220 --> 02:37:43,540
people need when they've got a concern or a complaint.

1747
02:37:44,380 --> 02:37:47,740
They're concerned about a, you know, their manager or something like that.

1748
02:37:47,840 --> 02:37:48,500
You're just perfect.

1749
02:37:48,700 --> 02:37:49,900
I can't see her.

1750
02:37:50,400 --> 02:37:51,280
Can you back up, please?

1751
02:37:51,440 --> 02:37:51,820
Thank you.

1752
02:37:53,980 --> 02:37:57,960
I really enjoy getting to know you, and I didn't know you at all before, and I find myself

1753
02:37:57,960 --> 02:38:01,240
very grateful for some of the shifting that happened that allowed that.

1754
02:38:01,420 --> 02:38:05,740
So thank you so much for being so gracious to all of us, and to really helping.

1755
02:38:05,740 --> 02:38:08,980
and I know you've been a huge help to staff as well, thank you for that.

1756
02:38:09,840 --> 02:38:14,960
I will say, Sakari, one of the first things you started doing immediately was being incredibly

1757
02:38:14,960 --> 02:38:15,640
responsive.

1758
02:38:16,220 --> 02:38:21,240
Like you were proactive in just jumping on these emails and making sure that people had

1759
02:38:21,240 --> 02:38:25,300
answers to their questions, especially knowing there was transition going on and people weren't

1760
02:38:25,300 --> 02:38:29,480
sure what they were going to experience with all the changes happening, it was incredible

1761
02:38:29,480 --> 02:38:30,700
what you've been able to do.

1762
02:38:31,160 --> 02:38:36,500
You've been able to just kind of boost trust with residents and just let them know they matter.

1763
02:38:36,880 --> 02:38:38,460
It's beautiful what you've done.

1764
02:38:38,600 --> 02:38:39,800
And I really appreciate it.

1765
02:38:40,440 --> 02:38:46,460
And Darren, I think the idea that you have staffed before, elected officials directly

1766
02:38:46,460 --> 02:38:47,160
staffed.

1767
02:38:47,360 --> 02:38:49,040
And it's so obvious to me that you've done that.

1768
02:38:49,260 --> 02:38:51,920
It cracks me up sometimes, well, we'll be at events.

1769
02:38:52,500 --> 02:38:55,020
And you'll approach me and say, Mayor, I think I need you to do blah, blah, blah.

1770
02:38:55,280 --> 02:38:59,680
Because you can see that I'm dear in the headlights and I need to go do something else, but I can't

1771
02:38:59,680 --> 02:39:20,680
quite break away. Um, that's the small thing. But what you've done, everybody here has talked about how you've been so great at mending fences and building bridges and it means so much to me that you've done that it's been a huge focus for you and I don't, I don't, I don't, I mean, it appears everyone feels the same about that and I don't want to talk too much about what happened.

1772
02:39:21,620 --> 02:39:26,840
excuse me, what happened before, but it's just, it's a big deal what you've done with

1773
02:39:26,840 --> 02:39:31,040
that. You've done a lot of other things too. I think you've been very responsive. You've

1774
02:39:31,040 --> 02:39:36,280
been on top of things. You've got really great ideas. I will never forget what you did for

1775
02:39:36,280 --> 02:39:41,300
the first state of the city that is like defying everything we've ever done before and it just

1776
02:39:41,300 --> 02:39:46,740
establishes who we are as a council to. You just, you read us very well. You respond to

1777
02:39:46,740 --> 02:39:50,960
us, you're very caring and kind and people love you. And I appreciate being able to work

1778
02:39:50,960 --> 02:39:54,820
with you in this position and I hope you'll stick around. And Teddy, yes, thank you very

1779
02:39:54,820 --> 02:39:58,180
much for your support with this process. This has been something I've never been through

1780
02:39:58,180 --> 02:40:04,320
before, hiring a city manager. And it's been a lot of learning. And so you have been a good

1781
02:40:04,320 --> 02:40:08,640
support through this process and we appreciate you for that too. And I think with that, I'm

1782
02:40:08,640 --> 02:40:14,840
done, I'm talking more tonight than I typically do. So I would like to ask for a motion unless

1783
02:40:14,840 --> 02:40:20,390
there's any further discussion I'll make the motion who's like was going to go on first

1784
02:40:21,350 --> 02:40:28,770
mine I'm going to second it before she makes the motion okay I move to adopt our

1785
02:40:28,770 --> 02:40:32,150
resolution I'm proving an employment agreement with G Harold Duffy to serve as

1786
02:40:32,150 --> 02:40:39,080
the next city manager for the city of Bratwood second rule call though please

1787
02:40:39,080 --> 02:40:45,200
Councilmember Maloney yes vice mayor Pearson very much yes and I am in a room with

1788
02:40:45,200 --> 02:40:45,680
Councillor Fluffy.

1789
02:40:47,340 --> 02:40:48,140
Councillor Mendoza.

1790
02:40:48,500 --> 02:40:48,700
Yes.

1791
02:40:49,060 --> 02:40:49,800
Councillor Oileman.

1792
02:40:50,540 --> 02:40:50,940
Absolutely.

1793
02:40:51,340 --> 02:40:51,920
Mayor Mayer.

1794
02:40:52,300 --> 02:40:52,640
Yes.

1795
02:40:53,400 --> 02:40:54,540
And the item moves forward.

1796
02:40:54,660 --> 02:40:55,720
Congratulations, Mr. Duffy.

1797
02:40:55,900 --> 02:40:56,560
Welcome to the team.

1798
02:41:03,750 --> 02:41:04,630
Did you want to say anything?

1799
02:41:06,070 --> 02:41:06,930
You don't have to.

1800
02:41:06,970 --> 02:41:07,810
We're putting you on the spot.

1801
02:41:08,230 --> 02:41:09,110
But I

1802
02:41:12,950 --> 02:41:16,190
would like to mention, as he's walking up, Mr. Duffy did not have to accept our invitation

1803
02:41:16,190 --> 02:41:17,130
to the press conference.

1804
02:41:17,250 --> 02:41:18,550
He wasn't working here at the time.

1805
02:41:19,090 --> 02:41:22,450
But he graciously came and put himself through that as well.

1806
02:41:22,550 --> 02:41:23,170
Thank you for that, too.

1807
02:41:23,370 --> 02:41:23,750
Thank you.

1808
02:41:29,590 --> 02:41:43,770
I want to say, let us move forward in this process, let us work together to ensure that we highlight the specialness of Brentwood.

1809
02:41:44,670 --> 02:41:48,470
Remember, it is our story to tell.

1810
02:41:49,670 --> 02:41:53,610
And I look at the assets of printwood, first of all, there's name recognition, right?

1811
02:41:54,630 --> 02:41:59,750
I have to go into my dad, no, it's not the one next UCLA, it's actually in Northern California.

1812
02:42:01,210 --> 02:42:09,570
But what I'm so excited about really is, is that this isn't a job, it's a part of my career.

1813
02:42:10,390 --> 02:42:14,830
And that's what we want to make sure that employees have here in printwood.

1814
02:42:14,830 --> 02:42:19,670
We don't want to have a job. We want to have a career where we can grow, as you said earlier.

1815
02:42:20,770 --> 02:42:30,290
And I would just say this to the residents, I'm so proud of how professional your elected officials are in this process.

1816
02:42:30,910 --> 02:42:40,350
I've made it my career to make sure that when I work for an organization, there are no surprises for the elected officials.

1817
02:42:40,350 --> 02:42:47,470
I'm very transparent. As a member of the ICMA where we are responsible to uphold

1818
02:42:47,470 --> 02:42:55,510
ethical tenants, we want to make sure that we, that above everything else, integrity is the most

1819
02:42:55,510 --> 02:43:03,690
important thing. If I lose the trust at the council, I've lost the council. What's very important

1820
02:43:03,690 --> 02:43:09,450
is this. It's hard to understand this, but the real role of a city manager really is

1821
02:43:10,130 --> 02:43:16,610
not that to go through exactly where I went through. Our role is as a manager. It's

1822
02:43:16,610 --> 02:43:22,630
the two things up. Get it ready to go, pull your vision, your plans out, align the resources,

1823
02:43:23,290 --> 02:43:29,310
and get things done. When you see a city manager continuously talking, talking, talking,

1824
02:43:29,310 --> 02:43:35,750
talking, there's something wrong in the organization. Our role is, is to manage the group,

1825
02:43:36,690 --> 02:43:41,770
or surround ourselves with our technical experts, have them do the presentation,

1826
02:43:42,750 --> 02:43:48,350
give the council the best information available and possible so they can make an informed decision.

1827
02:43:48,770 --> 02:43:55,050
That's our role, that's our goal. I'm committed to that. I'm so excited to be able to take

1828
02:43:55,050 --> 02:44:02,170
projects, wrap them up, based upon the vision of the council that represents the

1829
02:44:02,170 --> 02:44:10,190
citizens. That's our goal. The staff doesn't care who the mayor is, who the

1830
02:44:10,190 --> 02:44:13,810
council members are, but they respect the people that are sitting in those seats.

1831
02:44:14,890 --> 02:44:20,470
And our obligation responsibilities make sure that when you enter this arena, that

1832
02:44:20,470 --> 02:44:24,230
you have all the information that you need in order to make an informed decision.

1833
02:44:24,230 --> 02:44:29,350
and we will stand behind that 100%.

1834
02:44:29,350 --> 02:44:32,370
We start off in a process and we,

1835
02:44:32,810 --> 02:44:35,850
of course, of my career have had great projects.

1836
02:44:36,350 --> 02:44:38,430
The best projects at all available,

1837
02:44:39,190 --> 02:44:40,790
and the quick sit changes it.

1838
02:44:41,770 --> 02:44:43,050
And I say to my staff,

1839
02:44:43,490 --> 02:44:45,230
okay, the train is leaving.

1840
02:44:45,810 --> 02:44:46,510
Get on the train.

1841
02:44:47,070 --> 02:44:48,290
Let's make sure we get this thing done.

1842
02:44:48,850 --> 02:44:50,670
So I'm very excited.

1843
02:44:50,670 --> 02:44:56,470
I love what I do, and I've loved doing it for more than 30 years.

1844
02:44:56,890 --> 02:44:58,950
I'm so excited for November 3rd.

1845
02:44:59,010 --> 02:44:59,730
Thank you very much.

1846
02:45:07,920 --> 02:45:23,740
Okay, ending the night on a boring note. Any request for future agenda items? We have to get back on the process. No? Okay. And any anything else before we adjourn? Do we have a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn.

1847
02:45:24,080 --> 02:45:25,600
I'll second. All in favor?

1848
02:45:25,600 --> 02:45:26,860
Councilmember Maloney.

1849
02:45:29,280 --> 02:45:30,460
We have to do a roll call.

1850
02:45:32,720 --> 02:45:37,660
Yes. Vice Mayor Pearson. I was hoping

1851
02:45:37,660 --> 02:45:41,340
we get to see the puppy. Yes, I'm joined by this fluffy beast.

1852
02:45:43,400 --> 02:45:44,360
Councilmember Mendoza.

1853
02:45:44,720 --> 02:45:46,300
Yes. Councilmember Orleman.

1854
02:45:48,830 --> 02:45:52,670
Yes. Mayor Meyer. Yes, and we are adjourned. Thank you so much

1855
02:45:52,670 --> 02:45:53,290
for coming tonight.

1856
02:45:54,230 --> 02:45:55,090
Good night, everyone.

1857
02:45:58,420 --> 02:45:59,020
Oh, man.

1858
02:46:21,580 --> 02:46:21,940
Right?

1859
02:46:22,300 --> 02:46:24,080
Are you going to have a supper?

1860
02:46:26,250 --> 02:46:27,070
Did you wait here to see?