[0:00] The regular meeting of the Carson Housing Authority and the regular meeting of the Carson Successor Agency.

[0:08] The attendance, let's take the attendance electronically, please register yourself electronically.

[0:19] And to the assistant city clerk, note for the record of the presence of Council Member Roboose, Council Member,

[0:25] in May of 14th century and they are deer, with the absence of a council member, they have

[0:31] his homes, and we have a vacancy of course.

[0:34] Could we have a, what's our city attorney,

[0:40] the report?

[0:45] It may have actually just said to me, oh, we're going to start on time, has it been, yeah?

[0:49] If you

[1:41] went to the restroom,

[2:12] so

[2:15] I think it's probably Marina, who orders the cake from,

[2:21] or they just bring it when someone must tell them.

[2:31] Now we're in recess for a few minutes, so we're now in recess.

[2:38] Regular meeting of the Carson City Council, the regular meeting of the Carson housing authority,

[2:42] and the regular meeting of the Carson successor agency.

[2:45] Today is Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015, and we registered our attendance electronically, so now we're ready for the staff report for our city attorney.

[2:59] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The Council will meet in closed session, actually the housing.

[3:05] Housing authority board will meet in closed session.

[3:08] We're soon to government code section 5495 6.8 to enable the housing authority to consider

[3:16] negotiations with Jeff Edgren, a firm housing group with whom the city is negotiating

[3:22] and to give direction to its negotiator Nelson Hernandez executive director and Abel

[3:29] of Allos Community Development Director regarding that certain real property known as

[3:34] 401, Supplemental Boulevard, Carson, California.

[3:38] The Saudis Real Property Negotiator

[3:40] will seek direction from the Saudi Board,

[3:43] regarding the price and term of payment for that property.

[3:47] The Housing Authority Board,

[3:49] will also meet in close session,

[3:51] pursuant to government code session 549-56.8,

[3:55] to enable the Housing Authority

[3:57] to consider negotiations with Casey Burke,

[4:00] meta-housing corporation,

[4:01] with whom the Housing Authority is negotiating

[4:03] and to give direction to its negotiator. Nelson Hernandez is executive director and able

[4:09] of all those community development director regarding that certain real property at

[4:13] 2018 West Carson Street. The authorities' real property negotiator was seek direction from the

[4:18] authority board regarding the price condition terms of payment for the property.

[4:25] The successor

[4:26] agency board will meet in close session on one item, pursuant to government code section 54956.8

[4:34] to enable the successor agency to consider negotiations with Cardinal Cavalry L.C. and its negotiator,

[4:41] the law firm of LASEM and Watkins L.O.P. with him the successor agency is negotiating on

[4:46] price payment terms of purchase sale or lease and to give directions to its negotiator city attorney

[4:52] sunny, sunny, sunny. We're guarding that certain real property known as

[4:56] parcel number, assessor parcel numbers, 7336.

[5:00] $010-013-7336-010-016-7336-010-24-7336-010-25.

[5:18] The city council will meet in closed session,

[5:20] Personal Government Conception 54956.9 D2 or D3 and E4 because there's significant exposure to litigation in one case.

[5:33] They also meet Personal Government Conception 54956.9 D2 or D3 and E2 because there's significant exposure to litigation in one case.

[5:44] They were further meet, person to government code section, 5495 6.9, 5495 6.9, D2 and D3 and E4 and 5 in one case because there is significant exposure to litigation in one case.

[6:02] And the Council will also meet, person to government code for public employee discipline, dismissal and worries.

[6:10] Thank you.

[6:11] Do you have any requests to speak in the communication?

[6:16] Yes, Mayor, do we have four speaker cards?

[6:19] Okay.

[6:19] Do we have a please?

[6:25] Okay.

[6:26] We're into it.

[6:29] Follow by Paul Randall, followed by Robert Leslie, followed by Dr. Readabar.

[6:38] And don't forget the record that we've been joined by Councilwoman Davis Holmes,

[6:45] please.

[6:45] Good evening.

[6:47] Good evening.

[6:48] You need to hear the rumors that are flying around regarding the possibility of firing the city of Carson City Manager.

[6:56] First, let me say your track record is not good.

[7:00] What is this something like four or five city managers in the last five years?

[7:05] Now, rumor has it that the result of Jim, you being upset and think that the city manager only listens to Lula.

[7:13] He doesn't do what you want, so you and the lead to are unhappy.

[7:18] My take on this version is too bad.

[7:21] Maybe the city manager is doing his job well, and that he takes action on those things

[7:25] that are good for the stakeholders of Carson, and not the potentially illegal and misguided

[7:30] directions from the council.

[7:32] Room or two.

[7:33] Has it that the wife of the city manager, innocently took a pot-lucked meal to a lethal

[7:37] centeringus headquarters kickoff. I say innocently because my understanding is she was encouraged

[7:44] or invited to do this by Trinity from your management staff. I also understand that the city manager

[7:50] was out of town at the time but has in the past advice and employees that it's not in the best

[7:54] interest to be involved in the campaigns. Now which version is it you're working with or it is

[8:00] another version. Who knows? Do you realize that you we have already had numerous complaints,

[8:08] settlements, lawsuits, etc. regarding city employees? Are you not opening up the city to more

[8:13] litigation? Just look at the lawsuits filed by a former employee that Alito allegedly ordered

[8:19] fired, and his divended a friend or a neighbor, even though this neighbor allegedly shoved that

[8:25] and uttered the N word.

[8:28] Nice to spec Jim, you will say something like

[8:29] Vera, you're just sour grapes because

[8:31] we didn't appoint you to the vacancy

[8:32] and be sure you get a chance

[8:35] to have the last word at my expense.

[8:37] Let me share with the public the so-called

[8:38] process you played with.

[8:41] First, I met with all of the council members

[8:43] for favorable consideration of my appointment.

[8:45] After all, I'd ring the table

[8:47] a wealth of experience and knowledge.

[8:50] However, in my office

[8:53] On 2013 street, I met with you in seek, and the first thing you asked me was, would I be willing to fire the city manager?

[9:00] Well, my response did not please you.

[9:03] That was just one of the many distasteful distasteful conditions you placed on the appointment.

[9:07] After telling me you wanted to appoint a lean Harris, you said she doesn't have the votes, but would have a tough time winning the election in March.

[9:15] You wanted my endorsement of the race for you for City Clerk, your 62 years old and needed

[9:21] the retirement package.

[9:23] In addition, I was supposed to support you when you came back in 2017 as mayor.

[9:28] On another note, I was approached by two union representatives at a council meeting representing

[9:32] AFSME and IBEW, in which they want to be a stand-down on not to seek the appointment.

[9:38] They wanted Alene Harris to get the appointment because she couldn't win the election.

[9:42] And that if I ran for the March election, I would get all the unions supported and money to me.

[9:52] Mr. Randall?

[10:05] You may do that, certainly. So, I'll send this back. Robert Leslie, you next, follow my Dr. Bond.

[10:30] Good evening, council, buddy. It's staff. Robert Leslie, Carson. I don't have all the insight and information as Ms. DeWitt spoke previous

[10:41] at the podium here, but it's really interesting that you look at the fact that you had several other city managers.

[10:52] And it's really ironic with the other city manager that was just previous, well, release or far too high ever you want to choose to use that term.

[11:02] The person came back with an exemplar, I understand with the, they did a survey and everything

[11:10] and it was an exemplar, only as a conductor and it actually has a workload, but yet

[11:15] instead he was dismissed anyway.

[11:17] Now, we're getting ready to come back into this present factor again and talking about

[11:22] dismissing another city manager.

[11:25] It's really ironic when you start to look at it overall, the totality of it, when you

[11:31] to put in three things in place here. You start making people who want to come in here to

[11:38] do anything pertinent and progressive for this city. You make them start thinking two and three times.

[11:45] Like, why should I put my application here? Because every time there's a disagreement or something

[11:51] that might not be in the best interest of what's going on with someone who's up on the

[11:57] is there. I'm going to be dismissed. That's one aspect of it. The other thing is that you

[12:02] start having that you look at the business community and start looking at the fact of saying,

[12:07] I'm a stable aspect, what's happening with the city here? It's like, really, do I want

[12:12] to put my time and effort in it? And then next time, I'm negotiating with this person here and

[12:18] then next thing, I'm negotiating with somebody 180 degrees from what I'm going. And then you make

[12:24] community, look at it and say, this is nothing but a continuously uphill out of a joke in

[12:33] a sense because I've had this meeting just past weekend and we had standing room on

[12:43] just practically and all of a sudden people want to know why what's happening, what's

[12:50] But you understand there's never, never, never, never, never even when we testified in the

[12:55] last time.

[12:56] You've never did articulate of the deficiencies or those things that that particular city

[13:02] manager wouldn't capable of doing.

[13:05] Now here we're getting ready to deal with the same situation here.

[13:08] It's really how running here.

[13:09] And so like I said, this issue will be something that coming up in the future at our

[13:15] communities and stuff like that.

[13:17] Thank you.

[13:17] The next speaker is Dr. Boggs.

[13:25] Mayor, do you remember to the City Council?

[13:27] I just want to speak on the close for the co-session.

[13:34] But the one that says there is a talk about here for public employee discipline, dismissal

[13:44] for me these. And, you know, the only thing I want to say, I ask that the city manager wants

[13:51] to be fired when I got angry. I regret that I did that, and I apologize for doing it.

[13:59] I think that we need to take it easy a little bit. What are we going to, you know,

[14:04] can't this thing be settled with a hand shake or a little bit more than that perhaps, but we're

[14:11] you might fire in somebody, you know, that's a pretty important thing, so jobs are hard to get.

[14:20] And, you know, Mr. Centrina, I'm minimizing the names here because I don't want to get into the detail of it.

[14:28] But please, try to settle it without beating up on people, without, you know, demands of mine.

[14:37] you know, this is really city money. So please, let's somehow settle this in peace. Thank you.

[14:49] Are there any other persons wishing to address us on closed session items?

[14:57] Okay, apparently not. Okay.

[14:59] We're going to...

[15:00] To recess housing authority, successor agency, and city council for purposes of closed session.

[15:07] We'll be back sometime after 6 o'clock PM this evening.

[15:14] Oh, it looks like it.

[15:18] Yes?

[15:21] Okay.

[15:25] So, yes, sir. We'd like to speak.

[15:32] Wait till 6 o'clock for that, because you have audience.

[15:37] All right, so we're going to, looks like, no, the takers, we're going to recess all three agencies.

[15:44] Of course, that should be. Thank you.

[20:03] The 3rd of February 2015. Madam Court, no for the rest of the presence of all four members of the city council, three council members, including the mayor of Pro Temp, Centrina and Mayor Deer. We have a vacancy, of course, in the additional seat.

[20:21] So, we're now going to start out with our flag salute and we have a young lady here, Carson resident, who's in the fourth grade at Bonita Elementary School.

[20:33] She is going to be the mayor for the moment this evening.

[20:37] And I'm going to ask Margin Santiago to please come forward. You may walk up right through that gate. Pull that door open and walk right around to where I am.

[20:46] and you're going to sit in my chair and hold the gavel as the mayor for the moment and then

[20:51] lead us in the pledge of allegiance

[20:59] right here in the mayor's chair and hold this

[21:03] gavel and make your mayor for the moment and then what we want you to do is you can hit

[21:09] that if you want to it's up to you and you tell everyone in the room just like you do

[21:15] school, the same way directions on Laplace, you give them, give us instructions right now.

[21:21] Please stand,

[21:30] put your right hand over your heart, ready, begin. I pledge on the flag of the United

[21:38] States of America and to everyone like for which stands, one nation, under God, in the

[21:52] So

[21:56] this evening, representing Pastor Gregory, a left-rich, of imitators of God Church, we have a representative.

[22:04] I don't have the representative name, but if you please come forward and introduce yourself and if you can give us a legislative invocation, it would be much appreciated.

[22:12] Yes, good evening. My apologies that pastor Gregory. I left for to not be here. My name is Janelle Bikes, and I'm also a Minister. So I'll begin.

[22:22] First off is the privilege and honor to serve God's people and I just want to thank the Lord for allowing me to have this opportunity and thank you.

[22:29] I'm there for allowing me to go forward.

[22:31] You're very well.

[22:32] Dear Heavenly Father, I just pray for our President of the United States. I'll serve Vice President Joe Biden and all their family members.

[22:40] Also, pray for Jerry Brown in this state, as well as all of those in leadership at the

[22:45] Georgia positions, even elected officials here, and the parishioners and the church

[22:51] throughout the city, and the city of Carson, I thank you for what you're doing in their

[22:55] lives.

[22:56] Thank you for perfecting all things.

[22:57] It concerns them.

[22:58] They're levels in their family.

[22:59] For it's truly honor and privilege to serve you and serve your people, Father.

[23:03] Now, Father, I thank you that they will all understand their inadequacies for the task that

[23:07] before them this day.

[23:08] and they need to pray for God's wisdom, knowledge, and courage daily,

[23:12] that they will all reject all council that violates the spiritual principles of God's Word,

[23:16] and be willing to trust God and lead them in the right direction.

[23:20] That they will all resist the pressure of those who would lead the Messiah,

[23:22] or tempt them to disobey the Lord and His will for their lives.

[23:26] I think that they will also would work to reverse the trend toward ungodness in our land,

[23:30] in this city, especially, and to restore America's Christ-centered values.

[23:34] I think that they will also be prepared to make golly choices in the best interests of the city, regardless of the cost.

[23:41] I think that they would also solely rely upon solely your word and pray for strength and success daily.

[23:49] I think that they would also maintain dignity, honor and trustworthiness and righteousness while on office.

[23:54] I think that they will strive to be a golly example to the men, women and children of this land.

[23:57] I think that they would also remember that while an office they are accountable to God first, their attitudes and their action of motives and then to the people of this city.

[24:06] I think that I think that they will also recognize that their personal sinfulness and need for the cleansing power Jesus Christ at all times.

[24:12] Now, while I lift up the schools, the universities, the trade schools, in this area, in the city of Carson, I merely smear it with the blood of Christ Jesus.

[24:20] I think what you're doing in the lives of the council members here, I think that it would truly

[24:25] honor and serve your people knowing that you are, you are to be put first and no one else.

[24:30] I thank you right now that those who are in leadership and authority positions in this city

[24:35] council and the churches across the city, those who refuse to do it your way, those who are

[24:40] have our tier of motives, those who have hidden the genders, that the light expels the darkness,

[24:44] let everything be exposed and I thank you that even they're out of debt, everything is set in order

[24:49] in this place from this day for. I give you glory on and praise and I saturate this prayer

[24:54] with the blood of Christ. She's not thank you that every tongue that rises with begins to

[24:57] me shall be condemned this day for I'm a child of the most high.

[25:00] Thank you very

[25:17] much.

[25:21] We're now going to go to a section. Actually, we have a staff report from our close session. We need to report out.

[25:34] So our city attorney will do that.

[25:36] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The Housing Authority Board meant in close session.

[25:43] Pursuing to government code section 5495.54956.8, to enable the Housing Authority to

[25:52] consider negotiations with Jeff Edgren, a firm housing group with whom the city is negotiating

[25:57] and to give directions to its negotiator Nelson Hernandez, Executive Director, and able

[26:02] of the lowest community development director regarding certain property known as 401

[26:07] Suppled with a Boulevard Carson, California.

[26:10] No reportable action was taken.

[26:12] The council also meant pursuant to government co-section 5495-6.8 to enable the housing authority

[26:19] to consider negotiations with Casey Burke, Metat Housing Corporations, with whom the housing authority is negotiating

[26:25] and to give direction to its negotiator Nelson Hernandez executive director and able

[26:30] of L.O.'s Community Development Director regarding that certain real property at 218 West

[26:35] Carson Street, again, no reportable action was taken.

[26:39] The council did not take up the item for the successor agency yet on the city council closed

[26:49] session.

[26:50] They only took up one item, which was conferring with legal council pursuant to government

[26:57] code section 549 549 569 D2 and D3 and E4 and 5 in one case where there is anticipated

[27:09] litigation and there is no reportable action. Mr. Mayor, if I may have an opportunity

[27:18] to clarify something that was stated on the record earlier, I would really appreciate that.

[27:23] Certainly I will allow that. There's something that we said about five o'clock this afternoon.

[27:29] Yes, so certain allegations were made earlier against the mayor for term regarding the alleged use of an offensive ward.

[27:38] And I think it's important that we clarified that issue even though one were in a lawsuit.

[27:44] I want to set the record straight that those allegations are unfounded and inaccurate.

[27:54] In fact, the plaintiff in that Cheney lawsuit has made allegations that during the altercation he was having with Mr. Rivera,

[28:05] Mr. Rivera used that offensive word and also called the person, or Mr. Cheney, a little boy.

[28:15] And this is all in the complaint filed by Mr.

[28:22] Cheney.

[28:23] Thank you, paragraphs three of his complaint. And that's a public record.

[28:26] anybody would like to inspect it nowhere in the complaint. Are there any allegations made against

[28:33] the mayor-protem of using such a word? And the record in the lawsuit does not absolutely

[28:40] does not support such allegation. I thought it was important to clarify that. Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor,

[28:50] I'd like to say thank you to our city attorney for clarifying that and I hope that

[28:56] a couple of people I believe who got up there and said something about me that's really unfounded,

[29:04] not true, falsity and everything. Now it's clarified that corrected that what they alleged,

[29:16] what they said here a while ago, we're not true. Thank you so very much for doing the job of

[29:25] I'm going to clarify this not what said.

[29:28] I guess me.

[29:29] Thank you very much.

[29:30] Thank you.

[29:32] And I must say if I could paraphrase a quote from Abraham Lincoln, he once stated publicly that

[29:38] if he were to spend his time defending himself against every false allegation, every false

[29:46] statement, he wouldn't have time to do his job.

[29:50] And so I want to assure you that the Mayor of Pro Tem Santorina is a man of a great

[29:58] statue in our community. Be cut.

[30:00] This of his integrity, because of his honesty, and because of his self respect, and therefore, his respect for other people. He would never make such an allegation. I mean, a comment like that, it just not even part of his being. And so for some of them to come up to this podium and make up a story, a complete fall story, I just go back to the quote from Abraham Lincoln. Thank you.

[30:25] We now are going to go to your welcome.

[30:33] We're going to go to the next section in our agenda.

[30:38] And these are known as introductions or presentations.

[30:43] We're going to first start with our city manager.

[30:45] If he has any introductions as the same place, no one.

[30:47] Okay, so we'll go item A.

[30:50] And we'll go to item B.

[30:51] This is the introduction of Sheriff's Deputies and or Report from our Defacto.

[30:56] Please chief, none other than Captain Chris Marx, who is going to look like do some introductions, and maybe a report as well.

[31:08] Captain, welcome.

[31:10] Good evening, sir.

[31:11] Oh, maybe follow me.

[31:14] What kind of leader am I?

[31:16] What kind of leader am I?

[31:16] Oh, yeah, really.

[31:18] Thanks.

[31:23] Good evening, Mr. Mayor.

[31:25] Good evening, Mr. Mayor.

[31:26] Good evening, Mr. Mayor.

[31:26] Good evening.

[31:27] Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the Council.

[31:31] I'm very proud to announce five new members of the Carson family.

[31:35] On January 17th, the Los Angeles County Service Department

[31:38] graduated Explorer Academy Class number 93.

[31:42] There were 172 recruits from the Sheriff's Department

[31:45] and participating agencies within Los Angeles County.

[31:49] They went through 19 weeks of training for this participating

[31:53] at the Sheriff's Academy to achieve this.

[31:55] They're now assigned to our car sensation. I want to welcome them here. We have Naomi Burmosco,

[32:02] Maramar Calisto,

[32:05] Christopher Franco,

[32:06] Peter Munoz, and Leslie Zaragoza.

[32:14] We want to welcome these young people. They are

[32:17] interested in possible careers in law enforcement and that is a noble career. It's a career of compassion and

[32:26] and caring about society and we appreciate that and we appreciate the sheriff's department for having this program as well.

[32:34] Thank you very much, sir.

[32:36] So, unless you really want to say anything, I don't think they do.

[32:40] Yeah, welcome to, I'll hold my report for you.

[32:44] Do they live in Carson or do you want to give us a little bit of a brief background?

[32:48] Come on, just yeah, tell them where you live and what you want to do.

[32:55] Good evening, sir.

[32:57] Yes.

[32:58] I'm mixed warically stove.

[32:59] I live in Carson.

[33:01] I've lived in Carson for five years.

[33:05] And I'm an explorer.

[33:06] And I look forward to serving the community.

[33:10] Very good, Joe.

[33:14] Good evening, sir.

[33:15] I'm explorers.

[33:16] I live in some of the fields.

[33:19] I'm an olive forest for working for Carson and the city.

[33:23] Very good.

[33:27] Good evening, sir.

[33:28] My name is Naomi Bramasco.

[33:31] And I've been at the moment in and I look forward to serving the community.

[33:37] Very good.

[33:39] Thank you very much.

[33:40] My name is Explore Franco.

[33:43] I'm looking forward to protecting and serving this community.

[33:47] Thank you.

[33:47] Thank you for letting the young ladies go first.

[33:51] We are using this.

[33:52] My name is Explore Monios.

[33:54] And I'm looking forward to serving the community.

[33:56] Very good.

[33:56] Thank you.

[34:02] And also back there, sir, as you know, it's Deputy Noia, he's the one who, Deputy Noia and Deputy

[34:06] Schinn are responsible for the Explore program here, so maybe Deputy Noia could step forward

[34:11] just for a moment,

[34:16] as you know, Deputy Noia also runs our gang diversion training program and community

[34:20] service as well. So we want to just put you on TV for a moment, and we really appreciate

[34:27] You are a man who goes above and beyond your responsibility as a sheriff to help mentor young people and reach out to our citizens and Carson

[34:39] It's really appreciate you and thank you for your great great effort you put forward for Carson

[34:46] Well, thank you, Mayor, and I just think the support of the council members and all the city staff here at Carson

[34:53] And if it was back Carson and it shows when we have good people like this, so I appreciate it.

[35:00] Okay, next. Captain. Thank you, sir. I believe I have another agenda item, look later, so I'll hold my report for then. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

[35:14] Captain, we're going to bring your item up. You remember the number three, I believe?

[35:24] I don't remember. I'm sorry. I was a six. Yeah, I'm six. Okay.

[35:32] That's under our consent, if it's not pulled, it'll just be approved at the beginning of the consent.

[35:40] You will?

[35:42] Okay.

[35:45] That's fine.

[35:45] You can do that if you want.

[35:48] We have some introductions to do.

[35:50] A presentation first.

[35:52] Yeah, we'll do it.

[35:52] So it won't be too far along into our meeting, which is going to last quite late tonight, but you won't have to stay late.

[35:59] That's okay, sir.

[36:00] I'm here for 24.7 to it.

[36:04] Now we're going to go to item C.

[36:07] You'll find that in paid six of your agenda if you have a agenda sheet.

[36:10] And this is a presentation on Water Reliability by Director Harold Williams,

[36:17] of the West Facement of Water District.

[36:23] We're going to present Carson and Palace Ferties in Parts of San Pedro and Arizona.

[36:30] Well, thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[36:32] And I won't have to say that now that you said that.

[36:37] Thank you for first of all Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council, for allowing me to

[36:44] come before you and talk about something that's very exciting and important to all of us.

[36:51] And that is water.

[36:53] And tonight I'm here with a general manager from West Basin who will be making the presentation.

[37:01] And it's about giving you water supply update for the city of Carson, as well as a few words on water reliability, which is what we are committed to, and to continue to be of service to this fine community.

[37:21] So with that I'll bring Mr. Nagel up, he is our General Manager, to Nagel, and we also have I think a handout for you as well as some buttons here that says, I love recycled water and we hope that you will wear these buttons and you make a commitment to love recycled water because that is very important to us.

[37:44] It's all the part of our efforts to doubt proof our area.

[37:49] And so with that, I'll turn this over to Mr.

[37:52] Nagel.

[37:55] Thank you, Director Will.

[37:56] Mr. Mr. Good evening, Mr. Mayor,

[37:59] Honoural Mayor, and members of the Council.

[38:02] It is a pleasure to be before you.

[38:04] I have just a very brief water supply update.

[38:07] It actually is quite critical at this point in time.

[38:11] As many of you have have experienced

[38:13] So, briefly, what I'd like to do is just talk about Westbacian Municipal Water District.

[38:19] We're a regional water supplier.

[38:22] We serve 17 cities in the Los Angeles Coastal Plane area, and the 17 cities are served

[38:28] by eight retail water agencies here in the city cars and you're primarily served by cow water

[38:34] services and a small portion by Golden State Water Company, and our service area, Westbacians,

[38:39] that is served roughly about a million residents.

[38:43] So, we ask ourselves the leadership of our board and wanted to certainly point that out you

[38:47] just certainly met Director Williams, one of our newly elected board members, we're related

[38:53] to have them on the board back in the audience. I have another one of my bosses, the great board

[39:00] director Donald L. Deer. I understand he has no relationship to this mayor, but if he does have

[39:05] a relationship with this mayor, I understand he's the most charming of all the Deers.

[39:12] So,

[39:12] The question really simply to ask, where does our most water come from?

[39:16] It actually over half the water in southern California and the South Bay and Carson comes

[39:21] from outside the area.

[39:23] It comes from places that our aqueducts canow and reservoirs and it comes from as far away

[39:30] as the Lairmy oil meat and it comes from as far north as Lake Shasta.

[39:36] This water is called the imported water and it is delivered by the metropolitan water district

[39:41] of Southern California. So what happens is it's primarily driven by precipitation and snow

[39:46] pack. And when that snow pack melts, it fills a reservoirs, rivers and lakes, and it's transported

[39:51] down to Southern California. Now the problem is, the last couple of years, we've had extremely dry

[39:56] years. And so those reservoirs have been drained.

[40:00] Kind of like your savings account. And when your savings account dries up, you were laying your checking account. And that's not a good thing.

[40:08] So what we have been is, I want to point out to how dry has it actually been in Southern California. This is a map that tracks the severity of the drought. This is 2012. This is done by the National Institute of Weather Systems.

[40:24] And this is 2012 and the same period, this is September and 2012, this is a year later 2013 as the colors get darker that expresses the severity of the drought.

[40:35] And then this past year you can see 82% of the state of California is either an exceptional or an extreme drought. It is very, very severe.

[40:44] So if we don't receive above average snowpack this year, we might actually be back to you

[40:51] in all of our cities to ask you to use even less than you have been.

[40:56] And that's going to be kind of difficult because we need to preserve our savings account

[41:01] what's left in it so we don't have to rely on our checking account, which is a year to

[41:07] year reliance.

[41:07] That's not a good place to be.

[41:09] But what has less basin been doing to defend the drought?

[41:15] Well, actually we've been defending the drought for over two decades.

[41:19] We have built a world-class water recycling facility in 1995,

[41:23] and we've also instituted some water conservation programs in the early 1990s.

[41:30] And in our water recycling program, we actually produce enough water today

[41:36] That serves precious, holdable water for over three cities the size of Carson each year.

[41:44] So our water recycling program develops enough recycled water that could serve three cities larger

[41:53] than the city of Carson each year.

[41:56] That's a lot of water.

[41:57] That's what we've done to defend the drought.

[42:00] And one of the huge parts of our success has also been our good friends from the water

[42:04] management district. They've been an excellent partner with us. So if you're going to come

[42:09] to California from the outside, bring your own dog on water. And this, as you recall,

[42:14] the governor declared emergency declaration twice now, and they're actually going to look

[42:20] at it again next month by the state water resource. And he used these signs. This is an actual

[42:24] sign. In the summertime, he used the Cal Trans sign to tell people, send a message and

[42:30] that's been working. We're finding now from year to year. In fact, this past December, the residents

[42:37] in this city, as well as all West Basin cities, have conserved almost 20% less than they did this

[42:46] time last year. So, apply the city for doing that.

[42:52] I also wanted to mention to you, we've been

[42:55] bringing in recycled water here locally. These are some of the locations you'll see here. We have

[42:59] stub hub center that we brought, excellent, the first sports field in the nation for recycled

[43:04] water, fantastic. Good year, the feel that the good year, blimp is on is, is, is use

[43:11] recycled water, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Victoria Golf Course, a great use, right? Why

[43:17] would you use drinking water and grass, right? Recycle water is perfectly suited for it.

[43:22] And then we have, we're soon going to bring it to Dominguez Tech and we've brought it substantially

[43:26] to sorrow BP and we hope to bring more to this great city and the very near future we back to you.

[43:32] I also wanted to mention to you we are committed to water reliability and our board is directed

[43:37] staff. We've been looking very, very closely at the feasibility of Ocean Water desolination.

[43:42] But the main thing for your residents we're elected to do is make sure you use only what you need,

[43:47] right? Not waste it, but mainly go to our website. We have lots of great rebate programs

[43:51] for the entire city residents. Conservation rebates. We'll actually pay to take out your

[43:57] lawn to put water conserving plants and other great type of water conservation tips.

[44:02] So we'd like to direct you to that website and Mr. Mayor and Council. It's been an

[44:06] absolute pleasure and thank you very much for inviting us this evening.

[44:09] You're quite welcome. Before you step away and before Director Williams steps away,

[44:15] we're going to have some comments or questions from Council members. Let's start with

[44:20] Councilmember Robert Robles also serves on West Basin, I mean water replacement district representing

[44:26] Carson and other areas of LA County and Councilman, you have the floor.

[44:32] I am looking for a third appointment though,

[44:37] tough crowd today while, anyways, thank you Mr.

[44:42] Nagle, great presentation, you know, you're my second favorite general manager of water

[44:47] just so thank you, you're always welcome here and I do appreciate you,

[44:53] getting the message out to conserve water.

[44:55] So thank you and I also just want to take this opportunity to congratulate.

[45:00] Mr. Williams, I know I attended this as sworn in ceremony a couple of weeks ago, had a great, great turnout. I think we were all present, or the councilman, they make it, but there were a lot of people there, a lot of dignitaries, and so congratulations, and was you much, much success.

[45:20] Mr. Mayor for term saturated next. Yes, if I remember that I think this will be my

[45:26] 6th or 7th time of congratulating the former council member. I'll hold Williams and once again in front of our

[45:33] folks here and people are watching us on

[45:36] Kind of 35. I would sincerely

[45:40] congratulate you again and more power to you sir and

[45:44] We all look forward to working with you and

[45:48] Thank you so much.

[45:50] Mr. Manager, thank you so much for your presentation.

[45:54] It's very enlightening.

[45:55] Thank you.

[45:56] Mr. Mr. Mayor, go ahead.

[45:58] If I could, you know, one of our big, big programs under our education,

[46:05] is that is water conservation water,

[46:09] conservation is very important to us.

[46:12] Now, water conservation is an attitude.

[46:16] it's a state of mind. Now, we, West Basin, along with other water agencies, we do a lot

[46:23] of things to get you started to thinking towards conserving water. That's to get you

[46:30] started, but what keeps you going is habit. So we want you to get into the habit of

[46:36] conserving water. If everything that you do, you can serve water. When it becomes a habit,

[46:42] What are habits like? They're hard to break, right? So that's this is what you we will life you to do and one of the things we'd have it to help you

[46:50] I guess you would say and incentivize some of you or encourage some of you is that we have a rain barrel giveaway program

[46:58] I don't know if you've ever seen this this poster around. It's on our website

[47:04] www.wsbasin.org and I will be conducting my first rain barrel giveaway event

[47:12] It will be on Saturday February the 21st from 9 to noon and it will be at our West

[47:20] Basin Headquarters at 117-140, Avalon Boulevard that's at Avalon and Walnut here in the city of Carson.

[47:30] It's that we rain barrels and no cost to you and if you want to get one, you have to make a reservation by calling

[47:38] Our South Bay Environmental Service Center at 310-371-46333 to register to receive a rain barrel.

[47:56] They go pretty quick, they're very popular, and especially the ones that have the terracotta color, they're very, very popular.

[48:04] If you don't get there soon, only ones that be left of the ones that look like a big rubber tire.

[48:12] So I would suggest that you get there as soon as you can.

[48:15] Catch the rain, save water.

[48:17] Thank you.

[48:20] Mr. Mayor, I do have one request for you.

[48:22] Since Director Williams is handing out rain barrels, I'm wondering if the mayor and the council

[48:27] can work on their rain dance soon.

[48:30] So we can actually get some rain to actually fill the barrels.

[48:33] So I'm emerging this entire council in the mayor.

[48:37] You've got to somehow get your rain dance going

[48:39] because we need that rain locally.

[48:41] We also need lots of snow as well.

[48:42] Thank you again.

[48:44] Before you go away, I have some questions and comments.

[48:48] First of all, before I forget,

[48:50] I wanted to mention that director here,

[48:52] Williams is a former Carson City Council member.

[48:56] So there is life after City Council.

[49:00] And in addition, I'd like to comment that since I have you gentlemen here, I'm going to take advantage of doing a commercial.

[49:08] We have a utility user tax measure called Measure A in about a month from now on the March 3rd ballot in Carson.

[49:19] And that measure A is to keep the 2% tax.

[49:26] It's going to be on water, but it does not tax reclaim the recycled water at all.

[49:34] So we also put that in there because we wanted to encourage people to use recycled water.

[49:40] The last comment is that yesterday I attended a meeting with the Mayor of Los Angeles who has quite a program going on for

[49:51] emergency preparedness in case of a large earthquake.

[49:56] San Andreas Fault, Aqueducts Cross the Fault, Aqueducts could be.

[50:00] Put out the commission in one moment pretty much. And Dr. Lucy Jones, who is an expert in seismology and works with

[50:12] federal government, was explaining that West Basin, Minister of Water District,

[50:19] the Water

[50:19] Replanetary District, that Councilor Robert Robes on, and the other water districts are doing

[50:26] a great job in her view. I just wanted to pass that on as an FYI to you in reducing the

[50:32] dependency of an imported water. And that reduction of the dependency is going to come

[50:38] in handy when we really need it. And so my last question is, is I don't mean to catch you off

[50:45] guard because I know you have a set presentation, but if you have any comment on what West

[50:50] So water district might be doing to prepare for the big earthquake that may come within our

[50:57] lifetime.

[50:58] It may come later than that, but the point is that we don't know when that earthquake on

[51:03] the San Andreas fault may take place.

[51:05] And so any preparations or plans?

[51:08] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[51:09] Great, great question.

[51:10] So I'd like the city and the council to be aware that our parent company metropolitan

[51:16] and water district and us work extremely close on emergency preparedness in the event of

[51:21] an earthquake that could knock out, you know, the two main aqueducts actually bring

[51:26] that water from outside into the region and to some comfort level, I like to relay this

[51:31] to this council in the city that we actually have a six month supply of emergency water.

[51:38] That's in cooperation with the metropolitan water district, so we have banked if you will or

[51:42] toward, if in the fact that there's actually

[51:45] earthquake, we could get by for six months.

[51:49] Beyond that, Mr. Mayor, it would be catastrophic

[51:51] as you can imagine.

[51:52] But that's a pretty nice bank of supply.

[51:55] And we call that, we don't use that water.

[51:57] That's not part of what I described earlier

[51:59] as water in our savings account.

[52:01] That's a separate account.

[52:03] That's basically untouched for the emergency purpose

[52:07] if there is an earthquake that would knock out

[52:09] our delivery systems itself.

[52:11] I will also tell you we work closely with other jurisdictions on mutual aid programs, and we

[52:19] are actually currently refreshing our emergency preparedness planet self, we're always

[52:24] need to find two in that, but I do want the residents to know we have one plan for a substantial

[52:30] worth quick.

[52:31] Well, we really appreciate the West-based and a lot of district doing that because that gives

[52:34] us some peace of mind that there is preparation taking place, and it's much appreciated.

[52:40] you can imagine. The six-month period actually was a coincidence, maybe, but that's

[52:48] along. Dr. Lucy said it's going to take to maybe get the aqueducts functional again.

[52:55] So it sounds like you're in a good communication and you know what you're doing. So again,

[52:59] thank you for your presentation tonight. Director Williams, you have the last word since you're

[53:04] elected. I just want to say again, thank you Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council

[53:10] for allowing us to be a service, come here tonight, to be a service to you and the citizens

[53:16] of Carson, and we look forward to coming back again and making a presentation on an update

[53:23] as to how our programs are going.

[53:27] Thank you.

[53:28] Thank you.

[53:29] We've got to be doing anything in the city.

[53:35] We have moved away from the low-flow toilets to the rainbearers.

[53:40] Right, because I've had questions about it, though.

[53:42] No more toilets for now.

[53:47] They're Councilwoman there.

[53:48] Councilwoman, there still are rebates that if the consumer goes on our website and they go back,

[53:54] and they can go on our website, we can be helpful to them.

[53:57] And then through the Metropolitan Water District, if a consumer wants to purchase one and replace it with

[54:03] the old type of toilets that use two to three times more water you can still receive a

[54:08] rebate as far as the giveaway programs the board is transfer that to the rain barrel

[54:13] program. Yeah I had to question about how do we get them so good. Thank you. Website direct

[54:18] the the city staff as well as the members to the website and then you call us to if you have

[54:24] other questions. Thank you. You're welcome. Have a wonderful evening gentlemen. Thanks again for coming

[54:30] out here and taking your time for that. This time we're going to go to the page two of our

[54:36] agenda. It's under housing authority. I'm going to move approval of the minutes of the housing

[54:41] authority of Tuesday, October 21st, 2014. We're going to be meeting. It's there a second. Second

[54:46] by housing authority, Vice Chairman, Santa Reena, and we'd like you to please queue up if you

[54:52] have discussion on the motion on the floor. No one's queueed up. Therefore, please cast your

[54:57] electronically, and I-

[55:00] I think maybe you need to register first. We need to re-register. Okay. So everyone please re-register electronically for voting and this is not the vote. This is just indicating a present.

[55:17] Don't want to be presumptuous that you're going to vote yes or no on any particular item.

[55:26] Mr. Eglson, so that should read up on the screen. Okay, so we have all four registered now

[55:32] We're going to go to the vote on the motion on the floor motion by dear second by Santorina

[55:37] Please cast your vote on approval of minutes

[55:40] Housing authority

[55:55] Okay, the unanimous 404 to zero for the record madam secretary and

[56:04] since we're on

[56:07] Housing authority

[56:10] Let's go to item three

[56:12] This is resolution number 15 to 011, the resolution of the Carson Housing Authority ratifying claims, and demands in the amount of $33,000, $273.94.

[56:25] Since demand check numbers HA-001424 through HA-001433.

[56:36] So a second, second by our housing authority member.

[56:43] It was homes.

[56:44] Please queue up if you have discussion on the motion.

[56:48] I see no one is queueed up.

[56:50] Therefore, please cache about authority members.

[56:57] And authority secretary, for the record, please record that the vote is 40 zero unanimous.

[57:08] And I'm going to take up the last item on that particular housing authority agenda.

[57:13] That is item number four, and I'm going to take up that together with our successor agency,

[57:23] item number five,

[57:25] and our city council item number

[57:34] 22.

[57:35] They're all the same item.

[57:36] It's the March meeting schedule due to the conduct of the general municipal election for the city of Carson to be held on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015, and this is to change the meeting to the next day.

[57:56] So instead of a Tuesday, the first Tuesday of March, it'll be the first Wednesday of March or actually the day after the first Tuesday of March, and that means that it'll be March.

[58:09] Fourth for a city council meeting that is a motion on my part to do that and I'd like to know if there's a second

[58:16] Okay second by

[58:18] Mayor for Tim Santarina

[58:21] We're now in discussion on the motion. Please queue up if you have any discussion. I

[58:27] See no one is queue up. Okay, it was go to council woman Davis home

[58:33] Tuesday

[58:34] March 24

[58:35] the swearing in of a newly elected other we usually have a label that I miss

[58:43] something I think it's typically three weeks two or three depending on

[58:51] elections official last time it was three weeks before that it was two weeks so

[58:55] that's why the 24th came up you're running my vacation

[58:59] That was both then Brazil.

[59:04] Thank you.

[59:05] Okay.

[59:07] Any other discussion?

[59:14] It was fine.

[59:18] There's a time limit.

[59:19] So it's time sensitive.

[59:21] That is correct.

[59:29] Okay.

[59:35] So the motion is to approve

[59:40] no meeting on Tuesday March 3rd due to the general municipal election

[59:46] of the city of Carson.

[59:48] and have on Wednesday, March 4th, a adjourned regimen of the City Council, Housing Authority

[59:54] and Successor Agency, a five o'clock PM for the closed session in January, and a six o'clock

[59:58] PM for the business.

[1:00:02] And Tuesday, March 17th, regular meeting for the City Council Housing Authority and Successor Agency at 5 o'clock PM, for the closed session agenda and six o'clock PM for the business agenda.

[1:00:11] And Tuesday, March 24th, special meeting for the City Council only at six o'clock PM, Halls A, B, NC in the Congresswoman.

[1:00:20] What need a million dollar community center at Carson to declare that results

[1:00:24] install the newly elected officers and organize in select the office of mayor

[1:00:30] program. Is there a second? Second by council member Robles, we're now in discussion

[1:00:36] of the motion.

[1:00:40] I see a question from city clerk's office. Joy? Is it a signal?

[1:00:46] Madam Clerk, do you have it?

[1:00:47] This is Mayor, we had a motion on the floor, and it was second by the mayor pro-tale.

[1:00:52] Is there another motion made?

[1:00:54] Okay, well, I just read the whole motion.

[1:00:56] So we'll take Councillor Merit and Mayor for the second,

[1:01:01] for the record.

[1:01:02] It's the motion by the second by the second.

[1:01:05] And now please come up if you have any further discussion,

[1:01:10] and no one's queue up, please cast your vote.

[1:01:12] Councillor Members.

[1:01:15] And it's unanimous for to zero for the record.

[1:01:21] Okay.

[1:01:25] Now we're going to go to a section of our agenda known as oral communications.

[1:01:31] From the public.

[1:01:32] This is where members of the public can address the city council, the housing authority,

[1:01:37] and or the successor agency members,

[1:01:40] purposes of business of the people of the city of Carson,

[1:01:45] conducted by the three agencies.

[1:01:48] You can speak on items that are on the agenda or items that are not on the agenda at this time and I'm going to ask for speaker cards from our clerk to

[1:01:59] Call people up. We ask you to fill out a speaker card. You're not required to do that, but it makes it a lot easier for the presiding officer to call your names

[1:02:09] Okay,

[1:02:15] let's start with

[1:02:17] Janine Colbert, Janine Silica, Janine's Colbert

[1:02:24] and

[1:02:28] you know you have three minutes, two and a half minutes the amber light will go on to be green and then go amber

[1:02:34] amber means that in the last 30 seconds please conclude your thoughts.

[1:02:38] Okay, okay, thank you.

[1:02:40] Okay, good evening council members, council members.

[1:02:43] I'm here today to inform you that since our last meeting there hasn't been any changes regarding the overflow parking on to 13 and surrounding streets.

[1:02:51] I know that she said you were going to speak to the Kia dealerships to come up with a resolution for the problem, and that we were going to discuss it again at the next council meeting, which is today.

[1:03:01] But I just wanted to make sure to let you know that there hasn't been any changes in regards to the cars parking on our streets.

[1:03:09] On a good note, I did receive several letters from the city informing us that the dealership is offering to pay for residential parking permit fees, and they are going to require their employees to park on a nearby parking live.

[1:03:21] As well as speak to them about the parking issue. I was extremely pleased when I saw the letter.

[1:03:27] It let me know that our concerns and voices were heard at the last city council meeting

[1:03:31] and actions were taking expeditiously to begin solving our problem. I am very pleased with that.

[1:03:37] And tonight I hope you guys vote yes on having residential parking permits in our neighborhoods.

[1:03:43] Thank you for your time.

[1:03:45] The next speaker is,

[1:03:52] you know, the the cards actually blank except for, it's

[1:04:03] someone

[1:04:03] to fill out a card that left the name blank. I don't know if this means you want to speak.

[1:04:08] There's some writing up here, but I can't read it. It's really not legible, no offense.

[1:04:15] But it does have item 21. Someone wishing to speak, but not put their name in address.

[1:04:21] see, you can do that if you choose.

[1:04:26] Thank you.

[1:04:27] Here's your.

[1:04:28] All right, Dr. Boggs.

[1:04:29] All right, thank you.

[1:04:30] I don't like my writing.

[1:04:32] I see.

[1:04:33] Would you like to speak now?

[1:04:38] Well, this is the time to speak on.

[1:04:48] Mayor, do you remember the city council, Dr. Riga Boggs?

[1:04:52] Yes.

[1:04:53] We do appreciate the efforts to, you know,

[1:04:56] take those, some of those cards off this.

[1:05:02] I know that when I went through this thing, it talks about having 50 cars. Someone mentioned to me the

[1:05:13] evening that what about the possibility of using part of the parking lot of the city?

[1:05:20] You know, that's in there.

[1:05:24] Pardon me?

[1:05:24] It's in there.

[1:05:26] Okay.

[1:05:27] Good idea.

[1:05:29] Well, whatever.

[1:05:30] That you have.

[1:05:31] We're doing it.

[1:05:33] The other thing I think is to, well, I'm going to let someone else because they can

[1:05:37] be talking about it, but I think we all appreciate the effort to straighten this out

[1:05:41] because it's really murder.

[1:05:44] I mean, you can't really get out.

[1:05:46] can't her visitors because you can't get even close to your house. So thank you for the efforts and

[1:05:52] we'll see the rest of the people are really ready to tell you thank you. Certainly.

[1:05:59] The next speaker is one of the giro.

[1:06:09] Good evening. My name is Bonnie here. I live on 529

[1:06:15] on 2013 street, and it is a problem with the key parking where I live, you can park two cars there, and on the other side there's a light pole, so the cars, they park on both sides on the west and the east side, and they're always blocking me in.

[1:06:42] So there's the time where I had to go to work different hours and I have an hour lunch

[1:06:47] So when I'm home

[1:06:49] They seem to park there when it's time for me to leave. I can't get out

[1:06:54] So I have real big problem. I have to call them and

[1:06:58] Tell them

[1:07:00] Talk to someone there so they can have a lot of their employees to move their vehicles and

[1:07:06] And there was another incident where I had to call the police, the Carson Sheriff's, to come and tell the Akia partners, you know, if they can move their vehicles.

[1:07:19] Which they did, but I really appreciate it if you can pass the permit or put some like red on the ends of the where there's a light pole and my address.

[1:07:33] You can't see my address when they park there and I drive a big truck, so it's hard for me to come in and it's hard for me to go out

[1:07:43] So I'd wish if you'd all please pass it. Thank you. Have a blessing. Yes, Alfred

[1:08:00] Mr. Mayor, it's Kanoa.

[1:08:02] Kanoa?

[1:08:02] Thank you.

[1:08:03] Thank you.

[1:08:05] I'm here.

[1:08:05] My name is Alfred Kanoa with Board of Equalization.

[1:08:09] I'm Chairman Jerome Horton's office.

[1:08:10] I'm here seeking a proclamation for our volunteer income tax assistance program, which will have

[1:08:15] its carcinament at CSU Dominguez Hills on February 14th.

[1:08:20] I know a lot of people in here look like they have a date that night, but hopefully you can be up early

[1:08:24] So you can go on campus and support a program that has recouped millions of dollars in tax revenue because every year in Southern California

[1:08:33] $370 million goes unclaimed and programs like the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance

[1:08:39] program works to recoup those funds by preparing tax returns for free each year cost about

[1:08:45] $261 to prepare your returns through like a professional repair

[1:08:50] but we do have a pool of experience,

[1:08:52] board of equalization and employees,

[1:08:54] as well as student volunteers who are certified

[1:08:57] and able to prepare tax returns at each of our eight

[1:09:00] vital megadays on Saturday,

[1:09:02] which will go every Saturday through March 21st,

[1:09:05] and we also have district office events

[1:09:07] at each of our four or four of our five district offices,

[1:09:10] as well as a partnership with the United Way of Ventura County.

[1:09:14] So last year, we saved over $600,000

[1:09:18] in tax preparation fees as well as raise close to $3 million in revenues that were produced for low-to-moderate income tax payers.

[1:09:27] Thank you.

[1:09:29] Okay, the next speaker is Anna Manny.

[1:09:46] I'm going to give you five minutes instead of three minutes.

[1:09:50] Yes, my name is Falea Anna Manny.

[1:09:52] I'm a resident, but also city employee.

[1:09:56] I just applied to the city clerk copy of just the items I'm going over.

[1:10:01] General comment, first off about, can we have actual staff report number on the staff report, because it doesn't show that?

[1:10:08] In regards to item number 4, I want to know why is this on the agenda? Why now? Why does this keep reappearing on the agenda?

[1:10:15] Regardless to termination of staff, I also want to know, I hope that this isn't a tactic that the city council is using to lower over our upper management to constantly warn them of terminating them.

[1:10:29] And because of them either not following your directives, whether or not those directives may

[1:10:35] earn me not benefit the city, or if it's all serving for you guys.

[1:10:40] And I'm also asking that we, please stop the revolving door of upper management organization,

[1:10:46] we're a laughing joke, our lost count of how many signatures we've had since 2012.

[1:10:51] And I'm also asking, if there is any type of legal activity, fine, dismiss them, but please

[1:10:56] not to dismiss staff because they're not following your every whim and no offense I don't

[1:11:02] agree with all of you as different decisions you make by so respect it. I don't know

[1:11:07] about twelve in regards to the public works position in job class I want to know why is it

[1:11:12] requiring a jurist not requiring but preferred the JD degree if it requires a JD degree I'm afraid

[1:11:18] that this incoming employee is going to request additional compensation special 5% pay and I know

[1:11:24] That's just going to open a door for whoever takes a position to request to be reclassified.

[1:11:30] So I want you guys to think about that.

[1:11:31] And I don't understand why is it that this is reprofered when no other position,

[1:11:37] no other classified position in the city requires it.

[1:11:41] And it justification about contract management.

[1:11:44] Those duties are already included in the jobs effects of a senior admin analyst.

[1:11:48] All of the out departments are already have senior admin analysts.

[1:11:51] If they're not taking care of the contracts,

[1:11:53] that has a deal with management,

[1:11:55] not assigning to work to the appropriate staff.

[1:11:58] Also, on the years of the position,

[1:12:01] the background, why is it required three?

[1:12:03] Lower subordinate classifications, like seeing an analyst,

[1:12:06] requires four years of experience.

[1:12:08] This one requires three,

[1:12:09] but yet is three cellular range above.

[1:12:12] And if we're going to do a sliding scale,

[1:12:13] why don't you make it six years?

[1:12:16] The job set.

[1:12:16] I wanted to know why the old job set

[1:12:18] wasn't available for public view,

[1:12:20] find it. I don't know if I have to go hunt down when it initially appeared before Council.

[1:12:25] Wasn't available online. Also to your little clerical page 4, the staff report needs to be corrected,

[1:12:30] the wrong result number, the wrong meeting date. Also item number 18, just a touch base. I know

[1:12:36] the staff just support for regarding the re-arch. I just ask that you know to prove it to go through

[1:12:40] the bargaining units and meet all of your legal obligations. Also to you at once, I know if how

[1:12:45] the city can handle classification evaluation requests from employees, it will be handled in

[1:12:50] health staff or will be outside vendor. Also will a citywide classification study be done to evaluate

[1:12:56] the workforce regardless of whether or not an employee has requested it. I am I'll skip down to item

[1:13:03] number 24. I just had a question, regards to the cost of special election. What is the difference

[1:13:08] of being used for. The PO says 450,000, but the transfer request is for $230,200. That's a

[1:13:16] difference of 80,200. I just couldn't find anywhere in the staff report what that money was for.

[1:13:21] Just a question about that. By the way, I don't have an item, uh, problem with it. Go ahead and

[1:13:24] improve it. Um, big issue I have is, I didn't 25, and we're gonna see the ordinance in second reading.

[1:13:32] I do not want you guys to approve this item. This section was implemented in section of the city to make

[1:13:38] to prevent elected officials from serving their influence onto the workforce which could

[1:13:42] possibly lead to illegal activity. There's no need to remove this section. A previous meeting

[1:13:48] stated was because the City Council can't speak the staff, you can speak the staff, but it is

[1:13:51] as you cannot get directives to anyone else besides City Manager.

[1:13:57] And by you removing this section,

[1:14:00] you're putting employees in the compromising situation by you guys being able to give

[1:14:05] directives to the workforce. And I believe that the removal of the section is going to

[1:14:10] lead us down to the same path to city at Belle. You can call it the city of West Belle.

[1:14:15] And the example of this is really bothers me, if I saw a line of a mayor pretend

[1:14:21] sitting in on a meeting, termination meeting of a part-time employee, who was terminated. And I

[1:14:27] don't believe because I saw someone from the public refer to him as a nigger and little boy.

[1:14:34] And I know he's in the middle of I pick the employees and he was singing, and I have a really bad, I have a really big problem with the mayor pull-times sitting in on the termination meeting for a part-time employee.

[1:14:46] We don't have you guys sitting on a full-time, why don't I love what you'd be sitting on a part-time?

[1:14:50] I have a really big problem. If you remove this CMC section, you're opening the door to that.

[1:14:57] Okay, we're going to do it.

[1:15:00] Answer some of those questions here.

[1:15:05] Yeah.

[1:15:09] Well,

[1:15:11] okay. Maybe first of all, she had a general comment and I don't know that there was a question in there.

[1:15:18] Like that item four is a closed session item. That's the prerogative of the elected officials to discuss any concerns that they might have.

[1:15:29] And I think that's standard and normal for us to do that.

[1:15:35] I don't know, 12, we're going to ask the city manager to address that,

[1:15:38] because he had two questions.

[1:15:39] One is Job Specs.

[1:15:42] And she also referenced the why the PhD requirement was there.

[1:15:50] If you could answer those two questions, please.

[1:15:51] No, it's important to keep this job into context.

[1:15:56] This job is to be the administrator of contracts for public work services that are performed by outside vendors.

[1:16:07] So for example, we have a contract with waste management to pick up all the rubbish and trash in the city.

[1:16:14] We have a contract with enterprise cars to provide the fleet for the city vehicles.

[1:16:21] We have a contract to sweep the streets, it's a little bit of a tongue twister.

[1:16:28] We have a contract to trim the trees, another tongue twister.

[1:16:34] And so we do all that by contract.

[1:16:36] So it's important for this person to have a background in contract administration.

[1:16:43] It doesn't have to be an attorney, but if someone has a law degree,

[1:16:48] and maybe doesn't want to practice law anymore, but they know contracts and contract administration

[1:16:52] that would be beneficial. If they have a masters, for example, a public administration, that'd be fantastic.

[1:17:00] If they have a bachelor's with experience and contract administration, that'd be okay.

[1:17:06] And if they have sub-certificates, advance certificates and contract management, that'd be great.

[1:17:12] So I think there's a variety of paths to get to that job. The important thing is to have someone

[1:17:17] with expertise and contract management, contract compliance.

[1:17:22] And our director of Human Resources is here to answer additional questions.

[1:17:26] Or give additional information.

[1:17:32] Is your microphone on, Gail?

[1:17:34] Yeah, make sure to.

[1:17:37] The green light at the base of your microphone should be on.

[1:17:41] So press words says push.

[1:17:43] Does the green light go on?

[1:17:48] I think Mr. City Manager, your IT people have to turn the volume up.

[1:17:53] on that microphone.

[1:17:57] Sound check. This one works.

[1:18:06] We have a cordless mic you can use because we don't want to waste a lot of precious time

[1:18:13] of the people in the audience, especially the young people that might have some homework to do.

[1:18:32] Gayle, we can hear you.

[1:18:34] Is that better?

[1:18:35] Okay, good.

[1:18:37] Please be concise.

[1:18:39] Very, very fine.

[1:18:40] I just wanted to add that we did work with not only administration, but we worked with the previous incumbent as well.

[1:18:48] He had performed the job for a number of years, and he helped us develop changes to the job description.

[1:18:55] So as you can see, when looking at the job description, there's not a lot of new material.

[1:19:02] It's just contract is stressed.

[1:19:05] Contract work is stressed.

[1:19:07] It's stressed. It's stressed. It's more important. We've made it more important. It was always in the job description.

[1:19:17] We've just only clarified the importance of it.

[1:19:20] It's stressed, I swear.

[1:19:23] Okay, and then the next, was regarding the election,

[1:19:27] why the discrepancy between the $150,000 and the $280,000 figures read by Ms. Many.

[1:19:35] Mr. Mayor, City Council, City Clerk's Office,

[1:19:39] Greater Staff Report, and we did ask for a purchase request

[1:19:44] and purchase order, excuse me, in the amount of $150,000

[1:19:47] for the election of vendor-mariner, Chapman.

[1:19:50] The difference in the $230,000 that we are anticipating spending

[1:19:55] is the $80,000 for the administrative costs

[1:19:58] of conducting election.

[1:19:59] Thank you.

[1:20:00] For the city clerk's office, for example, the cost that we would incur with the county registrar recorders office.

[1:20:07] The cost that are associated to polling places and poll workers and just the administration of the election.

[1:20:14] So that's the difference and $150,000 P.O. from Martin and $230,000 budget it for the special election.

[1:20:23] Okay. Thank you. That's a very clear explanation. So just so when people understand that this special

[1:20:30] election is going to cost the taxpayers $230,000 approximately. Okay. Now we're going to go to the next

[1:20:38] comment.

[1:20:42] It had to do with, I can't read my own writing here for a moment. It was on out of 25

[1:20:50] of a bully. Let's see what that is.

[1:20:59] Oh, it was a second reading I think.

[1:21:06] Hold on one second.

[1:21:07] I'll check my agenda.

[1:21:17] I think it was just a comment on this special. I don't think there was

[1:21:20] a question needed answered. Okay. The next speaker is going to be Kevin Young.

[1:21:43] Welcome back.

[1:21:44] Thank you. Good evening.

[1:21:48] I wrote a letter back in 2011 about the parking issue which never got

[1:21:53] response to. So this has been going on for over three and a half years. I don't understand

[1:21:58] why the city is first saying they don't know nothing about it when I wrote the letter three

[1:22:02] years ago with your stamp on it. So I did turn it in. So I don't know why I never got to you.

[1:22:10] I don't understand if the key of people are going to park here, why do we need the permit parking?

[1:22:16] And how do you guarantee that they won't park in the street? When it's not an employee parking lot,

[1:22:21] They continue to do that. They are a nuisance to the neighborhood. There are nuisance ordinances

[1:22:27] There are a lot of ordinances that they're breaking now

[1:22:29] But the city doesn't do anything about and I don't understand why

[1:22:33] So I think what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to write a letter and I'm going to mail a therapy news agency and newspaper

[1:22:39] In this town and see if they want to do something about it because the city doesn't seem to want to do anything about it

[1:22:46] I don't understand what the big deal is

[1:22:48] why you can't just tell them they can't park in the street like every other business can't.

[1:22:54] We just discussed this last time and still nothing.

[1:22:59] And now I see here that they're willing to pay for the cost of the thing.

[1:23:03] So what happens on a Sunday if my friends decide to come over I don't have parking passes.

[1:23:09] Do I call somebody here and are they going to give me parking passes?

[1:23:12] So, now you're encroaching on my rights that you all freely have to have a party at your house whenever you so choose to do so and not have to come to the city and say, can I have a party at my house?

[1:23:25] So, what am I supposed to do then?

[1:23:26] Not have a party?

[1:23:30] I can't watch the ballgame with my friends.

[1:23:33] Or are you going to give me 50 passes every month?

[1:23:38] Or do I have to come here and plan a party?

[1:23:43] I don't understand how this is going to solve the problem, whether they're not supposed to be parking in the street at all.

[1:23:52] Why does the perception is there that the city is giving them different treatment than any other business?

[1:23:59] And that just doesn't look right with you. I don't know why you do that.

[1:24:03] You know, you can only go so far and then you end up pissing people off and then they make noise now.

[1:24:09] If they would just stay on their side of the street nobody would care. That's fine that they stay over there

[1:24:14] But now they blocked my whole neighborhood. They blocked the whole street that I live on

[1:24:19] I can't even have a do anything there now Saturday Sundays is the worst all the neighbors are home from work

[1:24:25] As soon as we move a car, they swoop right in. They think it's their parking lot

[1:24:30] They think we're encroaching on them

[1:24:32] Why is that when I pay property tax? Why I can't park in front of my house when I come home from work just like all of you do

[1:24:40] Why don't have to park three blocks away?

[1:24:42] What does my wife have to park three blocks away?

[1:24:44] And then we bother another neighborhood.

[1:24:46] And then at 10 o'clock, I got to go find my car.

[1:24:52] If I may answer your questions, you may have some pointed points.

[1:24:58] First of all...

[1:25:00] Tonight, we have agenda item to address the issue. In 2011, that was the year, if I'm not mistaken,

[1:25:11] that if you recall, there was no parking allowed whatsoever on 2013 street from Avalon Boulevard to where the road narrows, though when the road narrows, there was parking allowed.

[1:25:25] Do you recall that? Yes. Okay. So, at the time, the key to the ship wasn't selling as many cars as they are now.

[1:25:36] And we then opened up parking. We made two 13th street, at least from the driveway to where the road narrows.

[1:25:42] We created parking available to the public on a public street.

[1:25:46] That was a very small change, but it was significant for the residents on to 13th Street.

[1:25:53] I don't recall what street you live on, fries on fries, okay?

[1:25:56] The people on to 13th, we're very happy with me that we opened up that parking when they addressed that issue to me.

[1:26:06] The other thing is that this key of leadership is getting more and more into their sales.

[1:26:16] and they're becoming more impacting.

[1:26:19] But that's not an excuse for them

[1:26:20] to park in the street and block all of us.

[1:26:22] Okay, well, they shouldn't be blocking anyone.

[1:26:25] We're hoping that this issue tonight

[1:26:27] will be resolved tonight, like the four of us promised

[1:26:31] we would do.

[1:26:32] That's why we're here tonight with this agenda item.

[1:26:35] We are going to ask that all the employees,

[1:26:40] park the city of Carson, parking lot of our city hall,

[1:26:46] on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, which were the

[1:26:50] Saturdays and Sundays of the worst days for you.

[1:26:53] The whole week is the worst.

[1:26:54] I don't know.

[1:26:56] But you just stated that Saturday was the worst.

[1:26:58] So I'm just repeating what you show.

[1:27:00] All the neighbors are home, but it's like that.

[1:27:02] We can go in front of my house right now.

[1:27:03] There's a key at the car in front of my house right now.

[1:27:05] No one's disputing that.

[1:27:06] You're right.

[1:27:07] We're trying to solve the problem.

[1:27:10] It is the public street and you can't stop people from

[1:27:13] in the public street. We have a problem here with it. Over-parking. So we're going to ask them to stop doing that.

[1:27:21] We're going to ask them to do that. That's what the agenda item is tonight to get them to stop

[1:27:25] causing a problem for you and your neighbors. If our solution doesn't work, we're going to take another step.

[1:27:32] But we have to give them a chance to correct their ways. And we believe that this is a solution.

[1:27:40] Employees are going to be able to park in our parking lot, which we have a lot of beds.

[1:27:43] What's the guarantee that they're going to do that?

[1:27:46] You say it's a public street, so if they decide to park in the street again,

[1:27:51] you're telling me there's nothing I can do about it, and there's nothing the city can do about it.

[1:27:54] So there's something you can do about it.

[1:27:57] You come to us and we should respond.

[1:27:59] That's why you elected us to serve you, to work for you.

[1:28:03] And I believe the staff also understands that, city of Carson staff, and if this solution tonight, assuming it passes,

[1:28:14] doesn't solve the problem, we're going to act further to solve the problem. That's why we're here.

[1:28:19] And I'm not trying to

[1:28:24] be, you know, non-challan about this.

[1:28:26] I take your words very seriously.

[1:28:29] I respect you and your neighbors and we need to take care of the quality of life that you deserve.

[1:28:37] And this impact your life, we're trying to stop this from bothering you and your neighbors on fries or 2013 and all the other streets in that area.

[1:28:46] So we're moving forward with what you want, I believe.

[1:28:50] I want them to stop parking.

[1:28:52] That's what I want.

[1:28:53] I mean, I'm not trying to be smart about it.

[1:28:56] There's a good park there.

[1:28:58] I mean, that's the bottom line.

[1:28:59] One of the stop impacting your neighborhood, which is the only way to do that is not to park there.

[1:29:04] They're not allowed to park.

[1:29:05] They're in this whole ye.

[1:29:07] They have no business in front of my house.

[1:29:09] That's why we want them to park in the city hall parking lot.

[1:29:14] So I'm just asking what's the good thing that they will do that.

[1:29:17] Because there's no penalty for them if they decide the park back in the street.

[1:29:22] There's no penalty.

[1:29:23] So we'll be here. There will be, believe me, if they don't cooperate, they said they're going to cooperate.

[1:29:30] We have to give them a chance to keep their word. If they don't keep their word, I'm sure you'll be back here.

[1:29:36] Your neighbors will be out here and we won't be any happier than you are with them.

[1:29:39] So, let's give them a chance to, it's been.

[1:29:43] If this doesn't work, I'm telling you that it's on the agenda tonight.

[1:29:48] Thank you. You're welcome Kevin. Thank you for being here tonight.

[1:29:50] Mr. May?

[1:29:52] Yes, Councilman.

[1:29:53] When we get to this item, I think it's important, and I hear what he's saying, because I

[1:29:59] I'm going to live.

[1:30:01] I think it's important that if this situation, the plan of action that's in place, if there are some problems, my other question when we come to this agenda has this process been started, are you waiting for council approval?

[1:30:19] It's been two weeks. Yes, we've had a meeting. I had a meeting with the general manager there.

[1:30:25] The two general managers and they've agreed as Mr. Young said to pay for the permit parking for the neighbors.

[1:30:33] And you hear him back what he said to the manager saying, can you hear him?

[1:30:37] Okay, go ahead. Okay. So they've agreed to pay for the permits for parking for the neighbors.

[1:30:43] They agreed not to unload their vehicles on the side street, and they agreed that

[1:30:50] we agreed in concept to a parking plan in which we would lease them some parking spaces here at City Hall,

[1:30:57] particularly Friday Saturday and Sunday when City Hall is closed, and they're at their peak operation.

[1:31:04] Okay, and I think what I'm hearing him say is if they don't want what would be the penalties.

[1:31:08] highest kid care going to penalize their employees. Well, they'll be permit parking out there and if they don't have a permit

[1:31:14] They don't have a victim park in the Spain. It's a ticket. Exactly. So it's up to us Jim forced the parking like we

[1:31:20] And it's up to the residents. Let me say this is very loud and clear because in front of Anderson Park

[1:31:27] They have problems when the residents cold their eyes and say oh, they're just there. When you call the sheriff and you get a couple of tickets that solves it

[1:31:35] So this is a partnership between the City of Carson and the residents.

[1:31:40] If someone's parked in from your house without a permit, not here, you can get more than one

[1:31:43] permit.

[1:31:44] That's what I'm reading this report, additional for it, permits a free.

[1:31:48] So if you need 10, 15, whatever you need, but it's important for the residents to call the

[1:31:54] sheriff department for ticketing.

[1:31:55] When it gets out of hand at Anderson Park, doing the summer months, especially is because

[1:31:59] the residents, from cash, Dan,

[1:32:03] on cash, Dan off of Wilburton, to Craig John,

[1:32:05] they close their eyes, but when they call the sheriff,

[1:32:10] consistently, they don't have any parking right there on cash.

[1:32:14] And I can speak from experience

[1:32:16] and I know what you're going through because it's a nightmare

[1:32:17] you can't park in front of your house.

[1:32:20] So if the permits are going to be in place

[1:32:22] as an excellent idea, but residents,

[1:32:24] you're going to have to implement what's in place.

[1:32:28] Councilman Mayor of Perthum Center in the hands of law.

[1:32:31] I think we're almost Mr. Mayor.

[1:32:34] And the council member, Laura Davis, Holmes said about the call the sheriff.

[1:32:39] And there's an item on the agenda that I requested to be placed.

[1:32:44] And it has something to do with the response time that the captain and I would be discussing

[1:32:50] or we have discussed in details as to how we can improve the response time

[1:32:55] of our Deputy Sheriff, under the leadership of our new captain.

[1:33:03] That is going to be addressed very seriously.

[1:33:08] I will repeat.

[1:33:09] I'm repeating myself with regards to the response time

[1:33:14] to any citizens complaining.

[1:33:16] Thank you very much.

[1:33:19] Okay, the next speaker is UK, you in Cho, Cho,

[1:33:28] and I'll get welcoming.

[1:33:30] So we have two more speaker cards, and I would like to call them up.

[1:33:35] Okay, we have Luxeca, J-E-J-O, for Furio?

[1:33:41] with friends now?

[1:33:42] Second?

[1:33:43] Reef where is though?

[1:33:44] Reef where is though?

[1:33:45] And that looks like Michaela.

[1:33:47] Michaela?

[1:33:49] Okay.

[1:33:50] That's three of you.

[1:33:51] Yes.

[1:33:52] Beautiful smiles.

[1:33:53] We appreciate you being here.

[1:33:54] Go ahead.

[1:33:56] Good evening, Mr. Mayor.

[1:33:58] We're from the Academy of Medical Arts and we support the City's Initiative to promote a healthy lifestyle.

[1:34:07] and as you know our school has an annual healthcare expo where students present different

[1:34:16] health topics and health professions and this year it'll take place at the Carson Civic Center

[1:34:23] on February 11th. I mean on 6 to 8 p.m. 830 p.m. and it's open to the public and we'll be

[1:34:34] We're hoping to see you guys there February 11th you said. In the time, please

[1:34:39] 68 30 p.m.

[1:34:42] 6 in the evening to 830 in the evening. Okay, help, sure. Okay. You had one last year didn't you? Yes. I believe I attended last year

[1:34:50] Okay, you remember seeing me there? Yes. Very good. Okay. Go ahead young lady, Anne. Okay, um, unfortunately one

[1:35:00] Or deaths in U.S. are cardiovascular diseases. And cardiovascular diseases are very preventable.

[1:35:08] It could be prevented by changing our lifestyle such as getting more exercise or eating the right things.

[1:35:16] And that's why we want to ask you guys to pass the proclamation of making February 11th the healthy lifestyle day, which is the same day as our expo.

[1:35:32] official healthy lifestyle day for the course in high school or

[1:35:37] for the entire course of the journey.

[1:35:41] So, okay healthy lifestyle day, okay Mr. City Manager, we'd like to have that on the

[1:35:48] ceremonial presentations if you let public information office know about that and I would

[1:35:53] like to maybe award these three ladies for being so brave to come up here and

[1:35:59] acknowledge that in Carson officially. So we're going to I'm going to do that as an act of the mayor.

[1:36:07] Okay.

[1:36:08] Okay.

[1:36:09] And the love and acting upon healthy lifestyle will just end on February 11.

[1:36:17] We plan to continue on this community service with more applications to healthy lifestyle,

[1:36:26] making logos and posters to give out to the local community and schools and to promote

[1:36:32] how's your lifestyle every day, not just on February 11th. February, it's a lot

[1:36:37] signal the start of living a healthy lifestyle and loving yourself. Very good. Anything else

[1:36:46] I'd like to add to that? Okay, so if you, please talk, well, actually, our

[1:36:53] public information office will contact you about the city being very supportive and

[1:36:59] acknowledging healthy lifestyle day. We could even make it healthy lifestyle year,

[1:37:04] like every year. Every day. Yes, that's right. Thank you, young ladies.

[1:37:12] Thank you, Mr.

[1:37:12] Right. So, Sylvia through the city manager, Sylvia's going to, she's standing in the back,

[1:37:17] and she's going to work with you three ladies. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.

[1:37:22] You're quite welcome.

[1:37:27] The next speaker is Ken Lichor-Nu.

[1:37:41] Good evening, I'm Mayor and city council. My name is Ken Lichor-Nu and first of all,

[1:37:47] I would like to compliment the successful construction of buildings that is happening in your city.

[1:37:54] Unfortunately, I would like to bring attention publicly of a serious problem.

[1:37:59] As you probably know, there's an ordinance called the Residential Property Report Inspection.

[1:38:04] A residential inspection report that must be done by the city building inspector prior to the transfer of title.

[1:38:12] After selling a few properties in the city of Carson and having the residential property report clearance issued,

[1:38:20] I asked Inspector the reason for interior inspections for all properties in the city of Carson and she explained that she was instructed to inspect the exterior

[1:38:33] and the interior on all the properties. So I did it started to do some research.

[1:38:41] I

[1:38:41] was shocked that the city ordinance that was approved by city council and approved

[1:38:47] by the citizens of Carson is not what the building officials should be checking as

[1:38:53] well as other numerous items.

[1:38:56] Section 5906, scope of the inspection for the residential property states briefly.

[1:39:02] Residential property reports shall be limited to the exterior areas of a subject property and the interior areas of the attached garages, laundry rooms and storage sheds.

[1:39:17] If the director has reasonable cost to believe that a main dwelling using has been illegally subdivided then an interior inspection shall be conducted.

[1:39:28] What is the first problem?

[1:39:30] The building inspectors are doing inspections on all properties

[1:39:34] in the city of Carson, Interior, which the code does not say.

[1:39:41] And also, when the ordinance was passed in 1999,

[1:39:45] there were approximately 25 items to be checked.

[1:39:49] Now there are 60 items to be checked.

[1:39:52] No approval by city council, no public hearing,

[1:39:55] and also no proof by the citizens of Carson.

[1:40:00] Planning this department decided to do this on their own.

[1:40:05] Third major problem, Section 5903, exemptions. The City of Carson is exempt from the residential property report, inspections and clearance.

[1:40:16] Why do the citizens of Carson, the banking industry, HUD properties, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, properties, all are required to do property reports and inspections, but the City of Carson does not.

[1:40:27] But the last thing I want to bring up, which I do not have enough time, I've also had meetings

[1:40:33] with the planning department building department verbally as well as a formal meeting

[1:40:38] by the instruction of the city manager.

[1:40:40] I provided written documentation to them, which is this whole booklet right here, shown

[1:40:45] all the documentations I received from City Clerk.

[1:40:52] okay we'd like to get that what you just described in writing so that those

[1:40:58] issues can be addressed they sound like I get his reaction and it's possible

[1:41:06] that employee possibly took it on themselves to add things that are not in the

[1:41:11] ordinance it sounds like that from what you're saying so if you please you said you've

[1:41:15] I'm getting to the city planning department in a formal meeting and also a building official meeting

[1:41:22] approximately three months ago in instruction by the city manager and I gave them the booklet

[1:41:27] and I sat with them for about two hours and showed them everything step by step by step by step by step

[1:41:31] by step exactly how everything was done and no nothing's happened okay if you would kind of give

[1:41:39] some of your responses to myself and my colleagues here on the days we're going to talk

[1:41:45] staff about responding to you on this issue. It looks like something needs to be responded.

[1:41:52] There was one last issue too. I'm sorry to interrupt.

[1:41:55] So when city of Carson did a lean recordation in 2005 which basically put a lean on all

[1:42:06] properties in the sort of Carson clouding the title approximately 20,000 city planning commission approved

[1:42:13] as a new business item. Okay, there was an and also City Council approve this as a new business item.

[1:42:19] Unfortunately, there was no discussion, no proof of publication at all,

[1:42:23] giving to the citizens of Carson. According to the documents, I provided that City Clerk provided to me too.

[1:42:29] You know? Okay, well, could you include that on your right up?

[1:42:32] Sure. It would be very beneficial if you did. Before you step away, I'm recognizing Councilwoman Davis Holmes.

[1:42:38] Thank you very much for bringing that to our attention because it's been an issue that

[1:42:45] we have had a number of our residents complaining about and so Mr. City Manager

[1:42:53] needs in the attention and I was one.

[1:43:00] Thank you very much, okay? You're welcome by the information.

[1:43:03] Thank you. The next speaker is Paul Randall,

[1:43:25] Mayor of City Council and the staff.

[1:43:29] I request to speak on the closed session of June 9 at number 4.

[1:43:34] I will be very brief.

[1:43:35] I did bring it to the City Council's attention over the summer that in a closed meeting

[1:43:41] with the City Manager staff.

[1:43:45] He actually said he did not need to listen to Mr. Randall,

[1:43:49] who I am the chair of the U.U.T.

[1:43:51] and did not need the U.U.T.

[1:43:53] We struggled all summer to get meetings so we could have a UUT review the budget.

[1:44:00] I do not want to do that anymore.

[1:44:03] If the city council can only hire and fire two people.

[1:44:09] It is your job to do your job and evaluate these two people.

[1:44:14] It is your job to decide if they are meeting their requirements.

[1:44:19] If they're not meeting their requirements and they're going to be removed, please, can I request

[1:44:25] that we go out and we search if we have to get somebody qualified from another city?

[1:44:33] Let's get somebody qualified from another city.

[1:44:36] I don't want to hear anymore in the daily breeze or anything.

[1:44:40] We are family.

[1:44:42] We do need to do the right thing but also as a chair of the UUT, I do think I am one

[1:44:48] some respect. I volunteer my time, I spend a lot of hours looking over stuff, and for

[1:44:56] somebody that's at back and saying they don't need to listen to me, you're right, they don't need to

[1:45:00] Listen to me. It's up to your guys' job. I brought it to your attention over the summer. I'm back here again. And this is not been easy for me this week. I do not want to take any more of my time. I have more important things to do than to do this. Thank you. Good night.

[1:45:18] The next speaker is Harry Wilson.

[1:45:34] Good evening, council members. My name is Harry Wilson. Long time resident of Carson. I like to take this opportunity to thank council person.

[1:45:46] for supporting Carson Residence in opposing the Oxy Project.

[1:45:51] I would also like to thank community organizations like Carson Coalition

[1:45:55] and Carson connected for keeping Carson residents aware of the health

[1:45:59] and safety issues regarding this project.

[1:46:03] It should also be noted that several community advocates like Robert Leslie, Diane Thomas,

[1:46:08] The tree's Carter and Barbara Post, just to name a few, were instrumental in informing Carson

[1:46:14] residents about the dangers of this ill-conceived project.

[1:46:18] In the future Carson residents are really going to have to make sure that this council

[1:46:23] makes a scorn, and acts a scorn all-drilliness because we cannot allow special interests

[1:46:30] to bring projects before this council for approval that is going to have an adverse impact

[1:46:35] on the health and safety of Carson residents.

[1:46:37] We deserve to have the same protections placed in any ordinance that is eventually approved

[1:46:44] similar to protections provided to residents in the city of Beverly Hills.

[1:46:48] Thank you.

[1:46:51] The next speaker is Mary and Vasquez.

[1:47:16] Good evening, Mary. Good evening, councilors. Good evening, staff.

[1:47:25] I feel the same way Mr. Randow fails.

[1:47:30] Okay, we are residents of Carson, you ask us for a boat,

[1:47:39] and not only that we put a job

[1:47:42] and to you guys, a life and everything, a residency for 45 years, I see so many stuff going on

[1:47:54] the city I can't stand there.

[1:48:00] I call many times the city manager, the new city manager, I never

[1:48:06] got to meet him. I ask him for appointment for Poland and the city. Now for me, thanks to Laura,

[1:48:14] I don't need nothing for nobody in here present. But I work for the Latino community and you

[1:48:25] refuse to return my calls or give an appointment to one talk to him. Many times he is in

[1:48:34] the form I went to his office and they tell me he is busy in the form. He has an appointment

[1:48:39] he is watching the computer but he refused to talk to me. Anna taxpayer for 45 years actually

[1:48:49] I'm part of the city, or not of the city. Everybody here, because we support. We are the

[1:48:56] straight or the city of Carson.

[1:49:01] We need to be here to be respect.

[1:49:06] We work for you. You work for us.

[1:49:08] You said you are here to work for us. Well, I think you better start doing your job.

[1:49:16] Okay, you know, I call you, I told you, it's about 20 people, Latino people, they need a home.

[1:49:27] I wasn't count.

[1:49:30] You might rather work to find out how many people,

[1:49:37] and we find out about 20 homeless people.

[1:49:41] We need to help the community, not do our own thing, but do a job.

[1:49:48] I don't pay for doing what I'm doing in the city.

[1:49:52] Besides, I need to talk about something else in here.

[1:49:56] Okay, I'll be here.

[1:50:00] It's time to report the proposal to the city of rail organization. I'm concerned about that.

[1:50:08] Also, item number 20, close to the press, free tick order, my shoe.

[1:50:15] Are they as a payholder of full-time seat?

[1:50:22] Are they she done for the seat of council or for the residents?

[1:50:26] Mary, your time is up, please conclude your thought. I know.

[1:50:30] Down very upset, you asked to be reelected and reelected and reelected, and what do you

[1:50:38] do for the residence of Carzon? Come on, shape up or shoot up.

[1:50:43] Okay, the entire O'Ruch going on, the city of Carzon, under your hands. If you don't know what you

[1:50:49] do, go to school and start a study.

[1:50:53] Okay, the next speaker is Robert Leslie.

[1:50:59] Tag team.

[1:51:06] So I'd talk about that young man.

[1:51:13] Yes, Cindy.

[1:51:14] Go and get a Mary.

[1:51:22] Miss Mary.

[1:51:23] I'll take you.

[1:51:24] Miss Mary.

[1:51:25] Go ahead.

[1:51:26] I think I was intended.

[1:51:28] But it should have been for items on there.

[1:51:30] Which give me a five.

[1:51:31] Okay, I'll change the file.

[1:51:32] Thank you.

[1:51:33] I appreciate you.

[1:51:33] You're welcome.

[1:51:35] Good evening.

[1:51:36] The council body as well as staff Robert Leslie Carson.

[1:51:42] You know this evening.

[1:51:43] I'd like to go ahead on in address the issue.

[1:51:45] because going back to item number 20, that really has a very strong implication as well as

[1:51:53] some of the council body address that with the concerns of the people at 213. Because when

[1:52:00] a business apply for the license, they apply for the license and according to that area that they

[1:52:08] to operate in. And when they are actually doing commercial business on the streetways, they are

[1:52:15] not in compliance to their permit or to that way they applied for. So I can understand the

[1:52:23] frustration of the residents here, it's saying, hey, it's just not another streetway. This is

[1:52:29] actually the conducting businesses of business on the streetways here and that in itself should

[1:52:37] have some type of reference to make sure that you have enforcement or these people need to

[1:52:42] as I said to you before. Let them park on up there is four or five of the exit off and

[1:52:48] allow that parking at the be there or have them or the worst good and other parking lot.

[1:52:52] Because I think Mr. Mayor you stated that they're going to be conducting business in the city

[1:52:56] parking lot? No. It might be. I'll discuss the clock so you doesn't take any of your time

[1:53:03] We're asking the employees who work at the Kia dealership to park their cars in the city parking lots on Friday Saturday and Sunday, so they don't park in the residential area at all.

[1:53:20] We're asking them to do.

[1:53:21] Not doing business hours for the city.

[1:53:26] Well, they're, they're, I think they're doing business hours when they're on the job.

[1:53:32] Okay, not done business hours for the city.

[1:53:34] That's what I'm saying.

[1:53:35] Correct.

[1:53:35] Oh, Friday Saturday Sunday.

[1:53:37] Okay then.

[1:53:38] All right then.

[1:53:38] I understand that.

[1:53:40] I understand and I feel what the residence feel right now because there hasn't been any compliance

[1:53:46] or enforcement to a dead ordinance that should give them with them operating out here as

[1:53:51] businesses on the streetways there.

[1:53:53] So the other thing is, item number 21, I jumped in, I was 21, that I was talking to.

[1:54:06] Item number 28.

[1:54:07] That's interesting.

[1:54:08] Because we're following.

[1:54:09] Item number 20 as well as the, I'm kind of concerned with the Fred, like I said,

[1:54:16] Kormatsu.

[1:54:18] Yes, how did that come to any reference?

[1:54:21] I like for anybody to be recognized, for any achievements and things that they've done.

[1:54:27] And then you're going to have give a hundred and seven to some thousand dollars for a holiday

[1:54:31] of it.

[1:54:31] I just want to know what type of public services or whatever he done for the city of Carson

[1:54:39] that we need to understand what's happening here.

[1:54:43] And item number 23, since I'm still going back now on an home schedule here, I was reading

[1:54:50] and regardless to this clean, clean energy program, it seems that it's a very interesting

[1:54:57] program that it would actually have something.

[1:55:00] Upper Reduction, and the actual usage, and we're not that we have with the city of Carson that the action programs seem

[1:55:07] like that it would be able to be beneficial to the community. So hopefully that that can be explained in detail a little more

[1:55:14] in self. Okay? Item number 24, as you said, all we spend it too much money for the election, and we're not, no, I don't think so.

[1:55:23] We have the money in the reserve, we have the money in the general funds, but at the same time we spend

[1:55:28] excessive expenditures and consultants and other things, so let's don't do that. Once again, as a

[1:55:35] citizen was here to testify, we deserve to have representatives that we know what their platforms,

[1:55:42] or what their goals, or what they're going to be stood for. 24 should be that is a necessary,

[1:55:48] especially elections should go forth and let's don't get into this

[1:55:52] calls and sort of going out these new universe to the people in the

[1:55:56] community here. Okay, and and last night by Lays here got to speak on some

[1:56:01] things for the coalition. We sent out invitation to all the candidates that was

[1:56:09] only I don't know if you got them and not the candidates running for the

[1:56:11] various office for the for the for that of the council for the

[1:56:16] for the city clerk's office to invite them to a candidate form this

[1:56:20] fun to take place February to 7th at 11 o'clock in the community center and

[1:56:23] adult activity room. We hope that those candidates will be there to the

[1:56:29] worst day I have the opportunity to articulate themselves with the position that

[1:56:33] their goals or what their whole platform is about to the to the residents. But

[1:56:39] most important here is like I got a chance to speak to someone in the city

[1:56:44] manager offices. I hope you can kind of refer me back to the city manager offices again.

[1:56:49] They said they try to find out the policies that they need to have that particular item to be broadcast.

[1:56:56] It is going to be a public interest and information source that all the public need to have to see who the candidates are.

[1:57:05] So hopefully you can refer me back to the city manager.

[1:57:09] Okay, the next speaker is Liz Fusia.

[1:57:32] Good evening, Mayor.

[1:57:34] We have a program in Council members.

[1:57:37] Luna, Davis Holmes and Alan Robles, staff.

[1:57:42] Members of the community who are here tonight.

[1:57:46] Before Councilman gives them departed for his new role as the same

[1:57:52] his last meeting, he had asked me to write a letter to outline all my concerns that I had regarding city administration and just stuff that I was concerned about.

[1:58:07] You know, the interesting thing is that every time I try and wrap up my letter, something else comes up in the city.

[1:58:15] And so I'm going to get it done and hopefully by the time the elections are over I'll

[1:58:24] have my letter so I just wanted to make you guys know that but anyways you know a lot

[1:58:32] of my concerns was about city management I think you guys remember that the budget

[1:58:38] I'll rank at file members and you know I'm not opposed to whatever decision the city council may you know take on any of the management staff or whatever

[1:58:53] But I just wanted to be just and I wanted to be appropriate and

[1:58:59] that the consideration is given to whatever it is that's not right and that needs to be corrected.

[1:59:07] My concern is that there's a lot of double standards, cronyism and nepotism in our city.

[1:59:18] And I really want that address and I will definitely have that in my letter.

[1:59:23] I also want to go on the record for the UUT that, you know, I want better interaction as we move forward and that, you know, because there's new people obviously that are staffing this, but the committee members are the same and they've really tried the best and I think I expressed that.

[1:59:45] And I would love to see more interaction, respect, and, you know, just recognition for our staff at the UUT. Thank you.

[2:00:00] Excuse me for his Marvin Clayton?

[2:00:22] Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council, Marvin Clayton. Executive director for the Apollo as caution employers. We are getting ready to have our twenty ninth annual black history production.

[2:00:40] It's going to be February, Sunday, February, the 15th at the Carson Community Center.

[2:00:50] The production is free and we're inviting the city council and the city out, the staff and

[2:01:00] citizens of Carson to come see us.

[2:01:03] Dean is a tribute to Black music and we have performers that have been training for this

[2:01:12] and I went and workshop that we teach and they are going to do a tremendous job and we want

[2:01:22] for everyone that is possible to come out and see it. I also want to thank the city council and staff

[2:01:33] especially comes the one on homes for coming to support our Dr. Martin Luther King fish fry.

[2:01:44] We started it and thank the mayor for getting the park for us when Mills Park.

[2:01:51] We started at Fried Fish at 12 o'clock.

[2:01:55] We was so out by 230.

[2:01:59] So we plan to have it again. We're going to want to try to meet with the city manager to

[2:02:09] you know in presentations or the next council meeting of this room. We did raise after

[2:02:17] its expenses $1,400 and that's going to go towards the Martin Luther King statue.

[2:02:24] So everybody that did come and support it we want to thank you. I know if you didn't make it you did

[2:02:31] Respect the word and send people out and it was a very successful fish fry and we plan to have it again

[2:02:40] But we also like where we want to come out to see our 29th annual black history production

[2:02:47] Again, it's Sunday every way 15 at three o'clock car students of Exeter

[2:02:55] Thank you.

[2:02:56] Thank you.

[2:02:57] I want to also remind you that Mayor for Tim Santorina actually ordered and made a donation

[2:03:08] to the fish fry, because you ran out of fish, but he still wanted to support the call.

[2:03:13] Well, I appreciate it.

[2:03:14] We appreciate it.

[2:03:15] Definitely appreciate it.

[2:03:16] So, we're going to get on there.

[2:03:18] I'll try to meet between now and the next councilman to get on the presentations to

[2:03:23] and present a check to the city come.

[2:03:27] Okay. Okay. The next speaker is Jennifer Vasquez.

[2:03:59] You should microphone on because we...

[2:04:01] Yes, it's on.

[2:04:01] Okay, very good.

[2:04:02] Good evening, everyone.

[2:04:03] I'd like to comment on the key of Carson Parking Problem.

[2:04:09] I'd like to say that the street is owned by the government

[2:04:12] and the car owners pay a sticker every year.

[2:04:18] Yes, you have to pay for a sticker for your car every year, so I think it's okay that the employees of Kia, Carson, should park for free with no problems in the street and I also like to know who is Fred

[2:04:38] Kia Matsu

[2:04:39] Do you know who he is?

[2:04:44] And what has he done for Carson?

[2:04:46] We're going to answer your questions at the end of your talk. Are you finished?

[2:04:51] Thank you.

[2:04:58] Okay.

[2:05:00] That agenda item will come up a little bit later.

[2:05:05] Okay. I see all in the A-blank and Advice. Okay.

[2:05:14] So that question will be answered later. The next speaker is Miller Boyer.

[2:05:27] Good evening, everybody. The first time I, after my citizenship, I immediately find for a passport,

[2:05:36] because I have to go any time we would be going to the Philippines and would be traveling

[2:05:42] to Europe, but then with the filing of this passport I encountered so many problems.

[2:05:50] We lost our application form was stolen together with a money and my original citizenship

[2:06:02] certificate of citizenship. So I have to inform the city clerk only to find out that

[2:06:09] she knows before me that it was stolen. So what I did I have to inform Bank of America

[2:06:17] because our account is compromised and so I have to write the circumstances behind the stolen

[2:06:29] and Bank of America has already given me the check, the cup of the check, which was in

[2:06:39] case in case bank by somebody. We don't know who from the city or we don't know that or

[2:06:51] from the first office, so it is under investigation. And so, mayor, I have to write to a letter

[2:06:58] which she endorsed to the city clerk, because of the papers I need for writing the U.S.I.I.S.

[2:07:08] for the replacement of my certificate.

[2:07:12] And by the way, I was already given passport by the passport agency in Pennsylvania, which

[2:07:20] is only very limited for two years, which I explained that I need a passport and going to the Philippines

[2:07:28] and traveling to other countries. And so, with this case, may I remind people here in the

[2:07:35] city of Garsun or the employees that next time there would be like this, be very careful,

[2:07:45] and always have as for acknowledgment receipt, through the end with the acknowledgment receipt,

[2:07:53] You will know how to write where the indecransit of the letter, you will know very well who had received this thing.

[2:08:06] And indecransit the package is in the package only the letter, the endorsement letter was in it.

[2:08:15] I am not the only one, but there are four of us who lost in that package, we have the certificate,

[2:08:32] okay, Mayor, thank you.

[2:08:36] You want to complete your thought? Just the last sentence here, because this is only to remind some city, not only some, but the city employees.

[2:08:46] But when you give letter, you endorse letter, be sure to have acknowledgement received through them.

[2:08:54] You will know where the letter already papers go through, thank you.

[2:09:01] Okay, the next speaker is Oscar Flores.

[2:09:07] good

[2:09:16] evening everyone. I just want to emphasize that it is a concern about item number 14.

[2:09:26] This is about Dolphin Park project number 99 and referred to Raphael's 26 protection ink.

[2:09:37] I can see in here and this item that there is a additional $53,000 on tentative orders.

[2:09:45] number five and I'm here representing my company as a subcontractor and

[2:09:51] standing here about nonpayment from that particular company that I was already

[2:10:01] Assuming that the job is being complete. And I am the one that did all the underground climbing, spending all my funds. And by all the materials, get them under my credit and stuff like that. And now I am being a sorrow-eating for suppliers that I have been paying, because I never got paid for this contractor. So I'm actually here to see what kind of actions the seat of cars and will take,

[2:10:30] So any advice is how my game proceeds to this one

[2:10:37] and I have all the receipts and contracts

[2:10:40] that we agreed and stuff like that and from hand he's always saying that you have

[2:10:45] in game pay, you have in game pay and he gave me a check for $20,000 I believe but at the end

[2:10:57] November which you know barely went through in that in the bank and he gave me another

[2:11:03] chip we know fans for another $10,000 which I still have it I haven't

[2:11:08] catch it but the total amount of the job it's going close to $70,000 so the

[2:11:15] $20,000 I got from him he's not even close to my my actual car so I want to do an

[2:11:21] us this one down.

[2:11:24] Okay, Mr. Ford, we're going to ask your city manager and his staff to answer that question.

[2:11:32] And one more thing, spoke to Rick Boachos, I guess he's an engineer manager, and he

[2:11:38] referred me to a person named of Gilberg. Okay. How do I be here? He's here. Okay.

[2:11:51] Through the city manager, we're going to, yes, Mr. Mark has forward.

[2:11:55] Our city engineer tells me that we would definitely check into this and that we do have

[2:12:01] the 10% retention that we have not paid in the contractor.

[2:12:05] And so we weren't, you know, not familiar with this, but everybody who works needs to be paid.

[2:12:11] That's not right if that's the case.

[2:12:13] Okay.

[2:12:13] I definitely want to take a look at this.

[2:12:15] Mr. Flores here with City Manager said this is more some Mr. Marquez next to you.

[2:12:21] And if the City Manager allows it Mr. Marquez will address the issue.

[2:12:31] Make sure your microphone is on please.

[2:12:37] Is it green light on at the base of the microphone?

[2:12:40] I don't understand why IT doesn't have the microphone working.

[2:12:46] Hello.

[2:12:46] There you go.

[2:12:48] Good evening, Mr. Mayor of Member of City Council.

[2:12:50] First of all, I wasn't aware that you haven't got paid, but typically the process is

[2:12:57] if you submit your invoice to your general contractor and you didn't get paid, you submit

[2:13:03] a stop-notice payment to the city. I don't know if you did that.

[2:13:09] If that is the case, then we will investigate that. For you information, we still have the

[2:13:16] attention, and a standard process, Mr. Mayor, once the notice of completion is filed,

[2:13:22] we have 31 days to notify every subcontractors and vendors if there's any payment that

[2:13:29] has in our invoice that has in get paid. If this has made a notification to the city,

[2:13:34] we will hold the retention and we'll make sure that they get paid before we reach any portion

[2:13:40] of the retention.

[2:13:47] Yes, I got that. If the rotation money that you have, you guys have left over on it,

[2:13:54] it's minimal to the amount that you hold. What happened at that case?

[2:13:59] Okay, you know, this out of an honor agenda, so we really cannot have this type of discussion tonight.

[2:14:04] It's not legal to do that. But you can work with our staff tomorrow. I would suggest you get,

[2:14:11] we open in 7 o'clock in the morning.

[2:14:12] Thank you very much. I appreciate your help.

[2:14:15] Okay, is anyone else wishing to address us, Mr. Bradley?

[2:14:23] Well, okay, but I don't think we're going to have a, sorry, Mr. Bradley, a dialogue on that I have.

[2:14:31] No, you can speak now, yes.

[2:14:34] Good morning. Good evening, staff.

[2:14:37] Good evening, staff. Council.

[2:14:42] I have a problem with things I've heard have been going on here with our city,

[2:14:50] Specifically with you, Mr. Mayor, having a problem with our city manager, I understand

[2:14:54] he's never had a negative performance review.

[2:15:00] And for you and Mr. Lito to want to fire the gentleman is just on a call for. We've had enough city managers going through this city, enough with that, enough other thing, the disrespect for our city clerk, Mr. dear, you have no city clerk experience. Why would you be running for, oh, that's right, you have, you don't have a retirement because you have 15 years that are unaccounted for.

[2:15:29] So, I am very tired of this type of acuity going on in our city and run for mayor, run for mayor.

[2:15:39] But why are you running for city?

[2:15:42] Clerk, because there's a retirement attached to that job.

[2:15:46] And this city clerk has done an excellent job, and I don't understand why you would do the things that you are doing.

[2:15:54] Now, it's time to straighten up.

[2:15:56] Let's straighten up. This makes Carson, you know, a proud place to live once again,

[2:16:02] because, oh, that's right, you don't live here. But anyway, I am tired of what the things that

[2:16:08] you are doing and I'll bring up also the fourth estate. I'll hope you're back there listening

[2:16:14] to what I'm talking about and start doing some investigating because it's time to straighten out

[2:16:20] these mess, this mess is going on in our city. I'm really tired of it. I want to be proud of my city

[2:16:25] again and I haven't been since you've been here. Now I really appreciate the job that the

[2:16:32] city council has done. You guys are all doing a great job but I am very upset but we get

[2:16:42] sold out to large oil companies because they need to make a buck at our expense but oh that's

[2:16:48] right you don't live here so it doesn't affect you. The other thing I'm going to stay it again

[2:16:54] I don't like the fact that you're tampered with my car.

[2:16:58] You're loosened up the lug nuts.

[2:17:00] Yes, for the state heat, tampered with my car.

[2:17:03] Loosen up the lug nuts on my car.

[2:17:05] I'm tired of it.

[2:17:06] Straighten your act up, Jim dear.

[2:17:09] Straighten your act up.

[2:17:11] This is a great city clerk who we've had.

[2:17:14] Great city clerk.

[2:17:16] The deserves to be a city clerk.

[2:17:19] Has experienced as being a city clerk.

[2:17:22] And you have none.

[2:17:27] Who knows, wishing to address us?

[2:17:31] Okay, just so people understand the man who just broke, he's claiming that I loosened his lug nuts on his wheels of his car with my bare hands. He's claiming that.

[2:17:44] I will rest with my bare hands. You said that.

[2:17:51] No, no, you said it already. Don't try to change the story.

[2:18:02] Okay. The next speaker is Denise Hunt.

[2:18:24] Well, good evening Mayor and members of the city council. My name is Denise Hunt. I'm the long time city employee as well as the president of Ask Me Local 809 and a member of the utility users tax citizens budget oversight committee.

[2:18:39] I'm here to speak about the performance of the City Manager in Nelson Hernandez, and

[2:18:45] point out several areas which he is following woefully short, fostering a strong relationship

[2:18:54] with ASME and the city's largest representing, sorry excuse me, the city's largest union

[2:19:01] representing over 400 full and part time employees, it's a fail.

[2:19:07] Keeping open lines of communication with ASME on city issues, especially the pending reorganization, it's been a fail.

[2:19:17] Meeting and conferring with ASME and the other bargaining units regarding the impacts of the reorganization.

[2:19:24] Only after bringing it to its attention and the attention of the Assistant City Manager on several occasions,

[2:19:32] did they actually start to hold some meetings with us, but it was way too late in the process.

[2:19:39] Presentation in approval of the complete reorganization, it's a fail.

[2:19:46] He's been doing it piecemeal, getting a few positions at a time, approved, and without going through the personnel subcommittee.

[2:19:56] which should have played an integral part.

[2:20:00] In the re-ord, just as the re-ord committee has. Providing appropriate and accurate information

[2:20:08] in the manner and format requested to the utility user's tax committee. It's a fail. He has shown

[2:20:16] lack of interest and disdain for the committee, and it's roll with respect to the budget process.

[2:20:28] He hasn't led the way with the educational campaign in support of Major A. The U.T. ballot

[2:20:35] major,

[2:20:38] timely hearing, excuse me, timely hiring of new human resources director, when

[2:20:45] he had two months notice of the interim director leaving, didn't hire anybody, failed, left

[2:20:52] they can. A hearing to appropriate, open and transparent hiring practices, it's a failure.

[2:21:02] City Manager has not followed the C's personal rules on several recent hires. City Manager

[2:21:08] has not followed protocol with respect to recruitment, testing and procedures. City Manager

[2:21:15] has made lower level hires without the input or knowledge of the Department of Directors.

[2:21:25] In Violet.

[2:21:27] Okay, your time is up. Please conclude your thought.

[2:21:37] There you go.

[2:21:39] It's my recommendation that any hires that were made since that time of us not having a excuse me,

[2:21:50] human, I'm sorry, HR person, that we go back and look at those

[2:21:55] hires and see if there were correct amount of people on the way on the list,

[2:21:59] so on and so forth. So, in closing, I just ask all of you to do your job as a

[2:22:05] boss of the City Manager, just like I have a boss and I get evaluated, I ask you

[2:22:10] to evaluate this person properly, and in my opinion, he's failed, I'll put this

[2:22:16] Thank you.

[2:22:19] Are there any other persons wishing to address us tonight on public comment

[2:22:25] that concludes

[2:22:27] public comment.

[2:22:28] We're now going to go on with our agenda.

[2:22:42] To the successor agency on page 4, we have approval of minutes for Tuesday, October 21,

[2:22:51] 2014 regular.

[2:22:53] I will move approval of the minutes is your second.

[2:22:58] Second by Councilwoman Davis Holmes actually a successor agency member of Davis Holmes

[2:23:04] There's a motion of the forward seconded please group if you have discussion. I see no one has queued up

[2:23:11] Please cast your votes agency members

[2:23:19] agency secretary. It's

[2:23:21] 40 zero unanimous for the record now. We're going to go to the minutes of our city council meeting

[2:23:39] Okay, that's fine.

[2:23:40] We're going to go to our consent calendar in that case.

[2:23:43] I will move approval of the consent calendar.

[2:23:51] There's none on the housing authority,

[2:23:53] but there is a consent calendar item on our success agency.

[2:23:57] It's items two.

[2:24:00] Actually, item three, I'm going to order that item

[2:24:03] continued as a request of staff.

[2:24:07] Item number three, you'll find it on page four.

[2:24:09] Let's do a considerable procurement advance payment to Southern California Edison Company for project number nine one nine federal number

[2:24:19] HPLU L-503 in parentheses 017 and that's one of the energy change modification at the interstate four or five freeway so that item is ordered continued without objection

[2:24:36] but we do have on the consent item number two and then on City Council you're

[2:24:44] to be consent items five through 14 I will pull item number 12 off for discussion

[2:24:52] purposes and please queue up council members if you want to pull any items Mayor

[2:24:57] Port-Cham said, really, you have the floor.

[2:25:00] Thank you very much. Mr. Mayor, I just want to put item 6 and 9, 6 and 9, okay?

[2:25:14] And no one else is queueed up.

[2:25:18] So that's the case. Then I will ask for a second to the motion to approve the balance of the consent calendar except for 6, 9 and 12. Is there a second?

[2:25:29] Second, by Mayor Portem Santorina, we now have a motion of the forward to approve the consent calendar,

[2:25:37] minus 6, 9 and 12, please cast your votes since no one is queueed up.

[2:25:48] Okay, the amount of clerk, it's 4 to 0 unanimous for the record.

[2:25:52] So, ladies and gentlemen, if you are here tonight for successor agency, I don't number two, it just passed approval of the successor agency.

[2:26:07] If you're here for consent items on the City Council agenda,

[2:26:14] item number 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13 or 14, they have just been approved by the City Council.

[2:26:32] Mr. Mayor?

[2:26:33] Yes, so councilwoman Davis Holmes.

[2:26:36] I noticed you didn't pull out them five and I see a waste of management is here, but she wanted to give her a report.

[2:26:48] I know we don't want to pull any, but she's been waiting.

[2:26:52] Two minutes.

[2:26:53] You don't have to.

[2:26:54] You're good.

[2:26:55] You're fine.

[2:26:56] Okay.

[2:26:57] All right.

[2:26:57] Sure.

[2:26:57] We'll accommodate you.

[2:27:00] This item number five is the item that I put on the agenda is a receiving file not an action item.

[2:27:05] It's through acknowledge waste management, free Valle service program for disabled constituents and I'm going to say what it is and you're going to say what it is to.

[2:27:14] Yes. The reason I want to say on the agenda is for the residents of Carson to know that if any resident of Carson that has trash pick up, if you're disabled, the trash truck staff members, employees will actually go to the location at the side of your house of your waste containers.

[2:27:36] and transport them out for you so you don't have to do it and then bring them back when they're unloaded.

[2:27:43] But that's a simple way of saying it and if you want to elaborate briefly on that you may sit your name and address for the record please.

[2:27:50] Sure. My name is Janine Hamner. I work for Waste Management. We have an office here in Carson down over on 213 Street.

[2:27:59] And the way that the program works, anybody who gets in touch with our office, just let them know that you're disabled and then one of our team will come out and meet with you so that we can talk with you about where your containers are and where they need to, you know, how we're going to go get them work with your code enforcement staff so that there's no lines that are crossed on that front.

[2:28:21] And so then we'll come to your property and remove the container and service it and bring it back for no additional charge

[2:28:29] It's something that we're really happy to do for the seniors and disabled folks

[2:28:34] in town and I appreciate you letting me make sure that people are aware of this program

[2:28:42] Since you're here, let's see if there's any questions that's recognized councilwoman Davis home first

[2:28:47] Well first of all, I want to say thank you and I wanted to pull because we are city in

[2:28:52] aging, and we do have a lot of seniors, and they need to know that the services are available

[2:28:56] for them.

[2:28:57] My other question to the staff and to you also, what are the other perks in the contract

[2:29:02] that we need to pull out and make aware of?

[2:29:05] I know we have things for the mobile home for us, but I'd like to kind of revisit that to see

[2:29:09] if there's more perks in there that we need to make our residents aware of.

[2:29:14] There are more perks if that's where we're going to use for.

[2:29:17] For instance, the bulk item pickup, you do that twice a year, and for free, or a Carson Residence.

[2:29:26] Yeah, and all residents need to do is give us a call and let us know we're happy to come out and pick up any unwanted items that residents have.

[2:29:34] We this last year at the request of council did a citywide cleanup, and if that is the continuing will of the council, we're happy to do that.

[2:29:44] You know, there are a lot of things in the contract, and maybe what I should do is go through and sort of call out all those different items that I can just prepare a memorandum for council and come and do a little presentation on all the things that are in the contracts that residents know.

[2:30:00] All the different services that they can make themselves. I think I've been asking because I know about the boat pickup, but it's always nice to remind our residents of these items are made available to them through waste management, because even though I've looked at that, I just didn't know that it didn't register by the disabled and nice to be seniors pulling their big trash can out. And that's why I wanted to hear a verbal report. So could you please summarize it for us? And then we will have you come

[2:30:29] back and I'll leave the date and do a presentation. Great. I would be happy to do that for you.

[2:30:33] Mr. San Francisco. I saw him right a note.

[2:30:40] Great. Anything else?

[2:30:43] Yes. The chair now recognizes Mayor Pro Term Centaurino. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.

[2:30:49] I just want to call your attention to this and the same filamena, the church. You know

[2:31:02] leave the parking lot, the major parking lots at Saint Filomena, there is a trash bin.

[2:31:09] I believe it's a medium size, it's a large bin, and it's an old, old, rusty trash bin.

[2:31:19] So we need to get that replaced? It's an ice ore.

[2:31:23] I believe that was placed there could be in the late 80s or early 90s.

[2:31:30] Okay. So there's a request to you. I'm into waste management to please replace that.

[2:31:37] We'd be very happy to thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.

[2:31:40] You're very welcome. Thank you.

[2:31:42] Thank you. Echoing with the people are saying a request. Thank you.

[2:31:48] Great.

[2:31:49] Okay.

[2:31:49] Thanks.

[2:31:50] Okay. Thank you very much for coming this evening.

[2:31:52] You're very welcome.

[2:31:53] Okay. I'm going to take the frog out of the chair and bring up item 21.

[2:31:58] I do have a request with that.

[2:32:00] I don't know 21 is consideration of parking issues at the Kia dealership and adopting

[2:32:05] resolution number of 15 to 904 establishing preferential permit parking zone D and regulating

[2:32:13] parking within the zone, like to have a staff report please Mr. City Manager or your staff

[2:32:20] Mr. Guard, whatever, choose. Hello. Hello.

[2:32:27] At the, the previous meeting on January 20th, the City Council considered a resolution to provide a permit parking program in the residential neighborhood that's near a Kia, as was discussed earlier by several people.

[2:32:43] After hearing testimony, the City Council continued the item to tonight's meeting and directed staff to coordinate with the Car Pro's Kia representatives to seek alternative solutions in addition to or in place of the permit parking program.

[2:33:02] City staff did meet with the key representatives and an attempt to resolve some of these issues.

[2:33:10] As a result of those discussions, the key dealership has agreed to take several actions.

[2:33:17] They agreed to pay the cost of the permit parking program if that program is in fact established by City Council.

[2:33:27] They also agreed to negotiate with the city to lease some parking spaces in the Civics

[2:33:32] Center lot, which was also discussed earlier, and they will aggressively educate their employees

[2:33:40] to encourage them to park in these offsite places other than the residential streets.

[2:33:48] So as a result of all of that, the new recommendation, which is it embellished from the one

[2:33:54] from two weeks ago, is to adopt resolution number 15,

[2:34:00] DASA-004, which is to establish the preferential

[2:34:04] permit parking program on those streets that are listed

[2:34:07] in the ordinance. Number two of the recommendation will

[2:34:10] be to authorize the city manager to formulate an agreement

[2:34:14] with the key of dealership that would require

[2:34:18] car pros, key to pay the costs for the residential

[2:34:21] apartment parking program, so that it would be free to the residents. And the third component

[2:34:29] of the recommendation is to authorize the city manager to enter into a lease agreement with

[2:34:34] Car Proske to lease up to 50 parking spaces in that number is negotiable in the city's parking lot

[2:34:41] to be used for employee parking. Between the current, between when that agreement is completed until

[2:34:51] such time that the key dealership moves to their new location on a recreation road and that concludes.

[2:35:01] Very good. Mr. Garland through the city manager.

[2:35:09] There's a question about enforcement and I wish you would elaborate on that a little bit because the employees of Kia will not be given a permit to park in this zone D, correct?

[2:35:23] Correct. And what if they do? What if they interfere with our residents, you know, quality of life by over parking?

[2:35:31] Well, what happens? The way that the permit parking program is set up in the resolution is that

[2:35:38] those streets that are included in the zone would have a two-hour parking restriction.

[2:35:44] If anybody parks more than two hours, then they're subject to a ticket.

[2:35:49] So if a Kia employee parks all day and the parking enforcement sights that car, they can get a ticket.

[2:35:56] Okay, so it's your understanding from management at the Kia dealership that they're going to instruct all their employees that if they don't park on their on site, because I know the female employees are asked, they told me this, and the female employees are asked to speak to park on site, actually on the dealership is properly.

[2:36:20] But the employees that we're talking about that are infringing now on the rights of the residents,

[2:36:27] they're going to be very clearly instructed not to park in that area, but to utilize the other parking areas that are available,

[2:36:35] that doesn't infringe on the rights of their residents.

[2:36:37] Is that correct?

[2:36:37] That is correct.

[2:36:40] I wanted that really clear, and I'm going to now recognize Mayor Portem, Santorina.

[2:36:44] Thank you very much, Mr. Stemmaier.

[2:36:45] Let me just,

[2:36:51] I heard you said correct me if I'm wrong, that there's a 2 hour, 2 hour permissible

[2:37:01] time for the clear employees to park, right? And then you said that okay well there's a citation

[2:37:12] that will be issued if they part all day. My point now in raising this part of yours of the

[2:37:20] statement now of statements we're hearing is this. I heard loud and clear Mr. Young and the others.

[2:37:29] They are asking for some specific measure or solution from the city as to what

[2:37:38] how they can really 100% enjoy the space in front of their houses.

[2:37:48] This is the two-hour permission to park on that street.

[2:37:56] It's very precious, very important to the residents.

[2:38:01] So that's, you know, you can say two hours, because that's a, you know, a thing on the, the program.

[2:38:12] I don't think that is, it leaves me sore tasted my mouth to hear you say that two hours, yes, they can park there.

[2:38:23] I don't want to deny to deprive the residents of that even two hours only.

[2:38:29] So that's one issue that I would like to bring out this time.

[2:38:35] Another is, well, I don't have to repeat all these recommendations by the city staff

[2:38:45] 1, 2, 3.

[2:38:49] But I would like to come up with some more specific measures on how to really make sure

[2:39:00] that the residents of 2013, and that's my street too, where I go home, you know, I live around that area

[2:39:09] on to Cascale.

[2:39:14] I'm not quite happy with this, maybe we can brainstorm some more on how we can really make sure,

[2:39:22] you know, that we are letting the residents of that area to 13 and freeze or prize

[2:39:31] and some of the streets there, let them enjoy the what they use to enjoy.

[2:39:37] Of course, you know, it's good enough here on item number three that the Kia's, you know,

[2:39:43] Carpro Kia, to lease up to 50 parking spaces in the city parking lot and so on and so forth.

[2:39:48] But I think we'll be able to come up with some more solutions, some specifics.

[2:39:53] So Mr. Mayor, I just want to register my, you know, put them on record.

[2:39:59] with my gun.

[2:40:00] My comments. And let's not stop. Let us not stop. Discussing this and talking about this. I'm open to more discussions with respect to this.

[2:40:18] Thank you.

[2:40:22] Before you take my motion, Mr. Mayor, of course,

[2:40:28] is considering this three, do I have the need to read this, Mr. City Attorney, my name is City Attorney, or I just say, you know, adopt city staff recommendations.

[2:40:40] You have to do it.

[2:40:43] Mr. Mayor.

[2:40:44] Before he makes his motion.

[2:40:46] Okay.

[2:40:47] Councilor Centri is still has the floor, but there's an interjection of Councilwoman Davis.

[2:40:51] I was going ahead.

[2:40:52] Councilwoman.

[2:40:54] When I go to England.

[2:40:57] I can't walk on that street all day long.

[2:40:59] Then business out of the reparation.

[2:41:01] They say there's no parking from whenever.

[2:41:05] What's in their mid-Fish place we go to?

[2:41:09] What's in their mid-Fish place?

[2:41:10] On Jefferson.

[2:41:14] Well, anyway, residents don't business hours.

[2:41:19] There is no parking unless you have a permit.

[2:41:23] There is no parking. It's still public street.

[2:41:26] But from the time that business is open until it closes,

[2:41:29] there is no parking unless you have a permit.

[2:41:33] Why did that we can do that on 2013?

[2:41:35] during the Kia's hours of operation, there is no parking even park at 7 o'clock, I mean some

[2:41:44] hour until 6 o'clock in the morning, but you have to be on. That gives the residents time

[2:41:50] to utilize their parking all day long. I go to Inglewood, I cannot even park. I have to circle around

[2:41:58] find me a parking lot of wherever.

[2:42:01] And and to support there's a specific time frame that says there is not a two hour doesn't

[2:42:06] say you can right here in the city of Carson.

[2:42:08] It doesn't say you can park there for two hours and say there is no parking unless you have

[2:42:14] a permit.

[2:42:15] What happened?

[2:42:16] If it works, it's Anderson, even though they may not enforce it, it's not a two hour window.

[2:42:23] You cannot park here unless you have a permit.

[2:42:27] That's what it says.

[2:42:29] We implemented that, the city of Carson.

[2:42:32] Ingle it, they have it.

[2:42:34] Businesses are operating, we don't park unless you're resident or whatever.

[2:42:39] Then my other concern is the word,

[2:42:43] in-terrish.

[2:42:46] The word says,

[2:42:48] encourage them.

[2:42:49] Why not direct them?

[2:42:52] Encourage me now.

[2:42:53] I can do it if I want to.

[2:42:55] I can do it if I don't have to.

[2:42:56] Why isn't that we don't say you will direct your staff to park in the community center and if you don't there would be some some kind of stipulation

[2:43:06] All right, and that's for your please add to the question of the council woman and answer to the first question about why do we have two hour parking there

[2:43:13] Accept by permit as opposed to no parking whatsoever. Then this is ours

[2:43:19] We could do it either way the city has the authority to do it to make it no parking unless you have a permit or

[2:43:25] Just explain the rationale, but the reason we have it the way it is is because that's what the residents requested in their permit

[2:43:33] So we were responding to what the residents wanted

[2:43:36] Okay, now actually that's a good answer and it's clear in concise

[2:43:42] The mayor for a tremendous of four the councilwoman is asking a question for him to include in his motion

[2:43:53] that we have once we implement whatever we're going to be doing, that we get this body

[2:43:59] a weekly report back on the progress so that we're not having to come be a member or whatever

[2:44:04] waiting two weeks until we lose a council meeting so we will know if whatever plan of action

[2:44:10] we implement, it's either working or it's not, we need to go back to this drawing board by

[2:44:14] the next meeting next two weeks because we meet the first and third. So we're made a

[2:44:20] aware of something that's not working a plan of action could be put in place but I think

[2:44:25] we need to be made kept on board up to date as much as possible. But I do this the encouraged

[2:44:32] just while it's made. The two hour point. The two hour point. Okay, now I like to come

[2:44:40] If I have permission from the mayor program because mayor program is the only one that has a floor right now, can I ask you a question?

[2:44:46] I'm the same, you know, they're all in the same line of thought there.

[2:44:53] The reason you have a two hour time limit is if they have guests or visitors come in and visit.

[2:45:00] They could get a parking permit in their window of the car. But the two hour limit gives them time to, like, for a visitor to come and visit with them for 20 minutes and leave without having to get the permit set up and all. Is that the rationale?

[2:45:14] That's the rationale, as well as maintenance people, people working on the yards, silly person, a gardener or something like that. Correct. I see who wouldn't necessarily have a permit.

[2:45:25] But we'd have business on the street.

[2:45:28] Okay, that makes sense.

[2:45:29] And then, you know, this is a living document.

[2:45:31] If it doesn't work for the residents in this manner,

[2:45:34] the residents will let us know.

[2:45:36] And we will respond immediately.

[2:45:38] And we will adjust it.

[2:45:39] So it works for the residents.

[2:45:40] Because that's what it's all about.

[2:45:42] The reason we have a city is to serve the residents.

[2:45:47] Councilwoman, any other questions?

[2:45:49] We'll go to the mayor for ten.

[2:45:50] I would like the mayor for ten.

[2:45:52] The call of the young lady that's running leak.

[2:45:54] because I want to hear it is this.

[2:45:56] I want to hear it is this.

[2:45:57] Thank you.

[2:46:01] Okay.

[2:46:02] Okay.

[2:46:03] So we're going to ask you if you have a chance to look at the proposal.

[2:46:07] And if it meets your person.

[2:46:09] I don't know, you're speaking for yourself, I understand.

[2:46:12] But it meets your satisfaction at this point.

[2:46:14] And knowing that we could improve it or change it or strengthen it if necessary.

[2:46:19] Yes.

[2:46:20] Well, we, the community, we really like how the proposal is right now.

[2:46:23] and we really like the two hour block like Mr. Garland said it gives us enough time if

[2:46:28] our family or friends want to stop by for 20 or 30 minutes they don't have to run to their

[2:46:33] car and give them a parking permit parking pass so we really do like the proposal and we don't

[2:46:41] I personally don't in the community doesn't have any problems with it right now and if we do have

[2:46:45] problems we will definitely come back and let you guys know. We appreciate that. Okay,

[2:46:51] You're the four now take it away. Oh, thank you very much. I heard you loud in clear. Okay, I mean let me just go on with this

[2:46:58] Follow the recommendations one two and three and we'll add some more. Okay

[2:47:03] But before I do this

[2:47:06] Correct me if I'm wrong here. I'm hearing something different from what Mr. Young

[2:47:11] has reported here to us

[2:47:13] you know, it's quite

[2:47:16] That's why I's zeroing in on the two hour

[2:47:22] item there,

[2:47:27] it's not acceptable to him, but anyway, my recommendation is wait for the reading,

[2:47:35] motion is wait for the reading and adopt resolution number 15, that's 004, a resolution

[2:47:41] of the city council of the city of Carson, California, establishing preferential parking

[2:47:45] zone D and regulating parking within the zone. Authorised sedimentator to formulate an agreement

[2:47:52] with the Kia dealership that would require Cal Bros Kia to pay for the initial costs of the

[2:48:00] residential permit parking program. And that is $25 per household fees for additional vehicles

[2:48:06] and guest permits would be waived. Authorised the city manager to enter into a lease agreement

[2:48:12] With car proskea to lease up to 50 parking spaces in the city's parking lot to be used for employee parking for the remainder of 2015 or until the new Kia site

[2:48:23] on recreation road is occupied.

[2:48:26] Is there a second?

[2:48:27] Wait, Mr. Mayor?

[2:48:29] Yes.

[2:48:29] And I had something under item two and three words as authorizes the manager to formulate an agreement with the Kia dealership and authorizes the same manager to enter until the agreement with car proskea.

[2:48:40] Can we add subjects to the city attorneys approval to both of them?

[2:48:45] Yes.

[2:48:45] If that's all right.

[2:48:46] Or subject to city attorneys.

[2:48:49] It will.

[2:48:50] On both.

[2:48:51] Two and three.

[2:48:53] So two and three.

[2:48:54] Something to the city attorneys.

[2:48:56] Sort of options.

[2:48:59] And also very important.

[2:49:01] Give us a progressive report of how these things are being implemented.

[2:49:05] This success or failure of this program.

[2:49:07] And number, can I hand it, will it be contrary to any of these?

[2:49:14] Do away with the two hour, it's going to be the city.

[2:49:19] She wants?

[2:49:20] I know, but I'm hearing loud and clear, Mr. Young, we respect to that.

[2:49:26] I don't know, maybe there's something that they need to work on, it's just like giving

[2:49:33] back to you, the spaces in front of those people, those residents, you know, on 2013 and

[2:49:39] on all of those streets, freeze, and some other streets.

[2:49:42] It's just like, okay, okay, you know, in order for us to do this properly and legally, you have

[2:49:47] to make the motion.

[2:49:48] The motion is made, is there a second?

[2:49:55] Second?

[2:49:56] Second?

[2:49:56] discussion in the motion. I'm sorry to ask you to get up and down, but...

[2:50:00] Please cover. Okay. One of your neighbors seem to be quite unhappy, and he was not satisfied with this proposal.

[2:50:09] Are you in communication with him? We're not necessarily.

[2:50:11] I can speak with him. Is he still here?

[2:50:15] Is he still here?

[2:50:16] Is he still here?

[2:50:17] Okay. Like I said, this can be opportunity.

[2:50:21] So we can try it out and see how it is. And then if the residents still feel that the residents feel

[2:50:28] they were rather had to our parking than if it's not going to be a problem then we can go back to

[2:50:33] to our parking. You go to one hour, you can go to, you know, we can change this area with flexible

[2:50:38] yes. So we can try out the, um, the, no parking and if it, if it doesn't work then we can go to one hour

[2:50:46] to two hours. So we're, you know, I feel that the community is flexible right now, um, in the proposal

[2:50:52] it did say two hours and a lot of the residents did agree with it. And there was some that said,

[2:50:57] well, no, it should be, you know, no parking at all. So it was kind of like half and half. So if we,

[2:51:03] we, I don't think community will mind if we did, no parking and then we can come back and change it.

[2:51:08] Okay, let's go with, thank you. Remember, let's just go to the mayor approach.

[2:51:10] But we do have signature saying that we have more than 60% of the community saying that the

[2:51:16] two-hour parking was fine. So okay. So maybe we can do it with the opposite. We can try

[2:51:22] the two hour and if it doesn't work we can come back. Thank you. That's just wait for the

[2:51:26] progress report. Thank you and I will come back to let you guys know also how it's gone.

[2:51:31] May I cordially not encourage you but okay, encourage you to please get in touch with Mr. Young

[2:51:42] because he seems to also have some following and you know some people listen to him and work with him

[2:51:50] And also I can work with you too because that's my street. I mean quite far from you because I live in Catskill

[2:51:56] But that's

[2:51:58] Yes, I was definitely getting on the street. You know the for me to go on. That's what I

[2:52:04] What my name is Janice Colbert Colbert

[2:52:09] Janice Colbert. Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, too. Okay. The motion is down on the floor. Let's go to a vote

[2:52:17] Please vote on the most of the Santa Ana second by day of the month.

[2:52:24] Let's go to a vote.

[2:52:25] I said the second time, so IT will hear me.

[2:52:30] Got it off guard.

[2:52:33] And the results of the vote are unanimous.

[2:52:35] Four to zero.

[2:52:36] It passes.

[2:52:37] For the record, that completes item number 21.

[2:52:41] Now we're going to go to.

[2:52:45] Let's see.

[2:52:46] Item number six.

[2:52:49] On our agenda.

[2:52:50] Item six.

[2:52:51] is consider a discussion of a comprehensive community safety plan for the city of Carson.

[2:52:58] This is full by Mayor for Tim Santorina, and you want to have a staff report or not necessary.

[2:53:06] Because this is referred to the City Council Public Safety subcommittee.

[2:53:11] I see that.

[2:53:12] It has recommendation to the City Council, public safety.

[2:53:18] And I will definitely be repeating myself because I have, because I'm a member of the public, I mean, safety policy, public safety.

[2:53:31] I'm going to go to you.

[2:53:32] Correct.

[2:53:33] And the reason why I would like to now, you know, briefly talk about this is because at first of all I just want to express my thanks to our captain.

[2:53:48] Marks for, yeah, chief, of a captain, he left, for giving me the undivided attention

[2:53:56] when he came to my office and he and I brainstormed this, and that is why it's on the agenda.

[2:54:03] So I preliminarily went over with him some of the things that I do have in mind with respect

[2:54:11] to this comprehensive community, the safe plan for the City of Carson.

[2:54:18] And I am going to say some of these things.

[2:54:22] And like I said, I will definitely be raising these concerns

[2:54:29] about mine again when we do our subcommittee hearing.

[2:54:33] Number one, and he was very, very positive and receptive to this.

[2:54:38] that my request is to revisit the city patrolling program by

[2:54:46] a carton share of station deputies when I what do I mean by that and I'm going

[2:54:52] I'm saying that it can be when I say revisit it can be looked at in terms of

[2:55:00] Many times or defining exactly the locations where the deputies will be patrolling and for how many

[2:55:10] hours. In other words, there's going to be definite enhancement or increase of hours in terms

[2:55:18] of patrolling programs of neighborhoods in the city of Carson. That's why I demanded that this

[2:55:27] going to be revisited. Number two, and that there has to have some significant change in terms

[2:55:36] of the deputies answering the citizens' phone calls and complaints in a more human and

[2:55:45] professional courtesy must be accorded to the citizens. The practice, so that definitely has

[2:55:53] to be revisited again, you know, and then also revisit the response time, as I said earlier,

[2:56:03] the citizens' complaints at different levels in terms of what kind of crime,

[2:56:14] alleged crime is committed, response time must be really revisited and improved because we

[2:56:25] want to make sure that the complaint of the citizens will be addressed, say, well I

[2:56:33] called like three hours ago and there was no, you know, response from our

[2:56:41] deputies. They haven't arrived in five hours and I call it like five hours ago. So things like that,

[2:56:48] there has to have an improvement in the response time of our sheriff whenever our citizens need

[2:56:55] some help or questions. Then number four, increase also and Captain really gave me an assurance

[2:57:06] that this is going to be looked at. Increase increase the community night out from once a year

[2:57:14] to why at least twice a year or more. He has some ideas on how to improve this community

[2:57:22] night out because we do it once a year and when community night out is done this year let's say

[2:57:28] before you know it is already forgotten that you know this community night out that we do on

[2:57:34] Carson Street and you know we just walked around there and I mean and then number 5 other

[2:57:43] suggestion that I have is the Carson Serif Station to collaborate with different community

[2:57:50] organizations and associations by communicating with officers and members of different organizations

[2:57:58] Let's say one organization, the Latino group association, collaborating with our neighborhood

[2:58:07] council in the north and being, you know, there will be community forums that should

[2:58:14] really take place. In other words, making it, make this happen. Our deputy sheriff will have the

[2:58:26] to meet with several organizations.

[2:58:30] They have to put this on the calendar, not only once a year,

[2:58:35] different associations, leaders of different associations.

[2:58:39] This is a very diverse city.

[2:58:43] That definitely should really pay attention to different concerns

[2:58:50] and programs of these associations, community forums,

[2:58:55] must take place and he promised me that he will definitely look into this because something

[2:59:04] that has never been done before will take place in the city and more. But I just want to save

[2:59:12] my other suggestions when we do our self-committee hearing. Thank you very much. When you

[2:59:25] Thank you.

[2:59:29] Okay.

[2:59:30] You want to move to our recommendation?

[2:59:32] So move.

[2:59:33] Second.

[2:59:35] Motion by Santorina.

[2:59:37] Second by Robles.

[2:59:39] If there's any discussion, please queue up.

[2:59:42] I see no one is queueed up.

[2:59:43] Therefore, please cast your vote on the motion on the floor.

[2:59:50] Okay.

[2:59:51] Motion passes four to zero unanimously.

[2:59:53] So I don't know if six has been approved.

[2:59:56] Now we're going to go to...

[3:00:01] Item number 15. These are demands. I move a pool of resolution number 15-008. It was the

[3:00:12] of the City Council of the City of Carson, California, ratifying claims and demands in the amount of

[3:00:18] $3,923,923,938, and $39,000. The demand check numbers $120,78,1 through $120,992. Is there a second?

[3:00:35] Second, by Council Member Robless, we now are on the motion on the floor.

[3:00:43] Please queue up if you have any discussion.

[3:00:46] I see no one is queueed up.

[3:00:47] Therefore, please cast your vote, Council Member.

[3:00:51] And the result of the vote is 40 zero unanimous for the record.

[3:00:58] Okay, that concludes item 15.

[3:01:01] Now we're going to go to item number 16.

[3:01:04] On the 16th is consideration of City Council's subcommittee assignments by Mayor Deer.

[3:01:11] I'm going to make some changes here.

[3:01:13] We have a vacancy.

[3:01:20] We have a vacancy because of Council Member Gibson going on to the assembly.

[3:01:28] We're going to fill his spots and then I've got a couple requests for changes as well.

[3:01:38] So bear with me one moment.

[3:01:40] Actually, why don't we take just only five-minute recess, five-minute recess, all three agencies.

[3:01:47] Study of a community choice aggregation, energy program for the City of Carson.

[3:01:53] You'll find this on page 13 of your agenda.

[3:01:56] Could we have a staff report, please, Mr. City Manager?

[3:02:03] Out of number 23.

[3:02:16] Let me make sure your microphone is on.

[3:02:17] Is it?

[3:02:18] It is.

[3:02:19] Good evening, Mayor and members of the Council.

[3:02:22] This item is on the agenda at the request of Councilman, Council Member, David Holmes.

[3:02:27] This is a resolution authorized in the city to participate in the feasibility study of the community choice

[3:02:33] aggregation energy program for the South Bay Region Community Choice aggregation is a mechanism

[3:02:40] by which local governments assume responsibility for providing electrical power to the customers

[3:02:45] in their jurisdiction.

[3:02:46] If implemented, the community choice aggregation program could help the community gain local control of electricity prices and energy sources create local economic benefits and accelerate the transition to cleaner power like solar and wind.

[3:03:06] to date cities of her most of each Manhattan Beach,

[3:03:11] Rdondow Beach, Santa Monica and Torrance,

[3:03:13] have adopted resolutions to participate.

[3:03:16] At this time, there is no cost for the city to participate,

[3:03:20] and the organizers will seek funding for the feasibility

[3:03:23] study from other sources.

[3:03:26] Staff is recommending waving for the reading

[3:03:29] and adopting resolution 15-023,

[3:03:33] A resolution of the City Council of the City of Carson, California, authorized in the

[3:03:38] participation in a feasibility study of the Community Choice Aggregation Energy Program

[3:03:43] for the City of Carson.

[3:03:46] We have the Organizer Joe Galliani, the Organizer of the Community Choice Aggregation Program in

[3:03:55] the South Bay.

[3:03:56] He is here and available to answer any questions that you might have.

[3:03:59] Okay you please come forward sir.

[3:04:07] If you'd like to add briefly. Good evening Mr. Mayor and Council

[3:04:11] Members staff. I'm happy to be here. Pleasure to be in Carson. You are the sixth city in our

[3:04:17] seven city strategy of this community choice aggregation kind of a wonky name for this very

[3:04:23] briefly. Last March we held this symposium and then happened to be a sponsor by the city. For

[3:04:29] Our vision on how that city could go 100% renewable powered in 10 years.

[3:04:34] We brought it a number of experts from around the country in the state to offer some alternatives

[3:04:38] of how they could do that.

[3:04:40] The most intriguing was the folks that came down from Sonoma Clean Power, one of two CCAs

[3:04:45] operating in our state.

[3:04:46] They were just about to launch their program.

[3:04:48] They launched in May of last year.

[3:04:52] Marine Clean Power, which has been an operation since 2010, last year saved their customers

[3:04:56] about $6 million because they charge lower rates.

[3:05:00] Then the investor on utility in their case, PG&E, they offer 50% renewable power as a base to all of their customers as opposed to the 22% to get from the utility.

[3:05:12] And most importantly, the local control here. This is a CCA is a law that passed in our state in 2002.

[3:05:20] The ZAB1117, it allows us to separate the buying of energy from the transmission.

[3:05:26] We will partner with Southern California Edison in this program.

[3:05:29] They will deliver the energy as they have.

[3:05:31] They'll do the transmission.

[3:05:31] They'll keep up the wires, but a representative from Carson and all the other cities will

[3:05:37] be on the nonprofit board of this operation, if we go forward within the feasibility study

[3:05:43] shows us that we should, and then each of this participating cities will make the rules

[3:05:48] for this program.

[3:05:49] and if you decide, you want to incent people for more solar, you're able to do that.

[3:05:53] If you want energy efficiency, you're able to do that.

[3:05:56] Very briefly, we've had two studies done already for free.

[3:06:00] UCLA has done a study for hermosbiche, and USC has done a study for Torrance just last

[3:06:05] month.

[3:06:07] Both of these studies show jobs, local investment, more renewable power, and a very happy control

[3:06:15] from a local standpoint, happy to answer any questions.

[3:06:18] Similarly, you should get a plan for seven cities, Carson would be number six if we approve it tonight, what's the seven city?

[3:06:25] Engelwood, our friends next door, and let me just say that's, that's our core strategy.

[3:06:29] We're actually going after all 15 cities of the South Bay, Cog.

[3:06:33] Like limita?

[3:06:34] limita, lawndale, gargina, Hawthorne, yeah, I'm a South Bay guy.

[3:06:40] I've been here 23 years, I work with the Cog.

[3:06:45] We have talked to the cog about this jacket back record supporting us. We've talked to the folks at the county who we're going to ask for the money to fund this

[3:06:53] I can say without committing them to anything that the county has endorsed and supports our effort

[3:06:58] But it's important to us to have our seven core cities from the south bay form this and be the ones that make the rules for this

[3:07:06] And why seven cities and why you are city because of the combined seven cities that we've put together in this plan

[3:07:11] exceed the power and the number of people in both of the existing programs. So with just those seven cities will be larger.

[3:07:18] When we get all 15 cities, we'll be twice maybe three times as large.

[3:07:22] And don't be surprised if the county would like to expand this program to all cities that are served by Southern California medicine.

[3:07:29] If that happens, then those cities will join a program that was founded and started here in Carson with there are other six cities.

[3:07:36] I see two of you are one of the charter members.

[3:07:38] So exactly.

[3:07:39] Okay, the next question,

[3:07:43] the idea is to create renewable energy.

[3:07:49] What about a public utility that's owned by a municipality?

[3:07:55] For instance, we have delved into this issue of renewable energy.

[3:08:00] We have solar panels up, we're looking at electric vehicles and charging stations and so forth.

[3:08:08] We also have power generators in Carson.

[3:08:12] We have the water pollution control plant generates 25 megawatts.

[3:08:17] We have the Watson Co-Generating Facility, part of the tutorial, formerly VP facility,

[3:08:26] 450 megawatts.

[3:08:28] They only use about 50 for themselves.

[3:08:30] The other 400 is available to sell back to Edison.

[3:08:33] It's enough to power probably a half a million population city.

[3:08:42] It could power the entire city of Long Beach, for instance, mm-hmm.

[3:08:46] Then in addition to that co-generating facility, we also have the

[3:08:50] Conical Phillips co-generating facility.

[3:08:54] I think they're 150, 200 megawatts, I'm not sure the exact figure there.

[3:08:59] And by coincidence, we also have a plant power plant in Carson that's built by General Electric.

[3:09:10] Now it's privately owned by the gentleman from Chicago, and he has a jet engine installed in a building powered by natural gas.

[3:09:22] It turns a turbine to generate electricity, it produces so much excess heat that that heat

[3:09:31] is used to turn another turbine steam energy to create more power they generate 50 megawatts.

[3:09:42] He is now applying for a license to double it to 100 megawatts.

[3:09:45] You take all these generated facilities together, combined with conservation and renewable energy sources,

[3:09:54] we can be energy independent. What is the medicine company going to do?

[3:10:00] When we, you know, come forward with such a, uh, a program. Well, I certainly appreciate your opinion.

[3:10:07] I'm always asking, okay, you're sure. You don't work for medicine. Well, for one thing, I think what you're talking about is some of the elements that form, I mean,

[3:10:14] municipal utility district, like we've got in Los Angeles with the DWP and Pasadena has their own in Glendale has their own.

[3:10:20] The bugaboo about that is the transmission and the wires and the lines.

[3:10:25] Give you a good example, bolder Colorado would like to get rid of their investor-owned utility that serves them, it's a company called Excel, and they've gone back and forth, they want to form a municipal utility district.

[3:10:38] What they've done, and we'll see how that works, is they have condemned all of Excel's infrastructure, all of the polls, all the wires, said that they're too old, they're ancient, and they've made a very low-ball bid for what that's worth about one-fifth of what the utility thinks it's worth.

[3:10:55] very difficult to form a municipal utility district. In a perfect world, we would try to do that in South Bay.

[3:11:00] Because as you say, there are a number of generating capabilities that we have here. I'll add one more for you.

[3:11:08] In the USC study that was done for Torrance, they identified 84 brownfield sites within the city.

[3:11:13] Those sites aren't good for much of anything except solar power generation. In Torrance, they're 84 brownfield sites have a potential for 544 megawatts of solar.

[3:11:23] That would be locally grown local investors getting the money for that for the long-term contract and that money staying in our community

[3:11:31] And that's the key to this whole program a non-profit that takes the profit that Edison sends to their shareholders and pays

[3:11:38] To their well-paid executives and puts that back into the program and puts it back in those community very good

[3:11:44] I feel the last comment is that I'm a member of the college, I actually represent the city

[3:11:49] of course, and after self-acities, Council of Governments, and we have discussed this issue

[3:11:53] so I'm quite familiar with it, and I'm very supportive of it.

[3:11:57] Thank you.

[3:11:58] Let's go to Mayor Pertem in Councilman, Centurina.

[3:12:01] Thank you very much.

[3:12:02] Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor, and I heard that you definitely heard, but you just said,

[3:12:09] But I just want to echo some of the things that I really would like to say you now.

[3:12:18] I am definitely committed to investigating and implementing

[3:12:25] Fiscally responsible projects, which improved our facilities and lower our costs.

[3:12:32] So programs such as the Energy Leader Partnership Program with Southern California Addison.

[3:12:39] And the comprehensive energy efficiency and renewable energy program currently under development

[3:12:45] with uptera energy services are examples where we lead by example.

[3:12:54] I have some questions and let me see if you.

[3:12:58] I heard part of it that some of the have been answered, but there's no harm in,

[3:13:05] I mean, to be repetitive at this time, and this city manager, I would like to really know what are our obligations under the PCability study,

[3:13:23] according to, is it no obligations at all?

[3:13:28] my understanding is that if we were to enter into this passes resolution, we would have no fiscal impact.

[3:13:40] And the organization is out looking for funds to do the feasibility study and that would not be an obligation of the city.

[3:13:48] It would be an obligation of the proponent.

[3:13:51] Okay, thank you, and probably the gentleman can answer this, and can you just repeat what will the study really show us?

[3:14:00] Yeah, the study will basically show you whether or not you can do what Marin County has done with their Marin Clean Energy program,

[3:14:07] and that is, offer every resident in your city and every business, a lower rate than Southern California Edison charges for that lower rate,

[3:14:17] give them twice the amount of renewable energy, allow you to have a representative for the city

[3:14:24] to make the rules of this. Right now that's something you don't have with that as in an

[3:14:28] anyway shape or form. It'll also allow you to partner with all yourself bay neighbors, forming,

[3:14:35] that's what the aggregation part here. And cities do this all the time for supplies where you pull

[3:14:40] together to have great buying power, the power of 15 cities buying instead of one. That's what this

[3:14:46] all about. And I encourage you to, you know, the city of Richmond up north in the Oakland

[3:14:52] area, opt it into the program that Marin Clean Energy has, and that's kind of the proof

[3:14:57] of the pudding of these two programs up north.

[3:15:00] The founding cities, like we're asking you to be, started the program, but both programs up north have had a number of other cities opt into their program after they saw how well it was working.

[3:15:10] And in the case of Richmond, if you take a look at their population, and you take a look at the mix of industrial and residential and commercial they have, it's a fair comparison with the city of Carson.

[3:15:21] And I would encourage you to talk to anyone at the city of Richmond in terms of their city manager, council members, to see how it's working for them.

[3:15:31] But we do know that that program is created 24 to 24 hundred new jobs and is funding new renewable energy up and down their area.

[3:15:51] Okay.

[3:15:51] your other energy savings projects and will add new energy saving projects, including energy

[3:15:58] efficiency and you know the county has a terrific program right now where they'll help fund

[3:16:03] new double-paying windows and insulation and all the low hanging fruit that really helps

[3:16:08] every what that we save is a what we don't have to generate. Those programs are a very big part of this.

[3:16:16] Thank you very much. Thank you sir. The chair recognizes Council Member Robles.

[3:16:21] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[3:16:23] You mentioned that UCLA did one study, USC did the other study, I noticed the mayor was

[3:16:30] very thorough in his Q&A, but probably because he knew that the USC study was part of a little

[3:16:36] bit better.

[3:16:38] Oh, you're really going to take me there, are you?

[3:16:43] So, but no, I just wanted to think that Councilwoman for bringing this to our attention.

[3:16:49] And I look forward to you working with our city to improve, thank you so much to our situation.

[3:16:56] Thank you.

[3:16:56] The chair recognizes Councilwoman Davis home.

[3:16:59] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[3:17:02] Thank you, Jelph, for coming out.

[3:17:03] John, I've been on the phone talking about this and meeting.

[3:17:06] But what caught my attention was the lowering the race, the renewal, we've had this conversation several times and we've had people come to say it's gone cost us to do an A.B.N.C.

[3:17:21] I'm always looking for the free and it's no cost in the city and the partnership.

[3:17:27] I thought that a good opportunity to do a piece of bill to start and bring all this around in cities and I just feel that the city of course,

[3:17:33] we're always on the cutting edge so we may as well be in partnership with this group.

[3:17:40] So, um, and the jobs, to go through, jobs, jobs, jobs, well, it was looking for jobs.

[3:17:47] So, uh, I was just excited and I'm, um, glad to hear that my colleagues are excited

[3:17:53] about it also.

[3:17:54] I know, the mayor has had, in some form, discussed this, but, feasibility studies means we

[3:18:00] will get all the facts.

[3:18:01] That's, that's what it's all about. You know, I can be up here and tell you how great this program is or how it works up there

[3:18:07] But this feasibility study is going to crunch the numbers. It's going to tell us is the energy out there on the open market

[3:18:12] Can we buy it and offer it at a price that's less is it reliable and and are the jobs and and other things that we talk about in terms of local investment there

[3:18:22] That's what the feasibility study is going to tell us. Okay, and I want to add one thing

[3:18:26] What we love about this program all over the state?

[3:18:30] No tax dollars used when we get the money from the county, which I am hoping to get to pay for this feasibility study

[3:18:38] And there's more money out there to grant money all of that money is reimbursed from the program the minute the program's up and running and that's what we've seen in the other two programs

[3:18:47] So it's not that hard for the county of Los Angeles to say yes to this because they would be made whole immediately upon the program running

[3:18:55] One last thing, I'm sorry, I can't stop.

[3:18:58] We had somebody analyze what the seven cities, yours included, would mean in terms of annual

[3:19:04] revenue from the start, 2.3 billion in annual revenue from the first seven cities.

[3:19:10] Councilwoman, you still have the floor by the question?

[3:19:13] One question I had, didn't you when we did have our discussion, weren't we want to hire you

[3:19:17] in uses for?

[3:19:20] I'm sorry.

[3:19:20] What we wanted the city across one of the higher end users for?

[3:19:24] Yes, and then that's why we're in the seven cities because together with torrents

[3:19:29] and Inglewood and then the smaller beach cities, you equal the power and surpass the power

[3:19:34] of both of the existing programs.

[3:19:38] Well, I would like to wait for the reason about reading and about resolution of a 15L2 through

[3:19:43] a resolution of the city council of the city of Carson, California, or the rise in the

[3:19:48] participation in a feasibility study of a community charge

[3:19:53] irrigation energy program for the city of Carson.

[3:19:57] Is there a second?

[3:19:59] Motion by.

[3:20:00] There is one second by Santa Rita. Okay, on the motion, I have a question. Yes, sir.

[3:20:09] Each city is going to appoint one person at this point? Yes.

[3:20:13] We can do that tonight. No, that's, that's once the program starts. When we anticipate that?

[3:20:19] Well, we've got to, we have to have the feasibility to study. Tell us that that's what we're going to do.

[3:20:24] And then your city would need to pass? Maybe a year or, I'm going to guess a year.

[3:20:29] And it's been longer with the other programs, but we've gone to school on them.

[3:20:33] And so a lot of what we've learned from them is going to speed things up for us.

[3:20:36] We're pushing for a year.

[3:20:38] Very good.

[3:20:40] Any further discussion?

[3:20:42] I think we're...

[3:20:44] Okay.

[3:20:44] No other further discussion.

[3:20:45] Let's vote on the motion that's on the floor.

[3:20:48] Please cast your vote.

[3:20:50] Council members.

[3:20:54] And for the record, it passes unanimously for to zero.

[3:20:58] Okay.

[3:20:58] Thank you very much.

[3:20:59] You're welcome.

[3:20:59] look forward to the study.

[3:21:05] Now we're going to go to item 16.

[3:21:10] Item 16 is consideration

[3:21:11] city council. So it can be assignments by Mayor Deer. Okay, I'm going to change assignments.

[3:21:16] People have been in their same assignment for a few years now and I'd like to make some changes.

[3:21:25] Not everybody's happy with their assignments and they're not always happy with the changes,

[3:21:31] But I think it's good for us to change it around a little bit, not a lot.

[3:21:36] We also have a vacancy in our city council, so I'm going to fill those vacancies first.

[3:21:50] Council member, okay.

[3:21:52] Two, if you look at triangle six, if you're following this, then it's down for for it.

[3:21:58] Triangle 6 and it is section 6, no I'm sure section 7, I'm sorry, under Carson for closure

[3:22:09] protection, I'm going to add Councilwoman Davis homes to that City Council subcommittee.

[3:22:21] to

[3:22:23] If you look at triangle eight

[3:22:27] Section 13 is a community community senior center

[3:22:33] I'm going to we've placed council member or Davis homes with Mayor for Tem a Lito Santorina

[3:22:41] on triangle eight

[3:22:44] Section 14, council chambers technology issues and you we've placed councilwoman Davis homes with

[3:22:51] Mayor of Portem, Ithita Santorina,

[3:22:57] on Triangle 9, item 17,

[3:23:02] subcommittee on education. I'm going to add councilwoman Davis Holmes to that.

[3:23:08] Number 17, that's education subcommittee. Because of your work with Carson High School.

[3:23:15] Also on Triangle 9, Section 19, Subcommittee on Firework Stands.

[3:23:26] I'm replacing Caleswoman Davis Holmes with Caleswoman River Robless on Triangle 10, Section 21.

[3:23:38] City Council Government, Efficiency Blue Ribbon, Subcommittee.

[3:23:42] I'm going to add Caleswoman Davis Holmes.

[3:23:46] 21, on Section 10,

[3:23:52] on Triangle 12,

[3:23:56] Section 31, Public Safety Self Committee, I'm going to add

[3:24:02] Council Member Robles,

[3:24:08] and on Triangle 13, Section 35, teen center, I'm going to add Council

[3:24:16] Woman Davis Holmes to that.

[3:24:19] so

[3:24:23] let me make my motion first. Okay, I'll make a motion to confirm the mayor's appointments

[3:24:30] is your second.

[3:24:34] Second, my council member Roberts and we're now on discussion in the motion

[3:24:37] and the chair recognizes councilwoman Davis home. Mr. Mayor, I know you've made some changes.

[3:24:43] My other request is a stalemate community center, remodeling.

[3:24:48] I think you're taking me off, but you got two men on this committee and we were going into a different way.

[3:24:58] I'd like to remain on that.

[3:24:59] Okay.

[3:25:00] I'm not into sexism, so we had two women on the committee for several years and then we had a woman and a man, now two men, I think, mixing up and gender is quite all right, but I can see the thing was that you and I were very well together and we accomplished a lot and phase one is now deemed complete.

[3:25:30] Who we don't know when face who is going to start?

[3:25:34] I would just like to keep the ball rolling in the same phase so it'll be consistency.

[3:25:39] Okay, let's just find a city manager.

[3:25:44] Phase one is pretty much complete on the customer's community center.

[3:25:48] Maybe your staff could address this.

[3:25:51] I don't know whoever you choose on your staff to address this issue.

[3:25:56] When is phase two anticipated, sir?

[3:25:58] I thought there was some years off.

[3:26:01] You're right, excuse me.

[3:26:02] Phase one is nearly done.

[3:26:05] Phase two, I can't tell you right now

[3:26:07] when we would start.

[3:26:08] You're definitely a futureer.

[3:26:10] I don't know.

[3:26:10] I would have to talk to our city engineer

[3:26:13] and Gilbert Mark has Miss Slotters to need to ask her to give her a.

[3:26:20] Okay, let me hold off and make him that change.

[3:26:23] I'll keep cowswoman Davis home on there with me.

[3:26:27] But bring this item back, the balance of the item that doesn't get approved to, or that I pulled off rather, to the council meeting two weeks from now,

[3:26:40] because I want to get a sense of when phase two is going to begin.

[3:26:42] I have this sense that it's going to be some years from now, because we've spent over a million dollars,

[3:26:50] which is about $850,000 over our projected budget.

[3:27:01] Well, you know, I mean, so the sense is that since we were planning to get $113,000 or so from Korra, which I believe we've obtained,

[3:27:14] And we were going to put in about kind of matching funds, so $226,000 is what we thought

[3:27:22] where a budget would be, but then in the committee members' wisdom, which is Councilwoman

[3:27:28] Davis Holmes and myself, we thought that the improvements that we were recommending would

[3:27:35] change the community center dramatically and it has, it has work that was a good plan.

[3:27:41] I've had numerous comments from people about now we want to come to the community setting.

[3:27:48] You know, wedding receptions are going to be there when they wouldn't want to come before.

[3:27:53] Other events are generally self-acquisites with very impressed.

[3:28:00] In the past people would say, oh, a nice community center you have.

[3:28:06] We didn't know he had such a nice community center. That was before phase one remodel. Now phase one remodel is taking place and people are giving us rave reviews

[3:28:17] It's really very impressive

[3:28:20] The shandlers are not home yet, but I think that's about the last thing to be done

[3:28:25] That's the councilwoman has something else

[3:28:28] And she hasn't shared with me yet. Go ahead and councilwoman. Well, I think we do have some more plans. The interway with the flowers has been

[3:28:36] dealt with. You know, we want to make that a statement coming in. We haven't gotten to that.

[3:28:40] It's an awesome end. During the plants, the plants, the pots and all that. That's why I want

[3:28:45] to stay on the committee. I'm not taking anything away from anyone else, but I just, and for

[3:28:55] his face, too, is concerned. I think that's something the council needs to decide because this

[3:28:59] been laying around for years and I just want to make sure because I'm a stickler for things

[3:29:10] being dressed right dress. Another Nerf Hotel is also, but it's always good to have

[3:29:17] to, you know, female and male. And I'm requesting this to help me.

[3:29:21] Okay. Okay. I'm going to change my appointment and instead of putting on

[3:29:28] in the Mayor of Fortem, Centrina tonight.

[3:29:32] I'm going to leave you in position.

[3:29:34] And then next, council meeting,

[3:29:37] if we could get a report on what needs to be done still,

[3:29:43] our budget's already been approved,

[3:29:44] so we're not looking for any more money,

[3:29:47] but maybe this staff could give an estimate

[3:29:49] of when phase two is practical to bring forward.

[3:29:55] We're talking about months, years,

[3:29:56] you know, just a ballpark idea, can't I want holes?

[3:30:00] Staffs of this, but I would like a broad back because I'm going to bring this item back. No problem. We will give you enough data on how close we are to finishing phase one. And then a concept of what phase two might look like in a possible timeline. No problem.

[3:30:15] Okay, so I'm amending my own motion to approve the mayor's appointments by altering the original appointment assignment, which I just articulated to keep

[3:30:30] Councilwoman Davis Holmes for the time being on the community center subcommittee. Now we're voting on the motion as amended

[3:30:40] Please cast a vote

[3:30:47] Okay, it passes unanimously for the zero. The chair now recognizes councilwoman Davis Holmes

[3:30:53] You're screwed up again

[3:30:55] You press your own button

[3:30:59] Okay, you break that switch on when you pay for it

[3:31:03] Okay, so that's not a queue up.

[3:31:06] All right.

[3:31:07] Item number 16 is complete.

[3:31:10] Item number 17.

[3:31:18] Actually, I'm going to take a two minute recess.

[3:31:20] Only two minutes,

[3:31:29] or you'll move from commissions, committees, and boards by Mayor

[3:31:34] Deer and City Council.

[3:31:38] If you go to

[3:31:51] the beautification committee.

[3:32:12] The first action I'd like to take is I would like to make a motion to transform the

[3:32:21] beautification committee to the beautification commission.

[3:32:26] The only difference between the commission and the committee system is commissioners are

[3:32:32] entitled to a stipend if they decide to accept a stipend, they don't have to accept

[3:32:37] stipend, stipend of $35 per meeting, and they meet once per month. So that's my motion, and is there a second?

[3:32:49] Second by Mayor for Tim Santorina.

[3:32:53] Now we're on discussion of the motion. If there's any discussion, please queue up.

[3:32:59] Hearing, seeing none, please cast your vote, Councilwoman.

[3:33:06] The motion passes unanimously.

[3:33:07] So we need a city attorney to bring back the wording for an ordinance form for the

[3:33:18] beautification committee to become a beautification committee, that's the directive of that

[3:33:22] motion. Next on the committee beautification committee, I'm going to make some new appointments.

[3:33:30] I'm going to appoint one Carlos Villanueva as a regular member, it's beautification, now it's going to be beautification commission.

[3:33:42] But you'll find it on Triangle 22 section 17, beautification committee is how it reads now.

[3:33:50] It'll be reading a commission at the next council meeting.

[3:33:53] And we have some vacancies there, the vacancy for gas power is going to be via in a waiva.

[3:34:02] One corollos via in a waiva as a regular member.

[3:34:05] And I will give this to the city clerk's office for spelling.

[3:34:11] Okay, secondly, to vacancy of Harper, I'm going to appoint Ezekle Waser.

[3:34:23] If

[3:34:26] you like, I'll do this spelling, let me actually do one Carlos spelling first.

[3:34:30] One Carlos is J-U-A-N, middle name Carlos, C-A-R-L-O-S, last name V-A-N-U-E-V-A.

[3:34:46] Again, Mr. Swazer is first name is capital E, Z-E-K-I-E-L.

[3:34:55] That's same Swazer, capital S, WA, Y, Z.

[3:35:00] E.R. He's replacing Harper as a regular member. And then we have an alternate name terms.

[3:35:10] Connie, Kence Willow.

[3:35:14] I'm sorry. Her first name is Kence Willow. Last name is Keniko.

[3:35:21] Can Swerlo, also known as Connie Kaniko, I'm moving her from alternate to a regular member.

[3:35:29] So she's already on the list, I don't need to spell her name.

[3:35:33] She's on the list, or stuff has that.

[3:35:36] Okay, then

[3:35:40] we have a situation where Jennifer Vasquez, the committee's recommending she be removed due to lack of attendance.

[3:35:49] The rule is if you miss three meetings in a row, the committee can act itself to remove the member of their own committee.

[3:35:58] Apparently they have done that already, and that usually goes to the city manager and then the city manager informs the mayor.

[3:36:07] And so, unfortunately, we have a field deputy staff on top of this and communication flows much better now.

[3:36:13] So,

[3:36:18] then we go to Barbara Gibson, she is resigned from that committee.

[3:36:25] Then we go to Technology Advancement and Innovation Commission.

[3:36:29] And I have two new appointments to that.

[3:36:32] you'll find that on triangle 28, section 22,

[3:36:39] and we have several vacancies. So I'm appointing

[3:36:46] letty Leahia, as a regular member, first name capital L, ETI, last name capital L, EA, and then

[3:36:59] philosophy in the name, and then EA. Okay, remember, and also a point in

[3:37:07] Ramell Edmund. Ramell is spelled, and to a regular member by the way, spelled R, O, M, E, L,

[3:37:15] last name Edmund, capital E, D, O, M, O, N, D. Okay, now I make a motion to approve the

[3:37:24] Mayors, appointments, second by Mayor of Perthum,

[3:37:28] Senator Rita, we're now in discussion with the motion.

[3:37:32] Please cast your vote.

[3:37:41] We're waiting for all members of the Senate Council

[3:37:43] to cast a vote.

[3:37:48] And there are four votes in favor of that.

[3:37:51] That makes it unanimous.

[3:37:53] So item number

[3:37:56] 17 is complete.

[3:38:02] We're now going to item number 18.

[3:38:05] This is a 1,000 support on proposed city reorganization.

[3:38:09] We have a staff report on this, please.

[3:38:12] This is the manager or your staff.

[3:38:14] Yes, sir, Mayor Council.

[3:38:16] I'm at the direction of the Carsten City Council.

[3:38:18] We continue our meetings with the bargaining units,

[3:38:21] concerning the city's reorganization.

[3:38:23] The last such meeting took place on January 27th with Assme.

[3:38:28] And as you recall, each collective bargaining unit was spoken to

[3:38:32] and their concerns were addressed.

[3:38:35] As a result, at the end of that conversation,

[3:38:39] we asked problems to told the bargaining units

[3:38:43] that we would go to the Reorganization Committee.

[3:38:47] We met with one half that committee,

[3:38:48] which is yourself on February 2nd, 2015,

[3:38:52] presented the seven items that were of concern

[3:38:57] by the Reorganization Committee,

[3:39:00] by the bargaining units.

[3:39:01] And we will present those items to the other half of the reorganization committee this week.

[3:39:09] Hopefully this week or early next week and have this item for completion by the next city council meeting.

[3:39:19] Very good.

[3:39:21] Okay.

[3:39:21] Thank you for the status report.

[3:39:24] No one's queueed up.

[3:39:25] So we're going to accept that as the report.

[3:39:29] And we're going to go to item number 19.

[3:39:31] Consider status report on the regional water quality control board.

[3:39:34] environmental investigation and course and declaration of the existence of a local emergency within the

[3:39:39] carousel track. I want to thank Mayor Portem, Sant Arena for this item being on the agenda

[3:39:45] as I am thanking Council Member Robas for the previous item number 18 on the re-ord.

[3:39:52] So reach that report please from our city attorney. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[3:39:57] I'm actually happy to report that the

[3:40:00] Settlement has finally been approved and released by the court. And the city obviously played a tremendous role in pulling all of that together.

[3:40:12] The settlement was being challenged as my understanding by the developer and also the developer was challenging the city's settlement with shell and shell in a PMK depot they testified that

[3:40:29] basically their consideration for settling with the city was their commitment that the use of

[3:40:39] that the real estate program would be subject to a separate fund by shell,

[3:40:46] separate an aside from the settlement that they had with the care of, oh, with any of the plaintiffs

[3:40:51] in the tort lawsuit. So it's been released and hopefully they can enter into the next phase

[3:40:58] where they start collecting their individual damages out of the salmon, the residents.

[3:41:06] Okay.

[3:41:07] Chair Rick and I was a mayor of Portem, Centeringon.

[3:41:10] Yes.

[3:41:11] Mr. Mayor, thank you very much.

[3:41:12] I just want some clarification here.

[3:41:16] If I may call your attention to page 20, page two or three, which is the following page

[3:41:24] after the, you know, the face, the yellow, on the, on the, on the, on the second paragraph.

[3:41:34] I, I try to make sure that this sentence is clearly written here. Look at a sentence number two.

[3:41:45] Sorry, one, two, three, three.

[3:41:49] Staff will assemble all public comments received by the regional quality board and the regional boards response to comments on future staff report.

[3:42:06] It will be clearer if you will put on future staff report will be prepared once it becomes available.

[3:42:15] but to leave it like that it doesn't it's not clear. So it should be it should read and the

[3:42:24] regional boards response, I'm editing, to comments on future staff report once it should read like

[3:42:33] response to comments on future staff report will be prepared. Some specific statements that

[3:42:42] say, that says the report will be prepared once it becomes available, okay?

[3:42:50] Next,

[3:42:53] and because this is very, this is time sensitive,

[3:42:58] can we possibly put the date and

[3:43:01] time that, so, date and time must be specifically stated and agreed upon, not just like

[3:43:13] future, you know, commons will be like in the foreseeable future. I'm looking at, you know,

[3:43:22] the second statement, said it. Well, may of or time the problem is that staff are not in control

[3:43:28] of when the regional water board is going to provide response letters to the comments. So you can

[3:43:34] say, as soon as the responses to comment letters are compiled and drafted by the regional water

[3:43:41] or staff will put them together with that help.

[3:43:46] I really made sure that I'm asking the questions here.

[3:43:50] I would be more specific.

[3:43:51] I studied this very thoroughly.

[3:43:53] Okay.

[3:43:54] Can you add that next time please?

[3:43:56] Yes.

[3:43:57] Okay.

[3:43:59] And then my next question is,

[3:44:02] that comments or reports

[3:44:04] to be submitted to,

[3:44:07] um,

[3:44:08] Okay, okay, okay we submitted to Bartley shell and the IRM and those comments will be submitted to Bartley

[3:44:29] There are reports and the comments that will be submitted, okay?

[3:44:35] So, and also the public will definitely be informed about this.

[3:44:45] You know, I know the comments and reports will be collected and there will be submitted.

[3:44:49] So,

[3:44:54] those reports also,

[3:44:57] these corporations,

[3:44:58] It's a party hall.

[3:45:00] We'll also get those reports, so that because that do what they will do is get all the reports and comments in order for to be ready for the hearing that is forthcoming, right?

[3:45:16] There's going to be gathering of all these evidences, documents in order for the hearing to take place.

[3:45:25] What are you, what hearing Mr. Mayor for?

[3:45:30] That there's going to be a hearing I know that will take place.

[3:45:35] There was a court hearing on Monday on this approval of the settlement agreement that

[3:45:40] already took place that I just reported on.

[3:45:42] So there will be no other, not in the near future.

[3:45:47] I understand the developer that the plaintiffs are still pursuing their claims against

[3:45:52] the developer, which is Barsley, so at some point there will be hearings and public trial

[3:45:58] dates set for that if they don't settle with cell. I mean, if they don't settle with

[3:46:03] the resident plaintiffs, but there are no imminent pending hearings that I'm aware of

[3:46:10] other than what was held on Monday.

[3:46:14] And as far as the documents are concerned, again, if

[3:46:19] understand you correctly. You just want to make sure that the public receives the

[3:46:24] the comment letters and the responses to the comment letters and as staff have already indicated,

[3:46:30] that's once everything's compiled and the regional waterboard actually puts its responses together,

[3:46:36] we'll make that. We'll attach all of those to staff report and perhaps we need to depending on

[3:46:42] how many comment letters and responses are there. You may have to just make it available for inspection.

[3:46:47] and you may not be able to attach it to the entire agenda.

[3:46:51] But I'm sure Shell and Barkley and all of them will have those.

[3:46:55] I mean, I don't, you want us to provide it to the developer in Shell as well.

[3:47:00] I mean, they'll have it because the regional water board will send it to them since they are on the hook for the cleanup of the site.

[3:47:07] So they will have it.

[3:47:08] The regional water board will make sure they receive it.

[3:47:10] Yeah, because when I went through this and I said, okay, this is going to take place.

[3:47:15] will happen and then what on the website the complete report will be there on the website

[3:47:22] calling the attention of the public, right? Absolutely. You can upload the documents on the website

[3:47:27] right Mr. Hicks. Yeah we can. And so we will do that. We will make sure that that gets done.

[3:47:33] Thank you Mr. Mayor. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you.

[3:47:39] All right. This is a status report soil order this item.

[3:47:47] You see the file since we've had consideration

[3:47:49] and discussion already. Again, I want to thank the mayor for keeping on top of this

[3:47:55] and very, very important issue in the city of Carson. In the effects of our entire city,

[3:47:59] not just the care of so track, but the care of so track is impacted the most certainly.

[3:48:05] Okay, let's go to item number 20. Item 20, cost to add Fred T. Korematsu Day as a paid holiday

[3:48:14] for full-time city and poor ease.

[3:48:17] Could we have staff report on this,

[3:48:23] please?

[3:48:24] Yes, sir.

[3:48:24] At the last meeting,

[3:48:27] you counsel directed us to take a look

[3:48:31] at what it would cost to possibly in another holiday.

[3:48:38] So we've taken a preliminary look at that.

[3:48:40] And we estimate that based on our costs,

[3:48:44] And your cost would be about $170,000 annually to expand the number of holidays for sitting

[3:48:51] employees to include Fred Kori Matsu as a paid holiday for full-time employees.

[3:49:03] Okay, let's go to Mayor Portem, Sandraina Pursu.

[3:49:06] Well that's all.

[3:49:07] Council Member Will was next.

[3:49:09] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[3:49:12] During public comment, a few people asked who was Fred Kormutsu and, you know, I

[3:49:24] trying to say what I'm going to say is respectfully as I can, but I was particularly disappointed

[3:49:35] And that the people who asked, who Fred Kuro Matsu is, were minorities, Latino, African-American, Asians,

[3:49:53] we're lucky to be

[3:49:59] one of them.

[3:50:00] Stever cities in the entire world, in the great city of Carson, living in the greatest country on the face of the earth.

[3:50:09] And I am an officer of the court of the best judicial system in the world, but the history of the United States in our judicial system is not unblemished.

[3:50:24] There are two cases that historians always identify as the most egregious mistakes in the history of jurisprudence in the United States.

[3:50:41] Dread Scott decision, the mid-1800s, and Kurmatsu versus United States, 1944,

[3:50:55] who is Fred Kurmatsu.

[3:50:59] Fred was an American of Japanese ancestry who was arrested, detained, and forced to go to a

[3:51:15] relocation camp. During one of the darkest parts in America's history,

[3:51:29] Kurumatsu versus the United States of America is one of those seminal civil rights cases

[3:51:37] that Martin Luther King, and I'm assuming that people who've never heard of Frank

[3:51:42] Kurumatsu have heard of, who he referred to as a civil rights leader for standing up for justice.

[3:51:49] These are Chavez. We've heard to Fred Kurumatsu as a civil rights pioneer. We're standing

[3:51:57] up for the injustices that minorities and particularly Japanese Americans were being subjected

[3:52:06] to as they were being deprived of their civil rights being deprived of their property and

[3:52:13] central relocation camps.

[3:52:18] And most of that occurred here in the state of California.

[3:52:24] So the mere fact that people are asking who Fred Kormatsu is is the exact reason why we have

[3:52:34] holidays to commemorate Martin Luther King day.

[3:52:40] So people never forget who Martin Luther King is.

[3:52:44] We have holidays to to celebrate the life of Caesar Chavez,

[3:52:49] so people don't forget the struggles that he went through

[3:52:54] and what he fought for.

[3:52:56] And that's what Fred Kurman today would do.

[3:53:00] would remind all of us what he fought for, and the brave action that he took, and standing

[3:53:15] up for what he believed was right, and standing up against an injustice that he saw.

[3:53:29] When Martin Luther King Day was first introduced,

[3:53:35] not every state in the Union followed it,

[3:53:39] not everyone was in favor of it,

[3:53:41] but today it's a federal holiday and every state

[3:53:46] in the United States honors Martin Luther King Day.

[3:53:52] Caesar Chavez Day is recognized in a handful of states

[3:53:57] and is an official holiday in the state of California but it took a number of years after his

[3:54:05] passing for it to eventually become a state holiday and I'm very proud of the fact that

[3:54:12] in my role as a member of the Board Directors of the Water replenishment district, our agency

[3:54:20] was the very first public agency to recognize Caesar Chavez Day. Almost 10 years before

[3:54:29] the state ever did and years before any other public agencies did. Here the city of Carson

[3:54:39] and recognition of its standing as the most diverse city in the United States has the opportunity

[3:54:53] to take a leadership position and be in the very first to recognize.

[3:55:00] Fred Quorumat today, not only as a holiday, but as a paid holiday, and hopefully be the beginning of an effort to eventually bring two recognition to the efforts of Fred Quorumat for what he did, because if we don't remember our history for not mindful of

[3:55:29] the civil rights struggles that came before us were more likely to repeat, make the same mistakes.

[3:55:41] You know, it has been said earlier today and at our last city council meeting that democracy cost money.

[3:55:52] And here in Carson to have an election it cost a quarter of a million dollars, the democracy

[3:56:00] cost money.

[3:56:03] And it's also been said that freedom is not free.

[3:56:09] And as a small price to pay, in my opinion, $170,000 annually to ensure that we don't forget

[3:56:21] the

[3:56:25] injustices that were suffered and we don't forget the heroes of a civil rights movement

[3:56:33] it's a small price to pay. So with that I would move that we authorized the honoring

[3:56:43] of Fred Kuromatsu Day and the great city of Carson on January 30th and appropriate

[3:56:52] 170,000 annually and funds to make it a paid holiday and I would further direct Mr. Mayor that we asked a staff to issue a press release and

[3:57:09] Tudy and if you will our own horn that Carson is the very first city as far as I can tell to do to take this action and

[3:57:17] and maybe, just maybe, some other public agencies will also follow.

[3:57:26] Second.

[3:57:27] Okay, a motion by Robert II by Santarina, the chair of our recognizes, very important

[3:57:32] Santarina.

[3:57:33] I just want to remind the honorable council member, Robles, to kind of repeat, I'm trying

[3:57:39] to refresh my memory as to what you said about Fred Kormatsu, when you were a law student,

[3:57:46] And correct me way and wrong, but I believe he visited your class class or campus and that's why you had a first-hand experience with this band.

[3:58:03] Thank you very much and because of all civil rights movement and all of that.

[3:58:08] I just wanted to refresh your memory.

[3:58:10] You know, I was remiss and not the first of all giving credit to Mayor Protem for bringing this item to the city council previously that we honor him and I want to thank him for letting me be the one to make the motion that we do it properly as a paid holiday.

[3:58:37] I was very fortunate and lucky to meet very

[3:58:42] Kurumatsu as a law school student.

[3:58:45] He came to my classroom, and he spoke to us, and he shared with us

[3:58:53] his story of how he was walking to his girlfriend's house in the Bay area.

[3:59:03] And he was arrested for violating presidential executive order demanding that all individuals of Japanese ancestry report to relocation camps.

[3:59:19] He did it because he didn't think that was just, he didn't think that was right.

[3:59:26] And the rest of this says history, unfortunately,

[3:59:35] the Supreme Court got it wrong in his case, and they moved against him, but I think in recognizing, hopefully, my colleague go along, taking this action, or do our small part to correct that injustice today.

[3:59:56] I can count some of you in the fleet too. Oh, I'm here for your turn. Okay.

[4:00:00] Question, this is a motion for full time employees only. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. And any other discussion on the motion, that's on the floor. Motion by roll, the second by Santorina. No, the discussion, please cast your vote.

[4:00:20] Passes four to zero unanimous for the record. Okay. I'm going to go back to your welcome. Adam 16. I had forgotten one appointment.

[4:00:30] Item 16 is the appointment by Mayor Deer of Commission's Committees and Bords.

[4:00:40] If you look at Triangle 21, Section 16, Veterans Affairs Commission, there is a vacancy

[4:00:49] to be filled there and the attendee notice has been put out properly by the City Clerk's

[4:00:54] office.

[4:00:55] Therefore, I am going to promote veterans can relate to this, a promotion of Roger Branch

[4:01:03] junior from alternate member

[4:01:08] to vacancy and this is a suggestion of the mayor of

[4:01:11] Protem, to fill that vacancy with a Roger Branch. And so that's my appointment, Roger

[4:01:18] Branch is already listed on there so I don't need to slow the name. And then the 10 day

[4:01:25] notices will go out on the next, on the alternate number one. And I wanted to go out

[4:01:31] alternate number two, because I intend to promote William Davis, from alternate number

[4:01:41] rank number two, to rank number one, and

[4:01:47] purchase haulings from alternate number three,

[4:01:53] to alternate number two. So those will be attending notices on those, please.

[4:01:59] Now I'm making motion, yes, sir.

[4:02:00] Just clarification on the motion. So we will notice of agency in the alternate number three.

[4:02:06] It's not necessary to notice the vacancy for the alternate one and two position.

[4:02:14] Okay, that's fine. So again, so people understand that Roger Branch is being moved to a regular member position.

[4:02:24] and alternate number two, Bill Davis, we'll move up to number one and alternate number

[4:02:30] three, five is the hallings, we'll move in to alternate number two, creating a vacancy

[4:02:36] and alternate number three. Okay, now I make a motion to approve the Mayor's appointment is

[4:02:44] there a second. Second by Mayor, Protemcent Arena, now we're going to go to a vote because

[4:02:50] there's no one queuing up, please cast your vote.

[4:03:01] Thank you. Okay,

[4:03:02] a unanimous panel clerk of 404 for the record. Okay. Now we're going to go to

[4:03:08] that concludes item 16 again. Item number

[4:03:16] 21 has been taken care of.

[4:03:18] 22 is been taken care of. 23 has been taken care of. And now we're going to

[4:03:30] Federation of Resolution number 15-024.

[4:03:38] Noticing and ratifying the calling of the conduct of a special municipal election to

[4:03:43] be held on Tuesday, June 2, 2015.

[4:03:47] Resolution number 15-025 requesting the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles

[4:03:54] to render specified services to the city relating to the conduct of the special municipal

[4:03:59] election to be held on the same date. Resolution over 15 does 0.26 adopting guidelines for

[4:04:07] candidates, statements, and approving a purchase order for Martin and Chapman company,

[4:04:11] election consultants. Okay, that is the item on our agenda. And I'd like to have a staff report.

[4:04:20] Please, maybe city clerk's office or city manager or city attorney.

[4:04:32] Mr. Marin City Council, the City Clerk's Office of Prepared the Resolution, noticing and ratifying the action of the City Council on January 26.

[4:04:42] 2015 calls for the contact of a special municipal election to one elect the member of the City Council for an unexpired term.

[4:04:50] and in March 2017 and also resolution number 15-25 requesting the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles.

[4:05:00] To list to render specified services to the city. And lastly, the resolution, number 15, 026, adopting regulations for the candidate's statements.

[4:05:13] Mr. Mayor, the cost, we would request a purchase order for Martin and Chapman in the amount of $150,000,

[4:05:28] and also authorized a transfer of $230,000.

[4:05:32] excuse me $230,000 for the unassigned general fund balance as it added to the appropriation of fiscal year 2014

[4:05:42] 15 to cover the cost of the special election.

[4:05:49] Thank you.

[4:05:50] Since I made the motion as the last council meeting, I'll make the motion again tonight.

[4:05:55] I move we wave for the reading and adopt resolution number 15-024.

[4:06:01] A resolution of the City Council of the City of Carson, California noticing and ratifying the calling of the conduct of the special municipal election to be held on Tuesday June 2, 2015, for the election of a certain officer as required by the provisions of the laws of the State of California relating to general law cities.

[4:06:23] And wait for the reading and a dock resolution of 15-1025, a resolution of the City Council

[4:06:30] in the City of Carson, California requesting the board of supervisors of the County of

[4:06:35] Los Angeles to render specified services to the city relating to the conduct of a special

[4:06:40] minister election to be held on Tuesday, June 2, 2015.

[4:06:45] And wait for the reading and a dock resolution of 15-1026.

[4:06:49] It resolution of the City Council of the City of Carson, California.

[4:06:54] It resolution of the City Council, but you have a typo in here.

[4:07:01] Okay, well, the typo is a repeat of a partial sentence.

[4:07:08] I'm not going to re-read it.

[4:07:11] But it says I'll just say that

[4:07:18] resolution of the City Council of City of California,

[4:07:21] Carson California adopting regulations for candidates for the effective office pertaining to candidate statements submitted to the voters at an election to the held on Tuesday during 2nd 2015 and approve a purchase order for Martin and Chapman company elections consultant in the approximate amount of $150,000 in accordance with elections code section one three zero one

[4:07:48] An authorized transfer of $230,200, exactly from the unassigned general fund balance to

[4:07:58] account number 011-3080-003-0018 as an added appropriation for fiscal year 2014-2015 to

[4:08:13] a couple of the costs of this special election. Is there a second?

[4:08:19] Second by council on the

[4:08:20] Davis homes. We now have a motion on the floor. Please, please queue up if you have discussion

[4:08:25] of the motion. No one is queueed up. Please cast your vote. Council members.

[4:08:37] And the vote is

[4:08:38] four and zero unanimous for the record. Motion passes. That concludes item number 24.

[4:08:50] Now we're going to

[4:08:51] I don't know number 25, this is an ordnance second reading and this is the ordnance of the city council of the city of Carson, California

[4:09:00] Repeating Carson Municipal Cole article two chapter one section two one one zero related to city of administrative orders and directors to staff

[4:09:15] And I will move approval of the second reading is our second

[4:09:19] Second by Mayor for Tom Santorino. We're now in discussion on the motion

[4:09:23] Councilwoman Davis Holmes, have you cut up on this?

[4:09:25] Yes. Okay, you recognize by the chair.

[4:09:28] Madam City Attorney, what do we say?

[4:09:30] I had some concern about us not having any

[4:09:34] rule guidelines. I know we're removing this from our ordinance.

[4:09:37] What did you tell me?

[4:09:40] At the last council meeting, when you raised some concerns about this,

[4:09:44] there was a discussion by the City Council that

[4:09:47] directed the City Manager to develop some SMPs and rules

[4:09:51] on how his staff should communicate with the City Council and what actions if

[4:10:00] The city council communicates to them with the report to the city manager, basically to come up with some procedures, and even ask for some examples for the city manager to provide some examples to what we'd be acceptable, council directives, council communications and what we'd be not.

[4:10:17] Earlier, you asked me about it, and Mr. Hernandez, and I believe he hasn't developed those as some keys yet.

[4:10:23] Okay, so what I'm saying right now by removing this we don't have any guidelines, this yes, no

[4:10:31] We're governed by somebody

[4:10:33] Sting law is still in effect and that isn't changed by any actually and and that's what I

[4:10:40] Clare fight last time at the council meeting and in addition to that there isn't I pause

[4:10:45] I'm not entirely sure what your MOU say about all these things, but there might be some rules and regulations in all of those

[4:10:53] to, but I'm not entirely sure about that.

[4:10:57] So at some point in time, because you share with us what state law

[4:11:01] says, should you be to share with me?

[4:11:05] I actually have, so government code sections, 3, 4, 8, 5, 1, 3, 3, 4, 8, 5, 9 have been

[4:11:15] interrupted by numerous courts to basically authorize a city manager to administer the day-to-day

[4:11:20] affairs of the city to deal with hiring and firing employees except for the city attorney and to perform

[4:11:26] such other functions as the council chooses to authorize by ordinance. So that has been interpreted

[4:11:33] to mean that the city manager provides directives to staff. The council sets the policies,

[4:11:40] communicates those policies to the city manager and the city manager conducts the day-to-date business

[4:11:45] of the city.

[4:11:50] Okay, no one else is queue up. Please cast your vote on the second reading.

[4:12:02] It passes unanimously for the zero. We're now going to go to

[4:12:09] a couple of consent items.

[4:12:17] Members right here,

[4:12:22] consent item number nine.

[4:12:27] You'll find number nine located on the page seven.

[4:12:31] This is acknowledged as the public's off-hour access to outdoor park restrooms.

[4:12:36] uh... this was uh... receive a file no action to be taken it was put on by myself

[4:12:43] and

[4:12:44] uh...

[4:12:45] assisted by community services

[4:12:49] so

[4:12:49] this is uh... issue that was brought up to me okay

[4:12:53] brought up to me and uh... by constituents and i

[4:12:56] i think this is a very good clarification let's go to

[4:12:59] uh... first with council member and mayor program center you thank you for

[4:13:06] to say that, yes, thank you for putting this on the agenda, and you use the word that

[4:13:12] I wanted to use, which is for clarification,

[4:13:16] and clarification in terms of access to outdoor

[4:13:22] park restroom.

[4:13:24] And at this time, I just want to relate to you that there was an incident prior to this,

[4:13:34] There was an incident that happened in the Dolphin Park, and we'd respect to using the restroom

[4:13:46] a discussion and happened quite a heated discussion between some citizens who are walking around

[4:13:56] exercising and the maintenance staff, but had it not been for the early intervention or help

[4:14:05] of Mr. Claudio Bovel, one of our staff members, who knows, you know, the situation could

[4:14:16] have been worse. But anyway, he was there, he caught the incident on time, he was able to

[4:14:22] by some senior citizens, both parties, in other words, and the maintenance staff, so everything

[4:14:29] is set and done, and this incident ended happily and now they're friends. But anyway,

[4:14:41] I just want to recognize the extra effort of who happens to be there and took the initiative

[4:14:48] of coming, you know, both parties down Mr. Claudio Bovelle.

[4:14:56] Thank you very much.

[4:14:58] Okay, and you want...

[4:15:00] Well, this is a recievement file, so there's really no vote necessary. Order the item received in the file.

[4:15:07] Well, all the restrooms, all the restrooms. Anyone listening, the Dalvin Park remote restroom will be open tomorrow.

[4:15:15] I've had so many questions about that. So it's finally open.

[4:15:19] Yeah, there's moved around a few times in constructions complete, the folks that came to me were Carson Park, parents and grandparents and so forth and fought knee in their restrooms, and so I think it's a good idea that the staff

[4:15:40] I know there's some signs up, but maybe maybe additional sign or two of my health or some

[4:15:48] verbal explanations that the rest of us can be opened by the staff that's on hand for

[4:15:56] Park Maintenance.

[4:15:57] That's what the sign says and apparently these parents and guardians did not see that signs.

[4:16:04] Maybe we could be brought to their attention by you could even have an employee go there

[4:16:08] during, say, noon to one o'clock when the kindergarten students

[4:16:13] get out and their parents and guardians bring them to the park.

[4:16:17] Maybe we could, on a occasion, send it in for you there to announce it,

[4:16:22] that, you know, this is available if you do need it.

[4:16:25] Just like the sign says, OK, let's go to number 12.

[4:16:30] This is consideration of resolution number 15 to 0 to 0,

[4:16:36] Mending the classification plan, resolution number, 77 dashes, 1-1-1-1, by revising the

[4:16:43] public works programs of administrator classification specification. Now I pulled this

[4:16:49] one off for discussion purposes and

[4:16:57] it was brought by attention by a couple of city employees

[4:17:00] that they felt this was not necessary, so maybe if the city manager or his staff could explain

[4:17:06] Again, while we're doing this, there is some discussion in the oral communications, but maybe we can be a more thorough at this point.

[4:17:14] Sure. The person who was in that position has vacated and he was promoted to senior engineer.

[4:17:22] So we were having an engineer run the contracts basically, and that was fine, but we really need the engineers to do engineering work.

[4:17:33] because we've got a lot of work for them.

[4:17:36] And unfortunately, we have so many.

[4:17:39] And we have a lot of CIP needs.

[4:17:41] So we really want to have our engineers focus on engineering.

[4:17:45] So I asked the person who was just left the position

[4:17:49] as well as our operations manager to tell me

[4:17:52] what it is that they really do.

[4:17:54] And he proceeded to explain, you know,

[4:17:56] they just really a contract manager.

[4:17:59] He manages the contract with waste management

[4:18:02] with the street sweeper, with the enterprise fleet, with the tree trimmer, with the

[4:18:09] AQ&D contract that we get for air quality, and we get some money for reducing

[4:18:18] or taking care of oil, recycled oil, and things like that. So it's really about

[4:18:25] contract management. So then I asked them to meet with Gale, our Dixon McNadd, our HR director,

[4:18:35] and to come up with the scope of work that reflects what the job actually is, as opposed

[4:18:42] to what the job description said. So they've come up with a job description that reflects

[4:18:47] that. And because when you're talking about somebody who's focusing on contracts and contract

[4:18:53] management and contract compliance. There's a section in there. It says, you know, that somebody

[4:18:59] with a law degree or contract management degree or public administration background would

[4:19:05] be appropriate as opposed to an engineer. And so that's the nature of the amended job description.

[4:19:13] And it's really to reflect what the person, what we're looking for in a person. So that we're not

[4:19:19] false advertising to somebody who says I didn't know this is what you really want. So that way we get

[4:19:25] candidates with a type of background that we're looking for. Thank you. Chair recognizes council

[4:19:30] over there was home. Mr. Mayor, I just have a problem with this jurist, doctorate,

[4:19:38] JD, a master's degree is good, but I've never seen this with a job,

[4:19:44] In fact, this is a jurisprudence, or what does it say at all, it's almost like it's a deterrent to me.

[4:19:55] Public administration, a green public administration, but I don't even...

[4:20:00] I just don't know, I've never seen one in like that in the city, of course,

[4:20:06] and not looking for an actual attorney. It's a bit with a law degree. I mean, I know plenty of people have law degrees, but never passed the war. Never took the war. They just have a law background and contract background. So someone comes with that, that'd be great. But that's, that would be a benefit.

[4:20:24] Oh, contract administrative, some, I, I just don't feel it's necessary. I like the match is great,

[4:20:33] but

[4:20:33] Okay, the chair recognizes council member Robless.

[4:20:36] Thank you.

[4:20:39] This may or the other question that I wanted to raise also had to do with the compensation.

[4:20:46] I don't see there have been any adjustment for compensation.

[4:20:52] If there's someone who doesn't have an engineering degree,

[4:20:58] but doesn't also have one of the other advanced degrees suggested.

[4:21:03] adjusted is there any adjustment in the compensation for this position. So, Mr. Me with that,

[4:21:10] I would suggest that the manner be referred to the personnel committee for review and consideration.

[4:21:19] Okay, is that a motion? Yes.

[4:21:21] Is there a second?

[4:21:22] Yes.

[4:21:23] Okay. Motion by World of the Second by Santorina.

[4:21:26] Thank you for item to the personnel city council subcommittee.

[4:21:30] We're now in discussion of that motion on the floor and we don't want to address that motion.

[4:21:36] You have the floor.

[4:21:37] I would just ask that the committee taking to account the council's comments and then my comment.

[4:21:46] Okay.

[4:21:47] Very good.

[4:21:50] Any other discussion on the motion?

[4:21:52] Okay.

[4:21:53] The motion is to refer item to self committee on personnel.

[4:21:58] Please.

[4:21:59] Castor vote is no one else queuing up, please castor

[4:22:09] vote.

[4:22:11] Attorney, was you down on this forward to zero, you have a comment?

[4:22:14] No, we have, I guess staff, we have a question.

[4:22:17] We want to understand what the comment was about compensation, what do you want the committee

[4:22:23] to consider related to compensation?

[4:22:27] Making an adjustment, I mean, if they have an engineered degree, I consider that to be

[4:22:35] advanced in a regular bachelor's degree. So to the extent that it's down with, I think

[4:22:44] there should be an adjustment. And I say have a law degree. I mean, that just takes

[4:22:48] them to a whole new level. Well actually we're hoping that we don't get an engineer because

[4:22:53] we're really not looking for an engineer. I mean, if an engineer with a master's in public

[4:22:58] administration comes along, that's fine. But we're not looking to use that person as an

[4:23:03] you near. It's really not. I just think there should be an adjustment in that compensation.

[4:23:10] Are you suggesting it?

[4:23:11] I don't know.

[4:23:12] I mean that.

[4:23:13] The December sale for me.

[4:23:15] Okay.

[4:23:15] There's a massive, and they consider it for me.

[4:23:18] I'm putting you on it, Nick.

[4:23:22] Okay.

[4:23:24] The directive is given by the city council.

[4:23:27] And it passes forward as you are.

[4:23:29] Okay.

[4:23:29] And now we have only closed session items remaining.

[4:23:33] So, the 12 is actually,

[4:23:50] okay, we're now going, it's after you're 11, so is there any objection

[4:23:53] to us finishing the council meeting, hearing none, so we're going to continue.

[4:23:57] We have a quirky little ordinance that the mayor can, can ask her 11 o'clock simply

[4:24:07] during the meeting, he or she, who is American, asked for the council members authorization

[4:24:17] to continue the council meeting after 11, because 11 is supposed to stop.

[4:24:22] So something new to Maria, but now you know, it's an ordinance, I follow the law of the city.

[4:24:28] So we're going to recess our housing authority, I think we completed that one, just general recess and our successor agency for closed session and city council for closed session, and we're coming back and report out closed session.

[4:24:47] We're now in recess all three agencies.

[4:24:51] We expect to be back, I don't know, maybe half an hour or something like that.

[4:24:56] We're not sure exactly what time.

[4:25:10] Did he counsel the regular meeting of the Carson successor agency and the regular meeting of the Carson housing authority?

[4:25:19] Oh, I thought there was a council. Okay, well, hold off on that till we have a quorum.

[4:25:28] Well, we can call the order and recess immediately.

[4:25:36] Okay, well, then we're in recessing the Carson housing authority. The meeting started on Tuesday, February 3rd,

[4:25:45] It's now Wednesday, February 4th, and it is 145 in the morning.

[4:25:58] We would like to have the city attorney report out all of the closed session items that

[4:26:02] we dealt with.

[4:26:03] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[4:26:04] The Council of the Successor Agency Board met in closed session, pursuant to government

[4:26:10] code section 5495 6.8 to enable the Successor Agency to consider negotiations with

[4:26:16] Cardinal Cavalry LLC, and if negotiate or lay some in Watkins LAP with him, the successor agency is negotiating

[4:26:23] on price payment terms for purchase sale or lease, and to give direction to its negotiator

[4:26:29] city attorney, Sonny Sultania regarding that certain real property known as a assessor parcel numbers

[4:26:34] 7336-010-013

[4:26:38] 7336-010-016

[4:26:42] 7336-010-24

[4:26:46] and 7336-010-25

[4:26:51] No reportable action was taken.

[4:26:56] The council also met

[4:26:59] under item 2 of the City Council meeting

[4:27:04] with legal counsel and spaded litigation, pursuant to government code section 54956.92 or D3

[4:27:11] and E2 because there's significant exposure to litigation in one case, no report of election

[4:27:17] was taken. The council met on item number 1, pursuant to government code section 54956.92 or D3

[4:27:26] and E4 because there's a significant exposure to litigation in one case, no report of election was taken.

[4:27:32] The Council also meant pursuant to government code section 54957 to discuss public employee

[4:27:40] discipline this missile release and the Council voted unanimously the Council members

[4:27:48] that were present with Councilwoman Davis Holmes being absent to the

[4:27:57] the employment to dismiss the city manager.

[4:28:03] The motion was made with Councilman Robless,

[4:28:05] seconded by Mayor Jumdier and the votes were,

[4:28:09] yes, Councilman, Mayor Portan, Santorina.

[4:28:14] That's it.

[4:28:16] Okay, thank you.

[4:28:17] We're now gonna go to Memorial adjournments.

[4:28:20] We're gonna ask the city clerk to announce the Memorial

[4:28:25] adjournance for tonight's city council meeting. We'd like to adjourn the meeting tonight and the

[4:28:31] memories of the name and we want to go. We'd like to offer our condolences and prayers to the families

[4:28:35] that have lost their loved ones. Harriet County Lewis Joyce Marie Boyd Theresa Farrell also known as Terry

[4:28:47] Murphy, Thelma Clever, Edward Topkins, Lee Roy Freeman, Earl Randall, Mary Henderson, Alexis Garcia

[4:29:02] to K Elias Garcia to K Charlie Beetle and Robert Goan and Robert Goan.

[4:29:19] That concludes the memorial Germans.

[4:29:22] rather than the sister.

[4:29:29] Okay, thank you madam. Do you have any other comments? Okay, city

[4:29:35] treasurer, or does anyone actually have any memorial to Germans? They'd like to add to our

[4:29:40] list this evening. Any staff or like to the officials? Okay. Seeing none, let's go to city

[4:29:48] treasurer, any report or comments. And our city attorney, we always give you the option,

[4:29:55] and I know you usually don't have a report or an announcement.

[4:29:59] Okay, Council members.

[4:30:02] Okay, good morning. Good morning. The case, I want to thank everyone for working so hard at this council meeting. And I'm going to say good night on God bless you in the city of Carson. We're moving forward with the progress that we have had in the last few years. And we are looking forward to better things for the future. Thank you. We are in recess all three.

[4:30:30] we are adjourned all three agendas.

[4:30:34] Thank you.

[4:30:58] Take the announcement about the acting

[4:31:01] to the manager at this point.

[4:31:03] And the council also decided that the acting

[4:31:06] city manager will be Cecil Rambo.

[4:31:09] Correct.

[4:31:11] Okay.

[4:31:11] Now we are adjourned all three.

City Council on February 3, 3015 - 5:00 PM - Feb 3rd, 2015

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