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Okay, let me bring the Diamond Varsity Council meeting for Tuesday, June 2, 2020 to order at 630.

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Given the global COVID-19 pandemic and consistent with the latest governor's executive order

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to stay at home, avoid gatherings of any size, and maintain social distancing, this meeting

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is being conducted telephonically, and all members of the City Council and staff will be participating

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be a teleconference. There is no physical location for public attendance. The

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public isn't invited to join the meeting online or by phone at the numbers

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printed on the agenda, which can be found on the city's website at www.diamondbarca.gov.

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We have also allowed public comments to be submitted in advance to the city clerk.

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If any were received, it will be read into the record when we get to the public

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comment period. This meeting is being recorded and by participating via teleconference,

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you are giving your permission to be televised. This meeting will be rebroadcast every Saturday

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and Sunday at 9 a.m. and alternate Tuesdays at 8 p.m. and archive-devealing and for archive-vealing

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on the city's website at www.dimenbarca.gov. I'd like to remind everyone, we've been reminded

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for several meetings now, that this continues to be a serious and evolving health emergency

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of a global scale and we all need to do our part to prevent the spread of this virus. We

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will continue to monitor the situation and assess and modify our operations and practices

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as necessary. If we could all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, see if that could

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looking flag,

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say along with me, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

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and to the Republic for which it stands, this one nation under God, and liberty and justice

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for all.

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Christine, if you could call the roll, please.

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It's me, Tai.

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I count some member child.

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President.

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Count some member low.

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I'm here.

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Count some member monkey.

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Here.

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May I put some lines? I'm here. May I tie? I'm here. Thank you. The agenda is approved as submitted.

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That brings us to city manager reports and recommendations. Mr. Fox.

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Nothing to add this evening, Mayor. Thank you. That brings us to item two, which is public comments.

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Public comments is the time reserved on each regular meeting agenda to provide an opportunity for members of the public

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to directly address the council on consent calendar items or other matters of interest not on the agenda that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council.

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Although the City Council values your comments pursuant to the Brown Act members of the City Council or staff may briefly respond to public comments if necessary.

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But no extended discussions and no action on such matters may take place. There is a five minute maximum time limit when addressing the City Council.

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At this time, the teleconference moderator Christina will ask callers one at a time to give their name and if there's an agenda item number they wish to speak on before providing their comment.

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If you wish to speak on a public hearing item or council consideration item, you will then be called upon to speak at that point in the agenda Christina.

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Thank you, Mayor. The following comment was submitted by email and boarded to each council member today.

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Bobby Roberts asked the city council to let the residents vote this November to allow mayor wanted to spend three to operate in the city.

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That concludes the email comments that were submitted.

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If any member of the public joining the teleconference would like to address the city council, please select the rate hand icon

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I will unmute callers who wish to speak one at a time, please take your name and indicate

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if you would like to make a general comment or speak on a specific agenda item.

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You will know it is your turn to speak when I announce your name and you hear a recorded

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I will go ahead and now and meet the first caller.

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Dr. Odie Roberto.

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Hello, can you hear me?

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Let's go ahead, Dr. Odie.

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Okay, thanks very much. It's Dr. Odie Roberto.

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And I wish to speak on a general.

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Just a general item, not a agenda item.

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Well, it's public comment.

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Okay, thank you.

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Hello, Mayor Ty and City Council members.

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On behalf of the time-working community foundation,

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I wanted to give you an update on a special program.

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we created called DB Connects. DB Connects was started primarily to address hardships caused by COVID-19.

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This program has been connecting our local Diamond Bar restaurants with families and seniors in need.

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To date, we have provided 43 meals to Diamond Bar residents from our Diamond Bar restaurants.

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Families or individuals who have lost income in jobs and seniors who are housebound can sign up for a free meal from one of our Diamond Bar restaurants.

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These meals are paid for by generous donations from our Diamond Bar community foundation board members residents and sponsors such as the gas company

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We are reaching out to the community for recommendations and referrals for anyone in need

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Who recently lost income or jobs and seniors who would like to sign up for a free meal from a Diamond Bar restaurant

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Please email us at info at the dbcf short forward the time mark many foundation dot org and provide your name email and phone number or the person that you're recommending donations are also being accepted through PayPal on the time mark community foundation website that dbcf dot org

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Thank you to everyone who has generously donated to this program. We are very thankful to live in a generous and caring community. Thanks and have a good night.

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Okay, thank you.

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At this time, I do not see any other hand raised.

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If you'd like to address the city council, please raise your hand by clicking on the hand raised feature and go to meeting.

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or if you are accessing by telephone only, please press star 9.

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Okay, Mayor, I do not see anyone else who wishes to give a comment.

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Okay, thank you.

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We'll now move on to consent calendar.

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Mr. Fox.

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Beaming Mayor members of the City Council on the consent calendar this evening.

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We have the approval of the City Council study session and regular meeting minutes of May 19th.

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A red line copy was provided to the council with minor edits to the regular meeting minutes,

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to correct some typos.

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The receipt of the Planning Commission meeting minutes of February 25th and April 28th.

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ratification of the check register needed May 7th through May 20th approval of the

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treasure statement for April 2020 and adoption of Resolution 2020-14 approving amendments

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to the city's personnel rules and regulations affected June 2nd. A red line copy is also

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provided of the resolution that corrects a corrects a date in the warehouses. And that concludes

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the consent calendar for this evening. Okay. What's the pleasure to cancel?

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Mayor, this is Council Member Lowe. I'd like to put item number 3.5, please.

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Okay.

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Anybody else? No, Mayor, this is Mayor Poteminal.

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I think that was a motion made by Council Member Lowe to move to the agenda with the exception of 3.5. And I'll see that.

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I didn't hear that motion, but if you say so. Yes, I am making that motion. Thank you. Thank you.

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And a second by Council Member Chow?

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Yes.

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Council Member Lowe?

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Council Member Mokki?

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Any pertain?

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Yes.

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Any time?

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Yes.

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So that consent calendar is approved unanimously.

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That brings us to public hearings.

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And we have none.

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Item 5 is council consideration.

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And I'm going to.

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There's an item 3.5 on the person.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Go ahead.

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That's what I put a big circle around.

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Go ahead.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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I just had a question with regard to item number 3.5.

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And that is with respect to item number 23 and it's on page 87,

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let's see, it's on page

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page 19 section 23. So that's page 86 of our package and that's section number 23 and the

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and the item is performance pay and I just have a question if I can just read the

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Read the section. It says performance pay, non-probationary, full-time employees that have demonstrated exceptional job performance, as defined, maybe eligible to receive performance pay up to 10% of their annual salary once per fiscal year, if approved by the city manager.

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Funding for the Performance Pay Program is subject to approval by the City Council during the budget production process.

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My question is the word the words as defined.

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Did I miss how it was defined in the personnel manual?

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Council member Loa and Council members. As defined is what our internal

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performance review metrics would be as part of the performance review process.

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So those details are not provided in the personal rules and regulations.

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Those are provided for in the actual performance and they do very between

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classes of employment as well. So that is something that our human resources manager Amy Hogue

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has been working on and we're finding and enhancing over the last couple of years and that

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is kind of our metrics that we use as we review each employee's performance over the course of the year.

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Great. Thank you. And our city manager Mr. DeBerry has read this and he's approved

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the this section as as written. The city attorney has reviewed that they have, I'm sorry, go ahead, David.

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Yes, I think I just got promoted the city manager, but yes, I know I'm sorry.

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The, that's okay. Dan's got a separate job. Yes, I reviewed that section.

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And you're comfortable with the language as it stated.

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Yes.

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Can I come over low?

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Okay, great.

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And then my second question is on page 104 of the policy.

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There's a section that talks about administrative leave and that the city manager can also grant administrative leave for exceptional performance.

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And this additional leave that is granted can also be cashed out by the employee.

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Is there a difference between these two sections to recognize exceptional performance?

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Council Member Lowe and members of the City Council that is a separate section and it is a something that is separate that I have the ability to recognize employees for with

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with the additional administrative leave.

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And I believe that would be for all employees as well.

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So it's not either or is it either or is it both?

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It is both.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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I have no more questions.

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Any other questions for staff?

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Put pressure the council.

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I will move to approve through 0.5.

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I have a motion from Chow.

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I will second.

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It's Fred.

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Second from Malky.

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Call the roll, please.

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Yes, Mr. Mayor.

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Councilmember Chow? Yes.

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Councilmember Lowe? Yes.

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That's a member more key? Yes. Mayor Perth and Williams? Yes. Mayor Ty. Yes. Item 3.5 carries unanimously. Okay. No public hearings.

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Back where I was a few minutes ago. Item 5 is council consideration. I point one is amendments to certain annual certain animal license fees effective July 1, 2020. Mr. Fox.

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I'm there in Council, I'm going to ask assistance to the City Manager Anthony Santos to make the presentation for this item.

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Okay. Thank you, sir.

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Yes. Thank you, City Manager Fox.

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Oh, that was good.

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Okay, I just want to make sure that I have a quick hear me.

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It's my first time doing this.

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Good evening, honorable mayor.

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And members of the City Council.

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Yes.

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Okay, perfect.

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Sorry, I just, I just,

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little nervous is the first time I'm doing this electronically.

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I'm sorry, Christina,

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for the PowerPoint you want me to just hit next or I mentioned next and you'll go ahead and

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change the slide. I'm giving you control over the keyboard so if you go ahead and use either the

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mouse or the keyboard you can four of your own slides. Okay, perfect. Okay, good evening,

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Honorable Mayor and members of the city council. Tonight before you for consideration is Resolution

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2020-15 amendments to certain animal license fees effective July 1st of 2020.

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Since the corporation, the animal and value human society has provided the city and residents

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with the cost effective animal care and control services that are an essential component

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of the city's public safety program. The current animal licensing fees were last amended in January 2016.

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At that time, IVHS determined the true service cost of $352,190 annually.

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That amount was offset by a guaranteed revenue, which resulted in a net contract cost of $160,000,

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which has been raised by the consumer price index each year.

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So this year, as an example, the contract cost was $189,000.

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The

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most recent IVHS analysis determined that the true cost for providing services in Diamond Bar

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has increased from $216 from the $350,000 contract service model to an expected cost

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of $392,473 for fiscal year 2021. Again, this increases in line with the CPI from 2016.

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While cost have gone up licensing revenues and fees have remained low, resulting in the increasing

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deficit.

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In March of 2020, IVHS met with the city manager and our staff to discuss the existing

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contract and that operating deficit and the need to revise fees.

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I'm sorry to review the licensing revenues because they have continued to decline across

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all the contract cities relative to the true cost of providing those services.

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The city's cost have increased from that $352,000 to an expected $392,000 in fiscal year 2021,

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which includes a $100,000 guaranteed revenue resulting in a total contract cost of $200,000,

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$2473.

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So an effect it would be $100,000 increase.

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And the current schedule below summarizes the city's current licensing revenues, or

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licensing features, as

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a result of discussions between cities, the IVHS board, had provided

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all the cities with an alternative.

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And the alternative would hinge on a couple things.

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It would hinge on amending all the city's respective licenses with regard to unaltered dog fees and penalty fees.

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And currently, the city's unaltered dog fee is $50, and the penalty fee is $25.

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And as a result, IVHS was recommending that should the cities, all the cities that are providing being serviced by IVHS,

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And then those two fees, then ultimately, you know, they would be able to provide a better

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fee service for the 50.

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So in resulting, in the result would be the unaltered dog license fees would increase from

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50 to $100 and the penalty fee would increase from 25 to 60.

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So what does that mean?

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Sorry, just, uh, it's not changing,

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there you go.

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Okay.

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So what does that mean for the budget?

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When we were looking at the numbers and discussing with IVHS trying to figure out how that impacts

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the city and residents and our budget, what that does is put the cost of service on

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the consumers of the service.

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And if those cities, all the cities being serviced by IVHS increase those two fees

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to the $100 for unaltered dog licenses and $60 for penalties that IVHS would be able to guarantee

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the existing contract remain unchanged. And that would limit the contract increases moving forward to CPI.

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That would be 2.96% for fiscal year 2020, 2021, or 200, 2084 dollars.

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That is a significant reduction from the original estimate of $290,470 that was included in the draft operating fiscal year budget for 2021.

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And that again is because it is providing the service at the true cost of the consumers of those services.

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And then ultimately those cost savings would be passed on to the city.

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And with that, recommendation is to consider adoption of resolution 2020-15, amending certain

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animal license fees, effective July 1st 2020, and both the IBHS Presidency EO and the

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Culverciani and Operations Manager James Edwards are on the call, should there be any questions

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about IBHS or the services they provide to the community.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Centos. Any questions for the IVH people?

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Any questions for staff?

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Mayor, this is Mayor Protein, and I have a question, and I'm not sure if it's for staff or the IVH just people.

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So when we talked about, Mr. Centos mentioned that if all the cities, you know, agree to these new fees, you know, individually,

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And from that point on, the contract will only increase by CPI.

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That's what I understood.

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Is that correct?

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Mr. Santos?

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That's correct, Proto.

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Okay.

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And is there a certain length of time?

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Is that only good for like one year or five years?

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Or is that added in finitum?

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So generally the contract is extended by two year increments.

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And that is because Camusine takes place every two years in every community that IVHS serves.

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And so the Camusine provides a revenue which is used to offset the cost.

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And so the short answer is it's a two-year increment that generally auto-renews

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should everything be consistent.

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Are all of the cities under just a two-year agreement or is it just stocks?

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My understanding is generally they all are, there may be some kind of exceptions for new contracts that were recently amended.

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I know the cities of Covina and West Covina recently came on board, but I believe the standard is very similar.

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I mean, just what the situation is.

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With regard to the contract, is that the question?

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Can we get longer than a two year contract on this with just CPI?

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That's my question.

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I see what you're asking.

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So we can definitely ask the question, but my understanding is generally speaking,

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this contract that we've had has auto-extended for two years.

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It was originally executed in 2016 and here we are in 2020.

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So it's been a solid four years under the existing contract.

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And if the fees are approved, we would still be under that same contract.

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They would be automatically extended.

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So that would be up to year six under the existing contract.

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So for the foreseeable future, ultimately,

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that's something that should be Council of Desire to approve the fees.

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Then we could potentially be under this agreement

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for considerably longer period of time.

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Okay, Anthony, it's probably because I can't actually see you.

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I know it's very different.

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Okay, so what we were originally presented was an increase of $90,000, right?

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It was about $92,000 that is correct.

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All right, so are you saying then that going forward?

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We wouldn't have to face that and we would only be getting CPI increases?

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Yes, and part of that is, when I VHS provides the true cost of service, they have to be able

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to let us know what it cost to provide the service in Diamond Bar.

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When they do the canvassing, that amount is taken away from subtracted from the true cost,

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and they give us our contract cost.

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And so in 2016, that was 160, $160,000, and so when CPI is added, it's added to the

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total cost of service. So the original cost of service in 2016 was $352,000. So you add the CPI to that.

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You subtract the projected revenue and that is our new contract cost. And that's been kind of the procedure

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over the last four years and that would be the procedure moving forward. It would be the total cost minus

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the projected revenue but IVHS is holding firm that should we adopt the new fees and all the other

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cities adopt the new fees, then they can guarantee the existing contract and those existing

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contracts with all the other cities and limit those cost increases to CPI, which should

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be no more than 5%.

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Okay, thank you.

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Any other questions for IVHS or that?

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Okay, hearing none?

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What is the pleasure of the council?

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This is Mayor Portem, again. I would like to go ahead and move the item.

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Okay, I have a motion by Mayor Portem Lyons.

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I'll second.

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And a second by Councilman Chow.

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One question for clarification, Mr. Fox is,

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my understanding was that every city had to approve this going forward,

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So it was all, or it was nothing, if in the event that one or more cities box at this opportunity, what would our recourse be?

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Mayor and Council, we would come back with a resolution to rescind the fees.

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And then there would be an additional new contract with IVHS that would need to be considered and approved by the City Council.

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Very good.

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Thank you.

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Any other questions?

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Okay, Christina, if you call the roll, please.

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Mr. Mayor, council member, shall?

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Council member, low?

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Yes.

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I'm from Emma Monkey. Yes, I approve timeline. Yeah. Mayor Ty. Yes. So item 5.1 passes unanimously.

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Item 5.2, COVID-19, Regate for Relief and Financial Assistance and Options for Businesses and Residents.

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Mr. Fox. Mayor and Council, I'm going to ask community involvement director Greg Dubman to make the presentation.

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Thank you, and good evening, Mayor Ty and members of the City Council.

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Tonight we will discuss two topics pertaining to COVID-19 recovery efforts.

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First, we are seeking your approval of two regulatory relief policies to assist businesses

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as they reopen their doors in accordance with the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.

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Next we will discuss options for using our emergency CBBG funds for economic recovery programs and request council direction on crafting these programs.

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So while I begin feel free to interrupt me anytime as I will be going through these these topics rather quickly and

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there goes my screening link.

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I can't, there we go.

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So starting with regulatory relief, the council asked staff to prepare policies to suspend temporary sign restrictions and to facilitate outdoor dining for restaurants affected by the counties into our occupancy restrictions.

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This slide summarizes the temporary sign provisions.

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It's fairly straightforward.

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We will not require permits for temporary signs for 90 days, so that would be through August 3rd.

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First, 2020. During that time, we would not enforce temporary sign regulations pertaining

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to size or number of signs.

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We do ask that during this time that we continue to enforce the restriction

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on commercial science in public rights of a way in public property. So as long as science

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remain on private property and leave it to the businesses to obtain property owner permission,

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And then we would not be enforcing any onsite temporary sign loop restrictions.

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And then additionally, we would recommend that we continue to enforce the restriction on roof signs,

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or signs that project taller than the building on the property on which they're located

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for the purpose of minimizing clutter or distractions that kind of go beyond the purpose of helping

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advertising that these businesses are open.

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For outdoor dining,

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we've come up with a

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no-fee expedited temporary use permit process for restaurant dining. And this

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would be an effect for as long as the indoor occupancy restrictions are an

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effect. The details of the of the temporary dining accommodations are provided in

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policy attached to the staff report.

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Finally, we would ask that the council discuss and provide

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direction on programs to launch for providing financial assistance to those impacted by COVID-19.

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As you may be aware, the city will be receiving $137,962 dollars in the first round of

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CARES Act CDBG funding. Thus far, HUD has released $2 billion from which our current allocation is drawn from there is an additional $3 billion to be distributed in the coming months as part of the entire CARES Act relief package.

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There's a lot of discretion that the city may use and how it wishes to disperse these funds.

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The basic rule of thumb is that it's to be available to businesses and or income eligible residents impacted by the COVID-19 closures.

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For business relief, the primary objective is that if a recipient is to be eligible, they do need to demonstrate that they need assistance in order to retain or higher lower moderate income workers.

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For residential assistance programs, an example of how we can use the money is to provide rental assistance for those income eligible households.

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Also, since seniors are presumed to be income eligible,

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CARES Act monies may be used for senior programming to provide services or programs that

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It would be needed to replace those normal programs that would be provided without the current restrictions.

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So for example, that could be for any types of online services, virtual recreation, for example.

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And any expenses that would be associated with providing outreach for those services.

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So, given those parameters, there are several options for this city council to consider.

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One of which being, which types of programs to launch, we can allocate all the money into one program,

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or we can create several programs and disperse the money accordingly,

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one thing I do want to

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clarify from the staff report, it gave a sample allocation of $5,000 for senior programs

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or any program that we do want, the minimum award amount would have to be $10,000 to fund

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that program. So I just want to mention that before we go further. Another, another, another

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decision that we have had. Greg, Greg, could you repeat that please? Oh, regarding the

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senior programs? Yeah. So, okay, if it's a program, if it's like this sunshine senior

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association, it would require that they get $10,000.

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Not not per recipient, but per organization.

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No, no, it would just be if we had a senior program and it could be smaller amounts

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distributed to different recipients, but that program has to be funded with at least $10,000.

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So, again, if this sunshine senior group was having an event, we couldn't give them, like,

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two grand, we have to give them 10.

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No, we could give sunshine seniors two grand, but that program would be serving other organizations

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and other purposes within that umbrella senior programs.

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So once we fund that program with $10,000, we can give smaller amounts to different organizations, such as Sunshine Seniors.

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Okay, thank you.

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Greg, just to clarify, this funding is in addition to the community development block grant fund.

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That would be appropriate a couple of months ago. This is in addition to that.

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That's right, this is emergency funding.

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It's aggressively for COVID-19 relief.

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So if I recall doing that last round of appropriation,

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we already gave, if I recall, about 30,

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5000 to senior programs.

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We gave almost 47,000.

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47.

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Okay. All right. Thank you.

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Craig, this is Nancy, and I have two questions, but it's further back and what you had.

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I was wondering, when you unpacked page 168, what is the difference between temporary outdoor merchandise and sidewalk sales?

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It's essentially the same thing.

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Some businesses might have a weekend event in college, sidewalks, sale.

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Others might have wheelbarrows or other types of home improvement, displays,

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at certain times of the year, so it's really just part of the more general topic of outdoor merchandise

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displays. Well, I thought the same thing I thought it sounded like the same thing, but the way this

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is written, it sounds confusing because it says although the development code already allows temporary

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outdoor merchandise displays on a normal circumstances step into the city not allow for sidewalk sales.

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It sounds like we're allowing one and not the other, but they're the same thing.

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No, to let me clarify then, under normal circumstances,

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the outdoor display of merchandise

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is something that can be done under a temporary use permit.

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To provide the context for this, we're at this time, we're not recommending issuing permits

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for outdoors displays until we get further direction from the county because of concerns

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about physical distancing and we would recommend not allowing for outdoor displays of

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merchandise till we get some additional guidance on how those, uh, how those, uh,

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outdoor display of merchandise would be, um, would be rolled out so that we can be

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sure that physical distancing, um, guidelines are being followed.

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Well, um, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Nancy.

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Just let me finish. So, you know, I encourage your wheelbarrow example, and we all know where those wheelbarrels are.

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All of those wheelbarrels be allowed to stay there because they've always been there at end of barbecues of that stuff.

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And then, but nobody else, say for example, we don't want Ross to put out a huge sidewalk sale.

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That's what we're thinking.

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That's, that's more of the scenario that we're, we're addressing, where

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Yeah, something of that sort,

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or in the past, there would be Christmas tree lots and parking

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lots or pumpkin patches or other seasonal sales and with B&D or occupancy restrictions,

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the idea here is if parking spaces or larger parking lot areas would be utilized similar

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to the outdoor dining. These might create some issues that we need to be mindful of and get

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appropriate guidance from the county. So the the petting zoo is probably out.

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I would I would I would I would

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think. Okay, I'm going to put a dog part. Okay, I have one more question. On when you were talking

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about the outside dining, you know, that allowing outside dining until the restaurants can

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there tables, you know, as they used to. And I just want to make sure that if that restaurant

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has a liquor license, they'll be able to serve liquor to their outside dining.

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The city has no issue with that. That is subject to the licensing requirements of the

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department of alcoholic beverages control. So we would read that responsibility to the

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requirements. Okay, and then my last comment on this is I think you guys really worked hard to get this done fast and I really appreciate it. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Um, this is council member low. I have a question.

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Sure.

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Okay, so I was kind of still unclear. So, so the barbecues and the wheelbarrow can stay in front of the store, but Ross cannot bring like

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a display of tennis shoes out there.

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We can't find any day.

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We're doing that.

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At this time, we're not recommending that we,

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that we approve any additional outdoor displays,

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but given the lack of direction so far from the county.

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But we're not, we're not withdrawing the fact that we permit

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people to put their stuff out there. Anyway, right? We're not taking away that

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ability to do that, right? We're just not giving, well, I'll just say that, we're not withdrawing that.

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There are some outdoor displays very limited, and while they may technically be doing so,

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out of permanently,

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not pursued those if as long as accessible walkways are maintained and so

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for if there are very limited.

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Displaced of merchandise against a storefront. That's not going to necessarily draw our attention, but our larger concern is that with the limited indoor occupancy reductions that a larger display area would be proposed outdoors that would occupy more space and

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and encourage more close congregating of customers.

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And then with respect to the program for businesses,

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there's an option for loans and an option for grants.

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Can you explain that a little bit better or more?

447
00:45:52,710 --> 00:45:52,930
Sure.

448
00:45:54,430 --> 00:45:56,250
We can go either way.

449
00:45:56,410 --> 00:45:58,290
We can do a loan

450
00:46:01,390 --> 00:46:02,110
which

451
00:46:04,190 --> 00:46:09,370
would require loans to be repaid and then that money could be reallocated for

452
00:46:09,370 --> 00:46:19,170
different purposes of the upon repainment, or we can simply issue grants and provided

453
00:46:19,170 --> 00:46:25,750
that they meet the provisions of the program that that money is free and clear.

454
00:46:27,790 --> 00:46:41,130
Our consultant and CalACDA discouraged the loan programs because of the underwriting

455
00:46:41,130 --> 00:46:42,070
requirements,

456
00:46:44,170 --> 00:46:55,800
the more scrutiny that is required for monitoring the expenses made with

457
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,040
those proceeds.

458
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:08,820
So and then since it seems that agencies that are doing loan programs now,

459
00:47:09,140 --> 00:47:13,840
they're also making them forgivable. So as long as they provide with or comply with the

460
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:22,960
provisions of their program, the loan is exonerated at the end of the term. So they put them

461
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:26,060
fell through the underwriting and monitoring obligations

462
00:47:26,530 --> 00:47:28,240
for what's essentially a grant.

463
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,740
If we do go with the grant program,

464
00:47:32,180 --> 00:47:35,040
is that program does that have to be formed out

465
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:40,040
to LACDA and we have to pay the servicing charge

466
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:44,820
or can we do that in-house and use that money instead

467
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:47,980
for really basically grant money?

468
00:47:47,980 --> 00:48:00,820
We believe that for the business grant program, that we can administer it in-house without

469
00:48:01,380 --> 00:48:11,660
asking LACDA to handle that, and also that's what our consultant concurs with, as far

470
00:48:11,660 --> 00:48:20,200
The residential assistance programs, that gets to be a lot more complicated with income

471
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:30,440
verification requirements, household income documentation, and subsequent documentation

472
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:31,300
and monitoring.

473
00:48:36,410 --> 00:48:48,370
Those types of activities are beyond the scope of staff's capabilities, even though

474
00:48:48,370 --> 00:48:55,910
we're in a period of improvising and learning very quickly. Our consultant's recommendation

475
00:48:55,910 --> 00:49:06,130
is that if we do a residential program that we do have LACBA administer it, and if we did that,

476
00:49:06,370 --> 00:49:14,410
then there would be up to a 20 percent administration cost associated with it.

477
00:49:15,790 --> 00:49:25,890
Your report documented that certain cities had run, had received an enormous amount of

478
00:49:25,890 --> 00:49:29,850
that demonstrates the need there for businesses

479
00:49:29,850 --> 00:49:32,610
to have access to these funds.

480
00:49:33,510 --> 00:49:36,410
What do you know about the need

481
00:49:36,410 --> 00:49:39,570
for the rental assistance fund?

482
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:48,490
Those programs have been sold out as well.

483
00:49:51,340 --> 00:49:59,660
And we would expect more applicants than

484
00:49:59,660 --> 00:50:02,200
whatever funding that we we provide?

485
00:50:04,980 --> 00:50:11,620
Is there a way to to quantify or say what this particular

486
00:50:11,620 --> 00:50:17,480
need is in our community? I'm talking about the rental rental assistance.

487
00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:23,020
We could look into that.

488
00:50:24,700 --> 00:50:30,400
I believe we have some estimates on that.

489
00:50:35,740 --> 00:50:37,940
This is Nancy again. If we do that

490
00:50:37,940 --> 00:50:41,380
So we lose 15 to 20% off the top, right?

491
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:43,220
On the rental.

492
00:50:44,620 --> 00:50:49,700
Yeah, if, if the LACMGA doesn't minister that program for us, yes.

493
00:50:50,060 --> 00:50:50,920
We lose that money.

494
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:54,040
Where is if we allocated money to businesses or

495
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,880
to senior groups, we could do it in house and we wouldn't lose

496
00:50:57,880 --> 00:50:59,180
that money off the top?

497
00:51:01,380 --> 00:51:02,380
Yeah, that's correct.

498
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,820
We're, we're confident that we could handle that in house.

499
00:51:06,820 --> 00:51:19,300
I talked to some of my colleagues on the con about this and this was about business grants and there was a big demand for it.

500
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:26,900
And so what they did was they opened it for like a two-day period for businesses to get their applications in.

501
00:51:27,780 --> 00:51:35,020
And then after that two-day period they closed the window and then they went through and they made sure that a

502
00:51:35,020 --> 00:51:41,380
of who was actually kind of valid application versus who didn't, then after they did that,

503
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:47,980
they did of all the valid applications, then they did a lottery. Otherwise, if you just say,

504
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:55,780
well, we're open until we're full, then it's kind of the people that get up or get their applications

505
00:51:55,780 --> 00:52:01,080
going to get funded as opposed to giving everybody, you know, whatever 48 hours or something.

506
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:04,480
So my comments on that.

507
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:06,720
This is the other chat.

508
00:52:07,300 --> 00:52:09,140
Go ahead.

509
00:52:09,620 --> 00:52:10,880
I need to go ahead.

510
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:11,720
Okay.

511
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:13,100
Question a comment.

512
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:14,600
So just want to clarify.

513
00:52:15,140 --> 00:52:24,000
So the proposal that we see on the staff report on page 170 of the PDF or page packet page 170.

514
00:52:24,860 --> 00:52:30,180
So the breakdown between business grants, residential rental grant and senior programming.

515
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:36,680
that's arbitrary. That's just a proposal, right? There's no guideline coming with the

516
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:40,860
community development grant fund that we have to allocate, certainly. If the council wanted to,

517
00:52:40,860 --> 00:52:45,540
we can have the whole thing appropriate into one grant, one type of grants, that's correct?

518
00:52:46,540 --> 00:52:54,780
Yeah, you can put it all into one program and you can set the dollar amount per recipient to whatever you want.

519
00:52:54,780 --> 00:53:01,840
Okay, here's kind of my thought on it. So I think what we have to keep in mind what we're trying to accomplish.

520
00:53:02,180 --> 00:53:09,140
I think I think most most of the business are suffering and as they try to reopen,

521
00:53:09,860 --> 00:53:15,760
there's there will be new guidelines from both the LA County and probably the state on how they can operate.

522
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:20,820
So I think we should and given the relatively small amount grant that we received,

523
00:53:20,820 --> 00:53:23,580
We start dividing up a new different programs.

524
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:28,480
My concerns that each business won't receive a material amount that can make a meaningful

525
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,640
impact on helping them come back to, to operate.

526
00:53:32,300 --> 00:53:36,820
So I would think that, and also given the fact that we had to give a 20% of the grant

527
00:53:36,820 --> 00:53:41,520
to have an outside agency help us administer the residential rental grant.

528
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:48,000
In addition to that, we, as I asked earlier, we appropriated almost 47,000 to senior programming

529
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,180
just a couple months ago.

530
00:53:49,180 --> 00:53:56,760
So I'm inclined to have the whole thing go to business grant to help specifically our business community come back.

531
00:53:56,860 --> 00:54:06,780
Not just to survive this time, about to thrive and help them buy new equipment, specific PPP equipment for their employees, install maybe spikards.

532
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:13,880
I'm starting to go to different restaurants and a lot of them are asking for help as they try to come out of this pandemic.

533
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:17,120
You know, I was talking to Simon of Fusion to anyone.

534
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:21,580
He said, yeah, he's happy to put out tables and about the name, but that means they

535
00:54:21,580 --> 00:54:26,280
had to buy umbrellas, they had to install physical barrier between the tables.

536
00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:31,120
So there's some additional cost to come with, restaurant trying to comply with the new rules.

537
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:35,780
So I'm inclined to have the whole thing allocated to business grant.

538
00:54:36,060 --> 00:54:40,680
Now, we probably should talk about more specifically the amount that would be granted to each

539
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:41,140
business.

540
00:54:41,140 --> 00:54:44,800
I do agree with, I think it was Councilwoman Lyons.

541
00:54:46,660 --> 00:54:52,220
That's the model I think, Supervisor Han, used when she was allocating, we're giving

542
00:54:52,220 --> 00:54:54,140
out $5,000 grant to businesses.

543
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:57,380
They had a $48 window, and you go sign up.

544
00:54:57,380 --> 00:55:00,060
I actually signed up myself to see what the process was like.

545
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,940
Unfortunately, I didn't win the lottery, but I did sign up just to see what it was like.

546
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:08,880
But I think that process works a lot better than there was a previous grant I came out saying

547
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:13,020
you have to register at 12 o'clock on noon and you have an hour until runs out.

548
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:19,040
You know, so I think that the approach probably won't be as conducive versus just open up

549
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:24,200
for maybe 40 hour window and the staff can do a lottery at the back end to pick the top winners

550
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:29,380
and give them the the mount up with things appropriate. Thank you.

551
00:55:31,910 --> 00:55:35,390
Councilwoman, I thought you had a question also. Oh yes, I did. Thank you, Mayor.

552
00:55:36,230 --> 00:56:02,710
I do actually agree with Mayor Protem lines about the lottery system. I think that's a good system and I think it's fair and and it's orderly. So I think that's a good system. I also agree with Council member Charles observations and concerns that we want to get our restaurants and other small businesses up and running and helping them as much as we could.

553
00:56:04,290 --> 00:56:10,950
So I would be okay with moving all of it to business grounds.

554
00:56:11,110 --> 00:56:16,710
I mean, honestly, it's really isn't that we don't really have a really large part of money to

555
00:56:17,710 --> 00:56:18,370
to survive.

556
00:56:19,370 --> 00:56:24,090
But the amount that we give should be meaningful so that they can actually,

557
00:56:25,230 --> 00:56:26,770
it would be actually helpful.

558
00:56:27,450 --> 00:56:28,490
That's my, that's my comment.

559
00:56:29,350 --> 00:56:33,150
What are we thinking relative to the minimum?

560
00:56:35,010 --> 00:56:38,070
I mean, I thought I heard Councilman Chow say

561
00:56:38,790 --> 00:56:42,990
that we will determine it based on the need

562
00:56:44,190 --> 00:56:46,110
and I don't know that that's a good idea.

563
00:56:46,130 --> 00:56:48,750
I think we should set maybe a minimum in a maximum.

564
00:56:49,510 --> 00:56:50,750
Have we thought that through?

565
00:56:52,190 --> 00:56:52,410
Yes.

566
00:56:54,110 --> 00:56:55,950
If I can clarify, sorry, this is Councilman Chow.

567
00:56:55,950 --> 00:56:59,510
So yes, I mean, it should be, we should definitely

568
00:56:59,510 --> 00:57:01,750
say they're male, but I think it should be a flat

569
00:57:01,750 --> 00:57:02,910
and male across the board.

570
00:57:03,190 --> 00:57:06,670
So each person or each business that gets pig gets an X

571
00:57:06,670 --> 00:57:07,050
amount.

572
00:57:07,590 --> 00:57:09,510
And I think, some big, thank you.

573
00:57:10,190 --> 00:57:10,430
Thank you.

574
00:57:10,670 --> 00:57:14,390
And I think, you know, we have $137,000, if we're

575
00:57:14,390 --> 00:57:17,870
doing $5,000 grants, we can only benefit someone

576
00:57:17,870 --> 00:57:18,790
helping with the math here.

577
00:57:18,930 --> 00:57:20,830
It's about 20 to 20 events.

578
00:57:21,410 --> 00:57:24,350
So given the number, I don't mean that's enough.

579
00:57:24,350 --> 00:57:30,030
So I think the most I was think something in the 2000 range might make sense, so at least we

580
00:57:30,350 --> 00:57:31,810
Help maybe 50 restaurants

581
00:57:32,490 --> 00:57:35,250
I think that might be a that might make more sense

582
00:57:35,830 --> 00:57:38,910
More that that's interesting, but I think

583
00:57:39,190 --> 00:57:44,030
$2000 is way too little money for this amount of work

584
00:57:44,230 --> 00:57:48,750
I'd much rather see more meaningful grants and

585
00:57:48,750 --> 00:57:52,870
You know, maybe it doesn't go to restaurants like chilies

586
00:57:54,700 --> 00:58:01,740
Yes, I think we do have to limit the type of restaurants and what I've seen from some other cities that will say that

587
00:58:01,740 --> 00:58:04,320
a restaurant that employed less than 20 people for example.

588
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:08,140
So they have to be some sort of qualifier for the business.

589
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:12,960
Yeah, we don't believe necessary getting a situation where a corporation like, you know,

590
00:58:13,060 --> 00:58:16,620
just give it bad example, like the Lakers, you know, apply for a PPP along with it.

591
00:58:16,620 --> 00:58:18,140
I don't think we want to get into that situation.

592
00:58:18,140 --> 00:58:22,300
So, this grant should help mom and pops local own restaurants.

593
00:58:25,460 --> 00:58:27,740
We're not limiting it to restaurants, right? We're talking business.

594
00:58:28,780 --> 00:58:34,260
I think it's okay, but I think it has to be, you know, we don't, I don't think we would

595
00:58:34,260 --> 00:58:37,200
want to give money to target or to.

596
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:38,060
No, no.

597
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:40,580
No, I see no change store. That's easy enough.

598
00:58:42,700 --> 00:58:47,400
Mayor Tide, council member, Malky. I have a question in terms of just a point of distinction.

599
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,800
And when we're talking about businesses, are we going to require that there are businesses

600
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:55,740
that operate within our city limits, or are we opening such a residents who have their

601
00:58:55,740 --> 00:59:01,160
own businesses, for example, if we, I know that we have residents that are truck drivers, and

602
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,860
they have mortgages, and they don't have work.

603
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:08,980
Like, if there is self-contained business like that, would they be, would this type of lung

604
00:59:08,980 --> 00:59:12,880
be an option for them, or would we not allow for that type of thing?

605
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:14,800
I think the store front and diamond bar.

606
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,220
Yeah, locate it in diamond bar.

607
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:19,820
And you're going to require a store front specifically?

608
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:25,240
Every other city that has done a business loan

609
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:29,660
or grant program is required them to have a physical store

610
00:59:29,660 --> 00:59:33,360
front in their community that's been in business

611
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:34,860
for at least a year.

612
00:59:35,060 --> 00:59:37,680
And they have been for six to six amounts.

613
00:59:38,460 --> 00:59:38,500
Yes.

614
00:59:39,180 --> 00:59:41,640
I think having a physical store front

615
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:43,020
It's a good qualifier.

616
00:59:43,620 --> 00:59:45,560
I mean, because they're the ones I think

617
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:48,300
mostly impacted by social distance requirements,

618
00:59:48,940 --> 00:59:49,940
and they literally, you know,

619
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:51,860
they survive based on people coming to the stores.

620
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,460
First, I own the business, but my office is

621
00:59:55,460 --> 00:59:56,660
to talk the way the office building.

622
00:59:56,980 --> 00:59:59,980
We can, we can figure out a way to comply with the...

623
01:00:03,940 --> 01:00:08,860
I think the other

624
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:24,980
thing is we want to make sure, and I don't know if we do this by address, you certainly couldn't do it by last name, I think we want to be sure that it's one grant loan, whatever we're going to call it, per business.

625
01:00:27,540 --> 01:00:33,000
What do you mean, me if one person owns five different business, I don't know what you only give to one business.

626
01:00:33,140 --> 01:00:37,900
No, no, if a couple owns a business and they both apply.

627
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:40,900
Oh, okay. Yes.

628
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,500
For business license or something.

629
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:46,720
I don't know how to do that.

630
01:00:48,730 --> 01:00:56,530
Yes, I think other cities will limit to only those that have had a valid bitch license within city going back at least a year.

631
01:00:58,930 --> 01:01:03,930
Well, I think you can you can sense where we're going and just need to tighten it up and you know, I don't want to

632
01:01:04,470 --> 01:01:08,510
I don't want to find us in in mid August still trying to figure out the rules. So

633
01:01:09,070 --> 01:01:14,990
Right, I think I think we're agreed. No chains. I don't know if you want to call that a

634
01:01:14,990 --> 01:01:20,090
Stock Exchange listed company. We're looking to help mom and pops.

635
01:01:20,710 --> 01:01:23,030
I didn't hear that we settled on in the Mount.

636
01:01:26,100 --> 01:01:28,180
Yeah, maybe we can talk about a little bit more.

637
01:01:28,940 --> 01:01:33,300
because Council member lines, I think you have mentioned that you were thinking maybe a higher dollar amount.

638
01:01:34,060 --> 01:01:38,680
Yeah, I don't think $2,000 is enough money at all to make it meaningful.

639
01:01:39,620 --> 01:01:42,260
I can give you some examples from other cities.

640
01:01:43,260 --> 01:01:43,680
Great.

641
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:49,360
Okay, so LeBurn is offering $2,500 per business.

642
01:01:50,140 --> 01:01:58,540
COVID-19, 4,500, Arcadia, 5,000, and Claremont, 20,000,

643
01:02:02,070 --> 01:02:03,430
but did they all receive more funding

644
01:02:03,430 --> 01:02:04,130
than we did?

645
01:02:04,390 --> 01:02:07,530
Because I think it's a function of the funding, right?

646
01:02:09,490 --> 01:02:10,750
Yeah, that's correct.

647
01:02:12,990 --> 01:02:20,150
Claremont is with such a high amount, they can only fund 20 businesses.

648
01:02:22,810 --> 01:02:34,150
So I think if we were to round that number off and make it $150, we could fund this $50 at $3,000.

649
01:02:35,330 --> 01:02:40,710
I still don't think $3,000 is enough money to really make a difference to them.

650
01:02:41,030 --> 01:02:43,530
I would think it would be at least $5,000.

651
01:02:47,270 --> 01:02:55,810
I guess I would agree with that when I think of 3,000, are there 50 businesses in Diamond

652
01:02:55,810 --> 01:02:57,710
Bar that need to help, maybe not?

653
01:02:58,070 --> 01:03:00,630
So if we did 5,000, that would be 30 businesses.

654
01:03:00,990 --> 01:03:02,630
I'm all right with that.

655
01:03:02,910 --> 01:03:03,570
So Mike.

656
01:03:04,170 --> 01:03:06,070
Yeah, that sounds fine.

657
01:03:06,530 --> 01:03:06,770
Oh, good.

658
01:03:06,930 --> 01:03:07,870
I should have.

659
01:03:07,870 --> 01:03:09,110
That brings up a point.

660
01:03:09,790 --> 01:03:17,070
I thought we had other special revenue funds that we can potentially reprogram to this.

661
01:03:17,070 --> 01:03:23,170
based on our budget session, do we not, or is that not an option?

662
01:03:26,510 --> 01:03:43,130
We are allowed to repurpose our regular CBD monies for COVID relief efforts, so to give

663
01:03:43,130 --> 01:03:50,290
you what those amounts are in the upcoming budget for the CDBG program.

664
01:03:52,150 --> 01:04:06,170
We have, as I said before, $46,900 for senior programs, $10716 for the Home Improvement

665
01:04:06,170 --> 01:04:07,470
program,

666
01:04:09,690 --> 01:04:20,790
a little under $178,000 for the area to curb ramp program, and also we just received

667
01:04:21,210 --> 01:04:30,650
a home improvement loan repayment of $6700 that we can roll over into COVID relief.

668
01:04:31,590 --> 01:04:41,090
Okay, great. You said 178,000 almost for curb ramps. Is any of this money dedicated?

669
01:04:41,970 --> 01:04:50,610
There was another figure of $100,716. Is that dedicated to those programs?

670
01:04:52,490 --> 01:04:54,770
Yeah, those are the exact dollar amounts.

671
01:04:54,770 --> 01:05:05,090
So how my question is if we take that 178,000 that we're talking about curb ramps and we put it into this

672
01:05:07,330 --> 01:05:08,610
COVID fund,

673
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:17,200
are we violating any of the parameters of the 178,000 we've been given for curb ramps?

674
01:05:18,500 --> 01:05:24,740
No, all those stipulations are suspended right now, so it's long.

675
01:05:24,740 --> 01:05:25,680
It's great, great, great.

676
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:26,240
Okay, great, great.

677
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:32,740
Then I agree that I think 5,000 is a more meaningful amount

678
01:05:32,740 --> 01:05:35,660
that will make an actual meaningful impact on business.

679
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:39,200
But I'm gonna extend that to maybe 50 businesses

680
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:41,140
and somehow come up to 150,000

681
01:05:41,140 --> 01:05:45,160
by re-approving some of the previous funds to this.

682
01:05:45,540 --> 01:05:47,200
I think that they've got to compromise.

683
01:05:47,980 --> 01:05:50,000
So we have a meaningful amount to each business,

684
01:05:50,180 --> 01:05:52,980
but also impacting at least 50 businesses in that number,

685
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:53,700
versus 30.

686
01:05:53,700 --> 01:05:55,860
because I can just all the top of my head,

687
01:05:55,860 --> 01:05:57,280
I can think of more in 30.

688
01:05:57,960 --> 01:05:59,560
So I found out my needs is money.

689
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:05,020
I don't know if you, I don't remember what the category was,

690
01:06:05,180 --> 01:06:09,700
where you said it's $100,000, $116, but it was $178 for curb ramps.

691
01:06:09,820 --> 01:06:11,620
That's $2,078,000 right there.

692
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:16,340
If we add the COVID money, we're looking at over $400,000.

693
01:06:18,180 --> 01:06:24,760
Mayor, could before we do this, which we would want to do, could we maybe hear from Mr.

694
01:06:24,860 --> 01:06:33,060
Lou about what would be the effects of not doing the area to curb improvements for ADA for

695
01:06:33,060 --> 01:06:34,700
this year this coming year?

696
01:06:43,820 --> 01:06:44,580
Mr. Lou,

697
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:51,620
all right, what I would say about that is if they don't get done this year, they'll

698
01:06:51,620 --> 01:06:53,320
get done in another year.

699
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:59,740
And Mayor, if I can add this is Dan, we did include in the Capital Improvement Program,

700
01:07:00,460 --> 01:07:07,800
those 88 curb ramps for area 2. Those could certainly be modified and brought back and

701
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:17,280
deferred another time. The amount that we have right now, we could, as we know, this is new for

702
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:22,880
us, we can go out and test the waters, see what type of response that we get, and then come back

703
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:31,220
with a supplemental allocation to reprogram our existing CDBG funds or wait until we know that

704
01:07:31,220 --> 01:07:35,800
we'll get the next version of the CARES Act to have a second or something.

705
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:40,520
No, wait. Why would we go test the waters? Why wouldn't we just proceed tonight with

706
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:45,480
this amount of money? And if we get the CARES, we can dedicate that to curb ramps.

707
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:48,600
That's not COVID related, so that would not be eligible.

708
01:07:51,470 --> 01:07:59,130
Okay, are we making any progress at all with the county relative to sharing the money they got with the cities?

709
01:07:59,470 --> 01:08:08,470
Their response is the state has plans in their budget to supplement local cities under.

710
01:08:09,430 --> 01:08:10,990
I didn't get any funding previously.

711
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,460
That didn't get any funding previously.

712
01:08:16,660 --> 01:08:17,200
Correct.

713
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:26,360
So all of the CARES Act funds that we have to do the counties of over and cities of over 500,000 population,

714
01:08:28,440 --> 01:08:45,420
they're not going to share that money, and we can wait for that next round, which we understand may be included in the states budget for some allocation of funds for cities under 500,000 dollars.

715
01:08:46,800 --> 01:09:00,160
Well, I think we ought to, I think we ought to move forward and I appreciate what you're saying about the next bucket of money has to be forecovid relating to that.

716
01:09:00,340 --> 01:09:07,980
I mean, why would we say, okay, we loaned this money to ourselves on the chance that we would get paid and then we can certainly figure it out.

717
01:09:07,980 --> 01:09:20,060
Greg, correct me if I'm wrong, we have to come back to the council at your next meeting to kind of officially amend our CWG program and officially allocate those.

718
01:09:20,460 --> 01:09:28,180
So based upon the direction that we have tonight put everything into the business grants, keep it at $5,000 per business.

719
01:09:28,180 --> 01:09:44,060
And we will certainly look at reallocating the ADA curb ramps and including as much as we can into that pot of money to be allocated towards the business relief.

720
01:09:44,060 --> 01:09:57,340
Yeah, if I can just add that we do have to come back and hold the public hearing to modify the BG budget.

721
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:11,340
So if we were going to reprogram money from other programs that would have to be included in the hearing notice.

722
01:10:11,340 --> 01:10:33,060
Yeah, so we can do, it sounds like we could do both at the same time, the ADA curb ramps, which is about $170,000, was there interest of a mandate, the home improvement program, which is roughly $100,000, or leave that the way it's currently approved and allocated.

723
01:10:33,060 --> 01:10:40,280
it. That seems to be something that we really need to continue is giving people an opportunity

724
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:48,260
to bring their house back up to code, owning them that money. I really wouldn't touch that.

725
01:10:48,900 --> 01:10:57,450
So how much did we allocate to home improvement last year? About 100,000. How much was

726
01:10:57,450 --> 01:10:59,810
how much was used?

727
01:11:04,650 --> 01:11:12,010
We're, I would have to look at the latest. We may have gone through half of it.

728
01:11:12,270 --> 01:11:17,570
Okay. So again, maybe that's one of those things that we don't do a very good job of advertising,

729
01:11:19,070 --> 01:11:26,330
but I, I, I, I would, I believe the businesses truly need to help.

730
01:11:26,330 --> 01:11:50,470
I believe we should get this done sooner than later, and I'm fine if we take half of it then, and we use 50,000, so now we got 178, we got 50, and we got 138, so we're still in that at five grand a pop, you're still in that 50, we're so range of businesses.

731
01:11:50,470 --> 01:11:56,390
Mayor, I think there is an opportunity to use some of the housing and improvement program

732
01:11:56,390 --> 01:12:01,210
money that we can reallocate towards this. As Greg mentioned, you know, we do occasionally

733
01:12:02,050 --> 01:12:08,430
get reimbursements or payoffs of those loans which go back into that pot. So we'll take a look and

734
01:12:08,430 --> 01:12:16,830
see where we're at and be able to bring back certainly much larger pot of money when we bring this

735
01:12:16,830 --> 01:12:23,990
to the City Council. Greg, with the noticing requirements, will we anticipate and bring this back

736
01:12:23,990 --> 01:12:33,310
on the 16th or will we need more time for noticing? We can bring it back on the 16th. The

737
01:12:33,310 --> 01:12:41,710
temporary regulations have shortened the notice time from 30 days to five days.

738
01:12:44,780 --> 01:12:51,440
And Greg, Greg, when you bring this back to us, can we try to make ourselves ready to go?

739
01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:53,300
Then we can just approve it at that meeting.

740
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:58,660
I think we really need to get this funding out into the community as quickly as we can.

741
01:12:59,660 --> 01:12:59,820
Yeah.

742
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:03,980
Actually, I was thinking along the lines of, I hate to wait 14 days.

743
01:13:05,540 --> 01:13:07,100
I mean, we're meeting telephonically.

744
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:11,200
We're all in five different places. Can we get a meeting sooner than that?

745
01:13:12,060 --> 01:13:16,960
Well, yeah, I'm all for it if they can put it together, sure. Yeah, absolutely.

746
01:13:20,340 --> 01:13:24,300
Yeah. Yeah, I think we need to give this money out to the community as quickly as we can.

747
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:24,980
Yeah.

748
01:13:27,500 --> 01:13:32,540
As Mr. Goodman just mentioned, we need at least a five day notice.

749
01:13:34,420 --> 01:13:41,440
I say public hearing notice, so we, you know, should be able to maybe have a meeting next Tuesday.

750
01:13:43,220 --> 01:13:44,580
Is it everybody amenable that?

751
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:49,180
I am, can I have a suggestion, though, as to the qualifiers.

752
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:54,600
I think somebody, somebody mentioned that we don't want to, we don't want to consider chain stores.

753
01:13:55,040 --> 01:13:55,260
Right.

754
01:13:55,260 --> 01:14:00,480
But I just want to point out that, you know, there are individuals who are actually small business owners.

755
01:14:00,480 --> 01:14:04,120
and they have actually purchased a franchise.

756
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:07,720
So, that makes a change door, but they're really not a change door.

757
01:14:08,140 --> 01:14:12,680
So, I think that maybe we should help those people as well.

758
01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:16,400
The law agrees, so can I round table pizza, Ace Hardware,

759
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:19,320
those all, you know, family owned businesses, although they have national names.

760
01:14:19,340 --> 01:14:22,080
Well, they're franchisees, and I guess that's what we're really talking about.

761
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,600
We're willing to help a franchisee because they're neighbors.

762
01:14:25,220 --> 01:14:29,480
I'm not willing to help target boss,

763
01:14:32,060 --> 01:14:39,180
I would I would I would I would I would in just think that what we bring this back

764
01:14:39,180 --> 01:14:45,760
Um, yeah, we will have a list of criteria for the Council to review and approve as well.

765
01:14:46,100 --> 01:14:51,520
Okay, so what I'm hearing is we like the lottery idea.

766
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:59,180
We want to support mom and pops, franchisees are fine, no change, did I miss something?

767
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:11,340
Most likely, we will have a one year in business requirement, this is good life sense, and probably a few others, based upon what we're seeing from some of the other cities.

768
01:15:13,060 --> 01:15:19,620
But certainly it is for kind of a small business, the mom and pop act of business.

769
01:15:20,740 --> 01:15:31,020
If it is a franchise zone, that's fine as long as, again, they have the clientele and me employ a pool that is intended for you.

770
01:15:31,020 --> 01:15:37,680
this program. Greg, will we be able to have a special meeting?

771
01:15:38,940 --> 01:15:42,520
Are you planning to have a planning commission meeting?

772
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:45,580
We are canceling the planning commission meeting.

773
01:15:45,980 --> 01:15:47,360
So that's why it opened.

774
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:48,300
Super.

775
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:50,760
Everybody's good on the night?

776
01:15:51,460 --> 01:15:51,780
Yes.

777
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:52,980
Yes.

778
01:15:53,860 --> 01:15:54,640
All right.

779
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:56,700
Let's see.

780
01:15:56,820 --> 01:15:57,160
What do we say?

781
01:15:57,160 --> 01:15:59,720
When you're in business, franchisees,

782
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:01,560
there was something else I was thinking.

783
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:06,420
What about, what about some of the employees?

784
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:12,520
Are you saying a minimum number of employees?

785
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:13,940
No, I said maximum.

786
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:14,720
Maximum.

787
01:16:15,220 --> 01:16:15,720
Maximum.

788
01:16:16,300 --> 01:16:19,500
Yes, I'm assuming there will be some type of maximum number

789
01:16:19,500 --> 01:16:21,620
of employees that they have.

790
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:26,780
I think I want to say it's 15 or 20, maybe, great.

791
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:27,980
What we're seeing?

792
01:16:30,140 --> 01:16:36,940
25 or less has been the criteria that seems to be generally used.

793
01:16:37,940 --> 01:16:39,020
Well, that's good.

794
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:41,640
We can sometimes you get a whole bunch of students, you know,

795
01:16:41,700 --> 01:16:43,740
and they're all finished for something.

796
01:16:44,020 --> 01:16:44,900
That'd be fine.

797
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:49,840
So, uh, one definitely no banks.

798
01:16:53,060 --> 01:16:57,800
I think, too, we need to, I mean, I guess we're picking winners and losers,

799
01:16:57,980 --> 01:16:59,560
but I don't want to see a Starbucks.

800
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:26,140
qualified for funds, but I do want somebody like, oh, Golly, it's what's it called now, it's a good day or it's every day, it's every day or or coffee beans both small I mean one's very small operation the other ones is you know a few hundred stores and how many different state so I think you get the just of what we're trying to do right.

801
01:17:26,140 --> 01:17:31,920
Yep. You know, we'll be happy to put together criteria that hopefully will, um,

802
01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:35,980
kind of, sure if I think it's a little bit more and certainly there's an opportunity at the,

803
01:17:35,980 --> 01:17:45,740
the next meeting to be able to, um, refine those if needed. Okay, so we will meet on a week from tonight.

804
01:17:47,300 --> 01:17:53,700
We will work on that and confirm if we can get this all done with the noticing and confirm

805
01:17:53,700 --> 01:18:01,900
date and time and meeting set up with the council. Very good. Perfect. And if need be, I mean,

806
01:18:01,900 --> 01:18:02,900
I'm looking at the counter.

807
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:09,000
So you're worried about it not being enough time, right?

808
01:18:09,740 --> 01:18:14,180
Well, one, the noticing, which it sounds like if with a five day notice, if we get it out,

809
01:18:14,260 --> 01:18:21,580
we should be able to tomorrow or Thursday, we should be good with that. I am a little bit concerned

810
01:18:21,580 --> 01:18:28,220
on the fast turnaround for the staff report for that to be able to get something to you by the end of

811
01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:35,120
of the week. It is a special meeting. So we all technically only need 24 hours, but I'd like to be able

812
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:42,940
to get the report out for everybody to digest it by the end of the week. But we'll see if we can

813
01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:48,540
have the resources with everything going for with the budget in the next council meeting

814
01:18:49,780 --> 01:18:52,440
to try to make a work the best we can.

815
01:18:52,940 --> 01:18:54,260
Perfect. Okay.

816
01:18:58,460 --> 01:19:00,900
And do we need a motion for this for both items?

817
01:19:01,500 --> 01:19:05,140
No, I think we have enough direction and consensus on this.

818
01:19:05,620 --> 01:19:07,240
All right. Any other thoughts from Council?

819
01:19:09,340 --> 01:19:13,100
No. I think it's terrific. I'm really happy that we're moving this direction.

820
01:19:13,820 --> 01:19:14,480
Yep. Good.

821
01:19:15,580 --> 01:19:22,180
Okay. That brings us then to Council subcommittee reports and no meeting attendance reports.

822
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:30,260
Thank you, Mayor, and thanks again to staff for putting together such a detailed proposal

823
01:19:30,260 --> 01:19:31,660
and report for us to consider.

824
01:19:32,260 --> 01:19:37,780
I think this is a difficult time there, we're in, but I'm continuing to be impressed by our staff,

825
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:42,280
my council colleagues, and most importantly, our residents in the way that we act as a pandemic.

826
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:51,020
I wanted to give a brief report, so I held a virtual office hour last Tuesday, and we had a decent

827
01:19:51,020 --> 01:19:55,060
turn out and I invite a lot of business owners to come on the call and much of the concerns

828
01:19:55,060 --> 01:19:59,840
are addressed tonight. They really want to see the city help them come back, not just to survive,

829
01:20:00,060 --> 01:20:05,720
but to thrive in a post-pandemic situation. And I think we're taking important steps tonight

830
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:10,520
to do just that. So I'm very proud of the work that we're doing. Secondly, I do want to

831
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:15,780
congratulate to all the graduating class, both at Dunbar High School, down to the middle school,

832
01:20:15,780 --> 01:20:22,100
elementary school. Yes, you did a class of 2000. I'll go forth and conquer, carry the torch,

833
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:28,160
stake of claim, and make a difference, and make us proud. And I will be so proud one day,

834
01:20:28,220 --> 01:20:31,680
some of them come back and run for office, and be one of rock colleagues. I'll be great.

835
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:39,780
Lastly, I do want to touch on this a little bit. I vividly remember the LA right of 1992 after

836
01:20:39,780 --> 01:20:41,640
the Rodney King trial.

837
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:44,180
I remember the pain, the alchry, and the outrage.

838
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:47,140
And we again feel the same pain,

839
01:20:47,380 --> 01:20:49,080
the outrage over the killing of George Floyd.

840
01:20:50,620 --> 01:20:52,600
I stand solidarity against the death

841
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:55,560
of an armed black men at the hands of law enforcement.

842
01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:57,900
But with that said though,

843
01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:02,240
we need to express how collected pain reasonably and responsibly.

844
01:21:03,180 --> 01:21:06,140
We must stop these outside forces and bad actors

845
01:21:06,140 --> 01:21:08,520
from destroying neighborhoods and burning down buildings.

846
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:13,840
that is not the way to feel message across, and we should never stand for destruction of

847
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:16,940
private properties. So with that, I'll say good night and thank you.

848
01:21:18,340 --> 01:21:20,820
Thank you, Councillor Chau. Councilwoman Malki.

849
01:21:23,810 --> 01:21:27,930
Thank you, Mayor. I would like to echo just a really big thank you to my colleagues on the council

850
01:21:27,930 --> 01:21:32,730
and to our hardworking city staff for researching and advocating for options that are best for

851
01:21:32,730 --> 01:21:37,070
our residents and our local businesses. I know we'll continue to look for opportunities to continue

852
01:21:37,070 --> 01:21:43,350
to support Simon Bar and our residents. We're in such an incredibly challenging time right now as a society.

853
01:21:44,070 --> 01:21:49,050
As many of you know, I've been continually teaching at Cal Poly Pomona during both the pandemic

854
01:21:49,050 --> 01:21:54,410
and now the demonstrations, and it's given us an opportunity to have a lot of discussions and

855
01:21:54,410 --> 01:21:59,190
sharing and questions in our learning environment. And this is the use of our community so it's

856
01:21:59,190 --> 01:22:03,010
incredibly important. And I think one of the most pointed things that a student

857
01:22:03,910 --> 01:22:08,190
shared with the class and specifically asked me, he just said professor, it's it's also

858
01:22:08,190 --> 01:22:13,030
much and how am I supposed to know what to do? And I thought that was a great question

859
01:22:13,030 --> 01:22:17,350
because I think it echoes what a lot of us are struggling with. But when I look around our

860
01:22:17,350 --> 01:22:21,110
community, I'm so proud that people have found a way to make a difference even with all the levels

861
01:22:21,110 --> 01:22:27,810
of uncertainty and and and potential anxiety. A great example of this is of course what Jody

862
01:22:27,810 --> 01:22:33,670
to share tonight with what DB connects is accomplished, what the Johan Bosch family and community

863
01:22:33,670 --> 01:22:38,630
supporters put together each week and what many other supporters in our community are doing.

864
01:22:38,890 --> 01:22:42,990
So I hope that we will just continue to responsibly gather information and make decisions

865
01:22:42,990 --> 01:22:47,630
that keep our community, neighborhoods, families, and ourselves safe and healthy.

866
01:22:48,210 --> 01:22:54,330
Thank you so much. Thank you, Councilman Lowe. Thank you, Mayor.

867
01:22:54,330 --> 01:23:13,270
It seemed like yesterday that we learned about the COVID lockdown, but so much has happened since March and it's happened so quickly that and we use the word unprecedented, but that word really doesn't capture all that we're feeling and all that we're thinking about and all that we're concerned and worried about.

868
01:23:13,270 --> 01:23:18,050
So we really need to kind of hang together and stick it out.

869
01:23:18,630 --> 01:23:22,910
And I know that just as we thought we were turning the court over with COVID-19,

870
01:23:23,050 --> 01:23:28,650
and we were all being optimistic that we were going to be returning to some kind of normalcy.

871
01:23:28,890 --> 01:23:33,070
Now we have the tragedy of George Floyd and the many others who died.

872
01:23:33,510 --> 01:23:39,170
I work in downtown LA, so that's my reality every time that I'm there.

873
01:23:39,970 --> 01:23:48,290
to be reminded that there's tragedy and people are upset and I too am appalled about these

874
01:23:48,290 --> 01:23:56,070
deaths and joined with the folks that are mourning them and I also support peaceful protest

875
01:23:56,070 --> 01:23:59,850
to speak for those who perish as well as to seek justice.

876
01:23:59,850 --> 01:24:28,810
But as my council member colleague says, there are bad actors who are among these protesters and they're exploiting these events and they're going beyond the morning and going beyond peaceful protests all to all to advance their own agendas and all they're doing is doing the criminal sprees and their intent on slowing discord and fear even into our city and into our society.

877
01:24:28,810 --> 01:24:35,430
So I just want to reassure our diamond by residents that we're on the lookout for that.

878
01:24:35,430 --> 01:24:39,930
We have our sheriff's department, we're prepared to step in and to keep us safe.

879
01:24:40,750 --> 01:24:45,630
Our sheriff's department also have the ability to call in for reinforcements if necessary.

880
01:24:46,770 --> 01:24:53,530
And I want to remind our residents that if you see something, say something, call our police department for assistance.

881
01:24:55,270 --> 01:25:01,050
I'm really grateful for folks like Jory Roberto and the Diamond Bar Community Foundation for

882
01:25:01,050 --> 01:25:03,530
stepping up to help others in need.

883
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That's really a great thing just because that's the last thing you want to worry about.

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So I want to thank them and I know that there are also many others in our community who are

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doing the same thing and finally I want to thank the staff for preparing the report on 5.2

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when putting the program together,

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there was a really short-term around time.

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And you could did great work.

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It was very thoughtful and thorough, so great job.

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And I hope that our businesses

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who will take advantage of these programs,

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as soon as we get it up and running.

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And we can bring them and buy back and draw it out to our dining

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and bring our business and our community together.

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With that, I'll say good night.

896
01:25:43,890 --> 01:25:44,330
Thank you.

897
01:25:44,810 --> 01:25:47,070
Thank you, Councilwoman Lomerra, Protein Lyons.

898
01:25:47,070 --> 01:25:56,530
Thank you, Mayor, and I would just say dido to all of my council members comments that they just made, I won't repeat them, a couple other things.

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I'm yesterday attended the Capital Projects and Construction Committee meeting, and a couple of things that you and our audience might find interesting is that the great separations that are being worked on at Monavello and Turnbull Canyon to projects that are under this label and those two projects are going to be affected.

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by the reduction of gas tax revenue or SV1 shortages.

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Metra is still still providing the funds,

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but they're going to be slower in getting them to us

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than what was originally promised.

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So how is the system that the projects, these two projects,

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are currently projected to be delayed?

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So it's a big difference.

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In terms of the one that we care about the most,

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which is the 5760 chalk point,

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the Department of Transportation is still saying

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that mid-June is when they're going to announce whether or not we get that $50 million dollar

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federal infregrant. If we do, it's full speed ahead and it'll reduce, you know, the construction

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right two years. So that would be great. I would like to congratulate our high school graduates from

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I'm in round high school and down over high school. I saw many of our graduates every place from just

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driving by the parks and the grocery stores, you know, with balloons and it seems as if they

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creatively found a way to celebrate.

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So I'm so pleased that I know that's just a sign

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of creativity that they'll show us in the years to come.

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Finally, something that is really exciting,

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and I don't have all the details on this yet,

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but starting Monday, June 8th,

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the Donna of our Library is one of 24 libraries

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that is going to be a contactless sidewalk pick-up

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So that more GTLs, I'm sure will be coming in and maybe Mr. Falktath them, but if you

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order books through the website and you put them on hold and when they come in, you'll be

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to get them curbside without any content. So I think there's a lot of demand out there,

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probably especially from the parents that are just completely out of books and they want

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some new materials. So I think that's going to be a great thing. Anyway, um, with that I'll say

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tonight. Thank you, Mayor Protem. Again, I want to reinforce what we heard about the

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Denver Community Foundation. I'm not sure a lot of people are aware of some of

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the events that they sponsor. The fun run, the golf tournament, the Gala every

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year is designed to raise funds to put back into the community for sports and

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other things. And right now, with this program, they're focusing on those at a

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to job, those have been furloughed, but I think one of the most important things that Jodi said

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was the elderly. I think as much as a meal, they might just need a friendly face. It just

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might need a smile. We all know somebody like that. Even if it means just picking up the phone

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to check in on them and say hello and they hear a friendly voice. I think we can all do that. Even

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that means getting out of your car and talking with one of your neighbors, it's good as

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does we don't talk to our neighbors very much. So let's reach out, let's do that extra thing

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for folks right now in this difficult time. A couple of things I want to say is Martin Luther King

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hard to believe it was 51 years ago in April that his life was cut short and here we are in a situation

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where a man is his life is snuffed out because of the color of his skin. Martin Luther King said a couple

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01:29:42,190 --> 01:29:47,310
of things that really resonate, said hate, and I don't know that this is original with him, but

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hate, begets hate, violence, begets violence, toughness, begets a greater toughness. We must meet the

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forces of hate with the power of love.

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Our aim must...

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Never be to defeat or humiliate, but to win friendship and understanding. Anyone on to say that the ultimate weakness

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of violence is that it is a descending spiral. I think we're seeing that now. Be getting the very thing

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it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie.

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Nor establish the truth, through violence you murder the hater, but you don't murder hate.

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In fact, violence merely increases hate, returning violence for violence multiplies violence,

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01:30:38,780 --> 01:30:42,400
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.

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Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.

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And when I think of the assemblies that have taken place recently in Chino Hills in Walnut today in Braia,

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all peaceful, because people have something to share.

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There's no looting, there's no rioting, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a peaceful protest.

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But I've heard from enough people around town that they're concerned on Thursday,

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what's planned for a grand and nine barbell of art. I believe we'll be ready for it. I believe that

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01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:29,120
this also can be a peaceful protest. In fact, that would that would be my plea to anybody listening

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01:31:29,120 --> 01:31:35,640
that's going to be a part of that. Let's make sure it's peaceful. Let's make sure the point is

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driven home about what this is all about. So having said that, I will say at 801. Good night. God bless you.

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I bless the United States of America, thanks for tuning in.