[0:18] Well, for can you hear me?

[0:22] I can hear you loud and hear. Okay, you were talking. I couldn't hear you. So I didn't know if it was. I was talking to myself on, I apologize.

[0:34] He does that sometimes.

[0:50] And for the record, it's now 630.

[0:52] Madam Mayor.

[0:57] Yes.

[1:20] I believe we have a forum. I think Cardinals is in the building next thing.

[1:26] Yeah. The apologies. I needed to finish the thought really quickly before I call the meeting to order.

[1:36] All right. So let me just stand quickly.

[1:40] Here we've got here.

[1:46] This is Councilman Amica. I see Vice Mayor Romero and I see that we're

[1:51] missing helpful women go she and Councilman Lidie is that correct? That's correct and also

[1:58] Council member go she informed us that she would not be able to attend tonight's meeting.

[2:04] Okay, all right good. So I'm going to request that while for you

[2:11] projected meeting agenda so that we're all in the same page.

[2:16] and then I'm going to call the meeting to order.

[2:36] All right. All right, so I'd like to call this meeting to order and let's begin with role call.

[2:51] Council member go shade and she noted that she would be absent today.

[2:57] Council member Moody.

[3:02] He's not arrived yet. Council member Abrika. Here. Council member, sorry, Vice Mayor of the Middle.

[3:10] President. And Mayor Wallace Jones. Yeah. Excellent. We do have work.

[3:22] I would like to entertain a motion to approve the agenda unless there are some recommendations for changes.

[3:32] Council, that's present.

[3:34] Is there a motion?

[3:36] It's so moved.

[3:37] Thank you, is there a second?

[3:42] Second.

[3:43] Thank you.

[3:44] It's been moved in properly seconded.

[3:46] All of those in favor, please respond with roll call.

[3:51] Yeah, and I'm going to ask for council member council member moody.

[3:55] If he's around.

[3:58] I yet council member Abrica.

[4:01] Yes.

[4:02] Vice Mayor Romero.

[4:04] Yes.

[4:05] And mayor Wallace Jones.

[4:07] Yes.

[4:08] Okay.

[4:09] We have adopted the calendar.

[4:12] Very good.

[4:12] We've adopted the agenda.

[4:14] Very good.

[4:15] Now, we have closed session tonight and we've got two items that are listed here for closed session.

[4:23] Before we break for closed session, I consider that a big participant community tonight.

[4:29] Can you call for anyone who has comments on the closed session items before we break?

[4:41] It looks like we, okay, we do have somebody that might want to speak on the closed session.

[4:51] That's a Susan Cordo Pussy.

[5:04] This is Susan.

[5:06] Yes, well.

[5:07] Can I speak?

[5:09] Yes, you can.

[5:11] Excellent.

[5:11] Good evening, city council members and staff.

[5:14] My name is Susan Cordo Pussy and I'm the executive director of free at last community recovery and rehabilitation services.

[5:25] I'm sorry to interrupt you, this is for items on closed sessions.

[5:29] We're going to have the public comment later.

[5:31] That's absolutely come back from closed session.

[5:33] No, no, it's my fall.

[5:34] I should have identified you earlier.

[5:40] All right.

[5:41] Are there any community members,

[5:44] neighbors, residents, friends,

[5:46] stakeholders that have comments on the closed session

[5:50] items before we break for closed session?

[5:58] Okay.

[5:58] Hearing none, here's my guidance to our very vast community of participants.

[6:05] We typically engage in closed session for just about an hour.

[6:09] It is 7.635 now.

[6:13] We try to be backed by 730, assuming that we can get through all of the closed business items.

[6:20] My recommendation for all is that if you're planning to leave this meeting and come back in an hour

[6:27] that you plan to come back at 715

[6:30] and that would be to help solve for the case

[6:34] that we get done a little bit early

[6:36] and make sure that you have

[6:37] you catch all of the actual business meeting.

[6:41] So let's try to start coming back by 715

[6:43] and council for now, that's great for our closed session

[6:47] and see if we can conduct

[6:48] at the closed session business in that time.

[6:53] Thank you.

[1:18:43] All for the next presentation is everyone coming back. Will you put the agenda back up and let me know when quorum is arrived?

[1:18:56] Oh my goodness, so hot.

[1:19:18] It does appear we do have a quorum.

[1:19:29] I'd like to bring us back to order for regular council meeting and before we jump into the

[1:19:38] big agenda, I would like us to report out on the outcome of the closed session.

[1:19:46] Beaming Mayor and Council. In close session, the Council discussed two items. The discussed

[1:19:51] real property negotiations, 1950 day road, and it also discussed conference with legal

[1:19:57] council and suspended litigation. Council provided staff direction, but took no reportable

[1:20:02] action on both items. That concludes my report. Thank you. So we're progressing on to all of our

[1:20:10] participants tonight and we have many to public comment. And I want to make sure that we're clear on public comment about two things. The first is why should say three things. The first is we love to hear public comments. So if you've got it, please bring it forward. The two conditions are number one, it has to be topics not related to what's already on the agenda.

[1:20:36] If you are intending to talk about an item that has been agendized already, you can add those

[1:20:43] comments at the time that we discussed that topic. So that's the first. The second

[1:20:49] is generally the council and staff are not in a position to interact with what is said during public

[1:20:59] comment and the only few exceptions that we've ever made there that I have seen are cases where it's

[1:21:05] real emergency condition that requires some response right now. So if we're not interacting with what

[1:21:12] you're saying, I ask questions, making commitments, it's because we're taking it in and to the

[1:21:19] extent that it's necessary, we'll bring topics back where reconsideration in the future and

[1:21:25] or deliberate on them in close session if there's something to do that. With that, I'd like to

[1:21:35] public comment. And while Fred let us know if there is anyone who's raising their hand.

[1:21:43] Great. We do have a court scanner and citizen court of Pasi. We'll start with Susan since she

[1:21:50] was a first one to raise her hand initially.

[1:21:58] Good evening. Mayor, city council members and staff.

[1:22:03] My name is Susan Cordo-Pasi and I'm the executive director of free at last community recovery and

[1:22:09] We've been providing services for 27 years that use all of our community.

[1:22:14] Our mission is to rebuild the community from within,

[1:22:18] reclaiming addicts and giving people who have failed in the past,

[1:22:21] the chance to succeed in the future.

[1:22:23] Free it last provides community-based culturally-appropriate treatment,

[1:22:27] intervention and prevention services,

[1:22:29] designed to reduce the exceptionally high rates of substance abuse,

[1:22:32] and HIV infection and to break the cycle of addiction, green and reunite and rebuild families

[1:22:38] torn apart by intergenerational addiction, provide alternative to incarceration and foster

[1:22:44] economic self-sufficiency. Great last and Ravenswood Family Health Center share the same current

[1:22:51] administrative administration location for our nonprofits. Shortly, both of us will need to find

[1:22:59] locations for administrative offices for our organizations. I have asked to speak tonight during public

[1:23:05] comment to advocate for the importance of keeping building and construction costs reasonable.

[1:23:11] So that it will be affordable for nonprofits to provide our critical services

[1:23:16] or the East Palo Alto community. Thank you. I yield my time to questions.

[1:23:25] Okay, thank you very much. The next speaker we have is Court Skinner.

[1:23:30] I

[1:23:37] just wanted to have a little good news tonight.

[1:23:41] Don't get to do that too often.

[1:23:43] But we're putting together a team in East Palo Alto.

[1:23:46] See if we can solve the digital divide,

[1:23:51] communication problem for, in particular,

[1:23:55] governments of the city school students,

[1:23:57] and other students who are stuck very slow in that speech.

[1:24:01] I think we can be using some very pity people and we already got about a half person and anybody who is interested in helping make this happen.

[1:24:14] I just want to give a shout out.

[1:24:18] I think we can, we can put this property cable so that everybody at some point, not too distant future, can be connected to the internet.

[1:24:29] And then you won't have to share your hot spot with your brothers and sisters and brothers and mothers.

[1:24:36] You'll have plenty of men with to go and do the thing that you need to do.

[1:24:43] Thank you.

[1:24:45] Thanks, or.

[1:24:47] Okay.

[1:24:48] Next speaker, Luis San Boana.

[1:24:59] Okay.

[1:25:01] Yes.

[1:25:01] Good evening Madam Mayor and City Council members.

[1:25:04] I'm Luis of water the CEO of Ravenswood Family Health Center.

[1:25:07] at 1885 Bay Road. We've been working with Johns Brotto to build a

[1:25:12] 58,000 square foot East Palo Alto non-profit resource center at 25, 19

[1:25:18] pull this. We're in addition to our own administrative space in the

[1:25:22] facility, there will be 30,000 square feet of space rent free for other

[1:25:26] non-profits servicing residents of East Palo Alto. However, the sanitary

[1:25:31] district said it's going to cost a $6.6 million to connect our building to

[1:25:36] sewer system on Beirot a half a block away. Well, this is very disposed disproportionate in

[1:25:42] sensible. We won't be able to build the project if we had to pay this fee and this would

[1:25:47] deprive the residents of the city of this great opportunity as well as the non-profits.

[1:25:53] Analysis estimates that the cost of upgrade the sanitary system will be close to $45 million.

[1:25:59] the old clay pipe slated in the 1940s and the 1940s are leaking up to 44% into the land.

[1:26:07] It's threatening our drinking water as a sewage leaks into the water table. So this is a very

[1:26:11] essential upgrade and it can't be built all at once anyway. So sanitary districts typically float

[1:26:18] to 40-year bond and the completed business buildings, whether they're nonprofits or offices,

[1:26:24] will be able to provide the cash flow to pay those bonds back, but we can't do it if we don't

[1:26:29] build. So I hope that together, the Inter-Inter-Asian Sea Council can find and negotiate its

[1:26:37] solution with the Sanitary District to achieve their master plan and allow the development to take

[1:26:42] place so that we can pay for the capital improvements rather than the homeowners. Ravens would

[1:26:47] raise $48 million to build our building. It can be done. It takes faith and belief in the possibilities.

[1:26:54] Thank you. Thank you very much.

[1:27:01] And this point of anybody else would like to speak a public comment.

[1:27:06] Please use the raise hand function.

[1:27:09] And I just see Dave, he got me.

[1:27:18] Hello, good evening Madam Mayor city council and staff. My name is David he got me.

[1:27:24] And I an executive director of the East Paul to tennis and tutoring program.

[1:27:28] Also known as EPAT.

[1:27:29] that, EAPAT has been working in the community of East Paul,

[1:27:34] although for over 30 years.

[1:27:36] As Silicon Valley prospers, the cost of living

[1:27:39] has put a strain on all of us, individuals, families,

[1:27:44] businesses, and small non-profits

[1:27:45] are not immune to the struggles.

[1:27:48] EAPAT has been looking for office space

[1:27:50] for over three years, where simply outpriced out of the market.

[1:27:56] I want to speak in support of the subrato

[1:27:58] these fall out of nonprofit center. This center would allow non-profits to have access to

[1:28:03] the first class facilities that will allow us to be more effective and efficient. As someone

[1:28:09] who has to raise funds, I appreciate and I know that my donor base does as well that dollars

[1:28:15] we raise goes to direct services rather than overhead expenses. The non-profits which will be housed

[1:28:23] at the Center provide medical, dental, educational, and other critical support services that the

[1:28:30] community not only counts on, but desperately needs. The COVID pandemic has amplified the

[1:28:39] challenges many in the community have already been facing. I believe that the subratoet

[1:28:44] use of the nonprofit center will increase local nonprofits capacity, which allow us to better serve

[1:28:50] impact more in the community more effectively, intentionally and efficiently. I concur the other

[1:28:57] comments regarding finding a resolution to the added costs incurred on the water district.

[1:29:05] I thank you for allowing me to voice my support of this important, but most timely project.

[1:29:12] Thank you Dave.

[1:29:19] This time, if anybody else would like to speak, please use the raise hand function.

[1:29:27] Seeing none mayor.

[1:29:32] Awesome.

[1:29:33] And we can flip back to the agenda and bring everyone else along for the next agenda item.

[1:29:40] Thank you for our stakeholder comments from tonight.

[1:29:55] Presentation, tonight one is for Latino Latina

[1:30:00] That culture and history month and the others were built home of proclamation. So I think we should begin at the beginning.

[1:30:13] And I understand that Councilman Abrika will be receiving the proclamation tonight and that he will be sharing it with several community individuals.

[1:30:29] individuals and organizations that enact a cultural programming inside of the city of East Palo Alto, is that correct?

[1:30:42] Yes, sure.

[1:30:44] All right.

[1:30:44] Yes.

[1:30:45] That's correct.

[1:30:47] Okay, perfect.

[1:30:48] I just want to make sure that I am directing my comments to the right receiving entity as well as the broader community.

[1:30:55] So the first proclamation is whereas the cultural life of East Palo Alto is enriched by the

[1:31:02] diversity of the Latino community, with ancestral roots in many parts of the Southwest, Mexico,

[1:31:11] Central, and South America, and the Caribbean. And whereas during this nationally designated

[1:31:17] month, we recognize the contributions made by Latino, Latina individuals and organization

[1:31:24] to the nation, the state, and local communities, including to the city of East Palo Alto.

[1:31:33] And where is this month also serves as a time of study, reflection, and action on issues of

[1:31:41] turn to the Latin X and the overall community,

[1:31:45] be they in education, housing, healthcare,

[1:31:49] immigration, politics, economics, and voting.

[1:31:56] And whereas the rise of anti-Latina, anti-Mexican

[1:32:01] and anti-immigrant racism in the United States

[1:32:05] challenges not only the Latino-Latina community,

[1:32:08] but everyone, everyone, to resist and defend people against all forms of oppression.

[1:32:19] And whereas the COVID-19 pandemic, while exposing the vast structural inequalities in American

[1:32:27] society, continues to inflict disproportionate suffering and pain, to latino latinas and

[1:32:35] vulnerable communities. And whereas traditionally various organizations, including

[1:32:41] Komite Latino, the East Palo Alto Library, and the Senior Center, have sponsored activities.

[1:32:50] This year, the public in general is invited to partake in or initiate civic and cultural activities

[1:32:57] during this period and throughout the community and region as safety and limitations permit.

[1:33:03] And whereas the public in general is invited to partake of the various civic and cultural activities that will be and continue to take place during this period of celebration throughout the community in region, organized by the committee committee.

[1:33:21] Today, Latino, the East Palo Alto Library and Senior Centers and other organizations.

[1:33:27] Now, therefore, be it resolved that the city council as a city of East Palo Alto here

[1:33:32] by proclaims September 15th through October 15th as Latino, cultural, and history

[1:33:40] month and acknowledges the East Palo Alto Latino community for their participation and work

[1:33:46] to keep improving the city of East Palo Alto.

[1:33:51] This is signed by the Mayor of an expression from the entire council.

[1:33:56] And to the council,

[1:33:58] I would like to open the door for additional gestures

[1:34:04] that we have an expressions that we have

[1:34:07] in support of this amazingly culturally rich time

[1:34:12] to celebrate Latin culture in our city?

[1:34:19] Through the mayor, if I may say something?

[1:34:23] So actually, the first thing I want to say is

[1:34:26] there are some errors in the proclamation, which I think can be addressed

[1:34:31] of the country.

[1:34:34] And that would be fine.

[1:34:35] I think that there are some things that need to be changed from this version.

[1:34:40] But other than that, I do want to express the appreciation for the council and, you know, we do this throughout the year for different groups in the community.

[1:34:54] These are definitely very difficult times for all groups, but in particular we know that minority communities,

[1:35:03] particularly, you know, a lot of people in the Latino community who do work in some quote unquote essential jobs.

[1:35:11] And given other conditions, as well as, you know, African American community, I think ethnically other two groups that are suffering the most.

[1:35:21] And but at the same time, you know, at this time to celebrate and to recognize the hard work of people and look to the future as we get through this period.

[1:35:35] period. And so I know that, you know, it's more difficult to organize activities, but different groups. I think we'll still probably be able to do some things and as we find out that I think we'll let you know.

[1:35:50] Sounds very good. And thank you for the comments on the air as I do see them. I tried to read past them, but I think we for sure should fix them before we just reread this out.

[1:36:04] Any other comments from the council?

[1:36:05] Yeah, Madam Mayor, I'll go.

[1:36:09] So I certainly want to celebrate the Latino culture

[1:36:14] and history month here in East Palo Alto.

[1:36:18] It's interesting that we take this kind of highlight

[1:36:23] this month of activity, but like the African American

[1:36:27] culture of Pacific Island or culture, we are a community

[1:36:32] of culture.

[1:36:33] But I think it is appropriate to lift up the work in the efforts and participation of the Latino community here in East Palo Alto and their role is certainly significant to the day to day as well as the future of East Palo Alto.

[1:36:52] Certainly, it's a client and every aspect of who we are as a community ever since even before in corporation.

[1:37:02] So, Kudos to Councilmember Abrica, right, for your role in your leadership and your commitment to lifting up this

[1:37:12] of the Latino community and making sure that their voices heard and and and and provide

[1:37:20] the very clear and distinct role at the table of leadership. And so there's a lot more we can say

[1:37:28] it's unfortunate that because of COVID we don't have the opportunity to be festive and get out and

[1:37:35] and participate in this month-long endeavor, but congratulations, and we do partner and celebrate with you.

[1:37:47] Thank you.

[1:37:49] Tom, so.

[1:37:52] I'll jump in here.

[1:37:55] You know, I think our culture, our various cultures throughout East Palo Alto continue to thrive even during

[1:38:06] these trying times, I know, certainly, you know, families are still gathering and I've seen

[1:38:12] indeed many of those gatherings where people are using, you know, face masks and there

[1:38:19] are, you know, and there's some social distancing going on and I think that's that is indicative

[1:38:25] of, you know, how our community continues to kind of come together, certainly at least in family

[1:38:32] units, certainly culturally, when possible, I know for many Mexicans tomorrow is Mexican

[1:38:37] independence day, so I'm folks will be celebrating that.

[1:38:40] The Mexican soccer league has already started and I've already seen people kind of online

[1:38:45] talking about the soccer league, which is kind of another cultural piece, so certainly the

[1:38:50] various cultures throughout his puddle out of the black Pacific Islander, Latino, continue to

[1:38:58] I'm glad we did this proclamation, but certainly, I think for all cultures during this time in

[1:39:04] this part of what I wish everyone resilience and certainly we will come out of this and let us all

[1:39:13] celebrate this month. Latino culture, but we must indeed, remember to celebrate all of the

[1:39:28] comments here from the council side. The biggest thing for me is, as I read this

[1:39:34] proclamation and I think about our city, what I think about our friendships, what I

[1:39:40] think about our enduring relationships that are both understanding of our differences,

[1:39:47] but also I try I'm fit in our journey together, allies to each other always and individuals

[1:39:56] who collectively believe in the overall uplift of people of color. It's I think it is a

[1:40:05] a tremendous history that we have in the city and a tremendous gift the gift of friendship that

[1:40:13] we have. So as I, as I look on this proclamation, I look on it with tons of happiness, with tons of pride,

[1:40:21] with tons of belief that we're celebrating something that is good and super excited about what it means for everyone who is going to engage in celebration over the next month and looking forward to us continuing to lock arms and to be allies to each other as we move in this journey called life.

[1:40:43] So, thank you to our city staff for putting the population together.

[1:40:48] Thank you to Councilman Abrika for your enduring presence as a leader in the city.

[1:40:55] Thank you to Councilman Romero for being the slightly younger,

[1:41:00] just slightly though younger in body men.

[1:41:03] And thank you for your friendship and your reflection of leadership in the city.

[1:41:11] Do we have any comments that we need to hear from the public on this proclamation?

[1:41:24] I'm seeing none, but I'd like to remind the audience if you use the raise hand function.

[1:41:31] Thank you.

[1:41:31] Can Tom have the opportunity to speak?

[1:41:34] Do you see William Byron, Mr?

[1:41:41] Thank you very much.

[1:41:42] And I'm muted up here.

[1:41:49] You can hear me.

[1:41:50] Okay, wonderful.

[1:41:51] Well, thank you very much.

[1:41:54] Council member Romero for reminding us that tomorrow is the celebration of Mexican independence from Spain.

[1:42:05] There's a famous greetle that the priest ran the bell and called together his followers and began a campaign the last year for a number of years until in

[1:42:22] 1821 as I recall

[1:42:25] Finally, independence was achieved from the Spanish Empire, and that was part of a move that

[1:42:36] swept through Latin America against the Spanish Empire, and has been as a symbol of liberation

[1:42:43] that has inspired people to this day.

[1:42:47] So this is very momentous that we're celebrating Latino, Latino months this year.

[1:42:54] And thank you for everyone, and we have to also remember that what is curing the nation at

[1:43:01] this time or the sacrifices to the work that Latinos and blacks are making for the

[1:43:08] most vulnerable segments of our population and other ones who are suffering the greatest

[1:43:14] about a sickness through COVID-19 and death, and we hope that we hope that in the near future this criminal activity of permitting two groups in particular to sacrifice for the whole nation will be addressed and not permitted to continue on.

[1:43:39] Thank you so very much to the Latino community for

[1:43:43] past sacrifices for this nation and need us to say sadly for the sacrifices that are being made

[1:43:50] for the whole nation today. Thank you very much.

[1:43:55] Thank you Mr. Let's hear.

[1:44:06] All right. I'm seeing anybody

[1:44:13] else that would like to speak these

[1:44:17] Thank you.

[1:44:18] Thank you.

[1:44:22] Thank you.

[1:44:23] Thank you.

[1:44:24] Thank you.

[1:44:27] Mr. Wester, you might have to mute yourself this time.

[1:44:35] I'll group this preview to the beauty of the conversation.

[1:44:38] Okay.

[1:44:40] Hearing no additional comments, I'd like to move us on to the second and final

[1:44:45] proclamation for the evening, is that okay?

[1:44:49] Great.

[1:44:51] All right.

[1:44:52] Tonight we are also honoring Phil Fong.

[1:45:00] The community legal services agency in East Palo Alto and the proclamation reads, whereas the state of California is blessed to have Bill Hong, such an extraordinary leader in the field of effective legal services, effectively protecting, especially for, and historically exploited minorities, most notably Blacks, which he knows Native Americans and Asians, with a potential for similarly extraordinary national and possibly even international impact.

[1:45:30] And where I still found that she, the level of regional significance that had only been

[1:45:34] a contemplated, went down there a list of the Jackson and William Byron Webster with the

[1:45:41] unstinting support of the first East Palo Alto mayor at Barbara A. Mouton, as she

[1:45:48] rest in peace, as well as the other East Palo Alto residents such as Dwayne Bay, Luella and

[1:45:55] and as Parker, Mary Lucerano, founded the Community Legal Services in 2002, and whereas

[1:46:02] still hung achieved a level of regional significance, the founders could only contemplate

[1:46:09] in the early years of community legal services beginning in 2002, resulting in the renowned

[1:46:15] of community legal services extending throughout Northern California, to at least as far away

[1:46:22] as grass valley, as confirmed in the course of a conversation with the attorney,

[1:46:26] chairing the Regional Arts Commission serving grass valley in Nevada city and the nearby northern California communities.

[1:46:34] And where is the achievements of the home over the past eight years as the CEO of community legal services?

[1:46:40] Have I seated all possible expectations and provides transformative,

[1:46:46] transformative legal services to low-income Bay Area communities and communities of color in the areas of immigration, housing, and economic advancements.

[1:46:56] And whereas under Phil Hong's leadership, community legal services in East Palo also expanded its scope of work, and grew from 14 to 44 staff positions, mostly attorneys and open branch offices in San Francisco Berlin game rig with city,

[1:47:14] Menlo Park and Mountain View in three different counties San Francisco San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and increased the annual funding sixfold and whereas in recognition of field leadership and the excellence of its staff community legal services received the 2019 non profit of the year award from local assembly member Mark Burman and the advocacy work of community legal services under field leadership has been highlighted in national media

[1:47:42] including articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times.

[1:47:49] Now, therefore, be it resolved.

[1:47:51] That the city council and the city of East Palo Alto express

[1:47:56] our deepest gratitude for the eight years of service at Phil Huang,

[1:48:01] beginning in 2012, and including in September of 2020,

[1:48:05] not only to the community of East Palo Alto, but expanding directly

[1:48:08] and indirectly to much of the San Francisco Bay area through this leadership that has benefited

[1:48:14] the lives of most. If not more, then 60,000 Bay area residents who have benefited from the

[1:48:22] legal services provided, including hundreds of abused immigrant women and children who owe

[1:48:27] their very lives to the intervention of community legal services, as well as thousands of immigrants

[1:48:32] and low income renters and working people seeking just compensation for their service.

[1:48:38] This proclamation is signed on September 15, 2020 by myself and is reflective of the

[1:48:44] sentiments of the council and city staff. It's still fun here to receive these accolades.

[1:48:51] Yes, he is here. Fantastic.

[1:48:56] We see you. Hello. Now, I see in Zoom that you have your name spelled H-W-A-N-G in the

[1:49:08] Proclamation, I see H-U-A-N-G. Which one is the correct one? It would be H-W-A-N-G.

[1:49:21] So we need to make that modification and the proclamation.

[1:49:27] I want to give you an opportunity to accept, but before we do that,

[1:49:32] I want to make sure that council members have the opportunity to shower you with deep love and affection

[1:49:40] that you hear that and respond after hearing what council has to say to you.

[1:49:47] council members?

[1:49:53] Phil I'll I'll start I know you will be sorely missed I know you you have really grown

[1:50:00] CLS from its infancy and very much appreciate all the work that you've done locally and of course

[1:50:08] you know you've moved on to other cities and it have spread you know the ability to actually have folks

[1:50:15] be represented in various areas of the law, as well as I think worked on vital rent control

[1:50:23] and tenant advocacy work. And I know that's tough sometimes for organizations to do,

[1:50:28] and you were able to work with your board, and certainly an enthusiastic staff to not just do

[1:50:33] the lowering work, but also some of the organizing and some of the support of progressive organizing

[1:50:39] up and down the peninsula over to San Francisco and even Oakland so that work to me is near

[1:50:46] and dear to my heart clearly and that social justice work is something that I think you have

[1:50:50] helped kind of embed within the the center of CLS and you will be sorely missed and I hope

[1:50:55] that your replacement will indeed be able to meet at least half of your large shoes. Thank you.

[1:51:06] Thank you, councilman. Thank you, vice mayor. Council.

[1:51:15] Yeah, through the mayor. Yeah. Yes.

[1:51:21] I, her name is, case me right now, but the person who was the first, you know,

[1:51:27] director, I remember many people feeling that she had done really a great job in

[1:51:34] getting the organization started and moving things along. And, you know, then Phil came and

[1:51:43] I would just say watching the work over the years, you know, I don't think it would take anything away from her, and she, wherever she is, I think would recognize that Phil has done a tremendous job, exceptional job, and not only maintaining the work of CLS, but expanding it, and really focusing it so much on the needs of the communities, not only in Espao Alto,

[1:52:12] but throughout the peninsula and the Bay Area.

[1:52:18] And also I think Phil has been one of those persons

[1:52:21] that probably not a lot of people hear about.

[1:52:26] He just kind of low key.

[1:52:28] That's his work, tremendous work.

[1:52:31] And so, thank you very much for all of you

[1:52:35] done for our community and the best

[1:52:38] and whatever other endeavors are coming your way.

[1:52:41] Thank you very much.

[1:52:44] Thank you, Councilman.

[1:52:49] Council.

[1:52:51] I feel I just can't remember moody.

[1:52:54] I just want to really celebrate your eight-year commitment to Escol Auto.

[1:53:03] You know, you actually came in during the time where not only did our community begin,

[1:53:12] Except in the fact that we had a law project here,

[1:53:15] but they really began trusting that the people within those walls

[1:53:21] were really advocates for their issues.

[1:53:25] And, you know, the CLS certainly has become a place of refuge

[1:53:30] for many of our local residents who had an opportunity

[1:53:33] to really kind of tell the story and to have their cries heard if you would.

[1:53:40] and your organization has been so responsive,

[1:53:44] so family-oriented, to so many over the last decade,

[1:53:49] that we, as a community, may get in some respects,

[1:53:54] just take, take you for granted.

[1:53:56] But I know personally and many know

[1:53:58] that you are a big part of the comfort,

[1:54:02] that many of the families we see when they come in those doors.

[1:54:07] I want to also celebrate the way that you navigate it,

[1:54:09] board of directors to be flexible and fluid with the issues facing East Palo Alto and being

[1:54:17] well in part with many of our nonprofit organizations to give them the legal and technical support

[1:54:25] that they need it for much of their goals and emissions as organizations. And to, you know,

[1:54:33] I mean, you typically stay under the radar, you know, you're not a name tag guy, but your work has certainly been appreciated and will continue to go before you. So that's the love to you in the future.

[1:54:52] I feel I will wrap by saying this.

[1:54:56] My parents focused a lot on what we do with our dash.

[1:55:02] What we do with the time in between point A and point B.

[1:55:08] I moved to the city in 2002,

[1:55:11] right as this organization was getting started.

[1:55:15] I was only elected in 2018 much later,

[1:55:20] But there have been an innumerable number of residents that even I have referred to CLS and they all come back with such tremendous accolades and recognition of support that they would likely not receive anywhere else with a level of care.

[1:55:50] that helps them know that they are respected as humans and as people.

[1:55:56] I admire that in your dash, you have accomplished so much and you still have a full head of air.

[1:56:05] And I am so excited that you chose to spend this period of time doing work on behalf of some of our most vulnerable residents, not only

[1:56:18] in the city of East Palo Alto, but throughout the Bay Area.

[1:56:22] Because you are still so young, what I fully expect is that you're going to create another tremendous dash someplace else doing something else.

[1:56:36] But I want you to know that we will always look on you as friend.

[1:56:41] We will always look on you as the leader among leaders, and I really love the abundant use of the word effective in your proclamation, because there are many words that we can use to describe people,

[1:57:11] right?

[1:57:11] our work and you have landed with such a great model of admiration by all of us that the only thing

[1:57:21] that we can do is say thank you. Thank you for your dash that was here. Thank you for your dash

[1:57:27] that was above and beyond for so many and best wishes in your next journey that you be as effective

[1:57:35] as you were in doing this work here. Thank you.

[1:57:43] Thank you so much.

[1:57:49] A man a few words.

[1:57:51] Oh, he's real.

[1:57:54] I mean, you're doing it.

[1:57:56] What they don't see is that 18 years ago,

[1:57:59] it was your neighbors, your friends, your colleagues,

[1:58:03] and he's parallel to start his organization.

[1:58:06] And so when you look at all the accomplishments

[1:58:08] the organization has done,

[1:58:09] It is really a tribute to those folks, 18 years ago, who built this organization, you know,

[1:58:16] I think about William Webster, Elizabeth Jackson, and some of the other names that have been

[1:58:21] mentioned. And so I was here for a brief period at that time, and I did my best to keep

[1:58:27] your organization on track. I think of all the ways in which oftentimes these powerful

[1:58:33] residents and space bouts of community is underestimated. And people don't fully acknowledge

[1:58:39] the amazing contributions of that community. And certainly when we're in court, you know,

[1:58:44] oftentimes people are underestimating us and then they're estimating what we can accomplish.

[1:58:48] And I'm just so grateful to have done what I could for those community members who started

[1:58:57] this organization because in new the value of the work that we do for the friends,

[1:59:02] their family. And I just want to put a plug for there's an amazing staff, a community

[1:59:07] legal service, some of whom you've seen, some of whom come to be city council meetings,

[1:59:12] some of you can count on other aspects of the work and I'm just so proud to have played my

[1:59:16] part and having them join this organization and doing the work that they're continuing to do.

[1:59:20] I'm so blessed that they'll be a part of the continuous and legacy. Thank you so much for

[1:59:25] really grateful for this foundation.

[1:59:29] Thank you. Are there any other community members that would like

[1:59:33] share expressions with film. Yes, we have two. We'll start with

[1:59:38] court scanner. Okay.

[1:59:50] But before film, it's three and perhaps four

[1:59:55] other executive directors. I've probably been on that board now longer than

[2:00:00] Anyone.

[2:00:03] And one of the things that I seriously appreciate is the displung, which really has almost always been the case of the community services.

[2:00:17] And I remember the process that we went through before we hired them, and the board members at the time, you know, interviewed a lot of people, and then filled, stopped.

[2:00:34] I'm not sure he knew that, but we certainly knew that.

[2:00:39] And I'm aiming for the first time brought in some real organization.

[2:00:50] It's some very good people.

[2:00:53] Some of whom are still there and some of whom are not.

[2:00:55] But all of whom made contributions.

[2:00:59] And it's been a joy to work for community legal services.

[2:01:03] And I think it's sort of set the standard for non-profit organizations in East Palo Alto that we don't do well for your own more about.

[2:01:15] And I suspect that it will continue to do so for a long time to come.

[2:01:22] Thank you.

[2:01:24] I always appreciate the word in view. Thank you much.

[2:01:29] Okay, next speaker we have is William William Byer and Webster.

[2:01:38] There's city council members. I'm here in my condo with a list of the snacks and on 20 minutes after midnight on May 14th, 2002.

[2:01:52] Elizabeth called me in my office at Stanford University to inform me that the previous evening, the Board of Directors of the law project had voted to expand.

[2:02:06] We knew this as a crisis for the community because the community depended upon attorneys for the tenants who are protected by the rent stabilization program to be protected.

[2:02:23] So we went into action and rallied other people in the community together and were able to get community legal services that he's fell off the ground in 2002.

[2:02:43] I was, and then we went on to have the most amazing succession of executive directors

[2:02:52] beginning with Geraldine Steinberg, the continue with Judge Andy Cohen, the continuing

[2:03:01] with Candice Greenberg, and then eight years ago, Phil Fong, and this community has been

[2:03:11] still blessed and hundreds of thousands of people have been protected and after I finish

[2:03:21] talking, I hope you'll give Elizabeth Jackson our founder to have two minutes to speak.

[2:03:29] My time is runoff.

[2:03:31] Feel onward and upward with one justice, just as you've represented the Bay Area, now you

[2:03:38] will be representing the entire state of California in your next job.

[2:03:47] And now we have to.

[2:03:51] Oh, sorry.

[2:03:53] I'm sorry.

[2:03:54] Again, I'm glad to.

[2:03:56] Mr. Webster.

[2:03:58] Are you passing the microphone to Mr. Elizabeth tonight?

[2:04:05] Good evening, council members.

[2:04:07] and Mayor of I'm Mayor Jones, I'm Elizabeth Jackson and I just want to say that I am the

[2:04:16] principal founder of Community Legal Service. I want to just give you a little just a very

[2:04:22] little history of this organization. It came from very little funds. I just want you to know

[2:04:30] that it had zero funds.

[2:04:33] I tried to get the law project to let the community reorganize it, but they refused to.

[2:04:40] So I use my own funds to do it.

[2:04:43] And I set up a fundraising committee where everybody had to do fundraising, including the board, the staff, and community members.

[2:04:53] So that's how we got our first city of the community helped me raise the first $25,000 to go forward.

[2:05:04] And when we got our $66,000, we opened up in three and a half months.

[2:05:10] I think that was good. What I tried to do is to make sure that we have a solid foundation.

[2:05:15] And what I want to say to Phil is that he has to feel all of those things that I put in those those bylaws with my lawyers.

[2:05:23] I have two lawyers, two fundraising people, but he has done that and some of the things and he has not changed it.

[2:05:31] So I was very impressed with you, feel for looking in those smiles and seeing those stable things that we wanted in there.

[2:05:37] And you have not changed it, your boys have not changed it. And I think that's why we're so stable.

[2:05:42] And you move forward with making chapters or branches, whatever you want to call them today.

[2:05:48] And I, my plan was to make sure that we spread this effort come from East Palo Alto and whatever we do, we spread it among their surrounding communities and you did that and I'm very impressed with that.

[2:06:01] And so I do want to thank you for all your hard work and for making lead services a very effective organization that has helped a lot of people.

[2:06:11] and I want to thank the City Council for honoring him and for knowing that this has come from

[2:06:18] East Palo Alto and the whole world know about this. I've had people to ask talk to me about it from

[2:06:24] France, so I think that we've done a great job in East Palo Alto and I think we're recognizing the

[2:06:31] persons that move us forward. It's great. Thank you very much. Amazing. Next speaker we have is

[2:06:38] Shana.

[2:06:50] Everyone, Malala, Tallahallah. I, Shana, Ukila, Long time resident East Palo Alto,

[2:06:57] representing the Anamathani Polynesian voices and the Ukila family wanted to send a special

[2:07:06] Manuia and blessings and positive and thank you, send off to Mr. Phil Huang for all that you've

[2:07:13] with the community, Mama D sends her many thanks and her love and says thank you for all

[2:07:22] of the wonderful energy, the positivity, the effectiveness, like Mama Regina said, and just

[2:07:29] helping empower families in our community now, the things that you're going to move forward.

[2:07:36] We just are very proud and I wanted to get the huge huge shout out to the board of

[2:07:42] community legal services for all their wonderful work, the founders, Mama Elizabeth Jackson

[2:07:48] and William Webster, I remember as a kid going to these like board meetings, like very,

[2:07:53] very young and just kind of just chiming in and seeing things happen, it's just wonderful

[2:07:57] that it's just, it's blossoming into this beautiful thing and of course it has and Phil thank

[2:08:02] you again. And then also wanted to give a huge shout out to the CLS family that's out there

[2:08:08] Katrina Jason, just everyone. Um, they've just been so, so fundamental to the growth and the safety

[2:08:15] empowerment to the families here. Latino African American Pacific Islander family. So God bless

[2:08:21] you all. Thank you again. Um, and go with God and God bless and um, love and thanks from the

[2:08:27] family and I'm a bunny. Thank you so much.

[2:08:42] We have an admin from

[2:08:44] CLC.

[2:08:49] Good evening everyone. I think my name shows us that in

[2:08:53] Cusper, but it's Maria Mata staff at Cusper and I think I'm showing up to this

[2:09:00] celebration or anything you know as a Latina immigrant who grew up in this

[2:09:04] community who eventually you know during Cusper as a as a staff as a

[2:09:09] and is now left after Phil to guide the leadership of the

[2:09:14] organization and I am showing up mostly to thank him for his grace, his

[2:09:21] cumulative humility, for modeling that and I think for giving me as a member of

[2:09:26] this community and opportunity to thrive and grow and at times drive this

[2:09:31] organization to be more than just a legal services organization, but also a

[2:09:36] for younger generations, expanding our internship opportunities for folks in the community and allowing me to take us into this different direction.

[2:09:48] You will be deeply missed, but I am more and more accepting that, as you've said,

[2:09:56] you know changes good and looking forward to working for all that you have ahead of you at one

[2:10:06] justice. So thank you though.

[2:10:13] What's that? Thank you for that. And I'm not seeing any more speakers.

[2:10:20] So we hope that you feel loved, celebrated, appreciated, and sent off well. So your next journey,

[2:10:27] please continue to come back and be with us often and good luck in your next venture.

[2:10:36] Thank you so much. Thank you.

[2:10:43] Good luck in your new venture.

[2:10:49] These are parts are so hard. They bring out so many emotions and then we have to move into consent

[2:10:53] calendar. Then the last is 840. So we do have to move into consent calendar

[2:11:00] council before we move to accept the consent calendar. Is there anything that you want to pull?

[2:11:09] I would like to pull, um, I believe it's us five, about six point five.

[2:11:18] Six point five, they're one and red. Yes. Okay. Any others that we need to pull?

[2:11:24] I'll find Mayor Jones. Okay.

[2:11:31] Hearing no others. I'd like to entertain a motion to

[2:11:33] to accept the consent calendar items six, one through four.

[2:11:39] So moved.

[2:11:40] Thank you, Eric.

[2:11:41] Thank you.

[2:11:42] It's been moved in properly.

[2:11:43] Second, it all goes in favor.

[2:11:45] Please respond with roll call.

[2:11:47] Councilman Regulshay absent, council member of America.

[2:11:52] Yes, council member Moody.

[2:11:55] Yes, vice mayor of the middle.

[2:11:58] And my all assumes.

[2:11:59] Yes.

[2:12:01] Uh, doctor.

[2:12:06] It's not, well, maybe it is a slight concern. I just, I'm glad that we're getting this out and we were able to move it relatively quickly. I know there weren't a lot of constraints on the grant, which probably makes sense, but I do want to make sure that there might be a possibility or the responsibility that we can somehow coordinate this outreach with possibly the work that the census and you know,

[2:12:32] I know there are a lot of people that are going out doing door to door, and I had a couple of folks actually come to my door, and I did my census with two months ago, and I would really hope that we could figure out a way to concentrate this on those addresses, where we know people are not responded.

[2:12:54] So, if that's possible, I would love for our staff to contact both the county that's doing some similar work and possibly the census folks and say, hey, where's a list?

[2:13:05] We have people being want to go out.

[2:13:08] So, with that, I'm perfectly fine with supporting the resolution and moving forward.

[2:13:13] I'm glad to see there is a number of groups that came out.

[2:13:15] I'm also glad to see that not all the groups asked for the entire 7,500.

[2:13:19] a kind of gauge what they could do and I think that's that I certainly support that approach

[2:13:25] in that honesty and I hope that with these 32,000 dollars we can bring many more percentages

[2:13:32] of our percentage of who's actually completed the census. Thank you.

[2:13:40] Excellent. Wallford, I know that you and Councilman Moody, but I specifically calling on you because I

[2:13:46] know that in the day-to-day hustle and bustle that you're going to be more actively present

[2:13:53] in the lives of these organizations, I do know that we know by district inside of EPA,

[2:14:01] the percentage of census response, we don't know by household, which is it's a little bit harder,

[2:14:10] but we at least know where we've got 50% participation versus 70% participation.

[2:14:17] So to the vice mayor's point, I think we'll be looking to you to help us overlay the insights that we have,

[2:14:25] with the organizations that we're going to activate and really fire them in the direction of the areas of the city where we have least participation.

[2:14:32] So, Madam Mayor, that's me, and I am meeting with the census folks at the county of San

[2:14:39] Mateo. Mr. Fontez, you know what's the information? Please.

[2:14:45] I got this correct, Marine Mackenzie, Director Mackenzie. We'll be connecting with the Gonzalez

[2:14:50] from the county, the aftermath after the federal election of the many hundreds of the

[2:15:04] So we are coordinating our efforts and thank you Vice Mayor for bringing us up directly with the county for census deserts here within the city.

[2:15:15] And we'll coordinate specifically as you had suggested. So I'm glad you brought light to this situation and we'll be starting tomorrow.

[2:15:24] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that.

[2:15:28] Excellent. Councilor Moody, do you have a reaction to that?

[2:15:31] Yeah, I would like to just add that, you know, part of the challenge is that to your point,

[2:15:40] there are certain areas within these follow-up where the response for household has been very,

[2:15:46] low. And so the idea that someone might not

[2:15:52] linger door two or three times because you are in a zone that has been very slow to

[2:15:57] respond very likely, right? One of the things that the enumerators and now this new team will

[2:16:06] be experiencing is a level of frustration from those who have completed their senses

[2:16:14] and a timely manner, and also the idea that there's no one at home in those areas.

[2:16:24] So it's a really important opportunity for us to really flood those areas, because some areas

[2:16:29] and these folks out there are doing really, really well, and totally in alignment with what's

[2:16:34] happening on the county side. But then there's other areas that are just having their responsive.

[2:16:39] So there will be a lot of mixed emotions, especially as we send these groups out.

[2:16:48] And so with that to Ms. McKinsey, I really hope that there's ample amount of training,

[2:16:55] especially around that idea of how to interact with 80 units, not just the front, the main household,

[2:17:04] but certainly understand our community and where households can, you know, home, you know,

[2:17:10] family can be found. We need to uncover them and to identify them as well. And then also,

[2:17:16] to make sure that we, we're aware that we are working community. So this, the idea of a 95

[2:17:23] approach might not capture, right, or have the impact that we, that we need. So maybe there's a

[2:17:30] conversation around expanding our reach. Maybe it's a earlier start and a later conclusion, right?

[2:17:37] So we do really kind of be impactful and be a very intentional. We're trying to reach our target population.

[2:17:45] Thank you.

[2:17:48] Awesome.

[2:17:50] Council, have we said all that we have to say about line item number five.

[2:17:57] Madam Mayor, I'm ready to make a motion that we approve item 6.5 on the consent calendar.

[2:18:04] Thank you a second.

[2:18:07] I seconded.

[2:18:08] Thank you.

[2:18:09] It's been moved improperly seconded by Vice Mayor O'Marrow and Councilor Moody.

[2:18:14] All of those in favor, please respond with local call.

[2:18:17] Councilmember Goche, absent.

[2:18:19] Councilmember Barberita.

[2:18:22] Councilmember Moody.

[2:18:24] Yes.

[2:18:25] Vice Mayor of the middle. Yes, and Mayor Walshons. Yes, up to you, not in this.

[2:18:32] Thank you, Council members. Excellent.

[2:18:37] So I want to transition us on to staff and council reports, but I do also want, I don't want to

[2:18:43] eliminate anybody. Everyone's got to say what you got to say, but it is almost 9 o'clock.

[2:18:48] I just want us to be aware of the hour and if there's not something critical that we have to

[2:18:54] share, I will ask that you hold if you can. Talk about critical things that hold if you

[2:18:59] can so that we can transition on through a really robust remaining agenda. So let's start with

[2:19:05] staff reports. Are there any? Thank you, members of the council. I will not have a staff report. I have

[2:19:10] an informational report and the only director that has a small reminder is Amy Chen, please proceed.

[2:19:18] Hello Mayor City Council. Thank you for hearing staff report. I did want to note that we had an item originally noticed for this Council agenda. It was related to the inclusionary and loopy public hearing item.

[2:19:34] We have decided as staff to recommend moving it to October 20th because it would better align with the review of the entire inclusionary implementation guidelines.

[2:19:47] because the in-loop fees are described in the methodology is described within those guidelines.

[2:19:55] We wanted to share that with Council at the later date.

[2:19:59] I did want to note though that the guidelines we will be sharing also with the public in the meantime.

[2:20:07] And so with that additional time we would appreciate deferring it to October 20.

[2:20:15] Thanks.

[2:20:17] Thank you.

[2:20:17] Council, is there any discussion about that?

[2:20:22] That sounds right to me.

[2:20:25] Thank you for that.

[2:20:27] Any other staff reports?

[2:20:29] I may.

[2:20:31] No, I have the information report when you're ready.

[2:20:33] Okay.

[2:20:34] All right, then I'm going to turn my attention to Council members.

[2:20:36] Council, do you have any critical updates that you need to make tonight in your reports?

[2:20:40] I've met a miracle first and respect to all the great work that we've been doing with the

[2:20:47] Ennega v. Mino committee and the Espa Lotho sanitary district.

[2:20:52] I would like to encourage you and the vice mayor to consider bringing before the council

[2:20:59] at the next earliest date, a update on our work with the committee as well as some strategic options

[2:21:08] that we need to just hear about and let's see what the council can learn about the relationship

[2:21:16] that we have with the Sanitary District. So I'd like to lift that up as an action for your agenda

[2:21:22] setting group. Also, too must do. I want to really celebrate this past weekend, baby basics of the

[2:21:37] to Espa Lato and Bellhaven and Ferrox residents here in the community.

[2:21:44] They gave every family that they came, an opportunity to get over $100 and free diapers

[2:21:53] clean, diapers for their sons and daughters.

[2:21:57] Kudos to Michelle Dar, Kudos to a public works department, and Kudos to the 30 plus volunteers

[2:22:06] and the board of directors, baby basics,

[2:22:08] for making this event possible.

[2:22:12] And really just to make sure that every child,

[2:22:17] their model is, every child deserves to have a clean diaper.

[2:22:21] And certainly that took place this past weekend.

[2:22:26] I will say one thing about baby based on the peninsula.

[2:22:29] It's a program for working families,

[2:22:36] right?

[2:22:36] from zero to two. So you learn more about it on their website. And then I want to lift up

[2:22:42] past the Paul Bains and we hope they started their work here and he's Palo Alto with

[2:22:52] the initiative around homelessness. We're going to talk a little bit about their

[2:23:02] their projects with the RVs, but now this small organization has expanded. Pastor Baines has

[2:23:13] the reach now is in Los Angeles County. They're doing great work in Santa Clara County.

[2:23:18] They're doing great work here in San Mateo County. And now San Francisco County has consulted

[2:23:26] with we hope to coordinate and run a hundred-bed shelter in the San Francisco area, and what's really

[2:23:36] exciting about that is that you went from a small visionary approach, which is church,

[2:23:41] now he's employing over 130 people, and the majority of those individuals come from the Ceats Palo Alto

[2:23:47] to me. So man, what a vision, right? It's really a place to win. Some air on

[2:23:56] there's wings and they're doing a great job. So I just want to lift him up. And I'll

[2:24:00] full go the other points I have in turn. Let's meet him. Okay.

[2:24:04] Thank you. I'm so happy. I'm moving over to my lab. Councilman, Abrica.

[2:24:11] Yeah, just one thing on top of everything else.

[2:24:17] We know these are election times, and I just want to remind all the candidates not to do

[2:24:27] what the Alexander and Rivera school board candidates did for two days that were,

[2:24:39] I don't

[2:24:39] violation of city ordinances and so, you know, I think our staff, if candidates don't know that,

[2:24:49] they should get a letter to remind them because maybe they didn't know, maybe they did,

[2:24:54] but it just looked really bad. I think people don't appreciate that sort of taking over the public space

[2:25:01] to publicize their campaign. So that's an observation. Thank you.

[2:25:08] Thank you for that, Councilman Ebrica, Vice Mayor

[2:25:20] Carlos.

[2:25:27] I'll tell you it returns. Go ahead, Mayor.

[2:25:29] Well, I'm just going to wrap up and say a couple of things.

[2:25:33] The first is for those who are aware of him.

[2:25:38] He's run for council a couple of times in the history of his life.

[2:25:42] And he's Palo Alto.

[2:25:43] Lewis Moore is in the hospital right now.

[2:25:46] And it's a way to having some surgery.

[2:25:49] So I encourage you to lift his family up.

[2:25:53] He's got children that have flown in from all over the place to help make sure that he is loved and supported at this time.

[2:26:00] And we'll hear that he would appreciate hearing from residents and from staff and others who know him and know him well.

[2:26:06] He would normally be at a meeting like this and he's in the hospital now.

[2:26:10] So that's the first.

[2:26:11] The second is I would like to extend Councilman Moody's comments on Pastor Baines.

[2:26:18] And say that he and I together did a panel with Ray Mueller, sponsored by Ray Mueller, and in conjunction with the cities of Ravenswood, the city of Mountain View, and also the city of Half Moon Bay, to talk about what work we are doing on behalf of the unhoused in our various and respective cities, and it was so good to stand out as a leader that is proactively solving problems and that is helping to influence the work that is happening across all of the people.

[2:26:48] of our neighboring cities. We were clearly acknowledged as an innovator in the space in one that other

[2:26:54] cities want to follow. In suit and in line with that there have been a number of RBC parking

[2:26:59] programs that have recently been approved, including one in the city of Palo Alto most recently,

[2:27:06] but certainly in the cities that we talked about as well. And the one thing that I want to call

[2:27:11] for Pastor Baines is that he continued to push the envelope with all of us by sharing the

[2:27:18] tiny home development that he has created a model for in the city of East Paul also and that

[2:27:24] he is hoping to drive many, many more cities to follow suit down the path of ownership because we

[2:27:30] know that ownership is a path to permanence. So that was a great housing or summit rather on the

[2:27:38] of the work of public servants and community organizations and supporting the unhoused.

[2:27:46] And I do want to lift up the work specifically of Pastor Baines and more broadly of the

[2:27:51] worker project re-hope and making a lot of our plans to be actualized in the city of East Hau

[2:27:56] a lot. So that's the first thing. The second is to expect council and duties request that we bring

[2:28:05] what we're clarifying information on what has happened in intergovernmental discussions with the sanitary district,

[2:28:14] just so that we bring all council members, city staff and residents in line with what we know,

[2:28:20] and to help us to understand what actions that we can take as a city to continue to move the ball forward in

[2:28:29] in Clared Wine, our asks and our needs from the sanitary district. So that's a really important thing

[2:28:36] to offer as well. With that, I would like to silence myself and allow us to move into a really

[2:28:48] important and longer way to topic, which is our city COVID-19 response efforts. But before I do that,

[2:28:56] I do want to check one more time to see if I smear Romero has any comments that you would like to make

[2:29:03] because when I called to move for you weren't there.

[2:29:07] I'm sorry, actually, I texted you saying I was going to take a quick fast move break.

[2:29:11] So, I got it. And for the good of the order, I have nothing to add here.

[2:29:16] We should move on to more important issues. Thank you.

[2:29:19] I'm sorry to put you on the spot. No, no, no problem.

[2:29:23] All right, so Council, I would like to move us on then to our information report from our city manager on the City of COVID-19 response efforts.

[2:29:34] Thank you, Mayor members of the Council, respectfully.

[2:29:37] We're going to have 18 frames and I run to them promptly.

[2:29:41] I will address any concerns you may have for the last frames.

[2:29:46] Just want to remind everybody we have a coordinated response to COVID,

[2:29:50] and we have had so for months since the beginning.

[2:29:54] It's all began really on January 28th

[2:29:57] when the National Security Advisor advised our president.

[2:30:00] He was traded with the most challenging national security crisis of his presidency. You all know the story.

[2:30:10] February was wasted, not much was done. There was no coordinated federal response for research, for testing, for PPEs, for precautions. That all happened.

[2:30:25] but we have our own coordinator's funds, thanks to this council.

[2:30:29] Thank you to the support of the council, the monetary support, and I will proceed.

[2:30:33] Let's go to the first frame.

[2:30:37] The reason we are affected disproportionately in some of you

[2:30:40] may have already seen this, but I'll run through this real quick, is that we suffer from higher

[2:30:45] coronavirus rates, which I will cover in subsequent frames, but there are typically three times

[2:30:51] the average of the San Mateo positivity rate, testing them healthcare. There's

[2:30:57] 90% health care coverage, Connie White. It's a lot less here, and I'm even counting

[2:31:05] California State testing healthcare. There's a lot of help in those cases, but testing

[2:31:12] was very much lacking. The reason, most of our jobs in East Palo Alto are essential workers.

[2:31:19] They are essential workers. And we bear the burden of providing the essential worker workforce for the rest of the county. We're most affected by it. And it will become important in the social equity argument that I will cover subsequently social distancing. Again, the concrete housing older housing not as good ventilation. It is crowded, but it's a nature of housing in a community that only has two and a half square miles. And again, by number five, there's low rank.

[2:31:49] get affects your ability to eat healthy food, covered in food insecurity, which quickly

[2:31:56] they're one or two paychecks for waste from not making the rental payment and buying in

[2:32:00] the food covering number 7, housing 40% is of our housing is covered by, you know, rent control

[2:32:10] in the life, but that makes us vulnerable when a pandemic hits. We have very little open space for

[2:32:16] talking, biking, getting fresh air and given our demographic, we have a lot of pre-existing issues

[2:32:23] in health, obesity, diabetes, sickle, selenemia, you know I'll cover that shortly and again

[2:32:32] those are unique health issues and we have unique demographics where we have a large Hispanic

[2:32:37] Pacific Islander and lack of population where subject to a lot of health issues, let's go

[2:32:43] next frame. This is the overall containment plan. There are several subcategories which I will

[2:32:49] cover early and cover from wearing masks, social distancing, testing, contact tracing,

[2:32:55] media outreach and council support. Let's go to wearing masks first. We started a robust

[2:33:01] city like mask wearing program and policy and starting to enforce my way of education,

[2:33:09] by way of education, convincing people, doing a lot of media outreach.

[2:33:13] Let me give you some examples of what this covers. Let's go to the masks.

[2:33:17] Again, the cloth masks are good. They're made out of fabric, polyester, and they're typically

[2:33:23] good because they're reusable. Then there's a surgical mask, the light blue, which are a higher

[2:33:28] quality, but they're disposable. We have a lot of those and plan to engage the council shortly

[2:33:33] in buying a lot of those to give away and educate folks.

[2:33:37] The N95, those are surgical quality of the third one.

[2:33:42] And those are good, but more in a hospital setting,

[2:33:45] and they're typically single-use in hospitals,

[2:33:48] unless you've time to sanitize them properly.

[2:33:50] And that's not really good for kids

[2:33:52] or people with facial hair.

[2:33:54] Then there are masks with valves, the last one,

[2:33:56] which are really good for the smoke in relation

[2:33:58] that you're experiencing right now.

[2:34:00] But they're also good to protect against COVID, but since they allow you to release air,

[2:34:06] they protect you, but not necessarily the other person. So again, I bring that up.

[2:34:11] Let's go to the next right now. Social distancing, this is the big one. Social distancing is huge

[2:34:18] here because of the following frame. Let's go to the next frame. The science at the beginning of this pandemic

[2:34:27] was not as focused on social distancing in terms of the actual overall effect.

[2:34:35] They focused initially on six feet, stay six feet away from the next person and you're

[2:34:40] covered.

[2:34:40] As a month went by, they realized that the infected droplets coming out of a person's

[2:34:45] mouth would typically go out six feet in the droplets that was pretty much as far as they

[2:34:50] go.

[2:34:51] As a month went by, more and more articles came out from the medical community talking

[2:34:55] but aerosols, aerosolization of someone's my new particle

[2:35:01] droplets that come from sneezing, coughing, saying that you will recall the

[2:35:08] instances of a really great spread during choir practice in various

[2:35:14] churches, during practice for people in gyms,

[2:35:18] or exercising on a treadmill.

[2:35:20] They find that the aerosol can go up to 28 feet.

[2:35:23] Two things happen. Two things happen is it becomes really important in spreading the virus

[2:35:31] to realize that the aerosolization stays in the room for up to several hours. If a room

[2:35:38] is not well ventilated, not well ventilated away from sunlight and you're indoors. That is why

[2:35:46] we encourage folks to stay outdoors when possible any activity stay outdoors. That is one

[2:35:53] the reasons for social distancing that we close the public restrooms of parts. I get asked

[2:36:00] that question all the time. People are using the restrooms and let's say 30 people went

[2:36:05] into a restroom in one out. They let's say five or six were infected, which is not unheard of.

[2:36:12] Here they've left a lot of aerosol in there. A mother goes in next after 30 people, 20, 30 people

[2:36:23] get a high dose of COVID aerosols. If someone fleshes, it causes a further reaction that

[2:36:32] goes up to 6 to 8 feet of large aerosol spread. In that method, especially when

[2:36:38] the ventilation is not good. You go up to the playground structures which we had taped

[2:36:42] also, and it can spread from the surface. If the sun hits it, it can die after a couple

[2:36:48] hours. If it's not in the sun and people are still touching it, it can spread easily. So that's

[2:36:55] surface contamination. We want to be very careful of either one and keep that practice. Now,

[2:37:04] what occurs is, while the parks are open, we close the bathroom, we close the, the place structures,

[2:37:10] we close cooling landing, summer programs, they are virtual, but we did have a summer program where

[2:37:17] was conditioning, as opposed to actual games. Folks ask, why don't they play basketball? Why

[2:37:22] don't play soccer? Well, they share a common ball, they get close to each other, they breathe,

[2:37:27] they cough, and that can easily spread. One of the other areas that we close was a senior set,

[2:37:33] but we guaranteed food delivery to the seniors to make sure that our most vulnerable population

[2:37:40] that has the highest degree of spreading contamination had food delivered at home. But if they

[2:37:46] gather the senior center, that could have been a super spreader event anytime they gather.

[2:37:51] We continue to support food distribution programs at YMCA, public works helps for that,

[2:37:58] and at other other places here at the library, we continue to support that all the key people

[2:38:04] from having to mix, go get food supplies. So if you don't have food supplies at home,

[2:38:11] you're going to mix with each other. So the whole premise of the city's action was the key

[2:38:15] people distance from each other. We've practiced at the retail center making sure that everyone

[2:38:21] had the COVID protocols for social distancing up at IKEA at the very stores and again that

[2:38:28] is now checked through the county. County Health Officers go look at their health when look

[2:38:33] for any deviations anyone not observing the protocols. Schools, again that's why they went

[2:38:39] for distance learning and we are now working with the schools. I'm working with the superintendent

[2:38:44] learning pods and I'll talk about that a little later. But again, all these

[2:38:49] COVID protocols are something that we observe and that are extremely important

[2:38:54] to us. I will use one of our departments, for example, as an example. Let's move

[2:38:58] it, James. Okay. Now, I'll use East Calo Alto Police Department as an example of

[2:39:06] how we use social distancing, but still carried out safety services. We modify the

[2:39:11] this model for PD, but PD offices were kept open. We were one of the few departments in the

[2:39:17] entire San Mateo County area that stayed open. You could go in, walk, but there was all the protocols,

[2:39:25] and there was the camera that would receive you. You could talk to someone that could actually come in

[2:39:30] to the take areas and you could get served there. Now, one of the things that we had to respond

[2:39:36] before example, in the middle of a pandemic was the fireworks driving everybody crazy. We could

[2:39:41] We have gone after the people firing the fireworks outside of their house, the buyers of it.

[2:39:49] They folks celebrating the Fourth of July and engaged the police officers up close within

[2:39:55] a close distance and maybe even arrested some parents or grandparents.

[2:40:00] We didn't want to do that.

[2:40:01] A spread of infection to the officers and among people was so great, we decided to concentrate

[2:40:07] on the sellers.

[2:40:08] the manufacturers, those that sold large amounts, and that way we would get rid of the supplier

[2:40:14] of fireworks, and we did so successfully to a great extent by maintaining the protocols

[2:40:22] of going after the large suppliers.

[2:40:25] Now, during the protests that we had here, we respect first amendment rights, absolutely.

[2:40:30] But several that took place took place at parks, we took a hands-off approach.

[2:40:35] We pulled back and made sure to educate folks and we had a lot of people on city staff that were very helpful in disseminating information, spread of infection.

[2:40:46] If you're going to have your protests, we support you in doing so and celebrating your first amendment rights, but wear masks, social distance, understand that we've closed the restrooms, and it's inconvenient to have to drive back to your home to use a restroom and come back.

[2:40:59] But we avoided any issues, social unrest, and arrests that took place in other communities that caused violence, but they'd also further describe a COVID.

[2:41:10] Let's keep moving, James.

[2:41:13] Again, talked about customer service, lobby door lock, screening, and social distancing.

[2:41:18] Let's go to the next category.

[2:41:21] Now, this is one of the big ones, testing.

[2:41:24] We are the only community in San Mateo County that has the barely testing program and

[2:41:32] also has the curative testing program.

[2:41:36] And that's thanks to the push that we got from the City Council led by the Mayor to

[2:41:41] make sure that barely a federally funded program, channel to the state, the logistics being

[2:41:48] done by San Mateo County, for the individual community being done here.

[2:41:52] we convince them through just for joling, political pressure, whatever.

[2:41:56] But we work hard, thanks to the Mayor and the Council, to make sure that Verily established

[2:42:01] pretty much all of them.

[2:42:03] So I'm a permanent testing location here in East Palo Alto to make it easier for folks to use it directly.

[2:42:10] And where the only community that not only has the Verily testing here on the regular basis,

[2:42:15] but that allows walk-ups, that allows walk-up testing.

[2:42:19] In other words, someone that can't navigate the reservation process of logging on at night,

[2:42:26] a lot in our community cannot do that.

[2:42:28] We made it easier for them to have walk-ups.

[2:42:31] Every time that barely came here supported by your city staff, we provided the meals, the logistics,

[2:42:37] and the location at the why they would also serve about another,

[2:42:42] typically, another hundred people that would come in, walk-ups.

[2:42:45] and they would have an abbreviated screening,

[2:42:47] they could do it quicker.

[2:42:49] Now, two day, EPA has tested 10,100 people,

[2:42:56] 10,100 people, 6,858 are from East Palo Alto.

[2:43:06] And I was so many that out of the 10,100,

[2:43:09] you would find that probably a good amount

[2:43:11] came from Menlo Park also.

[2:43:13] We welcome our neighbors. We help each other out and of that amount of the 6,858 tests in EPA,

[2:43:23] 157 were positive. That's scary. It's really scary. That's a positivity rate of 15.4 percent.

[2:43:32] 15.4 percent. That's three times the positivity rate of San Mateo come. But because of the

[2:43:43] essential workers, congregate, crowded housing, and those conditions, that's one of the reasons

[2:43:48] that's higher and that's what caused us to have much stricter social distancing protocols

[2:43:54] that parks at protests and how our departments operate and that we hope to continue to get the

[2:44:00] council support in that. Now, as a month's go by and when I get to item number six, I'm going to

[2:44:06] cover next steps what I'm going to ask the council for as the next steps, as the next steps to make

[2:44:12] sure that we make this a success, and that's extremely important here. Now, as far as curative,

[2:44:21] curative is more of a oral test. The verily program was a nasal where they swirled the

[2:44:30] swabbing your nose initially. It was taking too long to get the test results. Sometimes up to a

[2:44:38] and it would make the contact tracing useless.

[2:44:42] I think in Councilman Romero's case, it was like two weeks or more, it's useless.

[2:44:47] There's complete useless.

[2:44:49] Now, what's going on was happening is finally after criticism from the state and cities,

[2:44:56] barely went ahead and bought a lap.

[2:44:57] A local lap, it made it fast for cure.

[2:45:00] The Secretary was faster from the beginning, but it's a pilot program. And I'm proud to say that through

[2:45:04] the efforts of staff, and you have a core group, Marine McKenzie and a group of Michelle Darre,

[2:45:12] Maurice Azalea, you have this core group of seven-eight folks that work this continuously

[2:45:19] along with many volunteers. The reason this is so important is you have city employees that are risking

[2:45:27] their lives. They're risking their lives to provide this testing to be up close to folks, to

[2:45:34] test them, to facilitate things, and in the curative format, they have to get closer to people,

[2:45:40] because if someone comes in for curative tests at a targeted location, usually the check, they can

[2:45:47] just walk up, not being registered, and really be ready to go in about two to three minutes.

[2:45:52] The rarely format once they showed up even after making the reservation was more like 10

[2:45:58] 15 minutes to get all the information together. Curious it was made as a pilot program

[2:46:04] in the began in East Palo Alto through the combined efforts of the county and the city

[2:46:09] to target locations in the city that are testing deserts. And as I mentioned before,

[2:46:16] how does the county pick the locations? They look at the addresses of folks that are hospitalized

[2:46:22] And after they find so many gotts at a certain longitudinal lattice and say,

[2:46:27] okay, a lot of folks are coming from this neighborhood, but we don't show people being tested

[2:46:32] from those addresses. It gave us that notice. Our team blows out to that location and does

[2:46:40] target a testing. Now, all one of the council mentioned, let's do it in the whole city,

[2:46:45] target a test that we could. It wouldn't be targeted a testing. And frankly, it would be

[2:46:51] of dollars to do that, because under that format, the county had provided the money for the test,

[2:46:58] the 150 for each one, $150. And I know, towards the end of this, I'll talk about how we can

[2:47:05] continue that program, but I'll get to it a little later. Here in city administration, there's a group

[2:47:13] about six people, six or seven of us who come in day while we promote coming in remotely and about 70% of the people that can't

[2:47:24] work from home. There's a group in admin that you come in date where we're here daily and

[2:47:33] without any exception. I'm included in that group. All of us have been quarantined and tested

[2:47:40] But we're constantly in contact with people and some of us have to stay in hotels and that runs up class, but someone you're close to someone and it's a risk but it's a risk.

[2:47:57] This group has voluntarily taken and again that the testing group engages and they do so gladly and I hope the citizens can appreciate that.

[2:48:07] all the while while we're doing this distancing and the partners like community economic development

[2:48:13] carry out their work and make sure that the Samaritan House does what they do in a lot of

[2:48:20] people or help stay in their locations that they rent, which is very important because if they're out

[2:48:26] on the street or in an RV, they risk further infection. So that's why our rental assistance program

[2:48:32] is extremely important. It's functioning well. All the information is on our website. So I want

[2:48:37] over that. The small business information is on our website. So I want to go over that also,

[2:48:43] but I will add that the mirror was instrumental in getting another million dollars from a

[2:48:52] contributor and who chooses to remain silent and because the average runner requests about $2000

[2:48:59] in rental assistance to get that current. That's a lot of rental assistance that we can provide.

[2:49:05] the information for rental assistance, small business assistance, is on our website.

[2:49:10] I, you, and cold enforcement, is still functioning.

[2:49:13] So while I use police, as an example, all the other functions in the city are carried out.

[2:49:19] But testing is extremely important because it wakes people up, you have it, and then you identify it,

[2:49:26] you identify the locations, and the curative format is more important than the very

[2:49:31] reformer because it adds one component. Not only does the exchange go to a targeted location,

[2:49:38] once we find the outbreak there, the county has committed to not only test but provide further

[2:49:44] information to that location, which is number one is health information. Health information

[2:49:51] in terms of health care, nutrition, feed yourself better. Again, a lot of advice on that, but the

[2:49:58] one is health program information. If you're not in Kaiser, Sutter or state program, whatever,

[2:50:05] they hook you up with one. So not only do they test you target the location, get you better health care

[2:50:10] information, but also make sure that you end up with a health plan and that becomes extremely important.

[2:50:17] Let's move on to the next frame.

[2:50:22] Okay, that's more or less that's been on our website. It tells you

[2:50:26] who should get tested, how they should get tested information.

[2:50:30] And then it gives you locations here.

[2:50:32] We've got locations coming up.

[2:50:34] But testing, the schedule is on our website right now.

[2:50:37] It runs all the way to December.

[2:50:40] So if you're curious, look at the testing availability,

[2:50:43] running all the way to December.

[2:50:45] If we test it over 10,000 people,

[2:50:47] including each hollow alto and the neighboring communities,

[2:50:50] please go, if you've been in contact with somebody,

[2:50:53] close to somebody, make sure you get

[2:50:56] But there's a lot of availability in both formats either under the barely or the curative format. Now of the figures that I read of of the folks that

[2:51:07] The six thousand eight fifty eight that were tested understand that it's not only

[2:51:12] Barely not only curative, but there's been testing going on at Stanford that includes a numbers from Stanford that includes San Mateo medical center and braveens with the lion's share is here at the YMCA and

[2:51:26] through security, which is a smaller number, but targeted locations at locations where people would not have been very likely to go get tested and they did because we pushed it and this council supported it.

[2:51:38] Next slide.

[2:51:40] Okay, contact tracing.

[2:51:42] This is extremely important.

[2:51:44] More so now and the next frame will show you what.

[2:51:52] Okay.

[2:51:52] the person who was within six feet, same household for 15 minutes or longer, family member,

[2:51:58] neighbor, friend, someone in the same college, then contact tracing. At the beginning of this whole

[2:52:05] situation, contact tracing was really far behind as I mentioned. Now the county has 117 contact

[2:52:12] tracing. You're typically getting to someone who tests positive, at least within three days.

[2:52:18] And we're going to try and keep it for two days.

[2:52:21] That's become extremely important.

[2:52:22] It's a multi-label crew, the county EOC.

[2:52:25] They're doing a good job.

[2:52:26] They're getting better and better.

[2:52:28] And as we're getting better and reporting,

[2:52:30] the test results, the barrel, the intuitive,

[2:52:32] they're getting better at doing the contact tracing.

[2:52:35] And within the shorter time period, it becomes effective.

[2:52:39] After they get the case patient,

[2:52:42] they start figuring out who he was in contact with,

[2:52:45] who he or she was in contact with.

[2:52:46] they isolate the quarantine, they make arrangements for those to isolate somewhere if they don't have food,

[2:52:52] make arrangements to get food to them and other health information to them. It becomes extremely

[2:52:58] important. I'm going to engage the council in the near future because I'm going to push

[2:53:03] for the county to dedicate of that contact tracing of specialized crew, a smaller crew,

[2:53:09] only for EPA because we have a unique, a unique demographic and it will be a social,

[2:53:19] social fairness argument that we're saying since we provide a greater degree of essential workers

[2:53:26] to the county and the surrounding community. Most of our workers can't sit here and work

[2:53:31] at home in a computer. They go to other communities. We have three times the infection rate,

[2:53:36] But yet they continue to go out there, work hard, work dating, and if we're doing that, we think we have a very strong

[2:53:44] social equity and fairness argument saying, why don't you dedicate the crew for EPA? Why don't you pick up more

[2:53:51] costs of the testing? And even if they don't pick up more costs of the testing through political pressure or any other

[2:53:58] avenue this council will support me in getting, we should pick up some of the costs. So we're going to push that next

[2:54:07] Thank you. Thank you.

[2:54:09] Media Outreach, it's extremely important.

[2:54:13] Part of that while we were, while we went dark,

[2:54:16] you will recall that we have a whole new website.

[2:54:19] Looking for any of all suggestions that you have,

[2:54:23] but it's been much more effective.

[2:54:25] The outreach is great. Let's go to the next frame.

[2:54:30] The outreach began.

[2:54:31] The new website is so much more easily,

[2:54:34] accessible, small business assistance is there, renaissance is there, some

[2:54:39] American house is there, little bit of objects,

[2:54:44] public Wi-Fi, there's a team

[2:54:46] with Walford working to provide Wi-Fi locations with superintendent, and I

[2:54:51] have been meeting several locations talking about it, and the Wi-Fi spots, that's

[2:54:58] a short term fix, Wi-Fi spots, along with the Chromebooks for the students, and

[2:55:03] that kind of kind of activity we're going to do everything possible in our team

[2:55:06] meeting weekly to figure that out. What is more important long term, there will be longer term,

[2:55:13] but that will take that could be a year to several years, is that every time we have no construction

[2:55:17] new development, they wrote in the light, we want to make sure that fiber optic lines are in there.

[2:55:22] But for the moment, we're going to work with having Wi-Fi at various locations. We're also working

[2:55:29] with the schools that are already working in child care formats. They have 24 students so far

[2:55:35] under the 49er program and one other program to possibly work with them and having child care

[2:55:44] for very young students at Cooley Landing and possibly one of our rooms at the YMCA. We're trying

[2:55:51] to figure out I may come back to the council with that format. If we provide accessibility, there are

[2:55:57] other agencies that would provide the operating cost. And that's one of the things we could do for

[2:56:03] from the schools you will recall. We also work with the schools and with the

[2:56:07] get-opolis internship programs and we continue to work with them on testing

[2:56:13] having school staff and employees being told in advance whenever we have

[2:56:17] testing and they pfailed themselves of that and doing so. So we're working

[2:56:21] together with that. Awareness outreach next rain. Also the various mediums that

[2:56:29] before we revised the website. Now we're really using these. It's a robust outreach from a weekly

[2:56:36] newsletter that has everything you can think of. Please look at it weekly. It's got all the testing

[2:56:41] sites for both rarely for both I, curative and everything else that we're doing. It's also in Facebook.

[2:56:49] The audience is growing about 40% on Facebook. English Spanish multilingual. We're going to do it in

[2:56:54] the other formats Twitter. We follow the increase 30% what's that popular in the Hispanic community,

[2:57:02] and then video production, YouTube, those have been really good. Next frame. Okay, council

[2:57:09] support, this is probably the most important item because as time goes by and this is the very

[2:57:17] near future, I'm going to fold back to the council and the staff reports when I have a request for

[2:57:23] or suggestion will have all the details and will have all the details and one of the things that

[2:57:28] I'll be coming back at you for is to continue your support of the testing crew, the risk

[2:57:34] of your life, and also for the backup of the duties because we can say, okay, there are

[2:57:39] employees. You're already paying. It's not costing you anymore. It actually is because there's

[2:57:44] other duties that they have. They're not tending to we may have the backup of some of their job

[2:57:48] duties with far-time folks that come in, money's tight, money's tight, and some of it we may

[2:57:55] have to go back again to the general fund and make judicious calls and how we use that money,

[2:58:00] but it's important. We probably have to come back for more PPE costs and have a robust outreach

[2:58:09] program, which will include also give away of masks, a certain locations for education. We

[2:58:15] We've got someone with mask gatherings or not observing.

[2:58:19] We don't want to start arresting people.

[2:58:20] What we want to educate them, give a mask and how

[2:58:23] I'm making sure that if someone was positive that they

[2:58:25] got to get tested, that we continue the EOC format here

[2:58:29] at the city hall.

[2:58:31] We have the discontinue.

[2:58:33] The meals for the group because we didn't want people going

[2:58:36] to various restaurants at lunch.

[2:58:38] So they were brought in.

[2:58:39] We'd like to continue that.

[2:58:41] But the federal money ended.

[2:58:43] So, I may ask you for that until heroes at Cape Sam, depending on what happens at the federal level,

[2:58:50] we're going to push the social justice arguments for testing, for a dedicated contact tracing

[2:58:57] crew. I'm going to need your help on that, and we're also going to have, I know as time goes by,

[2:59:04] you were going to get political pressure to open up parks, to open up bathrooms, place structures,

[2:59:09] to have actual gains and all that. I'm going to ask the Council to support and say let's hold

[2:59:15] off until the positivity rate goes down where three times people are dying people are getting

[2:59:20] sick but we realize that it's not necessarily a pressure coming from this community. It does

[2:59:27] at times but the fact that on the national level you have a president that pushes for that open up

[2:59:33] the schools don't wear masks and it's politicized which should be health protocols that are simple.

[2:59:39] And again, we're going to have new and not enhanced outreach program class for outreach,

[2:59:46] banners, electrical billboards.

[2:59:49] We'd like to include cert in outreach to businesses, for opportunities for businesses.

[2:59:53] I don't want to use cert volunteers beyond a certain age and they would have some trepidation

[2:59:59] in going up.

[3:00:00] Reach to House for House, button phone banks, to outreach runners and business community. We'd like to connect, again, more videos, multilingual. And we'd like to stick to our core competencies, folks. The things that we do best while we're supporting the schools with, with preschool and another program. We realize that's not one of our core competencies and they're funded for that. But we will do everything to support them, to support distance learning for daycare.

[3:00:30] long-term fiber optic for lighting and locations, but it's not something we can do ourselves

[3:00:35] directly. Again, we also working with the council should support any revenue-generating

[3:00:43] actions that we can in the next few months. I know there's going to be projects coming at us and we have to

[3:00:48] look at them judiciously and consider them. But I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, let's ask each other.

[3:00:54] Let's move these along because we're going to meet a money as this pandemic continues.

[3:01:00] How long will it continue? I agree the thought it's going to be well into the spring, probably

[3:01:07] May, June, July of next year is prediction and I share that the poly come up with a workable

[3:01:13] cure by December, but you have mass distribution will not occur for another six months. Then you

[3:01:19] have a discussion of who gets it first, social equity, arguments on the federal level have said

[3:01:26] to the heart of the communities. And I agree with that. But on the international level,

[3:01:34] this administration shows not to join fullback. Co-back is the organization of international

[3:01:40] countries that said, let's work jointly, let's not compete with each other, and whoever comes

[3:01:45] up with a cure share with each other, share manufacturing, share distribution, everything else,

[3:01:51] where the only country that reviews the joint. And if someone else comes up with a cure and

[3:01:56] country and and we're not we're late to get it that's because of of what we

[3:02:02] caused. So that that is an issue. One of the things that may change the whole

[3:02:07] format frankly is political if the administration changes and Congress flips

[3:02:15] by and I mean the Senate flips by a couple of senators you may have an

[3:02:20] enhanced a program on a federal level that is modeled after the hero's act, the Congress

[3:02:27] of Pants, which is closer to the two to three billion, as opposed to the skinny 300 billion

[3:02:33] that is being proposed right now, that both parties cannot agree upon.

[3:02:37] So as far as I'm concerned, November, beginning of November, election day cannot come soon

[3:02:41] enough.

[3:02:42] We might as well know what direction the country is going, and that's going to affect

[3:02:48] are small city in a big way because if it's positive, then cities below 100,000 will get 8

[3:02:56] and we're lined up for it. Our demographic numbers show that we can do it because of essential

[3:03:01] workers that's it. But I think one of the things we can do is the city is to continue

[3:03:08] what I've outlined, testing the social distancing, the follow-up on contact tracing,

[3:03:13] the education on health, the education on healthcare programs that you can avail yourself of.

[3:03:20] And a reminder to each other, citizens of East Palo Alto, that we should take a key of pre-existing conditions and say,

[3:03:29] we're essential workers and there's a lot of pre-existing conditions.

[3:03:34] And while they talk about hypertension, asthma, allergies, bad air,

[3:03:39] here, mold in older houses, ventilations, diabetes, and those, all the literature indicates

[3:03:47] that the worst pre-existing condition that you can have is obesity, and that's 52 percent

[3:03:53] of adults are in that scale, and it shocks people because a lot of folks are saying, well,

[3:04:00] I'll get my vaccine and I'm whole free, I'm home free. But Fauci says above 70 percent, I'll take

[3:04:07] efficacy for a vaccine, I'll take 70%, which means it's not fully affected, but the ones that

[3:04:14] would need it the most, someone who's not taking care of themselves, have the greatest risk

[3:04:20] of the vaccine not working on them because the vaccine itself attaches to the walls of

[3:04:28] vassals. And there's constant inflammation if you're beyond a certain weight, which exacerbates

[3:04:36] So it's a reminder to ourselves to take care of each other, to avail yourselves of health programs, to get tested and to do all these other things.

[3:04:47] Unfortunately, it's sometimes it seems like Armageddon.

[3:04:50] I had the question the other day of folks saying, oh, the years back, the years back.

[3:04:55] Jaime, you gotta remind everybody clothes or windows, put it all out there.

[3:04:58] It's a double winning. You're closing your windows in a city with high transmission three times the rate

[3:05:06] Some locations up to four or five times depending on the location of the city you close your windows

[3:05:11] Someone has that you will surely spread it to someone else in the house and the and the or

[3:05:17] If you open up the windows for ventilation now you get suit really bad smoke. That's harmful for your lungs and I was talking to the chief

[3:05:25] I said, well, the police, you've said what you were doing, he says, well, either the way,

[3:05:31] you know, it's like asking some of both of you in the right area, both in the left

[3:05:34] line.

[3:05:35] What do you do?

[3:05:36] I mean, and I'm just going to finish up.

[3:05:41] I'm just about to finish up.

[3:05:42] So what I'm saying is, as a city, with the council support, I think we are doing the right things.

[3:05:50] We are doing the right things and it will continue to do so regardless of what the feds do

[3:05:57] I think we're taking the right actions and the amount of testing

[3:06:01] Reynolds systems and other assistance that we are providing would not have happened

[3:06:06] Without this council support. So I thank you for that. I'll be coming back to you

[3:06:11] In the very near future with these other things that we need to do we know many's precious

[3:06:16] We know many's very precious, but the public needs to know

[3:06:20] what the council has done. So far, one of you had a question. I'm sorry, please.

[3:06:26] Yeah, I was just trying to find out how I made, I'm sorry, through that through the mayor. If you

[3:06:30] were going to want any questions from us, I know we have a long agenda. And there, there may be some

[3:06:37] feedback I want to give, but I don't know if it's appropriate to do it now. So maybe maybe this is

[3:06:42] something that we give you at the next meeting. I don't know. I'll look at my humble suggestion if it's

[3:06:49] really, really pressing question. Ask it. Otherwise, we will be coming back with further information.

[3:06:55] I didn't want to make a super lengthy, it's already 935, but I think the council was all aware of this,

[3:07:02] but we wanted the public to make sure that you were aware of this, and that we have a new website,

[3:07:08] and it's really robust. All this information is going in there. Any suggestions,

[3:07:13] produces a lot, please send them in, but we're making every effort and we want you to know

[3:07:18] civil work, servants, or risk in themselves. If you have any really pressing questions,

[3:07:22] I would address them at this time, but knowing it's 935, we wanted to give you an informational

[3:07:28] summary of where we are, we were for the benefit of the public. I want to make sure that was done,

[3:07:33] and I want to thank the public for its support and recognize the staff that's been working so hard.

[3:07:38] Thank you, Mayor members of Council. Thank you.

[3:07:41] Thank you. I can hold on. I do have two quick questions that I hear most consistently from residents.

[3:07:50] One of them is about the extent to which we are not just distributing masks,

[3:08:11] but

[3:08:11] of places of business. And then the other is, we have a social gathering, a proclivity or an interest in having lots of social gatherings in the city of East Palo Alto.

[3:08:28] And I've received a lot of questions about the stance that we're taking in being in the way

[3:08:39] of some of those social gatherings to protect people from this out.

[3:08:42] And I know these questions are hard because there's rights to gather,

[3:08:47] there's rights to do all kinds of things that we have as citizens,

[3:08:52] but kind of wedge between a rock and a hard place

[3:08:55] and just wanting to know at the moment where the city stands is,

[3:08:59] and also what additional support you need from the council

[3:09:03] to help us be even more victorious in these two areas.

[3:09:06] As far as mass, the first one is the, if not only is state law, it's county law, it's on ours.

[3:09:13] Everybody should be wearing masks when they're out in public and they cannot,

[3:09:16] socially, distance within the distance of six feet.

[3:09:19] We have taken the approach that we're going to educate, convince, take a soft approach.

[3:09:25] Therefore, I'm coming back and saying we're going to buy a lot more of the mass, the surgical mass,

[3:09:31] and distribute them along with education.

[3:09:33] it's going to possible. I have been avoiding using policemen to go person to person location

[3:09:41] location to enforce matters. I've seen the mass ordinances that have been passed by

[3:09:47] Malavu, thousands of nooks, barely hills and those it's centered mostly among wealthier

[3:09:52] communities. They're they're doing that but when you're risking a smaller police force to

[3:09:58] basically engage in your close distance.

[3:10:01] When we covered the police protocols,

[3:10:03] they used radios to convince someone

[3:10:05] on a minor traffic, and rather than get off,

[3:10:09] tell them, you did something wrong.

[3:10:11] Maybe they get up, maybe they get a pass.

[3:10:13] So not have to for going five, 10 miles

[3:10:16] over the speed limit, say, slow down,

[3:10:18] pull over, engage someone in conversation,

[3:10:21] get a policeman sick, get a member of the public sick.

[3:10:24] We've already had a couple of policemen spend a couple of weeks

[3:10:27] and hotels to high cost.

[3:10:29] The reason I want to do a boy having law enforcement engaged directly with the public more and

[3:10:34] more is I'm going to have to make sure that we have a viable police force for the extent

[3:10:40] of this pandemic, which could be up close to another year.

[3:10:44] So if I start using them to enforce, I risk getting them sick, I risk getting a spread in the

[3:10:50] police department.

[3:10:51] That's not to say that we couldn't move in that format, getting a little more aggressive.

[3:10:55] But first I have to come back and say they counsel. Are you interested in the body of progressive fines for doing that?

[3:11:03] Given the political instability that have been occurring with the protests over the last few weeks

[3:11:07] we wanted to avoid over the last few months. We wanted to avoid acts of violence and they were agon, political insurrection, political cleavage on the federal level.

[3:11:17] we wanted to avoid, uh, uh, avoid getting people upset,

[3:11:22] tamper squared up, so we've given more discretion to P.D. officers to take a softer approach,

[3:11:29] which I think turned out the right approach of avoiding violence.

[3:11:33] But that's not to say that if I come back, then to say, do you want to start enforcing them like other cities?

[3:11:39] At stores, when we hear complaints, we do go talk to the store managers,

[3:11:44] ask them to enforce it, follow the map, follow the plan posted

[3:11:47] at the retail center and any other location where people call in, we do go check it out, but we

[3:11:53] have to be very careful in doing that. We want to get a supply of masks and enhance our social distancing

[3:12:00] messaging through all media and that's one of the things I'll be coming back at you for.

[3:12:06] But again, the reason for trying to avoid using policemen is when you lose one for a few weeks to

[3:12:12] and he's been tested and isolated. It cannot be easily replaced. That's specialized training that they get for crime, for robberies, rape, and all these other crimes. I don't want to lose them because they need too many stops.

[3:12:29] And even during the fireworks a couple of them had to be isolated. Now as far as social gatherings, same format applies, we have people say we hear music coming from a house.

[3:12:39] It's going, we'll respond, they'll go knocking the door and say, I cut it, but that may not give you a fourth amendment right to say let's go in the house to see how many people you have the privacy requirements for that to have reasonable suspicion that something is occurring what is it that a gathering of more than a certain amount of people is in that house the officer doesn't know so if he wants to go in, the guy said no, I only got ten people in it.

[3:13:06] it's really hard to say. And if you suspect it, you have to have more than that,

[3:13:11] some kind of probable cause, and they may just say, you know, what's, it's my family members.

[3:13:16] It's my cohort. So it just members are, it's really hard to enforce, but we're going to

[3:13:21] start doing that more and more. The churches have been very cooperative. They've been having

[3:13:26] outdoor services, weddings, and the like, which becomes next to impossible with a lot of smoke.

[3:13:33] There's been a couple that have engaged in that behavior, one in the residential setting.

[3:13:38] We are in force.

[3:13:39] We are in force.

[3:13:40] So, masks, we're going to push it, social gatherings, we're still taking the light of

[3:13:46] approach on that.

[3:13:47] Let's say we need to serve someone or a clothing enforcement that really disturbs, we will

[3:13:51] go out there.

[3:13:52] Thank you, Mayor.

[3:13:54] Mayor Jones, I have a present question.

[3:13:58] I mean, first of all, I really appreciate your report.

[3:14:01] I think it was very thorough, I wish it feels a little rushed because there's a lot of nuggets in there as relates to the quality of our help as a community.

[3:14:16] And maybe I would encourage us to post your presentation on the website and get people an opportunity to review it at their own pace.

[3:14:27] For me, the elephant in the room is the 1,057, that 15.4% who have been tested positive.

[3:14:43] Would you say, what would you think they would say about the quality of care and support they have received once identified as a

[3:14:56] someone that was impacted by the cop.

[3:15:00] I mean, obviously, those 1,000, it doesn't mean that they're, you know, that they haven't recovered and that they haven't regained their quality of life, but is there a, I would like to hear you say that something to the effect of the quality of care that if received responsiveness, not only for the community and for the county, as it relates to so provided safe shelter.

[3:15:27] And then just the other thing is, I'm really concerned that that number is that 15.4% could have a domino impact on our workforce community that is involved in neighboring communities.

[3:15:48] That's in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Redwood City, that we might gain a stigma on deserving, that we are

[3:16:00] a community that really needs to be tested in a different way than in other communities.

[3:16:06] A little scrambled, but, you know, Mr. Fontester, you want me to answer that?

[3:16:10] Well, let me start first, the presentation, again, the reason it was an informational presentation

[3:16:18] it covers such a large subject area. It could have been eight or nine policy and action items.

[3:16:26] And there will be a company, it will become them. So I'm coming back to you for individual.

[3:16:31] I just wanted to give you the depth and breadth of what I'm coming back to.

[3:16:34] You made that very clear. Thank you. And that's why it was a little rush today because we're already

[3:16:40] getting 10 and we got some big items coming up and it was informational.

[3:16:44] No, I'm just as scared of the $157 because you've got to $157 positive and what's

[3:16:51] going to happen is at least half of them may not feel any symptoms.

[3:16:56] They say, I feel a little uncomfortable, it doesn't positive, but no big deal.

[3:17:00] And that is the, as much information that is out there on TV, radio, internet, whatever,

[3:17:06] When people don't really feel bad they think I'm not okay and and when you tell them you may be asymptomatic

[3:17:14] But you're still spreading it

[3:17:16] What is the current is they get a mix of a competing political message

[3:17:23] Out of national level

[3:17:25] And and they choose to save it's like a frat kids there. We'll have a house. I tested positive. I'm still having a party. They don't feel bad

[3:17:32] have the people will isolate, stay home, do the right thing, the other half wall. The problem

[3:17:39] is they'll spread it to the vulnerable and they have the same thing, I know schools are

[3:17:46] under great pressure to open. With 15.4 transmissibility here, there really shouldn't, but

[3:17:54] that's not our decision. That's the school's decision. And kids, there's about a half

[3:17:58] and kids of school age kid younger it's that have been infected nationwide. Here,

[3:18:04] talking to the superintendent, she's come around under intense pressure to open.

[3:18:08] But folks say, well, I'm working, he's working and the kids got to go someplace during the day.

[3:18:13] The teachers will get it. The parents will get it. The grandparents will get it. So out of

[3:18:17] those thousand fifty-seven, half of them may not feel symptoms. The others may be mild,

[3:18:23] But there's going to be that percentage that are going to get really sick, and I can't say that I have the hospitalization rates, the severity, or the death rates, I don't have access to that info, probably not even Dr. Murrow has a good grasp of that.

[3:18:43] The other thing about the health care that they're getting or the follow. I would say it's poor. I would complain about it because

[3:18:51] the county and the state set up

[3:18:54] the contact tracing system that was averaging a week two weeks

[3:18:59] to even

[3:19:00] call you back. So contact tracing is no good. Once it exceeds the third or fourth day. It's no good. They're getting better

[3:19:09] But that's not one thing we can control, we can push and complain about and ask for a dedicated

[3:19:14] contact tracing crew, so that someone here says a contact tracing crew called me.

[3:19:20] We need to push with and you bring up a great issue that if we're providing the majority

[3:19:25] of service workers to the surrounding communities, not only do we have a social justice argument

[3:19:31] saying you should give us more help and I'm going to just counsel and doing so, but we should

[3:19:37] also say, hey, if our workers are doing that, you want to make sure that they're healthy,

[3:19:42] you want to make sure that healthy get good health education and get into a health care program

[3:19:46] that follows up for them. That wasn't existed. The pandemic exposed existing disparities in health

[3:19:55] care in income in housing. So when you said, so I would say poor, I would say response was poor,

[3:20:03] But it's not us. It's regional, it's societal and I think with discounts on us, we're doing a good job in following up and things are changing quickly and hopefully after the election in November, we see the hope and the momentum that a new administration may bring to this community that needs it so badly.

[3:20:26] I want to speak much longer. Did you end anything quick, Marie?

[3:20:31] You said it all, but I do want to say that we complain greatly about no contact, you know,

[3:20:37] tracers and the county of San Miguel appointed 150 of their staff,

[3:20:43] who are not coming into work daily to become contract.

[3:20:47] Hold some more. So it does work.

[3:20:56] muscle of your position to help us fall.

[3:20:59] That's right.

[3:21:01] Yeah, I also think, and I just want to make

[3:21:03] to click on.

[3:21:04] I also think that you should consider your team

[3:21:09] slowing down videotaping a 20-minute, right?

[3:21:16] Topic, you know, you get on video for 20 minutes

[3:21:21] on this subject, right?

[3:21:22] To use your notes, use your information,

[3:21:24] And just really kind of talk about the state of COVID for East Palo Alto, right?

[3:21:30] So people who might not be on this Zoom tonight have the ability to capture that information.

[3:21:38] And we can also use it as a talking point throughout our neighboring cities as to what the

[3:21:44] impact of COVID is having on East Palo Alto.

[3:21:48] I really think that there's a strong message here that not only can benefit our local

[3:21:54] residents but certainly the surrounding communities. So I would hope that you consider doing something

[3:21:59] absolutely, but if it's me for 20 minutes, I might as well get a young good looking Hispanic

[3:22:03] doctor. Now you do our part. But other of that, thank you for your questions. Thank you for your questions.

[3:22:11] And I know it's 10 to 10, but I wanted to make it quick. I wanted to make it a quarter of a

[3:22:15] formative and a very moody. Thank you for the questions. Thank you.

[3:22:20] Mayor? Awesome.

[3:22:21] Okay. That was an information report. So I'd like to transition us on to.

[3:22:30] Mayor. Yeah.

[3:22:31] I can trust we did have a genius of Dario with our hand up.

[3:22:34] That was great.

[3:22:35] Thank you.

[3:22:37] Love hearing from Gina.

[3:22:42] Good evening, Madam Mayor.

[3:22:44] I'm sorry for extending your meeting.

[3:22:46] But I just want to add a little bit as well to some of the comments that's being

[3:22:53] I just want to first extend my appreciation to the city of East Palo Alto around the testing.

[3:22:59] I was in have been in close communication with Marie as well, and we worked out a schedule too,

[3:23:05] so that we can get an update to be able to inform our ravens with the school district community.

[3:23:11] We are going to need these members in order to determine how best to move forward,

[3:23:16] it transitioning and phasing any any form of hybrid learning is at all possible.

[3:23:22] I know the county is at a certain positive rate versus the city of East Palo Alto.

[3:23:27] And we need a look to whether or not that really impacts eastern memo park.

[3:23:31] And if we need to be doing something differently at Belly event.

[3:23:36] So it does impact how we're going to move forward.

[3:23:40] And so looking at that positive to video rate, I want to make sure that we

[3:23:44] Keep our priorities around safety and health of our students, families and staff, but then also need to focus on how we continue to development of our students and the learning of our students.

[3:23:58] So with that being said, there's not a certain pressure of opening up traditional school as we traditionally know it, but there is pressure around the need to support our families with child care and supervision.

[3:24:11] Yeah, so we are partnering with three agencies that have been partners with the district and that is the boys and girls club who launched the Lonnie Hans yesterday and we'll be able to serve about

[3:24:25] Oh, 70s, I'll get the exact numbers.

[3:24:29] But with the 49ers Academy and East Palo Alto,

[3:24:32] tutoring, tennis tutoring, opening up Thursday,

[3:24:36] this week will be able to serve about 76 students.

[3:24:40] Short term with all three agencies would probably

[3:24:43] be around 140.

[3:24:46] And then long term goal is to serve about 220 students.

[3:24:51] That's about half of what

[3:24:54] are then requested from our families,

[3:24:56] which is a close to about 500 plus students

[3:24:59] who would need supervision.

[3:25:01] If there's a way that we can collaborate with the city

[3:25:03] to create some form of childcare supervision

[3:25:07] in addition to what we are providing the district level

[3:25:10] that would be fantastic.

[3:25:13] But we are definitely in agreement

[3:25:15] that the positivity rate will impact

[3:25:18] how we proceed and move forward.

[3:25:19] So whatever we can do to share information

[3:25:22] about how to mitigate and contain this virus. We're happy to do so. But again, thank you very much.

[3:25:29] Gina, do you already have solutions for child care that have costs associated with them

[3:25:38] that you can submit to the city or do you want us to brainstorm with you solutions as well?

[3:25:45] I think more so brainstorm solutions. At this point, I don't have anything right now at the

[3:25:52] You know, there might be other partners who will be interested in supporting us and we do have COVID funding and additional wave of education foundation funding.

[3:26:03] But we do have a greater community, not just Ravenswood City School District school systems, but charter schools are tensly parents are asking if they can be involved in our learning hopes.

[3:26:16] So, you know, there is a need, obviously.

[3:26:19] Yeah, just to extend that and I know we have to transition but this is such an important topic, as it relates to the city, as you know, Gina, we have to take an orientation towards all of our students and our students and so the rough estimate is that we're solving for 6,000 children in the city, which is a substantial number.

[3:26:46] And I know that we've got to find solutions fast.

[3:26:51] So how would you like us to organize around that?

[3:26:53] Are you looking for city staff?

[3:26:55] Are you looking for council members?

[3:26:57] How would you like us to combine our group,

[3:27:02] our group, the intelligence and wisdom

[3:27:03] to come up with solutions that matter and work?

[3:27:06] You know, we do host a,

[3:27:09] it will used to be a Colby opening school task force.

[3:27:12] So if there could be staff from the city

[3:27:15] who would potentially participate on that, I see her hand this summery.

[3:27:20] That would be fantastic, so you can see where we're going and leading and seeing how that could

[3:27:24] potentially apply to support other students in the city. And I will make sure to extend that invitation.

[3:27:30] Also, kind of council.

[3:27:31] That sounds very good. I also had received word from one or two board members

[3:27:37] that they would like to engage in town hall or some sort of

[3:27:45] Well,

[3:27:48] so to the extent that we can get that off of the ground and get the electives involved so that we can draw on our constituencies and our bases and others to help us be really precise in our problem solving here.

[3:28:01] I'd love to do that as well.

[3:28:03] Great.

[3:28:03] Thank you very much.

[3:28:18] All right.

[3:28:19] as agency.

[3:28:22] Seeing none.

[3:28:28] All right.

[3:28:28] That closes the informational reports.

[3:28:34] We have a pretty meeting set of topics here and given the two hours that we have left.

[3:28:41] Let's just have some discussion quickly about time boxes on public hearing versus policy and action.

[3:28:50] And also urgency of public hearings versus policy and action to our city managers, do you have a point of view on the five remaining topics on the agenda?

[3:29:00] Yes, I do. I just test Patrick a couple of minutes back while I was talking. Patrick?

[3:29:10] Yes.

[3:29:11] I would try to identify what?

[3:29:12] Yes. I identify a board of not hot buttons that we mentioned.

[3:29:20] So public hearing number one, that's a carryover, so we should definitely dive into that.

[3:29:24] Perk Kamala, that shouldn't be too lengthy.

[3:29:27] Item number two is literally 30 seconds.

[3:29:31] And then I think we must hear at least the item.

[3:29:37] Sorry, I think, yeah, and then the other ones.

[3:29:40] Number one, could be lengthy depending on questions, but the presentation is not very long.

[3:29:47] So, yeah, so I guess what I would say is we should take it in order if there's one item that could go to the next meeting, if you like, measure HH.

[3:29:56] All right.

[3:30:00] With that feedback council, I would like to entertain a motion to defer policy and action item 11.3 to give us sufficient time over the next two hours to get through the other four agenda items.

[3:30:17] Can we just see if we can get through all these items? I don't know how many questions people are going to have on

[3:30:25] of the specific plan or the CIP, but we've put off the HH thing for a while and I would

[3:30:32] like to at least have the discussion. So if in case this needs to come back to us with

[3:30:38] some changes, so could we maybe not do that now and further on in the meeting see if we're

[3:30:43] going to, if we will not be able to accommodate it?

[3:30:46] Yeah, I'm perfectly happy with it. I am pretty firm given COVID and as I said, some of us

[3:30:51] have to deal with children at home when we're working. I am pretty firm that midnight is our cut off.

[3:30:57] So happy that I'm happy to journey this journey with you. My only concern would be for those who

[3:31:02] stick it out with us if we don't actually cover the topic. It will be, you know, sort of a misuse of their

[3:31:09] time. But I'm happy to draw the decision even later. And the mayor, let me offer the item 111,

[3:31:18] the Ravens or Business District,

[3:31:23] that seems like it's, well, Patrick, you tell me, I mean,

[3:31:28] do you anticipate, that's going to be a lengthy presentation? Well, it seems like it should

[3:31:33] have a lot of questions associated with it. Is that something that could potentially get

[3:31:40] table or? Well, I mean, this is third time we've got the discussion with Council on this

[3:31:45] and so assuming. Oh, okay.

[3:31:47] Council direction, you know, it could be, but there's, we always welcome questions. So, and it is a meaty topic, obviously, but we had a study session and a follow up by them in June until this is the contracts for those.

[3:32:00] Okay, so what about how do we live in two?

[3:32:05] Well, that would defer to the city attorney on that one.

[3:32:10] It's really short, actually.

[3:32:12] That one seems short.

[3:32:14] Yeah, the, you know, frankly on that item, council could very well say,

[3:32:20] When you get to it, we'll just accept the report because it's frankly a presentation

[3:32:26] in what's in the staff report and what we're essentially saying and I'll receive when we get

[3:32:30] to that item is state law essentially preemps us for doing anything more than what we've already

[3:32:35] done.

[3:32:35] So I anticipate that I did put together a PowerPoint, but I put this on and I think we give the

[3:32:43] report cover to the topic.

[3:32:45] Okay. Okay.

[3:32:50] Okay. Well, let's see if we can plow through it. I do think, I mean, if there's a way to table 113 to the next meeting.

[3:32:59] Because for me personally, I think I'm going to have a few questions, but I would kind of defer if to the mayor if she wants to add that and just see where we are when we get close to midnight.

[3:33:16] Yeah, I mean, as I said, I'm happy to honor the wishes of my

[3:33:22] follow-up colleagues.

[3:33:25] In making a late decision, if we can get through a great,

[3:33:30] I just know that past midnight is not going to be working on.

[3:33:34] You know, we always try to do that with our calendar planning.

[3:33:38] This is a big agenda.

[3:33:40] Let's try and see where we land.

[3:33:41] I expect that that one is going to get a third item.

[3:33:45] Okay.

[3:33:46] Heart, does that Lisa's done?

[3:33:48] I thought Lisa was on.

[3:33:50] She's got a little baby dog.

[3:33:51] I wonder if it doesn't bark that loud.

[3:33:55] That's the Larry's tonight.

[3:33:58] It was demanding to get into the room.

[3:34:00] I'm sorry.

[3:34:01] Let me take that.

[3:34:03] How's everybody's got big dogs?

[3:34:07] All right.

[3:34:08] Let us move on to public hearing item 10.1.

[3:34:11] And then the adoption of the 10 year capital improvement program at fiscal year 2020 21 capital budget.

[3:34:18] In other mayors, this is come on for a lot of public ones, director council members, I know it's getting late.

[3:34:23] I will rush through it and I have a good team that can present you in five minutes that you know just like catch up.

[3:34:31] back on July, February, staff presented a very comprehensive presentation of the CIP, the

[3:34:40] capital improvement program, and that meeting, the council had some questions, comments.

[3:34:48] So we are here tonight to brief you and have a short presentation and as the council to

[3:34:54] adoption of the city, capital improvement plan, as well as the 2020, 2021, capital budget.

[3:35:03] That will turn to Amy to start the presentation and then we will take it from there. Amy?

[3:35:10] Thank you, Kamal. Good evening, council. Thank you for having me back. Tonight,

[3:35:15] we are bringing back the final 10-year capital improvement program in fiscal year 2021,

[3:35:20] 2021 capital budget. So as Council may remember,

[3:35:28] we did, we did come for, we did come to Council

[3:35:30] on July 3rd. It's sorry, my PowerPoint is not moving to the next slide. So I have to actually

[3:35:34] click it. So we did come to Council with an information update on July 3rd, 2020 during special session.

[3:35:40] We had a number of questions come out of that meeting. We are going to be very brief. We did

[3:35:45] go into a little more detail during that meeting. I'm not going to go quite into this much detail,

[3:35:49] But it sets on some of the questions that came out of that last meeting during special session.

[3:35:55] We were asked to bring back a two year budget review. So again, the capital budget is now an annual capital budget.

[3:36:01] It is aligned with the annual operating budget process, but we did include in the staff report as well as here in the presentation a two year review of this fiscal year and projections for the next fiscal year.

[3:36:12] There was a question about the Scottfield stub, the information about that project, which is actually funded, is included in the fiscal year 2021 capital budget under item WD, which stands for water distribution zero for C.

[3:36:27] There's also a question about 2.6 million dollar city funds that I believe is a match for grants.

[3:36:32] It is still an identified as where those 21sts are coming in here in the 10 year capital improvement program, but as that grant commitment starts to firm up, we will come back to council with those funding sources identified, and then the final item that we were asked to include was a broadband connectivity project, this is, I believe so in the preliminary stages is actually led by the County of San Mateo and is both administratively and physically led by the County of San Mateo, so it's not actually a safe project.

[3:37:00] and I will come all to speak more to that later in the presentation.

[3:37:05] So to go back over the 10-year capital improvement program budget,

[3:37:08] the total budget and the document for the 10-year span is a 317 million.

[3:37:15] Allocated across the 10-year timeline listed in the budget is a $70 million budget.

[3:37:19] I do want to point out that in the staff report that's actually a typo,

[3:37:23] One could can do that is $7 million, but this $70 million allocated across the 10-year timeline

[3:37:29] and then $247 million remaining in future projects.

[3:37:34] As you can see here, those are allocated across seven project categories, streets and transportation,

[3:37:39] community facilities, parks and open spaces, storm drain, water supply, water distribution, and special projects.

[3:37:46] The three largest, over the entire 10-year span are streets and transportation, community facilities and parks and open spaces.

[3:37:55] So for this fiscal year, the title of the site is fiscal year 2020, 2020, 2021, but it does include projections for both fiscal years.

[3:38:05] And you can see here that the three largest in for fiscal year 2020, 2021 are streets and transportation, water distribution and special projects.

[3:38:15] And then that lighter blue is actually projections for the next fiscal year.

[3:38:18] So, for this fiscal year, we have a total budget of 19,622,000.

[3:38:24] Approximately 9.5 of which is funded, while they're a mating 10.1 or so is unfunded,

[3:38:30] although that is largely under two projects that have grant applications pending right now.

[3:38:36] I do want to point out that lighter blue under special projects for the next fiscal year is mostly actually safer bay,

[3:38:43] which is about an $18 million project

[3:38:46] to the next capital, the next fiscal year, 20 to 21,

[3:38:48] 20, 22, so kind of completes those numbers.

[3:38:53] All right, with that, I will just reiterate

[3:38:55] that the total budget for this fiscal year

[3:38:57] is 19,000, 120,000, again, 9.5, which is funded,

[3:39:02] at some point one of which is unfunded.

[3:39:04] But I will pass this over to city engineer, Hansa Javell,

[3:39:07] who's going to go over the projects

[3:39:09] and some brief detail.

[3:39:12] Thank you, Amy, Madam Mayor. Members of City Council. We're not, for the sake of time, we're not going into detail on every project because we did discuss these projects in some level of detail at the last meeting.

[3:39:25] But what I will say is that most of these projects that we have identified in 2021 and 2122 are aligned with City Council priorities.

[3:39:36] And majority of the projects, streets and transportation, as well as water projects are funded.

[3:39:43] There are a few projects that we have submitted grant applications for, and they're listed here on this sheet,

[3:39:48] as on funded projects, and addition to the safer bait project that Amy just referred to.

[3:39:53] So those are the projects that were focused on, and their majority of the projects are funded by either local, state, or federal funds.

[3:40:01] next slide in.

[3:40:05] So per council member of Rika's request at the last July 30th meeting, we have here a slide for the 21 slash 22 capital projects as well. And as we can see here we have a budget about 27 million or so and about half a little less than half is funded. And these projects. Again, our line with city council priorities, not going to go through them in detail.

[3:40:33] but they are streets and transportation, water projects, as well as some part projects, irrigation projects,

[3:40:41] and then the majority of the unfunded projects are the safer bay and the JPA San Francisco

[3:40:47] Creek's third protection project. With that, I'll pass it back to Amy.

[3:40:54] Thanks, dear Hansa. As a reminder, the recommendation that we were putting forth today is

[3:40:58] to adopt a resolution adopting this 10-year capital improvement program

[3:41:02] and the fiscal year 2020, 2021 capital budget.

[3:41:07] With that, in the interest of time,

[3:41:09] I will open it up to questions and comments.

[3:41:13] Thank you so much to Kamal, from Zann Amy.

[3:41:19] For bringing this back

[3:41:22] for council discussion and consideration council,

[3:41:26] questions for this team.

[3:41:37] This silence mean we're perfectly aligned and we're willing to accept.

[3:41:42] No, I have questions, but I'm waiting for other council members to present their questions first.

[3:41:47] And I'm also trying to find this presentation.

[3:41:49] I think it was emailed to me, but I found all the other ones, but I'm looking for this one.

[3:41:53] So please, if other people have questions.

[3:41:58] So the only, there are probably many, many more that I could generate.

[3:42:04] But the biggest one that I have relates to my interest in considering the road's infrastructure investments aligned with broadband infrastructure investments and I and I do want to make sure that if by accepting this we still have a plan to circle back and show what potential opportunities we have to.

[3:42:34] lay conduit in cases where we are doing major roadwork, that helps us move forward both agenda

[3:42:42] simultaneously, not appreciating. It's not an improved sort of initiative yet by the council.

[3:42:48] I just want to make sure that they're spaced to add that additional overlay if and when we get to that point.

[3:42:58] My demo, I just really can give you an update on this. We are working with the county and we're going

[3:43:04] have a presentation in October, but just to let you know, for example,

[3:43:08] Beirut, when we underground the utilities, we include the

[3:43:13] lectoo empty conduits for future, you know, I guess to host

[3:43:19] future, a fiber optic lines. We stole, uh,

[3:43:25] when university Avenue, all the way from one one down to cityhold,

[3:43:29] we have fiber optic that was part of the smart corridor from the

[3:43:33] and we can use it for our purposes.

[3:43:35] So, definitely, but that's a long strategic plan.

[3:43:41] And we're going to focus on the collectors.

[3:43:43] Not every state can, you know, need to be, you know, to have that facility.

[3:43:48] But we will come back to you with a plan.

[3:43:51] Thank you.

[3:43:54] Council.

[3:43:57] To the chair.

[3:43:58] Yes.

[3:44:00] Thanks for the presentation.

[3:44:01] And one of the comments you made in regards to kind of pushing back some projects, giving

[3:44:11] all the financial constraints and COVID, you know, one to three years, could you quickly

[3:44:21] review those, which ones you see that can be pushed back in time?

[3:44:27] I know that.

[3:44:31] Well, our focus is water, water and water just to summarize this. Yeah, the

[3:44:36] straight, the straight projects we have to do them because we have SB fund, SB1 funds that we

[3:44:43] have to utilize. And of course, you know, still we have to focus and spend some investment on our

[3:44:49] straight infrastructure. As far as like the water, of course, the distribution, this council

[3:44:56] Thanks for your support, we had a plan, you'll print for what?

[3:45:00] What are safety, what are supply and then we are moving like four or five plastic concurrently and they are in time and they're going to be completed before the end of 2021.

[3:45:11] So, these are essential safety, public safety items, which is going to give us the ability to approve some of these projects that are in the pipeline.

[3:45:21] The safer bay is the major undertaking and that's the largest project that's going to be happening in the history of the city and it's needed to protect our city from the sea level rise and you know, and remove the entire city from flood, you know, from FEMA flood zone.

[3:45:41] So that's really essential. The absolute improvement we have the JBA, see, oh, she's going to come

[3:45:49] and update discounts on the progress of all these blood protection projects. So so many things

[3:45:57] happening, but you know to summarize our focus is what are what are and what are I guess.

[3:46:02] Yeah, well that's a very simple way to put it. Now I tend to agree that that is the priority.

[3:46:11] Anyway, that's the only question I have for now.

[3:46:14] Thank you.

[3:46:15] Thank you.

[3:46:17] Yeah, come on.

[3:46:18] It's Councilmember Modi.

[3:46:19] As we later, Bay Road, are we still looking for additional funding to expand the

[3:46:32] road all the way up to Coolie landing?

[3:46:34] I know at one point there was some talk about the county,

[3:46:37] maybe any and up some money to communicate, to help us there, or are we for right now, are we

[3:46:44] done with the Bay Road improvements?

[3:46:48] Bay Road is another construction. It's fully funded. We are, I just then noticed to the group,

[3:46:55] we are installing all the infrastructure, that's how we start working from the bottom up. So,

[3:47:02] Sorry for any inconvenience, Madam Mayor, I guess,

[3:47:05] and the rest of the city residents,

[3:47:08] but construction come with some side effects,

[3:47:12] inconvenience and interruption to people's trips

[3:47:14] and so on.

[3:47:16] So we are working.

[3:47:17] The project is fully funded.

[3:47:18] We don't need additional money.

[3:47:20] And it's gonna be going all the way to Cooley landing.

[3:47:22] And I'm hoping within maybe eight months

[3:47:25] to have live on Cati ceremony,

[3:47:27] to open railroad with a beautiful, you know, improvements.

[3:47:30] That's going to be low infrastructure and the surface.

[3:47:35] Perfect, perfect.

[3:47:37] On the other side of the city, on the west side, I know there was some discussion about creating water ties into the power up to systems.

[3:47:47] So we can increase our water availability to the university circle complex.

[3:47:56] is that still priority or is that a working progress or how do you define that?

[3:48:06] It's a priority. In fact, today I spent one hour with the Public Works Director from Palo Alto.

[3:48:12] And I asked him to, you know, help us move this forward because the utility department, they are in charge of this.

[3:48:18] and initially they will come the idea. Now they are asking that we upgrade the existing line. There's

[3:48:25] six inch cast iron pipe that comes over the bridge, I mean on the side of the bridge,

[3:48:32] they say University Avenue, a bridge over the creek and which feeds to, you know,

[3:48:38] use to connect to that, what are main on woodland Avenue, just across from the hotel and the

[3:48:43] university circle. Right. So now they're going to move it. I think it's going to be happening

[3:48:48] within I would say the memo. We are working on a memo. You know, of course. So we got identified

[3:48:55] how this how the enterprise going to be was and we are coming to the council with approval. So

[3:49:01] it's moving. It's a priority and it's needed. Okay, perfect. Just so another note on the public

[3:49:09] outside. While the parts are closed, if you would, it hasn't been, and it

[3:49:17] thought me and given towards kind of looking at our, our recycle plan and our

[3:49:24] our trash collecting plans for the parts. I've always

[3:49:28] contended that the containers that we have out here right now are just

[3:49:31] really outdated, and they really don't give people the opportunity to really

[3:49:38] realize that the full trash, trash unit, you know, given between the trash that

[3:49:47] occurs at Martin Luther King Bell screen and Jack Ferrell, have we had any

[3:49:51] conversations or thoughts about trying some new?

[3:49:57] Well, we were hoping to complete a part masser plan and identify so we can be dealing

[3:50:03] with this in a systematic way away and have a certain standard throughout the city

[3:50:08] box, but I'll get back to you on this, I guess, you know, after we, you know, to see or ask

[3:50:15] you to assist the existing, I guess, a trash, you know, a safety call is to see if they need

[3:50:22] be upgraded, then we can do that without waiting for our capital improvement project. It's a good

[3:50:27] maintenance. I appreciate it. Yeah, not so include cooling landing in that as well. And then my last

[3:50:33] question, are we the safe routes to the school program? Are we about to sunset that relationship

[3:50:43] and are there any other potential relationships that we could join Ravenswood in as relates

[3:50:52] to building up our streets and our sidewalks and our city lights? Are there any, yeah, so let me

[3:51:02] structure. Yeah, the safer out of school program now is under different umbrella. It's called

[3:51:08] ATP, a third to transportation programs. And Hamza, you know, called us to Hamza, he submit an

[3:51:15] application for the University Avenue over crossing. Just to take the deadline was today. We are

[3:51:22] asking, I think, about $9 million of federal grant for that program, that's second four, I believe.

[3:51:28] So, yeah, that's, that's now with all these staff out to school, other programs is under the ATP.

[3:51:36] Anything that's not really to, you know, motors, you know, you know, improvement or sleeping moments.

[3:51:42] bicycle, pedestrian, you know, cycling.

[3:51:45] That's what it rails.

[3:51:47] So we wish, you know, you know, we get on with that.

[3:51:51] Is that on the left?

[3:51:52] If he was involved in the department.

[3:51:55] No, it's end of public works.

[3:51:56] Let's still under your umbrella.

[3:51:59] Yes.

[3:51:59] We get the first second and we can do the bridge, the POC that you see at Clark and the, you know, new

[3:52:05] will.

[3:52:06] And now we are trying to get the same grant for University of Tennessee.

[3:52:11] Are you looking at doing any additional improvements on the, on the overpass ramp?

[3:52:20] I know, you know, we've, what about six months, eight months in,

[3:52:24] But have we learned any things about lighting in over there or rails or access for our residents that could allow for us to do something improvements over there?

[3:52:40] Well, we're going to come back to you very soon with an update on that project.

[3:52:45] we are at the design. We're going to have one final community meeting so we can get the project ready

[3:52:53] and so we can set it easier and get funds for it. If we are not successful with the ATP grant.

[3:53:00] No, I was going to put it over past that we have right now.

[3:53:03] What is the existing one? I was going to have to have the

[3:53:07] what we have like on the existing POC. Right, but we are also talking about

[3:53:13] some additional lights, some additional lights, some additional possible cameras, security cameras,

[3:53:20] Christ and so.

[3:53:23] Here we have, we are trying to get, you know, some contractor to be on this, we were not

[3:53:29] successful, we had one bid and it was really, really expensive. So we are trying to figure out a way

[3:53:36] if we can advertise it after we do the actual design of what we need to do it. We need cameras

[3:53:41] on both sides. Now we have a portable, the city manager, you know, he ordered this portable one,

[3:53:48] but, you know, we need to have a more permanent kind of like monitoring system and we'll

[3:53:54] come back to you with, I guess, a project that's going to be identified. We still have some money left

[3:53:59] from the POC. We have maybe 400,000 dollars remaining from, you know, left over from that project.

[3:54:06] So, we couldn't be with some of that money to add, you know, cameras on both side of the bridge.

[3:54:13] Okay.

[3:54:13] Last thing I would say, come on, once again, I just really appreciate the public works department, your staff, your team.

[3:54:21] On how they, they just, you can every day just kind of give our city a good look.

[3:54:28] And I just, you know, I know we're still struggling in some areas of light and illegal dumping and trash.

[3:54:34] But just overall, we all appreciate the work that they do, right?

[3:54:41] To keep our city looking well and so we can feel well about our city.

[3:54:46] Thank you.

[3:54:49] Thank you.

[3:54:51] Vice Mayor.

[3:54:52] Yes.

[3:54:54] So just as a preface to this conversation, when I want to thank City Manager and certainly

[3:55:01] a welfare for building a better website.

[3:55:05] But I still think there are, we have a problem.

[3:55:08] And the problem is that these PowerPoint presentations

[3:55:13] are indeed, or they should be in the public realm,

[3:55:17] and people should be able to see them.

[3:55:18] And we need to figure out a way,

[3:55:20] because all of the other regional organizations

[3:55:22] that I sit on and some of the county or any organizations,

[3:55:25] they put up their presentations right before the meeting,

[3:55:30] or even days before the meeting and we need to be able to load those onto our website so that

[3:55:35] one council members can find them and the public can. I want to thank James for, you know,

[3:55:41] always being able to when I need to in the middle of a meeting send me a presentation,

[3:55:45] but these presentations should be available to everybody including the council members online.

[3:55:51] So, Jaime, I hope you can figure out how to make that work because it is, it isn't

[3:56:00] the last questions once you've gone through the deck. So quickly, on the first page, I think

[3:56:06] of the proposed tenure capital improvement program, there's a $2.6 million city funds follow-up

[3:56:12] item. Can somebody explain quickly what exactly that is? Is that that we are putting money back

[3:56:20] in? Anyway, I don't know who Amy, could you let me know what that item is?

[3:56:28] Sorry, I'm pulling up the document right now you're looking at page number one page number one of your of your deck or actually it's I see I'm sorry that slide deck. Yes, so there was a question about a 2.6 million dollar

[3:56:42] City match. I think that was going to come in for the economic development administration grant if I'm correct and we don't have clarification of what the funding sources that that are going to come from our but the city's committing it we just have to return the council with what the what funding sources that's going to be pulled from.

[3:56:57] Okay, so this is, this 2.6 million would be only expanded if we received the EDA grant for those two water infrastructure programs.

[3:57:11] Right, okay. That's, thank you. I just wanted to understand that. And then I think the last question, at least on the presentation. Let me see if I can.

[3:57:22] It's the last recommendation.

[3:57:24] It's a problem with not having this earlier.

[3:57:33] All right.

[3:57:34] I'm not finding the slide that I wanted.

[3:57:37] So I think I'll just move on to my other questions.

[3:57:40] Unfortunately.

[3:57:43] All right.

[3:57:43] I'll deal with that later.

[3:57:45] Just quickly in the staff report and

[3:57:52] There is a, see, on page 46 at the bottom, there's a statement that says that the public

[3:58:00] public works also is placed at temporary hiring freeze at 1.25, vacant positions in the

[3:58:06] engineering division.

[3:58:07] I think this is fundamentally in the state, and I think that we should talk about it as

[3:58:10] counsel.

[3:58:11] The opportunity to plan for these projects and potentially have shovel ready projects for

[3:58:17] either the next administration or possibly even this administration, if it gets

[3:58:22] we're elected, which I hope not, but even if it does, I think that we'll probably be some type

[3:58:27] of stimulus bill that moves out. Maybe a lot smaller, but it'll happen. I think it is

[3:58:32] penny-wise and pound foolish to keep these positions vacant when we could really be preparing

[3:58:38] a bunch of projects to become shovel-ready. So whether we can have that discussion later or not,

[3:58:44] I think I would like to have that discussion later, Jaime, because I think it really is important

[3:58:51] to fill these positions, because otherwise we're going to have folks in public works who are going

[3:58:56] to be completely strapped or on the engineering side, and we're not going to be able to move

[3:59:01] these projects, at least through PS&E, all the planning documents that are needed for it to get

[3:59:10] these things funded. I hope you can take note of that and maybe come back and talk to us about

[3:59:16] the possibility of figuring out how we fill those.

[3:59:22] Glad that you saw Vice Mayor.

[3:59:23] A question on the one year cycle.

[3:59:27] So we were doing biennial budgets.

[3:59:30] We broke the biennial budget cycle.

[3:59:32] I guess this year primarily because of the COVID issue.

[3:59:37] If we go back to biennial budgets, then I assume we leave this one year cycle.

[3:59:42] Or is that not the case?

[3:59:45] Perhaps Brenda can speak more to this than she's been here longer.

[3:59:48] But my understanding is that the biennial cycle used to be an alignment with the biennial operating budget cycle.

[3:59:53] And since that has since changed to an annual operating budget, this is an attempt to align the capital budget with the option.

[4:00:00] So, this change would be just a fact of moving forward with the intention.

[4:00:08] Effective moving forward, now that we're doing one year budgets again.

[4:00:12] Okay. So, we could revert back then to a two year cycle of approving the capital budget.

[4:00:21] Yeah, absolutely.

[4:00:23] Okay.

[4:00:23] All right. I just want to make sure.

[4:00:27] I'm not one who does a lot of kudos, but I just want to say that.

[4:00:31] If you look at all the projects on page 45 that you listed that we've completed, I think that's probably in the last 10 years.

[4:00:38] That's about 45 to $50 million in projects. That is a lot of work.

[4:00:43] And I want to tip my hat to come all in his folks and the public works people as well as all the other staff and staff who was no longer here.

[4:00:52] because really that when when you look at how much those projects

[4:00:56] across and how significant they've been to the community,

[4:01:00] they are really massive. So that's off. I know we're looking at 70 million

[4:01:04] for the next 10 years, but that is a lot of work that was done.

[4:01:09] So I'm really appreciative of that.

[4:01:12] Let's see. I'm going to quickly, through my notes here.

[4:01:17] You touched on the safe routes to school, issue, thank you,

[4:01:22] because I remember moody to, oh, someone explained to me why the measured W funds in local taxes.

[4:01:34] You know, which is the one quarter cent tax transportation tax that we are collecting that goes to the TA,

[4:01:44] and then gets distributed partially to communities. Why is that a blank number?

[4:01:48] because we've been collecting it now for two years.

[4:01:51] So I don't see any money under the measure

[4:01:53] that you find why not.

[4:01:56] Does anyone know?

[4:01:58] Well, this was passed about a year and a half ago,

[4:02:02] Vice Mayor, or no.

[4:02:04] And maybe I'm not sure if Brenda has any number.

[4:02:06] I know the estimate was about not even $100,000.

[4:02:11] It's a lot of auto portion of that measure of W.

[4:02:15] So, it meant for ingestion, reduction, kind of like projects.

[4:02:21] And I can't check on it and get you maybe the senior memo of what we have to did after I talked to Brenda and the county.

[4:02:30] I don't have a balance.

[4:02:32] Yeah, I think that's a revision that should be made.

[4:02:37] It's actually more than $100,000, and it actually has to be used for because of our

[4:02:46] pavement improvement index. It's so low. Well, it's not so low, but it's lower than what they

[4:02:52] would like. It actually has to be used for roadway work. So, I mean, I would love to see that number

[4:02:57] in here because they are distributing it. They've been collecting for two years.

[4:03:05] So,

[4:03:06] that they're collecting and mission W. So anyway, I think in order to complete this, it would be helpful to get it in there.

[4:03:14] Uh, uh, the Vice Mayor, can I just ask a clarifying question?

[4:03:17] Are you speaking about this fiscal year?

[4:03:19] Specifically or across the entire tenure program?

[4:03:22] Well, in particular, I mean, this, this bill, the tenure program would be fine.

[4:03:28] But also this year, I believe we should be collecting some of that.

[4:03:31] Now, come on, you might be right, that our portion for this year may only be $100,000 because it may only be a partial payment. I'm not, I'm not quite sure, but I know we are collecting. And it's, you know, I think it's actually close to $200,000, but maybe I'm well.

[4:03:46] Yes, and I, and to that point, actually, I will say that starting fiscal year 2021 2022, we are projecting that we're going to start using that for annual sidewalk repair.

[4:03:55] I believe that we staggered that both because of the note that Break and Made earlier about trying to stagger out some of the projects because of capacity issues, but also to to what that funds stack up a little bit.

[4:04:10] So getting directly into the CIP itself and the projects, I'm trying to understand, where is the water main projects for university, the university coolly water main project, which I think is, well, it's apparently not in the CIP.

[4:04:33] Well, maybe it's in the CIP but we haven't identified funding. One of the questions I have is since it's I believe there for this year, but unfunded and correct me if I'm wrong.

[4:04:47] If we don't get the EDA grant money, it sounds like from Patrick's discussions with our lobbyists in Washington.

[4:04:57] It's looking better, it's not confirmed, but it's looking better that we might get it.

[4:05:01] But if we don't get it, I know this council has said that we would like to figure out how I move forward with this, even if we don't get the money.

[4:05:09] So how might we actually be able to move that forward?

[4:05:12] And actually it's already on page 64 or 84 of the packet, where it's identified as $6 million,

[4:05:21] But I believe there is no funding

[4:05:25] identifying for it, correct?

[4:05:28] Correct.

[4:05:29] That is.

[4:05:29] Yeah, that's correct.

[4:05:30] Yeah, that project is listed as

[4:05:32] W slash O 4 B.

[4:05:35] I'm funded in the amount of six million

[4:05:36] dollars.

[4:05:38] So, so, what, what do we do?

[4:05:41] If we hear back,

[4:05:42] I'm crossing my fingers that we're going to hear back

[4:05:44] before December,

[4:05:45] that we actually got some of it

[4:05:47] or part of it,

[4:05:48] maybe it didn't give us the few money,

[4:05:49] they give us the university money. But if we don't get the university money, then I think what is the

[4:05:55] process to move this forward? Because I know Councillors had this discussion in the past that we

[4:05:58] really do want to move that university cooling project forward. So what would then be the process

[4:06:05] to move it forward if it's not included, if it's not funded by that particular source?

[4:06:13] Vice Mayor, there's an opportunity for Cal OS slash FEMA grant. I'm working with Jackie Spears

[4:06:22] Office about the grant. There are some money with FEMA, taking into consideration the files that's

[4:06:30] having in California and given the city challenge when comes to fire flow requirements. I think we have a good opportunity,

[4:06:37] you know, just to apply for a grant for over all the, you know, what I mean, upgrade in

[4:06:44] the city, and we can use that many if we are successful as a priority for that project for

[4:06:50] that transmission one. So I will I will keep you and the city manager informed about the progress

[4:06:57] that I'm working with the Jackie Spears office and they are in support of the city apply for this

[4:07:03] That's something I'm going to spend some time on next week.

[4:07:09] So I guess a segue to this is this whole discussion about water supply, which you actually

[4:07:15] have on page 33 of this document.

[4:07:20] And so we have a cap, right?

[4:07:23] We have a letter from the state that talks about deficiencies in our water system and how

[4:07:28] we need to fix those.

[4:07:29] I believe Council needs to have that letter brought back to us and we need to figure out where we are in terms of meeting the state's goals.

[4:07:39] And I think also staff needs to have a conversation with the state to say, how are we doing given that we're not meeting particularly the storage issue.

[4:07:47] But the reason I bring this up and the reason I bring up the $6 million investment is because there's a very good possibility given the way

[4:07:58] The light tree project is moving forward that we might be able to capitalize on light trees need to actually put in tanks.

[4:08:10] And instead of using that tank money, that money to put in tanks, they might be able to subsidize potentially the in exchange for not putting in the tanks.

[4:08:19] If we get the pipeline in, subsidize that somehow.

[4:08:25] So I don't want to lose the opportunity of maybe having this synergy between the city and that particular project.

[4:08:34] And if we wait too long for other funding sources, we're going to lose that opportunity.

[4:08:39] We will not have this developed by 20.

[4:08:41] I believe it's April of 2022.

[4:08:44] Maybe it's May, Patrick may know that that date better than I do.

[4:08:47] So I just think it's something for us to really keep in mind that we don't want to keep pushing

[4:08:52] off. I think that particular project. Too long, if we don't get these these funding sources,

[4:08:58] and I don't know how long it would take for the FEMA funding source to come there.

[4:09:02] Um, American, I just ask you a question. Is this, um, is it a line of questioning that's going to

[4:09:08] lead us to answers tonight or what is it? Well, it, it, it is certainly along, along this line

[4:09:16] a long this issue of, so it is unfunded, this project will not go forward if it doesn't

[4:09:22] get funded, but on the theme aside, but we could program our capital improvement money for

[4:09:30] this project if we wanted to, what I'm asking is, so if we don't get funded by the EDA process,

[4:09:37] then how do we program in this capital budget, the money to do that project within the next

[4:09:42] year?

[4:09:43] I see what you're saying.

[4:09:47] Okay.

[4:09:48] Right.

[4:09:49] Excuse me.

[4:09:50] Vice Mayor.

[4:09:50] Hi.

[4:09:51] Hi.

[4:09:52] I'm here.

[4:09:53] Listening.

[4:09:55] We.

[4:09:56] Maybe touched on this in the in the past.

[4:09:58] And the reason we didn't cite one exact fund.

[4:10:03] To match the 80 grads even the 2.6.

[4:10:07] Yeah.

[4:10:07] Yes, you know, if we just take the scenario that we don't and it's speaking only at the initial six million because that would be a big bite for us, if we solve if we end up self funding that.

[4:10:21] But my, my, my thought was was I will sit down with public works and we will, I will really understand, you know, critical priority of all the other projects right now that are being tagged.

[4:10:35] with funding in the water funds and understanding where we are with the cat.

[4:10:42] Look at that in relation to the water funds money that we have,

[4:10:46] and then what we also will do is probably come through the capital funds,

[4:10:53] and reprioritize some of the funds that have been set aside some of them five years ago,

[4:10:58] that we haven't used and should come again loose and then also shake loose, you know, some general fund reserve because of how critical the fire flow.

[4:11:10] Okay.

[4:11:11] That's that's what I wanted to hear.

[4:11:13] Yes.

[4:11:14] I think I'll just I'll end by asking the question about the cap.

[4:11:19] The June I have talked about in the cap is this efficiency lighting from the state on our water distribution system.

[4:11:27] I mean, I, I don't know when we're going to have that discussion with the state to see how we're doing.

[4:11:32] But the state may come back to us and say, you know what you really need to do X, Y, as you do it this year.

[4:11:37] And if, if that happens, then I think we may have to revisit a capital project or something.

[4:11:43] Correct? Because, you know, we're all worried that the state has not heard from us, of course, there's hope there.

[4:11:48] Right? And that they could come back or come down on us because we have not, you know, done what they have requested.

[4:11:56] it has to do. We did do glory well, but there's some other issues that we still need to get.

[4:12:00] So I do hope that that will come back to us soon. And that may indeed inform a modification

[4:12:06] on the CIP this year. I don't know, it's been a while.

[4:12:11] Do I need to ask you to ask me if I would like to clarify this? The cap just to clarify this.

[4:12:19] We had a discussion with the state last week.

[4:12:21] So I want to clarify this, the cap was meant for how to public safety of the water quality, not the quantity or the flow.

[4:12:32] The water system in the city, it meets the minimum flow that's required when it comes to fire flow.

[4:12:38] However, the cap was because there was an accidental discharge into the HHC system and came to our city.

[4:12:46] They want us to have water tanks so we can isolate our system and stop the water from coming to the city.

[4:12:52] It did in case of accidents, accident and this job and you know incidents.

[4:12:58] So we can have you know what are supplying the city to sustain us for at least one or two days.

[4:13:03] So if it came from water quality and health concern, not over water or fire flow concerns.

[4:13:11] And I will share with the council just on update, I'm working with the state.

[4:13:16] We are providing them with our capital improvement plan and the projects we are working on,

[4:13:22] and they are aware of what's going on in the city. We have a lot of opportunities for what

[4:13:26] our storage tanks, I will share it with you with this mature enough to come to the council and say,

[4:13:31] this is an opportunity, last part not was so and so, and make things happen. So stay tuned.

[4:13:37] Yeah, I would love to hear how that conversation will stay.

[4:13:41] Thank you. I'm Adam here. I'm done.

[4:13:43] Work. Thank you.

[4:13:47] Yeah, through the chair.

[4:13:49] Okay.

[4:13:51] Yeah, just follow me up on that.

[4:13:53] And also on what Kamal said at the beginning.

[4:14:00] Water, water, water.

[4:14:02] I think that before too much time goes by, perhaps in one of the quarterly reports, I think we do need to focus our attention on water because, you know, it's a little like the pandemic.

[4:14:22] We're concerned about economics, and I think when the city developed a strategy to get extra water, you know, we were thinking, well, we need to develop the city more, we don't have water, so we need water for that.

[4:14:37] The other thing about water is the safety and health of the community, and I think that it's to me one of the top priorities, and so we do need to address, well, first of all, I think we just need to focus on that, and see, centralized.

[4:15:00] That's all the information, financial information, technical information, political information, so that we develop a strategy around water to protect the community, because we've been, you know, dealing with it, I think, very doing well, but it's still kind of all in pieces.

[4:15:20] And so within the capital improvement project I think I think water is just for me is at the top of the list so that the community knows what we're dealing with and has come out has been saying I think that letting everybody know that can help us will be important.

[4:15:40] So that's the way I look at it. We're not dealing with an ACE infrastructure with safety health issues flooding and it's got to become one of the top priorities.

[4:15:53] At least to have some good discussion on it with all the relevant information. Thank you.

[4:16:05] Thank you.

[4:16:06] First of all, to acknowledge the Councilman's suggestions, we'll find an opportunity to come back together and specifically look at water as you have expressed.

[4:16:18] For tonight, we have a recommendation to adopt the resolution and excuse me, adopting the senior capital improvement program.

[4:16:26] Are we ready to entertain that recommendation.

[4:16:30] My name may have we need to have a public hearing.

[4:16:33] Oh, thank you for reminding me.

[4:16:36] It's late.

[4:16:37] I don't need a panel, but I just jumped in.

[4:16:40] Absolutely.

[4:16:41] Let's entertain a motion to open for public hearing.

[4:16:47] Hello.

[4:16:47] Thank you.

[4:16:50] Is this in our second?

[4:16:51] Second.

[4:16:52] Thank you.

[4:16:53] It's moved in properly.

[4:16:53] Seconded.

[4:16:54] All of those in favor.

[4:16:55] Please respond by roll call.

[4:16:57] Council member will she absent.

[4:17:00] Council member of Rica.

[4:17:03] Yes.

[4:17:03] Council member Moody.

[4:17:05] Yes.

[4:17:06] Vice Mayor Romero.

[4:17:07] Yes.

[4:17:09] Mayor Wilson's.

[4:17:10] Yes.

[4:17:12] Okay.

[4:17:12] You know, this public hearing open.

[4:17:17] And at this point, if we have any members of the public, they would like to speak.

[4:17:22] Please use the raise hand function.

[4:17:25] We'll go to a few seconds.

[4:17:30] see none mayor.

[4:17:35] Where are all of our stakeholders? Did they go ahead and get in the bed?

[4:17:41] They get so much from bed.

[4:17:46] All right, if there's no, if there's no public comment or public hearing

[4:17:52] let's entertain a motion to close the public hearing. I move that we close public hearing some of

[4:17:58] Thank you, sir. Second.

[4:18:03] Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor. Please respond by roll call.

[4:18:08] I'm so member. Go.

[4:18:10] Action.

[4:18:11] Council member.

[4:18:13] Yes.

[4:18:14] Council member.

[4:18:16] Yes.

[4:18:17] I'm.

[4:18:18] Yes.

[4:18:21] You know, I'm.

[4:18:22] I'm ready.

[4:18:24] I like to make a motion if you're so ready.

[4:18:27] I'm ready to adopt a resolution to adopt being the 10 year capital improvement plan and fiscal year 2020 2021 capital budget.

[4:18:41] Thank you, is there a second.

[4:18:44] I seconded.

[4:18:45] Thank you. It's been moved in properly seconded. All of those in favor, please respond with roll call.

[4:18:49] Council member Gochey, Council member Rabrika, yes. Council member Moody, yes.

[4:18:58] Vice Mayor Romero, yes.

[4:19:01] And mayor Wilson's.

[4:19:04] All right.

[4:19:04] Paschinenens, Dr. Edens.

[4:19:07] That's so it.

[4:19:09] We're making great time, not really, but okay, it's good.

[4:19:12] This is good.

[4:19:14] Let's move on to public hearing item number 10.

[4:19:18] that to affordable housing impact fee for non-residential development, urgency resolution.

[4:19:28] Through the Mayan.

[4:19:31] Yeah, Rachel and I continue to bump in each other on this item.

[4:19:35] I'm going to turn it over to Rachel Horst who's going to make some nice presentation.

[4:19:38] Thank you, Rachel.

[4:19:40] Thank you.

[4:19:41] Sorry about that.

[4:19:43] I will make this extremely short and use the visual that the city attorney is so helpful.

[4:19:50] last time just to anchor us. Hopefully you can see the arrows. So this is, this item is for the Affordable

[4:20:01] Housing Impact C for non residential development. The City Council first took action on this item on

[4:20:09] October on August 4 and adopted an urgency resolution adopting a C of $11.41 per square. But

[4:20:20] That urgency resolution is in effect for 30 days, that action was taken at a social meeting, moving forward in the year to September 1st, the urgency resolution was renewed and so extended for 30 days.

[4:20:38] And at that meeting, this is the Council also adopted the regular resolution, which is not take effect for 60 days.

[4:20:44] Hence, I am here before you again this evening to recommend that you renew the urgency ordinance, the third arrow taking us towards the finish line of November 1st.

[4:20:57] So this will then renew the ordinance.

[4:21:01] We'll do the rest of the reason for a minute, just about 30 days, and that will take us through to November 1st, upon the state, the permanent regular resolution will take effect.

[4:21:14] So that is the action that we're recommending this evening, and that summarizes what absolutely recommend you take on before the housing effect.

[4:21:25] and we will not return to you with this item until we adjust the fee.

[4:21:33] Okay.

[4:21:36] Council, any questions?

[4:21:41] I have none, ma'am.

[4:21:44] Okay.

[4:21:47] I'm fine too, so.

[4:21:49] Whoo!

[4:21:49] All right.

[4:21:51] So, uh, is that clapping for you too?

[4:21:54] I know, I want to clap too.

[4:21:55] All right.

[4:21:55] So, hearing no questions.

[4:21:57] No, I dropped my papers.

[4:21:58] That's tough.

[4:22:01] We've been asked to adopt an urgency resolution renewing the urgency resolution number 1117 that's 20.

[4:22:11] Would you like a motion? Yes, I would.

[4:22:14] One moment again, I think we have to open the public hearing.

[4:22:16] Thank you. Oh, my God.

[4:22:18] Is this a public.

[4:22:20] Oh, you're right.

[4:22:20] It is.

[4:22:21] Public.

[4:22:23] I apologize.

[4:22:24] Yeah, I I move that we have in the public hearing.

[4:22:27] Thank you.

[4:22:27] Is there a second.

[4:22:29] Thank you.

[4:22:30] in a second. I will go to favor please one with roll call.

[4:22:34] Councilmember Dolce absent. Councilmember Abrija?

[4:22:41] Yes. Councilmember Woody? Yes.

[4:22:44] Vice-member Madame. Yes.

[4:22:47] Mayor Wallace Jones. Yes.

[4:22:49] And do we have any public comments? Please use the raise hand option.

[4:22:56] And seeing none but we'll give it a few seconds.

[4:22:58] Yeah,

[4:23:05] I think everyone else wants to sleep, too.

[4:23:08] I'm kidding.

[4:23:09] No, we're still with you.

[4:23:11] No way, okay.

[4:23:12] All right.

[4:23:13] We're going strong.

[4:23:15] All right.

[4:23:16] Let's entertain a motion to close the public hearing.

[4:23:20] So I'm moved.

[4:23:21] We closed public hearing.

[4:23:22] Thank you, sir.

[4:23:24] Second.

[4:23:25] It's been moved in properly.

[4:23:26] Second it.

[4:23:26] All of those in favor.

[4:23:27] Please respond with roll call.

[4:23:33] Council member Abrica.

[4:23:37] Council member Woodie.

[4:23:40] Vice Mayor of the Middle.

[4:23:42] Mayor Woodie.

[4:23:43] Yes.

[4:23:44] All right.

[4:23:45] The unanimous close.

[4:23:48] Madam Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we adopt the urgency resolution

[4:23:52] removing urgency resolution number one one one seven desk 20 setting and adopting the affordable housing impact fees as set forth and exhibit A of the urgency resolution contained in the staff report.

[4:24:07] Thank you. Is there a second.

[4:24:10] Thank you.

[4:24:11] Thank you. It's been moved in properly second it all of those in favor. Please respond. I will call.

[4:24:17] Council member, council member Gochey, absent, council member Woody.

[4:24:25] Council member Africa.

[4:24:28] Vice-mariner Metham.

[4:24:30] Yes.

[4:24:30] And my welcome.

[4:24:32] Yes.

[4:24:33] It's up to the unanimous.

[4:24:37] Awesome.

[4:24:39] All right.

[4:24:39] That takes us through both of our public hearing items.

[4:24:43] It's a let's attend 54.

[4:24:45] Let's do our best to try to get through the next.

[4:24:49] At least the next two items, let's see where we land, beginning with 11.1, the Ravens

[4:24:55] Wood Business District Specific Plan.

[4:24:58] Now, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt.

[4:25:01] I just want to do a public acknowledgement.

[4:25:04] I need to excuse myself from this discussion.

[4:25:09] And because I have a accomplice as an employer,

[4:25:14] who's being considered for a project in that zone.

[4:25:19] Thank you for that council committee. Are you planning to return for the topics that follow or is this it for you for the night.

[4:25:28] I don't know that option.

[4:25:32] I don't know.

[4:25:36] I will.

[4:25:38] I will certainly return.

[4:25:41] Okay.

[4:25:42] Will text you if we finish this topic or midnight.

[4:25:45] Otherwise we'll be dealing with them on another night.

[4:25:48] It's 12 o'clock.

[4:25:49] I am done.

[4:25:50] All right, very good.

[4:25:53] Let's keep it moving having a good night.

[4:25:55] We'll hopefully talk to you soon.

[4:25:57] Thank you.

[4:26:00] All right.

[4:26:01] Patrick, I think our Assistant City Manager.

[4:26:03] I'll take the lead on on this item.

[4:26:05] I'd also like to acknowledge that the two organizations that we are recommending

[4:26:10] Council approve contracts with are also here tonight.

[4:26:14] That's Matt Ramey and Associates, as well as the air naked from the

[4:26:20] this. We can go through that. I also like to acknowledge my staff, Amy Chen, some others that are

[4:26:26] on here too, in case other questions come up. Next slide, James.

[4:26:36] All right, so this is like I said

[4:26:38] earlier tonight. This is a follow up item to two different times that we've connected with the

[4:26:43] city council on the RBD. I'm going back to the study session in February of 2020. Really what we did at

[4:26:50] time as we inform the city council that although the we have a specific plan for the RPD we currently

[4:26:56] have development applications roughly about 5 million square feet that far exceeds the plan and so

[4:27:02] we ask the council for some feedback and February we returned on June 2nd with a proposed approach

[4:27:07] really what that proposed approach was was to do some more analysis and bring in an organization

[4:27:14] not roaming group to look at the RBD, not necessarily to adopt a new plan but to do the analysis

[4:27:22] to save the city council down the road wants to look at, you know, provide a more capacity

[4:27:28] in the RBD plan. We also brought forth the concept of having one single entity be the project manager

[4:27:37] for all projects that go through that through the RBD so that we have some continuity. As you heard

[4:27:41] tonight. There's a lot of public infrastructure. There's work with the sanitary district. There's

[4:27:45] work with neighboring property owners. And so we said, let's bring one firm on with very unique

[4:27:50] capabilities to take on large complex projects in the city council. Give us the green light to come

[4:27:56] back tonight. So really what we're going to do tonight is to briefly go over what's going to be in

[4:28:01] those agreements and then seek the council's feedback on that. Next slide, please.

[4:28:07] There's a typo here. This contract would be in the amount of 500,000. I apologize, but I'm just going to do that.

[4:28:13] Yeah, I'm going to do the, the one with the good city company first is good up.

[4:28:18] Yeah, just because it's more straightforward. Really the contract with the good city company, like I said is for project management services.

[4:28:24] This is 100% paid for by developers to a reimbursement agreement.

[4:28:28] I would do several of our agreements currently.

[4:28:30] I just want to clarify that the good city company would report directly to city staff so although developers pay from their services

[4:28:36] They really report to us and help us facilitate the public process and that contract will be in the amount of $500,000.

[4:28:45] Next slide please.

[4:28:48] Getting into the more detail and this is where council might have some questions for Matt Raimi in his group is a lot of this other agreement is what we're calling the analysis in the environmental piece.

[4:29:00] was from direction from the city council. So as we detailed in the staff report, there is about six or seven key areas that the council wanted to look at around public benefits, transportation, community outreach, they want to understand the fiscal benefits of, you know, perhaps increasing the capacity and the, and the RBD also urban design. So what this chart is really depicting, I should say, also on June 2nd.

[4:29:30] The city council is very clear to staff that there are certain things that the city should be paying for a front really tied to the analysis.

[4:29:38] Reason being is the developers have a lot of items that they're going to be paying for which is more of the environmental things like that but at this point the city really wanted to own that.

[4:29:47] We're going to actually pony up some funding and we'll talk about how we'll potentially recapture that down the road.

[4:29:52] And so when you see the two columns on these different areas is.

[4:29:55] they're city cost and developer cost and so when you sum up all the

[4:30:00] I'm going back here right now. I just want to make sure it's about 1.3 million. And that's broken up about 500,000 from the city and the rest paid for by developers. And so the staff important lays out which, what's the detail analysis in each section. A lot of community outreach is also a lot of, you know, environmental review, things like that. You will see a note in the staff report about the loop road. There was a lot of communication with, you know, stakeholders and RBD through this

[4:30:29] process. We just want folks to know we're absolutely going to study the loop road. I think the loop road is going to have challenges down the road doesn't mean that can't be insurmountable.

[4:30:39] But what we don't want to do is not study the environmental part of the loop road now and then get an RBD plan approved and then have to study it later. I think it just be more efficient up right now. So at the staff reports a little confusing about is the loop road included or not. I just want to be clear for the record that we are recommending that the 237,000 extra dollars.

[4:30:58] be included in there. Next slide, please. And then you could, sorry, James, you can jump ahead one more.

[4:31:06] We have the timeline in the, it's a very ambitious timeline, you know, with things with complicated

[4:31:12] development review projects and environmental things can, you know, take longer. I will say that a lot

[4:31:17] of environmental work has already gone on in the RBD. And so, um, Matt Raymond Associates are

[4:31:23] Partnering with consultants that know East Palo Dual, David Powers, there's one of them, and so perhaps that could actually shorten some of this timeline, but again, I don't think the staff's main concern is to do this quick.

[4:31:34] We want to do this right to make sure we bring back some fruitful recommendations to the city council to consider down the road.

[4:31:41] And you can see the timeline is in the staff report. Next slide, please.

[4:31:47] In addition to all the contracts, there are some cost share considerations as the staff

[4:31:53] report notes.

[4:31:54] And I just mentioned that the city is picking up some of this costs and you know, upwards

[4:31:58] of $500,000.

[4:31:59] So that's a lot for our little city.

[4:32:02] We are making a recommendation that if the city council does increase the capacity and the

[4:32:07] RBD, then the city should recapture those funds as well.

[4:32:12] And so what we're essentially going to do is we put together a methodology that would basically

[4:32:15] say, you know, we have a math an example in there, it's totally speculative just that around numbers,

[4:32:22] but, you know, if the if the RBD caps were increased, you would take the projects where footage

[4:32:26] that was approved against that increase, and then we would ask the developer to reimburse us as a

[4:32:31] condition of that project's approval for anything that the city were to spend in this. In addition,

[4:32:37] you can see in the third point is a lot of times projects are approved, and they might not move forward.

[4:32:43] And what we're saying is regardless of a project moves forward or not, if the city

[4:32:47] incurred costs and that project was approved, then the city wants to recapture those funds

[4:32:52] within 10 days of the project's approval. So that's very different than waiting for, you know,

[4:32:57] if they were to pull permits and so I know that's very aggressive, but again, $500,000 is a lot of

[4:33:03] funding for the city, a lot of it in this general fund reserves. So we want to make sure that

[4:33:08] if projects are approved, then there are repaying the city. Now it's likely that not all of that

[4:33:13] every $1,000 would be repaid,

[4:33:15] but the goal would be to get a large chunk of that.

[4:33:17] Next slide, please.

[4:33:19] So really, the recommendations are,

[4:33:21] the enter into two agreements,

[4:33:22] one with the good city company, pretty straightforward.

[4:33:25] And then two is with Rami and Associates

[4:33:27] for the analysis and the environmental review services

[4:33:30] and the amount of 1.326829 million.

[4:33:34] Like I said, specifically,

[4:33:36] we are recommending that we include

[4:33:37] the supplemental EIR of the Loop Road

[4:33:39] and then require the developer repayment obligations

[4:33:42] as outlined in the staff report and that's right just went over. And with that, we are available for any questions. Thank you.

[4:33:49] Thank you for that report. Council any questions?

[4:34:01] Through the chair.

[4:34:04] So actually, it's, it's an observation, but also, I guess a question.

[4:34:10] And the period where the, what is being called refined, you know, kind of refined analysis.

[4:34:18] So, that's kind of bringing us up to date, bringing all the data, all the information, sort of up to date, right, kind of having the best information sources to it.

[4:34:33] And so one thing that I feel would be useful is to, for the consultants to do some discussion in the report, and it probably doesn't involve a lot of research, is more of a conceptual framework in discussing,

[4:35:03] Something that used to be used more before I know that at the inception of the city, we talked about

[4:35:13] community economic development.

[4:35:17] And we used to talk about community policing.

[4:35:20] I think it took us a long time to finally implement and maybe even better understand what the concept of community policing meant.

[4:35:30] And I think that has, you know, it's been a good thing, I think, and the community instead of just like policing.

[4:35:39] And because that's always,

[4:35:43] so anyway, what I noticed in this kind of second round of major development that I think the city is going to be going through.

[4:35:55] in, you know, the assumptions that we make in economic development. So, just like we say

[4:36:02] policing, or we say economic development, there's already embedded in certain concepts

[4:36:09] of what that means. And so, I think up to now, the whole area of economic development,

[4:36:16] the city has been mostly just sort of the traditional one where, you know, developers come

[4:36:23] and they want to develop the economy and then we try to extract benefits which are good,

[4:36:30] you know, community benefits. But I think this time around and perhaps because of all the

[4:36:36] things that are going on, I think it's a good time to re-examine even our own assumptions as a city.

[4:36:41] And so I'd be interested in some discussion that the consultants could provide, you know,

[4:36:51] several other several approaches to economic development.

[4:36:55] What are they?

[4:36:57] And so I think this one where we include the community in it, just like we did early on,

[4:37:07] because I think that the direction of the city has always been,

[4:37:10] we want to develop the local economy.

[4:37:13] That's one reason why we become a city.

[4:37:15] We want to make sure that it really serves the needs

[4:37:17] of the community, understanding that, of course,

[4:37:21] businesses are in business, and they have to do their business.

[4:37:27] But so I think we need some of that.

[4:37:29] Instead of always leaving it just some embedded assumption

[4:37:33] that later we discuss on the edges of it. So I don't have a response to that if some of that could

[4:37:41] be done because throughout the whole task there's places where it talks about doing this and doing

[4:37:50] that and also talking about community benefits, which I think is good. But I think upfront,

[4:37:56] There should be some conceptual, even if you will, theoretical discussion of what does the economy mean, especially these days.

[4:38:09] I think it allows for that. People are thrown out. Our whole system is really shaken up.

[4:38:16] And I think we need to take, anyway, I would be interested in some of that being included explicitly and not implicitly.

[4:38:34] Is that something that you think could be included in some way?

[4:38:39] Yeah, can I let me just if I could jump into the yeah, I think you're absolutely right on and glad you brought that up.

[4:38:48] We have strategic economics is a firm who does a lot of community economic development work as part of our team and we think that that part of our work is really not just looking at the total amount of development that can be built.

[4:39:02] but also tying it back to what are the broad benefits for the community and the broad vision for the community and the existing

[4:39:09] specific plan really lays out that some of those community benefits are about

[4:39:14] economic development and economic advancement for the residents of the city.

[4:39:19] And so I think we can bring that into the discussion just as part of our scope and detail.

[4:39:23] That a little bit further as we move forward.

[4:39:27] Yeah, and again, you know, I'm not up on all the terms, but I know that

[4:39:32] community economic development. I don't know if it goes by different names now or been something or or what, but you know, that's kind of the idea. I guess that's yeah.

[4:39:42] Yeah, I believe it's it really is part of our scope, but I think we can sort of name it as that and don't deeper into in process.

[4:39:48] Right. Thank you.

[4:39:50] Thank you.

[4:39:53] Awesome. I appreciate that. That's added for you.

[4:39:56] Yes, for now. That's one question. Thank you.

[4:39:59] Thank you, Vice Mayor.

[4:40:01] Yes. Thank you.

[4:40:02] So,

[4:40:05] since we started discussing reopening or reviewing, I should say, the specific plan,

[4:40:15] I've always approached this with a fair amount of trepidation.

[4:40:21] I mean, clearly, this was a plan that the community worked on for a while that,

[4:40:25] I mean, had some specific goals around job creation, local job creation.

[4:40:31] And then there was that smaller housing piece that's about 900 units that people wanted to see affordable housing in.

[4:40:39] And then there were some community service or serving type activities that were also wanted there.

[4:40:45] And so I approached this with some preparation because of the fact that if you look at the chart, it was included in the report staff.

[4:40:54] You know, there's some 4 million in change of square feet that people are interested, or developers are interested in developing.

[4:41:06] And that's a, that's a really strong interest on the, from the developer community that I do not in any way want to drive this plan.

[4:41:16] This is a plan that we are reviewing and potentially making changes to because the city

[4:41:24] of East Padawanto and the community itself feels that this is in the best interest in the community,

[4:41:31] not in the best interest of no offense to any of the developers out there.

[4:41:37] But, you know, any of those folks, they should not be driving this and it's one of the reasons that we tried to create this firewall

[4:41:44] in terms of who pays for what, a couple of questions on that later.

[4:41:48] So I just want to make sure that we're doing that and, you know, kind of sprinkled

[4:41:53] throughout the report, this is a segue to my next concern, is there is this discussion

[4:42:02] and this interest of having all of these, the project sponsors kind of move forward, maintain

[4:42:10] their momentum, we say. When we know for a fact right now that the project sponsors probably

[4:42:17] couldn't build what they wanted to build because we haven't studied it. It's beyond the initial

[4:42:23] program EIR and there's just no space there based on something there's no space. We don't have

[4:42:32] the capacity given the environmental documents that we have approved previously. So I think it should

[4:42:38] You made very clear, and I know the city attorneys here, and I hope we can do this.

[4:42:43] But when we sign these reimbursement agreements with these developers, if we can, there

[4:42:52] should be a clause in there that says we're not committing to approving your projects through

[4:43:00] through this process of reviewing and let's say modifying slightly updating the specific

[4:43:08] plant because I do not want developers to think that they're entitled to anything through

[4:43:14] this process.

[4:43:16] Now, Patrick, Matt, you might feel differently, but I think that up front, if we don't have

[4:43:23] that communication, I have even greater trepidation.

[4:43:26] So, and he thoughts from YouTube guys, because that is like a pivotal issue for me.

[4:43:32] That, no issue from my side. The developer's knowledge, this is a hundred percent risk at their time.

[4:43:41] And, and we, um, I, uh, close right, I agree with you and we've been very clear in our communication with the developer group that

[4:43:51] that even if they're projects, if they're starting to move forward and do doing design work that

[4:43:56] they still have to abide by everything that is in the plan and that may require them to go back and

[4:44:01] redo work, then they have done. So we've been clear with that, that the city is driving the process,

[4:44:08] there may not be the past city they may not agree to the benefits they may not agree to the approach,

[4:44:14] but it's the city's process. And I'm glad that Aaron is on this call too,

[4:44:19] because he's obviously going to be handling the developments

[4:44:24] or his firm is going to be handling the development.

[4:44:27] And I want Aaron to also understand that.

[4:44:30] And I think he gets it.

[4:44:31] I think that he certainly in the previous cities

[4:44:33] in which he's worked and been assistant city manager

[4:44:35] and playing director.

[4:44:37] I think he has been pretty straightforward with developers.

[4:44:42] But they should understand that this is not a process.

[4:44:45] They necessarily can end up providing them

[4:44:47] enough in with enough development capacity to build what they want to build.

[4:44:54] So the issue of community of community benefits is another issue.

[4:45:00] That I think is critical to a successful rework or redo, I shouldn't say redo, but revision of this plan, when we originally

[4:45:15] envisioned this way back when I think we started in 2009,

[4:45:23] we were in a recession and we actually

[4:45:31] of money that was available from a fiscal analysis perspective didn't allow us to get a lot

[4:45:37] of community benefits other than the jobs which were critically important and that's why we set

[4:45:41] up the development scheme that we had and now that the economy has improved and you know now that

[4:45:49] there's this tremendous demand now that folks are potentially asking for more development envelope

[4:45:55] It is really critical for the community to engage in a robust discussion and in a capacious discussion about community benefits, what are they, and how do we triangulate to funding them, are they hard wired in some way, is it a beauty contest, but it's a beauty contest that's based on, you know, A, B, C, and D,

[4:46:24] the community benefits and there's the percentage of each I don't know. But I really think that

[4:46:32] you, our consultants, Matt, really need to think about that. You obviously have it in your

[4:46:39] work plan. I don't know if it's early enough and often enough in those sections that we can continue

[4:46:47] to kind of initially review, investigate, you know, try to kind of hone down where we're going

[4:46:56] on this potentially present different options of hard wiring or, you know, actually obtaining

[4:47:03] those community benefits, but I think that's vitally critical and, again, I think a couple

[4:47:10] of places seems like a community benefits piece, discussion is being left a little bit toward

[4:47:15] the end, let's see us front loaded more and have that be a pretty significant community discussion.

[4:47:24] Any thoughts about that, both of you, Patrick and Matt?

[4:47:32] Yeah, I mean, I think we will do what the council desires.

[4:47:36] So hypothetically, if we were to get approval, it takes a couple of weeks to get the contracts

[4:47:41] up and running.

[4:47:42] We're going to have a, we would do a kickoff meeting and then Matt, we should talk about when

[4:47:46] what it makes sense to start.

[4:47:48] Very similar to the Woodland process,

[4:47:50] as we said, Council,

[4:47:50] we think we need like three or four study sessions.

[4:47:53] We might do the same for the RBD item that says,

[4:47:56] we think we might need three or four study sessions

[4:47:59] and let's figure out what those study sessions are

[4:48:02] and when we can start planning them,

[4:48:04] heading into next calendar year.

[4:48:07] But if I'm, you know, Matt, I'd be interested in here

[4:48:09] and you're about the timing of one to start kicking

[4:48:12] out the community benefit.

[4:48:13] I'm sure some analysis has to be done

[4:48:14] There's a certain level of analysis that would probably be done first, but I don't know if you have any thoughts.

[4:48:20] It's iterative.

[4:48:22] I think one of the things that you notice, Council Member Romero is the engagement community engagement being moved to collapsing all of the engagement in one task at the end.

[4:48:32] That was not meant to signify that that's when the engagement is happening.

[4:48:36] It's just it was just for simplicity in the chart that Patrick showed. We have engagement throughout and I think that that conversation with the community about what are the community benefits. You know here's how they were laid out and identified in the distant plan and now what are they look like now and what are the additional benefits.

[4:48:53] I think what happened really early on in our engagements.

[4:48:56] And so we're defining what those are and that they can then move throughout our analysis

[4:49:01] to allow us to dive deeper into how we achieve those through the development projects that may be coming forward.

[4:49:09] So I think what we can also do is we can certainly come back to you all as an item

[4:49:16] and present the schedule and how we're going to do this so that you can see it and give us recommendations as well.

[4:49:21] And I think for any of the developers and now there are some developers that are on the line.

[4:49:27] I mean, I think it's going to be vitally important if the community wants to increase the development envelope or move around the uses or the type of projects that get approved out there.

[4:49:43] There's going to have to be a very direct connection to how does a community benefit from this additional development.

[4:49:52] And so I'm hoping that the developers understand that this is this is not a process of solely increasing the development envelope without kind of

[4:50:03] a significant community benefits that were short, with the exception of the jobs piece in some of the housing, they were left out of the last community of the last specific area plan because of where the economy was.

[4:50:20] Let's see, and I think almost the film is actually I have two more little pink flags here.

[4:50:32] Oh, so we're going to be studying direct displacements, indirect displacement, and induced displacement.

[4:50:42] So I know it is important, I think, for certain, certainly, ETV, EPA, they talked to us a lot about this about trying to understand what are the impacts that new developments have on creating pressures to actually move people out of the community.

[4:51:00] And so that induced displacement and do kind of housing demand that then puts pressure on housing.

[4:51:11] I think it's something that needs to be studied.

[4:51:13] You all are talking about doing both direct and indirect displacement analysis, which is great.

[4:51:20] But are we also talking about looking at potential induced displacement that is created by,

[4:51:27] You know, adding another, you know, million, two million, whatever it is that we're adding.

[4:51:36] Sorry, Matt.

[4:51:38] Sorry.

[4:51:39] I'm not sure I can answer that one directly.

[4:51:41] We may need to actually get back to you in a follow.

[4:51:44] Strategic economics is doing the analysis.

[4:51:47] And I don't apologize.

[4:51:48] I don't have their scope memorized.

[4:51:50] So, so we can check on that.

[4:51:51] I believe that is what we are talking about within direct displacement.

[4:51:55] It is what is the impact on the community when

[4:51:58] two, three, four million square feet is added to the area.

[4:52:02] What overall would impact is that can have beyond just sort of you.

[4:52:06] So I think that's what they're addressing,

[4:52:08] but I would just want to confirm that and get that.

[4:52:12] And then, so I will say that I think your timeline is really aggressive.

[4:52:19] I would actually, I would have liked to have seen, you know,

[4:52:23] another three four months added to this thing,

[4:52:25] I just, I don't know if we can keep to it and we just creating expectations among people that we're going to get this done.

[4:52:34] But, I mean, I could easily see this thing, you know, being pushed out another six months, right?

[4:52:38] I mean, just there, there are all these little pieces that we need to align, but I guess it is what it is.

[4:52:45] And if I had, if we had more time, I want to move this forward.

[4:52:49] I asked to like, hey, can we spread this out a little more to make sure that we have enough room for the community.

[4:52:54] inputs and for, yes, you need to certainly talk to developers and you're, I suppose you're going to be doing some focus groups with those people will see.

[4:53:03] So, but, and then my last point is the money piece.

[4:53:07] I think this is more related to staff.

[4:53:12] Page 213, which actually has a summary of all the costs.

[4:53:19] The task one, two, three, and four, I think are costs that really are related to stuff that the city should be doing, and that, you know, we should not be relying on need development for funding.

[4:53:34] And within those four tasks, which are initiation draft of development concepts and analysis refine concepts and the amendment development.

[4:53:42] Those are borne by the city, but there's about another $110,000 on the developer side that they're paying for.

[4:53:49] And I want to know why are those costs even there? Why aren't we just paying for those?

[4:53:55] And then yeah, we will build them out.

[4:53:57] You know, if and when there's future development, I just want to keep this thing as clean as possible.

[4:54:04] There are no accusations of, you know, if these guys are paying the play.

[4:54:08] And I know both you and Matt, I mean, you know, I know the work you guys have done previously and I've worked with you Matt plenty of plenty of times.

[4:54:15] And I know that that's not what you guys would do, but the appearance is my concern.

[4:54:21] I'll all start in the Matt can help because Matt really helped.

[4:54:25] We took the council direction very seriously, but as folks know, there's so much overlap.

[4:54:31] You know, so what really what Matt and his team really helped us do is look at almost each activity and really try to

[4:54:37] So, you know, I do think there are probably areas that would make sense to shift over, but, you know, I just want folks to know that.

[4:54:45] Again, environmental runs throughout this, this document.

[4:54:48] We think we got a pretty good idea of what should be shifted.

[4:54:52] But if you want to elaborate a little bit more on that, just kind of worse specifically, we drew the line would be helpful.

[4:54:59] And the line includes a very wide swath of gray area.

[4:55:03] I'm just to be clear that what we really tried to do was to have the city paid for the cost that are related to the displacement analysis, the community benefits, the urban design and the policy development, you know anything related to policy and then what we had what we put over on the developer side is analysis that could feed into the environmental impact report.

[4:55:33] And so that's why it's not, and that's why it's not exactly like all of the stuff is in the all of the past

[4:55:40] or the developer or in the environmental impact report, because we're doing analysis on infrastructure and transportation, very early on,

[4:55:48] that are going to build up to the EIR and so that it has two, three and four, there's analysis that really feeds into that.

[4:55:56] That was our logic behind it and so.

[4:55:58] It's associated with the EIR rather than just larger, it's not revisiting at least, you know.

[4:56:08] That's right, review. Yes.

[4:56:09] So that's the way we thought about it was that if it was related to kind of more detailed

[4:56:15] hardcore analysis of running a traffic model or running an infrastructure model that that was actually

[4:56:21] over on the developer side but that the policy decisions related to that and what we do with it.

[4:56:27] and the community benefits, that was all on the sea side. So that was the thick gray line we put

[4:56:34] in the middle. Yeah. And so that was, again, that was our thinking and that was our logic one

[4:56:40] could certainly argue with many different ways, but that was how we set it up. Yeah, and it may be

[4:56:48] in here and I haven't seen it. I think it would be helpful for me and it's probably isn't

[4:56:53] previous pages, I think it would just be helpful for me to understand what those costs or what

[4:56:59] those costs are and what they're paying. I guess if there's a huge red flag later, I guess I could

[4:57:08] bring it back. I appreciate that explanation. That makes sense if there's associated with the environmental

[4:57:17] I just wanted, you know, I wish I had exactly what those things were, but, okay, thank you.

[4:57:25] Thank you.

[4:57:26] Thank you.

[4:57:27] For your patience.

[4:57:30] So I only have three asks and tonight's specific item is about supporting some third parties to assist with analysis, et cetera.

[4:57:44] I have an interest in seeing or understanding when the overall plan will be coming back

[4:57:54] to the council for us to do a more detailed review of the timelines and activities that need

[4:58:03] happen from now until our in-date. And I'm also specifically interested in Amy confirming that we're

[4:58:16] going to try to utilize our new engagement process in working with the Sanitary District specifically

[4:58:27] on this project. We've got an opportunity I think to really model what good looks like and I want

[4:58:33] make sure that we are doing that here. Can you comment on that, Amy?

[4:58:40] Yes, of course. Thank you for the question, Madam Mayor.

[4:58:45] As the presentation that we're referring to at the Intergovernmental Committee with the Sanitary District, we presented a flow chart of what the planning processes currently are,

[4:58:56] which includes a pre-app application process where we engage all of our interested stakeholders in agency partners, including the sanitary district.

[4:59:07] And so many of the projects that actually are in the Ravenswood business district that will be coordinated with Aaron Aiken and his team are at different phases in that flow chart.

[4:59:21] And so we will be transitioning those projects under Erin's project management, making sure that we double back if we need to to open up any development review committees or any meetings that may have been missed if the senator district wasn't involved originally and that will be a great transition for Erin and his project management team.

[4:59:48] to also be reintroduced to those project details.

[4:59:53] So we certainly can follow back on that planning flow chart,

[4:59:58] and I will coordinate with Erin's team off.

[5:00:01] And then to the point about reviewing a more detailed schedule, Patrick, do you have a sense of when we might be ready to do that?

[5:00:15] Yeah, I think it'd be a really good idea, as I mentioned, we should probably look for a study session, probably early in the new year, like I said, we'll go through the contract.

[5:00:25] There'll be some initial analysis, the dust will settle a little bit, you know, so we can look, I know we've already presched, oh, no, we have not presched, sorry, I'm on a fiscal year mind, you finally got me over on the fiscal year mind, not the calendar year, but when the council adopts their new calendar will pre-ass that the presched will study such and I think the first one of the year we should, we should look to where we're at and then, you know, a couple weeks before we'll check what the agenda setting committee and say, yeah, we're ready to go by.

[5:00:55] think it would make sense probably in the next three to four months to bring some clarity around this.

[5:01:01] And it also be a good time. I mean, all pretty much all these development applications are in now.

[5:01:06] So be a good time to give another update, just kind of what we're dealing with and, you know,

[5:01:10] really embark on that. So that would be my recommendation. Great. That sounds great to me. And

[5:01:16] I make sure to include in the transitional material to the next mayor. I do

[5:01:25] I appreciate that the hours getting late, so I can wait until January for more detailed review of the plan.

[5:01:33] I think that we have to open it up for any comment from the public, and then we can move forward with any decisions that need to be made tonight.

[5:01:43] If any.

[5:01:50] We do have a comment from Alice Kaufman.

[5:01:57] Yes.

[5:01:57] Hi, can you hear me?

[5:01:59] Yes.

[5:02:00] Perfect.

[5:02:00] Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

[5:02:03] My name's Alice Kaufman.

[5:02:04] I'm the legislative advocacy director for Greenfoot Hills, which is an environmental nonprofit.

[5:02:09] Working to protect open-space, farm-led and natural resources in San Matean, Santa Clara County.

[5:02:15] And I did some little letter on late yesterday afternoon.

[5:02:17] I hope you all had a chance to review it.

[5:02:20] But basically, our concerns revolve around three issues.

[5:02:23] The importance of community outreach, the need to prepare for sea level rise,

[5:02:27] And the protection of an equitable access to the valence and the open space along the bay.

[5:02:35] I really appreciate Vice Mayor Amarrow's comments about the not wanting to charge ahead

[5:02:42] and saying that this is already going to be the formal development that is potentially going to be considered.

[5:02:50] But it is important to emphasize that if it was ultimately approved, the full amount of office space, the developers were requesting, which is 4 million square feet, that's going to more than triple the amount of office space, currently allowed in this specific plan.

[5:03:04] This is a development that this huge would have the potential to completely reshape the future growth of these poll and also in a fundamental way.

[5:03:10] I would just like to make comparison with the Stanford gut project that was considered by Santa Clara County last year.

[5:03:17] That was only 2.3 million square feet of academic slash office development.

[5:03:22] And this is linked with the other cities in the County of San Mateo to go to the Board of Supervisors in Santa Clara County and say,

[5:03:29] there needs to be full mitigation as a condition of approval.

[5:03:33] So I think that's a good plan to follow.

[5:03:35] and East Palo Alto should require the same full mitigation for any development with the

[5:03:41] Ravenswood Business District specific plan, with regard to traffic housing, open space, et cetera.

[5:03:48] And I particularly want to mention steal a rise. This is going to be a big issue.

[5:03:54] And I know that there's funding that's needed to do it, developers who want to build

[5:03:58] in need to be kicking in to that to contribute to that climate change is here already it's a big issue.

[5:04:09] So thanks for the opportunity to make fun of us.

[5:04:13] Thank you, Alice.

[5:04:20] In the other comments.

[5:04:23] Do not see anybody in this list with a handle.

[5:04:28] Okay.

[5:04:32] So we have an ask to adopt.

[5:04:36] I did make, I did have one last comment to make.

[5:04:41] I'm sorry, go ahead.

[5:04:45] So I think this is going to be a very intense process.

[5:04:49] I think we all know that.

[5:04:54] The previous development of the specific plan was pretty intense.

[5:04:58] And it was doing the time of redevelopment.

[5:05:00] So one thing I would suggest also, and this is not necessarily the consultants' job, but it's more

[5:05:08] the city, is to keep track of any policy issues that come up as soon as they come up.

[5:05:18] Like does the city need to address some policy direction? And also I think the city attorney's

[5:05:25] office needs to be involved from the very beginning and looking at any and all legal issues

[5:05:33] that could come up that are coming up. I just remember that doing that other process, we had

[5:05:41] both the city attorney's office and the redevelopment attorneys, you know, and so they were

[5:05:47] both sort of helping the city to navigate through that process. So anyway, I would just, I think

[5:05:53] that just keep in track of policy issues,

[5:05:56] that either at some point they all need to be addressed

[5:05:59] or maybe some need the attention sooner rather than later.

[5:06:04] You know, we don't want to find ourselves in a situation,

[5:06:07] in addition to the whole amendment process.

[5:06:09] I'm just talking about, you know,

[5:06:11] we find ourselves at the end of the process

[5:06:12] and we don't have some policy in place

[5:06:15] that maybe already came up.

[5:06:17] So that's just a suggestion.

[5:06:19] Thank you.

[5:06:20] Thank you.

[5:06:21] Okay,

[5:06:25] going back to the ask, the ask was to adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager

[5:06:29] to enter into contract. Is there a motion that we can entertain?

[5:06:38] Yeah, I'd make the motion. I just want to make sure that within that motion or at least the city manager

[5:06:44] captured and council feels the same way would approve a motion in which the city manager, the city attorney

[5:06:51] excuse me, would clearly specify in whatever contracts.

[5:06:57] We have with the potential developers out there,

[5:07:03] that there is no guarantee that after going through this process, any of those projects will

[5:07:10] get approved. I just want that to be very clear. I hope people would feel, my fellow council members

[5:07:17] would feel like wise and that we could also direct city attorney to make sure that that

[5:07:26] language is somehow placed in whatever documentation will need to occur in order to pay

[5:07:32] for some of the environmental review costs.

[5:07:37] Can you restate what you hope council line on?

[5:07:41] The issue that we would affirmatively state have our city attorney affirmatively state in any of the contracts reimbursement contracts related to this specific plan environmental review work with the developers that they are not guaranteed approval of any of their projects by engaging in these reimbursement units.

[5:08:08] Yes, I can be aligned with that.

[5:08:12] Yes, I'm definitely in support of that and that's why I was making my previous comments.

[5:08:18] I think in addition to that, I think the office of the city attorney needs to be included.

[5:08:24] I'm sure already is, but more so perhaps.

[5:08:29] Do the mayor?

[5:08:30] Yes.

[5:08:31] I'm both those questions that sounds like there's consensus on both.

[5:08:38] We can certainly include language in the applicable agreements.

[5:08:42] In fact, there's a recital section and we typically do include language that's similar to that.

[5:08:47] And our office will be involved and very likely outside council will be involved at some point,

[5:08:52] just supporting the project and the council discussions on the topic.

[5:08:59] Great.

[5:08:59] Thank you. So with that, I will make the motions one to adopt the resolution that authorizes

[5:09:06] the City Management to enter into a contract with Raymond Associates to also enter into

[5:09:12] a contract with a good city. Would you like to have the amount of Raymond Associates for

[5:09:17] 1,326,829 dollars to provide analysis and community engagement for the RBD's amendment to

[5:09:26] are the specific plan, and then also to enter into a contract with good state company in the amount

[5:09:33] not to exceed a $500,000 to provide project management and coordination for the development proposals

[5:09:39] within the Ravens Red Business District specific plan. And number three to wave the formal bid

[5:09:45] procedures pursuant to the east puddle out of the municipal code section 2.84.070 to enter into contracts

[5:09:53] with Raymond Associates and Good City Company.

[5:09:58] That was a map full.

[5:09:59] There's a second.

[5:10:01] Thank you.

[5:10:02] It's been moved in properly.

[5:10:03] Seconded.

[5:10:04] All of those in favor.

[5:10:05] Please read on my role call.

[5:10:07] Remember there's only three of us.

[5:10:09] So we need to be unanimous.

[5:10:10] Well council member goes.

[5:10:12] She is actually council member.

[5:10:14] Moody recused.

[5:10:16] Council member Berberica.

[5:10:18] Yes.

[5:10:20] Yes.

[5:10:23] Yes.

[5:10:25] Okay.

[5:10:25] It is 1140.

[5:10:30] I know what you're going to say.

[5:10:34] I feel like we're only able to get through at least two of these topics.

[5:10:37] So I do, for those who are waiting for HH, I do want to let them go ahead and get to sleep.

[5:10:43] by entertaining a motion that we defer item 11.3 to our next available council meeting.

[5:10:56] Yeah, I think.

[5:10:58] Do we have time?

[5:11:01] We just stop one minute before midnight.

[5:11:04] Did we agree to that or?

[5:11:08] I'm sorry.

[5:11:10] Oh, I was saying that if we stop right before midnight, we could get through both.

[5:11:15] I think.

[5:11:17] Yeah.

[5:11:17] We don't know how important the moratorium I think is the city attorney explained is really, you know, just what the state is telling us that we can do and that's I don't know what that when I'm not comfortable with is that the other topic is going to be contained inside of a 15 minute window.

[5:11:35] And as I said we all have different conditions, but in my case, I've got kids to have to start school at seven in the morning and I need to have no no I would definitely not advocating past midnight I just thought I had heard you say we we could go to midnight, but

[5:11:47] definitely not beyond that. Yeah, or I'm fine either way, you know.

[5:11:54] Well, could I just suggest I think the mayor's right we probably don't have time to get through

[5:12:01] HH particularly since council member Moody said that he also has some questions as do I.

[5:12:06] All in our time, but I mean we could just quickly deal with with the one with that the other issue

[5:12:14] which we haven't dealt with, which is that we're basically preempted by the state from

[5:12:18] do anything on the eviction stuff.

[5:12:21] I mean, could we just receive that discussion?

[5:12:24] That one.

[5:12:25] That one we can do.

[5:12:31] That item is mine.

[5:12:33] So I'm going to go ahead and share the screen and light of how little time we have.

[5:12:37] I'll just point out a few of the more important slides and then just open it up to questions.

[5:12:41] I'm going to go ahead and try to share my screen here.

[5:12:44] Madam Mayor MacMask is just is Councilmember Moody back in?

[5:12:49] He has not come back yet. I did text him. Okay, great. Thank you.

[5:12:52] I'm saying if you're going to come back now, would be the time, but I haven't seen him yet.

[5:12:57] He pulled a fast one on.

[5:13:04] Should I go ahead and get started then?

[5:13:06] Yeah, sorry to interrupt. No, I'm going to make sure it's okay to get going here.

[5:13:13] Okay, so for this evening, we're going to discuss our own residential eviction moratorium

[5:13:20] the status, particularly in might of AB 308, which is a state legislation that was

[5:13:26] adopted that as some council members are pointed out, it's effectively preamps our local authority

[5:13:33] going forward on regulating in this field.

[5:13:36] Now, in terms of background council requested, essentially two sets of information, and staff

[5:13:44] was endeavoring to receive direction on those points, and then potentially develop legislation.

[5:13:50] And the first was whether the city wanted to extend the repayment period in our local

[5:13:55] eviction moratorium from 160 to 180 days to a full-year period.

[5:14:02] And the council also asked whether we did adopt an amendment that would prohibit a landlord from using the unlawful detainor process as the method for covalent action of non payment of rent caused by covalent 19.

[5:14:16] And instead require landlords to recover it through a consumer debt action, which is essentially just civil lawsuit.

[5:14:23] Since the publication of our report, the state legislature did pass and the governor did sign

[5:14:31] California Assembly Bill 388, and generally the purposes of state in the statute, but it's

[5:14:37] basically to prevent what they would call it, the statute says is a forceful, massive, social,

[5:14:43] and public health harm by preventing unpaid rent debt from serving as a cause of action for

[5:14:49] fiction or foreclosure dream during this COVID crisis in the past of starting in March and

[5:14:58] through next year at least.

[5:15:01] The collection of legislation preempts local authority, basically preempts local legislation regarding residential evictions adopted between August 19, 2020, and January 1st, 2021. So it was retroactive because it was signed at the end of August, but it was retroactive to August 19. And the local preemption extends through January 31. Now, our local legislation was adopted before August 19. So it is effective in certain senses.

[5:15:30] But it is preempted largely in other senses, and we cannot change it at this point to either increase the repayment period or to require landlords to pursue debts through consumer debt actions.

[5:15:47] Now I'll explain that some of that is actually taken care of in the state legislation.

[5:15:50] We just can't along or adopt an amendment to our own local version to effectuate those purposes.

[5:15:57] Now, in terms of tenant protections, the state legislation extends the state-eviction moratorium

[5:16:02] to generate 31st 2021,

[5:16:06] and it prohibits a landlord from evicting a resident for non-payment

[5:16:09] of rent that came due between March 1st of this year, through August 31st, if the resident

[5:16:15] provides the landlord with the declaration of code devices, that's consistent with our local

[5:16:20] residential rent moratorium. If they were to have done that, they would have a tenant

[5:16:25] would have benefited from local protections.

[5:16:30] What the state law does is it provides an additional

[5:16:33] period of time and a methodology for repayment. It now says, based upon a B-38, 3080, something

[5:16:41] which landlords are prohibited from affecting residents for non-payment of rent that came

[5:16:46] do between September 1st and January 31st of next year, if the resident does two things,

[5:16:53] if the resident provides a landlord with a COVID negative financial impact declaration,

[5:16:58] similar declaration where they state they can't make a payment due to COVID financial losses.

[5:17:04] And also, though, pay by January 31st, pay 25% of the rent that was due between September

[5:17:11] 2020 and January 31st, 2021, that were missed because of COVID-related reasons. So it does

[5:17:20] require more than what our local legislation would have required. In this circumstance,

[5:17:26] the state is now requiring tenants to pay a portion of rents that would be due in order to

[5:17:34] it themselves from the eviction of the state-eviction moratorium.

[5:17:41] In addition, there are more details

[5:17:45] in terms of the types of noticing and the information that is required to be provided in those notices

[5:17:50] and without getting into a large, and to a lot of detail here, what my office is going to do is work

[5:17:57] with the REST stabilization program to put together an FAQ that explains AB3080 on our website,

[5:18:04] so that way the details are fleshed out for the public book landlords and tenants.

[5:18:15] And those are the major portions. Essentially, we can't legislate in this field anymore.

[5:18:20] AB 3088 controls and city staff is going to work on providing additional information on the city's

[5:18:25] website to notify landlords and tenants of these new rules.

[5:18:32] And that concludes my report on

[5:18:33] available for any questions. So no more need to entertain anything with this back to

[5:18:43] transfer any debt to consumer debt?

[5:18:47] That's a great question. I did go also over that fact.

[5:18:49] The state legislation does actually allow landlords starting next year to pursue

[5:18:56] unpaid rent through a consumer debt action.

[5:18:59] In fact, there are a lot of small claims action, which is a unique feature now because in the past

[5:19:05] you were capped out a certain amount. You could only pursue a small amount in small claims

[5:19:10] quarter. That's been put aside and now Lamars can pursue those deaths. Beginning sometime next year after the state addiction moratorium is open.

[5:19:19] Does this also mean that if a tenant is unable to pay debts per suit in this way that it becomes a mark on their credit.

[5:19:35] It simply allows two things.

[5:19:39] It simply allows the landlord to pursue that debt in small claims,

[5:19:45] and it does mean that it can result in a court judgment

[5:19:48] that the debt is owed, and that it can be collected.

[5:19:53] So, in terms of whether it would show up on a credit report,

[5:19:56] there are some rules that apply for a muffled detainers.

[5:19:59] I don't think that those extend to civil actions,

[5:20:02] so there might be some repercussions there, but frankly, that level of detail in terms of

[5:20:10] whether we're going on the current report. I'm just not certain to do it in the

[5:20:13] newness of the legislation. I think it's possible, though.

[5:20:16] Understood. Can you, as you are laying out the explanation for this to

[5:20:22] residents, make sure that that part is really clear. I've been pretty vocal about this one that

[5:20:30] The last thing that someone who is unable to pay their rent needs is to be action with bad credit marks as well.

[5:20:39] And I just want to make sure that we can see our way clear to say, no, they won't be affected or to alert them that it's a possible affect.

[5:20:50] And then, of course, we would need to do some lobbying and some other things to make sure that our residents are fully protected in this.

[5:20:59] decision making process. Absolutely. I think that the FAQ or the informational guy that we're going to

[5:21:07] put out as a community pivotal particularly because there is a lot of nuance in the new legislation

[5:21:12] about how what the state requires at certain points and when the protections are. So,

[5:21:18] understood. Thank you. How much questions for our city attorney?

[5:21:25] I have one. Hello.

[5:21:27] are you? I've probably had a good break, Laws now.

[5:21:35] So Rafael, two things. The COVID-19 that the financial

[5:21:41] statement that's required for the attendance to provide the landlord is zero. Is zero way that

[5:21:51] the city could potentially or the rent of RSO could provide a template for residents that would be

[5:22:03] a very acceptable form for the landlords because one of the things that I'm experiencing

[5:22:11] and there's a lot of people coming seeking resources that are at job training and support around

[5:22:20] how to, you know, put together a letter for landlords. Is that there's something that we might be able to do to

[5:22:27] just kind of help in that area? My understanding is that the rent stabilization program

[5:22:33] had put together some templates. Yeah. And when our law was effective, some of that's going to change

[5:22:43] going forward. I understand that in the state legislation itself there's actually language that

[5:22:49] is set forth within the statute that landowners must provide to tenants when they're issuing

[5:22:55] three day notices and the 15 day notices that are indicated in this statute.

[5:23:00] So it's a point we'll take and I'll follow up with program staff to make sure that we can provide

[5:23:04] resources about those notices, but I think largely going forward, it's basically going to be

[5:23:11] language that's pulled from the statute itself.

[5:23:13] Okay. That's great. And also I just want to acknowledge talking to the people of

[5:23:22] at Whitlin and they said that their experiencing a very large number of their

[5:23:32] tenants, well over 60% of their tenants, are in compliance, are making their

[5:23:38] obligations on their rents, so, you know, so Kudos to those tenants who are just trying to

[5:23:45] who are able to pull things together, and that there is a sense of awareness of those tenants who might be struggling

[5:23:56] with their obligations. So I think that's more for the community to know that at the

[5:24:08] well during this time, because that can be a tremendous

[5:24:13] stressful effort.

[5:24:16] And the other thing I would like to say is, if there's a way that

[5:24:22] landlords can notify us of vacancies or abandonments of units,

[5:24:32] as soon as possible, because what I'm seeing is that some of those

[5:24:38] abandoned units are furniture and other items are landing on our streets.

[5:24:43] Yeah.

[5:24:44] Yeah, you know, and if we can get some level of heads up, we might be able to either support

[5:24:52] that tenant with a reasonable collection or get them some resources or at least have

[5:25:00] our public works department prepared to pick up some items.

[5:25:06] Yeah, I remember as an extension of that now passed the torch, my understanding from woodland and at the moment they are collecting 93% of their rents of this time last year, they are collecting 97% of rents and that the differential was low six figures that they're not collecting at this time so their exposure there is very small where I'm expecting us to probably have a somewhat bigger problem potentially is in the houses.

[5:25:34] And on the other side where we don't have a consolidated way of looking at payments and and perhaps that's where a lot of people are giving up hope and as you said dumping their houses.

[5:25:51] So that that's the area where I think we really need to pay attention to the impact on our residents because it feels like we've got potentially some polls and gaps there that that we're missing.

[5:26:04] in our process of supporting our residents?

[5:26:07] Yeah.

[5:26:07] And I agree.

[5:26:08] I agree.

[5:26:09] One thing that I did want to point out, and it's probably not speaking, besides

[5:26:14] our scope of today's presentation, but the county does have resources available now through, you

[5:26:19] know, federal funding and state funding that I understand that the rent and state administration

[5:26:26] program and housing are putting together a formation that we will have to share with the council

[5:26:31] in the future.

[5:26:32] that way local residents both land or homeowners and residents know that the tenants can go to the

[5:26:40] county and seek those resources out. Great. And they can also go to the Mayor's in house and draw

[5:26:45] down those funds too. That's right. That's right. All right. Councilman Abriko or Vice Mayor any comments

[5:26:55] here questions?

[5:27:00] No, I think that was a good update. I think that the city through this period has done

[5:27:07] you know well in terms of trying to protect the tenant population. I'm glad that the state

[5:27:14] did what it did and we'll have to just keep track of things and ways that we can keep supporting the

[5:27:22] the tenant families and, you know, also some of those small landlords that appear

[5:27:27] maybe now there could be more resources for them, too.

[5:27:31] First floor.

[5:27:32] Nice mayor.

[5:27:34] Yeah.

[5:27:34] I have some specific questions that are legal in nature and I'm trying to understand how this

[5:27:42] is going to work.

[5:27:42] So, our ordinance allowed a six months payment period.

[5:27:47] I see in your staff report, thank you, it was pretty complete, that the payment period

[5:27:53] goes beyond the March payment period of AB 388, I think.

[5:27:59] And it takes folks to the end of, actually, the end of August, September 1, 2021, correct?

[5:28:08] That's correct.

[5:28:09] This is we did 180 days, it's six months here, correct.

[5:28:12] right now the county and the county is said that there are ordinance applies to the entire

[5:28:18] county did not the county move their numbers to a year before the August it's it's a mid-August

[5:28:27] date that the year was the deadline right so so there's preemption that occurred after that so

[5:28:34] So do we know if the counties, because I believe they moved to a year, and if they did

[5:28:42] move to a year, could we avail ourselves of that one-year repayment?

[5:28:49] That's a very good question.

[5:28:51] It is a year, and it would require, I think, who local legislation, I think we would have

[5:28:57] to amend our ordinance to remove the provision and avail ourselves of the only ordinance.

[5:29:03] It's something that I think is worthy of exploring.

[5:29:05] Yeah, if you would look into that. Yeah, yeah, because that that might buy us by our tenants and additional six months on the payments. Okay, thank you.

[5:29:18] I'm done.

[5:29:20] All right. It is 1158. I am let's see if we've got any community comments on this topic.

[5:29:33] We do have.

[5:29:34] Well, by and Webster.

[5:29:36] And through the mayor, if we do, I recommend that we entertain a motion to extend the meeting.

[5:29:43] The motion that we have done in meeting to 12, 10, but vote 1.

[5:29:49] Thank you.

[5:29:50] The day of second.

[5:29:51] Take it as 12, Jan.

[5:29:53] All right.

[5:29:54] It's been written in seconded.

[5:29:56] All of those in favor.

[5:29:57] Please respond with roll call quickly.

[5:29:59] So.

[5:30:00] Council member go shade, abstain, council member, everybody go. Yes? Council member Woody? Yes. Yes. Yes.

[5:30:06] May I welcome? Yes. May I welcome? Yes.

[5:30:10] It's still 11.59. So it counts.

[5:30:14] There we go.

[5:30:18] So is it just, is it just Mr. Where are there others?

[5:30:21] This is Mr. Officer at this point.

[5:30:28] Hello.

[5:30:29] Thank you very much.

[5:30:33] Mayor and members of the City Council.

[5:30:35] I just want to see this provision that after January 31st renters who have been in default.

[5:30:46] Some of the able to come up with 25% of what has been in the Rears is lunacy.

[5:30:55] This has no relationship to reality.

[5:30:59] If people haven't been able to pay their rent during the preceding months, the idea that

[5:31:07] they would be able to suddenly come up with 25% that doesn't make any sense, but hopefully

[5:31:16] the state legislature can be persuaded to revisit that provision because I think that could be very

[5:31:26] threatening to many of our tenant residents. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Webster.

[5:31:38] Any other comments from the public? Do not see anybody with their end up?

[5:31:50] We have a recommendation to accept the report,

[5:31:57] and I think we've all got hands up when we embrace that there are certain things that must be true and thank you to our city attorney for making making that very clear.

[5:32:10] When, before we accept the report, do you think that we'll be able to come back with, it's actually not, for me, it's not conditioned upon the updates that you make to the website, but I would love to understand really quickly the consumer debt impacts if there are any, because that when I really worry about and also to our city staff.

[5:32:37] What is the best way that we can get a handle on the tenants that are in the homes on the other side of the 101, because I just don't I feel like we don't have a good understanding about what's happening to our tenants who are renting homes.

[5:32:54] Is there any way for us to get our arms around that and understand the disposition of our residents.

[5:33:00] And we'll endeavor to follow up with program and housing staff both on that issue and then of course on the resource issue that I mentioned before and then we can come back to council.

[5:33:13] Okay.

[5:33:14] Okay.

[5:33:15] Council.

[5:33:16] Is there a move?

[5:33:18] I have.

[5:33:18] Go ahead.

[5:33:18] Yeah.

[5:33:18] I just have one.

[5:33:20] So does the.

[5:33:22] Does the rent off the rent board office, do they actually have a FYI booklet pamphlet for local residents around the moratorium issues around the COVID issues where resources are is very pamphlet or any materials available?

[5:33:48] I understand these that they did put together materials.

[5:33:53] I can't speak to Victor.

[5:33:58] Victor, are you still off?

[5:33:59] Victor, for me.

[5:34:01] No, let Victor rest.

[5:34:03] What can we check this?

[5:34:06] Victor.

[5:34:07] Yes, I am.

[5:34:09] Okay.

[5:34:11] Because the program has a dedicated page for anything that is related

[5:34:18] to COVID-19, including the notices that work created for landlords and tenants.

[5:34:27] As the CDA-20 was mentioned before, we would have now to design if that is the direction that we want to go.

[5:34:38] design a base on the language of these new state legislation, design a notice that landlords could use and to provide what is now required 15 day notice to tenants and also design a notice for tenants to respond to that notice if they are not in position to pay the rent at this time.

[5:35:06] Right. Yeah. I think anything that we can do to inform our tenants, our residents, because a lot of the fear is really based on the unknown and the uncertainty about what the rooms are and what the expectations are. So, and are you talking about, you know,

[5:35:36] Maybe we could talk more about how to direct people to our website to get those bad information

[5:35:43] or what I really like to see as pamphlets, posters, things posted in common places, as

[5:35:53] Starbucks, at the laundry mats, at places of gathering, so people can link themselves

[5:36:00] into our website to get further information, especially in light of the information that's coming

[5:36:06] out of the county. Sometimes it might sound a little confusing for a person. It might sound

[5:36:13] like there's actually two different directions, directives being given, one from the city, one

[5:36:19] from the county.

[5:36:24] Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Okay. And while bread are you taking us to where we

[5:36:29] guidance that's posted? Yes. Yes I am so if you go over to the front page you go to

[5:36:38] the department so you've got a rent stabilization you can see on the left hand side there's

[5:36:44] a lot of navigation buttons that'll take you to different locations so what one example I think

[5:36:53] but you're going to bring up maybe this is a tenant forms.

[5:36:58] So everything is on there on the website if you want to navigate through it.

[5:37:01] All right.

[5:37:02] And is this where the city attorney will plan to be putting

[5:37:06] some of the clarifications on legislation here?

[5:37:10] That's where it would likely go.

[5:37:12] And can I flip the bit on this side and and and and and just it in in espanyol if I need to.

[5:37:20] Yes, you can.

[5:37:22] So you would just go, like, say, I have an order set up.

[5:37:25] It says I right pick up on a part of this.

[5:37:29] And then, yeah, there they are.

[5:37:31] Very good. Perfect.

[5:37:33] Sounds like the technology is behind this.

[5:37:36] All right.

[5:37:38] So that covers that covers.

[5:37:41] I think any outstanding questions that we have.

[5:37:44] We've got an action item to do a little bit of investigation.

[5:37:47] Come back to the council just to inform.

[5:37:49] but please make the necessary pose.

[5:37:52] Council, is there any unreadiness before we accept the report from tonight?

[5:37:57] I have moved.

[5:37:58] All right.

[5:38:00] Vice Mayor and Councilman Abrika?

[5:38:03] No, I have no.

[5:38:04] Okay.

[5:38:04] To the city attorney, do we need to accept this formally with emotion?

[5:38:09] Or do we just need to show alignment?

[5:38:13] I think it's sufficient to align it.

[5:38:15] There's no action.

[5:38:16] tonight is really just accepting the report. No motions. No formal motion is there.

[5:38:20] This is the most excellent. All right. So we're looking here from you with follow up insights

[5:38:25] for the last topic that we could not fit in tonight. I think we'll discuss as a agenda setting committee

[5:38:31] once our first opportunity to bring it back and we'll try to bring it back with haste because we

[5:38:36] know that there's a lot of energy around what are we doing with age age. So I think we need to

[5:38:41] four or five, so.

[5:38:43] You need to mark five. I'm so excited.

[5:38:47] All right.

[5:38:48] To our council members who's stuck in out with us in

[5:38:50] total 1208 to our city staff who has been working so hard,

[5:38:54] who always worked so hard.

[5:38:55] And I didn't call it out tonight,

[5:38:57] but even some of you,

[5:38:58] I've called it 1112 at night,

[5:39:00] and you pick up the phone and you answer.

[5:39:02] I text you and you text back.

[5:39:03] Thank you for being the extraordinary city staff that you are.

[5:39:07] To our state holders that stayed on with us until

[5:39:09] the better and all 21. Thank you for your service, for your engagement and for your

[5:39:15] continuing to be in dialogue with us. We will see you again in two weeks at the same

[5:39:23] time in the same place. This meeting is adjourned.

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