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[8:28] a
[8:31] meeting of the Hawthorne City Council is
[8:34] called to order at 6:08
[8:37] p.m. okay let's
[8:41] see who um who would like to do the
[8:44] invocation on Council would you do the
[8:46] invocation Please Mr treasure or let
[8:49] let's pass it on to the city clerk
[8:51] because I did a call on you previously
[8:53] Miss city clerk can you do the
[8:54] invocation and Miss City Treasurer can
[8:56] you do the Pledge of
[8:58] Allegiance
[8:59] everyone bow your
[9:01] heads thank you Lord for this evening
[9:04] thank you so much for keeping everyone
[9:06] safe and bringing one everyone here
[9:08] safely thank you for the new year and
[9:10] everything that it promises to be for
[9:12] all of us here uh and we're looking
[9:15] forward to a fantastic meeting and
[9:16] thanks everyone for coming out
[9:19] amen everyone please
[9:24] stand put your right hand over your
[9:26] heart ready begin
[9:30] to the United States of America to the
[9:34] for it
[9:36] stands God indivisible liberty and
[9:40] justice for
[9:43] all all right thank you all for being
[9:46] here very excited to be back I know the
[9:49] rest of my colleagues are uh excited to
[9:51] be back I had three weeks of vacation
[9:53] myself from my day job and my night job
[9:56] so uh I'm back to work as well so uh I
[10:00] hope you guys all were able to uh either
[10:04] uh be close with your family or get
[10:06] close to them in thought if they've
[10:07] passed if they're no longer with us U
[10:10] and establishing good memories and
[10:12] renewing ourselves this new year so
[10:15] Reinventing we shouldn't always wait for
[10:17] the new year to be able to have all
[10:19] those uh what do they call them the uh
[10:22] resolutions and you know doing all these
[10:25] things we should constantly being uh be
[10:27] improving ourselves and doing best with
[10:29] ourselves but you know it is kind of a
[10:31] big milestone to hear that 2024 how am I
[10:34] going to do things different so good
[10:35] luck to you guys in pursuit of those uh
[10:39] positive changes in your lives uh we
[10:41] have a lot we have a short meeting today
[10:43] promises hopefully it'll be a short
[10:46] meeting because it's only like three or
[10:48] four pages long so let's see if we can
[10:50] keep to uh an efficient meeting the
[10:53] topics are not uh intense they're not
[10:57] controversial uh or anything where
[10:59] there's a high
[11:01] debate and I have like about five uh
[11:04] speakers so if you're ready to speak
[11:06] make sure that you uh once we call on
[11:08] the speakers make sure you line up so
[11:10] that we can see how many speakers we
[11:11] have because as soon as I don't see
[11:13] anybody I'm going to close the oral
[11:16] communication but uh let's start off by
[11:19] doing the roll call please council
[11:20] member Manning here council member
[11:23] Montero council member Patterson here
[11:26] mayor prottimus English here mayor
[11:28] Vargas
[11:31] here okay U and council member Montero
[11:35] is is
[11:44] a all
[11:50] right okay we have a new speaker system
[11:53] up here which in so for the residents of
[11:57] Hawthorne uh we just want to let you
[11:59] know that we have a new uh speaker uh
[12:02] microphone system that's integrated with
[12:04] the with the voting system on board okay
[12:08] right here there's like a little voting
[12:10] system we can press some buttons I don't
[12:12] get to see what he's voting I don't get
[12:13] what she's voting they don't get to see
[12:15] what I'm voting because there's a
[12:16] privacy screen um your option for a yes
[12:19] A no abstain is right here on this
[12:22] little panel so uh it's pretty Hightech
[12:26] and it didn't even cost a lot of money
[12:28] we're just uh modernizing our city
[12:31] council uh uh equipment uh very with
[12:35] very simple things one thing that you
[12:37] guys are noticing is are the bright
[12:39] lights up here okay energy efficient LED
[12:43] lights most likely right LEDs the most
[12:45] efficient lighting uh Source right now
[12:48] that's out there they're laid out in a
[12:50] manner in which they're lighting up the
[12:52] whole room and we're saving money on uh
[12:55] on uh electricity to power those up so
[12:59] just wanting to let you know what's
[13:00] going oh we also have two screens
[13:02] outside so if there was ever a very uh
[13:06] uh important topic that a lot of
[13:08] residents come to the city council
[13:10] meeting residents would be able to stand
[13:13] outside and look at our two screens that
[13:15] are out there I think there might even
[13:17] be a third one in the main lobby right
[13:20] possibly but there is at Le two screens
[13:23] outside so just letting you know what we
[13:26] have here on the city council small
[13:29] uh but very
[13:30] powerful uh improvements so we're using
[13:35] the city's money the people's money for
[13:37] good things too and making sure that our
[13:39] meetings run
[13:42] smoothly kaana
[13:47] Buie
[13:49] um Community this is a community
[13:52] services manager kuab Buie uh who will
[13:54] introduce our first presentation which
[13:56] is the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation
[13:58] community Community Services
[14:01] Department um like the mayor said um
[14:03] good evening mayor and city council my
[14:06] name is kanana buy and I am the
[14:07] community services manager uh the
[14:10] community services department would like
[14:12] to do a briefe presentation on our
[14:14] partnership with the Los Angeles Dodgers
[14:16] Foundation we started this partnership
[14:19] with the Dodgers in 2018 at this time at
[14:23] that time we had eight teams and less
[14:25] than 100 Kids registered every year
[14:27] after that we rece receive more and more
[14:29] participation from the community tonight
[14:32] Gerardo iate our Recreation supervisor
[14:35] who oversees Our Youth Sports will
[14:37] update you on what we're currently doing
[14:40] and what we would like to do in the near
[14:42] future with the Los Angeles Dodgers
[14:49] Foundation good
[14:52] evening so I'm going to go ahead and uh
[14:55] give a small uh presentation on the
[14:57] Dodger Foundation the work that we do in
[15:00] conjunction with them uh present the
[15:02] potential partnership on a project to
[15:04] bring it here to the city of Hawthorne
[15:07] and also what it would move uh mean
[15:09] moving
[15:22] forward okay uh so before I get started
[15:25] with the actual program and what it
[15:27] entails I'm going to give a small a
[15:28] little uh background information on who
[15:31] the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation is
[15:33] that's the primary foundation for the
[15:36] Los Angeles uh Dodgers baseball team um
[15:41] our partnership with them encompasses
[15:43] the Dodgers dream team which is one of
[15:45] the branches that the foundation
[15:48] oversees in conjunction with Dodgers
[15:50] dream team they over they also oversee
[15:52] the Dodgers dream Fields the LA reads
[15:55] program college and uh careers uh
[15:57] accelerator science of baseball and end
[16:00] this together uh below that you'll see
[16:03] some of the contributions that they have
[16:05] done since the Inception of the
[16:11] program and to just give you guys a
[16:13] small uh detail about it I'm going to
[16:16] just play this short video for you
[16:27] guys dear La we are more than just a
[16:31] city the Dodgers are more than just a
[16:33] team and the Dodgers Foundation is
[16:36] bigger than baseball we are tackling the
[16:39] most pressing problems facing our city
[16:41] with a mission to improve education
[16:43] healthc care homelessness and social
[16:45] justice for all of us we launched our
[16:48] Dodgers RBI program in 2014 to provide
[16:51] an inclusive sports program that
[16:53] addresses basic needs in our most
[16:55] challenged communities today a new
[16:57] chapter be begins we're excited to share
[17:00] with you our new program name Dodgers
[17:03] dream
[17:04] team we invited our kids parents coaches
[17:08] and partners to help us determine how to
[17:10] better serve the community we are so
[17:12] passionate about we felt it was
[17:14] important to convey a greater sense of
[17:16] future Focus reflect on the
[17:18] comprehensive nature of the program and
[17:20] double down on our impactful vision for
[17:22] our neighborhoods we want you to know
[17:25] that the Dodgers Dream Team program will
[17:27] continue to use the power of sport to
[17:29] provide critical resources and services
[17:32] to our neighbors experiencing social
[17:34] injustices our partnership with
[17:36] Recreation departments and nonprofit
[17:38] organizations will help us increase
[17:40] capacity and scale achieving even
[17:42] greater impact for more than 12,000 kids
[17:45] and families each year applying key
[17:48] learnings from the pandemic we will
[17:49] intentionally reach our goal of serving
[17:51] 25,000 kids by
[17:54] 2030 this work is possible because of
[17:56] you the countless Co coaches parents and
[17:59] partners serving as unsung heroes for
[18:01] LA's most vulnerable youth Dodgers dream
[18:04] team is more than just Sports we build
[18:07] confidence strategies for success and
[18:09] hope for a brighter future we can
[18:11] continue to uplift the Next Generation
[18:13] LA's very own it takes all of us join
[18:17] our Dodgers dream team
[18:20] today sincerely your Los Angeles Dodgers
[18:27] Foundation
[18:33] so that was uh Nicole Whitman she's the
[18:35] chief executive officer for the Los
[18:37] Angeles Dodger
[18:38] Foundation um we've built a very strong
[18:42] relationship with her and the program
[18:43] over the last uh six years uh since we
[18:48] brought Dodgers Dream Team program to
[18:50] the city of hawthor we've seen some
[18:51] amazing things uh basically to Summit
[18:54] and short we' made baseball programming
[18:57] affordable for fam amilies um everybody
[19:00] knows with time going by everything's
[19:02] getting more and more expensive uh what
[19:05] basically the Dodgers Foundation has
[19:06] done for the city of Hawthorne and its
[19:08] residents is basically remove any
[19:11] obstacle so that everybody can
[19:13] participate in uh Recreational
[19:17] Sports so this means that part of that
[19:20] includes uh being able to play for a
[19:24] small fee which is $15 in our city uh
[19:27] providing the kids with multiple
[19:29] uniforms and also the equipment to
[19:32] participate in these
[19:33] Sports um they also uh provide the
[19:37] coaching trainings for all of our
[19:39] volunteers because this is 100% driven
[19:41] by
[19:41] volunteers uh they give us a uh a SC
[19:47] basically a a position for us to fill
[19:49] they give us $30,000 to hire a program
[19:52] coordinator to assist us with the
[19:54] program um this is a few of the things
[19:56] that I have mentioned that they all also
[19:58] provide such as skill clinics Dodger
[20:01] days which is a big Dodger festival at
[20:03] one of our
[20:04] locations um attendance to Dodger games
[20:08] and they also provide us with what is
[20:10] called the field Champion which is aasm
[20:12] between the foundation and the city of
[20:14] Hawthorne and we're lucky enough to
[20:17] receive three where a lot of the
[20:18] partners only get one
[20:20] person uh as uh the manager uh mentioned
[20:24] at the beginning we started this program
[20:26] back in 2018 with just about aund
[20:29] approximately 100 Kids uh I arrived in
[20:32] the city of haor at the tail end of the
[20:35] program and ever I've been working with
[20:37] it ever since and then this now uh 2023
[20:41] was our sixth year and we grew to 18
[20:44] teams four different divisions and
[20:47] serving 300
[20:52] kids uh these are some of the stories
[20:55] that our cable department has covered
[20:57] throughout the years uh with us being
[21:01] one of the 14 affiliate Partners not all
[21:03] Affiliates get an opportunity to host
[21:05] programming with the Dodgers uh our
[21:09] first one was back in 2019 at Holly Park
[21:12] we hosted a fitness Clinic uh one of the
[21:15] good things about the Dodgers is that
[21:18] because of who they are and what their
[21:20] name uh the weight that their name
[21:22] carries they also bring a lot of
[21:24] stakeholders into play so with that
[21:27] Fitness club CLC we were able to also
[21:29] bring um have the Los Angeles uh Lakers
[21:33] Foundation come in and they brought all
[21:35] the coaches to train the kids uh in 2020
[21:39] was a difficult year because we were
[21:41] planning to have our uh our program but
[21:43] because of Co we had to restructure the
[21:46] way we did things so uh the event here
[21:50] was a partnership between the Dodgers
[21:52] Foundation Uber Eats where we were able
[21:54] to send out food packages to a lot of
[21:57] the family amilies in the city uh Dodger
[22:00] day in 2021 that Holly Park has been one
[22:03] of the most successful Dodger days that
[22:07] the program has had uh is it was the
[22:10] most highly attended event at Holly Park
[22:13] and they belonged to the city of
[22:16] Hawthorne uh that day we distributed uh
[22:19] about nine tons of food to our families
[22:23] and some of the things that come with
[22:25] the Dodgers day because you guys might
[22:26] be asking so what what's even the Dodger
[22:28] Day uh the Dodgers come they bring some
[22:31] of their uh alumni previous players do
[22:34] autographs we have clinics for kids uh
[22:38] Vision to learn comes out we do free ice
[22:41] screenings uh for kids who need
[22:43] glasses uh just about anything that the
[22:46] kids can receive from food to services
[22:50] to goodies they all get this on these
[22:53] days and then again following with uh
[22:56] Dodger Day 2022 and Dodger 23 this past
[23:00] year which I'm going to be showing a
[23:01] clip um towards the end of the
[23:06] presentation uh not only has the program
[23:09] has been very impactful to our community
[23:12] here's a few of the things that we've
[23:14] been able to provide to our community
[23:17] members uh along with some of the
[23:20] programming uh the their manager um Dave
[23:24] Roberts
[23:25] also uh chooses coaches to be coaches of
[23:28] the year since we started our program
[23:31] we've had five coaches of the year um
[23:34] again so there's hundreds of coaches and
[23:36] these all these different Affiliates and
[23:38] only five get selected every year and
[23:40] we've had five in the span that we've
[23:43] had this
[23:44] program uh at the right we've had kids
[23:47] who have been participating in
[23:48] ceremonies on the
[23:50] field um below you'll see another one of
[23:54] our uh coaches of the year who is also
[23:56] now uh Comm commissioner in our youth
[23:59] commission uh one of the other things
[24:01] that I can't show because it hasn't been
[24:05] um brought out it hasn't it hasn't gone
[24:07] live is we were able to se have three
[24:10] kids be selected by Nike to be uh part
[24:14] of their new campaign for youth so
[24:16] that's three kids in Hawthorne are
[24:18] representing uh the city of Hawthorne
[24:20] with Nike uh to do uh photo shoots for
[24:24] baseball and their new apparel
[24:26] everything that they have that's coming
[24:28] out in their division so these are
[24:31] different activities and opportunities
[24:33] that kids would otherwise would never
[24:35] get a chance to so these are things that
[24:37] are making an impact in these kids'
[24:39] lives uh that are definitely going to
[24:41] make uh help them become contribute uh
[24:44] successful contributors of the
[24:49] world so that leads me to the actual
[24:52] presentation Focus uh the dream field so
[24:56] every year the Dodger dream team from
[24:57] ation works with different
[24:59] municipalities and programs to create a
[25:02] dream field this is basically revamping
[25:05] the uh baseball facilities that a city
[25:07] has to make it more usable for their
[25:11] program uh
[25:13] participants uh over the years the city
[25:16] uh the Dodgers Dream Team Foundation has
[25:18] a goal of 75 Fields by the year of
[25:22] 2033 uh right now they're currently at
[25:25] 63 uh three being in the city of San
[25:29] Bernardino uh that that just the did the
[25:32] groundbreaking last November and are set
[25:34] to reopen this uh
[25:37] spring so they've invested $19.6 million
[25:41] on these uh Fields as of
[25:45] date and uh the city of Hawthorne is
[25:48] actually being considered for a Dodger
[25:50] dream field so on the board you all
[25:53] notice some of the surrounding cities
[25:56] lanx Englewood
[25:58] uh several at Englewood both for their
[26:00] city and then the county part and the
[26:03] latest one was uh done at Edward Vincent
[26:06] Jr
[26:09] Park so some of the benefits uh for
[26:14] these Dodger dream Fields everybody
[26:16] knows that with the increasing uh
[26:18] population here in the County of Los
[26:20] Angeles and the city of Los Angeles
[26:21] we're kind of we're running out of uh
[26:23] park space for our um all of our
[26:28] community members so uh these are just
[26:30] some of the the percentages of the
[26:32] things of why we it's important for us
[26:35] to have space for kids to participate in
[26:38] Ro uh recreational programming not just
[26:41] baseball uh so we really want to focus
[26:44] on giving kids an opportunity to um to
[26:47] improve their lives on the social and
[26:50] emotional uh
[26:53] side uh why Hawthorne uh we do use our
[26:56] our Parks free frequently and highly uh
[27:00] not just from a department standpoint
[27:02] but for also from the local high schools
[27:04] in the area uh and also the little
[27:07] leagues uh our Park facilities are in
[27:11] dire need of uh Renovations we also want
[27:14] to create a safer Park the everybody
[27:17] knows that the nicer a park is the more
[27:19] people are going to want to go to
[27:21] it um and also this is going to have an
[27:24] increase in our programming because
[27:26] people want to go
[27:28] where Dodger dream fields are being
[27:30] built um also the opportunity for
[27:33] additional prog programming is always a
[27:36] key Focus everybody knows that the
[27:39] Dodgers uh franchise is not just a local
[27:43] uh known team this is this team has
[27:45] become a u International known team uh
[27:50] just be with the recent signings that
[27:52] they've had they just the impact that
[27:54] they have on a global uh scale is going
[27:57] to be very important and to be able to
[28:01] have a
[28:02] a just a partnership with such team is
[28:05] going to bring a lot of benefits to the
[28:11] city uh some of the things I would
[28:13] happen if if the city does support this
[28:17] uh motion is uh our Fields will receive
[28:21] all proper leveling for safety reasons
[28:24] uh the base anchors uh at multiple links
[28:28] upgraded back stops uh these are all
[28:31] safety precautions so that our kids are
[28:33] able to place the sport in the safe
[28:35] Manner and not get
[28:42] hurt so with the support of council uh
[28:45] back in 2022 conversations did start of
[28:50] hawthor being one of those selected
[28:52] cities uh for the Dodger dream Fields
[28:55] specifically at gy Thor Park
[28:58] uh last year contractors uh were sent to
[29:02] the the actual Park to survey the
[29:05] facilities uh and then we're looking at
[29:07] 2024 being uh where the Dodgers
[29:10] Foundation secures the majority of the
[29:12] funding for this project uh it would be
[29:14] it would include both fields at gy Thor
[29:16] Park uh so next we we just also ask for
[29:20] the support of city council to back this
[29:25] up uh last L I can show just a quick
[29:29] little video of a Dodger uh day at the
[29:32] park here in the city of
[29:38] Hawthorne the city of Hawthorne reporter
[29:41] Eric J Dockery has all the
[29:44] details the Dodgers Dream Team invited
[29:47] children of all ages to come out to
[29:48] Holly Park for Dodger Day this is their
[29:51] fifth stop of their 2023 season the
[29:53] event was presented by Arco and WSS
[29:56] carers they had at food games and a
[29:58] training camp our Dream Team program
[30:00] this is our 10th season we are serving
[30:03] 11,000 boys and girls across Los Angeles
[30:05] in Long Beach at 80 different locations
[30:08] and you walk into these Dodger days and
[30:10] I have chills I have chills because um
[30:12] we've come so far in 10 years with the
[30:15] level of resources we're we're providing
[30:16] for families the quality of resources
[30:18] that we're providing for families and to
[30:20] see the smiles on faces and the level of
[30:22] participation from our partners um
[30:24] throughout Los Angeles it's just a
[30:25] really awesome feeling the Los Angeles
[30:28] Dodgers Foundation partnered with UCLA
[30:30] health to bring the coach for good
[30:32] program which allow kids and parents to
[30:34] work on their Sprints agility power
[30:37] footwork and jump it's good to get the
[30:40] family out here to uh and always like to
[30:42] get the parents out here to let's run
[30:45] with the kids I think one of my biggest
[30:47] and most inspirational moments was
[30:49] having my mom run with me having my dad
[30:52] train with me so if I can do that with
[30:54] these kids here with these families here
[30:56] that's that's to uh it'll last forever
[30:58] that moment to last forever yeah it got
[31:00] me
[31:01] active got me breathing and ready for
[31:03] the rest of the day while the Dodger's
[31:05] day was going on the Dream Team was also
[31:07] celebrating MLB playball weekend I had
[31:10] to uh uh hit the bat and then I ran to
[31:15] first base I did it again but then I was
[31:19] I got a little distracted then somebody
[31:22] took the base from me then well I got
[31:26] out I was out so across the country in
[31:29] various forms throughout the weekend
[31:30] there's youth baseball and softball um
[31:32] and amazing things like the skills
[31:34] Clinic that we have here to make sure
[31:35] that the game of baseball and softball
[31:37] is on display um and that families
[31:39] realize like they can participate too
[31:41] the playball event had three games for
[31:43] the kids home run derby softball and a
[31:46] Ball Toss sh so just in short um not
[31:50] every affiliate of the Dodgers gets to
[31:52] host a Dodger Day the Dodger Day is a
[31:55] pretty big deal um as I mentioned before
[31:58] there's 14 affiliate partners and they
[32:00] only have five that they do in a year
[32:02] and Hawthorn is always is one of the
[32:04] five that always gets to host because
[32:07] the uh Dodger Foundation constantly
[32:10] comes to us because we get the job done
[32:12] whe whatever it is so with your guys'
[32:16] support uh know that we're not just
[32:20] attaching ourselves with a a global team
[32:23] but we're bringing recreational
[32:25] programming to families that need it
[32:26] because because uh I mean it resonates a
[32:29] lot with me I'm the second oldest of
[32:32] five kids and my parents couldn't afford
[32:34] programming because of how expensive it
[32:36] was so uh I had a volunteer to cover
[32:39] those costs and that led me to working
[32:42] at a park to finding what I wanted to do
[32:45] in life and giving back to the community
[32:47] so this is something that uh you guys
[32:49] are giving other kids an opportunity to
[32:52] have meet a mentor and connect them with
[32:55] the necessary service services and
[32:58] programs that they need so that they can
[32:59] become good human
[33:03] beings all right thank you so much let's
[33:06] give him a round of
[33:11] applause Community Services
[33:19] Department we'll talk after the meeting
[33:21] Josh about this stuff but thank you so
[33:23] much are there any questions any
[33:25] comments from our uh City
[33:28] go
[33:29] ahead can you hear me okay um first of
[33:33] all Jerry thank you for the presentation
[33:34] you look very handsome tonight thank you
[33:37] um I really appreciate the enthusiasm uh
[33:40] of our community services and recken
[33:42] Parks um all of us to together uh making
[33:45] obviously this um Endeavor possible for
[33:48] our youth here in Hawthorne uh I lived
[33:51] for a long time across the street from
[33:53] Jim Thor Park I know how busy that Park
[33:55] can get I was a baseball player at one
[33:57] time co-ed and uh other and uh I enjoyed
[34:02] my time in the park as a child as many
[34:04] others will uh the improvements of our
[34:07] parks are very important uh throughout
[34:09] the years here in our city we've been
[34:10] providing funding to ensure that our 10
[34:12] parks are getting the upgrades that they
[34:14] need and it's a great partnership
[34:16] through the foundation of the Dodgers to
[34:18] be able to provide additional funding uh
[34:21] you know whenever we want to make
[34:22] improvements it takes money and often
[34:24] times our money is already being used in
[34:26] other capacities however um kudos to
[34:29] your department kudos to your efforts
[34:31] and everyone involved uh I look forward
[34:33] to seeing what the park brings and how
[34:35] it's going to provide for more uh in the
[34:38] future uh kids using the park to do
[34:40] exactly what they'd like to do not just
[34:42] in baseball but use of the park for
[34:44] their benefit thank you thank
[34:47] you okay do we have somebody else okay
[34:51] uh let's give a big round of applause
[34:52] once more to
[34:54] our our staff
[34:57] well connected to these big uh teams
[35:00] here in the LA County area so uh we also
[35:04] have what we had a connection with the
[35:05] LA Galaxy with the Lakers with all those
[35:08] major teams that we have here in in this
[35:11] in the LA County uh Basin
[35:14] so all right so let's move on to the
[35:16] next item which is Southern California
[35:18] Edison ab25 James
[35:21] Peterson uh introduction
[35:25] Dian well James Peterson will be the uh
[35:28] presenter Diane
[35:35] Forte so please let's uh we try to limit
[35:38] these to 10 minutes see if let's see
[35:41] what you got for
[35:43] us good evening good evening mayor and
[35:46] members of the council and best wishes
[35:48] for a Happy New Year I know it's saw you
[35:50] a few months ago and thank you for
[35:51] having us back I'm Diane Forte I'm the
[35:54] interim government relations manager
[35:55] covering the city of of Hawthorne um I
[35:58] had listened to the last city council
[36:01] presentation about ab25 and when I
[36:04] talked with the city manager we thought
[36:06] it might be a good idea to come back
[36:08] because we heard some uh information uh
[36:11] that wasn't totally correct um so I
[36:13] brought with me tonight Ron gailes
[36:15] unfortunately James Peterson uh has as
[36:19] yet many people has gotten the flu so my
[36:21] colleague has decided to appropriately
[36:24] to pinch pinch hit pinch hit as they uh
[36:26] Dodgers presentation was was so uh set
[36:30] us up for that so thank you so much I'm
[36:32] gonna turn to my colleague Ron gailes
[36:34] and we'll be happy to take
[36:39] questions thank you very much um Mr
[36:42] Mayor uh mayor protm council members
[36:45] really grateful for the opportunity to
[36:47] address some of the concerns
[36:49] specifically about uh the proposed fixed
[36:52] charge on electricity bills that's the
[36:55] uh Downstream effect of of ab 205 which
[36:58] was passed in Sacramento and with your
[37:00] permission I'd like to speak more about
[37:01] Southern California Edison's proposal
[37:03] and how it would benefit the residents
[37:06] of not just Hawthorne the city of
[37:07] Hawthorne but all Southern California uh
[37:10] residents um if that's all right uh
[37:13] there is a presentation on the screen uh
[37:16] but rather than take the time to go
[37:18] through that I'd really like to address
[37:19] some concerns and and there has been a
[37:21] great deal of misinformation spread on
[37:23] social media and other um media Outlet
[37:27] about the fixed charge that I'd like to
[37:29] address um one of those uh that I see
[37:32] used a great deal by opponents of the
[37:34] fixed charge is calling it a utility tax
[37:38] this is a um really false
[37:40] characterization this is no is in no way
[37:43] a tax and I'll and I'll explain why the
[37:45] fixed charge that is being proposed
[37:48] first of all I a little background this
[37:50] as as I said as a result of the passage
[37:52] of ab25 in Sacramento uh there are a
[37:56] number of of participants in this
[37:57] proceeding by the California Public
[37:59] Utilities Commission scce uh pg& up
[38:03] north San Diego Gas and Electric down
[38:04] south there were just some of the
[38:06] participants there are others that are
[38:07] making proposals as well our proposal
[38:10] for this fixed charge um the benefit for
[38:13] all residential customers is that it
[38:15] would lower the cost of using
[38:17] electricity uh pardon me for being
[38:19] simplistic but uh you hear the term
[38:22] cents per kilowatt hour it's similar to
[38:25] hearing about dollars per gallon in gas
[38:27] cents per kilowatt hour is what
[38:29] customers pay that's what they see on
[38:31] their bill what the fixed charge would
[38:33] do the structure that's being proposed
[38:35] by Southern California Edison is it
[38:37] would reduce the rates that customers
[38:41] pay to use electricity and our we we see
[38:44] that if our authorization I'm sorry our
[38:47] proposal is approved those rates those
[38:49] rates would drop by
[38:51] 25% now what does that mean for people
[38:54] who uh during the hot times of year when
[38:57] they are turning up their air
[38:59] conditioning to deal with the uh
[39:00] increasing numbers of very hot days
[39:04] that's going to cost less if you use the
[39:05] same amount of electricity before you're
[39:07] going to be paying less for using that
[39:09] electricity um there are people who um
[39:14] they may in the future now either now or
[39:16] in the future want to make use of
[39:18] electric vehicles one out of four cars
[39:21] being sold in California right now is an
[39:23] electric vehicle um today a lot lot of
[39:26] people are uh not in position to
[39:29] purchase one or lease one but they may
[39:31] be in the future and by lowering that
[39:33] cents per kilowatt hour rate what that
[39:35] means is the fuel that you're using to
[39:39] to power that vehicle costs less so the
[39:43] idea of the fixed charge is on a
[39:45] customer's
[39:47] Bill the uh the costs of energy would be
[39:51] separated out there's no additional uh
[39:54] markup to that it is solely the cost of
[39:56] providing that energy and that depends
[39:58] on how much a customer uses the other
[40:01] part of the bill would be a standard
[40:03] charge just like this seen on cable
[40:06] bills on phone service bills on Water
[40:09] Service bills
[40:12] um the it has also been said that this
[40:16] uh proposal would be income based in the
[40:18] sense that you wouldn't be paying based
[40:19] on your usage you'd be paying based on
[40:21] your household income that too is
[40:23] incorrect the only thing that would be
[40:25] affected by the um a household income is
[40:30] the amount of the fixed charge in
[40:32] general what scce is proposing and there
[40:34] are different proposals from different
[40:36] groups is that there would be a standard
[40:38] fixed charge for all residential
[40:40] customers that would be the same on the
[40:41] bill every
[40:43] month the exception would be customers
[40:46] who qualify based on their household
[40:49] income for discounts on their bill they
[40:52] would get a lower fixed charge and for
[40:55] clarification what SE is proposing is
[40:57] that those customers they are enrolled
[40:58] in programs known as care or Farah and
[41:01] by the way um we found that about 30% of
[41:05] Hawthorne's residents are in those in
[41:07] income qualified
[41:09] programs their their fixed charge would
[41:11] be lower either 10 or $15 a month the
[41:15] fixed charge for all other residential
[41:17] customers and that would just be
[41:18] throughout the state would be $51 and
[41:21] that's what we're proposing but again
[41:23] not a tax on top of existing charg
[41:26] what would happen is a reduction in
[41:28] using electricity the idea is paying
[41:31] less for for using electricity that's
[41:33] what that is about so I just want to
[41:35] address those concerns about it being a
[41:37] tax or it being U requiring some income
[41:40] verification there would be no need in
[41:44] our most current proposal for anyone uh
[41:47] who is not enrolled in car and Farah
[41:49] there wouldn't be no need for income
[41:51] verification for those customers
[41:53] customers who are enrolled in those
[41:55] programs they already undergo a a
[41:58] verification process to make sure that
[42:00] they're qualifying for those 30 and 18%
[42:03] discounts and by the way for the
[42:05] attendees if people here believe that
[42:07] they are um qualified for those rates we
[42:11] encourage as many customers as possible
[42:13] who qualify to sign up for this because
[42:15] they do provide really needed discounts
[42:18] for for households that um are in the uh
[42:22] below the federal poverty
[42:24] line um
[42:27] oh sure sorry I get a little carried
[42:29] away with this
[42:32] um one other thing I want to address
[42:35] here that a lot of people like to accuse
[42:37] the utility of using this as a way to
[42:40] earn uh more money um the way the uh
[42:45] fixed charge is structured is that
[42:47] utilities would not receive any more
[42:49] money than they receiving now what
[42:51] happened is the amount of money that
[42:53] comes in would be paid uh by different
[42:55] customers I'll be and I'll be direct
[42:57] here uh customers with um large families
[43:02] who use a lot of electricity they will
[43:04] benefit from the lower cents per
[43:06] kilowatt hour um if someone is if you're
[43:10] a customer who uses a lot of electricity
[43:14] who does crank up their AC during those
[43:16] very hot years hot times of year these
[43:19] lower cents per kilowatt hour rates will
[43:21] benefit you by the way I didn't even
[43:23] mention about the care and fair
[43:25] customers the way this is structured is
[43:27] those customers who are enrolled in
[43:29] those income qualified programs they
[43:31] would see their bill go down we see we
[43:34] estimate by between 5% and 18% so there
[43:38] are benefits for low-income customers
[43:40] but there are benefits for all
[43:41] residential customers as well and cost
[43:44] in less cost for using
[43:47] electricity I another thing I want to
[43:50] address really briefly I know we have a
[43:52] short amount of time is that California
[43:55] is going to be using using more and more
[43:56] electricity californ going to be using
[43:58] more and more electricity that's why
[44:01] it's important and we're very cognizant
[44:03] to get that sense per kilowatt hour rate
[44:06] down and this is one of the ways we're
[44:08] looking to do that
[44:11] um I'm going to stop there and I would
[44:13] like to open it up to any questions from
[44:16] U council members thanks very much for
[44:19] the
[44:21] opportunity uh quick question could you
[44:23] repeat what those fixed charges are
[44:25] certainly
[44:26] the standard charge and this would be
[44:28] for all residential customers would be
[44:31] $51 customers who qualify for income
[44:34] qualified programs uh known as care or
[44:37] Farah their fixed charge would be1 or
[44:40] $15 depending on where they fall in the
[44:44] um household income
[44:48] Spectrum anybody
[44:51] else thank you thank you Edison for
[44:54] being here for your presentation
[44:57] um as you are aware we're part of an
[44:58] aggregation with clean power Alliance of
[45:01] Southern California I would like to see
[45:03] uh Southern California um California our
[45:07] not our aggregation actually com and
[45:09] present also so that we could truly
[45:11] understand because we have two sets of
[45:12] customers here customers that are with
[45:14] Edison and customers that are with clean
[45:17] power Alliance and they have to buy in
[45:19] obviously to clean power Alliance who is
[45:21] perring at a lower cost energy to the
[45:23] residents of Hawthorne so having said
[45:26] that I would like to see that happen
[45:28] city manager in bringing clean power
[45:31] Alliance to help us understand a little
[45:33] bit more on what this means uh on uh top
[45:36] of that
[45:38] um not all the communities here in
[45:41] Southern California in my opinion and
[45:43] listening to what's occurring currently
[45:45] with the Pu and they have to have a
[45:47] response back by July one on what
[45:49] selection they're all going to make with
[45:51] regards to how uh residents are paying
[45:53] for their electricity right um some
[45:57] communities will benefit where others
[45:58] might not we're talking about Sacramento
[46:01] Fresno other areas and then you have
[46:04] Southern
[46:05] California um I understand that there's
[46:09] uh an incentive program that some
[46:12] receive right for using lesser energy at
[46:15] least from clean plow Alliance I have
[46:17] yet to hear whether Edison has an
[46:19] incentive such as that as well for
[46:20] residents that are using less energy
[46:23] however um I I want to know more on for
[46:29] instance the um pay schedule that folks
[46:33] that from what I understand is the based
[46:37] income that they receive what that looks
[46:39] like for for our residents in Hawthorne
[46:41] right so there's a proposal for how it's
[46:46] revamped electricity rates based on
[46:49] income right and you're saying that
[46:52] they're not going to be looking into
[46:54] personal data or information on how
[46:56] residents what their annual income is or
[46:58] how they're going to be charged based
[47:00] off of that income okay that that's
[47:03] that's some of the stuff that's
[47:04] obviously being said right how they're
[47:08] they're going to be um build differently
[47:10] because of their income I know the Care
[47:13] Act is basically for those that are
[47:15] lower income have special needs have um
[47:19] families with special needs and how they
[47:21] could apply to receive a lower cost uh
[47:24] bill um however I think there still
[47:27] needs to be um more Community discussion
[47:31] and more Community input so that there's
[47:33] a real understanding of who and how is
[47:35] it's being benefited
[47:38] um your discussion tonight is basically
[47:40] saying if you lose if use lower energy
[47:43] you're going to get a lower bill right
[47:45] if you lose if you use less energy your
[47:47] bill will be less let me be clear the
[47:51] energy part of the bill will be lower
[47:53] depending if you if year-over-year use
[47:55] the the same
[47:56] amount that part of the bill like I said
[47:59] they would be split into two parts of
[48:01] the bill the part that covers the cost
[48:02] of energy and that other part that fixed
[48:04] charge and that would cover the cost of
[48:06] things such as the infrastructure that
[48:09] uh Southern California Edison builds
[48:12] operates and maintains all the steel and
[48:14] wires and poles and and vaults Etc and
[48:18] all the customer service people all the
[48:20] parts of our business operation that
[48:21] would be contained in the fixed chart so
[48:24] a customer who sees their bill they'll
[48:25] say oh I'm paying $51 if our proposal is
[48:29] accepted um for all that and then my
[48:32] energy use I'm paying for what I
[48:35] use did that clar did that clarify at
[48:37] all so there's two charges it's one bill
[48:40] but the bill is separated into those two
[48:42] charges right now it's all in one cents
[48:45] per kilowatt hour but there's two
[48:47] charges there are two categories of
[48:49] charges and they're put together yes two
[48:51] charges yes and some people will pay
[48:54] more and and some people will pay less
[48:56] we as we say people with who are on the
[48:59] lower end of the income Spectrum will
[49:01] have lower um bills total bills um but
[49:05] it's going to depend a lot on usage I
[49:08] think the people who are less likely to
[49:10] benefit for example are people who are
[49:12] let's say one or two people living in a
[49:14] household and they don't use much
[49:16] electricity they don't turn up their uh
[49:18] um their air conditioning when it gets
[49:21] hot um that kind of there are not going
[49:23] to be immediate beneficiaries but as
[49:26] people use more and more
[49:28] electricity having a lower cost per
[49:30] kilowatt hour is going to benefit not
[49:32] just lower income households it's people
[49:34] who use electricity and we believe
[49:36] Southern California Edison does that
[49:38] there's going to be more and more
[49:39] electrification and important to keep
[49:41] the cost of those of using electricity
[49:44] down I hope that was helpful you know it
[49:46] was helpful okay it was helpful and you
[49:49] know you you're it kind of spoke to me
[49:51] because I'm only one in a household just
[49:54] myself
[49:56] I don't use air conditioning and I don't
[49:58] use
[49:59] heat okay and still my bills high so
[50:03] that's just an example of myself yes and
[50:05] I could show you my build but I'm with
[50:08] I'm with also clean power Alliance right
[50:10] yes and I just want to make sure that
[50:14] again the community
[50:18] understands prior to the first so there
[50:21] could be more Buy in and more
[50:23] understanding on what your bill is going
[50:24] to look like moving forward with two
[50:28] cost
[50:29] basically yes okay absolutely agree and
[50:32] Diane has a point which you'd like to
[50:34] introduce um so if you were part of the
[50:37] clean power Alliance it those customers
[50:41] would are also included in this
[50:43] proceeding and you know there you can
[50:45] you know of course invite them to
[50:47] present um there's no problem with that
[50:50] U the the legislation itself one of the
[50:54] primary drivers was to try to make the
[50:57] total bill less for those who can least
[51:01] afford it the care and fairer customers
[51:04] and at the same time recognizing that as
[51:08] Ron had said you know electricity is
[51:10] going to be used more and more so trying
[51:14] to reach the clean energy goals to have
[51:17] that variable rate be less so and then
[51:21] they're receiving all these different
[51:23] proposals and it is a a public Forum
[51:26] that you know comment could be taken
[51:29] sure um you know like the Pu just to
[51:33] make that meeting alone is is hard for
[51:36] difficults to get to provide you know
[51:39] public comment so again it's it's it's
[51:41] important uh for the residents of
[51:43] Hawthorne and what this might mean to
[51:46] them uh with regards to the changes but
[51:48] I appreciate Edison making the time to
[51:50] come out and give a presentation to
[51:52] council look forward for additional
[51:54] dialogue with your your agency and more
[51:56] importantly advocating for the residents
[51:59] of Hawthorne to Ure that they understand
[52:01] what exactly this
[52:02] means we are very appreciative of of
[52:05] that opportunity and would really we
[52:07] believe as well we would like
[52:09] to make sure that the residents of
[52:12] Hawthorne are well informed and can make
[52:14] a decision based on um all sides of the
[52:18] argument so that's thank you very much
[52:20] for the opportunity thank you so you
[52:24] yeah all right real quick question so
[52:27] essentially um if I'm gone for a month
[52:29] from my house and if right currently I'm
[52:33] not using I use zero watts per hour my
[52:36] should technically be paying zero
[52:39] right well um what the electric grid
[52:44] even when you're not at at your home is
[52:47] still operating so yes your usage would
[52:50] be zero but uh all people who are
[52:53] connected to the grid are have
[52:56] a it's in everyone's interest that
[52:59] everyone who is benefiting from the
[53:02] electric grid takes part in the building
[53:06] operations and upkeep of it because it's
[53:07] some it's a system that serves all of us
[53:10] so yet but your energy charge for that
[53:12] month yes would be Zero Energy charge
[53:15] the energy charge would I'm talking
[53:16] about the existing you're saying that
[53:17] we're moving into a system where we're
[53:19] going to have two piles one to cover
[53:22] infrastructure and one that is uh
[53:24] proportional to the use cost the cost is
[53:28] proportional to the amount of that we
[53:30] use that is the proposal for the fixed
[53:32] charge and that is to um yeah to make
[53:35] sure that the costs of maintaining that
[53:38] infrastructure continue and are as
[53:40] equitably shared as possible okay but so
[53:42] currently you're saying what I'm hearing
[53:44] you saying is that we already have
[53:45] something like that in
[53:48] place or if I get my bill I'm out of
[53:51] town I'm often like a on a business trip
[53:54] to like Europe or something mhm and I
[53:56] don't get to use everything's off yeah
[53:58] sure the electric Grid's on surrounding
[54:00] me what should I approximately be be
[54:03] paying so um let me see if I understand
[54:06] your question when you're right now
[54:08] there is the rate you pay for I'm going
[54:10] to give you the average rate for
[54:11] residential customer is 36 cents per
[54:14] kilowatt hour okay included in that is
[54:17] all the infrastructure and included in
[54:19] that is all the the amount of the energy
[54:22] you're using you're getting paid uh
[54:24] you're getting charged 6 cents for each
[54:26] kilowatt hour that you're using this
[54:28] breaks it out so that um customers who
[54:32] are using less they're not going to pay
[54:34] like you
[54:35] said I'm sorry that I misunderstood I
[54:37] apologize I turn off all my appliances
[54:39] in my house I turn off all the lights
[54:42] there's nothing's on everything's
[54:45] disconnected so I should pay zero dollar
[54:47] well let me ask you this if you don't
[54:49] use your cell phone for a month and you
[54:51] don't make any text and you don't call
[54:54] you will likely get a bill from the cell
[54:55] phone company for your usage of that no
[54:58] I don't care about the cell phone
[54:59] company I'm not talking about you I want
[55:00] to find out from you right but but what
[55:03] I'm saying is the fixed charge is
[55:04] something that's not just in electricity
[55:06] it's used by a utilities all kinds of
[55:08] utilities for water service for um like
[55:12] I said cell phone or for cable companies
[55:14] that you still get the charge for that
[55:16] so for the charge for the infrastructure
[55:18] that's there to make the delivery of
[55:21] electricity or water or whatever
[55:23] possible I know sir but like if I'm not
[55:25] using anything and everything's
[55:27] disconnected what's the current charge
[55:29] that I'm getting paid that I'm getting
[55:31] charged for the infrastructure if you're
[55:32] saying that currently everything's just
[55:34] directly connected what part of what
[55:36] part of the 36 cents per kilowatt hour
[55:38] is being charged for the Kil especially
[55:40] if I'm there's zero kilowatt hours that
[55:43] I'm using I don't want to misspeak I
[55:44] don't want to give you the wrong
[55:45] information but I would say I'm going to
[55:47] and Dian correct me if I'm wrong I
[55:50] believe that um about I believe it's
[55:54] about 70% is has to do with more of the
[55:56] infrastructure is what you're paying for
[55:58] okay so if it's correlated to then I
[56:01] shouldn't be paying anything so if I
[56:03] have everything disconnected as is I
[56:05] shouldn't be paying anything right now
[56:07] and that's not true so my concern is
[56:09] that um so for the residents so you can
[56:13] understand my thinking is what's the
[56:15] current rate for
[56:18] usage and now that we're move the
[56:20] proposal says that it's going to be like
[56:21] 50 bucks that we're going to have for a
[56:23] fixed infrastructure charge is that uh
[56:27] usage rate going to be the same or is it
[56:31] going to decrease the usage rate yes the
[56:34] usage rate will decrease by 25% the
[56:36] cents per kilowatt hour will decrease by
[56:38] 25% that's what we're planning to do
[56:41] yeah the math doesn't seem to be uh
[56:43] really providing for much savings on the
[56:44] contrary I think it might be an increase
[56:46] with that uh $50 that you're uh that you
[56:49] guys are proposing but it it doesn't
[56:51] matter we'll just take a look at it
[56:53] certainly um and uh if we need you to
[56:56] come back for any more questions we'll
[56:57] bring you back certainly I and I I agree
[56:59] for some people it will um for other um
[57:03] for customers who use more and more
[57:06] electricity it will over time it will
[57:08] become more beneficial to them okay I'm
[57:11] sorry did I miss anything ma'am go ahead
[57:13] oh sorry I just I just want to point
[57:15] people to some resources on the screen
[57:17] for more information that's all but
[57:18] thank you very much to the chair I think
[57:21] I understand what you're trying to say I
[57:24] think you're saying he's saying that the
[57:26] standard rate is $51 no matter what and
[57:30] you're saying that if you don't use your
[57:32] services is zero down is zero dollars it
[57:36] should be zero dollar but you would pay
[57:38] $51 because it's the standard rate is
[57:42] that what you were okay yes and that
[57:45] money and those um charges would be for
[57:48] um maintaining the poles the wires the
[57:51] everything that makes it possible to
[57:53] deliver electricity as well as the cust
[57:54] customer service aspect so it's it would
[57:56] be in his instance it would be
[57:59] $51 plus if he used any
[58:04] usage but if he doesn't use any usage
[58:08] it's just a standard
[58:11] 51 yes that's what's being
[58:16] proposed so typically the people that
[58:19] are not using their energy like
[58:23] councilwoman uh Mar protim Rees she
[58:27] would be paying the the $51 even though
[58:31] she doesn't
[58:32] use Services she would not benefit as
[58:35] much as others she would benefit so
[58:37] neither one of you would benefit in
[58:40] contrast now this is not Hawthorn at all
[58:42] and so it may not be of your interest
[58:44] but uh customers who live in the Inland
[58:46] Empire who have to use their air
[58:48] conditioning throughout much more of the
[58:50] year than the hot season it would
[58:51] benefit them as well and also as I said
[58:53] customers who are interested Ed in using
[58:56] more electrification in vehicles in
[58:58] electric heat pumps Etc so but yes there
[59:00] are definitely people who won't benefit
[59:02] in in the near term I'm not going to
[59:05] deny that can I can I ask one last
[59:07] question um can I just
[59:10] finish very simple mathematics uh
[59:13] equation here you guys will see what I'm
[59:14] talking about I pay $100 right now for
[59:17] my uh electricity bill let's say and
[59:21] that's the current usage charge all
[59:23] right gentleman says that it's going to
[59:25] De the usage rate is going to decrease
[59:27] by
[59:28] 25% right so I'm going to be paying $75
[59:32] but on top of that I have to pay
[59:34] $50 for the uh the infrastructure rate
[59:39] so instead of paying a 100 bucks I'm
[59:41] going to be paying 125 that's actual
[59:43] increase for the average resident at
[59:45] least people that I know of 25 bucks so
[59:47] there's just no decrease there simple
[59:50] math right go
[59:52] ahead I just wanted to ask real quickly
[59:57] um with the increases that are um
[1:00:01] proposed what is going to be done uh or
[1:00:04] what is going to be what is it going to
[1:00:05] be used for is it for
[1:00:07] additional um perhaps
[1:00:09] underground uh utilities um
[1:00:13] infrastructure uh new
[1:00:15] repairs
[1:00:17] um investor benefits uh H how is the
[1:00:21] money going to be used that money is not
[1:00:23] um that additional money is not going to
[1:00:25] be generating any more re any more
[1:00:28] profit so this is not going to uh
[1:00:30] investors okay the the bill is
[1:00:32] structured so this all has to do with uh
[1:00:35] money that's going to be covering the
[1:00:37] costs of of operations and that is
[1:00:39] infrastructure and that is people who
[1:00:41] come out and make repairs and who do the
[1:00:44] maintenance and the people who answer
[1:00:46] the phones and print the bills and and
[1:00:48] all that and all that work all the work
[1:00:49] that goes to um providing the electric
[1:00:53] service that's that's what it's for yeah
[1:00:57] all right thank you sir um if you could
[1:00:59] just take the comments that I said and
[1:01:00] if you have something
[1:01:02] to say anything additional to what I had
[1:01:04] mentioned a little while ago just please
[1:01:06] let us know happy to thanks very much
[1:01:08] for the opportunity thank
[1:01:17] you oral Communications please pursuant
[1:01:21] to government code section 549 54.3 all
[1:01:24] remarks should be addressed to the city
[1:01:26] council as a body and not to any
[1:01:28] individual council member during oral
[1:01:31] Communications speakers shall have three
[1:01:32] minutes to State their business the
[1:01:34] brown act prohibits the city council
[1:01:36] from providing a detailed response or
[1:01:38] acting upon any items not contained on
[1:01:40] the agenda the governing bodies as a
[1:01:42] body shall have the discretion at the
[1:01:44] close of oral Communications to refer
[1:01:46] any remarks to the city manager for
[1:01:47] study investigation report and or
[1:01:51] recommendation okay thank you de stent
[1:01:55] love Beyond autism
[1:01:57] Deborah
[1:01:59] hi right here no you come up to the
[1:02:02] podium you get the microphone and the
[1:02:05] the the what do you call the lights on
[1:02:07] you can you please speak into the
[1:02:10] microphone so we can hear you nice and
[1:02:14] clearly good afternoon mayor and Council
[1:02:18] my name is Deborah
[1:02:20] stent I'm a proud resident of hethorn
[1:02:24] for over three
[1:02:26] decades today I stand before you not
[1:02:29] just as an
[1:02:30] individual but as a representative of a
[1:02:32] cause that holds a special place in my
[1:02:35] heart for our city the city of hethorn
[1:02:39] an initiative that transcends barriers
[1:02:41] and fosters love Beyond
[1:02:44] autism April is National autism month
[1:02:47] and I believe it's the perfect time for
[1:02:49] our community to come together and
[1:02:51] support those affected by autism spec
[1:02:54] spectum disorders I am excited to
[1:02:57] propose an Autism Walk an event that
[1:03:00] aims to raise awareness promote
[1:03:03] inclusivity and provide much needed
[1:03:06] support for individuals and families
[1:03:08] facing challenges of
[1:03:10] autism why an Autism Walk because it's
[1:03:13] more just a stroll it's a step towards
[1:03:16] more compassionate and understanding
[1:03:18] Community by walking side by side we can
[1:03:20] bridge the gap in our understanding and
[1:03:23] showcase the strength that lives and our
[1:03:25] diversity as a representative of our
[1:03:27] licensed business here in hethor I want
[1:03:30] to assure you that we are in good
[1:03:31] standing with our city and that our
[1:03:34] commitment to the community is
[1:03:37] unwavering the purpose of the proposed
[1:03:39] event will take place um once we get
[1:03:42] more information um how to go by it um
[1:03:46] we envision a route that not only
[1:03:48] transver transverses our streets but
[1:03:51] also touches the hearts of our residents
[1:03:54] leaving a lasting impression of unity
[1:03:56] and empathy but we cannot make this
[1:03:58] Vision a reality without the support of
[1:04:00] hethorn today I humbly request your
[1:04:03] assistance in three key areas firstly we
[1:04:06] would like to we would like to seek your
[1:04:09] support in obtaining necessary permits
[1:04:12] or to ensure a smooth and safe event for
[1:04:15] all participants with your help we can
[1:04:18] navigate the administrative process
[1:04:21] efficiently secondly we would like to
[1:04:23] invite you to join us in securing maybe
[1:04:26] donations both monetary and in kind to
[1:04:29] make this event impactful whether is
[1:04:32] through financial contributions or
[1:04:34] Community Resources every bid will
[1:04:36] contribute to the success of our cause
[1:04:39] last we kindly ask for your assistance
[1:04:42] in advertising the event your support in
[1:04:45] promoting the autism walk through the
[1:04:47] city Channel such as social media
[1:04:49] newsletters and local announcements will
[1:04:52] significantly enhance our Outreach the
[1:04:55] benefits of this event extends Beyond a
[1:04:58] one- day Gathering it's an opportunity
[1:05:00] to show to Showcase hethorn as a
[1:05:03] compassionate and supportive Community
[1:05:05] one that understands the importance of
[1:05:07] standing together for a shared cost in
[1:05:10] closing I am confident that with the
[1:05:13] backing of hethorn we can make this
[1:05:15] Autism Walk of resounding success
[1:05:18] together we can create a ripple effect
[1:05:20] of understanding compassion and unity
[1:05:23] that would resonate far beyond the
[1:05:25] boundaries of our city the city of
[1:05:27] hethor I am open to any questions or
[1:05:30] discussions yes no thank you ma'am for
[1:05:32] being here this is uh just kind of
[1:05:34] directed towards us so we can't respond
[1:05:37] but what you can do for us is just
[1:05:39] provide um your information and the
[1:05:41] information of your organization okay to
[1:05:44] our city manager so he could uh so we
[1:05:47] can take a look uh to see about your
[1:05:49] organization and uh what what you've
[1:05:51] been doing on our own also okay but and
[1:05:54] see in which ways we can help you okay
[1:05:56] okay thank
[1:05:57] you thank you for uh stepping up for
[1:05:59] that cause that's uh really important of
[1:06:02] a great concern right now all over the
[1:06:04] all over the
[1:06:16] world I'm going to do it myself I'm
[1:06:19] going to do it myself thank you ma'am
[1:06:22] thank you I'm going to do it right now
[1:06:24] algebra Nat Aus centinella Youth
[1:06:27] Services he used algebra
[1:06:31] okay hi good evening thank you for your
[1:06:34] time um my name is Nat Aus and I work
[1:06:37] for centinella use Services also known
[1:06:39] as CYS as the systems transformation
[1:06:42] specialist we offer free services to the
[1:06:44] hawthor community at no cost to the city
[1:06:47] thanks to the Department of Youth
[1:06:48] develop development and we work with the
[1:06:50] community local schools and police
[1:06:52] department to address community and
[1:06:54] youth safety through mediation peaceful
[1:06:57] conflict resolution and community- based
[1:06:59] service linkage um widespread and
[1:07:02] long-term Community safety is possible
[1:07:04] by addressing underlying needs by
[1:07:06] approaching Behavior as an unmet need we
[1:07:09] as adults can offer more well-rounded
[1:07:11] and impactful support to our youth our
[1:07:13] families and our community CYS Works
[1:07:16] closely with schools in and around
[1:07:18] Hawthorne to offer comprehensive
[1:07:19] training and Empower School staff anyone
[1:07:22] from school security to school
[1:07:24] counselors to work with youth and
[1:07:25] families to address underlying needs and
[1:07:28] subsequently know how to offer
[1:07:29] appropriate
[1:07:30] supports um we thank the Hawthorne
[1:07:32] Police Department Hawthorne's official
[1:07:34] diversion partners for the important
[1:07:36] work done in collaboration with CIS this
[1:07:39] essential partnership enables our
[1:07:41] organization to literally divert kids
[1:07:43] from being booked into the juvenile
[1:07:45] justice system or expelled from schools
[1:07:48] and this option can be the difference
[1:07:50] between a young person having a
[1:07:51] productive life that benefits Society
[1:07:53] versus versus a life that is forever
[1:07:55] damaged by a criminal record and I'm to
[1:07:58] here today on behalf of CYS to spread
[1:08:00] awareness of our free services within
[1:08:02] Hawthorne and invite anyone who's
[1:08:04] interested in learning more partnering
[1:08:06] with us or volunteering with us to reach
[1:08:08] out our work can't be done without the
[1:08:11] input Voice or participation of this
[1:08:13] community thank
[1:08:14] you okay thank you so much for being
[1:08:18] here thank you for uh stepping up and uh
[1:08:21] working with the youth through the
[1:08:23] sentinella youth Services over there at
[1:08:24] the South Bay whip
[1:08:28] right yeah absolutely with the whip so
[1:08:30] thank
[1:08:32] you feel free to come back um and let us
[1:08:34] know any projects that you're working on
[1:08:36] or any successes Fay Johnson chair for
[1:08:39] the Veterans Affairs
[1:08:45] commission hello and thank you city
[1:08:47] council for this opportunity to share
[1:08:49] tonight my name is Fay Johnson I'm the
[1:08:51] chair of the Veterans Affairs Commission
[1:08:53] and I wanted to report out on our
[1:08:55] progress of the military um Banner
[1:08:57] recognition program this project was
[1:09:00] created by the Hawthorne's Veterans
[1:09:02] Affairs commission to recognize and
[1:09:04] honor the military men and women of
[1:09:07] Hawthorne who are currently serving or
[1:09:09] who have served in the past to include
[1:09:11] those who are now deceased these banners
[1:09:14] will be displayed on Hawthorne Boulevard
[1:09:16] between 12th Street and Rose cray during
[1:09:19] Memorial Day and Veteran day's holidays
[1:09:22] these banners can be produced and hung
[1:09:24] for a total of $300 per Banner which
[1:09:27] includes the hardware necessary for the
[1:09:29] pole installation and again I want to
[1:09:32] thank city council for the uh budget
[1:09:35] contribution of
[1:09:37] $33,000 that was previously authorized
[1:09:40] at um previous council meeting I would
[1:09:42] also like to thank councilwoman Katrina
[1:09:44] Manning for her generous uh contribution
[1:09:47] of
[1:09:48] $300 and councilman Alex Montero who's
[1:09:52] absent for his generous contribution of
[1:09:55] $500 These funds will be Pro um will be
[1:09:58] used to provide sponsorships for our
[1:10:00] military honores tonight I um I have
[1:10:05] available a trifold that basically tells
[1:10:08] you about the program what the
[1:10:10] eligibility is and it also has an
[1:10:13] application with it this is what we're
[1:10:14] going to use to advertise the program
[1:10:17] and I'm respectfully asking the council
[1:10:19] and the audience if they would um help
[1:10:22] me spread the news share it with
[1:10:24] veterans that you know in our community
[1:10:27] and get the word out the deadline for
[1:10:29] our submission so we can get the banners
[1:10:31] made and put up in time would be
[1:10:34] February 15
[1:10:36] 2024 I also want to take this moment
[1:10:38] since I have a few more minutes or
[1:10:40] seconds to thank the chief of police for
[1:10:43] letting us use uh sergeant salana and
[1:10:47] I'd also like to thank the city manager
[1:10:49] for letting us have Erica lampin she's
[1:10:52] definitely an asset to our team both of
[1:10:55] them are so thank you ma'am real quick
[1:10:58] what's your target how many banners do
[1:10:59] you want to get so you're waiting for
[1:11:01] applicants to equal a total of how many
[1:11:04] um there is no limit on how many we can
[1:11:06] do it just depends upon how many flag
[1:11:07] poles we have which we have a lot so I I
[1:11:10] have a feeling we're going to have far
[1:11:11] more flag poles this year than we do um
[1:11:14] veterans that step forward but there is
[1:11:17] no limit maybe we could choose a segment
[1:11:20] of hawthor Boulevard to do it and uh
[1:11:22] just figure out how many flag polls you
[1:11:24] have and then uh if you need to wait
[1:11:27] till you get that number of of
[1:11:30] applicants then that's when you submit
[1:11:32] that so you don't so you can order in
[1:11:33] bulk and one hit yeah the only challenge
[1:11:36] is the printer okay if we want them up
[1:11:38] in time okay ma'am thank you thank you
[1:11:41] thank you for your service thank
[1:11:45] you Gordon Mike Gordon Michael
[1:11:52] Migo
[1:11:57] hello everyone uh Happy New Year hope
[1:12:01] you all had a good
[1:12:03] Christmas uh on December 12th U 2023 the
[1:12:07] haon city council had presentation by
[1:12:09] office Untitled about the Civic Center
[1:12:12] over the past uh month I spoke with
[1:12:14] residents business owners and other
[1:12:16] people about
[1:12:17] it our viws range from Curious to dismay
[1:12:20] on the proposal for the new city hall in
[1:12:22] hathor
[1:12:24] they questioned the need and the cost
[1:12:25] for what is essentially a second City
[1:12:27] Hall that will be connected to the ex
[1:12:30] existing one by an elevated walkway the
[1:12:33] object to the overall design of the
[1:12:35] building especially the idea of a
[1:12:38] council chamber being on the third floor
[1:12:40] instead of having two structures it
[1:12:42] makes sense to add extra floors to
[1:12:45] either add extra floors uh on the
[1:12:47] existing City Hall which has the council
[1:12:50] chamber on the first floor ideally
[1:12:54] the new city hall would actually uh be
[1:12:58] located along Hawthorne Boulevard uh
[1:13:00] fronting along the boulevard itself uh
[1:13:03] that will give it a prominent stature it
[1:13:06] would be constructed on parking lot as
[1:13:09] adjacent to the Bank of America in front
[1:13:12] there would be a uh of the city hall
[1:13:15] that is a water fountain and a clock
[1:13:17] tower as a result the entire parking lot
[1:13:19] in the Civic Center must be opened up to
[1:13:22] the customers of Bank of America
[1:13:24] uh which is an important Financial
[1:13:26] entity for people of Haw and the region
[1:13:29] obviously parking structures uh above
[1:13:32] ground need to be built in the Civic
[1:13:35] Center to accommodate the people hoffin
[1:13:37] City Hall Bank America and new park in
[1:13:40] the downtown
[1:13:43] area uh the proposal for an underground
[1:13:45] parking structure on the North End of
[1:13:47] the city lot is a terrible idea for many
[1:13:50] reasons uh with an above ground
[1:13:52] structure the South facing
[1:13:54] part uh of the structure could serve as
[1:13:57] a backdrop for showing movies
[1:14:00] Outdoors 26 street is an important
[1:14:02] roadway in the Civic Center it must
[1:14:05] remain a two-way street for convenience
[1:14:08] of Vehicle drivers and efficient flow of
[1:14:11] vehicle traffic further 126th Street
[1:14:14] between hon Boulevard and Birch Avenue
[1:14:17] uh needs to be converted into an actual
[1:14:19] street with sidewalks lamp poost trees
[1:14:22] and so forth in regards to the Bank of
[1:14:24] America the building uh which would
[1:14:28] still remain but it would uh actually
[1:14:30] need architectural face lift uh to
[1:14:34] improve its looks and it would also
[1:14:37] include windows installed on the sides
[1:14:40] that will uh as I said improve the
[1:14:42] appearance and function of the structure
[1:14:44] it has been suggested that retail Cafe
[1:14:48] public hall be placed in the Civic
[1:14:50] Center instead a revitalized mall in the
[1:14:52] downtown town area that is named or that
[1:14:56] should be named Ha Renaissance
[1:14:58] Plaza uh ha denoted in the city
[1:15:01] Renaissance rebirth renewal and Plaza uh
[1:15:05] would be a perfect location for retail
[1:15:07] stores restaurants entertainment venues
[1:15:09] community events SpaceX Welcome Center
[1:15:11] Tesla dealership and so on so let us
[1:15:14] work together to make it become a
[1:15:16] reality so that hon can be that shining
[1:15:18] City on the hill during the 21st
[1:15:22] century thank you thank you sir
[1:15:27] yeah Rosa
[1:15:31] Ortiz oh she's not here oh okay okay
[1:15:34] she's there right in the
[1:15:45] back thank you mayor council members um
[1:15:48] I would like to pass this out can you
[1:15:51] hear me okay my name is Roso I have a
[1:15:54] small business here in uh 139th in
[1:15:57] Prairie oh can you get just closer and
[1:15:59] kind of stay there just so we could hear
[1:16:00] it hear it okay there we go oh let me
[1:16:02] take this off um my name is Rosa Ortiz I
[1:16:05] have a small business on 139th in
[1:16:08] Prairie and I want to talk about the
[1:16:11] small business grant that was approved
[1:16:14] on November 14th meeting that was the
[1:16:17] last meeting that was held on it the
[1:16:19] program was initiated back in February
[1:16:23] of
[1:16:24] 23 there was several more than several
[1:16:28] uh approvals of The
[1:16:30] Proposal um stating that this was a
[1:16:33] service um type of Grant but when the
[1:16:37] grant was advertised it was advertised
[1:16:39] as money I have copies if I can pass
[1:16:42] them
[1:16:52] along
[1:16:53] so through I went back um after
[1:16:56] reviewing the November 14th meeting I
[1:16:59] went back all the way to the beginning
[1:17:01] of February and the proposal was for
[1:17:05] services but somewhere around the line
[1:17:08] it went from services to Grant to um the
[1:17:13] one that I applied for was the employee
[1:17:17] retention um and at the end it was just
[1:17:21] uh
[1:17:21] training um I included the advertising
[1:17:25] that we saw as business owners which was
[1:17:28] English and Spanish that would be page
[1:17:31] two and it clearly says especially in
[1:17:33] Spanish one it clearly says
[1:17:36] 5,000 uh to businesses that qualify as
[1:17:40] dollars there is nothing in there that
[1:17:42] says Services I also included on page
[1:17:47] three one of the Flyers that was in the
[1:17:50] website for restaurants they also so had
[1:17:53] a $5,000 Grant but they specifically
[1:17:56] stated uh Kitchen Equipment Technology
[1:17:59] upgrades employee training bonuses unfor
[1:18:03] hardships um I also
[1:18:05] included uh I'm sorry I don't publicly
[1:18:08] speak the proposed um budget of the $1
[1:18:13] million that was allocated from the $32
[1:18:16] million that was received from the co
[1:18:20] money and I included the breakdown of
[1:18:24] that $1
[1:18:25] million okay um you guys obviously have
[1:18:28] seen this because you guys obviously
[1:18:30] approved that but
[1:18:34] my what I would like would be to figure
[1:18:37] out or find out why to the public was it
[1:18:41] addressed as a grant of
[1:18:43] dollars and within the city meetings it
[1:18:46] was
[1:18:48] Services if we do not come to the city
[1:18:51] meetings or we don't see see them on the
[1:18:53] web then we're not informed so
[1:18:59] we're counting on what's presented to us
[1:19:03] as the public on the website and on the
[1:19:04] Flyers that were all over the city to be
[1:19:07] what is fact so I would just for like
[1:19:10] for the city council city manager to
[1:19:13] kind of investigate and maybe rectify
[1:19:15] the uh the outcome of this thank you uh
[1:19:20] Mr city manager can you provide her the
[1:19:22] form just
[1:19:23] or how should we approach
[1:19:25] this um giving me direction to study
[1:19:28] your case I think would be the first
[1:19:30] step okay and then I would need the
[1:19:32] packet that she provideed to council to
[1:19:33] take a look at I did not have receive
[1:19:35] one I think she might have one for you
[1:19:38] um could you just take a look at the
[1:19:40] situation yes we'll do and yes thank you
[1:19:44] thank you mayor I just wanted to make
[1:19:46] reference that um I know SoCal Gas and
[1:19:49] some other I think County offered other
[1:19:51] services other uh
[1:19:53] grants or whatnot so uh that's on page
[1:19:56] three that's on page three are we
[1:20:01] done no so city manager um yes if you
[1:20:06] could just look into Co SoCal Gas with
[1:20:08] Mike Carol Mike harell uh I know that
[1:20:10] they were offering um assistance too so
[1:20:14] look at the other County at the county
[1:20:16] also I just want to make sure that
[1:20:17] everyone's on one Accord on who's
[1:20:19] offering what okay notice thank you
[1:20:23] thank you for being here and sharing
[1:20:24] that uh thank you
[1:20:26] yeah anybody else wishing to address the
[1:20:28] city council form a
[1:20:31] line I only see one
[1:20:35] person let the lady go first
[1:20:38] okay commissioner
[1:20:40] Orman all right you
[1:20:43] sure I don't want to fall
[1:20:46] down uh good my name is James Ric 3822
[1:20:51] West 144 Street
[1:20:53] Roger Park uh read the articles in the
[1:20:57] paper and online about the building
[1:20:59] being built on the County section of
[1:21:02] Inglewood
[1:21:04] Avenue
[1:21:06] and they they according to the Articles
[1:21:09] in the
[1:21:10] paper they said that it's with the they
[1:21:15] didn't have to use any of the like the
[1:21:18] building and saf uh building planning
[1:21:21] department or have any uh building
[1:21:25] planning the uh meetings with the public
[1:21:29] because of the new state laws that was
[1:21:32] passed by our great legislators and
[1:21:36] senators and Governor that takes these
[1:21:40] rights
[1:21:41] away are we losing did it is is that
[1:21:45] able to affect us here
[1:21:47] now because I see on the agenda it talks
[1:21:51] about the changing the standards for
[1:21:55] residential and mixed
[1:21:57] commercial in the city so will we be
[1:22:02] doing when the developers come in and
[1:22:04] they buy the properties if they want to
[1:22:06] put multi-units there we won't have any
[1:22:09] say so at all because they could go
[1:22:11] through the the state and get the
[1:22:14] permission to do the
[1:22:16] work is that how it's going to be
[1:22:18] working
[1:22:19] now thank
[1:22:21] you
[1:22:24] next please
[1:22:29] commissioner good evening Mr Mayor mayor
[1:22:31] proem city council members and City
[1:22:33] staff and neighbors um I would like to
[1:22:35] bring your attention to some legislation
[1:22:38] that is pending in Congress right now
[1:22:39] that I am asking for your support on
[1:22:42] right now um in the 118th Congress and
[1:22:45] this is federal not not State um there
[1:22:48] is a Senate bill number 414 and the
[1:22:51] house bill is HR
[1:22:54] 1083 and I have cop copies for you of
[1:22:57] some of this basically what this comes
[1:22:59] down to is a deals with dependence
[1:23:01] indemnity compensation so starting after
[1:23:04] the Revolutionary War the surviving
[1:23:07] spouses of veterans who died in battle
[1:23:10] or as a result of their injuries or
[1:23:13] illnesses um acquired during battle um
[1:23:16] they have been getting what's called
[1:23:17] diic and is Comfortably known as
[1:23:20] survivors benefits up until
[1:23:24] 1993 those survivor benefits were
[1:23:26] predicated on the rank of the veteran
[1:23:28] who passed away so in other words if you
[1:23:30] were a general your surviving spouse got
[1:23:33] a higher percentage of what your pay had
[1:23:35] been than if you were a private for
[1:23:37] example after 1993 they did a change to
[1:23:41] that and they have it as a flat rate so
[1:23:43] right now if a veteran um passes away uh
[1:23:47] from a service connected disability that
[1:23:50] they have a service connected disability
[1:23:52] rate in for or they have been totally
[1:23:55] and completely disabled for 10
[1:23:58] years the current payment um is 44% of
[1:24:03] what their disability payment had been
[1:24:05] so in 199 or excuse me in 2023 that flat
[1:24:09] Indemnity payment um where the
[1:24:11] disability payment had been 36
[1:24:14] 2195 if that veteran passes away and
[1:24:17] their spouse qualifies because there are
[1:24:20] conditions for it to get Survivor
[1:24:21] benefit they would get a total of
[1:24:26] $1,627 which obviously um won't even pay
[1:24:29] the rent at this point and so what this
[1:24:33] bill is doing is trying to increase the
[1:24:36] survivor benefits so it is the same
[1:24:38] percentage as for all other federal
[1:24:41] employees so the only difference is that
[1:24:43] right now veteran surviving spouses if
[1:24:46] they meet all of the qualifications are
[1:24:48] getting 43% of what the veterans
[1:24:51] disability pay pay it was where a
[1:24:53] federal employee in any other capacity
[1:24:56] other than a military capacity gets
[1:25:00] 55% so basically this bill would do two
[1:25:03] different things it would increase it so
[1:25:05] that the base rate is the same
[1:25:08] 55% and then also subject to Cola as all
[1:25:11] of these are and the other thing it
[1:25:13] would do is if your veteran is currently
[1:25:16] 100% service connected for 10 years or
[1:25:20] more they can pass away from from
[1:25:22] anything and the surviving spouse if
[1:25:24] they know about it and apply may be
[1:25:27] granted diic one of the other things
[1:25:29] that this bill would do is it would
[1:25:31] lower that threshold to five years or
[1:25:34] more and it would be a sliding scale up
[1:25:36] to 10 years so the reason I'm bringing
[1:25:38] this up right now I have a copy of the
[1:25:40] bill and everything there's going
[1:25:42] there's already right now um 58
[1:25:44] co-sponsors in the house and 20
[1:25:46] co-sponsors in the Senate there's going
[1:25:48] to be a hearing in the house Veteran
[1:25:51] Affairs committee the end of this month
[1:25:54] and what we need is to get as many
[1:25:55] co-sponsors before that hearing as
[1:25:58] possible sorry man your time is up our
[1:26:00] congresswoman is not signed on as a
[1:26:02] co-sponsor if you can um contact her and
[1:26:06] Advocate to get her to co-sponsor this
[1:26:08] that's what we need I'll pass out copies
[1:26:11] is this a request uh from you
[1:26:12] individually or is it coming from the
[1:26:13] veterans commission um I just got back
[1:26:15] in town so I was not at the commission
[1:26:17] meeting yesterday so I'm putting it out
[1:26:19] on my own at the moment because if going
[1:26:22] to take action at the next meeting to
[1:26:25] put something in favor of this it would
[1:26:27] need to be agendized um yeah if you
[1:26:29] could pass that on to our city clerk
[1:26:31] she's the keeper of
[1:26:33] Records thank you maam anybody else
[1:26:35] wishing to speak and address the city
[1:26:37] council if not I declare oral
[1:26:40] communication close so
[1:26:42] order right let's get on with
[1:26:46] our business
[1:26:49] here Madam Madam Clerk you have three
[1:26:53] items Mr Mayor I have three items on the
[1:26:56] consent calendar they're items three
[1:26:58] through five for your consideration and
[1:27:02] approval item three approval of waiver
[1:27:05] of full readings of resolutions and
[1:27:06] ordinances on tonight's agenda item Four
[1:27:09] City treasur requests approval of the
[1:27:11] warrants for January 9th
[1:27:13] 2024 item five resolution number 8448 a
[1:27:17] resolution of the city council of the
[1:27:18] city of Hawthorne California approving
[1:27:21] an exception to the 180-day waiting
[1:27:23] period to hire a Calpers retired Anu
[1:27:26] attent in accordance with government
[1:27:28] code section 5
[1:27:30] 7522 56 and 21224 for
[1:27:36] adoption do the chair I'd like to uh
[1:27:39] pull five
[1:27:42] uh of
[1:27:44] course I make a motion on all other
[1:27:47] items three and four
[1:27:49] second four second
[1:27:53] got to keep this butt
[1:27:55] in okay I make a motion on three and
[1:27:58] four
[1:28:02] second see
[1:28:04] it are we
[1:28:06] fancy all right waiting for
[1:28:10] the screens no no not yet and not not
[1:28:14] everyone's voted waiting for you to vote
[1:28:16] I can't see anything here is it push
[1:28:19] your button
[1:28:21] which
[1:28:26] I don't see
[1:28:27] anything I really don't guys I'm not to
[1:28:31] did you enter the
[1:28:51] meeting that a setup or something or
[1:28:53] what all right so what do I need to
[1:28:58] do oh a motion was made motion was made
[1:29:02] here and the seconded Y the votes are
[1:29:05] in yes should
[1:29:08] be the voting reflects mayor and Council
[1:29:11] voting yes all right this is a first use
[1:29:13] of our voting system
[1:29:17] yay that was
[1:29:19] exciting it was exciting actually
[1:29:22] for me I don't
[1:29:24] know council
[1:29:27] member uh city manager could you help me
[1:29:29] understand resolution 5 I have a general
[1:29:32] idea what it is but I just wanted to
[1:29:34] make sure I was clear so if I may um
[1:29:37] this affects this from the city
[1:29:38] attorney's office um basically what
[1:29:41] happened is we had an assistant City
[1:29:43] attorney that is in charge of all the
[1:29:46] civil litigation matters she also
[1:29:48] handles uh Complex public records
[1:29:50] requests she announced her retirement
[1:29:53] she was going to set her retirement date
[1:29:55] at the end of January but she visited
[1:29:58] you know before the
[1:30:00] retirees actually go through the
[1:30:02] retirement they have make an appointment
[1:30:03] with Cal Pur in city of Glendale and
[1:30:06] they give advice and the advice that she
[1:30:08] was given and I don't know the details
[1:30:10] of it was that she should retire by end
[1:30:12] of the year now um that this is this
[1:30:16] year or or last year last year okay so
[1:30:19] um and there is a rule with Cal Purge
[1:30:21] that once you retire you cannot do any
[1:30:24] work with the city for 180 days for 6
[1:30:26] months you have to sit out you know they
[1:30:28] have rulle that you could work part time
[1:30:30] up to 900 some hours a year but you
[1:30:33] can't do anything for 180 days um the
[1:30:36] problem is that the the recruitment to
[1:30:39] replace her is going to take some time
[1:30:42] so uh this is kind of a unique
[1:30:44] situations where if a council approves
[1:30:48] by resolution we can bypass that 180
[1:30:52] days waiting period so she could
[1:30:53] continue to work part-time and help with
[1:30:56] the city until her replacement is hired
[1:30:59] does that apply to part would would that
[1:31:03] be as an employee or as an independent
[1:31:04] contractor does it matter it's a
[1:31:06] part-time employee I don't think it can
[1:31:08] be as a contract attorney it's it's uh
[1:31:11] what she told me was that it has to be a
[1:31:13] part-time
[1:31:14] employee uh you're saying she wouldn't
[1:31:17] be able to work with the city as a as an
[1:31:18] independent contractor as a contractor I
[1:31:20] don't think she can I think it has to be
[1:31:21] as a part-time employee Calpers has some
[1:31:24] unique rules on that I could look into
[1:31:26] further but um she basically she told me
[1:31:29] that she will do it as a part-time
[1:31:32] employee the the problem with a contract
[1:31:36] attorney is that they're required to get
[1:31:39] um business license and I can't there
[1:31:41] cannot be any supervision it has to be
[1:31:43] completely
[1:31:46] independent versus versus part-time
[1:31:48] employee Works under the supervision of
[1:31:51] the city of attorney uh okay got it and
[1:31:54] is there let me I ask question is there
[1:31:56] a difference
[1:31:57] in cost to the city hiring somebody as a
[1:32:01] part-time employee versus an independent
[1:32:03] contractor um part-time employee gets
[1:32:06] some uh parttime uh benefits it's not
[1:32:11] equal as uh the full-time employees
[1:32:14] whereas independent contractors get zero
[1:32:18] any type of benefit they get so
[1:32:20] part-time employees get was it's called
[1:32:22] pars but um independent contractors do
[1:32:25] not get any benefits from the
[1:32:27] city is there a
[1:32:30] um difference in liability between one
[1:32:33] versus the other to the city um no not
[1:32:37] necessarily especially when we're
[1:32:38] dealing with someone that's been
[1:32:41] handling her job
[1:32:42] for I think it's she's been working for
[1:32:45] about 17 years with the city well I'm
[1:32:49] just talking about just the different
[1:32:50] types of employment
[1:32:52] no there's no liability in terms of
[1:32:54] liability we have um we're self-insured
[1:32:57] through icma things of that nature I
[1:32:59] don't know if that's what you're
[1:33:01] asking um I'm just just a question I'm
[1:33:03] not leading to anything in particular
[1:33:06] and and then is there
[1:33:11] um
[1:33:14] different
[1:33:16] um I guess rights to employment are
[1:33:18] being able to ret you know being able to
[1:33:21] trer dismiss uh a part-time employee
[1:33:24] versus independent
[1:33:26] contractor no they um I think part-time
[1:33:30] employees may be covered under different
[1:33:32] mou but she she would not as an attorney
[1:33:35] she would not be a become a civil
[1:33:37] servant that's what you're asking it's
[1:33:39] same as at will as any other attorneys
[1:33:42] so the difference between the two is one
[1:33:45] she had to get a a business
[1:33:47] license uh to work as a or contract
[1:33:50] attorney the other hand she wouldn't
[1:33:52] have to get a business license and she
[1:33:53] would also get uh extra a little bit of
[1:33:56] extra money going into a different
[1:33:58] pension um that's correct that is
[1:34:02] correct to the chair so my questions are
[1:34:05] this
[1:34:08] um she just retired in December M she
[1:34:12] knew she was going to be retired in
[1:34:13] December she knew she was going to be
[1:34:15] retiring in December if there was a
[1:34:17] discussion in advance of knowing that
[1:34:18] she was going to retire why didn't we
[1:34:20] start doing the recruitment for a new
[1:34:22] person at that time so as soon as she
[1:34:25] announced her retirement and she gave
[1:34:28] the initial date of end of January we
[1:34:30] started
[1:34:31] recruitment um we did that
[1:34:35] immediately uh but after visiting
[1:34:38] Cal's office she came back and said she
[1:34:41] would have to retire earlier based on
[1:34:43] their recommendation and I don't know
[1:34:45] exactly what the details of yeah what
[1:34:47] was the far advanced notice that she
[1:34:49] provided you in your office that she's
[1:34:51] going to be re
[1:34:52] that must have been close to two
[1:34:55] months two months that she was going to
[1:34:57] be retiring in December and end of
[1:35:00] January yeah so she I think she I don't
[1:35:03] know the exact date but she let me know
[1:35:06] that she was going to retire in December
[1:35:08] yeah I know that it normally takes about
[1:35:11] three months and you have to fall within
[1:35:12] the age range so that you could be able
[1:35:13] to retire but in this case she's worked
[1:35:15] for the city nearly what 20 years about
[1:35:19] 17 years I okay and then at a high
[1:35:22] salary I'm I'm sure retired with great
[1:35:24] benefits I I would be more willing to
[1:35:27] see an employee come on board that's
[1:35:31] probably new to the city um I understand
[1:35:35] the importance however there is an
[1:35:37] advance here notice that should have
[1:35:39] been provided so that we could have
[1:35:40] already been making those recruitments
[1:35:42] and are we recruiting now we are how
[1:35:45] long have you been recruiting um that's
[1:35:48] a question for HR I don't know if she's
[1:35:50] here
[1:35:58] we have been we got noticed December 7th
[1:36:01] I believe that she was going to be
[1:36:03] retiring January uh 26 and then after
[1:36:08] her meeting with calp she came back and
[1:36:10] changed the date to December 30th um her
[1:36:13] meeting um was maybe the second or third
[1:36:16] right before we went on
[1:36:18] vacation and um I am recruiting and the
[1:36:22] recruitment started also right before we
[1:36:25] left so we can't do a 1099 um contract
[1:36:28] employee can't look to another um
[1:36:32] attorney's office for part-time person
[1:36:35] in all the attorneys that you work with
[1:36:37] I'm sure you have someone in there that
[1:36:39] we could find
[1:36:41] part-time um the attorneys that we work
[1:36:43] with on the Civil side are all law firms
[1:36:47] and it would be a lot more costly than
[1:36:50] this yeah we
[1:36:54] can't um we actually were short-handed
[1:36:58] in the criminal prosecution side as well
[1:37:01] as civil right now so I know there's a
[1:37:04] revolving door policy that the council
[1:37:06] did uh several years back which said
[1:37:09] basically says that if an employee um um
[1:37:13] leaves they're not um back until after
[1:37:17] six months right so you're basically
[1:37:19] saying you're waving
[1:37:22] the the six month to provide this one
[1:37:25] individual to come back correct because
[1:37:28] um that that's the rule the city had
[1:37:31] policy that City had is following the uh
[1:37:34] the Cal Pur Rule and the government code
[1:37:36] um this they do make an exception
[1:37:39] through resolution it's because she's
[1:37:42] been handling these multiple cases and
[1:37:45] it's an ongoing case these are all
[1:37:46] pending cases so she's familiar with
[1:37:49] these cases that she's been working on I
[1:37:51] just don't understand why she retired if
[1:37:54] I mean there's obviously communication
[1:37:55] happening in your office because you're
[1:37:57] telling me now there's an urgency and
[1:37:59] that she's the only person that could do
[1:38:00] it but what happened to our cross
[1:38:03] training and people that supposed to
[1:38:04] know uh you know all aspects especially
[1:38:07] for the city attorney's office I would
[1:38:09] be I would rather see a 1099 contract
[1:38:13] employee versus changing the whole
[1:38:15] ordinance over one individual it's it's
[1:38:17] just a resolution it's not a I
[1:38:19] understand but that's what you're asking
[1:38:20] it's for us to make a vote today to um
[1:38:24] provide preference to this one person
[1:38:26] that's correct
[1:38:31] actually I
[1:38:38] move is there a
[1:38:42] second okay there's in a sec a little
[1:38:45] bit
[1:38:47] longer okay the motion dies
[1:38:57] okay bids openings and results next we
[1:39:01] have a bid opening Madam clerk item six
[1:39:04] item six now is the time in place to
[1:39:06] declare publicly receive seal bids for
[1:39:08] Alley Improvement project cdbg funds
[1:39:11] project number
[1:39:13] 24-6 there were two bids received all
[1:39:16] were accompanied by biders bonds the
[1:39:19] prices are as follows Martinez Lance
[1:39:21] scape Company Incorporated
[1:39:23] $398,500
[1:39:24] SQL Contractors Incorporated
[1:39:27] $749,500
[1:39:29] is there a
[1:39:36] motion you're motion to move is there a
[1:39:40] second is there
[1:39:41] a okay please
[1:39:44] vote
[1:39:49] okay the votes are
[1:39:54] the voting reflects mayor and Council
[1:39:56] voting yes okay thank
[1:40:02] you now we have
[1:40:05] ordinances Madam clerk item seven
[1:40:08] ordinance number
[1:40:09] 2247 second reading an ordinance of the
[1:40:12] city council of the city of Hawthorne
[1:40:13] California amending Section 1 17.
[1:40:19] 29-40 development standard of chapters
[1:40:23] 1729 CM mixed commercial classification
[1:40:26] to be in compliance with the housing
[1:40:27] element by removing constraints to
[1:40:29] residential and mixed use developments
[1:40:31] and approving an addendum to the
[1:40:33] Hawthorne General plan environmental
[1:40:34] impact report for adoption um
[1:40:38] discussion sure thank you city manager
[1:40:41] excuse me thank you uh mayor city
[1:40:43] manager and maybe Greg are you
[1:40:46] here uh real quick question um is do we
[1:40:51] currently have any um issued um issued
[1:40:56] prop any properties with issues in the
[1:40:58] department in which um have yet to be
[1:41:00] processed that are either relying on
[1:41:02] this one item uh to be passed or are we
[1:41:06] current or is this something new moving
[1:41:10] forward no this is this is um no there's
[1:41:13] not any applications that are dependent
[1:41:16] upon this this is the second um stage in
[1:41:20] um complying with the housing element if
[1:41:22] you'll recall a couple of months ago
[1:41:24] there was I noticed an error in the
[1:41:26] ordinance that you were passing um and
[1:41:29] we had to pull a part of it out so you
[1:41:32] approved everything but that part this
[1:41:33] is that part completed now and this is
[1:41:36] um this is the second reading so um we
[1:41:40] did have a public hearing the last time
[1:41:41] we
[1:41:42] met okay and you're satisfied with the
[1:41:45] the the verbiage yeah I wrote it okay
[1:41:49] and we didn't miss anything this time
[1:41:54] okay okay thank
[1:41:56] you is there a
[1:42:02] motion oh you had a question I'm sorry
[1:42:04] go
[1:42:05] ahead is there a
[1:42:07] question not is
[1:42:12] there okay is there a motion going on
[1:42:16] with this thing is there a
[1:42:17] motion yes second
[1:42:29] please please
[1:42:32] vote the votes are
[1:42:36] in the vote reflects mayor and Council
[1:42:38] voting
[1:42:40] yes thank you
[1:42:44] Council okay so we now we have the city
[1:42:48] manager's consent calendar Madam Clerk 9
[1:42:51] through
[1:42:52] 11 do we need to read item 8
[1:42:55] again uh items 9 through 11 right um you
[1:43:00] missed number eight didn't you oh did I
[1:43:02] okay item eight please ma'am ordinance
[1:43:05] number 2248 first reading and ordinance
[1:43:07] of the city council of the city of
[1:43:08] Hawthorne California establishing
[1:43:10] regulations and requirements for
[1:43:11] municipal message center Network
[1:43:14] amending the hawthor municipal code
[1:43:16] regarding the same and making a finding
[1:43:18] of exemption from squa in connection
[1:43:20] therewith for
[1:43:24] introduction I move to introduce and I
[1:43:27] just uh FYI on this matter it's going to
[1:43:29] be brought back for second reading for
[1:43:32] adoption we typically do it at the next
[1:43:34] council meeting but this will be
[1:43:35] followed um as a second reading and for
[1:43:38] adoption on the meeting of February 13
[1:43:41] 2024 so we're going to skip a meeting
[1:43:43] for
[1:43:45] adoption mayor
[1:43:49] yes um this thing keeps going off and on
[1:43:52] so we sound like idiots it's okay not um
[1:43:56] here we go again what exactly is a
[1:43:59] municipal message center Network
[1:44:04] please um that's basically a place where
[1:44:08] you could have messaging through
[1:44:10] electronic billboard
[1:44:13] system and this is going to be for our
[1:44:16] um our electric Billboards correct in
[1:44:19] cor collaboration
[1:44:21] with a private
[1:44:23] entity that um that's why we need to uh
[1:44:27] have the second reading when they will
[1:44:30] can be present because they can't make
[1:44:31] this the January 24th
[1:44:36] meeting so they could answer your
[1:44:38] questions at that
[1:44:40] time but we've never had an ordinance
[1:44:43] with regards to regulations and or
[1:44:46] requirements um not necessarily this is
[1:44:49] kind of little different um these are um
[1:44:52] I think when they're here they could
[1:44:53] present more information to you but it's
[1:44:56] in collaboration with the city it's the
[1:44:59] same company that built um electronic
[1:45:02] Billboards in downtown Los Angeles
[1:45:05] around right on the 110 near the 10
[1:45:07] freeway and on in for the city of
[1:45:13] Englewood okay I'll I'll have I'll do an
[1:45:15] outside um defer with you all thank you
[1:45:25] okay where we
[1:45:27] at sorry about that um next we have yeah
[1:45:31] there's just
[1:45:32] we I did done
[1:45:36] yeah uh mam clerk can you please recite
[1:45:40] the city manager's consent calendar we
[1:45:42] have items 9 through 11 item nine
[1:45:44] progress payment number two in the
[1:45:45] amount of
[1:45:49] $267,600 due to gerbon Incorporated of
[1:45:53] Balwin Park California for sewer and
[1:45:54] Maine miscellaneous storm drain
[1:45:56] Improvement project
[1:45:58] 20123 project number 23- 04 item 10
[1:46:02] annexation of unincorp unincorporated
[1:46:04] regions within Hawthorne Region 2 item
[1:46:08] 11 Food Services agreement between the
[1:46:10] city of Hawthorne and the County of Los
[1:46:12] Angeles to provide prepared meals to
[1:46:14] feed jail inmates for the Hawthorne
[1:46:16] Police Department Mr Mayor that
[1:46:18] concludes the city manager's consent
[1:46:19] calendar
[1:46:24] I move I'm trying to keep this thing up
[1:46:29] second there's dis we'd like
[1:46:37] dis discussion for 10 I want discussion
[1:46:42] 10 and
[1:46:45] 11 I feel bad for pressing this button
[1:46:47] because it almost seems like you think
[1:46:49] I'm doing it to you I'm just trying to
[1:46:50] say something
[1:46:52] okay yeah so I don't know
[1:46:57] so I had only heard a discussion for 10
[1:47:02] 11 I
[1:47:05] make 10 and 11 for the
[1:47:08] chair I make a motion on
[1:47:12] nine
[1:47:15] second please
[1:47:19] vote the votes are
[1:47:25] in the voting reflects mayor and Council
[1:47:28] voting
[1:47:29] yes thank you
[1:47:33] Council discussion on
[1:47:36] 10 can you hear
[1:47:39] me city manager uh I'd like to ask you
[1:47:43] for 10 um I think this is a great idea
[1:47:46] that we're finally doing this but I
[1:47:49] wanted to know how many
[1:47:51] people um will that include when we do
[1:47:54] this okay no problem that information I
[1:47:57] don't have yet this is just approval for
[1:47:59] the city manager this is under my
[1:48:01] approval Authority actually I brought it
[1:48:03] to council for transparency uh what I'm
[1:48:06] asking for permission is to file the
[1:48:07] paperwork with the county to start
[1:48:09] negotiations with the county regarding
[1:48:11] this area what I intend to do once we
[1:48:13] start negotiations is have a surveyor go
[1:48:15] out in the area and calculate the impact
[1:48:19] that it would have to the city as far as
[1:48:21] residents Public Safety and those items
[1:48:23] so this is very early in the stage this
[1:48:25] area too if you look at your map and
[1:48:27] your agenda is 76 anre Acres which
[1:48:31] allows us to move forward without public
[1:48:34] Community input from that area it's the
[1:48:36] one of the only areas within the spears
[1:48:38] that we can do this to I think this
[1:48:40] would set us up to set a trend for other
[1:48:43] Incorporated areas to add to the city so
[1:48:45] this is very early and I would like to
[1:48:47] come back within 90 days to provide that
[1:48:48] information after I obtain a surveyor to
[1:48:52] look into the
[1:48:55] area
[1:48:57] uh just a real quick comment on my
[1:49:02] end okay I
[1:49:04] just uh that area right there is uh
[1:49:07] single family residences majority is
[1:49:09] it's between khaw 132nd to
[1:49:12] 135th I think it is and it's in the
[1:49:14] midst with of uh Monita Gardens which we
[1:49:17] know is is not single family residence
[1:49:19] is high density a very high
[1:49:22] concentration of high density there so I
[1:49:25] hope that the council keeps in mind the
[1:49:28] situation and that we try to preserve
[1:49:30] that uh element there as much as
[1:49:33] possible that's all and I'm willing to
[1:49:34] support this
[1:49:36] absolutely to the chair thank you um
[1:49:39] with regards to item number 10 there's
[1:49:40] an estimated Financial impact of 23,000
[1:49:43] what is that incompass uh that's just a
[1:49:45] fing fee so once we negotiate with the
[1:49:48] county uh with the city attorney's
[1:49:49] office on what it would cost or the loss
[1:49:52] of Revenue that the county would lose we
[1:49:54] would negotiate a price bring it back to
[1:49:55] council to move forward with an
[1:49:57] annexation of this area have we done a
[1:50:00] full Financial um feasibility study on
[1:50:05] uh taking anex an annexation such as
[1:50:07] this to include Services programs and
[1:50:10] those that are going to be needed to the
[1:50:11] residents that reside in that area no
[1:50:12] that's the next step that I would like
[1:50:14] to move forward with okay and you're
[1:50:15] working with finance department on that
[1:50:17] yes I will okay okay okay I
[1:50:22] move second is this only for item 10 are
[1:50:26] we going to discuss 11 first and vote
[1:50:27] both 10 please vote on 10 please please
[1:50:30] vote on
[1:50:38] 10 the votes are
[1:50:45] in the voting reflects mayor and Council
[1:50:48] voting yes discussion
[1:50:54] on discussion on
[1:50:57] 11 thank you mayor um just a real quick
[1:51:01] question because I I I I continuously
[1:51:03] see County of Los Angeles County of Los
[1:51:05] Angeles always providing uh for our
[1:51:08] jails and whatnot is there another
[1:51:10] entity that we could maybe perhaps look
[1:51:13] into that could provide lunches to those
[1:51:15] that are um inmates in our haam Police
[1:51:18] Department I mean is there has there
[1:51:20] been a research of potential um
[1:51:23] commissaries or those alike that can
[1:51:25] provide a lunch
[1:51:27] um weever done that uh council member
[1:51:30] there are other companies that are
[1:51:31] private entities that could potentially
[1:51:33] provide the same service but for
[1:51:35] purposes of uh continuity uh getting
[1:51:40] those meals from the County of Los
[1:51:42] Angeles satisfies a lot of potential
[1:51:45] concerns for individual dietary
[1:51:47] restrictions that our inmate population
[1:51:49] might
[1:51:51] experience so that's a that's a way for
[1:51:53] me to say like if we um have somebody
[1:51:56] that is temporarily in custody at the
[1:51:58] Hawthorne Police Department jail who has
[1:52:00] a religious belief that has dietary
[1:52:02] restrictions the County of Los Angeles
[1:52:04] has pretty much every single one of
[1:52:05] those categories taken care of and we
[1:52:07] can just tell them that we need a
[1:52:08] specified meal for a specified period of
[1:52:14] days so there really isn't a choice it's
[1:52:16] like we have to use them I I think that
[1:52:19] this is by by far going to be the most
[1:52:21] uh costeffective choice and the most
[1:52:23] convenient for our city
[1:52:26] staff okay I'm sure that uh you know we
[1:52:29] could we could potentially get um those
[1:52:32] same types of dietary restrictions taken
[1:52:34] into by going to uh a public restaurant
[1:52:37] here in the city of Hawthorne but it is
[1:52:38] certainly going to be at a more
[1:52:39] expensive cost and it will require more
[1:52:41] extra staff hours to try and take care
[1:52:44] of that okay thank you
[1:52:48] Chief anyone else
[1:52:54] I make a
[1:52:56] motion
[1:53:01] second please
[1:53:03] vote just right
[1:53:06] now please vote
[1:53:09] case the votes are
[1:53:12] in the voting reflects mayor and Council
[1:53:14] voting yes okay Jesus what do we have
[1:53:18] here
[1:53:25] all right folks um we really thank you
[1:53:27] guys for being here today uh as you can
[1:53:31] see we have uh this wonderful
[1:53:33] technological tool just needs a little
[1:53:35] bit of uh uh setting up further setting
[1:53:39] up but we were able to make it through
[1:53:41] the
[1:53:43] meeting uh as best
[1:53:46] as possible without uh
[1:53:50] too many hiccups so I think we did good
[1:53:52] thanks Council so this is the
[1:53:55] opportunity for elected officials to
[1:53:58] make uh to give a report we'll start off
[1:54:01] with our city
[1:54:05] treasure
[1:54:08] my good evening everyone happy New Year
[1:54:11] again glad to see you all again glad to
[1:54:14] be back
[1:54:17] um let's see um last last week I don't
[1:54:20] know if any of you heard that uh
[1:54:22] congresswoman Maxine Waters did a
[1:54:24] telephone Town Hall last week um it was
[1:54:28] very informative um she was talked about
[1:54:31] uh upcoming
[1:54:33] legislation and things that she
[1:54:35] spearheading this up and coming year uh
[1:54:38] she spoke on student loan forgiveness
[1:54:41] debate of course and issues with for
[1:54:43] propit
[1:54:44] schools
[1:54:46] um Alan forgiveness um issues with with
[1:54:49] the government so overall uh it was very
[1:54:53] informative um and to hear about some of
[1:54:56] the upcoming legislation that's coming
[1:54:58] up this year that she Speare
[1:55:00] heading um we have three CDs rolling
[1:55:03] over into some great rats this month uh
[1:55:06] seven rolling over later in the
[1:55:09] year um I would like to say I look
[1:55:12] forward to working with Council and the
[1:55:14] city staff this year and the many great
[1:55:17] things that Hawthorne um um has going on
[1:55:21] in the upcoming year
[1:55:23] um please see me afterwards Miss deor
[1:55:27] regarding your uh autism organization
[1:55:31] I'd love to work with you okay thank
[1:55:39] you city
[1:55:41] clerk I want to thank everyone for
[1:55:43] coming out tonight and wish everyone a
[1:55:45] Happy New Year um I also was moved by
[1:55:48] the uh talk about autism I I don't think
[1:55:51] there are enough like resources to help
[1:55:53] people who are dealing with children
[1:55:55] with autism and even some of the teens
[1:55:57] and adults who have autism um so I would
[1:56:00] like to offer any help that I can from
[1:56:02] the clerk's office as
[1:56:09] well councilwoman Katrina Manning
[1:56:18] please
[1:56:20] good evening everyone happy New Year um
[1:56:23] I too um would like to participate and
[1:56:28] uh your autism uh foundation and uh I
[1:56:32] actually have a check for you tonight so
[1:56:35] um see me afterwards as well um I think
[1:56:38] it's a great program and um I've been a
[1:56:42] part of um autism other programs uh
[1:56:46] called special needs Network and they
[1:56:48] have a
[1:56:50] new facility um state of the Ark um for
[1:56:54] folks out there that have kids that have
[1:56:57] um um kids with autism um but I look
[1:57:01] forward to um celebrating and
[1:57:05] participating and walking um with your
[1:57:09] organization also I'd like to say um I
[1:57:13] appreciate the Dodgers um
[1:57:17] presentation um I think is so important
[1:57:19] and when he mentioned that he was uh the
[1:57:22] oldest of five kids and that he had to
[1:57:25] volunteer in order to be able to
[1:57:28] participate I just think about with Co
[1:57:31] what it's done to a lot of our folks so
[1:57:34] being able to support that type of
[1:57:37] program and see our kids um be able to
[1:57:41] play and it be affordable I'm really on
[1:57:44] board with that and I think they do uh
[1:57:47] really great things so I really look
[1:57:48] forward um to us um having that Dodger
[1:57:53] day here in the city of
[1:57:55] hathorne um also I'd like to
[1:57:58] say I got a email from uh supervisor
[1:58:02] Holly Mitchell's office uh urging the
[1:58:06] city of
[1:58:07] hethor um landlords to participate in
[1:58:12] the rent relief program um I know that
[1:58:16] again Co had an effect on a lot of folk
[1:58:21] um and this program uh will assist the
[1:58:26] the the landlords who um suffered and
[1:58:30] were unable to uh receive payment for
[1:58:34] rent so going to supervisor Mitchell
[1:58:38] website um and sign up for their rent
[1:58:42] relief program the deadline to sign up
[1:58:45] for that is January the 12th so that
[1:58:48] date is fastly approaching so you want
[1:58:50] to make sure uh that you sign up and and
[1:58:54] uh apply for those funds that are
[1:58:57] available the other thing that I'd like
[1:58:59] to talk
[1:59:01] about um is the business expo we are
[1:59:06] having a business expo uh March 14th
[1:59:11] 2024 uh this will be my first year um
[1:59:14] hosting uh this business expo and I'm
[1:59:18] really excited and I can't wait and so
[1:59:21] if you have a business please make sure
[1:59:23] that you go to our City website and sign
[1:59:27] up to sponsor or be exhibitor um at
[1:59:32] our uh business
[1:59:34] expo also um last night I had an
[1:59:39] opportunity to attend the business
[1:59:43] connect uh which I encourage businesses
[1:59:46] to go on to our website to attend um our
[1:59:49] business connect but it was extremely
[1:59:52] informative um Greg from our planning
[1:59:55] department gave a
[1:59:56] presentation and when I tell you I
[1:59:59] learned so much within that time I was
[2:00:02] extremely extremely um felt like a kid a
[2:00:09] 5-year-old kid sponging everything and I
[2:00:12] learned so much from him and it prompt
[2:00:15] me to think about some of the things
[2:00:18] that
[2:00:20] we haven't done and so I would encourage
[2:00:24] or I'm giving a directive to the city
[2:00:28] manager
[2:00:30] to um
[2:00:34] create and a a a process to update our
[2:00:39] ordinances that focuses on our priority
[2:00:43] commercial
[2:00:44] districts to address our vacant
[2:00:47] storefronts um some of the things that
[2:00:50] he talked about in his
[2:00:52] presentation um in 30 days if you could
[2:00:54] come up with a plan of action and
[2:00:57] identify those priority
[2:01:00] areas um to update our zoning
[2:01:03] codes the second thing that I want to
[2:01:06] talk about is the budget um as I was
[2:01:10] going through budgets of other
[2:01:14] cities um and comparing it to ours one
[2:01:17] of the things that I noticed is that we
[2:01:19] didn't have a budget message page in our
[2:01:23] budget and so I am asking moving forward
[2:01:28] if we can include a budget page message
[2:01:32] in our budget so that it
[2:01:36] explains
[2:01:38] the condition of our
[2:01:42] city and that's it thank
[2:01:47] you thank you councilwoman
[2:01:50] councilman uh David Patterson please sir
[2:01:53] thank you Mr Mayor appreciate it first
[2:01:55] want to say happy New Year it's good to
[2:01:57] see everybody this year um and good to
[2:02:01] see everybody just come to participate
[2:02:03] in this process uh it's always great to
[2:02:06] have your feedback uh appreciate
[2:02:07] everybody who came and spoke up uh and
[2:02:10] just want to thank uh staff and our
[2:02:12] Police Department um for to all your
[2:02:15] hard work and and your contribution to
[2:02:17] our city uh Miss Orman I just want to
[2:02:20] ask if you can reach out to me maybe
[2:02:22] send me an email of specifically your
[2:02:25] ask in terms of that particular Bill uh
[2:02:27] how I can support
[2:02:30] um Chief did I see you with a
[2:02:33] mustache Chief got a mustache is that is
[2:02:36] that
[2:02:38] allow Mo it's not member
[2:02:42] anymore we got uh anyways guess you know
[2:02:46] make some criminals laugh is that what
[2:02:48] it is
[2:02:49] is
[2:02:52] um uh few things though um trying to be
[2:02:57] serious Mr city
[2:03:01] manager um could you provide a report of
[2:03:05] the mixtur development that's happening
[2:03:08] in cover City
[2:03:10] specifically um and you include any
[2:03:12] other neighboring cities if you like and
[2:03:14] the feasibility of um that happening on
[2:03:17] Hawthorne um maybe specifically focusing
[2:03:20] on hathorne Boulevard or CAW Boulevard I
[2:03:22] don't know if everybody's seen in city
[2:03:24] of C City and their main boulevards they
[2:03:27] are doing a lot of mixed use development
[2:03:30] in their residential areas they keep it
[2:03:32] very residential but on the main th the
[2:03:35] thorough fars boulevards they're they're
[2:03:39] constructing a lot of new development a
[2:03:41] lot of new mixu development so I'm just
[2:03:43] curious to see if something like that
[2:03:44] would make sense in the city of
[2:03:46] Hawthorne um I would also like to recom
[2:03:48] commend I don't know if we should put
[2:03:50] this on a discussion uh action item or
[2:03:53] whatever is most appropriate for the
[2:03:55] council to discuss but um I would like
[2:03:58] to have our
[2:04:00] commissioners uh attend the commissioner
[2:04:02] AC academy uh in Long Beach March 6
[2:04:05] through the 8th I think it's put
[2:04:07] together by the California League of
[2:04:09] cities and uh I think that might be
[2:04:12] something that are our new Commissioners
[2:04:14] could benefit from and really being able
[2:04:15] to understand the rle in and um you know
[2:04:19] do a good job in our
[2:04:20] city uh Mr city manager I also like to
[2:04:25] ask for some followup on um director of
[2:04:30] gay I gave some time last year about
[2:04:32] ping the community uh about a potential
[2:04:35] new Charter and
[2:04:38] what um what the community may be
[2:04:41] interested in seeing and and if you can
[2:04:43] kind of report back as to kind of um you
[2:04:46] know how that research is gone and help
[2:04:48] give us some guides us to what might
[2:04:49] make sense to go to do next and
[2:04:54] lastly if we can bring back to I don't
[2:04:58] know if the right term is going to be an
[2:05:00] ordinance um to um adjust the city
[2:05:05] council's compensation consistent with
[2:05:08] the with Cola uh consistent with s SP
[2:05:12] 329 which is something that the governor
[2:05:15] passed
[2:05:16] recently um state wide so that elected
[2:05:20] officials can um have their compensation
[2:05:25] keep up with inflation also uh a
[2:05:28] ordinance that might also do the same
[2:05:31] thing for the treasurer and the clerk as
[2:05:34] well and um outside of laughing at the
[2:05:39] chief's
[2:05:41] mustache I think that's it thanks a
[2:05:46] lot thank you council member uh mayor
[2:05:50] protm thank you I hope that this stays
[2:05:53] on the mic that is um just want to thank
[2:05:56] Jerry again and recken parks and the
[2:06:00] community um development uh I say
[2:06:02] community because it's it's it's all
[2:06:04] combined together when it comes to these
[2:06:06] types of programs and services that
[2:06:08] we're bringing to the Hawthorne
[2:06:09] residents thank you so much um for uh
[2:06:12] all that you're doing to bring um
[2:06:14] services to our families here in
[2:06:16] Hawthorne and your Partnerships not only
[2:06:18] with the Dodgers but others alike and uh
[2:06:21] we'll continue to Champion uh to assure
[2:06:24] that uh we're partnering and receiving
[2:06:27] funding to do so so thank you for that
[2:06:32] um I want to talk a little bit about um
[2:06:35] April being autism uh month if we could
[2:06:38] include that city manager in a
[2:06:41] resolution that we declare April the
[2:06:44] month of autism and
[2:06:47] awareness um thank you Cella youth for
[2:06:50] your reporting out on services and what
[2:06:53] you're doing to our veterans commission
[2:06:56] thank you for reporting
[2:06:58] out
[2:07:03] um for the business
[2:07:05] expo thank you for your reporting
[2:07:09] out for legislation whether state
[2:07:12] federal otherwise we'll look into that
[2:07:15] I'd like to know more about it myself
[2:07:17] and what exactly that means
[2:07:19] for our
[2:07:21] veterans
[2:07:23] um I have a real concern with regards to
[2:07:28] California Edison and their presentation
[2:07:32] today
[2:07:36] um with regards to history here in the
[2:07:38] city of Hawthorne if you remember a few
[2:07:40] years ago we became an aggregate city
[2:07:43] which basically said that we want to be
[2:07:46] able to uh procr energy energy
[2:07:49] electricity for our residents here in
[2:07:51] Hawthorne at a lower cost and when we
[2:07:53] did that we became an aggregate in
[2:07:55] partnership with the County of Los
[2:07:57] Angeles where there's roughly 33 to
[2:07:59] 35 uh cities that are also partners with
[2:08:02] this with the county uh procur procuring
[2:08:05] lower energy whether it's 1% 2% 3% we're
[2:08:09] still um you know in Partnership to
[2:08:12] assure the same which is at lower cost
[2:08:15] uh energy through procument um
[2:08:19] the reason we did that is because many
[2:08:22] residents and many communities and
[2:08:24] cities um know that California Edison uh
[2:08:29] other uh
[2:08:31] PGE uh San Diego GE all these other
[2:08:34] utilities are
[2:08:36] investor um
[2:08:38] owned and all these utilities um have
[2:08:43] investors that are paid
[2:08:46] um basically uh
[2:08:50] we pay them right we pay those uh
[2:08:53] investors and um we do this on a regular
[2:08:57] basis and unlike California uh excuse me
[2:09:02] unlike uh clean power Alliance it's a
[2:09:04] nonprofit organization it's a nonprofit
[2:09:07] organization it's not investor to own
[2:09:10] and it's a nonprofit organization that
[2:09:11] provides back its revenues it's
[2:09:14] generating revenues or whatnot back to
[2:09:16] the community whether it be at a lower
[2:09:18] rate whether it be Investments whether
[2:09:20] it be the same uh lower costs for those
[2:09:23] that have a need special needs uh
[2:09:25] seniors Etc and while the time that I
[2:09:28] sat on the board um I was charged was
[2:09:31] with looking at how uh we could benefit
[2:09:34] the community Through additional
[2:09:36] Investments and more importantly uh
[2:09:38] assuring that the community of Hawthorne
[2:09:40] was procuring energy at a lower cost so
[2:09:43] having said that um it sounds like we
[2:09:47] are now going to to be uh leveraged an
[2:09:50] additional uh charge I know tonight they
[2:09:53] were saying $50 $51 I don't remember
[2:09:56] exactly but I'm reading and it's being
[2:09:58] proposed uh Southern California um
[2:10:02] provide a $49 charge so already there's
[2:10:05] you know discrepancies whether it's 49
[2:10:08] whether it's 50 or 51 so my whole effort
[2:10:12] is basically to assure the community the
[2:10:15] city the residents of Hawthorne that pay
[2:10:17] utilities and everything's uh very high
[2:10:20] these days including gas um that we know
[2:10:24] exactly what's happening here and we
[2:10:26] truly understand um where our money is
[2:10:30] going in spite of how they might say
[2:10:33] that we will pay less if we use less
[2:10:37] well again I don't use any and I'm
[2:10:40] hardly home because I'm work most of the
[2:10:42] time and I don't turn anything on at
[2:10:44] night okay so I'm still having to pay a
[2:10:48] big a big
[2:10:49] bill um I'm concerned because it's being
[2:10:53] proposed and the puc it will pretty much
[2:10:58] have a choice to be made come
[2:11:01] July so I had made a uh proposal to the
[2:11:05] council back in December or November if
[2:11:07] I remember correctly just basically
[2:11:09] sending a letter saying that the city of
[2:11:11] Hawthorne is not in agreement with an
[2:11:14] additional
[2:11:16] charge and that's still my stance but I
[2:11:19] need the community's help to understand
[2:11:21] that come July you can't be coming here
[2:11:24] or telling us later that this is not
[2:11:27] fair and this is something that you
[2:11:28] didn't want you need to start speaking
[2:11:29] up
[2:11:31] now so having said that how can you do
[2:11:33] that you have to be able to go to
[2:11:36] Southern California Edison uh website uh
[2:11:39] the Pu its proposal uh see what is
[2:11:42] exactly being proposed to the residents
[2:11:45] and um you know make your stance
[2:11:50] um they might paint a pretty picture and
[2:11:52] say basically you're really not going to
[2:11:54] get um hit too hard but there's two
[2:11:56] costs and they said that there's an
[2:11:59] infrastructure cost and then there's a
[2:12:01] utility cost which is your kilowatts
[2:12:03] that you're using so there is two
[2:12:05] cost so when they said that and they
[2:12:08] verified that what do you think's going
[2:12:10] to come next there's going to be an
[2:12:12] additional cost added for
[2:12:15] infrastructure that's what's going to
[2:12:17] come next
[2:12:18] because what they're trying to do is now
[2:12:20] say basically that all the pose all the
[2:12:23] the lines everything that they have to
[2:12:25] keep up with it's become uh a little bit
[2:12:28] too much and you've heard about the wild
[2:12:30] fire the fires happening up in the
[2:12:31] mountains infrastructure and whatnot
[2:12:33] being uh
[2:12:35] destroyed that comes back to us the rate
[2:12:38] payer to have to build that back up that
[2:12:41] infrastructure it's not going to come
[2:12:42] from the
[2:12:43] investors they're going to want to be
[2:12:45] paid
[2:12:46] back so I say that to say this again
[2:12:50] please join in reading and and and
[2:12:53] researching and looking up more
[2:12:55] information on how the proposals to the
[2:12:57] Pu will ultimately affect you the pay
[2:13:01] rate the the residents of
[2:13:03] Hawthorne and um you know go a little
[2:13:06] step further look into uh SoCal
[2:13:10] Gas because it's always a trickling
[2:13:13] effect um but I will continue to
[2:13:16] Champion to assure that um you know
[2:13:20] every um information that's brought here
[2:13:22] to us is correct and if we have
[2:13:25] additional information or requests for
[2:13:27] for additional information that that be
[2:13:29] brought to us and I don't see a problem
[2:13:32] with bringing clean power Alliance to us
[2:13:34] also um ask um the executive director to
[2:13:38] to assist us and you know they they they
[2:13:40] might be able to proiv provide a little
[2:13:42] bit more information as well but it's
[2:13:45] all all on the internet you could pull
[2:13:47] it up at any given given time what I'm
[2:13:49] reading is uh California revamps
[2:13:51] electricity rates based on income how
[2:13:53] are you going to be verified your
[2:13:55] income there's going to be personal
[2:13:57] information that's going to be asked of
[2:13:58] you how else are they verifying what you
[2:14:02] make to give you that charge there's
[2:14:04] personal information that's going to be
[2:14:06] gathered it's not just you know like he
[2:14:08] said you know no we don't need that yes
[2:14:11] they're going to need that he said that
[2:14:13] basically that care doesn't provide that
[2:14:16] no care provides that too if you're
[2:14:18] looking to uh get assistance for paying
[2:14:20] your utility bill you fill out an
[2:14:22] application for care you provide your
[2:14:24] income you provide where you're
[2:14:26] receiving that income from and whether
[2:14:28] it's Social Security whether it's
[2:14:29] Medicare medical whether it's any other
[2:14:31] source of income and then they base your
[2:14:34] rate based off of your personal
[2:14:36] information that you completed on an
[2:14:38] application so if they're saying that no
[2:14:41] they don't need to know what your annual
[2:14:43] income is that's not true they need to
[2:14:46] know how much you're making so they
[2:14:47] could charge you based off of your
[2:14:49] income again um please please do all you
[2:14:54] can to learn more and to hear hear more
[2:14:56] and ask for more
[2:14:58] information um I want to make mention
[2:15:00] the landlord walk-in uh tenant Clinic uh
[2:15:03] that's on Monday February 5th free
[2:15:05] Consulting here from 2 to 4 o'clock at
[2:15:07] Hawthorne City Hall uh LA County also
[2:15:10] has a landlord application that is now
[2:15:12] open and it's for landlords landlords
[2:15:17] not tenants landlords so if you own
[2:15:19] property and need assistance look into
[2:15:21] LA County rent relief program for
[2:15:24] landlords um thank you to our wrecken
[2:15:27] Parks again and thank you to Public
[2:15:29] Works there's a lot of Christmas trees
[2:15:30] out there there's a lot of debris and
[2:15:32] things that I know uh is being picked up
[2:15:34] and I thank you for your hard work uh to
[2:15:36] assure our streets uh look clean with
[2:15:39] regards to dumping mattresses and
[2:15:41] anything else I really appreciate that
[2:15:45] um we have our Hawthorne wck and Park
[2:15:47] Foundation golf tournament coming up
[2:15:49] Monday March 18th at riondo thank you so
[2:15:52] much for the information there's great
[2:15:54] Partnerships in that anyone interested
[2:15:56] in that I'm sure we'll have literature
[2:15:57] out in the lobby
[2:16:00] um what else I really love our spring uh
[2:16:05] Hawthorne guide Community Services
[2:16:07] winter spring uh magazine uh I really
[2:16:10] like everything that's in there and
[2:16:12] again thank you uh to all that provided
[2:16:15] a Christmas card a greeting uh who
[2:16:17] reached out to me through text email uh
[2:16:20] just wishing me a Merry Christmas a
[2:16:22] happy New Year uh the same to you and
[2:16:24] thank you for um the Partnerships and
[2:16:27] all that we're doing um appreciate every
[2:16:30] Department every city department head
[2:16:32] and um looking forward to building out
[2:16:34] Hawthorne and seeing what that looks
[2:16:36] like uh through a new Civic Center so
[2:16:38] thank
[2:16:41] you thank you is everybody good
[2:16:45] okay thank you ma'am when once more for
[2:16:48] your efforts with the autism I know that
[2:16:50] there's uh there's people that are close
[2:16:52] to me and people that I've seen uh you
[2:16:55] know that are affected by this with
[2:16:58] their families and such so thank you for
[2:17:01] stepping up to be able to address it
[2:17:04] it's a very important issue that we need
[2:17:07] to figure out solve or find a cure if
[2:17:10] Poss if there is one right so thank
[2:17:15] you um great idea for the veterans uh
[2:17:18] banners I'm really excited about it I
[2:17:22] already started filling out one for my
[2:17:24] dad who uh served uh in the army during
[2:17:27] the Vietnam war so uh I'm signing him up
[2:17:32] um and I I believe the mayor protm
[2:17:35] possibly has uh one person for sure and
[2:17:37] possibly a second person that she might
[2:17:39] be able to sign up uh and uh Council
[2:17:43] Manning I think you mentioned that your
[2:17:45] husband is a veteran so it's uh so let's
[2:17:49] uh let's start filling these out let's
[2:17:51] start uh putting them up submitting them
[2:17:55] um I do have a really cool picture of my
[2:17:57] dad and his uh dress uniforms when he
[2:18:00] was at where was he at uh Fort Sam
[2:18:02] Houston for a little bit and uh and up
[2:18:06] in Wake what was the other location
[2:18:08] second Army division right so I'm
[2:18:11] excited but um a piece of feedback and
[2:18:14] uh I really hope that you guys take uh
[2:18:16] take uh this uh uh very importantly is
[2:18:20] that if you put these banners up on
[2:18:22] Hawthorne Boulevard North of elsag gundo
[2:18:26] the poles are too widespread to the left
[2:18:29] to the left on the other side to the
[2:18:31] right it's it's it's not going to be
[2:18:33] very it's not going to be Poss and and
[2:18:35] the traffic runs faster so you're not
[2:18:38] going to be able to see these you know
[2:18:40] the uh the banners and what they say
[2:18:42] when you're speed uh moving along
[2:18:45] quickly and when when you look to the
[2:18:48] right look to the left these Banners are
[2:18:49] going to be smaller than you anticipated
[2:18:53] we need to stay off of anything north of
[2:18:55] uh hawthor Boulevard uh uh Elsa Gunda
[2:18:57] Boulevard let's try to focus on keeping
[2:19:00] this um south of Elsa between Elsa gundo
[2:19:03] on haor Boulevard between Elsa gundo
[2:19:06] Boulevard and Rose CR Avenue that way
[2:19:09] you know traffic runs slower the poles
[2:19:11] are closer to the people who are driving
[2:19:14] you can easily look up without
[2:19:16] distraction and get to you know see your
[2:19:18] loved ones isn't that what we want so
[2:19:21] let's just try let's try to do that this
[2:19:24] you know
[2:19:25] okay thank you for your
[2:19:30] efforts
[2:19:32] um again with the issue with the
[2:19:34] Southern California Edison we did the
[2:19:37] calculations up here just remember they
[2:19:40] said that the uh current rate is is what
[2:19:43] it is there's a 25 there's going to be a
[2:19:45] proposed 25% de decrease but a f fixed
[2:19:50] $50 cost so with that new change you
[2:19:54] would have to uh your bill would have
[2:19:57] your current bill that you spend you
[2:19:59] guys know what you spend I spend a 100
[2:20:01] bucks um a lot of you 150 maybe at the
[2:20:05] you know higher okay well maybe even if
[2:20:08] it's 200 but anybody in the $100 AG 150
[2:20:12] Etc
[2:20:14] okay if you you it would need to be $200
[2:20:19] or more to even
[2:20:20] out okay for you to experience a benefit
[2:20:24] and there are a lot of people here who
[2:20:26] like are in in apartments rent uh small
[2:20:29] apartments well condos that don't
[2:20:31] require energy like the homes that you
[2:20:33] might live in so this really it's it's
[2:20:36] kind of a what wolf and sheep's
[2:20:40] clothing this is not what you think it
[2:20:42] is a majority of Hawthorne residents are
[2:20:44] going to be impacted negatively by this
[2:20:46] with the uh uh higher cost it's very
[2:20:49] clear the math we did the math council
[2:20:51] member Patterson and myself we did it we
[2:20:53] did it really quickly up here and that's
[2:20:54] what it ended up so be uh be aware of
[2:20:58] that and uh be cautious and uh speak up
[2:21:02] if you don't like it if you want to pay
[2:21:04] more that's up to you but I think uh the
[2:21:05] residents don't want to pay more for
[2:21:07] this
[2:21:08] stuff okay thank
[2:21:12] you
[2:21:16] uh of of great concern to me and uh I
[2:21:20] this is going to be a formal directive
[2:21:22] and we need to see something uh a
[2:21:24] meeting of a type I'm suggesting a brown
[2:21:28] act type
[2:21:30] meeting when you're driving on the
[2:21:32] freeway haven't you seen people riding
[2:21:34] their bicycles along the uh the the
[2:21:37] on-ramps
[2:21:38] exits pushing
[2:21:41] carts uh you know just uh walking across
[2:21:44] while you're exiting it's walking on the
[2:21:48] freeway guys on the
[2:21:51] freeway I almost hit somebody
[2:21:55] today okay let me press this button
[2:21:58] again on the 105 you know I'm I'm sorry
[2:22:01] if it's going to take a little bit
[2:22:02] longer to make my points but well the
[2:22:04] point is that should not be
[2:22:06] allowed why are these people not getting
[2:22:09] sighted why are they allowed to just
[2:22:10] walk around it's a matter of time before
[2:22:13] somebody might see hit
[2:22:16] them if you drive along the freeway you
[2:22:19] have little tents houses in the in the
[2:22:23] bush area people just made their like
[2:22:25] little homes right there when I come
[2:22:28] down the 710 and make go on the on wrap
[2:22:31] at the
[2:22:32] 105 it's there's like a little home
[2:22:34] that's right like from here to there
[2:22:37] what if there's somebody in there and
[2:22:38] they they're sleeping and they just kind
[2:22:40] of roll down and run into my path is it
[2:22:43] going to be my fault is it going to be
[2:22:44] her fault your fault why is that allowed
[2:22:47] why is the state of California that runs
[2:22:49] calr the state of California Senator
[2:22:52] Steve Bradford uh assembly member Tina
[2:22:55] McKinna who are our local
[2:22:56] representatives and all the other state
[2:22:58] officials who are responsible for calr
[2:23:01] as an agency they can tell them what to
[2:23:02] do we need to invoke you know our
[2:23:05] relationships with them to tell them
[2:23:07] that this cannot be allowed but the
[2:23:09] thing is the problem though is with it
[2:23:11] happens along the 105 you're right mayor
[2:23:13] PM why it was poorly it was not
[2:23:16] anticipated that we would have a
[2:23:17] homeless situation unhoused situation
[2:23:21] where people would be setting up shop
[2:23:22] right there and how many times you guys
[2:23:25] heard me that I said these bushes need
[2:23:27] to be trimmed or eliminated because
[2:23:29] there's people that are making their
[2:23:30] homes they're hiding out in there and
[2:23:32] setting up little tents and there's
[2:23:35] there's this one guy that has a Mexican
[2:23:37] flag right there an American flag on on
[2:23:39] the side and outside his little home
[2:23:42] coming down to 105 if you haven't
[2:23:44] noticed so I mean they could do you
[2:23:46] could do whatever you want right right
[2:23:47] post whatever you want but um so that
[2:23:51] cannot be allowed we need to take that
[2:23:54] uh get the bull by the horns and we need
[2:23:57] to have a meeting with our state
[2:23:58] officials I know they have
[2:23:59] Representatives the ladies who attend
[2:24:01] but we just got to have more than that
[2:24:02] man they come they give us like lip
[2:24:05] service oh yeah well we'll talk to the
[2:24:07] member and the senator and all this no
[2:24:09] we need to we need to uh figure out what
[2:24:13] we want to say and then have a meeting
[2:24:15] where we have our state represent res
[2:24:17] atives here who run calr because we need
[2:24:20] to make a have a major o overhaul
[2:24:23] strategy on how to deal with this so I'm
[2:24:26] proposing that we have so that
[2:24:28] everybody's in that meeting on Council
[2:24:31] uh a uh Brown act type of brown act
[2:24:34] meeting where we're here at a council
[2:24:35] meeting at a special meeting that deals
[2:24:37] with this where we're engaging with our
[2:24:39] state
[2:24:40] officials would you guys be okay with
[2:24:43] that well how about this let's t the
[2:24:47] city that's a director for the city
[2:24:48] manager to take a look on the logistics
[2:24:50] for that type of
[2:24:52] meeting I think it's better to just let
[2:24:54] him to figure out how we approach it as
[2:24:56] opposed to kind of fashion
[2:24:58] it okay do you guys all understand what
[2:25:01] I'm talking
[2:25:03] about yeah I mean Jesus Christ man I got
[2:25:05] this guy on a car this people riding a
[2:25:09] bicycle coming towards me when I'm
[2:25:11] exiting the you know just like all it
[2:25:13] takes is a little mistake on their part
[2:25:15] right mayor
[2:25:17] I've been seeing
[2:25:20] lately but I've been seeing a lot of
[2:25:23] people walking on the freeway and it's
[2:25:26] it's been recent like I never noticed
[2:25:29] this in previous years but recently I've
[2:25:33] been seeing a lot of folks walk on a
[2:25:35] freeway and I'm trying to figure out
[2:25:37] where they coming from where are they
[2:25:40] going it's not like they're in the
[2:25:41] middle like towards the end when you're
[2:25:43] getting off the freeway it's like in the
[2:25:46] middle so
[2:25:47] it's like four or five miles either way
[2:25:50] so I'm trying to figure out how do they
[2:25:52] end up on the
[2:25:57] freeway thank you so there needs to be
[2:26:00] penalties there we everybody we're just
[2:26:01] removing the responsibility from those
[2:26:03] PE from the people who are doing that
[2:26:05] and we're just totally removing it and
[2:26:07] just assuming that it's you know not
[2:26:10] everything's a mental health
[2:26:11] issue a lot of it is but not everything
[2:26:15] I don't want to tie it into those
[2:26:16] smashing grabs that we've been
[2:26:17] experiencing all over Ellie County
[2:26:19] but that's also a lack of responsibility
[2:26:23] that's being given
[2:26:25] uh given to those perpetrators
[2:26:29] okay when do you think would be a
[2:26:31] reasonable amount of time at this point
[2:26:33] I'm going hitting you up maybe by the
[2:26:36] end with it before the next meeting well
[2:26:38] may Mr Mayor tomorrow I will reach out
[2:26:40] to our elected officials and get a
[2:26:42] timeline from
[2:26:44] them maybe maybe tomorrow you can't do
[2:26:46] that tonight
[2:26:47] what
[2:26:48] [Laughter]
[2:26:50] maybe to the
[2:26:53] chair that's very
[2:26:55] important not it I know we had a
[2:26:58] representative from Bradford's office
[2:27:00] but um you know that they're not here
[2:27:02] Monday through Thursday they have to fly
[2:27:04] back Thursday night for events on
[2:27:06] weekends so how we're going to make this
[2:27:10] meeting I'd like you know just to so
[2:27:12] that you know it'll have to be a Friday
[2:27:14] or something I think we might have to
[2:27:16] fly up to
[2:27:20] Sacramento we can use our new technology
[2:27:23] and do a zoom call course the last thing
[2:27:26] guys the last thing on my end okay thank
[2:27:28] you thank you um I believe that uh we
[2:27:32] touched on a lot of different things
[2:27:33] actually uh the mixed use taking a look
[2:27:36] at that and uh focusing on certain parts
[2:27:39] of our city I like to specifically like
[2:27:42] to focus on the uh stretch of Hawthorn
[2:27:46] Boulevard from 120th Street down to
[2:27:51] Broadway which is right here on the
[2:27:53] western side
[2:27:55] okay I think that that's a great
[2:27:57] opportunity where we can at least
[2:27:59] attempt to have a restaurant District it
[2:28:02] might be small but it's uh there's a
[2:28:05] sufficient enough space that if we have
[2:28:07] the proper zoning that allows it
[2:28:09] facilitates it the proper infrastructure
[2:28:13] that widens the U sidewalks to allow for
[2:28:17] uh sidewalk dining as was talked about
[2:28:20] before um I think uh that could be a
[2:28:24] good opportunity um I talked to the city
[2:28:27] manager and uh he has some ideas and I
[2:28:31] think uh as a directive I would like for
[2:28:33] you just to pursue
[2:28:35] that we got a focused area and we
[2:28:38] already identified something there are
[2:28:39] restaurants there
[2:28:41] now but if we do the proper zoning then
[2:28:43] maybe there could be some new
[2:28:45] tenants
[2:28:47] Greg had a great
[2:28:51] plan yeah no but the thing is we might
[2:28:54] need to do a little bit of more
[2:28:55] adjusting on the
[2:28:56] zoning like Chop Chop like a little bit
[2:29:00] a
[2:29:02] little all right thank you
[2:29:09] guys thank thank you mayor I think this
[2:29:11] is very important for our residents to
[2:29:13] know that under the leadership of vaugh
[2:29:15] and and City department heads 2023
[2:29:18] economic summary we received 24 million
[2:29:21] in Grants 24 million plus we had a
[2:29:24] revenue of 88 million plus and we had
[2:29:28] 600 plus new businesses um the
[2:29:31] projections for 2024 is to reach a 100
[2:29:33] 100% completion or in progress uh rate
[2:29:36] of you know not only all of that but uh
[2:29:40] overall efficiency and productivity so
[2:29:42] again we'd like to give kudos to our
[2:29:44] city manager and our city department
[2:29:46] heads I think they'll
[2:29:50] applaud I also just want to make mention
[2:29:53] that our California um water services is
[2:29:56] uh announcing their 10th Annual youth
[2:29:58] Water Conservation education program if
[2:30:01] we could pass this on to our schools um
[2:30:04] they are going to have um they're
[2:30:06] spreading the word with regards to
[2:30:07] encouraging students and teachers to
[2:30:09] participate in water programs the Aqua
[2:30:11] Adventure free water and nature-based
[2:30:13] field trips for four to sixth graders
[2:30:16] that cwat will support and send
[2:30:19] classrooms and teachers um with the
[2:30:21] chance for a fi trip the Splash and
[2:30:24] creativity for kids K22 12 and water
[2:30:27] smarts grants $100 grants to teachers
[2:30:30] proposing classroom projects and uh H2O
[2:30:33] in which students uh commit to a pledge
[2:30:36] uh and learn more about about water
[2:30:38] conservation and I know that our city
[2:30:40] was doing our best efforts here too to
[2:30:42] assure that we conserve water and not
[2:30:44] only that use rain water to do some of
[2:30:47] our um you know watering for vegetation
[2:30:50] and and water needs outside of our home
[2:30:53] and we had barrels for that I don't know
[2:30:55] if we still do we might uh however I'll
[2:30:57] have vau uh work with the public works
[2:30:59] department to uh see if we could maybe
[2:31:02] provide barrels so that you could
[2:31:04] collect uh rainwater and use that uh
[2:31:06] recycled water thank
[2:31:10] you okay uh meeting's almost over so I'd
[2:31:13] like for us to just have a moment of
[2:31:15] silence for all those people who have
[2:31:17] passed away in the Middle East uh
[2:31:20] conflict that's taking place right
[2:31:34] now okay may they may they all rest in
[2:31:37] peace um this meeting is adjourned at
[2:31:45] 8:31
[2:32:03] than