[0:50] >>> good evening, everyone,

[0:52] and welcome to the regular session of

[0:53] the martinez

[0:55] city council. It is wednesday, december

[0:56] 10, and

[0:59] it is 7:03 p.m. Please join me

[1:01] for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance

[1:02] to the flag

[1:04] of the united states of america and to the republic

[1:09] for which it stands one nation under god

[1:10] indivisible with liberty and justice for

[1:12] all.

[1:20] >> clerk, please call

[1:22] the roll.

[1:23] >> mayor brianne zorn? >>

[1:24] present.

[1:25] >> vice

[1:26] mayor jay howard?

[1:27] >> present. >> councilmember

[1:28] greg young is currently absent?

[1:29] >>

[1:30] he is en route.

[1:31] >> I've

[1:32] been informed

[1:34] he's en route. Councilmember satinder

[1:38] malhi?

[1:40] >> present. >>

[1:41] councilmember debbie mckillop?

[1:42] >>

[1:43] present.

[1:44] >> wonderful. Thank you so

[1:45] much. All right. Tonight, we have

[1:46] a fairly light agenda, so we

[1:48] do

[1:49] not have any presentations scheduled,

[1:51] so we're going to go straight

[1:53] into public comment. I did not receive

[1:53] any public comment cards, but

[1:55] if there is anyone in council chambers

[1:56] this evening that would

[1:58] like to speak on any item, now is

[1:59] the time, and you're

[2:02] welcomed to

[2:05] come up to

[2:08] the microphone. Come on up.

[2:11] >> good evening. Sorry about my ugly

[2:15] sweater today. We had a

[2:18] holiday party at my workplace.

[2:21] let's see. Well, while I'm here

[2:23] today, I was kind of curious, based

[2:24] on the agenda,

[2:26] whether this would be the shortest

[2:26] council meeting of martinez

[2:28] history, so we'll see what happens,

[2:29] but I'm

[2:32] not going to hope matters. I

[2:35] guess one thing on my mind is --oh,

[2:36] I

[2:37] might as well take my three minutes

[2:38] to talk about my favorite

[2:40] topic, which is housing, as we near

[2:41] the end of the

[2:44] year, get ready to

[2:47] enter 2026. Obviously you guys are

[2:48] still grappling with

[2:50] issues around the unhoused. We all

[2:54] know that. It's been a long-term challenge. And

[2:57] I think, you know, the solutions

[3:00] to that issue are complicated. But one

[3:00] thing

[3:02] we should all be striving to do is

[3:03] prevent

[3:05] more people from

[3:07] becoming unhoused because we know

[3:09] that once you become

[3:10] unhoused, the challenges become deeper. And

[3:12] we

[3:14] know because of our housing crisis,

[3:15] there are a

[3:16] lot of people on the edge in our community

[3:18] and communities up and down the

[3:20] state, and really throughout the country. And

[3:22] so, you know,

[3:24] we're trying to make progress on this

[3:25] on

[3:26] our housing element. But the issue

[3:27] with affordable housing is still not

[3:28] the priority

[3:31] I think it should be for this

[3:32] city and this council. And the reason

[3:33] it should be a top priority because

[3:35] it is such a hard issue, it's such

[3:38] a complicated issue, and that's why it

[3:41] should be a bigger focus than say

[3:45] your plans for the marina. I

[3:48] really hope that like as

[3:51] we go through 2026, one thing we could see

[3:54] happen as hopefully some more housing

[3:55] developments

[3:58] come down the pike, is that

[4:01] instead of

[4:02] this kind of incremental approach,

[4:04] where we have

[4:06] a few affordable units here, a few there,

[4:07] the bare

[4:09] minimum of the 20%, to qualify

[4:12] for the state bonuses

[4:15] or what have you. That we really

[4:17] try to find affordable housing developer

[4:18] out there. There

[4:20] are, and there are ones that have

[4:21] done

[4:24] big projects that are in the bay

[4:28] area. And really set a goal of having an

[4:31] all affordable project

[4:33] in martinez. We need an all-affordable,

[4:36] 100% affordable low income, very low income

[4:37] project

[4:40] to really make a dent in

[4:41] this problem. Other cities have done

[4:42] it, whether they wanted

[4:44] to or had to be dragged along. It

[4:45] can be done. And

[4:48] I think if we make it

[4:50] a top priority, it can be done. This

[4:51] is how

[4:54] we're going to stop more

[4:56] people from sliding into homelessness. There's

[4:57] a great mpr

[5:00] interview I heard on the way over

[5:01] from

[5:03] a homeless strategy expert with decades

[5:07] of experience on

[5:08] fresh air. Wrote a book called "placeless." I hope you

[5:10] take the

[5:13] time to listen to

[5:15] the 40-minute interview because

[5:18] he disspills a lot

[5:21] of

[5:22] myths about homelessness. Thank you.

[5:23] >> thanks.

[5:24] >> all right, is there anyone in the

[5:25] audience that would like to speak

[5:27] on public

[5:29] comment right now?

[5:30] >> for those attending virtually,

[5:31] if

[5:34] you'd like to make a comment,

[5:36] please use the raise hand feature. I

[5:37] have no hands.

[5:38] >>

[5:40] all right, let's move

[5:43] on to the consent

[5:46] calendar. So we have --staff has requested

[5:47] that I pull item six, and I'd also

[5:48] like to

[5:51] pull item seven for the rest of the councilmembers,

[5:54] any other items you'd like

[5:56] to pull from the consent calendar,

[6:00] one through seven? None, all right. Let's

[6:03] go ahead --yeah, they're both common, I'll treat

[6:04] them at the same time. I'll go ahead

[6:07] and go to public comment

[6:09] for items one through five. Anyone

[6:10] in council chambers who would

[6:13] like to make any comments on

[6:15] that? All right. How about in the

[6:16] virtual audience?

[6:17] >>

[6:19] please

[6:21] use the

[6:24] raise

[6:26] hand feature. I have no hands.

[6:27] >> all right. I'm

[6:28] going to

[6:30] go ahead and take the comments and

[6:31] then

[6:32] we'll vote at the end. Item six, mike,

[6:33] would you like to speak

[6:35] to that item, please?

[6:36] >> yes, thank

[6:37] you. On item six,

[6:40] I just wanted to mention that

[6:43] after we

[6:46] had published the agenda, staff caught

[6:47] a

[6:48] missed cross reference to another

[6:49] section. It's on page

[6:52] 14 of the policy section, 9.5, and

[6:54] a couple of places in that

[6:55] introductory paragraph, where it says

[6:57] formal bidding would otherwise be required

[6:58] under

[7:00] this policy, but an exception is

[7:02] being applied under section. It says

[7:03] 9.3.1. It actually

[7:06] should be 9.4,

[7:07] which is immediately the proceeding section. Then

[7:09] the next sentence

[7:11] later says the documentation must include

[7:13] reference to the specific

[7:16] section

[7:19] category listed in section, and had

[7:20] 10.4, it should 9.4. We wanted to make everyone

[7:22] aware of that, made the corrections, and

[7:23] with

[7:24] adoption, we'll make that clean up. So

[7:27] it was a late catch, but we didn't

[7:27] want to republish the whole

[7:29] agenda because of a minor typo we

[7:30] had in that section.

[7:31] >>

[7:33] right. Thank you so much. Appreciate

[7:34] it. Okay,

[7:36] item seven, I just requested to pull that

[7:38] because this is the request that came out

[7:39] of the council comments

[7:42] at the end of the

[7:45] last meeting, requesting $2,000 to be donated. $1,000

[7:49] to food bank of contra costa

[7:52] and solano, and then $1,000 to loaves

[7:53] and fishes. Thank you

[7:54] for putting that on the consent calendar. I

[7:55] just

[7:56] wanted to clarify, the expectation of

[7:58] this was to help out during the holiday

[8:00] season, and I just wanted to ask what the

[8:00] process would be for getting the checks

[8:04] in the hands

[8:05] of those two organizations.

[8:06] >> yes. So

[8:07] starting tomorrow morning, I'm

[8:09] going to contact those organizations,

[8:11] and just -- typically what finance

[8:13] likes to see

[8:15] is an invoicing of the city to complete

[8:16] the transaction. I'll

[8:20] tell them what this

[8:22] is for. These organizations we supported sometimes

[8:23] through our community grant process,

[8:25] and even in those situations where

[8:26] council approved a

[8:28] donation or a grant of some sort. They

[8:29] send

[8:31] over just a very simple request or

[8:34] invoice type of form for $1,000 each, and then

[8:36] we'll work to expedite the checks

[8:39] for those two parties.

[8:40] >> okay, if

[8:41] you

[8:42] could communicate out to the council when

[8:43] that's going out, that would

[8:44] be appreciated.

[8:45] >> absolutely, will

[8:46] do.

[8:47] >> any other

[8:49] comments from council

[8:50] on six or seven? No? Okay. All right, so

[8:53] I'll bring that

[8:55] up to public comment for items six or

[8:56] seven. Any comments on

[8:58] that part of the consent calendar? All

[8:59] right,

[9:00] how about the virtual audience? Any

[9:02] comments on

[9:03] consent calendar items six or seven?

[9:04] >>

[9:07] please

[9:09] use the raise hand feature. I have

[9:10] no hands.

[9:11] >>

[9:12] all right, I'll bring it back to council

[9:13] for a

[9:14] motion for all items, please.

[9:15] >> I'd

[9:16] like to make a

[9:19] motion that we pass consent calendar items

[9:22] one through seven. Is

[9:23] that correct?

[9:24] >> correct. >> second. >>

[9:25] all in favor --

[9:27] actually, roll call vote, please?

[9:28] >> mayor

[9:29] brianne zorn?

[9:30] >> yes. >> vice

[9:32] mayor jay

[9:35] howard?

[9:36] >> yes. >> councilmember

[9:38] satinder malhi?

[9:39] >>

[9:40] yes.

[9:40] >> councilmember debbie mckillop? >>

[9:41] aye.

[9:42] >> and councilmember greg is currently

[9:43] absent for this

[9:44] vote. Motion passes, all ayes.

[9:45] >>

[9:46] great, thank you. All right, we are

[9:47] going

[9:48] to be racing to see if we can get the meeting

[9:49] done before greg is

[9:51] able to get here. [ laughter ] it's

[9:52] the direction

[9:53] this is going. So general business

[9:55] items, there is none

[9:56] on the calendar this evening. Public

[9:58] hearing items,

[10:00] there's none on the agenda. Next item

[10:05] is comments from the chief

[10:08] of police.

[10:09] >> for chief white. I

[10:11] have no updates at this time.

[10:12] >>

[10:14] thank you. Does anyone have

[10:16] any questions for captain sal? No. All

[10:18] right, next, city manager comments and

[10:19] updates.

[10:20] >> the next

[10:21] two fridays, so this upcoming friday,

[10:24] december 12, and then the subsequent

[10:25] friday, december 19, which are

[10:27] the last two fridays that will be

[10:28] open

[10:30] to the public of this calendar year. We

[10:31] are

[10:34] going to have city hall open, and

[10:37] all the counters open with the exception

[10:38] of the building permit

[10:40] counter for the reason the department

[10:41] has asked to

[10:42] have those two afternoons dedicated

[10:44] for staff to

[10:46] really focus on the backlog of building permits

[10:49] that

[10:51] they have in the que already. We'll

[10:53] have some signage posted to allow

[10:55] people to know

[10:56] those particular windows, just friday afternoon,

[10:58] 1:00 to 4:30 p.m., the

[11:00] building permit counter will be closed

[11:01] because they are desperately trying

[11:04] to get through the backlog of people that

[11:05] already have,

[11:08] that are already in the queue, waiting for

[11:09] their building applications to be

[11:11] processed. So just want to

[11:14] give an update on that.

[11:15] >> and can

[11:17] you just also speak to the schedule

[11:18] for

[11:20] city hall in general for

[11:20] the holidays?

[11:21] >> sure, sure. City

[11:22] hall

[11:25] is going to be

[11:28] closed from essentially noon on christmas

[11:31] eve, december 24, and all

[11:34] the way through until friday, january

[11:36] 2. What I have to figure out too is a

[11:37] lot of

[11:40] people are largely going to still

[11:41] be out

[11:44] until monday, january 5, and take

[11:46] a vacation day on that friday. So

[11:47] we'll have to check with staff to

[11:50] see who will actually be here. I

[11:51] expect it will be not anywhere near

[11:53] a full

[11:54] crew on that first friday, january

[11:55] 2, but city

[11:58] hall is scheduled to be

[12:01] open that friday.

[12:02] >> hold on one second. Oh,

[12:04] hi. I'm just going to pull

[12:07] up the january 2 as a friday,

[12:10] and then how about the

[12:14] 26th will not be closed?

[12:15] >> the entire

[12:16] time from

[12:17] half day, so noon on christmas eve, all

[12:18] the

[12:20] way through until january

[12:22] 2.

[12:23] >> okay, great. Thank you. All

[12:24] right. Any questions

[12:26] for

[12:28] our city manager

[12:30] this evening? All right. Seeing none,

[12:31] our

[12:34] next item is appointments to commissions and/or

[12:37] agencies. This is adopting a

[12:39] resolution to appoint our vice mayor

[12:40] for next year. Will you

[12:43] be speaking to this item?

[12:44] >> I

[12:47] was going to defer to

[12:49] you since it's your appointment.

[12:50] >>

[12:51] absolutely. So every

[12:53] year about this time, we appoint

[12:55] the next person in line, the next

[12:56] councilmember in line to

[12:59] be the vice mayor. I am recommending

[13:00] that we appoint councilmember satinder malhi

[13:02] as vice mayor

[13:04] from december 11 through december

[13:05] 9. Does

[13:08] anyone have any

[13:11] questions or comments on

[13:12] this item? All right. I'm going to

[13:14] open this up. Any

[13:17] public comment on

[13:20] this item? How about in the virtual audience,

[13:21] please?

[13:22] >>

[13:24] please

[13:27] use the raise hand feature. I

[13:29] have no hands.

[13:30] >> all right. Then

[13:31] back to

[13:33] my

[13:35] colleagues for

[13:38] a motion, please.

[13:39] >>

[13:41] I move that

[13:44] we

[13:45] appoint councilmember malhi to vice mayor,

[13:49] effective december --

[13:50] >> 11. >> december

[13:51] 11.

[13:53] >> I will gladly

[13:54] second that.

[13:55] >> all right, roll call

[13:56] vote, please?

[13:57] >>

[13:58] mayor brianne zorn?

[13:59] >>

[14:00] yes.

[14:01] >> vice mayor jay

[14:03] howard for the last

[14:07] motion?

[14:07] >> yes. >> councilmember satinder malhi? >>

[14:11] yes. [ laughter ]

[14:14] >>

[14:17] I was becoming concerned.

[14:18] >>

[14:19] councilmember greg young?

[14:20] >> yes. >>

[14:21] councilmember

[14:22] debbie mckillop?

[14:23] >> aye. >> motion

[14:24] passes. All ayes.

[14:25] >> congratulations. >>

[14:27] congratulations.

[14:28] >> yeah, congratulations, satinder

[14:29] malhi.

[14:30] >> satinder malhi. >> thank

[14:31] you. Thank you, colleagues.

[14:32] >> so

[14:33] I very much

[14:35] appreciate having the rotating vice

[14:36] mayors, so every --

[14:38] every year we -- whenever there is

[14:39] a

[14:41] number two required for a meeting

[14:41] or whatever, I was

[14:43] trying to engage the vice mayor. And

[14:44] as everybody

[14:46] knows, a quorum is three people on

[14:47] council, so it is

[14:48] really helpful to have a default council

[14:50] member that I can go to. So

[14:53] the vice mayor, I

[14:54] look forward to working with councilmember

[15:00] malhi for this upcoming year

[15:02] for all the activities I'm sure will

[15:03] come our way. Next,

[15:04] subcommittee and outside agency reports. We only

[15:06] have one on the

[15:09] agenda, the franchise and public infrastructure

[15:10] from november 24. Would any of

[15:12] you all like

[15:14] to report out on that?

[15:15] >> yes. So

[15:16] we discussed maintaining a tree board,

[15:17] a department having a community

[15:19] tree ordinance, spending at least

[15:20] $2 per

[15:23] capita on urban forestry,

[15:25] and celebrating arbor day. In my notes

[15:26] from that

[15:29] day, we spoke

[15:33] about a budget of $193,000. And that

[15:36] we were very

[15:39] excited about next year's arbor day. We

[15:40] would

[15:42] like to invite the girl scouts, the

[15:45] sea scouts, the boy scouts, junior high

[15:46] and

[15:47] college park high

[15:49] school to participate in the arbor

[15:50] day. And that

[15:53] I had assurances from staff that we

[15:54] would

[15:56] have bubblers on

[15:59] all of the new trees. That's

[16:02] about it.

[16:03] >>

[16:05] all right, excellent. Any

[16:07] other subcommittee report outs that

[16:09] we may not

[16:11] have listed or any outside agency

[16:12] report outs that

[16:15] anyone would

[16:20] like to report out on? No? Councilmember

[16:21] malhi, I know

[16:23] that you attended a meeting for

[16:26] me a few weeks ago. I didn't --I didn't

[16:27] ask

[16:28] for a report out, but is there anything

[16:29] that

[16:31] you would like to share this evening? I'm

[16:32] not sure if

[16:34] any decisions were made that evening

[16:35] that

[16:37] you wanted to share?

[16:38] >> no, madam

[16:40] mayor,

[16:42] there were no

[16:44] decisions. There was an extensive discussion

[16:45] on

[16:46] various items on the agenda. More

[16:48] having

[16:51] to do with

[16:53] process than actual substance. I would

[16:55] submit, but I believe those issues

[16:56] will hopefully be dealt

[16:58] with at future meetings, but nothing

[16:59] substantive to report

[17:02] out. Thank you.

[17:03] >> great, thank you. All right,

[17:05] well, in that

[17:08] thing, the only thing to update

[17:11] is updates from city council. Councilmember

[17:13] malhi, do you

[17:15] want to stay off mute, and

[17:18] you can start?

[17:19] >> yes, thank you very

[17:21] much, colleagues, for placing your trust

[17:25] in me and for the vice mayor

[17:27] appointment. I'm very

[17:29] humbled and honored. As I mentioned

[17:32] now, our former vice mayor, howard,

[17:38] with great power comes great responsibility. So

[17:39] I just

[17:42] wanted to follow in his

[17:44] footsteps, and follow the great example

[17:49] that he paved for me, so

[17:54] thank you very much. I wanted to very

[17:55] quickly

[17:57] let you know, I recently had the opportunity

[17:58] to

[18:01] --oh, did I freeze?

[18:01] >> yes, but

[18:03] we can

[18:04] still hear you. Go ahead.

[18:05] >> I did want

[18:09] to just share that I had

[18:12] an opportunity to

[18:13] address the view homeowners association board,

[18:15] which is

[18:16] a residential neighborhood located

[18:18] off of sweetwater drive

[18:20] it in district three. So I wanted

[18:22] to thank them

[18:24] for inviting me, providing me the opportunity

[18:25] to

[18:26] provide some timely city updates,

[18:27] along with some district updates. But

[18:28] I

[18:30] also wanted to give a special shout

[18:31] out

[18:33] to sergeant king with the martinez

[18:34] police department

[18:36] who also joined me at that

[18:39] meeting, providing a

[18:41] very informative presentation on some traffic

[18:42] safety mitigation efforts

[18:44] that are taking place in and around

[18:45] the area of sweetwater

[18:48] drive, which

[18:49] I think was very well received by members of

[18:51] the board, so

[18:55] thank you, sergeant king. And then

[18:57] lastly, just wanted to give a special

[18:58] shout to our parks

[19:01] and rec staff

[19:03] and all the community volunteers and

[19:04] staff out there

[19:07] who helped make

[19:09] for another fantastic holiday parade. So thank

[19:12] you all.

[19:13] >> yeah, that

[19:15] was a very fun parade. So vice

[19:16] mayor howard for another couple of

[19:18] hours, would you

[19:20] like to be the next report?

[19:21] >> sure,

[19:24] sure, sure. It's been an honor

[19:27] to be the vice mayor. And looking

[19:28] forward to

[19:31] next year with vice

[19:32] mayor malhi taking over. I did want

[19:34] to mention that

[19:37] we did a check

[19:39] presentation this evening, and the

[19:40] hometown hero mural is going

[19:42] to be off and running. After

[19:44] speaking to the artist, I would like

[19:45] to invite

[19:47] everybody and their children, specifically to

[19:48] come

[19:51] down and help out. It is 220 feet,

[19:53] so there would be a lot to do. They

[19:54] will

[19:56] do some wall preps first. Everybody

[19:57] is excited

[20:01] to get things going and get

[20:02] that mural off and running. I did

[20:07] get a lot of rave

[20:08] reviews about the christmas parade, although

[20:10] I wasn't able

[20:13] to attend. I heard

[20:15] it was

[20:18] magical, so that's wonderful.

[20:19] >> do

[20:21] you have any updates?

[20:22] >> I

[20:24] just wanted to

[20:25] echo the comments about a wonderful parade

[20:27] last

[20:30] week, and I just wanted to

[20:34] thank the staff for all

[20:37] of your

[20:40] support. Also, I want to recognize

[20:43] staff and

[20:45] been seeing the new trees going up

[20:46] in

[20:48] the community, and that is

[20:51] just so cool and exciting. And so

[20:54] thank you all

[20:57] for your efforts in

[21:00] bringing all of

[21:03] our trees and getting those planted. The

[21:04] last

[21:05] piece is --and I may have mentioned

[21:07] it at the last meeting,

[21:10] but we're

[21:13] in the holiday season, and unfortunately

[21:16] this is a season of frauds

[21:19] and scams, so just making

[21:21] sure people are staying vigilant as

[21:21] we

[21:24] do a lot

[21:26] of holiday shopping online and virtual,

[21:27] just to be

[21:30] careful. This is kind of bleeding

[21:31] into my day

[21:33] job, but it's --it's a

[21:36] huge issue with fraud and scams, so check

[21:40] and verify,

[21:43] check

[21:45] and verify because it's pretty serious. It

[21:46] also

[21:49] really impacts our elder and senior

[21:52] communities. So let's just stay vigilant, protect

[21:53] your

[21:54] information, know the sites that you're

[21:54] going to and just making

[21:57] sure you're protecting all of your

[21:58] data,

[22:00] so that's all

[22:03] I've got.

[22:04] >> thank you. >> well, first

[22:06] off, I just wanted to thank the city

[22:07] staff as

[22:09] others have for

[22:11] the amazing light parade, the children's light

[22:14] parade was amazing. We had a new

[22:16] route, so that was fun. There were

[22:19] so many people downtown, taking advantage

[22:20] of the new vantage points

[22:23] on both sides of

[22:25] the road. I guess we went down ward

[22:26] and came

[22:28] up main. There were a lot of people. It's a

[22:28] lot of work to

[22:29] do that, so I want to thank everyone

[22:30] and for all the people that came out and

[22:31] celebrated

[22:32] and were a part of the parade. A lot

[22:34] of our community came out and

[22:35] celebrated together for the holidays,

[22:37] so thank you to

[22:40] all the people

[22:42] that donated their time, their energy,

[22:43] financial, candy, all that

[22:47] to make it

[22:49] a wonderful event for our children. And then also,

[22:50] I

[22:52] wanted to thank the carpenters as

[22:56] jay said earlier tonight, the

[22:59] carpenters and local 152 donated

[23:01] $20,000 to the joe dimaggio hometown

[23:03] hero organization to do the mural downtown. And

[23:04] so

[23:06] that was quite a contribution, and

[23:07] I'm

[23:09] really grateful for their donation. The

[23:10] artist was

[23:13] there, as well as members of the

[23:16] organization, so it was a

[23:20] really nice brutal ceremony and $20,000 goes

[23:21] a

[23:22] long way, so that was a great donation. So

[23:23] thank you

[23:26] to them for

[23:28] all their support. And then want to

[23:29] congratulate satinder

[23:31] for, you know, stepping up to be vice

[23:32] mayor for the year. I look

[23:33] forward to seeing all the fun things

[23:34] you're going to do because next

[23:37] year

[23:38] is a special year. It's 105th anniversary, so

[23:40] a lot of things in

[23:43] stored for that. So looking

[23:46] forward for all

[23:47] those adventures. And then lastly,

[23:49] there's a santa beer crawl

[23:50] this saturday, so beware, there will

[23:53] be lots of santas out there roaming

[23:55] the streets. A lot of drunk santas

[23:56] out there. So

[23:58] if you want to partake in that, have

[23:59] fun. If you just want to

[24:01] go down there and check out all the crazy

[24:02] santas, you

[24:05] can do that too. So do a little

[24:08] shopping and remember parking is free. So

[24:08] you

[24:10] can go down and park and do

[24:11] some shopping for the holidays. That's it.

[24:15] >> thank you. That's a great reminder

[24:16] about the santa crawl. All

[24:19] right, so I

[24:21] have a couple of items. Today, city

[24:22] manager and I took a tour

[24:25] of the boys and girls club. They had

[24:29] a merger with some other clubs,

[24:30] a couple of months ago now, and so

[24:32] we got an opportunity to meet

[24:34] some of the new leadership. And so now

[24:35] the club spans about 100

[24:37] miles to the south bay, which is really,

[24:38] really great. We

[24:41] had a really great tour,

[24:43] so that was excellent. Thank you again

[24:44] for

[24:45] the holiday frolic. I have gotten

[24:46] nothing, but positive feedback about

[24:48] the new route, so I just wanted to request

[24:49] that

[24:51] we go ahead and stick with that for

[24:52] next year. I think

[24:53] that's one of those things that when

[24:55] we do it again next year, you'll see

[24:58] it there is probably even a few less people

[25:00] on main and

[25:01] more people on ward. I think it's

[25:02] going to work out great, yeah.

[25:03] >>

[25:04] can I just

[25:05] add to that one piece of feedback

[25:06] that the

[25:08] team told me was the campbell theater was

[25:09] operating

[25:11] during the parade. And so there was,

[25:13] in case you hear anything. We noted,

[25:14] and

[25:15] they're actually going to be attending

[25:16] next week for their

[25:17] routine visit, so they might bring

[25:19] it up there, but it's noted for

[25:22] next year to just make sure we

[25:24] coordinate with them.

[25:25] >> okay, great. I

[25:26] appreciate that. So I think

[25:28] people had provided me feedback

[25:29] that they didn't totally believe that

[25:31] ward was actually a part of the parade. Then

[25:33] when they

[25:35] saw it was going down, people were

[25:36] kind of migrating over. But that said,

[25:38] I think it

[25:41] would be a great opportunity for next year

[25:42] to expand

[25:43] the holiday frolic back to have a

[25:44] few holiday frolic activities

[25:47] before the parade, as we've done

[25:49] in years past. That's something

[25:51] that's really important to me. Wanted

[25:52] to formally

[25:54] make that request. I think that having

[25:55] holiday frolic activity in the plaza

[25:58] is even more supported now that we would

[26:01] have a

[26:04] parade route

[26:09] around both sides. Let's see. I

[26:11] have one additional request. I appreciate

[26:12] jay mentioning

[26:13] the trees. I appreciate you mentioning

[26:15] the trees. We are going

[26:18] to be working quite a

[26:20] bit next year on finishing up the

[26:22] 150th tree plantings, then doing media

[26:23] improvements. I think we're going

[26:26] to find in a handful of

[26:28] months that the cal trans operated

[26:29] off

[26:31] ramps off the freeway, very much are

[26:32] going

[26:33] to be eyesores because everything that

[26:35] we've touched looks great. So I

[26:38] would like to request that we

[26:40] look into getting an encroachment

[26:42] appointment from cal trans

[26:44] to make some improvements to our offramps, if cal trans

[26:45] isn't

[26:47] going to do it by us asking, I think

[26:48] we

[26:50] can get an encroachment permit. I'll

[26:51] follow up

[26:54] with maybe joe, mike, see if

[26:56] we can get something going

[26:58] with them for next year. And then

[27:01] lastly in addition to the santa crawl

[27:02] on saturday,

[27:05] we have our lighted boat parade on friday,

[27:07] and there is a lighted bike parade

[27:08] as well. If you've

[27:10] got kids that would like to decorate

[27:11] their bikes

[27:15] and ride around town, you can meet in the

[27:16] afternoon, and they will be doing

[27:17] that. They are actually taking their bike

[27:21] parade down to the marina, so it

[27:24] corresponds

[27:26] to the boat parade. There will be

[27:27] both kayaks and canoes,

[27:28] as well as fully operational boats

[27:29] that

[27:32] have slips in the marina that will all

[27:33] be participating. Come down and check

[27:35] it out from our new beautiful

[27:36] fishing pier. We'll also have the

[27:38] jazz band from

[27:39] the martinez junior high performing,

[27:41] and then there

[27:43] will be hot chocolate that donations will

[27:45] help contribute to the band, and santa

[27:48] will also be there to visit. So

[27:50] we've got a nice event going on friday

[27:51] afternoon. I

[27:53] encourage everyone to join us. All

[27:55] right, that's everything from me. Anyone

[27:57] else on staff have

[28:00] any final announcements that didn't get

[28:01] covered this evening? None? All right. So

[28:02] with that, our next

[28:03] meeting is actually next week. Normally

[28:05] we meet

[28:06] every other week. I want to remind

[28:08] everyone, it will be

[28:11] on the 17th. I anticipate

[28:14] it being a rather long meeting,

[28:16] opposite to this evening. So in that

[28:17] case, this

[28:20] meeting is now adjourned. Thank you.

City Council Adjourned Regular Session

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