[0:10] Council Member Rollins. Here, Council Member Hudson. Here. Council Member Gilchrist. Here. Vice Mayor

[0:17] Betticavoli. Here. And Mayor Branscom.

[0:25] No, we do not, Mayor.

[0:32] Pledge of Allegiance.

[1:03] Oh,

[1:04] Okay,

[1:11] we have a presentation, Nicole and company, child advocates.

[1:23] Oh good, we have an electronic up on the screen.

[1:28] Hello, I'm the-

[1:29] That's not working.

[1:31] I'm the extra-

[1:31] Oh yeah, it's not

[1:36] working.

[1:37] Is it working?

[1:38] No.

[1:38] Is that working?

[1:40] I think it's working now.

[1:51] Is that-

[1:51] That's better.

[1:53] Okay, I'm the extra one.

[1:56] My name is Katya Poiman.

[1:58] I work for Chad Advocates of Placer County in Yuba County and you call has all where you've been introduced

[2:04] Well, thank you so much for having us. We are very excited to be here

[2:08] We have been in Placer County for the last 20 years and we started in Yuba County

[2:15] 2023 and we hope to start and setter this year. So Yuba was faster than Sutter

[2:20] So I want to start introducing what CASA is

[2:23] This CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates.

[2:28] It's a program that started 50 years ago.

[2:31] It was started by a judge in Washington State, and he said, you know, I have to make

[2:36] a life changing decision for this child, and I really don't have enough information.

[2:41] I see this child during hearings, same with their attorneys, social workers don't have enough

[2:46] time.

[2:47] So I would like a volunteer who sees that child every single week and reports back to me

[2:53] about their needs. So that's what we do. We train and recruit volunteers and then we assign

[3:00] them to a kid that has been detained and is in the foster care system. These volunteers do

[3:07] nothing heroic but they're just that one consistent adult that follows that child through the foster

[3:14] care system. Yes, that's our mission up there. Our mission is to be the bridge between the most vulnerable

[3:22] in a community, and volunteers who want to make a difference.

[3:26] And I talk to volunteers a lot, and they say, you know,

[3:29] this has been really good for me.

[3:31] So volunteers enjoy what we do, and enjoy giving back.

[3:37] If you can, sorry.

[3:39] So we have about 60,000 foster kids in California.

[3:44] Unfortunately, it's the highest number in the nation.

[3:47] A lot of them are in LA County.

[3:49] The numbers in Saturn, Uba are very similar, Uba being a little higher than Saturn,

[3:54] County.

[3:59] Yes.

[4:04] Right now, we have 130 kids in Uba County that are in the foster care system, and we're

[4:09] serving 40 of them, which is not a lot, we just started, so we need more volunteers.

[4:15] 130 kids are in the foster care system in Uba County.

[4:19] Yeah.

[4:22] Thank you.

[4:24] Yeah.

[4:24] Kids age out when they're 21.

[4:27] So yes, it goes up to 21.

[4:30] I'm sorry.

[4:31] 18.

[4:33] And what is the, what is the youngest age?

[4:37] Kids can be removed as soon as they're born.

[4:40] Oftentimes when they test talks positive, they are being removed by the way.

[4:45] So there's a hundred something and you're working with 40 of them, isn't it?

[4:48] Yes.

[4:50] And court appointed special advocate.

[4:53] What sort of, what is the charter that the, that the judge gives you?

[5:00] So they are, yeah, so they are, they can carry the educational rights for the kids,

[5:06] meaning they can go into the school, ask for their report cards,

[5:10] advocate for them for an IEP, if they need one, they can talk to doctors.

[5:14] So they really have certain rights to go into the foster care home and ask how they're doing.

[5:19] That's what the, what the court appointed stands for.

[5:22] Thank you.

[5:23] This is new to me.

[5:24] That's why.

[5:24] Yeah.

[5:24] I know.

[5:24] Thank you for asking.

[5:25] Please go right ahead and ask more.

[5:28] So.

[5:29] So it may already ask one of the questions I had.

[5:32] And I think if the presentation.

[5:34] You're saying that they're from, you know, newborn to age of 21 that they need a CASA volunteer.

[5:41] Yes.

[5:42] But why does not stop at the age of 18 when they're considered adults?

[5:48] It is 18.

[5:49] I just started 18.

[5:50] I think we, they can get aid a little bit longer, but they, it's a separate program, it's called IEP, no LAP.

[5:59] Yeah, so they can get extra help.

[6:02] They are still considered foster kids if they're older, because they get special benefits like they get help for college education, all those things.

[6:11] They're aging out a little later.

[6:12] So thank you for that.

[6:15] You're seeing you've got 40 of the 100 or something that are in Yuba County.

[6:21] And the training for these volunteers obviously to be court appointed has got to be something specific.

[6:31] Yeah, it's a 30 hour training.

[6:33] We do that in person, they get homework as well.

[6:36] They're mandated reporters, they learn about the court system.

[6:40] They learn about the rights of the foster kids, so it's a very extensive training.

[6:45] They get background check, of course, because they're along with the kids.

[6:49] So yes.

[6:50] 30 hours.

[6:51] 30 hours.

[6:52] Thank you.

[6:53] Thank you.

[6:54] We're up.

[6:55] Did you follow?

[6:55] I love your questions.

[6:58] Okay.

[6:58] Just a few facts about kids.

[7:01] So basically, they're in foster care between 12 to 20 months.

[7:05] When kids are younger, the judge really tries to move that along very quickly because kids

[7:11] when they're younger, they're bond and the judge wants to make sure they have somebody

[7:16] to bond to really early on and parents get a shorter window to reunite with their kids.

[7:24] They get a case plan, the parents do, they get a case plan, they have to work on to get the

[7:28] kids back.

[7:30] These kids are going through a lot of trauma, trauma at home before they are removed, trauma when they're removed, trauma when they're in foster care.

[7:39] These kids have constant stress and that just, you know, gets mirrored in their performance at school.

[7:49] A lot of them 60% of kids that are being sex trafficked have a background of foster care.

[7:57] Yeah, and they just perform not as good in school and I say a lot, so

[8:04] yes.

[8:06] Sure, can you go back on that?

[8:09] I

[8:16] understand that works as research indicates that foster youth experience rates of homelessness ranging from 11 to 13.

[8:24] If they're in foster care, are they homeless?

[8:28] That's after so we have unfortunately a lot of cases where we have parents that are homeless and they have been foster care.

[8:37] So after they age out oftentimes.

[8:39] The parent is homeless and the child is put in the foster care.

[8:43] No, even the foster kid afterwards are a lot of them are homeless.

[8:54] Yeah.

[8:55] Okay, got you.

[8:57] Thank you.

[9:04] Now what's, is there an average age?

[9:08] You know, my next question is, are these children available for adoption?

[9:14] Well, that's on the court to decide, right?

[9:16] Priority number one is giving them back to their parents.

[9:19] If that's not possible, then it's adoption, hopefully, yes.

[9:25] But first goal is reunification with parents.

[9:27] Now, to a priority one, it's giving them back to their parents,

[9:32] meaning their parents want them back.

[9:34] Yes, yes, yes, yes, it's, it's has been proven the best outcome for the kids to give.

[9:39] But the court has seen fit to remove them from their parents?

[9:43] Yes, lovely.

[9:46] Okay, but yeah, they have a extensive case plan that they have to work according to their

[9:53] are offenses, whether it be all of them have parenting classes.

[9:58] They could have drug testing, rehab.

[10:02] They could have a lot of, some could be incarcerated.

[10:05] So depending on our offense, they have a huge case plan they have to do in order to reunify.

[10:10] And so that's part of where we come in also.

[10:12] And we have a program, we have a huge family service program.

[10:16] So we have staff that has lived experience.

[10:19] So staff that has been through the process, they have lost their kids.

[10:23] and they did get them back.

[10:25] So these staff members help parents to get their kids back.

[10:29] Most of the parents don't decide to become bad parents,

[10:32] but they have never been in parent and themselves.

[10:35] Substances would be used from parents.

[10:37] It's just a cycle.

[10:39] So there's again, there's a hundred and something in you accounting

[10:43] and you're engaged with 40 of them.

[10:45] How was that down select made?

[10:48] Was it based on need or availability, how do you do that?

[10:53] A lot of it is suggestions from the social workers that juvenile attorney they will contact

[10:58] us and say this, this one needs to go to the top of the list.

[11:02] We try to match the volunteers with the child that, for instance, if Bruce wants to be

[11:10] a casa and he would be assigned a male child, but if he wants a teenager, because I'm hinting

[11:17] by the way, if he wants a teenager, then we will go through our list of male teenagers

[11:23] and we will find one that is a good match for him,

[11:26] and then that one would be assigned to Bruce.

[11:29] There are also the social workers say this one,

[11:32] we just got detained, they've lived through,

[11:35] I mean some of these stories would just curl your hair.

[11:37] So, we will put them higher on the list

[11:40] and try to get them matched sooner.

[11:43] But we do have volunteers and we want to make sure

[11:46] if a volunteer has a request for a certain age,

[11:49] we want to serve that, yeah.

[11:50] So this is an admission in sorts that the foster parents can, I'm certain they're,

[12:02] they're well-intentioned there, everything else, but you need more than the foster parent

[12:07] for some of the kids to get it.

[12:09] Thank you.

[12:10] Well, the foster homes change and the social workers change, but the cost is the one stable

[12:16] adult that stays with the child through the whole entire 18-20 months that the child

[12:22] is in foster care.

[12:23] So that's the stable adult that stays with them.

[12:26] You mean they bounce around from foster home to foster home?

[12:29] Yes, sometimes they do.

[12:30] And why is that?

[12:31] A lot of different reasons.

[12:33] I honestly, I have a personal story.

[12:36] My child was just relocated Saturday because of behavior issues.

[12:42] and I went and sat and held her for an hour as she cried.

[12:48] I get a call Monday that they they in turn gave notice and so now she has to go back to the original foster home

[12:56] and we're going to try to make accommodations and try to we're going to try to get her some counseling sooner

[13:03] and you know red red tape that takes a while that we're trying I'm trying to push and get her in sooner.

[13:07] So, that was just two moves in a weekend, so it does happen, they move around a lot.

[13:16] Life is messy.

[13:18] Life is very messy.

[13:19] Very messy, but these kids, yeah.

[13:21] And one thing about, you know, unfortunately, you the county has a very high number of generational foster care.

[13:31] So, when we go through the court system, everybody, it's kind of like Oprah, everybody gets an attorney.

[13:36] So the mom has one, the dad has one, the child has one.

[13:41] And we have a backup juvenile attorney because instances where we have this case,

[13:48] oh, the father was in foster care.

[13:50] So now the juvenile attorney then represents the father and then we have a stand-in juvenile

[13:55] attorney to represent the juvenile.

[13:58] So unfortunately we're hoping that at least for this amount that we can touch that we break

[14:05] that cycle from them.

[14:08] And that's why we're so invested in

[14:09] felony services that we want to help the parents. Because even

[14:12] it happens that parents don't get their kids back but they will have more

[14:16] kids for sure.

[14:21] Okay and so how we help, I know

[14:24] crutches already discussed a lot of items but we're basically their person.

[14:29] We're assigned one cost of child and we meet with them once a week for a

[14:34] minimum of an hour. You know and I'm a little extra I have two

[14:38] hours, but we just give them an hour or two of normalcy in their chaos.

[14:45] We take them to the park, we go to McDonald's, we just have some fun, but I am that voice

[14:52] for them.

[14:53] When I do my court report, I ask them, what do you want the judge to know about you?

[14:59] And I mean

[15:00] Anything from one of them said, I'm learning the jungle, the monkey bars, and I have a blister, put that on my court report, and the judge loves that stuff. She wants to know what these kids are doing and never has she had that opportunity to know the children. So we're the eyes and the ears of the judge. But more importantly, we give that child a voice. I was able to put in my previous case report that she wants to see her grandma. She hasn't seen her grandma in 12 months.

[15:29] And I'm a grandma, and I know if I don't see my grandsons and amount of time, I get kind

[15:34] of edgy.

[15:35] So I can imagine what her grandma's going through, put it in the court report and in court

[15:40] and I was in tears when the judge said, we're going to, because of what this child said,

[15:45] we're going to institute a once a month grandma visit.

[15:48] And I was so excited to go back to her next, the following visit and tell her, guess what?

[15:54] The judge heard you, and you're going to get to see her grandma.

[15:56] So that's what a cost it does is we are that voice for that child.

[16:06] So currently you know our numbers.

[16:08] We have 40, 45 classes currently active serving children, but there's a huge waiting list.

[16:19] And I mean, you can read all that for yourself, but my job is recruitment and engagement.

[16:26] So I am to be out in the community engaging with you all.

[16:30] I see Stuart all the time.

[16:32] And telling you all about class that.

[16:35] My other part of my job is to recruit you.

[16:40] So especially my other manager laughs at me.

[16:44] We need men because these boys need a good stable male role model.

[16:50] And the average volunteer is to be honest, 55-year-old female.

[16:56] So, I'm already batting a thousand, I need to get out there where the guys hang out, so Stuart, you guys hook me up with where the guys hang out.

[17:06] And it took us 20 years to sort of 96% of the foster kids in Placer County to get up there.

[17:13] We were very proud of that, but here we are really low, so we need more volunteers.

[17:18] And it's a big commitment we understand, but it's so needed.

[17:22] And I like to say we have a unique volunteer opportunity.

[17:28] It's not picking up trash on a Saturday.

[17:30] It's a 12 to 18 month commitment with a lot of, I'd say a lot of hoops you go through,

[17:38] but this is the most rewarding thing I have ever done.

[17:41] And I am a chamber ambassador, I'm a board member for the Food Bank.

[17:44] This is amazing and they've limited me to two kids right now.

[17:50] So I want more, but right now I have to stick with two.

[17:55] What are you doing to get the word out?

[17:57] Oh my gosh, I'm here.

[17:59] I'm here, so we're going to present to the county as well.

[18:04] We were over in Sutter because we're coming and we're opening Sutter later this year.

[18:10] Are you going to the service clubs?

[18:13] You can invite me to any service club.

[18:15] I will, okay, this is, I'm not a morning person, I'll just put that out there.

[18:19] I was out at 7 a.m. at Hard Rock and presented to the rotary dude, that was early, sorry, that was early.

[18:28] But yes, any opportunity that you know of that can get me in front of good quality people, I would love that opportunity.

[18:38] And in use letter you might have.

[18:40] Oh yes, New Supers would be great.

[18:42] Yes.

[18:42] Teachers are great.

[18:45] Retired teachers are amazing.

[18:48] So yes.

[18:49] If you could get us in front of people, that'd be great.

[18:52] Nicole is happy to speak anywhere.

[18:54] Do you have social media?

[18:55] We have social media.

[18:56] Yeah, thank you.

[18:58] We have a website.

[18:59] We have Facebook and Instagram.

[19:03] And I even came up with a fun idea that

[19:06] But if you know the large company that is having, let's just say, a safety meeting or a monthly team meeting, invite us to share because happy employees are employees that volunteer.

[19:20] So we want to help big business have healthy and happy employees.

[19:25] And we like their donations, too.

[19:30] And we've already discussed our numbers again that we have, like I said, about 40, 45 volunteers in Yuba County right now.

[19:41] And so the fun thing about it is a child can be in the Yuba County court system, but

[19:47] they could be in a foster home in Cedar County, they could be in Oroville, we could be even out of area.

[19:54] Yeah, we have one that currently that's in San Diego.

[19:57] Obviously, we're not going down there every week or so to visit them, but they still have a cost.

[20:03] They still are involved with them.

[20:05] So just because it says you, the county, I am also encouraging and

[20:10] advertising in Sutter County.

[20:12] We aren't open there yet, but I don't, I don't discriminate, I don't care where you live.

[20:16] As long as you're willing to drive and help a child in you, the county, I want you.

[20:24] So we have many programs and every program started with a staff member that said we have

[20:30] a need, and I mentioned before that a lot of the foster kids are at risk of being

[20:35] sex trafficked.

[20:36] They're just very vulnerable.

[20:37] They look for stability and sometimes people know that they take advantage of that.

[20:41] So we started to be bold program that works with kids at risk or are being sex trafficked.

[20:47] And we provide a peer group for them, education for them, and a volunteer.

[20:53] Next slide.

[20:55] K9 for kids, I know this is a program that we have in Placer County.

[20:59] We don't need it here because there is already a program for dogs that are at the courthouse.

[21:03] It always helps to calm kids down who have to attend a court meeting that there is a dog.

[21:08] And I think there's always one in Yuba County, so we don't need that here.

[21:14] Yeah, and I mentioned before we have a lot of programs that help families, it's a home

[21:21] visitation program where we have a volunteer meet the parents where they are and teach

[21:26] them basic life skills.

[21:27] And some of these parents have never learned to cook a meal for their kids, they have never

[21:31] learned that from their own parents.

[21:33] So our volunteers, you know, teach them finances, teach how to make a budget, sign up your

[21:40] kids for soccer, normal things that we think, but for them it's something new and we help

[21:46] them along the way.

[21:47] And you can click to the next slide.

[21:50] This is the PEG program that we also have here in Yuba County where we assign a volunteer

[21:55] as soon as the kid is removed.

[21:57] We assign a volunteer to the parent and help that parent work through the case plan.

[22:02] We also have a peer support group so these parents can meet other parents so they know they're

[22:06] not alone.

[22:07] and kind of discuss how things are going.

[22:11] There's often, there's a short window for these parents

[22:13] to get their kids back and oftentimes they blame everybody else

[22:17] for what's happening and we need to get them focused

[22:20] and get on that case plan.

[22:21] So me and the PIG program we're talking about

[22:24] is that additional training or is that within that 30-hour program?

[22:27] That's the 30-hour, yeah.

[22:28] They get an additional training for family services

[22:30] but that's just like a two-hour training

[22:32] and then they're already for family services.

[22:35] Those are 30 hours so you can be an advocate for a child, and then the PEG program is more.

[22:40] Yeah, you just want to have some additional information about the parent.

[22:44] The 30 hours is really focused on the kid.

[22:46] We want to make sure they know what it is like to be work to work with a parent.

[22:50] Okay, thank you.

[22:53] Then there's Kinship, Ally, so if kids can't stay with their parents, they have to go to foster care.

[22:59] Another priority is to have them with Kins, family members, soccer coach,

[23:04] whoever the kids identify, we just had a case in Turkey where grandparents had to take

[23:11] in five grandchildren. And they have a two bedroom apartment so now all of a sudden

[23:16] there are seven people and grandparents are in charge of everything. That can be overwhelming

[23:21] and we want to make sure the parents grandparents stay with that commitment. We don't want the

[23:26] foster kid to go again to some wells so we help those kinship caregivers with basic

[23:33] Sometimes finances kick in later, they take that kid in, it's overnight, sometimes they're

[23:39] not prepared.

[23:40] So we help them with beds and mattresses, whatever we can, food to stabilize that and to make

[23:46] sure grandparents can take those five kids in for a longer period of time.

[23:51] And this is hard, because grandparents, it's their kids that have messed up.

[23:56] That's why the kids had to be removed, it's very emotional.

[24:00] We want to make sure these kids are stable.

[24:02] And for me, those grandparents are just superheroes because they envision their retirement a little bit different than having all of a sudden five kids in their home, but yeah, can show allies is another program.

[24:14] So many, many programs. Thank you so much for your time. We really need you to recruit for us. And I give it over to Nicole.

[24:22] And there are a lot of ways to help, like she mentioned, the Family Service Program.

[24:27] So if running around at a park with a younger child is not your cup of tea,

[24:31] we would love to help you help a parent.

[24:35] Like she said, the PEG program is here in Yuba County.

[24:40] We are actively matching parents.

[24:42] We are recruiting and training volunteers for that specific program.

[24:46] And basically, how I like to describe it in my information sessions is,

[24:50] It's parents looking at this list and it's like you can't eat the whole elephant and one

[24:54] bite.

[24:55] And so the pig volunteer helps them look at it one bite at a time, accomplish one thing,

[25:00] and then let's praise you for that.

[25:02] And then we have now more strength to go onto the next one.

[25:06] We also have a cost of store and the word store is misleading.

[25:11] There's no cost to this child.

[25:13] They can come in and get a couple toys.

[25:15] We have a lot of books.

[25:17] everything brand new because they deserve it right and I don't want my

[25:21] cost of store to start smelling so yes they are all brand new. You can make a

[25:27] donation to the cost of store or you can go to our Amazon list pick a couple

[25:31] items or you could give me a donation and I'll do the shopping for you. I like

[25:38] to shop so that that is not a downside for me. We also have a extra

[25:45] curriculum fund, so let's say this child wants to play soccer, they want to learn piano.

[25:51] We want them to have as much of normalcy as possible, so we have a fund that can help

[25:57] reimburse that cost for the foster parents to get them that soccer team or get them some

[26:03] piano lessons.

[26:04] I just recently got my two sisters bicycles because everyone in the foster home had a bike

[26:10] except them.

[26:11] And there's like three foster homes in that little cul-de-sac and they all the kids are out playing and writing bikes except my two and I wasn't going to let that happen. So we got them bicycles and helmets.

[26:24] So there's a huge need and there's a lot of different ways that you can help.

[26:29] You can, even from the smallest thing of sharing our social media posts, telling your friends and neighbors.

[26:37] This may not be the right fit for you, but it's going to be a perfect fit for your best friend or your neighbor or your sister.

[26:45] So I think we're probably at the end.

[26:51] So thank you so much for your time.

[26:55] And like I said, we would love to have your help and spread the word.

[27:00] Because, like I said, it might not be the perfect fit for your schedule right now, but everybody knows somebody.

[27:07] Did we have any questions?

[27:10] Sure, commend you for everything you're doing.

[27:15] And you're hitting the service clubs and rotary clubs can want us and what have you?

[27:20] That's the low-hanging fruit I'm trying to think of other places to go, why?

[27:24] Yeah, yeah, those are good.

[27:26] And retired teachers, that's a good one.

[27:29] Yes, we need more men we do yes, of gosh thank you, and this is all new to me, and I

[27:40] Yeah, I commend and we have a little tiny office

[27:45] 628 D street across from lip and Sullivan so if you ever want to stop by we do keep the door locked because

[27:52] We do get walk-ins that we don't need so we don't take offense

[27:58] Yeah, so we do keep the door locked, but just knock on the door and somebody will happily open it for you

[28:04] We'd love to take you on a tour show you our facility. We have a playroom, so the classic can bring the child and they can read books

[28:11] They can do art

[28:13] They can play. We have a giant connect for so there's a lot of different things that we can do to utilize a free visit with the child

[28:21] It doesn't always have to cost money

[28:22] Have you gotten some time on 93Q, the local registry?

[28:26] I've gone on before, I need to get back, well, we did a really nice presentation.

[28:31] I had someone come down from Placer County and fish didn't push the right button.

[28:37] So you heard me on the radio, but the best part of the whole 93Q thing is the Facebook.

[28:43] And so you can see us blabbing, but you can't hear us talking.

[28:46] So I do need to get on again.

[28:51] I have not connected. I lost my, I lost my connections. So he moved away.

[29:00] So I get ahold of him. He's, no, this, this, this would be a good press for him.

[29:05] Yeah. That's good. So yeah, connect me with anybody.

[29:08] You know, everybody. So hook me up.

[29:11] So I, I got one question. Where do you get the bulk of your funding from?

[29:16] From grants, we apply for grants.

[29:19] We do have a couple of pretty large fundraisers that are pretty successful, that do bring us some funding, the bulk of our funding comes from grants.

[29:28] Are they state, or state and federal?

[29:31] About 60% is state and federal, and the rest is private donations and events.

[29:35] So we are really working hard on reducing the federal and the state grants.

[29:41] And we are a 501-C-3 nonprofit, so we are a separate entity.

[29:47] We are not connected to caps, we're not connected to the court system, we're not connected to any governmental agency.

[29:53] We just do apply for grants from them.

[29:56] Thank you, you're welcome here any time.

[29:59] Thank you.

[30:02] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[30:17] Now,

[30:21] we have anyone online? Can you tell me? We don't. No, Mayor. Anyway, now is the time for public comment on any item on the consent calendar or any item not on the posted agenda. Do we have any speakers? No, we do not. I could have saved all that. We now move to

[30:44] consent calendar and all matters on this agenda are considered routine and therefore typically approved by one motion and let's say council member or the city manager first requested a matter to be removed from the consent agenda separate discussion and action.

[31:03] What is the will of the council?

[31:05] Move to approve.

[31:06] Second.

[31:07] All in favour?

[31:08] Aye.

[31:09] I heard all five there.

[31:15] Councillor, would it be okay to, we're going to go in a closed session here.

[31:20] Would it be okay to do council comments, council correspondence, and the city manager's reporting

[31:24] now before we do that?

[31:25] Without it.

[31:27] I wouldn't subjecting.

[31:29] There we go.

[31:30] So we will be going into a closed session and when we come back we'll issue a quick report

[31:38] except one is forthcoming.

[31:45] So let's do council comments now, I

[31:52] think nothing to offer,

[31:57] comments or reports?

[31:58] Okay, I wrote down what I had done in the last couple of weeks, so keep me informed of where I've been.

[32:06] I attended the say called the transportation meeting where the significant discussion regarding the transportation improvement program funding.

[32:14] It's essential, I love this, that they say this.

[32:17] It's essential that we present a unified voice regionally to advocate for additional state and federal funding.

[32:24] I like that, you know, that's what we need to do here.

[32:30] Additionally, I attended the planning commission meeting and was pleased to hear that the general plan was approved by the commission, commissioners and hopefully it'll be moving forward to cancel soon.

[32:43] I'd like to express my gratitude to the Mary's old police department code enforcement team for addressing the potential code violation.

[32:52] Send an email, taken care of that day, also to public works for resolving the residents

[32:59] concern regarding a raised manhole in the road.

[33:03] And I think those gentlemen were at our last meeting about this, but the great news

[33:10] that the Mary's Will Fire Department received the Cal Grant, the Water Grant, and I'm looking

[33:18] forward to the Buckeye Festival, March 1st and 2nd, so I hope to see all of you there.

[33:24] And thank you to the staff for your continued support.

[33:32] Sir, did anything to share with you?

[33:34] I do not, but I would love to thank Councilman Rollins for that amazing

[33:40] presentation.

[33:41] Thank you.

[33:41] Now I'm going to have to up my game.

[33:47] Oh, anyway, thank you very much.

[33:49] I have no comment.

[33:50] Other than the usual, thank you very much, City staff.

[33:54] And of course I, you know, I take trail behind Margie,

[33:59] with my tail between my legs.

[34:01] But everything she said, I fully agree with.

[34:04] Thank you guys very much, all your hard work.

[34:09] Councilman Hudson?

[34:10] So mine is definitely not as detailed as Councilman Rollins.

[34:16] So keep it up, you're making everybody look mad.

[34:22] I have no real commuter reports as we're meeting this week with a couple things back going on there.

[34:32] I just do want to say thank you to our staff because the fact you guys are the ones that keep us running and all the departments.

[34:40] Yes, I too am looking forward to the back kind of few weeks.

[34:43] We have another meeting before then, but yeah, we're safe on that point, so that's all.

[34:49] Thank you very much.

[34:51] Mr. Busmer.

[34:54] No committee reports, although we've got some things going on that we will eventually bring

[35:03] back to the council, but at this point there's nothing.

[35:06] and I do want to bring up, I believe.

[35:12] Can you guys bring a home invasion around chief?

[35:16] Can you have a home invasion that you took care of recently?

[35:21] Turned out to be more than you expected?

[35:26] Yes, it was Sunday morning.

[35:29] So it was definitely a gentleman within extensive criminal

[35:35] history on it was like more than six pages that he's just a violent criminal

[35:42] terrorizing the streets he broke in to his ex-girlfriends house with the ghost

[35:48] gun that had a 30-round capacity magazine on it. She pulled out her legally

[35:54] possessed handgunned, they wrestled over him, he took off with them. Our officers

[35:59] were pinging the phones. He was located a short time later running across

[36:04] 10th Street. He was apprehended right before he got stopped. He ditched both guns, but

[36:11] both guns were located and recovered. He went to a rainment this afternoon. We were hoping

[36:17] to do a three strikes case on him, but some of the criteria didn't fit. But he's still looking

[36:24] at 12 to 16 years somewhere and there on the current charges. So he's been calling from

[36:30] the jail threatening and stuff so it is keeps adding to the punches but it was a good case

[36:36] and our team did a great job getting a bad bad bad man off the street so hopefully the

[36:43] system will do its purpose and keep them there for a while.

[36:47] I just wanted to say a good job sorry I'm going to die a tribe but no I don't know I definitely

[36:54] definitely want to hear all that from you just and to say good job and to say

[36:59] it's it's nice to have gotten the spotlight of our fire chief here for a while

[37:08] and I'm sure he's pleased for that too so we'll throw a little bit of it on

[37:15] you thank well as far as my comments I've been out of the loop a little bit lately

[37:25] trying to get back into swing of things.

[37:30] Councilman Rollins has been kind enough to substitute for me at Seikon, so do it again on Thursday.

[37:39] We are, I'm at the very beginning of analyzing all of the material that California Water Services provided us to do this for a living.

[37:52] It's interesting, and it's leading to some initial impressions that are encouraging, other

[38:04] than that.

[38:05] Mr. Report, Mr. City Manager.

[38:13] Thank you.

[38:14] I already

[38:19] mentioned that Bakai Festival is on March 1st and 2nd.

[38:25] I hope to see everybody there.

[38:26] there.

[38:29] Also, Ubicutter Chamber of Commerce Happy Hour at Cisco's restaurant, tomorrow,

[38:35] at 5.30 pm.

[38:40] If you can make that, that would be great as well. A couple of things that

[38:45] will be most likely be bringing to council here in the near future. One is Groundwater Sustainability

[38:55] plan. We somewhat overlap with the Eagle Water Agency's ground water sustainability agency.

[39:08] They have the entire north and south basins, but Mary's bill at some point in time had their own

[39:19] We can opt to submit our own plan, or we can utilize the Water Agency's plan, and so we'll be bringing that to Council of the Recommendation likely to utilize the Water Agency's plan.

[39:33] Again, we also are working on and will likely bring an item to council on our 200 year levy certification extension.

[39:43] And we are working with folks in Sacramento to tag on to a bill to allow that.

[39:50] Essentially, we haven't completed our levy work in the time frame the state gave us.

[39:57] So we, with many others, are in that situation, and we're asking for an extension.

[40:03] That has to be done via state legislation of bill.

[40:07] And fortunately, it looks like SAC is going to let us tag onto their bill and move forward with that.

[40:14] We're at the mercy of the US Army Corps of Engineers to get that done.

[40:19] So we don't expect it to be done on the original time frame, and

[40:25] will be asking for a extension for that.

[40:28] That was it.

[40:30] We will now adjourn to close session.

[40:33] That's it.

[40:34] See you later.

[1:02:48] We

[1:02:59] are now reconvening to open session. Thank you very much, Mr. City Attorney. What do you have to share? Mr. Mayor, the city council went into closed session, received a briefing from its staff to no reportable action. Thank you, sir. The next regular meeting will be on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 6 p.m. We're adjourned.

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