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Well, we'll tell you what else we're meeting this afternoon. Council member, will you please state?

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Council member.

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Can measure G.

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Special, but that visible for.

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Appeals submitted by.

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I'm beginning my fifth commission appointed by the appointed by the other.

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Ryan Fitzgerald.

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I'm heart elected by the cloud and middle.

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We have commissioner today.

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who decouncil and bring Shah and recruiting ex to our commitment.

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And one of our key functions is reviewing and promulgating eligibility lists

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from the recruits that are HR Department conducts and that's consistent with civil service rule

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five and over the last year HR conducted 65 recruits.

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That included both open which means external and promotional which means internal recruitment

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in the Civil Service Commission reviewed and promulgated those lists upon HR's recommendations.

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And so, how do we got to those lists in the promulgation of those lists?

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Through job bears and hiring events, and here you'll see pictures of our staff, including HR staff,

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and members of our police department as well, helping out on those recruitment efforts,

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and we wanted to help sort of personalize the efforts that are being done in the collaborative

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nature of our recruitment team partnering with our operational departments.

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So, over the past year, the Civil Service Commission has recommended to this council six

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classification revisions and for new classification specifications.

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And so far, the city council has adopted all of our recommendations, which were to

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provides the specs for our deputy fire chief, our battalion chief, fire captain, fire fire

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paramedic, and firefighter, the city council also adopted our newly recommended

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class specs for parks planning manager and emergency manager, and later on today you're

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going to be asked to consider item 6C on your consent agenda, and that will rev-

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This is through job bears and hiring events, and here you'll see pictures of our staff, including HR staff, and members of our police department as well, helping out on those recruitment efforts.

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And we wanted to help sort of personalize the efforts that are being done in the collaborative nature of our recruitment team partnering with our operational departments.

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So, over the past year, the Civil Service Commission has recommended to this Council six

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classification revisions and four new classification specifications.

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And so far, the City Council has adopted all of our recommendations, which were to revise

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the specs for our deputy fire chief, our battalion chief, fire captain, fire fire paramedic,

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and firefighter.

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City Council also adopted our newly recommended class specs for Parks Planning Manager and Emergency Manager.

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And later on today, you're going to be asked to consider item 6C on your consent agenda.

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And that will revise the class specs for the fire marshal and add new specs for the Senior Fire Inspector and Fire Inspector.

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Level 1 and 2, and that's a recommendation that the Civil Service Commission made last month.

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We also have an update for you regarding the makeup of the commission and that is the city clerk's office held an employee election for the one classified employee elected vacancy

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That individual Joe Russo retired firefighter is now the commissioner and so he was

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Joining his first meeting in August and we're excited to have a full quorum at the commission and with that happy to

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Answer any questions

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Thank you, MJ.

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Thank you.

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Nice to meet you, Ryan.

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Maybe we've run in each other across the way.

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But, you know, the holiday, the Ashley holiday, and the holiday, and the holiday,

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is that's because Ashley had a brother scat holiday, and holiday.

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So, when I first looked at that, I was a bit of a father-son team,

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we actually lived in the same neighborhood as children as the holiday.

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So, they know Ashley had a career with an education.

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Now, the Civil Service Commission has been with us, I believe, since the 50s, reading history

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in the city, because it was before the establishment of really labor organizations, the

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Civil Service, handled a lot of those issues over the years.

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So, but thanks for all the hard work you do over there with hiring and reclassifications.

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All the work you do, I don't know if there's any comments questions from the Council for

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Civil Service.

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Thank you.

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Thanks for volunteering during your time and keeping up with all it rotates around in HR.

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It's a busy place.

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It is.

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I'm happy to do it.

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Thank you very much.

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We have a great team over there.

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I think Mr. Russel will be a good addition to your team.

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Yes, so far so good for him.

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Thank you for your interest and thanks for your time.

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Thanks for coming down.

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We're going to believe, move right in to Major G. Oversight.

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Good afternoon, Mayor and Council Liz, have Kirk with the City Manager's office.

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We're going to go from one of your longest-standing commissions to your newest commission.

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I'm happy to be here today to provide you an update report on the Measure G. Oversight Committee

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and to help share some of the work that the committee has been focused on over the last year.

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And items that we're looking forward to.

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I am joined here today by Vice Chair Benjamin Horne.

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He'll say a few words at the end of the presentation.

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So the Measure G. Oversight Committee is made up of five members.

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Our current chair is Jill Tekkel for Vice Chair as Benjamin Horne.

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Members include Carol Barge, Jonathan Schellen, and you'll notice the familiar face, Suzanne Mason, also on your measure G oversight committee.

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Member Hort, Vice Chair Horn actually is in the accounting financial professional seat that you appointed, and Member Mason is appointed to the local government professional seat.

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So the oversight committee was included in the Measure G ballot language approved by the voters in November 2024.

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more. Specifically, the oversight committee is, they have oversight of the city's management

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of the new transaction and use tax, measure G, which was enacted by those voters.

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There are primary responsibilities, including reviewing and reporting on the annual audit

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of the measure G revenues and expenditures, confirming that those expenditures are consistent

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with your council priorities, receiving presentations regarding projects, initiatives,

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it's regarding

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What they felt were important, components for the public to see. And although that annual report and this initial

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one was only for the last quarter of fiscal year 2425, because that's when we started receiving

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measure G money, I think we did a good job based on the committee's input and direction to make

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sure that we were telling the whole story of measure G and what the focus was.

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I'm happy to answer questions at the end, but I would invite the Vice Chair to come up and

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right some comments as well.

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Thank you, Liz.

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I'm Benjamin.

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Good afternoon.

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Mayor and council members.

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This past year is the inaugural year

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of the measure Jesus in the oversight committee,

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following the implementation of the voter

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approved sales tax measure.

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Much of the committee's first year focused

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on establishing a strong foundation for our work.

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We adopted bylaws developed our meeting structure

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and schedule and spent time understanding

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the city's budgeting, accounting,

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financial tracking system, so the measure G revenues and expenditures could be reviewed effectively.

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The committee also received presentations from staff regarding measure G projects, services, and plan investments.

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One accomplishment I'm particularly proud of was the committee's work on the inaugural measure G and your report.

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Because measure G only went into effect on April 1st, 2025, the report was based on a relatively short period.

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of financial activity that committee wanted to provide residents not only with initial revenue

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and expenditure information, but also with background on measure G, and explanation of

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how funds are being tracked and the look ahead at projects and services being funded.

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Precinct clear and accessible report was an important first step in fulfilling the

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community's commitment to transparency and public accountability.

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As measure G moves forward, beyond its startup phase, the committee's focus will increasingly

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shift to oversight responsibilities.

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We look forward to reviewing a more complete year of revenue and expenditure information, tracking

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progress on measure G projects and continuing to ensure that expenditures align with the

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priorities established by the Council and communicated to voters.

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The committee will also continue working with staff to refine the inner reporting process and

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ensure members receive the information necessary to effectively carry out our oversight role

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on behalf of the community.

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I know that I have appreciated the professionalism of both city staff and my fellow committee members during the first year and I'm excited to see the committee continue to mature

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as measure G enters its first full years of implementation.

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Thank you for the opportunity to serve.

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Happy to answer any questions.

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Thank you, Benjamin.

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Can you do these things?

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Thank you.

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Sometimes it's not the most exciting work.

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Do you all those numbers least not from me?

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Well, it's inform me from me being sort of new to the government process and learning a lot from Liz.

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it's been very helpful and met with me once or twice to talk about how things kind of work

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and how the process works and that's been very helpful in an educational experience for me.

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So that's been nice.

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Great. Council? Any comments, questions? The term, the appointments are they two years

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staggered? I think we did three people were two years and two people were three years.

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And I think I'm a three year. I and Jill's a three year. I believe in the rest of two.

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Yeah, the other three members will come up for re-appointment or new appointment.

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The clerk will go through their normal process in next June of 2027.

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Thank you.

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You also remember to advise us.

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Thanks for commenting.

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Just want to say, you know, you all do in a really great job, the community responding well to the

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information, to the signs, to just, they're physically seeing the work done.

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So everybody here is part of that.

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So, thank you, just continuing to go to work.

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Thank you.

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We'll move on to the next item.

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Next report comes out of the public finance authority for the NAPA enhanced infrastructure

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finance district,

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Mr. Neil Harris, provide a intro and brief report from staff.

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Good afternoon, Mayor, Council members.

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Neil Harris, an economic development manager, and I am going to talk about the public financing

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afternoon, Mayor. Council members, Neil Harris, an economic development manager, and I am going to talk about the public financing authority, certainly not as all this civil service commission, and a few years older than measure G.

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One of the start-off by describing enhanced infrastructure financing district because this is what the PFA governs.

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So the EIFD is a financing tool that captures future growth and property tax increment.

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And I think this visual, if you can see it, illustrates it well, where you create a district, a boundary, and you have a baseline assess value of that property value.

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And then the light blue is the development within the districts, it's incremental growth over time.

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And then the green is a new development that comes within district.

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So with the EIFD does, it captures the new development and the existing development incremental value.

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And a portion of that value goes into the EIFD fund.

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And so then that fund can fund public infrastructure improvements.

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Like it can be used like a checking account so you can just kind of use the money within the fund or you can issue debt and you can bond against that fund.

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One of the point out it's not a new tax, it's just an accounting tool to park money aside for public improvements.

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The public financing authority is that governing body responsible for administering the

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EIFD. So it oversees the implementation of what's called the infrastructure financing

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plan. So when an EIFD is established, there's an EIFP in the financing plan. That illustrates

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It's kind of projected value that the fund's going to get in generate as well as kind

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of main priorities of use of those funds.

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So the PFA in the city council actually adopted the IFP when it established infrastructure

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financing district.

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The PFA also reviews and accepts annual reports, so every year they have to purer the law,

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except the annual report that includes kind of the financials, and if there's been any use of funds.

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Most importantly, the financing authority, they consider the priorities of that funding and authorizes the use of the FD funds for eligible projects.

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It's made up of five members, the authority, three council members.

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So council members, Mary Laurel's, who's the chair, burning of riots, and Beth

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Painter's Sir Ron, the PFA, and we have two members of the public, Alex Crown, and then

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we have one vacancy currently.

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The map here gives you illustrates the district boundaries, so it's a non-contiguous boundaries

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across the city, the greater downtown, as well as the river sound in the south, and then

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some other areas that were deemed the overtime would see additional development. So Jefferson

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Street corridor, which was a general plan, focus area, Tannery Bend, and so forth. The EIFD

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was established in fiscal year 22, accruals to date are $950,000, and this current fiscal year

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projected to be $435,000. No EIFD, no projects have been, the funds have not been used,

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there's been no EIFD projects to date. As it works with these increment tax increment tools,

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they sort of stabilize. So the first few years kind of sees a steady revenue stream in growth

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and as new development comes in, so like River Sound with Costco and the housing, downtown

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redevelopment, you're going to see more an increase in EIFD. And so to date, the PFA, the public

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financing authorities have really been focused on the annual report adoption because there hasn't

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than any spending of the EIFD funds thus far.

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It's a long term financing tool.

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The district itself lasts 45 years. Again, the PFA is established to provide the governance and transparency of the use of funds.

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And then the next PFA meeting, this fall, so we have to at least meet once a year in the calendar year to adopt the annual report.

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And we would like to also discuss various projects and the use of funds going forward.

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And then below you can see the infrastructure financing plan, all the annual reports, all that is documented and it lives on our city webpage under our economic development sub webpage.

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That's all I got.

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Thanks Neil.

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And since we have three council members on that, we should probably have some insight from them.

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But you'd mention the infrastructure as projects, and no projects currently, but primarily it's used for infrastructure.

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Or could other projects such as.

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So it has to be for projects that will have a life of 15 plus years.

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So, it can do public infrastructure, street scape improvements.

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Again, work with affordable housing, it can do park improvements, transportation improvements.

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It's pretty broad and it has to have community-wide significance.

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Thank you.

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Nelson Murphyner.

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Thank you, Neil.

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I'm a fellow council member.

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I just wanted to say, I really think we were ahead of the curve on establishing our PFA

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and EIFD and all the acronyms that go along with it.

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I think we're ahead of many other jurisdictions in California

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and I'm just really proud of our ability to take that step.

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We're moving from six figures to seven figures.

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And that's kind of exciting.

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I know it's a slow incremental growth.

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But you can see this here that it is going to make a real difference.

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And so I just, I mean, that's really all I wanted to say

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that I think we've made a good move to set this up and appreciate all the efforts that went into that.

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And I would encourage, and one thing that it could be used for, for example, are parking structures.

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Anyways, we're not quite there yet, but we are building and I look forward to next steps.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, remember on 2022, and this was proposed to Council at the time, it was kind of hard for me to kind of get a grasp on

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that was doing, but like CalSmart and Painter mentioned, it was a wise decision at the time

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to put us in a good position for future growth and projects to help fund those needs.

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So I don't see anybody else lit up. Council, we'd good. Chair Leros, on the committee.

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Since you called me out, yeah, no, it sounds great. I just remembered when CalSmart

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member painter several years ago,

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said it was trying to describe a pit bit coin.

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Same kind of thing.

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It's just kind of complicated and hard to explain,

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but it's going to be really helpful when the time comes.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Neil.

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And I should ask public comment on these two.

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I have no request.

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I have no comment cards for this item.

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If there is anyone on Zoom who would like to comment,

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please raise your hand.

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That's fine.

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I do, we do have a hand raised on Zoom here, so I'll go ahead and Lori, we will now make your comment.

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Hi, I just wanted to comment, mainly on your measure of G, of how not to do it.

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We were all happy and city of Cototti in 2014.

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We had our own measure G, and we thought the money would be,

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this is, would be saying everything, have input.

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Now, it is, once a year, it's a 45-minute meeting,

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the commission does not

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The cynicism committee does not discuss what's in there, basically everything, including

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it's, they just, they can be paying for toilet paper with that money, and they are

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market that it's measured for the toilet.

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It's, I just want to warn you of that to keep the citizens committee very much involved in everything or you'll have a situation like Cotani.

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What happened in 2020 and Cotani is measure two.

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Any was said setting, so they in 2023, so they made it for forever tax, so they could take out $12 million

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in bonds for pension and street repairs. So just keep your eyes on what's going, and hopefully

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you keep involved, and hopefully your citizens will do it there a great job. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank

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you.

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Any other public comment on any of the three presentations?

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Thank you.

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Right.

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We will move on to item 5 on a agenda public comment on non agenda items during the public

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comment portion of the meeting the public is invited to address the council on any item within

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the subject matter jurisdiction of the council that is not on the agenda.

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Please focus your comments either on past actions taken by the council or proposed future

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actions to be taken by the council. However, if the subject of the public comment is not on the agenda state law strictly limits the council's ability to respond at this meeting.

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So I'll ask our city clerk to explain how participants can in the meeting can participate remotely on Zoom.

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Thanks, Mayor, so for this will be our last, oh yes, we have one more comment section, but for each section on the agenda when public comment is called members of the public who wish to speak on the item should use Zoom's raise your hand button to indicate that you would like to speak for those who have joined the meeting by calling into the teleconference line push star 9 to indicate that you would wish to speak when the item of interest comes up.

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We will be calling on each speaker and allowing them to turn on their microphone to comment.

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When prompted to speak, you may be asked unmute. If you're on the phone, the command is

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star six to unmute. Time is limited to three minutes as indicated on the timer. We will call on

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members of the public participating first in person and followed by remote participants. So for

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general public comments here in person. I do have a comment card from Jim Hinton and also

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Councilman George Barrett. All right, please come up.

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Good afternoon Jim Hinton 45 spring street

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Napa. As a candidate for city council I've been doing a small business listening tour.

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I've been going to the businesses in my district asking them what kind of concerns they have.

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I made several visits to 1017 Cumesville Road, which is Fairview Market, right across the cemetery where many of my ancestors are buried.

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And I finally, after three or four tries, I was able to meet with the owner on Saturday morning.

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He asked me to come back on Sunday morning.

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I came back Sunday morning, I told them that I was against the red light cameras, I was

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against all these aggressive fees on businesses and business license, that you all just

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raised, and he told me I support you, get your sign up there, and he took down a sign,

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I put my sign up, and I went to my fantasy football draft.

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I got Napa High Alumni Brock Bower, so I'm pretty pumped up about that.

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And I come home and I have an email from my opponent, Councilwoman Mary Leros, who

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she sent from her work email or law firm.

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Hi James, I wanted to let you know that someone from your campaign removed one of my

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campaign science today and replaced it with one of yours.

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I have permission from the property owner to have my sign

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at that location, Savor Serrano, and by the way,

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they are a great local business with great tacos.

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Everyone should support them.

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She wrote 10, 17, Combsville Road,

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and it's private property, so it should have not been removed.

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Please have whoever placed your sign there,

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and remove it today, otherwise it will be taken down.

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I'd also appreciate it if you could remind your campaign team and volunteers not to remove or interfere with my signs going forward.

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I will, of course, make sure my campaign extends the same courtesy to yours.

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If there are any further incidences involving the removal or interference with my signs, I will take whatever legal action is appropriate to address it.

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so this

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Mr. Hinton, can I remellange you as I explained earlier subject matter jurisdiction of the council? Sign war.

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Don't interrupt me, Mayor. This is my moment to speak to you to try to stay on task.

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Well, I'm getting it. It'll come around like it always does. I always get it back on task. You have a sign ordinance. Don't you?

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Yeah, it's getting on tap. You have a sign ordinance. So I don't appreciate the lie. He said that I don't have permission and that you do.

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And I really don't appreciate the legal action threat.

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I doesn't scare me.

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I'm not afraid of you.

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And as far as your sign ordinance, you should enforce it when it comes down to it.

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You know, I know Mary, you've been telling people I'm a psychopath, and you don't like me,

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and you're all endorsing each other, and you're just a big gang, and you're going to discredit me it.

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step you can. You're going to interrupt me here. You're going to do whatever you can

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because you know I might win.

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Good afternoon council staff.

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I'm former city councilman

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George Barrage. I'm asking for a little extra time for a ADA accommodation. I'd like to first

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thank councilman Bernie for reaching out to me by phone. We had a nice little chat on the phone one

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week and day. So thank you Bernie. I've talked to you in the past that I have appealed a parking

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citation to the third level now. If you can believe this, you're parking a

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peel process is a broken and corrupt. I could never confront my accusers in the

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appeal process. So I finally had to appeal to Superior Court Napa to get

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do process. I gave the city time to stop the madness. So I appeared in Superior

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court last month. I brought my documents. I brought my evidence. I brought my witnesses.

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My case was the last case to be called in Superior Court. I watched case after case

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go before me that were dismissed because the police officers did not show up. That's pretty

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pretty standard practice. So my case was called on one side Mr. Benson with the City of

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happens on the other side, the city could not authenticate anything, no evidence, no corroboration,

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no authentication. So obviously I moved to dismiss before the judge for lack of evidence.

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The court asked me to explain my facts and I did. The court asked me the judge's lecture

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Mr. Benson, where is the city's evidence and the parking officer involved in the citation?

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And how in a hell does she rule for the city when they couldn't put on a case?

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So Benson explains that she no longer works with the city.

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Oh, surprise, surprise.

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Now but went to court with no witnesses, no evidence, for months a city knew they had no evidence.

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yet they put me through this, it was all BS to intimidate me, to stop me from standing up for my rights.

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The judge finally took the case under submission, such he's going to get back to us by mail.

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As of today, I have no ruling from her.

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So I'm here.

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So last week, I get a bill from the city of Napa for $350 to bring more pain to injury.

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Now if I don't pay this invoice, my excellent credit is at risk.

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Do you see how insane this has all become? It's insane.

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Mr. Potter and the City Attorney's Office should have intervened.

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We could have got this done in 10 minutes, but they didn't.

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It should have shot the conscience of the court and the city council that Mr. Benson

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tried to extort money out of me and would not listen to reason in his office.

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The city is spending thousands of dollars now trying to answer my PRA requests on this case.

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The parking officer who cited me was most likely fired for incompetence, so she didn't show up, right?

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Who is watching the store?

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What more must I do to help you?

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You need citizens to oversee this appeal process in the parking citation area for violations.

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For violating our civil rights here, you could end up in federal court for coercion.

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Just like this, nobody wants unwanted litigation like this. So please, I'm asking you to get a handle on this, and places on an upcoming agenda because the system's broken. And I'm here to help you. Thank you.

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Anyone else in the audience with wishing to address the council under public comment?

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We'll go to... I do have one hand raised from Lori.

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Go ahead Lori.

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Hi. I want to... I'm a friend of George. We've paired before together. I wanted... It's

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another... Do not do as Catotti does. Lesson for you all.

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People... like in

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quote and forceman and guitarity, you're assumed guilt, and then, like you're given a ticket

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and you have to, even to go to a pill, you have to pay the whole fine. There shouldn't,

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there should be an easy appeal process fair and easy with it. Instead of having to do all

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other stuff, and it gets down to people's personalities and everything, and the selective

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enforcement comes in and all this kind of stuff of who they're going to work with and

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who they're not, and I just think you need to really make it pretty easy to appeal, don't

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make it harder and have the fines keep going up and up and up, but have it go to a, like an alternative board or something. Thank you. Bye.

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Thank you.

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I see, and I see no other hands on.

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All right. Well, thank you for your comments and this time we will move on to our consent calendar item six.

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Consent calendar items are considered routine and may be approved by a single vote of the council.

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Have remembers of the public or the city council may request the consent item be pulled for discuss.

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There are six consent items identified on the agenda for the calendar and its item six a through six.

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Is there a request to pull a consent item if not not online?

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Is there no hands up no one to read and this is anyone online wish to pull a consent item calendar for comment?

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Okay.

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I have no requests in

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Lights, no steps.

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I can motion to adopt the consent calendar motion to move the consent calendar by councilmember Nerviahs.

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Second.

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Second by councilmember Painter all in favor signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed?

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Motion carries consent calendar.

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Moving right along,

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any comments by council members or the city manager?

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Mayor, I do have one quick reminder for the community and that is that the Harvest Park

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project is currently in the community engagement phase and the city is hosting two in-person

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town halls, one in English and one in Spanish, where residents can share their ideas for the

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future recreation campus at the former Harvest Middle School.

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Both sessions will be held in a small gym on the Harvest campus at 2447 Old

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Sonoma Road. The English language session is tomorrow Wednesday,

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September 2nd at 6 p.m. with Spanish translation available.

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And the Spanish language session is Thursday, September 3rd at 6 p.m.

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People can also get more information at cityofnapa.org forward slash harvest project if they would like.

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Thank you.

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Should be well attended.

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Council member painter.

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I just wanted to say thank you to everybody involved in doing the new art project in our crosswalks in downtown.

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I know for some it was a couple of days of a little bit of rough traffic but I think it's looking incredible

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and it's an opportunity where we're combining art and public safety, which I think is fantastic.

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So I just wanted to say thank you and I'm excited to see it.

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I also remember in our lives.

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Thank you, sir.

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Excuse me.

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I want to extend my invitation to everybody to attend the 9-11.

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I'm more of a service on September 11th. I am 11 a.m. at Memorial Garden. I am the 11 Memorial Garden. Our mayor is going to make some remarks. Thank you for going to participate. Just a short and respectful service to

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Petrie with two of the victims and heroes of the tragic event. So 11 a.m., September 11th. Thank you. Thank you for organizing that each year,

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nothing left.

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I will go to the city attorney to provide the comments before close session.

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Thank you, Mayor, and city council members.

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We have two items that are going to close session.

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The first is conference with your real property negotiators.

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The property is an application district, former pump station, 1210 West Street, APN003,

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1, 4, 4, 0, 0, 9.

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I'm not going to list all the city negotiators.

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They're listed here in the agenda for anyone to view,

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and the negotiating parties are City of Napa

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and Napa Sanitation District.

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What's under negotiation is the price in terms of the payment.

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The second item is conference with labor negotiators.

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Your city designated representatives are

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The potter Liz Hashap Kirk, Julie Lucito, MJ Turrows, Donnelly, Fabio Rodriguez, and Jesse

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Ladd.

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The Employer Organization is now a police officer's association.

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Thank you.

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And the clerk did advise me.

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There's opportunity for public comment on June.

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Correct.

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I have no cards from members of the public to comment.

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But just one last check.

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If there's anyone on June who would like to make comment on the close session items.

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Please raise your hand now.

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And I see no hands there.

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All right.

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At this point we will adjourn to close session.

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We do not have an evening meeting.

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So do we expect any reportable action after close session?

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There will be no reportable action.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you everyone.