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more good evening everyone now you can
hear me all right I call to order
today's council meeting on March 11th
2025 tonight the pledge will be led by
Joseph Dominguez and the invocation will
be delivered by pastor Grady Jones
please stand for the pledge the flag put
your right hand over your heart ready
begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of
the United States of America and to the
Republic for stands one nation under God
indivisible with liy and justice for
all please remain standing for the
invocation let us pray please father God
we once again come for your presence
thanking you for another day thank you
for our love and kindness you shown
toward mankind throughout the world as
we come tonight father God we welcome
your presence this room father God we
pray that we come here one Accord beond
one Accord that we do those things you
pleased with pray father City the
council Le father God they go forth the
plan for this year father God and ask we
pray always for our nation our nation
needs some serious help right now father
God there's so much troubling throughout
the land we ask you just intervene
behalf those who wish for you and those
who love and praise you bless those for
we are father God again keep this city
pray my will keep this Council strong to
Contin things to do uplift this city in
Jesus name we pray amen amen amen
everyone please be seated
okay as we begin our meeting we're going
to need silence please thank you
everyone good evening and thank you all
for joining us tonight we are
recognizing some special people and
organizations in our community before
that we'd like to share a quick video oh
excuse me thank you Madame vice mayor we
would like to take a roll call please
it's okay council member aguo here
council member OS here council member qu
Stallings vice mayor lemons here mayor
delgadio present all present all right
thank you everyone so before we'd like
to recognize some special people as I've
mentioned and the organizations in our
community before that we'd like to share
a quick video showcasing the new art on
the Waterwell number 16 since the well
sits across from a local elementary
school many of the photos highlight
vibrant activities and services for our
youth afterwards my colleagues and I
will gather at the
podium all right we're ready for um the
video thank you
[Music]
looking good Waterwell 16
[Applause]
would Joseph Dominguez please come back
up
Joseph Joseph is a member of our
adaptive Recreation program overseen by
the community services department
adaptive re offers an array of inclusive
activities for individuals with diverse
abilities this includes fun outdoor
excursions arts and crafts social events
and so much
more in honor of Developmental
disability awareness month we wanted to
recognize all the amazing programs
adaptive wreck provides for participants
and their
families thank you for leading us The
Pledge and let's take a nice
photo that's in the
front thank you
would Amy Papa Georges and Cynthia
gdowski please come
up Amy is an executive director and
Cynthia is Corporate sponsorship
relations manager with the American Red
Cross Long Beach and South Bay
chapter they are here to accept our
Proclamation for American Red Cross
Awareness Month the Red Cross shelters
feeds and provides Comfort to millions
of people affected by disasters and
difficult situations every year they
Supply about 40% of the nation's blood
they teach skills that save lives
support veterans and dispatch help all
over the world on a personal note while
station overseas with my husband and son
at Clark Air Base in the Philippines I
received an urgent phone call from the
Red Cross that my father had passed away
the Red Cross assisted with arrangements
to fly my husband son and I back to the
States the Red Cross was truly a
lifesaver in a time of need thank you
thank you
during the recent wildfires in Los
Angeles County this past January the Red
Cross provided critical Aid to those
displaced by the devastating fires not
just this month but every month we'd
like to acknowledge the countless
volunteers donors and staff who
selflessly dedicated themselves to this
Noble
organization would you like to say a few
words I would yes thank
you thank you mayor city council it's
nice to see all of you here this evening
um we sincerely do appreciate the
ongoing and long-standing partnership
with the city of Paramount um and I
wanted to share the incredible work as
she referenced regarding the Los Angeles
wildfires and before I do that I see
First Responders here in the room and
I'd like to acknowledge them
so I have some really wonderful
information to share with you um thanks
to Dedicated Partners such as the city
of Paramount we were able to provide
over 20,000 overnight shelter stays to
Residents that were displaced and lost
homes due to the wildfires 20,000
overnight stays we served more than
170,000 meals and snacks to those
individuals over the course of many many
many days we distributed over
3,289 cleanup kits which are just
Essentials that folks that were
re-entering their homes and
neighborhoods for the first time would
have so that they could help do some
cleaning up um during that horrible time
that they were experiencing so in light
of what we saw during the wildfires my
takeaway for all of you this evening and
my challenge for you is this make a
preparedness plan I urge you to create
an emergency kit and a tog go bag and
don't forget your pets they also need a
tog go bag right they are family as well
don't forget medication eyelasses
anything that you would need have it
ready to go somewhere that if you need
to evacuate quickly you can grab it and
take it with you and that will go so far
in case you really do need it God forbid
um develop a family communication plan
critical to being able to find your
loved ones in case something happens and
stay informed about potential disasters
so our chapter is right next door in L
Beach we cover you in Paramount and
we're here to serve and we do appreciate
each and every one of you so thank you
a
phot smile
[Applause]
would pastor Grady Jones please come up
and join us at the
podium
tonight will be the last time presenting
the mayor's of gold key award as your
current mayor
this award is reserved for those who
have made lasting impact on our
community and Pastor Jones is a shining
example to that for 43 years Pastor
Jones has led the new commandment
Missionary Baptist Church with
unwavering dedication and
compassion as a resident of paramont for
nearly five decades he has not only
served his congregation but has been a
shining example of what it means to
uplift others in
2016 Pastor Jones hosted an uplifting
conversation at his church that helped
develop the group unity in the
community he is current president and
the group helps Foster
inclusivity understanding and open
dialogue between the community
and law
enforcement whether offering words of
inspiration during invocation at the
City Council meetings or supporting
families through the annual holiday toy
drive giveaway Pastor Jones kindness and
service have touched countless
lives Pastor your faith leadership and
heart for this community has made
Paramount and even brighter place it is
my great privilege to present to you
with the mayor's gold key
award go ahead all
yours I'm con boy from
Arkansas come to this city I've been
here for almost five you said but it's
through the city council we work with so
many years and we have the best Council
in America all women best City Council
in all America we praise God for you in
this city has been good to me over the
years my family and truly we try to upli
our city and upli those citizens of our
city because again only what you do for
Christ would last so it's been a joy to
serve you over the 50 years plus and
hope 50 more God willing but it's again
it's all you working together whether
you're parent member not parent member
new command member not memory You All
God's Children we praise God but again
we ask you to pray for our nation of
leaders and to the council you're are
the best thank you are the best and you
have embraced me all the years and again
from where I come from to where I am
today you wouldn't believe it by the
grace of God he's brought all up long
ways let's pray for each other make our
nation better even though it's a cloud
on Nation right now God move that cloud
let's pray the for unit in our country
thank you so much
the family like to join in for
photo please join
us picture
the go to
the I can counil watch your step in the
back step please your
step
yeah okay
I got you you're so
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beautiful yeah you Haven
yeah's church members that would like to
join us
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look just because of the step but we
can
perfect that
okay oh that's
perfect yeah make sure it's locked
there's brother Parks he's coming come
on Parks brother parks
if I can have you ladies actually Shi
over
here sorry we have you
okay we want to see everybody's fa
it that work can I have you move a
little bit this way right there
right can I have on
all right everyone big
smile Comm
[Applause]
thank you so
much watch
your your step gentlemen thank
you you're well oh yes Pastor one more
thing I like to say we have the best the
greatest city manager in America John
Marina and his whole stuff and whole
[Applause]
stuff last name is my
name you really what or with okay would
members of the Women's Club please join
us
yay with us today we have Cecilia
Edinger who is vice president Lucy hos
who is T who is
treasure Okay
g i it's not written down so I'm having
a problem okay this is Gera
everyone okay and let's see and we have
Jean
oh Jean Williams exactly coring
secretary yeah Jean Williams
corresponding secretary and my sister
Diane Martinez who just walked up who's
a member of and myself I'm a member of
the Woman's Club also yes and
andma and Branda Branda have also a
member of the Women's Club so we're all
here okay tonight the the club is
joining us to celebrate March as
National Women's History Month women's
history month is a time to celebrate the
remarkable contributions of women
throughout history and in our own
Community here in Paramount we are proud
to have an all female city council who
are a testament to the power of
collaboration and Leadership
on City staff we witness firsthand the
incredible impact of women in
Recreation Finance planning Public Works
the Arts and
Beyond each day women and Paramount are
making a difference and shaping its
future the Women's Club have been making
a positive difference in Paramount for
almost one
100
years they help our families and
students in a variety of ways they also
provide a great opportunity for local
women to give back to the
community thank you for accepting this
Proclamation on behalf of national
women's history month if you will please
will we have have the
proclamation okay Mr President there you
go
Lucille would anyone of you like to say
a few words I could go
ahead well I'm not really well prepared
because the president and the de didn't
show up they have other things they had
to do but um I really like the club I
like all these ladies and the ones who
couldn't come and we do a lot of things
and our most recent thing was we wanted
to help fire victims too but we wanted
to help find one person that we could
really help and with the help of Diane
we found a f a family and the gentleman
he was born and raised in paramont and
so it was from the eaten fire and our
club was able to raise
$1,100 and and he they asked for gift
cards to stay their brothers so that was
a nice thing so that's that's like our
latest project okay and yeah we're
always busy so fun that's all I got to
say would you like to say a few words
G okay we will have a picture
everyone let
me I think this is
backwards oh wait no no no no I got it
I do yeah thank
you I know
okay everyone smile night
[Applause]
I don't
know hey everyone we're moving on um and
unfortunately Dr William Nelson the PD
assistant superintendent for Educational
Services is unable to join us this
evening but we're going to continue
March is also recognized as
developmental disabilities Awareness
Month Paramount is a city that VA values
inclusivity and
compassion we are proud to stand as a
community where every person regardless
of ability is welcome supported and
encouraged to
thrive we are inspired by the
determination creativ ity and bright
Spirit of those diverse abilities as
well as by the families caregivers and
organizations who advocate for more
inclusive Society every day that is why
tonight we would like to recognize
Paramount Unified School District's
special education program through their
efforts our school district Fosters an
environment of acceptance understand
understanding and opportunity for our
students with special
needs by fostering understanding and
celebration all abilities we not only
enrich the lives of students we
strengthen and the Heart of our
community now we have a proclamation
that we will hand to doctor later on at
a later time so we are going to move on
and now we got the parod high chair
leaders coming
on
would would
coaches excuse me so you can hear your
names would coaches
Martha gin Perez and members of the
paramont high school chair
team please join
us okay I'm going to speak for the first
time in school history The Varsity chair
team won the division one title at the
National High School cheerleading
championship in Florida this past
February the team also secured the CIS
Southern California Section title
and finished second in the CIF state
competition marking the program's most
successful season to date we'd like to
recognize PHS cheer for a job well done
we know that it took countless hours of
preparation and determination to succeed
congratulations everyone on your wins
would anyone like to say a few words
anyone would anyone like to say a few
words go ahead all yours go ahead thank
you so much you're welcome uh good
evening everyone my name is Martha wera
I'm the head coach for the uh parmount
High School cheer team specifically our
competitive cheer team um this is
something that didn't happen overnight
these athletes have worked day in and
day out doing two days sometimes 6:00
a.m. in the morning 7 8:00 at night to
about 9:00 at night um winter practices
I mean it has been a lot of work put in
by these amazing athletes um a lot of
support for my adviser Miss JN Perez um
a lot of family support and we would not
be here had we not had that it's been
something that's been a goal of mine for
the last three to four years and as with
anything it doesn't happen from one day
to the next I am very very grateful um
that not only these kids but Miss Perez
and their families were able to trust me
to trust in a vision that was not
tangible yet and here we are three years
later national champs National D1 Champs
CIF Champs CIF state runnerup I'm super
super excited so happy and extremely
proud to always represent the city of
Paramount always in my heart wherever I
go so thank you guys so much
okay
[Laughter]
you there we
I
know there you you're good right
there all
right smile
[Applause]
congratulations once again cheer would
members of the Paramount Youth Soccer
Organization please come up it's your
turn
now it's your turn huh
guys welcome
welcome okay we're
ready okay the Paramount you soccer
organization was founded in 2017 to
share the love of soccer with kids
around the
community
PSO provides inclusive and fun space for
kids of all ages to get active and learn
more about the sport these teams
achieved outstanding success earning the
title of SoCal tournament champions
the SoCal tournament affiliated with us
soccer showcases the best Youth Soccer
talent in the region under the direction
of Coach Perez where are raise your hand
coach the 2012
Division achieved a record 11 wins out
of 12 games during the 2024 fall
tournament the 2014 division Guided by
coach
aano also demonstrated remarkable skill
securing nine wins out of 12 games in
the same tournament coach could you
raise your hand up thank
you both teams have sh own exceptional
dedication skill and teamwork
contributing to their success and
bringing Pride to the permont
community great job everyone thank you
for representing Pont so well if you
wish would anyone like to say a few
words coaches would anyone like to say a
few words it's optional okay it's
optional okay if you you wish we will
all take a photo all right so if I can
[Applause]
have thank
you let me have the team back little bit
more have
[Applause]
need all right
okay don't move don't move don't move
any parents that want to come up right
here and take a photo everyone you're
than wel to come up don't move smile
[Music]
smile
[Music]
perfect conat
okay
everyone we're ready to
continue would members of the LA County
Sheriff's department and the LA County
fire department and Paramount Public
Safety please join us
[Applause]
oh my
goodness and then let me have the fire
department on this side
please welcome
welcome
okay as we mentioned earlier the this
evening there were several devastating
wildfires that overtook Los Angeles
County last
January the fires devastated many cities
causing people to lose their homes
businesses and in some cases their
lives while our hearts go out to those
who lost so much we also wanted to take
a moment to recognize
The Bravery and life-saving efforts of
our First
Responders many organizations including
deputies and firefighters who serve
Paramount responded to the call for help
in fact the vast majority of Paramount
deputies were sent to the front lines
and fire station 31 consisting of 5 in
and a battalion chief was assigned to
the Eaton fire for two weeks where they
diligently performed fire suppression
operations Deputy elonis who was here
today with the LA County Sheriff's
Department helped guide an elderly woman
to safety after she ear after she missed
earlier evacuation calls doing during to
due to losing her hearing aids in the
fire since the start of the fires LD has
deployed resources and ring patrols to
protect the community and properties all
these example show the compassion and
unwavering commitment these individuals
carry with them every single day
your courage and sacrifices are an
inspiration to us all thank you for your
service and remarkable dedication for
helping
others yes and
then and then one for
watch your step so would
to than
you now would there like to be anybody
that would like to say a few words
[Applause]
hello good afternoon all my name is
Deputy Mata I'm assigned to um Lakewood
station here in uh Los Angeles County we
just want to say thank you guys for this
recognition we really do appreciate it I
just want to let you know that none of
us do it for the recognition we just do
it because we do have a passion to serve
and when we go out there although it is
a little bit miserable we do enjoy what
we're doing because we know in the
bigger picture we are helping those who
are in need so once again thank you for
this recognition but this is not what we
do it for we do it because we genuinely
enjoy um helping people thank you thank
you thanks Balian Chief Alex Linton work
here with these guys and S PR of M we
like to say thank you for all support uh
we like so we're than eaten fire for uh
14 days two weeks and these guys were
hard every day and I like to say thank
you uh for this presentation thank
you okay now we will take a photo yes
photo time okay so what we'll do is
we'll have you all all the way up to the
last step and we're have
the I can good
idea and who will be holding the oh
you're it right here
one more one
more you ready one two
three okay thank you so much
one more to go 21
Pages thank you everyone thank you for
your service thank you
guys no that's
okay have a good night
thank
you now for our final
presentation we will be recognizing
another city
retiree Would S would would lesan
Shannon former city Nance worker please
join us
[Applause]
Mr Shannon worked in Paramount for over
31 years he began his Paramount career
as a part-time maintenance Aid in
1993 was promoted over the years
becoming senior maintenance worker in
1996 during his time he acquired quite a
bit of experience and expertise in our
landscape
Vision Mr Shannon played a key role in
numerous projects making a significant
impact on the beauty of our parks and
Open
Spaces he also took the time to mentor
and train staff in essential skills like
irrigation management tree planning and
various planting
techniques his commitment to sharing
knowledge and fost fostering growth with
his team ensures that the city's green
spaces will be maintained for years to
come with the utmost care the Public
Works team has shared that his
leadership and dedication will sorely be
missed Mr Shannon thank you and we wish
you nothing but the best in the next
phase of your life
yours good evening
everyone since I'm the last one here I
just got a couple of small things that I
would like to share um first of all I
want to say that I'm actually
humbled um real grateful and thankful to
have been working here for as many years
as I had I have been here 31 plus years
approximately 32 years somewhere in
there um
I want to say I'm deeply humbled
grateful for the city that gave a young
boy an opportunity many years ago that
took a chance and took a gamble on a kid
that was still trying to grow and find
himself so I'm very grateful to the city
uh not only that but to we have Council
here um thank you all um going forward
and all those things and to the
homeowners all you sitting out here in
the seats it's because of you that that
guys like myself or young ladies can be
up here uh for x amount of years if they
just hang on it's a little tough been
around for a while but I'm most grateful
I've been knowing John where you at John
been knowing John for a long time got an
opportunity to meet yourself so it's all
been great um we have a new director
that's been around for a while Adriana
um but I'm really grateful and humbled
by it all so I want to say I think the
city is in great hands uh for those of
that was here to see that well that's a
big deal whether you know it or not that
well is a big deal but I think we have
great um great counsel and uh and a
great city manager been knowing John a
long time before John even got where
he's at you know what I mean we us wait
around for somebody to make the call in
the yard can we leave at 1:30 John you
know on the holiday or something like
that but uh John um John been been a
cool dude he's always been and when he
said his door was open I don't know
where everybody else was at with it but
since I felt like I knew him like that I
haven't had to come here to to use that
door but he was in public safety once I
did get a chance to go in there and he
said Sean sit down let's talk what you
got going on anyway John took care of me
and everything worked out but I'm just
humbled and grateful to all and I just
want to say thank to city and everyone
I'm humbled thank you everybody
and also
lean here you go
sir boulard boulard I like
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it9 that's old
um yes before that can I get
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[Applause]
John yeah I
think is it just you to
and Adriana Adriana you
want these public wordss directly
[Applause]
okay this can oh family photo next yes
yes family yes family on yes come on
up you want to in my sister brother my
wife my nie
we Shi to the back the lady in the Green
Green Jacket actually is my wife that's
my sister that's my wife Michelle these
my niece and nephew that's my daughter
that's my brother Kendall
[Applause]
oh
cute cute
[Applause]
Birthday
Kimmy okay this concludes our
presentations for the evening we will
now take a short recess and resume
business portion of our meeting
shortly thank
[Applause]
you
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Mr Mareno are we ready
now we're always ready okay on all
right okay I call the meeting back to
order Mr Mareno are there any public
common updates from the last city
council meeting yes madame mayor we do
have one from Mr Robert Cruz who spoke
at the February 25th city council
meeting he was requesting changes to the
city's summer concert lineup that
included diversifying music moving to
another venue and shifting timing um so
under previous city council Direction
the staff has already been exploring and
working on including different musical
performers for added diversity and
regarding the venue this the city
council explained to Mr Cruz that we had
previously held summer concerts at
Paramount Park and we experienced low
attendance and a lack of shade and the
fact that Progress Park tends to have uh
better attendance more trees more
canopies so that's why the council
decided to keep these summer concerts at
Progress Park and with that that
concludes the public commment updates
from the February 25th city council
meeting I'd be happy to answer any
questions okay count questions from
Council anyone okay now is a time that
members of the public May comment on
items that are not on today's tonight's
agenda
Mr Moreno are there any speaker cards
this evening yes madame mayor we do have
three the first one is from Miss Andrea
Crow from the Paramount Library
SC good evening mayor delgadio vice
mayor lemons council members and the
residents of Paramount Paramount library
is celebrating women's History Month
with with a special program for children
tomorrow Wednesday March 12th at 5:00
p.m. children ages 5 to 12 will learn
about women in science and their
contribution to paleontology children
will also think like a paleontologist by
combining puzzle pieces to create a
dinosaur for virtual programming this
month we have a US citizenship
information session provided by our
partners at noo learn about how to
become a US citizen including the
benefits of a CI of citizenship elig
eligibility and document requirements
cost and English language exemptions a
session will be held in English on
Thursday March 13th at 5:00 p.m. a
Spanish Spanish session will be held on
Wednesday March 19th at 5:00 p.m. visit
LA count library.org to learn more about
our events and services thank you thank
you so much our next speaker is card
Madame mayor is from Miss Johanna Navaro
and she would like to discuss with the
council the petition of city code to own
chickens I me bu is there anyone we can
tell
right this is harder than I
expected I Talk Amongst high school kids
all day but you guys are
intimidating just throwing it out
there all right I'm Joanna no go by Joe
this is my daughter Cameron Felix let me
take a quick deep breath here I got 2
minutes and 43 seconds cool all
right all right so my name is Joe I am a
resident of Paramount I have been for
the last 30 All My Life um I'm here
today to seek information and petition
the city code the only current code I
have found is 6.32 1110 which states any
animal to be nuisance which by any sound
of cry or cry shall interfere with the
comfortable enjoyment of life or
property by an individual so so far
that's kind of all I have found in terms
of uh you know owning chickens on a
property uh by any interpretation this
sounds like an ordinance of noise noisy
animals which can include Birds dogs and
cats as well as fowls horses and other
livestock I want to challenge the
ordinance and see if I if it can be
amended neighboring cities such as
Downey Lakewood Compton Norwalk
belflower Etc allow three and four and
sometimes even 10 chickens per property
uh
respectively as you can see obviously
eggs are at a crazy
high uh but we've had our we've we we've
had our interest in owning chickens for
a very long time not only for ourselves
but for our our children at home they
have them at their school and it's
created a sense of responsibility for
them and um they've they've had them in
incubators at school they've grown them
from there they've been able to take
them home however we have we haven't um
yet hopefully um so I want to know how
can we work together to allow such
ownership for our Paramount residents it
is evident our neighbor our neighbors
and residents have the luxury of owning
chickens and enjoying their home grown
eggs um so why not
here and that is it for myself any
questions thank you thank you so much no
problem oh thank you thank you
our last speaker card Madame mayor is
from Mr Eddie Garcia from the after
school program called think together Mr
Garcia so good evening everyone my name
is Eddie Garcia I'm the executive
director for think together which we
have a partnership to provide your after
school programs at your middle schools
here in the city of paramont um very
happy to report that um you know our
percentage uh for Ada the attendance
that we've earned it's probably really
high right now we have about 108% at one
of our middle schools the lowest is 65
but it's still really good so all the
other schools are in their 90% so we're
really meeting that attendance goal that
we need for the after school program
here in paramont middle schoolers are
very different in their sense like they
talk with their feed if they don't like
something they're not coming right and
so we really have to find ways to engage
those students so that they continue
coming some of the different programs
that you ever walk on some of our
campuses that I'd like to invite you to
walk on some of our campuses is you're
going to see kids doing colonary Arts
activities there we also have yoga for
the students we have Theater Arts for
their students there's Street Soccer
it's let let me I have to um that sounds
bad street soccer but it's an actual
program that's called Street Soccer that
kids learn to play soccer but it's
actually happening on the school grounds
it's not on the streets folks so just
want to clarify that one um we also have
kickboxing and just a variety of other
activities that we have for the students
um in the at our middle school so we're
really really proud of doing that the
more kids we have on campus it's you
know it's great because we're keeping
them in a nice safe environment um until
their parents are able to you know to
receive them and bring them in the home
so and I think that's the city's goals
right is safe healthy and attractive
environment and so that's exactly why
we're aligned um with what we're doing
with thing together the partnership that
we have with you folks um and also in
collaboration with the paramont Unified
School District and it's actually um
really nice and I think it makes my job
a lot easier because we're on the same
page it's common goal common purpose and
safe environment for kids is what I'd
like to do and I know that's what you
like and also the city the paramont
Unified School District as well so we're
all in alignment what we want for our
community so thank you all for your
continued partnership and I appreciate
working with every one of you thank you
thank you
sir and that's it for public comments M
thank you next we have the city council
consent calendar is there a motion so
move second Miss loose may we have roll
call
please council member aguo yes council
member olos council member qu Stallings
vice mayor lemons mayor Delo yes the
motion carries thank you our first item
of new business is an oral report
providing an overview of the case
program Mr s Mr city manager may we have
the report please certainly Madame mayor
for over a year we've made available to
Paramount residents the service of a
free app that serves kind of as a
concierge to help navigate and acquire
Mental Health Services and as we know
this can often sometimes be very complex
um so our first item tonight is a
presentation by a guest presenter from
Caris Solus that's the name of the the
mental health app provider and this this
this came as a request by the city
council that this presentation be be
given to see how much the service is
being utilized by by our residents so
with us tonight is Miss Anita Ward from
car Solace hi Anita hi good evening
mayor council members city manager it's
an honor to be here especially since
it's women's history month and I don't
often get to present to to leaders that
are all women so I'm it's kind of iconic
for me a moment I'm a fan girl a little
bit I I I love paramont I I love working
with you so one just thank you so much
for the for the opportunity to be
partnered with the city what I'm going
to do is share with you um there's a
monthly report that gets produced around
the data and the impact and and what
we're doing here in the city and so what
I thought I would do is while the whole
impact is loaded I'm not going to
overwhelm you I'll skip through some of
these slides in because I'm having
trouble seeing anymore I do have them in
front of me as well embarrassingly so um
a as the C manager said we're basically
your partner in a conier like service to
provide access to mental health care
providers for all of your residents and
using the QR code they simply access our
services either through phone calls by
going to the website or actually
scanning the QR code and getting
directly to a care manager um we connect
all all of the parts of the city
including a lot of your businesses as
well as nonprofits and the Red Cross
frankly who was here just a moment ago
so we're really becoming that that Hub
if you will for the
city I am delighted to present the the
numbers today because we've already
helped 3,000 individuals have used our
services and for those individuals we
have provided what we think of as 18,000
Services now I don't know if of you have
ever had to place a call or try to find
a mental health provider I've had to in
my own family and it took 60 to 80 calls
because I'm navigating things like
language and ethnicity and
specialization and do they take my
insurance and if I don't have insurance
what do I do then and then are they
available and what happens is people
just give up it's a frustrating effort
and 80% of the time because they can't
get a connection they give up what we do
on behalf of them is we make all of
those calls we navigate their languages
we navigate cultural relevance we find
them providers that take their insurance
and if they don't have insurance then we
find providers who will help them
navigate sliding scale or do pro bono
work so we remove all of the obstacles
to care and then we actually make the
appointment work with your resident and
if they can't get to the appointment we
find transportation for them so they can
so we're taking that that concierge
service all the way from the moment that
a resident calls us or reaches out to us
to matching them with providers and then
making the appointment getting them to
the care and then following up so on
behalf of them that means we have made
about 18,000 of those phone calls and
services and tracking um folks to get to
get them into care I'm really proud of
the fact that we are doing this we're
matching people in a day essentially so
we're navigating quickly getting them
into care because that's most critical
for us and then the time to the
appointment is about six and a half days
but that also depends upon the
availability of your resident as much as
it does with the provider so we're we're
feeling very proud of the fact that we
are getting people into care and at the
same time where that says 95% matches
only 5% of people who are using us
actually don't follow through on an
appointment so we're so we're very happy
that we're able to get them both into
care as well as actually matching them
these are the zip codes and that we we
are predominantly taking calls or
servicing I'm sorry I can't read them
that but there but it's uh
90723 is about 40% of the the calls or
matches that we're getting come from
that zip code and then the other two
90022 and 907 33 now there are many more
zip codes that I actually use and uh the
reason we track that is because
especially during the fires we were
getting lots of calls even from other
zip codes but simply handling them
because the truth is that whoever calls
us we help so doesn't matter what the
ZIP code is if they call on your call
we're going to help
them um and and I want to focus for a
minute on this particular chart because
what we saw in January were people
experiencing all kinds of level of of
mental health trauma depression anxiety
related to the fires and we doubled the
individuals that we helped there are
537 and for the most part anybody who
called us in January had some either
direct impact because of the fires or
tangential impact or sadly survivors
guilt like what what is happening in my
life and why why am I I here so we saw
levels of depression anxiety trauma
going up tremendously as we took those
calls but we also doubled the volume uh
in the month of January it dipped back
down but February is a small month and I
will caution us all to realize that the
impact of the fires on mental health is
going to have a very long tail so we'll
keep tracking that and Reporting it back
to you and then tying it back to the
impact uh I I realized our First
Responders are gone but we actually
helped about 27 or so First Responders
with their mental health too so
sometimes we think it's just about the
residents but those teams are struggling
maybe even more or at least as much as
many of the residents as they dealt with
that
trauma uh we've talked about time to
match I'll skip through and go straight
to what I'm we're seeing in the data
because we oops sorry about that because
we look at the data across a number of
categories age being one of them did I
just skip that again there we go
John stop me if I do that I get crazy
with these clickers um the the a cou
I'll point out a couple of points and my
dream ultimately is you have probably
recall me saying in the past given my
own history of being chronically
unhoused is how do we help the kids how
do we get down generationally and so I
look at this cross generationally cross
generationally and as you see depression
anxiety over the last 13 months in that
gen Alpha and gen Z population is
60% kids are struggling we're getting a
lot of them into care uh and then what
we're trying to do is wrap our arms as
well around the parent and treat the
whole child so not only are we getting
children into care but then assessing
the situation more broadly and making
sure that is there an underlying
insecurity around food is there an
underlying insecurity around housing is
there underlying insecurity with mental
health with a parent or Guardian as well
and then as you look across the
generations you'll see where um suicidal
ideation is a little bit it's higher
among Millennials and Gen X um we
actually have had calls and have been
supporting Baby Boomers as well so it's
not that um that we're not helping every
single generation which is kind of
exciting and and you'll see in that
population although it's a smaller n SI
a smaller size sample that um depression
is also High there so as we start
thinking about what what do these Trends
look like I that they stay pretty steady
around depression in the younger
population trauma begins to kick in in
the millennial population and then more
broadly we go back to depression and
anxiety um we are serving predominantly
um uh people who speak English and
Spanish as you can see when we look at
ethnicity and language although we are
interestingly working with the church
we've reached out and put cards inside
the church and so that we can tap deeper
into into both the African-American
population and the Asian population we
had some success in La generating um
more uh more interest from the Asian
population which is a tough um culture
to crack in terms of getting them to uh
mental health care we do compare your
data to the Los Angeles County so you
can see the piece that's the highest is
depression where there is statistic
statistically significant difference
around the depression that we're seeing
in Paramount but we can drill down at
any point I know it's not tonight it's
not the appropriate V view but if you
would like to we can drill down and
figure out exactly where it's at
depression coming from what age groups
what ethnicities and then start to
Target programs or campaigns or efforts
to help with that and I'm happy to work
with you on that and then we look across
each one of the categories and you can
again start to see what kinds of
messaging do we need to make in our in
our white population the Hispanic
population and then on the other two
pages you can see that we were able to
tap in as I said into the Asian
population for the first time they're
actually showing up in the data in a
significant way so we'll again reach out
to the organizations that support them
to the churches to you and uh and happy
to form messaging in maybe your
newsletters that we can tap into some of
those and I'll work with the city
manager around
that and then in the month of February
so I figured we should take a look at
February while I was focused a bit on
January with the fires in February
you'll see a high degree a higher degree
than normal of people who accepted or
asked for T theapy and that too was
associated with a younger population 18
to 25 and many of many of those were
coming out of the fires and saying I
just need somebody to talk to and the
preference in this case were 63 folks
wanting T therapy and then 105 that we
placed into um into inperson therapy we
have a population that's asking for
assessments albeit it's still small but
um 17 people and then as you see in
terms of placing people either either
into outpatient services Psychiatry
hospitalization uh there and and applied
behavioral um analysis by the way is
coming up much in the much younger
population obviously and then suicidal
um ideation and self harm we have uh I
was like does that still says eight
right um we have eight individual TOS
that we actually helped in in that
effort as well so we're making progress
in terms of the insurance this is always
my proudest moment um having been in a
situation never having insurance for a
long time but um the public insurance
and no insurance we're helping your most
vulnerable populations if this is just
simply a proxy for income where uh 60 or
almost 70% of the people that were
helping have no insurance or have public
insurance so we're tapping into a a need
and and we're delighted with the
partnership and I know we I was trying
to stick to our timing here which for an
Italian girl is sometimes more difficult
but um but I'm happy to answer any
questions dive deeper and if at any
point city manager if you would like to
go through this and create more Deep
dive around the data I'm happy to set up
something out outside of city council as
well yes are there any uh comments from
my colleagues I just have one Madam May
yes go ahead can you go to first slide
please where it showed the
counts I'm sorry that you have to go all
the way
back so there are a couple hundred
people in February that we helped no I
think your very first slide oh my very
first one so so
sorry so the 3,100 several referrals
requests so is that unique so maybe is
that one person calling and you did one
unique referral or is that one person
multiple times calling it's it's one
person calling it could be though a
couple of people in a family so but it
is individuals individuals okay and then
and that's over about 14 months so I
think we started January I mean December
of 2023 till now 14 months with 3,100 so
John if we were to take the 3,18 divided
by our
population I'm not a mathematician I'm
looking at the percentage trying to
figure out utilization percentage I can
include that on there each month if you
would like as well that way we could
just kind of see kind of absolutely
thank
you any other questions uh were you able
to distribute information to all the
churches in our community I I have a
list of those churches that we went to
and and in fact I believe that mayor may
have given them to me last time I was
here I I got a list that um came from
one of the city council members and then
went back through Maggie gave it to me
so um I'll I'm happy to resurrect that
and but I but it we go all the time so I
have somebody in the streets all the
time taking cards over and sharing the
QR codes so if I've missed something
I'll share back with you my list and um
if I missed somebody then please tell me
because we want to make sure we hit
everybody okay thank you any other
questions okay thank you thank you very
much thank
you next we have a report on the city's
historic context statement and historic
resources survey Mr Marino may we have
the report yes madame mayor for over a
year now staff and our consultant have
been preparing what's called a historic
contact statement and resource survey
this is actually a detailed historical
report and Survey of our community and
properties within our town um so tonight
we're not asking for your approval on
the report just yet after you hear the
presentation we would like for you to
provide us with input ask questions as
we put together the the the finishing
touches on the report so I'm going to
turn over to our planning director John
King and then then after he provides
some background he'll introduce the
historical team
John thank you excuse me thank you John
thank you council members mayor dou you
so we are really excited about this this
is um a project that you uh approved for
us to to take on about a year ago a
little over a year ago and it's it's
kind of big it's it's the history of of
Paramount in a nutshell and connecting
the um the built environment which is
buildings so connecting the buildings
and the places the the buildings the
properties the people so you got to you
got to include the people and as John
mentioned we um contracted with uh one
of the best uh historic resources groups
anywhere and they're called historic
Resources Group they're based out of
Pasadena here's the team on the bottom
um we have that's just attribute to in
1948 the the as you know the the kids
that um brought out the news when there
was a a late edition in those days uh
celebrating the the merger of of um the
two twin towns uh 48 before went to 57
so so uh the group so this evening we
have Christine Christine Lazaretto and
SE um winchip and they'll be coming up
and lots of lots of backup we had
Alexander and Robbie as well doing tons
of um research they dug through um foone
books and newspaper articles and
really it's like digging for Treasure I
just wanted to do a quick review before
I hand it over on on why why there's
there's a lot of reasons a lot a lot of
really good reasons so I have three
slides on that um the first is is
community there is a strong Community
interest and you could just just just
here in this this room this this
building could be considered historic
and I'm looking at some historic photos
across from me on the on the wall so we
are celebrating we've been celebrating
this for um the Paramount's history for
for a long
time um one example is there's a social
media page um progress in Paramount
history that now has over 3,200 members
it's quite a bit for a a town for a city
of a Paramount size and and just to put
that in perspective the the city's
official page has 10,000 followers so um
just kind of lining that up a lot of
interest in in history so it's people
who live here and it's uh people who
once lived here and and moved out and
and want to keep those ties and and um
are thrilled when somebody uncovers an
old photo public information so we do
have some information on the city
website and other um in other forums but
we want to kind of beef that up using
best practices um and be historically
accurate um and it's timely so you know
the the museum is very close um right
outside the parking lot over here um
we're going to have a a City Museum and
uh this project ties the um you know
it's it's it's a written document but it
ties the uh the world
around um the city adopted a general
plan that's our kind of blueprint for
development over the years and there is
a policy the city will identify and
preserve sites and buildings that are
important to the community for the
benefit of the future Generations that
will reside or work in the city so
you're fulfilling that that
goal Historical Society has has really
taken off um this document will um compl
complement and supplement the historical
society's um work um they're they're out
doing um surveys of Their Own and
conducting oral interviews and uh we
already hear some very positive comments
of the uh draft historic context
statement and um you know it's densely
it's very rich rich with um with
information that will help the
Historical Society um it's a this is a
testament to to your
leadership squa the California
Environmental Quality act so um by doing
this survey this this will help with uh
cultural resource Consultants that have
to do um research for development
projects we have some coming up Economic
Development you tie uh history a city
that values its history tends to um to
have a strong strong economy it this
will back up the local economy and their
their goals and future use so um dep
this is can be very informational or we
could be uh it could be a launching pad
to getting uh tax credits and grants to
help out um homeowners and other other
property owners improve their historic
um properties if they're they could be
eligible for um for uh a registry on a
on a future uh list of of um of historic
properties so with that I'm going to
hand it over to to the
team and excited about that
too oh yes s
know thank you thank you um good evening
um thank you to the mayor and the
council members for having us here
tonight um I am Christine Lazaretto I'm
the managing principal of historic
Resources Group I will be turning it
over to my colleague seon in a moment to
walk you through the presentation um I
mostly wanted to come tonight to thank
you all for the opportunity to work on
this project these are our favorite
types of things to do um it's always
really exciting to come to a community
um and learn all about the history and
you know help ourselves and the broader
historic preservation community and of
course the local community understand
you know how did Paramount come to be
the Paramount that it is today so we
always are really excited at those
opportunities and we always learn
something new so I want to thank you for
the opportunity I also wanted to thank
City staff and the planning department
for working with us so closely on this
project and also to thank the uh
Paramount Historical Society they were
supporters throughout the project they
provided a lot of great information for
our study so I'm happy to hear that
they're able to use our work in their
continuing efforts in the city um they
also held an event last fall where they
helped us to gather historic photos and
other information that greatly enriched
the historic context statement um I also
want to say that we always say that
these are living documents that you will
always be learning something new about
the history of the community and of
course Time Marches On so there will be
hopefully additional studies in the
future to continue to tell the story of
Paramount but we want to thank you for
the opportunity that we had to to
produce this study um and I'm here um if
there are any questions at the end but
with that I'd like to turn it over to se
who will give you a broad overview of
the project thank
you thank you John thank you Christine
good evening everyone um as so as um as
John mentioned
uh there were really two main components
to this project the first is a narrative
which is a historic context statement so
it's a big thick document of a think a
couple hundred Pages something like that
talking about the history of the built
environment and then the second part is
a Citywide historic resources survey and
that is basically where someone from our
survey team went and laid eyes on each
of the
6,600 miscellaneous numbered Parcels
that you guys have here in the city and
looked at add it compared it with the
context statement and attempted to
determine if there was anything um
potentially historically significant
about it so I do that perfect so let's
take each of the one of these Concepts
here and just break it down a little bit
um so what is a historic context
statement it's a very specialized form
of historical writing with specific
goals and requirements uh it's not
tended to it's not intended to be a
chronological uh recitation of a
community significant historical events
or noteworthy citizens or a
comprehensive community history so if
you're thinking about writing a book on
Paramount we're not getting in your way
you're welcome to do that um Instead
This historic context statement is
intended to provide an analytical
framework for identifying and evaluating
Resources by placing built resources in
the appropriate historic social and
Architectural context so the
relationship between an area's physical
environment and its broader history can
be evaluated so this is the idea that
the context statement and the survey
work hand inand to help identify
potential historic resources so how do
we do this uh we do it by any number of
ways but uh the basic thing is we use
both primary and secondary resources
that includes Maps City directories
newspaper articles you know um personal
letters archives anything we can get our
hands on and I will just say that it was
especially challenging here in Paramount
uh for any number of reasons not the we
least of which is that your historic
newspapers are not online um and uh and
let's just say the hindes area the
historic hindes area is fairly Loosely
defined I spent many hours myself
looking up resources only to find out
they were not within the city limits of
present day Paramount um and we didn't
have a lot of early building permits um
and so it was a bit of a challenge uh
project but I think the the breadth and
depth of what we found is is a testament
in and of
itself so what is basically it's a
period of study is between Native
American history through
1979 so when you want to take a look
back at the 80s it is something you will
then have to um to update as Christine
said that these are living documents
typically um and we were confined to the
current city limits uh and the scope of
the study included national state and
local
events so here are the overviews of the
themes that are covered the Native
American period European exploration and
colonis ation the Rancho era early clear
water and Hines expansion in industrial
and agricultural growth so that's in the
period between the 1920s and 1940s World
War II and then the birth of Paramount
post-war prosperity and Redevelopment so
from 1946 to
1979 I should also mention that this
context statement takes a look at um
suburbanization and exclusionary
practices uh within the city and we talk
about the diverse groups that have
historically been here and that is
sprinkled throughout the entire
document so the second part of the the
project was a historic resources survey
as we said um and that is again to
provide information on
potential historic resources it's
important to understand that nothing is
being designated as part of this project
um we're just providing Baseline
information um designation is its own
very separate process and currently
there is no local ordinance with which
to designate anything um so what you're
you're getting out of the survey is a
snapshot of the city's potential
historic resources at this specific
moment in
time and we do that through a number of
ways we do that through um the uh
National and uh State guidelines so
together we use these three Criterion uh
criteria excuse me uh that uh include
being associated with events that have
made a significant contribution to the
broad patterns of History um that are
Criterion B associated with the lives of
persons significant in our past or
Criterion C or three that embody the
distinctive characteristics of a type
period or method of construction that
represent the work of a master or that
possesses High artistic values so in
essence architectural
significance once we have examined each
of the parcels for uh the eligibility
criteria through the context statement
and our own visual recognition of what
is there we then have to evaluate what
we what we call Integrity so we apply
Integrity considerations to each
property um and determine whether or not
it retains as we say in our work
sufficient Integrity to convey its
historic
significance and so here's just a bit of
an overview as I mentioned there are
6,597 Parcels that were developed prior
to
1979 uh we did our reconnaissance survey
our windshield drives we did everything
from the public right of way and then uh
basically looked at a deeper dive into
documentation and uh and and research on
specific Parcels as was
warranted and here are the
recommendations in total we found 98
properties potentially individ
individually eligible and as you can see
the vast majority of those were um
residential although there were
commercial and Civic and institutional
and spoiler alert we're standing in one
of them right now um there is also a few
industrial and infrastructure um uh
properties as well so just under a 100
properties and if we break break those
down by historic context or theme as you
can see we found 17 that were associated
with the early clear water and Hines
period 31 during the expansion and
growth period of the 20s to the 40s a
couple from World War II 38 from the
birth of Paramount uh the C the city's
prosperity and Redevelopment and 34 for
their architecture and design and three
associated with an ethnic group those
three just FYI were the N Japanese
Baptist Church Yan's market and the
Hines Dees Portuguese Hall all important
groups uh in the history of the city of
Paramount uh so here uh as you can see
this is an overview we did not find any
historic districts only properties that
were potentially uh individually
eligible um and there's quite a
geographic distribution as you can see
here so just a couple of examples quick
examples here are some that were uh we
we thought potentially uh eligible for
their association with events or
patterns so you have uh some commercial
development here for the early days of
Hines and clear water just across the
street from us we also have again across
the street in the other direction
the the what is now known as the saw
building um and then uh just to show you
the breath there's the postwar multif
family residential uh at
15560 Orange
Avenue and then a little bit of eye
candy from Paramount architecture you
can see we found everything from lovely
little vernacular Cottages with hip
roofs to late modern to of course lovely
Spanish colonial revival uh with the
drive-in Market there so that's
basically an overview of the project and
what we found and I think we'd be happy
to take any questions are there any
comments from my colleagues I have a few
questions yes go ahead go ahead Vice May
vice mayor um first I just want to say
that um I read the document and it was
absolutely intriguing I mean I learned
so much I for me personally I was not
aware whatsoever of the contributions
from and it has a name that I can't
pronounce I was going to ask you to tell
me how to pronounce it for the Asian
population you guys said that the modern
term is and it was something I think
with the T and I i' never heard that
term before but um you guys's com yeah
so it's in your document it was really
fascinating and and um and the
contributions that they made to the city
of Paramount I never heard those things
before um the there were so many
recognizable names and and as you said
structures and um it was so in depth
that I actually um spoke to um the city
manager to try to understand more of
what the document was actually for
because like you said there's so much
more that's not in it and so if you can
help me Clarity
wise I get what you're saying
that this is from what I understood from
them to kind of catalog everything that
we have that has historical value um for
future reference in case we come up with
an ordinance and want to designate those
things but
behind properties there was also so much
history that you gave about people and
movement and why and so my question then
becomes why did we stop at that date
because personally
I know that from the time that a lot of
those buildings existed on Paramount
Boulevard and a certain way of life
Paramount took dramatic changes starting
in the 70s and 80s which is kind of
where we're all at but there's 40 years
there and so I'm just wondering
why thank you for your comments and for
that question um I will try to provide
an answer and then certainly John and C
if if you have more to add so just to
address the first part of your comment
about um what is the document used for
because it seems like we're kind of
bridging two things like you said it's
about identifying things in the built
environment but there's also quite a bit
of background narrative in there as well
so the idea is um for this study to help
understand like I said how Paramount
became what it is today why does it look
the way that it does why our residential
neighborhoods developed the way that
they were when were those tracks
subdivided that kind of thing all of
that is background information that
leads you to why might this little house
be eligible um we also include that
amount of background information because
as John mentioned um you'll be doing
Environmental Studies and other studies
for you know planning um planning
department purposes and it's really hard
I can say from experience when you're
asked to come in and look at something
in a community if there isn't a
background document such as a context
statement you're starting at Ground Zero
you don't understand the population of
resources you don't understand who the
people were so I can look up who lived
at a house but I don't have any frame of
reference to identify whether that might
be significant or not so a lot of that
background information is hopefully to
provide a spring board for additional
studies um and it's just it's kind of
the methodology for preparing these
documents so it's sort of enough
background information so that we can
understand the built environment in
order to do our project and then provide
additional information for the future in
terms of the period of study this is
always something we struggle with um
we'd love to write you know through
today really because there's lots of
interesting things that keep happening
but um just for a variety of reasons 40
years is generally the cut off that that
is used for these types of surveys um
the National Park Service specifies that
things need to be at least 50 years old
to be considered historic the California
register isn't that strict about it but
they still say that there needs to be
enough separation from the historic
period to have an understanding not as a
contemporary but really from a
historical perspective um and so you
know we sort of look at a time frame
that makes sense I would also say that
because this was the first ever
comprehensive study of the city of
Paramount we needed to make sure that we
had enough in the in the budget and the
time frame that we had to make sure that
all the early periods of History were
really fully documented and so we
thought well we'll bring it up to
1979 um and as you mentioned a lot of
things started changing in the 80s so it
made sense from a trans transformation
of the built environment perspective as
well and so I would say you know one of
our recommendations would be obviously
that when you go to update this document
or you do studies in the future you
would start sort of at that precipice of
the late 19 7s into the 1980s and look
forward from there so um you know like I
said a lot of factors go into that
decision and I but I do understand your
question and it did seem to the closer
that you got to current times so the
less information there was super in
depth in those beginning years then it
kind of became less and less and less
was that to kind of transition out of
the document I would say that's part
partly um the reason and of course
there's less information about things
that happened more recently so there
there may be news articles but there
there wouldn't be academic studies or
books or other things about more recent
areas of History whereas things that
happened earlier in the 20th you know
late 19th and early 20th century have
been more fully documented it's also you
know because we're providing a Nexus
between what happened and the built
environment there are fewer resources
from those later periods and so there
was less um you know less uh
documentation needed to to support the
findings in the survey so it'll be
interesting if if we move in that
direction to see what kind of stuff
you're looking for because I can think
of a lot of different resources that are
out there but um because to me that
document doesn't just focus on the
historical buildings or places but the
history I would just like to suggest
that we continue that maybe get a quote
and find out what it is to kind of
document our history up to the point
that is because to me it's like yeah we
went to this point but Paramount is
nothing like Paramount was in the 70s
it's not the same city at all so it
doesn't really yes it's our history but
50 years is a lot of history too and we
don't have anything on on that so um it
I was just so impressed by it I guess
what I'm saying is I'd like to see more
well we would love to come back if you'd
have us
so so thank you you're welcome you're
very welcome all right well this item is
for receive and file and we'll move on
to the next item thank you ladies very
very much item 22 is consideration of a
resolution of necessity for accusation
of the hay tree property by imminent
domain Mr Mareno may we have the report
please sure thing Madame mayor uh with
this next item we are asking the city
council to adopt what's called a
resolution of necessity which is one of
the primary steps uh to acquire property
in this case we're talking about the
three Parcels that are in and around the
hay tree next to the Paramount saw
building um before I turn it over to our
City attorney I wanted to give you a
refresher about what our plan is for
this property should the city council to
decide to move forward with this action
tonight so if I could go to the next
slide so you may remember this from a
prior presentation about a year and a
half ago uh Paramount Boulevard's to
your right the entrance and exit to the
Civic Center is on on top of the screen
the Paramount saw building is on the
bottom um so now that you're oriented
with it you see where the number 10 is
that's the current location of the hay
tree so we're talking about all of this
green space right here as well as where
it says a Civic Center Drive believe it
or not that's part of the parcels that
the the three Parcels that we are
discussing tonight so the plan that was
presented to you the conceptual plan
that what we would do with this park
would include a trellis that would come
off of the existing building the
Paramount ASA building there along with
a a deck for eating um and that would be
for Park goers for anybody uh from the
public that would want to come and enjoy
a meal there additionally um you see
where the number
five is that's where there would be a
permanent stage that would be set up for
musical events and uh different things
of of that nature uh we would also have
um lighting you can see the over
overhead lights as well as uh different
types of signage throughout um
throughout the areas so if you can go to
the next slide this kind of shows you a
street view of what it would look like
again the hay tree to the right um this
is just again something that we
presented to you a year and a half two
years ago showing as a possibility of
what could be a built here so with that
vision in mind I'll now turn it over to
miss Regina Danner who works with our
City attorney Nick gelli to handle the
remaining of this item
Regina thank you Mr Moreno um good
evening honorable mayor and members of
the city council uh we have for your
consideration this evening um the
adoption of a resolution of necessity to
acquire by eminent domain the fee
interest in the real property located at
16471 Paramount Boulevard it's also
further described as assessor partial
numbers 7120
d027
d019 and
020 the city seeks to construct this
project for the Civic Center Improvement
um this project has multiple components
to it it's not just one thing um the
public purpose and use would be to
preserve a historic resource to improve
public parking facilities and
improvements to existing public
facilities and public Recreation
space as we've been talking about
historic resources one of the historic
resources that is near and dear to the
city is the hay tree um here on on the
subject property um the hay tree is more
than 120 years old and was designated as
a California Historic Landmark in August
2003 currently the city only has an
easement for landscaping and maintenance
um of the tree
itself the proposed acquisition seeks to
acquire the underlying fee interest in
the land which will give the city the
ability to make improvements to the
surrounding open space to provide
outdoor Community event
space um Mr Moreno went through and
described some of the proposed uh
improvements a full list of the
improvements are also set forth in the
Agenda Report before you
today the another component to this
public project is the uh public parking
facility the project would um help
accommodate the growth and the increased
Community needs of the city of Paramount
the city currently has 104 City
controlled public parking spaces the
proposed project would result in 146
City controlled parking spaces it would
increase accessible Spaces by three and
it would have four EV charging stations
that would be available to the General
Public
there are additional improvements that
would also be associated with the public
parking lot and again a detailed
description of those are improvements
are set forth in the Agenda
Report finally the city also provide
proposes to provide upgrades to existing
to the existing public Plaza area that
extends from Paramount Boulevard
Westerly into the project area the the
public Plaza would remain accessible and
open to the public it would replace and
repair existing fountains relocate a
sculpture provide enhanced Paving um
site Furnishing seatings Landscaping
lighting and other
improvements all of these components are
part of the overall project which is
intended to benefit the community
residents and visitors of the City by
creating more passive Recreation space
additional public parking improv
Community facilities and preserving a
Historic Landmark that's at the very
heart of this
community the property is uh currently
the subject property which we will call
the hatry property is owned by the
Paramount General Hospital
company um the city uh under um
considered when it was going through the
secer
review
um the C found that uh this property was
subject to a categorical exemption which
was approved on February 5th
2005 I'm sorry
2025 just a little bit
off
um the in in in order to adopt a
resolution of necessity the city council
has to make four findings um those four
findings are that the public interest
and necessity require the project that
the project is planned and located in a
manner that is most compatible with the
greatest public good and the least
private injury that the hatry property
is necessary for the pro project and
that the city has made an offer as
required by government code section
72672 to the record owners of the hatri
property the facts the detailed facts
supporting each of these four findings
are included in the Agenda Report uh
which is incorporated into the record of
this
proceeding a 4 fth vote of the city
council is required in order to adopt a
resolution of
necessity legal council for the property
owner has submitted a letter setting
forth their objections to the adoption
of the resolution necessity a copy of
the objection letter is also
incorporated into the record of this
proceeding if the resolution of
necessity is adopted we will Contin
continue our efforts to try to negot
iate a settlement with the property
owner as we take this concurrent path of
um iminent
domain price is not a factor before the
city council this
evening that concludes my report I'm
happy to answer any questions you may
have okay I will open the hearing and is
there any testimony from the property
owner or other interested
parties yes madame mayor there was a
letter submitted by the property owner
that Miss Danner mentioned and it has
been placed on on the
dis and that's all the testimony that's
been received okay well I will call for
motion to close the hearing move second
okay are there any comments for my
colleagues I move we adopt resolution
number
25009
second okay is there a motion for this
item yes there is Miss city clerk may I
have have a roll call please council
member aguo yes council member OS
council member qu Stallings yes vice
mayor lemons mayor delgadio
yes our next item is a report on updated
guidelines for the residential air
purifier and filter rate program Mr
Marino may we have the report please uh
yes madame mayor next we're proposing to
change a few of the parameters for our
air purifier program and this includes
increasing the dollar amount of the
rebate that we offered to residents so
with that I'll turn it over to our
planning director Mr John King who will
handle the item John thanks John thank
you mayor Del and council
members so the um air residential air pu
purifier and filter rebate program a
mouthful it it's been in existence since
2018 and it was a response to um just
the realization that you know the air
isn't great in this region um we're
surrounded by freeways as as you know we
we did not not put the freeways where
they are but they're there we're very
close to the ports ports of Los Angeles
ports the port of um of Long Beach and U
you know those tons of trucks going
north and south on the 710 and the
surrounding freeways so the um so to
deal with the the air to help folks in
their in their homes the city council at
the time adopted this program giving
rebates for um home air purifier
systems um so this is still on the books
the same amount from that time so it's
been uh six years $100 for air purifiers
and
$50 for filters and the way the programs
set up you can um somebody who wants a
rebate for one of these cannot mix them
it's either one or the other um pretty
pretty strict um we've had a couple
instances where we uh kind of bended the
rules a little bit but we want to
formally you know make make it the the
law of the land that you can
uh you you can mix these two so what's
an air purifier what's eligible TR true
hea they have to be qualified uh true
HEPA a purifier so capturing the the
bulk of the micro
particles and you could see through this
chart that the expenditures have have
gone down there was quite a bit of
interest to start and as we started with
$10,000 we got it down to 5,000 and then
the present $2,500 allocation per per
year um there's we're still not spending
that amount and that's despite um
ongoing Outreach we've been doing a lot
of Outreach Through The Years uh
periodic social media posts two to three
times a year in recent months the more
recent months we've kind of H held back
a little bit just knowing that we were
going to bring this this to you we're
anticipating changing the grant amount
so we didn't want to advertise one thing
and and change it to something
else but we since 2018 we've had plenty
of Outreach City web ite the Paramount
environment website there's a little
excerpt from it um and and Flyers Flyers
at City events and
Facilities so what we're looking at is
um with the you know inflation the costs
are rising so it' be helpful to to um
help put in more money um so increasing
the current $100 rebate amount by $50
for air purifiers so up to
150 adding 50 to 100 um and then for air
filters um we have a current $50 rebate
adding another $25 to bring it to to
$75 then allowing a combination of the
two up to
$200 um and then we've had a few
instances where the um you know maybe
we're all doing this we're a little slow
on on bringing our our receipts to uh
you know for whatever um whatever type
of program uh folks are are taking their
time and and they were they became
ineligible for waiting too long so just
to help them out just add add a little
more more time so going from 30 days to
to 90 days for
eligibility and just another little
cleanup is to exclude gift cards um it's
it's hard to to track the uh oftentimes
it's hard to track the the payment of
gift cards toward um legitimate air
purifier so just to kind of clean that
up and that's really it um we're
definitely open to any suggestions we're
recommending receiveing file and provide
any any feedback feedback you may have
and I'm happy to answer any questions
yeah are there any comments for my
colleagues none okay this item is for
receive and file we will moved on to the
next item thank you
John next we'll have consideration of
proposed changes to the education and
Military Banner locations Mr Marino may
we please have the report certainly
Madame mayor you know there's been a lot
of discussion recently around the
relocation of our education banners I
informed you recently that our proposed
plan would be to swap current locations
for the military banners that are on
Paramount with the education banners
which go up on alre so this and next
presentation we'd like to present you
more details about this plan and receive
your your formal approval with that I'll
turn over to Community Services director
missa
guena thank you John good evening Madam
mayor and members of the city council as
John mentioned this evening City staff
is proposing changes to the locations of
education and Military
banners in 2016 this the city Lounge the
military Banner recognition program also
known as Boulevard of heral this program
was established to pay tribute to the
brave men and women who are currently
serving in Armed Forces these Banners
are displayed year round along paramont
Boulevard stretching between Somerset
Boulevard and RR Avenue two years later
in 2018 the city expanded its
recognition efforts to include the
education Banner program also known as
Boulevard of Scholars this program
celebrates academic achievements and
promising futures of our students
banners are displayed during the summer
months along Alandra Boulevard between
Downey Avenue and paramont Boulevard a
replica of the military Banner is
represent is presented at the city
council meeting the banner is then
displayed until the service member
retires once the service member retires
the banner is brought down and is
retrieved from our community services
office by the service member or the
family
member like the military Banner program
a replica of the education Banner is
presented Ed during the Education City
council meeting the banner is then
displayed during the summer and once
it's brought down the students family
can retrieve it from our community
services office to enhance visibility of
the military Banner program we have
dedicated a section on the city website
the flyer is also available at all City
events at our city Booth lastly we aim
to promote the program to our graduating
high school students who will be
enlisting in the US Armed
Forces recently there there has been
discussions regarding the potential
changes to education military Banner
programs during the city's ad hoc
meetings it was proposed to display the
education banners year round closer to
our local schools to better motivate our
Paramount Unified School District
students the initial proposed location
for the education banners was on the
utility pool surrounding paramont High
School however after conducting an
inventory it was determined that there
was not enough utility polls directly
adjacent to paramont high school to
accommodate the number of Education
banners intended for display the second
option that was proposed was to swap the
military banners and the education
banners the boulevard of Scholars were
moved from Alandra Boulevard to paramont
Boulevard and the boulevard of Heroes
was shift from paramont Boulevard to
alra Boulevard if approved by city
council tonight this change will
accomplish the goal of making education
banners banners more visible on a year-
round basis as it would be directly
visible to students attending paramont
High School West Campus paramont Park
Middle School and Our Lady of the Rosary
following a comprehensive Logistics
review of a lro Boulevard and paramont
Boulevard our staff is confident that
these locations offer ample space to
accommodate both Banner
programs we are proposing to move the
military Banner program to a landre
boulevard between Downey Avenue and
paramont Boulevard this area currently
has 38 available locations for display
expain military banners we currently
have 28 military banners representing
various branches of the US Armed Forces
Army Navy Marines Coast Guard space
force the reserved and National Guard we
do have plenty of spaces available to
continue growing the program through our
targeted marketing
efforts we are proposing to move the
education Banner program to paramont
Boulevard between Somerset and rosr
Avenue which has 40 polls available to
use we currently have 32 banners that
are proudly displayed on AER Boulevard
25 banners feature the top 25 students
from paramont high school five banners
from the top five students from Odyssey
STEM Academy and two banners from the
top two students from buav Vista High
School overall the change in locations
for the military Banner program and
education Banner would better
accommodate the number of banners and
provide the goal to display the
education banners year around for the
medium poll suited in Northbound on Rose
SC and Southbound on Somerset staff will
install banners featuring a welcoming
message for example welcome to the
boulevard of Scholars the banners will
probably proudly showcase the logos of
the city of paramont and paron Unified
School
District at this time there's no fiscal
impact associated with relocating the
banners expenses related to the military
Banner including pole hard hardware and
Banners will be managed during the
city's regular budgeting process costs
associated with the education Banner
will be reimbursed to the City by Pont
Unified School District as agree upon
with the school
district it is recommended that the city
council approve the proposed education
military Banner location changes and
provide staff with direction to move
them
accordingly and that concludes my
presentation I'll happy to answer any
questions are there any comments from my
colleagues I just have one question yes
you know there's 28 mil
there's no way that we can build it
around our our statues out here like
where we have the
military um right here outside of par
the memori that the memorial is there
any way that we can you know build it
around our memorials to have
their I don't know at Adriana I don't
think we have utility pools there
correct we don't that we will be able to
we don't have any street lights out
there no we do have some street lights
but probably not sufficient but not
enough and then we have we propose that
yeah but also we have some banners here
for schools right for students correct
Council you recall here at the Civic
Center we have the top five students the
volunteer students and we also have the
momentum students that we keep right but
just a reminder we do go into our
Christmas season and the goal with the
military banners is that they stay
obviously up the entire year so we will
be bringing them down and obviously
bringing them back up if that would be a
discussion
are you moving the student ones back
over you're going to you're going to
keep them here we're going to keep them
here yes you can't put the students all
together well it's different kind of
students too the momentum yeah but I
mean it's still the high school like
students right I
just ahead oh one Scholars and the other
is really about Scholars it's wondering
that would be kind of cool to put it
around here but yeah the student the
ones that go up here don't say the
college names you know the ones that
yeah so they service hours
exactly okay got it okay are there any
more comments from the colleagues I
motion okay motion second approv okay
Miss city clerk may we have roll call
please council member aguo yes council
member OS yes council member car
Stallings def vice mayor lemons mayor
delado yes our next item is a report on
updated guidelines for the residential
air purifier and filter rate reate
didn't we already have this yes we did
yeah we're on item number 25 25 that's
what it says here
yeah oh for
approval okay we already did we already
did this for
the TR control yeah you know what there
was an error here okay the next item on
the report is for Friday night popup
traffic control plans and equipment
rental
services
um asking for an approval are there any
comments from colleagues oh Mr Mr Mar we
had the report please excuse me sure
Madame mayor um a couple years ago this
the city council requested that we move
some of our events around to different
parts of the city we've done that so
we've held what's called popup Friday
night markets in areas other than the
usual spot in our downtown here um so
this next item is to highlight the
location of two new events that will be
um located elsewhere than just our
downtown and so we're asking for your
approval on a couple things here tonight
so with that I'll turn it over to our
Public Works direct director Adriana
Figaro to go over in Greater detail
about what this is about Adriana thank
you John Madame mayor members of the
city council I'm going to jump right in
so the city typically hosts the Friday
night Paramount uh on Friday nights from
March through November in the downtown
area this year we are planning to host
two of these events as popup events at
other locations to make it more
accessible and convenient for residents
to attend and participate in the
festivities as part of the event
planning efforts staff will be
incorporating uh Meridian barriers as
enhance protection measures for City
events with street closures this will
require the rental of additional
equipment to supplement the city's
inventory of
barriers this year the city is proposing
to host a Friday night Paramount popup
events at the following locations the
first location is on Orange Avenue
between Courtland and Travis uh drive
this popup event is scheduled for March
21st from 5:00 p.m. to 900 p.m. the
event will include music food and
vendors uh the second location is at the
intersection of Jackson Street and
gundry Avenue and that event is slated
for May uh traffic control plans were
prepare for each of these locations by
the city's traffic engineer and as part
of the city event street closures
Meridian mobile barriers will be
incorporated again for added protection
measures these barriers are used to
protect people and property from
vehicles and will be strategically
placed at road closures
locations for reference here's the
traffic control plan for the uh event on
Orange Avenue between corland and Travis
Drive the red rectangular box is the
general area of where the event will
take place uh the closures indicated by
by the red circle will be on the east
side of Orange Avenue just north of
Travis drive and at the East side of
Orange Avenue where courland Avenue and
orange uh intersect residents located on
the west side of orange will be able to
enter and exit their uh neighborhoods
through the frontage road and access
point near uh Hai Drive I should note
that the horse table near this location
has been notified about the event coming
up and if approved Community Services
staff will begin Outreach efforts to
promote the event including hand
delivery of the event Flyers to
Residents in the
area here's a traffic control plan for
the second Friday uh night Paramon
pop-up event this location will be at
the intersection of Jackson and gundry
Avenue the general event space will be
the area denoted in red uh this event
will include street closures on gundry
Street south of Marcel and closures on
Jackson Street both east and west of
gundry
Avenue um again as part of the city
event street closures Meridian mobile
barriers are needed to provide enhanced
uh protection measures the city did
purchase a limited number of these
barriers in 2022 for City Event use and
will supplement its equipment needs with
rentals on an as needed basis to ensure
adequate coverage um depending on the
traffic control plan uh the barriers are
solely manufactured by Meridian rapid
defense group Rentals
LLC for the city's purchasing policy as
outlined in the municipal code related
to Soul Source vendors staff recommends
exemption from regular bidding process
and selects this vendor for equipment uh
rental needs to supplement the city's
existing Meridian barrier inventory for
continuity and safety a given uh City
event schedule and anticipated equipment
rental needs this requires city council
approval
there is no fiscal impact as the city
council previously approved a uh fiscal
year 25 midar budget adjustment that
included rental equipment of these
barriers and with that uh staff
recommends approval of this
item that concludes my presentation and
I'll be happy to answer any questions
are there any comments from my
colleagues no I'll move the item second
all right Miss city clerk may I have a
roll call please council member aguo yes
council member OS Council mqu Stallings
vice mayor lemons yeah mayor delado Dio
yes the motion carries next we have an
award of contract for the median
enhancements project on AER Boulevard
and Orange Avenue city project
9435 Mr Mareno may we please have the
report yes Madam mayor this last item on
the agenda has to do with our meeting
enhancements the athetics subcommittee
um directed us to extend reclaim water
lines to medians where it's
cost-effective and makes sense this will
allow us to plant grass which tends to
grow better and is easier to maintain
than drought tolerant plants so we're
requesting your approval of this and
I'll turn it back over to our Public
Works director Miss Adriana Figaro to
give you details on where this is and
how much it's going to cost Adriana
thank you John Madame mayor members of
the council by way of background one of
the city priorities is to enhance the
Aesthetics of its medians along our
arterial streets staff work closely with
the landscape ad hoc committee to
identify a landscaping pallet and
aesthetic standards for the medians This
was later reviewed and approved by the
city council through that process
Direction was given to convert existing
irrigation lines wherever possible to
reclaim water irrigation also known as
the purple pipe system so that we can
support grass growth and flower
plantings here's an example of a prior
reclaimed waterline conversion this is
of course Lakewood p north of Somerset
as you can see we transfor transform the
Aesthetics in this area by simply
converting the irrigation from portable
water to reclaim water uh this is by the
way the only way we can have grass on
our medians given the State wide water
conservation mandates that we must
follow converting from portable water to
reclaim has its challenges we must look
at our existing reclaim water lines and
determine what areas are more
technically feasible for this type of
this type of conversion given the
distance to existing connections the
medians identified here are those that
met the criteria and could be converted
to a reclaim water system the first
location is the median on rosr Avenue
the red box located on the top of your
screen uh from our West City boundary to
Orange Avenue the second location is a
median on alra Boulevard the red box
located on the bottom of your screen
also from the West City boundary to
Orange
Avenue design was prepared by the city's
contracted civil engineering firm Wan
the request for proposals was released
on January 20th with bids due on
February 25th the city received three
bids after completing the bid analysis
which includes reviewing itemized costs
certifications and confirmation of good
standing uh contractor Marina Marina
landscape Inc was deemed to be the low
responsive and responsible bid in the
amount of $49,500
the total project cost including a 10%
contingency comes to $5
54,400 in terms of fiscal impact funding
was budgeted in the fiscal year 25 CIP
program budget as city project number
9435 no additional appropriation is
needed at this
time in summary staff is recommending
the city council approve the award of
contra contct to Marina landscape for
the reclaim irrigation line conversion
project this concludes my presentation
and I'm available to answer any
questions you may have okay are there
any comments from my colleagues no be
all right Miss city clerk may have a
roll call please council member aguo yes
council member olos council member quer
Stallings vice mayor lemons mayor dadoo
yes next we have the successor agency
consent calendar is there a motion so
move second okay may we have roll call
please council member aguo yes council
member OS council member quis Stallings
Vice May lemons yes mayor dougo yes now
is the time for comments and committee
reports we'll start with vice mayor
lemons thank you Madame mayor um I just
like to report that um council member
almost myself continue to meet with the
mobile home park owners and the
residents of Paramount uh regarding the
draft of an you um everybody is being
very respectful and listening to um
everybody's information um that are
sharing at the meeting so we're very
grateful for that and I also attended my
monthly um seaka meeting thank you
Madame mayor thank you so much uh
council member
olos thank you madam mayor I just really
want to Quick um just say that we all
went Vilma myself and the mayor we went
to Pathways 40th anniversary
congratulations pathways for your
continued support to our Paramount
residents um and that's all I have to
report thank you okay thank you council
member AG please yeah thank you so um I
along with uh council member quir
Stallings we attended the Musa women's
appreciation um event that they had and
they're always so grateful to the city
they do so much for us but they're just
so thankful for the city and the support
and it's great to see how they grew from
this small group to this huge Force
really really and the stories that they
shared amongst them and how the group
has helped them individually was really
just um it was really great to see that
so it was really nice to to be there and
again you know I feel we should be
thanking them and they continue to pour
their love you know to to us in this
city so that's all I have thank you so
much council member quer Stallings yes
as my colleagues mentioned we did attend
Pathways and Musa um Musa was very
emotional this year um they gave out an
award and and um just a recognition of
these ladies and the the power that they
have in this community is really awesome
and I'm so grateful to them for them
being in our community and helping in
our communities and next I have is
um I went to see the children uh uh boys
and girls go play basketball and it was
really nice on Saturday I just sat down
on the bench and just watch them play
and before I knew it I had a
grandparents speaking to me and asking
me you know who I was and who was my
child or granddaughter out there and I
said no I don't have no one and um they
were very very happy with the city of
Paramount the great things that they're
doing for Parks and Recreation and um
the lady said you know I love Paramount
and I love the recreation so I did
mention to her if she could put it on
social media and please let them know
that uh let the community know that she
loves Paramount and she loves everything
that the city does and also I went to
the workout yesterday with the seniors
with instructor Ron Robertson oh my God
80 seniors attended this class great and
it went from 15 to 20 to 80 and I
thought I was going to walk in and um I
thought I was going to see these seniors
you know not being very active but the
first thing they approached me they told
me I took cuts that I went in front of
the line and then so anyway I apologize
for that and then second is I
participated for a whole hour and I am
very very sore John Ron Robertson is a
good instructor the back of my legs and
my children eys me
but but anyway I had a lot of fun and it
was a lot of fun to see them interacting
he has an advance intermediate and
beginners Well they wanted to put me in
the advance and I said no I'll stay over
here in the beginners and I'm glad I
stayed in the
beginning but anyway it was a a
wonderful and they did ask for some
things but I did speak to the director
yena Gillan about it and they'll be
looking forward to seeing a little bit
more equipment coming to them that's all
I have Madame mayor oh thank you council
member qu AR you are so funny I love it
you get involved in you get involved in
everything with your whole heart I'm
over there exercising oh my God you're
the life of the party
okay thank you as for myself um I also
attended the pathway's 40th anniversary
with my colleagues council member Almos
and council member quer Stallings and
Pathways celebrate their 40th
anniversary a service providing
compassion Compassionate Care to
families living with with illnesses and
loss and I also attended the Chamber of
Commerce ribbon cuttings with my
colleagues and staff and the first one
was Jasmine at oraba K welcome the
beautiful new homes to the neighborhood
and they are gorgeous second inkhead
Prince celebrated their 20th anniversary
in business here in Paramount so
congratulations to them and also council
member almost and I supported Miss
Margaret Garcia's first grade class and
we read for Dr Seuss read Across America
and that was a joy to do and it felt so
good to be back in the classroom and
that's all I have today uh Mr Moreno are
there any comments from staff uh yes
madame mayor just a couple of real quick
introductions first off is our new
inum Finance director Mr Paul Espinosa
Paul wave your hand there Paul comes uh
is a retired a Finance director with 32
years am I correct 32 years of uh
service for a variety of different
cities um so he comes with us with a lot
of experience and he's obviously filling
in from for Kima who um who left us to
take a job out in Chino so uh welcome
Paul and we're happy to have you as part
of our team for the intern
period our next introduction is our new
service area lieutenant in the back can
you stand up Lieutenant Guan
there's uh Lieutenant Adrien Gan we're
very happy to have him he started March
3rd here so he's just been here for a
week he has nearly 16 years of
experience with the sheriff's department
including service time at the West
Hollywood Station the the Malibu L Hill
station Palmdale station training Bureau
narcotics and Internal Affairs um so
he's very well rounded and he's a
welcome addition to our team uh welcome
lieutenant
and that and that concludes our
introduction I'd like to add a little
something to Lieutenant Gillan also
supported read Across America reading to
the children in Miss Garcia's classroom
thank you so much and it was so nice to
meet you there thank you sir okay we're
ready to move on now um the city council
will recess into Clos session Mr Moreno
will you please announce the close
session item sir absolutely Madame mayor
this is to announce that this that the
city council now go into close session
with for for conference with the legal
council existing litigation per
government code section
54956.9 subsection D1 one case
shadowwood development versus city of
Paramount
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here
okay I now call the city council meeting
back to order in Open Session Mr gelli
may we please have the report from
closed session thank you mayor the city
council met in closed session to discuss
the one item on the posted agenda all
five council members were present the
city council provided Direction on a
proposed settlement agreement if
approved by the parties a copy will be
made available for review that's my
report thank you thank you sir
there being no further business before
the city council this meeting is
adjourned to a joint meeting with the
Planning Commission on March 25th 2025
at 3:30 p.m. here in the city council
chamber Hall the next regular meeting of
the city council will be held on March
25th 2025 at 5: PM is it was that
meeting cancelled or for it's still up
in the air it's still up in the air I
know you got a noticed but then we after
you received not notice we heard back
from the um CL not client excuse me the
uh petitioner um and he may be back on
for the 25th we'll let you know
hopefully by tomorrow so that's hot off
the press look at Heidi's looking Sorry
Sorry Miss loose I know I just got that
information like late this afternoon
okay this Mee journ thank you everyone
have a good night