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[0:06] Speeding, it is 5.30 p.m., and it is April 6, 2022, and we'll go ahead and call the roll. Thank you. Councilmember Sanchez. Here.
[0:18] Councilmember Ibarra is not present at the moment. Mayor Pro Tems. Here. Councilmember Shura. Councilmember Renoza is not present at the moment. Councilmember Calvin. Present. Councilmember Alexander. Here. Mayor Valdivia.
[0:38] Okay. Good evening, and are there any items to add or delete? And I'm seeing none. No shakes, no heads.
[0:48] None. Okay, let's recess in a closed session.
[0:51] Oh, I'm sorry.
[0:52] Our public comments, treasure.
[0:56] Treasure, go ahead. You're up.
[1:01] Mr. Tees.
[1:11] Good evening, counsel. So before you walk in a closed session today, a possible litigation
[1:17] is coming from Monacito equities, and I want to make sure that you and the public are fully aware that the mayor has received $21,500 in political contributions from them over the course of six years.
[1:30] Again, as we see the pay-to-play corruption that we live in our city daily, now we watch the mayor try to sit in closed session items concerning cannabis, where he had not only been contributed by, but had written letters of recommendation upon.
[1:45] Let's make sure that what the city is negotiating on their own behalf and their own interest, is not for the ears of the guy that is being bought and sold by every developer that comes with a check.
[1:58] Additionally, in looking at the discussion on Andrea Miller's case tonight, which I know what portion of it is going to be for open session, we need to make sure that we're doing everything possible, not to keep costing the tax payers money for the elected officials who refuse to do the right thing, who breach their own contracts.
[2:14] that they vote to approve, who violate their own terms and agreements, which they vote to approve.
[2:21] So I'm asking you guys to start saving us money, to start doing the right thing and
[2:26] hold your colleagues accountable for their own actions.
[2:30] Thank you.
[2:32] Thank you, Ms. Plunk.
[2:41] Thank you, Dr. Schrader, T. Sveren, for remembering democracy.
[2:45] John, you've got to work on that.
[2:48] The Facebook posting from two years ago from C.W. Ibarra has now come back to slapper in the face along with residents.
[2:56] She now wants residents to clean up her carnage through a quest of $100,000 for her legal fees.
[3:05] Hashtag Andrew Miller-Saga. Why?
[3:08] Because Mr. Ibarra just can't help herself from being pretentious and snotty.
[3:12] I'll over Facebook sites telling her wisdom of staying focused on the real needs of the cities of the city.
[3:20] Well, Ms. Ivarra, we are completely focused on saying no to another person on this diocese who wants to play the victim card.
[3:30] Rather than do it as right and clean up your messes, so here are some suggestions.
[3:35] Lick with date, sell your house, ask for a loan, turn to your bros on this diocese.
[3:42] I'm sure they have some extra cash to help out.
[3:45] And all your supporters and friends who come with us after us all of the time go ask for a loan.
[3:50] But your request should be denied tonight by this council.
[3:54] Please vote no council, do the right thing.
[3:57] Okay, thank you, members of the public.
[3:59] We'll now recess in a closed session.
[4:00] Everybody,
[4:11] let's go ahead and begin tonight's council meeting.
[4:14] We'll ask all council members to please return to their desk.
[4:17] And we welcome the viewing audience tonight Wednesday April 6th of 2022.
[4:22] Thank you for coming and do our audience here in our general Felteheim Library auditorium.
[4:28] We thank you for joining us tonight.
[4:30] At this time, we will ask Pastor Jorge Murgey of the San Bernardino First Church of the Nazarene
[4:37] to lead us in the invocation, followed by Council Member Kelvin, would you please lead us
[4:42] in the legible legions? Will all rise, please? Pastor Hordeheim would give the first
[4:48] church of the Nazarene, sir?
[4:59] I have any father, mighty God. Thank you for bringing all this together as your presence
[5:11] and your wisdom can be poured onto every business
[5:17] that is being conducted in this place.
[5:21] Thank you for every person that is here representing
[5:25] the area that they're representing.
[5:28] Thank you for your wonderful presence
[5:30] and we ask you to direct
[5:35] and give every business
[5:38] This is the wisdom and the courage necessary in Christ I ask these things, amen.
[6:06] Thank you very much, Pastor Fadjad Murgeev, this first church of the Nazarene.
[6:11] Thank you, sir, for your ministry to our city.
[6:13] Thank you for your presence here tonight.
[6:15] This time I will ask the city clerk to please call the roll.
[6:18] Council Member Sanchez.
[6:21] Council Member Ibarra is absent.
[6:23] Council Member Mayor Pro Tem.
[6:24] Here.
[6:25] Council Member Shura.
[6:27] Here.
[6:27] Council Member Reno.
[6:28] Here.
[6:28] Thank you. Councillor Member Kelvin.
[6:30] Present.
[6:31] Councillor Member Alexander.
[6:33] Kia ora.
[6:34] And Mayor Valdedia.
[6:35] Here. Thank you, Ms. City Clerk.
[6:37] Ms. City Attorney, please, if there's anything to report out from our closed session.
[6:43] Mayor, councilmembers and members of the public.
[6:45] We did have several closed session items for discussion this evening.
[6:50] I do would like to report out that the City Council has authorized us to file a receivership
[6:54] Receivership action in nuisance abatement case, and that's all the report of the action that I have.
[6:59] Very good. Thank you for the report. Mr. City Manager, sir, you're recognized.
[7:03] Thank you. Good evening to you and to the viewing audience, as noted earlier.
[7:08] I have quite a few things to talk about this evening. We'll try to get through them as quickly as possible, however, because we have a fairly lengthy agenda this evening.
[7:15] First thing on the list, CalTrans is doing some work here in town and we're looking at a 55 hour road closure over the next four weekends for some pavement work.
[7:24] important to be done, but there is, of course, important improvements for the city, but we do incur a little bit of pain.
[7:30] So this has been posted on the city's website, but I wanted to make sure everybody is aware that there will be some inconveniences to us all on the, on the 259.
[7:40] So, next up, public works, a lot of things happening.
[7:44] We are installing quite a few street lights.
[7:46] A lot of them are solar powered, which saves quite a bit of time and literally energy in the sense that we're powering through the power of the sign
[7:54] as opposed to running power lines, and they're also a lot easier to install, less expensive
[7:58] to bring in.
[7:59] And some of them are at Second Lake Park, which is a nice addition, our park's director
[8:03] sent me pictures of them with quite a bit of an animated message, very happy to see
[8:09] the best point on.
[8:10] Next slide, please.
[8:13] We have started work.
[8:14] There's been a lot of discussion about the need for additional concrete repair work to happen
[8:18] around the city.
[8:18] The contract was just awarded a little while ago.
[8:20] And as you can see here, the work has been initiated.
[8:24] There'll be work being done all across the city, several different crews working for the concrete contractor that is selected, doing work in basically citywide.
[8:33] So good news there.
[8:36] Refedigling up, clean up, things are moving pretty quickly.
[8:40] Last time I talked with Mr. Keishdai, I think he said we were down in terms of the reported graffiti, there were something like 10 CRMs in the system at this point.
[8:46] And we are also, of course, initiating the roving patrols are going to be hitting graffiti walls and other places
[8:55] without the benefit of a report.
[8:57] It's simply doing it in response to things they observe as they are patrolling around the city.
[9:01] So, we're making progress.
[9:03] We're also decorating things up.
[9:05] You went too far.
[9:06] Go back.
[9:07] We're also trying to decorate some walls.
[9:08] And as you see there, we painted a utility cabinet in support of the people in Ukraine.
[9:13] when we're finding a fresh and as we speak.
[9:16] Okay, next slide, please.
[9:19] Library, we are back doing in the business
[9:21] of providing citizenship classes at the libraries.
[9:25] In both in English here at Belltime,
[9:29] it's an important service that we can provide
[9:32] to people in our city who are looking
[9:35] to become citizens of this country.
[9:38] And the password office has passed an audit.
[9:42] They've been offering passwords for a while now,
[9:43] but has passed not it and is doing a great job, so thank you for all that you're doing.
[9:49] We've received a recent review and you guys have done a great job in there.
[9:53] The customer service levels are quite high apparently, so congratulations.
[9:57] Next line.
[10:00] The spring, egg scrapping Anza is coming to parks,
[10:06] We'll have, you know, having Saturday, April 9th.
[10:10] Staff has been stuffing eggs about 30,000 so far
[10:14] to provide the kids something to look for.
[10:16] It's going to be a lot of fun, crafts, games, food.
[10:19] And, of course, the use of your money.
[10:21] So, thank you.
[10:22] Next slide, please.
[10:24] Police Department has been busy.
[10:26] They deployed for the, there's an event
[10:29] at the Natural Orange Showgrounds,
[10:31] another music event, about 50,000 people there.
[10:33] and no major instance to report.
[10:36] There have been questions about what happens with those events.
[10:40] Financially, we do get fully reimbursed for the police, departments, participation,
[10:43] presence, and enforcement during those events.
[10:47] Also, officers responded to a car jacking on Sunday March 27th, and we're able to recover
[10:53] both the vehicle and to capture the suspect.
[10:58] Next slide.
[10:59] Okay.
[10:59] All right.
[11:00] So, don't ruin your slide for this one.
[11:04] There's no secret to anyone here, I think, that the city has, in fact, hired a new police
[11:08] chief, and I ask
[11:13] the incoming chief, Darren Goodman, to come out tonight just to say hi.
[11:18] This is not a Q&A, it's not open mic night.
[11:21] He's simply here to say hi and make a brief introduction on himself.
[11:24] There will be more to come, there's plenty more to come, of course, his first day that will be June 1st.
[11:28] So if you couldn't, if you would, why not set up the podium just brief introduction.
[11:38] Well, good evening, everybody, Mayor, City Council, members of the community.
[11:42] Thank you, thank you for your collective support and my appointment to be San Bernardino's next police chief.
[11:50] I would be remiss, but I didn't also thank City Manager Rob Phil's, Assistant City Manager Eddie Evelyn for their hard work,
[11:59] commitment and professionalism during this process, I was on full display.
[12:04] I'd also like to commend Dave Greene, the incumbent chief who's been nothing but
[12:11] supportive once the announcement was made.
[12:13] So I look forward to working with him and all the members of the San Bernardino Police Department.
[12:17] I also look forward to serving this great community.
[12:19] I'm familiar with San Bernardino and this is somewhat of a homecoming for me.
[12:23] So thank you all, look forward to meeting you personally to get your collective vision on
[12:28] on how you want public safety to go.
[12:31] Thank you.
[12:36] And that concludes my report.
[12:37] Thank you.
[12:38] Thank you, Mr. City Manager.
[12:39] Chief Goodman, welcome to our city.
[12:42] We're so excited to host you here.
[12:44] And we want to welcome you to our city with open arms.
[12:47] And we're very, very grateful for the process that worked out.
[12:50] And we welcome you, sir.
[12:51] Your first official start day is June 1st.
[12:54] And we're looking forward and anticipating some great things
[12:57] from our police department.
[12:59] So thank you, sir.
[13:00] Thank you.
[13:00] At this time, I will go ahead and begin my mayoral announcements.
[13:05] If the, I wanted to, at our last city council meeting, we had some technical difficulties, but I wanted to
[13:13] highlight the opportunity here for our San Bernardino city community.
[13:18] I want to encourage all members of our viewing audience, as well as those individuals streaming on live stream and whatnot.
[13:26] that Breeze Airways here is coming out of our San Bernardino International Airport.
[13:32] We're really excited about that.
[13:34] Yes, go ahead and clap, that's a great opportunity for our community.
[13:39] Breeze Airways is of course, we held it March 8th, 2022, outside of the domestic terminal at the San Bernardino International Airport.
[13:51] We announced a nonstop route to and from San Francisco beginning August 4th of 2022.
[13:59] It's a first ever commercial passenger air service from the San Bernardino marketplace and the San Bernardino International Airport.
[14:05] The impacts are monumental, a moment for our region of nearly 4.7 million potential travelers in the island empire which supported the base reuse effort for many, many years.
[14:16] true travel options for our local residents and business opportunities that go beyond the San Francisco International Airport.
[14:25] As I see it, as mayor of the city and also chair of the Inland Valley Development Agency,
[14:30] this is a very great accomplishment for our community.
[14:33] We are already beginning other negotiations with other airlines just last Thursday.
[14:38] I was at the airport and held some meetings there for more international cargo import export opportunities.
[14:45] stay tuned. Up to $57 million annually into the region through exciting aviation careers,
[14:52] ticketing and gate agents, group ground handlers, TSA employees, pilots and flight attendants,
[14:58] aircraft mechanics can ship.
[15:00] Concession years, and many, many more complimentary uses that Breeze will bring. A little bit about Breeze Airways. Breeze Airways is a reputable company. It's an airline launched by JetBlueFounder, David Needleman. Mr. Needleman has been a very staunch supporter of going to market areas that are underserved. And so certainly San Bernardino, as well as multiple other cities throughout the United States have been identified. Breeze connects,
[15:29] Next travelers and communities underserved by the air service to the United States, to other U.S. cities, that they want to visit most by delivering affordable fares, state-of-the-art technology, and its signatures seriously nice service.
[15:43] There will be a host of aircraft seating 118 passengers, 22 seats offering extra legroom with no middle seats.
[15:51] The departures will come out of our San Bernardino International Airport, and I want to extend my deep appreciation to all of our IVDM members that join me there at the airport, along with the president and chair of the San Bernardino International Airport.
[16:08] I served as past president, and it's a great opportunity for our community, so we welcome breeze airways to the city of San Bernardino, and we wish many, many continued success opportunities.
[16:18] We are discussing, I'm negotiating and trying to prod and poke where I can to make sure that we have excellent service.
[16:28] And Mr. City Manager, we've talked briefly about the opportunities to make sure that our public works teams
[16:34] make ensures that we have that welcome mat to those travelers.
[16:40] So my expectation is that in the month of May and June and July that our public works teams
[16:46] gets out there and pretties up those entryways to the points where many of our visitors
[16:52] will traverse. So with that, we'll go into Council announcements, and at this time,
[16:58] it's my right, Council Member, from the first district Councilman Sanchez.
[17:02] Thank you. I had the opportunity to take another look at Second Lake and the continued
[17:07] improvements happening there. It's a spectacular park. It's a park that many people had
[17:12] It's written off, and I go there weekly now to walk the dog with the Mrs.
[17:18] It's beautiful, I mean, it's serene.
[17:22] And I invite everyone to go out there and check it out, it's clean, it's safe.
[17:27] But the groundwork was laid over a year ago by the not so visible city staff, our police department.
[17:36] In fact, we have a police officer here who had a direct hand in making sure that that park was safe.
[17:42] And so I appreciate him, I appreciate the district commander who's there now.
[17:47] Lieutenant Ernie Luna, the former central district commander, Brian Harris, and as well as our public work staff.
[17:59] Ernesto Salinas, Arlington Rogers, Alex Kishta, have all contributed to making that park a gem in our city.
[18:07] We have a couple of things we have left to do.
[18:10] I'm talking with staff about redoing the bridges that lead to the, I think we have two islands on the lake, and those are going to be getting redone in the coming months.
[18:21] But in other parts of the district, we have over 1,000 residents, no over 1,000 households that are getting to see the direct benefit of taxpayer dollars hard at work for them.
[18:34] We are redoing, repaving streets, fixing curbs, driveway approaches, and sidewalks on K Street.
[18:43] All the way from Mill to, help me out here at Council Member, past grant, Hillcrest, Hillcrest,
[18:51] and then K Street, I'm sorry, not K Street, King Street, from K, all the way to Mount Vernon.
[18:59] So these are over 1,000 households that will see improved conditions in their neighborhood.
[19:04] And it may not seem like much, but when, I mean, Councilmember Frigaroa, Councilmember
[19:10] Abara, we all know residents who get up at 4 in the morning, sometimes in the winter
[19:17] and the cold, it's still dark out, and they commute to work in places like Los Angeles.
[19:23] And every time they get up, they get in their car, to start that long drive, they hit that
[19:29] pothole right there their cars bumping along these these these roads that are in
[19:34] terrible conditions and it means the world to them that we're able to provide
[19:38] them a nice clean street at least for that first quarter mile on their way
[19:41] to work and on their last quarter mile in the way back home so this is the work
[19:46] that doesn't always make the front page but it's happening all over especially
[19:51] the south side of town that has some of the the poorest or the or the the most
[19:57] of that will dilapidate an infrastructure in our city. So I'm happy to highlight a couple
[20:02] of those projects. Actually, I will finish with one last thing. I think we have an item
[20:07] on the agenda here on the next phase for the Mount Vernon Bridge. So, there are a lot
[20:12] of people who are complaining that the Mount Vernon Bridge is down and they have the right
[20:16] to that city. That part of town is really cut in half without that bridge there. But I
[20:23] I'm proud to say that between the federal government, the state government, and the county government,
[20:29] there's an investment of over $280 million, I mean, let me repeat that.
[20:36] Over $280 million is being invested in that part of town.
[20:45] I mean, that is a major, major undertaking.
[20:48] And that was done with help from our allies at the federal, state, and local level.
[20:55] So I know there was a little bit of talk of it, oh, a year ago, the bridge is down now.
[21:00] But within the next 24 months, that we'll have a shiny new bridge that'll be there serving the community for over 100 years.
[21:08] So I want to leave you guys with that high note.
[21:11] Thanks for your time.
[21:12] Great, thank you, sir.
[21:14] Councilman Biggerot, no, no.
[21:16] Councilman Schwret, sir.
[21:17] Well, I don't have any real announcements either for the fourth order, the city at large,
[21:21] but I do have some sad news to report.
[21:24] I'm sure probably a number of people have heard this already, but I regretfully have
[21:31] to announce the death of Tony Marzulu.
[21:35] Tony, as Emil Marzulu's brother, our former economic development director, and Tony took
[21:43] on the Wildwood Park Neighborhood Association as if it was his own. He was a real mover and a shaker
[21:50] in this community and in the fourth ward up in the Wildwood Park area. His board of directors
[21:57] from that I'm sure are completely devastated. The members of that group up there are devastated
[22:04] over this and it was as sudden as anyone could imagine. I happened to have seen him. It was a
[22:12] week ago Saturday morning, I saw him with his brother, Paul, who was visiting from the
[22:21] beach area.
[22:22] He lives at the beach and Paul was up visiting.
[22:26] I ran into Tony having breakfast at DJ's up on 40th Street and he was the epitome of fitness
[22:33] and health and everything else.
[22:36] We had a very nice conversation, and I got a text from his brother Emo the next morning
[22:42] that that night, Saturday night, about midnight, he had just tealed over from a massive
[22:46] heart attack, 62 years old, and just an absolute mover and shaker in this community.
[22:54] So I was worried about him, not from that perspective.
[22:57] I was worried about him taking on somebody at Stater Brothers and getting in a fight because
[23:01] as they were throwing something on the ground or something, and he owned that 40th Street corridor.
[23:06] So he will be sorely missed, and it's with real regret that I announce that.
[23:12] And I'm sure I don't think there's been an obituary out yet, so I don't know about any servicers or not.
[23:17] But I ask the mayor that we close in his honor tonight and remember Tony Marzoula as a real mover and
[23:25] shaker in this community.
[23:27] Thank you.
[23:27] Thank you, sir.
[23:28] I too had coffee with Tony about three weeks ago, and we had a great conversation just over coffee, and I want to express my condolences to the Marsillo family and the Wildwood Neighborhood Association.
[23:42] That was my home council area when I was a neighborhood council back in the early 2000s through 2009, and so I want to send my deep condolences to that entire neighborhood cluster association.
[23:56] what a wonderful man Tony was and so we will close in his honor and so thank you, Councilman Shereff, for being that to our attention.
[24:04] Mr. Reyno, so sir.
[24:06] Everyone, I've got some brief announcements here.
[24:10] The Scottish right that a lot of you know lit up in flames, it's pretty intense.
[24:14] We're out of the 215 exit in the university.
[24:17] We are in the process of selling that off or it's not ours to sell, but getting the owner,
[24:23] the current owner who hasn't taken care of it for a very long time, to sell that off
[24:27] and then potentially demolish it. That thing can't stand like that. Also, I've been contacted
[24:31] about the 7-elevens. I know some of you may have noticed that it's like a game of shifting
[24:35] 7-elevens. One disappears here, a fire, quote-unquote, and then it's across the street. But former buildings
[24:42] need to be abated, so we're going to handle that as well. Let me second here. A lot of people
[24:48] Well, it's like my colleague Councilman Sanchez was stating about the potholes.
[24:53] A lot of the issues with potholes and a lot of people don't realize here.
[24:56] And even if it isn't a pothole, it's just like a deep groove in the street.
[24:59] Sometimes if you notice on the 210 freeway, certain areas near Ontario where diesel trucks happen to sit for long periods of time.
[25:06] That happens in our city because we have irresponsible and irresponsible goods movement.
[25:10] We've got logistic centers and warehouses for film centers, but we want to call them all over the city.
[25:14] But we have no kind of restricted truck routes.
[25:17] where the trucks will not come down to your neighborhood, where it's not in your corridor,
[25:22] where people aren't being hit by trucks, where people don't have to see them, you don't have
[25:24] your house vibrate. So we're working on that. But that's the first step. Now I know a lot of people,
[25:29] I appreciate the patience, a lot of people have, a lot of people describe it as a game of Mario Kart,
[25:34] driving around the city of San Bernardino, because all the potholes and the liability, a lot of people
[25:38] in the city can't even afford to sue the city, but they would if they could, because their car damage
[25:43] is irreversible sometimes, and they can't afford to get a new car, like everybody can, or other people
[25:50] We have a contract that will be coming before us to get that done in a year's time.
[25:56] It should have already been done, but I'm sorry, things are slow, but we have formalized that.
[26:01] I want to assure you that it's going to go like that.
[26:02] Truck routes, potholes, better asphalt, so we don't have to do these patchwork jobs.
[26:07] Because I know you see that in your neighborhoods.
[26:09] I'm beginning to concentrate with the city manager on how to work with our assembly member to get another 215 exit somewhere in the north end.
[26:16] because not only is it to kind of mitigate some of the traffic from Cal State, San
[26:22] Meridino students around five o'clock PM, you don't want to hit the University exit.
[26:25] I take the Highland exit on purpose to avoid that congestion right there, but it's also a
[26:30] fire hazard because people up in North Verdemont where fires have taken homes, plenty of times,
[26:35] they need a way out, they need evacuation routes, it needs to be responsible.
[26:39] And so you have my word that I'm working on that.
[26:41] This I'm using this time here to update you because a lot of the times you're not on social media,
[26:46] I don't have the resources to be in the newspaper all the time talking to you, so bear with me here.
[26:51] I wanted to congratulate, I know we're not in New York, but we have about 30,000 Amazon workers across the region.
[26:58] And the New York Amazon, one of their facilities managed to unionize.
[27:03] I'm not afraid to support unions because unions protect people, the reasons we have weekends, a lot of people don't even know that.
[27:09] But because it's happened in America, it's fertile right here, for it to happen right here.
[27:16] So that workers don't feel like they have to be intimidated that the quota is going to defeat them.
[27:21] A lot of people don't know this, but the turnover rate in our Amazon facilities in particular in this city is above 90%.
[27:26] What that means is that if I work at Amazon today, I begin today.
[27:30] This time next year, there's a 90% chance I don't work there anymore.
[27:34] That's a revolving door, and I'm tired of that.
[27:37] And people ask me and people voted for me because they knew I would champion that.
[27:40] And so I'm going to support that.
[27:41] I'm going to support any unionization effort of any logistic center, any warehouse,
[27:45] any, I call them, he calls them job centers, I call them slave plantations sometimes because people don't have better opportunities.
[27:51] And a lot of people don't have the resources to climb out and get a better job.
[27:55] And so they see that as their only employment opportunity, and we're not here for that anymore.
[27:59] So congratulations to them, and thank you for the inspiration.
[28:02] The micro grant program that we proposed a while back is going to be coming forward, I believe in the summer, so look forward to that.
[28:07] We're talking about a bottom step, around $5,000, $10,000, top step, I think $35,000.
[28:13] So small business owners and business owners in general, across the city of San Bernardino, who are impacted by COVID.
[28:19] I've been assured that the Treasury doesn't want to deal with the backlog of all the particulars.
[28:23] So it's looking like a not so difficult process for acquiring grants for your business.
[28:29] So look forward to that in the summer.
[28:31] And some of these things might scare some of you, but I wanted to update the community and
[28:34] anybody listening on what my agenda looks like, what I was pushed here to do, is that
[28:40] I'm going to start approaching the minimum wage, that we have to bump the minimum wage
[28:44] in the city.
[28:45] It's $15 now in the state of California, but as I'm talking about the majority of our
[28:49] employees in these warehouses, I'm talking about at least like $17 an hour, and I think
[28:54] there's a lot of support for that.
[28:55] I don't know if it'll be on this diet, but I'm not afraid to champion that.
[28:58] Also rent control, I might have scared a lot of landlords by saying that, rent control
[29:02] In a city where over 51% of people rent, there needs to be some kind of stability.
[29:07] There needs to be a way that you can afford to live and not be outsourced and not be moved out of your home in a year's time.
[29:13] I'm a renter, your councilman from the fifth ward from the wealthy part of town is a renter.
[29:17] Because usually I can afford to buy a home yet?
[29:19] No, because why?
[29:21] It's ridiculous, I can't afford, like many of you, to rent rent rent and save money in order to buy a home.
[29:27] It's not realistic.
[29:29] We have to be catering to the community that exists here.
[29:33] Bike lanes also, I floated a number about what it would cost, but I served a lot.
[29:39] And so down by Venice Beach, I don't go there a lot anymore because the waves aren't that good.
[29:43] But Venice Beach, they managed to corden off.
[29:46] I'm not talking about investing money and just striping a line.
[29:49] Like on the side of the road, we need dedicated like blinders, like to block off cars from getting that.
[29:55] I've been really energized rolling through my old neighborhood on Marshall and I'll see like
[30:00] 60 to 200 people on bikes just rolling around through the neighborhoods, and I love to see it, but I wish they had a lane, so it could be safe and I can go across the entire city. And the last thing is the skate park expansions. I know there's a skate park that's been closed on the east side. I know why people shouldn't have been burning the wooden ramps. But I also grew up in the Blair Park neighborhood, and I love skateboarding. I still long board to this day. I don't do many tricks because I got to stay in touch exactly. It's for you. Trying to expand the skate park.
[30:28] Because Blair Park is home to so many people and we talk about after school opportunities and other things
[30:33] But a lot of kids don't stay after school a lot of people go to the after school program
[30:36] And they still want to do something like skateboard and so I want to consider and explore the city manager
[30:42] What it would take in parts and wreck to expand that because if we're going to give it a one we need to be allocating something to another
[30:49] And lastly just doing some dedicated grant research on our hiking trails and trails that are attached to any new residential development that will come forward
[30:57] because although public courts are responsible for upkeeping it, I'm very aware of across the state,
[31:01] especially in this reason where we have mountains that there's a lot of grants that go to various areas
[31:06] that have like one hill. And we've got tons. I grew up with a foot a little mountain, nice to walk over.
[31:10] There wasn't a trail. It would have been really cool, though. If young people could appreciate that and see it,
[31:15] that we actually, that we give it down about our mountain. And that's it. Thank you.
[31:20] Council Member Kelvin.
[31:25] Good evening, Sam Bernardino. How is everybody tonight? Good doing good? Yes, it's a good day, Sam Bernardino. I have nothing but thank you. So I want to start with public works because now it just seems like we're able to drive through the community drives of the city and we see work being done all throughout. I drive all the wards just to check just to make sure that we are equally being served.
[31:51] and things are being done. So public works. Thank you very much. I appreciate you.
[31:57] I actually put in a request to have some graffiti removed and on my phone it came up. It's done.
[32:04] So guess what I did. I drove up the street to go check it out. The gentleman was still sitting there in his truck.
[32:10] He was putting in finishing up the order. I was able to say thank you to him. I didn't get his name. I apologize for that.
[32:17] But I thank you for the work and the effort that is being put in throughout the city.
[32:20] And that is part of our job to drive through our wars and drive through the city to see so that we can go ahead on and put in that
[32:26] CRM requests and get the graffiti taken down as soon as it's put up. And we need all of you to do that as well.
[32:33] So use goal requests to put it in. You just stop. Take a minute. Keep it. Keep the app on your phone.
[32:40] Just make that request and then they're supposed to send you something that says it's been taken care of.
[32:46] Do what I do, drive by to make sure, keep us accountable because if it isn't, then you call back and say, hey, you said that was done but it wasn't, that's the responsibility that we all have as community members.
[32:58] So I want to thank you, say thank you to San Bernardino Police Department, I operate it after school program and every time I ask them to come and engage the scholars, they are always there and I think that that's critical.
[33:09] It's the only way that we're going to be able to share and show our youth in the city
[33:15] What it takes to become a police officer and then be come a police officer within their own city
[33:20] I think that that's critical. I want to say thank you to all of our staff
[33:25] You all do a tremendous job and I know that we don't thank you hardly enough
[33:29] But I want to say thank you specifically to our council staff
[33:33] Miss Cheryl weeks back there in the back everybody give her a
[33:37] Thank you, and Ms. Valerie Montoya, they do everything for us.
[33:42] It's just a two of them, and they have to serve all seven council members.
[33:46] And they do it with such style and grace that I wouldn't know what to do without them.
[33:51] And I'm sure my colleagues share in that expression.
[33:54] Animal shelter, thank you so much.
[33:56] I have a pet now, and she helps me out on what I need to do with my dog and how to take care of her.
[34:01] And so I appreciate all the work that you all do as well.
[34:04] but I also want to say thank you to our commissioners.
[34:07] Those are volunteers in our city that attend all of the meetings to be able to provide council members with the information that is taking place inside of those meetings.
[34:18] I appreciate each and every one of you community members as well who make sure and are helping us to rebuild the city of San Bernardino because we can't do it without you.
[34:28] Thank you very much.
[34:29] Thank you. Councilmember Alexander, sir.
[34:32] Thank you. And good evening, San Bernardino. I hope everybody's doing all right.
[34:37] First of all, I would like to say condolences to Tony and his family.
[34:42] It really is shocking. I just saw Tony not too long ago, about six weeks ago at DJ's,
[34:47] having lunch with his son, so his family condolences.
[34:56] What I've been doing, Senator, you know, my report out what I've been doing is on last month on the 22nd.
[35:02] Seventh Ward had its general plan update, and once again, Seventh Ward came out in a positive and in numbers fashion to provide their input about the general plan.
[35:12] So again, thank you, Seventh Ward, for coming out and showing up. I appreciate you all. Okay, six horses, they beat us, but that's a matter of interpretation.
[35:25] But that's okay.
[35:27] On the 19th, I attended with my daughter and my granddaughter, the daughter, daddy, dance.
[35:32] People from the community came out to the YMCA, and
[35:37] father showed support and love to their daughters.
[35:40] And their daughters came out there and they pinned.
[35:42] I didn't wear my pen.
[35:43] I should have worn my pen.
[35:44] My daughter, which is 32 years old, she came out, she danced with her dad and
[35:48] my granddaughter and she pinned me with a little pen.
[35:50] And it was a beautiful experience.
[35:53] I suggest next year, if you got your daughter, your granddaughter, come on out to the YMCA.
[35:57] It was a beautiful event by Ron Berryman.
[35:59] It was great at the YMCA in the Second Ward.
[36:03] On the 23rd, the IE Job Corps, myself and Councilmember Calvin, we were there and
[36:08] we experienced what the Job Corps is doing in our city.
[36:11] It was an excellent virtual event.
[36:13] They showed us that if you neighborhood associations need volunteers,
[36:17] they said they would do volunteers.
[36:18] If anyone needs volunteers, the job corps will do that.
[36:22] So I suggest you guys give the job corps a call.
[36:25] It was an excellent event.
[36:27] Also on April 1st, myself and councilmember Calvin.
[36:30] Again, we were at the San Bernardino Valley College Gala.
[36:35] It was an excellent event.
[36:36] They celebrated 95 years, I think was 95 years.
[36:40] 95 years and they had 95 alumni that came back.
[36:45] It was a who's who that's been the Valley College.
[36:47] But it was an excellent event.
[36:49] We were glad that we were there.
[36:51] And also on April 5th, I went to the California University Science and Medical School.
[37:00] Did anybody know that we have a medical school right here in San Bernardino?
[37:04] We have a medical school, a bona fide, 100% medical school,
[37:07] turning out doctors, pharmacists, and all that kind of stuff.
[37:10] They serve 40% of their applicants are from the Inland Empire, 40%.
[37:16] They get ready to have a graduation up, come in graduation, you should be proud.
[37:20] So all of them, them kids, you got to get them going.
[37:23] Because they choose, when I spoke to the director, I don't know if it's a relation of yours.
[37:28] He's Mr. Evelyn.
[37:30] Mr. Evelyn says they look for inlyn empire children.
[37:36] That's what they look for.
[37:37] It's part of the application process.
[37:39] So if anybody has an idea that they want to be a doctor, a PA, an LVN, or
[37:44] Anything in the medical profession?
[37:46] We have it right here in our backyard.
[37:49] See here, also, okay, does that?
[37:54] Okay, thank you, you can mention if you want to go,
[37:56] I'll let you go, I got it, we talk like this all the time.
[38:02] Okay, okay, yes or yes.
[38:06] We were at, hey, is that the president?
[38:09] Scott, that's right there from the board,
[38:12] right there, Scott, raise your hand.
[38:12] That's the president of the unified school district right there and they had there and
[38:18] Councilmember Calvin and Ebar we were there
[38:22] You guys don't get it never ever hardly are the council members at the school board
[38:27] We we we we don't do that so we're trying to show unity in those two elected bodies
[38:34] Okay, all right doctor. Hey are y'all and I'm getting told directions by in my ear here
[38:41] So, but we went there, it was about the link learning goal certificate.
[38:45] We had two high schools in our school district that got these goal certificates with link
[38:50] learning.
[38:51] Now was it Pacific's doctor, it was Pacific, they got the most in the nation, they got
[38:56] the most goals in the nation, in the nation.
[38:58] You guys should be happy about it, in the nation,
[39:05] then
[39:09] I'll let you do that now be quiet, I'll
[39:13] let you do that now be quiet.
[39:14] Future events. April 9th, the NAC. April 9th, the NAC will have their annual plant sale at the Garcia Center, so come on out and buy some plants.
[39:25] April 12th, arrowhead, neighborhood associations having their meeting. April 13th, the Valencia neighborhood association is having their meeting.
[39:36] April 21st, I'm having a commissioners meeting with the community at Standle Church at 6 p.m.
[39:44] That's April 21st at 6 p.m., all my commissioners, we come out, we're going to talk about to the community what they've been doing, what they haven't been doing, and the community is welcome as well.
[39:54] And happy, since we won't be meeting, happy Easter slash resurrection day to all about.
[40:00] Thank you.
[40:00] Thank you very much, Councilman Alexander and thank you all, Councilmembers.
[40:07] At this time, we will proceed on to our presentations for tonight's calendar.
[40:13] This is a proclamation of the Mayor and City Council recognising the celebrating April 3 through 9 of 2022 as National Library Week.
[40:22] Whereas an observance of National Library Week patrons are encouraged to visit one of more of our four San Bernardino Public Library
[40:29] either in person or virtually at www.sbpl.org, connect with your library.
[40:36] This is the years theme for today's recognition, whether people visit in person or
[40:41] virtually libraries offer endless opportunities to transform the lives through education and life-long learning.
[40:48] And whereas libraries help change lives in their communities, serving people of every age,
[40:53] education level, ethnicity and physical ability.
[40:57] More than 24,000 people have our City of San Bernardino Library card.
[41:02] And my two children just got their library card.
[41:05] Our San Bernardino Public Library has served our community for 131 years.
[41:10] And if there is any city that can benefit from a free public library, it is here in the City of San Bernardino.
[41:16] So now therefore, the City of San Bernardino Mayor and City Council do hereby proclaim the week of April 2nd through the April 9th.
[41:23] 2022 as National Library Week.
[41:32] And just a moment I'll call our director up.
[41:35] The second one is the Proclamation for Donate Life Month.
[41:40] And I want to extend my deep appreciation to our representative here joining us tonight.
[41:44] This is a Proclamation of the Mayor and City Council recognizing and celebrating the month
[41:48] of April 2022.
[41:50] As National Donate Life Month, whereas Oregon, I, tissue, marrow and blood donation are
[41:57] life-giving acts, recognized worldwide, as expressions of compassion to those in need,
[42:03] more than 100,000 individuals nationwide and more than 20,000 here in the state of California
[42:09] are currently on the national organ transplant waiting list, and on average 17 people die
[42:14] each day while waiting.
[42:16] And whereas the need for donated organs is especially urgent in the Hispanic, Latino, and African-American
[42:22] in communities, a single individual's donation of the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys,
[42:28] pancreas, and small intestine can save up to eight lives.
[42:31] The donation of tissue can save and heal the lives of more than 75 others.
[42:36] Oregon donors save more than 40,000 lives last year, the most ever.
[42:41] And whereas any person can register to be an Oregon I and tissue donor regardless
[42:45] of age, or medical conditions, being a registered donor does not impact the quality
[42:50] of lifesaving medical care a person receives in an emergency.
[42:54] Now therefore be it resolved that in recognition of National Donate Life Month,
[42:58] the month of April 22, is here by now proclaimed, DMV Donate Life Month in the city of San Bernardino.
[43:05] And in doing so, we encourage all Californians and especially our residents here of the city of San Bernardino to check yes online.
[43:12] Or when applying for or renewing their driver's license or ID card at the DMV.
[43:17] Thank you.
[43:18] And
[43:22] finally, I want to recognize the volunteer appreciation.
[43:27] We have countless number of individuals here in our community that serve the city of San Bernardino and various capacities.
[43:33] This is a proclamation of the Mayor of City Council recognizing and celebrating the month of April 22 as volunteer appreciation month.
[43:41] Whereas last year, more than 65 million Americans gave their time and service to our nation, which is a complete testament to the compassion and generosity of the American spirit.
[43:51] And whereas the City of San Bernardino commemorates the National Volunteer Association in appreciation month by recognizing its valued volunteers and its dedicated service members.
[44:02] And whereas government alone cannot meet all of our nation's needs.
[44:07] So we partner with businesses, faith-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, foundations and individuals who serve in city government and in our community to make a difference.
[44:17] And whereas the city of San Bernardino is committed to encouraging volunteerism and the spirit of cooperation in the national service among its employees, citizens and partners.
[44:27] Now therefore be it resolved that the city of San Bernardino mayor and council do hereby proclaim the month of April 22 as volunteer appreciation month in the city of San Bernardino and urge our citizens to volunteer or to give national service in our community throughout the year by volunteering and recognizing those who serve.
[44:46] We promote partnership, understanding and collaborative problem solving in our community in the month of April and throughout the year.
[44:58] Why don't you have a brief report on-
[45:00] A volunteer appreciation month from Whitty. We want to recognize a couple of volunteers from the city. That's okay. Okay, wonderful. Okay. Whitty.
[45:12] Good evening, Mayor, City Council members and community members. I'm excited tonight to go through a brief presentation of volunteer recognition month. So
[45:24] our city has four different departments that take part in volunteer recognition this year. That is the Animal Care Services Library.
[45:34] There are parks, recreation, community services, and police.
[45:37] And you talked about National Volunteer Recreation Month, but this was something that became an official month in the US in 1990 and it actually became worldwide in 1990.
[45:48] We're excited though because it brings you benefits if you volunteer within our city.
[45:53] You can increase your self-confidence, you can combat depression, and you can also make sure that you stay physically healthy.
[45:59] So I just want to touch based on some of our departments and what we're doing next slide.
[46:02] So, animal care services, next slide.
[46:06] We have five volunteers with over 450 hours where they provide assistance with cleaning
[46:10] and the care of our animals, next slide.
[46:13] Our library I wanted to mention Peggy Hamley.
[46:16] She wrapped up her 25 years of volunteering and was at Feldheim Library.
[46:21] She volunteered 10 to 12 hours and she kept doing this until the age of 96.
[46:26] She was recognized among the volunteers and honored in the fall of 2021 by the League of
[46:30] and voters as the SB area volunteer of the year for her community service.
[46:40] These are some pictures of the folks at our library, next slide.
[46:45] And at the Feldheim Central Library here we're at today, the Docent's help researchers,
[46:49] newspaper reporters, students, and then others who are also interested in history.
[46:54] And there's also many volunteers that help out with the friends of the library,
[46:57] over 2,228 hours in last year alone.
[47:01] Next slide. Parks and Recreation and Community Services has multiple areas of where we can provide
[47:08] volunteer opportunities. Next slide. So as you can see, we had over 50,000 hours just of volunteer
[47:14] services in 2021 with 598 volunteers. Next slide. With the police department, you can see some of the
[47:21] pictures of their explorers there as well as their chaplains. Next slide. And you can see over 8,445 hours
[47:27] of volunteer service in 2021 with 94 volunteers.
[47:31] Next slide.
[47:32] So I wanted to show you the big picture.
[47:35] In 2021, 703 volunteers serve the city of San Bernardino
[47:39] with a total of 61,992 hours,
[47:43] almost a cost savings of almost a million dollars
[47:46] just from all of their volunteer services.
[47:48] Next slide.
[47:52] I would be remiss if we only talked about the volunteers
[47:55] because it does take coordination to have volunteers come through.
[47:58] And tonight, we are here with a few of our coordinators from Animal Services.
[48:04] Jody Kroger and Melissa Alvarez, please stand if you're here.
[48:07] Library, from
[48:11] the Library, Claudia Arroyo,
[48:15] Parks and Recreation, Felicia Brown, and
[48:18] Juanita Webster couldn't be here.
[48:22] Community Services, Jamie Daniels, and Catherine Hernandez.
[48:28] And from our police department, Sergeant Aquino Thomas,
[48:34] at this time that ends my report.
[48:36] Thank you very much.
[48:38] At this time, I will call forward our library director, sir.
[48:41] Thank you very much for your leadership, National Library Week.
[48:45] I'll join you at the platform and on the podium there.
[48:49] Ed, would you like to say a few words?
[48:51] Sure.
[48:52] So thank you very much to the Mayor and Council for the proclamation tonight in support of National Library Week.
[48:58] And I also want to invite the community to come out and enjoy your libraries.
[49:02] As we know, it's been a couple challenging years with the pandemic.
[49:06] lovely, that's passed, and it's also important to note here that in addition to thanking the
[49:11] Council for the proclamation, that thanks to the Council, we also are offering expanded
[49:17] hours at this fiscal year at our libraries. As now, all libraries open 40 hours a week,
[49:23] that's Feltheim and the three branches,
[49:30] throw Ingram and Via Signor as the all-for open Monday
[49:33] and Tuesday, 12 until 8, and Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 until 6, which that's a big
[49:38] improvement with the challenges we faced over the last 15 years and just another example of
[49:44] a city and all the good things that are happening there. So thank you to the mayor and council
[49:49] and thank you for City Manager Rob Field and his recommendation last year for that to be in
[49:55] the funding proposal. Rob always tells me he's a lover and supporter of libraries so thank you to Rob
[50:01] for his support and thank you to Eddie our assistant city manager as well for her support of library
[50:07] service as well. So as I stated, I encourage the community to come out and enjoy our libraries
[50:13] and thanks to the other directors, especially finance and facilities and everyone and their
[50:20] help as we try to make improvements to buildings and improve our services. It's a collaborative
[50:25] effort among us and our fellow directors. So thanks again to everyone.
[50:35] And on behalf of the mayor and council, we present this proclamation to you, sir. Thank
[50:39] Thank you for your leadership, thank you for your dedication and devotion to our city.
[50:43] We thank you for all of our library employees.
[50:45] Let's give our library employees a round of applause and it is a delight to present this to you, sir, on the National Library week.
[50:55] Congratulations.
[51:00] Okay, at this time, I will call forward our national donate life month.
[51:05] You know, please, if you join me, this is a delight to present to you this proclamation of the Mayor's City Council,
[51:10] Council recognizing and celebrating the month of April 22 as National Donate Life Month.
[51:14] A few words?
[51:18] I want to thank the Mayor and the City Council for the proclamation on celebrating April as DMV Donate Life.
[51:25] I am a volunteer with one legacy they fall under Donate Life, California.
[51:30] I am a living donor.
[51:32] I donated a kidney 35 years ago to my daughter, Sarah.
[51:36] Sarah is now 38 and on her third kidney transplant.
[51:39] And the last two transplants were thanks to two families that at the worst time of their lives,
[51:45] they donated the organs of their two sons.
[51:49] And because of that, my daughter is still alive, so they will always be in our hearts.
[51:56] I thank you once again for the proclamation and for advocating organ tissue and eye donation.
[52:04] And you can always make a difference, either by being a living donor, or by going through the DMV that pink dot on your driver's license, or donate live california.org, or donate via california.com.
[52:18] Oh, er, hey.
[52:20] Thank you.
[52:25] What a fantastic story, that's great.
[52:27] And I will call Lydia Phil, please join me.
[52:30] Thank you to all of our volunteers.
[52:32] If there are any volunteers here, please join us at the podium.
[52:35] We want to celebrate the wonderful work of our volunteers.
[52:38] We thank you for your commitment to our community.
[52:44] It's awesome, it's awesome, very good, very good.
[52:48] We thank you for all of our city employees that coordinate and direct our volunteers.
[52:55] And we want to say thank you, a deep appreciation.
[52:57] It alleviates the load from our professional staff members and we want to say thank you again.
[53:02] And on behalf of the city, Liddy, we thank you for your leadership and department oversight of our parks and work and the volunteer appreciation month.
[53:11] Proclamation is therefore created in that stead.
[53:15] Congratulations.
[53:26] Great.
[53:29] Thank you very much, thank you very much.
[53:44] Okay, thank you.
[53:45] At this time, we will proceed onto our public comments.
[53:49] Thank you very much for your indulgence.
[53:51] I was talking about Tony Marzou and I said I didn't know about his services and it was
[53:58] forwarded to me that there indeed has been a service set for him and apparently it is
[54:04] open to the public, gotta bring it back up here, it is to celebrate in the life of Tony
[54:13] Mark Zulu on Saturday, April 30th, at the Sixer Stadium.
[54:24] That's at the ballpark downtown, and again, it says,
[54:29] please join us Saturday, April 30th, 2022, 11 a.m.
[54:34] at the 66er stadium, that's 280 South,
[54:38] East Street, just down here downtown.
[54:40] So anyone that new Tony and would like to show their thoughts for the family again, Tony Marzulu celebration of life on Saturday, April 30th at 11 a.m.
[54:55] Thank you.
[54:55] Thank you, sir.
[54:56] Okay.
[54:57] Mayor, pardon the interruption.
[54:59] We're on item four.
[55:00] The safety report?
[55:02] Oh, my apologies.
[55:03] I apologize.
[55:05] Mr. City Manager, we have a public safety report.
[55:08] Yes, we have the 2021 Public Safety Report, which will be presented tonight by Chief David Green from the Police Department, so, Chief.
[55:24] Good name, name, name, Mayor of Council.
[55:25] Bear with me, just mulling her.
[55:29] Let's hear her click her for the public safety efforts.
[55:37] Okay, as we do each year, we're going to cover our annual report for 2021, which is a general overview of crime and public safety efforts.
[55:46] Each year, as we wrap up, it takes us a couple of months to refine and come through our data
[55:52] to ensure that we are compliant with DOJ and FBI UCR reporting standards.
[55:57] And we've now reached that point to where we can come to you with a comprehensive report.
[56:06] So for your 2021, as you may know, generally just watching the news or kind of following
[56:13] public events, crime has generally trended out nationwide, as well as statewide,
[56:19] And to the degree that we have reporting on property crimes, we have generally followed or been consistent with that trend with about a 7% increase in property crimes, and there are some
[56:36] the master's in there that I'll talk about in just a minute.
[56:39] Relative to violent crime, while nationally and among California's largest cities,
[56:47] there's been a report of an increase.
[56:49] We were able to buck that trend with a decrease in our violent crime.
[56:55] So when you combine the aggregate, we were relatively flat with a 0.15 decrease in crime.
[57:02] There are a couple of asterisks relative to some of these numbers in what I say in asterisks.
[57:09] I mean, issues that are skewing these numbers as Chief McBride had reported last year in the Cran report.
[57:15] As we continue to focus on human trafficking investigations of prosecution, that has skewed some of our sex crimes numbers.
[57:24] As we aggressively pursue prosecutions on that and try to encourage reporting of some sex crimes that would not otherwise
[57:31] be reported. Also as it relates to property crimes, there were two issues that really largely drove up our property crimes this past year.
[57:42] One is the continued trend of catalytic converter thefts, which has been a very difficult challenge for law enforcement.
[57:52] We did have some successes in that, and I'll talk about that in a little bit.
[57:56] But that has been a real challenge for us, and that has continued to drive that number up.
[58:00] Also, as we saw a return of large-scale musical, music festivals at the National Orange Show with those festivals, we experienced a degree of a large degree of pickpocketing, particularly for cell phones.
[58:17] So that trend has really increased with the return of those events, and that did very much skewer our theft numbers.
[58:25] So, as I mentioned, there are some master's with some of these trends, but generally,
[58:32] for the most part, we've followed the state trend with, is it really to property
[58:37] trend?
[58:39] So, some of the responses that we have implemented to really address our crime trends,
[58:46] we did focus heavily on violent crime this past year, and particularly we focused on weapons
[58:52] Since cases, many of our investigators and specifically are in our pro-active investigative units have focused on gun charges, gun-related cases.
[59:04] We have had some relative success in that realm as we have continued to make more weapons related arrests.
[59:12] Those arrests were up significantly for calendar year 2021.
[59:17] 21. And we do that in an effort to try to get the guns off the street and try to
[59:22] prevent those weapons from being used in a violent crime. But, you know, as we
[59:28] continue to shovel sand against the tide, you know, many of these suspects who
[59:35] we arrest unfortunately do not spend much time in jail. So 56 percent of those
[59:42] suspects that we arrested for gun charges spent one day or less in jail.
[59:48] So it is still a challenge for us to try to reduce the violent crime, but we are pursuing gun cases aggressively.
[1:00:02] Additionally, we are pursuing grants that can enable us to put more officers on the street and fund overtime projects. We were successful in securing the Project Safe Neighborhoods grant. That grant provided approximately $175,000 that we were able to fund overtime patrols with. Those patrols were driven by data collected by our crime analysts. In other words, focusing on the neighborhoods where we were having the highest
[1:00:32] highest activities of violent crime, and on the screen here you'll see some of the
[1:00:37] stats from the patrols, those officers were relatively successful in addressing
[1:00:44] many of the violent crime, or many of the individuals that are involved in violent
[1:00:48] crime.
[1:00:52] Another one of our responses has been to really try to bolster pro-activity in the organization.
[1:00:59] much of our effort gets spent on responding to crime after it has happened and, of course, we have to try to keep our patrol forces robust as possible so that they're available to respond to 911 calls, but as officers are only responding to 911 calls, they are not proactively trying to intervene and crime before it occurs.
[1:01:22] So, as we have rebuilt our special investigations functions, along with our community policing, we have staffed a violent crime team for the past couple of years that kind of wore two hats and that they were responsible for both the investigative side of violent crime, but also the uniformed enforcement side, and they are two separate and distinct functions.
[1:01:45] just recently we have been able, we have reached a staffing point as we have gotten
[1:01:50] more officers out of the academy and trained up and deployed into our patrol force.
[1:01:55] We have reached a staffing level that we now have, both a investigative and a uniform
[1:02:01] proactive violent crime team.
[1:02:07] As I mentioned prior, Catalette Converter's theft continues to be a problem.
[1:02:12] We have focused heavily on this issue in our detective bureau.
[1:02:17] This past year, we did have some successful cases.
[1:02:22] The photo on the slide there depicts a case that we handled where we recovered over 150
[1:02:31] catalytic converters.
[1:02:32] We did make three arrests in that case.
[1:02:37] As I mentioned, another challenge of ours, though, is always trying to keep these individuals
[1:02:42] deals off the streets so that they're not continuing to engage in the same type of crime.
[1:02:47] Unfortunately, two of those three only received probation, so they are back out on the street.
[1:02:54] And again, I bring that up because it speaks to the challenges that we deal with and
[1:02:57] trying to fight these trends.
[1:03:00] Additionally, we do monitor the pending legislation.
[1:03:05] We do meet with our legislators periodically to discuss what our challenges are and
[1:03:10] try to help them craft legislation that will help us to address some of these
[1:03:14] grant trends.
[1:03:15] The SB919 is a bill pending that will, at least it's intended, to try to address
[1:03:22] the catalytic converter theft problem as it's become a trend, not just as statewide
[1:03:28] but nationwide.
[1:03:32] Additionally, we have been involved in many joint agency investigations.
[1:03:36] We work with several partners, both federally and locally.
[1:03:42] We still have officers involved in a number of task forces, and we have had some very good joint investigative successes, some of which I'll talk about in a little bit.
[1:03:54] But this is a list of some of the task forces that we currently participate in.
[1:04:02] Also, as I mentioned, we try to stay involved in legislative efforts in regard to both property crime and
[1:04:10] I don't cry in here some of the bills that are pending or work in their way through.
[1:04:15] I don't know the most recent status of all of them, but many of these are trying to address some of the issues that were brought about by Prop 47, some of the unintended consequences.
[1:04:26] And Assistant Chief Hernandez and I recently met with a group of police chiefs and
[1:04:31] sheriffs from the Inland Empire, as well as some state legislators to express our concerns in person and
[1:04:38] and try to help them address some of these issues.
[1:04:45] So I'll cover the police department by the divisions now.
[1:04:48] The police department is comprised of three divisions,
[1:04:51] investigations, operations, and administrative services.
[1:04:55] Here's some photos depicting some of the efforts of,
[1:04:58] or successes of our investigative division this past year.
[1:05:05] The investigative division is comprised of two bureaus.
[1:05:08] We have our special enforcement bureau and our detective bureau.
[1:05:12] The special enforcement bureau handles those proactive type of investigations that I
[1:05:18] discussed prior.
[1:05:20] They are comprised of a vice unit and narcotic unit in two violent crime.
[1:05:24] Now two violent crime teams as of this week, and here are some of the statistics
[1:05:30] from their efforts this past year.
[1:05:36] One of the cases that got a little bit of notoriety this past year was Operation
[1:05:41] West Side Jenga was a case that was spearheaded by our narcotic unit along with members
[1:05:46] of the California Department of Justice.
[1:05:49] That case was very successful, and I can tell you that we're always working on cases
[1:05:54] like this.
[1:05:55] Many of them we never discuss publicly because one investigation tends to dovetail
[1:06:00] into another, so the more we discuss it publicly, it has, you know, the potential
[1:06:05] sometimes to compromise the investigations.
[1:06:08] But this was one that the Department of Justice and the San Bernardino Police Department
[1:06:13] collectively decided that we were going to talk about publicly just to try to give the
[1:06:18] public some vantage point into what we were doing to address public safety in the city.
[1:06:25] And this case was extraordinarily successful and one we were very proud of.
[1:06:33] Our detective bureau, as I mentioned, our special investigations bureau proactively
[1:06:39] they address this crime and that they initiate investigations of criminal organizations
[1:06:45] and street crimes often before the crimes have taken place or they proactively address
[1:06:50] individuals that they know are involved in criminal activity.
[1:06:53] The detective bureau has somewhat of the different function and that every time a crime
[1:06:57] report is made, via a 9-1-1 call or a patrol officer responds out to somebody's
[1:07:03] residence or somebody's business to take a crime report, whether it be a theft or a
[1:07:08] or in assault. There's always investigation that takes place on the back end that is not completed by that officer that responds out.
[1:07:17] That requires a whole separate set of staff that have to go out and interview witnesses that may not be available that day.
[1:07:23] They have to go out and gather evidence whether it be video, documents, et cetera, right search warrants.
[1:07:29] There's a lot of effort that goes into every criminal investigation and that's what our investigations detectives do.
[1:07:36] or detect the detectives that are assigned to our detective barrel.
[1:07:40] They handle the property crimes, the crimes against children, homicide, and crimes
[1:07:47] against persons.
[1:07:48] And above is just a little snapshot of some of the efforts that they underwent this past
[1:07:55] year.
[1:07:56] IKAC stands for Internet Crimes Against Children, or Crimes Against Persons Unit, wrote
[1:08:03] So in excess of 250 search warrants this past year and made several arrests related to child pornography.
[1:08:13] Our operations division is also known as the patrol division.
[1:08:17] These are the folks that respond when somebody calls 911, they're the folks you see driving around the most part in the patrol units in town.
[1:08:28] This past year those officers responded to over 100,000 calls for service.
[1:08:34] initiated about 30,000 self-initiated contacts and due to some of the progress that we've
[1:08:43] made with staffing, they were able to reduce emergency response times by about 8%, which
[1:08:49] has been a long time goal of ours is to try to get those response times down as that's
[1:08:54] been a long-standing challenge with some of our staffing issues.
[1:09:01] Also part of the troll or the operations division is our community police in unit.
[1:09:07] Here's just kind of a list of some of the efforts that they were engaged in this past year.
[1:09:12] They would, when you attend a coffee with a cop or a craft with a cop or some of those events,
[1:09:20] that's usually involving either the district staff or folks from our community of Ferris Bureau.
[1:09:26] And they've worked very hard to try to make the police department more accessible to the community.
[1:09:33] Those officers from the districts also are tasked with addressing some of those problems that aren't necessarily appropriately assigned to a detective.
[1:09:44] But they're also not well suited for a 911 call response, and those tend to be more of the quality life issues.
[1:09:50] You know, the graffiti, the homeless encampments, and those types of issues.
[1:09:54] So when you call your district staff and you liaise with them on these types of issues,
[1:09:59] that really is kind of their niche in the patrol division.
[1:10:03] And here's some stats that reflect some of their efforts from this past year.
[1:10:10] Also part of the operations division is our traffic enforcement unit.
[1:10:16] As we started to come out of some of the covered patterns that some of the lockdowns
[1:10:23] that had occurred in 2020, of course, the vehicular traffic has picked up on our roadways,
[1:10:29] and accordingly, traffic accidents have somewhat increased, but fortunately, for 2021,
[1:10:37] we were able to see a very significant reduction in traffic fatalities in the city.
[1:10:42] We had had an extraordinarily high number of traffic fatalities in 2020, and we were able to reduce that number by almost 30%.
[1:10:49] This
[1:10:55] past year, we were also able to staff the commercial create and staff our commercial traffic enforcement unit, which was a priority given to us by the council this past year.
[1:11:07] We now have a supervisor and a handful of officers in that unit as councilman Renoso addressed earlier with commercial traffic routes.
[1:11:18] that will be one of the primary functions of this unit is to make sure that those routes are enforced once those are established and to just deal with commercial traffic violations in general, make sure that the trucks that are operating in our city are doing so safely and with the least impact on our other motorists.
[1:11:36] Third
[1:11:40] Division within the Police Department is the Administrative Services Division that comprises records,
[1:11:47] dispatch, emergency management, special events, finance, a handful of other functions this past year,
[1:11:56] or dispatch unit, handled over half a million calls, or special events and emergency management unit
[1:12:05] It's managed 19 events with combined attendance of a little over three quarters of a million people.
[1:12:12] So it's some very significant numbers of folks that come to town.
[1:12:17] And with each one of those events, we put out the equivalent of a many police department
[1:12:22] just to deal with an event every time we have those large scale events at the orange show.
[1:12:26] So it's quite a logistics effort on our part and the folks in that unit are responsible
[1:12:34] for those efforts in keeping those events safe.
[1:12:40] This past year, we've, the past few years, we've had some pretty good success with grants.
[1:12:46] And, in fact, probably the best success that I've seen in my career here at the department,
[1:12:51] 2021 was no exception.
[1:12:54] We secured over $4 million.
[1:12:56] I credit Assistant Chief Hernandez with a lot of that.
[1:13:00] He's been really instrumental in securing these grants, even to the extent that he's
[1:13:04] develops a very strong relationships at the Department of Justice and even kind of establish
[1:13:11] San Bernardino as a role model or a template for what some of these grant authorities are
[1:13:18] now requiring from other jurisdictions in the country and in the state. If they want to secure
[1:13:24] grant money, they want to see it implemented as we've done so in the city. So we really have
[1:13:29] have kind of served as a model for how a lot of these grant funds are intended to be used.
[1:13:35] And as a result, we've been successful in continuing to do so.
[1:13:40] And I'd be remiss not to acknowledge the assistant chief's accomplishments.
[1:13:44] And then,
[1:13:48] let me just back up the photo there depicts, you know,
[1:13:53] swearing in of several of our officers.
[1:13:54] And many of the officers on staff right now, we would not have if not for those grants.
[1:14:00] It takes an enormous burden off our general fund, and I believe right now we have upwards
[1:14:04] of 28 officers that are funded with outside resources, not with no impact to the general fund.
[1:14:14] That said, recruitment is always a challenge.
[1:14:17] We've had some pretty good successes with recruitment, to the extent that when our personnel
[1:14:24] and training staff go to the regional meetings with their peers from other agencies
[1:14:28] These are their NVS frequently of some of the application numbers that we've been pulled in and that we've been able to pull in and we've tried to keep our trade secrets just that, but we have done pretty well and on the screen depicts some of the application numbers that we've seen and wouldn't we compare ourselves with some of the larger agencies in Southern California, many of those agencies are not receiving the number of applications that we are currently.
[1:14:58] And this just starts
[1:15:00] About a little bit of the recruitment strategy, some of the more common ones. In years past, job fairs were kind of the go-to for recruitment and that trend has really kind of shifted as job fairs have been less productive and so much of our youth or young working population really live and thrive on social media. We've really tried to stay ahead of that curve and focus on those trends and focus on what those folks are interested in, what the type of
[1:15:29] issues that are going to make us an attractive employer and grab their attention.
[1:15:34] Again, we've done pretty well, but the photo in this slide is one that we use pretty frequently.
[1:15:42] This is a photo of myself swearing in Officer Trayvon Davis.
[1:15:48] Trayvon has been our poster boy, literally.
[1:15:53] And there's a reason for that in that we've, in our community outreach efforts
[1:16:01] Through our community outreach, we have a lot of various programs aimed at young folks
[1:16:06] starting with the explorers' routes, our cadet program, and we have community service officers
[1:16:12] where many young folks start before they become sworn officers.
[1:16:15] And the goal of those programs is to try to grab our local youth and grab their attention
[1:16:21] early on, get their interest in law enforcement, and try to help develop them so
[1:16:25] that they actually develop the skills and characteristics that we need to place
[1:16:29] officer, but it's a very, very long-term strategy and the results that we yield from it,
[1:16:35] you know, they're not seen quickly.
[1:16:38] Trayvon is one of our great success stories in that, and that he came to us as a young
[1:16:43] teenager as an explorer scout, and he went through that entire pipeline.
[1:16:47] He stuck with us, and he's one of our, you know, one of our local kids that we were able
[1:16:52] to kind of watch grow up and develop to the point where we were able to put him in the
[1:16:57] Academy, and even when he graduated the Academy, he was not quite old enough for us to
[1:17:04] swear in, so while all of his peers went out in the field, we had to keep them in the
[1:17:10] house for a couple of weeks, and that's why I was swearing him and by himself, instead
[1:17:16] of with a group of folks that he had graduated with, but he's been a great success story for
[1:17:19] us, and we're very proud of that.
[1:17:21] Again,
[1:17:25] here's just some of the statistics associated with our recruitment the past year, you know, for as long as I can remember working here, you know, there's always been a desire for us to try to reflect the demographics of the community and while that's been a challenge for us, and actually getting there, we have gotten closer, much closer at least with the actual hiring that we're doing now.
[1:17:49] So over the long-term, the department will begin to reflect that more significantly but we have made some pretty significant strides there.
[1:18:01] And additionally, as I mentioned before, our recruitment efforts have done pretty well this past year alone.
[1:18:10] We brought on 42 sworn personnel and 36 civilians to give you a little context that I don't think we hired 42 people.
[1:18:19] the first five or six years I work for this department so to bring that many on in
[1:18:23] a single year is a real accomplishment for a department or so.
[1:18:30] Our community services bureau is very active on social media as I mentioned, not just
[1:18:37] with recruitment but with community outreach in general.
[1:18:41] We've continued to establish goals and benchmarks with our social media to not only make sure
[1:18:46] that we're active on all the most commonly used platforms but to make sure that we're constantly
[1:18:51] currently growing our outreach is we're able to measure that with the metrics of followers.
[1:18:59] And 2021 again was no exception, we continue to grow in that regard.
[1:19:05] We also, one of the few agencies to have our own podcast, Lieutenant Mayhan who works
[1:19:11] in that bureau had come up with that idea a few years ago and we thought, well, you know,
[1:19:18] It seemed kind of novel at the time I hadn't seen it before, so I thought we'd give it a try and it's really become very successful for us.
[1:19:26] In 2021, we had nearly 9,000 downloads of that podcast, and what that podcast is, it's just a very, it's kind of like a radio talk show where they bring in a guest and they're able to just have a conversation about policing issues in a very casual environment and address a lot of curiosity and concerns that the public might have.
[1:19:49] Excellent.
[1:19:54] Goals are coming out of 2021, we're continuing to focus on staffing because that is the number one
[1:20:00] issue that impacts our service levels, both our response times are in our capacity to fight crime.
[1:20:06] We are making some huge strides, but we still have some vacancies we're working on.
[1:20:11] We're also working to increase civilian positions, you know, as we downsized over the past 10 years,
[1:20:19] We took an exorbitant hit or a disproportionate hit to our civilian positions because there was always kind of a mindset that there were cops would be the last to go because those were the folks out on the streets handling calls, but in eliminating a lot of civilian positions, it really did have a significant impact on us that we're still focusing and really trying to rebuild that capacity.
[1:20:42] And also trying to do things is efficiently as possible and keep costs down.
[1:20:47] And the more we're able to survey inized positions,
[1:20:50] the more we're able to control costs.
[1:20:53] Tend you to strengthen community policing efforts, as I mentioned,
[1:20:55] through efforts like the community events, the coffees with a cop, social media, et cetera.
[1:21:03] And then, of course, we're continuing to focus on grants, as I've talked about.
[1:21:07] So, we've had a relatively decent year in 2021, at least, is it related to prior years?
[1:21:16] We saw some successes and at this point we're working to build on those successes.
[1:21:21] So, with that, I'd be happy to take any questions.
[1:21:24] Thank you, Chief Green.
[1:21:27] It's been a delight.
[1:21:28] What a wonderful report and we thank you, men and women of our San Bernardino Police Department.
[1:21:33] But this is interesting to know, isn't it, public community?
[1:21:38] Some of the nuances of policing here in our city and the great accomplishments of our police department.
[1:21:44] I want to commend our police officers, especially our patrolman.
[1:21:49] And all of the support staff sometimes, we fail to remember the hard work that they're committed to do.
[1:21:57] And we appreciate that, we appreciate patrol, especially our detective units and
[1:22:02] and all the members of our San Bernardino Police Department family, thank you.
[1:22:05] Thank you for excellent report.
[1:22:07] Well, a bit of for brief comments or questions, we do have a very robust agenda tonight.
[1:22:13] Any council members wishing to ask a simple question or comment?
[1:22:18] Councilmember Alexander, sir?
[1:22:20] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
[1:22:21] Thank you, Chief, for this fine report, and I'd like to thank the Department for doing a job well done.
[1:22:26] I'd like to thank my commanders, lieutenant five, and lieutenant Castro.
[1:22:29] They do an excellent job in supporting me whatever I request or any issues that we have in the seventh ward
[1:22:37] So I appreciate them. They do an excellent job if they're listening. Please pass along my admiration for them for their job
[1:22:43] Well done, but I don't go a week or two weeks without getting a call about speeding within the community
[1:22:49] So if you can address that to the community as far as how many traffic officers you have now, what are they doing?
[1:22:57] Just yesterday, I guess it was closed down streets and there's speed racing around the city now.
[1:23:03] Could you please address that to the community?
[1:23:05] Thanks.
[1:23:07] And ATVs, if you can just attach that one.
[1:23:09] Sure.
[1:23:10] We are continuing to try to rebuild capacity in our traffic enforcement unit.
[1:23:17] We have made some strides.
[1:23:19] I will tell you that so we have an organizational chart and we have, and we have currently
[1:23:26] We have 289 positions funded, so every position in the department is plugged into a spot
[1:23:32] somewhere in our organizational structure.
[1:23:36] But we are carrying vacancies department-wide until we reach full staffing, and then
[1:23:41] also keep in mind that even when we reach full staffing, that means that all of the
[1:23:47] funded positions have a body that is employed.
[1:23:50] But from the time that we hire an officer until the time that officer works,
[1:23:56] is an autonomous call taker or an investigator or wherever they're assigned.
[1:24:01] It's about a one year period.
[1:24:03] So, as I mentioned, we hired 42 officers this past year, which is a huge accomplishment for us.
[1:24:11] Many of those officers are still not on the streets, working as autonomous police officers.
[1:24:16] So, you know, many of those officers, you know, recently graduated the Academy, now they're in field training program.
[1:24:22] So there is a long, there's a long buildup until we reach that capacity.
[1:24:28] Our traffic unit in its heyday, how about 14 officers funded and assigned?
[1:24:35] Right now as we are currently structured, we have 10 traffic officers assigned,
[1:24:41] plus our commercial traffic unit.
[1:24:45] But of those 10, not all 10 positions are actually staffed because we're carrying vacancies.
[1:24:51] So at any given time, we're about five or six full-time traffic officers and two or three full-time
[1:25:00] commercial enforcement officers right now.
[1:25:02] But as we continue to fully staff our positions, get officers off a training, the motor unit
[1:25:10] or the traffic unit will have ten full-time motor officers dedicated solely to traffic
[1:25:17] functions.
[1:25:18] We are aware of the street takeovers.
[1:25:21] It's an issue that's plaguing much of the state right now.
[1:25:26] They are very organized in part of what contributes to that as social media,
[1:25:31] because in years past where they didn't have that forum where they could communicate
[1:25:35] and create kind of this flash mob dynamic.
[1:25:39] Now they can through messaging apps, and so they're very coordinated.
[1:25:43] They move from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
[1:25:45] They know the shifts and times and staffing of various police agencies and it is a real
[1:25:51] challenge.
[1:25:52] And especially, it's a challenge when we're largely dealing with traffic infractions,
[1:25:57] which are not even in a restable crime.
[1:26:01] One of the strategies that we have taken and the strategy has actually been led by the
[1:26:08] Western District Commander Lieutenant Eddie Flores is to try to target some of these folks
[1:26:14] with conspiracy charges. This past year, we did serve some search warrants, electronic
[1:26:20] search warrants, physical search warrants, and we did make some arrests for some conspiracy
[1:26:25] charges related to this. But it's a very, it's a very innovative approach to dealing with
[1:26:32] this type of, to dealing with this type of issues, and is new crime trends emerge. There's
[1:26:39] always this lag in building out those cases, and then trying to bring prosecutors into the loop to where they're comfortable prosecuting, you know, being a little innovative in how they prosecute these cases, but we are trying to be innovative in that regard, we have had some successes, we're continuing to take that approach, but it is a challenge for us.
[1:27:00] And it's always a dilemma for police chiefs is to whether or not we want to have officers get in pursuit, some teenager on an off road motorcycle or on an ATV.
[1:27:14] I know a few years back real to our neighbor did get in pursuit and they've gone through a lot of litigation as a result.
[1:27:23] It's something that I have to balance out whether or not that's a good approach or not.
[1:27:30] But we are trying to be innovative by pursuing it other ways and applying whatever sanctions we can.
[1:27:38] Okay, Councilman Figueroa, followed by Council Member Caldwell.
[1:27:42] Thank you, thank you, Mayor.
[1:27:43] I thank you Chief Green for that report and I thank you to all of our officers as well for the great work that they do in our community and their service to our community.
[1:27:54] One of the slides, I don't remember which one, but it was referring to the
[1:27:58] I think it was about 4.1 a currency that was seized.
[1:28:03] What exactly is then done, how is that utilized, what happens with that afterwards?
[1:28:09] So, the currency that is seized through investigations, which is usually, most of the currency
[1:28:16] that was seized this past year was either the result of drug cases or a newer phenomenon
[1:28:21] that we've dealt with in the past few years as these illegal gambling halls are also
[1:28:26] referred to as net cafes, that operation West Ijanga case was largely focused on these
[1:28:32] illegal gambling halls. So that's, you know, when we work those investigations, we serve
[1:28:39] search warrants, we seize the proceeds that are associated with illegal activities. So
[1:28:44] that 4.1 million represents illegal proceeds that were seized. When we seize those proceeds,
[1:28:50] There is a, there's kind of a bifurcated path that those cases take and that there's a criminal prosecution associated with the folks that had those, had those funds, but then there's also a civil proceeding that takes place where we file, we file a case with the district attorney's office to civilly seize those monies, and then if that civil case is successful, a certain percentage of those funds come back to the law enforcement agency.
[1:29:20] a certain percentage goes to the prosecutor's office and they get dispersed and then those
[1:29:25] are used for various reasons, you know, for various functions.
[1:29:30] Largely, they cannot be used to offset personnel costs, but they can be used for programs,
[1:29:35] they can be used to acquire equipment.
[1:29:37] And a certain percentage of that also has to be used for youth and diversion programs.
[1:29:42] One of the photos up there when I was talking about community policing efforts in our outreach,
[1:29:48] There was a photo of a bunch of kids from a gym on the West Side, from Project Fighting
[1:29:53] Chance, which is a phenomenal program that really is not as well-known as...
[1:30:00] It should be it's producing some real-world class boxers on the West Side of town. This past year, we donated $10,000 from asset, forfeiture, proceeds to project fighting chance. So, the money gets used for a broad array of things.
[1:30:17] Council Member Keltman. Thank you, Chief Green. I appreciate this report and all that you all do. And yes, project fighting chance is a wonderful organization and they work extremely hard over there. And they are producing
[1:30:31] producing champions and so my friend over there, he's always in the ring with them and so
[1:30:37] I appreciate seeing you all in that ring and working hard with those scholars, I appreciate
[1:30:42] that.
[1:30:43] So I just wanted to ask a couple of questions.
[1:30:45] So when we host these events, the raves that we host.
[1:30:48] So what do we do?
[1:30:49] We pull officers from other jurisdictions to come in and assist us because we can't possibly
[1:30:56] be using all of our officers which would leave us short on right here.
[1:31:00] So we do not pull from our patrol function.
[1:31:04] So these, these, these events take place after hours, after, after business hours,
[1:31:09] typically when the folks that we would have working at that time are our patrol
[1:31:15] folks, we never take from our patrol staff to staff these events.
[1:31:20] The staff, the, the, the internal, the San Bernardino police staff that are used
[1:31:24] for these events come from the detective bureau, the special investigations,
[1:31:29] regulations, bureau, the district resource officers who are not, who are, who work a traditional day time schedule.
[1:31:36] So it's all of the officers that would be off duty during that period are working those events on an overtime basis that is funded through reimbursement by the promoters of those events.
[1:31:50] In some cases, when these events either grow too large for us to handle,
[1:31:57] or there are dynamics associated with the events that caused us some concern,
[1:32:04] and an example of that would be a festival that was held several months back,
[1:32:09] right on the heels of the Houston event where they had had some kind of some tragic
[1:32:13] events.
[1:32:14] There were some concerns related to this, to the event that was held here in San Bernardino,
[1:32:20] because it was many of the same artists.
[1:32:21] There were concerns about us having some of those same issues that they hadn't
[1:32:25] Houston and those event, in that situation, we were able to bring in the
[1:32:29] should help from the Sheriff's Department, Colton PD, the CHP.
[1:32:33] But most of the events were able to manage on our own using our officers who would
[1:32:39] otherwise be off duty at that time period.
[1:32:42] Okay, thank you very much for that.
[1:32:44] When it comes, I first want to say congratulations.
[1:32:46] Is it Chief Hernandez?
[1:32:48] Assistant Chief Hernandez.
[1:32:49] Assistant Chief Hernandez, for that's a lot of money to bring in through Grantson.
[1:32:53] That's, we appreciate that.
[1:32:54] That's helps offset.
[1:32:56] I'm worried that I'm going to lose him to some consultancies somewhere.
[1:33:00] He's said, maybe he wants to come back to work for the city because we are looking for a grant writer as well.
[1:33:07] We're looking, we're going to be looking, right?
[1:33:09] So we know what we need.
[1:33:12] And so, but what you said, I saw on the one slide, it said, LET apps, what is the LET?
[1:33:18] Law enforcement training.
[1:33:19] So when we hire a police officer, they are classified as a law enforcement
[1:33:24] trainee up until the day that they graduate the Academy or sworn in if they would
[1:33:29] put in in those photographs where you saw me swearing in the, the, the, the,
[1:33:35] the, the, the, Trayvon and, and the other group of officers, at that point, once I
[1:33:39] swear them in, they are reclassified from a law enforcement trainee to a police
[1:33:43] officer.
[1:33:44] So last question, I know that we have some cameras here in our city, and we're
[1:33:48] We're looking at trying to get these back operational, do those actually help deter or do they help you all in your day-to-day jobs?
[1:33:57] The city's crime camera program, as it's currently comprised, has very limited benefit to us.
[1:34:06] And that's because we're not using artificial intelligence capabilities with it.
[1:34:14] So in order for it to be, and I don't want to say that it has no value.
[1:34:18] There are many cases where we know that we've had a crime at a location, we're able to go back and look at it and get video evidence.
[1:34:29] But I would love to have, you know, 30 staff sitting around monitoring those cameras at all times, but it's just not feasible.
[1:34:38] And so without some of the technologies that exist today, I think that the program has limited value.
[1:34:47] But we are looking at new strategies and new technologies to try to improve, and there are technologies out there now to where it will alert us when there's a particular activity or a particular crime or we can, for example, we can type in characteristics of a vehicle sedan, four-door red in color, and the cameras will actually have a technology where they will grab that information and provide it to us.
[1:35:15] And then, it's also important to distinguish between our traditional crime cameras and our
[1:35:20] automated license plate reading cameras.
[1:35:23] We solve a tremendous amount of crime through the ALPR cameras, those cameras are extraordinarily
[1:35:29] valuable to us.
[1:35:31] I can tell you that our neighbor next door, Highland, has invested heavily in that technology
[1:35:36] to the extent that they almost have a fence, you know, a geofence around that city.
[1:35:41] So when there's a crime in Highland, and that car, you know, the vehicle comes or goes, you know, through the city's major corridors, they are constantly capturing data and solving a lot of their crimes.
[1:35:53] And it's a long term strategy. I would love to have something like that, but it is extraordinarily expensive.
[1:35:59] Thank you very much.
[1:36:02] Okay. No, there's no other other council members.
[1:36:05] That's it.
[1:36:06] Okay.
[1:36:07] Chief, thank you so much.
[1:36:09] I appreciate one of the, I had no idea we had 8,000 over 8,000 subscribers for the, for the podcast.
[1:36:14] I know that I'm one of them.
[1:36:14] I'd listen to it regularly.
[1:36:16] I'd encourage the public to tune in and listen.
[1:36:19] I think the most recent one, or at least the last one I listened to was about our female officers.
[1:36:22] So for special thank you to all our female officers.
[1:36:25] And so we're always willing to take requests on, on top of topics of interest or guests that folks would like to hear from.
[1:36:31] So we appreciate the feedback.
[1:36:32] Thank you, sir.
[1:36:33] Thank you.
[1:36:33] Okay, at this time, we'll move on to public comments.
[1:36:38] Excuse me, Mayor Pro Temp?
[1:36:39] Yes, just really quickly, before we start, we have to apologize.
[1:36:43] David Miranda, our VIP system coordinator, had some pretty significant car trouble.
[1:36:48] Was not able to be here tonight, so we're asking that item 10 be continued to the May 4th agenda.
[1:36:57] That is the VIP contract amendments and report.
[1:37:03] So we apologize for that, it's unreinforcing it, but we are where we are, so an end Heveline has to be here for this.
[1:37:10] So that will continue on to the next meeting.
[1:37:11] You continue on to the next meeting.
[1:37:12] Yes, thank you, thank you for that update.
[1:37:15] Mayor Pro Tem, do you need our motion for that?
[1:37:17] That's right.
[1:37:18] Mayor Pro Tem, do you need our motion for that?
[1:37:21] That can be done administratively, I believe.
[1:37:23] I know that we have formally done that before at the request of the City Manager since his agenda.
[1:37:27] He's asked for items to be pulled.
[1:37:32] Okay.
[1:37:32] Okay,
[1:37:35] in person comments will be heard first, followed by remote public comments.
[1:37:40] If you are speaking remotely, please use the raise your hand feature to request a speak during the public comment.
[1:37:46] Please mute any devices to avoid feedback while speaking and log off of the Zoom session immediately after you speak.
[1:37:52] So we'll go ahead and move on to the first public speaker that I have here is Leslie Stevens from, I believe, the chamber.
[1:38:01] Is this acronym correct? Is this the San Bernardino area chamber of commerce? Is that with the okay? Welcome.
[1:38:10] My name is Leslie Stevens. I'm a long time board member for the San Bernardino area chamber.
[1:38:16] I'm happy to be back delivering messages. It's been a long time since I've been here and it's good to see everybody.
[1:38:24] And I'm going to be delivering what's happening in April.
[1:38:29] We will begin with baseball at our beautiful Sam Manuel Stadium with the 66ers opening
[1:38:35] game on Friday at 7.05.
[1:38:38] Further games take place on Saturday, April 8th at 7.05, Sunday, April 10th at 2, April 19th
[1:38:47] at 7.05, Friday, April 22nd at 7.05.
[1:38:51] Saturday, April 23rd at 705 and Sunday the 24th at 205.
[1:38:58] For more information on that please call 909-885-9922.
[1:39:04] Disney's magical musical Beauty in the Beast opens April 8th at 8pm at our historic California
[1:39:11] theater of performing arts at 562 with 4th Street with further performances on Saturday at
[1:39:19] at 2 o'clock and 8 o'clock and Sunday the 10th at 2 p.m.
[1:39:24] Again, call 909-885-8263 for information and tickets.
[1:39:31] The San Bernardino Unified School District will hold a board meeting on April 19th
[1:39:37] at 530 at the School District 777 North F-3, called 909-381-1245 for more details.
[1:39:47] On Wednesday, April 20th, the Chamber of Commerce will host their monthly coffee
[1:39:52] clash meeting and mixer followed by governmental affairs meeting at 9.15 a.m.
[1:40:00] At the Chamber Office, 546 West, 6th Street, please call 909-885-7515 for more information.
[1:40:10] The 105th National Orange Show commences on April 20th at the Fairgrounds at 690 South
[1:40:18] Arrowhead Avenue, Gate 8 from 5 to 11 and again on April 21st, 22nd and 23rd and the
[1:40:27] ending show, ending Sunday, April 24th called 909, 888, 6788 for more information, also on
[1:40:39] April 20th, the City Council will hold their regular meeting here at the library at 555 Weth 6th Street beginning at 7 p.m.
[1:40:48] On April 21st, partners against violence will hold an open house at their premises at 444 North Arrowhead, Avenue Suite 101 between 3 and 6 p.m.
[1:41:00] call 909-885-884 for details while on the same day women of dignity health will host
[1:41:10] sunset yoga at 5 p.m. at the community hospital San Bernardino on
[1:41:21] April 24th,
[1:41:22] beginning at 8 a.m. Ronald McDonald House are holding 5k walk for kids and the Fontana
[1:41:28] on a part called 909-747-1262 for more information.
[1:41:35] Mr. Williams, would you start wrapping it up?
[1:41:37] We have a lot to do.
[1:41:38] I think he's going.
[1:41:39] The San Bernardino City Advisory Council of Senior Programs
[1:41:43] will be hosting a meeting at the 5th Street Senior Center,
[1:41:47] beginning at 4.30 p.m., called 909-384-541-4
[1:41:53] for more details while at 6 p.m. on the same day.
[1:41:59] Is there a website that we can direct the public to for all this information?
[1:42:05] You might be able to, the San Bernardino Chamber might have that on their website.
[1:42:12] I don't know.
[1:42:13] They listed that.
[1:42:16] Yeah, so it's, yeah, just, what was that website one more time, and then that'll work.
[1:42:22] San Bernardino Area Chamber, I don't know their website.
[1:42:25] Okay, so we'll just go to somebody, you know, area chamber of commerce for, yeah.
[1:42:29] On 830, I'm sorry, we're going to go ahead and move on with the other public speakers as well.
[1:42:37] Is this the last one? Go ahead. I have a long drive home. I don't mind if you.
[1:42:44] There's one more thing that the assistance League of San Bernardino will be holding their
[1:42:49] spectacular headdress ball at the national orange show at 930 a.m. and 5 p.m.
[1:42:55] Call 9-5-1-2-2-2-5-0-7-0, if you wish to attend finally.
[1:43:01] Don Filder will be hosting an evening at the hotel California, at the California
[1:43:06] Theater, performing arts on April 30th at 7 p.m., call 9-0-9-8-8-5.
[1:43:13] Here's 8-2-6-3, thank you so much.
[1:43:17] Thank you so much.
[1:43:19] Next speaker we have is Paula Plunk, followed by Thelma Thomas, followed by AFE, Cassandra, there's a lot of names on this one, I'm sorry.
[1:43:33] So, Paula Plunk, and we have both sides here of the podiums too, for the public teams.
[1:43:42] Really, Mr. Perroa?
[1:43:44] Really?
[1:43:45] Thank you.
[1:43:48] Council, San Bernardino residents.
[1:43:50] Good evening.
[1:43:50] Mayor of Canada.
[1:43:51] Helen Tran caught illegally.
[1:43:53] Yes, illegally on San Bernardino high school campuses and field trips.
[1:43:58] Spinning her fairy tales to whoever will listen, including mesmerizing San Bernardino school board president.
[1:44:04] Who collusions into her behavior has now been asked to resign his position last night?
[1:44:11] Trust broken.
[1:44:11] This is Helen Tran, as you hear, she doesn't care who or what happens to those surrounding
[1:44:17] her.
[1:44:17] As long as she can tell, this disgusting list of supporters of the love and commitment
[1:44:21] says the spider to the fly.
[1:44:24] This behavior is ruthless and narcissistic and speaks to volumes to the testimonies of the
[1:44:28] women.
[1:44:29] The workers heard before she brutally betrayed the women under her care.
[1:44:33] Her timeline doesn't fit.
[1:44:35] Her memo says so.
[1:44:37] Helen Tran doesn't care what happened to those women, nor does she care that she was
[1:44:42] the catalyst of why millions of millions of dollars are being wasted in the San Bernardino
[1:44:46] court system.
[1:44:47] As long as Mayor of Candidate Helen Tran can continue her perpetration of these deceptions
[1:44:52] of understanding the needs of the city, she will be whatever it takes, and that is dangerous.
[1:44:57] Move along, you are definitely
[1:45:00] Not the mayor we are looking for. Helen Tran on a personal note as a sexual assault survivor now warrior. We you are why women refuse to report sexual assault, sexual harassment and or both. Because when as the HR director, you bounced, leaving in your disgusting way, the difficult task to clean up the devastation left behind by city manager, Mr. Field and things to get back on the right track. Thank you, Mr. Field. Helen Tran and John Valdevia are two peasants.
[1:45:29] and one pod, and neither of these candidates deserve your vote.
[1:45:34] Marial candidate Jim Pemman is a history revisionist.
[1:45:38] 26 years working in the San Bernardino government led by this city attorney
[1:45:43] with bully tactics self-grantizing in and out of the city council meetings archived forever.
[1:45:49] 26 years of city government experience has led to a censure and a recall of this man in 2013.
[1:45:55] It very costly went at almost a million dollars.
[1:46:01] C-W-2, Ms. Ibarra, not here this evening, has asked $440,000, $140,000 for residents who help her clean up her legal mess.
[1:46:12] Because she couldn't stay on Facebook, clean to this debilitating request.
[1:46:16] Residents are done cleaning up loose lips, Facebook postings, and leadership failures.
[1:46:21] C-W-Ibarra needs to take on this financial mess on her own.
[1:46:24] and liquidations, loans, or friends help her out.
[1:46:27] We need the council to stop playing this victim card
[1:46:30] over and over when it takes all it took.
[1:46:32] Is CWE bar to remain focused on the needs of her ward
[1:46:35] and the city.
[1:46:37] Vote San Bernardino on June 7th.
[1:46:39] Let's invest in a positive future
[1:46:41] for the children of San Bernardino.
[1:46:43] Thank you.
[1:46:45] Thank you.
[1:46:46] Next up, we have Felma Thomas, followed by AFE.
[1:46:58] Thank you.
[1:46:59] Thank you so much for giving me your time.
[1:47:01] this evening I'm here because I was astound about two months ago. There was a
[1:47:07] homeless encampment. Let me tell you first that I am an advocate for the homeless
[1:47:11] here in the city of San Bernardino. I've met you guys before. I was at a homeless
[1:47:17] encampment and all the people were non-speaking. They were deaf and dumb and
[1:47:23] city of San Bernardino had nobody out there that could speak to them and these
[1:47:29] people running around trying to get their stuff together and they were just crying.
[1:47:32] Now, they came out there with dump trucks and stuff, and they just took all their stuff
[1:47:38] and threw it into a dump truck.
[1:47:40] Now, they're normally, they give them time, they'll come the night before and tell them
[1:47:45] they're coming or something.
[1:47:46] These poor people had no one to talk to, no one to respond to.
[1:47:50] And I asked the police officers, I said, do San Bernardino not have someone that can speak
[1:47:55] sign language to these people?
[1:47:57] and they said, no, they said the County Sheriff's Department does, but they didn't.
[1:48:02] So my thing is why wasn't a contact made so that we could get somebody from the Sheriff's
[1:48:08] Department to be there?
[1:48:09] Those people are human beings and they deserve a chance, as anyone else, and I'd also like
[1:48:15] to say my organization, we're working with the group homes, the Commonwealth lessons, and
[1:48:25] And on prayer day, which is going to be made the fifth, we'll be giving approximately
[1:48:30] 500 lap blankets here in the city of San Bernardino to our convalescent hospitals.
[1:48:36] What I'm trying to say to you is that we're very active.
[1:48:40] We're very active with the city of San Bernardino, and I'm very concerned with what's going
[1:48:45] on in my city.
[1:48:47] I'm an active person, I'm a voter, I've been here over 30 years, and I hate the thing that's
[1:48:53] happening with our homeless people.
[1:48:55] They are human beings.
[1:48:57] You know, they cut down the trees that were over there,
[1:49:00] where they were in, had an encampment,
[1:49:02] over the hill behind the gummy part.
[1:49:05] They wasn't bothering anybody.
[1:49:07] They cut down 20 trees and left a blank thing over there.
[1:49:12] Now there's no one there.
[1:49:13] There's nothing there.
[1:49:14] And the people still are running around homeless people,
[1:49:18] running around the city of San Bernardino like roaches.
[1:49:21] They're just everywhere and it's just ridiculous.
[1:49:24] You close the Columbia Park, you close Paracelopart,
[1:49:28] you close it every place, well, where are they supposed to go?
[1:49:31] Now, there's a building at 1888, Highland Avenue.
[1:49:35] It's been vacant, I don't, I think it belongs to the school district,
[1:49:39] the county, the somebody, but it's been vacant.
[1:49:42] I'd like that building so that I can give showers and bathrooms
[1:49:46] and clothing and food to the homeless.
[1:49:49] So I would appreciate it if you guys could please help me to get that building.
[1:49:55] Thank you.
[1:50:01] Next up, we have advocating for everyone, AFE, followed by Alejandro Faz, followed by John
[1:50:09] Philanberg.
[1:50:12] AFE.
[1:50:13] I believe it's like six, one, two, yes.
[1:50:25] Hi, everybody.
[1:50:26] Good evening, council members.
[1:50:28] My name is Cassandra.
[1:50:34] So we're at Cal State, CSUSB students, and part of the title for the social work program.
[1:50:42] We created a group called AFE advocating for everyone, and it's intended to advocate
[1:50:48] for those in need in the area of the San Bernardino area.
[1:50:53] While conducting some research, we uncovered some important issues within the 10 block
[1:50:58] radius, which many residents believe that there should be a lot of issues taken into consideration.
[1:51:10] To narrow down each of all of them, we began by formulating a survey in which the community
[1:51:16] was able to provide their input about the matters they believe needed to be urgently addressed.
[1:51:22] This survey was conducted amongst the residents off of Robert's Avenue, a location near Mary Mercy Center.
[1:51:31] We discovered that there were a few needs they wanted to be met out of 100 people we surveyed.
[1:51:37] 4.5% asked for easier access to the directory for City Hall.
[1:51:43] 9.1% claimed they were unhappy with the time police took to respond to emergencies.
[1:51:49] 9.1% would like the streets to be fixed, the conditions just are getting worse.
[1:51:59] 18.2% believe supporting and possibly funding the homeless population with food, clothing,
[1:52:05] and basic hygiene products, which Mary Mercy Center currently provides free of charge.
[1:52:11] And then lastly, we have 59.1% of the residents, 1% of the residents,
[1:52:16] one in more resources for themselves, which include community centers, local boys and
[1:52:22] girls club, escape park, libraries, and a career center.
[1:52:27] We understand, obviously, we won't be able to provide resources necessary to conquer
[1:52:35] all these overnight.
[1:52:37] However, we believe we can contribute to the cause by coming up with this structured and
[1:52:41] detailed plan that helps create changes within the community.
[1:52:45] in order to help with the 18.2% concerned about the homeless population.
[1:52:50] We have worked closely with community leaders, volunteers, and started social media platforms
[1:52:56] to help with donations for a Mary Mercy Center.
[1:53:00] To assist with the 59.1% residents that would like specific resources within their community,
[1:53:08] We met with Councilman Theodore Sanchez to discuss a few services that can possibly be provided.
[1:53:16] We also wish to promote Paul, sorry, the last name, the senior branch library.
[1:53:24] As many residents believed it was abandoned.
[1:53:27] We were able to find out that the location was not only open, but provided many resources
[1:53:32] for all ages. For instance, there's bingo night, movie night, reading incentive programs,
[1:53:39] author visits, cultural performance, and homework support for the students.
[1:53:44] Theodore did bring up our group to add the director of the library and he was excited about-
[1:53:52] Excuse me, ma'am. Your time is up. I appreciate your public comments.
[1:53:56] Thank you for coming tonight. Are you Ms. Faz?
[1:53:59] I'm actually a customer with AFI.
[1:54:02] Wonderful.
[1:54:03] Well, your time has expired.
[1:54:04] We thank you for coming tonight.
[1:54:06] We appreciate the students here,
[1:54:07] and thank you very much for your public comment tonight.
[1:54:10] Okay.
[1:54:10] Thank you very much.
[1:54:11] Let's move on.
[1:54:15] Alegandro Faz.
[1:54:16] Yes, right.
[1:54:18] Mr. Faz, welcome, sir.
[1:54:20] Followed by John Schroellenberger and Harry Hatch.
[1:54:24] Good evening, Honorable Mayor and City Council.
[1:54:27] My name is Alejandro Faz.
[1:54:28] I'm a 23-year-old, lifelong resident of San Bernardino.
[1:54:31] I began my collegiate career at San Bernardino Valley College, before continuing my education at UCLA, where I majored in philosophy.
[1:54:38] I am now pursuing a Master's of Public Administration degree at the University of Southern California.
[1:54:44] Professionally, I'm a K-3 Literacy and Adventure Specialist with the San Bernardino City Unified School District,
[1:54:49] helping build the reading capacities of young scholars.
[1:54:52] I'm in these obligations, I'm also an intern for Councilwoman.
[1:54:57] and represent the City's fifth ward on the Animal Control Commission.
[1:55:01] At the time of my appointment, I was one of, if not the youngest commissioner in the city.
[1:55:06] I'm here tonight to speak on agenda item 35,
[1:55:10] concerning the formation of a Youth Civic Engagement Council in partnership with SBCUSD.
[1:55:15] I am the principal architect of this initiative under the direction of Councilwoman Calvin.
[1:55:21] I remember when I was first appointed to my commission,
[1:55:24] Councilman right now also agreed to meet me and discuss my qualifications.
[1:55:27] I stayed up much of the night prior, studying to avoid scuffering the opportunity.
[1:55:31] Thankfully, Van alleviated my anxiety by saying, don't worry, bro.
[1:55:36] I'm already going to appoint you.
[1:55:38] I was elated that someone of my youth would be granted the platform to represent my community.
[1:55:43] And it is to the Councilman's credit that he, the youngest member on this bias,
[1:55:47] offered enough faith in young people to entrust them with the direction of our city.
[1:55:51] It, such as the essence of the proposed Youth Council, this Council will educate
[1:55:56] San Bernardino scholars on the civic engagement process, it will also empower students to
[1:56:00] learn academically and experientially by assigning conceptual literature and hosting trips
[1:56:05] and volunteer events to forge a holistic civic experience.
[1:56:09] But above all, the central aim of this Council is to mold the next generation of stewards
[1:56:13] and instruct them in the principles of humility, empathy, and community building.
[1:56:18] like my pointer, Ben Reinozo, and my beloved mentor, Kimberly Calvin, and I'm
[1:56:23] certain all of you. I believe in the promise of young people. Scholars just
[1:56:28] like me are yearning for an outlet to serve their community. And there are
[1:56:33] others who have yet to discover their love for public service who could thrive in
[1:56:36] this program and become the future decision makers of this city. The
[1:56:41] possibilities for a Youth Council are endless and I hope that you all will afford
[1:56:44] this initiative do consideration as we develop the new, the future leaders of San Bernardino.
[1:56:49] Thank you all very much. Thank you, sir. Our next speaker is John Schollenberger,
[1:56:54] followed by Harry Hatch, Mike Hartley, and Luis O'Hedda. Sir?
[1:56:59] San Bernardino Leader broke terms of $750,000 settlement former City Manager says.
[1:57:13] San Bernardino
[1:57:13] San Bernardino agreed to pay former city manager Andrea Miller $750,000 to settle her breach of contract lawsuit against the city.
[1:57:22] Councilwoman Sandra Bara broke a provision of the agreement by making disparaging comments about her job performance on Facebook.
[1:57:30] Miller alleges in a claim filed with the city late last month.
[1:57:33] reached March 25th about 10 months after Ibar and the majority of the council members fired
[1:57:40] Miller without cause. The settlement agreement included a joint statement clarifying that
[1:57:45] Miller was let go because the city wanted to go in a new direction. The statement was to be
[1:57:51] the only public comment from either side on the case. Around April 15th, however, according to screenshots
[1:58:00] included in the claim, Ibarami, defamatory comments about Miller on Facebook riding in part.
[1:58:06] The truth always prevails, and for what it's worth, those comments made by the city are false.
[1:58:12] She threw the council on to the bus as far as I'm concerned.
[1:58:15] And I stand behind my vote, letting Andrea Miller go, just as I do with others who aren't performing and aren't letting the city move forward.
[1:58:23] Miller claims the comments, which appears to be a response to another post.
[1:58:27] harms her reputation and is untrue.
[1:58:32] According to the claim, Ivarra attempted to hide, conceal, and destroy defamitary posts
[1:58:38] after a Miller's attorney Bradley Gage requested her comments be preserved.
[1:58:43] On agenda tonight is item number 16 and 17, and thanks to a community watchdog in this
[1:58:51] community uncovered public records and found out that this city has been
[1:58:57] and paying has entered into an agreement to pay for
[1:58:59] Sandra E. Barr's legal bills in this matter.
[1:59:03] She brought this on herself.
[1:59:06] She brought it on, you get yourself in,
[1:59:08] you get yourself out.
[1:59:10] I do not approve of this as a taxpayer in this city.
[1:59:13] You do not have my permission to use my tax dollars
[1:59:16] to defend this woman in a lawsuit.
[1:59:18] $50,000 has already been spent.
[1:59:22] $23,000 is still in outstanding invoices
[1:59:24] and now they want to raise this to $150,000 not on my watch.
[1:59:28] I want my $4.28 back that's already been spent.
[1:59:32] I wanted to go to the General Fund and I want to receipt.
[1:59:36] I will not stand by and watch this reckless behavior going on
[1:59:40] on this council.
[1:59:41] That's $750,000 that Andrea Miller was entitled to that money.
[1:59:45] I watched her be berated on this council.
[1:59:48] Go back and look at the tapes for yourself.
[1:59:50] That money could have been used to get the lights back on
[1:59:52] on East Street in her district and that street paved in her neighborhood.
[1:59:56] And that's how I stand on that issue.
[1:59:59] Thank you.
[2:00:01] Mr. Hatch, welcome, sir, Harry Hatch, Mike Hartley, Luis O'Hedda, and we're going to ask individuals, as I call your name, we have two podiums available, so whichever is closer, and also stay in the bullpen area for us. Mr. Hatch, welcome, sir. Thank you, sir. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, Mayor City Council.
[2:00:24] Chief Crane, I enjoyed the presentation tonight. However, you missed one thing. Part one crime of arson.
[2:00:33] There are no arson's that were listed in your part one program.
[2:00:39] Department of Justice and the FBI all list arson as a part one crime.
[2:00:45] I understand where the problem is, but we're not addressing that problem.
[2:00:50] This is the fifth year that we have not addressed arson's in the city of San Bernardino in our statistical data.
[2:01:00] If we had addressed the arsonist, we probably would have been number one in the state for the least enforceable city.
[2:01:11] We're only number two this year.
[2:01:13] Last year we were number one.
[2:01:15] This is one of the things that we have to look at, but it's something we can do something about.
[2:01:20] It's a little thing.
[2:01:21] A little thing that we can do something about like fireworks.
[2:01:24] changing 12 things in the fireworks section will allow us to make it more enforceable.
[2:01:31] Little things that we can do to make those steps forward, those steps forward to make the better city that we want.
[2:01:38] Thank you very much.
[2:01:41] Thank you, Mike Hartley, followed by Luis Oheda, Treasure Tees, Jim Penman, and Lindsay Segarcia.
[2:01:47] Sir, welcome.
[2:01:50] Hello, Mayor of the City Council.
[2:01:52] A couple of weeks ago I was here and I talked about street sweeper, talked about the street sweeping signs being put back up.
[2:02:01] If the rest of the city doesn't want a street sweeper, I do.
[2:02:06] Mr. Alexander, you're in my ward, Ward 7, you're in my council member, I'll leave that up to you.
[2:02:13] You find out how we lost our street sweeper.
[2:02:19] Graffiti. I have noticed on Graffiti on walls that have been tagged. There's 12 different
[2:02:25] colors now. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that the wall has been tagged. Originally
[2:02:32] it was supposed to be the same color, so nobody would know it was tagged. No longer is that
[2:02:37] being done. Now, if the owners are painting it, instead of the city, the owners have got
[2:02:45] it painted the same color. When I was at State of Brothers on 40th you have a black spray paint
[2:02:52] and the owner painted it white while the tag is still showing. Code enforcement, we now
[2:03:01] have 10 code enforcement officers. That is not enough. We only have two more in the budget.
[2:03:07] it. I say we need at least 30.
[2:03:13] Councilmen, we're no so when you started talking about rent
[2:03:17] control, the problem we have with this city is that the rentals are out of control with
[2:03:25] absentee landlords. They do not take care of the property. This city looks like a third world
[2:03:33] country because of it, and
[2:03:38] the only way we're going to be able to control it is with
[2:03:40] code enforcement officers. The apartments, we need more police officers. In Ward 7, I don't
[2:03:49] know about Ward 5, but in Ward 7, our apartments are a ward zone. And there's always five or
[2:03:56] six police officers at the apartments in our ward. I also want to say that with code enforcement
[2:04:07] I, their website is really hard to work with and I don't think a lot of people call code because of it.
[2:04:16] But I want to tell you, one thing about the police officers are like the word pro-active.
[2:04:23] Code enforcement is reactive, not pro-active, and we've got to change that.
[2:04:29] And I'm pretty sure that would be the city manager's job to get that under control.
[2:04:34] Thank you.
[2:04:36] Thank you.
[2:04:37] Thank you.
[2:04:37] Our next speaker is Luis Ojeda, Treasure Tees, Jim Pemman.
[2:04:41] Mr. Ojeda, welcome.
[2:04:43] Hello, everyone.
[2:04:44] Good evening.
[2:04:45] My name is Luis Ojeda, President and Founder.
[2:04:47] We are the change and everyone is being asking me when the food fed is coming back.
[2:04:53] I say, well, that's a good question.
[2:04:55] I just met the parks and rector and we're going to start the talks to see when it's going
[2:05:02] to be more convenient for everyone and I want to thank the council and mayor and everyone
[2:05:08] for the support on community events is something that we have proven that it works.
[2:05:15] So looking forward to work with you and with everyone else and even though I like to see
[2:05:22] the bright side of everything, I think that we have a lot of bad things that we need to fix
[2:05:29] but I feel progress, so I'm going to keep it short tonight because I think you have a long agenda, so thank you very much.
[2:05:37] Thank you.
[2:05:39] Charger Tease, followed by Jim Femme.
[2:05:44] According to item 16 and the consent calendar, Mr. Barra will remain responsible for and will pay for
[2:05:50] attorneys fees in the event that the city either fails for any reason to pay attorney bills, or costs as they become due,
[2:05:57] or if the $50,000 cap is exceeded.
[2:06:00] It is clear in your own backup agenda that you have provided this community that Sandra Barrett is responsible for everything above $50,000.
[2:06:10] So I want to know why tonight you are asking the residents to fund an additional $100,000.
[2:06:16] Because what we know is we have the longest call times, response from our police department.
[2:06:22] We don't have enough cops. Mr. Hunt, we said we don't have enough code enforcement.
[2:06:26] The kids that were here from a skate park that no longer exist to them to have something productive to do.
[2:06:33] Your violence and prevention manager, somebody should have got that guy a ride here.
[2:06:38] Because we have over 76 gangs in our city, people, kids are dying left and right in our streets.
[2:06:44] And we have an opportunity to expand the capacity of two programs that make the most difference in protecting our children and giving them a future.
[2:06:52] I am tired of watching our politicians, new and old get up, rewrite history, give excuses for why they fail us and then ask us to be funding to fund everything they do like we are a piggy bank.
[2:07:08] Like this city doesn't have any other priority than to pay for the mayor's sexual harassment lawsuits against three young women from Cal State.
[2:07:15] like we don't have anything other to afford than paying
[2:07:19] Sanders a bar is lawsuits when she decided to get on
[2:07:21] Facebook and breach contract and you know it's really
[2:07:24] interesting she couldn't even show up here tonight but
[2:07:27] when this was posted on the Facebook the lawsuit she thought
[2:07:30] it was funny and put a big old laughing emoji I want to see
[2:07:34] her laughing now because we're not laughing we're not
[2:07:37] laughing every time we hit a pothole every time we walk
[2:07:41] down a dark alley every time we we overstep homeless
[2:07:45] people on our way to businesses, every time we can't take our children to parks because
[2:07:50] they haven't been clean, every time something is taking away from somebody in this community,
[2:07:54] but yet every time you guys do something wrong, oh magic, there's money.
[2:08:00] In a city that was bankrupt, magic, we can pay your attorney fees.
[2:08:05] We can pay for your legal fees.
[2:08:09] When the rest of us do something wrong, we pay.
[2:08:12] My dad used to tell me, don't cause trouble, you can't afford to take care of on your own.
[2:08:18] You must pay for the consequences of your own actions.
[2:08:21] It is time for all of you to grow up.
[2:08:23] The city is not your mother.
[2:08:25] The taxpayers are not your piggy bank.
[2:08:28] And if any of you violate what you all signed on for, then you are just as culpable.
[2:08:34] And the mayor who brings back his lawsuit questions for us to pay for him,
[2:08:38] is waiting in the wings to sue us so he can pay Rod Pichaco $450 an hour and that will be a huge and every one of you.
[2:08:45] The time is up. Mr. Penman?
[2:08:59] Jim Penman, recall.
[2:09:02] In August 2010 during the Tel Aviv City Council budget workshop, Councilwoman Wendy McCamack and I both informed the mayor and
[2:09:08] City Council that the budget presented by the city manager was not balanced, that the budget projected income had been significantly inflated,
[2:09:15] and the projected expenditures were underestimated.
[2:09:18] We gave specific examples.
[2:09:20] We went on to point out that the Mayor and Council adopted
[2:09:22] the city manager's proposed budget.
[2:09:24] The city would be an understep closer to bankruptcy
[2:09:27] despite that warning, which subsequently was proven
[2:09:29] to be spot on.
[2:09:31] The Mayor and Council adopted the unbalanced budget.
[2:09:33] They repeated their error the following year
[2:09:35] by adopting a similar unbalanced budget despite our warnings.
[2:09:39] Those warnings on the city council video tapes
[2:09:41] from August 2000, Chenner, are available.
[2:09:43] Now, the Mayor and Council members were understandably embarrassed when the bankruptcy occurred and it happened on their watch, especially since we had warned them what was coming.
[2:09:53] They also did not want to be blamed and they wanted to be re-elected.
[2:09:56] So they put out the word that pinment and mechanic were responsible for the bankruptcy.
[2:10:01] Now, they never explained how a city attorney with no vote who did not control any budget but his own and who could not give directions to any other city departments could have caused a $44.8 million shortfall.
[2:10:12] shortfall in the city's budget.
[2:10:15] It certainly was not because we lost a large number of lawsuits.
[2:10:18] We won the overwhelming majority.
[2:10:21] Nor did they explain how one council member who voted against each of the unbalanced budgets and
[2:10:25] who had no control over the expenditures of any city department could be responsible for $44.8 million deficit.
[2:10:33] Nonetheless, signature gathers were recouped, paid $5 and $10 for each signature to obtain enough for the recall.
[2:10:40] But then they started having problems collecting signatures, so they invented two lies and told the voters
[2:10:47] One, Penman has been convicted of embezzling millions of dollars from the city, but has not been sentenced
[2:10:53] Two, Penman has been convicted of selling drugs, but has not been sentenced
[2:10:58] They went on to say the only way we can get Penman out of office without waiting for him to be sentenced is to recalling
[2:11:03] Then, the number of people who heard those false statements began to sign the recall petitions.
[2:11:08] Now, I have never been arrested for committing any crime in my life, much less charged and
[2:11:13] much less convicted.
[2:11:14] Nevertheless, the recall qualified for the ballot and aggressive campaign laid out those
[2:11:18] same lies and others as a result, and this is a mechanic and I were recalled.
[2:11:24] Was there an injustice?
[2:11:25] Yes.
[2:11:26] Was the entire basis of the recall a lie?
[2:11:29] Yes.
[2:11:30] Bettered happened.
[2:11:30] And that is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
[2:11:35] Thank you.
[2:11:37] Okay, thank you.
[2:11:39] Latisha Garcia, followed by Marcus Funches, Ricabla, Latisha, she here.
[2:11:45] Moving on to Marcus Funches.
[2:11:47] Marcus, are you here?
[2:11:48] Sir, welcome.
[2:11:53] Good evening mayor, council members.
[2:11:58] I'm Marcus Funches.
[2:11:59] I'm the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, December and
[2:12:02] the Inlet City Unified School District.
[2:12:03] And I wanted to take a special moment to highlight a wonderful opportunity to continue to build a strong partnership between the City Council and San Bernardino City Unified School District.
[2:12:16] I want to thank Damon Alexander, Ms. Calvin, Council Member Calvin for joining us yesterday, celebrating our scholars in the pathways.
[2:12:25] a council member, Ben Raynoso, for his ongoing support with our teachers of color campaign and what we're doing for this community.
[2:12:34] But I wanted to take this special moment to really highlight the knowledge or
[2:12:40] remind us that knowledge is power, but the effective use of knowledge opened doors for opportunity that could rarely be closed.
[2:12:49] And with that, there's an opportunity to partner with Youth Council being spearheaded
[2:12:56] by Council Member Calvin and City Council.
[2:13:00] And some of those opportunities and that knowledge that I speak of are right here.
[2:13:06] So just listen to these few things.
[2:13:08] Our scholars will learn to examine how societies obtain, produce and distribute the resources
[2:13:14] and services they need to continue to exist.
[2:13:17] That's power.
[2:13:18] That's knowledge. Our scholars will happen up on a path to explore career goals. Cultivating future leaders within the city of San Bernardino.
[2:13:29] I'll say that again. Cultivating future leaders within the city of San Bernardino. That is excellent.
[2:13:35] Our scholars will afford, or be afforded traditionally, or sorry, will be afforded who
[2:13:44] were traditionally disenfranchised groups, a platform to tender their concerns of what
[2:13:50] affect them and their communities.
[2:13:53] That is excellent as well.
[2:13:55] A few more.
[2:13:56] Our scholars will attend field trips designed to introduce scholars to the legislative process,
[2:14:02] Yes, even more knowledge and power and opportunity.
[2:14:06] Our scholars might receive $1,500 of city subsidized stipend to cover tuition, textbooks,
[2:14:15] and devices if they pursue post-secondary education.
[2:14:19] How wonderful is that?
[2:14:21] And then finally I'd like to highlight this last one that our city will establish a secondary
[2:14:27] to post-secondary pipeline for youth council members to advance their work in city government.
[2:14:35] So I wanted to take a moment to thank our council member Calvin and to highlight the strong relationship
[2:14:42] being built between San Bernardino City Unified School District and the city council.
[2:14:48] And we are on board to support the opportunity to build a strong youth council
[2:14:53] to continue to build that knowledge and opportunities for our young folks.
[2:14:57] Very good, thank you, sir.
[2:14:58] Our next speaker is Rick Owl.
[2:15:10] Thank you. My name is Rick Avila. I am a four-time mayoral candidate for the City of San Bernardino. I've been running for mayor for 17 years. I know these politicians, like the back of my hand. I know I ran a couple of these, ran against a couple of these politicians.
[2:15:29] a couple of times, Jim Panman, he even calls himself Mr. Recall.
[2:15:37] Does anybody know what Recall is?
[2:15:40] To me, it seems like a Will Smith slap.
[2:15:44] They voted him out, and he's here running for mayor.
[2:15:49] And I ran against Morris, and I think people need to know,
[2:15:56] Helen Tran is endorsed by Morris.
[2:15:58] She's nothing but a Morris puppet, and John, I see you're spending hundreds of thousands
[2:16:06] of dollars on science and mailers.
[2:16:09] You can stop sending me some, I'm just on them in the trash.
[2:16:14] So if you haven't figured out by now, I'm endorsing Treasurer T's for mayor.
[2:16:21] Treasurer T's has been pounding you guys for over three years, exposing all the corruption
[2:16:28] that I try to expose for 17 years during the course of that 17 years, I was
[2:16:37] thrown in jail by Judge Duke Rouse because I was trying to expose the corruption
[2:16:42] in 2008, 14 days solitary confinement, four years later another judge overruled his court order.
[2:16:51] So, these are political hits.
[2:16:54] If you come up and try to expose the corruption,
[2:17:01] they usually stop you, some of these powerful
[2:17:03] politicians, but I don't see treasurer or T's being stopped.
[2:17:09] Treasurer, wherever you're at, just keep moving forward.
[2:17:13] You got my support.
[2:17:15] Jim Pemman shouldn't even run for mayor in 2003.
[2:17:22] He says he was in part of the bankruptcy.
[2:17:26] I sued the city in I-1, nearly 900, $900,000.
[2:17:32] They don't have $76,000.
[2:17:34] And he advised the council what to do.
[2:17:38] Not only did we win in superior court, but he went to the pellet court.
[2:17:42] And then the pellet court says pay the contractors.
[2:17:48] So he went to the Supreme Court.
[2:17:49] It's not cheap going to the Supreme Court.
[2:17:54] So I have to come up here when Jim Pemme goes on Facebook, says he's not part of the bankruptcy, he's need deep in it.
[2:18:01] So, treasure your teeth, keep doing.
[2:18:04] On my family and friends, we've been here over a hundred years, and you guys haven't seen the enemy until June 7th, and hopefully she will win.
[2:18:14] Thank you.
[2:18:15] Thank you.
[2:18:16] Lwanda Rangel.
[2:18:17] Just wrangle.
[2:18:17] Welcome.
[2:18:19] Thank you, Mayor.
[2:18:21] I want to say hi to the Mayor and all the Councilmen and the Council of Women's
[2:18:24] are sitting on board.
[2:18:27] It's always a little dirty laundry when you come to these meetings.
[2:18:32] But I just want to say that as a leader, people is watching you.
[2:18:40] People always watching you.
[2:18:42] It's so funny that we can do 99% of things right.
[2:18:47] That 1% that we get wrong, that's what people is always going to remember.
[2:18:52] That 1% of things that you got wrong, that you didn't get right.
[2:18:56] So as a good leader, what are you leaving to the next generation?
[2:19:01] What are you leaving for your children?
[2:19:04] Because if someone out there is going to always say that my father and my mom is XYZ
[2:19:10] to your children to the next generation. We need to start leaving our children a
[2:19:16] good example when we're in leadership, which is a legacy. A legacy is something
[2:19:23] that they can pass on to their children, to their grandchildren, as the
[2:19:27] generation continue to grow. As a good leader, a leader should seek the Lord,
[2:19:33] commit his ways to the Lord, and the Lord established the next step. We need to
[2:19:39] know what we're doing, how are we going to do it, and when we should do it.
[2:19:44] And as that last gentleman says that Jim Pittman, well, Jim Pittman is a man of honor and
[2:19:51] dignity.
[2:19:53] And what I see from Jim, he's a man that's been living here in San Bernardino for a century.
[2:20:00] So he knows some things that we don't know.
[2:20:02] He knows some things that the younger folks don't know.
[2:20:05] And I think that he's a good candidate to look to be the next mayor of San Bernardino.
[2:20:12] And that's true.
[2:20:14] The people that are up, who's going to take the blame for the failure of something?
[2:20:21] They're not.
[2:20:22] So they're going to give it to the people that are a little lower than they are.
[2:20:26] But as a good leader, I wish you guys would learn to respect for yourself and respect others.
[2:20:33] and take responsibility for all of your actions.
[2:20:38] That's what I'm looking for the next mirror of San Bernardino to do.
[2:20:42] No matter who it be, I'm here to support whoever will be the next mirror of San Bernardino.
[2:20:48] Get him to do your job so the next generation will have someone or somebody to look up to.
[2:20:55] Thank you.
[2:20:56] Scott Wyatt, Dr. Scott Wyatt, a President of our San Bernardino City Unified School District,
[2:21:02] Good evening, Honourable Mayor, City Council members, community members and guests.
[2:21:09] It is a privilege to be here today and speak before you.
[2:21:12] Definitely different being on this side.
[2:21:14] You should never give a politician a mic, but when you do, make sure they have a clock, right?
[2:21:18] So thank you for those three minutes.
[2:21:20] As you've heard from a few folks this evening, Dr. Funches, our Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources.
[2:21:25] I'm here as well to support a future agenda item.
[2:21:28] And that has been brought forth to me by Councilwoman, can we call it?
[2:21:33] I can't see you through the TV, but I ready to appreciate you reaching out to me and having this discussion.
[2:21:40] We know this was a vision and a dream of our former colleague and friend, Dr. Margaret Hill.
[2:21:45] So I know with our energy and efforts put behind it, it's going to come to fruition.
[2:21:49] So as you can see, you have to support the school board as well as the school district here this evening to make sure that this
[2:21:56] As a student advisory council happens, so, again, when that happens, let's make it work for our kids.
[2:22:04] There's also another committee that was formed quite some time ago, and that was the bridge committee.
[2:22:10] And I know we've talked about this often, and I know we're all very busy, but it's time that we get together and form that bridge committee again.
[2:22:18] The only way we're going to turn around this city is by working together.
[2:22:21] And I know City Council has a lot to do, and the school board has a lot to do, but we need to come together and work together to transform this city.
[2:22:29] And with the current City Council in mayor, current school board, whoever's here in the future, that should be something that we set forth as an agenda and keep it going and keep it moving.
[2:22:38] I definitely want to thank Council members Damon Alexander, Kimlery Calvin, and Sandra Abire for coming in support of our students yesterday for our link learning programs.
[2:22:48] As you heard earlier, Councilman Alexander was talking about, we had three programs that rewarded gold certifications.
[2:22:55] That's quite a recognition in the state, and as you mentioned earlier, yes, specific high school is the only high school in the United States, let me say the United States that has all their programs certified in link learning.
[2:23:07] So, congratulations to them.
[2:23:11] I also want to say welcome and congratulations to Chief Darren Goodman.
[2:23:17] I've had the privilege of serving with him for a short period of time on the San
[2:23:21] Miguel Countywide Gangs and Drugs Task Force.
[2:23:23] I know he's a man of honor and integrity and he's going to bring a lot of experience here to our city.
[2:23:29] I also look forward to the continued partnership with the city police department with our students to explore programs and cadets.
[2:23:36] Councilman Renoso, thank you for mentioning our trails.
[2:23:39] I've had this discussion with Assemblywoman Reyes, quite a few times.
[2:23:44] City of Grand Terraces received millions of dollars, millions of dollars to transform
[2:23:48] their blue mountain into quite a project.
[2:23:51] And I know we could do that here in San Bernardino with little mountains.
[2:23:53] So you have my full support on doing so.
[2:23:56] And then thank you for bringing up the potholes because I was going to bring up the cars on the lawn.
[2:24:00] So now I know why your cars are on the lawn because they don't want to park the street because of potholes.
[2:24:04] So, again, let's see if we could fix those together and address both issues.
[2:24:08] Thank you for your time.
[2:24:09] Okay, thank you.
[2:24:11] At this time, City Clerk, we'll read the record any ADA letters?
[2:24:17] Okay, and just for the record, we do not have any remote speakers.
[2:24:20] Okay, very good.
[2:24:21] Okay, first comment is from Mr. Tim Duran.
[2:24:23] This is my public comment, City of San Bernardino.
[2:24:26] Over 60% of us recalled James Penman for many reasons, although he is trying to rewrite his strain now.
[2:24:32] We know the truth. He wasted $20 million
[2:24:35] suing the flesh nightclub and lost her money.
[2:24:38] He called the bankruptcy of political hoax.
[2:24:41] He had his group of private investigators
[2:24:42] terrorize anyone who challenged him.
[2:24:45] He screamed at us during public comments.
[2:24:48] We need to remind everyone who he is.
[2:24:50] And now he is lying about the recall
[2:24:53] people apologizing to him.
[2:24:55] I demand he give us their names.
[2:24:57] Our city has a bad record of forgetting our past.
[2:25:00] We can't do this anymore.
[2:25:02] Helen Trun, let the mayor, sexually harassed his female employees and did nothing to stop them.
[2:25:08] She has put out five different cover-up lives to the public about it.
[2:25:11] She needs to address this publicly once and for all.
[2:25:15] The mayor has tried for years to get us to pay his legal fees for doing the wrong thing
[2:25:18] and now Sandra Ivarra wants us to do the same.
[2:25:22] No.
[2:25:23] Council, use that money for the people.
[2:25:25] I also want to tell the police officer's association representatives,
[2:25:29] You are paid to play coward to think lying about counsel, woman, Kelvin, and Dr. Treasure
[2:25:35] Ortiz will get you all our tax dollars again, not a chance you need to apologize to them
[2:25:41] publicly.
[2:25:43] The second comment is from Mr. Hardy Brown.
[2:25:47] This is a good evening in the city of San Bernardino that I speak to you after hearing the news
[2:25:53] that after 116 years an African-American will become chief of police on June 1st, 2022.
[2:26:01] The news brought to my mind the song by the late Sam Cook.
[2:26:05] During the middle of the civil rights movement in 1964, a change is going to come.
[2:26:11] It starts with the line I was born by the river in a little tent,
[2:26:14] oh, and just like the river I've been already.
[2:26:17] ever since. Just for the record, I was born 100 yards from the Trent River in
[2:26:23] Trenton, North Carolina. And just like that river, I have been fighting against
[2:26:28] racial discrimination and unfairness in employment ever since. It would take
[2:26:33] too long to tell you of my personal experiences. But like the lyrics in the song
[2:26:38] states, I knew a change was going to come someday and here it is. Thanks to the
[2:26:44] the city manager, Robert Field, for making the decision to hire Darren Gurman and to Darren
[2:26:49] Gurman for accepting the challenge of the duties of the position.
[2:26:54] I thank them because in our charter it's felt out that the city manager has a sole authority
[2:26:59] to hire and all of the people who held that position before him, they never considered us.
[2:27:07] Then I thank Chief Gurman because I have been the first in a position and it is not easy.
[2:27:13] But after speaking with him, he is up to the challenge and so is Rob Field.
[2:27:17] I stand ready to work with all of you to help keep the city moving forward as I have in the 61 years as a tax-paying citizen in the city.
[2:27:25] I want to thank my wife Cheryl, who spoke for me at many meetings, and City Clerk, and I'll be about a row child for being so patient and kind and helpful to me as well.
[2:27:36] Again, thank you, and let's get back to work and make this an all-american city again, Hardy Brown.
[2:27:41] Okay, thank you, let's move on to item number five.
[2:27:44] This is a discussion portion of tonight's calendar.
[2:27:47] This is an ordinance of men in chapter 19.07.0303O of the San Bernardino Municipal Code
[2:27:52] exempting students of educational institutions,
[2:27:54] engage in filmmaking, activity from the special events permit.
[2:27:58] We'd like to suspend the presentation and I think your winning, is there a motion for approval?
[2:28:05] I love it.
[2:28:06] Second.
[2:28:07] Okay.
[2:28:07] Okay, the other members, I vote, cast their votes.
[2:28:14] Which is for clarification, can I have the mover and the seconder?
[2:28:18] Ray Noso and Calvin.
[2:28:35] Motion passes, six-year-old council member Ivarra is absent.
[2:28:39] Item number six is the ordinance of Properties Maintenance Code for vacant building board of standards.
[2:28:45] The recommendation is there before you.
[2:28:47] For a staff presentation, Mr. City Manager.
[2:28:50] Moved to approve.
[2:28:51] Second.
[2:28:53] Okay. I have a question for you.
[2:28:56] Mr. Figger, I'll go ahead.
[2:29:01] I didn't know we were going to move that pass on.
[2:29:02] I said that we were going to hear a report.
[2:29:03] Okay.
[2:29:05] So this is to not supplement, but I guess improve the current HUD requirements
[2:29:14] as far as board-ups or is that, am I on the right item here?
[2:29:19] Essentially, it's to adopt them.
[2:29:20] Okay.
[2:29:22] Yes, so we, through our own boardup process through the cities, we use HUD standards.
[2:29:28] But there are situations where property owners, they board up their own buildings,
[2:29:33] when there's, when they're vacant or what have you.
[2:29:35] And so this is a mechanism to codify the requirements per HUD standards.
[2:29:41] Okay, so currently, what is the, because from what I'm to understand in reading the,
[2:29:49] I'm sort of trying to find it here.
[2:29:51] It's just so that it makes it look not as, there you go.
[2:29:56] I was trying to remember what the verbiage was in here in the A.
[2:30:00] It's to be more uniform. That's correct. What's currently in the books, as far as it's just put up whatever you have? Well, there really is a specific requirement, I mean, there's a, our property maintenance section of the code requires you, you know, when you have graffiti or vandalism, those kinds of things that you take you have your property. You know, so, you have a, a chain of moves out or you have a vacant building, you do whatever measures you can, so it doesn't take it overrun or destroyed. And so property owners will take it upon themselves.
[2:30:29] that was to board it up, however mechanism they can.
[2:30:33] And so now with standardizing the requirements,
[2:30:37] when we will get the word out to let the know that we do have a requirement for them.
[2:30:42] And so, and we'll be able to provide them with the information of how they pay the cost, right?
[2:30:46] No, they will do it just to our standards.
[2:30:49] So, residential and commercial?
[2:30:51] Bacon buildings, yes, both.
[2:30:53] Bacon building, both.
[2:30:53] Both. Is there, I think I saw that the requirement was going to be as far as plywood for CDX, right?
[2:31:02] Not OSB, is it CDX, as far as the type of plywood that's in the squad?
[2:31:14] Okay, that's fine.
[2:31:14] The CDX actually looks a little bit nicer than OSB.
[2:31:17] It's a little more expensive.
[2:31:19] It's not as water-resistant, but I think since it doesn't really rain that much.
[2:31:25] Well, it's a little more expensive, but it's a, it's a, it's sturdier, it's sturdier.
[2:31:28] Yes.
[2:31:29] And the, and the requirements also show also the attachment to the building as well.
[2:31:34] So there's standards of how you, how you bolted into the building and such.
[2:31:38] That's fine.
[2:31:38] Okay, thank you very much.
[2:31:39] Mr. Mohink, I have questions.
[2:31:41] Regarding the, um, enforceability component, um, how does this compare to existing
[2:31:47] enforcement and who is the enforcement component, is it code enforcement?
[2:31:51] Yes, it would be.
[2:31:52] And then, so how do we then proactively implement this, and then the enforceability
[2:32:00] of it?
[2:32:00] So if there's a vacant building that's identified, we will notify the property
[2:32:04] owner, and let them know that we have some new standards, and then they will,
[2:32:09] you know, will provide those standards to them, and then follow up on that, make
[2:32:14] sure that they install the proper manner.
[2:32:16] And so for the viewing public, we do have board-up standards.
[2:32:19] Is that accurate?
[2:32:20] Yes, we do.
[2:32:21] We have board of standards that are either identified in a policy procedure board of policy manual, or a municipal code that clearly identifies the board of procedures.
[2:32:31] Is that accurate?
[2:32:32] Currently no.
[2:32:34] Currently no, we only, we have our own standards, we the city through our co-inforcement department.
[2:32:39] We have our own vendor that when there's, when we identify a building, we try to reach the property owner and there's issues already, it's an emergency, we need to board it up quickly.
[2:32:48] we call our vendor, they go out and they board it up for HUD standards.
[2:32:53] So if that's only our internal policy, it's not within the municipal code as to how
[2:32:58] it's done.
[2:32:59] The other alternative would be to add a policy, and that's what this in essence does.
[2:33:04] Is that right?
[2:33:05] That is correct.
[2:33:05] Okay, so it standardizes it, and it codifies it in action with the municipal code.
[2:33:10] That is correct.
[2:33:11] Now, what is the variance?
[2:33:12] What's the difference between an existing board of standard that is procured through
[2:33:17] the City Department, and it is afforded through the contract vendor, what's the cost
[2:33:22] variance between this and what's proposed and what is existing?
[2:33:27] Because there's added costs, in essence, I want to know the cost between the difference
[2:33:31] between a board-up that we currently do versus what's proposed here.
[2:33:35] Do we have any cost estimates on additional increases to our added budget?
[2:33:40] It would not be an increase, it's not adding an increase to our budget.
[2:33:44] that all is doing its codifying, if you own commercial building or apartment building in spake it or what have you,
[2:33:50] you go in and you board it up to our standards.
[2:33:54] If you drive down up and down some of our commercial corridors or you see multiple board of buildings,
[2:34:00] you know, people use whatever they can.
[2:34:02] They'll use old plywood, they use pieces of pallets, whatever they can to board it up.
[2:34:06] And as a result, it creates a blighted situation and makes our neighborhoods in our streets.
[2:34:12] Do we have any examples of what you're speaking of, where you're alluding to that there's an incongruent
[2:34:19] application of plywood or pallets, do you have any pictures of that?
[2:34:23] We did not know.
[2:34:24] We do not.
[2:34:25] Where is this, I mean, I support this, I understand where we're going.
[2:34:30] My only concern is that if, in fact, one of our council members or myself were to initiate a request
[2:34:38] to the City Manager's office, is there added costs with a contract?
[2:34:43] Because we're responsible, for instance, if there's a fire, if police department
[2:34:47] overnight has some type of break-in, the City of San Bernardino then absorbs
[2:34:52] that cost with a contractor call-out.
[2:34:55] Is that accurate?
[2:34:55] That is correct, and on an annual date, we recently had a budget for a man-to-contract
[2:35:02] for existing providers.
[2:35:03] That that that budget amendment also taking the fact and consideration this proposed
[2:35:09] increase costs?
[2:35:11] No, because this is not an increase to us.
[2:35:14] It's just a standard for the public to implement it.
[2:35:17] So this is not so this is only good for commercial tenants, not the City of San Bernardino.
[2:35:23] That is correct.
[2:35:23] In other words, we don't have the HUD standard that on our contract callout, but now we're
[2:35:31] We have the standard internally, our contract, the language in our contract with
[2:35:36] our vendor states that you have to use HUD standards.
[2:35:40] And so when we send someone out to do a board up, they use the HUD standards.
[2:35:44] So now, this standard is only, it's only currently the City of San Bernardino and our
[2:35:49] board of specialists, they use HUD standards, is that accurate?
[2:35:53] So now, this is a two-pronged approach.
[2:35:55] Not only do we clean up our city, but also, we allow and insist that now commercial
[2:35:59] and residential boardups carry on the flag of the HUD standards.
[2:36:04] They clean up in the manner that we do.
[2:36:06] Okay, and there is no additional cost to the city.
[2:36:09] To the city, that is correct.
[2:36:10] Okay, very good.
[2:36:11] Any other questions?
[2:36:12] I think there's a motion, is there, oh, Councilman Sanchez, sir?
[2:36:16] Yeah, no, it's pretty simple.
[2:36:17] I live across the street from a shopping plaza, and
[2:36:20] in the morning, someone broke the windows, and so we couldn't get a hold of the landlord.
[2:36:25] So then that's when the city hires its contractor, we have our contractor.
[2:36:29] I know that at least twice now we've approved something like $200, $300, $400,000.
[2:36:34] They come out, they boarded up, they boarded up to those standards anyways.
[2:36:38] So what we're doing is we're codifying this so that every business owner, right?
[2:36:42] I have businesses on Mount Vernon who, who, who instead of putting up the, the compliant
[2:36:48] plywood have put up pallets, broken up pallets and they stick it up on there to prevent transients from moving into those vacant buildings.
[2:36:56] So what this will do is, we will be putting into our code essentially a standard on how to board up a building.
[2:37:03] And I mean, the city already does it with its contractor, so there's no additional cost to us.
[2:37:08] But it creates a uniform appearance that is better looking, even if it is a dilapidated event in building.
[2:37:15] At least the boarding on there will be universal.
[2:37:20] Board it up pretty.
[2:37:22] Okay, council members, cast your votes.
[2:37:27] There's a motion. I'm sorry.
[2:37:29] Motion will be by Council Member Sanchez and seconded by Council Member Alexander.
[2:37:33] Okay, members, please cast your votes.
[2:37:37] Motion passes, six zero.
[2:37:39] Okay, very good.
[2:37:41] Item number seven, this is update on the Organics Collection, processing and disposable services due to San Bernardi, or I'm sorry, Senate Bill 1383, short-lived climate pollutant mandate.
[2:37:53] Presentation is a receive and update on the status, and Mr. City Manager.
[2:37:57] here.
[2:37:58] Thank you, and thank you for clarifying that this is not a Senate,
[2:38:01] Assembly Nobel.
[2:38:02] This is a Senate bill, one of the most impopular ones that I can recall.
[2:38:06] Okay, so the presentation I had is going to be led by Alex Kishta, who manages our
[2:38:12] agreement with Berthex.
[2:38:14] So, Alex, take it away.
[2:38:16] Good evening, Mayor and council members.
[2:38:19] Let's talk trash.
[2:38:21] So I will just basically talk SP one, you know, I'm trying, SP one, three, eight, three, which is the short-lived climate pollutants program update and the implementation for the 2022.
[2:38:36] Just a few points that is the SP one, three, eight, three requires the city to enforce businesses and
[2:38:43] and residents to recycle organic and food waste.
[2:38:47] The SB-133-3-GOL is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from organic waste disposal.
[2:38:54] The current negotiations with our waste hauler are in the progress, and to discuss regulatory
[2:39:02] requirement that may be delegated to PERTECH, the city could face penalties of up to $10,000
[2:39:11] a day for failing to comply with SB 1383 effective January 1st, 2022.
[2:39:20] Starting January 1st, 2022, SB 1383 will allow the city to take a non-punitive approach
[2:39:28] to enforcement. Starting on January 1st, 2024, the city must begin taking
[2:39:35] negative action against non-compliant entities.
[2:39:39] So let's talk about the PERTEX program overview that we've been discussing with them
[2:39:43] for the last couple of months.
[2:39:46] Residential collection will utilize, still utilize the three containers, I'm sorry, yes.
[2:39:53] They will be still utilizing the three container system.
[2:39:56] The commercial collection will utilize four container systems, service level dependent
[2:40:02] on customer needs and the commercial customer generating
[2:40:06] two cubic yard of trash or more per week require
[2:40:11] to have a food waste recycling program.
[2:40:15] The education and outreach activities so far,
[2:40:18] the information distributed through community meetings,
[2:40:22] newsletters, automated calls, feedback from loud audits,
[2:40:26] waste characterization, and on-site guidance.
[2:40:29] For the procurement requirements, the compost and mulch giveaways, landscape and turf enhancements,
[2:40:38] organics converted to heat, fuel and electricity.
[2:40:42] The edible food recovery program identified year one food generators and food recovery organizations,
[2:40:50] estimated amount of edible food being disposed and
[2:40:54] the diverse 20% of edible food from disposal
[2:40:57] to food recovery organizations.
[2:41:00] The compliance, monitoring, and enforcement,
[2:41:04] document, qualified customers,
[2:41:07] edible food generators, material processing waste
[2:41:10] characterization, route audit results,
[2:41:13] complaint, investigated, recycled materials for crude,
[2:41:17] and organic waste diverted from landfill.
[2:41:19] So, SB-1383 regulations require the city to adopt an enforceable ordinance to compel
[2:41:27] businesses and residents to recycle organic and food waste.
[2:41:31] This was adopted by the City Council December 1, 2021.
[2:41:38] What is the SB-1383 impact to the residents?
[2:41:47] Yeah, residents will back food waste and place into green waste cart.
[2:41:53] No longer disposing in the trash cart, that all multi-family dwellings apartments will now
[2:42:02] subscribe to food waste organics under SB 1383, which was not required with AB 1826.
[2:42:10] 208 of 1241 commercial customers in the city of San Bernardino will need to subscribe to
[2:42:18] food waste organics recycling.
[2:42:21] Vertec is utilizing side visits, phone calls, email,
[2:42:25] to remind customers of SP1383 requirements.
[2:42:29] The city and Vertec are developing a program
[2:42:32] to deter and inspect container contamination,
[2:42:37] likely to include a separate contamination fee
[2:42:41] on top of the notice of violation.
[2:42:43] The physical impact of the resident is still unknown
[2:42:46] until we finish discussion with Berthek.
[2:42:49] That's Concludes Staff Reports, we would be unhappy to answer any question you might have.
[2:42:53] Thank you, Mr. Keisha, what an informative report, and thank you for updating the council.
[2:42:58] It's a very important Senate bill.
[2:43:00] More, Mr. City Manager, the roadmap ahead, we will continue to monitor.
[2:43:05] And is the expectation that Berthek will ultimately implement and coordinate with you in the rollout of 1383?
[2:43:14] In short, yes, we don't have much of an option there, the state force or hand on this and it will be, it will result when I said it's been a popular bill.
[2:43:23] I mean, it's going to result in an increase in an increase in people's rights, both commercial and residential.
[2:43:30] Absolutely.
[2:43:31] Now, we are working with them very closely to ensure that it's minimized and keep the numbers down as much as we can, but it's simply something that was mandated by the state.
[2:43:41] We're working very closely with the City Attorney's Office, we're going to actually thank
[2:43:44] them Josh Nelson and join again for working with us to develop and to evaluate what
[2:43:50] Burtech is proposing.
[2:43:52] We're sort of in trusted verify mode with them to ensure that whatever they bring forward
[2:43:58] is supportable, is equitable, and fair to our residents who minimize the impact especially
[2:44:02] as much as we can.
[2:44:04] What that means is it will be evaluating their costs.
[2:44:08] a lot of stuff, a lot of information is proprietary and we have no problem with keeping
[2:44:12] a confidential but we are going to be evaluating those their costs to ensure that those
[2:44:18] costs are reasonable, supportable, and limit the impact on residents on the rate payers
[2:44:24] in the city center.
[2:44:25] So that is the plan.
[2:44:26] We're moving forward now, we're in the middle of negotiations and we have to, we really need
[2:44:31] to wrap them up fairly soon and then they will come back for a public process in front
[2:44:35] of the city council.
[2:44:36] Okay, very good.
[2:44:37] Thank you, Council Member Kellor.
[2:44:40] Thank you, Mr. Keysta, City Manager Field.
[2:44:43] I remember when Birchick was here before and did a slight presentation, and
[2:44:47] I was asking several questions about this unfunded mandate that the state has put upon us.
[2:44:54] And I wanted to know whether or not what the taxpayer have to pay for the custody.
[2:45:00] Would you would have to pay for their own bags? Would we, you know, have an extra cost for an additional bin? So now you're saying that no additional bin, right? So we will have to pay for the bags, right, ourselves, right?
[2:45:13] The bags can be any bags that you can use, make groceries or bags, any bags can be them, okay? Bags that we pay for. So I wanted to also ask, so will there be a way for the resident to opt out?
[2:45:29] Because right now we have a lot of community gardens in our community in the city and they are continuing to grow.
[2:45:37] Burtech charges for compost so I would like to have this made a discussion that then for community gardens within the community that compost be giving to them for free.
[2:45:50] Because right now I don't, I give all of my foodways to a local community garden.
[2:45:58] And so that trend, you know, we're working on that to see where how community can, we
[2:46:04] can get all the foodways from the community to utilize for a community garden.
[2:46:09] So I think that that is something that we need to discuss.
[2:46:13] Either they're going to give us free compost.
[2:46:15] I mean, there's something that the community should be able to give back considering that
[2:46:18] we are.
[2:46:19] We don't have any other way to recycle our own food waste other than composting.
[2:46:26] Okay, thank you, Council Member.
[2:46:28] This is a receiving file.
[2:46:30] If there's no further questions or comments, let's move on to our public hearing portion of tonight's calendar.
[2:46:34] This is item number eight, public hearing on annexation number 12 to community facilities district number 2019-1.
[2:46:42] The recommendation is there before you, Council Members.
[2:46:45] I do have a script, so please be patient with this whole process.
[2:46:48] Yes, the public hearing is to consider annexation proceedings and elections for the City of San Bernardino community facilities district number 2019-1 of maintenance services agreement and annexation number 12.
[2:47:01] The annexation hearing is, I'm sorry, the public hearing is now open at approximately 9.51 p.m.
[2:47:06] Are there any disclosures from our city council members hearing none.
[2:47:10] Madam City clerk, do you have proof of publication that the notices that the required as required by law have been given and
[2:47:17] and do we have complete file documents?
[2:47:18] Yes, we do.
[2:47:19] Thank you.
[2:47:20] Are there any written communications on this matter?
[2:47:22] No, there are no.
[2:47:23] Do any council members wish to hear the staff report?
[2:47:27] Hearing none, we'll now receive comment from many persons
[2:47:30] in our viewing and the public audience
[2:47:32] who wish to speak on this matter.
[2:47:34] Is there any member of the public wishing
[2:47:35] to address the City Council on this matter?
[2:47:38] Seeing none, each person may address
[2:47:39] the City Council for a maximum of three minutes.
[2:47:42] Okay, seeing none, would the City staff
[2:47:45] have likes to make any further comments? No. Do any council members have any questions
[2:47:52] of staff or wish to make any comments before I close the public hearing? Mr. Figueroz,
[2:47:57] sir?
[2:47:57] Thank you just real quick. I just want to reinforce the traffic control on the north side
[2:48:03] of this property that will be heading eastward. So I'm not going to just want to make
[2:48:09] sure that that's included in the directional traffic so that it prevents left hand
[2:48:13] I know that it's impossible to make a left hand turn on the west side because of the
[2:48:17] center median, but it would create a lot of backup on this property if people were
[2:48:24] waiting there making a left turn.
[2:48:26] So whatever type of island, like a pork chop island or something, just a direct traffic
[2:48:30] to head eastward, that's, I just want to reinforce that.
[2:48:33] Thank you.
[2:48:34] Okay, thank you, Council Member.
[2:48:36] Do any of the members of our city, I'm sorry, has the city clerk received any
[2:48:43] written protests.
[2:48:44] I have received zero written protests.
[2:48:46] Okay, I now declare the hearing close,
[2:48:48] the time being approximately 9.53 p.m.
[2:48:51] May have a motion to adopt the resolution
[2:48:53] of the Mayor's City Council of the City of San Bernardino,
[2:48:55] calling an election to submit to the qualified electors
[2:48:57] a question of levying a special tax within the area proposed
[2:49:01] to be annexed to community facilities district number 2019-1.
[2:49:06] Is there a motion?
[2:49:08] Who to approve?
[2:49:10] Seconded by Figueroa, any further discussion?
[2:49:13] If not, please call the roll.
[2:49:15] Council Member Sanchez?
[2:49:17] Yes.
[2:49:17] Mayor Pro Tem?
[2:49:18] Yes.
[2:49:19] Council Member Shura?
[2:49:20] Yes.
[2:49:21] Council Member Reina?
[2:49:22] Yes.
[2:49:22] Council Member Calvin?
[2:49:23] Yes.
[2:49:24] Council Member Alexander?
[2:49:25] Aye.
[2:49:26] The motion passes 6-0.
[2:49:29] Okay, thank you.
[2:49:30] The resolution that we have just adopted calls for elections within the property to be annexed.
[2:49:34] to CFD number 2019-1 to approve such annexation, and to authorize the levy of the special tax in accordance with the rate and method of
[2:49:42] portionment to provide certain services within such property, which is to be held at this time by our city clerk.
[2:49:49] All ballots have been cast in connection with the election for CFD number 2019-1, and the election is now closed.
[2:49:56] Each of the ballot propositions have been approved by more than two-thirds of the votes cast in the elections for CFD number 2019-1.
[2:50:03] Thank you.
[2:50:04] Having received a certificate of the City Clerk certifying the results of the election,
[2:50:08] I didn't retain a motion, please, to approve a resolution of the Mayor of City Council of the City of San Bernardino declaring
[2:50:14] the election results for a community facility's districts, number 2019-1, annexation number 12.
[2:50:19] Is there a motion?
[2:50:20] Yes.
[2:50:21] Move to approve.
[2:50:22] Ms. Anchez.
[2:50:23] Second.
[2:50:24] Second.
[2:50:24] By Figueroa.
[2:50:25] Any further discussion?
[2:50:29] All right, Ms. City Clerk, call the roll.
[2:50:31] Council Member Sanchez.
[2:50:32] Yes.
[2:50:32] Mayor Pro Tem.
[2:50:33] Yes.
[2:50:33] Yes.
[2:50:34] Council Member Shura.
[2:50:35] Yes.
[2:50:36] Council Member Reno.
[2:50:37] Yes.
[2:50:37] Council Member Kelvin.
[2:50:38] Yes.
[2:50:39] Council Member Alexander.
[2:50:41] Aye.
[2:50:41] Motion passes 6-0.
[2:50:44] Thank you.
[2:50:45] I now ask for a motion to waive the further reading and introduced by title only.
[2:50:50] Ordinance of the Mayor of City Council of the City of San Bernardino, California.
[2:50:54] Mending ordinance number MC and levying special taxes to be collected during fiscal year 2022-2023.
[2:51:01] to pay the annual cost of the maintenance and servicing of landscaping, lighting, water quality, improvements, graffiti streets, street sweeping, water quality, and parks and trail maintenance of reserve fund for capital replacement and administrative expenses with respect to the administration of the city of San Bernardino Community Facilities District number 2019-1.
[2:51:19] Is there a motion?
[2:51:20] Yes, move to approve.
[2:51:23] Sanchez and Figueroa, all right, call the road.
[2:51:27] Council Member Sanchez, May and Pro Temp, Council Member Shura, Council Member Renault, Council Member Calvin, Council Member Alexander, motion passes 6-0.
[2:51:38] Okay, very good. Thank you. That concludes the public hearing portion. Thank you, Council Members. These are items number 9-31. We'll pull anyone who has a poll?
[2:51:50] Yes, 11-18.
[2:51:51] Okay. Anyone else? Not?
[2:51:54] Alexander 17.
[2:51:56] Okay.
[2:51:57] Any other questions on 23?
[2:51:58] Ask your questions, sir.
[2:52:01] Mr. Keesha, number 23, in the proposed annexation, when my shirt is set in stone, the street light placement.
[2:52:12] Is it, it's like a cold to sack, proposed that the residential development, special tax would pay for
[2:52:19] or everything in there including those three lights?
[2:52:27] This is for commercial development that is happening on the corner of
[2:52:45] Chandu, sorry.
[2:52:48] Let me introduce to you, Chen Spice, that he's our consultant that is prepared to see
[2:52:52] a piece for us.
[2:52:56] Good evening.
[2:52:59] So your question was on the Belmont residential development.
[2:53:04] And the question, so the engineer of work provided us the maintenance exhibit with the location of the street lights.
[2:53:12] So I'm assuming that light is where it's supposed to be located for inclusion in the maintenance.
[2:53:18] Yes, so I guess my question here, feel free to answer it, how do we add more?
[2:53:24] That's an issue that I have specifically in my ward, is it culture of the foothill, that placement of that, even the one that's near the coldest act, that's not going to do anything.
[2:53:32] There's one other one.
[2:53:34] So the City of Summit, you know, how the standards in when we, when we,
[2:53:38] standards look, start there.
[2:53:40] How do I, how do I add another street light?
[2:53:44] If we, if you look, you know, what is really needed, and I'll see if we can talk
[2:53:48] to the developer to install.
[2:53:49] If it's approved, as is, the exhibit that you see in here is just as for whatever
[2:53:56] in the public right away, not what's inside the track, because inside the track
[2:54:01] that is a natural aid maintained, streetlights.
[2:54:05] Only the only thing that we can impose CFDs on is only on the public right away.
[2:54:11] So there is, I believe, two lights in the public right away that are one light at the entrance.
[2:54:15] If that is not enough, we can talk to the developer about installing another one.
[2:54:20] So the city standard is a 300 feet stagger.
[2:54:23] So meaning if you have a streetlight here, then you go across the street, 300 feet, and
[2:54:27] another one, with, like, the powerful, the powerful, the power that they have for
[2:54:31] the looming. And usually, for a trash like this, we have asked them to get us a photo
[2:54:36] where you call it a photo, a cell that is tell us what is the foot candle that cover
[2:54:41] the streets to make sure that there is coverage.
[2:54:44] Thank you. That was just a question, so.
[2:54:46] Okay, thank you, sir. Any other final polls? If not, I'll entertain a motion to move
[2:54:50] the balance.
[2:54:51] Move the balance here.
[2:54:52] Second.
[2:54:52] And Sanchez, on the second, members, cast your votes.
[2:54:58] Yes.
[2:55:00] Yes.
[2:55:01] Council Member Chalvin?
[2:55:02] Yes.
[2:55:02] Council Member Chalvin?
[2:55:03] Council Member Rae Noso?
[2:55:03] Yes.
[2:55:04] Council Member Calvin?
[2:55:06] Yes.
[2:55:06] Council Member Alexander?
[2:55:07] Aye.
[2:55:09] Motion passed unanimously.
[2:55:10] Mr. City-Mandra, my apologies.
[2:55:13] I was informed that item number 10 was pulled.
[2:55:15] Is that correct, Nacura?
[2:55:17] Yes.
[2:55:18] Item number 10?
[2:55:19] It's been continued to the main point.
[2:55:21] Continue.
[2:55:21] Okay.
[2:55:22] Okay, very good.
[2:55:23] All right, these are items 11, 11, 17 and 18.
[2:55:28] We'll start with Councilman Sanchez of the first ward.
[2:55:31] Pull of number 11.
[2:55:33] This is amendment number one to professional services agreement
[2:55:35] with place works for enhanced public participation program.
[2:55:39] Mr. Sanchez.
[2:55:40] Yes, so this is an amendment to the professional services agreement
[2:55:44] with place works and you guys tactfully left out
[2:55:48] the dollar amount for that amendment.
[2:55:50] Can you for the public's sake, I'll let everyone know what the amendment is for, what it's for, and what the dollar amount is?
[2:55:57] Of course, the-
[2:56:16] Oh, do you need me to pull it up?
[2:56:17] No, I can-
[2:56:18] The additional amount is for 297,323.
[2:56:25] 297,000 for what exactly?
[2:56:27] These are for the additional workshops associated.
[2:56:30] So we've, we've done the first go-around of the, of the workshops, would, we need
[2:56:36] to ward.
[2:56:37] So we're going to do some additional workshops at another three rounds, primarily
[2:56:41] to cover the land use, some discussions.
[2:56:44] And there's also the outreach component of that to get more people to attend.
[2:56:49] Also, the discussion as it relates to the downtown specific plan component.
[2:56:53] So nearly $300,000, how many more events are we going to have?
[2:56:56] And don't worry, I'm not going after you.
[2:56:58] I'm questioning this because I'm not sure we're going to get our money's worth.
[2:57:02] And we don't have anyone here from place where it's to explain to us how those expenditures
[2:57:07] are going to be spent. That's nearly $300,000.
[2:57:09] I know the counter argument is going to be, don't worry, this is grand funding.
[2:57:12] But that's grand funding that actually be set aside for Council Member Damian,
[2:57:17] Alexander's, Council Member Ben Reynosos, designated truck routes.
[2:57:24] That's something that this grand funding can be used towards.
[2:57:27] And that's, that only comes at $100,000.
[2:57:30] I'm not ready quite yet to deny this, but I would like to continue this until,
[2:57:38] until place works and come here and explain to us, and maybe we downsize or
[2:57:43] approach that outreach in a different manner.
[2:57:46] Okay, is that your motion, sir?
[2:57:49] Is that your motion?
[2:57:50] Your motion is to continue it?
[2:57:53] I'll leave it at the discretion at the staff when they can bring place works in.
[2:57:58] Okay, very good.
[2:57:58] Second to that motion.
[2:57:59] Next meeting, May 4th.
[2:58:01] Second.
[2:58:02] Alexander.
[2:58:03] Okay.
[2:58:03] Councilman Renoso.
[2:58:05] Yes.
[2:58:05] I love this.
[2:58:06] Thank you.
[2:58:07] I love this solidarity on this.
[2:58:09] I was an emotionally continuing because in the contract, it's no secret.
[2:58:14] I've made it very clear.
[2:58:15] They are not doing enough.
[2:58:18] And I felt very played when I met with them.
[2:58:20] and I asked for them to collaborate because why wouldn't they collaborate with council members
[2:58:24] if you're going to hold a public workshop in each ward, and they ended up having them
[2:58:28] at the same spots with no attendance.
[2:58:30] There was like 200 people total for all of those workshops.
[2:58:35] The Internet, one, like why didn't they make a video, you should be taken note of this.
[2:58:40] Like, they should be making a simple how-to video for that SB Futures 2050 website that they made
[2:58:46] So that people know how to participate publicly, and then it should be a requirement.
[2:58:51] Not even the number of workshops is the issue.
[2:58:53] It's the collaboration with the council.
[2:58:56] They met with us as like horse and pony show.
[2:58:59] We're not getting what we need out of this.
[2:59:01] My commissioners telling me the same thing, several people in the community are telling me the same thing.
[2:59:06] It's not where it should be, and so yes, let's vote on this because this is not time to approve this.
[2:59:11] Thank you, Councilman.
[2:59:12] Members, cast your votes, please.
[2:59:13] Yes,
[2:59:20] the motion is to continue the item.
[2:59:32] Motion passes 6-0 to continue the item.
[2:59:36] Okay, item number 17, pulled by Councilman Alexander.
[2:59:39] This is amendment to Acquitzen, Andelson, Lawyer, Rude, and Roma Legal Service Agreement.
[2:59:44] Regarding the Miller case, Mr. Alexander, so are you recognized?
[2:59:47] Thank you, and I would like to defer to the City Attorney if she can explain why this issue is and why it's on here.
[2:59:58] Councilor Alexander, I would have to do-
[3:00:00] I refer to staff as to how this item ended up on your agenda. I can speak to the legal issues in terms of the duty to defend. Right, duty to defend. Thank you. So the city council and our public, I think importantly should know that there is a government statute that says that employees and public officials who are doing their jobs and accordance with the scope of their employment are legally entitled to a defense by the public agency that they serve. There are exceptions to this rule.
[3:00:29] the exceptions can be if a public official acted outside of their scope, if a public
[3:00:34] official did something intentional when they shouldn't have, but for basic negligence,
[3:00:38] just doing something negligently, the law says that you can be provided to the fence
[3:00:44] and indemnification.
[3:00:45] Usually the way this works is that the employer, the official, will write a letter to the city,
[3:00:50] they'll request the representation, and the city can respond to that.
[3:00:53] That they can evaluate the request and determine that they think the person acted outside the scope, and they can deny that representation.
[3:01:02] They can evaluate it and say, we think it's a close call, we're going to provide you with representation under these certain conditions.
[3:01:09] In this matter, the city engaged this law firm, who's before you in item number 17 this evening, and this law firm has advised the city council on the legal obligations to defend and
[3:01:21] them the five and there was an agreement that was prepared.
[3:01:25] If you wish that attorney to come back and to brief you again, they can do that.
[3:01:29] I think they've also mentioned in the past that they would be prepared to draft a memo
[3:01:33] that you could share with your public because that's important to them.
[3:01:36] How or why this item ended up on your agenda is number 17.
[3:01:40] I'd have to defer to risk management staff and so I defer to the city manager.
[3:01:44] As
[3:01:50] a routine process, the City always, this management always brings before Council any increase to contract when it goes beyond the initial agreed amount and that is the circumstance of this.
[3:02:04] It is a requirement that any previous contracts be presented as attachments and exhibits and that was just the normal scope of business.
[3:02:17] move to approve.
[3:02:21] I just want to know, I just wanted to see the attorney, thank you very much, Director Anderson and
[3:02:26] City Attorney for explaining the right to defend because I don't believe the public knows
[3:02:31] why we do what we do and under what legal circumstances that we have to act and govern by.
[3:02:39] Okay, there's motion by Sanchez to approve item number 17.
[3:02:45] Is there a second?
[3:02:49] Is there a second?
[3:02:49] But I just want to make sure that my vote is to ensure that we don't create some sort of precedent that turns into a slippery slope.
[3:03:01] As council members, as representatives of the city, we do business with a large number of tremendously powerful corporations.
[3:03:14] And if we have to be concerned that if these billion dollar corporations that we do business with as a represented for the city can sue us and we have to defend ourselves.
[3:03:29] You don't think that they can hijack the city.
[3:03:31] You don't think that they could walk into this building into this room with high power attorneys and say if you vote against this development, we will bury you.
[3:03:40] with millions of dollars, a threatened millions of dollars of litigation and lawsuits, and they can hijack the city.
[3:03:51] I mean, we make statements up here that if a developer knew that we didn't have the legal defense of the city behind our decisions, that we could be sitting ducks up here.
[3:04:07] I, unfortunately, never had the misfortune of being sued by a powerful rich individual for
[3:04:15] millions of dollars, but if you don't think that anyone here would squirm if they threatened
[3:04:21] that, and we knew that our decisions, whether right or wrong or controversial, could pose
[3:04:26] a threat of millions of dollars to us, that we wouldn't change our votes, that we couldn't
[3:04:31] be influenced than you guys have another thing coming.
[3:04:35] Sandra, you know, she's honest to a fault, but I think she learned her lesson, but we
[3:04:46] don't stop being leaders of this community as soon as we step out of a council meeting.
[3:04:50] She did this within the scope of her capacity as a council member.
[3:04:55] And so I, again, am making that motion that we provide that legal defense to her.
[3:05:02] Mr. City Manager, this item is actually the law firm that's representing the city.
[3:05:09] Correct.
[3:05:09] The city's representative, not the privately engaged attorneys that are representing council
[3:05:15] number of Mara directly.
[3:05:16] Oh, are you suggesting that she has her own?
[3:05:18] She has retained her own?
[3:05:19] No, what I'm saying, there are two firms involved in this, and the Scream Kim Hicks
[3:05:25] Rage and O'Fara is the one that she initially brought in who was sort of doing my
[3:05:30] Well, can I clarify that?
[3:05:32] So, let me just make sure I clarify this to make sure we get the facts correct.
[3:05:36] In the Miller lawsuit, there are two law firms involved in defending this case.
[3:05:42] There's one law firm assigned to the city, that's item number 17, and then there's
[3:05:46] one law firm assigned to defending the council member.
[3:05:50] The City Council had previously received advice
[3:05:52] from your outside council.
[3:05:54] And based on that outside council advice,
[3:05:57] the City Council had approved providing
[3:05:59] a legal defense up to a certain amount.
[3:06:03] That's number 16, yes.
[3:06:07] So just so that you know the item that was pulled
[3:06:10] was item number 17, and that was the contract
[3:06:14] for representation of the city.
[3:06:15] All right. Well, of course, we got to defend the city. Move to approve.
[3:06:21] Motion as second has been made.
[3:06:23] May we ask your votes?
[3:06:50] I'm sorry. I know that I'm supposed to be voting at this moment, but I still need some clarification.
[3:06:56] Item number 17 are lawyer fees requested to defend the city.
[3:07:03] Item number 16 are lawyer fees requested to defend Councilmember Hibara.
[3:07:11] Correct. And I just, the reason I was trying to clarify is when the city managers make
[3:07:14] sure we're clear the city agreed to hire this firm for the individual council member.
[3:07:24] She initially hired this firm on her own and the city agreed to then hire this firm. So
[3:07:32] just when you said that it was her firm of her choosing the city initially but the city
[3:07:37] We evaluated this based on outside legal counsel advice, and the city then decided
[3:07:41] that they would provide a defense up to the amount of $50,000.
[3:07:49] So why do we have both here?
[3:07:56] There are separate representations, separate contracts, incurring their own expenses.
[3:08:01] And so it was just advised by and decided to bring them together at the same time to
[3:08:07] request the gift status and request cap increases on the contracts at the same time.
[3:08:14] Ms. Anderson, but both, both item 16 and 17 are, the subject matter is still regarding Miller and
[3:08:20] Sandra Bara, whether it's representation of the city on 17 or personal representation by six.
[3:08:26] They are separate defendants.
[3:08:27] Ms. Miller sued the city of San Bernardino, a separate defendant and sued Sandra Bara, a separate defendant.
[3:08:35] The city, the law firm under number 17 is representing only the city.
[3:08:40] And the item number 16, that law firm is representing the defendant, Ibarra.
[3:08:55] Councillor votes, please. Item number 17.
[3:08:57] The motion passes with five votes in favor for item number 17, and Council Member
[3:09:05] Renewal still voted in opposition.
[3:09:07] Okay, thank you.
[3:09:08] This is item number 18, pulled by Councilman Sanchez.
[3:09:11] Approving job classifications, amending the salary schedule on the fiscal year 2021-22 adopted
[3:09:17] Did budget, sir?
[3:09:21] Yes, there's, I think it's number nine,
[3:09:25] addition of four code officers for community
[3:09:27] and economic development department.
[3:09:30] I want to increase that number to eight.
[3:09:37] How will we go to pay for that?
[3:09:39] The way we're paying for the rest of this
[3:09:40] through the general fund.
[3:09:43] As we're modifying our process, by the way,
[3:09:46] we're not gonna oppose that, by the way, what you just said.
[3:09:48] It takes some time to fill those positions.
[3:09:50] So I understand that we can still set the money aside.
[3:09:53] But our intention is as we revisit the missile code and work on our process,
[3:09:59] we will do a better job of cost recovery also.
[3:10:03] So it is initially a journal fund burden, the ultimate goal being to find ways to augment.
[3:10:11] That is only one of a dozen reasons why this is a good move because, you know,
[3:10:16] You know, we do parking tickets, we do speeding tickets, we do code violations, and they
[3:10:23] recoup some of the money.
[3:10:24] They rarely recoup 100%, but this is a good thing, because like most people here, most
[3:10:32] people out there, the biggest investment of my life is the home I purchase.
[3:10:37] And people lay a stake here.
[3:10:40] And the value of their home is still in the United States, the number one tool of wealth development, of pulling families out of generational poverty, because then you're able through equity on that home, you're able to put kids through college who think good jobs, get a good home, and then they send their kids to college.
[3:11:04] That's how poor people get into the middle class, and we have kept our middle, we have kept
[3:11:11] prices of homes and the value of homes artificially low because
[3:11:16] Guess what you get off on second street you start to drive in one direction or the other or fifth or baseline or highland
[3:11:23] And the city spends a million dollars on repaving the street putting in new traffic lights new sidewalk looks really good
[3:11:29] Right looks really good looks really good
[3:11:31] You get 10 miles down the road, and then you see a house with beer cans everywhere, a broken toilet in the front yard, and people say, I don't want to move here.
[3:11:41] And we're keeping the value of homes artificially low.
[3:11:44] And that's why this place becomes a place with cheap land that becomes attractive for those logistic businesses that plant their warehouses here.
[3:11:52] So, just like wolves affect the direction of rivers in Yellowstone National Park,
[3:12:02] this thing affects everything else.
[3:12:06] And code enforcement affects everything from whether we build warehouses here,
[3:12:11] to whether people are able to move from poverty into the middle class,
[3:12:16] and this is a nexus in that.
[3:12:19] So no, I want eight code officers because people here are sick.
[3:12:24] We do too, Councilman.
[3:12:25] But we still didn't get that analogy double, but we do too.
[3:12:28] Okay, Councilman has made that amendment to item number nine.
[3:12:35] Is there support for that?
[3:12:38] Okay, there's a motion by Shiret, second by.
[3:12:42] Okay.
[3:12:44] So, second.
[3:12:45] So, I just want to, you know, to be good stewards of the people's money.
[3:12:51] How do we pay for these additional officers?
[3:12:55] I mean, we quibble over VIP programs, yet we want to give four more officers.
[3:13:03] So, like I said, being good stewards, we can add these four officers
[3:13:09] at the next fiscal year's impact.
[3:13:13] We don't have to do it now.
[3:13:15] Do you know how long it took us just to get to the 12 we are now?
[3:13:23] I would concur with my colleague from the fourth ward.
[3:13:27] We can go ahead and set the money aside,
[3:13:29] and we can start working towards that.
[3:13:31] Just like if you look at the fiscal impact,
[3:13:33] these aren't impacts for the entire year.
[3:13:35] These are the impacts from this point forward
[3:13:37] to the end of the fiscal year.
[3:13:39] So we can go ahead and start setting money aside, and instead of, hey, we don't have
[3:13:43] it funded, so we can't hire on these code officers.
[3:13:46] It's going to be, hey, we're making sure we get the best candidates for these positions.
[3:13:49] I would rather that be the limiting factor, as opposed to, hey, the Council hasn't
[3:13:53] funded additional code officers.
[3:13:55] We have funded.
[3:13:56] We've just funded four more.
[3:13:57] No, we have not yet, but I want eight.
[3:14:00] You want eight.
[3:14:01] I think most people want eight.
[3:14:05] Let's do eight right now.
[3:14:07] Why not ten?
[3:14:08] Let's go ten.
[3:14:09] Are you challenging me?
[3:14:10] I'll go 10.
[3:14:12] Councilman, let's do 10.
[3:14:13] Yeah, I want to do 10.
[3:14:15] Yeah, let's do 10.
[3:14:16] All right, Mr. Shura, you want to do 10?
[3:14:18] City manager field, please help.
[3:14:23] Finance director.
[3:14:24] How about this?
[3:14:25] Let's hold on.
[3:14:27] Let's regain composure here.
[3:14:29] I think Councilman Alexander, great, great questions
[3:14:33] to be vetted out later by our city manager and staff reports.
[3:14:37] There's a motion.
[3:14:37] We have consensus here that I think we need more code enforcement officers in our city.
[3:14:42] We got that, we get it.
[3:14:44] There's a amendment on number nine to add four more for a total of eight, as you see there on your agenda packet.
[3:14:52] So there's a motion.
[3:14:53] One more quick question, Mr. Mayor, one more quick question.
[3:14:56] Yes, sir.
[3:14:56] that we, last time we had a...
[3:15:00] And the government to say that those code enforcement officers would be working after five, and we can shift. Is that still going to be part of this addition? Yes.
[3:15:11] Okay. Get city clerk, you got that? Yes? Okay.
[3:15:15] So there's a lot of things I could without yelling. Yes, thank you to the bank. Excellent.
[3:15:19] Okay. If I may, we still do need to answer the question. Are we talking about this budget
[3:15:28] adding an additional, I know I want, I am not in disagreement, but I want to still
[3:15:33] make sure that we are able to fund this, just tell us where it's going to come from.
[3:15:39] I want 20, I want 10 in my own world, but we do need to still be for still be.
[3:15:48] There we go, that would be great.
[3:15:50] Can I take a stab at this?
[3:15:52] Just real quick.
[3:15:52] This, just because they're approved this year, there's very little chance that they
[3:15:57] will be hired in the current fiscal year.
[3:15:59] We'll put them in the current fiscal year budget and they'll be carried forward
[3:16:02] into next, into the two-year budget, actually.
[3:16:05] What it does do, what we kind of like about this, I, I mean, I'll let you in on the
[3:16:08] seat, we were going to come back and ask for more after we hired these four.
[3:16:11] So we're kind of, I don't know if we're accelerating the process or not, because to
[3:16:14] Councilman Alexander's point, it takes a while to hire these folks.
[3:16:18] I think Mr. Sanchez is the same thing.
[3:16:21] So we're fine with this, and we are all, we're working in parallel to work on revenue
[3:16:26] recovery to help support these positions, anyway, and limit the impact on the general
[3:16:29] fight.
[3:16:30] Mr. City Manager, does this also allow you, when you say accelerate, or chew gum walk at the
[3:16:35] same time, does it allow, even though that the budget may not, or I'm sorry, that the
[3:16:40] positions may not be filled till next fiscal year, it does allow Renee and her team to begin
[3:16:45] to float the positions to recruit the process and begin that process precisely.
[3:16:51] Yes, so to that extent, yes, it will excited the process.
[3:16:53] The question recruitment is a separate one, but it will definitely, we'll start advertising eight as opposed to four.
[3:16:59] Great, thank you.
[3:17:01] Cash, your votes, members?
[3:17:11] Item passes, six zero, what the amendment?
[3:17:18] Okay, this is items to be considered for a future meeting.
[3:17:25] So item number 32, Mr. Sanchez?
[3:17:31] Yes, briefly, tell us about item 32.
[3:17:35] Can we support this?
[3:17:36] This will allow, is for a development of new homes with bigger front porches so that people may use their front yard and their community common spaces as a living room.
[3:17:49] In the evenings, I sit on my porch, my neighbors do, everyone does.
[3:17:52] And when you have 30, 40 eyes out in the evening on the street, there's less likely to be crime.
[3:17:57] Raised the value of homes, it's just a generally positive thing.
[3:18:00] And all it is is just with the stroke of a pen we can do this.
[3:18:04] No additional cost other than staff time to draft that development code.
[3:18:08] So I would make my motion to approve.
[3:18:10] What's the status right now that forbids it?
[3:18:15] The development code?
[3:18:19] Remember that these items are before you to ask if you just want to have a conversation.
[3:18:23] So do you want to even entertain it?
[3:18:26] Yes, if you don't, then pass.
[3:18:29] I still want to hear that answer.
[3:18:31] So the, as I understand it, so are you be quiet?
[3:18:38] Our code requires a minimum front yard setback, 25 feet.
[3:18:42] From the front property line, that's where your house can start.
[3:18:45] That includes porch, patio, whatever, where your structure starts, that's 25 feet.
[3:18:52] Okay. So it's my understanding that the, that we want to, the request is to all then allow, or the future, consider allowing porches to extend into that, into that 25-foot setback between the front property and the house, bringing, bringing the building, essentially closer to the, to the street.
[3:19:15] Thank you.
[3:19:15] Okay. Is there a motion in a second?
[3:19:17] Cash votes.
[3:19:19] Item number 32.
[3:19:21] Consideration of Development Code to permit open porches to encroach in the front
[3:19:26] setback.
[3:19:37] Motion passes 6-0 to add to a future meeting.
[3:19:40] Okay. Thank you.
[3:19:40] Item number 33, mobile showers for the unhoused council member, the bar in Sanchez.
[3:19:48] Yes, this is so caps one of our homeless service providers was able to purchase a mobile shower.
[3:19:59] So it's three or four showers, laundry, laundry machines, they provide kits to people.
[3:20:06] I would like the city to purchase one and then maybe go out to bid and
[3:20:10] hand this out to a homeless service provider.
[3:20:14] It's a really good way to allow some of these people, some human decency.
[3:20:19] We see homeless people receive clothes all the time.
[3:20:23] They wear it a couple times, it gets dirty, they have no way of washing it, it ends up in the public right away.
[3:20:28] We want to offer people an option out of poverty.
[3:20:31] And sometimes it's just as simple as making them not look like they've been through the mud.
[3:20:35] And this offers a good opportunity for the city to help.
[3:20:39] I wouldn't want the city to run this program, it would just be we would purchase.
[3:20:42] We would send out a bid to see which service provider would be willing to take on an
[3:20:47] additional mobile home shower.
[3:20:54] Councillor Neill.
[3:20:54] Go ahead, Kelvin.
[3:20:58] So we purchased and then we lease it or rent it to, what are you saying?
[3:21:03] No, no, no.
[3:21:04] We would be giving it to one of the homeless service providers.
[3:21:07] So, cats, for example, owns one, they bought one.
[3:21:09] They had to spend $250,000 for one.
[3:21:11] Yeah, I've seen it so what I'm saying is that then so we're going to purchase it for a
[3:21:17] Non-profit. Yes. Wow, and then we would what we would do is we just we we would not encumber it
[3:21:23] But we would we would limit it's used to maybe this the city of San Bernardino
[3:21:30] You know, there's plenty of people that need to be that need a shower and I again
[3:21:35] It's about providing a little bit of human decency and I know it's really easy to point these people out make fun of them
[3:21:41] But I would much rather give them a helping hand
[3:21:43] And even if it is just a warm shower in a place where they can clean their clothes.
[3:21:49] I definitely appreciate the Boba showers.
[3:21:52] I saw community action partnerships, Boba shower a couple of weeks ago.
[3:21:56] I'm just a little bit, it's the latter part that I'm not quite understanding.
[3:22:01] And how would we give it to how we choose a non-profits to get to.
[3:22:06] Okay, why don't we do this, folks?
[3:22:07] Let's suspend discussion.
[3:22:08] We're just trying to add it to the future.
[3:22:10] We can get down to policy, minutia, if, and when it comes back.
[3:22:16] Members, is there a support on this?
[3:22:17] Is there a motion?
[3:22:19] Who to approve?
[3:22:20] Is there a second?
[3:22:22] Second.
[3:22:23] Second.
[3:22:24] Second by Calvin.
[3:22:25] Councillor votes, please.
[3:22:26] Item number 33.
[3:22:28] Councillor votes.
[3:22:29] To add it to a future calendar.
[3:22:39] Motion passes, 6-0 to add to a future meeting.
[3:22:43] Okay, thank you.
[3:22:44] Item number 34, policy manual regarding grant funded positions.
[3:22:47] Council Member Alexander sir?
[3:22:49] Thank you Mr. Mayor, I appreciate that.
[3:22:51] This is just regarding grant funding.
[3:22:53] This is about budgeting and how we do our future budgeting.
[3:22:57] And when we get grants, that doesn't come out of our budget.
[3:23:00] But when we get grant fund positioned, eventually they do hit our budget.
[3:23:06] And we just have to be mindful when we get all these grants that we have to be mindful.
[3:23:13] And then we need a policy.
[3:23:15] And if you can better explain it, Director Winehorn, if you want to help me out so they can understand, it's just to move it forward, but if you can help me out just a quick so they can understand what I'm trying to say here, I appreciate it. Thank you.
[3:23:32] There are some grants that fund positions and then the grant amount declines over years and then the positions become fully funded by the city.
[3:23:42] I think those are the kind of grants you're referring to.
[3:23:45] And what you had spoken to me about was creating a policy in which council would approve those grants, because those are the kind of grants that the city does become responsible for completely over time.
[3:24:02] Yep, that's it.
[3:24:03] Okay, is there a motion to add it to the calendar?
[3:24:06] I'm number 34.
[3:24:10] I move it.
[3:24:11] Okay, is there a second?
[3:24:13] Second.
[3:24:15] Second by Kelvin.
[3:24:32] I have to say yes with a comment and that is that some of these items to be considered for future meetings, I think we need to get a handle on that.
[3:24:43] I don't want to ever sound like I'm not willing to move something forward for in-depth discussion or more, but there are costs associated with this because it takes staff time
[3:24:53] to put these reports together to come back to us.
[3:24:56] So, I'm not going to not support the discussion, but it may be for not down the road,
[3:25:03] because I don't necessarily agree with a lot of these, and I may be voting against them,
[3:25:07] but I'm voting in favor of moving things forward for discussion.
[3:25:12] But I think we should start being careful how many of these items we got on here,
[3:25:16] because we're just adding to staff time.
[3:25:18] Thank you, Council Member Kelvin.
[3:25:21] Please proceed with the vote, call.
[3:25:24] Council Member Kelvin?
[3:25:26] Yes.
[3:25:28] Council Member Alexander.
[3:25:30] Aye.
[3:25:31] Okay, the motion passes for one with Council Member Sanchez voting in opposition and
[3:25:36] Council Members Ibarra and we know so absent for the item.
[3:25:40] Okay, this is item number 35 to establish a program for high school students to serve as
[3:25:44] junior council members to encourage greater civic engagement reporting through the city
[3:25:49] Mayor's office. Councilmember? Thank you. I appreciate it. So as you probably heard already this evening, we had some members from San Bernardino Sanitza High School District, who were also in support of our bridging a gap. And that gap is that we don't have any interaction with our scholars of this city. And I would like to see that a junior council be established so that we can get our
[3:26:19] our youth in our city more actively engaged with what goes on in their actual city.
[3:26:24] And this is something that we've already had in the district, I mean, here in the city before,
[3:26:30] it just laps and so I'm asking to bring it forward.
[3:26:33] Thank you for the proof.
[3:26:34] Motion by, we're no second.
[3:26:36] Second by Alexander, members, cash for votes please.
[3:26:52] Motion passes 6-0 to act to a future meeting.
[3:26:55] Thank you very much and before we adjourn, I do want to pause and
[3:27:02] the memory of Tony Marzulo who passed away just recently and let's have a moment of silence, please, as we honor our dear friend Tony.
[3:27:19] Thank you.
[3:27:19] This meeting is now adjourned.
[3:27:21] The next joint regular meeting on the Mayor's City Council and successor agency to the redevelopment agency will be held Wednesday, April 20th.
[3:27:28] I'm sorry, it will not be.
[3:27:33] It will be Wednesday, May 4th.
[3:27:36] We are dark on April 20th.
[3:27:39] The closed session will begin at 5.30 p.m., and open session will begin at 7 p.m.
[3:27:43] Thank you and good evening.