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Good evening, everyone. I would like to call the order closed session for Stockton City Council today on the 23rd of September 2025. Let's go ahead and do roll call. Councilmember Blower. Present. Councilmember Nicas. Present. Councilmember Ponte. Ponce is here. Councilmember Padilla is absent. Councilmember Vía Padua. Present. Vice Mayor Lee. Present. Mayor Fugazi. Present. We have a quorum. Okay, wonderful.

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I don't see that we have any additions to closed session agenda and then I would say that this body will be recessing in accordance to conference with our labor negotiator and I'm looking for the numbers 5-4-9-5-7-0.6-A of the government code.

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We will also be going to close session conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation, which is government code section 54956.9, and then also we will be going into close session to conference with legal counsel on 3.3.

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We anticipated litigation, pursuant to government code section 54956.9.

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Is there any public comment for closed session?

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We have none.

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We have none.

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Then we will be recessing to closed session.

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Are we staying in here going around?

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Good evening everyone and welcome to the Stockton City Council meeting for today.

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September 23rd, 2025. Let's go ahead and take roll. Council Member Blower.

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President. Council Member Enriquez. President. Council Member Ponce.

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President. Council Member Padilla. President. Council Member Vía Padua.

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President. Vice Mayor Lee. President. And Mayor Fugazi.

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President. We have a quorum. Wonderful. At this time I would like to invite up

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Chaplain Sapphal to go ahead and do our invocation. Thank you Mayor.

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I come before you today with grateful hearts for the city we call home

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because many women have served in a city hall.

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We acknowledge that the authority is established by you.

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And we ask for your divine guidance and wisdom to rest upon all our mayor,

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our vice mayor, our city council members to part of the dance,

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and every person who works to serve public.

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to make decisions to promote justice, peace, prosperity for all residents, especially those

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both vulnerable.

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And may they move that with kindness and humility, setting aside personal gender for the

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common good or our community, and break from the spirit of unity among all our fishermen,

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that they may work together harmoniously, respecting their differences as they seek to build a

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better scene. We also pray for all the dedicated staff at City Hall, strengthen them in their daily

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tasks, and bless their works for our city's work, and may they find purpose in their service.

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And be reminded that their efforts contribute to the first of our neighborhood.

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Protect our public service from temptation, corruption, fatigue.

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Shield them from harm and discourage them as they carry out their duties.

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The mind is all, citizens of the League of the Life.

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You treat one another with respect, equal to your grace.

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Lord, we ask for Your peace and blessings to be poured out of mercy,

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guide our leaders, sustain our workers,

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and as far as all to be good neighbors,

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to contribute to the growth and work there,

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and to well be in a lot of this displace

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who offer this prayer and faith,

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trust in the perfect will God,

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and the name of the Father,

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and the name of the Son,

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and the name of the Holy Spirit, hey man.

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Thank you.

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Next up, we have a member of our Youth Advisory Committee.

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We have Andrew Garcia-Watchay to do our pledge of allegiance with his proud mother, watching.

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everybody please stand up?

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I pledge of allegiance to the five of the United States of America and to the Republic for

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which is stands for a nation under God,

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indivisible, liberty, and justice for all of us.

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And just to let you know, Andrew is our secretary

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for our Youth Advisory Committee.

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I have known him since he was seven or eight years old,

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He was the youngest volunteer I ever had.

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Well, maybe not, but close to it.

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And he is a sophomore at St. Mary's High School,

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where he is doing big things and now he's expanding his territory and doing it

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throughout the city so congratulations Andrew.

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Now we are moving on to oh do we

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have any action to report out on close session. There's nothing to report

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mayor. Okay I can't skip skip that so moving on to

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recognitions amount announcements or reports. I know we have a number of

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of proclamations tonight, the first one for our Code Enforcement Officer Appreciation Week.

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So if we can have our Code Enforcement Officers and team head on out, and then our city clerk will read the proclamation.

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Whereas Code Enforcement Officers provide for the safety, health, and welfare of citizens of communities throughout the state of California

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through the enforcement of local, state, and federal laws and ordinances dealing with various issues of building, zoning, housing, animal control, environmental, health, and life safety.

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and code enforcement officers have challenging and demanding roles, and in recent years the responsibilities have expanded with jurisdictions increasingly relying on their expertise and training in service to their communities.

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And code enforcement officers are dedicated, highly qualified, and highly trained professionals who share the goals of preventing neighborhood deterioration, enhancing communities, ensuring safety and preserving property values through their knowledge, training, and application of housing, zoning, and public nuisance laws.

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And Code Enforcement Officers often have a highly visible role in the communities they serve,

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regularly interacting with the public, as well as with federal, state, county, and local officials.

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And now there for I, Christina Fugazi, Mayor of the City of Stockton, and members of the Stockton City Council,

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do hereby proclaim October 5th through 11th, 2025, as State of California Code Enforcement Officer Week.

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Good evening.

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This proclamation recognizing code enforcement week is a tribute to the dedicated men and women who worked tirelessly to ensure the health and safety of Stockton's neighborhoods.

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Their work often happens behind the scenes, but it is essential to building a safer cleaner and more beautiful community for all of us.

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This isn't just a recognition of our department, it's a testament to the importance of what the team does every day.

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Okay, this dedicated group of individuals are proud to serve this city and will continue

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working hard to make stock down a place we can be proud to call home.

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If I may, because it's not often that we get to see all of you, I probably say the words

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code enforcement like three times a week so it's really good to see all of you and I just

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want to personally thank you for all the work that you're doing in my district and throughout

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the city because it is work that we see and it's, you know, we hear a lot from the community,

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the changes that they want to see, we always send them to ask Stockton, but we know that

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you all are doing the work, so we thank you, and I appreciate all the work that you're

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doing in my district.

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May I have the Keisha Shaw to the podium, please?

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Whereas suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States and has a profound impact

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on families, friends, and communities, and every year thousands of lives are lost to suicide

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while countless more are affected by the grief, trauma, and emotional toll that follows.

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And raising awareness, fostering open conversations, and promoting access to mental health resources

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are essential to preventing suicide and saving lives.

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And the City of Stockton recognizes the importance of community partnerships with mental health professionals,

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schools, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and advocates working to expand resources,

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reduce stigma, and support individuals in crisis.

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And during Suicide Prevention Month, we reaffirm our commitment to ensuring that every resident knows they are not alone,

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that help is available and that hope and healing are possible.

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And now therefore, I, Christina Fugazi, Mayor of the City of Stockton and members of the Stockton City Council,

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do you hear Brian Proclaim September 2025 as suicide prevention months?

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Hello, everyone.

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Before I get started, I did write the speech out because of time.

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And I had brain surgery, so I forget a lot of things, so I did write a speech.

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However, before I get started, I just wanted to just say the names of the individuals behind me

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because which software community it's not just myself.

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We are an organization and we have a great team.

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So this is Dr. Trevianne Jefferson.

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He is our board of chair for software community.

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We have Martela McWilson.

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She is our secretary for software community

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a realtor here over 30 years at Stockton.

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We also have Ms. Amaya.

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She is our youth and teen ambassador

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for our youth program for Summit Seekers.

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We have Janaya Coleman, she is our youth president of our youth committee, excuse me, for

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Shaw for community.

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And young adult, we have Zanobia Shaw, who is our youth lead for 209 Hikes as well

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as Summit Seekers.

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And then we have Mr. Nick Burnett, he is our administrator, moderator, and lead Hike organizer

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for 209 Hikes, another program with Shaw for community.

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So I just wanted to let you know who these individuals were.

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So good evening mayor council members and community.

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On behalf of the shop for community, I want to sincerely thank you for this proclamation

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recognizing September as suicide prevention awareness month.

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It is an honor to accept this on behalf of our organization and the many lives that have been

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touched by suicide here in Stockton, California.

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Shopper community is a local nonprofit dedicated to health and wellness serving all of Stockton

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but with the strong focus on our underserved and marginalized communities, we believe wellness

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is not just a physical, but also mental, emotional, and social.

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When people don't have access to resources, support, or safe spaces, they're overall

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health suffers, and that can lead to despair, isolation, and suicide.

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Our mission is to change that by creating opportunities for education, connection, and healing.

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This year marks our fifth annual suicide prevention awareness wellness hike, happening on September

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September, happening on Saturday, September 27th, at Black Minors Bar and Folsom Lake,

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was started as small gathering has grown into an event that welcomes hundreds of community

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members each year. It's a day of remembrance, healing, and hope, reminding people that

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they are not alone and that our community cares. The need is real, as we all know, in California

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Suicide Rates average, 8.7 per 100,000, and in San Joaquin County, that number is even

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higher at 9.2 per 100,000. Behind every number is a family, a neighbor, a loved one. And

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we know that in neighborhoods with greater social and health disparities, especially

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in areas like districts six, the risk are even higher. When poverty, limited access

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to care, and systemic inequities compound, they create conditions where mental health

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crisis are more likely and where suicide tragically becomes a reality for too many. At the same

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time we must also acknowledge that suicide does not discriminate.

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It impacts every demographic from mothers and fathers to help-

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Health workers, first responders, and even teenagers. Even those who appear strong and have it all together can be suffering silently. Suicide is a human issue, and that's why awareness prevention and compassion must reach across every community. This proclamation helps shine a light on the urgency of prevention and the importance of working together to lower these numbers. But proclamations as powerful as they are must be paired with action. It is just as important that we put action behind these words by supporting organizations

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like shopper community that are on the ground every day addressing disparities while also creating safe spaces for all individuals who may be struggling.

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Together we can ensure we are doing all we can to save lives and prevent the tragedy of suicide in our city.

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So on behalf of shopper community and myself CEO and founder of shopper community as well as a two time suicide attempt survivor.

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Thank you for recognizing the importance of suicide prevention awareness month.

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We are proud to continue this work and we are grateful to the city of Stockton for standing

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alongside us in raising awareness, breaking the silence and building a community where

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hope is stronger than despair and where every person no matter their zip code, profession,

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race or circumstance knows that their life matters. And for anyone in this room who may be suffering

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silently, as my shirt says, stay, your story is not over. Thank you.

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would like to add that I am so happy that you have youth represented here because it

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is one of the largest populations of students, unfortunately, that are either attempting

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or have successfully attempted to end their lives for something that's temporary, they're

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making a permanent decision.

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And on behind the back of all of our student ID cards, we have the 800 number there for students

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that need help for youth that need help, but we all do. None of us are, you know, we all have

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bad days, but we can have a better day after that. And so I want to thank you for bringing

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this to our attention so that we can honor this month, the Suicide Prevention Month, and I also want

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to tell you I love you.

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May I have Armando Valerio to the podium, please?

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Whereas each year from September

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15th through October 15th, communities across the United States observe Hispanic Heritage Month

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to celebrate the histories, cultures, and contributions of Americans, whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

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And the observance begins on September 15th in recognition of the independence anniversaries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,

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Honduras, and Nicaragua,

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followed by Mexico's independence on September 16th and Chile's on September 18th.

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And Hispanic Americans have played a vital role in shaping the history of Stockton and the Central Valley, contributing to the city's economic growth,

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cultural richness, civic engagement, and social fabric.

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And Hispanic leaders, educators, entrepreneurs, artists, workers, and families continue to strengthen Stockton through the resilience, innovation, and dedication to future generations.

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And the city of Stockton honors its Hispanic residents who make up a significant portion of the community by recognizing their lasting contributions to the city

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and reaffirming our commitment to equity, opportunity, and inclusion for all.

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And now therefore, I, Christine Fugazi, Mayor of the City of Stockton, and members of the Stockton City Council do hereby proclaim September 15th through October 15th, as Hispanic Heritage Months.

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Good evening, Mayor Fugazi, Vice Mayor Lee, and City Council Members.

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On behalf of the Mexican Heritage Center and Gallery, we want to thank you for the Hispanic Heritage Month Proclamation.

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is also with heavy hearts we accept the proclamation.

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Hispanics in California are experiencing fear and economic disruption due to ice raids,

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with communities living in hiding, businesses struggling,

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and some residents avoiding data life to prevent apprehension,

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even leading to a significant drop in workforce participation.

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While some businesses are taken to defiant stance by staying open

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and supporting the community.

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Many others have closed or reduced hours.

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Workers are calling in sick to avoid the risk of being caught

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in the sweeps.

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The Mexican Heritage Center and Gallery will assert

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our determination to stand tall

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and continue with our cultural celebration.

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A Dia de las Muertos on November 1st

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and invite all of you to join us.

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CESIP weather.

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Thank you.

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really quick, if I can ask Council Member Sponsor by the, and via Pudua to join the mayor down in Podia?

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And just to add one more comment to that, for those that don't know, Stockton is 45% Latino, and if you go from central to southern area of Stockton, it's actually 71%.

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So these are members of our community, there are members of our council, there are members of our workforce, there are members of our family.

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So please know that, that everyone has something to contribute and we need to honor that and we're honoring today as this month for

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National Hispanic Heritage Month, thank you.

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Okay, this part of our meeting moves on to public comments so please bear with me.

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The City of Stockton invites public participation in multiple forms.

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You can provide your comments by using one of these methods.

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You may email your comments to city.clerc at stocktonca.gov.

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You can leave a voice message by dialing 209-937-8459.

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Your message will be transcribed and included in the meeting record.

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We ask that you maintain the rules of decorum as outlined in the city council meeting decorum policy title 4, chapter 4.07, paragraph 2, which reads, persons addressing the council shall not make personal,

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impertinent, unduly repetitive, slanderous, or profane remarks to the council, any member of the council,

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city staff, or the general public, nor utter loud threatening personal or abusive language,

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nor engage in any, excuse me, conduct that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise unreasonably impedes the orderly conduct of the council meeting.

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Any person who makes such remarks who utters the loud threatening personal or abusive language who is unduly repeticious or engages in extended discussions of

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relevancies or who engages in disorderly conduct that disrupts, disturbs or otherwise unreasonably MPs, the orderly conduct of the council meeting shall at the

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discussion of the presiding officer, which happens to me me, or the majority of the council be banned from further participation during

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that meeting. In short, we do not allow personal attacks on that side or on this side of the

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dius. And therefore, please be respectful of these chambers and all who sit here and

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the viewing audience. The rules of decorum are set forth. Shall be enforced in the following

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members. City clerk, do we have any comments from members of the public wishing to speak?

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We do may have Pat Barrett to the podium please.

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All that percentage of Hispanics in the

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Southside and we don't have any representing in the action plan. Simply amazing.

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Pat Barrett, resident, I stand here in front of you exercising my first amendment given to

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me years before was given to any of y'all. And as we pledge allegiance to our flag, remember,

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it gave me the right to express my opinion. Take it or leave it, it is my opinion. To my far

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right, I see Sam and Steve's face. To their right, I see Sam and Pat. To their right, I see Pat's

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face. And to their right, I see Sam, Pat's Steve. And now Rob, to their right, I see Jason, to their

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right? I see Mario and to their right, I see Michael. Keeping this in mind, I can only count

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three independent votes. So with the observation of the other side is considered. This is called

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the House majority. Since I see 11, the bizarre part is only seven. So I can't see how I got 11 up

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there. Question, are four of you hiding seven from us? Are you, are you not being total 100% transparent?

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inquiring minds want to know when you vote are you voting for yourself and the

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others hiding in your pockets mice or beetles we know the joy of being a

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politician but you put yourself in the line of opinions because we stand out

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here and we look at you and we see the stripes that are trying to so hard to be

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disguised by spots.

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Darda Sauseda,

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Donald Tafoya.

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Good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor and

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all council people. Boy, I wasn't going to come here this evening because I tripped over

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my tongue and got a little bit my mixed up my notes. I did not get my point across.

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What I wanted to say closing is that I do not feel or believe in my opinion that the city

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council is working efficiently in the best interest of the city of Stockton and the citizens.

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Not meant to be an attack on anyone, but two meetings ago, the vice mayor called the

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mayor a joke.

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And when she confronted him on it, he had a backtrack or changed his story and said,

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I was talking about the proceeding.

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Either way, that does not show a quality of a good counsel person or a man.

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and I was a little bit concerned about what I've read and seen on different podcasts and social media where we can talk elegantly in here and then talk disrespectful and trashful about other associates and their personal lives and come back in here and talk so professional.

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know. I'd like to know what's the status of the $27,000 advice mayor wanted in an apology

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and I would also like to know if there's anything in the city charter that says if a council

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person is suing the city for a dollar or $15 million, do they still have the right to vote

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on city issues? And if they don't, then I mean, if you're suing the city on one hand, you

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fill your pockets on the other, I just think that maybe this thing is a joke.

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That's all I

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Good evening mayor, vice mayor, city council members. My name is Sheree Wilburn-Grimes. I am a lifelong resident, except for going away to college and coming back of Stockton. So I would like for the to respectfully request that my statement is a part of the legislative matter of record. So with that being said, I am here because I received a very disturbing phone call from Natasha Brown.

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I'm stating that she was a commissioner, that was the first thing that she stated, that she was a commissioner of strong communities.

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Actually, I didn't understand what she had said, so I had to come down here and find out what she was talking about, what she was a commissioner of.

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So, she will have since been removed from being a volunteer for stocking the FI School District as a coach because of her misconduct and calling and threatened and intimidating me for advocating for my child.

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So, I'm requesting the immediate removal of Commissioner Tasha Brown from the strong committee's commission for actions that violate Chapter 3.

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three point one three council members and commissioners conduct policy.

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Vice Mayor Lee at the September 9th, 2025 council meeting you said, I do not ever want

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to lead a city where we are making people feel as if they need to be concerned about or

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concerned to or afraid to advocate once we go there we become a different city that

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that made me your words.

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As a parent advocating for my child,

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I have the experience exactly what she warned

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against by Ms. Toshier.

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Director comments, sir.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Thank you.

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Demanding that I go through her,

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if I have a complaint about my daughter's school district,

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blaming me for causing wreck in her district.

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I thought it was our district.

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Demanding that I explained why I was

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at the stock unified school district district office taking care of business regarding my child,

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and she yelled at me claiming that she wasn't scared of me. These actions violate

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treating the public with dignity, courtesy and respect, reframing from inappropriate behavior

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and derogatory comments, and partially respect for and listening to the public, which I am the public.

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For the record, I first emailed the City Council on September 9th with witness and documentation

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of this concern, I followed up September 18th with the vice mayor and then I also asked for a

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public records act which I got that information back that stated that there was no MOU Memorandum

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understanding between Stockton and Phi School District in a city where Natasha Brown served as a

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liaison between the two. So she overstepped her bounds. Also a police report was made and filed.

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that's report number 25-0551, she has to be removed.

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She also has been removed, as I've said, from SUSD as volunteering, and I have a recorded

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conversation where she was informed that I was recording her available if needed.

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So under the government code and the stock to municipal code 3.04, commissioners can be

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removed for misconduct or conduct damaging to the city's reputation, which she did.

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Ms. Brown's behavior meets these standards and I urge the council to initiate the formal

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removal process immediately to uphold the accountability, public trust and

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high standards required by the commissioner respectfully.

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Hopefully.

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Mary Elizabeth.

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Mary Elizabeth. Mary Elizabeth. I'll

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take one minute now and then I'll take my other minutes. No, it's four minutes for each item. It's four minutes for everybody throughout the whole meeting.

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Okay, I thought I got four minutes for the whole meeting so I was you know planning accordingly.

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Okay, all right so greetings Mary Elizabeth. Thank you and I'll tell you you know I don't

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know how you do it but I'm glad that you do do it. I submitted comments these would have been

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within the time frame that you should have received them,

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a non-agenda comments,

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maybe.

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So I had several issues here.

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One is SEI compliance.

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You all received Delta Sierra group comments

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for the Climate Action Plan Advisory Committee,

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dated 917 2025, which sums up the situation

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with regard to compliance with statement of economic interest disclosures, which are public.

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In accordance with the City of Stockton correspondence dated 724, indicating that the Climate Action Plan Advisory Committees were identified, having to submit form 700.

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After one month, the due date for that passed and there's no provision in law for extending the due date, there's a notice on the notification letter of a fine on 917.

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We performed a search of all public statements one month after the due date and three committee members still had not submitted the Assuming Office Form 700.

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transparency of economic interest is important to build trust.

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If a committee member is unwilling to submit required information, then they should step down.

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Compliance is not better for two other committees which have been reviewed.

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Since there is no policy provision that the City of Stockton has adopted for

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committee members continuing to serve without fulfilling the obligations regarding

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their appointment responsibilities FPPC complaints have been initiated that a member of the public has to

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get compliance with appointment responsibilities seems unusual but that's the state of affairs at this time.

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I also go on to speak about the tobacco retail license ordinance with some background information and a timeline for 2025.

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A very egregious tobacco retailer whose location was allowed as an exempted non-conforming

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business for purpose of attaining a tobacco retail license in 2023 has now been closed.

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This is where the problem with the 2024 January amendments to the municipal code comes in

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because it allows another business to occupy the non-conforming location.

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I cite the municipal code variations or citations there.

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These two pieces of code allow for non-conforming locations to continue indefinitely.

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Please consider forming an ad hoc committee to develop protected language which will allow

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overtime for the decrease in tobacco retailers in over concentrated areas.

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Also, I've received some communication regarding the alcohol license ordinance.

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I've cited three codes there.

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I previously submitted evidence that 222 North Setter, which is very near to the future

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code stack academy, has not been in operation for several more years than two.

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Yet, there is confusion about the process for revocation due to non-operation.

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There are several community members that have been expressing concerns regarding alcohol over concentrations in our neighborhood.

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And the same for the cannabis regulatory program with regard to set back to sensitive uses.

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Thank you.

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Jose Govon.

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Hello.

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I'm a business owner downtown and I just wanted to kind of bring to everybody's attention from my point of view.

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from a struggling business under downtown we frequently take a look outside

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downtown and see it's like a ghost town many many days during the week it's

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like a ghost town there's no there's nothing going on downtown people are

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afraid to come downtown people don't want to come and pay to park downtown you can

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go to first street and live in more and park for free you get free parking

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and garages.

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We've frequently reached out to city parking to see if we can get some

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assistance with validation for customers to no avail assistance with parking for our employees

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to no avail. I got two employees that got ticketed today and they don't make very much

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money.

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So I don't know, that's all I got.

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I have a card for Chris, it doesn't say what agenda item number is, and I don't have

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last names.

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Chris?

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Okay.

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I'm also a business owner and property owner and commercial buildings here and stocked.

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And kind of to Jose's point, it seems that all of these other items that we're talking

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about and are probably going to be discussed are all important items no doubt.

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But when it comes to, I guess I'd like to hear from you guys at some point more about how we're going to continue or hopefully more enforcing the homeless population.

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They break into businesses, they break into patrons' cars, which is one of the big challenges of why we don't have a lot of people downtown or in other areas as well.

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Our V's that are in license for years, but yet get parked on the street.

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We had all these code enforcement people come in, and I'm like, gosh, I wish they'd stop by our neighborhood.

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Once a week, just do a drive-by and see all the cars that have no license plates.

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And people living out of them and all the trash that's thrown on the sidewalk, that kids walk past from the school, that's two blocks away.

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So, I know that you guys aren't going to comment back, but maybe at some point could bring these things up because these affect.

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that businesses, daily lives of people, of all ages, and stocked in including kids that literally walked down these sidewalks.

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Speaking of sidewalks, I've reported on asked stocked in at least 20 times.

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The city trees that were planted probably 30 years ago have made very large tripping hazards all over the sidewalks.

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And according to everything that I can find in city code.

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If it's a city-planted tree, that's supposed to be city-maintained, and

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that roots from that cause all these sidewalk issues.

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Again, children from elementary schools are walking past on a daily basis.

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The city's supposed to take care of that.

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And it's not the property owners position to take care of that because it's caused by the city tree.

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Again, I've reported these things, the RVs, the homeless.

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not so much homeless in chemists, but just all the trash that gets left the needles.

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And sometimes it gets cleaned up, sometimes it takes weeks, sometimes it takes months.

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In fact, one time I came to the mayor's office and left report with a nice, I think is one of the clerks and

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a few days later they came through and cleaned up, so thank you.

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But I'm just in general, I think a lot of people in Stockton are wondering when are we gonna get back to

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you know, enforcing the law and order and enforcing things and cleaning up our city so that our kids and grandkids and things can enjoy and walk down the street, not trip and not see needles and stuff like that. So thank you.

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I believe I received a notice that there would be a hearing regarding the downtown Stockton Alliance tonight, but I don't see it on the agenda.

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So my first question is, am I in the wrong room?

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That item has been moved to October 14th.

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That item has been moved to October 14th.

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You should receive an additional notification about the move.

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Next month, Dan

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Richardson?

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Evening Mayor, City Council, been gone for a while, I'm back.

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I wanted to compliment the police department and the chief stand in regards to the community

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academy.

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I just completed that.

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It's the second academy they've held.

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I know Councilman Enrique has been through that.

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I don't know if anybody else has been through that.

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But we had 12 members of the public in our class who took time out for five weeks to join the police department and educate ourselves on what goes on with the police department.

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How operations are run? Do right along see equipment that the council has been so gracious to purchase for them.

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We hear a lot in-

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Negative from the public, I've heard negative comments up here at the podium in past meetings from the public, derogatory comments towards the police department. I can tell you this. I met some of the nicest human beings and their human beings in this police department. I can't say enough about Captain, I'm going to use their first names because we're on a first name basis at the academy. Captain Gary, Captain Brad, traffic officer, Chris.

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00:45:28,300 --> 00:45:32,900
Yes, there's just so many names I could refer to.

424
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,480
But if you have a chance, stop and talk to these guys.

425
00:45:37,980 --> 00:45:42,440
If you have a chance to do a ride along, if somebody offers you to do a ride along, do a ride along.

426
00:45:43,500 --> 00:45:47,300
My 10 hours of ride along was very eye opening for me.

427
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:52,840
The level of mental issues in the city of Stockton was staggering.

428
00:45:53,380 --> 00:45:54,700
That's what I did all day.

429
00:45:54,700 --> 00:46:03,460
We went on calls for disturbances, family issues, things that involve people who had mental problems.

430
00:46:04,060 --> 00:46:10,180
And it just was a real eye opener for me of what our police department goes through.

431
00:46:10,500 --> 00:46:13,780
The board and our police vehicle was never empty.

432
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:20,120
We went from call to call to call to call, and then they have to come back and write reports.

433
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:25,160
I mean, these guys work so hard and there's not enough of them.

434
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,120
There isn't, I said through two roll calls, both those roll calls.

435
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,300
I looked around and thought we've got eight rookies in the front row.

436
00:46:32,860 --> 00:46:37,300
That meant that we probably had 12 officers who had some time in the department.

437
00:46:38,340 --> 00:46:41,340
You know, we're hiring, which is great, but man, do we need more?

438
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,580
They don't have time to make traffic stops out there.

439
00:46:44,660 --> 00:46:48,540
You want to know why people run red lights, why the traffic and stocking is dangerous?

440
00:46:48,540 --> 00:46:52,340
Our patrol officers are answering call after call after call.

441
00:46:52,900 --> 00:46:56,800
That is left up to our traffic officers on motorcycles to enforce.

442
00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,720
And they don't work every day.

443
00:47:00,540 --> 00:47:01,840
There's not enough of them.

444
00:47:02,060 --> 00:47:04,820
We're still not back to where we were pre-bankruptcy.

445
00:47:05,460 --> 00:47:10,460
Our police department works incredibly hard and they are incredibly good people.

446
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,720
I feel like the last day when we graduated they talked about being part of the family.

447
00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:20,600
I really felt like that when we left and I met a lot of new friends, one where

448
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:26,980
this wife was in our class, Mercedes, and a number of other people, but we need

449
00:47:26,980 --> 00:47:32,100
to stop being negative about our police department. It is a great police

450
00:47:32,100 --> 00:47:36,540
department with a great chief. We need to get a contract for the officers below

451
00:47:36,540 --> 00:47:42,060
the sergeant level, but I'd encourage people, if you get a chance to go through it

452
00:47:42,060 --> 00:47:45,060
you're invited to join the Community Academy, do it.

453
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,100
You will learn so much.

454
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,420
I mentioned you, Councilman Enriquez, and going through it.

455
00:47:50,460 --> 00:47:51,840
And I know you had a good time with it.

456
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:55,120
It's so important.

457
00:47:55,420 --> 00:47:58,060
And I wanted to just thank all the officers who put their

458
00:47:58,060 --> 00:48:00,560
personal time into doing this academy.

459
00:48:01,060 --> 00:48:03,200
They gave up time with their families to do it.

460
00:48:03,220 --> 00:48:07,000
They, you know, spent many evenings and days with us out there.

461
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:08,780
So thank you, then.

462
00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:13,680
person Avenue is still not fixed. Thank you.

463
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:14,760
Darlis Ossera.

464
00:48:20,290 --> 00:48:24,210
This is my first time as a bean here. I'm a little nervous. I had a game

465
00:48:24,210 --> 00:48:29,530
on my phone and my phone just crashed on me, so but I'm just waiting. My name is Darlis

466
00:48:29,530 --> 00:48:36,010
Ossera. I see them. I'm fortunate I'm here because my trader was taking away. I became homeless

467
00:48:36,010 --> 00:48:42,750
this because I disabled, I'm six years old, I have health issues, and I went through

468
00:48:43,210 --> 00:48:48,270
a lot in the last four years trying to stop the cops from, and I've had good experiences

469
00:48:48,270 --> 00:48:52,150
with a lot of cops, most of them were nice, somewhere rude, but as they finished talking

470
00:48:52,150 --> 00:48:53,670
to me, they understood the situation.

471
00:48:54,470 --> 00:48:59,930
Well, this new thing is going on with Trump, and usually they would warn me to be giving

472
00:48:59,930 --> 00:49:05,230
time to leave whatever, and I believe I paid a lot of money in towing all the place trying

473
00:49:05,230 --> 00:49:06,130
I'm going to find a safe place.

474
00:49:06,930 --> 00:49:09,690
I did stay at some private places and paid rent.

475
00:49:10,210 --> 00:49:12,190
And when I went to the hospital, came a moment.

476
00:49:12,470 --> 00:49:14,470
I found my trade was giving away to somebody,

477
00:49:14,750 --> 00:49:15,610
but I retreated back.

478
00:49:16,490 --> 00:49:21,670
And this last time last Wednesday, I was taken out of my

479
00:49:23,110 --> 00:49:26,010
trailer, my home, my world, everything, my pets.

480
00:49:26,630 --> 00:49:29,310
I wasn't able to get my ID, my ID card.

481
00:49:29,570 --> 00:49:30,310
I have health issues.

482
00:49:30,970 --> 00:49:32,950
I'm by myself and disabled.

483
00:49:33,230 --> 00:49:34,590
And I try to expand to the officer.

484
00:49:34,590 --> 00:49:37,250
and he was the only one I really had a problem with.

485
00:49:38,290 --> 00:49:40,690
He practically brought me driving me out of the trailer

486
00:49:41,430 --> 00:49:44,250
and I was sitting there in a hundred-degree weather

487
00:49:44,250 --> 00:49:45,970
with nothing to drink, nothing to eat,

488
00:49:46,450 --> 00:49:48,050
with my pets flying all over the place.

489
00:49:48,450 --> 00:49:49,950
There's a couple of my animals still out there,

490
00:49:50,130 --> 00:49:52,530
a pit bull, that hopefully the animal to control

491
00:49:52,530 --> 00:49:54,630
doesn't put her down because she's a beautiful dog.

492
00:49:54,630 --> 00:49:57,090
She's just a pit bull, which is a good dog.

493
00:49:57,110 --> 00:49:58,830
She was my alarm because I'm out there by myself

494
00:49:58,830 --> 00:50:00,270
without a gun, without a weapon.

495
00:50:01,130 --> 00:50:02,970
And being out there homeless, it's scary.

496
00:50:02,970 --> 00:50:09,590
I'm not a drug addict, I'm not alcoholic, I'm not a criminal, I'm just a woman that is disabled, trying to survive.

497
00:50:10,710 --> 00:50:14,790
Now I find that my trader is at the tow yard and has already been destroyed.

498
00:50:15,690 --> 00:50:25,490
I didn't get no chance to go retrieve my stuff, to get any of my belongings, my personal, my dad's ashes were in there, nothing.

499
00:50:25,490 --> 00:50:28,710
And I just, I mean, just probably what I have on it is what I have left.

500
00:50:29,750 --> 00:50:32,710
And it just upsets me that a lot of people that are homeless out there,

501
00:50:32,810 --> 00:50:33,950
there's people out there like me.

502
00:50:34,130 --> 00:50:37,350
They're not all drug addicts and not all people that are hurting

503
00:50:37,350 --> 00:50:38,310
at the people instead.

504
00:50:38,390 --> 00:50:40,370
But I've heard other people say about homeless people.

505
00:50:40,730 --> 00:50:44,450
Yeah, there is some dirty nasty, vulgar people out there.

506
00:50:44,870 --> 00:50:46,210
You know, that's people I was afraid of.

507
00:50:46,290 --> 00:50:47,390
But there you go and the trenches,

508
00:50:47,630 --> 00:50:49,670
you go into the dark places of starting,

509
00:50:50,270 --> 00:50:55,010
which I really don't think in place is safe because I barely got sleep out there.

510
00:50:55,010 --> 00:50:56,810
except for my people, my protection.

511
00:50:57,610 --> 00:50:59,590
But there is a lot of nasty stuff out there

512
00:50:59,590 --> 00:51:00,770
that people have to deal with

513
00:51:00,770 --> 00:51:02,750
and people just don't give a crap

514
00:51:03,210 --> 00:51:04,750
about other people, you know,

515
00:51:05,410 --> 00:51:06,650
good people out there, but

516
00:51:08,010 --> 00:51:11,130
we need, there's gotta be some kind of sources and stuff.

517
00:51:11,330 --> 00:51:12,890
I mean, I was left out there in the heat.

518
00:51:13,850 --> 00:51:15,430
Like I said, I had congenital heart failure,

519
00:51:15,430 --> 00:51:18,050
I have diabetes, I have a lower back injury and stuff

520
00:51:18,050 --> 00:51:20,630
and I was left out inside of the road by the killing part.

521
00:51:21,750 --> 00:51:23,690
I don't even be weathered with my dogs, my cats.

522
00:51:24,250 --> 00:51:25,990
We say, everybody, why do you have so many animals?

523
00:51:26,190 --> 00:51:27,910
I did it for protection, okay?

524
00:51:28,710 --> 00:51:31,890
But I had no means of getting food, water, anything.

525
00:51:32,070 --> 00:51:33,610
No sources, I call it Jessica Rabbit.

526
00:51:33,810 --> 00:51:34,750
She doesn't have any sources.

527
00:51:35,470 --> 00:51:37,630
Nobody has anywhere to go but you take my home.

528
00:51:38,590 --> 00:51:40,110
You, I asked her where's the paperwork.

529
00:51:40,610 --> 00:51:41,930
He gives me a little piece of paper

530
00:51:41,930 --> 00:51:44,250
and tell me, I'm doing you a favor by giving you this.

531
00:51:44,950 --> 00:51:45,970
That I mean, nowhere it was.

532
00:51:46,490 --> 00:51:47,510
They couldn't find it.

533
00:51:47,670 --> 00:51:49,030
And then when I finally got the lady to tell me

534
00:51:49,030 --> 00:51:50,670
where it was on Friday, she said

535
00:51:50,670 --> 00:51:52,890
they were exiling junkless and they destroyed it.

536
00:51:53,710 --> 00:51:54,730
So my home is gone.

537
00:51:55,550 --> 00:51:56,270
My life is gone.

538
00:51:57,350 --> 00:51:58,550
Now I'm 60 years old disabled.

539
00:51:58,790 --> 00:51:59,630
I have nowhere to go.

540
00:52:00,470 --> 00:52:01,550
The shelters are full.

541
00:52:02,230 --> 00:52:03,070
There's no resources.

542
00:52:03,350 --> 00:52:03,810
Where do I do?

543
00:52:04,270 --> 00:52:05,330
Who's going to pay for this?

544
00:52:05,430 --> 00:52:07,150
Who's going to, I mean, my whole home,

545
00:52:07,250 --> 00:52:08,790
I paid good money for this trader.

546
00:52:09,070 --> 00:52:12,170
I paid almost every $1,000 for this trader.

547
00:52:12,910 --> 00:52:17,010
And now it's just gone because we're doing this homeless thing.

548
00:52:17,810 --> 00:52:17,930
Whatever.

549
00:52:18,450 --> 00:52:19,490
And he said I'm an encampment.

550
00:52:19,490 --> 00:52:23,170
And I was inside the road, you know, I could have moved, I could have been born, I could

551
00:52:23,170 --> 00:52:23,910
have a chance.

552
00:52:26,020 --> 00:52:26,720
Thank you.

553
00:52:26,980 --> 00:52:29,940
Um, Esperanza, can you please speak with her outside?

554
00:52:30,860 --> 00:52:31,120
Thank you.

555
00:52:31,380 --> 00:52:31,900
Thank you.

556
00:52:32,460 --> 00:52:33,160
Thank you.

557
00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:36,240
Alex Lima.

558
00:52:48,910 --> 00:52:49,570
Hi, everyone.

559
00:52:49,850 --> 00:52:56,170
Uh, I'm Alex Lima, representing the Trust for Public Land, um, who are working within

560
00:52:56,170 --> 00:52:56,790
the Re events.

561
00:52:56,790 --> 00:53:00,610
I stocked in coalition as part of their parks activation efforts, um,

562
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:03,980
you know, obviously,

563
00:53:03,980 --> 00:53:07,920
you guys are asked a lot of questions and big, big problems to solve.

564
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:13,180
I have plenty of requests to make, but today I have a simple one.

565
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:21,920
On coming up on Saturday, October 11th, the Re-Emen South Stockton Coalition is holding their annual South Stockton Residence Summit.

566
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:30,180
As part of that resident summit, they're also putting on a little mini conference with three panels with the topics being health.

567
00:53:30,180 --> 00:53:37,600
Both parks as a second one and the youth as a third, part of these panels will involve breakout rooms.

568
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:46,180
And I know for one, I'm here personally and by all of the members of the council to be there at the event.

569
00:53:46,660 --> 00:53:54,600
And also speaking directly regarding the, because obviously the trust for public land we work in parks.

570
00:53:54,600 --> 00:54:11,560
And so, regarding the specific recent city parks and recreation master plan, it highlights collaboration and community engagement as one of those priorities that are going to help the city reach those park metrics.

571
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:16,580
And so, I would also invite the city to be a part of the panels that we've got going on.

572
00:54:16,580 --> 00:54:26,000
We're going to have local NGOs, obviously ourselves are a national nonprofit, and also members of the county and public health agencies as well.

573
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:34,980
And so we'd love to speak with any of you guys or your staff to see if we can hopefully get the city represented on some of those panels.

574
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:45,700
And really want to highlight and thank you guys for the recent park efforts both at McKinley and Victory and so obviously those are huge and we need more of it.

575
00:54:45,700 --> 00:54:48,900
So hope to see you all there on October 11th.

576
00:54:51,060 --> 00:54:52,440
That concludes general public comment.

577
00:54:52,620 --> 00:54:54,220
I do have several for consent.

578
00:54:56,310 --> 00:54:57,170
Okay, thank you.

579
00:54:57,330 --> 00:55:00,190
So let's go ahead and move on to public comment for consent.

580
00:55:01,210 --> 00:55:04,990
For item 12.7, may I have Mary Elizabeth please?

581
00:55:23,330 --> 00:55:28,590
Reading, this is in regards to the Union Pacific Diamond

582
00:55:28,590 --> 00:55:30,350
Grade separation project.

583
00:55:30,350 --> 00:55:32,470
So that started a few years ago.

584
00:55:32,470 --> 00:55:46,830
and they had one public meeting talking about how they were going to make the overpass if it was going to be filled or if it was going to be open.

585
00:55:47,490 --> 00:56:01,790
You know, no more follow up on that. At the meeting they said that the city of Stockton had gotten some community benefits from that project including sidewalks.

586
00:56:01,790 --> 00:56:07,770
and triple-pained windows for some residents in the area.

587
00:56:08,090 --> 00:56:10,510
And so I just want to bring that history back

588
00:56:11,350 --> 00:56:14,470
before this easement is granted to make sure

589
00:56:14,470 --> 00:56:19,370
that our community has benefited from the project.

590
00:56:19,370 --> 00:56:20,110
Thank you.

591
00:56:22,180 --> 00:56:25,000
For item 12.9, Jenny Hernandez?

592
00:56:39,010 --> 00:56:39,490
Good evening.

593
00:56:40,190 --> 00:56:41,390
I'm just going to read.

594
00:56:44,730 --> 00:56:46,450
Good evening, Mayor and Council Members.

595
00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:48,430
My name is Jenny Castillo Hernandez,

596
00:56:48,430 --> 00:56:52,870
and I serve as the president of Stockton City Employees Association, SCA.

597
00:56:53,550 --> 00:57:01,910
I come before you with an urgent concern regarding the cities of Stockton's health insurance proposal listed as agenda item 12.9.

598
00:57:03,030 --> 00:57:06,690
We recognize that the healthcare costs are rising across the nation.

599
00:57:07,070 --> 00:57:15,270
However, the proposed federal health premiums have increased 35% on top of the drastic,

600
00:57:15,270 --> 00:57:17,590
that we faced last year.

601
00:57:18,750 --> 00:57:25,910
These repeated and substantial hikes create an unsustainable burden on the city employees and their families.

602
00:57:27,010 --> 00:57:32,350
As SCA members, we are asking you to stand united with us in opposing this increase.

603
00:57:33,410 --> 00:57:37,110
While the alternative insurance options may appear to reduce monthly cost,

604
00:57:37,610 --> 00:57:43,110
they come with family deductibles ranging from 13,000 to 18,000 out of pocket.

605
00:57:43,110 --> 00:57:47,090
an unimaginable financial risk for most employees.

606
00:57:47,950 --> 00:57:54,570
These changes threaten our financial stability, reduce our take-home pay, and

607
00:57:54,570 --> 00:57:57,570
ultimately jeopardize our ability to continue serving the city.

608
00:57:58,650 --> 00:58:06,730
Without relief, we risk losing valuable employees to other employers who offer more affordable healthcare benefits.

609
00:58:07,490 --> 00:58:12,730
We are proud to continue providing excellent service to the city of Stockton and to this council.

610
00:58:13,110 --> 00:58:17,630
But we cannot do so if we are forced to shoulder unattainable health care costs.

611
00:58:17,830 --> 00:58:25,970
We respectfully ask that you direct the city to return with a resolution that provides meaningful assistance to our association.

612
00:58:26,450 --> 00:58:34,630
SCA represents employees who already earn the lowest wages citywide and these rising cost push many of us to a breaking point.

613
00:58:35,590 --> 00:58:41,410
We ask that you listen to our voices, hear our concerns, and take action to protect

614
00:58:41,410 --> 00:58:44,990
city employees from these unistainable health care increases.

615
00:58:45,830 --> 00:58:47,350
Thank you for your time and consideration.

616
00:58:50,590 --> 00:58:53,290
Continuing with 12.9, Kristina Neely.

617
00:59:11,460 --> 00:59:15,200
Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council Members.

618
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,940
I appreciate the opportunity to speak here tonight.

619
00:59:19,980 --> 00:59:24,220
My name is Kristina Neely, and I am proud to serve the city.

620
00:59:24,220 --> 00:59:25,660
I've been here almost five years.

621
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,480
I work full-time as a revenue assistant,

622
00:59:28,940 --> 00:59:30,800
which is one of the lowest paid positions

623
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:32,040
within local government.

624
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:36,840
Even with that, I've always done my best to show up,

625
00:59:37,140 --> 00:59:39,040
do my job with integrity,

626
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,320
and contribute to the community that we all care about.

627
00:59:43,180 --> 00:59:44,800
That is why I'm here tonight.

628
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,100
The proposed increase in medical insurance

629
00:59:48,100 --> 00:59:52,500
starting January 2026 would add more than $600

630
00:59:52,500 --> 00:59:59,480
a month to my costs. For me, that isn't just a line item. It's the difference between

631
00:59:59,480 --> 00:59:59,920
to build.

632
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,160
Community and constant financial stress. It's not just numbers on paper, it's food on the table, bills paid, or not paid, and piece of mind for my family. My family has been with Sutter for years. My providers know my history, they know my children, and they've walked with us through challenges and care. So to switch providers isn't just inconvenient, it's a real disruption to my family's health and well-being.

633
01:00:30,180 --> 01:00:36,340
Continuity of care matters and for many of us starting over simply just isn't an option.

634
01:00:37,340 --> 01:00:43,080
I know that budgets are difficult, I know hard choices have to be made, but asking employees

635
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:48,700
to carry this increase without adjustments or support in reality is a pay cut.

636
01:00:49,340 --> 01:00:55,700
It pushes people like me who are full-time workers into impossible situations, even considering

637
01:00:55,700 --> 01:01:02,020
second jobs just to keep health coverage that's not sustainable and it sends a

638
01:01:02,020 --> 01:01:07,820
discouraging message to the very people who keep the city moving. I'm asking you

639
01:01:07,820 --> 01:01:14,160
tonight to please reconsider this proposal or at least look for ways to ease

640
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:20,160
the burden whether it's phase increases wage adjustments or other creative

641
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:25,140
solutions I believe there has to be a way forward that doesn't leave employees

642
01:01:25,140 --> 01:01:32,120
feeling defeated. Please remember that behind every number in this proposal is a real person in a

643
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:36,840
real family who will be impacted. Thank you so much for your time.

644
01:01:39,190 --> 01:01:41,450
Continuing with 12.9, Alexandria

645
01:01:41,450 --> 01:01:42,010
Solgado.

646
01:01:48,590 --> 01:01:54,590
Good evening. I actually was not going to speak tonight but this is too important of a matter

647
01:01:54,590 --> 01:01:58,170
to hold back. Our health care

648
01:01:58,170 --> 01:02:01,710
rises are extreme, and for me and

649
01:02:01,710 --> 01:02:03,690
my personal family, I actually have

650
01:02:03,690 --> 01:02:05,730
a little one on the way, and I am

651
01:02:05,730 --> 01:02:07,110
almost halfway through my pregnancy.

652
01:02:07,910 --> 01:02:10,350
So for my specific circumstance,

653
01:02:10,950 --> 01:02:13,550
if you're having these extreme

654
01:02:14,390 --> 01:02:16,710
increases in health care, in the

655
01:02:16,710 --> 01:02:19,530
middle of pregnancy, you're forcing

656
01:02:19,530 --> 01:02:24,250
our hand to change insurance, and

657
01:02:24,250 --> 01:02:30,990
And to women who understand men who have mothers or sisters, you understand how important

658
01:02:30,990 --> 01:02:36,770
your OB care is, your prenatal care, and halfway through your pregnancy, it's just

659
01:02:36,770 --> 01:02:37,530
not practical.

660
01:02:38,190 --> 01:02:39,530
It's just not healthy.

661
01:02:41,030 --> 01:02:44,790
And so there has to be a resolution to lower these costs.

662
01:02:45,430 --> 01:02:47,130
You know, we're in the same spot last year.

663
01:02:47,690 --> 01:02:49,070
And here we are again.

664
01:02:49,070 --> 01:02:53,910
I mean last year we came up with a reasonable, as best as we can, solution.

665
01:02:54,530 --> 01:02:57,630
And that's just what we need again this year, is a reasonable solution.

666
01:02:57,910 --> 01:02:59,170
We understand it can't be free.

667
01:02:59,630 --> 01:03:03,650
We understand it can't be $2, but there has to be a reasonable increase.

668
01:03:04,290 --> 01:03:06,930
It's just not sustainable, it's just not realistic.

669
01:03:08,250 --> 01:03:12,690
And you're dealing with city of Stockton families, as it was previously mentioned.

670
01:03:13,070 --> 01:03:17,210
These are families who stand up, show up, and take care of the city.

671
01:03:17,210 --> 01:03:24,210
You know, government positions are meant to be not only good jobs, but good jobs for the benefits.

672
01:03:24,810 --> 01:03:33,130
And when you're talking about $600 to $1,000 increase for a family, especially when you're trying to grow your family, that's drastic.

673
01:03:33,650 --> 01:03:36,570
That's actually very discouraging in growing your family.

674
01:03:37,090 --> 01:03:43,250
So we ask that you somehow consider adjusting these amounts or

675
01:03:43,250 --> 01:03:52,110
We're having the city work with us regarding working with our unions regarding lowering that out of pocket costs for the employees and anything that could be done.

676
01:03:52,330 --> 01:03:52,790
Thank you.

677
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:58,120
For item 12.13, Mary Elizabeth?

678
01:04:09,660 --> 01:04:23,200
Mary Elizabeth, Doctan, Resident, I just wanted to offer my support for adopting the resolution opposing the proposed Delta Convans, Delta Tenoe project.

679
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:46,080
people all over the state are looking at, you know, how different municipalities that are in the impact area are handling and I think it's a great opportunity for us to speak out as a united front against the tunnel. Thank you.

680
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:49,600
Don't go anywhere. For 12.19, Mary Elizabeth.

681
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:50,080
Let

682
01:04:54,980 --> 01:04:57,100
me look on the agenda here.

683
01:05:02,180 --> 01:05:02,360
Okay.

684
01:05:02,900 --> 01:05:06,800
Yeah, so when Mary Elizabeth's

685
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:11,720
Stockton resident and this intersection

686
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:15,220
here, Alpine Pershing and Mendocino

687
01:05:15,220 --> 01:05:18,860
Bicycle Pedestrian Connectivity Project,

688
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,700
so this is just for money for a design

689
01:05:21,700 --> 01:05:28,060
but when they're going out for their request for proposals for this design,

690
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:37,360
I ask that there be robust interactions with the University of the Pacific

691
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:40,740
who has many students that are in that area.

692
01:05:41,300 --> 01:05:44,440
We have commuting students that go there.

693
01:05:44,440 --> 01:06:06,280
It's an intersection that has a lot of history and how we reform that will leave its mark for many generations, and I hope that we can do something very, very nice there. Thank you.

694
01:06:06,280 --> 01:06:09,360
And for 12.20, Mary Elizabeth.

695
01:06:14,500 --> 01:06:17,180
So this one did come in late.

696
01:06:17,420 --> 01:06:21,800
I was in the middle of another meeting trying to get that.

697
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:24,320
So I don't know if you received my pictures.

698
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:30,660
So one project on that list, I looked in my neighborhood,

699
01:06:30,740 --> 01:06:33,720
is 525 West Acacia.

700
01:06:34,140 --> 01:06:35,320
And that's Dameron Hospital.

701
01:06:35,780 --> 01:06:37,340
And I walked there all the time.

702
01:06:37,340 --> 01:06:42,020
I never noticed any problem at all with the sidewalk,

703
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:46,160
none as which some people here have spoken to.

704
01:06:46,980 --> 01:06:54,280
And then I also gave you a picture here of 420 West Poplar,

705
01:06:54,420 --> 01:06:56,060
which is just on the other side.

706
01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:03,520
And I showed you a picture here that I took with Julie on 4 July in 2023.

707
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:12,460
and it took until the last month to finally fill that giant cavern and, you know, I came

708
01:07:12,460 --> 01:07:18,000
to the audit committee, I talked about the risk, you know, of this, and it just doesn't

709
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:25,260
make sense that you're doing something in front of Dameron, and I would ask, and this brings

710
01:07:25,260 --> 01:07:31,800
up the point, please consider an ad hoc committee of residents that will inventory their neighborhoods

711
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:38,000
so that those sidewalks that need to get fixed get fixed so the issue came up I

712
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:45,200
believe it was a budget committee meeting when city staff you know listed out

713
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:50,880
you know some projects and you know said well it's first come first serve and you

714
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:58,220
know our disadvantaged communities we have folks that are working two or three

715
01:07:58,220 --> 01:08:04,420
jobs and you know they can't be attending to one more thing by putting in an

716
01:08:04,420 --> 01:08:09,900
ass stockton whereas we have more privileged communities where you know they

717
01:08:09,900 --> 01:08:15,480
have the more wear with all to put in an ass stockton and get on the list and

718
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:20,080
so it just really doesn't seem fair you know that those that don't get on the

719
01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:25,960
list you know can't be served when their needs are greater our community you

720
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:31,620
you know needs to be looking out for some people and I put a suggestion there and I ask

721
01:08:31,620 --> 01:08:40,020
that you remove 525 West Acacia and put on 420 West Poplar, thank you.

722
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:43,520
That concludes public comment for consent matters.

723
01:08:45,780 --> 01:08:52,420
Okay, so I already had one council member give me the list of items that they would like

724
01:08:52,420 --> 01:09:01,380
to pull from the agenda, so I'm going to do those before we do the vote on the rest

725
01:09:01,380 --> 01:09:02,140
of the consent.

726
01:09:05,340 --> 01:09:08,720
For clarity, we're, I need to know what those items are that we're going to do.

727
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:21,020
So Councilwoman Padilla selected 12.3, 12.4, 12.9, 12.11, and 12.17, are there other items

728
01:09:21,020 --> 01:09:36,380
that would like to yes vice mayor? 12.20. 12.20. 12.5. 12.5. 12.18 12.19 12.21. Okay so mostly

729
01:09:37,220 --> 01:09:45,740
oh and then to let everybody know 12.1 and 12.2 will be moved to 16.1 of new

730
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:49,320
So

731
01:09:53,540 --> 01:10:06,720
the rest of the agenda that leaves us 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.10,

732
01:10:08,870 --> 01:10:15,910
12.12, 12.13, 12.14,

733
01:10:15,910 --> 01:10:31,570
12.15 and 12.16 and 12.22 oh and 12.22 so 12.67 8 10 12 13 14 15 16 and 22 I'll look

734
01:10:31,570 --> 01:10:39,610
for a motion I'll make a motion motion and second council please vote

735
01:10:42,710 --> 01:10:44,290
motion approved

736
01:10:45,170 --> 01:10:53,350
So, let's go ahead and start with Councilwoman Padilla with item 12.3.

737
01:10:53,810 --> 01:10:54,370
Thank you, Mayor.

738
01:10:54,630 --> 01:10:58,190
I have three separate questions in regards to this item.

739
01:10:58,970 --> 01:11:02,290
And having criteria is very good.

740
01:11:02,850 --> 01:11:08,570
But in the red line items when we use terms like expertise or unbiased,

741
01:11:09,030 --> 01:11:10,750
that can be subjective.

742
01:11:10,750 --> 01:11:17,490
So when we put these types of words into writing, it can open the door for different types of

743
01:11:17,490 --> 01:11:25,610
disagreements, meaning that one person's idea of a good communicator or being

744
01:11:25,610 --> 01:11:28,790
a bias might look different from someone else.

745
01:11:29,210 --> 01:11:36,770
So with that said, City Attorney, how could we actually measure qualities

746
01:11:36,770 --> 01:11:39,950
of communication, interest, and good judgment.

747
01:11:41,310 --> 01:11:46,430
So Council Member Padilla, as the appointing authority, it's the mayor that will use that

748
01:11:46,430 --> 01:11:50,630
criteria and her own judgment to interpret and decide whether or not candidates display

749
01:11:50,630 --> 01:11:54,810
those qualities, similar to what she does now with regard to expertise and interest.

750
01:11:55,710 --> 01:12:00,370
For Council Member Adhawks, the mayor knows and works with each of you, and so she can decide

751
01:12:00,370 --> 01:12:04,310
in her best judgment which council members might be a good fit for any given issue or topic,

752
01:12:04,310 --> 01:12:12,430
using that criteria as guidance so we're just putting it in writing for the mayor is that yeah my

753
01:12:12,430 --> 01:12:16,950
understanding and the committee members might be a better source of information because this came

754
01:12:16,950 --> 01:12:23,450
from them but if the the criteria was meant I my understanding was that it was meant as a guidance

755
01:12:23,450 --> 01:12:28,430
so that the mayor could consider these things when she makes the appointments okay thank you for

756
01:12:28,430 --> 01:12:34,130
pointing guidance out. And I'm going to give an example of my next question.

757
01:12:34,750 --> 01:12:43,050
So, Council Member Enriquez has extensive knowledge and education and policy making.

758
01:12:43,330 --> 01:12:47,170
So he is an excellent chair for legislative committee.

759
01:12:47,910 --> 01:12:53,510
Vice Mayor owns a corporation business, which makes him well-suited for chair,

760
01:12:53,850 --> 01:12:58,410
for the chair of the audit committee. But in my case, I never ran

761
01:12:58,410 --> 01:13:05,710
and a shelter, I don't own a nonprofit, so yet I serve on the homeless committee.

762
01:13:06,330 --> 01:13:15,510
But I have passion and willingness to learn and work for the best since its interest of the city.

763
01:13:15,850 --> 01:13:25,430
So my question is, how would this new criteria apply in situations where experience isn't the qualifier,

764
01:13:25,430 --> 01:13:28,170
but dedication may be.

765
01:13:29,330 --> 01:13:32,350
So, again, not to be repetitive, but it was my understanding

766
01:13:32,350 --> 01:13:35,490
that the criteria provided was intended to guide rather

767
01:13:35,490 --> 01:13:38,490
than dictate, and so if the council would like characteristics

768
01:13:38,490 --> 01:13:41,290
like passion and willingness to learn to be considerations

769
01:13:41,290 --> 01:13:44,370
for appointment, that the proposed language doesn't preclude

770
01:13:44,370 --> 01:13:47,110
that, you know, consideration of those characteristics,

771
01:13:47,290 --> 01:13:49,350
but if you would like that stated more explicitly,

772
01:13:49,870 --> 01:13:52,050
you can modify as you do appropriate.

773
01:13:52,050 --> 01:14:03,150
For example, you might say something like appointments for created ad hoc committee shall be made by the mayor with consideration given to the following criteria, as well as any other characteristics, the mayor deemed appropriate.

774
01:14:03,830 --> 01:14:07,850
Okay, and I'll defer to my colleagues after that.

775
01:14:08,510 --> 01:14:20,230
My last question, just wondering what the value of a formal written report would bring since our meetings are already streamed and publicly noticed.

776
01:14:21,270 --> 01:14:25,990
So whether a formal report is required or not is ultimately, as you know, a council decision,

777
01:14:26,310 --> 01:14:29,770
the committee specifically asked for the report, which is why it was included.

778
01:14:30,310 --> 01:14:34,590
I'll leave it to the committee members, if they want to add information about why they asked for it,

779
01:14:34,650 --> 01:14:41,210
but my own understanding was that the report was intended to close out the committee's work by providing a summary

780
01:14:41,210 --> 01:14:44,990
to the council to show the good work that was done and notify the council that it was complete.

781
01:14:45,650 --> 01:14:50,550
As an aside, I will note that there are other publicly noticed in-stream bodies like measure

782
01:14:50,550 --> 01:14:54,690
A, measure W, and so on and so forth that provide these annual reports.

783
01:14:54,810 --> 01:14:59,710
My guess is that because not everyone is able to watch these meetings in real time.

784
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,720
But there's maybe an interest in understanding the work of the body. Citizens have the ability to view these succinct summaries of the body's activities over the year after the fact. And I'm going to defer for a moment to the city clerk because she can provide a better explanation about how those reports are submitted and how they're attached to the agenda. So previous existence council, you would actually, if you were on legislative committee or audit or any of the committees, you would actually during the city meeting come and present this is what we did.

785
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:34,520
this month. So that changed to being more of a report out at the end. So right now something

786
01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:38,620
like lead or audit, you'll see like the minutes and everything pop up in your informational

787
01:15:38,620 --> 01:15:43,240
items on the agenda. And that's why. And measure A will have the report out that way, measure

788
01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:47,880
W will have the report out that way. So that's an easier way to communicate to the full council,

789
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:51,800
what's going on in all these other boards and committees without you having to actually attend

790
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:55,240
or watch the entire video is to get that summary of the report.

791
01:15:56,140 --> 01:15:59,340
So is this wording making it a requirement?

792
01:16:00,340 --> 01:16:04,500
It is making the report a requirement, okay.

793
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:11,960
I will, again, defer to my colleagues if they have any comments with regards to my comments or questions.

794
01:16:12,280 --> 01:16:12,840
Vice mayor.

795
01:16:13,740 --> 01:16:14,540
Thank you, Mayor.

796
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:23,360
Well, first I want to thank the City Attorney and everybody who had any part in working to develop this and my colleagues on the legislative committee.

797
01:16:23,360 --> 01:16:29,660
I just wanted to respond to my colleagues' question around the expertise and experience.

798
01:16:29,780 --> 01:16:37,720
I mean, I think we trust the mayor to use her judgment on who she selects and who she believes is the best for those committees.

799
01:16:38,980 --> 01:16:44,480
I guess I would just speak to, because I'm okay with the language, I guess I would just ask City Attorney,

800
01:16:44,700 --> 01:16:51,820
should there be an issue, or say, of Councilmember Padilla feels that maybe that person doesn't have the expertise,

801
01:16:51,820 --> 01:16:56,040
or maybe I have more expertise, or any person wants to challenge the selection,

802
01:16:56,280 --> 01:17:00,080
is there a method in which during that meeting or discussion on ad hoc,

803
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:03,240
where that could be raised in versus us having to change the language here?

804
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:07,200
Certainly. When these committees are created and you have the discussion,

805
01:17:07,500 --> 01:17:11,280
the mayor usually has an appointment list ready for you to review as a council,

806
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:15,840
and during that discussion, that is the time for you to have these sorts of conversations,

807
01:17:16,340 --> 01:17:19,140
and I think that by adding this criteria, you know,

808
01:17:19,140 --> 01:17:25,400
It does raise the opportunity for the council to, you know, to discuss whether or not you agree on what these are.

809
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:31,740
And ultimately, I think it's important to remind the council and the public that we as a body make the final decision.

810
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:38,740
So we have to use our interest in pursuing the best people for these roles.

811
01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:40,560
Should there be any to have that discussion, correct?

812
01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:47,040
I think you provide guidance and you provide input, but the mayor makes the ultimate, like ultimately she makes the appointments.

813
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:48,160
Okay.

814
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:51,900
You create the body and then you ratify her decision on the appointments.

815
01:17:52,980 --> 01:17:53,740
Explain that.

816
01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:59,900
So when it comes to you, it usually has a list of the members that the mayor is putting

817
01:17:59,900 --> 01:18:01,360
forward for appointment.

818
01:18:02,060 --> 01:18:07,140
And the council, what you can have a discussion about that, you know, it's ultimately it

819
01:18:07,140 --> 01:18:08,780
will be the mayor's decision on the appointment.

820
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:09,640
You can provide guidance.

821
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:11,580
You can not create the committee, I suppose.

822
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:13,160
You could stop it in that way.

823
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:17,980
But ultimately, it's the mayor's decision on who is going to be appointed to.

824
01:18:17,980 --> 01:18:23,160
Right, so my point is that I may not just use similar to when I first got here and I was told, you know, city

825
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:27,560
manager manages all the employees, you can't make any decisions and employees section 408.

826
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:34,420
The section 406 gives the council different levels of authority that had never been utilized before we developed a policy on how to deal with that.

827
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:39,440
Should we have concerns around issues in the organization, right?

828
01:18:39,440 --> 01:18:44,820
So my question is is while the mayor can select individuals for the ad hoc committee,

829
01:18:45,220 --> 01:18:50,740
the council can vote to not move forward on the committee if we don't believe the right individuals are on there, so I'm asking.

830
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:51,680
That's correct.

831
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:59,260
Okay, so yes, so again, the policy, as I read it, is saying that the mayor will use that, based on expertise and

832
01:18:59,260 --> 01:19:06,800
experience the right people, and the council, we have to agree as a majority that those people are the right people, right?

833
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:06,860
Great.

834
01:19:07,300 --> 01:19:08,520
I think that's part of the discussion.

835
01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:09,160
Yes.

836
01:19:09,620 --> 01:19:10,000
Thank you.

837
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:12,280
Councilmember Enriquez?

838
01:19:12,700 --> 01:19:12,900
Yes.

839
01:19:13,100 --> 01:19:13,480
Thank you, Mayor.

840
01:19:13,740 --> 01:19:17,320
And I just appreciate that this item is being pulled just so the public can have a more

841
01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:19,540
insight if you want to make our alleged committee meeting.

842
01:19:19,820 --> 01:19:23,780
I will say that, you know, as the city clerk and city attorney have shared, this is a way to

843
01:19:23,780 --> 01:19:29,660
kind of go back to what we've done in the past to really just formalize and leave things documented

844
01:19:29,660 --> 01:19:30,120
appropriately.

845
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:34,080
That way, if some folks want to be able to view online later on, if you want to be able

846
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:37,460
to get a report. Just like many of us, we get reports from our different departments,

847
01:19:37,660 --> 01:19:42,080
our chiefs, chief of fire department, chief of police. We get reports. It's always

848
01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:46,860
helpful because we get some detail that maybe might be missed if we watch it online, but

849
01:19:46,860 --> 01:19:50,680
it's a formalized way to just document things more, you know, intentionally for all of us

850
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:55,060
to look at it. And of course, going to the mayor to use her discretion to appoint folks on

851
01:19:55,060 --> 01:19:59,060
different ad hoc committees. And I believe, you know, which is why we brought this up at

852
01:19:59,060 --> 01:20:02,300
the committee meeting. I don't know if that was the one that you had missed, Councilor

853
01:20:02,300 --> 01:20:08,660
but the, but okay, so it was the one, okay, so which is important, so if you do misimmediate,

854
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:11,140
it's all streamed online so we can catch up with our notes.

855
01:20:11,420 --> 01:20:15,400
So when we come to the next meeting, we can have, we can review what was missed last

856
01:20:15,400 --> 01:20:15,760
time.

857
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:19,460
So I would say that I appreciate the city for documenting things online.

858
01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:23,380
We can always refer to it if we misimmediate and I'll just reiterate that to my colleagues.

859
01:20:23,380 --> 01:20:25,440
I think we can use that ability to review meetings.

860
01:20:25,700 --> 01:20:29,920
That way we can catch up to speed on things, that way things aren't misad of context.

861
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:32,400
So I think this is a good way to have things more formalized.

862
01:20:32,500 --> 01:20:38,680
And again, to trust the mayor will appoint the folks that she would want moving forward for ad hoc committees moving forward.

863
01:20:41,370 --> 01:20:53,490
Okay, so I appreciate the discourse, I would say that of the ad hoc committees that we've done, we've only done a few.

864
01:20:54,190 --> 01:21:01,490
The people that have volunteered for the ad hoc committee or the people that we ultimately ended up appointing to the ad hoc committee.

865
01:21:01,490 --> 01:21:06,370
It wasn't like everybody was chomping at the bit to be on another committee of some

866
01:21:06,370 --> 01:21:06,750
sort.

867
01:21:07,490 --> 01:21:12,390
I would say that, you know, some of the criteria is subjective.

868
01:21:13,270 --> 01:21:21,450
I don't know how you say, you know, whether, as Councilwoman Padilla is, you know, whether

869
01:21:21,450 --> 01:21:27,810
somebody's a good communicator or is committed to that particular topic, but I'm happy that

870
01:21:27,810 --> 01:21:32,330
that people want to serve on those reports.

871
01:21:32,930 --> 01:21:40,810
Yes, I reports are something that some people enjoy writing and some people don't enjoy writing.

872
01:21:41,070 --> 01:21:45,430
Fortunately, in today's day, we can go back and read the meeting and we can go back and read the minutes.

873
01:21:46,630 --> 01:21:51,530
I will support anything that this council wants to do in this area.

874
01:21:52,650 --> 01:22:03,870
I only had one concern, where it's a simple majority to a point and a super majority to dissolve or the time runs out or whatnot.

875
01:22:04,050 --> 01:22:14,050
That was my, I wanted apples to apples on that, but again, I work for the people and I work with the council.

876
01:22:14,510 --> 01:22:16,190
So, councilmember Padilla.

877
01:22:16,190 --> 01:22:16,230
Yeah.

878
01:22:17,310 --> 01:22:17,870
Thank you, Mayor.

879
01:22:19,090 --> 01:22:28,670
I may be my question in regards to the wording expertise or unbiased was not clear what

880
01:22:28,670 --> 01:22:37,010
I was trying to convey, because I do recognize that the mayor is capable of recognizing who's

881
01:22:37,010 --> 01:22:41,670
a good communicator and makes good judgment.

882
01:22:41,670 --> 01:22:51,830
I guess I was just reading it as qualifications like you need to have this and this and that in order to be on that committee.

883
01:22:53,310 --> 01:22:55,590
So that's what I was getting at.

884
01:22:55,890 --> 01:23:02,370
And then I just don't know how I feel about the reports on being honest.

885
01:23:03,130 --> 01:23:04,610
We all have second jobs.

886
01:23:05,410 --> 01:23:07,170
We are all busy.

887
01:23:07,170 --> 01:23:14,970
We have families and to do a report would this be annually,

888
01:23:15,330 --> 01:23:16,090
would this be quarterly?

889
01:23:18,050 --> 01:23:21,890
It is something that whenever an ad hoc is created,

890
01:23:22,110 --> 01:23:24,070
you can include in the creation documents.

891
01:23:24,710 --> 01:23:27,570
So, for example, if you create an ad hoc for a one-year purpose

892
01:23:27,570 --> 01:23:32,250
and you want them to achieve X goal or explore a particular topic,

893
01:23:32,490 --> 01:23:35,210
you can set within your creation documents we want,

894
01:23:35,210 --> 01:23:38,590
And at the end of the year, we want to know what information you have found.

895
01:23:39,070 --> 01:23:43,790
Or it could be, for example, technically speaking, the ledge committees and audit committees,

896
01:23:43,790 --> 01:23:46,170
they're a type of ad hoc of your meeting body.

897
01:23:46,870 --> 01:23:51,970
There's just done by reporting the minutes every time the minutes come before you, that's how it's done.

898
01:23:52,090 --> 01:23:54,710
So you can set that within your creation documents.

899
01:23:55,430 --> 01:23:59,430
Okay, just one through the chair, just one clarification.

900
01:23:59,890 --> 01:24:01,950
So the language that was proposed and

901
01:24:01,950 --> 01:24:07,150
is being recommended by the LEG committee. It does say that upon completion of the designated

902
01:24:07,150 --> 01:24:11,150
work the ad hoc committee shall submit a report to the city council summarizing the results

903
01:24:11,150 --> 01:24:15,330
of their work in practice. I think what's being done is what Catherine with the city clerk

904
01:24:15,330 --> 01:24:20,830
describe. And so if you want to modify the language to reflect that practice you can but right

905
01:24:20,830 --> 01:24:23,110
now the language is a shell at the end of the work.

906
01:24:24,250 --> 01:24:24,690
Okay.

907
01:24:27,190 --> 01:24:29,370
I don't know if my colleagues have any other comments.

908
01:24:30,210 --> 01:24:30,870
Vice mayor.

909
01:24:31,350 --> 01:24:32,450
Thank you, I'm mayor.

910
01:24:32,570 --> 01:24:36,050
So let me address a couple of things because to Councilman Padilla's point,

911
01:24:36,170 --> 01:24:39,070
she wasn't at the meeting, and I was, I wanted to address a couple of things.

912
01:24:40,270 --> 01:24:45,790
First of all, yes, we all have second jobs, but I think when we sign up to, when we accept the

913
01:24:45,790 --> 01:24:50,570
responsibility of joining an ad hoc to do work on behalf of our constituents in the city,

914
01:24:50,570 --> 01:24:55,850
we need to be accountable to the conclusion of that work, and that's only going to be verified

915
01:24:55,850 --> 01:25:00,710
or quantified through a final work product that can be reduced in writing for records.

916
01:25:00,850 --> 01:25:01,450
So that's number one.

917
01:25:01,530 --> 01:25:06,230
I think that, and I'll just use the ad hoc for the City Manager's search experience.

918
01:25:06,650 --> 01:25:12,570
There were two items on two reasons on there not, and I'm not, I'm just using an example.

919
01:25:13,070 --> 01:25:13,890
Well, I only want to get into that.

920
01:25:13,930 --> 01:25:18,010
Let me just say this, in establishing that, because I think that's the only ad hoc

921
01:25:18,010 --> 01:25:24,550
that we were a part of, there were two stated purposes, and then there became a question

922
01:25:24,550 --> 01:25:29,970
of whether or not the purposes were fulfilled or not, and I think the idea is that once we established

923
01:25:29,970 --> 01:25:36,250
by vote of ad hoc committee that the dissolution of that be clearly outlined in how we do that,

924
01:25:36,690 --> 01:25:43,850
and that those purposes, you know, be man-and-reduced to writing. As far as the criteria goes,

925
01:25:44,490 --> 01:25:49,570
I would say that we had an experience just at our last council meeting or one of our last council

926
01:25:49,570 --> 01:26:09,130
where the Climate Action Committee right now, my district that suffers the most from the environment does not have a person with the expertise and experience of living in, breathing in that air and having the lived experience in a district where there are reports online that the life expectancy of folks in that district are 10 years less than those on the north side.

927
01:26:09,130 --> 01:26:13,050
So, I would be concerned about that, but this Council voted to go in that direction.

928
01:26:13,470 --> 01:26:18,670
And I think that to the mayor's question of the dissolution or the removal or whatever,

929
01:26:20,310 --> 01:26:25,490
that supermajority, I think, if there's going to be a removal of an individual or a

930
01:26:25,490 --> 01:26:30,950
disbanding of something that we create because we believe it's in the best interest of the city,

931
01:26:31,830 --> 01:26:36,150
I mean, there would be something that would be so significant and

932
01:26:36,150 --> 01:26:39,570
The majority of not all of us would vote to disband or remove.

933
01:26:39,950 --> 01:26:42,210
So I think hopefully that clarifies those questions.

934
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:52,060
Okay, so I don't have any other buttons flashing on this item.

935
01:26:52,780 --> 01:26:55,880
So what's the pleasure of council?

936
01:26:57,940 --> 01:26:58,620
Motion to approve.

937
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:00,680
Second.

938
01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:02,540
We have a motion and second.

939
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:03,700
Council please vote.

940
01:27:08,210 --> 01:27:09,050
Motion fails.

941
01:27:09,050 --> 01:27:14,130
for three with Fugazi Ponce, Padilla, and Vila Pudua dissenting.

942
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:20,500
Okay, go ahead.

943
01:27:20,820 --> 01:27:26,380
And I would be open to bringing this back to ledge for another discussion with regards

944
01:27:26,380 --> 01:27:30,160
to language if my colleagues would entertain that.

945
01:27:36,550 --> 01:27:37,030
Vice Mayor.

946
01:27:37,530 --> 01:27:38,010
Thank you, Mayor.

947
01:27:39,230 --> 01:27:43,090
You know, I'm really just amazed at how

948
01:27:45,140 --> 01:27:46,260
we make decisions, right?

949
01:27:46,260 --> 01:27:52,520
Right, this is for me, it's not about being happier, not happy about how we vote, but I'm just unclear.

950
01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:57,580
I took the time to go to the Ledge Committee meeting, we are talking about accountability.

951
01:27:58,080 --> 01:28:02,700
We see the press that we're getting around how we remove people that makes no sense.

952
01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:14,740
There are council members that literally try to do it again this week with one of my commissioners that I'm so thankful that we're not having another fight over another issue that is not in the interest of the public and moving our business forward.

953
01:28:14,740 --> 01:28:20,640
But I'm just, I'm concerned, right, like, one, we're saying, if you look at the document,

954
01:28:21,500 --> 01:28:27,340
when we agree to a create a ad hoc that we reduce in writing the work of that committee,

955
01:28:28,200 --> 01:28:32,260
don't understand why that's an issue.

956
01:28:32,760 --> 01:28:41,200
We're saying that if we're going to dissolve a committee or remove a person that it'd be super

957
01:28:41,200 --> 01:28:45,780
majority. Councilwoman Ponce, you didn't even respond like comment on why you're

958
01:28:45,780 --> 01:28:53,080
dissenting, and like I'm confused at how we're not having full out debates. People voting

959
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:58,360
and not even discussing rationale for the public to consider, it's almost like there's a

960
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:04,200
discussion and a decision made before we get here. Anyway, that said the document as I see

961
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:09,960
that the committee worked hard on was to come up with suggestions on how to increase

962
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:18,420
accountability and oversight of the process rather than taking it back to the committee if we're not going to move forward with this item as outlined and

963
01:29:18,420 --> 01:29:25,520
suggested here. Why don't we offer some suggestions here and have a conversation because I don't think that there's major tweaks that would need

964
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:29,780
to be made. And if so, then taking it back to the ledge committee would probably be a waste of time and fail anyway.

965
01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:39,440
Well, we did vote on it and then I would say there was a recommendation I did you have

966
01:29:39,440 --> 01:29:40,860
another. Okay.

967
01:29:43,430 --> 01:29:49,430
Thank you mayor. First of all, I just want to say I give my time and

968
01:29:49,430 --> 01:29:56,210
I am accountable. I did miss a meeting because I took my daughter to move back into college.

969
01:29:56,210 --> 01:29:59,950
So, I don't think me...

970
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,460
I've seen a meeting, I mean, we all have things that come up in our life period. There is only one thing that I have an issue with, and I did ask for recommendations. There is only one thing that I have an issue with, and is that the reporting. We have minutes, we have streamed videos. I don't have a secretary. I mean, I am one person. If somebody has another option to

971
01:30:29,460 --> 01:30:33,100
to revise that, I'm open to listen to it.

972
01:30:33,440 --> 01:30:35,500
But nobody is giving me any suggestions.

973
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:39,980
They're just putting, you know, a negative on my opinion.

974
01:30:40,700 --> 01:30:43,760
So, blower, do we have a comment?

975
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:46,980
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

976
01:30:47,260 --> 01:30:53,640
Okay, so we have gone on this item.

977
01:30:54,180 --> 01:30:56,680
I don't know if anybody's open.

978
01:30:56,680 --> 01:30:59,740
You did make the comment about bringing it back to ledge.

979
01:31:00,320 --> 01:31:12,020
We do have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10 more items on consent yet to go with the three public hearing and the three new business.

980
01:31:12,720 --> 01:31:23,980
So I get everybody wanting to make a comment on this, but we've taken a vote, and we can move on with council.

981
01:31:23,980 --> 01:31:42,280
So, one of the information if I can, Mayor, if all Councilman Padilla is asking for is that one issue an alternative, is there a process, I don't know if it's you with a city attorney that can explain if we can either reopen the item or instead of sending it back to the ledge, make a motion with the modification so that way we can address that one issue.

982
01:31:42,420 --> 01:31:52,660
I don't think the idea of having a report was with the intent to be burdensome, and I would also hope that my colleagues don't take me pushing back and not just rubber stamping things as a personal attack.

983
01:31:52,660 --> 01:31:54,340
That personal attacks are very different.

984
01:31:54,580 --> 01:31:56,060
I can show you that, but that's not my intent.

985
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:58,280
I'm just not agreeing and going with the flow.

986
01:31:58,800 --> 01:32:05,020
Okay, so City Attorney, at that point when there's a motion that fails, somebody can make another motion.

987
01:32:05,260 --> 01:32:07,460
Could they not, you could make a motion to reconsider.

988
01:32:07,960 --> 01:32:12,380
Once it's voted on and it fails, then it's done, unless the body makes a motion to reconsider.

989
01:32:12,820 --> 01:32:16,900
Motion to reconsider, have to be made at the same meeting, so still available in this meeting.

990
01:32:17,060 --> 01:32:21,460
In order to make such a meeting, it has to be someone in the majority to make that motion.

991
01:32:21,460 --> 01:32:24,360
and it can be seconded by anyone and then you need a majority vote to pass.

992
01:32:24,640 --> 01:32:33,980
Okay. So then bringing that back to council is there a, well, I'd like to make a motion

993
01:32:33,980 --> 01:32:39,220
to reconsider. It has to be one of the people that was in the majority. I will make the motion

994
01:32:39,220 --> 01:32:46,700
to bring it back to the dias to reconsider modifying the wording in regards to the report.

995
01:32:46,700 --> 01:32:49,400
And then who has to make a second?

996
01:32:50,140 --> 01:32:51,180
Anyone may make the second.

997
01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:51,540
Second.

998
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:53,800
Okay.

999
01:32:54,260 --> 01:32:56,420
Can I turn off all the lights because we're going to do that?

1000
01:32:57,800 --> 01:32:58,280
Okay.

1001
01:32:59,420 --> 01:33:01,340
So, council, please vote.

1002
01:33:08,590 --> 01:33:08,830
Okay.

1003
01:33:09,310 --> 01:33:10,310
Motion passes.

1004
01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:19,620
So, at this point, with councilmember Ville Poudreux dissenting, at this point, then councilwoman

1005
01:33:19,620 --> 01:33:23,300
Padilla, I don't know if you want to lead this discussion.

1006
01:33:23,440 --> 01:33:23,500
Oh.

1007
01:33:23,500 --> 01:33:28,480
Well, Council Member Blower has lights up, so Council Member Blower.

1008
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:36,260
Yeah, just to respond to Council Member Pidiya's question and her asked me to kind of give my two cents.

1009
01:33:36,980 --> 01:33:44,840
I have been on things before where a report was required and what typically happens is you assign it to somebody on that committee.

1010
01:33:45,340 --> 01:33:50,620
And it's also not uncommon for staff to help with that process.

1011
01:33:50,620 --> 01:33:56,160
So I don't think it's maybe as burdensome as, you know, you may think.

1012
01:33:56,420 --> 01:34:01,620
So I think if you're serving on an ad hoc and you don't have the time to do it,

1013
01:34:02,190 --> 01:34:04,020
I think somebody on there could do that.

1014
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:09,320
And I think that, you know, again, staff is usually pretty helpful with those things.

1015
01:34:09,880 --> 01:34:13,720
So I don't know if that gives some clarity or helps you.

1016
01:34:16,950 --> 01:34:17,630
Vice mayor.

1017
01:34:17,930 --> 01:34:18,270
Thank you, mayor.

1018
01:34:18,450 --> 01:34:22,170
I apologize to my colleagues if I misunderstood the pushback.

1019
01:34:22,170 --> 01:34:34,210
If the issue is a report, let me ask the city clerk, if we have an ad hoc, is that something that the city clerk's office could help with for a report or is that again something that we should just take off and move forward?

1020
01:34:35,890 --> 01:34:46,430
Generally speaking, it depends on the purpose of the ad hoc, on who would assist with a report like that, whether it's clerk's officer staff, it depends on the purpose and the expertise of the support staff.

1021
01:34:46,430 --> 01:34:52,630
I mean, so to, I mean, I don't think that we created this recommendation for it to down a report.

1022
01:34:52,890 --> 01:35:14,350
I mean, I would be okay with removing the report and, you know, if, if, or leave it all to, you know, not alternative, but discretionary to the ad hoc, because when I use the example of the City Manager ad hoc, that would be a private, I mean, there's no reporting person in there, but if it's an ad hoc out here with staff, maybe we can get support, so maybe leave it.

1023
01:35:16,550 --> 01:35:21,850
at the discretion of that ad hoc committee. Is that?

1024
01:35:22,490 --> 01:35:25,370
Do you want at the discretion of the committee or do you want it to be something that's part

1025
01:35:25,370 --> 01:35:30,310
of the creation document? So the creation document would be all of you deciding that this is

1026
01:35:30,310 --> 01:35:32,190
what we want out of this meeting body.

1027
01:35:32,270 --> 01:35:35,190
Yeah, maybe, yes, that.

1028
01:35:36,270 --> 01:35:38,430
Councilwoman Padilla, do you have a comment on that?

1029
01:35:39,110 --> 01:35:42,490
Oh, yeah, and I just wanted to thank Councilmember Blower.

1030
01:35:42,490 --> 01:35:47,650
And I do take things literally when they're written.

1031
01:35:48,230 --> 01:35:52,190
So giving that clarity makes complete sense.

1032
01:35:52,190 --> 01:35:56,130
But when you read it, it sounds like to me I have to give a report.

1033
01:35:56,470 --> 01:36:05,290
And sometimes I feel like a lot of us give comments in our council comments with regards to the committees that we sit on.

1034
01:36:05,290 --> 01:36:14,710
And so, again, I'm open to suggestions if the language wants to be revised or removed.

1035
01:36:15,730 --> 01:36:22,850
And I would say that things that come out of the ad hoc, such as the homeless ad hoc,

1036
01:36:23,670 --> 01:36:29,310
end up coming before the whole council, usually, what happens, their decisions are made,

1037
01:36:32,190 --> 01:36:35,270
decisions

1038
01:36:35,270 --> 01:36:42,110
Council. So I hear that. Like I said, my only gripe is the supermajority.

1039
01:36:47,830 --> 01:36:48,230
Go ahead,

1040
01:36:48,390 --> 01:36:51,930
Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. So then my recommendation would be based on what Councilman

1041
01:36:51,930 --> 01:37:00,670
Padilla said, that we leave the discretion to the formation document, formation process

1042
01:37:00,670 --> 01:37:04,930
of the committee to decide on whether or not there will be a formal report or to the

1043
01:37:04,930 --> 01:37:10,970
mayor's point if it goes back before the council, it's there in public, so the public record will always be there.

1044
01:37:11,810 --> 01:37:14,890
So maybe the city attorney can offer us a new wording.

1045
01:37:19,300 --> 01:37:38,460
Okay, I believe the motion is to adopt the proposed amendment to chapter 3.06 of the council policy manual regarding the ad hoc committees with the modification of section 3.06.010 subsection.

1046
01:37:38,680 --> 01:37:40,240
one second.

1047
01:37:42,480 --> 01:37:55,500
For C, Roman numeral for A1, modifying the language to reflect the discretionary authority

1048
01:37:55,500 --> 01:38:02,200
of the committee to submit a written report to the council according to the creation

1049
01:38:03,640 --> 01:38:09,200
to capture that? That's all second in motion.

1050
01:38:10,560 --> 01:38:12,420
Okay. Councilmember Svilevot.

1051
01:38:16,260 --> 01:38:21,740
Motion carries 4-3 with Pugazi, Ponce, and the La Pudua opposing.

1052
01:38:23,100 --> 01:38:31,360
Okay. Let's move on then to item 12.4, which is adoption of a resolution waiving any privileges

1053
01:38:31,360 --> 01:38:42,420
Just applicable to any emails from the City Attorney's Office to City Council on July 30, 2025 at approximately 113 p.m.

1054
01:38:44,810 --> 01:38:46,730
Councilwoman Fidia, you pulled that one.

1055
01:38:47,170 --> 01:38:48,030
Yes, thank you, Mayor.

1056
01:38:48,670 --> 01:38:51,270
Just two questions to City Attorney.

1057
01:38:52,010 --> 01:38:58,690
Are there any alternative ways to provide transparency without fully waving privilege?

1058
01:38:58,690 --> 01:39:24,510
knowledge. No, once you waive privilege, it's waived for all and in full. And if there is going to be, if there is a investigation or potential, a potential for investigation, would waiving this privilege, risk the investigation and put the city in liability or at risk.

1059
01:39:25,790 --> 01:39:28,370
So I'm not, I'll answer that in two ways.

1060
01:39:28,450 --> 01:39:34,050
I'm not aware of any ongoing or potential investigations by the city, which relate to or connected with this waiver.

1061
01:39:34,550 --> 01:39:40,170
So I, you know, I'm not, I don't have any information on this, you know, waiver affecting anything in progress.

1062
01:39:40,870 --> 01:39:52,190
If you're talking about future and get investigations by the city, I, you know, I have no way of knowing what impact there might be without knowing what it involves.

1063
01:39:52,190 --> 01:40:02,170
Yeah. Thank you. I support transparency. My only, I just don't want to subject the city to any

1064
01:40:02,870 --> 01:40:09,050
exposure that could potentially lead to financial risk. So that's all I have to say. If anybody

1065
01:40:09,050 --> 01:40:16,870
else has any comments. Vice mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I know we can't discuss the subject of what we're

1066
01:40:16,870 --> 01:40:24,870
asking to waive privilege for in terms of the actual item, but I do want to say that

1067
01:40:24,870 --> 01:40:31,610
the city did receive the city council voted in a majority to send the Brown Act

1068
01:40:31,610 --> 01:40:35,470
violations over to the district attorney's office. As a result of that, the district

1069
01:40:35,470 --> 01:40:40,070
attorney rejected our submission of the Brown Act violations and asked for us to submit

1070
01:40:40,070 --> 01:40:45,270
additional information and signed under penalty of perjury in order to re-submit

1071
01:40:45,270 --> 01:40:53,910
and in an attempt of myself to resubmit with information that is directly related to what this council voted

1072
01:40:53,910 --> 01:40:59,970
and a majority to do in public, I want us to be able to vote to waive the privilege for this document.

1073
01:41:00,410 --> 01:41:07,110
I won't be able to follow up to the District Attorney's Office for their recommendation without doing so.

1074
01:41:10,220 --> 01:41:11,180
Councillor Member Blower.

1075
01:41:13,580 --> 01:41:18,700
I know that waiving privilege is not something you want to do frequently.

1076
01:41:19,280 --> 01:41:24,820
Can you tell us how big of a deal is it to waive privilege and if we do that too much

1077
01:41:24,820 --> 01:41:25,260
does that?

1078
01:41:26,180 --> 01:41:28,160
I mean, where are the ramifications of that?

1079
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:29,420
Certainly.

1080
01:41:30,680 --> 01:41:34,340
Waving privilege does not create binding legal precedent, you know, legal court can do something

1081
01:41:34,340 --> 01:41:34,820
like that.

1082
01:41:35,060 --> 01:41:35,780
It does.

1083
01:41:36,500 --> 01:41:38,920
It doesn't compel future councils to do the same.

1084
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:49,440
However, as with all waivers, it has the potential to establish political or practical expectations for future disclosures under similar circumstances, especially regarding a specific subject matter.

1085
01:41:49,940 --> 01:41:54,420
But ultimately, as you know, the decision on whether to waive or preserve privilege lies with the council.

1086
01:41:55,940 --> 01:41:56,700
Thank you.

1087
01:41:57,740 --> 01:41:59,340
I have a question.

1088
01:42:00,180 --> 01:42:03,500
I didn't, I just saw that it came back.

1089
01:42:03,880 --> 01:42:11,460
I don't know the contents of what was sent over to the district attorney, but when something

1090
01:42:11,460 --> 01:42:17,760
is sent over, the person sending it can put down as much information as they have personal

1091
01:42:17,760 --> 01:42:18,760
knowledge of.

1092
01:42:20,900 --> 01:42:36,660
must it be, you know, something that you say you wrote in a message or can it just be first hand knowledge from, you know, an individual, like anybody in the audience, I know, can send stuff off right to the grand jury.

1093
01:42:36,940 --> 01:42:38,220
It can be either.

1094
01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:46,720
You can have first hand knowledge is great, always, obviously, but if you have documentation that you would like to turn over, you can do that as well.

1095
01:42:46,720 --> 01:42:55,540
Okay, so on this item, what was the specific other than it said it wasn't, there wasn't enough information?

1096
01:42:56,400 --> 01:43:03,440
I believe that the request was for direct information by people with first-hand knowledge and or, you know, any other evidence that you aren't to produce.

1097
01:43:03,840 --> 01:43:05,380
Okay, okay, Vice Mayor.

1098
01:43:05,700 --> 01:43:15,760
Yeah, I mean, if everybody can recall, I, I mean, let me first start by saying that I'm glad that we're finally on track and things are moving forward, so I do want to say that.

1099
01:43:15,760 --> 01:43:22,560
I think now this is just a matter of process and everything that's been on a track is now on track, so I'm going to figure out one city attorney, I'd like to clarify.

1100
01:43:23,580 --> 01:43:33,500
Us, we've waived privilege before, this council's waived privilege before with respect to the Brown Act investigation that occurred involving one of my colleagues up here, correct?

1101
01:43:34,400 --> 01:43:35,020
That's correct.

1102
01:43:35,180 --> 01:43:42,660
Okay, and that didn't set precedent for this matter or any other matter to automatically waived privilege for something just for any other reason.

1103
01:43:42,660 --> 01:43:47,540
And this is just another isolated request as that was an isolated request, correct?

1104
01:43:47,900 --> 01:43:48,680
That's correct.

1105
01:43:49,000 --> 01:44:03,440
And does the, without getting into the details of what we're asking to be waived, do you see there being any considerable liability to the city if we waive privilege for what I'm asking us to waive?

1106
01:44:05,590 --> 01:44:08,990
Nothing that I can, you know, that immediately jumps out now.

1107
01:44:09,050 --> 01:44:09,210
Okay.

1108
01:44:09,210 --> 01:44:12,930
And so, to the question the mayor asks, which was a great question, do we take,

1109
01:44:13,130 --> 01:44:16,970
here say, from individuals or firsthand information we may have from talking to a person

1110
01:44:16,970 --> 01:44:18,330
or direct evidence?

1111
01:44:18,650 --> 01:44:22,870
I think if you're talking about, you know, O.J. Simpson killing a coal, you take the glove,

1112
01:44:22,970 --> 01:44:26,910
you take the blood, you take everything you can because you're trying to build a case

1113
01:44:26,910 --> 01:44:28,130
that a crime happened.

1114
01:44:28,410 --> 01:44:33,430
That is what I think is attempting to be done here as a request of this counsel, going

1115
01:44:33,430 --> 01:44:36,970
to that district attorney, that district attorney saying on its, on the surface,

1116
01:44:36,970 --> 01:44:40,810
there's not enough information here. The second part, I think, that's important

1117
01:44:40,810 --> 01:44:45,310
is that the submissions go back under penalty of perjury that we sign our name to,

1118
01:44:45,370 --> 01:44:52,070
which I am excited to do, but I do believe that this document being waived, the privilege

1119
01:44:52,070 --> 01:44:58,610
being waived, it does solidify a very clear example of what this council has been trying to

1120
01:44:58,610 --> 01:44:59,350
get at it also.

1121
01:45:00,460 --> 01:45:26,480
All the time we spent around these concerns. So, again, I think what I've heard is it doesn't create a significant impact to the city. In terms of liability, it doesn't set precedent for future waivers, and it is in direct consistent expectation that this council voted on to send this matter to the district attorney. I appreciate all those points, especially bringing up the prior.

1122
01:45:26,480 --> 01:45:33,360
where we have released privileged information, it was at the conclusion.

1123
01:45:33,940 --> 01:45:41,500
My concern is if this is waive, does it go just directly then to the district attorney, or is it released at large?

1124
01:45:42,140 --> 01:45:45,620
It's released at large, once waive, privilege is waived, it's waived for all.

1125
01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:54,980
So if you get public records, I request, if we are in, you know, and again, this is a general example, not one specific to this particular document.

1126
01:45:54,980 --> 01:46:02,500
But if we were to be in litigation, right, and you waive privilege on a document, it becomes discoverable once privilege is gone.

1127
01:46:02,920 --> 01:46:05,320
So it can't just go to the district attorney.

1128
01:46:05,500 --> 01:46:05,880
It cannot.

1129
01:46:12,120 --> 01:46:13,860
Because that's that's my concern.

1130
01:46:14,660 --> 01:46:19,800
Because we've all experienced, you know, speculation in a new window.

1131
01:46:19,800 --> 01:46:23,340
I don't think there's a person up here that hasn't has an experience that.

1132
01:46:25,280 --> 01:46:33,700
So, with that information, yeah, there's no way that it can just go directly to the district attorney.

1133
01:46:34,020 --> 01:46:39,900
There's not, we looked at this extensively when this body decided to weigh privilege with the Brown Act report,

1134
01:46:40,120 --> 01:46:42,880
and once it's waived it's done, there's plenty of case law on this.

1135
01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:48,680
Okay.

1136
01:46:52,930 --> 01:46:57,290
Seeing no more lights, Council Member Enriquez.

1137
01:46:57,290 --> 01:47:03,310
Yeah, thank you, Mayor, to the mayor's point, by the question of if he can go directly to the district attorney's office.

1138
01:47:03,470 --> 01:47:10,810
Can we, as a council, give specific direction that that specific document just go through the city of attorney's office to the DA's office?

1139
01:47:11,190 --> 01:47:11,470
No.

1140
01:47:16,310 --> 01:47:16,830
Nice, Mayor.

1141
01:47:18,350 --> 01:47:22,290
First of all, I think my colleagues for this debate in the open forum.

1142
01:47:23,230 --> 01:47:29,710
Truth, trust and transparency, we talk about it, we email it, we put it on our social media, we go on the news about it.

1143
01:47:29,710 --> 01:47:35,390
There's been a lot of public conversation related to allegations and I love that the mere

1144
01:47:35,390 --> 01:47:38,250
point of that out because I'm somebody sitting here with so many allegations.

1145
01:47:38,570 --> 01:47:43,630
I have a org chart now trying to figure out where they're all coming from and I know I'm

1146
01:47:43,630 --> 01:47:44,170
sure there'll be more.

1147
01:47:44,730 --> 01:47:51,310
That said, I think in the spirit of creating and enhancing public trust, we've had a lot

1148
01:47:51,310 --> 01:47:55,650
of conversation about Brand Act violations, we've had lots of conversations about going to

1149
01:47:55,650 --> 01:47:58,130
the DA and the district and the grand jury.

1150
01:47:58,130 --> 01:48:05,890
We did that action to one of our colleagues up here on something that had nothing to do with the work that we're doing right now as a result of

1151
01:48:05,890 --> 01:48:10,770
information requests that came in from somebody else and we did that

1152
01:48:11,240 --> 01:48:14,830
in that actually subject in one of our colleagues to

1153
01:48:14,830 --> 01:48:22,430
being exposed in a report that was before this Council even took office, so I just out of respect for being consistent because I feel again one rule that

1154
01:48:22,430 --> 01:48:23,710
applies one applies to all

1155
01:48:23,710 --> 01:48:50,990
Well, but looking at this incident, we have the district attorney of Salon King County asking us to submit evidence of our claims that we've made in public and to sign under penalty of penalty of perjury and provide all the relevant evidence, which includes people and all of that, but we have evidence and we're all the same group that voted, I don't even know majority, I think majority voted for it to go the district attorney.

1156
01:48:50,990 --> 01:48:54,210
I was dissenting that we don't send to district attorney now.

1157
01:48:54,330 --> 01:49:00,590
I'm saying let's send it all to the district attorney and I want to sign under penalty of perjury with the information I want to submit.

1158
01:49:00,750 --> 01:49:02,890
This is a key piece of that.

1159
01:49:03,250 --> 01:49:06,910
It doesn't set precedent again and it doesn't subject the city to liability.

1160
01:49:07,050 --> 01:49:08,390
That's what the city attorney said.

1161
01:49:08,550 --> 01:49:14,770
So again, in the spirit of truth, trust, and transparency and without getting into the details of it,

1162
01:49:14,910 --> 01:49:19,150
I don't know why we wouldn't comply with the request of the district attorney.

1163
01:49:19,150 --> 01:49:19,790
And

1164
01:49:22,610 --> 01:49:28,390
going back, it was at the conclusion of an investigation, it was at the conclusion

1165
01:49:28,390 --> 01:49:31,490
of a report that privilege was weighed.

1166
01:49:32,430 --> 01:49:38,230
In terms of claims made in the public, I remember two meetings ago, or was it three meetings

1167
01:49:38,230 --> 01:49:45,830
ago, actually this stuff, what was contained in this, potentially in this document, was brought

1168
01:49:45,830 --> 01:49:47,410
up, was mentioned.

1169
01:49:47,410 --> 01:49:57,590
and I just, it doesn't set precedence in terms of waving privilege, I think it does in

1170
01:49:57,590 --> 01:50:01,570
terms of waving privilege on something that hasn't been investigated, but I understand

1171
01:50:01,570 --> 01:50:03,350
it's because you want it to be investigated.

1172
01:50:04,050 --> 01:50:09,890
And I don't know if the individuals could be named and those individuals could then speak

1173
01:50:09,890 --> 01:50:13,630
with the district attorney without having to release a document.

1174
01:50:14,810 --> 01:50:15,490
Go ahead, Vice Mayor.

1175
01:50:15,490 --> 01:50:16,190
No, thank you, Mayor.

1176
01:50:16,510 --> 01:50:20,250
I didn't want all of these allegations to be made in the public.

1177
01:50:20,470 --> 01:50:23,530
I didn't want all of these allegations to be subject to an investigation.

1178
01:50:23,870 --> 01:50:26,350
I did not create this conversation.

1179
01:50:26,350 --> 01:50:31,370
I think it's important to note there were allegations made against my colleague and

1180
01:50:31,370 --> 01:50:33,130
then made against me in public.

1181
01:50:33,510 --> 01:50:36,850
And then as a way of just saying, hey, let's just put it all on the table.

1182
01:50:36,990 --> 01:50:39,010
Let's get them all investigated so we can all move forward.

1183
01:50:39,170 --> 01:50:41,870
And we can ensure that public knows the outcome of that.

1184
01:50:42,270 --> 01:50:48,550
We then had a whole exercise where everybody wanted to go to the district attorney because I think they believe the district attorney

1185
01:50:48,550 --> 01:50:52,050
Was just going to rubber stamp it and say yeah, let's go lock everybody up that didn't happen

1186
01:50:52,050 --> 01:50:59,070
He sent it back and said nope return to sender if you want to send it to me send me evidence and sign your name on it

1187
01:50:59,070 --> 01:51:03,470
Because perjury will put people in jail or have charges brought against them for violating the law

1188
01:51:03,470 --> 01:51:10,610
I've or I've said many times that this platform the public the people's platform should not be used for political theater and also for

1189
01:51:11,970 --> 01:51:12,770
political weaponization.

1190
01:51:13,250 --> 01:51:16,530
I know there are people up here that have tried to hide under legislative immunity.

1191
01:51:16,950 --> 01:51:19,110
You see the letters for my attorneys, that's not going to work.

1192
01:51:20,110 --> 01:51:22,510
And so all I'm saying is, what do we have to lose?

1193
01:51:22,730 --> 01:51:26,270
We're not going to lose anything by sending to the district attorney, but what we are going

1194
01:51:26,270 --> 01:51:31,070
to lose with the public watching is trust because they're going to think this is a circus.

1195
01:51:31,070 --> 01:51:33,490
And again, not trying to rehash all the old stuff.

1196
01:51:33,490 --> 01:51:39,150
This is literally just to be able to get us on track by letting a fair and free investigation

1197
01:51:39,150 --> 01:51:44,590
have been in, let the chips fall where they may. And if people that have said I've

1198
01:51:44,590 --> 01:51:47,910
extorted them, or that Councilmember Rick has a volley, the Brown Act believe

1199
01:51:47,910 --> 01:51:51,850
that and stand on it and have evidence and sign on penalty of perjury, they should

1200
01:51:51,850 --> 01:51:57,910
send that. I want to do the same because I believe in our process and I believe in

1201
01:51:57,910 --> 01:52:00,830
the district attorney's office and I just want to be able to do that. Now, if this

1202
01:52:00,830 --> 01:52:06,250
Council votes majority that they don't want to support that, then I mean that it

1203
01:52:06,250 --> 01:52:11,450
It is what it is, but I would like to just make the motion that we approve this item.

1204
01:52:13,090 --> 01:52:13,730
Second.

1205
01:52:14,890 --> 01:52:16,630
So we have a motion in a second.

1206
01:52:17,130 --> 01:52:18,270
Council Member Chlizbo,

1207
01:52:21,340 --> 01:52:26,140
motion passes 4-3, Pugazi, Ponce, Villapudua, dissenting.

1208
01:52:27,280 --> 01:52:30,900
Okay, let's move on then to 12.5.

1209
01:52:31,560 --> 01:52:38,300
Council Member Blower pulled that item which is appointment to Water Advisory Group.

1210
01:52:38,300 --> 01:52:39,360
And it's your appointment.

1211
01:52:39,920 --> 01:52:49,060
Yes, yes, I just wanted to thank Katrina, Mambula Santos for stepping up and for applying to this watery advisory group.

1212
01:52:49,360 --> 01:52:57,720
And I just wanted to take the opportunity to kind of make the public aware that we do have these different positions that are open.

1213
01:52:57,980 --> 01:53:08,220
And, you know, sometimes, a lot of times as a council member, you know, you find where you have to go out and kind of recruit people to get them to do to serve in a role or

1214
01:53:08,220 --> 01:53:10,400
or to do on one of these boards and commissions.

1215
01:53:11,060 --> 01:53:13,140
But not always, like this particular one,

1216
01:53:13,700 --> 01:53:15,440
I didn't know this individual,

1217
01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:18,480
but she went online and took the initiative

1218
01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:22,480
to fill out an application.

1219
01:53:22,860 --> 01:53:24,840
And so when I had a vacancy on this,

1220
01:53:25,820 --> 01:53:27,880
I went to see if anybody had applied

1221
01:53:27,880 --> 01:53:31,280
and I saw her information, read through it,

1222
01:53:31,380 --> 01:53:34,440
did some follow-up calls with people that know her.

1223
01:53:34,440 --> 01:54:03,340
And so just if any of you out there have a desire to serve, you want to do something with your community if you go to the city of Stockton website and you go to on the top tab, you hit government, then you go to boards and commissions, and within boards and commissions, you'll then see boards and commissions vacancies, and that's where you can then look through and see where there are vacancies.

1224
01:54:03,340 --> 01:54:08,540
And once you click on it, there'll be another button that you can click to apply.

1225
01:54:08,900 --> 01:54:11,780
So I just thought I'd take the opportunity to kind of point that out.

1226
01:54:11,860 --> 01:54:17,500
And again, thank my appointee for taking the initiative and filling that out.

1227
01:54:17,980 --> 01:54:20,100
And with that, I'd like to make a motion to approve.

1228
01:54:21,280 --> 01:54:21,720
Second.

1229
01:54:22,300 --> 01:54:23,980
Motion to second, council please vote.

1230
01:54:26,640 --> 01:54:28,180
Motion carries 7-0.

1231
01:54:28,540 --> 01:54:31,120
Congratulations Katrina, look forward to you serving.

1232
01:54:31,120 --> 01:54:46,300
Okay, moving on then to item 12.9, right, 12.9. Employee Health Plans, the city's 2026 Employee Health Plans.

1233
01:54:46,520 --> 01:54:48,320
Hello. Good evening.

1234
01:54:49,180 --> 01:54:53,520
My arrest deputy director of human resources, I'm here to answer your questions.

1235
01:54:53,920 --> 01:54:55,420
Councilwoman Fudia pulled that item.

1236
01:54:56,100 --> 01:55:15,460
Thank you, I just want to thank staff that came here and made comments and then staff that also submitted comments to us and I just want to let you know I do unite with you and I stand with you and I hear you.

1237
01:55:15,460 --> 01:55:24,120
So, I just want to acknowledge, we all know that there's been increases in premiums.

1238
01:55:24,620 --> 01:55:28,780
And I was on this dius when we had the same issue last year.

1239
01:55:29,680 --> 01:55:41,420
So my first question is, when was the finalization of getting all the premiums and costs complete?

1240
01:55:42,140 --> 01:55:50,980
So we started the process, I believe it was in April and we got the final rates in July to beginning of August.

1241
01:55:52,160 --> 01:56:04,320
Okay, and when do the employees or need to make a decision to sign or, I mean, are you going to need us to do this tonight because I think last year, that was the problem.

1242
01:56:04,320 --> 01:56:09,620
I'll open on ruminate in October, October 1st through the 31st and the plans are

1243
01:56:09,620 --> 01:56:11,540
effective January 1st.

1244
01:56:12,400 --> 01:56:15,780
So we don't have another meeting before October 1st, right?

1245
01:56:16,560 --> 01:56:20,720
So then, yes, we would have to make a decision tonight, correct?

1246
01:56:23,770 --> 01:56:28,890
I'm going to clarify that if we don't approve the health benefit renewal, our employees will

1247
01:56:28,890 --> 01:56:30,930
not have health benefits come January 1st.

1248
01:56:31,070 --> 01:56:33,610
So that is the same challenge that we had last year.

1249
01:56:33,710 --> 01:56:34,830
So I wanted to clarify that.

1250
01:56:34,970 --> 01:56:35,230
Yeah.

1251
01:56:35,230 --> 01:56:41,890
Yeah, I knew that from last year, it was like, we had to do something other than otherwise they weren't going to get benefits.

1252
01:56:42,430 --> 01:56:50,490
Just a question, if we had the information in July, how come it took to the deadline to do?

1253
01:56:50,530 --> 01:56:57,390
We get the final rates in July and then we negotiate with those vendors to try to get a better rate, decrease it.

1254
01:56:57,390 --> 01:57:11,930
they did decrease it from 39% to 5%, and then we had to request formally to add additional plans to help provide cheaper plans which took additional three weeks, and then it brought us here, and now we're here for presentation.

1255
01:57:12,690 --> 01:57:25,410
Okay, that was one of my other questions, and it was like, can we explore any other providers such as United Health Care Blue Shield Blantham, but even we went and have time to do that.

1256
01:57:25,410 --> 01:57:26,390
We did do that.

1257
01:57:26,590 --> 01:57:26,830
We did that.

1258
01:57:27,730 --> 01:57:31,850
We conducted an RFP last year, we met with the union reps.

1259
01:57:32,110 --> 01:57:34,610
We informed them that we would go forward with the RFP.

1260
01:57:35,090 --> 01:57:40,410
We did work with our third-party administrator, and we did issue an RFP, and within the

1261
01:57:40,410 --> 01:57:47,010
SAF report it shows that we did get declinations from multiple vendors to respond and provide

1262
01:57:47,010 --> 01:57:54,050
a bid to provide insurance to us, and the other pools that we did go to were more expensive

1263
01:57:54,050 --> 01:57:56,410
events have been our current rates that we have right now.

1264
01:57:57,310 --> 01:58:05,510
Okay, so I know last year we came to an agreement to offer $2 million, a one-time bonus

1265
01:58:06,750 --> 01:58:12,070
to offset some of this that our staff is incurring.

1266
01:58:12,670 --> 01:58:20,470
What other options might there be besides that one-time bonus that we could look at?

1267
01:58:20,470 --> 01:58:34,390
There would be no other options at this point other than work with the, you know, ASD financial team come the fourth quarter to see if there are any funds available to offset or support provide support to employees are impacted.

1268
01:58:35,130 --> 01:58:48,330
So I did some little homework myself and I did some calculations and I know we always talk about long term range.

1269
01:58:48,330 --> 01:58:58,390
And we like to do, I mean we typically offer the one-time bonus because it's just for that one-time thing and we don't want to

1270
01:58:59,430 --> 01:59:04,830
provide something that's going to be recurring because then we're obligated to it.

1271
01:59:05,770 --> 01:59:15,370
But it seems like last year we're here, I mean last year we had the same problem. We're sitting in the same place.

1272
01:59:15,370 --> 01:59:20,570
I myself do not foresee premiums going down.

1273
01:59:21,630 --> 01:59:28,650
I feel it seems like we're going to be on the same trend of premiums going up.

1274
01:59:29,610 --> 01:59:35,090
So I was thinking, again, what other options could we provide?

1275
01:59:35,590 --> 01:59:45,110
And I did some calculations if we did a fixed percentage, offered a fixed percentage for

1276
01:59:45,110 --> 01:59:58,910
For example, and I just did this at 80-20 and I'm not saying that's what it has to be but I just, that's what I chose, 80% employee, 20% city.

1277
01:59:58,910 --> 01:59:59,970
Now

1278
02:00:00,660 --> 02:00:30,040
My numbers could be wrong, but I hope they're not. If we did that, it would only be a cost to the city 1.26 million annually. And, again, I know you're going to say that this is going to be, you know, a lifetime recurring. But with that said, is there something we could put in place? So like, maybe this is just,

1279
02:00:30,040 --> 02:00:34,760
just for two years, a fixed percentage rate.

1280
02:00:35,820 --> 02:00:37,380
I'm just looking at options.

1281
02:00:37,980 --> 02:00:42,660
Okay, so first I want to go back to say last year we did not do a one time bonus.

1282
02:00:43,380 --> 02:00:50,460
Last year, $2 million was put towards the premiums and we actually increased the premiums by 10% last year.

1283
02:00:50,780 --> 02:00:56,480
So that was a permanent ongoing fix that we tried to implement to help employees on an ongoing basis.

1284
02:00:56,480 --> 02:01:03,340
In addition, there was negotiations that increased the premium's additional 2% on an annual basis.

1285
02:01:03,660 --> 02:01:05,940
So I just wanted to share that they did get 12%.

1286
02:01:05,940 --> 02:01:09,580
So I wanted to clarify that first so that we all have clear understanding.

1287
02:01:10,040 --> 02:01:18,340
When we talk about an 80-20% ratio, that means that we cannot estimate our future cost and

1288
02:01:18,340 --> 02:01:23,000
budget accordingly on our long range financial plan or any kind of benefit.

1289
02:01:23,000 --> 02:01:26,980
because we will always be hit with a percentage instead of a fixed dollar amount.

1290
02:01:27,440 --> 02:01:34,840
So it's harder for a city to for kind of, you can't foresee the future, we could just look at what's been happening.

1291
02:01:35,000 --> 02:01:39,540
We're seeing 20, 30% increases, that's nationwide, it's not just us.

1292
02:01:39,900 --> 02:01:42,640
But when you're trying to budget and you're trying to look ahead,

1293
02:01:43,200 --> 02:01:47,460
you could not do that on a budget, not knowing what you're going to incur, but on a dollar budget,

1294
02:01:47,460 --> 02:02:01,240
You can actually budget, accordingly, look at your long range financial plan, which is 2% right now, and I will also share that prior to bankruptcy, it was percentage base, and they took that away and made it a dollar amount for one of those reasons.

1295
02:02:02,080 --> 02:02:04,740
Why could we just do it for one year then?

1296
02:02:05,700 --> 02:02:10,920
So you want to give it to them and then take them, because you can't take it away.

1297
02:02:11,160 --> 02:02:17,000
Does that make sense like, if you're going to do something for a one year, you would give a one time supplemental pay.

1298
02:02:17,200 --> 02:02:20,900
So what you would do is say, you're going to be impacted by $3,000.

1299
02:02:21,180 --> 02:02:22,420
I want to help with that impact.

1300
02:02:22,580 --> 02:02:28,200
I'm going to give you a one time payment of $3,000 to mitigate that impact to you, because we know what's going.

1301
02:02:28,560 --> 02:02:31,900
Then you are going to have to look at future years based on your budget to say,

1302
02:02:31,900 --> 02:03:01,880
how can we help you ongoing in the future, but right now, you know that we've just done cuts, we have cuts coming, that would just not be beneficial to the city to say it's ongoing, but you're right, it's going to continue to grow, and that's where we need to be strategic in our plan of how we would do that moving forward, but at this point with the budget, the uncertainty not having to see if, you know, having the challenges in our budget and upcoming, you know, potential cuts that

1303
02:03:01,880 --> 02:03:05,680
that we may have, or not cuts, but reductions, I want to kind of reword that.

1304
02:03:06,520 --> 02:03:12,000
We would do it as a dollar amount this year, and that's what I would just recommend to see if you do have that financial being.

1305
02:03:12,200 --> 02:03:18,780
But if you take it and you give it to them one year and take it away, it's going to be the same thing as giving them a one time offset.

1306
02:03:19,980 --> 02:03:24,120
And I will defer to my colleagues for any other questions.

1307
02:03:24,580 --> 02:03:30,440
And I just was going to say, because of that 12% last year, that then was added because that was a one time.

1308
02:03:30,440 --> 02:03:31,840
No, that was ongoing.

1309
02:03:32,600 --> 02:03:35,100
Oh, so it's so added to their phone.

1310
02:03:35,100 --> 02:03:37,080
So 10% was ongoing.

1311
02:03:37,440 --> 02:03:37,720
Okay.

1312
02:03:37,780 --> 02:03:41,120
The 2% is when it's negotiated, and they get that increase.

1313
02:03:41,380 --> 02:03:49,540
So SEA, BNC, and the miscellaneous OE3 units have, they will get it January 2026, too.

1314
02:03:49,860 --> 02:03:55,520
And then the fire management and SPMA will also get it because they just agreed to that come January.

1315
02:03:55,520 --> 02:03:55,660
Thank you, Mary.

1316
02:03:56,720 --> 02:03:57,140
Vice Mayor.

1317
02:03:57,780 --> 02:03:58,440
Thank you, Mayor.

1318
02:03:58,660 --> 02:04:04,220
And I want to thank my colleague, Councilman Padilla, for doing research and trying to find options.

1319
02:04:04,400 --> 02:04:09,360
I mean, I think the one frustrating thing for me, just to be very transparent, is that, you know,

1320
02:04:09,400 --> 02:04:15,340
and I had this experience during audit yesterday, as I feel like, we're rushed to make big decisions with no time.

1321
02:04:15,900 --> 02:04:21,780
And I think our staff deserve time and consideration, not to say that, you know, this is not a personal attack.

1322
02:04:21,780 --> 02:04:36,560
This is just me just being very honest that somebody who worked in the labor movement in health care for 11 years and somebody who owned a health care business insurance business, I understand that one people are very married to their providers and

1323
02:04:37,360 --> 02:04:40,800
continuum or continuity of care is an important thing for some people.

1324
02:04:40,800 --> 02:04:52,960
On the other hand, you know, elections do matter and there are a lot of changes happening in our federal government and in our state that are impacting health care and companies that provide health care, so I just want to acknowledge the reality of that.

1325
02:04:53,600 --> 02:04:58,140
Open enrollment is a period, it's not a day, so open enrollment starts and ends when.

1326
02:04:58,460 --> 02:05:01,780
October 1st is the first saying it ends October 31st.

1327
02:05:01,780 --> 02:05:01,980
Okay.

1328
02:05:02,280 --> 02:05:06,220
And then those benefits go into effect January 1st.

1329
02:05:06,220 --> 02:05:10,720
So the reason why I asked the question from my colleague who asked, you know, do we have time?

1330
02:05:12,180 --> 02:05:17,140
I'm not moved to vote yes today on this for various reasons I'll state in a second.

1331
02:05:17,560 --> 02:05:23,600
But I do think that gives us some time to have a little bit more consideration even if we have to do a special meeting.

1332
02:05:23,760 --> 02:05:24,500
So that's number one.

1333
02:05:25,060 --> 02:05:29,860
The second part is, let me ask, looking at 35% just seems outrageous.

1334
02:05:29,860 --> 02:05:37,580
Were there no other, was there no other opportunity to negotiate a better deal with them, and if not why?

1335
02:05:37,800 --> 02:05:42,300
We did, we, our third party administrator, allyant, tried for nine months to negotiate.

1336
02:05:42,740 --> 02:05:52,900
Okay, and so not being able to talk directly with the bargaining units, were there conversations about other providers and wanting to consider?

1337
02:05:52,900 --> 02:05:59,380
Yes, and we did agree to go out to RFP and to ask to join Pulse, so when we looked at Monterey, we looked at Prism,

1338
02:05:59,380 --> 02:06:04,980
We looked at CalPERS, those are the pool programs, and those rates are actually more expensive than what we have now.

1339
02:06:05,560 --> 02:06:12,820
And they don't offer setter doctors or PPO doctors here within the Northern California Central Valley.

1340
02:06:13,260 --> 02:06:14,600
So they would lose their doctors.

1341
02:06:15,280 --> 02:06:19,480
And then the other providers, that's where they went out individually to even say,

1342
02:06:19,600 --> 02:06:24,860
will you bid on us and provide a quote to see if we could add Athens or

1343
02:06:24,860 --> 02:06:28,980
had United Health Care add, you know, health, what is it, health net.

1344
02:06:29,760 --> 02:06:35,060
And they refuse to bid on us because Sutter does not provide experience reports.

1345
02:06:35,200 --> 02:06:42,200
And what that means is, as a city, we have self-insured plans, and we're bill, we have usage, and that's our utilization data.

1346
02:06:42,360 --> 02:06:50,960
So how much do we actually pay into premiums, and then how much medical payout are they actually incurred?

1347
02:06:50,960 --> 02:06:53,460
So that's kind of like your utilization report, right?

1348
02:06:53,460 --> 02:06:59,340
how much are they utilizing our services, and without that data, they can't quote on you, so they refuse to, so they declined.

1349
02:07:00,060 --> 02:07:06,800
So where we kind of are today is, these are our benefits, we did go out for RFP, they reached out to different vendors,

1350
02:07:07,000 --> 02:07:12,180
medical providers to say, can you been on us, they declined, we're not going to get additional options.

1351
02:07:12,800 --> 02:07:18,180
But I do think that it is beneficial to bring the item to approve this item, but

1352
02:07:18,180 --> 02:07:22,720
come back on the discussion of how can we help employees before January to see if there's some

1353
02:07:22,720 --> 02:07:26,900
the financial resources that we can find before January.

1354
02:07:27,240 --> 02:07:30,640
Because then we can change the city contributions.

1355
02:07:30,780 --> 02:07:35,380
Even though our rates with the providers will not change and the plans will not change,

1356
02:07:35,680 --> 02:07:40,220
the employer contribution that we pay towards benefits can be adjusted later on.

1357
02:07:40,660 --> 02:07:42,440
And so I appreciate that.

1358
02:07:42,820 --> 02:07:46,740
So how many of our, because there's a presentation here that we haven't gotten into,

1359
02:07:46,820 --> 02:07:50,840
but let me ask you how many of our employees are Sutter Health Plan members?

1360
02:07:50,840 --> 02:07:51,020
First.

1361
02:07:53,000 --> 02:07:53,840
You have the numbers.

1362
02:07:54,300 --> 02:07:55,980
And would be impacted by this increase.

1363
02:08:03,380 --> 02:08:11,780
So would you have, let's see, about 560 employees, so half archaiser and half a setter?

1364
02:08:12,320 --> 02:08:16,160
So 560 employees would be impacted by this?

1365
02:08:16,540 --> 02:08:16,680
Yes.

1366
02:08:17,160 --> 02:08:24,080
And what does the 35% increase in rates equate to dollars and cents from payroll?

1367
02:08:29,600 --> 02:08:44,020
What is the financial impact to the employee or the overall cost?

1368
02:08:48,890 --> 02:08:52,750
the overall impact to the employee first.

1369
02:08:54,170 --> 02:09:01,950
So, if I'm looking here, under the Sutter HMO, these are both HMO plans, or all of them are HMO plans?

1370
02:09:02,370 --> 02:09:08,610
So, there's certain HMO plans that would have an HMO dental, and then there's an HMO plan that would have a PPO dental.

1371
02:09:08,850 --> 02:09:11,170
So, yes, you will see an HMO plan twice.

1372
02:09:11,170 --> 02:09:19,650
So I'll give you an example, if we have a SETER HMO, that's with our HMO SETER and DENTLE

1373
02:09:19,650 --> 02:09:29,210
Plan, the current monthly employee's payment, and that's their premium, is $151.78 per

1374
02:09:29,210 --> 02:09:36,570
month. The annual amounts, so that's $1800 per year that they would pay out. The new monthly

1375
02:09:36,570 --> 02:09:45,870
is $455.38, and the new annual is $5,464.56, so the annual difference is $3,600.

1376
02:09:46,170 --> 02:09:55,630
Yeah, I mean, again, was there conversations with the bargaining unit around, I mean,

1377
02:09:55,950 --> 02:10:00,530
it's obvious we've received so many emails and public comments and all that about this matter.

1378
02:10:00,530 --> 02:10:06,030
is was there any conversation with the bargaining unit around eliminating

1379
02:10:06,030 --> 02:10:10,010
such as an option? And of course, I don't know, was that just a no?

1380
02:10:10,550 --> 02:10:15,150
No, so that's going to take a longer process. So that's where you actually have to meet

1381
02:10:15,150 --> 02:10:19,910
with employees, meet with unions, have a town hall, look and address the impact on

1382
02:10:19,910 --> 02:10:23,210
the employees and get feedback. So when you're looking at changing plans

1383
02:10:23,210 --> 02:10:27,670
entirely, eliminating plans and doctors, you have to keep in mind there are

1384
02:10:27,670 --> 02:10:35,170
There are employees who have current existing medical conditions, and we can't just make that decision from a city to say we're going to just cut this out.

1385
02:10:35,610 --> 02:10:43,010
We can look at that financial impact to the employees and say here are options, but that will take about a year and a half to do because you have to hold town halls.

1386
02:10:43,390 --> 02:10:56,610
You have to have vendors come on board, you have to talk with the employees, you have to make sure to have those one on one meetings with the vendors and the employees to ask questions to choose their provider.

1387
02:10:56,610 --> 02:10:59,150
So you have to give employees time and adequate information.

1388
02:10:59,370 --> 02:11:08,650
And my last question is, so there's no other alternative provider to the Sutter plan that would be competitive and better than this.

1389
02:11:08,970 --> 02:11:11,790
They did, they refused to bid or quote to us.

1390
02:11:12,850 --> 02:11:15,430
Correct, so no one else would offer us health benefits.

1391
02:11:17,190 --> 02:11:17,810
Thank you.

1392
02:11:20,360 --> 02:11:21,180
Yeah, thank you, Mayor.

1393
02:11:21,420 --> 02:11:38,780
And just to add it on to with the vice mayor and councilman for the other asses, you know, for me it's my first year in office, so I'm just thinking of timeline and, you know, the fact that from July to now, you know, you were saying you were going through negotiations and then now it's being presented to council and now to say we're not going to, oh sorry, so we didn't do negotiations.

1394
02:11:38,780 --> 02:11:40,300
This is not part of negotiations.

1395
02:11:40,860 --> 02:11:50,680
Last year, we met with each union group to enter into a side letter to provide them 10% increases to the employer contributions.

1396
02:11:51,240 --> 02:11:53,500
We do not negotiate health benefits.

1397
02:11:53,740 --> 02:11:55,280
This is a renewal that comes here.

1398
02:11:55,660 --> 02:12:05,160
What we did do with the unions and have an informational meeting with our third party administrator to educate them on what we did do.

1399
02:12:05,160 --> 02:12:10,300
how we went out to RFP, what are our new plans, what are the new rates, and give them a chance to ask questions.

1400
02:12:10,720 --> 02:12:19,740
And my quick, and I guess one of my questions is, it seems like it's a surprise to the employees, because in the last, you know, days that the agenda was publicized, we've been getting a wave of email.

1401
02:12:19,980 --> 02:12:27,580
So it looks like it was a surprise to the employees, unless I might be wrong, but it seemed like they were surprised at that high number of rate.

1402
02:12:27,980 --> 02:12:32,100
And then now you're telling us we have to vote today before August 1st, then we're not going to get healthcare benefits.

1403
02:12:32,100 --> 02:12:49,320
So, we met with the unions August 21st, August 12th, where we educated them and provided them with the new rates in the PowerPoint presentation so that they can inform their members while we were still finalizing and I'm sorry, August 21st, she did give it the right date.

1404
02:12:49,840 --> 02:12:56,380
And then after that we did get the final rates, we got the breakdown of percentages and then we sent out a communication to employees.

1405
02:12:56,380 --> 02:13:02,840
And then once it gets approved tonight, we actually provide the rate sheets, the guides, et cetera.

1406
02:13:03,440 --> 02:13:06,420
Yeah, I mean, I hear you, and again, that's fine.

1407
02:13:06,420 --> 02:13:08,120
It is a short time frame, even from one ratio.

1408
02:13:08,360 --> 02:13:13,020
And this one's even shorter because we tried to negotiate to the very last minute to get extra plans.

1409
02:13:13,300 --> 02:13:18,020
Because we have, Sutter only allows entities to provide a certain amount of plans.

1410
02:13:18,500 --> 02:13:22,520
And we had to get approval from their top management on to get three plans approved.

1411
02:13:22,520 --> 02:13:27,860
So, it was just a lot of going back and forth, and we tried to the very last minute to see if there was any alternate options.

1412
02:13:28,340 --> 02:13:32,580
And then they also took longer to negotiate 4% down from 39% to 35.

1413
02:13:33,100 --> 02:13:38,940
And my last question would be on average, again, I ask just for context, on average in past years, is this pretty normal or is it?

1414
02:13:39,080 --> 02:13:45,320
No, so it's been since COVID, so last year, there was a 22% across the board increase.

1415
02:13:45,320 --> 02:13:52,900
And their justification for that was it's the inflation cost and to kind of level out from COVID.

1416
02:13:53,500 --> 02:13:55,640
So we expected it to be much lower this year.

1417
02:13:55,800 --> 02:14:00,040
For example, Kaiser was 23% last year, but it was only 3% this year.

1418
02:14:00,140 --> 02:14:08,440
And we expected the same from Sutter and Sutter had 35% increase, well 39% increases this year with just the same justification of that offset.

1419
02:14:08,780 --> 02:14:09,040
Thank you.

1420
02:14:09,140 --> 02:14:13,100
So, and like I said before, and I'll kind of share a little bit since everyone wasn't on this group.

1421
02:14:13,100 --> 02:14:16,140
Last year when they did approve it, they approved it at the same time.

1422
02:14:16,600 --> 02:14:30,120
We had open enrollment, and then it came back at the 3rd, 4th, quarter, and that's when the council then made a decision on the financial availability to assist employees, and we can do that again.

1423
02:14:31,420 --> 02:14:32,460
Councilmember Villapudua.

1424
02:14:32,460 --> 02:14:43,360
Yeah, thank you Mayor, you mentioned tell how meetings, on this tell how meeting was there a tell meeting or was it a tell how meeting with the unions, was the employers?

1425
02:14:43,960 --> 02:14:51,680
No, so if we're going to eliminate our current medical plans and we're going to completely cancel

1426
02:14:52,160 --> 02:14:57,840
We're going to move to someone else and we're going to take away employee's medical plans and their providers.

1427
02:14:58,240 --> 02:15:00,000
It would be beneficial to have-

1428
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:29,340
Town halls where all vendors can be included, third party administrators, employees can all come. So that's what I would recommend if we were to change or eliminate center. This time we actually, so two things happened. Last year after the city council provided $2 million to provide employees additional funding for the employer contribution. So all of a portion of what we pay, we met with each union to enter into a side letter to provide them an increase to the employer contribution.

1429
02:15:29,340 --> 02:15:41,860
When we talk about our meeting is when we have our final rates and we talk about the changes we met with the unions August 21st with our third party administrator to allow the unions to see the presentation.

1430
02:15:42,340 --> 02:15:45,960
Here the upcoming renewal and ask any questions with the third party administrator.

1431
02:15:48,240 --> 02:15:49,640
Okay, more further questions.

1432
02:15:50,900 --> 02:15:59,400
Okay, so I have just a comment observation whatnot, you know, when I looked at the outcome

1433
02:15:59,400 --> 02:16:04,720
of the RFP and you have, let's say, no way to price, no way to price.

1434
02:16:04,980 --> 02:16:08,580
And I realize we have 560 or whatnot that are on that.

1435
02:16:08,760 --> 02:16:13,340
I know why I'm on Kaiser, because it's zero, it's zero cost to me.

1436
02:16:13,340 --> 02:16:19,400
I would like to be on setter, but I'm not complaining about Kaiser, mind you, my doctor

1437
02:16:19,400 --> 02:16:20,420
out there, if you're watching.

1438
02:16:21,580 --> 02:16:24,220
But I go with that because I can afford it.

1439
02:16:24,860 --> 02:16:25,980
I can afford it.

1440
02:16:26,200 --> 02:16:32,120
So I understand why people are on Kaiser, why are majority of our employees are on Kaiser

1441
02:16:32,120 --> 02:16:34,640
versus, versus, um, setter.

1442
02:16:35,200 --> 02:16:37,740
I also know at the district we have like five different plans.

1443
02:16:37,940 --> 02:16:40,760
Now, mind you, I was on Kaiser there too.

1444
02:16:41,920 --> 02:16:45,920
but I was on the low deductible, no deductible plan,

1445
02:16:46,340 --> 02:16:48,400
which was actually covered.

1446
02:16:48,880 --> 02:16:50,280
I didn't have to pay any out of pocket.

1447
02:16:50,580 --> 02:16:54,120
So I'm, you know, it's just discouraging to know,

1448
02:16:55,520 --> 02:16:59,620
so blue shield declining because high enrollment in Kaiser,

1449
02:16:59,820 --> 02:17:02,420
well heck yeah, high enrollment in Kaiser, zero.

1450
02:17:03,240 --> 02:17:06,520
But there is entities that if you're 70% enrollment.

1451
02:17:06,820 --> 02:17:09,360
We're darned if we do and we're darned if we don't,

1452
02:17:09,360 --> 02:17:18,740
But no way to price really bothers me, that's even a comment there, and you can explain

1453
02:17:18,740 --> 02:17:28,660
it, but I, again, all this like smoking mirrors or whatnot with people's health, health

1454
02:17:28,660 --> 02:17:34,220
is your wealth, and I feel so bad for people that, you know, we might give them a raise

1455
02:17:34,220 --> 02:17:39,820
with their salary, but they just, it got all eaten up by their health benefits.

1456
02:17:39,940 --> 02:17:44,160
Actually, as it was said, they're probably going to be in the hole because of that.

1457
02:17:44,320 --> 02:17:50,100
And if you're on the high deductible plan, which I am on my Kaiser, I got a bill for $915

1458
02:17:50,100 --> 02:17:59,720
for a lab that I had, $915, and that was sticker shock for me, because I wasn't anticipating

1459
02:17:59,720 --> 02:18:04,660
that because I'm on this thought that oh yeah I don't I just pay my co-pay and I'm good

1460
02:18:04,660 --> 02:18:10,240
well my co-pay was nine hundred and fifteen dollars that I didn't anticipate so how do

1461
02:18:10,240 --> 02:18:14,940
you have people who have a family that are having to pull out five hundred and ninety

1462
02:18:14,940 --> 02:18:23,220
dollars and fifty eight cents from each paycheck especially if they're like I'm salary you

1463
02:18:23,220 --> 02:18:29,280
got people that are hourly you know it's just tough and I realize our back is against

1464
02:18:29,280 --> 02:18:37,680
the wall, which is why when we close out our fiscal year 2425 and we see those numbers

1465
02:18:37,680 --> 02:18:42,100
in November, December, you know, we really need to take a hard look at those numbers

1466
02:18:42,100 --> 02:18:45,340
because I know we've been saying, oh, we can use it for this and we can use it for that

1467
02:18:45,340 --> 02:18:52,100
and we can use it for this. Well, everybody's health is affected by this and I just think that

1468
02:18:52,580 --> 02:18:57,120
you know, we have an obligation. If we don't have employees that are healthy, then what?

1469
02:18:57,120 --> 02:19:03,060
If we have people and I know it's not on you, it's no fault of yours other than the fact that you know

1470
02:19:04,160 --> 02:19:05,460
This is what we have

1471
02:19:06,840 --> 02:19:10,780
So we have to think creatively. We have to think about then that

1472
02:19:11,580 --> 02:19:18,320
2425 and and a one-year, you know one-time fund and then we have to work hard

1473
02:19:18,320 --> 02:19:23,500
However, we need to and if you need me to go out and knock on some doors. I'm happy to do that

1474
02:19:23,500 --> 02:19:25,880
I'm sure everybody up here would be happy to do that

1475
02:19:25,880 --> 02:19:31,160
But maybe it's not proper, but we've got to figure out a way for our employees.

1476
02:19:31,160 --> 02:19:34,340
This just is a lunacy to me.

1477
02:19:35,120 --> 02:19:36,460
So I know it is too, as well.

1478
02:19:36,600 --> 02:19:36,900
Vice mayor.

1479
02:19:37,740 --> 02:19:38,420
Thank you, mayor.

1480
02:19:39,580 --> 02:19:46,600
I want to say that in being transparent, I just say what I feel and what I'm thinking.

1481
02:19:46,820 --> 02:19:48,780
And I'm not in any way attacking staffs.

1482
02:19:48,800 --> 02:19:52,960
I just want to say that because I know when I came in to office, I came in hot and

1483
02:19:52,960 --> 02:19:55,920
everybody was like, oh my God, like this guy, you know, was wrong with him.

1484
02:19:56,580 --> 02:20:01,580
As somebody who has employees and who was working in health care and has watched health

1485
02:20:01,580 --> 02:20:06,540
care providers and their families and seeing how hard our staff work, you know, I, this

1486
02:20:06,540 --> 02:20:15,460
is a personal thing for me because I spent 11 years in the health care industry and to look

1487
02:20:15,460 --> 02:20:19,680
at these rates is just outrageous. I mean, again, I don't want to go too political, but we

1488
02:20:19,680 --> 02:20:23,360
live in a country where we don't have to pay for health care, but that's just not the

1489
02:20:23,360 --> 02:20:29,020
reality that we experience. I do want to say, though, I don't like surprises and I don't like

1490
02:20:29,020 --> 02:20:35,920
being put in position to vote on something with no notice, with no heads up, no along the way side

1491
02:20:35,920 --> 02:20:42,580
bars, two by two, like, hey, FYI, that's one part. So I just want to say to staff, I don't want this

1492
02:20:42,580 --> 02:20:48,100
experience to happen again because it forces us to have a public conversation that we can't fully

1493
02:20:48,100 --> 02:20:51,040
have the way I probably would want to if we were having a private one.

1494
02:20:51,920 --> 02:20:58,480
The second part is that when we do have instances where we're going to be presented with something

1495
02:20:58,480 --> 02:21:02,980
like this that impacts our workforce, that's going to impact morale, that can impact service,

1496
02:21:03,200 --> 02:21:07,020
impact their families in the bottom line of what they're able to provide for their family

1497
02:21:07,020 --> 02:21:13,540
after working hard for the city and our constituents that staff come in with options, like, okay,

1498
02:21:13,540 --> 02:21:20,480
Okay, we're asking council to approve this, but here's how we're going to offset the cost for the staff.

1499
02:21:20,900 --> 02:21:30,800
One example I'm asking, I'm thinking is that fund, and I don't know the fund in Chaz and I here, but maybe Will knows, or maybe you know, that fund that we talked about the $8 million.

1500
02:21:31,260 --> 02:21:31,760
What's that called?

1501
02:21:32,320 --> 02:21:33,400
The contingency fund.

1502
02:21:33,600 --> 02:21:34,280
It was $73.

1503
02:21:35,780 --> 02:21:42,700
She finds extra millions, I don't know, but again, this is why I wasn't going to really pull a lot of items because a lot of the stuff we're talking about today.

1504
02:21:42,700 --> 02:21:46,280
These folks probably have more knowledge of but but you know

1505
02:21:46,280 --> 02:21:48,320
I would just want to be presented with okay

1506
02:21:48,320 --> 02:21:52,240
Here's the bad news. We're we're gonna see a 34% increase for our staff

1507
02:21:52,240 --> 02:21:57,020
But here's the work we did to provide an alternative so that way as a city

1508
02:21:57,020 --> 02:22:03,620
Here's where we found the money to offset that impact then it's the easy no brainer so if staff have that have those

1509
02:22:05,040 --> 02:22:10,580
Options I would like to understand them now if not we should really consider that being a part of this process

1510
02:22:12,260 --> 02:22:13,180
Councilwoman Padilla.

1511
02:22:14,480 --> 02:22:15,120
Thank you, Mayor.

1512
02:22:15,800 --> 02:22:22,980
So I know you said that the enrollment date is October 1st through October 31st.

1513
02:22:22,980 --> 02:22:28,840
However, it's my understanding that we as a city HR sets that date.

1514
02:22:29,680 --> 02:22:32,560
Well, we have to set that date because then we have to do the enrollment.

1515
02:22:33,000 --> 02:22:38,660
We have to do that through the online portal, EDI files, submit it to the vendor.

1516
02:22:38,660 --> 02:22:46,320
do reconciliation and audits to make sure everyone's enrolled, enter the deductions on the payroll

1517
02:22:46,320 --> 02:22:50,680
screen so everything is done by January 1st. So if we don't do it by October, we won't meet that

1518
02:22:50,680 --> 02:22:58,360
deadline. So just out of curiosity, how long does that process take? It takes all the way until January

1519
02:22:58,360 --> 02:23:07,420
1st. I'm just trying to, I mean, I just really wish that we had, or staff had, opportunity to speak

1520
02:23:07,420 --> 02:23:16,480
to staff and have those conversations and I just don't feel comfortable moving forward

1521
02:23:17,680 --> 02:23:20,000
without exploring all options.

1522
02:23:21,820 --> 02:23:25,620
Okay, so I'll just hear we explored every option for the health benefits itself the next

1523
02:23:25,620 --> 02:23:30,420
step would just be for funding and availability. Yeah, I don't mean in regards to premiums.

1524
02:23:30,420 --> 02:23:37,960
We, we, we have to do something I mean, we have to like vice

1525
02:23:37,960 --> 02:23:44,220
smears that find money provide an alternative and so that's

1526
02:23:44,220 --> 02:23:49,060
where I feel right now I just don't feel comfortable moving

1527
02:23:49,060 --> 02:23:55,980
forward without, you know, letting our staff know, you know,

1528
02:23:56,020 --> 02:24:01,160
they are going to get some support somewhere, so that's my

1529
02:24:01,160 --> 02:24:01,520
Any comment?

1530
02:24:02,320 --> 02:24:02,760
Vice Mayor.

1531
02:24:03,080 --> 02:24:03,500
Thank you, Mayor.

1532
02:24:04,140 --> 02:24:10,600
I mean, what I hear you saying is if we don't vote on it, well, first of all, we have

1533
02:24:11,280 --> 02:24:15,780
until October, the end of October, which means we do have another council meeting to bring

1534
02:24:15,780 --> 02:24:16,860
this back to, right?

1535
02:24:17,140 --> 02:24:22,660
So, we have to give them 30 days, we have to give them an opening of 30 days to complete their

1536
02:24:22,660 --> 02:24:23,240
open enrollment.

1537
02:24:23,380 --> 02:24:28,100
Okay, so worst case scenario, we have seven days to do a special meeting, right, so just kind

1538
02:24:28,100 --> 02:24:28,820
of put that out there.

1539
02:24:28,820 --> 02:24:32,940
And again, I'm not asking for that, and I'm asking for permission because that would be a decision that we would make.

1540
02:24:33,440 --> 02:24:36,460
Let me say this, I understand the timelines.

1541
02:24:36,760 --> 02:24:40,340
Again, I said a whole mouthful and didn't get a response, I just wanted to say that.

1542
02:24:40,500 --> 02:24:49,200
In terms of not liking surprises, not liking no two by two's are along the ways, heads up, and not having alternative options.

1543
02:24:49,980 --> 02:24:52,480
So I asked a question, let me ask a specific question.

1544
02:24:52,480 --> 02:24:55,340
And have we considered what's the fund called the contingency fund?

1545
02:24:55,420 --> 02:25:00,560
Have we considered that fund as something that can offset the cost of that way?

1546
02:25:00,720 --> 02:25:05,220
When we do this approval, it's also contingent on us working out those numbers and

1547
02:25:05,220 --> 02:25:09,400
being able to satisfy this expenditure that's going to be passed on to our staff.

1548
02:25:09,840 --> 02:25:15,560
If I may, I believe we can look at some options.

1549
02:25:16,380 --> 02:25:20,260
And I think we can come back with some options to help this.

1550
02:25:20,260 --> 02:25:30,940
Okay, so we will look at all those, but we need some time to get to the end of the year to look at what we have, so then we can make a good decision on what to give.

1551
02:25:31,460 --> 02:25:50,240
So thank you, City Manager Cruz, so my question then is, so open enrollments October 1st to the end of October, these new rates won't go into effect until January, so we have time to approve condition with the condition that we go back and find a way to offset these costs working with labor, working with our staff, and then you'll come back and

1552
02:25:50,240 --> 02:25:58,440
report to us we can give you we can put a timeline around that correct and last year just so you know we did provide employees with the opportunity

1553
02:25:59,460 --> 02:26:02,520
To say just say someone right now

1554
02:26:02,520 --> 02:26:09,350
So just say right now an employee changes to the lowest health care plan

1555
02:26:09,350 --> 02:26:15,430
Because that's all they can afford and then the council is able to provide funding so they want their old plan back

1556
02:26:15,430 --> 02:26:28,350
We have requested with Sutter to do a special enrollment and they've allowed us in the past to say, okay, now that rates have changed, we want this request for our employees to allow them to get to their old plan and we would request that again.

1557
02:26:28,350 --> 02:26:34,810
And that's reasonable and I like that and I like being able to go back and look at solutions and like my colleague said, I think we're all on the same page with that.

1558
02:26:34,970 --> 02:26:41,170
I mean, what we want to get to is, I mean, the mayor, I think, went through the dollars and cents looking at these numbers is just absurd, right?

1559
02:26:41,170 --> 02:26:45,130
And we know that's not your fault, that's not our fault, it's not our staff's fault, the unions fault.

1560
02:26:45,390 --> 02:26:48,630
It's just the big bad with healthcare agencies, and that's just what it is.

1561
02:26:49,630 --> 02:26:53,730
So if I make them, my motion would be to, and then there's people, there's still lights, but

1562
02:26:53,730 --> 02:27:06,050
I mean, I could accept it with the contingency that staff go back, work on a solution that you can come back to us with that would help offset that cost working with our labor part with staff and the union.

1563
02:27:06,050 --> 02:27:13,150
And then, again, in the future, more along the way heads up conversations are two by two,

1564
02:27:13,270 --> 02:27:17,290
so allow us to think together so that we're not surprised by something like this.

1565
02:27:18,290 --> 02:27:24,450
And just to be clear, once the City Council does have an offset for the employees and provides

1566
02:27:24,450 --> 02:27:29,310
additional funding, that's when HR would meet with the unions to enter into a side letter

1567
02:27:29,310 --> 02:27:31,610
agreement to allocate those funds accordingly.

1568
02:27:31,610 --> 02:27:41,790
So we need to make sure that the funds are available and it's not like these are going

1569
02:27:41,790 --> 02:27:42,310
to change.

1570
02:27:43,170 --> 02:27:47,610
I mean we can't call out to Sutter and say please because we're such good, we're such

1571
02:27:47,610 --> 02:27:51,410
a great agency and our employees need help, they're not, you know, they're not going

1572
02:27:51,410 --> 02:27:58,650
to say okay we'll shame another 10% off and this is just the unfortunate truth of the

1573
02:27:58,650 --> 02:27:58,890
matter.

1574
02:27:59,250 --> 02:28:00,010
Councilwoman Fidia.

1575
02:28:00,810 --> 02:28:18,730
I just want to make a comment in regards to what I know happened last year, and while you're going back and researching and how to make this work, I know there was an issue with offering like this bonus.

1576
02:28:19,270 --> 02:28:27,910
And so employees, when they got this bonus, they didn't know that it was to offset health premiums.

1577
02:28:27,910 --> 02:28:35,110
So then the conversation came up the year when we were negotiating and

1578
02:28:36,130 --> 02:28:42,290
premiums increased and then staff said, well, remember, you got that bonus.

1579
02:28:43,270 --> 02:28:52,150
So I just want that information communicated clearly because two city employees and

1580
02:28:52,150 --> 02:28:57,490
staff, the big hurdle was, well, if I knew this was too

1581
02:28:57,490 --> 02:29:04,490
offset healthcare, my healthcare premiums, then I would have budgeted better and planned better,

1582
02:29:04,850 --> 02:29:13,970
but it was given to them with the expectation as a bonus. And again, I'm not attacking staff,

1583
02:29:14,390 --> 02:29:20,990
but I even saw like the email and everything that went out to staff saying, here's your bonus.

1584
02:29:20,990 --> 02:29:33,070
And so I want that communication clearly reported out, and I see our acting city manager will shake in his head because that was an issue.

1585
02:29:33,570 --> 02:29:39,550
Yes, total agreement. We will make sure that we have really good communication on this for sure.

1586
02:29:39,630 --> 02:29:48,570
I actually would recommend, well, because I got a stipend for having my master's degree but it was an amount given every month.

1587
02:29:48,570 --> 02:29:49,710
It wasn't a lump sum.

1588
02:29:50,530 --> 02:29:54,770
So I don't know if that would probably be a paperwork nightmare.

1589
02:29:55,010 --> 02:29:55,530
I don't know.

1590
02:29:55,870 --> 02:29:59,450
But if there was, it was offset rot on each pay period.

1591
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,680
As opposed to a one-time, here's the, you know, if you could take, if it was $3,000, let's say it's $3,000, you break it up over 12 months, that's what $250 a month. So there'd be a $250 a month. Well, you'd have to divide it because you only, you guys get two pay checks. We only got one at school. So you'd have to then divide that into, you know, $125. So $125 each pay period. I know it's probably sounding like I'm making it really difficult, but when we have this conversation, I'm more than happy to write it out.

1592
02:30:29,680 --> 02:30:36,900
So vice mayor can I make a motion yes, I think we had great conversation on all this

1593
02:30:36,900 --> 02:30:41,280
I'd like to make a motion to approve with the condition that staff go back and

1594
02:30:42,960 --> 02:30:49,420
Do whatever work needs to be done in order to offset these costs to our staff and come back within 60 days

1595
02:30:49,420 --> 02:30:52,640
With an update on what that what that looks like

1596
02:30:52,640 --> 02:30:57,790
They have a motion and a second council, please vote

1597
02:31:00,890 --> 02:31:03,490
motion carries seven zero. Thank you

1598
02:31:04,770 --> 02:31:11,910
Okay, we'll go to one more and then a bathroom break if that's okay, or do you want a bathroom break now?

1599
02:31:14,570 --> 02:31:30,470
Okay, so we're going to do 12.11, which is, let me get to it, I got all my papers here, yes, the employee assistant program services contract with simple therapy.

1600
02:31:31,290 --> 02:31:34,970
Thank you, Mayor, and this is just a comment, I will be quick.

1601
02:31:35,790 --> 02:31:39,810
Somebody's probably asking why is she pulling this when it's only 3,000 a month?

1602
02:31:40,250 --> 02:31:44,430
Well, we need to be transparent and we need to look for money, we just have this conversation.

1603
02:31:45,250 --> 02:31:56,290
But thanks to Rosemary, she gave me data that our employees are using the health services provided.

1604
02:31:56,290 --> 02:32:00,630
And the return on our investment is 1.5621.

1605
02:32:01,290 --> 02:32:07,350
The only thing that they're not utilizing is training, like workforce training.

1606
02:32:07,690 --> 02:32:11,730
So I just want people to know our city employees are using this.

1607
02:32:11,950 --> 02:32:15,370
We are spending this money, but it's for a good cause.

1608
02:32:16,090 --> 02:32:17,210
And so is that a motion?

1609
02:32:17,590 --> 02:32:18,670
I will make a motion to approve.

1610
02:32:19,130 --> 02:32:21,330
We have a motion in a second, council, please vote.

1611
02:32:23,170 --> 02:32:23,950
Motion carries.

1612
02:32:23,950 --> 02:32:24,830
Bringing

1613
02:33:05,920 --> 02:33:24,280
the meeting back to order, we are moving on to item 12.11 pulled by Councilwoman Padilla, excuse me, 12.17, which is approve of a motion to authorize contract change order number three for debris removal and pick up project.

1614
02:33:25,820 --> 02:33:27,960
No, I'm going to pass on that comment.

1615
02:33:28,280 --> 02:33:28,380
Sorry.

1616
02:33:29,520 --> 02:33:30,080
Okay.

1617
02:33:31,300 --> 02:33:32,720
So are you making a motion?

1618
02:33:33,260 --> 02:33:34,960
I'm making a motion to approve.

1619
02:33:35,380 --> 02:33:35,540
Second.

1620
02:33:35,960 --> 02:33:36,320
Motion.

1621
02:33:36,520 --> 02:33:37,320
Second, please vote.

1622
02:33:39,020 --> 02:33:40,540
Motion carries 7-0.

1623
02:33:41,040 --> 02:33:41,240
Okay.

1624
02:33:41,340 --> 02:33:44,440
Moving on to 12.18, pulled by Council Member.

1625
02:33:44,800 --> 02:33:45,520
Oh, yeah.

1626
02:33:46,060 --> 02:33:46,620
Enriquez.

1627
02:33:47,780 --> 02:33:48,340
Resolution.

1628
02:33:49,120 --> 02:33:51,680
To designate additional stop control intersection.

1629
02:33:51,680 --> 02:33:54,660
and amend the stop-controlled intersection schedule.

1630
02:33:55,520 --> 02:33:56,100
Thank you, Mayor.

1631
02:33:57,200 --> 02:33:59,700
Yeah, thank you, Deputy City Manager, just a quick question.

1632
02:33:59,760 --> 02:34:07,480
I was happy to know, I know we mentioned, I mentioned this at the last council meeting, my council comments that we were able to get the stop sign installed, I think three or four weeks ago.

1633
02:34:07,560 --> 02:34:09,660
So I want to thank you and your team for making it happen.

1634
02:34:09,840 --> 02:34:15,000
I know it was an initial concern from Supervisor Mario Guardia, and then we were able to get it installed.

1635
02:34:15,260 --> 02:34:17,520
And then I know I mentioned last time how people are still getting used to it.

1636
02:34:17,560 --> 02:34:19,980
Hopefully they're used to it now, but it's been up there for a couple of weeks.

1637
02:34:19,980 --> 02:34:23,340
but the more that we have this throughout the city, the better.

1638
02:34:23,760 --> 02:34:29,740
I was just curious, just really quick, in terms of how many requests just so the public knows that it's not just anybody can just say,

1639
02:34:29,820 --> 02:34:36,600
oh, I want to stop sign here and there and it's going to happen, you know, this is about $1,000 and since August 22nd, 2023,

1640
02:34:36,600 --> 02:34:44,300
it says that there have been many requests submitted, and just for context, give or take if you have an estimate of how many requests have been submitted since that date.

1641
02:34:45,200 --> 02:34:59,100
I don't know how many requests have been submitted since that date, but I can tell you that every time one is submitted and we complete it, we come back to council for a resolution to accept it because it's our stop control intersections.

1642
02:35:00,440 --> 02:35:04,240
The nice thing about this one was that we were able to do all the work in house.

1643
02:35:04,680 --> 02:35:11,620
So our traffic team jumped on it and then our streets team and operations of maintenance was able to go get it installed.

1644
02:35:11,620 --> 02:35:17,700
So yeah, it was a pretty great turn around awesome when I appreciate it. I'm good teamwork all around and I'm happy to know that folks in that area

1645
02:35:17,700 --> 02:35:23,020
Will feel a little bit safer especially if for anyone going towards the country club, which is obviously the way to get there

1646
02:35:23,020 --> 02:35:26,320
So I appreciate it. But yeah, those are all my questions for a 12.18

1647
02:35:27,000 --> 02:35:30,220
There's no other question perfect motion to approve second

1648
02:35:30,770 --> 02:35:31,480
Council please vote

1649
02:35:34,720 --> 02:35:43,920
Motion carries seven zero moving on to 12.19 also pulled by council member Enriquez the Alpine purging Mendocino

1650
02:35:43,920 --> 02:35:47,400
You know, Bicycle Pedestrian Conactivity Project.

1651
02:35:48,840 --> 02:35:49,500
Mr. Reed.

1652
02:35:50,540 --> 02:35:51,720
That one's got a lot going on.

1653
02:35:52,040 --> 02:35:52,680
What can I answer for?

1654
02:35:52,680 --> 02:35:54,360
Yeah, no, thank you Mayor and thank you, Chad.

1655
02:35:54,580 --> 02:35:56,040
Just two quick questions for clarification.

1656
02:35:56,520 --> 02:36:01,520
I just want to make sure the RRFB, there's one of three that are being put in.

1657
02:36:01,520 --> 02:36:02,600
One is in my district.

1658
02:36:02,760 --> 02:36:05,820
I know the other two are in the county pocket on Country Club.

1659
02:36:06,260 --> 02:36:08,240
I just want to make sure it's on the one in my district.

1660
02:36:08,240 --> 02:36:10,060
Is it Alpine and Grange Avenue?

1661
02:36:10,900 --> 02:36:12,820
Just because the vicinity map didn't zoom.

1662
02:36:12,820 --> 02:36:15,920
Obviously, you can zoom in, but it didn't give the intersection.

1663
02:36:18,480 --> 02:36:30,420
It identifies three, it looks like one is in your intersection, or in your district, and I'm not 100% sure exactly what street that is right there, but we can follow up with the exact street naming.

1664
02:36:30,660 --> 02:36:42,480
Okay, perfect, and then that way I can let constituents in that area know, and then also you had said here a project to start in first quarter of 2026, typical completion give or take.

1665
02:36:43,100 --> 02:36:46,200
So this is going to be for the design phase, right?

1666
02:36:46,520 --> 02:36:52,780
So this is where we talk about kind of 10 Mary Elizabeth's comment earlier where we engage the public.

1667
02:36:53,400 --> 02:36:55,920
We take a look, we have community meetings.

1668
02:36:56,660 --> 02:36:59,680
We look at design plans kind of like we're doing on Park and Oak.

1669
02:37:00,440 --> 02:37:04,500
Well, please keep it posted, happy to support, attend and get the word out on those meetings as well.

1670
02:37:04,520 --> 02:37:04,800
Absolutely.

1671
02:37:05,460 --> 02:37:05,720
Thank you.

1672
02:37:06,040 --> 02:37:07,640
No questions, motion to approve.

1673
02:37:07,980 --> 02:37:08,160
Second.

1674
02:37:08,760 --> 02:37:09,500
Motion to second.

1675
02:37:09,500 --> 02:37:20,340
Council please vote. Motion carried 7-0. Moving on to item 12.20, the city sidewalk repair project.

1676
02:37:22,490 --> 02:37:23,570
Yes, sir.

1677
02:37:24,190 --> 02:37:38,350
Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Chad. So I look at this map and I won't lie, I was a little annoyed and disappointed because I know I take the mayor's mantra everywhere I go.

1678
02:37:38,350 --> 02:37:42,590
the first shall be, you know, the first shall be last, the last shall be first.

1679
02:37:42,850 --> 02:37:47,050
And when I look at this, this vicinity map, it looks like the last to last again.

1680
02:37:47,630 --> 02:37:53,030
I don't know how in South East Doctin, there's only one sidewalk that needs to be repaired.

1681
02:37:53,430 --> 02:37:57,430
When I drive around frequently and know that there are several sidewalks that need to be repaired.

1682
02:37:58,130 --> 02:38:04,910
And then in Western Ranch, it looks like there's two, four, six sidewalks to be repaired with a total of seven in my district.

1683
02:38:04,910 --> 02:38:15,530
And then I look at some of the more, and I'll use the word affluent communities are highly covered with green dots.

1684
02:38:16,090 --> 02:38:34,610
So the first question I have kind of goes with what Mary Elizabeth had asked in terms of how are people learning about how to report it, how are we getting the information to them, how are people reporting it, is it just asked Stockton, is there a letter that goes out to every resident that says hey, if you have bad sidewalks,

1685
02:38:34,610 --> 02:38:37,030
please let us know by following these steps.

1686
02:38:37,650 --> 02:38:39,590
Is there a text blast to people?

1687
02:38:40,070 --> 02:38:41,650
Is there something that goes in there water bill?

1688
02:38:41,810 --> 02:38:42,290
I mean, I don't know.

1689
02:38:42,370 --> 02:38:43,310
I'm just asking questions.

1690
02:38:43,830 --> 02:38:46,350
But what is it that, and I know it has nothing to do with water,

1691
02:38:46,510 --> 02:38:48,310
but we're sending them something.

1692
02:38:48,490 --> 02:38:50,910
Is there some way of putting something in an envelope to them?

1693
02:38:51,490 --> 02:38:54,550
Just trying to understand how we got here with these green dots

1694
02:38:54,550 --> 02:38:57,330
and why my district doesn't have more green dots.

1695
02:38:58,030 --> 02:38:58,830
Yeah, for a question.

1696
02:38:59,070 --> 02:39:00,330
So a little bit of background, right?

1697
02:39:00,330 --> 02:39:07,390
Right, we have numerous sidewalk locations throughout the city that need to be repaired.

1698
02:39:08,030 --> 02:39:15,050
And what we work off of for just a fair and transparent method is a backlog sidewalk

1699
02:39:15,050 --> 02:39:16,390
replacement list, right?

1700
02:39:17,010 --> 02:39:20,930
So typically requests for repairs come in through a stocked in, right?

1701
02:39:21,130 --> 02:39:25,990
So a stocked in, a stocked in, a stocked in, that's how we feed the system.

1702
02:39:25,990 --> 02:39:35,690
We also have our public works line at operations and maintenance you can call in and we can add it to the list.

1703
02:39:36,150 --> 02:39:45,370
Currently we have 2367 known locations of damage sidewalks on the backlog sidewalk replacement list.

1704
02:39:46,170 --> 02:39:49,810
This project right here takes care of 455 locations.

1705
02:39:49,810 --> 02:40:06,450
And the way that we work through the list is we go by the order in which it was reported or the date in which it was reported and we just work backwards based off of, you know, council discretionary funding, honestly, that's how we've got the money for these projects over the last five years.

1706
02:40:07,310 --> 02:40:14,570
Yeah, I know I asked, yes, I know I asked to get a copy of all the requests for sidewalks.

1707
02:40:14,570 --> 02:40:20,270
We still think we need that sort of I district and also to include the date I do remember at a prior council

1708
02:40:20,270 --> 02:40:23,990
We had the conversation when it came to traffic calming about

1709
02:40:25,370 --> 02:40:32,270
Refocusing our efforts to be those that were prior that needed priority over when submitted right I know that we had that conversation

1710
02:40:32,850 --> 02:40:35,450
That's a different topic, but hopefully that's been done

1711
02:40:37,250 --> 02:40:38,550
Do we look at

1712
02:40:39,410 --> 02:40:43,570
Is there another way and I'm not asking that there's no suggestion here yet

1713
02:40:43,570 --> 02:40:50,970
But is there another way to evaluate the sidewalk repair requests, meaning we have one where

1714
02:40:51,970 --> 02:40:57,330
You know there's total destruction to the sidewalk or people are falling and reporting injuries or we got a claim

1715
02:40:57,330 --> 02:41:02,090
Because I think we've even had claims here at the city people falling because of bad sidewalks

1716
02:41:02,090 --> 02:41:08,450
Are we looking at some other method of consideration other than submission date? Has there been any conversation about that?

1717
02:41:09,570 --> 02:41:10,610
Yes, and

1718
02:41:10,610 --> 02:41:18,590
And we typically, if a location is going to get bumped, it usually has to do with, or

1719
02:41:18,590 --> 02:41:24,050
I shouldn't say, bumped, but prioritized, we look at public safety, right?

1720
02:41:24,310 --> 02:41:27,890
So comment earlier about sidewalk repairs around the hospital, right?

1721
02:41:28,030 --> 02:41:33,370
So you take an area where people are known to congregate who may or may not already have

1722
02:41:33,370 --> 02:41:40,830
some kind of handicaps and we try it and make sure that that is as safe as possible.

1723
02:41:41,410 --> 02:41:46,550
The request still has to come in, so it still has to be brought in or not outwardly looking

1724
02:41:46,550 --> 02:41:47,350
for locations.

1725
02:41:49,030 --> 02:41:54,490
That's other than that, we've always used the data reporting.

1726
02:41:54,990 --> 02:42:02,410
It's the most fair and transparent way we can keep track of a list and it would be difference

1727
02:42:02,410 --> 02:42:08,890
If we had an ongoing funding source for repairs that we could work through and we just don't have the funding for it

1728
02:42:08,890 --> 02:42:11,510
And so this is a this is the way we

1729
02:42:11,510 --> 02:42:14,110
Yeah, this is the way we've done it. No understanding

1730
02:42:14,110 --> 02:42:21,130
I mean again, like thinking of operates like the city does a bad job at marketing its services and itself anyway

1731
02:42:21,130 --> 02:42:24,750
I think we can all agree to that when you think about like broken window program

1732
02:42:24,750 --> 02:42:31,130
I see that on Instagram sometimes, but I don't know are we at family day at whatever point with a table city table with

1733
02:42:31,130 --> 02:42:34,890
flyers that say, this is not to report your sidewalks or promoting a stock.

1734
02:42:35,090 --> 02:42:40,570
And I don't know every opportunity that could or should be taken to promote the stock in the event.

1735
02:42:41,130 --> 02:42:44,890
And I think about Toys for Joy that's coming in December 4,000 families coming through.

1736
02:42:44,970 --> 02:42:48,330
I'm going to make sure the city has a table to have whatever we need to promote there.

1737
02:42:48,630 --> 02:42:51,390
But I'm just trying to understand at least for my district and

1738
02:42:51,810 --> 02:42:54,070
ask my colleagues to forgive me for taking a little time here.

1739
02:42:54,530 --> 02:42:58,050
What can we do to better communicate and

1740
02:42:58,050 --> 02:43:01,330
make accessible information for people to fix their sidewalks.

1741
02:43:01,350 --> 02:43:03,910
Because I know I hear it from people that they want to fix it.

1742
02:43:03,970 --> 02:43:08,630
But I want to start seeing the reflection of our efforts as a city,

1743
02:43:08,750 --> 02:43:12,110
and the reflection of the efforts of the community to actually report in the need to get it fixed.

1744
02:43:12,910 --> 02:43:20,050
Yeah, and to my knowledge, I'm not aware of a function where let's say public works was out,

1745
02:43:20,050 --> 02:43:27,910
But soliciting citizens on how to enter stockings, I know we talk about it a lot.

1746
02:43:29,110 --> 02:43:37,090
But there probably definitely isn't an opportunity for some kind of a campaign to bring more awareness so

1747
02:43:37,090 --> 02:43:39,030
that we can get the locations reported.

1748
02:43:40,370 --> 02:43:45,550
And then obviously we want to work towards trying to find a source for it.

1749
02:43:45,550 --> 02:43:53,670
There's some inherent legal risk that come with some of this as well, right?

1750
02:43:54,130 --> 02:43:54,910
What part?

1751
02:43:56,190 --> 02:44:03,010
Well, as we track known locations, if we're not fixing the locations, then it can cause issues down the road.

1752
02:44:03,310 --> 02:44:08,290
So we want to get everything reported as we can.

1753
02:44:08,430 --> 02:44:10,350
We also want to make sure that we can work through it.

1754
02:44:11,790 --> 02:44:20,130
So I'll do a better job of using my platforms to promote or over promote and ask my commission to help get the word out so people can do that.

1755
02:44:20,270 --> 02:44:28,930
I don't know, Mayor, has there ever been, I know with the interagency, have we ever talked about maybe like a city newsletter that can go out to students and their parents?

1756
02:44:29,130 --> 02:44:30,530
I mean, have we ever done anything like that?

1757
02:44:31,130 --> 02:44:38,650
In the past, when people actually read the inserts in their bill, when they got their city bill, there used to be a newsletter that was in it way back when.

1758
02:44:38,650 --> 02:44:44,150
Actually, there was a calendar that the city put out itself that had all the activities coming out numbers

1759
02:44:44,150 --> 02:44:47,090
They could call because I have one at home from the 70s

1760
02:44:47,650 --> 02:44:51,010
But I was thinking you know putting it up on buses a few our code

1761
02:44:51,010 --> 02:44:59,670
You click on the few our code it'll take you there, but I mean we have people that can easily do a video and put it on channel 97

1762
02:45:30,000 --> 02:45:59,980
We can have an audience that we can use. We just have to have something that's 30 seconds only. It goes boom, boom, boom, boom. This is how you use it. This is what you do. Or we put QR codes around, like in libraries and buses, like I said, the movie, whatever, wherever people go, congregate, we need to have the QR code. So if it's at every church, or whatnot, that's so be it. I like that idea. I mean, that's, I think what I was getting at, like if we could do a better job, because I talk about a stock than every time I post something.

1763
02:45:59,980 --> 02:46:03,500
it's always in there and I know we all do on our social media but I think like to the

1764
02:46:03,500 --> 02:46:07,860
mayor's point something visible even if it's whatever it could be different like just had

1765
02:46:07,860 --> 02:46:13,000
Kaiser had the drive campaign they had different photos so yoga here broccoli here it all

1766
02:46:13,000 --> 02:46:17,200
was centered around a stock you know if it's all centered around a stock it could be different things

1767
02:46:17,200 --> 02:46:22,820
that $50 submission thing I didn't even know that I would ask I would submit to a stock that I mean

1768
02:46:22,820 --> 02:46:28,020
again that would be something I would love to have more information to share but I do want to

1769
02:46:28,020 --> 02:46:33,020
see my district get more information or just the city in general better education on how to submit these type of

1770
02:46:33,020 --> 02:46:37,780
Request. Yeah, we definitely have the resources a little and the legal dumping isn't through

1771
02:46:38,340 --> 02:46:45,020
City of Stockton. That's through crime stoppers. So if you apply it if you submit it, you know, you get a picture license

1772
02:46:45,020 --> 02:46:49,700
Played all that $50 still $50. Yeah, you have your friend do it

1773
02:46:49,700 --> 02:46:52,460
You know and then report. I'm joking. I'm joking

1774
02:46:52,460 --> 02:46:53,700
I'm going to go to the office.

1775
02:46:53,700 --> 02:46:56,000
So, yeah, Council Member Enriquez.

1776
02:46:56,220 --> 02:46:56,560
Thank you, Mayor.

1777
02:46:57,060 --> 02:47:00,700
Chad, I know I asked you when we got into the break just in terms of timeline.

1778
02:47:00,880 --> 02:47:02,540
I couldn't see in the legislation texts.

1779
02:47:03,540 --> 02:47:08,500
When you'll start completion, TVD, I know there's a whole lot, but I'm going to start like where are you going to start?

1780
02:47:08,560 --> 02:47:10,100
There's so many which is great, but.

1781
02:47:10,540 --> 02:47:11,480
Hey, you got me on that one.

1782
02:47:11,500 --> 02:47:13,300
We did not include the working days in this.

1783
02:47:13,460 --> 02:47:16,180
So, my apologies to council on this one.

1784
02:47:16,240 --> 02:47:17,860
We're expecting about 48 working days.

1785
02:47:17,860 --> 02:47:20,580
So, we'll execute the contract with approval tonight.

1786
02:47:21,480 --> 02:47:26,200
It takes about 30, 45 days, and will be completed with the project by the end of the year.

1787
02:47:26,480 --> 02:47:26,880
In the year?

1788
02:47:27,120 --> 02:47:27,240
Great.

1789
02:47:27,440 --> 02:47:27,680
Thank you.

1790
02:47:27,780 --> 02:47:29,120
And then just another last comment.

1791
02:47:29,360 --> 02:47:33,180
I just appreciate the list and the breakdown of the different districts that way we all know where's what.

1792
02:47:33,300 --> 02:47:33,780
So thank you.

1793
02:47:33,980 --> 02:47:35,220
I absolutely appreciate it.

1794
02:47:35,240 --> 02:47:35,980
Council Member Blower.

1795
02:47:36,180 --> 02:47:36,700
Move to approve.

1796
02:47:37,460 --> 02:47:37,880
Second.

1797
02:47:38,500 --> 02:47:39,220
Council, please vote.

1798
02:47:42,870 --> 02:47:44,490
Motion carries 7-0.

1799
02:47:44,970 --> 02:47:45,210
Okay.

1800
02:47:45,330 --> 02:47:48,890
Our last consent item of the night, Council Member Enriquez.

1801
02:47:48,890 --> 02:47:55,490
That's the A.D.A. curb ramp installation project, 66 curbs.

1802
02:47:55,710 --> 02:47:56,770
66 curbs, yes.

1803
02:47:57,110 --> 02:47:58,490
Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Chad.

1804
02:47:58,870 --> 02:48:08,250
Pretty quickly, just want to make sure similar to what my other colleagues are asking about the other infrastructure projects in terms of just plans moving forward for other parts of the city.

1805
02:48:08,590 --> 02:48:17,030
You know, obviously, folks can read the text and they know where, how many is going to be where out of the 66 throughout the city, but just what are initial plans moving forward for other parts?

1806
02:48:18,630 --> 02:48:23,230
So we have programming that we put money to annually for this

1807
02:48:23,230 --> 02:48:28,450
through a CDP program. So the current backlog on this is about 293 locations.

1808
02:48:29,490 --> 02:48:33,910
So this one's a little bit more manageable. Obviously, you know, very

1809
02:48:33,910 --> 02:48:40,950
important in that it's ADA curb rent, so accessibility for pedestrians, you know,

1810
02:48:41,190 --> 02:48:46,610
reporting damages, reporting needs, same way. The ASStockin platform, you know,

1811
02:48:46,610 --> 02:48:52,170
So call the operations and maintenance line and we'll get it out of the list.

1812
02:48:52,470 --> 02:48:53,150
Great, no thank you.

1813
02:48:53,170 --> 02:48:57,990
I appreciate it and I'll be sure to let folks in my district know about the ones happening in my area.

1814
02:48:58,190 --> 02:49:01,990
And then it says here fall 25 construction to begin completed by spring 2026.

1815
02:49:02,290 --> 02:49:03,470
So again, thank you again.

1816
02:49:03,690 --> 02:49:05,230
That's all I have in motion to approve.

1817
02:49:05,510 --> 02:49:05,750
Second.

1818
02:49:06,190 --> 02:49:07,250
Council please vote.

1819
02:49:09,050 --> 02:49:10,330
Motion carries 70.

1820
02:49:10,770 --> 02:49:13,690
Okay, let's move on to public hearings.

1821
02:49:13,690 --> 02:49:29,850
So, 15.1, public hearing approve four resolutions and adopt an ordinance in connection with the proposed formation of community facilities district number 20, 25-1, Canary Park East.

1822
02:49:30,130 --> 02:49:32,590
I declare the public hearing open.

1823
02:49:43,240 --> 02:49:46,520
Good evening, Mayor Vice-Mayor, City Council, Carmen Maragon,

1824
02:49:46,700 --> 02:49:48,940
Detent Treasury Manager here for 15.1.

1825
02:49:50,300 --> 02:49:57,800
Approved four resolutions and adopted an ordinance in connection with the proposed formation of Community Facilities District 2025,

1826
02:49:58,240 --> 02:49:59,820
Dash 1, Canary Park East.

1827
02:50:01,060 --> 02:50:05,460
With us tonight, I have, excuse me, City Municipal Advisor,

1828
02:50:05,700 --> 02:50:11,500
Ken Deaker with Del Rio, Associate Advisors, along with a special tax consultant

1829
02:50:11,500 --> 02:50:19,160
from the proposed CFD Mike Medivh with Wildin Financial Services.

1830
02:50:19,420 --> 02:50:22,400
I'll pass it over to Ken Deaker, who will present the first half of the presentation.

1831
02:50:22,960 --> 02:50:23,220
Thank you.

1832
02:50:24,140 --> 02:50:27,120
Good evening, Mayor and members of Council of Ken Deaker, with Del Rio Advisors.

1833
02:50:27,680 --> 02:50:31,560
This is a continuation of an item that was first brought before the Council on August 12th.

1834
02:50:31,560 --> 02:50:33,020
We called that the resolution of intent.

1835
02:50:33,220 --> 02:50:38,060
So this is now the resolution of formation meeting where we actually would conclude the formation of the CFD.

1836
02:50:38,240 --> 02:50:39,320
Should the council choose so tonight.

1837
02:50:39,320 --> 02:50:41,040
All right, next slide, please.

1838
02:50:42,220 --> 02:50:42,860
Oh, it's mine, didn't it?

1839
02:50:42,940 --> 02:50:43,080
Sorry.

1840
02:50:45,510 --> 02:50:46,070
Got it.

1841
02:50:46,570 --> 02:50:46,870
Okay.

1842
02:50:47,370 --> 02:50:48,190
A little bit of background.

1843
02:50:49,010 --> 02:50:50,210
Again, this is a little bit of review.

1844
02:50:50,630 --> 02:50:56,050
This is part of the CFD number 2019-1 Canary Park 2.

1845
02:50:56,150 --> 02:50:58,030
That was originally formed in May of 2019.

1846
02:50:59,090 --> 02:51:04,250
It has a fixed annual special tax with no escalator at $1,600 per year per property.

1847
02:51:04,950 --> 02:51:08,030
The city can recover administrative costs as part of the special taxes

1848
02:51:08,030 --> 02:51:13,890
and a services tax is also paid by the property owners within the larger boundary of Canary Park 2.

1849
02:51:14,490 --> 02:51:20,750
There was total indebtedness approved of about 15 million and today the city's done two series of bonds for that original district.

1850
02:51:21,430 --> 02:51:31,230
The proposed project today is a smaller boundary within Canary Park 2 and this will be known as Canary Park East.

1851
02:51:31,230 --> 02:51:36,530
The initial boundary is just the land acquired by Jen California 31.

1852
02:51:36,710 --> 02:51:38,350
The representatives are with us here tonight.

1853
02:51:39,350 --> 02:51:43,370
The portion acquired, as I said, is already within the boundaries of existing Canary Part

1854
02:51:43,370 --> 02:51:43,730
2.

1855
02:51:45,070 --> 02:51:51,450
The new district will consist of 311 single-family residential lots, of which 64 have been

1856
02:51:51,450 --> 02:51:56,110
sold to Richmond American and 267 lots were sold to century communities.

1857
02:51:56,730 --> 02:52:01,010
If formed, the CFD will help to fund the acquisition of authorized facilities and the payment of

1858
02:52:01,010 --> 02:52:08,830
fees. The tax rates range from about $922 per year to about $2,386 per year. There's a

1859
02:52:08,830 --> 02:52:13,230
2% escalator. And I want to make sure that the Council understands this. The total

1860
02:52:13,230 --> 02:52:19,370
tax rate within the boundaries of this CFD will be 1.8%, which is consistent with other areas

1861
02:52:19,370 --> 02:52:24,370
like West Lake Village's too. The only issue here is that other parties that are in Canary

1862
02:52:24,370 --> 02:52:29,410
Park 2 that are outside the boundaries of the CFD are still going to pay the $1,600 per

1863
02:52:29,410 --> 02:52:31,710
So, there will be a little bit of disparity within the boundaries.

1864
02:52:34,380 --> 02:52:37,640
On the next slide here is a little bit of the boundary map over on the right-hand side

1865
02:52:37,640 --> 02:52:40,120
is Highway 99, 8-mile road at the top.

1866
02:52:40,660 --> 02:52:45,140
This is the boundary to Canary Park East, all the residential lots on the lower left there,

1867
02:52:45,220 --> 02:52:46,680
those are part of Canary Park 2.

1868
02:52:47,260 --> 02:52:51,600
So this is what's known as an overlapping CFD where they're taking the existing capacity

1869
02:52:51,600 --> 02:52:55,800
up to the 1.8% and allowing the issuance of additional bonds down the road.

1870
02:52:57,040 --> 02:53:03,450
To be clear, just real quickly, I'll let her come back for the financial summary.

1871
02:53:03,570 --> 02:53:07,190
Just to be clear, this is not approving the issuance of bonds.

1872
02:53:07,190 --> 02:53:12,570
This is strictly approving the formation of the district tonight at the conclusion of the public hearing and the adoption of the resolutions.

1873
02:53:13,250 --> 02:53:17,150
Any bond issues in the future will be brought back to the council for future consideration.

1874
02:53:17,610 --> 02:53:18,650
With that, I'll turn it back to Carmen.

1875
02:53:20,180 --> 02:53:22,420
Okay, yes, financial summary.

1876
02:53:23,600 --> 02:53:29,940
There is no financial impact to the city for the formation of the proposed CFD, the estimated

1877
02:53:29,940 --> 02:53:33,180
cost to form the CFD is $39,500.

1878
02:53:33,720 --> 02:53:38,720
Special tax consultant, willed in financial services, bond council, Jones Hall, and

1879
02:53:38,720 --> 02:53:43,260
the city's municipal advisor, Gail Rio, advisors are included in the estimated cost.

1880
02:53:43,720 --> 02:53:49,000
Additionally, the developer has deposited with the city $39,500 to cover the estimated

1881
02:53:49,000 --> 02:53:56,400
cost. Ultimately, when the bonds are issued, the city will receive an administrative fee based

1882
02:53:56,400 --> 02:54:04,780
on a sliding scale of the issuing size. The city's administrative fee is a component of the cost

1883
02:54:04,780 --> 02:54:10,900
of issuance it is paid from the bond proceeds. If the CFD is approved and when one or more series

1884
02:54:10,900 --> 02:54:16,440
of the bonds are contemplated, the bond will be brought back to the city council for consideration and

1885
02:54:16,440 --> 02:54:21,900
approval. The bonds will not be a debt for the city and will only be paid through the special

1886
02:54:21,900 --> 02:54:24,540
taxes levied on the CFD.

1887
02:54:38,200 --> 02:54:41,860
Okay, items for consideration staff recommends the City Council approve.

1888
02:54:42,420 --> 02:54:47,740
A resolution of formation establishing community facilities district member 2025-1,

1889
02:54:48,000 --> 02:54:53,680
Canary Park East, authorizing the levied of a special tax within the CFD and establishing an

1890
02:54:53,680 --> 02:54:55,500
an appropriation limit for the CFD.

1891
02:54:56,040 --> 02:54:58,000
A resolution determining the necessity

1892
02:54:58,000 --> 02:55:00,840
to incur bonded and dampness in the amount

1893
02:55:00,840 --> 02:55:03,600
not to exceed 15 million, a resolution

1894
02:55:03,600 --> 02:55:06,620
calling for an election, for the purpose

1895
02:55:06,620 --> 02:55:09,420
of submitting the levies of the special tax

1896
02:55:09,420 --> 02:55:11,880
and establishment of the appropriations limit

1897
02:55:11,880 --> 02:55:14,180
to the qualified electors of the CFD.

1898
02:55:14,760 --> 02:55:17,420
A resolution declaring the results in election,

1899
02:55:18,080 --> 02:55:21,060
directing the recording of a special notice tax lien.

1900
02:55:21,600 --> 02:55:23,340
Staff also recommends that City Council

1901
02:55:23,340 --> 02:55:29,440
also adopt an ordinance, adopting the levy of a special tax within the CFD. Any questions?

1902
02:55:31,780 --> 02:55:38,180
None from council, but I do have one or two or three. So when we look at a CFD, I will

1903
02:55:38,180 --> 02:55:43,040
tell you that there are people that live in this area that have talked to me about their

1904
02:55:43,040 --> 02:55:49,580
parks. When is their park coming? When is their park coming? And I said, well, you've got

1905
02:55:49,580 --> 02:56:07,780
I had to talk to the developer about that, but knowing the CFD comes our way in order for us to maintain, correct, the property at the standard that it was built in, we have this revenue to keep it looking nice, correct?

1906
02:56:08,240 --> 02:56:13,300
Yeah, so to be clear, there's a couple of different taxes charged within Canary Park,

1907
02:56:13,400 --> 02:56:17,040
which would also include the parcels within this new CFPROCO CFD.

1908
02:56:17,800 --> 02:56:23,740
You pay, they pay a services tax, which in essence covers the cost of providing services to those rooftops.

1909
02:56:24,260 --> 02:56:31,100
Once the bonds are paid off, there will be a, there's a mechanism by which a portion of what was the tax used to pay the bonds,

1910
02:56:31,240 --> 02:56:32,420
the bonds are no longer outstanding.

1911
02:56:32,600 --> 02:56:36,980
A portion of that tax will convert to an ongoing maintenance tax, which will be then used to maintain

1912
02:56:36,980 --> 02:56:39,160
and all the infrastructure, including the parks within the CFP.

1913
02:56:39,480 --> 02:56:41,720
Right, so my question is this.

1914
02:56:42,060 --> 02:56:47,580
Now, in the picture you showed, this is east of Holman Road,

1915
02:56:47,680 --> 02:56:50,320
but there's a whole section west of Holman Road as well

1916
02:56:50,320 --> 02:56:52,460
that was part of this master plan.

1917
02:56:53,540 --> 02:56:57,020
And I got cornered by somebody in Ansel Adams Elementary

1918
02:56:57,020 --> 02:56:59,360
wanting to know why their park wasn't built

1919
02:56:59,360 --> 02:57:00,620
and they were told to talk to me.

1920
02:57:01,020 --> 02:57:02,740
And I said, wow, great question.

1921
02:57:03,200 --> 02:57:04,520
Let me talk to somebody about that.

1922
02:57:04,520 --> 02:57:19,660
So you guys are here because that just happened this week and so is it Monticello or Monticell, well you probably don't know, but it's on it's to the west of of home and road where there's currently a CFD.

1923
02:57:21,200 --> 02:57:27,240
So if a park, let's say that the park wasn't built, who then does that fall on to?

1924
02:57:27,240 --> 02:57:30,640
It falls on to the developer under the terms of a development agreement.

1925
02:57:30,960 --> 02:57:33,560
So they're required to provide, so when certain number of homes are built,

1926
02:57:33,680 --> 02:57:35,620
they're required to build certain pieces of the infrastructure,

1927
02:57:35,620 --> 02:57:36,780
which would include the parks.

1928
02:57:37,480 --> 02:57:40,040
So at some point, as Canary Park continues to build out,

1929
02:57:40,160 --> 02:57:44,560
it will be a requirement, this would be R&S homes that did the development agreement,

1930
02:57:44,640 --> 02:57:46,120
their requirement to build that park.

1931
02:57:46,480 --> 02:57:46,760
Wonderful.

1932
02:57:46,980 --> 02:57:54,540
I was right in my response then, and I told them, contact R&S, so okay, thank you.

1933
02:57:54,720 --> 02:57:56,000
I don't see any other questions.

1934
02:57:56,000 --> 02:57:58,120
So, any public comment?

1935
02:58:00,540 --> 02:58:00,940
No.

1936
02:58:01,360 --> 02:58:04,380
Okay, I declare the public hearing closed, bring it back to Council.

1937
02:58:06,300 --> 02:58:08,380
Looking for a motion or discussion?

1938
02:58:08,920 --> 02:58:09,640
Motion approved.

1939
02:58:11,780 --> 02:58:14,360
We've got three motions to approve in one second.

1940
02:58:14,760 --> 02:58:15,640
Council, please vote.

1941
02:58:16,940 --> 02:58:17,500
Pick somebody.

1942
02:58:18,440 --> 02:58:22,700
So, if I may ask us a clarifying question and this may be to the city attorney, but can they

1943
02:58:22,700 --> 02:58:26,580
do this as a single item for the four resolutions or should they take each one individually?

1944
02:58:26,580 --> 02:58:26,720
Absolutely.

1945
02:58:26,900 --> 02:58:27,920
They can do them as one item.

1946
02:58:28,360 --> 02:58:28,440
Okay.

1947
02:58:29,160 --> 02:58:29,680
Thank you.

1948
02:58:30,280 --> 02:58:30,660
Okay.

1949
02:58:30,840 --> 02:58:35,500
Also to be clear, we did turn over the ballot to the city clerk, and she needs to announce

1950
02:58:35,500 --> 02:58:36,600
the results of that ballot.

1951
02:58:36,960 --> 02:58:37,080
Yes.

1952
02:58:37,800 --> 02:58:40,080
The results were passed in the affirmative, yes.

1953
02:58:40,600 --> 02:58:40,860
Okay.

1954
02:58:41,000 --> 02:58:41,320
Thank you.

1955
02:58:41,760 --> 02:58:42,300
Thank you.

1956
02:58:42,760 --> 02:58:42,940
Okay.

1957
02:58:43,020 --> 02:58:45,000
Moving on to item 15.2.

1958
02:58:45,880 --> 02:58:47,500
Did you adopt the ordinance as well?

1959
02:58:47,760 --> 02:58:47,900
Yeah.

1960
02:58:48,280 --> 02:58:49,300
We did it all in one vote.

1961
02:58:49,320 --> 02:58:49,460
Okay.

1962
02:58:49,600 --> 02:58:49,760
Great.

1963
02:58:49,880 --> 02:58:50,420
Thank you very much.

1964
02:58:50,420 --> 02:58:52,300
She reported out on the ballots.

1965
02:58:52,480 --> 02:58:52,760
Thank you.

1966
02:58:52,900 --> 02:58:53,060
Okay.

1967
02:58:53,060 --> 02:59:04,340
15.2, 2025 water quality public health goals report, good afternoon, or evening.

1968
02:59:04,840 --> 02:59:07,560
Good evening, my gosh, I gotta look it's dark.

1969
02:59:09,220 --> 02:59:18,240
All right, yeah, Dr. Leidel with Utilities, we have a short presentation regarding the public health goals report.

1970
02:59:18,240 --> 02:59:26,120
I also have my Deputy Director of Water Resources Travis Small here to provide any answers to any questions that you might have.

1971
02:59:27,960 --> 02:59:36,660
California Health and Safety Code requires water purveyors that have more than 10,000 connections to file a report.

1972
02:59:37,360 --> 02:59:41,220
Well, produce a report every three years regarding public health goals.

1973
02:59:42,420 --> 02:59:47,000
And let me go through this and try to describe what public health goals are.

1974
02:59:47,000 --> 02:59:59,740
and go from there and bring all this information to public hearing so folks in the public can provide comment.

1975
03:00:00,560 --> 03:00:11,380
Public health goals are just what they're saying. Their goals trying to establish sort of the benefit. Go ahead.

1976
03:00:11,460 --> 03:00:29,680
I declare the public hearing open. Oh, sorry about that. Okay. My bed. All right. So public health goals are just that. Their goals as far as achieving better water quality, drinking water quality, because we're all concerned about the water quality that we have.

1977
03:00:29,680 --> 03:00:32,060
we drink, we use on a daily basis.

1978
03:00:33,540 --> 03:00:41,520
And so the Cal EPA, Office of Environmental Health, Hazard Assessment, sets these goals

1979
03:00:41,520 --> 03:00:44,980
for various constituents that are in water.

1980
03:00:45,920 --> 03:00:50,980
And also the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency makes the same sort of things.

1981
03:00:51,020 --> 03:00:52,260
They make goals as well.

1982
03:00:52,260 --> 03:01:00,660
And they're looking for people to maybe try to achieve higher goals as far as water quality goes.

1983
03:01:02,320 --> 03:01:12,540
And so, what the report looks at is those goals, verse on particular constituents that may be in the water supply.

1984
03:01:13,600 --> 03:01:20,800
And so, our water supply is not perfect, but it's very, very high quality.

1985
03:01:20,800 --> 03:01:24,440
And so that's an important thing to distinguish.

1986
03:01:25,260 --> 03:01:29,580
But when we look at our water samples, we have arsenic,

1987
03:01:30,400 --> 03:01:35,340
we have bromate, we have radio-nucleides,

1988
03:01:36,320 --> 03:01:39,980
and total coliforms, we typically don't have any of those.

1989
03:01:40,880 --> 03:01:43,520
But what does that mean, that arsenic?

1990
03:01:43,620 --> 03:01:44,440
What is arsenic?

1991
03:01:44,500 --> 03:01:45,200
Where does it come from?

1992
03:01:46,380 --> 03:01:49,660
Have you ever heard of people being like in Shakespeare plays and

1993
03:01:49,660 --> 03:01:58,160
things like that are being poisoned by arsenic, okay, yeah, there you go, and so arsenic

1994
03:01:58,160 --> 03:02:05,220
itself is naturally occurring in our water here in this area. If you go way down deep

1995
03:02:05,220 --> 03:02:11,600
where the wells pull the water up from, there's arsenic that's laced into the gravel and

1996
03:02:11,600 --> 03:02:13,200
things like that that's down there.

1997
03:02:14,220 --> 03:02:18,860
Bromite. Bromite is comes from bromide.

1998
03:02:19,620 --> 03:02:21,740
Bromide comes from seawater.

1999
03:02:22,820 --> 03:02:27,660
And when we use delta water, some of that salt that comes in

2000
03:02:27,660 --> 03:02:30,480
includes, has bromide in it.

2001
03:02:31,180 --> 03:02:35,520
And we pump it in, and when we treat it with ozone,

2002
03:02:35,840 --> 03:02:37,320
we create bromite.

2003
03:02:37,860 --> 03:02:39,640
And so that's something.

2004
03:02:39,640 --> 03:02:46,480
And so, when we see a lot of bromide in the water in the delta that we use, we can see

2005
03:02:46,480 --> 03:02:52,760
that our friends that in Southern California are pumping water south a lot harder and it

2006
03:02:52,760 --> 03:02:55,580
pulls in water from the San Francisco Bay.

2007
03:02:56,160 --> 03:02:58,400
And so, anyways, let's go on.

2008
03:02:58,900 --> 03:03:01,940
Uranium is another thing, total coliforms.

2009
03:03:02,000 --> 03:03:06,560
That's a measure of how much E. coli or bad bacteria is in the system.

2010
03:03:08,460 --> 03:03:11,760
Draw your attention at the very last bullet.

2011
03:03:12,140 --> 03:03:18,680
City's water supply met all state and federal water quality standards.

2012
03:03:20,100 --> 03:03:25,940
So what that means is our water meets all the standards that the state and the feds

2013
03:03:25,940 --> 03:03:26,120
have.

2014
03:03:26,560 --> 03:03:28,100
And so that's a good thing.

2015
03:03:29,380 --> 03:03:34,680
But just to show you a little bit more about our snake, you can read the bullets if I draw

2016
03:03:34,680 --> 03:03:41,500
your attention to the graphic, the public health goals are looking for something like

2017
03:03:41,500 --> 03:03:48,720
ten, ours is six, one of the other public health goals essentially wants zero.

2018
03:03:50,100 --> 03:03:52,560
And so those are how those public health goals work.

2019
03:03:54,810 --> 03:04:01,870
And what they want to do is compare, okay, if I was to bring that water arsenic level all

2020
03:04:01,870 --> 03:04:05,650
All the way down to zero, what would that cost the community?

2021
03:04:06,410 --> 03:04:10,490
What would be the best technology that we could use to do that?

2022
03:04:10,990 --> 03:04:11,990
And you can do that.

2023
03:04:12,610 --> 03:04:19,110
You could use reverse osmosis treatment to make sure there's no arsenic in the water at all.

2024
03:04:19,910 --> 03:04:24,490
But what's the, how do you balance that?

2025
03:04:25,330 --> 03:04:26,350
What's the cost?

2026
03:04:27,470 --> 03:04:31,970
And that's the biggest thing, the public health school's reports looks at this.

2027
03:04:32,690 --> 03:04:38,230
And so if we wanted to look at trying to treat various constituents below a public health

2028
03:04:38,230 --> 03:04:46,810
goal, we calculated it's about $2,000 a year extra in your water bill.

2029
03:04:47,930 --> 03:04:50,470
And so those are things, and those are trade-offs.

2030
03:04:50,770 --> 03:04:54,270
You look at, okay, currently we treated it six.

2031
03:04:54,270 --> 03:04:57,270
It's below the standard by quite a ways.

2032
03:04:57,610 --> 03:05:00,230
It's not completely eliminated,

2033
03:05:00,950 --> 03:05:02,770
but we're not charging people

2034
03:05:02,770 --> 03:05:06,030
in an extra $2,000 a year on a water bottle, either.

2035
03:05:06,950 --> 03:05:08,110
And so that's how it works.

2036
03:05:11,190 --> 03:05:13,630
A lot of the health protections that they say

2037
03:05:14,110 --> 03:05:16,710
if you were to zero out arsenic completely

2038
03:05:17,150 --> 03:05:21,490
or one of these other ones may or may not be quantifiable

2039
03:05:21,490 --> 03:05:23,970
either whether or not that causes cancer.

2040
03:05:24,470 --> 03:05:26,090
So, Dr. Leidel, I have a question.

2041
03:05:26,350 --> 03:05:26,590
Go for it.

2042
03:05:26,590 --> 03:05:29,610
So, you were, you know, you're talking about reverse osmosis.

2043
03:05:29,830 --> 03:05:34,890
You know, the big conversation way back when was try how on methods

2044
03:05:36,490 --> 03:05:40,010
and the chloroflorocarbons, you know, all that kind of stuff.

2045
03:05:40,230 --> 03:05:47,390
So, are we still using that same treatment that we did back in 2015

2046
03:05:47,390 --> 03:05:49,490
when we switched over ICA nod?

2047
03:05:49,990 --> 03:05:50,130
Yeah.

2048
03:05:50,130 --> 03:06:04,770
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're still using chloramine disinfection. Okay. Yeah. And that and that suffices. Oh, you remember that? Yeah. Okay. And also, well, half the city we use chloramines in north part in the south, we still use free chlorine.

2049
03:06:05,450 --> 03:06:14,350
But we are very sensitive about those compounds that you discussed. One of the key issues these days is there's another one called PFOS.

2050
03:06:14,350 --> 03:06:22,650
And that's another constituent in groundwater that we're very concerned about and looking at.

2051
03:06:23,150 --> 03:06:31,950
One of the wells that we just retrofitted in District 6 and Ernie Shopshire Park had a PFAS.

2052
03:06:32,370 --> 03:06:43,070
And we spent $5 million to rehabilitate that well so that we eliminated that PFAS as an issue in that area.

2053
03:06:43,070 --> 03:06:46,490
District 6 should be happy, $5 million, there's no jump change.

2054
03:06:46,890 --> 03:06:47,850
No, anyways.

2055
03:06:48,550 --> 03:07:01,730
So that's what we have, we've, unfortunately for our water, our council water committee they've had to see this presentation before.

2056
03:07:02,210 --> 03:07:10,030
So they probably have it memorized, but we've noticed this in the record, we're bringing forth this in a public hearing.

2057
03:07:10,030 --> 03:07:16,350
and as well as the public health schools report has been in place on the website.

2058
03:07:17,330 --> 03:07:22,750
So we're willing to receive any public comment, try to answer questions as necessary.

2059
03:07:23,370 --> 03:07:31,590
But we would recommend that you approve the resolution to accept the 2025 public health schools report.

2060
03:07:32,170 --> 03:07:33,550
Be happy to answer any questions.

2061
03:07:33,550 --> 03:07:35,690
Thank you. I know we have a public comment.

2062
03:07:36,230 --> 03:07:36,890
We do.

2063
03:07:37,750 --> 03:07:39,570
Two public comments, maybe.

2064
03:07:40,410 --> 03:07:41,390
Mary Elizabeth, please.

2065
03:07:47,590 --> 03:07:51,170
Mary Elizabeth, District 5 resident.

2066
03:07:51,830 --> 03:07:57,110
And District 5 is not served by the city of Stockton.

2067
03:07:57,270 --> 03:08:01,630
So all of this information here has no relevance to the water

2068
03:08:01,630 --> 03:08:06,590
that the people in District 5 and some of District 6 drink.

2069
03:08:06,590 --> 03:08:16,730
and so I'd like to see some way that the city of Stockton can get Cal water to come and

2070
03:08:16,730 --> 03:08:25,190
speak to us about the water that those city residents consume. Thank you.

2071
03:08:33,430 --> 03:08:41,630
I live in District 1 and my family we spend more than $200 per month to buy bottled water.

2072
03:08:42,450 --> 03:08:49,830
So yes, because we believe that, you know, water might not be healthy for us, so we

2073
03:08:49,830 --> 03:08:50,450
water.

2074
03:08:52,650 --> 03:08:58,870
But my question from today hearing that, you know, if the people know that if we

2075
03:08:58,870 --> 03:09:05,770
spend $200 more, to have the water that we can drink directly from, you know, our water

2076
03:09:05,770 --> 03:09:12,710
tap, then compare to we have to pay more than $200 to buy water. Because water water contributes

2077
03:09:12,710 --> 03:09:19,730
due to waste, to the environment also, or that plastic will cost us to have it recycled.

2078
03:09:20,670 --> 03:09:26,530
So I wonder if the city by any mean that can inform the public to see that if they

2079
03:09:26,530 --> 03:09:32,970
willing to pay more, to have the water twisted to that drinking or not, thank you.

2080
03:09:33,850 --> 03:09:35,670
That concludes public comment for the Senate.

2081
03:09:35,910 --> 03:09:40,930
Yes, Dr. Lidle, I think what you were saying is the city is covering the cost for

2082
03:09:40,930 --> 03:09:49,330
that for the treatment, correct, for treating the water, because she's, what she's saying is,

2083
03:09:50,070 --> 03:09:54,650
they don't necessarily believe that the water's safe to drink from the tap.

2084
03:09:55,010 --> 03:10:01,190
So they buy bottled water service, and then you talked about the customer impact

2085
03:10:01,190 --> 03:10:05,390
to treat, and you put $1,932.

2086
03:10:05,390 --> 03:10:12,790
dollars. That would be to do something more than we currently do. And if you live in North

2087
03:10:12,790 --> 03:10:21,710
Stockton and South Stockton for that matter, as well as Cal Water, because Cal Water

2088
03:10:21,710 --> 03:10:30,950
receives the same water that we serve in South Stockton as well. And but I would say for

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03:10:30,950 --> 03:10:42,250
For those that live in North Stockton, I go to that water plan every day, he's intimately

2090
03:10:42,250 --> 03:10:48,990
familiar with the treatment processes that occur there, and we provide the best quality

2091
03:10:48,990 --> 03:10:51,990
water that we can possibly provide.

2092
03:10:52,350 --> 03:10:55,910
So the water is possible, meaning it is drinkable?

2093
03:10:56,070 --> 03:10:58,710
Very safe, and you can drink it from the tap.

2094
03:10:58,950 --> 03:10:59,590
I do every day.

2095
03:10:59,590 --> 03:11:02,130
And it's tested how often?

2096
03:11:02,910 --> 03:11:03,650
Every day.

2097
03:11:04,010 --> 03:11:08,970
Every day and people can actually go on to the website and or.

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03:11:09,130 --> 03:11:13,850
They can look at our reports or they can look at the water quality or the reports that we produce.

2099
03:11:14,910 --> 03:11:20,570
And by the way, it could probably save a couple hundred bucks a month if you did buy bottled water, so.

2100
03:11:21,210 --> 03:11:21,570
Okay.

2101
03:11:21,810 --> 03:11:22,630
Did you have a comment?

2102
03:11:30,610 --> 03:11:34,290
I just like to add one thing here on public health goals.

2103
03:11:35,700 --> 03:11:39,930
We have a detection limit when we have lab samples on some of these constituents.

2104
03:11:40,310 --> 03:11:44,570
So for our SNCC, for example, we have a reportable limit of two parts per billion.

2105
03:11:45,770 --> 03:11:48,950
The public health goal is four parts per trillion.

2106
03:11:48,950 --> 03:11:54,530
And so we can't even test that low, so I just wanted that, and that's like that with

2107
03:11:54,530 --> 03:11:55,990
a lot of different public health goals.

2108
03:11:56,910 --> 03:12:01,270
Now, if somebody had concern about their water at their home because there's lots of

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03:12:01,270 --> 03:12:06,950
different things that could impact that water by the time it gets to their house, it might

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03:12:06,950 --> 03:12:11,310
even be their own pipes that are at that house, what could somebody do?

2111
03:12:11,490 --> 03:12:16,630
If somebody was worried about water quality that was coming from us, for example, they could

2112
03:12:16,630 --> 03:12:20,430
It would have a water quality complaint that comes to us being gotten investigated.

2113
03:12:20,790 --> 03:12:26,930
But if everything is fine from us going to them, they could do things such as a house filter, stuff like that.

2114
03:12:27,110 --> 03:12:31,850
If they're worried about Clarence means or chlorine and that kind of thing, just to make it taste better.

2115
03:12:32,490 --> 03:12:32,750
Okay.

2116
03:12:32,830 --> 03:12:33,970
Okay, thank you.

2117
03:12:34,010 --> 03:12:35,190
Any questions from Council?

2118
03:12:37,050 --> 03:12:39,490
Okay, I declare the public hearing closed.

2119
03:12:40,130 --> 03:12:41,090
Council member Blower?

2120
03:12:42,970 --> 03:12:43,410
Second.

2121
03:12:44,350 --> 03:12:47,590
We have a motion and a second, council, please vote.

2122
03:12:50,270 --> 03:12:52,470
Motion carries, 7-0.

2123
03:12:53,030 --> 03:12:53,610
Thank you.

2124
03:12:54,190 --> 03:13:12,110
Okay, moving on to 15.3 public hearing, the 2425 consolidated annual performance and evaluation report for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development entitlement programs, I'll say projects, programs, Mr. McCarty.

2125
03:13:15,120 --> 03:13:17,000
I forgot to bring your picture from high school.

2126
03:13:18,720 --> 03:13:22,600
Well, we have that to look forward to in the future, apparently.

2127
03:13:24,660 --> 03:13:28,160
Mayor, this is a hearing which you'd like to declare the hearing open.

2128
03:13:29,340 --> 03:13:29,560
Please.

2129
03:13:34,000 --> 03:13:34,580
Thank you, Mayor.

2130
03:13:36,200 --> 03:13:40,220
So tonight, we're bringing before you the consolidated annual performance and evaluation

2131
03:13:40,220 --> 03:13:43,140
report, I'm fondly referred to as the keeper.

2132
03:13:43,720 --> 03:13:48,980
We love our acronyms, but it is easier to say than all of those words run together.

2133
03:13:48,980 --> 03:13:52,780
And I apologize, Tina McCarty, economic development director.

2134
03:13:55,760 --> 03:14:01,280
So tonight, we are not asking for allocations of additional funding.

2135
03:14:01,280 --> 03:14:06,900
We're not really talking about process, but we're talking about tonight is where we've

2136
03:14:06,900 --> 03:14:07,120
been.

2137
03:14:07,420 --> 03:14:12,680
And this is the accumulation of each year after our annual action plan.

2138
03:14:12,680 --> 03:14:18,720
I know you've heard me talk as well as Jordan about all the plans that we put together

2139
03:14:18,720 --> 03:14:24,220
and we reach out to the community and we develop as far as this is our pathway as to how

2140
03:14:24,220 --> 03:14:29,740
we recommend the process as we use is how we recommend allocations to you as counsel

2141
03:14:29,740 --> 03:14:35,800
and how you then approve the allocations. That's an ongoing process that we're doing annually

2142
03:14:36,460 --> 03:14:42,980
and I would like to give a shout out to EdD economic development because once you allocate the funding

2143
03:14:42,980 --> 03:14:47,920
there's a lot of work that then begins beyond that. So every bit of the funding that's going out

2144
03:14:47,920 --> 03:14:54,080
whether it be for affordable housing or to our community interest support groups there's

2145
03:14:54,080 --> 03:14:59,480
contracts that have to be created and reviewed and submitted.

2146
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:29,560
There's a lot of monitoring that goes on, so constantly doing all of that with every new allocation that you're approving. Tonight, we're going to review the plans. We are an entitlement city, so we receive CDBG community development block grants. We receive ESG emergency solutions grants, and we receive home investment partnership program, and that is affordable housing, and what goes into that. So we receive allocations from the federal government, from HUD.

2147
03:15:29,560 --> 03:15:34,660
for all of those types of funding each year, they're requiring all of these plans.

2148
03:15:34,900 --> 03:15:39,360
So we create plans with the community, we bring them before you, we submit them to HUD,

2149
03:15:39,720 --> 03:15:42,380
HUD approves them, and then we can receive our money.

2150
03:15:42,780 --> 03:15:46,680
Then we're doing nofus to then create who do we give the money to.

2151
03:15:47,040 --> 03:15:49,240
We're bringing that back before council.

2152
03:15:49,680 --> 03:15:53,780
You're approving the recommended allocations that come from those NOFA programs,

2153
03:15:54,120 --> 03:15:56,960
and then we issue the contracts and the cycle continues.

2154
03:15:56,960 --> 03:16:11,300
So I say all that just to share with you is that we do have a lot of plans going on at once every year we're doing an annual action plan and then we have a consolidated plan that is a five-year plan.

2155
03:16:11,960 --> 03:16:14,980
So this year is the end of the five-year plan.

2156
03:16:15,260 --> 03:16:24,360
So we have what is before you tonight the paper that is actually a review of how do we do over the last year in the annual action plan.

2157
03:16:24,360 --> 03:16:30,280
And then because we're at the end of the five-year period, it's also a view overall of the five-year period.

2158
03:16:30,700 --> 03:16:36,160
With that, I am going to turn it over to Jordan and he's going to get in more details of how we did.

2159
03:16:39,760 --> 03:16:44,760
Thank you, Tina, and good evening, Council, Jordan Peterson, Deputy Director in the Economic Development Department.

2160
03:16:45,580 --> 03:16:53,240
Just a quick call back to a few months ago when we approved, Council approved the new consolidated plan for the new five years, as Tina just mentioned.

2161
03:16:53,240 --> 03:16:58,980
And this is essentially the report card for how what accomplishes were made,

2162
03:16:59,180 --> 03:17:06,560
accomplishments were made during the 24, 25 year, as well as over the entire five year plan from 2020 to 2025.

2163
03:17:07,120 --> 03:17:12,040
That consolidated plan that just wrapped up had four goals.

2164
03:17:12,500 --> 03:17:18,660
Similar to the current goals, but they were homelessness, affordable housing, economic development, and public services.

2165
03:17:18,980 --> 03:17:22,000
So all of the activities had to fall within one of those buckets.

2166
03:17:22,000 --> 03:17:32,440
and then there were a number of activities, and I know it's hard to read, but it's going to be in your packet, as well as for the public watching to be able to see.

2167
03:17:34,040 --> 03:17:42,320
So this is the 2425 accomplishments vis-a-vis the goals that were established last year, and I'm just going to run through them fairly quickly.

2168
03:17:42,680 --> 03:17:51,780
So the activity goal under homelessness was homeless prevention, 44 persons actually ended up serving 67 persons.

2169
03:17:51,780 --> 03:17:59,580
For emergency shelter it was estimated about 43 persons would be assisted ended up serving 303 persons.

2170
03:18:00,100 --> 03:18:02,880
So it shows you, what was the goal, what were the accomplishments?

2171
03:18:03,720 --> 03:18:06,440
You see some of the other ones here for affordable housing.

2172
03:18:07,140 --> 03:18:11,640
One of the key programs that the city operates is the owner occupied rehabilitation program.

2173
03:18:11,780 --> 03:18:18,720
So that's repairing seniors, low income persons, home so that way if there's deferred maintenance,

2174
03:18:18,720 --> 03:18:25,740
The goal there was seven and a city staff accomplished six homeowner houses rehabilitated, which was a great accomplishment.

2175
03:18:26,740 --> 03:18:34,960
One I just wanted to call out was staff had projected being able to have 103 rental units rehabilitated.

2176
03:18:35,700 --> 03:18:38,620
We weren't able to accomplish that within the year, but

2177
03:18:38,620 --> 03:18:43,180
that's not to say that there isn't rehabilitation activity that's in the pipeline.

2178
03:18:43,180 --> 03:18:46,920
It just did not get completed during that 2425 year.

2179
03:18:48,100 --> 03:18:56,100
Moving down to supporting economic development, goal was five businesses receiving a facade ended up accomplishing four.

2180
03:18:56,640 --> 03:19:00,400
Similarly, many are in the works, that's just what was completed during the year.

2181
03:19:02,120 --> 03:19:09,520
It was estimated that 15 businesses would be assisted primarily, that would be through the entrepreneurship process.

2182
03:19:10,240 --> 03:19:16,340
That was not able to get released this last year, so that's why the accomplishment there is zero.

2183
03:19:16,340 --> 03:19:18,040
But that money is still allocated.

2184
03:19:18,320 --> 03:19:24,240
We do have an RFP out there, which I can't speak to because it's open RFP, but that is in the works so that council is aware.

2185
03:19:25,640 --> 03:19:31,240
Lastly, for public services, it was estimated that 115,000 persons would be assisted.

2186
03:19:32,360 --> 03:19:40,460
Ended up serving when the reports were all submitted 46,000 persons under public services.

2187
03:19:42,060 --> 03:19:48,160
So, this is, you know, the final year of the 2020-25 consolidated plan.

2188
03:19:48,420 --> 03:19:55,340
So, these next couple slides show you the accomplishments over that whole five-year period.

2189
03:19:55,840 --> 03:20:00,380
I'm not going to read every single item, but some of the key highlights were, you know,

2190
03:20:00,440 --> 03:20:05,280
homeless prevention over the five-year period, it was estimated 500 persons would be assisted

2191
03:20:05,280 --> 03:20:10,780
It ended up serving 333 persons through homeless prevention activities.

2192
03:20:11,700 --> 03:20:15,160
Rental units constructed, the five year goal was 450.

2193
03:20:16,380 --> 03:20:19,640
Through the five year period, 360 units were constructed.

2194
03:20:20,140 --> 03:20:22,820
Again, that doesn't mean that there aren't other projects in the pipeline.

2195
03:20:22,820 --> 03:20:25,400
That's just what got completed, what got closed out.

2196
03:20:26,500 --> 03:20:29,480
Homeowner rehabilitation goal was 20.

2197
03:20:30,000 --> 03:20:33,880
Homeowner houses rehabilitated, 14 got completed.

2198
03:20:33,880 --> 03:20:40,920
And then when you'll see here that folks often talk about is direct financial assistance to home buyers,

2199
03:20:41,320 --> 03:20:47,960
a down payment assistance program, due to a number of factors that was not able to get implemented over the five years.

2200
03:20:47,960 --> 03:20:52,000
So that's why the accomplishment was zero during the five year period.

2201
03:20:55,070 --> 03:21:02,530
Last couple goals over the five year businesses rehabilitated 15, we ended up accomplishing 13th,

2202
03:21:02,530 --> 03:21:09,110
very close to being on track there, an exciting one was businesses assisted, staff projected

2203
03:21:09,110 --> 03:21:15,010
60 businesses being supported, ended up supporting 428 so blew that goal out of the water.

2204
03:21:16,150 --> 03:21:24,430
Lastly, to round this out, public services estimated 37,500 persons would be assisted through

2205
03:21:24,430 --> 03:21:31,530
public facility improvements, that number was quite a bit lower at 1100, and then a lot

2206
03:21:31,530 --> 03:21:39,150
a lot of the activities that occur through public services like food assistance, transition

2207
03:21:39,150 --> 03:21:46,690
to aid youth activities, we had staff had projected, sorry, 37,000 and ended up accomplishing

2208
03:21:46,690 --> 03:21:52,130
over the five year period serving almost a million people during those services.

2209
03:21:53,490 --> 03:21:58,530
So this slide just kind of gives council a sense of the order of magnitude of the funding

2210
03:21:58,530 --> 03:22:08,410
that the city received over the five year period, CDBG, including program income, was an award of 25 million.

2211
03:22:08,950 --> 03:22:14,390
And the vast majority almost all of it is either in a contract, it's been expended, it's been encumbered.

2212
03:22:14,830 --> 03:22:20,510
There is a small balance that's still in the works to be encumbered in contracts.

2213
03:22:21,670 --> 03:22:27,470
Similarly has ESG five year award, and there is virtually no balance there.

2214
03:22:27,470 --> 03:22:57,330
where home funds as well kind of just giving you an order of magnitude of all the funds that come into the city and then gets distributed to the community with Council's approval with that staff are recommending Council adopt a resolution approving the 24-25 Caper Report authorizing the Department to make any updates based on any comments, Republic Feedback, authorizing the submission of the Caper and then authorizing the city manager or does a need to execute in

2215
03:22:57,330 --> 03:23:02,290
submit all documents to HUD and with that I'm happy to answer any questions.

2216
03:23:02,570 --> 03:23:04,310
Are there any public comments on the side of?

2217
03:23:04,790 --> 03:23:06,350
We do have one, Mary Elizabeth.

2218
03:23:18,360 --> 03:23:19,360
Mary Elizabeth.

2219
03:23:20,000 --> 03:23:27,980
I submitted comments to you all earlier today, very early today that you would have received.

2220
03:23:28,680 --> 03:23:34,020
So I'm going to go quickly over some of those comments.

2221
03:23:34,020 --> 03:23:39,020
So this was a report card.

2222
03:23:39,580 --> 03:23:46,000
There were questions of the community development committee.

2223
03:23:46,640 --> 03:23:51,520
First of all, the community development committee did not receive and

2224
03:23:51,520 --> 03:23:55,800
does not receive any presentations in advance.

2225
03:23:56,500 --> 03:23:59,320
Those are not posted on the agenda.

2226
03:23:59,320 --> 03:24:08,660
the issue of what the Community Development Committee is for, that's the community that

2227
03:24:09,070 --> 03:24:19,960
they're talking about developing the plans, the NCAA, P has submitted comments, I included

2228
03:24:19,960 --> 03:24:29,220
those comments here, that we need to empower those residents with information.

2229
03:24:29,220 --> 03:24:36,220
and not having presentations available in advance is not conducive to that.

2230
03:24:36,760 --> 03:24:39,240
A question came up about threshold.

2231
03:24:39,880 --> 03:24:43,920
I bring this to your attention here because when people are talking about good jobs,

2232
03:24:44,480 --> 03:24:48,060
I wanted you to have an illustration of how they fare.

2233
03:24:48,700 --> 03:24:53,020
You know, they are considered low income and eligible for these services

2234
03:24:53,020 --> 03:24:58,240
is that are more than we have money for.

2235
03:24:59,860 --> 03:25:05,340
Second, a question that they had was how did people learn

2236
03:25:05,340 --> 03:25:07,360
about the annual performance report?

2237
03:25:07,960 --> 03:25:13,060
Staff responded, social media, internal press release, email

2238
03:25:13,060 --> 03:25:17,660
blast, website newspaper, and all the city of Stockton News.

2239
03:25:18,200 --> 03:25:19,600
So I checked all of those.

2240
03:25:20,100 --> 03:25:22,060
There was no notices made.

2241
03:25:22,060 --> 03:25:30,940
there was a notice to the newspaper you know this is not you know like a good

2242
03:25:30,940 --> 03:25:37,920
thing then and you know I constantly come to you all and ask you know that

2243
03:25:37,920 --> 03:25:44,880
there be an asked doctrine checkbox where people that want to review documents

2244
03:25:44,880 --> 03:25:50,880
for the city and provide comments can be noticed so you know not noticing

2245
03:25:50,880 --> 03:25:56,100
through that avenue, you know, is really a disservice to the community.

2246
03:25:56,860 --> 03:26:04,300
So next, it referenced a Citizens Participation Plan in the report that was included.

2247
03:26:04,620 --> 03:26:08,580
I went to that plan and listed down what it said.

2248
03:26:08,760 --> 03:26:10,060
So that's on page two.

2249
03:26:10,520 --> 03:26:12,920
Social media notices did not occur.

2250
03:26:13,080 --> 03:26:16,940
I gave you a screenshot of the EDD social media.

2251
03:26:16,940 --> 03:26:21,880
I gave you a screenshot here of the presentations.

2252
03:26:22,720 --> 03:26:27,320
They were notified during the meeting that there was a Brown Act violation because the

2253
03:26:27,320 --> 03:26:32,400
presentations that were presented there were not available in advance.

2254
03:26:32,600 --> 03:26:38,220
Community member made that comment that it should be 45 72 hours.

2255
03:26:39,800 --> 03:26:45,500
Next, I wanted to highlight rental housing because I spent most of my life in rental housing

2256
03:26:45,500 --> 03:26:55,400
and I know, you know, that rental housing can be quite challenging and, you know, the

2257
03:26:55,400 --> 03:27:01,360
fact that, you know, that he said, oh, you know, it was 100, but it was, in fact, 200

2258
03:27:02,480 --> 03:27:07,520
and 10 units were for that five-year period. And out of that five-year period, there was none.

2259
03:27:08,000 --> 03:27:12,640
I know that we have bad rental housing here. We need to, you know,

2260
03:27:12,640 --> 03:27:21,150
So think about most of the families in our community are in need and I think I've used my time.

2261
03:27:21,610 --> 03:27:28,030
So I did write much more and I hope that you will consider that going forward.

2262
03:27:29,710 --> 03:27:31,650
That concludes public comment for the item.

2263
03:27:32,590 --> 03:27:33,770
Council Member Enriquez.

2264
03:27:34,770 --> 03:27:35,650
Yes, thank you Mayor.

2265
03:27:35,850 --> 03:27:38,210
Just a quick question and apologies if you already mentioned it.

2266
03:27:38,350 --> 03:27:43,550
On the 2020-25 Consolidate Plans and Goals, it was great to see the goals was for

2267
03:27:43,550 --> 03:27:46,390
for businesses assisted 60, but instead it was 428.

2268
03:27:47,050 --> 03:27:48,950
What did it specifically, what are the jobs created?

2269
03:27:49,210 --> 03:27:51,910
It says the goals was 25, but we created retained two.

2270
03:27:52,490 --> 03:27:54,870
I'll just, yeah, just an example of what that is specifically.

2271
03:27:56,050 --> 03:27:59,210
Yes, thank you, Council Member, for the question.

2272
03:27:59,510 --> 03:28:05,490
So those activities over the five year period was early on,

2273
03:28:06,130 --> 03:28:09,310
early on in the pandemic, where there was micro loans

2274
03:28:09,310 --> 03:28:11,550
that were available to small business for operating

2275
03:28:11,550 --> 03:28:17,810
And that sort of thing, it ultimately became prohibited to be working with businesses who were just trying to survive.

2276
03:28:18,430 --> 03:28:22,530
I don't recall the businesses offhand because it was, you know, 2020-2021.

2277
03:28:23,170 --> 03:28:30,310
But they were, you know, small grants to businesses for operating that helped them to support the jobs there.

2278
03:28:30,710 --> 03:28:30,910
Yeah.

2279
03:28:31,070 --> 03:28:31,590
Great. Thank you.

2280
03:28:32,910 --> 03:28:38,070
I know we talked before you and I have talked before about the Community Development Committee.

2281
03:28:39,250 --> 03:28:47,290
and the hurdles that I believe are there, and to Mary Elizabeth's point, and I'm just

2282
03:28:47,290 --> 03:28:55,030
guessing as to why those documents are not out is because, you know, then people have

2283
03:28:55,030 --> 03:29:00,570
access to them, not that, you know, because like even if we as council, we have to go into

2284
03:29:00,570 --> 03:29:06,530
to a room across the hall without any cell phone, any electronic device.

2285
03:29:06,930 --> 03:29:13,090
We can bring a pad of paper and a pin and there's somebody sitting in there when we review the documents, correct?

2286
03:29:13,850 --> 03:29:18,490
That's for no review, I just want to clarify, that's for no review, not necessarily for something like a paper.

2287
03:29:18,970 --> 03:29:26,650
Yes, well I'm just saying in general, well CDBG funds, I mean there are, I've gone in there and

2288
03:29:26,650 --> 03:29:55,370
and peruse them, because people in the public have said over and over again, why didn't I get funded, why didn't I, what happened to my application, you know, why am I, and then CDBG, or the community development committee, I know Councilmember Villaputo was on it, and I know that other people, you know, are on it, and the frustrations that are exhibited by those volunteers on that is that, you know, hey, here's this, here's this money,

2289
03:29:55,370 --> 03:29:59,650
And here are these people coming before us and doing a presentation on their

2290
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:09,520
You know, what their needs are and there's never enough money for all of the need that we have in this city. But to her point is, like, you know, what is how

2291
03:30:11,730 --> 03:30:31,830
are we best using the Community Development Committee to actually be a part of the decision making process? And I know you might not be able to answer that right now, but just know that that's something that's on all of our radars and the public is asking the same of us. So yeah, I don't know if I asked a question in there or not, but

2292
03:30:37,290 --> 03:30:42,590
I just wanted to add that we are going to discuss their role and what you would like

2293
03:30:42,590 --> 03:30:46,890
to see in more detail when we do the NOFA workshop because they are certainly a part

2294
03:30:46,890 --> 03:30:47,230
of that.

2295
03:30:47,610 --> 03:30:55,690
So, I believe what the public comment was referring more so is that we have not as a past practice

2296
03:30:55,690 --> 03:31:02,450
with our CDC posted like we do for council agendas and committee, council committee agendas

2297
03:31:02,450 --> 03:31:10,810
where we're posting a report per se, or any kind of a presentation that we are giving.

2298
03:31:11,390 --> 03:31:17,410
So that isn't, we checked with a clerk and made sure we aren't violating brown acts in

2299
03:31:17,410 --> 03:31:21,570
doing so we were told we are not, however, there are better practices.

2300
03:31:21,570 --> 03:31:28,010
So we will certainly review internally and we can move forward in that direction, but that is where we've been in the past.

2301
03:31:28,270 --> 03:31:30,730
So, onward to better improvement.

2302
03:31:31,210 --> 03:31:32,670
Great, thank you so much.

2303
03:31:33,270 --> 03:31:34,010
Vice Mayor.

2304
03:31:34,550 --> 03:31:35,210
Thank you, Mayor.

2305
03:31:36,610 --> 03:31:39,890
Yeah, I mean, what I heard in the public comment was noticing, right?

2306
03:31:40,070 --> 03:31:48,010
And the information I think we talked earlier about it, I know we're going to get into how we're communicating with the public in a second.

2307
03:31:48,010 --> 03:31:50,690
But I think for me in my district specifically,

2308
03:31:50,870 --> 03:31:53,170
noticing is important, I'm a over-communicator.

2309
03:31:53,830 --> 03:31:56,710
I think earlier this morning, you and I,

2310
03:31:57,030 --> 03:31:58,850
Mr. McCarty, had just a brief conversation about

2311
03:31:58,850 --> 03:32:00,730
even I think just going through the district, right?

2312
03:32:00,810 --> 03:32:02,870
I think at some point maybe like we take a little road trip,

2313
03:32:02,950 --> 03:32:04,890
I bring the sprinter, we load it up with some water,

2314
03:32:05,510 --> 03:32:06,530
maybe some popcorn or something,

2315
03:32:06,610 --> 03:32:09,190
we just ride around districts, just to really see it

2316
03:32:09,190 --> 03:32:12,070
because it is a very unique district

2317
03:32:12,070 --> 03:32:13,510
compared to other districts,

2318
03:32:14,110 --> 03:32:16,670
lots of limitations and restrictions

2319
03:32:16,670 --> 03:32:18,870
and whatever, an opportunity, I look at it,

2320
03:32:18,890 --> 03:32:21,490
but I think just the noticing is important.

2321
03:32:21,850 --> 03:32:23,090
The other question I have is,

2322
03:32:23,270 --> 03:32:25,990
and forgive me if this is redundant,

2323
03:32:26,150 --> 03:32:27,990
but I know all the way back in January,

2324
03:32:28,210 --> 03:32:32,930
we talked about, and it's related to this,

2325
03:32:33,050 --> 03:32:33,710
maybe I don't know,

2326
03:32:33,890 --> 03:32:34,990
City Attorney Crick me if I'm wrong,

2327
03:32:35,070 --> 03:32:35,830
as I start to say this,

2328
03:32:36,210 --> 03:32:37,970
we talked about going through our exercise

2329
03:32:37,970 --> 03:32:40,330
of understanding the NOFA process

2330
03:32:40,330 --> 03:32:43,170
and how we're rating and all that.

2331
03:32:43,170 --> 03:32:46,290
Is that, is that, is that, did that ever happen?

2332
03:32:47,430 --> 03:32:49,550
I think Tina's coming up to answer that one.

2333
03:32:51,190 --> 03:32:53,970
Because we've had so many meetings I can't remember if I don't know if it's happened.

2334
03:32:54,350 --> 03:33:00,770
We did indeed do a study session about the NOFA process and how we and procurement process

2335
03:33:00,770 --> 03:33:01,830
they were kind of combined.

2336
03:33:02,450 --> 03:33:03,470
And so we did do that.

2337
03:33:04,010 --> 03:33:05,450
I'm going to say it was around March.

2338
03:33:06,370 --> 03:33:08,630
I was in the acting position at that point.

2339
03:33:08,850 --> 03:33:12,690
It was one of, it was the Tina show for about an hour and a half.

2340
03:33:12,690 --> 03:33:17,830
we did a special workshop. So we did talk about it. What we're looking to do the beginning

2341
03:33:17,830 --> 03:33:23,110
of October, I think the 6th is our date to do another open public workshop with council

2342
03:33:23,110 --> 03:33:29,430
is really breaking down the no-for-processes to do it here and here and then what. So a more

2343
03:33:29,430 --> 03:33:34,370
in-depth discussion. My goal of the discussion is to take feedback from council and the public

2344
03:33:34,370 --> 03:33:40,250
to be able to bring forward then the recommended new process to a full council for a vote at

2345
03:33:40,250 --> 03:33:52,630
And then later after the 6th of October, I don't know if we'll make the 14th, but probably likely November 4th would be for council to then approve the new updated process that we use then for the next no fun.

2346
03:33:52,850 --> 03:33:54,270
That's what I wanted to know. Okay, thank you.

2347
03:33:56,210 --> 03:33:57,290
Councilmember Villa Pudua.

2348
03:34:03,120 --> 03:34:09,800
Being on CBG, I noticed that I was at the meeting last week, right?

2349
03:34:10,320 --> 03:34:18,340
And I was probably myself, then my newest commissioner, I believe you were there as well, and two of the people.

2350
03:34:18,540 --> 03:34:23,060
So, I don't know if it's the timeframe, because it's from one to two.

2351
03:34:23,440 --> 03:34:25,060
I mean, people are still working, right?

2352
03:34:25,280 --> 03:34:29,320
I don't know if we got to change it up, but we got to figure some out.

2353
03:34:29,320 --> 03:34:34,180
because you know there's a lot of people are complaining and get it or is it

2354
03:34:34,180 --> 03:34:38,180
either that or it's a time frame so I think you know if we could maybe

2355
03:34:38,180 --> 03:34:42,860
adjust it from a later time to people could get a time to make it out there

2356
03:34:42,860 --> 03:34:50,680
you know I think it would help and impact more people coming in. Thank you. Seeing

2357
03:34:50,680 --> 03:34:56,940
no other questions from the council I declare the public hearing closed.

2358
03:34:59,000 --> 03:34:59,620
What's the

2359
03:34:59,620 --> 03:34:59,960
pleasure.

2360
03:35:05,030 --> 03:35:09,170
I voted already, sorry, motion to approve, second. Council, please vote.

2361
03:35:12,950 --> 03:35:13,310
Motion

2362
03:35:13,310 --> 03:35:23,110
carried 7-0. Thank you so much. Okay, now we are going on to 16.1, except by motion the

2363
03:35:23,110 --> 03:35:30,270
independent audit of the annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ended

2364
03:35:30,270 --> 03:35:36,690
June 30th, 2024. Look at this team looking mighty sharp. Let's go.

2365
03:35:37,250 --> 03:35:37,910
Woohoo.

2366
03:35:43,020 --> 03:35:48,880
So, Cadre, deputy director or deputy city manager, sorry, demoting myself by the

2367
03:35:48,880 --> 03:35:53,280
second. So I want to start off by thanking council for their understanding of the

2368
03:35:53,280 --> 03:35:59,000
delay in completing the annual annual comprehensive financial report known as

2369
03:35:59,000 --> 03:36:07,640
the Act for and for adjusting to hear consent items 12.1 and 12.2 with 16.1.

2370
03:36:08,340 --> 03:36:15,980
The presentation of the overall report which also includes items 12.1 and 12.2 in it.

2371
03:36:17,040 --> 03:36:23,420
So we'd like to also thank the audit committee for its time during yesterday's meeting engaging

2372
03:36:23,420 --> 03:36:29,360
with great questions and valuable discussion feedback to help better guide tonight's discussion.

2373
03:36:30,040 --> 03:36:35,480
I also want to thank staff for their hard work, the hard push to make tonight's council agenda,

2374
03:36:36,340 --> 03:36:40,700
and to Sophia with the Poon Group for all the help from her and her team.

2375
03:36:42,180 --> 03:36:46,180
As we walk through the report tonight, it's important to remember a few key points.

2376
03:36:47,740 --> 03:36:52,720
We have not had a CFO since May of 2024, so we've kind of talked about that a couple of times

2377
03:36:52,720 --> 03:36:59,640
tonight. The act for in itself is a high level report on controls over financial transactions

2378
03:36:59,640 --> 03:37:05,880
and reporting and on the city's compliance and accordance with governmental accounting standards.

2379
03:37:07,030 --> 03:37:12,900
The Poon Group provides financial auditing services validating that the city's financial practices

2380
03:37:12,900 --> 03:37:19,820
follow the governmental accounting standards. Process improvements are more appropriately driven

2381
03:37:19,820 --> 03:37:23,440
by an internal controls auditor, such as Moss Adams.

2382
03:37:24,520 --> 03:37:27,040
Once we have the internal controls auditor on board,

2383
03:37:27,560 --> 03:37:30,220
we will work with them to identify any gaps

2384
03:37:30,220 --> 03:37:31,340
in current practices.

2385
03:37:32,540 --> 03:37:34,660
Lastly, I want to assure council,

2386
03:37:35,040 --> 03:37:38,460
it is never the intent to be behind in our financial reporting.

2387
03:37:39,200 --> 03:37:43,520
As we work to complete the 2024-25 Act,

2388
03:37:44,500 --> 03:37:47,660
we will ensure that we meet with measure committees,

2389
03:37:47,660 --> 03:37:54,060
He's the audit committee ahead of time to open sure everyone is well informed prior to presenting the act for the council.

2390
03:37:55,180 --> 03:38:01,340
So now I'd like to introduce Sophia with the Poon Group to present the 2324 act for.

2391
03:38:05,310 --> 03:38:06,070
Thank you Chad.

2392
03:38:06,370 --> 03:38:09,090
Good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor and the council members.

2393
03:38:09,550 --> 03:38:11,170
This is Sophia Coe from the PUN Group.

2394
03:38:11,610 --> 03:38:16,690
We are external and independent auditors for the city's annual financial statements.

2395
03:38:16,690 --> 03:38:25,270
So here, I'm here tonight to present the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 financial statements.

2396
03:38:26,730 --> 03:38:32,210
So what I will go through tonight, including the scope of work, required communications

2397
03:38:32,710 --> 03:38:37,550
in accordance with professional standards, and also overview of the financial statements

2398
03:38:37,550 --> 03:38:44,190
and financial indicators, and some of the key pension information is our audit result.

2399
03:38:44,190 --> 03:38:53,430
So, the scope of work includes the audit of annual comprehensive financial report, which

2400
03:38:53,430 --> 03:38:59,250
we call as APAR, and also report on the internal control of the financial reporting and

2401
03:38:59,250 --> 03:39:02,210
uncompliance in accordance with government auditing standards.

2402
03:39:02,810 --> 03:39:09,130
Like Chad mentioned, he consolidated some constant item into here, so I would like to verbally

2403
03:39:09,130 --> 03:39:14,170
add on some of the scope of work we also did for the city doing fiscal year, June 30th.

2404
03:39:14,890 --> 03:39:20,970
which includes audit of the major AIM and major W and also agree upon procedures on

2405
03:39:20,970 --> 03:39:23,710
core revenue, gain limit and also major A and B.

2406
03:39:26,700 --> 03:39:28,360
So now I move on to the required

2407
03:39:28,360 --> 03:39:33,340
communication in accordance with professional standard, we call AUC section 260,

2408
03:39:33,900 --> 03:39:39,340
which is the auditors communication with those charged with governance, as an independent

2409
03:39:39,340 --> 03:39:45,240
and external auditors. So our responsibility as an external outside

2410
03:39:45,240 --> 03:39:52,560
auditors in accordance with professional standards, including form and express an opinion on the

2411
03:39:52,560 --> 03:39:56,740
final whether the financial statements have been prepared by the management with your

2412
03:39:56,740 --> 03:40:04,400
oversight are presented fairly in accordance with US gap and also our responsibility also

2413
03:40:04,400 --> 03:40:11,220
include to plan and perform audit to obtain reasonable assurance instead of absolute assurance.

2414
03:40:11,220 --> 03:40:16,900
The reason for that is because we are doing sampling and we are a professional judgment

2415
03:40:16,900 --> 03:40:22,280
also involved and evaluating management estimates are also involved.

2416
03:40:22,780 --> 03:40:25,160
So that's why only reasonable assurance can be obtained.

2417
03:40:26,480 --> 03:40:33,120
And throughout the audit, we were also required to exercise professional judgment throughout

2418
03:40:33,120 --> 03:40:33,600
the audit.

2419
03:40:34,330 --> 03:40:38,300
We also required to consider internal control over financial reporting.

2420
03:40:38,300 --> 03:40:44,680
However, such consideration was only for the purpose of determined our audit procedures

2421
03:40:44,680 --> 03:40:52,540
not to provide any assurance whether the internal control and also we did not issue opinions

2422
03:40:52,540 --> 03:40:52,940
on that.

2423
03:40:54,240 --> 03:41:00,500
We were also required to evaluate the appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the

2424
03:41:00,500 --> 03:41:07,680
risk of significant accounting estimates by the management as well as evaluate the overall

2425
03:41:07,680 --> 03:41:13,900
financial presentation and we were also required to conclude in our own professional

2426
03:41:13,900 --> 03:41:18,260
judgment whether they are any conditions or events that were triggered are going

2427
03:41:18,260 --> 03:41:23,460
concern for the study and lastly it's we are required to communicate with those

2428
03:41:23,460 --> 03:41:25,980
recharged with governance that's why we are here tonight.

2429
03:41:30,500 --> 03:41:31,900
So throughout the whole entire

2430
03:41:31,900 --> 03:41:37,660
audit we comply with all relevant ethical requirements including independence so the

2431
03:41:37,660 --> 03:41:41,520
The independence, including independence in mind, also independent in appearance,

2432
03:41:42,000 --> 03:41:46,040
especially related to those non-audit services that were provided to the city,

2433
03:41:46,260 --> 03:41:50,760
which including the drafting of the financial statement based on the information provided by the city.

2434
03:41:51,680 --> 03:41:59,440
And the city disclosed all the significant accounting policies in the notes one to the basic financial statement,

2435
03:41:59,940 --> 03:42:04,960
which is pretty important because it really dictates how the city prepares the financial statement.

2436
03:42:04,960 --> 03:42:12,160
And like I mentioned earlier, there's management is also required to do estimates.

2437
03:42:12,880 --> 03:42:18,600
So there are certain significant estimates made by the management, which include investment

2438
03:42:18,600 --> 03:42:25,720
reported at fair market value, depreciation and monetization on capital asset, as well as

2439
03:42:25,720 --> 03:42:32,660
the right to use asset, and these receivable, these liabilities, subscription liabilities, which

2440
03:42:32,660 --> 03:42:39,000
which came from the new gas report announcement 87 leases, and also 96 subscription liabilities

2441
03:42:39,000 --> 03:42:44,620
which were new in the past couple years, and the last one is the net pension liability,

2442
03:42:45,180 --> 03:42:49,580
which is a purely estimate made by the actuary.

2443
03:42:52,510 --> 03:42:58,630
There are some sensitive disclosures in the notes to the financial statement, which including

2444
03:42:58,630 --> 03:43:02,210
in the Note 1 summary of significant accounting policies,

2445
03:43:02,750 --> 03:43:07,230
Note 11 found balances, Note 12 retirement plans,

2446
03:43:07,810 --> 03:43:08,810
which is the pension plans,

2447
03:43:09,690 --> 03:43:12,150
and Note 15, other required disclosures,

2448
03:43:12,670 --> 03:43:15,710
Note 16, commitment and contingencies,

2449
03:43:16,310 --> 03:43:18,890
Note 17, net investment in capital assets,

2450
03:43:19,590 --> 03:43:23,510
and restricted net possession, Note 18 subsequent events,

2451
03:43:23,770 --> 03:43:26,390
those that issued after the financial statement date.

2452
03:43:26,390 --> 03:43:27,590
So

2453
03:43:29,700 --> 03:43:36,080
the effect of uncorrected statements are immaterial both in individually and also in

2454
03:43:36,080 --> 03:43:36,440
aggregate.

2455
03:43:37,400 --> 03:43:42,180
So from time to time, the management might be consulting with other accountants to the

2456
03:43:42,180 --> 03:43:45,960
best of our knowledge that the manager informed us.

2457
03:43:46,980 --> 03:43:50,760
There were no such consultation with other accountants regarding other things.

2458
03:43:52,060 --> 03:43:55,820
And we encountered no significant difficulties in dealing with the management.

2459
03:43:56,480 --> 03:44:00,900
and we did not have any disagreement with the management in terms of accounting

2460
03:44:00,900 --> 03:44:03,980
treatments or other team procedures performed.

2461
03:44:05,400 --> 03:44:11,040
So now I will move on to the overview of the financial statements and

2462
03:44:11,040 --> 03:44:15,740
the sum of the financial indicators. So before I move on to the next slide,

2463
03:44:15,960 --> 03:44:21,160
I would like to mention that management is responsible for the financial

2464
03:44:21,160 --> 03:44:35,660
and then we are the auditors looking into the financial statement and we were engaged to perform our audit following the professional standards to issue opinions on whether the financial statements are fairly presented in accordance with gap.

2465
03:44:39,990 --> 03:44:48,330
So the first set of financial statement, that's the government-wide statement and this is the balance sheet of the government as a whole.

2466
03:44:48,330 --> 03:44:59,810
So the government, you can see we have two different activities, the first one is governmental activities which including the general funds, special revenue fund, and also your capital project fund.

2467
03:45:00,000 --> 03:45:29,360
And as well as your internal service fund. And then the second category is the business type activities, which including your water, sewer, your stormwater, and parking. So, as of June 30, 2024, the total assets ended with $3.2 billion in the deferred outflow resources, which came from deferred loss from refunding and also the pension-related items. Ended with 190

2468
03:45:29,360 --> 03:45:36,280
million dollars and your total liability ended with $1.3 billion then the

2469
03:45:36,280 --> 03:45:41,560
deferred info resources which was 4.9 million which came from directly came

2470
03:45:41,560 --> 03:45:46,560
from the pension-related items. That result in your net position ended with

2471
03:45:46,560 --> 03:45:53,320
$2 billion. There are three different calories under the net position. The

2472
03:45:53,320 --> 03:45:59,300
first one is net investment in capital assets which was $1.4 million that's

2473
03:45:59,300 --> 03:46:01,760
your capital assets net with the related debt.

2474
03:46:02,880 --> 03:46:05,700
And then the second category is a restricted net position,

2475
03:46:06,220 --> 03:46:10,480
which can from external party and also enabling legislation,

2476
03:46:11,200 --> 03:46:14,420
which was $545 million,

2477
03:46:15,160 --> 03:46:21,160
and that leads to unrestricted net position $131.5 million.

2478
03:46:24,220 --> 03:46:27,780
So the government-wide statement of activities,

2479
03:46:27,780 --> 03:46:30,780
which is the income statement for the city as a whole.

2480
03:46:31,560 --> 03:46:34,600
So from a slide, you can see the program revenues

2481
03:46:35,080 --> 03:46:37,880
ended with $358 million.

2482
03:46:38,760 --> 03:46:41,040
So the program revenue has three categories.

2483
03:46:41,480 --> 03:46:43,040
You have charges for services,

2484
03:46:43,640 --> 03:46:45,740
you also have the operating grants and contribution,

2485
03:46:46,220 --> 03:46:48,780
as well as the capital contribution and the grants.

2486
03:46:50,320 --> 03:46:55,380
The expenses was $573.6 million.

2487
03:46:55,380 --> 03:47:01,860
That result in your net cost of services was $215 million.

2488
03:47:02,480 --> 03:47:08,180
You are seeing a negative because the expenses was over your total program revenue.

2489
03:47:08,820 --> 03:47:14,500
However, the city also has some general revenues, which including your tax revenue and also investment income.

2490
03:47:15,480 --> 03:47:23,620
And that net with general revenue that result in $168.7 million change in that position.

2491
03:47:23,620 --> 03:47:24,700
So,

2492
03:47:26,920 --> 03:47:31,440
one of the ratio that we also want to look into, that's the governmental activities

2493
03:47:31,440 --> 03:47:38,520
that not including the business type activity, the cost of service to the tax revenue for

2494
03:47:38,520 --> 03:47:42,020
both fiscal year, June 30, 2024 and 2023.

2495
03:47:42,700 --> 03:47:48,260
So the cost of service, like I mentioned in the previous slide, for the governmental activity

2496
03:47:48,260 --> 03:47:54,820
ended with $260.6 million and again you are seeing a negative because the

2497
03:47:54,820 --> 03:48:01,320
program revenue is less than your total expenses. And the tax revenue ended

2498
03:48:01,320 --> 03:48:10,500
with $219.9 million. The ratio here you show is a negative 119 percent. That

2499
03:48:10,500 --> 03:48:15,800
means your tax revenue is 42 support your cost of services. You are seeing

2500
03:48:15,800 --> 03:48:20,180
Having a negative is because of a cost of service is showing a negative right now.

2501
03:48:20,780 --> 03:48:23,000
And then just want to talk about that.

2502
03:48:23,360 --> 03:48:31,220
The city also has share tax revenue to cover the expenses, but this tax revenue doesn't include a share tax revenue.

2503
03:48:31,800 --> 03:48:33,060
Vice mayor has a question for you.

2504
03:48:33,420 --> 03:48:34,080
All the thank you, Mayor.

2505
03:48:34,260 --> 03:48:36,880
So are all these slides what we saw at the audit committee?

2506
03:48:37,780 --> 03:48:39,360
Nothing's changed, the presentation's changed.

2507
03:48:39,740 --> 03:48:41,480
Okay, okay, I'll save my questions.

2508
03:48:42,200 --> 03:48:42,640
Next, thanks.

2509
03:48:44,220 --> 03:48:53,390
So compared to last year is 109%, so now I move on to the general fund summary.

2510
03:48:54,950 --> 03:49:02,130
The city's general fund ended at $240.1 million compared to last year, $212.4 million.

2511
03:49:02,910 --> 03:49:07,590
There are five categories under the city's general fund balance.

2512
03:49:07,590 --> 03:49:11,010
the first one is non-spendable, which can from pre-pay,

2513
03:49:11,310 --> 03:49:13,110
advances, and the long-term receivable.

2514
03:49:14,060 --> 03:49:16,690
And then the restricted fund balance is $6.5 million.

2515
03:49:17,430 --> 03:49:21,670
The committed fund balance is $148.3 million.

2516
03:49:22,860 --> 03:49:26,210
The assigned fund balance is $31.3 million,

2517
03:49:26,550 --> 03:49:30,110
and then that's result in the assigned fund balance

2518
03:49:30,110 --> 03:49:32,010
is $51.3 million.

2519
03:49:34,910 --> 03:49:37,440
So the general fund revenue expenditures

2520
03:49:37,440 --> 03:49:41,640
and change in fund balances, which is the income statement for the city's general fund.

2521
03:49:42,280 --> 03:49:49,980
The total revenue was $349.5 million compared to last year, $335.5.

2522
03:49:50,780 --> 03:49:55,800
And the expenditures ended with $293.2 million.

2523
03:49:56,940 --> 03:50:02,540
And that result in your revenue over expenditures by $56.3 million.

2524
03:50:03,320 --> 03:50:07,420
And also netting with the other financing uses which many came from the transfer.

2525
03:50:07,420 --> 03:50:13,520
out to other funds to support their activities and that result in the change in fund balance

2526
03:50:13,520 --> 03:50:16,020
by 27.7 million dollars.

2527
03:50:18,720 --> 03:50:23,800
So this is the city's general fund on a sign fund balance to the

2528
03:50:23,800 --> 03:50:30,000
annual expenditure, which we also call as a running day fund ratio. So that if we only

2529
03:50:30,000 --> 03:50:37,560
look at the on a sign fund balance, 50.51.3 million dollars compared to the general fund annual

2530
03:50:37,560 --> 03:50:47,020
I know it's been the chart 293.2 million dollars, the ratio is 17.5 percent compared to last year's 18.4 percent.

2531
03:50:47,420 --> 03:50:53,800
That means the city will be okay for two to three months, if anything happened, the general fund doesn't have any revenue to come in.

2532
03:50:53,800 --> 03:51:00,840
And then when we consider the committed assigned and assigned

2533
03:51:00,840 --> 03:51:08,920
fund balances altogether, the fund balance went up to $230.9 million and

2534
03:51:08,920 --> 03:51:16,320
that result in the ratio, 778.8% compared to last year, 77.7%.

2535
03:51:18,800 --> 03:51:22,140
So now I move on to some key pension information.

2536
03:51:22,140 --> 03:51:30,060
So, the city participated in CalPERS and also parts, so there are three different plans.

2537
03:51:30,780 --> 03:51:33,500
The first one is CalPERS miscellaneous agent plan.

2538
03:51:34,180 --> 03:51:38,220
From the slide you can see the funding ratio for the miscellaneous agent plan.

2539
03:51:38,820 --> 03:51:45,160
It was pretty stable from current year compared to last year, which was about 80%.

2540
03:51:45,160 --> 03:51:51,800
The contribution made during the year is $18.9 million compared to last year, $20.3 million.

2541
03:51:53,880 --> 03:51:57,100
Now I move on to the CalPERS safety agent plan.

2542
03:51:58,340 --> 03:52:06,160
So the funding ratio for the safety plan was 65.6 compared to last year 65.8%.

2543
03:52:06,160 --> 03:52:16,180
percent. The contribution made during the year was 43.4 million dollars compared to last

2544
03:52:16,180 --> 03:52:18,520
year for 2.5 million dollars.

2545
03:52:21,100 --> 03:52:27,720
So the first point, this plan is a close plan and the funding

2546
03:52:27,720 --> 03:52:33,800
ratio is 86 percent compared to last year, 77 percent. The contribution made during current

2547
03:52:33,800 --> 03:52:40,000
in fiscal year was $1.1 million compared to last year's $854,000.

2548
03:52:42,250 --> 03:52:46,210
So this will bring me to the financial other results.

2549
03:52:48,440 --> 03:52:54,500
I would like to tell everybody that we are issuing a modified opinion, which is the best

2550
03:52:54,500 --> 03:52:56,560
opinion that the CPFM can render.

2551
03:52:57,180 --> 03:53:02,640
That means the financial statements are fairly presented in all material respects.

2552
03:53:02,640 --> 03:53:08,100
and also significant accounting policies have been consistently applied.

2553
03:53:08,940 --> 03:53:11,600
Estimates made by management are reasonable.

2554
03:53:12,600 --> 03:53:16,000
Disclosures are properly reflected in the financial statements.

2555
03:53:17,980 --> 03:53:22,660
So in accordance with professional standard section AUC265,

2556
03:53:23,100 --> 03:53:27,700
communicating internal control related matters identified in an audit,

2557
03:53:28,480 --> 03:53:31,580
we have three reportable findings that we would like to report.

2558
03:53:31,580 --> 03:53:37,260
So the first one is related to the city's administrative service department due to the

2559
03:53:37,260 --> 03:53:41,840
turnovers and vacancies, and it also led to the delay.

2560
03:53:42,340 --> 03:53:47,820
So that also results in the second finding about internal control over financial reporting

2561
03:53:48,200 --> 03:53:52,320
and timeliness in closing and also accuracy in financial reporting.

2562
03:53:53,380 --> 03:53:59,820
The third finding is related to the schedule of expenditures of federal work, which is also

2563
03:53:59,820 --> 03:54:05,900
known as CFA, so there were multiple revisions about multiple revisions on the CFA that provided

2564
03:54:05,900 --> 03:54:11,760
to us and it also caused the delay on closing all this group. So there are three reportable

2565
03:54:11,760 --> 03:54:16,320
findings that we after when we conclude the financial statement audit.

2566
03:54:18,510 --> 03:54:20,350
This will conclude my

2567
03:54:20,350 --> 03:54:26,930
presentation for tonight and then we'll be happy to answer any questions that you might have about

2568
03:54:29,580 --> 03:54:30,300
Thank you, Mayor.

2569
03:54:31,480 --> 03:54:31,940
Thank you, Mayor.

2570
03:54:32,740 --> 03:54:34,040
Thank you for the presentation.

2571
03:54:34,480 --> 03:54:38,760
I first want to start by saying thank you to Chair for the disclaimer at the onset of the presentation.

2572
03:54:39,500 --> 03:54:47,240
I would ask at some point you conclude again with that for the record because when we got this at audit, we weren't thinking that.

2573
03:54:47,480 --> 03:54:51,580
And of course, we've been short staffed in not having some key staff in place.

2574
03:54:51,900 --> 03:54:56,240
We would have wanted to get this a lot sooner or at least been involved in the process sooner.

2575
03:54:56,880 --> 03:54:58,780
and it not feels so rushed.

2576
03:54:59,320 --> 03:55:02,800
I want to go to slide 13 really quick,

2577
03:55:03,600 --> 03:55:06,300
and because I thought that this was a pretty significant

2578
03:55:06,960 --> 03:55:08,620
part of the discussion yesterday,

2579
03:55:09,160 --> 03:55:11,120
and I'm learning a lot, and I did meet with the mayor

2580
03:55:11,120 --> 03:55:13,000
briefly today to just ask a couple of questions

2581
03:55:13,000 --> 03:55:15,040
because trying to track everything and understand this,

2582
03:55:15,440 --> 03:55:16,840
can you pull up slide 13?

2583
03:55:22,280 --> 03:55:26,620
Here it says, the cost of services to the public,

2584
03:55:26,620 --> 03:55:36,600
I mean, all the services that we provide to the city, $260,645,000 and tax revenues, $219,000,

2585
03:55:36,640 --> 03:55:42,580
$219,000 and $864,000 and I think that was significant because if we didn't have measure

2586
03:55:42,580 --> 03:55:44,600
A, we would be screwed in other words.

2587
03:55:46,960 --> 03:55:51,800
And this all makes sense later on in my council comments but I think that was a significant

2588
03:55:51,800 --> 03:55:54,780
thing that jumped off the page to me.

2589
03:55:54,780 --> 03:56:00,140
And then also, I talked to the mayor briefly about page 15 if we can go to that.

2590
03:56:01,740 --> 03:56:11,100
And in audit, I had, we had questions about that where we had 349,493,000 in expenditures.

2591
03:56:11,620 --> 03:56:12,160
I mean, revenue.

2592
03:56:14,000 --> 03:56:20,340
293,191,000 in expenditures with the, what did we call that?

2593
03:56:20,340 --> 03:56:35,700
What's the 56 million carryover with the 56 million, 303,000 carryover, and then other financing uses 28.567 million with a change in the fund balance of 27, a little over 27 and a half million.

2594
03:56:36,360 --> 03:56:49,500
And I think at the audit committee, I had said that what I would like, and I think just in transparency is understanding that we have the 56 million carryover and 28.567 additional million spent.

2595
03:56:49,500 --> 03:57:06,420
If there could be some tracking of that for the public to see, or even council, I mean, you know, to see I mean I know we approve things and things are moved around, but I think having the ability for people to understand where that money has been spent would be helpful.

2596
03:57:08,240 --> 03:57:22,360
So you're absolutely right, and we heard you yesterday, and so as we go through this process for 2425, with more time to be able to sit and have conversations, we can easily get that information, you know, for the committees.

2597
03:57:23,220 --> 03:57:27,120
We do have that information now, and we can share that with council.

2598
03:57:27,120 --> 03:57:31,600
Yeah, not that we needed tonight, but I'm just saying I think for anybody that would want to know okay

2599
03:57:31,600 --> 03:57:35,840
Well, they had a carryover balance of over 56 million where did 28.56 go?

2600
03:57:36,240 --> 03:57:38,560
They'd be able to go to a website or point to go here

2601
03:57:38,560 --> 03:57:41,260
They can click it and they can see where we spent the money and transparency

2602
03:57:41,720 --> 03:57:46,420
Absolutely, but yeah, that was interesting. Let me ask a question. We're and this is for my own education

2603
03:57:46,420 --> 03:57:51,060
Where does the 27.7 36 million then go does that go into our

2604
03:57:51,700 --> 03:57:53,500
Reserves or where does that go?

2605
03:57:54,700 --> 03:57:57,260
Yeah, that'll go into you.

2606
03:57:57,440 --> 03:57:59,520
So at the end of the year when we report out,

2607
03:57:59,520 --> 03:58:01,560
that's part of the monies that we report out on

2608
03:58:01,560 --> 03:58:03,580
at the year in unspent revenue.

2609
03:58:03,920 --> 03:58:06,180
So those are the conversations we're looking forward

2610
03:58:06,180 --> 03:58:08,140
to having in November, December.

2611
03:58:08,380 --> 03:58:08,500
This should.

2612
03:58:08,780 --> 03:58:11,680
And then the last thing, going back to what you said earlier

2613
03:58:11,680 --> 03:58:14,060
with the disclaimer, Chad, you know,

2614
03:58:14,180 --> 03:58:15,800
we had said at the audit committee meeting,

2615
03:58:15,820 --> 03:58:17,800
the people that we appoint in all of our committees,

2616
03:58:18,140 --> 03:58:22,320
these commissioners are, to me and I, I'll speak

2617
03:58:22,320 --> 03:58:26,060
for myself, I see it, I can't say my colleagues do, but I would bet the same.

2618
03:58:26,580 --> 03:58:30,260
We look at them as an extension of me, so I can't be in every meeting.

2619
03:58:30,360 --> 03:58:34,840
I can't be in every committee, but I do put people in those meetings, I have point people

2620
03:58:34,840 --> 03:58:36,140
to be in those meetings.

2621
03:58:36,460 --> 03:58:41,100
We have regular meetings every week, my commissioners, and I do to talk about what's happening

2622
03:58:41,100 --> 03:58:47,820
in these commissions, what ideas they should be presenting, or they report to me what they

2623
03:58:47,820 --> 03:58:48,320
see or hear.

2624
03:58:48,920 --> 03:58:53,280
One of the things that I had heard early on was measure A committee folks just feeling

2625
03:58:53,280 --> 03:58:56,120
like they weren't really as involved as they probably should have been.

2626
03:58:56,640 --> 03:59:00,120
I think the intent was oversight when it was developed and they felt like they were more

2627
03:59:00,120 --> 03:59:00,720
of advisory.

2628
03:59:01,240 --> 03:59:06,100
I think when one of the biggest conversations that come up is how are we spending the measure,

2629
03:59:06,200 --> 03:59:10,680
any money, how are we spending the measure, any money, and this audit is helpful to see that

2630
03:59:10,680 --> 03:59:14,520
the money is being spent, how we're doing it, where we're doing it, their involvement, making

2631
03:59:14,520 --> 03:59:20,640
sure as you said earlier that they're involved in the process of being engaged when you're

2632
03:59:20,640 --> 03:59:22,460
developing this report would be helpful moving forward.

2633
03:59:23,260 --> 03:59:23,900
Thank you.

2634
03:59:24,060 --> 03:59:24,620
Definitely.

2635
03:59:26,990 --> 03:59:34,610
And I would say, you know, looking at this, and hopefully this is a template for, you

2636
03:59:34,610 --> 03:59:42,410
know, where we're at right now with our closing of 24-25 year, it's going to be very different

2637
03:59:42,410 --> 03:59:48,890
because you figure at the beginning of this you're showing us the 2324 that had

2638
03:59:48,890 --> 03:59:58,830
ARPA funding in it and then you saw kind of this decline in the 2324 so wait yeah

2639
03:59:58,830 --> 03:59:59,710
I gotta go back anymore.

2640
04:00:00,000 --> 04:00:29,920
22-23, then 23-24, because we've got to go back. But we still have this measure, a, funding. And I think what we're always concerned with is, you know, holding true to our promise. And even though some of these people weren't up here when the promise was made, we still have to follow through on that and making sure that funds, whether it's general fund or not, that those funds kind of stay with where there's

2641
04:00:29,920 --> 04:00:36,540
supposed to be, where they were intended to be, so that we don't find ourselves with

2642
04:00:38,960 --> 04:00:40,920
holes where we can't afford to have holes.

2643
04:00:41,780 --> 04:00:45,480
I know I'm kind of speaking in riddles, but-

2644
04:00:45,480 --> 04:00:46,600
No, I hear you, Mayor.

2645
04:00:46,920 --> 04:00:47,100
I do.

2646
04:00:47,780 --> 04:00:51,440
Yeah, because it's always a difficult conversation for us to have.

2647
04:00:51,700 --> 04:00:56,740
Kind of like the one we had earlier tonight, that's going to affect all of our employees.

2648
04:00:56,740 --> 04:01:25,760
So having very accurate numbers making sure that we know truly where our obligations are and I know staff has been working their tails off just to get this to the finish line because that's what happens when you don't have anybody writing the ship but you've got all these all hands on deck and they're rolling as fast as they can but you don't have anybody that's yeah, but I think everybody for the work that they've done I thank you for

2649
04:01:25,760 --> 04:01:33,040
for, you know, the PUN group for helping us get to this point as well as the audit committee

2650
04:01:33,040 --> 04:01:43,150
for, you know, reviewing a lot of this information so that we can close it out.

2651
04:01:45,050 --> 04:01:45,570
Absolutely.

2652
04:01:46,910 --> 04:01:53,910
And just in closing, I just want to highlight that, you know, the important thing that the

2653
04:01:53,910 --> 04:02:01,670
The act for highlights for 23, 24 is that our expenses are outpacing our revenue, right, and that's the big takeaway.

2654
04:02:02,390 --> 04:02:09,370
And so we're blessed that we have a good reserve, and we just need to stay mindful of it.

2655
04:02:10,630 --> 04:02:19,430
And in the messaging to the committees and the responsibility, we've had a lot of change over as indicated how we started right in since 2024.

2656
04:02:20,490 --> 04:02:29,450
And it's our intent to be able to deliver, you know, transparent information and work with the communities for an understanding of the financial situation.

2657
04:02:29,630 --> 04:02:32,650
And there's, you know, I think we've all had the independent conversations.

2658
04:02:32,710 --> 04:02:34,590
There's nothing to hide, right?

2659
04:02:34,850 --> 04:02:39,290
So it's just getting on the same page and speaking the same language.

2660
04:02:39,570 --> 04:02:40,590
So we look forward to that.

2661
04:02:41,610 --> 04:02:42,070
Okay.

2662
04:02:42,390 --> 04:02:42,770
Vice Mayor.

2663
04:02:43,270 --> 04:02:43,790
Thank you, Mayor.

2664
04:02:43,790 --> 04:02:49,530
Yeah, and let me clarify my comments, it's less about pointing fingers that there being

2665
04:02:49,530 --> 04:02:53,790
anything nefarious or wrongdoing or we're hiding money or I think this is just in the

2666
04:02:53,790 --> 04:02:58,650
spirit of being more transparent and understanding some of our challenges even today that the

2667
04:02:58,650 --> 04:03:02,190
mayor showed me something that nobody's brought to my attention and how do you interact

2668
04:03:02,190 --> 04:03:06,330
some of our audits to see where we are in certain things and wanting to make sure the efficiency

2669
04:03:06,330 --> 04:03:11,590
because I think this council is just really big on efficiency and making sure that we're

2670
04:03:11,590 --> 04:03:16,330
We're fixing all the things that we see, some of the challenges.

2671
04:03:16,770 --> 04:03:19,930
I'll just go ahead and take this opportunity to start the conversation I'm going to bring it later.

2672
04:03:20,470 --> 04:03:28,190
My council comments that the thing that really scares me is how we're doing business, right?

2673
04:03:28,510 --> 04:03:33,830
How we're doing businesses as a city, because ultimately if we strip away the taxes,

2674
04:03:34,270 --> 04:03:37,870
these special taxes that do have a sunset date to them, we're in trouble.

2675
04:03:37,870 --> 04:03:57,170
So like there has to be an economic engine that is driving the financial, I'm gonna say freedom from these taxes that this is just a surplus of money to go for a very specific thing, whether it's public safety or infrastructure, whatever it is.

2676
04:03:57,630 --> 04:04:07,830
And when I just look at the business of it, I mean, I just, again, I'll say more of my conversation later that this is really helpful information for us to consider when we're looking at how we're

2677
04:04:07,830 --> 04:04:12,990
this on the work and very strategic and methodical about how we approach turning our financial

2678
04:04:12,990 --> 04:04:16,010
health in a better direction, so.

2679
04:04:16,310 --> 04:04:18,570
But thank you for this very helpful and I'm going to do a question.

2680
04:04:20,420 --> 04:04:28,120
So I'm going to read the motion that we need from Council and that's staff recommends that

2681
04:04:28,120 --> 04:04:33,780
the City Council accept by motion the independent audit of the annual comprehensive financial

2682
04:04:33,780 --> 04:04:42,040
report for the year ended June 30th, 2024, and do I need to do these individually, or

2683
04:04:42,040 --> 04:04:43,700
can I name everything at one time?

2684
04:04:44,320 --> 04:04:47,200
You're talking about the ones for the ones for the ones for the ones for you.

2685
04:04:47,760 --> 04:04:50,660
I believe it would be best to take them separately because they were separate items, so.

2686
04:04:50,660 --> 04:04:50,960
Absolutely.

2687
04:04:51,800 --> 04:04:53,520
Because they were agendized individually.

2688
04:04:55,140 --> 04:04:56,020
So we're going to do them separately.

2689
04:04:57,660 --> 04:04:58,380
For each.

2690
04:04:58,660 --> 04:04:58,880
Okay.

2691
04:04:59,060 --> 04:04:59,640
Motion to approve.

2692
04:05:00,000 --> 04:05:00,340
Second.

2693
04:05:08,180 --> 04:05:10,620
I can read it again if that helps further the record.

2694
04:05:11,500 --> 04:05:14,520
Yeah, because we moved 12.1 and 2 and 2.

2695
04:05:15,020 --> 04:05:19,360
So what deputy manager read just read was for 16.1.

2696
04:05:19,660 --> 04:05:19,880
Okay.

2697
04:05:20,080 --> 04:05:21,500
So that's what we're motioning on first.

2698
04:05:21,740 --> 04:05:21,900
Okay.

2699
04:05:21,960 --> 04:05:22,400
Okay.

2700
04:05:22,660 --> 04:05:26,300
So we have a motion in a second for 16.1 council.

2701
04:05:26,440 --> 04:05:26,820
Please vote.

2702
04:05:30,140 --> 04:05:30,980
Motion carries.

2703
04:05:30,980 --> 04:05:36,500
370, now we'll go to the restricted funds.

2704
04:05:36,900 --> 04:05:38,580
We're going to go to item 12.1.

2705
04:05:38,840 --> 04:05:39,400
Yeah, there's.

2706
04:05:39,440 --> 04:05:42,600
It is recommended that the city council accept my motion.

2707
04:05:43,480 --> 04:05:50,040
The proposition 111 appropriation gang limits agreed upon procedures report, and

2708
04:05:50,040 --> 04:05:53,420
they agreed upon procedures applied to core revenue reports.

2709
04:05:53,980 --> 04:05:58,200
The measure M strong communities tax fund audit, and

2710
04:05:58,200 --> 04:06:03,500
In the measure W Public Safety Tax Fund audit for the year ended June 30th, 2024.

2711
04:06:03,780 --> 04:06:04,820
Motion to approve.

2712
04:06:05,180 --> 04:06:05,500
Second.

2713
04:06:05,860 --> 04:06:07,000
We have a motion and second.

2714
04:06:07,220 --> 04:06:08,000
Council please vote.

2715
04:06:10,060 --> 04:06:13,220
Motion carries 7-0 and 12.2.

2716
04:06:13,920 --> 04:06:15,080
All right, 12.2.

2717
04:06:15,540 --> 04:06:19,720
It is recommended that the City Council accept by motion the Independent Accountants Report

2718
04:06:19,720 --> 04:06:26,680
on applying agreed upon expenditures of measure A and B revenues and expenditures for

2719
04:06:26,680 --> 04:06:29,180
year ended June 30th, 2024.

2720
04:06:29,520 --> 04:06:30,080
Move to approve.

2721
04:06:30,520 --> 04:06:33,260
Can I, before we make a motion, can I just say something just for the public that are

2722
04:06:33,260 --> 04:06:33,540
watching?

2723
04:06:34,060 --> 04:06:37,780
12.1 and 12.2 are just pages within 16.1.

2724
04:06:38,100 --> 04:06:41,820
So that way people don't think we're just not going through a presentation, just approving

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04:06:41,820 --> 04:06:42,140
something.

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04:06:42,520 --> 04:06:43,180
Yeah, 100%.

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04:06:43,180 --> 04:06:45,840
That's how I started it and kind of my open English.

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04:06:45,960 --> 04:06:46,580
But they made it.

2729
04:06:46,660 --> 04:06:46,840
They made it.

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04:06:47,640 --> 04:06:48,280
Thank you.

2731
04:06:49,100 --> 04:06:49,880
Sorry, Blower.

2732
04:06:50,320 --> 04:06:50,780
It's all right.

2733
04:06:50,940 --> 04:06:51,340
So moved.

2734
04:06:51,780 --> 04:06:52,160
Second.

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04:06:52,500 --> 04:06:52,860
Motion.

2736
04:06:52,980 --> 04:06:53,260
Second.

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04:06:53,360 --> 04:06:54,040
Council, please vote.

2738
04:06:54,040 --> 04:06:58,800
motion carries 7-0. Thank you. Thank you.

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04:07:01,720 --> 04:07:05,460
Okay moving on then to 16.2

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04:07:05,460 --> 04:07:10,160
presentation office of public transparency information communication.

2741
04:07:15,820 --> 04:07:16,500
Mr.

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04:07:16,600 --> 04:07:18,040
Manor you're

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04:07:20,630 --> 04:07:20,790
up.

2744
04:07:27,380 --> 04:07:28,380
Good evening Council.

2745
04:07:31,090 --> 04:07:35,210
So it's good to see everybody. My name is

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04:07:35,210 --> 04:07:38,030
In a manner, I am your city public information officer.

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04:07:38,630 --> 04:07:43,510
Tonight, I am going to be presenting information about the Office of Public Transparency,

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04:07:43,850 --> 04:07:49,570
and our vision for transforming how Stockton communicates with and serves its citizens through

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04:07:49,570 --> 04:07:51,890
accessibility and proactive communications.

2750
04:08:01,970 --> 04:08:08,270
First, I'd like to share with the council my role and responsibilities.

2751
04:08:09,210 --> 04:08:13,110
City of Stockton public information officer is a charter recognized executive role within

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04:08:13,110 --> 04:08:19,730
the city manager's office. The PIO serves as the city spokesperson, managing all media contact

2753
04:08:19,730 --> 04:08:25,110
and public information to ensure consistent and accurate communications. In emergency,

2754
04:08:25,550 --> 04:08:31,190
the PIO operates as a member of the emergency operations center command staff, providing unified

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04:08:31,190 --> 04:08:36,910
messaging that protects public safety during emergencies. The role also oversees the city government

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04:08:36,910 --> 04:08:43,050
management channel, manages federally protected peg funding, dedicated to transparency and communications infrastructure.

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04:08:43,470 --> 04:08:52,390
The PIO ensures that all city information is accessible and ADA compliant, applying technical expertise to strengthen communication systems and safeguard public trust.

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04:08:57,500 --> 04:08:59,600
I'll get this little clicker down in a sec.

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04:09:01,760 --> 04:09:11,280
So, under the various roles, it is my responsibility to be the city's contact for

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04:09:11,280 --> 04:09:15,360
media inquiries, press releases, and fact sheets, emergency communications.

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04:09:16,100 --> 04:09:21,520
I am the spokesperson in crisis into the FEMA incident command system standards and city policy.

2762
04:09:22,180 --> 04:09:27,820
I am here to ensure compliance with the California Public Records Act and council policy on disclosures.

2763
04:09:28,080 --> 04:09:31,480
I oversee the use of city logos, branding and design standards.

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04:09:32,420 --> 04:09:36,380
It is my responsibility to safeguard accuracy, ADA compliance and

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04:09:37,660 --> 04:10:05,900
Accessibility of on city online services, managing city accounts, content retention and coordinated messaging of social media accounts, directing programming and managing federally protected peg resources for government TV and our public education and government broadcasting, establishing standards for customer service and community updates, working with the IT department to evaluate vendor system stream line city processes and share digital accessibility.

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04:10:05,900 --> 04:10:16,140
And recently added to the city's cohort on artificial intelligence, which is why the PI role is becoming a more hybrid role between technology and communications.

2767
04:10:17,480 --> 04:10:19,540
Now, why does this matter?

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04:10:19,900 --> 04:10:23,080
It ensures that the city and all departments speak with one voice.

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04:10:23,400 --> 04:10:26,400
This reduces miscommunication and is spread of misinformation.

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04:10:27,180 --> 04:10:34,020
Provides policy compliance with the American Disabilities Act, California Public Records Act, FCC and FEMA.

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04:10:34,620 --> 04:10:43,760
Strengthens public trust and transparency through accessibility and availability and helps residents to know what their city is doing and how to access services and resources.

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04:10:44,840 --> 04:10:47,040
So that's me, that's what I'm doing.

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04:10:48,080 --> 04:11:00,800
But recently we had, if you'd like to know a little bit about me and what brought me into this role, I have 12 years of experience in the private sector and public relations with clients across the country.

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04:11:00,800 --> 04:11:05,700
dealing with big problems in small, six years in government public relations,

2775
04:11:05,940 --> 04:11:09,760
ten years, managing branding and marketing campaigns for multiple national clients,

2776
04:11:10,220 --> 04:11:11,460
and so on and so forth.

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04:11:11,760 --> 04:11:15,000
I don't really like to brag about myself, but I've been doing this for a really long time.

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04:11:15,480 --> 04:11:21,640
I've been a programmer for over 25 years, so it's a lot across a training available.

2779
04:11:24,320 --> 04:11:28,040
Now for the fun part, the Office of Public Transparency.

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04:11:28,040 --> 04:11:37,130
The Office of Public Transparency is the capacity through which the City Manager organizes staff to meet transparency and communication obligations.

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04:11:37,630 --> 04:11:45,410
It's a small specialized team of software developers and design professionals working under the public information officer in the City Manager's office.

2782
04:11:46,070 --> 04:11:56,770
This team provides expertise in ADA digital accessibility design, media and software development, allowing the City to translate complex data and policies into accessible public information.

2783
04:11:57,390 --> 04:12:04,870
Optic also works with the IT to evaluate, the IT department to evaluate software vendors work with City Departments to develop tools and streamline processes.

2784
04:12:05,450 --> 04:12:11,510
By keeping these responsibilities centralized and professionalized, Stockton delivers clear and consistent communication,

2785
04:12:11,770 --> 04:12:15,130
maintains compliance with federal legal standards and strengthens public trust.

2786
04:12:18,720 --> 04:12:26,380
Now, the Office of Public Transparency bridges the gap between Stockton City Government and its residents through six core values.

2787
04:12:26,380 --> 04:12:30,000
These are our promises, transparency, information, and communication.

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04:12:30,660 --> 04:12:33,880
We must make all legally available information accessible to the public.

2789
04:12:34,140 --> 04:12:37,220
We must provide timely information to issues impacting our community.

2790
04:12:37,860 --> 04:12:41,880
And we must reach the people where they are online and offline.

2791
04:12:46,610 --> 04:12:51,450
The Office of Public Transparency bridges the gap between Stockton City Government and

2792
04:12:51,450 --> 04:12:58,170
this residence through 6 core values that guide our mission to transform complex data into accessible information, foster open communication.

2793
04:12:58,170 --> 04:13:03,190
build public trust through innovation, inclusive, and accountable transparency initiatives.

2794
04:13:03,890 --> 04:13:09,030
The Office of Public Transparency is the solution to increasing public transparency,

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04:13:09,290 --> 04:13:11,670
community engagement, and effective government communications.

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04:13:15,230 --> 04:13:22,710
Now, the optic comms are inside the city of Stockton, our communications plan is directed by the city manager.

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04:13:23,590 --> 04:13:28,710
And we recently had a meeting with the city management team and I'd like to tell you a little bit about

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04:13:28,710 --> 04:13:33,530
some of the initiatives moving forward, some of the direction that has been received.

2799
04:13:34,310 --> 04:13:41,170
So Optic will succeed by building strong internal relationships, starting with meeting with each department and building strong rapport with each director.

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04:13:42,190 --> 04:13:55,050
For example, when HR, IT, ASD, and other internal service departments need to push out critical information to staff, we can't afford to mix messages or delays by working directly with directors and department communication coordinators.

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04:13:55,050 --> 04:14:00,470
Optics can help shape clear concise communications that reach staff quickly and effectively.

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04:14:01,090 --> 04:14:04,650
And the more we understand the daily operations across all these departments, the better

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04:14:04,650 --> 04:14:09,490
positions we are to tell the city's story externally because the foundations of transparency

2804
04:14:09,490 --> 04:14:13,110
is showing residents the real day-to-day work of their government is accomplishing.

2805
04:14:15,770 --> 04:14:21,330
On the external side, Optics role is to focus on the operation of governance itself, delivering

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04:14:21,330 --> 04:14:26,650
factual necessary information that helps residents understand their government, understand what

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04:14:26,650 --> 04:14:28,150
what their government is doing for them.

2808
04:14:28,810 --> 04:14:32,730
To be clear, the public information office and optic do not engage in political messaging

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04:14:32,730 --> 04:14:35,830
or communication that only benefits a single agency or entity.

2810
04:14:36,230 --> 04:14:39,330
Our credibility depends on being impartial and resident focused.

2811
04:14:39,930 --> 04:14:44,130
What we do commit to is a collaboration, partnering with city and other county PIOs to make

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04:14:44,130 --> 04:14:48,770
sure that when we speak, we speak with one voice and it is consistent and trustworthy.

2813
04:14:50,650 --> 04:14:55,890
With our website and social media presence, the city website and social media are now

2814
04:14:55,890 --> 04:14:59,950
front doors to public trust. Optic will coronate across all-

2815
04:15:00,000 --> 04:15:29,260
The Department is to ensure consistent messaging. Our job is to strengthen our messaging so it reaches the right audiences in the right ways without leaving anyone behind. That means working hand in hand with departments on content development, updating sites as needed, and helping teams turn complex work and projects into clear accessible information. Every post, every page is a chance to build trust and demonstrate transparency. And finally, we cannot ignore accessibility.

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04:15:29,260 --> 04:15:35,880
A website that is not ADA compliant is not transparent, it is, in fact, access denied.

2817
04:15:36,260 --> 04:15:41,740
The City of Stockton is working towards meeting a federal mandated deadline of April

2818
04:15:41,740 --> 04:15:46,600
2026 to make sure every part of our digital presence or website or social media and our

2819
04:15:46,600 --> 04:15:52,860
mobile applications meet federal but federal accessibility standards under the WCAG 2.1

2820
04:15:52,860 --> 04:16:01,900
level to a guidelines. This is not an optional piece of work. It is a mandate under the amended title

2821
04:16:01,900 --> 04:16:08,060
two of the American Disabilities Act passed in June of 2024. Optic was recruited and hired for

2822
04:16:08,060 --> 04:16:13,160
this exact reason. Optic team is uniquely qualified to meet these requirements in a very short amount of

2823
04:16:13,160 --> 04:16:19,380
time. We are already auditing the city's entire digital asset portfolio in communications policy manual.

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04:16:20,620 --> 04:16:22,340
I'm going to slow down for a sec.

2825
04:16:22,960 --> 04:16:28,120
And from that audit, we are building a roadmap that lays out the game plan to assure Stockton

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04:16:28,120 --> 04:16:30,600
is in full compliance before the April 26 deadline.

2827
04:16:31,120 --> 04:16:35,340
We're also working directly with Robert Hernandez and the ADA transition plan team to set up

2828
04:16:35,340 --> 04:16:38,960
a clear schedule that aligns this work with the city's broader compliance efforts.

2829
04:16:39,600 --> 04:16:43,240
This is not about checking boxes, this is about making sure every resident, no matter their

2830
04:16:43,240 --> 04:16:48,560
abilities, can access city information, access is transparency and this is why these actions

2831
04:16:48,560 --> 04:16:52,600
must be taken. We have been and be taken with such urgency.

2832
04:16:52,940 --> 04:16:55,340
The doors to government must be open to all of our residents.

2833
04:16:56,180 --> 04:16:59,800
This is why this work must happen now and why Optic is leading it.

2834
04:17:01,080 --> 04:17:06,160
To introduce you to some of our Optic teammates, if this is working.

2835
04:17:06,640 --> 04:17:07,720
This is our Optic team.

2836
04:17:08,140 --> 04:17:10,560
We have Louis, Ernestina, and Marianne.

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04:17:10,720 --> 04:17:15,720
Combine, they have 45 years of experience, each with their own particular skill set.

2838
04:17:16,260 --> 04:17:23,700
So Louis is our media manager. He is the team lead. He has 15 years of UI, UX, front end

2839
04:17:23,700 --> 04:17:29,480
development. These are all software engineers, if that wasn't clear. But he also has 25 years

2840
04:17:29,480 --> 04:17:34,800
in graphic design. We often joke that you have programmers and you have communicators and

2841
04:17:34,800 --> 04:17:40,840
there is a very slim area with those two things overlap. We happen to have a team that

2842
04:17:40,840 --> 04:17:42,000
does exactly that thing.

2843
04:17:43,300 --> 04:17:44,380
Next, we have Ernestina.

2844
04:17:44,460 --> 04:17:49,560
Ernestina is explicit, I think what makes her especially

2845
04:17:49,560 --> 04:17:53,440
special to our optic team is that she has eight years

2846
04:17:53,440 --> 04:17:55,240
of accessibility design experience.

2847
04:17:55,440 --> 04:17:59,360
She is probably one of the most eminent experts

2848
04:17:59,360 --> 04:18:01,880
in our county on ADA accessibility

2849
04:18:01,880 --> 04:18:03,120
when it comes to technology.

2850
04:18:04,600 --> 04:18:05,980
And then we have Marianne.

2851
04:18:06,040 --> 04:18:10,460
Marianne has her degree in child and adolescent development

2852
04:18:10,460 --> 04:18:13,160
and is our UIUX design lead.

2853
04:18:14,020 --> 04:18:17,900
She is exceptional.

2854
04:18:18,240 --> 04:18:20,260
When it comes to design and creating interfaces

2855
04:18:20,260 --> 04:18:21,420
and things that are going to make

2856
04:18:22,080 --> 04:18:25,020
all the things around the city of Stockton

2857
04:18:25,020 --> 04:18:27,040
as far as digital assets, more usable,

2858
04:18:27,580 --> 04:18:29,880
she will be our person for that.

2859
04:18:30,680 --> 04:18:32,480
Now, in addition to optic,

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04:18:32,480 --> 04:18:36,180
we have our public education and government access engineer.

2861
04:18:37,480 --> 04:18:40,280
For those who are unfamiliar with what peg is,

2862
04:18:40,280 --> 04:18:42,760
This peg is a public educational government access channels.

2863
04:18:43,340 --> 04:18:48,280
These are things like GovTV, our channel, what used to be channel 97.

2864
04:18:48,780 --> 04:18:51,140
It's what the folks at home would be watching right now.

2865
04:18:51,840 --> 04:18:54,580
Those are all managed also by the public information office.

2866
04:18:55,920 --> 04:19:02,460
Those things and the communications and transparency efforts are partially paid for by what's called peg funding.

2867
04:19:03,120 --> 04:19:09,640
These are federal funds, these are funds under federal regulation that are

2868
04:19:09,640 --> 04:19:17,500
a share of broadcast revenues that are allocated out to cities based on population size.

2869
04:19:18,020 --> 04:19:20,020
So we get a certain amount of money each year.

2870
04:19:20,120 --> 04:19:25,240
This is what goes to pay for things like our cameras, our systems, computers, software,

2871
04:19:25,380 --> 04:19:32,900
things of that nature that help keep all the stuff running smoothly, which we covered.

2872
04:19:33,360 --> 04:19:37,520
Our PEG engineer is Tom Holbrooke, he is the person running the board right now.

2873
04:19:37,520 --> 04:19:42,620
many of you know him, he's been with the city for over 10 years, but he has also worked

2874
04:19:42,620 --> 04:19:49,420
in for a variety of network stations, including E Entertainment, Comcast and BC. He's worked

2875
04:19:49,420 --> 04:19:59,020
on several television shows, G4, Esquire, Babylon 5. He is also a widely recognized film historian,

2876
04:19:59,600 --> 04:20:05,100
so he's been documented in magazines for his expertise in film and production, so

2877
04:20:05,860 --> 04:20:10,720
He is fully fitting in with the rest of the crew as being experts in their field and

2878
04:20:10,720 --> 04:20:12,820
the city of Stockton is lucky to have the entire team.

2879
04:20:13,540 --> 04:20:15,760
So this is your city of Stockton communications team.

2880
04:20:16,600 --> 04:20:21,340
It's comprised of your public information officer, peg engineer in the office of public transparency.

2881
04:20:22,380 --> 04:20:32,760
With a combined 90 years of experience and graphic design video production public relations web development data analytics in the private and public sector.

2882
04:20:34,240 --> 04:20:39,500
Thank you so much for your time, and I'm sure we have some questions I'm happy to answer them for you.

2883
04:20:40,140 --> 04:20:41,820
Yes, Vice Mayor.

2884
04:20:42,960 --> 04:20:45,340
Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Matter, for your presentation.

2885
04:20:45,960 --> 04:20:51,900
I mean, it's not a secret that I've been very critical of your department and the city manager's office for

2886
04:20:51,900 --> 04:20:54,380
how this department even came to life.

2887
04:20:54,620 --> 04:21:00,660
I just want to start by, before I dig into your presentation, start by saying for the sake of transparency,

2888
04:21:00,660 --> 04:21:04,620
This department does not exist in our current budget that we approved.

2889
04:21:05,200 --> 04:21:11,300
We did not go through a presentation of salaries, which I have here.

2890
04:21:12,340 --> 04:21:17,140
And while I do appreciate all the experience and the presentation with staff,

2891
04:21:17,500 --> 04:21:19,180
this is not a personal thing for me.

2892
04:21:19,920 --> 04:21:25,000
I'm not driven by emotions around people, their experience, or slides, or any of that.

2893
04:21:25,320 --> 04:21:27,700
I'm just a real black and white type of person.

2894
04:21:27,700 --> 04:21:37,640
The reason why Jen dies this topic is because, you know, I want to go back to when we all got elected and I know the mayor and I had a conversation.

2895
04:21:38,100 --> 04:21:48,480
Some of us that I can't remember how it went down, but we talked about telling the Stockton story, being able to build a narrative about Stockton that we know.

2896
04:21:48,480 --> 04:21:54,260
So you hear things about Stockton, oh, this crime is high and this or this or that, there's all these things.

2897
04:21:54,620 --> 04:21:58,420
But there's a lot of beauty in Stockton and I mean, I typically find them on the Mayor's page,

2898
04:21:58,660 --> 04:22:05,940
the council members pages, but I had felt early on that we weren't telling the Stockton story.

2899
04:22:06,460 --> 04:22:15,280
I'm not going to go through all of my experience, but I will say I've had a little bit of success in building media and

2900
04:22:15,280 --> 04:22:17,420
and being able to build media operations.

2901
04:22:18,400 --> 04:22:22,560
So, first I want to get into just the history.

2902
04:22:22,880 --> 04:22:26,420
So, the city had a PIO and then I think the mayor's office has a PIO.

2903
04:22:26,620 --> 04:22:32,560
So, the PIO for the city manager because I don't know the full history is the person

2904
04:22:32,560 --> 04:22:34,400
who speaks on behalf of the city, correct?

2905
04:22:34,800 --> 04:22:34,960
Correct.

2906
04:22:35,300 --> 04:22:39,760
Okay, so that would be all the city departments, fire, whatever, anything related to city business

2907
04:22:39,760 --> 04:22:42,060
through the city manager's office comes through the PIO.

2908
04:22:42,060 --> 04:22:46,640
So with some exceptions, what are those exceptions?

2909
04:22:47,060 --> 04:22:50,040
The Stockton Police Department has their own PIO and communication staff.

2910
04:22:50,500 --> 04:22:57,280
Each department has their own communications coordinator and many of them have access to some of our communication channel.

2911
04:22:58,080 --> 04:23:03,280
So part of that process is that they notify me when they send things out, I go back and I review them.

2912
04:23:03,340 --> 04:23:10,340
Sometimes there is a review process, so it really depends on which department and

2913
04:23:10,340 --> 04:23:15,160
And what level of access that they've had in the past and what sort of oversight that they require.

2914
04:23:15,560 --> 04:23:21,320
But in general, you are correct, but like with everything, it's the doubles in the details.

2915
04:23:21,740 --> 04:23:25,660
So the emergency operations command, what is that?

2916
04:23:26,260 --> 04:23:34,540
So if there were an emergency, say a major flood or something like that, the EOC is activated.

2917
04:23:34,540 --> 04:23:46,120
This is usually activated at the county level, and in that regard, my role is to coordinate communications between the EOC and the public and city staff.

2918
04:23:46,800 --> 04:24:04,120
So say, for example, something catastrophic happened to City Hall, not only would my responsibility be to communicate with the public to let them know, to avoid the area, but also to communicate with city staff to let them know what kind of contingencies there are and where they can go and things of that nature.

2919
04:24:04,120 --> 04:24:10,480
So I looked on the slides when you posted your qualifications, did you have to do the FEMA, PIO emergency management

2920
04:24:10,480 --> 04:24:12,260
programs, and you got certified in that?

2921
04:24:12,480 --> 04:24:16,380
I have three certifications so far, I have another one coming up October 4th.

2922
04:24:16,380 --> 04:24:20,580
For how many certifications for that part of the role do you have to take?

2923
04:24:21,620 --> 04:24:25,200
You know, I couldn't answer that off the top of my head, I know there's several.

2924
04:24:25,820 --> 04:24:28,720
And then as far as the APR, you're certified in that?

2925
04:24:29,140 --> 04:24:30,040
The APR?

2926
04:24:30,060 --> 04:24:32,040
The accreditation in PR?

2927
04:24:32,860 --> 04:24:33,220
No.

2928
04:24:33,220 --> 04:24:35,540
Okay, I just have 20 years of experience.

2929
04:24:35,860 --> 04:24:37,860
Okay, so let's move on to slide seven.

2930
04:24:38,100 --> 04:24:43,280
Slide seven, you mentioned that you're involved in software development.

2931
04:24:43,540 --> 04:24:47,840
Prior to you coming on, or maybe the mayor of the city magic can help me with that,

2932
04:24:48,120 --> 04:24:54,380
how do we handle software engineering or software management from the PIO's department or for the city?

2933
04:24:55,140 --> 04:25:02,180
So prior to coming in, a lot of the previously,

2934
04:25:02,180 --> 04:25:07,360
Some of the software consulting was done through outside vendors.

2935
04:25:08,280 --> 04:25:11,840
We did at one point have programmers in the IT department.

2936
04:25:12,220 --> 04:25:15,060
My understanding is that we do not currently.

2937
04:25:16,720 --> 04:25:22,920
The type of work that optics being tasked to do is a strange overlap between communications

2938
04:25:22,920 --> 04:25:28,100
and software development with an special weight on the accessibility work.

2939
04:25:28,720 --> 04:25:32,040
The accessibility work as a federal law, it has changed.

2940
04:25:32,300 --> 04:25:38,520
There is a deadline coming up that we are trying to meet to bring all of our platforms into alignment with those.

2941
04:25:40,100 --> 04:25:41,660
And there's a lot of work to be done.

2942
04:25:42,080 --> 04:25:43,340
But why couldn't we outsource?

2943
04:25:43,580 --> 04:25:50,880
I mean, I raised the question because when I look at the budget right now, it's $926,487 for this department.

2944
04:25:51,020 --> 04:25:56,720
Which is, to me, it's not, I mean, I don't even know how to make sense of that.

2945
04:25:56,720 --> 04:26:12,820
Given the needs we have for OVP, just thinking about Office of Violence Prevention, we're spending, I think $2 million to help aid preventative, you know, people preventing them from crime and we're going to, from, from being victims of crime and we're spending almost half of that in this department.

2946
04:26:13,120 --> 04:26:16,620
But when I think about that, you know, my company, we don't have full time software engineers.

2947
04:26:16,840 --> 04:26:23,440
We outsource what we need to make tweaks. We have a webmaster who manages the tinkering that needs to happen to keep the engine going.

2948
04:26:23,440 --> 04:26:32,340
But we don't have a full time software developers when I look at the city of Stockton website, and I know me in the mirror had conversations about how we're not really happy with the website.

2949
04:26:32,740 --> 04:26:38,840
What changes have been made since you started in May to the website?

2950
04:26:40,520 --> 04:26:48,140
Well, first to address the first part of your question, your surgeon, when it comes to

2951
04:26:48,140 --> 04:26:53,000
using outside vendors, that has been what we've been doing, and that's kind of why we are

2952
04:26:53,000 --> 04:26:54,240
in the situation that we're in.

2953
04:26:54,800 --> 04:26:55,380
Explain that.

2954
04:26:56,420 --> 04:27:03,100
We are working to achieve compliance with federally mandated regulations as far as ADA compliance

2955
04:27:03,100 --> 04:27:04,860
and we have until April to do that.

2956
04:27:05,600 --> 04:27:16,960
Right, but why do we need to have in-house full-time coders and developers to do something that once you get in compliance, you're not going to have to do full-time.

2957
04:27:17,100 --> 04:27:23,960
I mean, you may have to do some updates here and there, but, you know, again, just trying to understand the rationale for having full-time web developers.

2958
04:27:25,660 --> 04:27:28,900
Sure. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to explain this.

2959
04:27:34,080 --> 04:27:43,060
So up until this point we've been using vendors and it has put us in a position where we need to have people working on this full time.

2960
04:27:45,340 --> 04:27:52,580
And once we reach the April that is just the first stage so we have other modifications that we need to do.

2961
04:27:52,580 --> 04:27:54,440
I'd be happy to give you the road map.

2962
04:27:54,680 --> 04:27:59,660
We are developing that right now on how do we get to there by April 2026.

2963
04:28:01,220 --> 04:28:03,240
There's a lot of things that need to be touched.

2964
04:28:06,200 --> 04:28:08,720
And to give you an example of,

2965
04:28:13,630 --> 04:28:18,170
there's cost savings that I could explain to probably in

2966
04:28:18,170 --> 04:28:21,990
a workshop setting that I don't know that I can give you the exact-

2967
04:28:21,990 --> 04:28:26,610
I mean, listen, I mean, if this was PD talking to me about, you know,

2968
04:28:27,690 --> 04:28:31,250
resuscitating life, that's one thing, because I'm not in that world anymore of probation.

2969
04:28:31,490 --> 04:28:36,650
I don't do CPR, I don't, you know, you know, I know this world, right?

2970
04:28:36,730 --> 04:28:41,630
So I'm just trying to understand, and it's very simple for me, but I'm trying to use this exercise

2971
04:28:41,630 --> 04:28:46,350
to help my colleagues understand it because, again, when I look at an investment like this,

2972
04:28:46,570 --> 04:28:51,490
and again, being very clear and transparent, we have not received a presentation prior

2973
04:28:51,490 --> 04:28:55,310
to the implementation of this department that's front facing with the community.

2974
04:28:56,250 --> 04:28:57,490
Go ahead, Mary, do you want to say something?

2975
04:28:58,090 --> 04:28:58,790
No, okay, thank you.

2976
04:28:58,790 --> 04:29:03,690
Okay, so I'm just trying to get at it, because I'll just skip straight to your presentation.

2977
04:29:04,570 --> 04:29:06,350
If I could answer one question?

2978
04:29:06,490 --> 04:29:06,630
Sure.

2979
04:29:09,710 --> 04:29:17,870
This budget, these roles were open full-time employment roles that were filled.

2980
04:29:17,870 --> 04:29:27,470
So, their positions were already in the budget, that we are calling it optic, they are just three employees that work in the city manager's office.

2981
04:29:27,990 --> 04:29:34,010
So, I understand the structure, there is a pending investigation for the department, I'll leave that with there.

2982
04:29:34,370 --> 04:29:38,130
But specific to your presentation here, I'll go to your optic roadmap.

2983
04:29:39,070 --> 04:29:44,150
Month one, let's just start with, where did month one, with the department set up, start?

2984
04:29:44,150 --> 04:29:48,130
Did that start in April, May, what month did that start?

2985
04:29:48,250 --> 04:29:50,370
Because I want to try to go through this timeline really quick.

2986
04:29:50,370 --> 04:29:51,270
I want to order mayor.

2987
04:29:51,550 --> 04:29:53,170
Is this an interview process?

2988
04:29:53,390 --> 04:29:54,010
What are we doing here?

2989
04:29:54,910 --> 04:29:56,150
Oh, well, okay.

2990
04:29:56,630 --> 04:29:56,710
So.

2991
04:29:57,250 --> 04:29:59,250
So it should be reported to the city.

2992
04:30:00,000 --> 04:30:29,940
What are you signing? What? On appropriate, the way he's acting, if he's qualified, not qualified, I mean, he has some leeway to ask questions, and then it will pass to to everyone else. And then, you know, I have a response as well, but I'm going to allow him some leeway to ask those questions, and then we will move on. All right. Thank you, Mary. It is to clarify this isn't an interview. This is actually the first time this council is a full buy.

2993
04:30:29,940 --> 04:30:32,860
has had a presentation from the Optic Department.

2994
04:30:33,280 --> 04:30:35,660
The department does front face with the community

2995
04:30:35,660 --> 04:30:38,080
on behalf of the work and services being provided.

2996
04:30:38,560 --> 04:30:42,460
Today, we had lots of conversation about making sure

2997
04:30:42,460 --> 04:30:43,980
we're communicating to the community,

2998
04:30:44,180 --> 04:30:46,080
making sure we're doing social media postings

2999
04:30:46,080 --> 04:30:46,920
and creating content.

3000
04:30:47,460 --> 04:30:51,320
And we've seen today a cost of $926,000,

3001
04:30:51,320 --> 04:30:52,820
$487 to get there.

3002
04:30:53,100 --> 04:30:55,280
So I think it's appropriate to ask some questions.

3003
04:30:56,040 --> 04:30:57,560
So month one, where did that start

3004
04:30:57,560 --> 04:30:59,760
in this optic road map that we have.

3005
04:30:59,960 --> 04:31:07,200
Sure, and just for clarity, we use the term department as sort of a colloquialism.

3006
04:31:07,760 --> 04:31:11,360
We are in office inside the city manager's office.

3007
04:31:12,640 --> 04:31:14,680
I know it's a strange distinction to make.

3008
04:31:14,920 --> 04:31:20,400
We throw around the word department, but just like the office of public performance data analytics

3009
04:31:20,400 --> 04:31:23,680
or the office of violence prevention, office of public transparency.

3010
04:31:23,680 --> 04:31:27,560
So it is an important distinction to make as far as the charter goes.

3011
04:31:27,880 --> 04:31:30,380
Well, well, well, I'm glad that you brought that up.

3012
04:31:30,520 --> 04:31:36,800
Your previous presentation that was submitted and posted to the public before the around the bench memo had department.

3013
04:31:37,120 --> 04:31:38,520
You around the bench memo had office.

3014
04:31:38,520 --> 04:31:40,180
What is the difference in the distinction?

3015
04:31:40,300 --> 04:31:41,860
Because I did see that and I had a question for that.

3016
04:31:42,020 --> 04:31:44,740
You would have sucked a city attorney about that city attorney.

3017
04:31:44,740 --> 04:31:47,880
I just wanted to see if she's right here, city attorney, can you clarify that please?

3018
04:31:48,460 --> 04:31:52,880
So there are only a set amount of departments, you are familiar with them from the presentations

3019
04:31:52,880 --> 04:31:56,640
that they provide, the economic development, community development, etc., etc.

3020
04:31:57,600 --> 04:32:01,800
But under the umbrella of the city manager's office, they do have, I guess I would call

3021
04:32:01,800 --> 04:32:06,200
them maybe, I don't know what the right term is, but in my mind, I call them divisions, right?

3022
04:32:07,020 --> 04:32:09,680
And so I think optic falls within one of those.

3023
04:32:10,200 --> 04:32:23,880
Okay, so on slide two, at the first line where it says the city of Stockton PIO is a charter recognized executive role within the city manager's office, is this an executive role?

3024
04:32:24,520 --> 04:32:24,640
Yes.

3025
04:32:25,000 --> 04:32:25,200
Okay.

3026
04:32:26,200 --> 04:32:28,460
All right, so going back to the optic roadmap.

3027
04:32:28,860 --> 04:32:30,600
I mean, that's kind of where I was trying to get at.

3028
04:32:30,860 --> 04:32:35,100
Can you just tell me where did month one start in this process?

3029
04:32:35,100 --> 04:32:47,980
So I started here in May and just so you have some background on what that onboarding process looks like, it took three weeks to get a computer.

3030
04:32:48,640 --> 04:32:53,140
So during that time, we were doing our best to kind of get everything situated.

3031
04:32:54,420 --> 04:33:01,240
But we were still talking about what optic would look like if we were to move forward with that.

3032
04:33:01,240 --> 04:33:07,720
So, what happened was some issues were brought to my attention, they asked for my professional

3033
04:33:09,320 --> 04:33:14,580
assessment of what our digital asset portfolio looked like, what maybe some vulnerabilities

3034
04:33:14,580 --> 04:33:19,680
might be, and what it would take to build a team that would address those issues.

3035
04:33:20,280 --> 04:33:25,720
I came back and said it would take nine people, and I was told that we had room for three.

3036
04:33:26,300 --> 04:33:33,800
So, in order to achieve those goals, we had to find people that were incredibly cross-trained

3037
04:33:33,800 --> 04:33:39,340
to the point where, you know, the term unicorn doesn't seem to do a justice.

3038
04:33:42,640 --> 04:33:48,580
So, once we started narrowing it down as to who, what we were looking for, and it wasn't me,

3039
04:33:48,700 --> 04:33:54,080
it was the interim city manager at the time, identified criteria for what he was looking for

3040
04:33:54,080 --> 04:34:01,340
as far as staffing, we started working on, as you see in month one through three, the initial staffing.

3041
04:34:02,320 --> 04:34:08,760
And then, foundation building was trying to get the software installed, the computers lined up.

3042
04:34:09,060 --> 04:34:11,940
What kind of equipment we had, what kind of resources we had available.

3043
04:34:12,660 --> 04:34:22,260
At that time, I believe we had some significant changes in City Hall, so there was a little bit of a gap while we made some adjustments.

3044
04:34:22,260 --> 04:34:52,180
And then the optic team was also still receiving, they had temporary laptops and weren't capable of doing what they needed them to do, so they got computers when they finally got those in, it took us into about halfway through month for content strategy development, web application strategy development, that's where we are right now, I have been here for five months, we have not reached month six, but we are all already writing out suggestions to the policy management

3045
04:34:52,180 --> 04:34:54,560
and you'll to address some of the issues that we've uncovered.

3046
04:34:54,840 --> 04:34:55,680
That was the question.

3047
04:34:55,800 --> 04:34:56,080
Thank you.

3048
04:34:56,100 --> 04:34:59,720
I was trying to get at was where are we now in this optic road map.

3049
04:34:59,900 --> 04:35:02,440
So right now we're in content strategy development.

3050
04:35:03,700 --> 04:35:05,920
Between web application strategy development

3051
04:35:06,580 --> 04:35:08,120
and roll out a city comms plan.

3052
04:35:08,540 --> 04:35:08,740
Okay.

3053
04:35:09,300 --> 04:35:10,820
So that's helpful.

3054
04:35:11,300 --> 04:35:12,780
I'll ask just two more questions

3055
04:35:12,780 --> 04:35:14,660
and then I'll leave it to my colleagues.

3056
04:35:14,820 --> 04:35:16,760
I'll ask more questions and come back if there's time.

3057
04:35:16,760 --> 04:35:17,700
When

3058
04:35:20,160 --> 04:35:28,260
we're looking at the slide that has the 1, 2, 3, where it talks about transparency,

3059
04:35:28,400 --> 04:35:31,420
we must make all legally information accessible to the public.

3060
04:35:31,840 --> 04:35:40,520
What have we done differently now than we did before with respect to this effort and tell

3061
04:35:40,520 --> 04:35:41,680
me what that experience has been like?

3062
04:35:42,420 --> 04:35:44,580
We can get

3063
04:35:46,980 --> 04:35:53,720
back here since month, my month three, of that plan.

3064
04:35:54,500 --> 04:35:57,880
Like I said, there were significant, you know what I'm talking about?

3065
04:35:58,040 --> 04:36:02,620
One, the our promise to do and trying to find it, it's keep going.

3066
04:36:06,840 --> 04:36:11,240
When we did our assessment of the digital assets.

3067
04:36:11,240 --> 04:36:19,900
is it did change the direction that we needed to take.

3068
04:36:20,840 --> 04:36:25,860
So while we're still pursuing some of the external communications,

3069
04:36:26,380 --> 04:36:28,700
this has become a much higher priority.

3070
04:36:29,380 --> 04:36:33,320
So what, like he explained that, like what was the idea and what was the change?

3071
04:36:35,770 --> 04:36:38,670
What was the idea, what was the idea for optic priority?

3072
04:36:38,670 --> 04:36:49,210
That's where it says, we must take all legally available information accessible to the public, because I know these PRAs were moved to the clerk's office, so in terms of this one promise, what does that mean?

3073
04:36:50,010 --> 04:37:08,650
So we have, for example, we just met with our community development department, and they have documentation that was on the previous website, that's not on the current website, but it's not just a matter of copying those files over and creating links to them, because each one of those sites,

3074
04:37:08,650 --> 04:37:13,110
700 documents need to be made ADA accessible by law.

3075
04:37:15,370 --> 04:37:17,990
So it's things like that multiplied by 15 departments.

3076
04:37:18,610 --> 04:37:20,670
Okay, and then so the same question for information.

3077
04:37:21,130 --> 04:37:25,140
What are we, are we doing anything different?

3078
04:37:25,220 --> 04:37:27,280
I guess is what I'm trying to get at than we did before.

3079
04:37:27,400 --> 04:37:29,120
And if so, to the public.

3080
04:37:29,120 --> 04:37:31,160
Because here's what I, here's what I was saying.

3081
04:37:31,260 --> 04:37:31,800
I'll just move on.

3082
04:37:32,500 --> 04:37:36,460
When I look at what I thought when, when optic was kind of mentioned

3083
04:37:36,460 --> 04:37:39,940
in our budget sessions, what I, what I envisioned was

3084
04:37:39,940 --> 04:38:08,620
because we were going to, you know, if we have family day at what was that family day in the park, whatever that is, we would have a drone shot, cameras, video moments, creating the story that the American share, I can share, council members can share, city can share that people on Facebook can be sharing, sharing, sharing to see that it's not all drive by shootings, murders, homicides, and homeless people, right, because that's really, if you travel outside of Stockton, people say this about our city, when we know that's not the whole picture, right?

3085
04:38:08,620 --> 04:38:16,980
I envisioned, you know, like where I will say like the mayor when we did the youth employment workshop things.

3086
04:38:17,240 --> 04:38:22,860
There was a moment where like the mayor was like in her bag talking to the kids, going up and down the aisle.

3087
04:38:23,300 --> 04:38:29,960
Like you see your elected officials in a different light that were actually engaged in the community in a different way.

3088
04:38:29,960 --> 04:38:57,260
When I go to speak at the pop-up event and, you know, the council members me and Padilla and Mario, they're engaging a community that doesn't feel seen at times, you know, being able to have profile shots of landing her group and what we're doing, I mean, when I think of what our vision was, it was, how are we going to tell this document story in a way that transforms our community and makes people want to believe in Stockton and get an investment document? Am I right?

3089
04:38:57,900 --> 04:38:58,080
Yeah.

3090
04:38:58,960 --> 04:39:11,180
Yeah, so that's what I'm trying to understand, because when I look at our social media right now we have 14,000 Facebook followers, 5,000 Instagram followers, and I really don't know from this presentation what we're doing to track growth.

3091
04:39:11,980 --> 04:39:22,640
I've asked you about pickup reports to see like what stories are being told, so those are the things that I'm looking for that I don't see, but I'll kind of yield my pursuit of this, but I think people know what I'm trying to get out here.

3092
04:39:22,640 --> 04:39:24,860
We have a public comment.

3093
04:39:25,880 --> 04:39:26,720
Maria Elizabeth.

3094
04:39:45,760 --> 04:40:04,520
So I, my primary goal always is facts, you know, and a fact is I tried to get the council

3095
04:40:04,520 --> 04:40:11,680
policies for a matter and I clicked it clicked it clicked it I couldn't get it I

3096
04:40:11,680 --> 04:40:15,960
contacted the city clerk's office she said oh well try a different browser I

3097
04:40:15,960 --> 04:40:21,280
tried a different browser I still didn't work and then I clicked it today

3098
04:40:21,280 --> 04:40:26,280
because I wanted to get those municipal codes for you and you know so I was on

3099
04:40:26,280 --> 04:40:32,140
that same page oh let me just check right nothing came up I said oh well I moved

3100
04:40:32,140 --> 04:40:41,600
gone to my mission. So, one, you know, I'm not sure that the website is functioning properly.

3101
04:40:42,140 --> 04:40:51,100
Social media, I talked about that already. I gave you a screenshot of the EDD Facebook page or

3102
04:40:51,100 --> 04:40:54,340
Instagram or Twitter page TX.

3103
04:41:00,210 --> 04:41:06,510
And then on one occasion regarding a personnel

3104
04:41:06,510 --> 04:41:14,750
matter there was a press release that was referenced by a publication that was

3105
04:41:14,750 --> 04:41:20,890
not found on the news release. So there shouldn't be any news releases that are

3106
04:41:20,890 --> 04:41:25,670
going to some press that isn't posted on our website.

3107
04:41:27,090 --> 04:41:37,130
So that is one, what the state does for the ADA, not all documents have to be reworked.

3108
04:41:37,250 --> 04:41:40,290
I mean, that's incredibly onerous.

3109
04:41:40,570 --> 04:41:47,110
What they do is they have a list of documents and then they ask you to contact if you need

3110
04:41:47,110 --> 04:41:48,770
an accessible document.

3111
04:41:48,770 --> 04:41:52,970
And so, for all those historic documents, that's what the state does.

3112
04:41:53,750 --> 04:41:59,450
And then, also, I would encourage all of you to take some FEMA training.

3113
04:41:59,670 --> 04:42:02,890
I do that for my registered environmental health specialist training.

3114
04:42:03,410 --> 04:42:05,950
Cal, OES, they have wonderful training.

3115
04:42:06,510 --> 04:42:14,310
And we need more trained, and we need a cert in our city, thank you.

3116
04:42:16,510 --> 04:42:18,890
Do you mind if I ask a couple of questions?

3117
04:42:19,090 --> 04:42:21,530
Okay, so was that the only public comment?

3118
04:42:21,690 --> 04:42:26,850
Okay, so a couple of things, first of all, the website.

3119
04:42:27,210 --> 04:42:31,030
I know that I've had comments about the website since we changed it.

3120
04:42:31,090 --> 04:42:35,530
I actually like the old one better than the new one because I knew where everything was on the old one.

3121
04:42:35,790 --> 04:42:38,170
But like you, I have to type into the search.

3122
04:42:38,650 --> 04:42:41,670
So website, is that something under your?

3123
04:42:41,670 --> 04:42:42,430
Yes it is.

3124
04:42:42,530 --> 04:42:42,730
Okay.

3125
04:42:44,550 --> 04:42:51,110
And was it Mayor Lincoln's website, I know because you used to be part of Code Stack Academy.

3126
04:42:51,790 --> 04:42:57,490
And I think the mayor had somebody come in and I don't know if it was Joey or you or

3127
04:42:57,490 --> 04:43:03,110
both of you that came in, that did a website for Mayor Lincoln.

3128
04:43:03,350 --> 04:43:04,370
It was a student project.

3129
04:43:04,910 --> 04:43:05,110
Okay.

3130
04:43:05,210 --> 04:43:05,670
Mayor Lincoln.

3131
04:43:06,210 --> 04:43:06,410
Okay.

3132
04:43:07,210 --> 04:43:08,910
And then social media pages.

3133
04:43:08,910 --> 04:43:15,650
Do you handle all department social media pages or do they have somebody designated, like, do you do the clerks?

3134
04:43:16,770 --> 04:43:17,070
Bye.

3135
04:43:17,330 --> 04:43:19,190
And I see you know, no, or-

3136
04:43:19,190 --> 04:43:22,510
Policy, I'm supposed to be aware and

3137
04:43:22,510 --> 04:43:29,030
I'm ultimately responsible, but different departments have different levels of access so they are able to post on their own.

3138
04:43:30,230 --> 04:43:34,590
The city clerk's office operates also on their own.

3139
04:43:34,590 --> 04:43:40,630
So, it's one of those things where if I see something, I can send them a message like

3140
04:43:40,630 --> 04:43:41,750
hey, could you pull that down?

3141
04:43:41,850 --> 04:43:45,270
These are the changes that need to be made, or this is an update that needs to be made.

3142
04:43:46,450 --> 04:43:48,010
That's part of my.

3143
04:43:48,310 --> 04:43:50,250
Okay, so if you don't do posting for them.

3144
04:43:50,970 --> 04:43:53,230
Not for everybody, but for many.

3145
04:43:53,790 --> 04:43:54,010
Okay.

3146
04:43:55,110 --> 04:43:55,550
Videos.

3147
04:43:56,150 --> 04:43:56,350
Yes.

3148
04:43:56,670 --> 04:44:00,870
Okay, so I know we had one for McKinley, Victory Park, we didn't have.

3149
04:44:00,870 --> 04:44:03,770
Yeah, so what videos have you worked on?

3150
04:44:04,910 --> 04:44:10,270
So we have some that are still in the pipeline, and videos are an interesting thing because

3151
04:44:10,270 --> 04:44:16,050
there are laws and requirements as far as what falls underneath PEG.

3152
04:44:16,550 --> 04:44:21,850
So when there's a ribbon cutting, you'll notice there's usually a camera that shoots straight

3153
04:44:21,850 --> 04:44:25,150
on, and it's to document, that's the purpose, it's documentation.

3154
04:44:26,070 --> 04:44:30,350
You can't edit that film, you can't take anything out, you can't mess with the audio.

3155
04:44:30,350 --> 04:44:35,070
So it has to go out as is because it is a record of a government activity.

3156
04:44:35,550 --> 04:44:40,350
In addition to that, as you will notice from some of the other events, I'll have two or

3157
04:44:40,350 --> 04:44:41,850
three other people running around with cameras.

3158
04:44:42,310 --> 04:44:43,690
That is for the community outreach.

3159
04:44:44,150 --> 04:44:52,070
So for the Victory Park pool, there is a video that's going through the review process that has interviews and

3160
04:44:52,070 --> 04:44:59,730
impact statements from community members, different department heads on what this project meant to the community.

3161
04:44:59,730 --> 04:44:59,830
You

3162
04:45:00,000 --> 04:45:29,980
That goes back to what you were saying about telling Stockton's story. So we have that. We have National Night Out. We have when the young baseball players got their awards out at the ports, those kind of things that we were reaching out to try to get those pieces put together. So the public would see more about what city staff is doing on their behalf. Okay. So I don't know what happened, you know, with Connie and Tom when they put videos out. I don't know if there was a review process

3163
04:45:29,980 --> 04:45:43,260
or not? What is the review process? Because, you know, Victory Park was August, so we'd love to have that be out. We want these things out right away. So, what is stopping you from getting those videos out?

3164
04:45:43,320 --> 04:45:56,800
It's not that it's stopping. So, with the documentation videos, those go out very quickly. Usually, within a day or two, we do have to still bring them in and transform and get them into a format and put the bumper graphics on it.

3165
04:45:56,800 --> 04:46:03,520
And sometimes the lower thirds where we can identify the people that are speaking were allowed to do that much.

3166
04:46:04,480 --> 04:46:08,220
But with the other stuff because that is-

3167
04:46:08,220 --> 04:46:10,420
Is it an internal review and extra review process?

3168
04:46:10,420 --> 04:46:11,700
It is an internal review process.

3169
04:46:11,960 --> 04:46:15,600
So everybody has to, everybody who is involved in it has to see it and sign off on it.

3170
04:46:15,840 --> 04:46:19,980
And then it has to go through a review process of is this appropriate?

3171
04:46:20,260 --> 04:46:21,620
Is there an edit that needs to be made?

3172
04:46:21,900 --> 04:46:24,320
Is there something that was said that needs to be taken out?

3173
04:46:24,460 --> 04:46:26,140
Because this is the story telling.

3174
04:46:26,140 --> 04:46:30,460
And who said that that's always been as far as I know it would always go

3175
04:46:30,460 --> 04:46:34,900
I'm just saying because Connie never and I'm trying to let you know

3176
04:46:35,420 --> 04:46:40,500
I never got to see the video till it was out and like Paul can if I had a his tie like this

3177
04:46:40,500 --> 04:46:44,100
With food stains on or whatever. Nobody said anything to him about it

3178
04:46:44,100 --> 04:46:46,160
He didn't see it and I just made fun of him like

3179
04:46:49,320 --> 04:46:53,400
Anyway, and it was like Santa Claus or something. I don't know what it was but poor Santa

3180
04:46:53,400 --> 04:46:58,320
I'm not sure that they were doing the same kind of storytelling that we were attempting to do.

3181
04:46:58,860 --> 04:47:00,640
So I think it is a different process.

3182
04:47:00,980 --> 04:47:08,120
Yeah, so that's, I'm just saying review-wise, if there are additional steps that you are having to go through,

3183
04:47:08,420 --> 04:47:15,420
because at that time Connie was a community outreach, she wasn't PIO because we didn't have a PIO.

3184
04:47:15,500 --> 04:47:19,420
Community relations, that was voted on by the people.

3185
04:47:19,420 --> 04:47:25,980
So, I'm just wondering if her requirements were different than your requirements?

3186
04:47:26,620 --> 04:47:32,500
I can't speak to what she went through, the processes that we're going through,

3187
04:47:32,780 --> 04:47:38,940
all seem very reasonable, and what it is is we need, the government is very, very picky

3188
04:47:38,940 --> 04:47:42,600
about what the city can say from the city's accounts.

3189
04:47:43,400 --> 04:47:47,860
So we have to be very delicate there, and that's why we have the two different kinds of

3190
04:47:47,860 --> 04:47:57,100
We have the documentation video and that goes out onto the general city website and social media accounts, because that is speaking from the city.

3191
04:47:57,580 --> 04:48:03,840
These other ones are because they're editorialized, there's a special delicacy to that.

3192
04:48:04,160 --> 04:48:08,480
Okay, so then my question is for Mr. Crue.

3193
04:48:09,380 --> 04:48:14,820
So, who was doing that for, I mean, Connie?

3194
04:48:15,220 --> 04:48:18,700
How did Connie, how was she able to put her stuff out?

3195
04:48:19,660 --> 04:48:21,460
Was there, did you review it?

3196
04:48:21,700 --> 04:48:22,320
No, I did not.

3197
04:48:22,320 --> 04:48:26,120
Did Mr. Kapoor review it?

3198
04:48:26,280 --> 04:48:26,500
No.

3199
04:48:26,700 --> 04:48:29,260
The Miss Christy review it, did.

3200
04:48:29,820 --> 04:48:34,160
I think at that time, yes, he did review.

3201
04:48:34,340 --> 04:48:35,780
He reviewed all those?

3202
04:48:35,780 --> 04:48:38,040
I can't say all, but he did review.

3203
04:48:38,560 --> 04:48:38,820
Okay.

3204
04:48:39,360 --> 04:48:39,880
Okay.

3205
04:48:39,900 --> 04:48:41,560
He reported directly to her.

3206
04:48:41,860 --> 04:48:42,080
Okay.

3207
04:48:42,360 --> 04:48:46,500
And so who's tasked with reviewing all of Tony's?

3208
04:48:46,700 --> 04:48:51,100
We asked for a draft to be sent to us so we can review first.

3209
04:48:51,800 --> 04:48:57,660
Typically we want him to work with the departments to make sure the content is in line with what they want.

3210
04:48:58,240 --> 04:49:02,880
And basically what we've been doing is usually news releases that go out.

3211
04:49:02,880 --> 04:49:07,700
That's what we want to make sure that that's their appropriately done.

3212
04:49:08,900 --> 04:49:12,020
So as far as videos are concerned, I haven't seen one.

3213
04:49:12,300 --> 04:49:16,560
So have you tasked them or has the City Manager's Office who oversees that?

3214
04:49:16,600 --> 04:49:21,720
Have you tasked him with then focusing on making sure we're compliant?

3215
04:49:22,360 --> 04:49:25,880
And that's the priority and these other things have to wait or what?

3216
04:49:25,880 --> 04:49:38,200
The meeting that we had with Tony was to talk about what he just talked about, was internal, external, and then social media platforms, and then the ADA.

3217
04:49:39,360 --> 04:49:50,900
We were concerned, really, on the internal part, to make sure that we were communicating and that he was communicating with our department, because there wasn't a relationship there, and we wanted to build one.

3218
04:49:51,360 --> 04:50:00,580
And then the external part is making sure that we get our messaging out, that is what we need to as far as the city is concerned.

3219
04:50:01,180 --> 04:50:01,300
Okay.

3220
04:50:01,420 --> 04:50:07,680
So the functions, the operations of the city, that's what we wanted to focus on.

3221
04:50:07,800 --> 04:50:15,020
And then the last part was social media because we knew that was a place where we're weak and we want to have a better presence with that.

3222
04:50:15,200 --> 04:50:17,800
Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. Councilwoman Padilla, I'm sorry.

3223
04:50:17,800 --> 04:50:18,840
Thank you, Mary.

3224
04:50:18,980 --> 04:50:19,960
I just have two questions.

3225
04:50:21,360 --> 04:50:27,300
So what strategies are we using to connect with those that don't utilize social media

3226
04:50:27,300 --> 04:50:31,600
or have any type of internet platforms?

3227
04:50:32,400 --> 04:50:36,620
We have had, I overheard part of the meeting earlier.

3228
04:50:36,840 --> 04:50:42,920
So we have had conversations about developing what would you call a microsite ones that are

3229
04:50:42,920 --> 04:50:47,680
for getting information out tailored to a specific market.

3230
04:50:47,900 --> 04:50:58,860
So all child-oriented type stuff where parents can go and see all the cool things that are happening in our city for children like family day, they would have a single repository for that type of activity.

3231
04:50:59,260 --> 04:51:04,600
We've talked about things like going back to doing inserts with events on city billing.

3232
04:51:05,280 --> 04:51:09,360
But that's part of an overall strategy that we're developing with city manager.

3233
04:51:09,360 --> 04:51:21,360
Okay, and then do you or have you researched any partnerships with like our schools, universities, nonprofits for any type of projects?

3234
04:51:21,360 --> 04:51:29,040
Because we're, I mean the city is everyone, not just us seven up here and what we're doing.

3235
04:51:29,400 --> 04:51:36,360
Absolutely. The mayor reached out recently and asked if we would be willing to work with or use the Youth Advisory Committee.

3236
04:51:37,400 --> 04:51:45,820
because that group touches every part of Stockton, and they're very keen and tuned into specific issues that address their needs.

3237
04:51:46,820 --> 04:51:58,160
So, we're looking into that as an expansion, we've also discussed, and again, these are all very sort of amorphous concepts they have not been put down in writing,

3238
04:51:58,160 --> 04:52:04,740
because we're, like I said, we reorganized to focus on this accessibility, but we did talk

3239
04:52:04,740 --> 04:52:09,800
about reaching out to Delta College and UOP's theater arts program, see if there's folks

3240
04:52:09,800 --> 04:52:17,200
that would like to participate in some sort of communication strategy. We did discuss and

3241
04:52:17,200 --> 04:52:23,640
I hope you guys are as excited about this as I am because when I started doing research

3242
04:52:23,640 --> 04:52:35,000
on this type of work in other cities, it's like less than 10 in the country that have taken this sort of proactive approach in pushing out communications in this way.

3243
04:52:35,520 --> 04:52:45,660
A lot of them they'll try it for a couple of months and then they let go and as I'm sure the vice mayor will tell you this is something that you have to do consistently and over a long period of time for it to be successful.

3244
04:52:45,660 --> 04:52:58,760
So as part of that, there are multiple layers over multiple years that we're building out or we would like to build out this strategy to incorporate more voices and tell more stories.

3245
04:52:59,300 --> 04:53:05,340
But like I said, we have something that's very important that we need to address first.

3246
04:53:05,460 --> 04:53:09,580
And I think everything else is really coming in as we have time.

3247
04:53:09,580 --> 04:53:12,500
Let's do that to give you an example. We're headed up to

3248
04:53:13,260 --> 04:53:19,480
Well, not I don't think I'm going but part of the team is heading up to Clear Lake because they have three missions up there

3249
04:53:19,480 --> 04:53:25,260
They're they're doing work up there closing up for the winter time. So we're taking some marketing photos and videos

3250
04:53:25,260 --> 04:53:29,820
There's some repairs that need to be done. So we're taking some documentation photos and videos and

3251
04:53:30,820 --> 04:53:32,680
Then sorry, Dessie Clear Lake my mistake

3252
04:53:37,460 --> 04:53:39,120
We've been calling it crystal lake all day

3253
04:53:39,580 --> 04:53:45,100
if you're a movie file, but still relate, I'm sorry,

3254
04:53:45,480 --> 04:53:48,600
and then also taking some video work

3255
04:53:48,600 --> 04:53:50,820
of the city of Stockton employees

3256
04:53:50,820 --> 04:53:52,780
that do a tremendous amount of work

3257
04:53:52,780 --> 04:53:55,680
that don't really get the acknowledgement that they deserve.

3258
04:53:56,400 --> 04:53:58,620
And the idea that these people are gonna be up there

3259
04:53:58,620 --> 04:54:00,500
doing some very heavy lifting,

3260
04:54:01,100 --> 04:54:03,320
people should know what these people are doing.

3261
04:54:03,540 --> 04:54:05,080
So we're gonna be documenting that as well.

3262
04:54:05,340 --> 04:54:06,940
So these are three different missions,

3263
04:54:06,940 --> 04:54:09,480
we're taking care of all at the same time.

3264
04:54:09,940 --> 04:54:15,340
Those are the types of story telling that we'd like to do in addition to making sure

3265
04:54:15,340 --> 04:54:18,100
that we're within compliance with all state and federal regulations.

3266
04:54:19,240 --> 04:54:25,760
So, I mean, it's very apparent that we, you know, value transparency.

3267
04:54:26,760 --> 04:54:36,440
And I guess with 95 years of experience and the amount of money we're putting

3268
04:54:36,440 --> 04:54:37,460
in this budget.

3269
04:54:39,540 --> 04:54:48,820
I know I'm impatient. I mean, I would think that those two things we would,

3270
04:54:50,120 --> 04:54:57,200
I don't know, see something, I don't see something a little bit, a change. I don't care

3271
04:54:57,200 --> 04:55:05,660
for our website. I use Google first before I use our website. So I guess I would just see some

3272
04:55:05,660 --> 04:55:09,700
change, and I really haven't seen that yet.

3273
04:55:10,180 --> 04:55:17,960
Right, it's, like I said, there's been some pretty significant changes in things that are happening in City Hall.

3274
04:55:18,280 --> 04:55:26,380
And like I said, the direction was back to some things that you wouldn't see because it's all in the code that we have to fix.

3275
04:55:26,900 --> 04:55:32,920
And as we're addressing those things, we want to also do the regular day-to-day business.

3276
04:55:32,920 --> 04:55:43,740
And then in addition to that, the things that were promised, I will tell you that if we were to because we used to do this kind of work, all of us being programmers we've done this kind of work,

3277
04:55:46,420 --> 04:55:48,540
it would be more expensive to farm it out.

3278
04:55:49,340 --> 04:55:54,260
And when you say day-to-day business, is that like press releases information?

3279
04:55:54,260 --> 04:56:06,320
So I see press releases come across and then I see post on next or app about our coffee hours are, you know, things that are going on at City Hall.

3280
04:56:07,200 --> 04:56:13,340
But again, I don't see the stuff that we want our constituents to see.

3281
04:56:15,020 --> 04:56:23,420
I think it would be a fun sort of moment if you wanted to reach out to the city manager

3282
04:56:23,420 --> 04:56:28,120
and set up time and talk with the optic team if that's an available thing.

3283
04:56:28,280 --> 04:56:33,380
I don't, I know there's brown act things and stuff like that, but to touch base and find

3284
04:56:33,380 --> 04:56:36,960
out what kind of things are important to you and if that's something that we can achieve

3285
04:56:37,700 --> 04:56:42,840
right now, like I said, our core focus over the next six to seven months is ADA accessibility

3286
04:56:42,840 --> 04:56:46,060
because we have a hard deadline that we have to beat.

3287
04:56:47,240 --> 04:56:50,840
So we really, by April of 2026, we have to be compliant.

3288
04:56:51,160 --> 04:56:52,740
And that's kind of what we're digging into.

3289
04:56:53,280 --> 04:56:55,020
Now, as far as press releases,

3290
04:56:55,600 --> 04:56:59,240
I probably get 20 to 30 emails from media day

3291
04:56:59,240 --> 04:57:02,760
that we have to do our best to answer or for them

3292
04:57:02,760 --> 04:57:06,300
or collects quotes or do things like that.

3293
04:57:06,460 --> 04:57:08,020
So that's in addition to that.

3294
04:57:09,360 --> 04:57:28,760
We have been meeting with all of our software vendors that deal with our social media and our website and things like that because we're doing assessments and evaluations, making sure that they've met the terms of what they promised us as far as the things that we've already bought to see if there's some cost savings there.

3295
04:57:29,600 --> 04:57:36,640
We also need to find out if they're going to give us the level access that we require in order to meet that April 2026 deadline.

3296
04:57:36,640 --> 04:57:40,560
If not, then we have to find another way to solve that problem.

3297
04:57:40,840 --> 04:57:46,240
So there's a lot of, I want to say wrench turning that's happening behind the scenes.

3298
04:57:46,860 --> 04:57:49,680
And it's not beautiful and it's not fun videos.

3299
04:57:49,960 --> 04:57:51,200
It's just hard work.

3300
04:57:51,660 --> 04:57:53,360
And that's what they're working on right now.

3301
04:57:54,120 --> 04:57:55,460
I'd like to get that done.

3302
04:57:55,580 --> 04:58:02,100
I'd like to, as soon as April 20th, 26th deadline, come back and tell you that we achieved the goal that we set out for.

3303
04:58:02,320 --> 04:58:04,880
And now let's make some really fun stuff.

3304
04:58:06,040 --> 04:58:13,100
My fingers are crossed and I'm pretty sure that we're going to make it, but I don't want to give you expectations that I can't meet.

3305
04:58:13,860 --> 04:58:23,100
So right now my primary goal is that accessibility audit and making sure that we're compliant after that is going to be, and then the day-to-day work as well.

3306
04:58:23,580 --> 04:58:30,520
And then after that is going to be the story telling that we would all like to see growing up and stocked and I lived in every corner of the city.

3307
04:58:31,880 --> 04:58:34,020
and I want to see these stories told.

3308
04:58:34,240 --> 04:58:36,860
There's cool things about growing up on 12th Street

3309
04:58:37,280 --> 04:58:38,740
that I remember that I want to share.

3310
04:58:39,180 --> 04:58:41,440
There's cool things that were happening out on the east side

3311
04:58:41,440 --> 04:58:43,540
that I want to share.

3312
04:58:43,980 --> 04:58:46,860
These are stories that you only know

3313
04:58:46,860 --> 04:58:48,080
if you live in those neighborhoods,

3314
04:58:48,640 --> 04:58:52,000
but I think they're valuable in the greater picture

3315
04:58:52,000 --> 04:58:55,160
of what Stockton is and they should be told.

3316
04:58:55,160 --> 04:59:03,000
And I understand and I appreciate the goals that you need to meet, but

3317
04:59:03,000 --> 04:59:11,260
without, I mean, regardless of a study session, my priority is to change the narrative of Stockton.

3318
04:59:11,900 --> 04:59:19,960
And the way I see that is through storytelling and highlighting the positive to change that negative.

3319
04:59:19,960 --> 04:59:27,120
and again I'll say I'm impatient to me April 26th and if we can't get our

3320
04:59:27,120 --> 04:59:33,320
story out by then we'll get some stuff out and we definitely will get

3321
04:59:33,320 --> 04:59:36,220
some because we're passionate about everybody in that office is very very

3322
04:59:36,220 --> 04:59:41,460
passionate about it. They're all from Stockton that was one of the criteria I was

3323
04:59:41,460 --> 04:59:44,580
given to make sure that we have people from Stockton that are passionate about

3324
04:59:44,580 --> 04:59:45,120
Stockton.

3325
04:59:47,180 --> 04:59:53,060
So that's what we have. In fact, one of the members on our team, he's done a documentary

3326
04:59:53,060 --> 04:59:59,780
about the Filipino diaspora and their martial arts.

3327
05:00:00,000 --> 05:00:29,800
And things like that. And I don't mean to stop you and you don't mean to sound negative, but that's fantastic. I'm thrilled. He has all that experience. But we need our story told. We need to flip this narrative like tomorrow. And I will end with that. Thank you. Thank you so much. Council Member Enriquez. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Just a quick question, a couple questions, but I was noticing.

3328
05:00:29,800 --> 05:00:33,780
the branding aspect that you had in one of your first slides and I'm really big about

3329
05:00:33,780 --> 05:00:38,300
branding guides and as new council members or even folks that have been in office already

3330
05:00:38,300 --> 05:00:42,440
I mean is that document available? Is that being able to have been shared? I know there's

3331
05:00:42,440 --> 05:00:47,180
been past emails of like you can use certain things but don't use this and is that been developed

3332
05:00:47,180 --> 05:00:53,720
or there is a logo usage manual that I've been able to find I wouldn't call it a branding

3333
05:00:53,720 --> 05:00:58,720
guide of like the colors the the meanings the descriptions the font size familiar I've written

3334
05:00:58,720 --> 05:01:00,620
and a minor usually 20 to 30 pages,

3335
05:01:00,880 --> 05:01:03,080
but the one that we have is I think four pages.

3336
05:01:03,480 --> 05:01:04,600
But we have a branding guide.

3337
05:01:04,920 --> 05:01:06,320
And no, we have a logo usage.

3338
05:01:06,580 --> 05:01:07,720
We have no branding guide, wow.

3339
05:01:07,840 --> 05:01:08,000
Correct.

3340
05:01:08,660 --> 05:01:11,960
And we do when it comes to stationary and logo usage.

3341
05:01:12,320 --> 05:01:14,460
I think that's about all I've been able to locate.

3342
05:01:14,980 --> 05:01:16,920
And I ask, because again, I don't know,

3343
05:01:17,120 --> 05:01:19,340
so it's not, I'm not trying to be critical.

3344
05:01:19,620 --> 05:01:22,500
In terms of communications, events, signage,

3345
05:01:22,520 --> 05:01:24,800
is that based on the department's either signage,

3346
05:01:24,980 --> 05:01:28,040
you leave the signage and that there's actually

3347
05:01:28,040 --> 05:01:31,480
on-site events, if there's ever any need for signage, do you develop that?

3348
05:01:32,320 --> 05:01:33,300
It depends.

3349
05:01:33,820 --> 05:01:39,680
For example, the event that took place at Webber Point, that was part of Stockton PDs,

3350
05:01:40,140 --> 05:01:41,320
see something, say something.

3351
05:01:42,060 --> 05:01:45,860
All of that signage was created through Stockton PD, their communications department.

3352
05:01:47,780 --> 05:01:49,760
If asked, we can create anything.

3353
05:01:50,300 --> 05:01:53,960
The team is, like I said, incredibly diverse in skills.

3354
05:01:54,880 --> 05:01:58,940
They've done conventions. I've done branch merchandising for banks and

3355
05:01:58,940 --> 05:02:03,280
federal and credit unions across the country. You need to signage. I have signage

3356
05:02:03,280 --> 05:02:07,960
that I created 20 years ago still inside the skyscrapers. We can handle it.

3357
05:02:08,200 --> 05:02:11,200
Just let me know what you need. And I'm not sure to be critical with the website.

3358
05:02:11,380 --> 05:02:14,660
Obviously, there's it's not perfect. And we all know that as folks have already shared.

3359
05:02:21,900 --> 05:02:26,720
But in terms of just updating information across the board, so we talk about news releases,

3360
05:02:26,960 --> 05:02:28,980
is that also then updated on the calendar section?

3361
05:02:29,260 --> 05:02:34,540
If we have coffee hour, we have September 25, I just typed a news room and it popped

3362
05:02:34,540 --> 05:02:35,320
up news releases.

3363
05:02:37,520 --> 05:02:41,300
I say this because of consistency, so if you update one, you update the other, I know you

3364
05:02:41,300 --> 05:02:46,600
And I have conversations about council member pages and then there's that extra work of like oh and I got update the news release section

3365
05:02:46,600 --> 05:02:50,060
I got update the calendar right and this I'm really big on consistency correct

3366
05:02:50,060 --> 05:02:56,720
So that that's really where I kind of like to or not like to I where I nitpick because I think these details really go a long way of

3367
05:02:56,720 --> 05:02:58,260
Top terms of how we present ourselves

3368
05:02:59,400 --> 05:03:04,080
Into the council and for the us point about the positive stuff right at least from what I've seen the last nine months

3369
05:03:04,080 --> 05:03:09,640
We have annual events so we already know where we can plan ahead right we have the light of the tree in December

3370
05:03:09,640 --> 05:03:38,360
We have Halloween events, I'm sure all of us are out in the community, you know, with our constituent, so we can all plan all that, you know, I think the first time I really saw was National Night Out, which I know you were out recording, you had the great videos, but to ensure that we're consistent with all the districts, and I don't know all the council members have had a video, I mean, I'm grateful because I have a video, but just a consistency across the border, we all know things are coming, we can plan ahead, going back to the media in the newsroom, make sure that's a little bit tighter,

3371
05:03:38,360 --> 05:03:41,020
or the key events I talked about this signage.

3372
05:03:41,560 --> 05:03:43,840
I mean, you know, highlighting the Youth Advisory Commission

3373
05:03:43,840 --> 05:03:44,640
at the mayor's leading.

3374
05:03:45,220 --> 05:03:46,780
You know, we have the California Economic Summit.

3375
05:03:46,920 --> 05:03:48,620
That's a huge deal that we're hosting here

3376
05:03:48,620 --> 05:03:49,580
in the city of Stockton.

3377
05:03:49,700 --> 05:03:51,920
So I hope that's in your timeline already.

3378
05:03:52,220 --> 05:03:54,160
But capturing all these things would be really important.

3379
05:03:57,000 --> 05:03:59,220
You know, okay, all right, I want to show I have the floor.

3380
05:03:59,820 --> 05:04:01,580
But just having all that is really helpful.

3381
05:04:02,160 --> 05:04:04,340
But again, the more I know the better it is,

3382
05:04:04,460 --> 05:04:06,340
the more we know, we can plan more accordingly.

3383
05:04:06,680 --> 05:04:07,540
But I appreciate it.

3384
05:04:09,180 --> 05:04:11,080
That's all, Vice Mayor.

3385
05:04:11,820 --> 05:04:12,620
Thank you, Mayor.

3386
05:04:12,880 --> 05:04:16,840
Yeah, I want to go back to everything that Councilman Padilla said.

3387
05:04:17,140 --> 05:04:19,820
I totally agree with everything the mayor said I agree with and

3388
05:04:19,820 --> 05:04:21,700
everything my colleague to the right said I agree with.

3389
05:04:22,860 --> 05:04:25,080
You think Councilman Padilla is impatient.

3390
05:04:25,260 --> 05:04:28,300
The mayor is probably neck and neck with me on impatience.

3391
05:04:28,460 --> 05:04:33,280
We're just, it's not even an unrealistic, I mean unrealistic impatience.

3392
05:04:33,280 --> 05:04:37,280
It's the fact that we have done a lot of amazing work since

3393
05:04:37,280 --> 05:04:43,120
we've been here and we don't have the content to share. I will say that like Victory Park

3394
05:04:43,120 --> 05:04:48,540
just used that example. That's gone. Like that's gone already. So like that's a missed opportunity.

3395
05:04:49,180 --> 05:04:54,100
You know in the news world and you have people here they'll tell you like tomorrow

3396
05:04:55,060 --> 05:04:59,580
yesterday's news is old right so like you've got to get it out timely people move on. We are

3397
05:04:59,580 --> 05:05:06,160
in a digital world where news changes every 15 minutes. So for things that are stickier that are

3398
05:05:06,160 --> 05:05:11,140
going to that are going to last or have impact or you know we got to get out quickly.

3399
05:05:11,680 --> 05:05:16,360
I just want to go back to a moment that me and Councilman Ricas went to St. Mary's

3400
05:05:16,360 --> 05:05:17,220
just for a walk through.

3401
05:05:17,340 --> 05:05:18,280
We just did a walk through.

3402
05:05:18,540 --> 05:05:20,600
There was no strategy to create content.

3403
05:05:21,080 --> 05:05:22,280
Really no plan strategy.

3404
05:05:22,480 --> 05:05:22,780
We didn't meet.

3405
05:05:22,900 --> 05:05:23,840
We just did a walk through.

3406
05:05:23,960 --> 05:05:24,600
We asked questions.

3407
05:05:24,620 --> 05:05:25,440
We learned about it.

3408
05:05:25,780 --> 05:05:28,240
But I brought my team there to walk through it with us.

3409
05:05:28,380 --> 05:05:33,220
And then the next day or two days later we had this amazing video capturing those moments.

3410
05:05:33,220 --> 05:05:35,600
And it's those are things where I know the mayor is outside every day.

3411
05:05:36,260 --> 05:05:38,740
When I say outside, I mean, she's out of it and she's in the public.

3412
05:05:38,860 --> 05:05:43,620
She's out there doing things where we're doing things that are not being captured.

3413
05:05:44,600 --> 05:05:50,360
I just want to say for me, I don't know that we're getting the ROI for

3414
05:05:50,360 --> 05:05:51,900
what we're investing in this.

3415
05:05:52,980 --> 05:05:54,860
That's not an attack on people.

3416
05:05:55,060 --> 05:05:59,900
That's just maybe an observation on process and observation on outcomes.

3417
05:06:00,420 --> 05:06:02,400
There is a lot more opportunity here.

3418
05:06:02,400 --> 05:06:22,140
I mean, I have something here that I, I don't know if it's appropriate here during council comments, but I just think that there needs to be a real measurable, trackable plan with outcomes and just a very clear plan from pickup reporting when we sent out a press release, we had to mean about pickup reporting.

3419
05:06:22,140 --> 05:06:26,800
And I sent an email to Courtney Christie showing her what a sample pick up report from

3420
05:06:26,800 --> 05:06:27,820
Hollywood and what it looked like.

3421
05:06:28,140 --> 05:06:33,100
We sent out one press release, we got 5.9 billion media impressions, 2.0 million social

3422
05:06:33,100 --> 05:06:33,720
media impressions.

3423
05:06:34,060 --> 05:06:39,080
We tracked everybody that reported on it, what the outcome was.

3424
05:06:39,640 --> 05:06:43,060
And again, we don't really have to reinvent the will as a city because the stock and police

3425
05:06:43,060 --> 05:06:47,440
department is doing a phenomenal job of telling their story, we just as a city need to be

3426
05:06:47,440 --> 05:06:47,820
doing that.

3427
05:06:47,820 --> 05:06:54,000
So I don't know do we wait till council comments or okay all right cool

3428
05:06:54,000 --> 05:06:58,880
And I'm sorry I said I was gonna be done but

3429
05:07:00,020 --> 05:07:04,540
Councilmember Enrique has brought something up is your department in charge of our logo?

3430
05:07:05,580 --> 05:07:11,240
Yes creating it designing it how long have we had that logo just out of curiosity?

3431
05:07:11,880 --> 05:07:15,660
I would have to research that the only I think the only logo that we do not

3432
05:07:15,660 --> 05:07:18,040
is the city clerk's logo?

3433
05:07:18,940 --> 05:07:22,980
Okay, I asked that because you saw it.

3434
05:07:23,160 --> 05:07:25,800
I created my own logo with a different color.

3435
05:07:26,860 --> 05:07:27,560
I loved it.

3436
05:07:28,220 --> 05:07:31,340
I loved it better than our logo,

3437
05:07:31,660 --> 05:07:34,040
so that's my only comment.

3438
05:07:35,080 --> 05:07:37,340
That has been a conversation,

3439
05:07:37,740 --> 05:07:41,980
but again, all priorities have been re-aligned.

3440
05:07:43,000 --> 05:07:43,260
Okay.

3441
05:07:43,260 --> 05:07:48,200
So I have a couple more questions and then a history lesson, my favorite.

3442
05:07:48,860 --> 05:07:52,520
So when it comes to a website, I don't know anything about websites.

3443
05:07:54,560 --> 05:08:00,140
So I know that our old website and then we were told the new website is going to roll out

3444
05:08:00,620 --> 05:08:07,200
and it will be live on Monday and I was just like, oh okay and it opened up the next day

3445
05:08:07,200 --> 05:08:09,880
because it all had to be built first, right?

3446
05:08:09,880 --> 05:08:16,560
And then it went up and then I was like it's beautiful and I couldn't find anything so it's it is

3447
05:08:16,560 --> 05:08:23,200
Because you didn't have any did you have anything to do with that? No, okay, so in order to do that what

3448
05:08:24,360 --> 05:08:31,940
That's something your department you guys can't say department. That's something that the office can do correct correct, okay, and then

3449
05:08:31,940 --> 05:08:34,740
I put numbers on this

3450
05:08:36,240 --> 05:09:03,460
Council Member Pages, I will say we've never had a Council Member Page, Connie would look at me crazy if I asked her to do a Council Member Vagery, I'm to say we can't have him, I'm to say no, no, no, no, but I mean it was an idea that was brought up because I want to go somewhere so the PIO and Connie's position was always through the City Manager's office.

3451
05:09:03,460 --> 05:09:08,140
there was one time that she did something for me and it was I did a town hall

3452
05:09:08,140 --> 05:09:11,380
because it was during COVID we couldn't do office hours anymore so we did an

3453
05:09:11,380 --> 05:09:17,200
online like office hours and I remember she got in trouble for it because she

3454
05:09:17,200 --> 05:09:20,680
doesn't work for me but guess what everybody's required to have counsel hours

3455
05:09:21,420 --> 05:09:25,940
and so I said well I just was doing counsel all she did was help me set it up and

3456
05:09:25,940 --> 05:09:29,600
we went from there Florence then kind of ran it and that's how I got in trouble

3457
05:09:29,600 --> 05:09:36,200
with Ms. Boyd is because Florence accidentally disconnected her, it was not me, I'm just saying.

3458
05:09:38,180 --> 05:09:44,960
And then, you know, there's been a lot of conversation about this not being in the budget.

3459
05:09:45,220 --> 05:09:50,540
And there's a lot of things not in the budget because the budget we had was a proposed budget.

3460
05:09:51,120 --> 05:09:57,760
It was a proposed budget budget. We haven't gotten the final approved budget book yet, but we did get,

3461
05:09:57,760 --> 05:10:05,000
you know, our 2324 Act for, and I just want to point some things out.

3462
05:10:05,200 --> 05:10:14,180
So in 2020, we had a new city manager come on board, and in the 2020-2021 budget they

3463
05:10:14,180 --> 05:10:15,520
asked to add one position.

3464
05:10:16,880 --> 05:10:24,180
August 11, 2020, we had a presentation called OPDA, and none of us knew what it was, but it

3465
05:10:24,180 --> 05:10:29,940
It was one position, it was Katie, who was doing that job for OPDA, and that was for

3466
05:10:29,940 --> 05:10:30,580
the city manager.

3467
05:10:31,360 --> 05:10:32,880
And we were like, oh, wow, okay.

3468
05:10:33,940 --> 05:10:39,500
Then during that year, because we had ARPA funds that were coming in because of COVID,

3469
05:10:40,340 --> 05:10:41,960
two more positions were added.

3470
05:10:42,720 --> 05:10:51,860
And then in 2021, 2022 budget, another position was added, bringing it to four people in

3471
05:10:51,860 --> 05:11:00,000
OPDA and the most recent budget was $839,675.

3472
05:11:00,620 --> 05:11:05,700
That was just for OPDA that didn't include Connie, Rosie, or Tom in that.

3473
05:11:06,360 --> 05:11:15,100
So I bring that up only because the city manager has powers that we don't have.

3474
05:11:15,100 --> 05:11:21,920
I certainly don't have, except for the people in my office, and the fact that we're

3475
05:11:21,920 --> 05:11:28,380
even having this conversation I think is amazing because, you know, this council is showing

3476
05:11:28,380 --> 05:11:34,320
you that there are things that they would like, but ultimately, it rests with whoever

3477
05:11:34,890 --> 05:11:40,880
is in that seat, because you're the boss right now, yeah?

3478
05:11:40,880 --> 05:11:43,870
Right now I am.

3479
05:11:44,130 --> 05:11:47,670
Yeah, because when I look in here it even says it's specific.

3480
05:11:48,090 --> 05:11:50,750
Police, fire, and OPDA.

3481
05:11:51,350 --> 05:11:56,890
Whereas actually OVP is under, well, at that time it was Courtney Christie.

3482
05:11:57,490 --> 05:12:00,930
Well, Mr. Crew had community development, economic development,

3483
05:12:01,350 --> 05:12:04,290
municipal utilities, and public works.

3484
05:12:04,950 --> 05:12:10,670
And Mr. Kapoor had admin services, human resources, and information technology.

3485
05:12:10,670 --> 05:12:11,730
Is that sound familiar?

3486
05:12:12,710 --> 05:12:17,910
And then our city manager at that time had police, fire, and OPDA.

3487
05:12:18,970 --> 05:12:23,390
And so moving forward, I think that we have a lot of opportunity to grow from here.

3488
05:12:25,310 --> 05:12:27,030
I'm excited about that.

3489
05:12:27,470 --> 05:12:32,550
I'm not so excited about the ADA piece, but I realized we're kind of hamstrung in that

3490
05:12:32,550 --> 05:12:36,930
and that hadn't been done for a while, which is why we are where we are.

3491
05:12:38,490 --> 05:12:44,330
And I don't want our city to have to pay out any money for anything other than the things

3492
05:12:44,330 --> 05:12:47,290
we want to, like medical benefits or something like that.

3493
05:12:48,650 --> 05:12:59,510
So I just, you know, when we talk about money, we actually, we shrunk it, I mean, between

3494
05:12:59,510 --> 05:13:12,990
Between the two areas, between OPDA and PIO, there were more positions, now there are less positions and less money, and I think I heard that you don't have any budget.

3495
05:13:14,510 --> 05:13:26,850
There's still, well, still be sure of any of that, peg funds are different, they can only be used for the process of communicating out, and it can only be used for government communications.

3496
05:13:26,850 --> 05:13:44,090
So, things like the National Night Out video, it couldn't be used for that, but any of the City Council stuff or anything that's critical to city resources or communicating with the public about things that they need from the city, it'd be used for that.

3497
05:13:44,090 --> 05:13:55,210
My understanding, and I might be incorrect, but my understanding, it would cover hardware and some salary parts for that purpose.

3498
05:13:55,570 --> 05:14:00,490
It's to be used for cities to communicate out within the FPPC guidelines.

3499
05:14:01,010 --> 05:14:02,310
Okay, thank you.

3500
05:14:02,510 --> 05:14:02,990
Vice Mayor.

3501
05:14:04,270 --> 05:14:05,210
Thank you, Mayor.

3502
05:14:06,070 --> 05:14:11,070
So there's been a couple of things that I still don't understand, just I want to put this on the record.

3503
05:14:11,070 --> 05:14:17,410
I don't understand why we were using the Department of Optic, and then now using the Office of Optic.

3504
05:14:17,750 --> 05:14:23,650
I am going to have several questions about that in emails, so just know that that's coming, because I want to understand that.

3505
05:14:23,950 --> 05:14:29,490
The second part is, with respect to the process of the development of OPDA, I was not there, but

3506
05:14:29,490 --> 05:14:32,470
I have since done a lot of digging around what that looked like.

3507
05:14:32,830 --> 05:14:36,530
There was a lot of imagination of what an Optic Department would look like.

3508
05:14:36,530 --> 05:14:41,290
it wasn't called optic, but even that had gone through a very specific process.

3509
05:14:42,690 --> 05:14:46,430
OPDA, the mayor can probably confirm this or other council members did come before Council

3510
05:14:46,430 --> 05:14:46,990
for approval.

3511
05:14:47,150 --> 05:14:51,630
And if they did approve one person in one department and creating that department, the city

3512
05:14:51,630 --> 05:14:55,550
manager does have the ability to take other FTEs that are in other departments, move it

3513
05:14:55,550 --> 05:14:59,970
around into that department, expanding it, but the approval development creation of a

3514
05:15:04,080 --> 05:15:29,980
And I will say, in the budget, we do not have the budget book, but we did approve a budget on July 15th. And unless I was confused, which I know I'm sometimes confused, but on all the time confused, July 15th, I'm not calendar says that I was sitting in this chair and voted on a budget. And although I don't have the book, I know what I ask for, and I know what I saw. The last thing I will say is, again, to Councilman Padilla's point,

3515
05:15:29,980 --> 05:15:32,280
point, we're not waiting until April of 2026.

3516
05:15:32,500 --> 05:15:34,900
I do want to say I think the mayor for clarifying one thing.

3517
05:15:35,300 --> 05:15:37,260
You manage everything.

3518
05:15:37,700 --> 05:15:38,540
You manage optic.

3519
05:15:38,660 --> 05:15:39,540
It falls under you.

3520
05:15:39,660 --> 05:15:40,380
Not one of us.

3521
05:15:40,560 --> 05:15:43,720
We can give you direction as a group, and I'm sure that will

3522
05:15:43,720 --> 05:15:47,600
come at some point, but we are not waiting until April of 2026 to

3523
05:15:47,600 --> 05:15:48,260
tell our story.

3524
05:15:48,560 --> 05:15:52,660
In fact, I think the kind of tying the whole thing together

3525
05:15:52,660 --> 05:15:56,120
tonight and the theme of making a marketing stocked and

3526
05:15:56,120 --> 05:15:58,800
better, helping to grow economic drivers.

3527
05:15:58,800 --> 05:16:05,060
members, you know, that's all going to come from telling our story, and I know the Mary and I, and Councilman Padilla, and

3528
05:16:05,060 --> 05:16:10,680
Mark, Councilman Rodriguez, we all came with this energy of we want to transform the narrative of

3529
05:16:10,680 --> 05:16:18,780
Stockton, and that really starts with this work. So I'll just, I'm done on all of that, and I'll say the rest of my comments

3530
05:16:18,780 --> 05:16:20,020
for later, but thank you for the presentation.

3531
05:16:20,020 --> 05:16:28,040
Okay, and just to reiterate, council didn't know anything about OPDA back in 2020.

3532
05:16:28,640 --> 05:16:35,340
The position was for an analyst, and then August 11th, 2020, there was a presentation.

3533
05:16:35,900 --> 05:16:37,660
You can go back and watch the video if you want.

3534
05:16:38,560 --> 05:16:48,020
I will tell you in the 2020-2021 budget, B1, there's no, in section B1, no OPDA, B4, one position.

3535
05:16:48,020 --> 05:16:57,620
K-6 of the budget book, no OPDA, K-7 of the budget book, no OPDA, K-8 of the budget, no OPDA.

3536
05:16:58,580 --> 05:17:06,380
In 2021, then there was OPDA, listed on B1, one more position was added on B4.

3537
05:17:06,960 --> 05:17:14,700
K-6, it was added to the org chart, and K-7 actually had a section talking about OPDA.

3538
05:17:15,780 --> 05:17:26,080
and so and we voted on the budget on June 24th of 2025 and did we add any

3539
05:17:26,080 --> 05:17:32,860
positions to the city manager's office? Do we add any positions? When was

3540
05:17:32,860 --> 05:17:39,400
that? In this last budget did we add any positions? I'd have to ask Rosemary for

3541
05:17:40,600 --> 05:17:47,760
specifically is for optic were any of those brand new created positions or were they positions

3542
05:17:47,760 --> 05:17:54,380
that were from like OPDA or they were they were used to positions from other allocations

3543
05:17:54,380 --> 05:17:56,000
yeah all

3544
05:17:58,080 --> 05:18:08,220
of them not all well oh you're still here I'm sorry hi no no it's okay I came

3545
05:18:08,220 --> 05:18:15,240
from the back. So the FTEs were already existing within the city manager's office. They were

3546
05:18:15,240 --> 05:18:22,420
just reallocated from OPDA into optic. Okay. So there weren't any new positions. No. Okay.

3547
05:18:24,930 --> 05:18:28,130
So that's it then. Okay. Okay. Okay. Huh?

3548
05:18:30,310 --> 05:18:32,950
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. 1058. Okay. Thank you.

3549
05:18:33,130 --> 05:18:39,670
My pleasure. Your dinner. Have a great night. Okay. Moving on to item 16.3, which we were

3550
05:18:39,670 --> 05:18:46,310
so close to not having on here, update on the City of Stockton Fire Hyderant Maintenance Program activities.

3551
05:19:01,030 --> 05:19:11,430
Good evening, last but not least, we have a bit of a presentation to write on the Fire Hyderant Maintenance Program here in the City.

3552
05:19:12,210 --> 05:19:20,370
I've got Travis, my Deputy Director for Wastewater, our water resources, sorry, it's getting late.

3553
05:19:20,370 --> 05:19:26,170
and the fire chief that will help provide some information and then we'll be

3554
05:19:26,170 --> 05:19:28,030
happy to answer any questions after that.

3555
05:19:32,260 --> 05:19:34,920
Good evening council and vice mayor

3556
05:19:34,920 --> 05:19:41,640
mayor. My name is Travis Maughan the deputy director of water resources. Where's

3557
05:19:41,640 --> 05:19:47,740
the clicker? I'll give you update on the report on fire hydrant maintenance program.

3558
05:19:55,370 --> 05:19:58,910
I'm just going to highlight this map for a second here.

3559
05:19:59,810 --> 05:20:04,190
North Stockton, the green area, that is city water service area.

3560
05:20:04,910 --> 05:20:07,170
The middle area is cow water.

3561
05:20:08,130 --> 05:20:11,030
The bottom area is our south Stockton service area.

3562
05:20:12,010 --> 05:20:15,390
And then in there, there's also a few county pockets that are served by the county.

3563
05:20:15,390 --> 05:20:22,450
we have three water purveyors in the city, five fire jurisdictions, the city

3564
05:20:22,450 --> 05:20:25,050
jurisdiction, and then there's four county pocket jurisdictions.

3565
05:20:27,090 --> 05:20:27,810
And then we

3566
05:20:27,810 --> 05:20:32,910
have over 9,000 fire hydrants in the city, 7,500 owned by us, and then there's

3567
05:20:32,910 --> 05:20:40,230
1,500 that are privately owned. All the hydrants have to be inspected yearly, private,

3568
05:20:40,230 --> 05:20:48,210
it and public. Fire Department has annual inspection program. I can go through this part.

3569
05:20:48,610 --> 05:20:52,810
There should have been a fact sheet that got sent out to Council within the last month

3570
05:20:52,810 --> 05:20:56,290
I believe that basically listed all the

3571
05:20:58,820 --> 05:21:03,620
listed basically. Xylem Water has three year contract.

3572
05:21:04,160 --> 05:21:08,760
The timeline, what they do when they go out and inspect the hydrants and everything, how

3573
05:21:08,760 --> 05:21:10,220
it gets reported back to us.

3574
05:21:12,560 --> 05:21:18,900
What they do, they look, when the annual inspection happens, we look in our GIS map, the geographical

3575
05:21:18,900 --> 05:21:23,620
information system map to make sure that the hydrants in the right location, right ID,

3576
05:21:24,960 --> 05:21:33,020
summaries of the existing conditions, the inspection performed, future maintenance needs, does

3577
05:21:33,020 --> 05:21:36,460
it operate, and accessibility for fire services.

3578
05:21:38,040 --> 05:21:41,500
Once they're done with these, if there's a fire hydrant, it's non-operable.

3579
05:21:41,620 --> 05:21:43,780
They report it to mud, to us.

3580
05:21:44,800 --> 05:21:48,500
And then we report back if we have to replace it or if we just make the repair.

3581
05:21:50,660 --> 05:21:55,220
The summary right now, we have an annual maintenance budget of $289,000 a year.

3582
05:21:55,560 --> 05:21:57,520
We have two staff members that work on this.

3583
05:21:58,200 --> 05:22:02,040
Currently 99.78% of the fire hydrants are operable.

3584
05:22:03,300 --> 05:22:05,200
Maintenance lists varies daily.

3585
05:22:05,880 --> 05:22:12,500
So, our non-operable list sometimes could be as high as 24, it's been down as low as 9, currently it's up to 15.

3586
05:22:13,580 --> 05:22:19,280
There's a list right here that shows how many are inoperable in each district.

3587
05:22:20,320 --> 05:22:29,400
So, right, district one, we have zero, district two, we have two hydrants out of service, one that's in cow water, one that's in the city water system.

3588
05:22:29,400 --> 05:22:34,260
district three we have one that's out district four we have one that's out

3589
05:22:34,260 --> 05:22:39,280
district five is the outlier here it has nine but that's 100% in the

3590
05:22:39,280 --> 05:22:43,820
kelwater area and district six we have three that are out of service at

3591
05:22:43,820 --> 05:22:49,560
the moment and actually that list is already outdated because I've created that

3592
05:22:49,560 --> 05:22:56,060
week ago and we've already repaired some and found more that we're out of service

3593
05:22:56,060 --> 05:22:57,580
two, so it varies.

3594
05:22:59,200 --> 05:23:01,620
And then we'll get to the meet and potatoes here.

3595
05:23:02,260 --> 05:23:03,680
We have three work order types.

3596
05:23:03,860 --> 05:23:06,680
We have repair hydrant, replace hydrant, or vandalism.

3597
05:23:07,120 --> 05:23:11,740
And you can see the trend here the last three years of how many work orders we've completed

3598
05:23:11,740 --> 05:23:13,420
on these hydrant types.

3599
05:23:15,220 --> 05:23:19,320
This year so far we've repaired 137 hydrants.

3600
05:23:19,600 --> 05:23:22,660
Last year was 203, and you can see the year before that.

3601
05:23:22,660 --> 05:23:22,760
that.

3602
05:23:24,800 --> 05:23:29,900
Hyderant replacements, we've replaced 26 hydrants this year. Last year we replaced

3603
05:23:29,900 --> 05:23:36,400
20 year before that 16 and then we have our vandalism work orders. So vandalism could

3604
05:23:36,400 --> 05:23:42,700
be a hit and run on a hydrant, could be unhoused tampering with the hydrants. It's just damage

3605
05:23:42,700 --> 05:23:47,200
caused by people and this is how many work orders we have so far on this.

3606
05:23:49,300 --> 05:23:50,340
If somebody needs

3607
05:23:50,340 --> 05:23:56,420
to report damage to fire hydrants. They can call our 209-937-8341 number. They can report

3608
05:23:56,420 --> 05:24:02,600
the water facts or they could send the ass stock to them. So, I ran through that as fast

3609
05:24:02,600 --> 05:24:06,680
as I could because it's 11 o'clock. Any questions?

3610
05:24:09,790 --> 05:24:10,450
Go ahead, Vice Mayor.

3611
05:24:10,690 --> 05:24:14,510
Thank you, Mayor. First of all, you made the city attorney smile. So, you clearly, I think

3612
05:24:14,510 --> 05:24:17,570
we all want to get out here too, so I want to thank you for that. I just want to acknowledge

3613
05:24:17,570 --> 05:24:24,690
your passion and energy for the work you do, and really making sure that we're making improvements.

3614
05:24:24,690 --> 05:24:28,310
I want to acknowledge that because I noticed that from the first time you did the presentation.

3615
05:24:28,790 --> 05:24:33,130
The reason why I agenda this was I know that there were concerns about broken hydrants in District 6.

3616
05:24:33,510 --> 05:24:36,590
There was the conversation about Cal Water coming on to manage our hydrants.

3617
05:24:36,730 --> 05:24:37,710
Did we reach an agreement with them?

3618
05:24:38,190 --> 05:24:40,390
There's no agreement reached yet.

3619
05:24:40,390 --> 05:24:50,410
And so one of the reasons that I kind of wanted to lay this out right here, we have three

3620
05:24:50,410 --> 05:24:53,630
water purveyors in town, five fire jurisdictions.

3621
05:24:54,650 --> 05:25:02,530
There's a lot of layers to the sun and we have to peel back to get everybody into agreement

3622
05:25:03,160 --> 05:25:08,670
and it's going to take a lot of effort and we've already had some past efforts.

3623
05:25:08,670 --> 05:25:10,770
Is there a nice way, like, are you being nice about this?

3624
05:25:12,530 --> 05:25:28,550
We're kind of at a low level right now, as far as where we need to get to it, as far as we have some things in place we're working on, but it's still at the beginning stages of the renegotiation.

3625
05:25:28,990 --> 05:25:34,450
Is there anything that we can do to support the efforts, is there anything you need from council, is it just the process?

3626
05:25:34,450 --> 05:25:43,610
It's just the process at this point because I mean it looks like there's been an improvement in fixing or repairing the right hydrants in my district

3627
05:25:43,610 --> 05:25:52,090
It looks like some other districts have more challenges. Do we know why say in district five there's nine broken hydrants versus mine three or others maybe with less?

3628
05:25:53,110 --> 05:25:56,510
Is it more is there more space or is it more it?

3629
05:25:58,030 --> 05:26:00,450
Like for example, your your district has a lot

3630
05:26:00,450 --> 05:26:09,350
But like central Stockton has a lot of areas that get tampered with more than South

3631
05:26:09,350 --> 05:26:10,910
Stockton, or North Stockton.

3632
05:26:11,810 --> 05:26:12,550
And so it's just-

3633
05:26:12,550 --> 05:26:16,210
The mayor said that in a different way, but yes, I think we've got to understand it.

3634
05:26:17,670 --> 05:26:23,530
So you do foresee, though, I'm us getting to a place where cow water can take on our hydrants

3635
05:26:23,530 --> 05:26:25,410
and they manage those for us.

3636
05:26:25,410 --> 05:26:32,830
Correct. We are working that way and what I'll say right now is they have a main replacement

3637
05:26:32,830 --> 05:26:38,410
program and so they're working on an MOU to take ownership of the Heidernstall's part of their

3638
05:26:38,410 --> 05:26:44,970
main replacement program and then we have some things we got to work out with the fire jurisdictions

3639
05:26:46,410 --> 05:26:52,270
Sandlocking County and then also Cal Water to get everybody all on board on the same page.

3640
05:26:52,270 --> 05:26:59,530
So is there a way then without me asking to put this on the agenda that when there is an update of we finally have an agreement with Cal Water

3641
05:26:59,530 --> 05:27:03,190
Will we keep the council can get some kind of announcement or something some update?

3642
05:27:03,430 --> 05:27:07,370
I believe if it's a negotiated item. I'm of course anyway

3643
05:27:07,370 --> 05:27:13,110
We'll have it'll probably be in a closed session. Okay, okay. Well, that's all I thank you

3644
05:27:13,690 --> 05:27:19,130
Councilmember blower just a couple quick questions. Yes, so 9,000 hydrants. That's a lot of hydrants out there

3645
05:27:19,130 --> 05:27:24,710
there. Xylem dewatering solutions, so they're the ones that go in and they're out doing

3646
05:27:24,710 --> 05:27:31,850
the inspections, right? Correct. And so, like, how many day do a day? How does that

3647
05:27:31,850 --> 05:27:35,510
work? Like, how many people are out there inspecting them?

3648
05:27:36,190 --> 05:27:41,290
Brian Carr, Fire Chief. Council member, try to answer the question. I don't know exactly

3649
05:27:41,290 --> 05:27:52,310
how many a day they typically, so this is their second year doing this and they typically take six to eight weeks to get it accomplished.

3650
05:27:53,130 --> 05:28:03,390
So they'll bring a crew, they'll sometimes the crews are bigger than others is what I've heard depending on, you know, how many people they have available.

3651
05:28:03,390 --> 05:28:04,930
So it just kind of depends.

3652
05:28:05,470 --> 05:28:09,110
We are getting updates kind of weekly about like the direction.

3653
05:28:09,750 --> 05:28:15,330
They're moving where they're at in the city, generally speaking, so.

3654
05:28:15,790 --> 05:28:23,930
So my other burning hydrant question that I've been curious about is one thing that kind of bugs me is it seems like a lot of these

3655
05:28:26,550 --> 05:28:31,070
damaged ones or ones that are damaged because people are opening them that shouldn't be opening.

3656
05:28:31,070 --> 05:28:39,670
Is there like do we have an ordinance saying that you shouldn't you're not allowed to tamper with fire hydrants and if so is that something that we ever

3657
05:28:40,710 --> 05:28:43,910
I mean are there consequences for people breaking our fire hydrants

3658
05:28:44,610 --> 05:28:48,010
So that I'd like to know if there are I'd like there to be

3659
05:28:49,090 --> 05:28:53,230
So without being the expert on the actual enforcement side

3660
05:28:53,230 --> 05:28:55,870
I think there's vandalism and there was a

3661
05:28:55,870 --> 05:29:05,910
a direction that the fire department, if in fact observed it or was a witness to it that we would report it to law enforcement.

3662
05:29:06,630 --> 05:29:12,810
That's very, it's not super common that, you know, we're witnessing these types of things.

3663
05:29:13,210 --> 05:29:21,910
More often than not, we get a call after the fact that the hydrants open or there's water running from a hydrant where somebody's been tampering with it

3664
05:29:21,910 --> 05:29:28,750
and then we'll go out there and shut it off with our hydrant wrench, assuming it's not damaged.

3665
05:29:29,390 --> 05:29:30,110
So, thank you.

3666
05:29:30,630 --> 05:29:32,950
We are looking at just a throat out there.

3667
05:29:33,130 --> 05:29:38,290
We've, since I came in a couple months ago, we've been looking at options and alternatives

3668
05:29:38,290 --> 05:29:44,490
that could exist to maybe limit the amount of tampering that happens to some of the fire hydrants,

3669
05:29:44,610 --> 05:29:48,290
but we're kind of in the very early stages of beta testing that.

3670
05:29:48,290 --> 05:29:53,810
I'm talking to other fire departments across the country and kind of what what they're doing and how they're

3671
05:29:54,570 --> 05:29:57,150
minimizing this tampering that could be going on so

3672
05:29:57,990 --> 05:29:59,970
We can keep you updated on that when we

3673
05:30:00,000 --> 05:30:02,920
If and when we find this decent solution, yeah.

3674
05:30:06,450 --> 05:30:32,870
Seeing no other questions, thank you, gentlemen, for that information. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Okay, city managers report. Nothing to report. Sorry, did I say that out loud? Okay, council members, comments, ooh, blower, first end. Yes, let's go. All right, I want to give a quick report. Last Monday, I went to DC.

3675
05:30:32,870 --> 05:30:42,670
on a trip for Sijafka. I went with Chair Paul Canapa. He didn't get anything on his tie that

3676
05:30:42,670 --> 05:30:51,990
I was aware of. It was actually a really good trip. There were several of us that went

3677
05:30:51,990 --> 05:30:58,350
and the whole point of it was to do advocacy for Sijafka and some of the programs that we have.

3678
05:30:58,350 --> 05:31:03,590
My particular part that I was in charge of at several meetings that we went to,

3679
05:31:03,990 --> 05:31:09,550
I led the discussion on the lower San Joaquin River fled control project phase one.

3680
05:31:09,950 --> 05:31:15,370
And what that will do is give a quick background on it.

3681
05:31:15,710 --> 05:31:25,410
The core of engineers in St. Javka back in 2009 decided that they needed to do a study on flood protection in our area.

3682
05:31:25,410 --> 05:31:38,950
But it took nine years and $9.1 million to conclude the study, and then in 2018 Congress did approve that project, phase one of the project.

3683
05:31:40,110 --> 05:31:53,730
Since then there was a two 18, a prop to 18 election where the voters voted in favor of funding, and about 10% of the funds will come from local taxation of the residents.

3684
05:31:53,730 --> 05:32:05,830
that it would be affected as well as 25% coming from the state leaving 65% of that coming from the federal government.

3685
05:32:06,030 --> 05:32:14,970
Now we had seven budget cycles in a row where we received funding on this project where the court was able to get funding.

3686
05:32:14,970 --> 05:32:28,810
Unfortunately, in FY25 and 26, the administration zeroed that out, which is part of why we chose to go back to DC for this particular project.

3687
05:32:29,310 --> 05:32:38,570
The Sacramento District of the Corps has advocated for it, and what we were supporting them with and discussing with them is for

3688
05:32:38,570 --> 05:32:44,710
For FY27, we're asking for 157 million for the project.

3689
05:32:44,950 --> 05:32:55,070
So the groups that we've met with, we had Vance Skioch as our associates, is our lobbyist for

3690
05:32:55,070 --> 05:32:56,950
Sajafka there in D.C.

3691
05:32:57,510 --> 05:33:01,950
We had meetings with the US Army Corps of Engineers headquarters team.

3692
05:33:02,950 --> 05:33:07,590
We were supposed to meet with the representative Adam Gray, unfortunately he was ill, so

3693
05:33:07,590 --> 05:33:13,970
we did meet with his staff, we also had on Wednesday morning.

3694
05:33:14,620 --> 05:33:19,910
We went to a California constituent coffee with Senators Padilla and Senator Schiff.

3695
05:33:20,450 --> 05:33:27,070
So it was kind of cool, we were able to actually meet our two US Senators.

3696
05:33:27,710 --> 05:33:31,610
And we did advocate for getting funding.

3697
05:33:32,350 --> 05:33:40,810
I made Senator Schiff laugh when I told him I was getting the feeling that this administration may not like California.

3698
05:33:41,770 --> 05:33:49,510
And his office, they're helping us, they're doing what they can for us.

3699
05:33:49,590 --> 05:33:55,770
We met with Congressman Josh Harder, he has been working on our behalf.

3700
05:33:55,770 --> 05:34:07,230
He met in June with then acting ASA, which is Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Robin Colisimo.

3701
05:34:07,890 --> 05:34:15,250
The reason that she gave him why we got phased out is carryover funding, basically saying,

3702
05:34:15,370 --> 05:34:19,950
well, you still have money left, you can use that to keep the process rolling.

3703
05:34:19,950 --> 05:34:28,550
So that was the main thing that we did, we met, again, I said with Josh Harder, and then after that we went to the office.

3704
05:34:29,250 --> 05:34:34,190
We actually had a joint meeting with staff from Senator Padilla's office and Senator Schiff's office.

3705
05:34:34,830 --> 05:34:46,310
So I think it was a quick trip, I flew in on Monday and flew back on Wednesday, but I think it was valuable because this particular project,

3706
05:34:46,310 --> 05:34:56,690
In fact, the phase one will provide, once it's completed, 84% protection for over 300,000 Stoctonians.

3707
05:34:57,090 --> 05:35:04,530
And in terms of the value of just property, you're talking over 21 billion in property.

3708
05:35:04,970 --> 05:35:10,990
So very, very important, so like I said, I think it was well worth the trip.

3709
05:35:10,990 --> 05:35:17,730
and we're just really crossing our fingers at that FY27 budget and we will get funding on that.

3710
05:35:18,350 --> 05:35:24,150
Okay, real quick Friday, last Friday, congratulations to visit Stockton,

3711
05:35:24,290 --> 05:35:29,090
the visit Stockton staff, as well as Robin Camino, the CEO.

3712
05:35:29,250 --> 05:35:35,930
This was her first big event that she was in charge of, which was feast at the Fox.

3713
05:35:36,570 --> 05:35:39,670
It was a very good group, saw several of my colleagues there.

3714
05:35:40,650 --> 05:35:49,430
coming up this week on Thursday the 25th, the Cal City's Central Valley Division will have the membership meeting.

3715
05:35:49,590 --> 05:35:52,250
That's going to be at 6 o'clock in Modesto.

3716
05:35:52,530 --> 05:36:00,150
I know that several of you are at Cog, I did talk to Diane Ney and she did tell me she thinks that one will be done by 5.30.

3717
05:36:00,390 --> 05:36:07,770
So if anybody decides they want to go, we do have several important things that we're discussing.

3718
05:36:07,770 --> 05:36:17,210
we are going to do a election of officers, I'm throwing my hat in again for first vice president.

3719
05:36:19,210 --> 05:36:27,250
We are also updating the bylaws, so I served on the bylaws committee, which was in great need of updating.

3720
05:36:27,530 --> 05:36:31,990
And so we are hoping we have a quorum, which is two thirds of the cities.

3721
05:36:32,210 --> 05:36:36,470
So I've been wrangling some of the cities to show up there.

3722
05:36:36,470 --> 05:36:45,130
And then finally, last thing I'll mention, this Saturday on the 27th is the 11th annual super hero run.

3723
05:36:45,430 --> 05:36:51,190
And that is the one that's put on by Child Abuse Prevention Council, and it's for the CASA program.

3724
05:36:51,890 --> 05:37:00,590
And registration is at 8 a.m., the run is at 9 and the kid dashes at 1015, it takes place at Lodai Lake.

3725
05:37:00,810 --> 05:37:05,690
I've been asked to once again come and dress as Captain America.

3726
05:37:05,690 --> 05:37:08,750
And Tim Olmer will be there dressed.

3727
05:37:08,890 --> 05:37:13,350
He has a serious Iron Man costume.

3728
05:37:13,450 --> 05:37:17,190
It's actually the Iron Patriot version of the Iron Man costume.

3729
05:37:17,370 --> 05:37:19,530
The mask moves up and all that.

3730
05:37:20,130 --> 05:37:21,630
So, there is time.

3731
05:37:21,870 --> 05:37:26,490
If any of my colleagues would like to come up with a superhero costume,

3732
05:37:26,770 --> 05:37:28,450
you are welcome to join us.

3733
05:37:28,670 --> 05:37:30,070
And those are my comments.

3734
05:37:31,930 --> 05:37:34,390
Councilman Padilla, thank you mayor.

3735
05:37:34,390 --> 05:37:35,730
I'll keep it short.

3736
05:37:36,470 --> 05:37:42,210
I just want to thank Dan Richardson earlier for recognizing our stocked MPD.

3737
05:37:42,410 --> 05:37:48,050
I don't think they often get shout out, so I really appreciate his comments.

3738
05:37:48,850 --> 05:37:58,910
This Saturday I had held my coffee hour particularly because in my district I've had an increase of mail theft and wheel theft.

3739
05:37:58,910 --> 05:38:14,950
So the recommendation is for your wheel theft is to remove one of the lug nuts and purchase wheel locks so that will help prevent your wheels getting stolen and the cars that

3740
05:38:14,950 --> 05:38:19,750
particularly get hit are Honda's and Toyota's.

3741
05:38:19,750 --> 05:38:29,190
With regards to mail theft, it is kind of a hard issue because the mailboxes are owned

3742
05:38:29,190 --> 05:38:38,150
by USPS and so they're responsible for initiating the investigations.

3743
05:38:38,950 --> 05:38:47,730
So our police department can give them the information, however it's up to the post office

3744
05:38:47,730 --> 05:38:53,570
this to proceed with the investigation and what we were told was that currently the

3745
05:38:53,570 --> 05:38:56,890
post office only has two open investigations.

3746
05:38:58,070 --> 05:39:06,130
A couple of recommendations in regards to that is pick up your mail daily because most

3747
05:39:06,130 --> 05:39:13,690
mail thefts occur late at night after 9.30, sometimes 12.30 at night, 3.30 in the morning

3748
05:39:13,690 --> 05:39:17,510
I mean, so don't leave any important mail in there.

3749
05:39:17,890 --> 05:39:24,610
If you're out of town, ask a family member or trusted neighbor to pick up your mail.

3750
05:39:25,490 --> 05:39:28,330
Again, see something, say something.

3751
05:39:28,530 --> 05:39:30,330
There's a lot of people that have cameras.

3752
05:39:30,970 --> 05:39:39,010
We had one neighbor that actually captured the license plate in the vehicle and turned that over to the police.

3753
05:39:39,010 --> 05:40:03,990
So, your ring cameras are very effective and just a side note, I'm not recommending this and it was just in discussion, but one of the neighbors actually had purchased a camera that was just a notification camera and they indicated it was no bigger than your pinky.

3754
05:40:03,990 --> 05:40:13,930
and they put it inside the door and when the door opens it notifies them and they actually

3755
05:40:13,930 --> 05:40:21,530
caught somebody in the act because they got notified. So, but that is the post office's

3756
05:40:21,530 --> 05:40:29,310
property. So I'm not recommending that you do that. I'm just giving information that

3757
05:40:29,310 --> 05:40:38,110
that I was told. Lastly, my homeless ad hoc committee will be meeting on October 4th and

3758
05:40:38,110 --> 05:40:46,730
we'll be having a discussion on safe sleeping as well as safe parking. With regards to

3759
05:40:46,730 --> 05:40:56,830
the earlier public comment, I just want to let the city know that I am actively working

3760
05:40:56,830 --> 05:41:09,010
on a city-wide program, I know and my colleagues know that this is a very high priority item

3761
05:41:09,010 --> 05:41:18,330
here in Stockton and things just take time. But I am doing my best, I'm doing the work,

3762
05:41:18,490 --> 05:41:26,650
I'm looking at all kinds of avenues, talking to other cities outside of Stockton to see what

3763
05:41:26,650 --> 05:41:29,010
what they're doing, what's working, what's not working.

3764
05:41:29,690 --> 05:41:37,290
So I encourage any everyone to attend my homeless ad hoc meeting on October 4th.

3765
05:41:37,310 --> 05:41:40,510
And I hope everyone has a good rest of the week.

3766
05:41:40,990 --> 05:41:41,650
Thank you.

3767
05:41:43,810 --> 05:41:45,790
Thank you, council member Enriquez.

3768
05:41:46,010 --> 05:41:46,890
Thank you Madam Mayor.

3769
05:41:47,350 --> 05:41:49,410
So first I'll go off with events.

3770
05:41:50,330 --> 05:41:56,230
A couple, two weeks ago the Mayor and I had a pleasure of going to the unbound stocked in ribbon cutting on September 10th.

3771
05:41:56,230 --> 05:42:01,290
And we definitely felt the energy and the decibels we were in the front row, but it was great.

3772
05:42:01,450 --> 05:42:05,190
All the kids were really excited and I just want to thank Philip Hahn for his leadership.

3773
05:42:05,310 --> 05:42:09,690
I know he's been working years to make this happen in downtown Stockton, but

3774
05:42:09,690 --> 05:42:13,670
it was great that the Mayor and I and other electives were there to support and hang out with all the kids.

3775
05:42:14,910 --> 05:42:21,730
Also, I want to thank our veterans who hosted a 9-11 ceremony, hosted at Carl Post, over by the freeway.

3776
05:42:22,090 --> 05:42:24,950
I also want to thank our fire department and our police for being there as well.

3777
05:42:24,950 --> 05:42:35,210
Well, on September 12th and 13th, I'd mention at the last council meeting I was at Bakersfield Keane area for the water education Latino leaders program that I'm in.

3778
05:42:35,390 --> 05:42:40,110
We were there learning about the water conveyance systems led by the California Water Department.

3779
05:42:40,690 --> 05:42:44,810
And then also why we were there, we were able to visit the Cessna Chavez National Park in museum.

3780
05:42:45,290 --> 05:42:49,330
And we got to see his grave and his old house and the car that he used to drive.

3781
05:42:49,330 --> 05:42:55,510
But it was just very educational, especially being from the Central Valley, and farm workers are a really important part of our history,

3782
05:42:56,230 --> 05:43:01,650
which was really great to see as well as the 40 acres location site.

3783
05:43:02,430 --> 05:43:05,690
I want to congratulate the first congregational church of Stockton.

3784
05:43:05,990 --> 05:43:09,750
They had their 160th anniversary on September 14th.

3785
05:43:09,970 --> 05:43:15,210
And I also want to share that they have an upcoming animal blessing on Sunday, October 5th at 10 a.m.

3786
05:43:15,290 --> 05:43:16,770
I know I shared it earlier with my colleagues.

3787
05:43:16,770 --> 05:43:24,150
The location will be at their future church site, which is on the Miracle Mile, 2562 Pacific Avenue.

3788
05:43:24,610 --> 05:43:27,690
They are promoting it as all local critters are welcome.

3789
05:43:28,190 --> 05:43:34,690
For more info, you can reach them at 209-951-8545 and I already bugged the chief.

3790
05:43:34,690 --> 05:43:40,550
If you want to bring any of the horses or blue or jet, they will love to see them there as well.

3791
05:43:41,490 --> 05:43:44,850
On September 18th, we raised the Air Force flag outside of City Hall.

3792
05:43:44,850 --> 05:43:56,590
I was joined by Council Member Blower and the next one for this calendar year will be on Tuesday, October 14th, for the Navy flag raising outside City Hall at 9 a.m.

3793
05:43:56,930 --> 05:44:04,710
Then after that, we have the Marines in November and then ending the year off with our Space Force on December 18th, which also happens in my birthday.

3794
05:44:06,010 --> 05:44:11,790
last week I had a memorial in the mile at Valley Brew. I had, I want to think, my 12 constituents

3795
05:44:11,790 --> 05:44:16,370
that came out to share their ideas and concerns. Some were regular, some were new, and some

3796
05:44:16,370 --> 05:44:19,510
were people that I haven't seen since I knocked on their door last year.

3797
05:44:20,710 --> 05:44:25,310
September 20th we had a community cleanup park at American Legion. I want to think the

3798
05:44:25,310 --> 05:44:29,210
constituents that came out that we've been doing it monthly to ensure that we are cleaning

3799
05:44:29,210 --> 05:44:31,850
in our waterways alongside our park.

3800
05:44:32,730 --> 05:44:34,750
I know the mayor was there as well.

3801
05:44:34,910 --> 05:44:41,070
We attended our family day at Weber Point, and then also later that day, I followed it up

3802
05:44:41,070 --> 05:44:44,650
with the Health Town Hall led by a assembly woman, Ransom, and French camp.

3803
05:44:45,370 --> 05:44:50,030
This past Sunday, the mayor and I also attended a lot of events together, friends outside.

3804
05:44:50,230 --> 05:44:51,250
There's 70th anniversary.

3805
05:44:51,950 --> 05:44:56,410
We just want to congratulate the organization and the leadership for just a great event overall.

3806
05:44:56,410 --> 05:44:59,970
and I know a lot of our city staff were there as well as well as other elected.

3807
05:45:03,120 --> 05:45:14,860
I will be visiting a second grade class at Taft Elementary to talk to students about local government and civic engagement. And I want to thank my friend Ruby, who is a teacher there, who I went to ULP together.

3808
05:45:15,500 --> 05:45:20,920
We have an upcoming morning with Mario this Sunday, September 28th, 10 a.m. at Terracoffee on New

3809
05:45:20,920 --> 05:45:25,260
Semite Street Village. And then District 4 beautification event, I want to think our city for

3810
05:45:25,260 --> 05:45:33,620
posting it as well. October 11th, 830 to 1130 at Nelson Park in the Brookside community. All right,

3811
05:45:33,760 --> 05:45:40,440
moving on to infrastructure. Major Pottle was fixed on the corner of Riot Avenue in Acacia. That's

3812
05:45:40,440 --> 05:45:41,740
going towards Lewis Park.

3813
05:45:42,280 --> 05:45:43,280
If you want to see how bad it was,

3814
05:45:43,340 --> 05:45:45,980
look at my before and after photo on social media.

3815
05:45:46,740 --> 05:45:50,220
We also got a few scattered potholes fixed near the 4,300 block

3816
05:45:50,220 --> 05:45:51,960
of Boulder Creek Circle area.

3817
05:45:53,040 --> 05:45:54,680
We have some graffiti cleanups.

3818
05:45:54,820 --> 05:45:56,860
Again, we have a stellar graffiti cleanup team here

3819
05:45:56,860 --> 05:45:59,720
in our city, Southbound Freeway Exit Off Country Club.

3820
05:46:00,120 --> 05:46:04,580
Also the North Side Building wall of Oak Park Senior Center.

3821
05:46:05,320 --> 05:46:08,280
And then also we were able to fix a major concern,

3822
05:46:08,280 --> 05:46:11,520
which I know some of the council members flaged to both the mayor and I,

3823
05:46:11,660 --> 05:46:16,320
major graffiti and trash outside the family dollar store on 505 West Harding Way,

3824
05:46:16,420 --> 05:46:18,260
which has been cleared and cleaned up.

3825
05:46:18,920 --> 05:46:21,660
And then I think this morning or yesterday morning,

3826
05:46:21,840 --> 05:46:25,700
I saw that trash was being picked up by cow trans alongside I5 Northbound,

3827
05:46:25,740 --> 05:46:26,920
month of the Abelow entrance.

3828
05:46:27,460 --> 05:46:30,940
It was pretty bad over the weekend, so I'm glad that they were able to get it cleaned quickly.

3829
05:46:31,940 --> 05:46:35,440
And then also my constituents know and those that are watching that I continue to

3830
05:46:36,540 --> 05:46:40,780
I know you talk with our acting city manager and deputy city manager about areas,

3831
05:46:40,980 --> 05:46:51,380
Fontana Avenue by Safeway of Country Club, and then also the West Country Club area by some constituents from Pershing to the freeway our areas that I'm working on.

3832
05:46:51,700 --> 05:46:54,260
And then also still in construction, I know Dan mentioned it.

3833
05:46:54,520 --> 05:47:04,500
We are still working on the hot light system on Pershing, parking lot on East Side Oak Park, parking lot area, and then the X-Lew Restrooms in Victory Park and Oak Park.

3834
05:47:06,000 --> 05:47:33,100
I just want to, again, thank the Vice Mayor and Councilman for the, you know, we do a lot in the Ledge Committee, and, you know, we tell, I mean, I said it in past meetings, if any of my colleagues, anyone in the community has any that they want for us to be able to explore, Ledge Committee is a good way to start, like the Vice Mayor said to, I'm pretty much black and white, I don't take emotions, I think I'm here to discuss policy and get to work, anything that we can amend to make our meetings more productive,

3835
05:47:33,660 --> 05:47:36,440
to change how we do things, I'm all open for it.

3836
05:47:36,520 --> 05:47:39,760
I mean, just because we have something, we have to continue to do it just because.

3837
05:47:40,260 --> 05:47:44,080
But I love the fact that we can have a good, healthy debate in dialogue, ask questions.

3838
05:47:44,620 --> 05:47:49,120
And we can kind of just go back and forth to really understand future changes we want to make.

3839
05:47:49,200 --> 05:47:51,100
And I think that's ultimately what we all want.

3840
05:47:51,200 --> 05:47:55,020
We all want to be able to have productive meetings and good dialogue all around.

3841
05:47:56,420 --> 05:48:00,320
The Vice Mayor and I are going to continue, we're going to meet up with our acting city manager.

3842
05:48:00,320 --> 05:48:02,440
We are exploring a housing policy.

3843
05:48:02,640 --> 05:48:06,160
I know we had mentioned at the last meeting, but that's something that we're going to dive into.

3844
05:48:06,260 --> 05:48:08,660
I know some folks in the audience had mentioned about rent prices.

3845
05:48:09,420 --> 05:48:13,240
So we're going to continue to explore some policies when it comes to that.

3846
05:48:13,400 --> 05:48:18,700
So we'll have some more updates in the future, as well as our compassionate city resolution,

3847
05:48:18,980 --> 05:48:22,780
language that I've been drafting, and we've discussed it at Ledge Committee.

3848
05:48:22,920 --> 05:48:24,660
And I know our staff is going to be working on it.

3849
05:48:24,700 --> 05:48:28,980
So please expect that likely in November for us to discuss as a council.

3850
05:48:30,360 --> 05:48:34,240
Of coming travel, since we're not meeting till mid-October,

3851
05:48:35,720 --> 05:48:38,000
actually Council Member Blower and I, we're going to be pretty busy.

3852
05:48:38,460 --> 05:48:42,240
We're going to be at the California League of Cities Conference in Long Beach from October

3853
05:48:42,240 --> 05:48:43,240
8th through 10th.

3854
05:48:43,640 --> 05:48:48,920
And then before that, I would be in Los Angeles at my alma mater back to USC for a two-day policy

3855
05:48:48,920 --> 05:48:55,540
training for elected officials diving into topics such as local government public policy sessions,

3856
05:48:55,540 --> 05:49:01,160
such as council manager relations, budget and policy making, emergency management and communications,

3857
05:49:01,820 --> 05:49:05,000
response to natural disasters and crisis management.

3858
05:49:06,020 --> 05:49:15,700
Then after our conference in Long Beach, we back in Sacramento for the fourth weekend of my water well program from October 10 through the 11th.

3859
05:49:15,720 --> 05:49:23,660
And I want to think our water department, our mud department, because next week we have a really important investment that we're making here in Stockton.

3860
05:49:23,660 --> 05:49:26,400
And it's going to be a game changer in many ways.

3861
05:49:26,400 --> 05:49:30,660
We have a ground breaking at the Delta water supply ground water recharge project.

3862
05:49:31,180 --> 05:49:36,840
And it's truly an investment that's going to allow Stockton to store water in wet years for us to use in dry years.

3863
05:49:36,880 --> 05:49:39,420
But not just in wet years, but every year, ideally.

3864
05:49:39,960 --> 05:49:49,040
But it'll utilize engineering recharge basins to percolate surface water into critically over-drafted eastern sound king ground water sub basin.

3865
05:49:49,040 --> 05:49:53,340
So it's going to ultimately help us to maintain sustainable groundwater levels.

3866
05:49:53,800 --> 05:49:58,520
It's also going to help increase our aquifer storage, improve our local water supply reliability,

3867
05:49:59,180 --> 05:50:03,180
and also the fact that we're going to be in compliance with our sustainable groundwater

3868
05:50:03,180 --> 05:50:05,340
management act also known as SIGMA.

3869
05:50:06,400 --> 05:50:10,300
But that will be next week, so please keep an eye out for the ground breaking as I know

3870
05:50:10,300 --> 05:50:11,780
some of my colleagues will be attending.

3871
05:50:12,520 --> 05:50:14,240
Other than that, that is all they have.

3872
05:50:14,640 --> 05:50:22,640
You can always reach me at DIST4 at StocktonCA.gov or call me at my cell 209-645-2711.

3873
05:50:22,980 --> 05:50:23,260
Thank you.

3874
05:50:24,920 --> 05:50:25,560
Vice Mayor.

3875
05:50:26,400 --> 05:50:26,920
Thank you, Mayor.

3876
05:50:27,080 --> 05:50:33,480
I promise today I swear we jinxed ourselves because I thought we were getting out at 9 o'clock and we're not.

3877
05:50:33,760 --> 05:50:41,280
Okay, anyway, first I want to say that I really do appreciate all of the dialogue that we had today here.

3878
05:50:41,280 --> 05:50:46,020
And I want to thank all my colleagues for just all the participation.

3879
05:50:46,420 --> 05:50:52,900
And I thank you, Mayor, for allowing us to have a really good conversation around some of these topics that have been top of mind.

3880
05:50:53,640 --> 05:51:01,240
I typically rarely, I rarely address public comments that are made in the meeting, but

3881
05:51:01,240 --> 05:51:03,000
there were a few today that I did want to address.

3882
05:51:03,200 --> 05:51:10,380
So one, I want to just talk about, there was one comment made where someone acknowledged

3883
05:51:10,380 --> 05:51:12,860
my ability to code switch.

3884
05:51:13,240 --> 05:51:18,600
My podcast, me as an entertainer, what I do for a day job, y'all don't want me to bring that here.

3885
05:51:18,800 --> 05:51:23,500
We wouldn't be able to handle it, there's no seatbelts on our chairs up here and our staffer, we are great.

3886
05:51:23,900 --> 05:51:31,140
So people should be honored that I do code switch, and I do come here and understand where I'm at, and I handle myself accordingly.

3887
05:51:31,520 --> 05:51:37,060
But I do that because my job as an entertainer, or as an entrepreneur and

3888
05:51:37,060 --> 05:51:43,480
entertainment allows me to entertain the world one way, but this is not a, even

3889
05:51:43,480 --> 05:51:45,460
though it feels like it at times, a reality show.

3890
05:51:45,560 --> 05:51:46,480
This is not entertainment.

3891
05:51:46,580 --> 05:51:50,020
This is real work, and there's a lot of people looking to us for leadership.

3892
05:51:50,500 --> 05:51:54,900
And I just want to acknowledge the fact that we're all working very hard to continue

3893
05:51:54,900 --> 05:51:58,440
to stay focused and grounded in the work and moving forward unless noise.

3894
05:51:58,540 --> 05:51:59,360
So there's that.

3895
05:51:59,820 --> 05:52:05,820
The other thing is there was a comment made from someone that there's ghost

3896
05:52:05,820 --> 05:52:15,060
Just operatives controlling the council, I think about this council similar to, and I know I use analogies that end up in the paper, so I'll just say this.

3897
05:52:15,700 --> 05:52:21,020
I address people who make decisions and say things up here.

3898
05:52:21,220 --> 05:52:34,420
We are all elected, there's no individual controlling me, I can't speak for everybody else, but I would say I don't address ghosts, I don't address conspiracy theories, I address the people who make decisions.

3899
05:52:34,420 --> 05:52:39,320
and the people who got elected with an oath in obligation to the community.

3900
05:52:39,520 --> 05:52:48,560
So I don't really like this continuum of pointing fingers at all the distractions of why things are the way they are.

3901
05:52:48,680 --> 05:52:55,000
I think what we need to all do is be held accountable, including myself, specifically me and my colleagues,

3902
05:52:55,300 --> 05:52:59,600
for the decisions that we make and for the words that we use and the votes that we take.

3903
05:52:59,600 --> 05:53:05,320
regardless of how we get there you know it is our responsibility and so I just

3904
05:53:05,320 --> 05:53:08,640
have in these continuous comments it's just quite frustrating but you know

3905
05:53:08,640 --> 05:53:12,400
again it's your comments they which one there was also a complaint made

3906
05:53:12,400 --> 05:53:17,620
against one of my my commissioners and what I will say you know I I believe that

3907
05:53:17,620 --> 05:53:23,340
you teach people how to treat you and so you know for me when I get a

3908
05:53:23,340 --> 05:53:27,000
complaint or I see something online with people's commissioners I reach out to

3909
05:53:27,000 --> 05:53:30,780
them and give them the professional courtesy to both get the heads up and to address it.

3910
05:53:31,640 --> 05:53:38,780
I'm continuously not afforded that opportunity and without creating more controversy, I will

3911
05:53:38,780 --> 05:53:43,120
just say that I do think as a team and I look at us as a team.

3912
05:53:43,800 --> 05:53:48,740
We should do a better job of fostering open communication and sharing that information so

3913
05:53:48,740 --> 05:53:53,200
that way we can all be better in our districts because there's enough time to finger point

3914
05:53:53,200 --> 05:53:56,640
but we got more work to do that the people voted us to focus on.

3915
05:53:57,460 --> 05:54:03,160
But I will say, I'm not a full-time referee on parents' disputes at school districts,

3916
05:54:03,160 --> 05:54:05,960
that's what the school districts for, and with that particular matter,

3917
05:54:06,080 --> 05:54:08,260
I know that they've looked into that and found nothing.

3918
05:54:09,180 --> 05:54:11,800
Moving on, the day after our last city council, the mayor, myself,

3919
05:54:12,000 --> 05:54:15,320
councilmember Enrique has attended the Bewell ground breaking,

3920
05:54:15,620 --> 05:54:17,680
which I just have to say was so phenomenal.

3921
05:54:18,000 --> 05:54:20,000
I don't want other people want to share.

3922
05:54:20,760 --> 05:54:22,160
Yeah, I know she's probably going to say so.

3923
05:54:22,160 --> 05:54:27,100
I mean, it was such an amazing experience to see how the county came together, working

3924
05:54:27,100 --> 05:54:33,000
in partnership with the state to be able to bring together an opportunity for our community

3925
05:54:33,000 --> 05:54:34,360
to get our community healthy.

3926
05:54:35,340 --> 05:54:42,840
And I want to thank Genevieve Valentine and Supervisor Paul Campbell for their kind words in acknowledging

3927
05:54:43,720 --> 05:54:49,060
my contribution in introducing them to Mark Fawcett, who helped with the $132 million

3928
05:54:49,060 --> 05:54:49,700
of funding.

3929
05:54:49,700 --> 05:54:53,640
But I say that as a reminder that there is another round coming in us as a city,

3930
05:54:53,880 --> 05:54:59,340
should really focus on making sure that we do everything to get our share because our community needs to help.

3931
05:55:00,140 --> 05:55:04,960
But I do want to say, thank you again to the county, being able to watch them do something like that.

3932
05:55:05,060 --> 05:55:10,140
I know me in Councilman Padeo walked to the side and were like, we want to do this too.

3933
05:55:10,340 --> 05:55:12,780
And I do think that we'll continue to get there.

3934
05:55:13,540 --> 05:55:19,540
I want to thank public work staff, code enforcement teams on all the work put into developing a clean community.

3935
05:55:19,540 --> 05:55:24,000
plan for district six. I've shared it on social media but really quick some of the current

3936
05:55:24,000 --> 05:55:29,740
efforts crews worked on for a couple days addressing all the trash in public right away hitting

3937
05:55:29,740 --> 05:55:36,140
all the major roadways and dumping spots and they work to have those final and address

3938
05:55:37,060 --> 05:55:43,580
the other day. Moving forward, staff met with the debris contractor to better define clean-up

3939
05:55:43,580 --> 05:55:48,420
expectations, assigned a supervisor to perform weekly quality control checks, and implemented

3940
05:55:48,420 --> 05:55:52,620
in a procedure for debris, contract to report trash on private property to the city supervisor

3941
05:55:53,120 --> 05:55:58,700
for proactive entry into a stock and I've also been promoting a lot online and again I love the

3942
05:55:58,700 --> 05:56:03,700
mayor's idea about billboards or buses or things to promote a stock because we're doing a good job

3943
05:56:03,700 --> 05:56:07,940
of educating my district but I do think we need to continue to do a better job of educating everybody

3944
05:56:07,940 --> 05:56:15,040
on using that. I also want to shout out the police department and code enforcement again for addressing

3945
05:56:15,040 --> 05:56:17,660
using all the blife and western ranch, then they put together a plan.

3946
05:56:17,820 --> 05:56:20,320
I've seen people online saying it was the first time in years.

3947
05:56:20,800 --> 05:56:23,540
They got a mailing telling them exactly what was going to happen.

3948
05:56:23,760 --> 05:56:28,240
And I do see my neighbors both in person and online talking about that.

3949
05:56:28,380 --> 05:56:30,540
So I just want to thank PD for that.

3950
05:56:31,580 --> 05:56:34,920
But I did ask staff to focus on a plan.

3951
05:56:35,060 --> 05:56:40,000
And so seeing the manager group, there's a plan to just expand those efforts across the district.

3952
05:56:40,000 --> 05:56:46,980
I know the corridor needs some love, and Southeast Stockton, we need to continue to do some work there.

3953
05:56:48,180 --> 05:56:58,500
The mayor, myself, and Councilman Padilla, we attended the Interagency Committee meeting yesterday, was yesterday, it was yesterday, which is a partnership between Salon King County,

3954
05:56:59,600 --> 05:57:06,220
Stockton Unified School District, and the City of Stockton, and so we had asked the district to conduct a student parent survey,

3955
05:57:06,220 --> 05:57:10,540
And it's clear from the results that a sense of belonging of our kids and their families

3956
05:57:11,240 --> 05:57:16,380
with civic engagement are things that they want to see along with more stuff for youth to do.

3957
05:57:16,560 --> 05:57:17,960
Those were all top party issues.

3958
05:57:18,680 --> 05:57:24,920
And so here's a few things that we've been talking about as a small group, but

3959
05:57:24,920 --> 05:57:25,860
I'll just kind of put out there.

3960
05:57:25,960 --> 05:57:30,400
We talked about a youth conference in 2026 in partnership with our schools.

3961
05:57:30,760 --> 05:57:34,240
We talked about student attendance, the where you at campaign.

3962
05:57:34,240 --> 05:57:39,460
some ideas of getting our kids and parents excited about getting students to attend school

3963
05:57:39,460 --> 05:57:47,240
more regularly because there is an issue with absenteeism or truancy and then as a city I think

3964
05:57:47,240 --> 05:57:52,540
just explore more private partnerships to increase ways of exhausting use time with creativity and

3965
05:57:52,540 --> 05:57:57,320
productive things to do. We hear that all the time so if there are partners out there listening or

3966
05:57:57,320 --> 05:58:02,720
if we have any idea and we have FIFA coming but beyond FIFA if there's other organizations that

3967
05:58:02,720 --> 05:58:04,800
That can help in that effort, I think that would be great.

3968
05:58:07,560 --> 05:58:10,740
And let me see, there's one more thing, sorry,

3969
05:58:14,040 --> 05:58:15,040
two things.

3970
05:58:15,280 --> 05:58:25,420
One, I want to go back to the optic conversation and just say that I do appreciate the mayor for allowing us to have a lengthy conversation of Mr.

3971
05:58:25,420 --> 05:58:46,280
for presenting. I do want to say that I think given the conversation that we had today, we all want to see the story of Stockton told in a manner that allows us to change the narrative, make people entice people to come to our city and to truly want to invest in the Stockton story that we're all creating.

3972
05:58:46,280 --> 05:58:51,500
I think with the mayor coming in straight out the gate with a light up stocked in was an initiative that were like there

3973
05:58:51,500 --> 05:58:59,000
would have been great to see little rills of us turning on lights and you know lighting up our city cleaning up the city kids noticing how clean it is going to school

3974
05:58:59,500 --> 05:59:03,000
I can go on and on substations on so forth or whatever you are. Yes program

3975
05:59:03,640 --> 05:59:06,580
There's just been many examples. So what I would

3976
05:59:07,340 --> 05:59:13,140
Like and I would go on to give the staff to direction and hopefully get support from my colleagues is by November 18th

3977
05:59:13,140 --> 05:59:15,900
We need just a real plan with measurable, trackable outcomes.

3978
05:59:16,760 --> 05:59:19,700
So that way we can get on track with you on our story.

3979
05:59:19,860 --> 05:59:23,960
I think Councilwoman Padilla saying April of 2026 is too late, I totally agree.

3980
05:59:24,680 --> 05:59:29,800
But I do think by November 18th we should have a measurable, trackable plan with outcomes.

3981
05:59:31,040 --> 05:59:38,100
You know, absent that, you know, I would really ask the city management department if we don't have that.

3982
05:59:38,100 --> 05:59:43,660
That's just really a reimagine the efforts and figure out what we're doing in that department.

3983
05:59:43,900 --> 05:59:48,580
So if I can get some support, I would love the city manager's department to come back

3984
05:59:48,580 --> 05:59:49,820
with that by November 8th.

3985
05:59:49,820 --> 05:59:50,820
I'll support that.

3986
05:59:51,700 --> 05:59:54,160
Do I need one or two or three or four?

3987
05:59:54,620 --> 05:59:55,200
Okay, great.

3988
05:59:55,480 --> 05:59:56,160
Sounds like we got a lot.

3989
05:59:56,700 --> 05:59:56,820
All right.

3990
05:59:56,920 --> 05:59:59,480
And then the last thing, very last thing.

3991
05:59:59,540 --> 05:59:59,960
Thank you very, very much.

3992
06:00:30,180 --> 06:00:59,980
And so what I want to propose is just, I mean, to create, and I just, this was kind of something I put together, but to create meaningful change, we have to expand our tax base by being intentional and proactive in pursuing economic opportunities. And promoting Stockton, similar to what we said with Optics, should be a full-time job. But I'm speaking specifically here to economic development, focused, full-time, focused effort with clear goals and measurable outcomes.

3993
06:00:59,980 --> 06:01:05,820
not a part-time endeavor, we do have the homeless work being done in economic development.

3994
06:01:06,340 --> 06:01:15,220
I'm requesting staff present Council with options within 90 days on how we can better invest in Stockton's long-term economic vitality.

3995
06:01:15,740 --> 06:01:22,220
And I just think that there should be a real emphasis and we heard today how reactive we are to certain things.

3996
06:01:22,420 --> 06:01:28,740
I think we should be proactive in how we approach really driving the economic engine of our city.

3997
06:01:28,740 --> 06:01:31,260
and if staff can do that, that'd be great.

3998
06:01:31,380 --> 06:01:32,560
Can I get a second on that?

3999
06:01:32,780 --> 06:01:33,360
I'll support that.

4000
06:01:33,800 --> 06:01:34,300
Thank you.

4001
06:01:34,520 --> 06:01:35,120
That's all I have.

4002
06:01:35,240 --> 06:01:35,840
Thank you, everybody.

4003
06:01:37,720 --> 06:01:38,760
Councilmember Ville-Boudeau.

4004
06:01:38,920 --> 06:01:39,680
Yeah, thank you, Mayor.

4005
06:01:40,360 --> 06:01:42,680
First of all, I want to thank everyone for staying

4006
06:01:43,340 --> 06:01:45,220
late in the coming of these meetings.

4007
06:01:47,760 --> 06:01:50,920
Lastly, I had my office hours, which was a great.

4008
06:01:51,480 --> 06:01:54,520
I have my constituents talking about the daily things

4009
06:01:54,520 --> 06:01:55,740
in my district.

4010
06:01:56,720 --> 06:02:03,120
I want to thank the Acting City Manager, Rule Crew, for today going over all the things

4011
06:02:03,120 --> 06:02:10,560
and helping one of my big constituents in my district, which was very, very happy today.

4012
06:02:10,860 --> 06:02:11,980
So thank you, sir.

4013
06:02:13,060 --> 06:02:15,060
I want to thank police and fire as well.

4014
06:02:15,820 --> 06:02:18,040
I won't take a lot of time today.

4015
06:02:18,700 --> 06:02:19,520
A lot of big wins.

4016
06:02:20,040 --> 06:02:23,980
The Stockton Diamond grade separation, I think it's a big thing for District 5.

4017
06:02:23,980 --> 06:02:29,600
So it's going to create a lot of jobs, so looking forward to that as well as last week.

4018
06:02:30,940 --> 06:02:35,320
Myself and the mayor, we attended the navigation.

4019
06:02:37,780 --> 06:02:39,160
What was that tour?

4020
06:02:40,620 --> 06:02:48,100
Yeah, the next 30 days, which we were told, it should be all up and going.

4021
06:02:48,280 --> 06:02:53,340
We saw the beds, the whole thing, so hopefully if none of my colleagues

4022
06:02:53,340 --> 06:03:02,840
this unit please take a tour and I'm just in one last thing myself and vice mayor and mayor we

4023
06:03:03,330 --> 06:03:12,720
got some e-mails and pictures of mormous slew which is one of the items was not true of the way

4024
06:03:12,720 --> 06:03:22,060
they presented the picture because you know there's no water there but we need to do something

4025
06:03:22,060 --> 06:03:37,420
But we got to come up with a major, major plan, you know, sitting down and as well as our colleagues and really come up with a big cleanup as well, finding these homeless, some shelter, some support.

4026
06:03:38,380 --> 06:03:47,460
So somehow we could get together as well, city manager and put that on the agenda so we could talk about it.

4027
06:03:48,140 --> 06:03:51,780
I think it's one of the biggest things in our city.

4028
06:03:53,460 --> 06:03:56,660
So, that being said, a lot of good wins tonight.

4029
06:03:57,120 --> 06:04:01,780
I want to thank my colleagues, I want to wish them a great week.

4030
06:04:02,160 --> 06:04:06,040
Keep up the great job and have a great weekend.

4031
06:04:06,520 --> 06:04:06,740
Thank you.

4032
06:04:09,180 --> 06:04:09,600
Thank you.

4033
06:04:09,920 --> 06:04:16,640
Just piggybacking off that Mormon slew and the navigation center when that whole campus is built out.

4034
06:04:16,640 --> 06:04:24,980
But we're talking 606 beds that will be the largest location for people to go to that

4035
06:04:24,980 --> 06:04:28,420
want to get off the streets and those that don't want to get off the streets, they better

4036
06:04:28,420 --> 06:04:29,740
they got to figure out a way.

4037
06:04:31,100 --> 06:04:38,240
And I appreciate Councilwoman Padilla and her efforts to provide safe places for the unhoused

4038
06:04:38,240 --> 06:04:38,940
in our community.

4039
06:04:39,960 --> 06:04:45,320
And so getting into my long list, the first thing I want to bring up is the Youth Advisory

4040
06:04:45,320 --> 06:04:45,840
Committee.

4041
06:04:45,840 --> 06:04:49,340
I have an amazing committee of kids.

4042
06:04:49,640 --> 06:04:55,200
We elected our chairperson, vice chair secretary, manager, and sergeant of arms.

4043
06:04:55,200 --> 06:05:00,480
They represent HCA, Stockton Collegiate, St. Mary's, Stagge High School, Venture Academy.

4044
06:05:01,100 --> 06:05:06,360
And just so you know, nine students put their name in the hat and

4045
06:05:06,360 --> 06:05:07,780
present it to become chair.

4046
06:05:08,360 --> 06:05:12,720
Another nine students put their name in the hat to become vice chair, three for

4047
06:05:12,720 --> 06:05:19,620
secretary six for communications manager and two for sergeant and arms.

4048
06:05:20,040 --> 06:05:27,280
So we have a number of kids super excited about being part of the solution and I will tell

4049
06:05:27,280 --> 06:05:34,800
you I gave them a big task to do and here is the packet of what I gave them.

4050
06:05:35,120 --> 06:05:41,060
I gave them put them in groups and gave them $3 million to spend in the city of Stockton

4051
06:05:41,060 --> 06:05:42,580
And then I wanted to see where they put it.

4052
06:05:42,940 --> 06:05:47,220
And I gave them previous meetings with how much things cost

4053
06:05:47,840 --> 06:05:50,100
and let them pick what they thought.

4054
06:05:50,280 --> 06:05:52,420
And then they had to justify why they thought

4055
06:05:52,420 --> 06:05:55,060
that that was a need that needed to be filled in our community.

4056
06:05:55,680 --> 06:06:00,420
And they impressed the heck out of me and everybody else

4057
06:06:00,420 --> 06:06:04,400
that was there for that to witness that.

4058
06:06:04,980 --> 06:06:07,820
The next thing on here is resolution.

4059
06:06:07,880 --> 06:06:10,180
I want to thank my council members for supporting

4060
06:06:10,180 --> 06:06:18,060
the resolution to stop the tunnels, I spoke to Senator McNeerney who said he would chain

4061
06:06:18,060 --> 06:06:22,580
himself to the fence and I said I don't know how many fences are in the delta but I'll

4062
06:06:22,580 --> 06:06:26,560
chain myself too because I'm trying to figure out where that fence is.

4063
06:06:26,960 --> 06:06:33,040
But if you vote, if you fish, if you live on a boat, I mean there's all these things that

4064
06:06:33,040 --> 06:06:39,300
are affected by not just agriculture which is huge as well.

4065
06:06:39,300 --> 06:06:47,740
The other thing I have started an initiative, the Stockton Energy Alliance, and that is going

4066
06:06:47,740 --> 06:06:52,760
to be going over, you know, we've talked about Ava, we've talked about PG&E, we've talked

4067
06:06:52,760 --> 06:06:54,800
about solar, we've talked about all these things.

4068
06:06:55,040 --> 06:07:01,120
So, education inform, affordability and access, accountability and transparency, policy

4069
06:07:01,120 --> 06:07:09,080
and partnership, and we are inviting, you know, other people to join us as well as Ava

4070
06:07:09,080 --> 06:07:20,760
and PG&E, Valley Can Solar Rights Center for Biological Diversities, Reclaim Power, and technical experts so looking forward to rolling that out.

4071
06:07:21,400 --> 06:07:30,740
And we will be having a town hall on energy so that people can get their questions answered by Ava and PG&E.

4072
06:07:30,740 --> 06:07:40,500
Also, the economic summit huge, the economic summit 800 people from different cities in California

4073
06:07:40,500 --> 06:07:42,640
are coming here to Stockton.

4074
06:07:43,380 --> 06:07:49,380
They are going to be doing tours here, they are going to be going out on the Delta,

4075
06:07:49,820 --> 06:07:53,140
they are going to be going out to the County Office of Education.

4076
06:07:53,140 --> 06:08:01,520
They're just going to be doing a lot in this community and talking about economics and

4077
06:08:01,520 --> 06:08:09,700
I'd like nothing more because on Friday night I spoke at a bank of America event that

4078
06:08:09,700 --> 06:08:12,620
was about why should you invest in Stockton?

4079
06:08:13,100 --> 06:08:20,880
And what group should we be focusing on, which is why I knew that 71% of the population

4080
06:08:20,880 --> 06:08:24,680
from the core of Stockton into the South is Latino,

4081
06:08:25,240 --> 06:08:27,180
which is a huge consumer base.

4082
06:08:27,360 --> 06:08:29,280
I mean, Rancho San Miguel is no joke.

4083
06:08:29,760 --> 06:08:32,220
If you've ever been in there, I love their fish tacos.

4084
06:08:32,440 --> 06:08:34,260
I go there exclusively for them.

4085
06:08:34,760 --> 06:08:37,500
But as well as the workforce, and what I said was,

4086
06:08:38,220 --> 06:08:41,380
we, why businesses and banks should invest in Stockton,

4087
06:08:41,760 --> 06:08:43,540
we are a logistics and trade hub.

4088
06:08:44,060 --> 06:08:45,680
We've got the major freeways.

4089
06:08:45,840 --> 06:08:48,680
We've got trains, you know, automobiles.

4090
06:08:48,680 --> 06:08:55,980
What is it? Train's planes and automobiles and we have ships so we are a global we're not just you know here

4091
06:08:55,980 --> 06:09:01,660
But we are state national and global and we are foreign trade zone

4092
06:09:02,280 --> 06:09:05,660
We have status for that. So I just said we need to move forward together

4093
06:09:06,460 --> 06:09:12,900
Our city doesn't just thrive on investment investment it thrives when people get involved in shaping decisions

4094
06:09:12,900 --> 06:09:15,340
Which is what happens up here and what happens

4095
06:09:15,340 --> 06:09:19,260
and hopefully in our community.

4096
06:09:19,640 --> 06:09:22,740
But the summit is October 21st, 22nd, 23rd.

4097
06:09:23,220 --> 06:09:25,460
There are gonna be some special guests here.

4098
06:09:25,620 --> 06:09:28,040
I can't put those out just yet,

4099
06:09:28,300 --> 06:09:31,420
but I would say if you want to be part of this,

4100
06:09:31,800 --> 06:09:34,160
please get a ticket, please join in it.

4101
06:09:34,500 --> 06:09:37,500
It's gonna be big for our city.

4102
06:09:39,500 --> 06:09:42,760
Oh, great news yesterday was groundbreaking for.

4103
06:09:42,760 --> 06:09:46,780
a medical school that is going to be opening up here.

4104
06:09:47,900 --> 06:09:48,940
We're having a medical school.

4105
06:09:49,020 --> 06:09:51,760
I don't know how many of you know how many medical schools are in California.

4106
06:09:52,220 --> 06:09:52,480
Anybody?

4107
06:09:53,100 --> 06:09:53,400
Anybody?

4108
06:09:54,380 --> 06:09:54,920
Nobody?

4109
06:09:56,600 --> 06:09:57,200
4.

4110
06:09:58,320 --> 06:10:04,060
Where New York has double digits, Texas has double digits.

4111
06:10:04,400 --> 06:10:08,060
We're the same size as Texas and they have many.

4112
06:10:08,400 --> 06:10:12,080
They turn out doctors like nobody's business were in California.

4113
06:10:12,080 --> 06:10:17,240
they often go to the Caribbean to schools in the Caribbean for med school. But what's great is

4114
06:10:17,240 --> 06:10:23,780
having a med school here and the med school is ARIA University. That's the name right now. It's

4115
06:10:23,780 --> 06:10:30,520
going to be out where the hospital general hospital is, but people who usually where they do their

4116
06:10:30,520 --> 06:10:36,600
residency, where they're getting their education is where they will end up remaining. And I'm excited

4117
06:10:36,600 --> 06:10:43,320
about having our students who want to go on to med school that can come back to the community

4118
06:10:43,320 --> 06:10:48,660
and help those because we have huge health disparities in this city and nothing better than having

4119
06:10:50,100 --> 06:10:55,020
medical school and teaching hospital. Coastal cleanup, very successful day. I was out at the port

4120
06:10:55,780 --> 06:11:02,900
with that. It's something, it's the third Saturday, internationally, the third Saturday of September

4121
06:11:02,900 --> 06:11:09,460
every year around the world so it's also family day in the park they run

4122
06:11:09,460 --> 06:11:14,580
concurrently family day in the park was amazing so many people out there so

4123
06:11:14,580 --> 06:11:22,160
many activities free things for everybody to do the food wasn't free but

4124
06:11:22,160 --> 06:11:26,480
everything else was music was great it was done by our high school students a

4125
06:11:26,480 --> 06:11:31,680
strain those of you that are 49er fans or if your team is playing against the

4126
06:11:31,680 --> 06:11:37,700
49ers and you live in Stockton. You can take the ACE train. It leads here at 9.15. It comes back at

4127
06:11:37,700 --> 06:11:47,720
707 at night. You can enjoy yourself. You can sleep on it or you can cheer with other fans, but there were like 100 people that boarded the first

4128
06:11:47,720 --> 06:11:58,040
train to the first home league home game from here. And they picked up in Mantika, lay through up Tracy all the way down to Santa

4129
06:11:58,040 --> 06:12:13,620
And I'm going to clarify you didn't have to worry about traffic or wear and tear on your car or potential accident, not that we want to talk about those, but parking either I didn't pull 1214 I should have hard luck animal welfare advocates.

4130
06:12:13,660 --> 06:12:26,700
We just purchased the building there on Fremont that used to be an emergency hospital and a pet hotel and I just want people to know that there is going to be a surgeon.

4131
06:12:26,700 --> 06:12:32,580
There's 12 positions, two customer service representatives, two animal care specialists,

4132
06:12:32,940 --> 06:12:40,040
a surgeon, a registered veterinary technician, site supervisor, a registered veterinary technician,

4133
06:12:40,520 --> 06:12:43,900
and then three technician positions.

4134
06:12:44,420 --> 06:12:56,560
But this is to help spay and neuter because the weight is so long in so many places and for

4135
06:12:56,560 --> 06:13:12,320
provide at our current location we will have this and so all of you animal lovers out there the city has heard you loud and clear and we are making more opportunities to help serve as well as control the pet population in the city of Stockton.

4136
06:13:16,080 --> 06:13:22,320
I don't know if we finalized on that, but thank you to the public and thank you, thank you,

4137
06:13:22,320 --> 06:13:29,560
thank you to our police department for doing revocations, shutting down these businesses.

4138
06:13:29,740 --> 06:13:36,060
If you are a legally operator, you know, in your lawful, great, we don't care, just continue

4139
06:13:36,060 --> 06:13:41,280
to do your business, but if you're selling the kids, if you're selling illegal things,

4140
06:13:42,860 --> 06:13:45,120
just know we're coming for you, okay?

4141
06:13:45,400 --> 06:13:47,580
You've heard it here many times.

4142
06:13:48,920 --> 06:13:54,640
Parking validations, I think that would be great to do that for downtown businesses because

4143
06:13:54,640 --> 06:14:00,420
it is a ghost town, but that's why I say we need to have workforce housing, market rate

4144
06:14:00,420 --> 06:14:04,380
housing because they are the ones that will support businesses downtown.

4145
06:14:04,380 --> 06:14:14,040
If you have very small discretionary money in your budget, you can't go out and enjoy those restaurants that are downtown.

4146
06:14:15,360 --> 06:14:26,320
Downtown trees and sidewalks, yes, that is something we need to look into, but 133 lights downtown were given LED lights.

4147
06:14:26,320 --> 06:14:34,860
were replaced, it's bright, so I walked it after feast at the Fox, no issues there to

4148
06:14:34,860 --> 06:14:40,000
get to my car, except for the Stray German Shepherd that was hungry and looking for water

4149
06:14:40,000 --> 06:14:41,280
and I felt so bad for it.

4150
06:14:42,220 --> 06:14:47,540
League of California cities was already brought up, but we will all, I don't know of all of

4151
06:14:47,540 --> 06:14:53,000
us, but October 8th, 9th and 10th just know that many of us will not be here, and then

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And I want to thank Catherine for giving me the current logo was December of 2000 and with that I

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We will entertain a motion to adjourn at 11.54 p.m. We have a motion. Please vote.

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Motion carries. Good night, everyone.