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Good afternoon, the time is now 4.30 on the date and time notice for our regularly scheduled Watsonville City Council meeting. Can I get a roll call, please?

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Clerk?

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Do you try?

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Want to see now?

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Yeah.

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What else can we do?

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Here.

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Guido's Parker?

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Here.

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And so I'll see you do.

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Here.

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We have quorum.

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And moving on to reports to Council, it looks like we're going to have a city building assessment

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study report by administrative services manager Gordo.

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Good afternoon.

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Oh, I missed it, sorry, are there any new employees before we start?

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Okay.

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Good afternoon.

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Good afternoon.

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mayor, council gave board of works and utilities, and I'm here on this afternoon on the request

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of the city manager to provide the council with the pre-foreview of a city building of

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the facility assessment study that was conducted by the city a few years back.

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So why was this

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facility conducted? Well, back when the study was the idea was proposed, the city was looking at

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her prioritizing its capital requests from budget. The finance director started when at the time

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was trying to invest the limited funds and resources

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that city will automole had in a thoughtful and data-driven way.

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However, we didn't have information on the condition,

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the needs of our facilities and so forth.

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So the idea was to hire an architectural group

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to conduct what's called the facility assessment.

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So in 2022, the city hired KPA group to complete in 2023.

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and selected city sites were included a total of 15 sites on this list were included in the

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evaluated.

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As you can see, we have across the board, both fire stations, the police department, municipal

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service center, various community centers, the Wantsville Senior Center, Pinto Lake City Park,

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City Hall, all those facilities were part of this study.

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So what's involved in this study, the purpose of such a study is to provide a comprehensive

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evaluation of the conditions of the facility, these include the site itself, the building

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interior, the exterior, the structure, ADA compliance, mechanical condition, and the electrical

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and plumbing conditions of the facilities.

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How is this done?

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It was done to a series of meetings with staff and management, side visits, checklists

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where written of all facilities, pictures and photos were taken, space surveys were conducted

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with staff and obviously one of the most important parts of the study was cost estimates.

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Well, were some of the major findings?

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Obviously there was evidence of the age and where of the interior of the buildings,

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because some of the results are pretty old and dated.

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There was a need for update of mechanical electrical and plumbing systems, and that most parking

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laws require resurfacing and re-striping.

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There was also some minor structural cracking found in some other facilities, and that

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all city buildings require some moderate improvement to maintain their current value, their

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operational capacity, and need to public needs.

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One of the major findings is obviously dollars in cents because that's where we're looking at and here is the list of the 15 facilities and the respective estimates for the improvements needed and as you can see they vary the total is a little bit over $6 million and this is in 2023 figures so those will need to be adjusted.

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But as you can see, one of the highest on the list is the Municipal Service Center, the fire stations combined, they're over almost close to 12 million dollars, city halls in there at eight, the police building there for another eight, and there's a lot of the parking garage in there, which is a facility that demands a lot of services in there for a little bit over three million dollars.

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So it was really thoughtful and detailed to the evaluation of the architects.

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So, whatever we've done, the study wasn't just put in a shelf somewhere, so we can say,

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oh, we can pat our backs and say, oh, you guys are amazing, you're really smart and you

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conducted this.

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We actually took the information and director served when looked at ways of funding those projects.

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One of the projects that was taken into that was developed was a senior center project,

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which totaled about $587,000 in that came out of CDBG funding.

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So, the very strategic fire station, one also receives a lot of improvements and we're just finalizing those for a tune of 640,000 using major Wi-phones.

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And also at the MSC, there's a design project currently in the works for a new admin facility building there.

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There's a budget of 1.6 million dollars of being funded by water and solid waste.

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And it's in process, and so far we spent 267,000 dollars on that project.

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Also, the Ramsey Park Family Center, which is the future home of the nature center, as a budget of $2.4 million,

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that's being funded from the water and sugar fund, and currently we spent $82,000 in its current design and its current.

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And what are we planning to do? We're not going to stop there, obviously.

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We're going to find ways to improve our facilities.

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Here, just a list of some sites, fire station number two, which is in dire need of a lot of improvement.

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obviously, it houses our fire department, but it's also used as an academy, as a training

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ground.

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So we're looking to see ground opportunities to help us and make improvements.

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And probably, if you look at the site as itself, not just the building.

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Pinto Lake Park is related for mashupon, which is great.

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We expand our recreation opportunities.

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Just like we're doing at Ramsey, Pinto Lake is a gem of the park.

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It's great that we're looking at it.

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The MSC site itself, we're currently working on site improvements for its stormwater.

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the facility holds a stormwater permit because of the public drop-up that has a house there.

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So by making stormwater improvements, we can expand the use of the facility and maximize the situation.

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The Beach Street parking garage, which I mentioned earlier, is the man's a lot of attention from our building of facilities crew. I know currently there is discussions with the metro housing project and see how the parking garage can be part of the project and see if we could allow a partnership that will allow for investment in much needed improvements to that site.

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And that concludes my quick overview of the survey. I'm really happy to answer any questions you may have.

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Mayor Protem, Kirk.

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Thank you. Just one quick question. City Hall on this list is that considered the City Plaza

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of the building where and now are we talking about the old City Hall building across the street.

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That is 50 main deal City Hall across the street, old City Hall across the street. Okay, perfect. Thank you.

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Any other questions? Can some member want to see? Yeah, and can you go back to the list that you had?

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But what is our priority? Like, you know, I like to know, like, you know, are we just, you know,

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attacking on this or that or like what's an upper already system you know what is

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the greatest needs or what you know what are we looking at in the future.

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Like what the projects that we listed the priority was usually based on the funding availability

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of course and a lot of places, blah, cities, they have a like a building fund where it's

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every building we put a size room funds for its annual upkeep of different, all its components

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HVC, plumbing, roofing, et cetera, the envelope of itself.

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The priority is just, I would say,

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is depends on you all, and then the researchers

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that we have, you combine with the city manager

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with help us prioritize that.

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I can tell you that currently building efficiency

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is really important not just to us,

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but to the state and to the nationality and the whole world.

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And it's a big theme, and it's an area

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that we are often pressed upon.

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There's energy, efficiency, grants.

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So there's a availability to fix our billions that way,

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but it's limited, it's competitive.

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And we also need to have some sort of design,

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and some sort of planning around the employees

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for best practices in our facilities.

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And that's where we would need to prioritize those things.

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But so my answer is not very clear, obviously.

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It's not to me.

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It's not to me.

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And by us, I would say the PoloWorks project, but that's not overall.

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It's like, what is the better shirt for the community?

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We anticipated that you would ask that.

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And I like another slide that is, probably second to last game, because, you know, it all depends on funding.

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Right, like, definitely $76 million of the firmliness is a big task.

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And we don't have all the money at once, and we sometimes find opportunities within

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looking. So what this does is I made me realize that the council has never seen this full inventory

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of our needs. So I think I've asked Gabe to to come present today so that so the council is

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aware. And and these these summarizes a little bit of the like kind of like short-term opportunities

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that we're actively working on fire station two as you know we've been having conversations

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with so-so-love grant and exploring federal grant opportunities and funding. We are in the process

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of Master Planning, Pintileg, and Director Kalobakubis being working with county parks to actually

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join forces and Master Planning that. And as we learn from Bramsi Park having a Master Plan

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really helps go after funding, right? So that is the plan there. And then MSC is something

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like, again, for the way the property is being used, the mitigation actions that we had

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to take in terms of store water, store water, just really kind of made us get to work and design

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better use the realization of that. And then we do have some deficiencies and

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opportunities also in between the beach street parking garages is one

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that is in a lot of need of investment, but it needs to be utilizing a

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different way because the amount of bundleism that it goes on there.

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And good faith, I couldn't recommend that we put new elevators and we not manage the garage so that they cannot be vandalized again.

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So until we are able to wrap up a full project, we can really recommend moving forward with millions of dollars and new elevators.

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So that's how we are prioritizing CIP, this is coming to the Planning Commission in early May

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to the Council through your budget process.

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That's going to be another opportunity to continue prioritizing and looking at the amount of money

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we have available on how we take a dent in our many needs.

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Yeah, I understand we have, like I said, thank you for that information, because yeah, first

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I like to challenge, you know, all of you, you know, provide a, you know, a priority, because

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it's the more deferred maintenance we've got a honing on, you know, not just opportunities,

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like you mentioned, but also honing on, you know, what is our community's priorities.

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So we can focus our, you know, attention to advocacy, whether at the state or federal level,

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or wherever we can to, you know, to be able to tackle,

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you know, even the one project at a time.

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Because, yeah, it's a good way that you're doing it,

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mismatch, you know, but I like to see it just a priority

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whether it's the, like a police department

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or the marriage park or whatever,

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make it our focus, you know, you know,

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and what that entails, you know, looking at, you know,

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parks opportunities, whether, you know,

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Pinto Lake is a better priority than a marriage park.

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I would tell you, like, better here,

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like it's closest, you know, the need.

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So like I said, that kind of brainstorm.

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So if you remember the parks department data

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prioritization, that was really strongly based on equity,

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I know I could be assessment and I don't want to be

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speak but I think that River Park is the next priority in our park investment

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as well as the opportunity to master plant into Lake as a major community resource

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and you know we will have new opportunities that come out of that. That's why that's

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making the list but River Park if I'm like raise your hand if I'm right yes I'm right

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will be our next, our next part.

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And is the park over on the Vista Montaña?

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Is that our park?

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Where's that in the park?

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It's one of our newest parks.

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So probably the next last needy.

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I think all has been evaluated on assess. We have a full, I'm happy to maybe recirculate that so that the council has access to that document, the park assessment.

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Thank you.

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I have a question and a comment.

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Come to the member of RISCO.

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Thank you.

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So I just want to highlight the fact that I like what you're doing.

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So, I like the prioritization, but I also like the fact that staff is seeking out opportunities

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and not just say, we don't have the funding, but really leveraging our partnerships to bring in that additional revenue

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to address different maintenance.

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I did have a question on the Metro Project, so there's been discussions, but has that been?

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Is it set in stone that they are willing to provide funding or work with us to upgrade that parking lot?

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Given that we will be providing over 100 parking slots for that project?

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We have been in conversation with them, you're saying for them to fund it?

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Oh, partially.

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We have,

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I don't believe the partners have identified funding source.

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They can tap into, they're looking at the city, to be able to fund the improvements that would allow for the utilization of those parking spots in the garage.

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And yeah, so we're not there yet, but we are in conversations to see if they are able to identify funding to pay for it.

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To some of the improvements, as a way of funding the benefit of relying on that parking.

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I mean, they are working on a measure, right?

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So if that were to pass, I don't know how likely that would be, but you know, I don't know, yeah, I know.

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But if it were to pass, I mean, that's something that we could look into.

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Is it just transportation being?

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I think it's a mid-pen project, mostly.

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I mean, Metro certainly providing the land, but it's not actually like, you know.

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But they're taking credit for it, so we might as well bring them in into the conversation and explore that partnership further.

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I don't know.

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Oh, I know.

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Mayor, can I?

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Yes, sir.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, we're going off the fiscal cliff, so there's like literally Metro is there's no money.

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Thank you for this presentation.

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I visually, in my head, imagined what it sounded like, so, but I do have a couple of questions.

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Can you go back to the list?

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Is there any way of, and you may have brought this up already, including that in any rate

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hikes that we're going to be reviewing and possibly passing to make sure that that project is covered?

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This is all general funds, so none of these is part of the rate study.

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this is general fun I understand that but I'm asking why can't that be I mean that seems like

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a public works kind of project or the amissie can you go back to the other the one where it

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right there stormwater improvements that seems like something that would be under a water project

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Yes, so storm water is not an enterprise utility, so we can't use the 218 process for it unless we were to develop a storm water utility.

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That's a whole other process.

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But for this particular project, it looks like there's a couple options for grant funding.

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So we're actively pursuing that.

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Okay, I did not know that. I did not know. I just assumed that storm water to me is

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like woodfall in that category. So there are projects that do not fall in that category,

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even though they may look on the face as like a public works project.

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Interesting. Okay, and then I am super supportive of the Pinnolake project. To me, Pinnolake is the

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the next largest park, next to Ramsey Park,

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which will be done in the next couple years, probably.

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And you know, so I definitely think

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that we should be getting that, that should be a priority.

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I mean, it's a big space, people really utilize it.

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So I'm definitely supportive of that.

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And yeah, and thank you, I mean, it's important to start

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planning ahead.

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because I think that, you know, I see what projects are going to be finished soon, and I don't really see a vision beyond that, so I'd like to see some of these projects start getting into motion so that we can start accomplishing more things for our community.

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Thank you.

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Any other comments from Council?

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All right, thank you very much.

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Next item to be study session on city special events budget report by Deputy City Manager,

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Kelliabakam, and recreational supervisor, baby.

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Okay, good afternoon, Mayor, members of the council, and I call a bucket of Deputy City Manager

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and Parks and Community Services Director, and I'm here today with Recreation's Supervisor

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Jessica BV who, as many of you know, plans and implements all of our large city-wide special

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events. We're here for a brief study session on mainly the operational cost and revenues regarding

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our city sponsored or city, special events that the city itself plans and operates.

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I want to kind of see this up by just saying that this conversation also, you know, like

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the previous item, is to kind of provide you with some additional information regarding the

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costs around special events. As we start to prepare our budget for next year, I hope it's

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to kind of talk through some of the challenges that we're facing in terms of costs and to

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provide you with some potential scenarios that we could look at just to start at the conversation

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as we lead into what looks like, kind of a challenging budget year and possibly years to come

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in terms of revenue.

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So I wanted to kind of just start off real quickly and talk a little bit

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about the value that the events bring to our community and what our residents kind of enjoy

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and get out of these efforts. So first of all we know from a attendance stats through

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And you saw for that we're using that we have over 70,000 individuals that come and participate in our events on an annual basis.

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This, of course, fluctuates year to year depending on what events are offered and all kinds of things from the weather to what's happening nationwide and so forth.

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But in the past year we had over 70,000 people attend our events. If you kind of look at that at face value, I mean it's basically like the entire population of Watsonville and then some coming through our events.

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throughout the year.

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With that, there's some great economic development impact that these events create, especially

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when you look at events like the strawberry festival that bring thousands of people to our

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downtown, from within Watsonville and from the San Jose area, Monterey County, and even

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beyond to really spend money in our downtown with our local businesses and support the nonprofits

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that raise money throughout the events and so forth.

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It's also alive with our downtown specific plan that calls out the planning and implementation

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of large events that bring people into the downtown, possibly activates public spaces like

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the city Plaza and other spaces where when events are taking place throughout the community

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like at Franch Park, like our recent egg hunt and so forth.

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They're family-friendly, friendly experiences, you know, whenever we do surveys with the community

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about what our community enjoys the most from parks and recreation, special events,

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always kind of land towards the top as experiences that people like to enjoy it together.

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One thing that I constantly think about with our demographic, especially, is that, you know,

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we have a lot of families who can't always afford to take their families out of town to experience,

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things like Disneyland, for example, or amusement parks like the cost a lot during the day.

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But these experiences really bring those types of feelings and memories to our community

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and allow folks to create those memories here without having to pay for the expense of

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going outside of our community to experience similar things.

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They also involve a large number of our nonprofits and art organizations about 350 plus annually.

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Obviously promote cultural celebration expression and connections and build community in civic pride.

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And so forth.

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So this, we're going to start to kind of get in the mini-degree and I'm going to pass the Jessica after this slide.

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But this first slide here is just kind of a highlight overview of what our expenses and revenue and net costs have looked like for our special events.

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going back to 2021-22, so we kind of rolled the clock back to just after the pandemic when

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our events started to come back after the brief pause in 2020 and shortly after that.

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We're looking at kind of this period of time and not going back further before the pandemic

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because we've got one better accounting of all that and it really kind of gives us a better

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through understanding of what things cost today,

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because as we all know, prices for everything

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have just skyrocketed, and that is definitely

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affected our events as well.

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So the orders line here represents our expenses.

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The green line towards the kind of posters of the bottom

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is our revenue.

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And then what the blue line does is it marries the two,

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and it shows you what our net cost is.

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So if we were, if you kind of think about the city's bank,

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What we've had a pocket is represented by that baby blue line.

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And I'm going to turn these over to Jessica.

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Thank you.

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So here's a closer look at the trend for services and personnel costs,

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which include city services such as traffic control, police services,

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trash services, parks, teammates, et cetera.

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Also included here are services provided for events such as entertainment,

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infrastructure, rentals, those kinds of things.

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Some of what's reflected is expected cost increases from year to year, as we touched upon.

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But primarily, the increases are due to increased payroll costs and city departments becoming increasingly better at tracking and charging personnel time associated with the implementation of city events.

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These figures represent the variance between the net expense approved for the events budget in yellow,

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and the total projected net expense for events in gray for the current fiscal year and for

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next fiscal year. Again the yellow represents the difference between expenses and revenue

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that was in the approved budget. The gray represents the projected difference between

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if it expenses and revenue for each year. The variance for each year listed on the

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bottom is the difference between the approved net cost and projected net cost.

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Here you can

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for each event in the city's portfolio how the projected costs for next fiscal year break down

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between contract services and non-PCS personnel, materials and PCS personnel costs.

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Additionally, the revenue of each and projected net cost prevent with anticipated

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attendance for each based on this fiscal year's attendance.

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Additionally, as you know,

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the city provides $35,000 in community special events sponsorships annually

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to help subsidize events not directly offered by the city.

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Here is the summary of this year's sponsored events with attendance.

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So now as we take a look back at the city events with the requests that you provide us

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general feedback as we prepare our 2627 budget.

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Here's the summary of the net costs per event for this fiscal year

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and projected for next fiscal year.

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Next I will share with you options that illustrate the budget impact

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if the event portfolio that we currently offer is Modified.

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Option A is no modification, including all events, would increase the budget by 125 and change.

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Option B would remove music in the Plaza and the Notre-Dibrio event.

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Option C would remove this strawberry festival.

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Option D would remove spirit of Watsonville, fourth of July parade.

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music in the Plaza in Nochette Ibrillo,

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and Option D which would be no increase in the

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budget would remove the egg hunt extravaganza, music in the Plaza event, the Julyis events,

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strawberry festival, candy crawl and Nochette Ibrillo.

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So here is a summary of those different.

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Impacts to the budget by removing events or not.

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And we have also provided you a handout that has

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that nice summary of the event, prevent, net cost and breakout. As we are going through our questions,

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could you go back to the last slide that has those different options?

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Okay.

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One is, I know that I met with the city manager at one point and gave her the information

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for a foundation that gives grants for music in the park, did you guys follow up with

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that?

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I mean, I was both a person twice, and this is what that foundation does is they go to communities,

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especially one like Watsonville where they felt that we would be on the top of the list

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to be funded.

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Has that work been done?

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Yeah, I remember receiving that information probably year or two a good.

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I love hearing that.

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Yeah, definitely reached out.

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I don't recall hearing back from them after that.

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But I can, I can, okay, I'll follow up.

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Because I mean, I know the, I know the person that that runs the foundation.

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So, I mean, that would help us with like situations like to help get funding for this.

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Thank you for bringing that to our attention.

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We did actually pursue that.

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Okay.

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And they have, they grant with an a certain mileage.

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And so they had already granted San Jose that grant.

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So we didn't qualify because of that.

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Did we do it again in the following year or?

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I don't know.

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We can look into that.

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Yeah, definitely.

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I will as well just because, I mean, San Jose,

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they got plenty of money.

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I mean, in my mind, I feel like some of these programs that

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can be funded through different grant funding, and maybe we just kind of look out for that,

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and maybe even ask for the person that seems like that's a event type of a grant, knows

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of any other grants, but I mean, costs are going up, and do we have the money to just pay

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for it all?

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I wish we could say that we did, but what we don't unfortunately, so I think that's really

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the conversations tonight. So, we're not necessarily asking them to make council tonight to

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tell us or give us direction on which option we should pick here. I think these are

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here just to kind of provide some examples of different scenarios and ways we could go.

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Post pandemic, or actually sorry, let me roll back to clock a little bit. So, when we started to bring

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back events to after the pandemic, the Parks and Community Services budget for special events

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wasn't fully restored to what it was before the pandemic.

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And so we've been kind of trying to make you

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and have been able to help cover the increased costs

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through cost savings from other programs with the mid

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department, but we're kind of getting to the point now

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where that's just getting harder and harder to get.

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And I think my other concern is that if you look at other cities,

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a lot of these programs are run by their chamber.

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And the city seems to be picking up a lot of it.

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And that's my real problem with the chamber here

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is that they're not doing programming that other chambers are doing, and as I've been going

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through the region, visiting other chambers and learning about them, they're really helping

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pick up the weight for the cities that they belong to. And I mean, the fourth of July parade,

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a lot of chambers are the ones I put it on, you know? So, you know, I think that maybe that's a

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conversation we need to have with, you know, the chamber here in Watsonville, or consider going,

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you know, to a different using a different chamber, who is there actually starting to show up at

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events here in our community and so maybe seeing that they could help offset some of this by participating

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and help co-sponsoring and funding it because at the end of the day a lot of these events

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are funded by outside sources and they don't rely on their municipal organizations to fund them.

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So I mean I don't know if those conversations have had happened at all, but maybe they should

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And then, you know, keep that a consideration, but what's the oldest one on here, the oldest I guess event that we've been throwing it would be the fourth July parade?

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I would guess it would be.

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We had a parade for many years, but we not always funded it. It was once upon a time, a chamber event.

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I mean, I feel like, honestly, I mean, that in the strawberry festival are two like things that we're known for here in this and so I mean, I feel personally that those should be the two that should definitely stay and then we're go from there, but that's just my opinion.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I took a couple of follow-up questions.

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Can you come back to the personnel staff amounts?

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So when you're trying to figure out personnel costs, right?

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I sort of think of it in two different buckets.

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There's people that we need to bring in over time, especially for the event, right?

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But I just also went to my job today and worked in 8 to 5.

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And that's somebody who's getting paid by that department, and we're just redeploying them

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to the strawberry festival, or to the Noche de Rio, to in my mind those are two different

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bucket costs, where they're attributing somebody who's already going to be working and then

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saying, oh, but it's, you know, they're at this event.

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So that's a personnel cost.

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How are we teasing that out?

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Like, what are we really talking about?

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I think it's very different, for example, a police officer

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that's already working that shift versus the overtime

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officer you have to bring in for the Fourth of July, right?

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And so how, those are different, completely different buckets.

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Are we dumping them all in the same like,

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up, you're at this event?

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Or is this, no, there really is somebody who would not be paid

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who is not like, who's only coming in for this specific thing.

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Also, there's flex time.

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So I know agencies all the time that, you know,

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you're, because it's, you're going to this special event

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and you work for parks, we're not going to do overtime

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and it's within our contract with that employee,

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we're going to, you know, you're not going to work the day,

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but you're going to work the night and that's, you know,

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there's flex time versus overtime.

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So how are you managing that in this graph?

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much of what you see in this graph is over time. For example, you know, PD coming in to work the strawberry festival, you know, into the late hours of the night when they still have PD that's working their regular shift right patrolling around the city.

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The one thing that is a little different I think is with traffic because there are certain funds that fund positions.

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And so any time traffic works in an event in foreign event, then that time does get coded here and gets charged here.

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Okay. But for you know like my time is not reflected in here.

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Yeah, so like these are traffic personnel that may not be otherwise even deployed and then the traffic

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personnel have to come in for over time specifically.

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So this is just over time itself, okay, and so this doesn't account for like flex time.

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You know, I just don't want to say that this like inflating these numbers.

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First, you know, you use that word, but it's like there are very different meanings of like what are we actually paying versus like somebody's already just employed and we get to say we're counting it for them for the day, right?

439
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And are there some people that do use flex time, like if they're doing these events, that kind of thing, are there some employees that you can do flex time for?

440
00:37:49,660 --> 00:37:57,260
With, well, we had our admin, yeah, time. So for PCS employees for full timers, that is the case.

441
00:37:57,260 --> 00:38:04,440
This also reflects part-timers coming in specifically for the event, and that's across the board to

442
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,320
I know traffic has part-timers that they bring in to hello.

443
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:14,920
Okay, and then for the strawberry festival have we reached out to our local agricultural community

444
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:22,500
who grows strawberries and asks them if they would like to participate in the facilitating

445
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:25,160
the festival for their prop.

446
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,280
We absolutely have and we do have support and it's increasing.

447
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,260
Dr. Skulls has been a long time supporter of the Festival.

448
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:37,020
Last year, Jim Pack joined us for the first year and Golden West Packaging Group.

449
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,060
Also contributed $15,000 for the event last year.

450
00:38:41,660 --> 00:38:46,720
But we continue to pursue more in the industry to help.

451
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,200
Would something like the Festival, the strawberry festival,

452
00:38:49,540 --> 00:38:53,760
if we needed in order to keep it or in order to stabilize all of our budget,

453
00:38:53,760 --> 00:39:00,080
If we needed to do a $5 admission, would it be something that we could manifest for that particular?

454
00:39:00,180 --> 00:39:03,960
We'd have to have exits and entrances, and that kind of thing, it wouldn't be the same vibe.

455
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:15,580
But if we're looking for ways to generate revenue that support these projects that offset the costs for all the things that we need,

456
00:39:15,580 --> 00:39:22,260
would a small entrance fee or would some type of entrance fee also help, but also, you know,

457
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:26,800
let's try and work with our partners, like that we are, we are selling their products, right?

458
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:32,020
We're supporting their products, so hopefully there can be something for these bigger festivals.

459
00:39:32,260 --> 00:39:39,120
We have large attendance, but large cost have you thought about maybe ways in which we could up.

460
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:44,180
I mean, I know it's terrible, we want to have these free events, but some of these bigger events,

461
00:39:44,180 --> 00:39:50,400
we're not going to be able to put entrance fee on the parade, right? That's logistically not happening,

462
00:39:50,980 --> 00:39:56,040
but something like the festival, we could do $5 at the door, right? Or a risk band at the door,

463
00:39:56,100 --> 00:40:03,700
something like that, that may offset. We have absolutely considered that the infrastructure in order

464
00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:08,840
to create that in our downtown area. It's actually quite a large footprint. Yeah, the festival

465
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,700
maintains and then there's the sort of traffic detour around that.

466
00:40:14,180 --> 00:40:24,140
It would be very difficult to collect the fees to make it worth it, and I also think it would not be well received by our community.

467
00:40:24,620 --> 00:40:25,140
Yeah, I agree.

468
00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:30,360
It just makes for tough decisions because this is a huge increase in the costs.

469
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,860
Maybe we as a council can try and reach out to our agricultural partners.

470
00:40:35,220 --> 00:40:41,480
We want to work with our ad community to support the crops and these huge community events,

471
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:49,680
But we're bearing the cost of this festival in a pretty specific way, so we'll keep working on it. We'll help you. Thank you

472
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:52,880
Kazimim Roscoe

473
00:40:52,880 --> 00:41:01,820
I have a couple of questions one question and comments. I guess the first question is how did our budget look

474
00:41:01,820 --> 00:41:05,860
Prior to being cut for special programs specifically

475
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:12,040
Special programs, especially events. Sorry to the pandemic. Yeah

476
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:19,760
You mentioned that it did not get restored to what it was previously. I'm wondering what that number was.

477
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,340
Yeah, I'd have to go back and dig that up. I don't have that off and specifically.

478
00:41:25,260 --> 00:41:32,960
Okay, but it's a pretty substantial. I round the $100,000 ballpark coming. I don't need an exact number.

479
00:41:33,220 --> 00:41:37,880
Sure, sure. It probably was, I mean, around $100,000 or so.

480
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:52,300
I don't know, I have a big issue with considering any cuts to the events I have been proposed tonight so I'm a big advocate for option A.

481
00:41:53,180 --> 00:42:00,840
I feel that when these events, and you mentioned a Nick, it's the most direct way that we embed back in the community.

482
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:08,920
They really bring people together, they reflect who we are, and he creates opportunities for families and everyone to connect us a community.

483
00:42:10,180 --> 00:42:16,980
When we look at the numbers, this is a modest investment with a significant return, and this is what I mean by that.

484
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:27,800
Even when I exclude the attendance from the story festival, we're spending about $10.78 per person per participant per year.

485
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:45,760
When you include the attendants from the Strawberry Festival, that drops to $2.60 per person per year to have access to the special events that we host every year.

486
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:51,720
So for the level of impact this event has, that is our responsible investment.

487
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:58,540
If the concern is sustainability, then our focus should really be on strengthening these programs, not reducing them.

488
00:42:58,540 --> 00:43:03,320
We need to do a better job in securing sponsorships, so I know there is definitely a

489
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:12,840
proof room for growth in the relationships we have with our chamber, possibly with

490
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:18,280
our growers, and then just corporate our business community as a whole, so I think there

491
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:28,520
is definitely a room for all of us to advocate and contribute to the building of those

492
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,900
more support for them years back than we do now.

493
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000
So there's a gap there.

494
00:43:37,620 --> 00:43:41,760
We also have a fee study coming before Council pretty soon.

495
00:43:44,860 --> 00:43:48,920
And so I feel like that can help us also identify other options

496
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,420
to address the funding gaps in a very thoughtful way.

497
00:43:55,440 --> 00:44:05,140
So, I mean, these events are tremendously valued, I think, by our community, in addition to the other programming you'll offer for you here in the community.

498
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:11,960
So I'm really asking Council to consider moving forward with option A or giving that direction.

499
00:44:13,460 --> 00:44:19,280
And directing staff to come back with strategies that ensure these events remain sustainable into the future.

500
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:25,120
And again, we offered a couple things, like looking at whether it's a fee, looking at

501
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,880
building those sponsorships and those partnerships further.

502
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,680
And of course, a fee study that's going to come before Council pretty soon.

503
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:39,620
But I think in the long term, we need to be ensuring that we do what we can to make these events

504
00:44:39,620 --> 00:44:40,140
sustainable.

505
00:44:42,740 --> 00:44:44,320
Now, the mayor-protein park.

506
00:44:44,900 --> 00:44:45,800
Thank you.

507
00:44:46,220 --> 00:44:51,080
uh... funny uh... council member uh... a rose go to the wind out of my sales

508
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,000
cashe was going to she asked the question i was going to ask as well

509
00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:56,360
uh... and we'll get back to that

510
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,040
uh... it's interesting how she broke down

511
00:44:59,440 --> 00:44:59,840
uh...

512
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:12,000
The numbers, because I also broke down the numbers, but I broke it down per event. And so, hearing how she broke it down, it's less of an impact. So thank you for sharing that.

513
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:21,880
come on, you, I'm all for special events, I'm all for, you know, supporting the community,

514
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:26,600
but when you guys are coming to us and you come to us a lot, okay?

515
00:45:26,860 --> 00:45:32,500
Your department comes to us a lot asking for money and you don't have the numbers to back it up.

516
00:45:32,980 --> 00:45:35,060
You got to do just a little bit better.

517
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:41,820
I mean, I'm all for option A2, but like, how am I supposed to justify to the community if they're

518
00:45:41,820 --> 00:45:46,100
going to be very upset that we're going to take money, and we're not voting on that tonight,

519
00:45:46,420 --> 00:45:50,440
but we're having that discussion, and we don't have the data to back it up.

520
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:55,540
I would love to know what the number was before it was cut before COVID, and why was it

521
00:45:55,540 --> 00:45:56,060
cut?

522
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,740
Can you explain why the budget was cut during COVID?

523
00:45:59,820 --> 00:46:00,840
I didn't have a bet.

524
00:46:01,980 --> 00:46:07,960
Because I mean, well, okay, so just because we don't have the events, doesn't mean

525
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,340
that that money shouldn't be there.

526
00:46:10,340 --> 00:46:14,180
So the money was cut to go somewhere else then, is what you're telling me.

527
00:46:14,460 --> 00:46:16,960
So where did that money go and why is it not returning?

528
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:26,880
Every council after COVID had a opportunity to reprioritize the budget and the budgets

529
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:32,800
that were coming in for approval for growing other countries that we are doing.

530
00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:40,280
So like there's not much we can do about what happened in the past because all the revenues

531
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:45,300
that the city received were utilized for the priorities of the council at that time, and it's worth

532
00:46:45,300 --> 00:46:47,040
six years later.

533
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:53,060
Today, I just want to clarify, like, we're not really asking you to make any decisions,

534
00:46:54,280 --> 00:47:00,680
but this is something that the Park's Director has been bringing up to our attention

535
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:02,820
at every budget cycle.

536
00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:08,260
We're just kind of like, kind of scraping by and just kind of like trying to continue having

537
00:47:08,260 --> 00:47:10,060
These events, but it's not sustainable.

538
00:47:10,660 --> 00:47:14,000
When we have to plan, I know Jessica does a tremendous amount

539
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:18,540
of planning a year ahead and makes financial commitments

540
00:47:18,540 --> 00:47:19,820
well in advance.

541
00:47:20,580 --> 00:47:24,620
So it's hard to just say, let's just depend on other nation.

542
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,020
Yes, other nation could be nice if it comes in.

543
00:47:28,060 --> 00:47:30,420
But we are trying to set up something

544
00:47:30,420 --> 00:47:34,320
that is more predictable and just really continues

545
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,560
to build to the quality of events that I know

546
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:44,000
staff is putting out. So it's, I know that might be a good piece of information to have not

547
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:50,100
much we can do about it because there were like five budget cycles that councils have a

548
00:47:50,100 --> 00:47:56,500
proof, you know, things of it. So is it important? Yes, it's an critical. I think it's totally

549
00:47:56,500 --> 00:48:02,060
important. And I want to talk about the fact that it was taken and we need to restore, right?

550
00:48:02,060 --> 00:48:16,620
But where did it go, and also when you do come back to us when this becomes more of a firm thing and we're going to vote on it, please bring those numbers because I mean that that makes a huge difference, world a difference.

551
00:48:17,980 --> 00:48:25,400
So, I also, and with Option A, you know, looking at the numbers, it seems like a huge number,

552
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:33,660
but you divide everything up and you look at the participation, it's not that big of an impact

553
00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:38,500
to the budget when you look at each individual person and how it increases their quality

554
00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:43,720
of life and the quality of life for the community as a whole, and I very much appreciate the work

555
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:49,540
Jessica does. We have conversations during the events all the time and she does work very, very hard.

556
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:58,780
And I want to acknowledge the fact that the sponsorships are starting to increase and they did go down for a while.

557
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:04,380
There were some issues with, you know, some of the businesses in the cities in this area and they're starting to see a positive change.

558
00:49:04,380 --> 00:49:10,620
thank you city manager Vitas because you are very much a huge part of that. But yeah, it

559
00:49:10,620 --> 00:49:16,820
just takes some time and brings us the numbers. Okay. Thank you.

560
00:49:17,020 --> 00:49:18,260
It can't go member Kira's Carter.

561
00:49:20,740 --> 00:49:21,520
Thank you, Mayor.

562
00:49:23,980 --> 00:49:26,520
There's a lot going on in my head. I have

563
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:32,660
not had lunch, so if I'll make sense I'm so sorry in advance. But so I'd first I want to say

564
00:49:32,660 --> 00:49:38,560
that we have a new supermarket via the and they were very interested in sponsoring so if you

565
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:46,000
haven't talked to them please reach out. So I'm also the option that I'm looking at is not on here

566
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:52,940
because I'm like let's keep everything and let's figure out ways to downsize it and let's get creative

567
00:49:52,940 --> 00:50:00,760
and create opportunity. I totally agree with the sentiments that we've already heard. The biggest complaint

568
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:07,860
You already know what we get, there's nothing to do, there's nothing to do, there's nothing to do.

569
00:50:07,900 --> 00:50:13,600
If we cut anything, that's not going to go over well.

570
00:50:15,620 --> 00:50:21,840
I think there's a lot of opportunity for us to be creative, and I please forgive me if I overstep.

571
00:50:22,620 --> 00:50:29,260
But I'm an idea person, so I'm just going to throw ideas like I see opportunity and some things like music in the plaza.

572
00:50:29,260 --> 00:50:35,740
I see like can we get make this an opportunity for kids like what if we had battle of the

573
00:50:35,740 --> 00:50:41,560
bands the youth center used to do really cool stuff like that um how do we like actually bring

574
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:47,460
the community into these events um in a safe way that's gonna be beneficial for people and also

575
00:50:47,460 --> 00:50:53,080
save us money right we could have you know we could downsize music in the plaza not have as many

576
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:58,260
weekends and then it can culminate and like let's do battle of the bands and the winning band gets 300

577
00:50:58,260 --> 00:50:59,980
or something like that, right?

578
00:51:00,620 --> 00:51:03,980
Like, let's look for opportunities for growth for our community

579
00:51:03,980 --> 00:51:06,940
because that's what these really are.

580
00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:10,280
Like, no chah, they would be all the tree lighting.

581
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:11,580
Can we combine those?

582
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,300
These maybe we don't want to do it,

583
00:51:13,620 --> 00:51:14,800
but there's an opportunity there.

584
00:51:14,940 --> 00:51:15,740
We can combine it.

585
00:51:15,740 --> 00:51:17,860
We could save ourselves a little bit of money.

586
00:51:19,300 --> 00:51:21,520
Something that people may not know about me.

587
00:51:21,900 --> 00:51:24,080
I know how to throw a party on a dime.

588
00:51:24,540 --> 00:51:24,680
Okay.

589
00:51:25,260 --> 00:51:26,440
We can do this.

590
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,280
We can be frugal and still have a good time.

591
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,760
So I would want to keep everything that we have,

592
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,760
but look at ways to not necessarily just cut costs,

593
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:37,900
but where are creative opportunities?

594
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,040
Where can we actually bring in community partners?

595
00:51:40,580 --> 00:51:41,740
And people from the community,

596
00:51:42,420 --> 00:51:44,660
because I think that there would be a lot of interest

597
00:51:44,660 --> 00:51:46,820
in the community to give back and volunteer

598
00:51:46,820 --> 00:51:48,760
and help with these events.

599
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:51,740
Again, to not only keep costs down,

600
00:51:52,220 --> 00:51:55,960
but to create opportunity, give people something to do.

601
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,380
actually have a hand in creating things.

602
00:51:59,340 --> 00:52:01,760
So yeah, I'm in favor if I had to choose an option,

603
00:52:01,900 --> 00:52:05,720
I would say option A, but I think one of the most beautiful things

604
00:52:05,720 --> 00:52:11,000
about our community is how much our community does love these events.

605
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:15,220
And I'm happy to increase the budget because I think it's worth it.

606
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:19,220
Not only for just the investment, but it just makes people happy.

607
00:52:19,900 --> 00:52:22,200
It's, you know, it's crucial for me.

608
00:52:22,540 --> 00:52:25,880
So I would not be in favor of cutting anything that said.

609
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,960
If I had to pick, I'd probably pick the candy curl because we could do-

610
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:34,240
I think that's all right. Come to my house. We'll hook it up.

611
00:52:36,380 --> 00:52:42,140
But yeah, the all of these to me are just, these are, have become staples in who we are and getting

612
00:52:42,140 --> 00:52:47,800
rid of them would just be a real shame. So I would just encourage you to think outside

613
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:53,460
the box, think creatively. Look at where you can bring in partners and community to, to make

614
00:52:53,460 --> 00:52:56,800
it work. Thank you. Thank you, council member. Council member Deutra.

615
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:03,340
Thank you. I absolutely agree. I mean, if we cut anything, people are going to be like,

616
00:53:03,780 --> 00:53:07,320
you know, I'm thinking to do this town. I mean, this is what we hear all the time. So,

617
00:53:07,380 --> 00:53:13,460
I don't think we want to hear that anymore, but I think they're... I don't think that the city staff

618
00:53:13,460 --> 00:53:15,560
here is it, but we hear it as representatives.

619
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:26,420
And I think you're hearing a common, you know,

620
00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:31,920
We're all saying this, like be able to community partnerships, we are the strawberry capital of the world.

621
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:40,900
Like there should be, you named one or two of the big ones, there are several big people in this town.

622
00:53:41,900 --> 00:53:46,220
They should, if this is strawberry festival, they should all be a real big part of it.

623
00:53:47,300 --> 00:53:53,080
And also getting back to the chamber of getting the chamber involved, give them a little bit of responsibility.

624
00:53:53,080 --> 00:54:00,280
You know what I'm saying? Like let them run a couple of things without having to use our staff. They can use their staff and

625
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:07,060
You know, I one of the things that I was just at the Salinas Valley. I'm chamber event this past week and

626
00:54:07,060 --> 00:54:11,460
They they actually put on their shop with a cop like we do that here as well

627
00:54:11,460 --> 00:54:17,020
But the chamber over there is the one that does it well. It's interesting because they were doing in the in their big

628
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:27,320
branch that they did, they called the QR codes, the QR codes, and they were

629
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,620
did fundraiser, and they were raising money for that event, and then another

630
00:54:30,620 --> 00:54:35,360
event, I forgot what it was, but one of it was a weekend stay, like in a

631
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,120
Monterey hotel, and it was whatever, and the other one was like a dinner for

632
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:42,080
20, put on by one of the local restaurants, and it was just QR codes, and it's so

633
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:46,000
easy, and so they're raising money for those projects, you know, something maybe

634
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:52,940
friends and parks of Watsonville, could do, or I forgot the name of it, friends and parks and community services.

635
00:54:54,620 --> 00:54:56,080
Friends of Watsonville, Parks and Community Services.

636
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:56,140
Friends of Watsonville, Parks and Community Services.

637
00:54:56,340 --> 00:54:56,720
Yeah, it's a long.

638
00:54:58,260 --> 00:55:00,000
I mean, there are ways of raising money.

639
00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:05,480
And I mean, just as I'm watching other areas raised money for there, because I'm sure everyone's in the same situation.

640
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,760
You know, money is tight, but we have to be creative on how to do it.

641
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:10,120
So those are just some ideas.

642
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,100
I would lean on maybe the friends a little bit more.

643
00:55:12,100 --> 00:55:16,760
or did raise some money with QR codes and projects like that.

644
00:55:16,860 --> 00:55:23,800
And then I'd also really, really pull in those relationships of our growers, our chamber,

645
00:55:24,060 --> 00:55:27,860
our business, our big business people here, so that's my advice.

646
00:55:27,900 --> 00:55:29,960
And I'm going to be gluing with option A as well.

647
00:55:30,240 --> 00:55:33,220
I mean, I feel like last week we were finding money in a lot of places.

648
00:55:33,740 --> 00:55:35,960
So we could find money to cover this.

649
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:43,880
All right, thank you all, I think you really heard the support you have for these events overall.

650
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:48,320
And we appreciate part of your responsibility is to make sure that we are fiscally aware.

651
00:55:49,260 --> 00:55:54,060
And that if we want to stay in budget and, you know, this is what the budget currently is.

652
00:55:54,100 --> 00:56:01,800
And this is a great, you know, sign that we have all said if we need to, you know, up it we will, but also let's try and figure out partnership.

653
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:07,180
let's, you know, have those bigger connections and conversations, and then use us a support,

654
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,700
you know, if you want us to talk to growers, you know, there's, there's a lot of ways we

655
00:56:11,700 --> 00:56:15,900
can get our foot in the door to have those collective conversations. So, I was just thinking,

656
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:19,540
I know the garlic festival doesn't exist anymore, probably because of fiscal issues, but

657
00:56:19,540 --> 00:56:26,360
there are different ways in which, you know, these crop festivals exist on the artichoke festival.

658
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:32,560
I really do a little bit deeper dive in how the different ways they've been set up in what

659
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:38,900
ways does improve it if there's any sort of fencing, it could end up being a benefit for security

660
00:56:38,900 --> 00:56:45,400
or something like that. Look at the different ways that successful crop festivals are being run

661
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:49,460
and see if there's anything we can take from there as well. That would be my final remarks.

662
00:56:50,020 --> 00:56:56,000
I love the idea of combining Notre-Dibrio and the Tree Lighting Ceremony. That seems like natural

663
00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:01,460
partners. I just wanted to thank Council Member Kyrus Carter for that remark because that's genius.

664
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:09,940
So thank you so much. Thank you. All right and now moving on we are moving on to item 3 closed session.

665
00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:17,660
Public comments regarding closed session at this time will be accepted to have any comments from

666
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:25,120
for closed session. Seeing none. We are adjourned. It's fine. I'm getting through it.

667
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,080
Recording stop.

668
01:35:41,940 --> 01:35:49,820
Good evening, the time is now 605. This is the notice date and time for our regularly scheduled city council meeting. Can I get a roll call please?

669
01:35:50,660 --> 01:35:55,240
Clerk, President, do you try to hear? Want to see no? Here.

670
01:35:55,920 --> 01:35:56,100
Here.

671
01:35:59,920 --> 01:36:00,380
Gido's Carter.

672
01:36:00,680 --> 01:36:00,880
Here.

673
01:36:01,440 --> 01:36:02,040
And Salcedo.

674
01:36:02,380 --> 01:36:04,260
And council, yes.

675
01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:07,720
We need a motion to excuse any abstain council members.

676
01:36:08,860 --> 01:36:11,500
I'd like to make a motion to excuse councilwoman Parker.

677
01:36:12,180 --> 01:36:14,560
Second, can I get a roll call?

678
01:36:19,020 --> 01:36:19,320
Do you trust?

679
01:36:20,040 --> 01:36:20,780
Want to see you now?

680
01:36:20,980 --> 01:36:21,100
Yes.

681
01:36:21,560 --> 01:36:22,080
Otosco.

682
01:36:22,340 --> 01:36:22,520
Aye.

683
01:36:22,780 --> 01:36:23,380
Get us Carter.

684
01:36:24,420 --> 01:36:24,880
And Salcito.

685
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:26,320
The motion carries.

686
01:36:27,380 --> 01:36:28,780
And item five, pledge of allegiance.

687
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:30,420
Good council member, Montesino.

688
01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:33,020
Please let us in lead us in the pledge of allegiance.

689
01:36:48,640 --> 01:36:49,660
You're doing the meeting.

690
01:36:51,440 --> 01:36:51,980
All right.

691
01:36:52,060 --> 01:36:53,020
Moving on to item six.

692
01:36:53,240 --> 01:36:57,440
There are no report of disbursements, or miscellaneous documents, or written.

693
01:36:57,440 --> 01:36:59,720
I believe there may be some written reports by Council.

694
01:37:00,620 --> 01:37:04,960
That would have been for our last conference

695
01:37:04,960 --> 01:37:08,640
that we went to anything that we need to report on those.

696
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:11,760
No, they're just simply informational reports.

697
01:37:11,940 --> 01:37:13,780
They're available on our agenda packet on our website,

698
01:37:14,020 --> 01:37:15,740
so if anybody wants to reference them,

699
01:37:15,900 --> 01:37:18,140
they could visit our website and see them there.

700
01:37:18,300 --> 01:37:20,960
Or we also have a binder by outside our administrative offices

701
01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:22,680
with all of that material included.

702
01:37:23,660 --> 01:37:24,800
And checking in with City Attorney,

703
01:37:24,800 --> 01:37:26,900
is that layer, and you report sort of close session.

704
01:37:31,040 --> 01:37:33,760
Madam Mayor, directionless given to staff, nothing to report.

705
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:46,780
Thank you very much. Moving on to item eight oral communications. This is the time set aside for members of the general public to address the council on any item, not on the council agenda, which is in within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city council.

706
01:37:47,400 --> 01:37:56,880
No action or discussion shall be taken on any item presented, except that any council member may respond to statements made or questions asked or may ask questions for clarification.

707
01:37:57,620 --> 01:38:00,680
All matters of an administrative nature will be referred to staff.

708
01:38:00,940 --> 01:38:03,260
All matters relating to Council will be noted in the minutes.

709
01:38:03,580 --> 01:38:06,660
It may be scheduled for a future discussion and a future meeting or a

710
01:38:06,660 --> 01:38:08,720
Fertist staff for clarification and report.

711
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:12,620
All speakers are asked to fill out a speaker card and leave it

712
01:38:12,620 --> 01:38:13,040
at the podium.

713
01:38:13,520 --> 01:38:16,320
Speakers are asked to announce their name on district

714
01:38:16,320 --> 01:38:20,480
in order to obtain an accurate record for the minutes.

715
01:38:20,900 --> 01:38:21,460
Good evening.

716
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:24,380
Mayor, if I may make the announcement for your interpretation.

717
01:38:24,580 --> 01:38:25,380
Please, thank you.

718
01:38:25,380 --> 01:38:26,340
Thank you.

719
01:38:26,500 --> 01:38:31,280
To use Spanish interpretation devices obtained from the table by the interpreting booth,

720
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:36,340
turn it on and make sure it is on channel E. To use assisted listening, turn the device to channel A.

721
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:41,560
If you can't hear, check the device is on. The volume can be adjusted using the arrow buttons.

722
01:38:42,000 --> 01:38:43,320
Please return it before you leave.

723
01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:46,580
To use apparatos, the interpretation is Spanish.

724
01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:49,540
I have one, one, one, one, one, one, one. The interpretation.

725
01:39:05,440 --> 01:39:05,980
Thank

726
01:39:09,370 --> 01:39:09,910
you.

727
01:39:10,010 --> 01:39:10,590
Good evening.

728
01:39:12,810 --> 01:39:13,510
Good evening, Mayor.

729
01:39:13,570 --> 01:39:14,270
Members of the council.

730
01:39:14,570 --> 01:39:19,070
Make call about the deputy city manager in parks and community services director for the city of Watsonville.

731
01:39:19,830 --> 01:39:40,910
And the afternoon session, there was a little bit of discussion about the Park Assessment Study that we did a couple of years ago that helped us identify all the needs across our Park System and prioritize which of those needs would come first and that we would use to kind of plan around and find funding forward through grants sources and other means.

732
01:39:40,910 --> 01:39:46,950
And I'm really, really excited to say that this past couple months, we received a statewide award

733
01:39:46,950 --> 01:39:50,970
with the California Park and Recreation Society for that project that we did in partnership

734
01:39:51,590 --> 01:39:54,370
with county parks and county park friends.

735
01:39:55,010 --> 01:39:59,750
And we have a representative, a traditional molin from California Park and Recreation Society

736
01:39:59,750 --> 01:40:01,490
here tonight to present us with that award.

737
01:40:02,110 --> 01:40:02,870
She's our next speaker.

738
01:40:03,390 --> 01:40:06,770
We also have a couple of speakers here from county park friends who are here to celebrate

739
01:40:06,770 --> 01:40:09,230
with us along with Jeff Gaffney, our county park director.

740
01:40:09,230 --> 01:40:14,410
So, I'm going to, and my schedule here and pass on to them.

741
01:40:14,850 --> 01:40:15,510
Thank you.

742
01:40:15,710 --> 01:40:16,310
Good evening.

743
01:40:17,070 --> 01:40:17,590
Good evening.

744
01:40:17,850 --> 01:40:18,450
Thank you, Nick.

745
01:40:19,090 --> 01:40:24,450
As Nick mentioned, my name is Trishamon, and I'm the region 2 representative of

746
01:40:24,450 --> 01:40:27,610
SEPRS or California Parks and Recreation Society.

747
01:40:28,390 --> 01:40:34,470
The SEPRS annual award programs celebrates outstanding examples of quality facility and

748
01:40:35,550 --> 01:40:41,150
Programming and Complishments, Effective Communications, Community Leadership, and Professional

749
01:40:41,150 --> 01:40:44,210
Successes that take place daily in our profession.

750
01:40:44,990 --> 01:40:50,990
Through our five categories, we highlight the people, places, spaces, programs and

751
01:40:50,990 --> 01:40:55,950
stories that make communities like the City of Watsonville, so very special.

752
01:40:56,750 --> 01:41:02,950
This year, CPRS refreshed the awards of Excellence Programme with subcommittees to provide improved

753
01:41:02,950 --> 01:41:12,070
access to the awards. There were 186 applicants and 52 awardees. As one of 12 awardees for

754
01:41:12,070 --> 01:41:18,310
the Innovation Award of Excellence in the subcategory of Technology and Process Improvements,

755
01:41:18,750 --> 01:41:24,210
the City of Watson'sville's Parks Assessment made parks better through a data driven

756
01:41:24,210 --> 01:41:28,990
prioritization tool is a true testament to the improved process.

757
01:41:30,530 --> 01:41:44,850
With the Parks Equity Values Assessment Tool, Watsonville is able to create a complete transparent inventory of every park amenity which provides certainty in data to deliver the greatest community benefit.

758
01:41:45,630 --> 01:41:56,790
The Parks Equity Values Assessment Tool has helped Watsonville secure millions in parks funding and engage with the community to build safer, healthier and more vibrant parks.

759
01:41:56,790 --> 01:42:03,850
This effort and the results aligned with CPRS's parks make life better for everyone in Watsonville.

760
01:42:04,410 --> 01:42:17,210
Congratulations to your Watsonville Parks and Community Services on winning the 2025 Innovation of Award of Excellence in the subcategory of Technology and Process Improvements Award of Excellence.

761
01:42:17,210 --> 01:42:20,030
And just with that, I want to share this award.

762
01:42:21,050 --> 01:42:27,330
This one of a kind award plaque was hand made by an artist through an LA based non-profit

763
01:42:27,330 --> 01:42:28,650
called Peace by Peace.

764
01:42:29,470 --> 01:42:34,670
Not only are you being recognized with a unique piece of artwork, the California Park and

765
01:42:34,670 --> 01:42:41,130
Recreation Society, is also helping people who were formerly unhoused and low-income, developed

766
01:42:41,130 --> 01:42:46,330
marketable skills, self-confidence, and an improved quality of life.

767
01:42:47,370 --> 01:42:48,730
Thank you very much.

768
01:42:55,510 --> 01:42:56,030
Good evening.

769
01:42:57,570 --> 01:42:58,770
Good evening, everyone.

770
01:42:58,850 --> 01:43:00,030
Thank you for your service.

771
01:43:00,170 --> 01:43:04,570
My name is Mariah Roberts and I'm the executive director of your non-profit partner

772
01:43:04,570 --> 01:43:06,370
to our countywide park system.

773
01:43:07,230 --> 01:43:08,450
We serve every resident.

774
01:43:08,750 --> 01:43:09,490
We work with cities.

775
01:43:09,550 --> 01:43:10,370
We work with county.

776
01:43:11,470 --> 01:43:17,090
And we're so proud to have been working with county parks in the city of Watsonville for this assessment.

777
01:43:17,090 --> 01:43:23,510
And how do we know where to put our money, our resources, whether they be public resources

778
01:43:23,510 --> 01:43:25,310
or whether they're leveraged funds?

779
01:43:26,030 --> 01:43:32,070
This is how we know from an excellent assessment and process to determine from the community

780
01:43:32,070 --> 01:43:34,610
where we go first for impact.

781
01:43:35,250 --> 01:43:36,770
So very proud and grateful.

782
01:43:37,510 --> 01:43:38,170
Thank you.

783
01:43:38,170 --> 01:43:39,630
Thank you very much.

784
01:43:39,870 --> 01:43:41,550
Good evening.

785
01:43:42,430 --> 01:43:48,850
My name is Yadira Flores and I am the Director of Engagement for County Park Friends.

786
01:43:49,430 --> 01:43:51,530
I'm here to represent the young outdoor leaders.

787
01:43:52,370 --> 01:43:55,150
The young outdoor leaders is a group of youth and live-book.

788
01:43:56,190 --> 01:44:00,190
And they were playing an important role support in the Watsonville Park Assessment by helping

789
01:44:00,190 --> 01:44:05,030
together in meaningful information for a community-based data.

790
01:44:05,030 --> 01:44:17,310
With Sirew was a male incarnate park friends, this thing were directly with residents, park users and local stakeholders to collect feedback on park condition accessibility, safety and desire improvements.

791
01:44:18,330 --> 01:44:28,590
By participating in community surveying in what some people, they gather value, but the leadership experience was actively engaging with residents.

792
01:44:29,170 --> 01:44:35,670
In gathering our data, one thing we can very clear, community input is not optional, it is essential,

793
01:44:36,070 --> 01:44:41,310
and I'm proud to be here representing the young elderly, this is all that work.

794
01:44:43,660 --> 01:44:44,860
Thank you very much. Good evening.

795
01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:49,440
Good evening Madam Mayor, fellow council members, my name is Jeff Gaffney, I'm the County Park Director.

796
01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:53,780
I first of all want to compliment you on the amazing staff that you hire.

797
01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:59,580
I am always at the smile on my face and it just makes my day happy to be able to work with your staff.

798
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:10,220
Your city manager is amazing, and very lucky to have her and a glad best city manager I've worked with, and your deputy city manager and parks and community services director is

799
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:16,780
absolutely, the most amazing person to work with, and I just feel fortunate, we get to do projects like this and collaborate together.

800
01:45:17,760 --> 01:45:22,640
He's also a good server right here, but I don't know, I might be questionable, you know, he says he is.

801
01:45:22,640 --> 01:45:33,660
Just all kidding aside, also the first time that I'm aware of that we've had somebody in this region who's a vice president of CPRS, which is very prestigious and we're very fortunate

802
01:45:33,660 --> 01:45:41,000
I don't know how he finds the time to do all of these things. I think he has a family too from what I understand a great one. All that aside

803
01:45:41,820 --> 01:45:44,560
Having opportunities to collaborate like we do regularly

804
01:45:44,560 --> 01:45:51,840
You may not all the the ins and outs of it all the time, but we always feel like we're producing award winning projects and collaborations

805
01:45:51,840 --> 01:45:58,220
and it gives us the opportunity to provide the services that people come to expect from

806
01:45:58,220 --> 01:46:00,320
much larger jurisdictions with a lot more resources.

807
01:46:00,320 --> 01:46:05,860
We know that we're very unresourced in this in the city here and in the county as a whole.

808
01:46:06,300 --> 01:46:08,980
But when we work together, people don't know the difference.

809
01:46:09,180 --> 01:46:13,660
They think they're at a world-class facility and I just feel so fortunate, honestly, to work with

810
01:46:13,660 --> 01:46:14,360
their staff, they're great.

811
01:46:14,520 --> 01:46:15,000
Thank you.

812
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:15,740
Thank you, Director.

813
01:46:16,040 --> 01:46:20,680
And we are always looking for more parks outside of the city of Watsonville and look forward

814
01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:23,580
collaborating, continuing to collaborate with the county.

815
01:46:23,720 --> 01:46:24,780
I'm ready. Let's do it.

816
01:46:24,780 --> 01:46:25,920
All right. Thank you.

817
01:46:27,340 --> 01:46:27,860
Good evening.

818
01:46:29,700 --> 01:46:30,840
Sorry, my first time here.

819
01:46:31,660 --> 01:46:33,740
So I apologize if large crowd.

820
01:46:34,980 --> 01:46:36,040
My name is Caitlyn Guantaro.

821
01:46:36,140 --> 01:46:37,980
I'm a part of District 7.

822
01:46:39,820 --> 01:46:43,760
So I'm just here to get clarification regarding the L-MAD

823
01:46:43,760 --> 01:46:49,500
at where we live in VISTA Montana with some reports that I've reviewed online.

824
01:46:49,500 --> 01:46:54,040
So, I've reviewed report historical financial data,

825
01:46:54,100 --> 01:46:57,200
actuals, and noticed five groups of expenditures.

826
01:46:57,460 --> 01:47:01,660
I then took the report current budget and tied, um,

827
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:05,920
tried to categorize each line item into the correct expenditure group.

828
01:47:07,120 --> 01:47:12,560
The only year that I seemed to get a match dollar for dollar was the year 2021.

829
01:47:13,380 --> 01:47:23,300
However, when I use those same groupings for 2022, 2023 and 2024, they did not match what's being reported on the actual document.

830
01:47:24,060 --> 01:47:29,540
I called Joseph back in January of this year to walk him through the findings.

831
01:47:30,220 --> 01:47:34,580
He didn't have an answer and told me to reach out to an individual Marissa.

832
01:47:34,840 --> 01:47:38,680
I believe she's a part of accounting, which I was unsuccessful.

833
01:47:38,680 --> 01:47:44,820
I've tried different ways to move these line items around to match up the totals being reported

834
01:47:44,820 --> 01:47:51,180
under the expenditures these five groups. But each year it's different. I just want an

835
01:47:51,180 --> 01:47:57,020
understanding of how these are grouped as it should be the same each year. If I go back

836
01:47:58,500 --> 01:48:07,000
to 2021 when everything matched up dollar for dollar, I do see that the salary and benefits is actually

837
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:09,700
being under-reported on the Actual's document.

838
01:48:10,440 --> 01:48:13,200
On the Actual's document in 2022,

839
01:48:14,160 --> 01:48:17,160
you guys, salaries and benefits was forecasted

840
01:48:17,160 --> 01:48:22,280
for 74,000, but my groupings put that total to 84,000.

841
01:48:22,660 --> 01:48:27,240
In 2023, it was classified as 78,000,

842
01:48:27,240 --> 01:48:30,560
but my findings show it was actually 90,000.

843
01:48:30,760 --> 01:48:33,880
With these groupings, I noticed in 2024,

844
01:48:33,880 --> 01:48:36,940
a total of 103,000 for salaries and benefits.

845
01:48:37,640 --> 01:48:38,000
Thank you.

846
01:48:38,100 --> 01:48:38,560
Thank you.

847
01:48:38,900 --> 01:48:45,980
So my thoughts are, if you could fill out a speaker card, we appreciate when community members

848
01:48:45,980 --> 01:48:52,040
are looking at the numbers as diligently as you are, and we want opportunity to sit down

849
01:48:52,040 --> 01:48:53,060
with you and go over the numbers.

850
01:48:53,180 --> 01:48:54,000
That's my hope.

851
01:48:54,060 --> 01:48:54,560
Hold on.

852
01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:55,180
Just a minute.

853
01:48:56,740 --> 01:49:00,680
We are well aware of the changes that have happened with the L-MAD.

854
01:49:00,680 --> 01:49:06,780
I'm sure you were a part of that process as well and we wanted to sit down and make sure

855
01:49:06,780 --> 01:49:12,320
you know we have an opportunity to speak with you so if you could leave your contact information

856
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:19,760
with Madam Clerk right here and then I'll ask some members of staff to sort of directly reach out

857
01:49:19,760 --> 01:49:24,900
to you and maybe we can sit down and sort of go over whatever it is that you're looking at and they're looking at

858
01:49:24,900 --> 01:49:29,980
I was not a math major this is not my specialty but I'm really thankful that you are taking the time

859
01:49:29,980 --> 01:49:32,080
as a community member just to ask questions.

860
01:49:32,500 --> 01:49:34,100
So hopefully we can connect you with somebody

861
01:49:34,100 --> 01:49:36,060
that can have those answers, okay?

862
01:49:36,460 --> 01:49:36,660
Thank you.

863
01:49:40,540 --> 01:49:42,480
All right, moving on.

864
01:49:42,840 --> 01:49:45,880
Oral communication from Council, eight B.

865
01:49:46,100 --> 01:49:46,760
Council member, do you try?

866
01:49:48,500 --> 01:49:50,340
Thank you, I also want to say, you know,

867
01:49:50,360 --> 01:49:52,120
we appreciate our community members when you guys come

868
01:49:52,560 --> 01:49:54,960
and, you know, let us know what's going on

869
01:49:54,960 --> 01:49:56,420
and how you're proceeding things in our community.

870
01:49:56,800 --> 01:49:58,260
This way we could be on top of as well,

871
01:49:58,420 --> 01:49:59,180
city council members.

872
01:50:00,360 --> 01:50:04,000
It's been really a busy last few weeks.

873
01:50:04,860 --> 01:50:09,600
I went to the Cleanest Belly Chamber of Commerce luncheon this past week where they honored

874
01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:15,680
two Watsonville, one community member and one business, Candy Landscaping, Congratulations

875
01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:22,900
for becoming large business of the Year Award and Mani Eskarsega for getting the ambassador

876
01:50:22,900 --> 01:50:27,480
of the Year Award, both Watsonville residents being honored by the Cleanest Belly Chamber

877
01:50:27,480 --> 01:50:32,680
commerce we're very excited, a manny's family actually owns tacos del Fuego in the hanger.

878
01:50:33,040 --> 01:50:39,300
If you have not been there, it's really good. It's like a chimichanga burrito kind of fried. It's really good.

879
01:50:42,060 --> 01:50:49,460
And then, and then myself in the city manager, we went to Napa and also to Santa Rosa,

880
01:50:50,020 --> 01:50:56,960
where we were able to look at economic development of these communities that are just really

881
01:50:56,960 --> 01:50:59,160
nap as no, it looks so different.

882
01:50:59,320 --> 01:51:05,220
I mean, the development of that city is been really, it's meeting the times.

883
01:51:05,460 --> 01:51:09,300
And so it's important for us to be on top of that, especially since economic development is

884
01:51:09,300 --> 01:51:14,580
something that we prioritize here as a council and that people ask us all about all the time.

885
01:51:14,840 --> 01:51:16,560
Why can't we spend our money here locally?

886
01:51:16,560 --> 01:51:21,820
So, making it looking at other cities and how they do it is important to, you know,

887
01:51:21,980 --> 01:51:22,880
get ideas for our own city.

888
01:51:23,420 --> 01:51:28,740
And then also, I went to the zone to a water storage tank ribbon cutting.

889
01:51:29,100 --> 01:51:35,620
So we added another tank that was, I think, two and a half million gallons in my correct water.

890
01:51:36,340 --> 01:51:41,100
So, I mean, I'm making sure that you guys have a clean, drinkable water in your homes.

891
01:51:41,360 --> 01:51:43,700
And these are the kind of projects that we're moving forward with.

892
01:51:43,700 --> 01:51:47,140
And as you see around town, the roads are being torn up.

893
01:51:47,380 --> 01:51:48,820
I mean, we are really investing a lot

894
01:51:48,820 --> 01:51:50,360
in door infrastructure here in Watsonville.

895
01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:52,440
I know some people are a little bit irritated,

896
01:51:53,400 --> 01:51:55,300
but we're moving in the direction to give you

897
01:51:55,300 --> 01:51:55,900
what you guys want.

898
01:51:56,080 --> 01:51:57,440
So thank you so much for your patience.

899
01:51:59,540 --> 01:52:00,540
Any other council members?

900
01:52:00,620 --> 01:52:02,540
Council member Roscoe.

901
01:52:03,020 --> 01:52:03,700
Thank you, Mayor.

902
01:52:03,840 --> 01:52:06,120
I want to take a moment to welcome everyone

903
01:52:06,120 --> 01:52:08,500
to the council chambers, especially our youth.

904
01:52:08,620 --> 01:52:10,280
Thank you so much for being here.

905
01:52:11,020 --> 01:52:13,340
I recently had the opportunity to spend an evening

906
01:52:13,340 --> 01:52:16,740
celebrating our state alongside colleagues and committee leaders.

907
01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:21,740
We heard directly from Leomponetta, who's remarks were focused on the American

908
01:52:21,740 --> 01:52:26,220
dream and they reminded us that our DiBusy University and immigrant communities are part

909
01:52:26,220 --> 01:52:27,760
of this strength of this nation.

910
01:52:28,600 --> 01:52:29,960
We also heard from young leaders.

911
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:35,740
Members who share their honest perspectives, and important reminder of the responsibility we carry helping

912
01:52:35,740 --> 01:52:41,180
shape the next generation. I also attended the girl's thingspring luncheon, where edicup by the

913
01:52:41,180 --> 01:52:46,660
Ed Chavez was recognized for her leadership and impact in our community. It was an honor to present

914
01:52:46,660 --> 01:52:51,700
a proclamation on behalf of the City of Watsonville, acknowledging her work and commitment to

915
01:52:51,700 --> 01:52:57,540
lifting others. Thank you to Assembly Member Galpeloran for the invitation and to girls' ink for

916
01:52:57,540 --> 01:53:02,720
work they continue to do is supporting and empowering young women and girls in Watsonville.

917
01:53:03,500 --> 01:53:08,460
On the infrastructure side, we recently marked the completion of a critical investment in our

918
01:53:08,460 --> 01:53:14,620
water system, a new 2.5 million gallon storage tank representing a $10 million investment

919
01:53:14,620 --> 01:53:21,720
after nearly six years of work. This project is about reliability and safety, ensuring access

920
01:53:21,720 --> 01:53:27,120
to clean water, maintaining service, during peak demand and strengthening our emergency response

921
01:53:27,120 --> 01:53:32,660
capacity including for fire protection. So I really want to thank our public works team and

922
01:53:32,660 --> 01:53:38,980
everyone who helped deliver this project for our community. Lastly, I want to thank everyone

923
01:53:38,980 --> 01:53:44,240
who helped make the 24th annual Watsonville community impact award such a meaningful evening.

924
01:53:44,880 --> 01:53:50,020
It was an honor to recognize individuals whose work continues to make a real difference for

925
01:53:50,020 --> 01:53:55,020
youth and families here in our community. I'm especially appreciative of the continued partnership

926
01:53:55,020 --> 01:53:57,800
with the Friends of Watson Parks and Community Services.

927
01:53:58,360 --> 01:54:00,800
And I'm very proud to be part of those efforts.

928
01:54:01,500 --> 01:54:02,320
Thank you.

929
01:54:04,640 --> 01:54:05,460
Thank you very much.

930
01:54:05,540 --> 01:54:06,480
Any other council members?

931
01:54:08,080 --> 01:54:08,400
All right.

932
01:54:08,860 --> 01:54:11,740
I also just wanted to highlight a very happy Easter.

933
01:54:12,340 --> 01:54:14,000
We had our egg hunt.

934
01:54:14,720 --> 01:54:16,400
My kiddos are now one in three

935
01:54:16,400 --> 01:54:19,460
and the general concepts of Easter Bunny hiding eggs

936
01:54:19,460 --> 01:54:22,460
is still very interesting and malleable thing

937
01:54:22,460 --> 01:54:24,820
to discuss and navigating that as a parent.

938
01:54:25,360 --> 01:54:27,300
Always is interesting, but we had a wonderful Easter

939
01:54:27,300 --> 01:54:32,740
with family. I also had the opportunity to actually cut the ribbon at the tank ceremony and when

940
01:54:32,740 --> 01:54:40,800
my comments to the staff that worked incredibly hard for years. I mean this has been a huge

941
01:54:40,800 --> 01:54:49,360
project. There are some foundational expectations of every city and one of the things is that when

942
01:54:49,360 --> 01:54:55,100
you flush your toilet, the water goes somewhere and you will notice real fast if the water doesn't

943
01:54:55,100 --> 01:55:01,400
turn on in the sink, and the water doesn't flush when you go to the toilet, right? And these

944
01:55:01,400 --> 01:55:07,980
are some basic commodities, and the ways in which they need to happen, water storage, and

945
01:55:07,980 --> 01:55:14,460
that it's stored safely. We are dealing with chromium six issues. This helps in some ways

946
01:55:14,460 --> 01:55:21,120
a press to deal with that. To ensure that our community, over 60,000 people, have safe drinking

947
01:55:21,120 --> 01:55:27,100
water. And it cannot be overstated, right? It's not the same as, well, how do our roads look

948
01:55:27,100 --> 01:55:32,100
at what I'm driving on them every day? But this tank, that's behind a fence that's down

949
01:55:32,100 --> 01:55:37,860
a dirt road, costs millions for our community. And it was such a critical infrastructure

950
01:55:37,860 --> 01:55:45,580
piece. It was such a wonderful example of what our department is doing. And there was a lot of

951
01:55:45,580 --> 01:55:50,940
hard work that went into its production. And I really want to thank staff. I did during my comments

952
01:55:50,940 --> 01:55:52,480
and I think them again on the dias,

953
01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:55,980
for all their work on that particular project.

954
01:55:56,320 --> 01:55:58,680
So thank you very, very much.

955
01:56:00,500 --> 01:56:02,680
Let's see, I had other things,

956
01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:07,160
but excuse me, tell some of my very moments to see no.

957
01:56:07,400 --> 01:56:12,340
One thing, I do one acknowledge staff

958
01:56:13,420 --> 01:56:16,200
and community for stopping the placement

959
01:56:16,200 --> 01:56:19,120
of sexually fighting program in our communities.

960
01:56:19,360 --> 01:56:20,400
So we should all be celebrating

961
01:56:20,400 --> 01:56:23,600
because it takes a large amount of effort.

962
01:56:24,320 --> 01:56:29,940
And everyone's advocacy from the community to staff and council members.

963
01:56:30,300 --> 01:56:33,600
We're able to stop this in the video for being placed here in our community.

964
01:56:33,820 --> 01:56:35,180
So I just want to thank everyone involved.

965
01:56:36,560 --> 01:56:37,700
Thank you, Councilmember Clark.

966
01:56:38,700 --> 01:56:42,740
Very well said, Councilmember Montesino, I was going to bring that up as well.

967
01:56:42,780 --> 01:56:47,800
I wanted to very much give a heartfelt thank you to all the staff and the community members

968
01:56:47,800 --> 01:56:49,580
that worked very hard on this.

969
01:56:49,580 --> 01:56:54,880
The sexually violent predator was going to be placed in District 5, which is the district that I

970
01:56:54,880 --> 01:57:02,120
represent and my constituents and my neighborhood, we were not so happy about this and so there

971
01:57:02,120 --> 01:57:08,900
are some city staff that really, really, really put a lot of work and heart and soul into this

972
01:57:08,900 --> 01:57:14,960
and we want to acknowledge them. And I just personally want to say, good start, chief shop.

973
01:57:15,760 --> 01:57:21,040
You just came into this city and you're starting with gold stars already, thank you ever so much.

974
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:26,180
And I also think that it's very appropriate because of the proclamation that our mayor is going to present next.

975
01:57:26,460 --> 01:57:26,940
Thank you.

976
01:57:27,060 --> 01:57:32,760
I'm a little under the weather, and I'm really lucky that Councilman or Montesino and Mayor Pratem Clarke said that.

977
01:57:32,840 --> 01:57:36,720
Because that does tell us to my second point, April is sexual assault awareness month.

978
01:57:37,720 --> 01:57:40,620
In my real job that isn't here, I'm a sexual assault prosecutor.

979
01:57:40,620 --> 01:57:51,160
that's been my job for the last six years, depending on the statistics, it's one in every three women or girls and one in every four boys or men are victims of sexual assault.

980
01:57:51,280 --> 01:58:05,420
And so I just also want to take a time to recognize, particularly item 10G that we are giving our annual amount of $1,919,000 approximately for our same program.

981
01:58:05,420 --> 01:58:10,920
Many people don't know what that is, but when someone is a victim of sexual assault, oftentimes

982
01:58:10,920 --> 01:58:15,760
they are offered what's commonly referred to as a rape kit, and that needs to be done by

983
01:58:15,760 --> 01:58:22,160
people who are professionally trained and is done collaboratively with our monarch services

984
01:58:22,160 --> 01:58:27,020
who are here tonight. They're going to be receiving the proclamation for sexual assault

985
01:58:27,020 --> 01:58:32,720
awareness month. Many of us wear teal ribbons during court for the month, so I'm really

986
01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:40,080
excited about that particular expenditure and then I also wanted to note 10H, which is our

987
01:58:40,080 --> 01:58:46,340
mental health liaison for WPD. We have an amazing mental health pairing in our community where

988
01:58:46,340 --> 01:58:51,620
a community mental health liaison goes out to certain calls and is proactive in the community

989
01:58:51,620 --> 01:58:56,380
outreaching to individuals who may need services. In the fact that we have this county worker

990
01:58:56,380 --> 01:59:02,620
is incredibly important for the work that we do with WPD being the liaison for some of the

991
01:59:02,620 --> 01:59:04,400
most vulnerable members of our community.

992
01:59:05,360 --> 01:59:09,660
So thank you for mentioning that Councilmember Montesino, I would have totally kicked myself

993
01:59:09,660 --> 01:59:10,600
if I would have forgotten.

994
01:59:11,540 --> 01:59:13,300
So any other comments from Council?

995
01:59:15,920 --> 01:59:19,820
So we have three special proclamations tonight.

996
01:59:19,940 --> 01:59:25,740
I'm going to start with Yana Rivas from Monarch Services and then we'll be recognizing April

997
01:59:25,740 --> 01:59:28,340
also as arts, culture, and creativity.

998
01:59:29,320 --> 01:59:31,680
And then finally, the third proclamation,

999
01:59:32,020 --> 01:59:33,660
I'm going to see the microphone,

1000
01:59:34,360 --> 01:59:38,260
to Councilmember Kuros Carter for a very special

1001
01:59:38,260 --> 01:59:40,920
proclamation for her grandmother.

1002
01:59:41,460 --> 01:59:43,560
And she's going to tell us all about her

1003
01:59:43,560 --> 01:59:47,740
and everything that she's done during her time here in Watsonville.

1004
01:59:47,740 --> 01:59:50,560
I'm really excited to learn more about that.

1005
01:59:50,740 --> 01:59:51,820
So thank you very much.

1006
01:59:51,820 --> 01:59:54,920
If you want to revisit, could come up please.

1007
01:59:57,590 --> 01:59:58,550
Yes, oh everyone.

1008
02:00:14,540 --> 02:00:14,660
Thank you.

1009
02:00:37,040 --> 02:00:37,960
Thank you.

1010
02:03:50,010 --> 02:03:57,090
This is a collaboration, both our governmental agencies, non-profit organizations. Of course,

1011
02:03:57,390 --> 02:04:02,570
Monarch could not do this work without support services like second harvest, food bank,

1012
02:04:03,170 --> 02:04:10,470
like CN, our, um, the Power of Valley Shelter Services here in South County, um, and our city itself.

1013
02:04:11,090 --> 02:04:16,510
I wanted to highlight that our services are 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

1014
02:04:16,510 --> 02:04:22,850
We have a crisis in support line that anyone can call if you're in crisis or if you had

1015
02:04:22,850 --> 02:04:27,510
harm done to you 20 years ago and you just need to get on the phone and connect with somebody

1016
02:04:27,510 --> 02:04:31,290
every single one of our advocates on the crisis line is here at local.

1017
02:04:32,130 --> 02:04:36,310
Is bilingual and is ready to support you and also as you mentioned.

1018
02:04:36,550 --> 02:04:40,110
Thank you for knowing so much and these are the champion of our work.

1019
02:04:40,530 --> 02:04:45,450
We are available to go out into the community for seven as well.

1020
02:04:45,450 --> 02:04:48,490
And we've been here for almost 50 years.

1021
02:04:49,110 --> 02:04:52,010
So beginning as defense at Inwood Head is women's crisis

1022
02:04:52,010 --> 02:04:53,590
support and now monarch services.

1023
02:04:53,930 --> 02:04:55,550
So thank you again for this honor.

1024
02:04:56,390 --> 02:04:57,330
Yeah, perfect.

1025
02:04:57,550 --> 02:04:58,250
Thank you.

1026
02:05:00,570 --> 02:05:00,670
Thank you.

1027
02:05:00,990 --> 02:05:01,390
Thank you.

1028
02:05:01,850 --> 02:05:03,530
I tell the survivors I work with.

1029
02:05:03,730 --> 02:05:05,870
I'm a decent lawyer, but I'm a terrible therapist.

1030
02:05:06,130 --> 02:05:08,370
So I always refer them to you.

1031
02:05:08,450 --> 02:05:10,430
And you're over the healing begins, right?

1032
02:05:10,430 --> 02:05:13,870
Our system doesn't heal, but they heal through you.

1033
02:05:13,890 --> 02:05:14,930
So I'm just so grateful.

1034
02:05:14,930 --> 02:05:19,930
Thank you ladies for coming tonight, and we definitely honor you with all the work you do.

1035
02:05:20,110 --> 02:05:21,910
Much appreciated. Thank you.

1036
02:05:21,910 --> 02:05:22,170
Thank you.

1037
02:05:27,690 --> 02:05:28,130
Oh yeah.

1038
02:05:29,070 --> 02:05:30,470
I'm terrible about pictures.

1039
02:05:33,760 --> 02:05:35,140
Let me take my mask off for this second.

1040
02:05:50,740 --> 02:05:56,940
All right, who's going to be receiving our call arts and culture community, but please come on up.

1041
02:05:58,280 --> 02:05:58,780
Yes.

1042
02:06:06,360 --> 02:06:07,560
Thank you.

1043
02:06:10,690 --> 02:06:11,450
Good evening.

1044
02:06:11,450 --> 02:06:12,230
Good evening.

1045
02:06:12,630 --> 02:06:13,230
Good evening.

1046
02:06:14,710 --> 02:06:15,070
Hello.

1047
02:06:15,250 --> 02:06:18,290
Again, I would shake everyone's hand, but it's just not today for me.

1048
02:06:18,690 --> 02:06:19,450
Please come up.

1049
02:06:20,450 --> 02:06:21,370
Oh, it is so exciting.

1050
02:06:21,390 --> 02:06:22,730
Yes, please come up.

1051
02:06:22,990 --> 02:06:26,230
Former Councilwoman and Mayor Rebecca Garcia is here with us tonight.

1052
02:06:26,270 --> 02:06:27,350
Please come up.

1053
02:06:33,920 --> 02:06:34,980
I'm going to go this way.

1054
02:06:36,300 --> 02:06:42,920
I am so excited to also proclaim for April and arts, culture, and creativity month.

1055
02:06:42,920 --> 02:06:54,800
And what a year and what a month to recognize everything that has been happening in Watsonville in the, I'll call it the diaspora of arts and everything that we have going on here is truly remarkable.

1056
02:06:55,480 --> 02:07:10,400
It's been such a great year for arts. It's been such a great year for collaboration. You can see it in the streets. You can see it in our murals. You can see it in our community events in the dance projects that we do in all of it in our parks projects.

1057
02:07:10,400 --> 02:07:15,220
everything is just so amazing and so I'm really excited to give this

1058
02:07:16,040 --> 02:07:20,420
proclamation to recognize April particularly and I'm hopeful in the future

1059
02:07:20,420 --> 02:07:24,240
for April we can do some really special events you know it's always like can we

1060
02:07:24,240 --> 02:07:28,780
do more than just a proclamation I would love to do something more collaboratively

1061
02:07:28,780 --> 02:07:29,880
and creatively to recognize

1062
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:40,720
It's all the different, I like the, we're desk, we're all the different dyes for us of art that we have here, and how we can recognize them and how we can collaborate just to uniquely celebrate this month.

1063
02:07:41,820 --> 02:07:48,220
Arts, culture, and creativity, months, celebrates its eighth year as a statewide of servants established by the California legislature.

1064
02:07:49,200 --> 02:07:56,380
Watsonville was recently designated, one of California's 10-new cultural districts. Can we clap? That's really exciting.

1065
02:07:58,380 --> 02:08:04,000
out of the entire state, one of 10, which is that took a ton of work, it was really exciting

1066
02:08:04,000 --> 02:08:08,580
that we've been recognized, but not surprising because look at our community and look at

1067
02:08:08,580 --> 02:08:10,120
the art that we have here.

1068
02:08:11,840 --> 02:08:16,240
Watsonville Cultural District affirms that the arts, culture, and creativity are essential

1069
02:08:16,240 --> 02:08:17,420
to a thriving community.

1070
02:08:17,640 --> 02:08:22,780
These creative forces bring people together, celebrate diversity, and inspire joy while

1071
02:08:22,780 --> 02:08:24,440
also strengthening the social fabric.

1072
02:08:24,440 --> 02:08:33,360
They contribute significantly to local economic growth by attracting visitors supporting small businesses and creating jobs and workforce opportunities.

1073
02:08:34,260 --> 02:08:46,800
The city parks and communities services department along with local and state arts partners continue to advance artistic initiative through programs and events partnerships and community building efforts.

1074
02:08:47,300 --> 02:08:48,840
Thank you all so so much.

1075
02:08:48,840 --> 02:08:49,660
This is amazing.

1076
02:08:49,660 --> 02:08:50,840
Thank

1077
02:08:57,140 --> 02:08:58,540
you, where's Alcito?

1078
02:09:00,480 --> 02:09:07,740
It is an incredible honor to be working alongside our many artists and dedicated local arts

1079
02:09:07,740 --> 02:09:14,500
organizations and cultural leaders that help make Watsonville such a vibrant place.

1080
02:09:15,280 --> 02:09:22,080
This proclamation comes at the perfect time as our community celebrates its cultural district

1081
02:09:22,080 --> 02:09:22,660
designation.

1082
02:09:22,660 --> 02:09:30,660
And acknowledge that, well, we have long known to be true that art and culture are deeply rooted in Watsonville,

1083
02:09:32,840 --> 02:09:36,620
in Watsonville identity, and they continue to thrive.

1084
02:09:37,260 --> 02:09:42,780
And it's funny that you should mention an event that will showcase much of the art and our community,

1085
02:09:42,940 --> 02:09:51,720
because this Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in downtown Watsonville, the group that created a Watsonville second Saturday,

1086
02:09:51,720 --> 02:09:57,400
has come together to create an event called Ripple Watsonville, the cultural district unfolds.

1087
02:09:57,720 --> 02:10:03,500
So we invite you all to come and celebrate and participate with that.

1088
02:10:03,780 --> 02:10:08,460
There's going to be Watsonville Film Festival Screenings, Watsonville Briante tours,

1089
02:10:08,860 --> 02:10:15,220
an opportunity to help create the mosaic that will be on the new stage skirt in the plaza.

1090
02:10:15,220 --> 02:10:23,280
low-writers showcases dance party so much so we welcome you all it's part of a larger

1091
02:10:23,280 --> 02:10:28,460
inaugural event in Santa Cruz County called Ripple Effect and so we invite you to learn

1092
02:10:28,460 --> 02:10:31,400
some more about that too. Thank you very much. Thank you.

1093
02:10:36,140 --> 02:10:38,020
All right. Do you want more photos?

1094
02:10:39,060 --> 02:10:44,360
And Mayor I just wanted to recognize former council member at a yoga and so on. Oh, thank you.

1095
02:11:11,130 --> 02:11:12,770
Thank you.

1096
02:11:12,770 --> 02:11:14,110
Thank you all very much for coming.

1097
02:11:14,630 --> 02:11:20,310
Thank you.

1098
02:11:20,310 --> 02:11:24,930
Now I'll

1099
02:11:29,470 --> 02:11:34,350
be giving the microphone over to Councilwoman Kuro's Carter.

1100
02:11:35,410 --> 02:11:36,150
Thank you, Mayor.

1101
02:11:38,250 --> 02:11:42,250
I promised myself that I was not going to cry, so let's see if I keep that promise.

1102
02:11:42,830 --> 02:11:48,530
Unfortunately, my grandma is not able to be here because she's 100, so that is what this

1103
02:11:48,530 --> 02:11:50,610
proclamation is for.

1104
02:11:51,490 --> 02:11:54,790
Thank you to the mayor and the city of Watsonville, that's my grandma.

1105
02:11:55,550 --> 02:12:00,350
She could not make it, just for a little bit of context, it was her birthday last week.

1106
02:12:00,350 --> 02:12:05,910
we threw her a party, I threw her a party over the weekend, it was a Bridgerton themed

1107
02:12:05,910 --> 02:12:06,510
Tea Party.

1108
02:12:06,810 --> 02:12:08,530
So that is why she is dressed like that.

1109
02:12:09,030 --> 02:12:15,230
But my mom, who is my grandma's primary caregiver, is here to accept this on her behalf.

1110
02:12:15,550 --> 02:12:21,230
So if I can have her join me, here at the podium, I'm going to read what's written here

1111
02:12:21,230 --> 02:12:25,790
on, I'm going to say I don't know, but I'm going to read a couple things in the past

1112
02:12:25,790 --> 02:12:26,430
to my mom.

1113
02:12:27,210 --> 02:12:29,570
And again, thank you to the city and the mayor.

1114
02:12:29,710 --> 02:12:32,150
And especially thank you, Ale, for letting me know.

1115
02:12:32,310 --> 02:12:34,730
It's not just my grandma when any of our residents

1116
02:12:34,730 --> 02:12:38,050
turn 100 to get a proclamation, so.

1117
02:12:38,330 --> 02:12:42,130
Marigaji Keros, born on April 7, 1926,

1118
02:12:42,350 --> 02:12:43,810
has reached an extraordinary milestone

1119
02:12:43,810 --> 02:12:45,850
of 100 years of life.

1120
02:12:46,230 --> 02:12:48,490
She immigrated into the United States for Mexico

1121
02:12:48,490 --> 02:12:50,110
with only a third grade, actually

1122
02:12:50,110 --> 02:12:51,870
was a second grade, my uncle was wrong.

1123
02:12:52,570 --> 02:12:54,590
Second grade education, guided by courage

1124
02:12:54,590 --> 02:12:56,590
and the hope of building something better.

1125
02:12:56,810 --> 02:12:59,030
Butting had dedicated her life to raising seven children

1126
02:12:59,030 --> 02:13:02,730
who's enduring closeness reflects the love and unity she nurtured.

1127
02:13:03,190 --> 02:13:05,410
She lived with humility and quiet strength,

1128
02:13:05,930 --> 02:13:08,690
offering generosity and care through simple heartfelt actions

1129
02:13:08,690 --> 02:13:10,410
rather than seeing recognition.

1130
02:13:11,170 --> 02:13:15,830
Her life embodies the wisdom that a long peaceful life deeply rooted in family

1131
02:13:15,830 --> 02:13:18,930
is among the most meaningful forms of human experience.

1132
02:13:19,430 --> 02:13:22,610
Through the world at large, though the world at large may not know her name,

1133
02:13:22,610 --> 02:13:28,590
Her legacy lives powerfully in the kindness resilience and unconditional love, she instilled in all who know her.

1134
02:13:29,130 --> 02:13:30,390
So that is my grandmother.

1135
02:13:31,270 --> 02:13:31,990
Here you go mom.

1136
02:13:32,010 --> 02:13:34,370
Thank you for accepting it on behalf of Grandma.

1137
02:13:35,870 --> 02:13:37,810
Do you want to say a couple words?

1138
02:13:43,560 --> 02:13:52,400
On behalf of our family, I am deeply honored to accept this proclamation celebrating my mother's 100th birthday.

1139
02:13:52,400 --> 02:14:05,660
Reaching a century of a life is an extraordinary milestone, and it reflects not only her longevity, but a life filled with love, resilience, and wisdom.

1140
02:14:06,280 --> 02:14:12,840
She has touched so many lives through her kindness, strength, and unwavering spirit.

1141
02:14:12,840 --> 02:14:22,920
Today, we celebrate not just the years, she has lived, but the legacy she has created in all of us who know and love her.

1142
02:14:23,140 --> 02:14:29,920
Thank you for recognizing her in this special way. It means more to our family than words can express.

1143
02:14:30,380 --> 02:14:32,560
So thank you. Thank you.

1144
02:14:36,780 --> 02:14:37,800
Thank you so much.

1145
02:14:38,240 --> 02:14:40,800
So my grandma actually came here by herself.

1146
02:14:42,220 --> 02:14:46,760
I just sit and talk with her. She's honestly one of my best friends, so we just kind of sit

1147
02:14:46,760 --> 02:14:52,920
but she came here and here I want some bills where she met my grandfather and that's how

1148
02:14:52,920 --> 02:14:58,700
they met. She told me a different story and then she told me the truth. She told me she was

1149
02:14:58,700 --> 02:14:59,980
Oh wait, trust me, she was actually...

1150
02:15:01,100 --> 02:15:24,940
That's how she made my grandfather. They made a life here. They had seven beautiful children. Everything that I do, everything that I am is because of the life that she gave me. She saved me from a really horrible situation and she afforded me all the opportunities that I had and everything that I have done in life is to pay her back.

1151
02:15:24,940 --> 02:15:28,420
And I know that it's probably not enough,

1152
02:15:28,860 --> 02:15:32,500
but I try every day, and so it's just really beautiful

1153
02:15:32,500 --> 02:15:35,780
being able to see her and my nieces and nephews.

1154
02:15:36,000 --> 02:15:38,880
And the great grandkids and the great great grandkids,

1155
02:15:38,900 --> 02:15:42,520
all the kids there with her and having multiple generations

1156
02:15:42,520 --> 02:15:44,800
and I know that's something that a lot of us here

1157
02:15:44,800 --> 02:15:47,080
want some little share, and it's just something

1158
02:15:47,080 --> 02:15:48,580
that's very special about our culture.

1159
02:15:49,220 --> 02:15:52,420
So thank you so much, and I really hope your grandma's

1160
02:15:52,420 --> 02:15:55,520
Grandpa's get to a hundred as well.

1161
02:16:21,180 --> 02:16:22,480
Thank you very much.

1162
02:16:22,640 --> 02:16:23,320
Thank you.

1163
02:16:28,200 --> 02:16:28,420
All right.

1164
02:16:28,540 --> 02:16:29,080
Thank you.

1165
02:16:29,960 --> 02:16:32,220
I am a little under the weather and Mayor Protem.

1166
02:16:32,260 --> 02:16:36,160
Clark has agreed to continue on in my set for the remainder of the meeting.

1167
02:16:36,540 --> 02:16:39,780
I really appreciate him stepping in, stepping up for me in the rest of Council.

1168
02:16:39,960 --> 02:16:41,280
I am going to go get some rest.

1169
02:16:41,720 --> 02:16:42,320
So thank you.

1170
02:16:49,770 --> 02:16:49,990
Okay.

1171
02:16:50,130 --> 02:16:50,370
Okay.

1172
02:16:50,930 --> 02:16:54,410
So we are going to move on to item number 10, which is the consent agenda.

1173
02:16:54,410 --> 02:17:02,930
All items appearing on the consent agenda are recommended actions that are considered to be routine and will be active upon in one as one motion.

1174
02:17:03,630 --> 02:17:09,010
Any items removed from the consent, or considered, will be considered immediately after the motion.

1175
02:17:09,810 --> 02:17:13,830
The mayor will allow public input prior to the approval of the consent agenda.

1176
02:17:14,490 --> 02:17:17,830
Is there anybody on the council that has any discussions?

1177
02:17:17,830 --> 02:17:25,090
I just have a comment. I want to voice my strong support for item TNG, proving the contract with

1178
02:17:25,090 --> 02:17:31,830
Santa Cruz County Sheriff for the same program agreement, and also support of 10 each,

1179
02:17:32,630 --> 02:17:36,770
of proving the contract with the County of Santa Cruz for the mental health liaison.

1180
02:17:37,410 --> 02:17:39,550
Wonderful. Thank you. Anybody else?

1181
02:17:42,090 --> 02:17:46,010
Can't like to go to the public. Does anybody in the public have any comments for the consent agenda?

1182
02:17:48,980 --> 02:17:50,240
Nope, seen none.

1183
02:17:52,410 --> 02:17:55,530
Can we get a motion? I know that we have proof that it's such a gender.

1184
02:17:55,710 --> 02:17:58,810
I'll second. Thank you. Wonderful. Can we get a roll call vote?

1185
02:18:01,410 --> 02:18:01,550
Clark?

1186
02:18:02,470 --> 02:18:02,610
Aye.

1187
02:18:03,110 --> 02:18:04,130
Do you turn? Aye.

1188
02:18:04,530 --> 02:18:05,030
Won't this, you know?

1189
02:18:05,510 --> 02:18:05,770
Yes.

1190
02:18:06,210 --> 02:18:06,770
How does it go?

1191
02:18:07,130 --> 02:18:07,490
Aye.

1192
02:18:08,470 --> 02:18:09,070
Get us Carter?

1193
02:18:09,390 --> 02:18:09,670
Aye.

1194
02:18:10,250 --> 02:18:10,990
And so I'll see you, don't.

1195
02:18:12,530 --> 02:18:13,190
Good motion carries.

1196
02:18:14,630 --> 02:18:14,830
Wonderful.

1197
02:18:16,030 --> 02:18:18,010
And we have now items removed from the consent agenda.

1198
02:18:18,010 --> 02:18:20,670
This is where we will move on to item 12, reports to council,

1199
02:18:20,910 --> 02:18:22,110
city managers update report.

1200
02:18:24,090 --> 02:18:27,830
All right, good evening, Vice Mayor and Council.

1201
02:18:29,870 --> 02:18:30,970
That's a tricky one.

1202
02:18:31,390 --> 02:18:34,390
All right, just have a short report today.

1203
02:18:34,870 --> 02:18:36,930
One of highlight are summer.

1204
02:18:37,170 --> 02:18:38,710
It's almost that time of the year,

1205
02:18:38,970 --> 02:18:41,750
where we prepare for wonderful summer programs,

1206
02:18:41,950 --> 02:18:42,950
or summer in the city,

1207
02:18:43,250 --> 02:18:44,750
will take place again,

1208
02:18:45,210 --> 02:18:46,230
starting on June 9th,

1209
02:18:46,870 --> 02:18:48,090
through July 7th.

1210
02:18:49,070 --> 02:18:52,010
And we are offering internships

1211
02:18:52,010 --> 02:19:00,230
since the different city departments to eligible PVUSD students.

1212
02:19:00,850 --> 02:19:02,810
So applications are now open.

1213
02:19:03,070 --> 02:19:04,290
They're available on our website.

1214
02:19:04,830 --> 02:19:09,490
I know some young individuals here can get the word out in the school

1215
02:19:09,490 --> 02:19:11,450
is a wonderful opportunity.

1216
02:19:12,070 --> 02:19:14,850
Participants earn $1,000 stipends.

1217
02:19:14,890 --> 02:19:16,550
They receive elective credits.

1218
02:19:17,110 --> 02:19:20,630
But they also can work towards their seal for saving engagement

1219
02:19:20,630 --> 02:19:24,430
and local governments as a great opportunity for summer time.

1220
02:19:25,270 --> 02:19:27,790
And I want to bring your attention

1221
02:19:27,790 --> 02:19:32,510
that we discussed this item in the previous council meetings.

1222
02:19:33,510 --> 02:19:36,130
And we said we were going to be working on banners

1223
02:19:36,130 --> 02:19:38,930
of Main Street to really kind of promote

1224
02:19:38,930 --> 02:19:42,770
the culture of shopping locals, supporting local businesses,

1225
02:19:43,770 --> 02:19:47,030
and just really helping with that awareness.

1226
02:19:47,470 --> 02:19:49,390
And that supports economic development

1227
02:19:49,390 --> 02:19:55,290
in our city. So the the banners have been installed. There are a few that are missing brackets.

1228
02:19:55,790 --> 02:20:01,590
So we're waiting for a few more brackets and you're going to see that project completed within the next week.

1229
02:20:02,530 --> 02:20:10,590
Next is make sure that the community is aware that we are at the point that we're going to be groundbreaking our city.

1230
02:20:10,590 --> 02:20:17,470
plus a project and that is happening on May 7th is the ground breaking ceremony of 4 p.m.

1231
02:20:17,510 --> 02:20:20,430
that has been scheduled by our parks department.

1232
02:20:21,410 --> 02:20:31,550
Next is our water rape study outreach is in process where our staff is going to be at the

1233
02:20:31,550 --> 02:20:39,750
farmers market on Friday, April 7th, if people have questions about how words was being funded

1234
02:20:39,750 --> 02:20:44,690
with the RAID study. This is a wonderful opportunity to interact with

1235
02:20:44,690 --> 02:20:50,670
their staff and ask questions. We're also hosting a community

1236
02:20:50,670 --> 02:20:57,270
webinar on April 29th and that's a 530 and it's online and it will be recorded

1237
02:20:57,270 --> 02:21:01,310
and it will be another opportunity to answer questions,

1238
02:21:01,770 --> 02:21:09,210
understand the impact and just really dive in deeper into the RAID study.

1239
02:21:09,210 --> 02:21:17,330
that's in progress and next just exciting news in terms of pavement these last week

1240
02:21:17,330 --> 02:21:23,670
April 6 are crews with Granted Rock which was this elected company that is working on

1241
02:21:23,670 --> 02:21:32,030
our payment management plan kicked off the project and there is a lot of striping removal

1242
02:21:32,030 --> 02:21:42,830
of all pavement and ceiling crack, pavement, slurre ceiling, et cetera, and freedom of our

1243
02:21:42,830 --> 02:21:47,590
green valley road, harking through, and forest streets, so you're going to see a lot

1244
02:21:47,590 --> 02:21:54,570
of construction on the road. Again, that's the season we're in. I also want to make sure

1245
02:21:54,570 --> 02:22:01,350
that we promote these and remind the public and those business owners in our community

1246
02:22:01,350 --> 02:22:08,650
that there is a tool free of cost available that offers training videos, downloadable tools,

1247
02:22:08,870 --> 02:22:16,510
peer discussions that can be accessed for free online that really supports retail businesses,

1248
02:22:16,910 --> 02:22:19,690
restaurants or any type of business really.

1249
02:22:20,070 --> 02:22:26,690
There's a lot of information on this tool and is available for free for businesses in our community.

1250
02:22:26,690 --> 02:22:29,970
So far I've seen that there's

1251
02:22:30,000 --> 02:22:38,500
This is about a couple of businesses that have taken advantage of these, but it's a really wonderful tool that is available for all businesses in our community.

1252
02:22:39,680 --> 02:22:45,240
And last, it's also that season. I got twenty, twenty, six, a statewide primary election.

1253
02:22:46,180 --> 02:22:59,980
That's scheduled for June 2nd, but as you know, we started area voting on May 4th and our city clerks office and staff will be open and ready to assist members of the public.

1254
02:22:59,980 --> 02:23:05,780
as early as Monday, May 4th, and that concludes my report.

1255
02:23:06,520 --> 02:23:12,660
Wonderful. Thank you, City Manager Vita, for your report. Are there any council members that have any questions or comments?

1256
02:23:13,640 --> 02:23:15,460
Yes, council member Eduardo Montesino.

1257
02:23:16,060 --> 02:23:19,640
Yeah. Sort of related by that in your report.

1258
02:23:21,700 --> 02:23:27,720
When is the timeline for the freedom board of art from Green by the New Airport to say that too?

1259
02:23:28,000 --> 02:23:30,360
Because I've been asked that question and I feel like, you know?

1260
02:23:30,660 --> 02:23:32,860
From freedom to...

1261
02:23:32,860 --> 02:23:34,440
From Green by the New Airport.

1262
02:23:34,960 --> 02:23:36,740
Green's all laid to airport, okay.

1263
02:23:36,960 --> 02:23:37,040
Daniel.

1264
02:23:41,650 --> 02:23:46,230
I know he's coming, but Daniel is also coming and she will have it.

1265
02:23:46,390 --> 02:23:47,710
She will have it on her answer.

1266
02:23:47,710 --> 02:23:51,550
That's in the back interim director Green.

1267
02:23:53,210 --> 02:23:57,970
So our water services crews are actually going to be the ones to install the water line,

1268
02:23:58,150 --> 02:24:01,070
which in that section we have the pipe ordered.

1269
02:24:01,530 --> 02:24:06,990
They're wrapping up some work they had started a while ago on Lawrence Magnolia area.

1270
02:24:07,810 --> 02:24:13,330
Once they finished that they have to do a little section in Lee Road ahead of a county project

1271
02:24:13,330 --> 02:24:15,010
and then that's their priority.

1272
02:24:15,010 --> 02:24:22,930
So probably around the summer maybe July that'll be starting the utility work and then we're

1273
02:24:22,930 --> 02:24:29,630
helping by the end of the year we'll have the payment work out to bid so that that can follow right on next year.

1274
02:24:30,330 --> 02:24:32,590
Thank you, I just been asked that question.

1275
02:24:32,770 --> 02:24:33,570
Okay, thank you.

1276
02:24:33,570 --> 02:24:34,150
It's true.

1277
02:24:34,310 --> 02:24:35,050
Councilmember Ducha.

1278
02:24:38,830 --> 02:24:39,630
Thank you.

1279
02:24:40,550 --> 02:24:43,210
I think you talked about this, the Freedom Boulevard.

1280
02:24:43,610 --> 02:24:44,990
What's going on there right now?

1281
02:24:46,510 --> 02:24:47,430
What's going on?

1282
02:24:47,590 --> 02:24:48,190
With a light?

1283
02:24:48,850 --> 02:24:49,350
With a light?

1284
02:24:49,350 --> 02:24:49,710
With a light?

1285
02:24:50,470 --> 02:24:52,550
I've, my phone is going off the hook.

1286
02:24:52,650 --> 02:24:54,650
Why is it was happening on Freedom Boulevard?

1287
02:24:55,090 --> 02:24:56,630
As you know, it's pretty much closed down

1288
02:24:56,630 --> 02:25:00,370
between all to visit one lane and to Main Street.

1289
02:25:01,990 --> 02:25:03,790
So it's been pretty bad today.

1290
02:25:04,270 --> 02:25:05,750
So I'd like to know what project is going on.

1291
02:25:05,770 --> 02:25:07,290
No, what's going on there?

1292
02:25:07,690 --> 02:25:08,730
All the Vista on.

1293
02:25:09,370 --> 02:25:11,690
The freedom of art all the way to, it's a big project.

1294
02:25:12,550 --> 02:25:12,730
Not all the way.

1295
02:25:12,730 --> 02:25:14,390
My phone's ringing, your phone should be ringing.

1296
02:25:15,170 --> 02:25:18,950
Not all big projects are our projects, but we can find out.

1297
02:25:19,770 --> 02:25:22,770
I mean, they've literally sanded the entire road.

1298
02:25:23,030 --> 02:25:24,230
All the lines are gone.

1299
02:25:24,430 --> 02:25:25,030
Are you serious?

1300
02:25:25,330 --> 02:25:26,210
No one knows what's going on.

1301
02:25:26,210 --> 02:25:29,430
I saw it down all to best it. It was one lane, but not in freedom.

1302
02:25:29,730 --> 02:25:32,210
It freedom was one lane at one point as well.

1303
02:25:35,280 --> 02:25:36,300
It spores me.

1304
02:25:37,520 --> 02:25:41,160
I mean, trust you all for that whole area, they'd say to the whole area like that.

1305
02:25:41,160 --> 02:25:45,400
So you're referring to all to best it to me in that section of season.

1306
02:25:45,860 --> 02:25:48,360
So that's the project she was updating on this.

1307
02:25:48,360 --> 02:25:49,560
That's what I was asking about, yeah.

1308
02:25:49,840 --> 02:25:50,900
Yeah, yeah, that's what I asked about.

1309
02:25:51,000 --> 02:25:57,540
Yeah, I didn't see those three places on the one side spoke about, so it wasn't triggering me,

1310
02:25:57,540 --> 02:26:01,860
Yeah, that was one of the areas. So there's three areas they went through and

1311
02:26:03,260 --> 02:26:08,040
And remove the striping put temporary floppies and then yeah, they'll be going through with the slurry seal

1312
02:26:08,040 --> 02:26:08,660
Crack seal

1313
02:26:08,660 --> 02:26:13,200
Okay, that's all I said so because people were like, oh well, you know, that's a band-aid

1314
02:26:13,200 --> 02:26:17,220
But I was trying to say that we we reconstructed that road not too long ago

1315
02:26:17,220 --> 02:26:20,380
So this is called maintenance people are not used to maintenance, right?

1316
02:26:20,660 --> 02:26:27,280
They're used to like us breaking down all the roads and then having to reconstruct like this is a good place to be and that we're doing maintenance

1317
02:26:27,540 --> 02:26:31,220
Because now it's like we're protecting that road from having it break down.

1318
02:26:31,900 --> 02:26:36,020
So that's been my explanation to people, just from like common knowledge of what I know.

1319
02:26:37,160 --> 02:26:39,660
But I was, but I just wanted to confirm that.

1320
02:26:39,980 --> 02:26:46,440
Yeah, it cost a lot less to maintain a good road than to have to completely rehabilitate a bad road.

1321
02:26:46,500 --> 02:26:50,160
Right, exactly. So that is my story. I'm sticking with it.

1322
02:26:50,160 --> 02:26:51,780
And when will this be over with?

1323
02:26:52,780 --> 02:26:56,300
Um, that I don't know. I think within a couple months.

1324
02:26:56,300 --> 02:26:56,540
Yes.

1325
02:26:56,880 --> 02:26:58,540
Oh, you know what I read the sign?

1326
02:26:58,940 --> 02:26:59,880
It said May 30th.

1327
02:27:00,500 --> 02:27:00,900
Okay.

1328
02:27:01,500 --> 02:27:01,700
Okay.

1329
02:27:02,200 --> 02:27:03,280
Well, I'm happy.

1330
02:27:03,380 --> 02:27:07,080
I hope you can get a new medium to match those new roads.

1331
02:27:07,560 --> 02:27:10,100
How do you keep saying, it's being noted?

1332
02:27:10,420 --> 02:27:10,680
Yes.

1333
02:27:10,760 --> 02:27:11,060
Thank you.

1334
02:27:11,200 --> 02:27:11,500
I know.

1335
02:27:11,620 --> 02:27:12,460
I will keep noting that.

1336
02:27:12,500 --> 02:27:12,700
Thank you.

1337
02:27:12,700 --> 02:27:13,480
That'd be the City Manager.

1338
02:27:13,660 --> 02:27:15,100
Color Park with us on it.

1339
02:27:15,240 --> 02:27:15,660
Thank you.

1340
02:27:15,860 --> 02:27:16,480
Thank you, Nick.

1341
02:27:16,700 --> 02:27:17,900
Just look forward to it happening.

1342
02:27:18,480 --> 02:27:18,560
Yes.

1343
02:27:19,160 --> 02:27:20,000
It tells me very much.

1344
02:27:20,720 --> 02:27:20,840
Yeah.

1345
02:27:20,840 --> 02:27:25,220
just like I said, and I just want to piggyback on my customer and do

1346
02:27:25,220 --> 02:27:29,700
trusset because that was like my crush. People that are not used to seeing

1347
02:27:29,700 --> 02:27:33,220
main and so they're seeing like green by why are you guys doing green valley and

1348
02:27:33,220 --> 02:27:37,540
that was the that was the question of freedom because people are not used to it

1349
02:27:37,540 --> 02:27:43,000
so like I said it's it's a good thing but I also want to encourage us to you

1350
02:27:43,000 --> 02:27:49,540
know we just finish a lighting project and we didn't celebrate. I mean people

1351
02:27:49,540 --> 02:27:56,000
noticing the lights and, you know, and we haven't celebrated. That's nowhere else at any

1352
02:27:56,000 --> 02:28:03,020
city for county doing that kind of stuff and we don't acknowledge ourselves with some of this

1353
02:28:03,020 --> 02:28:10,100
progress that we do. And, you know, we did it for, you know, water thing.

1354
02:28:12,420 --> 02:28:13,880
You're the tank.

1355
02:28:13,880 --> 02:28:28,940
You know, hardly everybody is like a light bulb or something like that, you know, but this is, you know, to me, it's a really changed people's lives, you know, and that people could actually see you know there and some people are like our frustrated because

1356
02:28:29,600 --> 02:28:34,740
She's right, but that's a good thing, you know, we're just going to use this, like I said, it's just more put that up.

1357
02:28:34,740 --> 02:28:44,740
Thank you. Is there a way to create a video we can all share? You know, just put a line. Yeah, how he looks, you know, before and after and

1358
02:28:45,880 --> 02:28:48,040
Oh, no, it would be nice. Yeah.

1359
02:28:48,900 --> 02:29:00,220
Anyway, I was, so, but no, the, I mean, right now part of my neighborhood looks like a construction site is not all me

1360
02:29:00,220 --> 02:29:02,820
I go over the plane, yeah.

1361
02:29:05,390 --> 02:29:07,330
That is getting repaved, right?

1362
02:29:07,490 --> 02:29:10,890
I mean, there's some major work, I mean.

1363
02:29:11,190 --> 02:29:12,810
So that's not our road maintenance.

1364
02:29:13,010 --> 02:29:17,130
Is a water main replacement or some underground?

1365
02:29:17,130 --> 02:29:18,210
On the ground, right?

1366
02:29:18,950 --> 02:29:22,170
And our crews, when they're done, they do the repave

1367
02:29:22,170 --> 02:29:23,510
and according to our standards.

1368
02:29:23,970 --> 02:29:27,210
So the road will look very nice when it's all done.

1369
02:29:28,070 --> 02:29:31,930
But what does same happen for the project

1370
02:29:31,930 --> 02:29:33,870
that was done on Home Road.

1371
02:29:38,820 --> 02:29:44,320
And it looks bad. It's just like, like, French, and I'm

1372
02:29:44,320 --> 02:29:48,880
going to leave it with a Home Road project, but we can give back to you. That would be great.

1373
02:29:49,820 --> 02:29:57,740
And I just want to thank you for the updates on the science on supporting local shopping local.

1374
02:30:01,210 --> 02:30:07,050
And then also the toolkit online. So thank you. Thank you.

1375
02:30:09,490 --> 02:30:16,490
Okay, council member, future. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to say one more thing. Happy birthday. I forgot. I was going to say that earlier. Happy birthday.

1376
02:30:17,490 --> 02:30:18,370
Thank you.

1377
02:30:19,350 --> 02:30:25,050
I have three things I want to say real quick. Very excited for the banners as well. Thank you for that. That is wonderful.

1378
02:30:26,170 --> 02:30:29,930
The City Plaza ground breaking, that is wonderful to hear that it's coming up.

1379
02:30:30,050 --> 02:30:33,690
It's been contentious with some of us up here, but we are excited that it's happening.

1380
02:30:34,550 --> 02:30:41,330
Director Calbock and I want to acknowledge, again, Eduardo, you brought something up.

1381
02:30:42,430 --> 02:30:43,450
The lighting project.

1382
02:30:44,150 --> 02:30:48,610
I mean, we talked about it, we touted it, we glorified it, and it had happened, and we

1383
02:30:48,610 --> 02:30:49,690
just completely forgot about it.

1384
02:30:49,870 --> 02:30:51,230
So, thank you for bringing that up.

1385
02:30:51,230 --> 02:30:57,490
The hilarious you have it to me though, is that now that everybody can see during day and night, they can see how bad the roads are at night too.

1386
02:30:59,010 --> 02:31:01,110
So thank you very much for that.

1387
02:31:02,070 --> 02:31:07,210
So we're going to move on to item 13 public hearing ordinance and appeals.

1388
02:31:07,970 --> 02:31:19,830
13 A ordinance and many chapter 14-16 district regulations of the title 14 zoning of the Watsonville Municipal Code to conditionally permit commercial uses.

1389
02:31:19,830 --> 02:31:26,410
on Parsley's own public facilities, I don't know this, PF, and located in the downtown

1390
02:31:26,410 --> 02:31:36,330
Watsonville specific plan area, staff member, director now, community development director

1391
02:31:36,330 --> 02:31:37,810
Orbock, take it away.

1392
02:31:38,690 --> 02:31:41,910
Thank you Mayor for attending board clerk, council, good evening.

1393
02:31:43,070 --> 02:31:48,090
As Mayor for attending board clerk mentioned, my name is Matt Orbock and I'm the new community

1394
02:31:48,090 --> 02:31:52,450
development director for the city of Watsonville having moved up from being a system director.

1395
02:31:52,850 --> 02:31:58,390
So my pleasure to be here tonight to present kind of a cleanup economic development item.

1396
02:31:59,570 --> 02:32:04,170
The proposal before this evening is the first reading of an ordinance, I'm ending two

1397
02:32:04,170 --> 02:32:09,710
different sections of the Watsonville Municipal Code to conditionally permit commercial uses

1398
02:32:09,710 --> 02:32:14,270
on parcels, so in public facilities and located in the downtown Watsonville's specific

1399
02:32:15,350 --> 02:32:24,570
So a little bit of background here, the public facilities zoning district only permits aviation-related commercial uses on the Watsonville Municipal Airport property.

1400
02:32:25,150 --> 02:32:31,210
There are no other commercial uses permitted on any parcels on PF and any other area of the city currently.

1401
02:32:32,350 --> 02:32:43,750
However, we have existing buildings with the vacant commercial tenant spaces in city buildings located in the downtown Watsonville specific plan area that currently have no permitting pathway for commercial uses.

1402
02:32:45,420 --> 02:32:51,560
So, the City staff is recommending changes to these two municipal code sections to allow commercial uses in those areas.

1403
02:32:52,280 --> 02:32:58,120
What it would do is conditionally permit those commercial uses with an administrative use permit and design review,

1404
02:32:58,380 --> 02:33:04,640
approved by the zoning administrator, as long as it is not illegal or prohibited elsewhere in the Wants Mill municipal code.

1405
02:33:07,120 --> 02:33:14,920
On April 7, last week, the Planning Commission adopted Resolution 036 recommending that the City Council adopted an ordinance of ending these two sections.

1406
02:33:14,920 --> 02:33:15,840
And

1407
02:33:17,920 --> 02:33:25,520
a quick aside for anyone who's wondering, there is a commercial tenant space on the first floor of this very building with a tenant in it, so how did that happen?

1408
02:33:26,160 --> 02:33:34,640
Well, so it was approved with zoning clearance back in 2009, because at that time the property was zone central commercial area with a plan development overlay.

1409
02:33:35,440 --> 02:33:46,980
However, when the city went through the downtown Watsonville specific plan process and put in zoning, they made the zoning match the use, which is why it was changed to public facilities there by cutting off the access for commercial use.

1410
02:33:49,710 --> 02:33:54,470
So time I will do a quick overview of the Zoning Code text amendments, which are pretty simple.

1411
02:33:54,950 --> 02:33:58,350
In every view of which parcels are actually going to be subject to this ordinance.

1412
02:33:59,190 --> 02:34:00,610
A quick review of the permitting process.

1413
02:34:01,190 --> 02:34:03,750
A little bit of talking about the Zoning Code text amendment process.

1414
02:34:04,130 --> 02:34:07,190
And then what is going on with this in terms of SQL overview.

1415
02:34:09,890 --> 02:34:12,590
So as I mentioned, the changes to the code are relatively simple.

1416
02:34:12,970 --> 02:34:18,670
In this Watsonville municipal code section 1416802, there's a large table that lists all the permitted.

1417
02:34:18,670 --> 02:34:25,110
and conditionally permitted uses in both the public facilities and the institutional zoning districts.

1418
02:34:25,870 --> 02:34:30,150
So what this ordinance would do is add a subsection J at the very bottom of the table,

1419
02:34:30,610 --> 02:34:33,330
related to downtown Watsonville specific client commercial uses.

1420
02:34:33,710 --> 02:34:39,650
So you see there in the table that it says AUP, which means an administrative use permit would be required with design review.

1421
02:34:40,310 --> 02:34:45,970
And it does not allow commercial uses in the institutional zoning district, which I will get in just a second.

1422
02:34:45,970 --> 02:34:57,370
And then there are subsections underneath the table that describe in more detail what these uses are so we also put in a little bit more information there about what's what DWSP commercial uses means.

1423
02:34:58,290 --> 02:35:05,650
So in that section we elaborate that this means parcels within the public facility zoning district located in the downtown Watsonville specific plan area.

1424
02:35:05,910 --> 02:35:11,970
Any commercial uses may be allowed within administrative use from it unless it's prohibited elsewhere in the Watsonville municipal code.

1425
02:35:11,970 --> 02:35:19,510
And we took that approach because that's the way you commercially use this are regulated in the rest of the downtown specific plan areas, so we wanted to make it consistent.

1426
02:35:22,620 --> 02:35:31,680
So here's the map of the downtown and lots of all specific plan area. This is the regulating plan from the specific plan. The PF zoning district parcels are shown in blue.

1427
02:35:32,660 --> 02:35:43,120
Within blue blue will includes both public facilities and institutional. So when we cut out the institutional zoning district parcels, what's left is these nine parcels with the yellow stars.

1428
02:35:45,980 --> 02:35:50,760
those properties are listed here with the address, the APN, the current use and the owner.

1429
02:35:50,880 --> 02:35:53,220
As you can see, it's mostly city of lots of little properties.

1430
02:35:53,880 --> 02:35:56,580
One kind of Santa Cruz property and one by the American Legion.

1431
02:35:59,450 --> 02:36:05,350
So the permitting process that would be in place of this pass is that a administrative use permit will be required with design review.

1432
02:36:05,530 --> 02:36:07,570
Design review is only required if there's new construction.

1433
02:36:08,670 --> 02:36:11,570
So if we were talking about the example of the city hall building here downstairs,

1434
02:36:11,950 --> 02:36:13,510
there wouldn't have been a design review permit.

1435
02:36:13,510 --> 02:36:15,610
It would just be in the administrative use permit.

1436
02:36:16,130 --> 02:36:18,050
A UVs are approved by the zoning administrator,

1437
02:36:18,390 --> 02:36:19,990
which is currently me.

1438
02:36:20,270 --> 02:36:22,550
It requires findings to ensure compatibility

1439
02:36:22,550 --> 02:36:23,770
with the surrounding uses.

1440
02:36:23,970 --> 02:36:25,570
So we do have a lot of discretion.

1441
02:36:26,470 --> 02:36:28,010
And those approvals may also be conditions.

1442
02:36:28,510 --> 02:36:30,710
So if there are sort of mitigation measures,

1443
02:36:30,950 --> 02:36:33,990
we can use to mitigate any negative impacts

1444
02:36:33,990 --> 02:36:36,030
of a particular use that would bring it

1445
02:36:36,030 --> 02:36:39,350
into what we deem an acceptable condition

1446
02:36:39,350 --> 02:36:41,670
to go into the space that can be accomplished

1447
02:36:41,670 --> 02:36:46,450
to the conditions. And as with any other decision, it can be appealed to planning

1448
02:36:46,450 --> 02:36:49,030
commission and then subsequently appealed to city council.

1449
02:36:52,040 --> 02:36:52,540
So the zoning code

1450
02:36:52,540 --> 02:36:55,800
tax amendment process, this is timely because we have one tonight and then you're

1451
02:36:55,800 --> 02:36:59,860
going to have another one next month and then I think one more at the month after. So

1452
02:36:59,860 --> 02:37:05,120
to familiarize you with what that process entails, zoning code tax amendments go to

1453
02:37:05,120 --> 02:37:08,380
the planning commission first. As I mentioned, went last week. It was reviewed by

1454
02:37:08,380 --> 02:37:13,600
the planning commission and they adopted resolution O326 recommending that the

1455
02:37:13,600 --> 02:37:20,140
Council adoptive pose ordinance. Your job now is to receive that recommendation and review the

1456
02:37:20,140 --> 02:37:23,980
matter of public hearing, which is why we're here tonight. And in order to approve it,

1457
02:37:24,100 --> 02:37:28,440
should you choose to do so, you would need to make the required findings. Those findings with

1458
02:37:28,440 --> 02:37:29,860
supportive evidence are included.

1459
02:37:30,000 --> 02:37:40,600
In the staff report as exhibit B to the ordinance, funding generally by the way, just cover things like consistency with the general plan, making sure if it's in what the community thinks to that effect.

1460
02:37:42,540 --> 02:37:48,400
And then in terms of California, environmental quality act, you know, we review pretty much everything under sequence to make sure there are no impacts.

1461
02:37:49,520 --> 02:37:56,480
This particular change, which is just the change of the text and the document, we believe is exempt from sequo under the common sense exemption.

1462
02:37:56,480 --> 02:38:03,460
And what that is, is that that exemption applies to projects, projects, which have where

1463
02:38:03,460 --> 02:38:07,140
there's no, you can be seen with certain needs, there's no possibility that the activity

1464
02:38:07,140 --> 02:38:09,640
in question may have this significant effect on the environment.

1465
02:38:10,060 --> 02:38:12,780
And if that's the case, then the activity is not subject to sequo.

1466
02:38:12,920 --> 02:38:18,320
So in this case, we're just changing the text of the zoning ordinance online, there's no

1467
02:38:18,320 --> 02:38:21,620
possibility that the changing of that text would have a significant effect on the environment

1468
02:38:21,620 --> 02:38:23,940
therefore it's exempt under this section.

1469
02:38:23,940 --> 02:38:38,840
So that city staff recommends the city council introduced for first reading only, waiting full reading of text and ordinance of ending chapter 1416 district regulations of title 14 zoning of the lots of loneliness book code.

1470
02:38:38,980 --> 02:38:45,100
To conditionally permit commercial uses on parcels zone public facilities and look at in the downtown lots of those specific point area.

1471
02:38:45,240 --> 02:38:49,220
No that would be happy to discuss any aspect of this or entertain questions.

1472
02:38:49,740 --> 02:38:54,060
Thank you Director Urbock for that report. Does the city council have any clearifying questions?

1473
02:38:58,150 --> 02:39:01,630
Okay, seeing that. We'll go out to the public. Does the public have any clearifying questions?

1474
02:39:06,070 --> 02:39:06,910
Okay, seeing that.

1475
02:39:08,330 --> 02:39:08,970
Take a motion.

1476
02:39:09,530 --> 02:39:11,690
I'll move them. I'll move to approve Staffordica recommendation.

1477
02:39:11,930 --> 02:39:12,810
Oh, second bet.

1478
02:39:13,370 --> 02:39:15,070
Okay. Can we get a roll call vote, please?

1479
02:39:18,230 --> 02:39:18,430
Clerk?

1480
02:39:20,170 --> 02:39:21,010
Do you try? Aye.

1481
02:39:21,930 --> 02:39:22,450
What does you know?

1482
02:39:22,910 --> 02:39:23,170
Yes.

1483
02:39:24,010 --> 02:39:24,570
What else go?

1484
02:39:25,070 --> 02:39:25,450
Aye.

1485
02:39:27,640 --> 02:39:28,200
Keydo's Carter?

1486
02:39:28,600 --> 02:39:28,800
Aye.

1487
02:39:34,710 --> 02:39:46,430
So now we're on to item 14 emergency items added to the agenda, which there are none, so we are on to request and scheduling for future agenda items. Yes, council member want to see you know, and then a risk.

1488
02:39:47,370 --> 02:39:52,130
Yeah, no, we just, you know, did some action on the downtown specific.

1489
02:39:52,130 --> 02:40:00,370
I'd like to get a report back on the Dublin specific where we're at, how we entice anybody,

1490
02:40:01,290 --> 02:40:05,490
what are property, if we have been, how we're reaching what are property owners saying,

1491
02:40:06,350 --> 02:40:10,850
what that looks like, where we just invest a lot of money in just a plan,

1492
02:40:11,130 --> 02:40:12,530
like to get a report back.

1493
02:40:12,670 --> 02:40:15,290
I'll be happy to provide an update to the council.

1494
02:40:15,290 --> 02:40:16,210
but thanks.

1495
02:40:18,820 --> 02:40:23,860
Then I have a couple of items. The first one is you can get an update on

1496
02:40:23,860 --> 02:40:31,360
measure Q. Have there any revenues I've been collected? I just thought, you know,

1497
02:40:31,500 --> 02:40:37,140
a general update on when we're saying I know that they had an application that was opened and

1498
02:40:37,140 --> 02:40:42,360
I think it closed and we apply for any of that. That sort of thing. I think it will be helpful.

1499
02:40:42,360 --> 02:40:59,060
Yeah, we will be coming back to the council for approving of measure Q plan and yes, we did apply actually our fire department submitted an application and so did our parks departments of two applications went in for the grant for the city of Guatemala.

1500
02:40:59,360 --> 02:41:01,160
Great, thank you.

1501
02:41:01,160 --> 02:41:12,160
And I also want an update on, and I think we both requested it, but just making sure that we don't forget about it, and update on economic development incentives.

1502
02:41:13,560 --> 02:41:23,980
So, an overview of existing incentives, how they're being utilized and consideration of any additional tools to attract a retainer businesses and support new development here in the city.

1503
02:41:23,980 --> 02:41:42,500
And then an update on the public art selection process, so I would like the opportunity to review our current policies and procedures for selecting artists for CD projects with consideration of potential amendments to prioritize and increase opportunities for local artists.

1504
02:41:45,620 --> 02:41:47,140
Thank you.

1505
02:41:47,800 --> 02:41:51,120
Okay. Any other requests or scheduling for future agenda items?

1506
02:41:52,120 --> 02:41:53,480
Seeing none, meeting adjourned.