[2:53] I would like to call the council, successor, agency to the Yorvalenda redevelopment agency meeting to order. The city clerk will now take roll. Councilwoman Campbell? Here? Councilwoman Haney? Here? Councilman Hernandez? I am here. Mayor Pro Tem Rodriguez? Here? And Mayor Wong? I am here. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, which will be led by Mayor Pro Tem Carlos Rodriguez. Please remain standing after the Pledge of Allegiance for the invocation by Deacon Dennis on of St. Martin,

[3:23] to Perez. Perez. Perez. Perez? Okay. Why do I want to ask something? Catholic Church.

[3:30] Perez. Of course,

[3:42] to the flag of the United States of America and to the public for which it stands.

[3:51] To the United States. To the flag of the United States. To

[3:56] the flag of the United States.

[3:56] Good and gracious God. We praise and thank you for the blessings you give to the city of

[4:01] your Belinda, our various communities, our organizations, and upon each one of us and our families.

[4:07] have only father we ask for your continued blessings on the county of orange on our state of California and on our city on its residents, visitors and friends.

[4:18] We also ask for your blessings upon all organizations, agencies, activities and places of worship in our city that they truly benefit all their members.

[4:28] We, as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, we remember all we have to be thankful for.

[4:35] And finally, we ask for your wisdom and guidance for our city council members, including

[4:39] Mayor Peggy Wang, Mayor Pro Tem Carlos Rodriguez, council members Tara Campbell, Beth Haney and

[4:46] Gene Hernandez.

[4:48] Please bless the city staff gathered for this council meeting this evening.

[4:52] May they make wise decisions and take decisive actions for all the people.

[4:59] We ask these in the name of our Heavenly Father.

[5:03] Amen.

[5:04] Thank you.

[5:08] Hey.

[5:09] Our city attorney taught Liffin.

[5:11] Will you please present the closed session report?

[5:13] Thank you, Mayor.

[5:14] We did discuss the items on the agenda.

[5:15] There's no reportable action as previously noted.

[5:19] The Mayor for Tim and Councilmember Campbell recuse themselves from item B.

[5:25] Thank you.

[5:26] We are now at introduction and presentations.

[5:29] Tonight our first presentation is the introduction of two new staff members, and for that I will turn it over to our city manager, Mr. Pulum.

[5:39] Thank you Madam Mayor and members of the City Council.

[5:41] Tonight I'm pleased to introduce two great new staff members for the city.

[5:47] First up is Gabriel Diaz, Gabriel if you stand up.

[5:52] Yeah, applause is nice.

[5:56] Gabriel is a new associate planner for the city.

[5:59] He'll be working in community development,

[6:01] and he'll be working with our residents and developers

[6:04] on all types of development projects.

[6:07] Most recently, Gabriel worked as an associate planner

[6:10] with the city of Huntington Park,

[6:12] and he also has worked for the county of Santa Barbara.

[6:16] Gabriel has a bachelor's degree from San Diego State University,

[6:20] as well as a master's degree in city and regional planning

[6:23] from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

[6:26] Gabriel lives close by, I won't say where.

[6:29] But enjoy his golf, travel, music festivals,

[6:32] and fantasy football.

[6:34] We welcome Gabriel to the city team.

[6:37] Thanks, Gabriel.

[6:41] Thank you.

[6:42] You're good.

[6:45] Next up, Alicia, Grin, Grin, Grin, Gil Grin.

[6:48] Gil Grin.

[6:49] Thank you.

[6:51] Alicia is our new maintenance contract administrator

[6:54] for the Public Works Department.

[6:56] Be working for Jesse, distinguished guy over there.

[7:00] Among her duties, Alicia will be actively involved in the L-Mad,

[7:04] which deals with, as you know, our landscape and lighting assessment districts in the city.

[7:10] Prior to coming to your Belinda,

[7:12] Alicia worked primarily in the private sector,

[7:14] where she was trusted to manage the landscapes of many prestigious properties throughout Southern California.

[7:20] Her specialty has been high in HOAs, luxury coastal resorts, and

[7:25] class A commercial campuses.

[7:28] Alicia is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, and is a self-proclaimed plant nerd.

[7:34] She looks forward to working with the LMAD team to focus on water conservation,

[7:38] beautifying the community for the residents of your Belinda.

[7:42] Alicia lives in South Orange County with her husband, young daughter, and

[7:45] their rescue dog Memphis, and we welcome Alicia to the team.

[7:49] Welcome,

[7:55] and we will give you a box of tissues to deal with El Matt.

[8:00] Don't scare away.

[8:04] It's all good, right?

[8:07] It's for the allergies.

[8:10] Our next presentation is disaster preparedness update by our emergency management coordinator,

[8:16] Chris Pena.

[8:22] Thank you.

[8:22] You can start the clock, Mark.

[8:23] I promise Mark I'd be brief, but I like to speak about this topic especially because I

[8:28] I'm passionate about it.

[8:30] My background's a good at my school and in this topic.

[8:33] So as far as an update, thank you for the opportunity,

[8:36] Madam Mayor, ladies and gentlemen of the council.

[8:39] And thanks, Mark, for inviting me to give the presentation.

[8:42] My job is to coordinate here for emergency services,

[8:45] emergency management planning, recovery mitigation.

[8:49] And we leave the responses we know to the Sheriff's Department

[8:51] and the capable fire department.

[8:53] I want to thank both agencies for their partnership.

[8:55] And last was it been three or four or five months now,

[8:57] Since I've been here, five or six months actually, and their partnerships have been very much appreciated.

[9:03] Part of my job is to build upon the previous relationships that were established here by my prior position.

[9:11] And it deals with everybody in the field, including the stakeholders we have that play a big part.

[9:18] The county, the fire department, the sheriff,

[9:22] go back one here, and other areas.

[9:25] I met with the Nixon Library folks, the water treatment folks up here, the water district folks.

[9:30] And we talk about this thing, these topics all the time.

[9:33] Just recently, with the EPL sent to you're able to school district as well.

[9:36] Talk about their emergency plans, communication plans, wildfire preparedness, as we're getting into wildfire season.

[9:44] Training and staff now that I've been seated for several months now is on the agenda for this winter.

[9:50] to get our response folks up to speed and then what we have as a plan.

[9:55] We've talked about a little bit about hazard mitigation and recovery as well as well as

[10:01] our emergency operation plans.

[10:04] Some interesting stuff I've got going in terms of goals, communications, situational status

[10:11] updates, and some emergency operation updates as well.

[10:17] This is a slide on the county partnerships that we enjoy and mentioned the county fire department

[10:21] of the County Sheriff's Department, thanks to Cory and his folks for his partnership and helping us out.

[10:26] He invited me to a tabletop exercise a few months ago and we spoke through a few of these plans that we have in common.

[10:32] County Emergency Management-wise, alert OC, our communications, mass notification system that we utilize.

[10:40] We're just on the phone this morning with our IT manager, Larry, seeking new technologies for

[10:46] for mass notifications we can use here in the city of Urbola and a typical more streamlined

[10:51] and efficient, which was very interesting.

[10:52] We might pursue that path.

[10:55] A couple of the listings there talk about the WebEOC in terms of integration with the

[10:59] counties of Rinsing Operations Center.

[11:01] Very important step, which just as you folks know, just onboarded a new GIS specialist for

[11:06] the city.

[11:07] I'm going to wrangle some time, his time, for my efforts, if they'll allow me, because technology

[11:14] is the path forward in terms of being ever situational aware.

[11:19] And as you folks know, as the customers of that awareness, or that information,

[11:23] we know that you want it and expect it very promptly.

[11:26] So we're hoping to make sure technology helps us with that by onboarding some GIS capability into emergency management.

[11:32] Thank you again to the Council for signing the Mass Notification document from the county last month.

[11:40] The city of Urbana participated in the California's great shakeout exercise in October 21st.

[11:46] And it was a great exercise in terms of we all survived, and we know now a little better than we did before.

[11:53] What our expectations are as employees and staff to keep ourselves safe, both here in a work area at home.

[12:00] And that's drop cover and hold on.

[12:02] I think we all most of us participated in doing that.

[12:05] And then assembled orderly in an early fashion to our temporary assembly areas outside of

[12:10] our buildings, our facilities, and each facilities then the directors took care of their staff

[12:15] and then notified the city hall back over the radio with the status of their staff and

[12:20] if they had any needs that we could then pass on in the event of a real emergency.

[12:27] Tomorrow night in fact is the last night for our skills workshop for the cert hybrid course

[12:32] that we hosted as the city, the last couple of months we've had between 18 and 20 residents

[12:40] participants participate in our exercise.

[12:42] I partnered this year with the City of Tuston who needed a partner in the location,

[12:46] volunteered at our Thomas sort of field house for the exercise.

[12:50] And tomorrow night will be the last evening and we'll have graduated up to like I said,

[12:54] 20 students in the community emergency response team training.

[12:59] It's a FEMA nationwide citizen's emergency response program and disaster preparedness.

[13:05] So very proud of that and we'll start a new one in the spring.

[13:07] A couple of pictures from that event.

[13:10] Thanks again to a couple of things special to OCFA,

[13:13] station 10, their reserve truck and their on duty engine showed up to help us out, put out some fires literally.

[13:20] Saves of victims into our contract ambulance service, emergency ambulance for

[13:25] participating, sent a couple of young EMTs to bandage and dress wounds and give a really good PowerPoint presentation on disaster medical response.

[13:35] Thanks to those agencies, really good progress in this area.

[13:41] The city of Urbana has a very vocal and a very engaged equestrian community called

[13:49] the Urbana Country Riders.

[13:51] Very pleased to have that be put on my agenda to help them with their horse evacuation planning.

[13:58] And as an equestrian myself and a horse owner myself, it's near and dear to my part or

[14:02] heart to know that we have a good plan in place in case the wildfires come

[14:06] hit the city of your Belinda we have plans for our our what I consider

[14:10] underserved population which are the horses so I had an opportunity to reach

[14:13] out to TD Friedrich and said hey set of meaningful coffees go for trail ride

[14:18] and so I've traded my horse up took a trail ride around the city who are in a

[14:23] girlfriend and we talked a lot about these plans I've been working since then with

[14:28] the county both animal care and emergency management at the county level to

[14:32] We really shake that tree and see some progress in the county-wide plans for evolving

[14:37] light volunteer folks to get in and get a horses out because that's apparently

[14:44] is their only avenue to lean on the teams like that.

[14:49] The San Juan Capustrana was leading that charge with their model, their art models,

[14:52] so in partnership with them, some other cities moving this topic forward.

[15:01] Took a look at the radio system communications, making sure that we could not only talk to ourselves internally, but talk to some county partners in terms of emergency operations, Senator, emergency operation and communications, updating the inventory, make sure the right people have the radios that know how to use them. Took a look at the help with the fire department and along with the Sheriff's Department of Emergency Management, really putting out some good maps, some new maps, updated in terms of evacuation zones in the city of Urbana.

[15:29] And as you know, when the resources are requested, they have to know where to go.

[15:33] And we need to be speaking the same language in terms of evacuation zones.

[15:37] So we can plan accordingly in terms of alert, morning, any evacuation to those particular zones.

[15:43] Created some books, printed some new maps for our emergency operations center to refer to.

[15:47] And again, this is mostly now GIS, so having a new GIS person on board is going to be really helpful to make sure the state's current.

[15:55] And then we have the latest information from the incident to plot in our maps to make

[16:00] sure you folks have that information promptly.

[16:04] We've been gathering supplies, a couple different, in fact, I just got some more of these

[16:08] supplies, emergency supplies for the city staff and employees in terms of disaster preparedness

[16:13] and, unfortunately, now for COVID, but we have these supplies on hand now, and we're pretty

[16:20] flesh, so I'm glad to say because of our partnerships and outreach of being able to collect those

[16:24] and thanks for public works for storing those for us.

[16:28] Couple of new buildings, new facilities in the city, the library, in the Cultural Arts Center.

[16:33] Updated and took a look at their emergency evacuation plan.

[16:36] Mark Alders and I walked the, both buildings facilities, met with the staff there.

[16:40] And came up with some emergency evacuation plans, temporary evacuation assembly points.

[16:45] And they also participated in a great job in the great checkout drill by evacuating meeting all and

[16:50] and notifying us of their status.

[16:54] First aid kits, we took a survey of make sure all city facilities are updated,

[16:58] make sure they have this equipment, and the supply bed equipment if they didn't.

[17:02] And now a recidifacility has these products, the first aid kits in their buildings.

[17:08] Last slide talks about basically one example of many partnerships that we have to make sure we're notified early.

[17:15] So we can notify you early and our other customers, the citizens of your Belinda.

[17:19] And in the case of emergency, public safety emergency shut off event, wildfire event, that type of thing.

[17:27] So our ideal goal would be to get that information early and get it to you and the residents of Orange of your Belinda to help with evacuation efforts.

[17:37] So technologies, the key we've been harnessing it now and growing the program in that direction.

[17:43] And towards that end, looking forward to 2022, we look forward to more staff training

[17:47] and tabletop exercise with our new partners.

[17:50] So that would be up for my exercise, so thank you very much for your time.

[17:56] Thank you very much.

[17:58] Any questions from council?

[18:01] Thank you.

[18:02] Thank you.

[18:09] Now, is the time for public comments?

[18:11] Any member of the public?

[18:13] Sorry for that.

[18:15] One more person.

[18:22] And finally, we have our law enforcement services left to fight chief of police, Captain Cori, Quantina.

[18:28] Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of the council.

[18:31] Good evening.

[18:31] Tonight, we're going to view some data from September and October 2021.

[18:36] Next slide, please.

[18:37] I'd like to start by presenting the traffic data.

[18:40] The numbers were similar in traffic collisions from the previous months.

[18:44] Please continue to slow down and obey all traffic laws.

[18:49] Next slide, please.

[18:50] Here's a look at the Part A crimes.

[18:54] You will notice an uptick in vandalism.

[18:56] Please continue to report suspicious activity.

[18:59] We will also be presenting fraud and economic crime related data

[19:03] in our presentations.

[19:04] You will notice there were 27 fraud related incidents

[19:07] in September and October.

[19:09] Next slide, please.

[19:11] Here are some crime prevention tips related to fraud and identity theft.

[19:16] Some include using a locking mailbox, reviewing your credit report, keeping your purse or

[19:23] wallet with you and not leaving it unattended, and using a secure internet connection to make

[19:28] online purchases.

[19:30] Please go to our website for a complete list of safety tips.

[19:34] Next slide please.

[19:36] Continuing with safety tips, as we approach the holidays, please be mindful of package

[19:41] thefts.

[19:43] Look into adding detailed delivery instructions to your order, sign up for text alerts on

[19:48] the delivery status, and ensure someone is home at the estimated time of delivery.

[19:54] Stay alert and always report suspicious activity to our dispatch center.

[19:58] Next slide please.

[20:00] going back to a look at the residential burglaries. Here's a look at the incidents

[20:05] from November 2019 to October 2021. Next slide, please. Here's a look at the

[20:15] arrest data for the past four months. I'm going to take some time to highlight a

[20:21] couple of those arrests in the upcoming slides. Next slide, please.

[20:27] This initial

[20:28] Also incident occurred in September where a victim reported being assaulted by multiple

[20:33] subjects.

[20:35] Our deputies responded and took the initial report and immediately contacted our special

[20:40] investigations at Bureau.

[20:42] The SIB team took over the case.

[20:45] They were able to locate the subjects a few days later and ultimately affected arrest on two

[20:51] subjects.

[20:52] Great collaborative teamwork by all the staff involved.

[20:55] In

[20:58] October, a deputy in a South County city conducted a vehicle stop on a male subject who was in possession of a firearm.

[21:06] The deputy contacted the Special Investigations Bureau, and they again took over the case.

[21:12] The investigators were able to obtain and execute a search warrant here in the city of Yorba Linda,

[21:17] where multiple illegal firearms and ammunition were safely seized.

[21:21] Again, great collaborative effort by some of the county-wide resources the Sheriff's Department has to offer.

[21:29] Next slide, please.

[21:32] Switching gears to Community Outreach, we recently partnered with the City staff, the Traffic Commission, and the California Highway Patrol in the Car Seat Safety Event.

[21:43] Thank you to the explorers who assisted and volunteered their time in this event.

[21:48] The next community outreach event is coffee with the cop and is scheduled for this Thursday, November 18th, at 0800 hours.

[22:00] It is open to everyone and there is no agenda or formal speeches, just an opportunity to have some coffee and get to know some of the staff members assigned to the city.

[22:10] It will be held at the East Lake Community Clubhouse located at 5325 Village Center Drive.

[22:17] Please come by and join us in this community outreach event.

[22:22] Next slide, please.

[22:24] And that concludes tonight's presentation.

[22:26] Have a safe and happy holidays.

[22:28] Thank you.

[22:30] Council, any questions?

[22:38] Thank you.

[22:39] Now it's actually final time for the public comments.

[22:42] I know there's someone out there eagerly to speak to council, right?

[22:45] So any member of the public may address the council on items on the

[22:49] consent calendar or matters of interest to the public, which are under the Council's jurisdiction.

[22:55] You have five minutes for your presentation and the person I have is Mr. De Bruin.

[23:00] Welcome back.

[23:04] Mr. DeLiving.

[23:08] Thank you, Mayor.

[23:10] Just a few general observations.

[23:13] One is about AT&T.

[23:17] Why does AT&T has no final optics for faster internet installed?

[23:22] most, if not all, of the city of your Belinda. Of course, the spectrum cable company does offer

[23:29] a fast internet at the price, of course, but some residents prefer to use AT&T and not the cable

[23:36] company. I have contacted AT&T over the recent years various times and was frequently informed

[23:43] that it has been planned, but not when.

[23:48] Thus, the city has any better information or influence

[23:51] to get better knowledge on this subject.

[23:57] The next one is about Karsko.

[24:02] The Karsko Park in

[24:03] lot, excuse me, entrance in exit from and to Crystal Drive, right of Sapia Ranch Parkway,

[24:12] especially now with the very high gas prices. Long lines are formed to get into the Karsko

[24:19] gas service pump area. And by so doing block one of the main exits and

[24:25] entrances of Costco on two crystal drive and creating risky traffic

[24:30] situations. How can we advise Costco to manage these long gas lines along

[24:37] crystal drive to avoid potential accidents there?

[24:43] And not observation when

[24:45] has to do with the Yerbal and the Web.

[24:51] It is a reference to the download process of the Council agenda from the Yerbal and

[24:56] the Web site, which has been revised recently to a two-part PDF format download, which appears

[25:04] not simpler than the previous process, but there might be some technical reason maybe

[25:09] why this was done.

[25:10] The first part is displayed as the agenda cover page, which is actually the entire agenda.

[25:19] The second selection is displayed as the agenda.

[25:23] But actually it is again the entire agenda, plus potentially maybe 200 other pages of

[25:30] payroll and other supplemental financial and project information.

[25:35] So, if you select the second option marked Agenda, you might print 200 plus pages, which

[25:43] you might not be interested in.

[25:45] Never mind all the paper and cartridges.

[25:49] Can we clean this option up a bit and make it more user-friendly as before?

[25:57] And finally, last but not least, the Veterans Memorial Service on November 11 was yet another

[26:04] successful ceremony. The weather, not surprisingly, was, again, hot at 92 degrees.

[26:12] It had promised me to ask again when can some budget be made available to finally install a

[26:20] removable cover to welcome our vets and mainly guests in a more comfortable setting. Lord knows

[26:33] I do not have other speaker cards. I do not know if there are any members of the public that I wish to speak. I do not submit a speaker card.

[26:43] Okay. Seeing none, we will now move on to consent calendar. I understand the councilman Hernandez would like to have seen from item number two.

[26:53] Would any councilmember like to pull any items from the consent calendar?

[27:01] None.

[27:03] I will.

[27:03] Make a motion there to accept the consent calendar as presented with note of my abstention from

[27:11] the two.

[27:12] All right.

[27:12] Motion by councilman Hernandez.

[27:14] Seconded by councilwoman Haney.

[27:17] Please vote.

[27:27] Mayor Portemra Driggas.

[27:28] I don't see your vote.

[27:31] Thank you.

[27:32] I'll close the votes and motion passes unanimously.

[27:37] Thank you.

[27:38] We're now at the City Manager's report, Mr. Polo.

[27:47] Thank you Madam Mayor and members of the City Council.

[27:50] Okay, I have a few responses to Mr. De Bruyne who had some questions during public comments.

[27:58] We have had meetings not only with AT&T but with Verizon and

[28:04] other providers in town about dead spots and improved internet.

[28:10] And they've indicated that obviously we're on their radar, and some of them haven't included some additional facilities throughout the years.

[28:23] AT&T I know has talked about several improvements, but to hear to four they haven't done anything real significant, but we'll continue to press that issue for residents.

[28:34] As it relates to Costco, just for the general public's information, we all recognize that the main entrance into Savah Ranch is pretty busy at times.

[28:48] And especially going into the holidays, one of our major capital improvement projects is working closely with City of Anaheim and OCTA to hopefully gain funding to drastically improve the entry into.

[29:04] to seven ranch and so Jamie and her staff are working closely with those agencies

[29:09] to make that happen and we're actually well underway and moving into the design phase.

[29:17] So we're excited about that.

[29:19] In the meantime though, obviously there are times when traffic needs to be managed perhaps

[29:25] better.

[29:26] I'm a frequent customer of Costco gas and so I know that I've seen lately their staff being

[29:33] a little bit more proactive in trying to direct cars into the drive aisles, and hopefully they'll continue that.

[29:40] But understanding that at times cars are going to back up on to Mirage and other streets, and hopefully long-term we'll have a better solution.

[29:52] And then I do appreciate your observation of perhaps the recent changes made in our online agenda.

[30:00] We did change vendors. And we did so, hopefully, for the better. And so I think there are a number of advantages to the new system, especially as it relates to locating items and downloading items. But I do appreciate your comment about the park of the printing. And we'll take a look at that so that you don't accidentally hit print and 200 pages later have no paper in the printer. And lastly, we do note that better

[30:29] and stay Memorial Day seem like they always land on the hottest day of the year.

[30:33] And so we did note that and hopefully one of these days we'll have a better shade solution

[30:39] for a veterans part.

[30:41] And that's a live tonight, Madam Mayor.

[30:42] Thank you.

[30:45] We're now at Matters, presented by Council members or at other agency report, we'll start tonight

[30:51] with Councilwoman Camel.

[30:54] Thank you, Mayor.

[30:55] I serve on the Santa Ana River, a flood protection agency for the city.

[31:00] And hopefully fun update, obviously a main project for us in your Belinda is what's happening on the east end along the Santa Ana River and it's been in progress for years and some of the residents on the east end reach out to me because they saw some notable progress so they were hoping it would be done soon.

[31:19] an update. So the south of La Palma Avenue within the vicinity of the gypsum canyon bridge

[31:25] is scheduled to be completed by May 2022. So the ending completion is insight. So I

[31:33] wanted to provide that to everybody since I let that write a couple of those residents

[31:37] now. The trail may be open sooner depending on if the contractor thinks that it's safe

[31:42] for the public to access. So anyway, May 2022 for that. And just wanted to wish everybody

[31:47] a happy Thanksgiving, and we don't have a meeting before Hanukkah starts, so happy Hanukkah.

[31:53] Thank you, Councilwoman Hayne.

[31:58] Thank you, Mayor.

[31:59] So just short and sweet, but thank you for proclaiming last week National Nurse Practitioner Week,

[32:06] and in honor of that we have a California Association for Nurse Practitioner, Orange County,

[32:13] Senator Gaila and Senator Newman came and spoke, Professor Allison Holman from UCI came and spoke in our own Fire Chief Barric Hunter came and spoke, and it was great, it actually turned out that he personally saved two nurse practitioners homes in the Blue Ridge Fire and also an in-law in the Calder Fire.

[32:39] So it was really great until we had a room full of total admirers, so it was really fun, and that is it for me.

[32:49] Great, thank you.

[32:52] Councilman Hernandez.

[32:55] Thank you Chief Hunter, you're so smooth.

[32:59] So I'm glad to see Mr. City Manager that AT&T gives you the same response that they give to their commercial residents or their residential customers.

[33:08] Yeah, we're going to get around to it.

[33:10] Also, we probably need to put a little more firming on the canopy for veterans that we're going to get around to it.

[33:17] We need to probably look at that a little more serious because it is, I wasn't sure this year but every year it's extremely hot there.

[33:23] And I know it's not cheap. I know that's one of the things that the CM Andrews kind of think in Gene don't bring that up.

[33:29] It can be costly, but again, if it's removable kind of thing and we don't have to go real hardcore like we have at the park up there,

[33:36] But we could do something because it's just, it can't be really brutal, especially on older folks, so not including me, but I mean other really older folks.

[33:48] But, same thing very busy and glad to see that we take care of the nurse practitioners, they're Councilman Haney, I mean, it's all year long event, I think, and why don't we just make it an all year event?

[34:01] And so we just can, I'm sure you would.

[34:05] Now they do a wonderful job and we appreciate that.

[34:08] And it is fire season, so pay attention to that.

[34:11] Always, it's what this time we really need to make sure we're cutting the shrubs

[34:14] and making space around our homes.

[34:18] Speaking of the fire authority that they'll do their annual food drive parade,

[34:23] it's going to be on December 12th, that's a Sunday, 5 o'clock.

[34:27] I know Councilman Campbell and I attend on that, you're all welcome to come in right on the trucks.

[34:34] It's really, now they go through the west end of the city and somebody asks, well, why don't they go through the whole city?

[34:40] Well, the problem I found out is that many of those big rigs have difficulties going through some of the culsec streets and the more narrow streets.

[34:49] So they had tried that once and didn't work out real well.

[34:51] So those that aren't aware of it, this is where it's a food drive, residents in the west end come out on a designated routes and they'll be giving a heads up on this and they put out their cans and groceries out there and anywhere from, well, I think this last time we had like 18 but they're trying to get like 25 or 30 emergency fire engine vehicles, red light siren, pretty impressive to see going down the street as they scoop up all the canned goods.

[35:17] In fact, last year was a record year in supplies that they obtained, so it was very, very good.

[35:25] And we had a presentation to our Council and staff last week on O C T A gave a heads up on

[35:34] a Zoom for District 3, which you're up in the falls under, what's going on?

[35:40] What a lot of the major products?

[35:42] Throughout the county, not necessarily just you're up in the, but the 405, the 91, there was good information.

[35:46] and a lot of things going on, a lot of development going on.

[35:50] I know people get a little tired of construction fatigue.

[35:54] You know, when is this thing ever going to get done?

[35:56] Well, there's different projects too, keep in mind.

[35:58] There's CalTrans, and there's OCTA, and CalTrans for whatever reason seems to take

[36:02] a little bit longer than OCTA does, so I'll just put that plug in.

[36:06] And that's it from me, Madam Mayor.

[36:07] Thank you.

[36:08] Mayor Patel Rodriguez?

[36:11] Thank you, Madam Mayor, and I'll keep it brief.

[36:14] I'm also a hot but memorable Veterans Day.

[36:20] I want to start by thinking Colonel Wayne Scott,

[36:23] and the Yorba Linda Veterans Memorial Board

[36:27] for continuing the Great Tradition and the Great Program,

[36:31] was really amazing attending and having a chance.

[36:38] My son joined me for the event and introducing him and having a chance to meet some World War II veterans was just amazing.

[36:50] And there's something that we were talking about later in the day and I know we'll stay with him as he's growing up.

[36:55] That's just remarkable to be able to honor them and all of our veterans that day.

[37:03] Always touching to see also the gold star roll call as well, and knowing about the families that continue to deal every day with that loss.

[37:18] And also the Rose presentation by the Oralinda Girl Scout Honor Guard, it's always so many other aspects to the program.

[37:27] So again, very memorable I would also echo the sentiments about anything we can do to look at the investment in some type of cover, removal of the cover would be something that I look forward to hearing about in the very near future.

[37:44] Thank you.

[37:46] Actually, I'll be remiss if I didn't also say a great job by Mayor and her comments.

[37:52] Find job, appreciate your remarks.

[37:55] Thank you.

[37:56] And I was very glad to see that this year we were able to have a two-over-two veterans

[38:02] with us.

[38:03] There's so few of them, so it's always a real honor to see more or two veterans join us.

[38:13] Just sort of expanding on what Councilman Hernandez mentioned about the meeting we had with

[38:20] OCTA, all the cities in the Third Supervisorial District.

[38:26] I am with all of you about construction fatigue, but it does take time to get those designs

[38:31] through more importantly, the money that it takes to build it.

[38:35] So I just want to say thank you for your patience.

[38:39] There are more constructions coming along, but it's really for the purpose of making sure

[38:45] that we can move everyone from one end of the county to the other end safely.

[38:51] And I really appreciate your hard work on this Councilman Hernandez.

[38:54] He's been there trying to get us all the end to money.

[38:59] That our city really needs and in order to make sure that we have, you know, we're getting

[39:06] our roads repaired and transit and all that good stuff.

[39:10] So thank you as well to NJME and Public Works for making sure that our projects are

[39:15] We are submitted on time and pursuing those grounds, because that's how we can continue to provide the amenities.

[39:22] Yes.

[39:22] Yeah, Mayor, just one, real, are you two through tomorrow?

[39:24] No, no, no.

[39:26] A shout out, I see some young scouts here, I assume they're here for their merit badge, I would have thanked, because you wouldn't normally just come to a council meeting, just to, because it's so cool, I mean, it's cool to do, but it is cool to be at a council meeting, but I assume that's what they're working on, so glad to have you here, and I see we have students in the back, and they're usually required to come here also to experience.

[39:46] There's a civic process here at a council meeting, so thank you for joining us and I hope you're getting something out of this.

[39:53] Now, really what you need to do though, you need to go to another city's council meeting to make a comparison to see how that goes.

[40:00] And there's a couple of names I can give you afterwards where you have to go really go see their council meetings.

[40:04] You know how well you have it here, thank you.

[40:08] Thank you, I'm glad you did that because you know what, this was a really good council.

[40:12] I can't say that but other places so you should compare and contrast, but yes, Councilman Hernandez

[40:20] is correct and welcome to all of you. I had the pleasure of meeting with PACM A51

[40:27] a couple weeks ago, I'll give a mature of the city hall and so I'm glad you guys are here,

[40:34] welcome and actually instead of a tour to actually see how we work as a city, so I'm thank you

[40:40] for being here and staying past your bedtime hours.

[40:43] And for our high school students in the back,

[40:47] Councilwoman Campbell runs a great civic academy here

[40:51] for high school students to learn more about what we do every day

[40:55] and as well as each of our commissions,

[40:58] what they do, our traffic commissioners here.

[41:02] So I really, I strongly encourage you

[41:04] to consider signing up for it next spring

[41:08] and join the academy and find out what each one of our departments functions are and how they impact your daily lives.

[41:18] Councilwoman Haini and Councilman Hernandez and I had a chance to attend the Leadership Conference for Association of California Cities of Orange County.

[41:28] It was really awesome to hear a lot of the speakers looking at the demographics was a little bit depressing to see that so many people

[41:36] left in the aging population, but we also met the survivor from the miracle on Hudson River.

[41:44] Now his name escaped me. Do you remember? His name literally. He was the last person on the plane

[41:52] to get off. Perry? Is that the last name? Johnson. Oh, it was Johnson. Scott Johnson?

[42:01] I'll come back.

[42:03] But what's so amazing that he taught us was, you know, just, you know, in that moment

[42:10] of panic, and most people are trying to figure out how to get off the point first,

[42:15] he was looking back to see who he needed to help get off.

[42:20] And I was so inspired by that, and to always remember to look out for your neighbors in times

[42:30] So it was really neat to sit through that presentation with them and to really, you know, and also as well as for all of us, as members of ACCOC to all the City Council members to be together and to really talk about different issues in our cities.

[42:49] So these are great highlights and lastly, I want to announce to everyone on December

[42:56] 4th, we'll have on Main Street, we'll be holiday lights, so please come and join us for

[43:02] those annual affair, it will be fantastic, especially in light, last year, we didn't really

[43:08] do anything, so this show will be fun, hope you'll come and join us, but don't forget as

[43:13] well to shop small here in Europe and the Linda small business day will be the

[43:19] Saturday after Thanksgiving and please support our small businesses they had a

[43:23] hard time through COVID and they're still having a hard time but most

[43:27] importantly be patient with them we all know that there's a shortage on workers

[43:33] right now so the lines will be a little bit longer and stuff might be a little

[43:39] All this low getting to you but please support our businesses and have lots of patients because

[43:45] the holidays are here and enjoy each other's company and happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

[43:50] Mayor, it was Dave Sanderson.

[43:53] Dave Sanderson.

[43:54] That was close.

[43:55] I will tell you.

[43:56] You guys are so close.

[43:58] He was the mayor pointed out what I didn't know.

[44:01] He was the last one, if you watch the movie, Miracle on the Hudson.

[44:04] He was the last one physically off the plane.

[44:06] He's the one that jumped into the water just it was 50 feet and what he was worried about the plane was shifting

[44:13] And he'd seen movies where when a ship goes down the vortex sucks you under and he didn't want to be part of that

[44:18] So he jumped in a water was 30 degrees 50 feet and a head he stayed in there a minute longer

[44:25] He would have died. He was only there was only two in that that whole flight that ended up not going home immediately

[44:31] He went to the hospital because of the, he had the hypothermia and it took a full week for him to get back to his normal body temperature.

[44:39] It was bad and when I didn't realize the jet fuel in the water damaged his eyes and he's got now permanent vision problems.

[44:48] So there's so much more to that story. It's an amazing story. It's very, very impressive.

[44:51] And the way he tells it and the lessons that he applies to his life from that.

[44:55] Awesome. Anyway, thank you very much.

[44:57] Yeah. Thank you.

[44:58] It was very...

[45:01] So, if you had, I think he wrote a book. Now, I can't remember the top. I want you to remember. But I would say, you know, Google

[45:13] M and I know he has a YouTube video. He sure parts of it with us and as well as a book and TikTok. And so, Ted talk, Ted talk, and not

[45:24] It was a TED talk video.

[45:27] One of those talks.

[45:29] Either way.

[45:30] I really hope that you will spend five minutes or so to watch it.

[45:34] And you'll see why.

[45:36] You know, the three of us felt very inspired by what this man has done.

[45:41] And truly the humbleness of it as well.

[45:46] As that.

[45:48] Moving on, we are now at administrative reports.

[45:50] March item number 10 is the introduction of ordinance number 2021-1087, amending chapter 8.20 of the Yorval and a municipal code pertaining to the regulation of solid waste, including organic waste. Mr. Paloan, you're going to talk about garbage tonight.

[46:07] Organics.

[46:17] Organics.

[46:18] be 1383 and the impacts and the requirements that imposes on local agencies such as our city.

[46:25] And it all has to do with trying to prevent organic waste, food waste from going to the

[46:32] landfills and diverting that to other places.

[46:36] So tonight before you is first reading of an ordinance that will help the city comply with the requirements of 1383.

[46:44] And to give us a quick overview, turn it over to our Public Works Director, Jamie Leigh.

[47:01] Can you hear me?

[47:02] Okay, much better.

[47:03] Before you today is the first reading of ordinance 2021-1087, amending chapter 8.20 of the Eurobelinda Municipal Code to address state organics recycling mandates, including SB 1383.

[47:16] This mandate was signed into law September 19th, 2016.

[47:19] The legislation requires that all businesses, residents and multifamily apartments have access to recycling programs that capture food scraps, landscaping waste and other organic waste materials that keep them out of landfills.

[47:33] To meet the SB 1383 regulations, jurisdictions throughout the state are required to adopt an ordinance as an enforceable mechanism by January 1st, 2022.

[47:43] This ordinance will mandate that organic waste generators,

[47:48] haulers and other entities subject to the requirements SB 1383 must comply.

[47:54] And an overview of SB 1383 mandates cities to provide organic waste collection services to all residents and businesses.

[48:02] Develop and adopt an enforceable mechanism or ordinance by January 1st, 2022, which is what we have before you today.

[48:09] We formally refer to this ordinance as an enforcement ordinance.

[48:14] Establish an Edible Food Recovery Program.

[48:17] Update the city's procurement policy to purchase recycled content paper and recycled organic waste.

[48:23] And provide outreach and education for generators, facilities, edible food recovery organizations and municipal departments.

[48:31] Plan and secure access for recycling and edible food recovery capacity.

[48:36] monitor compliance and conduct enforcement, maintain accurate compliance records.

[48:43] So please note that a majority of these items are currently being negotiated with our

[48:47] Holler Republic Services to assist in the compliance and to line with the requirements

[48:51] of SB 1383 and other related legislation.

[48:55] A new and receded agreement will be coming to council at a future later date implementing

[49:00] all of these requirements.

[49:01] that completes my staff report on the phone also is Colleen Callahan, Project Manager, and we are happy to answer any questions.

[49:09] Thank you.

[49:10] Thank you.

[49:11] Do we have any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

[49:18] Seeing none, bring it back to Council, any members of the Council have any questions for staff?

[49:27] Or what's her name, the from Calvary Circle?

[49:30] Colleen, Colleen or Colleen staff is on the call.

[49:34] Just a quick one, Mayor, this hasn't started yet though, right?

[49:38] We're not putting our organics with our plant material yet, right?

[49:43] No, it's yeah.

[49:45] And this is one that the audience and those at home, you're going to want to pay attention to this.

[49:49] This is where now your banana peels and eggshells, that's going to go where you're putting your grass clippings now, too.

[49:55] It's all going to be in one.

[49:59] And as pointed out, this is an enforcement ordinance, so in other words, if there's no compliance with that, there could be some sanctions for doing not doing that.

[50:07] So a lot of questions, and as we get further through into this, we'll hopefully flush a lot of those out.

[50:14] Well, how are you getting enforcement? So I'm going to drive by and lift up your trash can and take a look, see if you're complying.

[50:18] Well, yeah, they are, but they're going to spot check it.

[50:21] So yeah, it's, it wasn't us that want to be the trash police, so just know that, but

[50:28] this is coming from the state. And it's a good reason. They want to minimize the landfills of

[50:35] this kind of, they don't want to fill these landfills up, but should not be going in there. So

[50:41] anyway, thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Campbell.

[50:47] Thank you, Mayor.

[50:49] So, kind of piggybacking off of Councilman Hernandez's comments, and as he mentioned last

[50:55] time when we had the presentation from Keller's cycle, this is another unfunded state mandate.

[51:01] So let's dig into the ordinance a little bit because I think it does come down to, as Councilman

[51:07] Hernandez said, enforcement of what this means.

[51:10] So, if I go to page 12 of the 13 and section 8 on violations and under C number 1 says upon determining a violation has occurred, the city manager or his designated issue a notice of violation.

[51:30] So I want to focus on that first clause.

[51:35] Upon determining a violation has occurred, I don't know if Jamie, you can help answer this or Mark as city manager.

[51:42] Who's determining if a violation has occurred or

[51:52] taught?

[51:52] So the intent is to have Republic, our trash hauler is going to be the entity that's going to be doing primarily the inspections and providing the city with the information.

[52:03] As a matter of law, eventually, if there is any follow-up enforcement necessary, it would be through the city at the end, but the actual inspections, it is intended to be through the waste dollar themselves.

[52:17] Great. That was hopefully going to be my, I know that it sounds like there's still negotiations going on with the public and those conversations will come at a later date as they'll be a second reading of this, but then the questions about enforcement, but that would be my preference at this time.

[52:31] Absolutely, and that is not, as you previously mentioned, of our own choosing that itself of who has to be the enforcer is mandated by the state.

[52:41] So it's not something we're willingly accepting or desiring, but are mandated to do.

[52:46] Correct.

[52:48] Those are my questions, Mayor.

[52:50] Thank you.

[52:51] Thank you.

[52:51] All I can say is we get a lot of unfunded state mandates and the city has to pay for those costs.

[52:59] But in the meantime, the state governor's office gets to proclaim a budget surplus.

[53:07] So I would only say, which some of that surplus came to the city to help fund all these mandates.

[53:15] Councilwoman Haney.

[53:17] I think you're I was just going to add that so the hauler will see every single resident, all of the trash cans.

[53:24] I'm imagining they're going to have a similar electronic tally to make sure that they're

[53:29] They're keeping track of who, you know, any violations that come through, and then that way, they report it to the city, and then we get to issue the

[53:35] define or whatever is going to be happening.

[53:38] How they get to see that, though, with, I mean, it picks up our can and dumps it in the coal mingles, how they know where it came from.

[53:45] Well, I'm guessing that that's the only way that they're going to be able to check unless they have inspectors.

[53:52] All right, well, like what's previously said, they're most likely going to be spot checks of compliance throughout the city.

[53:58] Is every single trash can going to be analyzed for content that just sounds disgusting.

[54:06] But there will be overall review, not necessarily every single can.

[54:12] Well, you know, a few years ago, I had an opportunity to study trash a little bit and my understanding

[54:21] that because each truck has a designated route, they can, when they go to the main facility

[54:29] and dunk their trash out, they do it in these grid sections.

[54:33] So when they look at the trash, they have an approximate idea of exactly where this lump

[54:41] But trash came from, because it came from that truck and so it's actually, even though when we go to the landfill or even to Republic services,

[54:53] we feel like we're just looking at mountains of trash, there's actually an orderly process to it, where the truck comes in,

[55:00] where they can properly dump and all that scanning that's involved of each truck tells them by grid and route exactly which neighborhood it comes from.

[55:11] And those dumps then are randomly audited to see what's in there to see if there are violations.

[55:17] So, that's how we sort of find out.

[55:20] So, basically, it's going to make our garbage disposal obsolete.

[55:23] You won't even be using that really anymore.

[55:25] Maybe, could for your, you know, drains.

[55:27] Well, actually, it is good for the drain.

[55:28] If those of you who try to use that for what it's for, you can find out real quick.

[55:32] But you can put your organics in still plastic bags and then put it in with, yeah, go figure.

[55:39] you can put it there with the grass. Well, otherwise, it's just going to wreak. I mean, can you imagine that?

[55:44] So, I apologize. May I approach, I'm Rodriguez.

[55:49] Come on, Trash Talk.

[55:52] I'm just trying to get some clarification on our approach to continued awareness and communication

[56:01] As we, this issue is surely, there's likelihood, not a lot of folks that are aware that there's going to be potential consequences for not complying with this unfunded mandate.

[56:23] As to that, Mr. Polone, any thoughts on how we will be, approaches we'll be considering to try to get the word out.

[56:31] and hopefully folks won't be caught off guard.

[56:35] Sure, that's a great question, and in fact, just to clarify,

[56:41] the separation of organics has been in place on the commercial side now for a couple of years.

[56:47] And so, in that case, we worked closely with the Republic to help educate our commercial customers and

[56:54] plan on doing the same thing on the residential side.

[56:57] So I could see Republic through their newsletters and electronic communications providing information to the customers as well as us through our city e-news and such.

[57:10] And there's a lot of information on the city website for anybody out there who wants to get more information currently.

[57:16] And I see 17 natures back there who are really good with social media that after today's meeting there will be one of our message ambassadors on recycling organics, right?

[57:27] Right, see I see nodding head, so I think we're going to be good.

[57:31] And the three younger students out front, if the parents permit you to use social media, please help get the word out on trash.

[57:40] We all make a motion that we accept, staff's recommendation to introduce order in number 2021-108.

[57:47] Also.

[57:47] We have been there.

[57:48] Our screen just bleeped today.

[57:50] Yeah, what'd you do, we've been reading, we've been there.

[57:52] She got it, I opened the vote, since we were making a motion.

[57:55] Thank you.

[57:57] A mending chapter 8.20, the Orbal End of Municipal Code to address state organics, recycling, mandates, and two direct staff to schedule a second reading and adoption of the proposed ordinance.

[58:08] A mending chapter 8.20 for December 7th, 2021, Regular City Council meeting.

[58:14] And I second it earlier.

[58:15] Yes, so we have a motion by Councilman Hernandez and seconded by Councilwoman Haney.

[58:20] Please vote.

[58:21] Thank

[58:26] you, motion passes unanimously.

[58:41] Moving on to other business, item number 11 is a resolution in support of the brand Huang Mendoza Tripartisan Land Use Initiative.

[58:52] This is an initiative that I have brought to this council's attention briefly and as well as presenting it at the ACCOC meeting last week.

[59:05] Let's see if the PowerPoint can come on and we'll go to the first one for slide.

[59:11] The Attorney General has officially approved this initiative and gave it a very long title

[59:20] called provides that local land use and zoning laws over right conflicting state laws.

[59:25] The main purpose of this initiative and let me back up and also the legislative analyst

[59:33] Alice Off-S also gave a rather neutral fiscal analysis on it as it is really dependent on the cities and counties decisions.

[59:46] So it's, there's no state expense involved.

[59:50] It's really at the city and county level.

[59:52] The purpose of this initiative that myself and members of city council representing over 250 cities.

[1:00:00] In the state of California, people of different party background, economics, racial, and gender, as well as several neighborhood organizations came together in response to several actually 67 housing bills that have been passed the last four years that basically imposed on the cities a lot of mandates, as well as taking away the cities.

[1:00:29] ability to zone and develop it within its own jurisdiction.

[1:00:35] Basically, what it has done is make the city and all cities become rubber stampers of any development.

[1:00:43] Next slide, all right.

[1:00:46] So to introduce you to all the proponents, John Heath, who is the president of the United Home Owners Association in Los Angeles.

[1:00:52] as Councilwoman Javita Hernandez from the City of Brentwood in Northern California.

[1:00:58] Dennis Richards, a former planning commissioner from the city and county of San Francisco,

[1:01:03] myself, and Mayor Bill Brand from the City of Redondo Beach who authored this initiative four years ago,

[1:01:11] a three years ago, and tried to pass it as the Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7 in 2021.

[1:01:18] One, unfortunately, that bill never got a day and never left the speaker's desk and never got any committee assignment.

[1:01:26] Next slide, the names of all these groups that came together,

[1:01:31] livable California, Kelly, the California Alliance of Locally Elected Officials and

[1:01:36] California Communities of Local Control and other commercial groups,

[1:01:40] Homeowner groups and neighborhood councils came together next slide.

[1:01:49] Here is the website, it's called Our Neighborhood Voices where you can learn more about the

[1:01:55] initiative and next slide and here is the website.

[1:02:00] Tonight I bring to you council colleague a resolution in support of this initiative which is basically

[1:02:08] to restore local control back into the cities that we have the powers over the zoning decisions

[1:02:16] in our within our jurisdiction. There will be cities that support a lot of these housing

[1:02:23] bills and if they want to keep the world as they like it, they can. But for cities, what this

[1:02:32] This initiative will do, it will also allow cities that want to have some say over their zoning that they can pass ordinances in regards to how their cities and neighborhoods are zoned and if there is a conflict between the city and the state than the city ordinance will prevail.

[1:02:54] This initiative will not override CEQA, it will not override fair housing and employment law, and it will not override the Coastal Commission.

[1:03:06] So those state statues are remained in place, and there are also federal statues as well.

[1:03:13] So I'm hoping that colleagues given that are positioned in opposition of Senate Bill 9, which is what this initiative is in response to.

[1:03:24] and Senate Bill 10.

[1:03:26] One of the things that Senate Bill 10 had done was give three members of this City Council the power to over term measure B.

[1:03:37] What this initiative will do is to ensure that no City Council can override voters' initiative on zoning.

[1:03:47] I believe that's the correct constitutional basis for it.

[1:03:51] But I've always argued SB 10 was unconstitutional.

[1:03:55] There is a lawsuit on that because it's not, I think it's unlawful and

[1:04:01] unconstitutional for city council majority to override the voters.

[1:04:05] This initiative will ensure that it's clear that no voters initiative will ever be overwritten by the active council.

[1:04:14] I am, the last slide is, I am open to questions since I did the presentation.

[1:04:20] Public comment, yes. Any members of the comment wish to make a comment on this agenda item?

[1:04:28] Yes, Mr. Deguerin?

[1:04:32] A simple question. I'm only favorited as a great initiative. But how will it be received by the

[1:04:51] It's best, of course, it's shoot best.

[1:04:55] Thank you.

[1:04:58] Any other members of the comment?

[1:05:00] The public wish to make a comment on this agenda item.

[1:05:04] Okay, seeing none, any questions from my council colleague?

[1:05:08] Let me get out.

[1:05:08] What are the Orange County cities that signed off on this?

[1:05:11] Okay, so to my knowledge, the city of Laguna Nagell,

[1:05:17] has it on their agenda today.

[1:05:19] I know I was asked to buy the city

[1:05:24] of San Clemente. I'm trying to remember all the cities that have asked me as well as New

[1:05:31] Probeach. Oh, it's on New Probeach agenda for tonight as well.

[1:05:38] I'm trying, I'm drawing a blank.

[1:05:40] So I was right down where we signed off for that. In the city of Torrance, the city of Redondo Beach,

[1:05:47] but not Orange County, they're all on their agenda tonight. Is my understanding from speaking to

[1:05:52] to various city council members last week.

[1:05:56] So everyone is sort of doing it tonight, I think it's mainly because we all got the language

[1:06:02] out on the website as well.

[1:06:05] And today, the legislative committee for SCAG, for Southern California Association Government

[1:06:13] and I want to stress this, recommended to the regional council.

[1:06:18] So it's a recommendation, not a vote, but recommended to the SCAG's Regional Council to be in full support of this initiative.

[1:06:29] And so I believe that's a,

[1:06:34] something positive in the right direction for Southern California on delegation of Councilwoman Haney.

[1:06:43] Thank you, Mayor.

[1:06:45] And so this is actually something that is going to start, this group has to, I mean, not

[1:06:54] this group, but the group has to gather a lot of signatures, like two million signatures

[1:07:00] or so.

[1:07:01] So there's a need to gather approximately a million, or that's a million require, slightly

[1:07:11] under a million.

[1:07:11] And then that'll give it on the ballot, so we can all vote on it, right?

[1:07:16] And then to do that, though, it costs a lot of money.

[1:07:18] There's a lot of, there's millions of dollars needs to be raised before this gets on any ballot that we can all vote on.

[1:07:26] So this is actually the first step in creating some public awareness that there's a chance that we can actually save our neighborhoods and

[1:07:36] and save our cities while also providing for affordable housing and taking care of vulnerable populations.

[1:07:45] So it's not anything against affordable housing, low income housing, nothing like that.

[1:07:50] We're trying to get it so that cities can make decisions that are best for

[1:07:54] the cities that the residents have voted on, right?

[1:07:57] So we're trying to take not control for the councils necessarily, but

[1:08:02] But control back to the residents versus the state capital.

[1:08:08] Correct.

[1:08:09] And I think it's a lot of response.

[1:08:11] I mean, when you have over 200 cities that kind of just came together, no fanfare, no

[1:08:20] type of advertisement just came together and say, wait a second, one size fits all doesn't

[1:08:25] work.

[1:08:25] we're all for development and really having, especially affordable housing and meeting

[1:08:34] our arena numbers but we wanted to be able to do it what's good for our communities, especially

[1:08:41] you know each cities have their own challenges. Here we have fire and we have oil wells,

[1:08:46] abandoned oil wells. So those are truly big challenges that we have that a lot of times when you're

[1:08:55] asked to rubber stamp, you don't have to ask those developers to prove that there would be water guarantee to go to the particular house or parking.

[1:09:09] Parking is a big thing because one of the things that Senate Bill 9 and

[1:09:15] Senate Bill 35 from three years ago is that if it's within half a mile of transit, that means a bus stop.

[1:09:23] then you cannot require parking for any development that comes under SB 35 or SB 9, so that is a huge impact.

[1:09:36] Or in up in San Bernardino, I can remember which city the water district told the city no more development, we cannot provide water for you.

[1:09:47] Unfortunately, they have to build nearly 3,000 affordable housing units because the state

[1:09:54] said so, but they can't provide water.

[1:09:57] So all to say that we need to bring local control back because here at the local level,

[1:10:04] we talk about those things.

[1:10:06] We ask developers to make sure they can get water.

[1:10:11] We make sure that traffic is not greatly impacted and we minimize it.

[1:10:16] and parking requirements and setbacks, but all that is taken away under SB 35 and 827, 910, 8, oh, Senate Bill 8 actually punishes cities for not building.

[1:10:31] So that's coming our way as well. So we hope to address a lot of this with the initiative.

[1:10:38] It's not that they can't get water, they would have to pay for importing the water.

[1:10:44] And that's what they don't want to do, because it's very expensive to do.

[1:10:46] Actually, for that particular city, they will have to import the water.

[1:10:52] Import or spend a few billion dollars, which is really costly.

[1:10:58] And even the importation according to the city and the water district that had made the presentation was.

[1:11:05] I mean, even that, you know, the, what they have to charge the residents is sky high.

[1:11:12] So, there's the excuse, though, the state doesn't use it, that we can't provide water.

[1:11:17] It's like saying, well, we can't provide electricity.

[1:11:19] We can't provide gas.

[1:11:21] As a utility, you have to, you have to.

[1:11:24] So, yeah, they don't worry about who's foot in the bill, which is us, but.

[1:11:28] which is the city. I'm asking that members of council if you can support this resolution.

[1:11:39] I'll move to accept it if we're there. Okay. Moved by Councilwoman Haney. Councilwoman

[1:11:45] Campbell. Yeah, I'll second it unless you've made the motion in Councilwoman Haney's second

[1:11:51] it. But a couple things. I do want to change the recommended action to have it say Wang

[1:11:57] long, instead of housing, in between. Do you see that?

[1:12:00] I thought that was true.

[1:12:01] I thought that was true.

[1:12:02] I thought that was true.

[1:12:03] There you go.

[1:12:04] It should be brand one, Mendoza.

[1:12:06] Mendoza. Mendoza. Mendoza.

[1:12:07] Anyway, so I'll second your motion based off that change, but just to make some comments as

[1:12:14] well, Mayor, I think I appreciate your work on this and it proves all the hard work that

[1:12:21] you've done on this issue of trying to maintain local control. And I think a lot of us

[1:12:27] brought it up and I want to reiterate that I think your Belinda has proven through our last

[1:12:35] rena cycle that we are willing able to create great affordable housing projects in our community.

[1:12:43] We look at the Al Trudy project that's currently underway. We look at the National Core project

[1:12:47] that was in Savai Ranch. We are able to create communities that address those needs but also fit in with

[1:12:56] our city of your Belinda, so why they're taking away local control from us is concerning.

[1:13:05] You've heard a couple other issues and it seems to be a trend.

[1:13:08] I feel like every council meeting we're talking about something the state is taking away

[1:13:11] local control on.

[1:13:13] And I think with this supporting this initiative as a councilwoman Haney, I think articulated

[1:13:19] pretty well in that this is protecting the rights of our residents who, you know, we

[1:13:26] We have initiatives here at the local level and it's their voice that's being taken away.

[1:13:31] So this would be protecting their rights for local control for our neighborhood.

[1:13:37] So I appreciate you bringing this forward and I will be supporting.

[1:13:41] Okay.

[1:13:42] Thank you.

[1:13:43] Any other comments?

[1:13:46] Okay.

[1:13:46] With that, please vote.

[1:13:56] Okay.

[1:13:56] I'll close the votes and motion passes unanimously.

[1:14:02] Thank you, Council.

[1:14:02] Council, I really appreciate your support on the resolution.

[1:14:07] Oh, four.

[1:14:08] I'm sorry.

[1:14:10] Motion passes with Rodriguez, voting abstaining.

[1:14:13] Thank you, thank you.

[1:14:15] I really appreciate your support on this initiative, and I will be out there gathering signatures.

[1:14:22] Really fun.

[1:14:23] And I also want to let everyone know that the Planning Commission has started the process to adopt an ordinance,

[1:14:31] and regarding the implementation of Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10 that will eventually be considered by the City Council.

[1:14:37] So even though we have this initiative, our Planning Commission has already started the work necessary.

[1:14:47] Lastly, I would like to adjourn tonight's meeting in honor of our dear friend Gordon Miller.

[1:14:54] Gordon was an honorable and lifelong servant to the Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce and other organizations.

[1:15:00] We thank him for his service to the Chamber and the community and extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Gordon was a stable and we appreciate all his great work. And if you see photographs all around the cities,

[1:15:21] These ribbon cuttings and chamber events, they were all done by Gordon and he's a treasure.

[1:15:27] So our meeting is now adjourned to the next City Council meeting on December 7th.

[1:15:32] Thank you very much.

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