[1:18] Good evening and welcome.

[1:23] This is the close session, and I'd like to call to order a close session portion of the regular meeting of the City of Colton Colton Utility Authority, Colton Financing Authority, and the Colton Housing Authority of the City of Colton. Today is Tuesday, September 15th, 2026, and it's approximately 5 p.m. Mr. Clerk, if you would please. Thank you, Mayor. For the record, the following councilmembers are present. Mayor,

[1:48] I'm going to approve, Tim, Memoradus, Toro.

[1:50] Okay, let's just think is absent.

[1:53] Council Member Gonzales.

[1:55] Council Member Ishtavidiyah.

[1:57] Any yourself, Mayor?

[1:58] Thank you very much.

[1:59] This time I'll ask our city attorney

[2:01] to please read us into closed session.

[2:03] Thank you, Mayor.

[2:03] City Council has to join us for a closed session today.

[2:06] The first is the KCV College EV City of Colton.

[2:09] And the second case in closed session is Colton V.

[2:12] Inlet Memorial.

[2:13] Thank you.

[2:13] And there being no audience in the chambers.

[2:15] we will dispense with public comment on closed session items.

[2:19] We will adjourn and re adjourn and approximate reconvene at approximately 6 p.m.

[2:25] Thank you.

[2:29] Re adjourn.

[2:30] It's okay.

[2:34] She's laying down right now.

[2:37] She went to her moms.

[2:38] We

[4:01] need and welcome to our meetings tonight.

[4:03] At this time, I would like to reconvene our closed session and ask our attorney

[4:07] to read us out of closed session, please.

[4:09] Thank you very much.

[4:09] City Council could be in a closed session on the two items.

[4:11] We received direction on the items,

[4:13] but no reportable actions were taken.

[4:14] Thank you.

[4:15] Thank you very much.

[4:16] And at this time, I will open.

[4:17] I would like to call to order the regular meeting

[4:19] of the city of Colton, Colton Utility Authority,

[4:21] Colton Public Financing Authority,

[4:23] and the Colton Housing Authority of the city of Colton.

[4:27] Today is Tuesday, September 15th, 2026,

[4:30] and it's approximately 6 p.m.

[4:33] Mr. Clerk, if you would please.

[4:41] This evening's invocation will be conducted

[4:42] by Pastor Don Duenius from Echoes of Love, Ministries, and our flags will be conducted

[4:48] by a Vietnam veteran's Tom Leone and Bernie Moeda, please stand.

[4:58] Good evening mayor and city council.

[5:01] And it's a pleasure to be here.

[5:03] It's always a pleasure and an honor to be here and to open up and prayer.

[5:08] You know, I always admire the wording back there in God we trust and us mayor and city council

[5:15] and all future leaders let us never let that sign come down amen our trust must always be

[5:22] in God our faith must always be in God amen let's buy our heads heavenly Father we come before

[5:28] you this evening Lord we thank you we praise you we bless you Father we come before you Lord

[5:32] with hearts of gratitude Father and thankfulness for all that you give us Lord and and all that you do

[5:38] Father we thank you Lord for our mayor and city council we thank you for the city leaders Father

[5:43] Thank you, Father, for all the employees and the residents, Father, in this city of Colton,

[5:49] Lord.

[5:49] Father, right now, Lord, we pray, Father, that you would lead, Father, that you would

[5:54] guide, Father, God, this meeting, Father, I pray, O Lord, that you would pour out, Father,

[5:59] God, wisdom, Father, on our leaders this evening, Father, for every decision, Father,

[6:04] that, that they make, Lord, and Father, we pray, O Lord, Father, just a spirit, Father,

[6:09] of unity, Father, in this place, Father, not only in tonight's meeting, Father, but amongst

[6:15] Father, the residents, Father of this city, Heavenly Father, we pray, Father, for a

[6:21] hedge of protection, Father, over tonight's meeting, Lord, and Father, just a hedge of

[6:26] protection, Father, over this entire city, Lord, and its residents.

[6:31] Father, Your Word tells us, Lord, that when Jesus was teaching His disciples to pray, He

[6:36] He said, in this manner, you ought to pray.

[6:38] And he said, for your father in heaven knows the things that you have need of before you

[6:43] even ask.

[6:44] Father, right now I lift up every person in this meeting.

[6:47] I lift up every person that's viewing this meeting, Lord, and Father, we lift up Father,

[6:52] their needs, Lord, whatever they may be, Father.

[6:55] We lift them up before you, Father, and we pray, Father, that you would respond, Father,

[6:59] that you would act, Lord, according to your perfect and divine will, Father, for us, all

[7:04] Lord.

[7:04] And father, we just thank you, Lord.

[7:06] We praise you.

[7:07] We bless you in Jesus' name.

[7:09] We pray and together we all said amen.

[7:17] Remain standing, please face the flag.

[7:20] Repeat after me.

[7:21] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America

[7:26] and to the Republic for which it stands.

[7:29] One nation under God, indivisible, indivisible,

[7:32] and just as liberty and justice for all.

[7:35] Thank you.

[7:36] Thank you.

[7:46] Mr. Clerk, would you please conduct roll call?

[7:53] Thank you, Mayor.

[7:54] Good.

[7:56] For the work of the following council members are present.

[7:59] Mayor Pro Tem, the Moritas.

[8:02] Mayor Pro Tem, Chastain.

[8:04] Council Member Gonzalez.

[8:05] Council Member Hvedia.

[8:06] I knew yourself, Mayor.

[8:08] Thank you very much.

[8:08] But we know the agenda to ceremonial matters.

[8:13] We started out with three.

[8:15] We're down to one.

[8:15] So, the first one, the introduction of the Police Canine Theo and Canine Veg presentations

[8:23] to Brita and Theo.

[8:25] Chief?

[9:03] Paul out here.

[9:06] Paul's always trying to hide the shadows.

[9:09] Good evening, Mayor and Council.

[9:11] It's my honor this evening to present our Police Canines.

[9:16] If you remember last year, we introduced Britta, who is our Malinois assigned to apprehension

[9:23] in the police department.

[9:24] But you have the audience, our community, and council has not had a chance to formally

[9:29] meet Theo, our new bloodhound.

[9:32] So this is our K-19 for the police department, it's exciting.

[9:35] As I mentioned before, K-9 Britta is the first female K-9 that we've had in our department

[9:41] and Theo's our first bloodhound that we've introduced.

[9:45] Theo is a tracking and trailing dog,

[9:48] and this evening we will, I'll mention a few things about them,

[9:52] then we will officially swear them in,

[9:55] like we do any police officer,

[9:58] and we will present them with their police officer badge.

[10:02] So this will be kind of a historic opportunity for us,

[10:07] and we appreciate everybody being here to celebrate it

[10:10] this is this evening. So the first the first thing is Britta is a two-year-old

[10:16] Malinois and she's from the Czech Republic. She has she has specifically trained

[10:24] in criminal apprehension and assigned to patrol. She's also a dual-purpose

[10:29] canine so she also sniffs narcotics. She has done a tremendous amount of work

[10:35] this year alone, she has been deployed 171 times in our city to keep our community safe.

[10:42] That's everything from searching for a suspect to clearing a house, a car, or looking for evidence.

[10:50] So that is Britta, and next I will highlight K9 Theo.

[10:56] Oh, I did not mention her partner in this endeavor is Officer Robert Henderson,

[11:02] who has a tremendous amount of K9 experience and I'm glad that he got to have this assignment.

[11:08] He has been a K9 handler with other agencies before Colton Police Department stole him and

[11:14] brought all that value into our organization. K9 Theo comes to us from Florida and he's 11 months

[11:24] old and his partner is Officer Jesus Marino. This is his first assignment with a K9 and right now

[11:32] as you can tell, they're fully bonded and it's working out great.

[11:37] But Theo comes, as I mentioned from Florida, he's been acclimating to our weather.

[11:45] It's a lot more humid.

[11:47] It's interesting to know what these dogs can do.

[11:50] Their whole design is for detecting odor.

[11:56] Their ears, the floppy ears, have a purpose.

[11:58] It draws the scent toward their face.

[12:03] There's a lot of amazing dynamics behind these animals.

[12:09] But what he does is unique. He can track, he can trail.

[12:14] And he will follow a scent. It doesn't matter if it's windy,

[12:17] if it's raining, if there's earthquakes or fires.

[12:20] He will follow that scent until he either loses it,

[12:24] It apprehends what he's looking for or his handler and partner officer

[12:29] Marino tells him it's over.

[12:31] But what he also is trained to track and trail just anything that we need him to.

[12:38] So that's from suspects and criminals that are wanted for some type of crime to the individuals

[12:45] that have been lost or endangered.

[12:49] A lot of times, our community that are elderly or suffering from dementia, they wander off.

[12:57] We can't find them. We have helicopters and resources.

[13:00] Everybody stops to try and locate these people.

[13:03] And officer Theo will start sent and tracking and trailing that immediately and giving us a direction of where to even begin.

[13:12] So it's pretty neat. It's exciting.

[13:14] I'm honored to be here and present these two amazing animals to you.

[13:20] We will give them their badges first, and then I think are we going to muzzle Britta

[13:25] for the, for the swear in?

[13:27] Okay.

[13:27] So, so this is the way it's going to, it's going to work.

[13:31] We will give them their badges.

[13:33] The, the handlers will put their badges on.

[13:37] Normally, most of, most of our officers sign an oath of office.

[13:41] I make them raise their right hand. We haven't got to the point where they can raise their

[13:46] paw yet or sign because they don't have opposable thumbs. So the supervisor Sergeant Grimes

[13:52] has a special way of getting their paw print on the oath of office without using ink that

[13:59] will impact their paws. So that's what we're going to do next. Alright, so we're going to

[14:04] them in.

[14:18] You do

[14:26] it. You do it.

[15:57] Good job. See,

[16:17] he does it.

[16:22] This one's okay. We'll go ahead and have you watch that. I saw

[16:27] here and right here, comment. I have it as active, so you should be on it, right?

[16:35] She is one in person, but I'll have a name.

[16:42] Oh, good, good.

[16:44] The one in person?

[16:49] Okay, so that's me.

[16:51] Yeah.

[16:53] There's no more, huh?

[16:54] Nope.

[16:56] I'm going to go do a pretend one, and we'll see what happens.

[17:02] Yeah, let's see if we're going to move on to the next one.

[17:31] You're going to make brilliantly sweat, aren't you?

[17:37] Thank you, Chair, members.

[17:37] Mayor, can you take one step to your left?

[17:39] I have a question.

[17:41] Thank you.

[17:41] Oh.

[17:44] Yeah, right there.

[17:46] Thank you.

[18:15] Thank you.

[18:16] Thank you.

[18:16] Thank you, Chair.

[18:16] Thank you, officers.

[18:19] The

[18:23] other business focus would have been with Ruben Gava upholstery.

[18:27] That will be postponed to a future date.

[18:30] The third one was the retirement proclamation for a customer service supervisor, Lili Espinosa.

[18:35] That's been postponed also to a future date.

[18:40] We'll move on to the agenda, the council, mayor and council items, gift disclosures.

[18:45] Anybody wishing to disclose gifts?

[18:48] Seeing none and hearing none, we move on to AB 1234 oral reports.

[18:51] reports. These are reports that council members provide after attending meetings or conferences

[18:56] at the expense of the city. Do I have anybody? Hearing none and seeing none, we move on.

[19:03] Appointments.

[19:06] We have no appointments.

[19:09] We're here in Disconcel Islands. We don't have any of

[19:11] those. And then I will now turn it on to our city attorney, Carlos Cumpos, has an announcement

[19:16] regarding tonight's public hearing. Sure. Thank you, Mayor and City Council. Staff

[19:22] Not for this item that's currently under public hearing staffs recommending we move that to the consent calendar on tonight's agenda.

[19:31] This item was intended to be a consent item, and invariably, it was placed under public hearing.

[19:37] There will be a public hearing on this item, but that public hearing will be on October 20th.

[19:42] As such, for now, the question staff is to move this item to consent calendar.

[19:48] and that would be become item number 11 under consent.

[19:53] Okay. Consensus, come to my door.

[19:57] Mayor Patel. Yes?

[20:00] Yes. Yes.

[20:01] Thank you.

[20:07] Business items.

[20:08] We have no business items on the agenda.

[20:10] Public comment is now here.

[20:12] It's for the social.

[20:13] We have a Gerald that wants to speak public and

[20:18] comment is in person, Mr. Mayor.

[20:23] Oh, there he is.

[20:24] Please.

[20:24] Hi,

[20:28] my name's Gerald Taha. I live here in Colden. I grew up here, moved away, came back,

[20:36] been back about 10 years already. I live on all of, I've

[20:46] had I guess issues with

[20:49] code enforcement where they've come out and she's asked me to do certain things that that got done.

[20:58] Um, then she started calling me, the woman started calling me and asking me like fourth

[21:04] of July just passed and she was like, well, what's up with the barbecues in the front

[21:09] yard and the easy up?

[21:10] Who doesn't do that?

[21:12] I mean, I barbecue on fourth of July, I guess most of you do.

[21:17] So she had an issue with me having the easy up out there and the barbecues.

[21:22] Then she moved down to, why is there a swimming pool out there?

[21:26] That's my granddaughter that's crimson. It's one of them little pools. So I removed it all

[21:32] There she got a hold of me again

[21:35] But a month later and she says you have cars in the backyard and I told her how would you know that I got a six-foot fence

[21:43] And she said I needed to remove the cars well my son passed away. I have his cars in my backyard

[21:50] You can't see the property. I mean I got a six-foot high fence

[21:56] How are you going to see in there and that's what I asked her how would you know what I have in my yard?

[22:00] Because she's come and she's yanked on the gate and she asked me how do I get in there and I said you don't.

[22:08] I don't know what I got to do to make that go away. I mean, what do you do?

[22:14] You know, I had that issue years ago where I kind of went through that and they kept giving me tickets for just petty things.

[22:22] and once I came in here and spoke, that went away.

[22:27] I mean, I don't know what else to do,

[22:29] but come in here and just talk about it.

[22:32] You know, I mean, what do I do?

[22:37] We can't give you a response, sir,

[22:39] but I'm sure that somebody will be in touch with you.

[22:43] Okay, yeah, that's basically all I had to say.

[22:45] I mean, because she's calling me and she's asking me,

[22:49] did you get this done?

[22:51] Did you get that done?

[22:51] Do you need more time?

[22:53] And I asked her, could I ask you something?

[22:55] How would you see what's in my backyard?

[22:58] You can't see my backyard.

[23:00] You have 30 seconds or so.

[23:01] No, it's not that bad.

[23:02] That's all I've got to say.

[23:03] Okay.

[23:03] Thank you very much.

[23:04] Okay.

[23:06] Mr. Mayor, I have no other for the public.

[23:08] There being no other requests for public comment.

[23:10] Public comment is now closed and we will move on to our consent calendar and Mr. Berry,

[23:15] if you would please.

[23:20] Yeah.

[23:20] Good evening, Mayor and Council.

[23:22] Council consent calendar consists of newly revised items 1 through 11 for your consideration.

[23:28] I do want to point out that item number 5, however, has been pulled from the agenda and

[23:34] will be placed for consideration at a future date.

[23:37] So you have 10 items in total for your consideration.

[23:40] Staff recommends approval on all items.

[23:43] Thank you.

[23:43] So, mayor presents the consent calendar items 1 through 11, with 5 being pulled from the consent calendar, making it 1 through 10.

[23:56] Chair will entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar.

[23:59] Motion to approve consent, calendar as amended.

[24:02] Dr. Gonzalez.

[24:04] Second, council member Chavirilla.

[24:08] Mr. Clerk, the vote please, entering the votes.

[24:10] The

[24:13] votes unanimous, we'll let the display maize to mayor.

[24:16] Thank you very much.

[24:24] Moving on to mayor and council, oral reports, excuse me.

[24:32] And we'll start with councilmember mayor pro tem, emeritus, dodo.

[24:40] Thank you, mayor pro tem.

[24:45] Thank you, the quickest meeting so far, it's awesome.

[24:51] Just a couple items.

[24:52] I wanted to say, I think we did last time, I'm not sure, but both of the police departments,

[25:01] fire departments have been out in the community quite a bit, football games and so forth.

[25:05] I know the fire department was recognized according to the weekly update that we receive here

[25:11] for their presence and for what they give, so I just wanted to make sure that the residents

[25:16] students know that we're not just there when the need is there, we are, but also as part

[25:24] of our community, and it shows, and we just wanted to thank you again.

[25:28] And then for the Police Department Award ceremony, that was awesome.

[25:34] I think it was a good event, well attended, many awards given out, and rightfully so.

[25:41] And it was just a great event overall.

[25:43] So thank you, Chief, for recognizing our officers and the great work that they do.

[25:48] The other thing that I noticed in the update was our storm drain cleaning.

[25:53] These aren't sometimes the sexy things that we hear about in the city of Colton, but they're

[25:57] definitely needed. And with the storms, you know, the alineal that is predicted to be for this next winter

[26:04] and so forth, seeing that we're handling that right now and getting through it. And some of the

[26:09] pictures are just daunting. It's incredible. But thank you for your staff doing those types

[26:15] of jobs as well. I think we need to have like a camera following you guys, the most

[26:20] dirtiest jobs kind of a thing, and to recognize that what we do, sometimes the hard stuff gets

[26:31] unrecognized and we need to make sure that they are recognized. So thank you. Thank you, your

[26:35] staff.

[26:35] and that's it, thank you.

[26:37] Thank you, Dr. Wenzone.

[26:40] Thank you, Mayor.

[26:42] As always, please continue to support

[26:44] at local businesses as they're working hard

[26:46] to provide service to our residents

[26:47] and help our economy.

[26:49] Today, I had the pleasure of visiting with Mr. Richard Lee, owner of its

[26:53] Boba time. Some of you have been there close to Colton High School,

[26:57] because they hosted a luncheon on site

[26:59] at the police department today with Garnes Sade and Boba flavored drinks.

[27:03] This was a nice collaboration and thank you to Richard Lee and thank you to our chief for coordinating this together with a nice service for everyone.

[27:14] Number two, friendly reminder, food distribution is available at several churches. Feel free to text me and I will give you the information.

[27:21] But our community services has food distribution at the Lucky Center. Our next distribution will be next week Thursday September the 24th from 830 to 1030 AM.

[27:32] and a reminder that all our programs are available on the Colton Connection magazine.

[27:39] Anyone who might be interested, a friendly reminder about the Chamber of Commerce,

[27:43] they continue to have their rise and shine meetings on the first Tuesday of each month,

[27:47] the same day as our council meeting. Our next meeting is Tuesday, October 6 at 9 a.m.

[27:52] and as I understand, they're going to be at L and L Hawaiian Barbecue on Valley and Pepper Avenue.

[27:58] and if you go you get 15% off and I just learned today for first responders

[28:05] any time you go there you get 10% off on an L&L Hawaiian barbecue and

[28:12] reminder that business owners and representatives of local organizations are

[28:17] encouraged to join the Chamber of Commerce. For information our 2627 youth

[28:25] Council is doing very well. This group of high school students are learning about

[28:29] civic affairs, Colton history, city operations and leadership. The next

[28:35] presentation will be coming up in this next month and it's going to be about our

[28:40] Colton Fire Department and our guest speaker is Chief Wemes. I want to thank you

[28:44] for offering to do this. I also want to thank all the other staff that are

[28:48] offering to give and share their time and expertise with our youth group.

[28:54] 21 might be interested. Our Council of Churches is doing great. Our next meeting is coming

[29:00] up next Saturday the 26th at 9 o'clock a.m. and every church in Colton is invited to be represented

[29:07] by church leaders who come for networking, prayer, music, and a Bible-based presentation. And this

[29:16] group is doing just great. So feel free to text me for more information. Thank you, Mayor.

[29:20] Thank you. Councilwoman Mitchell. Thank you. My first thing I want to do is I want to give praise to our hard work and employees all of us experienced the heat wave that we recently had. It was very uncomfortable.

[29:36] I learned recently that our public works were out there patching up potholes and that some of the steam or some of the hotter that comes out of it's about 200 degrees.

[29:46] on top of the 109 or 110 that we all experienced, so I want to express gratitude for them doing that.

[29:53] There was no complaining, they just did it and made our streets safer, made them better, so thank you for that.

[30:00] I'm a member of San Salvador Catholic Church, which is located in my colleague Councilmember Gonzalez's District. And I left church on Sunday, and I was approached by about three or four ladies who were upset with our public safety. And so what I did was I went back and I read a notification from the fire that happened on the rail cars on 9.9 or September 9 at 4.4.

[30:29] in the morning the concern they had or the express was and this came from the ladies was that

[30:36] they felt that they were not evacuated at the time of the incident and there were some senior

[30:42] citizens that were in their eyes still in danger and when I read the internal memo obviously you

[30:50] could see the fire team was battling the fire on two separate cars and police and public works came

[30:56] and helped. I'm not criticizing that. I'm just relaying the message they were concerned

[31:00] and they said we could do better in the future. So just something to think about. I don't

[31:05] know I wasn't there. And that was something I promised them. I would explain to our teams

[31:11] as well, just let them know. And then my next thing is a question that I have for our utility

[31:17] and Dr. Barry as well who's a former utility. We obviously are all going through some hard

[31:25] times right now, financially, and one of the big concerns I'm getting to from a lot

[31:30] of residents, both in person and social media, is our utility bill, our utility costs.

[31:36] And some approach that said that Southern California Edison is offering a rebate.

[31:43] So I'm wondering, is that something that we can do?

[31:45] So I researched it, and it's on YouTube, it's on channel 11.

[31:50] and what they have is a $72 rebate, it's called the summer climate credit, $36 applied in August,

[32:01] $36 applied in September. And the cool part about that was they said that there's

[32:11] also more

[32:12] savings to come. So I don't know if that's something that we as a city of colds can offer. I know that

[32:18] that our utility does well, I mean, I know we just sponsored a drone show, so we have

[32:24] an obligation to answer their constituents' concerns and that's just an idea that I

[32:29] was thinking of to that something that we can potentially research, we can think about

[32:36] for our residents too because a lot of families, more specifically, the senior citizens live

[32:41] on a fixed income and what I did was I did my homework, I put my bills and on my June 23rd bill, it was $422.205.20 was for the electric, on my July 27th bill, it was $620.370.79 to my electric, and on my August 26th bill, it was $9.87.

[33:13] And 728.95 of that was for the electric, so I can understand the residents' concerns.

[33:20] Like I've said several times from up here, I live here too, I care about this town,

[33:24] so I'm just relaying a message and an idea, I'm not going to say competitor but our other

[33:32] vendor, Edison's doing it, so is that something that we could look into as well to help our

[33:36] citizens?

[33:36] Yeah, thank you for that question, Councilmember.

[33:41] Let me lead off with this.

[33:43] I do encourage any of our residents to reach out to our electric utility staff.

[33:48] We do have some very generous energy efficiency programs.

[33:53] In addition to that, we do have income-qualified discounts as well as medical baseline discounts.

[34:01] So for our most vulnerable residents, I certainly encourage them to reach out.

[34:05] staff stands ready and able to assist them.

[34:08] Now, as far as the rebate front, that's something we can certainly discuss internally and

[34:13] bring back for Council to consideration at a future point in time.

[34:18] We do not have any program in place that currently rebates customers.

[34:22] And it's important to understand that money that, whether it's Edison or PG&E or any other

[34:28] investor owned utility, uses to rebate customers as a compulsory rebate based on the state's

[34:35] capital investment program, so they are required to do this.

[34:41] All right, thank you very much for that.

[34:43] As I explain to the residents, I will speak up for them.

[34:47] And lastly, I want to thank our employees for their hard work.

[34:52] I see teamsters are in the house doing a good job, and

[34:55] a lot of employees are here in the audience today, so

[34:57] thank you very much for your service.

[34:59] That's all I have.

[35:02] Thank you.

[35:16] Okay, I really don't have anything because I've been very busy

[35:19] here in the office.

[35:20] I have a lot of time to wander around the city and see what's going on but we are getting

[35:27] ready for the holiday season and our letters of support will be going out to our businesses

[35:33] and our residents for donations to support our Thanksgiving food baskets and our Christmas

[35:39] food baskets and other activities that we do for our residents to provide them with the things

[35:46] that they need that they can't afford.

[35:47] So, think about it and let us know you can always contact Ms. Debora, our community services

[35:54] and should be more than glad to accept any type of elimination, any amount that will

[35:59] move forward our holiday season.

[36:03] That's it for me.

[36:05] And now, the City of Managers report.

[36:08] Thank you, Mayor and Council.

[36:10] Tonight, there will be a brief presentation from the fire department on our rave alert system

[36:18] and this is commonly referred to as a reverse 9-1-1 system, so it's very timely that council

[36:25] member brought up that comment. I think this will go a long way in addressing that concern

[36:30] and with that I'll turn it over to Deputy Chief Box.

[36:46] No problem. Good evening Honourable Mayor and members of the City Council. I'm happy to

[36:50] present a brief presentation on our rave alerting system with a combination of mobile reach.

[36:58] Why we're rolling this out? It's one system with two missions. So you have one side

[37:01] the system that does emergency alerts and other side is called community connect that can do

[37:07] non-emergency city information such as city events, community services can publicize their

[37:12] events for customers that opt in. On the emergency alert side, we can use this to notify the community

[37:19] about evacuations shelter in place just like Council Member Archivari was talking about in reference

[37:25] those things. We can use this system to notify the customers, notify the residents of emergency.

[37:32] Rave Alert is their motto is fast, targeted in multi-modal,

[37:35] multi-modal meaning they use text, voice, email,

[37:39] landline, and more.

[37:42] On the mobile reach side, so where we use it for

[37:45] to alert the community about special events

[37:46] and things of that nature, you do not need to have,

[37:50] or for the emergency alert side, the residents do not have to opt in.

[37:54] It's an address target base.

[37:56] So what can happen, what we use is we'll have a map

[37:59] and we can draw a geofence around the area, if we have a wildland fire in the area, if we have a large incident where we need to notify large numbers of the public, the incident commander can draw a geofence around it, and it'll alert all of the active cell phones in that area as to what we have going on.

[38:14] That does not require residents to opt in because it's an emergency. The FCC gets involved in what we can and can alert without permission.

[38:22] The other side of it, what this looks like in Colton.

[38:25] We can use it for vegetation fires, hazmats, earthquakes, severe weather incidents, right

[38:29] message, right area, right protective action.

[38:31] This causes our ability to reach the community, leaps and bounds better.

[38:37] More than emergency, same platform, so like I was saying before, on an emergency, we use

[38:42] mobile reach, which we don't have to get customer's permission, it'll ping the cell phones

[38:46] in the area.

[38:47] Then for the routine community events, it requires the community members to opt in.

[38:51] They can opt in on RAVS website.

[38:54] We have links on our website, community services.

[38:57] We send the QR code out on Colton Fire on a quarterly basis.

[39:02] Last time I checked, we have currently, even though we're just rolling this program out,

[39:06] we have over a thousand residents that have already opted in for these message services.

[39:11] This is part of the simple rollout.

[39:13] It's already configured.

[39:14] Training our staff.

[39:15] We've already had one training with the RAV alert staff with one more to come and then exercise

[39:20] the system.

[39:21] As we get better at using the system, we'll get more efficient.

[39:25] We already have an internally a list of authorized users from within the city of proof templates,

[39:30] public education, and then testing.

[39:31] When we use the emergency side of it, every time we use the emergency side,

[39:35] and it pings the cell phones in the area, every single one of those alerts are then audited by the state of California to confirm that they met the standards for emergencies.

[39:46] At the end of the day, this is more people reaching a faster capacity.

[39:49] So, it's a great program. We're excited to bring it to the city of Colton and it's going to increase our ability to notify the community as what's happening.

[39:58] I have a be happy to entertain any questions if you have any.

[40:01] Any questions from council?

[40:04] Can you clear the book?

[40:06] Yeah, I was noticing that too. I couldn't push my back. Just a quick question. When did you say the rollout or when will we?

[40:12] This program's already live now.

[40:13] It's already so anybody can log on and start.

[40:16] Not not not anybody we have a authorized staff users within the community and then but any members of the public can

[40:23] Scan the QR code and opt in for the non emergency messages. Okay, so we can still that's what I meant

[40:28] I guess opt-in in the non-emergency and then it's also

[40:32] Rolling out for emergency. So was it in effect during the what council member edge of area was brought up on that incident the incident did not

[40:39] weren't any evacuations. Oh okay that's a good I'm glad you brought that up so

[40:44] that it's clarified. Absolutely. And so this kind of like I know there's a

[40:52] app and I can't think of the name of it now where you can go on and see where

[40:56] there's a fire going my son lives up in pinion hills and I'm trying to think

[41:03] of the app and I got on it and it says it shows where the evacuations and

[41:07] things of that nature. First watch. Yeah. Yeah. This is for internal use, so we'll use this

[41:14] where we'll notify the community slightly different. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Yeah.

[41:20] Consuminated to you. This is a beautiful idea. Thank you very much. The first question I had,

[41:26] I was writing as you were speaking on some of it. Is it just for cell phones or can it be for any

[41:31] device such as what do they call tablets? Yeah. So it can be landlines. It can be we can set it up

[41:37] to do emails that are opting in after customers and then cell phones is for the emergencies.

[41:42] Okay, and it would be Spanish too, is there Spanish option?

[41:44] Absolutely.

[41:45] Awesome.

[41:46] And I know when we get these announcements of like a child abduction or something like that

[41:52] very serious, or the weather, there's a storm coming, whatever.

[41:57] They're very annoying.

[41:58] They're very loud.

[41:59] And a lot of us just to smithety erase it.

[42:02] Do we are able to store that in any way?

[42:05] So we're able to share that information?

[42:09] It comes in the form of a text message.

[42:12] Okay.

[42:13] All right.

[42:13] Thank you very much.

[42:14] I like it.

[42:15] Yeah.

[42:16] It's a great program.

[42:17] Okay.

[42:17] I see no further request for questions.

[42:18] Thank you.

[42:20] Looking forward to it.

[42:26] Is there anything else, Mr. Barry?

[42:28] Nothing further, Mayor.

[42:30] Thank you.

[42:30] In tonight's adjournment, we are adjourning tonight's meeting in memory of some Colton residents

[42:35] who've recently passed Virginia Spinoza.

[42:40] K.J. Hu, Josevi Arrian, Carlos Jose Balker, David Cordoba, and Asandra Hokobo.

[42:51] Our sincere condolences to the families and may their loved ones rest in peace.

[42:56] And please join me in a moment of silence under their lives.

[43:14] Thank you.

[43:15] There being no other business to attend to for the City of Colton this meeting is now adjourned.

[43:20] Thank you, everybody, for being here.

[43:21] Have a good night.

[43:22] Drive home safe.

[43:22] God bless America and God bless the city of Colton.

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