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This was me also. Oh, no, this is Wes just joking.

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Creation of a capital improvement project entitled Corona Landfill.

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Corona Landfills. Landfill, Solar farm.

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I think Wes and Tony pulled. Yeah, I pulled it too.

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Yeah, go for it, Wes. I just wanted to get a report.

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I was excited about hearing that we're going to use a

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facility to generate some revenue. I think my questions were really,

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are we, is the idea for us to.

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Are we going to lease this to a provider? Are we

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going to own and operate ourselves? And then last is, I see that the funding

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for at least the RFP is going to be general fund.

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General fund project. And I was just curious why it wouldn't, why we wouldn't

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have it be utility funded. Because it's. Where would the money, where would the revenue?

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So if it's general funded, the revenue would go back towards general fund projects.

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So with some things like larger investments

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we have say with the new community center, other things, these could, these funds could

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help offset the electrical cost for those. But by

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using general funds as the revenue source, then the revenues generated

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from it will go back broadly to the source where it came from, which would

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be any city operations. Okay. All right. This was just curious

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about that. Can we start with a

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little report out just for the general public to hear a little bit more

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about the project before we dive into the Questions? That'd be great.

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So, as you know, the city of Corona has partial

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ownership of the old Corona landfill. This is an unlined

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landfill. Corona owns 56 of the 80 acres and

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the other is owned by Riverside County. As part

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of that, Riverside county does the maintenance of the gas system.

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So from the landfill, as that landfill is

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degrading, it creates that methane gas source. For a

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number of years, this facility was home to electric generation.

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It was, it was a corporation, a private entity that ran

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large methane gas driven engines that

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created electricity and provided that directly to the grid.

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So the site is ideally situated to be able to provide back

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energy into the Southern California Edison grid over

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the years. In 2004, we also created

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the Corona utility utility electric system, which is housed

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on that same site. It has infrastructure there, so the

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energy could be bought by the Corona Electric

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utility from the city operating facility

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and then we could utilize that to service our

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customers and decrease load off of Southern California Edison's

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grid. There are a number of options

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that, that this site will house.

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Based on initial layouts, the site has been identified

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as being able to handle between 5 and 8 megawatts.

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Additional megawatts could be garnered if the grading of

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the facility was allowable.

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And from that we've been able to retain the plans from Riverside

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county and we will be providing those outweigh

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with the rfp. So that number may go up a

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little bit as high as 12 megawatts. What we're looking

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for is a self generation bill credit type

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scenario where we would generate the energy, put that into

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Southern California Edison's grid, and then we would

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get credits at City hall or other facilities that

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are served by Southern California Edison that

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energy. The other alternative is that that energy could

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go to the Corona utility electric system to

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offset ours. And we would just buy that at the price per

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megawatt set by the city. Okay,

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so the RFP would be for somebody to

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do epc, engineering, procurement, construction,

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and then we would operate. At this point

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in time, there are a couple of operational methods, methodologies. So it

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could be a lease back. We might determine that the site

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is going to, is going to. It might be beneficial for us to have

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a lease option where we just lease the land and

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a company will come in and operate, own,

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operate the facility and take care of all of the maintenance and

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we just get a nice lease payment from that property for that.

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The initial direction given was that we would typically prefer

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to own and operate. Now own and operate does come with its

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own challenges and we want to make sure that the Consultant does look at and

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own operate scenario and we have a clear picture of what that would be.

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Excellent, thank you.

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The one thing that I didn't see on, on the staff report is what is

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the location?

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This is 1300 Magnolia, just across from

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the Lowe's shopping center and downs.

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Okay, thank you, Mr.

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Moody. I was wondering will we have the opportunity then to consider

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the option or will it be on? Okay. To consider

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how it is that we process these funds? Okay. Yep. And in terms of

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the final operating model, really what we're looking for is the greatest value proposition.

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Which one makes the most sense, that provides the greatest benefit.

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Obviously weighing some of the costs with that as well. But that'll be a decision

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that we bring back to council. Yeah, I thought this was a very. This is

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an innovative way, as my colleagues have said, to use that land that can't

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be used for anything else.

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Tom, I only had one comment and it was.

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I'm just worried about glare from the solar panels because the 15 freeway

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is right there. So I'm just hoping that it's taken very serious as

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the study goes forward. Forward. So,

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Sylvia, are there any speaker cards? Mayor, we do not have

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any speaker cards for this item. Okay, with that, public comments are

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closed.

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50. Up next,

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7.11 approval of the first amended and restated

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Mercy House agreement and the county of Riverside ARPA and

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Hip HIP grant agreements.

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Which one pulled that? Oh, Jim, you want to

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go first? I was just hoping we could get a report from

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Ms. Roper office. Ms.

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Roper. The great Ms. Roper. The floor. The floor is

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yours.

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It's a joy to see you. I have a friend with me and I'll tell

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you why. So I am super excited,

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as I always am, regarding the proposed contract

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with Mercy House. I'd like to start by saying that when

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you had the vision for your homeless strategic plan, you approved an

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entire system of services from A to Z, all the way from homeless

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prevention and outreach and shelter and housing and services and

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everything in between. And when you have a high functioning system, system like that,

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you can see a lot of people move from the streets and

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onto permanent housing. And as your council knows,

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every quarter we give you data that's connected to the strategic plan

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so that you can see how your system is functioning.

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This contract is an $8.2 million contract.

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And I just want to thank you for the flexibility that you've provided

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in the past where we've had sort of these interesting mid

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year where we're infusing the contract with money and that is because

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we're trying to leverage other resources

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from the county, the state and federal governments.

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And so this contract has multiple funding sources that

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are in it. So that's the first thing that I want to say and

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it really helps us to have a smooth functioning system.

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The other thing I wanted to say is, Mr. City Attorney,

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I wanted to thank you sir and Jamie. This is a

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complicated agreement and you know, as we built this,

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it's got many different funding sources. It's been a

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very complicated contract with a

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lot of different budget line items. And the city

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attorney's office spent a lot of time to help me to restructure

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this contract to make it easier to manage and

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really to align some of the budget categories to collapse them

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into bigger buckets. So that's the one thing that I wanted to mention

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to you that was really a big help. The other thing

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too is this contract contains a lot of funding sources.

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And I have Tanya here from the county with us. You've met her

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before, she's the deputy director that is over all of the continuum of

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care funds. You are able to have this

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high functioning system because we have great partners.

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And I want to take us back a minute. You know the county, if you

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think about the million dollar ARPA grant,

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the Vista Dorada project was like 20 million dollar

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project. And this particular contract has

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a million dollars of ARPA funding where the county's

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coming in to reimburse you the city council

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for the 3 million that we invested in Citi funds

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and CDBG funds. Thank you, Cynthia. I think she's here.

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So we invested 3 million and so the million is

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going to come back to reimburse us to then reinvest in your

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system. So that million dollars is being added to this contract.

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Then we also received a $400,000

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Housing Homelessness Incentive Program grant,

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$400,000 that is also going to be added to

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the this particular project. The county has been really wonderful.

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They like our concept. We're known across the

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region as a whatever it takes kind of city to

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address homelessness. And the county has really supported us.

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So the budget line items where we have certain funding

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gaps allows us to do whatever it takes to have that high functioning

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system. So besides our city general

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funds, this has state PLHA funds and then the million dollar ARPA

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grant, the $400,000 AHIP grant. So and

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I just want to thank you for the past flexibility. We're asking for

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that with this particular contract because if

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we maximize the county grants,

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we might be able to then stretch the city measure X funds

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to go a lot further. So we have this on track through

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June. But because of the county funds, we might be

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able to stretch the city general funds and carry them forward into another

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fiscal year. We'll see how the project goes. But we

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did have some hard deadlines because of the ARPA fund. So that's why we needed

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to get this before you. So I would like to just

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for a moment hand the microphone to the county because I

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know Tanya wants to say a few words to you about the great partnership.

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I truly do. Good evening Mayor, council members.

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Thank you again for the great privilege of being here.

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As Karen shared, I have the privilege of working alongside

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her in working with the county to coordinate responses

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across our five supervisorial districts.

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I truly, truly want you to know that the county is a proud supporter

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of all the work that you're doing in the city of Corona. And its for

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that very reason that we are very

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much trying to replicate what you are doing here across

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all other cities in the county.

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What you're doing, and I know I've been here on this stage

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to say this before, is truly evidence based. You guys have

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seen the results of your investments.

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And part of my, my job and our

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department's job is to make sure that we're continuing

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on this same plight to

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ensure that these resources and efforts are

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available countywide. What I also wanted

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to emphasize is that the level of

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investment that the city has made goes beyond our

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department and as was

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referenced earlier, is being noted by all of our County

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Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Spiegel, who was very intentional

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about setting aside the resources that she had for her district to

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the city of Corona because we recognized that

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the resources would be put to good use to expand shelter

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bed capacity for residents in the region. And again

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recognizing that if we invested this

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resource here, it could truly serve as a model for all

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28 cities across our region. So no, we stand behind you,

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we stand beside you. And the work you're doing is a

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model not here locally, which I've overemphasized

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in the time that I've had, but truly across the state and the

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federal region. There is not a time where I have not met

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with state and federal partners and they have not noted the work that is

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being done in the city of Corona. So know that we are

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with you. And I know that you guys have all heard

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personal stories of what these investments have meant

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to your very own residents. And with that,

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know that it's truly a treasure to work alongside

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Karen Roper. And I mean that from the Bottom of my heart,

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I know the rest of our department and county departments from

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Behavioral Health and our Department of Public Social Services will

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stand behind me and saying she is a great champion.

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She's a subject matter expert. Expert and by far

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the best homeless czar that I have been able to work with. Thank you.

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And I would also like to council members, you know, we're very

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fortunate. We have an amazing operator, Mercy House. Not every

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nonprofit can do it all. This is an A to Z

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system contract. And we have with us in

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the audience, we have Pastor Charles Chapman,

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we have Timothy Hu, and we have James Brooks that are

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here. And I just wanted to acknowledge them because they

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live by one of my favorite Blessed

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are the flexible. They do whatever it takes to

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get the job done for the city. So council members,

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we're just super excited about all these funding resources to get

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the work done.

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Thank you, Czar Roper.

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Anybody have comments, questions, concerns?

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I just had a, just a quick question and thank you all so much.

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And, you know, I too, hear all the time about the good things

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that we're doing. And Tony, you've mentioned to me myself,

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and I'm excited about it. I know that, you know,

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I asked a question of staff about,

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you know, how does the source's revenue look coming for,

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you know, for following years. And we know that things are going to start getting

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tighter. You know, we've, we've had a

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firm commitment to ensure that, that we fund at

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this level to ensure that we continue to make this an effort for ourselves.

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But I'm curious about, you know, as we go forward with funding,

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is the idea going to be at least I hear, but I want

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to ask the experts, is as funds get

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restricted or lessened, will they be focused at

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places like Corona that are putting such

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a big foot in to make sure that we make a difference,

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or is it going to be kind of spread around? And then

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I'm asking you, look in your crystal ball, but. Well,

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you know, I can take off my city hat and put on my chair

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of the Riverside county consultant Continuum of care, Hatton. Tanya, of course, is with

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me. When we look at how our

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system across the whole region is functioning, what we've

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tried to do is to build incentives for

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efficiency and incentivize cities to work together and also

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to, you know, to have a system that functions. I think that there's for

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the future, funding sources. You know, there's opportunities for

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cities like Corona. We are going to be headed into probably

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some leaner years. But as far as where

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we stand, because of the city's investment measure X

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funds. It helps us to be more competitive, is the first thing that I want

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to say. Second thing is, is this contract is a good example.

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You know, we, we have our state PLHA funds and

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normally we were getting about a million dollars, but that money is a year

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that's tied to housing recording fees. And when the

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housing market fluctuates, we got a 50% reduction

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in this contract. But because of the investment from

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the county, we're not feeling the pain. So you have built a

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system that is flexible and scalable.

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So it is my duty to our city manager

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and to your council to present you with options as we move into

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the future. That's the thing about the budget and the way

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that the system is built. Built. You know, if we run into having

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to make some decisions, we can present you with options and we

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can present you with, you know, what those options mean if you have to take

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them. But you can count on us to do everything that we

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possibly can to be bringing home the bacon. How's that? I have

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no doubt at all. I, you know, I know that there's,

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it's a strange time out there. You know,

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I think I've talked to people in other cities and they're

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seeing an increase in homelessness. We're seeing, you know,

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new folks that we've never seen before,

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you know, putting a strain on our system and other people's systems.

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And, you know, frankly, I'm hoping that that push that is,

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you know, with that recent court case change

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and the direction that the governor has been giving, that, you know,

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there's, there's a place for people to go.

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And, and with the change with, with Prop 36,

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that's another, another step in the right direction. And I'm,

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I'm hoping that that turns into, you know, less folks on

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the street. And I know that that's what you all want. We want functional

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zero and happy to support this. And I

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know, like I said, I know you're, you're shaking every tree you can. And,

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and I appreciate it. I want to say thank you also to the county for

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your continued support. Thank you. And if I may, since you brought that

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up, you know, I would like to take a moment to

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recognize our city manager because he recently convened

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a number of different cities in the western region within this county

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and outside of this county to have conversations about

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communication protocols, good neighbor policies,

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and showcasing the model that we have.

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So I just want to take a moment to say, lot of the work

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that I have the privilege of doing is, you know, he's an amazing leader.

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And I just want to thank you, city manager, for the

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leadership that he provides. So, Mr. Mayor,

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if I could jump in, I'm taking advantage of the captive audience

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and the fact that this is on the agenda. Again, I'm in full support of

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this agenda item. And I really thank you,

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Tanya from the county, our partners and our folks

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here taking some time to

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come out and join us fully in support. And it speaks volumes to

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the plan. I want to just highlight

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addressing homelessness is so difficult

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and complicated because we're talking about human beings

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and think about how complicated your life is.

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Every person that's on the street, I has just as many issues, if not more

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so. And so we're trying to address homelessness with

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enforcement and compassion. And it means that

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we're dealing with, you know, in Spanish, escalacades, a sumundo.

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Every head is their own world. Every person is their own world. You're dealing with

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people. Every single one is complicated.

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And it's wonderful. We highlight these stories of getting

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people off the streets. And simultaneously we're hearing

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from my residents what Councilmember Speak mentioned

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this increased.

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We're seeing homelessness more and more in our communities,

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so there's an increase in frustration. What you have here

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is a city who's truly, truly data driven,

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who's has a. We have a

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great team all the way from,

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again, enforcement to compassion, the full spectrum, the full spectrum of

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services trying to address a very complicated issue.

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We're actually making progress, but the problem is growing

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faster than the solutions can.

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And so we're really asking residents

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to be compassionate, be patient, work with us,

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know that we're not sticking our head in the sand. Right. But you

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also can't just ignore this and you can't just,

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you know, turn it on to some. Someone else. And so we're having

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these larger conversations with our neighboring cities because unfortunately,

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not everyone is coming to the table doing this work in the same way.

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And so I just wanted to highlight that

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because this is such a complicated, multifaceted issue.

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And we have one shared. We have a shared

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goal, which is to get people housed, but there

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are so many diverging sense

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of opinions and whatnot along the way. But I fully,

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fully support our approach. Thank you for Member

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Casillas. Thank you for the leadership that you provided recently to

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convene all the cities in the region with Riverside County Cal cities

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to have the same conversations that our city manager was having also with

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all those. Thank you for that.

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Well, Karen, you and I talk all the time, so you know how appreciative I

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am of everything that you've done for us and for the community. Tanya,

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we couldn't do it without you, too, so we appreciate

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it very much. And Mercy House, you're doing a great job. Keep it up.

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Thank you. I love a good czar.

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Me and Ms. Roper graduated from the same Ivy League college,

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so we're good. Go to public comments.

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I know Don pulled a card. Yes, we have one speaker card

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for this agenda item. Okay, Mr. Fuller, the floor is yours.

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Hi, guys. Don Fuller. I'm a resident here in town. I just wanted to

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take this opportunity. None of you need to be reminded.

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Maybe some folks in the audience don't know what an extraordinary

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treasure Karen Roper is to have in this town.

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Very few people fit the category of irreplaceable, but she's

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pretty doggone close to it. And I remember when

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the homeless issue in this town was a mess.

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I remember specifically when there was an individual who was

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using the homeless issue to pad his own pocket.

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That's. We've come a long way since then and we should all be

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really, really thankful for the participation

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and the council and. And just the assistance and everything we

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get from Karen Roper. I just wanted to give her a pat on the back,

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that's all. So it looked. It's.

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And Mr. Steiner as well, deserves a big chunk of that because

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he was working with her through all of that. So, Mr. Steiner,

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Mr. Oprah, I just wanted to say thank you to all of them. That's all.

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Thank you, Don.

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Okay with that, we can vote on the public comments

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closed. We can motion second and vote.

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5, 0. We're almost done with this.

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Up next, 7.14 approval of

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Corona del Rey apartments pass through funding agreement.

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Was this. Jackie? Oh, Wesley. I just

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had one question. One question and one. One statement.

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One just wanted to make sure I know that there's two different properties,

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that one has a 55 year limitation,

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the other one has some in perpetuity. Want to make sure that when combining

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these that those that doesn't change, that number is still the same.

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Yes. So part of the agreements that are being presented for

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the council's approval tonight is an amendment to the regulatory agreement for the property

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that has the 55 year affordability term that is going to be amended

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to be in perpetuity to match the term of the other agreement. So both properties

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will now be in perpetuity. Excellent. And then we just wanted to say

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a big thank you to Assemblymember Cervantes for champion.

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The $8 million to help us get this done, so otherwise it wouldn't have gotten

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done. And thank you and staff for, for detailing

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the. The ins and outs and dovetails to get

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to this point. So thank you. Very happy to see that.

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Thanks. Wes, Tony, Jackie,

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Jim, Sylvia, are there any speaker cards?

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Mayor we do not have any speaker cards for this item. Okay with that.

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Public comment is clean. Closed move. Second vote.

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All right, five, zero.

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Up next is community number eight, communications from the public. This portion

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of the agenda is intended for general public comment on items

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within the council's jurisdiction that are not listed elsewhere on the agenda.

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Please note that state law prohibits the city council from discussing or

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taking action on these item items. Please observe a

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3 minute limit, time limit for comments and once called upon to speak,

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please state your name and city of residence for the record.

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Ms. Edwards, do you have any cards? Mayor yes, we have four speaker cards

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for communication from the public. Maddie, you want to kick

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us off?

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Good evening, Mayor Richens, Vice Mayor Steiner and council members.

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The first thing I want to bring up is the first RSO and

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stabilization ordinance. I want to apologize. I did a major

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faux pas sending out an email. I was extremely sick.

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And as soon as you hit the button, you go apologize

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for that. So that's what I wanted for that. The second thing

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is state of the city. I just wanted to commend

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Mayor Richens and Sean and his team.

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Outstanding job you all did that was just

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amazing and fun and just really depicted the way

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that our city is. So thank you very much on that. The third thing

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I want to bring up is another rso. This time it's Riverside

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Sheriffs Office. And we had our K9,

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the youngest, I believe he's the youngest member of our K9 officer

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team. Officer K9 Duncan, under handler

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Detective Clary participated in the 27th annual Riverside

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Sheriff's Office canine trials.

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And Duncan took first place narcotics building search,

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and he took fourth place for narcotics vehicle search.

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So I want to give them a little bit of credit.

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And let's see, what else do we have?

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Oh, just. I want to point out the screen again. We can't

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see any of it in the back, the timing, the votes like we used to.

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So if you ever have a chance to change that, please do so.

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And then the last thing that I want to bring up is recently

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we had a presentation by Yeta Kane, who's the Holocaust survivor.

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And I read about it the next day,

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Mayor Richens. And I was a little disturbed only because I would

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have loved to participate or at least attend that. Where I grew up

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in a very small rural town outside of New York City,

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my neighbors had the numbers tattooed.

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I take a lot of that personal, and I don't know, the library said

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they knew nothing about it. So I just. In future, if something

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like that happens, if we can open it up to the community, I would have

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been very grateful. So I think that's.

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That's it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Maddie.

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Maddie, can I give you some free advice? So it's

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the. The Temple Beth Shalom. If you go subscribe to

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their Facebook page. They do it every year, so then you'll

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see it for next year. Perfect. I appreciate that because I

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definitely want to attend that. If. If all of you guys can do it,

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they'll be wonderfully amazed. Why? A bunch of people just signed up for their Facebook

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page. Well, now you got it on record. So thank you very much, Mayor Richards.

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Thank you, Maddie. Up next, Kim,

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you're speaking.

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Welcome.

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Good evening. I'm Charisse Leonard, resident of city of Corona.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor and esteemed city council members. I am Charisse

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Leonard, the proud treasurer of the Friends of the Corona Public Library.

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Let me begin with a bold statement. There's a Starbucks

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on every corner. I know there's three that I passed before I even get to

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city hall, but guess what? There are more libraries

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in the United States than there are Starbucks. Take that,

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pumpkin spice lattes. As of 2022,

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01:30:14,580 --> 01:30:18,492
we had 17,454 public libraries,

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01:30:18,636 --> 01:30:22,268
branches, and bookmobiles in the United States. Meanwhile,

480
01:30:22,444 --> 01:30:27,080
Starbucks only has 16,482.

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01:30:27,860 --> 01:30:31,212
The numbers don't lie, my friends. Libraries for the

482
01:30:31,236 --> 01:30:34,284
win. And fun fact. More libraries call California

483
01:30:34,332 --> 01:30:37,356
home than any other state. What can I say?

484
01:30:37,428 --> 01:30:40,886
We love our books as much as we love our sunshine. Must be reading

485
01:30:40,918 --> 01:30:44,294
on the beach. Now, here's the twist. While Starbucks makes a lot

486
01:30:44,302 --> 01:30:48,470
of money serving up caramel macchiatos, libraries spend their money serving communities.

487
01:30:48,630 --> 01:30:52,198
Big difference. Libraries provide critical resources,

488
01:30:52,374 --> 01:30:55,558
programming, and access that people rely on daily.

489
01:30:55,734 --> 01:30:59,046
And despite what you may hear, libraries aren't relics.

490
01:30:59,158 --> 01:31:02,454
They're resilient. Take this for example.

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01:31:02,582 --> 01:31:06,002
Even with the rise of ebooks and all things digital, the need for

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01:31:06,026 --> 01:31:09,602
physical library books hasn't gone anywhere. In fact, the golden rule

493
01:31:09,666 --> 01:31:13,442
is that a library should have one physical book per person in

494
01:31:13,466 --> 01:31:17,426
the community it serves. For Corona, that's about 160,000

495
01:31:17,498 --> 01:31:20,230
books. That's a whole lot of pages, folks.

496
01:31:20,570 --> 01:31:25,154
To help meet that goal, the Friends of the Corona Public Library recently donated $20,000

497
01:31:25,202 --> 01:31:29,234
for new books, which translates to only about 1,500

498
01:31:29,322 --> 01:31:32,604
books. Think of those books as little treasure

499
01:31:32,652 --> 01:31:36,508
chests waiting to spark curiosity and expand minds.

500
01:31:36,684 --> 01:31:40,652
And speaking of expanding minds, here's a stat for you. Last year,

501
01:31:40,756 --> 01:31:44,156
233,178 children's

502
01:31:44,188 --> 01:31:46,800
books were circulated at the Corona Public Library.

503
01:31:47,140 --> 01:31:50,560
Yes, nearly a quarter of a million books.

504
01:31:50,900 --> 01:31:54,620
I mean, if kids are putting down their screens for books,

505
01:31:54,780 --> 01:31:58,192
we must be doing something right. My daughter won't give up her

506
01:31:58,216 --> 01:32:01,936
iPad for anything. There's this pesky misconception

507
01:32:01,968 --> 01:32:05,968
that public libraries are fading away. Let me assure you, they're not going

508
01:32:06,024 --> 01:32:09,184
anywhere. Libraries are like your favorite pair of jeans,

509
01:32:09,312 --> 01:32:11,860
always adapting, but never out of style.

510
01:32:13,320 --> 01:32:17,104
Corona's library has embraced digital collections, added cutting edge

511
01:32:17,152 --> 01:32:20,656
technology, and launched programs like career readiness workshops and computer

512
01:32:20,688 --> 01:32:24,282
classes. And let's not forget the audio books. You can now take

513
01:32:24,306 --> 01:32:27,482
a great story with you on your morning jog or like I

514
01:32:27,506 --> 01:32:31,498
do, watching people do the jogging for me. But here's the thing.

515
01:32:31,554 --> 01:32:34,858
With every digital checkout or audiobook loan, the library's need to support

516
01:32:34,914 --> 01:32:37,642
both the physical and digital spaces growth.

517
01:32:37,826 --> 01:32:41,354
That's why the Friends of the Library remain dedicated to ensuring our library

518
01:32:41,402 --> 01:32:44,810
has the resources it needs to thrive. And we hope that you will echo our

519
01:32:44,850 --> 01:32:48,484
sentiments. So to sum it up to finish real quick,

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01:32:48,652 --> 01:32:52,308
libraries are the backbone of our community. Outnumbering coffee shops,

521
01:32:52,404 --> 01:32:55,812
serving kids and adults alike, and constantly evolving. Thank you

522
01:32:55,836 --> 01:32:59,460
for your time and continued support of our library. Because while Starbucks

523
01:32:59,540 --> 01:33:03,000
may fuel our mornings, libraries continue to fuel our minds.

524
01:33:03,580 --> 01:33:05,080
You rock, Sharice.

525
01:33:11,260 --> 01:33:13,720
Yeah, Tony. Libraries are cool.

526
01:33:17,960 --> 01:33:25,152
Those two are done fighting. You guys can come on up some

527
01:33:25,176 --> 01:33:28,176
Starbucks puns back and forth. So. Good evening,

528
01:33:28,208 --> 01:33:31,520
council. My name is Mina Arnold and this is Tamara Copeland and we are both

529
01:33:31,560 --> 01:33:35,360
volunteers with the Trauma Intervention Program, our TIP program here in

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01:33:35,400 --> 01:33:39,280
Corona. We work alongside our police department, our fire

531
01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:42,672
department, Corona Regional, and we are called to

532
01:33:42,696 --> 01:33:46,380
help support families, friends and bystanders who

533
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:49,580
have experienced some sort of traumatic event.

534
01:33:50,200 --> 01:33:53,680
It's not easy volunteer work that we do, but it is needed and

535
01:33:53,720 --> 01:33:57,312
it is really important. We feel honored to be able to serve in

536
01:33:57,336 --> 01:34:01,088
this role and support fellow Kuroda citizens as they endure what is most

537
01:34:01,144 --> 01:34:04,620
likely the most terrible day or night of their lives.

538
01:34:05,740 --> 01:34:08,546
We are on call 24, 7,

539
01:34:08,736 --> 01:34:12,660
365 days a year. We average about close to

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01:34:12,700 --> 01:34:16,884
40 calls a month and we have less than a 20 minute response

541
01:34:16,932 --> 01:34:20,452
time anywhere in the city of Corona. So I

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01:34:20,476 --> 01:34:23,172
just wanted to kind of put out a plea there. If you're looking for a

543
01:34:23,196 --> 01:34:25,732
way to Give back. And to serve our community,

544
01:34:25,916 --> 01:34:29,572
please consider the trauma intervention program. For those of you listening and those

545
01:34:29,596 --> 01:34:32,450
of you who are kind of looking at different opportunities. Opportunities.

546
01:34:33,190 --> 01:34:36,750
There is. We were provided thorough training. So there is a training

547
01:34:36,830 --> 01:34:39,450
class that's beginning January 23rd.

548
01:34:40,390 --> 01:34:45,570
And if you go to www.tipcona.org

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01:34:45,910 --> 01:34:49,118
and you scroll down to the very bottom, there's a link that says,

550
01:34:49,174 --> 01:34:52,798
click here to become a volunteer. It says become a volunteer, and it'll

551
01:34:52,814 --> 01:34:56,014
give you information on how to reach out. If you're interested in joining

552
01:34:56,062 --> 01:34:59,576
our next. Our next call. Jim, I know you're

553
01:34:59,608 --> 01:35:02,680
really familiar with this, so I would gladly. I don't know if you want to,

554
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:05,400
if you're able to speak to it a little bit, but I'll gladly give you

555
01:35:05,440 --> 01:35:08,424
the rest of my three minutes if you do. Thank you, everybody.

556
01:35:08,552 --> 01:35:12,408
Well, thank you so much, ladies, for coming down tonight and just,

557
01:35:12,464 --> 01:35:16,056
you know, bragging a little bit about tip because you guys really are the unsung

558
01:35:16,088 --> 01:35:19,784
heroes in this community. And for those of you that aren't familiar with it,

559
01:35:19,952 --> 01:35:23,288
these are a group of volunteers that when the police or fire department

560
01:35:23,344 --> 01:35:26,802
get on scene, whether it's a structure fire, a full arrest, you know, death in

561
01:35:26,826 --> 01:35:30,162
the family, domestic violence, there's just so many

562
01:35:30,186 --> 01:35:33,762
different things. The police and firefighters have

563
01:35:33,786 --> 01:35:37,042
to eventually leave, and usually it's sooner rather than later.

564
01:35:37,146 --> 01:35:40,482
And early on in my career, it was always kind of a gut punch when

565
01:35:40,506 --> 01:35:44,210
we had to leave because we felt like there wasn't this sense of closure.

566
01:35:44,370 --> 01:35:49,522
And when we were able to call our TIP volunteers who have been trained to

567
01:35:49,546 --> 01:35:52,838
deal with this kind of stuff, to say the right words, to not say certain

568
01:35:52,894 --> 01:35:56,630
things, we felt so, so much better to be able to hand it off

569
01:35:56,670 --> 01:36:00,518
to you so we could respond to further emergencies. But we knew the

570
01:36:00,574 --> 01:36:03,702
family, the one grieving, was still in good hands.

571
01:36:03,766 --> 01:36:05,330
So thank you so much.

572
01:36:12,510 --> 01:36:15,602
Okay. Are there any other speaker cards, Sylvia?

573
01:36:15,766 --> 01:36:16,590
Joe?

574
01:36:23,010 --> 01:36:25,350
Not sure I can really follow the TIP program,

575
01:36:26,290 --> 01:36:30,026
so I want to. One really bright spot from last weekend,

576
01:36:30,138 --> 01:36:34,470
like literal and metaphorical was

577
01:36:34,770 --> 01:36:38,314
got to participate in the Circle City rideout. I've been trying to

578
01:36:38,322 --> 01:36:40,870
get a hold, trying to do that for the last couple of months.

579
01:36:41,740 --> 01:36:45,156
It was a lot of fun. Everybody met up in the parking

580
01:36:45,188 --> 01:36:48,868
lot out here and hopped on bikes. It was everything from

581
01:36:48,924 --> 01:36:53,364
little kids on little bikes to a bunch of people on E bikes to

582
01:36:53,532 --> 01:36:57,924
me on a BMX bike and Michelle on a mountain bike and rode

583
01:36:57,972 --> 01:37:02,164
up and around grand, up Kellogg down

584
01:37:02,252 --> 01:37:05,764
across Cottonwood to the shopping center down El Sprante.

585
01:37:05,892 --> 01:37:09,816
I don't even know how long it was. I do remember thinking

586
01:37:09,928 --> 01:37:13,928
his BMX seats are not that comfortable. But. But yeah,

587
01:37:13,944 --> 01:37:17,112
it was, it was a lot of fun. And the next one, I believe is

588
01:37:17,216 --> 01:37:21,192
December 14th. And I think they were talking about starting

589
01:37:21,256 --> 01:37:24,936
at Santana and then doing like a Christmas

590
01:37:24,968 --> 01:37:28,296
light kind of a thing, like a Christmas light tour.

591
01:37:28,448 --> 01:37:32,104
We had to kind of remind them that Corona kind of goes uphill. So you

592
01:37:32,112 --> 01:37:34,474
don't want to start down here and then ride all the way up to the

593
01:37:34,552 --> 01:37:37,302
top. So we're going to try to start in the middle. So it's kind of

594
01:37:37,326 --> 01:37:41,222
broke up a little bit. So not everybody's in

595
01:37:41,246 --> 01:37:44,454
extremists trying to. Trying to complete it.

596
01:37:44,542 --> 01:37:47,254
It was really fun because you drive through a neighborhood and people come out of

597
01:37:47,262 --> 01:37:50,438
the houses and yelling. And we went by Thomps.

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01:37:50,534 --> 01:37:53,830
He didn't yell. But there was. It was, it was pretty fun.

599
01:37:53,870 --> 01:37:57,766
It was. You almost felt like a little, like a little bicycle amoeba

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01:37:57,798 --> 01:38:01,464
thing. But so you're sort of bringing joy around to the

601
01:38:01,472 --> 01:38:05,032
city. It was kind of fun because you're just. You're just cruising along

602
01:38:05,136 --> 01:38:08,632
riding a bike and people will come out of the houses and they're clapping and

603
01:38:08,656 --> 01:38:12,344
people in cars are honking and. Not like that. The usual kind of honking.

604
01:38:12,472 --> 01:38:15,640
They were honking because they were happy to see you. They were going

605
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:18,984
the other way, honking, you know, so it was, it was quite a

606
01:38:18,992 --> 01:38:21,912
lot of fun. So if you have a chance to do it, you know,

607
01:38:22,016 --> 01:38:25,800
you should definitely, definitely give it a shot. Can I add on? What was that?

608
01:38:25,840 --> 01:38:29,586
Can I add on? Yeah, they. People had lights

609
01:38:29,618 --> 01:38:33,394
all over their bikes and it was really cool to watch. And there's like over

610
01:38:33,482 --> 01:38:36,710
wild. It's like a little electric light parade.

611
01:38:37,530 --> 01:38:41,154
Said some boom boxes going and. Yeah, yeah,

612
01:38:41,282 --> 01:38:44,882
I. It had sort of a Mardi Gras kind of a vibe a little bit.

613
01:38:44,906 --> 01:38:49,058
Yeah. Yeah. I do it every month. It was wonderful.

614
01:38:49,154 --> 01:38:52,734
Yeah. Well, I got. I told you I have another bike, so. Cool. All right,

615
01:38:52,842 --> 01:38:53,530
thanks.

616
01:38:56,670 --> 01:39:00,262
Okay. Sylvia? Anybody? Mayor. We do not have any more

617
01:39:00,286 --> 01:39:03,970
speaker cards. Well, it doesn't get any better than that.

618
01:39:04,350 --> 01:39:08,182
Libraries are cool, bikes are fun, and the tip

619
01:39:08,246 --> 01:39:12,006
program rocks. So moving along,

620
01:39:12,078 --> 01:39:15,638
public hearings. The. The next two public

621
01:39:15,694 --> 01:39:19,144
hearing items will be presented together. 9.1 public hearing for

622
01:39:19,222 --> 01:39:23,492
city council and Corona Utility Authority consideration of an ordinance number

623
01:39:23,676 --> 01:39:27,572
3405. Modifying the budget based water structure and

624
01:39:27,596 --> 01:39:31,476
establishing rates for portable water, reclaimed water and sewage service

625
01:39:31,548 --> 01:39:34,720
fees and charges. I'm guessing that's why most of you are here.

626
01:39:35,420 --> 01:39:38,804
Does. I think every council member is going to want to hear the

627
01:39:38,812 --> 01:39:42,900
report. So we'll just move into. Katie Hockett, assistant director of utilities will

628
01:39:42,940 --> 01:39:44,920
present the item. Thanks Katie.

629
01:39:47,350 --> 01:39:51,342
Thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight. Mayor and council, this is

630
01:39:51,366 --> 01:39:54,650
the culmination of a several month process that we've been working on.

631
01:39:56,710 --> 01:40:00,766
So the ask tonight is that council approve and implement the proposed water,

632
01:40:00,918 --> 01:40:04,610
reclaimed water, sewer and green field electric rates.

633
01:40:06,630 --> 01:40:10,286
Just a quick reminder of where we've been. Again, we started this process

634
01:40:10,358 --> 01:40:13,786
with with an RFP and an award in April

635
01:40:13,858 --> 01:40:16,874
and then we've met just about once a month with you to talk through some

636
01:40:16,882 --> 01:40:20,506
of the options. We're here tonight. This is the public hearing

637
01:40:20,538 --> 01:40:23,738
for the rates and then we'll have some next steps

638
01:40:23,754 --> 01:40:27,402
after this. Again, just a refresher of kind of some

639
01:40:27,426 --> 01:40:30,282
of the things that we talked about. These were the financial plan options that we

640
01:40:30,306 --> 01:40:33,786
discussed early in the summer. On the left hand side we have the lowest

641
01:40:33,818 --> 01:40:37,030
rate impact and on the right hand side we have the highest rate impact.

642
01:40:37,570 --> 01:40:41,354
So the lowest rate impact would be if we had only funded our operations

643
01:40:41,402 --> 01:40:45,450
and maintenance with no capital investment. On the right hand side would have been a

644
01:40:45,490 --> 01:40:50,426
full operations and maintenance and sorry,

645
01:40:50,538 --> 01:40:53,898
fully funding our capital improvement program. The city council

646
01:40:53,954 --> 01:40:57,770
directed us to move ahead with option number two which was

647
01:40:57,810 --> 01:41:01,002
to do our operations and maintenance expenses

648
01:41:01,146 --> 01:41:05,164
and then incremental capital improvements for our current critical infrastructure needs.

649
01:41:05,332 --> 01:41:08,972
This also includes debt issuance bonds

650
01:41:09,036 --> 01:41:13,356
in the second and third years if needed to complete some of those capital improvement

651
01:41:13,388 --> 01:41:14,240
projects.

652
01:41:17,300 --> 01:41:20,652
So again, we've talked about this before, but just a reminder of really how we

653
01:41:20,676 --> 01:41:24,124
got here and why our costs have gone up so much.

654
01:41:24,292 --> 01:41:27,756
On the water side, our electricity costs

655
01:41:27,788 --> 01:41:31,112
have gone up by 33%. So since 2019, those are

656
01:41:31,136 --> 01:41:34,920
costs from Southern California Edison, our raw water cost. This is water

657
01:41:34,960 --> 01:41:38,728
we get from Metropolitan Water District that we treat at our treatment plants.

658
01:41:38,904 --> 01:41:42,248
That cost has gone up 27.4% since

659
01:41:42,304 --> 01:41:45,960
2019 and it's projected to continue to go up for the next three

660
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:49,832
years in double digits. Our chemicals for water have

661
01:41:49,856 --> 01:41:52,984
gone up by 48, almost 50%. A lot of

662
01:41:52,992 --> 01:41:56,472
that is Covid impacts and cost of

663
01:41:56,496 --> 01:41:59,752
living. Our construction materials, in addition to being

664
01:41:59,776 --> 01:42:03,304
very hard to get, the costs have gone up by 53% and

665
01:42:03,312 --> 01:42:06,456
then our laboratory analysis has gone up by 29%.

666
01:42:06,608 --> 01:42:10,072
This is mostly because of increased laboratory requirements

667
01:42:10,136 --> 01:42:13,816
because of additional regulations. So some of the PFAS requirements

668
01:42:13,928 --> 01:42:17,580
require us to do quite a bit of sampling and those samples are very expensive.

669
01:42:18,240 --> 01:42:21,544
On the sewer side, our chemicals have gone up by a significant amount.

670
01:42:21,592 --> 01:42:24,950
Our Bleeding leach has almost doubled. Biosolids hauling has gone up

671
01:42:24,990 --> 01:42:29,254
significantly. And then on the electric side, our energy purchase

672
01:42:29,302 --> 01:42:33,142
costs have gone up. Those costs have been, have fluctuated over the

673
01:42:33,166 --> 01:42:37,010
years depending on the market, but the overall cost increase has been 19%.

674
01:42:39,630 --> 01:42:43,190
So these were the final rates for water that were presented to the city council

675
01:42:43,230 --> 01:42:46,998
and that were also distributed to the community. So we have

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01:42:47,054 --> 01:42:50,622
fixed rates. That's the monthly cost, that's the fixed cost of

677
01:42:50,646 --> 01:42:54,334
providing the water. We call that the ready to serve charge. The cost is

678
01:42:54,422 --> 01:42:58,222
based on the size of the meter and then we have the variable

679
01:42:58,286 --> 01:43:02,238
rates. So you'll recall that we talked about reducing the water

680
01:43:02,294 --> 01:43:05,742
budget from 55 gallons per person per day to 47.

681
01:43:05,926 --> 01:43:09,902
That's for the indoor water budget. This is a requirement from the state of California

682
01:43:09,966 --> 01:43:14,090
based on legislation and new regulations that effective January 1st,

683
01:43:14,580 --> 01:43:17,980
Californians are required to use 47 gallons per person per day

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01:43:18,020 --> 01:43:21,420
indoors. Required to use no more than 47 gallons per person per

685
01:43:21,460 --> 01:43:25,052
day. So this is our proposal to comply with that regulation is to

686
01:43:25,076 --> 01:43:28,540
reduce the indoor water budget. This is a net reduction of about

687
01:43:28,580 --> 01:43:32,188
one unit. Depending on the number of people that live in the home and the

688
01:43:32,244 --> 01:43:36,000
length of the billing cycle. It would be about one to two units.

689
01:43:36,420 --> 01:43:40,246
We are also proposing, you'll see on the variable rates, which is the bottom left

690
01:43:40,428 --> 01:43:43,762
table, that Tier 5 is proposed to be eliminated. We would

691
01:43:43,786 --> 01:43:45,510
only have those four tiers.

692
01:43:47,370 --> 01:43:51,394
On the reclaim side, it's very similar. Again, the fixed cost of providing

693
01:43:51,442 --> 01:43:55,470
that service is based on the size of the meter. And on the variable side

694
01:43:55,850 --> 01:43:59,682
we have, we're proposing to have two tiers based on the cost of service for

695
01:43:59,706 --> 01:44:04,194
the first tier and the second tier on

696
01:44:04,202 --> 01:44:07,474
the sewer side, those are currently charged based on the size of the meter or

697
01:44:07,482 --> 01:44:11,092
the time type of the of the account. We're proposing to have a

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01:44:11,116 --> 01:44:14,500
fixed charge per month as a base charge. That would be what

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01:44:14,540 --> 01:44:17,892
residents pay. And then all non residential accounts would pay

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01:44:17,916 --> 01:44:21,524
this base charge plus a per unit charge for the

701
01:44:21,532 --> 01:44:25,172
water use. We're assuming that water in at the meter is sewage

702
01:44:25,236 --> 01:44:28,452
out to the treatment plant, to the sewage collection system. And so

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01:44:28,476 --> 01:44:31,540
for all water used over eight units, it would be

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01:44:31,580 --> 01:44:35,498
$5.50 per per unit.

705
01:44:35,674 --> 01:44:39,098
We do not meter sewage. We would also have a variance program

706
01:44:39,154 --> 01:44:42,890
for those customers that where their water in does not equal their sewage out,

707
01:44:42,930 --> 01:44:46,634
maybe they have a cooling tower or evaporation. We would have a variance

708
01:44:46,682 --> 01:44:47,750
program for that.

709
01:44:49,970 --> 01:44:54,010
On the Greenfield side, there's multiple different rate

710
01:44:54,050 --> 01:44:58,122
structures. For electric, I'm going to talk about the residential because this

711
01:44:58,146 --> 01:45:01,230
is by far the majority of our electric customers.

712
01:45:01,760 --> 01:45:05,256
You'll recall, we talked about that fixed charge per month is currently

713
01:45:05,328 --> 01:45:09,032
88 cents a month. So hypothetically, if a customer

714
01:45:09,096 --> 01:45:12,568
was fully on solar and they had their own battery backup system

715
01:45:12,624 --> 01:45:15,960
and they were never pulling any electricity from Corona, they would currently

716
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:19,512
be paying us 88 cents a month, but they would have the ability to

717
01:45:19,536 --> 01:45:23,256
use electricity from Corona. So we are proposing to increase

718
01:45:23,328 --> 01:45:26,472
that to $15.90, which is a

719
01:45:26,496 --> 01:45:30,180
more accurate reflection of the fixed cost of providing that service.

720
01:45:30,800 --> 01:45:34,712
Additionally, we are proposing a customer assistance program for

721
01:45:34,896 --> 01:45:38,632
electricity and that customer assistance program would pay

722
01:45:38,656 --> 01:45:42,728
for the fixed charge. So if a customer met the income eligibility requirements,

723
01:45:42,824 --> 01:45:45,140
they would not pay that fixed charge per month.

724
01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:49,640
We are proposing to eliminate tier four. So we would have

725
01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:53,336
three tiers. And then we're proposing to. We currently

726
01:45:53,408 --> 01:45:57,376
charge the public benefits charge. It's just rolled into the rates so customers don't

727
01:45:57,408 --> 01:46:01,664
see it. We're required by law to collect that and that's

728
01:46:01,712 --> 01:46:05,296
restricted revenue that we can only use for things like the customer assistance program

729
01:46:05,368 --> 01:46:08,720
for energy efficiency projects. So we're pulling it out so that it's

730
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:11,500
more transparent to customers about what they're paying for.

731
01:46:12,840 --> 01:46:16,352
Again, these are all multiple different customer types for

732
01:46:16,376 --> 01:46:20,224
electricity. So I'm just going to kind of skip through them. These are

733
01:46:20,312 --> 01:46:23,862
minor customer counts. The bulk is in

734
01:46:23,886 --> 01:46:24,970
the residential.

735
01:46:29,790 --> 01:46:33,430
But on that last one real quick, we are proposing to add

736
01:46:33,470 --> 01:46:36,598
an electric vehicle charging rate. We don't currently have that.

737
01:46:36,654 --> 01:46:40,502
So for like an electric vehicle charging station where people are charging

738
01:46:40,566 --> 01:46:44,006
to have their have people come and charge their vehicles,

739
01:46:44,198 --> 01:46:47,330
we would propose to have this rate for that. That's a new rate.

740
01:46:49,520 --> 01:46:53,112
So our next steps, if approved tonight, then this item would go for

741
01:46:53,136 --> 01:46:56,312
a second reading on December 4. If it was

742
01:46:56,336 --> 01:47:00,017
approved at the December 4 meeting, then the rates would be implemented January

743
01:47:00,126 --> 01:47:04,168
3. We would send out a bill insert or a reminder mid

744
01:47:04,224 --> 01:47:07,896
January to mid February because by the time that

745
01:47:07,968 --> 01:47:11,128
the rates would go into effect, customers wouldn't have seen

746
01:47:11,184 --> 01:47:14,098
those rates since they got those notices at the beginning of October. So we don't

747
01:47:14,114 --> 01:47:16,850
want that to become as a surprise when they get those bills in February,

748
01:47:16,930 --> 01:47:20,434
March. So we would send out a reminder and then bills with the

749
01:47:20,442 --> 01:47:23,666
new rates would start arriving in mid February to mid

750
01:47:23,738 --> 01:47:27,378
March. And again, the ask tonight

751
01:47:27,394 --> 01:47:30,866
is that council approve and implement the proposed water, reclaimed water,

752
01:47:31,018 --> 01:47:33,350
sewer and Greenfield electric rates.

753
01:47:36,010 --> 01:47:39,492
All right, thank you, Katie. Let's the people have been

754
01:47:39,516 --> 01:47:43,840
here a long time. Let's start off with public comments.

755
01:47:44,140 --> 01:47:47,572
I'm guessing a number of you have filled out blue cards. If you

756
01:47:47,596 --> 01:47:51,172
have, you're more than welcome to come up to the

757
01:47:51,196 --> 01:47:53,840
podium and speak. Joe, do you want to go first?

758
01:47:56,460 --> 01:48:00,340
Why not? So this

759
01:48:00,460 --> 01:48:03,364
just all the meetings? Oh yeah, we did all these meetings and that meeting and

760
01:48:03,372 --> 01:48:07,070
this meeting. All of them during the day, none of them in this

761
01:48:07,110 --> 01:48:10,638
room at this time, when a normal council meeting

762
01:48:10,694 --> 01:48:13,570
would be all of them in afternoon meetings.

763
01:48:13,990 --> 01:48:17,902
Sometimes, you know, I think, I think it was first discussed at a morning meeting,

764
01:48:18,006 --> 01:48:21,598
you know, so council workshops, you know, they're basically council meetings

765
01:48:21,614 --> 01:48:24,770
where you decide things out of the public eye.

766
01:48:25,510 --> 01:48:28,350
I think in a lot of cases, deliberately.

767
01:48:28,510 --> 01:48:32,490
I think these are done deliberately. They could have been done here, the discussion.

768
01:48:32,650 --> 01:48:36,058
If somebody would have come to all the meetings, I went to all the meetings,

769
01:48:36,154 --> 01:48:40,106
they would have seen exactly how thin the discussions were.

770
01:48:40,258 --> 01:48:43,546
It's the same game that happens every single time where we go, well,

771
01:48:43,698 --> 01:48:47,610
we've got a menu. One being completely disastrous,

772
01:48:47,770 --> 01:48:50,310
the five being everything's going to be great.

773
01:48:51,490 --> 01:48:55,274
And then everybody kind of scooches towards two, because we

774
01:48:55,282 --> 01:48:57,862
don't want to be disastrous, but we don't want to spend too much money.

775
01:48:57,986 --> 01:49:01,850
But there's never any real discussion about how any of these things come about.

776
01:49:02,630 --> 01:49:06,890
And you just take whatever the department says at face value.

777
01:49:08,150 --> 01:49:11,662
And I'm hearing all the numbers, they don't really seem to add up. And there

778
01:49:11,686 --> 01:49:15,290
seems. And what I see over and over again is

779
01:49:15,830 --> 01:49:16,570
the,

780
01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:32,040
and your allegiances are to the people that you work with regularly

781
01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:35,860
and you take their word and their needs or their,

782
01:49:37,040 --> 01:49:40,584
you know, they have the veracity and everybody outside

783
01:49:40,672 --> 01:49:44,168
doesn't. You're uncritical about

784
01:49:44,224 --> 01:49:48,060
what you hear and you don't ask the hard questions.

785
01:49:48,400 --> 01:49:51,764
You know, I had a discussion with one of

786
01:49:51,772 --> 01:49:55,120
you guys about what the job of a council is.

787
01:49:55,500 --> 01:49:59,160
Your job should be oversight and direction.

788
01:50:01,420 --> 01:50:04,788
And repeatedly in this room, what I see is it's a team.

789
01:50:04,844 --> 01:50:08,532
We're all a team. We're all pulling the same direction. No, your job is

790
01:50:08,556 --> 01:50:12,360
not to be the team member. Your job is not to throw rocks at everybody.

791
01:50:13,020 --> 01:50:16,328
Your job is not to bash on everybody unnecessarily necessarily.

792
01:50:16,504 --> 01:50:19,752
But your job is to ask the hard questions. Your job is to be

793
01:50:19,776 --> 01:50:22,376
our representatives up here on the dais,

794
01:50:22,568 --> 01:50:26,232
holding these guys feet to the fire in

795
01:50:26,336 --> 01:50:29,448
an honorable way, in a forthright way,

796
01:50:29,584 --> 01:50:33,064
in a well prepared way. But what I don't see happening

797
01:50:33,112 --> 01:50:36,632
is you guys bringing anything to the table from

798
01:50:36,656 --> 01:50:40,200
the outside. Because it used to be I used to see

799
01:50:40,320 --> 01:50:44,634
God in this room. I used to hear councilmember spiegel

800
01:50:44,682 --> 01:50:48,250
when she was here, used the we thing. It was

801
01:50:48,290 --> 01:50:51,594
we, you know, I was talking about, well, we did this and we did that.

802
01:50:51,762 --> 01:50:55,498
And she wasn't talking about us in Corona. She wasn't talking about us

803
01:50:55,634 --> 01:50:59,402
that she worked here. She'd be talking about rctc, she'd be talking about the

804
01:50:59,426 --> 01:51:03,070
county. And I hear the we thing from you guys

805
01:51:03,810 --> 01:51:06,922
referring to the city. Like we're the city.

806
01:51:07,106 --> 01:51:10,620
You're supposed to be our people up there, not the other. You know,

807
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:14,656
we didn't elect you to be employees. We didn't

808
01:51:14,688 --> 01:51:18,048
elect you to be advocates or team members. We elected you to be oversight.

809
01:51:18,144 --> 01:51:19,340
Thank you very much.

810
01:51:27,400 --> 01:51:28,340
Welcome.

811
01:51:34,280 --> 01:51:37,524
Good evening, mayor, council members. Thank you for having me. My name is

812
01:51:37,532 --> 01:51:40,644
Kevin Fritchie. I'm at 912 Mangrove

813
01:51:40,692 --> 01:51:45,812
Circle. I've been a resident of Chrono since 1988.

814
01:51:45,996 --> 01:51:49,636
And I have to say, I absolutely love this city. I love what you guys

815
01:51:49,668 --> 01:51:53,360
have done for the most part, for all these years.

816
01:51:53,660 --> 01:51:57,300
When I got the pamphlet in the mail about the water

817
01:51:57,420 --> 01:52:01,060
rate increase, I have to say I was shocked.

818
01:52:01,220 --> 01:52:05,186
And again, I've lived here for many years, haven't seen anything like this before.

819
01:52:05,338 --> 01:52:09,378
But just to break it down, the pamphlet, it talked about the rates,

820
01:52:09,554 --> 01:52:11,910
it didn't talk about the percentage increases.

821
01:52:13,210 --> 01:52:16,866
So my understanding is the basic service

822
01:52:16,938 --> 01:52:20,898
fees, that they're going to increase 15% the first year

823
01:52:21,034 --> 01:52:24,722
and then 9% the remaining four years, which basically is

824
01:52:24,746 --> 01:52:28,110
a 62% increase over five years.

825
01:52:29,140 --> 01:52:32,604
The tier one rates is going

826
01:52:32,612 --> 01:52:36,316
to increase only 2% the first year and then 9 percent

827
01:52:36,388 --> 01:52:40,108
the remaining four years. So we have a 43%

828
01:52:40,164 --> 01:52:42,360
increase over five years.

829
01:52:43,380 --> 01:52:47,292
Now, tier two, this is really where it hits me. And my home or

830
01:52:47,316 --> 01:52:49,760
my homes, I have three properties in Corona.

831
01:52:50,980 --> 01:52:54,646
19% increase the first year and

832
01:52:54,718 --> 01:52:58,902
9% the remaining four years. So we have a 69%

833
01:52:59,006 --> 01:53:03,250
increase over five years for tier two.

834
01:53:03,950 --> 01:53:06,854
Now, I looked at my last month's bill. This is just September,

835
01:53:06,902 --> 01:53:10,710
October, I spent about $189

836
01:53:10,790 --> 01:53:16,182
in just the water usage. That's not sewer, $189 with

837
01:53:16,206 --> 01:53:19,570
the same usage. By 2029,

838
01:53:19,940 --> 01:53:22,611
that bill is going to be $309,

839
01:53:22,956 --> 01:53:26,520
$120 more than what I'm paying today,

840
01:53:27,060 --> 01:53:29,000
or a 63% increase.

841
01:53:30,100 --> 01:53:31,680
That's atrocious.

842
01:53:33,780 --> 01:53:37,756
Now, when I look back over the last several years, since 2020,

843
01:53:37,908 --> 01:53:40,720
City of Corona, the water utilities,

844
01:53:41,060 --> 01:53:43,340
they've had a standard 5 across,

845
01:53:43,460 --> 01:53:46,684
5% across the board increase year over year,

846
01:53:46,772 --> 01:53:50,092
which is fine. That's for the service fee. Tier 1, Tier 2,

847
01:53:50,196 --> 01:53:53,324
I'm not talking about Tier 3 or 4 because my properties

848
01:53:53,372 --> 01:53:55,640
don't typically get into Tier 3 or Tier 4.

849
01:53:56,580 --> 01:54:00,284
So I do understand that there's infrastructure

850
01:54:00,332 --> 01:54:04,284
needs. I understand there's. We have to pay,

851
01:54:04,452 --> 01:54:08,156
costs will go up. But where is the accountability

852
01:54:08,268 --> 01:54:11,480
here? The rates that we pay right now,

853
01:54:11,910 --> 01:54:15,886
the city should be taking some of that and planning

854
01:54:16,078 --> 01:54:19,502
for the future. In my line of business,

855
01:54:19,686 --> 01:54:23,470
I manage almost a billion dollars of my clients money. I'm a steward of their

856
01:54:23,510 --> 01:54:26,686
money. I would hope and expect that the city is a steward

857
01:54:26,798 --> 01:54:30,542
of taxpayers money. So I hope that you reject this.

858
01:54:30,646 --> 01:54:37,510
Thank you. Thank you.

859
01:54:41,600 --> 01:54:44,024
Welcome. Bill Gagnon,

860
01:54:44,152 --> 01:54:48,072
1176 River Road, Corona. I have a question and I would

861
01:54:48,096 --> 01:54:51,960
like an answer. Why call it a proposed rate

862
01:54:52,080 --> 01:54:55,944
increase? Why not just tell us

863
01:54:56,032 --> 01:54:59,352
you're increasing the rates? There's really nothing. Is there

864
01:54:59,376 --> 01:55:03,342
anything anybody here can say to make you change to

865
01:55:03,416 --> 01:55:07,110
percentage or the size or the increase to the water rates?

866
01:55:07,530 --> 01:55:09,470
Is there anything we can say?

867
01:55:10,890 --> 01:55:14,642
No. So why call it a proposed rate increase?

868
01:55:14,826 --> 01:55:18,242
It's just a mandatory rate increase like Joe

869
01:55:18,306 --> 01:55:22,146
said, that you guys are putting onto the taxpayer, the citizens

870
01:55:22,178 --> 01:55:25,490
of the Corona that we have to pay. We have no say

871
01:55:25,530 --> 01:55:29,034
in the matter. You guys don't take anything we say

872
01:55:29,162 --> 01:55:32,230
into account. So why call it that?

873
01:55:33,730 --> 01:55:36,630
It's not, is it?

874
01:55:38,770 --> 01:55:42,250
I agree. I think you should. I don't know how to do it.

875
01:55:42,290 --> 01:55:45,402
I'm not in city council. I just, I've been here as

876
01:55:45,426 --> 01:55:48,666
long as everybody else, it seems like. And you just continue

877
01:55:48,738 --> 01:55:51,990
to pay these fees. Why did you take the garbage out of the bill?

878
01:55:52,930 --> 01:55:56,730
So that when the rate increase goes up we, we don't see it as bad.

879
01:55:57,350 --> 01:56:00,510
Is that why you did that? That's why I think

880
01:56:00,550 --> 01:56:04,222
you did that. Because why else do it? Western Waste is now

881
01:56:04,246 --> 01:56:07,758
is going to lose my business. I'm going to cancel my waste service.

882
01:56:07,894 --> 01:56:10,942
So if Western Waste is listening,

883
01:56:11,086 --> 01:56:14,410
you can thank the Corona City Council for losing my money.

884
01:56:15,910 --> 01:56:18,810
I don't have to have trash. I got a way to take care of it.

885
01:56:19,190 --> 01:56:22,664
So I'm going to take that $30 that they were you guys

886
01:56:22,712 --> 01:56:26,696
automatically took out that I really didn't pay attention to. And I'm

887
01:56:26,728 --> 01:56:28,952
going to take it away from them and I'm going to have to put it

888
01:56:28,976 --> 01:56:32,792
towards the water. It's not a proposed

889
01:56:32,856 --> 01:56:36,600
rate increase. You should say it's a mandatory thing. You guys just

890
01:56:36,640 --> 01:56:40,712
suck it up. Citizens of Corona, you just take it and

891
01:56:40,736 --> 01:56:43,544
you pay it and there's nothing you can do about it.

892
01:56:43,712 --> 01:56:44,860
Am I wrong?

893
01:56:46,400 --> 01:56:49,496
Nobody. I'm not wrong. Am I wrong?

894
01:56:49,688 --> 01:56:53,080
No, I'M not wrong. So what do you do?

895
01:56:53,120 --> 01:56:56,180
What is a citizen Corona supposed to do besides move?

896
01:56:57,680 --> 01:57:01,304
I can't afford to live where I live. Only reason I can stay in

897
01:57:01,312 --> 01:57:04,780
my house if I had a long time. I can't afford to go anywhere else.

898
01:57:08,400 --> 01:57:12,296
So again, if Western waste is listening, you're losing

899
01:57:12,328 --> 01:57:15,596
my money because you guys take took the money out of the bill

900
01:57:15,748 --> 01:57:18,764
and now I'm going to put it towards the water and I'm not going to

901
01:57:18,772 --> 01:57:21,480
put it towards the trash. Thank you.

902
01:57:31,620 --> 01:57:32,560
Welcome.

903
01:57:36,180 --> 01:57:40,160
My name is Sean Browner. I live at 1557 Kellogg Avenue.

904
01:57:40,580 --> 01:57:43,932
I'd like to piggyback off a little bit of what Joe said.

905
01:57:44,116 --> 01:57:47,756
These meetings where you're talking about proposed rate increases should

906
01:57:47,828 --> 01:57:51,980
be held during the nighttime where most people can can

907
01:57:52,020 --> 01:57:55,388
attend. Also, the other gentleman saying that the

908
01:57:55,444 --> 01:57:59,480
proposed rate increases are ridiculous. I absolutely agree with that.

909
01:57:59,860 --> 01:58:02,680
Now, having lived in corona since 2014,

910
01:58:03,140 --> 01:58:06,102
yeah, the rates have gone up a little bit. But this report, rate going up

911
01:58:06,126 --> 01:58:09,670
exponentially is absolutely ridiculous. And as

912
01:58:09,790 --> 01:58:13,334
Councilmember Casillas did say that a penny

913
01:58:13,382 --> 01:58:16,998
saved is a penny earned. With wages

914
01:58:17,174 --> 01:58:20,854
the way they are, they're not keeping up with inflation. And this hits

915
01:58:20,902 --> 01:58:25,010
everybody in the pocketbook. You guys, me, everybody here.

916
01:58:25,310 --> 01:58:28,518
I'm a mortgage broker and I see people come in and out of the city

917
01:58:28,574 --> 01:58:32,134
every single day. I know people personally that refused to

918
01:58:32,142 --> 01:58:36,246
move to the city because of, because of the rates of the water and taxes

919
01:58:36,278 --> 01:58:39,734
in the city. I would humbly ask that you guys all vote

920
01:58:39,782 --> 01:58:43,798
no on this because most people can't afford it or

921
01:58:43,854 --> 01:58:48,438
people looking to move into the city refuse to accept the rates.

922
01:58:48,614 --> 01:58:49,570
Thank you.

923
01:58:57,720 --> 01:58:58,580
Welcome.

924
01:59:02,680 --> 01:59:05,888
Hi mayor and council members.

925
01:59:05,944 --> 01:59:07,420
My name is Lenore Law.

926
01:59:09,480 --> 01:59:13,440
I went to one of the meetings that was

927
01:59:13,480 --> 01:59:16,912
on a Saturday and no, it didn't really fit with my schedule, but I

928
01:59:16,936 --> 01:59:20,704
made it fit because I'm self

929
01:59:20,752 --> 01:59:24,574
employed and my wages have not gone up. I, I'm in

930
01:59:24,582 --> 01:59:28,350
the hospitality business. Hyatt lost 22

931
01:59:28,390 --> 01:59:32,142
billion that year. I bottomed out the

932
01:59:32,166 --> 01:59:35,150
following year. I was sick three times after that.

933
01:59:35,190 --> 01:59:38,894
I went through supply chain issues. So I was

934
01:59:38,982 --> 01:59:43,160
so busy with supply chain issues. And then 23,

935
01:59:43,371 --> 01:59:47,054
2023, it was nothing but attitudes.

936
01:59:47,182 --> 01:59:51,390
2024, it seems like we're back on track finally

937
01:59:51,730 --> 01:59:55,514
and I'm hoping that 2025 will be a lot better. I sat

938
01:59:55,562 --> 01:59:59,450
here and I listened to everything that you guys said. You are

939
01:59:59,490 --> 02:00:03,226
spending 7 million here, 8 million here,

940
02:00:03,298 --> 02:00:06,394
another 7 million here. Never looking

941
02:00:06,482 --> 02:00:10,282
at that solar farm that could generate

942
02:00:10,346 --> 02:00:13,802
money, yet you want to charge

943
02:00:13,946 --> 02:00:18,106
the people. I think she said 1590

944
02:00:18,178 --> 02:00:22,030
or something. My electricity, thank God, is with Southern California Edison.

945
02:00:22,370 --> 02:00:25,754
We're not part of that. My water bill when I moved

946
02:00:25,802 --> 02:00:29,306
here was $60 a month.

947
02:00:29,458 --> 02:00:33,290
I was billed $120 every two

948
02:00:33,330 --> 02:00:36,394
months. That's my house. I live now, which has a bigger yard.

949
02:00:36,442 --> 02:00:38,390
It's like 18,000 square foot.

950
02:00:39,810 --> 02:00:44,066
I've done everything in terms of. So our water

951
02:00:44,218 --> 02:00:47,778
can be less money if they have broken sprinklers

952
02:00:47,794 --> 02:00:51,506
or whatever, you know, we fix them. My bill is still over

953
02:00:51,578 --> 02:00:55,122
$200. It's more than my electricity bill,

954
02:00:55,226 --> 02:00:59,090
it's more than my gas bill. If we're going to have a solar farm

955
02:00:59,130 --> 02:01:03,150
and we're going to generate money, then why not generate money for the public?

956
02:01:05,050 --> 02:01:08,770
And then what really got me is I

957
02:01:08,810 --> 02:01:12,932
work in an industry that handles

958
02:01:12,996 --> 02:01:16,964
commercial water and is one of

959
02:01:16,972 --> 02:01:19,640
the main thing is PFAS.

960
02:01:19,980 --> 02:01:22,796
PFAS has been around since 1930,

961
02:01:22,981 --> 02:01:27,480
1940, 1950s. It's not something that just happened.

962
02:01:28,140 --> 02:01:31,140
And I loved your presentation about the bridge,

963
02:01:31,300 --> 02:01:35,184
but you also talked about the reclaimed water that you were using

964
02:01:35,372 --> 02:01:39,512
to build that bridge. That's costing our money and our taxpayers

965
02:01:39,576 --> 02:01:43,128
money and all that reuse water is coming

966
02:01:43,184 --> 02:01:46,552
from underground in the bridge that has PFAS in it.

967
02:01:46,656 --> 02:01:50,824
And then you want to charge us 15% more in

968
02:01:50,912 --> 02:01:54,200
our water bills because you have more

969
02:01:54,240 --> 02:01:58,600
PFAS in your water. And yes, you're putting more infrastructure

970
02:01:58,680 --> 02:02:02,220
into the city and through. Thank God you're doing what you're doing

971
02:02:02,260 --> 02:02:05,820
with the homeless. I had a homeless brother and he lived with

972
02:02:05,860 --> 02:02:09,292
me for a number of years. He's now doing okay on his

973
02:02:09,316 --> 02:02:12,880
own. He's been clean and sober for 25 years, thank God.

974
02:02:13,380 --> 02:02:16,876
So, you know, there's more than one time that I pulled

975
02:02:16,908 --> 02:02:20,780
him out of that park in Corona. So I know what it's like

976
02:02:20,820 --> 02:02:22,280
and I know that we need.

977
02:02:27,070 --> 02:02:33,650
I know think

978
02:02:54,840 --> 02:02:57,808
I know. Thank. Thank you. Your.

979
02:02:57,864 --> 02:03:00,980
Your time is up. Thank.

980
02:03:18,290 --> 02:03:19,230
Welcome.

981
02:03:24,130 --> 02:03:27,190
1561 Cherokee Road.

982
02:03:28,370 --> 02:03:32,074
My biggest thing besides, of course, I'm definitely against

983
02:03:32,162 --> 02:03:35,466
this rate increase like everyone said.

984
02:03:35,618 --> 02:03:40,110
Is that why this isn't a. It says if the majority

985
02:03:40,450 --> 02:03:44,030
of the owners submit a written protest

986
02:03:44,390 --> 02:03:47,934
that it won't go through. Why isn't it the opposite in saying that the default

987
02:03:47,982 --> 02:03:51,518
would be against, like we should have? The default being we're

988
02:03:51,534 --> 02:03:55,998
all against and if we all vote for it, then it'll be imposed

989
02:03:56,094 --> 02:03:58,894
instead of. Because there's a lot of people that don't know about it. There's a

990
02:03:58,902 --> 02:04:01,566
lot of people that haven't heard about it. There's a lot of people, they don't

991
02:04:01,598 --> 02:04:04,702
read this whole booklet. They just. I almost, I did throw it away and I

992
02:04:04,726 --> 02:04:07,790
pulled it back out because when my neighbors said, hey, did you know we have

993
02:04:07,830 --> 02:04:10,968
this thing, we need to write a, a protest against

994
02:04:11,024 --> 02:04:14,088
it. And I thought, well, why do we have to write a protest? Why can't

995
02:04:14,104 --> 02:04:18,264
we just have it defaulted to be not approved instead?

996
02:04:18,392 --> 02:04:21,912
And then if we wanted it, yeah, I'm sure we'd all go, okay, give us

997
02:04:21,936 --> 02:04:25,368
the information so we can go. Yeah, yeah, okay, that's a good,

998
02:04:25,504 --> 02:04:29,032
that's a good reason. We need to okay this or vote on

999
02:04:29,056 --> 02:04:32,120
it, even have a yes or no vote. But we need to have that.

1000
02:04:32,160 --> 02:04:34,878
Not just a default. Oh, it's going, it's going to pass,

1001
02:04:34,984 --> 02:04:38,230
obviously, because there's not no majority of the Corona

1002
02:04:38,650 --> 02:04:41,810
people that are going to see this. Even half of them don't even know about

1003
02:04:41,850 --> 02:04:45,186
it. I had a text on my friends and the neighbors and,

1004
02:04:45,338 --> 02:04:49,282
and that's just a small area neighborhood. So that's my biggest thing,

1005
02:04:49,306 --> 02:04:52,738
is that it should be defaulted to the. Against it.

1006
02:04:52,874 --> 02:04:55,570
And then if, if you want it to be for it,

1007
02:04:55,610 --> 02:04:59,154
then, then we'll vote that way. That's my,

1008
02:04:59,242 --> 02:05:02,956
that's my. Anyways, please vote against it.

1009
02:05:03,108 --> 02:05:04,760
Thank you. Thank you.

1010
02:05:12,500 --> 02:05:15,852
Welcome. Thank you very much for receiving me

1011
02:05:15,876 --> 02:05:19,452
then. My name is Oscar Romero and I'd like to address myself once again to

1012
02:05:19,476 --> 02:05:22,860
the, to the mayor and also to the council chamber then.

1013
02:05:22,900 --> 02:05:26,748
And also go ahead and express my objection that into this

1014
02:05:26,804 --> 02:05:30,652
rate increase that's being proposed then for water rates and

1015
02:05:30,836 --> 02:05:34,620
other services and things. And so it's unfortunate that

1016
02:05:34,740 --> 02:05:38,172
maybe some of us should be following along with some of

1017
02:05:38,196 --> 02:05:41,532
these proposals as they're being formulated. I should have been

1018
02:05:41,556 --> 02:05:45,132
going ahead and maybe paying more attention. And it

1019
02:05:45,156 --> 02:05:48,492
does seem like a very, very high increase

1020
02:05:48,596 --> 02:05:51,708
in costs for us. And what I'd

1021
02:05:51,724 --> 02:05:55,490
like to call is that this is going to be very

1022
02:05:55,530 --> 02:05:58,722
much a burden that many of us will not be able to go

1023
02:05:58,746 --> 02:06:02,242
ahead and afford very easily in things. What I

1024
02:06:02,266 --> 02:06:05,730
worry about as well is that in a sense going

1025
02:06:05,770 --> 02:06:09,554
on what one of the previous speakers said is that we need to prioritize

1026
02:06:09,682 --> 02:06:13,666
needs of the residents here of the city of Corona.

1027
02:06:13,698 --> 02:06:17,234
Then I know that you're going ahead and you're thinking about future needs that

1028
02:06:17,242 --> 02:06:22,376
we might have in infrastructure. Infrastructure and things, and the air system for traffic

1029
02:06:22,408 --> 02:06:26,136
signals and things. But these are basic necessities that we're going in, that we're

1030
02:06:26,168 --> 02:06:29,592
talking about. And what I've seen is that, you know, monies from

1031
02:06:29,616 --> 02:06:33,896
our public, you know, city budget are being distributed and approved

1032
02:06:34,088 --> 02:06:37,496
very liberally right here then for, for these big projects.

1033
02:06:37,608 --> 02:06:41,720
But these basic necessities that. That impact us so strongly then

1034
02:06:41,840 --> 02:06:44,592
need to be addressed. And I think that maybe a sense they should have been

1035
02:06:44,616 --> 02:06:47,952
prioritized, you know, more than the, you know,

1036
02:06:47,976 --> 02:06:51,392
the way they're being, you know, the monies are being allocated now for, for these

1037
02:06:51,416 --> 02:06:55,024
other kinds of rates and services. Now these are basic necessities,

1038
02:06:55,072 --> 02:06:58,432
of course, water and, you know, the sewage and things like this that

1039
02:06:58,456 --> 02:07:02,560
we have. But the, but the rates seem just too excessively

1040
02:07:02,640 --> 02:07:05,712
high for me to be able to go ahead and feel in

1041
02:07:05,736 --> 02:07:09,304
any way comfortable. I know that part of these are costs that you

1042
02:07:09,352 --> 02:07:13,032
are going ahead and taking to account as well that are coming from

1043
02:07:13,056 --> 02:07:16,264
the, you know, the state and things from the water providers that

1044
02:07:16,272 --> 02:07:19,608
we have. But in a sense, could you have gone ahead

1045
02:07:19,664 --> 02:07:22,900
and maybe I'd like to say, you know, kind of

1046
02:07:24,560 --> 02:07:28,104
bargained in some way or something like this with the providers of these

1047
02:07:28,192 --> 02:07:31,784
essential then materials and water resources

1048
02:07:31,832 --> 02:07:35,148
that we have and things. And, you know, it seems like in a sense

1049
02:07:35,304 --> 02:07:38,836
it was just a fait accompli, you know, where they went ahead and, you know,

1050
02:07:38,908 --> 02:07:42,692
they said these are our rising costs. And there was no pushback from

1051
02:07:42,716 --> 02:07:46,532
us to go and say, can you justify those tremendous costs that

1052
02:07:46,556 --> 02:07:49,972
have been, that are now being, you know, that we're going to have to go

1053
02:07:49,996 --> 02:07:52,708
and pay them right here. So I'd like to say very,

1054
02:07:52,844 --> 02:07:56,500
very forcefully, very strongly then, that this is going to go ahead and impact

1055
02:07:56,620 --> 02:08:00,116
many of us very strongly. I do not have

1056
02:08:00,188 --> 02:08:03,428
then the resources to be able to go ahead and pay such high cost.

1057
02:08:03,564 --> 02:08:06,852
And I think my needs were not prioritized in the needs of

1058
02:08:06,876 --> 02:08:10,640
other residents of the city of Corona. Thank you very much.

1059
02:08:14,460 --> 02:08:15,440
Thank you.

1060
02:08:18,700 --> 02:08:19,640
Welcome.

1061
02:08:26,470 --> 02:08:30,650
Carla Berger and I live in the city of Corona and

1062
02:08:31,190 --> 02:08:34,622
I have a child that has left California because

1063
02:08:34,646 --> 02:08:38,366
it's sort of more difficult to afford things.

1064
02:08:38,438 --> 02:08:41,870
And I have another son that lives in San Francisco that has been laid off

1065
02:08:41,910 --> 02:08:45,422
and moved home looking for a job. So my costs are going up just like

1066
02:08:45,446 --> 02:08:49,290
that. I run a business. I understand materials cost increase.

1067
02:08:50,470 --> 02:08:54,182
I would like to maybe see that there's some accountability from the

1068
02:08:54,206 --> 02:08:57,862
providers, like no raises or maybe some

1069
02:08:57,886 --> 02:09:01,638
pay cuts, things they could do on their end to sacrifice

1070
02:09:01,734 --> 02:09:05,350
a little bit of the cost as we

1071
02:09:05,390 --> 02:09:08,582
are sacrificing, I guess. I mean, I know that things do

1072
02:09:08,606 --> 02:09:12,102
cost more, but I'd like to see if there's a little way to cut

1073
02:09:12,126 --> 02:09:15,798
into that. And I also don't agree with the base charge ready

1074
02:09:15,814 --> 02:09:18,822
to serve. I have a property that is un landscaped.

1075
02:09:18,886 --> 02:09:22,442
I don't use 3/4 water, but yet

1076
02:09:22,466 --> 02:09:25,930
I have that base charge. I'd like to see the base charges stay lower and

1077
02:09:25,970 --> 02:09:29,162
the actual use for the water be charged more

1078
02:09:29,186 --> 02:09:32,550
than. So you pay for more what you get, you know, what you're using.

1079
02:09:33,730 --> 02:09:36,890
I think there's a lot of people that need assistance

1080
02:09:36,970 --> 02:09:40,154
and there's a program there for that. And people get things that way cheap,

1081
02:09:40,282 --> 02:09:43,834
maybe for free. I understand there's a

1082
02:09:43,842 --> 02:09:46,692
need for that in places, but we kind of need to bring it a little

1083
02:09:46,716 --> 02:09:50,596
bit back together. Maybe some less profits, maybe there aren't

1084
02:09:50,628 --> 02:09:53,860
any. I doubt that. But yeah, if I see

1085
02:09:53,900 --> 02:09:57,652
them moving down and us moving up for what we actually use, I don't like

1086
02:09:57,676 --> 02:10:01,200
to see the increase in the base cost ready to serve charges. Thank you.

1087
02:10:01,580 --> 02:10:02,560
Thank you.

1088
02:10:06,380 --> 02:10:08,600
You did good for a first timer.

1089
02:10:11,590 --> 02:10:20,110
Welcome the

1090
02:10:20,150 --> 02:10:24,610
city Council. My name is Ray Mogul. I live on Rockwell Road here in Corona.

1091
02:10:25,030 --> 02:10:29,170
And these water rates have me concerned.

1092
02:10:30,230 --> 02:10:33,390
The those of us that have swimming pools,

1093
02:10:33,470 --> 02:10:37,066
the industry standard is every three to five years you drain

1094
02:10:37,098 --> 02:10:40,430
it completely and refill it after you completely clean the pool.

1095
02:10:40,930 --> 02:10:44,590
And most pools are well over 5,000 gallons.

1096
02:10:45,890 --> 02:10:49,610
That's a substantial charge. And with Social Security only going

1097
02:10:49,650 --> 02:10:54,986
up 2.5% next year and

1098
02:10:55,058 --> 02:11:03,280
listening to the presentation on the water rates for

1099
02:11:05,260 --> 02:11:08,804
that, the sewer rate, Sewer flow

1100
02:11:08,852 --> 02:11:12,340
is not metered. It sounded like that

1101
02:11:12,460 --> 02:11:15,620
includes sewer feed. I'm on septic.

1102
02:11:15,780 --> 02:11:20,116
I don't, you know, impact the sewer

1103
02:11:20,148 --> 02:11:23,840
system here in Corona. So it's just,

1104
02:11:24,700 --> 02:11:28,150
you know, big increase. And watching

1105
02:11:28,300 --> 02:11:31,314
city parks, watering in the middle of the afternoon,

1106
02:11:31,362 --> 02:11:34,914
which is the worst time of the day to water, especially when people want to

1107
02:11:34,922 --> 02:11:39,554
use the parks. My sprinklers are all on timers

1108
02:11:39,682 --> 02:11:42,190
and they go off at 5 o'clock in the morning,

1109
02:11:42,730 --> 02:11:45,990
which is a better time to water. Less waste.

1110
02:11:46,330 --> 02:11:49,906
I see too many people in town that water

1111
02:11:49,978 --> 02:11:53,282
in the middle of the afternoon and the water's just pouring down

1112
02:11:53,306 --> 02:11:56,630
the street. So I'm not

1113
02:11:56,670 --> 02:12:00,518
happy with the proposed rate increases.

1114
02:12:00,694 --> 02:12:03,170
Thank you. Thank you.

1115
02:12:04,910 --> 02:12:06,370
What was your name again?

1116
02:12:07,950 --> 02:12:11,446
Well, let me throw this out there. I don't think anybody

1117
02:12:11,478 --> 02:12:15,110
should be draining their pool every four to five years. I think

1118
02:12:15,150 --> 02:12:18,982
you'll save money by not doing so. Are there any

1119
02:12:19,006 --> 02:12:20,560
more speaker cards?

1120
02:12:28,660 --> 02:12:32,284
All right, come on down. I always wanted to

1121
02:12:32,292 --> 02:12:33,080
say that.

1122
02:12:39,220 --> 02:12:42,508
Good evening. My name is Alan Fot. I live at 429 Winola

1123
02:12:42,524 --> 02:12:44,920
Court over in District 1, I believe.

1124
02:12:46,190 --> 02:12:50,102
Okay to go? Yeah, you're good. I haven't heard any answers come

1125
02:12:50,126 --> 02:12:53,862
back from the council tonight, so I'd like to know when the

1126
02:12:53,886 --> 02:12:55,250
answers do come out.

1127
02:12:56,990 --> 02:13:00,902
I thought that maybe my maths weren't mathing when I was figuring

1128
02:13:00,966 --> 02:13:04,758
out the increase. 60 plus percent is

1129
02:13:04,814 --> 02:13:08,566
extraordinary. What have we been doing with the ready to serve money that we're collecting

1130
02:13:08,598 --> 02:13:12,384
every month from everybody in Krona? Why isn't that covering

1131
02:13:12,512 --> 02:13:16,160
some of these costs that we're talking about? And we're going to increase that even

1132
02:13:16,200 --> 02:13:19,888
more. Senior citizens, like we heard earlier,

1133
02:13:20,024 --> 02:13:22,780
they're only getting 2 or 3% increase.

1134
02:13:23,880 --> 02:13:27,152
Where are they going to take that extra

1135
02:13:27,216 --> 02:13:30,320
charge from the city, you know,

1136
02:13:30,360 --> 02:13:34,016
to pay you guys when they're only increasing a couple

1137
02:13:34,048 --> 02:13:37,836
of percent each year? There's a giant gap there

1138
02:13:37,988 --> 02:13:41,692
between what the seniors can afford and what you're asking.

1139
02:13:41,756 --> 02:13:45,116
It's a giant ask. On the pool thing,

1140
02:13:45,188 --> 02:13:48,892
switching your pool water out. I don't do it. My pool water is

1141
02:13:48,916 --> 02:13:52,492
now about 15 years old because that's 15,000 gallons of

1142
02:13:52,516 --> 02:13:56,012
water that is basically salty now because

1143
02:13:56,036 --> 02:13:59,468
you still have to put the chemicals in. But if you're not taking

1144
02:13:59,524 --> 02:14:03,254
them out by changing the water, you've got a saltwater

1145
02:14:03,302 --> 02:14:07,014
pool and there isn't a solution other than draining

1146
02:14:07,062 --> 02:14:10,502
it. Or I guess you could buy a reverse osmosis system and

1147
02:14:10,526 --> 02:14:12,890
install it on your pool. Not practical.

1148
02:14:14,190 --> 02:14:17,990
Thank you to the city for the RV dump that's over there on the Harrison

1149
02:14:18,070 --> 02:14:22,022
street facility. I would ask that

1150
02:14:22,046 --> 02:14:25,350
they do better maintenance on it to make it so that both stations

1151
02:14:25,430 --> 02:14:27,090
work when you get there.

1152
02:14:30,600 --> 02:14:34,880
It's okay to take money that we didn't spend on certain projects,

1153
02:14:34,960 --> 02:14:38,448
like a million dollars here or there, and put it back into something

1154
02:14:38,504 --> 02:14:41,260
like this increase that we're talking about.

1155
02:14:42,360 --> 02:14:46,064
I can't imagine that traffic will actually improve. I drive

1156
02:14:46,112 --> 02:14:50,224
down 6 or. Yeah. 6th street on Sunday morning at 6am

1157
02:14:50,392 --> 02:14:53,914
and I hit a red light on the

1158
02:14:53,922 --> 02:14:59,194
street at that time. I don't know direction

1159
02:14:59,242 --> 02:14:59,830
there.

1160
02:15:03,650 --> 02:15:08,170
So in the short time I have left, I'd like you to consider that

1161
02:15:08,210 --> 02:15:11,146
this is just too much. It's too much.

1162
02:15:11,298 --> 02:15:13,722
5% a year, people can swallow that.

1163
02:15:13,906 --> 02:15:18,190
60% by 2029 is outrageous.

1164
02:15:19,180 --> 02:15:22,820
You haven't made any arrangements for people

1165
02:15:22,860 --> 02:15:24,960
who are on fixed income to be able to.

1166
02:15:25,820 --> 02:15:29,636
Personally, I had to take out all of my turf. 100% of the turf gone

1167
02:15:29,748 --> 02:15:33,332
at my own expense. And my water bill is still higher

1168
02:15:33,436 --> 02:15:37,200
than it was before. You know,

1169
02:15:38,540 --> 02:15:42,388
the maths aren't mathing for us. Thank you

1170
02:15:42,444 --> 02:15:45,470
very much. Please turn down this proposition.

1171
02:15:46,770 --> 02:15:47,750
Thank you.

1172
02:15:55,490 --> 02:15:56,430
Welcome.

1173
02:16:02,290 --> 02:16:05,786
My name is Christopher Dixon. I didn't really prepare to talk,

1174
02:16:05,858 --> 02:16:09,354
but just a few things I'd like to share that I've been

1175
02:16:09,362 --> 02:16:12,190
thinking about since. Since listening to everybody else talk.

1176
02:16:13,210 --> 02:16:16,722
This readiness to serve charge. I think

1177
02:16:16,746 --> 02:16:19,990
it really should be called the privilege of being your customer charge,

1178
02:16:22,170 --> 02:16:25,710
because that's all it is. You know, if I use no water

1179
02:16:26,330 --> 02:16:30,750
by. What is it, 20, 29, I'm not to be paying $60 a month.

1180
02:16:31,050 --> 02:16:34,882
You know, even if I don't use one drop of water. I don't remember the

1181
02:16:34,906 --> 02:16:38,318
numbers, but, I mean, it's just. It seems pretty ridiculous. And I think it seems

1182
02:16:38,334 --> 02:16:41,982
ridiculous also, because my entire life I've been

1183
02:16:42,006 --> 02:16:45,230
hearing, you know, we should conserve water. You know,

1184
02:16:45,270 --> 02:16:48,302
this readiness to serve charge, you know,

1185
02:16:48,326 --> 02:16:51,790
putting all the increases or most of the increases in that

1186
02:16:51,830 --> 02:16:56,014
chart. That single charge doesn't incentivize anybody to conserve

1187
02:16:56,062 --> 02:16:59,470
water. And I don't know if conserving water would help

1188
02:16:59,510 --> 02:17:01,850
any of these, you know,

1189
02:17:04,500 --> 02:17:08,092
you know, costs that you guys incur, but I think it

1190
02:17:08,116 --> 02:17:11,596
would help, you know, it would help keep costs

1191
02:17:11,628 --> 02:17:14,748
down if we could just conserve water. You know, the city used to do things

1192
02:17:14,804 --> 02:17:18,364
like, you know, they would pay people to take out, you know, grass out of

1193
02:17:18,372 --> 02:17:22,252
their. Or take, you know, lawns out of their.

1194
02:17:22,436 --> 02:17:25,356
Out of their properties. I don't know if they still do that, but I haven't

1195
02:17:25,388 --> 02:17:28,949
seen any. I haven't received any flyers encouraging people to do that

1196
02:17:28,989 --> 02:17:32,949
recently. You know, if you go to other states, you know,

1197
02:17:32,989 --> 02:17:36,789
like the south, Southwest, like Arizona, people have

1198
02:17:36,829 --> 02:17:39,733
rock lawns. We don't. You know, you don't see that a lot here. You know,

1199
02:17:39,741 --> 02:17:42,981
it would be. I think it would be a good idea if the, you know,

1200
02:17:43,005 --> 02:17:46,421
if the city would incentivize people to actually save

1201
02:17:46,485 --> 02:17:49,749
water and, you know, use it wisely rather than

1202
02:17:49,789 --> 02:17:53,493
just keep jacking up our rates for things like readiness

1203
02:17:53,541 --> 02:17:57,422
to serve. It's. It just doesn't make sense to me. Anyway, that's really

1204
02:17:57,446 --> 02:18:00,490
all I got to say. Thank you.

1205
02:18:03,830 --> 02:18:07,170
Are there any other speaker cards? Anybody want to speak?

1206
02:18:08,390 --> 02:18:09,930
We covered the field.

1207
02:18:11,430 --> 02:18:15,250
Okay, Sylvia, do you have any other speaker cards?

1208
02:18:15,750 --> 02:18:19,342
Mayor, we do not have any more speaker cards. All right, I think

1209
02:18:19,366 --> 02:18:22,756
you won it all. It's not easy to get up and speak, and I

1210
02:18:22,828 --> 02:18:26,276
admire all of you for doing so. With that. Public comments

1211
02:18:26,348 --> 02:18:30,260
are closed. We'll bring it back to the dais. Start off with council member

1212
02:18:30,300 --> 02:18:34,004
Dadaria. Mayor, Sorry, I do need to provide an overview

1213
02:18:34,052 --> 02:18:37,300
on the protest letters that we received. Okay, hang on one second.

1214
02:18:37,340 --> 02:18:40,320
Let me read the script for that. That way we get it right.

1215
02:18:41,340 --> 02:18:44,756
But we want to have Mr. Moody answer

1216
02:18:44,788 --> 02:18:47,039
any of the questions that were answered or.

1217
02:18:49,019 --> 02:18:52,435
All right, there were some questions. There was also some statements, but I didn't know

1218
02:18:52,507 --> 02:18:55,799
if that was. Tom, were you taking notes on the questions?

1219
02:18:59,739 --> 02:19:03,039
Yes. Okay, let's do that. Thank you.

1220
02:19:04,219 --> 02:19:08,291
The floor is yours, Tom. Thanks, I appreciate that. I know

1221
02:19:08,395 --> 02:19:11,795
it's always a difficult process when we're looking

1222
02:19:11,867 --> 02:19:16,339
at those rates. And I think, as Ms. Hockett shared in the

1223
02:19:16,879 --> 02:19:20,167
presentation, that our rates

1224
02:19:20,183 --> 02:19:23,831
are going up. And we see that in those five categories.

1225
02:19:23,895 --> 02:19:26,999
And I think if you look at just the basic categories of what we were

1226
02:19:27,039 --> 02:19:30,711
showing for our water and our sewer,

1227
02:19:30,855 --> 02:19:34,967
that equaled up to 58 to 66%

1228
02:19:35,103 --> 02:19:37,821
of our basic costs.

1229
02:19:38,015 --> 02:19:42,338
And so, obviously, when we're looking at those costs

1230
02:19:42,434 --> 02:19:46,050
going up year over year, we have to project and

1231
02:19:46,090 --> 02:19:49,970
plan for that. And those are just our operational costs that we're looking at that

1232
02:19:50,010 --> 02:19:53,378
drive our business, in a sense. We talk a little bit.

1233
02:19:53,434 --> 02:19:56,402
There were some questions. There were a number of people that talked about the readiness

1234
02:19:56,466 --> 02:20:00,578
to serve charge. And the readiness to serve charge really comes down

1235
02:20:00,634 --> 02:20:03,722
to the amount of infrastructure that we have to have in place

1236
02:20:03,786 --> 02:20:07,706
place to be ready to serve every resident in Corona

1237
02:20:07,738 --> 02:20:11,306
when they turn on their tap. That is water lines in the ground.

1238
02:20:11,378 --> 02:20:14,522
That's transmission mains from the Colorado River

1239
02:20:14,586 --> 02:20:17,962
Reservoir. That is our treatment plants.

1240
02:20:18,026 --> 02:20:21,658
That's our operational staff. The majority.

1241
02:20:21,834 --> 02:20:25,802
The majority of our costs are fixed costs to

1242
02:20:25,826 --> 02:20:29,178
be ready to serve that water to the residents throughout

1243
02:20:29,194 --> 02:20:33,266
the country, community. And. And that does make it a little bit tough.

1244
02:20:33,378 --> 02:20:36,722
But what we were trying to do and what we try to do is try

1245
02:20:36,746 --> 02:20:40,834
to balance that out between the actual commodity,

1246
02:20:40,962 --> 02:20:44,946
which is the water, and what we

1247
02:20:45,098 --> 02:20:48,850
do to make sure that that water is then available to every

1248
02:20:48,970 --> 02:20:53,058
customer whenever they turn on their tap. As we're talking through

1249
02:20:53,114 --> 02:20:56,664
that process. It's the same for the sewer, right? We have sewer

1250
02:20:56,712 --> 02:20:59,944
lines, we have lift stations, we have treatment plants.

1251
02:21:00,072 --> 02:21:03,992
And all of these things have to be up, running and ready to go

1252
02:21:04,176 --> 02:21:08,040
whenever we are, whenever that water comes

1253
02:21:08,080 --> 02:21:11,704
down the drain. So as that water is turned on from the faucet,

1254
02:21:11,832 --> 02:21:15,112
it comes out. We have to have storage reservoirs, we have to

1255
02:21:15,136 --> 02:21:18,664
have pipelines, we have pump stations to move the water through.

1256
02:21:18,832 --> 02:21:22,682
All of those are just the basic infrastructure charges that

1257
02:21:22,706 --> 02:21:25,590
are necessary to make sure that that is available.

1258
02:21:26,210 --> 02:21:30,218
Why we don't put that on the commodity charge is

1259
02:21:30,354 --> 02:21:34,110
because that really begins to be an unfair

1260
02:21:34,850 --> 02:21:39,034
number, if you will, that then can be challenged

1261
02:21:39,082 --> 02:21:42,074
through the rate process. So it's important,

1262
02:21:42,162 --> 02:21:45,770
then, to understand that if you

1263
02:21:45,810 --> 02:21:49,568
have, if you use one unit of water and

1264
02:21:49,624 --> 02:21:52,896
you pay $6 for that unit of water and everybody's

1265
02:21:52,928 --> 02:21:56,256
paying $6 for that unit of water. Well, if somebody's

1266
02:21:56,288 --> 02:22:00,016
paying, if they have 15 units of water and they're

1267
02:22:00,048 --> 02:22:03,680
paying that same charge, but everybody's got a really, really low

1268
02:22:03,720 --> 02:22:08,656
ready to serve charge that does, that's not equitable because

1269
02:22:08,728 --> 02:22:11,984
the majority, again the majority of our costs are fixed costs.

1270
02:22:12,032 --> 02:22:15,642
And so we're always trying to balance out those two to

1271
02:22:15,666 --> 02:22:19,418
make the commodity charge as low as possible. And we try

1272
02:22:19,474 --> 02:22:23,114
to focus our rates on being the lowest possible while providing

1273
02:22:23,162 --> 02:22:26,762
the highest quality service. And that's important.

1274
02:22:26,866 --> 02:22:30,202
One of the questions that was brought up was the Prop 218 process.

1275
02:22:30,306 --> 02:22:33,658
Why is this not voted on? And this was

1276
02:22:33,714 --> 02:22:37,880
voted on, right? So from the Prop 218 measurements

1277
02:22:37,910 --> 02:22:41,108
was voted on in California and this is the law and

1278
02:22:41,164 --> 02:22:45,396
the requirement. It takes a majority of opposition.

1279
02:22:45,588 --> 02:22:49,540
And that's why we follow the Prop218 process. We present

1280
02:22:49,660 --> 02:22:53,700
a third party independent rate study that evaluates

1281
02:22:53,780 --> 02:22:59,252
our overall rates from our revenues

1282
02:22:59,316 --> 02:23:02,756
and our expenditures and looks at our capital improvement.

1283
02:23:02,868 --> 02:23:07,026
We put provide that to the council and

1284
02:23:07,098 --> 02:23:10,818
we then use that money to reinvest into

1285
02:23:10,874 --> 02:23:16,430
the system. It's important then to understand that

1286
02:23:16,970 --> 02:23:20,498
that is the process under Prop 218 is that we,

1287
02:23:20,634 --> 02:23:24,658
it was voted on by the, by the communities

1288
02:23:24,754 --> 02:23:28,674
and every, every person in California

1289
02:23:28,722 --> 02:23:32,230
has followed that since Prop 218 was enacted.

1290
02:23:37,290 --> 02:23:40,642
And, and, and to this point we don't have to

1291
02:23:40,666 --> 02:23:44,418
send out a ballot every time that we follow this. This is Prop 218

1292
02:23:44,474 --> 02:23:47,890
and it's what's in the California legislator. It's the process that we

1293
02:23:47,930 --> 02:23:51,602
follow. Prop218 does not get voted on every cycle.

1294
02:23:51,666 --> 02:23:55,058
It was voted on at one time enacted and that is the,

1295
02:23:55,114 --> 02:23:57,300
that is the law that we follow now.

1296
02:23:58,960 --> 02:24:02,680
So one of the, one of the residents talked about the

1297
02:24:02,800 --> 02:24:06,968
challenge of being on Social Security and

1298
02:24:07,104 --> 02:24:10,472
not having enough money for this. We do have a

1299
02:24:10,496 --> 02:24:11,700
variance program,

1300
02:24:13,840 --> 02:24:17,928
so we do allow for a lifeline program so residents

1301
02:24:18,024 --> 02:24:22,226
that meet the qualifications have lifeline capability and

1302
02:24:22,298 --> 02:24:26,226
we are able to provide that assistance to them with

1303
02:24:26,298 --> 02:24:29,874
the proper documentation. A couple of

1304
02:24:29,882 --> 02:24:32,790
gentlemen talked about pools.

1305
02:24:33,610 --> 02:24:37,506
Good pool maintenance does request that you,

1306
02:24:37,658 --> 02:24:42,190
you know or suggests that you change out your pool water

1307
02:24:42,650 --> 02:24:46,290
a lot of times over time due to soaps and other

1308
02:24:46,330 --> 02:24:50,172
things that get on our bathing suits, in our clothes, you will

1309
02:24:50,196 --> 02:24:53,932
get large amounts of phosphate in your pool water. So it

1310
02:24:53,956 --> 02:24:57,772
is recommended to periodically drain and

1311
02:24:57,876 --> 02:25:00,812
change out some of your pool water from time to time.

1312
02:25:00,996 --> 02:25:04,412
Now we Understand that and we provide a variance for

1313
02:25:04,436 --> 02:25:08,092
that. As people are going through that process, we're not going to charge them

1314
02:25:08,116 --> 02:25:11,420
at the higher tiers. We are going to provide them a variance.

1315
02:25:11,500 --> 02:25:13,960
We ask that they make us aware of it.

1316
02:25:14,510 --> 02:25:18,022
Is there a charge for the water? Yes, we do charge for the water that

1317
02:25:18,046 --> 02:25:21,930
goes through the meter, but we do that at the lower tiers

1318
02:25:22,270 --> 02:25:25,462
because we understand that that is not normal.

1319
02:25:25,606 --> 02:25:28,886
It is something that they're doing for maintenance.

1320
02:25:29,078 --> 02:25:32,582
And additionally, if somebody comes and has a broken sprinkler,

1321
02:25:32,646 --> 02:25:35,782
a slab leak, any of these types of things, we have a

1322
02:25:35,806 --> 02:25:39,852
variance program that we will work with customers on and

1323
02:25:39,876 --> 02:25:43,084
then provide them that. Now we again, we always charge for

1324
02:25:43,092 --> 02:25:45,996
the water that goes through the meter. We just do it at the appropriate tier

1325
02:25:46,028 --> 02:25:49,276
and not the higher tiers because we realize that

1326
02:25:49,428 --> 02:25:52,796
conservation is one methodology. Everybody we believe

1327
02:25:52,868 --> 02:25:56,422
is going to be in Tier 1 and Tier 2. Tiers 3 and Tier

1328
02:25:56,473 --> 02:26:00,252
4 are excessive tiers. And so that's where we're charging for

1329
02:26:00,276 --> 02:26:00,840
that.

1330
02:26:04,660 --> 02:26:08,020
In regards to so lifeline

1331
02:26:08,100 --> 02:26:11,204
variance RV dump maintenance, I will take a look at the

1332
02:26:11,212 --> 02:26:14,612
RV dump station and make sure that both of those facilities are

1333
02:26:14,636 --> 02:26:17,716
operating. I believe that's

1334
02:26:17,748 --> 02:26:20,920
the meetings that I believe those are the questions.

1335
02:26:21,260 --> 02:26:24,720
I think I had just a couple more that I wrote down. One is

1336
02:26:25,980 --> 02:26:29,732
somebody mentioned that taking a profit. So if you could

1337
02:26:29,756 --> 02:26:32,638
address that. And then second, the state,

1338
02:26:32,724 --> 02:26:36,410
the increase in state regulation, I think that we've talked

1339
02:26:36,490 --> 02:26:40,346
about that privately or in other meetings about

1340
02:26:40,498 --> 02:26:44,026
the increase in state regulation in relation to the.

1341
02:26:44,178 --> 02:26:47,354
We all want clean water. The state has additional

1342
02:26:47,402 --> 02:26:50,510
regulations put on top of us and what that really costs.

1343
02:26:51,810 --> 02:26:55,002
Sure. So we are not a for profit company.

1344
02:26:55,106 --> 02:26:58,250
We. The money that we get goes back

1345
02:26:58,290 --> 02:27:02,134
into, into our product and our processes.

1346
02:27:02,182 --> 02:27:06,230
Right. So people, product and process. Obviously we have

1347
02:27:06,350 --> 02:27:09,862
state certified operators on both the water and the wastewater

1348
02:27:09,926 --> 02:27:13,174
system. Our infrastructure crews are. These are

1349
02:27:13,182 --> 02:27:16,630
the guys that are. We refer to them as our below ground

1350
02:27:16,750 --> 02:27:21,210
construction crews. They are the ones dealing with the pipes and the sewer lines.

1351
02:27:21,630 --> 02:27:25,408
And we have our above ground team that deals with all the maintenance plant

1352
02:27:25,424 --> 02:27:29,424
and the treatment options. They're certified by the state of California

1353
02:27:29,552 --> 02:27:34,016
either for an operator license or a distribution license

1354
02:27:34,208 --> 02:27:37,600
if they're working on water systems. And so

1355
02:27:37,640 --> 02:27:41,344
obviously we have, we have a responsibility to have certified

1356
02:27:41,472 --> 02:27:44,992
staff to be able to perform the duties to maintain

1357
02:27:45,056 --> 02:27:48,368
a clean and healthy water system

1358
02:27:48,504 --> 02:27:51,936
and ensure that our wastewater district or our wastewater

1359
02:27:51,968 --> 02:27:55,042
treatment program process is being discharged appropriately

1360
02:27:55,106 --> 02:27:58,738
to the environment. So we discharge our water to the

1361
02:27:58,794 --> 02:28:02,034
Santa Ana river and or to our percolation

1362
02:28:02,082 --> 02:28:06,002
ponds that are here in town. In regards

1363
02:28:06,066 --> 02:28:08,630
to, in regards to regulation,

1364
02:28:09,370 --> 02:28:12,770
California is one of the next to. New York is one of the

1365
02:28:12,810 --> 02:28:16,690
most highly regulated agencies or

1366
02:28:16,730 --> 02:28:20,060
states that there is. If you look at

1367
02:28:20,100 --> 02:28:24,140
PFAS, for example, I think Ms. Law had

1368
02:28:24,180 --> 02:28:27,852
mentioned that PFAS has been around since the 1930s and

1369
02:28:27,876 --> 02:28:31,948
it has and we've had it. I fully believe my parents probably sprayed

1370
02:28:31,964 --> 02:28:35,532
me down with Scotchgard at some point in my childhood to

1371
02:28:35,556 --> 02:28:39,436
keep me from staining the couch. But realistically,

1372
02:28:39,628 --> 02:28:43,452
Scotchgard and other products that had PFAS in it have

1373
02:28:43,476 --> 02:28:45,740
been in our environment for, for a long time.

1374
02:28:46,120 --> 02:28:49,696
That is water repellent. So when a,

1375
02:28:49,768 --> 02:28:52,640
when a constituent like that gets in the water, it's very,

1376
02:28:52,680 --> 02:28:56,304
very difficult to remove. And it is pervasive

1377
02:28:56,352 --> 02:29:00,786
throughout the environment. California, when we started this process in 2013,

1378
02:29:00,966 --> 02:29:04,736
2014, when we were doing the UCMR 3 recording

1379
02:29:04,768 --> 02:29:08,176
requirements, we had regulations

1380
02:29:08,208 --> 02:29:10,060
at 70 parts per billion.

1381
02:29:12,210 --> 02:29:16,390
We are down at, we are down at 0.4.

1382
02:29:17,730 --> 02:29:20,550
So we went from 70 to 4.

1383
02:29:21,010 --> 02:29:25,018
And from a regulatory standpoint, we have to

1384
02:29:25,154 --> 02:29:28,810
manage, monitor, test and retest our

1385
02:29:28,850 --> 02:29:32,746
water to ensure that we're in compliance all day long prior to delivery

1386
02:29:32,778 --> 02:29:36,342
to our customers. If you expand that to, to the list

1387
02:29:36,366 --> 02:29:40,102
of constituents that are in the UCMRs and the

1388
02:29:40,126 --> 02:29:43,174
list of constituents, you talk about microplastics,

1389
02:29:43,222 --> 02:29:46,950
you talk about TCP 1, 2, 3, you talk about 14 dioxane.

1390
02:29:47,110 --> 02:29:50,678
Any of these things that we have that

1391
02:29:50,734 --> 02:29:55,270
are in our water supply that have been in our

1392
02:29:55,310 --> 02:29:58,050
communities for a long, long time,

1393
02:29:58,590 --> 02:30:02,632
that is what we are up against in California. You add on

1394
02:30:02,656 --> 02:30:06,696
to that that we have air regulations from CARB

1395
02:30:06,888 --> 02:30:10,460
aqmd. We have one of the toughest

1396
02:30:11,200 --> 02:30:15,000
regions for air quality. That means

1397
02:30:15,040 --> 02:30:18,424
that we have to have Tier 4 generators. We have lots of different

1398
02:30:18,512 --> 02:30:22,072
components. Regulations are probably one

1399
02:30:22,096 --> 02:30:26,616
of our most significant hurdles. I know when the

1400
02:30:26,688 --> 02:30:30,754
utility department was transferred to me, the departing general manager

1401
02:30:30,802 --> 02:30:34,130
said regulatory is probably going to be one of your toughest challenges in the next

1402
02:30:34,170 --> 02:30:37,190
15 years. And that's held true.

1403
02:30:38,490 --> 02:30:41,390
Those are just some of the things that we face for sure.

1404
02:30:46,250 --> 02:30:49,682
Go ahead. Yeah, real quick. Maybe Jacob, this might be for you,

1405
02:30:49,706 --> 02:30:53,282
but can you touch on not being able to

1406
02:30:53,306 --> 02:30:57,076
come mingle the general fund money with utility money? A couple speakers

1407
02:30:57,108 --> 02:31:00,436
talked about if we saved a million dollars on this on the street

1408
02:31:00,508 --> 02:31:03,720
light project, why don't we just put it towards utilities?

1409
02:31:04,140 --> 02:31:06,520
Yeah, Tom can address this one. Okay,

1410
02:31:08,300 --> 02:31:11,760
thank you, Council member Steiner. That's a great question.

1411
02:31:12,140 --> 02:31:16,196
The utilities are, are funded individually by

1412
02:31:16,268 --> 02:31:20,512
the ratepayers. We, we cannot Commingle. We don't get property

1413
02:31:20,576 --> 02:31:24,208
tax. We do not get taxes from the city. We do not get

1414
02:31:24,264 --> 02:31:28,256
sales tax revenue. These are 100% rate

1415
02:31:28,328 --> 02:31:32,016
based to the point where we do not even commingle.

1416
02:31:32,128 --> 02:31:35,584
Water and sewer, electric or recycled water funds,

1417
02:31:35,632 --> 02:31:39,220
they are individual. We run these as individual

1418
02:31:39,640 --> 02:31:43,840
business units and we manage those funds

1419
02:31:43,920 --> 02:31:47,082
individually. So sewer funds that are collected

1420
02:31:47,146 --> 02:31:50,874
from the rates come in, they are accounted for,

1421
02:31:51,042 --> 02:31:54,762
salaries are paid specifically from that fund

1422
02:31:54,946 --> 02:31:58,778
to individuals that work within those fields

1423
02:31:58,874 --> 02:32:02,346
for the sewer department. And we will look

1424
02:32:02,418 --> 02:32:05,930
at any CIPs that are funded

1425
02:32:06,010 --> 02:32:08,970
specifically from those direct funds.

1426
02:32:09,130 --> 02:32:13,198
So we don't commingle with. With the general fund. We don't get property tax,

1427
02:32:13,254 --> 02:32:16,814
sales tax revenue, and we do not commingle between the funds

1428
02:32:16,862 --> 02:32:19,918
themselves. Mr. Moody, that's because legally we cannot.

1429
02:32:20,014 --> 02:32:23,694
Legally we cannot. Correct. Now, for example, a position

1430
02:32:23,782 --> 02:32:27,310
like mine, I oversee all four of

1431
02:32:27,350 --> 02:32:30,718
the utility departments. My salary is

1432
02:32:30,774 --> 02:32:34,078
made up specifically of all four of those

1433
02:32:34,134 --> 02:32:37,390
funds. So a portion of my fund, every year, we look

1434
02:32:37,430 --> 02:32:41,484
back and we evaluate certain positions

1435
02:32:41,532 --> 02:32:45,788
within our department that provide support to all four utilities

1436
02:32:45,884 --> 02:32:49,404
that we manage. And we appropriate the amount

1437
02:32:49,452 --> 02:32:53,100
of funding specifically for those positions. So I get

1438
02:32:53,140 --> 02:32:56,732
paid from all four funds in a sense, but we have

1439
02:32:56,756 --> 02:33:01,052
to evaluate what that percentage is during the budgeting cycle

1440
02:33:01,116 --> 02:33:04,502
process. And then I just had

1441
02:33:04,526 --> 02:33:09,094
one more question. I don't think I saw it in Katie's presentation that MWD

1442
02:33:09,222 --> 02:33:13,494
raised our fees 37% for just years

1443
02:33:13,582 --> 02:33:16,534
26 and 27. That is correct.

1444
02:33:16,582 --> 02:33:19,878
Yeah, it was. Raw water has gone up.

1445
02:33:19,934 --> 02:33:23,238
She showed the slide initially showing that raw water

1446
02:33:23,294 --> 02:33:26,966
had gone up from 2019, and then made the statement that

1447
02:33:27,038 --> 02:33:30,192
our water would be going up from Metropolitan in

1448
02:33:30,216 --> 02:33:33,840
double digits over the next two years. And what that means is we

1449
02:33:33,880 --> 02:33:36,912
don't produce our. We are the water we serve.

1450
02:33:36,976 --> 02:33:40,432
We have to purchase to then give part of it. Part of the

1451
02:33:40,456 --> 02:33:43,952
water that we. That we pass on. We purchase. That is

1452
02:33:43,976 --> 02:33:48,256
correct. So Metropolitan Water District is the water purveyor

1453
02:33:48,448 --> 02:33:51,584
over a large portion of the state. And there's a number of

1454
02:33:51,592 --> 02:33:55,492
water purveyors in the state, but they are the one that primarily

1455
02:33:55,556 --> 02:33:59,120
serves Southern California in this general area.

1456
02:33:59,420 --> 02:34:03,604
And Metropolitan Water District imports water

1457
02:34:03,692 --> 02:34:07,540
from the Bay Delta area. That's the state water project. And they

1458
02:34:07,580 --> 02:34:11,840
also import water from the Colorado River. We buy

1459
02:34:12,780 --> 02:34:15,892
Metropolitan Water District. Let me back up.

1460
02:34:15,916 --> 02:34:19,764
Metropolitan Water District also takes water and

1461
02:34:19,932 --> 02:34:24,006
like us, treats that water at a number of treatment plants

1462
02:34:24,118 --> 02:34:26,890
throughout the Inland Empire,

1463
02:34:27,310 --> 02:34:31,286
Southern California area. The treatment plant closest

1464
02:34:31,318 --> 02:34:35,142
to us is the Henry J. Mills plant. That's up off of Alessandro Boulevard in

1465
02:34:35,166 --> 02:34:39,286
Riverside. Now, we purchase

1466
02:34:39,398 --> 02:34:43,142
throughout the year and we provide this in our budget. Every year we purchase

1467
02:34:43,206 --> 02:34:46,884
imported water from Metropolitan. That water comes

1468
02:34:46,982 --> 02:34:50,488
in treated. That's the water that we get from the Henry J.

1469
02:34:50,544 --> 02:34:53,944
Mills plant that's treated water by their team ready to

1470
02:34:53,952 --> 02:34:57,816
be delivered specifically to our customers. We also import

1471
02:34:57,888 --> 02:35:01,368
what we call raw water. This is water that we either get

1472
02:35:01,424 --> 02:35:05,576
from the state water project or it's water that we get from the Colorado

1473
02:35:05,608 --> 02:35:09,048
river through the Lake Matthews system that comes into our

1474
02:35:09,104 --> 02:35:12,728
treatment plant. This is Lester treatment plant and the Sierra del Oro

1475
02:35:12,744 --> 02:35:16,232
treatment plan plants. Those are surface water treatment plants. And we

1476
02:35:16,256 --> 02:35:20,088
then treat that water to the state specifications

1477
02:35:20,184 --> 02:35:23,896
and then deliver that. So we have imported treated water

1478
02:35:23,968 --> 02:35:27,480
and imported raw water, both coming from Metropolitan water

1479
02:35:27,520 --> 02:35:30,220
district. And Mr. Moody,

1480
02:35:30,880 --> 02:35:35,192
I recently we met with our state legislators and we

1481
02:35:35,376 --> 02:35:39,298
showed them we're constantly advocating to find different

1482
02:35:39,354 --> 02:35:43,090
sources of revenue to help offset and

1483
02:35:43,130 --> 02:35:47,122
to really. Again, it's. We're. We're aggressively going for

1484
02:35:47,226 --> 02:35:50,786
grants and other dollars. And we were

1485
02:35:50,858 --> 02:35:54,162
asking. And I want to highlight the fact that when

1486
02:35:54,186 --> 02:35:56,898
we're talking about water infrastructure,

1487
02:35:57,074 --> 02:36:00,114
these aren't $100,000 projects.

1488
02:36:00,162 --> 02:36:03,990
These aren't $1 million projects. We are, for instance,

1489
02:36:04,340 --> 02:36:08,556
advocating for a reclamation facility. These are in the $35

1490
02:36:08,628 --> 02:36:12,396
million range. So there was, there were comments

1491
02:36:12,468 --> 02:36:16,108
by folks about what has money been used for? Can you

1492
02:36:16,164 --> 02:36:19,516
talk about what has money been used for in

1493
02:36:19,588 --> 02:36:22,604
the recent. In our recent past? Sure.

1494
02:36:22,772 --> 02:36:26,604
Just over the last two years, we've replaced a number of pipelines.

1495
02:36:26,732 --> 02:36:30,790
We replaced the Liberty Avenue water line, which is up off

1496
02:36:30,830 --> 02:36:34,246
of out in El Cerrito. We've replaced water lines

1497
02:36:34,278 --> 02:36:38,326
off of Carmelita Avenue. These are old AC lines that were put in

1498
02:36:38,398 --> 02:36:41,558
1950s era, 50, 60 era.

1499
02:36:41,734 --> 02:36:45,014
They've met their useful life. And we're beginning to have multiple breaks.

1500
02:36:45,062 --> 02:36:49,158
We've also replaced a significant number of water lines in

1501
02:36:49,214 --> 02:36:52,290
the Sierra del Oro area.

1502
02:36:52,590 --> 02:36:54,850
And up in.

1503
02:36:56,680 --> 02:36:59,952
Off of Fullerton Avenue, there's a few water lines that we've been

1504
02:36:59,976 --> 02:37:03,392
replacing. So our infrastructure money, the money that

1505
02:37:03,416 --> 02:37:06,832
we get initially goes to operations and maintenance.

1506
02:37:06,976 --> 02:37:10,416
We take care of those bills first. We need to operate and

1507
02:37:10,488 --> 02:37:14,224
maintain the water so that we can treat it. Other additional

1508
02:37:14,272 --> 02:37:17,968
funding, any excess revenue that we get that

1509
02:37:18,024 --> 02:37:21,818
is above and beyond our operational and maintenance costs will then

1510
02:37:21,874 --> 02:37:26,026
be diverted over to capital improvement projects. And we bring those capital

1511
02:37:26,098 --> 02:37:29,706
improvement projects every year to city council and

1512
02:37:29,778 --> 02:37:32,510
we will have those on the books.

1513
02:37:32,930 --> 02:37:36,442
Now, one of the things with capital improvement projects is we have to have that

1514
02:37:36,466 --> 02:37:40,170
money. It has to be fully funded and ready to go. We don't get

1515
02:37:40,210 --> 02:37:43,546
to partially fund a water line. When we fund

1516
02:37:43,618 --> 02:37:46,270
the cip, we fund it in its entirety.

1517
02:37:46,780 --> 02:37:50,868
Now, through that process, then we will go through and engineer,

1518
02:37:50,964 --> 02:37:54,836
design, develop and rebuild those types of things.

1519
02:37:54,988 --> 02:37:58,692
We do process improvements at our water and wastewater treatment plants

1520
02:37:58,756 --> 02:38:02,052
throughout the year, changing out chemical tanks.

1521
02:38:02,196 --> 02:38:05,520
We will change out filter media. We will

1522
02:38:05,980 --> 02:38:09,252
enhance analyzers and change out those types of things so that

1523
02:38:09,276 --> 02:38:12,556
we stay up on our analytics. There's lots of efforts.

1524
02:38:12,708 --> 02:38:16,396
Well, rehabilitation is one of the things that we do with our CIPs.

1525
02:38:16,428 --> 02:38:20,396
We've rehabilitated four wells over the last few years

1526
02:38:20,468 --> 02:38:24,796
that have helped increase our groundwater production and groundwater offsets

1527
02:38:24,828 --> 02:38:28,732
our purchased water costs. So that's an important process for us to continually

1528
02:38:28,796 --> 02:38:32,396
maintain our groundwater. And can you also speak

1529
02:38:32,428 --> 02:38:36,188
a little bit about the difference between a city that

1530
02:38:36,244 --> 02:38:40,250
has their own water department and a city city that, for instance,

1531
02:38:40,750 --> 02:38:43,570
contracts with a special district?

1532
02:38:44,590 --> 02:38:48,150
Where do the. Where does the money? Like how?

1533
02:38:48,270 --> 02:38:52,502
Because residents are paying for these services. But a special water district,

1534
02:38:52,686 --> 02:38:57,270
folks pay for it in a different way, and maybe they don't recognize that

1535
02:38:57,310 --> 02:39:00,182
difference. Can you speak about those two? Two different things?

1536
02:39:00,366 --> 02:39:03,622
Yeah, and great question. And I think this is a little

1537
02:39:03,646 --> 02:39:07,136
bit that we were talking about about that Jim was talking about is financing

1538
02:39:07,168 --> 02:39:10,640
and. And commingling our funds. And I mentioned that we

1539
02:39:10,680 --> 02:39:15,008
do not get property tax. Special districts,

1540
02:39:15,184 --> 02:39:18,896
Western Municipal Water District and other water districts,

1541
02:39:18,928 --> 02:39:22,880
they actually get a portion of the property tax. And that's not something that

1542
02:39:22,920 --> 02:39:26,112
we get. All of the money that we receive for the

1543
02:39:26,136 --> 02:39:30,514
operations, maintenance and reinvestment into our infrastructure

1544
02:39:30,632 --> 02:39:34,622
is done through the rate process. And then there

1545
02:39:34,646 --> 02:39:38,766
was a question about the waste

1546
02:39:38,798 --> 02:39:42,222
management bill and the water bill. Can you talk a little bit about that

1547
02:39:42,326 --> 02:39:45,982
separation? Sure. We've had the waste management contract for

1548
02:39:46,006 --> 02:39:49,534
a number of years, and we have been the water utility

1549
02:39:49,582 --> 02:39:52,622
department because we have contact with

1550
02:39:52,646 --> 02:39:56,718
the residents. We have between 44 and 45,000

1551
02:39:56,774 --> 02:40:00,256
accounts. We have contact with the residents

1552
02:40:00,368 --> 02:40:03,808
every month. And it was decided a number of years

1553
02:40:03,864 --> 02:40:07,504
ago that we would just do the billing for single

1554
02:40:07,552 --> 02:40:11,100
family residential properties for waste management,

1555
02:40:11,640 --> 02:40:15,360
as that. As we were working through that, Waste management would

1556
02:40:15,400 --> 02:40:19,580
then pay and subsidize our

1557
02:40:19,880 --> 02:40:23,970
customer care call center because we were working with those

1558
02:40:24,010 --> 02:40:27,618
residents. Anyway, we just

1559
02:40:27,674 --> 02:40:30,882
renegotiated due to SB 1383, which is

1560
02:40:30,906 --> 02:40:34,642
Organics recycling. We just reopened and renegotiated

1561
02:40:34,706 --> 02:40:38,530
our waste management contract. And as part

1562
02:40:38,570 --> 02:40:41,954
of that, waste management requested to

1563
02:40:42,042 --> 02:40:45,634
take the billing back. They did no long. They no longer

1564
02:40:45,682 --> 02:40:49,790
wanted to have the utility department proceed and

1565
02:40:49,930 --> 02:40:53,478
perform that task for Them, they wanted to bring that back in house.

1566
02:40:53,534 --> 02:40:56,710
And that was a decision they made. We had a number

1567
02:40:56,750 --> 02:41:00,326
of discussions about that and the challenges,

1568
02:41:00,438 --> 02:41:03,958
pros and cons that that would offer. And because

1569
02:41:04,014 --> 02:41:08,086
of that, we then. And through the negotiation process,

1570
02:41:08,238 --> 02:41:12,022
that was returned to Waste Management. You don't see

1571
02:41:12,046 --> 02:41:15,770
it on the water bill because Waste Management now sends out their own bills.

1572
02:41:16,350 --> 02:41:19,862
And that's the purpose of that. Yeah. And that was

1573
02:41:19,886 --> 02:41:22,290
their decision. And just one, one final question.

1574
02:41:22,910 --> 02:41:27,366
Can you speak a little bit about the.

1575
02:41:27,518 --> 02:41:30,918
The study conducted, the length of time

1576
02:41:30,974 --> 02:41:35,094
to reach the. I think it was power. The PowerPoint

1577
02:41:35,142 --> 02:41:39,062
slide. Where is

1578
02:41:39,086 --> 02:41:42,504
it? I think it was like the first or second where there was financial

1579
02:41:42,592 --> 02:41:46,232
plan options, there were five options

1580
02:41:46,296 --> 02:41:50,696
from lowest rate impact to highest rate impact. And these were all scenarios provided

1581
02:41:50,728 --> 02:41:54,184
with the study. There was a lot of discussion

1582
02:41:54,232 --> 02:41:58,360
from your council, a lot of pushback,

1583
02:41:58,440 --> 02:42:02,760
and this was. But can you talk about the

1584
02:42:02,800 --> 02:42:06,060
study and its recommendations?

1585
02:42:06,800 --> 02:42:10,998
Yeah. It's important to understand that,

1586
02:42:11,134 --> 02:42:15,238
you know, we, I feel we engaged the council early

1587
02:42:15,294 --> 02:42:19,078
on in this process and got your

1588
02:42:19,134 --> 02:42:22,770
input and feedback and really what the priorities were.

1589
02:42:23,230 --> 02:42:27,158
And that really helped set the stage, I think, because you

1590
02:42:27,214 --> 02:42:30,998
do bring the voice of the community. And I think that you

1591
02:42:31,054 --> 02:42:34,182
initially and throughout this process have

1592
02:42:34,206 --> 02:42:37,802
put pushed back on us quite a bit to.

1593
02:42:37,906 --> 02:42:41,658
To best understand the rate scenario.

1594
02:42:41,754 --> 02:42:45,270
And if you look at that, you know, again, we. We talked about

1595
02:42:45,570 --> 02:42:49,322
only bringing in and doing a rate that

1596
02:42:49,506 --> 02:42:52,954
covered the OM charges. And that's important

1597
02:42:53,042 --> 02:42:56,470
to understand. Right. We, we had rate issues

1598
02:42:56,850 --> 02:43:00,636
that needed to be addressed that were going to cover the operations and maintenance cost

1599
02:43:00,698 --> 02:43:04,408
costs. We then talked about if.

1600
02:43:04,464 --> 02:43:08,456
If we're just covering the operations and maintenance costs, revenue in equals.

1601
02:43:08,568 --> 02:43:12,440
Equals expenses out. And. And what

1602
02:43:12,480 --> 02:43:16,100
does that look like for us? And. And we talked a little bit

1603
02:43:16,480 --> 02:43:20,104
about that process and then we talked a lot about

1604
02:43:20,272 --> 02:43:23,620
the capital improvement that wouldn't get done,

1605
02:43:23,920 --> 02:43:27,274
water lines that are aging in our infrastructure.

1606
02:43:27,472 --> 02:43:30,870
And those are important things. And so we then

1607
02:43:30,910 --> 02:43:34,486
looked at four other scenarios, and the highest

1608
02:43:34,518 --> 02:43:38,130
of those scenarios is a fully funded capital improvement program.

1609
02:43:38,830 --> 02:43:42,262
And I know Tony Daddario, Councilmember Daddario, brought this

1610
02:43:42,286 --> 02:43:45,910
up a number of times and he just said, you know, I think from

1611
02:43:45,950 --> 02:43:48,930
my standpoint, it's important to fully fund these things.

1612
02:43:50,190 --> 02:43:53,660
And then he would come back and then he would say,

1613
02:43:53,750 --> 02:43:57,472
but what is that gonna cost my residence? And I

1614
02:43:57,496 --> 02:44:00,736
think each of you have said that throughout this process.

1615
02:44:00,888 --> 02:44:05,376
And I think it's important then to understand that in

1616
02:44:05,448 --> 02:44:09,180
finding the appropriate amount of investment

1617
02:44:09,800 --> 02:44:12,540
that was the least impactful for the community,

1618
02:44:12,840 --> 02:44:16,736
was the objective of the council. And that is where we settled then

1619
02:44:16,808 --> 02:44:20,276
on RDN option two. And Mr.

1620
02:44:20,308 --> 02:44:24,404
Moody, wasn't the original recommendation by the study option three?

1621
02:44:24,492 --> 02:44:28,148
In fact, it was. It was option three. And the reason

1622
02:44:28,204 --> 02:44:31,748
for that, and we talked through that. And the reason for that is that

1623
02:44:31,804 --> 02:44:36,180
if we did not issue the debt, we then have to plan for those expenses.

1624
02:44:36,340 --> 02:44:39,892
And we took the option of we can look at

1625
02:44:39,916 --> 02:44:43,716
the debt over time and, and if

1626
02:44:43,788 --> 02:44:46,852
we need it, if, if everything aligns and we

1627
02:44:46,876 --> 02:44:50,148
get everything done that we intend to, and we

1628
02:44:50,204 --> 02:44:54,132
can then pull that money through other resources, bonding that

1629
02:44:54,156 --> 02:44:57,860
we can manage. And we wouldn't have to increase the rate so much at this

1630
02:44:57,900 --> 02:45:01,268
time. Right. I think it was Mr. Council member Steiner who was like,

1631
02:45:01,404 --> 02:45:04,756
what else can we push? What else can we defer just slightly? What else

1632
02:45:04,788 --> 02:45:08,372
can we, you know, refurbish X, Y and Z? How can we stretch this

1633
02:45:08,396 --> 02:45:10,986
out a little further? Thank you for answering those questions.

1634
02:45:11,148 --> 02:45:13,970
I have comments later, but those are all for my questions.

1635
02:45:18,150 --> 02:45:21,582
Go ahead, Mr. Moody. I have a couple questions that I wanted to just get

1636
02:45:21,606 --> 02:45:25,342
some clarification on. How many miles of water infrastructure do

1637
02:45:25,366 --> 02:45:29,342
we have in the city? Approximately 853 miles.

1638
02:45:29,406 --> 02:45:33,342
Okay. And on page 14 of

1639
02:45:33,366 --> 02:45:36,494
the Prop 218 notice, there's an interesting

1640
02:45:36,542 --> 02:45:40,604
stat line in there. In 2023, Corona used 9.1 billion gallons of

1641
02:45:40,612 --> 02:45:45,084
drinking water. Corona provided 45.8%

1642
02:45:45,172 --> 02:45:48,748
through groundwater wells, and 49.7%

1643
02:45:48,804 --> 02:45:52,988
comes from the Lake Matthews area, and 4.5 comes from state

1644
02:45:53,044 --> 02:45:56,348
water aqueducts. One of the things that I've learned over

1645
02:45:56,404 --> 02:45:59,884
the last four years that is very impressive is our ability to blend

1646
02:45:59,932 --> 02:46:03,196
water. And that's essentially taking the water.

1647
02:46:03,348 --> 02:46:06,850
I'm going to use very late terms, so please forgive me. It's essentially taking

1648
02:46:06,890 --> 02:46:10,930
the water that we get from the ground and that we own and

1649
02:46:10,970 --> 02:46:14,818
blending it with the water that we have to buy and that is

1650
02:46:14,874 --> 02:46:17,670
able to be used for our customers.

1651
02:46:18,410 --> 02:46:22,482
And what does it look like for municipalities

1652
02:46:22,546 --> 02:46:26,482
that don't have the ability to blend water? Because I know that we're unique in

1653
02:46:26,506 --> 02:46:29,990
that sense. There's not very many municipalities that have that ability.

1654
02:46:30,570 --> 02:46:34,396
What are their rates like look like in comparison when they're 100%

1655
02:46:34,468 --> 02:46:36,520
dependent on purchasing water?

1656
02:46:36,980 --> 02:46:41,692
Expensive, right. And is

1657
02:46:41,716 --> 02:46:45,212
it more expensive than a municipality that has

1658
02:46:45,236 --> 02:46:48,412
the ability to blend roughly 50% of their own water or produce 50% of their

1659
02:46:48,436 --> 02:46:52,200
own water? Yes. Okay. The other big

1660
02:46:53,460 --> 02:46:56,924
point that a lot of residents made that we heard was,

1661
02:46:57,012 --> 02:47:00,096
you know, it seems. It seems like we have these capital improvement projects that

1662
02:47:00,168 --> 02:47:03,408
never. That we that are on the books that never sometimes get

1663
02:47:03,544 --> 02:47:07,072
done. And I remember, I think it was, I don't know, four or five months

1664
02:47:07,096 --> 02:47:11,216
ago we were having a discussion about this and

1665
02:47:11,368 --> 02:47:14,704
a week or two prior, right on Main and Harrison,

1666
02:47:14,752 --> 02:47:18,580
I want to say there was a break over by the ccc.

1667
02:47:19,320 --> 02:47:22,592
Half Harrison. Yeah, half the half the

1668
02:47:22,616 --> 02:47:25,964
street was shut down and there was water bubbling underneath

1669
02:47:26,012 --> 02:47:29,836
the asphalt and kind of where the asphalt meets the curbing.

1670
02:47:30,028 --> 02:47:34,476
And, you know, the street was flooded. And you know, almost jokingly

1671
02:47:34,508 --> 02:47:37,644
I said, you know, we can't plan for breaks. Breaks happen

1672
02:47:37,732 --> 02:47:41,276
with infrastructure, with 800 miles of infrastructure that is

1673
02:47:41,428 --> 02:47:44,652
past its useful life. And, you know,

1674
02:47:44,676 --> 02:47:47,852
that's a big challenge for us is because when we have a break, we have

1675
02:47:47,876 --> 02:47:51,878
to get it repaired. It's, we can't foresee these breaks coming,

1676
02:47:51,934 --> 02:47:56,022
so we can't really plan for them. And when you have $10 million set

1677
02:47:56,046 --> 02:47:59,430
aside for a capital improvement project and then you have a break that we

1678
02:47:59,470 --> 02:48:03,030
weren't anticipating, that takes up seven or eight million dollars to repair,

1679
02:48:03,190 --> 02:48:06,582
that's a challenge. And that's why I said we should fully fund it

1680
02:48:06,606 --> 02:48:10,422
and just get it all done. And I understand

1681
02:48:10,526 --> 02:48:13,574
that part of the recommendation is that we're going to be setting,

1682
02:48:13,702 --> 02:48:17,024
setting aside money to, to hopefully get ahead of some of

1683
02:48:17,032 --> 02:48:20,704
these challenges that we have where infrastructure that is

1684
02:48:20,792 --> 02:48:24,688
50, 60, 70, 80 years old is being replaced

1685
02:48:24,864 --> 02:48:28,352
on a schedule before it breaks. And that's kind of a challenge with

1686
02:48:28,376 --> 02:48:33,104
our aging infrastructure is that it breaks unintended

1687
02:48:33,232 --> 02:48:36,896
and unknown about. And so one of the things that I'm

1688
02:48:36,928 --> 02:48:40,736
really keen on is making sure that with the capital improvement projects

1689
02:48:40,768 --> 02:48:43,332
that we have that we're, that we're doing our best to get ahead of them.

1690
02:48:43,356 --> 02:48:47,204
And I think that's part of the plan that we have is to kind

1691
02:48:47,212 --> 02:48:51,236
of get ahead of some of these things before these unplanned breaks happen. And we're

1692
02:48:51,268 --> 02:48:54,692
paying millions of dollars for capital improvement projects to make

1693
02:48:54,716 --> 02:48:57,720
a repair. Do I understand that correctly?

1694
02:48:58,140 --> 02:49:00,800
That's correct. Okay. Thank you,

1695
02:49:01,980 --> 02:49:05,240
Leslie. No other questions.

1696
02:49:06,540 --> 02:49:09,450
Okay, Jim, let me,

1697
02:49:10,390 --> 02:49:13,614
let me do this with Sylvia. Read this thing and then we'll move on in

1698
02:49:13,622 --> 02:49:16,878
the comments. Ms.

1699
02:49:16,934 --> 02:49:20,814
Edwards, as the city's City Clerk's office received correspondence

1700
02:49:20,862 --> 02:49:25,550
regarding this item. Mayor yes. We received 259

1701
02:49:25,590 --> 02:49:29,518
protest letters opposing the proposed water and sewer rate

1702
02:49:29,574 --> 02:49:32,958
adjustments. A majority protest exists if at least

1703
02:49:33,014 --> 02:49:36,696
20,20,596 WREN protests

1704
02:49:36,728 --> 02:49:42,136
are submitted for the water rate increase and at least 18,666

1705
02:49:42,208 --> 02:49:45,592
written protests are submitted for the sewer Rate,

1706
02:49:45,696 --> 02:49:48,216
a majority protest does not exist.

1707
02:49:48,408 --> 02:49:51,420
Okay. With that, the public hearing is now closed.

1708
02:49:52,000 --> 02:49:55,208
Let's move on to questions from the colleagues. Tony,

1709
02:49:55,224 --> 02:49:56,420
do you want to go first?

1710
02:49:58,320 --> 02:50:01,656
No, Mr. Mayor. I just want to acknowledge that I, that I appreciate everybody

1711
02:50:01,688 --> 02:50:05,414
coming out and speaking about this topic, and it doesn't go

1712
02:50:05,502 --> 02:50:08,710
unnoticed, it doesn't go unheard. And we are all

1713
02:50:08,750 --> 02:50:12,214
very sensitive that, you know, this could impact

1714
02:50:12,302 --> 02:50:15,174
some people financially. And I think that, you know,

1715
02:50:15,182 --> 02:50:19,010
Mr. Moody has answered a lot of those questions, that there are options for you

1716
02:50:19,310 --> 02:50:22,470
and. But it is important to me to recognize it,

1717
02:50:22,510 --> 02:50:24,530
acknowledge it, and to thank you for coming out.

1718
02:50:25,390 --> 02:50:29,268
Wesley. Thank you. Yeah, I echo.

1719
02:50:29,374 --> 02:50:33,000
Thank you for coming. Really. Do we appreciate when people come, even if you're,

1720
02:50:33,080 --> 02:50:36,380
you're, you know, telling us we're wrong or we're making mistakes?

1721
02:50:37,200 --> 02:50:40,296
I appreciate all of it. And I can tell you when,

1722
02:50:40,448 --> 02:50:43,832
you know, Council Member Steiner and Council Member

1723
02:50:43,856 --> 02:50:48,340
Casillas and I were sitting up here in, in 2018 or 2019

1724
02:50:48,640 --> 02:50:52,728
when we heard that they hadn't adjusted rates for almost,

1725
02:50:52,784 --> 02:50:56,178
what, 12 years, 13 years, something ridiculous,

1726
02:50:56,354 --> 02:51:00,258
and we were having to vote on implementing a 25%

1727
02:51:00,314 --> 02:51:04,310
increase over five years. And it was horrifying

1728
02:51:05,770 --> 02:51:09,058
and probably one of the toughest votes that we made when we first

1729
02:51:09,194 --> 02:51:12,354
sat in this chair. I think it was Mr. Ellis's first meeting. He got to

1730
02:51:12,362 --> 02:51:16,370
sit through that. And then equally, when we saw the proposed rates

1731
02:51:16,450 --> 02:51:20,310
under, you know, the suggested, you know, the staff supported,

1732
02:51:20,820 --> 02:51:24,412
we all just said, no way, absolutely no way.

1733
02:51:24,516 --> 02:51:27,560
Have to go back, have to try and find a different way to do this.

1734
02:51:28,260 --> 02:51:32,220
You know, go look at every project that we have, go look at, you know,

1735
02:51:32,260 --> 02:51:34,040
every opportunity that we have.

1736
02:51:35,060 --> 02:51:38,840
And when there's only so much that's in our control,

1737
02:51:40,420 --> 02:51:44,140
either quality suffers, which we, Mr. Moody, will not do. And we,

1738
02:51:44,180 --> 02:51:48,060
and if we do, we basically wouldn't be able to, to develop, to deliver water.

1739
02:51:50,200 --> 02:51:53,584
So it's a, it's a horrible position to

1740
02:51:53,592 --> 02:51:57,072
be in. And I can guarantee that, you know,

1741
02:51:57,096 --> 02:52:00,640
we tried to do that with the 5% a year to put money into our

1742
02:52:00,680 --> 02:52:03,776
reserves to ensure that we wouldn't have this issue.

1743
02:52:03,928 --> 02:52:07,760
But no one saw the fact that every single

1744
02:52:07,840 --> 02:52:11,980
material, every single thing that we have to use would go up almost 60%.

1745
02:52:13,610 --> 02:52:17,010
And it's, it's. It's. It's horrifying in every way,

1746
02:52:17,050 --> 02:52:20,162
shape or form. So again, I, I can tell you that, you know,

1747
02:52:20,186 --> 02:52:23,346
the, the five of us are, you know, all live here in Corona,

1748
02:52:23,378 --> 02:52:26,194
are all going to be paying the same rate, all going to be paying the

1749
02:52:26,202 --> 02:52:29,986
Same things. Well, ma'am,

1750
02:52:30,018 --> 02:52:35,042
we make $800 a month anyway,

1751
02:52:35,106 --> 02:52:38,658
so I'm just saying, is it. Is it is that we are. We are voting,

1752
02:52:38,754 --> 02:52:42,422
ma'am, we are voting on. So we are voting. We are

1753
02:52:42,446 --> 02:52:46,550
voting on this as. As residents, the same as you that

1754
02:52:46,590 --> 02:52:50,102
we are. The. The amount that we pay is the same amount that

1755
02:52:50,126 --> 02:52:53,670
you pay. And, and so I just,

1756
02:52:53,790 --> 02:52:57,650
you know, there's not much else to I can say except for thank you and

1757
02:52:58,510 --> 02:53:01,398
pass on to my. My colleagues. Guys,

1758
02:53:01,494 --> 02:53:05,206
guys, we. We had public comments. We respected

1759
02:53:05,238 --> 02:53:08,070
you. It works two ways here.

1760
02:53:08,930 --> 02:53:09,910
Thank you.

1761
02:53:11,890 --> 02:53:16,026
I also wanted to express my. My sincere thanks

1762
02:53:16,138 --> 02:53:19,830
for you coming down, for you sitting through

1763
02:53:20,610 --> 02:53:24,282
a long meeting. A lot of comments for you coming up to the mic.

1764
02:53:24,346 --> 02:53:27,850
It's not easy to speak publicly,

1765
02:53:27,930 --> 02:53:31,470
to speak publicly at a public meeting, to have your comments recorded.

1766
02:53:32,220 --> 02:53:35,652
None of that is easy. I remember the first time I did

1767
02:53:35,676 --> 02:53:39,572
it, my voice cracked

1768
02:53:39,636 --> 02:53:42,760
multiple times. It was. It's not easy.

1769
02:53:43,900 --> 02:53:47,668
As your council, you know, we are. We are neighbors. You know,

1770
02:53:47,724 --> 02:53:51,348
when we're talking about these things,

1771
02:53:51,404 --> 02:53:55,040
we're not talking about them in a vacuum. We're talking about these things

1772
02:53:56,060 --> 02:53:59,712
impacting all of us. And I take my responsibility as

1773
02:53:59,736 --> 02:54:02,500
your neighbor, as a council member, very seriously.

1774
02:54:03,640 --> 02:54:08,060
So much so that we sit here

1775
02:54:09,640 --> 02:54:13,152
and read and study and deliberate and

1776
02:54:13,176 --> 02:54:16,700
ask questions and push back every chance we get.

1777
02:54:17,080 --> 02:54:19,300
You've seen some of that tonight,

1778
02:54:19,960 --> 02:54:23,736
and if you go back, you'll be able to see that

1779
02:54:23,808 --> 02:54:27,768
every meeting, every meeting that we've discussed this water rate, there's been the same

1780
02:54:27,824 --> 02:54:33,672
amount of critical thinking and desire

1781
02:54:33,736 --> 02:54:37,240
to find solutions and creative solutions as many as

1782
02:54:37,280 --> 02:54:41,272
possible. You know, I think about Southern California Edison,

1783
02:54:41,416 --> 02:54:45,800
you know, a publicly traded company that provides utility

1784
02:54:45,960 --> 02:54:50,330
that doesn't have to go to residents to

1785
02:54:50,370 --> 02:54:54,330
vote on or be transparent about how much profit they

1786
02:54:54,370 --> 02:54:56,310
can make. I think about,

1787
02:54:57,490 --> 02:55:01,914
you know, water districts that pass along increases

1788
02:55:01,962 --> 02:55:05,098
on property taxes, which, you know,

1789
02:55:05,234 --> 02:55:09,018
folks may not even notice at the bottom of

1790
02:55:09,154 --> 02:55:12,910
the line items of their. Of their property tax bills,

1791
02:55:13,730 --> 02:55:17,460
and the fact that legally as a city providing these

1792
02:55:17,500 --> 02:55:21,188
services, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to do

1793
02:55:21,244 --> 02:55:24,676
so. But yet you find a team that is trying to find

1794
02:55:24,828 --> 02:55:28,116
ways to blend water, to reclaim water,

1795
02:55:28,268 --> 02:55:31,732
to find advocate at the

1796
02:55:31,756 --> 02:55:34,980
state level, at the local level, to find grants, to find

1797
02:55:35,020 --> 02:55:39,320
all of these ways to try and ease the burden for us collectively.

1798
02:55:40,140 --> 02:55:44,166
And I'll tell you, the math's not math thing is absolutely right.

1799
02:55:44,318 --> 02:55:47,894
As part of the generation that is for the first time in recent history,

1800
02:55:48,062 --> 02:55:52,166
in a worse financial situation than my parents generation,

1801
02:55:52,278 --> 02:55:55,622
with an advanced College degree and all

1802
02:55:55,646 --> 02:55:58,966
the nine with two jobs. I can tell you the math's

1803
02:55:58,998 --> 02:56:02,342
not mathing. And that's absolutely true. That's true

1804
02:56:02,406 --> 02:56:05,958
all the way around. And it's very

1805
02:56:06,014 --> 02:56:09,412
frustrating. It's very frustrating. But one thing

1806
02:56:09,436 --> 02:56:13,668
that we cannot do is be negligent in the reality that we

1807
02:56:13,804 --> 02:56:17,364
have to have clean water. There's a reason why people know

1808
02:56:17,452 --> 02:56:20,964
the city of Flint, Michigan. Why do

1809
02:56:20,972 --> 02:56:25,012
you know it? And I'm certainly not okay with Corona being

1810
02:56:25,036 --> 02:56:27,540
Flint, Michigan. That's it for me.

1811
02:56:27,580 --> 02:56:34,570
Mayor JIM I,

1812
02:56:35,350 --> 02:56:37,918
it's, it's no secret I'm a nerd.

1813
02:56:38,094 --> 02:56:41,918
And before I decided to ever run for office,

1814
02:56:42,054 --> 02:56:45,610
I sat down there for 10 years for every council meeting

1815
02:56:46,070 --> 02:56:48,170
and just geeked out on them.

1816
02:56:48,790 --> 02:56:52,046
But I watched votes like this come and

1817
02:56:52,118 --> 02:56:55,326
I watched citizens get up and speak their mind.

1818
02:56:55,398 --> 02:56:59,178
And there's a guy here that said the vote's already

1819
02:56:59,234 --> 02:57:02,506
done, right, because you feel like it. And you,

1820
02:57:02,578 --> 02:57:05,962
I, I look at these Ready to Serve charges,

1821
02:57:06,026 --> 02:57:09,674
and I just bought another house and I

1822
02:57:09,682 --> 02:57:12,682
don't even have it rented out. It's sitting empty. So I'm paying a Ready to

1823
02:57:12,706 --> 02:57:16,010
Serve charge every month for not even

1824
02:57:16,050 --> 02:57:19,402
using any water. And so I get

1825
02:57:19,426 --> 02:57:24,772
the frustration, and the frustration is real. And the

1826
02:57:24,796 --> 02:57:28,356
gentleman that got up and talked about a 60% increase over

1827
02:57:28,428 --> 02:57:31,440
five years, it's an alarming number.

1828
02:57:32,380 --> 02:57:35,764
And I think the citizens have every right to be

1829
02:57:35,852 --> 02:57:39,908
mad and frustrated and to come here. And I think

1830
02:57:39,964 --> 02:57:43,540
for every one of you that's here, there's probably a thousand that

1831
02:57:43,660 --> 02:57:47,492
should be here as well. So thank you for coming. And I think

1832
02:57:47,516 --> 02:57:50,990
you do represent those thousands with

1833
02:57:51,030 --> 02:57:55,250
that. There's realities,

1834
02:57:56,950 --> 02:58:00,206
there's a. You can't let your water system

1835
02:58:00,278 --> 02:58:03,902
go. It's not good to

1836
02:58:03,926 --> 02:58:06,574
have a house if you have no water, if you have no shower, if you

1837
02:58:06,582 --> 02:58:10,142
have no toilets, if you have no sinks. Water is your precious

1838
02:58:10,206 --> 02:58:13,838
commodity. And it's our job, the five of us in the city,

1839
02:58:13,894 --> 02:58:17,370
to protect that system. System. And that's why this is all

1840
02:58:17,410 --> 02:58:20,730
done openly. I don't enjoy it. I don't think any of you

1841
02:58:20,770 --> 02:58:24,330
enjoy it. But it's our job to protect that system and

1842
02:58:24,370 --> 02:58:28,106
provide that system. And if you think about it, it's sacred.

1843
02:58:28,298 --> 02:58:31,466
It's, you try to go two, three days without

1844
02:58:31,538 --> 02:58:34,842
water and you'll pay whatever it takes to get

1845
02:58:34,866 --> 02:58:38,666
the water back on our city needs to protect that system.

1846
02:58:38,818 --> 02:58:42,900
And so those are my closing comments as well with

1847
02:58:42,940 --> 02:58:46,320
that. Sylvia, I do have a question. Does the,

1848
02:58:46,940 --> 02:58:50,164
does the motion need to be read twice for each item,

1849
02:58:50,212 --> 02:58:53,412
or is it Just once. It just needs to be read once and

1850
02:58:53,436 --> 02:58:56,692
it's the only motion that needs to be read is the ordinance

1851
02:58:56,756 --> 02:58:59,828
portion of it. Okay, with that in mind,

1852
02:58:59,884 --> 02:59:01,720
does anybody want to make a motion?

1853
02:59:03,820 --> 02:59:07,114
Sure, I'll read it. Introduced by title only. And wave

1854
02:59:07,162 --> 02:59:10,602
full reading of ordinance number 3405. First reading of

1855
02:59:10,626 --> 02:59:13,722
an ordinance modifying the budget based water rate structure and

1856
02:59:13,746 --> 02:59:17,082
establishing rates for potable water reclaim water and

1857
02:59:17,106 --> 02:59:19,630
sewer service fees and charges.

1858
02:59:22,450 --> 02:59:24,750
Okay, that vote your conscience.

1859
02:59:34,540 --> 02:59:36,160
Okay. Five, zero.

1860
02:59:38,620 --> 02:59:42,200
I was shocked. Okay,

1861
02:59:43,020 --> 02:59:46,996
we're going to move to item

1862
02:59:47,028 --> 02:59:50,292
number 10 administrative reports. 10.1 request from

1863
02:59:50,316 --> 02:59:53,700
council member Steiner for. Sorry, we still have item

1864
02:59:53,780 --> 02:59:57,060
9.2. It's a public hearing. I thought we had that one.

1865
02:59:57,100 --> 03:00:00,830
Okay, we're going to go to 9.2

1866
03:00:00,870 --> 03:00:04,142
public hearing for consideration of a resolution amending the

1867
03:00:04,166 --> 03:00:08,062
schedule of user service fees for the provision of electric energy, to update

1868
03:00:08,126 --> 03:00:11,886
rates and tariffs and to make related adjustments to the electric energy

1869
03:00:11,958 --> 03:00:15,250
rules and regulations. So moved.

1870
03:00:16,870 --> 03:00:19,290
Okay. Is there. Are there any public comments?

1871
03:00:20,470 --> 03:00:24,422
There's no public comments. Okay. With that public hearing is now

1872
03:00:24,446 --> 03:00:27,782
closed. Wes has moved. Jackie second and you can

1873
03:00:27,806 --> 03:00:28,890
vote your vote.

1874
03:00:41,310 --> 03:00:42,850
Okay. Five, zero.

1875
03:00:44,510 --> 03:00:47,330
Sylvia, administrative reports sound good to you?

1876
03:00:48,590 --> 03:00:52,064
All right, this portion of the agenda is for council

1877
03:00:52,152 --> 03:00:55,328
discussion and action on staff reports and new topics that may

1878
03:00:55,384 --> 03:00:58,720
not be routine status reports or documents covering previous city

1879
03:00:58,760 --> 03:01:02,112
council action. 10.1 Request from council member Steiner for

1880
03:01:02,136 --> 03:01:05,104
arterial street media enhancements is.

1881
03:01:05,192 --> 03:01:07,300
Keegan is here. Keegan, welcome.

1882
03:01:07,960 --> 03:01:11,648
The illustrious CIP supervisor Keegan Olds will present this

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item. Good luck, Keegan.

1884
03:01:16,290 --> 03:01:19,578
Good evening, honorable mayor and city council members. As stated,

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I am Keegan Olds, CIP supervisor for our streets and Stormwater

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section of the Public Works Engineering section. I'm here tonight

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to present on the request from Council member Steiner for

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arterial street median enhancements. And so what I'll

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do is just briefly provide a quick overview of our

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03:01:37,346 --> 03:01:40,698
current efforts. Currently, as part of design and

1891
03:01:40,754 --> 03:01:44,676
plan planning for both currently programmed and potential

1892
03:01:44,788 --> 03:01:49,252
future CIP projects, we are looking at installing 5.3

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approximately miles of landscaped medians.

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03:01:52,644 --> 03:01:56,068
That includes efforts currently programmed on 6th street

1895
03:01:56,124 --> 03:02:00,244
as part of the downtown revitalization Ontario at Lincoln

1896
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and the Magnolia Avenue project east of I15.

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And in the early planning stages,

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we're also looking as per the request at Green River

1899
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Road, Hidden Valley Parkway and Promenade

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Avenue for potential projects and future cip.

1901
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There's no current program to install landscape medians as part of a specific

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03:02:24,782 --> 03:02:28,174
effort and generally we include these as items

1903
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in larger projects.

1904
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But if desired, I would be happy to investigate

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and prepare a presentation on Potential

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03:02:39,336 --> 03:02:42,776
plans, future efforts as maybe

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a program to install landscaped medians as

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03:02:46,640 --> 03:02:50,344
a program or a series of projects on arterial

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streets. As part of this administrative report, I have

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also listed some potential benefits as well as potential

1911
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challenges for installing landscaped medians on our

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03:03:00,710 --> 03:03:04,206
interior streets. But again, just want to iterate that in the current

1913
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design and planning stages, we're looking at about 5.3

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miles of landscape medians.

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So if you would like me to bring it back as a future agenda item

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or a presentation, whether part of a city council

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meeting or study session, I would be happy to do so and

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would like to open up to questions. Mayor, if I could.

1919
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So I wanted to give a little background on how this ended up before

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03:03:29,884 --> 03:03:33,492
us. I had a Sierra del Oro resident reach out to me, and she said,

1921
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hey, you know, foothill is so beautiful. When you drive down, you know,

1922
03:03:37,276 --> 03:03:40,804
from the 15, you got this beautiful center median.

1923
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It just kind of makes everything pop. And then when you get up to Sierra

1924
03:03:44,068 --> 03:03:47,524
delauro, there's nothing. So I'm like, man, I didn't even think of that. So I

1925
03:03:47,532 --> 03:03:51,580
went and drove it. And she was right. When it

1926
03:03:51,620 --> 03:03:55,052
does look great along Foothill in the center median. And then as soon as I

1927
03:03:55,076 --> 03:03:59,180
got to Pradoview elementary, it basically turned into

1928
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a concrete jungle from the school all the way to the 91

1929
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Freeway. And as I was looking at the center medians,

1930
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there's a huge portion of it that wouldn't require any turn

1931
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lanes. It serves no purpose other than looking ugly.

1932
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And so I thought, man, we could really make this

1933
03:04:18,270 --> 03:04:21,846
area look so much more beautiful, along with the benefits of traffic

1934
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calming on some of our major arterials. But then I started really paying

1935
03:04:25,718 --> 03:04:29,670
attention to it and just driving down Lincoln and

1936
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like, gosh, this is boring too. You could. You could make this area

1937
03:04:33,390 --> 03:04:36,982
look so much more of a community feel. And I

1938
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just started noticing it all, you know, all throughout the city, how nice

1939
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that would look. Look. Now, I realize that our priority right now is downtown,

1940
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but that doesn't mean we can't plan for something for the future.

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Maybe chip away at it. One or two medians a year, one every

1942
03:04:53,240 --> 03:04:57,232
two, whatever. Whatever we can do. But I also was curious

1943
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on would that come out of LMDs that the. The money would

1944
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have come out of general fund. It's something we, you know, we can explore.

1945
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Can you do a balance of each? So anyways,

1946
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I just thought it was worthy enough to talk about to help beautify our city.

1947
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And again, it doesn't have to be a day one priority. But I think we

1948
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should look at it for the future without a doubt. So thank you,

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Keegan.

1950
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I admire your moxy on this one, Jim. I,

1951
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I, I don't disagree. I think it would help

1952
03:05:32,970 --> 03:05:34,490
to beautify the city.

1953
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Doing some quick calculations in my head.

1954
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I don't know when there would be budget

1955
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budget for an undertaking of something like

1956
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that, even for smaller amounts.

1957
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I would say that that's something and this is going to sound

1958
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not great, but that's something, something that the future city council could probably

1959
03:06:00,916 --> 03:06:04,708
consider in my opinion. I just don't see it in the next four

1960
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years and I realize again,

1961
03:06:07,884 --> 03:06:11,588
it's not a priority. But if we don't plan for something even

1962
03:06:11,644 --> 03:06:15,540
for a future city council, then the ball's never going to get

1963
03:06:15,580 --> 03:06:19,156
rolling. So I think there's some things we can do. I guess

1964
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I would just be a little concerned about the cost of planning.

1965
03:06:21,764 --> 03:06:25,656
Absolutely, absolutely. That's what I'd like to kind of explore.

1966
03:06:25,848 --> 03:06:30,552
That's why it's just a future agenda item so we can talk about it if

1967
03:06:30,576 --> 03:06:34,056
they want, if they wanted to come back and,

1968
03:06:34,208 --> 03:06:37,512
and tell us what the, what the cost of something like that would be,

1969
03:06:37,536 --> 03:06:40,600
I guess that would be okay. I just don't want, I just don't want staff

1970
03:06:40,640 --> 03:06:43,080
to spend a whole bunch of time on something that I just don't think is

1971
03:06:43,120 --> 03:06:46,712
possible within the next four years. And I think on the staff time or on

1972
03:06:46,736 --> 03:06:50,450
the staff report, it did address the cost of staff time to put

1973
03:06:50,490 --> 03:06:54,030
together a plan and I don't recall that being significant.

1974
03:06:56,170 --> 03:06:59,458
Yes, I believe it states 40 hours of staff time. I actually

1975
03:06:59,514 --> 03:07:03,842
did start working on a presentation already, so the impact to me personally would

1976
03:07:03,866 --> 03:07:07,762
be, would be a little less. But it would require some investigation

1977
03:07:07,826 --> 03:07:11,190
on potential funding sources since those can vary

1978
03:07:11,610 --> 03:07:15,026
as you mentioned, LMDs, potential traffic safety improvement

1979
03:07:15,058 --> 03:07:18,984
programs, that sort of thing. But as well as examining the financial

1980
03:07:19,072 --> 03:07:22,392
cost, especially in regards to currently projects that are in

1981
03:07:22,416 --> 03:07:26,184
design and what we're already looking at and grants may be available

1982
03:07:26,272 --> 03:07:30,536
for something like that potentially. Yeah. I think Keegan railroad

1983
03:07:30,728 --> 03:07:34,500
their daddario. I didn't know he was an overachiever like that.

1984
03:07:35,680 --> 03:07:40,312
Leslie. Yeah, I like the idea. I'm a big fan of planning,

1985
03:07:40,456 --> 03:07:43,850
you know, a flag in the ground flag and trying to make something happen.

1986
03:07:44,790 --> 03:07:48,174
I guess it's, you know, being, being my Don Quixote

1987
03:07:48,222 --> 03:07:51,422
where I, you know, want to tilt at the windmill. But I guess I got

1988
03:07:51,446 --> 03:07:55,070
lucky with, you know, they said you could never get

1989
03:07:55,110 --> 03:07:59,262
a, an improvement on the freeway either. And we did that in three years.

1990
03:07:59,446 --> 03:08:03,086
So I, I'm, I'm happy to, to see this go forward,

1991
03:08:03,158 --> 03:08:06,190
at least to get together a plan. I do think there's going to be some,

1992
03:08:06,310 --> 03:08:09,680
there'll be some grant money because there, there are.

1993
03:08:10,940 --> 03:08:15,300
I forgot the term. It's something

1994
03:08:15,340 --> 03:08:19,732
about the rate of solar insulation versus concrete

1995
03:08:19,796 --> 03:08:23,092
and anyway there's a, there's some grant money for that and, but I would

1996
03:08:23,116 --> 03:08:28,360
like to find ways for us to prioritize

1997
03:08:28,700 --> 03:08:32,580
and it being, you know, 6ft corridor would be really important to me.

1998
03:08:32,700 --> 03:08:35,632
I think that we have some safety concerns in,

1999
03:08:35,736 --> 03:08:38,992
in District 1 on Hidden Valley that I would really love to

2000
03:08:39,016 --> 03:08:42,240
see those prefer, you know, preferably kind of go

2001
03:08:42,280 --> 03:08:45,712
first because they, they've had some, some issues there and you

2002
03:08:45,736 --> 03:08:49,280
know, if we're going to be looking at these areas and maybe a

2003
03:08:49,320 --> 03:08:52,992
ranking system that would look at, you know, maybe safety first. In fact,

2004
03:08:53,016 --> 03:08:56,560
I think there are some, some calsta money

2005
03:08:56,600 --> 03:08:59,710
that they're putting forward for, for safety pro projects.

2006
03:09:00,210 --> 03:09:03,690
So there might be an opportunity for us there to, to build some pieces in

2007
03:09:03,730 --> 03:09:07,082
and if we can find other places that we can, you know, tweak, that might

2008
03:09:07,106 --> 03:09:10,122
be a way to make it happen a little bit faster. So I think this

2009
03:09:10,146 --> 03:09:13,450
is for sure an other people's money thing. Yeah, I love other people's money.

2010
03:09:13,490 --> 03:09:17,258
It's my favorite kind of money. Yeah,

2011
03:09:17,274 --> 03:09:20,746
that's it. Thank you so much. So, yeah, I'm, I'm in favor coming back and,

2012
03:09:20,818 --> 03:09:23,946
and let's talking about it more and again, you know, putting a pl. A flag

2013
03:09:23,978 --> 03:09:27,676
in the grounds of. Good thing. Jackie, do you want to follow Don Quixote

2014
03:09:27,708 --> 03:09:30,876
over there? No, I don't, but I. Mr. Olds,

2015
03:09:30,908 --> 03:09:34,732
thank you so much. I think one of the things that I

2016
03:09:34,756 --> 03:09:38,748
liked about this idea was sometimes we go in there and we're already making

2017
03:09:38,804 --> 03:09:42,556
improvements on the street or we're. And so it feels like if we

2018
03:09:42,628 --> 03:09:46,188
knew or if we like hindsight's

2019
03:09:46,204 --> 03:09:50,220
always perfect vision. Right. But one of the things coming into this council that

2020
03:09:50,340 --> 03:09:53,640
we learned right away is that when you don't have

2021
03:09:54,180 --> 03:09:57,708
this exploration, if you do

2022
03:09:57,764 --> 03:10:01,340
have the opportunity come before you and you've never

2023
03:10:01,380 --> 03:10:04,828
thought about it before, you're going to be functioning from a deficit

2024
03:10:04,844 --> 03:10:07,720
of knowledge and you're probably going to, you know,

2025
03:10:08,260 --> 03:10:12,444
severely under undermine

2026
03:10:12,492 --> 03:10:16,396
like how much it'll take to get something done and could undercut

2027
03:10:16,428 --> 03:10:19,768
yourself. So you just never know when

2028
03:10:19,904 --> 03:10:23,624
there might be an opportunity for more funding or if we're already addressing something in

2029
03:10:23,632 --> 03:10:27,304
the area, we can say, hey, actually we identified this as a possible street

2030
03:10:27,392 --> 03:10:31,192
for medium beautification. And aha. Here's the perfect

2031
03:10:31,256 --> 03:10:34,904
moment. So I like it as a plan that

2032
03:10:35,072 --> 03:10:38,104
sits there ready for us to chip away at it.

2033
03:10:38,192 --> 03:10:41,432
And so I. As an aspirational plan. Exactly. So I look

2034
03:10:41,456 --> 03:10:45,380
forward to seeing what you come up with and you finish your presentation.

2035
03:10:46,040 --> 03:10:47,020
Thank you.

2036
03:10:49,080 --> 03:10:52,656
Well, when I'm fighting with my wife, she says I serve no other purpose

2037
03:10:52,688 --> 03:10:55,500
than to look ugly. So that,

2038
03:10:56,600 --> 03:10:59,744
that, that rang home with me. Hi,

2039
03:10:59,792 --> 03:11:03,664
I'm with you, Jim. And it looks like Keegan already

2040
03:11:03,752 --> 03:11:06,580
is gonna do it anyways. Can do what he wants anyways.

2041
03:11:07,000 --> 03:11:10,474
So I think we're good with that. Do we

2042
03:11:10,482 --> 03:11:12,790
need. We need a public comments on this, right?

2043
03:11:17,730 --> 03:11:21,114
Yeah. So let's open it up. Up to public comments.

2044
03:11:21,282 --> 03:11:23,350
Did you want to speak? Come on up.

2045
03:11:32,050 --> 03:11:35,836
Amen again. No, you're good to go. Just want to comment

2046
03:11:35,908 --> 03:11:36,760
on the,

2047
03:11:39,380 --> 03:11:42,844
you know, landscaping things because who's

2048
03:11:42,892 --> 03:11:46,060
going to pay the water bill for those plants that are going to go in

2049
03:11:46,100 --> 03:11:49,372
down there? Is that a cheap shot? Because it's going to be a lot more

2050
03:11:49,396 --> 03:11:53,436
expensive by the time we get to doing it, so that'd

2051
03:11:53,468 --> 03:11:57,020
be a concern. Thank you. All right.

2052
03:11:57,060 --> 03:12:00,730
I didn't think it was a cheap shot. Thank you for speaking.

2053
03:12:00,900 --> 03:12:04,606
Sylvia. Are there any other speaker cards? Mayor, we do not have any speaker

2054
03:12:04,638 --> 03:12:08,450
cards. Okay with that. Public comments is closed.

2055
03:12:09,670 --> 03:12:12,050
Is there? Jim, do you want to make the motion?

2056
03:12:14,150 --> 03:12:17,982
No motion needed. Thank you, Wes. Moving along.

2057
03:12:18,086 --> 03:12:21,406
10.2 Travel advance request for council member Jackie

2058
03:12:21,438 --> 03:12:24,770
Casillas. Does any member want a staff report on this item?

2059
03:12:25,110 --> 03:12:28,900
I mean, I could provide some comments if you'd like. Yeah, I'm at it.

2060
03:12:30,000 --> 03:12:32,460
This is the one up north. Yep.

2061
03:12:33,760 --> 03:12:37,896
This conference, it's a. League leaders, as you know, I'm the Riverside

2062
03:12:37,928 --> 03:12:41,624
county incoming or I just actually the last meeting, same day

2063
03:12:41,632 --> 03:12:45,128
as our city council meeting. I was presented, sworn in as the president

2064
03:12:45,184 --> 03:12:48,180
of a Riverside county division. So at this.

2065
03:12:49,440 --> 03:12:52,464
Of the League of Cities. Yes, of Riverside Division.

2066
03:12:52,512 --> 03:12:56,064
Just our county, not the statewide organization. But this is

2067
03:12:56,072 --> 03:12:59,536
an organization that advocates and lobbies for

2068
03:12:59,608 --> 03:13:05,216
local control and for essentially lobbying

2069
03:13:05,248 --> 03:13:09,136
for cities when Sacramento lawmakers

2070
03:13:09,168 --> 03:13:13,072
are getting together and passing laws that affect us. So I

2071
03:13:13,096 --> 03:13:16,512
want to assure you all

2072
03:13:16,536 --> 03:13:19,460
that I'm going to be coming. I'm going to be attending this meeting with our

2073
03:13:19,500 --> 03:13:23,092
legislative platform. And I'm doing everything

2074
03:13:23,196 --> 03:13:26,852
in my power to make our platform be the

2075
03:13:26,876 --> 03:13:30,160
league cities platform. So,

2076
03:13:30,460 --> 03:13:32,880
you know, trust me that I.

2077
03:13:33,660 --> 03:13:37,460
I'm not going to be shy. So I

2078
03:13:37,500 --> 03:13:41,720
trust you. Any comments from anyone else?

2079
03:13:42,140 --> 03:13:44,958
Jim, Leslie, me. Ms.

2080
03:13:45,014 --> 03:13:48,446
Edwards, are there any speaker cards? Mayor we do not have any speaker

2081
03:13:48,478 --> 03:13:52,410
cards for this agenda item. No. No cheap shots over there.

2082
03:13:52,950 --> 03:13:55,930
So moved. All right,

2083
03:13:57,270 --> 03:14:00,702
fair enough with that second vote.

2084
03:14:00,766 --> 03:14:03,370
And off Jackie go.

2085
03:14:14,320 --> 03:14:15,740
Council member speak.

2086
03:14:20,480 --> 03:14:22,400
All right. 5.

2087
03:14:22,671 --> 03:14:26,488
0. 10.3. Vice Mayor Steiner's

2088
03:14:26,504 --> 03:14:30,104
request for City Council's consideration to adopt a homeowner's insurance

2089
03:14:30,152 --> 03:14:33,000
protection resolution. Amina.

2090
03:14:33,160 --> 03:14:37,060
Amina Mirrors the assistant to the city manager.

2091
03:14:37,720 --> 03:14:41,312
My bad. Dr. Amina Mears, assistant to the city manager.

2092
03:14:41,456 --> 03:14:44,896
She will present this item. Sure. Thank you. Good evening,

2093
03:14:45,008 --> 03:14:48,288
Mayor, Council. So staff received agenda

2094
03:14:48,304 --> 03:14:51,900
item request from Vice Mayor Steiner for the city to consider.

2095
03:14:52,920 --> 03:14:57,216
For City Council to consider adopting resolution advocating for home insurance protections

2096
03:14:57,328 --> 03:15:00,688
for Corona residents. The city has received comments

2097
03:15:00,744 --> 03:15:05,234
from. From residents regarding insurance plans being either cancelled or premiums

2098
03:15:05,282 --> 03:15:08,150
increased due to fires and other natural disasters.

2099
03:15:08,570 --> 03:15:11,858
Recently, the counties of San Bernardino, San Bernardino

2100
03:15:11,874 --> 03:15:16,114
and Placer have adopted resolutions urging the State Insurance

2101
03:15:16,162 --> 03:15:19,922
Commissioner Lara and the governor to declare a state of emergency and to

2102
03:15:19,946 --> 03:15:24,030
act swiftly to restore stability to the insurance market.

2103
03:15:24,890 --> 03:15:28,712
A resolution of this nature is in alignment with the city's legislative

2104
03:15:28,776 --> 03:15:32,104
platform as we just recently added language expressing

2105
03:15:32,152 --> 03:15:35,864
the city's advocacy and support for addressing insurance

2106
03:15:35,912 --> 03:15:39,288
increases and rates. Insurance rates increases

2107
03:15:39,304 --> 03:15:42,712
and cancellations due to natural disasters. So without further

2108
03:15:42,736 --> 03:15:45,660
ado, I will now turn this discussion over to Vice Mayor.

2109
03:15:46,960 --> 03:15:49,864
Yeah, and I'm not sure there's a whole lot to add to what Dr.

2110
03:15:49,912 --> 03:15:53,154
Mears said. You know, we've all gotten the emails from our residents concerned that

2111
03:15:53,162 --> 03:15:56,962
they can't get homeowners insurance or they're threatening to have

2112
03:15:56,986 --> 03:15:59,630
it taken away from them and just the cost,

2113
03:16:01,130 --> 03:16:03,714
you know, to find insurance.

2114
03:16:03,842 --> 03:16:07,346
And I know our fire department's

2115
03:16:07,378 --> 03:16:10,802
doing a lot with trying to get communities firewise

2116
03:16:10,866 --> 03:16:14,642
and fire safe and getting hoas involved to

2117
03:16:14,666 --> 03:16:18,362
understand, you know, defensible space and things

2118
03:16:18,386 --> 03:16:22,218
like that. But, you know, it's, it's. It's really ridiculous

2119
03:16:22,314 --> 03:16:26,314
because it's in high fire hazard areas, which I understand, and I

2120
03:16:26,402 --> 03:16:29,882
understand the measures need to be taken. But so many of

2121
03:16:29,906 --> 03:16:33,674
the homes in high. In high fire hazard areas are not going

2122
03:16:33,682 --> 03:16:37,322
to catch fire from a, from a forest fire. So it's an overreach

2123
03:16:37,386 --> 03:16:40,506
on what is identified as high fire hazard.

2124
03:16:40,618 --> 03:16:43,922
But I know there's not a lot we can do about this. But I

2125
03:16:43,946 --> 03:16:47,458
still think we need to make a strong stance. And I like what San Bernardino

2126
03:16:47,474 --> 03:16:51,362
county and Placer county did with demanding that

2127
03:16:51,386 --> 03:16:55,410
the governor make this a state of emergency and step in and get this

2128
03:16:55,450 --> 03:16:56,510
taken care of.

2129
03:16:58,570 --> 03:17:02,306
Okay, I'm with you guys. Want to do public comments

2130
03:17:02,378 --> 03:17:06,146
or do you want to. Public comments. Sylvia Are there any speaker

2131
03:17:06,178 --> 03:17:09,296
cards? Mayor? We do not have any speaker cards for this agenda item.

2132
03:17:09,418 --> 03:17:11,780
Okay. With that, public comments is closed.

2133
03:17:11,860 --> 03:17:12,680
Tony.

2134
03:17:15,020 --> 03:17:19,844
No. No comments. No, Wes, I agree. My 300

2135
03:17:19,932 --> 03:17:23,204
increase in the last four years. So anything they can do. And I

2136
03:17:23,212 --> 03:17:26,292
know that, you know, again, tilting and windmills, but enough people,

2137
03:17:26,396 --> 03:17:30,036
you know, write this letter then that the insurance commissioner

2138
03:17:30,068 --> 03:17:33,444
is trying to work on it. But yeah, you're right. That that absolutely needs to

2139
03:17:33,452 --> 03:17:37,492
happen. That high. Fire D. Your designation is

2140
03:17:37,676 --> 03:17:40,932
far too broad, Jackie. I just

2141
03:17:40,956 --> 03:17:44,756
want to add that, you know, we have a very active fire chief who

2142
03:17:44,828 --> 03:17:49,220
is like sitting at all these tables and advocating and pushing

2143
03:17:49,380 --> 03:17:55,300
every chance we get to to

2144
03:17:55,340 --> 03:17:58,772
just lower the cost for residents to show that we're being proactive. I mean,

2145
03:17:58,796 --> 03:18:02,462
we created these fire safe councils with a nonprofit. It's trying

2146
03:18:02,486 --> 03:18:05,726
to make a difference and we're just trying to save people

2147
03:18:05,798 --> 03:18:09,662
money wherever we possibly can. So, yeah, I'm in favor of this

2148
03:18:09,686 --> 03:18:13,230
advocacy as well. I am as well. And the fact

2149
03:18:13,270 --> 03:18:17,278
that you heard that it came from Placer and San Bernardino means

2150
03:18:17,334 --> 03:18:20,478
people are talking about it and if we can join those

2151
03:18:20,534 --> 03:18:23,770
ranks, there's value in that. So I'm a yes too.

2152
03:18:25,350 --> 03:18:28,910
I don't think we're voting on it and I think we're good.

2153
03:18:29,210 --> 03:18:31,670
Are you happy? Yeah. Thank you. Okay.

2154
03:18:32,170 --> 03:18:35,362
10.4 request from council member speak for the city

2155
03:18:35,386 --> 03:18:39,586
council to consider an ordinance preventing unsolicited advertising or

2156
03:18:39,658 --> 03:18:42,994
of printed materials on private property. Oh,

2157
03:18:43,042 --> 03:18:46,162
once again, Dr. Amina Mears, the great assistant to the

2158
03:18:46,186 --> 03:18:50,310
city manager, will present this item. Mayor Amina Spy.

2159
03:18:54,000 --> 03:18:57,512
So staff received another agenda item. This one is from

2160
03:18:57,536 --> 03:19:01,448
council member Speak wanting us to look into drafting an ordinance

2161
03:19:01,624 --> 03:19:05,992
prohibiting solicited advertising circulars or other printed material

2162
03:19:06,136 --> 03:19:08,780
on printed property except for purchase.

2163
03:19:09,680 --> 03:19:13,530
Now, the city has an existing code, CMC 5.2

2164
03:19:13,793 --> 03:19:17,032
0.040, that regulates the distribution of

2165
03:19:17,056 --> 03:19:20,854
handbills in the city. The ordinance does not explicitly

2166
03:19:20,902 --> 03:19:24,390
prohibit the distribution of handbills on private properties.

2167
03:19:24,550 --> 03:19:28,998
However, it does note that residents or persons who do not want to receive handbills

2168
03:19:29,174 --> 03:19:32,422
can request so by displaying a visible no solicitation

2169
03:19:32,486 --> 03:19:34,810
sign or anything that has similar language.

2170
03:19:35,870 --> 03:19:39,222
So, staff, tonight we would like further direction on the next steps.

2171
03:19:39,286 --> 03:19:43,210
Specifically, if the council wants staff to develop an ordinance

2172
03:19:43,550 --> 03:19:46,742
or if you want us to amplify the current ordinance that we have

2173
03:19:46,766 --> 03:19:50,582
through maybe some marketing, social media campaign push to

2174
03:19:50,606 --> 03:19:54,038
make residents further aware or whatever else you might have in mind.

2175
03:19:54,094 --> 03:19:56,370
So I will now refer to you.

2176
03:19:58,590 --> 03:20:01,830
Thank you, sir. Yeah, I, I this is one of those things

2177
03:20:01,870 --> 03:20:05,490
where, you know, I'm walking, I get out my, my front yard and

2178
03:20:06,430 --> 03:20:09,926
there's this, the bag of garbage,

2179
03:20:09,958 --> 03:20:14,100
paper that is in my, in my gutter

2180
03:20:14,180 --> 03:20:17,460
that I'm having to pick out and put in the trash. And, and I'm making

2181
03:20:17,500 --> 03:20:20,932
sure that it's not, you know, it's getting run over 15 times and

2182
03:20:20,956 --> 03:20:24,148
the person next door, their stuff washes down. And to me, it's.

2183
03:20:24,164 --> 03:20:27,620
It's litter, you know, and, and there's. My neighbors have

2184
03:20:27,660 --> 03:20:31,092
no soliciting signs and they get thrown out onto their driveways

2185
03:20:31,156 --> 03:20:35,440
just like everything else. And I think it's just a. It's a.

2186
03:20:36,060 --> 03:20:38,850
It's litter. And frankly,

2187
03:20:40,150 --> 03:20:44,094
it's wrong. And I think that it's impacting our water quality.

2188
03:20:44,142 --> 03:20:46,670
You have these things in the, in the gutter in different parts of the city

2189
03:20:46,710 --> 03:20:50,382
that just sit there. And I'd like to see

2190
03:20:50,406 --> 03:20:54,862
a stronger stance. I know we have something. I did read that article or that

2191
03:20:55,046 --> 03:20:58,814
ordinance and there is any teeth to it. I'm okay with taking our

2192
03:20:58,822 --> 03:21:01,450
existing ordinance and tweaking it a little bit.

2193
03:21:02,550 --> 03:21:06,200
I think the issue will be enforcement,

2194
03:21:06,540 --> 03:21:10,100
nor do I want the. Not saying I want the city to go around and

2195
03:21:10,220 --> 03:21:13,732
find people that are doing this, but I think if there's someone that

2196
03:21:13,756 --> 03:21:17,540
says, hey, I don't want this, and the folks that are doing

2197
03:21:17,580 --> 03:21:20,964
this would know, hey, don't do this, because you're going to get fined by

2198
03:21:20,972 --> 03:21:24,212
the city of Corona. And so I think this is

2199
03:21:24,236 --> 03:21:27,844
something that I talk to my neighbors and folks who live in

2200
03:21:27,852 --> 03:21:31,482
different parts of the city, and some said the same thing. This, they hate it.

2201
03:21:31,586 --> 03:21:34,954
They. They can't stand it. It's just one more piece of garbage they have to

2202
03:21:34,962 --> 03:21:38,710
pick up and throw away. That's it. Thank you,

2203
03:21:40,130 --> 03:21:44,058
Jackie. Sure. No, look, it's annoying.

2204
03:21:44,154 --> 03:21:47,658
I agree. This just feels like fighting a losing battle.

2205
03:21:47,674 --> 03:21:50,794
And I think that, like, I just, I think about the enforcement, I don't know

2206
03:21:50,802 --> 03:21:54,320
how this is enforceable. There's so many things that are deemed

2207
03:21:54,370 --> 03:21:56,800
and like,

2208
03:21:58,300 --> 03:22:01,284
not. What's it called?

2209
03:22:01,372 --> 03:22:02,440
Solicitation.

2210
03:22:05,020 --> 03:22:08,564
And I think it's a pretty, like, porous line, you know

2211
03:22:08,572 --> 03:22:10,440
what I mean? For instance,

2212
03:22:11,740 --> 03:22:15,396
we just had an election and all of those papers

2213
03:22:15,428 --> 03:22:19,092
are not considered solicitation. Yeah. And I specified

2214
03:22:19,156 --> 03:22:22,682
that in the request that, that if it was on a porch. Well,

2215
03:22:22,706 --> 03:22:25,274
you're okay if someone wants to get out of their car, wants to walk up

2216
03:22:25,282 --> 03:22:28,570
and put something on your porch, totally fine with that. The person that comes by

2217
03:22:28,610 --> 03:22:32,266
and throws the bag of rocks with, you know, with an advertisement

2218
03:22:32,298 --> 03:22:36,362
in it at like three in the morning. Yes. Or the little

2219
03:22:36,386 --> 03:22:40,394
newspaper that gets tossed out of the, you know, that's just some advertisement

2220
03:22:40,442 --> 03:22:43,642
that frankly gets run over and ends up in the trash anyway.

2221
03:22:43,786 --> 03:22:47,068
And so I don't want to infringe on the fact that, you know,

2222
03:22:47,124 --> 03:22:50,428
if someone wants to actually get out of their car and walk and

2223
03:22:50,484 --> 03:22:53,520
put something on your, on your door, on your, your porch,

2224
03:22:54,260 --> 03:22:57,980
that's totally okay. Yeah. This just seems like again, like one of those things

2225
03:22:58,020 --> 03:23:01,644
that's like, like a. Fighting a losing battle.

2226
03:23:01,692 --> 03:23:05,324
But I, you know, I'd want to, you know, I'd be open to seeing

2227
03:23:05,372 --> 03:23:08,860
like what a modification of. Sure. What we already have might

2228
03:23:08,900 --> 03:23:12,214
look like. I just. It is that piece of enforcement that I

2229
03:23:12,222 --> 03:23:16,278
don't know. Yeah. I mean, I think if people could, you know, I wouldn't necessarily

2230
03:23:16,294 --> 03:23:18,630
put it on the city to go out and hunt these, hunt folks down,

2231
03:23:18,670 --> 03:23:21,462
but if they, if you had an issue and said, hey, don't, don't deliver us

2232
03:23:21,486 --> 03:23:24,630
anymore, we would let. I mean, I think there's only a few people

2233
03:23:24,670 --> 03:23:26,966
that do this and if you told them, hey, by the way, this is not,

2234
03:23:27,038 --> 03:23:30,214
you know, this is against the, against our, our code.

2235
03:23:30,262 --> 03:23:33,334
It would be a pretty short list of folks to send to. And then if

2236
03:23:33,342 --> 03:23:36,742
you had people like me that cared about it, then you would like

2237
03:23:36,766 --> 03:23:40,432
a standard letter the city, you'd be self reporting and then, and then that

2238
03:23:40,456 --> 03:23:43,792
way it'd be taken care of. But like I said, looking forward to there being

2239
03:23:43,816 --> 03:23:45,580
an option to take a look at it.

2240
03:23:46,360 --> 03:23:48,060
TDog Good.

2241
03:23:49,720 --> 03:23:53,184
I'm in support of this. I too don't like the bag of rocks that I

2242
03:23:53,192 --> 03:23:54,500
find on my driveway.

2243
03:23:56,360 --> 03:23:59,696
I really appre. Oddly enough, I really appreciate the notepads

2244
03:23:59,728 --> 03:24:02,540
that the realtors leave. I use those all the time,

2245
03:24:02,850 --> 03:24:06,506
but more times than not, I find them. I find that

2246
03:24:06,578 --> 03:24:10,554
bag of papers in the gutter that's usually

2247
03:24:10,602 --> 03:24:13,562
soaked by the time that I have to get it and then pick up a

2248
03:24:13,586 --> 03:24:16,426
bag of wet, nasty paper and throw it in the trash.

2249
03:24:16,618 --> 03:24:20,058
So if we could somehow send a letter to him because we've

2250
03:24:20,074 --> 03:24:23,306
got an ordinance that we could point to and that helps

2251
03:24:23,338 --> 03:24:26,270
mitigate it, I'm all for it. Jim.

2252
03:24:28,940 --> 03:24:32,724
I read an article that back in the day, Steve McQueen

2253
03:24:32,772 --> 03:24:36,932
and James Garner were neighbors. Steve McQueen would drive by James

2254
03:24:36,996 --> 03:24:39,480
house and throw his beer cans in his yard.

2255
03:24:40,060 --> 03:24:41,600
Kind of reminds me of that.

2256
03:24:43,420 --> 03:24:47,492
These are good 10 o'clock stories, so I

2257
03:24:47,516 --> 03:24:49,360
think we're good there with that.

2258
03:24:51,420 --> 03:24:54,782
No vote. Does anyone know

2259
03:24:54,806 --> 03:24:58,014
the time? No, but I

2260
03:24:58,022 --> 03:25:00,650
have a story about Paul Newman if you'd like to hear it.

2261
03:25:02,870 --> 03:25:06,894
Okay, legislative matters there are none reports

2262
03:25:06,982 --> 03:25:10,462
from board members and commissions there are none from library

2263
03:25:10,526 --> 03:25:14,334
none from planning and housing receive and file a

2264
03:25:14,342 --> 03:25:18,062
bunch of things. Regional meeting Wes,

2265
03:25:18,126 --> 03:25:22,264
it's 10 o'clock but there's a an update from you on the Southern California

2266
03:25:22,312 --> 03:25:25,720
association of Government Transportation. I'll just say that the

2267
03:25:25,760 --> 03:25:28,680
five pages that I was going to read I'll just sum it up real quick

2268
03:25:28,720 --> 03:25:31,880
with the state continue to hate you in your car

2269
03:25:32,000 --> 03:25:33,460
and that will continue.

2270
03:25:35,360 --> 03:25:39,064
SCAGG is giving money to the city of Marino Valley for

2271
03:25:39,152 --> 03:25:43,512
a horrible project called the World Logistics center to put in a interchange

2272
03:25:43,576 --> 03:25:47,538
improvement. We're a project that ever should have been approved and a

2273
03:25:47,594 --> 03:25:50,950
really great project in the city of Beaumont to put in a great separation.

2274
03:25:52,090 --> 03:25:55,922
That's pretty much it. Yeah. Except for you know, the hate of cars

2275
03:25:55,986 --> 03:25:57,910
and people. Okay,

2276
03:26:00,410 --> 03:26:04,194
part two Update from Council member west speak on the Riverside County

2277
03:26:04,282 --> 03:26:08,460
Transportation Commission our CTC meeting of November 13th,

2278
03:26:08,647 --> 03:26:12,590
2024 again more hating of people people in their cars.

2279
03:26:12,930 --> 03:26:16,394
There was a legislative update. We did a couple of votes but I'm not going

2280
03:26:16,402 --> 03:26:21,830
to talk about them. But the the biggest thing was a legislative update from

2281
03:26:22,210 --> 03:26:26,394
our the folks at our TTC about CALSTA and

2282
03:26:26,562 --> 03:26:30,590
their update of the California Transportation Planning

2283
03:26:31,170 --> 03:26:34,810
Basically cap ties what the initials are and I always forget what it's what

2284
03:26:34,850 --> 03:26:38,552
it stands for but basically it's a this is

2285
03:26:38,576 --> 03:26:40,920
the final nail. I think I talked to you guys about it last time.

2286
03:26:40,960 --> 03:26:44,152
I will post the letter. The city is going to

2287
03:26:44,176 --> 03:26:47,816
be thank you Mr. Mayor for signing that letter opposing

2288
03:26:47,848 --> 03:26:51,272
these changes. And the most disgusting part

2289
03:26:51,296 --> 03:26:54,360
of it is that the SB1 money

2290
03:26:54,400 --> 03:26:57,704
that we've been paying, the additional tax that we've been paying on the

2291
03:26:57,712 --> 03:27:00,620
gas tax that they said would only go toward transportation.

2292
03:27:01,360 --> 03:27:05,074
One of the changes that they're proposing

2293
03:27:05,122 --> 03:27:09,150
in this is to redirect that money to housing and,

2294
03:27:09,770 --> 03:27:13,430
and it's, it's a lie and it's a flat lie

2295
03:27:14,170 --> 03:27:18,130
that was voted on and I'm hoping that there are folks that speak out against

2296
03:27:18,170 --> 03:27:21,282
it. I will put something out on my page and then hopefully the

2297
03:27:21,306 --> 03:27:24,830
city when we finish our letter we are using

2298
03:27:25,370 --> 03:27:29,768
RCTC is getting letters together from different cities to

2299
03:27:29,904 --> 03:27:33,752
oppose that and that would go so far as to actually restrict the money

2300
03:27:33,856 --> 03:27:37,576
that RCTC gets from measure

2301
03:27:37,608 --> 03:27:41,620
A and maintain or make

2302
03:27:42,160 --> 03:27:45,912
those improvements not happen on the road. There will

2303
03:27:45,936 --> 03:27:49,656
not be any more lanes over a mile.

2304
03:27:49,848 --> 03:27:53,860
They're going to start looking at arterials to limit the

2305
03:27:54,160 --> 03:27:58,216
vmt the vehicle miles traveled accessed on those roads and

2306
03:27:58,288 --> 03:28:01,944
it's going to get. It's going to get really bad. So hopefully enough people are

2307
03:28:02,032 --> 03:28:06,180
going to notice this time of this, this final nail in the coffin for

2308
03:28:06,560 --> 03:28:10,264
folks getting in their cars. And not that I'm opposed to public transportation,

2309
03:28:10,312 --> 03:28:13,460
but we just won't have any. You won't have any here for probably 30 years.

2310
03:28:14,880 --> 03:28:19,400
To continue to slam that point home is just horrible.

2311
03:28:19,560 --> 03:28:22,144
And that's it. Thanks. Thanks,

2312
03:28:22,192 --> 03:28:25,504
Wes. Ms. Edwards, are there any speaker cards

2313
03:28:25,552 --> 03:28:29,216
from the public for the regional meetings? Mayor we do not have any speaker cards.

2314
03:28:29,328 --> 03:28:31,820
All right. Steiner's appreciative of that.

2315
03:28:33,160 --> 03:28:36,432
Okay, city attorneys, reports and comments. Dean, you want to get

2316
03:28:36,456 --> 03:28:38,220
into that Paul Newman story now?

2317
03:28:40,840 --> 03:28:45,152
Okay. Mr. Ellis, I see you're back from vacation.

2318
03:28:45,296 --> 03:28:48,376
The orientation. How'd it go? No comments.

2319
03:28:48,448 --> 03:28:52,296
Mayor thank you. Okay, City council member

2320
03:28:52,368 --> 03:28:55,256
reports. Oh, we got to do something here.

2321
03:28:55,328 --> 03:28:58,680
Designate, designate representative to participate on ad

2322
03:28:58,720 --> 03:29:02,780
hoc committee for field rates. Does anybody.

2323
03:29:03,120 --> 03:29:04,060
Tony.

2324
03:29:08,880 --> 03:29:10,460
All right, Tony.

2325
03:29:11,850 --> 03:29:15,746
Tony Jacob,

2326
03:29:15,858 --> 03:29:18,550
do we need one or two people for the ad hoc?

2327
03:29:19,610 --> 03:29:23,490
Just one. There you have it. So let

2328
03:29:23,530 --> 03:29:27,670
the record state that council member Daddario has gladly volunteered

2329
03:29:29,050 --> 03:29:30,230
voluntold.

2330
03:29:32,730 --> 03:29:35,950
And with that. Does anybody have any comments?

2331
03:29:36,570 --> 03:29:40,844
Tony? Yeah, just a couple comments. On November

2332
03:29:40,892 --> 03:29:44,124
9th, I was able to attend

2333
03:29:44,172 --> 03:29:48,172
the veterans event at the Riverside National Cemetery.

2334
03:29:48,316 --> 03:29:52,060
I was there with Vulcan materials and they were

2335
03:29:52,100 --> 03:29:55,628
placing flags on all of the cemetery. They were one of

2336
03:29:55,684 --> 03:29:58,796
many, many organizations placing flags on the

2337
03:29:58,948 --> 03:30:02,620
cemetery out there. It's very, it was great

2338
03:30:02,660 --> 03:30:06,232
to see everybody placing flags and all the flags flying and the events of they

2339
03:30:06,256 --> 03:30:10,216
had going on. My grandparents are both at National

2340
03:30:10,288 --> 03:30:13,608
Cemetery, so it was very special for me. By the time I got over there

2341
03:30:13,664 --> 03:30:17,016
to pay my respects, their flags were already there and they were perfectly

2342
03:30:17,048 --> 03:30:19,300
straight. So it was a beautiful thing to see.

2343
03:30:20,720 --> 03:30:24,440
And I also wanted to give a quick shout out to our communications

2344
03:30:24,520 --> 03:30:27,672
team and our digital team. They did a great job on the State of the

2345
03:30:27,696 --> 03:30:31,368
City. The video was great. I believe it's available now on

2346
03:30:31,424 --> 03:30:34,360
all of the city socials. It's a great video,

2347
03:30:36,100 --> 03:30:39,244
some great acting by the mayor. I think if there's a

2348
03:30:39,252 --> 03:30:42,924
category for State of the City addresses at the Grammy or the Oscars,

2349
03:30:42,972 --> 03:30:46,060
I think you should probably be up for one. But,

2350
03:30:46,100 --> 03:30:50,460
you know, it was a pretty much a packed house. And afterwards

2351
03:30:50,540 --> 03:30:54,012
I was walking back to my vehicle and I was talking with

2352
03:30:54,196 --> 03:30:58,882
a couple that own a business here in town and it's called DBZ

2353
03:30:59,026 --> 03:31:02,722
Records and Books or Books and Records. And it's, it's a

2354
03:31:02,746 --> 03:31:06,322
great Little store on 6th Street. It's owned by Dilver and Karen

2355
03:31:06,386 --> 03:31:10,034
Lizama. They've been open for three or four years. And I

2356
03:31:10,042 --> 03:31:13,266
went and I visited the bookstore and bought a couple

2357
03:31:13,298 --> 03:31:17,122
of things that they had there. It's a really cool story

2358
03:31:17,226 --> 03:31:20,802
of local folks that have entrepreneurs

2359
03:31:20,866 --> 03:31:24,656
that have decided to take their love of books and records

2360
03:31:24,688 --> 03:31:28,960
and, and open a store here

2361
03:31:29,000 --> 03:31:32,752
in Corona and you know, just following their social media and

2362
03:31:32,776 --> 03:31:36,128
just learning more about their story. They're kind of a big deal

2363
03:31:36,184 --> 03:31:39,472
as far as an independent book and record store or

2364
03:31:39,496 --> 03:31:43,088
independent bookstore and independent record store. The day that I ended

2365
03:31:43,104 --> 03:31:46,752
up going, they were having a independent record release for the new

2366
03:31:46,776 --> 03:31:50,346
Gwen Stefani record. And it was just really cool.

2367
03:31:50,378 --> 03:31:53,242
There was. When I showed up at a little bit before 5 o'clock, there was

2368
03:31:53,266 --> 03:31:57,242
a line of people out the door waiting to get in to

2369
03:31:57,266 --> 03:32:03,050
buy this record. And I thought that that was really cool and just

2370
03:32:03,090 --> 03:32:06,682
really something. You know, people talk about wanting something different here in the city of

2371
03:32:06,706 --> 03:32:10,906
Corona and you know, they talk about arts and culture and

2372
03:32:11,058 --> 03:32:14,230
boy, this store really hits on all of that. They've got a bunch of open

2373
03:32:14,540 --> 03:32:18,628
open mic nights and record release album parties and all kinds of cool things

2374
03:32:18,684 --> 03:32:21,812
they've got going on. And so I wanted to give them a shout out.

2375
03:32:21,836 --> 03:32:25,604
I thought that they have a really cool niche

2376
03:32:25,652 --> 03:32:29,140
they're filling. And if you are watching this and you get

2377
03:32:29,260 --> 03:32:32,292
an opportunity to go check them out. Go check them out. That's it.

2378
03:32:32,316 --> 03:32:35,988
Thank you. Thanks. Yeah, I can't wait.

2379
03:32:36,004 --> 03:32:39,172
I got your little note about how awesome it was. I'm looking forward to

2380
03:32:39,196 --> 03:32:42,190
going down, especially something on 6th street,

2381
03:32:42,230 --> 03:32:46,110
which always, always makes me happy. Just a couple things. One, we're getting into

2382
03:32:46,150 --> 03:32:49,774
the season, so both Dos Lagos and the Crossings

2383
03:32:49,822 --> 03:32:53,690
will be having their holiday lighting event on the same day.

2384
03:32:55,270 --> 03:32:58,318
But we're trying to figure out which one we're

2385
03:32:58,334 --> 03:33:01,790
going to go to. But both seem to be, you know, kind of going big

2386
03:33:01,830 --> 03:33:05,632
and trying to get people to come back. And again, I want to echo what

2387
03:33:05,656 --> 03:33:08,960
Councillor Daddario said that, you know, Sean, the you and your team

2388
03:33:09,000 --> 03:33:12,288
did an amazing job. It's the best State of the City video

2389
03:33:12,344 --> 03:33:16,256
that you guys have done yet. And I, I, I can't

2390
03:33:16,288 --> 03:33:18,720
wait to see what you guys do next year. It's getting better and better every

2391
03:33:18,760 --> 03:33:22,128
single time. So thank you and please pass it on to your,

2392
03:33:22,184 --> 03:33:25,660
to your team and good job. Mr. Mayor. You were.

2393
03:33:26,120 --> 03:33:29,616
Yeah, I was exp. I did see you filming some things and

2394
03:33:29,688 --> 03:33:33,150
I was very bummed. I didn't see see you on 3rd Street. I didn't see

2395
03:33:33,190 --> 03:33:36,302
you. But, but it was a Nice job.

2396
03:33:36,406 --> 03:33:39,934
Thank. Thank you, Jackie. You got anything,

2397
03:33:40,062 --> 03:33:43,810
Jim? Just one thing. As an FYI,

2398
03:33:44,230 --> 03:33:47,358
you guys know I sit on the, I represent the city on the Santa

2399
03:33:47,374 --> 03:33:51,406
Ana River Advisory Group. So tomorrow the,

2400
03:33:51,478 --> 03:33:55,370
the Coastal Commission, California Coastal Commission is having their public meeting

2401
03:33:55,750 --> 03:33:59,036
in Oakland. And I've already registered, registered to make some public

2402
03:33:59,108 --> 03:34:02,668
comments. But agenda item eight, which is actually

2403
03:34:02,724 --> 03:34:06,092
about probably five or six hours into the meeting, is near

2404
03:34:06,116 --> 03:34:10,060
the end. It's. They're considering allocating $9.2

2405
03:34:10,100 --> 03:34:13,868
million for the 1.7 mile link of the

2406
03:34:13,924 --> 03:34:17,484
Green River, Santa Ana River Trail for that connection.

2407
03:34:17,612 --> 03:34:20,620
So I, I feel good

2408
03:34:20,660 --> 03:34:23,748
about it, you guys. So we're finally getting these connections

2409
03:34:23,884 --> 03:34:27,380
connected and this will, this will go a long way in making

2410
03:34:27,420 --> 03:34:31,156
that happen. So I'll report back next. So is that like $500,000

2411
03:34:31,188 --> 03:34:34,084
an hour for you to sit down there? Well, you know, they're going over waterways

2412
03:34:34,132 --> 03:34:37,396
and stuff, so that's why it's so expensive. That's good stuff.

2413
03:34:37,588 --> 03:34:40,240
Thanks for keeping your eye on that. Yeah, thank you.

2414
03:34:40,540 --> 03:34:44,212
Thanks, Jim. Sean, you guys,

2415
03:34:44,276 --> 03:34:47,652
you and your team knocked it out the state of the city. And Donna

2416
03:34:47,716 --> 03:34:51,170
and her team, you, you guys were phenomenal.

2417
03:34:51,670 --> 03:34:55,930
So the only heckler was my 8 year old daughter there.

2418
03:34:56,390 --> 03:35:00,094
She let me have it. But it was a

2419
03:35:00,102 --> 03:35:03,662
great night and a lot of fun and maybe one

2420
03:35:03,686 --> 03:35:06,490
day Sean will release the stuff he didn't put in the video.

2421
03:35:07,350 --> 03:35:11,166
So with that, the next meeting of the council

2422
03:35:11,238 --> 03:35:14,708
is December 4, 2024, and this meeting is adjourned.