[4:57] Good afternoon, everyone. We are calling the meeting to order at 6.36 p.m. City clerk. Please begin with roll call. Yes. Thank you, Mayor.

[5:08] Councilmember canterlosa.

[5:12] Councilmember point is absent. Councilmember Gomez. Vice mayor Lomelli. Present. Mayor doctor Gomez. Present. Moving on to approval of the agenda. Is there any change that needs to take place with the agenda tonight?

[5:30] Yes, Mayor. Staff is requesting to move close session item 16A after public comment item 7.

[5:42] Is there a motion to move item 16A after public comment?

[5:48] Second. All in favor say aye.

[5:52] Aye. Both unanimous.

[5:55] Agenda is approved.

[5:57] And I will lead us in the pledge of allegiance.

[6:02] can please stand up with your right hand over your heart

[6:09] I

[6:14] can do it in Spanish as well

[6:28] that I won't show off.

[6:32] We're going to now move on to our landing knowledge

[6:43] We would like to acknowledge that the land we inhabit today was once known as Tobangar, the home of the Gavrilenio Tongva people.

[6:52] We show our respects to the Gavrilenio Tongva people as well as all indigenous people, past, present and future, and honor their labor as original caretakers of this land.

[7:02] We commit to uplifting the Gavrilenio Tongva people as well as all indigenous people, past, present and future, and honor their labor as original caretakers of this land.

[7:04] and your tongue for people and invite you to acknowledge the history and join us in carrying for this land.

[7:10] Thank you.

[7:11] Thank you. Moving on to presentation.

[7:15] Really excited. I know that, you know, as a city,

[7:20] we definitely had a very strong focus on education,

[7:24] and we've done a lot of work around uplifting schools and teachers, educators,

[7:29] and connecting students to college whether that be a two-year college

[7:32] or going off to a four-year institution.

[7:35] It's been a big passion of ours

[7:37] while we've been serving on council,

[7:39] and so it makes me really excited

[7:40] to introduce Dr. Monte Perez,

[7:43] who's the president of East Los Angeles College.

[7:47] Dr. Perez is a long-time higher education leader

[7:51] with more than 40 years of experience

[7:53] and 15 years as a college president.

[7:56] He has dedicated his career

[7:57] to expanding education opportunities

[8:00] supporting student success and strengthening communities.

[8:03] We're very fortunate to have this leadership at E-Lac

[8:06] and I'm pleased to welcome Dr. Perez and learn more

[8:10] about what is coming to our region.

[8:13] Thank you.

[8:16] Thank you very much for that introduction.

[8:19] It's a pleasure being here and honor to be here.

[8:22] Got a he from the City Council and members of the community

[8:26] watching this.

[8:27] I am so excited about making this

[8:31] brief presentation and I want to make a connection with you and give you my word and my involvement

[8:38] in investment in the future of higher education and career readiness and workforce for Qatahe

[8:45] residents. Right here I brought two of my colleagues and I just wanted to introduce them because

[8:52] they're very instrumental in the next steps with the new building that we're going to be opening

[9:00] fall 27. I have Director and Legislative Director of Public Affairs, Maria Velos, my

[9:07] right who's already met with some of your staff in my Vice President of Instruction,

[9:12] Erica Mayotoga. So, they're going to be very involved and we plan to come back if necessary

[9:19] what we do plan in spring to give you more of a longer presentation about all the things

[9:25] we're offering with regard to instruction as well as student services and community engagement.

[9:33] So I'll start with our few power points that I wanted to present. And that is the futures

[9:40] built together. And this is a new gateway of opportunity for Qadahee residents and Southeast residents.

[9:48] On the next slide, you'll see that we are going to look at the need of cut of

[9:54] heat. We're going to look at the legacy of ELAC's commitment. We're going to look

[9:59] at our campus that you'll see some more and we have photographs here and

[10:05] pictures of what the campus is going to look like and where it's at now. The

[10:11] opportunities we're going to provide and support in partnership with you and the

[10:16] the invitation called to action for regional partnership.

[10:20] And I'm happy to say that the reason why I took this job at East Los Angeles College,

[10:25] I came as an interim in 24 and permitted in January 26 is because of this.

[10:33] The establishment of a three-story 109,000 square foot building on 18 acres in Southeast Los Angeles.

[10:42] Born and raised in East Los Angeles myself, relatives in Southeast, I'm very aware of the

[10:49] need for education that I've dedicated much of my time and my life and my career toward

[10:55] it as you have as well.

[10:58] The vision for building a stronger next slide is the following.

[11:06] Ten years from now, what will be in vision?

[11:09] more earning college credits, college credentials degrees, returning to college with advancing their careers, transferring to four-year institutions, more residents entering healthcare, public safety, manufacturing, logistics and business careers, which is much of what we're going to be offering, and more, depending on the needs of the citizens, and strong city employer education programs and greater economic,

[11:38] no built mobility throughout Southeast Los Angeles families.

[11:43] Transfer remains a big issue, only 47% of our students persist from year to year.

[11:51] So we are really focusing as a district and I'm colleges on transfer persistence, graduation

[11:59] and completion.

[12:01] Fortunately, I just learned that cutting-e-residents are 54%.

[12:07] So you're doing better than the regular student, but 54 is still not good.

[12:13] It could be better, but you're better than the regular ELAC student at this point.

[12:19] So that's a good thing.

[12:21] You're doing something right in K-12.

[12:24] Going along next slide, Southeast Los Angeles on the move is those cities, Southgate,

[12:32] Cudahee, Bell, El Gardens, Maywood, Clayton Park, Commerce, and Vernon are the cities

[12:37] we're going to be partnering with for Southeast. We know you've got Cerritos on one end and

[12:44] Long Beach City on the further south. And then you have Rio Hondo on the north.

[12:51] But there's

[12:53] there on that side of the West, but there's nothing in the middle serving all these residents.

[13:00] And that's why 30 years ago, East LA College decided to put a center in this area.

[13:07] And now after 30 years, we finally going to put a campus, a full-fledged college campus.

[13:14] That's going to be called East Los Angeles, Southeast campus.

[13:18] who we serve as the next slide, so you'll see that we have an opportunity to expand opportunities to expand our resources to 1500 headcount there.

[13:35] We can have 95% of our students Hispanic Latino, 50% of our students are Spanish as the primary language.

[13:46] And I must say what we found in all our social media, the most impressions, you know what that means, you know how many people actually look and continue opening up the social media apps are in Spanish.

[14:01] They're not in English.

[14:03] So we know we need to have very strong bilingual and what we call language in language.

[14:15] Thank you.

[14:16] I'm glad I brought them.

[14:18] We call it in language programs, meaning we teach our courses in the language of the

[14:24] individuals in this case Spanish and you get credentials in Spanish.

[14:29] We have one now, a certificate for teacher assistance that is entirely in Spanish, but

[14:36] it's a full-fledged certificate degree.

[14:42] Why local access matters? You'll see the data there. Only 7.9% have a degree or higher,

[14:51] 5.8% are employed in the medium income, 61,000. So we want to bring-

[15:00] Foreign college opportunity closer to home. They're cutting for the residents who live and work and raise families here. For higher education for the children, guaranteed, as well as career readiness and jobs. Next slide. So, going on, you'll see that today, career pathways are not always located where the residents live. Students have to travel outside to get these programs.

[15:29] and working adult face transportation scheduling and family barriers.

[15:34] Tomorrow, you'll have a college right next to where they live.

[15:38] You'll have a career training program connected to regional demand and regional employers.

[15:45] Students can move from high school to college to credential to careers.

[15:50] And they can return to education without leaving their communities.

[15:54] Now, we do want to serve in many of our students, our adults.

[15:58] not just K-12. We want to pay attention to jobs, employment, and so we're going to be an

[16:05] engine for you to help train individuals to take lucrative living wage and thriving wage jobs.

[16:14] Going on, next slide. We have a legacy of serving you. I mentioned the 30 years. You start in 1945.

[16:22] But that's when we started opening our first campus at Garfield High School for two years, James A. Garfield High School.

[16:30] Then we moved going on to 94.

[16:33] You'll see we extended our service area to Southeast 97.

[16:37] We opened the Southgate Educational Center, 24 Southgate Educational's closed, made way for a permanent facility.

[16:46] And today we're finishing up the facility.

[16:49] and our future is opening up fall 2027.

[16:54] The building will be done in June of 2027,

[16:58] and we'll start moving in all of our furniture

[17:01] and FF&E furniture and equipment in the summer

[17:07] and get started for the fall.

[17:12] So we are an I mentioned persistence and retention.

[17:16] So next slide, we are one college, one district,

[17:19] one vision.

[17:20] Meaning, we want to pay attention to the 60% that are not persisting and make sure they

[17:26] complete.

[17:27] And as our Chancellor Ramana said, who has visited you before, when he was President

[17:33] of Iraq, get the students to go to the finish line.

[17:38] If they're goalers or certificate, if they're goalers to enter a career, if they're goalers

[17:43] to transfer, that is our job to ensure that they get to the finish line.

[17:48] So access remains very important in terms of their ability to access higher education, retention of the students who are strong counseling, academic support, making sure they complete their certificates and degrees and career CTE pathways, technical education pathways, and they get success all along the way.

[18:12] We're going to a rather interesting transformation.

[18:16] We're one college with two campuses, Monterey Park,

[18:21] serving San Gero, East LA, and parts of Southeast LA,

[18:26] and then our second campus, Southeast campus.

[18:29] But the key of all of that is the fact

[18:32] that we need to pay attention to ensuring

[18:36] that they finish and complete.

[18:38] We have to provide basic needs, support, food, housing, transportation.

[18:47] Now they mentioned before my biography, I've been at President 15 years, but when I started

[18:55] as Vice President and President, we didn't do basic needs.

[18:58] We didn't do food.

[19:00] We didn't do housing.

[19:01] We didn't do any of those kind of things.

[19:03] Now, community colleges are tasked to provide full service wrap-around services case management

[19:11] for our students.

[19:14] So you can imagine that that's what's going to happen with the new campus next slide.

[19:21] The southeast campus, the state-of-the-art college, I've mentioned 105,000 square feet, three

[19:28] stories cost us $85 million investment, built to serve 10,000 students, we're going to have classrooms,

[19:37] library, labs, spaces designed for CTE, career technical and transfer, modern learning environments,

[19:46] latest in the greatest. For instance, our architecture classroom will be fully staffed with the latest

[19:53] This architecture equipment, by the way architecture, is probably one of the best programs at ELAC.

[20:00] All my graduates go on to USC, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal SLO, San Luis Obispo.

[20:10] That's just an example of the quality that we do provide our students and you will be receiving

[20:16] here to Southeast campus.

[20:17] Next slide. Our campus is designed, as I said, economic development engine for

[20:25] Guadahee in Southeast. Not only are we talking about education with dual

[20:31] enrollment, where we provide college classes in high schools and middle schools.

[20:37] Also, we do that. Certificate associate degrees, adult education learning, life-long

[20:43] learning but we're really involved a great deal with employers in workforce development and

[20:51] we're looking at industry-aligned training, short-term credential career pathways,

[20:57] upskilling and re-skilling your current, our current population here in Katahe.

[21:02] And it's about economic mobility. I want to focus on the second bullet which is entrepreneurship

[21:10] and small business.

[21:12] Recently, we just opened the Susan B. Rubio

[21:16] Entrepreneurship Center at ELAC.

[21:19] And this is a center that helps individuals build businesses,

[21:25] that want to start businesses.

[21:26] It's an incubator program.

[21:28] So if they have ideas, we help incubate the program,

[21:32] provide them the training to, you know,

[21:36] to get their businesses started, business planning, business licenses, all of that and then we partner with the cities.

[21:44] We just signed an MOU with Monterey Park, we planned to sign one with Bell that says, you said this five of your residents, we will train them and they'll go back to your city to start a business and your role as the government is to assist them with business development.

[22:01] Now, many of our students want to be entrepreneurs.

[22:07] Immigrants are entrepreneurs.

[22:10] Formerly incarcerated are entrepreneurs.

[22:13] Veterans want to be entrepreneurs.

[22:16] There are so many individuals that would like to give back to the community

[22:20] through their own hard work in business.

[22:23] So this is another program we will be offering in the southeast

[22:27] is incubator program for business development cut-a-heat.

[22:34] So basic result, connect local talent to high school,

[22:39] to college careers, or college education careers.

[22:43] Next slide.

[22:44] So here are some of the programs that they're not exhaustive,

[22:49] but it gives you an example of the breadth

[22:51] of East Los Angeles College southeast,

[22:54] and what we plan to offer.

[22:55] and we're open to communication from your residents and new city council members to ideas you may have because we are partnering with nonprofits.

[23:07] We are partnering with many of your community organizations. We are partnering with your employers about what do they see as important areas for us to explore.

[23:18] health care is huge. L.A. County of course is that's a huge driver of employment, but actually in Southeast it's even a higher demand for health care. The rest of L.A. County we've discovered is in our in our research and data.

[23:36] You know, child development and education remains very important.

[23:41] We have a great program, and actually we run the statewide program for all the nine campuses.

[23:47] The funding comes from the state to ELAC, and we distribute the funds to the other eight campuses.

[23:54] Kinesiology and sports medicine is very popular with our students, particularly physical therapy, occupational therapy,

[24:02] and wellness is our huge drivers of young people.

[24:08] We have a very strong addiction and community health program.

[24:12] One of the alley county has guaranteed jobs to our substance abuse counselors.

[24:20] So many of our students, particularly formerly incarcerated,

[24:24] they go into that arena.

[24:25] And they immediately finish with a credential.

[24:28] They get hired both time with benefits.

[24:32] Manufacturing Transportation Logistic is huge in the Southeast, growing, and we want to tap into our work, particularly with logistics and manufacturing.

[24:45] Our social science remains very strong. Many of our people want to be social workers, want to move on to those areas, and so it's a very strong program.

[24:55] pathway to law program is another example of future lawyers or future individuals who want to go into the law profession.

[25:03] Information, Communication, Tech, Business Entrepreneurship. I talked about career and continued education for ESL, high school equivalency.

[25:13] We want to provide high school diplomas, high school equivalency, and English is a second language.

[25:20] which now there's something in there with a dot called CPL in that box.

[25:26] That's sense for credit for prior learning.

[25:29] Guess what?

[25:30] We're going to give credit for individuals who worked on jobs,

[25:33] who had other experiences, we'll give them college credit up front.

[25:38] We've been approved by the State of California to do that.

[25:41] We're one of the first colleges that have really launched this effort.

[25:46] What that means is someone can come who's been a plumber or someone who's come has been a landscaper

[25:53] and we can give them 30 units of credit. All they need is 30 more units for a degree.

[25:59] These are the kind of things we'd like to do to elect innovative and supportive programs.

[26:08] And I wanted to mention that what's exciting about this and I'm glad I have the Vice President

[26:13] of Instruction here in Maria Belos and Legislative Public Affairs, is our faculty want to try new

[26:20] things in Southeast. They wanted to be an innovative hub so that we might try some new

[26:28] things that we are not doing in Monterey Park. So they see this as an opportunity to kind

[26:35] of grow some new ideas, particularly also in student services, making it easier for people

[26:43] to on board to get their financial aid and all of that.

[26:49] And recently, we are in a sloi workforce pal.

[26:54] The government passed workforce pal.

[26:56] What does that mean?

[26:57] That means you can get financial aid for short term workforce

[27:02] completion.

[27:04] That's amazing because pal has always been for, you know,

[27:09] the transfer student and someone who's going to go on for a

[27:11] baccalaureate, but not for workforce.

[27:14] Finally, we have that possibility.

[27:17] So we're going to implement that for Southeast.

[27:19] Then AJ, you should know that Elacomodering Park

[27:24] has the largest public safety program for sheriffs

[27:28] in the county.

[27:30] The other sheriff academy is at Santa Clara?

[27:37] No.

[27:37] I can't think of my partner in college right now, but they're up there in the Santa

[27:45] Cladita area, right?

[27:47] So we train 5,000 sheriffs and we provide them college credit and they get promoted

[27:57] and so forth.

[27:58] We're now discussing this with probation.

[28:00] Well guess what?

[28:01] They would like to have a center at the Southeast campus.

[28:05] So, we may entertain that where individuals can go into public safety and I know Karahi and the other cities would like their own people to be public safety coming out of their communities.

[28:19] So, we would be open to continuing that effort and finally our paralegal.

[28:25] Next slide and I'm almost done now. I'm sorry for being so long-winded.

[28:29] So,

[28:33] we want to ally what we call the Southeast Los Angeles Talent Pipeline together.

[28:39] We're building this with you, cities and government.

[28:42] We're building this with community organization, our K-12 partners that we already have with

[28:48] LA Unified.

[28:49] We've been doing a lot of work with LA Unified in your area and employers and with that we

[28:56] We can create this pipeline together to address the needs of cut-a-he and the southeastern

[29:02] cities.

[29:03] Finally, the last slide.

[29:07] It's a regional opportunity, a shared future, as I started, a campus built together.

[29:13] We need to connect with you, your employers, your schools, your government.

[29:19] We need to champion the residents to discover and access these opportunities.

[29:24] partner with workforce. We need to invest with you with our programs, our scholarships and celebrate joining and launching a transformational new campus.

[29:37] We are having our 80th year Gala September 26. You're all invited. It'll be in the Hilton Arcadia, but the beauty of the 80th year is we've come a long way.

[29:53] We've been through a lot, but we still remain a legacy campus, an icon of...

[30:02] We want to continue another 80 years of advocacy for our people because they deserve and they desire a living wage, a higher education, and a future for their family. So I want to thank you for this opportunity to talk to you. Any questions? Yes, thank you so much for such a great presentation. Truly motivational, inspiring, and I'm sure.

[30:30] My fellow council members are making all the connections so I'm going to open up the floor for them. Council member, I can tell us on.

[30:39] Yes, no, thank you very, very exciting. Obviously heard about this project many months ago and sort of wondered like when it would actually come to fruition.

[30:48] So hearing the nearby date is really exciting.

[30:50] And I think that when you were speaking, you mentioned a few things that were in particular

[30:56] like stood out to me.

[30:58] One of those is retention.

[30:59] I know so many of my colleagues in high school, a ton of us went off to college, but not

[31:07] a lot stayed.

[31:08] And so hearing that retention is a really key component of the work here that transfer rates

[31:14] are really important as well in the work that we're going to be doing here is just really

[31:19] exciting and I think like touches on the polls about where we need in this community. Thank you.

[31:26] Council member Gomez. Thank you so much for your work. I also recall I was in high school and we were

[31:32] in legacy arts in Southgate and we were receiving E-Lock courses on campus and they're like there's

[31:41] going to be a campus in Southgate soon so it's super exciting to hear this today. Thank you.

[31:48] Thank you so much. First of all, thank you for being here and making these presentations

[31:52] so that we stay informed on the progress. And thank you for your work to fill these very

[31:58] much needed gaps in our community. Not just educational, but just to hear about the basic

[32:02] needs effort is life changing for our students, who especially during these times are struggling.

[32:10] So there's a lot of alignment that I heard in your presentation to the work that we've been

[32:14] doing in our city and things like our scholarships that we've offered to students pursuing higher

[32:19] education or a trade but also in an effort that the mayor has led that we've supported which is

[32:25] the stela sendoff where we're really thinking about not just how to get students to college but

[32:31] through college I think that's an effort that we also want to support and then we also have our

[32:37] co re collaborative that maybe the mayor will speak on more but essentially it's an effort to really

[32:42] join forces and connect and collaborate to serve the needs of families or students and so we have also invited our K through 12 partners and nonprofits and if you all haven't been invited you are invited because it really is a thorough conversation about establishing goals right looking at the needs and filling the gaps and a lot of what you mentioned today, so thank you so much for that.

[33:07] But I love hearing also about the talent pipeline, and that reminds me of a conversation

[33:13] or another presentation, actually, with from the Selah Cultural Center about the intention

[33:19] to really highlight the talent that already exists in our communities.

[33:24] And so, just really want to uplift that.

[33:26] And I'm thinking of, like, with that big initiative, this, and just all of the work that we're

[33:31] doing could really, really align. I would love to support the MOU as other cities are doing.

[33:40] Would love to explore that but yeah, I would love to collaborate. I know we've had conversations

[33:45] in the past and it's been really great to have y'all support and look forward to continuing that.

[33:51] Thank you. I'm so glad that I have an Erica and Maria here. They're also taking notes because I

[33:56] invited them because I want to capture this and move on.

[33:59] Those are areas you've indicated.

[34:00] All of you perfect.

[34:02] Thank you.

[34:02] I mean, definitely touched on it already.

[34:04] I think Maria, we already sent you the invitation to the

[34:07] collab.

[34:08] I think after we met, I sent an email.

[34:10] They concluded the collaborative.

[34:12] So thank you, Vice Mayor, for bringing it up because yes,

[34:14] we have started a collaborative of all of our nonprofit partners.

[34:19] And so if you say you're opening in before, that means that right now,

[34:23] we need to start working with our local high school to start developing a plan now for recruiting

[34:28] those students and we do have pathways here at the learning center so finding out how we

[34:34] connect those pathways like we could through our collaborative start getting some of that off the

[34:39] ground so when the campus opens we already have students that are set to go including the retention

[34:46] work because we just got 233 students from Southeast coaches. From the time they fully like go

[34:54] through college for the four to five years in college for free through scholar match. So we're

[34:59] partnered with a nonprofit where we've onboarded all those students to have mentors for their entire

[35:04] time while they're in college. And so that's another place where we come partner to make sure that we

[35:10] bring and close those gaps for students. I think really like excited because when I was

[35:16] with Matt with my yeah we were discussing like what industry we could bring and one of the

[35:21] biggest issues as you know like the history of our communities is the fact that our land is

[35:26] really difficult to build on to be able to attract an industry because first it needs to be

[35:31] clean. I'm sure you guys experienced this the land right and it's millions of millions of dollars more

[35:38] so when you have a low-income community like Kadeh as compared to all our surrounding Selah cities

[35:43] We don't have the money to clean up our land, to bring a developer to build an industry.

[35:49] And so I think that's a place where we can advocate with each other with our county

[35:54] and state representatives to say, how do we support this region?

[35:59] So we don't lose out on the opportunity to build industry.

[36:03] And I think working with you all, as we start thinking about development in our city, how

[36:08] we get funding to clean up our land so that we can build the industry.

[36:12] We should really start thinking about bringing in developers and industry that are aligned to the the college so that we can build the pipeline like if it's done all thoughtfully together and we could create a plan together like this is the idea of the type of industry. This is what we'd want to try to cut it. This is the funding with me to clean up the land to make this happen long term.

[36:33] I'm thinking big.

[36:39] Yeah, I mean, I think all opportunity opportunity and alignment and how we help each other to succeed and then how we set data goals on what we want to see improve and then track.

[36:52] Like our progress and those improvements. I'm like so excited about like all the possibility and what that means for our community.

[37:00] but also know that it poses a social justice challenge to make sure that these

[37:06] opportunities don't fall to the wayside if we don't have what we need to take

[37:11] full advantage of them and I think as we collaborate it also has to be a

[37:16] collaboration around advocacy and like justice really on like look we have this

[37:21] amazing campus that we've invested so much on but we also need our cities to

[37:26] to receive funding and support to be able to meet

[37:29] what we're trying to bring to the region.

[37:32] And without us doing it together, it might not happen.

[37:34] So yeah, I'm really excited about the work.

[37:38] Thank you so much for your presentation.

[37:40] I was already texting people like, oh my god,

[37:42] look who's presenting.

[37:44] Well, we can get started now in a variety of these areas.

[37:47] We will follow up with you.

[37:49] And not only myself, but my folks will meet with you in teams.

[37:54] We plan to have a huge opening in February, March for the community and festival and food

[38:01] and music, but mostly just getting people excited so we can plan with you on that.

[38:07] And then we'll follow up with much of this.

[38:09] I'm really excited.

[38:10] This is great, great partnership, time overdue and yes, we learned a lot about toxic ground

[38:18] and it took us a while to clean it up.

[38:20] So, fortunately, we had the money to do it through the taxpayer's bond program that we had,

[38:26] so we know about it. But now we're ready to go. We're ready to rock and roll.

[38:31] And we want to be partners in that process as well. Maybe we can come down to take a quick picture.

[38:37] Yeah. Oh great. Let's do that.

[38:40] Thank

[41:35] you. Moving on to our next presentation, a financial update, or fiscal year 2526 third quarter.

[41:42] All

[41:59] right. Good evening Honorable Mayor and City Council, Chuck Ortiz with the Finance Department.

[42:05] I hear to present an update for your review of the fiscal year 2526, the third quarter,

[42:13] which would have ended on March the 31st. And I preface this by saying we really meant to

[42:21] present this to you earlier with our new Finance Director. He came into a storm of

[42:28] And we were working on the budget for a good period of time as you're well aware.

[42:33] Shifting gears been working on year and and he has brought a number of initiatives.

[42:39] We're looking at a number of areas so slightly overdue.

[42:45] But we do want to give the council update on our financial position on a regular basis.

[42:51] So moving forward we will provide quarterly updates and we will promise to be timely.

[42:58] So if I can move to the next slide, please.

[43:02] All right, a brief background.

[43:04] This review will be of the third quarter.

[43:08] And as such, we'd anticipate that our budget and our actuals would be at 75%.

[43:16] Assuming everything is straight line, the actuals are through March 31st.

[43:23] Not all revenues are received consistently.

[43:26] One of our largest revenue sources is the motor vehicle license.

[43:31] And that comes to us.

[43:32] We received that one in January and May.

[43:34] So it's skews things quite somewhat because of the timing.

[43:40] Also our sales tax is always two months behind.

[43:43] And so in the financial world, we always accrue our receipts.

[43:49] Even though we receive our sales tax as an example in July and August, it represents

[43:54] May and June, so we will record that.

[43:57] And so sometimes there are some variances.

[43:59] Additionally, some expenses are not necessarily paid annually.

[44:02] We might have insurances that are paid up front or a variety of things.

[44:07] Last year, we had CalPERS payments that were paid in July, so sometimes the timing is a

[44:12] bit different.

[44:13] If I can move to the next slide, please.

[44:16] All right, as of March 31st, revenues were at $10.2 million, and this was 5.4% below year-to-date

[44:27] budget. This is consistent with prior years, as I mentioned, sometimes the revenues aren't always

[44:34] straight line. Our expenditures through March 31st were $11.9 million, which was additionally a

[44:43] slightly below budget, 2.3% below budget, which, if you factor in these two items, puts us below

[44:51] our anticipated numbers by $1.7 million. The revenues were under budget by $586,000.

[45:00] That is based on a straight line. Tax and grant revenues are typically lagging, as I had mentioned.

[45:06] Expenditures were a little bit lower. This does, as you're well aware, this does include the cost of the land purchased and the demolition, which were unanticipated at the time, and so they were recorded for our books. You would move to the next slide? All right. This slide shows general fund revenues.

[45:29] And as pointed out, intergovernmental, which is the motor vehicle in lieu, as well as our taxes, which are primarily sales tax and property tax, those make up the lion share of the city's revenue.

[45:41] So money comes to us on a regular basis, on a monthly basis.

[45:45] So those make up the majority.

[45:47] One of the point out there is a section called other and other includes operating transfers.

[45:56] We typically do not budget for operating transfers, reimbursements, miscellaneous revenue,

[46:02] et cetera.

[46:02] It's difficult to anticipate what we're going to get in advance.

[46:06] So sometimes things are a little bit out of line included in the other is the operating

[46:12] transfer for the demolition and the property acquisition.

[46:17] You can move to the next slide, please.

[46:21] All right, in the general fund, there are a handful or there are six, they're handful.

[46:28] Departments that are over budget and our criteria was over budget by 10% or more.

[46:34] And that is through March 31st.

[46:36] And so we had a couple of items for the city manager.

[46:40] we did have the previous city manager was had a payout of vacation time, had some payout

[46:48] that was involved, so that put us slightly over budget.

[46:51] Human resources, as it mentioned, we pay a CalPERS liability in July, so that skews things

[46:57] a little bit, business license, as you can see, we have personnel allocation changes, and

[47:03] And we did move some staffing costs.

[47:07] And so for the next two of them, for example, we do have some personal allocation changes.

[47:16] And so we'd anticipated to spend so much money on the people in these departments, but

[47:20] then throughout the year we made some changes.

[47:23] And so there are some variances, you'll see $11,000 and $9,000.

[47:27] In engineering, the increased cost for contractual during fiscal 25-26, we did experience a

[47:37] supplier that anticipated cost for our engineering services as we outsourced a number of these

[47:43] items. And, quote-unforced, but once again, had some personal allocation changes. Previously, we've

[47:49] been charging a large portion to CDBG and then during the fiscal year we had

[47:57] reallocated some funds so there was a variance in code enforcement. So each of

[48:02] these has been identified and the percentage of budget variances has been listed.

[48:08] You would move to the next.

[48:12] All right, for all funds, general fund

[48:15] expenditures he's looking at our expenditures of course in fiscal twenty four

[48:20] twenty five were eleven million dollars eleven million two at the same

[48:25] period March thirty first of fiscal twenty twenty six twenty five twenty six

[48:31] were slightly higher and so compared year over year there were increases

[48:36] special revenue funds this one but it bring to your attention with the capital

[48:43] improvement projects that we have had. You've seen construction throughout the city.

[48:48] It's a wonderful thing, but as you can see, the costs have gone up significantly.

[48:53] Many of the projects started in fiscal 2425, but then the majority were completed

[48:59] while through March 31st. As you can see, we're still ongoing with a number of projects.

[49:04] Things are improving, but as the numbers reflect, there have been some large changes.

[49:09] So the total for all funds through March 31st last or the prior year was 14 million, 14.4 million dollars, but

[49:18] be primarily because of the special revenue funds at this point March 31st of 2026, we're at 22 million dollars.

[49:27] So the numbers have gone up as I identified here there are variances and variance percentages.

[49:36] The lion's share is the special revenue fund expenditures that we have spent.

[49:42] Luckily, we've had a number of grants that have funded or assisted with the capital improvement projects,

[49:48] and it is benefiting the city, but it does show that we have spent a lot more in this fiscal year.

[49:56] If you move to the next slide, please.

[49:58] All right.

[49:59] Right,

[50:01] comparing the two years at the third quarter, the general fund expenditures having

[50:07] increased from 11.2 to 11.9 as we've spoken of earlier, there have been some reallocation

[50:16] of personnel expenses.

[50:18] There was an exercise where we had previously charged a number of special revenue funds.

[50:25] previous administration thought it was best to charge some of the different areas throughout

[50:30] fiscal 26. We reeled in some of those personnel allocations. And so you do see some variants

[50:36] there, but the shift as identified here reflects an effort to more accurately align the program

[50:45] specific personnel costs. What that means is the engineering department, we're going to charge

[50:52] the engineering department and the finance department will charge finance as opposed to spreading

[50:57] our costs all over in different areas. What that does for the general fund it does increase some

[51:03] of our costs but I think in the long run it more accurately or paint a better picture of where our

[51:08] costs are. You would mind go to the next screen identifying the special revenue funds.

[51:16] They have unique revenue sources and we are required to keep these separated from the general funds so they include grants, primarily grants that are on our special revenue funds.

[51:31] They have strategic goals, do it expanded funding and promoting fiscal resilience for our special revenue funds.

[51:42] They do offer a services, we receive props and measures that can be used only for specific purposes.

[51:50] We have grant funds that have restrictions on them, so these ones, we make a concerted effort not to coming to any of the funds.

[51:58] We do benefit the city, but they all have their own specific purpose.

[52:04] You would move to the next slide please.

[52:07] All right, the special revenue funds have been identified here.

[52:10] The first column is a budget and the second column is the actual that has been spent through March 31st.

[52:18] There you go, move the words.

[52:23] So that we have the bottom line, if I can cut to the chase, $26 million was budgeted.

[52:32] There are still as March 31st, we had spent $11 million.

[52:37] So of the special revenue, which are primarily the capital projects, there are still ongoing as you can see in our park, many of our parks, there are still ongoing services and you know a number of these projects, sometimes they take a little time to process one item if I can bring to your attention in our community project funding fund, fund 230 we had a deposit that was put in for $20,000.

[53:05] $1,000. They said, okay, we'll make the deposit here. It'll be offset by expenditures. Well,

[53:13] those have not materialized yet, so that's why you have a negative expenditure that always catches

[53:18] the eye. Many of the other items are in line or on track for us to move forward with the various

[53:27] projects. We're making very concerted effort to stay on top of these projects to stay as

[53:32] basically sound as possible. You can move to the next slide please.

[53:40] All right. I

[53:41] know this is a high-level review.

[53:46] We do want to make sure that our general fund,

[53:50] which is our primary fund, is in good health. That is where we pay for our salaries,

[53:55] we pay for our insurance, we pay for et cetera, et cetera. I know the capital

[54:00] improvement projects are one-time items that are done but really want to look at these

[54:08] different areas on the CIP updates, I'm glad you're able to move the words over. We do have

[54:14] a lot of activity that is ongoing. As you can see and as you're sure you're well aware, we do

[54:19] have a number of projects that are ongoing. Many have funding secured. There are some projects that

[54:26] But still looking for some additional grants to help us finish out some of these projects,

[54:31] but the majority of them are fully funded, as you could see.

[54:37] I did not have information on the top two, so I left that part blank at this time.

[54:45] That is the Atlantic and the Cateché LA River, but we'll get that information to you shortly.

[54:51] but for these CIP updates, I know the Public Works Department had been providing you with

[54:58] updates previously, but the Finance Department wants to provide you with information so you

[55:04] can be abreast so you can know what's happening in the city and see our finances.

[55:10] If you will, to the next slide.

[55:18] All right, at this point I'd like to answer any questions

[55:21] you may have. Thank you, Council Member of Canteralsen.

[55:26] Yes, thank you. Thank you for the presentation. First of all, I wanted to get some clarification

[55:33] on a couple of items. One of them is personal allocation changes, and there were a few departments

[55:41] that were listed as stopping the issue, including engineering, was a larger percentage.

[55:46] is, and I'm trying to understand with that, like how that impacts the budget, is it the

[55:52] case that we were charging the, and why I just declared my previous administration was

[55:58] charging their special revenue dollars?

[56:02] Correct.

[56:02] Okay.

[56:03] Okay.

[56:04] First specific departments, and that's why we're now having to sort of refer.

[56:09] Yes, for my position, I was charged to a variety of departments because in my, in my

[56:16] duties. I service a number of different areas in general ledger etc.

[56:22] Within fiscal 2026 there's been an effort to focus our

[56:27] our charges where we reside. So engineering should be an engineering planning and planning

[56:33] finance and finance. Correct way. The move to reel that in.

[56:39] What that does is that puts more money into the general fund but I think it more accurately reflects

[56:44] are our position?

[56:46] Right.

[56:46] Thank you.

[56:47] I also just want to say, like, I appreciate the presentation.

[56:50] I know it's not a nice presentation, it's not I want to see, but I also recognize that

[56:56] there were a few significant large issues that came up that were not really out of, like,

[57:01] they were out of the City Council's control.

[57:03] The demolition was a serious safety concern, it's almost walking by, and then of course

[57:08] the land purchase situation which again was not expected and then the last or the second

[57:16] question that I have is around the I know it's only $20,000 but in terms of what we're

[57:22] trying to allocate those dollars right so do we know why they haven't materialized what

[57:28] the duty on that looks like if there's any sort of like we must get it by this day or else

[57:35] We shouldn't count on those 20K.

[57:39] The $20,000 was a deposit that was given to us.

[57:43] And so it was put into this fund because it related to that project.

[57:49] That was for the senior housing project.

[57:52] At this point, we may move that deposit to another location,

[57:57] just so it doesn't stand out as a negative expenditure.

[58:00] But I'm not sure in terms of the time frame,

[58:03] when we need to complete these expenditures and you're absolutely right to make sure we're in compliance.

[58:10] Right, so I think we should follow up on that and find out what that looks like.

[58:14] And then the other question that I had, it's a broader, and I know that I asked it of the previous administration as well, but just like on the theory of how we come to certain number, like projections.

[58:28] So, for example, the community benefits agreement, like allocation, right?

[58:35] At some point we were expecting significant amount, the previous two city councils that

[58:40] go, I want to say, or maybe even three, had decided, like, this is how much funding we

[58:45] should expect, and that never became true.

[58:50] And we've obviously adjusted to make plagues more like reasonable, but even then, like,

[58:56] like those numbers that were set to folks back in 2017, 2018, I've never come to fruition.

[59:04] So I guess, like, what is our theory around like those projections?

[59:08] How are we looking at projections like those community benefits agreement dollars?

[59:13] Like other pockets of money that are, we should expect some dollars, but not to the degree

[59:19] that we saw.

[59:19] Right.

[59:20] Well, I will say during the budget process as an example, tried to stay very at the direction

[59:25] the city manager and finance director tried to stay very conservative on our revenue projections.

[59:32] The idea of being it's better to come back with good news as opposed to come back

[59:36] bad news. The community benefit, as an example with our cannabis I know in the past we've had

[59:44] trouble being aggressive with our revenue projections. We've tried to be very conservative

[59:51] with our revenue projections for our cannabis operators.

[59:55] With all of our revenues, we've looked at our expenditures,

[59:58] or I'm sorry, our action.

[1:00:05] And then, if there is more information, by all means, otherwise using that baseline, that's

[1:00:11] what we've been receiving. And so, we've tried to be conservative in that regard, so that

[1:00:16] we're not saying that we're going to bring in a million dollars, and then we only bring

[1:00:20] in a lesser amount, and then that doesn't help anyone. So, we've tried, we've turned the

[1:00:26] corner of that regard.

[1:00:27] And then last question, sorry, is specifically around the cannabis dollars.

[1:00:32] So again, there were these huge numbers, a few city councils ago, and then the reality

[1:00:38] was here.

[1:00:39] And then the reality is that with the economy, it may be in the low and now.

[1:00:44] So how, like, how low are we going to go with projections specifically for cannabis in

[1:00:50] the future, considering like the realities that were already existing under, and then of

[1:00:55] of course the economy not looking great.

[1:00:58] Yeah, as I mentioned, we have based things

[1:01:00] on our actual numbers, as a matter of fact,

[1:01:03] we do have a new cannabis operator off the charts

[1:01:07] and we were very conservative in that regard

[1:01:09] because they're a new operator

[1:01:11] and they promised or they forecast

[1:01:13] that they were gonna bring in large sums of money

[1:01:16] and we said, you know, let's not get caught in that trap again.

[1:01:25] We have planned accordingly, planned very conservatively with the philosophy that it's better to bring back good news and bring back bad news.

[1:01:37] Unfortunately, some of these items are inheritance that have happened from the past but we have turned the corner and are definitely looking to be conservative in these areas.

[1:01:48] Okay, perfect. Thank you. Councilmember Gomez. Thank you. Vice Mayor LaMille. No questions, just

[1:01:58] the comment to say thank you for for this word because I am happy to hear that we're taking turns

[1:02:07] and living in what's actual and not what is promised. I think that's really really important and that we're

[1:02:12] staying conservative, agree with with the way that we're moving forward and it's not the best news,

[1:02:18] right? It is inherited but a lot that we'll be forward in a way that is what we actually have.

[1:02:26] Thank you. Thank you so much. Yes, thank you for the presentation. I think more than just the

[1:02:33] question on this specific presentation is thinking ahead in the future in terms of

[1:02:39] future planning and I guess thinking through how we do that together as a collective.

[1:02:46] I definitely think I know in the past we've had Saturday session where we came in and thought through some of those things. I know it's probably connected to a larger strategic plan.

[1:02:57] But definitely would like to see our budget in a way where it's not just presented and we have to decide, okay, yes, that works.

[1:03:04] But mostly really talking about what does our city need, what is missing in our city and then now let's look at our budget and see what we have allocated where and whether we need certain things or not, whether those things are producing outcomes or not, do we use it for other areas where residents are saying that there's greater need.

[1:03:23] I know safety's a big one. What are we funding around safety and how are we addressing it?

[1:03:29] So like I would want like these conversations that updates are great and then also to start thinking as a team

[1:03:35] What are those conversations that get set up for us so that we can start thinking next because this budget

[1:03:41] We're already living in the current one and so I hope that we start now so that by the time we get to the next year

[1:03:48] If I'm still here we can

[1:03:50] If I'm sitting here, we can like engage in those fruitful conversations and keep building.

[1:03:55] But thank you so much for your presentation.

[1:03:57] Thank you so much.

[1:04:01] When?

[1:04:02] Give me a date.

[1:04:03] Moving on to public comment.

[1:04:08] As mayor, I will call on our first speaker, David Rodriguez.

[1:04:19] Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, council members, city manager, city clerk, everybody here.

[1:04:25] I'm basically here for primarily to recognize two individuals but there are some other issues I wanted to develop.

[1:04:33] The first individual I actually want to recognize is the code enforcement officer Marcus Black.

[1:04:42] On Tuesday, August 18th, I actually went to the bus stop that's at 43-11 Santa Ana Street to catch the bus

[1:04:51] And this was about 15 p.m. when the taco stand was already set up and everybody was coming and they were parking in front of the bus stop.

[1:05:01] And they were also parking on the right turn lane. And I was telling these individuals that were parking there that they were parking in front of the bus stop.

[1:05:09] But what did they do? They mocked me. They walked away from me. They even gave me the finger.

[1:05:15] Fortunately, Marcus Black showed up out of the blue and he got to ticket a good four individuals.

[1:05:21] One of them tried to get himself out of his ticket by showing that he was an off-duty Los Angeles police department officer.

[1:05:31] I am very, very pro police but what this officer did was very, very wrong.

[1:05:37] And Marcus Black did not take anything, he gave him his ticket, he said he earned

[1:05:43] your ticket, you broke the law. He's a person who is a letter of the law, just as I am,

[1:05:49] a person that's a letter of the law. So if anybody can give Marcus whatever double his salary,

[1:05:56] triple his vacation, you know, just can't, right, I'd really appreciate that. The next individual I'd

[1:06:04] like to recognize is actually one of the 17-year-old

[1:06:08] who works out, who boxes for a cut-and-a-hate boxing.

[1:06:13] And he told me that he was going to go to a boxing

[1:06:16] terminal on August 24th, and I was like,

[1:06:18] that's a school day, you're going to miss school.

[1:06:20] And he was all yes, and what ended up happening

[1:06:24] was it ended up being the International Police Activities

[1:06:28] League boxing tournament, which is also recognized

[1:06:31] by the National Police Activities League, and it was held in the city of Oxnard by Oxnard's

[1:06:38] Police Activities League.

[1:06:40] Well, this young gentleman, Carlos Hernandez won on Monday, then he won on Tuesday, then

[1:06:48] he won on Wednesday, then he won on Thursday, and then on Saturday, he won the championship

[1:06:57] in his weight class.

[1:06:59] Okay, so he is from our boxing program, and although he's 17 years old, he hits like he's 27.

[1:07:09] I basically wanted to make sure, I won't get a chance to talk about the other issues,

[1:07:13] I'll talk about them on a different issue, but I wanted to make sure these two individuals

[1:07:17] received their recognition. Thank you very much.

[1:07:26] Thank you.

[1:07:33] Our next speaker,

[1:07:42] So I want to hit on the presentation that was done for this, I don't know what to call it, this cheap ass looking community college. I'm not happy. So they did this presentation last year for my city council here in Southgate.

[1:07:56] The thing that I'm not happy about is and what they omitted from the presentation was the actual campus itself.

[1:08:05] I saw the boards there and so they had a bunch of slides that showed the depiction of what the finished product of the campus is going to look like.

[1:08:17] And here's the thing that bumps me out.

[1:08:20] You know, this is the one community college that we're going to have in our neck of the woods.

[1:08:23] and what are they hand in? They turn in this lame turn of a campus. I mean you

[1:08:31] want to see what a good community college looks like. You go to the one that

[1:08:35] they have in Monterey Park. You go to the original East Los Angeles Community

[1:08:40] College in Monterey Park. That's a good looking campus. The one that we're getting

[1:08:44] here in my city, that's gonna be on Firestone, it's mostly concrete. It's mostly

[1:08:51] cement. And they put a bunch of palm trees there. I'm not a fan of palm trees. Palm trees

[1:08:56] are basically just overgrown plants. They're not real trees. They have no canopy. They provide no

[1:09:03] shade. Shade. They don't have limbs that fan out and shed leaves. Those, that's a proper tree.

[1:09:10] A palm tree is a joke. It's just a plant. But the campus, you look at the back of it, it's all

[1:09:17] concrete submit. I was envisioning a green oasis, you know, like, like, like, like, like something

[1:09:24] that's picturesque and pastoral, and they hand in this crap. I mean, what is it? And in the

[1:09:31] buildings of the, of the campus of the, of the facility, forgettable. There's no green architecture,

[1:09:39] there's no great landscape architecture, there's no green nothing. I pray to God that the curriculum

[1:09:46] is excellent and that, you know, what's happening inside the facility is top tier high quality, but the campus itself is shit.

[1:09:56] I mean, I want to email you the slides that are shitty clerk sent to me of the design of the campus looks like.

[1:10:05] And then you folks, the council members, you decide for yourself whether or not we're getting a great looking facility because this is garbage.

[1:10:13] This is my soda. This is what mediocrity looks like. We deserve better than this. And why did they set the bar so low?

[1:10:23] Why did they settle for mediocrity? I mean, I wanted greatness and here we get a mediocrity. I can't come up with another word to describe the shit that they're handing in.

[1:10:36] And I'm just so disappointed with that campus and what it's going to look like.

[1:10:40] I'm going to go just to see it.

[1:10:43] What does disaster looks like?

[1:10:45] All in with that.

[1:10:48] Thank you.

[1:10:50] Mayor, that concludes our public comments.

[1:10:54] Thank you.

[1:10:56] We will now move on to closed session.

[1:11:01] CD attorney.

[1:11:02] Can you read us into a closed session?

[1:11:04] The

[1:11:14] City Council will now go into closed session pursuant to government code section 549-57.6a, conference with labor negotiator regarding represented employees.

[1:11:24] The City's designated representative for negotiations is City Manager Christopher Lopez, the employee organization is the Cudahame Miscellaneous Employees Association.

[1:20:57] We are calling the meeting back in order at 7.52 p.m. City Attorney, can you read us back in?

[1:21:08] The city council went into closed session, pursuant to government code section 5 4 9 5 7.6 a conference with labor negotiator regarding represented employees. The city's designated representative for negotiations with city manager Christopher Lopez at the employee organization was the kind of a miscellaneous employees association. All four council members were present for this item. Direction was given no further report.

[1:21:30] action. Thank you. Moving on to City Council comment. Is there any comment from City Council?

[1:21:38] Seeing that there is none. Moving on to item 9. City Manager report. City Manager,

[1:21:43] do you have anything to report?

[1:21:48] Nothing's right here. Thank you. Thank you.

[1:21:51] Seeing item 10 reports regarding ad hoc advisory standing or other committee meetings.

[1:21:57] Seeing that there are no more items, we move on to item 11, waiver full reading, resolutions

[1:22:04] and ordinances.

[1:22:05] Is there a motion?

[1:22:06] A motion to approve?

[1:22:07] Is there a second?

[1:22:08] Second.

[1:22:09] All in favor, say aye.

[1:22:10] Aye.

[1:22:11] That's a unanimous vote, moving on to item 12, the consent calendar.

[1:22:16] Is there any item that anyone from council would like to pool from the consent calendar?

[1:22:23] Seeing that the no would someone like to make a motion to approve the consent calendar?

[1:22:28] Move.

[1:22:29] All second.

[1:22:30] All in favor say aye.

[1:22:32] Aye.

[1:22:33] All right.

[1:22:34] We've got a unanimous motion that's approved.

[1:22:37] Moving on to item 13, public hearing, seeing that there is none.

[1:22:42] We are moving on to item 14, the business section, starting with the item A, adopt resolution

[1:22:49] number 2639, establishing a recreation program fee study policy that's presented by the community

[1:22:57] service's director.

[1:23:23] Good evening everyone. Tonight I'm going to be presenting the recreation fee subsidy policy.

[1:23:28] This has come before council as a discussion item and now is coming for approval. So the last time was just discussion

[1:23:35] this time it is approval of the policy itself. The fees for recreation did go into effect September or August 15.

[1:23:42] However, we had already opened up registration for sulfur so the fees were already in place. This will apply to new fees

[1:23:48] which is starting for FIQA.

[1:23:52] A little bit of background.

[1:23:53] We're doing 10 plus years of updates to our fees.

[1:23:57] The fees were approved in 2026.

[1:24:00] So this year, we've got the new updated fees.

[1:24:02] Council expressed the desire to look into a policy

[1:24:06] for subsidizing the recreational fees for the youth.

[1:24:10] Tonight, we bring forward a proposed policy with the components,

[1:24:13] which we're going to go into detail.

[1:24:15] The three components are the residents subsidy

[1:24:17] So residents would qualify for a 50% subsidy volunteer incentive program where season long

[1:24:25] commitments such as volunteer coaches, refs, or instructors would qualify to get their

[1:24:31] fee waived.

[1:24:32] And then a household discount, this one is a request of the Council for siblings.

[1:24:37] To be inclusive we made it a household, there might be fosters sibling, there might be adoptive

[1:24:42] sibling, so it's all under the same household.

[1:24:45] So the first one is the Recreation New Subcity for Residents.

[1:24:50] Qualifying Residents and there is an Application Attach for Residents have to provide approval

[1:24:55] pauses and this could be a light bill, school bill, any kind of documentation.

[1:24:59] Would pay 50% of the fee, securely the adopted fee for programming and sports is $90.

[1:25:05] It would be $45 to residents city would subsidize the other 45 and non-residents would pay the 90.

[1:25:10] For the volunteer incentive program, there's eligible roles, particularly in connection

[1:25:18] with the program itself, so head coaches and assistant coaches, volunteer instructors

[1:25:23] that we never did recreational classes and also volunteer referees.

[1:25:28] This is a season-long commitment, not just necessarily a one-time commitment, so the entire

[1:25:33] season, they would get the waiver for one eligible participant.

[1:25:37] So in a parent decides to coach two team and would cover their two eligible participants.

[1:25:43] And these are just assigned roles for the program itself, so not necessarily any of the

[1:25:47] cleanups or any other volunteer opportunities.

[1:25:51] The household registration discount would allow a discount for any additional participants

[1:25:56] up to the third participant.

[1:25:58] So one participant, no discount.

[1:26:00] Two participants.

[1:26:02] And I'm saying participant, not necessarily just siblings, again, it can be foster siblings

[1:26:06] the thought of soon as they want to be inclusive of that as well. They would receive $10 discount

[1:26:10] for the second participant, so the second participant would receive $10 and the third participant

[1:26:15] would receive $20. If either stacked, the second participant doesn't get $10 and the third participant

[1:26:22] doesn't get $20, it's just qualifies for that third one. Since the second one wouldn't get anything,

[1:26:26] so it's only you're getting $30 discount on top of that. These can be combined, so somebody wouldn't

[1:26:33] be paying less on the register fee. I know $20 seems a lot in comparison to like $45, but that's

[1:26:40] three people, right? If you're getting that $20, so $40, $80 from $20. So it could be it could be a lot,

[1:26:45] so the $20 discount stacked on top of the third participant on the total amount not for each one.

[1:26:55] The lastly, it does provide the city manager or is there the need to have administrative

[1:26:59] flexibility in terms of form verification so that we can adjust kind of going forward. The council

[1:27:05] retains authority on the subsidy and the program itself over arching.

[1:27:10] There's financial impact.

[1:27:12] The fees that we approved previously, of course, we've discussed that it's already at 80%

[1:27:16] subsidy.

[1:27:17] Our programs cost about $300 to $400.

[1:27:20] I'm not going to charge that.

[1:27:21] We're already subsidizing the fee and adopting these fees will have an additional impact.

[1:27:26] Right now we're not keeping track of anybody that's in the same house, full of volunteering,

[1:27:30] so we can't have an exact number.

[1:27:32] which is why we kind of retain administrative rights and a change of program, but not the overall fee that we charge for.

[1:27:41] Staff's recommendation is to approve the resolution tonight to get the fee subsidy policy in place and have that for the recreation volunteer program that households have for residents and non-residents.

[1:27:55] And we'll open the floor for any questions.

[1:27:58] Thank you, Councilmember Contelloza.

[1:28:00] No, thank you for receiving the feedback and bringing it back as a complete package.

[1:28:06] Council member Gomer.

[1:28:10] Vice Mayor Lomelli.

[1:28:13] Did help.

[1:28:14] Thank you for doing the work and being so swift with your presentation.

[1:28:19] Thank you.

[1:28:20] We appreciate it.

[1:28:22] And now we ask if there's a motion to adopt resolution number 2639.

[1:28:34] Okay.

[1:28:34] City Clerk, can you tick roll?

[1:28:36] Yes, Council Member Alcanza. Yes. Council Member Fuente is absent. Council Member Gomez.

[1:28:45] Is Mayor Romelli? Yes. Mayor Dr. Gonzales? Yes.

[1:28:51] Moving on to item 15. Council of discussion

[1:28:55] seeing that there is none. We are moving to a German and I will hand it off to Council

[1:29:02] the member Alcan Fabio said to adjourn our meeting today.

[1:29:05] Thank you.

[1:29:06] I wanted to move to adjourn our meeting today

[1:29:09] by a community member whose life was recently lost.

[1:29:14] I just want to mention and give a thank you

[1:29:16] to the Huntington Park Running Club who wrote up a little story

[1:29:20] about him and just sharing his experience.

[1:29:24] So Michael Forders grew up in Kadehe.

[1:29:26] He left to run.

[1:29:27] When he wasn't running in the mountains,

[1:29:28] he was running his route.

[1:29:29] down Clara Street made a raid on Atlantic until he got to Southgate Park where he would go for loops and make his way back home to

[1:29:36] Cutahate, completing a total of 10 miles. On Tuesday, August 25th, he didn't get to finish his route and he didn't make it back home.

[1:29:44] He took his last step on Atlantic and Firestone where he was hit by a drunk driver speeding at over 50 miles per hour.

[1:29:50] His body flung several feet into traffic and he died instantly. His family finds some comfort knowing that he died doing what he loved

[1:29:57] running in his community.

[1:30:00] Any lines have been taken from us by traffic violence? Not just beating cars and drunk drivers, but infrastructure that does not take pedestrians and cyclists in mind. And so as we mourn the death of another pedestrian this time being Michael Flores, let's continue the conversation around safe streets for all in our neighboring cities. Thank you.

[1:30:18] It

[1:30:22] will return her meeting at 801 PM.

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