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[0:00] The council member in the city of Rosemead, she is the fourth longest serving council member in the state, Margaret Clark. Her husband, Jim, passed away after a long battle with cancer. So, Jim Clark and Richard Allertory. Thank you.
[0:24] All right, thank you.
[0:27] And while we're doing adjournments, can I also add Sheriff Deputy Gonzalo Galvez, and
[0:33] I'm sure Mr. Presita will have some information on the deputy.
[0:38] Okay, so what was it?
[0:50] Okay, I'd like to call this meeting to order.
[0:54] Annette, would you please kindly do the roll call?
[1:00] Council Member Finley.
[1:02] Here.
[1:04] Council Member Schulte.
[1:05] She she's she's in a building
[1:09] Councilmember Kang is absent
[1:12] Councilmember Lewis
[1:14] President councilmember Martins al-Kampo here mayor for San Garcia here mayor Trump
[1:20] here
[1:21] Um
[1:23] If I may have our special guests help lead us to the pledge of allegiance
[1:29] It's it's an honor for another mayor to attend our meetings not every day that happens in
[1:40] the pledge to our
[1:41] Black, your hands over your heart?
[1:44] Ready, begin.
[1:45] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
[1:50] and to the Republic to stand one nation under God,
[1:55] indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
[1:59] Thank you.
[1:59] Thank you, Mayor.
[2:08] Okay, do you have a motion to adopt, Jenna?
[2:10] So moved.
[2:10] Second, we have a motion by Councilwoman Finley.
[2:14] We have a second by Mayor Pro Tem, all in favor.
[2:16] Aye. Any opposed? None. Motion carries.
[2:22] Agenda item number four, special items. And this is the Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Proclamation.
[2:31] Manual, would you please kindly introduce the family?
[2:39] Yes, good evening, Mayor Council. Once again, this is coming September.
[2:43] is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and I had the privilege last year to hear from one of
[2:56] our residents, the Rosales family, and the opportunity to take in their story, and they
[3:03] actually reached out to the Parks and Recreation Commission and staff, inquiring if they could
[3:10] start a little campaign awareness along the Donald and Bernie's Watson Recreation Trail.
[3:18] And I thought what better way to kick start the campaign awareness month with obviously
[3:29] the proclamation this evening, but to present that to the Resolvers family and invite the
[3:35] family here to tell their story. So I'll invite Ms. Brianna Rosales up here so that she can
[3:42] share a little bit with all of us this evening about her family.
[3:54] Hello Mayor and City Council members along with our fellow Dordi residents. My name is Brianna
[3:58] Rosales. This is Alex Rosales and our daughter, Olivia Rosales. We have been residents of Dordi
[4:03] for five years. Our son, Johan, who you can see in the back of him in our picture, was
[4:10] diagnosed with stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma in 2021 at the age of 18
[4:19] month old. He battled for 15 months and unfortunately passed in April of
[4:25] April 15th, 2022. He fought very hard and we're always very proud of him through
[4:32] his battle. So when he passed, we wanted to find a way to bring awareness to
[4:37] child cancer. September is pediatric cancer awareness month and we thought what way can
[4:42] we as a family bring awareness to pediatric cancer itself and at the same time honoring
[4:48] our son. So we came up with this idea, actually found it through another family in a far
[4:54] our way of state through my personal
[4:57] bereavement mom group.
[4:59] And we thought to.
[5:00] We do paint rocks, yellow rocks, and place them along the trail with children's names who have also battled and passed away from pediatric cancer. Last year we did it for a week and we had 80 names along the trail, along with signs that just kind of brought awareness to childhood cancer organizations and just a little bit about our son's story. We had asked to do it again this year. Unfortunately this year we'll be putting about 220 rocks just because, you know, unfortunately we haven't found a clue.
[5:29] a lot of cures for the cancers.
[5:32] But that's just our way to honor our son
[5:35] and honor all of the other children who have battled
[5:37] and who have passed away.
[5:40] So we do it in his honor.
[5:43] Yeah, as you can see from the picture,
[5:45] we walked the trail a lot during COVID.
[5:48] We live right in front of it.
[5:49] So we thought what a better place
[5:51] to put kind of how we're gonna honor him.
[5:55] Then a trail that we love to walk kind of
[5:58] on a weekly basis.
[5:59] So our family. So we thank Parks and Rec for our Mr. and Rick is for allowing us to do this and we hope to continue to do it every year.
[6:08] And unfortunately it will continue to grow, but just bringing awareness, you know, to our residents, I think will be a great way to kind of bring us all together.
[6:16] So thank you and we appreciate your time.
[6:19] Thank you.
[6:20] So the city of Diwarty, we
[6:28] have a proclamation here to the Childhood Cancer Awareness Month that we want to present to you when we read this proclamation whereas cancer in children is the leading cause of death by disease among youth in the United States between infancy and age 15 and is detected in more than 16,000 young people each year and whereas one in five of our nation's children loses his or her battle with cancer.
[6:54] and many youth will suffer from long-term effects of comprehensive treatment,
[6:58] including secondary cancers, and whereas a major part of helping cancer,
[7:03] helping children with cancer is to make their situation known and
[7:07] to enhance the quality of life for these children and their families.
[7:11] And whereas philanthropic organizations,
[7:16] healthcare professionals, social support organizations,
[7:20] researches and parents advocate advocacy groups throughout the United States are dedicated to raising awareness about the unique needs of children's facing cancer, and whereas the American Cancer Fund for Children and Kid Cancer Connections are two organizations that are dedicated to helping these children and their families and provide a variety of vital patents services to children's undergoing cancer treatments at a number of participating hospitals.
[7:48] including the City of Hope National Medical Center in Dwardy.
[7:52] And whereas the American Cancer Fund for Children and Kids Cancer Connection sponsor toy distributions,
[7:58] educational programs, family selling programs, the KCC supercar experience, pet assistist therapy,
[8:06] and hospital celebrations in honor of children's determination and bravery to fight the battle against childhood cancer.
[8:14] Now therefore, be it resolved at the State of Diwarty, hereby we claim September 2024 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in the City of Diwarty and encourages all residents to support the organization and programs that educate and raise awareness about Childhood Cancer and to reaffirm our commitment to fight Childhood Cancer.
[8:36] So I'm going to come down and bring this to you.
[8:38] Thank
[8:59] you.
[9:00] Thank you.
[9:14] Oh.
[9:15] Kid.
[9:16] I forgot.
[9:17] If we could have the family step up so we can have a picture with you guys and the council
[9:23] members and manual.
[9:25] Just him.
[9:26] Okay.
[10:49] We are now moving on to agenda item 4B. This is a regularization of the wind program, workforce investment network, summer youth internship participants, and we have Ada Taurus.
[11:06] Mayor,
[11:11] City Council.
[11:14] So we have a PowerPoint. I'm sorry.
[11:32] So back in 2017, we
[11:35] established the Workforce Investment Network and the Workforce Investment Network
[11:40] has been making significant strides in empowering our youth through a valuable
[11:44] partnership with the DORD Teen Center and the DORD Public Safety Department.
[11:55] We've
[11:55] And this initiative was worn out of a 20-year experience of having youth volunteer and
[12:00] authority at the public safety office.
[12:02] And we had independent evaluators, and it revealed that teens ages 14 to 19 are the most
[12:09] vulnerable in our community.
[12:11] The studies showed that youth were seeking employment opportunities and could benefit from
[12:15] network experiences.
[12:17] Skill development and also the cash type in which was really crucial and significant to increase
[12:24] the engagement and support of our youth. Retention in this program has been
[12:29] over 90%, which is actually one of the most effective programs serving our
[12:33] youth and worthy.
[12:38] The demographics for serving are 14 to 19 years old and we
[12:43] had 25 years this year and every year and the criteria to enter the program is for
[12:49] used to engage, engaged youth have never worked or currently unemployed, maybe struggling
[12:55] at school or come from a low income background.
[12:59] So we identified candidates through collaborations with probation, the school resource deputy,
[13:04] our school counselors, and our Dwardy teen center.
[13:08] This year we have served youth from Dwardy High School, from CSHards, from Marovia High
[13:14] School, and Northview High School.
[13:15] All the participants are either authority residents, county residents, or attend
[13:20] authority schools.
[13:25] So our focus is really education. Our structure is focus on
[13:30] building soft skills like customer service skills, time management, and professional
[13:35] wisdom, and handling real work life situations at work. Participants have to
[13:41] complete 15 hours on the job training per week at each of their sites and they
[13:46] each contribute 90 hours in the six week program. They each receive $250 cash
[13:53] stipends. The first one is three weeks in and the second one is at the
[13:57] completion of their hours for a total of $500 stipend for each
[14:03] participant. And we found that on the job training sometimes it's not enough to
[14:08] make sure they're successful. So we need weekly check-ins with the youth to work
[14:13] out any issues and insured their success.
[14:16] We conduct our long workshops with local professionals.
[14:22] We had an HR manager who reviewed positive work habits,
[14:26] social media and cell phone etiquette,
[14:28] punctuality and work attire.
[14:31] We also have other workshops like financial literacy
[14:34] to teach them how to open bank accounts
[14:36] and learn about credit and smart spending.
[14:39] And this year we actually added a mental health component.
[14:42] last year, we had a focus group and we determined that that was something that
[14:47] you really wanted and needed. The speakers we bring work with them and are
[14:53] interactive and, you know, are chosen to really inspire our participants.
[15:00] Our partners, how would we get our funding? Of course, the city funded $5,000 of it, and
[15:08] authority unified in Catherine Barker's office had been great partners throughout the years.
[15:14] Our first year, it was only the city and after showing the results, they came on board
[15:19] and supported our program. So this year, we raised $7,500 from our partners, $5,000 from
[15:26] Dirty Unified and 2500 from Catherine Barger's office and the most important aspect of it
[15:34] is our community partners they're kind of the heroes they're at the work sites doing
[15:40] all the heavy lifting without them we really couldn't be successful.
[15:45] We had eight work sites this year each year we reach out to more businesses and you know
[15:52] And then training a teenager is a huge ask from anyone, right?
[15:55] So I really want to commend these sites for going out of their way to help our young people.
[16:01] We had the boys and girls club of the foothills, Dickie's Barbie cupid, the Dordy City Manager's
[16:07] office, the Dordy pool.
[16:08] It was their first time and they did a wonderful job.
[16:11] The Dordy Teen Center, FSP designs, grocery outlet, and Max's Mexican restaurant.
[16:18] We really couldn't do it without them, but this year we've also seen a lot of the parents
[16:25] being very active with our youth, which was great.
[16:29] So I want to also thank the parents for their support.
[16:34] Let's see.
[16:36] We place each youth at the work site holistically.
[16:40] You can get a work permit, our sites where we likely to get hired.
[16:44] FSP and Dickies have hired our young people in the past, so it has growth rate
[16:50] outlet. Yeah, oh actually Max says did too, yes. Yeah, so it's been really successful
[16:56] to get our young people in the workplace who can work or 16 and over. And right now
[17:02] we want to really congratulate all the young people who've been working hard all
[17:05] summer to learn these skills and give back to their community, local businesses and
[17:11] nonprofits and by the end of summer they will have volunteer over 2,000 hours combined
[17:17] which is huge and also a big thank you to the team center supervisor Marilyn
[17:22] Mays for opening her doors and her staff to work on this project and I'm
[17:27] going to bring Gabi Perkins up here. She has been hard at work checking time
[17:34] sheets, contacting all the youth every week, following up with businesses so
[17:39] So please, she's going to go ahead and call in our young people, I'll hear Deandre.
[17:46] I think we have certificates for them, perfect.
[17:49] Thank you.
[17:55] Good evening.
[17:56] I want to thank my interns so much, I'm very proud of you guys, I hope you guys know
[18:00] that.
[18:01] You guys are a great job.
[18:04] Andrew Guterres,
[18:11] Angelina Sarantes,
[18:18] a star Chan Lu,
[18:24] Brianna Romero,
[18:34] Daniela Morellis,
[18:40] Emily,
[18:47] Van Castillo,
[18:58] Giselle Arroyo,
[19:05] Hope Peoples,
[19:12] Jesse Vagara,
[19:20] Joaquin Gonzalez,
[19:27] Justice Peoples,
[19:33] Katelyn Coulter,
[19:46] Kingston Leveley,
[19:54] Landon Graves,
[20:01] Melissa Sanchez-Kentiero, Michael
[20:14] Dendran,
[20:21] Natalia Brin,
[20:28] Oscar Barajas,
[20:36] Philip Aguirre,
[20:44] Quinn Hamilton,
[20:53] Samuel Lemus,
[21:03] Trevor Jones,
[21:12] Vidi Garcia.
[21:21] Is that all? Yes, we want to come down first. We do have a public comment, and it's a common appreciation that I'm going to have a net.
[21:33] had it over their net.
[21:35] Yes, Mayor.
[21:36] We do have one written public comment
[21:38] from Alberto Castañeda Salazar
[21:40] and he commented to express his gratitude
[21:44] and deepest thanks for the win
[21:47] Summer Internship Program
[21:48] and also for Fitness Center
[21:50] intern Mr. Samuel Lehman.
[21:57] I don't know if we can all fit down there
[21:59] but I would love for the council to go down
[22:00] to take a picture with the kids.
[22:03] Let's do two rows.
[22:04] So sure, it's going to fall in the front.
[25:01] Ms. Aidan, Ms. Gabby, thank you for all the staff time that goes into this. And please send a thank you to all our partners that are participating in this program. Thank you guys.
[25:13] Thank you guys.
[25:29] So usually
[25:35] when there was a big crowd like that, and after you're done, like, you know, the council chambers seems kind of empty, but we still have quite a crowd today.
[25:47] All right, we're going to move on to special items for C, San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust Service recognition for outgoing board member Margaret Finley.
[25:58] And we have Mayor Bechchevin.
[26:02] Okay, the evening, well you've had some really impressive presentations this evening and I don't think the families still hear but my heart goes out to the family that lost their young child.
[26:13] And I know you're going to be hearing from Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society.
[26:18] They're going to be giving a presentation.
[26:19] I too met a cancer survivor 10 years this last January.
[26:24] So, yay for that,
[26:28] but all a great cause.
[26:30] But we are here this evening to honor Margaret.
[26:34] I don't know if you want to sit up there while we're talking or come on down, but and I have
[26:41] Now with me, this evening is Braille Acevedo, who is our regional housing trust manager
[26:48] at the San Gabriel Valley Cod, or kind of all under one roof at any rate.
[26:55] And again, I know you've already introduced me.
[26:57] I'm the mayor of the city of Menrovia, the city of Menrovia, and also the vice chair for
[27:03] the San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust.
[27:06] And we're here tonight to honor Margaret.
[27:09] She served for four years on the Regional Housing Trust,
[27:11] one of the inaugural members of the trust
[27:14] and just want to let you know just how thankful we are
[27:18] for your service and how what an integral part you played
[27:24] in those initial years.
[27:27] And you've managed to help,
[27:29] but you've been a part of the team that brought
[27:33] but over 1,000, 1,000 different opportunities
[27:36] for housing for people in the San Giro Valley.
[27:40] I want to make sure that I've touched all the points here.
[27:47] And also we have a little gift for you.
[27:51] And it's a little necklace and it's a given keys
[27:54] and it has hope written on it.
[27:57] It's just a little thank you.
[27:59] You can add it to all your little gold necklaces there.
[28:01] and it just is a thank you for all your help with the housing trust and it's such an
[28:09] an important project and program in the Singible Valley and you made it all
[28:14] much better. Thank you and I do have to tell you when this first started we were
[28:21] supposed to go down and stay in those. I was gonna I was gonna say that you you spent
[28:26] the night there. My husband and I spent the night in one of those and Jody went
[28:30] down and spent the night there too. It was kind of a big sleepover but I think
[28:35] everybody needs- Her husband any little. I think everybody needs to stay in
[28:41] those little houses just so they can kind of appreciate what what we have to
[28:48] endure and obviously now we have a partnership with the City of
[29:00] see what we can do to help a lot of people kind of get back on their feet.
[29:04] And we've grown a lot and just provided so many opportunities both with
[29:10] the tiny homes and then obviously building units. But we hope to become
[29:16] bigger and better every year. But thank you for being on the ground floor.
[29:21] Thank you very much, Brio.
[29:54] As I mentioned, it's not every day another mayor shows up to our council and we appreciate it.
[29:59] Thank you.
[30:01] All
[30:04] right, congratulations, councilwoman Finley. Now moving on to special item 4D, the community development department update, Craig.
[30:21] All right, thank you very much. I'm going to give a little update on, this is development related things that are going on this time. The BP, British ProM, they are building a facility there at the quarter of Bradboard in Huntington. It's going to be a charging facility, kind of like a gas station that you've got approval a few weeks ago, a few months ago.
[30:40] to go but they're going to be starting grading next week so they just got
[30:43] their permits and so that's good news that they're going forward with that
[30:46] and this can be very unique and I think everyone will be excited to see that
[30:50] addition to the city. I know some of you may be aware of this there's been some
[30:54] work down at 1401 San Diego. That's a project that was approved a couple years
[30:59] ago. Town Homes has kind of been on hold. There were some older apartments on that
[31:03] site. They've been vacant for quite a long time. We're having a little bit of
[31:07] problem keeping that area cleared of of of trouble makers and stuff. Then went through a demo
[31:13] last week. And so you may have heard a little bit about that. There were some nuisance issues
[31:17] on the property and were able to address those to that demo. Last I hear it's still on the
[31:21] market. It's known the market for quite a while. Like I said, it's approved for 20 units, but
[31:26] they're not starting grading yet. We'll see what happens with that. But that that was what's going on
[31:30] that was just demo. The project at 928, 110, that's on the south side of Huntington almost over all the
[31:36] way to mountain. If you've noticed they've done some grading on the recently. That project
[31:40] right now it's on hold. They need to do some changes on their approvals from Edison,
[31:45] so there's some transformer issues. They intend to continue with that, but that's on hold,
[31:49] so that's why you see a graded property out there with kind of a hole on the ground that's
[31:54] been sitting there for a while.
[31:58] You might have referred to this one of the past meetings,
[32:01] But Nissan, if you notice the current Nissan dealership has been closed down for a while,
[32:07] that's going through a property sale, and we don't know all the details about that.
[32:12] I know it couldn't wish we did a great job of getting out there and contacting the owners
[32:17] to get them to clean that up.
[32:19] There's quite a problem with property maintenance, and the cars are still sitting out there
[32:23] and it's not the best situation, but hopefully they'll see positive in the future.
[32:27] However, there's going to be a new owner of a Nissan dealership, but it's going to be
[32:34] a different location.
[32:35] There's going to be a Nissan Infinity dealership where the Mitsubishi dealership used to be.
[32:40] And I just got an update from them the other day.
[32:42] They plan on opening up in late September of this year.
[32:45] And you'll probably start to see some activity on that property around that time.
[32:50] And they tend to open and start and selling.
[32:51] Not just Nissan, but also my understanding of Infinity from the business sizes they pulled.
[32:57] And then one more interesting note is, you know, for the last several years there was approval
[33:03] for the Wyndham Hotel and they've been in a process and they got put on hold for a while.
[33:07] And they're back in for plan check.
[33:10] They recently got a new project manager and it seems to be a positive thing.
[33:13] But since that's been on hold for a while, they just came back in for plan check, I wanted
[33:17] to let you know about that.
[33:18] So if you have any questions about things that you're going on, I'd be glad to answer them
[33:20] for you.
[33:21] Not that's all I have.
[33:22] Any questions from council?
[33:25] No?
[33:27] All
[33:30] right, moving on to special items, parks and recreation department update, menu and
[33:34] request.
[33:40] Good evening again. I'll keep the good news going.
[33:44] We have our site on site work for the new Royal Oaks Park Gazebo scheduled to start on September
[33:56] 23rd. That work should take about two weeks, so that space will be closed off, we'll be
[34:00] taking off that gazebo on our active net registration, so folks won't, will not be able
[34:08] to register and reserve that space, but after that we'll have a brand new gazebo shelter
[34:14] for our residents to enjoy. Keeping up with the good news, our Beersley Park
[34:22] Park Restroom Mayor Pro Tem Garcia has been confirmed to be ready for delivery and installation.
[34:33] The first, well actually the week of October 14th and so we'll close off the Park Restroom.
[34:43] It'll go offline, that amenity will go offline starting August 26th and that area will be closed
[34:49] off, we won't have any restroom amenity available during that time, but it should be reopened
[34:56] for use, a brand new facility or pre-fabricated.
[35:00] Building rather, starting the week of October 14th. And then finally, because we are just chipping
[35:08] away at our capital improvement projects, the Royal Oaks Park tennis courts will go offline
[35:15] and go dark the entire month of September as we will start construction on installing
[35:24] calling our permanent Pickleball Courts on one end and then our two temporary Pickleball
[35:30] Courts in addition to a permanent tennis court on the other end.
[35:34] And again, that's brand new fencing, wind screens, surfacing, and nets and striping and so
[35:41] forth.
[35:42] And so you can anticipate a ribbon cutting and Pickleball party for the council and residents
[35:48] to join us sometime in the month of November, weather permitting.
[35:53] Finally, you've been seeing the advertisement here on the chamber screens, but August 24th,
[35:59] join us for our second annual Diwali Survivor.
[36:04] It'll start from at 9 a.m. go all the way till 12 p.m., it's $5 to register cash prizes,
[36:12] is cash prizes, up for grabs and lunches included.
[36:16] It's a bang up deal, 14 and over.
[36:19] And we encourage you all to come out and participate.
[36:21] Questions?
[36:22] Yeah.
[36:24] The pickleball, are we going to start having pickleball classes
[36:28] on the city that the city is going to put on the city news?
[36:32] Well, we do have classes already that are taking place
[36:34] at the Dordi sports park at those courts.
[36:38] Are we going to have it at Rolex?
[36:39] So, we will potentially start programming out that location as well, if we see enough
[36:47] traction and so forth and it just might grow into having instruction out there all
[36:51] week.
[36:52] Awesome.
[36:52] Yeah.
[36:53] I'm sure you have like all your bases covered already, but are you going to put any kind
[36:55] of like signage or warning on the construction bathroom zone as well as the pickle wall
[36:59] court like ahead of time so that people can plan their lifestyle accordingly and be ready
[37:04] for it?
[37:04] Absolutely.
[37:05] Thank you for reminding me to bring up that point, but yes.
[37:08] Yes, we will have signage out there on the fencing that's closing off the restroom location
[37:16] over at Beardsley, and we'll be putting up some A-Frame signage to let folks know that
[37:20] the courts will be unavailable starting the month of September over at Royal Oaks Park.
[37:25] One other important thing to note that's not included in your report is late last week.
[37:35] our basketball court lighting system had a little, well, it basically, our control system
[37:46] for lighting at the basketball courts is temporarily down.
[37:49] And so we are looking into getting that replaced just an FYI for many years, not something
[37:55] we budgeted, but we'll have it, we'll be needing to replace that control system.
[37:59] So the lights are temporarily down in the evenings at Royal Oaks Park in the basketball courts, but we're working
[38:08] very diligently to get our contractor out there. We got the purchase order in motion, and so we'll be getting that fix fairly soon.
[38:17] Any other questions? Thank you. Any other questions, Council?
[38:20] Are we going to have an in our girl pickleball tournament with council and staff?
[38:26] I'll check with our risk manager.
[38:27] Okay, well, because I was going to say I get to have her as my partner, Krista.
[38:32] Good luck.
[38:34] Thank you, Emmanuel.
[38:36] Thank you.
[38:37] Yes.
[38:37] Thank you.
[38:40] All right.
[38:42] Moving on to agenda item number five.
[38:44] Announcements of upcoming events.
[38:47] Community events.
[38:48] Joanna G. from Library.
[38:57] Good evening, City Council.
[38:59] Joanna G. from Dory Library.
[39:02] We have our upcoming sports event.
[39:04] Storytime coming up on Friday's August 23rd.
[39:07] at 11 a.m. We have Saturday Art Surprise for Kids from 5 to 17 on Saturday, August 24th
[39:13] at 2 p.m. We have for the little one Smart Start Arts, which is on Tuesday, August 27th
[39:19] at 6.30 p.m. We also have our annual Bookmark Contest design going on and this is going
[39:25] to start on August 19th till October 5th. 14th we have Retro Gaming with PlayStation that
[39:31] I will take place on Thursday, August 29th at 3.30 pm.
[39:35] And we have our free vaccine clinics going on
[39:37] on Friday, August 16th at 10 am.
[39:40] We also have a makeup medallion program for adults
[39:43] this Saturday, sorry, yeah, August 17th,
[39:46] this Saturday at 2 pm, and as always,
[39:48] we do have COVID kits available.
[39:51] Any questions?
[39:52] Mayor Polita, I'm Garcia.
[39:54] Thank you, Mayor, not a question,
[39:55] but a comment, Joanna.
[39:56] Thank you for participating at National Night Out.
[39:59] you have
[40:00] I've had various amount of books to give out, somewhere in Spanish, and I appreciate that, especially the ones that talk about the water cycle and information about, you know, our local water. So thank you for doing that. Thank you, Joanna. Oh, no, sorry, councilmember Lewis.
[40:20] Also have a, thank you, again, Joanna, for coming out to Mr. Fassana's, they, his appreciation award dinner.
[40:31] And just let everyone know that Joanna won two dinners with our city finance.
[40:39] And-
[40:39] That was lunch.
[40:40] Our lunch, what are two city finance and I hope they took you to a good lunch, Joanna.
[40:46] That is soon to be coming, I hope.
[40:49] Okay, well, the people know who they are, they take, make sure you take care of Joanna.
[40:57] Thank you.
[40:58] Thank you.
[41:00] Next, we have Andreas from assisted to the city manager.
[41:09] Good evening, honorable mayor, city council.
[41:11] For the first item, the city will be starting its planning process to update its local hazard
[41:16] mitigation plan and just as a quick context.
[41:19] The purpose of the plan is to identify potential hazards in the city as well as address what
[41:25] steps the city needs to take in order to address those potential hazards.
[41:28] So for this year, it is a bit different throughout the planning process.
[41:33] there will be opportunities for the residents to participate, the surveys, and other types
[41:38] of outlets.
[41:40] So to start in the back, we do have flyers with the QR code that takes you to the mitigation
[41:47] plan website.
[41:49] We ask you to visit that website so that you can stay up to date with what potential participation
[41:55] avenues you all have to provide your feedback.
[41:59] Now for the fun stuff. So for the first one, connect with old friends and make some new ones at our back-to-school barbecue and moving night on August 30th, starting at 4pm at the Duarte Teen Center.
[42:10] We will have a DJ, food, games, contest, a movie and more.
[42:16] Also, the Duarte Youth Boxing Club will be presenting its 2024 Duarte Boxing Club Youth Boxing Show. That's a mouthful. On September 14th at the Duarte High School gym.
[42:26] Starting at 1 p.m., they'll be having special guest appearances by former boxing champions
[42:31] and on-site concession stand and championship trophies will be awarded as well.
[42:35] Admission will start at $8 at the teen center, $10 at the door, and children aged 3 and 11,
[42:42] it'll be $3, and for children aged 3 years and younger, it'll be free.
[42:47] For more information, please contact the authority teen center at 626-303-0863.
[42:53] Any questions?
[42:54] questions? Any questions, Council? No, thank you, sir.
[43:01] At this time, any members of the audience wish to step to the podium and announce any upcoming
[43:07] events? Okay. I see none.
[43:13] All right. Or communications. At this time, if you wish to
[43:18] speak on a matter that is not on this agenda, you may do so at this time. Each member of the
[43:22] public will have a total of three minutes to speak. The Council cannot discuss or take actions
[43:27] which is on matters not on the agenda for this meeting.
[43:30] It's the Mr. Nettis.
[43:32] Well, since it was brought up kind of sort of in maybe,
[43:38] Joanna was basically not complaining but had a visitor
[43:42] complaint about the carpets there.
[43:45] And we gave that issue to Tony.
[43:47] Tony took it to, you know, Supervisor Barger's office.
[43:52] And Joanna got a call saying that her people were being
[43:56] beat up by the Board of Supervisors for not replacing the carpet so they are in September.
[44:03] So that was Tony Lewis who did that blame him and but prior to that another issue I want
[44:12] to recognize him on is the three way stop we have at Euclid and Mountain.
[44:19] Now that went through the Traffic Safety Commission I attended all those meetings and we did
[44:26] our best to get that done but we never quite got passed the we got to do
[44:31] traffic studies we got to do other surveys blah blah blah but we still didn't
[44:35] get it done Tony again went to Barker's office and we got it done so although
[44:42] Tony got in trouble for his a barbecue which he is in trouble for because he
[44:48] didn't bring me any at that station I was at so I wanted to know
[44:56] But he's been he's done his job and I just
[45:00] I wanted to recognize that, and I look forward to the new carpet. Thank you, Steve.
[45:10] Annette, are there any public comments? Do you have any public comments? I have not received any cards, ma'am. Okay, any other members of the others, wish to step up to the podium. Okay, I see none at this time. Let's move on to agenda item number seven, the consent calendar. Any council members like to pull any items off the consent calendar? I guess just seven, Jay.
[45:30] Okay.
[45:31] We'll pull 7-J.
[45:36] Motion to approve all but 7-J.
[45:39] Do we have a second?
[45:40] Second.
[45:40] Okay.
[45:41] We have a motion to approve.
[45:42] Do we have all in favor?
[45:44] Aye.
[45:45] Any opposed?
[45:46] Okay.
[45:46] None opposed.
[45:47] Motion carries.
[45:48] Now go ahead and discuss item 7-J.
[45:54] Councilwoman Finley?
[45:56] I just wanted to have them come up and do their thing.
[46:05] So just real quick, what we're asking for in that item is to engage in a co-sponsorship with the Relief or Lice and Anita Park events on September 8th, I believe.
[46:17] It's a 24 hour event, so it's September 7th, there we go.
[46:21] So the co-sponsorship is going to specifically be to promote the event through our normal
[46:27] communication channels, being social media, promotion of flyers, and working with events
[46:31] staff to issue a press release.
[46:34] So here with us is Susie Rutherford, who can give more insight into this event.
[46:40] Hi, thank you for letting me come today, Mayor and City Council members.
[46:45] I have been here before announcing the event although we did have a date change.
[46:50] So the new date is September 7th through 8th.
[46:54] It is a 24 hour fundraising event from 11 a.m. to 11 a.m.
[46:59] At the infield of Santa Anita Park race track.
[47:02] We are there raising money for American Cancer Society, that family that was here.
[47:09] I did go outside and I approached them.
[47:11] I invited them that we could honor them at our event, so we'll see how they do with that.
[47:17] But, yeah, so I have been here before, but I would like to invite all of you to please come out to the event, and the community, it is a free community event.
[47:27] Like I said, it's 24 hours. We start honoring cancer survivors. That's how we open up our event. So if you know any, please have them go on the website and join us so that we could honor them with the luncheon and some goodies.
[47:42] there is entertainment throughout the day, there's games, there's food, we all have booths
[47:47] and all of the money raised goes to American Cancer Society which helps for all cancers.
[47:53] And so at 9 o'clock we have a luminaria ceremony where we remember those we've lost.
[48:00] So there are luminaria bags that people will donate to light the track with their family
[48:06] members that are either survivors or they're still fighting or they've lost their lives
[48:11] and that's what we keep doing this for.
[48:14] So we'll keep fighting until there's a cure
[48:17] and that's what we're out there for.
[48:19] So we just wanted to thank you for allowing us
[48:23] to use sponsoring us.
[48:26] We really appreciate that.
[48:27] We're here just to show our gratitude.
[48:29] So thank you very much.
[48:30] Thank you.
[48:32] Any comments?
[48:34] Thank you.
[48:35] Thank you.
[48:36] Thank you.
[48:37] Okay, we have, all right.
[48:39] We have a motion to approve.
[48:40] and we have a second, all in favor?
[48:42] Aye.
[48:43] Then opposed, motion carries, thank you.
[48:46] Thank you, very much.
[48:47] Thank you for coming back and happy to be able to do it this time.
[48:50] Absolutely, thank you so much.
[49:02] Okay, we're going to move on to agenda item number 10, business items.
[49:09] Item 10A is a designation of voting delegate and alternate for
[49:13] the League of California City's annual conference and expo.
[49:19] So who usually I think
[49:22] Councilmember Lewis usually does that right sir. I was the delegate for who's your ultra who's the alternate?
[49:30] I think it was all council members with alternate mayor the in the previous years councilmember Kang was the alternate councilmember Kang was the alternate okay so
[49:41] Do we I mean
[49:44] Do you want to continue that if you are you playing?
[49:48] planning on attending sir? I am planning on attending but do you want to be the delegate? I mean I don't have no problem if the mayor wants to be the delegate.
[50:00] I have no problem with it being the way it is. I can just attend to support, and if for some reason you're not able to make it, and Sam's unable to make it, and- Well, I did secure those days off from work, so I will be in attendance, but like I said, if you'd like to- if you would like me to, I will, but I have no problem with it being the way it is.
[50:30] way it is right now.
[50:31] Okay, sir.
[50:31] Yeah.
[50:35] Councilwoman, we're talking about the California City's annual conference and a designated
[50:41] Tony, are we good with Tony continuing to be sure to borrow the dollar yet?
[50:44] Okay.
[50:45] I'll be attending this.
[50:47] This is the one in Long Beach, right?
[50:49] Yes, sir.
[50:49] Yeah.
[50:49] Okay.
[50:50] I'll be there.
[50:51] All right.
[50:52] I guess we'll just keep it the way it is with Mr. Councilmember Lewis being the the
[50:58] And just real quick, Councilmember Lewis, please work with our Deputy City Clerk to register you for the event, or you're not currently registered.
[51:11] Yes sir, we've talked about it already, thank you, we were going to make all the necessary arrangements after this meeting, perfect, thank you.
[51:23] I did register already, right?
[51:26] Correct, you're registered.
[51:28] Also only to designate an alternate.
[51:30] Currently, Councilmember Kang has not expressed interest.
[51:34] He has not expressed interest on attending the conference.
[51:38] I could be the alternate.
[51:40] I could be the alternate.
[51:42] I'll be the alternate.
[51:44] Can we have a motion to approve?
[51:48] approval.
[51:49] Second.
[51:49] All right.
[51:50] All in favor?
[51:51] Aye.
[51:52] Any opposed?
[51:53] Motion carries.
[51:55] Thank you.
[51:58] Item 10B.
[52:00] Consideration to approve a letter of support for Glendora City Council proposed, CalCities,
[52:06] Annual Conference Resolution.
[52:11] You have a sports code and a tie today.
[52:15] Yeah.
[52:15] always see our lovely directors here always nicely dressed. I know I have to always whenever I come have to step up my game. I like it.
[52:22] He doesn't have a tie.
[52:34] It's it's not a bad idea to look at the upper
[52:38] leadership to kind of follow the way they dress, right?
[52:42] The good evening may our members of the City Council. I'm here to discuss the proposal proposal to approve a letter of support for
[52:51] for the North City Council's proposed resolution for this year's Cal City's annual conference.
[52:58] Every year, the League of California cities, also known as Cal City's holds an annual conference where its general assembly discusses and potentially modifies Cal City's policies.
[53:09] Through resolutions, there's two types of resolutions they consider, general resolutions and petition resolutions, each with their own specific steps and qualifications.
[53:18] On June 24th, or June 25th, 2024,
[53:23] Gondoros City Council Member Michael Alawis requested that the July 9th, 2024,
[53:29] Gondoros City Council meeting agenda included a resolution that aimed to ensure fairness and
[53:35] equal fairness for all of government officials in California.
[53:40] The proposed resolution states that the California State Legislature shall not enact and
[53:47] and the governor shall not approve any law or regulation that applies solely to elected officials of California cities and counties.
[53:54] Unless such law or regulation also applies equally to members of the California State Assembly and Senate.
[54:01] This prohibition shall not apply to laws or regulations affecting the inherent powers of legislative branch under the California Constitution.
[54:09] The proposed resolution addresses disparities in how certain laws and regulations apply to elected officials
[54:16] was compared to California State Legislature.
[54:19] In other words, this resolution aims to prevent the legislature from passing any laws or
[54:24] regulations that solely apply to elected officials and not state officials.
[54:28] They want it all equal.
[54:30] And there's some key examples of these, we all know the Brown Act applies to elected officials
[54:37] and then there's the Bagley-Keynack that applies to state officials.
[54:40] Some may say that they're similar but there's actually quite a few differences that I wanted
[54:45] to quickly go over. So for public notice requirements, the Brown Act
[54:49] requires a minimum 7-2-hour advance notice for regular meetings.
[54:54] The agenda must be detailed and posted in a publicly accessible location on the
[54:58] agency's website.
[55:00] For the Bagley Keynack, it often provides a 10-day notice with more flexible agenda requirements. The agenda does not need to be as detailed and allows state agencies to make adjustments and add items closer to the meeting date. For public participation, local agencies for the Brown Act must allow the public to address the legislative body on any item of interest before or during the body's consideration of the item. For the Bagley Keynack, it can have more structured and eliminated public comment periods.
[55:30] often at the beginning of the meeting, public comments might be restricted to certain agenda items or general comments at the start of the meeting rather than allowing comments throughout.
[55:40] And then lastly for closed sessions, the Brown Act limits the reasons for which a closed session can be held such as personal matters, pending litigation, labor negotiations,
[55:50] And as specific findings must be made to justify closing the meeting to the public.
[55:56] And for the Baguette Keynack, it provides state bodies with a broader discretion to determine when a closed session is necessary.
[56:03] This means that state agencies have more flexibility in deciding which topics were in a closed session, allowing them to adjust sensitive issues more freely.
[56:13] A few other examples that are not on here is the Senate Bill 1439.
[56:17] This bill requires local officials to recuse themselves during decisions involving contributors who contributed over $250 to their political campaign.
[56:29] And it also restricts campaign contributions from parties involved in pending proceedings.
[56:37] And then another example, quick one, Assembly Bill, 1234, this bill requires local officials to take ethics training.
[56:45] And for the longest time, it was not a requirement for state officials until fairly not so long ago.
[56:53] And
[56:55] so the Gondora City Council has since taken a position of support for the resolution,
[57:01] which they have now submitted to CalCities as a general resolution, along with five letters of support from five mayors from five different cities, as required by the league.
[57:13] and those cities include Arcadia,
[57:16] Azusa, Laverne, LaMita, and Rancho Palos Verdas.
[57:22] The City of Guardia was informed with these efforts as the San
[57:25] Gabriel Valley Council of Governments sent out an email to cities in the region
[57:30] as requested by one of their board members.
[57:33] One thing I would like to know is that even if this resolution were to pass all the steps
[57:37] and qualifications through Cal cities, it does not guarantee legislative action.
[57:42] It just becomes Cal City's policy position, and then they will then recommend it to the legislature.
[57:49] So with all that being said, it is recommended that the City Council discuss and
[57:53] consider a letter of support for the Gondora City Council's proposed Cal City's annual conference resolution.
[58:00] Thank you for your attention, and I won't put to any questions.
[58:03] Any questions, Council, councilman Schultz?
[58:06] I was just going to say great job and make a motion.
[58:10] I'll second the motion and from what I can tell this is kind of what's good for the goose
[58:16] is good for the gander and we've been complaining about it for years, but basically they're
[58:23] the ones it kind of sits in their hands unless we drop a petition and it becomes an initiative
[58:32] in the state, but I don't think there is the, I think it's almost too much in the weeds
[58:39] for the public to really care about, but I'm all in favor of it.
[58:46] But I just think it's going to go anywhere.
[58:50] Anyway.
[58:52] Okay, we have a motion in a second.
[58:54] Do we all in favor?
[58:56] Aye.
[58:57] Aye.
[58:58] Any opposed?
[59:00] Okay.
[59:00] Motion carries.
[59:01] Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you sir. Hey good job Albert.
[59:09] And I just
[59:12] want to go ahead and say if this is what it takes to go ahead and get you in a
[59:17] coat and tie.
[59:20] All the way. Everyone's aware of his promotion right?
[59:33] Well
[59:36] 10C development of a plan for the undergrounding of utilities on Huntington Drive between
[59:43] Boinevista Street and Mountain Avenue. Craig.
[59:47] I'm going to start out, I think Brian might chime in here a little bit.
[59:52] So basically as you pointed out, this is a discussion of potential development of a plan for undergrounding
[59:57] the utilities a long honey drive between
[1:00:00] We're going to invest in mountain or generally. Well, Brian went out and got us a pledge of a million dollars. I talked with the county public works and the supervisor's office.
[1:00:14] And it also follows in the category of be careful what you wish for. Because in doing some analysis of what the undergranting would actually cost for that area.
[1:00:25] They gave us, I believe, the maximum they could re-understand.
[1:00:29] that it was going to be more than a million dollars,
[1:00:30] but at least we've done some initial assessments,
[1:00:33] and that's about a $3 million job.
[1:00:35] So that's part of what the discussion is this evening.
[1:00:39] In terms of why that area was chosen,
[1:00:42] I'll say that that's the longest span
[1:00:44] along Huntington Drive that has overhead utilities.
[1:00:48] It's probably also the most visible,
[1:00:49] that might be debatable,
[1:00:50] but it's if there's slightly larger wires
[1:00:52] than other locations,
[1:00:53] and there are two other locations along Huntington Drive
[1:00:56] where we do have above-ground utilities
[1:00:58] also and so I'll point those out. One is on the north side of Huntington Drive
[1:01:04] between Capri Court which is basically just a little bit east of CVS and water
[1:01:09] fall way which is part of the trails. So it's in front of the trails and the
[1:01:14] development is next to it. Another location is a Huntington Drive between Brad
[1:01:18] Born and 22-01 Huntington which is well near Tacos and Sinatus. That's easier to
[1:01:26] to explain it that way, I guess.
[1:01:27] So those are two other locations
[1:01:29] that also have overground utilities.
[1:01:32] And certainly would potentially warrant undergrounding.
[1:01:35] So there's some options I think the city has
[1:01:38] as it relates to what we might do.
[1:01:41] One option would be to proceed
[1:01:43] with the undergrounding of a long hunting drive
[1:01:46] between Brennan-Viston Mountain Avenue.
[1:01:48] To go down that path, you know,
[1:01:50] we do have some requests into the state
[1:01:52] for additional funding to help with that,
[1:01:54] but we don't have an answer back on those
[1:01:55] and it's possible we might not get an answer back.
[1:01:59] So really the issue with this particular option
[1:02:01] is the overall cost.
[1:02:02] It's the cost of the city of the estimate right now
[1:02:05] is about $2 million.
[1:02:07] The second option would be to...
[1:02:10] Yeah.
[1:02:10] Just a question.
[1:02:12] Okay, so the north half of the street
[1:02:15] from the habit down to mountain is Menrovia.
[1:02:23] So I don't quite understand.
[1:02:25] And is this million going to cover both the north and the south side?
[1:02:29] Well, along the street, for the most part of the north side is already underground.
[1:02:35] There are a couple of lines that go across from the south side to the north that feed some properties that are in
[1:02:43] Minerovia, but in terms of the undergrounding along the sidewalk area, it's all in the area of Duarte.
[1:02:48] None of it is in Minerovia.
[1:02:52] So, while that would be a wonderful option, that we could have asked someone earlier in
[1:02:56] the meeting that might not work.
[1:02:58] You missed the opportunity, Sarah, to see left.
[1:03:02] Things were going really positive, so it would have been a good time to ask.
[1:03:05] It would have been a great time.
[1:03:07] The second option is to put this particular request on hold until we find out what the
[1:03:12] answer is from potential other funding sources.
[1:03:16] the one potential issue with that is these funds that are available from
[1:03:21] Ellie County Public Works may not be available for a long period of time. We're
[1:03:25] not really sure how long they might be available. So option two could have a
[1:03:29] pitfall to it in terms of the answer might just be that we don't use the
[1:03:33] million dollars. So that's another possibility. I mean the third option is to use
[1:03:37] the funding for one of the other locations that we have to underground.
[1:03:44] They're
[1:03:45] The estimated cost of that shorter run down by Capricort is $650,000.
[1:03:50] And then between Brad Bourne and Tacos and Sonata, that's about $1.1 million.
[1:03:58] So in a sense, those funds might cover almost all or all of that option.
[1:04:05] And the other option, or fourth option, which is not the report, but would be to take no action at all.
[1:04:10] But if you have any questions for either Brian or myself, we'd be glad to answer them for you and this is just what direction
[1:04:16] Would you like us to go what what is the the expiration date on these funds?
[1:04:22] I don't have that answer yet. I'm waiting on public works to get back to me on how long we can sit on the rule 20
[1:04:29] 20
[1:04:31] funds as well as if because we've designated the project between Mountain to win a Vista if we can
[1:04:37] and switch the project location.
[1:04:39] I don't think that would be as problematic
[1:04:41] as how long we would have those access to those funds.
[1:04:44] So, right now I don't have the answer back from either
[1:04:48] on either of those questions.
[1:04:49] So, again, one thing I would say to add that is
[1:04:52] that those rural 20 funds, you know, county agencies, cities,
[1:04:59] have had access to those.
[1:05:03] We had a meeting with Edison folks probably four or five months ago because our balances were less than $100,000 because we just got back past zero and building up through the years. Those are funds that are going away. There's not going to be real 20 in the future. All those funds at a state level are being funnel off to do other types of things. This is a bank that the county has. I assume, if it doesn't get used with this,
[1:05:29] certain period of time, we just don't know what period of time that is, those either
[1:05:33] would be lost or they'll need to use them on something else.
[1:05:35] So, while we don't know the answer, it's probably not a significant amount of time.
[1:05:39] Is there something from Edison that they're, I don't know how to call it, it's a grant
[1:05:45] or if it's like a program that they work with cities to help do that undergrounding or subsidize
[1:05:51] a portion or-
[1:05:52] That's really what this is and that program has been around since the 70s or-
[1:06:00] I think the state utilities have pretty much moved their focus from the aesthetic issues
[1:06:06] of undergrounding to fire safety.
[1:06:09] So almost all those funds have been funneled maybe rightfully so to other needs.
[1:06:16] That's correct.
[1:06:17] Those funds are no longer available.
[1:06:18] In fact, with that meeting that we had with Edison, we asked that and they suggest a potential
[1:06:24] the council's source would be the county since they had a pool designated for their areas and their city, so that was the ask.
[1:06:33] Councillor Berville, you had a question?
[1:06:36] Yes, sir, thank you.
[1:06:38] Why is it so expensive?
[1:06:41] I mean, $1 million, just $2 million.
[1:06:46] Is it $3 million?
[1:06:47] $3 million?
[1:06:48] I mean, that's a lot of money to put some wires in the grave.
[1:06:55] That's a good question.
[1:06:57] We basically got this assessment based on a very recent job that our city engineer was involved in in the city of Leverne.
[1:07:07] And so these are current prices.
[1:07:09] You know, there's a lot of safety issues, there's a lot of issues of access from those
[1:07:13] lines to service in the building, and you know, there's safety issues, and anytime you dig
[1:07:21] into a street, it gets expensive.
[1:07:25] Well, I would just say $3 million doesn't go as far as it used to.
[1:07:30] I see.
[1:07:32] Council Member Lewis, you've been making a phone call and getting street lights, taking care
[1:07:36] You know, stop signs and all that good stuff.
[1:07:39] I'm sure you can make another phone call.
[1:07:41] I'm going to ask for some more money.
[1:07:43] You know, it's baseball season so you might as well hit a grassland.
[1:07:46] Why, didn't you play collegiate baseball?
[1:07:48] I did.
[1:07:49] She did.
[1:07:49] She hit a grassland.
[1:07:50] May.
[1:07:52] Mayor Potem.
[1:07:54] Thank you, Mayor.
[1:07:56] Craig, on one of your reports on one of those locations that you designated, there was
[1:08:01] one that we had enough to find and we'd have a little lift doors.
[1:08:04] Is that the Brataborne one or is that the Capri?
[1:08:06] Well, actually, both of them really, let me give you an example, BP is building a facility
[1:08:16] that would be required to underground because they're in the middle of the line because
[1:08:20] it goes beyond.
[1:08:21] They're going to have to pay an in-luthy.
[1:08:23] They're in-luthy would balance it out, so in theory, if we chose this location, it would
[1:08:28] be of little to no cost to the city.
[1:08:31] If we were to do the other location, it would be less.
[1:08:33] Yes, honestly, of the two, I think probably one of the briborne has a little bit more value to the city than it does because it's a little bit longer.
[1:08:41] Yeah, and I think the way the state's budget is, I'm pretty sure that answer is no, I'm keeping my fingers crossed, I hope.
[1:08:47] But I would hate to lose a million dollars, I mean, there's no fiscal impact if we don't.
[1:08:54] If we lose them, right, but if we could fund that, I would motion to-
[1:08:59] second. Do we know when the state's going to get back to us?
[1:09:04] We don't have a timeline. In fact, when we sent the letter, I don't believe
[1:09:08] that they were opening up for requests, but they were going to hold onto the
[1:09:12] letter when funds became available. So we really have no timeline.
[1:09:17] You need to call, sir. Five years, 10 years. I mean, do we know we're
[1:09:22] going to have another $10 million for the rest of it? I feel like we should
[1:09:25] just pull the trigger on something we can pull the trigger on. And if we want to
[1:09:28] update everything else five years from now when we have an extra we won't have an extra
[1:09:32] 3 million running around but you know yeah or Wintony works his magic some more. And I'm
[1:09:37] buying barbecue with it.
[1:09:41] One thing I might add maybe to help out but is that if for some reason
[1:09:47] we were to get an answer back where we got luckier than we already have and more money came in and
[1:09:53] we had not completely gone out to bid on that we could probably could be back and let you reconsider.
[1:09:57] Yeah, that's a good idea
[1:10:00] So, I believe we had a motion, right, and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? None. Thank you.
[1:10:15] Moving on to agenda item number 11, continuation of oral communication. And do we have any public comments? No public comment, ma'am. Thank you. Any members of the public? We're just stepping up to the podium to speak at this time.
[1:10:32] Okay, moving on to item number 12, items from the City Council, Housing Authority, Finance Authority, Members and City Manager, Executive Directors, Reports of Meetings Attendant, Per Government, Code Section 532-32.0.3 Larry.
[1:10:50] I just
[1:10:57] wanted to provide some more information in regards to the deputy that passed away.
[1:11:01] The deputy Galvez was part of the special enforcement bureau was responsible for high risk tactical
[1:11:07] situations involving like causes situations, high risk warrant executions, et cetera.
[1:11:14] And he, that bureau is developed in the entire county.
[1:11:17] However, this deputy was actually a patient of City of Hope.
[1:11:21] and he was passed away due to the victim of cancer.
[1:11:26] So he was fighting for his life for quite some time.
[1:11:29] And I did want to share with you
[1:11:31] that the wife of the deputy who passed away
[1:11:34] did say thank you very much as we did pass on the condolences.
[1:11:38] Thank you.
[1:11:39] Is there any way we could submit to, I guess,
[1:11:42] the group that was here forgot their name,
[1:11:44] his name so they could kind of remember him
[1:11:46] on their walk that night too,
[1:11:48] that 24 hours that they're gonna be doing?
[1:11:49] Absolutely.
[1:11:49] that would be awesome. Yes. Thank you. Craig, you too have been updating us all night,
[1:12:00] so, Christy, right? I'll try to make a brief. We had an extra
[1:12:08] week in between, so there were a lot of meetings that were attended, but I did attend the
[1:12:11] JPA Board of Directors meeting, where our very own city council member, mayor of my mayor.
[1:12:18] City Council Member Finley was elected again as president for another year
[1:12:27] and then I also attended
[1:12:30] summer conference for the municipal managers association of Southern California that was in
[1:12:35] Carson attended that mostly because they were talking about the Olympics and gearing up obviously
[1:12:41] for when LA hosts 2028 and all the plans so kind of be have that in thought and find out what's
[1:12:48] going to go on. You know, so as if it stands right now, I know that they're going to be
[1:12:55] encouraging much like in 1984 for those that were still around, that workforce and businesses
[1:13:03] in and around LA kind of try and stagger their workforce, so there's less traffic in
[1:13:08] through LA. But at the actual site events, it'll be robust in only. You will not be able
[1:13:15] to drive, so they're bringing in a lot of extra buses into the region, and so there's
[1:13:21] it's already ramping up as we saw the Olympic flag already arrived in LAX, so the Hollywood
[1:13:26] sign, and the Hollywood sign who can forget Tom Cruise and so I have a question, Brian.
[1:13:36] Regarding that, this is almost, I don't know where I've heard this, but I was talking
[1:13:41] with someone, and some of the smaller countries, they're looking for venues where they can practice,
[1:13:50] and I'm thinking specifically, we have a pool here that maybe, you know, maybe it's not, you know,
[1:13:58] country like France that takes it, and I realize it's not a standard, what is it, 50-meter pool,
[1:14:04] But it may be something that a smaller country would be interested.
[1:14:11] Well, you know, Katie, the deck he has first did, if we would have passed that resolution
[1:14:17] to that devote to shut down the poll for a while and revamp it, it probably might have-
[1:14:25] I think he's still like it.
[1:14:26] Yeah.
[1:14:27] Yeah.
[1:14:28] It's still like it.
[1:14:29] opened to any country reaching out to me to work out or trained in our city.
[1:14:36] There's a man. I think his name is Vic Noel and O.L. He's the manager of
[1:14:44] venue relations for the Olympics. So I got his business card someplace but I'll
[1:14:52] maybe bring it in and see. I'll send an email to him. Okay. Good. I'll bring it in.
[1:14:59] in the last...
[1:15:00] Not least, I did attend National Mide Out and want to thank Public Safety and Parks and Rec for just a really good event. I liked the way it was laid out at the Zital Parks Karachi Park, so that's all I have to report out. Thank you. Time. Council in the morning to a couple. My foot heel metro extension is on summer hiatus, so I'll be reporting or attending and reporting next month. Nothing otherwise, just want to wish all the awarding unified students a great first day of school tomorrow.
[1:15:29] I have three babies going into three different levels and my son has his first football game on Friday, so go Falcons.
[1:15:37] Right, Mr. Lewis?
[1:15:39] Thank you, that's it.
[1:15:41] Councilwoman Schultz.
[1:15:42] I don't have any meetings to report out on, but what a great summer with all the great events that we've done.
[1:15:50] Parks and Rec just never ceases to amaze me, so thank everyone for everything you do.
[1:15:56] I wanted to remind people that the walk of hope for City of Hope is September 8th.
[1:16:03] I'm part of a team called the Holy guacamole if you'd like to donate, I can send you the
[1:16:08] link, but if you can participate, donate, it's for a very good cause.
[1:16:14] City of Hope does wondrous work and I'm very proud to work there.
[1:16:19] I would also like to say as Friday was the deadline for pulling papers for the new election
[1:16:26] you all noticed that I did not and there's a reason for that my baby girl is about so I just
[1:16:35] wanted to say this is the best decision for for me and her just as it was the best decision
[1:16:42] four years ago when I ran and I beat an incumbent during COVID I'll add that so I've been so honored
[1:16:53] and I'm so grateful to have been here for this time,
[1:16:56] but I just wanted to let everyone know that formally.
[1:17:00] I will not be running again, but I'm grateful
[1:17:03] for having been able to be here.
[1:17:06] So thank you.
[1:17:07] Thank you.
[1:17:08] Councilor Anthony.
[1:17:09] Thank you.
[1:17:10] Isabel will benefit tremendously.
[1:17:15] So I notice the medians are looking brown.
[1:17:19] Is that an anticipation of us ripping them up?
[1:17:24] I didn't think we would be talking about vegans because sounds not here.
[1:17:27] I know, I just didn't know.
[1:17:31] No, but unless that was a good idea, and then we'll say yes.
[1:17:36] No, actually the water line for those medians is broken and we actually have to do some streetwork to repair that.
[1:17:46] And while we're still coming back and we're going to bid very soon on the medians and we'll be coming back with that after we get the big results
[1:17:53] But actually we need to get it working again because we to be able to get the grass to die out
[1:17:57] We have to actually have to water it a lot
[1:17:59] To make sure all the weeds get out of it. So we have to fix it so we can get rid of it. That's right
[1:18:04] Fix it so you can destroy it. Well, there's two ways to keep the two ways to kill weeds right let it dry and die
[1:18:10] but then the roots get hard or you saturate it so it just pulls right out the soil real easy.
[1:18:16] There'll be a lot of that. So that's what we're up to. So it doesn't look real good but we're
[1:18:22] in the process trying to get that fixed. But the break most likely is not even in the needles,
[1:18:27] it's in the, it's in, it's in an intersection. So we're gonna have to do some street work.
[1:18:30] Oh wow. We're hard on that kind of stuff. Okay, National and Night Out, it was amazing.
[1:18:40] kudos Larry and everybody else that participated in it. It was great to see so
[1:18:46] many people there so I was glad to do that. Vector control and I'm trying to
[1:18:58] think what are they it's the black flies this year that are so miserable. I'm itching
[1:19:04] in all the time.
[1:19:06] And he's laughing.
[1:19:08] No barbecue for you.
[1:19:10] I apologize, Madam,
[1:19:11] but I tried to tell you the bands to get a band.
[1:19:14] And your vector lady said they don't work,
[1:19:16] was they do work.
[1:19:18] I am a witness, they work.
[1:19:20] Okay, so the band's work, all right.
[1:19:22] Well, I just keep spraying myself,
[1:19:24] but yeah, tip toss and protect the three words.
[1:19:29] So anyway, that's all I have this evening.
[1:19:32] Thank you.
[1:19:32] Thank you, Councilwoman, Councilmember Lewis.
[1:19:37] Madam Friendly, I'm gonna make sure I bring your ban next meeting.
[1:19:41] So you'll have a ban and they do work, believe me.
[1:19:44] All right, I'll move forward.
[1:19:47] I just want to say, Tuleri, glad to see you feeling better.
[1:19:53] I was bothering him while he was sick and I apologize, you know.
[1:20:00] So I'm glad you're feeling better, sir. And also, I attended John Fassana's appreciation dinner
[1:20:11] and the mayor and I. I stayed to the very end and it was really good time. I mean, I learned
[1:20:23] a lot about John that I didn't know and I thought, you know, I know I don't know everything,
[1:20:27] But I thought I knew him pretty well, and there's a lot of stuff that I had no idea, and I would like to also think John
[1:20:36] but just being I know
[1:20:39] a member of the City Council and everything that he's done for the city. I mean
[1:20:47] We can't I can't possibly think him enough
[1:20:51] and also, and he gave me a ride home that night after the day.
[1:20:56] He's supposed to be honored and he's taking me home,
[1:20:59] so that's just the kind of man he is.
[1:21:01] Thank you, Mr. Fassana, and Mama Fassana.
[1:21:05] And I just like to thank and I'd like to apologize for
[1:21:11] National Night Out.
[1:21:13] I wasn't feeling good and I'm sure you all didn't want me to spread my terms,
[1:21:17] So I didn't want to infect everyone.
[1:21:20] So that's all I have for tonight.
[1:21:23] Thank you, Councilmember.
[1:21:25] Mayor Potsdam Garcia.
[1:21:26] Thank you.
[1:21:28] I was a little hesitant a national night out
[1:21:30] to use the bans because I thought they didn't work.
[1:21:33] But the vector was there and they did work.
[1:21:36] I was not bit at all.
[1:21:37] I always talk about collaboration and public safety
[1:21:41] with Parks and Rec.
[1:21:43] It was incredible.
[1:21:44] you both are managing your own half of the park.
[1:21:49] It was good to see the movie after dark again.
[1:21:53] I think a lot of residents ended up staying for that.
[1:21:55] So thank you.
[1:21:57] Thank you.
[1:21:58] Thank you for bringing that back to our friends
[1:22:01] at 7, 11 over 700 hot dogs all donated.
[1:22:06] I know folks that had seconds and we said until supplies last
[1:22:10] and I think there was a couple of hot dogs left out too.
[1:22:12] So a lands and target and grocery aisle, let's forget the factor, everybody who donated just just thank you.
[1:22:20] It's, you know, the strength is in numbers, Sarge getting in the tank with Deputy Valenzuela.
[1:22:29] I'm hopeful to see how much money was raised for our youth programs with that fundraiser,
[1:22:33] but every year it's a hit. So thank you guys for doing that and being good sports.
[1:22:38] I also attended the back-to-score drive hosted by Foot Hill Unity Center.
[1:22:44] They gave out over 800 backpacks, and with the leftover stuff, they were going to be doing
[1:22:50] satellites throughout the weekend after that event, so to everyone who donates and volunteers,
[1:22:56] that's incredible.
[1:22:58] So it's so heartwarming to see all these students that are excited to have the opportunity
[1:23:04] to start a school year with, you know, with brand new items and backpacks and
[1:23:11] fresh cuts, and there was manicures and pedicures and it was, it was, it was
[1:23:16] incredible.
[1:23:19] Touch a truck. That was a hit. One of the vendors came in shooting
[1:23:27] bubbles, and all the kids were dancing to music. It was warm out there, but that
[1:23:32] That was a great turn out.
[1:23:34] I just started following on Instagram the pizza planet truck.
[1:23:37] They do events in the area that are actually in the OC, so I don't know what the chances
[1:23:42] are to reach out to them for next year's touch of truck.
[1:23:46] That's a toy store of 5's coming out, so I'm excited for that one.
[1:23:52] And then lastly, Kimas, or the excursions, I went out with my family to the dogger game
[1:24:01] that Parks and Rec did, it was so nice to see the Dodgers welcome the City of
[1:24:04] Dwardy on the, under the Jumbo Tron, under the ribbon. That was, that was neat
[1:24:09] to, to experience. And I want all that everybody know that these, these
[1:24:12] excursions are for anyone 21 and over. So, their bus comes here after senior
[1:24:17] center, but anybody can, can participate. Those are great events. So, thank you
[1:24:22] guys. It's been a fun summer and wishing all the students a happy first day back.
[1:24:27] Thank you Mayor Potem.
[1:24:30] I attended the dinner or I guess you could say installation of the new CalCity's LA County
[1:24:38] Division President Board members.
[1:24:40] Congratulations to Arcadia Mayor Michael Cal for stepping in as the president.
[1:24:49] National night out.
[1:24:51] It was I stayed for the movie the entire thing.
[1:24:54] I think I was leaving one of the sheriff's vehicles were leaving just my kids just didn't want to leave they were what they were going
[1:25:00] We're going around every single booth and got free stuff and bringing their friends and just running around. It was awesome. Yeah, that's a great collaborative effort. I think it was awesome and such a coincidence that it was changed to that Thursday at TPC Park. It was a birthday. We're handing out some cupcakes and popcorn stuff that she usually hands out for free too. So it was awesome and a good tribute and a great national night out. And Sarge got lucky.
[1:25:28] I was resting my throwing arm that day, kind of, I missed by about three inches, so close, so close, but anyhow, my thank you for Valley E and R, we will be back in September.
[1:25:42] So I'll have more to report on that as well. But other than that, you all have a good night. Thank you for everybody who stayed through the workshop as well as the meeting.
[1:25:53] I want to adjourn tonight's meeting.
[1:25:55] Again, Richard Allertori, Jim Clark, Councilwoman from Rosemeat Margaret Clark's husband,
[1:26:06] as well as Sheriff's Deputy Gonzalo Galvez, I would adjourn tonight's meeting on behalf
[1:26:14] of those three.
[1:26:15] Have a good night, everybody.