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[0:00] All right, good evening, everyone. Thank you for attending our city council meeting on September 24, 2024.
[0:11] If we can, I will go ahead and call this meeting to order.
[0:15] And if I can ask a net to do the roll call.
[0:20] Council member Finley. Here, council member King. Here. Council member Lewis.
[0:25] Council Member Schultz is absent, Council Member Martin Del Compo, here, Mayor for Tim Garcia.
[0:32] Here.
[0:32] Here.
[0:32] Here.
[0:36] Let's see.
[0:39] If I can please request that Dorian from for Hill, transit, help lead us to the pledge of allegiance.
[1:06] Thank you
[1:12] all right. Can I have a motion to adopt today's agenda. So second. All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor. All right. The motion carries. Moving on to agenda item number four. Special items public safety department update update from Larry Bersida.
[1:34] Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor and council. This evening I'll be presenting the public safety update and I'm going to try to keep it to under three minutes because I am challenged to it. So go ahead and start clock.
[1:48] Yes, see a lot of excitement in the air. So I will keep this short and sweet nonetheless. Oh, she really did start it.
[1:57] Don't buzz it out. Let's see what we do.
[1:59] let's jokes more talk. Well this evening I'm going to have to report in comparison year
[2:06] to date for September 2024, in comparison to September of 23, when you compare the part one
[2:11] crime numbers for those two time periods, we are seeing a decline of negative 4.78% in our part
[2:18] one crimes, which is excellent. And if you during my last report we had a negative trend as well.
[2:25] So we are continuing that negative aspect when it comes to the part one crimes category which is excellent for the city to worry.
[2:32] Furthermore, we've done quite a bunch of different events and operations during this time period.
[2:38] One of the operations we did was focused on traffic related items and enforcement in and around our schools zones.
[2:44] So we did receive a lot of positive feedback, not only from parents, but also from the surrounding community in relation to our presence there and the enforcement of safe maneuvering actions,
[2:53] as well as just overall speed reduction, so it's been excellent excellent feedback and that
[2:57] respect. The last thing that I'm going to report is the Breach Fire. So the Breach Fire, we did
[3:03] see started on September 8th at 212 p.m. As of today's date, the Breach Fire is at 54,878 acres.
[3:15] It does have 81% containment. They do have a primary line around the fire and they are reinforcing
[3:22] their secondary lines of containment as we speak. So there is quite a bit of firefighting efforts
[3:27] that are occurring. The city's door he did operate. It's a emergency operations center on a remote
[3:32] status. So what that means that in case the fire did grow at a proportion or did affect
[3:37] door he residents, we could do a full activation response as necessary. Other than that, the city of
[3:43] door he and its staff, what we did, is just maintain the operation center, work collaborative
[3:48] follow their other surrounding agencies as well as provide support. So with that, I am
[3:55] done. Look at that. I got a minute to spare. Wow. Amazing. Yeah. All right. All right. Thank
[4:00] you. Thank you. I'll be here. I'll be here. I'll be here. Any questions? Do you have any questions
[4:06] from Council? I'm going to put 10. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor, for the update. I think it's
[4:12] also worth mentioning Tony Hatlugs numbers this month compared to the last report. I don't
[4:18] want to share a little bit on that part. Absolutely. Well, I do have a minute to spare, so yes.
[4:25] Yeah, as you can see, Tony Hatluck is our outreach coordinator for the city of Dordia and his
[4:30] main mission and goal is to outreach with the transient community. So people experience the
[4:36] homelessness. He identifies those individuals. He contacts them, provides resources.
[4:42] With those contacts and that information, he does keep a lot of data and metrics.
[4:45] And what happens is that he has a telly of everybody that he contacts.
[4:51] Within this month and prior month we have seen the numbers decline.
[4:56] So he normally contacts about 28.
[5:00] Individuals for that month, that's the people that have maintained in the city. What we're not talking about people that are just coming in out, but people that stay in the community and be in contact in a several times throughout the month, we're seeing 28 this month as well as last month, it is at 8.
[5:16] That is about 71% reduction.
[5:20] Now, only with that, but we are seeing contacts
[5:23] overall have declined as well as calls for service declined.
[5:28] Obviously, they have not gone down to zero as council was aware.
[5:32] There's some areas that are heightened more than others.
[5:34] Overall, we're seeing a huge reduction in that area as well.
[5:38] And I also want to appreciate, because we had a conversation about
[5:42] one of this kind of boardy road, folks lowering in the area,
[5:45] and making everyone safe for the seniors that live in that facility.
[5:50] I have noticed as a mother that they're kind of going
[5:53] to a larger and more part.
[5:55] And we've got a couple of calls about our residents concerned
[5:58] about using the playground equipment and things like that.
[6:01] But I know you guys are on it.
[6:03] And these stats are amazing.
[6:05] They're not perfect, obviously.
[6:07] But we're making great strides to not just pushing the issue,
[6:11] but addressing it in offering services,
[6:13] which is what I appreciate.
[6:14] Thank you.
[6:15] Absolutely.
[6:16] Thank
[6:18] you.
[6:19] Can I just remember this?
[6:22] How you doing, Larry?
[6:24] Good sir.
[6:26] Um, uh, Mayor Proteum kind of touched on what I was going to say about the lies more
[6:30] part.
[6:32] Um, I also was contacted several times by my constituents and, uh, I told them that I
[6:39] would look into addressing that.
[6:41] Um, so thank you for reaching out.
[6:43] I mean, I called you, but you sent me a text back, but thank you for responding.
[6:49] And for the bridge fire, did they have a cause?
[6:53] Not at this point.
[6:54] Not at this time.
[6:56] Thank you, sir.
[6:58] Is that one of the biggest?
[7:00] Yes, in this area.
[7:01] I would imagine, right?
[7:02] Yeah, this one is the biggest in this area.
[7:04] They did declare an emergency.
[7:07] State of emergency for the county, so they did get federal funding.
[7:10] So we're seeing a lot of federal resources for both this fire, as well as the airport fire.
[7:15] Those two are declared.
[7:17] Thank you.
[7:20] Any more questions from Council?
[7:23] Awesome.
[7:24] Thank you, Larry.
[7:25] You're welcome.
[7:25] Thank you.
[7:28] I just want to thank Larry for, you know, when you're out pounding the pavement walking
[7:34] houses and you have a question and Brian was just like this too.
[7:39] I call them because they're constituents that have questions and or they've had problems
[7:44] and they aren't willing to just go ahead and call City Hall.
[7:47] Thank you for picking up. Like I said, Brian used to do it too. Manual, Craig. I don't have too many questions for Kristen, but thank you.
[7:56] Thank you. I know you would. I know you would, but it's very helpful to be able to have an immediate answer.
[8:04] And it makes people feel like they're kind of empowered.
[8:10] When they, it's like, oh, wow, I really am talking to the director of public safety.
[8:16] So anyway, thank you.
[8:18] Well, in our line of work, it makes us feel like we're actually doing a lot
[8:23] for a residence when we get answers to the questions.
[8:27] And with the speed of how we get the answers, it's amazing.
[8:32] Okay, Larry, I see you picked up from Ms. Finland, but you didn't pick up from me.
[8:36] I'm starting to feel so in the kind of way.
[8:39] Okay, Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, you know, we'll go, I'll make it up to you, Tony.
[8:44] There's a crumble cookie in your future.
[8:47] For the record, I was in Europe, which is why you got a text in our phone call.
[8:51] They charge me like $5 a minute.
[8:55] So I was back in California.
[8:57] 5 year round.
[8:58] Okay, sir.
[8:59] You're excuses granted.
[9:01] Thank you, sir.
[9:02] Thank you.
[9:03] Next up, we are on agenda item number five, announcements of upcoming community events, and we have
[9:09] join a G for the library.
[9:17] Good evening, City Council, John and G from Dordie Library.
[9:20] Just a reminder that our bookmark contest is coming to an end.
[9:23] The last state to submit is Saturday, October 5th, and that is for a great tinder through
[9:28] 12th grade.
[9:29] We have our last story time session this Friday at 11 am.
[9:34] Our next one, we'll start on Friday, October 18th at 11am.
[9:39] We have our We-Build Wednesday tomorrow at 330pm.
[9:43] We have our Smart Start Art for Kids 025 on Saturday, October 5th at 2pm.
[9:50] And for adults with Kiyoung Kids, we have our positive parenting programs seminar
[9:55] on Thursday, October 24th at 1pm.
[9:58] And we also have for Kids.
[10:00] It's booking magic flashlight, where we're going to talk about different monsters on Wednesday, October 30, 330 PM.
[10:08] And then, 14, we have our Hispanic Heritage Month, paint your own Alahabrae Owl, and that's going to be on Thursday, the September 26th at 330 PM, and 14, but with also bots on Thursday, October 17th at 330 PM.
[10:23] And 14th, Hispanic Heritage Month, Artists Fernando Lord on Saturday, October 19th at 2pm and this is held in partnership with L.A. County Probations Department.
[10:34] And then for adults, this Saturday, we're going to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by making a Guaramalan Barrel lettuce.
[10:41] And then on Saturday, October 12th at 2pm, we're going to celebrate Ellsworth Kelly inspired art in honor of LGBTQ history month.
[10:49] We also have friends at the Library of Books there on Saturday, October 26th from 10am to 3pm as well as a program for families that day on Saturday, October 26th at 1pm and that's to make your own beechal boxes. Any questions?
[11:05] That's about it.
[11:05] I think she said beechal?
[11:07] Neechal.
[11:07] Neechal boxes.
[11:09] Yes.
[11:10] Councilwoman Philly?
[11:11] Like a friend that.
[11:13] Oh.
[11:14] You know.
[11:15] Like a friend that.
[11:17] Okay.
[11:17] How long have you been at that library now, Joanna?
[11:20] Since about August, 2011.
[11:24] Wow.
[11:25] You know what?
[11:26] You just, you hit every one of them out of the park.
[11:30] You, you're really quite an asset to this community.
[11:34] So thank you very much.
[11:35] Oh, thank you.
[11:37] Thank you, Joanna.
[11:38] Thank you, Joanna.
[11:39] You're welcome.
[11:42] Okay.
[11:44] I know, yeah, next up we were supposed to have on the rest, but I was actually going to invite Rosa, but Steve is stepping up right now, go ahead.
[11:53] Well, I did it, because I didn't want to forget it.
[11:58] I've been with Manage, going door to door to offer free smoke alarms to people in the south eastern into the city.
[12:09] And we've had, we've had good, we've had a really good success, just not great.
[12:16] But on Saturday, we need volunteers to help with installing these devices.
[12:23] And any of you are available, or no people that are available, please get involved.
[12:29] And for you, council members that are up to reelection, where are you shirts?
[12:37] But yeah, but anyhow, it's been a good experience for us to do this because we've met a lot of new people and, but now it's if we can get all the help we can, we'd appreciate it and contact Monash for that.
[12:53] He's got all the details. I didn't even bring a flyer. Thank you.
[12:56] Thank you.
[12:59] All right, so next I am going to invite Rosa up so she could tell us a little bit about the homecoming.
[13:05] That's coming up.
[13:06] Good evening.
[13:08] Well, I wanted to invite you all to the homecoming game, which is this Friday the 27th.
[13:14] I know we have some Falcons here.
[13:16] So it's homecoming, 7 p.m.
[13:20] Dirty high school. I want to see everybody. It'd be wonderful. I hope you guys can make it in support art students and another thing
[13:27] Rotis doing a park cleanup on October the 12th. We're doing the trail and
[13:33] Royal Oak's park. I'd like to invite you guys to come out and support us. It'll be rotary and the dark team will be out there
[13:39] So hope to see you guys there
[13:42] That's yes. Are you saving seats for us at the football game if you're coming I will okay? I need to get your number
[13:48] because I have to do the camp out at Royale Oaks on Friday night.
[13:52] I'm on the PTO board, but I really want to cut it sneak over and come see you guys.
[13:56] Can you sneak over for at least an hour or two?
[13:58] Yes, for sure.
[13:59] I'll get it to you.
[14:00] Thank you so much for all of us.
[14:01] Thank you, Rosa.
[14:03] Who are they playing, Rosa?
[14:07] Who are they playing?
[14:09] Okay.
[14:10] Oh.
[14:12] All right, next, we have Andreas from Assistant to the City Manager.
[14:19] Good evening Mayor and council members.
[14:21] Just a couple of quick announcements here.
[14:24] On October 5th, I will be having our
[14:25] DeWarty Family Feud events starting at 11 am here
[14:28] at the DeWarty Community Center.
[14:30] Teams will consist of five players.
[14:32] Three must be related by blood, marriage,
[14:34] or partnership, and the team fee to register
[14:36] as $40.
[14:38] To register, sign up today at the DeWarty
[14:39] Teams Center.
[14:41] And we also invite everyone to come and shop at
[14:43] our or sale at our Community Yard sale
[14:45] on October 12th at a senior center parking lot.
[14:49] Starting at 8 am, you can come out and dive into our various vendors booth to see if you can find any hidden gems.
[14:57] If you want a register as a vendor, please contact the door.
[15:04] Okay.
[15:06] Thank you.
[15:07] Any questions?
[15:08] Thank you, Chair.
[15:13] Next time I'd like to invite any audience members to announce any upcoming events
[15:19] that anyone else has?
[15:23] Okay?
[15:25] Yeah, you want to come up right now?
[15:27] Yeah, sure.
[15:33] Hi, everybody.
[15:34] Hello.
[15:36] Hi, my name is Carolyn Cargill.
[15:38] I'm your local district manager for Starbucks.
[15:41] I've seen many of you.
[15:42] Thank you.
[15:44] And really, we're here to announce.
[15:48] We're here to announce that we have officially opened our second location here in the city of Dordi.
[15:55] It's over.
[15:56] I know.
[15:57] Thank you.
[15:58] It's a cafe only with both seating, tons of seating, two community tables.
[16:04] come to you sitting at the back. I'm just saying. Everybody come. And we open last week and we're
[16:11] really trying to get the word out that we're here. It's on DeWordie in Mountain, just south of Walmart
[16:20] in the center with the, yeah, the easy boy, I hop, pan dexpress, and Picosito. And so we were actually
[16:32] looking to see if we could work dates with you to have a grand opening. I happen to know this
[16:38] is a very busy time, it's election time, but really we just wanted to invite everybody. We were
[16:44] thinking November 10th somewhere between 8 to 10 a.m. but we are certainly flexible, we just wanted
[16:51] to invite you all and also see how we can work together to spread the word.
[16:58] How am I named Erica?
[17:00] I'm the star manager of the new location.
[17:02] So tell all your friends.
[17:03] And you were in the night?
[17:05] You were in the night shirt that we had this Saturday.
[17:09] I had the representative hoodie.
[17:10] And I just had a question.
[17:12] Did the chamber reach out to you because I contacted them yesterday after Sergeant Filer
[17:16] reached out to me.
[17:18] So she did reach out to me.
[17:22] And ultimately, it's coming down to like dates.
[17:26] And we would like to set up something sooner.
[17:30] We also are working with our share of department for setting up
[17:35] a coffee with the cops, which we'll also invite you to.
[17:38] So I know we can't be in all places.
[17:40] However, we wanted to have a grand opening
[17:43] for the community the sooner or the better.
[17:46] And so November 10th, we're going to work with the sheriff.
[17:48] Anyone here that can support that cause.
[17:51] And then we'll do a coffee with the cops later
[17:54] that in the next month or so and we'll invite everybody to that as well. And if you ever
[18:02] want a coffee with the mayor or something else, we would be happy to host something like that.
[18:08] Sounds good. I have a question that has to do with your actual physical location. Do you
[18:17] it a drive through? It is not. It is just a cafe only. So, very cozy, it's big, it's very big, it's
[18:29] perfect. And your name is Sarah? Erica.
[18:35] Erica. Erica. Erica. Got it. Thank you. Erica, I think you should
[18:40] do November 2nd because that's the important day. That's my son's birthday. That's my birthday too.
[18:46] We'll have fun.
[18:47] Happy birthday.
[18:51] We'll give you a cup of coffee.
[18:53] Come on, bye.
[18:56] Well, thank you.
[18:56] I'll be there.
[18:58] November 10th and we will see whoever can make it.
[19:02] November 10th, October 10th.
[19:03] Just kidding. October 10th.
[19:05] October 10th.
[19:07] October 10th, just to get the word out
[19:09] and then we'll work with the sheriff
[19:10] and you if you would like to do something for the total study.
[19:14] Okay. Yeah, that location is a little bit interesting. Yeah, so I used to on that store right next door and
[19:25] it takes a lot of effort. It takes a lot of effort to go and get people to know about that location
[19:30] because it's actually sloped down. So when you're at the Walmart parking lot, you don't really see it.
[19:38] So it will be good. It will be good. It just takes a little bit more time. So yeah, that's all you have to do.
[19:44] just keep marketing it and we'll do some, you know, grassroots marketing over here.
[19:49] I hope you get it.
[19:50] Thank you so much.
[19:51] Thank you.
[19:51] Thank you guys.
[19:53] Who is your manager at the Starbucks on Huntington?
[20:00] My Castro, and Melissa left.
[20:04] Melissa's Huntington in 2010, and Rovia?
[20:07] Yeah.
[20:08] Yes.
[20:11] I've seen her, and she's like, I would love to go back over there, but.
[20:19] She's like, that's a district manager's job.
[20:22] Well, she wants to be a district manager, so I'm like, let's go girl.
[20:26] Um, let's go curl work and, uh, you know, uh, this was actually an opportunity for her to, to learn and grow and open a new store.
[20:36] Give Mike an opportunity to meet you and, um, be a part of this community and Erica actually is a constituent of your she lives here in Dordy.
[20:44] I'm also a help.
[20:46] Oh, hey.
[20:49] Awesome.
[20:49] Well, thank you guys and, um, hope we'll be in touch.
[20:52] And we'll try and go.
[20:53] Thank you.
[20:53] Oh, the grand opening?
[20:54] 8 to 10.
[20:59] Thank you.
[21:00] Cool.
[21:01] Thank you.
[21:04] Anyone else from the audience would like to make some announcements on any upcoming events they have?
[21:12] All right.
[21:13] Yes.
[21:15] This is not an upcoming event, but I think I didn't call you on it.
[21:22] I probably should have.
[21:23] But I just wanted to have you add
[21:28] a Germans and memory of two people.
[21:34] The first one is for, I don't know, how many of you at Dordi High School ever had
[21:39] Tumoko Sato, as she was someone that,
[21:46] well, Tumoko was great. Anyway, is great, but her husband Bill Sato passed away.
[21:52] He was an engineer for the city of Pasadena for years and years and years.
[21:57] And he clearly had, they clearly had very talented kids because they're one son when
[22:04] they had the 84 Olympics.
[22:05] They had a bunch of grand pianos set up on the Coliseum, and their son was one of the grand
[22:11] piano players up there.
[22:14] So anyway, but Bill, Bill Sotto, Rest in Peace, great, great family.
[22:20] He also had quite a story to tell about internment camps.
[22:25] He was up in Wyoming at an internment camp up there.
[22:30] Anyway, and then also, another person that passed away, she was 98 years old, is a lady named
[22:36] Valda Richter's.
[22:39] She lived up on the Mesa, and when the fire came through in November of 1980, all of the
[22:46] to a clock in the morning, we're up there with their bullhorns telling everybody to get out.
[22:54] And Valda and Arnes were up on their roof with hoses,
[22:59] spraying down the roof, and they were from Riga Latvia.
[23:05] And they said if they could go ahead and deal with the Russians on one side and the Nazis on the other,
[23:14] they could deal with a little bit of fire.
[23:16] and they did. They saved their house up there. Anyway, Valdor was 98 years old,
[23:23] both she and her husband were medical doctors and they taught at USC's medical school.
[23:29] So, Valdor Richter's RICH TERS and I have addresses for both.
[23:37] All right, thank you, Councilwoman. Now item number six oral communications. If you wish to
[23:45] speaker on a matter that is not on this agenda you may do so at this time each member of the
[23:49] public will have a total of three minutes to speak. The council cannot discuss or take actions
[23:54] on matters not only agenda for this meeting. Annette, do we have any public comments?
[23:59] I have for it's evening card's mayor. You have what?
[24:01] I have not received any cards. Okay, thank you. Anybody from the public wish to step up to the
[24:07] podium to speak on any items that are not on the agenda? I see none. Okay, moving on to
[24:15] I know I remember six consent calendar. I mean seven consent calendar. Do we have any items on a consent calendar that council would like to move?
[24:26] Yeah, I just like to talk about seven J and honestly we can discuss it before somebody before we vote.
[24:34] Yeah, we can do that.
[24:37] Are you looking to just make a comment or just a comment?
[24:40] Okay, that's fine.
[24:41] Anyway, Prop 36 basically will help undo the problems that came with Proposition 47.
[24:57] But when did that pass, right?
[25:01] 2014, where felons, all of a sudden became misdemeanors, because they had to keep the populations in the prisons down.
[25:12] So we know what's happened since then, and I am very much in support of Prop 36. The homelessness drug addiction and theft reduction act.
[25:27] So, anyway, I just wanted to go ahead and make that comment and I hope people will review it carefully before they vote because I believe it is going to put back in place some more significant punitive actions for people that decide they want to steal $950 or less from the stores.
[25:55] Okay.
[25:56] That's it.
[25:56] And what's that?
[25:58] I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar.
[26:01] Second.
[26:02] Okay.
[26:02] We have a motion in the second.
[26:03] All in favor?
[26:05] Aye.
[26:06] None opposed?
[26:08] Nope.
[26:09] Motion carries.
[26:10] Thank you.
[26:13] Since we talked about that, we don't have to talk about 7J.
[26:16] Moving on to agenda item number 9.
[26:18] Public hearing.
[26:19] We have none.
[26:21] Moving forward to agenda item number 10.
[26:23] our business item, Dority Ebus, a random of understanding extension, and we have Chris, she beat
[26:30] me to it.
[26:30] She's up there already.
[26:32] Thank you.
[26:33] Mayor and City Council, and 2014, you will remember that Council directed staff to purchase electric
[26:39] buses for DeWortie's fixed route system.
[26:42] At that time, as when we started contracting with Hilt Transit, to operate and maintain the
[26:47] vehicles.
[26:47] And MOU was approved in 2017 and the operation of our DeWordie Ebus began in 2019.
[26:55] The first three-year extension was executed recently in 2021, doesn't seem like it was
[27:01] just yesterday, but it's been three whole years.
[27:04] And the second three-year extension is being recommended at this time.
[27:08] Over the last six years of operation, a lot has changed, and I don't just mean with our
[27:14] buses.
[27:14] I mean in the world, obviously.
[27:16] But most recently, in June of 2023, Council approved the consolidation of the two-dewordy
[27:23] routes and the extension of Line 272 to Mountain Vista Plaza.
[27:28] This eliminated duplication and stops where ridership was low and it focused on stops
[27:33] where the ridership was higher.
[27:35] The route change was implemented in November of 2023 and based on the data from the last few
[27:42] Ridership is averaging right around 2100 rights per month given that given that information
[27:48] we're providing about 25,000 rights per year.
[27:53] The fixed route system continues to provide a valuable resource of transportation to
[27:57] the community.
[27:59] Last June, when we made those changes, Council also directed staff to track the monthly savings
[28:06] that we're going to be related to this consolidation and learn more about on demand
[28:11] micro transit options. Since November, the city is seen and average savings of about 22,000 per month.
[28:20] And so if this were to continue, that would equate to about 250,000 per year. Based on
[28:26] meeting with surrounding cities and directly meeting with micro transit providers in our area,
[28:31] we have determined that implementing even a limited hour on demand micro transit program in the
[28:42] So clearly the annual savings based on what we're seeing so far is not enough to cover the ongoing costs of starting a demand system.
[28:51] So at this time we would report and recommend that we continue to track the savings and monitor the ridership of our fixed route and report back next year after we have a full 12 months of data under our belt.
[29:03] The new route, the changes in what's happening in transportation, and eventually the decisions we need to make about our fixed route system are on the horizon.
[29:14] In the meantime, staff is recommending that the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute another three year of continuing to operate our fixed route with this new route schedule.
[29:28] I also want to point out that we do have federal transit representatives here, Doran Barnes,
[29:34] the Chief Executive Officer and Joe Raquel, who is the director of planning or both here
[29:38] if you have any additional questions that I can answer for you.
[29:42] At this time, I'm recommending that you do authorize the city manager to execute the three
[29:48] year option on the MOU with Foothill Transit.
[29:52] That concludes what I have to share, but I'm open to any questions.
[29:54] Do you have any questions from Council?
[29:57] Council member, okay?
[29:58] I got a question really quick.
[30:00] With this fixed route, I've seen some other cities like I believe Al-Habra would go to Monterey Park in a Montabella
[30:10] would go to all the way to Al-Habra. Is there any way that this fixed route can be expanded to maybe
[30:18] going to home goods or somewhere in Marmovia and so on? Just to help the ridership maybe
[30:27] perhaps to go up. It's just easy.
[30:29] We can always look at route changes.
[30:31] Going outside of the boundaries, a lot of, you know, at that point it would be counsel's decision on whether you're going to then have ridership from, you know, other communities who are going to be utilizing that as opposed to just working your way around to worthy.
[30:45] Right now, the goal is definitely to connect to the regional transportations.
[30:51] 187272 which do continue down hunting to drive, don't forget to exactly where you're describing.
[30:58] So our goal has always been to sort of be that last-first-mile, last-mile kind of a connection
[31:05] from that regional transportation.
[31:07] But definitely we have the opportunity to look at our fixed route and look at going outside
[31:11] of the city.
[31:12] It really would be a council decision if you wanted to expand the areas that we're serving.
[31:16] Yeah, just a little bit, I would imagine not going all the way to Murdoch, but since a lot of the folks,
[31:22] you know, they shop in Monrovia, some other kind of hubs and stuff like that, we can definitely start
[31:28] looking at that if that's something we want to look into. I do think that the idea of having fixed
[31:34] route in Monrovia, they haven't done that because they have an on-demand system and it sort of tends
[31:39] to be one of the other in most cases, although we're starting to see some hybrids in other cities.
[31:44] So, it could be something where we also could approach
[31:47] Minervy and find out if they would want to participate in something like,
[31:50] because we would then be bringing people to their commerce,
[31:53] and so perhaps they would want to participate in something like that.
[31:56] Unless we have some of these stores in Dwarri,
[32:00] most of the folks would like to go shopping.
[32:04] It's a better way to go into this figure out.
[32:07] I wouldn't imagine for some of our constituents.
[32:09] We definitely can look at those kind of route options,
[32:12] And what the costs would be if they need to changing that route in expanding hours.
[32:16] Sure.
[32:17] Thank you.
[32:17] It should be too tough because do we go up Mountain?
[32:21] Yeah.
[32:22] So if we go up Mountain, just even making a quick turn,
[32:25] they're on Huntington driving through the complex there and then getting back on Huntington.
[32:30] Yeah.
[32:31] Not going on private property.
[32:32] That would be one thing.
[32:33] So we would have to identify a site that's over there.
[32:35] But working with what he'll transit, that's kind of the easiest because again,
[32:39] they already have a route where their bus is doing something like that.
[32:42] have a stop in that area. So we definitely could look at that. One thing I have learned
[32:46] in transit is it never is as simple as just adding something because of the time tables, right?
[32:52] But it doesn't mean that we can't look at it. We just look at it and right now we're getting
[32:56] so much data about the heavily-ist-used stops and the ones that are least-used that it does give
[33:03] us a lot of ability to start reevaluating those least-used ones and adding what we think
[33:08] might be another great location.
[33:11] So that's definitely something that we can look at.
[33:14] And one more question really quick.
[33:17] And I think this question goes to you, Doran,
[33:19] is how are these buses since Petera actually went BK?
[33:24] How are we maintaining them?
[33:27] And do we still need a 35 footer?
[33:29] Can we get something even smaller?
[33:32] I think Lendora was actually exploring that kind of ideas.
[33:35] I went to Europe and I also went to, in China, they have some smaller buses, but of course
[33:43] we have to pass all the NTSB and stuff, but nonetheless, I'm not sure if there's a way
[33:49] to perhaps have them smaller, because I've never seen, I've been here for 20, some years,
[33:57] I've never seen them full, so maybe you can have something smaller, just to compensate,
[34:02] If these buses, I don't know, you know, one day, these batteries are like, hey, they're all
[34:09] degraded, they're degraded, they're degraded, then, then, you know, what we're going to do, right?
[34:16] I will at Doran talk a little bit about that, but one thing I did want to point out is that absolutely is something that we need to evaluate when it comes time for us to decide what we're going to do with our fixed route.
[34:28] At this point, we have our investment in these vehicles, but their life is not going to be very long.
[34:35] And so we are going to need to start looking at what would be the best way for us to run our system.
[34:41] And smaller vehicles may be the solution.
[34:45] I think during can speak to the fact that they get particularly small, and it stops becoming a product that foothill transit operates.
[34:54] But then we get back to where when we had the buses before, we would need to find an operator who does that.
[35:00] There are operators to do that. That was part of understanding now how these on-demand systems are operating. They are working with smaller vehicle sizes.
[35:10] But again, I would every expectation that that's going to be part of the conversation. When it comes time for us to decide, are we investing, what is the next investment of replacement?
[35:21] And what does it look like and what would be the best product for what our ridership is like now?
[35:28] You know, what the transportation market is like in our city relative to the other transportation that we already have available to us.
[35:37] Thank you.
[35:39] Yeah.
[35:40] Mr. Mayor, members of the council.
[35:42] We're certainly honored to partner with you and to be your transit system and to be able to have this extended service that we've operated on your behalf.
[35:50] I think this is a really exciting and interesting space.
[35:54] And as we look to the future as we partner with your city team,
[35:57] looking at what the future might look like is,
[36:00] you know, there's a lot of questions and a lot of things that are quickly evolving.
[36:03] And we certainly want to work with you on that.
[36:04] I think in terms of the size of the vehicle,
[36:06] in my experience, the key cost driver for a transit vehicle
[36:11] is the coach operator and the fuel.
[36:14] So whether the vehicle can carry five people or 30 people,
[36:18] 70% of that cost is still there.
[36:21] So to some extent, if you're running a fixed route operation,
[36:23] the size of vehicle that you have gives you the flexibility
[36:26] to carry those bigger loads with a materialized,
[36:29] and when the buses as full, again,
[36:30] you're still incurring largely the same cost.
[36:34] Protarabuses are certainly a bit of a challenge,
[36:37] and we're doing everything we can to keep them up
[36:39] and running and maintain.
[36:41] And we're leaning in very, very heavily on those.
[36:44] Two of the vehicles are operating.
[36:45] there's a third vehicle that has some technical issue that
[36:49] Proceteria is diagnosing. We're going to do everything we can to keep on the road as long as we can for you.
[36:55] But there will come a time when it'll be time to move on to that next technology.
[36:59] We do have 17 Proceteria buses in our core fleet that we're also operating.
[37:04] So the full fleet is 20 vehicles that we're trying to keep going.
[37:07] Okay, thank you.
[37:10] Thank you, Mayor, while we're in the topic of promoting and expanding routes and promoting
[37:17] ridership, I don't have a question recording shelters.
[37:22] I know it gets tricky because you want to make sure that they're safe and that public
[37:27] safety has full view of them, but especially during these harsh weather like that heat wave
[37:34] We had, you know, it's tough to see folks waiting for that bus to pass by when there's
[37:41] no shelter or weather proofing.
[37:44] We've never discussed this up here, but I was hoping maybe we can have a future workshop
[37:49] or maybe at the CIP to see how the rest of Council feels to kind of look at what other cities
[37:55] are doing, what's still being safe and allowing the riders to be comfortable while they wait
[38:01] for those.
[38:03] That I will say that's a capital investment for sure, they are not cheap, there's different types of advertising things you can do to try to offset costs and things like that.
[38:15] Having said that, I do think that some of the changes we've made pretty recently without.
[38:20] We'd want to be very careful to invest capital improvements at a location that may or may not be on our route, so being cautious about that.
[38:29] But having a conversation about what those look like and how other cities are dealing with it is completely appropriate.
[38:35] It's something that I think we would want to do so that we come time for our capital improvement,
[38:40] you know, workshop that we know whether or not where you'd like to put that maybe on on the rankings of that.
[38:47] So, you know, funding it sooner or later or whatever.
[38:50] So, absolutely, I can put that on my list to bring back.
[38:52] Thank you, Chris.
[38:53] Tell us more, okay?
[38:55] Thank you, Mayor.
[38:55] Just one more thing, Kristen.
[38:57] I'm just curious.
[38:59] You know how when CS arts,
[39:02] the students, when they get off,
[39:04] I mean, there's a massive amount of these people,
[39:06] these students, and I'm very, very grateful
[39:10] for CS arts and for them to be here.
[39:15] Is there any way, because I see them walking, right?
[39:19] They're walking, there's hundreds of them.
[39:22] is you're in way we can go and incorporate some kind of routes for them, you know,
[39:27] they can instead of, you know, walking, if they're carrying all that whatever stuff,
[39:31] they can somehow use a bus to get to it.
[39:35] Are you seeing the students who are walking from the gold line?
[39:38] Yeah.
[39:39] The gold line to school.
[39:41] More than one block, yeah.
[39:43] Right.
[39:44] Yeah.
[39:45] We can look at the timing of the route that's already there.
[39:49] But I think part of it is that isn't a very far walk.
[39:53] And so having something special for the bus just to do during that time is probably not very cost effective.
[40:00] May be a separate shuttle of S Arts wants to do that. But just given that distance, I don't even, I mean, as far as even having another stop.
[40:09] We have a stop there. Yeah. Yeah.
[40:11] And it's an additional stop. Right. Well, no, we already have a stop at the station.
[40:20] OK. So they could be getting on right now. It just could be at the hour that you're talking about seeing all of those students.
[40:28] You know, they're not being captured within that 10 minutes that they're walking up the street.
[40:33] Perhaps.
[40:34] Yeah. Okay.
[40:34] But it's something that we can talk to see CSRs about and find out, you know, what that specific
[40:39] time is that they're finding their students are getting off.
[40:43] Right.
[40:43] Because sometimes, yes, Metro, right? Is that what you're thinking?
[40:46] At the Bullenham, sorry.
[40:46] Yeah.
[40:47] Go online and then somewhere close by for an investor and what is that? Evergreen?
[40:52] Yes.
[40:53] Yes.
[40:53] That's evergreen.
[40:54] Right.
[40:54] before they cross the street together.
[40:55] Sometimes I see students, they're carrying all these massive things
[41:00] that they're doing for the projects and so on.
[41:03] Sam, are you trying to make sure that kids are going to not
[41:06] get to exercise?
[41:07] Not to exercise, but I'm thinking I'm also, I think the sidewalk
[41:16] appropriate project that's there is to wind up the sidewalk,
[41:20] so that the kids will stay on the sidewalk.
[41:23] because I know where you're talking about.
[41:25] I see some of the sidewalks in the area and then they'll come off the sidewalk
[41:29] and they'll kind of walk along the street.
[41:31] So I think the sidewalk improvement plan will kind of help them stay on the sidewalk.
[41:34] It definitely will assist the path that you're talking about.
[41:37] I think Margaret's thinking about how she walked to school was it 40 miles?
[41:41] And it was always like, you know, even when I was waiting.
[41:45] Miss Bailey would know the one had to walk.
[41:47] I had to walk for Maxwell's.
[41:49] And it was always snowing too, right?
[41:50] There's always snowing too.
[41:53] It was no one but it was rain in real bad, but it's something to consider. I want to imagine and right because
[41:58] ridership perspective. Right, I do. We want to capture whoever we can. You know what? We will see
[42:04] Dr. Cook and
[42:06] Nicole tomorrow at rotary. I'll see kind of how they feel. Yeah, I think something to help help out those students sometimes. I think it's good
[42:21] All right, do we have any other questions for Kristen?
[42:24] Let's get hot.
[42:25] It's not.
[42:26] It's not.
[42:27] Kelsman, I think.
[42:28] Oh, no.
[42:30] I did want to say one thing.
[42:34] Congratulations to Foothill Transit because
[42:37] Dorn and everybody there, they are the newest member of the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority.
[42:47] And so I hope you guys are going to be able to make it to the executive forum on pretty
[42:52] sure.
[42:52] October 9th, 10th, 10th, 11th or something like that.
[42:58] And actually, our parks and director is one of five finalists for the Risk Manager of the
[43:06] Year.
[43:07] He's really not looking up.
[43:12] So anyway, I hope to see you out there.
[43:13] I don't know if you don't stop talking about it, but I'm going to park up.
[43:17] All right.
[43:18] Well, if we have no further questions, can we get a motion?
[43:25] So move, second.
[43:27] All in favor?
[43:28] Hi.
[43:29] Hi.
[43:29] And any opposed?
[43:31] None.
[43:31] Motion carries.
[43:32] Thank you, Kristen.
[43:34] Thank you, Doran.
[43:35] And Jill for coming out to see you guys.
[43:37] I'm always great to see you.
[43:39] All right.
[43:39] Moving on to business item 10 item agenda 10 business item B consideration of approval to approve a letter of support for the California American water decoupling proposal to the California Public Utilities Commission under S
[43:58] We're just meeting through this meeting tonight. It's great.
[44:01] So before we get to the net, how can you change the slide?
[44:05] Before we get to the netty gritty on this item,
[44:09] I'd like to give a bit of a nuts and bolts over you of what the coupling is.
[44:16] So the coupling is essentially a tool that utility companies use to avoid over collection or on the collection
[44:21] when they charge utility fees to their clients.
[44:24] And essentially the way it works is that it tracks a difference between what the CPUC authorizes
[44:31] as projected revenue and compares that with what the actual recorded revenue is.
[44:37] So there's two outcomes to this.
[44:39] If there's an overcollection, that's when the recorded revenue is more than the CPUC projected revenue.
[44:45] when that happens, a refund is given to the client.
[44:53] On the other hand, another collection occurs when the recorded
[44:56] or the actual sales is less than what the...
[45:00] If you see projected sales model was, in that case, what are utility companies are authorized to, essentially, provide a surge charge to customer, so they can collect that gap.
[45:13] So the purpose of decoupling is if effective, it aligns with California's water conservation goals
[45:22] because it removes a financial incentive to sell more water by literally decoupling cells from revenues.
[45:30] So that again theoretically leads to lower bills for low usage customers and addresses the arguments that
[45:41] to the companies have a very significant fixed cost and it doesn't fluctuate year to year so they need a more stable revenue source.
[45:49] Next slide please.
[45:55] So with all that said, for the 24 to 26 year GRC, general rate cost, case, in other words, you know, when the CPUC authorizes how much water companies are able to charge,
[46:11] Goldensee Water, which includes KLM, submitted its GRC to the CPUC.
[46:17] In 2019, the CPUC held a workshop where the Public Advocates Office issued a report
[46:23] that recommended to replace the coupling.
[46:25] Under the basis, that one-up kit actually had no significant impact on water consumption
[46:31] and two was actually impacting customer bills.
[46:35] customer bills. So with that said, in July 2020, you're after the CPUC using that report
[46:43] decided to remove full decoupling from the GRC. The utility companies, you know, spearheaded by
[46:51] Golden State Water were not too happy about this and they argued that they were not properly
[46:57] notified that removing decoupling was even something for discussion, so therefore they were not able
[47:04] to provide any counter-robotals or any formal evidence
[47:08] of vapor of the coupling.
[47:10] That was taken to court, and the courts, essentially,
[47:14] cited four kelam, saying that they weren't properly notified.
[47:17] So that leads us to now, Jesus' site, please.
[47:22] At the re-hearing for October 17, a couple things
[47:26] that we do know, since then, kelam has provided some arguments
[47:31] of favor of the coupling, mostly that since 2010, or recollection has been triggered nine
[47:37] times, meaning that there's been a $9.7 million distribution in credits to clients.
[47:44] And the City of California tends to want to embrace the coupling of evidence via SB 1469
[47:50] that was passed since September 2022 due to this case.
[47:56] And again, it's really that public advocates office finding
[48:01] reports that states that, again, no significant impact on water consumption.
[48:06] And there's, you know, the customer bill rates and carry the burden when
[48:13] the projection model doesn't work.
[48:16] So since then, again, Helm has provided some of the
[48:20] bottles to this, but given the complexity of the reports and the
[48:23] for information provided.
[48:25] We really can't provide a comprehensive analysis as to which
[48:29] it's the correct one.
[48:31] So that's why we're here tonight to ask you if you would like to either
[48:34] A, A should this letter support in favor of the coupling or
[48:39] not do anything?
[48:42] Do you have any questions from Council?
[48:44] Yeah, I'm not sure.
[48:49] May I vote?
[48:51] I just feel like we don't have enough information
[48:53] to make it this season tonight. For one, I would like to know whether the base rates of the end
[49:00] users if you keep to coupling. And what the arguments would be if it's not really significant
[49:09] on water consumption, then I just, I wouldn't have loved to hear that from Kala.
[49:13] Why are we not doing that? Why do we have Brian Baretto come?
[49:17] you know so Cal American requested this letter one week ago so that's why
[49:23] staff is just bringing this to you for discussion without recommendation from us
[49:28] because we didn't have time to fully analyze both sides of this so at this
[49:33] time unless council has a good grasp on this topic we can not take action or
[49:42] send a letter. This is already being heard by the CPUC because the California Supreme Court
[49:48] sent it back for a hearing. So this will take place with or without our support.
[49:55] Yeah. Yeah, there's a bit of a timing issue. I think they need letters by a top of
[50:00] So, yeah, with all due respect of the timing,
[50:08] the information provided, which is not much, me personally, I rather
[50:13] us just not doing anything. And because the courts are already hearing on this and we can kind
[50:18] of sit back on a sidelines to figure out what's going to happen there before we really have to do
[50:22] something about it. And in the meantime, maybe we can gather some more information on what decoupling
[50:27] or if it does help or if it doesn't help because it's there's a lot of information here
[50:33] but what I'm hearing you tell me it just sounds like CPU, C just wants to phrase the
[50:39] costs and they just want to do something about that because.
[50:43] And I kind of agree with Tony just looking at this one page since 2010 over collection has
[50:50] triggered nine times. Okay, was that all at once or was this spread out equally for those
[51:02] 14 years? How many people did it impact? There are just so many questions here and it's
[51:10] just not really concrete? Yeah, I'm trying to understand this because CPUC is an oversight, right?
[51:17] It's a public utility commission to oversee these utility companies.
[51:26] So we're trying to go ahead and decouple, like what Margaret said, I mean, if they over collected
[51:33] nine times in 14 years, hey, that's a good thing, right?
[51:39] if it seems like CPUCs auditing them, if that's the case, I'm not even quite sure, right?
[51:48] If they're oversiting them, then they're probably auditing them.
[51:52] And if they're able to go ahead and see that customers are actually...
[51:57] They're over collecting from the customers, and they're able to go and reimburse that money back.
[52:01] That's a good thing. I don't see why this...
[52:05] If we decouple, I'm just not understanding this that it was significant impact of water
[52:12] But it does not significant impact that water consumption
[52:16] Very significant impact on the customer bill. How?
[52:20] Yeah, I don't see my water bill go down
[52:22] Right, it's not going
[52:24] And then one more thing and Kristen you probably know this because
[52:29] Monrovia changed it over to a different utility company, right?
[52:33] Because I think you guys, Monrovia did a community aggregated and then started doing solar and then I think the promise was that
[52:40] It's gonna be cheaper in the utility bill, but actually went way up. So I don't know. I'm just trying to understand what is it?
[52:49] And I don't know. It's it's way, I mean, it's way above my jurisdiction to go ahead and say, you know,
[52:55] I just don't think I can go in and give them a letter for that, knowing a little bit more about this.
[53:01] And again, there is a re-hearing on October 17th, where the actual analysis is going to be made by the CPC, where the evidence is will be provided there.
[53:09] That might be the best venue to have this issue.
[53:11] Is that October 17th?
[53:13] So we have another meeting between now and there.
[53:15] Hope that they need to letter by October 14th, so they can present it at the hearing in October 17th.
[53:21] Okay.
[53:21] How many people are four against it?
[53:23] Oh, I'll just say move to receive and file.
[53:26] Okay.
[53:28] All right.
[53:29] We have a motion in a second.
[53:32] All the favor?
[53:33] All right.
[53:34] Any opposed?
[53:35] None.
[53:36] Motion carries to do nothing.
[53:37] Thank you.
[53:38] Thank you.
[53:41] Yeah.
[53:42] That was a really good presentation for.
[53:46] Yeah.
[53:48] For what we didn't really understand.
[53:51] But I think it was a really good presentation.
[53:53] And, like I said, it's big for yourself when it's family, I didn't understand a word he said.
[54:01] All right, we're going to move on to agenda item number 11 is continuation of or communication.
[54:05] And then do you have any public comments?
[54:08] No comments, Mayor.
[54:09] Okay, thank you.
[54:10] Any audience members like to step to podium and speak at this time?
[54:16] I see none.
[54:18] Oh, wow.
[54:18] I don't know number 12, I don't know from the City Council, Housing Authority, Finance Authority,
[54:24] Members and City Manager, Executive Directors, Reports of Meetings, Attendant Per, Government Code, Section 5, 3, 2, 3, 2,
[54:32] Point 3, Larry, you can tell us how your vacation was, you need a vacation from your vacation.
[54:42] Yeah, what was your favorite place?
[54:48] Wow, it's beautiful.
[54:52] So, what did you like do there?
[54:57] Check beer.
[54:58] He does it.
[54:59] Boy, those people.
[55:08] All right, thank you very, Craig, Daniel? Just a couple of real quick things. I did attend a meeting with the
[55:21] League California City's yesterday with the Los Angeles County Fire Association.
[55:27] They were looking
[55:28] for the support from League on Measure E. Measure E, we will see in November, it is six per square
[55:36] foot parcel tax that affect the fire districts of which we are one. There are 59 cities in the
[55:43] fire district that any unincorporated areas that incorporate 2,306 square miles in 174 stations.
[55:51] Now, the why? So, in 2020 the same measure went before the voters, it gained 54% of the vote at the time,
[55:58] it needed two thirds. This is a citizen-led initiative and only needs 50% plus one. So why is this
[56:04] needed? Well, we heard from the firefighters. I don't know if you can guess the average age
[56:12] of the firefighting vehicles fleet for Los Angeles County Fire, so they look old. Not from
[56:18] your Tony. They look old. They're probably, she's almost say like 50, 60 years old. How would you say?
[56:25] 50. Oh, okay. They're better than that.
[56:29] 27 is the average life of of the vehicles in their fleet.
[56:36] I don't know about you, but after 25 years, I think that's becomes considered to antique.
[56:42] They're this is the first fire they said these last three fires that they said they had to turn fire fighters and send them back home because they didn't have enough vehicles to send out on a mutual aid request.
[56:53] Wow. So there are dire needs there. Our 911 system. It's analog. It's still based off of landline. Yes, so
[57:06] that needs to be replaced. They're computer systems. There's old is the share of the
[57:11] department systems, which they no longer make anymore either. They also would like to reduce the
[57:19] bonds times, which have crept up over the years.
[57:23] As far as staffing, they're in a good place,
[57:26] and they have a plan right now.
[57:28] They're only about 120 bodies down,
[57:30] according to what we heard yesterday.
[57:33] But the other biggest thing is equipment.
[57:36] The jaws of life, which I'll see are cool, open up doors,
[57:40] extract people from accidents.
[57:42] Used to be pneumatic operated, and that's battery pack.
[57:45] But they don't have those in all the units.
[57:47] There's also something calm, shoot, I can't remember what the name of it is.
[57:53] Maybe I wrote it down if I could see it, I can read my notes.
[57:57] Anyway, it does the compressions for you when CPR's happening.
[58:02] And they said it's amazing.
[58:05] They're bringing back people that they never could have brought back before.
[58:09] That's not on every.
[58:10] Defibrillators are not on every unit.
[58:11] So, bottom line, I think that, and we will bring something back
[58:17] before Council talking about all these points, working with the League.
[58:22] But I think the last time they said any adjustments had been made to the district was 50 years
[58:29] ago.
[58:29] 5-0.
[58:31] So, the inflation time between here and there has gone up significantly.
[58:36] lately, the contract cities that are not in here have all seen their rates already increase.
[58:43] That was a big push and a big, to do earlier this year that's been kind of modified
[58:49] to not be hit all at once and spread out.
[58:53] But the bottom line is the sense of kind of fire department is in need of funding on the equipment
[58:59] side.
[59:00] Unlike the shares department which receives their funding from the Allegheny Board of Supervisors,
[59:05] the fire department get zero because they get their money from the fire districts and
[59:10] and because the CEO can't touch the fire districts they said we're not giving you any unless you share.
[59:18] So, this again.
[59:20] One of those things, it was very interesting but we will bring more back to you that's just a quick report on that meeting.
[59:26] Last but not least, I did attend the Singapore Valley City Manager Association where they discuss measure A,
[59:31] which is going to be the half-cent tax that will replace measure H.
[59:37] It's a measure that goes in perpetuity.
[59:39] It would also raise our rate above the cap to 10.75,
[59:44] instead of 10.5 up until 2028, when I think something else on sets.
[59:51] So right now, we will come in back to you with analysis on that as well.
[59:57] I can tell you the flavor in the Sangeable Valley.
[59:59] Thanks.
[1:00:01] City is not happy with it. And last but not, last but not least, but I didn't want to say,
[1:00:08] Tennessee picnic and manual in the parks and wrecks staff headed out of the park again.
[1:00:13] That's it. Thank you, Brian. Ty, see you, I mean, city attorney.
[1:00:18] Councilwoman Martin Delcubo.
[1:00:21] I went to the Hill Metro Extension meeting last Thursday, nothing to significant report.
[1:00:25] Um, again, just thank you to everybody involved in the picnic. It was amazing. I went with my seven year old who said, well, mom, you guys through such a good party.
[1:00:33] I think he just really likes to hang out with a Mayor Trong's son's a lot.
[1:00:37] So that's probably why it was so snow, but he loved it. Every booth. Everyone was so nice to him. He had a good time, so I thought everybody there having a good time.
[1:00:45] And that's always the best thing to see.
[1:00:47] That's it for me.
[1:00:48] Thank you, Castle with it.
[1:00:51] Let's see. I've already talked a few about the adjournments.
[1:00:54] Let's see. Oh, being out walking. A couple of people brought something up, which I thought was,
[1:01:04] is maybe something we can put in our newsletters? People are feeding the coyotes.
[1:01:14] And while the animals, such as the bears, and now we have bear proof trash cans,
[1:01:19] and coyotes, they will go where the food is.
[1:01:26] So maybe there's something that we can do to remind people,
[1:01:32] not to feed these animals.
[1:01:36] And I know there were people up where I live that were actually putting food out for the bears.
[1:01:45] So anyway, if we could put something-
[1:01:49] municipal code that prohibits feeding wildlife, okay, we will cover that as well as why you
[1:01:56] shouldn't attract wildlife in the city. Okay, next thing we went to Grace the Polotano's
[1:02:04] retirement party. Sam was there and Caesar and it was really nice function. You talk about
[1:02:14] who's who? David Dryer. Well, remember David Dryer. He was there. Of course, a couple
[1:02:23] of county supervisors, other congressional people. Just Ed Hernandez, just people that
[1:02:31] have really, really loved what Grace has done over the years. And she, I think she's been
[1:02:37] serving, she was first selected to the, I forgot to bring the flyer. She was first selected.
[1:02:44] I think in 86 to the Norwalk City Council.
[1:02:49] So she's been around a long time and she's given up a lot
[1:02:54] as has her family for her to do these things.
[1:02:59] I was in our son, our youngest son, live back in Washington, D.C.
[1:03:05] He was doing his residency at Walter Reed.
[1:03:08] And so we went to see Grace at the Rayburn building or whatever it was there.
[1:03:17] And so I just said, hey, why don't you come over for Sunday, dinner sometime,
[1:03:22] to Evans' house?
[1:03:24] Well, I figured, you know, she was always too busy.
[1:03:28] Well, she called me and said, hey, I'm free this Sunday.
[1:03:31] So we drove down to Georgetown and picked her up.
[1:03:34] And I just remember seeing her there and you know how we always think,
[1:03:38] this is going to be super fun, be a congressional rep, and I can honestly say I would never
[1:03:44] have an interest in doing it. Seeing her there, she's without her family, she has to do
[1:03:51] those cross-country flights all the time and I thought to myself, nope, that is just something
[1:03:57] I would never ever want to do. So I appreciate what she's done. She's been a massive help to us.
[1:04:04] the the bike path money from the federal grant. She, she has helped us. I remember one time being back there in Washington, D.C. I walked into her office and I said, what's this deal with these trucks that are going to be carrying the sludge from Santa Fe Dam down to Warty Road and she said, wait a minute. So she picked up her phone and she called Colonel, whoever, with the Army Corps of Engineers and we never ever
[1:04:33] saw one of those trucks on DeWarty Road and they were supposed to be 900 of them.
[1:04:39] So she really did a lot for our community, we're going to miss her a whole lot and clearly
[1:04:46] there were so many people there that just think that she has been a great representative
[1:04:52] for our area and that we're talking crossing party lines, everything and she's the oldest member
[1:04:59] in the house of R-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E
[1:05:04] So, I'm sure you've gotten a few calls, but anyway. So, and that's all I have for this evening. Thank you.
[1:05:26] Thank you councilmember Lewis.
[1:05:33] Thank you mayor. I just want to say Saturday, apologize for not being able to attend the park and I had to work there's one of the few Saturdays that I actually had to work.
[1:05:50] And I'm sorry, and I apologize that I missed it.
[1:05:57] I don't have that much more to say.
[1:06:01] I thank you, and God bless.
[1:06:04] Thank you, Kasimura Lewis, Kasimura came.
[1:06:06] Thank you, Mayor.
[1:06:07] Yeah, the picnic was awesome.
[1:06:09] Man, you don't great job.
[1:06:11] You seriously hit it out of park again and again.
[1:06:13] And love is t-shirts, so don't worry.
[1:06:15] It's so soft, man.
[1:06:17] You really, really know how to go and brand.
[1:06:20] and I really appreciate you for doing such a good job on branding side.
[1:06:26] We need that, we need to be consistent in just to make us great.
[1:06:30] That's what we want.
[1:06:31] We want to go ahead and have that perception of
[1:06:34] We're a great city to be and people want to come
[1:06:39] and stay here and raise their family here.
[1:06:43] That's the main thing that we want to go ahead and do.
[1:06:45] So really appreciate that.
[1:06:46] Um, I totally echo what Margaret had said, um, in regards to Graceland Napolitano, she's been so wonderful and, you know, just, just looking at her party, her retirement party and her staff, all of them have been there for at least 10, 15 years.
[1:07:10] That really shows how she is as a person.
[1:07:16] I really think she's a super empathetic person,
[1:07:18] because she really cares, she listens,
[1:07:21] and not like some politicians,
[1:07:22] they just pretend whatever she really does.
[1:07:26] She listens and she tries to understand
[1:07:28] what the constituents want and so on.
[1:07:32] And I remember there was one time,
[1:07:35] she said she called me and said Sam,
[1:07:37] we didn't go ahead and do something about economic development.
[1:07:40] And I'm not sure if you guys remember that, there was probably 7 years ago when we brought in the Council at General from China.
[1:07:50] He came on over here with grace and then we had a huge discussion about how to do more American products to export out and import it into China.
[1:08:04] And that was so interesting that she took the lead on that, and I was like, okay, well, I'll help you, I'll bring everyone in together.
[1:08:13] She really does care. She cares about how to go ahead and make things better for many people.
[1:08:21] And it's not just the economy, the mental health part, which is so important.
[1:08:26] As I get older, I can see and understand more about people, it's like, wow, it's such a need for mental health and she championed it in Congress.
[1:08:39] It's such a need for better understanding where they're coming from, what kind of issues they have and how do you help these people.
[1:08:47] So mental health is definitely a huge thing, especially for all the homeless people or at the
[1:08:54] verge of becoming homeless and so on.
[1:08:57] There's a lot of stuff that's going on and we've got to the home, we need to help these
[1:09:01] people.
[1:09:03] So I really do appreciate her for gosh, for past 11 years, and Pearl of Hernandez, one of my best
[1:09:10] friends out there.
[1:09:11] She's been great too and same with Bob Pence. These people have been really great people
[1:09:20] But looking forward for for Gill right to to come in and see how it goes, but
[1:09:25] Anyways, that's it. Oh one more thing one more thing I want to go and talk about is
[1:09:31] Sergeant there was actually a I believe there was a T.C. How happened maybe a
[1:09:38] ago right in front of my house. So I guess there was a truck that hit another truck right on
[1:09:44] Huntington and then I believe my my my neighbor said they called for for for for for for
[1:09:54] for deputies but they had at three thirty but they didn't show up until eight thirty so can you
[1:09:59] look into that.
[1:10:00] I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I'm sorry.
[1:10:05] Yeah, yesterday there are two days ago, right? Yeah, two, yeah. Okay, thank you. That's it.
[1:10:11] Thank you, Councillor McKamir. Thank you, Mayor.
[1:10:18] Congresswoman's retirement party was bittersweet.
[1:10:21] You know, I've only been on for a little bit, but I've got into benefit from all the stuff that she's done.
[1:10:28] You know, you talked about championing mental health,
[1:10:32] but what she's done for veterans in water,
[1:10:34] what she's done for our riverbed.
[1:10:37] That's incredible.
[1:10:39] So whoever may be who's next has a big shoes to feel.
[1:10:43] And we just hope to keep building on what she has set
[1:10:48] the foundation she has set.
[1:10:50] But continuing, I want to thank Michelle
[1:10:54] for throwing the health fair today.
[1:10:56] That was lovely and incredible the amount of vendors and booths that you had here in resources.
[1:11:04] I regret not putting my name in the raffle because those were some nice prices that
[1:11:08] So congratulations to all the raffle winners.
[1:11:13] City picnic, you mentioned the shirts in the branding.
[1:11:16] That was actually a George who did that design and I want to thank him for that and
[1:11:24] manual for, we sold merch at the park and that's something that I've been talking about
[1:11:30] for quite some time and I appreciate that because I love branding.
[1:11:37] I love showing off
[1:11:38] the door to D. And so Kelly also did a fabulous job, 115 cars of not mistaken.
[1:11:52] That's
[1:11:53] of somebody would be there was gonna be you it was fabulous I had a family come
[1:12:01] on from out of town and they're like you guys really know how to party we had
[1:12:05] candy bags a lot of free free giveaways the boxing tournament no we can't
[1:12:15] what we call showcase the showcase was amazing we have so much talent in the
[1:12:22] city. I'm excited for that expansion and giving them that extra square footage to practice
[1:12:29] and I can't wait to see all of the stars that come out of that program. What else do we have
[1:12:35] going on? What else have we done? I just, there's so much to keep up with and so I want to
[1:12:41] think of the departments that make this city what it is. We celebrated 67 years and I mentioned
[1:12:48] the park I can't wait to see what the next 67 look like and hope we're here to see it.
[1:12:55] Thank you.
[1:12:56] Thank you.
[1:12:56] I don't know.
[1:12:57] Thank you.
[1:12:58] You speaking of the Dory Boxing showcase.
[1:13:02] Thank you to Councilman Terminal.com.
[1:13:04] The sponsored about.
[1:13:06] Did you?
[1:13:08] Oh, you?
[1:13:09] We all did.
[1:13:10] We all did.
[1:13:10] We all did.
[1:13:11] Oh, you sponsored.
[1:13:12] Lots of sponsors from Council.
[1:13:14] From Council.
[1:13:15] Individuals and Council as a whole.
[1:13:17] But going back on to the picnic, I think that one, I want to thank the Sarge and Manuel for letting my kids
[1:13:26] correct the confetti eggs over your head multiple times. They tried to do, you know, I said,
[1:13:32] nope, so thank you guys for taking that one. The picnic, as I said when I was there when I was
[1:13:38] up there speaking, I've gone to that picnic for quite a long time. I remember back in elementary school,
[1:13:45] that I was going to that picnic, and he used to be at Rolex Park, and I've always thought
[1:13:49] that Rolex Park was a great location, but it was small. And it didn't feel like we could
[1:13:55] fit as much as we wanted to there. But when we moved over in Canto, it felt like we could fit almost
[1:14:00] everything that we want at that picnic, and more, and also not having to cross the street to TPC
[1:14:07] part two to see the car show was was was awesome on the speaking of the car show.
[1:14:13] I I thank you for giving me the permission to do a mayor's picking handing out a trophy.
[1:14:19] I picked a classic it was a bomber black it was decked out very it was complete.
[1:14:25] The owner of the car now doesn't look what they but they are doorie natives originally
[1:14:30] from doorie born in the area and he's doorie's everything even though I don't live here no more
[1:14:35] I love it here. I love where I grew up, so I had to make sure I had to pick him, but that
[1:14:42] picked it up was great. I think 67 years, it's about the collaboration and previous council
[1:14:47] what they've done and also the city staff and previous staff and what they've done too, so I think
[1:14:51] that's awesome and like Mayor Pro Temps said, I wish to be able to see another 67 years. I don't know
[1:14:57] Mayor. Can I just...
[1:15:01] I'm just curious since next year we're going to go ahead and do the parade. How are we going to go ahead and make it happen?
[1:15:12] I'm signing on. Yeah, you did tell everybody that we're going to do it.
[1:15:16] We're going to do it. So before we will go on mount all of, right? Now, if we're going to go to Enkanto, how's that going to work? I'm just curious.
[1:15:27] That's what the meetings are for between the city and the root 66 committee.
[1:15:33] But I have ideas.
[1:15:35] Cool.
[1:15:35] Right on.
[1:15:36] As long as we're still doing that, I really want to thank you too for allowing organizations
[1:15:43] like Rotary to make money at this picnic.
[1:15:46] We don't have a lot of opportunities, but I know our Rotary Club made almost $600 there.
[1:15:56] So, and ice?
[1:15:58] So, and ice.
[1:15:59] Do you have ice?
[1:16:01] Ice?
[1:16:01] Yeah.
[1:16:03] Wow.
[1:16:04] Yeah.
[1:16:04] We all made ice.
[1:16:06] Wow.
[1:16:06] So, I wish I had expenses with the cups in the store and I didn't taste like that, but
[1:16:10] we still made it almost like that.
[1:16:11] Well, I know my kids had three cups of those.
[1:16:13] I had a cup.
[1:16:15] I had a cup.
[1:16:15] Good thing.
[1:16:16] Anyway, that's a great thank you.
[1:16:19] You're very good at that.
[1:16:22] Thank you, Tara.
[1:16:24] Thank you, Tara.
[1:16:25] could parade his two years for the 100th anniversary of Route 66.
[1:16:31] Why don't we just do it next year?
[1:16:33] Which one of that?
[1:16:34] Well, you better start getting a community again and then start having me.
[1:16:36] Let's do it.
[1:16:36] Let's do it.
[1:16:38] Well, and also wanted to say, we, obviously, we attended the North San Diego River Red
[1:16:45] working group last week.
[1:16:47] We did talk a little bit about Congresswoman leaving office and the next person stepping up.
[1:16:54] And I mean, to whoever's watching right now at home,
[1:16:59] whoever that person is, that's going to step into that role,
[1:17:02] I think the river bed, the North San Gabriel River bed,
[1:17:05] here, in our backyard, between the Wardier Mandel and Azusa,
[1:17:09] it's a very important piece, and I hope they don't forget about it.
[1:17:12] And I hope they continue to do as well as she has done,
[1:17:17] and be able to provide us the resources that she has provided to us.
[1:17:21] I think that, I mean, that we're a bit, it's a long piece, it goes all the way down to
[1:17:26] the Senate pay debt, and more.
[1:17:28] But again, because we're so close to the mountains, there's a lot of things happening there.
[1:17:34] So with the council and all the work they've done with this group and forming this group,
[1:17:38] and the hard work that they've put in, we've been able to do a lot of good work.
[1:17:43] And with the Congresswoman's connection to the Army Corps of Engineers,
[1:17:50] we've been able to cooperate with them. So I hope whoever steps in next continues
[1:17:55] that good work so that we can continue keeping that area safe as it can be.
[1:18:02] Mayor, I don't have no problem going to Washington knocking on the door and being there
[1:18:06] in force. You you said it. You said it. And you're going back there to ask for a dog park
[1:18:10] or something like that. I'm going to bring my coyote with me. And lastly, I attended a virtual
[1:18:18] meaning for the work force development board, they're asking and wanting to kind of do some events
[1:18:27] with the cities that are in that group and so I've asked them to reach out to city manager's
[1:18:33] office and they said they'll be reaching out so are we still part of yes we are sir yes we are
[1:18:44] Spicer, one of those.
[1:18:45] Monrovia has, Monrovia is no longer part of that,
[1:18:48] but have joined the county.
[1:18:50] Oh, that's right.
[1:18:51] But Doria is still a part of that.
[1:18:53] So with that being said, as mentioned earlier,
[1:18:56] we will adjourn tonight's meeting on behalf of Bill Sato
[1:19:00] and Vols Rectors.
[1:19:03] Rectors?
[1:19:03] Yep, Rectors.
[1:19:05] All right, tonight's meeting is adjourned.
[1:19:06] Thank you all.
[1:19:07] Thank you.
[1:19:08] Good quick meeting, Dan.