[0:01] Garcia here Council member Chong here, Council member Lewis.

[0:07] Present council Member Finley here.

[0:11] Mayor pro Tem king here Here.

[0:14] And Mayor Martin.

[0:15] The Campo here I'd like to invite a motion

[0:19] to adopt the agenda motion.

[0:21] So I can all in favor.

[0:24] I any opposed motion carries.

[0:28] Next, we're going to do the Pledge of Allegiance.

[0:31] May i please have Alyssa Ramos up this I'm ready Begin.

[0:43] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United states of America

[0:48] and to the republic for which it stands One nation under God,

[0:52] indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[0:55] Thank you.

[0:56] You so much All right.

[1:00] Now we're going to move on to oral communications,

[1:02] special items if you wish to speak

[1:05] regarding the special items on this agenda,

[1:07] you may do so at this time.

[1:08] Each member of the public will have a total of three minutes

[1:11] to speak.

[1:11] Do we have any public comments?

[1:13] No cards.

[1:14] OK.

[1:14] Do we have anyone from the public that wishes to speak

[1:17] on these special items already?

[1:21] We're going to move on to item eight, which is community

[1:24] development Department update with director Craig

[1:27] Hensley Thank you very much.

[1:34] I'm going to be brief because I know later Stephanie is going

[1:36] to be up here talking about the recreation trail

[1:42] But we have some striping job coming up soon.

[1:44] There'll be some city work going on there.

[1:45] And one thing I want to update you on

[1:47] is kind of been gone back and forth

[1:49] for the last couple of years.

[1:51] But the property at 928, Huntington which

[1:54] is that's the piece on the South side of the street

[1:57] is there used to be a white building.

[1:59] Appreciate it.

[2:00] Up at the street, and they did some grading

[2:03] There used to be a billboard on the property for a while

[2:11] that property, that project was kind of did they got approved

[2:13] and it was just on hold for a while We had a meeting

[2:15] last week with the bank who is taking that property back

[2:19] and they're going to be moving forward with that project

[2:21] very soon.

[2:22] So that's that's some good news on that particular development.

[2:26] Also the property 14, I want to send it

[2:28] to Mingo It was 20 townhomes.

[2:30] This across from the entry to Westminster Gardens That's

[2:35] in the last stages of of its planned check process.

[2:39] And it's moving forward.

[2:40] So that's the update that I have.

[2:42] I also I did just here the other day that Jean Grinder, you know,

[2:46] it was coming to town, right?

[2:47] Everyone knew that, right But I think they're opening i think

[2:50] it's a they're opening the 21st and I

[2:52] think next week So next week.

[2:55] Yeah.

[2:55] The jeans grinders next to Target

[2:58] in the old Buffalo Wild Wings.

[3:00] It's a it wasn't Monrovia staple.

[3:02] But it's going to become a staple.

[3:04] We take a sandwich shop from monrovia Tony.

[3:06] Yes So we think we.

[3:09] That's right We know it's gotten better.

[3:11] So great.

[3:12] Anything we take for Monrovia is a plus Another

[3:15] we have a sorry, Francis, is there a possibility we

[3:17] can support them?

[3:19] Press a press release or something?

[3:21] I have been in communications with the owners.

[3:23] They've reached out to me personally.

[3:25] So i will follow up with them again.

[3:27] But I'm just pulling up what I had seen just to confirm

[3:31] But I believe it's the 20th.

[3:33] OK I still do a ribbon cutting so if you have any questions,

[3:37] I'm here to anyone.

[3:38] Any questions from council?

[3:40] I do.

[3:41] OK.

[3:41] Go ahead.

[3:42] Mayor Pro Tem Thank you, Mayor.

[3:44] I'm just curious what's going on with the Wyndham Project Nothing

[3:51] in the last couple of weeks i've had a couple of meetings

[3:53] with they've hired a new architect

[3:54] and I've had a couple of meetings

[3:55] with them to kind of discuss how they want to move forward.

[3:58] But since that time, I haven't heard anything

[4:00] but because they hired new architect,

[4:02] I admire assumption is they're in the process of working

[4:04] on plans Do we have a deadline for them No,

[4:09] no they they lost all their approvals expired.

[4:15] So this is starting over.

[4:17] So it's not it's not untypical in the process

[4:23] to take a period of time to have the architect to develop

[4:26] plans to get ready to go.

[4:27] It's a complex project It's been how many years Eight years.

[4:32] It's been a long time.

[4:33] Yes.

[4:34] Sam, aren't we in a decades now?

[4:37] Close to a decade Yeah.

[4:43] Let's let's let's see how we can capture

[4:48] this and get some good tax As you know for us.

[4:51] Oh, for sure.

[4:52] We're going to get a top priority for sure You know,

[4:56] I was at City of Hope today in their parking structures

[5:00] completely fall And I was talking

[5:05] to the head of international medicine

[5:09] I think 60% of their patients are out patient.

[5:13] And if they want to go ahead and do treatment

[5:15] it's going to be probably an average of four weeks.

[5:20] So there is a huge need for a hotel over here.

[5:24] Even it's not going to be them.

[5:25] It's going to be someone else We need

[5:27] to go ahead and get this thing up and running fast for sure.

[5:31] Second one is how about the one that's right next door to us,

[5:35] The is it Margarita?

[5:38] Or more like that?

[5:42] That was all three of those pieces of property

[5:45] were purchased by the same joyce Joyce and I have over spoken.

[5:52] I actually today I spoke with her development consultant

[5:54] and they're in the process of trying to figure out

[5:58] what the highest and best use for them is on the property

[6:00] And I know they're moving forward with the architect

[6:02] on that piece.

[6:03] But again it's a high priority.

[6:05] So it's important.

[6:07] And actually we've also had some discussions with them about

[6:10] attempts to do a little bit better job

[6:11] with keeping the property cleared Appreciate that.

[6:14] Yes, Thank you.

[6:15] Thank you, Mayor Sorry, Councilmember Garcia.

[6:18] And then councilmember Finley.

[6:20] Thank you, Mayor Director Hensley,

[6:21] going back to the center, the Mingo Project They came in,

[6:25] they presented a concept to us, correct And are these new owners

[6:31] New owners My understanding is the developer that

[6:33] got that approved passed away is he had his approval hero's

[6:39] entitlements His children attempted to develop for a while

[6:42] and then decided that wasn't going to work for them

[6:46] My understanding is, I mean, I have lived in the country.

[6:48] And they said they sold the property off

[6:51] and they've been the new owner has been moving forward rapidly

[6:55] And it's the same same price is exactly the same project.

[6:58] Yes Because at that time, we had talked about them

[7:00] The neighbors concerns was privacy

[7:02] And they think the direction we gave

[7:04] was helping them out with some green trees to help with that.

[7:07] So that was one of the issues.

[7:09] And then one of the issues during the demo process was

[7:11] was dust.

[7:12] And when they get started, we'll make

[7:14] sure they understand the importance of keeping dust down.

[7:16] Thank you, sir Council member Finley thank you.

[7:20] Tenant improvements are underway.

[7:22] A fall 2026 opening is expected for Viana That is.

[7:28] That's pretty That's pretty recent info on that

[7:32] that I got from them They were actually just one of the places

[7:37] where i love the way our process works because we got

[7:40] through tenant improvement plans through our approval process

[7:43] really rapidly.

[7:44] And they just sit there for a while.

[7:46] And I called them up and we did it.

[7:48] So quickly they weren't finished with their, their building

[7:51] in Rancho Cucamonga.

[7:52] What you just recently opened and they've just started working

[7:54] on it, I think the last week or the week

[7:55] before there they said proximately

[7:58] 5 to 6 months to complete it.

[8:00] So that's their plan.

[8:02] The day they open.

[8:03] And we don't know yet.

[8:04] You know, I had i had someone say to me you guys in the wordy

[8:08] we don't have red tape You give us the red carpet

[8:13] So you know what, I guess you could Thank you.

[8:17] Well, I. I don't know.

[8:19] Everyone may feel this way, but the sooner they are,

[8:21] it opens the better.

[8:22] Yes, because I really like tacos.

[8:25] All right, Councilmember Garcia, will

[8:26] he has another spot to share questions that since Councilman

[8:30] Finley brought up by.

[8:31] Yeah.

[8:32] I also heard this past week from a firm

[8:35] that does business with a lot of neighboring cities.

[8:38] How business friendly your staff, your team in our city

[8:41] is so to echo consumer friendly comments.

[8:45] Thank you so much I know everybody

[8:47] has spoken very positive about the process here.

[8:49] So I just want to give you guys all kudos.

[8:50] Thank you.

[8:51] You.

[8:52] And we're excited for some carnitas

[8:53] and yes, grab and go bakery everything all right?

[8:58] I did confirm to that the opening

[9:00] for Gene's Grinder is Monday, April 18 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m..

[9:04] So we should probably reach out to them

[9:06] and see if there's anything we can

[9:07] do officially to Welcome them.

[9:09] But I will definitely extend myself as well.

[9:12] I think that's it for awesome.

[9:14] Oh, sorry Monday, maybe i'm okay.

[9:18] Maybe it's the 18th.

[9:19] 18th is a Saturday.

[9:21] OK let's go back to their sorry.

[9:24] Then it is Saturday April 18 from 10 to 7.

[9:27] It's this Saturday.

[9:28] So tick tock Thank you for calendar confirming.

[9:33] All right I'm going to move on to item B Parks

[9:35] and Recreation update with our director menu and request

[9:43] Good evening, Mayor.

[9:43] Council I'll be brief.

[9:46] A couple upcoming events this weekend

[9:49] will be specifically busy.

[9:51] We have our Earth Day cleanup at the Donald

[9:54] and Bernie swanson recreation trail will be meeting

[9:57] on the east end of the trail.

[9:59] So Vineyard and Royal Oaks will gear up.

[10:02] We'll have some continental breakfast items,

[10:05] gear up with trash grabbers, gloves

[10:09] trash bags, some safety vests as well so that we can be

[10:14] proceed westbound on the trail.

[10:17] And then at the very end, we'll have

[10:20] hand-washing stations and some other little giveaways

[10:24] for folks in attendance.

[10:25] So we invite the community to come out as part

[10:27] of our earth Day festivities.

[10:29] We'll start again at 9 a.m. on that east end of the Watson

[10:34] Trail following that, we invite you to come over here

[10:37] to the Civic Center parking lot in front of the senior center

[10:39] will be hosting our community yard sale that starts at 8 a.m.

[10:44] and it will go till 12 p.m..

[10:46] So spots are already filled So we got a full lot of vendors,

[10:51] so we invite the public to come out and purchase anything

[10:55] you didn't think you needed Also join us for our end of season

[11:03] vegetable Garden Care workshop starting at 9 a.m. at zero Pass

[11:07] Karachi Park at our community garden

[11:10] that that'll be that will be unfortunately,

[11:15] my note here does not have the date.

[11:19] So I'm laughing at myself I'm like, let me check.

[11:25] Let me fact check while you're here.

[11:28] My apologies.

[11:29] And so I i'll plug that date shortly

[11:33] when you bounce back to us with any other updates

[11:37] but the community on the capital improvement side

[11:41] just as we were discussing earlier tonight,

[11:44] I just a quick update with regards

[11:47] to the replacement of the entry doors

[11:49] here for this particular building.

[11:51] That project will commence that second week of May

[11:57] and it should be wrapped up by the end of May.

[11:59] So we'll have again glass side, sliding doors

[12:02] ADA compliant here at the main entry

[12:05] way of the community center.

[12:07] Any questions No, it does look like that date is Saturday,

[12:10] May 30th.

[12:11] Thank you.

[12:12] 9 to 1030.

[12:13] Appreciate that.

[12:14] Yes, we forgive you, Jackie.

[12:17] Do part It's a busy Saturday.

[12:19] I will be there cleaning up the trail with everybody.

[12:22] So anybody have anything for Emmanuel All right.

[12:26] Thank you so much Next up, we're going to do announcements

[12:30] of upcoming community events.

[12:32] We'll start with Joanna G from the Dougherty Library

[12:40] Good evening.

[12:41] Strategy from Dougherty library.

[12:43] Our storytime session is on break,

[12:45] but we have a new session that will

[12:46] be starting up on Friday May 1st and they'll be at 11 a.m. next.

[12:51] We have after disaster how to help your child

[12:55] And that's going to be a parenting workshop

[12:56] tomorrow night at 5 p.m..

[12:59] Next, we have our Smart Start art on Thursday

[13:01] April 16th at 11 a.m..

[13:03] And these are for kids 102 5.

[13:05] Next, we have our new parent engagement about library

[13:08] programs and services.

[13:09] And that's going to be on Wednesday april 22nd at 6 p.m..

[13:13] For kids, 5 to 17, we have Saturday surprise art.

[13:17] And that's going to be on Saturday may 2nd at 2 p.m..

[13:21] Next we have board games for teens

[13:23] and that's going to be on Thursday

[13:24] april 30th at 3:30 p.m..

[13:27] Next, we have friends of the library book sale coming up.

[13:30] And that's going to be on Saturday april 25th at 10 a.m..

[13:34] And also on that day, we have our Vietnamese street food,

[13:37] cooking demonstration and that's going to be at Saturday,

[13:40] april 25th at 2 p.m..

[13:42] Currently there is a wait list.

[13:44] So if you want to come to it, please sign up.

[13:46] Next, we have our great pressed flower heart trinket dish

[13:50] on Saturday may 9th at 2 p.m., where adults can make something

[13:54] for their mothers or somebody special

[13:57] The material supplied by the Friends of the Dory Library.

[14:00] And that's it for me.

[14:01] Any questions Yes What type of food What type?

[14:08] I think she's going to make some vietnamese street

[14:10] tacos with pickled vegetables.

[14:13] Maybe spring.

[14:14] Rosie grows Maybe you have to come and find out.

[14:17] All right I can't give away the secret Thank

[14:21] you It's for you to find out.

[14:26] That's right Joanna.

[14:27] Yes.

[14:28] Question You always have so many interesting things

[14:31] going on at your library.

[14:33] Are those library?

[14:34] Why or these are your ideas that you come up with?

[14:38] Some of them are library y, like the story

[14:40] times but the other ones, they're curated by my staff

[14:44] and by myself Wow.

[14:46] Excellent.

[14:47] Thank you.

[14:50] All righty Next, we're going to go ahead and have our management

[14:53] analyst, Albert Nunez come on in Good evening Mayor and members

[15:01] of the city council our annual birthday community cleanup

[15:04] and compost event is coming up on saturday,

[15:06] May 2nd from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the Ortiz

[15:10] Civic Center parking lot.

[15:11] We won't have tammy's tacos, but you could drop off

[15:15] bulky items, electronic waste, greenways and or documents

[15:19] for shredding or those interested

[15:21] in free compost being given out all we are residents

[15:24] to bring storage containers or vehicles

[15:27] to accommodate the load.

[15:29] Bartek will provide shovels The city will also be handing out

[15:33] free used oil containers for those who

[15:34] want to recycle their old use.

[15:38] More, more motor oil safely and attendees

[15:41] must be a dirty resident and it will

[15:42] be checked Lastly, join us for our daughter's

[15:45] 2026 State of the City.

[15:46] And schools address happening on Monday,

[15:49] may 4 at the Kenneth and Belle Gymnasium.

[15:53] Mayor term Martin del Antetokounmpo

[15:55] and USD board President Reina Dias will share updates.

[15:59] Celebrate accomplishments and highlight what's

[16:02] ahead for our city and schools as it already

[16:04] continues to grow and evolve.

[16:06] Our legacy in Motion reflects the progress we're building

[16:09] together Doors Open at 5:30.

[16:12] Address starts at six and reception follows at 7 p.m..

[16:15] Does anyone have any questions ?

[16:19] May the fourth be with you.

[16:21] There we go I think we missed the mark on our theme

[16:24] It's never too late Maybe I'll walk out to the don.

[16:27] Don It's the common that goes with the bulky item

[16:32] cleanup I know.

[16:34] We just got designated clean California,

[16:37] and we're one of 30 cities to have that And I

[16:40] know a lot of that was you know, it was a team effort,

[16:42] but a lot of that came from you.

[16:44] And I want to congratulate you and our whole team

[16:47] for getting that designation for this community.

[16:50] Oh, I appreciate that Yeah, Congrats to the city.

[16:52] I know we felt that we were already doing a lot of what was

[16:55] required, and that's thanks to all of you,

[16:57] the residents and staff So without

[16:59] everyone coming together, we wouldn't have

[17:01] accomplished what ?

[17:02] I appreciate that.

[17:03] Thank you.

[17:05] Thank you.

[17:05] Any other questions ?

[17:06] OK.

[17:07] Are there any audience members that have any events that they'd

[17:11] like to announce upcoming?

[17:13] All right We have Mrs. Carroll Good evening I just want I came

[17:24] here from representing the Dougherty

[17:26] Women's Club We have an installation dinner

[17:29] coming on Thursday, May 7th.

[17:30] I guess that week.

[17:32] It's going to be really busy.

[17:34] It's at 5:30 is a Cinco de Mayo themed event, is going to be

[17:38] here at the community center.

[17:39] We have already mariachis coming in.

[17:42] We have great food We have a photo booth and a lot

[17:46] of great raffle prizes.

[17:48] We have obtained a law to great raffle prizes,

[17:50] so we would love you to attend You know,

[17:53] the Women's Club has been really kind

[17:55] of a fixture here in Dougherty when it comes to volunteering.

[18:00] And i know they would love to see a lot of you come.

[18:03] And it's not just for women, remember,

[18:05] it's also for men So men need to come, too So, again,

[18:09] is may 7th and it's $30.

[18:12] I mean, giving price wise is a $30 a meal.

[18:15] But otherwise, do I have any questions about it?

[18:18] And I will.

[18:19] Am I actually going to say thank you to Tara?

[18:20] She came to one of our events in March and it was great.

[18:24] I mean thank you for coming.

[18:25] So, yes I am a pending new member as well.

[18:28] I just have to finish.

[18:29] That's great See, we have a new member,

[18:31] so we're growing our club So at this moment,

[18:35] we are getting a lot of new members coming

[18:37] and we're kind of revamping how things are.

[18:40] The energy is going be a lot of fun this year.

[18:42] So we have a lot of fun activities coming up

[18:45] and i'll probably be coming in more and talking about them

[18:48] as the year comes by.

[18:49] So.

[18:50] All right Thank you to your answering my question.

[18:53] I was going to ask if.

[18:54] Yes men are invited to So that sounds like a fun, fun event.

[18:58] Who's the incoming president Okay.

[19:00] All right.

[19:01] I am actually I'm being very modest here.

[19:04] Congrats Doing the work.

[19:05] Thank you But it's going to be.

[19:07] I didn't want to say I was going to be the incoming president,

[19:10] but I want.

[19:11] I just think that is a it's a great club.

[19:13] They've been around for a long time

[19:15] and these ladies do do a lot of volunteer work

[19:17] And I just I feel like it would be great to have.

[19:19] I know they would love to see all of you there or some of you

[19:23] there, at least.

[19:24] That would be wonderful Thank you.

[19:25] Thank you so much Do I hand this over?

[19:28] Oh, perfect All righty.

[19:31] If that concludes any upcoming events,

[19:34] I'm going to move on to item number

[19:35] seven, which is oral communications items,

[19:38] not on the agenda.

[19:39] If you wish to speak on a matter that is not on the agenda,

[19:41] you may do so at this time.

[19:43] Each member of the public will have a total of three minutes

[19:45] to speak.

[19:46] The Council cannot discuss or take action on matters not

[19:49] on the agenda for this meeting.

[19:51] Do we have any public comments ?

[19:53] We do.

[19:53] First up is Marc Gonzales Good evening.

[20:05] Hi Hi.

[20:08] Council members and residents of the city

[20:10] want to announce a group i'm starting for city

[20:13] improvement of our small city And then

[20:16] we throw the variety of parks.

[20:17] We have the ever we put into do better.

[20:21] But the council members can't know

[20:22] all the improvements possible if nobody

[20:24] tells them With this group.

[20:27] I want to get together with any resident of the city that

[20:30] has an idea on how to improve the city We can find a solutions

[20:35] and with the city's help, make the city better

[20:37] One idea at a time.

[20:39] Oh, so nervous.

[20:41] You get this.

[20:41] You're good among friends.

[20:44] I want the meeting to be Friday, april

[20:47] 24th at Cabrera's at 6 p.m..

[20:49] If anyone's interested.

[20:52] Already Can you clarify the date and the time for me?

[20:54] One more?

[20:54] I'll say it with my big loud mouth.

[20:57] April 24th, 6 p.m. to Friday at Cabrera's april 24th.

[21:02] 6 p.m. at Cabrera's.

[21:03] This is Thank you very much step,

[21:08] we have Neil Furukawa for a good evening.

[21:18] Yeah.

[21:18] Basically I'm here to reinforce my two issues.

[21:21] Last I'm the first one being the sign.

[21:25] And I've sent the letter out to all the city council members,

[21:28] US Safety Department and the also the mr. Girardi Mr.

[21:36] And I haven't received one letter back yet

[21:38] or any type of reply so hopefully they're working on it.

[21:45] Second thing, the EPA thing it's kind of interesting

[21:47] because now Laurel is actually closed down across the river.

[21:53] So I was going to go with the find out from the engineers

[21:57] who because it's not our property,

[21:59] it's not the city's property it's not Irwin to do property.

[22:03] It belongs to the army Corps of Engineers.

[22:06] I believe But it's very interesting.

[22:08] They didn't open it back up.

[22:09] I was only in the impression that it might because it

[22:11] was actually a recreational area for the bike riders and whoever.

[22:17] And I was really surprised about that.

[22:19] And that's about it.

[22:20] Thank you Thank you very much Next up is Brian Barretto

[22:25] a good evening, mayor and members of the council.

[22:34] My name is Brian Barretto and I serve

[22:36] as California American water's external affairs manager

[22:38] for southern California.

[22:40] I'm here to share with you that we have recently updated

[22:44] our emergency response plans, our air drops,

[22:48] California American Water's ERP outlines

[22:50] how we protect operate and restore service in our water

[22:54] systems during an emergency It covers critical system

[22:59] components reporting and notification procedures,

[23:02] security protocols for response actions

[23:05] and the use of the standard emergency

[23:07] management system within the incident Command systems.

[23:12] The priorities of our eRP are first,

[23:15] to protect human life, followed by protect the environment,

[23:19] property and maintenance of essential water systems

[23:22] While we hope these plans are rarely needed,

[23:25] our response ability is to be fully prepared in the event

[23:28] of an emergency our plan ensures we can respond efficiently,

[23:33] efficiently and maintain and/or restore service,

[23:36] including providing backup water and supplies.

[23:39] When necessary.

[23:41] We value our partnership with the community

[23:43] and remain committed to ensuring the safety and resilience

[23:46] of our water systems California American Water welcomes

[23:50] ongoing coordination with the city and your staff,

[23:53] and it would be beneficial.

[23:56] And we would like to inform form you

[24:00] or have a deeper discussion about the components

[24:03] of the plan.

[24:04] If you would like that, please don't hesitate to contact me.

[24:07] I can be reached at Brian barretto at Am.

[24:10] Watercare him or (626) 388-7484.

[24:15] I appreciate the opportunity to share this with you.

[24:18] Thank you for your time and continued support

[24:22] Thank you very much Righty.

[24:25] Now we're going to go ahead and move on to item number eight.

[24:28] Oral communications on the consent calendar.

[24:31] If you wish to speak regarding the consent

[24:33] calendar on this agenda, you may to do so at this time Oh, sorry.

[24:38] Oh okay.

[24:39] I'm sorry about that thank you.

[24:44] I should have.

[24:45] I should have written a card.

[24:46] Yes.

[24:48] Anyways, it's.

[24:49] It's my pleasure to announce the city's newest hire To my right

[24:54] is our newest deputy city clerk, Briana Solis She comes

[24:58] to us from Sage Oak Charter School in Riverside,

[25:01] where she was a human resource clerk

[25:03] But really, her her education has led her down this path

[25:06] She has an undergrad in political science and an MBA,

[25:10] and we couldn't be happier to welcome her to our team

[25:13] and breed U.S. I'm excited to start.

[25:18] Today's my second day and I'm really excited to just

[25:22] learn more about the city.

[25:24] Well, welcome I actually had a little note

[25:25] to welcome you on my thing.

[25:26] And he beat me to it.

[25:28] So that just shows you how awesome of a city manager.

[25:29] We have Welcome.

[25:31] Anyone else have anything to say?

[25:34] Yeah, I think All righty.

[25:37] All right.

[25:37] Thank you Mayor May i ask Mr. Villalobos You may, Mr. Mayor.

[25:46] Locals, just because we've talked about it

[25:48] and previous council meetings, are we able to share

[25:50] a little bit about Laredo park?

[25:53] I actually have it in my closing comments as part of the meetings

[25:57] we are reporting out on.

[25:58] Perfect.

[25:59] So, Mr. Neil, I hope you stick around all righty.

[26:04] With that, I'm going to move us on to the consent calendar.

[26:06] If you wish to speak on an item on the consent calendar

[26:09] on this agenda, you may do so at this time.

[26:10] Each member of the public will have a total of three minutes.

[26:13] Do we have any comment cards on the consent calendar?

[26:15] No cards.

[26:15] All right.

[26:16] Is there anyone in the public that wishes to speak?

[26:19] All right.

[26:19] Approval Second.

[26:21] All right.

[26:22] All in favor.

[26:23] I and you are opposed.

[26:25] Motion carries Next, we're going to go on to item

[26:28] 12 on the oral communication.

[26:30] Since business items if you wish to speak on a business item

[26:32] on the agenda you may do so.

[26:34] At this time.

[26:34] Each member in the public have a total of three minutes to speak.

[26:37] Do we have any comment cards on business items No cards.

[26:39] Anyone want to speak from the audience on business items ?

[26:43] Alrighty So let's go ahead and move on to 13 A

[26:48] and it looks like we have the assistant city manager

[26:50] and director of administrative services

[26:54] Mr. Christian Peterson Thank you.

[27:03] This evening, we are going to have a discussion about parking

[27:07] enforcement services.

[27:09] And I just really wanted to do an introduction

[27:11] And with my hat on, one of the challenges that we have had

[27:17] historically is holding on to part time cSO officers

[27:22] The good news is that we appear to train them

[27:25] so well that they are ready to go off and become

[27:28] officers in their careers.

[27:30] And so it's a great stepping stone to their career

[27:34] But as far as the effective ness of having them handle,

[27:37] particularly in multiple things in our city

[27:40] we have struggled holding on to as many positions as we have.

[27:44] So with that, what we have noticed

[27:46] is not being able to cover all of the things

[27:50] as far as parking enforcement, there are many categories

[27:53] of parking enforcement So more recently I

[27:57] had suggested that maybe we look into the idea of contracting

[28:02] similar to how we do for our crossing guards

[28:05] and so with that I am going to turn it over to Albert,

[28:10] who really did the really heavy lifting

[28:13] and work on this project.

[28:14] And we will be doing a presentation on this proposal

[28:25] Thank you, Kristen And obviously, I

[28:27] couldn't have done it without doing credible stuff.

[28:30] Kristen, Brian And Lowry throughout the process.

[28:32] I really appreciate each of your support I'm back as Kristin

[28:38] mentioned, I'll be presenting on the professional Services

[28:41] agreement with Intercom Security for Parking

[28:44] Enforcement Services.

[28:47] Really quick, I just wanted to provide some background So

[28:50] currently and some of it may be already touched on by Kristen,

[28:54] but just to echo again, currently the city

[28:57] provides parking enforcement services

[28:59] So our part time community services officers or CSOs,

[29:03] our service, those take on various non obvious non

[29:08] sworn public safety functions such as providing

[29:11] and I'm controlling support for parking enforcement

[29:14] Sheriff deputy support and even covering

[29:17] the front desk if needed.

[29:18] However, over the past several years,

[29:20] there has been constant turnover and vacancies

[29:24] and because of that and competing operational,

[29:30] competing, operational priorities,

[29:32] it's been increasingly difficult to maintain consistent coverage

[29:36] of enforcement.

[29:37] This has led to reduced enforcement of parking

[29:40] regulations and decrease citation activity

[29:43] and more importantly, the inconsistent enforcement

[29:46] has impacted compliance and overall neighborhood quality

[29:50] of life and to address those challenges as city staff issued

[29:56] an RFP that went out on December 15 of last year,

[29:59] and it closed on January 14 of this year,

[30:02] the city received Three proposals,

[30:05] and after a concrete evaluation, taking into account costs,

[30:09] qualifications experience and overall ability

[30:12] to meet the city's operational needs

[30:15] it was Entercom was selected as the best qualified proposal.

[30:19] They provided the lowest cost proposal

[30:21] and demonstrated great experi tions providing these services

[30:27] to smaller cities similar in size to Dougherty

[30:29] and also neighboring cities such as Arcadia,

[30:33] as it was Alhambra, Glendora and La Vernon,

[30:36] just to name a few Now, I don't want to go over the scope to

[30:42] into detail but I did want to highlight

[30:44] key components of it that are important

[30:46] from an operational standpoint.

[30:49] So obviously, in a con would take on a comprehensive parking

[30:52] enforcement, including overnight parking street sweeping

[30:56] recreational vehicle, vehicle or RV restrictions permit parking

[31:01] areas time limit zones and school zones

[31:05] Under this agreement entered con would so sorry the contract

[31:11] would also provide all staffing vehicles, equipment

[31:14] and technology to operate the program, which

[31:16] as no additional burden to city resources

[31:19] was along with the field enforcement side.

[31:23] There are some administrative responsibilities for them,

[31:25] such as reporting to city staff to coordinate

[31:29] reporting and attending any citation hearings as needed.

[31:33] And lastly, beyond parking enforcement interaction

[31:36] would maintain a visible presence in the community

[31:40] and add an extra layer of observation and awareness

[31:43] throughout the community.

[31:45] The proposed agreement is for an initial three year term with two

[31:49] options or One year extension.

[31:51] Since this.

[31:52] If approved, this would be the city's First time

[31:55] contracting these services We would

[31:56] treat it as a pilot program No.

[31:59] Now we could evaluate how efficient

[32:01] is really evaluate the program costs

[32:04] And the agreement includes provisions.

[32:06] So the city is able to terminate the contract if needed,

[32:10] provide that flexibility if expectations are not met Overall

[32:17] contracting these services will not only provide

[32:19] that consistent coverage, but also reduce staffing pressures

[32:24] within the public safety department, for example

[32:27] because of the high turnover over the years

[32:29] we haven't been able to convince the taco certain enforcement

[32:32] in such as our RV restrictions.

[32:35] So contracting these services would we

[32:38] be able to consistently hit those enforcements that we

[32:41] haven't been able to over the past years

[32:44] and also allows our CSOs to focus on more community

[32:47] oriented responsibilities?

[32:49] And from a community perspective,

[32:50] consistent enforcement would help improve parking

[32:54] availability, safety, and overall compliance with

[32:57] the city's regulations So if approved,

[33:02] the current fiscal year would require a $15,000 budget

[33:05] amendment and the estimated annual cost for a full year

[33:09] of service is estimated at 221,000 and is subject to annual

[33:15] budgetary recreation Now, with all that being said,

[33:20] it's recommended that the City Council authorize the city

[33:23] manager to execute a three year professional services agreement

[33:27] with intercom security for parking enforcement services

[33:31] with option for Two additional one year

[33:33] extensions and to approve a budget

[33:36] amendment $15,000 to account.

[33:37] Number 1205 7761 for fiscal year 20 2526.

[33:43] That concludes my presentation.

[33:45] I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

[33:48] Sorry, I have a little line here.

[33:49] I'm going to start with Councilmember Chime.

[33:51] And then we got mayor Pro Tem King and and

[33:54] Councilmember Finley, and then we'll

[33:56] see if you guys still got it.

[33:58] Thank you very You mentioned, this

[34:00] is kind of like a pilot program because we've

[34:02] never done something like this.

[34:03] Correct.

[34:04] So do you think or would is there a difference between a one

[34:09] year contract and an additional added on years

[34:12] or a three year contract?

[34:14] Is that is that how we're able to get a rate like that.

[34:19] And correct me if I'm wrong stuff,

[34:21] but I believe having that multiple years you know,

[34:25] they'll have to constantly go through the cycles of,

[34:27] oh, now we have to do another agreement

[34:28] and stuff like that kind of, you have something already set.

[34:31] So that way the city managers.

[34:32] So one thing I would say because it's a pilot program,

[34:37] we've never done anything like this

[34:39] before, having a pilot program go for three years.

[34:43] It may seem a little bit longer because pilot

[34:46] program is essentially just trying something out, right?

[34:49] So the language in the contract actually

[34:51] gives us the ability to term the contract

[34:53] at any time with a 30 day notice.

[34:55] Okay So the answer he gave is true by giving those Three

[35:00] years, we were able to sit down and look

[35:02] at what it would look like in costs for the next three years.

[35:05] So it's like a guaranteed price.

[35:07] Yeah, but it gives us the flexibility One thing

[35:10] that we all know that we've been discussing

[35:13] is how the public safety commission is evaluating

[35:16] parking in general in our community.

[35:18] And so we needed to be very transparent about the fact

[35:22] that we're not positive.

[35:23] The list and the areas of all the areas

[35:26] that currently, you know, we have parking enforcement,

[35:29] there might be more, there might be less.

[35:31] We also have areas that we have not been able to.

[35:35] And I'll let Larry speak to it in more detail if needed.

[35:39] But where we haven't been able to even

[35:40] get into full, consistent enforcement So again,

[35:44] we're not positive how much that's going to take

[35:47] or what that is going to, you know, trigger and generate.

[35:50] So with all of that, they have been,

[35:53] you know, very good about saying that they

[35:55] are willing to work with us.

[35:57] And kind of create this program, not just on the structure

[36:01] we're giving them now but on whatever we create.

[36:04] And we decide our community needs moving forward.

[36:07] So given the amount of hours we've requested

[36:11] and the amount of people.

[36:12] We believe would be needed for our existing list.

[36:15] This would be the budget And we have now

[36:18] an idea of what that budget is.

[36:19] For three years.

[36:21] But it gives us the ability to scope that down once we

[36:24] get some feedback from all of the commission work

[36:27] and all of the stuff that Larry is doing Yeah, that makes sense.

[36:30] Now, if we have the ability with the 30 day notice,

[36:32] because then when we talk about contracts,

[36:34] we're kind of tied in for that amount of years.

[36:36] But then it's a failsafe to have that 30, 30 day notice

[36:40] and because we have we haven't had this before in our city

[36:44] I think there's, you know, prior to me, if this passes,

[36:49] prior to this I'm sure there was a lot

[36:51] of things slipping under the cracks that we couldn't get to.

[36:54] So I'm pretty sure that we'll be able to stay on top.

[36:58] And even the amount of hours that are being proposed and it's

[37:02] more the seven days is more because we know that really

[37:06] that coverage, if we could have even held the amount of hours

[37:09] that we had, but we could it we just could not hold on to

[37:15] you know stuff in in that area And again, I don't think it's

[37:21] necessarily a negative thing It's just that there are you

[37:24] know, they really look at this as a step

[37:26] to becoming a police officer.

[37:28] So it's really a natural progression. the other CSO

[37:32] positions, it's our intention to continue to have those

[37:36] and for them to continue to service the way they do.

[37:38] They just wouldn't be handling the parking portion.

[37:41] So continuing with animal control

[37:43] and continuing and supporting with reports for the sheriff's

[37:46] department and all the other aspect is just not

[37:50] the parking portion Thank you.

[37:51] All right.

[37:52] I'm going to pass it over to mayor Pro Tem King.

[37:54] I'm just curious.

[37:56] I heard what you said in regards to terminations

[37:59] with a 30 day notice.

[38:01] So why is it that a pilot maybe when you say that word.

[38:07] It just triggers me and a three year.

[38:10] I mean, a pilot program, it's no more than one year.

[38:13] Why can we just go and do a one year contract again

[38:18] It was our intention that it's going to take us a while to even

[38:21] figure out if we want to do it.

[38:22] So would we want 18 months?

[38:24] Would we want two years?

[38:26] It's going to take a while for them

[38:27] to even get through the process Yes.

[38:29] So I can tell you that we're going to at least want it

[38:33] for one year because we don't have

[38:36] the staff right now to do it.

[38:37] And we want to see if this works But depending on the feedback

[38:41] we get from the commission, which could take maybe

[38:44] a little less than a year on that feedback,

[38:47] then we'd want to scope our program

[38:49] down based on that feedback.

[38:50] And make whatever changes at that point

[38:52] So I just think we wanted the flexibility

[38:55] to be able to see what it would look like for three years.

[38:59] But again if for some reason we decide,

[39:01] let's pretend we got rid of all the parking restrictions

[39:04] and we decide we just don't even need to have this type

[39:08] of parking enforcement.

[39:09] We still would have the challenge

[39:10] of trying to fill part time CSOs to help us

[39:13] with our much smaller program.

[39:15] But maybe this wouldn't make sense anymore.

[39:17] Or maybe they wouldn't want to size

[39:18] down to as tiny of a program as we wanted But again,

[39:21] looking at trying to get an idea of what

[39:26] is steady cost, what are they going to charge us in year two?

[39:28] What are they going to charge us in year three?

[39:30] You know, there are investor minutes

[39:32] and equipment and all of that type of stuff

[39:34] that will roll into that.

[39:35] So what does that look like in year two?

[39:38] Are there going to be additional costs

[39:39] that they are going to try to put on us in year two or years?

[39:43] Are they going to.

[39:44] And the answer's no, because we got them to give us a 3 year

[39:47] commitment.

[39:48] We can see what those escalators are for each of those years.

[39:51] There's not an unknown of if we like the program

[39:54] what does year two look like?

[39:57] I'm just sticking for clarification.

[39:59] Is that including the manpower, the human resources

[40:03] is yes, all the training all the manpower,

[40:06] all the equipment and the vehicles, which is a big thing

[40:12] because we currently have to have the vehicles for our part

[40:15] time staff to take out and do that The equipment

[40:19] that they used for writing.

[40:21] What tickets uniforms.

[40:23] So, yes, it is all inclusive.

[40:25] It is theirs and we're not the only city that they

[40:28] do They work in a lot of areas.

[40:30] So I'm sure that there is some savings to the fact

[40:33] that they've been in this business for a while,

[40:35] and they work in many of the cities in our area All right.

[40:39] Next Council member Finley, thank you sir.

[40:43] Do you remember the city's in general

[40:45] for Yeah, this is Arcadia.

[40:48] Alhambra Pasadena two and Pasadena.

[40:51] And you know, I saw them writing tickets Very local here.

[40:56] Not to me What was the motivation for doing this?

[41:00] And I heard what you said.

[41:02] It's we can't hold on to our community service officers.

[41:06] So there will be a reduction, then in the dollars

[41:13] that we spend on community service officers.

[41:15] Yeah, the way it's set up is to CSOs

[41:18] where we're geared towards parking enforcement,

[41:21] and they have one dedicated vehicle.

[41:24] So there's reduction there and the driving force

[41:27] is really kind of similar to remember crossing guards

[41:32] and when we went to contract there part time is great

[41:37] but they're very transitory And so the cost of staff time for HR

[41:42] To recruit for public safety to do two

[41:45] interviews, then to train only to lose a person within a year

[41:49] to is great.

[41:51] But if we got to it was just constant turnover and that

[41:56] led to not being able to actually

[41:58] fill parking enforcement such as street sweeping.

[42:01] So then you fill in behind with code enforcement

[42:04] or whatever you can because people

[42:06] get upset when you don't do it and it's just a trickle down.

[42:10] So when we went to crossing guards,

[42:12] you know, we had the school districts upset with us, parents

[42:15] upset with us because we weren't out there

[42:16] and we couldn't staff the positions

[42:18] So they take on the burden of fully training and putting

[42:21] that person there which is very similar to what we're looking

[42:24] at here, is they have to go out and hire and put

[42:28] a body in and fill the roles that we

[42:31] aren't additional because of.

[42:34] We're small city and it's fantastic

[42:36] but our community service officers

[42:38] are a lot of times pulled in to fill behind Susie if she's sick

[42:42] or if we have a special events it's kind of all hands on deck.

[42:47] And that pulls away from parking enforcement as a whole.

[42:50] So these bodies will be dedicated to parking enforcement

[42:54] unlike what we have to do right now just to make

[42:56] sure everything works the way.

[42:58] And we provide the service that we can.

[42:59] So we will still have to community service.

[43:01] So we will still have our community service officers that

[43:04] are going to perform normal duties of of taking reports,

[43:09] assisting with traffic visions, assisting the office assisting

[43:13] with taking whatever we need.

[43:16] So there's a myriad things that we

[43:18] use them for within the public safety office.

[43:20] So they'll still do contain those duties.

[43:23] They just won't be writing parking tickets.

[43:25] Other than if Temple Station gets a call of a parking

[43:29] enforcement, then we could direct them over there

[43:31] to handle that specific case.

[43:32] So there's going to be an additional $221,000 annually,

[43:37] correct?

[43:39] OK.

[43:41] How do you anticipate the revenues will offset this

[43:50] So we currently have revenues that would offset that.

[43:55] But I anticipate that more coverage will actually

[43:58] bring in additional revenues.

[44:00] Generally, what happens with parking, like when we first

[44:03] started with the street sweeping,

[44:05] you're going to have an uptick at the beginning

[44:06] as people realize that we're actually going to enforce

[44:09] the rules that we weren't enforcing before,

[44:11] then it will come down and it will stabilize.

[44:13] But even at our full staffing, of course those we

[44:18] were doing more than $221,000.

[44:22] We've been as high as 400,000 and maybe more averaging

[44:26] closer to the 300,000.

[44:29] Having said that, the amount of season

[44:32] shows that we are eliminating, which actually is three parking,

[44:36] but they are not covering a full 40 hours of what

[44:41] is needed for the seven days.

[44:43] And so again, we're going to have additional hours

[44:46] incorporated in that to 21, and we're not

[44:49] going to have the challenge of filling the positions

[44:53] and/or the equipment, the training in the cars.

[44:55] OK.

[44:56] Is that something you can give us kind

[44:58] of a report back on savings?

[45:00] Absolutely.

[45:01] It's part of why it's probably my fault that the word pilot got

[45:04] used because I said there's no guarantee that we're going

[45:09] to want this program and so it absolutely needs to be evaluated

[45:13] not just from the money perspective,

[45:15] but also from the scope perspective,

[45:17] depending on the feedback we get about parking in general

[45:20] in the city.

[45:21] But yes, absolutely.

[45:23] And you'll be able to see it because it.

[45:25] It's a revenue generally speaking.

[45:27] You're going to see those reports So, for example,

[45:29] at midyear, you'll be able to see

[45:30] if we're trending more than what we had

[45:32] expected in our normal trends.

[45:34] OK.

[45:35] This the next thing is liability They carry

[45:39] their own insurance Absolutely.

[45:42] And so from a liability perspective

[45:45] it also takes some of that liability off of us

[45:48] because they are the officers out in the field.

[45:50] We're not directly their risk mitigation.

[45:52] Yes.

[45:53] And then finally will do they have certain cars that.

[45:59] Yes.

[46:00] Look, Larry, can you speak a little bit to the

[46:03] because they have uniforms and cars,

[46:04] but generally, we get to approve and authorize everything

[46:07] they're using.

[46:08] Yeah, for the most part, they use sedans.

[46:10] So they'll have a four door sedan that they utilize

[46:12] is going to be all white.

[46:13] And then the insignias are going to be

[46:14] on the side of the vehicle, which we're going to approve

[46:17] based on what they provide us.

[46:19] Okay And then I know something that people like is they

[46:26] like seeing the same people over and over

[46:32] Are we going to have the same officers,

[46:36] whatever you want to call them, doing this for us?

[46:38] Yeah.

[46:39] Generally speaking when we working out some of the language

[46:41] for the RFP process, we put in there

[46:44] that we wanted some consistency so much so that we're actually

[46:47] having these these contractors, if you will, actually

[46:50] dress out of our office.

[46:52] So they will be housed at the public safety office directly

[46:55] be in direct communication with them,

[46:57] and we'll be able to see them get the reports from them,

[46:59] get them hot spots, for example, in parking situations

[47:02] and make sure that we can maintain

[47:04] some of that consistency.

[47:05] So similar to how we do the L.A. County Sheriff's

[47:07] Department contract where we have the deputy's

[47:09] dress out of there.

[47:10] It's the same type of concept.

[47:11] Will they be working around the clock

[47:13] because obviously, many of these infractions

[47:16] take place at different times of the day Yeah, we worked at a it

[47:21] is very difficult to work out a schedule,

[47:23] but I worked with Briner Izumi and he's is a math

[47:27] wizard when it comes to Excel.

[47:28] So he was able to produce a very, very very good coverage

[47:32] area for these full timers.

[47:34] So it'd be two full time bodies that would cover

[47:36] the entire seven day time frame and they'll be working 12 hour

[47:39] shifts with a four hour overlap on the weekends

[47:42] so one thing to when you were talking about the reporting

[47:46] back, we didn't talk about it, but in looking

[47:50] at all of these alternate lives, one of the things we looked at

[47:53] was the cost of full time as well.

[47:55] And when it came to the cost of the full time hours

[47:58] that we're talking about, actually bringing in our own.

[48:01] Officer, having our own vehicles our own equipment,

[48:04] it cost more So this is an alternative

[48:07] to part time increasing the hours but less expensive

[48:12] than if we were to actually hire the positions here for the city.

[48:16] And one challenge.

[48:17] I mean, we are a contract city for a reason, right?

[48:20] There is a lot of flexibility and of moving of liability

[48:26] off of directly on the city, but also

[48:30] it does give us the ability to increase, decrease very quickly.

[48:36] So if we decided we wanted to reduce the hours

[48:38] and go to just one, we'd be able to do

[48:40] that as opposed to bringing somebody on.

[48:43] And then having difficulty in eliminating that position OK,

[48:49] I'm mildly skeptical of not anything new because I think

[48:55] anything new can be great But I also look at the way

[49:00] people view contract workers.

[49:05] And if they can't get enough out of them, liability wise,

[49:09] we know who they're going to hit up next So.

[49:12] OK.

[49:13] Thank you.

[49:14] And I believe you have another question.

[49:17] When councilwoman Finney was mentioning on insurance

[49:20] is the standard 1 million, 2 million

[49:23] that they're going to carry or.

[49:25] Yes they met will are professional services agreement

[49:28] that we traditionally have they have met all

[49:31] of those requirements And we did have three bidders and all

[49:36] three of them met the insurance requirements

[49:38] And then the other question was this is specifically for just

[49:43] traffic violations, not code violations, or will

[49:47] eventually it go into code violation, part parking

[49:50] enforcement, parking, sorry.

[49:51] So they're strictly parking enforcement.

[49:55] All right, Councilman garcia, thank you.

[49:58] Mayor A lot of my questions were asked by customer friendly.

[50:01] So thank you for getting those parking only But there also

[50:07] we can enforce our municipal code

[50:09] that is all of our municipal code

[50:12] that relates to parking Yes, only parking.

[50:15] Yes.

[50:15] OK.

[50:16] So they won't be doing code enforcement.

[50:18] They will be enforcing.

[50:20] So no 3 to 6 a.m. is in the municipal code.

[50:24] A lot of our restrict Well, I don't think the restricted

[50:27] that's within the vehicle code But but the RV restrictions

[50:31] are in the municipal code.

[50:33] So so these vehicles will only then be patrolling

[50:35] where there currently are parking

[50:37] restrict since they will be patrolling

[50:40] where we direct them to.

[50:42] So yes, they'll be handling those 3 to 6 a.m..

[50:44] But then we also have our other hotspots

[50:47] where we have restricted to residents only,

[50:50] such as by city of Hope and the arline.

[50:55] And so there they will be given a list

[50:58] by Larry and the public safety office

[51:01] as to what they focus on as well.

[51:03] Street sweeping the street sweep in and out 3, 2 6 a.m.

[51:06] is the majority of their duties.

[51:08] But we do have other okay because we have seen

[51:11] a huge benefit when there is an extra presence of folks driving

[51:16] through neighborhoods And I'm thinking about the areas that

[51:19] don't have parking restrictions and the housing

[51:22] also benefit from having a contract

[51:23] like this in the neighborhoods.

[51:25] The license plate reading cameras

[51:27] are those linked to our Foot Locker.

[51:30] How would those work?

[51:31] No those systems are going to be independent

[51:34] So the license plate reading camera systems that

[51:36] are developed for this type of situation

[51:38] is strictly for parking enforcement.

[51:40] It allows the officer to actually

[51:41] be a lot more efficient.

[51:42] So what it does is it actually timestamps vehicles that

[51:45] are parked in the town parking zone, as well as issuing

[51:49] the citation, just based off the license plate,

[51:51] reading from the camera system.

[51:52] So we had the opportunity here to also see

[51:55] that system in action and see how efficient

[51:57] an officer in the field can be.

[51:58] Again, as a pilot where do we go?

[52:01] Stay with this program and/or shift gears into something else.

[52:03] We can see the efficiency and getting the three year contract

[52:06] would help us benefit for that.

[52:08] Of course, with the term that we have, it's beneficial to city,

[52:11] but it would give us that data to support

[52:13] it One way or another.

[52:14] So there's a third party data.

[52:15] Can we find out who has access to that data?

[52:18] It's it's only strictly to the data processing

[52:22] center and the officers issuing it

[52:23] so that data does not get sent out outside of that.

[52:26] OK And then you talked about two vehicles per 24 hour shifts.

[52:31] So 12 hour shifts, one vehicle throughout the whole city

[52:33] for those 12 hours.

[52:35] And be one officer per shift.

[52:37] So one vehicle only.

[52:39] And then be doing 12 hour shifts, time with the four

[52:44] hours allowed for on the weekend to compensate

[52:46] to make them the 40.

[52:47] Okay If we were to go this way, since we have to approve

[52:51] that are uniform and symbols on their vehicles can

[52:56] we share that with the public before that contract

[52:57] would start.

[52:58] So that they're aware that this is what they're

[53:00] going to look like as over?

[53:01] Yeah, absolutely.

[53:02] We would want them to know what they look like.

[53:04] Yes.

[53:04] Yeah OK All right Mayor Pro tem.

[53:12] OK.

[53:12] Thank you, Mayor.

[53:13] I'm just curious where if we're going to have a vehicle just

[53:19] driving around constantly can we make

[53:22] a request for a clean air vehicle

[53:26] I'm just curious do they even have that option?

[53:30] I one thing I would point out is I'm not they

[53:33] would need to arrange where they were going to charge because we

[53:36] don't currently have a dedicated yet a dedicated charge

[53:40] location for the city.

[53:42] So they would just have to make to it cheaper than gas

[53:45] and would charge it to BP.

[53:47] Yeah we can talk to them about that.

[53:49] I know in my discussions with the operations manager,

[53:52] we talked about it being a hybrid vehicle

[53:54] because it does behoove them to have a vehicle that

[53:56] is energy efficient as well, cuts down

[53:57] on the short vehicle range.

[54:00] We also requested more information, especially

[54:02] with the BP charging station like you're

[54:04] mentioning about that.

[54:05] In addition, we actually have a charging station in our parking

[54:09] lot right around the corner.

[54:11] And since there are contracts, they could pay for that service.

[54:13] So we'll definitely ask them Yeah,

[54:17] but that that charging station is a very, very low

[54:22] It's not going to work.

[54:24] Yeah I think like a BP would be much better to do so

[54:28] but anyways.

[54:29] Yeah Yeah you don't think I'll add

[54:31] to that is that it does become difficult because they do have

[54:33] to transport to our office.

[54:34] So the vehicle does need to be fairly close to it

[54:37] to where they're at going to be changing, etc.

[54:41] Interesting OK.

[54:42] All right.

[54:44] Any other thoughts ?

[54:45] All right.

[54:46] Councilmember Lewis Yes I don't I don't I

[54:51] just want some clarification.

[54:53] How many positions are are we going to lose in the city?

[54:57] So there's three part time positions right now.

[55:00] Yes Are all three vacant or two or for sure, vacant And one is.

[55:07] Yeah right.

[55:08] 3 Currently, right now, we're kind of substituting our patrol

[55:12] car So it was like Brian Gallo was mentioning

[55:14] we have to do a lot of substitution to make sure

[55:16] that we ensure our coverage for parking enforcement,

[55:18] particularly for street sweeping and right

[55:22] now we have those patrol officers

[55:24] actually substitute for that.

[55:26] So we have about two of them that are in substitution

[55:28] If we eliminate the three positions to go

[55:31] with this contract services, we're going to be rededicating

[55:33] them to the regular patrol.

[55:34] CSO And then the one that isn't dedicated that will be offered

[55:38] the patrol see as opposition as well, because we

[55:40] do have vacancies on that.

[55:41] So you're only going to lose the three

[55:44] part time positions right Okay.

[55:47] And those three part time positions,

[55:51] they can't I mean I know, there's a pay scale

[55:57] that you can retain.

[55:59] People with a pay scale that what that not an option

[56:03] the increase surveyed and so the pay does not appear

[56:07] to be the issue for why we're retaining like I said,

[56:11] those who are even you know coming in there

[56:14] they're not staying because they're going to full time

[56:18] police officer positions.

[56:19] It's not because they're going to another city

[56:22] that pays part time better.

[56:24] That's what we're finding.

[56:25] Yeah, we we restructured the salary for the CSOs

[56:29] within the part time realm to fit what was the market

[56:35] for the going cities.

[56:37] So we're very competitive.

[56:38] Yes it's truly we just lose them because they're

[56:41] looking for full time jobs.

[56:44] That's they they generally are hired by in law enforcement

[56:48] positions and/or whatever else career they choose to

[56:52] But it's just a temporary job for them

[56:55] because it is part time.

[56:58] OK I also I'll like I said, I don't

[57:03] know if the word pilot got me, but I think three years

[57:08] is just quite a bit of time.

[57:10] I mean I can I know it takes probably a year

[57:15] to even get a routine down.

[57:18] And then maybe another year or 2 2 figure everything out.

[57:21] But I take the word pilot out of there.

[57:24] It's okay.

[57:24] Appreciate it.

[57:25] And yes, show shouldn't use that word,

[57:28] but we will be constantly evaluating this program.

[57:32] So it's really a trial Okay.

[57:35] A trial run that works better.

[57:37] All right.

[57:38] I don't feel that much better, but a little bit All right.

[57:43] I think everyone up here asked a lot of questions

[57:45] and addressed concerns I would have I have a lot of you know,

[57:48] I know that our public safety is a well oiled machine.

[57:51] So this sounds like something that makes

[57:54] our wheels a little squeaky.

[57:56] So if we have an opportunity to try to keep everything flowing,

[57:59] I think that's a great idea.

[58:00] The process of hiring and training somebody

[58:02] is so expensive I know we touched on that.

[58:04] I mean, I think my company, it costs like $30,000 to hire

[58:07] someone new just the loss of training time uniform equipment,

[58:11] administrative before and after hiring along with

[58:15] any kind of benefits they have.

[58:16] So I definitely see that there's an area for cost containment

[58:20] here, which is something we would

[58:22] probably know within the first nine months to a year.

[58:25] And I feel comfortable with the three year,

[58:27] you know, trial knowing that it's not a guaranteed thing.

[58:31] If we find out Nine months to 12 months from now,

[58:33] we can reassess this.

[58:35] I'm completely comfortable with making the decision.

[58:38] So that's my thought process on it

[58:40] because everyone else asks such good questions anyways,

[58:44] are we ready to anyone else have anything they want to say

[58:48] Can I call for a motion?

[58:50] Almost second.

[58:51] All in favor?

[58:53] I i any opposed motion carries.

[58:57] Thank you very much.

[58:58] Thank you.

[58:58] And I'll make sure to remove the word pilot out of my vocabulary

[59:02] Unless they're driving like a hybrid Honda Pilot.

[59:04] Hybrid?

[59:05] We're good.

[59:05] They're all right.

[59:06] Now.

[59:07] Let's go on to item B on business items

[59:09] We've got award of contract for the Donald and Bernice Watson.

[59:12] Multi Youth use, and that's going

[59:14] to be presented by our public works

[59:16] manager, Stephanie Sandoval.

[59:18] Hello Hi.

[59:19] Good evening, everyone.

[59:21] Again So this this item is to award the contract

[59:27] for the Donald Ebenezer Watson multi-use pathway improvement

[59:31] Project to F as contractors and a lot of the fiscal impacts

[59:40] were discussed during the during the CFP workshop earlier today.

[59:44] So I will kind of just breeze through that part.

[59:49] The lowest response of an responsible bidder was

[59:53] fS contractors for 1,697,000.

[59:58] And we are this staff is recommending to award

[1:00:01] the contract with a 7% contingency which

[1:00:05] would be a total of $1,816,800.

[1:00:12] And approve a budget amendment to use Measure M funds

[1:00:19] towards the rest of the remainder of the project

[1:00:23] I think one thing that we didn't discuss during the CIP workshop

[1:00:27] was mainly that FS contractors is the contractor that

[1:00:31] was the lowest bidder and they have done many projects

[1:00:35] for the city before They've completed a great number

[1:00:40] of projects for other cities as well,

[1:00:42] and they've always provided great work for the city

[1:00:45] and worked very cooperatively with staff.

[1:00:50] And so for a project like this, it's

[1:00:53] a big deal for us to have a contractor that is going to be

[1:00:57] working well with the city.

[1:00:58] And that is going to provide us with a good quality product

[1:01:03] as well So with that, I don't know

[1:01:06] if you guys have any more questions

[1:01:09] or if Councilmember Finley, thank you.

[1:01:14] Something that we talked about some time ago.

[1:01:19] And Fasano brought it up to me.

[1:01:21] He texted me today.

[1:01:23] And we ever done anything with any kind of electrical

[1:01:26] along there And I guess what I'm thinking is over closer

[1:01:33] to ward where the tennis courts are If we had

[1:01:38] some electrical a long the path there we could potentially put

[1:01:43] in, I guess you could say even kind of like a that's a fairly

[1:01:50] well-lit area like Christmas markets sort of thing

[1:01:58] during a holiday season.

[1:01:59] Is there any any thought to putting

[1:02:01] any kind of electrical there to give us some flexibility

[1:02:05] as to use of the path?

[1:02:07] So the main scope of the project includes adding lighting

[1:02:13] to to the intersections, to the main intersections of where

[1:02:18] the trail crosses streets.

[1:02:21] So there will definite be an addition and added component

[1:02:25] of electrical at those intersections as well

[1:02:28] as pedestrian lighting in the area where

[1:02:32] the where the bridge is, because that is generally a darker area

[1:02:37] And that was something that was brought up by council.

[1:02:39] So there there will be electrical components added

[1:02:44] to this project that are already part of the scope Something

[1:02:48] that could easily be utilized in the future,

[1:02:51] I guess to be flexible right Well, I think if i'm

[1:02:59] understanding your question correct, Lee,

[1:03:02] are you talking about the option of having

[1:03:04] some lighting when we do potentially

[1:03:07] host some kind of events?

[1:03:09] Sure.

[1:03:10] Right there along the bike trail.

[1:03:11] Are you are you thinking like permanent lighting

[1:03:13] or you're thinking, no no permanent lighting.

[1:03:16] But vendors out there that, sure, they

[1:03:18] can plug in if they bring in some right

[1:03:21] That's what I was thinking.

[1:03:22] So I don't know if that's built into the scope.

[1:03:27] Yeah, that wasn't built into the scope.

[1:03:30] But as we move forward, it is something we could

[1:03:31] look at as we go through this.

[1:03:33] And I mean change and if you're setting up something

[1:03:38] for vendors, you're going to need some it,

[1:03:41] you'll need a little you'll need more than just typical outlets.

[1:03:47] So we definitely look into that I mean,

[1:03:50] vendors are we looking to generate revenue

[1:03:52] from the it could be anything you know there are not a lot of

[1:03:57] and I know you've been to these places

[1:03:59] and whether it's New York or Chicago at Christmas time

[1:04:03] they will set up kind of markets and they are not

[1:04:08] only it's a moneymaker but not so much as it is a social event.

[1:04:15] And I just thought gee, maybe this

[1:04:17] would be something that would be kind of fun along the bike path,

[1:04:21] kind of like the market used to have a sanitary heater

[1:04:24] but instead of doing it there, have it alongside the amenities

[1:04:28] You kind of foodservice on I think we

[1:04:32] we talked about this for a long time, right

[1:04:35] in we've always wanted to beautify that trail.

[1:04:40] And lot of people use this trail and I believe

[1:04:44] I've said this many times to them and with other council

[1:04:47] members is we need the lights.

[1:04:49] We certainly do So it should be incorporated

[1:04:54] as part of the scope.

[1:04:56] I I hope we can do that.

[1:04:58] It doesn't have to be we need to dig underground

[1:05:02] and have some to 40 ease of whatever.

[1:05:05] There are lot of lights nowadays There

[1:05:07] are solar or self-sustained and they give a lot of Yeah,

[1:05:13] you know what is that loom not illuminations.

[1:05:18] What is that word Lumen.

[1:05:21] Luminescence.

[1:05:22] Right.

[1:05:22] Aren't known lumens whatever lumens So when I says an why is

[1:05:31] it that we're not able to.

[1:05:33] And I noticed a lot of these solar lights

[1:05:38] they're very very bright and if no one's walking

[1:05:42] around that area, it is automatically dims down to count

[1:05:50] in calories And I we're actually,

[1:05:52] we were walking, what, two days ago, three days ago,

[1:05:55] and I bumped into you at night and then

[1:05:57] you started looking at me and I'm like, woohoo,

[1:05:59] I can really see because it was so dark, right A lot of people

[1:06:03] like to use that trail.

[1:06:05] And I think it's good.

[1:06:06] And it's safe for us to have that

[1:06:09] place lit and it should be part of the scope

[1:06:13] of do I have anybody ?

[1:06:19] I have.

[1:06:20] My question was, who?

[1:06:21] What other projects has this company worked on for the city?

[1:06:24] Just so I have an idea They did the they did the the Huntington

[1:06:28] Drive median project.

[1:06:30] They did a lot of sidewalk improvement

[1:06:33] And they did the actually the emergent see concrete improve

[1:06:37] ments when the fires broke out, and the windstorm

[1:06:41] knocked down a bunch of trees.

[1:06:43] OK.

[1:06:44] They installed the the banner poles

[1:06:49] they work on a subcontractor for the Highland promenade project

[1:06:54] They did the ATP project on Central and Evergreen OK.

[1:06:58] Sounds good.

[1:06:59] Thank you.

[1:06:59] I got a good idea.

[1:07:00] I appreciate that Sounds like Lois,

[1:07:03] that has anything to bring up.

[1:07:06] Councilmember Chong.

[1:07:07] I just Just have a statement.

[1:07:08] I'm looking at these renderings or drawings

[1:07:12] of what the trail is going to look like I.

[1:07:18] I do like the new colors.

[1:07:22] And the greenery and flowers and plants around it as

[1:07:28] well as the drinking stations.

[1:07:31] And for the puppies and for the runners.

[1:07:35] We talked about a little bit about i

[1:07:38] don't know necessarily widening the trail,

[1:07:41] but having a space for the bikes and the actual

[1:07:46] like joggers and walkers can kind of separate the two.

[1:07:50] So they don't we hear there's a lot of butting heads

[1:07:54] on that trail between joggers and walkers

[1:07:56] versus bikers I know, we mentioned that a few weeks ago,

[1:08:00] maybe the last time we spoke about the trail

[1:08:04] they kind of widened it so that there's

[1:08:06] a separation between the two.

[1:08:08] And also, like Councilmember Kay said,

[1:08:10] some lights that we talked about as well to i

[1:08:15] appreciate the mile markers or something new

[1:08:17] and it brings something different to the trail,

[1:08:20] which I think is awesome.

[1:08:22] But those Two things widening the trail

[1:08:24] to kind of have the bikes and the restrooms,

[1:08:28] not potentially cause any accidents or hit each other,

[1:08:32] or maybe get into fights because one of hiking, one's walking

[1:08:34] And I think lights on the trail.

[1:08:39] There's also would also look so much more better if we can maybe

[1:08:47] bring that item up next council meeting

[1:08:50] to see what the cost to add those lights in

[1:08:55] and i think a along with the nice wooden chimes or windmills

[1:09:02] that we've looked at and these mile markers,

[1:09:05] it would definitely make the trail look 100 times better

[1:09:08] than it is now Councilmember Well,

[1:09:12] one thing I just what's being discussed tonight

[1:09:17] is award of bid and i would say the trail will be

[1:09:23] slightly wider than it is now.

[1:09:24] But we get a bid that was above what the estimate was of for it

[1:09:30] to be a four foot and a half wide

[1:09:32] or just because at the edges.

[1:09:34] It's going to be kind of feathered out a bit

[1:09:38] But to get wider than that would be a significant cost.

[1:09:41] So I mean, I believe also on in terms of lighting the attach,

[1:09:45] I believe we had a discussion when we came to the council

[1:09:48] last time.

[1:09:49] And we were getting ready to go out for bid.

[1:09:53] And I believe the Resolute was that might look to do that

[1:09:58] in the future as an option.

[1:10:00] The cost that would be significant compared to the bid.

[1:10:04] I mean, we'd, we'd be over the over the 7% contingency.

[1:10:07] But I feel like my fear is we're going to pay all this money

[1:10:11] for this budget amendment, $406,000, and then they're going

[1:10:14] to bring it to us.

[1:10:15] And there's going to be nothing but issues.

[1:10:17] That's my biggest fear So I feel like we should have

[1:10:19] the knowledge of some different lighting options

[1:10:22] and what that would cost, whether it

[1:10:23] be electric with plugs or doing some solar because that

[1:10:26] sounds like a great idea to.

[1:10:28] And then, you know there's just not as much

[1:10:30] of a need for the horse portion of the trail anymore.

[1:10:33] Yes, there are still horses on the trail, but not.

[1:10:36] I'm sure, the magnitude of when they built it

[1:10:37] or when they put it together And that feels like.

[1:10:40] That's like double the size of the actual pavement

[1:10:42] in some areas.

[1:10:43] So I can see why widening it might be wanting

[1:10:46] something we want to look into Yeah,

[1:10:48] I think you're absolutely right.

[1:10:50] I don't see as much horses there as i did when

[1:10:52] I was in my teenage years, but I think widening it

[1:10:55] to about a foot, a foot and a half without having any issues,

[1:10:58] I think that's helped.

[1:11:00] It's very helpful but also to avoid the same issues

[1:11:03] we had with the medians on Huntington

[1:11:06] to be able to see what it is.

[1:11:08] And what the cost would be and how it

[1:11:10] would look with the lighting.

[1:11:12] Regardless if we want to add it now or later on in the future.

[1:11:16] I'm just to be proactive and not come across the issues

[1:11:21] we had with the median.

[1:11:22] Again so that, you know, we can move forward

[1:11:25] with this more smoothly.

[1:11:27] Well one option would be if the council chose to, would we?

[1:11:31] We could go forward with the current bid

[1:11:34] that we have a word of bid.

[1:11:36] Begin with the project I don't I don't

[1:11:38] think we come back to the next meeting

[1:11:39] with a price for expand the lighting.

[1:11:41] But I think within 4 to 6 weeks, they would

[1:11:45] they're going to start in 4 to 6 weeks.

[1:11:47] And there's going to there be won't be starting till June.

[1:11:49] We could probably do an analysis of what

[1:11:51] that that additional lighting costs would be.

[1:11:54] And we could either Yeah, I think potentially

[1:11:57] either add that to the contract to do different contract

[1:12:01] I think that would help out to be awarded

[1:12:04] and have the kind of fine print that it would come back

[1:12:09] with the additional cost or an extra renderings of how it would

[1:12:15] look with those lighting that if you're to that we're going to do

[1:12:18] this beautiful upgrade and then the constituents are going

[1:12:21] to have the hugest complaint of it's still

[1:12:23] so dark by the time I get off work,

[1:12:25] I can't walk on it anyways.

[1:12:26] And I just think it's like a missed opportunity

[1:12:28] to make it safer for everyone.

[1:12:29] I too have seen Councilmember Calderon walking in the evenings

[1:12:33] a couple of times.

[1:12:33] And he and I walk, you know it's 7:00.

[1:12:36] It's pretty dark when we see each other.

[1:12:38] So councilmember Finley have we gone

[1:12:42] to like the Joint Powers Insurance Authority and said,

[1:12:48] take a look at it?

[1:12:49] You see any design flaws here.

[1:12:51] That would be a potential problem for liability

[1:12:56] which is even Well, part of the the plan

[1:13:03] is to meet aDA requirements.

[1:13:05] OK.

[1:13:06] So that actually, that's how we initially got the funding.

[1:13:12] And we applied for multiple grants.

[1:13:14] It was, was basically not just an improvement,

[1:13:16] but also to address aDA issues and several years ago,

[1:13:20] we had that analysis done.

[1:13:22] And so of, of all the crossings are being upgraded.

[1:13:25] So the intent was to meet all ADA requirements OK.

[1:13:29] But in addition to that, I know that I forced Larry and Steve

[1:13:35] one night to go over there with me

[1:13:38] just so they could see how bad the lighting was at the Mount

[1:13:42] Olive royal Oaks Drive intersection

[1:13:45] And they both saw the same thing I did.

[1:13:47] First of all, low lighting and we

[1:13:51] almost hit someone because he was dressed at night.

[1:13:54] You guys make sure don't wear black or wear white when you're

[1:13:59] walking on that bike path because it's really hard to see

[1:14:03] people All right So let's bring us back to topic,

[1:14:10] then, which is awarding the contract Are, you know,

[1:14:12] do we have any more questions about what's right before us?

[1:14:15] I know we've given some direction of what

[1:14:17] we want to see come back.

[1:14:19] We've expressed our concerns Are we anybody have anything more

[1:14:25] they need to clarify before being

[1:14:26] ready to make a motion or vote So help me with this then.

[1:14:33] Craig, As far as lighting, you're saying we go ahead.

[1:14:37] We approve this tonight.

[1:14:39] If we do, and then in a month or two,

[1:14:44] you'll come and say this is what it's

[1:14:47] going to cost to put light bollards from vineyard

[1:14:51] to Mount Olive or Mount Olive to Royal Oaks North or something?

[1:14:56] Absolutely.

[1:14:57] So if I may I just want to give a rough estimate.

[1:15:01] These are outdoor or solar baller.

[1:15:07] I can check them right now The highest price 400 bucks each

[1:15:14] So if I just guess how many around whatever distance,

[1:15:19] then i can certainly know what the cost is, right The building

[1:15:23] material costs And then for very quickly, add it on to i'm

[1:15:28] not sure this has to be those need to for sure be bolted down

[1:15:34] and understood.

[1:15:35] So yeah these price in the public and Tony Price

[1:15:39] is often very different in this in this.

[1:15:42] And so I completely understand that right.

[1:15:45] And i think we can get a pretty good estimate.

[1:15:49] I don't think it's going to be for starting.

[1:15:50] I want to go and see the math to do this, because I do recall so

[1:15:56] for many, many years that we do want lights

[1:16:00] and hopefully we can have this incorporate it

[1:16:03] into the scope of it, but it shouldn't

[1:16:05] be ecstatically expensive because it doesn't add up.

[1:16:09] Can we ask them to develop the plan including

[1:16:13] the light as an add on?

[1:16:14] I know it can't be in the scope of work

[1:16:15] for what's approved What we've gotten the grant money for

[1:16:18] but that we you know, we just finished doing our capital

[1:16:21] improvement project.

[1:16:22] We have a pretty decent idea of our financial goals.

[1:16:25] And we can then, you know, consider that when

[1:16:29] we move forward Yeah, we will.

[1:16:32] We'll go to a commercial lighting company

[1:16:34] will get a new estimate.

[1:16:36] You know, it's for the 1.6 miles and we'll bring an amount back

[1:16:41] for you to discuss and let them know,

[1:16:42] you know, we're on a budget, you know,

[1:16:45] give us some options You know, don't

[1:16:47] go straight to the Cadillac just because it's a public entity.

[1:16:49] Let's see what the then kia has got going on it.

[1:16:53] Yeah.

[1:16:53] Good luck with that.

[1:16:54] So on as you say, city I do have I have one question that will

[1:16:57] help us on this is that since the since all parks closed 10:00

[1:17:04] and there are security issues, my assumption would be is that

[1:17:08] we would also want something that has

[1:17:10] the ability to be on a timer.

[1:17:11] So, yes closed off at.

[1:17:14] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:17:15] And they could I mean, I'm sure I'm thinking too like, you know,

[1:17:19] the lights just behind the trail of houses on, right.

[1:17:21] Looks like the little small trail by Foothill Academy.

[1:17:23] They're probably going to want a dimmer

[1:17:25] version of the lights Very dim version

[1:17:26] if it's their backyard Right.

[1:17:28] We're going to have to be considerate of where

[1:17:30] each placement is.

[1:17:30] But you know there's you know where

[1:17:32] it's going under the bridge and it's super dark and scary.

[1:17:35] Like that's going to need some lighting,

[1:17:36] you know that's actually within the scope of the project

[1:17:39] with that lighting Lighting under the bridge

[1:17:41] is actually with the scope of that.

[1:17:42] That's awesome.

[1:17:43] That's their other parts.

[1:17:45] Like when you're walking like i just bumped into.

[1:17:48] And I I've seen coyotes walking around.

[1:17:50] I mean, running around too.

[1:17:51] So just want to making sure that it's safe.

[1:17:54] Yeah.

[1:17:54] Daylight savings to walk past 4 p.m.

[1:17:56] And so if we can give that to our community at a price

[1:17:59] that we can consider taking from one of our funds

[1:18:03] I think we want to consider it.

[1:18:05] So i do, I want at least hear about it.

[1:18:08] Councilmember Garcia and then Councilmember

[1:18:10] Calderon I think the consensus is to see the trail

[1:18:14] lit the whole 1.6.

[1:18:17] I would prefer to see what that cost will be in sections Instead

[1:18:21] of encouraging the whole try to be

[1:18:23] just that one particular section that's out for the bridge.

[1:18:26] I think up to you get to not only

[1:18:28] if it gets really, really dark and and if I may

[1:18:32] Councilman Garcia is there solar out there?

[1:18:34] We don't need to go in.

[1:18:36] You know do all these tranches.

[1:18:38] And all that stuff.

[1:18:39] Correct.

[1:18:39] But yeah, I i'd like to see what that would look

[1:18:42] like just in phases in case we couldn't

[1:18:44] fund the whole 1.6 miles.

[1:18:46] At least identify the areas that we are very dark in just

[1:18:50] to clarify, you talked between Buena Vista and the island

[1:18:58] long stretch before you get to island,

[1:19:01] all live and rail looks going on that gets really dark.

[1:19:06] I think it means between the bridge and Mount Olive Yes.

[1:19:11] Yes.

[1:19:12] OK.

[1:19:12] Bridge amount of passive use and stuff.

[1:19:18] Thank you.

[1:19:19] Thank you I just have a question.

[1:19:22] How many ADA accessible entrances will the Cho have?

[1:19:28] Just because I know that one time

[1:19:30] there was I mean, as we've heard I walked that through a lot.

[1:19:34] But one time there is some tree activity that was going on.

[1:19:36] And there is a sign that said no idea

[1:19:38] accessible for the whole day.

[1:19:40] So I'm just wondering if it's going to have

[1:19:41] multiple entrances for people.

[1:19:43] It's essentially at every intersection

[1:19:46] I mean, for instance, if you look at one a vista,

[1:19:49] you've got an entrance from the I mean, from the north.

[1:19:53] And the south side.

[1:19:54] And then through the middle and other areas,

[1:19:57] it's just the actual trail entrance at at the intersection

[1:20:02] at that particular case.

[1:20:03] The reason that sign read that was

[1:20:05] because the entrance that actually paved section

[1:20:09] of the trail was being blocked.

[1:20:11] And so therefore, anybody that was using the trail

[1:20:13] was going to have to use a dirt path

[1:20:15] and that is not a designated ADA path.

[1:20:19] And we wanted to make sure that people that were walking

[1:20:22] the trail were using the trail at that time,

[1:20:24] understood that that ADA access was not available OK.

[1:20:28] I just had a thought.

[1:20:29] What about asking like local businesses, Dignitas fees, etc.,

[1:20:33] about like donating a lamp post and then we

[1:20:35] can have a little plaque on the lamp post for them

[1:20:36] If we did solar.

[1:20:38] And we can send it out to all of our assembly people,

[1:20:40] we can send it out to big partners like City of Hope, etc.

[1:20:44] and see, you know, maybe see developments

[1:20:46] to donate a little section and call it the little section

[1:20:48] of hope, things like that Mayor I'm so sorry to interrupt up

[1:20:54] here, but I just wanted us to get back to the the contract

[1:20:58] itself, which is for the current design and approval.

[1:21:01] If the city council wants staff to go back and change

[1:21:05] the scope of that to incorporate these changes, we could do that.

[1:21:09] I don't think that's the recommendation tonight However,

[1:21:11] if you want staff to go and get you the estimates

[1:21:14] for the lighting and design and things like that with new ideas

[1:21:18] like you mentioned, we can do that too.

[1:21:19] But since this contract is pretty specific to the ADA

[1:21:24] improvements and the grant, we kind of

[1:21:25] want to I am apprehensive to go forward with this scope

[1:21:29] if we're not going to be able to have this discussions

[1:21:31] and then we're going to all be stuck with our hands

[1:21:33] tired and frustrated.

[1:21:34] So i don't know what that means do we want to go back and have

[1:21:38] the scope to add lighting as a add on option,

[1:21:40] but have it included in this plan

[1:21:42] that where we don't have to worry about or

[1:21:44] or if I could if we could move forward with this.

[1:21:48] And then come back and on the next council meeting,

[1:21:51] even for a discussion on lighting

[1:21:54] or additional lighting on the trail, then

[1:21:57] we're going to have to bring this back again, because they're

[1:21:59] going to want to start this for seven

[1:22:01] for this portion, which is which is all under the grant money

[1:22:04] But if we're looking at adding additional lighting we can

[1:22:08] we have time to at least bring it back, discuss,

[1:22:11] have staff, take the direction and come back

[1:22:15] with further details on cost.

[1:22:16] And we can move forward that way.

[1:22:19] Yeah.

[1:22:19] And i would just say that necessarily

[1:22:20] the problem with adding to this is we will

[1:22:23] have to go back out to bid.

[1:22:24] And I I really urge that we don't do that.

[1:22:28] If if the issue is adding lighting,

[1:22:30] we can add lighting within the time period.

[1:22:33] If there's a choice to do that within the time

[1:22:35] period of construction we can add that on.

[1:22:37] But yeah, I was going to say, because I think

[1:22:39] the scope in approving this is within the scope of the grant

[1:22:42] money.

[1:22:43] And I think sooner we put a stamp on it,

[1:22:46] the sooner we can get this money move forward to show

[1:22:50] But I think there is a consensus here on the council

[1:22:53] that we do want to incorporate lighting into this.

[1:22:57] So during the time of construction

[1:22:59] or before construct SSiOn moves forward

[1:23:04] we should have a vote, a definitive answer on what type

[1:23:08] of lighting or the amount or the budget

[1:23:10] that we want to utilize for the lighting.

[1:23:12] I know that's going to come separate

[1:23:13] but I think we can do that because this gives us

[1:23:16] the opportunity to go ahead and move forward and utilize

[1:23:18] the grant money that is on the table here and in addition

[1:23:21] to that, everybody has seen each other's numbers

[1:23:23] and we might be seeing a 3.5 million

[1:23:25] trail if it goes out to bid again.

[1:23:27] So it's in our best interest already on that vein,

[1:23:31] then, may I have a motion for recommended action Second,

[1:23:35] might I just given council's conversation recommend

[1:23:40] that the motion be approved Staff's organization

[1:23:44] and direct staff to come back with information

[1:23:47] regarding lighting or for the trail Yes, that's it.

[1:23:51] All right.

[1:23:52] Make get a second.

[1:23:53] Second.

[1:23:54] All in favor I. I open tie.

[1:23:59] Can I add on to this Well, we just.

[1:24:03] But, you know specifically on solar and self-sustained,

[1:24:07] we don't need to go in and dig trenches.

[1:24:09] We just don't We can explore our lighting options.

[1:24:12] Oh, great.

[1:24:13] Thank you I just.

[1:24:15] I know we already voted, Stephanie.

[1:24:16] There's currently stop signs facing the pedestrians

[1:24:20] and bikers on the trail I'm got a feedback

[1:24:22] that they're a little high.

[1:24:24] And so pedestrians are just walking through,

[1:24:26] I don't think they're aware that means they should

[1:24:28] stop and look for traffic.

[1:24:29] You think with this upgrade we can

[1:24:31] bring those eye level for that?

[1:24:33] That can be considered?

[1:24:34] Yes it's very likely that they were installed

[1:24:37] that high for bike riders.

[1:24:39] But there there will definitely be

[1:24:41] added striping as well on the floor on the trail itself.

[1:24:46] Higher visibility signage We can definitely add more signs

[1:24:51] for pedestrians All righty.

[1:24:55] Thank you so much All righty I believe we are moving on

[1:25:01] to number 14 items from city council housing

[1:25:05] authority financing And we will go

[1:25:09] ahead and start with Larry Me.

[1:25:13] All right Mr. Henslee.

[1:25:16] Mr. Enriquez.

[1:25:17] Mr. Peterson, Mr. Villalobos So staff and i recently met with

[1:25:24] Route 66 committee, and we're working on finalizing the route

[1:25:29] for this year's 100th anniversary parade

[1:25:33] So that's coming along nicely.

[1:25:35] Additionally today, the mayor and Councilmember Garcia and I

[1:25:40] met with the CEO Angelique Richards from City of Hope

[1:25:45] as well as executive director Peter mackler.

[1:25:50] Just to discuss really partnerships

[1:25:54] and just to introduce ourselves.

[1:25:56] And then introduce them and is to make sure that we all

[1:26:00] are keeping in mind that we're important to each other

[1:26:03] and each other's success So it was a very positive introduction

[1:26:07] and meeting because we had not met the new CEO.

[1:26:10] Additionally Well, now it's been,

[1:26:13] I think a little bit of while but we

[1:26:15] did have a meeting with the Nordson Gabriel River Working

[1:26:18] Group which consists of Risa Irwindale and US, which goes

[1:26:22] to Laurel Park Currently we're under review in the JPA,

[1:26:28] which would be formed between all three cities.

[1:26:31] The reason being we're forming the jPA is because Senator Rubio

[1:26:35] has earmarked approximately 4 million

[1:26:38] in funds for us to use for the really beautification

[1:26:44] and installation of Loreal Park currently

[1:26:48] it's sitting that county terminated their lease mutually

[1:26:53] terminated their lease with the Army Corps of Engineer, which

[1:26:56] allowed the EPA to go in there and set

[1:26:57] up their site after the fire.

[1:26:59] It's still sitting terminated.

[1:27:02] The army corps wishes to enter into a lease agreement

[1:27:05] with the JPA for us to control the park

[1:27:08] and with those funds from Senator Rubio, we the hope is,

[1:27:12] is to construct some kind of outdoor classroom and park

[1:27:16] area that talks about the water the importance

[1:27:20] of that riverbed Native Americans

[1:27:24] and the native vegetation.

[1:27:25] So there's there's a lot of work in progress.

[1:27:29] It'll take a little time.

[1:27:30] But you will eventually see a JPA

[1:27:32] come to you for your approval to continue

[1:27:35] this process forward with that.

[1:27:37] That's all I have.

[1:27:39] Thank you Note Anything from this time?

[1:27:42] Councilmember Garcia Thank you.

[1:27:44] You so much.

[1:27:44] Mayor Mr. Vila was talked about and we took a tour.

[1:27:48] The mayor and I of city of Hope Hope Plaza.

[1:27:51] It's a beautiful, beautiful building.

[1:27:52] And it's incredible to know or to get a reminder every so often

[1:27:56] about the life saving treatment that

[1:27:57] is happening in our community.

[1:28:00] The folks that travel from all over the country

[1:28:01] and around the world to get treated

[1:28:04] here I saw one of the best views of our city

[1:28:08] from the eighth floor of Hope Plaza a with the city's

[1:28:13] growing tremendously in the last couple of years

[1:28:15] So I think everybody involved Director Hensley, you

[1:28:18] and your team the vision, the eye for some

[1:28:22] of these developments like dirty station

[1:28:24] to see them from that point of view,

[1:28:26] it really was my mind blowing.

[1:28:29] And they did talk about the hotel being 80%

[1:28:32] occupied Monday through Friday and the need

[1:28:34] of having another one.

[1:28:35] So I think as a city.

[1:28:36] We welcome anyone who wants to do that in our community

[1:28:39] and help us close that gap There is

[1:28:43] a need for something like that.

[1:28:45] With that I look forward to seeing everybody at the mayor's

[1:28:49] state of the City State of the Schools event

[1:28:51] on May Fourth, along with the USD superintendent school

[1:28:55] board principal and our city manager

[1:28:57] and have a good night All right, Councilmember Calderon I just

[1:29:01] want to thank staff for the awesome Easter event

[1:29:04] you guys hosted It was amazingly attended

[1:29:07] and I actually ran into some friends,

[1:29:08] and they said they went to two different Easter events

[1:29:11] and ours was the best planned that they went to.

[1:29:15] And i just want to talk about the importance of parks.

[1:29:17] I mean, you saw that easter event.

[1:29:19] And then you saw the discussion we had about our drill

[1:29:22] I think moving forward.

[1:29:24] Parks are going to be really important, whether it's a dog

[1:29:27] park, whether it's a trail.

[1:29:27] I think if you build it, people are going to be using it

[1:29:31] and they're welcomed in the city of Dougherty.

[1:29:33] That's awesome Council member Finley Okay.

[1:29:36] Thank you.

[1:29:37] You.

[1:29:39] I like you.

[1:29:39] Mr. Color of Events, but probably

[1:29:42] one of the most interesting was the forecasting

[1:29:46] done by with regard to our region you guys.

[1:29:52] And like seeing this stuff, this is very, very interesting.

[1:29:54] This demographer he is actually employed by .

[1:30:00] But initial lee they had forecast that the median

[1:30:05] age this was back in 2015.

[1:30:10] They were forecasting that the median age in our region,

[1:30:13] which is it's a Six county region, was going to be 40.

[1:30:18] It was going to be 40 years old.

[1:30:21] But our population is aging.

[1:30:23] So they're saying in 2050, instead of being the average age

[1:30:27] of 40 is now 46.4 So it is definitely an aging population

[1:30:35] here as far as household size and the household size

[1:30:40] is the 2020 projection for 2050, it was going

[1:30:46] to be household size of 2.899.

[1:30:49] And now that has been reduced to 2.49.

[1:30:55] So our households are getting smaller

[1:30:57] and are reaching and getting older

[1:31:01] The recap basically of his.

[1:31:03] It was about a hour and a half display of what's going on.

[1:31:10] He said the population will remain stable or decline

[1:31:14] slightly and age substantially Housing growth

[1:31:18] will be slower than previously expected, but will continue

[1:31:22] to exceed the population growth The job outlook will be flat

[1:31:27] following low population growth and air dispersion

[1:31:32] and will be concentrated in health

[1:31:34] care and socialist assistance.

[1:31:37] And as i said, the average household sizes

[1:31:39] will be much smaller than I attended a function for.

[1:31:49] And I know.

[1:31:50] Let's see you're in on this is we have new proposed sewer

[1:31:55] service charge rates in the operating cross costs

[1:32:01] have grown 20% over the last five years.

[1:32:04] And our income has only increased 10%.

[1:32:07] And when I say our income, the unit ain't talking about mine.

[1:32:13] And Dell is the sanitation district

[1:32:17] So costs have gone up due to a lot of capital

[1:32:20] projects like Clearwater Pier, Water all of those.

[1:32:25] And so they will be going up our survey

[1:32:28] or monthly service charges and they're having public hearings.

[1:32:31] So people can talk about this.

[1:32:35] May 13th of May 20th and May 27th.

[1:32:40] That's when our public hearing is for the city

[1:32:43] of Dougherty is may 27th.

[1:32:46] At 130, you'll be there probably with me.

[1:32:50] OK?

[1:32:51] Yep.

[1:32:52] And let's see.

[1:32:53] Olympic forecasting I went to a meeting

[1:32:56] on transportation demand management for the Olympics

[1:33:01] and we are looking at they're expecting

[1:33:05] the people to be driving 50% less during the Olympics.

[1:33:12] And I'm talking about all of us that live here, 15% less

[1:33:17] will make a big difference when the Olympics come.

[1:33:21] And finally we had the arts ad hoc committee who

[1:33:26] was there See you were there.

[1:33:28] Martin you in a couple of weeks, you're going to have

[1:33:32] some great art to look at.

[1:33:34] The people were very, very talented this time.

[1:33:37] And so that's all I have.

[1:33:39] Thank you.

[1:33:40] Thank you.

[1:33:41] Let's go with councilmember Louis I just I don't have much.

[1:33:49] I just was just, like, to take.

[1:33:53] Just like that Everyone know this week

[1:33:56] is Los Angeles county Fire Department dispatch

[1:34:00] watch Appreciation Week.

[1:34:02] And they're having an appreciation for all

[1:34:05] the dispatchers and it may not seem like a hard job,

[1:34:10] but I. I sat in one day and thought I could do it.

[1:34:16] And it's impossible.

[1:34:18] I mean, you some people, it's really it's really a tough job.

[1:34:23] And I just want to say, you know thank you to all the dispatchers

[1:34:31] They make sure all the firefighters and all

[1:34:33] the paramedics get to the right address They

[1:34:37] take the right information and thank you.

[1:34:41] And that's all I have.

[1:34:42] Good night All right, let's do council member Chong Nothing

[1:34:50] really to report, but I did attend

[1:34:51] the in our meeting I was not able to attend

[1:34:54] the in our meeting.

[1:34:55] I did attend the same cPPCC meeting

[1:35:01] and also the nurse saying you role we're working group.

[1:35:05] I just want to say with that group

[1:35:09] you know Councilmember garcia and I

[1:35:13] and Carol we stepped into this, but I

[1:35:16] think this group was created during back

[1:35:19] in 2020 when we had those wildfires, 20, 20, 20, 21.

[1:35:23] House member kang and former Council min.

[1:35:26] Shultz.

[1:35:27] But I think there's a lot of progress that is being made.

[1:35:29] There and being able to work together as a region.

[1:35:35] I know for a fact that this is going

[1:35:37] to be a blueprint for other cities

[1:35:39] that are encountering issues like this and everybody put

[1:35:43] their differences aside.

[1:35:44] There's one common goal, I think a lot of things

[1:35:47] are get done and taken care of as far as a region

[1:35:50] I just want to thank Brian for and staff for always being

[1:35:54] able to attend and making sure that what is represented

[1:35:57] and for my colleagues to be able to attend all the time

[1:36:01] and make sure that our voices are heard.

[1:36:04] But besides that a lot of things going on with wildfire clearance

[1:36:13] It's summertime is coming up.

[1:36:14] Fire season is coming up I know, we just

[1:36:18] had a big one in L.A. County about a year ago,

[1:36:23] but it's never too late to be safe.

[1:36:25] So just do your part.

[1:36:27] Do your due diligence.

[1:36:29] Don't give your insurance companies

[1:36:30] any reasons to cancel or increase your insurance

[1:36:35] monthly insurance bills.

[1:36:38] Besides that Thank you all very much.

[1:36:40] And now we're going to thank you, Mayor Pro Tem King.

[1:36:44] Thank you, Mayor It's really loud.

[1:36:46] Yeah.

[1:36:47] Okay.

[1:36:48] This is friendly.

[1:36:49] You're absolutely right.

[1:36:49] I think the word you said, you know, the cost of living

[1:36:53] is not going up, but everything else is going up.

[1:36:59] There's only one person that doesn't think that way.

[1:37:02] Thinks everything is going down.

[1:37:03] But is fighting something right now

[1:37:08] Imagine really sad It's just really sad to see

[1:37:12] how these prices are going up.

[1:37:14] And I think it's going to drive us to to a word

[1:37:20] that I'm going to go ahead and use the cost self-sustained.

[1:37:22] We will it.

[1:37:23] We're going to have solar power, battery storage You're going

[1:37:28] to have your electric cars.

[1:37:30] And I want to say, even water.

[1:37:32] Now they're using con condensation, water to capture

[1:37:37] water from air And what's that's going to do

[1:37:42] is people can't afford all these stuff.

[1:37:45] And people are getting squeezed Yeah, you

[1:37:49] know what The wages are maybe perhaps going up very, very

[1:37:55] slowly but they are going up.

[1:37:59] But the way we print all that money in America

[1:38:02] and it's that inflation is going to it's kind of like

[1:38:08] outweighed our wages to right And we're

[1:38:13] very expensive in America.

[1:38:14] I want to let you guys know.

[1:38:16] I mean, for me to go have a dinner.

[1:38:18] I talked about this before with with my girlfriend,

[1:38:22] whatever, it will be like 100 bucks, Hundreds bucks

[1:38:24] just like that.

[1:38:26] But if you go to Mexico and go to like some smaller cities

[1:38:33] man, a juicy piece of like organ steak,

[1:38:38] tomatoes tastes like tomatoes fresh tortillas

[1:38:42] and so on with a shrink cost me $5, $5, right So what

[1:38:51] is it that we need to do in.

[1:38:54] I just I I don't know what to say,

[1:38:59] but we're getting squeezed so hard,

[1:39:02] and it really should be Americans First.

[1:39:06] It should be Americans first.

[1:39:10] And we somehow going to help us with all the taxes

[1:39:16] that we're paying in l.A. County wants to go ahead and increase

[1:39:20] even more sales taxes.

[1:39:22] All my big I mean, my big purchases, I

[1:39:25] could have I go to Orange County now

[1:39:28] So this is like I think it's like two two pinnacle.

[1:39:33] It's it's really, really going to pivot towards the other way

[1:39:39] for very soon if we don't go ahead

[1:39:42] and somehow i'll fix our dysfunction in our system here.

[1:39:49] It's very sad with the prices going up.

[1:39:53] It's driving a lot of people away from purchasing

[1:39:57] and they can't even purchase.

[1:40:00] And a lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck.

[1:40:04] It's very sad and with that, you're

[1:40:08] going to see even more people become, unfortunately homeless

[1:40:13] with the I and robotics.

[1:40:16] It's true.

[1:40:17] If you go to if you go to Silicon Valley right now,

[1:40:19] you look at those people there are getting paid $250,000

[1:40:24] to be a software engineer.

[1:40:25] You came in, find a job come in, find a job in a grocery store

[1:40:30] I mean, they have to be Uber drivers.

[1:40:32] It's that crazy And if you listen

[1:40:36] to some of these A.I. CEOs this is not like ten years.

[1:40:41] This is happening next year they're going to go and replace

[1:40:45] even more white collar jobs So this

[1:40:48] is something that we as a city we need to really understand.

[1:40:54] And with people not able to afford unfortunate.

[1:40:59] Lee in America to rug is prevalent.

[1:41:03] It's everywhere.

[1:41:04] People are start drinking, smoking pot and gateway drugs.

[1:41:08] And then they get hooked and then they get

[1:41:12] left onto the streets, right?

[1:41:14] And that's why you see a lot more homeless people.

[1:41:17] And I've been talking to actually Starbucks to star bucks

[1:41:20] around this local area And I go, you know,

[1:41:24] I go there, I drink my coffee every morning

[1:41:25] and I see actually, Michelle Mr. Garcia,

[1:41:29] your wife all the time over there

[1:41:32] and the managers attacking me every month,

[1:41:36] you see that the first week of the month,

[1:41:39] you see a whole like, whole bunch of new homeless folks

[1:41:43] being pushed because they're and getting tap cards from L.A. City

[1:41:47] and their cso's actually pushing them to,

[1:41:50] you know, to all these different stations, including Monrovia

[1:41:53] and even at Sousa.

[1:41:55] And it's really damaging, damaging.

[1:41:58] Look, we got to go and help these people, but they come in

[1:42:02] and there's no way for us to and force this,

[1:42:06] we got to find some ways to enforce.

[1:42:08] Now, don't get me wrong I love my public safety

[1:42:12] and the deputies.

[1:42:13] You guys are doing a fantasy tastic job,

[1:42:17] but we got to find some way to somehow maybe I don't know.

[1:42:21] I'm just finding ways to perhaps have a way

[1:42:26] to manage to these people from coming into our city

[1:42:29] from the goal line All right.

[1:42:32] The five minute mark are we do you have

[1:42:34] some final thoughts together?

[1:42:36] All right No, I don't.

[1:42:39] OK Thank you very much.

[1:42:40] Okay.

[1:42:41] I'll try to keep this brief.

[1:42:42] I'm thank you very much for helping.

[1:42:45] As I missed last meeting, I should be cleared for the rest

[1:42:48] of the calendar year to not miss any more council meetings

[1:42:51] But I would like to report on what i have done.

[1:42:54] I went to Assemblywoman Rubio's young legislator ayers group

[1:42:58] at the Glendora country Club.

[1:43:00] I went to the sanitation meeting with Councilmember finley.

[1:43:03] I attended Doherty High Schools Career Day

[1:43:05] and presented as mayor as well as you know,

[1:43:09] reported about my personal profession I attended

[1:43:12] the ad hoc bucks, a utility box meeting.

[1:43:16] So I'm very excited.

[1:43:17] I missed the last one, but I intended the first one.

[1:43:18] I'm looking very much forward to seeing what comes before us

[1:43:22] on behalf of Councilmember Garcia,

[1:43:24] I went to the hilo Transit meeting.

[1:43:26] That was the first one.

[1:43:27] It was really nice starting to get

[1:43:28] to know a lot of our local other mayors

[1:43:32] and council members from other cities

[1:43:34] so it's really nice to connect with them

[1:43:35] and just be present as representing to do what

[1:43:38] we're representing to Wardy I went to the 60 Sixers

[1:43:42] opening day.

[1:43:43] That's our senior softball league

[1:43:46] put on through the daughters senior center.

[1:43:48] I will have to say they were playing the city of South

[1:43:50] Pasadena That got a bigger kick out

[1:43:52] of our opening day ceremonies than I even think our team did.

[1:43:55] They pulled me aside and they said no other city does this

[1:43:57] for their senior communities So my hat is off to just

[1:44:01] our Parks and Rec department for just a stellar job of making

[1:44:04] everybody feel like they are a big deal because they

[1:44:06] are I went to the Autism event that we had at the teen Center.

[1:44:12] Again, I appreciate the city for making sure that there's

[1:44:15] a little something for everybody And I enjoy just

[1:44:18] watching those children thrive.

[1:44:19] And the parents feeling supported

[1:44:21] and that their children could just have a good time.

[1:44:24] The egg hunt was amazing.

[1:44:26] I got pulled over, pulled over, actually

[1:44:28] lost my friend's daughter because I got pulled aside.

[1:44:30] So much saying my kids are teasing me every ten minutes

[1:44:32] where Sophia But you know, the whole security team was on it

[1:44:37] right away We got her located very quickly

[1:44:40] But everyone was pulling me aside

[1:44:42] basically to say no other city does it like this.

[1:44:44] And if they do, they charge.

[1:44:45] So again, I'm very grateful that we have something

[1:44:47] that everybody can attend.

[1:44:48] And be part of.

[1:44:49] Even if you're not from dougherty,

[1:44:51] I went to the chambers opening of the young brother big city.

[1:44:54] This is a gentleman who has created a great program,

[1:44:57] a mentor ship for youth, where he's doing flag football

[1:45:01] and things of that nature.

[1:45:02] So he is going to be advertise housing through the chamber as

[1:45:06] well as his socials.

[1:45:07] So everyone keep an eye out for updates

[1:45:09] on how to get your children involved in flag football

[1:45:12] after school programs and then, you know,

[1:45:16] today we had the city of Hope tour

[1:45:18] where we got to meet with the new CEO and she was amazing.

[1:45:22] And I'm just very grateful to the whole city of Hope team

[1:45:24] for opening the communications and just

[1:45:27] wanting to continue to grow such a great relationship.

[1:45:29] So i although I wasn't here at the meeting,

[1:45:32] I tried to make myself available in every other way I could to be

[1:45:35] seen and to represent our city.

[1:45:37] Well I would like to adjourn this meeting in memory

[1:45:40] of our director, Christine Peterson's grandmother,

[1:45:43] Darlene Vernon Grandparents are very special.

[1:45:46] So just sending you love and condolences.

[1:45:48] And we are definitely going to adjourn in her honor I imagine.

[1:45:53] 5:00 news Mayor loses friend's daughter at Easter Hunt.

[1:45:56] You know what?

[1:45:57] It's what my kids bring up every ten minutes.

[1:46:00] Keep me.

[1:46:00] I'm sorry, Sophia.

[1:46:02] I'm sorry Sophia.

[1:46:03] You somewhere?

[1:46:03] Sophia will be home safe with her parents.

[1:46:05] Now on that note, I'm adjourning Have a good evening, everybody.

[1:46:11] All right all day, my kids we were in Yellowstone.

[1:46:14] We're here It's How are we going to get?

[1:46:28] Good?

[1:46:28] I think they are I know People are, you know.

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