Garcia here Council member Chong here, Council member Lewis.
Present council Member Finley here.
Mayor pro Tem king here Here.
And Mayor Martin.
The Campo here I'd like to invite a motion
to adopt the agenda motion.
So I can all in favor.
I any opposed motion carries.
Next, we're going to do the Pledge of Allegiance.
May i please have Alyssa Ramos up this I'm ready Begin.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United states of America
and to the republic for which it stands One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you.
You so much All right.
Now we're going to move on to oral communications,
special items if you wish to speak
regarding the special items on this agenda,
you may do so at this time.
Each member of the public will have a total of three minutes
to speak.
Do we have any public comments?
No cards.
OK.
Do we have anyone from the public that wishes to speak
on these special items already?
We're going to move on to item eight, which is community
development Department update with director Craig
Hensley Thank you very much.
I'm going to be brief because I know later Stephanie is going
to be up here talking about the recreation trail
But we have some striping job coming up soon.
There'll be some city work going on there.
And one thing I want to update you on
is kind of been gone back and forth
for the last couple of years.
But the property at 928, Huntington which
is that's the piece on the South side of the street
is there used to be a white building.
Appreciate it.
Up at the street, and they did some grading
There used to be a billboard on the property for a while
that property, that project was kind of did they got approved
and it was just on hold for a while We had a meeting
last week with the bank who is taking that property back
and they're going to be moving forward with that project
very soon.
So that's that's some good news on that particular development.
Also the property 14, I want to send it
to Mingo It was 20 townhomes.
This across from the entry to Westminster Gardens That's
in the last stages of of its planned check process.
And it's moving forward.
So that's the update that I have.
I also I did just here the other day that Jean Grinder, you know,
it was coming to town, right?
Everyone knew that, right But I think they're opening i think
it's a they're opening the 21st and I
think next week So next week.
Yeah.
The jeans grinders next to Target
in the old Buffalo Wild Wings.
It's a it wasn't Monrovia staple.
But it's going to become a staple.
We take a sandwich shop from monrovia Tony.
Yes So we think we.
That's right We know it's gotten better.
So great.
Anything we take for Monrovia is a plus Another
we have a sorry, Francis, is there a possibility we
can support them?
Press a press release or something?
I have been in communications with the owners.
They've reached out to me personally.
So i will follow up with them again.
But I'm just pulling up what I had seen just to confirm
But I believe it's the 20th.
OK I still do a ribbon cutting so if you have any questions,
I'm here to anyone.
Any questions from council?
I do.
OK.
Go ahead.
Mayor Pro Tem Thank you, Mayor.
I'm just curious what's going on with the Wyndham Project Nothing
in the last couple of weeks i've had a couple of meetings
with they've hired a new architect
and I've had a couple of meetings
with them to kind of discuss how they want to move forward.
But since that time, I haven't heard anything
but because they hired new architect,
I admire assumption is they're in the process of working
on plans Do we have a deadline for them No,
no they they lost all their approvals expired.
So this is starting over.
So it's not it's not untypical in the process
to take a period of time to have the architect to develop
plans to get ready to go.
It's a complex project It's been how many years Eight years.
It's been a long time.
Yes.
Sam, aren't we in a decades now?
Close to a decade Yeah.
Let's let's let's see how we can capture
this and get some good tax As you know for us.
Oh, for sure.
We're going to get a top priority for sure You know,
I was at City of Hope today in their parking structures
completely fall And I was talking
to the head of international medicine
I think 60% of their patients are out patient.
And if they want to go ahead and do treatment
it's going to be probably an average of four weeks.
So there is a huge need for a hotel over here.
Even it's not going to be them.
It's going to be someone else We need
to go ahead and get this thing up and running fast for sure.
Second one is how about the one that's right next door to us,
The is it Margarita?
Or more like that?
That was all three of those pieces of property
were purchased by the same joyce Joyce and I have over spoken.
I actually today I spoke with her development consultant
and they're in the process of trying to figure out
what the highest and best use for them is on the property
And I know they're moving forward with the architect
on that piece.
But again it's a high priority.
So it's important.
And actually we've also had some discussions with them about
attempts to do a little bit better job
with keeping the property cleared Appreciate that.
Yes, Thank you.
Thank you, Mayor Sorry, Councilmember Garcia.
And then councilmember Finley.
Thank you, Mayor Director Hensley,
going back to the center, the Mingo Project They came in,
they presented a concept to us, correct And are these new owners
New owners My understanding is the developer that
got that approved passed away is he had his approval hero's
entitlements His children attempted to develop for a while
and then decided that wasn't going to work for them
My understanding is, I mean, I have lived in the country.
And they said they sold the property off
and they've been the new owner has been moving forward rapidly
And it's the same same price is exactly the same project.
Yes Because at that time, we had talked about them
The neighbors concerns was privacy
And they think the direction we gave
was helping them out with some green trees to help with that.
So that was one of the issues.
And then one of the issues during the demo process was
was dust.
And when they get started, we'll make
sure they understand the importance of keeping dust down.
Thank you, sir Council member Finley thank you.
Tenant improvements are underway.
A fall 2026 opening is expected for Viana That is.
That's pretty That's pretty recent info on that
that I got from them They were actually just one of the places
where i love the way our process works because we got
through tenant improvement plans through our approval process
really rapidly.
And they just sit there for a while.
And I called them up and we did it.
So quickly they weren't finished with their, their building
in Rancho Cucamonga.
What you just recently opened and they've just started working
on it, I think the last week or the week
before there they said proximately
5 to 6 months to complete it.
So that's their plan.
The day they open.
And we don't know yet.
You know, I had i had someone say to me you guys in the wordy
we don't have red tape You give us the red carpet
So you know what, I guess you could Thank you.
Well, I. I don't know.
Everyone may feel this way, but the sooner they are,
it opens the better.
Yes, because I really like tacos.
All right, Councilmember Garcia, will
he has another spot to share questions that since Councilman
Finley brought up by.
Yeah.
I also heard this past week from a firm
that does business with a lot of neighboring cities.
How business friendly your staff, your team in our city
is so to echo consumer friendly comments.
Thank you so much I know everybody
has spoken very positive about the process here.
So I just want to give you guys all kudos.
Thank you.
You.
And we're excited for some carnitas
and yes, grab and go bakery everything all right?
I did confirm to that the opening
for Gene's Grinder is Monday, April 18 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m..
So we should probably reach out to them
and see if there's anything we can
do officially to Welcome them.
But I will definitely extend myself as well.
I think that's it for awesome.
Oh, sorry Monday, maybe i'm okay.
Maybe it's the 18th.
18th is a Saturday.
OK let's go back to their sorry.
Then it is Saturday April 18 from 10 to 7.
It's this Saturday.
So tick tock Thank you for calendar confirming.
All right I'm going to move on to item B Parks
and Recreation update with our director menu and request
Good evening, Mayor.
Council I'll be brief.
A couple upcoming events this weekend
will be specifically busy.
We have our Earth Day cleanup at the Donald
and Bernie swanson recreation trail will be meeting
on the east end of the trail.
So Vineyard and Royal Oaks will gear up.
We'll have some continental breakfast items,
gear up with trash grabbers, gloves
trash bags, some safety vests as well so that we can be
proceed westbound on the trail.
And then at the very end, we'll have
hand-washing stations and some other little giveaways
for folks in attendance.
So we invite the community to come out as part
of our earth Day festivities.
We'll start again at 9 a.m. on that east end of the Watson
Trail following that, we invite you to come over here
to the Civic Center parking lot in front of the senior center
will be hosting our community yard sale that starts at 8 a.m.
and it will go till 12 p.m..
So spots are already filled So we got a full lot of vendors,
so we invite the public to come out and purchase anything
you didn't think you needed Also join us for our end of season
vegetable Garden Care workshop starting at 9 a.m. at zero Pass
Karachi Park at our community garden
that that'll be that will be unfortunately,
my note here does not have the date.
So I'm laughing at myself I'm like, let me check.
Let me fact check while you're here.
My apologies.
And so I i'll plug that date shortly
when you bounce back to us with any other updates
but the community on the capital improvement side
just as we were discussing earlier tonight,
I just a quick update with regards
to the replacement of the entry doors
here for this particular building.
That project will commence that second week of May
and it should be wrapped up by the end of May.
So we'll have again glass side, sliding doors
ADA compliant here at the main entry
way of the community center.
Any questions No, it does look like that date is Saturday,
May 30th.
Thank you.
9 to 1030.
Appreciate that.
Yes, we forgive you, Jackie.
Do part It's a busy Saturday.
I will be there cleaning up the trail with everybody.
So anybody have anything for Emmanuel All right.
Thank you so much Next up, we're going to do announcements
of upcoming community events.
We'll start with Joanna G from the Dougherty Library
Good evening.
Strategy from Dougherty library.
Our storytime session is on break,
but we have a new session that will
be starting up on Friday May 1st and they'll be at 11 a.m. next.
We have after disaster how to help your child
And that's going to be a parenting workshop
tomorrow night at 5 p.m..
Next, we have our Smart Start art on Thursday
April 16th at 11 a.m..
And these are for kids 102 5.
Next, we have our new parent engagement about library
programs and services.
And that's going to be on Wednesday april 22nd at 6 p.m..
For kids, 5 to 17, we have Saturday surprise art.
And that's going to be on Saturday may 2nd at 2 p.m..
Next we have board games for teens
and that's going to be on Thursday
april 30th at 3:30 p.m..
Next, we have friends of the library book sale coming up.
And that's going to be on Saturday april 25th at 10 a.m..
And also on that day, we have our Vietnamese street food,
cooking demonstration and that's going to be at Saturday,
april 25th at 2 p.m..
Currently there is a wait list.
So if you want to come to it, please sign up.
Next, we have our great pressed flower heart trinket dish
on Saturday may 9th at 2 p.m., where adults can make something
for their mothers or somebody special
The material supplied by the Friends of the Dory Library.
And that's it for me.
Any questions Yes What type of food What type?
I think she's going to make some vietnamese street
tacos with pickled vegetables.
Maybe spring.
Rosie grows Maybe you have to come and find out.
All right I can't give away the secret Thank
you It's for you to find out.
That's right Joanna.
Yes.
Question You always have so many interesting things
going on at your library.
Are those library?
Why or these are your ideas that you come up with?
Some of them are library y, like the story
times but the other ones, they're curated by my staff
and by myself Wow.
Excellent.
Thank you.
All righty Next, we're going to go ahead and have our management
analyst, Albert Nunez come on in Good evening Mayor and members
of the city council our annual birthday community cleanup
and compost event is coming up on saturday,
May 2nd from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the Ortiz
Civic Center parking lot.
We won't have tammy's tacos, but you could drop off
bulky items, electronic waste, greenways and or documents
for shredding or those interested
in free compost being given out all we are residents
to bring storage containers or vehicles
to accommodate the load.
Bartek will provide shovels The city will also be handing out
free used oil containers for those who
want to recycle their old use.
More, more motor oil safely and attendees
must be a dirty resident and it will
be checked Lastly, join us for our daughter's
2026 State of the City.
And schools address happening on Monday,
may 4 at the Kenneth and Belle Gymnasium.
Mayor term Martin del Antetokounmpo
and USD board President Reina Dias will share updates.
Celebrate accomplishments and highlight what's
ahead for our city and schools as it already
continues to grow and evolve.
Our legacy in Motion reflects the progress we're building
together Doors Open at 5:30.
Address starts at six and reception follows at 7 p.m..
Does anyone have any questions ?
May the fourth be with you.
There we go I think we missed the mark on our theme
It's never too late Maybe I'll walk out to the don.
Don It's the common that goes with the bulky item
cleanup I know.
We just got designated clean California,
and we're one of 30 cities to have that And I
know a lot of that was you know, it was a team effort,
but a lot of that came from you.
And I want to congratulate you and our whole team
for getting that designation for this community.
Oh, I appreciate that Yeah, Congrats to the city.
I know we felt that we were already doing a lot of what was
required, and that's thanks to all of you,
the residents and staff So without
everyone coming together, we wouldn't have
accomplished what ?
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Any other questions ?
OK.
Are there any audience members that have any events that they'd
like to announce upcoming?
All right We have Mrs. Carroll Good evening I just want I came
here from representing the Dougherty
Women's Club We have an installation dinner
coming on Thursday, May 7th.
I guess that week.
It's going to be really busy.
It's at 5:30 is a Cinco de Mayo themed event, is going to be
here at the community center.
We have already mariachis coming in.
We have great food We have a photo booth and a lot
of great raffle prizes.
We have obtained a law to great raffle prizes,
so we would love you to attend You know,
the Women's Club has been really kind
of a fixture here in Dougherty when it comes to volunteering.
And i know they would love to see a lot of you come.
And it's not just for women, remember,
it's also for men So men need to come, too So, again,
is may 7th and it's $30.
I mean, giving price wise is a $30 a meal.
But otherwise, do I have any questions about it?
And I will.
Am I actually going to say thank you to Tara?
She came to one of our events in March and it was great.
I mean thank you for coming.
So, yes I am a pending new member as well.
I just have to finish.
That's great See, we have a new member,
so we're growing our club So at this moment,
we are getting a lot of new members coming
and we're kind of revamping how things are.
The energy is going be a lot of fun this year.
So we have a lot of fun activities coming up
and i'll probably be coming in more and talking about them
as the year comes by.
So.
All right Thank you to your answering my question.
I was going to ask if.
Yes men are invited to So that sounds like a fun, fun event.
Who's the incoming president Okay.
All right.
I am actually I'm being very modest here.
Congrats Doing the work.
Thank you But it's going to be.
I didn't want to say I was going to be the incoming president,
but I want.
I just think that is a it's a great club.
They've been around for a long time
and these ladies do do a lot of volunteer work
And I just I feel like it would be great to have.
I know they would love to see all of you there or some of you
there, at least.
That would be wonderful Thank you.
Thank you so much Do I hand this over?
Oh, perfect All righty.
If that concludes any upcoming events,
I'm going to move on to item number
seven, which is oral communications items,
not on the agenda.
If you wish to speak on a matter that is not on the agenda,
you may do so at this time.
Each member of the public will have a total of three minutes
to speak.
The Council cannot discuss or take action on matters not
on the agenda for this meeting.
Do we have any public comments ?
We do.
First up is Marc Gonzales Good evening.
Hi Hi.
Council members and residents of the city
want to announce a group i'm starting for city
improvement of our small city And then
we throw the variety of parks.
We have the ever we put into do better.
But the council members can't know
all the improvements possible if nobody
tells them With this group.
I want to get together with any resident of the city that
has an idea on how to improve the city We can find a solutions
and with the city's help, make the city better
One idea at a time.
Oh, so nervous.
You get this.
You're good among friends.
I want the meeting to be Friday, april
24th at Cabrera's at 6 p.m..
If anyone's interested.
Already Can you clarify the date and the time for me?
One more?
I'll say it with my big loud mouth.
April 24th, 6 p.m. to Friday at Cabrera's april 24th.
6 p.m. at Cabrera's.
This is Thank you very much step,
we have Neil Furukawa for a good evening.
Yeah.
Basically I'm here to reinforce my two issues.
Last I'm the first one being the sign.
And I've sent the letter out to all the city council members,
US Safety Department and the also the mr. Girardi Mr.
And I haven't received one letter back yet
or any type of reply so hopefully they're working on it.
Second thing, the EPA thing it's kind of interesting
because now Laurel is actually closed down across the river.
So I was going to go with the find out from the engineers
who because it's not our property,
it's not the city's property it's not Irwin to do property.
It belongs to the army Corps of Engineers.
I believe But it's very interesting.
They didn't open it back up.
I was only in the impression that it might because it
was actually a recreational area for the bike riders and whoever.
And I was really surprised about that.
And that's about it.
Thank you Thank you very much Next up is Brian Barretto
a good evening, mayor and members of the council.
My name is Brian Barretto and I serve
as California American water's external affairs manager
for southern California.
I'm here to share with you that we have recently updated
our emergency response plans, our air drops,
California American Water's ERP outlines
how we protect operate and restore service in our water
systems during an emergency It covers critical system
components reporting and notification procedures,
security protocols for response actions
and the use of the standard emergency
management system within the incident Command systems.
The priorities of our eRP are first,
to protect human life, followed by protect the environment,
property and maintenance of essential water systems
While we hope these plans are rarely needed,
our response ability is to be fully prepared in the event
of an emergency our plan ensures we can respond efficiently,
efficiently and maintain and/or restore service,
including providing backup water and supplies.
When necessary.
We value our partnership with the community
and remain committed to ensuring the safety and resilience
of our water systems California American Water welcomes
ongoing coordination with the city and your staff,
and it would be beneficial.
And we would like to inform form you
or have a deeper discussion about the components
of the plan.
If you would like that, please don't hesitate to contact me.
I can be reached at Brian barretto at Am.
Watercare him or (626) 388-7484.
I appreciate the opportunity to share this with you.
Thank you for your time and continued support
Thank you very much Righty.
Now we're going to go ahead and move on to item number eight.
Oral communications on the consent calendar.
If you wish to speak regarding the consent
calendar on this agenda, you may to do so at this time Oh, sorry.
Oh okay.
I'm sorry about that thank you.
I should have.
I should have written a card.
Yes.
Anyways, it's.
It's my pleasure to announce the city's newest hire To my right
is our newest deputy city clerk, Briana Solis She comes
to us from Sage Oak Charter School in Riverside,
where she was a human resource clerk
But really, her her education has led her down this path
She has an undergrad in political science and an MBA,
and we couldn't be happier to welcome her to our team
and breed U.S. I'm excited to start.
Today's my second day and I'm really excited to just
learn more about the city.
Well, welcome I actually had a little note
to welcome you on my thing.
And he beat me to it.
So that just shows you how awesome of a city manager.
We have Welcome.
Anyone else have anything to say?
Yeah, I think All righty.
All right.
Thank you Mayor May i ask Mr. Villalobos You may, Mr. Mayor.
Locals, just because we've talked about it
and previous council meetings, are we able to share
a little bit about Laredo park?
I actually have it in my closing comments as part of the meetings
we are reporting out on.
Perfect.
So, Mr. Neil, I hope you stick around all righty.
With that, I'm going to move us on to the consent calendar.
If you wish to speak on an item on the consent calendar
on this agenda, you may do so at this time.
Each member of the public will have a total of three minutes.
Do we have any comment cards on the consent calendar?
No cards.
All right.
Is there anyone in the public that wishes to speak?
All right.
Approval Second.
All right.
All in favor.
I and you are opposed.
Motion carries Next, we're going to go on to item
12 on the oral communication.
Since business items if you wish to speak on a business item
on the agenda you may do so.
At this time.
Each member in the public have a total of three minutes to speak.
Do we have any comment cards on business items No cards.
Anyone want to speak from the audience on business items ?
Alrighty So let's go ahead and move on to 13 A
and it looks like we have the assistant city manager
and director of administrative services
Mr. Christian Peterson Thank you.
This evening, we are going to have a discussion about parking
enforcement services.
And I just really wanted to do an introduction
And with my hat on, one of the challenges that we have had
historically is holding on to part time cSO officers
The good news is that we appear to train them
so well that they are ready to go off and become
officers in their careers.
And so it's a great stepping stone to their career
But as far as the effective ness of having them handle,
particularly in multiple things in our city
we have struggled holding on to as many positions as we have.
So with that, what we have noticed
is not being able to cover all of the things
as far as parking enforcement, there are many categories
of parking enforcement So more recently I
had suggested that maybe we look into the idea of contracting
similar to how we do for our crossing guards
and so with that I am going to turn it over to Albert,
who really did the really heavy lifting
and work on this project.
And we will be doing a presentation on this proposal
Thank you, Kristen And obviously, I
couldn't have done it without doing credible stuff.
Kristen, Brian And Lowry throughout the process.
I really appreciate each of your support I'm back as Kristin
mentioned, I'll be presenting on the professional Services
agreement with Intercom Security for Parking
Enforcement Services.
Really quick, I just wanted to provide some background So
currently and some of it may be already touched on by Kristen,
but just to echo again, currently the city
provides parking enforcement services
So our part time community services officers or CSOs,
our service, those take on various non obvious non
sworn public safety functions such as providing
and I'm controlling support for parking enforcement
Sheriff deputy support and even covering
the front desk if needed.
However, over the past several years,
there has been constant turnover and vacancies
and because of that and competing operational,
competing, operational priorities,
it's been increasingly difficult to maintain consistent coverage
of enforcement.
This has led to reduced enforcement of parking
regulations and decrease citation activity
and more importantly, the inconsistent enforcement
has impacted compliance and overall neighborhood quality
of life and to address those challenges as city staff issued
an RFP that went out on December 15 of last year,
and it closed on January 14 of this year,
the city received Three proposals,
and after a concrete evaluation, taking into account costs,
qualifications experience and overall ability
to meet the city's operational needs
it was Entercom was selected as the best qualified proposal.
They provided the lowest cost proposal
and demonstrated great experi tions providing these services
to smaller cities similar in size to Dougherty
and also neighboring cities such as Arcadia,
as it was Alhambra, Glendora and La Vernon,
just to name a few Now, I don't want to go over the scope to
into detail but I did want to highlight
key components of it that are important
from an operational standpoint.
So obviously, in a con would take on a comprehensive parking
enforcement, including overnight parking street sweeping
recreational vehicle, vehicle or RV restrictions permit parking
areas time limit zones and school zones
Under this agreement entered con would so sorry the contract
would also provide all staffing vehicles, equipment
and technology to operate the program, which
as no additional burden to city resources
was along with the field enforcement side.
There are some administrative responsibilities for them,
such as reporting to city staff to coordinate
reporting and attending any citation hearings as needed.
And lastly, beyond parking enforcement interaction
would maintain a visible presence in the community
and add an extra layer of observation and awareness
throughout the community.
The proposed agreement is for an initial three year term with two
options or One year extension.
Since this.
If approved, this would be the city's First time
contracting these services We would
treat it as a pilot program No.
Now we could evaluate how efficient
is really evaluate the program costs
And the agreement includes provisions.
So the city is able to terminate the contract if needed,
provide that flexibility if expectations are not met Overall
contracting these services will not only provide
that consistent coverage, but also reduce staffing pressures
within the public safety department, for example
because of the high turnover over the years
we haven't been able to convince the taco certain enforcement
in such as our RV restrictions.
So contracting these services would we
be able to consistently hit those enforcements that we
haven't been able to over the past years
and also allows our CSOs to focus on more community
oriented responsibilities?
And from a community perspective,
consistent enforcement would help improve parking
availability, safety, and overall compliance with
the city's regulations So if approved,
the current fiscal year would require a $15,000 budget
amendment and the estimated annual cost for a full year
of service is estimated at 221,000 and is subject to annual
budgetary recreation Now, with all that being said,
it's recommended that the City Council authorize the city
manager to execute a three year professional services agreement
with intercom security for parking enforcement services
with option for Two additional one year
extensions and to approve a budget
amendment $15,000 to account.
Number 1205 7761 for fiscal year 20 2526.
That concludes my presentation.
I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.
Sorry, I have a little line here.
I'm going to start with Councilmember Chime.
And then we got mayor Pro Tem King and and
Councilmember Finley, and then we'll
see if you guys still got it.
Thank you very You mentioned, this
is kind of like a pilot program because we've
never done something like this.
Correct.
So do you think or would is there a difference between a one
year contract and an additional added on years
or a three year contract?
Is that is that how we're able to get a rate like that.
And correct me if I'm wrong stuff,
but I believe having that multiple years you know,
they'll have to constantly go through the cycles of,
oh, now we have to do another agreement
and stuff like that kind of, you have something already set.
So that way the city managers.
So one thing I would say because it's a pilot program,
we've never done anything like this
before, having a pilot program go for three years.
It may seem a little bit longer because pilot
program is essentially just trying something out, right?
So the language in the contract actually
gives us the ability to term the contract
at any time with a 30 day notice.
Okay So the answer he gave is true by giving those Three
years, we were able to sit down and look
at what it would look like in costs for the next three years.
So it's like a guaranteed price.
Yeah, but it gives us the flexibility One thing
that we all know that we've been discussing
is how the public safety commission is evaluating
parking in general in our community.
And so we needed to be very transparent about the fact
that we're not positive.
The list and the areas of all the areas
that currently, you know, we have parking enforcement,
there might be more, there might be less.
We also have areas that we have not been able to.
And I'll let Larry speak to it in more detail if needed.
But where we haven't been able to even
get into full, consistent enforcement So again,
we're not positive how much that's going to take
or what that is going to, you know, trigger and generate.
So with all of that, they have been,
you know, very good about saying that they
are willing to work with us.
And kind of create this program, not just on the structure
we're giving them now but on whatever we create.
And we decide our community needs moving forward.
So given the amount of hours we've requested
and the amount of people.
We believe would be needed for our existing list.
This would be the budget And we have now
an idea of what that budget is.
For three years.
But it gives us the ability to scope that down once we
get some feedback from all of the commission work
and all of the stuff that Larry is doing Yeah, that makes sense.
Now, if we have the ability with the 30 day notice,
because then when we talk about contracts,
we're kind of tied in for that amount of years.
But then it's a failsafe to have that 30, 30 day notice
and because we have we haven't had this before in our city
I think there's, you know, prior to me, if this passes,
prior to this I'm sure there was a lot
of things slipping under the cracks that we couldn't get to.
So I'm pretty sure that we'll be able to stay on top.
And even the amount of hours that are being proposed and it's
more the seven days is more because we know that really
that coverage, if we could have even held the amount of hours
that we had, but we could it we just could not hold on to
you know stuff in in that area And again, I don't think it's
necessarily a negative thing It's just that there are you
know, they really look at this as a step
to becoming a police officer.
So it's really a natural progression. the other CSO
positions, it's our intention to continue to have those
and for them to continue to service the way they do.
They just wouldn't be handling the parking portion.
So continuing with animal control
and continuing and supporting with reports for the sheriff's
department and all the other aspect is just not
the parking portion Thank you.
All right.
I'm going to pass it over to mayor Pro Tem King.
I'm just curious.
I heard what you said in regards to terminations
with a 30 day notice.
So why is it that a pilot maybe when you say that word.
It just triggers me and a three year.
I mean, a pilot program, it's no more than one year.
Why can we just go and do a one year contract again
It was our intention that it's going to take us a while to even
figure out if we want to do it.
So would we want 18 months?
Would we want two years?
It's going to take a while for them
to even get through the process Yes.
So I can tell you that we're going to at least want it
for one year because we don't have
the staff right now to do it.
And we want to see if this works But depending on the feedback
we get from the commission, which could take maybe
a little less than a year on that feedback,
then we'd want to scope our program
down based on that feedback.
And make whatever changes at that point
So I just think we wanted the flexibility
to be able to see what it would look like for three years.
But again if for some reason we decide,
let's pretend we got rid of all the parking restrictions
and we decide we just don't even need to have this type
of parking enforcement.
We still would have the challenge
of trying to fill part time CSOs to help us
with our much smaller program.
But maybe this wouldn't make sense anymore.
Or maybe they wouldn't want to size
down to as tiny of a program as we wanted But again,
looking at trying to get an idea of what
is steady cost, what are they going to charge us in year two?
What are they going to charge us in year three?
You know, there are investor minutes
and equipment and all of that type of stuff
that will roll into that.
So what does that look like in year two?
Are there going to be additional costs
that they are going to try to put on us in year two or years?
Are they going to.
And the answer's no, because we got them to give us a 3 year
commitment.
We can see what those escalators are for each of those years.
There's not an unknown of if we like the program
what does year two look like?
I'm just sticking for clarification.
Is that including the manpower, the human resources
is yes, all the training all the manpower,
all the equipment and the vehicles, which is a big thing
because we currently have to have the vehicles for our part
time staff to take out and do that The equipment
that they used for writing.
What tickets uniforms.
So, yes, it is all inclusive.
It is theirs and we're not the only city that they
do They work in a lot of areas.
So I'm sure that there is some savings to the fact
that they've been in this business for a while,
and they work in many of the cities in our area All right.
Next Council member Finley, thank you sir.
Do you remember the city's in general
for Yeah, this is Arcadia.
Alhambra Pasadena two and Pasadena.
And you know, I saw them writing tickets Very local here.
Not to me What was the motivation for doing this?
And I heard what you said.
It's we can't hold on to our community service officers.
So there will be a reduction, then in the dollars
that we spend on community service officers.
Yeah, the way it's set up is to CSOs
where we're geared towards parking enforcement,
and they have one dedicated vehicle.
So there's reduction there and the driving force
is really kind of similar to remember crossing guards
and when we went to contract there part time is great
but they're very transitory And so the cost of staff time for HR
To recruit for public safety to do two
interviews, then to train only to lose a person within a year
to is great.
But if we got to it was just constant turnover and that
led to not being able to actually
fill parking enforcement such as street sweeping.
So then you fill in behind with code enforcement
or whatever you can because people
get upset when you don't do it and it's just a trickle down.
So when we went to crossing guards,
you know, we had the school districts upset with us, parents
upset with us because we weren't out there
and we couldn't staff the positions
So they take on the burden of fully training and putting
that person there which is very similar to what we're looking
at here, is they have to go out and hire and put
a body in and fill the roles that we
aren't additional because of.
We're small city and it's fantastic
but our community service officers
are a lot of times pulled in to fill behind Susie if she's sick
or if we have a special events it's kind of all hands on deck.
And that pulls away from parking enforcement as a whole.
So these bodies will be dedicated to parking enforcement
unlike what we have to do right now just to make
sure everything works the way.
And we provide the service that we can.
So we will still have to community service.
So we will still have our community service officers that
are going to perform normal duties of of taking reports,
assisting with traffic visions, assisting the office assisting
with taking whatever we need.
So there's a myriad things that we
use them for within the public safety office.
So they'll still do contain those duties.
They just won't be writing parking tickets.
Other than if Temple Station gets a call of a parking
enforcement, then we could direct them over there
to handle that specific case.
So there's going to be an additional $221,000 annually,
correct?
OK.
How do you anticipate the revenues will offset this
So we currently have revenues that would offset that.
But I anticipate that more coverage will actually
bring in additional revenues.
Generally, what happens with parking, like when we first
started with the street sweeping,
you're going to have an uptick at the beginning
as people realize that we're actually going to enforce
the rules that we weren't enforcing before,
then it will come down and it will stabilize.
But even at our full staffing, of course those we
were doing more than $221,000.
We've been as high as 400,000 and maybe more averaging
closer to the 300,000.
Having said that, the amount of season
shows that we are eliminating, which actually is three parking,
but they are not covering a full 40 hours of what
is needed for the seven days.
And so again, we're going to have additional hours
incorporated in that to 21, and we're not
going to have the challenge of filling the positions
and/or the equipment, the training in the cars.
OK.
Is that something you can give us kind
of a report back on savings?
Absolutely.
It's part of why it's probably my fault that the word pilot got
used because I said there's no guarantee that we're going
to want this program and so it absolutely needs to be evaluated
not just from the money perspective,
but also from the scope perspective,
depending on the feedback we get about parking in general
in the city.
But yes, absolutely.
And you'll be able to see it because it.
It's a revenue generally speaking.
You're going to see those reports So, for example,
at midyear, you'll be able to see
if we're trending more than what we had
expected in our normal trends.
OK.
This the next thing is liability They carry
their own insurance Absolutely.
And so from a liability perspective
it also takes some of that liability off of us
because they are the officers out in the field.
We're not directly their risk mitigation.
Yes.
And then finally will do they have certain cars that.
Yes.
Look, Larry, can you speak a little bit to the
because they have uniforms and cars,
but generally, we get to approve and authorize everything
they're using.
Yeah, for the most part, they use sedans.
So they'll have a four door sedan that they utilize
is going to be all white.
And then the insignias are going to be
on the side of the vehicle, which we're going to approve
based on what they provide us.
Okay And then I know something that people like is they
like seeing the same people over and over
Are we going to have the same officers,
whatever you want to call them, doing this for us?
Yeah.
Generally speaking when we working out some of the language
for the RFP process, we put in there
that we wanted some consistency so much so that we're actually
having these these contractors, if you will, actually
dress out of our office.
So they will be housed at the public safety office directly
be in direct communication with them,
and we'll be able to see them get the reports from them,
get them hot spots, for example, in parking situations
and make sure that we can maintain
some of that consistency.
So similar to how we do the L.A. County Sheriff's
Department contract where we have the deputy's
dress out of there.
It's the same type of concept.
Will they be working around the clock
because obviously, many of these infractions
take place at different times of the day Yeah, we worked at a it
is very difficult to work out a schedule,
but I worked with Briner Izumi and he's is a math
wizard when it comes to Excel.
So he was able to produce a very, very very good coverage
area for these full timers.
So it'd be two full time bodies that would cover
the entire seven day time frame and they'll be working 12 hour
shifts with a four hour overlap on the weekends
so one thing to when you were talking about the reporting
back, we didn't talk about it, but in looking
at all of these alternate lives, one of the things we looked at
was the cost of full time as well.
And when it came to the cost of the full time hours
that we're talking about, actually bringing in our own.
Officer, having our own vehicles our own equipment,
it cost more So this is an alternative
to part time increasing the hours but less expensive
than if we were to actually hire the positions here for the city.
And one challenge.
I mean, we are a contract city for a reason, right?
There is a lot of flexibility and of moving of liability
off of directly on the city, but also
it does give us the ability to increase, decrease very quickly.
So if we decided we wanted to reduce the hours
and go to just one, we'd be able to do
that as opposed to bringing somebody on.
And then having difficulty in eliminating that position OK,
I'm mildly skeptical of not anything new because I think
anything new can be great But I also look at the way
people view contract workers.
And if they can't get enough out of them, liability wise,
we know who they're going to hit up next So.
OK.
Thank you.
And I believe you have another question.
When councilwoman Finney was mentioning on insurance
is the standard 1 million, 2 million
that they're going to carry or.
Yes they met will are professional services agreement
that we traditionally have they have met all
of those requirements And we did have three bidders and all
three of them met the insurance requirements
And then the other question was this is specifically for just
traffic violations, not code violations, or will
eventually it go into code violation, part parking
enforcement, parking, sorry.
So they're strictly parking enforcement.
All right, Councilman garcia, thank you.
Mayor A lot of my questions were asked by customer friendly.
So thank you for getting those parking only But there also
we can enforce our municipal code
that is all of our municipal code
that relates to parking Yes, only parking.
Yes.
OK.
So they won't be doing code enforcement.
They will be enforcing.
So no 3 to 6 a.m. is in the municipal code.
A lot of our restrict Well, I don't think the restricted
that's within the vehicle code But but the RV restrictions
are in the municipal code.
So so these vehicles will only then be patrolling
where there currently are parking
restrict since they will be patrolling
where we direct them to.
So yes, they'll be handling those 3 to 6 a.m..
But then we also have our other hotspots
where we have restricted to residents only,
such as by city of Hope and the arline.
And so there they will be given a list
by Larry and the public safety office
as to what they focus on as well.
Street sweeping the street sweep in and out 3, 2 6 a.m.
is the majority of their duties.
But we do have other okay because we have seen
a huge benefit when there is an extra presence of folks driving
through neighborhoods And I'm thinking about the areas that
don't have parking restrictions and the housing
also benefit from having a contract
like this in the neighborhoods.
The license plate reading cameras
are those linked to our Foot Locker.
How would those work?
No those systems are going to be independent
So the license plate reading camera systems that
are developed for this type of situation
is strictly for parking enforcement.
It allows the officer to actually
be a lot more efficient.
So what it does is it actually timestamps vehicles that
are parked in the town parking zone, as well as issuing
the citation, just based off the license plate,
reading from the camera system.
So we had the opportunity here to also see
that system in action and see how efficient
an officer in the field can be.
Again, as a pilot where do we go?
Stay with this program and/or shift gears into something else.
We can see the efficiency and getting the three year contract
would help us benefit for that.
Of course, with the term that we have, it's beneficial to city,
but it would give us that data to support
it One way or another.
So there's a third party data.
Can we find out who has access to that data?
It's it's only strictly to the data processing
center and the officers issuing it
so that data does not get sent out outside of that.
OK And then you talked about two vehicles per 24 hour shifts.
So 12 hour shifts, one vehicle throughout the whole city
for those 12 hours.
And be one officer per shift.
So one vehicle only.
And then be doing 12 hour shifts, time with the four
hours allowed for on the weekend to compensate
to make them the 40.
Okay If we were to go this way, since we have to approve
that are uniform and symbols on their vehicles can
we share that with the public before that contract
would start.
So that they're aware that this is what they're
going to look like as over?
Yeah, absolutely.
We would want them to know what they look like.
Yes.
Yeah OK All right Mayor Pro tem.
OK.
Thank you, Mayor.
I'm just curious where if we're going to have a vehicle just
driving around constantly can we make
a request for a clean air vehicle
I'm just curious do they even have that option?
I one thing I would point out is I'm not they
would need to arrange where they were going to charge because we
don't currently have a dedicated yet a dedicated charge
location for the city.
So they would just have to make to it cheaper than gas
and would charge it to BP.
Yeah we can talk to them about that.
I know in my discussions with the operations manager,
we talked about it being a hybrid vehicle
because it does behoove them to have a vehicle that
is energy efficient as well, cuts down
on the short vehicle range.
We also requested more information, especially
with the BP charging station like you're
mentioning about that.
In addition, we actually have a charging station in our parking
lot right around the corner.
And since there are contracts, they could pay for that service.
So we'll definitely ask them Yeah,
but that that charging station is a very, very low
It's not going to work.
Yeah I think like a BP would be much better to do so
but anyways.
Yeah Yeah you don't think I'll add
to that is that it does become difficult because they do have
to transport to our office.
So the vehicle does need to be fairly close to it
to where they're at going to be changing, etc.
Interesting OK.
All right.
Any other thoughts ?
All right.
Councilmember Lewis Yes I don't I don't I
just want some clarification.
How many positions are are we going to lose in the city?
So there's three part time positions right now.
Yes Are all three vacant or two or for sure, vacant And one is.
Yeah right.
3 Currently, right now, we're kind of substituting our patrol
car So it was like Brian Gallo was mentioning
we have to do a lot of substitution to make sure
that we ensure our coverage for parking enforcement,
particularly for street sweeping and right
now we have those patrol officers
actually substitute for that.
So we have about two of them that are in substitution
If we eliminate the three positions to go
with this contract services, we're going to be rededicating
them to the regular patrol.
CSO And then the one that isn't dedicated that will be offered
the patrol see as opposition as well, because we
do have vacancies on that.
So you're only going to lose the three
part time positions right Okay.
And those three part time positions,
they can't I mean I know, there's a pay scale
that you can retain.
People with a pay scale that what that not an option
the increase surveyed and so the pay does not appear
to be the issue for why we're retaining like I said,
those who are even you know coming in there
they're not staying because they're going to full time
police officer positions.
It's not because they're going to another city
that pays part time better.
That's what we're finding.
Yeah, we we restructured the salary for the CSOs
within the part time realm to fit what was the market
for the going cities.
So we're very competitive.
Yes it's truly we just lose them because they're
looking for full time jobs.
That's they they generally are hired by in law enforcement
positions and/or whatever else career they choose to
But it's just a temporary job for them
because it is part time.
OK I also I'll like I said, I don't
know if the word pilot got me, but I think three years
is just quite a bit of time.
I mean I can I know it takes probably a year
to even get a routine down.
And then maybe another year or 2 2 figure everything out.
But I take the word pilot out of there.
It's okay.
Appreciate it.
And yes, show shouldn't use that word,
but we will be constantly evaluating this program.
So it's really a trial Okay.
A trial run that works better.
All right.
I don't feel that much better, but a little bit All right.
I think everyone up here asked a lot of questions
and addressed concerns I would have I have a lot of you know,
I know that our public safety is a well oiled machine.
So this sounds like something that makes
our wheels a little squeaky.
So if we have an opportunity to try to keep everything flowing,
I think that's a great idea.
The process of hiring and training somebody
is so expensive I know we touched on that.
I mean, I think my company, it costs like $30,000 to hire
someone new just the loss of training time uniform equipment,
administrative before and after hiring along with
any kind of benefits they have.
So I definitely see that there's an area for cost containment
here, which is something we would
probably know within the first nine months to a year.
And I feel comfortable with the three year,
you know, trial knowing that it's not a guaranteed thing.
If we find out Nine months to 12 months from now,
we can reassess this.
I'm completely comfortable with making the decision.
So that's my thought process on it
because everyone else asks such good questions anyways,
are we ready to anyone else have anything they want to say
Can I call for a motion?
Almost second.
All in favor?
I i any opposed motion carries.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
And I'll make sure to remove the word pilot out of my vocabulary
Unless they're driving like a hybrid Honda Pilot.
Hybrid?
We're good.
They're all right.
Now.
Let's go on to item B on business items
We've got award of contract for the Donald and Bernice Watson.
Multi Youth use, and that's going
to be presented by our public works
manager, Stephanie Sandoval.
Hello Hi.
Good evening, everyone.
Again So this this item is to award the contract
for the Donald Ebenezer Watson multi-use pathway improvement
Project to F as contractors and a lot of the fiscal impacts
were discussed during the during the CFP workshop earlier today.
So I will kind of just breeze through that part.
The lowest response of an responsible bidder was
fS contractors for 1,697,000.
And we are this staff is recommending to award
the contract with a 7% contingency which
would be a total of $1,816,800.
And approve a budget amendment to use Measure M funds
towards the rest of the remainder of the project
I think one thing that we didn't discuss during the CIP workshop
was mainly that FS contractors is the contractor that
was the lowest bidder and they have done many projects
for the city before They've completed a great number
of projects for other cities as well,
and they've always provided great work for the city
and worked very cooperatively with staff.
And so for a project like this, it's
a big deal for us to have a contractor that is going to be
working well with the city.
And that is going to provide us with a good quality product
as well So with that, I don't know
if you guys have any more questions
or if Councilmember Finley, thank you.
Something that we talked about some time ago.
And Fasano brought it up to me.
He texted me today.
And we ever done anything with any kind of electrical
along there And I guess what I'm thinking is over closer
to ward where the tennis courts are If we had
some electrical a long the path there we could potentially put
in, I guess you could say even kind of like a that's a fairly
well-lit area like Christmas markets sort of thing
during a holiday season.
Is there any any thought to putting
any kind of electrical there to give us some flexibility
as to use of the path?
So the main scope of the project includes adding lighting
to to the intersections, to the main intersections of where
the trail crosses streets.
So there will definite be an addition and added component
of electrical at those intersections as well
as pedestrian lighting in the area where
the where the bridge is, because that is generally a darker area
And that was something that was brought up by council.
So there there will be electrical components added
to this project that are already part of the scope Something
that could easily be utilized in the future,
I guess to be flexible right Well, I think if i'm
understanding your question correct, Lee,
are you talking about the option of having
some lighting when we do potentially
host some kind of events?
Sure.
Right there along the bike trail.
Are you are you thinking like permanent lighting
or you're thinking, no no permanent lighting.
But vendors out there that, sure, they
can plug in if they bring in some right
That's what I was thinking.
So I don't know if that's built into the scope.
Yeah, that wasn't built into the scope.
But as we move forward, it is something we could
look at as we go through this.
And I mean change and if you're setting up something
for vendors, you're going to need some it,
you'll need a little you'll need more than just typical outlets.
So we definitely look into that I mean,
vendors are we looking to generate revenue
from the it could be anything you know there are not a lot of
and I know you've been to these places
and whether it's New York or Chicago at Christmas time
they will set up kind of markets and they are not
only it's a moneymaker but not so much as it is a social event.
And I just thought gee, maybe this
would be something that would be kind of fun along the bike path,
kind of like the market used to have a sanitary heater
but instead of doing it there, have it alongside the amenities
You kind of foodservice on I think we
we talked about this for a long time, right
in we've always wanted to beautify that trail.
And lot of people use this trail and I believe
I've said this many times to them and with other council
members is we need the lights.
We certainly do So it should be incorporated
as part of the scope.
I I hope we can do that.
It doesn't have to be we need to dig underground
and have some to 40 ease of whatever.
There are lot of lights nowadays There
are solar or self-sustained and they give a lot of Yeah,
you know what is that loom not illuminations.
What is that word Lumen.
Luminescence.
Right.
Aren't known lumens whatever lumens So when I says an why is
it that we're not able to.
And I noticed a lot of these solar lights
they're very very bright and if no one's walking
around that area, it is automatically dims down to count
in calories And I we're actually,
we were walking, what, two days ago, three days ago,
and I bumped into you at night and then
you started looking at me and I'm like, woohoo,
I can really see because it was so dark, right A lot of people
like to use that trail.
And I think it's good.
And it's safe for us to have that
place lit and it should be part of the scope
of do I have anybody ?
I have.
My question was, who?
What other projects has this company worked on for the city?
Just so I have an idea They did the they did the the Huntington
Drive median project.
They did a lot of sidewalk improvement
And they did the actually the emergent see concrete improve
ments when the fires broke out, and the windstorm
knocked down a bunch of trees.
OK.
They installed the the banner poles
they work on a subcontractor for the Highland promenade project
They did the ATP project on Central and Evergreen OK.
Sounds good.
Thank you.
I got a good idea.
I appreciate that Sounds like Lois,
that has anything to bring up.
Councilmember Chong.
I just Just have a statement.
I'm looking at these renderings or drawings
of what the trail is going to look like I.
I do like the new colors.
And the greenery and flowers and plants around it as
well as the drinking stations.
And for the puppies and for the runners.
We talked about a little bit about i
don't know necessarily widening the trail,
but having a space for the bikes and the actual
like joggers and walkers can kind of separate the two.
So they don't we hear there's a lot of butting heads
on that trail between joggers and walkers
versus bikers I know, we mentioned that a few weeks ago,
maybe the last time we spoke about the trail
they kind of widened it so that there's
a separation between the two.
And also, like Councilmember Kay said,
some lights that we talked about as well to i
appreciate the mile markers or something new
and it brings something different to the trail,
which I think is awesome.
But those Two things widening the trail
to kind of have the bikes and the restrooms,
not potentially cause any accidents or hit each other,
or maybe get into fights because one of hiking, one's walking
And I think lights on the trail.
There's also would also look so much more better if we can maybe
bring that item up next council meeting
to see what the cost to add those lights in
and i think a along with the nice wooden chimes or windmills
that we've looked at and these mile markers,
it would definitely make the trail look 100 times better
than it is now Councilmember Well,
one thing I just what's being discussed tonight
is award of bid and i would say the trail will be
slightly wider than it is now.
But we get a bid that was above what the estimate was of for it
to be a four foot and a half wide
or just because at the edges.
It's going to be kind of feathered out a bit
But to get wider than that would be a significant cost.
So I mean, I believe also on in terms of lighting the attach,
I believe we had a discussion when we came to the council
last time.
And we were getting ready to go out for bid.
And I believe the Resolute was that might look to do that
in the future as an option.
The cost that would be significant compared to the bid.
I mean, we'd, we'd be over the over the 7% contingency.
But I feel like my fear is we're going to pay all this money
for this budget amendment, $406,000, and then they're going
to bring it to us.
And there's going to be nothing but issues.
That's my biggest fear So I feel like we should have
the knowledge of some different lighting options
and what that would cost, whether it
be electric with plugs or doing some solar because that
sounds like a great idea to.
And then, you know there's just not as much
of a need for the horse portion of the trail anymore.
Yes, there are still horses on the trail, but not.
I'm sure, the magnitude of when they built it
or when they put it together And that feels like.
That's like double the size of the actual pavement
in some areas.
So I can see why widening it might be wanting
something we want to look into Yeah,
I think you're absolutely right.
I don't see as much horses there as i did when
I was in my teenage years, but I think widening it
to about a foot, a foot and a half without having any issues,
I think that's helped.
It's very helpful but also to avoid the same issues
we had with the medians on Huntington
to be able to see what it is.
And what the cost would be and how it
would look with the lighting.
Regardless if we want to add it now or later on in the future.
I'm just to be proactive and not come across the issues
we had with the median.
Again so that, you know, we can move forward
with this more smoothly.
Well one option would be if the council chose to, would we?
We could go forward with the current bid
that we have a word of bid.
Begin with the project I don't I don't
think we come back to the next meeting
with a price for expand the lighting.
But I think within 4 to 6 weeks, they would
they're going to start in 4 to 6 weeks.
And there's going to there be won't be starting till June.
We could probably do an analysis of what
that that additional lighting costs would be.
And we could either Yeah, I think potentially
either add that to the contract to do different contract
I think that would help out to be awarded
and have the kind of fine print that it would come back
with the additional cost or an extra renderings of how it would
look with those lighting that if you're to that we're going to do
this beautiful upgrade and then the constituents are going
to have the hugest complaint of it's still
so dark by the time I get off work,
I can't walk on it anyways.
And I just think it's like a missed opportunity
to make it safer for everyone.
I too have seen Councilmember Calderon walking in the evenings
a couple of times.
And he and I walk, you know it's 7:00.
It's pretty dark when we see each other.
So councilmember Finley have we gone
to like the Joint Powers Insurance Authority and said,
take a look at it?
You see any design flaws here.
That would be a potential problem for liability
which is even Well, part of the the plan
is to meet aDA requirements.
OK.
So that actually, that's how we initially got the funding.
And we applied for multiple grants.
It was, was basically not just an improvement,
but also to address aDA issues and several years ago,
we had that analysis done.
And so of, of all the crossings are being upgraded.
So the intent was to meet all ADA requirements OK.
But in addition to that, I know that I forced Larry and Steve
one night to go over there with me
just so they could see how bad the lighting was at the Mount
Olive royal Oaks Drive intersection
And they both saw the same thing I did.
First of all, low lighting and we
almost hit someone because he was dressed at night.
You guys make sure don't wear black or wear white when you're
walking on that bike path because it's really hard to see
people All right So let's bring us back to topic,
then, which is awarding the contract Are, you know,
do we have any more questions about what's right before us?
I know we've given some direction of what
we want to see come back.
We've expressed our concerns Are we anybody have anything more
they need to clarify before being
ready to make a motion or vote So help me with this then.
Craig, As far as lighting, you're saying we go ahead.
We approve this tonight.
If we do, and then in a month or two,
you'll come and say this is what it's
going to cost to put light bollards from vineyard
to Mount Olive or Mount Olive to Royal Oaks North or something?
Absolutely.
So if I may I just want to give a rough estimate.
These are outdoor or solar baller.
I can check them right now The highest price 400 bucks each
So if I just guess how many around whatever distance,
then i can certainly know what the cost is, right The building
material costs And then for very quickly, add it on to i'm
not sure this has to be those need to for sure be bolted down
and understood.
So yeah these price in the public and Tony Price
is often very different in this in this.
And so I completely understand that right.
And i think we can get a pretty good estimate.
I don't think it's going to be for starting.
I want to go and see the math to do this, because I do recall so
for many, many years that we do want lights
and hopefully we can have this incorporate it
into the scope of it, but it shouldn't
be ecstatically expensive because it doesn't add up.
Can we ask them to develop the plan including
the light as an add on?
I know it can't be in the scope of work
for what's approved What we've gotten the grant money for
but that we you know, we just finished doing our capital
improvement project.
We have a pretty decent idea of our financial goals.
And we can then, you know, consider that when
we move forward Yeah, we will.
We'll go to a commercial lighting company
will get a new estimate.
You know, it's for the 1.6 miles and we'll bring an amount back
for you to discuss and let them know,
you know, we're on a budget, you know,
give us some options You know, don't
go straight to the Cadillac just because it's a public entity.
Let's see what the then kia has got going on it.
Yeah.
Good luck with that.
So on as you say, city I do have I have one question that will
help us on this is that since the since all parks closed 10:00
and there are security issues, my assumption would be is that
we would also want something that has
the ability to be on a timer.
So, yes closed off at.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they could I mean, I'm sure I'm thinking too like, you know,
the lights just behind the trail of houses on, right.
Looks like the little small trail by Foothill Academy.
They're probably going to want a dimmer
version of the lights Very dim version
if it's their backyard Right.
We're going to have to be considerate of where
each placement is.
But you know there's you know where
it's going under the bridge and it's super dark and scary.
Like that's going to need some lighting,
you know that's actually within the scope of the project
with that lighting Lighting under the bridge
is actually with the scope of that.
That's awesome.
That's their other parts.
Like when you're walking like i just bumped into.
And I I've seen coyotes walking around.
I mean, running around too.
So just want to making sure that it's safe.
Yeah.
Daylight savings to walk past 4 p.m.
And so if we can give that to our community at a price
that we can consider taking from one of our funds
I think we want to consider it.
So i do, I want at least hear about it.
Councilmember Garcia and then Councilmember
Calderon I think the consensus is to see the trail
lit the whole 1.6.
I would prefer to see what that cost will be in sections Instead
of encouraging the whole try to be
just that one particular section that's out for the bridge.
I think up to you get to not only
if it gets really, really dark and and if I may
Councilman Garcia is there solar out there?
We don't need to go in.
You know do all these tranches.
And all that stuff.
Correct.
But yeah, I i'd like to see what that would look
like just in phases in case we couldn't
fund the whole 1.6 miles.
At least identify the areas that we are very dark in just
to clarify, you talked between Buena Vista and the island
long stretch before you get to island,
all live and rail looks going on that gets really dark.
I think it means between the bridge and Mount Olive Yes.
Yes.
OK.
Bridge amount of passive use and stuff.
Thank you.
Thank you I just have a question.
How many ADA accessible entrances will the Cho have?
Just because I know that one time
there was I mean, as we've heard I walked that through a lot.
But one time there is some tree activity that was going on.
And there is a sign that said no idea
accessible for the whole day.
So I'm just wondering if it's going to have
multiple entrances for people.
It's essentially at every intersection
I mean, for instance, if you look at one a vista,
you've got an entrance from the I mean, from the north.
And the south side.
And then through the middle and other areas,
it's just the actual trail entrance at at the intersection
at that particular case.
The reason that sign read that was
because the entrance that actually paved section
of the trail was being blocked.
And so therefore, anybody that was using the trail
was going to have to use a dirt path
and that is not a designated ADA path.
And we wanted to make sure that people that were walking
the trail were using the trail at that time,
understood that that ADA access was not available OK.
I just had a thought.
What about asking like local businesses, Dignitas fees, etc.,
about like donating a lamp post and then we
can have a little plaque on the lamp post for them
If we did solar.
And we can send it out to all of our assembly people,
we can send it out to big partners like City of Hope, etc.
and see, you know, maybe see developments
to donate a little section and call it the little section
of hope, things like that Mayor I'm so sorry to interrupt up
here, but I just wanted us to get back to the the contract
itself, which is for the current design and approval.
If the city council wants staff to go back and change
the scope of that to incorporate these changes, we could do that.
I don't think that's the recommendation tonight However,
if you want staff to go and get you the estimates
for the lighting and design and things like that with new ideas
like you mentioned, we can do that too.
But since this contract is pretty specific to the ADA
improvements and the grant, we kind of
want to I am apprehensive to go forward with this scope
if we're not going to be able to have this discussions
and then we're going to all be stuck with our hands
tired and frustrated.
So i don't know what that means do we want to go back and have
the scope to add lighting as a add on option,
but have it included in this plan
that where we don't have to worry about or
or if I could if we could move forward with this.
And then come back and on the next council meeting,
even for a discussion on lighting
or additional lighting on the trail, then
we're going to have to bring this back again, because they're
going to want to start this for seven
for this portion, which is which is all under the grant money
But if we're looking at adding additional lighting we can
we have time to at least bring it back, discuss,
have staff, take the direction and come back
with further details on cost.
And we can move forward that way.
Yeah.
And i would just say that necessarily
the problem with adding to this is we will
have to go back out to bid.
And I I really urge that we don't do that.
If if the issue is adding lighting,
we can add lighting within the time period.
If there's a choice to do that within the time
period of construction we can add that on.
But yeah, I was going to say, because I think
the scope in approving this is within the scope of the grant
money.
And I think sooner we put a stamp on it,
the sooner we can get this money move forward to show
But I think there is a consensus here on the council
that we do want to incorporate lighting into this.
So during the time of construction
or before construct SSiOn moves forward
we should have a vote, a definitive answer on what type
of lighting or the amount or the budget
that we want to utilize for the lighting.
I know that's going to come separate
but I think we can do that because this gives us
the opportunity to go ahead and move forward and utilize
the grant money that is on the table here and in addition
to that, everybody has seen each other's numbers
and we might be seeing a 3.5 million
trail if it goes out to bid again.
So it's in our best interest already on that vein,
then, may I have a motion for recommended action Second,
might I just given council's conversation recommend
that the motion be approved Staff's organization
and direct staff to come back with information
regarding lighting or for the trail Yes, that's it.
All right.
Make get a second.
Second.
All in favor I. I open tie.
Can I add on to this Well, we just.
But, you know specifically on solar and self-sustained,
we don't need to go in and dig trenches.
We just don't We can explore our lighting options.
Oh, great.
Thank you I just.
I know we already voted, Stephanie.
There's currently stop signs facing the pedestrians
and bikers on the trail I'm got a feedback
that they're a little high.
And so pedestrians are just walking through,
I don't think they're aware that means they should
stop and look for traffic.
You think with this upgrade we can
bring those eye level for that?
That can be considered?
Yes it's very likely that they were installed
that high for bike riders.
But there there will definitely be
added striping as well on the floor on the trail itself.
Higher visibility signage We can definitely add more signs
for pedestrians All righty.
Thank you so much All righty I believe we are moving on
to number 14 items from city council housing
authority financing And we will go
ahead and start with Larry Me.
All right Mr. Henslee.
Mr. Enriquez.
Mr. Peterson, Mr. Villalobos So staff and i recently met with
Route 66 committee, and we're working on finalizing the route
for this year's 100th anniversary parade
So that's coming along nicely.
Additionally today, the mayor and Councilmember Garcia and I
met with the CEO Angelique Richards from City of Hope
as well as executive director Peter mackler.
Just to discuss really partnerships
and just to introduce ourselves.
And then introduce them and is to make sure that we all
are keeping in mind that we're important to each other
and each other's success So it was a very positive introduction
and meeting because we had not met the new CEO.
Additionally Well, now it's been,
I think a little bit of while but we
did have a meeting with the Nordson Gabriel River Working
Group which consists of Risa Irwindale and US, which goes
to Laurel Park Currently we're under review in the JPA,
which would be formed between all three cities.
The reason being we're forming the jPA is because Senator Rubio
has earmarked approximately 4 million
in funds for us to use for the really beautification
and installation of Loreal Park currently
it's sitting that county terminated their lease mutually
terminated their lease with the Army Corps of Engineer, which
allowed the EPA to go in there and set
up their site after the fire.
It's still sitting terminated.
The army corps wishes to enter into a lease agreement
with the JPA for us to control the park
and with those funds from Senator Rubio, we the hope is,
is to construct some kind of outdoor classroom and park
area that talks about the water the importance
of that riverbed Native Americans
and the native vegetation.
So there's there's a lot of work in progress.
It'll take a little time.
But you will eventually see a JPA
come to you for your approval to continue
this process forward with that.
That's all I have.
Thank you Note Anything from this time?
Councilmember Garcia Thank you.
You so much.
Mayor Mr. Vila was talked about and we took a tour.
The mayor and I of city of Hope Hope Plaza.
It's a beautiful, beautiful building.
And it's incredible to know or to get a reminder every so often
about the life saving treatment that
is happening in our community.
The folks that travel from all over the country
and around the world to get treated
here I saw one of the best views of our city
from the eighth floor of Hope Plaza a with the city's
growing tremendously in the last couple of years
So I think everybody involved Director Hensley, you
and your team the vision, the eye for some
of these developments like dirty station
to see them from that point of view,
it really was my mind blowing.
And they did talk about the hotel being 80%
occupied Monday through Friday and the need
of having another one.
So I think as a city.
We welcome anyone who wants to do that in our community
and help us close that gap There is
a need for something like that.
With that I look forward to seeing everybody at the mayor's
state of the City State of the Schools event
on May Fourth, along with the USD superintendent school
board principal and our city manager
and have a good night All right, Councilmember Calderon I just
want to thank staff for the awesome Easter event
you guys hosted It was amazingly attended
and I actually ran into some friends,
and they said they went to two different Easter events
and ours was the best planned that they went to.
And i just want to talk about the importance of parks.
I mean, you saw that easter event.
And then you saw the discussion we had about our drill
I think moving forward.
Parks are going to be really important, whether it's a dog
park, whether it's a trail.
I think if you build it, people are going to be using it
and they're welcomed in the city of Dougherty.
That's awesome Council member Finley Okay.
Thank you.
You.
I like you.
Mr. Color of Events, but probably
one of the most interesting was the forecasting
done by with regard to our region you guys.
And like seeing this stuff, this is very, very interesting.
This demographer he is actually employed by .
But initial lee they had forecast that the median
age this was back in 2015.
They were forecasting that the median age in our region,
which is it's a Six county region, was going to be 40.
It was going to be 40 years old.
But our population is aging.
So they're saying in 2050, instead of being the average age
of 40 is now 46.4 So it is definitely an aging population
here as far as household size and the household size
is the 2020 projection for 2050, it was going
to be household size of 2.899.
And now that has been reduced to 2.49.
So our households are getting smaller
and are reaching and getting older
The recap basically of his.
It was about a hour and a half display of what's going on.
He said the population will remain stable or decline
slightly and age substantially Housing growth
will be slower than previously expected, but will continue
to exceed the population growth The job outlook will be flat
following low population growth and air dispersion
and will be concentrated in health
care and socialist assistance.
And as i said, the average household sizes
will be much smaller than I attended a function for.
And I know.
Let's see you're in on this is we have new proposed sewer
service charge rates in the operating cross costs
have grown 20% over the last five years.
And our income has only increased 10%.
And when I say our income, the unit ain't talking about mine.
And Dell is the sanitation district
So costs have gone up due to a lot of capital
projects like Clearwater Pier, Water all of those.
And so they will be going up our survey
or monthly service charges and they're having public hearings.
So people can talk about this.
May 13th of May 20th and May 27th.
That's when our public hearing is for the city
of Dougherty is may 27th.
At 130, you'll be there probably with me.
OK?
Yep.
And let's see.
Olympic forecasting I went to a meeting
on transportation demand management for the Olympics
and we are looking at they're expecting
the people to be driving 50% less during the Olympics.
And I'm talking about all of us that live here, 15% less
will make a big difference when the Olympics come.
And finally we had the arts ad hoc committee who
was there See you were there.
Martin you in a couple of weeks, you're going to have
some great art to look at.
The people were very, very talented this time.
And so that's all I have.
Thank you.
Let's go with councilmember Louis I just I don't have much.
I just was just, like, to take.
Just like that Everyone know this week
is Los Angeles county Fire Department dispatch
watch Appreciation Week.
And they're having an appreciation for all
the dispatchers and it may not seem like a hard job,
but I. I sat in one day and thought I could do it.
And it's impossible.
I mean, you some people, it's really it's really a tough job.
And I just want to say, you know thank you to all the dispatchers
They make sure all the firefighters and all
the paramedics get to the right address They
take the right information and thank you.
And that's all I have.
Good night All right, let's do council member Chong Nothing
really to report, but I did attend
the in our meeting I was not able to attend
the in our meeting.
I did attend the same cPPCC meeting
and also the nurse saying you role we're working group.
I just want to say with that group
you know Councilmember garcia and I
and Carol we stepped into this, but I
think this group was created during back
in 2020 when we had those wildfires, 20, 20, 20, 21.
House member kang and former Council min.
Shultz.
But I think there's a lot of progress that is being made.
There and being able to work together as a region.
I know for a fact that this is going
to be a blueprint for other cities
that are encountering issues like this and everybody put
their differences aside.
There's one common goal, I think a lot of things
are get done and taken care of as far as a region
I just want to thank Brian for and staff for always being
able to attend and making sure that what is represented
and for my colleagues to be able to attend all the time
and make sure that our voices are heard.
But besides that a lot of things going on with wildfire clearance
It's summertime is coming up.
Fire season is coming up I know, we just
had a big one in L.A. County about a year ago,
but it's never too late to be safe.
So just do your part.
Do your due diligence.
Don't give your insurance companies
any reasons to cancel or increase your insurance
monthly insurance bills.
Besides that Thank you all very much.
And now we're going to thank you, Mayor Pro Tem King.
Thank you, Mayor It's really loud.
Yeah.
Okay.
This is friendly.
You're absolutely right.
I think the word you said, you know, the cost of living
is not going up, but everything else is going up.
There's only one person that doesn't think that way.
Thinks everything is going down.
But is fighting something right now
Imagine really sad It's just really sad to see
how these prices are going up.
And I think it's going to drive us to to a word
that I'm going to go ahead and use the cost self-sustained.
We will it.
We're going to have solar power, battery storage You're going
to have your electric cars.
And I want to say, even water.
Now they're using con condensation, water to capture
water from air And what's that's going to do
is people can't afford all these stuff.
And people are getting squeezed Yeah, you
know what The wages are maybe perhaps going up very, very
slowly but they are going up.
But the way we print all that money in America
and it's that inflation is going to it's kind of like
outweighed our wages to right And we're
very expensive in America.
I want to let you guys know.
I mean, for me to go have a dinner.
I talked about this before with with my girlfriend,
whatever, it will be like 100 bucks, Hundreds bucks
just like that.
But if you go to Mexico and go to like some smaller cities
man, a juicy piece of like organ steak,
tomatoes tastes like tomatoes fresh tortillas
and so on with a shrink cost me $5, $5, right So what
is it that we need to do in.
I just I I don't know what to say,
but we're getting squeezed so hard,
and it really should be Americans First.
It should be Americans first.
And we somehow going to help us with all the taxes
that we're paying in l.A. County wants to go ahead and increase
even more sales taxes.
All my big I mean, my big purchases, I
could have I go to Orange County now
So this is like I think it's like two two pinnacle.
It's it's really, really going to pivot towards the other way
for very soon if we don't go ahead
and somehow i'll fix our dysfunction in our system here.
It's very sad with the prices going up.
It's driving a lot of people away from purchasing
and they can't even purchase.
And a lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck.
It's very sad and with that, you're
going to see even more people become, unfortunately homeless
with the I and robotics.
It's true.
If you go to if you go to Silicon Valley right now,
you look at those people there are getting paid $250,000
to be a software engineer.
You came in, find a job come in, find a job in a grocery store
I mean, they have to be Uber drivers.
It's that crazy And if you listen
to some of these A.I. CEOs this is not like ten years.
This is happening next year they're going to go and replace
even more white collar jobs So this
is something that we as a city we need to really understand.
And with people not able to afford unfortunate.
Lee in America to rug is prevalent.
It's everywhere.
People are start drinking, smoking pot and gateway drugs.
And then they get hooked and then they get
left onto the streets, right?
And that's why you see a lot more homeless people.
And I've been talking to actually Starbucks to star bucks
around this local area And I go, you know,
I go there, I drink my coffee every morning
and I see actually, Michelle Mr. Garcia,
your wife all the time over there
and the managers attacking me every month,
you see that the first week of the month,
you see a whole like, whole bunch of new homeless folks
being pushed because they're and getting tap cards from L.A. City
and their cso's actually pushing them to,
you know, to all these different stations, including Monrovia
and even at Sousa.
And it's really damaging, damaging.
Look, we got to go and help these people, but they come in
and there's no way for us to and force this,
we got to find some ways to enforce.
Now, don't get me wrong I love my public safety
and the deputies.
You guys are doing a fantasy tastic job,
but we got to find some way to somehow maybe I don't know.
I'm just finding ways to perhaps have a way
to manage to these people from coming into our city
from the goal line All right.
The five minute mark are we do you have
some final thoughts together?
All right No, I don't.
OK Thank you very much.
Okay.
I'll try to keep this brief.
I'm thank you very much for helping.
As I missed last meeting, I should be cleared for the rest
of the calendar year to not miss any more council meetings
But I would like to report on what i have done.
I went to Assemblywoman Rubio's young legislator ayers group
at the Glendora country Club.
I went to the sanitation meeting with Councilmember finley.
I attended Doherty High Schools Career Day
and presented as mayor as well as you know,
reported about my personal profession I attended
the ad hoc bucks, a utility box meeting.
So I'm very excited.
I missed the last one, but I intended the first one.
I'm looking very much forward to seeing what comes before us
on behalf of Councilmember Garcia,
I went to the hilo Transit meeting.
That was the first one.
It was really nice starting to get
to know a lot of our local other mayors
and council members from other cities
so it's really nice to connect with them
and just be present as representing to do what
we're representing to Wardy I went to the 60 Sixers
opening day.
That's our senior softball league
put on through the daughters senior center.
I will have to say they were playing the city of South
Pasadena That got a bigger kick out
of our opening day ceremonies than I even think our team did.
They pulled me aside and they said no other city does this
for their senior communities So my hat is off to just
our Parks and Rec department for just a stellar job of making
everybody feel like they are a big deal because they
are I went to the Autism event that we had at the teen Center.
Again, I appreciate the city for making sure that there's
a little something for everybody And I enjoy just
watching those children thrive.
And the parents feeling supported
and that their children could just have a good time.
The egg hunt was amazing.
I got pulled over, pulled over, actually
lost my friend's daughter because I got pulled aside.
So much saying my kids are teasing me every ten minutes
where Sophia But you know, the whole security team was on it
right away We got her located very quickly
But everyone was pulling me aside
basically to say no other city does it like this.
And if they do, they charge.
So again, I'm very grateful that we have something
that everybody can attend.
And be part of.
Even if you're not from dougherty,
I went to the chambers opening of the young brother big city.
This is a gentleman who has created a great program,
a mentor ship for youth, where he's doing flag football
and things of that nature.
So he is going to be advertise housing through the chamber as
well as his socials.
So everyone keep an eye out for updates
on how to get your children involved in flag football
after school programs and then, you know,
today we had the city of Hope tour
where we got to meet with the new CEO and she was amazing.
And I'm just very grateful to the whole city of Hope team
for opening the communications and just
wanting to continue to grow such a great relationship.
So i although I wasn't here at the meeting,
I tried to make myself available in every other way I could to be
seen and to represent our city.
Well I would like to adjourn this meeting in memory
of our director, Christine Peterson's grandmother,
Darlene Vernon Grandparents are very special.
So just sending you love and condolences.
And we are definitely going to adjourn in her honor I imagine.
5:00 news Mayor loses friend's daughter at Easter Hunt.
You know what?
It's what my kids bring up every ten minutes.
Keep me.
I'm sorry, Sophia.
I'm sorry Sophia.
You somewhere?
Sophia will be home safe with her parents.
Now on that note, I'm adjourning Have a good evening, everybody.
All right all day, my kids we were in Yellowstone.
We're here It's How are we going to get?
Good?
I think they are I know People are, you know.