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All right. Good evening. We're going to go ahead and call this meeting to order. This is the city council regular meeting on Wednesday, December 13th, 530, and Mr. Donahue, can we please do a roll call? Councilmember Lormore? Present. Councilmember McMinnon? Here? Councilmember Yao? Here? Mayor Pro Tem Dinko? Here? Mayor Rigby? Here. And Mr. Donahue, do we have any requests to speak on the closed session portion of the agenda? No, Mayor. All right. Then at this time, the council will be recessing the closed

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session in Ms. Vega, will you please introduce the items.

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Thank you, Mayor Rigby.

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There's one closed session item, conference with real property negotiators for lots, three,

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five, and Jay of tentative track map, three, eight, two, and 90.

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The city's negotiator is a community development director Gustavo González and the negotiating

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parties are Royal Caps three-two LLC.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right. Well, we apologize for the delay. We were in a closed session and just got done with that in Miss Vega.

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If you will, please report any action that was taken during the closed session.

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Thank you, Mayor. The City Council met in closed session.

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A conference with real property negotiator and no reportable action was taken.

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All right. Thank you. We will move on to our invocation, which will be led by Pastor Met Miles from Hillcrest Baptist Church in Eastville.

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how my church tells me to.

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Let's go ahead and pray.

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Definitely follow the Lord.

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Thank you for the opportunity to be able to pray

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at the City Council meeting.

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Thank you, Lord, for all the hard work that's gone in this year

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for this city to continue to move forward into the days ahead.

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Lord, I'm sure for many of the staff here in the leadership

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today's been a long day, or maybe it's been a long week.

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I appreciate them taking the time and the focus

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and the energy, Lord, to lead our city as we continue

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to finish off this year strong and go into the next year.

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Lord, with all the busyness of the season and such like that, Lord, I pray that you

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bless each of these families, Lord, just allow them to have a great time together and

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Lord be able to make some great memories.

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And as we go through and finish off this 2023 during this Christmas season, Lord, and enjoy

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the fun and the festivities, help us to remember what this season's all about.

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It's about Jesus and Lord and the fact that he came all those years ago and that he died

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on a cross for the sins of the whole world.

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Lord, I pray that you be with this meeting tonight.

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It looks like there's a lot on the agenda could be end up being a longer night that you give this leadership team Lord

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and the staff, just the strength and the stamina and Lord the wisdom and the discernment to make the decisions that need to be

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whether it's to move forward on something or Lord to pause and think about and assess some more. Thank you Lord again

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for this leadership. Thank you for this city in Jesus name. Amen.

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Thank you for that prayer. We'll move on to item number six which is our Pledge of Allegiance and we have a

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A couple of scouts that are here tonight and one of them is going to lead us with the Pledge of Allegiance today and I'd like to invite up Doc

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Jane from Boy Scout Troop 251 to come lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please.

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Audience, please raise your

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right hand over your heart.

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Ready, begin.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

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one nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you for leading us in that. I know sometimes especially as a young man, it's hard to get in front of a crowd and especially a bunch of funny looking adults that you don't know and to be able to do that. So great job. Thank you for doing that. We're going to move on to item number seven, which is our reorganization and appointments. And first there is some sort of presentation or something that's happening. Mayor Pro Tem. We do.

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Todd, we want to say thank you.

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for doing an excellent job for your leadership and your dedication as a mayor for the City of

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E. Phil for 2023. We know this wasn't your first round as mayor. You did a great job the first

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time. It means you got to do a great job this last year. Thank you. You always have an entertaining

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way and do a great job at commanding our events. The leadership you provided this city was fantastic.

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It's been great. Working as a council member with you, fellow council member, not just on our

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city council meetings, but all the other meetings we attend, whether it's with developers,

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businesses that want to join the city, and your insight and experiences invaluable.

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Thank you so much.

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We do have a plaque for you, it's a clock, and it says, presented to Todd Rigby in recognition

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of your leadership and distinguished service, Mayor for the City of Eastville 2223, so thank

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you.

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Mayor Rigby?

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What's been a fun year, it's been a lot of fun and I've appreciated the opportunity to be able to serve our residents.

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It's been a very fun, there's been a lot that's happened and our city continues to grow.

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And even though I won't be the mayor, I have the opportunity to still be on the council.

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So I'll still be obviously very involved in the community and I know that we have a great council.

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I've been on a number of boards, been in different organizations, and one of the things that's awesome about our council is, is we have great leadership, but then we also have a great amount of knowledge up here, and that really helps us to get to where we're at, and we respect each other, so we make decisions.

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We still, we may disagree on decisions, but we still get along as colleagues, as friends.

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and that's I think what really helps our city rather than us fighting over things and making big issues over little things.

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So I appreciate the opportunity to be on the council and to continue to work.

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So I look forward to it.

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Let's move on to item number 7.2, which is Office of Mayor and Mayor ProTIM.

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And I will turn this over to our city clerk, Mr. Mark Donahue.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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The City Council appoints a member to serve as mayor and mayor pro-tem annually.

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These appointments are effective immediately after the motions.

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Nearly appointed mayor and mayor pro-tem will preside until the last council meeting in

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calendar year 2024 when the new mayor and mayor pro-tem will be selected at that time.

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With that, we are now looking for a motion or nomination for mayor to preside until the last

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city council meeting in calendar year 2024.

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before. And before we do so, if we can, do we have any public comments on the

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item? No, ma'am. With seeing none, I would like to make a motion to

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nominate our current mayor pro-tim, Councilmember Kristen Denko, as the mayor.

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so everyone knows there was a second done electronically, so I don't think there

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wasn't a second. I was like, oh, yes, there's a motion by Mayor Rigby, seconded by

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Councilmember McMan. Please vote on your screens.

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Motion passes five to zero.

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All right. Thank you. Congratulations, Mayor Christian Dinko.

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Yes. Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate the support and the trust of my colleagues.

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And I know it's going to be a great year. We have a great team now.

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Not only in the council, but with the city, we're going to continue to do great things, and I'm looking forward to it. Thank you so much.

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In my last item of business that I have is we are looking for a motion for Mayor Pro Tem, and I would like to nominate Councilmember Mike McMinn as our Mayor Pro Tem.

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I'm just going to verbal my second, so.

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If I could, if we could speak on this item for a second. Sure. Okay.

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Well, I do not have a dog in this fight, I do not, I'm not looking to be Mayor Pro Tem this year, but I understand our process to be informal in nature, but we do have an informal process in place in terms of rotation and my understanding of why we've been doing this is to maintain, you know, harmony.

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among the members of the council, and so if I could ask city staff to articulate what our current policies are,

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so I'd like to ask that question first.

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There's no current policy in place, historically in East Fell for the 13 years that we've been incorporated.

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It has fluctuated as terms of who becomes mayor and mayor pro-tem, we once had a mayor that served four years in a row, and we've had a traditional rotation ever since then.

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So there's nothing, no policy in place currently right now that says how the council should rotate the mayor and mayor pro-tem position.

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we don't have a policy, but in the informal nature of the rotation that we've been having,

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my understanding is it's a mix of factors that have included seniority, time on council.

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You know, the last time that somebody was in that position, am I missing anything?

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Those informally, those seem to have been practices that came into play during that process.

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Also times, the time that a council member was elected or came into office also sometimes comes into play informally.

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Again, nothing in policy.

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I guess I would have no problem, I think Mike would be great, Mr. McMinnon would be great as the Mayor Pro Tem.

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But I also, my understanding of our informal process is that the next in line,

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at least how we've been doing this rotation up to this point since we've been on this rotation,

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is that it would be council members' yow's turn to do this.

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So, in that we don't have a formal process, I'm looking for, as we move forward in the future,

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to avoid questions of this, that since we don't have a process, that we do adopt a process, as we move forward.

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Not to be adopted this evening, but maybe at a future meeting, if my colleagues agree,

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that we put something in place so that we're not, it's not a question that there aren't hurt feelings among colleagues up here on the

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diet so that we continue to have that solid working relationship for the betterment of the city. So, yeah, those are my comments.

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And just to comment off of that, I didn't know there was a process, I didn't know that

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there was a set rotation, I don't think we've ever had a set rotation, I would disagree

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that we would put a set rotation in place, I would disagree that we would put a policy

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in place. I said this, I think it was last year, the year before, this is came up, and the reason

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that I don't agree with the policy is, is because, and I did say this is the mayor

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pro-tim and I use this specific example. If I were the mayor pro-tim, for instance,

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if Christian was the mayor pro-tim, and he was already sitting in the mayor pro-tim's seat,

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he knew that he was going to be the mayor. What if he goes and he ticks off a bunch of people?

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Does that mean he's automatically because of our process at set in place that he's going to be the mayor next year?

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That's why I completely disagree with the set in stone process.

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I think it should be something that we do as we did tonight, we present and in my opinion

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part of it is making sure that we have, I mean, our representation, that it's, I don't

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thing. I mean with Mike, Mike Heson.

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Ben the mayor approach him. He hasn't been in that leadership position yet. So I would completely agree or disagree with setting a process in place. I don't think that that's the right thing to do.

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Well, what I would like to say, I don't mind a general practice. And I think that general practice could be fluctuated at times. If it was, if we were truly following an order, if I'm not mistaken, it would actually be the seat.

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Mike was in brand-in seat, was brand-in then Jocelyn, and then?

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Well, I mean, so we would be staying in that order if we were following that.

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But that's assuming that it is taking up the exact mantle of brand-in's position.

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In my mind, in terms of the process, it would be like any of the organizations

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If we change a delegate to that body, it's not that that delegate then moves right into a leadership position at that organization.

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They go back to the back of the line.

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That's how it works at the regional bodies.

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Well, yeah, we have a unique position here where we have five council members.

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Our terms are four years, it's not always going to work out equally.

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And I would have paused if we had a new council member and we put them in that new position.

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But by the time Mike has been here at least a year, it would be another year in the Pro Tem, he has to run this next year.

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In the event that you run, and we're not elected, and I'm sure if you run you will be elected, absolutely.

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The current members have all been in that position, so we'd have someone that had that experience to fill in.

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Jocelyn, you, Todd, and if I will be running and I will have that opportunity.

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So we'll have that experience.

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But I think one of the other additional things that we need to think about is when we have council,

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I think it provides an opportunity for learning and understanding the position how you can serve the city better.

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So I wouldn't want to miss a council member's opportunity to obtain that.

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So, I do like a loose, you know, somewhat loose, not completely formal, but, you know, a general guideline that we hope to follow, to make sure we're trying not to leave anybody out from that opportunity.

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No, I just want to add that having came from, I recently attended.

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I started, I tried to attend our neighboring cities, council meetings, you know, try to get to know what's happening.

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I had the privilege of attending the city of Norco's meeting and I should have checked the agenda.

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It was during their reorganization and I did not say we were the whole thing because it was such a nightmare.

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and I hope that never happens in the city,

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but I do think that we should have,

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not tonight, obviously.

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But in the future, I do think we should have

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some sort of general guidelines on how this works.

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Cause things could go very, very wrong.

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And that's how they end up on the press enterprise,

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but just something to consider.

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But I am in favor of that in the future, not tonight, but that's where I am.

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the point that you made about having, giving that person that opportunity that's exactly what I'm talking about,

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but formalizing it a little bit to make sure that everybody has an opportunity.

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So, because we're all elected as council members, we all know this.

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And then we learn, we grow, we understand processes, procedures.

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But given, and there's also the factor of if we have time, you know, it may be somebody's turn in rotation, rotation, but they don't have the time to be able to do it.

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And so, but having some sort of process in place to not have questions of what's, what's going to happen.

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And also, I agree with your point about, you know, there should be as part of that the leeway that if somebody is doing not great things that, no, we don't automatically become by any means, but it's something that I hope we can talk about a future meeting.

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But in that with the Brown Act the way

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It is, we're not able to talk about this outside of a formalized meeting, so I apologize to everybody, but because if we can't talk to more than one person outside of a agenda's meeting, but this is something that we feel we do need to talk to a future point. So thank you. And I think too that going back to your thing, if someone doesn't have the time, and this is a perfect opportunity, there's a perfect opportunity for them to have the time. And I would imagine that most of the time

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And I'll be completely honest, when someone nominates someone, I've talked to the person.

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I've talked to the person before, and I've gotten that okay to make sure that they're

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ready for that.

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If they, if that didn't happen before, they still have the time to, that's what this

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discussion's for.

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Mike could easily say, hey, timeout, I don't have the time, we could adjust that.

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I think we've done a good job over the last 13 years to be able to put this into place.

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and that I think our Council, like I said, when I gave my remarks just as on that previous item,

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our Council has done a good job over the last 13 years prior to us.

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I know Council Member Lormore has been here the longest, not quite 13 years, but I think

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that our Council has gotten along all 13 years of those for the most part, that it's somehow

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and how the rotation has worked.

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Councilman Riyadh.

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Thank you.

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I have no problem voting for this.

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My only concern, which is the same from two years ago,

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Mayor Rickley probably, well Councilmember Rickley probably

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remembers this, is that I am always a little bit hesitant

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to put someone who is running for reelection

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As the mayor, pro-tem, just in case, not to say that it will happen because, obviously, council member Rick Bees here, but just in case the election doesn't go as rich.

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So that's, I'm not, I'm not, if we can have a plan in place, I will be more than happy to entertain that.

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I will say and I'll be completely honest, this is the last thing I'm going to say on this

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item, to say that, that pissed me off when that happened, excuse my language, but that

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upset me that my colleagues don't have confidence in me, Mike, I have 110% confidence in you,

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you're doing a good job, you deserve this position, I'm not even going to doubt that you're

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going to be voted in, I'm not even going to bring that up, that's not my position to bring

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up, that's up to you and how hard that you're going to work, this next year and how hard you're

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going to work in your election. I'm not doubting any council member that is going to have the

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potential of not, I'm not even going to put that on there. When that was put on me, I

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appreciate that because that gave me motivation to go out and work my tail off to make sure

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that I got elected. But to come from a colleague to put that doubt in a colleague's mind, I'm

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sorry, but that's just, we should be working together better than that. So that's the last

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I'll jump and I think if I may, and you can correct me if I misspeak, but I think the concern

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is about Jocelyn's concern was about the well-being of the agency and not trying to take

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anything away from any of the council members here. Just in the event of, there's always that

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possibility. In this particular case, I think we're in good standing because we have so many of this

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already sat in that position. But the idea that it could potentially happen, what would we do if?

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I think is really what Jocelyn was trying to get Council Member Gialt was trying to get at.

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So, nothing personal, but just procedurally, that's all.

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But I think, I don't think we're coming down to a resolution tonight.

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Other than, we'll talk about it again.

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Is that correct, Fair enough?

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We have a motion on the floor and a second, and let's go ahead and

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if there's no further discussion, we'll go to vote.

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Please vote on your screens.

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Motion passes, five to zero.

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Congratulations to our new mayor, Kristen Dingo, and our mayor, Pro Tem, Mike McMinn.

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And at this time, we would like to take a few minutes and enjoy that.

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So we'll take a five to ten minute break, so congratulations.

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All right, I think we're ready.

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Thank you everyone for being so patient while we handled our business and took our photos.

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I appreciate your patience, everyone.

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I don't know if we have to go back on record for the time, but I'll do it anyway.

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It's 7 o'clock, resuming the meeting for Wednesday, December 13, 2023, for the Regular City Council meeting.

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So we are moving on. Where are we at? Mark, are we at? We are at 7.3. Already. We're up to 7.3. Yes, sir. All right. So we have city council regional appointments. It says see attachment. I didn't see the attachment. Do we have an attachment with the regional appointments? It's located on your surface tablets. Oh, okay. Let me follow on.

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If you'd like, Mr. Mayor, I can read off the list of potential appointments.

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We could do that, but I was bringing it up, but I got the staff report and not the appointment list, I'll bring that one up next.

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Yes, you have a.

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Okay, while we're waiting, I think I've got a, I know I've been serving on RCA for

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on and off for the past four years, if anyone is available on the first Monday of the

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month at noon and are passionate about it, feel free to take it because I will be completely

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honest with y'all. First Monday of the month at 12 p.m. has been pretty bad for my schedule,

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like I just, I wish I could be more involved in the committee and the, what do you call

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on them, RCA and RCA, but it's a little bit challenging

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for my schedule.

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So if anyone wants to take it, feel free to do so.

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Are you talking about the RCA?

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No, RCA, no, no, not RCA, no, no, yeah.

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We were able to find it under, okay.

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Well, I do know that you're a little bit concerned

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about making those appointments.

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Right now we have Todd as the alternate,

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Are you still comfortable being the alternate?

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So I have a commitment on Mondays at like 130.

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And I think that meetings at one or something like that are 12, something in Riverside.

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So I have a commitment at 130 on Mondays that makes it very difficult for me to get to that.

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I could be an alternate and I can go for potentially the first hour depending on how long those meetings.

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They typically aren't terribly long meetings,

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but I don't think I can take on the primary role of that.

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Can I add just real quick,

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they actually have been pretty long

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because of a lot of closed session items,

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a lot of purchasing stuff, land and stuff.

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So the meetings have been pretty long,

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which does not help the case.

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And in fact, there were times when I ran into it,

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mayor think go right after.

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don't know if I can make it to the county building any earlier.

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I will try my best to show up every month.

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Although you might have some time element, you've been a part of it.

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Yeah, I have been.

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For a long time.

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So I think that nobody's wanting to wrestle you for it.

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And I think we understand if you can't make some of them.

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Okay.

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Just want to set that expectation.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate it.

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For the,

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with respect to time rather than going over one, well, maybe I should go, I think

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the proper thing to do is to go over them all right now.

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We have Riverside Transit Agency with Jocelyn Yao as a delegate and Mike McMan is the alternate.

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I'm going to go through the whole list because I think I've already gone through the list.

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And I think we're most of the appointments would not change

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under this current status, I don't think we have anybody requesting to get off the commissions they were previously on, or join any they weren't on, there was only one correction that we had on the list, and that was for the, I'm trying to remember which commission it was, I think I was on it, and I was, it was one of the ad hoc appointments, which is the next item.

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So, if I could, we have this on the agenda. This is attached. I don't. Do we have

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anyone since the last time you've seen the list that you'd like to move from an existing

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position and show interest in another one? Yes.

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not that, but there's an error for RTME.

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It actually meets on the second Thursday of the month. I mean, it's the fourth Thursday of the month, not the second Thursday. We'll make that correction. Okay. I'll go ahead and do you know? Well, one, one thing I generally make these. In fact, I'm in line to be the president of this coming year of the vector control. But I've always wondered why we don't have an alternate in case something did come up that somebody

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could attend.

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Is this an agency-specific thing, or have we just not appointed an alternate?

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We've just never historically done it. I could double-check with the agency to see if they

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prohibit that. I haven't heard of that not being allowed. We just traditionally have never

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appointed an alternate. I think I've never missed a meeting.

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Right, right. It's just one of those

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things that it's like, well, I don't have, I don't even have an option to misimade another

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right? Okay, those are my comments. Thank you.

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I'd like to orally go through the list so we can have it on record for anybody who's listening

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at home. So if I could, we covered the Riverside Transit Agency currently Jocelyn Yao is a delegate

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Mike McMahon is the alternate. Any questions about that commission? Any changes? Requested.

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I'll move to the Western Riverside Council of Governments.

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I'm serving as the delegate, Mike McMinn, as the alternate, still very comfortable.

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I've been enjoying the W.R. Cog and I've been added to more committees, so as I get more involved, it becomes a lot more fun.

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So I'd like to continue with that.

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Western Riverside Council Correction, Western Riverside County, Regional Conservation Authority,

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Jocelyn Yao is the delegate, Todd Rigby is the alternate, any requested changes?

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We'll try our best.

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Okay, yeah, last call.

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Riverside County Transportation Commission, Clint Lormore is the delegate, Todd Rigby is the alternate.

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have Southern California Association of Governments, Council member Clint Lormore is a delegate and I am the alternate and we have Northwest Mosquito Vector and Control District.

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Clint, you're the delegate. Should we, would it be proper to appoint an alternate just in case?

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Yeah, I think it would be good because sometimes life happens and if we could get something on there that that would be good

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But like I said I haven't missed one for a number of years. So I shouldn't be an issue, but

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It's always good to

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Have a backup

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Do we have anyone interested and when do they might meet?

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So it's here, it's on the 3rd day of the month.

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That is correct.

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In person.

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In person.

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It's in Corona off of, okay.

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I can be the delegate.

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I was curious about the location, I was like, do I have to drive through Riverside again, but yeah.

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Taking care of mosquitoes is important, so.

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Yeah.

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Councilmember Jocelyn, yeah, as the alternate, I think that rounds out our list.

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could I get a motion to accept the proposed recommendations in a second, please?

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So we have a motion by Council Member Yao, second by Council Member Lormore.

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Please vote on your screens.

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Motion passes 5-0.

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Moving right on to item 7.4, City Council Committee appointments.

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I'd like to review the list in much the same way.

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After reviewing the list, I think most of us have been working on these committees for a period of time.

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Become comfortable and familiar with the people on the board.

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And it serves the city well to have people familiar with those groups.

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So I'm going to go through one by one, we'll start with the Eastvale Finance Committee.

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Currently we have council member Clint Lormore and Mayor Pro Tem Mike McMinn.

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Again, is the primaries with Todd Rigby as the alternate.

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Does that still work for everyone?

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The Eastville Schools Committee, we have primary-

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Members, with council member Todd Briggby, council member Jocelyn Yao, and the alternate mayor

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pro-ten Mike McMinn.

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Sounds like everybody's comfortable with that. We have the Eastville

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Community Services ad hoc committee. Right now, that is myself and council member Todd

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Briggby as the primaries and Jocelyn Yao as the alternate.

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We have Eastville legislative

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of ad hoc committee with both primaries Council member Clint Lawremore and Mayor

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We have the class and classification and compensation ad hoc committee.

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Both primaries Council member Jocelyn Yao and Mayor Pro-10 Mike McMinn.

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We have the business and development success ad hoc committee with both primaries Council member

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Todd Rigby and myself.

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We have the police substation, third-frighted station, ad hoc committee.

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Although this committee hasn't met of light, it still exists.

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And we did a considerable amount of work several months back, and it may come into play again.

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We have primaries, council member Todd Brighby and myself.

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I'm going to ask, City Clerk, Mark Donahoe, is that the last of the list?

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I'm having trouble looking for a page two.

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That's everything's on one page.

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Okay, because last time I closed that I closed the whole program, so I just want to make sure

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Could I get a motion and a second if all approves I

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have a motion by

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Councilmember. Yeah, seconded by councilmember Lormore

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Please vote on your screens motion

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passes fights zero. All

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right. There we go moving right along

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So we are to item eight, which is additions and revisions

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Mark Jonho, do we have any east fell staff members that have requested to add

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any items? No mayor. Do we have any my fellow council members that would like to end

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item tonight?

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Can we get a motion, a second and a vote?

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It's only needed if there's a... There's nothing in there. Sorry, Todd. I'm still practicing.

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I've got to get back into practice. Tonight was the night that I finally got it right. So it

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It took me that long, so you have some time.

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Okay, item nine is presentations and announcements.

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We have a presentation tonight.

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We have first 9.1 introduction of new city employees.

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Is that right?

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Mark, do you wanna take the lead?

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Absolutely, my pleasure.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Congratulations, congratulations, Mayor Pro Tem.

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It's an honor to be here tonight

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and it's always an honor and a privilege

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to introduce to you and the community are new employees.

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And tonight we're honored that two new members are here

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to allow me to introduce them.

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The first I'll introduce is Annette Kenoso,

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and Annette, good to see you.

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Come on up to the lectern if you want to

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and bringing that little one up if you can.

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And I'm going to tell you a little bit about Annette.

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Annette's excited to join the Eastville team

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and make an impact on the community

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that she has been a part of for the last 23 years.

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She loves being a public servant and has been in the public sector for 16 years where

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she had the privilege of serving in several departments such as economic development,

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redevelopment, city clerk, and engineering.

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She is the mother of three beautiful children, you see them there, and a handsome husband.

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And loves to take them to parks or ride bikes this time of year, especially to see the Christmas

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So I want to welcome her. She is new to our engineering department. We are truly blessed to welcome her and so a net welcome to the team.

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next up, Kevin Moore, step up to the plate.

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Alright, Kevin's in one of our CES department new team members. He's our CES technician and Kevin has spent the last seven years as a construction project manager

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an estimator in the fence installation industry, and currently he is enlisted as a staff

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Sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve. Thank you for your service. He serves as a transportation management coordinator there. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Southern New Hampshire University and currently is pursuing an online MBA from Western Kentucky University. He met his wife Rebecca in 2008 and while they were both working at Amber Crombury and Fitch. That's kind of cool. They have been married for six years now. They've got two kiddos, Sebastian who's

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five and Savannah, who's two. They have been Eastville residents since 2019 and outside

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of work, enjoyed quality family time, angel games, and staying active with work out, swimming

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and indulging in TV series marathons. Is that accurate? So we're really, really pleased

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to have two hometown employees here that want to be a part of this Eastville team. And so

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Kevin, welcome to the team, we're glad you're here, thank you.

415
00:41:04,270 --> 00:41:08,070
Well, if we could, we'd love to have a picture with our new team members.

416
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:07,620
Okay, moving to item 9.2, we have a Diwali Festival Volunteer Recognition.

417
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,560
So I'd like to invite Chetna Near, up to the podium.

418
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:21,520
You helped organize today, so I know you did a fantastic job, and on November 17th,

419
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:26,160
River Heights Intermediate School transformed into a tapestry of colors laughter and celebration

420
00:42:26,870 --> 00:42:28,900
as we commemorated the Diwali Festival.

421
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,980
This festival is known as a festival of lights.

422
00:42:34,220 --> 00:42:40,500
Resonates deeply with the values of inclusivity, hope, and the triumph of good over evil.

423
00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:47,180
This year's Diwali Festival was a spectacular gathering that echoed with the beats of culture,

424
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:48,680
friendship and togetherness.

425
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:55,760
It was graced by 26 live performances that over 400 guests from our community, making

426
00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:00,200
this celebration a true testament to the harmony that thrives within our city.

427
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,940
But this celebration wouldn't have been possible without the unwavering support and partnership

428
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:07,340
of Chetna Nayar.

429
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:12,620
Her dedication and collaborative efforts played an integral role in making this event a

430
00:43:12,620 --> 00:43:13,620
resounding success.

431
00:43:14,220 --> 00:43:20,880
This commitment to fostering cultural appreciation and understanding is commendable and greatly appreciated by all.

432
00:43:22,020 --> 00:43:31,460
Let us carry on the spirit of Diwali, the spirit of unity, and joy forward, as we continue to cherish and honor the mosaic of cultures that enrich our beloved city.

433
00:43:32,180 --> 00:43:36,180
Thank you and may the light of Diwali continue to shine brightly upon all of us.

434
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:37,000
Thank you.

435
00:43:37,660 --> 00:43:38,180
Which can't leave.

436
00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:43,580
We'd love to get a picture if we can.

437
00:44:44,450 --> 00:44:47,970
So she's running out the door, but Chetna-

438
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,320
She is, she is truly a rock star. It was mentioned about those musical performances. She's heavily involved in that. In fact, I think she choreographed all those dances and teaches the students to do them more than this. You know, I believe your Air Force Reserve. Army National Guard. So, and she's young and making things happen. And the, the,

439
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,660
and looking forward to seeing your future.

440
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:34,020
So, thank you.

441
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:51,680
Okay, we move on to 10.0, well 10.0 is Agency Partner Updates,

442
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,420
and 10 to our Eastville Library Update.

443
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,180
I'd like to invite Nina Taylor to the podium.

444
00:45:58,400 --> 00:45:59,260
Thank you for joining us now.

445
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:27,040
Ah, that works.

446
00:46:27,620 --> 00:46:30,260
Okay, good evening Mayor and Council Members.

447
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:31,560
I'll make this brief.

448
00:46:32,860 --> 00:46:34,020
For the month of November,

449
00:46:34,020 --> 00:46:38,660
Please, the library had a total of 4,703 visitors.

450
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:44,440
We had a total of 14 volunteers, Mandarin lessons.

451
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:49,000
We are continuing with Mandarin, we're actually finishing Mandarin lessons.

452
00:46:49,580 --> 00:46:53,420
We will start the six week period over again beginning January 8th.

453
00:46:53,420 --> 00:47:00,100
Patrons can and the community can sign up for those at the county libraries website

454
00:47:00,100 --> 00:47:00,860
under events.

455
00:47:01,940 --> 00:47:07,940
teen crafts are on hold until January due to the new hiring of 18 services

456
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:15,300
associate. Art of a different art medium yesterday was creating point set

457
00:47:15,300 --> 00:47:21,220
us with paper for the holidays. Weekly game nights we continue with our weekly

458
00:47:21,220 --> 00:47:27,780
game nights every Thursday but we and innocuous for families to play. Family

459
00:47:27,780 --> 00:47:32,520
Any story time is every Saturday at 11 a.m. This Saturday we'll be making gingerbreadman

460
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,800
ornaments, kids will be able to decorate them however.

461
00:47:37,220 --> 00:47:42,360
The Eastville Chess Club will be back on January 6th that everyone, all ages,

462
00:47:46,540 --> 00:47:47,220
do you have

463
00:47:47,220 --> 00:47:47,500
Eastville?

464
00:47:48,540 --> 00:47:54,320
December 1st was our first in-person meeting followed by a virtual meeting club meetups again

465
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,720
on the county library's website under events.

466
00:47:57,720 --> 00:48:06,380
and next month we'll be meeting on January 12th at 6 p.m. in the library to discuss killers of the Flower Moon by David Grand.

467
00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:18,220
Lastly, in January, we will begin a program. Team volunteers will dedicate an hour of time to registered youth, youth that are registered. Any questions?

468
00:48:22,780 --> 00:48:23,500
Equating up.

469
00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:28,700
All the way through. The school is actually doing finals now.

470
00:48:28,700 --> 00:48:28,920
Council.

471
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:39,320
Item 10.2 should be the Youth Council update. Youth Council advice, they don't

472
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:46,020
have any updates this month. We'll move on to 10.3, the YMCA update, and I'd like

473
00:48:46,020 --> 00:48:49,640
to invite Sam Ulbrich to the podium. Thank you for joining us.

474
00:48:50,140 --> 00:48:55,780
Absolutely. Thank you. As you said, my name is Sam Ulbrich with the East Vale YMCA unofficially.

475
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,720
But I've got to tell with me because I want to get in the mood for swim lessons. So we

476
00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:02,100
We are still continuing to do swim lessons.

477
00:49:02,340 --> 00:49:02,980
We are year round.

478
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,000
We had kids in the pool earlier this evening.

479
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,680
So while it's chilly out there, they're tougher than I am.

480
00:49:08,340 --> 00:49:09,660
We actually have an example here.

481
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,340
But to get you guys in the mood, we would like Luke Garza here to pass some towels out for

482
00:49:14,340 --> 00:49:14,980
you guys as well.

483
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:28,700
Move on to 10.3, the YMCA update, and I'd like to invite Sam Albrecht to the podium. Thank you for joining us. Absolutely. Thank you. As you said, my name is Sam Albrecht with the East Vale YMCA unofficially. But I've got to tell with me because I want to get in the mood for swim lessons. So we are still continuing to do swim lessons. We are year round. We had kids in the pool earlier this evening. So while it's chilly out there, they're tougher than I am. We actually have an example here.

484
00:50:28,700 --> 00:50:34,000
But to get you guys in the mood, we would like Luke Garza here to pass some towels out for you guys as well

485
00:50:36,530 --> 00:50:37,030
Thank you

486
00:50:38,750 --> 00:50:40,530
So lime C.A. is all about stories

487
00:50:40,530 --> 00:50:47,970
We like to tell stories and those impacts that we have the impacts that we feel and how better to do that than to invite one of our parents to come out

488
00:50:47,970 --> 00:50:50,830
So we have Erica Garza. We've invited out and she's

489
00:50:51,810 --> 00:50:55,110
Graciously decided to come in and speak with you briefly about her experience with the wife

490
00:50:55,110 --> 00:50:56,050
So I'm going to turn it over to her

491
00:50:56,050 --> 00:51:02,970
Hello, councilmembers and mayor, my name's Erica, I've been an easel resident for over 10 years now.

492
00:51:03,790 --> 00:51:09,930
And being part of the YMCA has been a big impact on children.

493
00:51:10,230 --> 00:51:13,570
They have been attending for over a year now, especially Luke.

494
00:51:13,930 --> 00:51:21,370
He's actually moved on to start doing splash ball now because of the program itself.

495
00:51:21,510 --> 00:51:24,950
He started all the way from stage one all the way to stage six and

496
00:51:24,950 --> 00:51:27,010
has actually been able to do that in a whole year.

497
00:51:28,290 --> 00:51:33,410
My youngest son as well, I have a six-year-old who's also part of the program, they have been able to offer.

498
00:51:34,070 --> 00:51:39,150
Just programs for every one of my kids, my kids, friends, and even myself.

499
00:51:39,290 --> 00:51:43,690
I have actually taken the plunge and have participated in the programs as well.

500
00:51:44,650 --> 00:51:48,750
And my little guy, his confidence has grown so much.

501
00:51:49,230 --> 00:51:53,130
And I believe just having the YMCA be part of our city and swimming.

502
00:51:53,130 --> 00:51:58,270
I mean, we don't really have a program like this in our city that offers these programs as well as like during the winter.

503
00:51:58,830 --> 00:52:04,610
My kids, they love going and they go every time, they're actually going to be part of their winter program that's coming up as well.

504
00:52:05,230 --> 00:52:13,870
And I think that it would really benefit us all in our community and part of the young kids as well who can volunteer for some of their other programs.

505
00:52:14,230 --> 00:52:22,470
They also participate in other basketball and soccer, but swimming has been a big impact for them.

506
00:52:24,310 --> 00:52:27,870
And this is Luke, and so you have any questions?

507
00:52:28,270 --> 00:52:28,450
Hello.

508
00:52:29,330 --> 00:52:29,930
Say hi.

509
00:52:30,170 --> 00:52:30,630
Hi, Luke.

510
00:52:31,530 --> 00:52:31,930
You like them?

511
00:52:32,290 --> 00:52:32,690
YMCA?

512
00:52:33,070 --> 00:52:33,170
Yes.

513
00:52:33,390 --> 00:52:34,250
All right, right on.

514
00:52:34,350 --> 00:52:34,930
That's awesome.

515
00:52:35,510 --> 00:52:37,510
Thank you so much, Erica, for coming in.

516
00:52:37,670 --> 00:52:39,030
I appreciate your testimony.

517
00:52:39,370 --> 00:52:39,950
It means a lot.

518
00:52:41,900 --> 00:52:42,040
All right.

519
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:42,420
Thank you.

520
00:52:42,780 --> 00:52:47,880
I also just wanted to share my appreciation for last month, I believe we were funded for a diabetes

521
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,760
prevention program that will be able to put on here in Eastail.

522
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:55,640
That is a program we're currently doing at the moment in Corona, that's actually meeting

523
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:56,400
this evening as well.

524
00:52:57,180 --> 00:53:00,080
So I'm taking point on running that program, so I'm really looking forward to bringing

525
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,620
that program here to Eastvale, as well as ways to partner with you guys in the future and

526
00:53:04,620 --> 00:53:09,460
hurt it from yourselves, swim, come in the Eastvale, so thank you all.

527
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,360
Thank you so much for the report.

528
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:18,540
I appreciate your time coming out and continuing to educate everyone about the YMCA and all the

529
00:53:18,540 --> 00:53:22,400
offerings that you have. It means a lot to the communities. Thank you so much.

530
00:53:33,050 --> 00:53:38,950
So Luke, I'm hearing that we heard about your experience with swimming. That is so awesome.

531
00:53:39,730 --> 00:53:46,850
I did the same thing when I was your age and I can, you know, either you're really tall

532
00:53:46,850 --> 00:53:52,830
or it might have been a little bit younger than you but it was a great experience and it

533
00:53:52,830 --> 00:54:14,910
It ended up rolling over into organized team sports, and I'm really happy that your mother has taken advantage of this program and introduced you to swimming because we also there are children that haven't been as lucky that haven't learned how to swim who've had problems.

534
00:54:14,910 --> 00:54:25,270
So, I'm happy that you're taking full advantage of it, and there's a lot to swimming, and I hope you do choose that path.

535
00:54:25,470 --> 00:54:26,830
It'll be good for you.

536
00:54:27,790 --> 00:54:28,090
Thank you.

537
00:54:31,220 --> 00:54:32,300
Thank you for coming in.

538
00:54:34,810 --> 00:54:37,950
We're going to move on to item 11, public comments.

539
00:54:40,150 --> 00:54:47,290
So, if you have not submitted a public comment, but you would like to, we have public comment cards completed in the back.

540
00:54:47,790 --> 00:54:52,810
If you'd like to fill one out and you haven't done so already, please bring it to our city clerk.

541
00:54:53,650 --> 00:54:59,810
Do we have any public comments? Yes, Mayor. We have three common cards actually sorry two common cards

542
00:55:15,220 --> 00:55:37,800
First of all, I'd like to wish everyone a premature, happy holidays. It's a great season, a very, great holiday. Great season for deadens, great season for staying inside, also a great season for volunteering. So, I'll be updating on what Eastville Convoys has been doing in the month of December in order to serve the city of Eastville. During December 9th, we've had our monthly street cleanup, which we cleaned up. I want to say 2.5 miles

543
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:45,340
We managed to get a lot of different organizations in Liza in order to do this monthly cleanup, including support from JCSD.

544
00:55:45,620 --> 00:55:48,760
We're still grateful for JCSD's help on our monthly street clips.

545
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:54,400
We've also had support from Remirs ASB and Club from El Norris of Ohio School.

546
00:55:55,240 --> 00:56:01,540
We normally do monthly street clips, but this never turned out was particularly large.

547
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,200
We've had, I want to say, a hundred people?

548
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:10,240
100 people? We've had a hundred people show up on a Saturday to clean up the streets of

549
00:56:10,240 --> 00:56:14,340
Eastville, which is really impressive because I did not want to get up on Saturday, absolutely

550
00:56:14,340 --> 00:56:19,380
not. But, you know, it's really impressive that a lot of people, 100 people want to wake

551
00:56:19,380 --> 00:56:24,560
up so early and clean up 2.5 miles of Eastville roadway. And we've formed miscellaneous duties

552
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,580
for JCSD. We helped them to set up. We helped them to tear down. And it was a really fun event

553
00:56:28,580 --> 00:56:34,080
overall. Any winter events by JCSD is a really fun event to go to. I would really recommend

554
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:40,060
going. And for the rest of the month of December, we have a couple of events. We have the

555
00:56:40,060 --> 00:56:45,460
Randall School Holiday event on December 15th this Saturday, actually. And Eastville-Kawas will be

556
00:56:45,460 --> 00:56:50,760
there again. We'll have a booth. We'll be supporting Randall Elementary with their event and helping

557
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:56,100
them clean up, set up, tear down the event. And yeah, we just hope to have a great time. And

558
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:03,580
we, Eastville-Kawas will also be at the JCC Partners Meeting on November 30th. And the miracle on

559
00:57:03,580 --> 00:57:11,240
on Christmas Street or the Miracle, the Christmas Miracle by the city on, I think it's a Riverview park, it's for the event.

560
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:18,140
This first time has been a host of the host at Citrus Street, but really, I hope it's for a Riverview, and that's it.

561
00:57:18,580 --> 00:57:21,680
Happy Holidays to everyone, and I wish you a wonderful holiday with families.

562
00:57:22,020 --> 00:57:22,260
Thank you.

563
00:57:23,620 --> 00:57:24,560
Great, thank you, here.

564
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:28,980
Next comment cards from Christian Stairman?

565
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:29,900
Stairman?

566
00:57:29,940 --> 00:57:30,360
Stairman.

567
00:57:43,180 --> 00:57:44,100
Good evening, Council.

568
00:57:44,380 --> 00:57:45,380
Mayor Proton.

569
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:49,640
My name is Christian Stairman, and I have been a resident of the City of Eastfield for

570
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:50,660
about 16 years.

571
00:57:51,220 --> 00:57:58,180
My husband has been a resident for 20 years, and an original owner of the Heartland community.

572
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:05,340
So I'm here today because we received a code violation on December 5th, and I did email

573
00:58:05,340 --> 00:58:10,240
my council member, Lauren Moore. I hope you got that. I didn't receive a response, but I would

574
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:16,200
like to request that the council consider a known text amendment related to keeping the chickens.

575
00:58:16,940 --> 00:58:22,660
It looks like the code section is a carryover from the Riverside County ordinance number 348.

576
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:28,400
And now that Eastvale is a well-established city and has its own council, it's time to revisit

577
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:35,040
this code while honoring just the legacy of the agriculture here in Eastvale and in our community.

578
00:58:35,340 --> 00:58:42,200
So my request is that the council reduce the requirement for the minimum lot size from

579
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:48,660
7,200 square feet to 6,000 square feet, especially since there's such a variance in lot

580
00:58:48,660 --> 00:58:51,340
size and the equitability with new places.

581
00:58:52,580 --> 00:58:53,240
New development.

582
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,860
And you'll see the pictures that I submitted there.

583
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:57,760
So that is my son, Sawyer.

584
00:58:58,060 --> 00:58:59,140
He is nine years old.

585
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:02,700
And he has raised these chickens from the time that they were babies.

586
00:59:02,700 --> 00:59:08,080
just the ownership, the cleaning, we homeschool soil, so we've added it to our

587
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:12,980
curriculum, just the idea of agripting ability, the start of business, he's been

588
00:59:12,980 --> 00:59:18,200
able to sell the eggs to family and friends for the feed and betting. And in our

589
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:21,860
house, these are not just chickens, these are family members, these ladies, they

590
00:59:21,860 --> 00:59:27,000
have names, Roxie, Doddy and Chickadee in our family. I work in local government

591
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:31,640
myself, and so I do understand how this works, and so I want to be very clear

592
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:38,760
and what I'm asking for, so I'm asking that the council sets the zone tax amendment to be added

593
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:45,240
to a future council meeting at UP. Also, I will need an extension on the code violation due to the

594
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:46,460
The holiday is in the timely.

595
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,820
That the council sets the zone text amendment to be added to a future council meeting, agenda for discussion and review. And I want to know the justification on that 7200 square feet, where it came from, where is that just an arbitrary number? Can I apply for a variance of some kind or a CUP? Also, I will need an extension on the code violation due to the holidays and the timely matter of this. I'm asking for staff to follow up and council regarding all of these

596
01:00:29,820 --> 01:00:36,640
request. And just as a reminder, the buck does not stop here tonight. This is important to me,

597
01:00:36,780 --> 01:00:40,500
this is important to our family, and I would argue important to our community as well.

598
01:00:41,460 --> 01:00:45,580
And we need to make this right, and I'm willing to fight to make that happen.

599
01:00:47,100 --> 01:00:47,680
That's it.

600
01:00:49,900 --> 01:00:50,700
Thank you, Kristen.

601
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:53,260
Thank you. No additional public comment.

602
01:00:57,220 --> 01:01:04,180
Ms. Starman, thank you for comments and just so you know, and we can confer.

603
01:01:04,180 --> 01:01:14,540
I called you back on the number that was in Oh, I did not get that I did not get it. Okay. All right. Thank you. I was being I appreciate that. Thank you, but

604
01:01:14,540 --> 01:01:18,020
I appreciate you're bringing this forward tonight. Okay. Thank you so much.

605
01:01:23,510 --> 01:01:26,470
And that's it for the public comments. Is that correct? Yes, ma'am.

606
01:01:26,850 --> 01:01:32,590
We'll move on to the consent calendar. All matters on the consent calendar are considered routine.

607
01:01:33,270 --> 01:01:38,930
And are to be approved with one motion unless a council member, staff member or member of the public request separate

608
01:01:38,930 --> 01:01:41,270
action on a specific item.

609
01:01:43,910 --> 01:01:48,130
Mark, is anybody requested, a member of the public requested to pull an item?

610
01:01:49,010 --> 01:01:57,690
No, Mayor. Just on staff on item 12.14, I just want to note that recommended action item number two is not needed.

611
01:01:57,910 --> 01:01:59,570
So we're removing that from the recommended action.

612
01:02:09,250 --> 01:02:14,350
Okay, do any of my fellow council members would like to pull an item? We have a lot of items on the list.

613
01:02:14,350 --> 01:02:15,110
I'm

614
01:02:19,820 --> 01:02:21,540
going to double check this for a moment.

615
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,840
Okay, with no request to pull any additional items,

616
01:02:48,020 --> 01:02:59,980
I've got to get a motion and a second to approve 12.1 through 12.19 with the removal of item 2 and 12.14.

617
01:03:05,510 --> 01:03:05,970
Here's screens,

618
01:03:09,790 --> 01:03:10,990
motion passes 5 to 0.

619
01:03:23,630 --> 01:03:25,910
This will conclude the end of the consent calendar.

620
01:03:25,910 --> 01:03:41,730
Now we'll go into our public hearing section of our meeting with under section 13, 13.1, which is on the Senate Bill 1186 Medical Cannabis Retailers Delivery Ones.

621
01:03:41,750 --> 01:03:43,850
Mayor, our city planner will make the presentation.

622
01:03:46,590 --> 01:03:50,290
Good evening, Mayor City Council, Dave Murray, your city planner.

623
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The item before you this evening is Senate Bill 1186.

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Just a little bit of background, Senate Bill 1186 was signed by a Governor Newsom back in September of 2022 and goes into effect January 1st of 2024, so coming up.

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It essentially prohibits local jurisdictions from prohibiting retail medicinal cannabis sales by delivery only.

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It's strictly limited to cannabis delivery for medicinal uses only, not recreational. As you're well aware, I'm sure you spell currently prohibits all commercial cannabis activities and cultivation from locating in the city. Senate bill 1186 under that bill, the city cannot adopt any regulation that has the effect of prohibiting patients within the city or their caregivers from purchasing by delivery medicinal cannabis.

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Some of those limitations that we cannot address are the limiting the number of businesses authorized to deliver medicinal cannabis in the city, limiting the hours of operation of those beyond what the state law allows for, and limiting the number of or frequency of medicinal cannabis sales by delivery within the city, limiting the types or quantities of medicinal cannabis or establishing physical premises.

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in the city.

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However, the state law does not prohibit the prevent the city or jurisdictions

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from adopting or enforcing reasonable regulations on delivery only of medicinal cannabis.

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That includes placing zoning requirements, security, public health, and safety requirements,

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licensing requirements on the businesses, or imposing or collecting applicable taxes on

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retail sales of medicinal cannabis.

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And so in one thing I do want to mention too is going back to the slide is the risk of

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not taking any action on the state law and just letting it lie is that the regulation then

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falls back on the state and the state regulations are not specific enough to limit where those

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businesses could be. So in effect if we do nothing and a business wants to come in they

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could be located in any commercial or industrial zone and place there. So staffs work closely

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with the city attorney's office to come up with what we feel is a reasonable approach

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to amending the code to allow for these with some limitations.

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Conversely we can't be overly

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restrictive in such a way to effectively prohibit the use.

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So in looking at that, staff has identified that the most appropriate areas to allow

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these with limited impact would be in our industrial park and our manufacturing service commercial

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zones with a conditional use permit.

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And additionally, we would also propose a prohibition of these types of businesses where a property

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may be one of those in one of those zones but within a thousand feet of residential area.

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And so the map you see on your screen now in the middle is sort of identifying where

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those two potential areas in the city would be.

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The one on the left hand side of the screen is the Limonite Archibald area near the merge

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and you can see the area labeled as IP is sort of the light blue color.

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but within that area outlined in red and sort of shaded in pink, turning the blue to purple is that 1,000 foot buffer from residential.

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And so essentially in that area, those businesses would be limited to only those that are blue.

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The other area that's identified with those two zones is sort of in our finger area,

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north of Belgrave, and that's where we have other IP, that's the blue shaded areas,

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and the MSC, which is the lighter gray area that you see on your screen.

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As you know, much of that area's larger warehouse space, probably not likely that there's many

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smaller sites that could accommodate a medicinal cannabis delivery only business, and those

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areas, but nevertheless they would be allowed in those areas if there's space.

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So to accommodate those changes, there's some text changes that would be required in

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the municipal code.

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The first is to amend section 120.03.03, table 3.3-1, which is our use matrix for commercial

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business park and industrial and special purposes zone and that's to first of

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all eliminate the line item for medicinal marijuana dispensaries which now

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says it's prohibited and replace that with medicinal cannabis retailers

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delivery only in the IP and MSC zones and industrial park and manufacturing

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special commercial.

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And referring to section 120.04.150, which details some operational restrictions on those types of businesses.

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Some other

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text amendments include allowing, specifically in the text, allowing the medicinal cannabis retailers delivery only with the

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establishing some operational standards that are related to odor control, air filtration, exhaust systems,

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security and video surveillance systems, alarm systems, and other physical security operations.

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Now the state already regulates a lot of that for these types of businesses when they get their state license.

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But we do have additional language attached to your staff report that addresses those specifically for the city.

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Additionally, we're recommending removing the definition for medical marijuana dispensary

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from the municipal code.

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That is old terminology that's been replaced by medicinal cannabis retailers.

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So that already exists, and so we're just recommending eliminating the outdated definition.

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So as I said, I think there's a limited opportunity for these or a limited risk of these opportunities

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having negative impacts on the city.

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Staff has done our best to try to come up with reasonable regulations without being overly restrictive and in violation of state law.

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Again, this is only for medicinal cannabis deliveries.

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There would be no storefronts permitted.

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No customers going to a business.

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It would essentially function as sort of a distribution center with deliveries, no storefront.

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And with that staff would recommend City Council introduce and read by title and wave further reading of an ordinance amending sections 120.03.03.005.150 and 06.010 of these failed municipal code, and I'm happy to answer any questions you have.

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I do have a couple of questions on slide four, there is a section that talks about imposing or collecting applicable state or local taxes on retail sales of medicinal cannabis.

688
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Does that just fall under our standard sales tax, or is there an additional tax?

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If it would fall under our regular sales tax, I may have to turn to the city attorney on that because I think there's limitations on medicinal cannabis specifically on what taxes we can collect.

690
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Yes, so the city does not have a cannabis tax on the books, so the only taxes that get collected on medicinal sales is the state level excise tax on cannabis.

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medicinal cannabis cells are exempt from the sales tax, but there is a separate cannabis

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excise tax that gets charged on all cannabis sales medical and adult use.

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So if we were to impose a cannabis tax, it would still be exempt from that then?

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No, because the local taxes may backtrack.

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If the city were to adopt a general sales tax measure, then your medicinal cannabis would

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be exempt from that kind of tax.

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But there's also the ability to adopt a cannabis-specific tax, and that can be applied to

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medicinal cannabis cells.

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Interesting.

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That's something I think would just be something for us to consider down the road.

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I don't think it's something that we need to look at now, but I think it's something just

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to consider to be reminded of.

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One other question.

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I'm sorry.

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I was going to say if I'm not mistaken, I believe that would require a ballot measure.

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So that's, yeah, something that would take some time, but that's something staff can certainly look at.

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And I really appreciate how staff has looked at this and his designated specific areas that would be minimal impact to the community.

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With that being said, a question on the area that is the northwest part that you're proposing.

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So that would mean that I'm just going to call it the Walmart land and the sprouts be able to have

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of these dispens- or these- what are going to call them- retellers or delivery places.

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Because they aren't storefronts.

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Yeah, so-

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Distributions.

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Yeah.

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Right, so the merge shopping centers within that red buffer area from residential so that they're within that thousand feet

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so they would not see that potential for one of-

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There's a lot of these businesses operating there. And again, it's not likely that one of these, you know, the demand is really in just recreational retail sales storefronts. That's where the business of one operate, that's the sector. This is very limited. They can't have a storefront, you know, it's really just a distribution facility. So the likelihood that they would pay commercial rates without a storefront is unlikely. But yeah, in the scenario, they can't in the emergency anyway.

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Thank you one last question that I have is in regards to I'm not a fan of this I'm not a fan of having this in the city

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I'm not a fan of approving this and I know you mentioned this in your presentation

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But just for the public's information information can you please reiterate what happens if we were not to approve this?

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Sure if we were not to approve this

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It would fall back on the state to regulate that the state doesn't regulate zoning and so state authorizes these businesses to go

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where other businesses can be located and so there, in that scenario, they could go in the merge or another, you know, the shopping center we're in now that could be a potential.

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Any commercial or industrial area could have one of these businesses or many of these businesses go and potentially because there's also no limitation by the state on how many or separation from other sensitive uses.

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So if we don't vote for this, if we don't put this in place, then we could have these

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throughout our city wherever we want, which I'm even more in not a favor of.

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So that's why the reason that I'll be voting in favor of this.

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I know it sounds confusing, but I'm not in favor of the overall thought, but I unfortunately

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will be voting for this.

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Quick.

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Thank you.

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Mr. Mayor.

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Thank you for the presentation.

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So clarification on this color coding up here, can you say it again?

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Yes.

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I might have missed it.

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What was the color coding?

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Sure.

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So if you're looking at the map on the left side, that's the Archibald Limonite Intersection

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near the merge, you'll see the areas labeled as IP, they're shaded blue, but a portion of

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are under a pink hue, so they look purple, and that pink hue is the thousand-foot buffer

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from the residential, and it has the bold red outline, that's the no-go zone.

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And the dark red that you see there is the commercial areas, which it wouldn't be permitted

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in those areas anyway, under the scenario.

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So really, in that map, it's only the area you see is blue on the map.

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In the other map, there's no residential that would impact those properties on the haminer area, so there would be no distance separation from residential.

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So anything you see that's shaded blue or the very light gray at the southern end, those would be the areas where these would potentially be available.

748
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Perfect. Very helpful. Appreciate that. So, by amending this zoning, it doesn't guarantee

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or that we'll get these types of businesses, but it is giving an area in case they're

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work-takers.

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Right.

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Right.

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Yeah. And we did look at, you know, possibly only living to the MSC zone. That would only

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be that one light gray area. That's just raises concern where it's too restrictive then

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And then we run a follow-all of the state in the nature of the law.

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And so that was on advice of the City Attorney's Office to also include the IP zone.

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Thank you.

758
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So I'm going to, it's not directed at you.

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This is absolutely ridiculous.

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The state continues to infringe upon local land use control, which is the purview of cities.

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The fact that we have to go on defense and create this zoning in order to do

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do what we know our residents want.

763
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Well, anyway, I'm not going to say the words I'm thinking, so thank you, sir.

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Appreciate it.

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Councilmember Mayor Pro Tem, McMinnon.

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Great presentation, sorry about this question, I don't expect you to answer it, so.

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But with us not being able to do retail, is there a caveat or in language that the state

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did for homeless, getting something delivered, do we have to provide a space for

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them to deliver for them, especially if it's medical and they have a prescription?

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I can just answer the, so delivery, there's restrictions on where delivery business can

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actually deliver to.

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It has to be to like a physical address, it has to be like a street number in a street.

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they can't deliver to a public park.

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Or a street corner or anything like that. So a homeless individual, if they found someone, you know, willing to let them have their their product delivered there, that that would have to be how it's done, where they could go to a storefront in a different jurisdiction. As one to make sure that the city is not going to be responsible for having a window in a federal building to drop off and pick up for them or something.

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I have an additional question. This would be for delivery only.

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Does that mean they would be prohibited from taking a point of sale inside the location?

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That person going home and then having the delivery come to them?

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I mean, is there any prohibition against a point of sale at the location?

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Or is it only some type of other online or telephonic ordering system?

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Yeah, there is restrictions at the state level.

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the state license doesn't allow any in-person visits, it would only be authorized staff members.

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And the state regulates all of the product control and the seed to sale, tracking, and all of that.

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And how they operate, you know, keeping a secure area for all of the merchandise and the cash handling and all of that.

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That's all regulated state level.

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So along with this recommendation, there were certain additions that we wanted to include in the zone.

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One of the things was security cameras and video surveillance.

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Does that include security cameras and video surveillance on the interior and exterior, or just one or the other, do we know?

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01:21:49,750 --> 01:21:53,110
It's both, state and state regulations also require both.

789
01:21:55,290 --> 01:21:55,950
Thank you.

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Council Member Rigby.

791
01:22:01,700 --> 01:22:03,540
Sorry, one more question.

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In regards to the air filtration system, I know that that's regulated also by the state,

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correct?

794
01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:16,720
Is there any way that we can put any kind of stricter guidelines to that because unfortunately

795
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first-hand experience, the state regulations are not always the strongest with the air filtration,

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my office, for my profession.

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01:22:30,380 --> 01:22:34,660
We unfortunately had someone literally right next door to us that had the quote-unquote air

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filtration, but it was still very bad for us right next door.

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So that's my concern is if you have co-tenants in a building, granted a lot of our buildings

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are newer and have a lot better filtration systems than the building that my office is in,

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but still I just want to make sure that our tenants are protected that don't really have

802
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a choice sometimes to be located right next door to these.

803
01:22:55,780 --> 01:23:04,940
Yeah, the language that's proposed in your attachment to on page 2, there's pretty lengthy

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description of what the odor control measures would be and one of them is essentially an

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exhaust air filtration system with odor control that prevents internal odors from being

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emitted externally and having negative air pressure so that other businesses are not affected

807
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in that way. But I think, again, the state does regulate it more specifically with, I think,

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very specific requirements for what that filtration system includes or meets certain regulations

809
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or something. But if you feel that the language that we pose needs, you know, beefing up, we're

810
01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:50,320
happy to take that. I think I'll leave it up to staff. I mean, but I think that just as we're aware of

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not only the users, but also the co-tenants in these buildings that are affected again.

812
01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:59,720
By no choice of theirs all of a sudden in a landlord could say yes, I'm going to put

813
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someone right next to you, and then now a tenant that has a two, three, and sometimes

814
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in these buildings have five, ten-year lease, they could be stuck with this.

815
01:24:11,530 --> 01:24:13,850
If I may, Mayor, I can just clarify that a little bit.

816
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The language in the proposed ordinance is not a duplicate of the state regulations.

817
01:24:18,770 --> 01:24:25,010
It's language that I took from another city that I work with that has allowed cannabis

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businesses for a number of years now and was experiencing older issues and worked through

819
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and did research on technology to help them address the older issues and then develop

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01:24:36,590 --> 01:24:39,930
language that they did in a code of amendment and so then because of all that legwork that

821
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I had helped them with, I took that language and I put it in the ordinance.

822
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Thanks.

823
01:24:44,510 --> 01:24:45,170
Thank you.

824
01:24:46,690 --> 01:24:47,790
Any other questions?

825
01:24:52,280 --> 01:24:54,060
With that, thank you, David.

826
01:24:54,260 --> 01:24:55,160
Thank you for the presentation.

827
01:24:55,900 --> 01:24:57,580
We'd like to open up the public hearing.

828
01:24:58,420 --> 01:24:59,760
Mark, is anyone submitted?

829
01:24:59,760 --> 01:24:59,820
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

830
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How did a public comment? No, Mayor.

831
01:25:04,530 --> 01:25:31,210
So we'll close the public hearing and turn to the council for discussion. Would anybody like to lead off? I'll just reiterate kind of what council member Loram was saying that this is just ridiculous, that this is just the state taking over local control, enforcing us in council member, Mayor Potomac, and I were just kind of discussing that we have to pick the lesser of the evil. I mean, there are both things that we don't want.

832
01:25:31,210 --> 01:25:35,010
But we've just got to protect our city as best as we can, and that's what I feel that we're going to do tonight.

833
01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:41,520
Council Member Lormar.

834
01:25:41,900 --> 01:25:42,640
Thank you.

835
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:46,400
Ms. Vega, thank you for putting this language together.

836
01:25:47,380 --> 01:25:54,940
It does help us in picking as described the lesser of two evils.

837
01:25:55,060 --> 01:26:05,060
But I think this was done in such a way that it does meet what the state wants and also meets what we know our residents want.

838
01:26:05,060 --> 01:26:07,280
And so, thank you, appreciate it.

839
01:26:15,670 --> 01:26:21,990
I have a few comments, no way directed at the presentation, because it was a great presentation.

840
01:26:22,570 --> 01:26:29,630
But I'd like to make a few comments about this status and this imposition that our city and

841
01:26:29,630 --> 01:26:34,370
our residents and our businesses are being put in by virtue of the state.

842
01:26:35,550 --> 01:26:42,930
I'd just like it to be on record that in all counts, I oppose the idea of bringing any type of cannabis related

843
01:26:42,930 --> 01:26:44,550
businesses to the city of Eastville.

844
01:26:44,790 --> 01:26:45,670
I don't think it's a good fit.

845
01:26:46,610 --> 01:26:49,750
I don't like the delivery companies.

846
01:26:50,050 --> 01:26:53,070
I certainly don't like any kind of point of sale or

847
01:26:53,730 --> 01:26:55,750
cannabis dispensaries in the city.

848
01:26:56,590 --> 01:26:58,210
And I don't think it's good for the community.

849
01:26:59,430 --> 01:27:05,250
One of the things that I've seen throughout the nation is over the last 20,

850
01:27:05,270 --> 01:27:10,530
maybe 30 years after the first medicinal marijuana laws were passed on the state of California.

851
01:27:11,350 --> 01:27:17,370
We've seen a loosening of the penalties to the point of some in some cases decriminalization altogether.

852
01:27:17,890 --> 01:27:23,010
I am not an advocate in any way for long term incarceration at all.

853
01:27:23,230 --> 01:27:26,050
And I think those who are truly in need, truly in need,

854
01:27:26,510 --> 01:27:29,430
a medicinal marijuana should have it to help them with their flexion.

855
01:27:29,490 --> 01:27:34,530
But unfortunately, one of the things that we've seen are prescriptions for

856
01:27:34,530 --> 01:27:40,530
are people who are maybe not necessarily as much in need as they would have you believe.

857
01:27:40,850 --> 01:27:44,710
And I think one of the things that we've seen is an increase in the state of California

858
01:27:44,710 --> 01:27:51,910
and some other states, close by us, both on East Coast and West Coast, where this marijuana

859
01:27:51,910 --> 01:27:57,890
has a very negative detrimental effect on the public.

860
01:27:58,510 --> 01:28:03,430
Long-term use can cause a lot of physical damage.

861
01:28:03,430 --> 01:28:10,130
and I think it's no coincidence that we've seen increase in homelessness and increase

862
01:28:10,130 --> 01:28:13,610
and people having difficulty maintaining their jobs.

863
01:28:14,550 --> 01:28:21,590
I think the areas that have the greatest freedom for drug use and drug access

864
01:28:21,590 --> 01:28:28,370
are some of the areas of the biggest problems with homelessness and crime and that concerns me.

865
01:28:28,370 --> 01:28:34,430
Now, that being said, it doesn't mean, again, I'm not desiring of long-term incarceration,

866
01:28:34,730 --> 01:28:38,950
but having something as a deterrent to help people toward recovery.

867
01:28:39,710 --> 01:28:45,930
I mean seeing people who are afflicted through drug use, whether it be marijuana, methamphetamine,

868
01:28:46,890 --> 01:28:52,790
crack, heroin is really hard to get over, and people need help.

869
01:28:53,750 --> 01:28:57,610
And there was a period of time when I worked in custody, an orange kind of jail system,

870
01:28:57,610 --> 01:29:03,970
And I'd see certain inmates come back through the system and some of them were actually, they would see me, they welcomed me and say,

871
01:29:04,790 --> 01:29:12,850
Deputy Dinko, I'm back, he's time, I needed cleaning up, I needed help to get off, and they welcomed the time to get clean because they knew they needed to help.

872
01:29:13,630 --> 01:29:22,170
I think increasing the access for cannabis to the public in general is a bad move, and I think we've been seeing that.

873
01:29:22,450 --> 01:29:26,550
But finding a way to turn back that tide.

874
01:29:26,550 --> 01:29:34,810
turn back the votes, turn back public perception, and let people understand, in my view, how detrimental this can be to communities.

875
01:29:35,970 --> 01:29:41,450
Certainly, we don't want our truck drivers and a depreciated state.

876
01:29:41,990 --> 01:29:49,710
We don't want our doctors, we still want our children to become those things that provide valuable safety services in our community.

877
01:29:50,010 --> 01:29:55,290
And it makes it really difficult when we increase the access to these types of drugs.

878
01:29:55,290 --> 01:29:59,970
and I know this is one drug, it's not all of them, but I'm speaking in terms of

879
01:30:01,500 --> 01:30:29,760
So, on all counts, I disagree with this, and I feel like I really wanted to put it on record, so please, I appreciate everyone bearing with me while I go through my narrative. I would like to say no. When I saw this, I said no before I even read it. But understanding the position that we're in and accepting the updated ordinance only gives us greater control of how it's regulated in the city.

880
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:34,360
And I believe this is the most restrictive that we could reach and fairness without getting

881
01:30:35,260 --> 01:30:41,700
challenge in a negative way. We certainly don't want it in close proximity to schools or

882
01:30:41,700 --> 01:30:44,660
residential neighborhoods or in just any

883
01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:52,440
retail development that we have in the city. So I think the staff's recommendations

884
01:30:52,440 --> 01:30:59,320
proposing these restrictions, having some control on how this regulation rolls out in our city,

885
01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:08,320
is the best that we are truly able to do to protect our residents and protect what we think is best for the city.

886
01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:14,120
So I appreciate you bearing with me, and I wanted to make that comment before we present this to vote.

887
01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:24,020
I was just asked how I felt about it, but not loving it, not loving it if I didn't make that clear.

888
01:31:24,380 --> 01:31:30,280
But that being said, do we have any other comments or conversation that we want to move forward on this?

889
01:31:32,340 --> 01:31:36,680
I think we have a motion and a second.

890
01:31:38,810 --> 01:31:42,730
We have a motion by Council Member Yao, second by Mayor Pro Tem, McMan.

891
01:31:43,990 --> 01:31:44,850
Please vote on your screens.

892
01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:50,300
Motion passes 5-0.

893
01:32:08,250 --> 01:32:09,350
Oh, sorry, Mr. Mayor.

894
01:32:09,750 --> 01:32:13,870
Just for a point of reference, I'm going to read the ordinance title before we move on to the next item.

895
01:32:14,310 --> 01:32:14,570
This, please.

896
01:32:14,770 --> 01:32:17,090
An ordinance of the City Council, the City of Eastville, California.

897
01:32:17,090 --> 01:32:38,470
Amedium sections 120.03.0120.04.150 and 120.06.010 of the eSFEL municipal code to allow delivery only medical cannabis retailers to locate within the city as recorded by SB 1186.

898
01:32:41,060 --> 01:32:41,440
Thank you, Mark.

899
01:32:42,380 --> 01:32:46,740
Under 14.1 we have independent zip code advocacy.

900
01:32:47,840 --> 01:32:55,020
It's the United States Postal Services 92880 Municipality Designation Change Survey

901
01:32:55,020 --> 01:33:01,420
Updates, and this is by our Economic Development Manager, Alexander Phon.

902
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:02,320
Thank you.

903
01:33:03,560 --> 01:33:04,240
All right.

904
01:33:04,540 --> 01:33:09,880
Good evening, Honorable Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, congratulations and Honorable Council Members.

905
01:33:09,880 --> 01:33:16,440
staff is pleased to share some great updates about our SIPCO situation.

906
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:21,560
For those who are tuning in, I am sure that's a lot of our residents and stakeholders

907
01:33:21,560 --> 01:33:26,780
are aware that we've got two SIPCOs that share or we shared two SIPCOs before

908
01:33:26,780 --> 01:33:29,500
neighboring cities 917-529-280.

909
01:33:30,440 --> 01:33:37,160
Staff actually did a calculation of how much of our cities boundaries fall within each SIPCO.

910
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:40,660
So you can see that 928-0 is always our big one,

911
01:33:41,700 --> 01:33:45,560
encompassing about almost 79% of our city's boundaries.

912
01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:48,780
So I just want to share that for everyone's reference.

913
01:33:49,720 --> 01:33:54,880
We're working on this because there's a lot of issues that our community face as the results of sharing

914
01:33:54,880 --> 01:34:01,740
zip codes with our neighboring cities, including business attractions, business branch misidentification,

915
01:34:01,740 --> 01:34:06,660
Community Identity, Payment Rate, Miss Matches, Sports League, Participation, Election, Confusion,

916
01:34:07,240 --> 01:34:09,980
Mail, Delivery, Impacts, and Emergency Management, and Public Safety.

917
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:16,860
So for all those reasons, our staff really started to launch a comprehensive advocacy effort

918
01:34:16,860 --> 01:34:26,320
since last year. So just as a quick recap, about six months ago, while time flies, about six months ago,

919
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:34,380
So, the USPS did offer to change our 928 CERO's city name from Corona to Eastphail with

920
01:34:34,380 --> 01:34:41,860
the condition that a survey must be released, and that the USPS wanted to pull all of the

921
01:34:41,860 --> 01:34:48,980
addresses in 928 CERO, asking for their permission and requiring them, or at least 50% of them,

922
01:34:48,980 --> 01:34:54,260
to respond and the majority of them responding, yes, in order for this change to approve.

923
01:34:54,260 --> 01:34:59,980
So, after months of back-and-forth with the USPS, a lot of people have been involved in

924
01:35:04,320 --> 01:35:13,580
The U.S. P.S. issue the message right after Thanksgiving to ask the survey and effectively

925
01:35:13,580 --> 01:35:19,460
granting the change starting January 1, the screen shot on the right here is written

926
01:35:19,460 --> 01:35:26,080
communication from the U.S. P.S. director really solidifying that this is happening and actually

927
01:35:26,080 --> 01:35:32,900
As of today, they have reached out to staff to solicit all of our addresses in preparation

928
01:35:32,900 --> 01:35:38,300
of changing the 9-2-8-0's city name from Corona to Eastville.

929
01:35:39,180 --> 01:35:39,940
So very good news.

930
01:35:40,260 --> 01:35:47,100
Corona will actually remain as an alternate municipal destination for that zip code, but the

931
01:35:47,100 --> 01:35:48,540
official name will be Eastville.

932
01:35:49,860 --> 01:35:55,600
So staff will continue to work with our congressional office, even with this victory.

933
01:35:55,600 --> 01:36:01,180
We know that we're very grateful for congressional members' support, HR 696 and HR 860.

934
01:36:01,420 --> 01:36:03,400
It is still in Congress right now.

935
01:36:04,020 --> 01:36:12,060
So we'll leverage our connections at the National SIP Code Advocacy Coalition to try to continue

936
01:36:12,060 --> 01:36:17,820
the advocacy in VSE with the aim of an independent SIP Code for Eastville.

937
01:36:18,180 --> 01:36:23,960
Since we know that this change did not really solve the issues at the 91752 areas.

938
01:36:23,960 --> 01:36:28,260
And we'll continue to create and develop other innovative methods.

939
01:36:29,280 --> 01:36:33,840
But this is just great news as we kind of wrap up the year.

940
01:36:34,500 --> 01:36:39,300
And for those who are tuning in, please consider signing a letter of support for

941
01:36:39,300 --> 01:36:43,060
either of our two bills by scanning the QR code on the screen here, or

942
01:36:43,060 --> 01:36:44,260
visiting our city's websites.

943
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:48,760
And we're actually also collecting testimonies for our residents and

944
01:36:48,760 --> 01:36:53,100
businesses how they have been impacted as a result of the lack of an independent zip code.

945
01:36:54,240 --> 01:36:58,160
So with that, I'm staff just really want to share this amazing updates.

946
01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:02,220
Thank you really to the City Council for spending the time raising awareness.

947
01:37:02,920 --> 01:37:07,320
Some of you even going to DC and spending a lot of time through the USPS.

948
01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:09,960
Thank you to Congressmember Norma Torres.

949
01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:11,620
I know we have a representative here.

950
01:37:12,480 --> 01:37:16,800
Congressmember King Calvers, Senator Pavia, our city manager, all the directors.

951
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:18,020
A lot of people were in this.

952
01:37:18,020 --> 01:37:23,740
So just very, very grateful for such a great team efforts and that concludes this update from staff.

953
01:37:23,940 --> 01:37:24,260
Thank you.

954
01:37:31,340 --> 01:37:32,880
Do you have a question,

955
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:35,920
Mr. Chair?

956
01:37:35,920 --> 01:37:37,760
Should we do public comment first?

957
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:38,100
Yeah.

958
01:37:38,440 --> 01:37:39,000
All right.

959
01:37:39,120 --> 01:37:39,920
Do we have any public comment?

960
01:37:40,520 --> 01:37:41,340
Yes, Mr. Mayor.

961
01:37:41,420 --> 01:37:43,720
We have one public comment from Brian Milligan.

962
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:44,160
Oh.

963
01:37:44,860 --> 01:37:46,120
I almost skipped it.

964
01:37:46,400 --> 01:37:47,620
I was that close.

965
01:37:47,800 --> 01:37:48,680
I almost skipped it.

966
01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:50,580
Thank you so much for coming in.

967
01:37:50,840 --> 01:37:51,180
Absolutely.

968
01:37:51,540 --> 01:37:52,580
Congratulations, Mayor.

969
01:37:52,740 --> 01:37:53,840
Congratulations, Mayor Pro Tem.

970
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:57,820
and thank your council member, Rigby, for a term of service to the community.

971
01:37:58,220 --> 01:37:59,800
The congressman greatly appreciates it.

972
01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:05,180
I love UCL City Council meeting so much, I pick an item at the very end of the agenda

973
01:38:05,180 --> 01:38:10,120
to comment on so I can spend as much time with y'all as possible, but on behalf of congresswoman

974
01:38:10,120 --> 01:38:16,320
Torres, she would just like to extend her sincere congratulations to the city as USPS revises

975
01:38:16,320 --> 01:38:18,080
the 92880 zip code.

976
01:38:18,740 --> 01:38:24,760
When we come together as a community, we can get stuff done, even move the Baroque C&DC

977
01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:26,300
and get USPS to do stuff.

978
01:38:27,380 --> 01:38:31,820
When Congresswoman Torres first began representing Eastville at the beginning of this year, city

979
01:38:31,820 --> 01:38:36,220
leadership and city staff and the community came to her and expressed just how important

980
01:38:36,220 --> 01:38:39,460
this issue was, and she knew it needed to be a priority of hers.

981
01:38:39,980 --> 01:38:45,760
So after months of hard work and collaboration with Eastville, oops, I skipped a page, I'm

982
01:38:45,760 --> 01:38:45,960
sorry.

983
01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:52,500
We will now receive the proper recognition under the 928880 zip code, reducing confusions

984
01:38:52,500 --> 01:38:54,760
for families, seniors, and small businesses.

985
01:38:55,420 --> 01:39:00,080
This achievement is a collaborative effort reflecting the strong partnership between local

986
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:03,980
leaders, federal representatives, and the tireless commitment of our residents.

987
01:39:04,560 --> 01:39:08,040
Congressman Torres would like to thank her colleagues in Congress, Congressman Calvert

988
01:39:08,040 --> 01:39:12,300
and Senator Padilla, as well as city leadership and staff for working together to secure this

989
01:39:12,300 --> 01:39:18,260
change and deliver results for East Vale. But as Alex mentioned, the work isn't done here.

990
01:39:18,980 --> 01:39:23,540
Congressman Torres and Congressman Calver are committed to advancing the legislation

991
01:39:23,540 --> 01:39:31,940
they introduced together, HR 696, as well as HR 860, to help establish a unified zip code here

992
01:39:31,940 --> 01:39:36,120
in the city of East Vale. But outside of that, we just wanted to wish all happy holidays. We look forward

993
01:39:36,120 --> 01:39:41,480
to seeing you next week at Miracle at Riverview. And congratulations. Thank you. And again,

994
01:39:41,480 --> 01:39:43,640
and congratulations Mayor Pro Tem and Mayor Dinko.

995
01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:44,240
Thank you.

996
01:39:45,010 --> 01:39:45,460
Thank you.

997
01:39:45,880 --> 01:39:46,160
Thank you.

998
01:39:49,570 --> 01:39:50,930
Council Member Lormore.

999
01:39:51,780 --> 01:39:52,890
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1000
01:39:55,100 --> 01:39:59,690
Thank you for hanging out with us through this relatively long meeting.

1001
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:08,460
Appreciate it. Mr. Fung, a couple questions. Well, first of all, congratulations. I know you're

1002
01:40:08,460 --> 01:40:16,200
doing a lot of heavy lifting on this, and you know, they waited to do this until they

1003
01:40:16,200 --> 01:40:24,180
knew we were serious, it seems like, right? But anyway, thank you. I know you put in a lot

1004
01:40:24,180 --> 01:40:25,020
hard work on this.

1005
01:40:27,060 --> 01:40:31,120
One of your comments there and it surprised me it heard it

1006
01:40:31,120 --> 01:40:31,580
before.

1007
01:40:34,890 --> 01:40:41,810
Why are they asking for the addresses? Like, I don't understand how they

1008
01:40:41,810 --> 01:40:49,140
don't know this. I mean, that's kind of their job. So please, you know, that is

1009
01:40:49,140 --> 01:40:52,840
an excellent question. I ask myself that a lot, you know, and like those 2 a.m.

1010
01:40:52,840 --> 01:40:58,720
It's like, you have, you deliver mail to every single one of our addresses, almost every day,

1011
01:40:58,800 --> 01:41:00,260
how can we don't have a database of that?

1012
01:41:01,980 --> 01:41:07,740
So I would just like to hope that perhaps they're just double checking the addresses, although

1013
01:41:07,740 --> 01:41:09,400
I don't know if that is really the truth.

1014
01:41:10,320 --> 01:41:11,320
But yes, they did.

1015
01:41:11,580 --> 01:41:16,340
Funny enough, access for the address today, once again, so that they can make that change.

1016
01:41:16,480 --> 01:41:19,960
But I guess perhaps we'll find out more.

1017
01:41:21,900 --> 01:41:26,040
I guess I'm assuming we do.

1018
01:41:26,380 --> 01:41:30,080
Do we have a readily available database of these addresses to give them?

1019
01:41:30,420 --> 01:41:30,660
We do.

1020
01:41:31,040 --> 01:41:31,200
Okay.

1021
01:41:31,480 --> 01:41:31,680
All right.

1022
01:41:32,100 --> 01:41:34,660
We can share the software ideas with them, too.

1023
01:41:35,100 --> 01:41:35,420
Yes.

1024
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:35,940
Thank you.

1025
01:41:41,800 --> 01:41:42,640
Council Member Rigby.

1026
01:41:43,300 --> 01:41:43,920
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1027
01:41:44,120 --> 01:41:45,120
I just have a couple of comments.

1028
01:41:47,460 --> 01:41:48,240
Thank you, Alex.

1029
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:51,240
This has been something that you have taken and you've ran with.

1030
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:57,840
You've started the national coalition on this, you've gotten many, many people and organizations

1031
01:41:57,840 --> 01:42:03,260
and elected officials involved and done a great job on this, so thank you for all you've

1032
01:42:03,260 --> 01:42:03,660
done on this.

1033
01:42:04,800 --> 01:42:07,260
I also want to say thank you to our elected officials.

1034
01:42:08,580 --> 01:42:15,760
This has truly been a testament as to, like Brian said, when we come together, we can get

1035
01:42:15,760 --> 01:42:16,220
stuff done.

1036
01:42:16,220 --> 01:42:18,240
You look at both assembly member,

1037
01:42:18,560 --> 01:42:19,760
a salient assembly member,

1038
01:42:19,900 --> 01:42:23,940
Sir Francis, they may not agree on certain things,

1039
01:42:24,160 --> 01:42:26,220
but they came together and they were successful

1040
01:42:26,220 --> 01:42:27,200
in helping us with this.

1041
01:42:28,100 --> 01:42:29,900
You look at Congressmember Torres

1042
01:42:29,900 --> 01:42:31,060
and Congressmember Calvert.

1043
01:42:31,220 --> 01:42:32,760
They may not agree on policies and stuff

1044
01:42:32,760 --> 01:42:34,780
but they came together and they helped us get this done.

1045
01:42:35,520 --> 01:42:37,140
So I just want to say thank you to them

1046
01:42:37,140 --> 01:42:39,760
to all those elected officials that helped with this

1047
01:42:39,760 --> 01:42:41,560
and I know that those four are just a few,

1048
01:42:42,440 --> 01:42:44,520
but thanks for their continued support.

1049
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:50,140
I know that our county supervisor that she also helped to pass a resolution through the county our

1050
01:42:50,140 --> 01:42:52,920
Chamber of Commerce was huge and helping to get this to where it is now

1051
01:42:54,280 --> 01:43:01,820
Which brings me to my second part. I've had a couple of residents that have asked me well what about 9175 to this doesn't do anything for us

1052
01:43:03,800 --> 01:43:10,000
Patients this is baby steps. We're working when we first started this we were teasing. Oh, it's gonna take an active congress

1053
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:13,940
Very well could take an active congress to get this done, but

1054
01:43:15,100 --> 01:43:20,160
91752, we haven't forgotten about you, we ultimately want to do something for our entire

1055
01:43:20,160 --> 01:43:24,080
city, but we have to take what we can get when we can get it, so again thank you for

1056
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:28,560
everyone that's been involved for this, thank you for the council, for the support throughout

1057
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:33,100
this, for our residents that have supported and wrote over 1200 letters, I don't know where

1058
01:43:33,100 --> 01:43:33,220
we're at.

1059
01:43:33,300 --> 01:43:33,860
For 1,300.

1060
01:43:34,060 --> 01:43:42,380
1300 letters of support, but it's been truly a team effort internally of Eastville staff,

1061
01:43:42,380 --> 01:43:45,380
residents but also externally with our elected officials, so thank you.

1062
01:43:49,470 --> 01:43:56,210
Todd, you did a great job capturing all the hard work that Alex has put in and so many team members here and

1063
01:43:56,210 --> 01:43:59,050
the East Coast put in, but I'm really excited about this.

1064
01:43:59,790 --> 01:44:03,930
I mean, we've been a city, is it 12 or 13, we're 13 years.

1065
01:44:04,650 --> 01:44:10,090
And we've continually been a city struggling to let people know our identity.

1066
01:44:10,510 --> 01:44:11,590
And this is a big part of that.

1067
01:44:12,190 --> 01:44:12,950
It means a lot.

1068
01:44:12,950 --> 01:44:16,970
There are some cities that have high schools, right?

1069
01:44:17,170 --> 01:44:22,750
You get a city of Norco, you have Norco high school, you have a city of Corona, you often have that.

1070
01:44:23,410 --> 01:44:29,650
We have Roosevelt high school, which is a great name, named after an amazing woman.

1071
01:44:31,710 --> 01:44:35,490
But we don't have that same kind of identity.

1072
01:44:36,270 --> 01:44:37,850
And so this is a great step forward.

1073
01:44:38,190 --> 01:44:41,930
I really appreciate your hard work, your organization, and your commitment and

1074
01:44:41,930 --> 01:44:44,650
tenacity on the national coalition and all the work.

1075
01:44:44,810 --> 01:44:49,610
And I do want to say thank you to Congressmember Norma Torres office.

1076
01:44:49,890 --> 01:44:51,990
I mean, Calvrits as well, of course, but

1077
01:44:53,350 --> 01:44:59,650
staff from Torres office really participated to a large measure.

1078
01:44:59,650 --> 01:44:59,970
You're in that...

1079
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:25,440
Only when we were in D.C., but all of our follow-up meetings asked pointed questions and really asked some great questions to further that conversation and apply pressure and influence. And I really valued that extra effort that came from her office and from all the staff over there. So thank you so much for that. But great job on this. This is amazing. And I know a lot of people are excited about it. And a great thing for the city. Thank you, Alex.

1080
01:45:31,100 --> 01:45:34,280
Well, thank you so much for the presentation. This is a receiving file.

1081
01:45:34,280 --> 01:45:35,520
but it's great news.

1082
01:45:35,820 --> 01:45:37,620
Thank you so much for all your hard work.

1083
01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:38,460
Thank you.

1084
01:45:47,110 --> 01:45:49,650
We're moving to item 14.2.

1085
01:45:50,910 --> 01:45:56,950
Amend Article 1 and Article 4 of Eastville Municipal Code chapter 16.05

1086
01:45:56,950 --> 01:45:59,690
to allow for commercial self-hauling.

1087
01:46:00,830 --> 01:46:01,150
Hello.

1088
01:46:01,550 --> 01:46:07,150
Hi there and this is a presentation by Simone Blackwell, Environmental Compliance Analyst.

1089
01:46:08,030 --> 01:46:08,290
Thank you.

1090
01:46:08,290 --> 01:46:12,450
Good evening, Honorable Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and City Council members.

1091
01:46:13,190 --> 01:46:19,090
The item before you is an amendment to allow businesses to self-haul organic waste and

1092
01:46:19,090 --> 01:46:21,710
recycling produced by their own operations.

1093
01:46:22,430 --> 01:46:26,790
Currently, the city allows residents to engage in self-haul practices.

1094
01:46:27,570 --> 01:46:30,430
And the purpose of this amendment is to be more business-friendly,

1095
01:46:30,790 --> 01:46:35,530
is to be supportive of our businesses that would like to engage in recycling practices and

1096
01:46:35,530 --> 01:46:40,210
and manage their own recyclables and sell Paul those recyclables to an appropriate facility.

1097
01:46:41,330 --> 01:46:46,830
Staff is recommending that the City Council approve the introduction of this ordinance amendment.

1098
01:46:47,170 --> 01:46:49,290
And if you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them.

1099
01:46:54,100 --> 01:46:55,240
All right, I was still on the mic.

1100
01:46:55,640 --> 01:46:58,600
Do we have any public comments?

1101
01:46:59,540 --> 01:47:00,040
No, Mayor.

1102
01:47:00,700 --> 01:47:00,960
All right.

1103
01:47:01,800 --> 01:47:02,880
Council Member Lormar.

1104
01:47:03,380 --> 01:47:09,500
By the way, Mr. Mayor, very impressed that I was trying to throw you off and you got the public

1105
01:47:12,440 --> 01:47:14,660
Thank you for the presentation.

1106
01:47:15,670 --> 01:47:22,820
Quick question on this, maybe getting ahead of ourselves because we're just introducing this.

1107
01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:29,580
But has there been any interest from local businesses or anybody wanting to do this self-hauling?

1108
01:47:29,880 --> 01:47:34,320
Yes, we have had businesses that are interested in self-hauling.

1109
01:47:34,460 --> 01:47:36,420
Majority of them have been grocery stores.

1110
01:47:40,280 --> 01:47:49,720
Okay, so good, I was hoping that we weren't creating a solution for a problem that wasn't there, but that's not the case.

1111
01:47:49,920 --> 01:47:50,580
That's not the case.

1112
01:47:50,780 --> 01:47:52,480
Okay, good, I'm happy to hear that.

1113
01:47:52,900 --> 01:47:53,740
Excellent, thank you.

1114
01:47:54,020 --> 01:47:54,780
Appreciate it.

1115
01:47:56,740 --> 01:47:57,860
Do we have any other questions?

1116
01:48:04,130 --> 01:48:06,830
Well, thank you so much for the presentation.

1117
01:48:07,090 --> 01:48:08,210
I think we have no other questions.

1118
01:48:08,750 --> 01:48:09,390
No other discussion.

1119
01:48:09,990 --> 01:48:10,850
A receiving file?

1120
01:48:11,030 --> 01:48:11,630
Thank you so much.

1121
01:48:12,110 --> 01:48:13,270
It's not a received file.

1122
01:48:13,330 --> 01:48:13,730
It's an ordinance.

1123
01:48:13,930 --> 01:48:14,250
It's not.

1124
01:48:16,890 --> 01:48:19,330
I apologize, and we'll need a motion in a second.

1125
01:48:19,450 --> 01:48:20,290
I think we have a motion.

1126
01:48:20,830 --> 01:48:21,590
Yes, we'll need a second.

1127
01:48:21,590 --> 01:48:22,110
Yes, Mr. Mayor.

1128
01:48:22,350 --> 01:48:24,710
We have a motion by Councillor Marielle, a second by Councillor

1129
01:48:24,710 --> 01:48:24,910
Member.

1130
01:48:25,530 --> 01:48:28,590
Rigby, and before we vote, I'm just going to read the ordinance title.

1131
01:48:29,250 --> 01:48:32,190
An ordinance of the City Council, the City of Eastville, California, I'm ending article

1132
01:48:32,190 --> 01:48:39,630
one, an article four, chapter 16.05, Solid Waste, Collection and Disposal of the Eastville

1133
01:48:39,630 --> 01:48:40,270
Municipal Code.

1134
01:48:41,450 --> 01:48:42,830
And please vote on your screens.

1135
01:48:48,040 --> 01:48:49,420
Motion passes, 5th is there.

1136
01:48:54,340 --> 01:48:55,240
Okay, thank you for that.

1137
01:48:55,500 --> 01:48:58,080
Mark, we have item 14.3,

1138
01:48:58,260 --> 01:49:02,480
Vigilant Solutions, ALPR cameras, contract termination.

1139
01:49:03,720 --> 01:49:07,420
This item is submitted by Director of Community Safety,

1140
01:49:07,640 --> 01:49:08,340
Johnny Turfor.

1141
01:49:09,180 --> 01:49:11,480
Good evening, new mayor and city council.

1142
01:49:12,420 --> 01:49:15,460
This item before you is one that we mentioned back in April

1143
01:49:15,460 --> 01:49:16,740
when you approved the flock cameras

1144
01:49:17,380 --> 01:49:19,260
that we would bring this back to you to talk about it.

1145
01:49:19,540 --> 01:49:21,160
Before we get started with the staff report

1146
01:49:21,160 --> 01:49:32,000
we want to have a quick presentation from our Sheriff's Department partner who's been operating the flock system now for several months so that you can have a full review of how that system is operating for us.

1147
01:49:32,880 --> 01:49:33,640
I'll turn it over to Ernie.

1148
01:49:35,180 --> 01:49:38,260
Good evening Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem and members of the City Council.

1149
01:49:39,720 --> 01:49:45,600
So back in August of 2023, well actually let's go back further than that.

1150
01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:54,100
several months ago. You all approved the installation of ALPR cameras through

1151
01:49:54,100 --> 01:49:59,660
flocks systems. So with that said, fast forwarding a little bit in August 2023.

1152
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:29,800
The new automated license plate readers, also known as ALPR cameras, were installed at various locations throughout the city. The data generated from these cameras is encrypted, retained for a fixed period, and is only accessible by law enforcement officials. So, flock worked hard to get these installed, and I'm going to share some of those results with you, some notable cases. But before we actually do that, I just would like to give just a little bit of an overview for the audience and those that are

1153
01:50:29,800 --> 01:50:36,040
listening in just to reiterate a little bit that was presented previously is

1154
01:50:36,500 --> 01:50:42,300
that ALPR, what is it? It captures still images, date, time and location. It

1155
01:50:42,300 --> 01:50:47,900
essentially converts license plates to often numeric characters and is a

1156
01:50:47,900 --> 01:50:52,120
vehicle fingerprint. It does not link to the DMV, it does not use facial

1157
01:50:52,120 --> 01:50:59,740
recognition, it does not record video or audio, and it doesn't have the cameras

1158
01:50:59,740 --> 01:51:02,640
and it does not enforce traffic violations.

1159
01:51:03,580 --> 01:51:08,880
However, it does have the ability to have what they call

1160
01:51:08,880 --> 01:51:12,840
Department of Justice hot lists or plates or wants

1161
01:51:12,840 --> 01:51:16,440
where a vehicle that is actually wanted and enters our city.

1162
01:51:16,520 --> 01:51:18,500
We have the ability to track that in real time

1163
01:51:18,500 --> 01:51:22,320
and have the ability to capture those that have violated crimes,

1164
01:51:22,580 --> 01:51:25,220
whether outside our city or within our city.

1165
01:51:26,780 --> 01:51:32,820
And then lastly, with that, the users, the deputies and officers that are out there, they

1166
01:51:32,820 --> 01:51:36,740
actually have the ability to create their own hot lists and get real-time alerts through

1167
01:51:36,740 --> 01:51:37,500
their phone as well.

1168
01:51:40,220 --> 01:51:44,900
So to touch base on some notable incidents within the first couple of days of the first camera

1169
01:51:44,900 --> 01:51:54,640
being operational, the system assisted our special enforcement team deputies in locating suspects

1170
01:51:54,640 --> 01:51:57,940
who committed a robbery in one of our local shopping centers.

1171
01:51:58,460 --> 01:52:02,160
Essentially, an elderly victim was robbed of some of his jewelry.

1172
01:52:02,800 --> 01:52:05,720
He was wearing both suspects, were located, arrested, and

1173
01:52:05,720 --> 01:52:08,820
booked into jail for this crime that was committed within our city.

1174
01:52:09,520 --> 01:52:13,780
But it should be noted that the ALPR system in Eastville aided

1175
01:52:14,440 --> 01:52:16,580
personnel from the Sheriff's Department immediately.

1176
01:52:17,280 --> 01:52:22,360
And these individuals that victimized our elderly citizen were

1177
01:52:23,420 --> 01:52:26,620
apprehended with the assistance of other allied agencies and it should be noted

1178
01:52:26,620 --> 01:52:31,320
that with this particular one, without the assistance of that ALPR system or

1179
01:52:31,320 --> 01:52:35,140
those flock cameras, these individuals are getting ready to actually get on a

1180
01:52:35,140 --> 01:52:40,020
flight and take off. They're not even citizens within the United States. That's how

1181
01:52:40,020 --> 01:52:44,440
effective this system is. Some of the other stories and notable success stories

1182
01:52:44,440 --> 01:52:48,640
that we're going to talk about tonight or just going to mention tonight is going

1183
01:52:48,640 --> 01:52:53,620
to include recovery of several stolen vehicles, apprehension and multiple robbery suspects

1184
01:52:53,620 --> 01:52:56,620
in the apprehension of several commercial burglars.

1185
01:52:59,820 --> 01:53:06,400
So we will talk about, or essentially some of the public may know that we have had a couple

1186
01:53:06,400 --> 01:53:08,100
of incidents here within the shopping center.

1187
01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:13,320
Set team deputies responded to a robbery, we're at a jewelry store here in the city of Eastville,

1188
01:53:13,420 --> 01:53:16,620
where suspects stole numerous items, pieces of jewelry.

1189
01:53:16,620 --> 01:53:21,980
with follow-up investigations and the assistance of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit.

1190
01:53:22,420 --> 01:53:27,900
The ALPR inquiries from these block cameras assisted to identify suspect vehicles,

1191
01:53:28,300 --> 01:53:34,380
which ultimately led to suspects out of Los Angeles County, who were ultimately apprehended,

1192
01:53:34,820 --> 01:53:37,640
and will be held accountable for the crime they committed within our city.

1193
01:53:40,500 --> 01:53:45,060
Another notable investigation that I would just like to talk about as a commercial burglary

1194
01:53:45,060 --> 01:53:52,320
that occurred over within the Archibald Avenue area where multiple suspect entered a business and stole numerous items,

1195
01:53:52,960 --> 01:53:57,160
which were valued at over $20,000.

1196
01:53:57,760 --> 01:54:04,020
Members of the Special Enforcement Team immediately conducted some follow-up investigation utilizing FLOC, the ALPR.

1197
01:54:04,900 --> 01:54:09,560
And deputies were able to identify the suspects and ultimately the suspects involved in these crimes.

1198
01:54:09,560 --> 01:54:13,580
said deputies located some of these suspects not only in Riverside County and

1199
01:54:13,580 --> 01:54:17,660
San Bernardino County and they will be what they were ultimately arrested and

1200
01:54:18,240 --> 01:54:23,040
sent to jail and will hopefully be how accountable for those crimes.

1201
01:54:26,410 --> 01:54:31,550
Another one is our patrol division and our investigations bureau just about a

1202
01:54:31,550 --> 01:54:36,310
month ago. Deputies responded to a robbery at a local grocery store where once

1203
01:54:36,310 --> 01:54:40,390
the suspect walked into the location still an undisclosed amount of money from an

1204
01:54:40,390 --> 01:54:46,050
employee then exited the store. He answered at a waiting vehicle and fled which is common amongst

1205
01:54:46,050 --> 01:54:50,790
folks that do commit robberies. Deputy's interview witnesses and we're provided with suspect vehicle

1206
01:54:50,790 --> 01:54:57,070
information which we commend the public when they can be a good witness. It really benefits everything.

1207
01:54:57,930 --> 01:54:59,830
Utilizing our technological resource.

1208
01:55:10,220 --> 01:55:10,860
Just

1209
01:55:12,970 --> 01:55:31,970
a couple of other notable incidents are which really affect within our patrol division. Deputies were alerted to a stolen vehicle in neighboring city. Stolen vehicle actually entered e-sale. That other neighboring city actually has ALPR. So the effectiveness of these cameras actually came over to our city.

1210
01:55:31,970 --> 01:55:37,110
we were able to immediately pick it up, and within minutes deputies were able to locate

1211
01:55:37,110 --> 01:55:38,970
the vehicle and apprehend four suspects.

1212
01:55:39,710 --> 01:55:44,670
An illegal firearm was located and an adult to include juvenile suspects were arrested.

1213
01:55:45,490 --> 01:55:49,470
Another one here in the Eastville Gateway Shopping Center regarding a stolen vehicle alert,

1214
01:55:50,180 --> 01:55:56,450
here locally, right within this particular area, deputies successfully located this stolen

1215
01:55:56,450 --> 01:55:58,670
vehicle and a vehicle pursuit actually ensued.

1216
01:55:58,670 --> 01:56:01,830
The suspect was ultimately taken into custody and booked into jail.

1217
01:56:02,770 --> 01:56:07,710
And then lastly, deputies responded to a local shopping center regarding its stolen vehicle, ALPR alert.

1218
01:56:08,370 --> 01:56:12,470
Deputies located the stolen vehicle and took the suspect into custody who was a sole occupant.

1219
01:56:12,750 --> 01:56:18,090
It should be noted that the arrest actually yielded a seizure of methamphetamine in heroin.

1220
01:56:18,790 --> 01:56:24,870
And the ALPR cameras played a vital role within the apprehension of this particular individual.

1221
01:56:24,870 --> 01:56:27,970
Who knows what he would have done in the city if we didn't get caught.

1222
01:56:29,090 --> 01:56:33,690
In closing, these are just some of the instances in which the license plate readers in the city

1223
01:56:33,690 --> 01:56:38,650
have proven to be incredibly effective at assisting sheriff's personnel in their investigations.

1224
01:56:38,990 --> 01:56:39,830
For merely every

1225
01:56:42,330 --> 01:56:47,730
incident involving a crime that was committed and a vehicle was associated

1226
01:56:47,730 --> 01:56:54,010
with that incident, these cameras have been invaluable to solving crime in Eastville that otherwise

1227
01:56:54,010 --> 01:56:56,250
would not have been solved without this technology.

1228
01:56:56,250 --> 01:57:02,650
license plate readers also provide technologies to also help the ins, with incidents that create

1229
01:57:02,650 --> 01:57:09,270
a public exigen, exigency, excuse me, and where time is of the essence such as a disabled,

1230
01:57:09,350 --> 01:57:14,270
elderly person that has ventured away from their loved ones, it gives us the ability if they

1231
01:57:14,270 --> 01:57:18,990
are in a vehicle to immediately pick up that vehicle and try to locate that person or those

1232
01:57:18,990 --> 01:57:22,510
individuals and take them to their family as soon as possible.

1233
01:57:22,510 --> 01:57:27,630
With that, does anybody have any questions?

1234
01:57:32,330 --> 01:57:32,890
No questions?

1235
01:57:33,990 --> 01:57:35,350
We do have one question.

1236
01:57:36,230 --> 01:57:37,350
Call some member Lormore.

1237
01:57:39,870 --> 01:57:43,330
Thank you, LT, appreciate the presentation, good job.

1238
01:57:43,890 --> 01:57:48,030
And thank you for sharing these after-action.

1239
01:57:48,570 --> 01:57:56,370
You know, we hear about maybe the incident having happened, and then we don't always hear about the follow-up.

1240
01:57:56,370 --> 01:58:13,250
So, thank you, and more than this, I don't know how we would do it, but when you blast this information to all the bad guy channels out there, don't come to Eastville, you're going to get caught, right?

1241
01:58:16,590 --> 01:58:28,130
But, you know, one of the things that you're choice of word on any incidents involving a vehicle.

1242
01:58:29,010 --> 01:58:34,850
And, of course, we're talking about license plate readers, but there are other kinds of, you know,

1243
01:58:35,170 --> 01:58:40,470
do bikes count in this, or only if they have personalized license plate on there?

1244
01:58:40,470 --> 01:58:49,270
So, motorcycles do, in fact, not actual bicycles, but motorcycles do, in fact, town, as long as we can get that license plate, it gives us that ability.

1245
01:58:50,490 --> 01:58:56,790
All right, so, and maybe not specifically for you this question.

1246
01:58:58,370 --> 01:59:08,890
But part of this presentation is that what we're being asked to not pursue are further

1247
01:59:09,770 --> 01:59:13,730
in with vigilant, the contract there.

1248
01:59:14,550 --> 01:59:21,570
And we spent a lot of money on these cameras, and I realized it's a sunk cost, but one

1249
01:59:21,570 --> 01:59:26,530
of the things that I do constant, I hope that we can repurpose them, which I know is

1250
01:59:26,530 --> 01:59:33,230
being discussed as an option here or something that staff looks for, but in recent memory I have had

1251
01:59:34,950 --> 01:59:41,150
several residents reach out to me totally different incidents related to the cameras that we do

1252
01:59:41,150 --> 01:59:47,970
actually have control over asking because there was an accident and asking if we have footage for it and

1253
01:59:48,710 --> 01:59:55,070
even in proximity to where those blue light cameras that we do have access to it might be pointed

1254
01:59:55,070 --> 01:59:59,970
it their own way. And if there's a way at all...

1255
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:31,190
That we can repurpose the cameras that we do have from vigilant, and I don't know if it's a stretch regarding software, et cetera, and being able to repurpose. But if we could do that, or instead of putting that 22,000 towards that program, that we get more of these independent blue light cameras that we can move around, because it seems, at least from these disparate interactions with

1256
02:00:31,190 --> 02:00:35,350
constituents that it would be helpful, so thank you.

1257
02:00:38,100 --> 02:00:40,940
I'll go ahead and continue with the staff report if there's no more questions about that.

1258
02:00:40,940 --> 02:00:42,240
That would be great. I don't think there's any more.

1259
02:00:42,420 --> 02:00:42,800
Thank you, John.

1260
02:00:43,000 --> 02:00:43,380
Okay. Thanks.

1261
02:00:44,100 --> 02:00:47,400
So let's turn our focus back to the contract with Vigilent.

1262
02:00:47,880 --> 02:00:52,120
In December 2018, the city of inner agreement with Vigilent, at the time they were at the forefront

1263
02:00:52,120 --> 02:00:56,560
of the technology, and kind of a good analogy for that is your cell phone.

1264
02:00:56,640 --> 02:01:01,300
Most of us don't have five-year-old cell phones, and these cameras are now, you know, over five years old.

1265
02:01:01,300 --> 02:01:16,480
And so the new technology that we've seen with flock and the demonstration just now really surpasses that and so we've kind of evaluated Ernie and I have looked at it and looked at the data we're getting and evaluated the cost versus what we're getting from flock.

1266
02:01:17,120 --> 02:01:21,780
And so that's why the recommendation before you is to go ahead and discontinue that contract with vigilant.

1267
02:01:22,360 --> 02:01:28,500
And then, as Councilmember Lormore pointed out, we are going to look at opportunities to repurpose the cameras.

1268
02:01:28,840 --> 02:01:34,640
They are still image cameras, not video cameras, so that does make that a little bit more challenging, and again, they're five years old.

1269
02:01:36,000 --> 02:01:37,880
And that concludes the staff report.

1270
02:01:37,980 --> 02:01:42,060
If you have any additional questions about that part of it, the contract, I would certainly be able to answer those.

1271
02:01:44,310 --> 02:01:47,290
Any other questions? Before we open for public comment?

1272
02:01:48,910 --> 02:01:52,450
I think we're good to open up for public comment. Do we have anyone requesting to speak?

1273
02:01:52,450 --> 02:01:53,050
No mayor.

1274
02:01:54,330 --> 02:01:55,670
Only with the one I almost skipped.

1275
02:01:56,870 --> 02:01:58,210
Unless Alex or Jasmine.

1276
02:01:58,670 --> 02:01:58,750
Yeah.

1277
02:02:01,950 --> 02:02:04,010
So council, four discussions.

1278
02:02:04,090 --> 02:02:06,510
Does anybody like to make any comments?

1279
02:02:10,470 --> 02:02:14,930
I apologize for getting over my skis on that jump in ahead of you and Johnny.

1280
02:02:15,550 --> 02:02:17,290
But thank you for the presentation.

1281
02:02:19,820 --> 02:02:20,760
I'll add a few comments.

1282
02:02:21,460 --> 02:02:27,420
I really want to thank my colleagues from the get go for looking at vigilant.

1283
02:02:27,420 --> 02:02:32,580
But many years ago, when I was first on the Public Safety Commission,

1284
02:02:32,760 --> 02:02:34,600
this was a concern for me.

1285
02:02:34,740 --> 02:02:40,680
I wanted to look for ways that we could use technology to help enhance public safety and

1286
02:02:40,680 --> 02:02:45,200
not always rely on ever increasing deputy contract, deputies do an amazing job.

1287
02:02:45,300 --> 02:02:49,400
But we want to help give them the tools that they need to do their job.

1288
02:02:49,720 --> 02:02:54,540
And I remember speaking about it at public safety, and

1289
02:02:54,540 --> 02:03:03,760
And I know Brandon really took this to heart and ran with it when he was on council and council members supported vigilant installation.

1290
02:03:04,160 --> 02:03:06,060
And I think that was the right thing at the time.

1291
02:03:06,940 --> 02:03:09,560
But as time moves on, so does technology.

1292
02:03:10,320 --> 02:03:18,920
And we've seen flock really become the leader in this LPR technology with increased capabilities,

1293
02:03:18,920 --> 02:03:23,720
including the real-time updates that go to the deputies that vigilant just doesn't have.

1294
02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:28,080
So, I really appreciate the report.

1295
02:03:28,360 --> 02:03:36,040
I also appreciate getting some of the feedback, the accounts, the notable incidents.

1296
02:03:36,700 --> 02:03:42,920
So we understand in what ways this is contributing to overall safety of our community and it sounds

1297
02:03:42,920 --> 02:03:48,400
like one of those cases, I'm not sure if it was the GTA, but we took some fentanyl off the

1298
02:03:48,400 --> 02:03:52,360
street. Who knows whose hands that could have been and if we hadn't taken it up the street.

1299
02:03:53,200 --> 02:03:55,500
A lot of our surrounding communities also have flock.

1300
02:03:56,440 --> 02:04:01,040
Corona, Rupa Valley, Norco, I believe Corona, maybe don't quote me on that one.

1301
02:04:01,280 --> 02:04:07,280
But I know Rupa Valley, Norco, Chino, a lot of the communities around us also have flock,

1302
02:04:07,460 --> 02:04:16,140
which builds the network and we certainly don't want to be without the technology that they have or be some kind of safe haven for vehicles that can enter in.

1303
02:04:16,140 --> 02:04:21,820
But I love the technology, I love one of the facets that deputies get real-time information

1304
02:04:22,280 --> 02:04:33,020
out there in the field, and these ALPRs at the DOJ hot list could be a kidnapping vehicle

1305
02:04:33,020 --> 02:04:41,660
flag for a kidnapping, could be an amber alert, a silver alert, many other things that we can

1306
02:04:41,660 --> 02:04:45,360
help bring people into the protection of safety and under our control.

1307
02:04:45,360 --> 02:04:59,600
So this is a great presentation, I certainly will be voting to let go of the vigilant contract and I really appreciate the council's support when it came to this flock technology.

1308
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:29,940
And embraced it. And especially not just bringing in one or two cameras, but really bringing in a comprehensive plan to cover the city and its entirety. Every major entrance and exit, including the major arteries and interior of the city, I think that brings great value. So I appreciate the contract. I appreciate that our deputies are using the technology the way it's supposed to be used and for the betterment of the city. So thank you for the presentation.

1309
02:05:29,940 --> 02:05:31,900
I'm excited to receive this report,

1310
02:05:34,980 --> 02:05:36,940
so do we have a motion?

1311
02:05:37,560 --> 02:05:41,640
We do have a motion by Mayor Pro Tem McMan, second by Council Member Rigby.

1312
02:05:42,480 --> 02:05:43,400
Please vote on your screens.

1313
02:05:47,620 --> 02:05:48,840
Motion passes, five to zero.

1314
02:05:52,660 --> 02:05:54,280
Thank you again for the presentation.

1315
02:05:57,370 --> 02:06:05,510
We're moving to item 14.4, it's an amendment of the Eastphail Noise Ordinance regarding private events at public facilities.

1316
02:06:05,510 --> 02:06:11,310
This is also submitted by Director of Community Safety, Johnny Turforne.

1317
02:06:11,950 --> 02:06:12,530
Good evening again.

1318
02:06:13,510 --> 02:06:16,370
Staff has recommended the City Council introduce and read by title and

1319
02:06:16,370 --> 02:06:21,950
wait for the reading of this ordinance addressing noise emanating from private events at public facilities.

1320
02:06:22,270 --> 02:06:30,070
And so to summarize that, we've had some instances in the city where public facilities are being rented out on a routine basis for private events.

1321
02:06:30,070 --> 02:06:35,390
And these aren't events like we hold in the city that are open to the public and are for the public good,

1322
02:06:35,510 --> 02:06:38,290
but rather private events like weddings and birthdays and things.

1323
02:06:38,690 --> 02:06:40,590
And those have generated law enforcement calls.

1324
02:06:40,890 --> 02:06:43,870
And unfortunately because it's a publicly owned facility,

1325
02:06:44,210 --> 02:06:50,730
there's a exemption in our ordinance that allows them to not have to comply with our city ordinance.

1326
02:06:50,950 --> 02:06:54,610
So we've kind of closed that loophole with this new ordinance.

1327
02:06:54,610 --> 02:07:01,070
And it requires that people who hold private events at a public facility also comply with the noise ordinance.

1328
02:07:01,130 --> 02:07:03,470
Just as if that event was at a private facility.

1329
02:07:03,910 --> 02:07:05,810
I'm here to answer any questions if you have them.

1330
02:07:06,630 --> 02:07:09,930
Do we have any questions for Director Aturfer?

1331
02:07:13,180 --> 02:07:13,580
Do we have any?

1332
02:07:14,740 --> 02:07:15,980
We might have a question.

1333
02:07:16,040 --> 02:07:16,780
Do we have a question?

1334
02:07:17,820 --> 02:07:18,680
Council Member Lormore.

1335
02:07:19,100 --> 02:07:19,620
Thank you.

1336
02:07:20,380 --> 02:07:22,320
Thank you for doing this.

1337
02:07:22,320 --> 02:07:28,820
So I think that those that live nearby, some of these places will be very happy with this.

1338
02:07:29,680 --> 02:07:37,120
Wanted to make sure that we have reached out to neighboring agencies that might be

1339
02:07:38,860 --> 02:07:41,740
tangentially involved with this.

1340
02:07:42,240 --> 02:07:48,420
We actually have been working with JCSD and they are already requiring people that rent

1341
02:07:48,420 --> 02:07:50,140
their facilities to comply with our ordinance.

1342
02:07:50,140 --> 02:07:52,860
This just puts teeth in it in case we have a problem there.

1343
02:07:54,040 --> 02:08:05,740
Okay, good, because I know that the intent of this is, you know, for the betterment all around in concert with J.C.S.D.

1344
02:08:05,860 --> 02:08:11,040
just want to make sure that they are not perceiving it otherwise, so.

1345
02:08:11,680 --> 02:08:12,140
Thank you.

1346
02:08:14,590 --> 02:08:15,930
Do we have any public comments?

1347
02:08:17,150 --> 02:08:17,630
No, Mayor.

1348
02:08:19,310 --> 02:08:21,550
We'll turn to Council for discussion.

1349
02:08:21,730 --> 02:08:23,910
Do we have any other comments that we'd like to make for discussion?

1350
02:08:25,650 --> 02:08:26,670
I think we have it.

1351
02:08:27,750 --> 02:08:30,110
So at this time, we'll ask for a motion and a second.

1352
02:08:42,540 --> 02:08:46,760
We have a motion by Council Member Lormore, second by Mayor Dinko.

1353
02:08:47,480 --> 02:08:49,660
Before we vote, I would just read the ordinance title.

1354
02:08:50,220 --> 02:08:56,200
In the ordinance of the City Council, the City of Eastfield, California, amending section 8.52.0.0.0.

1355
02:08:56,200 --> 02:09:02,700
of the East Valley Municipal Code to make private events held on governmental property subject to the city's noise regulations.

1356
02:09:06,350 --> 02:09:07,630
Please vote on your screens.

1357
02:09:13,040 --> 02:09:14,080
Motion passes, five to zero.

1358
02:09:16,390 --> 02:09:17,370
Excellent, thank you.

1359
02:09:17,470 --> 02:09:22,290
We're down to item 15, city manager and city staff report.

1360
02:09:23,130 --> 02:09:24,030
City manager, Marco.

1361
02:09:24,510 --> 02:09:26,390
Yes, Honorable Mayor, members of the city council.

1362
02:09:26,570 --> 02:09:32,150
What an amazing week, I'm absolutely flabbergasted by this city council.

1363
02:09:32,150 --> 02:09:37,670
I will tell you, most of the citizens don't realize the hours that you put in, not only

1364
02:09:37,670 --> 02:09:43,070
to conduct the work that you do here in these council meetings sometimes, but also all

1365
02:09:43,070 --> 02:09:44,530
the events going on throughout the community.

1366
02:09:45,170 --> 02:09:49,130
I'll just thank you for your continued participation in this city.

1367
02:09:49,650 --> 02:09:53,750
From the Cal Cities meeting, we had elected officials from throughout Riverside County come

1368
02:09:53,750 --> 02:09:59,810
to Eastville on Monday and enjoy their time talking about policy.

1369
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:28,580
Let's see, talking about how best to help each other in the region. We also had a minor lighting ceremony that evening. A wonderful ceremony that brought many people together to bear witness to the beauty of that occasion. Tuesday, we had the second annual fire and police appreciation dinner, the Chamber of Commerce, the city both sponsored that to celebrate the heroes that work with us each and every day to keep our citizens safe.

1370
02:10:28,580 --> 02:10:32,240
In addition, we had a grand opening in Olive Garden.

1371
02:10:32,600 --> 02:10:33,680
I'll remind the public,

1372
02:10:33,920 --> 02:10:35,440
Olive Garden is officially open.

1373
02:10:36,040 --> 02:10:38,640
This city council followed through on getting sit down

1374
02:10:38,640 --> 02:10:40,680
diners into this city,

1375
02:10:40,860 --> 02:10:42,680
and Olive Garden is just one of many to come.

1376
02:10:43,300 --> 02:10:45,440
But they're officially open, Gilbert Lucero,

1377
02:10:46,040 --> 02:10:48,900
the GM and his team are ready to serve.

1378
02:10:49,120 --> 02:10:50,580
So please go visit them.

1379
02:10:51,360 --> 02:10:53,560
And there's just so many other things occurring

1380
02:10:53,560 --> 02:10:54,520
throughout this city.

1381
02:10:54,660 --> 02:10:57,000
Even the last night, candy cane lane.

1382
02:10:57,000 --> 02:11:04,820
A number of you were riding along with the team of our Sheriff's and Fire really engaging with the community.

1383
02:11:05,380 --> 02:11:09,160
What is this show? This show is the engagement that we have to partner.

1384
02:11:09,460 --> 02:11:17,840
It shows the engagement we have to celebrate our community and just the amazing joyful nature that this city has here in Eastville.

1385
02:11:18,340 --> 02:11:23,820
And so I want to commend you all and thank you all for being such great participants in the community that you lead.

1386
02:11:24,520 --> 02:11:26,980
In addition to that, I just want to highlight a few other things.

1387
02:11:28,100 --> 02:11:33,040
Eastvale 2040, when I say that many people envision a continuing growth pattern that goes

1388
02:11:33,040 --> 02:11:35,580
on in this city that's going to make it even better than it already is today.

1389
02:11:36,000 --> 02:11:37,260
You've cast that vision.

1390
02:11:37,680 --> 02:11:39,040
It's a part of this general plan.

1391
02:11:39,480 --> 02:11:44,260
That was recently displayed on December 6th in these city council chambers, where residents

1392
02:11:44,260 --> 02:11:48,820
and members of the public had an opportunity to attend, which they did, the event, and ask

1393
02:11:48,820 --> 02:11:50,000
questions and provide input.

1394
02:11:50,000 --> 02:11:51,860
But we want to thank those citizens that did attend.

1395
02:11:52,460 --> 02:11:56,420
And so we anticipate that that general plan will be coming forward to the City Council

1396
02:11:56,420 --> 02:11:58,320
and planning commission early next year.

1397
02:11:58,720 --> 02:11:59,720
So expect that I'll come back.

1398
02:12:00,080 --> 02:12:04,360
You can put that one to bed and move forward because you've cast the vision necessary to truly

1399
02:12:04,360 --> 02:12:05,280
drive a city forward.

1400
02:12:06,320 --> 02:12:12,160
Also want to make note of the events coming up this weekend, Miracle at Riverview, that's

1401
02:12:12,160 --> 02:12:13,200
this Saturday and Sunday.

1402
02:12:13,200 --> 02:12:19,900
I, from 3 to 9 p.m. both days, it's going to be on 14, 6, 0, 0, bear, and drive.

1403
02:12:20,840 --> 02:12:23,120
Enzwin's Cordero, I have to commend on staff.

1404
02:12:23,620 --> 02:12:25,380
I don't know how he and his team do it every time.

1405
02:12:25,720 --> 02:12:30,140
Mr. Donohue, you run a tight ship and boy, you've got a crew that gets the job done.

1406
02:12:30,380 --> 02:12:35,400
So I just want to say, I hope everybody goes out there and truly enjoys the celebration

1407
02:12:35,400 --> 02:12:36,920
that we do at the Miracle event.

1408
02:12:37,600 --> 02:12:43,000
And then also, a couple of things that I think are more of a personal note, but I also

1409
02:12:43,000 --> 02:12:49,360
So, but I feel like I should share them because we are a city community, we are a city family.

1410
02:12:49,960 --> 02:12:54,260
And when one of our family members has dramatic change in their life, it's important to recognize it.

1411
02:12:54,620 --> 02:12:56,600
So congratulations to Director Turfor.

1412
02:12:57,560 --> 02:13:04,500
He was married to beautiful wife Jamie, and this city wishes you a very blessed marriage for

1413
02:13:04,500 --> 02:13:08,000
many years to come, and hopefully you and Jamie will enjoy that together.

1414
02:13:12,270 --> 02:13:16,450
And I also, a couple of other ones, one is Mr. Fung.

1415
02:13:16,670 --> 02:13:19,910
And I know you all said thanks to him and congratulated him.

1416
02:13:20,350 --> 02:13:25,290
He's a preeminent example of what government can be, what government can do.

1417
02:13:25,750 --> 02:13:28,130
It's not about standing in line and waiting your turn.

1418
02:13:28,130 --> 02:13:32,710
It's about trying to figure out ways to provide efficiencies to create more lines to get things

1419
02:13:32,710 --> 02:13:32,950
done.

1420
02:13:33,430 --> 02:13:35,310
He did that with the zip code initiative.

1421
02:13:35,770 --> 02:13:39,290
He's doing that in other areas, particularly in the areas of economic development.

1422
02:13:39,290 --> 02:13:49,150
It's rare in this position that I've served in for many years to find those kind of people Eastvale has them and he's a prime example of one.

1423
02:13:49,530 --> 02:13:54,950
So I just want to thank you, Alex, for the amazing job that you continue to do and just want to prod you on to keep going.

1424
02:13:55,390 --> 02:13:57,730
And we appreciate you and everything you do.

1425
02:13:58,650 --> 02:14:02,810
And then finally, being family, there were two recent birthdays.

1426
02:14:02,810 --> 02:14:09,850
one that happened because we didn't get to celebrate because well it was around things given and well we didn't meet during things giving.

1427
02:14:10,410 --> 02:14:17,810
And as I see our mayor kind of sheepishly look away, happy birthday mayor. I know that was on November 16th.

1428
02:14:18,330 --> 02:14:23,570
And Miss Yao, council member Yao, years is coming up on December 19th.

1429
02:14:23,990 --> 02:14:32,270
So happy birthday to both of you and our clerk has yummy treats for you, not that you've had enough during this Christmas season.

1430
02:14:32,270 --> 02:14:34,130
But happy birthday to both of you.

1431
02:14:34,330 --> 02:14:36,210
We celebrate you and thank you for your service.

1432
02:14:36,610 --> 02:14:37,950
With that, that concludes my reports.

1433
02:14:38,370 --> 02:14:39,010
Thank you very much.

1434
02:14:41,480 --> 02:14:42,220
Thank you, Mark.

1435
02:14:42,920 --> 02:14:44,560
With our birthday so close together,

1436
02:14:44,960 --> 02:14:46,700
does that mean we're close to the same age

1437
02:14:46,700 --> 02:14:48,180
because I'd be happy to go back and tie.

1438
02:14:49,960 --> 02:14:51,800
The answer's no, unfortunately not.

1439
02:14:52,640 --> 02:14:54,420
But thank you so much for the great report.

1440
02:14:54,600 --> 02:14:55,980
So many great things happening in our city.

1441
02:14:56,000 --> 02:14:59,760
I'm looking forward to Saturday and Sunday, for sure.

1442
02:15:02,600 --> 02:15:09,940
We're going to go through our council communications and committee reports. So I'll start with the

1443
02:15:11,140 --> 02:15:16,760
soon-to-be birthday council member. Council member Yao, do you have anything to report from your

1444
02:15:16,760 --> 02:15:24,060
committees? I do, yes. Thank you. We have, we're meeting tomorrow, RTA is meeting tomorrow.

1445
02:15:24,060 --> 02:15:30,400
and then in addition to that team now, which is part of RTA, we have a holiday celebration this Friday.

1446
02:15:31,780 --> 02:15:40,280
But I do want to highlight something related to RTA, the city managers sent out the survey

1447
02:15:40,280 --> 02:15:51,620
result for the micro transit and I believe 64 people responded and I'm not sure if

1448
02:15:51,620 --> 02:15:56,840
and everyone has had the chance to take a look at it but I thought it was very fascinating

1449
02:15:56,840 --> 02:16:04,260
because at RTA there's always this debate of does chicken come first or does a come first

1450
02:16:04,260 --> 02:16:10,080
And we are like, well, you know, how about survey is a great idea?

1451
02:16:10,400 --> 02:16:13,680
It's a great way to look at, you know, what's really happening.

1452
02:16:14,080 --> 02:16:18,400
And if you look at it, currently only three out of 64 people

1453
02:16:18,400 --> 02:16:20,940
who respond to which is 4% I did a math for you all.

1454
02:16:22,040 --> 02:16:25,100
Only 4% of people actually take the bus,

1455
02:16:25,240 --> 02:16:27,060
which does not surprise me at all.

1456
02:16:27,580 --> 02:16:31,080
And if you look at it, those are the three people

1457
02:16:31,080 --> 02:16:34,240
actually utilize the bus for school.

1458
02:16:35,120 --> 02:16:38,960
One of them, I think Norco College and then two arrows of out.

1459
02:16:39,920 --> 02:16:46,060
And so, very, not surprising, but also not great numbers.

1460
02:16:46,520 --> 02:16:49,440
However, if you continue looking at the report,

1461
02:16:49,800 --> 02:16:54,440
when asked if we were to provide point to point service,

1462
02:16:54,440 --> 02:17:00,220
which is what a micro transit is, would you take it and how often would you take it?

1463
02:17:00,220 --> 02:17:09,600
And the number of people who said they would take it was 87%, 87% of people would actually

1464
02:17:10,680 --> 02:17:13,720
take a point-to-point service bus system.

1465
02:17:16,140 --> 02:17:21,580
And the frequency was 60% of them would take it at least four times a week.

1466
02:17:21,860 --> 02:17:27,780
And if you look at there's another question that asks where would they take the bus to and

1467
02:17:27,780 --> 02:17:34,080
And what would they use it for, most of them said to school, to high school.

1468
02:17:36,780 --> 02:17:42,960
So that highlights for me two things, well, actually probably more than two things.

1469
02:17:43,180 --> 02:17:48,000
First, there's a need for school bus or just bus for schools.

1470
02:17:49,640 --> 02:17:54,940
Second, the existing bus route is not working, which is something I'll bring up to RTA.

1471
02:17:56,020 --> 02:17:59,180
But third is that there are interest and point-to-point service.

1472
02:17:59,640 --> 02:18:06,340
So anyway, I will also bring that up tomorrow at our RTA meeting and yeah, but thank you

1473
02:18:06,340 --> 02:18:06,660
for that.

1474
02:18:06,880 --> 02:18:08,180
That was actually very insightful.

1475
02:18:10,390 --> 02:18:11,830
And that concludes my report.

1476
02:18:13,450 --> 02:18:14,070
Thank you.

1477
02:18:14,110 --> 02:18:15,030
I appreciate the reports.

1478
02:18:15,430 --> 02:18:20,290
Interesting when it comes to the school bus question, because it's always been a question

1479
02:18:20,290 --> 02:18:25,470
for me because it would be really help alleviate traffic at the schools and provide the need.

1480
02:18:25,470 --> 02:18:27,990
I need, I'm sure for many, many families.

1481
02:18:31,160 --> 02:18:33,200
Councilmember Rigby, do you have any reports?

1482
02:18:35,040 --> 02:18:35,760
Thank you.

1483
02:18:37,020 --> 02:18:47,680
We recently had a Eastville Schools Committee meeting, and they briefly talked about that some of the boundary changes have been done for the elementary school, and that the one for the high schools has been delayed.

1484
02:18:48,340 --> 02:18:57,580
But we did reiterate the importance of meeting with our city staff to make sure that the city staff's included in that can help give recommendation.

1485
02:18:57,580 --> 02:19:01,180
especially as it pertains to traffic and issues that may arise from that.

1486
02:19:01,720 --> 02:19:07,120
One of the other things that we talked about that was brought up by the district staff,

1487
02:19:07,120 --> 02:19:11,980
and then I kind of reiterated and volunteered us and myself.

1488
02:19:12,580 --> 02:19:17,120
But as regarding the school traffic and the accidents that happened around the schools,

1489
02:19:18,260 --> 02:19:23,060
particularly with these electric bikes or scooters,

1490
02:19:23,260 --> 02:19:25,900
I know at the high school there's been a number of these that have happened,

1491
02:19:27,140 --> 02:19:32,600
And it's a lot of them have been because of kids not aware, I mean, not because of, but

1492
02:19:32,600 --> 02:19:36,320
a lot of them have been with kids not wearing helmets, which is just amazing.

1493
02:19:36,700 --> 02:19:42,260
So I know that the school resource officers said that they're working with the districts

1494
02:19:42,260 --> 02:19:49,200
to put out some information, but I challenged them and volunteered us to help assist in

1495
02:19:49,200 --> 02:19:52,500
any way that we can, but it needs to be more than just putting out information.

1496
02:19:52,940 --> 02:19:59,980
that it needs to be, because I imagine what they're going to do is put together some sort of flyer or something and send it out, but I think it needs to be...

1497
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:27,640
This would be more of a campaign, something visual, something that really gets out to the families, so that they're aware of how dangerous this can really be. Luckily, we haven't had any, we all need to knock on wood. Luckily, we haven't had any serious incidents with this, but it's just a matter of time, especially around the schools that some kid gets hit, doesn't have a helmet on, and doesn't go home.

1498
02:20:28,280 --> 02:20:34,540
And so I think it's something that I've offered myself to assist with any type of campaign

1499
02:20:34,540 --> 02:20:38,380
and even said that it'd be good for us to partner with JCSD, the Schools, the Sheriff's

1500
02:20:38,380 --> 02:20:42,360
Department, everyone, I think it could just be an excellent campaign and an excellent opportunity

1501
02:20:42,360 --> 02:20:43,880
for everyone to collaborate together.

1502
02:20:46,300 --> 02:20:51,120
So that was basically it on the Schools, I don't know if Mark, if you had anything.

1503
02:20:51,340 --> 02:20:52,700
I think that was basically it.

1504
02:20:53,620 --> 02:20:57,720
Just on CalCities, it was a nice meeting on Monday.

1505
02:20:57,940 --> 02:21:04,460
Thank you to staff for helping to coordinate that, and really appreciate all that you guys did in helping to make that a successful meeting.

1506
02:21:05,340 --> 02:21:11,920
On that also, I was just notified that I was reappointed to the CalCities Community Services Policy Committee.

1507
02:21:12,560 --> 02:21:15,660
I think I've been on that for the last four or five years.

1508
02:21:15,660 --> 02:21:22,600
So it's fun to be on there. Fundists still be involved in give input, especially regarding

1509
02:21:22,600 --> 02:21:23,380
community services.

1510
02:21:26,230 --> 02:21:31,810
But that is all the, I had some other things, but I'll save that

1511
02:21:31,810 --> 02:21:32,750
to after the committee reports.

1512
02:21:35,060 --> 02:21:36,000
Council Member Lormore.

1513
02:21:37,500 --> 02:21:45,600
Thank you, sir. We've had a little bit of downtime since our last council meeting, so there's

1514
02:21:45,600 --> 02:22:12,300
There's been a lot actually that has taken place and I'm going to try and be brief but I mean the city manager a little bit earlier just shared the first couple of days this week and it was anyway it's that time of year and it is amazing that we get to have this celebration like this, but there there is a lot going on and which is exciting and truly is.

1515
02:22:14,300 --> 02:22:24,320
So, going back since our last council meeting, let me see here, we did have the League of

1516
02:22:24,320 --> 02:22:29,880
California Cities, the division meeting we had representatives from Cross the County

1517
02:22:29,880 --> 02:22:39,160
Coachella Valley out here visiting, which was great, they were very impressed with what

1518
02:22:39,160 --> 02:22:47,880
the city is just driving down Limonite over to Schleismen and they were like, whoa, we just

1519
02:22:47,880 --> 02:22:56,400
used to drive by this. I thought it was all cows. We've come a long way and so it was good to share

1520
02:22:56,400 --> 02:22:57,640
have discussions.

1521
02:23:00,400 --> 02:23:06,320
Thank you to those over there. I'm back on the executive committee. It was

1522
02:23:06,320 --> 02:23:14,260
So, that will be good on West End representative for the Riverside division.

1523
02:23:14,780 --> 02:23:27,460
Also, heads up, I was tapped and asked if I'd be willing to participate in an upcoming warehouse working group talking with the state.

1524
02:23:28,160 --> 02:23:33,300
And that's specifically, there's a lot of legislation coming out of Sacramento right now related to warehousing.

1525
02:23:33,300 --> 02:23:45,080
And in Southern California, the Inland Empire region is the epicenter of this for the whole country, actually.

1526
02:23:46,040 --> 02:23:48,120
And this is not just about warehouses.

1527
02:23:48,440 --> 02:23:50,060
It's about infrastructure.

1528
02:23:50,720 --> 02:23:54,140
It's about manufacturing jobs that we have here.

1529
02:23:55,020 --> 02:23:57,360
And what that looks like for the future.

1530
02:23:57,360 --> 02:24:02,160
Speaking of which, SCAG, Southern California Association of Governments,

1531
02:24:03,560 --> 02:24:08,540
we just had our economic summit last week in LA.

1532
02:24:08,780 --> 02:24:11,500
And honestly, it feels like it was a couple of weeks ago.

1533
02:24:11,620 --> 02:24:13,940
That's how packed this time frame has been.

1534
02:24:14,180 --> 02:24:20,380
But we had our city manager economic development team coming out in force,

1535
02:24:20,380 --> 02:24:23,360
Mr. Fung, Gus was there as well.

1536
02:24:23,360 --> 02:24:37,300
and so it was, but it happened to be at the same time as our morning chamber meeting, as is always so, but it was awesome.

1537
02:24:37,480 --> 02:24:41,200
Thank you to Sue Staff for participating and coming out to that.

1538
02:24:42,320 --> 02:24:48,920
And it's a collection, again, of SCAG, it's 191 cities.

1539
02:24:48,920 --> 02:24:56,320
And so, coming down together to talk about the economic outlook of the Southern California region,

1540
02:24:56,960 --> 02:24:59,900
they did break it down into reading.

1541
02:25:06,060 --> 02:25:29,980
We're going to work on that moving forward. RCTC this morning, we had our meeting, had changing of officers. One of the discussions, I want to share an interesting development. It's always been there, but it hasn't been on the forefront as much as it was today. And that is, it's been a long time.

1542
02:25:30,000 --> 02:25:39,160
Generally, there's discussion of our CTC Riverside County Transportation Commission covers the entirety of the county of Riverside.

1543
02:25:39,380 --> 02:25:51,500
For all transportation projects, major freeways, connectors, interchanges, and today, it was the strangest thing.

1544
02:25:51,500 --> 02:25:59,960
We had just gotten through on voting hundreds of millions of dollars on infrastructure projects in the Coachella Valley.

1545
02:26:01,360 --> 02:26:13,560
And there came up a discussion about a funding, I'm not going to go crazy into the weeds on this, but there was a funding question,

1546
02:26:13,560 --> 02:26:26,280
calculation, how we would allocate and prioritize projects to scag and how these projects would

1547
02:26:26,280 --> 02:26:35,000
in turn get ranked and would determine whether or not monies came from a specific sub,

1548
02:26:35,140 --> 02:26:40,060
anyway, whether or not scag would deliver money from the federal government and state to

1549
02:26:40,060 --> 02:26:43,540
this region, specifically Riverside County.

1550
02:26:44,000 --> 02:26:49,680
We're talking about $33 million and literally just the one before it was several hundred million dollars.

1551
02:26:49,820 --> 02:26:59,280
On one vote, the amount of time that we've spent discussing what in essence is as crazy to say.

1552
02:26:59,480 --> 02:27:06,780
But by RCTC budget standards, budget dust, $33 million compared to the billions that we've spent.

1553
02:27:06,780 --> 02:27:11,840
And it highlighted this crazy divide between East and

1554
02:27:11,840 --> 02:27:19,960
Westerners at County, specifically the Coachella Valley, which accounts for, on a good day, 20% of Riverside County's population.

1555
02:27:20,240 --> 02:27:23,880
But they want equal monies to Westerners at County.

1556
02:27:24,220 --> 02:27:29,340
Anyway, I need to share that because I'm hoping that this is not the future as we move forward.

1557
02:27:30,840 --> 02:27:34,840
And I know there's stuff I'm missing.

1558
02:27:34,840 --> 02:27:54,300
We made it out to Fire Station 27 the other day for a tour looking at the facilities and that was really great to see the guys and hear some of the things that we should probably that we're working on and I'll be going over to Fire Station 31 tomorrow if anybody else wants to join.

1559
02:27:55,420 --> 02:28:00,980
Let me know and I know I'm missing stuff but that concludes my report. Thank you.

1560
02:28:05,650 --> 02:28:06,550
Mayor Pro Tem,

1561
02:28:10,110 --> 02:28:16,110
I was able to attend last couple RTA meetings, I'd like to say Council

1562
02:28:16,110 --> 02:28:17,930
Memorial, you were greatly missed over there.

1563
02:28:18,830 --> 02:28:21,550
Many people I want to know where you are when you're coming back, so it would be great

1564
02:28:21,550 --> 02:28:22,350
to see you tomorrow.

1565
02:28:23,110 --> 02:28:27,470
Their ridership is up about 14% this year, or year over year, so that's great.

1566
02:28:28,350 --> 02:28:31,770
In our finance committee, we're dropped this month, but it will be back in January.

1567
02:28:31,770 --> 02:28:32,770
The

1568
02:28:35,720 --> 02:28:38,800
one report I have is from W. R. Cogg.

1569
02:28:39,380 --> 02:28:41,820
I brought it up briefly at my last meeting.

1570
02:28:41,820 --> 02:28:44,640
I'll just highlight it just to keep it on everybody's radar.

1571
02:28:46,060 --> 02:29:04,240
We're recently presented an opportunity along with many different areas and parts of the state to be a potential recipient of the ARPA money designated for green energy from the federal government.

1572
02:29:04,240 --> 02:29:16,460
So, there are eight MMPAs throughout California, which could be potential receptors to the federal grants.

1573
02:29:17,280 --> 02:29:26,840
So only eight throughout the state, and we're designated as one potentially between Western Riverside County and

1574
02:29:26,840 --> 02:29:28,720
San Bernardino along with Ontario.

1575
02:29:28,960 --> 02:29:31,940
We're grouped together as one potential MMPA.

1576
02:29:31,940 --> 02:29:40,200
So we have to decide whether we want to submit an application to be the recipient of some

1577
02:29:40,200 --> 02:29:40,920
of that grant money.

1578
02:29:42,220 --> 02:29:53,260
So in order to do that, we as NWRCOG needs to submit our proposal back to the state to

1579
02:29:53,260 --> 02:29:59,220
be one of those, one of the designated MMPAs, which will list all the potential projects

1580
02:29:59,220 --> 02:29:59,720
Let's do it.

1581
02:30:00,600 --> 02:30:29,980
So, I had a meeting with our city manager, Mark Orman, our public works director, Jimmy Chung, just, I think it was, was he yesterday or today? It was as Marty. We were talking about it. They have presented to the tax so they were already very well aware of this project. And we saw as the executive committee in W.R.Cog very important for us to try to seek this funding. This funding can range anywhere from 100 million.

1582
02:30:29,980 --> 02:30:33,160
into $200 million grant money for regional projects.

1583
02:30:34,120 --> 02:30:38,880
So really the bottom line question is, do we want to control how that money is spent,

1584
02:30:39,140 --> 02:30:43,300
or do we want the state to control that money, or other MMPAs?

1585
02:30:44,120 --> 02:30:50,100
And after a short amount of discussion, it didn't take long.

1586
02:30:50,280 --> 02:30:55,160
We want to be the controller of that destiny, just like Councilmember Lorne

1587
02:30:55,160 --> 02:31:02,520
more discussed with, you know, troubles and committees and where the money goes and not getting our fair share in Riverside County from the state.

1588
02:31:02,880 --> 02:31:04,540
We want to make sure we control our own destiny.

1589
02:31:05,280 --> 02:31:12,840
Now, we ultimately have to apply for that to become the MMPA and designated recipient of that money.

1590
02:31:13,000 --> 02:31:21,780
We don't know exactly how much would be granted if WRCOG was to be granted as the MMPA.

1591
02:31:21,780 --> 02:31:29,340
which just so happens to be over the exact area in which our I-REN covers, our inland regional

1592
02:31:29,340 --> 02:31:38,420
energy network, which includes WRCOG and San Bernardino's COG as well, if we, the I-REN could

1593
02:31:38,420 --> 02:31:49,560
be potentially a perfect governmental entity to manage that grant money if we received it.

1594
02:31:49,560 --> 02:31:56,060
So I know our city staff is working hard and identifying potential projects to go into the report and if we ultimately get awarded

1595
02:31:56,060 --> 02:32:05,640
That could be good things for our region. So that's it on the W. R. Cug front. I know council member Rigby you might have had additional

1596
02:32:06,620 --> 02:32:10,040
Yeah, just a couple additional quick additional items

1597
02:32:11,520 --> 02:32:16,720
Outside of committee reports. I did have the opportunity also to attend the Eastville Chamber of Commerce toy drive

1598
02:32:16,720 --> 02:32:28,820
which was a fun event and a lot of toys that was with Spark of Love, with Channel 7, as well as the Inland Empire National,

1599
02:32:29,540 --> 02:32:34,480
Inland Empire, Latino Women Group, something.

1600
02:32:35,120 --> 02:32:37,940
But they're one of the largest groups in the Inland Empire.

1601
02:32:38,580 --> 02:32:42,000
So it was in partnership with them also and a very good turnout.

1602
02:32:43,440 --> 02:32:49,780
I did have a phone call in regards to someone called me in regards to electric charging stations

1603
02:32:49,780 --> 02:32:54,120
and I think I briefly talked to our city manager about that.

1604
02:32:54,560 --> 02:32:58,780
But their concern was was that most of our, if not all of our charging stations currently,

1605
02:32:59,000 --> 02:33:01,440
are Tesla charging stations, nothing against Tesla.

1606
02:33:01,920 --> 02:33:04,360
But there are other electric cars that are out there.

1607
02:33:04,660 --> 02:33:09,020
And I know that there's converters that are available, different things like that.

1608
02:33:09,020 --> 02:33:18,460
But they were asking if there's any possibility as we go to approve or there's additional electric chargers that are installed within the city that we look at other options other than just the Tesla chargers.

1609
02:33:19,460 --> 02:33:35,780
So if that's something that we can do as we go through different projects, one of the last items I just wanted to go back to one of the public comments regarding the chickens, I think is worth it for us to look at this at this zoning at this code requirement.

1610
02:33:35,780 --> 02:33:41,580
I think there are some valid points that were brought up, and I think it is something that's worth us to at least explore.

1611
02:33:43,140 --> 02:33:48,740
If we're up to me, I have a little bit bigger lot, but if we're up to me, I always tell my wife I'd love to have chickens and bees.

1612
02:33:49,440 --> 02:33:52,760
And bees was one that was brought up a while ago, that we changed our ordinance about.

1613
02:33:53,600 --> 02:33:58,660
And this one's being brought up too, and I think that it is something that's cool.

1614
02:33:58,660 --> 02:34:06,340
So there's a lot of benefits to having organic, natural food and things that these chickens

1615
02:34:06,340 --> 02:34:09,140
can provide, as well as, like she said, as they become pets too.

1616
02:34:09,800 --> 02:34:13,580
So I think it's something that at least worth us looking at, I don't know, how the rest

1617
02:34:13,580 --> 02:34:19,780
of the council feels, but we could have an ordinance that regulated chicken separately from

1618
02:34:19,780 --> 02:34:20,560
roosters, though, right?

1619
02:34:21,380 --> 02:34:21,500
Yes.

1620
02:34:21,820 --> 02:34:25,740
I think so, and I think that's something that can be brought back is all that, because all

1621
02:34:25,740 --> 02:34:31,540
All it is, I think, is she's just requesting that it reduces the minimum lot size because

1622
02:34:31,540 --> 02:34:36,760
right now you can have it, but only on 7,200 square foot homes or 7,200 square foot lots.

1623
02:34:37,600 --> 02:34:42,120
So she's asking for an amendment to the size of the lot, which I think is worth bringing

1624
02:34:42,120 --> 02:34:43,360
back to having a discussion in talk.

1625
02:34:43,460 --> 02:34:46,540
If I see enough heads nodding, then we'll be back to discuss it further with you.

1626
02:34:48,680 --> 02:34:50,420
I'm open for discussion, absolutely.

1627
02:34:51,140 --> 02:34:52,740
We're just getting direction, that's all I need.

1628
02:34:52,820 --> 02:34:53,360
Thank you.

1629
02:34:54,620 --> 02:34:59,480
And that's all I had. Thank you. Oh, I did have one last thing and I knew it was brought up but

1630
02:35:01,680 --> 02:35:28,560
I think I was talking to Mark Donahue at one of the stops and he said, oh my gosh, he's gotten so big. We can't stop doing this now. And he's absolutely right. Just from last year to this year, it was amazing just to see the turnout has just grown. So thank you to our Sheriff's Department and to our Fire Department for being out there and leading that. And it's especially in today's society. It's such an awesome thing to be able to see our first responders.

1631
02:35:30,080 --> 02:35:35,260
having that relationship with our community and seeing such excitement. I know it wasn't

1632
02:35:35,260 --> 02:35:41,160
for all of us. It was for Santa and Mrs. Claus, but we're there there too. I mean, but it

1633
02:35:41,160 --> 02:35:46,760
was an awesome thing and it's one of those things that some of those kids don't get the opportunity

1634
02:35:46,760 --> 02:35:52,100
to go see Santa. And so to bring Santa to them and to bring the gifts to them that we were

1635
02:35:52,100 --> 02:35:55,920
able to, one of the stops and just even the little candy canes just to see their excitement.

1636
02:35:55,920 --> 02:35:58,720
and it was, I don't know, that's the best part

1637
02:35:58,720 --> 02:35:59,480
about this whole season.

1638
02:35:59,640 --> 02:36:01,340
It's just seen the excitement of these kids

1639
02:36:01,940 --> 02:36:03,740
over just the simplest little things.

1640
02:36:04,140 --> 02:36:05,920
So, thank you for doing that and thank you for leading that.

1641
02:36:08,240 --> 02:36:08,560
Awesome.

1642
02:36:08,760 --> 02:36:10,980
And then one quick shout out to Eastville Little League

1643
02:36:10,980 --> 02:36:13,880
who did host the Toys for Tots tournament here

1644
02:36:13,880 --> 02:36:16,040
in the city of Eastville.

1645
02:36:16,180 --> 02:36:18,280
It's a great tournament participants

1646
02:36:18,280 --> 02:36:21,880
are to bring in toys for the CHP, Toys for Tots drive.

1647
02:36:22,660 --> 02:36:25,300
And I know we had a lot of people participating,

1648
02:36:25,540 --> 02:36:26,680
a lot of families participating.

1649
02:36:26,680 --> 02:36:32,340
It looks like it was a great time, a lot of fun, head by all, and it was for a great cause.

1650
02:36:32,660 --> 02:36:37,120
So, a great shout out for a great organized event for Eastphal Little League.

1651
02:36:38,080 --> 02:36:41,260
And with that, we will adjourn the meeting.

1652
02:36:41,420 --> 02:36:50,480
The time is 9.23 p.m. and the next meeting, the Eastphal City Council will be on January 10, 2024.

1653
02:36:51,080 --> 02:36:55,120
The meeting is now adjourned, and I'm going to hit the gavel.

1654
02:36:55,980 --> 02:36:57,740
with chads, yeah, we'll.