[17:43] Okay, good evening and welcome to the city council meeting for the city of Almani for August 26th, 2021. I'd like to call this meeting to order 602 PM.

[18:00] Mr. Mayor, could you please call the roll?

[18:02] May you just a concoction?

[18:04] Here.

[18:05] May your protein be available in Angoria?

[18:07] Is it?

[18:08] Her body's on Cortes.

[18:10] Here.

[18:11] Can some members, Sheila Creep and Thomas?

[18:13] Can some members, Sini Galvan?

[18:16] Can some members, Martini Runa?

[18:18] Here.

[18:19] Can some members, Dr. Julio Redis?

[18:21] Here.

[18:27] Thank you.

[18:31] I'm about, no, we haven't approved this until that.

[18:36] I'm getting it.

[18:38] Okay, at this time,

[18:40] I'd like, we need to call for an approval of the agenda.

[18:44] There are follow, there are edits and changes to our agenda.

[18:48] So we have two walk-on items, item 4.2 and 4.3, which I'll allow city attorney to introduce

[18:55] briefly, but in addition to that, we are pulling items 12.9, 12.10, 12.11, 12.12, 12.17,

[19:05] 12.20, 12.24, 12.25, 12.26,

[19:10] 12.30 and then I saw an agenda that item 12.32 has also been pulled, which is not listed

[19:21] on this page, but it states at the bottom that the item has been pulled for our updated

[19:28] agenda, red line agenda.

[19:30] Colleagues?

[19:35] No, item 12.3 is not pulled mayor.

[19:38] Is are you looking at?

[19:40] 12.32.

[19:41] 12.32.

[19:41] At the bottom at the very bottom under the cost it says item has been pulled give me a minute, please

[19:58] It's page 30 21 page

[20:00] 2020.

[20:08] That's a mistake, Mayor. Yes.

[20:14] Yes. Okay. Yes. Staying on. Okay. Just the ones you've read previously.

[20:18] You know, this, you know, I'm going to say that this does create some some confusion.

[20:24] It would have been great to have received these notification of which items were being pulled prior to this meeting to the council could be properly prepared.

[20:33] instead of trying to start through all this, but thank you.

[20:36] Okay, so this was your city attorney, can you just speak to items 4.243

[20:41] while they're coming, while we're walking them on this evening?

[20:47] Thank you, Mayor, members of the city council.

[20:49] There are two walk items tonight for closed session.

[20:52] Both items came to the attention of the city staff after the agenda was published.

[20:56] And there isn't need to take these items up tonight because outside council

[21:00] needs to receive input and direction from the city council

[21:02] before the next quarter parents on both of these matters.

[21:07] Okay, thank you.

[21:08] Thank you.

[21:08] Okay, with that colleagues, with the mentioned edits,

[21:12] do I have a motion to approve the agenda?

[21:14] I'll motion to approve the agenda.

[21:16] Motion by Cortez, and second by was that?

[21:21] A Crippin's Homeless, thank you.

[21:36] Okay, are there, excuse me?

[21:39] Not yet, okay.

[21:41] Okay, any objections?

[21:45] I object.

[21:46] No others, okay.

[21:49] agenda is approved six one.

[21:51] Thank you.

[21:52] Can we move on to the concurrent special meeting?

[21:56] I'd like to open the concurrent special meeting at six o seven p.m.

[22:03] Mr. Ramirez, city clerk, can you please call the roll?

[22:06] Yes, Mayor Jessica Ancona.

[22:09] Here.

[22:10] Mayor Pro Tem.

[22:11] Are you going to an angoria?

[22:12] Present.

[22:14] Council Member Marisol Cortez.

[22:17] The member, Sheila Cripp and Thomas.

[22:20] Here.

[22:20] Can some member Cindy Galvan?

[22:23] Here.

[22:25] Can some men Martinez Adam?

[22:28] Can some member Dr. Huir Redis?

[22:30] Here.

[22:32] Here.

[22:33] Okay, so with this,

[22:38] let me see.

[22:44] I do have a question, colleagues, for those of you who call this concurrent special as to why these items couldn't wait until our next schedule meeting.

[22:54] So, is someone available to answer that?

[23:01] These writings that three of us wanted to hear, particularly the business grant program.

[23:07] Some of the other items were staffed and said recognize that they needed to come on,

[23:10] and so we added them to our list.

[23:13] Okay, so three of you being, I did see the memo.

[23:16] Dr. Tawedas, you Mr. Tawedas, and you Mr. Tawedas.

[23:19] She looked up and told us.

[23:22] So, there was three?

[23:23] There's four.

[23:24] Three on the memo for that asked for the special hearing.

[23:28] Okay, just being that we already have such a heavy agenda adding three more items just seems like a lot for us to get through tonight.

[23:41] So I do want to express my concerns and just objections to the overall agenda that's being that was published for us.

[23:51] to read over 1800 pages, and a matter of 72 hours is a bit extreme, and I would hope that in the future, there'd be more consideration to us as council members to bring an agenda that's actually manageable.

[24:04] Mayer, if two of the three items that are concurrent agenda are closed session items, so.

[24:10] it's fine, and hopefully we can get through them in an hour.

[24:13] All right, mayor, if I may.

[24:14] So, yes, Dr. Doris.

[24:17] Yes, and one of the items for the regular meeting,

[24:23] this was very important for us,

[24:25] and it is very important for our community.

[24:29] Well, excuse me, visiting our local small businesses.

[24:37] there is, there are a few concerns, right? And of course the community's concerns are our concerns.

[24:45] And that was the reason why this, especially this item that you see here before you, is of much importance.

[24:53] It's an urgent matter. Thank you. Yeah. No, sure. You know, absolutely. And I'm speaking to the entirety of two.

[25:02] So, that's where I was going with this. Okay. So, I'd like to call for approval of the agenda.

[25:07] Motion to approve.

[25:07] Thank you. Councilmember Harris, or second. Second by, um, Dr. Doedas.

[25:13] Yes. Councilmember Cortes.

[25:15] I'd like to thank Dr. Doed with us for continuously supporting the business community and bringing it to our attention.

[25:20] This is urgent, just like unfortunately last year we experienced the ice rates, um, the business community is hurting.

[25:26] And I really like to thank you for taking the lead, taking the calls, working with City Manager,

[25:31] working staff to help bring solutions to our hurting business community.

[25:35] I don't want any more businesses shutting down.

[25:37] I don't want any businesses going to the University City.

[25:39] So I really appreciate you bringing this on.

[25:41] Thank you, Dr. Doras.

[25:42] Yeah, I also have a comment, Mayor.

[25:43] Sure.

[25:44] I know that we've also dealt with similar agendas before.

[25:48] And it hasn't been an issue.

[25:52] So for it to be an issue now.

[25:53] I think, you know, if it hasn't been an issue before, but I do want to thank you because I did go through the agenda. You answered all the questions that I had.

[26:04] I know it is a lengthy agenda, but at the end of the day that's our job, right, to be able to read, understand, ask questions and be able to make the best decisions that we can for this community. So thank you.

[26:16] I mean, I will say we there have we have had lengthy of genders been in my eight years serving on the city council. We have never had 40 items on an agenda.

[26:26] Okay, so or busy city, let's get the business going and let's move on.

[26:29] Okay, sure.

[26:30] We have a busy agenda, let's just.

[26:32] The previous agenda we've.

[26:32] All right, so.

[26:35] We have a person a second on.

[26:38] The approval of the agenda and the objections on the concurrency.

[26:42] 99, the gender is approved. Okay. Do we have any public comment for closed session?

[26:49] So you have one, I don't know, Eric Figueroa, is this for for closed session or are you this for

[26:55] the regular session? Okay. Okay, with that we'll recess into closed session. Thank you.

[1:11:45] Good evening, everybody. I just want to let everybody know the city council is going to be about another 15 to 20 minutes. If it goes any longer, I'll come back and give you an update. So thank you.

[1:30:34] Hi, everybody. Just want to let you know we're going to be about another 10 to 15 minutes. So just bear with us. If anything changes, I'll come back out and give you another update. Thank you.

[1:30:48] And if you have any public comment cards, you can give them to the sergeant at arms. Thank you.

[1:44:47] Okay, I just want to thank you all for patiently waiting. We had a lot to discuss in close session, but here we are. Okay, so let's get right into it.

[1:44:56] Having met in close session, if we could please have a report out from our city attorney.

[1:45:00] Mr. Olivates? Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Members of the City Council. We had two items on the concurrent special meeting agenda. And then we had three items in close session on the regular agenda. With respect to all of the items that appeared on the respect of the agenda, the city council received reports from city staff and from outside legal council, feedback and direction was given on all the items, but there was no final action taken tonight in close session. Thank you.

[1:45:30] Thank you so much, Mr. Alibada.

[1:45:32] Okay, so then what that will get into

[1:45:36] rest of our meeting.

[1:45:37] So for those who are willing to enable,

[1:45:39] will you please stand for the

[1:45:41] invocation on our flight salute.

[1:45:50] And we do have our chaplain leading us in our invocation.

[1:45:55] Yeah, so we're praying.

[1:45:58] Lord Jesus, we want to thank you for the

[1:46:00] opportunity that we have to be here tonight and to

[1:46:04] be able to sit in on this meeting with the council.

[1:46:07] and we ask that you will help each of us to be able to share things from our hearts about the

[1:46:17] comments that we have to make in a way that would be respectful. And we also ask that you

[1:46:22] would just bless each and every one of the offices in the city in your name we pray, amen.

[1:46:30] Okay, next we have a special guest with us today. We have Atticus Troy de Rhys,

[1:46:35] A six grade student from Dirkie School, who will lead us in our Pleasure Allegiance.

[1:46:44] Good evening everyone.

[1:46:46] May everyone please stand for the Pleasure Allegiance.

[1:46:48] But right hand over your heart, ready to begin.

[1:46:51] A Pleasure Allegiance, Allegiance to the flag,

[1:46:54] but you know I just stayed to have a rare club.

[1:46:57] And to the three public who are watching students,

[1:47:00] one nation, from their god,

[1:47:03] and the wisdom and the justice for all.

[1:47:07] Great.

[1:47:07] Thank you, Adagas.

[1:47:08] If you could please come up here, come up to the

[1:47:12] Nious with this.

[1:47:21] I think as we're going to have you say right here. Are you have a seat?

[1:47:28] Okay, Atticus. Oh, so is it Atticus or is it Troy?

[1:47:33] It's Atticus Troy de Rees. We're going to have to get this root pin and this this Martinez

[1:47:37] They left office first name. Okay, so we'll get this redone for you

[1:47:42] But this is a certificate of appreciation and appreciation of your participation

[1:47:47] at the Almani City Council meeting,

[1:47:49] held on Wednesday, August 26th,

[1:47:50] 2026 by leading the pledge of allegiance.

[1:47:53] So it's signed by myself and all of the members

[1:47:55] of the City Council that are here.

[1:47:57] And then we also have a bag for you with a few goodies,

[1:48:00] a college pen and a water bottle pencil,

[1:48:03] and you can take a look at what else,

[1:48:05] but this is for you just for us.

[1:48:07] As saying, thank you to you for joining us this evening.

[1:48:09] So let's go ahead and take a picture.

[1:48:14] Oh, okay.

[1:48:15] Oh, okay.

[1:48:16] Thank you so much.

[1:48:24] Thank you.

[1:48:25] Thank you.

[1:48:25] Thank you for joining us.

[1:48:27] Of course.

[1:48:34] Thank you.

[1:48:35] Thank you.

[1:48:36] Okay.

[1:48:37] Next we'll move on to a presentation.

[1:48:40] We have several certificates.

[1:48:42] We want to thank many of our community partners

[1:48:53] that contributed to our back-to-school

[1:48:54] resource fair that we had in early August.

[1:48:57] We want to thank you very much for all of your contributions, donations, to help the children

[1:49:02] here in the city of Amani have a great start to their school year. I'm going to read off the

[1:49:07] names of those participants and then I'll allow my colleagues to share any additional words that

[1:49:12] they would want to say. So, and we'll be calling, I'm going to read your names off and then I'll

[1:49:17] call you up to receive your certificates. So, we want to thank the K-Counce, food for last,

[1:49:23] Croger, Longa Toyota, Los Angeles County Firefighters, Local 1014, SAU, Local 721, and Supervisor

[1:49:32] Hill, the Solis of the Los Angeles First District, an appreciation for their donations and

[1:49:38] volunteer services for the back-to-school research fair.

[1:49:41] So again, we just want to thank you,

[1:49:49] except if you want to share a few words.

[1:49:52] Okay, go ahead Mayor for 10.

[1:49:54] Thank you.

[1:49:55] I want to thank all of you for...

[1:50:00] Reporting our families, it was a beautiful day, it was blistering hot, but we survived, but we had a lot of

[1:50:06] families out there, a lot of children smiling, things are so expensive now, so thank you from the bottom of our heart and our community for providing that support for our children that many of them are already at school.

[1:50:19] There was lots of smiles, I know, they just were very appreciative of the resources that were provided.

[1:50:27] So, a lot of families and not only from in Monty but our neighboring cities, so thank you again for the support and the love that you provided for these families and children.

[1:50:37] Thank you.

[1:50:39] Thank you.

[1:50:40] Anybody else?

[1:50:41] Councilwoman Gaban.

[1:50:43] I just really want to thank you all.

[1:50:45] You are all amazing for doing this.

[1:50:48] I am a social worker by day, so I see a lot of our young people, families that are struggling to purchase food,

[1:50:55] food, backpacks, all the stuff that they need to be able to learn, right. So I really

[1:51:01] want to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for taking care of our youth in

[1:51:06] the city surrounding areas. You are all really amazing and I hope you all will contribute

[1:51:12] to next year's backpack events so we can support more of our families and if you're interested

[1:51:19] and being a sponsor for next year's backpack event, we welcome it all so we can support more

[1:51:26] families. So thank you again. Thank you Councilman Govan. Yes, Councilman Corp and Thomas.

[1:52:04] Councilman Cortes. Thank you. Again, I just really grateful that we live in a community.

[1:52:12] Just the six of us that were able to attend, it was I think over a hundred degrees.

[1:52:16] I was so proud to see the organization, so the city staff put this together, but thanks to all of the organizations, sponsors that participated, we were able to service over 5,000 families, you're talking about school supplies, shoes, even a food distribution, just to give the parents or the guardians just to release that they didn't have to use safe money utility money to start a new school year.

[1:52:40] The kids are our future. I'm not going to be here forever and I just know that if we keep investing in the next generation,

[1:52:46] they're all going to take care of us one day. So I cannot thank you enough. Thank you for believing in our youth.

[1:52:52] Thank you to the City Manager, all the relationships. And like Council Member Galdon said,

[1:52:57] we hope to see you back. We have an amazing events in this community. We have over three school districts.

[1:53:01] We have two school districts that are kinder through eighth grade and then we have one high school district,

[1:53:06] and they all need supplies every school year.

[1:53:10] So thank you again for making our next generation better.

[1:53:13] Thank you so much.

[1:53:14] Oh, and one more, thank you to our special volunteers

[1:53:17] that you've forgotten mention.

[1:53:20] Some of us have really good friends, believe it or not.

[1:53:22] And they actually come out and bravely weather with us.

[1:53:25] And they help all this year.

[1:53:26] So we had a couple of volunteers.

[1:53:28] I want to thank everyone that participated.

[1:53:30] Thank you.

[1:53:31] All right.

[1:53:32] Councilmember Hur.

[1:53:34] Thank you. It's been said, but I'm just going to repeat it. Thank you so much for your contributions to this event.

[1:53:40] And every year, somebody asks me, are you guys doing that back to school resource?

[1:53:46] Are you doing that trunk or treat or whatever is the city doing?

[1:53:51] Yeah, yeah, we've got on our calendar, but the truth of the matter is it doesn't happen because the city happens because of our community.

[1:53:58] All of you, all the businesses that contribute and provide these things for our community, the volunteers that go there and man these boots and share their smiles and positive spirits with the community.

[1:54:12] That's what makes it a success. So thank you so much for all of you who make it happen, who make it happen. We take the credit for it, but it's really it's all of your effort that makes it happen. So thank you so much for that.

[1:54:25] and I know that our families needed those resources.

[1:54:29] But even more so, I think the kids are touched

[1:54:31] to see all of you out there supporting their efforts in school.

[1:54:36] And so, I think that goes an even longer way,

[1:54:40] a longer distance than that paper pad or that pad

[1:54:43] or that backpack.

[1:54:44] That's going to stay with them inside and carry them throughout the year.

[1:54:48] So, thank you so much for being a part of that.

[1:54:51] Thank you, cos some of her. Dr. Ros?

[1:54:55] Yes, thank you all in good evening.

[1:54:57] Just who I go on the same sentiment.

[1:55:00] That have been expressed this evening. Thank you to you. So all of you are sponsors who really make this amazing, these amazing efforts have been here and our community for our children for our families. Thank you.

[1:55:16] As we share the same love and respect for our community. Thank you for making that happen. And of course, while being out there and during this amazing event, the resource fair for our families.

[1:55:29] families for our children.

[1:55:32] When we had those children, those families saying, thank you.

[1:55:36] Thank you for what you do for what you do.

[1:55:39] In our minds, we were saying, thanks to you.

[1:55:43] Thanks to all of you who make this happen.

[1:55:46] Again, thank you from our entire Council, Mayor Kat and City Council

[1:55:50] for making this possible for our community.

[1:55:56] Thank you.

[1:55:57] So at this time, we'll come on down.

[1:55:58] grab certificates and we'll be calling you up on at the time.

[2:00:54] Okay, so really quickly with that we're going to take a brief recess because we've been going for almost two hours.

[2:01:00] So those who need to go can go and then will come back shortly. Thank you.

[2:08:38] All right, thank you so much for your patience. We're going to get resume or meeting. So now we'll move on to our public comment portion of the meeting.

[2:08:48] General public comment of our regular meeting. Okay, so we'll start with Carla as assuming.

[2:08:56] of our public library, I'm on a county library, thank you, Carla.

[2:09:07] Good evening everybody.

[2:09:08] Mayor and members of the council, my name is Carla Xuma, and I'm here on behalf of the

[2:09:14] El Monte library. And as we move through the summer, we are pleased to announce that our annual

[2:09:19] bookmark contest will be starting soon. It will begin September 1st and October 17th.

[2:09:27] The contest encourages a love of books and reading

[2:09:30] while also promoting creativity, artistic expression,

[2:09:34] and community engagement.

[2:09:35] We're writing our youth from kindergarten

[2:09:37] through the 12th grade to design a bookmark

[2:09:40] and to submit that into the library.

[2:09:43] Once this bookmark ends,

[2:09:46] contest ends, we do have a full review of all the bookmarks

[2:09:50] and it's actually presented to LA County

[2:09:53] in the board there.

[2:09:54] and whoever wins, they get a special invite to the Board of Supervisors.

[2:10:00] And now the county. So it's pretty cool. Also as we continue, we continue to offer our many painters. This is a program that we have for our children's 1 through 5 and their parents and caregivers.

[2:10:12] This provides young children with an opportunity to explore the creativity, well spending quality time with their caregivers.

[2:10:19] all materials are provided by the library and we invite families to join us.

[2:10:27] In addition, we will be having Lothady and I at the library, this will be

[2:10:32] September 16th from 6 to 7 p.m. and we will have also another family

[2:10:39] Lothady evening or daytime, this will be September 19th from 11 to 12 and that's for

[2:10:45] families to come and join us and play a game there at the library. Thank you.

[2:10:52] Next, we have Erica Hoytsma, Hoytsma.

[2:11:10] Excuse me, I'm sorry. I have a second.

[2:11:14] Good

[2:11:19] evening members of the City Council. My name is Erica Hoytsma and I'm with

[2:11:24] Sikomores and we serve transitionallyage youth experiencing homelessness across the San

[2:11:32] setting. I'm here in solidarity with Union Station homeless services to express our gratitude

[2:11:37] to the people in city of El Monte for your investment in Project Home Key and Iris House.

[2:11:44] Having an immediate safe place for a young person to go isn't the end of the solution,

[2:11:48] but it's often the beginning of one. El Monte has demonstrated what local government

[2:11:52] can accomplish when it chooses to be part of the solution. Your investment is created of vital

[2:11:58] resource for some of our most vulnerable young people in the community. And I'm just deeply grateful

[2:12:02] for your partnership and the Union Station's essential work in giving young people a safe place

[2:12:08] to begin finding their next home. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, next we have Jeff Ming.

[2:12:22] Good evening, Mayor. Council members, city officials and fellow residents. My name is Yahoo Jeff Ming.

[2:12:29] I am honored to be a candidate for city-factor.

[2:12:32] I'm running for city-factor because I believe

[2:12:35] our city's finances should be managed with integrity,

[2:12:38] transparency, accountability, and the common sense.

[2:12:42] I bring more than 25 years of variance

[2:12:46] in finance, budgeting, accounting, and the public service.

[2:12:50] I currently serve as a board member

[2:12:52] on the chief financial officer.

[2:12:54] We are, I have been responsible

[2:12:56] for financial oversight, budgeting,

[2:12:58] and helping organizations make sound and responsible financial decisions.

[2:13:03] I earned my bachelor of sense degree from Nankai University and Master degree from University of Wyoming.

[2:13:10] We started in computer science and accounting.

[2:13:14] But education and experience are only part of what makes a good city treasure.

[2:13:21] The most important responsibility is trust.

[2:13:24] Residents work hard for their money, when they pay taxes and fees, they deserve to know that their money is being protected and managed responsible.

[2:13:35] If you liked it, I will focus on three priorities for transparency.

[2:13:40] Residents should be able to understand the city's financial condition and how public funds are being managed.

[2:13:45] I will support clear, accurate and timely financial reporting, second, responsible financial management.

[2:13:53] City Fund must be safeguarded and invested in the scrutiny which the product principle maintain

[2:13:59] a property liquidity and a securities reasonable returns.

[2:14:02] They are following all applicable laws, policy and fiduciary responsibilities.

[2:14:07] Third, accountability.

[2:14:09] I will promote strong financial can chose and care for all sides of public resources.

[2:14:14] I will ask questions to use the numbers and make decisions based on facts and the long-term interests of our community.

[2:14:19] I also believe a city charter must work co-oply with city council, city manager, finance,

[2:14:25] parliament, auditors and residents. This position is not about politics, it is about public

[2:14:31] service and responsible sources of taxpayer dollars. Our community is a treasure who will

[2:14:36] protect public fund, communicate openly and take responsibility of this of a seriously.

[2:14:41] My commitment is simple.

[2:14:44] Protect every public dollar promote transparency, protect protects,

[2:14:49] protects, protects, responsible financial management.

[2:14:51] And always put the interests of our residents first.

[2:14:54] I respectfully ask for your support under the opportunity to

[2:14:57] community as a city structure.

[2:14:59] Again.

[2:15:00] We can feel the financial is strong, transparent, accountable on the local government, like the resident can trust. Thank you.

[2:15:06] Thank you Mr. Mang. Next, we have Tony Osayata.

[2:15:18] Good evening, Madam Mayor, council members, law enforcement and community members.

[2:15:28] My name is Tony Osayata.

[2:15:29] many of you know me, but I've been for over 50 years a community advocate against injustice

[2:15:36] worked with Le Desma, Ken Weld, and a whole lot of people, but I know you know those names.

[2:15:43] And the reason that I'm here is I already filed for a restraining order against Armando Herman

[2:15:51] and all the vulgarity and everything that he does. And I also included standing case law from the

[2:15:59] kicked out of city meetings like this, and he appealed it, and they denied it, and it still stands.

[2:16:06] He has insulted me, he has slandered me, not only in my community advocate, but I am also a

[2:16:13] minister of community engagement. I'm also a business owner and powering transformation,

[2:16:19] so I do counseling for all the courts for the probation department. I was listening to one

[2:16:28] for the juvenile probation department for youth, youth at risk, prison prevention.

[2:16:37] So I'm involved in a lot of things and I do not appreciate somebody's secondary me like

[2:16:42] this.

[2:16:42] It's got a stop and included, I included that case on there, but you know, what started

[2:16:50] this whole thing is he is using profanity and cursing in front of the young girls that were

[2:16:56] in June that we're going to do the pledge of allegiance and I asked him, can you change your

[2:17:00] language? And he said, mind your own business. And then the following month, some of the guys

[2:17:06] from El Mani were here to do a to support their children that won the Little League. And they know

[2:17:13] what was going on. So one of them told him, hey, don't be cursing in front of my daughter. He stood

[2:17:17] up and he challenged him. Anyway, so that is what he was talking about that. I brought some people

[2:17:22] in to hurt him or whatever he's accusing that was from the July 8th meeting and then when he

[2:17:31] slandered me on April 12th. So I have a restraining order of hearing coming up on the 8th of

[2:17:38] September and I can appreciate more witnesses. But one of the things that I've learned is in meetings

[2:17:45] like this and what was already cited is that, you know, this is a safe public discourse,

[2:17:50] You know, which means that there isn't, he stands on the first amendment, but there, that doesn't hold when there's threats, intimidation, harassment, and personal attacks, and that's what he's doing to all of us.

[2:18:03] So I've turned some of that in.

[2:18:05] I have a restraining order, and I don't think he's here today.

[2:18:09] So I will see him in two weeks.

[2:18:12] All right.

[2:18:12] Thank you.

[2:18:13] Thank you, Mr. Oceta.

[2:18:15] next we have Hosemendus. I think he left, okay. Kenneth Mackenzie, I believe he also walked

[2:18:25] out. Okay. I'll move with Alice for that group as well. I'll throw no. Okay. Gilbert,

[2:18:37] P. P. Gilbert. No Gilbert. All right. Robert Arnev.

[2:18:50] On with community matters, at the last public propaganda in the fiasco, it was said about the

[2:18:56] homeless motel project that it was bought unknowing that there was asbestos in the building.

[2:19:03] It is well known that old buildings, especially ones, economically challenged communities,

[2:19:09] like this, likely have asbestos in them. Most of the third grade knows that.

[2:19:16] yet another example of the staff's continuous, I don't know, agenda. They need to be replaced

[2:19:22] by someone who does know. It's a game of charades that brings to mind the movie,

[2:19:28] dumb and dumber, with Jim and Kerry.

[2:19:32] To continue with community matters, 900,000 was

[2:19:37] appropriated for the police memorial wall, yet according to public record over 1 million

[2:19:43] spent on it. I haven't seen anything like this at other cities, and that is because other

[2:19:50] city councils are not as ignorant as this one. Other councils are a council, or a countable

[2:19:57] to their constituents, and do not.

[2:20:00] This has been over a million dollars directly. A wall with a small water fountain. A lot of people have a larger

[2:20:08] water fountain on their patio and they didn't pay a million dollars for it. The company rep that was

[2:20:14] here for the builder stated that there would be statues. Where's the statues? Way overbudget at

[2:20:21] very under-delivered. This is not a neutral venture on behalf of the city. It only recognizes

[2:20:28] the police. What about the citizens of the community who have been victimized by policing

[2:20:33] copinits? This colossal waste of over a million dollars can be taken out of the police budget.

[2:20:40] They can pay for their misdeeds as a final note and in recognition of the El Mari PD,

[2:20:48] along with the police memorial wall, in accordance with Martin El Gore, we see quote,

[2:20:53] death is everywhere. There are flies on the windscreen for a start. Reminding us, we can be torn apart

[2:21:02] In quote, lyrics from fly on the windscreen

[2:21:06] 1985.

[2:21:10] Thank you. Next we have Ian Jameson and I do have some documents to provide to my colleagues.

[2:21:20] Yes, today, at 1-001 to Valley Boulevard, we're the residents of that apartment building

[2:21:25] were subjected to the second gas leak caused by trans tech engineers and four months, 41

[2:21:31] of the residents of that 42 unit complex have signed the following petition in which we

[2:21:35] stay quote severe gas, the evacuation on August 25, 2026 are building was subjected to a severe

[2:21:41] endangerous gas leak caused by ongoing construction activities by trans tech engineers at the

[2:21:47] for Valley Boulevard, the sick required an emergency evacuation by first responders to prevent

[2:21:51] a catastrophic event.

[2:21:53] Dangerous historical pattern, this is not an isolated incident.

[2:21:56] Similar hazardous gas leak occurred at this exact site on April 22nd, 2026.

[2:22:00] During that previous emergency structure on administrative failures resulted in no evacuation

[2:22:04] orders being issued to residents by responding agencies, including Elly County Fire

[2:22:07] and Almani Codon, forcement leaving us an active, invisible danger.

[2:22:11] Three management failure to cooperate with utility safety following recently, the property

[2:22:16] management company, Continental Assets Management, failed to provide Southern California gas

[2:22:20] so-called gas with keys to all premiums.

[2:22:23] This administrative failure directly obstructed so-called gas from performing mandatory safety

[2:22:26] inspections of every unit, needlessly delaying the safe restoration of gas utilities,

[2:22:30] and leaving residents vulnerable.

[2:22:31] We therefore demand the following four things, one, launch an immediate transparent investigation

[2:22:36] into the construction practices of trans-tech engineers and any of their subcontractors at

[2:22:41] 0024 Valley Boulevard, and hold the developers liable for recurring hazardous disruptions.

[2:22:48] Two, site and penalized kind of assets management for failing to facilitate mandatory emergency

[2:22:53] utility inspections and failing to maintain accessible safety protocols such as Master

[2:22:57] Key Access, for first responders and utility workers, three review and reform local emergency

[2:23:02] response and evacuation protocols between all money code enforcement and the LA County Fire Department

[2:23:06] to ensure no apartment complex is ever left unavaculated during an active gas like

[2:23:11] again and form mandate that the landlord provide immediate clear written safety compliance

[2:23:16] updates to all tenants regarding the status of their utility lines and emergency access

[2:23:19] keys.

[2:23:20] I just want to give you an idea of the residents near this gas leak we had Tanya who is a

[2:23:26] pregnant woman who woke up with her lungs filled with gas because L.A. County fired

[2:23:29] failed to evacuate her.

[2:23:30] Next to her, we had Jacqueline who 78 year-old father Ray is hard of hearing that she

[2:23:34] not been their L.A. County fire might not have gotten them out and then next to them all

[2:23:38] Again, by the Ghasic, we had Zawi, who works late and sleeps through most of the morning,

[2:23:43] and he also slept through the entirety, almost the entirety of the evacuation.

[2:23:47] You guys selected this contractor, TransTech engineers.

[2:23:51] This is your massive potentially lethal fuck up.

[2:23:54] Fix it.

[2:23:55] Now.

[2:23:59] Thank you.

[2:24:00] Okay, that concludes our public comments for our regularly scheduled meetings.

[2:24:05] At this time, I'm just going to transition over really quickly to the concurrent special

[2:24:10] meeting so that we can take public comment as well. Mr. Levi's for any public comment submitted

[2:24:15] for the concurrent special.

[2:24:19] I don't believe there was. So, oh, you know what? And there is,

[2:24:24] okay, and there is actually one more comment I forgot. We need, we had a resident on Zoom,

[2:24:32] but had to get off the call, but he requested that we call him back and we call him back.

[2:25:36] This is city manager, your own speaker, you wanted us to call you back?

[2:25:43] Can you turn it up please?

[2:26:07] We can't hear it, can we turn it up?

[2:27:10] And she can manage it.

[2:27:12] They've been told last four years of being a member.

[2:27:15] You might get them constantly to stop signs.

[2:27:18] Again, you're here waiting to kill somebody to do something.

[2:27:28] Are you finished Mr. Jimenez?

[2:27:31] Oh.

[2:27:32] We've stopped the time.

[2:27:33] Thank you.

[2:27:34] We had about a minute and a half left.

[2:27:38] Yes.

[2:27:41] There you go.

[2:27:56] I'm leaving at that volume, please. Thank you.

[2:28:00] Yes. Sorry, your call got cut off, Mr. Humanus. You have a minute and a half?

[2:28:06] Yeah, it was cut off.

[2:28:08] Okay. Continue, please. You have one minute and 30 seconds.

[2:28:13] Okay.

[2:28:18] Also, it is on its work in a big road by the target.

[2:28:24] It's got to be a way to monitor that place right now because you're only working once

[2:28:30] one day of week, that means they're going to take him three months or least the thing is that.

[2:28:42] Mr. Humanis? Yes.

[2:28:45] Okay.

[2:28:46] Any, you have one minute left. Do you have anything else to add?

[2:28:51] Okay.

[2:28:51] And all of the presentations are related to campaign donors in basic something that you

[2:29:03] can remember that.

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[2:29:32] minutes.

[2:29:40] Okay, so now I'm moving on to the concurrent special meeting. We don't have any public

[2:29:45] comment for that. So let's just go ahead if we could get an update on the community and

[2:29:49] economic development business grant program for fiscal year 2021.

[2:30:01] We have the project home key presentation or the under the city manager and the regular agenda. Since we have a long agenda, can we can they move up first?

[2:30:12] Is this available? How long is this? I wanted to close this one out and just continue on.

[2:30:18] It is available, but I want the residents to go back to their home if that's okay.

[2:30:24] Okay. Yes. If I can ask a huge favor of the council. Okay. So okay. So then we're going to go out of order. We're going to take item 16.1.

[2:30:37] Which is housing update.

[2:30:41] Thank you, Mayor. Members of the city council. I just wanted to introduce to you the project home key operator.

[2:30:49] And she's going to give you a quick update on what's happening with the property. Thank you.

[2:31:00] Thank you for your leadership.

[2:31:04] I'm Katie Hill.

[2:31:05] I am the CEO of Union Station homeless services.

[2:31:12] We have been operating in the city of El Monte for I think four years now.

[2:31:19] I just have to commend you on how incredible the city has been.

[2:31:23] The fact that you were taking on the challenge of homelessness

[2:31:25] head on is really truly meaningful. Tonight we, you know, we have, we have some slides

[2:31:31] but really we just wanted to express our gratitude and allow for you to hear some of the stories

[2:31:35] of the residents that have been helped through the program at Iris House, which is a project

[2:31:40] home key site that has helped over 230 people move on to other opportunities. So I want to introduce

[2:31:47] Sean, who's my VP of advocacy and community engagement. Sean.

[2:31:52] Thanks.

[2:31:53] Good evening, everybody.

[2:31:54] Thanks for entertaining us and listening.

[2:31:58] My name is Sean Morsee, VP of advocacy and community engagement with Dean and Station.

[2:32:03] I, we had a gentleman who was going to show up who lived at the home at one of the home

[2:32:09] key sites.

[2:32:10] His name was Danny and he got a cold feet.

[2:32:13] We spent a couple hours yesterday working on his story and I have permission to read his story.

[2:32:19] The story that he was going to read to you.

[2:32:20] So I just want to give you two stories about clients,

[2:32:26] homeless and formerly homeless clients.

[2:32:29] So this is what Danny was going to read to,

[2:32:31] and hopefully you get to meet him at some point.

[2:32:33] He's pretty amazing.

[2:32:35] Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

[2:32:37] My name is Danny G. I lived at Iris House

[2:32:40] for a little over a year until I moved

[2:32:41] into my own place four days ago.

[2:32:44] I'm gonna keep it real.

[2:32:46] Life hasn't been easy.

[2:32:47] I grew up in foster care without a family

[2:32:49] to fall back on, a speech impediment and brain injury have made it hard to be heard sometimes,

[2:32:55] but I still have a lot worth saying.

[2:32:58] I'd point out to that developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injuries are, we see

[2:33:05] that all the time as people showing up with those undiagnosed, and sometimes that gets called

[2:33:11] addiction or mental illness when we're really looking at something else, and I can't tell

[2:33:16] in the years that I've been doing this how many times I've seen that, that very dynamic.

[2:33:22] I want the City Council to know some things because of interim and project home key housing

[2:33:27] with Union Station Home Services, I now have safety. I have stopped thinking only about survival

[2:33:34] and have started thinking about what comes next. I know that I want to help people. I'm also reconnected

[2:33:40] to my children and my son has a father you can count on. Everyone at Iris House, like me,

[2:33:46] are moving toward a home of their own.

[2:33:47] We're not standing still.

[2:33:49] We're rebuilding our lives.

[2:33:51] I wanted you to meet me and to see what becomes possible

[2:33:55] when someone has safety support.

[2:33:57] And people who believe in them, thank you for listening.

[2:34:02] The second story, client story is my own.

[2:34:06] I'll tell you that when I got here,

[2:34:08] when I showed up at the shelter,

[2:34:10] I had two black eyes.

[2:34:12] My lip was split up to my nose.

[2:34:14] I had a gash in my forehead.

[2:34:15] and I had no underwear, and I was wearing one contact lens

[2:34:19] that was not even mine for scripting.

[2:34:25] And I was met with the models

[2:34:28] that we do here at Union Station.

[2:34:30] The models that are transformative,

[2:34:33] the models that offer dignity,

[2:34:34] the offer purpose and meaning to individuals,

[2:34:38] who have kind of been ignored for the longest time

[2:34:41] and marginalized.

[2:34:42] That's what we do at Iris House.

[2:34:44] That's what we do at Rose Court, these are the models that help lift people out of these things and give them purpose and meaning.

[2:34:54] I'll tell you, I guarantee that if you would see me when I showed up here, you would have crossed to the other side of the street.

[2:35:00] And it wasn't because I was violent or dangerous. It was just the presentation of homelessness that is scary sometimes.

[2:35:08] I'm a man who grew up with a lot of trauma and instability. I started using drugs in an early age to sue. I'm someone with three mental health diagnoses. I'm sober today. I'm wearing underwear tonight.

[2:35:22] But I see this all the time, Union Station is filled with people like me, who came here and are now productive individuals, people who we would have said, like, just can't make it, you know, that they're not worth rehabilitating or there's no redemption there.

[2:35:42] I'm about as bad as it got when I was out there, and that's not the case anymore, and that's

[2:35:48] due to the types of the type of work that we do in the models that we apply to the people

[2:35:53] that we're serving.

[2:35:55] We have tons of staff who can tell this exact same story.

[2:35:59] We have a board of people with lived expertise that go out and do policy work and advocacy.

[2:36:06] So yeah, I just want to highlight that the reason Danny, as, you know, kind of scared as he was in

[2:36:13] nervous as he was to show up, his life has been, been transformed. And like I said, hopefully you get to meet him, but I also, we want to represent what this looks like. We talk a lot about the housing. We talk a lot about like what it takes to get the funding to, to make that. But we don't often get to see the people that go through it. We have a extremely high success right.

[2:36:35] of people who come in, who have been out there for a long time, who go on to lead productive

[2:36:40] lives and thrive. So thank you.

[2:36:45] Thank you. And I wanted to allow a couple more of our staff to come up and tell some of the successes

[2:36:51] of these residents. But I think it's, I know that these projects can be really challenging

[2:36:57] and that I've been working in homeless services for nearly 20 years. And I have seen a number of

[2:37:02] these project home key sites, they're full of challenges and construction and it's a huge investment

[2:37:08] on the city's part, but we want you to know that it is making a true difference and that we

[2:37:13] are here to be community partners and to make sure that these are successful in an ongoing way.

[2:37:19] So, Max, go ahead. Hi, my name is Max Molina. I'm this year director of programs at

[2:37:25] station home of services. I was there almost three years ago when we opened up, and it was

[2:37:35] amazing to have 40 people come in and I haven't had a chance to talk to them as they were

[2:37:41] coming in and seeing the hope in their eyes that something new was going to be coming to them

[2:37:46] and then throughout the years kind of seeing them make it through and have some success,

[2:37:53] either getting into permanent housing.

[2:37:55] We did have a quite a few folks that finished their degrees,

[2:38:00] finished their high school TEDs, got jobs,

[2:38:04] some went to trade schools where they got OSHA certificates,

[2:38:08] and then they became trainers for that same school

[2:38:11] that they graduated from.

[2:38:13] So this is just a few of the things that I've seen

[2:38:16] in the three years that it's been open.

[2:38:18] And then I'll pass it on to one of the directors

[2:38:22] that was overseeing it as well. Hi, thank you everyone. For allowing me the opportunity to speak in

[2:38:27] support of Iris House and thank you to the city of Amani because it has been a great help.

[2:38:33] During my time over seeing Iris House, I had the privilege of witnessing an incredible resilience and

[2:38:37] success of the participants we serve, specifically to take participants that were able to obtain degrees

[2:38:42] while residing at Iris House. When I was able to finish her nursing school and began working

[2:38:48] in her profession of choice. I also think of an elderly participant that we had that we came

[2:38:52] home list due to losing her husband, which was her primary financial source. At 75 years old,

[2:38:58] she entered a program and had a very difficult time in her life. Throughout the support and services

[2:39:03] available to her, she was connected to resources and addressed her health needs. Ultimately,

[2:39:08] she moved into a permanent supportive housing. So these stories are reminders that interim housing

[2:39:13] is more than just a place to sleep. It provides stability, support, opportunity, and hope.

[2:39:17] It gives people the foundation, they need to rebuild their lives, and we'll tour permanent housing,

[2:39:22] so I just want to say thank you to the City of Almighty for giving us that opportunity.

[2:39:28] Thank you.

[2:39:29] Okay everyone.

[2:39:31] I'm looking at my tennis and the current director for the IRS House. I just wanted to present myself.

[2:39:37] I started overseeing the size on July 1st and I just wanted to share some of this as

[2:39:41] stories that we had currently at the Iris House with some of their own house clients.

[2:39:49] We have a participant who wasn't documented and she had a work permit. She was able to put

[2:39:54] herself through school while staying with Iris House and she now is the Alvin working.

[2:40:00] In the community, in serving all their adults. I also would like to share another success of one of the clients

[2:40:12] that she was with us, so the previous building and once she moved into Irish House, we were able to get her house.

[2:40:21] And this video Claire went through the matching process with the Irish House.

[2:40:25] Okay?

[2:40:26] So I want to thank everyone for helping us, you know, keep the clients house at Irish House

[2:40:33] and to helping us get into the next step.

[2:40:37] Thank you.

[2:40:39] Thank you so much.

[2:40:40] And we just wanted to be available for any questions you might have.

[2:40:46] Thank you.

[2:40:46] First and foremost, just thank you.

[2:40:48] Thank you for sharing the stories.

[2:40:49] Thank you for sharing your success, you know, in this day and age, when we're opening

[2:40:54] the paper and seeing reading about mismanagement of these funds to help, you know, measure

[2:41:02] age, measure age. It's challenging, right? We know they're intended to do good for the unhealth

[2:41:11] community, but it's also disheartening when we see that people take advantage of these funds.

[2:41:17] So, I truly want to thank you for the great work that you're doing here in All-Money.

[2:41:24] You know, I have a question.

[2:41:26] Are we currently full at the address?

[2:41:28] Oh, we are.

[2:41:29] Any time there's turnover, it's just as quick as possible.

[2:41:32] And, and you know, and that's the concern in other locations where there are only

[2:41:36] at half capacity with their collecting.

[2:41:37] And I know that's not the case here, and thank you for answering that question.

[2:41:40] And I'm not saying that's the case here.

[2:41:42] But, you know, just thank you for your dedication to our unhoused community and it's great to hear these success stories.

[2:41:50] You know, we sometimes we approve these projects, you know, they get built and we don't, we don't hear updates, right?

[2:41:59] You know, not too long ago, I was able to attend Masters of Taste, which was raising money for the Union Station Services.

[2:42:11] So, it was an amazing event.

[2:42:13] I hope there is a lot of money that to help continue serving our communities, but yeah, I was

[2:42:18] happy to attend and be part of that.

[2:42:20] So, thank you.

[2:42:21] Thank you very much.

[2:42:23] Thank you so much.

[2:42:24] Thank you.

[2:42:25] And at this time, I'll go ahead and pitch it off to my colleagues.

[2:42:28] Thank you.

[2:42:28] Councilman Galvan.

[2:42:30] Yeah, I just want to thank you for all the work that you do.

[2:42:33] I work with Foster Youth.

[2:42:35] Actually, I had a former Foster Youth take advantage of the Irish home after we

[2:42:40] close her case she reached back out and let me know how she was doing and it happened to be

[2:42:44] here and then Montez. So I know the work that you do, small world. I was trying not to get emotional,

[2:42:51] but thank you for, for thank you. I appreciate the update and the reports this is says stories.

[2:43:01] Because sometimes, you know, like been mentioned, we hear of these, we have these projects,

[2:43:05] you don't know really kind of what goes on there and that that's what we need because now we get

[2:43:10] it's easier not that we need to justify it but if we had to we could say are you kidding?

[2:43:14] We can tell you ABCD and so it's good to hear that got bless you for all your hard work.

[2:43:20] I think it's to be commended. I think my colleagues all of us agree on the support and

[2:43:26] appreciate that work because I'm sure it's challenging at times but again to hear the good

[2:43:32] and the progress you're making, it's just, it's a, it's a joy.

[2:43:36] So thank you very much. Thank you so much. Yes.

[2:43:41] Thank you very much for being here. As a council member, that was, that was not here

[2:43:48] when this was approved, but seen the success of this, seeing how this project

[2:43:56] brings hope to our community and to many, many families, to many individuals in not just an

[2:44:04] or specific community, but throughout the county, the beauty of transformation, right?

[2:44:11] Because this is what this project does. It transformed lives, so therefore, of course,

[2:44:17] Thanks to those that approved before our time, right?

[2:44:23] But also thanks to you

[2:44:26] Really, thank you for the amazing work that you do because it really takes such souls such as yours to do the kind of work that you do and

[2:44:36] Thank you for bringing these stories because sometimes what we focus on is

[2:44:43] All of the quantitative right on the numbers

[2:44:47] But the qualitative side is so important, and I thank you very much for bringing these stories.

[2:44:53] Much native. Thank you.

[2:44:54] Thank you so much.

[2:45:02] Thank you for coming and sharing your stories. It was very touching things that we take for granted and the opportunities that are given to you, to Sean, you're living proof of it that these programs work.

[2:45:19] You know, people refer to these programs as many pits.

[2:45:23] I don't, I see hope, resilience, and people accomplishing their dreams.

[2:45:29] It's amazing.

[2:45:31] Danny G says that he's reconnected with his family and he got a job.

[2:45:36] And he has permanent housing now and he's rebuilding his life.

[2:45:42] And the other stories, the stories of people earning their GED.

[2:45:47] they have traits now, training nursing school, the widow that was 75 years old.

[2:45:55] It's never to late to go back to school. Now she's, you know, she's out the rebuilding her life.

[2:46:00] So it's amazing. It's an amazing program. Very touching.

[2:46:05] And I'm glad that you're here in El Monte. Thank you for everything that you're doing.

[2:46:23] It's what I think you're all for coming today and you know, we see these stories.

[2:46:30] It's LA County, LA City that's always in the media and the struggles and challenges that they're having,

[2:46:36] surrounding homelessness and the public sentiment seems to be waning back and forth about allegations of mismanagement

[2:46:42] and just the enormity of their problem is so overwhelming, right?

[2:46:48] And then you all show up, and you give us these stories, and you remind us of why we do this.

[2:46:55] And you're sharing with us these stories that are nothing sort of miracles, right?

[2:47:02] Life's transformed.

[2:47:04] And that's just proof in the pudding that my colleague would say that you were doing God's work.

[2:47:10] Making these miracles happen, so thank you so much for what you're doing on the ground.

[2:47:15] Again, think my colleagues for the support of this program,

[2:47:19] this project, all of our partners that have been a part of the funding for this,

[2:47:26] the county and the state level that have made this possible.

[2:47:30] And for all of our staff was worth so hard to get these projects completed.

[2:47:34] I'm so excited that we're getting close.

[2:47:37] Getting close on another building, and I'm excited.

[2:47:40] It's been frustrating because we know that good work that you have been doing can be

[2:47:45] to apply it once we get those doors open. So that's that's what we're waiting for and hoping for.

[2:47:49] So thank you so much for coming to your mind. It's really why we why we we're up here. Why we do this? Thank you.

[2:47:59] I kept hearing all of you say thank you. You don't need to thank us. God gave you a gift and you're using

[2:48:06] your gift wisely. I'm very grateful that I'm in this city. I'm really grateful that our city manager

[2:48:11] our staff took on this task in 2020, the previous council, every human deserves to be safe.

[2:48:21] And I'm very proud to be part of a community in the month of that. We understand that.

[2:48:24] Thank you so much for coming and reminding us why making sure that you know what your gift is

[2:48:31] and spreading that gift throughout. And thank you for being in the month and for everything

[2:48:35] that you do. And you're welcome to give us updates any time. Thank you so much.

[2:48:41] I truly, this is so wonderful to hear.

[2:48:44] I have been to a lot of different city council meetings

[2:48:46] throughout the state over the years

[2:48:48] and this is not usually the reception that we get.

[2:48:50] So we really do appreciate you.

[2:48:52] And we, we promise to be good partners on whatever we work on.

[2:48:56] So anytime, anytime you want to reach out,

[2:48:58] if there's a challenge, if you want to come to Masters of Taste

[2:49:00] again, then let us know.

[2:49:02] But we truly are grateful and that's it.

[2:49:05] Thank you so much.

[2:49:07] That's for your time.

[2:49:09] OK, all right, great.

[2:49:10] Now, concurrent special meeting, if we can get to the economic development grant business grant program,

[2:49:29] I'm like, come on guys, come on.

[2:49:38] Good evening Mayor City Council City Manager.

[2:49:41] Item 8.81 is a small business grant program.

[2:49:46] We've been out here talking about this a few times over the two years I've been here.

[2:49:56] We previously awarded, we had CDBG funds where we gave up.

[2:50:00] 277 grants from CDBG CV. ARPA was 49 and CDBG was 98 for 219. Coronavirus CARES Act, ARPA and the CDBG were

[2:50:17] always to help out these small businesses during the hard times of the pandemic and other portions.

[2:50:25] The City of El Monte Small Business grant program funded in 2025-26 is to provide financial

[2:50:33] assistance to local small businesses to support business growth, eligible businesses may

[2:50:39] receive up to $10,000 for their approved businesses.

[2:50:43] As I've told you before, people who've had it before typically we try to give it to other

[2:50:49] businesses so that it expands throughout all of the city. With the funding that we had, I believe

[2:50:56] we were going to be able to give out 75 grants this year.

[2:51:05] It's 75, I knew it was so

[2:51:07] more close to that. I think it was 7,780,000 dollars. There was some funding from that that we

[2:51:14] you do utilize for our staff time in administering these grants and trying to go through all the

[2:51:22] applications that we do get. I have had people go out into the city, on foot, handing out

[2:51:30] applications. I think some of you probably heard when we went out to Main Street, we did go

[2:51:36] out to other locations and we're still continually going out to other locations and as we have

[2:51:41] To put enforcement go out there, we do have them talk to these businesses if they do need certain kind of help to try to get them because they can use this for back rent or facade changes or whatever they do need it for.

[2:51:57] As you can see, there's the list of eligibility requirements as I said, you know, the first, you can only do it once right now.

[2:52:12] In those eligible businesses, they do have to have a current business license.

[2:52:16] If they previously had it, do not comply with local, state or federal laws.

[2:52:23] have active code of violations,

[2:52:27] that's why we try to, my code enforcement officers try to

[2:52:31] go out there and do as much as they can to keep these businesses in good standings by

[2:52:40] utilizing a lot of learning tools and flyers to try to get these guys to move forward.

[2:52:50] required documentation. There is quite a bit of documentation they do need. But typically

[2:52:57] it's nothing more than what they do for taxes and stuff of that nature. So we do try

[2:53:03] to move them forward.

[2:53:07] As I told you, they could use it for commercial leases, utilities,

[2:53:11] inventory, whatever they may be, um, background.

[2:53:18] Um, so the total awarded, uh,

[2:53:22] amount for 2025 was 819,425 and ministry of cost was 140. Um, right now, the

[2:53:35] grants that have been approved through August of 2026 have been 28 of them. And we're

[2:53:41] still moving forward, we just did a few more of this week,

[2:53:48] do you have any questions?

[2:53:51] I have a quick question, did administrative costs, who does that go to?

[2:53:56] Typically, that's for my staff who goes through looking at all the applications, taking

[2:54:02] and then the applications.

[2:54:03] Okay, so like reimbursement of time,

[2:54:05] but that's super fun businesses.

[2:54:07] Okay, thank you.

[2:54:08] All right, I'll count for the purpose.

[2:54:11] Thomas, who's the hands-on point person for this?

[2:54:15] It's my housing department.

[2:54:16] Typically, it's Selena does most of the hands-on for this.

[2:54:21] Okay.

[2:54:22] Mayor, yes.

[2:54:23] Thank you for the presentation.

[2:54:25] I'm just going over the presentation.

[2:54:28] It says here the staff recommends

[2:54:30] business development ad hoc to explore funding options.

[2:54:36] Can I not money myself?

[2:54:38] I'm really interested in helping the business community.

[2:54:41] And I know Dr. Dwellas and I have a discussion about this.

[2:54:46] So we could be, I mean, I could go on about trying to find different funding sources,

[2:54:54] but I would really like to explore that.

[2:54:56] And I think coming at our hall is a great idea.

[2:55:00] I would be interested in that also only for the fact that I did that for two of the rounds of

[2:55:05] them. And I know things are different times change. I get that, but there's, I think, just having the inside of that.

[2:55:12] I would, I would also, if it does come up to developing an ad hoc for that, I would like to be a part of that.

[2:55:19] If possible. Yeah, the ad hoc does is comprised of three people. So yeah, I'm totally cool.

[2:55:25] I just have a question because I, is there like a survey survey that we can give the folks

[2:55:34] that apply for this business grant to kind of see where their money went, so maybe we can try to find

[2:55:40] different funding that we see a lot more usage of.

[2:55:46] I could definitely develop a survey that we could hand out to send out to everybody that we have

[2:55:51] given it to, not only this round, but the previous rounds to see if there's something else.

[2:55:56] I mean, we're constantly looking for different grants, but that is a good idea.

[2:55:59] I know, you're definitely, you guys are on it, but we would like to see, you know, what they put,

[2:56:04] like, is it, you know, for making the changing up their storefront or for rent or, you know,

[2:56:09] just different things that we can look into to see where the majority of the money is being spent

[2:56:13] within like these businesses. I think would be good to know. Also, then I'd like, oh, I'm sorry.

[2:56:17] I was just saying spending the two mentioned their front store friends because we used to have a

[2:56:22] was like a business like a facade grant that was more than $10,000 a that wasn't up to $35,000, $35,000.

[2:56:30] $35,000. So yeah, no, I mean that's and that's something that we offer to our businesses on Main Street.

[2:56:35] Because we, you know, we're trying to revitalize Main Street so that's something that we get in the past.

[2:56:39] But that would actually be a great idea to look into bringing back, maybe not just in that location,

[2:56:45] But it's definitely something for the ad hoc to discuss an explore.

[2:56:50] I think when they give you your three months of expenses, if you still have that form,

[2:56:56] I think I saw it in there where they have to give you the last three months expenses,

[2:56:59] kind of gives you a ballpark figure of what they're short on,

[2:57:03] or what they're most expensive cost is for that business, whether it's paper,

[2:57:07] it's material, or whatever. And then also, I think it's great to have,

[2:57:12] and what are your goals? And I believe we used to have that in one of it.

[2:57:15] I don't know if it was the ARPA or the COVID, I can't remember.

[2:57:18] I've slept since then, but if you do have kind of an idea on what their goal was,

[2:57:22] a lot of times it was to make payroll or to get inventory, that's a big one that,

[2:57:28] if they could get inventory to stock up to get them through the, you know, the rough times

[2:57:34] out, that's a good idea that you can pinpoint it with an additional form like that question

[2:57:39] error.

[2:57:40] That's a good idea.

[2:57:42] Yes, Dr. Lewis.

[2:57:46] Yes, I thank you, Mr. Fowler, and I really thank the city because first and foremost, one of

[2:57:52] the things that I've heard from our small business community is how grateful they are, that

[2:57:59] they've been able to apply, that they've been able to get the help, that they come here

[2:58:04] to city hall and you, your staff, all these answers or questions is always great to hear this.

[2:58:10] Right, and in terms of that and as we look forward to the ad hoc, I'm wondering if we have identified any barriers that we have seen in the past, in the past years obviously with this opportunity, and any recommendations whatsoever, how we can address them.

[2:58:32] I could definitely talk to my staff. I haven't heard of any barriers that they've expressed to

[2:58:39] me at this point, but I'm pretty sure there are some, especially. I know a lot of them will

[2:58:45] come back to us and try to apply again just because, I mean, from the first one to this one,

[2:58:52] life happens. So that would probably be one of them, but to hear what my staff's been hearing,

[2:58:59] that would be something we could put together for you?

[2:59:02] My second question, Mr. Foller,

[2:59:05] is it through these opportunities

[2:59:06] has staff conducted any sort of follow-up analysis

[2:59:11] with the past recipients of these grounds

[2:59:15] to determine the impact, the success of the ground?

[2:59:18] Not that I'm aware of, no.

[2:59:20] Okay, okay.

[2:59:22] Okay, and last, my last question is,

[2:59:25] As again, now that you're answering my questions and as we move forward with the ad hoc,

[2:59:31] I think that there's definitely some room to measure the success of the grant and including

[2:59:40] metrics that can evaluate just like what Councilwoman Galvan mentioned about a survey.

[2:59:46] Anything that can give us some sort of information of how the grant funding

[2:59:52] help the business right, did it provide any sort of revenue growth, a job creation.

[3:00:00] This is for attention. Of course, we still want to keep our special small businesses and improvements, such as what you were mentioning today.

[3:00:11] So, therefore, more to come, and I think we have a good homework at Simon here on our end. Thank you, Mr. Father.

[3:00:19] Thank you.

[3:00:27] Good.

[3:00:28] I just wanted to follow up on something that Galvan had mentioned about the uses of the money.

[3:00:34] Isn't there something we should already know?

[3:00:36] I mean, at the front.

[3:00:39] They give us a reasoning as to what they want to do.

[3:00:42] But just as you were saying, you know, fortunately, sometimes takes about a month or two or

[3:00:47] so, and maybe something new comes up, so that might be one of the questions for the follow-up.

[3:00:53] did you achieve what you were asking for the money for or did it have to go to something else?

[3:01:01] It's hard to say.

[3:01:02] So, is it possible that they could have been ineligible expenses?

[3:01:08] If we're not following up,

[3:01:11] they said they were going to use it for one thing and you're

[3:01:13] saying, well, maybe something else came up and they used it for something else.

[3:01:16] How do we not know that there was something that wasn't?

[3:01:19] That I'm not eligible.

[3:01:21] That one I'm not 100% sure.

[3:01:22] I'm sure we take a look at something, I know we ask them for all of the documentation

[3:01:33] that's required, so it's almost as sure that it's gonna go towards one of those, but we don't

[3:01:41] you don't ask for receipts.

[3:01:43] They're on the, they're on the anesthesi system.

[3:01:46] And the anesthesi system.

[3:01:47] I mean, I mean, sorry, I'm going to go back.

[3:01:50] I'm going to go back.

[3:01:51] Slide seven, program staff will follow up two months

[3:01:54] in a four months to collect relevant documents

[3:01:57] that support appropriate use of grant funds.

[3:02:00] Is that something that you are already doing

[3:02:01] or you're saying we're going to start doing that?

[3:02:04] Because what is it?

[3:02:06] If you've been doing it, then we should know, right?

[3:02:09] Which one is that one?

[3:02:10] Slide 7. The follow-up at two months of four months to collect documents. That would sounds like to me you would have

[3:02:20] Receipts. How did you use the funds? So we should have this down.

[3:02:33] Good evening council Mayor. Yeah, so it was it was a reimbursement grant. So the items were submitted to the city and the money was given for those specific items. So the receipts were received at the time that the money was issued and that's what the the money was spent

[3:02:49] So it wasn't like we gave them the money upfront and then collect receipts. It's like here's what I'm going to buy.

[3:02:56] I haven't paid for inventory or here's my back that rent. That's where the money's going to go and that's

[3:03:02] a support that the city received.

[3:03:05] Okay, so on a reimbursement basis then we should already have that

[3:03:08] data. Yeah, right. Okay. So we have

[3:03:17] also there was a follow up literally a close out of each grant.

[3:03:22] You might want to think, or the ad hoc can do it.

[3:03:24] But we used to do a follow-up, the close-out.

[3:03:27] This is what was done, and then close that grant out,

[3:03:30] which is kind of a just a good idea.

[3:03:31] So it's not hanging out there just to thought.

[3:03:38] Yes, God.

[3:03:41] Thank you, Mr. Felder, for bringing this information.

[3:03:45] I do remember, as Treasurer, that some of the expenses,

[3:03:49] well, the expenses that they were going to be using

[3:03:51] the grant money for that documentation was attached to that packet application.

[3:03:58] So I remember a lot of it was the rent, payroll, and then equipment for their business.

[3:04:06] Obviously the businesses are diverse, so their needs are different.

[3:04:10] So those were some of the common things that I would see.

[3:04:14] So there was, it was evident what, the documentation, that of what they needed.

[3:04:23] However, after that, yeah, I didn't see any of the follow-up, like, this is what we paid.

[3:04:28] I mean, the bills, they submitted the bills, but we didn't, I mean, that was it that we would see as treasure.

[3:04:34] So it would be nice to see, I guess, the evidence, or what was the receipts I would see.

[3:04:41] So I, I too would be interested in joining the, the business at Hawke.

[3:04:48] I think our community needs it and there is a need for it.

[3:04:52] Three, who's the third one?

[3:04:54] Sheila.

[3:04:58] Who were doing the work before?

[3:04:59] I think he's the...

[3:05:00] Great. I think

[3:05:06] you have great institutional knowledge and can add to that.

[3:05:13] And the, and the facade grant, you know, and something else on that ad hoc we need to think if they're doing actually work on the building themselves then we need to make sure that that's clear to the landlord because some of those people.

[3:05:26] I don't want to say it, but sometimes they're not very helpful in assisting them with

[3:05:31] their building things that they need.

[3:05:33] So there's just a little quirks like that that came up that were

[3:05:38] notable, and I have notes, I still have that file.

[3:05:41] So we can go through that and see what was a good thing,

[3:05:45] and what we need to improve on.

[3:05:46] But I think this is great.

[3:05:49] But we do select receipts.

[3:05:51] Mayor Patem, so I just want to make sure you know that.

[3:05:54] Okay. Thank you.

[3:05:55] So I believe most of our express interests we do have like 35 more items to get through tonight.

[3:06:01] So if there's no other questions colleagues, are we okay to move forward on the ad hoc nominees?

[3:06:09] Do we have to take a formal vote, Rick on this?

[3:06:13] Okay, so councilwoman Cortez, doctor to let us and Sheila Crippin's office.

[3:06:18] All right, thank you so much for your follow for the presentation.

[3:06:20] and we look forward to hearing what you guys bring back.

[3:06:25] All right, okay, so with that,

[3:06:27] with that, I'll go ahead and move to close

[3:06:30] the concurrent special meeting at 8.51pm,

[3:06:35] and that will switch back over to

[3:06:42] meeting.

[3:06:45] And it's 8.51pm, all right.

[3:06:48] I believe Councilman Griffin Thomas,

[3:06:51] you wanted a point of personal privilege.

[3:06:53] To, yes, privilege, thank you very much.

[3:06:55] I just, when we did our thank you for the back-to-school resource fair, we forgot this person and I don't know how we could do that when he's right in front of us.

[3:07:04] But he serves no cones all day and that is where he tells me that he got this buff.

[3:07:10] So I want to thank, please rise in your, thank you, office are new and for all your work.

[3:07:15] He wasn't quite that built when he started.

[3:07:20] But thank you so much for contributing that to giving snow cones free snow cones from the Almighty placed department, but you were there and we thank you so much.

[3:07:33] Thank you.

[3:07:35] All right. Thank you, Councilman Griffin Thomas.

[3:07:37] All right.

[3:07:37] Now we will move on to.

[3:07:41] Please report.

[3:07:43] Oh my gosh.

[3:07:45] Ms. Cassett, I'm sorry Mayor, we also have some members of the cog here that they're looking at us like, can you also see us here?

[3:07:58] I'm not sure.

[3:07:59] As GV, I don't know if that's fine.

[3:08:01] What does an item, right? That's an item that we need to approve. We're not there yet.

[3:08:06] Please, I'm trying to get there with the quicker we move and stop interrupting the chair of the meeting.

[3:08:11] We'll get there. That'll be like the third item next, okay?

[3:08:15] But sorry. All right. Thank you. Thank you.

[3:08:18] All right.

[3:08:19] Ms. Cassettas, I'm sure you'll be nice and quick and swift and brief.

[3:08:25] You know, we keep taking items out of order.

[3:08:28] I'm trying to work this agenda.

[3:08:37] Good evening, Mayor Council and City Manager.

[3:08:42] Let's see.

[3:08:42] Under government code section 53646 and conjunction

[3:08:46] with the city's investment policy that required the

[3:08:49] treasure to render quarterly reports to the city council and the city manager

[3:08:54] presenting certain information about the city's investment.

[3:09:03] I'm here tonight to present the quarterly treasures report for the quarter and

[3:09:06] did June 30th, 2026. This report meets the latest requirements of the city's

[3:09:12] investment policy and government code section 536-01.

[3:09:17] City's investment strategy continues to prioritize its investment opportunity on the following

[3:09:22] in order of importance. Safety, liquidity, and yield. This strategy is consistent with the government

[3:09:29] code and stress is keeping the citizens funds safe and available for operations, rather than

[3:09:36] attempting to maximize returns by making riskier investments.

[3:09:45] As of June 30, 26, 36.62 million

[3:09:49] of the city's 125.14 million investment portfolio.

[3:09:54] It's held in the state of California Local Agency Investment Fund.

[3:09:59] Live.

[3:10:00] This consists of approximately 29.26 of the total portfolio.

[3:10:06] Life is a safe investment and is extremely liquid.

[3:10:11] 74.74 million is invested in corporate bonds and government securities comprising of 59.72% of the city's investment portfolio.

[3:10:21] The city also had approximately 7.33 million in the overnight sweep account as of June 30,

[3:10:28] 2026.

[3:10:30] These funds coupled with cash on hand are utilized to meet operational needs, such as accounts

[3:10:35] payable warrant payments and semi-monthly payroll.

[3:10:45] Picture here is a pie chart summarizing the detail of the previous slide.

[3:10:56] In accordance with the city's investment policy, the city's maximum investment period

[3:11:00] for corporate bonds and government securities is five years.

[3:11:04] This slide shows that the city is compliant with the investment strategy keeping our investment

[3:11:08] portfolio very liquid.

[3:11:17] This is the next served of investment policy adopted on June 4th, 2024, the scope, proceeds

[3:11:24] of the issuance shall be invested in accordance with the city's general investment philosophy

[3:11:29] as set forth in this policy.

[3:11:31] However, such proceeds are to be invested pursuant to the permitted investment provisions of their specific bond in dentures.

[3:11:39] Any other funds specifically exempted by the city council.

[3:11:44] This policy covers all funds and investment activities under the direct authority of the city.

[3:11:50] As the effort in the state government code section 53600 with the following exceptions, pulling off funds.

[3:11:59] Except for cash and certain restricted and special funds, the city will consolidate cash and reserve balances from all funds to maximize investment earnings and to increase efficiencies with regard to investment pricing.

[3:12:12] safe keeping and administration. Investment income will be allocated to the various funds based

[3:12:18] on their respective participation and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

[3:12:29] Any questions? Thank you so much for discussing this. Colleagues, are there any questions?

[3:12:34] Thank you so much for your report. All right. Well, now we're bound to demand resolution number

[3:12:38] D757, a resolution of the City Council of the Civil Monique California, allowing certain

[3:12:42] claims and demands is that's why the funds out of which the same are to be paid.

[3:12:46] The city council of the city of Almanic California does resolve its follows section

[3:12:48] one.

[3:12:49] The attached list of claims and demands totaling 6,662,752 dollars and 38 cents have been

[3:12:56] examined by the city treasurer and that weren't numbers 1,140, 6,973,114,117.

[3:13:02] In the payroll period July 16 through July 31,126, inclusive are hereby allowed in the

[3:13:07] amounts and ordered paid out of the respective funds that set forth.

[3:13:10] Start Motion to Approve Resolution, D757, Motion to Approve.

[3:13:14] Thank you, Councilman Govon.

[3:13:15] I'll go ahead and second.

[3:13:17] If we can get the vote in machine up, please.

[3:13:32] Item passes 70.

[3:13:33] I'm moving on to the approval of minutes for approval of minutes.

[3:13:36] Is there a Motion to Approve?

[3:13:37] Motion to Approve.

[3:13:39] Thank you.

[3:13:40] Motion by Govon, second by Cortez.

[3:13:42] Members, please vote.

[3:13:46] Staffs can have to keep up with this.

[3:13:53] Passive 70.

[3:13:54] We're now moving on to consent calendar.

[3:13:58] So 10 items have been pulled.

[3:14:00] and will be presented at the next council meeting.

[3:14:04] I want to go ahead and pull the additional following items.

[3:14:08] I'd like to pull item 12.5, 12.8, 12.13, 12.15,

[3:14:23] 12.23,

[3:14:27] 12.27, 28 and 29,

[3:14:33] 31, 34 and 35.

[3:14:36] I'll move 23, yes. 23,

[3:14:48] 27, 28, 29,

[3:14:53] 31, 34 and 35.

[3:14:59] I'll go ahead.

[3:15:00] Item motion to approve the balance, is there a second?

[3:15:04] Or, I'm sorry, were there any other items that needed to pull for

[3:15:07] except, for, for consideration?

[3:15:14] All right. All right. So if we can vote, please, on the remaining

[3:15:21] balance,

[3:15:34] can I just make a second motion to approve the consent calendar as is without pulling any

[3:15:41] for consideration. I have no, I have questions and I am allowed to pull these items. That's

[3:15:48] really about us. Yeah, there's the agenda that's advised that if there's items that the city council

[3:15:55] would like to pull for discussion, you have that ability to do so and so we would have to go

[3:16:01] through each of the items and receive more. Thank you. All right, so councilwoman, okay, so we have

[3:16:07] first and second. Members, please vote on the balance.

[3:16:22] Has everyone voted?

[3:16:23] Okay.

[3:16:26] There you go, Sheila.

[3:16:28] All right, items past 7-0. Okay.

[3:16:30] Let's start with item 12.15, because I do believe that we have members of the Sankaro

[3:16:34] Valley Council government here to protect.

[3:16:35] I take us 12.13.

[3:16:38] 12.15.

[3:16:38] One five.

[3:16:39] One five.

[3:16:42] One five.

[3:16:45] Can they do what's your preference?

[3:16:49] Okay.

[3:16:49] Okay, we'll start with 1215 and we pulled both of them so we're reading here both of them.

[3:16:53] Yes, thank you.

[3:16:55] Thank you.

[3:16:56] There is a slide, Joe.

[3:16:58] Thank you, Council.

[3:16:59] Item 12.

[3:17:01] Staff, if you could please bring the presentation up.

[3:17:03] 12.15.

[3:17:05] Thank you.

[3:17:06] Honourable Mayor and Council.

[3:17:08] Approval of the MOU for Shingar Ovali to proceed with bus rapid transit along valley corridor.

[3:17:16] and Santa Anita to the El Monte Transit Hub.

[3:17:19] We are looking for an MOU to be signed.

[3:17:21] That way, San Guerrero Valley can build it

[3:17:24] and then the city can accept it after it is built.

[3:17:28] Transit Single Priority is bus stops.

[3:17:32] Throughout the way, we're improving bus paths

[3:17:35] and providing bus shelters with sewer lighting.

[3:17:39] San Guerrero Valley has this project fully funded.

[3:17:42] Thank you.

[3:17:45] San Gabriel Valle has this project fully funded through Metro and county funding.

[3:17:52] So all we're looking forward to just approval of our MOU.

[3:17:57] This is the complete corridor, so Elmante Hub all the way through to Haseanda in the city

[3:18:04] of industry as well as transitional priority which allows buses to have shorter red durations

[3:18:12] stop lights and longer greens as they're coming up to intersections. Under the MOU

[3:18:20] SUV will serve as lead agency will develop the project build it and then hand it off.

[3:18:26] Approval of the MOU is necessary to clearly establish our roles as well as the city's

[3:18:32] roles once the project is completed in built. And then fiscal impact,

[3:18:42] as I said,

[3:18:42] is all through Metro and the county.

[3:18:45] Recommendation is to approve the MOU.

[3:18:48] Can I?

[3:18:49] Yes.

[3:18:50] Thanks, Ray.

[3:18:51] Mayor and members of the council.

[3:18:53] Can I step in for a second?

[3:18:54] I just want to introduce myself

[3:18:55] on the interim city engineer, Ray Mundo Threjo.

[3:18:59] And I wanted to add a little context to today's recommendation.

[3:19:02] If I may have been working with Trenton and his team

[3:19:05] for the last seven months and going over carefully,

[3:19:09] the recommendations of this MOU.

[3:19:11] Some of the preliminary design that was presented by the Sanko Rebelli Cog lines up well with the feasibility study that we completed for ballet complete streets.

[3:19:22] So what we added to the MOU as we worked together as a team was language that ensured that the feasibility that we completed at the city had priority in terms of design.

[3:19:36] So we're going to work hand in hand to ensure that all the work that was put into the Valley

[3:19:40] Streets feasibility, which was a tremendous amount of outreach to the community, is priority

[3:19:46] in the design.

[3:19:47] And again, you'll see any MOU that's apparent and, again, as staff and city engineer, I also

[3:19:54] support and recommend today's recommendation.

[3:19:57] Thank you, Mr. Treil.

[3:19:59] College, are there any-

[3:20:02] I want to say thank you for saying that because that was exactly where I was going to go with it. Are there any city requested betterments than so, are there any financial obligations for those betterments that are in the feasibility study that we would have to fund?

[3:20:19] But for specific two, today's MOU, there is not for the project presented at a cog.

[3:20:25] What I will tell you and add some more context is that the city has received $4.3 million

[3:20:31] to design the valley completest streets we're preparing an RFP to move forward with that.

[3:20:36] As we do that, we'll, again, work closely as a team to ensure that the ultimate design

[3:20:42] is honor during this step of the process.

[3:20:46] So there is no financial commitment to the work that's being proposed today and any financial commitment that specific to the complete streets would come at a later date and that would be the cities and that would likely be after the construction is complete with the project.

[3:21:01] Yeah, before you.

[3:21:05] Mayor.

[3:21:06] I just have a comment.

[3:21:08] Thank you so much for coming and waiting.

[3:21:10] I have the pleasure of serving as delegates and alternate on the SGB cog and I just think it's amazing that

[3:21:18] this is going to be happening soon and I just really appreciate you coming out to present and we look forward to this project.

[3:21:25] Thank you.

[3:21:26] Thank

[3:21:28] you.

[3:21:29] All right.

[3:21:30] So if there's no further questions, I'll go ahead and move to approve.

[3:21:33] There's our second

[3:21:36] motion by Angona, second by Longoria.

[3:21:47] Madam Mayor, I also just took a closer look at our policies.

[3:21:55] So our policy is that a matter may be removed by the consent calendar and taken up separately

[3:22:00] by way of a seconded motion of any member of the city council with the approval of a majority

[3:22:05] of the council forums.

[3:22:06] We would need a motion by you to take those items up separately and we would need a second.

[3:22:15] And then you would need to vote on that.

[3:22:17] This is how we've always done it, Mr. Olivadas.

[3:22:19] That's been the customer practice, I agree.

[3:22:22] But I'm looking at the code right now.

[3:22:24] And that is the process that articulated in our code.

[3:22:27] I want to second vote on.

[3:22:31] We have a motion on the floor. Can we finish this one?

[3:22:34] Yeah, that's finished this one.

[3:22:37] Right? Yeah.

[3:22:39] Yeah, for 12.1.5.

[3:22:42] Thank you.

[3:22:45] So we have motion, wait, we already voted, didn't we vote?

[3:22:52] Oh my bad, so I got confused.

[3:22:54] Okay, so going back to the issue at hand.

[3:23:00] Yes, so I had, so I expressed the items that I have questions on,

[3:23:07] that I would like presentations on.

[3:23:11] If you look on page, I think it's page six of the agenda.

[3:23:15] It clearly states that one of my items may be removed from the consent calendar so that they may be discussed considered and voted upon individually by the council.

[3:23:24] And then the last sentence kind of governs what I just said a matter may be removed from the consent calendar and taken up separately by way of a second in motion of any member of the council would be approval of a majority of the council form.

[3:23:39] Okay, so I did pull those items and then I made a motion to approve the balance, which I made the motion and draw that's made a second.

[3:23:52] And then members voted and we passed that.

[3:23:56] To pull the items, you can make that motion, but we need a second to do that.

[3:24:05] No, just we can make one motion.

[3:24:07] So, I have a question, because I've always saw that in the policy and what it seems conflicting because in practice we did it one way and it says another way but the purpose of a consent agenda is supposed to be that these are

[3:24:23] routine or non-controcial items that will be passed in one motion unanimously, right?

[3:24:31] So my question is, that's who's opinion is, so my question, so my question is can you pass a

[3:24:41] consent agenda with a vote against it? Because we've never done that, it's always been unanimous

[3:24:46] approval, right? Yes. Yes. Can you, so a consent agenda can be passed with and

[3:24:52] opposing vote. Yes. Okay. So that's just my majority. Okay. Correct. All right. So that was like

[3:25:00] Yes, what I thought was my conflict. The conflict was why would we prevent someone from pulling an item, if they were going to vote, no, I get a step.

[3:25:09] But now what you're saying makes sense. We'd be having the mayor.

[3:25:13] The mayor hasn't done it that way.

[3:25:15] Custom and practices tip right in that will pull items and we'll get a presentation.

[3:25:19] But when I went back to the code and it looked at the agenda, that's not the process.

[3:25:23] So I just wanted to make sure that you all aware of that.

[3:25:27] Okay. Well, can we vote again?

[3:25:29] Well, I would like respectfully.

[3:25:32] I have questions on these items and respectfully colleagues.

[3:25:36] If you ever want to pull an item from the agenda,

[3:25:39] I'm not, if you have questions, I'm not going to challenge you on that.

[3:25:42] I'm going to allow you to have your questions for you to ask your questions

[3:25:46] and have answers.

[3:25:48] So respectfully colleagues.

[3:25:49] I would like for us to continue.

[3:25:50] You know, it's 9.10. We have plenty of time to hear my questions. So I respectfully ask that we continue to allow me to hear presentations and ask questions on these items. So I can I will make a motion to move forward with the nine remaining items that I have questions on.

[3:26:14] so that I could hear presentations,

[3:26:17] or at least be able to ask questions of staff

[3:26:20] on each individual item.

[3:26:22] And I'm trying to get through this agenda

[3:26:25] as fast as possible.

[3:26:28] Mayor, yes.

[3:26:29] Oh, I'm sorry, may I help Council real quick?

[3:26:33] Mayor, if you have questions on each one of the items,

[3:26:36] I'm happy to answer them for you,

[3:26:37] without the presentation, so we can move forward,

[3:26:39] so we can compromise and keep moving.

[3:26:42] If that's what you want, I'm happy to answer

[3:26:44] questions on each other items without having to do through the lengthy presentations. You have all the

[3:26:49] information that you're going to see on the staff reports. So whatever you want to do, I'm here for

[3:26:54] you and the staff too. Thank you. Right. Well, I mean, when we talked about the agenda, Ms. Martinez,

[3:27:00] I shared my concern about the length of it. You assured me that you would pull half of the consent items off

[3:27:06] off out of the 35, you only pull 10 for the next meeting.

[3:27:12] So I didn't know which items were going to be seen tonight,

[3:27:15] which ones were going to be seen until I arrived here.

[3:27:19] So I feel that this agenda wasn't properly communicated to me.

[3:27:24] And I said that.

[3:27:25] Excuse me, Ms. Cortez, please stop interrupting me.

[3:27:29] I have the floor.

[3:27:30] Okay, thank you.

[3:27:31] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[3:27:35] Thank you.

[3:27:36] Again, Ms. Martinez, yes, I wasn't expecting to see 25 items tonight.

[3:27:42] I was expecting to see maybe about 15, 18, not 25 on consent.

[3:27:49] So, you know, and when, you know, Councilmember Hurrah, I do want to acknowledge your comment

[3:27:55] about, there's supposed to be non-controversial routine, while whose opinion is routine or non-controversial,

[3:28:03] Or, you know, just if one of us has a question, we should be able to ask questions, maybe a member of the public has reached out to us and say, hey, you know, can I want to learn more about this item, can you have staff present, I have questions, you know, more than happy to ask questions, I'll be happy with the community, this is what we heard to do, we're here to ask questions and, you know, be transparent and show our community that we are speaking out on their behalf.

[3:28:30] So. You're on our, I mean, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not the courthouse. Remember, God. I'm sorry. I was waiting. Yeah.

[3:28:38] So you mind? Okay. Thank you. So I would like to respectfully.

[3:28:43] So chair this meeting to respect the rest of us in our time. I had a great conversation with city manager and staff. After this agenda was posted. I agree, was a link. The agenda.

[3:28:53] we have such a busy city. Again, thank you council member for it.

[3:28:59] At an effort, educating the rest of us since you've been here longer than most of us.

[3:29:03] There are items that are routine. This is not uncommon.

[3:29:07] And I really appreciate City Attorney telling us that we do have an option.

[3:29:11] I'm sorry that you don't feel comfortable getting your questions answered before the meeting.

[3:29:16] I took the time out of my day during the week and to make sure I went through the

[3:29:19] And yes, it's unfortunate that I was over 1,500 pages.

[3:29:23] Yes, it takes time out of my personal time.

[3:29:25] But I make sure my research, my due diligence,

[3:29:28] to work with city staff.

[3:29:30] So we don't have to be up here having this discussion right now.

[3:29:33] So I would like to honor what the code is

[3:29:35] and make sure that your motion stays in place

[3:29:37] you second and we need to vote.

[3:29:39] Let's follow the orders.

[3:29:40] So I'm okay with that, respectfully.

[3:29:42] Right, and I reviewed my agenda as well,

[3:29:44] but it doesn't mean that I don't have questions.

[3:29:45] So I should be allowed to fully understand maybe

[3:29:53] for you. Okay, great. All right, so

[3:30:02] So, colleagues, again, I would like to ask questions on the remaining nine items. So, I would like to motion to pull these items so that I can ask these questions. Is there a second?

[3:30:18] Mayor, if I may, I did second that because I do truly believe that we're here and if we do

[3:30:25] have questions to ask, right? We all have that opportunity to do so, right? But we did receive

[3:30:35] our staff report, Mayor, and just to be considerate of, you know, every one's time here as

[3:30:43] Well, we all had the opportunity to read all of our homework, let's just say it like that.

[3:30:53] And if you can kindly consider just asking the questions instead of the presentations,

[3:30:59] I think that would alleviate this whole.

[3:31:04] I just want to add, I do take a stance when you're saying that we're not taking this into transparency

[3:31:10] and what the residents are asking, my residents reached out to me and already asked my questions.

[3:31:17] So I gave that to City Manager to answer and I gave response to them.

[3:31:21] So I do take offense to that.

[3:31:23] You are also trying to hurry up this meeting.

[3:31:27] So you know you're also a part of the play with trying to hurry this up.

[3:31:32] And I do want to thank City staff for being able to answer my questions ahead of time.

[3:31:38] So, that's why I wanted to do the second motion because we all did our homework.

[3:31:44] We all, at least, you know, we asked questions of what our residents had asked us, came back to it with the response, and that's why I wanted to move it forward.

[3:31:54] So if we, if we can let us know what the next step is.

[3:31:57] And I still second Galvan's motion.

[3:32:01] So I think the motion is to pull the remaining items that were referenced by the mayor previously.

[3:32:07] So that's the motion on the floor. We would need a second.

[3:32:14] Is that that wasn't my motion that wasn't my motion that was that wasn't the motion that was that wasn't the motion.

[3:32:19] That's the substitute motion right. So let let's take the mayor's motion first. So we need a second on that motion and then we'll vote on it.

[3:32:29] Second. Thank you. Dr. Rwadis. Second. Okay. So we have a first and a second and we'll do a vote.

[3:32:38] Okay. All right. We can get the bottom of the machine up.

[3:32:42] To continue with the nine second ask questions on the night out.

[3:32:45] Calling for recon- we're reconsidering the mayor's ask at the beginning of the consent agenda to pull her nine items.

[3:32:54] City Attorney said that important policy we need a second, we now have the second, and we're voting on whether to be forward with pulling those items.

[3:33:07] The option after that would be to approve all those items in one step as a consent agenda, if that motion fails.

[3:33:13] What's out allowing me to ask questions?

[3:33:17] There's two motions, which you could have asked before.

[3:33:20] I'm just clarifying that.

[3:33:22] Is everybody clear?

[3:33:23] Okay.

[3:33:27] No, the motion on the floor right now from the mayor, which was seconded by council member wet is is to pull the remaining items that she pulled earlier. You want me to list the items.

[3:33:40] Okay. So to pull those items, I believe the mayor would like to hear a presentation on all of the items that were.

[3:33:47] No, I don't have to have a presentation on all of them. Some of them. I have questions and other ones.

[3:33:52] Okay, so the Romanian items that are pulled, she's either going to ask questions and possibly ask for a presentation.

[3:33:59] So that's the motion on before.

[3:34:03] We have a first by the mayor.

[3:34:04] We have a second by council member Wettis.

[3:34:06] And that's what you would be voting on.

[3:34:10] Well, if my motion fails.

[3:34:12] If first fails, then we would go on to the next motion.

[3:34:19] You don't ask any questions.

[3:34:21] You could have asked, again, before this month.

[3:34:25] You keep saying that.

[3:34:27] You keep saying that.

[3:34:28] You keep saying that.

[3:34:28] It's not my fault that you don't have a good relationship with staff, because you always

[3:34:31] do mean them.

[3:34:32] That's not less and not less and not less.

[3:34:33] We have a first question here.

[3:34:36] Why don't we?

[3:34:36] Let me call the phone.

[3:34:38] Thank you.

[3:34:50] All right.

[3:34:51] So motion fails.

[3:34:54] So the next motion is to approve the remainder of the consent calendar.

[3:35:00] Correct, with one motion. So we have first by council member Govon, we need a second.

[3:35:06] So we have a second by Mayor Protem Longorea. Now we can vote.

[3:35:26] Thank

[3:35:29] you.

[3:35:32] Truly as unfortunate colleagues, I thought we had a working relationship and we're all the meetings.

[3:35:37] Mayor, can we continue the city business?

[3:35:43] Thank you folks for staying.

[3:35:50] Staff, you're paid to be here.

[3:35:52] Moving on to our regular agenda, wait, hold on a second. I believe we have a public hearing.

[3:35:57] Okay, we do have a public hearing, so I'm moved to open the public hearing as our second.

[3:36:03] Okay, any objections?

[3:36:05] Seeing none.

[3:36:07] Agenda.

[3:36:08] I'm sorry.

[3:36:08] Public hearing is not open.

[3:36:09] If we can receive presentation from staff.

[3:36:16] The mayor, City Council, City Manager.

[3:36:19] Item number 13.1.

[3:36:21] This is to introduce an ordinance creating an expedited permitting process for

[3:36:26] be charging stations as required by state law.

[3:36:31] The state law established through Assembly Bill 1, 2, 3, 6, and Assembly Bill 9, 70 require

[3:36:36] cities to adopt an expedited permitting process for EV charging stations.

[3:36:41] This proposed ordinance will bring the city into compliance.

[3:36:45] The city has been working with the California Governor's Office of Business and Economic

[3:36:49] Development to ensure compliance.

[3:36:54] The state law requires that review to be limited to health and safety standards provided

[3:36:59] published checklist, acceptance of electronic applications, and to require the state's

[3:37:06] timelines.

[3:37:11] The required checklist is already published on the city website. The ordinance

[3:37:14] will add chapter 15.37 to the building code in the municipal code. That formalizes the required

[3:37:21] process and ensures the city is in full compliance.

[3:37:27] The proposed ordinance applies to all

[3:37:29] EV charging station installations, commercial and residential, within the city, and provides

[3:37:35] direction to the building division on the state mandated procedures.

[3:37:42] The last establishes timelines for plan review comments and mandates that approvals

[3:37:47] cannot be influenced by HOA or parking requirements.

[3:37:51] The parking can be reduced to accommodate the charging spaces if needed.

[3:37:58] As far as the environmental sequence concern, the ordinance is secret exempt as it only sets

[3:38:03] administrative procedures.

[3:38:09] for fiscal impact. There is no fiscal impact. The required procedures will be handled by the

[3:38:16] building division staff and the current resources that we have.

[3:38:22] The recommendation is that the

[3:38:24] first reading of the ordinance be approved and is scheduled for the second reading at the next meeting.

[3:38:32] That concludes the presentation. I try to be as quick as possible for you guys. If you have any questions, I'll do my best answer.

[3:38:45] Do we have any public comments for this item?

[3:38:54] Okay, they're none.

[3:38:55] All right.

[3:38:57] Are there any questions for staff?

[3:39:04] No questions.

[3:39:05] Okay, I'll move to close the public hearings or second.

[3:39:09] Second, second, by Galvan.

[3:39:12] Any objections?

[3:39:15] The name none.

[3:39:15] Public hearing is now closed.

[3:39:17] There are a motion to approve or an instance.

[3:39:19] Three, zero, six, eight.

[3:39:20] All motion to approve.

[3:39:22] Okay.

[3:39:23] Motion by Cortez.

[3:39:24] Second, by Galvan.

[3:39:25] And please vote,

[3:39:35] I didn't pass the 7-0.

[3:39:39] So we went on to item 14.1.

[3:39:40] I'd love to receive a presentation, please.

[3:39:57] Oh no.

[3:40:01] I'm just kidding.

[3:40:04] I'm just kidding.

[3:40:07] We have printed copies for you.

[3:40:15] All right. I'll try to be quick.

[3:40:18] Item 14.1 is consideration and approval of resolution, updating the city's

[3:40:24] current class and complaint, repealing it with all prior versions of it.

[3:40:50] Can I get a IT's assistance real quick?

[3:41:00] Got it?

[3:41:03] All right. We're back in business.

[3:41:05] Okay, recent developments have created opportunities for certain staffing

[3:41:08] re-orgs as well as the opportunity for additional full-time and part-time

[3:41:13] staffing at no cost to the city.

[3:41:16] So a few additional full-time staffing increases are also being requested at this

[3:41:20] time.

[3:41:21] Admin updates are also needed just to effectuate the proposed

[3:41:24] staff reorganization as well as staffing level increases approved as

[3:41:29] to update for the fiscal year of 2627, and all proposed changes that are going to be outlined

[3:41:35] are supposed to take effect on September 1st of this year.

[3:41:41] First item is to transfer the vacant senior administrative assistant position from the administrative

[3:41:48] division of the Public Works Department to the Human Resources and the Risk Management

[3:41:52] Department in a South-Lish declassification of a senior human resources slash risk management

[3:41:58] And we classify the vacant senior administrative assistant position to the senior human resource and risk management analyst.

[3:42:07] The senior administrative assistant position in public works recently became vacant in collaboration between public works and human resources.

[3:42:14] It was determined that the needs of both departments could be served best by transferring and reclassifying the aforementioned position.

[3:42:21] The new senior human resources and risk management analyst position will focus primarily on risk management activities,

[3:42:27] with special focus on reducing general liability claims and related cost to the city.

[3:42:38] The next is to increase the full-time positions as state of below.

[3:42:42] One is the senior code enforcement officer and community and economic development.

[3:42:47] The next is to add two custody officers in the police department, which will bring the

[3:42:51] total to nine, and then we have maintenance workers part-time in public working utilities

[3:42:58] by two. And these are part-time maintenance worker positions that will be funded by

[3:43:02] CalTrans.

[3:43:07] There's also a new and revised job descriptions for the following

[3:43:09] classifications, which is a senior human resources, slash risk management

[3:43:13] analyst, irrigation senior specialist, case program community education specialist.

[3:43:21] Furthermore, we will be establishing the following new classifications to be

[3:43:24] funded under the board of State of Community Corrections Proposition 64 Public Health

[3:43:29] and safety grant projects, cohort four for programs and resources supporting regulatory and education slash awareness efforts related to the legal cannabis business activity within the city and that would be the case program community education specialist, which will be have help having position number G424 pay grade is G128 and that's full time position.

[3:43:52] And again, this is a grant fund to position, which is supposed to run through December 31,

[3:43:59] 21, and we'll do similar work to that of the current case program CSO, which was established

[3:44:05] back in October of 2023.

[3:44:08] The position will focus on outreach, education, engagement, especially to social media usage,

[3:44:13] and development.

[3:44:14] So what does this mean?

[3:44:15] That means that our full-time equivalent positions will increase from 340 to 344.

[3:44:21] Our part-timers go up by two and interstay intact.

[3:44:28] So, physically, item A, the transfer of the human resource,

[3:44:31] transfer of the reclassification of senior admin

[3:44:33] system to human resources, race management analysts.

[3:44:38] Although the paid risk likely higher,

[3:44:40] the new position you should result in net savings to the city

[3:44:43] based on the type of work that they'll be doing

[3:44:45] and recovering costs for the city.

[3:44:48] The part-time maintenance workers are grandfathered

[3:44:50] and case program community education

[3:44:51] specials, it's also grand funded. So the fiscal impact table was listed here in this slide, which

[3:45:00] There's going to be a general fund impact, the belittle of close to 280,000, and for a total cost of city of

[3:45:06] 335,800 dollars. This alliance with strategic goal, number three, that the city has established.

[3:45:14] And we do recommend that the city council consider and approve the attached resolution, updating the class and plan,

[3:45:20] effect of September 1st, and to amend the fiscal year 2627 comprehensive budget in the amount of

[3:45:26] 335,800 by authorizing the following increases in appropriations, which is just shy of 280,000 in the

[3:45:33] general fund and a little north of 56,000 in the city's retirement fund. I do want to make a point

[3:45:39] of clarification. There was a revision to the staff report that was submitted to you prior to

[3:45:43] presentation so that you should have that all in front of you now. And if you don't,

[3:45:48] let us know when we show you get that. The revision basically highlights some of the positions

[3:45:53] that I were updated post agenda preparation. That concludes my presentation on item 14.1. I am now

[3:46:05] open for any questions. Thank you, Mr. Gutierrez, for the presentation.

[3:46:11] And so we're incurring an additional almost $280,000 from the city's general fund.

[3:46:21] So the retirement fund is completely separate.

[3:46:23] It doesn't come out of the general fund.

[3:46:26] Or is it all as they all still kind of out of the general fund?

[3:46:30] All of our finest director to elaborate on the allocation of funds.

[3:46:33] Thank

[3:46:38] you.

[3:46:39] Good evening, Council.

[3:46:40] Yeah, so that's fine.

[3:46:41] It's actually funded through a tax measure as a separate fund.

[3:46:44] Yeah, specifically for that. Okay. So with approval of this, we're increasing our deficit right because we're looking at a 3.8 million dollar deficit for next year. So now we're at about 4 million. Is that correct?

[3:46:56] Correct.

[3:46:56] We should talk about.

[3:46:57] Thank you.

[3:46:57] That's right.

[3:46:58] We're talking about a process.

[3:47:00] I'm just I'm I'm looking at our budget for next year.

[3:47:04] Thank you for your comments.

[3:47:06] But I do care about our city's finances. Thank you.

[3:47:11] Okay, so if there's no further questions, we need to go away a couple of times a quick second.

[3:47:16] So total cost, may I have a comment?

[3:47:20] Is 335,000 on the staff report?

[3:47:24] Okay, the other portion goes to the City of Retirement Fund.

[3:47:27] And that's why it says multiple accounts, correct?

[3:47:31] That's correct.

[3:47:31] Okay, thank you so much.

[3:47:33] All right.

[3:47:34] Yes, Councilwoman Cortes.

[3:47:35] Thank you.

[3:47:36] Do you like to just have a question?

[3:47:37] just thinking about the background when you say staffing reorganization. Would you say that

[3:47:44] say looking at opportunities to move staff from full time, part time, etc.

[3:47:50] Can that be like a future savings strategy for the city? I'm just curious.

[3:47:56] Well, we're essentially some of the changes that develop or prior to the preparation of the budget

[3:48:06] before for the, like in the, in the June, in the June, in the main June months, right?

[3:48:11] So these things essentially happen after that preparation. As far as savings, we're looking

[3:48:18] at every possible way, we're looking at, you know, what makes sense due to whatever vacancies

[3:48:23] present in cells or opportunities within our current operation that just align better with the way

[3:48:31] that we were moving our departments forward.

[3:48:34] So that's why certain positions were discussed

[3:48:38] and essentially they would result in savings.

[3:48:43] Like for example, the risk management,

[3:48:46] we saw an opportunity to pursue things like such

[3:48:49] a subrogation, reducing, you know, doing safety

[3:48:51] and space.

[3:48:52] These are that nature.

[3:48:52] So that hypothetically should result in savings

[3:48:55] to the city, but operationally, you know,

[3:48:59] I was looking at ways to offset costs, but in this instance, yeah, there was a slight increase,

[3:49:05] but we do anticipate some savings with the creation of these positions.

[3:49:10] Okay, I just also want to remind our my colleagues that I think one of the unique tasks

[3:49:16] that HR has is yes, you need to make sure that each department is operating efficiently,

[3:49:23] but also effectively.

[3:49:24] So if you see that there's a need, right, to bring a certain position, I understand whether

[3:49:28] It's before the budget's due or after the budget.

[3:49:31] That's one of your jobs, correct?

[3:49:32] To ensure.

[3:49:32] Correct.

[3:49:32] We do, we're constantly analyzing and meeting with the Department

[3:49:36] heads to discuss potential opportunities whenever

[3:49:39] we're in opportunity, such as the ones that have

[3:49:41] lived all during the new fiscal year.

[3:49:44] And if there's an opportunity, we will ask to,

[3:49:47] if there's an opportunity to make changes, we will do that.

[3:49:50] OK.

[3:49:50] Thank you for that clarification and doing your job.

[3:49:53] Thank you.

[3:49:54] I have a question.

[3:49:55] Well, one, we go thank you so much for this

[3:49:58] presentation because

[3:50:00] I am sure all of us here on the dias care about our budget and our city finances. And I just

[3:50:06] want to remind my colleagues that it's also our job to make sure that we're not putting

[3:50:11] ourselves at risk to be able to get sued. Please keep your hands to yourself at city events.

[3:50:18] Please acknowledge and don't do things that put us at risk because then we're going to continue to

[3:50:25] in a deficit and I know our city is doing its best to be able to work through that deficit

[3:50:32] and I have all all my faith that you guys will. You know money right now is tough everywhere

[3:50:41] and families are struggling but also cost of living is going up things are in order for us to

[3:50:48] make sure that we have amazing staff here and the state here, right?

[3:50:52] We're going to have to put out some money for the amazing staff that we have and the amazing

[3:50:59] staff that we want to keep. So, I want to thank you again for doing your due diligence to

[3:51:06] figure out how we save money in the way we can, especially during these hard times. So, thank you.

[3:51:13] Mr. Gutierrez, I do have one more question when we're looking to transfer positions or update job descriptions and higher vacancies.

[3:51:23] Are these conversations that we have with our bargaining units before these changes?

[3:51:29] Before you bring these changes to us?

[3:51:31] Yes, that's a great question actually, Mayor.

[3:51:33] And we do.

[3:51:33] We have those discussions with the bargaining units.

[3:51:35] We do what's called the meeting confer prior to any changes.

[3:51:38] So we notify the affected bargaining group of the potential changes.

[3:51:41] We have dialogue, they have questions on whatever the reason basically the rationale for the transfer.

[3:51:50] Sometimes they'll wave the right to a meaningful for it, and we'll all be on the same page, essentially.

[3:51:55] But yes, that opportunity is one of the first steps that we take part to make any changes.

[3:52:00] Okay, and before you bring it to us.

[3:52:02] And before you bring it to you, correct?

[3:52:03] Okay, great.

[3:52:04] I just wanted to make sure.

[3:52:05] All right.

[3:52:05] Thank you so much, Mr. Gutierrez.

[3:52:07] There.

[3:52:07] All right.

[3:52:07] I'll go ahead and motion to approve.

[3:52:09] Is there a second?

[3:52:11] Okay, you had a question?

[3:52:13] Go ahead.

[3:52:13] Quick comment, just because I came to my mind after Govon's comment.

[3:52:17] Not only do we want to prevent a deficit

[3:52:19] by one of us causing lawsuits, please don't do that colleagues,

[3:52:22] but I also want to remind everyone,

[3:52:25] let's bring economic development,

[3:52:26] let's bring more businesses.

[3:52:28] So we have more revenue sources.

[3:52:30] So we could potentially fund you positions

[3:52:33] because I want each department to be working at the best.

[3:52:37] So I just wanted to remind everyone that

[3:52:39] led to bringing you businesses.

[3:52:41] So thank you.

[3:52:42] OK, can we get the phone machine up please?

[3:52:47] Members, please vote.

[3:52:57] It passes 70.

[3:52:59] We've been on to item 14.2.

[3:53:02] Can we please get a presentation?

[3:53:07] That would be me again.

[3:53:08] Oh, thank you.

[3:53:17] Item 14.2, which is consideration

[3:53:19] and approval of a letter of agreement.

[3:53:23] Otherwise, we'll commonly refer to it as L-O-A.

[3:53:25] buying between the city of Enlante and the police officers association for Medicare premium reimbursements

[3:53:30] for 2016 2017 retirees. So the city recently discovered that certain POA members who retire

[3:53:40] during the period of January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2017 were receiving reimbursements from

[3:53:48] the city for Medicare premiums paid by them while other POA members were retired during the same period

[3:53:53] we're not. In order to resolve this discrepancy, staff recommends that the city enter into the attach

[3:53:58] LOA with the POA. So the 2000, a little bit of background. So the 2000 and 2003 POA, MOU, introduced

[3:54:08] the following Medicare related provisions, which was maintained through the subsequent MOUs

[3:54:13] onto the including December 31, 2015 date. So this was standing for 15 years. And the language

[3:54:21] read if POA retirees are eligible for Medicare Part A and be at no expense, the city will pay

[3:54:29] for such coverage. So they were not getting any type of coverage by Medicare, the city will

[3:54:36] cover the cost. So the 2016-17 POA MOU omitted the aforementioned Medicare related provisions

[3:54:43] and replaced it with the following language effective January 1st, 2016. So this was a new

[3:54:50] contract. The city will not reimburse honorable retirees for premiums paid to social security

[3:54:55] for Medicare premiums.

[3:55:00] A couple months ago, was discovered that the provision that the provision established in the 2016-2017 MOU, expressly excluding reimbursement of medicare premiums, had not been implemented uniformly for POA members who retired under that said MOU.

[3:55:18] So, the city had two options to resolve this, and this was a conversation that was had with you guys prior.

[3:55:25] So, the first was to discontinue the ineligible reimbursements of medical premiums to and demand repayment of previously issued reimbursement from applicable recipients.

[3:55:36] The other option was to establish a retroactive waiver of medical reimbursement and eligibility for all 2016-2017 retirees.

[3:55:44] They're by making all of them eligible to receive the reimbursement for Medicare premiums.

[3:55:50] And after further discussion and consideration,

[3:55:52] I'll relevant factors available, the city opted to pursue with option 2,

[3:55:57] and move forward with a proposed attach L-O-A for the P-O-A to effectuate this option.

[3:56:04] The attach letter of agreement confirms a waiver of the Medicare reimbursement in eligibility provision.

[3:56:09] first established under the 2016-17 P.O.A. to all members of the 2016-17 MOU and who retired during the term of that specific MOU, which meant that it was through January 1st, 2016 through December 31st of 2017.

[3:56:32] One of the terms on the letter of agreement express expressly states that the terms in that letter of agreement are not intended to be used as a president for any future matter involving the city and the POA or to be considered binding past practice.

[3:56:53] A total of seven individuals were tied under that set MOU.

[3:56:57] So the L-O-A would make all seven retirees and their spouses if applicable, eligible to receive the reimbursement of premiums paid to social security for Medicare parts A and B when applicable.

[3:57:08] So the L-O-A would apply retroactively to January 1st of 2016, which was when the MOU became effective.

[3:57:18] We did present this to the POA and they were in agreement and wishes to enter into this attached letter of agreement with the city.

[3:57:29] The retroactive cost for this agreement is approximately $30,100.

[3:57:35] And the total cost for the current fiscal year is approximately 25,000.

[3:57:40] These estimates are based on four of the seven retirees being Medicare eligible, along with one spouse, so five total deaths of now.

[3:57:48] So approximately 5,000 per current eligible participant.

[3:57:54] Future costs are expected to increase as additional retirees and spouses become medical, eligible, and medical premiums do increase.

[3:58:00] I, methodically, we can have about 14 eligible individuals, the seven retirees, plus their spouses, some will apply that time too, you get the 14.

[3:58:11] This is a record.

[3:58:12] We do recommend that we move forward this with this LOA, and it's essentially a risk management.

[3:58:23] So again, the recommendation is to approve the attach LOA with the police officers association.

[3:58:27] And the amendment to amend the fiscal year 2627 budget of the city of Atlanta to appropriate 54,450 in the city's general fund.

[3:58:40] Are there any questions?

[3:58:48] All right.

[3:58:49] I thought my colleagues would have some questions at a moment.

[3:58:52] But I don't.

[3:58:53] I don't have any questions at this time.

[3:58:56] Are there questions?

[3:58:58] I have a comment.

[3:58:59] Okay.

[3:59:00] I'll move to a further second.

[3:59:01] I'll second.

[3:59:02] Okay.

[3:59:03] Go ahead.

[3:59:05] Thank you for the presentation and thank you also for meeting with POA and thank you for

[3:59:11] doing your job.

[3:59:12] Appreciate it.

[3:59:13] Thank you, Councilwoman.

[3:59:14] If we can get the voting machine up, please.

[3:59:25] I'm a passenger of 7-0 moving on to item 14.3.

[3:59:28] Thank you, Council.

[3:59:29] Thank you, Mr. Frateras.

[3:59:32] Thank you, Mayor.

[3:59:33] Members of the Council.

[3:59:34] Again, Raymond Othrejo, your city engineer.

[3:59:41] I'll wait for the item to be here.

[3:59:43] This is a pretty visible project that we have for the city.

[3:59:48] We have the consideration or approval of a construction

[3:59:50] contact with onics, paving company for the Zone 9

[3:59:53] Street Improvement Project, CIPO-71 for a not-to-XC

[3:59:57] amount of 3.1, or 755.

[4:00:01] We

[4:00:05] give you a little bit of background in terms of the project scope. It is a pavement project. So you'll see a lot of visibility on the streets that I'll mention in the next slide here.

[4:00:15] We'll also have curb ramps. We pair of curb and gutter and sidewalks and various utility appearances and adjustments.

[4:00:22] This project arose from the Paving Management and Reporting Valuations.

[4:00:26] It was a priority project a few years ago, and now we are here to present you with the lowest responsible bidder.

[4:00:34] Specifically, the project locations, as you'll see here, is the boundaries are the lower part is the Ramona, upper part is Lower Azusa, and it's found by the western side on Peck Road.

[4:00:47] And then on the eastern side, we have the Macsyn is the, the project we're missing.

[4:00:53] I think most of us know that area.

[4:00:55] Cox all right in the center of all that.

[4:00:56] So there'll be a lot of activities in that part of the city.

[4:01:00] And I think it's going to be a great project to see some of that new paving.

[4:01:09] The background in terms of when the project started, the design did start back in 2023

[4:01:14] and continued on till just around the end of 2025, a couple years there.

[4:01:20] a couple of reasons for that slight delay is there was a little bit of staff

[4:01:24] turnover at the city and now that we have stabilized staffing numbers at engineering

[4:01:29] under Jerry's leadership, we were able to get this project out and keep moving.

[4:01:34] But we also confirmed with the funding agencies that were still in track to deliver the project

[4:01:39] within the funding schedule so that we're in good shape in terms of project delivery.

[4:01:47] Once again, we did follow the formal bid process. We went out to bid July 1st in terms of

[4:01:53] meeting our fiscal year, funding plan.

[4:01:55] This is part of the budget that was presented to you at the end of last fiscal year.

[4:01:59] So, we're again, we're on track early on to get this bid out so we can complete the project

[4:02:03] within this fiscal year.

[4:02:06] The bid open occurred July 30th and you'll see here we have a very nice, healthy response

[4:02:13] from bidders.

[4:02:13] I think there's a lot of attraction at the city of and won't there with the projects that

[4:02:17] we have.

[4:02:17] So, this is a good sign that we are in a good place to do business.

[4:02:21] When you have this many bidders, we're also taking advantage of the lowest responsible bidders.

[4:02:25] So this is a exciting slide to show is that there's plenty of bidders interested in doing work here.

[4:02:32] Total of nine is really good for our project of this scope and size.

[4:02:35] And in fact, what happened is that the actual number that came in came in slightly lower than the engine assessment,

[4:02:43] which is really reassuring that we've got a competitive bid.

[4:02:48] Once again, on expaving company, was determined to be the lowest-responsive and responsible

[4:02:53] bidder on expaving as completed similar projects for various southern California local

[4:02:57] agencies, confirmed by our project engineers.

[4:03:03] Fiscal impact is the total of $3.03 million, 147, 550,000 dollars is actually going

[4:03:10] to be mostly funded by SB1 funds.

[4:03:12] Again, I mentioned that this project came in a little bit lower than the engineer's estimate.

[4:03:16] And we actually have just over 4 million in SP1 funds for this project.

[4:03:21] So we'll look at the contingency to see if there's any opportunities to really fill

[4:03:26] in that scope within the boundary set I presented to you.

[4:03:30] We also have some measure RF funding set aside in the event that we need it funding.

[4:03:34] We never know if the project bids come in greater than the engineers estimate.

[4:03:38] In this case, we might be able to reallocate some of those measure RF funds.

[4:03:42] And I can work with Sarah to see where else we can leverage that opportunity.

[4:03:46] Strategic Plan alignment, this recommendation supports the city's strategic goal number

[4:03:51] four, which is to improve infrastructure, city fleet, and city-wide sustainability by enhancing

[4:03:55] operational efficiency and maintaining critical public safety services that support community

[4:04:00] well-being.

[4:04:01] And without the recommendation, staff recommends that the city council will approve a construction

[4:04:05] contract with Unexpaving Company, Inc. for the Zone 9 Improvement Project CIP-071 for a total

[4:04:11] not to exceed amount of $3,147,550.

[4:04:16] And authorize the city manager or the director of Public Works

[4:04:18] to execute the contract with Onix,

[4:04:20] Caving Company, Inc.

[4:04:23] Happy to answer any questions.

[4:04:25] Thank you, Mr. Trejo.

[4:04:28] And it's great to see that so many people,

[4:04:30] so many companies bit on this project.

[4:04:32] What am I concerned sometimes is,

[4:04:34] we usually go with the lowest-responsible bidder,

[4:04:37] but then later come the change orders,

[4:04:39] and it goes much higher.

[4:04:40] So, what has been, I don't know if you know the history and when we've done these projects,

[4:04:49] how typical is it to see change orders that really exceed what their bid was?

[4:04:55] Yeah, great question, and I've been an engineer.

[4:04:58] I've been doing this for 31 years.

[4:05:00] Many cities, and many municipalities. And what typically drives chain orders is typically the scope of work. What I mean by that, this project had a pre-bid meeting and nobody showed up. And the reason for that is, it's a quantity project. When you have paving, you have extomberate square feet for dollars. And typically you don't have any utilities or obstructions when you're doing straight paving. So the thought in this type of scope is that the chain orders are

[4:05:29] are going to align on the lower than average.

[4:05:33] Whereas, if you have a pipeline project for say, and you start building a pipe and then

[4:05:37] all of a sudden, you see infrastructure that wasn't notable because it's all underground.

[4:05:41] The Asphilts weren't accurate.

[4:05:44] The different agencies, the interlicers, 100 old, 100-year-old pipes that still haven't been

[4:05:49] marked.

[4:05:50] And once you get into those complications that aren't reflected in the design, it's usually

[4:05:55] the results of larger chain orders.

[4:05:57] and those are hard of the control, but can be justified with good documentation, good

[4:06:02] pot-holing. And this case for this project, the risk of change order seems to be milder,

[4:06:08] and that's because it's very visible what you're doing. You see the conditions of the road,

[4:06:12] you know what you're ripping. The only thing that would cause any type of change order would be

[4:06:16] any other project or construction project that's occurring at the same time from a different entity

[4:06:21] are different city. So that's more scope driven. Also a lot of experience. We do have a season

[4:06:28] construction manager that's going to help us with that. And it's all about mitigating the

[4:06:32] changes based on what I just described to you. Great. Thank you so much for answering that question.

[4:06:37] And then also being that we do have a project labor agreement in place. I want to make sure

[4:06:43] do they are they union signatory will they be? Yes absolutely anything next is a $750,000 that's a

[4:06:49] we'll be part of the PLA and we also have our construction manager is also obligated to help us with the tracking that progress and ensuring that we are committed to the PLA roles and regulations.

[4:07:00] Fantastic. Thank you so much. I don't have any other questions, colleagues?

[4:07:04] Yes.

[4:07:08] Thank you very much for your presentation.

[4:07:09] for for this amount of 3,147,550 dollars. I do see two sources, two funding sources. Can you please

[4:07:20] walk us through how much was allocated from each fund? Yes, so as I mentioned earlier we had a

[4:07:29] approximately $4 million in our budget for SB1 and we had an additional close to a million on

[4:07:36] are, in the event that the construction costs depending on the, on the, on the

[4:07:41] county where we're at, exceeded the $4.5 million which was our estimate, we would

[4:07:47] have funding. The great news is that the bid open was much lower than that. So

[4:07:53] what we're going to do is prioritize to use this FB1 funds. And that would

[4:07:58] free up. And we may not even use the measure our funding. So the majority, if not all

[4:08:02] project would be from SV1 funds and then measure R can be reallocated to other projects

[4:08:09] if we see benefits and value in doing so.

[4:08:13] So again the easiest way I could say is SV1 funds more than adequate for this project.

[4:08:21] All right.

[4:08:22] Move to a Proof is our second.

[4:08:24] That was Krypton Thomas.

[4:08:26] And we have another question, Mr. R?

[4:08:29] Just quickly.

[4:08:30] Do you have a project timeline?

[4:08:32] Yes, we're looking at six months total project once the notice of proceed is awarded and it might actually be less than that because it's just paving and the key is just coordinating with the local streets and any other projects.

[4:08:48] So my suspicion for my estimate is four months out of the six months that we allocated so it'll be a quick project.

[4:08:54] You're right, I saw 120 days, but do we know when we're going to start the notice to proceed?

[4:08:59] Yeah, once this is awarded, the first action is to complete the documents, get the bonding

[4:09:03] in place, get the insurance, once that I'd get that 30 days. There is no long lead items,

[4:09:09] per se, because a lot of these items don't require ordering any parts or equipment.

[4:09:15] So the notice to proceed, I'll give it 15 days after a word of contract.

[4:09:19] So we're looking at about mid October and then we're as soon as the notice to proceed,

[4:09:24] go as we start aligning up which streets we're going to tackle first. So we're looking at most of the

[4:09:28] construction, made up to over. We'll have some holidays, times to take breaks and then we're looking

[4:09:33] at December, January. And again, pending the weather. And I think they're predicting a pretty strong

[4:09:40] old knee near this year. So we'll keep it good eye on that as well.

[4:09:47] Thank you. So we have a first

[4:09:48] in a second.

[4:09:52] Just a quick comment. Just came to my part of the formal bidding process. All of these

[4:09:57] It's coming, all of these better, too.

[4:10:00] Even be considered how to adhere to any agreements, whether it was a project labor agreement or anything just to be part of this bit of this correct. That was part of the requirements.

[4:10:08] Yeah, our bidding in, again, our attorney's president, but our bidding documents are very prescriptive on what is required to make sure that we have, it's a twofold item.

[4:10:19] And under the discussion here, let me kind of explain what that means.

[4:10:24] Thank you.

[4:10:24] To your question, actually, very direct to your question is that we have the lowest responsive

[4:10:30] meeting that they did submit their information on time and then responsible.

[4:10:36] Again, both of them can be said in a way that all documents informs must be submitted in a way that every single

[4:10:44] form in the bit document is signed and adhered to. We've had instances where if one or two forms

[4:10:51] are missing it's no longer a responsive bit and in this case we went through a thorough analysis

[4:10:57] and ensure that all the documents that you're to the PLA and any other requirements set forth

[4:11:03] by the funding agencies as well and the city of a long day. Thank you. Okay, I'm looking at

[4:11:25] the

[4:11:35] to item 14.4.

[4:11:40] We can receive a presentation, city attorney's office.

[4:11:44] It's a diploma. Thank you. 14.4.

[4:11:50] This is the

[4:11:56] part

[4:12:02] of my area too.

[4:12:07] Good evening mayor and city council. My name is

[4:12:09] Ploma McAvoy with the city attorney's office here to present to you tonight. The 30 year

[4:12:15] gratis lease agreement between the city and the county of Los Angeles for the Hilda

[4:12:19] the El Solice Community Park over at 4024 Dürfee Avenue.

[4:12:23] Otherwise known as the McLaren Hall site.

[4:12:27] So just a little bit of background.

[4:12:31] The lease is a lease between the city

[4:12:33] and the county to operate and maintain a new community park

[4:12:37] at the former McLaren Hall site.

[4:12:41] This agreement represents the culmination

[4:12:43] of a multi-year partnership

[4:12:44] between the city and county to bring significant new

[4:12:47] recreational amenities to the local community.

[4:12:51] So, just a refresher since there is a long history with regard to this project.

[4:12:57] Back in 2019, the City and County started working together to revitalize this property.

[4:13:06] And 2020, well done.

[4:13:11] In 2020, the County approved the development of a park and authorized applications for grant funding.

[4:13:19] And later in 2020 December 2020, the City Council formally supported the project by approving a letter of commitment to assist with the grant applications.

[4:13:29] March of 2021, the Council approved a revised letter of commitment establishing the parties intent to enter into a 30 year gratis lease.

[4:13:42] So under the lease,

[4:13:49] the county is responsible for funding and constructing the park improvements.

[4:13:52] And once the park is completed, the city assumes responsibility for operating and maintaining

[4:13:57] the park and providing recreational opportunities and programming to the local community.

[4:14:04] On this slide, you'll also see a site map that just shows the context of the park with

[4:14:10] the mixed use project to south of the park site.

[4:14:15] This is a larger picture of that.

[4:14:21] So importantly, the park is not just a passive space.

[4:14:24] it is a recreation. It's going to provide a wide range of active recreational opportunities. This

[4:14:31] includes a regulation soccer field with a superimposed softball field, basketball court, tennis

[4:14:37] court, lighting and spectator accommodations. There's also a walking and jogging path,

[4:14:44] promenade. Probably would be more useful to show you the site map. Public restrooms as well as

[4:14:51] and recreational building.

[4:15:06] So as more detailed site plan in front of you, shows all of the improvements, how the various uses will function within the site and incorporates both the sports facilities and then more less formal recreational spaces that's intended to basically accommodate various groups, ages and interests given the large size of the park.

[4:15:36] It's an initial 30 year lease.

[4:15:39] The city has the option to exercise an option to extend the lease for 10 year terms.

[4:15:47] That's up to the city, so for maximum term of 60 years.

[4:15:52] As stated before, this is a zero cost lease in terms of rent to the city.

[4:15:57] There will be no security positive.

[4:15:59] There will be no rent.

[4:15:59] consideration is essentially that the city is maintaining the park and providing

[4:16:03] programming at the site.

[4:16:10] The lease also requires the city to provide certain

[4:16:12] recreational programming, including youth sports, other recreational

[4:16:18] opportunities, educational programming, and as well as a provision in which the

[4:16:24] city and county will partner together for future grant funding

[4:16:27] opportunities.

[4:16:30] As I said earlier in a security deposit, no rent, the city's

[4:16:34] also really associated with the maintenance and operation of the park, the city and county have been aggressive and pursuing grant funding opportunities and will continue to do so throughout the duration of this lease.

[4:16:46] So in summary, the recommendation is to approve the lease and authorize the city manager to execute the lease and the substantial form presented before you tonight and take all necessary actions to effectuate the lease.

[4:17:01] Would that all take any questions?

[4:17:03] Thank you. I'd like to move to a proof or a second.

[4:17:06] Second, by councilmember Herrera. colleagues?

[4:17:10] Our meeting has time dealt. It's 1002.

[4:17:15] Yes, please vote.

[4:17:17] Mayor May I say a few words on this real quick?

[4:17:22] If time dealt Miss Martinez. Oh, thank you.

[4:17:26] All right, so.

[4:17:29] With that, our meeting is adjourned at 1002 PM.

[4:17:33] Thank you.

[4:17:34] What do you mean our meetings in turn?

[4:17:36] We're not.

[4:17:37] We didn't.

[4:17:38] We didn't vote to extend.

[4:17:39] We can make a motion.

[4:17:40] Yeah, we're not done yet.

[4:17:42] I think my good motion took some.

[4:17:43] Okay.

[4:17:43] I thought we automatically, if there was an emotion.

[4:17:46] If there wasn't a vote, it would automatically time.

[4:17:48] That's 10 o'clock.

[4:17:50] Okay.

[4:17:53] There's a motion, but I like to make a comment.

[4:17:55] Okay.

[4:17:56] So, motion to extend the meeting, Mr. Herrera, is there a second?

[4:18:00] Okay. Second, by Councilwoman Grippin' Toppins and the Objections.

[4:18:04] Seeing none. Okay. I mean, he's extended.

[4:18:07] Go ahead.

[4:18:09] Well, Martin, where are you gonna go first? Go ahead.

[4:18:12] No, no, no, I'm good.

[4:18:13] But everybody, vote?

[4:18:15] Um, I voted.

[4:18:16] Okay.

[4:18:23] Who wants to go first? I just have a comment.

[4:18:29] Okay.

[4:18:31] I just want to say I'm really happy for District.

[4:18:33] What district are you in Matthew?

[4:18:35] Two or three.

[4:18:36] I'll be for you, I'm sorry.

[4:18:38] Six.

[4:18:39] Two.

[4:18:41] I think this is an amazing,

[4:18:45] the history behind this fund

[4:18:49] and now what it's becoming, I think it's amazing.

[4:18:51] And I really just want to say that I know you worked really hard with city manager and others to make sure this keeps

[4:18:58] this project kept coming along.

[4:19:00] And I just wanted to say I'm really excited for everyone in the moment to use it once.

[4:19:05] It's ready.

[4:19:08] I'll add on to that.

[4:19:10] I just want to say that I want to thank all the members of the community who were a part of the process and the design and providing the input for that design.

[4:19:21] There are people residents in the district who are just super excited that we're going to finally open this park up.

[4:19:29] So I'm very happy for them, happy for all of the residents.

[4:19:33] Thank you for those residents, you're part of it.

[4:19:36] So thank you to everyone who made it happen, so.

[4:19:41] Thank you, Council Member,

[4:19:44] I feel like I want to ask her right now.

[4:19:49] This space has been transformed, and I want to acknowledge the painful history that it has.

[4:19:56] but I also want to acknowledge the wonderful things that

[4:20:00] That it has turned out to be. This space has been transformed. I also want to acknowledge the number one driver of this project, which is supervisor Solis.

[4:20:10] I mean, who gives you a $50 million park? Ready to turn key, ready to go. She knows her community. She knows her city and, for ever grateful to her. Also, the city attorney.

[4:20:26] There she is, type in which is probably working on something else.

[4:20:30] Her and I, we spend a whole weekend on this lease.

[4:20:33] I don't think we did anything else other than.

[4:20:37] And thank you Paloma and Rick for your help this weekend.

[4:20:41] I know I took up your weekend.

[4:20:42] I owe you a weekend.

[4:20:43] I don't know if I can give it back to you.

[4:20:46] But also there's somebody who's not what does anymore.

[4:20:49] But I promise we were going to get this done when we were another.

[4:20:53] He had never been inside the space, and when he went inside the space, I could see a smile in his face.

[4:21:00] And Gondick, and memory of Gondick, thank you, Gondick, and all the victims of the unfortunate situation I'm a clearing hall.

[4:21:10] You, you need to know that this, this, this is something that I spoke to supervisors of these when I started in the city back in 2018.

[4:21:18] and this is the project that got me to really get to know her and she didn't really believe

[4:21:23] we we meant business but look at us now. Console you did this. You work together towards this,

[4:21:31] towards this and I know that chief and the people that went through the walkthrough were incredibly

[4:21:37] impressed by it too. We will have security services. We will make sure people feel safe and there's

[4:21:47] this whole space is going to be completely transformed, and this is your victory, this is your

[4:21:53] gift to your community that has been waiting for it for a while. I did a voiceover to update

[4:21:59] community, and everyone, everyone viral, I mean, it has like over 120 views, don't be jealous,

[4:22:06] 120,000 views, and a ton of feedback. So yes, community, we're going to be working on pioneer

[4:22:12] park next. One thing at a time in Coxwell, and we're working on Mountain View 2, and we just

[4:22:20] did some other improvements, and we're going to keep you updated. Open space is important for

[4:22:25] this community. I hear you, the console hears you, but this is your win, console, and Gondick.

[4:22:32] I got it done for you, so, and what the console, so. If he was alive right now, he'll give us like a

[4:22:39] our dissertation and why this is important, but I'll summarize for him. So thank you,

[4:22:45] Consumembrera, for your support through this very incredibly hard process.

[4:22:51] I don't see the district to field office on the matter. It's a, it's a, it's in the middle of

[4:22:56] the soccer field. It's in the riverbed. Yeah. And community will have a wonderful, ribbon

[4:23:04] cutting ceremony for you to bring your kids and just take advantage of something so beautiful

[4:23:10] and amazing. This project is like this. I remind me why we put in the long hours and the amazing

[4:23:15] work and why we're so passionate about what we do. Thank you. Mayor, city council. This is this is

[4:23:21] why I do what I do. Thank you so much for this opportunity. And thank you, city attorney. Couldn't

[4:23:25] than it would that you took my calls.

[4:23:30] So I took one more question, Paloma.

[4:23:34] Oh, Paloma.

[4:23:35] What after 30 years would it happen?

[4:23:38] So after 30 years, the lease ends, however,

[4:23:41] there are certain grant funding in place

[4:23:42] that requires the park to remain a park in perpetuity.

[4:23:46] OK, it's great.

[4:23:47] I mean, do we have to renew a lease or no?

[4:23:50] It's just, well, it's county property.

[4:23:52] So the least does have the three 10 year options to extend.

[4:23:57] It's a city which is to extend its the city's opportunity to extend that.

[4:24:01] Right. And it's pretty much as just continuing to maintain the park right.

[4:24:06] Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much.

[4:24:09] Thank you.

[4:24:10] All right.

[4:24:11] Okay.

[4:24:13] So item passes are seven zero. Thank you.

[4:24:17] All right.

[4:24:19] So next we have council communications.

[4:24:20] This is anyone who have any communications?

[4:24:24] Yes, Councilman Krippan Thomas.

[4:24:26] You mind everybody that the historical quarterly tea is Sunday,

[4:24:32] that 20, nope, that's Sunday, the 20th, yeah.

[4:24:35] At one to three at the museum, and we're going to be,

[4:24:38] we're honored to have our pleased department

[4:24:40] who will do a presentation for all the residents

[4:24:43] that are there in our members.

[4:24:44] So please come out and join me.

[4:24:57] May I have a council meeting?

[4:24:58] Yes.

[4:24:59] I'm sorry, Mayor, before.

[4:25:00] We do the council communications achieve, needs to put some items on the, needs language on the record for 12.8. I'm so sorry about that. Mayor, it's super quick.

[4:25:11] Well, actually since you're up here, I do have a question for you.

[4:25:17] Oscar with the.

[4:25:18] Yeah, you know, I noticed that it's for crisis negotiation vehicle.

[4:25:25] How often do we have a need for this for a crisis to go shade or like how often do we engage in these type of activities with our police department?

[4:25:35] Right, so every SWAT activity where there's a SWAT team deployed, leave there was about 50 incidents last year that includes high research warrants and barricades.

[4:25:46] There's always a crisis negotiation team that has a part in that in that umbrella.

[4:25:51] So it's used on average, maybe slightly less than once a week, on average for the year.

[4:25:58] Okay, and what does this vehicle look like?

[4:26:02] Is it like a van?

[4:26:05] What?

[4:26:06] The current vehicle, if you watch the TV show back in the 80s, the 18, it looks like an old van.

[4:26:12] It's not black and red, but it's a gray and it's pretty beat up.

[4:26:15] So this vehicle is going to look, is it like the one we have all our drones?

[4:26:21] It's going to look a little different, kind of like an encased plumbers truck.

[4:26:24] And kind of way to look, it's more of a truck chassis with the expanded that's still fine.

[4:26:30] It's similar but different than what you're just going to.

[4:26:33] Okay.

[4:26:36] Okay.

[4:26:36] And this is something that will stay on the side.

[4:26:38] It's not to take on the vehicle, correct?

[4:26:41] All right, thank you.

[4:26:43] Okay.

[4:26:43] So, yes, what language did, oh, so then Mr. Olivarez, do we need to take this item up for consideration again?

[4:26:52] Being that he needs to make an amendment to the language.

[4:26:56] Yes, okay, so then what would be the appropriate moved, yeah, moved to reconsider?

[4:27:02] Okay, I want to reconsider.

[4:27:04] Okay, no second. Any objections?

[4:27:07] say none, okay? Approval to reconsider, six, oh.

[4:27:14] Go ahead, Mr. I'm sorry, chief. What language would you like to amend?

[4:27:18] Just as a pretext, the information was developed on my staff sent to the finance department

[4:27:22] and they approved this language and about to read.

[4:27:25] Authorizing increase in appropriations in the fiscal year 2627 budget in the amount of $350,000,

[4:27:31] $10, which includes the continuity amounts from available cannabis, tax, measure, PC, reserve funds,

[4:27:39] to the appropriate expenditure account for CNT vehicle. That is, account number 222-7171-5081-320.

[4:27:49] Therefore, it decreases the asset forter fund appropriations by 300,000 for the CNT vehicle in fiscal year 2627.

[4:27:57] as the vehicle purchase originally but it budgeted and asked at forward

[4:28:02] your funds will instead be funded through measure PC funds and that account is

[4:28:06] two five nine seven one seven one one five zero eight one three two zero okay and

[4:28:13] is it four three hundred thousand or three hundred and fifty thousand because just

[4:28:18] so you know chief on the argynda it does say I believe the correct account number and

[4:28:24] to say PC funds, the staff report was incorrect, is that correct?

[4:28:30] Yeah, and that includes the contingency amount, that's 300, that extra $50,000, like us as the contingency within that vehicle.

[4:28:39] Okay.

[4:28:40] Thank you.

[4:28:41] Are there any questions, colleagues?

[4:28:49] Yes.

[4:28:52] It has to do with the funding source.

[4:28:53] So the funding source in the original staff report, the budgeting amount in our budget came from asset forpature, and that was within our budget.

[4:29:00] it, it's being changed to reserve measure PC, but the clarification is on the also, that's the

[4:29:07] main issue, but you pointed out the contingency amount, which increases $50,000.

[4:29:15] Okay,

[4:29:17] all right, so I'll move to approve the item as our second.

[4:29:23] Members, please vote.

[4:29:25] I'm sorry.

[4:29:26] That was moved to approve the item with the stated amendments.

[4:29:28] Thank you.

[4:29:36] All right.

[4:29:37] All right, continuing on with the Council Communications.

[4:29:42] Thank you.

[4:29:43] I just wanted to invite my colleagues in the community to two fundraisers

[4:29:48] that they want the police officer's foundation is having

[4:29:53] sorry, a group link.

[4:29:54] I wasn't safe to leave, but no, it's a foundation.

[4:29:56] They're having an event tomorrow in Muscovina at Lazy.

[4:30:01] This is a fundraiser for one of our own police officers and actually one of our dispatchers.

[4:30:08] So this is a great fundraiser if everyone could please go online.

[4:30:13] They have it on Instagram, on their social media and they're also having another fundraising event.

[4:30:17] Next Thursday, so please support our foundation.

[4:30:20] Thank you.

[4:30:23] anybody else? All right, so with that, I'll move to Jordan Dominion at 1015pm. Thank you.

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