[3:42] We're going to get started.

[3:48] I'd like to call our steady session to order. First public comments, are there any requests to speak?

[3:56] I do have a request to speak on item number one. Okay. Brian Jenavise.

[4:10] Welcome.

[4:11] Get you the need city council mayor canane and esteemed city council on his branch

[4:18] enemies speaking tonight on the first item on the agenda for the sister city

[4:23] program and I'm here for the coanness club primarily we actually have a sister city

[4:30] program through coanness that we currently have access to that we'd like to use to

[4:35] actually partner up with the city through our key clubs and key wins clubs and

[4:39] schools. We currently, we do, I think we do four high schools right now. We do

[4:44] fat Valley High School, Los Nugos High School, Lequita High School, and what's

[4:49] Mr. High School currently. So we have a wide variety of students across the

[4:53] area that would be able to just pay possibly in this program and sorry. So just

[4:58] I'll get the setup so we can...

[5:00] We can get some foundation going and try to figure out how it's going to work and all that with everything going on.

[5:07] So I'd like to request your guys approval on this matter here tonight and look forward to working with you.

[5:14] Thank you.

[5:16] Yeah.

[5:16] I actually, Brian, can you hold on to things?

[5:18] So, Vice Mayor Harper?

[5:19] So, you said that the Q1 has already has a sister city program?

[5:23] So, yes, through the Q1 as an national, we actually have a partner program.

[5:28] That's through the sister city program, and that's the same one that actually the city would

[5:31] use here.

[5:33] So, it would actually be able to partner up with the city to do an exchange program with

[5:38] you know right now looking at Japan as a as a sister city program. That's the non-profits

[5:45] the city international the one that the city recently became a member of and also went to

[5:53] Japan for the U.S. Japan. So Kuanus is already kind of working with them on other cities.

[5:58] One is international, not the fat valley.

[6:02] Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, councilman, councilman granted us a correct, but it's a program that we have access to that's currently in effect.

[6:12] I can follow that program and utilize that here in our community as well too.

[6:15] Got it.

[6:17] Good.

[6:18] Okay, thank you.

[6:19] Thank you.

[6:20] Okay, so we'll move in to item one sister city program consideration presentation.

[6:26] That would be city manager or community services director, Rob Presell and Public Works director Scott Smith.

[6:34] Director Smith.

[6:39] Thank you.

[6:40] Honorable Mayor, council members.

[6:42] I have the pleasure of kicking off this study session, which you'll hear a number of well-respected

[6:46] and talented individuals presenting after me.

[6:49] My portion of the presentation is a quick recap of the sister city summit, which is in 10 in September, 2025.

[6:58] Sister City's International is a non-profit citizen to diplomacy network that promotes peace and

[7:04] understanding between international communities through mutual respect, cultural, economic

[7:10] and technical exchanges.

[7:12] The Sister City Relationship is an international partnership that's officially recognized

[7:17] by-elected or appointed officials.

[7:21] Overall, the Sister City Program is an opportunity to promote fountain valley on the international stage.

[7:26] through student exchange programs, sports exchange programs, and trade and commerce.

[7:34] The theme of last year's summit was celebrating our legacies and empowering our future.

[7:41] The slide provides some of the summit's metrics and key goals in the top right corner of the slide.

[7:46] There's some metrics about attendance and then the bullets at the bottom of the slide show key goals of the summit.

[7:56] The photos on this slide were taken during the summit and include delegates from the city of

[8:01] Found Valley, the mayor of Izumi Sano City, which was the host city, and the Board of Directors

[8:07] Chair for the Sister City's International Organization.

[8:14] This slide shows some of the attendees from California that's California alone.

[8:18] There's a lot more attendees with that's just California.

[8:23] During the summit, city delegates had an opportunity to hear keynote speeches, listen to panel

[8:30] discussions, share ideas, discuss mutual challenges, and build national and international

[8:37] relationships.

[8:39] One of the international relationships developed during the summit by Found Valley was

[8:43] with the Cercity, a potential future friendship city.

[8:47] Here's some demographics on the side that discuss the Cercity.

[8:53] And this slide shows the two cities meeting over a meal after a long summer day.

[9:01] After the summit concluded, certain members of the Fountain Valley team visited some businesses in

[9:07] Cicur City.

[9:08] This slide includes images of the Sankin-Saki brewery visit,

[9:15] and on this slide you'll see

[9:16] images of the Taki-Umia Rice Form visit.

[9:21] I'll now hand the presentation over to Mr. Rob Fuzel.

[9:30] American Indian Council members, thank you so much tonight for this opportunity.

[9:35] I'm going to invite our city manager to join me in these conversations because we've worked

[9:45] hand-in-hand in working in the background to meet with a number of different cities throughout

[9:51] Southern California, Scott and I and Maggie and Megan have been to Torrance, we've been to

[10:00] We've spoken with Rancho Pals Verdi's Huntington Beat. There are biggest partners. They've been helping us a ton.

[10:09] So we've definitely taken the time to look into the best practices of creating a sister city association,

[10:15] what's working in other cities, what their struggles have been.

[10:20] And in the potential formation of a sister city's association or program here in Found Valley, what we think that would best look like.

[10:28] Following that trip to Japan, we have had multiple conversations with some intriguing potential

[10:37] partners for a sister city with the City of Found Valley starting with Heckonon City.

[10:43] We have had numerous Zoom calls which I know a few of our council members have been able

[10:47] to join us on with Mayor Kiyoki.

[10:51] The city has an estimated population of around 72,000 people, one of the things that we've

[10:57] continually heard from sister cities international and from other cities is finding a city that's

[11:02] compatible to your size, your scope, your industry, even recreation and with the community, you

[11:09] know, desires are of the sister cities in Japan. So the total area of the city in kilometers

[11:19] is 36.68, but that's roughly 14.6 miles. Currently they do have a sister city in

[11:27] Edmonds, Washington, but as we've seen with some of these programs, sometimes that the relationship starts to

[11:34] Fizzle over time, whether it's in community interest and or funding capabilities, and so

[11:42] The city of Heckonin is looking for a potential new

[11:45] sister city

[11:47] And we are really excited for this year at our summer fest June 18th through the twenty twenty first shameless plug

[11:54] I think I saw a chair Matt Taylor in there.

[11:57] Summer Fest is right around the corner.

[12:00] It is festival season and found values, you know, now.

[12:04] The mayor's daughter is coming on an unofficial visit

[12:06] from June 13th to June 24th,

[12:10] and we'll be staying at the home of Tamwin.

[12:14] Who's back there?

[12:14] Thank you, Tam.

[12:15] And the remainder of the trip with our city manager,

[12:19] Maggie Lee.

[12:20] And Tam, I understand, is going right back

[12:21] to Japan following that homestay.

[12:25] Here you can see some of the things that we're excited to do when the mayor's daughter

[12:29] Kiki visits, we're going to take care of some local cuisine, we're thinking Amy Restaurant

[12:34] to start, maybe a relaxation day, possible beach day to our little side gone, garden

[12:41] grow of Santa Ana, Westminster.

[12:43] She is also in school for beauty college and would a perfect time, we're going to show

[12:48] the best one around.

[12:52] And then also maybe go out to CSUF, go see the campus Cal State

[12:56] Fullerton, because they've done, and you're going to hear about it later, that's an amazing

[12:59] work, working with the sister cities and the international trade. You can't come out to

[13:05] Southern California without coming to Disneyland, so we're going to definitely do that.

[13:08] A city hall visit and then meeting with some of our local nonprofits, co-onists, and coming

[13:13] to our summer fest employees day, toward your cult, and other key Japanese locations, and

[13:23] Slater Basharard and Summer Fest for the fireworks that night, to knock a farms, and then

[13:28] possibly visit the LA Japanese Consulate and Japan Town in LA, and then from there, she will

[13:35] be going back, and hopefully giving the mayor-raver views of the city of Fountain Valley.

[13:40] But if it's anything like I know what we've done when we've had other delegations here found Valley Wins everybody over in a short time

[13:47] The second city that we've had possible discussions with is the city of Fukushima

[13:53] The city has a little bit bigger

[13:55] It's a lot bigger. It's 275,000 people in a hundred and 222,000 households

[14:02] a total area of the city of about 297 miles

[14:06] While it is bigger, there is one major key.

[14:09] It is the hometown of our first mayor,

[14:12] the county family, and we've been in connection

[14:15] to the county family, again through Tam,

[14:17] who now resides in Irvine, and there's

[14:19] a lot of excitement to connect with the original mayor

[14:23] here in Fountain Valley in this potential sister city.

[14:29] Cogacity is another one.

[14:30] It's a pending connection.

[14:31] We're still working on speaking with them.

[14:34] I believe former Mayor Steve Nagel

[14:36] have conversations with them in Japan and they were expressing an interest to look

[14:42] and they're actively seeking a sister city in the United States.

[14:48] The city has an estimated population of 67,000 and 29,000 households and again a large

[14:54] one.

[14:55] That's not very many homes for that large of a size.

[14:58] There's some room available over there.

[15:00] 118 miles.

[15:05] All right, white sister cities matter for found valley, and this is a lot of the research that we are doing when we're

[15:09] originally meeting with those other cities. It's investing in the future of found valley,

[15:13] the sister city program represents more than just international friendship. It's investing

[15:19] in educational excellence, cultural tourism, economic development, and the next generation of global leaders.

[15:25] One of the first things people think about, and I think I've heard it from council a number

[15:29] time why I use chose to live and found values of wonderful schools, right?

[15:33] And so we have a top-rated school district and our wonderful school district is here.

[15:40] And so, highlighting our wonderful education and then through possible student exchange on

[15:50] maybe a biennual basis, economic impact, drive cultural tourism, create new business opportunities

[15:56] and promote the city internationally.

[15:58] speaking with torrents, I was one of their big focuses, big industrial area up in torrents.

[16:04] And if you can get somebody thinking about your location when they're trying to pick out something in a certain region of a state,

[16:10] or the United States in general, went up found valley.

[16:14] And then lastly, community pride, honor the diverse heritage, obviously.

[16:17] There was a lot of Japanese farmers, originally settled here in Found Valley,

[16:23] and again with James Conno as our original first mayor.

[16:27] It's a really exciting opportunity to recognize that cultural heritage.

[16:33] Speaking of economic development, we are very proud city, as you know,

[16:37] to have U.S.A. production plant right here in Found Valley.

[16:41] Major Japanese company established in 2014,

[16:44] and that obviously recognizes that good opportunity to work

[16:48] between the United States and Japan economically.

[16:51] And, oh, excuse me, Fukushima was, they do have a plant, Fukushima.

[16:59] Yeah, so Fukushima has a equal plant.

[17:01] So finding those connections with those other cities is key.

[17:04] Hyundai Motor America, National Headquarters, Relocated Defound Valley, 1990,

[17:10] and brings their Asian corporate presence and international connections.

[17:15] Kingston Technology founded here in 1987,

[17:18] and maintain its global headquarters to this day.

[17:23] When other companies from Japan or other countries

[17:27] see the success that these businesses are having,

[17:29] thriving here in Fountain Valley,

[17:31] it's another opportunity to bring in that economic development

[17:35] and international business trade.

[17:37] And then lastly, we do have the Sports Park expansion.

[17:40] Enhanced facilities are perfect for hosting international events,

[17:43] sports exchanges and cultural celebrations.

[17:45] We're really excited through the Parks Master Plan

[17:47] to try to bring the digital cameras to all of our sports fields, so that if we had the opportunity

[17:55] to do international sports exchange, like a few other cities have, we could showcase

[18:02] our sports park to the families that do not come over with the cultural exchange, so it

[18:08] would really need to show off those opportunities and found Valley Sister City's advisory

[18:15] committee.

[18:15] So, this is the working group that we currently have with Council direction.

[18:20] Oops.

[18:24] Yes, nothing to do with your stuff.

[18:26] It's just making sure found value sister cities where advisory committee, that's pretty much everybody

[18:31] that's back here.

[18:33] So, thank you all for joining us today.

[18:35] Mayor and vice mayor, city staff, Kuanus Club, schools foundation, community foundation,

[18:39] historical society, women's club, found value school district, garden road school district,

[18:44] having to be a junior in high school district,

[18:46] Cal State Fullerton, your cold, and Sakioka.

[18:50] It's bringing the entire community together

[18:52] as we've seen before when we do large endeavors such

[18:56] as this, bringing everybody together.

[18:58] Many hands make light work.

[19:00] And it's really fun to see the community

[19:02] of Found Valley come together.

[19:03] And you're going to hear from the rest of them here shortly.

[19:07] And then lastly, the program focus area,

[19:10] like we said before, student exchange,

[19:11] connecting the students for friendship building, educational stories, and cultural understanding

[19:16] through our award-winning school district. As we found in the vast majority of the sister cities,

[19:22] that's the highlighting program, and that's also the program where you build your program.

[19:28] People that participated in, those kids later as they get older joined the program and start to be

[19:35] volunteers or assistants and those families typically stay connected to the program,

[19:40] and you're really building your long-term excitement from within and the experiences they've had,

[19:46] they're going to want to share with the other students and families.

[19:51] Little League and Pro baseball. Obviously there's nothing hotter in baseball than the Dodgers right now.

[19:58] Highlighted by their mini-ch-ch-ch-ch.

[20:00] Japanese super stars, and the connection between Southern California, Major League Baseball and Japan is huge.

[20:10] And so, driving some of that tourism and connecting professional players and little leagues through this program is an exciting opportunity.

[20:19] And then trade development, establish a foundation for future economic partnerships via Cal State Fullerton.

[20:24] You'll hear a little bit about that later there are already doing it and so finding areas that other other agencies or organizations are already have already established that we can tie into as opposed to starting a program from from the ground up is is the key.

[20:42] All right, next steps,

[20:48] we attended this summit, which you heard from Scott, we're in the

[20:51] evaluation period, program development and city prospects consideration, and then our

[20:57] desire is to launch the program at the city's 70th anniversary June 13th, 2027, so next

[21:04] year our goal would be to have a city in place in the framework in place by the end of this

[21:10] calendar year and look towards bringing out that delegation to participate in which you'll

[21:17] hear from the next study session hopefully a parade or some exciting opportunities to celebrate

[21:22] the city's 70th birthday.

[21:26] The plenary vision is to create an MOU between the city and the Found Valley Sister City Association

[21:32] with also with the Kuanus Club helping the fundraising and the Found Valley Community Foundation

[21:37] in the school's foundation, Women's Club and Historical Society,

[21:41] assisting in that.

[21:43] We currently have an MOU with the Found Value Community Foundation

[21:47] to run our summer fest event.

[21:49] And you just clearly outline what that organization is created

[21:53] for, the bylaws, that they need to adhere to.

[21:57] And then that gives that group guidance

[21:59] on how to operate, how to receive, invest,

[22:02] and spend those charitable funds

[22:04] as they come into a nonprofit.

[22:07] So, second would be to formalize a sister city relationship with one of those cities that we've spoken to.

[22:14] Heckin in Fukushima or Kaga City.

[22:16] And then possibly formalize a friendship city with Sakura City or Fukushima.

[22:21] Sakura City visited us 18 months ago, two years ago.

[22:27] At the Fountain Valley Sports Park.

[22:30] Patrick, did you join us?

[22:32] Yeah, so they're a sister city right now with Rancho's

[22:36] Palisberties and but they wanted to come out and see our sports

[22:39] park. They said we want to build something exactly like this, right?

[22:42] And so we formed a really neat relationship with them that day and have

[22:45] continued to have conversations with them. And so if they don't have

[22:48] the ability to become a formal sister city, that that relationships

[22:53] already in place and potentially looking at a sister friendship city.

[22:58] Following the formalizing the program would be to create a student exchange program and possibly a

[23:04] use sports league, consider a trade exchange visit, and then consider a delegation visit every other year.

[23:12] Some cities send a delegation out every single year and the delegation from the other city comes here every year.

[23:19] Our recommendation at this time would be to do it every other year.

[23:22] Somebody from Found Valley would go out in odd years and then visit her from her delegation from the other city in Japan would come out in even years.

[23:31] It gives the sister city association the opportunity to raise funds in that off year to make sure that they continue to support that program.

[23:43] The city would also like to consider starting with a $10,000 budget for the next two fiscal

[23:49] years for grants and getting the program off the ground.

[23:53] We do anticipate through the sister city's international that there are going to be plenty

[23:56] of grant opportunities.

[23:59] But in starting a non-profit and getting the program off the ground there could be some potential

[24:05] costs that the city wouldn't need to absorb.

[24:08] of Zorb and oops sorry last thing is the state of the city has been the

[24:13] annual fundraising opportunity which was a home run this year and we can

[24:21] consider a Japan festival similar to or tying into Huntington Beach cherry

[24:25] blossom festival most most sister city associations have one large event each year

[24:32] that's the driver of most of their funding sources for the cultural exchange

[24:37] programs. And so with that, oh, oh, this is me too. I thought this was Steve because it was

[24:46] cool on us. All right. So I get to brag about the state of the city. We fundraised over $31,000 on

[24:54] probably the biggest and best city of found Valley State of the city ever.

[25:00] And that money can be used to consider a visit out to HECONN and Fukushima, or secure a city or a

[25:06] cognac city in late fall of 2026, if we're looking to formalize a relationship, a sister city relationship with one of

[25:12] of us cities we've been speaking to. Visit your cold Fukushima plant, Tokyo, your cult swallows, professional baseball team out there.

[25:20] See if that connection, again, to international sports and local co-honest international in Japan.

[25:27] Connect with the Japanese Consulate and Sister City International for support on the next visit to Japan.

[25:34] As we go out there, how do we work through the process of formalizing a Sister City Association.

[25:39] Extended invitation to representatives from the Econom Mission, HP Sister City President, to support as interpreter.

[25:47] Obviously, that's key. You've done the trip to Japan.

[25:50] And we've received so much different support through this mission and our friends at the

[25:56] Huntington Beach sister city and all these discussions that we've had regularly with cities in Japan.

[26:03] So and or maybe inviting out the the mayor's the first mayor's family, the condo family who does reside in

[26:09] Nervine and then we would like consider up to two council members, two city staff and two

[26:14] not value sister city advisory representatives to possibly go on that trip.

[26:18] So that we've identified that as a potential use of these funds, we don't anticipate

[26:24] all the roughly probably around $15,000 to do a trip to try to formalize a sister city

[26:31] and Japan.

[26:33] All right.

[26:40] Steve.

[26:42] Steve.

[26:53] Hello, Mayor Coneen and also city council members.

[26:57] Appreciate being here.

[26:58] I'm Steve Nagel, and I'm the current Kiwanis Club President.

[27:05] As the President,

[27:08] we have two parts of our Kiwanis Club.

[27:11] We have the regular Kiwanis Club, and we also have our foundation.

[27:15] Our foundation is a non-profit 501c3 approved non-profit.

[27:22] So for that reason, we have the ability to help raise funds as long as we identify

[27:28] exactly what we're putting the money up for and making sure that everybody understands where

[27:35] it's going and is safe for using as we would like to do. And with that, as mentioned, the

[27:45] Colonist Club did receive a check for $31,461 at May 5th Council meeting. And this will be a

[27:55] line item budget entry in our book, so it will only be used for designated for sister city-related items.

[28:07] The Coines Club and I are excited to be able to participate in the sister city's international planning process.

[28:14] And over this last year, our diverse community that we do have here is showing growing interest in supporting sister city's international program.

[28:24] For instance, our, as mentioned, our fountain valley is early Japanese influence, the city's first mayor, James Conno, who I was able to interview and asked for his support when I first ran for city council, and very nice gentleman, and I did get a support.

[28:44] So, anyway, not only was the first mayor, he was mayor six times, so he set the record

[28:54] dead and it was a he hasn't been beaten since, so also Chuck Eashie was on the first city

[29:03] council.

[29:03] He also was an area farmer and was on the first city council and was a valued member of our

[29:14] First City Council in 1957 when we incorporated.

[29:20] I believe the opportunity for our community to promote peace and understanding through mutual

[29:26] respect, cultural and economic technical exchanges between communities worldwide is a worthwhile

[29:33] experience and I would like to support for our community through the sister city program.

[29:40] If you have any questions for me, I'd be happy to answer them.

[29:48] I thought she was going to ask me a question.

[29:50] Yeah, she was boating you off the podium.

[29:54] Thank you, Steve.

[29:57] Hi, American team and city council members.

[30:00] I'm Barbara Mons and I'm current the current president of the Fountain Valley Community Foundation.

[30:06] And I was asked to talk a little bit about student exchange. You notice here it says the Fountain Valley Community Foundation in the Women's Club.

[30:17] Neither one of those organizations has had a board meeting where it's been voted that we would participate, but then you haven't voted yet either.

[30:25] So we will address that at a future date.

[30:31] But student exchange is very important.

[30:32] Personally, I've been an exchange student three times

[30:35] and also hosted exchange students.

[30:37] So it's really a wonderful way to share cultural experiences,

[30:43] to help learning a new language, to experience the dynamics

[30:48] of family in a different country, a school situation, food.

[30:55] I mean, there are just so many things, but it really broadens an individual's view of

[31:01] the world.

[31:02] And that's really key because we are such a diverse world now and we are a very diverse

[31:08] city.

[31:10] So I am obviously much in favor of this program, especially the student exchange aspect of it.

[31:18] So what would support with that program look like?

[31:23] So the organization of the non-profit that would take the lead on this would help coordinate scholarships.

[31:30] They might be $1,000.

[31:32] They might be a full scholarship for someone who could not afford but deserved the experience.

[31:39] Coordinate home stays.

[31:41] Because obviously when they come they really need to be with the family so they can experience that.

[31:46] And that would be coordinating here and abroad.

[31:50] Also coordinate with the various school districts found in Valley Huntington Beach, possibly garden grove and coordinate with them as far as finding the students and who wanted to apply, maybe being part of that decision-making process and also help coordinate while they're here.

[32:11] So you saw that list of what we're going to be doing in June, so it would be this group that would help coordinate that and come up with those activities that fit that particular student and the experience.

[32:27] And that's pretty much it. It's just a question of whether or not you decide to pursue this. I highly recommend that you do because.

[32:37] And it doesn't mean that it just has to be Japan, once this is successful, we can have other sister cities.

[32:45] But we need to say yes first to this one.

[32:56] Thank you.

[32:57] Gombunwa.

[32:59] Mayor and council members and to see manager Lee.

[33:03] I'm Catherine Stop.

[33:04] The very proud superintendent of the Fountain Valley School District.

[33:07] And I'm here actually on behalf of Dr. Leogada at the High School District and Myself.

[33:13] They spoke a little bit about the student exchange programs.

[33:17] Now, at the elementary level, we have TK through 8.

[33:20] We don't do exchange programs, obviously, but the high school district does.

[33:24] And I know they've already done several with different countries at the high school level.

[33:28] So they would act as a conduit in their world language classes to get people to are interested

[33:35] to sign up for those opportunities.

[33:37] and should those this council decide to move forward with this at the elementary school level level.

[33:42] We have three schools of our ten that actually are named after Japanese Americans.

[33:48] He's the Matsutamura. He's so hero Oka and Kazuma Suda middle school.

[33:54] And so should the schedule permit and there's interest. We're happy to host visits to those three sites.

[34:01] Thank you.

[34:20] Hello, hello Mayor Canine, Vice Mayor Harper, Council Members, Bowie and Grandes.

[34:25] My name is Tim Wynn, I'm proud to have found a value resident.

[34:29] Also here on behalf of the Cal State Floorton, where I'm a business faculty member since 2016, and a past president of the Alumni Association and Board of Governors there.

[34:39] So I wanted to share that certainly here in support, I believe this represents just more than ceremonial diplomacy.

[34:47] I think it's a great opportunity just to have meaningful educational, cultural, economic connections that benefit

[34:54] and all our students or businesses and residents for generations to come.

[34:58] On the slide tonight, you see.

[35:00] Before you, this is a Cal State Fletchenside that highlights several exciting opportunities here for our students and commerce.

[35:08] These would include things that are already being done. In terms of student visits, commerce tours connected to the College of Business and Economics, Dean Streesundrum, Census regards.

[35:17] He's very supportive of this very well aware of this. Other programs on campus such as public administration, polysci programs at Cal State Fletchens, what could also be coordinated.

[35:28] We also are already doing educational and trade missions at Cal State Fullerton.

[35:34] I've had the honor to participate in one to Korea and in others that continue to work both ways.

[35:42] Student exchanges, I personally have been part of student exchanges where I was a student at Cal State Fullerton and went abroad.

[35:48] Our family here in Falm Valley could host my wife Christine and our three kids.

[35:53] We've hosted students from Brazil, Italy, England and Scotland.

[35:59] So we're very much looking forward to hosting the Mayor's daughter next month.

[36:04] And here as from Japan, we also Falm Valley is just so unique.

[36:10] We're uniquely positioned to bridge Orange County to the international community.

[36:14] In my other roles throughout Orange County, I see education, entrepreneurship, cultural understanding and exchanges and just the thriving global relationships, just here in our region.

[36:29] Also, I've seen that, I believe, the sister city partnership connected with Cal State Floorton and at its experience.

[36:35] Cal State Floorton currently has three Japanese university partnerships that they do exchanges.

[36:42] There's we currently have 20 students from Japan currently right now pursuing a degree at Cal State Floorton

[36:48] So our senior international director Christine Perture Barnes sends her regards to our our city of Fountain Valley and and welcomes any of her experiences and and support and in programs like this as well

[37:00] Next I would just say I

[37:03] I appreciate the emphasis on student opportunities that's been discussed, but also business collaboration

[37:07] This is really good for business business activity is happening here in global globally without us

[37:12] Why not give it more structure and help and continue to make phone Valley such a welcoming place to do business as well so

[37:21] Lastly,

[37:23] Lastly, I just want to thank each of you for exploring this vision.

[37:26] It's I think it's very exciting.

[37:28] I think not only our mayor, but each of you have been past mayors and I've learned a lot of acronyms through you,

[37:35] at FB stands for, whether it's Fuddy Valley, Fitness Valley,

[37:39] Fantastic Volunteers, Cal State Floor 10 in myself for a line.

[37:44] Cal State Floor 10 beyond our great business program.

[37:46] We have a great Cal State Floor 10 baseball team.

[37:48] Baseball was mentioned earlier.

[37:51] And they've actually done exchanges with Korean and I believe

[37:55] Japanese baseball teams on the Goodwin field.

[37:57] They are so, so a lot of exchange going.

[37:59] So just in the spirit of the World Cup spirit of the Olympics coming out,

[38:03] I think this is wonderful, a great timing for our 70th birthday of our city, and I'm looking forward

[38:07] to do anything to support this.

[38:10] Thank you very much for your consideration.

[38:14] Thank you.

[38:19] Thank you.

[38:19] Good evening.

[38:20] I'm no tamwin, but I am James Pike, and I cross the 405 to come and see you from hunting

[38:25] to beach.

[38:26] And my brief comments to you related to this slide are simply to let you know about the

[38:30] human capital that's already invested in the investigatory process that you've begun,

[38:35] which is you have people that have heard what you're doing, like us both in the Sister City Association,

[38:40] a hunting beach and a clean emission of people who are currently working in Japan,

[38:44] who are already leveraging some of our relationships to see if we can build some of these

[38:48] organic connections that will allow this to be successful. So if you don't know Frank Macabosh,

[38:53] you who runs the Sister City Association, a hunting to meet you again in 1982,

[38:57] as Mr. Fresel said earlier, some of these relationships have an oven of flow,

[39:00] a physical and a spark and over that long period of time various programs have developed

[39:05] coming gone and there's a very strong student exchange which has endured across the entire

[39:10] time, along with a cultural festival and also the planting of many cherry trees around

[39:16] hunting to be central park in Mr. Nakabashi and the nonprofit that supports that are very passionate

[39:21] about maintaining this connection and are willing to offer whatever resources and relationships

[39:25] they have to encourage mentor come along side with and support this as you investigate and

[39:31] maybe find a sister city that's the right match for you. Now, okay, I mentioned if you saw

[39:35] slide 19 that picture with city officials and wasn't event that we sponsored. It started as a

[39:40] Christian Buddhist partnership between America and Japan for all people, not just for those

[39:45] people of those faiths, that does community renewal through our projects, through education, and

[39:50] through service. So we do our own student exchange. We're going to Japan in a couple of weeks,

[39:54] actually the same time that Tam will be in Japan.

[39:56] If you know Murakami on the White Sox,

[39:57] we do an exchange with the high school that Murakami came from.

[40:00] And so we have a lot of experience taking students back and forth. We're actually sponsoring five students that will be coming to heading to beach and fountain valley in just a couple of weeks, who will be participating out of that presentation on slide 19 with the Japanese national soccer team as they do world cup stuff.

[40:17] And I really think it's important that when we do think of the human capital, you have the real riches of this heritage, as you've heard from the school district and from the condo family.

[40:25] After we did the tour with your cult, some of our Japanese partners reached out to the occult corporate structure and tried to get up to make a relationship with your cult and Fukushima

[40:35] And that's an ongoing conversation and then the chamber and commerce in Fukushima just reached out to us through one of our partners because they were unaware of the strong connection of the conno family

[40:45] And so they sent us a series of questions unsolicited saying tell us about his family tell us if there's still any living relatives tell us about the family that existed in United States

[40:53] And so I just wanted to let you know that you have volunteers and friends

[40:56] who are not asking for anything.

[40:57] We just want to support what you're doing, if we're able to leverage any of those

[41:00] relationships to build those bridges, open those conversations, develop that

[41:04] rapport, then we want to support you in this important work and we hope you find a

[41:08] good match and whether it's a friendship city, a sister city, or just stronger

[41:11] bonds between hunting to beach found valley and others, anything we can do to

[41:14] support that we're happy to do that.

[41:23] Good evening.

[41:23] Mayor members and committee council, I have the pleasure tonight to wrap up this

[41:27] wonderful conversation, where I will discuss some

[41:30] opportunities that we've identified, proposed budget that we want to

[41:33] put towards this initiative, if Council does support it tonight, and

[41:37] then some alternative countries for consideration aside from Japan.

[41:42] So, for grant opportunities already on the side here, the goal here is to

[41:46] create a low cost partnership, driven initiative, that support

[41:49] educational exchange, economic development, tourism,

[41:53] visibility, and grant competitiveness within the city.

[41:55] Sister City designation opens the door to grants and partnerships, not otherwise, available

[42:01] to municipalities, initial grant funding that we would receive would help offset travel,

[42:07] student exchanges, cultural programming, and community events.

[42:12] We would try to pursue as much grant funding as possible before having to dip into the

[42:17] general fund and considering any significant city financial commitment.

[42:22] A few opportunities that I've identified myself and through our current grant writing consultant,

[42:28] Townsend Public Affairs, are through SCI, Sister Cities, International Foundation.

[42:35] The big one in particular is this one here on the screen, the US, Japan Global Impact Grant.

[42:41] We can be eligible for up to $25,000 a year.

[42:45] We just have to be active SCI members which we currently are paying dues, but also have an established

[42:51] program under our belt. In addition to that, the Tim quickly exchange fund is not necessarily

[42:59] a grant, but it is essentially it's something that they will match fund. So if we were putting

[43:06] funds towards specific program or travel a student exchange program, they will match those funding.

[43:13] So to apply for these grants, the U.S. and the U.S. and the U.S. and the municipality must have

[43:20] establish the city program and must be a do's paying member of sister city's international.

[43:26] In addition to the grant opportunities through SCI, there are also a few other

[43:32] one-off grant programs that we can apply for. That would include U.S. Department of State Exchange

[43:37] Programs and this can apply to any student exchange program that we do push through through this initiative

[43:44] and then also the California State Library Cultural Grants. We would be eligible through that

[43:48] are a sister city establishment and this can help fund potential community engagement and

[43:55] cultural heritage opportunities.

[43:59] I would also at this time like to invite Zach from Senator

[44:03] Strickland's office to show his support and discuss some potential funding opportunities

[44:07] within his office. Welcome Zach. Hello mayor and council and everyone else in the audience.

[44:15] My name is Zach Rye here I'm about to say Senator Tony Strickland. We're representing the beautiful city of found Valley.

[44:20] Yeah, and so just here on behalf of the center just to go and show our support forward this program.

[44:25] The initiative that is getting created here. I know that I've attended multiple kind of study session hearings on this to go ahead and see all that found valleys looking to do with this.

[44:35] Whether it's student run economic run whatever it may be.

[44:38] and we are definitely on board for any of the grant opportunities that you guys have

[44:44] already identified and any that will be coming up in the future, whether that be by

[44:48] letter of support, or another means, I know that even though we are a state office, if they

[44:53] are federal, if they are private, we still can definitely go in and support the city, and it's

[44:58] endeavors for that.

[45:00] The senator when he was on the city council and mayor of Huntington Beach, he strengthened a lot of those relationships with

[45:06] Angio, Japan, and then also kind of spearheaded a different kind of similar project with the

[45:14] sister city in Israel as well. So he's got a few of that under his bell as far as for the

[45:19] experience. So he's definitely unbored, and of course he used me as a resource to go out and

[45:23] assist you guys with that. And of course we also have a credible relationship with towns and

[45:29] So we're happy to work with them as well. Yeah. Thank you.

[45:37] Thank you, Zach. So just to reiterate, all of these are great opportunities that we can potentially apply for and seek funding for, but we have to be in a saddle. We have to have established city sister city program under our belt. In addition to that.

[46:04] So as you can see on this slide here, many Orange County and I'll give you a second to kind of explore. Many Orange County cities already maintain active sister city relationships.

[46:13] programs run from volunteer run, kind of like what we're seeking to do, to city

[46:19] supported or somewhere in between, and you'll budget obviously very

[46:25] significantly based on the city, and then I really want to underscore the fact

[46:29] that several cities do leverage their nonprofits, sponsorships, donations, volunteer

[46:34] boards, and phase implementation to minimize impact on the city's resources in general fund.

[46:40] The proposed initial city contribution that we are proposing tonight is $10,000, which you heard earlier tonight and this is designed to serve as seed funding for a phased pilot program.

[46:53] The intent is not to create a large ongoing financial obligation but rather to establish foundational programming, partnership development and grant eligibility.

[47:02] Additionally, and as you heard tonight, we did fundraise $31,000 from our very successful

[47:08] state of the city that we are excited to tap into and put towards this program if we do

[47:13] receive direction for council tonight.

[47:16] So to sum it up, the proposed financial approach would be proposal initial and city investment

[47:21] of $10,000 for the first two years.

[47:23] Mayor may not be used in its entirety, financial funding, potential community non-profit support

[47:29] of 31,000 race from the state of the city, and then a huge focus and push on grant application

[47:35] sponsorships and partnerships to minimize general fund impact.

[47:44] And then finally, a few other countries for consideration in addition to Japan, maybe once we

[47:50] do have an established program under our belts, if you wanted to go explore other countries,

[47:55] a few that we've identified are South Korea due to Hyundai Regional President, President,

[48:00] strong education and technology exchange potential and large Korean American business community

[48:06] influence here in Orange County. Taiwan due to technology and manufacturing alignment,

[48:14] Kingston technology here in town and potential innovation and business partnerships.

[48:19] And then finally, South Vietnam here, significant Vietnamese American population here in

[48:26] in Valley and neighboring cities, cultural tourism partnerships and business and entrepreneurial

[48:31] exchange opportunities. So that wraps up our presentation tonight. We are now seeking

[48:37] direction from City Council. We're excited to open up dialogue here and have a discussion

[48:42] and all of us presenters are available for any questions you might have. Thank you.

[48:47] Great, thanks so much for everyone's support. The presentation was thorough deep and so now we're at

[48:53] point where we're going to open up to City Council.

[48:57] Councilman Boy.

[49:00] Thank you, Mayor.

[49:01] Well, thank you everyone for your presentations and how you speak,

[49:05] adequately for your support.

[49:07] And I want to thank you, Dr. Catherine Stop,

[49:10] to point out the difference between the elementary and

[49:14] the support from your departments and your colleagues.

[49:18] Is anyone here from the,

[49:25] the parents is under their jurisdictions and I can't want to hear a little bit from their

[49:29] side. Is anybody hear from them?

[49:32] No, Dr. Agata is unavailable but she does participate on the advisory committee and she

[49:38] did share that if the city council just support, she would create a student exchange program at

[49:45] the Fountain Valley High School. Okay. Next question is the following years, the cost of following

[49:52] years. Obviously, it was a very successful state of the city. It was able to raise 31

[49:57] thousand dollars to help this.

[50:00] Start the process, but following years, how are we going to continue to fund the non-publicization so that way it's sustainable in the long run, if we choose to take this path.

[50:15] I think we're going to ongoing, we're going to do state of the city, so every year we'll do a state of the city event.

[50:20] like mentioned in a few slides prior, alternate years, one year, 100% of those proceeds will go to state of the city and then the alternate year will 50% will go to the state of the sister city foundation.

[50:33] I think we're also planning to put $10,000 annually towards the program.

[50:37] We may or may not tap into it whether or not we are able to fund right, raise.

[50:42] We have all a few programs that were brought up that we can workshop and brainstorm with.

[50:48] is the direction that City Council gives us tonight?

[50:51] Okay.

[50:51] That's all I have.

[50:52] Anyone wants to add to that?

[50:54] Feel free.

[50:55] Vice-parer.

[50:57] Thank you.

[50:58] Thank you.

[50:59] I really appreciate all the speakers tonight.

[51:01] It was, you got great enthusiasm and energy towards the sister city program.

[51:08] And I feel a lot of momentum that we've already sort of got going in the program.

[51:15] So I, you know, at this point, I would, I would definitely be in support of it.

[51:21] The one, the one, one concern I have is that with other cities as director for

[51:30] Zell mentioned, sometimes the tends to kind of fizzle a little bit over time as

[51:36] leadership changes among the nonprofits and so I think it's important as we go through.

[51:42] Maybe to take a look after five years and make sure that we have the momentum to keep doing it.

[51:52] Also, we talk a lot about student exchange, which is great.

[51:55] But if all we do is student exchange, I don't think that's enough.

[52:03] So, I'd like to see a little more opportunities and part of the program to really pursue

[52:12] other cultural exchange and other avenues besides just the student exchange program.

[52:18] Absolutely, I think it's a real foundation of maintaining the relationship.

[52:21] Is that annual program that you work together, right?

[52:24] And that allows you to build into other areas.

[52:31] So the student exchange is pretty much the start the foundation to get the momentum going and then

[52:39] tourism, trade, and sports are other areas that we want to expand upon.

[52:50] Councilman Grindus.

[52:51] Yeah, I think everybody did a great job presenting, appreciate everybody's time.

[52:56] Obviously, I'm very much in support of this as well.

[52:58] I don't think it's a big burden to the city, and I think the advantages far outweigh any costs or anything else that we have for sure.

[53:09] I think we could really make this very big if we choose to.

[53:15] And, you know, those that want to participate can and definitely can lead to bigger things economically.

[53:23] If we get one company somehow to invest into fountain valley, this will pay dividends for decades to come.

[53:32] So, you know, it's a little bit of investment.

[53:34] I'm not really sure why we need $10,000.

[53:36] When we have $31,000 already in the bank, sort of speak.

[53:41] And I know you said we will only use it if we need to use it.

[53:45] So, I like that. I think that's last resort.

[53:49] I mean, I enjoyed my time going to Japan learned a lot, visiting the Sochi manufacturing which was doing it the same way they've done it for 150 years and the rice farm that we visited is a special tea rice that is used for that Sochi it was all really amazing we learned a lot and I think it's something where our children will learn a lot if we do it the right way.

[54:16] So super excited about this and yeah,

[54:19] it definitely has my support.

[54:22] Just want to make sure we check with Councilwoman Constantine

[54:25] that she's on Zoom, correct?

[54:28] Councilwoman, any questions or comments?

[54:42] We've not duplicating anything anybody said.

[54:44] Thank you for all the speakers.

[54:46] The trip is great.

[54:47] I think our city's plan is great.

[54:50] And it does make a lot of sense to go forward,

[54:53] so I'm in full support.

[54:54] Thank you.

[54:56] and Councilman Doi.

[55:00] Thank you, Mayor. I have questions. So if this council approve move this board, do we know

[55:06] what certainty if this sister city that we are talking to be or sister city are they on board?

[55:14] And because, my understanding, when we went to the conventions, you know, what the key I'm hearing

[55:19] from a lot of the speaker there is, they have to look, what is going to be their interests,

[55:24] benefit to their city if we bring if they accept us. So do we have that clarification yet?

[55:33] That's what we're working on right now. The city manager and the mayor and vice mayor

[55:37] joined us on a number of calls and we're I don't want to say we're interviewing but we're basically

[55:42] dating other cities right now and trying to meet them. All right just just a public to be a

[55:49] for you know this body you may want it but you know it also depends on the other side right

[55:54] if they want to bring us on board as well because we have to have a mutual agreement both

[55:58] city they look at the benefits. That and then along with what we talked about earlier I'm

[56:03] creating the framework of the program and the sister cities association with direction from

[56:07] council tonight we would we would engage with further conversations with our local non-profit

[56:12] on what their intentions would be to work with the sister city association and then eventually

[56:18] bring back those MOUs and Bailas for Council review and hopefully the formation of a sister city association.

[56:29] Good. Good city manager Lee. Go first.

[56:32] That's a great question. We wanted to make sure that the city council is still in support of the effort.

[56:39] And so now until June of 2027, that's where we will finalize it and that's the reason why we're recommending

[56:45] in fall of 2026 for the group to make a visit to those potential prospect and align and

[56:56] understanding that there is a mutual benefit by both community and then confirm that in June

[57:04] of 2027.

[57:08] I just think this is wonderful and I'll just really quickly sort of summarize all of this.

[57:14] It is a pleasure to work with so many great people in our city.

[57:18] We have come together on this as a team, and it was really surprising to me what I moved

[57:27] to Fav Valley, I came from a city that had multiple sister cities.

[57:31] It was just a thing, you know, for a bit in Seritas, and also in neighboring Norwalk.

[57:37] And so it's a great time for us, I think, to really have something that we all can get

[57:43] behind. It is good on so many levels. And that's really what we're about is what's best

[57:51] for our city. How can we as the police chief says be the good and help on so many different

[57:58] fronts. And so thanks to everyone for all the work leading up to this moment. I think maybe

[58:06] one more comment from Councilman Granus and then we'll wrap it up. Yeah, I'm sorry. Just one quick

[58:10] thing, in the future we were looking at South Korea and Vietnam, I'd also want to open up

[58:15] our aperture just a little bit.

[58:17] Let's look at Europe.

[58:18] Let's look at South America, Africa, you know, other areas other than just one geographic

[58:24] area.

[58:25] I understand Japan makes the most sense to start for so many reasons, especially the well-established

[58:31] program that's already there and makes it'll be easier to start.

[58:34] But I think we need to look outside that geography as well.

[58:38] I'm happy to share that one of our local restaurant,

[58:42] Complacia Grill.

[58:44] The owner is purchasing a vineyard in Argentina.

[58:48] And so that might potentially be another opportunity.

[58:51] But yes, I think the world is before us.

[58:56] And it's really up to City Council

[58:58] and the City Association making those determination

[59:01] as we evolve and modify as time progressed.

[59:06] And potential revisit five years from now.

[59:08] and you know if Japan is working out great will the group want to select another country.

[59:17] So it sounds like there's council support on this. This is also a nice segue into our next item,

[59:24] which is the Saviourth Anniversary Committee because we want to have the sister city committee

[59:30] or sister city program in a position to present it as part of our anniversary. So perfect timing.

[59:37] But hold on real quick, vice-mer harbour.

[59:41] The dancers are here, so I don't know if you want to do them first or wait until after.

[59:46] I think we have the committee here.

[59:48] I don't know how long it's going to take, but yeah.

[59:51] Just real quick, we're a little bit behind in our program.

[59:54] It is six o'clock.

[59:55] We do have one more presentation that we're going to get through.

[59:59] Forgers.

[1:00:00] Thank you, Mayor. Council members, it will be a brief presentation. It's a general overview of our 78th anniversary committee. What the plans are, we've got a lot of the same people that are helping with sister city in that 78th anniversary committee. And with that, I'm going to invite up J. Hopkins to give you that overview and look for your directions, comments or questions.

[1:00:23] Thank you.

[1:00:24] Thank you.

[1:00:24] We're Mayor City Council.

[1:00:25] Thanks for having us today.

[1:00:27] Well, I'm not quite 70 years old.

[1:00:29] I can understand how exciting this is for our city.

[1:00:31] So honored to represent our community today.

[1:00:35] So we are looking to just give a brief overview of our 70th anniversary celebration that we're looking to do.

[1:00:41] Back in September of 2024, a strategic plan was identified as part of the three year goal to enhance the culture and environment of a nice place to live,

[1:00:48] including a proposal of a 7th anniversary committee.

[1:00:52] This was then adopted in March of 2025 by the council.

[1:00:56] And then we held our first meeting in March of 2026.

[1:00:58] So we're very excited. We have a lot of really amazing members here today as well on this committee

[1:01:02] who are looking to help celebrate and make 2027 a fantastic year for Fountain Valley.

[1:01:09] Looking back on the 6th anniversary celebration, we did host a 6th anniversary firework show at

[1:01:18] summerfest, and as well as a parade leading into summerfest, I believe, on that Saturday.

[1:01:25] Fun look back in the 60th parade. We have some really wonderful aspects that we're able

[1:01:28] to join in and really showcase the community, showcase different businesses we have in the

[1:01:33] organizations that make up fountain valley and really make it a fantastic place to live.

[1:01:39] As far as the committee's concerns, some of the recommendations they have on different events

[1:01:43] would be a parade on Saturday of summerfest for a 27 as well, leading into summerfest.

[1:01:48] Another potential option instead of doing the parade at Summerfest was to do it maybe on June 13th,

[1:01:52] the actual corporation day and hosting maybe a birthday party on that day as well,

[1:01:57] maybe like a concert and flavorable food trucks activities just bringing people out more of a birthday

[1:02:01] party style celebration type event. As well as a ticketed VIP party at Summerfest, which could also

[1:02:06] serve as a mini fundraiser for the 70th anniversary. Another idea was all concerts in the parks,

[1:02:12] great event coming up, shameless plug, there's a Zingerline. Maybe doing all 70s bands,

[1:02:17] Maybe honor our first mayor and do a Japanese disco dance fan for one of those as well.

[1:02:22] To tie in our past, our history.

[1:02:25] Historical quiz, scavenger hunt, you know,

[1:02:27] Effy through the years, telling the stories of those who make up Fountain Valley those who have been here,

[1:02:32] those that are the core.

[1:02:34] Car rally, car show, showcasing some of those elements from the past,

[1:02:39] involving businesses and promoting the 70th collaborating with the various businesses we have in our community to

[1:02:44] show how it's a community-wide support for the 70 years of the celebration.

[1:02:49] Working with our schools districts for a personal time capsule, something that kids could take home,

[1:02:54] put whatever they want in to celebrate 70 years and keep that with them.

[1:02:58] An art contest and utilizing our utility art in the box program and maybe the winner of that contest,

[1:03:03] being on that art in the box and getting to showcase maybe fat by throughout the years as part of that art contest.

[1:03:08] As was a drive-in movie, maybe a little homage, we did that during COVID, but we used to have one here,

[1:03:13] and maybe doing a drive-in movie as well next year to celebrate that.

[1:03:18] For the budget requests, different sponsorships and fundraising in honor of 70 years.

[1:03:23] They are requesting $70,000. A lot of these opportunities, events do cost money.

[1:03:29] Unfortunately, I wish everything was free. We would be able to do a lot more for our community,

[1:03:34] but that is what we're requesting and then really trying to identify a different sponsorship

[1:03:38] program. We have a blooming sponsorship program in the city, but highlighting maybe a platinum partner,

[1:03:43] our Platinum sponsor in honor of 70 years, the highest level, and we do need to identify a local

[1:03:48] non-profit to receive and distribute these 70th anniversary funds to support the plant activities.

[1:03:54] I know for the 60th, I believe it was the community foundation, but it could be any of the non-profits

[1:03:58] in our community that council would like us to utilize for that portion. Another fundraising idea that

[1:04:03] was come up with was a fireverse police bowling tournament where members of the community or organizations

[1:04:09] or businesses, good sponsor a team, and kind of some healthy competition to fundraise for that.

[1:04:16] Raffle opportunities, maybe a 70s karaoke night, slash dance fundraiser, doing 70th anniversary merchandise that we could sell throughout the year,

[1:04:24] and as well as doing ticket activities or events throughout the years of other community events to fundraise for that budget as well,

[1:04:30] to help cover that 70,000.

[1:04:35] We also have some draft logo ideas here. I'll kind of go through them slowly, and then you'll see them all at the very end on one together.

[1:04:42] So we have our first draft,

[1:04:46] second one kind of ping-a-mage to those gospel swamps, right, the agricultural aspect.

[1:05:00] And then seeing them all together. Really, we are just looking for council direction to see how you'd like us to proceed for, and if you had any recommendations on a logo, or how you want us to move forward, and you could let us know if you want us to do certain things, not do certain things, leave up to the committee. But really, we're just looking for your direction input on how you'd like us to plan to celebrate 70 years in this amazing community. So thank you today.

[1:05:25] Thank you, Jake. Open up to question some council.

[1:05:31] Can some of the grandest?

[1:05:33] Yeah, so first off on the logos.

[1:05:35] Definitely one or two because it ties in 70 years.

[1:05:38] The other look like a TV station to me.

[1:05:40] This is my opinion.

[1:05:42] The blue on there though.

[1:05:43] I'd like to see a fountain balley blue, not that light blue.

[1:05:46] That's very picky.

[1:05:49] I think if we, you know,

[1:05:51] I understand the anniversaries June 13th

[1:05:54] And I assume we cannot do summer fest a week earlier next year.

[1:06:00] So it would be the weekend, and I'm looking at Matt Taylor and cannot speak to Matt.

[1:06:06] There are challenges with doing it on June 13th, and with the school and the carnival,

[1:06:15] it doesn't like that.

[1:06:17] I think if we collaborate with summer fest, so if we do the anniversary,

[1:06:25] we could do some sort of celebration on that day, but I think the big one should be at

[1:06:30] Summerfest, combine the two. We have the fireworks already. I would like the parade maybe to

[1:06:36] start a little bit later or start at 11 instead of 10, so when it ends, it ends at Summerfest

[1:06:42] and everybody attends. I was lucky enough to participate in the 60th parade, and that was

[1:06:49] a ton of fun. Barbara and I were holding the foundation banner walking through the parade,

[1:06:54] So, lots of great memories and I would just love to see some way to funnel all that enthusiasm

[1:07:01] and all the people that will be participating in the parade right into Summerfest would

[1:07:06] be my two cents.

[1:07:07] There are a number of cities that do evening holiday parade, so the opportunity to do an evening

[1:07:12] parade is also available.

[1:07:14] I love it.

[1:07:15] Right into fireworks night.

[1:07:16] Oh, that would not even look at you, even better.

[1:07:19] There you go.

[1:07:20] You should be up here.

[1:07:25] Vice Mayor Harper?

[1:07:25] Thank you. This is a great idea here. I really appreciate all the work that you guys have put into this.

[1:07:34] For the logos I like one is my pick.

[1:07:38] And then going back to you back a couple of sites with the, let's see, go back, go back to what the events and stuff.

[1:07:46] Okay. Yeah, that's good.

[1:07:48] So I think any or all of these events are great.

[1:07:52] The one thing I would suggest is maybe we can do,

[1:07:59] make sure there's something every month of the year for the anniversary.

[1:08:04] So maybe do an event or a different theme for each month that sort of celebrates the history of fountain valley.

[1:08:10] So, you know, I mean, they will have a big event on June 13th, but if we can kind of keep it going through the year, I think be great. Thanks.

[1:08:23] Thank you.

[1:08:24] I agree with the Council Member Griders.

[1:08:26] I think that if we can coordinate the parade, that would tie it into the summer fast.

[1:08:31] I think it will make this summer fast even more successful.

[1:08:37] This is not in two next year, so we have one year to plan all those, correct?

[1:08:41] I'd like to know if there's an opportunity to come back and if we could increase more of the community members.

[1:08:49] I'm looking at the roster here in the community that's great.

[1:08:53] All of this is community leaders in the community itself.

[1:08:57] A lot of volunteers, people here.

[1:09:01] Great people here.

[1:09:03] But I'd like to see if we could have some different communities

[1:09:07] resident coming to get some different perspective, you know, opinion-wise. So you have

[1:09:12] some fresh new idea into the mix, if there's an opportunity for that.

[1:09:19] Good idea.

[1:09:21] Yeah, we can have something to explore that if you have any ideas as well of those

[1:09:24] members. You can just let us know and we can look into that for sure.

[1:09:28] Okay, check with Councilwoman Constantine. Any questions or comments?

[1:09:36] Yes, actually I like local number one and I can you hear me?

[1:09:46] There's a lapse between me.

[1:09:48] I'm meeting in the work.

[1:09:49] But anyway, I like local number one and I do believe we need to have some or best that we can't

[1:09:56] of the anniversary and really think that some or best too.

[1:10:10] Thank you. Great. Thanks. I also would lean towards the first logo and agree also that Fountain Valley Colors would be great. Just as a comparison over in three of us, they are celebrating their 70th this year and a little plug for my youngest brother.

[1:10:28] he actually designed that for the city of Sridos and incorporated the seven into the

[1:10:33] tea, so it was really kind of a clever graphic there, and that agreed, you know, support

[1:10:39] a lot of the feedback from the rest of the council. So looking forward to a great event.

[1:10:46] Thanks so much. Any other, okay, all right, I'm so okay. We're good. Great presentation,

[1:10:51] Thank you so much.

[1:10:54] Awesome.

[1:10:59] Okay, we're running a little bit late.

[1:11:00] I think we're just going to take a quick couple minutes to regroup.

[1:11:04] We'll open the meeting and then I think it's a good idea.

[1:11:10] Vice Mayor Harper recommended that we do it.

[1:11:13] We have to do it and then we go out to our school sites.

[1:11:18] Awesome.

[1:11:19] We're back in two minutes.

[1:11:22] Yeah, but we need to.

[1:18:41] And start our open session at 621. We're going to go a little bit out of order. We actually have some special guests. And what I'd like to do is please, if you could welcome Monroe Elementary, they're very own ballet, forked lortico, racist, dimon row. And today we welcome the fifth and sixth grader performers and their leaders, Mr. Vadas and Miss Sanchez.

[1:19:12] And two students will be making a few comments part of the dance so come on up.

[1:19:24] Hello, my name is Mia Cruz.

[1:19:26] Hello, my name is Bella Ortega.

[1:19:29] Thank you for hosting racism and role.

[1:19:31] We're from Andrada, Metro's English Academy in Garden Grove, Unified School District.

[1:19:36] Monroe is a dual immersion school.

[1:19:39] The school has been established for 11 years.

[1:19:42] Thank you to our wonderful teacher.

[1:19:44] She is responsible for creating our wonderful political program.

[1:19:50] Our scholars will be honoring different cultural dances from Mexico and Guerrero.

[1:19:56] Gracias por invitar a reisism in rural.

[1:19:58] Somos estudiantes in rural Germany.

[1:20:00] Cudan que la guerra de dengaria a calamidad del Disticto de Coranville.

[1:20:03] Mucho dos años, a una escala de Rojo, la escuela se ha dejado por 11 años.

[1:20:10] Gracias, no serán más issue, más atta a Baris, y ha podido crear nuestro maravilloso

[1:20:17] de disco. Ahora, tenemos presentado un poco de nuestro espíritu cultural. Ahora,

[1:20:24] nuestros estudiantes estarán rando diferentes viales culturales de México y Guerrero.

[1:20:30] Our fifth gradients serves well-performs in a law from the state of Mexico.

[1:20:40] Mientras bailarinas de quinto grado bailarán sin a law del estado de México.

[1:21:05] I think we can face out, yeah, and they're on camera.

[1:25:29] You have background views.

[1:25:32] Our six credentials will perform las amarias from the state of Guerrero.

[1:25:37] This dance is known for the following fingertips that are a key part of the movement in this region.

[1:25:43] Nuestas bailinas de sexo grado bailarán las amarias del estado de Guerrero.

[1:25:48] Esta danza es yo conocida por los panuelos valantes que son un gran parte de los movimientos de esa región.

[1:25:55] But

[1:29:03] another round of applause for the ballet for Clotico, Rices, they Monroe.

[1:29:12] I think they're leaving.

[1:29:16] I just love their face, how much fun they had doing that. That was wonderful.

[1:29:21] Thank you so much.

[1:29:22] And originally they wanted to perform outside of the city hall.

[1:29:27] And thanks for accommodating and coming in.

[1:29:29] But it wasn't nice that we all got to see them.

[1:29:32] And that was just beautiful.

[1:29:34] okay so we'll get back to beginning of the meeting I think city call as any

[1:29:42] manager sorry city attorney burns you have an announcement I do thank you I

[1:29:47] want to know that council member Constantine is participating by Zoom she's

[1:29:52] participating for just cause the exception of just causes it she is currently

[1:29:56] on official city business traveling for the ICSC Concert.

[1:30:00] Conference, and Council member Constantine, are there anybody else over the age of 18 in the room with you?

[1:30:07] It's just indicated, no.

[1:30:10] Okay, thank you. Next we'll have invocation by the very patient, pastor, God, for y'all.

[1:30:17] So if you could please stand.

[1:30:20] It's a tough act. Tough act to follow. Mr. Mayor, and members of the City Council.

[1:30:25] Thank you for this opportunity to give the invocation and invite everyone here to join together with a word of prayer.

[1:30:33] Our great God and Heavenly Father as we celebrate and remember our country's 250th year as

[1:30:41] a free and sovereign nation we thank you for the United States of America.

[1:30:45] And as we thank you for our great country, we also thank you for this great city, found

[1:30:50] value, in which we live, work and play.

[1:30:53] For thank you for the 69 coming up on our seven years that we have enjoyed, this is our

[1:30:59] city.

[1:30:59] Thank you, Lord, for those who have gone before us, the founding fathers and mothers who

[1:31:05] laid the foundation for our great republic, as well as for our city.

[1:31:09] And we thank you for those who are serving today, including our mayor and city council members

[1:31:14] and others in public office, for we pray for your blessing on those who put on the uniform

[1:31:21] to serve and protect us.

[1:31:23] We pray your blessings on those who serve in public office, bless the citizens of Fountain

[1:31:29] valley and bless the proceedings tonight that every matter whether a great or small might

[1:31:34] be submitted to your care. And we remember what your scripture states, blessed as a nation

[1:31:40] whose God is the Lord. And so I pray, Lord, be our God, be our guide, be our strength, and

[1:31:49] be our salvation. I pray all this in the beautiful name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you,

[1:31:56] pastor. Next we'll have the salute to the flag like council member.

[1:32:02] Thank you Mayor please continue to stand. As next week is Memorial Day,

[1:32:07] flag day. So we want to take a moment to thanks the woman and the man that serves this country.

[1:32:16] And those are continuous serving this country and enjoy the liberty and the freedom that we all

[1:32:21] So please join me to salute the flag of the United States.

[1:32:25] Please begin.

[1:32:27] I would like to thank the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands

[1:32:33] what they should undergone an individual with liberty and justice as well.

[1:32:40] Thank you, Council Member Booy.

[1:32:45] Next is City Council's successor agency, Housing Authority Roll call.

[1:32:49] Council Member Booy?

[1:32:51] Council Member Constantine.

[1:32:53] Here.

[1:32:54] Council Member Grandis.

[1:32:56] Vice Mayor Vice Chair Harper.

[1:32:59] Mayor Chair Kanin.

[1:33:00] Here.

[1:33:00] All members are present.

[1:33:02] Thank you.

[1:33:04] Are there any supplemental communications?

[1:33:06] I have none.

[1:33:07] Okay.

[1:33:08] So we'll move on to city manager update.

[1:33:11] To be managerly.

[1:33:12] May I don't have anything to report tonight?

[1:33:14] Thank you.

[1:33:15] Okay.

[1:33:15] Thank you.

[1:33:17] Next is the mayor's update.

[1:33:20] Well, I hope you can join me and the City Council and staff for our next mayor's breakfast

[1:33:27] tomorrow morning, 8 a.m. with guest speaker, Viet Nguyen, one of the partners at Key

[1:33:33] Concepts, who has six restaurants in Fountain Valley. Key Concepts continues to expand county

[1:33:38] wide with locations at Costa Mesa, Irvine, Placentia, and Elisa Viejo. We'll also have

[1:33:44] clinical dietitian from orange coast medical center to join us and so that will be at the Memorial

[1:33:51] Care Health System they call the red building over on Brookhurst and hope you can join us there

[1:34:01] Okay, so we have a holiday coming up so you know what that means trash collection and street sweeping schedule

[1:34:07] So an observance Memorial Day on Monday

[1:34:11] May 25th trash collection will be delayed by one day

[1:34:15] Trash collection from Monday, May 25th will be on Tuesday, May 26th, Tuesday's collection will be on Wednesday, May 27th, Wednesday's collection will be on Thursday, May 28th, Thursday's collection will be on Friday, May 29th, and Fridays's collection will be on Saturday, May 30th.

[1:34:34] Street sweeping schedule for Wednesday, May 27, will move to Thursday, May 28, Thursdays will be on Friday, May 29.

[1:34:43] Fridays will be, no, not on Saturday, but on Tuesday, June 2nd.

[1:34:48] Please have all vehicles and trash cans off the street to allow the street to be properly cleaned and helped prevent ocean pollution by removing debris that can enter the storm drain system.

[1:34:58] This is a merge.

[1:35:00] Emergency Medical Services Week, May 17th through the 23rd. This week, we recognize and celebrate the essential

[1:35:06] role of emergency medical service professionals. Please join me in thanking our paramedics and emergency

[1:35:13] medical technicians who provide the day-to-day life-saving services in our community.

[1:35:20] Please join us at the next Memorial

[1:35:23] day flag raising ceremony that'll be on Monday May 25th. So be a 10 a.m. at Veterans Park, which is

[1:35:31] just to the south east of here along Los Alamos, right next to the Library. So the City of

[1:35:39] Fount Valley and the Fount Valley Community Foundation, in partnership with the West Orange County

[1:35:45] veterans of foreign wars, post and auxiliary 9557, present the Memorial Day

[1:35:54] Flight Grazing ceremony. And for more information, you can contact our

[1:35:58] Fountain Valley Recreation Community Services Department. So we hope to see

[1:36:02] you there.

[1:36:06] And then lastly, just to remind you, on June 20th, between 10 a.m.

[1:36:11] and 2 p.m. at the Center Founders Village Parking Lot. The Fountain Valley

[1:36:17] Rotary Club will be accepting donations for the Marine families at Camp Pendleton.

[1:36:22] So this is our club does this every six months and just a reminder of some of the items that we're looking for include the furniture that's undamaged.

[1:36:31] Cookware, dishware, bedding, blankets, towels, baby furniture, baby clothes, diapers and toys.

[1:36:39] And just keep in mind that these are young marine families that really don't have much, they're traveling around so they greatly appreciate that.

[1:36:46] And so again, that'll be June 20th at the Center for at Founders Village parking lot.

[1:36:53] Okay.

[1:36:57] We're going to move into presentations.

[1:37:00] You all got to enjoy the dancing from Monroe, so that was wonderful.

[1:37:05] Next we'll have information update on coyote awareness, and presentation will be by Lieutenant Kevin Frager.

[1:37:14] Mr. Mayor?

[1:37:15] Yes.

[1:37:16] I failed to include the announcement of closed session in my prior comments.

[1:37:19] Do you mind if I do that now?

[1:37:21] Yes, please do.

[1:37:21] There's no reportable action after closed session.

[1:37:24] One meeting.

[1:37:24] I'll get that right.

[1:37:30] Thank you for having me.

[1:37:31] My name is Lieutenant Kevin Crager.

[1:37:33] I'm a field supervisor over at OC Animal Care.

[1:37:37] I've been with the agency for almost 14 years now, 10 of those years.

[1:37:43] I've been a supervisor.

[1:37:45] I'm here today to go over some coyote information.

[1:37:47] how we can coexist with coyotes and how our agency gets involved dealing with coyotes.

[1:37:56] Just some basic identification and behavior. Typically on average a coyote,

[1:38:03] the can be bigger, they can be smaller depending on their diet, but on average,

[1:38:07] they're about the size of like a larger caucrospanial.

[1:38:11] Right now we're in the thick of coyote season, so we're going to be seeing a lot more

[1:38:16] activity, it's a natural occurrence every year. Pups are born in the

[1:38:21] screen and they're raised throughout the summer.

[1:38:25] One of the big myths,

[1:38:27] regarding coyotes, is that they're not eternal, that is not true, that's a

[1:38:31] myth. They've actually adapted to be more active at night because they're

[1:38:36] only real predator in this environment in the urban environment or cars.

[1:38:41] There's no natural predator for coyotes in the urban environment.

[1:38:47] Like I said earlier during the spring and summer this time of year you're going to be seeing a lot more

[1:38:52] coyote activity.

[1:38:54] This is when a lot of the calls come in about coyotes.

[1:39:01] This is a photo of kind of some normal coyote behavior.

[1:39:07] A lot of times we get people calling us walking their dogs and they see a coyote sitting like this.

[1:39:12] like on an embankment or on the street, but they're watching them.

[1:39:17] And a lot of times, citizens automatically

[1:39:19] assume that they're being stalked.

[1:39:21] That's not always true.

[1:39:24] Most of the time, you can kind of think of it

[1:39:27] as their form of entertainment.

[1:39:28] They love to people watch.

[1:39:30] They're very curious animals.

[1:39:32] They're very smart.

[1:39:35] This is a typical scene.

[1:39:37] You'll see coyote is watching people.

[1:39:38] It doesn't necessarily mean that they're being stalked.

[1:39:44] Cowdy's live in a pack, live in a pack, live in a pack, live by a dominant pair, an alpha male, an alpha female.

[1:39:52] And those the alpha male out oops, sorry, the alpha male out of female are monogamous and they'll mate for life.

[1:40:00] I'm both the male and the female coyotes will help raise the pups. So the big question is why are the

[1:40:09] coyotes in my neighborhood? And the number one reason is food. They're in your neighborhood because of food.

[1:40:18] They're number one diet in this environment are rodents. If we didn't have coyotes, I would be up here talking about

[1:40:27] The bubonic plague and the infestation of rats in our community which is not good

[1:40:32] They actually do I do a really good job of keeping the road in population down

[1:40:38] They're omnivores, so they will eat fruit

[1:40:41] I put on their deer. There should be an asterisk

[1:40:45] They will go after deer, but usually the deer are usually injured hit by a car sick

[1:40:52] They'll always go after a food source that requires the least amount of energy

[1:40:57] So if it's between a rat and like the last bullet points says trash

[1:41:02] Just sitting there like a cheeseburger in the trash can. They're gonna go after that cheeseburger because it's easier for them

[1:41:08] Requires the least amount of energy.

[1:41:12] This is a photo of an actual den site of a coyote

[1:41:15] on the side of an embankment

[1:41:18] They'll burrow into the ground to make their den and they'll actually use the only use that den site

[1:41:25] Typically for that mating season and then they move on, they don't stay there.

[1:41:30] They like to be close to water in a way from predators, aka traffic cars.

[1:41:40] So what can we do as a community?

[1:41:43] The biggest thing we can do as a community is reduce their food supply and their main

[1:41:48] diet are rats.

[1:41:49] So we encourage people that clean up their landscape, you know, cut down the overgrown bushes

[1:41:57] because that's where rats like to hide.

[1:42:01] Keeping your garbage sealed is a really big one.

[1:42:05] Most of the time where we see a lot of coyote activity when we do patrols in that area,

[1:42:11] most of the time there's the trash issue going on, trash overflowing, no top to the trash

[1:42:16] can bungee-courting your trash cans so they'll actually try to knock it over as another

[1:42:24] good tip.

[1:42:26] Bird feeders believe it or not are attractants for coyotes because rats and mice like

[1:42:32] teeth of bird seed which is a food source for coyotes it's kind of a domino effect.

[1:42:40] We also encourage people we know their heart is in the right place when it comes to feral

[1:42:46] cats, but just keep in mind that when you're leaving food out for pharaoh cats, you're also

[1:42:52] creating a food source for coyotes.

[1:42:56] So we encourage limiting that.

[1:42:59] We also encourage if anyone feeds their pets outside when they're done eating, that they

[1:43:05] pick up the bowls right away, don't leave the food out there, because that's prime time

[1:43:09] for coyotes to come and eat the rest of that food.

[1:43:15] Another big one is, if you have fruit trees in your backyard, a lot of times, people won't pick up the fallen fruit,

[1:43:22] which the coyotes will go after.

[1:43:24] They'll eat.

[1:43:25] So pick that up right away.

[1:43:26] It's also important.

[1:43:30] It's funny, we're in Fountain Valley.

[1:43:33] Coyotes actually fountains are like a big water bowl for coyotes.

[1:43:38] When they see a fountain, it's a water source for them.

[1:43:40] So just keep that in mind, not only is it a water source for the coyotes, it's also a water source for their food source, the rabbits, the mice.

[1:43:49] So just keep that in mind.

[1:43:53] Fencing, we like to encourage people not only to maintain their fencing at a certain height, but also make sure it's securely under the ground too, because coyotes are actually really good at digging.

[1:44:10] burrowing, they can dig and burrow pretty fast. They're also excellent jumpers. I was actually

[1:44:16] on a call once trying to capture a coyote with a broken leg. And from sitting down, I watched

[1:44:23] the coyote not a running start from sitting down clear at 10 foot wall. It looked like something

[1:44:29] from a movie. So they're very good at jumping and they're also good at digging.

[1:44:37] There are some

[1:44:39] deterrence for coyotes that people actually put on their fence are called coyote

[1:44:44] rollers that some companies sell. It's kind of like a big rolling pin and the idea

[1:44:51] behind that is if the coyote tries to jump over the fence it rolls and they won't

[1:44:55] be able to make it over. This only works if your fence is a certain height.

[1:45:00] It's not going to work on a fence that's four feet. It's just going to clear that fence.

[1:45:07] Some other ideas, this is a little elaborate, but people have actually made fully enclosed pet enclosures.

[1:45:17] If you can see in the photo there's a doggy door, this person's dog can actually go in and out of their house and they don't have to worry about a coyote coming after their pets.

[1:45:29] There's two of them right there.

[1:45:34] They also make, there's also different types of motion and sound deterrence.

[1:45:40] There's motion activated lighting and there's motion activated sprinklers out of these

[1:45:45] two from doing these talks for a little bit.

[1:45:50] Everyone has told me that the sprinklers work the best, not because of the water, but the

[1:45:57] noise. It freaks them out. With any of these deterrents, though, it's really important that

[1:46:03] you keep, like with the sprinklers, you move them around in your lawn. Because like I said,

[1:46:08] coyotes are really smart, and they'll remember that it's not a threat eventually.

[1:46:14] Isn't the scary crow face scare off the coyotes too? Yeah. They do make, they do make a product

[1:46:22] called the Predator I that I've seen and it's it looks pretty basic but for

[1:46:28] coyotes it's supposed to scare them it's like red glowing eyes that you can

[1:46:33] put up on your property but yeah like same thing keep moving them like weekly we

[1:46:38] bought a they sell those owl statues at home depot we bought one for our roof for

[1:46:44] the pigeons well now they just land on it because I I never move it but yeah it's

[1:46:50] It's really important to keep moving them.

[1:46:54] This is one of the big ones we like to educate the public on as hazing.

[1:46:59] The worst thing you can do is a community when you see a coyote in your area is doing nothing.

[1:47:06] Because after a while that coyote is going to think of people as not a threat and when that

[1:47:13] happens, the term for that is habituated and when that happens when coyotes lose their

[1:47:21] humans, that's where we start seeing accidents, that's where we start seeing pets getting

[1:47:25] taken, and fortunately sometimes it's rare, but people can get bit. So the worst thing

[1:47:32] you can do as a community is not doing anything. When you see a coyote in your neighborhood

[1:47:38] right away, you all at it, hawk your horn, make loud noise, scared away. You want to be so

[1:47:51] of the time, typically a healthy, normal coyote, they'll run away from you when you make

[1:47:58] a loud noise and they'll stop and do that in that photo.

[1:48:02] They're looking at you, they're basically sizing you up to see what you're going to do

[1:48:06] next.

[1:48:07] You're not done hazing that coyote until you don't see it anymore.

[1:48:11] Once you don't see the coyote, you have successfully hazed it away.

[1:48:16] So, that's the best thing we can do as a community is the coyote is going to eventually

[1:48:21] learn to not go into that neighborhood and go find somewhere else to get their food in their

[1:48:25] water. So what is OC animal care recommend as an agency?

[1:48:33] It really takes the entire neighborhood

[1:48:37] to help with the coyote population if there's a coyote situation going on in the neighborhood

[1:48:44] just because you're hazing the coyote if your neighbor next door isn't it's just going to go next

[1:48:49] or. So it really takes the whole neighborhood, whole community. There is a website that's put out by

[1:48:56] the University of California, which I've highlighted. You can actually go to that website. If you

[1:49:02] see a coyote, if you're unfortunately, if your pet was injured or attacked by a coyote, you can actually

[1:49:09] put in your info and it plots it on a map. And that information is shared through the state.

[1:49:15] We also encourage responsible pet awareness.

[1:49:20] I live right across from a nursery, and I see coyotes all the time where I live.

[1:49:26] Anytime I take my pets out to go to the bathroom, I make sure they're on a leash.

[1:49:31] It happens so quick if a coyote comes in your backyard and they can snatch real quick.

[1:49:36] So just make sure your pets are on a leash.

[1:49:38] If your pets can come inside at night or in a garage to sleep overnight, we encourage that.

[1:49:45] Like I went over, we really try to educate and make people aware of the proper way to

[1:49:55] is a coyote.

[1:50:00] When should you call our agency? Any time a coyote has been habituated, meaning you're trying to haze the coyote, and it's not doing anything. It's just staring at you. If it's approaching you, while you're trying to haze the coyote, that's not normal. That would be something you would want to call us to come out and see what's going on. Any time a domestic pet has been attacked or bitten, call us, because we're required by the state to complete a bite.

[1:50:30] investigation,

[1:50:32] and like I said, it's rare. But anytime a human has been attacked, call us,

[1:50:37] we will actually work together with fishing game to try to capture that coyote and identify it.

[1:50:45] Anytime a coyote appears sick injured, exhibiting abnormal behavior, walking in circles,

[1:50:53] definitely if it's filming at the mouth, call us right away. And then I put at the very bottom,

[1:50:59] You can actually call us even if you just see a coyote.

[1:51:02] You can call us and we'll make a siding report.

[1:51:05] Fountain Valley is one of the cities every month.

[1:51:08] I will send the coyotes to this, too.

[1:51:12] You guys will get a copy.

[1:51:15] So at any time, you just see a coyote.

[1:51:17] You can call our agency.

[1:51:21] These are our phone numbers.

[1:51:23] The top number is our main line.

[1:51:26] From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

[1:51:28] You'll get a live person from 5pm to 8am. That's our after-hour's line. You will get a message machine, but that those messages are checked

[1:51:40] Constantly every couple minutes for 24.7

[1:51:44] 365 you can call us anytime any day any questions?

[1:51:51] I didn't want to just mention you brought a colleague and

[1:51:54] And do you get to introduce your colleagues?

[1:51:56] Oh sure.

[1:51:57] And how she loves to speak in public.

[1:52:01] I'm sorry.

[1:52:02] I'm sorry.

[1:52:02] I'll just introduce all of you.

[1:52:03] I'm Jamie Link, Operations Manager, OCD Animal Care.

[1:52:06] Great.

[1:52:07] Thank you.

[1:52:07] Awesome.

[1:52:09] OK, great.

[1:52:10] Open up the questions from Council.

[1:52:12] That's my greatest.

[1:52:15] So I appreciate the presentation, but it almost

[1:52:17] sounds like there are friendly and cute animals.

[1:52:21] And they're very dangerous predators.

[1:52:23] You know?

[1:52:25] If somebody lost a cat or a dog, there's a lot who are listening right now, or you know this just the memory of this is going to be upsetting to them.

[1:52:36] What can you or can't you do to reduce the population legally?

[1:52:42] So, legally, the best way, there's different studies on this in Fish and Wildlife.

[1:52:51] They really advocate hazing.

[1:52:54] They have done studies on relocating, and it's actually more detrimental not only to the

[1:53:00] coyote population, but it could also cause public danger to the public.

[1:53:09] Coyotes are very territorial. If you take a coyote out of that environment and try to

[1:53:14] relocate it somewhere where there's less people, it's going to do everything it can to try

[1:53:18] to come back to where it came from. When that happens, we see car accidents. We see more

[1:53:25] aggressive behavior from that coyote. Not only that, but it could cause an imbalance in the

[1:53:39] a smaller amount of coyotes in that neighborhood. But overall, you could, you could hypothetically

[1:53:45] increase that population.

[1:53:49] You mentioned a couple of times that it's, they're beneficial to the community in certain

[1:53:53] ways.

[1:53:57] It's hard to swallow, you know, sometimes. I mean, I get what you're saying, and

[1:54:02] they were here before we were in all of that argument and everything else. But is there,

[1:54:08] It doesn't sound like there's any plan or commitment or it really appetite to reduce the population.

[1:54:17] Is that a fair statement?

[1:54:19] That would be something under the jurisdiction of official wildlife.

[1:54:23] We're actually a support role for them.

[1:54:26] They actually have all the authority when it comes to wildlife in California.

[1:54:34] Thank you.

[1:54:37] Thanks.

[1:54:39] I just want to say I really appreciate this presentation.

[1:54:41] I don't think we've had something like this before that sort of educates the public

[1:54:47] about coyotes, how they live and their role in the community and how we can help prevent

[1:54:56] help keep them out.

[1:54:58] I think I mentioned a couple of things.

[1:55:00] One is, you know, really, you have to keep an eye on your pets and don't leave food out in the backyard.

[1:55:07] I know I've been guilty sometimes of, you know, maybe leaving some, I've burned some food on the, you know, on this stove and then put it in the backyard and then forget about it.

[1:55:18] Yeah, you know, and then I get, I look outside and there's ants or possums or some critters that have come in, you know, help themselves with the food.

[1:55:27] I think there's a lot that we can do as citizens like you said to reduce their food sources

[1:55:37] and by doing that, it'll naturally reduce the population and protect our citizens.

[1:55:45] And the hazing has had something I hadn't heard before, but now that I know I'm going

[1:55:49] to be out.

[1:55:49] And a lot of people that call, when we ask them, have you tried hazing the county, they mostly

[1:55:56] all the times they know, we didn't try that.

[1:56:02] So I think that's because they're scared of the

[1:56:05] chaos. Yeah. And you know, some people are especially, we're an elderly community, and I would

[1:56:12] not, I would not encourage somebody who is not as mobile as others to do that. I agree. And to touch

[1:56:22] on that a lot of times people will ask me, what can, because they go and walks with their dogs,

[1:56:26] what can I bring with me to help haze the coyote if I see one. A lot of times people ask

[1:56:33] if they can bring pepper spray. I don't recommend that just because if it's a windy day

[1:56:38] you're going to get back spray on you. I actually they sell those little air horns.

[1:56:43] I don't like the sport stores. Just carry that in your back pocket.

[1:56:48] Yeah, that really

[1:56:49] sensitive to sound. They have a lot of muscles in there here so that's going to work a lot

[1:56:54] better than the toughest break. I'm curious we have a lot of parks in our city and

[1:57:00] a few of us have backyards with trees. I see squirrels all the time and I have

[1:57:06] regulars in my yard. They're taunting my cat and you know I'm just curious how does a squirrel

[1:57:16] population and coyotes how do they get along? Is it usually hard to catch? Yeah, usually if there's

[1:57:23] More squirrels?

[1:57:24] There's typically more coyotes just because it's a food source.

[1:57:29] For them.

[1:57:33] Any other questions from Council?

[1:57:38] All right.

[1:57:38] Well, thank you so much.

[1:57:39] Thank you, Gregor.

[1:57:40] And thank you for joining us tonight, educating us.

[1:57:46] Okay.

[1:57:46] Next is first city council's success or agency.

[1:57:49] Housing Authority public comments on unscheduled matters.

[1:57:52] Are there any requests to speak?

[1:57:54] I have one request to speak on unscheduled matters.

[1:57:58] Bob Kiesel.

[1:58:07] Welcome.

[1:58:08] Thank you.

[1:58:08] Good evening Mr. Mayor of City Council.

[1:58:10] I'm Bob Kiesel.

[1:58:11] I am the President-elect of the Community Foundation

[1:58:15] for Fountain Valley.

[1:58:17] And I was what was mentioned earlier in the study session.

[1:58:20] Summerfest season is upon us.

[1:58:23] In about three weeks from now, the doors are going to be opening.

[1:58:27] Cars are going to be pouring in.

[1:58:29] They're going to be directed to parking lots by volunteers.

[1:58:32] Take it takers at the gates are going to be volunteers.

[1:58:35] People are going to buy their close to corn

[1:58:37] from my booth that's going to be served by volunteers.

[1:58:42] Volunteers, including Councilman and Grant,

[1:58:44] Councilman Grandus, is going to be making sure

[1:58:46] that Wi-Fi systems are operating throughout the facility

[1:58:48] for all four days.

[1:58:51] Councilwoman Constanties, going to be working

[1:58:52] at the information booth.

[1:58:54] Last year, I challenged Councilman Bowie

[1:58:57] to come get dirty with me.

[1:59:00] Councilman Bowie accepted my challenge.

[1:59:03] It came out, and I thank you for that.

[1:59:05] He came out and spent a couple of hours at our shift.

[1:59:09] At the sea council meeting, following the summer fest,

[1:59:13] each of you are going to come out and say,

[1:59:16] I attended summer fest.

[1:59:19] It would be much more impactful to your constituents.

[1:59:23] If you said, I attended summer fest.

[1:59:26] And I spent a shift cooking hamburgers

[1:59:28] to feed the volunteers, or I spent the afternoon

[1:59:34] with city staff empty and trash cans or I distributed 35 pound bags of ice to the vendors

[1:59:42] that need it ice. That kind of work would be far more impactful than you do in your

[1:59:49] political thing where you come in, shake cans, oh Monday morning my hand is at my wrist

[1:59:54] sore. I really wish you a trade-in, you're a suit and a tie.

[2:00:00] One of these shirts, volunteer shirts? Come out, join me, do some real work, do some real good for

[2:00:09] the city, because without the volunteers, you know, there's, well, first of all, there's, you

[2:00:14] know, about eight months of work that goes into this before summer fast even kicks off. And

[2:00:20] It's all done by city staff and volunteers.

[2:00:27] So I challenge Mr. Mayor, Mr. Council under Harper.

[2:00:32] I challenge you guys.

[2:00:34] Take one of these shirts.

[2:00:36] Get rid of your tie and dress shirt.

[2:00:38] Put one of these on.

[2:00:40] Come get dirty with us and enjoy yourselves

[2:00:43] and make a real difference.

[2:00:44] Thank you.

[2:00:45] Thank you.

[2:00:47] I have no further requests to speak.

[2:00:49] Okay, we'll move into public comments on scheduled matters only, do we have any requests to speak?

[2:00:55] I have requests to speak on items 910, 12 and 15.

[2:01:04] Tidems 9 and 10 are on the consent calendar if those items do not.

[2:01:08] If council members do not wish to pull either of those items, the requester can still speak and we can then make a motion if that's the council's pleasure.

[2:01:28] Okay, so I'm going to move into consent calendar.

[2:01:33] Yes, if you want to see if items 9 and 10 want to be pulled by Council first, if not, then I will call on the speaker for both items.

[2:01:40] Okay, consent calendar items 1 through 10 will be approved simultaneously with one motion unless separate action or discussion is requested.

[2:01:47] Does anyone want to remove any item?

[2:01:49] Our pool item sign intended to give the public a chance to speak on them and are pulled.

[2:01:56] These items one through eight.

[2:02:00] I'm moved by items one through eight.

[2:02:02] A second.

[2:02:09] We'll be doing a voice.

[2:02:11] Since we have Council Member Constantine off the Dias and on Zoom,

[2:02:15] we will do a voice vote.

[2:02:17] All those in favor say aye.

[2:02:19] Aye. All those opposed.

[2:02:21] Item is one through eight paths five zero.

[2:02:25] That we will move on to item number nine, and we have a public comment from Katie Wright.

[2:02:37] Welcome.

[2:02:38] Greetings, esteemed council members.

[2:02:41] And it's just a simple question.

[2:02:43] I know not everybody pays attention to what goes on here.

[2:02:46] If not everyone follows the agenda online.

[2:02:49] Not everyone does a deep dive.

[2:02:52] It says here for more information you go to page 296.

[2:02:57] Basically, this is going to be in a agreement of first amendment with Concentrate to extend

[2:03:02] the agreement for one-year term, blah, blah.

[2:03:07] What just asking is Concentrate, please?

[2:03:15] Yeah, we'll bring up staff to answer that.

[2:03:17] Okay.

[2:03:18] Thank you.

[2:03:19] That's my question.

[2:03:24] So we'll have HR Director, our Naur Hayes, to clarify that we're centred, thank you.

[2:03:32] Good evening, I'm Tanya, Naur Hayes of HR Director.

[2:03:35] Concentrate is our occupational health provider.

[2:03:38] They provide pre-employment services, law enforcement testing, DOT testing, TB testing, etc.

[2:03:45] They also assist us with our workers' compendries and treatment.

[2:03:51] Great, thank you.

[2:03:52] You're welcome, thank you.

[2:03:54] I'd like to move item number nine.

[2:03:58] All those in favor say aye aye aye. All those opposed. I have number nine passes five

[2:04:04] zero. I had number ten was also pulled by council member grandis. Any discussion? I just

[2:04:14] want to give the public an opportunity to see you right.

[2:04:24] Thank you again. This is the situation

[2:04:28] and about the rotation for the mayor and the mayor of the mayor.

[2:04:33] And I guess a lot of cities go through this and have their own systems of doing it, and I've been following the city here, how they do it every year, and it's interesting.

[2:04:42] And I've seen several repeat episodes of Council Member Constantine trying to nail down a more permanent solution, a more predictable solution going forward.

[2:04:54] Because considering worst case scenario, if you got, we have three people up, there's seats are up.

[2:05:00] Supposed you got all three new people in, worst case scenario, one of those new people could line up being the mayor or the mayor pro temp. If it's that random. So I just wanted people to be aware how important this item is. Thank you.

[2:05:13] Thank you.

[2:05:14] So Mr. Mayor, just to clarify, we have a very hard and fast now rule that we did, and this is the first reading of it.

[2:05:22] We're not even going to vote on the mayor and vice mayor going forward.

[2:05:26] It's an automatic rotation.

[2:05:29] And we have all agreed what that rotation is right now.

[2:05:33] It's obviously next line is vice mayor Harper and Council Member Constantine,

[2:05:38] that myself and Council Member Bowie.

[2:05:41] And if anybody doesn't get reelected, we just move in that rotation.

[2:05:44] And so in the past what you had stated was that we could, you know, have a new person that can't

[2:05:54] happen at this point.

[2:05:57] So if the unlikely scenario we have three new council members, then I would be mayor in the

[2:06:03] fall and council member, Boewe would be vice mayor.

[2:06:09] And with that, and let's somebody else have some discussions with council member, Boewe?

[2:06:13] Yeah, that is correct.

[2:06:14] That is the point on several meetings that I have raised, the concern on the language, to

[2:06:20] your point on concern.

[2:06:22] That is why the language has changed from shoot to shout.

[2:06:28] And it removes the ambiguity on the rotations on the mirrors.

[2:06:33] So it's more consistent.

[2:06:34] And that's what I've raised.

[2:06:36] And that's why I believe my colleague, Constantine, I brought it back.

[2:06:39] Sit up.

[2:06:40] I think we need to make some change.

[2:06:42] That's what we have today.

[2:06:46] We did unanimously go down that so we're all in agreement and with that I'd move by to number 10.

[2:06:51] Actually, I apologize.

[2:06:54] May attorney for the city clarified that actually we don't need a second reading on this.

[2:07:00] That tonight would be adult.

[2:07:04] Tonight's the second reading.

[2:07:06] So we'll be adopting tonight.

[2:07:08] If council votes that way.

[2:07:10] And just to clarify, does the title need to be read out?

[2:07:13] I know Mr. Mayor that I was right there in the first re-watching, okay.

[2:07:18] All right.

[2:07:18] We have a first by Council Member Grandis.

[2:07:22] All second.

[2:07:23] Oh, sorry. I think Councilwoman Constantine had already seconded.

[2:07:27] It's okay.

[2:07:27] All those in favor say aye.

[2:07:29] Aye.

[2:07:30] All those opposed?

[2:07:31] No.

[2:07:33] Item passes four one.

[2:07:35] And I want to thank White Council members for supporting.

[2:07:38] Thank you.

[2:07:44] We're building public hearings.

[2:07:45] So you might or each person will have up to three minutes to speak on each public hearing.

[2:07:53] So first is item 11, public hearing and adoption of 2025 urban water management plan and 2025 water shortage contingency plan.

[2:08:04] Introduction by Mark Sprock, field services manager.

[2:08:10] Welcome.

[2:08:15] Thank you, Mayor, Council members.

[2:08:17] Good evening.

[2:08:19] So, as you stated, this is a presentation on our public hearing and adoption for 25 urban water management plan, which is a requirement by the state and the plan outlines our long term strategy for ensuring reliable and sustainable water supply, including current water use, future demand projections of our supply reliability, conservation efforts and emergency planning.

[2:08:43] Tonight, we actually have a consultant, Anthony, with Crawlow Engineering, who assisted us in preparing our plan.

[2:08:50] So he's going to go over what our plan entails, and I'll be available for questions afterwards.

[2:08:55] He should be available over Zoom and I'll turn it over to him.

[2:08:59] He is on Zoom.

[2:09:00] And I'm muted.

[2:09:01] Thank you.

[2:09:02] Anthony is yours.

[2:09:04] Thank you.

[2:09:05] Thank you.

[2:09:06] Mr. Mayer, members of City Council.

[2:09:10] So I'd first like to thank you all for being able to hold a brief presentation for your public

[2:09:16] hearing of the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan and Water Shores Convention sheet plan.

[2:09:22] Just want to confirm,

[2:09:25] am I presenting the slides or are you available to see, can you

[2:09:29] guys see them already?

[2:09:31] We can see them inside the Council Chamber.

[2:09:34] Okay, I'm going to have them displayed so you can see them and then you just tell me when to advance them.

[2:09:40] Okay, great. I just want to confirm that. Thank you.

[2:09:43] All right, so we can go to slide two.

[2:09:49] Thank you.

[2:09:50] So I'll show you on the agenda.

[2:09:52] I'm going to start with the explanation on the purpose and overview of the urban water management plan and then quickly dive into the water system description.

[2:10:00] City and then a library on the water use demand, followed by water supply characterization, and reliability, and short planning, and finally, by the demand management measures. Next slide.

[2:10:15] So as an overview, we have the who what when and why for the urban water management plan. The urban water management plan needs to be prepared by all agencies in the state of California to comply with the urban water management act and the California water code.

[2:10:30] The city of Pham Valley prepared their 2025 plan as part of a shared service agreement with the municipal water district of Orange County, also known as Moduck, and along with 22 other agencies.

[2:10:43] So this plan ultimately includes cities water use characteristics and it's followed by demand projections to the year 2050.

[2:10:50] And it also includes the 2020 water source update to the 2020 water source contingency plan.

[2:11:01] Now, one thing that is interesting about the urban water management plan is that it is developed on a five year cycle.

[2:11:08] So, the last one was in 2020, and this being 2026, this is the representing the last

[2:11:17] five years from 2020 to 2025.

[2:11:21] So, ultimately, it's a requirement in the water code and non-submission impacts agencies

[2:11:28] eligibility for state funding in the future.

[2:11:31] So, next slide, please.

[2:11:33] So, when it comes to water, the city's water system is approximately 9.94 miles, and water demands are a combination of groundwater that is pumped from six active wells with one imported connection with the metropolitan water district.

[2:11:53] There's approximately 17,400 service connections and around 218 miles of pipe in the city.

[2:12:01] And as you can see on the right, the city's population is expected from the estimates that we have,

[2:12:09] expected to grow approximately 12% which ultimately leads to increased water use. Next slide please.

[2:12:22] So,

[2:12:25] when it comes to water use, the city's water use is primarily residential, about 52% of the demands are associated with either single or multi-family residential use.

[2:12:36] And there's about 24% commercial and industrial and institutional use while the remaining water is associated with irrigation, dedicated irrigation or other uses.

[2:12:47] And as discussed, leading to the population growth that we were

[2:12:52] was on the previous slide, you can see the 2025 total water use is

[2:12:58] approximately 9,940 acre feet with that projected 2050 water use around 10,048

[2:13:04] feet. As shown on the chart on the right, the total demand in Orange County continues to

[2:13:10] trend down since the early 90s, although population has increased by more than 700,000

[2:13:16] people in that same time period. The increase of water use efficiency has reduced the overall

[2:13:22] water use in the countywide. Next slide please.

[2:13:29] So this graph on the right shows the water

[2:13:32] conservation target that was a compliance requirement by the city mandated by the state of California

[2:13:40] and it's known as the 20 by 2020 mandate. And so I showed on the right that's targeted for the city

[2:13:47] in 2020 was 142 gallons per person per day and currently the city or in 2020 the city

[2:13:56] achieves that with approximately 91 gallon per person per day of water use and this is

[2:14:03] really just to say that the city is still maintaining that compliance value in this 2025 plan.

[2:14:10] Next slide, and moving on to the water supply. The city's water demand is primarily

[2:14:18] served by groundwater, about 86% of the water demands, and 25 were served by groundwater,

[2:14:24] and the remaining is from recycled water. And that's shown in the chart on the right.

[2:14:29] The city's mix of water supply is not projected to change much over the next 25 years.

[2:14:38] Can I ask you a question real quick?

[2:14:41] Yes, and decide before you go on the recycled water you say is 14% what is recycled water?

[2:14:49] I got it Anthony.

[2:14:51] So recycled water is we use not primarily, but exclusively for landscaping in the soil.

[2:14:57] Oh, the purple pipes, purple pipe. Oh, now I understand.

[2:15:02] So we're not drinking that. Okay. I'm with you now. Okay. Yeah, I'd be concerned first of all.

[2:15:10] Gotcha.

[2:15:13] Great. Thank you. So it's a continue. A single of the next slide.

[2:15:25] Okay. So another key component of the urban water management plan is to conduct the analysis on water service reliability.

[2:15:31] So this is, this is assessed by comparing projected demands with projected available supplies and this is done for both the near term and long term conditions under normal and average and dry hydrologic conditions.

[2:15:47] So with that, it's concluded that the city's long term supply, reliability under these hydrologic conditions is available or the city's will have the water supply available to meet those projected demands.

[2:16:01] from now until 2050, so that's essentially what this is saying.

[2:16:07] Next slide.

[2:16:09] And then our second last, the preparation of the water source

[2:16:13] CdNC plan is also a required element of the Urban Water Management Plan Act.

[2:16:18] The water source CdNC plan is included in the appendix of the CdNC water

[2:16:22] shortage CdNC plan, and it is a standalone document.

[2:16:26] And so, this, the water surge contingency plan includes six different stages with corresponding

[2:16:34] water demand reductions that increase from 10 supply shortage stage 1.

[2:16:39] You can see in the graph on the table on the right, up to six, which is supply shortage

[2:16:45] greater than 50%.

[2:16:47] Now associated with each one of these levels, our demand management measures that are to either

[2:16:54] argument it supplies or reduce the man's to strategically use water during supply

[2:16:59] shortages.

[2:17:03] And next slide, please. And with that, we have demand management

[2:17:07] measures, I'm going to see the water source potentially plan. It is it's important

[2:17:11] to note that city collaborates with Motoc to implement these programs and improve water

[2:17:16] use of efficiency as much as possible using various rebates and assistant programs.

[2:17:21] So, some examples are listed on the left, so, and some examples that Motoc uses, district

[2:17:31] wide, or on the right.

[2:17:33] So, there's a lot of collaboration going between the two, and as shown on the previous slide,

[2:17:38] this has contributed to that county-wide reduction in overall demand through what use of

[2:17:52] open it up for any questions. Thank you. Thank you, Kathy. So yeah, if there's any questions

[2:17:58] we're both here to answer. If not,

[2:18:03] the final action is just staff, I'm a new city council

[2:18:05] approval alternative number one, which is to conduct this public hearing and adopt the 2025

[2:18:11] urban water management plan and water shortage contingency plan. All right, Mark, hold that

[2:18:16] thought. Let me open the public hearing.

[2:18:20] Are there any requests to speak? I have no requests

[2:18:22] to speak. Yeah, go ahead and close the public hearing.

[2:18:28] Any questions from Council?

[2:18:30] Council.

[2:18:30] It just one. You said on the slide that we're importing X amount of water, I think

[2:18:37] it said 10% or 15%. I thought that we were at a point where we were getting a 100% of

[2:18:43] our water as well water. When did that switch?

[2:18:46] So it's long term projections. Currently right now we're 100% ground water. I don't know what's

[2:18:51] operating in 2030. I don't know what's happening in 2050, so I'm projecting out, I'm projecting

[2:18:55] that we would be taking import water in those future years. Currently, I want to take

[2:18:59] as much groundwater second take. Okay, because I tell, as much as there are 100% groundwater

[2:19:04] and I thought I was a liar, so you want to make sure I'm not going to continue as long as

[2:19:08] they let me take it, I'm going to take it. I think it's wonderful. It's one of the reasons our water

[2:19:12] costs are so low. Exactly. We use well water, so that's fantastic. Thank you. I only question

[2:19:19] Thank you.

[2:19:20] Any other questions from Council?

[2:19:27] Okay.

[2:19:27] Hearing none, I'll call for motion on the item.

[2:19:30] Item number 11.

[2:19:31] I'll move the item.

[2:19:32] Second.

[2:19:36] I'll move approval.

[2:19:38] Item was first by Council Member Constantine II.

[2:19:42] By Council Member Vice Mayor Harper.

[2:19:45] All those in favor say aye.

[2:19:46] Aye.

[2:19:47] All those opposed.

[2:19:49] Item number 11 passes five zero.

[2:19:51] Great.

[2:19:51] Thanks a lot.

[2:19:52] Thank you.

[2:19:53] Administrative items item 12, introduction and first reading of an ordinance authorizing the use of safe and safe.

[2:20:00] Fireworks in the Recreation Center at Malsquare Park on July 4, 2026, introduction and first reading of

[2:20:07] an ordinance authorizing these of safe and sane fireworks on residential streets on July 4, 2026, sorry,

[2:20:14] a little over done in presentation by city attorney on burns.

[2:20:19] Great. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council. This is a council initiated item staff was asked to come back

[2:20:23] within ordinance or a procedure or some option to have fireworks on for the July.

[2:20:28] So staff met and is come back with three options.

[2:20:32] One is to allow fireworks if the recreation center.

[2:20:36] The other is to allow fireworks only on residential streets.

[2:20:39] The third option, of course, is to take no action and continue

[2:20:42] the city's current citywide ban on fireworks.

[2:20:47] The city generally prohibits fireworks in all areas of the city.

[2:20:50] Of the two options it would allow fireworks for a limited period on July

[2:20:55] for 2026, the two options share a number of similarities.

[2:20:59] One is fireworks are only allowed on the 4th of July from noon to 10.

[2:21:03] Only safe and same fireworks, there would be no dangerous or illegal fireworks.

[2:21:07] No fireworks in any location other than the prescribed areas, and there is a provision

[2:21:12] that the fire chief can suspend or prohibit fireworks in the event that there is wind,

[2:21:16] whether or anything else it creates a hazard.

[2:21:19] Other similarities are both allowed to sail the fireworks in the city.

[2:21:22] Sales would be limited to safe and safe fireworks sales would start on June 26 at noon

[2:21:29] I'm sorry and go and tell noon on July 4th because that is when

[2:21:33] Persons would be able to start lighting off fireworks as an important point if council desires sale of fireworks

[2:21:38] We must adjorn to an earlier regular meeting honor before May 27 so that 30 days can run before June 26 of the ordinance takes effect

[2:21:48] There would be a requirement for a fountain valley firework seller's permit, only 10 such permits are proposed to be granted.

[2:21:55] There would be granted to 501c3 charitable organizations with a place of business in the city and assuming that we receive more than 10 applications.

[2:22:03] Recipients would be chosen by lottery, again, these are all suggestions.

[2:22:07] The difference between the two is the location that fireworks should be permitted.

[2:22:12] The initial thought was the recreation center, the initial suggestion, in meeting with staff.

[2:22:16] There were some concerns that that would appear as a city's sponsored event.

[2:22:20] And as I'll discuss in a minute, there are some liability and operational issues associated with that.

[2:22:24] Another option would be to simply lift the ban on fireworks and residential streets.

[2:22:29] At that point, fireworks should simply be private activity on 4th July.

[2:22:34] I did speak to a number of departments and their their comments or summarized risk management

[2:22:39] had concern for fireworks in the recreation center because there would be no way to enforce

[2:22:43] the age restriction if there were injury to property damage that could trigger liability

[2:22:48] because people would view this as a city's sponsored event.

[2:22:52] We would not have a contract with indemnification as we typically do with O Intertainment

[2:22:56] or whoever else holds firewood shows.

[2:22:58] There would be difficulty identifying the responsible party.

[2:23:00] Somebody got injured at the Rec Center, and CalJPIA has informed that they will not provide coverage.

[2:23:07] Fire hat concerns about injuries, illegal fireworks, call volumes, and also disposal of fireworks,

[2:23:14] well, it is permitted in trash cans because it is not hazardous waste.

[2:23:17] There was concern that dumping used fireworks into the dumpsters without having garden hose or five gallon bucket

[2:23:24] would create some hazards.

[2:23:27] speaking to fire about fiscal impacts, it would require one standby ambulance, one standby

[2:23:32] engine company and one standby chief officer for a number of hours, their total estimated

[2:23:39] cost would be $6,516. Police had the similar public safety challenges, drug use,

[2:23:55] potential

[2:23:55] the charge was estimated to be $5,624 for an event at the park.

[2:24:04] Community services, if an event was also allowed at the Rec Center would require one full

[2:24:09] time equivalent to part-time equivalents, and it would be throughout the day.

[2:24:16] Public Works has informed that regarding clean up a quick city wide street sweep, that's

[2:24:20] if it was allowed in all streets, residential streets, would be approximately $5,000 if it

[2:24:26] in the sports park only, clean up would be about $4,000, and of course we'd have to have

[2:24:30] signal timing and other public works needed facilities that would be about $1,500.

[2:24:36] So again there are three alternatives proposed for council.

[2:24:39] Alternative one is to allow fireworks in the recreation center on the Fourth of July.

[2:24:44] Alternative two allow fireworks in residential streets on the Fourth of July and alternative

[2:24:48] three take no action and continue the city's fireworks ban.

[2:24:51] This is a Council initiated option staff has no recommendations and we are here for any questions.

[2:24:59] Thank you.

[2:25:00] Are there any requests to speak? We have three requests to speak. First up is Ann Bettinger.

[2:25:15] Welcome.

[2:25:16] Good evening, Mayor and city council. My name is Ann Bettinger, and I have resided in the same house.

[2:25:22] I'm found reality for 50 years. Mr. Mayor tonight, you stated you wanted what's best for the city.

[2:25:28] Um, originally, and my statement had to do with it being held at Maile Square Park.

[2:25:36] And somewhere in the, I don't know how long it's been, not very long, that has now changed.

[2:25:42] So I will address this to the city sports areas that this was discussed tonight.

[2:25:51] I think it's wrong.

[2:25:52] I think it sets the precedent, I think that by doing setting a precedent like that, you will have no excuse to come back to anyone else who wants to have the fireworks at the Sports Center for whatever reason and I'll point out one and that would be the tech festival.

[2:26:13] Fireworks are toxic, there is a do that cannot be mitigated or cleaned up by employees or volunteers,

[2:26:23] sinks down into the groundwater eventually through rain, and becomes toxic to our groundwater.

[2:26:29] And you can call the water board about that. That's a proven fact.

[2:26:37] They're dangerous, obviously, and if you have individuals with no supervision of who's standing next to who,

[2:26:45] and who's drinking, even though it's not legal to drink,

[2:26:48] they're going to do it anyway.

[2:26:49] They're going to do their drugs.

[2:26:51] And you're going to have people there that

[2:26:52] have different temperaments next to each other,

[2:26:55] which will cause a lot of problems.

[2:26:58] I think it's too high of a risk for the city

[2:27:01] as far as liability goes.

[2:27:02] And I really don't want to be part and parcel

[2:27:05] of the taxpayers that are paying money out

[2:27:09] on personal liability lawsuits against the city.

[2:27:13] I think it's too great to risk for that.

[2:27:16] I think the amount for putting this on and clean up

[2:27:20] is more than we need to be spending on something like this.

[2:27:25] I mean, my guess was $18,000.

[2:27:28] Okay, I didn't know what you came up with there.

[2:27:30] So let's round it up to $20,000.

[2:27:32] Can't we spend that on something better

[2:27:34] than putting on and cleaning at fireworks?

[2:27:38] I'm all for celebrating the 4th of July for the 250th anniversary

[2:27:42] of our country believe me, and if that means that we allow it within the city confines out in

[2:27:49] our streets so be it. I've lived here long enough when that was legal. Okay, we did it,

[2:27:55] and we did it safely, but times have changed, and not everybody does it safely. Not everybody

[2:28:00] is going to stand on with their hand on a Bible and say, I will use safe and same fireworks

[2:28:05] in my street. It doesn't happen. They're setting off rockets and who knows what all else,

[2:28:09] and they're coming up for Mexico and how to stay with this stuff.

[2:28:12] So we have no control over that.

[2:28:15] The police have very little control over that.

[2:28:17] The fire department has even less control over that.

[2:28:20] And your time is up.

[2:28:22] Thank you very much.

[2:28:23] Thank you for listening.

[2:28:24] Thank you.

[2:28:24] Katie Wright.

[2:28:31] Welcome.

[2:28:33] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[2:28:37] The first question that came to my mind.

[2:28:40] My husband's mind.

[2:28:41] And three of my friends mind.

[2:28:43] When I told him about this.

[2:28:45] What drugs is he on?

[2:28:49] I seriously have a question.

[2:28:51] If the citizens suspects that one of the city council members has been taking illicit drugs,

[2:28:57] what recourse do I have?

[2:28:58] Can I ask the chief?

[2:29:00] Can you please test?

[2:29:02] Can we read a policy?

[2:29:03] Where before every meeting?

[2:29:04] Randomly.

[2:29:05] One of you gets tested every meeting.

[2:29:08] Because this is insanity on a stick.

[2:29:12] When I was 16, I met my cousin, Dane, for the first time.

[2:29:15] He had one eye.

[2:29:16] He had an eye patch.

[2:29:17] He had been at the beach in Santa Monica.

[2:29:20] Mining his own business.

[2:29:21] And some were taken.

[2:29:22] I was 16.

[2:29:24] We're talking 50 years ago.

[2:29:25] Back when pot was illegal for one thing.

[2:29:28] Now it's legal.

[2:29:29] There's a lot of manner of bad behavior.

[2:29:31] Parents not paying attention to their kids.

[2:29:33] Look at the e-bike crisis we have.

[2:29:35] From unintended parents.

[2:29:36] Don't even pretend parents are going to be supervising their kids here.

[2:29:40] get over it. He was at the beach and someone blew off a rock bottle rocket and it landed

[2:29:47] right in his eye socket. So he's got PTSD and one eye for life because one careless

[2:29:54] person in a public venue decided, oh a bottle rocket would be fun. Yeah.

[2:30:00] How fun is that? Frankly, it's obvious how this evening came up. Someone who's been sitting here on the city council for over six years, very quiet,

[2:30:29] very

[2:30:29] in 50th anniversary. I challenged him to recite any patriotic poem that we used to recite on

[2:30:37] Flag Day when I was a kid. Every kid in my, in my cohort in my age group could recite it.

[2:30:46] On Flander's Fields of Poppy's Grow, this is my children and you shall hear the midnight ride of

[2:30:51] Power Veer. I came up here and did, Arbor Fritchie. Let's go ahead and pretend someone is a great patriot

[2:30:59] with the election coming up, and sure it's not his year to be reelected, but he's got buddies

[2:31:04] that he's trying to get realist in there. He's trying to be a man of people. They not.

[2:31:10] Unless addressed to the entire body.

[2:31:14] Okay, I think she's going to the who completed her comment, so.

[2:31:17] Lest in truth.

[2:31:42] I don't know if you noticed, but the fellow formidable control was

[2:31:47] second. I don't want to pick it up. He was sick as a dog possibly.

[2:31:51] Anyway, I'm here to talk about fireworks, I guess the first thing I want to say are

[2:31:57] idiots and teenagers, or adults I should say adults and teenagers are idiots, but it comes

[2:32:04] to fireworks, and unfortunately children are victims, so my comments tonight are comments

[2:32:11] tonight are really for the children.

[2:32:13] How hot to fireworks burn? Well, the short answer is really, really hot. Some fireworks can reach temperatures of up to 1200 to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. Up to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit for certain sparkle or tips.

[2:32:34] And just to put that in perspective, let's go to 2000, glass melts at 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit, wood burns, at 575 degrees Fahrenheit, and most kitchen ovens, they top out at 500 degrees Fahrenheit.

[2:32:54] So we're dealing with, even if it's safe and sane, we're dealing with something that can get to be 2,000 degrees.

[2:33:04] Because they look playful, people often assume that fireworks are harmless, especially items like sparklers.

[2:33:10] But sparklers alone account for roughly 25% of all firework related injuries a month, mostly children.

[2:33:17] That's because they burn at 2,000 degrees, hot enough to melt gold and severely burn skin in seconds.

[2:33:28] I'm a little sensitive about this, my mother, how worked for a while at the UCI Burn Center.

[2:33:34] She took care of the little Rothenberg boy if you remember when his father left him in a hotel room and he was burned severely.

[2:33:41] My mother took care of him, and she used to talk about the smells, the pain, everything that he went through.

[2:33:49] He was a victim.

[2:33:51] If you have children that get burned, did you get burned yourself?

[2:33:55] Go to UCIHealth.org.

[2:33:57] They're an incredible organization.

[2:33:59] They're in orange.

[2:34:00] Their address is 101, the city drive, south building one in orange.

[2:34:05] Their phone number is 888-622-2876.

[2:34:10] And I'm running out of time, but one last thing is there was an article, and turn it

[2:34:15] we have attorneys for everything, there's a fellow named Alan AHD-0T, who has a website

[2:34:22] says, understand liability in neglected, firework handling cases.

[2:34:28] Boy, if you read that for the liability for the city, or as an individual property owner

[2:34:34] is an individual. It's very sobering and it's going to cost you a ton of money. By the way,

[2:34:40] one last thing, the kids that we're here from Monroe, it's very sobering because I was one of the first

[2:34:47] year kids at Monroe in 1964. So let's see, seeing these kids from Monroe, I was 62 years ago for

[2:34:58] me.

[2:35:00] Thank you. I've been here a while. No further requests to speak.

[2:35:07] Okay, so I will open it up for questions and comments from Council.

[2:35:13] It's a bit of a relief.

[2:35:15] Thank you, Mayor.

[2:35:17] Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I want to address a few things. I think there's a little bit of misunderstanding.

[2:35:23] What is allowed and what is not allowed.

[2:35:25] So according to the state of Sacramento there's three tiers type of firework that is allowed and what is not allowed.

[2:35:34] What we are presenting here is safe and sound.

[2:35:38] That's what the state allow as well.

[2:35:41] And what does that mean safe and sound?

[2:35:43] That means firework that a fountain, small sparkler and spinner.

[2:35:54] What is not allowed is to, what's some of the speaker spoke, rocket, motor, firecracker, and serial shell.

[2:36:05] Those is not allowed, and that's not what we put, that's not what we're talking about here.

[2:36:10] We're talking about safe and sound.

[2:36:14] The holidays, the two or three, which is allowed by the state, which is,

[2:36:21] the big rocket that goes up and make a big sound wonderful, but that is only

[2:36:27] allow under legal and state issue permit. Those are the one. Now the this year

[2:36:37] is 250 years the birth of America. It is a lifetime opportunity to allow the

[2:36:46] to have the opportunity and you know enjoy that moment with the family in the

[2:36:54] safe manner with a safe and sound that is allowed by the state. Now and it

[2:37:01] also gives the fundraiser, not part of a musician, an opportunity to sell those

[2:37:09] those safe and sound products as right now they're still safe and safe and safe

[2:37:15] safe and safe I'm sorry as right now there's this to buy it but where do they go?

[2:37:19] they go to neighboring city what are the neighbors around us that allow Western

[2:37:25] store allow gone and grew allow until in beach allow guess what they get a

[2:37:30] portion of the sales tax because we don't have here there's because this one will

[2:37:36] Allow this, there's a sales tax that the city can collect, AB 1403, which is a 7% tax.

[2:37:45] That is could be used for enforcement.

[2:37:49] I'm going to show you some of the data.

[2:37:52] In the 13 years data, safe and sane cause near zero fire.

[2:38:00] What's up there? If you don't believe, look it up.

[2:38:04] City of Orange last year, allow it.

[2:38:08] They result in 12% fewer call or emergency.

[2:38:13] 68% fewer call on July 4th.

[2:38:17] And 12% more call on illegal by work.

[2:38:23] The point I'm trying to say is, once you allow people,

[2:38:27] There's a venue for people to go to and enjoy.

[2:38:34] Another thing to think about is the insurance.

[2:38:39] Because once we put a ban and there's a fire that's related to the fire,

[2:38:51] product, five-crackered product, I want you to see if I may. The safe and sane part of it.

[2:38:56] The insurance will have a less deniability on the claim. Why? Because the CD did not

[2:39:04] ban. If we put it, that would be an argument. It's local law that ban. Therefore, we're not going to

[2:39:13] cover you. Just think that for a minute.

[2:39:21] That's all about for now. Okay.

[2:39:25] Other council comments?

[2:39:26] questions vice member. Yeah, I'll chime in.

[2:39:33] I guess my thinking on this, I, you know, initially

[2:39:36] I was when Councillor Bweed brought up the idea. I was a little, yeah, I wasn't really sure about it.

[2:39:47] We've had firework band in fountain valley ever since I've lived here. And then when we're presented

[2:39:54] with the options of having them at one central location or on residential streets.

[2:40:01] I thought, well, you know, I mean when I was a kid we did, we had fireworks on the streets. I think, you know, I think it would be, and, you know, during the year, this fireworks issue comes up a lot in the public. There's a lot of people in the city that would like fireworks to be legal.

[2:40:21] And so I think in honor of the 250th birthday, I would support having safe and sane on residential streets just for the one day.

[2:40:32] We'll have it see how it goes and if it's a disaster, then we go back to no banning fireworks.

[2:40:40] any fireworks, maybe we just, the next time is the 300th anniversary, but I, I would support

[2:40:47] the ordinance on residential streets. I would not support the sale because I think we're too

[2:40:53] late to do that at this point, so I think we just let it go for July 4th and let people

[2:41:02] You know, enjoy themselves and celebrate the 250th anniversary in Fountain Valley.

[2:41:09] Thank you.

[2:41:10] Thank you.

[2:41:11] Council Member Grendis.

[2:41:13] Yeah.

[2:41:13] So, not a good idea, I don't think we should have that in the city at this time.

[2:41:19] The biggest issue that I have is once again, a major issue, no planning.

[2:41:26] No planning at all.

[2:41:28] It was brought up.

[2:41:29] We've got 45 days till July 4th, you know, part of the thing here is we're going to

[2:41:35] allow non-profits to sell it.

[2:41:39] I can't even imagine how we would have enough time and enough volunteers.

[2:41:45] I think the cost is way low of what it's going to cost us.

[2:41:52] I think, if we talk to city staff in terms of fire and police and insurance, there's no way they would say this is a good idea,

[2:42:06] but I'm not, I have to admit, just because I'm against it, if the majority of the people are in favor of it, then we have to do what the people want.

[2:42:14] But we don't know.

[2:42:17] We have literally no idea.

[2:42:19] Most of the comments that I've seen have been negative.

[2:42:22] It's in a couple of positive, but a majority negative.

[2:42:24] We have the survey that's coming out at the end of the year

[2:42:27] are in the next couple of months.

[2:42:31] If we want to find out what the people want,

[2:42:33] put it on the survey, that could be a simple question.

[2:42:37] Would you allow one fireworks in our city?

[2:42:40] I think the answer is going to be no.

[2:42:43] And I've been here 46 years now, and I remember one that was fireworks in the city, is way different now than what it was back then.

[2:42:57] But the biggest issue I have is that it will conceive planned once again.

[2:43:03] You don't come up 45 days before the date and have this major of an issue with zero input from the public.

[2:43:11] We had three people speak. They were all against it. That's not statistically valid. We don't know.

[2:43:18] You know, we just don't know if and again, we receive letters. They were all negative, but that's again, not statistically valid.

[2:43:27] But there's not an outpouring of the residents coming here and saying we want fireworks.

[2:43:33] It's quite can't we?

[2:43:36] You know, just

[2:43:38] Council members who we think it's a good idea because it's a 250 you know what if we

[2:43:44] wanted to do it we should have been talking about this nine months ago and then we

[2:43:50] could have found out is the public wanted or doesn't do they not want it so you

[2:43:56] know at this point I'll be voting no okay thank you Council woman Constantine

[2:44:04] Yeah, so I want to say quite a few things.

[2:44:09] I mean, it's going to be, it is our nation's 250th birthday.

[2:44:13] I'm 60 years old.

[2:44:16] I celebrate 4th July.

[2:44:17] I've never lit a firework in my life.

[2:44:20] I can't even imagine.

[2:44:23] If we can't celebrate 4th July in other ways,

[2:44:28] I don't even know how to finish the sentence.

[2:44:29] It's insane.

[2:44:32] It makes no sense.

[2:44:34] I did put this out on social media from the get-go, and initially the idea was for technically

[2:44:41] speaking our portion of Myoscript Park, but then City Manager Maggie did get clarification

[2:44:45] from Council Member Bowie.

[2:44:47] I want to say he is that something about the effect like will the entire park be in case

[2:44:52] people?

[2:44:53] I mean, Myoscript Park is huge.

[2:44:54] So I got that.

[2:44:55] And then I was thinking of all the liability there, and the vital spirit of those.

[2:45:00] Well, the way of life that we have, at last, where park, squirrels, raccoons, rabbits, birds, bees, lizards, and so

[2:45:07] much more. You know, not to mention everybody's pets, their cats, dogs, and hamsters, other, you know,

[2:45:17] pets people have at home. I mean, it's just such a disruption. So back to social media, put it on social media

[2:45:24] and said we were going to be talking about this today. I encourage people to come to the meeting. I have to tell you,

[2:45:29] I don't have numbers, but I can tell you, and still up on Facebook, the majority of people were

[2:45:35] not happy about this at all.

[2:45:36] They were very, very concerned about the dangers.

[2:45:39] And the other thing is, too, we had this ban in reality, we know, formed the July comes

[2:45:47] around, and I showed you, for a few years, I did go to some friends home in Santa Ana, and

[2:45:53] I'm like, oh, over there was a war, so you couldn't even see or breathe at a certain point.

[2:45:58] New South Coast Plaza, so I would try to leave, you know, before I got bad.

[2:46:02] But the last three years I've been here, each year it's getting so much worse in fat and

[2:46:08] value with all these fireworks, and all of the kinds are going up, safe, sane, rockets,

[2:46:14] mortars, you name it, and it's just, it's jarring, and so there's that.

[2:46:19] The other thing is, too, we have a band in the city, we have a policy, we have an ordinance,

[2:46:26] So, it doesn't make any sense to me to, because it's our nation's 250th birthday, to go ahead and make that okay for the day.

[2:46:36] You can never get these people back again.

[2:46:38] Oh, I thought it was permanent.

[2:46:40] You're going to have so many variations.

[2:46:42] You're never going to get the people back.

[2:46:44] And I'm going to give you one example.

[2:46:46] Straight sweeping.

[2:46:47] When we had COVID, our former city manager, Rob Houston, asked us all individually.

[2:46:52] like if we wanted to relax our citation system simply because more people would be home

[2:47:00] part.

[2:47:02] I'm not a dying heart on, you know, ticketing people and that sort of thing.

[2:47:08] I did get it.

[2:47:09] I said, Rob, we have fines to post it.

[2:47:12] You put that out for the goodwill of the people, I get it for people at home.

[2:47:16] We still need to have clean storm drains.

[2:47:18] How are we going to get these people back?

[2:47:21] This is only a temporary situation.

[2:47:23] To this day, we still have a situation.

[2:47:27] So hopefully we can get that back on track.

[2:47:29] Because here we are six years later.

[2:47:32] So anyway, there's that.

[2:47:33] So I'm just telling you, please consider the fact that the word that goes out,

[2:47:38] whether it's a temporary word in this case,

[2:47:41] you're now going to get the people back.

[2:47:43] And then at some point, you're going to be like,

[2:47:45] why did we even, you know, what, what was that about? So there's that. There's no way to

[2:47:53] to effectively allow this. I really do not support it at all for not only my

[2:47:59] square part, tremendous liability for the residential areas. It's just, it's just completely

[2:48:08] inappropriate. And honestly goodness, if we cannot celebrate without fireworks like I said

[2:48:14] I'm 60 years old, I've never lived a firework in my life.

[2:48:17] I've gone to some shows, you know, a Disney land

[2:48:21] and various other places.

[2:48:24] And that's fine, you know, socializing with friends,

[2:48:28] just do whatever beyond mine, you know, anything.

[2:48:32] It's celebrating our nation's 250.

[2:48:36] Should not be hit dependent on fireworks usage.

[2:48:42] I mean, to me, that's just,

[2:48:46] that's not good.

[2:48:48] And if it's coming out of that, it's, that's a little scary quite frankly.

[2:48:52] So I think I've said everything here quite frankly, I'm against it.

[2:48:56] I honestly like to see a city of them not this year though,

[2:49:00] because, you know, it gets short in time.

[2:49:03] Possibly next year, maybe towards the end of the meeting,

[2:49:05] I'm going to stick just something that I brought up previously.

[2:49:08] And, you know, we'll take it from there.

[2:49:12] Thank you so much.

[2:49:13] Okay, thank you.

[2:49:16] Calth and Blue?

[2:49:17] Yeah, just my clarifications.

[2:49:20] At the time, when I say the Mausbury part,

[2:49:22] I thought it was a good idea.

[2:49:24] But once I spoke with see the manager,

[2:49:27] and they say attorney referenced liability,

[2:49:29] because there would be sponsoring.

[2:49:33] So, my intake on the recreation center,

[2:49:37] you know, it's not there.

[2:49:38] But we do what the public

[2:49:41] to have the freedom and the liberty to enjoy the Fourth of July. Whether we live this one day

[2:49:51] better or not, people are going to do it anyway. Once they enjoy it, but this is what we're telling

[2:49:56] them about. Do it, but you can only use it.

[2:50:00] Use the safe and sane product as it is authorized by the state, which is the fountain, the small

[2:50:07] sparkler, and the spinner. Those do not create noise. And it also address the issue with the insurance.

[2:50:16] Should something happen? It's because we do not have a ban in the city. So that's my comment.

[2:50:25] Yeah, I'd like to actually jump in real quick.

[2:50:28] So let's maybe take this one at a time.

[2:50:30] So on the first alternative, which is to allow in Mile Square Park,

[2:50:35] it sounds like there isn't councils of where I certainly wouldn't support that.

[2:50:39] So could we agree that that's off the table?

[2:50:42] Okay.

[2:50:43] So now let's see if we can focus in on the relaxing of the ordinance

[2:50:51] between 12 p.m. and 10 p.m. on July 4th, 2026.

[2:50:56] It sounds like Vice Mayor Harper supports that.

[2:51:00] Can we hear from other council members on that?

[2:51:04] Yes, I'm in support of that.

[2:51:07] You know, council member Billy, you can't have it both ways.

[2:51:12] So you said that it's an insurance issue.

[2:51:15] So if we ban it and somebody's house burns down,

[2:51:19] they can't get the insurance.

[2:51:20] But you also said, well, these things won't burn down in a house.

[2:51:25] So you make it sound like it is, is the potential of burning down a house.

[2:51:31] So that's the first thing.

[2:51:33] And the second is, we've got summer fest in June, and we have a firework show.

[2:51:40] You want to see a firework show in Fat Valley.

[2:51:43] We do it twice a year.

[2:51:44] We do it at summer fest, and we do it at the tree lighting in December.

[2:51:48] By the way, it's about 20% of the cost of doing it on the 4th of July.

[2:51:56] I would recommend if you want to see fireworks see it in a safe environment, go to the

[2:52:02] peer and had to get in the beach, watch your fireworks show, go to your favorite place, go

[2:52:07] to an iron stadium.

[2:52:08] I think they have it there, go look anywhere, go on a bridge and just look out, it's everywhere.

[2:52:15] Can I respond to that comment real quick?

[2:52:18] We did get a request from Council to identify the different locations in the area of where there are firework show.

[2:52:24] So the biggest and largest is with Huntington Beach at the pier on July 4th.

[2:52:29] Costa Mesa and Los Alamedos do July 3rd.

[2:52:32] Those are both great shows, ones at the OC fair round.

[2:52:36] And then the other ones at the joint forces base in Los Alamedos.

[2:52:40] Long Beach does it on July 4th at the Queen Mary.

[2:52:44] So, the arsenal hard shows around us.

[2:52:47] Yeah, and there's probably 25 others too.

[2:52:50] Oh, so Disneyland.

[2:52:51] Disneyland, yeah.

[2:52:51] That's another thing, you know, you don't even have to go in Disneyland.

[2:52:55] You can stand outside Disneyland and see that.

[2:52:59] So, the bottom line, though, again, I'm not an expert on this.

[2:53:04] I'm just saying that it's a half-baked idea

[2:53:07] without any input from the citizens of whether we wanted or not,

[2:53:11] And the only way we should have approved this is if we would have brought it back

[2:53:16] Nine months ago, so we could have planned for it. There's no way to do the sales so we don't get the sales tax revenue that was mentioned

[2:53:25] It's just not a well-thought out plan once again

[2:53:31] Yes, maybe let me respond to the sales tax the sales tax. It's on my colleague collected through the bill. That's already been approved

[2:53:37] It may be AB 1403 and that's every city that does allow not part of existence to sell.

[2:53:46] If I crack the city, I'm likely to get 7%.

[2:53:49] That's a view out there. It's nothing we do.

[2:53:52] But we're not going to allow the sale and the city so we won't get any sales tax revenue.

[2:53:57] Yeah, I'm not saying we should. I'm just saying that there's, if we do have anybody who sells, we do have that tax revenue.

[2:54:04] If they don't, that's okay. It's not a must.

[2:54:06] Basically, I'm saying that the door, there's an opportunity there.

[2:54:13] Councilwoman Constantine?

[2:54:15] Sure, so like we've heard, there's so many professional safe shows that we can go to.

[2:54:23] I can see Disney Land fireworks from my home.

[2:54:27] So many people can and it's true.

[2:54:29] You go out on the Fourth of July, anywhere.

[2:54:31] You can see them in the sky.

[2:54:33] It really doesn't take much effort.

[2:54:35] It's wonderful.

[2:54:36] and I actually would like to see more police enforcement. I hear, you know, I forgot

[2:54:41] which, well, I don't want to address any particular council member, but I don't want

[2:54:46] to hear people are going to do it anyway. We have city ordinances. Why do we make

[2:54:51] city ordinances? Is it because we have nothing to do? We make city ordinances for the

[2:54:57] of our city.

[2:55:00] So I don't understand why we close our eyes to people breaking the ordinance. I'm going to say, you know, lock them up, anything like that, stand in the fighting, the fines there was substantial.

[2:55:16] And I'm not suggesting that, but what I'm saying, we have an ordinance. I want to even consider all people are going to do it anyway. That is not good.

[2:55:25] I honestly want to see more police enforcement.

[2:55:30] There are plenty of shows.

[2:55:33] The peer and honey to beat Disneyland are the queen merit, various places.

[2:55:40] We don't need this, and I'm telling you, please, fellow council members, please hear

[2:55:45] me when I'm saying this, please, you want to allow a one day hall pass here.

[2:55:54] You can't get the people back.

[2:55:57] There's going to be so much confusion in the future.

[2:56:01] It's not right.

[2:56:02] We have the responsibility to

[2:56:08] do what's best for this community.

[2:56:11] This has nothing to do with any of us individually.

[2:56:14] This is not for the development of the community.

[2:56:18] I'm telling you, people can celebrate the 4th of July,

[2:56:23] properly,

[2:56:26] and that's all.

[2:56:27] Thank you.

[2:56:28] Say the clerk.

[2:56:28] Can we move back a slide so we can see the alternatives just for a reference point?

[2:56:36] So we have removed alternative number one.

[2:56:39] We're focusing on alternative number two and back the council number.

[2:56:47] Thank you, Mayor.

[2:56:48] Chief?

[2:56:49] Can you come up?

[2:56:51] I know I didn't ask you this really about questions for you.

[2:56:54] Please, Chief.

[2:56:54] Yes, please, Chief.

[2:56:55] I'm sorry.

[2:56:55] the police chief.

[2:56:59] If we keep the current ordinance which is a complete ban of all

[2:57:05] firework and my feeling is people are going to celebrate and they are going to use

[2:57:19] You know, safe and sane product or the firecrackers, which is illegal throughout the

[2:57:28] state, you will have numerous call because a band says, it's not allowed. Would you have

[2:57:37] enough personnel to go out and enforce that? No sir. So wouldn't it make sense to allow this

[2:57:50] safe and sane because you will only respond to

[2:57:54] to call at a critical and you will have enough personnel because the

[2:58:01] band isn't in lift.

[2:58:06] My experience is that when fireworks are allowed you

[2:58:11] will have both the legal safe and sane fireworks but you will also have

[2:58:17] mortar fireworks going off into the air and you will have more of that if we

[2:58:23] to allow fireworks. Okay. As the report that I gather from the city of Orange, which

[2:58:32] very recent, 2025, they lift the ban and the result was 12% fuel call reference to a

[2:58:42] firework. That's statistically invalid. This makes no sense.

[2:58:47] The one in the city does not make that's the most, that's the most, that's the most

[2:58:51] city that the, that's the boy has the floor, please.

[2:58:53] It is the one reason I brought that one is the most city that lift the band that allow.

[2:59:00] So if you want data to show the other city that lift the band, have they, you see if you

[2:59:11] My comment says what tell me yes, it will receive less call, because they won't only

[2:59:18] respond to illegal firework.

[2:59:23] They will not respond to once again, fountain, firework,

[2:59:33] others, firework such at spinner and

[2:59:36] small sparkler because one neighbor caught and complained the dispatcher said okay what

[2:59:42] are you observing what kind of firework are they using what's it's a fountain well that's

[2:59:49] why so they will not come out I'm sorry you asked the police chief or his opinion and is a

[2:59:57] was that if we allow it, we're gonna

[3:00:00] I have more illegal fireworks in the city. So you asked the police chief and he gave an honest answer.

[3:00:08] No, he said he will get caught either way, but the dispatcher, he said there will be more illegal fireworks if we allow regular fireworks as well.

[3:00:20] Specifically said that. I don't know. Correct me if I'm wrong, Chief.

[3:00:25] So, if we do not, okay, let's say you will get more call to your point.

[3:00:34] But the dispatcher will identify if those are illegal or spinner, right?

[3:00:39] So, those ones are safe and sound, you will not respond.

[3:00:42] So, technically, as less call over all, versus a van, a van here will have to respond every call.

[3:00:51] I can't remember, but you want, this is insane at this point.

[3:01:00] We want to tie up the police differentiating between types of fireworks.

[3:01:05] At this point, this is insanity.

[3:01:08] I would actually be like to hear from them fire chief as well.

[3:01:11] His opinion, here and more of an expert than I am.

[3:01:15] Thank you, Chief.

[3:01:16] I'm sorry to put you on the spot.

[3:01:18] No, it's right.

[3:01:19] Good evening, County Mayor.

[3:01:21] My experience is the same as the police chiefs.

[3:01:24] have worked in two cities now where it's been legal and two cities where it's been illegal.

[3:01:29] What I'll offer is, you know, the fireworks are going to happen.

[3:01:33] It's an enforcement issue and when you have a city that doesn't allow fireworks, it's

[3:01:38] easier to enforce because you can pretty easily find where the fireworks are coming from.

[3:01:44] You have to catch people in the act, you know, all the time we're chasing our tail, usually

[3:01:50] it's the police department, but the fire department will have some type of component in

[3:01:54] I try to have my units out at least having a visible presence in the community.

[3:01:59] We have the authority to confiscate and administrative site and what not depending on how our policies lie.

[3:02:05] But ultimately the criminal action is in with the police department.

[3:02:10] So whether we're enforcing from a city that allows them or doesn't allow them,

[3:02:15] depending on what types of fireworks are allowed to be done, I guess to answer your question.

[3:02:18] When people do call in, there's zero question that happens about whether they're illegal.

[3:02:24] or legal. There's physically no way for the lay person to know that typically and you know there's

[3:02:30] all kinds of other calls going on so dispatchers aren't really going to have the ability or

[3:02:33] the time to even navigate those conversations in the moment. So I think that's the perspective

[3:02:39] that I would like to get across is that if you have a seat, it doesn't have fireworks that's easier

[3:02:44] to locate and enforce and confiscate or do whatever it is that you need to do in the moment versus

[3:02:50] city that allows them and you're trying to they're going off everywhere.

[3:02:54] My concern is the fire chief is you know we don't have a wildlife interface in the city

[3:02:58] we're not a designated high fire hazard city so I'm not concerned about that city attorney

[3:03:05] Burns had you'd sought out there that I've the authorities of fire chief to ultimately stop

[3:03:10] it completely in its tracks but there's nothing immediately hazardous to me that I would see

[3:03:16] You know, to completely make that call, citywide.

[3:03:20] However, we will have an increase in new sense fires.

[3:03:23] We'll have an increase in injuries.

[3:03:24] That's just inherent when you have fireworks safe and sane or not.

[3:03:28] And I think that that's, it would be responsible of us

[3:03:31] to expect those in those conversations.

[3:03:34] So, again, that's my experience.

[3:03:36] If you allow them to happen, they're going to happen in mass citywide.

[3:03:39] They'll happen illegal.

[3:03:40] They'll happen illegal.

[3:03:42] However, you want to look at it.

[3:03:43] if you don't allow them, they will still happen but on a much smaller scale and it's easier

[3:03:48] for us in the police department to enforce. That's been my experience in 20 plus years.

[3:03:53] Thank you, Chief.

[3:03:56] So, I agree with Council Member Billy that people are going to do it anyway.

[3:04:02] Certain people will do it anyway. But if we allow it, 10x the number of fireworks in our city will

[3:04:08] off because it's allowed. And you think it was bad last year. I mean it was a

[3:04:13] war zone. You could just hear it everywhere. You allow it and it's going to be

[3:04:19] ten times worse this year. So I don't know Mayor, you heard from the fire chief, you

[3:04:25] heard from the police chief. I mean we need to listen to staff on this one as well.

[3:04:31] Thank you. So let's try to kind of move this along.

[3:04:37] I just want to say.

[3:04:38] Just recognize the Heather Campbell for risk management.

[3:04:42] I just wanted to ask for a clarification.

[3:04:44] Council member Buie talked about this second alternative resolving the insurance issue.

[3:04:49] I just wanted to clarify whether you met the city's insurance issue or private

[3:04:54] residents insurance issues.

[3:04:56] It's actually both because we're not sponsored.

[3:05:00] We don't take on the liability, but if, as a city, we put a ban and God forbid and someone's house got into a fires.

[3:05:09] They may have come across a challenge with their interests, because the interests provided them will look, well, the city ban firecracker.

[3:05:19] The fire start from a firecracker,

[3:05:22] from that. Therefore, they could deny the claim.

[3:05:25] That is correct. It does solve the situation.

[3:05:27] So that's it.

[3:05:28] We'll see people who don't have a mic.

[3:05:30] Hey, you guys banned this.

[3:05:32] So now my insurance used that reason to not give you coverage.

[3:05:37] Yes, that is correct.

[3:05:38] Most likely because we have a ban on fireworks

[3:05:40] if your house burned down or something happened,

[3:05:43] your insurance company would not cover it.

[3:05:45] I just want to make clear that lifting the ban

[3:05:47] does not automatically make insurance companies cover it.

[3:05:51] People would have to look at their specific policies

[3:05:53] and make sure they look at their own exclusions so I just wanted to make that clear so we don't

[3:05:58] have residents thinking that because the bands lifted that their insurance would cover anything.

[3:06:02] You are absolutely correct but the risk of deniability will be smaller because the

[3:06:08] insurance provider will most likely use local. What is the local rules for say? So you are absolutely correct on that.

[3:06:16] I just wanted to make the clarification thank you. Okay I want to make a few comments so

[3:06:21] So this is one of those issues where we really appreciate feedback from the public.

[3:06:27] We've received emails.

[3:06:28] We've received social media posts on this.

[3:06:31] Thank you for coming out and speaking tonight.

[3:06:34] And if you look at that record alone, there's just not an appetite for changing the way

[3:06:42] we do fireworks or don't do fireworks in Fat Valley.

[3:06:46] I was just thinking back, you know, I grew up in Sridos.

[3:06:49] And I remember in 1976, and that was huge, right, for those that remember that moment in the spirit that our country was feeling 200th birthday.

[3:07:05] But there's a difference in my mind. In 1976, we were pretty good at the, quote, safe and sane fireworks.

[3:07:16] I mean, my parents trusted us to go out and just lie away, a cone, a snake, you know, sparklers.

[3:07:25] It's because we actually had practice and we were pretty good at it.

[3:07:29] You know, that's all gone.

[3:07:32] I mean, if we, I can't even imagine allowing eight 10-year-olds in my neighborhood,

[3:07:41] if they went outside and just started, you know, light and firework.

[3:07:46] So I think there's a distinction, they're just, we're out of practice, which means there's

[3:07:50] a lot more risk and probably a lot more injury.

[3:07:54] So that's one thing on my mind.

[3:07:55] The other thing is, it's interesting, when I moved to Fountain Valley, a lot of the homes had

[3:08:01] shake, shingle roofing.

[3:08:03] You remember that?

[3:08:04] I mean, that's just the way a lot of the homes were built in the 50s and the 60s, including

[3:08:09] my home.

[3:08:09] So when we got there in 95, it was in Batchek.

[3:08:13] It was like 26-year-old roof, a lot of holes.

[3:08:17] And I remember every fourth of July,

[3:08:20] because I think fireworks were still legal then.

[3:08:23] I would be stressed out about my roof.

[3:08:26] A bottle-ocket gone crazy, lands on it,

[3:08:28] and I have the hose ready,

[3:08:31] and I think times have just

[3:08:34] changed as much as we would, some would

[3:08:38] to be able to relive that memory. That's just not the way we

[3:08:42] infound Valley celebrate for the July. So it just doesn't make any sense to me.

[3:08:52] But also, I mean, what are the alternatives? And so I do appreciate staff coming up with some

[3:08:57] locations that folks can go to. I personally will be up in the mountains. We have a place

[3:09:02] have been crass line and they actually have an amazing fireworks show on the lake.

[3:09:06] It's the best one, Lake Arrowhead has won, Big Bird Lake has won.

[3:09:11] So that's where we are pretty much every 4th of July.

[3:09:14] But that morning we're going to be at an amazing parade and hunting to beach, which we welcome

[3:09:18] everyone to join.

[3:09:20] And my thinking is just staying hunting to beach and keep enjoying the day into the night.

[3:09:25] However you want to celebrate.

[3:09:28] So, I seconded this because I wanted us to talk about it.

[3:09:32] I think we've really gone through this with a fine tooth comb,

[3:09:37] but I think any other kind of drill down or arguments might kind of be off task right now.

[3:09:44] So, maybe I'll give one more round of comments.

[3:09:47] Councilman Granus.

[3:09:48] Well, just in fairness to those who may want it,

[3:09:51] is I still think that we should include that as part of our survey that's coming up.

[3:09:56] Let's ask the question of the public, and if we get the response.

[3:10:00] Back, overwhelmingly, that they want it, then we'll consider the best way to do that.

[3:10:07] Okay. All right. So, let's see where we all are on alternative 2. I think I'll move motion. I have

[3:10:18] alternative number three.

[3:10:20] I'll second three.

[3:10:22] Any any other discussion before we vote?

[3:10:27] Okay, take the vote.

[3:10:29] All those in favor say aye.

[3:10:31] Aye.

[3:10:33] Just as clarity, so we're talking about.

[3:10:35] Alternative number three, take no action.

[3:10:38] Okay,

[3:10:40] sorry.

[3:10:41] Let's go that one more time.

[3:10:43] All those in favor to alternative number three, take no action say aye.

[3:10:47] Aye.

[3:10:48] All those opposed.

[3:10:52] Get in boat.

[3:11:02] You wish to abstain?

[3:11:04] He voted no.

[3:11:06] Oh, do you send no?

[3:11:07] I'm sorry I didn't hear you.

[3:11:09] The motion passes for one.

[3:11:14] Okay.

[3:11:18] All right.

[3:11:18] We'll move on item 13.

[3:11:20] Report from measure HH Advisory Oversight Committee on the fiscal year 202425.

[3:11:26] Audited measure HH revenues and expenditures.

[3:11:29] Presentation by Finance Director Ryan Smith.

[3:11:33] Thank you, Mayor.

[3:11:33] City Council.

[3:11:34] This item tonight is our annual report on measure HH revenues and expenditures and the report from the measure HH committee.

[3:11:46] So just some background on this.

[3:11:50] The measure HH was voted in by thought and valley voters in 2016.

[3:11:57] And it's a one cent transaction in use tax, which essentially is a sales tax.

[3:12:02] The city adopted a responsible spending pledge at that time to guide the use of HH funds.

[3:12:10] A citizen advisory committee was formed also at that time to review the expenditures

[3:12:15] of measure HH revenues in relation to the city's responsible spending pledge.

[3:12:21] The HH committee meets each year to review the audited measure HH funds and reports its

[3:12:26] in the City Council and the committee met in March and April of this year to review the fiscal year

[3:12:33] 24 or 25 expenditures.

[3:12:38] So to kind of go through our revenues and expenditures for measure

[3:12:41] age or fiscal year 2425 we had about 17.2 almost measure age revenues and we had expenditures

[3:12:53] of about 16 million of reoccurring and one-time expenditures of 111 million.

[3:13:02] 111,000.

[3:13:03] Sorry, 111,000.

[3:13:06] It's scared, thank you.

[3:13:08] So the reoccurring expenses that we incurred on essential city services included paying down

[3:13:14] our unfunded liabilities and this includes our Calpers unfunded liabilities payments.

[3:13:20] for miscellaneous employees, police, and fire.

[3:13:26] That total about 7.9 million of required payments to CalPERS.

[3:13:31] We also put additional funds towards our liabilities,

[3:13:35] which included 3 million to two CalPERS for our pension liabilities,

[3:13:40] and 2 million to our OPEB trust to offset our OPEB liabilities.

[3:13:47] We also use the funds to pay down our city debt, our outstanding debt.

[3:13:53] We have three outstanding debt measures that are responsible for the general fund, and

[3:13:58] those told to about 2.5 million payments last this year.

[3:14:03] And then we also have some annual roadway rehab projects that we do using HH funds, and this

[3:14:10] year that was about 600 and 2000 for two separate projects that we completed.

[3:14:15] So in total is about 16 million of reoccurring expenditures.

[3:14:22] We had some reserve set aside in 2024 or 25.

[3:14:28] So we set aside 365 million of age age funds for future fire apparatus purchases.

[3:14:36] 165,000.

[3:14:37] What did I say?

[3:14:40] I got that.

[3:14:44] And we increased the measure rates of reserves by 820 to 1,000.

[3:14:53] We had some set aside funds in fiscal year, I believe, 2021.

[3:15:00] And we use the 111,000 of those funds last year for the Fire Station 1 project.

[3:15:06] At the bottom of this slide, you'll see the HH reserves that have been contributed.

[3:15:13] So currently, we've contributed about 49 million to our reserves, using HH funds since it was adopted in 2016.

[3:15:23] And of those 49 million in reserves, we have about 77 total reserves for those kind of

[3:15:31] those items.

[3:15:33] So well over half of those reserves are thanks to the measure HH funds that we've been able

[3:15:37] to set aside to help make the city more financially stable.

[3:15:45] It's part of the HH annual review.

[3:15:48] We also look at the 20-year plan.

[3:15:50] and this plan was updated with the actual results from fiscal year 2425 and we also include

[3:15:59] the midyear budget from this year and next year is adopted budget and then from there we

[3:16:06] forecast forward and the key year that we have always been looking at is fiscal year 3738 and

[3:16:13] that's when those measure HH revenues will cease.

[3:16:19] So we're really focused on that year to make sure that when we no longer have these HH funds

[3:16:25] that we're still producing a balanced budget.

[3:16:29] And you can see on this slide that year, if you go down to the operating surplus deficit

[3:16:34] in the purple, we are still positive right now with the 344,000 surplus forecasted

[3:16:43] of the operating budget that during that fiscal year.

[3:16:49] So then that comes to the letter for Measure HH Committee.

[3:16:53] So our Measure HH funds were audited by our auditor,

[3:16:58] and they concluded that our assertions

[3:17:01] is management, which grew, and everything

[3:17:04] that was shown on that schedule, where it was verified by our auditors.

[3:17:11] And the committee, I presented this to the committee,

[3:17:16] And the committee basically support the conclusion that the HH funds are being used consistent

[3:17:22] with the legal requirements placed on HH, and they believe the city has gone beyond the legal

[3:17:28] requirements to ensure reporting that tracks, measures, and income, especially the portion

[3:17:34] of annual revenue that is carried over into reserve.

[3:17:37] So we're working with the committee over the last couple of years, we want to make sure

[3:17:40] that we're completely transparent with where all these funds are going and where their

[3:17:47] stored, our where our reserves are and how much they are. So overall, I think the committee

[3:17:54] was good to work with the committee this year and I think they have appreciated the work

[3:18:03] that we've done to try to make this more transparent.

[3:18:08] Then a couple of committee members are

[3:18:11] if you have any questions for them as well.

[3:18:15] So where do we go from here? The next steps.

[3:18:18] So during this last this year we were unable to fill the entire committee during the current year.

[3:18:23] So we had four members and an alternate that were appointed.

[3:18:28] We have five members that are the committee set up with five members and an alternate.

[3:18:33] So one of the things we talked about as the committee is looking at the guidelines and the policy for the committee

[3:18:39] on how that's formed. And see if there's some suggestions we can make the council to that language

[3:18:47] to try to make sure that we're filling a committee while simultaneously making sure that

[3:18:53] we're keeping representation from those different areas that are represented on the committee.

[3:18:58] Whether you voted for HH against HH, a senior community member, a business member.

[3:19:04] So we would like the committee would like to see that continue, but we want to be able to give

[3:19:09] Council a little more leeway to be able to fill those positions if we don't have anybody

[3:19:14] that applies for any of those specific positions.

[3:19:18] So we're actually meeting tomorrow to discuss that and then I'll come back in June to

[3:19:25] City Council to present the recommendations and see if that's something that Council would

[3:19:30] like to consider changing for next year's appointments.

[3:19:34] And so for this item, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a receive and file.

[3:19:37] So that's the recommendation to receive and file the, the letter from the citizens over site committee for measure HH.

[3:19:44] And I'm a vote for any questions.

[3:19:49] Vice-merhover?

[3:19:50] Yeah, I had a question on the, uh, measure HH committee composition.

[3:19:55] Is that part of the, um, the measure that was, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so.

[3:20:00] Can we change that to go back to the voter? No, it was set up by resolution by the city council all the time, so it's a committee. So I would bring a resolution to change that.

[3:20:10] Got it, yeah. Okay. Well, I'd like to thank the members of the committee that worked on this and for their oversight and advice and working with our esteemed director finance, Ryan Smith, nice job on this as well.

[3:20:26] And I just want to make a, kind of a comment, you know, one of the things that comes up from time to time is putting a TOT tax on the ballot to raise it.

[3:20:39] And one of the reasons that I have been not in favor of putting that on the ballot is because my personal philosophy is that we shouldn't create taxes anymore than we need to

[3:20:55] run the government.

[3:20:57] Now, when this sales tax measure was created, it was created because we had a structural

[3:21:02] deficit and we wanted to have the tax in order to pay off our debt and, you know, be able

[3:21:09] to close that gap.

[3:21:12] And what this shows the forecast is that it's working.

[3:21:18] I mean, we've got, you know, according to 20 year forecast, we are erasing the structural

[3:21:24] deficit and then working out a surplus. So to me that means that we don't need to raise the

[3:21:32] TOT tax rate. We've got enough money to operate the government. And so I just want to make

[3:21:37] that comment because the TOT tax comes up from time to time and although our rate is lower

[3:21:45] than neighboring cities just because we can't raise the tax doesn't mean we should. And so that's,

[3:21:54] I just wanted to add that comment because I think it's relevant with this presentation.

[3:22:01] So thank you.

[3:22:02] Mr. Mayor?

[3:22:03] Yes, Councilwoman.

[3:22:04] Constantine?

[3:22:05] Yeah, I would say a couple of things.

[3:22:07] Thank you Ryan so much for the presentation.

[3:22:09] Very well, Jen.

[3:22:10] Thank you, too, to the members of the Measure A.

[3:22:14] Change over a site advisory committee.

[3:22:16] I know there's another meeting tomorrow when state of the 20th.

[3:22:20] five PM at City Hall, I can't really watch, I'll be on a plane, but I watched the, I watched

[3:22:26] the replay on Zoom, and I just want to say too, in regards to the TOT tax, that is something

[3:22:34] that our residents would not be paying, that would be the tourist, frequenting the hotels,

[3:22:42] and if there was a situation for insurance or whatever, then that would go through the insurance.

[3:22:49] You know, it's not that we're taxed.

[3:22:51] I mean, this is not, this is not a general.

[3:22:53] I mean, I'm just saying that since the comment was made about the TOT tax,

[3:22:59] it's not that we just want to raise the tax.

[3:23:01] It would be an opportunity.

[3:23:03] It's still not a general address.

[3:23:04] We can't talk about this.

[3:23:05] I'm talking about this.

[3:23:06] So that's all.

[3:23:07] I have to say thank you.

[3:23:08] Okay.

[3:23:08] Thank you.

[3:23:10] Thank you.

[3:23:11] Well, a couple of things.

[3:23:12] This one is fantastic job.

[3:23:15] The finance department I've said it many times, you know,

[3:23:19] it's been times in the past.

[3:23:20] We didn't trust that department.

[3:23:22] We have the utmost trust in you guys now.

[3:23:25] And that's important.

[3:23:27] The other thing is, one question I do have,

[3:23:30] the unfunded pension liability.

[3:23:33] What year do you predict we will be level?

[3:23:37] I know it can't pay it off, but we'll be funded.

[3:23:39] And that's something that we've been, we've worked on the last few years and it's that fiscal year 2037 38 that we expect to be right there with the, you know, with the stars aligning and CalPERS making their annual investment returns, we should be fully funded by the time that HHS expired.

[3:24:03] Well, that's great news and that's something I think as council we all promised the constituents that we would

[3:24:09] Get the unfunded pension liability, which was going to bury us at one point to be taken care of

[3:24:17] So that's great news. I think as far as the committee goes quite canly

[3:24:22] I think one of the reasons you can't get people to apply is

[3:24:27] Because it's going so well and so smoothly and there's nobody to bitch that there's something wrong

[3:24:33] And that's typically when you get people riled up and they want to do it.

[3:24:37] So I think the committee has done such a great job.

[3:24:41] And I don't want the public to think that they're just, you know, rubber stamp everything.

[3:24:46] I remember years a couple years ago where they came in here and gave a vote of no confidence towards it until we made changes.

[3:24:54] And we listened and we made those changes.

[3:24:57] We need...

[3:25:00] Not just a $3 million additional payment for unfunded pension liability. We also made a $2 million payment to open them, so I say it right, which is again complicated but pension liability from lack of a bit of term.

[3:25:16] So we are like accelerating what we had promised to do and as Council Member Harper or Vice Mayor Harper said, we're still, you know,

[3:25:28] viscally responsible throughout the years.

[3:25:31] So when you look at some of our neighboring cities like Orange, I don't know what they're going to do and Huntington Beach,

[3:25:38] you know, they have a structural, I think it was $6 million deficit this year and a projected $50 million deficit,

[3:25:44] or maybe that's Irvine too, they're another one.

[3:25:48] You know, they're all looking at this and major deficits and we're not, you know, and we have

[3:25:55] the best pay off streets and we're doing the right things.

[3:25:59] So I commend you in the whole finance department and the HH committee for being awesome.

[3:26:06] Have a job.

[3:26:07] Thank you.

[3:26:09] I do want to express my appreciation for Dr. Taylor and Mr. Stone for being on this committee

[3:26:15] for really many years in the since the inception, just to clarify a couple of things.

[3:26:23] So in the 2037,

[3:26:29] 2038,

[3:26:32] I'm curious about the ambulance program on the revenue.

[3:26:37] How did you come up with this 6.7 million, is that kind of a best case scenario?

[3:26:45] it's a CPI factor basically that's going to keep building every year so I believe on that one

[3:26:52] it's probably a 2% escalator every year that we're just increasing the expected revenue.

[3:26:57] Okay. So that does better and flourishes that can be another just up on the on the revenue.

[3:27:04] Okay.

[3:27:07] And then just for the benefit of the public what is the total UALs, like 89 million?

[3:27:12] Yeah, I think we're right at about 89 million.

[3:27:15] I expect our latest numbers, probably in September and based on last, that's going to be based

[3:27:24] on last year's June 30th, 2025, which had a nice return from Calipers.

[3:27:30] So I'm anxious to see those numbers, because we should improve further with that.

[3:27:34] So basically, the 10-year plan is to get that to zero, that's really what we're saying

[3:27:39] in this projection out to the Sunset of HH.

[3:27:43] Okay, got you.

[3:27:44] Any other questions from Council?

[3:27:48] That's a good way.

[3:27:49] Which is a comment.

[3:27:50] First of all, we're, I mean, thank you for,

[3:27:55] you know, being or,

[3:27:56] I think it's much of a big difference from the last one.

[3:27:59] You've been very transparent, very clear what you do.

[3:28:04] Although that the goal is, you know,

[3:28:07] by 2037, that's where HH measures sunset.

[3:28:11] But if we can have a plan, this is a bit more

[3:28:16] be able to sense it before, 237, that would be great.

[3:28:20] I mean, and then what is your plan after 237,

[3:28:25] how are we going to be effective?

[3:28:27] If we're going to have measured Hs on board, right?

[3:28:29] That means you have to have a different.

[3:28:31] I don't understand there's there.

[3:28:32] But the realistic projection is only five years.

[3:28:34] Anything beyond that, it's just projection.

[3:28:36] It could not be accurate.

[3:28:38] I'm all right.

[3:28:39] It's on, yes, the confidence levels will definitely

[3:28:42] exactly down every. That's my point. So if you have anything that could help steer us away

[3:28:50] and not have to bring back to our resident hay, you know what? Which way to sense it off

[3:28:55] imagery age, but which is can't. So that's something I'm just laid out for you to something

[3:29:01] to think about and prepare that. Because next thing you know 23% is right around the corner.

[3:29:06] So you suggest and we do a TOT text to make sure.

[3:29:09] That's not one suggestion. I'm suggesting that we've got to figure out a different plan when that sunset.

[3:29:15] Yeah, and I think one of the big things we do are those additional payments to make sure that we're doing more than just the minimum in case things don't go the way we hope.

[3:29:25] So I think it's making sure that we're being responsible every year with doing a little bit every year to make sure we don't get to a point where we're way behind.

[3:29:32] Right. Thank you.

[3:29:34] Yeah.

[3:29:34] And there's just a last comment.

[3:29:35] One of the benefits of the city being part of ICSC and these other economic development

[3:29:42] initiatives is to really push on that sales tax revenue because if businesses are doing better,

[3:29:48] we have more of them. They're thriving.

[3:29:50] That's we're going to see that in that sales tax line item.

[3:29:53] The other item is is pretty apparent that property taxes is really the number one driver.

[3:29:58] and so E.

[3:30:00] You know, we are very lucky to have some of the best realtors in our community. I follow Lily Campbell as an example. She's always got 10 listings, right? Just 10 to 12. And we know that if we can, you know, flip homes and really have that kind of property tax revenue, in addition to sales tax, because it's a real fighting chance, 10 years from now.

[3:30:24] Okay. All right, so call for a motion, just receive the file. This is receive a file.

[3:30:30] This is receive a file.

[3:30:30] Okay. Let's strike that. Thank you.

[3:30:38] Okay, thanks so much. We have on item 14, project number 26019, citywide sports,

[3:30:45] court resurfacing project, two items presentation by Peter Winn.

[3:30:51] Welcome.

[3:31:07] I'm getting there, Peter Winn. Thanks, Rick.

[3:31:23] Good evening Mayor Kaneen and members of Council.

[3:31:27] That I'm presenting today is the Citywide Sports Courts

[3:31:30] Researching Project.

[3:31:33] The City owns and maintains a variety of sports courts across the

[3:31:36] found valley, sports park, recreation center, and several neighborhood

[3:31:40] parks.

[3:31:41] These courts are regularly used by the City's residents and visitors

[3:31:45] for both rental and open-play purposes.

[3:31:48] As such, these courts require maintenance approximately every five years.

[3:31:53] Since the previous citywide resurfacing project in 2019, staff has reassessed the conditions

[3:31:59] of the existing tennis, rack-to-ball, and basketball courts across the city.

[3:32:05] It was determined that the rack-to-ball courts at the sports park, and the basketball courts

[3:32:09] at the sports park, Ellis Park, Helm Park, Lookopea Park, Cortada Park, and Stone

[3:32:15] Cris Park are all in need of maintenance.

[3:32:16] This maintenance will include ceiling surface cracks, removal preparation of the court surface for new coding,

[3:32:23] leveling the court surface, application of a new acrylic surface, and installation of court lines.

[3:32:32] Staff advertised the project on March 26, 2026, and received one bid on April 23rd,

[3:32:39] through line construction and surfacing ink for $125,000, $720, and $98,000.

[3:32:47] The bid was responsive and true line has completed three resurfacing projects for the city

[3:32:51] in the past, which have all been completed on time and within budget.

[3:32:57] Do the specific nature of the work requiring inspections for the conditions of the court

[3:33:01] surface ambience surrounding conditions, cope preparation and mixing, film application

[3:33:07] effectiveness and care evaluations, staff anticipates four to six hours per day for inspections

[3:33:14] ensure the work is done, per the project's specifications.

[3:33:19] Therefore staff reviewed proposals for construction inspection from the on-call consultants

[3:33:23] and recommends using TKE engineering incorporated for $20,000, $2,000, $700.

[3:33:31] Among the inspection items mentioned, TKE engineering will also provide inspections for

[3:33:36] dimension of the courts, materials, the middle reviews, equipment review, and material quality

[3:33:42] assurance.

[3:33:44] Factoring the construction in the special costs with a 10% contingency and printing cost,

[3:33:50] the project will total at 168,493 dollars and 98 cents.

[3:33:56] This is within the approved project budget of 255,000 dollars from the government building

[3:34:01] internal services fund.

[3:34:03] With this project, staff anticipates to start construction in early summer and complete construction by end of summer.

[3:34:13] In conclusion, staff recommends council to set the bid and awarded construction contract to two-line construction and serve for singing

[3:34:20] for the city-wide sports courts for surfacing project, project number 2609 in the amount not to exceed 125,720 dollars and 98 cents.

[3:34:32] and to accept the proposal from TKE engineering in and authorized staff to issue a purchase order

[3:34:38] for the proposal amount of $29,700 for construction services for the project.

[3:34:46] Thank you for your time tonight and I'll be available for any questions.

[3:34:50] Thank you, Peter for your presentation. It did great.

[3:34:52] I'll open it up for questions from Council.

[3:34:56] Vice-murder.

[3:34:57] Thank you. Akiyo back to the map of the

[3:35:00] One is that we're going to be done. Yeah. So I have a question like for the Miles Square courts.

[3:35:07] How long does it take for them to do the resurfacing from start to finish and they're going to do like half and half?

[3:35:13] Because I know the basketball courts get a lot of use over there.

[3:35:17] Yes. So for the project, when we were working at Miles Square Park, we usually do what the contractor is we have them work on a third of the courts at a time,

[3:35:27] to allow the other two thirds to be utilized by the public.

[3:35:30] And typically, I believe it's about a week

[3:35:32] to get the surface removed through all the cracks ceiling

[3:35:35] and then installing that new surface along with the lines.

[3:35:38] OK, are we doing any change to the color scheme

[3:35:44] or the lines or putting any logos or sponsors

[3:35:47] on the logos on the courts?

[3:35:49] No, we're not going to do that.

[3:35:50] It just be maintenance just a removing

[3:35:52] in a place in the surface, back in kind.

[3:35:55] OK, all right, thank you.

[3:35:57] That's a great summary. Were you willing to sponsor a Harper and Harper on like a court there?

[3:36:04] Yeah, okay. Great job. Great presentation. Thank you. Any other questions from council?

[3:36:12] That's some boy. Thank you. I want to know in the future, is there an opportunity to

[3:36:21] to not have an on-call third-party to do the inspections, whether we could have it in-house.

[3:36:32] I mean, because, you know, to me, we spent a lot of money on consultant and inspection

[3:36:40] outside.

[3:36:41] If you add up all those numbers, I understand maybe because you're short of staff or specialty

[3:36:49] in the area.

[3:36:50] So, is there a point in time in the future that you could let, like, say,

[3:36:54] had up all the numbers, how much we spend actually, the entire year's own

[3:36:58] consulting point? We could look at that. Yeah, that. And then, see,

[3:37:02] at this point, perhaps, you know, maybe we need really to hire someone rather than

[3:37:07] keep going out, you know, pay someone else to watch someone else do their work.

[3:37:13] To me, it just doesn't make sense at all. It's like, if I was the contractors,

[3:37:20] And I'm not confident on my employee, I say to the homeowner, oh by the way, I'm not

[3:37:28] charging another 20% because I need to hire someone else to watch over my guide with the

[3:37:31] work.

[3:37:33] That's in session that's what it is and I'm hoping in the future if there's an opportunity

[3:37:36] for you to collect all those third party will be paying.

[3:37:41] Where does it make sense to start hiring someone to come and board, rather than pay a third

[3:37:47] what do you think that makes sense?

[3:37:48] I'll try to explain.

[3:37:50] Thank you, Council Member Mooye.

[3:37:51] That's appreciate the question.

[3:37:53] And we can certainly look at that in the future.

[3:37:57] We have been in flow, I've been here 23 years for the city I've done this for 30.

[3:38:02] And over the years, we have had internal staff do work when it's appropriate.

[3:38:07] When the skill set is available internally, when we have personnel staffing that's available,

[3:38:15] You know, when we're capital project rich and heavy, then we have the augment with staff.

[3:38:24] When we, you know, when there's expansion, when there's contraction, then when you, you know,

[3:38:30] and when we're not doing, you know, as much volume as we are now, then we certainly will look

[3:38:33] at opportunities for actual staff when we expand, then we've got augment. So, but we will certainly look at that.

[3:38:39] Yeah, doing like a cost analysis, you know,

[3:38:42] start having in-house versus outside,

[3:38:44] which is absolutely obvious because that's not because

[3:38:46] probably because we don't have the right staff

[3:38:51] for the specializations.

[3:38:52] That's why we have to go outside.

[3:38:54] But to a point that expensions,

[3:38:57] I think we are going to continue our expensions

[3:38:59] based on some of the big projects that's coming,

[3:39:02] and there's more requirement from the state

[3:39:04] in term of rena.

[3:39:05] So there's going to be ongoing more and more project,

[3:39:07] not less, right?

[3:39:08] So they would probably, it's going to be a point that it make more sense to have in-house

[3:39:12] rather than spend my outside.

[3:39:19] Councillor Mourou, that's a common topic that's discussed in really, for smaller cities, typically

[3:39:26] it's been my experience and speaking with my peers is you don't bring it in-house and it just

[3:39:32] doesn't suit the business model.

[3:39:33] On the last item where we had the HH we talked about the purrs, part of the retirement

[3:39:37] burden.

[3:39:38] And one of the city, one of the things the government agencies don't do is they don't bring people in and then firearm, right, is the workload goes up and down.

[3:39:45] So typically what we do is we look at the workload and we say, is it sustained workload and when it is, then we go ahead and bring them in.

[3:39:52] But that's just one component. You also have another component about when you're providing inspection services. They're specialty services that are.

[3:40:00] Tied to that. So, are we willing to also be like a CalTrans, where we hire and train individuals, how to operate a nuclear gauge?

[3:40:10] We have to buy the equipment, how to store it, how to be able to do concrete testing, how to be able to do all these different testing elements that are associated with properly inspecting a project.

[3:40:22] As much as I'd like to say that being a licensed contractor myself, as much as I'd like to say that contractors are going to deliver the product,

[3:40:31] there's a reason why we have inspectors, there's a reason why we have building inspectors, and there is a third party looking at it to ensure.

[3:40:40] And it doesn't matter whether there's building a car, sewing a pair of pants, everything we look at, we see like an inspected by.

[3:40:47] To ensure that as we are using public funds that we are getting what we are paying for or we are getting the

[3:40:54] Product that's been committed and promised to so while we will look into it

[3:41:00] I would say that for the smaller cities the business model typically is better to as a project

[3:41:06] There's a demand to hire out that service for that project rather than bringing in house

[3:41:13] absorb the PERS burden, as well as have to deal with all the other elements of having a permanent

[3:41:18] staff, which would mean, hey, we only got about 2,000 hours per year with that person,

[3:41:22] because between holidays and everything else, we can't overwork them.

[3:41:28] So to be able to be dynamic, inflexible with the workload, that's the best model.

[3:41:33] But I appreciate, I do appreciate the question, we will look at it.

[3:41:36] But I also wanted to set the expectation, say, this is a different business model than the

[3:41:42] organizations we can bring everything in-house and have a large staffing.

[3:41:46] Of course, if you spend the money, of course, everything is going to be down to the

[3:41:49] teeth.

[3:41:50] That's no doubt.

[3:41:51] I'm just trying to figure out a strike balance, you know, of being spending

[3:41:58] responsibly in a way if we can, part of that is, as you say, you contract to yourself.

[3:42:05] The idea is the contractor, you know, of course, he or she has to go to the contractor

[3:42:11] or licensed, get the license, there's all kinds of requirements, due diligence as a contractor,

[3:42:17] to deliver the product as stated in the contract.

[3:42:20] They have to go through the ethical class as well.

[3:42:23] That's part of the requirement.

[3:42:26] And if the contractor defaults because he, how she cut corners, that's where the warranty comes in,

[3:42:32] and you go after the country, you give the contract an opportunity to cure it.

[3:42:36] First, if he or she doesn't cure, then we'll take to the civil matter.

[3:42:40] You do, and I've gone down that process, that's a long, arduous process to place it

[3:42:44] demand on securities and all that sort of thing.

[3:42:47] Something we typically avoid, but as we get to the last item of the agenda, we're going

[3:42:51] to talk about, for instance, one of the things we're proud of at the cities are paid, and

[3:42:56] what we do.

[3:42:57] We're going to have six arterial of paid-in-products going on this summer.

[3:43:00] That, in-house staff, take care of that, is virtually impossible.

[3:43:04] right. You, you can ramp up because you have a lot of work and bring people in from

[3:43:09] the outside. It allows us to do a lot of projects over short period of time. So basically

[3:43:12] I'm giving that to give it an opportunity to evaluate that. Yes. When there's a time

[3:43:16] the right say, hey, it doesn't make sense for us. It keeps us up without, you know, on this.

[3:43:20] Prepare it. We're thinking, bring it back in. I'm just giving that. Absolutely. Thank you so

[3:43:23] much. I missed an error. I'd like to move item number 14.

[3:43:27] How's that, dude? Any other discussion? It's vote. All those in favor say aye.

[3:43:35] I'm on the list.

[3:43:37] I'm number 14, past's 5-0.

[3:43:40] Thank you.

[3:43:41] We're about item 15, except a $40,000 fee proposal from onward engineering for design services

[3:43:46] for the rehabilitation and resurfacing of a tower project, an offer I staffed to issue purchase

[3:43:50] order, changed order for a total purchase order, about not to exceed $138,753 dollars,

[3:43:58] presentation by the engineering associate.

[3:44:00] Ryan Damon, welcome.

[3:44:01] Good evening, Mr. Mayor, and members of the Council.

[3:44:04] Tonight's staff is requesting approval of a $40,000 change order to the city's existing

[3:44:08] purchase order with onward engineering for the design of the rehabilitation and resurfacing

[3:44:13] of Talbot Avenue from the eastern city limit to Ward Street.

[3:44:17] This request comes as a direct result of the city's successful efforts to secure federal transportation

[3:44:24] funding through Skag, which is the Southern California Association of Governments.

[3:44:28] In April of this year, SCAD confirmed the award of approximately $2.64 million in federal grant funding for the construction of the project.

[3:44:38] These funds are currently programmed for federal fiscal year 2627, which begins October 1st.

[3:44:45] This is a significant achievement for the city.

[3:44:47] Public work staff had submitted four capital improvement projects for consideration during this highly competitive funding cycle,

[3:44:53] and the Talbot Avenue project was ranked highly recommended and selected for funding.

[3:44:59] This award will offer.

[3:45:00] Offset the majority of the estimated $3.3 million dollar construction cost. However, acceptance of federal funds also requires the city to comply with additional federal requirements during both the design and construction phases of the project. This includes federal environmental requirements, right away and construction authorization processes, and the incorporation of federal provisions into the project's specifications and bid documents.

[3:45:26] The city currently has an approved purchase order with onward engineering and the amount of

[3:45:32] 98,753 dollars to prepare the project design and bid package.

[3:45:37] This requested $40,000 change order will allow onward engineering to complete the additional

[3:45:43] federally required work and ensure the project remains eligible for reimbursement and funding

[3:45:48] authorization.

[3:45:49] The total revised purchase order amount would increase 238,753 dollars, which is within the approved project design budget of 150,000.

[3:46:01] And once completed, the Talbot Avenue Project will include pavement rehabilitation, rubberized asphalt overlay, and concrete improvements that will improve ride quality and hand safety and extend the useful life of the roadway.

[3:46:14] The staff anticipate design will be completed in fall of this year with construction expected to begin in winter of 2627.

[3:46:23] However, the project will be subject to federal view timelines.

[3:46:27] To conclude, staff recommends Council approve the proposed change order to onward engineering existing purchase order for a total amount, not to exceed $138,750.

[3:46:40] Thank you and I'm available for any questions.

[3:46:42] Thank you so much. I'll open it for questions for comments from Council. Mr. Mayor, we do have a public comment on the site as well.

[3:46:49] Thank you.

[3:46:51] Kitty Ray.

[3:47:01] I have to listen to Ryan Damon. I almost have nothing to say or nothing to ask. However, since I filled out a card.

[3:47:08] The only thing that caught my attention, it didn't say in the agenda item that it was strictly a change order for the 40,000.

[3:47:16] It seemed to be a fee proposal, and then it was talk of change orders up to an amount of

[3:47:22] 1.38 something something, and I thought, why would it be from 40,000 to 1.38?

[3:47:27] I thought, okay, there's probably since here, and I don't get it, so I figured I would

[3:47:30] ask, as a member of the public, but Ryan made it very sensible and very clear.

[3:47:36] This is actually just asking for a change order approval of 40,000 for the work, and installing

[3:47:42] the virtues of our public works which I already am amazed our streets are the best that explanation

[3:47:51] was perfect. I am a public speaker by I'm a division director of Toesmasters International,

[3:47:58] which teaches public speaking and leadership skills. Some people don't seem to know that,

[3:48:03] but that's okay. And I just want to say in addition to the public works aspect of what was just

[3:48:10] I just laid here, he made it so clear to me, I didn't really need to come up here except to extend my compliments to our department.

[3:48:19] Thank you.

[3:48:20] Thank you.

[3:48:22] I have no further requests to speak.

[3:48:24] Vice Marjava?

[3:48:27] I had a question.

[3:48:28] Can you sort of briefly summarize the, you mentioned that the reason that we need this extra money is because it's federal money and there's additional federal requirements.

[3:48:38] What are some of the, I mean, I don't know, top three federal requirements that are requiring

[3:48:46] additional?

[3:48:47] Yeah, I'll rather a few things.

[3:48:49] Typically, when we put plans out, projects out to bid, we'll bid the plans and specifications,

[3:48:58] federal requirements, as early as the project, we'll have to incorporate additional things

[3:49:04] of those plans and specs. We'll incorporate ADA requirements, environmental commitments, labor

[3:49:10] compliance requirements, and federal aid construction standards. We'll also need to...

[3:49:17] Those are different from California?

[3:49:20] Yeah, additional requirements.

[3:49:22] I do. We'll also have to do a preliminary environmental study and submit a categorical

[3:49:28] exemption. There's additional forms our consultant. We'll need to fill out that all have to be

[3:49:33] you'd buy call trends. Once that package completed, we will submit to call trends, the RFA,

[3:49:41] which is the request for authorization. This is the package that includes the plan specs,

[3:49:47] estimates, funding documentation, environmental clearances, right away certifications, utility

[3:49:53] certifications, and this is the step that's formally request authorization to advertise.

[3:50:00] So if we were doing it ourselves, we wouldn't have any of those requirements.

[3:50:04] No, those would be additional steps.

[3:50:06] But it's going to be offset by the 2.6 million that we received.

[3:50:09] All right, great. Thanks.

[3:50:13] Okay, thanks so much.

[3:50:16] I'll entertain a motion on the item.

[3:50:18] Make a motion to approve.

[3:50:21] That's like it.

[3:50:24] That was me.

[3:50:30] All those in favor say aye.

[3:50:31] Aye.

[3:50:32] Aye. All those opposed.

[3:50:34] Item number 15 passes five zero.

[3:50:36] All right. Thank you.

[3:50:39] Hey, next item 16, and approve amendment number three to Unix LLC contract number 22 to

[3:50:43] F-08, Minus contract 1-1-402, there's two items to increase the contract amount and

[3:50:52] extend the contract, presentation by Cynthia and Alyssa, Assistant Engineer.

[3:50:58] Welcome.

[3:50:59] Good evening, Mayor, City Council members, and City Manager, so I will be presenting to

[3:51:04] contract number 22-08-unixllcmm number three. So as you may know that

[3:51:14] Unix is our contractor for traffic signal maintenance and as a reminder the

[3:51:19] city is responsible for operating and maintaining 55 traffic signals. Unix is

[3:51:24] currently providing traffic maintenance and repair services for the city of

[3:51:34] RFP. Traffic single maintenance is split into two primary categories. One being the maintenance

[3:51:42] services, fixed monthly costs of $38,900, and also another category of repair services

[3:51:51] which varies on a monthly basis. Historically, the cost of traffic signal knocked down and

[3:51:57] emergency repairs typically range from approximately $6,000 to $25,000 per occurrence.

[3:52:04] For example, 2025, 2026, a total of eight traffic signal knock-downs have occurred.

[3:52:13] Next, I'll talk about the history of the contract amount.

[3:52:16] So as you can see here, the table shows the original agreement amount was $270,000 back in 2022,

[3:52:26] and then previously approved amendment number one and two increase the contract amount as well.

[3:52:32] A amendment number 3, which is what I'm presenting today, staff is requesting a $75,000 increase,

[3:52:40] and a time extension from July 1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2026, which would bring our proposed

[3:52:49] total contract amount to $727,000, $16 and 25 cents. And why we're asking for a time extension

[3:52:58] is that staff is currently developing a new RFP for traffic signal maintenance services, and

[3:53:04] also to continue the traffic signal maintenance that repairs beyond the expiration date of June

[3:53:10] 30 of 2026 until the new agreement is in place. And to conclude, staff recommends that the

[3:53:17] city council approves amendment number 3 to UNIX LLC contract number 22-08 to increase this current

[3:53:25] contract in the amount of $75,000 for a total contract amount of $727,000, $16,000 and $25,000.

[3:53:35] And extend the contract for an additional six months

[3:53:37] beginning July 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2026.

[3:53:42] And that concludes my presentation for the UNIX contract amendment number three.

[3:53:47] If you have any questions, let me know.

[3:53:49] Great.

[3:53:49] Thanks so much.

[3:53:50] I'll open up to Council for any questions, comments.

[3:53:55] So, you had mentioned that part of the increase is, polls are getting knocked over, I assume,

[3:54:01] car accidents, et cetera.

[3:54:04] I know I asked this question when I got the briefing, and I can't remember the answer.

[3:54:09] Are we able to go back and recoup some of this cost from through insurance companies?

[3:54:16] Yes, that is correct.

[3:54:17] We work with our city risk manager Heather, and we work on any type of knockdowns that

[3:54:24] to come to our plate, then we let Heather know we work alongside with Heather regarding

[3:54:29] those and work with insurance companies.

[3:54:34] Just to, for the respond to that, we are very aggressive with going after money for

[3:54:42] the insurance companies. The only thing that limits us is the actual property of

[3:54:46] that was done and what their policy covers. Other than that, we're pretty successful

[3:54:54] getting the full amount back. I think most of the polls run about 17, 18,000.

[3:55:00] And most private property insurance, their coverages, just north of that, so as soon as there's no other damage we're able to get that money back.

[3:55:10] And I believe last year we got upwards of including pole knockdowns upwards of 200 and some $1,000.

[3:55:18] Good job. Thank you.

[3:55:19] as far over. Yeah, I think next up on that and good presentation and I'd like to green light

[3:55:27] the contract to execute.

[3:55:29] I'll second.

[3:55:32] Councilwoman.

[3:55:34] Got the second.

[3:55:37] Did you have anything to say, Councilmember Constantine or no?

[3:55:41] No.

[3:55:41] I'm great.

[3:55:42] Thank you so much.

[3:55:43] You're sending a great presentation.

[3:55:44] Thank you.

[3:55:45] So with that, we have a motion.

[3:55:46] First and the second.

[3:55:47] All those in favor say aye.

[3:55:48] I hope all those opposed.

[3:55:51] I have a number of 16 passes.

[3:55:52] 5G.

[3:55:53] Thank you.

[3:55:57] Next item 17.

[3:55:59] Accept the ABM Building Solutions LLC proposal and a work construction contract and a total

[3:56:04] not to exceed amount of $169,089 for the City Hall rooftop duct work placement presentation

[3:56:12] by Bob Truman with Internal Services supervisor.

[3:56:17] Welcome.

[3:56:18] Thank you.

[3:56:19] Mayor, council.

[3:56:19] Rick, if you do slides for me please. Thank you sir.

[3:56:26] I'm here to bring this to your attention.

[3:56:28] I'm asking that we move forward on replacing the HVAC duct work on top of this building,

[3:56:36] the City Hall building. I've been here for 23 years. It is the original duct work,

[3:56:42] which puts it over 23 years old. I don't know the actual age. The buildings roughly 50 years old.

[3:56:49] It is beyond my ability to repair as the material the galvanized steel that the ducting

[3:56:56] is made out of has degraded to the point where I'm no longer able to patch it.

[3:57:03] If I do, it's very temporary and it doesn't hold up long enough to make a season.

[3:57:10] I currently have plastic over certain sections where patching is no longer viable option.

[3:57:17] I asked that we move forward as quickly as possible to get this document in replace to keep

[3:57:26] the rain and elements from entering the building through the exterior ducting.

[3:57:37] We got two bids on this.

[3:57:40] ABM was the lower of the bids because their ability to do in-house work reduced the cost.

[3:57:49] So we did our due diligence in getting the best bang for our buck per se, ABM, and the other company were very prominent in their fields.

[3:58:05] They have great reputations,

[3:58:09] and I feel that moving forward with this will keep potential issues from happening in the future.

[3:58:18] that could be less fun so it's really all I have right now. The total will be

[3:58:28] $169,089 and I'm hoping for questions. Thank you.

[3:58:35] Okay, thanks so much. Vice Mayor Heber?

[3:58:38] I think I'll go back to a couple of, where's it go back one slide? Go back. One more.

[3:58:45] So this is interesting, so I say that the fourth bullet you're actually using duct tape on the duct.

[3:58:55] I've seen joint tape on everything else, I've never, they didn't know they actually used it on the duct.

[3:58:59] Well, a lot of people, it's funny you say that a lot of people actually think duct tape is with a K, but it's actually with a T, it's duct tape.

[3:59:08] So, yes, I do have ducting tape on the ducting, as well as plastic and some other items that we've tried to seal the duct with, but yes, sir.

[3:59:19] Okay, all right.

[3:59:20] Thank you.

[3:59:22] The questions from Council?

[3:59:24] Hearing that?

[3:59:25] You're more about the tape.

[3:59:26] Okay.

[3:59:27] Yes, yes.

[3:59:28] I can do demonstrations later.

[3:59:30] I can bring in some samples.

[3:59:32] Well, one question I had.

[3:59:33] We've been talking about doing the replacing the roof.

[3:59:36] Yes, sir. There's a make sense to replace the duck before the roof. This roof was replaced about 12 years ago the roof here is fine on this

[3:59:44] thing. Yes, we are good

[3:59:45] The only thing we didn't have at the time was the the funds to replace the ducting at the time, which I

[3:59:53] Would have preferred then, but we're at a point now where it should be done, but we had funds for duct tape

[4:00:00] Okay, good. Absolutely. I shouldn't even question you. You know, you know, much better than I do, you would replace a rule for, so I'm sorry, I even asked that question.

[4:00:10] Oh, no, sir, no, sir, fine, thank you.

[4:00:16] We could do that, too. I'll move the item.

[4:00:20] I'll second.

[4:00:23] All those imperial say aye. Aye, aye, aye. All those opposed. Item 17 pass the five zero.

[4:00:29] All right. Thanks, Bob. Thank you.

[4:00:32] Okay, item 18, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Family Prevent fiscal year

[4:00:37] 2026, 2027, Project List for Senate Bill 1 funds in the amount of 1,6287,870

[4:00:46] dollars for the residential roadway rehabilitation project in City Quadrant before

[4:00:51] presentation by Temo Galvez and Deputy Public Works Director.

[4:00:58] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[4:00:59] I think this is probably one of the last items.

[4:01:03] So thank you for the opportunity.

[4:01:05] The item before you tonight is in regards to SB1 funding this year.

[4:01:09] The city's approximately slated to receive $1.6 million.

[4:01:16] As part of that funding, the state requires that an agency

[4:01:19] adopter resolution delineating where these funding will be going.

[4:01:23] This year's resolution delineates a portion of that to go to the area before

[4:01:28] shown on the map on the screen and that's for this summer. The remaining portion is slated

[4:01:36] to and proposed to go to the areas of B5 and B6 and that'd be for next summer and if I could

[4:01:42] let me say we can next slide. So that'd be those areas there just south of B4. Now a little

[4:01:48] story about that. I'm pretty proud to talk about this in our team and your support. Over the last few

[4:01:57] recent years we've been paving one half mile square quadrant a year of residential paving.

[4:02:04] This year we have the opportunity to do two by allocating these SB1 funds that normally

[4:02:09] would have been allocated to at least a portion of it to our tarot paving jobs.

[4:02:16] This year because of the wonderful job our team did in securing that 2.6 million dollar

[4:02:20] grant we were able to repurpose some of this funding so we can get ahead of some of our

[4:02:27] presidential neighborhoods. And that particular area on the west side of town is showing some

[4:02:33] need. And so I want to name them personally. I'm really proud of Cal Canokey and Ryan Damon

[4:02:39] did a good job putting some of these grants together and they put their heart and soul into it

[4:02:45] and we saw some really nice results. So I appreciate that.

[4:02:53] And the entire team, I'm just proud

[4:02:54] of all and they did a great job tonight that like they always do. With your support, I'm going

[4:02:59] circle back to the action item, but with your support, I want to talk about a couple more

[4:03:03] things, with your support we and a lot of the efforts that we've been putting towards

[4:03:08] catching up with our citywide paving mainly because we took a little pause during the

[4:03:16] 405 project. There's about six or seven years. We really couldn't pave in some of the areas

[4:03:19] that really had need. So we did the best we could. We did residential streets. We did some of

[4:03:29] But as soon as that opened up, we were able to get to it and we paid one or from purchase

[4:03:36] of a Shard, we paid Dallas from purchase of a Shard.

[4:03:38] And now we'll be paving this summer, from purchase of a Shard as well as Euclid from Slater

[4:03:45] to Talbert.

[4:03:46] We'll also be paving new Hope, Slater, Ellis, and a portion of Ward, also this summer.

[4:03:54] And then the one we wanted to pay this summer, and I think it's worth it, we got the $2.6 million

[4:03:59] for this project, it will be, it's scheduled, next fiscal year in 2016-27, it could, it

[4:04:07] could even be scheduled a little bit out beyond that depending on the federal process,

[4:04:12] but that will be coming soon.

[4:04:13] Right now, we anticipate construction will be in winter, 2016-27.

[4:04:18] So getting back to the action item tonight, the recommendation is to prove the resolution

[4:04:24] so we can allocate these funds to the two different sections of the residential

[4:04:29] paper. That concludes my report. If you have any questions.

[4:04:32] Thanks so much Tim. I want to put out a couple of things. So for those that are really

[4:04:36] interested in our roads, our streets, the report that is in this item 18 is fantastic. You

[4:04:43] can actually find your street like I did and you can learn everything about it. You can know

[4:04:48] you can see when it was last paved. All the dimensions. So for those that are really

[4:04:54] want to geek out on streets and in fat valley, this is your moment because it's all in this.

[4:05:00] Citywide report, a couple of takeaways. When we talk about what's a good street, what's a good target, we talk

[4:05:09] about the pavement condition index, the BCI, that's really the main goal. We want to be, and it's

[4:05:18] kind of like, you know, a great on a paper, right at school. You want to, you want to have an A, which

[4:05:24] like 90 to 100. And a beast pretty good. And so we typically are in the 82 to 84 range,

[4:05:33] right? Our arterioles in our residential. So, kind of 83-ish, you know. And that's good. That's

[4:05:42] a B, right? But, you know, we're always striving to have the best payment. So, first of all,

[4:05:51] You know, we should be proud of our payment because we're passionate about payment for sure.

[4:06:01] We had a lot of hit from the four or five project and other cities just don't have that.

[4:06:09] Although I would still put up our roads and streets to other cities who didn't have four or five go through it.

[4:06:15] And we're still better.

[4:06:16] We're still better, right?

[4:06:17] So that just a couple of things to consider as a public maybe is driving around right now and

[4:06:23] saying, wait, you know, that doesn't kind of match what we're talking about.

[4:06:27] But the good news is, you know, within a year to 18 months, it's going to be smooth, beautiful,

[4:06:35] probably, you know, in the 90s, in the PCI, right, you know, and that's great.

[4:06:40] So that wouldn't happen without the intentional efforts of, you know, your staff, and so I just want to express my thanks.

[4:06:50] He pushed in. We appreciate all that additional funding that you're able to gather.

[4:06:57] And that's one of the just the benefits of living here in fat Valley.

[4:07:02] Sure. Any other questions?

[4:07:03] comments. I'll see you in the comments. One of the things you mentioned

[4:07:06] ward between Elis and Talbert is that right? Okay, so Jay Town is gonna be

[4:07:13] real happy.

[4:07:17] Happy to make her happy. It's good. But one thing too, I have to say I

[4:07:23] love your guys department. How you guys all work together and support each

[4:07:26] other and present and you guys are pretty cool. I like it. So good job everybody

[4:07:31] you tonight.

[4:07:34] Thank you. You say he likes us some engineers. We'll take it. I'll move the item.

[4:07:43] I'll stack it. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All right. Post. I don't number 18 passes five zero. Thank you.

[4:07:53] You could also find this on the website. Thank you very much. All right.

[4:08:00] Okay, next is council member items for future consideration.

[4:08:03] Are there any items?

[4:08:05] I have one.

[4:08:05] Consideration.

[4:08:06] Councilwoman.

[4:08:07] Positive.

[4:08:09] Absolutely.

[4:08:09] And I just wrote it out tonight.

[4:08:12] So I'm seeking a second please for a potential of a community event to be held in

[4:08:18] Myleswear Park on a future for the July involving a professional firework show,

[4:08:25] the potential of picnicking, the potential of some food traps,

[4:08:30] the potential of some nonprofits, possibly doing food booths, et cetera, if it could coincide with our city's 70th birthday next year, that would be great.

[4:08:43] If not, that's okay too. Definitely not for this year, we know that.

[4:08:47] But it would be great to get a second on this. I know I didn't mention this a couple of years ago.

[4:08:53] And then I mentioned it again in the community foundation of meeting one night, I don't know, always ago, and there was, there was some people were happy.

[4:09:03] And so I just wanted to bring it back.

[4:09:06] I know it doesn't necessarily have anything at this moment to do with the community foundation.

[4:09:10] It's something that could be brought back and we talk about it.

[4:09:14] And we have plenty of time to do so. Again, it doesn't have to be, well, forget this year, but it could be next year, it could be, you know, a following year.

[4:09:22] So, please, someone, please, secondless.

[4:09:28] Well, I guess I just comment that we already do that at Summer Fest, so I think doing it on July 4th would just be kind of a duplication.

[4:09:39] I would suggest, let's bring it up at a community foundation board meeting and see if we have some consensus.

[4:09:46] And then let's bring it back. I'll tell you what, if you bring it to the next, the meeting's Thursday.

[4:09:50] Right.

[4:09:51] Bring it up Thursday.

[4:09:52] If there's a consensus as enough volunteers, I'll second it at the next meeting.

[4:10:00] I mean, there have to be interest on saying, I don't know if we could, I'll do that. Thank you. Thank you.

[4:10:06] Any other council member items for you to considerations? I do have one.

[4:10:12] And if you were concerned at the resolutions for this year, for the July 4th,

[4:10:19] in celebrations of the turn 50 anniversary of America, it's a pretty resolutions.

[4:10:26] the resolution.

[4:10:30] I'll second that.

[4:10:36] Okay. Great. Thanks. Next we'll move into City Council,

[4:10:39] Successor Agency, housing authority, public comments on Unscheduled Matters only. Are there any requests to speak? I have one request to speak. Okay.

[4:10:47] Katie Ray.

[4:10:51] Welcome.

[4:10:53] Greetings.

[4:10:54] Greetings again. First I want to thank Kim Constantine for going the extra mile for all the citizens of Fountain Valley.

[4:11:02] The ICSC event in Las Vegas is at the Convention Center, which is huge.

[4:11:07] She stayed in extra day to represent us.

[4:11:10] That's why she's not here right now.

[4:11:11] She's still there.

[4:11:12] That's why she's on Zoom.

[4:11:14] Thank you.

[4:11:15] Member Constantine for your attention to the city's needs.

[4:11:20] A quick shout out to Bob Truman, who was just up here explaining duct tape.

[4:11:24] My dad was a sheet metal worker in Orange County for 35 years.

[4:11:27] He was a subject matter expert.

[4:11:30] He taught me to drive his work truck three on the tree,

[4:11:34] clutch, had a box full of duct tape.

[4:11:36] I grew up with duct tape where most kids grew up

[4:11:39] with scotch tapes.

[4:11:40] Duck tape is your friend.

[4:11:44] And I had something I was going to mention here

[4:11:47] that has to do with a resident in fountain valley

[4:11:50] that has had an ongoing issue.

[4:11:52] But since member Harper, Vice Mayor Harper,

[4:11:55] brought up the TOT tax. Guess what? It doesn't have to be an agenda item for me to talk about it,

[4:12:02] so I will. From time to time, Kim Constantine is brought it up. From time to time, Glen

[4:12:09] Grant is the thought it's a good idea. It's not something the citizens have to pay. It's

[4:12:14] something that exists already. The only idea was to increase the percentage a bit. The only

[4:12:20] that would have happened would be if it went to a vote for the citizens to vote on an election.

[4:12:27] Or, of course, if someone had tons of money, they could arrange a special election.

[4:12:32] Good luck with that.

[4:12:33] But our members of the Central Committee of a particular party in this non-partisan body

[4:12:40] are in lockstep to never ever approve anything having to do with attacks.

[4:12:45] I know this because, at one time, I sought endorsement from the Republican Party when I ran

[4:12:51] for office.

[4:12:52] I had to sign this form.

[4:12:54] All these things you promise, you will do this, you will never do that.

[4:12:58] I know that's what every one of the three people on the Central Committee had to promise in

[4:13:03] order to get endorsements.

[4:13:04] No taxes ever.

[4:13:06] So because the three of you made a promise to a political party, nobody in fat and valgus

[4:13:13] vote on whether they do or do not want a taught increase, which is, people get confused,

[4:13:19] transient occupancy tax. It means people staying in our town in a hotel from out of town

[4:13:25] or the ones paying it. They paid in every city. My God, you should see the prices in Huntington

[4:13:31] and Disneyland where it's huge resort cities. Those are phenomenal income comes in from that.

[4:13:37] We're just talking about a little increase and because three people on city council said, no,

[4:13:42] we don't get to vote on it plus the last time it was brought up somebody one of the three said you know what

[4:13:49] from now on let's go ahead i'm gonna make it a rule that nobody can bring this up again unless they get

[4:13:55] what was it two people three people to go ahead and say yell it's do it

[4:14:01] and gee that was voted in as a rule nobody can never bring it up again unless you get at least two

[4:14:08] people to second your first on it. Think about it.

[4:14:12] Any of your time is up. Thank you. It's obvious the fix is in.

[4:14:16] The people don't get to vote.

[4:14:17] Happy 250th anniversary.

[4:14:24] Are there any requests to speak?

[4:14:28] There are no more requests to speak. Okay.

[4:14:31] We're going to move in to City Council's successor agency.

[4:14:34] How's he authority? AB 1, 2, 3, 4 general comments?

[4:14:38] What do we start out in Vegas with Councilwoman?

[4:14:43] Consentine.

[4:14:43] Wow.

[4:14:43] Thank you.

[4:14:44] Thank you so much.

[4:14:46] I really miss being there.

[4:14:48] I've been it really made the best.

[4:14:49] I had to still miss a couple meetings to be here.

[4:14:53] But we're good.

[4:14:54] My have a couple also.

[4:14:56] Okay.

[4:14:57] So as our city's trustee.

[4:14:59] So these are my.

[4:15:00] And whereabouts is the last meeting. I'll just tell you a few of them, but I did already submit my last. As our city's trustee on the OEC, mosquito and vector control district,

[4:15:13] I toured the sit lab at the Orange County mosquito and vector control district, which is a sterile insect technique.

[4:15:20] It's being utilized in a city of Mission B.A.

[4:15:26] And a little bit about that is it's a biological control

[4:15:30] method to lower mosquito populations and reduce the risk of disease transmission.

[4:15:35] So basically, they're fighting the mosquito problem with serialized mosquitoes.

[4:15:40] And you could learn more about that on the Orange County mosquito

[4:15:43] a vector control website, which is ocvector.org.

[4:15:48] It's the fourth square down kind of green colored.

[4:15:52] This is very interesting what they're doing there.

[4:15:55] And it's going very well.

[4:15:57] They released mosquitoes regularly

[4:15:58] in the city of Mission BIO.

[4:16:01] Some other word about was the Chamber of Commerce

[4:16:03] GAC meeting, which is the government

[4:16:05] of fierce council meeting, the advisory committee

[4:16:08] for persons with disabilities meeting

[4:16:10] every other month, stopped in briefly at the crawfish festival to be like it was going well.

[4:16:18] The E-Waste Paper Shredding and Compose Giveaway event at the Sports Park, the friends

[4:16:24] of the library had a general meeting and luncheon recently.

[4:16:29] And then, so a couple of days ago went to Vegas on behalf of the city for the ICSC Convention,

[4:16:35] And that is, they changed the name after COVID, it's innovating commerce, serving communities.

[4:16:42] It really is an essential conference for, it's the biggest actually real estate convention.

[4:16:55] I think it's in the world if I'm not mistaken.

[4:16:57] And what it is is connecting cities and others with commercial brokers and investors and some developers but more so filling spaces in our city for commercial space and so various meetings.

[4:17:14] I will get into all that, but really happy to be there and represent baggy or city managers.

[4:17:21] They're Vice Mayor Hartburg, Omar, our JPED City Manager, I guess I have the rest of this

[4:17:28] title here, and Ron Vargas, he's our Planning and Economic Development Associate Victor Miramante,

[4:17:38] is our Management Analyst.

[4:17:41] Just stellar, the meeting so far have been very, very good and I'm so proud of our city's staff, just very, very nice.

[4:17:52] So, it's about everything's great here. You know what they say, you guys, what happens in Vegas?

[4:17:58] Just kidding. It's been great. Thank you, but I miss you all. Thank you.

[4:18:02] Thank you. How about council member Bully.

[4:18:10] Thank you. So I want to address a few things about tonight moving forward perhaps there's a little bit of

[4:18:18] Direction for more city attorneys for next the next meeting. We probably we need to talk about found a municipal code chapter 2.0.4

[4:18:27] What that is is it's the agenda procedure of this for the city of found valley council member meeting clearly state that

[4:18:35] Commence to individual or staff are not permitted.

[4:18:41] And speaker must instead address to a council as a body, not individual.

[4:18:48] Specifically, those wishing to speak must complete the speaker record, which they all do,

[4:18:53] and give it to the city clerk proud to be the public comment period.

[4:18:56] And speaker are limited to three minutes which they always do.

[4:18:59] And commences also related to issue within the jurisdiction of the council.

[4:19:04] not outside just a reminder of that. If not, I'm going to call the port of order.

[4:19:12] We need

[4:19:13] to really enforce that. If we do not enforce the directly-person commositions to the council,

[4:19:24] one day what we have is the council is going to have a dialogue back and forth. That's, I don't

[4:19:29] I think that's the rules create that way.

[4:19:31] That was to prevent that.

[4:19:33] Yeah, come to suppose to go to the mayor.

[4:19:35] So there's the rule that the common has to be addressed to the council.

[4:19:38] It doesn't mean a person can't sit there and wag their finger at the mayor and say the city attorney is wrong.

[4:19:43] The city attorney is wrong.

[4:19:44] They can they can they can they can comment on each one of us individually.

[4:19:47] They're just supposed to focus their comments to the mayor because that's how they address the full body.

[4:19:52] So yes, Councilman Booye is correct.

[4:19:54] They shouldn't take a look at anyone council member besides the mayor and make comments

[4:20:00] We can see them people do it all often. It can be tough to control, but that is a correct version of the rule.

[4:20:06] And strict adherence to the municipal code would be if they ever veer off, we would say, Director commenced to the mayor, Director commenced to the mayor.

[4:20:12] So, yes, that's a correct statement of what our code says.

[4:20:16] Okay, I just want that clarification.

[4:20:18] So, on 422, I attend the Family Chairman Business and Leadership Award.

[4:20:23] Later, I attend OC's San Board following the first responder, a position night, on 429, I attend the family

[4:20:34] Chamber of Commerce meeting, on 430, I attend the Westerners,

[4:20:39] War Memorial, also known as Black April,

[4:20:44] Remembrance ceremony and on five seven item OC Business Expo on five twelve item five and by club most improved student on five thirteen

[4:20:58] I ten OC cent audit at heart committee

[4:21:03] Following by OC cent administration committee meeting on

[4:21:08] 514, I-10, family, chamber network at night, followed by ABA OC Asian Pacific Heritage Month

[4:21:17] Mixer.

[4:21:18] That concludes my report.

[4:21:19] Great.

[4:21:19] Thank you.

[4:21:21] About council, then, grandest.

[4:21:25] All right.

[4:21:26] It's 930, most people are asleep already, but one thing I didn't talk about last time was the

[4:21:33] So we had a very successful poker tournament on the April 18th.

[4:21:39] We sold out 200 people over there and we raised over $22,000 that night for our local

[4:21:46] nonprofit.

[4:21:47] So that was our 40th tournament over the last 22 years and we are now way over $800,000

[4:21:57] raised for non-profit.

[4:21:59] So very proud of that.

[4:22:01] On Thursday, May 7th, the OCPA Board of Directors meeting on Monday, 11th, a special board meeting for the Boys and Girls Club of Huntington Valley.

[4:22:10] And then the 12th through the 14th, they attended the CalCCA Conference.

[4:22:16] So I'm going to highlight some of the CalCCA community choice aggregates.

[4:22:20] I think that's what it stands for.

[4:22:22] So basically OCPA, so the power authority.

[4:22:28] We took a tour of Kaiso, which shows what all the power is being used and how it's being used in the entire state.

[4:22:37] And while we were there, 88 percent of all the energy produced at that moment was renewable energy.

[4:22:45] And there's, I was talking to the guys, there's many times they hit 100 percent, which is just phenomenal.

[4:22:50] And that's why we want to be part of the CPA, because it's clean energy and renewable energy.

[4:22:59] There are 25 CCAs throughout the state.

[4:23:03] So people think OCPA is new yet.

[4:23:06] It's new, but in CCAs or new, the last 10, 15 years or so.

[4:23:12] But there were 25 different CCAs and CCAs like OCPA now,

[4:23:20] are over 15 million people in over 200 communities in the state of California.

[4:23:28] And I think that's really important because, again, people think just OCPA and it's

[4:23:33] small.

[4:23:34] But we're part of something that's much bigger.

[4:23:38] And there, you know, the CCAs are innovators in the energy sector, leading investments

[4:23:42] in renewable energy, battery storage, and customer focus, clean energy programs that are

[4:23:48] essential for achieving California's long-term climate and clean energy targets.

[4:23:54] OCPA delivers an energy portfolio that is 81% renewable and

[4:24:01] sourced from more than 60% carbon free resources helping

[4:24:05] significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

[4:24:10] I grew up in Fountain Valley and I remember when I was in high school,

[4:24:14] you know, you turned on the weather report in the morning,

[4:24:16] not just for the temperature, but was it a smog day? I don't know if you guys remember

[4:24:21] the smog days, we don't have that anymore. And a big part of that is clean energy and

[4:24:28] unlettered gasoline, it's a big part of that too. So anyway, I learned so much over those three

[4:24:34] days at that conference and it was about 880 people. I mean, it was a big conference. It was

[4:24:42] very informative. I'm Friday May 15th. I attended Found Valley High School Principal Paul Lopez

[4:24:49] is retiring and we're at a retirement lunch for him. Thank him for his service to Found Valley

[4:24:56] High School and then attended that evening the crawfish festival.

[4:25:00] On Saturday, May 16th, the E-Waste Paper Shredding and Compost event, I want to think public works, because I brought

[4:25:08] E-Waste and I had paper shredded and I got two big bags of compost, so that was great. So appreciate that. And then later that morning,

[4:25:19] you fill the quades, bench dedication, ceremony, at lifeguard tower number two and Huntington Beach.

[4:25:27] What a great ceremony that the fire department and staff put on for chief from the quades and he's

[4:25:33] missed. Two other comments I want to make is memorial days coming up and I don't, you know,

[4:25:40] don't say happy memorial day. It's not a happy day. It's a day of remembrance for those that made the

[4:25:46] to mid-sacrifice for our nation. And take a moment, come at 10 o'clock over to the event,

[4:25:54] or if not, just take a moment out of your day between before you start barbecuing and think

[4:26:00] about those that did make the ultimate sacrifice. And then the last comment is, my thoughts are

[4:26:05] with the Muslim community on the senseless killings in San Diego, and it's such a waste of life and

[4:26:13] and we're all equal, we're all part of the community, and to attack somebody based on their religion is just completely wrong in our thoughts with the Muslim community now.

[4:26:27] That's my report.

[4:26:29] Thank you.

[4:26:31] Vice Mayor Harper.

[4:26:35] Thank you.

[4:26:37] On May 6th or May 8th, attended the Skag Regional Conference in General Assembly.

[4:26:42] They are working on a couple of things, one is their Connect Soul Cal 2050 plan, which is the regional plan for the transportation and housing growth through 2050.

[4:26:55] And they feed their plans into the up to Sacramento, and that's how California gets information about what the transportation and housing needs are.

[4:27:08] So it's very important and work that they do.

[4:27:13] On May 11th, 10 of the OSTA board meeting, May 15th, the Crossfish Festival opening, had a good

[4:27:20] time, the Crossfish Festival, good music, and good fun over there, and we want to thank

[4:27:26] you for being here.

[4:27:27] Thanks for being here, Harper.

[4:27:28] I have to make coming.

[4:27:29] You are the best line dance for my wife and I have to say, why can you lie down for that

[4:27:33] you are awesome?

[4:27:35] Hey, well, you know, they get, they get people up there teaching

[4:27:38] teaching. So it's, you know, I had to fight. I was following along. That's all I was.

[4:27:44] But I want to appreciate it. Thanks to Community Services, O'Wenner Tainment, Troy, for bringing

[4:27:50] the festival to Mount Valley. And it was a good, nice weekend there. And then on Sunday,

[4:27:58] May 17th through Tuesday, May 19th, was at ICSC conference with City Manager,

[4:28:06] are Lee and Council Member Constantine and some of our economic development staff and it was

[4:28:15] as Council Member Constantine mentioned it's just an amazing opportunity to meet all

[4:28:25] of the people looking for retail space and commercial centers and they're from all over

[4:28:33] United States, some international, but I got to tell you our economic development team is

[4:28:40] really connected and plugged into the market, so we have a lot of interest in Fountain Valley.

[4:28:48] I think our retail spaces, we have vacancy of 1.4% according to Omar, and we're trying to

[4:28:57] trying to get it filled. Also I had a chance to, the keynote speaker there was coach Mike

[4:29:05] Shishansky from Duke and he was made some had some great insights about leadership and I got to

[4:29:12] hear the stride of the younger folks watching will not remember this but 1992 Duke versus Kentucky

[4:29:23] question late or took a last shot in one of the game, and so we got to hear Coach, Coach

[4:29:31] Chishewski sort of re-tell the story of that moment, and that was pretty fun to hear

[4:29:40] from him.

[4:29:41] So anyway, just wanted to also, you know, the other thing I want to mention, so this morning

[4:29:48] I was at the ICC conference talking about economic development, we came back to the council meeting and we heard about sister cities, then

[4:30:00] And we heard about IT issues and public works. And all these different things are going on, they're very different issues.

[4:30:11] You know, city manager, Maggie, I just wanted to say to you, you know, I don't know how you do it. You've got a great team, but you're kind of balancing all these priorities and making sure that they're accomplished in a thorough and

[4:30:27] Yeah, methodical way and it's really if you're you're doing a great job and you know for all the residents out there or want to do

[4:30:35] Just appreciate the the the the the city staff that we have it's really really good. Thank you

[4:30:43] All right, thanks so much. So Mike to be since our last meeting included the following on May 6

[4:30:46] I attended the city of Westminster State of the city luncheon held at the beautiful row center

[4:30:52] This was the first event for them in a decade and we appreciate the strides

[4:30:56] neighboring cities making to improve and enhance positive growth there. Between May 6th and May 8th,

[4:31:02] I attended the Southern California Association of Governments, or Skag, regional conference,

[4:31:07] and Palm Desert, together with Fismer Harper, Cymander Lee, and Deputy City Manager,

[4:31:12] Dettaboy. On May 8th, I attended the 75th Diamond Jubilee Gala for the assistance Lee

[4:31:18] coming to meet held at Los Caballeros Sports Village in their timeless venue space, which was

[4:31:24] incredible. There were over 430 in attendance, and the auction raised well over 200,000. So

[4:31:32] huge congratulations to them for their amazing service to our local communities. On May 12th,

[4:31:38] I tell the Faculty of Rotary Clubs Ian Collins, most improved student awards at the Founders

[4:31:43] Village. Congratulations to the recognize students from Tavern Middle School and Found Valley High School.

[4:31:50] Later that day, I attended the Sister Cities Advisory Committee meeting in preparation for tonight

[4:31:54] City Council presentation and I just want to say a huge thanks to City Manager Lee who put

[4:32:00] all that together and has worked so hard to get to this moment and just extremely excited

[4:32:05] for the future on that whole initiative.

[4:32:07] On May 13th, part of our legislative committee, together with Councilwoman Constantine,

[4:32:12] I attended a briefing with our Police Department and City Manager for Assembly Bill 1088.

[4:32:17] That's related to the synthetic Cretum products.

[4:32:22] On May 15th, I made welcome comments that the opening of the Crawfish Festival at Mossquare Park,

[4:32:27] Taylor with Vice-Mer Harper, Councilman Grandus, and Deputy City Manager for Zell, and on May

[4:32:32] 16th, I participated in the unveiling of the Memorial Bench for a late fire chief Bill McQuade

[4:32:37] together with Councilman Grandus and his wife, Mary, City Manager Lee, and our supervisor,

[4:32:42] Janet Win. This was a perfect tribute for remembering his life, but also for ever celebrating,

[4:32:48] what a chief equates favorite places to be, the beach right at that spot. And so that concludes my comments and I just want to thank my colleagues and all city staff for all of the hard work.

[4:33:01] This is really the busy season this time of year. There's so much going on and just amazing how well everybody covers so many events.

[4:33:10] And so with that I'll go ahead and and adjourn to our next regular meeting here in the council chambers June 2nd

[4:33:17] 2026 at 6 p.m.

[4:34:02] We each other and agree to share their information and in order to increase their resources this tool is available to the

[4:37:46] Groundbreaking of New Apartments, specifically were 10201 Flater Avenue, and this address just might sound familiar.

[4:37:56] It's interesting to me, because I've been here so long. I remember when this was the post office.

[4:38:01] I fact my mom worked in the post office, that's here. And then silky Sullivan's all the great years.

[4:38:08] So it's a little bittersweet, you know, we're losing a bit of the history of Fountain Valley.

[4:38:13] But, you know, housing is so important these days and to be able to provide housing in Fountain Valley

[4:38:20] and hopefully make it a little bit more affordable, that would be a good thing.

[4:38:26] Mayor Buick explains how this has taken a number of years to get to where we are today

[4:38:31] breaking ground.

[4:38:36] This has been a work for over four years.

[4:38:41] This luxury multi-family development represent an exciting new chapter in the growth and

[4:38:48] vitality of five valuable. This is the first mixed-use project in the city. So obviously

[4:38:54] there's a lot of going back and forth with the developers, the consultants, and the city

[4:39:02] as well because we have to work together.

[4:39:06] Slater investments started, then recently joined with JPI

[4:39:10] on this to make it happen.

[4:39:16] We're slightly invested, this has been a long road.

[4:39:20] We're being first as hard.

[4:39:25] My partner and I can say we acquired

[4:39:27] the two office buildings that used to be here

[4:39:30] and silky solivins.

[4:39:32] I've been as managing partner.

[4:39:34] I took it through the entitlement process,

[4:39:36] construction drawings, and we have recently

[4:39:40] teamed up with JPI, and they're going to build up the building for us.

[4:39:44] That's kind of my mission, creating homes near jobs.

[4:39:51] So this project has a long history.

[4:39:53] As we heard, Peggy's been super tenacious pushing this through.

[4:39:57] That's remember we did not even have the kind of zoning that allowed

[4:40:00] For this kind of project. So to have this moment today, it's really attested into all of the planning and all of the vision that everyone is bringing to this project today.

[4:40:10] Just a quick bit about to be asked. As some of you may know, JPI is one of the largest multi-family developer builders in the country.

[4:40:18] And is, and, as long as committed to investing capital and resources to housing in California.

[4:40:25] To find this opportunity to partner with Slater Investments, we're extremely excited to be here.

[4:40:31] It's really a phenomenal city.

[4:40:33] It already has a lot going for it, so we're just looking forward to bringing additional housing units to this city.

[4:40:40] As far as the apartment building and amenities.

[4:40:44] What will be coming here will be a five-story apartment building rat building.

[4:40:48] It's 270 units, and of those 33 are going to be low income affordable units.

[4:40:54] There is a restaurant space, there's also some space that set aside on the ground floor for retail.

[4:41:00] Currently, we don't know who are what businesses will be filling that space.

[4:41:04] We typically determine that as we get farther along in the project.

[4:41:08] Slater at your apartment is one that just a new building.

[4:41:11] It's civilized for cities.

[4:41:13] An ongoing commitment to high quality growth that enhance the quality of life for our residents.

[4:41:21] Just excited to be here today to see this project finally come to fruition, we've been

[4:41:25] a part of it for so long, watching it, you know, go through City Council, go through the

[4:41:30] planning commission and just happy to support the growing business.

[4:41:34] The project is estimated to be completed by the later part of 2027.

[4:41:40] And the restaurant and retail space will be open to all.

[4:42:04] If Mountain Valley is teaching third graders from area elementary schools, what it takes to make

[4:42:09] city government work at their annual youth and government day. From city government officials

[4:42:14] being on hand to public works to the fire department.

[4:42:17] We're here to let you get inside of what we do to serve you as President of South Catholic.

[4:42:28] Who knows one day you will be the mayor's of the city. Just think about that. Would that be

[4:42:32] awesome? Basically they learn throughout the year what local government is and then they

[4:42:37] to see that playout in real life.

[4:42:39] Who is the head of the city council?

[4:42:43] Run to the city.

[4:42:46] Have you seen the figurehead?

[4:42:47] He spoke to you this morning.

[4:42:47] He has a title.

[4:42:48] Boom.

[4:42:49] There.

[4:42:49] The wind by the city hall and they get to do different stations with different apartments.

[4:42:55] And get to learn a little bit about what each one does.

[4:42:58] The chainsaw of the main light pipe.

[4:43:02] The guy's right there.

[4:43:04] Just didn't take a show.

[4:43:04] right. What I like to say is there's something for everyone. If you want to be mayor

[4:43:08] fountain valley or you want to be the public works director maybe sparking an interest

[4:43:13] that hopefully they carry out when they're going to school or thinking about their future

[4:43:17] that they consider a career and local government. Can't forget about our police department

[4:43:20] right? Like we always want to inspire our next emergency responders whether they're working

[4:43:24] police or fire. Mayor Ted Bowie of course would be honored if some of these kids would want

[4:43:30] following his footsteps. As you know, I think this is a

[4:43:34] challenge for every city recruiting great employee, right? And who knows

[4:43:38] these young students here, the third grader, who knows one day that could

[4:43:42] be one of the great leaders or excellent employee for the city. My favorite

[4:43:46] thing was the city council chamber because we got to see where every single

[4:43:51] person sat and I got to sit where the mayor sat. So I got to really experience

[4:43:58] and I even thought to hold the gavel and say meeting and turn, which is super fun.

[4:44:07] There we go, meetings and turn.

[4:44:12] We appreciate the partnership with the city of Fountain Valley and the Fountain Valley School District

[4:44:16] every day, but today is an example of an over the top experience and this is so much fun.

[4:44:23] I was telling the parents earlier, the volunteers that come,

[4:44:26] that this is the best skill chip for them to volunteer for,

[4:44:29] because they're going to learn just as much as the kids,

[4:44:32] as the kids have not more.

[4:44:34] Jill Richards is a kindergarten teacher at Cox Elementary School,

[4:44:37] and it's here today as a volunteer with her son's class.

[4:44:41] So you have been able to see so many different stations

[4:44:43] at the city here.

[4:44:45] My favorite was the public work station,

[4:44:48] because they came a couple years ago

[4:44:50] when a tree fell on my car across from school.

[4:44:53] And they came and they remembered my car and they took the tree off the car

[4:44:57] So this is so much fun. I don't remember doing this

[4:45:00] I don't think when I was younger, so it's been awesome.

[4:45:02] To understand what some of the stations are about, we caught up with the public services supervisor for the city.

[4:45:08] So we start with our landscape. Our landscape provides services to the parks. From there, they went to their vacation truck,

[4:45:15] and that shows all our pieces for irrigation, our sprinkler service, and how they fix sprinklers.

[4:45:19] And then from there, we have our boom truck.

[4:45:25] We do aerial lift to change the screening signs on the top of the mask arms for the

[4:45:33] We do a concrete nassment, and the kids got a demo of our little area where we do concrete.

[4:45:42] And kids are listening, and interested, even when it comes to the city sewer system.

[4:45:48] Like, 1,000 feet of rope in can have a live camera, which is pretty cool.

[4:45:51] Like a rear in the front camera, and it goes through mid-holes to like,

[4:45:55] see if there's any like debris or stuff that doesn't belong inside of the sewer.

[4:45:59] And of course, the fire department.

[4:46:02] Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!

[4:46:03] And police departments were hit my favorite thing today was about swan what I like about it is that of all the

[4:46:16] action and it's like extra support for the police so the take away from this event

[4:46:22] I think that one thing in the city people don't realize how just the basic necessities of

[4:46:28] You know, how do they get watered to their house, why are the roads paid in no

[4:46:34] pot holes and, you know, you flush the toilet, where does it go, how does all that work?

[4:46:39] So they get an understanding of what they need to take for granted.

[4:46:45] For more and upcoming city events, log on to their website, reporting in Fountain Valley,

[4:46:50] I'm Jacqueline Twig.

[4:47:22] He was a pillar in the community since his passing many have taken the time to reflect

[4:47:27] and as legacy. And today we're here to honor Ed Arnold with a special dedication.

[4:47:33] On behalf of the City of Fountain Valley, it is my honor to present the Ed Arnold family with this

[4:47:40] community street sign and announce that the entryway which is that way we call it the entryway

[4:47:49] into the Fountain Valley Sport Park from previously known as Ohio Avenue, Roo now be renamed as

[4:47:56] and on a way.

[4:47:59] Thank you.

[4:48:00] Oh my goodness.

[4:48:00] It was so exciting to think about it because all through the years we've come down that way.

[4:48:08] With our little lead kids, our grandchildren, and just an absolute honor, just the thought

[4:48:15] of it was incredibly awesome.

[4:48:19] Ed Arnold had a long career as a Southern California news and sports anchor in addition

[4:48:25] into his philanthropic work.

[4:48:26] His passion and enthusiasm for service in a community,

[4:48:30] whether it was for special Olympics,

[4:48:31] for the boys and girls' clubs,

[4:48:33] or the rotary, or so many other groups over his 50 years

[4:48:36] and found value, he was either co-founded, founded,

[4:48:40] or a leader of, it showed you what true service is.

[4:48:44] I just want to give a big round of applause

[4:48:46] to the Arnold family, and thank you for letting us do this for you.

[4:48:51] Today, we unveiled the renaming of the entryway

[4:48:55] the Fountain Valley Sports Park from Ohio Avenue to Ed Arnold Way and it's such a fitting entryway

[4:49:02] name. There are several reasons including the fact that Ed was involved with so many organizations

[4:49:07] that lead into the park. A board director with the Huntington Valley Boys & Girls Club and that's

[4:49:13] the entryway to the Boys & Girls Club. We just built an award-winning university accessible playground

[4:49:19] and that's the entryway into that template ground where everybody with all abilities comes to play.

[4:49:29] We also host the largest special Olympics fall games every year in our city and you're going to be entering on Ed Arnold way.

[4:49:35] I honestly can't think of a more fitting place to have Ed's name in our city.

[4:49:40] He just committed himself to helping kids and if you ever asked Ed, why you needed to help the boys and girls

[4:49:45] help you always said it's for the kids. And so from the time he started the club in 67 until just recently

[4:49:51] he always worked for the kids, he loved our kids, he loved our performing arts kids,

[4:49:55] He led our auction gala for years, our gala's named after Ed Arnold.

[4:49:59] And so he...

[4:50:00] He's left a mark on our club that will last for generations. Edson Dean tells us this tribute is very fitting and the sign is meaningful.

[4:50:08] In fact, that my dad spent his whole career as yes in television, but using that platform to help others.

[4:50:16] And anytime somebody asks, he said yes. So it's that's awesome.

[4:50:25] As a kid, I played basketball on these courts.

[4:50:27] My son's played literally baseball on those fields for 12, 13 years.

[4:50:33] Oh, there he is just Martin walking up right now. Martin is the one that made all of this physically happen.

[4:50:39] Martin deserves a big round of applause.

[4:50:42] My first mid-ed Arnold, when I was in high school, back in 1981, his son Dean went to Count Bally,

[4:50:50] and he played on the basketball team.

[4:50:52] And Ed was always there to root him on.

[4:50:54] The mayor also reflects on his time shared with Ed.

[4:50:58] And he has been a TV broadcast for so many years,

[4:51:00] many different channels.

[4:51:02] It was part of a KOC.

[4:51:04] And I remember my years, I used to do my intern there.

[4:51:08] He has given so much to the community,

[4:51:11] and it's a way for us to give back.

[4:51:13] And I think this is a small token we can ever give back to.

[4:51:16] All the wonderful thing he has done for the community.

[4:51:19] And just the fact that people decided to city hall

[4:51:22] those that made the decision to have my dad's name up on a street sign I think is great and the fact that

[4:51:29] it's Ed Arnold way is kind of ironic because he had a way about him and he was very committed to help another council member Glenn Brandis

[4:51:41] Ed made such a difference in our community

[4:51:44] The tens of thousands of lives that he touched through the boys and girls club, through

[4:51:51] the special Olympics, through starting rotary, he was such a difference maker in our community

[4:51:57] and to be able to honor him this way, it's just, it's just really special and wonderful.

[4:52:04] Something else that is wonderful were the 63 years spent being married to Ed.

[4:52:08] It tells us we were perfectly matched because I had a wonderful life of what I did and

[4:52:19] was busy, busy working my way to be the best I could be and he did the same and then we

[4:52:26] come together, it was an awesome marriage, it was the best, it could have been better.

[4:52:33] I wish God would let him peek down and see that.

[4:52:37] So see that sign.

[4:52:39] It's meaningful.

[4:52:40] It's something that I know he would never have wanted for himself.

[4:52:43] But I think he's smiling down and happy that it's happening.

[4:52:55] Reporting in Fountain Valley, I'm Jacqueline Twig.

[4:53:18] Today morning here in Fountain Valley,

[4:53:20] runners and walkers are lacing up their sneakers ready to race for good cause.

[4:53:35] This

[4:53:40] is a really great race, teaming up with Hyundai gave us the opportunity to tie the proceeds together.

[4:53:45] Between Hyundai Hope on Wheels and Chuck, in our community group right here in Found Valley.

[4:53:50] And that's why you'll see so many groups out here today, just put those proceeds and have a great time.

[4:53:59] For 27 years, the Hyundai and our dealers we've been involved in the fight against pediatric cancer

[4:54:03] by doing two big names.

[4:54:05] One is raising awareness and the other is funding research.

[4:54:08] This year's $27 million will bring our lifetime total since 1998 to $277 million.

[4:54:15] We provide money for research, treatment, survivorship, health kids, get through their journey wherever they are in their journey.

[4:54:22] And Emmy is an important voice.

[4:54:24] In this effort, she spreads hope with the across the nation as you visit hospitals, give grants, and share her courageous story.

[4:54:31] When I was two years old, my mom and dad noticed I had a back pain so bad I could hardly walk.

[4:54:37] We rushed to Seattle Children's Hospital where I was diagnosed with high risk and near Westoma,

[4:54:43] and gave him only a 50% chance of surviving.

[4:54:46] Thanks to the amazing care of my doctors and nurses, I am now a nine-year cancer-free.

[4:54:50] And about nine years later, I am now working with

[4:54:53] Hyundai upon wheels to raise funds for kids who are going through what I went through.

[4:54:58] And there are runners.

[4:55:00] So touch my cancer. I'm my son, I'm a cancer survivor. I had the breast cancer five years ago. So I'm especially very, very cautious about health. This kind of lines with me and I support the city, I want them what is good city. And for others, this is a family affair. The hair is family. It's here with their 10 and 6 year old daughters.

[4:55:20] As a family, we always, you know, want to exercise and be together is great, our daughter's dance and so we all like to keep the healthy together so we thought we would do the 5K to keep that going.

[4:55:31] I'm excited to go with them. I think it's going to be really fun for them to run.

[4:55:34] I think we'll have a good time. A lot of their friends are here from dance.

[4:55:37] I'm excited because I like it to be with my friends and family and it's very special.

[4:55:45] It's fun, we got memories, it's kind of nice to do this little hobbies together now and yeah it's just exciting.

[4:55:54] It's always good to come out, see, see the people in your community, it's important to cause.

[4:55:58] There's so many organizations now benefiting as well, there's an even bigger turnout.

[4:56:03] This event has really grown. I understand even three years ago was less than 700.

[4:56:08] last year we heard it with about 1,400. And this year it's grown over 2,000 and they're

[4:56:13] groups from all over the county and even from LA as far as Oregon. And so we're just so excited

[4:56:20] this continues to grow. It's just a wonderful event.

[4:56:26] For more in city of Mountain Valley of them,

[4:56:28] log onto their website, reporting in Mountain Valley from Jacqueline Twey.

[4:57:05] In the Vietnamese culture,

[4:57:06] The dragon represents good fortune, power, prosperity, and also water and rain, essential for a good harvest.

[4:57:15] Hundreds of families turned out for fountain valleys, moon lantern festival.

[4:57:20] It's just sounded like a very family, friendly, funny band.

[4:57:25] The kids love dragon dancing, so we knew that was going to be there.

[4:57:32] Hanging lanterns bring good luck and protection.

[4:57:35] This tunnel was made up of 2,000 animal lanterns, beautiful during the day,

[4:57:41] and as this sun went down, dazzling in the night sky.

[4:57:45] The festival is a dual celebration of both the harvest moon

[4:57:48] and recognition of the young child.

[4:57:51] Today is a bedroom pole which means the celebration for the little child,

[4:57:56] The little kids, so the certificate of it,

[4:57:59] or to, you know, not just celebrate the beautiful moon,

[4:58:02] the film moon that we usually come with some part of it.

[4:58:05] But also to celebrate the family,

[4:58:08] dynamic, so all the family can be together.

[4:58:11] They do something together, have fun together.

[4:58:14] Also, the kids can learn about, like,

[4:58:17] or the child, so that's, you know, things of Vietnamese festival.

[4:58:20] Growing up here, I'm not as connected to the Vietnamese culture,

[4:58:23] so I really want to make a be intentional about it.

[4:58:26] It was

[4:58:37] a chance for children to learn about their heritage from their own peers, dressed in elaborate costumes,

[4:58:44] a performed traditional songs and dance.

[4:58:47] Fountain Valley Mayor 10 boys spoke at the opening ceremony.

[4:58:51] If you're here, there's because your parents want to bring on that tradition.

[4:58:55] So if you enjoy being here, let's give a big thank you to your parents.

[4:58:59] For the first time this year, the festival is taking place at Myles Square Plaza across from Myles Square Park.

[4:59:06] This is that third annual, so the previous two years it was held at Gondon Gorsity, our neighbouring city.

[4:59:13] And as they say, wow, why don't we be amazing if you can come to Grand Valley?

[4:59:16] Next thing I know, they apply for the applications and they hear.

[4:59:19] They proud about their culture and how to engage all us together, all the committee.

[4:59:25] And also that we, we want for other community, know about our culture too.

[4:59:35] Three month old Lewis is getting an early introduction.

[4:59:39] So this is our first year with my son.

[4:59:41] He's going to listen to our showroom, our culture, our festival, our new new year, the cake and stuff like that.

[4:59:48] Basically, I just want to give him what we got to offer here in California.

[4:59:52] Teams of kids took part in a lantern decorating contest with cash prizes.

[4:59:58] Organizers plan for as many as third.

[5:00:16] The judges are going to have a tough time picking winners with so much challenge on display.

[5:00:22] Everyone who came out tonight, along with the city and business owners, are hoping this year will be the first of many more to come.

[5:00:29] The more I grow up, the more I want to hold on to these traditions, otherwise just be a memory.

[5:00:35] What I love about these events is that it really teaches our children and the new generation about our culture.

[5:00:42] Because a lot of times when you live in a different country, you kind of lose our roots a little bit.

[5:00:47] But when we have these events in community, it kind of reminds us and teaches us and brings that curiosity.

[5:00:54] At Mile Square Plaza, this is Valerie Starn reporting.

[5:01:11] The 2025 fountain valley mayors ball is underway and everyone is dressed in their finest to honor Mayor Ted Buoy and the rest of council.

[5:01:21] Cheers.

[5:02:13] Thank you for coming to support our community tonight.

[5:02:16] We have a long tradition of annually honoring the mayor and city council without valley.

[5:02:21] And we thank them for supporting our business community.

[5:02:25] We heard a cell ring, the leadership in 10 billionth demonstrated during this year's

[5:02:32] mail.

[5:02:37] I know Ted, and Ted would agree that in any community, when talking about leadership,

[5:02:44] it's a team effort.

[5:02:46] The Fountain Valley Chamber of Commerce is hosting this gala, bringing together businesses

[5:02:51] and the community while celebrating city leadership.

[5:02:56] 10. Thank you for your friendship, for your loyalty, and for your passion, and more importantly, for your heart.

[5:03:06] The heart is much served, and the heart that loves you much better, and always keep in touch with you for yourself.

[5:03:13] When I look around in this room, I see the heart of Fountain Bonnet. People who believe in heart works in community and in one another.

[5:03:23] Tonight is about you.

[5:03:27] It's a night to celebrate all of us.

[5:03:29] As a team, among Council member, among staff,

[5:03:33] among stakeholders in this community.

[5:03:36] It's about celebrating everyone

[5:03:38] and what we have accomplished for the year

[5:03:40] and we want to lay down to keep it up to speed

[5:03:43] what we have done throughout the years.

[5:03:46] This year, we celebrate Grand Opening for Amazon Fresh.

[5:03:50] the UBS North, Lady Bell, Medical Spa, and of course Food Long Coffee and Tea. Each

[5:03:59] we've been cutting was more than a show morning. It was a reminder that success in

[5:04:04] family begins with the people who believe in community. It's a good chance to

[5:04:11] interact with the community. We always try to do what we can to figure out what

[5:04:18] interested in what will make their life better as a resident of Fountain Valley, so it's a great

[5:04:24] time, let's say I've got a whole house today.

[5:04:30] This is in tradition that I can say that our city

[5:04:35] fathers and mothers taught us to continue. This is a long tradition of celebrating the team of the council,

[5:04:44] but also the city staff. This is an opportunity for us to get together once a year as a council

[5:04:49] really celebrate each other, celebrate our accomplishments together as a team and

[5:04:54] it's always a lot of fun. It also kind of brings back our sort of from memories from back in the day.

[5:05:00] So it's also a little bit of that which we really enjoy.

[5:05:10] There's a sit-down dinner and entertainment after cocktail hour.

[5:05:18] Tonight we have the fountain valley high school drum line that's going to be a part of our entertainment.

[5:05:23] We're very excited about that to bring in the youth of our community and making sure that they are a part of what we're trying to accomplish here.

[5:05:30] And that's build and grow a stronger fountain valley.

[5:05:39] Are we ready?

[5:05:45] 0, 0, 1, 2, 9, 2.

[5:05:50] As part of the fundraising, they hold a raffle for a diamond necklace opportunity, courtesy

[5:05:55] of Mimi's jewelry.

[5:05:59] The theme this year, the year of the rose.

[5:06:03] A suggestion was made that the necklace, there's an annual tradition of a necklace being

[5:06:08] a part of the raffle that it be a rose and it just called to the committee to say, the year

[5:06:14] of the rose.

[5:06:15] That's such a neat theme.

[5:06:16] you know, it's floral, it's about growing, it's about, you know, the things we want to see

[5:06:21] flourishing and things happening in Mountain Valley. As you all know, it takes 11 support from

[5:06:26] your family to be an elected official, that Rose has done that in me. It's also, I think, a little

[5:06:32] bit of homage to the first lady, Rose Boy, a Merithead Boy's wife. So there's a theme there.

[5:06:46] It's a

[5:06:46] This fundraising event helps local organizations in the community.

[5:06:53] Last year, the Chamber of Commerce started a new tradition, and that was to support a non-profit in the community chosen by the mayor.

[5:07:00] And this year, we have continued that tradition to provide some of our proceeds to the three organizations that Mayor Booey has selected.

[5:07:10] And that is the Found Valley Schools Foundation.

[5:07:16] The very club of Fountain Valley and

[5:07:22] the women's club of Fountain Valley.

[5:07:29] The amount of effort that you put in this year, you know when it can be said, you guys that.

[5:07:35] The caring and the hard you have for a city and truly trying to do what you think is

[5:07:42] best for our city.

[5:07:43] That's important.

[5:07:44] You can't ask for anything more than that.

[5:07:47] Well, it's just fun every year to celebrate a great year Mayor Booye worked so hard this year.

[5:07:53] It's really an honor of the mayor, and you know, it's just good to be able to support him and thank him for all the hours he put in this year.

[5:08:04] It has a special friend of mine.

[5:08:06] And Fountain Valley is all of you knows a very, very special place.

[5:08:09] A fountain valley is special because they do have an unbelievable city council that works together.

[5:08:15] They have a great city staff and as demonstrated with so many people here today,

[5:08:20] you're all champions because a lot of you are involved in service organizations and nonprofits.

[5:08:25] Fountain Valley is a wonderful wonderful community and a large portion because of the leadership of Ted Bowie.

[5:08:30] So I want to make sure I was here for the mayor.

[5:08:32] He leads with enthusiasm and his strength of personality.

[5:08:37] I am proud to call him my friend. He's involved in almost every one of these non-profit organizations that really make up a difference in a community.

[5:08:46] So tonight, as we celebrate, let's remember what unite us, our pride, our compassion and our share, believe that this city will always be a nice place to do.

[5:09:02] Here's to the mayor and council for another great year.

[5:09:27] Thank you for joining us here this morning,

[5:09:29] whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur,

[5:09:32] a local business owner, someone just starting out,

[5:09:35] someone exploring, starting a business,

[5:09:37] or a supporter of small business growth in our community.

[5:09:39] The fountain valley small business conference

[5:09:41] is officially underway,

[5:09:43] and the city is hosting this half-day event,

[5:09:45] bringing together industry leaders along with the business community.

[5:09:49] We're here to help you one-on-one,

[5:09:50] grow your business with consultants.

[5:09:52] We are all business owners ourselves,

[5:09:54] here to help you do the exact same thing that we're doing.

[5:09:56] We have over 5,000 businesses here in Fowl Valley, and it's a great opportunity.

[5:10:00] Opportunity for those that are kind of looking to go to the next level, to get expertise, perhaps it's funding, maybe it's some AI strategies, marketing.

[5:10:10] There are four breakout sessions for attendees to take part in, featuring everything from financial tips to marketing with AI.

[5:10:18] I'm very proud of the support that our city gives us small businesses. As a small business owner myself, and also a member of the Fountain Valley Chamber of Commerce,

[5:10:28] It's good to bring us all together, and to let that business community know, they can actually be very successful here.

[5:10:35] It's a huge welcoming that we're trying to give to all those small businesses.

[5:10:39] What do you classify as the business as a small business?

[5:10:44] That's a really funny question.

[5:10:46] Anything, anything else like underlight.

[5:10:49] Or anything else, or anything like that?

[5:10:52] Just a bit of a tear as small business.

[5:10:54] The Chamber and FBDC also play a large role in making this a successful event.

[5:11:01] This small business development center offers help to business owners and are leading the workshops here.

[5:11:06] There's no cost. It is not a free service, so we're funded by the Small Business Administration

[5:11:10] and the State of California so that we don't charge anybody fees at the other side.

[5:11:15] We provide training and consulting to businesses that want to grow.

[5:11:19] People that want to start a business and anywhere between.

[5:11:21] When we talk about parent loan applications, all members are going to ask for a business plan,

[5:11:27] and financial conditions.

[5:11:29] Nobody knows that all these resources exist and everybody says,

[5:11:31] what does the government do for small business?

[5:11:33] We're one of those things that government does.

[5:11:35] They give us funding to support businesses with, you know,

[5:11:37] a consultant, a mentor, and all those things that they're needed to grow.

[5:11:41] The fountain valley chamber is excited for this opportunity to connect as well.

[5:11:46] It's important because small businesses are the backbone of the community.

[5:11:51] the backbone of the city and the backbone of America and if the business

[5:11:56] succeed we also succeed in the community succeed in all the cities in

[5:12:00] the city. Those attending are also thankful to have this event as an

[5:12:04] added resource. I think it is great because the format they have they have

[5:12:12] opportunities for people to network. Also they've got food. Food is what brings

[5:12:18] people. And so it's a very good environment, very casual. Anyone can talk to anyone.

[5:12:24] I can tell you the agenda makes it all worth it. Right? You've got people here, which is

[5:12:29] more important than anything. Because right now, attendance is hard to get on a lot of events.

[5:12:33] So you can see how needed it is in the community. Very well organized.

[5:12:37] So it's great. People are awesome. For more enough coming city of Fountain Valley events,

[5:12:42] we'll go on to their website. Reporting in Fountain Valley, I'm Jacqueline Twig.

[5:13:16] Welcome to Fountain Valley, where we're rounding the bases toward a healthier, more vibrant,

[5:13:21] and connected future.

[5:13:23] A strong community starts with health, activity, and safety, making our first base fitness

[5:13:29] valley, from a world-class sports park to unveiling new wellness programs, we're investing

[5:13:34] in spaces that prioritize city-wide health.

[5:13:38] That's why we're going to back for the heart of our emergency services, Fire Station 1.

[5:13:43] This year, we're aiming to fund renovations that update the station and serve our growing community.

[5:13:54] In 2026, we're starting our new in-house ambulance program that will deliver faster, cost-effective and more reliable emergency responses.

[5:14:04] Staying ready is important to us, so we're committed to keeping Pat and Valley healthy, prepared, and strong, both physically and operationally.

[5:14:12] Second base is Foodie Valley, where we're celebrating our exceptional restaurants that bring

[5:14:17] our people together. I'm here at the new Quar restaurant, which serves Chinese dishes

[5:14:23] that are Vietnamese backdrop.

[5:14:30] The Valley's restaurant scene is on a winning streak with 25 new restaurants opening over the

[5:14:35] past year. We love seeing new flavors and dining experiences thrive across the city,

[5:14:41] and are always proud to highlight the diverse mix that makes Fountain Valley a true foodie

[5:14:46] destination.

[5:14:48] Slighting into third base, we make our way to friendly valley, made up of our welcoming

[5:14:52] neighborhoods and community spaces.

[5:14:55] From the Euclid and High Old Development to the 1600 Magnolia Street Project.

[5:15:00] To hear us later apartments, we are building thoughtfully and intentionally. Here in Found Valley, we're playing the long game, investing in developments that bring people together, strengthen community, and improve quality of life for residents today and for years to come.

[5:15:16] Rounding third and heading home, let's talk about resilience. Forever Valley is our commitment to planning, safety and infrastructure, keeping Fountain Valley strong, resilient, and ready for generations to come.

[5:15:28] This ensures we remain a community where services are reliable, streets are secure, and neighbors

[5:15:35] look out for one another.

[5:15:37] Stepping up to the plate for neighbors at the Palm Valley Police Department, you are not

[5:15:41] alone for them to keep senior safe, support it, and connect it through friendly calls and

[5:15:46] visits.

[5:15:47] Because in Palm Valley, we look out for each other.

[5:15:50] As a team, we always bring our A game, and we're committed to building a city that's

[5:15:55] healthy, connected, welcoming, and built to last. This is our fountain valley. This is Forever Valley.

City Council Meeting - May 19th, 2026

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