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Can you hear me in the back? Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the September 2nd meeting of City of

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Guilita Public Engagement Commission. Thank you everyone for being here. Let us get started. I'll

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call the meeting, call to order. Do I bang like I'm all? And let's do pledge of allegiance.

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All right.

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And I guess the next thing would be roll call. Would you roll call?

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All right, commissioners. Please

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Remember to turn on your mic, speak into the microphone,

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Commissioner Amaragi, President, Commissioner Ibarra,

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President, Commissioner again, President, Commissioner Mitchell,

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President, Commissioner Schafer, President,

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Vice Chair Rodriguez,

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and Chair Kelly.

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President, thank you.

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All right. Next item would be public forum. Do we know? Yes. Do we have any online or

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in person public forum? All right. If anyone wishes to speak on an item not on the agenda,

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please use the raise hand icon and I will call on you.

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Okay, Cher Kelly, there believes to be

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no public speakers in person or online. Okay. Moving on. Amendments or adjustments to the agenda.

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Does anyone have any?

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I'll take that as a no.

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Rolling along, consent calendar item A1 approval of the Public Engagement Commission meeting minutes of November 5th, 2025 and March 11th of 2025.

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Recommendation to approve the meeting minutes.

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I make a motion we approve.

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Okay, do I have a second?

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All right, Commission is seconded and approved by Commissioner Amarigay and Ibarra, should we vote on it?

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All right, Commissioners, please remember to speak into your mic and to lock into your votes.

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Commissioner Amarigay?

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Yes.

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Commissioner Ibarra?

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Yes.

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Commissioner again?

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Commissioner Mitchell?

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Yes.

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Commissioner Schaefer? Yes. And Chair Kelly? Yes.

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Okay, so it looks like we've approved

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those minutes. And now we're going to move on to item B, which is a presentation. The

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community relations annual outreach recap for 2526. And I believe this recap presentation

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is coming from our very own Kelly Huber Community Relations Manager on her staff, of course.

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Good evening, Chair Kelly and commissioners. Thank you so much for being here tonight.

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I'm Kelly Huber, the Community Relations Manager, and I'm joined tonight by my amazing team.

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Jamie Shaw and Marcus Martinez. And this is my 7th year with the city. And we've done this report every year. And it's always a great night for us because we get to take a second and really look at what we're doing.

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we know that we're communicating at a furious pace, we know that more and more people are getting

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news from the city and that makes us happy but this is a chance where we can just take a moment,

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pause and really look at what kind of outreach we're doing, what kind of traction it is getting

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and so and look at ways we can improve and get feedback from you all as well. So we know your goal

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the same as ours and that is to make sure that we're reaching as many people as possible

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and that they feel that they are a part of the city and what we're doing, genuinely, a part of it.

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So let's get this report going and we're going to start with what we're doing tonight,

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which I just talked about. We just really want to know how we could increase our outreach

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in public engagement and look at what we've been doing this past year, fiscal year 2526.

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And I mentioned them previously, but this is my amazing team.

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I can't say enough about them.

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Jamie Shaw and Marcus Martinez, I really every day just feel lucky to work with them.

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They're both very talented, hardworking, good people, the level of organization and multitasking

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that these two can do and also just how personal they are and how much they want to

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genuinely relate to the public. I just am very proud to work alongside of them and it's

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my chance to say thank you to them for their exceptional work.

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So what are our goals? These

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really don't change from year to year. We want to keep the community informed with timely and

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accurate information. We want to make the information relatable and easy to understand. We want

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increase our community engagement and participation, increase inclusivity, improve language access.

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We want to build relationships and foster partnerships, and we want to showcase all the city

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projects, programs, and events that are happening.

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And as you all know, there's plenty of stuff happening here at the city.

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And despite all of that, like the number one purpose for us is public safety and emergency communication,

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because we can be doing anything else and when the moment there's an emergency everything is on pause,

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everything, nothing else matters, then making sure that the public knows what's happening and what

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they need to do to be safe. So we work very closely with our emergency services manager, the county office

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of emergency management, the sheriff's office, fire department, all of our local emergency partners.

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We share their information.

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If it relates to Gleeta at all, we share it.

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And I would say it's a big, big part of what we do every day

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is working closely with our emergency partners.

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And as you will see tonight, the outreach that we share and what we do with them

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is probably the easily the most important thing that we do

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and the community cares about it the most.

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So the city uses a variety of outreach tools

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to reach the widest possible audience.

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These include the website,

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of delivery, press releases, social media,

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next door, the monarch press, YouTube,

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channel 19, A frames, light post banners,

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and of course, our community events.

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We use multiple channels to allow the city

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to meet residents where they are.

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And in person events continue to be an effective way

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for us to increase public engagement.

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Spanish outreach continues to be important.

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We want to ensure all members of the community have access to city information and the opportunity of the Equal Opportunity to participate

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The city provides managed messaging through its outreach channels

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including social media

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gift delivery

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Radio per motion with radio or uncle and other community partners

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The city also sorry the city also provides a website translation life Spanish interpretation at city council meetings

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Translated council agendas and Spanish YouTube captions

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We have plenty of highlights from this past year, and we're going to go over them with you tonight,

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and they're on the screen right now, but we're going to go into each of them.

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I'm going to start with something that we don't do often, and that is being the movie business.

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And this year was exceptional in the...

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Act that we had the ability to create Elwood Mesa beyond the Bluffs, which was a short film, and it was

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created for the 20th anniversary of Elwood Mesa, which is a beloved open space here in

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Galita. We had two screenings. It debuted at the wild and free film festival on November 16th, and there was a full

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house. And we actually had to turn people away. So we did a second screening at

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Camino Real Marketplace. And again, it was a full house. We posted the video

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on YouTube. And we saw the record on YouTube for the Galita TV YouTube, I should

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say, with more than 20,000 people viewing it. So if you haven't watched this film,

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we encourage you to. It'll make you proud of where you live. And it's just a great

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story and we appreciated that we got a chance to be in the movie business this past year.

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It was fun. Also we had the July 4th drone light show. This is the second one.

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We came back with the second event. It was held on obviously July 4th.

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It does publish high school. This was a really special year because it was America's 250th birthday and we had 250 drones.

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We had about 4,000 people this year. Lots of things for people to do.

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This year we raised $134,000, which was more than we did the year prior.

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We had even more sponsors set up the Sharia 29.

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We had 50 community volunteers who helped us put this on and 15

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glee the staff members. It was just a wonderful, wonderful event.

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And we are already planning the third times the charm and we are planning the third

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the July drone light show and of course we'll come up with new and even more engaging ways to

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get people there and make sure they're having a great time.

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Good evening commissioners,

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the city has found that one of the best ways to increase our public engagement is within

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person events. This past year, a variety of in-person events were held by the city,

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Our signature community events are those you see listed here, and they are events that occur every year.

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For lead Ghalida, the city completed its sixth lead Ghalida community academy in February,

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2026 with 32 graduates, and it included the largest number of high school and college students in the graduating class since the program began.

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The State of the City is the greatest night of the year with live music, city information

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tables, mingling, refreshments, presentations from the mayor, council and city manager

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followed by questions from the public.

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Our copying community KappaE Community Dodd events are held throughout the year with one in

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each of the city's four districts.

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We just held our third one of 2026 this past Saturday, August 29th, in district four, and

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have our last one coming up at the end of the year for District 3, but residents throughout the

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city attend any one regardless of the district they live in. The dam dinner is a casual community

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event at Lake Lowe's Karnaros with tables set up along the dam, live music, a food truck, and more,

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and it feels like forever ago but it was only two to three weeks ago that we at the one for

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At the end of the year, we have the Guilita Old Town Holiday Parade and Window Decorating Contest.

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The city works with the parade organizers, arranges transportation for the city council in the parade,

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and holds a window decorating contest for nearby businesses to get in the holiday spirit.

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Beautify Guilita is a program in our Environmental Services Division with community cleanup events and bulky item pickups

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throughout the city at various times of the year.

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And then there's Creek Week and Coastal Cleanup Day,

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which are coming up the week of September 19th through 26th.

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This is the celebration of the region's creeks, watersheds, and oceans.

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It includes activities throughout the Santa Barbara South Coast,

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including Coastal Cleanup Day,

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and the Creek Week Art Contest hosted by the Gallida Valley Library.

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And this Saturday, September 5th, is the last day to submit artwork.

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We actually just sent a press release out about quick, quick activities this afternoon.

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Hopefully you all receive that, but that includes the activities that we are doing here in

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Galita for that week.

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And last on this list, you'll see the public works week event, which is an interactive event for families

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held at the Camino Real Marketplace during public works week in May.

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It's an opportunity to get to know the public work staff, learn about upcoming projects and ask questions.

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Thanks.

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But that's not all. Here are some other community events the city was a part of last fiscal year.

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We had the Gullita Valley Library groundbreaking held on February 12th to mark the start of construction on the ADA Safety and Building Improvement Project at 500 North Fairview Avenue.

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There was the San Jose Creek Project groundbreaking, which took place on April 9th.

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marking construction on a project that will create a welcoming and accessible three miles of new

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class one bike and pedestrian pathway. The long-awaited splash pad ribbon cutting was on May 21st

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for the city's newest water feature, a Johnny D Wallace neighborhood park. The splash pad is open

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seasonally through Labor Day weekend so everyone is encouraged to get their final splashes in before

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the last day this Monday September 7th and it will open again Memorial Day weekend 2027.

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The Guilita Lemon Festival is coming up at the end of September.

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The city helps promote the event and staffs a popular city booth at this 2-day festival.

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The Guilita Valley Library is right next to us and our third team is part of the Lemon Festival's Safety Street.

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Meet me in Old Town is a block party series held twice in the summer months in Old Town.

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The city partners with the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber on this event.

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We held the Street Talk Open House in April as part of an engagement initiative to get feedback

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from the public on transportation in Guilita, and there was the air purifier distribution

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hosted by the air pollution control district and held at the Guilita Community Center

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on March 14th, or then 400 air purifiers were distributed for free to old town Guilita residents

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at this event.

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Facebook and Instagram saw significant growth in both audience and engagement this past fiscal year.

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Facebook reached increased to almost 2.5 million with an M compared with about 287,000

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the previous year and our Instagram reached more than doubled to 168,922 with interactions greatly increasing

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from the previous year. So it was really really good here for us.

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Galita's role as team Austria's based camp host city for the FIFA World Cup, provided a unique opportunity for the community to be a part of the world's largest sporting event.

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Interesting team Austria's training session was very high with strong demand for the limited tickets we have.

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And the city's World Cup watch parties at the Galita Community Center and meet me an old town through great turnouts and gave residents a family friendly opportunity.

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to participate. We also had a special business lunch and learn where we had about 50 businesses

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attend to get some help in promoting World Cup events.

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Now we're going to look at the data. In reviewing the numbers for last fiscal year and comparing

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it to prior fiscal years, the numbers show us that they can see the city continues to grow its

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audience on some platforms. Our communication is frequent and consistent and the level of growth

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depends on the platform used.

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First, we'll look at the monarch press,

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which is the city's monthly E Newsletter,

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shared on all of our channels and sent to the media.

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Right now, we are working hard to get this

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September issue out, so stay tuned.

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More people continue to sign up every year

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to receive the monarch press via email or text.

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The monarch press topic list

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in Guv Delivery grew about 500 subscribers

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over the last fiscal year.

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And we now have 8,594 people signed up to receive the E-news letter.

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The city knows that not everyone likes to receive their information digitally,

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so a limited number of people just over 40,

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still receive the online newsletter in print format.

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So taking a look at our social media numbers,

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this is what it looks like.

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So we've used these same social media platforms now for a while

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And so do most of our other jurisdictions that we look at.

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And what we're seeing is at Facebook,

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steadily increases.

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X has remained pretty flat but important

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because of the people who are sending information

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out and the people who are sharing that information

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are a lot of public information,

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officials, agents, agencies.

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So that is slowly growing or remaining sort of kind of flat actually this past fiscal year and then looking at Instagram of course it is having a great increase and it's a very successful platform for us.

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This is another graph to show you those numbers just to see it a different way so you can see how Facebook is.

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It's just year after year, increasing for us, acts pretty flat and Instagram is increasing as well.

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So it's always interesting to look at our partners and our neighbors and see what their social media

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looks like and what they use. And it really depends on the city and you can look in your staff report and look on the

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we won't go into it too much in depth, but it really depends on the individual city as to what

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they prefer and how they're gaining success with that platform.

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The city stopped Facebook post

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of the fiscal year covered detectives investigating an assault with a deadly weapon that occurred

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just outside city limits at the Magnolia Shopping Center. The post was published in October,

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2025 and it received 522,685 views and generated 14,196 reactions, comments, and shares.

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It's a good example of how timely public safety information can generate significant

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community attention on our channels.

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Looking at the top 10 Facebook posts, public safety and timely community information made

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up the majority of the highest performing content.

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Other high-performing posts include storm impacts, arrest, traffic updates, the new

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Hollister Avenue roundabouts and a dual citizenship event.

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This aligns with our overall Facebook data showing that timely public safety, emergency,

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traffic, and community information drove much of the city's reach.

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The top Instagram post was June 5, DUI checkpoint, received 30,368 views and generated

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to 1,297 reactions, comments, and shares on Instagram.

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It's another good example of public safety information,

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continuing to perform strongly on our visual platforms.

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The top Instagram posts include a strong mix of both public safety

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and community-focused content.

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Beyond DUI checkpoints, Team Austria, Goodland Good Shopping,

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student piece poster were among the strongest community focus post. Community content like this

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helps showcase good lengths people businesses and local events and contribute to the growing

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city Instagram following. Outside of the top 10 are most common popular posts are the ones focused

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on events like splash pad and supporting local businesses.

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The top post on X was a 911 outage

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that occurred on July 22nd, 2025.

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We had 754 views, engagement was 15.

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This is, again, the highest performing

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exposter in the period, and it highlights

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where extra means valuable for the city, quickly

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sharing an urgent real-time information with the community.

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Our top performing content included a variety

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of community and event-related posts, including, again,

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Team Ascia, along with our timely public safety information,

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ex does continue to trail Facebook and Instagram

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with less audience growth and engagement, but it continues to be useful for us for the timely

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updates and event disability with our partners in use agencies in the area.

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Moving on to the website, the city website is one of the main ways to reach people. This

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last fiscal year, there were almost 220,000 users to the website, which is you can see as an

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increase over last fiscal year, but on part with the year before that. Even though the city did

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website redesign back in 2022. We noticed that users continue to access the website via desktop

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over mobile or tablet devices.

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It's always fun to look at the top pages on the city website.

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Unsurprisingly, the city homepage had the most page views followed by meetings in agendas,

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the Galita Butterfly Grove, the Galita Valley Library homepage, and you can see the rest up on the screen.

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The library homepage saw the largest decrease of our top pages year over year, and this may be due to the main location currently being closed for construction, and the addition of a sub-page dedicated to the Galeda Valley Library Express, which also made the top ten list.

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For comparison, the top 10 pages are similar to last fiscal year, with the exception of newcomers

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GVL Express and the July 4th drone light show, which replaced web pages for the library book

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fan and group picnic reservations.

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Gov Delivery is a valuable tool for community relations.

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And is used to reach the community directly with email and text messages. The platform allows users to choose the topics they are interested in receiving information about.

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At the end of fiscal year 2526, there were 50,000 subscribers, which is down slightly from the year before that.

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One factor that likely plays into the decrease is the system's automatic removal of inactive email addresses.

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It's interesting to note that community member engagement with the messages they receive is also down year over year.

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Less people are opening the emails and text messages and clicking on the links within the bulletins then in prior years.

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Gallida in Espanol, subscriber numbers remain relatively flat this past fiscal year,

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but the city is continuing to look for opportunities to increase awareness and reach among our Spanish speaking residents.

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On next door, our membership increased more than a thousand followers. It's important to know

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that next door is a neighborhood-based website.

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So when residents sign up, they are automatically connected to their designated neighborhood.

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they do not need to individually choose to follow the city to see city post shared with their area.

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The platform has high active neighborhood engagement, giving the city unique opportunity to

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share information with residents who are already participating in local conversations.

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Videos, they remain a really important tool for communication. Many people would prefer to just

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to watch a video to get the information and so we continue to create a lot of videos.

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There's some of them there that are pictured.

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The drone light show recap is right there.

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The lead, Galita, recap.

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Then the third picture you see right there is Mayor Polluproading inviting everyone to the state of the city.

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And then you'll see that last pictures of the splash pad ribbon cutting.

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So not only do we promote events a lot of times we will recap them as well just to show

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How the event went. So last year we did 42 videos, which is a lot, but believe it or not, and the prior fiscal year we did 54. 11 of the videos this past year were in Spanish. And really all of them are in Spanish except for some of the recaps and those you can watch the Spanish captions on YouTube. So you still can can get the information in Spanish.

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And all of our videos are on YouTube on the City of Glee does website, and we also often

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will use pump flicks, which are the gas station when you're pumping your gas, and

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you see a short video, they're only 19 seconds, by the way.

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So they're very short, I think it might even be 18 seconds now, but so those are just, we

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don't use those very often but just when we really need to get some quick information out

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on an upcoming event, a pre-community event.

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Press releases.

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This also is an important tool for the city and some people would say press releases are old

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school.

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There's a lot of agencies that don't do them anymore but we are firm believers in the press

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releases because it is our way to sit down, make sure we're getting as much information

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as we can in a clear way to understand it, we have quotes that we put in our press releases,

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we put photos, we put links, and it makes it very easy for the media to take what we send out and

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use it, we translate it into Spanish as well. So it's really a way that we can make sure that our

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information is not just getting out to our community, but getting out to the larger population

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so they can see what's happening with the city of Galita. And it really results in a lot

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of media coverage. We sent out 178 press releases last fiscal year. And these are shared on all

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of our city channels. And we had over 600 media mentions. And we think a lot of that is largely due

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the press releases that are being sent out unless people know what's happening.

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A frame science and light post-banners remain an effective outweigh.

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Excuse me, outreach tool and thanks to Marcos for placing our A frames throughout the city every time we change the amount.

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These signs provide a way for people to learn about upcoming events, campaigns, surveys, etc.

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A large number of people hear about our events through these signs so we know that they are getting people's attention.

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Light post-banners

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There are another way to promote city campaigns, long-term projects and programs, and new this past fiscal year, we have light post-banners, welcoming team Austria.

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Another communication tool we use is Golita TV Channel 19. All of the city's videos that Kelly just talked about, play on Channel 19, and the platform is also used to promote upcoming city meetings, events and programs by creating a slide that we post there as well.

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we do that in English and Spanish.

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Blackboard Connect is the city's phone notification system used to share

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information in the case of an emergency or a significant event impacting the city. While a very

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important tool, it is one we rarely use, over 20,000 people are signed up to receive phone calls,

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emails and or text messages, and last fiscal year, this service is only used once to promote

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the community state of the city.

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And now we need to drum roll. Here it is. Here are our numbers

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for this past fiscal year. Let's look at them. So monarch press is doing great. It went up.

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Facebook is going up. Twitter, which is X, is going just kind of stagnant study. Instagram is going

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next door, going up, gov delivery. This is where we want to focus on. We saw a decrease there,

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even though it's not significant, it could be explained with potentially them cleaning up emails,

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we're going to exploring this little more. And we want to see that Spanish subscriber gov delivery

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number go up and it is went down slightly last fiscal year.

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Website users are going up.

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We would love to see more people using accessing the website via their mobile device,

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cell phone, but we're pleased with a number of people that are visiting the city's website.

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And Prostor leases, we're doing a little bit less of those, but still a lot.

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And we're still doing a lot of videos, as you can see, less than we did the prior year but still a lot and also in Spanish.

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So looking at these numbers, this is our takeaways, and then we want to hear from you as well.

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We want to see the increase in Galita and Espenal.

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We want more subscribers signed up, and how are we going to do that?

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But Marcus can talk more about it, but really it's just more in-person outreach.

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You want to expand on that a little bit, Marcus.

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Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Kelly.

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Yeah, you know, so just this, the past couple of years there's been, you know,

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concern about a administration.

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It's impacted some people's desire to participate in non-essential activities.

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We do want to really reach out to these people, those are some ideas we have are just a smaller

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community based outreach opportunities, partnering with some community organizations, really

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do what we do now, but just add a smaller, more personal level that goes a long way.

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And taking advantage of the radio, which I just really want to highlight how popular radio

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is still is for this Spanish speaking community and that partnership that we've been exploring

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this past year, because really we've been benefits,

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and yeah, just focus on kind of what

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we're doing now, reaching residents in a familiar and trusted setting. We want to keep

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seeing everyone in our community participate with all the events that we do, the outreach

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opportunities, and programs like Lead Galita.

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Another takeaway from looking at these numbers is just, I think we were so focused on just making

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as many people as possible, we're receiving our information.

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And now we're saying, OK, they're receiving it,

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but how many people are actually clicking it on and reading it?

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And what we kind of have concluded a lot is how we behave,

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which is we're so busy that we're getting information

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from so many different sources, as I know you all are.

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And a lot of times you just don't have the time

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to click it on and read it, and you just kind of glance

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and get just what's the gist of this, OK?

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maybe even the headline, maybe the first couple of sentences and then you're done.

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And so what we're looking at doing and we're already starting to do is just shorten our messaging,

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maybe less text, fewer details, still what's important, but maybe less facts because we want people

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to feel like we're not bombarding them with too much information. And it's just easier to

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digest and run away with. And the third big takeaway.

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We'd love to see more people on their phone accessing the website and so we are in the beginning stages of exploring an app for the city.

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And that's really it from us now. We want to hear from you. Any questions or feedback?

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I'm going to circle back around that everyone go first, but I just want to say thank you and commend you all.

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I know how time-consuming it is to pull all that data and the numbers together to give us that accurate picture.

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So thank you all for a comprehensive report.

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And if any of the other commissioners want to jump in with any questions?

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Do you remember?

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Yes, I'd like to add my comments, but I'm really proud of the associate with staff.

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You guys are wonderful.

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I mean, this is a lot of work.

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You know, it's well organized and I'll treat everything so positive.

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I will have a couple of suggestions,

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based on what you mentioned in terms of the last comment,

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like, where would people have time to get information?

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We don't read it.

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There's an AI feature.

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These days, that will summarize what you are interested in

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of all the viral sources that I'm just,

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you can ask for it or we can make that available

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then that will help.

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It looks like.

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You just go through, in an instant, go through

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your text, your information, and then you

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pull it, you can see them.

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Maybe that will be something to consider.

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Maybe at, before we close,

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if there's an opportunity to discuss something else

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that we can maybe look at in terms of public safety.

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Is this the right time or later on?

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I think let's come back to it.

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Right.

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And let others weigh in.

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Thank you.

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Commissioner, I'm a really Commissioner Mitchell.

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So I get a lot of information to my electronic stuff all the time.

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And I'm probably guilty of just scanning the headline

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and then I read further if I want to or I just delete

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because I get from not only the city now,

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but the schools and everything.

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So I think your idea of shortening that message is good

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and then, because I just want to see the main info

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and I'm a interested in that I'll stay in a read

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and I'm happy to click on a link for a full story.

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I think that's good and then you just have to also.

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I mean, there's a lot of people to get information to, not everyone's going to be interested in the same thing, so you just have to be, you know, throwing it out there.

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I think the other thing I'm seeing is the information is out there if you know where to go.

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And if you've seen where to sign up for the ready SPC, the city of Galeta, I'm not sure

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I've got delivery, I think I do, but again, that's one of the, I've signed up for everything

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over time, so I get all of it.

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But how do you drive people all that stuff, and that's just getting it out there?

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I love the A frames, because I'm out and about all the time, and I see them, and I'm like,

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oh, that's new.

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And I'll take a picture with my phone and read the later if I have to.

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And so, then, you just have to, how do you get that in front of people where they can just say,

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oh, okay, I can go to CityGolita.org or, or, or, ready, SPC. You do a lot of videos. Maybe 20, 30,

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second ads. Maybe the movie theaters, which bombard us while we sit there waiting for the

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show to start with ads on popcorn instead of that thing. And you got a 20, 30 second recap of what

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happen in the quarter and to learn more, go to cdgoleta.gov, you know, or something that gets

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in front of people who are in a captive audience,

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maybe the local TV stations as well.

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They run so many ads that, I think, nobody's interested in over and over just to fill

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time, maybe they have deals for the city they're willing to draw ads on there.

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And in person events, you know, all the time got to go where there are lots of people.

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I know AYSO is starting, so Gerst Park will have thousands of people out there on Saturday, if there's left.

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A small booth with maybe a little refrigerator magnet with places to share. I don't know if you guys do that or not. Same as little league, especially opening day. They draw a lot of people in there with kind of a festival of that type thing. And I'm sure there are other events throughout the city.

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And I think that's just the thing. Just where people need to know where to go to find the information, not everybody knows. I think of search for

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00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:34,320
City of Glitter or something.

434
00:40:39,310 --> 00:40:39,510
All right.

435
00:40:39,650 --> 00:40:40,590
Thank you, Commissioner Mitch,

436
00:40:40,590 --> 00:40:41,750
and Commissioner Ebarra.

437
00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:45,180
Yes.

438
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:47,980
As always, thank you for the report.

439
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:53,660
And again, I want to commend our staff.

440
00:40:54,980 --> 00:40:57,860
Thank you very much for completing this report.

441
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,280
As far as the A-frames, I love the A-frames.

442
00:41:02,380 --> 00:41:04,100
I'm a great believer in them.

443
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,300
And you'd be surprised that many people stop by

444
00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:07,080
and do a double take.

445
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,760
Because I guess they still have to get used to it, but they do.

446
00:41:11,060 --> 00:41:19,640
Like it, what I have heard, and I always try and listen to folks, especially when they're

447
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:20,060
complaining.

448
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,880
They like the information they do.

449
00:41:25,780 --> 00:41:34,960
But they also want to hear about other things that concern us in the Galita part of the county.

450
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:41,720
So, for example, one of the things that I hear right now there are concerns having to do with

451
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:42,520
election security.

452
00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:48,760
Maybe we could have somebody from the voter registrar come give a presentation, maybe people

453
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,160
can come, we can engage with that.

454
00:41:51,780 --> 00:41:55,960
Second, the other thing is the weather.

455
00:41:57,420 --> 00:42:03,740
The other thing, the ELC having somebody from the Emergency Operations Center, again come

456
00:42:03,740 --> 00:42:09,660
presentation at our at one of our meetings and people can come and ask questions that they have

457
00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:15,600
concerns because those are the two concerns right now that I hear what happens if it floods

458
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:20,000
what happens if there's a fire right now with the temperature so there are concerns that so

459
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:26,940
I wonder if we could do that invite an agency from the county because we are part of the county

460
00:42:26,940 --> 00:42:35,060
and we work with them, so I think those types of presentations would be

461
00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:41,280
to encourage participation. I think people would want to ask questions and voice concerns because

462
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:46,540
that's what we're here for. As far as seeing you folks, I always see you folks at every event.

463
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:52,780
Somebody is there and I know people stop by and talk to you because I've waited to talk to you

464
00:42:52,780 --> 00:42:56,740
You can greet you when I'm going to pass by, so I like that.

465
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,700
If they have questions, they can address the excuse.

466
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,040
So I just make you short.

467
00:43:02,060 --> 00:43:04,660
Those are the things I think we should look at doing.

468
00:43:06,020 --> 00:43:06,900
Thank you.

469
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:08,120
Commissioner Schaefe.

470
00:43:10,860 --> 00:43:11,300
Thank you.

471
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:12,040
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

472
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,320
I've got some random thoughts that was announced standing report, so it was seriously making

473
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:17,620
notes.

474
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:18,680
I want to thank the staff.

475
00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:26,080
You were operating at a level that far outpaces the size of this city and which you might

476
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,420
see with pure cities around the California, even around the country.

477
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,480
Some of the stats you had compared us to some other cities in the area, it was really impressive

478
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,260
to see how we're operating and so forth.

479
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:37,140
So I really want to commend you all.

480
00:43:37,180 --> 00:43:40,020
I know how hard this is, and I know it's working.

481
00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:44,760
You've seen particularly cognitively the fact that it's hard to engage people.

482
00:43:45,660 --> 00:43:47,440
we live in the information economy,

483
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:49,040
live in the attention economy,

484
00:43:49,540 --> 00:43:50,640
everybody's overwhelmed with information,

485
00:43:50,940 --> 00:43:53,020
and so forth, but you're figuring out how to get through.

486
00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:54,540
So some random notes here,

487
00:43:54,940 --> 00:43:56,460
the A-frames love them too.

488
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,400
And when I look at messaging, I look at what is the messaging saying,

489
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,000
but also in a civic fashion, how does it make you feel?

490
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,620
So people that said, they feel good when they see the A-frames,

491
00:44:05,740 --> 00:44:06,880
it makes you feel good walking around like,

492
00:44:07,100 --> 00:44:07,580
well, that's great.

493
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,140
I feel part of something in the city carers,

494
00:44:09,260 --> 00:44:11,060
that's awesome, and I'm getting information that's important.

495
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,540
So I think that's outstanding, number one.

496
00:44:15,740 --> 00:44:19,580
Number two, you mentioned pressure releases, and you lead into those, a lot of jurisdictions

497
00:44:19,580 --> 00:44:20,380
are not.

498
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:21,860
They're all school, but they work.

499
00:44:22,260 --> 00:44:22,920
They get from a publisher.

500
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:23,620
They work.

501
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:25,880
So, keep leading into those.

502
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,680
I very much agree about engaging local television.

503
00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:32,780
I'm happy to help there, and we've got great relations, but happy to help there as well.

504
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:38,120
I mean, because they will report on things that are important to the city here.

505
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,300
Um, I'm just saying, absolutely supported app.

506
00:44:43,300 --> 00:44:47,280
I think if you're able to get an app depending on the costs going,

507
00:44:47,460 --> 00:44:49,340
I think there would be tremendous engagement from the city.

508
00:44:49,540 --> 00:44:52,700
There are people ridiculous switching into on the phones these days.

509
00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:54,160
You can really live your life on them.

510
00:44:54,580 --> 00:44:58,460
I know a lot of jurisdictions in California have a lot of luck with that.

511
00:44:58,640 --> 00:44:59,960
So if that can be implemented, I would...

512
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:09,140
Absolutely, absolutely, support that. And I'm going to say here. Lastly, I was really happy to hear you

513
00:45:09,140 --> 00:45:15,860
have a little lean-in to manage radio. I think that's an absolutely fantastic resource. It also comes with a lot of credibility.

514
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:22,600
So when people hear something on the radio, I think it lands with the import that it needs to.

515
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:28,040
Lastly, I was going to say, I wouldn't worry about the social media numbers. They're really impressive.

516
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:36,020
And I don't think you need to worry about growing them because what we don't know, and this is really important when it comes to messaging, is who is sharing?

517
00:45:36,140 --> 00:45:37,320
Who is in a household?

518
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:45,460
You're going to very common to have one person in a household or one person in a business that receives the information and then verbally shares it with others.

519
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:53,440
So, growing that is not necessarily, you know, growing is good, but the fact that some things may be stagnant,

520
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,660
particularly at X, which is de-prioritized public safety sadly.

521
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:03,620
What's important is who is sharing the message and there may be some things you can encourage people to share that sort of thing,

522
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,760
but I know that there's people that receive it and verbally share it with in a house,

523
00:46:08,060 --> 00:46:11,340
or like forward something or something like that, so I think I would lean into that.

524
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:16,220
Again, random thoughts, but absolutely outstanding work, very impressive reports, thank you all.

525
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:17,440
Thank you.

526
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,740
Uh, Commissioner Goon.

527
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:20,520
Gain.

528
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:20,980
Sorry.

529
00:46:21,860 --> 00:46:22,620
It's okay.

530
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,460
Um, I like to start off just sharing my gratitude like my fellow commissioners.

531
00:46:26,460 --> 00:46:28,720
I think what you've done is very commendable.

532
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,440
I'd say with the events like the Fourth of July show,

533
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:34,520
the World Cup viewing with Austria.

534
00:46:34,820 --> 00:46:38,900
I think that was a very good moment to try to build up community and very,

535
00:46:38,900 --> 00:46:41,240
I'd say the World Cup game was a bit more.

536
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,660
Even though it seemed like a little bit easier of an approach,

537
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:45,460
just to try to build community and everything.

538
00:46:45,460 --> 00:46:46,600
I think it was very effective.

539
00:46:47,060 --> 00:46:49,740
I mean, you can see in the photos is completely filled up.

540
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:53,420
I think that was a very good idea and worked out really well.

541
00:46:54,020 --> 00:46:58,880
I just had some like side comments and ideas, building off of what my

542
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:04,000
fellow commissioner said, I think it's very hard to look at the actual

543
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,700
statistics, the social media, I mean, there's screen shot

544
00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:10,440
in, there's all these like screen recordings that don't show up or

545
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:14,040
are clear transparent that people might send to like a family group

546
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:19,220
on like a separate app that they might do, so it's very hard to look at these numbers

547
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,940
and at face value there's a lot more going behind the scenes.

548
00:47:24,540 --> 00:47:30,200
Just looking at the data also like you said after you've read done the website for a mobile

549
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:36,660
view, I think it's a little hard to almost expect to see more because I think if I were

550
00:47:36,660 --> 00:47:40,360
to hop on the website.

551
00:47:41,020 --> 00:47:44,520
I would use it almost from like an office space or something

552
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:46,980
to try to see like jobs that are offered.

553
00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:49,660
I wouldn't expect that to just be on my phone

554
00:47:49,660 --> 00:47:52,220
sitting on my couch being, oh, where should I apply to a job?

555
00:47:52,540 --> 00:47:56,120
I don't most expect to be at a computer on my laptop,

556
00:47:56,500 --> 00:47:58,860
looking at my resume, cross-referencing,

557
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:00,060
and applying to things.

558
00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:03,240
So I think it's hard to almost expect the mobile

559
00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:04,780
to jump up by quite a lot.

560
00:48:04,780 --> 00:48:12,180
Because I find that website such as that, or something that people would find more in a comfort of a home computer kind of environment.

561
00:48:12,740 --> 00:48:17,440
So I think what you did with redesigning with the mobile view, definitely helps a lot more.

562
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,460
I think people are a lot more on their phones.

563
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,660
It's a lot easier and more hybrid to kind of swap between both.

564
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:30,900
But I think also at the same time, ultimately it will be a more computer-dominated kind of thing and viewing experience.

565
00:48:31,740 --> 00:48:34,040
So that's probably it with my time.

566
00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:41,000
Thank you. Yeah, all great comments. I had a few quick things and just to jump quickly on

567
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:47,600
Commissioner Geon's final thing. I think he's right in the sense of you're probably going

568
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:53,300
to start passing data out in terms of the mobile app is not going to be as comprehensive

569
00:48:53,300 --> 00:48:59,400
as the website desktop and that's okay, right? And I think that you know, you're going to

570
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:03,700
drive people in different places for different things and again, that's okay. So just

571
00:49:03,700 --> 00:49:09,960
a word of warning as we explore that app is not to necessarily get too hung up on. It has to have

572
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:16,240
everything the desktop version has, right? It maybe doesn't. I know there's some changes with

573
00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:22,740
Cox and Spectrum. I don't know if that impacts town 19. I don't know if it does. I'm really curious

574
00:49:22,740 --> 00:49:30,140
is to know why the Facebook numbers have jumped so much. Again, I don't know, but I think I think

575
00:49:30,140 --> 00:49:35,200
Commissioner Shave has said, like, let's not get too hung up on that kind of stuff.

576
00:49:37,460 --> 00:49:45,740
I do wonder, as it, for this specific commission, I wonder if, because, you know, we come

577
00:49:45,740 --> 00:49:52,900
and there's not always much engagement from the public and I wonder if it's worth trying for the next

578
00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:59,260
few meetings because I know you send out a note about the city council meetings by email.

579
00:49:59,260 --> 00:49:59,940
I wouldn't do it.

580
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:16,860
If it would be worth trying a little reminder about public engagement commission, right, because even if we have five or six people online, that would, you know, I think we'd all, maybe not enjoy it necessarily, but I think it'd be nice to see some more engagement, right, so worth a shot on that.

581
00:50:17,940 --> 00:50:24,700
I think, as it regards to the Spanish community, I wonder, and I think we briefly talked

582
00:50:24,700 --> 00:50:31,000
about this a few meetings ago, I'm not sure what raw WhatsApp can play in that because

583
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:38,540
from my understanding that community is typically used as WhatsApp more. Again, that's not

584
00:50:38,540 --> 00:50:42,980
something I know too much about, but I've heard of the community, such as the Spanish community

585
00:50:42,980 --> 00:50:48,400
use what's absolutely something to explore. And then I think to piggyback off what Commissioner

586
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:54,440
Mitchell says and I have to tread a very fine line here is I think the video adds,

587
00:50:54,960 --> 00:51:00,960
or the video engagement really jumps out at me. I'm in that world of course and I think that

588
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:09,140
the city has become a significant partner in its own local film festival and so with that partnership

589
00:51:09,140 --> 00:51:15,040
It comes in opportunity to provide a video messaging at that festival, so that's all I'm

590
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:16,940
going to say on that for obvious reasons.

591
00:51:17,420 --> 00:51:19,760
But again, thank you all for the work.

592
00:51:19,940 --> 00:51:23,840
I know that's a lot of work getting into the data and the data is not always where you think

593
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,000
it's going to be.

594
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:31,020
So with that, I know Vice Chair Rodriguez was a later rival, so I would love to pass it over

595
00:51:31,020 --> 00:51:32,360
to you for any final comments.

596
00:51:37,670 --> 00:51:38,610
Thank you very much.

597
00:51:39,570 --> 00:51:40,350
Sorry for being hearty.

598
00:51:40,850 --> 00:51:42,270
I was driving in from Santa Maria.

599
00:51:42,270 --> 00:51:48,970
I was going to wait and mention this in the indeed, but I think it fits in nicely after

600
00:51:48,970 --> 00:51:49,670
your comments.

601
00:51:50,830 --> 00:51:58,650
One of the questions during the interview process of sitting on the commission was, what ideas

602
00:51:58,650 --> 00:52:04,350
do you have to bring people to City Council to view their or express their views?

603
00:52:04,930 --> 00:52:11,150
And the way I answered that was, I don't think that we necessarily have to focus on bringing

604
00:52:11,150 --> 00:52:16,790
people to the council, especially a commission like this, I think our role is to be out in the

605
00:52:16,790 --> 00:52:25,830
community to hear what they have to say. And I think in our era of technology, we sometimes

606
00:52:25,830 --> 00:52:33,950
rely on technology a lot and we forget about the importance of human relationships. And I'd

607
00:52:33,950 --> 00:52:43,030
I'd like to invite this commission to reflect on how it originated and so much effort was placed

608
00:52:43,030 --> 00:52:49,570
on going out into the community and getting their thoughts on whether the city should be a city.

609
00:52:50,370 --> 00:52:55,310
And I wonder if we can look at having more of a role in community.

610
00:52:55,570 --> 00:53:00,350
We have such diverse and well-connected folks on this commission.

611
00:53:00,350 --> 00:53:03,430
We have a student who wouldn't be wonderful

612
00:53:03,430 --> 00:53:06,490
if once a month there was a table at the school

613
00:53:06,490 --> 00:53:09,810
where you can seek information on what would you,

614
00:53:09,810 --> 00:53:12,670
what are you curious about, what are you interested in,

615
00:53:12,670 --> 00:53:14,090
what would you like the commissioner

616
00:53:14,090 --> 00:53:15,370
to counsel to know?

617
00:53:16,030 --> 00:53:19,090
I'm doing a lot of working K through 12 schools right now,

618
00:53:19,690 --> 00:53:21,510
working with educators and administrators.

619
00:53:22,470 --> 00:53:25,390
So I know about the back to school nights.

620
00:53:26,390 --> 00:53:29,850
There are gatherings that take place outside

621
00:53:29,850 --> 00:53:39,350
of an official city event, but I think if we had permission and then official role, we were

622
00:53:39,350 --> 00:53:44,610
not there to educate people, but rather to say, what would you like the commission?

623
00:53:44,770 --> 00:53:51,110
The engagement commission to know, what would you like the city council to know that's important

624
00:53:51,110 --> 00:53:51,750
to you?

625
00:53:51,750 --> 00:53:56,710
And it could be the weather, the chain, and almenio coming.

626
00:53:56,910 --> 00:53:58,490
It could be fire safety.

627
00:53:58,710 --> 00:54:03,810
It could be how the resale of that industrial plaza

628
00:54:03,810 --> 00:54:08,830
is going to affect traffic or livelihood of people who live

629
00:54:08,830 --> 00:54:09,490
in that area.

630
00:54:09,910 --> 00:54:13,750
We don't know because we're asking them to come here.

631
00:54:14,170 --> 00:54:16,750
And here might not be a comfortable place.

632
00:54:16,750 --> 00:54:23,250
So I just wonder if we could, if we can have a larger role in the in the community.

633
00:54:26,650 --> 00:54:32,470
Yeah, thanks Commissioner Rodriguez, I think piggybacking on that briefly, I had this

634
00:54:32,470 --> 00:54:35,330
idea as I was writing my bike before I came over.

635
00:54:36,430 --> 00:54:40,750
I know you do a great job with the lead academy and I know you have people from the city

636
00:54:40,750 --> 00:54:44,630
come and speak at the lead academy and I know it doesn't necessarily always align with

637
00:54:44,630 --> 00:54:50,910
calendar of these quarterly meetings, but perhaps there's an opportunity there for a commissioner

638
00:54:50,910 --> 00:54:57,570
or two or three to come and present very briefly to that lead academy about, you know,

639
00:54:57,730 --> 00:54:59,950
hey, this is public engagement commission and...

640
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:06,720
And, you know, we want you to engage with us as much as we engage with you, right? So I think that is a great opportunity.

641
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,160
I'm going to come to you Commissioner Barr. I just wanted to double check Commissioner, I'm going to read you.

642
00:55:12,240 --> 00:55:14,300
You had something you wanted to circle back to,

643
00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:17,420
or.

644
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,540
If you think it is actually, but I'm not supposed to do.

645
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,460
Okay. Okay. Well, we'll come back to them in the next Commissioner.

646
00:55:24,780 --> 00:55:25,780
Thank you. Yes.

647
00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:29,720
One of the things that we had talked about some time ago.

648
00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:35,100
and I think it would be appropriate with the issue of e-bikes.

649
00:55:35,980 --> 00:55:41,720
If there could be an opportunity for us to either present,

650
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:45,440
or have a meeting with some representatives

651
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:49,900
from the Galeta Union School Board

652
00:55:49,900 --> 00:55:54,960
and from the Center of the School Board itself

653
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:59,980
because the e-board issue is not going to go away.

654
00:56:00,140 --> 00:56:00,840
It's going to increase.

655
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:06,140
And if we could work something out that we can discuss this issue with the schools,

656
00:56:06,220 --> 00:56:09,140
with the high schools, and the junior high,

657
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,260
and that way we can start educating them at an early level

658
00:56:13,260 --> 00:56:14,760
about safety with helmets.

659
00:56:15,500 --> 00:56:17,900
Not thinking, that age you think you're invincible.

660
00:56:19,300 --> 00:56:21,060
And you think you can go in and out of car.

661
00:56:21,060 --> 00:56:32,440
So I think having an opportunity to work with Representative, the Glyde Union School Board or from the school district itself or Santa Barbara,

662
00:56:34,620 --> 00:56:36,060
that would be a good idea.

663
00:56:36,220 --> 00:56:42,980
I think we would be able to help the city council engage the community because it's an important issue.

664
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:47,700
And now we'll school back in session. It's going to increase. Anyway, just a suggestion.

665
00:56:50,510 --> 00:56:54,850
Yeah, just to, you know, thanks again for the report, I think it was really good.

666
00:56:55,090 --> 00:57:00,970
So if no one has any final comments, we're going to move on to item C.

667
00:57:01,110 --> 00:57:01,670
Oh, Chair.

668
00:57:02,270 --> 00:57:05,210
Oh, sorry, just really quick, so you mentioned what's up?

669
00:57:05,230 --> 00:57:05,530
Yes.

670
00:57:05,710 --> 00:57:05,910
Yes.

671
00:57:05,910 --> 00:57:06,370
Circle back.

672
00:57:06,550 --> 00:57:08,150
So that was something that was mentioned last time.

673
00:57:08,150 --> 00:57:10,710
And we did look into it.

674
00:57:12,450 --> 00:57:19,310
At the current time, the way it works with authors, with the services we offer, it is duplicative.

675
00:57:20,990 --> 00:57:25,710
And it just doesn't really work with what we're looking to accomplish.

676
00:57:26,390 --> 00:57:29,030
So I just want to say that we did look into what's happening.

677
00:57:29,570 --> 00:57:30,510
Okay, thank you.

678
00:57:31,050 --> 00:57:34,050
Okay, item C, discussion, action item,

679
00:57:34,370 --> 00:57:38,650
the 25th anniversary of the city of Galita, my age.

680
00:57:42,350 --> 00:57:44,830
I am going to be presenting on that.

681
00:57:45,210 --> 00:57:49,370
Thanks again for being here and for everybody who is watching as well.

682
00:57:49,370 --> 00:57:51,490
Yeah, we have a big year coming up.

683
00:57:51,590 --> 00:57:53,190
The city is turning 25.

684
00:57:53,450 --> 00:57:54,930
That is our silver birthday.

685
00:57:55,610 --> 00:57:58,490
And we came to you all on March 11th

686
00:57:58,490 --> 00:58:02,230
and got your feedback on the city's 25th birthday,

687
00:58:02,490 --> 00:58:06,990
which is February 1st, and on the 100 year birthday

688
00:58:06,990 --> 00:58:08,630
for the Glee to Community Center.

689
00:58:09,110 --> 00:58:12,270
We want to focus tonight on the 25th year birthday

690
00:58:12,790 --> 00:58:14,810
and we'll come back and talk at another time

691
00:58:14,810 --> 00:58:18,450
about the 100 year, but we know both of them

692
00:58:18,450 --> 00:58:24,410
actually in February, but the Glee to Community Center is having construction and so really

693
00:58:24,410 --> 00:58:30,490
we're unsure with what we can do. So let's focus on what we know is coming and that we can

694
00:58:30,490 --> 00:58:35,430
really celebrate and that is the 25th birthday. Trust me we'll celebrate in both. We love to celebrate

695
00:58:35,430 --> 00:58:41,410
here at the city. And we love A-Frame. So I'm so glad by the way that you all are appreciating

696
00:58:41,410 --> 00:58:46,470
the A-Frame. So we hear about them all the time. If you go into Marcos' office, like you can

697
00:58:46,470 --> 00:58:51,530
and see his desk practically because it's just filled with A frames he's constantly transporting

698
00:58:51,530 --> 00:58:57,970
them around and I took pictures of him at this last event because it's just you know he's such a big

699
00:58:57,970 --> 00:59:02,450
part of his job too. It's just those A frames keeping him clean and transferring him out anyway

700
00:59:02,450 --> 00:59:08,070
could talk about A frames. They'll definitely be a frame for the 25th birthday you can plan on it.

701
00:59:08,110 --> 00:59:15,010
So let's talk about the birthday and what we're thinking at this point and then get your opinion

702
00:59:15,010 --> 00:59:22,050
in your feedback. Because really there's only a certain amount of time we have left and resources

703
00:59:22,050 --> 00:59:29,710
and just what realistically can we pull off that would be meaningful and just a great celebration

704
00:59:29,710 --> 00:59:36,110
for our silver anniversary. So we took all your feedback last time to heart and we really reviewed

705
00:59:36,110 --> 00:59:43,330
it and looked at it and we incorporated a lot of it into this vision that we have now. So the idea

706
00:59:43,330 --> 00:59:50,570
is that the city's birthday is on February 1st and there's a city council meeting on February

707
00:59:50,570 --> 00:59:59,530
2nd. So that seems a little bit like a great opportunity to just have a place, bring people to

708
00:59:59,530 --> 00:59:59,950
City Hall.

709
01:00:00,020 --> 01:00:10,540
Because we haven't done that in a long time. I mean, I know we have council meetings, but where we've had an event at city hall. And really making people feel maybe more comfortable about coming here and bringing them here.

710
01:00:11,500 --> 01:00:28,520
And so the idea is on February 2nd to do a celebration with the community where we can talk about time frame, but where they come before the council meeting, we have maybe step out in front of the solar array, there are out front of council chambers.

711
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:37,840
and we have activity like people bringing items for a time capsule, maybe we have an art project

712
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:43,780
or something simple that people can sign or create that we can hang here in City Hall

713
01:00:43,780 --> 01:00:48,340
to remember the event. We can talk about what other things should be there. We could have

714
01:00:48,340 --> 01:00:56,160
historical photos on display, obviously cake and sparkling cider wouldn't be a birthday without

715
01:00:56,160 --> 01:01:06,160
that and just really I think invite people to celebrate the city and other activities we are

716
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:13,300
to be decided but we would also invite not only the community but are elected officials to come

717
01:01:13,300 --> 01:01:21,360
and present proclamations at the council meeting to celebrate and mark the occasion we would also

718
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:29,220
invite all of our former mayor's and council members that have played a part in this story of 25 years

719
01:01:29,220 --> 01:01:38,400
to be here. We are working on that as well. Some other ideas is one thing we are working on right now

720
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:51,340
is a 25 year specialty logo for the city that we are working on creating merchandise that that the

721
01:01:51,340 --> 01:01:58,960
free and they'll be available not only at the 25th birthday but at other key events such

722
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:04,740
as the state of the city, the drone show, the lemon festival, all of the events we do will

723
01:02:04,740 --> 01:02:11,000
bring out that merchandise and get in the giveaways that are branded to 25 years. So we're

724
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:17,620
working on that and it's progressing really nicely. And what else do we have planned? Oh a video,

725
01:02:17,620 --> 01:02:26,160
We would show a video celebrating the 25 years we're in discussions with what we would show,

726
01:02:26,420 --> 01:02:32,940
but that would be another idea. And we would invite our businesses to participate with

727
01:02:32,940 --> 01:02:40,180
promoting maybe 25 or 25 year specialty items or however they would like to celebrate the city,

728
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:46,400
and we would promote what they're doing on our social media channels. So that's another idea.

729
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:54,440
And one thing that we're also looking at doing, and this is preliminary, but the city doesn't

730
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:56,920
have a formal, they actually take it back.

731
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,240
We do have a city seal.

732
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:06,180
We have a city logo, you see it right there, but a city seal is different, and apparently we do

733
01:03:06,180 --> 01:03:08,360
have one, but it's very basic.

734
01:03:09,420 --> 01:03:14,820
It doesn't really, it's not the usual branding that we have, that's something that we can

735
01:03:14,820 --> 01:03:15,680
really be proud of.

736
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:18,620
It was just kind of a simple basic seal.

737
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:25,900
So we would like for the city's 25th birthday to finally get a city seal.

738
01:03:26,900 --> 01:03:36,520
And so apparently the process is to have a city seal amendment ordinance and take that

739
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:42,080
to council and then get their feedback and then come back with a couple of designs and have

740
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:47,680
City Council choose the seal, but that would be a great birth they give for us in addition

741
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:56,800
to an app would be great too. So yeah, we're 25 and we're growing up and we definitely want

742
01:03:56,800 --> 01:04:04,360
to celebrate and mark this occasion and we would love to hear your ideas with just understanding

743
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:13,220
that it is September and the event is in February, but we are definitely still open to hearing

744
01:04:13,220 --> 01:04:20,460
ideas feedback on what we have planned so far and how to make that even better.

745
01:04:22,900 --> 01:04:25,140
Exciting stuff, commission again.

746
01:04:27,820 --> 01:04:37,820
Yeah, I really like the idea of having a collaborative kind of

747
01:04:37,820 --> 01:04:43,200
my favorite thing of these 25 years and we have everyone like write something down on little

748
01:04:44,260 --> 01:04:48,940
butterfly like sticky notes and they can all put on their own and you can read

749
01:04:48,940 --> 01:04:53,800
the peers and see what they had enjoyed throughout these 25 years you can put your own

750
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:58,060
give your own feedback and then just have a big banner laid out of all these butterflies all

751
01:04:59,040 --> 01:04:59,940
arranged together.

752
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:11,540
Other with all these like fun times, like the merch idea, like shirts or bumper stickers or something to kind of just like wear the flare around and like pride of our city.

753
01:05:12,180 --> 01:05:16,340
I like that. That was pretty much it for me.

754
01:05:17,020 --> 01:05:18,120
Vice Chair Rodriguez.

755
01:05:22,770 --> 01:05:26,970
I'm excited about a 25 year party. 25 was fun.

756
01:05:26,970 --> 01:05:30,870
I don't want to repeat it, but it was fun.

757
01:05:31,930 --> 01:05:40,590
An idea might be to have the short form videos that, I don't know if you've seen them,

758
01:05:41,230 --> 01:05:48,830
mostly focusing on Santa Barbara and I've seen Solving and I'm standing as, but they're

759
01:05:48,830 --> 01:05:54,750
a local short form video producers who are telling the story of the city.

760
01:05:54,750 --> 01:06:04,150
So they pick a specific area or a landmark or a building, and then they tell an informative, historical story.

761
01:06:04,530 --> 01:06:11,230
I think that might be a nice contribution, whether it's done in-house, I don't know how you have time to do anything more,

762
01:06:11,490 --> 01:06:20,010
or if it's outsourced, but that would be a really fun way for community to know and have even more pride in Collida.

763
01:06:21,740 --> 01:06:27,840
I think you're talking about, I can't remember her name, but she was just interviewed in

764
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:28,620
some of our newspress.

765
01:06:29,220 --> 01:06:29,680
I think.

766
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:32,080
Yeah.

767
01:06:32,220 --> 01:06:32,640
That's right.

768
01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:34,500
Commissioner Mitchell.

769
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:45,800
So if I understand February 2nd would be Tuesday, are you only planning to do this from like

770
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:49,980
6 p.m. or 5 on, or is it an afternoon thing as well?

771
01:06:50,460 --> 01:06:53,420
I guess some of that depends on how long you want to do it here.

772
01:06:53,420 --> 01:06:58,460
And convert the parking lot as well a bit.

773
01:06:58,460 --> 01:06:58,960
It's doable.

774
01:07:00,260 --> 01:07:04,920
I mean, if you, I would suggest maybe something from my three o'clock on,

775
01:07:05,660 --> 01:07:09,740
where people can come and mill around and then the city council can start

776
01:07:09,740 --> 01:07:13,060
for whoever's still here, or people will still arrive.

777
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:19,980
I have to watch out for weather too, so maybe plan on some kind of tent on standby.

778
01:07:19,980 --> 01:07:22,560
like, you know, if need be.

779
01:07:23,220 --> 01:07:28,040
But if you extend outside, that does allow for more displays.

780
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:31,740
There's coverage there from the solar panel stuff, so that's great.

781
01:07:34,580 --> 01:07:38,280
You could have the music going, I don't know if it'd be a band or something, I imagine it

782
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:39,360
would be a celebration.

783
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:45,340
Maybe a local auction, we have local companies don't

784
01:07:45,340 --> 01:07:51,900
people can bid and buy. I know. It's a good way to get people to buy local stuff.

785
01:07:55,970 --> 01:08:03,270
Yeah, I think there's going to be an I like the seal idea. I don't know something I don't know what our

786
01:08:03,270 --> 01:08:08,670
city seal looks like, but it's you know, it's not much, but it's something unique to city

787
01:08:08,670 --> 01:08:14,890
I think our little bit more official, could I, could I, could I do there?

788
01:08:15,830 --> 01:08:16,630
Commissioner Shafa.

789
01:08:19,740 --> 01:08:20,140
Thank you.

790
01:08:20,340 --> 01:08:21,540
I think this is an exciting event.

791
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:23,080
It's sort of the field that event of the year.

792
01:08:23,180 --> 01:08:25,380
I think it's just fun and that's a great thing.

793
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:32,900
Vice Chair Rodriguez mentioned that during the interview process with the mayor and the city council members to be appointed to the commission,

794
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,420
to talk about some of the things that she shared in that meeting.

795
01:08:36,420 --> 01:08:40,780
And one of the things I talked about was branding, continuing to really brand the city, and

796
01:08:40,780 --> 01:08:42,580
this is a nice learning branding opportunity.

797
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:48,800
And I love the 25-year kind of special logo, I think that's a love merch, merch goes

798
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:49,540
a long way.

799
01:08:50,260 --> 01:08:54,380
I think it might have been mentioned at a previous meeting, you know, shirts, hats, or that kind

800
01:08:54,380 --> 01:08:54,580
of thing.

801
01:08:54,580 --> 01:08:58,280
But even little things that are inexpensive, they can go to the schools, just give something

802
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:02,760
to give the kids something to take home, I mean those things are really meaningful, you know,

803
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:04,280
I like that kind of thing.

804
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:12,340
And I think the anniversary can be about just the anniversary and getting information out

805
01:09:12,340 --> 01:09:15,760
and people knowing it and feeling good about it, I think I don't know if that is a great idea.

806
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:21,380
But obviously we're offering a massive, you know, 30,000 person party for something like this,

807
01:09:21,420 --> 01:09:23,360
and that's possible to do.

808
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:33,760
So, yeah, really lean into what can be done to, you know, I'd love to be out and about, you know,

809
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:36,760
25th anniversary t-shirt or hat or something like that.

810
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:38,100
Think about how much fun that would be.

811
01:09:38,500 --> 01:09:40,760
And that's another expensive, but people would buy that.

812
01:09:40,900 --> 01:09:41,960
So you go to offset your costs.

813
01:09:42,980 --> 01:09:45,080
So I think that makes a lot of sense.

814
01:09:46,420 --> 01:09:48,100
But I don't think you can really go wrong here.

815
01:09:48,300 --> 01:09:49,820
And I think it's really a strong opportunity.

816
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:51,580
And I'm completely separate about it.

817
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:52,620
I have a question for Marcus.

818
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:54,980
How many A frames does the city own and are

819
01:09:54,980 --> 01:09:57,240
typically out at any given point?

820
01:09:57,300 --> 01:09:57,820
I'm just curious.

821
01:10:00,620 --> 01:10:15,920
Well, what we own, fluctuates, which will they just appear, some come and go. I want to say we average 23 to 26 that are out at any given point.

822
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:26,880
We have a range apart from when we promote a special event. We have some that are just, you know, shop local. We'll do that during the holiday season or beautifigalita.

823
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:32,260
the coffee community ones, the damn dinner one.

824
01:10:32,380 --> 01:10:33,840
So we kind of just try to cycle the amount

825
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:37,400
and try to have them out as much as possible, right?

826
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:40,400
Just to get the word out on going things.

827
01:10:40,420 --> 01:10:43,140
And we also do partner up with some other organizations.

828
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:46,140
For example, you know, like the the lemon run,

829
01:10:46,420 --> 01:10:49,160
which is fundraiser for a collier union school district.

830
01:10:50,300 --> 01:10:51,860
They have the boards.

831
01:10:52,260 --> 01:10:53,320
We let them borrow the frames.

832
01:10:53,900 --> 01:10:56,180
So there's eight of those out right now.

833
01:10:56,180 --> 01:10:58,640
You know, same thing, me, me an old town.

834
01:10:59,920 --> 01:11:02,780
Yeah, we try to use them and you are correct.

835
01:11:02,860 --> 01:11:05,060
The amount of people that show up and at an event are like,

836
01:11:05,060 --> 01:11:06,000
oh, I saw the frame.

837
01:11:06,620 --> 01:11:10,000
You know, sometimes even like walkins that same day,

838
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:13,180
like they saw at that morning and I'm gonna go check it out.

839
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:17,280
So, highly effective, yeah, about 23 to 26.

840
01:11:18,980 --> 01:11:20,240
Yeah, I'll stop there.

841
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:21,480
No, I appreciate it.

842
01:11:21,480 --> 01:11:22,520
I want to know how many we lost.

843
01:11:22,700 --> 01:11:23,420
I appreciate that.

844
01:11:23,420 --> 01:11:26,320
I was just, yeah, the shrinkage is a different story.

845
01:11:26,820 --> 01:11:27,580
I appreciate that.

846
01:11:28,440 --> 01:11:31,980
It's a great story and also reinforces the different kind

847
01:11:31,980 --> 01:11:35,000
of messaging that works in an additional technology

848
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:35,760
that we embrace.

849
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:37,680
Thank you all.

850
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:39,280
Commissioner Amarighi.

851
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:43,540
Yeah, thank you.

852
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:45,700
I think this has been mentioned before.

853
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:48,640
I'm looking for, I would like to suggest,

854
01:11:48,900 --> 01:11:52,180
how to bring more youth into this celebration.

855
01:11:52,180 --> 01:12:03,300
do we maybe sponsor a competition of a write a poem or what you like about Gullida or this

856
01:12:03,300 --> 01:12:12,500
where you are growing up and something the winner can be showcased at the city meeting

857
01:12:12,500 --> 01:12:19,440
on the second. I think it's really doable to get used excited about this.

858
01:12:19,440 --> 01:12:29,840
And it's winter Olympics this year and we have ice in paradise, is there a way we can

859
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:37,360
leverage some things in there to get it will have the business, it will have our use.

860
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:42,280
So I'm not quite sure how that will go, but it's in terms of competition for the use.

861
01:12:42,820 --> 01:12:44,320
We will bring them in, that's nice.

862
01:12:49,470 --> 01:12:50,510
Commissioner Rebarer.

863
01:12:50,510 --> 01:12:56,750
Yes, one of the things I have noticed in social media, watching some of the things that cities

864
01:12:57,950 --> 01:13:03,290
You're celebrating their their history of their incorporation or or

865
01:13:05,420 --> 01:13:07,440
The the heritage of the city

866
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:14,000
What they do also is ask for people is people unfortunately pass away they leave

867
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:20,980
Momentals from Galeta and I know it's 25th anniversary, but Galeta has always been here

868
01:13:20,980 --> 01:13:22,540
in one share per another.

869
01:13:23,220 --> 01:13:25,020
It's always been known for the butterflies,

870
01:13:26,140 --> 01:13:28,640
for the youth, for the lemons.

871
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:34,560
And photographs of the way Galina developed.

872
01:13:35,780 --> 01:13:38,060
I think a lot of people would like to see that.

873
01:13:38,420 --> 01:13:41,140
It wasn't always a city, there was always struggles trying to get to see.

874
01:13:41,440 --> 01:13:43,400
But photographs of how it was.

875
01:13:44,560 --> 01:13:50,960
You talked to folks that lived in Santa Barbara when they talked about

876
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:57,080
Galita. Oh yeah, we used to drive up there. It was like a Sunday drive and you take it for granted that it was.

877
01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:07,040
So something like that where you could include the past and then the close and then how we're developing as a city and now what it's become.

878
01:14:07,700 --> 01:14:15,860
And I think including the youth is very important because Galita has always had that youth factor and I think it's important.

879
01:14:15,860 --> 01:14:19,840
you know. Thank you. Commission again.

880
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:26,560
Just kind of building off of all the points brought

881
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:30,720
up with like youth in trying to get that connection and reaching out to them. I think the idea

882
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:35,700
with like a poem or like speech and like debate like teams come in and try to just give a

883
01:14:35,700 --> 01:14:41,420
presentation on their interpretation would definitely be good give some student feedback and

884
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:47,900
bring that to the presentation. I mean all of the local high schools I know for sure even some

885
01:14:47,900 --> 01:14:53,480
the junior highs are on this area, they all have their own dedicated new stations, which

886
01:14:53,480 --> 01:14:58,660
you watch at the beginning of each second period, so it's guaranteed that they all get

887
01:14:58,660 --> 01:14:59,580
a kind of outreach.

888
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,980
Sure, not a lot of things that we could showcase that I'm sure the high schoolers don't want to know about the DEI checkpoints, but I know that something like this definitely to send the email to SB Unified and try to get in their media and try to reach out to all the students would definitely be good, even as it was just on this one given event. I think just having all of those bubbles are all of San Marcos know from their news channels and their newspapers would definitely give a lot more of a higher number count, let's say.

889
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:32,320
Yeah, I feel like they definitely want to go a little bit more.

890
01:15:35,140 --> 01:15:39,540
Yeah, these are all great ideas and it is really exciting. I'm going to throw something completely

891
01:15:39,540 --> 01:15:48,680
left field out which is I like the idea of the the party and the gathering and the city council.

892
01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:56,120
However, I'm not sure here's the right place to do it. In that wouldn't it be cool to have the

893
01:15:56,120 --> 01:16:03,060
City Council have a City Council meeting at the Community Center on the stage and you kind

894
01:16:03,060 --> 01:16:08,140
of build the event around that granted I know they have important work to do but maybe

895
01:16:08,140 --> 01:16:15,480
the agendas get shifted so that there's less heavy lifting on that night and then it's

896
01:16:15,480 --> 01:16:21,300
a incredible opportunity to bring in the community and have them watch a City Council meeting,

897
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:25,980
take place right? Logistically you know you're moving the City Council meeting there

898
01:16:25,980 --> 01:16:27,480
but I think it'd be doable.

899
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:29,700
And I think it'd be a real unique opportunity

900
01:16:29,700 --> 01:16:32,060
to bring the community into the community center.

901
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,920
And then you could build the event there where we know

902
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:36,520
we've done events and what have you.

903
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,620
Another idea is I've ridden it down as big dogs.

904
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:44,700
And what I mean by that is, as we know,

905
01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:48,320
Glider is home to some incredibly large,

906
01:16:49,460 --> 01:16:51,360
multinational organizations and businesses.

907
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:58,280
be that deckers, Google's just bought a huge building here, you know, not necessarily the

908
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:02,620
military and just realized compacts I'm thinking of, but some of those bigger companies

909
01:17:02,620 --> 01:17:09,040
it would be great to try and get them involved whether they donate something or whether

910
01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:13,240
we make them stand in front of a camera and say how much they love being based in Galeta or

911
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:17,200
something like that, you know, I don't see why not given that they're based here.

912
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:26,080
And then, the other thing which is, you know, something that I remember in my youth used to get done a lot, and I think it still gets done.

913
01:17:26,740 --> 01:17:31,180
But, and again, this gets back to if we did something in the community center, I think there'd be a perfect place for it.

914
01:17:31,820 --> 01:17:34,500
But, why don't we bury a new time capsule?

915
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:43,640
You know, things that celebrate 25 years of guleta in a time capsule with the explicit instructions, it gets dug up in the next 25 years.

916
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:47,720
something like that. And that would be a great way to bring in the kids as well, maybe you

917
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:53,240
run a contest of like, you know, collection of poems that gets put in this thing or whatever it is.

918
01:17:53,700 --> 01:18:00,260
So those are my main ideas. I granted, I know it's coming up in February, which is coming up fast

919
01:18:00,260 --> 01:18:04,540
and we could also hear and riff on ideas, but I think it's a really great opportunity.

920
01:18:06,100 --> 01:18:12,700
And you haven't got much time and so I, you know, I know that's the challenge, but I think it's a

921
01:18:12,700 --> 01:18:18,920
opportunity and we'll all support it. Anything else, Kelly? On that item?

922
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:25,120
Now these are wonderful ideas and I know Jamie's recording all of them and obviously

923
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:29,740
we go back and review the meeting and review all the ideas but great. Great

924
01:18:29,740 --> 01:18:36,180
ones tonight. Thank you so much for all of this. All righty. So moving on to item D

925
01:18:36,180 --> 01:18:38,780
is commissioners comment?

926
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:44,680
Sorry, just make a check for public speakers or comments.

927
01:18:45,380 --> 01:18:46,200
On that item?

928
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:50,040
Okay, is there any public comments on that item?

929
01:18:50,440 --> 01:18:52,220
We didn't do it the last item.

930
01:18:53,160 --> 01:19:00,560
If anyone wishes to speak on this item, please use the raise hand icon and I will call on you.

931
01:19:02,740 --> 01:19:06,700
It looks like we have a no-in person or online speakers for this item.

932
01:19:06,700 --> 01:19:13,020
Okay. Thank you. Moving on. Item D. Commissioners comments. I'm guessing this is just more generic comments about

933
01:19:13,020 --> 01:19:16,850
anything if there's any commissioners want to jump in with anything.

934
01:19:19,440 --> 01:19:21,960
Commissioner Barry. Yes. Thank you.

935
01:19:22,140 --> 01:19:22,740
Thank you.

936
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,700
One of the things I would be worth exploring is

937
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:31,160
every time we have a meeting for example, have

938
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:40,460
Uh, for example, a department, again, make a presentation of what they do, uh, I would hazard

939
01:19:40,460 --> 01:19:47,340
a guess that there are citizens and members of the community that don't know, for example,

940
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:53,780
or would like to find out what is the protein process to open a business, just simple things

941
01:19:53,780 --> 01:19:59,740
like that, or if they have concerns about food safety.

942
01:20:01,100 --> 01:20:21,960
That may not be the jurisdiction here, but mostly having to do with the streets building permits for how to start a business, how to apply for a business license, and also if you want to open a business in an area, what are the requirements?

943
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:26,620
The things you kind of take for granted, but if you want to encourage business, encourage

944
01:20:26,620 --> 01:20:33,100
input from the committee, I think that would be a worthwhile endeavor, so I'm just

945
01:20:33,100 --> 01:20:37,360
adding that as a project when I take on.

946
01:20:37,460 --> 01:20:38,460
Thank you.

947
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:39,580
Commissioner Amarighi.

948
01:20:42,310 --> 01:20:50,510
This is probably the project I need to keep an eye on that affects in terms of public safety.

949
01:20:52,430 --> 01:20:59,730
Erwood, in front by the, not far from where the butterflies are, also supposed to be,

950
01:21:00,370 --> 01:21:04,030
there's that huge crack in the ground.

951
01:21:05,090 --> 01:21:08,530
And then on the ocean side, another huge crack.

952
01:21:08,750 --> 01:21:11,990
And it looked like they're heading towards each other.

953
01:21:13,030 --> 01:21:19,230
It would be a huge disaster if something happens in the ocean.

954
01:21:19,230 --> 01:21:27,170
And those two meet, the mayor did make a point about this one of my random talk with her.

955
01:21:27,630 --> 01:21:29,530
She was concerned about that too.

956
01:21:29,810 --> 01:21:38,070
And I'm wondering, maybe I would throw this out and say something to keep an eye on.

957
01:21:38,270 --> 01:21:46,870
Because this is a real, it would be devastating to call it if the ocean comes in through that way.

958
01:21:46,870 --> 01:21:49,630
Maybe not, I mean, 25 years, we hope not.

959
01:21:49,990 --> 01:21:54,650
But this will be the time to plan to maybe block it

960
01:21:54,650 --> 01:21:57,390
as the ocean side like they did at the barcara side.

961
01:21:57,910 --> 01:22:01,730
But there is a car, a red car.

962
01:22:02,050 --> 01:22:05,430
In one of the huge crevices, I'm people say,

963
01:22:05,670 --> 01:22:07,830
what it means the freeway was it doing there.

964
01:22:09,450 --> 01:22:09,850
It's not.

965
01:22:10,930 --> 01:22:12,210
But it is growing.

966
01:22:12,950 --> 01:22:14,990
It's being growing again and again and again and again.

967
01:22:14,990 --> 01:22:15,350
I know.

968
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:18,260
I'm a commission.

969
01:22:18,380 --> 01:22:18,560
Chief.

970
01:22:20,180 --> 01:22:20,700
Thank you.

971
01:22:20,780 --> 01:22:25,560
I just want to go on the record thanking the staff, Kelly, and Marcus, and Jamie, the

972
01:22:25,560 --> 01:22:31,320
ideas you've shared are really, really impressive, but what I'm struck by is your dedication

973
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:33,360
and your excitement about doing what you do.

974
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:37,960
I just want to say deeply, and you don't need to know this, but please keep leaning into that,

975
01:22:38,100 --> 01:22:41,860
because it's working and it only makes the experience of the residents much better.

976
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:42,740
So, thank you.

977
01:22:43,500 --> 01:22:44,300
Thank you.

978
01:22:48,540 --> 01:22:55,720
I just wanted to share that I recently had the privilege of working with Gleeta Union School District.

979
01:22:56,140 --> 01:23:04,580
I trained all of their principles and school psychologists and then I'm currently working doing trainings for their staff.

980
01:23:05,380 --> 01:23:13,400
And I just, we are so fortunate to have a wonderful school district that is so dedicated and organized

981
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:22,060
and it's really investing in working with their individual sites to provide the best service

982
01:23:22,060 --> 01:23:29,480
possible for our youth and there's a lot of different ways to teach, but what I really

983
01:23:29,480 --> 01:23:37,520
appreciate is Ghaleta Union's commitment to relationship-based pedagogy and understanding the

984
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:45,340
as a form of communication and understanding the needs that our young people have because they're

985
01:23:45,340 --> 01:23:49,280
going to be sitting here. So, just wanted to share that.

986
01:23:51,480 --> 01:23:56,780
I think the takeaway is we love Gleeta, right? And I think that would be some great messaging

987
01:23:56,780 --> 01:24:02,560
to incorporate in the 25th birthday, you know, we all love living here. I did have one comment

988
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:08,320
that I'd written down that I forgot to mention that I wanted to come back to the Austria,

989
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:15,420
The team Austria thing I think was really successful and I've talked to a few of the stakeholders about this and this is a way out there down the road thing

990
01:24:15,420 --> 01:24:20,740
But the third largest sport in event in the world is the men's rugby world cup and

991
01:24:20,740 --> 01:24:27,140
That is being hosted by the United States in 2031 2031 is not that far away in the biggest game of things

992
01:24:27,140 --> 01:24:30,680
And I think given what we had with team Austria

993
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:38,240
I think we should at least start being aware of it would be great to get one of the rugby world cup teams

994
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:42,120
based here. So just throwing that out there is a former rugby player.

995
01:24:43,740 --> 01:24:46,220
And with that, if there's no more commissioners comments,

996
01:24:46,480 --> 01:24:50,740
I think we're onto the item E, which is Director's report.

997
01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:56,400
Thank you. I have some things I want to tell you all about,

998
01:24:56,560 --> 01:24:59,960
more like get your calendars out. There's a lot coming up.

999
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:30,060
And I'm going to ramble a little bit here. We were really pleased with how the damn dinner went. If you haven't watched that video, we encourage you to. We had about 400 people. We introduced trisha's this year, cycling without age, transported people. And they didn't necessarily have mobility issues. I think they just were happy to get a ride. And it was, it was definitely rewarding to see how much money.

1000
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:34,980
people had at the dam dinner this year. They always do, but this is a special one. We just had a

1001
01:25:34,980 --> 01:25:42,240
coffee and community last weekend at our last Saturday at Ice in Paradise. They're amazing partners.

1002
01:25:43,240 --> 01:25:47,760
And we had a great turnout. We had about 50 people at the coffee and community and

1003
01:25:48,620 --> 01:25:56,000
really great questions. Just a great vibe. People just supporting Galeeda, but also having

1004
01:25:56,000 --> 01:26:01,740
really important questions and just having a comfortable place for everyone to talk that was

1005
01:26:01,740 --> 01:26:10,800
a great event and we have a lot coming up. We have Creek Week and Coastal Cleanup Day on September

1006
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:14,980
19th this Coastal Cleanup Day and then Creek Week there's a bunch of activities I won't go into

1007
01:26:14,980 --> 01:26:23,820
but that's an important event for the city. We also have two months from tomorrow we have district

1008
01:26:23,820 --> 01:26:30,880
elections for the city and that's district one and two. People who live in those districts

1009
01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:37,000
one and two will have an opportunity to vote for a council member to represent their district.

1010
01:26:37,940 --> 01:26:43,520
And we really are trying to get the word out about people understanding what district do they live in.

1011
01:26:43,900 --> 01:26:48,860
So we're going to be doing a lot of know your district messaging and we've already had some of the

1012
01:26:48,860 --> 01:26:53,520
post-banners go up and then we're going to you'll see the monarch press go out

1013
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:58,600
hopefully tomorrow and you'll see it in there. It's also national preparedness

1014
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:06,740
month. We've got we do tentatively have planned a council meeting presentation on

1015
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:12,400
El Nino, what the city's doing to prepare and there is definitely a lot of work

1016
01:27:12,400 --> 01:27:17,900
going on behind the scenes. It's prepared for weather and the fact we may get

1017
01:27:17,900 --> 01:27:23,300
have your rain and more definitely prepared here on a communication side to let people know

1018
01:27:23,300 --> 01:27:29,080
what's happening and be ready to communicate what people need to do to be safe.

1019
01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:36,220
We also have lead Galeta coming up in January and we're going to start promoting signups for

1020
01:27:36,220 --> 01:27:37,260
that.

1021
01:27:37,580 --> 01:27:43,980
Looks like we're going to have the Galeta holiday parade on the first Saturday of December.

1022
01:27:43,980 --> 01:27:53,230
So you can look for that and I also wanted to just turn your attention to the limit festival coming up.

1023
01:27:53,840 --> 01:28:04,120
That's September 26 and 27th and we would like to invite you if you would like to sign up for a shift to work at the booth with us.

1024
01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:09,700
September 26 and 27th we would love to have you and you've already got your yellow shirt.

1025
01:28:09,700 --> 01:28:17,240
Commissioner Omaraji so you're all set. It's a great just fun time interacting with the community.

1026
01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:27,220
Very light-hearted more spin the wheel and just have fun together. So we would love if you all

1027
01:28:27,220 --> 01:28:32,780
would be interested in signing out to work a shift for us and Jamie will be sending out an email

1028
01:28:32,780 --> 01:28:38,280
to you all with what you can pick what shift works for your schedule if you're able to do it.

1029
01:28:39,700 --> 01:28:43,760
And with that, I think that's about all I have.

1030
01:28:43,820 --> 01:28:45,760
I could keep talking about upcoming events,

1031
01:28:46,280 --> 01:28:50,140
but those are the ones that I have written down.

1032
01:28:50,140 --> 01:28:53,480
And I know our next meeting is on December the second.

1033
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:55,160
That's six o'clock.

1034
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:04,260
Is there any commissioners would like to say anything about any of that?

1035
01:29:04,580 --> 01:29:07,820
Well, I just wanted to say, I told him earlier,

1036
01:29:07,940 --> 01:29:11,340
but I just wanted to congratulate Mr. Martinez

1037
01:29:11,340 --> 01:29:12,680
on his recent engagement.

1038
01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:23,660
So yeah, so I'm sure everyone. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, and I think that's a perfect place to adjourn. Thanks everybody.

1039
01:29:24,540 --> 01:29:25,500
Thank you.