[0:09] We ready? Okay, we're going to call the meeting to order. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. The clerk will please call the roll. Councilmember Bernheimer? Here. Councilmember Balako? Richard, you're on mute.

[0:27] Present. Councilmember Sanders? Present. Mayor Pro Tem Griffith? Present. Mayor Reed? Present. And the clerk will please lead us in the pledge to our flag.

[0:58] The agenda has been circulated, may I have a motion to approve the final agenda?

[1:03] So move.

[1:04] Second.

[1:04] Without objection, it's so ordered.

[1:07] Item three, introduction of City Will's staff member, our city manager.

[1:14] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and members of City Council.

[1:16] It is my pleasure to introduce to you a newest member of our City Hall family sitting behind me.

[1:23] We have introduced Maria Alvarez, who is Community Development's new administrative assistant.

[1:28] She has a psychology degree from the College of the Desert and spent the last 16 years working

[1:33] for the Catella Valley School District and a variety of different roles.

[1:37] And for the last six years, she's been working at Catella Valley High School.

[1:40] So we're very welcome to have Maria join our family, so congratulations to her.

[1:45] Thank you, welcome.

[1:45] Thank you.

[1:50] Winners for baptism and fire.

[1:53] It is happy right now.

[1:56] When do we get to ask the tough questions?

[2:00] Now, thank you.

[2:01] Welcome.

[2:02] Absolutely.

[2:03] Okay.

[2:03] Item 4 is public comments.

[2:05] Members of the public who wish to speak during this session.

[2:08] Should fill out a blue slip and submit it to the city clerk.

[2:11] Please limit your comments to three minutes.

[2:13] And the clerk will alert you when your time is up.

[2:18] and I have one blue slip from Jackie Bradley. Welcome, Jackie.

[2:22] Thank you.

[2:33] City Council members, Mayor.

[2:36] Staff, members in the audience.

[2:39] I'm just up here to say thank you very much for holding open meetings.

[2:44] We very much appreciate it. We know that you are paid on a 12-month basis.

[2:50] We know that the people that are here in the summer are voters, not the people that are

[2:56] vacation or the tourist, so we appreciate that kindness that you are extending to us because

[3:02] we feel we would like to be a part of what goes on in this city 12 months out of the year.

[3:08] And I just want to say a warm thank you, and I really appreciate, I know I called Donna

[3:12] and talked to her about it. And there are a lot of concerns right now. There are a lot

[3:17] of things going on and people are a little scared about some things. So your ability to give

[3:23] these meetings every month is very, very important. Thank you.

[3:27] Thank you for your attention, Monty.

[3:30] Madam Clerk, is there any member of the public online that wishes to be heard at this time?

[3:36] Hi, members of the public visiting us via remote.

[3:40] If you are interested in speaking on any items on the consent calendar or non-agentized item,

[3:45] we are taking those public comments right at this moment.

[3:48] So if you would like to kindly raise your hand using your device, or if you're joining

[3:54] Planning has to be a telephone, please use your asterisk 9.

[3:57] And we will give you about two, about a few seconds to do that, please.

[4:01] Thank you.

[4:04] And there are no comments.

[4:06] Thank you.

[4:06] Next item is item 5, city manager's report.

[4:11] Once again, thank you, Mr. Mayor, Member City Council.

[4:13] Just a quick reminder that next Wednesday, we have coffee with the city manager here at City Hall at 8 AM.

[4:20] We'll be providing an update on various projects and programs and doing a little Q&A with the residents.

[4:24] Just in case there's any information out there in the public that they would like some answers to.

[4:28] So we're looking forward to another great participation we had one a few weeks ago that was well received.

[4:33] So thank you very much.

[4:35] Any questions from the city manager?

[4:36] I do have a question.

[4:42] Chris, I don't mean to catch you off guard, but a concern was raised about the safety of the Indian

[4:50] in Walsh Country Club Bridge.

[4:53] And I know Ken has been looking into it.

[4:56] Is there any status report far too far?

[5:00] And have they been alerted? Have they looked at it? Certainly. The department has been asked to go out there and just evaluate the bridge, make sure it's safe for fire apparatus to go across. And so we hope to have answers earlier this week, but I just think no later than might at the very latest. Okay. Thank you. As we make sure people, there is not a concern at this time, and just so there's been some questions brought to the attention of the city, and so we're just going to verify that. Good. Thank you. Anything, any further questions on the city manager? Seeing none, the next item is the city attorneys.

[5:29] these reports and comments, Todd?

[5:32] Welcome.

[5:34] Thank you very much.

[5:34] I would say that in attendance to be with you.

[5:36] How do you say welcome in attendance?

[5:40] Ciao.

[5:40] Bienvenuto.

[5:41] Yeah.

[5:44] It's nice to be with you tonight.

[5:46] The one thing that I wanted to bring to your attention

[5:47] is that there were two bills pending before the state

[5:52] legislature that would make permanent some of the

[5:56] The remote meeting opportunities that we've gained with COVID.

[6:02] The most prominent one, Bill 1944, that's AB 1944, is not moving forward any longer.

[6:11] And from a lot of cities, that was the preferred bill.

[6:17] The bill that survives is 82, 449.

[6:20] We'll keep you abreast of that as it moves forward.

[6:23] It's better than nothing in some ways.

[6:26] It would still allow for ongoing remote participation in meetings without council members having to open up their home or their hotel room for members of the public to attend in person where they are.

[6:44] that that's raised safety concerns, which have kind of come to a four during during COVID, but

[6:52] AB 2449 would would limit some of those those opportunities to certain number of times a year and under certain

[7:04] bases. Like I said, we'll keep you abreast of that. If it looks like it's going to pass, we'll give you a better

[7:10] but I want to do put that on your radar. Thank you.

[7:14] Thank you. Any questions of the city attorney?

[7:18] Seeing none, we'll move on to the consent calendar, which is our items 7A through H.

[7:23] We'll be voted on at one time unless a matter is pulled.

[7:29] Would anyone like to have anything in 7A through H pulled?

[7:34] I don't want to have anything pulled Mr. Mayor, but I will be abstaining on item C and E.

[7:40] As in Charlie and David, the Edward, Charles and Edward.

[7:45] Yes, thank you.

[7:47] I'll be abstaining on C and D. Charlie, David.

[7:51] Okay.

[7:52] Any other abstentions?

[7:54] May I have a motion, please?

[7:56] Move to approve the consent calendar.

[7:57] Second motion.

[7:59] All in favor say aye.

[8:01] Aye.

[8:01] Opposed no.

[8:02] Would the abstainee have it.

[8:04] Thank you very much.

[8:06] The next item are public hearings.

[8:08] Item 8, there are no public hearings.

[8:10] schedule. The next item is item 9, general business. The first one is a memorandum of

[8:17] understanding, and Kristen is going to be reporting this out.

[8:23] Yes, thank you, Mayor and members of the City Council. Kristen Nelson, Senior Management

[8:27] Analyst. Before you today is a request from SEVAG to enter into two-year memorandum of

[8:34] understanding to provide funding for their CV housing first program, which focuses on coordination with law enforcement and other entities to address homelessness throughout the valley.

[8:46] In 2021, at the recommendation of SEVAG's Homelessness Committee and the Executive Committee's authorization, the CV housing first program was transitioned from an outsourced program to one that is being

[9:03] and overseeing directly by SeaVag in-house.

[9:07] As a result of that conversation and a presentation to council during the May budget revise,

[9:13] council did approve a $100,000 funding allocation towards the CV housing first program.

[9:20] Moving forward, SeaVag is coming forward today with the MOU that's in front of you,

[9:25] requesting that we enter into a two-year, $200,000 MOU, $100,000 per fiscal year,

[9:32] to continue funding that housing first program.

[9:41] Has requested that council approve the MOU

[9:46] and authorize a supplemental appropriation for $100,000

[9:49] for this first fiscal year of 22 to 23,

[9:53] and direct us to include the second installment

[9:56] of 100,000 for the 23,

[10:00] Number 24, upcoming to your budget for future adoption. I do want to note that funding for fiscal year 2223's contribution would reduce the general funds anticipated surplus from 306,000 to 206,000. I do have Erica Felci here with us today. See that assistant executive director who's available to respond to any additional questions that you may have about this request.

[10:29] And Kevin McCarthy, Finance Director, with us as well if you have any additional questions

[10:33] with regards to how this would impact the budget.

[10:36] Thank you.

[10:36] I have no blue slips.

[10:37] Madam Clerk, is there anyone online that wishes to be heard on this matter?

[10:43] Hello, members of the public.

[10:44] We are requesting for you to either use your hand device to raise your hand, the raise

[10:48] your hand feature or the asterid nine if you are interested in speaking on this item.

[10:55] And I do not have any.

[10:56] Thank you.

[10:57] members of the council, who wishes to be heard?

[11:01] Mr. Mayor, a comment and a question.

[11:06] First a comment, I see Lieutenant Wright back in the corner there.

[11:11] I think the Sheriff's Department should be commended for the manner in which they deal with the homeless situation in Dunwells.

[11:22] I think they do an excellent job.

[11:25] they couple law enforcement with a great deal of compassion and I think it's

[11:33] very commendable. The question, as I understand in the state of the law, if we

[11:42] have a homeless person in town, law enforcement is authorized to engage with

[11:51] the homeless person, and if there is shelter available, then the Sheriff's Department

[11:58] can transport that individual to a shelter where the homeless person can get services,

[12:07] maybe the shower, the meal, et cetera.

[12:12] I assume that at least a part of the $200,000 we're authorizing would be,

[12:20] would go for that purpose. Is that correct?

[12:25] So I will go ahead and defer to Ms. Falchee if she'd like to take the podium.

[12:30] She would be better seated to speak to how the funding would be allocated.

[12:35] Please come forward and state your name and title for the record please.

[12:40] Sure. Now thank you for having me. My name is Erica Falchee and I'm the Assistant Executive Director at SeaVeg.

[12:46] It's nice to see all of you in person and not just little boxes in Zoom meetings.

[12:52] If you might, I'll let me give you a little bit of background on the CV housing first program

[12:56] and kind of the history of this contribution from our member cities if that's okay.

[13:01] I'll be brief.

[13:03] So, the CVAC has actually been on the Regional Homelessness Program for 20 years or so.

[13:09] And it's taken various forms including Roy's Desert Resource Center,

[13:13] which was the Shelter Overnight Emergency Shelter that CVEG helped run.

[13:18] And in about 2017 at the urging of then-supervisor Benoit, we switched to a CV housing first model.

[13:26] And the idea is that by bringing homeless individuals and

[13:30] putting a roof over their heads, we can case manage them and really focus on how to get them services.

[13:37] And the provider we had at the time, a former council member in the audience

[13:42] Well, we'll just raise a lot of questions on our homelessness committee and our executive

[13:48] committee and in large part due to your former representative on that committee, as well

[13:53] as others, we refine the program and brought the program in house.

[13:57] We said, you know what, the providers not really doing the service we think we can do it better.

[14:02] So CVIC staff now runs the housing first program.

[14:06] So your contribution, what your contribution funds is the program overall, and that is coordination

[14:11] The relation with law enforcement, but does not go to law enforcement.

[14:13] Go to C-Vag, we would deploy our services in coordination with law enforcement to go out or out every day or across the valley.

[14:22] And we have a mobile access center, and we also have a regulatory outreach.

[14:25] And most importantly, we have crisis stabilization units.

[14:28] And these are essentially hotel rooms or apartments, and we have them throughout the valley where we are, we've rented, you know, we're renting units.

[14:36] And we put homeless individuals in them, and we case manage them.

[14:39] And this is proven to be a very successful model.

[14:42] Tom came and spoke to you about the CV 200.

[14:45] We identified in partnership with law enforcement,

[14:48] the most chronically homeless individuals in the valley

[14:51] that were causing the most concern among law enforcement

[14:54] and public safety and code enforcement,

[14:57] and we identified them as the CV 200.

[15:00] And in the first year alone of our in-house program, we permanently house 75 of them. In the first quarter of this year, we housed another 15. We've reset our list for this year, and the request in front of you is to continue this $100,000 contribution, which has been a long-standing request to our member cities for the various forms of the homeless program. And the reason we're asking for a two-year is because our committee, before we brought it in house,

[15:28] the funding levels reflectuate. Some cities were more supportive than others.

[15:32] And in order to create some stability and quite frankly, in order to streamline staff

[15:36] time, instead of doing this every year, we're hoping to do this every two years,

[15:39] or every two, three years, so that way we can try to be more efficient and have a better

[15:44] projection of our own program budget.

[15:46] Thank you.

[15:47] So the answer to my question is yes.

[15:50] No, the answer to your question is, we are not funding law enforcement.

[15:54] We are funding.

[15:54] No, I understand that, but you have beds available.

[15:57] if, in the event that law enforcement were to engage with a homeless person,

[16:03] you can get the services to that homeless person.

[16:06] It doesn't always quite work that way.

[16:11] Sometimes, oftentimes, engagement in the street requires multiple engagements.

[16:16] Are there times where we engage a homeless person and we say, you know what, we think we've

[16:20] known you, or you're on our CV200, and we believe we can put you in a house in case

[16:25] Yes, we certainly have those situations, but not every case is like that.

[16:30] So, what would happen is, if law enforcement called us, we would deploy our street outreach

[16:34] chamber, we'd coordinate a time where we'd go out, we'd work with the individual,

[16:37] and we'd kind of see the level.

[16:39] Housing first is a really effective but time-intensive solution to solving chronic homelessness,

[16:47] and for not, it's not always a great fit for every homeless individual.

[16:52] Does that help?

[16:54] I have a question.

[16:57] Oh, correct.

[16:58] Oh, yes.

[16:58] I'm sorry.

[16:59] I don't know what the last thing to make eye contact.

[17:02] Yeah, well, I'm just kind of remote here.

[17:04] But anyway, the question I have is does every city provide funding for this program?

[17:11] And if so, you know, whatever then answers, but what are the total revenues

[17:15] that you get from all of this?

[17:18] Every city contributed in this fiscal year that just ended.

[17:22] We are in the process of securing the MOUs.

[17:25] We have every indication that our cities are very happy and we'll continue to support for this fiscal year.

[17:31] So we have 900,000 then from our cities.

[17:36] The county is in a multi-year MOU, the staff report is in your packet, I think, through 2026.

[17:42] The fiscal year ends in 2025 or 2026, and that's for about 350.

[17:46] and the Desert Health Care District has been a huge supporter of this to the tune of 500,000 in the last 18 months and before that they had a dollar for a dollar match. They've been one of our steadiest supporters.

[17:59] Does everybody pay on time because if you look at the financial report, it doesn't look that way.

[18:06] No, they do not pay on time and that is another motivation for the MOU.

[18:15] In fact, if you followed our agenda a few months ago, six months ago, shall we say, we found

[18:21] that there were three or four, maybe five cities that hadn't paid from a year before that invoices had

[18:28] not gone, not gone. So we're trying to refine our process at SeaVag and certainly make it

[18:35] more efficient for our cities too.

[18:39] Donna? Yes. You knew I had a question.

[18:48] So we were, when you say permanently housing, yes, they're employed,

[18:55] not always, not always.

[18:57] So some have vouchers, you know, one of the things that we have found, I'd be happy

[19:04] to bring Tom to kind of do a deeper dive on some of our lessons learned and what we've

[19:09] found since our last presentation to you all, what we have found is a lot of times these

[19:14] These individuals qualify for benefits or have funding, actually some folks have money, and they just have barriers that they're not able to get their foot in the door.

[19:27] And so one of the best successes we've actually had with bringing the program in-house has been creating partnerships with folks like Inland County Legal Services.

[19:35] So just yesterday, every week, week and a half, we have these legal clinics with our clients.

[19:40] where they meet with their attorneys and they work through all these barriers and kind of clear the door.

[19:47] So we put them in a permanent housing solution that they can then sustain on their own.

[19:54] I know Inland counties is really doing a lot of work on that with their pro bono attorneys.

[20:00] So we're taking them off of the street. We're helping them find and apply for the benefits that they're entitled to. And then they are moving out and they're on their own. They're permanently housed. And we can expect that hopefully we won't see them again homeless and desperate. That is the anticipation of the 75 we housed in the first year. We only know three that fell out of permanent housing. How many? Three.

[20:29] And when I say the chronically home, these are the worst of the worst situations.

[20:35] These are the folks who have been out there for years.

[20:37] These are the folks that you have seen when you go get your coffee at Starbucks and you

[20:40] have seen them for years and you're like, why is this person still here?

[20:44] And these are folks that you're law enforcement know by name and that are hospitals know by

[20:48] name.

[20:50] So we're really proud of our 75 sounds like a drop in the bucket in some ways is.

[20:57] But that, when you think about the fact that we narrowed our clientele to 200 really tough cases and we permanently house 75 of them and 72 are still on how we're pretty proud of that, that's that's a proven success.

[21:11] Anything further?

[21:12] Yeah, since I inherited the SeaVag homeless committee and attended my first meeting a couple weeks ago, the housing first program was presented to the homeless committee.

[21:26] We went through it in a little more detail, and I'm no expert on homelessness,

[21:31] but what I've quickly gathered and when I gathered over time is there's not one

[21:37] cause of homelessness.

[21:39] There's multiple buckets that cause homelessness, and so dealing with the problem

[21:45] takes multiple facets to deal with it, and this is just one of, I read this,

[21:50] this is one of the tools in your tool bucket, right?

[21:52] So, housing first deals with a certain segment of people that qualify that you think you

[21:58] can find housing for and get them through the process, but it might not be the person

[22:05] that's homeless coming through Indian Wells that actually meets this program.

[22:11] It may, but it may not.

[22:14] So when I view of what should Indian Wells role be, because we have, according to the last

[22:20] census, we have zero homeless and Indian wells. We went from one to years ago to zero.

[22:26] That's irrelevant because if Indian wells doesn't contribute to the homeless issue across

[22:33] the valley, the impacts are going to be felt by Indian wells. That's kind of a selfish

[22:38] approach. But there's also the humanitarian side where we have the resources of a city that

[22:44] that can impact the community in a very positive way on a program that from what I've

[22:49] seen is really worked. So that's, you know, my perspective from having sat through

[22:55] one meeting, but the meeting did focus on housing first. So if there's no further comments,

[23:01] I'd move to approve the memorandum.

[23:03] Sir, second. Second, the motion.

[23:05] Any further discussion? All in favor say aye.

[23:09] Aye.

[23:09] Opposed, no.

[23:10] No. Pass just five to nothing. Thank you, thank you very much.

[23:13] Thank you, council. Thank you, council member.

[23:15] Our new member. And thank you, staff.

[23:19] Okay, the next item is item B, midterm update, Indian wills go for short.

[23:24] Kevin, you're up, and I'm not going to limit you to 30 seconds on this one.

[23:29] This one is going to take probably twice as long.

[23:37] Thank you, Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council.

[23:41] We do have for your consideration today is the adoption of the golf resort operating

[23:47] budget and its capital plan and we'll have a brief presentation and of course I'm available

[23:54] for any questions after and our general manager, Spinn and Viton Hoppe is also available for

[24:00] offering you your questions.

[24:02] During today's presentation,

[24:04] we're gonna take you through a little historical review,

[24:07] just to give you some perspective

[24:09] of what the budget you're really adopting today.

[24:12] We'll cover some key basic points as well

[24:15] that I think you should be aware of.

[24:17] And finally, we'll end the presentation

[24:19] where the Finance Committee ended up

[24:22] with a capital discussion.

[24:24] I know that was a very large topic at the last meeting

[24:27] and personally, I think the Finance Committee

[24:30] did a brilliant job to land where they did. So, Madam Clerk.

[24:36] So, this table before you is one that I would like you to look at, you know, for more than a decade,

[24:47] the city's chief goal, the primary goal has been a long-term financial sustainability in the city.

[24:56] And, operating the golf resort, just be-

[25:00] We came a natural nexus to that. And so, for that time, the city council's goal that you've set that is still in place today was to operate with a profit, including the amenity fee, but before capital and depreciation and other costs like that. And I don't really need you to study any of the numbers other than to look at them and know that

[25:29] reds are operating losses after the amenity fee and the blacks are operating profits.

[25:37] And I think that over the past decade, I think you'll agree that this is a very was,

[25:44] at some point, a very, very good goal to have.

[25:46] It was a challenge to break even with the amenity fee in place.

[25:53] And we've done so, especially over the last three to five fiscal years.

[25:58] We do know that the immunity fee itself has changed over the time and the way it's calculated has created some challenges within the community.

[26:13] So one of the things that you've seen me do in the greater part of a year is simply remove the community fee

[26:26] and the amenity fee to really develop an apples-to-apples comparison of how the golf course is truly running.

[26:36] And here, that bottom line is what I want you to pay attention to here.

[26:41] There are two items. One, from about fiscal year 2012-13, through that next eight-year period,

[26:50] Without the amenity fee, the golf course lost about 5.4 million, and that'll come be a little bit important with the next slide.

[26:59] But finally, I think you'll see that in fiscal year 21-22, where we start showing an operating profit of over $700,000.

[27:07] dollars and a budgeted forecast, this is what is being presented to you today, having

[27:13] a budget of 22, 23 of a profit of over 300,000.

[27:19] This is the first time, as you can see on the screen, in more than a decade, that you've

[27:26] been profitable prior to the inclusion of the amenity fee.

[27:31] And that's important, next slide, Madam Clerk.

[27:33] And so to the extent that the golf course is profitable, that profitability benefits the

[27:43] city's general fund directly. And as of today, the current inter-frontal loan, including

[27:49] a portion of that 5.4 million I just described earlier, is there. So currently the outstanding

[27:55] that between the city and the golf resort is about $7.6 million. Most of that was accumulated

[28:06] in that period from 2012 moving forward. And you can see that this year on June 30,

[28:14] 2021 or 22, we're going to pay down about $61.6 million. So your financial statements for

[28:24] the first time in more than a decade, ladies and gentlemen, will actually go down.

[28:30] The actual outstanding loan will go down to about 6.1 million.

[28:35] And then, same similar, by June 30th of 2023, 12 months from now, we expected to go down

[28:46] further.

[28:47] So you'll see that the cost of capital, if you agreed to approve it, about $676,000 being offset by another loan payment reduction of a $2.2 million to get you to about $4,500,000.

[29:05] So over that to your period, you'll be reducing that loan by $3.1 million and actually putting $3.1 million in cash into

[29:16] your city's general fund. Next slide, ma'am. So Bill, it's just about three or

[29:22] four points that I want you to consider as part of the adoption of the budget.

[29:27] The first one is looking at golf resort payroll. So if you look at this year's

[29:32] budget and you look at the full-time equivalence of FTEs, you amount of staff

[29:37] that we have, we're budgeting for a hundred percent staffing levels. And when

[29:43] When you compare that to what we did last year and as you see in my notes that in some

[29:50] times we had a very difficult time attracting staff and some of the programs, some of

[29:55] the departments were running between 60 and 80 percent.

[29:58] So, when you do that-

[30:00] In comparison, a part of your analysis today, you're going to see quite a significant increase in payroll versus last year's actuals. And that's kind of described to this. It's an important concept to understand. It's kind of a unicorn moment. I don't know in the cities or in the Gulf Resorts past, where we've had such a discrepancy and ability to attract staffing. We've always been very good with that. So that's something to consider.

[30:28] Also, one of the things you'll see is a significant increase this year in covers, especially resident covers.

[30:37] There's going to be a whole new level of attraction to recapture residents.

[30:42] Not only to come back to the view, we haven't been through the view in a while, you haven't been to the view.

[30:48] But also to attract new residents to the golf course as well.

[30:52] So a lot of those key metrics have been built in.

[30:56] And then finally, I wanted just to pay a little more attention to view financials.

[31:00] It's something I think you should be real clear about is so we showed you the view

[31:07] financials in your report today of both ways.

[31:11] So if you simply do not believe in allocating costs, the view as is in your budget today,

[31:18] will, is programmed to operate with a loss.

[31:24] And this is because in the view program itself, all of the 100 percent, there's five of them,

[31:32] of the salaried executive, FNB staff are fully allocated to the view.

[31:38] This is the chef and the food and beverage structure and so on and so forth.

[31:43] If you do believe in allocating costs,

[31:46] then what's been programmed in the budget based on revenue is creating about a 12% operating profit in view as it's been proposed to you today.

[31:58] Madam Clerk would just touch the last two and so these are the capital plans.

[32:03] I'll skin through this.

[32:04] The finance committee worked very, very diligently on removing programs.

[32:09] I think we've had discussions about that.

[32:11] Well, won't we go to the next slide, Madam Clerk?

[32:14] and this is the largest section of reduction where we actually removed the parking management system

[32:21] and we're delaying the academy and the fitting center looking at computing ROI's

[32:28] for future approvals moving forward and one more, Madam Clerk, I'm so sorry.

[32:34] And so we'll go one more, let's finish up nice and tight.

[32:37] And so looking at that, I think if you remember originally coming to the finance committee

[32:43] We had a golf capital budget that exceeded $2 million.

[32:48] And the finance committee worked very, very hard to reduce it to about a million four as you see there.

[32:54] And today it's been reduced even further to $676,000.

[33:00] You already, as part of your two-year budget, have a $389,000 budget previously approved by Council.

[33:08] And so if you approve the full budget today, for capital, it would be an increase of about $286,000 and we'll do one last slide, Madam Clerk.

[33:20] And with that, we recommend that the Finance Committee that recommends that the City Council adopt the budget as presented.

[33:26] Of course, I'm available for any questions you have as well as our general manager from the golfers are.

[33:32] Thank you.

[33:33] Thank you. I had no blue slips. Madame Clarke, is there anyone online that wants to be heard under public comment?

[33:42] So members of the public, if you are wanting to speak on this item, if you can just please use your raise your hand feature or

[33:48] dial star nine at this time.

[33:54] And I do know how many members of the number two wishes to be here.

[33:57] All right, Mr. Mayor, I do have one question for Harvey.

[34:03] Kevin, is this the golf resort eligible for the, you know, there's a recovery, a payroll investment recovery.

[34:13] If you will, funded by the federal government.

[34:16] Would that be eligible for that? Is anybody looked into that?

[34:20] Thank you, Council Member Balako. We have.

[34:23] We've looked into that during that first coronavirus, and we worked with Attrune

[34:28] and their corporate partners, and while, unfortunately, I don't remember the exact

[34:35] reason, but the golf resort was precluded.

[34:38] So we did not qualify to be able to capture any payroll funding that you're speaking

[34:44] out.

[34:44] I might make one recommendation to you.

[34:47] There are a number of firms out there that will cost you nothing to at least inquire

[34:51] to see if there are. There's a lot of things going on out there. I don't have any specific

[34:58] recommendation for afar.

[35:00] But most of them work this way. They provide the information, they look into it, and the only way you would ultimately pay a fee is if there's a recovery.

[35:12] So, there's really no reason not to at least explore that in deeper depth, rather than just rely on, if you just start from trend, because it's fairly complicated. And you would need somebody about who have those kind of skills to investigate.

[35:29] Thank you.

[35:31] Thank you.

[35:32] Who else wishes to be heard?

[35:34] Mr. Mayor, a couple of things.

[35:40] So, Kevin, you're asking, essentially, for two votes, because that's correct.

[35:46] One on the capital budget and one on the general budget for lack of a better term.

[35:54] Yes, sir.

[35:58] I think it's very commendable that this

[36:08] year the Gulf Resort has achieved a long-standing goal of not only the City Council but past City Councils, and that is getting the Gulf Resort into the black and the numbers are pretty extraordinary.

[36:25] And kudos to you for all the work you've put in to make sure that happens.

[36:34] In my view, from an accounting perspective and the way we report the numbers, it's time to take the next step.

[36:45] And to do that, I think we would need to amend what essentially is our income statement, that is the way we report the

[36:55] the finances of the Gulf Resort by adding three significant operating expenses that do not appear on our reports.

[37:09] Now, they do appear in other reports that the city publishes, but they're not on the income statement that we report.

[37:19] Number one would be depreciation expense for the very significant capital assets that we have at the golf resort.

[37:29] That would include the view building, the pavilion and some other significant capital assets.

[37:37] And the depreciation expense considering particularly the cost to build the view building is pretty hefty.

[37:47] Second would be reporting an amortization of the loans from the General Fund to the

[37:57] Gulf Resort.

[37:59] So you could prepare a schedule showing payments back to the General Fund over time so

[38:07] that on the financial statements, the Gulf Resort is not taking, for example, the big hit

[38:15] but that it's taking this year by the extraordinary amount of money that's being paid back to the general fund.

[38:23] That could be spread out over time.

[38:26] The third thing is the imputed cost of the time that the city staff spends on the Gulf Resort.

[38:41] city managers time, your time, other city staff time, we incur a lot of expense that is

[38:52] borne by the general fund for management activities and other activities at the call for

[38:59] Zord. And I think that should be reported. And if those expenses are shown on the income

[39:07] And then I think we get the true picture of the finances month to month, year to year at the golf resort.

[39:18] So that's a recommendation that I have.

[39:21] And that's at least in the private sector, that is, that would be in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

[39:32] any private sector income statement would have those expenses on it.

[39:38] The second thing,

[39:42] like any budget, the proposed budget is driven by a set of assumptions.

[39:51] And I was hoping that those assumptions would be, well,

[39:59] I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[40:00] Would be linked to the numbers that we have presented to us today. And by the way, I'm not criticizing anybody, because those assumptions are found in other city reports. For example, the

[40:20] The biannual budget for the budget cycle that we're in has a lot of those assumptions.

[40:34] I would like time to look at the assumptions that go, that have gone into the preparation of the budget

[40:45] And make sure in my own mind that those assumptions are valid presently.

[40:55] A lot of those assumptions were made many months ago when we had an entirely different economic picture nationally than we have now.

[41:05] I think it, you know, two weeks, 30 days, whatever, if the council would agree,

[41:13] We can just take a step back, look at those assumptions and make sure that they're still valid, and then adopt the budget.

[41:25] So I would recommend going ahead with the capital improvement budget.

[41:31] I think the finance committee and you, Kevin, have done an extraordinary job carrying down the capital expenses.

[41:39] I see no reason not to proceed with that today, but on the adoption of the budget for

[41:46] the Gulf Resort, I would ask a short delay just to give me time and others who would

[41:56] want to bore into this time to look at the assumptions and make sure they're still

[42:02] going.

[42:02] Mr. Bernheim, are you going to have to be ready?

[42:06] Yeah.

[42:07] Thank you, Council Member Sanders, for some of the clarity on the budgeting side.

[42:16] Let me start at 30,000 feet.

[42:19] First of all, I want to congratulate staff and spend, I think I've seen noticeable changes at the golf resort over the past 12 months.

[42:32] that from a resident side are very appreciated.

[42:37] I think the food quality has really increased.

[42:42] I know I stopped going there frequently just because I didn't enjoy the food.

[42:47] And I've now been back quite a bit over the past few months.

[42:51] And it's always been top notch and really good.

[42:55] So, I think that's good, and I would hope if people haven't gone to the view in a while

[43:01] and have avoided it because of one reason or another, give it a try, it's really quite good.

[43:08] So, I think that builds well for our future as we move forward.

[43:12] I think we're getting our house in order a little bit when it comes to food and beverage.

[43:17] Your presentation on salaries and talking about allocation versus non-allocation with regards to the view, I think that it's very important that we do understand the true profitability of the view as compared to the golf side.

[43:40] So it would make no sense to take everybody's budget and put it on the restaurant if some

[43:47] of their time is spent elsewhere, whether it's group sales, whether it's events, special

[43:53] events, weddings, what have you that falls in a different bucket.

[43:56] So I think you really have to do that in order to give it a true perspective of what we're

[44:00] doing at the view.

[44:01] And from my perspective,

[44:08] this is just one person's perspective, the restaurant side is probably

[44:13] a hardest side to deal with.

[44:16] And if we can run a profitable golf course, that's ultimately driving people to Indian

[44:24] Wells, which inevitably puts heads and beds, which gives us our transient occupant tax and

[44:30] to get sales tax, which are the big numbers that drive revenue to the city.

[44:35] I think if we break even on the view, I'm not saying the entire golf course, but

[44:40] if we break even on the view, that that's probably a great achievement over the long term.

[44:45] If we can create a great place for the residents to enjoy eating,

[44:51] break even on the view, break even or make money be in the black on the golf course,

[44:57] I think we've set the city up for a lot of success.

[45:00] Because ultimately the revenue comes from the bet tax and other taxes that drive revenue to the General Fund. Some of you may know and remember that in the 80s when the golf course was created, the goal was to lose 100 grand. That was the goal. If we lose just 100 grand, we'll more than make up for it in TOT, and that's what's going to drive it. So it was never originally designed to make money.

[45:29] I know that over time investments have been made and expectations are that it not lose money,

[45:36] but I don't think we can lose sight of the bigger picture which is driving the tourism revenue

[45:40] that really drives the city.

[45:43] And I think every decision that we make at the golf course has to keep that in mind.

[45:48] Every decision has to keep, what are we doing to tourism revenue as a whole?

[45:52] And doing well, there might be programs or amenities that we add to the golf course that may cause us

[45:58] to lose money, but if we're doing it to drive the overall picture of tourism revenue, I

[46:04] think we need to always look at the big picture.

[46:10] So the amenity fee, and I know that particular issue isn't part of your budget, but it's

[46:18] a key part of how you make up that budget going forward.

[46:22] And I've had conversations with City Manager, with you, I think that amenity fee is flawed

[46:27] And I would, I think we do need to tackle a better way to allocate the amenity fee and what that should be.

[46:35] Everybody probably has an opinion on what it should be. I do think there's probably some consensus that it's not

[46:42] It's it's not necessarily accurately being captured. It's it's it may be close

[46:48] But I think we can do better on figuring out that amenity fee and and and and

[46:54] And maybe we need to start talking about budgeting for that amenity fee.

[47:00] And that is, how much is the city each year willing to pay in an amenity fee?

[47:05] And if that number is a hard number, then how do we deal with resident rounds so we

[47:12] don't exceed that amenity fee?

[47:14] So I don't think we've thought about budgeting the amenity fee side of things.

[47:19] But maybe that's it are we saying are we willing to supplement two million dollars a year a million a half dollars a year a million dollars a year three million

[47:26] I don't know, but maybe that needs to be a part of the budgeting discussion for the golf resort and that is what's what's the budget for the amenity fee?

[47:35] Because it seems like what we're doing every year is we're setting up a

[47:40] Budget and then at the end of the year whatever the number of resident rounds were we pay that amenity fee with no

[47:46] So, with no real budget or cap or limit.

[47:53] So, on

[47:57] the cap, on the budgeting side, I would defer to Councilmember Sanders.

[48:02] If you think you need more time, you brought up some issues I hadn't thought about.

[48:07] I'd like to take a look at those.

[48:09] I think that's really an interesting idea.

[48:12] On the capital budget side, I really do want to commend the Finance Committee having gone

[48:18] down and drilled down this, you know, more than $2 million, you know, sort of wishlist into what's really necessary.

[48:27] I think some of the items on there seem to be necessary.

[48:31] And I think the Finance Committee struck the right balance of, hey, the city's looking at a master plan for the golf resort.

[48:37] And we know that that is going to include significant dollars for capital improvements down the road.

[48:44] So, what can we break out now that we know no matter what direction we go on a, on a, on a future master plan for the golf resort?

[48:52] These dollars are going to have to be spent.

[48:54] So, we might as well spend them now to keep the facility at its peak and doing the best that we can,

[49:01] adding some amenities like a, you know, a tournament golf car that does things like complying with food waste and things like that.

[49:11] That we know we're going to have to do those things, or we know that no matter how you reconfigure the golf course, those things are going to be needed.

[49:17] And so I think you did a really good job of figuring that out and bringing those issues forward.

[49:22] So I would support the capital budget as it's presented.

[49:25] Donna?

[49:29] Thank you, Councilmember Sanders, for your comments.

[49:34] I think that when we look at the budget, the operating budget,

[49:39] it is aggressive in that we're the assumptions that we're given to us by

[49:47] Trune corporate were given in while we got them in May that they probably worked

[49:53] on them in April and things were different then and if it would make

[50:00] You know, everybody feel more comfortable? Maybe true and corporate should revisit those assumptions. What do we have Kevin there? You know, you and I have gone over this so many times, but

[50:30] The golf resort is at this point larger than your general fund.

[50:37] It's amazingly complicated space over there.

[50:42] So there are a lot of metrics that we will update for you and

[50:46] we can bring back to the entire City Council.

[50:50] And I know, I mean, I would hope that Trune gave us in their mind a conservative

[50:57] estimate that they thought they were going to reach or exceed, and I know that you're

[51:03] very conservative in your assumptions, but maybe we should revisit this with Trune

[51:12] just to make sure that they're still on track with what the assumptions that they gave

[51:16] us for our operating.

[51:18] And I know that we've already passed, you know, we have our biennial budget that we already

[51:23] pass, right? And so this isn't going to affect the operation at the golf resort if we wait

[51:30] on operational to just get confirmation. That's correct, Mayor Pro Tem. You have, you're

[51:38] already in the second year of your adopted budget. This is just an amendment to that, so that

[51:44] can be done at any time during the fiscal year. Okay. I'm gladly accept all the compliments

[51:52] For the Finance Committee, we did spend quite a bit of time.

[51:55] I'm really happy with the capital and I'm okay to wait on the operational if we can get clarity from Trune corporate.

[52:04] I have a question, are you through?

[52:05] I'm done, yes.

[52:06] I have a question.

[52:07] At the previous agenda item, we spent $100,000 and I think you, somebody said now our surplus is now down to $200,000 for this fiscal year in the general fund budget.

[52:19] And yet, now we're talking about moving 600,000 from the Gulf resort to the general fund.

[52:26] So, if and when the severed passes, does the general fund surplus then become $8,000 to $800,000?

[52:36] So, there's a little apples and oranges in there.

[52:39] So, the 200,000 is current year revenues over current year expenses.

[52:45] I think you saw my slide adopting a $600,000 budget, you're not part of the PNL, not part of the 200,000 that you've said it's a loan.

[53:02] So during the year we'll increase the debt between the city and the DeGolf course by that $600,000 in order for them to acquire

[53:14] those capital assets. And then during the year you saw a repayment of that same debt, we budgeted

[53:24] $2,250,000. So that's how those loans will get reduced. But Mary, you are correct that it will

[53:35] require funding from the General Fund to pay for those capital items.

[53:41] Thank you for the slap on the back, but that wasn't my question, and I'm maybe you and I should just talk offline.

[53:54] But as I understand it, the budget that we passed had a $300,000 surplus expected at the end of this current fiscal year.

[54:06] We just spent 100,000 of that 20 minutes ago.

[54:10] That takes it down to 200,000.

[54:13] When the Gulf resort pays off part of the loan back to the general fund, does that not increase the surplus that would be expected in the general fund?

[54:26] So I'll answer it more clearly.

[54:28] It will not increase the surplus, but it will pay down the loan and increase the cash in the general fund.

[54:41] It's a balance sheet versus cash flow issue.

[54:44] Let me help you out there.

[54:47] It's just really a technical question.

[54:49] Okay, then let's do it offline because I don't want to floor everybody.

[54:52] Yeah, I think it's, I totally understand what Kevin's talking about,

[54:56] but I've been a finance director, so I get it.

[54:59] But you know, really the

[55:00] The impact on the surplus has nothing really to do much with the golf course. It has a lot to do that. We spent a ton of money more on public safety. That's the big driver on why we don't have as big a surplus. That is, as you all know, we added patrol services. But I do have some questions on the golf course that I think are relevant. First of all, I do think that Kevin did provide more detail to the finance committee on assumptions than what you saw here.

[55:29] So I don't have any problem with the delay that all of you want to look at those.

[55:34] But I just want to remind you, the world doesn't run on a budget.

[55:40] It runs on actual.

[55:41] So what happens no matter what we have in the budget and the economy goes up, downside,

[55:46] whatever it goes, that's why we have a general manager there, hopefully, and

[55:50] a city manager that will make adjustments on spending so that we don't just say,

[55:54] oh, well, we committed to it, and we're just going to spend it when we shouldn't.

[55:58] So, I'm pretty sure we have prudent management in place, so regardless of how you tinker

[56:03] with the budget at the end of the day, to me what really counts is actually.

[56:08] So, those are just my two cents on that.

[56:11] I mean, you can spend the times on budget.

[56:13] Budget is more like a crystal ball if any of us know what the pandemic is doing or the next

[56:18] wave that's out there, then I want to hook up with you and invest with you, but I do appreciate

[56:25] all the comments.

[56:26] I think there were very good comments from all of you, and there's no problem with the delay and

[56:31] re-examining the budget. But I would say that I think the real deal is, and I've asked Chris to do

[56:37] this, and to make sure that any and all of you should have participate in a quarterly meeting

[56:43] with the city manager on actual results at the golf resort. Because I think what we've seen,

[56:50] and we learned in the pandemic early on that, you know, we shut down things, we closed

[56:56] the restaurant, we did a lot of things, and in reality, they're still learning them.

[57:02] They shut down the golf operations during the day, and if you remember from the free

[57:07] pandemic, they were open most of the day in the summer when there was no business.

[57:11] They just had people sitting there and paying.

[57:14] Well, I think that they've learned from that, and they've revised a lot of those operations,

[57:18] I suspect the restaurant will be part of that as well as we go forward, but I think we just need

[57:23] to learn more about the changes and the things that are being made there, and I encourage

[57:28] you all to participate in that. Thank you.

[57:31] I move the capital budget as presented for the Gulf Resort and ask that the operating

[57:38] budget, the additional information we provided, and we bring that back in a future council meeting.

[57:44] Second the motion.

[57:45] Any discussion? All in favor say aye.

[57:49] Aye.

[57:49] Opposed? No, no. Do we want to, now this is the end of the, well, we have Council reports,

[57:55] but we should probably talk about when the next meeting is going to be and pick a day.

[58:02] We are talking about the possibility of having a meeting the first Tuesday of, excuse me,

[58:09] The first Thursday of August, however, the Mayor Pro Tem is going to be on an airplane that day.

[58:17] I think she said she was available Wednesday instead of Thursday.

[58:20] I'm available the day before.

[58:22] And I'm checking now, first of all, would that be enough time for you to get the information requested if we went to August 3rd.

[58:32] And then second of all, to all members of the Council, are all members of the Council available on August 3rd.

[58:39] I can meet if participation by Zoom.

[58:42] Okay, that works for me, Mr. Mayor.

[58:46] Richard, August 3rd, is that available to the Zoom?

[58:49] I'm available by Zoom.

[58:51] Now, Kevin, is that enough time?

[58:54] Yes, sir, it is.

[58:56] We originally provided you all the key metrics in the critical assumptions,

[59:02] which were on your May calendar, the May 19th event.

[59:09] and we'll look to update that, so I don't expect a large change from the documents you've

[59:16] already received, but I can work on that with our general manager and we'll have it by

[59:20] August 3rd.

[59:21] And Mr. City Manager, does that work with the staff at August 3rd, is that available?

[59:28] Yes it is.

[59:29] Okay.

[59:30] Very good.

[59:31] Thank you.

[59:31] I'll make that announcement then when we adjourn, before we adjourn.

[59:35] Council member reports and comments. Council member Bernheimer.

[59:39] Yes, a couple things. We had a co-commissioned meeting which gave our public safety updates, but then we had the annual cove awards, which was nice to have all the cities at the view.

[59:52] The celebrity ballroom and we gave out the awards to a member of the Sheriff's Department, a member of the Fire Department.

[1:00:00] Each city for their exceptional service that they provided over the year. It was a very very good event. I also participated in the General Assembly. I know others did as well. It was great to see all the valley elected leaders get together by Zoom. It'll be nice if they can restart that in person next year, and there can be some human interaction on that side.

[1:00:26] But on non-committee issues, Council Member Sanders and I have had some discussions about

[1:00:37] what he called signage at the golf resort.

[1:00:42] The old sign recognizing the Council Member's staff and experts who were involved in rebuilding

[1:00:51] the golf resort has been covered up for a number of years.

[1:00:54] There's now three council members on that list that are deceased, but nobody can go and

[1:01:01] pay recognition to them, because their names aren't seen.

[1:01:05] And I know that when the Gulf Resort was rebuilt, the original intent was to put the old

[1:01:11] clock up from the 80s to continue to recognize those council members and staff who were

[1:01:16] part of the creation of the Gulf Resort.

[1:01:18] And I would think as milestones occur at the Gulf Resort, it's appropriate

[1:01:23] to recognize the contribution that people make.

[1:01:26] And so I'd like to see us restore the plaque that's there and replicate in some way the old plaque from the 1980s.

[1:01:36] And maybe in the fall, have a rededication ceremony.

[1:01:39] I think it'd be nice to possibly honor Dick Ollafont, that was Council Member Sanders' idea to honor Dick Ollafont if you look back what was done in the 1980s to use redevelopment dollars.

[1:01:52] which didn't really, not only didn't cost the residents money, but brought money back to the city and how that was done over the years, it's been a tremendous economic engine for the city, and we're the of that type of recognition and not to be covered up.

[1:02:09] And so I'd like to propose that staff bring back some type of plan and cost to do that.

[1:02:17] I think the cost is going to be pretty nominal.

[1:02:19] I mean, it's probably the production of one plaque, but then we can pick a date in the fall where we re-dedicate the plaques and invite maybe

[1:02:28] Dick Ollafont and others who are named on the plaques to participate in the re-dedication.

[1:02:33] Mr. Mayor, I think that's an excellent idea and in anticipation of that, I

[1:02:42] They asked Dick Olifant if he remembers what was on the original plaque, and he promised

[1:02:48] me that he would draw a sketch of as best he can remember how that original plaque

[1:02:55] looked, so if the counsel is willing to go along with that, Dick will provide the sketch.

[1:03:01] When you say the original plaque, this is the one that's covered up.

[1:03:05] No.

[1:03:05] The original one was the one that was on the building that got torn down from, and so the idea

[1:03:11] The idea would be to uncover the one that's been covered and put on a new plaque so that all the folks that were a part of the golf resort could be recognized.

[1:03:22] Okay, well I would, if the staff is going to do what Mr. Bernheim requests, I would request that we bifurcate it.

[1:03:30] The one that's behind the wall, if you will, I have never seen in person, but I've seen a picture of it.

[1:03:38] And it really is big, if I remember correctly, and it's perhaps I shouldn't use the word

[1:03:45] garish, but it's not fitting for what I think Indian Wells is all about.

[1:03:51] If we're talking about a modest plaque of some sort, I'm for it 100%, but if it's going

[1:04:00] to be harder than me than I would be less likely to support it.

[1:04:08] Well, maybe it could be creating two matching plaques that are of the taste that you're talking about and dedicate those.

[1:04:15] I don't really care about the size or what have you, but I think there's a lot of A.I.

[1:04:20] Council.

[1:04:22] Sorry, this is the city attorney.

[1:04:24] This might be appropriate for putting on a future agenda if you'd like to discuss it.

[1:04:28] Okay, so can we bring back options at a future agenda, maybe both with cost

[1:04:36] estimates for creating two small plaques and having that redidication?

[1:04:44] And while you're at it, let's see, next is Council Member Bollaco.

[1:04:49] Thank you.

[1:04:50] You'll head in here.

[1:04:52] Councillor Member Bellaco.

[1:04:54] All right.

[1:04:54] Well, I'm here.

[1:04:55] Yes.

[1:04:55] Thank you.

[1:04:57] I've read the Court of the Code Commission.

[1:04:59] I...

[1:05:00] I was attended by Zoom. I was not able to attend the lunch. I finished my year out as the chair, and now we have a new chair from Palm Desert. So, as you know, we rotate that around. So, your terms will come if you're on the Code Commission. The Finance Committee met. As you saw, you saw a lot of their work. And I want to thank the staff and Donna for, you know, working pretty hard on this stuff. I mean, I think we really dug in on the golf resort.

[1:05:29] or more than normal.

[1:05:31] So, I think there was a lot of headway made,

[1:05:35] particularly in the capital budget section.

[1:05:38] I think that's where you can spend a lot of money very quickly

[1:05:42] and not get a return for your investments.

[1:05:44] I think that could have stood a staff room

[1:05:47] and the golfers weren't people for making adjustments

[1:05:51] and listening to us.

[1:05:53] But that I conclude my report.

[1:05:56] Council Member Sanders.

[1:05:58] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[1:06:01] As we all know, the state legislature, and ultimately the governor, approved a budget that

[1:06:09] has, my memory serves me right, $79 million in it for the Palm Desert Cal State San Bernardino

[1:06:17] campus, which is an extraordinary accomplishment.

[1:06:22] One, the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership, I sit on the board of CVAP as one of my extra duties was heavily involved in the lobbying effort to get that done.

[1:06:36] And I think it will not only benefit Indian Wells but the entire Coachella Valley, ultimately, that's it.

[1:06:44] Thank you.

[1:06:45] Mayor Putron, Griffith.

[1:06:46] I hope in that budget, maybe there can be some room for some rena numbers for Indiana.

[1:06:55] Working on it.

[1:06:56] Okay, good.

[1:06:59] Actually none of my committees except for finance met and today you saw the work that

[1:07:04] was done there.

[1:07:06] And while you're at looking at monument signs, you might want to think and have staff look

[1:07:13] We had the possibility of a nice discreet rock with some maybe a little plaque on it out at the pavilion.

[1:07:21] The pavilion brings in $800,000-ish maybe in profit to the golf resort and it was the brain child of the council.

[1:07:33] I don't know which council it was, but it really was the bread and butter of the golf resort.

[1:07:38] So, if we're going to start naming things, let's look at all of them.

[1:07:44] And that's it for me.

[1:07:47] Okay, thank you.

[1:07:51] First one on my list is California Joint Powers Insurance Authority.

[1:07:55] I'm representative, there's a meeting not next week, but the week after.

[1:08:00] If that's their annual meeting, I will be attending.

[1:08:03] The Riverside Transportation Commission continues to meet on the monthly basis.

[1:08:07] And is dodging the bullets in Sacramento that want to take over basically all the decision making from

[1:08:15] regional transportation authorities such as RCTC, they don't like the fact that we are

[1:08:23] adding capacity to try to meet the growth that is occurring here in Riverside County.

[1:08:32] they want us to look more at mass transportation and somehow not have additional freeway lanes.

[1:08:44] We're dodging that bullet, but it's going to come back.

[1:08:48] C-Vag executive committee met Mr. Bernheimer and the city manager and I represented the city.

[1:08:55] and let's see who is the new chair.

[1:09:05] Steve Hernandez from thank you very much from the city of Coachella is the new chair.

[1:09:13] Seavag Transportation Committee meets not regularly but sporadically, basically to go over

[1:09:22] for the programs and policies for spending the half-cent sales tax in the Coachella Valley.

[1:09:32] And then, some line transit agency continues to meet on a monthly basis.

[1:09:37] And we continue to have no agreement with organized labor.

[1:09:42] We were successful in getting an agreement.

[1:09:48] But then when the labor took it to its members for approval, the members said no.

[1:09:56] So now, there are somewhat stuck.

[1:10:00] They've lost control of their members. And we're just waiting, and hopefully can come to some fruition. But nothing's happened on a good note on that yet, but hopefully we will hear something soon. Is there anything further that anyone wishes to say? If not, we will be adjourned until a special meeting.

[1:10:29] It will not be the regular meeting, it will be a special meeting on Wednesday, August

[1:10:34] 3rd, at 1.30 in the afternoon, here in this chamber, and also available by Zoom because

[1:10:43] two of our members will not be able to be present physically.

[1:10:48] And with that, we are adjourned.

City Council on 2022-07-07 1:30 PM

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