go ahead and call to order the regular meeting of the city council for monday
august 15th roll call please mayor hasselbrink here
mayor to mayor pro tem dobie absent
council member bates here council member turco yeah council member nafolda absent
and we will be starting with closed session uh city attorney if you could
read us in a closed session yes thank you mayor the city council will now
adjourn into closed session to discuss item 3a as listed on this evening's
agenda awesome thank you
we will be back
no no no
now
a
no
ambition or trying to further our own agendas but that we would be very
mindful of the servant aspect of the public job that we do i thank you for
everything that you would accomplish in us through us and for us
in jesus name amen amen um can you join me down the front
i'm just trying to catch you ahead of time yeah quicker tonight
just you too mayor
okay can i have our finance staff come on up
come on don't be shy come on in come on in
all right the government finance officers association of the united
states and canada referred to as gfoa has awarded the certificate of
achievement for excellence in financial reporting to the city of los alamitos
for its annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ended june 30
2021. the report has been judged by an
impartial panel to meet the high standards of the program which includes
demonstrating a spirit of full disclosure to clarify to clearly
communicate its financial story the certificate of achievement is
awarded to a government the award of financial reporting achievement is also
presented to the individuals or department designated by the government
as primarily responsible for its having earned the certificate this award is
presented to the los alamitos finance department and its personnel
this is a big deal [Applause]
and craig you'd be the head honcho i'm going to let you speak
all right um finance team is here tonight and um starting with brandy
valegas she joined the city in september of last year and she served as the
accountant she came from private industries served in a number of
financial positions and also served with a orange county school
district next i have maria ebeneze she's the senior finance assistant she joined
department in may of this year and she
served in a various finance positions with the city of
norwalk on their accounting division and also their transit division as well
and lastly i have john balderas he's the finance manager
he has over 25 years of professional experience 22 of those years served with
the city of la habra he rose progressively through the ranks from
accountant to senior accountant to accounting supervisor and joined uh city
in may actually the same day that maria joined
so that's the team thank you
well they go through the grading criteria and there's certain criteria
that we have to meet and the auditors help with that as well
and then it's judged by impartial team which is basically other finance
directors look at our financial report and it has to meet certain criteria we
get a report on things we need to improve each year and we incorporate
those into the next year's award so it's not a given thing we have to actually
earn it okay thank you
thank you very much
give that to craig
hmm
okay up next is oral communications at this time any individual in the audience
may come forward to speak on any item within the subject matter jurisdiction
of the city council remarks are to be limited
to not more than five minutes per speaker do i have any comments
oh very shy group tonight okay so we'll bring it back to council
announcements and mark i'll have you start
sure so i uh i attended three of the four
summer concert series events over the last few weeks
there was great attendance i was part of the team along with
the mayor that ran the los alamitos community foundation beer garden and we
did that to raise funds for the community
uh again it was a lot of fun we did raise some money we we also got to enjoy
the events um
and i got so many compliments not towards me but towards the city staff
for the great work that they did in setting up the events
particularly the last one at orville was it was like packed at the park and uh it
was just a great community event it just felt like a fun evening
with the entire community i attended the national night out on august 2nd at
little cottonwood which was also really nice to celebrate our law enforcement
officers and support them and it was really nice to have our own
national night out event in the city so thank you for that
i attended the los al community foundation meeting last monday we
discussed many things fundraising included and a casino night
we are scheduling for mid-november do you recall the the date uh mayor says
november 12th maybe um but we'll double check that more details will be released
next month in september um so anybody who can make it please try
to attend you would buy a ticket and attend and proceeds will go to the
community foundation and to support the efforts of the foundation including
trying to get our own canine dog here in los alamitos for our police
department as well um
not in city news but over the weekend i got to uh help my parents celebrate
their 50th wedding anniversary so i was really excited about that and uh proud
of them for that too um
and then on a another personal note you know it's
my firm belief that the city is in a great position right now
finally the city is financially stable we're up to full staffing in our police
department we've got an excellent team of city
employees starting from the city manager to our
chief of police city staff department leaders as well
city councils worked harmoniously together over the last few years to
advance the interests of our residents so that's one reason you know i decided
i was not going to run for re-election um this year just because of the
the great shape that the uh city is in that in a combination with uh
uh my significant time work and family commitments made me decide that uh this
is probably best for the city and for my family as well so i'll talk more about
that at the end of my term but uh you know everyone knows being on the city
council has been a tremendous honor for me and
truly enjoy working with everyone and uh look forward to the next few months
and i'll stick around i'm not moving away or anything like that but
yeah we have we have a couple commissions we're going to put you on
yeah yeah yeah jones member base sure
uh mark uh thanks and we'll talk more in december how's that okay thank you
uh a few things uh one the uh
orange county public library has a new mobile library that's available and
where it's going to be and how you access it just go online to ocpl.org
and there's more information and available for working with kids stuff
like that in the local community
additionally if you have any need for research to get help that a library
system can help you with please again access the
orange county public library.org and go to chat and they'll have somebody
personally available to help you find the information you may need for a
particular project you're working on or a project one of your students your
kids is working on they can help too now a couple things that i think are
important to put in the back of your mind
these have to do with the orange county sanitation district and there are needed
improvements just after the beginning of the year
we're going to have some real challenges and i hope we'll be able to keep working
with the sanitation district i'll certainly try to do my best
but they're putting in an addition to the line that's going down los alamitos
boulevard they're going to be looking at approving a line coming in from cyprus
that goes from moody
across to a ball and on cerritos a bloomfield it'll come down bloomfield
ball bloomfield and then across cerritos and hooks in over right near the flood
control channel so that's going to cause some major challenges for traffic and
that but that's just to give everybody a heads up that that's coming
the orange county saturday sanitation district approved bargaining approved
final contracts for the bargaining units that work well
and the headquarters the new headquarters for the sanitation district
is under construction right now and as i just mentioned the trunk sewer project
that goes down los alamitos boulevard they're doing preliminary work on that
trying to make sure we coordinate that with the
traffic conditions that are as light as possible when that work is going to be
done lastly coming up
i attended the ribbon cutting uh for the new uh therapeutic center over on
catella avenue with the mir pro tem and i just want to point out that the
revenue and taxation policy committee that will be meeting at the league
coming up here in september they've done some good work the bottom
line though is they still don't have anything that does a better job of
distributing the sales tax more fairly so i think that's something we need to
keep focusing on that would benefit most of the cities in california instead of
those cities with this just the big box distribution centers that's all i have
mayor thank you great thank you mayor pro tem dolby
all right um
i was i was slightly busy i went to the express urgent care ribbon cutting and
what i wanted to share was they have a telephone number that you can dial if
you are experiencing a mental health emergency so you don't have to dial
9-1-1 you can dial 988 for a for mental health help specifically and it's
nationwide it's been live since july 16th it's for adults and
minors and you get patched to a mental health specialist and they can also text
to chat as well you know some of our young people are more comfortable
texting but i thought that that was outstanding because we often hear about
oh if i had just known that so-and-so was having an issue i would have but
they're getting the resources to catch up with what the need is so that number
was 988 you can text it or call it and then i was grossly overdressed for
the government officials dinner at the orange county fair
uh did not know but i look like a superstar y'all i represented los al
very well and it was wonderful it was um like officials from all over orange
county so and it wasn't a whole lot of politics and so that part was nice and
the food was really good and i got my um krispy kreme fried chicken donut which
is there you go worth the drive i also did a tour of the mets
facility at the joint forces training base with the mosquito and vectors
control control district as they try to explore how to deal with our
mosquito infestation and they're looking to try to handle it
the same way that we deal with the med flies which is um
sterilizing the boys because the boys are not the ones that
bite it's the ladies and i would like to read a book
there is a book it's about three minutes but we'll see how y'all are feeling by
the time i get to the end of this and then i'll decide because i like to read
the room um i went to a grand opening for the
premiere dance art it's so beautiful it's a really nice studio right near um
catella deli they've taken up like three or four suites in the upstairs lovely
couple they came to our state of the city or no good morning los al
super sweet the studio was beautiful they did a presentation of the
nutcracker in the middle of august so it was
outstanding speaking of catilla deli if you have not been inside lately i highly
suggest that you vote they did such a beautiful job in there it's so nice i
i've gone several times we're not going to talk about how many but i've gone
and um do you have the slides for that uh
now this book is super cute because you can share i was engaged as an adult my
daughter loved it we went to the discovery cube and it was a mosquito and
vector control staff member that wrote the book they're not really selling it
they're just you can download it for free it's a flip
book on amazon and it can be shared in a classroom or it can just be shared with
your children or it can just be you know some light nighttime reading whatever
makes you happy and it's really straight to the point on what to look for and how
these little rascals work so while she pulls up that part i'm
going to pull the book up and then miss wendy we can we put the link for the
for the book on our site like can they is there on our site fantastic you're so
awesome i appreciate your whole life all righty so i'm gonna find it and
it's really like three minutes i'm not exaggerating is that fine mayor that's
fine i read a book to y'all absolutely okay
all right and i couldn't find my heart back book so i'm going to read it from
the flip book which is how i know that we have a flip book that we can read
through it's cool all righty
this is grandmother mosquito [Music]
grandmother mosquito was more than just grand she was called great great great
by some in the land so many children now all adults they buzz through the air
with disastrous results it was rumored that granny mosquito was
old she had lived to the age of two months
we'd been told in that long ripe life she'd seen so
many die tell us grandmother we want to know why
come closer my larvae and pupils swim near this story is gruesome there's so
much to fear they might be tasty but humans are smart and they hate us deep
in their juicy red hearts they hunt us and kill us so always beware all of the
ways you might die i will share here are my babies whose names start
with m and these are the ways that they met
their end maria mosquito was snared by a thread
mandy mosquito died as she fed miranda mosquito was dumped from a pot
mckenzie mosquito just got way too hot margaret mosquito was poured from a vase
matilda mosquito squished in an embrace millie mosquito was snagged by a net
mia mosquito was gulped by a pet megan mosquito was caught in a trap
melissa mosquito was doomed by a slap marsha mosquito was drained from a dish
michaela mosquito was swallowed by a fish
molly mosquito was cleaned from a bowl and myra mosquito was found by vector
control by now dear grandmother was looking
quite tired our heads were now full with the
knowledge required with blood and some luck we'd be
grandmothers too so humans watch out we'll be looking for
you and then it gives a little synopsis on
what the 80s mosquitoes are and we call them ankle biters because
they're an aggressive daytime biting mosquito they are black with white
stripes about the size of a dime and they prefer to bite humans
instead of buzzing around one's head they tend to fly low to the ground and
that's why 80s mosquitoes have earned the nickname ankle biters
now they breed in containers and only need small amounts of water to complete
their life cycle the best way to get rid of 80s mosquitoes is to check weekly for
standing water and dump the water out so a lot of the ways that the mosquitoes
were dying were ways that you get rid of mosquitoes like you tip a vase you tip a
pot you tip a container because the mamas lay their eggs dry
and it takes a cap full of water and years they can lay dormant for years
catf they're like gremlins cap full of water they're alive and they can live in
your house so
hopefully you all will remember how to get rid of
the raggedy mosquitoes thank you for indulging me thank you i
honestly think that's the first time we've ever been read a bedtime story
and thank you i appreciate that okay i did a lot of the things my
colleagues did i went to the last four of the band in the parks two at
cottonwood and to adora lewis they were just a blast watching people
up there dancing and the kids playing around and
it was just all about community at both parks and and park and break just did a
great job of just planning that and everything just
went flawless national night was great it was our
first time that we've done it on our own we did that over little cottonwood park
we had our bicycle patrol out there which i got for a minute to pretend that
i was part of the bike control which was always fun and then we had the
sheriff's k-9 unit out there just
just doing the community effort and just showing what the the k-9 can do and he
was the sheriff was just great at just demonstrating
what the k-9 is capable of and following orders and everything which was great
um attended the la salle foundation meeting on monday last monday
talked about the casino night in november which will be a lot of fun
it'll be here in our community center and um next wednesday i'll be going to
the dedication of the new stem building over at la salle high school
this building is phenomenal and having two sons that are in the
science industry that did their lab experiments at lassell high school in
the lecture hall i'm really excited about the future
generations being able to benefit from this state-of-the-art building
and just piggybacking on what mark said regarding the campaign um although he's
deserting us i am officially running unopposed and so
you'll be stuck with me for another four years
um whether you like it or not
so um and that's all i've got and city
manager thank you madam mayor i'm actually just
going to ask the wreck manager sasoya to give us a little update on events that
we have coming up here for the rest of the summer
thank you city manager and good evening um
mayor mayor pro tem council members it's a pleasure to be here tonight on behalf
of emeline we have a few things coming up in
recreation next thursday august 25th our los
alamito senior club will hold their first bingo fundraiser since 2019.
the buy-in is 20 and it's a 5 additional for each
additional game doors open at 9 00 a.m and the buy-in
runs from 9 30 to 11. bingo starts promptly at 11 30. so if
you're interested in supporting the cause please come down to the community
center on this thursday they'll be
the senior club will be there at 9 am and you can purchase tickets for it or
ask for additional information that leads us into
our upcoming memorial care miller children's and women's hospital long
beach week of low cell presented by southland credit union
this popular event is returning this year for the second annual event we'll
be running it from september 16th through the 24th
it kicks up on friday september 16th through saturday september 17th with our
very popular servlo sal event we have all of our we've launched the
website and so if you are interested in volunteering at any of our events please
visit the website which is servlosal.org you can sign up to be a volunteer for uh
to give back to some of our local nonprofits in the area
saturday september 17th is our orange county health care i'm sorry health fair
which is by listonic it's a free clinic which will be offering
free medical and dental services here at the community center that's from 9am
till noon and then it's followed by our bikes and
bites which is another popular event we have four restaurants that have
signed up so far with applications due on the 18th of this month
um they're ten dollars for a ten dollar um for ten tickets to the different
restaurants and they will have two to three menu options provided um you can
bike or walk to any of the restaurants involved
and then sunday the 18th is again our popular family day it's 20 for a family
it's here at the los alamitos community center
and we'll have five stations that are interactive with crafts and cooking
10 minutes per station you can purchase tickets online at eventbrite
of course at the very end of the event is going to be our race los al which is
on september 24th and then we have our street fair which is the 23rd and the
24th all the information can be found on our website and we're excited to bring
back this popular event thank you that's all i have mayor that's it okay
on to warrants now does anybody have any questions with warrants yes mayor two
questions if we could sure i got the right page here
page six
at the top there could we just get a little bit more
information like 25 000 for
uh building uh maintenance and it appears to be at the community
center could we give us a little more information on what that was for
of course sir so we've been actually undergoing a number of of small
development projects within the city inside of our actual buildings uh
we're doing some upgrades within the police department and in city hall one
where we've built it out additional office space this is for work that is
actually done within the community center as well so
the united home remodeling i know is a kind of a deceptive name but they do do
construction on commercial buildings as well so that's what that is for okay
great thank you uh on page 17
there at the bottom could we get a little more of an
explanation both of them are under self-insurance
and it says public risk innovation solutions
so i was kind of interested on how that money is broken down and for what
specific purposes of course sir so
the you can see the larger of the two expenses there uh for 31 000 is actually
part of our cyber security program that we pay into an insurance pool for and
essentially this is to ensure that we're meeting all the standards that we need
to meet to make sure that we're safeguarding all of the information that
we're taking in be it information from our residents with
regards to registering for classes or just transactions that we're doing
through the normal course of city business
and then the other amount there that you refer to the 4500
that is actually for a master crime program and essentially
that provides all the checks and balances to ensure that
each of us as city employees are that there's proper checks and balances
in place to ensure that we do not um go loose with public funds that there is a
very methodical way in which we're spending it but that we're also
recording and that we're also auditing it at the end of the day
on on the cyber security portion and the insurance for
that do we have for any sensitive material do
we have double authentication procedures in place we have a number for
different i'll say it this way sir for different levels of security we have
different levels of what exactly it takes to access that information so
there are different places where dual factor authentication will be necessary
um there are sectors where that isn't necessary but um we again we follow all
of the required dod regs and then also the additional security that's put in
place by our banks thank you
is that it that's it okay perfect can i get a motion please a little bit second
okay roll call please mayor hasselbrink hi mayor pro tem dobby
councilmember bates hi councilmember turco aye council member nafolda
absent okay on to the consent calendar all consent
calendar items may be acted upon by one motion unless a council member requests
separate action on a specific item uh does anybody want to pull anything uh
c and e metamer okay anybody else okay do you just have questions on those
yes okay let's go ahead start with c please
uh on on item c
you know i've read some of the background and i know we have to do this
to meet our reporting requirements and that
i think i made this point before chief maybe you could share with the community
i think like we ask i think all the council
members that here and all of us that say the same thing
we're concerned about our primary targets and in our mind obviously
the primary target involves the schools and i'd be curious as to what
preparations you've made and then i'll have one other question what
preparations you've made in case there is some type of a school incident
yes sir first and foremost uh ab481 is like you said a requirement for us to
get approval for all of the existing equipment that we already have
as which will include all the equipment that is used in the mutual aid region of
west county swat now as far as specifically dealing with
the threats in our city the high school and the base would obviously be our
largest targets now what we've done in preparation for
those is we currently have an actor active
shooter drill that is in
progress of the planning stages with orange county fire authority our support
services managers is collaborating with them
to deliver this drill which will be in september at mcauliffe middle school in
conjunction with the school district uh that will be conducted on a weekend
that's first secondly we've already been in communication with the base about
conducting a separate active shooter drill for them specifically
additionally we've also outfitted every as a result of the uvalde texas
school shooting incident one of the lessons that we learned from
that was the ability to breach
[Music] rooms that were secured so first step
was uh orange county fire authority stepped forward and trained um everybody
in the region and how to provide because they do this far more than we do about
gaining entry through prying doorways
so they conducted training to teach all the officers in the region how to do
that and then secondly our support services manager went out and
acquired a pry tool known as a halogen and we
have now placed one of those in each one of the black and whites for the police
department to include the supervisor's supervisor's
vehicle so that any responding unit would possess the ability to force entry
into a school if they had to and
the next layer um that we have done is implementing the school resource officer
which would be the the most significant of all of those
we have we collaborated with the school district
to include dr friedman and principal krauss
to conduct a process within the police department to select the officer
so we have done that uh he has not been fully released as of yet we're waiting
for two officers to come out for training
but he was there today for the first day of school to to be there introduce
himself to the principal he already got a chance to see his new
office and we've posted all the pictures on social media of him and and the
experience now on a larger scale as it relates to
an active shooter response the urban area security initiative grant
puts on a three-day active shooter course as well as a tactical emergency
casualty care course which deals with traumatic injuries that can be sustained
and how to treat those in the field for patrol officers both of those courses
being taught by the grant and we are in the process of getting every officer on
the department trained in both of those so those are things the proactive
measures that we've taken to try to get all the training we can here in the
department chief well two questions the first
do we have all the high-powered rifles readily available that we might need if
there was a hostage type situation to be well equipped to engage that
the hostage taker if need be so pretty much every every black and white police
car in the county is going to be equipped with it with a shotgun and a
patrol rifle so yes we will be ready should that uh incident present itself
my second question relates to what we're doing
and and how it relates to really trying to
trace and get ahead of the situation what i mean by that
is do we have any intelligence programs anything that
we're working on on a county-wide basis that would kind of identify obviously no
we know that most of these uh people that are going over the top and
shooting people are young males do we have anything that's tracking
social media or that trying to identify these people ahead of time and and
getting in front of it so we're not left in a situation here in orange county
where the guy comes in and shoots it up then we go back and look at all the
social media and the social media we should have picked it up that this guy
was over the top uh you know a year ago and we weren't doing anything in that
regard so i guess i'm concerned about the mental health aspect of it and what
we're trying to do to track you know the the social media and the interaction of
these kids to try to identify them early on and stop any
uh you know really dangerous illicit behavior that might occur
yes sir so on the county-wide scale it's going to be our our okay
our fusion center which is orange county information assessment center
so our
fusion center actually has received national recognition as being one of the
best fusion centers in the country so that is the first step and it
disseminates information on a county-wide scale of events it tracks
every event that is going on in the county in the region all of the events
nationally that are terrorism related and it disseminates that information
back to all of us within our operational area now on a more local scale
okay itself puts on terrorism liaison training
so that we can train all of our officers to be
liaisons for acts of terrorism or things to that they may see in the field to
create leads that then get sent back to all kayak that they will then
investigate so it's almost like a two-way communication we we train the
ground-level officers to send leads to them that they will then investigate and
push back out information back out to us but they themselves are also have
analysts that are working on the internet constantly tracking um these
types of acts of terrorism around the country as well as locally and they
disseminate that information back to us now um that obviously will you know
the most important thing i can tell you is going to be our school resource
officer because if we can get our sro in the school and establish those
relationships these are the types of relationships that can create leads to
prevent this type of thing from happening here great thank you
i had a real quick question on that is he also going to be spending time at the
two middle schools because they seem to be getting younger and younger so
absolutely he will spend time at all the schools but he will just have an office
with his computer systems all set up laptop monitoring everything inside of
an office at the high school but he will absolutely spend time at all the schools
great thank you okay set it for that i'll move the recommended action okay
and then item e we'll do that and then we can pass the whole consent yep uh
item e um obviously uh
trying to effectively utilize staff is important
and i think these approaches where it works
makes sense and i'm just wondering if you could talk a little bit about how we
balance it what can be done by internal staff what's better in terms of
contracting and how in your mind that's fitting together
based really on e and f that we're looking at tonight of course sir and
maybe a good place for me to start is basically just to talk about the output
that we're seeing from community development and then probably public
works in general uh i know as the council's aware we've
gone from from an operational tempo of 350 000 a
year back in 2020 2021 to last year spending 3.5 million dollars on cip
projects to this year spending just over four million dollars so the amount of
output that is being or projects that are being put out on the street has
significantly increased which i think we're starting to see the benefit of
that out in the streets what comes along with that though is
obviously staff allocation where exactly we're putting money in order to
accomplish those jobs and i know the council was very concerned about voting
on packages of that size and how exactly we're going to accomplish it
one of the things that we've been able to do and i'll give director noda a lot
of credit here is being able to constantly ebb and flow where exactly
we're assigning our particular staff to work on a given day whereas one day it
may be concrete repair and another day it might be park maintenance
by by adding these contracts or more aptly
increasing these contracts we're able to have staff focus on what i'll call the
more specialized work whereas we can take a contractor and have them do the
work that maybe doesn't take as much ingenuity or know-how about what exactly
is happening on the street level such as landscaping or cleaning the median so
this is a reallocation of time um that effectively will make us a little bit
more efficient and allow us the uh the manpower to be able to accomplish those
projects that the council's approved thank you okay
all right uh any other um items i'll make a motion okay
second all in favor aye any opposed no
okay on to discussion item the economic
development plan phase two and i'm going to turn this over to director nota
good evening mayor mayor pro tem and members of council yes i'm here tonight
to present the fiscal year 2223 economic development program um
i don't know if that's a bother but there's a
vlogging thing on that
thank you very much so again this is the economic
development program for uh fiscal year 2223
and so uh see if we can get this
there we go i'm going to highlight a bunch of
programs um that we're going to go um and
you know talk and discuss and welcome council feedback so the first thing that
we're going to do is we're going to continue our business outreach so if you
recall for um this past fiscal year we went entered into a huge shop local
campaign so you got to see a lot of marketing material outreach material out
in the community that said shop local support local play local we're going to
continue that approach and so we again we want to encourage the
community to spend locally here in los alamitos
we want to continue with the new business and resident packets so last
year we had a big focus on businesses and when a new business re-upped their
business license we gave them a packet that provided information on shopping
services uh you know uh regular services like dry cleaning and of course
restaurant options that serve los sal this year we're going to really hammer
out the resident packet it so if you are a new renter or
a new homeowner we're going to give you that packet as well so our economic
development supervisor will be working with several of the realtors locally to
get those new um residents that come into los alamos that information out
there to again encourage them to spend locally here in los alamitos and we've
started that we've kind of taken a little hiatus but we're going to go back
full bore into the business spotlight series
where we provide attention and recognition to select los alamitos
businesses these little snippets of three or four minutes will introduce the
community to these kind of local gems um i don't want to steal your word um
mayor pro tem but these these local gems in the community and
educate them again on the fabulous restaurants or the fabulous service
businesses that we have here again in los alamitos
yes ma'am um you mentioned reaching out to local realtors what about property
management companies yes we have that list as well correct
correct okay
oh i want to add there that the estimated annual cost there is zero
dollars because we're gonna all do that in-house um and then a lot of uh you
know we spent a lot of money was like one-time fee last year of all the
marketing material we have banners pull-up banners etc and so uh we're
gonna kind of keep that in-house okay so estimated cost is zero
next is good morning los alamitos as you recall we had our first one and was very
very uh received from the community and a positive experience so we're going to
bring that back the second one will be uh save the date october 19 2022. so i
got to get jet ready to go on that because he is again going to be the
emcee of our event again this is i'm not sure i agreed to
that but you have no choice
so again a civic engagement between city leaders residents and business owners um
education on services and programs available throughout the city so i'm
hoping here that this time each of the department heads will gonna give up like
a two or three minute um talk uh with everyone there in attendance on what is
new and exciting going on in their department so again it's uh save the
date where it's going to be held at the community center more outreach will come
as we get closer to that date but it is scheduled for october 19 2022 and again
the estimated um cost for that is 5 000 because included in that it's free for
um community members to come but uh we also will be providing a light breakfast
you know and so that's what's the cost for that mostly is the breakfast part
right now the next one here is the big one here that we're very excited about
because we're going to go into round two of the lost out bucks program right i
think council is very aware that the first round was highly successful we
generated uh close to a hundred thousand dollars now we're not talking about lost
out bucks money but we're talking about uh extra money um plus the lost out
bucks into the local community because again um if i remember correctly for
every fifty dollars you spend on lifestyle bucks uh you had to spend a
minimum of 75 so you had to bring out 25 of your own money to again bring it into
the the city so again round two is scheduled uh again we
the reason why is to stimulate local business and of course uh continue to
economic recovery uh each resident will receive fifty dollars worth of lost our
bucks uh new to round two is uh the do good and save app we have partnered with
that app to increase our outreach another one uh that's new to round two
is double your bucks so the team here in development service is out there trying
to create a list for specific businesses so if you visit that specific business
on that specific day your lost out bucks will double this again is to encourage
uh residents of los alamos to visit new businesses or restaurants or services
that they're not used to we learned a lot through our round one
so we're scheduled tentatively to launch lost out bucks the week of september
19th the residents will receive it in the mail that week and once you receive
it it will be ready to go you can basically open up your mail that day and
go that night for dinner and it's ready to go the team is very hard at work
right now going out there getting the application and signing up our residents
and all that other things we learned is clearly
marked envelopes so we can detail that it's a lost out bucks and it's not
regular junk mail sending one mail instead of two or three
mailers and um expanding our outreach including video we did do a video last
year to in um educate the residents and the business owners on the process we're
going to slow it down and kind of go really in detail on how to do it again
with the purpose of education so that this time round two will be a lot easier
for both the resident and the business owner to recoup their money at the end
okay estimated um annual cost there is 275
275 000 okay
dumpster dipping this time next one we're going to do here is
elevate lost cell right this business it's a business development workshop
series we're trying to partner up with a couple one of the local company or or
organization here we're trying to partner with the los alamitos chamber it
consists of workshop designed to assist local businesses and independent
entrepreneurs in the city the workshop will provide information
and tips on improving their business like marketing plans
access to resource for growth utilizing technology for improved growth and
outreach so again it's a workshop series and then it also includes personal
professional development so the development services team is partnering
with the recreation community services for their um women's conference and so
again it's just to provide information to help personal growth as a business
owner and also growth for your business as well so again we're developing uh
we're partnering with both uh a couple agencies but one locally is a chamber of
commerce here as well okay uh estimated uh cost there is about
a thousand dollars
all right we're excited to announce that uh we're almost finalizing our contract
so we're going to bring los alamos night market to pine street every saturday
evening multiple offerings such as live
entertainment vendors local artists family activities
food and drink options will be available again
our parklet series that we did last spring was very very successful and
again you know i've been here for a while but there's always a clamoring for
the farmer's market for the artisans crafts and all that vendors so we have
partnered with a business or an organ design organizer that has they do the
one in long beach they do one in bellflower so they're saying that every
week they guarantee a minimum of 20 vendors and food vendors will be out
there servicing our community and so we're expected to finalize our contract
and have this start in october on pine street after all our construction on the
streets are done and again um estimated cost is four thousand dollars that's
basically for the outreach portion because yes quick question
um after the last parkland series was there a survey given to the businesses
that are over in that area to see how it affected or impacted or
was beneficial to them so we didn't do like an official handout
survey so our economic development supervisor alicia booth went out there
to talk to them and we received very good response very good
response and so that's why we'll see you later but this is the night market it's
just a snippet but we plan on in spring of 23 bringing back the parklet series
again okay
ron ron you said the the report says that it's going to be throughout the
course of the year so once this starts it's going to be every saturday all year
long that is correct that is correct and and the 4 000 cost is a one-time cost or
is that uh well again that cost is for the outreach
so the marketing so we wanna outreach heavily so we plan on doing uh mailers
out to the community possibly door hangers banners so yes uh you know you
know banners you want to replace maybe every couple years so
a lot of it will be one-time cost but again as we go out throughout the year
it's going to be some recurring cost because we want to continue that
outreach as we go from you know month to month to month
okay great thank you okay all right so this is uh this slide here
is just a snippet so you can see right here a business spotlight was zero
estimated cost again i want to remind that we're funding this through arpa
american rescue plan act money is not coming out of general fund good morning
los salas five thousand dollars lost out bucks round two is estimated at 275
uh k elevate lost south 1000. los alamos night mark is um estimated four thousand
dollar for estimated total 285 000. again this is just for the first six
months um and this is the plan that we're gonna do it might sound ambitious
but you know we've done a lot of it already uh from now to the december and
january okay any questions on because when coming spring we're going to come
back to council so this is what we have planned for the spring which is the
parklet series i just want to remind you that the partly series had a very huge
bill or attached last year because there was a
lot of one-time funding such as the stage we purchased
the stage we will not be purchasing another stage so that that cost will go
down tremendously the big one here that we're very excited about is the
commercial residential beautification program we're not quite there yet we're
about 80 percent there but this is a goal to um beautify low solid meals both
commercially and residential to increase economic development um you know
just like the fields of dream type stuff if you build it they will come we're
kind of taking the aspect of it if you make los alamos you know modern and
energetic and you know aesthetically looking nice then you know hopefully it
will spur economic development and then the last one here sidewalk saturdays
during our parklet series we offered a sidewalk saturday where los alamos
businesses get to come out to advertise their business or sell their fare free
of charge right and so we're going to expand that to certain dates and
throughout the year on certain saturdays in the month again throughout the year
where they can actually come out in front of their business to sell their
goods or advertise their good and they know we're gonna again come back to
council see if they can waive that fee and waive that process again making it a
lot easier for them to sell and market their business without having to go
through the um process with the city of doing an application and paying a fee
and all that so again um staff will be coming back in a future council meeting
to request funding for these programs but again i just wanna uh tonight we're
requesting for the first six or seven month and we're requesting a council to
approve uh the 285 thousand dollars to uh start this uh the programs that i
mentioned um quick comment back to the residential
packets i don't want to speak on behalf of my
colleagues but i will anyway is there any way that you could possibly
involve the various council members so if
somebody moves into carrier row
that you give me the opportunity to go and drop off
the residential packet that's just the value of living in a
small town where you have your local city council representative come and
welcome you to the neighborhood it's not mandatory but it's something at
least give us the opportunity to be able to do i mean i don't have a problem on a
sunday afternoon going and visiting the couple of residents that have moved in
over the past couple weeks or so absolutely i could send out an email or
the city manager sent on email and we'll give you that option and we can
coordinate accordingly okay absolutely thanks
any other questions or comments great great bang for somebody else's buck
on the arp money so i'll make a motion to
authorize use of the funds as proposed
okay all in favor aye okay
on to public hearing a comprehensive update of the city's housing element for
the reporting period of 2021 through 2029.
i'm going to ask director nota to give us a short report
all right all right so um again we're here again
today to do the comprehensive update of the city housing element for um the
sixth cycle which is the reporting period of 21
to 29 so uh the housing element must be
updated every eight years and is reviewed and certified by the state
which requires that each housing element accommodates and facilitates development
of housing to meet the regional housing needs assessment arena numbers i want to
remind council on the public that the city has been allocated 769
housing units to develop again during our sixth cycle which is again 2021-2029
i don't remind you that we are mandated to
develop or plan for these units we're not mandated
to build these units right now if a developer comes in and wants to build
housing of course we're going to you know go down that road but again we're
not mandated to build houses we're just mandated to
propose these houses so tonight council will consider a resolution of approval
for the draft comprehensive update of the housing element and if they approved
it then we're going to send it up to hcd for um review
i want to just go over a little bit of the timeline that we've been working on
the housing element for a while now along with our consultant who is here
tonight um if in case a council has any questions um and so
recently we presented the housing element to our planning commission which
was i think last month and they unanimously approved recommendation to
council for approval and um
again um we're asking for council to take a look at it and
again tonight is a public hearing so to open the public hearing testimony but if
everything goes well to adopt the resolution so we can send it up to the
housing department of the state to do their review
i'm here for any questions again our consultant nicole crist is here as well
and um i kick it back to the council
okay this being a public hearing i need to open it up for public comment at this
point and being a very shy audience i'll go
ahead and close it to public common and bring it back to council council member
bates and maybe this is a question more for
the consultant than specifically for ron but as we know some of these numbers
that have come out arena just aren't workable there's no
prayer for us to build the number of units on a county or statewide basis
that have been laid out as needed in in reyna and these housing units probably
aren't needed i'm wondering if there has been any more
developments in terms of the counties and skag for that matter the southern
california association of government who've challenged these state numbers
can you kind of just update us on what the status is
of that situation
councilman my name is nicole crist i'm with terra nova planning
i don't know the detail of the suits there are several suits
skag skagg was assigned a number by hcd and had
almost no choice right um in how they distributed them
there are also lawsuits against hcd
pertaining to the arena i am not privy to the
um to the legal aspects of this okay thank you councilmember bates maybe if i
might just be able to step in just add a little bit of color to the conversation
as well so i did want to just point out the timeline that mr nota was referring
to was essentially is a 60-day window for hcd to review all of these housing
elements i have my doubts as to whether or not
the state can actually accomplish that within 60 days and so i think you're
going to find that any number or certainty that we could provide you is
most likely to drift as we get closer to that final day and i think that you're
going to find the same story with the associated lawsuits that go along with
it that i think that as this continues to ramp up as we head into the fall i
would be shocked if there are not changes that are handed down either by
hcd or through skag or ocog or one of the other regional planning boards so i
i think your thought process is exactly right that
at some point someone's going to realize that these numbers for the entire state
are a little out of hand right so okay thank you man any other questions or
comments just you know just a quick comment i
mean this is something we've talked about over the years right which is
sacramento imposing unfunded mandates on us you know just
deciding you know in their infinite wisdom that we need to put 760 houses
or residences in our city despite the fact that we're pretty much completely
built out um and it's just it's an another
unfortunate you know overreach by them so it's something we have to deal with
and we're dealing with it by the adoption of the new housing element but
um again it's disappointing we do what we can
within um within those mandates and i want to commend staff for
for going back to the drawing board after you know a hiccup earlier this
year on this but good job getting it to the finish
line and the state's response to those cities that are built out as just
eminent domains some commercial property yeah so they really just
it doesn't matter to them what the cities look like it's they've got to hit
that number yeah i mean we've talked about this too right they're eliminating
single-family zoning you buy a house in a in a res in a neighborhood with
single-family zoning because you wanted you know that sort of space and you paid
for it you know it's expensive in california and then
they just decide you know what we're going to let people put apartments next
to you or we're going to let people put whatever you know change the nature
completely right so it's a shifting everything's shifting
right and and it's just uh it's unfortunate but
it's the way it is right now okay with that uh can i entertain a
motion please the recommended action okay second second all right um
oh we don't do a roll call right okay all in favor
aye any opposed all right and with that meeting has
adjourned
three minutes right on time
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