[0:00] go ahead and call to order the regular
meeting of the city council for monday
[0:05] august 15th
roll call please mayor hasselbrink here
[0:09] mayor to mayor pro tem dobie
absent
[0:15] council member bates here council member
turco yeah council member nafolda absent
[0:21] and we will be starting with closed
session uh city attorney if you could
[0:25] read us in a closed session yes thank
you mayor the city council will now
[0:29] adjourn into closed session to discuss
item 3a as listed on this evening's
[0:32] agenda
awesome thank you
[0:36] we will be back
[0:54] no
no no
[1:07] now
[1:25] a
[1:52] no
[1:55] ambition or trying to further our own
agendas but that we would be very
[1:59] mindful of the servant aspect of the
public job that we do i thank you for
[2:06] everything that you would accomplish in
us through us and for us
[2:09] in jesus name amen amen
um can you join me down the front
[2:15] i'm just trying to catch you ahead of
time yeah quicker tonight
[2:19] just you too mayor
[2:35] okay can i have our finance staff come
on up
[2:43] come on don't be shy
come on in come on in
[2:49] all right the government finance
officers association of the united
[2:52] states and canada referred to as gfoa
has awarded the certificate of
[2:58] achievement for excellence in financial
reporting to the city of los alamitos
[3:01] for its annual comprehensive financial
report for the fiscal year ended june 30
[3:06] 2021.
the report has been judged by an
[3:09] impartial panel to meet the high
standards of the program which includes
[3:13] demonstrating a spirit of full
disclosure to clarify to clearly
[3:17] communicate its financial story
the certificate of achievement is
[3:21] awarded to a government the award of
financial reporting achievement is also
[3:25] presented to the individuals or
department designated by the government
[3:29] as primarily responsible for its having
earned the certificate this award is
[3:34] presented to the los alamitos finance
department and its personnel
[3:38] this is a big deal
[Applause]
[3:44] and craig you'd be the head honcho i'm
going to let you speak
[3:48] all right um finance team is here
tonight and um starting with brandy
[3:53] valegas she joined the city in september
of last year and she served as the
[3:58] accountant she came from private
industries served in a number of
[4:02] financial positions and also
served with a orange county school
[4:06] district next i have maria ebeneze she's
the senior finance assistant she joined
[4:12] department in may of this year
and she
[4:15] served in a various
finance positions with the city of
[4:19] norwalk on their accounting division and
also their transit division as well
[4:24] and lastly i have john balderas he's the
finance manager
[4:28] he has over 25 years of professional
experience 22 of those years served with
[4:33] the city of la habra he rose
progressively through the ranks from
[4:38] accountant to senior accountant to
accounting supervisor and joined uh city
[4:42] in may actually the same day that maria
joined
[4:45] so that's the team
thank you
[4:53] well they go through the grading
criteria and there's certain criteria
[4:57] that we have to meet and the auditors
help with that as well
[5:01] and then it's judged by impartial
team which is basically other finance
[5:06] directors look at our financial report
and it has to meet certain criteria we
[5:10] get a report on things we need to
improve each year and we incorporate
[5:14] those into the next year's award so it's
not a given thing we have to actually
[5:18] earn it
okay thank you
[5:20] thank you very much
[5:43] give that to craig
[6:03] hmm
[6:12] okay up next is oral communications at
this time any individual in the audience
[6:16] may come forward to speak on any item
within the subject matter jurisdiction
[6:20] of the city council
remarks are to be limited
[6:24] to not more than five minutes per
speaker do i have any comments
[6:29] oh very shy group tonight
okay so we'll bring it back to council
[6:32] announcements and mark i'll have you
start
[6:36] sure
so i uh i attended three of the four
[6:39] summer concert series events over the
last few weeks
[6:42] there was great attendance
i was part of the team along with
[6:46] the mayor that ran the los alamitos
community foundation beer garden and we
[6:50] did that to raise funds for the
community
[6:53] uh again it was a lot of fun we did
raise some money we we also got to enjoy
[6:56] the events
um
[6:59] and i got so many compliments not
towards me but towards the city staff
[7:03] for the great work that they did in
setting up the events
[7:06] particularly the last one at orville was
it was like packed at the park and uh it
[7:11] was just a great community event it just
felt like a fun evening
[7:16] with the entire community i attended the
national night out on august 2nd at
[7:21] little cottonwood which was also really
nice to celebrate our law enforcement
[7:26] officers and support them
and it was really nice to have our own
[7:30] national night out event in the city so
thank you for that
[7:34] i attended the los al community
foundation meeting last monday we
[7:37] discussed many things
fundraising included and a casino night
[7:42] we are scheduling for mid-november do
you recall the the date uh mayor says
[7:46] november 12th maybe um but we'll double
check that more details will be released
[7:51] next month in september
um so anybody who can make it please try
[7:55] to attend you would buy a ticket and
attend and proceeds will go to the
[7:59] community foundation and to support the
efforts of the foundation including
[8:04] trying to get our own canine
dog here in los alamitos for our police
[8:09] department as
well um
[8:12] not in city news but over the weekend i
got to uh help my parents celebrate
[8:15] their 50th wedding anniversary so i was
really excited about that and uh proud
[8:20] of them for that too
um
[8:22] and then on a another personal note
you know it's
[8:26] my firm belief that the city is in a
great position right now
[8:30] finally the city is financially stable
we're up to full staffing in our police
[8:34] department
we've got an excellent team of city
[8:37] employees starting from the city manager
to our
[8:40] chief of police city staff
department leaders as well
[8:45] city councils worked harmoniously
together over the last few years to
[8:49] advance the interests of our residents
so that's one reason you know i decided
[8:53] i was not going to run for re-election
um this year just because of the
[8:57] the great shape that the uh city is in
that in a combination with uh
[9:02] uh my significant time work and family
commitments made me decide that uh this
[9:08] is probably best for the city and for my
family as well so i'll talk more about
[9:12] that at the end of my term but uh you
know everyone knows being on the city
[9:15] council has been a tremendous honor for
me and
[9:17] truly enjoy working with everyone and uh
look forward to the next few months
[9:21] and i'll stick around i'm not moving
away or anything like that but
[9:25] yeah we have we have a couple
commissions we're going to put you on
[9:27] yeah yeah yeah jones member base
sure
[9:31] uh mark uh thanks and we'll talk more in
december how's that okay thank you
[9:37] uh a few things uh one
the uh
[9:41] orange county public library has a new
mobile library that's available and
[9:46] where it's going to be and how you
access it just go online to ocpl.org
[9:54] and there's more information and
available for working with kids stuff
[9:58] like that
in the local community
[10:02] additionally if you have any need for
research to get help that a library
[10:08] system can help you with
please again access the
[10:14] orange county public library.org
and go to chat and they'll have somebody
[10:19] personally available to help you find
the information you may need for a
[10:24] particular project you're working on or
a project one of your students your
[10:29] kids is working on they can help too
now a couple things that i think are
[10:35] important to put in the back of your
mind
[10:38] these have to do with the orange county
sanitation district and there are needed
[10:43] improvements
just after the beginning of the year
[10:47] we're going to have some real challenges
and i hope we'll be able to keep working
[10:52] with the sanitation district i'll
certainly try to do my best
[10:56] but they're putting in an addition to
the line that's going down los alamitos
[11:00] boulevard they're going to be looking at
approving a line coming in from cyprus
[11:05] that
goes from moody
[11:08] across to a ball and on cerritos
a bloomfield it'll come down bloomfield
[11:15] ball bloomfield and then across cerritos
and hooks in over right near the flood
[11:20] control channel so that's going to cause
some major challenges for traffic and
[11:25] that but that's just to give everybody a
heads up that that's coming
[11:30] the orange county saturday sanitation
district approved bargaining approved
[11:35] final contracts for the bargaining units
that work well
[11:38] and the headquarters the new
headquarters for the sanitation district
[11:43] is under construction right now and as i
just mentioned the trunk sewer project
[11:49] that goes down los alamitos boulevard
they're doing preliminary work on that
[11:54] trying to make sure we coordinate that
with the
[11:59] traffic conditions that are as light as
possible when that work is going to be
[12:04] done
lastly coming up
[12:08] i attended the ribbon cutting uh for the
new uh therapeutic center over on
[12:13] catella avenue with the mir pro tem
and i just want to point out that the
[12:19] revenue and taxation policy committee
that will be meeting at the league
[12:24] coming up here in september
they've done some good work the bottom
[12:30] line though is they still don't have
anything that does a better job of
[12:35] distributing the sales tax more fairly
so i think that's something we need to
[12:39] keep focusing on that would benefit most
of the cities in california instead of
[12:45] those cities with this just the big box
distribution centers that's all i have
[12:50] mayor thank you great thank you mayor
pro tem dolby
[12:53] all right
um
[12:57] i was i was slightly busy i went to the
express urgent care ribbon cutting and
[13:02] what i wanted to share was they have a
telephone number that you can dial if
[13:07] you are experiencing a mental health
emergency so you don't have to dial
[13:11] 9-1-1 you can dial 988 for a for mental
health help specifically and it's
[13:17] nationwide it's been
live since july 16th it's for adults and
[13:22] minors and you get patched to a mental
health specialist and they can also text
[13:26] to chat as well you know some of our
young people are more comfortable
[13:29] texting but i thought that that was
outstanding because we often hear about
[13:33] oh if i had just known that so-and-so
was having an issue i would have but
[13:38] they're getting the resources to catch
up with what the need is so that number
[13:42] was 988 you can text it or call it
and then i was grossly overdressed for
[13:48] the government officials dinner at the
orange county fair
[13:52] uh did not know but i look like a
superstar y'all i represented los al
[13:57] very well and it was wonderful it was um
like officials from all over orange
[14:02] county so and it wasn't a whole lot of
politics and so that part was nice and
[14:05] the food was really good and i got my um
krispy kreme fried chicken donut which
[14:10] is there you go worth the drive
i also did a tour of the mets
[14:15] facility at the joint forces training
base with the mosquito and vectors
[14:19] control control district as they try to
explore how to deal with our
[14:25] mosquito infestation
and they're looking to try to handle it
[14:29] the same way that we deal with the med
flies which is um
[14:33] sterilizing the boys
because the boys are not the ones that
[14:36] bite it's the ladies
and i would like to read a book
[14:40] there is a book it's about three minutes
but we'll see how y'all are feeling by
[14:44] the time i get to the end of this and
then i'll decide because i like to read
[14:46] the room
um i went to a grand opening for the
[14:50] premiere dance art it's so beautiful
it's a really nice studio right near um
[14:55] catella deli they've taken up like three
or four suites in the upstairs lovely
[15:00] couple they came to our state of the
city or no good morning los al
[15:04] super sweet the studio was beautiful
they did a presentation of the
[15:07] nutcracker
in the middle of august so it was
[15:10] outstanding speaking of catilla deli if
you have not been inside lately i highly
[15:16] suggest that you vote they did such a
beautiful job in there it's so nice i
[15:21] i've gone several times we're not going
to talk about how many but i've gone
[15:24] and um do you have the slides for that
uh
[15:29] now this book is super cute because you
can share i was engaged as an adult my
[15:33] daughter loved it we went to the
discovery cube and it was a mosquito and
[15:37] vector control staff member that wrote
the book they're not really selling it
[15:42] they're just
you can download it for free it's a flip
[15:45] book on amazon and it can be shared in a
classroom or it can just be shared with
[15:48] your children or it can just be you know
some light nighttime reading whatever
[15:52] makes you happy and it's really straight
to the point on what to look for and how
[15:56] these little rascals work
so while she pulls up that part i'm
[16:01] going to pull the book up and then miss
wendy we can we put the link for the
[16:06] for the book on our site like can they
is there on our site fantastic you're so
[16:11] awesome i appreciate your whole life
all righty so i'm gonna find it and
[16:18] it's really like three minutes i'm not
exaggerating is that fine mayor that's
[16:21] fine i read a book to y'all absolutely
okay
[16:24] all right and i couldn't find my heart
back book so i'm going to read it from
[16:29] the flip book which is how i know that
we have a flip book that we can read
[16:32] through it's cool
all righty
[16:36] this is grandmother mosquito
[Music]
[16:40] grandmother mosquito was more than just
grand she was called great great great
[16:45] by some in the land so many children now
all adults they buzz through the air
[16:51] with disastrous results
it was rumored that granny mosquito was
[16:56] old
she had lived to the age of two months
[17:00] we'd been told
in that long ripe life she'd seen so
[17:05] many die
tell us grandmother we want to know why
[17:10] come closer my larvae and pupils swim
near this story is gruesome there's so
[17:16] much to fear they might be tasty but
humans are smart and they hate us deep
[17:22] in their juicy red hearts they hunt us
and kill us so always beware all of the
[17:28] ways you might die i will share
here are my babies whose names start
[17:34] with m
and these are the ways that they met
[17:37] their end
maria mosquito was snared by a thread
[17:42] mandy mosquito died as she fed miranda
mosquito was dumped from a pot
[17:49] mckenzie mosquito just got way too hot
margaret mosquito was poured from a vase
[17:57] matilda mosquito squished in an embrace
millie mosquito was snagged by a net
[18:04] mia mosquito was gulped by a pet
megan mosquito was caught in a trap
[18:10] melissa mosquito was doomed by a slap
marsha mosquito was drained from a dish
[18:18] michaela mosquito was swallowed by a
fish
[18:21] molly mosquito was cleaned from a bowl
and myra mosquito was found by vector
[18:27] control
by now dear grandmother was looking
[18:31] quite tired
our heads were now full with the
[18:34] knowledge required
with blood and some luck we'd be
[18:38] grandmothers too
so humans watch out we'll be looking for
[18:43] you
and then it gives a little synopsis on
[18:46] what the 80s mosquitoes are
and we call them ankle biters because
[18:51] they're an aggressive daytime biting
mosquito they are black with white
[18:55] stripes about the size of a dime and
they prefer to bite humans
[19:00] instead of buzzing around one's head
they tend to fly low to the ground and
[19:04] that's why 80s mosquitoes have earned
the nickname ankle biters
[19:08] now they breed in containers and only
need small amounts of water to complete
[19:11] their life cycle the best way to get rid
of 80s mosquitoes is to check weekly for
[19:16] standing water and dump the water out so
a lot of the ways that the mosquitoes
[19:20] were dying were ways that you get rid of
mosquitoes like you tip a vase you tip a
[19:24] pot you tip a container because the
mamas lay their eggs dry
[19:29] and it takes a cap full of water
and years they can lay dormant for years
[19:35] catf they're like gremlins cap full of
water they're alive and they can live in
[19:39] your house
so
[19:41] hopefully you all will remember how to
get rid of
[19:45] the raggedy mosquitoes
thank you for indulging me thank you i
[19:49] honestly think that's the first time
we've ever been read a bedtime story
[19:54] and thank you i appreciate that
okay i did a lot of the things my
[19:58] colleagues did i went to the last four
of the band in the parks two at
[20:02] cottonwood and to adora lewis
they were just a blast watching people
[20:06] up there dancing and the kids playing
around and
[20:09] it was just all about community at both
parks and and park and break just did a
[20:13] great job of
just planning that and everything just
[20:17] went flawless
national night was great it was our
[20:20] first time that we've done it on our own
we did that over little cottonwood park
[20:25] we had our bicycle patrol out there
which i got for a minute to pretend that
[20:29] i was part of the bike control
which was always fun and then we had the
[20:34] sheriff's k-9 unit out there
just
[20:38] just doing the community effort and just
showing what the the k-9 can do and he
[20:42] was the sheriff was just great at just
demonstrating
[20:46] what the k-9 is capable of and following
orders and everything which was great
[20:50] um attended the la salle foundation
meeting on monday last monday
[20:55] talked about the casino night in
november which will be a lot of fun
[20:58] it'll be here in our community center
and um next wednesday i'll be going to
[21:03] the dedication of the new stem building
over at la salle high school
[21:08] this building is phenomenal
and having two sons that are in the
[21:13] science industry that did their lab
experiments at lassell high school in
[21:16] the lecture hall
i'm really excited about the future
[21:20] generations being able to benefit from
this state-of-the-art building
[21:24] and just piggybacking on what mark said
regarding the campaign um although he's
[21:30] deserting us
i am officially running unopposed and so
[21:34] you'll be stuck with me for another four
years
[21:37] um
whether you like it or not
[21:40] so
um and that's all i've got and city
[21:43] manager
thank you madam mayor i'm actually just
[21:46] going to ask the wreck manager sasoya to
give us a little update on events that
[21:52] we have coming up here for the rest of
the summer
[21:57] thank you city manager and good evening
um
[22:01] mayor mayor pro tem council members it's
a pleasure to be here tonight on behalf
[22:05] of emeline
we have a few things coming up in
[22:08] recreation
next thursday august 25th our los
[22:12] alamito senior club will hold their
first bingo fundraiser since 2019.
[22:18] the buy-in is 20
and it's a 5 additional for each
[22:22] additional game
doors open at 9 00 a.m and the buy-in
[22:26] runs from 9 30 to 11.
bingo starts promptly at 11 30. so if
[22:32] you're interested in supporting the
cause please come down to the community
[22:35] center
on this thursday they'll be
[22:38] the senior club will be there at 9 am
and you can purchase tickets for it or
[22:43] ask for additional information
that leads us into
[22:47] our upcoming memorial care miller
children's and women's hospital long
[22:50] beach week of low cell
presented by southland credit union
[22:56] this popular event is returning this
year for the second annual event we'll
[23:00] be running it from september 16th
through the 24th
[23:04] it kicks up on friday september 16th
through saturday september 17th with our
[23:09] very popular servlo sal event
we have all of our we've launched the
[23:14] website and so if you are interested in
volunteering at any of our events please
[23:19] visit the website which is servlosal.org
you can sign up to be a volunteer for uh
[23:24] to give back to some of our local
nonprofits in the area
[23:28] saturday september 17th is our orange
county health care i'm sorry health fair
[23:33] which is by listonic it's a free clinic
which will be offering
[23:38] free medical and dental services here at
the community center that's from 9am
[23:42] till noon
and then it's followed by our bikes and
[23:45] bites which is another popular event
we have four restaurants that have
[23:50] signed up so far with applications due
on the 18th of this month
[23:54] um they're ten dollars for a ten dollar
um for ten tickets to the different
[23:59] restaurants and they will have two to
three menu options provided um you can
[24:03] bike or walk to any of the restaurants
involved
[24:06] and then sunday the 18th is again our
popular family day it's 20 for a family
[24:12] it's here at the los alamitos community
center
[24:15] and we'll have five stations that are
interactive with crafts and cooking
[24:20] 10 minutes per station you can purchase
tickets online at eventbrite
[24:25] of course at the very end of the event
is going to be our race los al which is
[24:30] on september 24th and then we have our
street fair which is the 23rd and the
[24:34] 24th all the information can be found on
our website and we're excited to bring
[24:39] back this popular event thank you
that's all i have mayor that's it okay
[24:44] on to warrants now does anybody have any
questions with warrants yes mayor two
[24:49] questions if we could
sure i got the right page here
[24:54] page
six
[24:56] at the top there
could we just get a little bit more
[25:00] information like 25 000
for
[25:05] uh building uh maintenance
and it appears to be at the community
[25:11] center could we give us a little more
information on what that was for
[25:15] of course sir so we've been actually
undergoing a number of of small
[25:19] development projects within the city
inside of our actual buildings uh
[25:24] we're doing some upgrades within the
police department and in city hall one
[25:27] where we've built it out additional
office space this is for work that is
[25:30] actually done within the community
center as well so
[25:33] the united home remodeling i know is a
kind of a deceptive name but they do do
[25:39] construction on commercial buildings as
well so that's what that is for okay
[25:43] great thank you
uh on page 17
[25:48] there at the bottom
could we get a little more of an
[25:52] explanation both of them are under
self-insurance
[25:56] and it says public risk innovation
solutions
[26:00] so i was kind of interested on how that
money is broken down and for what
[26:04] specific purposes
of course sir so
[26:08] the you can see the larger of the two
expenses there uh for 31 000 is actually
[26:13] part of our cyber security program that
we pay into an insurance pool for and
[26:18] essentially this is to ensure that we're
meeting all the standards that we need
[26:21] to meet to make sure that we're
safeguarding all of the information that
[26:25] we're taking in be it
information from our residents with
[26:29] regards to registering for classes or
just transactions that we're doing
[26:32] through the normal course of city
business
[26:35] and then the other
amount there that you refer to the 4500
[26:40] that is actually for a
master crime program and essentially
[26:45] that provides all the checks and
balances to ensure that
[26:48] each of us as city employees are
that there's proper checks and balances
[26:53] in place to ensure that we do not um go
loose with public funds that there is a
[26:57] very methodical way in which we're
spending it but that we're also
[27:01] recording and that we're also auditing
it at the end of the day
[27:04] on on the cyber
security portion and the insurance for
[27:09] that
do we have for any sensitive material do
[27:14] we have double authentication
procedures in place we have a number for
[27:19] different i'll say it this way sir for
different levels of security we have
[27:23] different levels of what exactly it
takes to access that information so
[27:26] there are different places where dual
factor authentication will be necessary
[27:31] um there are sectors where that isn't
necessary but um we again we follow all
[27:35] of the required dod regs and then also
the additional security that's put in
[27:40] place by our banks thank you
[27:44] is that it that's it okay perfect can i
get a motion please a little bit second
[27:49] okay roll call please
mayor hasselbrink hi mayor pro tem dobby
[27:55] councilmember bates hi councilmember
turco aye council member nafolda
[28:00] absent okay
on to the consent calendar all consent
[28:04] calendar items may be acted upon by one
motion unless a council member requests
[28:08] separate action on a specific item
uh does anybody want to pull anything uh
[28:14] c and e metamer okay anybody else
okay do you just have questions on those
[28:21] yes okay let's go ahead start with c
please
[28:24] uh on
on item c
[28:30] you know i've read some of the
background and i know we have to do this
[28:33] to meet our reporting requirements and
that
[28:36] i think i made this point before chief
maybe you could share with the community
[28:41] i think
like we ask i think all the council
[28:44] members that here and all of us that say
the same thing
[28:48] we're concerned about our primary
targets and in our mind obviously
[28:54] the primary target involves the schools
and i'd be curious as to what
[29:00] preparations you've made and then i'll
have one other question what
[29:03] preparations you've made in case there
is some type of a school incident
[29:10] yes sir first and foremost uh ab481 is
like you said a requirement for us to
[29:16] get approval for all of the existing
equipment that we already have
[29:20] as which will include all the equipment
that is used in the mutual aid region of
[29:26] west county swat
now as far as specifically dealing with
[29:30] the threats in our city the high school
and the base would obviously be our
[29:34] largest targets
now what we've done in preparation for
[29:37] those is
we currently have an actor active
[29:41] shooter drill
that is in
[29:45] progress of the planning stages with
orange county fire authority our support
[29:49] services managers is collaborating with
them
[29:52] to deliver this drill which will be in
september at mcauliffe middle school in
[29:58] conjunction with the school district uh
that will be conducted on a weekend
[30:02] that's first secondly we've already been
in communication with the base about
[30:07] conducting a separate active shooter
drill for them specifically
[30:11] additionally we've also outfitted every
as a result of the uvalde texas
[30:18] school shooting incident
one of the lessons that we learned from
[30:22] that
was the ability to breach
[30:25] [Music]
rooms that were secured so first step
[30:29] was uh orange county fire authority
stepped forward and trained um everybody
[30:34] in the region and how to provide because
they do this far more than we do about
[30:39] gaining entry through prying
doorways
[30:42] so they conducted training to teach all
the officers in the region how to do
[30:46] that and then secondly our support
services manager went out and
[30:50] acquired
a pry tool known as a halogen and we
[30:54] have now placed one of those in each one
of the black and whites for the police
[30:58] department
to include the supervisor's supervisor's
[31:01] vehicle so that any responding unit
would possess the ability to force entry
[31:05] into a school if they had to
and
[31:08] the next layer um that we have done is
implementing the school resource officer
[31:14] which would be the the most significant
of all of those
[31:18] we have
we collaborated with the school district
[31:22] to include dr friedman and principal
krauss
[31:25] to conduct a process within the police
department to select the officer
[31:30] so we have done that uh he has not been
fully released as of yet we're waiting
[31:34] for two officers to come out for
training
[31:36] but he was there today for the first day
of school to to be there introduce
[31:40] himself to the principal
he already got a chance to see his new
[31:44] office and we've posted all the pictures
on social media of him and and the
[31:48] experience
now on a larger scale as it relates to
[31:52] an active shooter response the urban
area security initiative grant
[31:57] puts on a three-day active shooter
course as well as a tactical emergency
[32:01] casualty care course which deals with
traumatic injuries that can be sustained
[32:06] and how to treat those in the field for
patrol officers both of those courses
[32:10] being taught by the grant and we are in
the process of getting every officer on
[32:14] the department trained in both of those
so those are things the proactive
[32:18] measures that we've taken to try to get
all the training we can here in the
[32:21] department chief
well two questions the first
[32:26] do we have all the high-powered rifles
readily available that we might need if
[32:31] there was a hostage type situation to be
well equipped to engage that
[32:39] the hostage taker if need be so pretty
much every every black and white police
[32:44] car in the county is going to be
equipped with it with a shotgun and a
[32:47] patrol rifle so yes we will be ready
should that uh incident present itself
[32:52] my second question relates to what we're
doing
[32:58] and and how it relates to really trying
to
[33:04] trace and get ahead of the situation
what i mean by that
[33:09] is do we have any
intelligence programs anything that
[33:14] we're working on on a county-wide basis
that would kind of identify obviously no
[33:20] we know that most of these uh
people that are going over the top and
[33:26] shooting people are young males
do we have anything that's tracking
[33:32] social media or that trying to identify
these people ahead of time and and
[33:38] getting in front of it so we're not left
in a situation here in orange county
[33:43] where the guy comes in and shoots it up
then we go back and look at all the
[33:46] social media and the social media we
should have picked it up that this guy
[33:50] was over the top uh you know a year ago
and we weren't doing anything in that
[33:55] regard so i guess i'm concerned about
the mental health aspect of it and what
[34:00] we're trying to do to track you know the
the social media and the interaction of
[34:05] these kids to try to identify them early
on and stop any
[34:09] uh you know really dangerous illicit
behavior that might occur
[34:14] yes sir so on the county-wide scale it's
going to be our our okay
[34:18] our fusion center which is orange county
information assessment center
[34:21] so
our
[34:23] fusion center actually has received
national recognition as being one of the
[34:28] best fusion centers in the country so
that is the first step and it
[34:32] disseminates information on a
county-wide scale of events it tracks
[34:37] every event that is going on in the
county in the region all of the events
[34:42] nationally that are terrorism related
and it disseminates that information
[34:46] back to all of us within our operational
area now on a more local scale
[34:51] okay itself puts on terrorism liaison
training
[34:56] so that
we can train all of our officers to be
[35:00] liaisons for acts of terrorism or things
to that they may see in the field to
[35:04] create leads that then get sent back to
all kayak that they will then
[35:08] investigate so it's almost like a
two-way communication we we train the
[35:12] ground-level officers to send leads to
them that they will then investigate and
[35:16] push back out information back out to us
but they themselves are also have
[35:20] analysts that are working on the
internet constantly tracking um these
[35:25] types of acts of terrorism around the
country as well as locally and they
[35:28] disseminate that information back to us
now um that obviously will you know
[35:35] the most important thing i can tell you
is going to be our school resource
[35:38] officer because if we can get our sro in
the school and establish those
[35:42] relationships these are the types of
relationships that can create leads to
[35:47] prevent this type of thing from
happening here great thank you
[35:51] i had a real quick question on that is
he also going to be spending time at the
[35:54] two middle schools because they seem to
be getting younger and younger so
[35:58] absolutely he will spend time at all the
schools but he will just have an office
[36:02] with his computer systems all set up
laptop monitoring everything inside of
[36:06] an office at the high school but he will
absolutely spend time at all the schools
[36:10] great thank you okay set it for that
i'll move the recommended action okay
[36:14] and then item e we'll do that and then
we can pass the whole consent yep uh
[36:18] item e um
obviously uh
[36:23] trying to
effectively utilize staff is important
[36:28] and i think these
approaches where it works
[36:34] makes sense and i'm just wondering if
you could talk a little bit about how we
[36:38] balance it what can be done by internal
staff what's better in terms of
[36:44] contracting and how in your mind that's
fitting together
[36:48] based really on e and f that we're
looking at tonight of course sir and
[36:53] maybe a good place for me to start is
basically just to talk about the output
[36:56] that we're seeing from community
development and then probably public
[37:00] works in general
uh i know as the council's aware we've
[37:03] gone from
from an operational tempo of 350 000 a
[37:08] year back in 2020 2021 to last year
spending 3.5 million dollars on cip
[37:15] projects to this year spending just over
four million dollars so the amount of
[37:19] output that is being or projects that
are being put out on the street has
[37:23] significantly increased which i think
we're starting to see the benefit of
[37:27] that out in the streets
what comes along with that though is
[37:31] obviously staff allocation where exactly
we're putting money in order to
[37:35] accomplish those jobs and i know the
council was very concerned about voting
[37:39] on packages of that size and how exactly
we're going to accomplish it
[37:43] one of the things that we've been able
to do and i'll give director noda a lot
[37:46] of credit here is being able to
constantly ebb and flow where exactly
[37:50] we're assigning our particular staff to
work on a given day whereas one day it
[37:54] may be concrete repair and another day
it might be park maintenance
[37:58] by
by adding these contracts or more aptly
[38:01] increasing these contracts we're able to
have staff focus on what i'll call the
[38:05] more specialized work whereas we can
take a contractor and have them do the
[38:09] work that maybe doesn't take as much
ingenuity or know-how about what exactly
[38:13] is happening on the street level such as
landscaping or cleaning the median so
[38:18] this is a reallocation of time um that
effectively will make us a little bit
[38:22] more efficient and allow us the uh the
manpower to be able to accomplish those
[38:26] projects that the council's approved
thank you okay
[38:31] all right uh any other um items i'll
make a motion okay
[38:36] second all in favor
aye any opposed no
[38:39] okay
on to discussion item the economic
[38:42] development plan phase two and i'm going
to turn this over to director nota
[38:50] good evening mayor mayor pro tem and
members of council yes i'm here tonight
[38:54] to present the fiscal year 2223
economic development program um
[39:01] i don't know if that's a bother but
there's a
[39:04] vlogging thing on that
[39:10] thank you very much
so again this is the economic
[39:13] development program for uh fiscal year
2223
[39:17] and so
uh see if we can get this
[39:32] there we go
i'm going to highlight a bunch of
[39:35] programs um that we're going to go um
and
[39:39] you know talk and discuss and welcome
council feedback so the first thing that
[39:43] we're going to do is we're going to
continue our business outreach so if you
[39:47] recall for um this past fiscal year
we went entered into a huge shop local
[39:52] campaign so you got to see a lot of
marketing material outreach material out
[39:56] in the community that said shop local
support local play local we're going to
[40:00] continue that approach and so
we again we want to encourage the
[40:04] community to spend locally here in los
alamitos
[40:07] we want to continue with the new
business and resident packets so last
[40:11] year we had a big focus on businesses
and when a new business re-upped their
[40:15] business license we gave them a packet
that provided information on shopping
[40:19] services uh you know uh regular services
like dry cleaning and of course
[40:24] restaurant options that serve los sal
this year we're going to really hammer
[40:27] out the resident
packet it so if you are a new renter or
[40:31] a new homeowner we're going to give you
that packet as well so our economic
[40:35] development supervisor will be working
with several of the realtors locally to
[40:39] get those new um residents that come
into los alamos that information out
[40:43] there to again encourage them to spend
locally here in los alamitos and we've
[40:48] started that we've kind of taken a
little hiatus but we're going to go back
[40:52] full
bore into the business spotlight series
[40:54] where we provide attention and
recognition to select los alamitos
[40:58] businesses these little snippets of
three or four minutes will introduce the
[41:02] community to these kind of local gems um
i don't want to steal your word um
[41:07] mayor pro tem but these
these local gems in the community and
[41:11] educate them again on the fabulous
restaurants or the fabulous service
[41:17] businesses that we have here
again in los alamitos
[41:22] yes ma'am um you mentioned reaching out
to local realtors what about property
[41:27] management companies
yes we have that list as well correct
[41:31] correct
okay
[41:35] oh i want to add there that the
estimated annual cost there is zero
[41:37] dollars because we're gonna all do that
in-house um and then a lot of uh you
[41:42] know we spent a lot of money was like
one-time fee last year of all the
[41:45] marketing material we have banners
pull-up banners etc and so uh we're
[41:50] gonna kind of keep that in-house okay so
estimated cost is zero
[41:56] next is good morning los alamitos as you
recall we had our first one and was very
[42:00] very uh received from the community and
a positive experience so we're going to
[42:04] bring that back the second one will be
uh save the date october 19 2022. so i
[42:09] got to get jet ready to go on that
because he is again going to be the
[42:12] emcee of our event
again this is i'm not sure i agreed to
[42:16] that but
you have no choice
[42:19] so again a civic engagement between city
leaders residents and business owners um
[42:24] education on services and programs
available throughout the city so i'm
[42:28] hoping here that this time each of the
department heads will gonna give up like
[42:32] a two or three minute um talk uh with
everyone there in attendance on what is
[42:37] new and exciting going on in their
department so again it's uh save the
[42:41] date where it's going to be held at the
community center more outreach will come
[42:44] as we get closer to that date but it is
scheduled for october 19 2022 and again
[42:49] the estimated um cost for that is 5 000
because included in that it's free for
[42:55] um community members to come but uh we
also will be providing a light breakfast
[42:59] you know and so that's what's the cost
for that mostly is the breakfast part
[43:06] right now the next one here is the big
one here that we're very excited about
[43:09] because we're going to go into round two
of the lost out bucks program right i
[43:13] think council is very aware that the
first round was highly successful we
[43:17] generated uh close to a hundred thousand
dollars now we're not talking about lost
[43:21] out bucks money but we're talking about
uh extra money um plus the lost out
[43:26] bucks into the local community because
again um if i remember correctly for
[43:31] every fifty dollars you spend on
lifestyle bucks uh you had to spend a
[43:34] minimum of 75 so you had to bring out 25
of your own money to again bring it into
[43:39] the the city so again round two is
scheduled uh again we
[43:44] the reason why is to stimulate local
business and of course uh continue to
[43:47] economic recovery uh each resident will
receive fifty dollars worth of lost our
[43:51] bucks uh new to round two is uh the do
good and save app we have partnered with
[43:56] that app to increase our outreach
another one uh that's new to round two
[44:00] is double your bucks so the team here in
development service is out there trying
[44:04] to create a list for specific businesses
so if you visit that specific business
[44:09] on that specific day your lost out bucks
will double this again is to encourage
[44:14] uh residents of los alamos to visit new
businesses or restaurants or services
[44:19] that they're not used to
we learned a lot through our round one
[44:23] so we're scheduled tentatively to launch
lost out bucks the week of september
[44:27] 19th the residents will receive it in
the mail that week and once you receive
[44:32] it it will be ready to go you can
basically open up your mail that day and
[44:37] go that night for dinner and it's ready
to go the team is very hard at work
[44:41] right now going out there getting the
application and signing up our residents
[44:45] and all that
other things we learned is clearly
[44:48] marked envelopes so we can detail that
it's a lost out bucks and it's not
[44:52] regular junk mail
sending one mail instead of two or three
[44:56] mailers and um expanding our outreach
including video we did do a video last
[45:02] year to in um educate the residents and
the business owners on the process we're
[45:06] going to slow it down and kind of go
really in detail on how to do it again
[45:10] with the purpose of education so that
this time round two will be a lot easier
[45:15] for both the resident and the business
owner to recoup their money at the end
[45:20] okay
estimated um annual cost there is 275
[45:23] 275 000
okay
[45:28] dumpster dipping this time
next one we're going to do here is
[45:33] elevate lost cell right this business
it's a business development workshop
[45:37] series we're trying to partner up with a
couple one of the local company or or
[45:42] organization here we're trying to
partner with the los alamitos chamber it
[45:45] consists of workshop designed to assist
local businesses and independent
[45:49] entrepreneurs in the city
the workshop will provide information
[45:53] and tips on improving their business
like marketing plans
[45:57] access to resource for growth utilizing
technology for improved growth and
[46:01] outreach so again it's a workshop series
and then it also includes personal
[46:06] professional development so the
development services team is partnering
[46:09] with the recreation community services
for their um women's conference and so
[46:14] again it's just to provide information
to help personal growth as a business
[46:17] owner and also growth for your business
as well so again we're developing uh
[46:22] we're partnering with both uh a couple
agencies but one locally is a chamber of
[46:26] commerce here as well
okay uh estimated uh cost there is about
[46:31] a thousand dollars
[46:34] all right we're excited to announce that
uh we're almost finalizing our contract
[46:38] so we're going to bring los alamos night
market to pine street every saturday
[46:42] evening
multiple offerings such as live
[46:44] entertainment vendors local artists
family activities
[46:48] food and drink options will be available
again
[46:52] our parklet series that we did last
spring was very very successful and
[46:56] again you know i've been here for a
while but there's always a clamoring for
[47:00] the farmer's market for the artisans
crafts and all that vendors so we have
[47:05] partnered with a business or an organ
design organizer that has they do the
[47:10] one in long beach they do one in
bellflower so they're saying that every
[47:13] week they guarantee a minimum of 20
vendors and food vendors will be out
[47:17] there servicing our community and so
we're expected to finalize our contract
[47:22] and have this start in october on pine
street after all our construction on the
[47:27] streets are done and again um estimated
cost is four thousand dollars that's
[47:31] basically for the outreach portion
because yes quick question
[47:35] um after the last parkland series was
there a survey given to the businesses
[47:39] that are over in that area to see how it
affected or impacted or
[47:43] was beneficial to them
so we didn't do like an official handout
[47:47] survey so our economic development
supervisor alicia booth went out there
[47:52] to talk to them and
we received very good response very good
[47:56] response and so that's why we'll see you
later but this is the night market it's
[48:01] just a snippet but we plan on in spring
of 23 bringing back the parklet series
[48:06] again
okay
[48:07] ron ron you said the the report says
that it's going to be throughout the
[48:12] course of the year so once this starts
it's going to be every saturday all year
[48:15] long that is correct that is correct and
and the 4 000 cost is a one-time cost or
[48:20] is that uh
well again that cost is for the outreach
[48:24] so the marketing so we wanna outreach
heavily so we plan on doing uh mailers
[48:28] out to the community possibly door
hangers banners so yes uh you know you
[48:33] know banners you want to replace maybe
every couple years so
[48:37] a lot of it will be one-time cost but
again as we go out throughout the year
[48:41] it's going to be some recurring cost
because we want to continue that
[48:43] outreach as we go from you know month to
month to month
[48:46] okay great thank you okay
all right so this is uh this slide here
[48:52] is just a snippet so you can see right
here a business spotlight was zero
[48:55] estimated cost again i want to remind
that we're funding this through arpa
[49:00] american rescue plan act money is not
coming out of general fund good morning
[49:04] los salas five thousand dollars lost out
bucks round two is estimated at 275
[49:09] uh k elevate lost south 1000. los alamos
night mark is um estimated four thousand
[49:14] dollar for estimated total 285 000.
again this is just for the first six
[49:19] months um and this is the plan that
we're gonna do it might sound ambitious
[49:23] but you know we've done a lot of it
already uh from now to the december and
[49:28] january okay any questions on because
when coming spring we're going to come
[49:32] back to council so this is what we have
planned for the spring which is the
[49:36] parklet series i just want to remind you
that the partly series had a very huge
[49:40] bill or
attached last year because there was a
[49:43] lot of one-time
funding such as the stage we purchased
[49:46] the stage we will not be purchasing
another stage so that that cost will go
[49:50] down tremendously the big one here that
we're very excited about is the
[49:53] commercial residential beautification
program we're not quite there yet we're
[49:58] about 80 percent there but this is a
goal to um beautify low solid meals both
[50:04] commercially and residential to increase
economic development um you know
[50:09] just like the fields of dream type stuff
if you build it they will come we're
[50:13] kind of taking the aspect of it if you
make los alamos you know modern and
[50:17] energetic and you know aesthetically
looking nice then you know hopefully it
[50:20] will spur economic development and then
the last one here sidewalk saturdays
[50:24] during our parklet series we offered a
sidewalk saturday where los alamos
[50:29] businesses get to come out to advertise
their business or sell their fare free
[50:34] of charge right and so we're going to
expand that to certain dates and
[50:40] throughout the year on certain saturdays
in the month again throughout the year
[50:44] where they can actually come out
in front of their business to sell their
[50:49] goods or advertise their good and they
know we're gonna again come back to
[50:52] council see if they can waive that fee
and waive that process again making it a
[50:56] lot easier for them to sell and market
their business without having to go
[51:01] through the um process with the city of
doing an application and paying a fee
[51:04] and all that so again um staff will be
coming back in a future council meeting
[51:09] to request funding for these programs
but again i just wanna uh tonight we're
[51:13] requesting for the first six or seven
month and we're requesting a council to
[51:17] approve uh the 285 thousand dollars to
uh start this uh the programs that i
[51:23] mentioned
um quick comment back to the residential
[51:26] packets
i don't want to speak on behalf of my
[51:29] colleagues but i will anyway
is there any way that you could possibly
[51:34] involve
the various council members so if
[51:37] somebody moves into
carrier row
[51:40] that you give me the opportunity to go
and drop off
[51:44] the residential packet
that's just the value of living in a
[51:48] small town where you have your local
city council representative come and
[51:51] welcome you to the neighborhood
it's not mandatory but it's something at
[51:55] least give us the opportunity to be able
to do i mean i don't have a problem on a
[51:58] sunday afternoon going and visiting the
couple of residents that have moved in
[52:02] over the past couple weeks or so
absolutely i could send out an email or
[52:06] the city manager sent on email and we'll
give you that option and we can
[52:09] coordinate accordingly okay absolutely
thanks
[52:12] any other questions or comments great
great bang for somebody else's buck
[52:17] on the arp money
so i'll make a motion to
[52:20] authorize
use of the funds as proposed
[52:24] okay all in favor
aye okay
[52:28] on to public hearing a comprehensive
update of the city's housing element for
[52:32] the reporting period of 2021 through
2029.
[52:38] i'm going to ask director nota to give
us a short report
[52:42] all right
all right so um again we're here again
[52:45] today to do the comprehensive update of
the city housing element for um the
[52:50] sixth cycle which is the reporting
period of 21
[52:53] to 29
so uh the housing element must be
[52:57] updated every eight years and is
reviewed and certified by the state
[53:01] which requires that each housing element
accommodates and facilitates development
[53:05] of housing to meet the regional housing
needs assessment arena numbers i want to
[53:09] remind council on the public that the
city has been allocated 769
[53:14] housing units to develop again during
our sixth cycle which is again 2021-2029
[53:22] i don't remind you that we are mandated
to
[53:26] develop or
plan for these units we're not mandated
[53:29] to build these units right now if a
developer comes in and wants to build
[53:34] housing of course we're going to you
know go down that road but again we're
[53:38] not mandated to build houses we're just
mandated to
[53:42] propose these houses so tonight council
will consider a resolution of approval
[53:47] for the draft comprehensive update of
the housing element and if they approved
[53:52] it then we're going to send it up to hcd
for um review
[53:56] i want to just go over a little bit of
the timeline that we've been working on
[54:00] the housing element for a while now
along with our consultant who is here
[54:04] tonight um if in case a council has any
questions um and so
[54:10] recently we presented the housing
element to our planning commission which
[54:13] was i think last month and they
unanimously approved recommendation to
[54:17] council for approval and um
[54:22] again um we're asking for council to
take a look at it and
[54:27] again tonight is a public hearing so to
open the public hearing testimony but if
[54:32] everything goes well to adopt the
resolution so we can send it up to the
[54:36] housing department of the state to do
their review
[54:40] i'm here for any questions again our
consultant nicole crist is here as well
[54:45] and um
i kick it back to the council
[54:48] okay this being a public hearing i need
to open it up for public comment at this
[54:52] point
and being a very shy audience i'll go
[54:55] ahead and close it to public common and
bring it back to council council member
[54:59] bates
and maybe this is a question more for
[55:02] the consultant than specifically for ron
but as we know some of these numbers
[55:10] that have come out arena
just aren't workable there's no
[55:15] prayer for us to build the number of
units on a county or statewide basis
[55:22] that have been laid out as needed in in
reyna and these housing units probably
[55:27] aren't needed
i'm wondering if there has been any more
[55:32] developments in terms of the counties
and skag for that matter the southern
[55:39] california association of government
who've challenged these state numbers
[55:44] can you kind of just update us on what
the status is
[55:48] of that situation
[55:51] councilman my name is nicole crist i'm
with terra nova planning
[55:55] i don't know the detail of the suits
there are several suits
[56:00] skag skagg was assigned a number by hcd
and had
[56:06] almost no choice right um in how they
distributed them
[56:10] there are also lawsuits against
hcd
[56:14] pertaining to the arena i am not privy
to the
[56:18] um to the legal aspects of this okay
thank you councilmember bates maybe if i
[56:23] might just be able to step in just add a
little bit of color to the conversation
[56:26] as well so i did want to just point out
the timeline that mr nota was referring
[56:31] to was essentially is a 60-day window
for hcd to review all of these housing
[56:36] elements
i have my doubts as to whether or not
[56:40] the state can actually accomplish that
within 60 days and so i think you're
[56:44] going to find that any number or
certainty that we could provide you is
[56:49] most likely to drift as we get closer to
that final day and i think that you're
[56:53] going to find the same story with the
associated lawsuits that go along with
[56:57] it that i think that as this continues
to ramp up as we head into the fall i
[57:02] would be shocked if there are not
changes that are handed down either by
[57:05] hcd or through skag or ocog or one of
the other regional planning boards so i
[57:10] i think your thought process is exactly
right that
[57:14] at some point someone's going to realize
that these numbers for the entire state
[57:18] are a little out of hand right so okay
thank you man any other questions or
[57:22] comments
just you know just a quick comment i
[57:25] mean this is something we've talked
about over the years right which is
[57:28] sacramento imposing
unfunded mandates on us you know just
[57:33] deciding you know in their infinite
wisdom that we need to put 760 houses
[57:38] or residences in our city despite the
fact that we're pretty much completely
[57:43] built out
um and it's just it's an another
[57:46] unfortunate you know overreach by them
so it's something we have to deal with
[57:50] and we're dealing with it by the
adoption of the new housing element but
[57:54] um again it's disappointing we do what
we can
[57:59] within um within those mandates and i
want to commend staff for
[58:02] for going back to the drawing board
after you know a hiccup earlier this
[58:06] year on this
but good job getting it to the finish
[58:10] line and the state's response to those
cities that are built out as just
[58:13] eminent domains some commercial property
yeah so they really just
[58:18] it doesn't matter to them what the
cities look like it's they've got to hit
[58:21] that number yeah i mean we've talked
about this too right they're eliminating
[58:24] single-family zoning you buy a house in
a in a res in a neighborhood with
[58:28] single-family zoning because you wanted
you know that sort of space and you paid
[58:32] for it you know it's expensive in
california and then
[58:34] they just decide you know what we're
going to let people put apartments next
[58:37] to you or we're going to let people put
whatever you know change the nature
[58:40] completely right so
it's a shifting everything's shifting
[58:44] right and and it's just uh it's
unfortunate but
[58:47] it's the way it is right now
okay with that uh can i entertain a
[58:50] motion please the recommended action
okay second second all right um
[58:56] oh we don't do a roll call right okay
all in favor
[58:59] aye any opposed
all right and with that meeting has
[59:03] adjourned
[59:06] three minutes right on time
[59:27] he