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Agenda

[1:58] CALL TO ORDER

[3:12] INTRODUCTIONS

[7:30] Keri Then

[10:12] Robert Then

[13:00] Daryl Terrel

[15:36] Council Member Cabrera

[20:42] 2020-45 : APPROVAL OF A CONTRACT WITH QUINTANILLA AND ASSOCIATES TO PROVIDE INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY SERVICES (AGMT. NO 2020-100)

[22:14] 2020-42 : AUTHORIZATION TO AWARD A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT TO ALL AMERICAN ASPHALT FOR PAVEMENT REPAIR SERVICES (AGMT. NO. 2020-98)

[22:52] 2020-43 : ACCEPTANCE OF SB821 FUNDING AND FUNDING APPROPRIATION FOR THE HEACOCK STREET PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ENHANCEMENTS PROJECT (AGMT. NO. 2020-99)

[23:06] 2020-38 : APPROVAL OF CONTRACTS WITH AGATI FURNITURE AND YAMADA ENTERPRISES FOR LIBRARY FURNITURE AT THE IRIS PLAZA BRANCH LIBRARY (AGMT. NOS. 2020-94 and 2020-95)

[23:06] 2020-39 : AWARD OF CONTRACT FOR TENANT IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE IRIS PLAZA BRANCH LIBRARY– RFP NO. 2020-0003 (AGMT. NO. 2020-96)

[23:35] 2020-46 : Emergency Operations Resolutions (RESO. NOS 2020-14 - 2020-21

[27:39] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 4:30 PM (See A.2)

[27:39] JOINT CONSENT CALENDARS (SECTIONS A-E)

[27:40] 2020-40 : APPROVE A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MORENO VALLEY TO AMEND THE ELECTRIC RATES FOR MORENO VALLEY UTILITY (MVU)

[27:43] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 5:55 PM (See A.3)

[27:44] CONSENT CALENDAR-CITY COUNCIL

[27:45] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 6:00 PM (See A.4)

[27:48] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 6:00 PM (See A.4)

[27:48] CONSENT CALENDAR - BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES

[27:49] ORDINANCES - READING BY TITLE ONLY - THE MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE LISTED ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR INCLUDES WAIVER OF FULL READING OF THE ORDINANCE.

[27:50] 2020-41 : AUTHORIZATION TO AWARD A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT TO NPG CORPORATION FOR PARKING LOT REPAIR SERVICES AT THE PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING (AGMT. NO. 2020-97)

[27:52] CONSENT CALENDAR - HOUSING AUTHORITY

[27:52] ORDINANCES - READING BY TITLE ONLY - THE MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE LISTED ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR INCLUDES WAIVER OF FULL READING OF THE ORDINANCE.

[27:53] Minutes of Mar 17, 2020 4:30 PM

[27:55] 2020-44 : SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANT SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH PARSONS TRANSPORTATION GROUP FOR THE STATE ROUTE 60/MORENO BEACH DRIVE PHASE 2 INTERCHANGE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT 801 0021 (AGMT. NO. 2018-402-02)

[27:56] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 4:30 PM (See A.2)

[27:57] ORDINANCES - READING BY TITLE ONLY - THE MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE LISTED ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR INCLUDES WAIVER OF FULL READING OF THE ORDINANCE.

[27:58] Minutes of Mar 17, 2020 5:55 PM

[28:00] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 5:55 PM (See A.3)

[28:02] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 4:30 PM (See A.2)

[28:02] Minutes of Mar 17, 2020 6:00 PM

[28:03] CONSENT CALENDAR-COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT

[28:04] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 6:00 PM (See A.4)

[28:06] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 5:55 PM (See A.3)

[28:07] ORDINANCES - READING BY TITLE ONLY - THE MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE LISTED ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR INCLUDES WAIVER OF FULL READING OF THE ORDINANCE.

[28:09] CONSENT CALENDAR - PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY

[28:10] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 6:00 PM (See A.4)

[28:12] 2020-37 : COUNCIL DISCRETIONARY EXPENDITURE REPORTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019/2020 FROM JULY 1, 2019 THROUGH FEBRUARY 29, 2020

[28:12] ORDINANCES - READING BY TITLE ONLY - THE MOTION TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE LISTED ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR INCLUDES WAIVER OF FULL READING OF THE ORDINANCE.

[28:16] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 4:30 PM (See A.2)

[28:19] MINUTES of Mar 17, 2020 5:55 PM (See A.3)

[28:32] PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT #4 TO THE FY 2019-2020 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

[30:32] CITY COUNCIL REPORTS

[30:39] Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) - Council Member Marquez

[32:05] CITY MANAGER'S REPORT

[33:51] CITY ATTORNEY'S REPORT

[36:53] Council Member Thornton

[41:38] Council Member Marquez

[46:16] Mayor Pro Tem Baca

[50:26] Mayor Gutierrez

[54:17] ADJOURNMENT

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[1:44] Good evening, and welcome to the joint meeting of the City Council of the City of Murna Valley.

[1:49] Murna Valley Community Services District, City of Successor Agency for the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Murna Valley,

[1:55] Murna Valley Housing Authority, Murna Valley Public Financing Authority, and the Board of Library Trustees.

[2:00] The City Council receives a separate stipend for CSD meetings.

[2:03] I now call this regular meeting to order on April 7, 2020 at 601 p.m.,

[2:09] please stand for the pledge of allegiance and begin.

[2:29] Thank you. Madam Clerk, roll call please. Yes sir. Councilmember Thornton.

[2:39] Councilmember Thornton.

[2:43] She says that she can't hear us speaking.

[2:48] Okay, but we do see her on the screen.

[2:49] So she's here.

[2:51] I also remember my guess.

[2:54] I also remember Cabrera.

[2:55] Here.

[2:55] May your pro Timbucca.

[2:58] He's also here.

[3:00] May your good dearness.

[3:01] Present.

[3:02] So Carla, we count at your present.

[3:05] Yeah, now we can hear you.

[3:06] Okay, and Victoria, we count at your present.

[3:09] Present?

[3:10] Okay, great.

[3:11] All right.

[3:12] Staff introductions, please.

[3:14] Pat Huck is not a city clerk.

[3:17] Hey, Brian, management assistant.

[3:19] Marshall, I am an assistant city manager, Chief Financial Officer.

[3:23] Mike Lee, you know, a city manager.

[3:25] Steve Kintonia, hopefully you're interim city attorney.

[3:30] Ben, magamacha, committee development director.

[3:33] Michael Wolf, interim assistant city manager, public director, city engineer.

[3:39] Daddy Solano, Parks and Community Services Director.

[3:42] Captain John Salsbury, I function as a chief of police.

[3:46] I'll do all of it for you all early Assistant City Attorney.

[3:50] Okay, great.

[3:51] All right, well thank you to the staff for being here.

[3:53] Before we hear public comments on items on non-agenda items and agenda items, I just want

[3:58] to make it very, very clear.

[4:00] There's been some concern about item A8, which is the utility rates, and so I just want

[4:05] to make it clear that there will be no action taken on the resolution on tonight's agenda

[4:10] item A8 regarding marine availability and this is because the disaster council which is

[4:17] convened by ordinance when we have an emergency and I'm actually the chair of the

[4:22] disaster council we already took action a couple of weeks ago and that is to not raise

[4:26] any of the rates and also any of the shut-offs or anything like that we're not doing

[4:31] shut-offs anything like that so this item the reason why it's on here is because

[4:35] Normally, the resolution comes before Council twice per year in accordance with MVU's founding

[4:42] agreement that MVU's rates keep pace with those of Southern California Edison.

[4:47] However, given that circumstances of what we're going through are the crisis, the COVID-19,

[4:53] and also, although the disaster council already talked about this already, there are going

[4:58] to be no rates rate increases for that matter.

[5:02] So I just want to make that very clear.

[5:05] I thought I made it pretty clear to specific people,

[5:08] but I just want to make it very clear to the public.

[5:13] So before we hear public comments this evening,

[5:16] I ask and encourage everyone to please that's participating

[5:20] and to keep their comments respectful towards each other.

[5:23] We're going to accomplish more

[5:24] towards each, if we're respectful to each other.

[5:27] I embrace and support the first amendment right

[5:29] to free speech, including everyone's right

[5:31] to speak at this meeting and share his or her views

[5:35] about issues concerning our city.

[5:38] Finally, I ask that speakers bear in mind

[5:41] that if you would like to speak,

[5:43] that you press the item, the raise hand item icon.

[5:49] Okay, so thank you, so like carries you,

[5:51] press it right there.

[5:52] And if you don't know where that's at,

[5:54] if you kind of hover over your screen,

[5:57] there's three little dots,

[5:59] there's an icon with three little dots, you click that.

[6:01] And the hand should be there so you're going to click that hand.

[6:07] All right, and comments tonight will be on agenda items and non agenda items, and it will be two minutes each.

[6:14] Any person wishing to address the mayor, which is myself and city counts on any matter, either under the public comment section of the agenda or scheduled items or public hearings,

[6:23] must follow the teleconference procedures, which is basically clicking on that icon to speak.

[6:30] You can also, if you can't find it, okay, don't worry, you can also just put your hand

[6:36] next to your screen, like I'm doing right here.

[6:40] And if you do that, then I'll know that you're trying to speak as well.

[6:43] But that means you have to actually take off, you have to put your video on, your video camera on.

[6:50] If you can't find the raise hand icon.

[6:56] All right.

[6:56] In order to preserve the meeting decorum, Council and staff will not respond during public comments.

[7:01] Any council comments or questions to staff will be addressed during the council closing comments.

[7:07] All right, so we'll go ahead and begin and just keep in mind that there is a timer.

[7:13] You know, so the two minute timer and so just keep that in mind.

[7:17] I'll put my hand up or, you know, something like that, but just keep in mind of the time.

[7:23] All right.

[7:23] So let me go ahead and mute.

[7:25] All right, the first speaker we have is Carrie then.

[7:30] Hello, council.

[7:31] Can you hear me?

[7:32] Yes. Okay, great.

[7:35] Reference to now, remove the agenda item A8 regarding the Marine of Allie utility rate increase.

[7:41] I'm a little concerned because the February 25th 2020 finance subcommittee special meeting draft minutes state that MVU is still balanced within their budget and meeting their bottom line.

[7:52] This finance subcommittee meeting was attended by both the mayor and council member Cabrera.

[7:57] The information was presented by the city CFO.

[8:00] The CFO stated MPU was balanced. Why then would the city staff recommend a rate increase?

[8:07] What are the gain limits for this utility? And how can the city request a rate increase when

[8:12] clearly the utility is performing on par and current rates are covering expenses?

[8:18] My next comment, the city must deploy the internal stockpile of face masks to our citizens.

[8:24] At the March 17 City Council meeting, I urged Council to release the city's internal stockpile

[8:30] a protective gear to residents.

[8:32] We had no known cases of COVID-19 at that time.

[8:36] Today, however, our city has 94 cases, unimportant, and unfortunately, 3 deaths.

[8:42] You could at least release a portion of your internal stockpile, and as the Marine of

[8:47] Allie Unified School District has done, as well as other governmental agency.

[8:50] You could offer that stockpile to local hospitals if you don't feel compelled to release it to your own citizens.

[8:57] Your action could save lives. Don't wait, please.

[9:02] Regarding another issue, Marina Valley residents have been paying a temporary tax on utilities since 1991.

[9:08] It's time to eliminate or refund this tax for the rest of the year 2020 to help residents and businesses during this national emergency.

[9:17] We currently pay a 5.75% tax on water, electricity, natural gas, cable television, local and

[9:25] long distance phone service, as well as cellular phone services, with so many parents

[9:30] instructing children and working from home, and the mass closure of businesses and or

[9:35] their accompanying reduction in sales. The elimination of the tax would save all of us.

[9:40] Thank you. Thank you, Kerry.

[9:42] Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next speaker we have is Mr. then. Robert then.

[10:06] Go ahead, Mr. then.

[10:44] Okay. Go ahead. Yes.

[10:48] Sorry about that and the relocate. That's a technical different difficulties here. That's okay.

[10:54] Okay. Here we go.

[10:56] As I have a tendency to go over my three minutes, let me say this up front.

[11:00] to the City Council, to the City staff, and to all those who may be watching and listening tonight.

[11:06] Stay well, be safe, and be smart, and all you do.

[11:11] I urge everyone to heed the mayor's guidance and warning, stay home.

[11:17] And if it becomes essential for you to leave your home, practice safe, distancing, and wear a mask.

[11:23] The mask has become this season's fashion statement, and no one was anyone to be caught out and about without one.

[11:35] At the time of crisis, everyone has a part to play.

[11:38] Each of us as an individual, as a part of a community, as a member of our city.

[11:44] Likewise, in a time of crisis, the community and the city has a responsibility to do their part.

[11:49] We will get through this, and when we do, it would be a shame not to have learned from our experience.

[11:56] If nothing else, we should have learned or relearn that this life of ours is fragile.

[12:02] So fragile that a microscopic protein module can spread from a city and China around the world, causing havoc, death, and the shutting down of economies.

[12:13] April 22nd is everything. A day to raise awareness on the negative impact our actions have

[12:19] on our environment and the Earth as a whole. Obviously our immediate attention is on the

[12:25] C19 global crisis, but we must not forget that we are also in another global crisis, the global

[12:31] warming crop crisis. And as with the C19 crisis, everyone in every community and every city has

[12:37] role to play. That is why I have stated in the past and will continue to, that is that is

[12:43] environmentally irresponsible and morally indefensible for this city to continue to support

[12:48] environmentally disaster. Thank you, Mr. Zen. Thank you. We have a project.

[12:53] Okay, next speaker we have is Daryl Terrell.

[12:59] Hi, this is our Daryl Terrell. Good evening.

[13:02] The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that we are all interconnected. Our lives in our

[13:09] I believe this depends on getting through this public health crisis together, but dignity for everyone.

[13:15] We have moved away from in-person contact and our governor have called upon us to stay home

[13:23] where it's safe. However, this shutdown is causing tremendous hardship for you,

[13:29] our residents. Many of you are seeing reduce or eliminated paychecks while rent

[13:34] continues to come due. Service workers, resident, restaurant workers, retail workers,

[13:41] and small business workers are just some of the categories of working families who will be

[13:45] unable to pay their rent due to COVID-19. Community folks spend 3% of their income on rent

[13:55] and even more spend 50% of their income on rent in our city where a 40% of our residents are

[14:01] renters. Mr. Mayor and City Council, you have a responsibility to act urgently to prevent thousands

[14:08] of families from facing eviction and homelessness. That's why I'm cementing until the public

[14:14] record electronically, it proposes that protects residential and commercial tennis from eviction

[14:21] because of financial impact of COVID-19. This proposes an established residential and commercial

[14:28] rental deferral program. It doesn't alleviate people from not paying their rent. But what it does is

[14:35] under this proposal in this landlord must not evict resident and commercial tenants who are

[14:41] unable to pay rent for calls of loss of income. And also most importantly, it gives a year

[14:48] up to a year to pay your rent with a payment plan with your landlords.

[14:56] So I will transmit this letter.

[15:00] Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right.

[15:08] Okay. Seeing the more public comments here, we're going to go ahead and move to consent calendar.

[15:14] And the consent calendar is considered for routine and non-controversial items. All items listed under ABC and D. Yes.

[15:23] So a quick question, do we have the opportunity to give our comments now instead of at the end of the meeting?

[15:30] Yes, sure.

[15:30] Yeah, if you'd like.

[15:31] Thank you. Sorry for interrupting.

[15:33] It'll be five minutes.

[15:34] Thank you.

[15:36] So I just want to provide the community with a few updates, you know, all pertaining to COVID-19.

[15:43] The first one, as you can see, I'm wearing a face mask today.

[15:45] This is actually made at home.

[15:47] It took me no more than 10 minutes.

[15:49] It's one bandana, two rubber bands on the side.

[15:53] It's very easy to make, and as you've probably seen by now, the county did issue an order and is requiring everyone to wear masks when outdoors.

[16:03] So even if you can't get a hold of an actual N95 mask, there's a lot of different items that you can find at home so you can make your own mask.

[16:12] So I would highly recommend that.

[16:14] Also, moving on to the topic of resources, there's a lot of food pantries and food banks here in the city of Rano Valley.

[16:23] The city actually just created a website mobile.org backslash food where you can go and find more information on these pantries as well as grocery store hours.

[16:35] So please feel free to visit that and get that information.

[16:39] So if you know if anyone who's in need,

[16:41] you can send them that way and they can get the resources they need.

[16:46] Next topic, I want to talk about the census.

[16:50] Now more than ever because of the coronavirus,

[16:53] we're going to need as many resources as we can possibly get once the crisis is over.

[16:59] And the census actually determines so many different programs and free and reduced lunches,

[17:09] medical and a ton of other programs and funding sources that come down here to our community.

[17:19] And so now is the time to fill out that census.

[17:22] you probably got something in the mail that gives you a unique ID code so you can fill that out on a website.

[17:29] You can also call. So if you just look online, you can find the hotlines. There's also one in Spanish,

[17:35] so you can speak to someone a personal assistant and they'll help you fill out the census as well.

[17:42] For small businesses, you may have heard as well for a few programs that economic injury disaster loan,

[17:49] the paycheck protection program, you can actually go to the SBA.gov for more information

[17:54] I highly recommend looking into those if you're a small business.

[17:59] The stimulus checks, according to the federal government, are supposed to start going out

[18:04] mid-April and you're going to get those faster if you do have direct deposit, so the IRS

[18:10] has said that they're supposed to set up a tool to allow you to set up for direct deposit,

[18:15] So if you haven't already done that,

[18:18] please look into that.

[18:19] And forgive me for being a little out of breath.

[18:21] It's the mask.

[18:22] Messes with your mouth a little bit, but I'll try to take deep breaths here.

[18:30] So I also tax refunds.

[18:33] If you have not submitted your taxes for this year,

[18:36] please do so by April 15th,

[18:39] so that you can get your tax refund as soon as possible.

[18:43] On the topic of evictions, one of our public commenters spoke about that, but yesterday, the California

[18:51] Judicial Council did publish rules.

[18:56] Basically, there will be no hearings for evictions until 90 days after the governor lives

[19:04] the state of emergency here in California, so that's good news for a lot of tenants who are

[19:10] in situations where they may not be able to pay their rent

[19:13] right now.

[19:14] So that is for a commercial residential tenants

[19:17] across the board.

[19:18] So if you have any more questions,

[19:20] please feel free to reach out to us.

[19:21] We're happy to help.

[19:27] Lastly, we are in the midst of a crisis.

[19:30] We're all in this at the same time.

[19:31] We're all in this together.

[19:33] But it is temporary.

[19:35] It's important to remember that this is not going to go on forever.

[19:38] if not just a few more weeks, maybe another month or two, but the more we collaborate to stay

[19:46] at home, to wash our hands, to stay healthy, eat good foods as well to keep our immune system

[19:54] strong, the faster we're going to get out of this and recover from it. So this is the time

[20:01] where I've seen a lot of our community members showing the best of what we have. I've seen leaders

[20:06] throughout the community standing up and giving back and I'm so proud of that, especially

[20:10] to our city staff and my colleagues here in the mayor as well.

[20:15] So we're all fighting the same fight and we will overcome this brief moment in history.

[20:23] So with that, I want to wish everyone a good evening to stay well and stay healthy.

[20:27] Thank you.

[20:30] All right, so there has been a request for a few little items here.

[20:34] We have a 13 Councilmember Marquez would like to say a few comments on that item go ahead to Councilmember Marquez.

[20:41] Yeah. Thank you, Mayor.

[20:44] Through the public.

[20:47] We're we're hiring a

[20:51] A company association associates with

[20:55] Our

[20:58] in from city attorney for services since we don't have our own

[21:03] Our own city attorney right now.

[21:07] I've been asked by several residents, well, what about, what's the cost, but are we paying this guy more than our regular turning?

[21:18] That's all public record. I don't want to waste time right now going into that, but you can certainly request to get his salary.

[21:27] It's not more than what we would be paying our regular city attorney.

[21:31] But I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce Steve.

[21:38] I'm going to wave Steve.

[21:42] Steve with our new interim city attorney.

[21:46] And he's worked with us before.

[21:48] And he's come with good, good recommendations.

[21:51] And I personally want to welcome him to the city.

[21:54] Thank you, Steve.

[21:55] That's all I have here.

[21:57] Thank you.

[21:59] Okay, and then we also have some comments on item 810 and A11.

[22:04] One, 810 is about paw holes, A11 bike lanes, and this comes from Council Member Thornton,

[22:09] and then I think you also have a comment on the other two of the items.

[22:13] Okay, so I wanted to comment on 810 and A11.

[22:16] So, 810, I just want to give recognition that concerning construction and improvement around the city.

[22:22] So, for 810 specifically, we'll be spending no more than 200,000 on a pot holes

[22:28] and road infrastructure. So I want to commend the City staff and public works on continuing to

[22:36] make it to partner with the community and making this a priority for us. We all know with the rain

[22:42] that's happening now, our streets deteriorate at an even faster rate. So this is something that is

[22:47] ongoing for us. There is a five year infrastructure plan. And so this is leading to that.

[22:52] And A11 also really feeds into our mission to make a Marine of Valley bicycle friendly.

[23:01] So this is around improvements to bicycle enhancements.

[23:05] I also wanted to register a no vote for A6 and A7.

[23:10] Okay, great.

[23:11] All right.

[23:12] Thank you so much.

[23:13] Council member Dr. Thorton.

[23:15] On item A14, I believe our city manager actually, I'm asking our city manager to give

[23:21] Just some brief, just to give a brief summary of what we kind of did at the disaster council

[23:29] and then what these entail these emergency resolutions.

[23:36] Honourable Mayor, members of the City Council, this I don't be for you for your consideration

[23:40] is our set of resolutions pertaining to the emergency order on the city's ability to deal

[23:46] with the COVID-19 pandemic.

[23:48] Under the municipal code, the city can convene a disaster council and the disaster council is made

[23:55] of as the mayor alluded to the mayor serving as a chair.

[23:59] The city manager serving as a director of the emergency services and I have appointed the

[24:03] fire chief to serve as the assistant director.

[24:06] We recently convened the disaster council initially on March 11th and subsequently on March 17th

[24:12] and it made the recommendation for the city council to declare a local state of emergency

[24:16] on March 17th, which did occur.

[24:19] Subsequently, on March 31st, we convened the disaster council, again, to make a further

[24:25] recommendations.

[24:26] And these are a set of recommendations on various resolutions pertaining to how we could

[24:32] contact business in dealing with the COVID-19.

[24:36] And just a quick summary of some of the resolution is, of course, we need to continue the local

[24:40] emergency, initial, orness would have lats on April 15th, and this is now extended indefinitely

[24:46] until the governor lifts the emergency declaration for the state.

[24:50] Also, there is a resolution pertaining to the pandemic preparation plan.

[24:55] We made a change to that and this actually plan was devised by our fire chief and emergency management

[25:01] with feedback from the city manager and also the mayor.

[25:05] And this is really our emergency operation plan and it is now really a model for a lot of cities

[25:10] And we're actually adopting our plan as the boilerplate

[25:13] template for their city as well.

[25:18] One important component of this is that now

[25:20] under the pandemic plan, all employees of the city

[25:24] are considered disaster workers.

[25:26] So that we are allocating different employees

[25:28] to different places to deal with the COVID-19 crisis.

[25:34] Also another resolution pertaining to the closure plan,

[25:36] we made recommendation and then

[25:38] into the closure plan. Initially we had closed all public buildings to the public.

[25:46] Yeah, access to the public but we are maintaining city services and we are still dealing

[25:52] with a lot of the permits and everything that's coming in. We just recently also amended

[25:57] the closure plan to close all public parks and access to the public parks. So that is a part

[26:02] of for your consideration. Also, there's a various resolution per day to the city managers

[26:08] authority for procurement and also public bidding in which it allows the city

[26:13] manager ability to move very quickly to purchase goods and services needed

[26:17] during this crisis. Also there is additional resolutions in which we can

[26:25] collect and accept emergency from the state or federal government and that we are now

[26:31] documenting all the class expenditures so that we could get being

[26:34] from FEMA. And finally, there is another resolutions which grant immunity for medical personnel and

[26:40] veterinarians. The governor has declared that the need for medical personnel under the state

[26:45] declaration. However, we do have a animal shelter in the event that we do need to call for veterinarians

[26:52] to help with their animal shelter. This will allow us to do so and also grant immunity in that capacity.

[26:58] This concludes my presentation on the various resolutions.

[27:03] Okay, great.

[27:04] Thank you.

[27:07] Okay.

[27:08] And I just wanted to say, yes.

[27:12] Councilmember Cooper, was that from some more else?

[27:17] No, and I just wanted to say again, a lot of these resolutions or ideas, you know, we discuss

[27:22] that disaster council and we implement them up already, but because of the ordinance, you know,

[27:27] more than 30 days we do have to bring it to council, you know, to get that extended, so that's

[27:32] the, you know, basically what you were saying. Okay, great. And, all right, so I'll entertain

[27:38] a motion to approve, excluding the items, for example, as well. Carla, Dr. Thornton actually

[27:46] said A687, she's voting no on it, so just entertain a motion to approve the rest of the consent

[27:53] Okay. Motion by Councillor Marquez, a second by Councillor Carrera. Okay, please vote to approve the consent calendar.

[28:03] We can register me as a guessable. Okay. Yes, also over me.

[28:07] Okay, great.

[28:11] Okay, and the consent calendar passes unanimously, and then we do have your item note it as well.

[28:21] So we're going to go straight to item F, which is public hearing, and that goes to public hearing

[28:30] F1, public hearing to adopt substantial amendment number four to the fiscal year 2019 20 annual action plan.

[28:37] And we'll have a report from the Financial Management Services Department, our CFO and Assistant City Manager.

[28:45] Good evening, Honorable Mayor, Mayor Pro-Tem City Council members.

[28:49] This item is related to the emergency solutions grant that we received in fiscal year

[28:54] 1920.

[28:56] Part of that grant was allocated to what's reference is swag, where the social work action

[29:00] group.

[29:01] So the City Council at that time awarded $90,000 to that organization.

[29:05] At this point in time, they have not been able to execute a contract with the city.

[29:09] So, what we're recommending right now is we allocate $35,000 of that initial allocation

[29:15] to the Salvation Army, and this will supplement their work on the Homest to Work Program

[29:20] and the additional Homest services that they're currently doing, and with that, that concludes

[29:24] my report.

[29:26] Okay.

[29:28] Great.

[29:29] I thank you so much, Mr. Ironman.

[29:32] Okay.

[29:32] Any council questions of staff, and then Council member Dr. Thornton and Mayor for Timbuckage,

[29:37] You can just speak out if need be, okay?

[29:42] I have no questions on that item.

[29:44] If you have any questions, you can just speak.

[29:46] I will.

[29:47] Okay.

[29:48] All right.

[29:49] So I'm going to go ahead and open the hearing.

[29:53] Seeing a no public testimony on the item, hearing closed.

[29:58] Entertainment Motion by Council 2.

[30:00] Approved staffs recommendations, number 2 and 3.

[30:03] Take a motion.

[30:04] Okay, I made motion by Councilmember Dr. Thornton.

[30:07] On second.

[30:08] And a second by Mayor Protembaca.

[30:25] And the item passes.

[30:28] All right, great.

[30:29] We're going to go straight to city council reports.

[30:32] We have one report, and this is for the Riverside Transit Agency.

[30:35] We have Councilmember Markets.

[30:38] Thank you, Mayor.

[30:40] On April 5th, Riverside Transit Agency.

[30:43] RTA reduced their bus service to Sunday services scheduling due because due to the

[30:50] 70% drop in service.

[30:54] Better remember they have to reduce their scheduling because it's just a waste of money to

[31:03] have empty buses driving up and down.

[31:05] I've had some comments made since we posted it on the website.

[31:10] What happens if I need to get to a certain place right away?

[31:13] Well, unfortunately, under these conditions,

[31:17] they have to conserve their funding for it.

[31:24] They just can't have an empty bus go down the street.

[31:27] So I just want the public to know that RTA is trying everything they can to stay on schedule

[31:33] and get where you want to go on time.

[31:38] So I just want to make sure that if you have any questions,

[31:40] the public, you can get on their website and on the website there you can communicate with them

[31:46] by answering questions, asking questions and they'll be answering to you. If not, you can contact

[31:51] me or at City Hall, I am the representative for RTA, the representative for RTA, the representative

[31:57] of RTA, so with that I can include my report. Thank you.

[32:02] Okay, great. Thank you. City manager's report.

[32:05] Sure. Mayor, thank you. I just want to report three guidance

[32:09] first is on excited to report that the amphitheater is under construction.

[32:14] Now many of our residents are at home, reserving the stay at home order and thank you for

[32:17] that.

[32:18] And have not been around the city hall, but our amphitheater, which the council approved

[32:22] earlier this year, has started construction and we're very hopeful that by the end of the summer

[32:27] we will celebrate the opening of a new amphitheater.

[32:30] Second is that tonight you have approved a new branch library to serve the citizens of this

[32:35] great city.

[32:36] This will be our third library and it's important to note that the improvements that was approved tonight is paid for from a library development impact fees, and that is paid upon when development occurs and developing into this different count.

[32:51] And we're very excited that we will have our third library addition also.

[32:55] And finally, I just want to commend the leadership of the mayor and city council and the development of the mobile meals program.

[33:02] And that we are now serving 500 seniors in need and people on disability.

[33:07] And what Councilmember Cabaret alluded to, it is really showing the best of what we have.

[33:12] It's really bringing the community together and just for the time of need.

[33:16] We're seeing a lot of volunteers helping us deliver some of the food to the people on disability.

[33:22] We're seeing large donations from a lot of our large companies,

[33:26] This partner in gamble, Walgreens, Aldi Foods, UNF5, UNSTOLERS paper have donated either

[33:33] monetarily or a product into our program.

[33:37] So it is working very well and I just want to commend, once again, the mayor and the

[33:42] City Council for your leadership and development of that program.

[33:45] That concludes the City Manager's report.

[33:47] Thank you.

[33:49] Thank you.

[33:50] City Attorney.

[33:50] Did you turn this report?

[33:53] If you happen.

[33:54] Thank you Mr. Mayor. First of all, thank you for having faith in me, second time around.

[34:01] But I just want to comment about the COVID-19 crisis and because I've been getting

[34:06] a lot of questions from various people of your constituents and some of you about

[34:11] which rules or mandatory versus which rules are simply guidance.

[34:17] And a lot of that comes from a lot of that uncertainty is built into the process we have set up

[34:23] because we have the President who can issue orders and issue guidance and we have the Centers

[34:28] for Disease Control and Prevention at the federal level who have issued some certain guidance

[34:33] and how to avoid contracting COVID-19. We have the governor's executive orders that are coming

[34:39] out. Some of the executive orders are mandatory. Some of them are simply guidance. Some of them

[34:45] are suggestions as to what cities can do with respect to adopting certain emergency measures.

[34:50] We have the California Department of Public Health.

[34:54] They have been issuing a lot of guidance that the governor follows and suggests to cities and counties.

[35:01] We also have the Riverside County Public Health Officer who has been recently issuing a number of orders.

[35:08] And those particular orders are significant to primarily to cities and special districts because a lot of the orders that are coming from the county are mandatory orders that we have to follow.

[35:18] And then the city has the discretion to adopt certainly emergency measures that just did tonight.

[35:25] But what the common thread is amongst all these different agencies in these different executive orders is that there's a strong suggestion and in some cases there are orders to shelter in place, which is some people characterize a stay at home.

[35:39] But there's also the social distancing requirement, which is to remain six feet apart, and that's something that we find that's the common thread through all these orders.

[35:49] And also the gathering of two or more people outside of their household, there is, we should not be gathering more than one person outside of the household and the only exemption that's been built into that is if the two people or two or more people are from the same household, not necessarily from the same family.

[36:08] So you can have two unrelated roommates who, you know, who can be outside of the house, that same household, because they're from the same household, but that doesn't necessarily apply to family members.

[36:20] And that's where there's a lot of confusion. So I just want to put that out there.

[36:24] So the public has a general understanding of where all of this is coming from and a lot of it's flowing down, flowing for the president all the way down to the county.

[36:33] And it leaves the cities with the authority to adopt certain measures to fill in certain gaps that we feel are important here to service our constituents.

[36:43] Okay, thank you very nicely said.

[36:46] Thank you, a city attorney.

[36:48] And we'll have a comments from Councilmember Dr. Thornton.

[36:53] Thank you so much, Mayor.

[36:53] I really want to recognize not only our, our first responders, the individual, so working in grocery stores, our delivery drivers, just all of these individuals, the healthcare workers, who have really supported us during this crisis.

[37:13] The surge is still weeks out. And so, you know, I know many of us are a third week into our state home order.

[37:20] And we still have a bit to go, and I want to encourage our residents to, as state before

[37:24] cover their mouths and stay at home as much as possible.

[37:28] What I'm really concerned about is the mental health, social isolation and depression is

[37:33] something that is real.

[37:35] As humans, we are meant to be social creatures, and even those who are introverts really have

[37:42] a way of engaging with people, and this is restricting that.

[37:45] And so, one thing that has been established at the state is there is a mental health,

[37:49] Hotline is 1-800-854-777-1 and so if you're someone who's experiencing depression or suicidal

[37:57] ideation, I really want to encourage you to reach out for help. Additionally, the governor has

[38:01] expanded child care assistance for essential workers and you can go to the state website to find out

[38:09] more information about that and also Riverside County has made a call for retired medical volunteers

[38:15] is to help and I really want to encourage you if you're someone who has a medical background

[38:20] and is retired or would like to volunteer. There is opportunities for you in Riverside County.

[38:28] Lastly, one thing I'm really really concerned about is the economic health of our city and our state.

[38:34] We economically are going to experience a significant blow to our infrastructure and our budget

[38:42] over the next 12 months from COVID-19.

[38:45] I wanted to commend the mayor for sending a letter

[38:50] to Senator Pelosi and also a Senator Medina

[38:54] and I'm assuming Senator Roth.

[38:56] The CARE Act is not going to support

[38:58] City Government who have a population less than 500,000.

[39:02] We are really big city and due to the impact on our businesses

[39:08] In addition, Governor Newsom approved a 12-month

[39:12] deferment of sales tax.

[39:15] That's a 50,000 for small businesses.

[39:17] That is going to have a huge implications for our city.

[39:20] So we'll talk about, improve, improving the infrastructure,

[39:24] providing programs to our residents.

[39:26] We're going to take a hit over the next couple of years due to COVID-19.

[39:31] And I really want to encourage our residents to write a

[39:34] with Medina and Senator Roth and asked for the support legislation to get some money from the state.

[39:41] The stark state has not yet used the rainy day fund that Governor Brown and Governor

[39:47] Newsson has talked about numerous times to directly support our residents, right? The residents of California.

[39:54] And so when you hear conversations about why is our city not giving the residents money,

[39:59] Why are we not directly impacting the state has the capacity to do that and I really want to encourage our residents to lobby our state legislators to support us.

[40:13] So the mayor wrote a letter on behalf of the city encouraging some of the Medina and other representatives to work on some type of financial assistance for not only our small businesses before our residents.

[40:27] In addition, our city, which, as Mr. mentioned earlier, has a large count of COVID-19 cases,

[40:35] and we currently have a shortage on our N95 mask.

[40:39] So, our first responders are down to a less than seven-day supply, and we need assistance

[40:45] from the state concerning N95 masks, financial assistance for the city government, and also for

[40:54] businesses and I really think that this should be a priority of us as a city council. I'm happy

[41:01] that we have taken the initiative. We were the first city had to deal with COVID-19 back

[41:06] of in the January and I think that we have been leading from the front and serving as a role model

[41:12] for other cities of Riverside County and for the state on how to not only be direct about what

[41:17] we need as a city to continue to to operate in a successful manner but to also provide the resources

[41:23] and the services to our residents, so that's all I had to say, sir. Thank you.

[41:29] Thank you so much. Councillor Merrick, Dr. Thornton, appreciate that. We have Councillor

[41:34] Marquez, if you'd like to see.

[41:35] Yeah, Councillor Comfort, thank you, Mayor. First of all, it's a Sherman Paints. I understand

[41:41] they donated some 95 maps to the Fire Department. I want to shout out to them for donating

[41:50] those on face masks to the fire department. Secondly, I want to say, you know, without volunteers,

[41:58] where will we be today? I came over to the CRC yesterday and it was the first time I've been

[42:06] in there since this happened. And I was just amazed how many volunteers were in that CRC.

[42:13] And I want to commend Patty for you and your crew out there and the donations we've been getting.

[42:21] It just, you know, when you see these crisis happen, everybody comes together.

[42:26] And I love to see that.

[42:29] But our volunteers, I mean, they're beautiful people to come out and donate their time and these crisis

[42:38] to help our city and our seniors.

[42:42] And I want Patty to pass it on to the volunteers and I'm not only speaking for myself, I'm pretty sure my colleagues would agree with me that thank you very much and we won't forget them after this is over.

[42:55] I have a big ol' party somehow and celebrate.

[42:59] Next is the,

[43:03] you know, if you have bills to pay your debts, don't use this and excuse not to pay, I gotta get used to this.

[43:14] don't pay your debts. If you can afford to pay your debts, there's companies out there

[43:18] small businesses that give you credit and they need those funds as bad as anybody else.

[43:25] If you're able to pay your debts, don't use this coronavirus as an excuse not to pay the

[43:32] debts. Pay your debts, keep on them. Again, we have to all work together through this and if

[43:39] I don't can't pay them, it's understanding because you're laid off, don't ask your

[43:45] fight savings, just pay your debts, that's all I could say.

[43:50] On the good note, we're done on my face mask.

[43:54] On social media, we had a person make a face mask out of a pamper.

[44:00] I don't know how many people seem that.

[44:03] Go on Facebook.

[44:04] I believe it's Maria Valley Matters, it was on.

[44:07] And this girl had a pamper, maybe a pamper, and she made a face mask out of it, and, you know, if you have children at home or you use pamper's at home, you know, just look at that, you'll probably make dozens of a face mask and sell them if you want them, but it was amazing, and I've never seen anything any type of creation like that, but it's out there.

[44:31] And last I want to say is this, our staff done a marvelous job, through this, and I want to

[44:41] comment all you, even our call, my colleagues, for standing up and saying, hey, the city is going

[44:49] to continue functioning under these circumstances.

[44:52] And this goes with a police department, the fire department, all departments, especially

[44:58] you might use that.

[45:11] I don't know what it is, but it never seems to fail towards the end of the month or first of the month. There is so much trash dumped out in our streets.

[45:23] I mean, last week, let's have furniture, mattresses, sofas, you name it, even a refrigerator

[45:29] out in the middle of the street.

[45:33] You know, you can call, waste management, and they'll pick up those items at your home.

[45:38] You don't have to throw them out on our streets.

[45:41] That's more work for our crew, public work screw.

[45:45] And I think Mike gets tired of me calling him every five minutes and saying, hey, we have

[45:49] refrigerator out in the middle of the street or dishwasher or sofas, but to the public, if

[45:55] you have an large item, waste management will pick them up, just call them ahead of time

[45:59] and when it's your turn or your cycle to come out for your trash, they will come out and pick

[46:04] it up. And that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor

[46:09] Marquez. We have closing comments from Mayor Pertenbacca.

[46:14] Thank you, can you hear me? Yes. Okay, great. Thank you.

[46:18] Well, first of all, I just want to commend you mayor for your leadership and for the item A, A, which was the item that you removed. I want to thank you for that ahead of time. I had a little speech written, but I didn't get to do it because you pulled it. So I just want to say that many people think that you put it on there or that I put it on there or that you and I put it on there. But the fact is that this is a consent calendar. And this is where staff puts their route to.

[46:48] and non-controversial items there that are usually voted simply by the city council so that

[46:57] the everyday process can continue. For example, paying the bills and so forth. So that's all

[47:03] the item got on the consent calendar. It doesn't take three people from the council to put the item

[47:10] on the agenda. This is like I said the consent calendar for staff to put items that are

[47:16] routine and uncontroversial. So that's the end of A8. Thank God. So I also want to say thank you

[47:22] Mayor for your leadership. Thank you, City Council, the City Manager, because we're in uncharted

[47:29] territory. This has been unprecedented. We've no one alive I believe has ever gone through

[47:35] what we're going through. The nation and the state are city. People are scared. They don't know

[47:40] what's happening. The children are scared. Even our pets are like, why is everyone home?

[47:45] you know that we want to do our thing but I just want to say that we need to unite as the city.

[47:52] I'm glad that we've been physically conservative and that we have money in our reserves

[47:58] that where I know we're going to top into because we're not going to receive sales tax,

[48:03] the hotel tax, a lot of taxes, we're not going to receive as a city and we just assumed that

[48:09] would be there in March and April and May. They're not. So we're going to be looking at other ways

[48:16] to make make ends meet. So just beware and hold on and stay with us for the right because

[48:22] Murano Valley is a great city. We have great leadership. We have an excellent team that's, you know,

[48:29] just do everything. Just like the mobile meals when you have all the volunteers and some of

[48:36] and the mayor. I remember the mayor was the first one out there. In fact, he's the one that came up with the idea.

[48:43] And I was just so proud of him and proud to live in Mernell Valley where we are taking care of our seniors and our citizens with special needs or disabilities or different needs.

[48:54] But I'm glad that we have that program and that we are at capacity. People need to call in every week.

[49:01] but I didn't think that we would reach that capacity,

[49:05] but I'm glad that we're able to do that.

[49:07] And I just want to thank our partners

[49:08] and nonprofits, the big companies that are in Murno Valley

[49:12] for the donations, for everything that they've given the city

[49:15] so that we could survive and that we could support

[49:17] the less fortunate.

[49:20] And many people still have jobs.

[49:22] Many people are out there commuting, going to work,

[49:25] and they do have jobs, but it's not everybody.

[49:28] And you can't imagine,

[49:30] I don't think you can imagine if you still have a job, you still have a home, and you're able to pay your bills.

[49:35] You can't imagine what it is when both heads of household are unemployed.

[49:41] People with kids don't have food, and we have a lot of poverty.

[49:46] So please, if you can, you know, unite instead of, you know, finding differences.

[49:51] We need to find our, our common grounds and take care of each other.

[49:55] And when you're in church, and you say, love my neighbor, keep that promise until you come back to the next next day, the next week, and you know, we commit to being a good Christian or good, whatever religion you are, doesn't matter. I think we all have the same tenants of love their neighbor. So love their neighbor is not just the feeling, but it's an action. And if we can, let's, let's help the less fortunate. Thank you.

[50:23] Thank you so much Mayor Brutin Bach and just in talking about the less fortunate that's really what the

[50:29] mobile meals program is about and really giving those 500 care packages to those 500 families that are out there

[50:39] and these care packages by the way people are actually able to have food and stuff for almost about a week

[50:44] so it is a great blessing I believe to them and I do want to commend our city staff, especially our city manager

[50:52] and also our partners director as well, and just everyone that has been involved in all of this,

[50:57] you know, and really organizing it from the staff level as well.

[51:02] You know, it's just gone really, really, really well.

[51:06] The way they have it organized, the two different lanes, you know, checking, you know,

[51:09] and just providing those meals, and then they even deliver it to your house as well.

[51:14] So we've just been doing things that are just above and beyond that,

[51:19] In fact, other cities have actually called us and called me, you know, about implementing that similar program, you know, mobile meals, you know, in their city.

[51:29] So, I think, you know, we are doing something great, but you know what, there is going to be difficulty.

[51:34] I mean, no doubt about it.

[51:35] I mean, when you lose your job, you know, I mean, that's, that's something that's powerful right there that's going to affect your life that's going to affect your family.

[51:42] And just even the kids as well, you know, their fear, as well, like Mayor Pratambaka was mentioning, we see that I see that in the community myself and so I am concerned.

[51:55] But I think that, like she mentioned, we really need to unite, we really need to come together.

[52:02] You know, and really like she mentioned, you know, love thy neighbor. That's really what it's all about.

[52:07] you know, we should always do that right. So I think that this is the time that we can continue to step up and I know we will step up as a city and we're going to do that.

[52:18] I am thrilled and excited about some of the programs that we are creating, or actually that we passed, you know, as far as the third library opening and the amphitheater, which will be under construction and open by August.

[52:34] Now, again, these were items that were already money was already allocated for, and that's

[52:40] why those items were going forward.

[52:42] But like my other colleagues have mentioned, we're not going to be receiving the sales

[52:46] tax for about 12 months.

[52:50] Also, other types of funds, like from the hotel tax, as well, that's going to be a major hit

[52:56] to our budget.

[52:57] But I am proud to at least make sure that we're doing whatever it takes to save jobs as

[53:04] much as possible and that we're doing whatever it takes, you know, whether it's part-time jobs

[53:08] or heat, temp jobs, you know, we're doing whatever it takes to save them because I think it

[53:12] is important, you know, people deserve that, but, you know, just keep in mind, you know,

[53:17] if there's going to be a bumpy road because, you know, it's going to be a big hit to our

[53:24] budget, so keep that in mind.

[53:26] I also want to thank the residents, just in general, the residents, the volunteers, you know,

[53:31] I've had the opportunity and they're doing some of the deliveries or even just in talking to some of the residents and there's just a lot of compassion out there.

[53:40] So even though there might be some people that want to sometimes unfortunately spread rumors and those kinds of things.

[53:47] There is a lot of compassion and love out there and I have seen that, especially through the churches.

[53:53] I've been working with the church community.

[53:57] I actually established a list of faith-based communities,

[54:00] food empantries together, and working with the non-profits.

[54:05] So it's just, it's really nice to see the positivness

[54:08] that's out there in our community and how we all care about each other.

[54:12] So I really like that, and I want to commend people for that.

[54:17] And without further ado, we will go ahead and

[54:19] during the meeting tonight at 654 p.m. Thank you.

[54:26] And thank you to all for participating on Zoom, too. Thank you.