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[0:26] Good evening. This is the regular joint meeting of the Oakley City Council, the Oakley City Council acting as the successor agency to the Oakley redevelopment agency and the Oakley Public Finance. This meeting is called to order at 630. Well, the clerk, please call roll.
[0:43] Councilmember Shaw, here, councilmember Williams, here, Vice Mayor Meadows, Mayor Henderson, here, and councilmember Fuller is absent. Item 1.2, Pledge of Allegiance.
[0:55] Today we have the honor of having Chandler, who's involved in the Mustang Managers leadership, and is in the gate greeting for
[1:09] Amin Grove School.
[1:11] Chandler is a very social person.
[1:13] He always has conversations with friends when he's not together in person, he enjoys laughing over face time.
[1:20] In his free time, Chandler enjoys golf, bowling in a league, playing basketball, baseball, reading, and of course, a little fortnight.
[1:32] He dreams of becoming a pro golfer.
[1:40] Please stand.
[1:43] Hand over your heart, please.
[1:44] Please pledge, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.
[1:55] One nation under God in the visible with liberty and justice for all.
[2:20] Item 1.3, proclamation honoring Ashley Hupwood for earning her Girl Scout Golden Award.
[2:28] If Ashley can meet me up front at the podium, please.
[2:31] Whereas
[2:38] the Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest and most prestigious achievement in Girl Scouts earned exclusively by senior and ambassador high school Girl Scouts who demonstrate extraordinary leadership, community impact, and dedication.
[2:52] And whereas fewer than 1% of Girl Scouts possess the perseverance and vision required to complete the rigorous requirements needed for this award.
[3:01] And whereas Ashley is a hardworking, dedicated, kindhearted person who has been an active member of the Girl Scouts community since kindergarten, and whereas Ashley is currently a senior at Freedom High School, maintaining membership in the National Honor Society and numerous other clubs while simultaneously pursuing college coursework at Los Madanos College toward her goal of becoming a crime scene investigator.
[3:26] And whereas for her Gold Award project, Ashley dedicated over 80 hours to designing, planning, and constructing one standing height and two wheelchair accessible garden beds for the residents at Commons at Dallas Ranch Assisted Living.
[3:42] And whereas Ashley hosted a special event at the facility inviting attending seniors to participate in planting the new gardens.
[3:49] And whereas the assisted living facility now has a garden club where residents meet regularly to take care of the gardens.
[3:56] Now therefore be it resolved that Hugh Henderson may have the City of Oakley along with the members of the Oakley City Council to hear by recognize and honor Ashley Hopward for earning the Girl Scout Gold Award and commend her exceptional service and lasting contribution to the community.
[4:15] Congratulations
[4:18] and all those hours into the community and what you've done you
[4:22] should be very proud in the City Council where we are proud to have you as a
[4:25] resident of Oakley.
[5:05] Item 1.4, Oakley Library update.
[5:16] Hello there.
[5:19] Good evening. My name is Lucia Flores. I am the Youth Services
[5:23] Librarian at the Oakley Library and I'm joined by Geopel Lini, who's our library services manager.
[5:29] Thank you, City Council, for giving us the platform to share that it is library card sign-up month,
[5:34] every September. So we are so excited to be here and share with the Comtacosta County Library and
[5:40] and what Oakley Library provides for the community free of charge.
[5:43] Next slide please.
[5:54] Perfect.
[5:55] So why get a library card?
[5:57] Library cards are free.
[5:59] If you are a California resident,
[6:01] you can get a library card in any public library in the state.
[6:05] So in our county library, we have no overdue fines.
[6:09] You can check out up to 100 books at a time for up to three weeks.
[6:12] We don't recommend that, but just so you know that's the limit.
[6:15] We do have books for all ages.
[6:17] In our library, we have collections in English and Spanish, but we're also happy to order
[6:21] books in other languages as well, such as Hindi, Russian, Farsi, Mandarin, and more.
[6:27] You can also find movies, audiobooks, music cities, and magazines in our library, and
[6:32] we can also order things for you to check out, such as ukulele's, Wi-Fi hotspots, California
[6:38] State Parks Passes, which are really popular in the summertime, and so much more.
[6:42] You also get free access to our myriad of digital resources.
[6:47] There's way too many to name, but just to kind of summarize what you can do with them.
[6:52] You can check out ebooks, any audio books on your personal devices.
[6:55] You can stream music and movies.
[6:58] You can get free tutoring for your children.
[7:00] You can learn a new language, get free and discount pass system museums and attractions in the
[7:04] Bay Area and so much more.
[7:11] There we go.
[7:11] So in our Oakley Library, we have roughly 8,819 patrons last fiscal year and about half
[7:20] of those are Oakley Youth ages 5 to 17.
[7:23] So when you look at the total population of Oakley, that's roughly 19% of the population
[7:27] is a library user.
[7:29] And when you isolate the Oakley Youth population, that's more than half that our library
[7:34] card holders, so 57.5%.
[7:36] We do a lot of outreach to Oakley schools at community outreach events, so we're very important thing for us to reach out to the youth so that they're aware of what the library offers for them.
[7:50] And last fiscal year we circulated 39,427 physical items in our library.
[8:01] And some may not be aware that all Contra Costa County libraries offer free programs for the community.
[8:06] In our library, we have literacy and reading programs, such as Storytime, which is happening
[8:10] right now, Tuesday evenings at 6.30.
[8:13] We also have family bilingual story times in English and Spanish, last Tuesdays of the
[8:18] month.
[8:19] And around April or May, we host kindergarten countdown workshops geared towards incoming
[8:23] TK and kindergartners to help them and their families model skills for them that they could
[8:29] use when they start school.
[8:30] school, and we host a quarterly rising readers program with a literacy tutor that does games
[8:35] and activities with the kids to help engage them and get them excited about reading.
[8:39] And of course, we have STEAM programs at the library, such as our weekly LEGO club, every
[8:43] Saturdays at 3 o'clock, and we partner with East Bay Regional Parks on occasion to host
[8:48] science workshops at the library, and we have artwork shops as well.
[8:51] So last fiscal year, we had 241 programs, and we had 5,113 attendees, which is a huge
[9:00] accomplishment for us.
[9:05] So it's our goal every year to visit all second grade classes in Oakley
[9:10] and we were successful in that endeavor last fiscal year. We visited all the second grade
[9:15] classes, some other grades and some special education classes as well for a total of 763 students
[9:21] and we gave out 333 library cards. That's probably the funnest part of my job. And it's very important
[9:28] to us to nourish our community partnerships and, you know, reach out to the community.
[9:34] So we love going to Heart of Oakley. We had Science Day this year that was so much fun.
[9:38] So please continue to invite the library to your events. And if we invite you and you're
[9:43] able to come, please do so. We have, on occasion, invited nonprofits such as Yeast of Comple,
[9:49] East Bay Regional Parks, Care, Parent Network to come to our events and provide their information
[9:54] for the community as well and of course
[10:01] All right, so just to summarize, library cards benefit everyone. I hope you come by the library sometime, and we can help you find what you're looking for. We can get you a library card for free, and that's pretty much all I have. So thank you.
[10:20] Any questions from council?
[10:24] Thank you very much for the update. Thank you.
[10:33] On 1.5, California Main Street update.
[10:48] Good evening. Tonight, please.
[10:52] These two introduce Ms. Brookfox, State Coordinator for California Main Street who's here to share more about the California Main Street program and how the Main Street approach can support community like Oakley.
[11:07] Today, Brook and I tour downtown Oakley and throughout the city and right before this meeting and took a fresh look at the businesses and properties and public spaces and development opportunities along Main Street.
[11:22] It gave us an opportunity to re-evaluate areas potential and discuss some challenges, and
[11:29] consider how the mainstream approach could help guide continuing revitalization.
[11:36] The city has been a member of California Main Street since 2021, and over past several
[11:43] years, the city has continued to make downtown Oakley and Main Street a key focus on our
[11:49] to make economic development programs and efforts.
[11:53] And while many significant investment has already been made in the area,
[11:57] as you know, the downtown move by delegation is an ongoing process.
[12:02] Ultimately, our goal is to continue transforming downtown Oakland to vibrant destination
[12:08] and economic center for our community, the place, the support local businesses,
[12:14] Attracts new investment and create memorable experiences, and the businesses are proud to call their own.
[12:23] Our participation in California Main Street give us an opportunity to learn from other communities,
[12:30] successful communities, and access technical expertise and improve and best practice.
[12:36] With that said, it is my pleasure to welcome Brooke, who's been providing the overview
[12:43] of May's re-approach and the resources.
[12:46] And, Brook, thanks for joining us.
[12:52] Thank you so much.
[12:53] Good evening, Mayor, Council Members, City Manager.
[12:57] Thank you, Rumi, for your hospitality.
[13:00] What an amazing tour. It's long overdue.
[13:03] I live in Vacaville, so it's not too far, so I'm sure I will be back.
[13:08] And what I get, I got a great picture of some of the exciting developments,
[13:12] including the library and the train stop and some other exciting things.
[13:17] So it's nice to see that things are consolidating into the downtown core,
[13:22] which is what we want to see.
[13:23] So let me just give you some information here about California Main Street.
[13:31] So,
[13:34] okay, so California Main Street was originally formed in 1986.
[13:39] It's been around for 40 years now, and it was originally a statewide program
[13:43] under the Trade and Commerce Agency for the State of California.
[13:46] Since 2002, it's been volunteer run by the Main Street Alliance,
[13:51] California Main Street Alliance.
[13:53] So our Board of Directors is comprised of Main Street Directors from across the state.
[13:57] We represent 31 designated Main Street communities of which Oakley is one of them.
[14:05] We are the state coordinating partner for Main Street America,
[14:09] which is the nationwide movement of over 1,300 communities nationwide that are designated main streets, and it is a mainstream America is actually a subsidiary of the trust for natural for historic preservation, sorry.
[14:29] Okay,
[14:32] so this is a look at our network, like as I mentioned, we have 31 communities and 17 are credited 14 are affiliates and I'll explain what that means in a few minutes, but this is a breakdown of we work with cities large and small from rural to very large and all over the state.
[14:54] every year we ask our communities to
[15:00] I just submit reinvestments statistics that shows us, it gives us a look at our economic impact across the state. So we ask them to report on jobs created and buildings saved and volunteer hours. So this is a look at both of our, both our 2025 reinvestment stats and also our cumulative stats are down below. So it represents quite a bit of investment that these programs have.
[15:29] have given back into the state.
[15:31] And on the right side, you'll see actually visitor numbers.
[15:35] So we use place or AI data compared
[15:38] with Main Street historic districts.
[15:41] And when we triangulate those,
[15:43] we can see how many folks visited,
[15:44] not just the city of Oakley,
[15:46] but the downtown core of Oakley.
[15:48] So I'm excited to report actually
[15:50] that when I pulled the numbers in 2025,
[15:54] five, Oakley saw 10,852 more visitors than in 2024 to its downtown core.
[16:03] So almost 11,000 more people came, those are visitors, so almost 11,000 more visitors
[16:08] came to your downtown in 2025, so that's a 3% increase, so very exciting.
[16:17] The Main Street America movement is built on the Main Street approach, which is a four-point
[16:23] approach and this was formed back in 1980 you can think back to conditions in
[16:29] that time what was happening lots of malls being built lots of downtowns
[16:34] emptying out stores moving to the malls the focus of commerce was shifting and
[16:40] buildings were sitting empty often historic buildings were falling over so the
[16:46] The National Trust for Historic Preservation piloted a program to reinforce the downtown
[16:54] commercial cores across America and the main tree movement was born.
[17:02] This is a look at the layers here.
[17:05] So Oakley, you're there in the middle in the center as a local program.
[17:09] And then as the state coordinator, we're in the middle, the middle ring there.
[17:12] And then we back that up with national stats and resources from Main Street America.
[17:23] Our members receive training and resources access to exclusive grant opportunities.
[17:31] We hold an annual conference every year.
[17:34] And so we get together every month virtually and
[17:39] Herumi's been on many of those calls, and it's really an opportunity for our Main Street
[17:44] Directors to connect and understand the very unique work that they do.
[17:49] This is just a snapshot of the benefits that Oakley enjoys in part by being a member of
[17:56] this network.
[17:58] So some of the things that Herumi has engaged with, she's been on those monthly member check-ins,
[18:03] she's been at our webinars, she and I connect quite a bit over specific technical assistance
[18:09] questions.
[18:09] She'll call and ask questions relating to, for example, the ice rink I connected her
[18:15] with a couple of other main streets that had ice rinks.
[18:18] So it's really just about really kind of connecting with resources and supporting the
[18:24] work that she does.
[18:27] So there are two types of designated main streets.
[18:29] There's an affiliate and an accredited level.
[18:32] And Oakley you are an affiliate, which is a designated main street.
[18:37] So it's recognized by Main Street, America as a designated Main Street and accredited Main
[18:43] Streets are Main Street organizations that have taken the extra step to build capacity and
[18:53] intention in regards to downtown revitalization, so I'll go into that in a second.
[19:00] These next few slides are going to have a lot of text, but I'll summarize.
[19:03] So the affiliate main streets get access to resources, technical assistance, they get
[19:14] to use Main Street America branding, they're recognized as a designated Main Street.
[19:18] This is all what Oakley gets to enjoy.
[19:21] And then if a designated Main Street decides that it wants to become an accredited Main Street,
[19:26] then we start to have conversations about goal setting and work plans and how we can move
[19:33] move forward to that goal, but everyone in the network, if you're designated, you start
[19:38] at this affiliate level.
[19:43] So to level up to the accredited level, there is a set of baseline requirements, which I
[19:58] This, you know, why, why a car...
[20:00] So, obviously, it's a stamp of distinction. It shows intent in downtown revitalization. It shows you're committed and that you've devoted a certain amount of resources toward this end. And as a city, you value downtown revitalization. It opens you up to different grand opportunities that are only available to accredited Mainstreet. It opens you up to become a potential candidate for the Great American Mainstreet.
[20:29] award. So there's lots of opportunities there.
[20:39] And so the how, how to become accredited,
[20:41] that's the conversation that we can have in terms of, like I said, setting goals. You'll
[20:48] see in this next slide here that there is a set of standards that Main Street America requires
[20:54] of accredited communities, and typically what Mainstream America looks for is staff resources.
[21:05] And those can come in many different ways, right?
[21:07] Those can come in a independent organization that's got an executive director that's focused on the downtown.
[21:14] It can also be a program officer that works for the chamber.
[21:18] It can be a city economic development manager that's dedicated to Main Street work.
[21:24] There's lots of different ways this can look, but the ideal there is that there is a full
[21:29] time program manager that works, that their job is to just wake up every day and think
[21:34] about how downtown can improve.
[21:37] And then the other benchmark that we build the work around is something called a transformation
[21:43] strategy.
[21:43] and it's kind of a fancy name for an economic development
[21:47] mage street plan basically.
[21:49] And so the transformation strategies
[21:51] that we help our communities build,
[21:53] they are community driven,
[21:55] they're based on market data,
[21:57] they're three to five year outlook.
[21:59] So they're not quite like a downtown master plan,
[22:01] they're a little bit more like we're here
[22:04] and we want to get to here.
[22:06] So really kind of setting goals around that,
[22:10] there's a work plan and a budget that set aside
[22:12] for that work once the community has all bought in and the idea there is
[22:19] that we want to see measurable progress and noticeable impact.
[22:28] So field
[22:30] services work. This is a feature of Main Street America and California Main
[22:35] Street. When our cities decide they would like to level up on the work that
[22:41] If they're doing or they'd like to bring in specific experts to solve a problem, then we are available and we can bring in folks to do things like walking audits, or create a transformation strategy, or form a downtown association.
[22:59] Those are all things that are in our will house that we do for other cities in California.
[23:04] And so that is part of our work.
[23:09] And our conference is coming up in two months.
[23:12] We're going to be down in Carl's Bad this year.
[23:14] It's about 125 main street professionals from across the state.
[23:18] And it's three days of learning and engagement and networking.
[23:23] And this year it's going to be right two blocks from the ocean.
[23:26] So I hope you can join us.
[23:28] And Majority America has a yearly conference
[23:34] which draws about 2,000 people from around the country.
[23:36] this next year it's going to be in Detroit so that's coming right up. So I want to conclude my
[23:46] presentation and thank you for five years of membership. I think it's a great time for me to
[23:50] come and check in and learn more about your priorities as a city and how I can assist
[23:56] her with her goals and with your goals and move the needle for downtown Oakley.
[24:04] Thank you very much.
[24:06] Any questions,
[24:09] council member Williams?
[24:12] You mentioned that in order to become accredited there has to be a full-time person dedicated.
[24:19] I know downtown Brentwood Coalition, they started out as an all-volunteer force.
[24:25] So does that full-time person have to be a paid employee or could it be a volunteer who's
[24:31] just focused on the main street portion of things?
[24:34] I believe it has to be full-time paid, but I can double-check for you.
[24:38] Yeah, Brentwood is one of our members as well, and so we actually, they're a great case study because we took them from affiliate to accredited.
[24:46] And so it would be a great resource to look at and see how they did that.
[24:51] Because, yeah, again, it was Main Street works best when it involves the whole community, and everyone can buy in and get excited and rally around.
[25:00] And then you coalesce all of that good work and emerge with staffing and with a board of directors that really is focused on the downtown improvement. Yeah. Thank you very much for your presentation. Thank you for having me. Have a great night. Item two, public comment. We will now receive public comment on items on the consent calendar and items that are not on tonight's agenda.
[25:31] And I currently do not have any speaker cards if you wish to speak or speaker cards in the library, the blue cards you can fill one out there.
[25:42] Reminder to the public that's limited to three minutes. There's a timer in front of my seat at one minute that will be in the light will turn yellow and as it turns red there.
[25:54] Also, if you're remote and you wish to speak in public comment, please raise your hand.
[26:01] Do I have any public speakers?
[26:04] I have no one in house.
[26:05] I have nothing that was turned in online.
[26:07] Do we have anybody online that wishes to speak?
[26:11] I do not see any hands raised online.
[26:14] I will close public comment, move item three, council members comments.
[26:23] We do not see any council member comments, we'll move to item 4, consent calendar, is anybody
[26:28] wish to remove anything from the consent calendar?
[26:32] Otherwise, I'll look for a motion.
[26:35] I move approval of the consent calendar.
[26:37] I'll second.
[26:39] So we have a first and a second, can we have a roll call vote, please?
[26:44] Council member Shaw?
[26:46] Yes.
[26:46] Council member Williams?
[26:47] Yes.
[26:48] Vice Mayor Meadows?
[26:49] Yes.
[26:50] Mayor Henderson?
[26:52] Yes.
[26:52] Yes.
[26:52] That motion carries 4-0.
[26:59] Item 5, no public comments tonight.
[27:01] We'll move to the regular calendar, item 6.
[27:04] Item 6.1, adopt a resolution appointing one planning commission to fill a two-year vacancy expires
[27:13] February 28th of 27 and our community development director.
[27:25] Good evening, Mayor, vice-member members of the City Council.
[27:29] Thank you, I'm Ken Streelo, community development director.
[27:31] I'm just going to give you a brief introduction to tonight's agenda, which is for the City Council to hear interviews of three candidates or applicants to fill a vacant role for the Planning Commission and then to determine on which of those three you'd like to appoint.
[27:48] So a little bit of background, planning commission is made up of two two-year term seats which expire February 28th of next year, and three four-year term seats expire in October 11th of 2029.
[28:02] Eventually, we'll get back on track so that all the seats are for four-year terms.
[28:06] One of the two, one of the two year term seats expiring next year was currently, was vacated
[28:13] recently by Commissioner Oli Veros, who resigned from the position on July 7th.
[28:19] The process for the applications, they were made available to be submitted from July 13th
[28:26] through August 20th of this year, and the City Clerk received a total of three applications.
[28:30] One from Pierre Reyes, one from Lewis Gentry, and one from Adam Starroud.
[28:37] Proof of residency has been confirmed for all three applicants.
[28:42] For the interview process, the interviews will be held in the order that the applications
[28:46] were received, which is the same order of the names I just presented.
[28:51] Candidates two and three will exit to a conference room, and they will be escorted by Mr.
[28:56] or Gorman. And then once an applicant has been interviewed, they're welcome to remain
[29:00] in the chambers during the following interviews. There's four questions to ask the applicants.
[29:06] Some of them are two part questions, but we want to split them into four. So you can share
[29:10] them if you like. If you want to go down the line or however the council chooses, that works
[29:14] out fine. And then there's three questions sheets for each of the City Council members.
[29:19] There should be one sheet per applicant, so you can take down notes as you're asking
[29:23] the questions and we just ask that you put their name or initials up top so that we know who
[29:29] they're for.
[29:33] You also have a forced ranking summary sheet and I believe most of you have used
[29:37] these in the past but just for transparency's sake they require the City Council to essentially
[29:45] re-rank the candidates after each interview. So for the first column you would be putting the
[29:51] initials of Pierre Reyes or PR, and then after the second interview you will rank whoever
[29:59] however you feel.
[30:00] With the higher ranking up top and so on. And it's important that all of the names are filled out for each of the rounds to prevent any confusion. Should there be a tie or something like that down the line? Are there any questions on the ranking sheets? Good. Okay. And then after the rankings are done, we staff asked that the mayor call a short recess to allow the city clerk and myself to tally up the numbers. We do have some tie breakers in place.
[30:29] should we come upon a tiebreaker, if we have two tiebreakers that we have set up its
[30:35] first place votes and then the least amount of third place votes. If we get to, we're
[30:40] still in a tie, we would ask the city council to deliberate and someone make a motion on
[30:44] who they'd like to appoint. I'm sorry we ran out of tie breaking ideas. And that concludes
[30:52] my short presentation. I would just ask if the three applicants are in the audience that
[30:57] they please raise their hands.
[31:01] Excellent, so we would ask that Lewis Gentry and Adam Starrud follow Evan, Mr.
[31:08] Gorman back there, and Pierre can stay in the room until he's called up.
[31:11] Thank you.
[31:14] Any questions for staff before we get started?
[31:18] Thank you for explaining my sheet for the challenges in the room.
[31:24] If you have any questions, let me know.
[31:25] Thank you.
[31:26] Nice for a minute.
[31:27] I was going to ask, who's got one, two, three, four?
[31:29] I'll do one and you're doing one, okay, what do I have?
[31:38] You have two, two, okay.
[31:44] So we'll go ahead and call the first half.
[31:55] Good evening.
[31:56] Good evening.
[31:59] So we'll start off with the first question and what motivated you to apply for appointment to the planning commission?
[32:05] Well, one thing that motivated me to apply for the Board of Commission was that last year I was part of the leadership.
[32:15] the Oakley leadership program, and it inspired me to actually take this opportunity to kind of learn what I've learned from the program and see how it goes and give me a better perspective of the city and how it works.
[32:39] How would you describe the city's current direction regarding development and growth, and how do you envision Oakley developing over the next five, 10, and 15 years?
[32:50] Well, I've been in Oakley for five years since we moved from daily city.
[32:57] I grew up in daily city most of my life.
[32:59] So having to see Oakley grow in the span of five years is quite interesting and prideful
[33:09] about it because I like how it's going to be because there's more, more people, more
[33:14] opportunities and what I can see in the future for Oakley is to be more thoughtful and strategic
[33:24] when it comes to its development. And I feel like having more of the changes in a positive
[33:34] direction, it would provide Oakley and its residents a better life.
[33:43] All
[33:46] right, what is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner should bring to this role?
[33:54] For me personally, having to be an educator, I think that one of the important aspects of leadership is the ability to be able to listen and comprehend what is being asked or what's being given to you.
[34:14] And by listening, you actively participate on not just like listening, but actually caring enough
[34:22] so that they can show the versatility of what you want, or what you want them to feel and see
[34:33] that Oakley as a whole can be a better place for development.
[34:44] If appointed, how would you define your role and responsibility as a planning commissioner?
[34:49] And do you have any scheduling conflicts that could affect your ability to regularly attend
[34:54] planning commission meetings which are scheduled for the first-
[35:00] What was the first part of the question? I got the second part now. How would you define your role and responsibilities as a planning commissioner? Well, first, I would more likely be be more objective, be more active in listening to the rest of the board. And if there is any any some sort of conflict or disagreement, willing to collaborate and be able to see what they're seeing that I'm not seeing.
[35:29] in terms of planning or what they see or what they have learned previously and it's a good
[35:37] opportunity for me to learn as well in having like a much more group organization to see
[35:49] what we can do in terms of as a group.
[35:52] In terms of conflict, I have no conflict with anything with scheduling.
[35:57] the best part of being a sub as an educator, you hold your time.
[36:04] Thank you.
[36:08] That includes our questions, so you can either stay and listen to the other interviews or
[36:16] we'll get through the next two.
[36:41] Second candidate will be Lewis Gentry.
[37:00] Thank you for your time.
[37:04] What motivated you to apply to be a planning commissioner?
[37:11] That was really easy. I think it's just the modern chaos of the modern times. Also the fact that now that I'm in Oakley and during COVID when my job went remote, I had more time at home, more time in the community as opposed to before where I was mostly just in the rat race of go to work and just, you know, earn your money, come home, take care of the family, and then there's no time to actually experience.
[37:38] experience the community, see what environment
[37:41] I'm actually living in.
[37:42] So since moving to Oakley, I've been part
[37:45] of the community, digesting it, seeing the community.
[37:49] I fell in love with the beauty.
[37:51] I fell in love with the hospitality of the residents.
[37:53] It's hospitality I hadn't experienced.
[37:56] Since growing up in a military family,
[37:58] my dad was in the army, and so on the military bases.
[38:01] Everything was really hospitable.
[38:03] But when I moved to California in 98,
[38:06] I mostly lived around.
[38:07] So I come valleys, Santa Clara,
[38:09] Premont, Union City.
[38:11] And those are fine cities, but they lack hospitality.
[38:16] And so when I came to Oakley,
[38:17] that was the first thing that stood out.
[38:20] Also, I see how the city is clean and complete
[38:25] as the way I summarize it.
[38:28] Complete in the sense that everybody's basic needs
[38:32] and resources seem to be easily accessible
[38:36] via public transportation or even walking so I was never really a big walker
[38:40] until now because everything is so convenient. I walk my dog all over, I walk several
[38:45] miles almost every day and I just enjoy it and in the process speaking to
[38:51] other residents you know and they're speaking back and so you learn about their
[38:54] lives, you learn about more about you know how the city operates and so I think this
[38:59] you know that's your question. This is the community that I've always wanted to be
[39:03] around when I settled down.
[39:05] And so, finally, being a month that community
[39:09] and then seeing all the threats outside, technology
[39:13] threats, hate threats, all of those things,
[39:16] I just felt like when the position got open,
[39:20] I just needed to do what I can to try to help combat
[39:24] a lot of the negativity that's going on around
[39:26] and try to protect the community and the city
[39:29] to keep it pristine at least.
[39:30] You know, keep this as a nice oasis for as long as we can and spread, you know, spread the positive vibes
[39:36] that Oakley, in the example, that Oakley sets to other surrounding areas, you know.
[39:41] So hopefully that wasn't too long-winded.
[39:47] How would you describe the city's current direction regarding development and growth?
[39:52] And how do you envision Oakley developing over the next 5, 10, and 15?
[39:56] You
[40:00] The current pathway to be very healthy. I've been started to come to the planning committee meetings for the last couple of months, just to kind of see how things are operating, see what directions or things are going. And I really like that the community itself, the residents are very vocal, they come up, they have their complaints. And I like the way that the committees and the council hears them and responds to them. I hear all too often a lot of surrounding cities, particularly Bay Area cities, where their community
[40:29] the leaders, they don't really listen
[40:31] or serve the community.
[40:33] And so the fact that Oakley receives,
[40:38] and they take their time to really investigate,
[40:40] and then advise, it feels very fair.
[40:43] It feels like they have the citizens best interest at heart.
[40:48] And that's the kind of leadership that I want
[40:50] to be around and would like to be a part of.
[40:57] All right.
[40:58] What do you feel is the most important skill or quality
[41:00] that a planning commissioner should bring to this role?
[41:06] I'll kind of wrap them into one, but they're kind of two words, two concepts, but objectivity
[41:11] and listening.
[41:13] I think far too often, too many people already have predisposed answers to problems, and
[41:18] they don't listen to the specific details of that person or that entity's unique problem.
[41:26] So, you know, listening with full engagement, fully intent, and then full objectivity, you
[41:33] know, try to take as much bias out, and then also really objectively thinking through
[41:38] the problem and try to come up with the best solution, not just for that one individual
[41:44] or entity, but thinking through the repercussions of the solution.
[41:49] How does that affect the community, how does that affect other entities, you know, basically
[41:52] try to follow the butterfly effect as wide and as far as it goes and make sure that you
[41:57] know you've uncovered any potential hiccups or surprises so that you yeah there's always
[42:03] going to be some surprises but you try to minimize the surprises as much as possible.
[42:08] All right mine is a two-part question so bear with me. If appointed how would you define your role
[42:14] and responsibilities as a planning commissioner and do you have any scheduling conflicts that could
[42:19] affect your ability to regularly attend planning commission meetings which are scheduled for the
[42:23] first and or third Tuesday of each month at 6.30 pm.
[42:28] I will answer those in reverse because the second was a little easier for me to answer.
[42:32] No scheduling conflicts because I not only am I working from home remotely but I'm one
[42:39] of those software engineers whose careers have been eaten by AI so I have a lot more time
[42:43] on my hands.
[42:44] So right now I do have an LLC that I've worked with with my partners but all of that is remote
[42:50] And so I have a lot of time on my hands at home, you know, so it'd be nice to break up that time with more than just golf in video games
[42:57] But then to answer your other question
[43:01] Honestly, I don't know because this is you know, I'm a software engineer. I don't know necessarily how
[43:07] Cities operate so that's that's what I'll be in to learn, you know, so I will
[43:12] My one of my biggest skills is you know learning, you know, I've always had to
[43:17] to adjust to different industries, whether it be in software or whatnot, I guess I get a
[43:22] lot of that from growing up in the military family. I've watched my dad have the pivot.
[43:26] I watched him learn and pivot when he retired and couldn't find work with his military skills
[43:32] so he had to pivot to something completely different. So a lot of what he got went through,
[43:36] I'm in the process of, and he got through that by staying open minded and learning
[43:42] and not assuming that he knows the answers or even knows all the questions.
[43:47] You know, so I would say that would be my biggest skill.
[43:51] You know, I can be putty in people's hands, but not silly putty.
[43:55] You know, I can smell BS, and I'm not easily controlled,
[43:59] and I have no issues being the only one going against the status quo.
[44:04] I am a stickler for facts, because I think without facts, without truth,
[44:10] you have nothing but chaos, and so if I'm the only one saying truthful things,
[44:14] then so be it. So I'd say I am open-minded, objective, and willing to learn so.
[44:21] Thank you. Thank you. And you can either stay in the audience or step out of the room
[44:30] while we do the third interview. Okay, thank you.
[44:41] Our last candidate for the evening will be Adam Starran.
[45:08] What motivated you to apply for the appointment of a planning commission? I was just motivated by being more involved with the community. My whole family grew up here. Grandparents raised their family here. Family still lives here. I've been here for 15 years and kind of seen the development. And then we are definitely going in the direction, but I just kind of wanted to help guide that direction from a youthful standpoint.
[45:35] from a parenting standpoint, from somebody who's involved with the community who does enjoy spending time in this community and wants to see tax dollars spent in their community or tax dollars earned in their community, just wanting to be more involved with whatever direction it is because we are going somewhere, but just wanting to make sure that it steers in the right direction.
[45:53] Thank you.
[45:57] How would you describe the city's current direction regarding development and growth?
[46:02] And how do you envision Oakley developing over the next 5, 10, and 15 years?
[46:08] I think that we are definitely don't have a problem developing and there aren't people that are interested in developing here.
[46:16] We have no issue with getting projects built.
[46:21] So I do think that we're probably building residential faster than our infrastructure or spending shopping can handle.
[46:30] Like that safe way on Laurel, for instance, was a much needed community resource.
[46:35] You can tell from the day it's opened, it's all, it didn't take time to gain traction.
[46:39] And with us developing the E Cypress corridor, not to mention there's so much land on the Main Street Empire,
[46:51] We have so much more room for development, but how are we going to responsibly develop that in order to support the community as a whole?
[47:01] In five years, I'd like to see more places for me to take my wife on dates.
[47:07] Or if I asked where to go get a T-bone or a couple of oysters right now, you guys probably aren't going to refer to me a restaurant in Oakley.
[47:16] And if my kids want to pay a competitive sports, they're probably not going to play in Oakley.
[47:21] So how in the next five years are we going to build our infrastructure and
[47:26] our resources and our services to support the community that we've already built and are continuing to develop right now, as well as looking into the 5, 10, 15 year right now we're right under 50,000 but we could be at 75, at least 60 by then.
[47:41] So what's the, how are we going to develop at the same rate to support all of that growth?
[47:51] What would you say is the most important skill or quality that a planning commissioner can bring to this role?
[47:59] I would say malleability and because you have some things that are malleable, you can bend them with your hands.
[48:06] Something to have to be heated up and hit with a hammer.
[48:09] And I'd like to think that I'm somewhere in the middle there because you're going to have more senior
[48:14] members on any kind of commission that you're sitting on, then you want to learn from their tenure,
[48:19] see how you don't want to come in and try and change the world with all your ideas at once.
[48:23] And you have to take that resident of 40, 50 years perspective as well as resident of maybe five to 10 years
[48:30] and somewhere in the middle. And you guys have to work cohesively as a group to be able to move in any direction.
[48:37] And so, maliability is it comes to cohesion as a group, you can't just go in there and force your way.
[48:44] You do have to look at other perspectives in accordance with the plan.
[48:54] Okay, I have a two-part question.
[48:56] If appointed, how would you define your role in responsibilities as a planning commissioner?
[49:02] And do you have any scheduling conflicts that could affect your ability to regularly attend planning commission meetings,
[49:07] which are scheduled for the first and or third Tuesday of each month at 6.30 p.m.
[49:13] Can I answer the second part first?
[49:15] No, I won't have any conflicts, being a father of four children now.
[49:21] I've always had meetings, I do have a very hectic schedule with sports, with other meetings for things that I attend to.
[49:28] And I will plan vacations out what you need to do when you have a large family.
[49:32] I plan my vacations even a year in advance around meeting dates.
[49:37] So being that this is, you know, you can look through the end of 27 right now and schedule the rest of your committee meeting dates for the next 18 months in advance, technically, and I'm not booking vacations two years ahead of time.
[49:51] So no, Tuesdays, I am wide open in general and won't make things that
[49:59] that.
[50:00] Contract or conflict, I'm sorry, with those obligations as a planning commissioner. My most important role would probably be just at first just assuming the position of being the newly appointed member. And working with the group, seeing how the rest of the group flows, what I can do to help, what perspective I can offer to the group without trying to, like I said, kind of earlier, jumping in and pushing my own agenda or changing things.
[50:29] right off the bat learning learning first on how to because you can't really affect change until you know how change happens
[50:39] Thank you
[50:41] Okay, we're gonna take about a five-minute recess now
[57:19] So we'll call the meeting back to order,
[57:24] and then we're going to get the callee from city clerk, please.
[57:29] Thank you. Yes, after tallying the votes, the highest score received was to Adam Starrad.
[57:41] So at this point on need a motion to approve. I move that we appoint Adam Starrad to our planning commission. Second. We have a first and second, a roll call vote.
[57:55] So council member Shaw?
[57:58] Yes.
[57:59] Council member Williams?
[58:00] Yes.
[58:01] Vice Mayor Meadows?
[58:02] Yes.
[58:02] Mayor Henderson?
[58:04] Yes.
[58:04] The motion carries 4-0.
[58:08] Congratulations.
[58:13] Item 6.2, appeal of the planning commission decision on 52-79 in the roll road and will receive
[58:24] Reverse staff report from our Associate Planner, Evan Gordon.
[58:35] Well, tonight's presentation is just three slides plus this title, so don't blink.
[58:42] Thank you for the chance to present it.
[58:45] This is 5279 Neuroly Road Appeal.
[58:51] First and background,
[58:54] this property is 5279 Neuroly Road, is zone light industrial.
[59:02] And it has a single family residence on it.
[59:04] built in 1944.
[59:07] On June 8th, 2026, the zoning administrator determined the residents may continue.
[59:13] The Oakley Municipal Code prohibits expansion or intensification.
[59:17] An unpermitted addition and a proposed ADU both qualifies in expansion and cannot be legalized.
[59:25] On August 18th, the Planning Commission held a de novo hearing.
[59:29] That's a fresh hearing where they are not beholden to the zoning administrators' determination, they can make their own.
[59:36] And they voted 3-0 to deny the appeal and affirm the determination as modified.
[59:43] Tonight
[59:46] is
[1:00:13] It is a denovo public hearing. So another hearing, this time in front of the city council. If you were to choose this staff would schedule it within 30 days. Testimony and evidence would be received at that meeting. This doesn't have a resolution. It just needs a majority vote. The next one in your agenda packet, you've been provided a comprehensive record of the past decisions and the public hearing on August 18th.
[1:00:43] You could decide to affirm the planning commission's decision based on that record.
[1:00:49] You could vote not to uphold it or you could affirm with conditions.
[1:00:56] This wouldn't require a hearing just to be based on the record in front of you.
[1:01:00] This would be the final determination, and there's a draft resolution for
[1:01:06] the affirming the planning commission's decision should you choose that.
[1:01:11] The third option is to refer it back to the Planning Commission, staff would schedule another Planning Commission hearing this decision just needs a majority vote.
[1:01:21] Independent hearing officer, if you were to choose this, staff in the City Attorney would work to a point, independent officer.
[1:01:29] The officer then makes a recommendation.
[1:01:31] Council hears that at a later meeting and adopts or substitutes its own findings.
[1:01:37] and finally affirm without hearing a record review because we've provided you an extensive record we don't recommend this one.
[1:01:48] That covers your options. I'm happy to answer questions on the procedure along with the help of the City Attorney and I appreciate your time.
[1:01:56] Thank you.
[1:01:58] Questions first.
[1:01:59] Okay,
[1:02:05] we'll move to public comment.
[1:02:06] I do have one public comment card for this.
[1:02:10] Henry Calvin.
[1:02:17] Good evening, Your Honor.
[1:02:18] Henry Catalan for the owner's agent.
[1:02:21] And I just wanted to state for the record the proposed resolution rests on a reappealed
[1:02:26] ordinance.
[1:02:27] And that ordinance is 826 and it was reappealed by the same council chamber.
[1:02:34] And it's on the rationale's race for the first time in this staff report, which is the appellant, has had no firm to answer.
[1:02:42] I understand the draft is, and it's obviously, as adoption is procedural, but we object, it just do because there's been things that have not been heard of.
[1:02:55] And we accept this objection, be reflected in the minutes.
[1:02:59] Thank you.
[1:02:59] Do
[1:03:03] we have any other public speakers for this item?
[1:03:07] Do we have anybody online for speaking on this item?
[1:03:11] There's nobody online mayor.
[1:03:15] And I'll bring it back to Council for Deliberation or Emotion.
[1:03:22] Vice Mayor Meadows, I would prefer to move forward with item two.
[1:03:28] Review the record and decide.
[1:03:38] Council Member Williams.
[1:03:40] Could I just ask a question if we're reviewing the record and deciding.
[1:03:46] No new evidence can be introduced, right?
[1:03:50] It's just reviewing.
[1:03:52] Correct.
[1:03:53] So public comment is closed.
[1:03:56] You would basically deliberate and you can make a motion to affirm,
[1:04:02] did I modify, but that's pretty much all you can do at this point.
[1:04:06] And no, you would not consider anything beyond what's in the staff report.
[1:04:10] Okay, thank you.
[1:04:11] I just needed that clarity.
[1:04:12] So
[1:04:21] do we need a motion then to, if it's the pleasure of the council to proceed as council
[1:04:29] member Meadows suggests, then a motion can be made to affirm or deny or affirm with
[1:04:37] conditions whatever the pleasure of the motion maker is.
[1:04:44] Vice Mayor Meadows.
[1:04:45] So that's okay. Let me ask, when did the general plan change this to light
[1:04:56] industrial.
[1:05:06] The general plan adopted in 2002 designated this property as light industrial. Okay. Do we know
[1:05:15] when the property was purchased? No.
[1:05:24] I'm assuming after 2002? 22? Okay, thank you.
[1:05:43] Council
[1:05:44] member Williams.
[1:05:49] I'm just having our time because I was leaning towards the second public hearing.
[1:05:54] And the reason for that is because, you know, I think we should take anything that has to do with people's property very seriously.
[1:06:05] But that was a good question that you just brought up because that does make a difference. The zoning was already light industrial.
[1:06:11] So I don't know if I can be the typewriter yet on this one though.
[1:06:24] I have reviewed all the documents as well as gone back and watch the video of the planning commission meeting driven by the location and I think I have enough information to make that determination.
[1:06:45] So,
[1:06:50] I feel for you, you assumed you were going to be buying a house that you could live
[1:06:56] in and do whatever you want with, but when you're buying property, you've got to do investigations
[1:07:05] and you've got to find out what you're buying, what the zoning is, what you can do with it,
[1:07:12] and it's unfortunate that you didn't and well yeah but I'm not I'm not done
[1:07:27] expressing it I mean I'm I feel for them but it's also zone light dust
[1:07:32] drill and so that means you know you can't go and expand a house and you can't add
[1:07:40] an ADU which I don't even know why we're talking about ADU on here, because that's not what was, there was no application for an ADU.
[1:07:49] So based on all that, I'm going to make a motion to affirm the planning commissions, the planning commissions decision.
[1:08:06] I'm in a second.
[1:08:07] So we have a first and second, we'll go for a roll call vote.
[1:08:17] Council Member Shaw?
[1:08:18] Yes.
[1:08:19] Council Member Williams?
[1:08:20] Yes.
[1:08:21] Vice Mayor Mettos?
[1:08:22] Yes.
[1:08:23] Mayor Henderson?
[1:08:24] Yes.
[1:08:25] The motion carries 4-0.
[1:08:29] Move to 6.3, adopt a resolution superseding, resolution 36-26, updating remote,
[1:08:40] Public participation guidelines and public comment time limits, and this will be staff report from our city clerk.
[1:08:52] Yes, good evening, Mayor and vice mayor and council members.
[1:08:55] The proposed resolution mends section 7 to include procedures for remote public comments, while also correcting some minor typographical errors throughout the document.
[1:09:06] In addition, the item addresses Vice Mayor Meadows request from the July 14th meeting regarding
[1:09:12] time limits for public comments.
[1:09:14] Staff reviewed Resolution 36-26 and determined that the current guidelines allow for a 30-minute
[1:09:21] time limit on public comments at the start of the meeting, with any remaining comments being
[1:09:26] heard at the end of the meeting.
[1:09:28] Staff's requesting Council direction on whether to maintain the 30-minute time limit or revise
[1:09:33] Otherwise it to a longer or shorter duration.
[1:09:36] Any direction provided tonight will be incorporated into the final superseding resolution.
[1:09:41] Thank you.
[1:09:44] Questions for staff?
[1:09:51] Not seeing any questions for staff.
[1:09:52] I do not have any public comments, is there anybody wish to make public comments on this item?
[1:09:58] Do we have anybody online?
[1:10:00] There are no hands raised online, Mayor. And I'll bring you back to the council for deliberation.
[1:10:11] I move approval of this resolution. Second. I have a version of second. We'll call the vote, please. Councilmember Shaw? Yes. Councilmember Williams? Yes. Vice Mayor Meadows? Yes. Mayor Henderson? Yes. The motion carries 4-0.
[1:10:29] Item number 7 reports, 7.1 city managers report. Good evening, Mr. Mayor.
[1:10:35] Mayor and Mr. Vice Mayor, members of the City Council.
[1:10:38] The only item I want to make note of is we have our Heart of Oakley celebration.
[1:10:43] Coming up this September 19th, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., downtown here at Civic Center Plaza.
[1:10:49] We have our August business license list attached to the agenda for your review.
[1:10:55] And I'm going to concede my time for the remainder of my report to both our police chief Paul
[1:11:03] Beard and Lieutenant Kevin Morris, police chief is going to give us a police department
[1:11:09] update and Lieutenant Morris is going to give us an update or a recap of our firework
[1:11:15] suppression operation over the July 4th holiday weekend.
[1:11:20] So with that, I will invite Chief Beard up to give his presentation.
[1:11:36] Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, members of the council.
[1:11:40] This is the second time I've actually done a mid-year report for all of you.
[1:11:44] I typically do a annual report, but last year we thought it best to do an update through
[1:11:50] the middle of the year, and I believe last year we thought that was a good idea, so we're
[1:11:54] just going to continue with that today.
[1:12:07] Our criminal stats are trending downward, and Oakley is remaining a safer neighborhood.
[1:12:16] As the four of you know, I do track statistics in key areas to assess the overall safety,
[1:12:24] and where to best apply police services throughout the year for those listening online.
[1:12:31] It may not understand what those keys statistics are, but that's going to be revealed in the next few slides.
[1:12:39] And just so that I'm comparing apples to apples, I can't compare the first half of 2026 to the whole year of 2025.
[1:12:47] So what I do is I compare the first half of 2026 to the first half of 2025, just to see how those first six months
[1:12:54] trended it and compare with one another.
[1:12:58] So, as you can see, everything is down on the
[1:13:02] first slide except for domestic violence. And domestic violence has been a stat that
[1:13:08] has steadily risen over the past three years. And I do realize that. I do think there
[1:13:14] are some factors for why that is and we will get into that. If we're looking at our quality
[1:13:19] of life crimes. Our theft reports are down. Our petty thefts are down 25% our commercial
[1:13:26] burgers are down 50%. Moving on to the second half of the stats. Residential burger we
[1:13:35] see an increase of 25% but we're looking at scale here. We only had four total in 2025 and
[1:13:41] so far in 2026 with had five so that does constitute an actual raise in that step. But again
[1:13:48] And most of everything else is down.
[1:13:50] Our auto batteries are down by 45%.
[1:13:53] Our vehicle thefts are down 14%.
[1:13:56] And as you may recall from my previous presentations,
[1:14:00] I equate a lot of what happens in the city to vehicle thefts.
[1:14:03] If vehicle thefts are down,
[1:14:05] generally speaking, all other property crimes are trending down as well.
[1:14:09] And that has worked out to be true this time as well.
[1:14:14] Our property damage traffic collisions are down by 7%.
[1:14:17] our injury collisions are down by 42% and luckily we have had no we had no
[1:14:24] fatals in the first half of 2026. I'm going to start tracking two new stats
[1:14:29] for moving forward and that's we are hit and run both of the misdemeanor level and
[1:14:34] at the felony level a hit and run property damage only is considered a misdemeanor
[1:14:39] a hit and run involving an injury is considered a felony in the first half of
[1:14:44] this year we we've had 39 misdemeanor hit and runs and we had 28 versus 27
[1:14:52] DUI arrests between the two years 15 of our 28 DUI's this year were the
[1:14:58] result of the
[1:15:00] In Toxicated Driver actually colliding or crashing into something.
[1:15:07] So about domestic violence, statistically, this stat has been the same for many years now, 33% of women and 27% of men will experience some form of domestic violence in their lifetime. Domestic violence is a closed door crime. We are adding more and more closed doors to our community. We're adding those closed doors in many different fashions. We're adding those
[1:15:32] closed doors and high density settings and we're adding those closed doors and single
[1:15:37] family residents. But the bottom line on that is the more closed doors that you add,
[1:15:41] the more this type of crime is going to occur. Wish we could change that and there are tools
[1:15:46] that we can push up to the community to try to change that. But typically at 2 o'clock
[1:15:52] in the morning behind a closed door, the site of a police car on Main Street is not going
[1:15:56] to have too much influence on that. We believe that the best tools against domestic
[1:16:01] violence are enforcement, our officers do vigorously enforce the law when they do respond
[1:16:08] to domestic violence incident, and that'll, you'll see a slide on that pretty quick.
[1:16:13] We believe that collaboration between law enforcement, courts, and advocacy groups and
[1:16:19] victims is key.
[1:16:21] We believe that good documentation of these cases is very important to best serve the victim in
[1:16:27] that current case, as well as cases moving forward.
[1:16:29] And we believe in providing the victim and the community as a whole with education and empowerment.
[1:16:39] So of our 62 cases, we had 13 families, a felony domestic violence case would be a situation
[1:16:47] where the victim received a greater injury, a significant injury.
[1:16:53] We had 49 misdemeanor cases that could be equated to a injury that is not quite as great.
[1:17:00] And of the 62 cases, we made arrests in 81% of all those cases.
[1:17:11] Domestic violence can best be described as physical assault, emotional abuse, threats are stalking, economic control, sexual abuse, or mental intimidation.
[1:17:21] I've highlighted physical assault and red because that is primarily what the Oakley Police Department responds to of all those categories up there.
[1:17:28] are the overwhelming majority of the reports that we take as it relates to domestic violence
[1:17:34] is because of physical assaults.
[1:17:39] And this is the same information that I showed you in the community last year, and if it
[1:17:44] would, if you think it would serve the community best, we can push this out again on social media.
[1:17:50] These are a resource contacts for victims of domestic violence.
[1:17:55] We work closely with the Family Justice Center.
[1:17:58] We work closely with the Contra Costa County Victim Witness Assistance Program, and we work
[1:18:03] with stand-and-community violence solutions.
[1:18:11] Another theme that developed midway through this year is DUI enforcement.
[1:18:16] And to answer some of that theme, we have engaged in several Office of Traffic Safety grants,
[1:18:22] and because of those grants, we have been able to engage in several DUI operations where
[1:18:30] we are holding checkpoints or we are on active patrol seeking out impaired drivers.
[1:18:38] Statistically, DUI represents a huge threat to all of us. 33 people are killed each day
[1:18:44] in America on average, and 943 people are injured every day because of impaired drivers.
[1:18:51] Our community and our Bay areas no different than the rest of America. These impaired drivers
[1:18:56] are all over our roadways.
[1:19:01] Last year, for 2025, Officer Freddie Williams was our DUI
[1:19:05] arrest leader. He had 26. Because of that fact, he was awarded an award by the mothers
[1:19:13] against drunk driving. So two months ago, myself and Lieutenant Collier, we accompanied Officer
[1:19:19] Williams to the ceremony. And I'd never been to one before, so it was very impactful to
[1:19:26] me to see what all went on, several officers received awards, of all the officers that received
[1:19:33] awards. It was a mind-boggling number, almost 10,000, those officers represented almost
[1:19:40] 10,000 DUI arrests, only in the Bay Area, and a very small number of officers were getting
[1:19:48] awards, so it's a huge problem. I remember on May 5th of 2024 hearing the news that Antoinette
[1:19:59] for now.
[1:20:00] Because she was a dispatcher for Alameda County. And I remember that she was going to work, she was working overtime shift on that day. I knew just because the fact pattern of the news broadcast, I knew that her own co workers were dealing with with her passing her accident. The deputy sheriff's that she would dispatched to these types of calls were handling her fatal crash. I remember thinking how impactful that must have been on everybody. What I didn't anticipate by going to the mad
[1:20:29] had award event this year was I didn't expect to come face to face with her mother, her mother was the keynote speaker so you know you for everybody in the audience you got to hear how how great of an impact the loss of this person means to her family and her community and it was more it made it more impactful on Lieutenant Collier and I on the way home from on the way back to Oakley from that event.
[1:20:53] We discuss ways to motivate and educate and empower our officers to get more vigorous with the UI enforcement.
[1:21:01] And so that's going to be a theme as we move forward into the holiday months.
[1:21:09] When we talk about staffing,
[1:21:12] administration or fully staffed, we have all of our sergeants in place.
[1:21:16] Our investigations unit is fully staffed.
[1:21:19] Our special services officers are fully staffed with two.
[1:21:22] Our school resource officers are fully staffed at two.
[1:21:25] I have two out of three traffic officers staffed up and I have 15 out of 21
[1:21:32] patrol officers currently staffed. Now, we do have full patrol teams. We have a
[1:21:37] sergeant and three officers on each patrol team right now, but this is a decision
[1:21:43] that we made several months ago that we would make an effort to move our
[1:21:49] patrol teams to four across the board. So that created more openings in the
[1:21:54] patrol division. So that's why there's a little bit of a disparity there. And as of today,
[1:22:01] we now have two officers in field training. We just hired a new officer today. And we have
[1:22:06] 37 of our lauded 42 slots filled today.
[1:22:15] You know, we're always actively looking for lateral
[1:22:18] officers to hire. We have to kind of go by the scheduling of the basic police academy to determine
[1:22:25] and when we can engage in the entry-level officers.
[1:22:28] Most of our officers are lateral officers,
[1:22:31] meaning they came to us from other agencies.
[1:22:34] Only two of our officers are basic academy entry-level officers.
[1:22:40] But as of tomorrow, we're interviewing more candidates.
[1:22:44] We interviewed two more candidates
[1:22:45] tomorrow at the lateral position.
[1:22:52] So in full transparency, one of our officers did leave us
[1:22:56] to go to a larger agency two months ago.
[1:22:57] And we have another officer who is currently in the background in a hiring process with
[1:23:02] another larger agency.
[1:23:04] While not good news for us, it's a common in the industry and I just have to remind
[1:23:11] us all that this is how we received the bulk of our officers, officers looking for homes.
[1:23:18] There are reasons why the officer left two months ago and it had nothing to do with us as an
[1:23:25] agency.
[1:23:25] he left for family reasons and we respect that.
[1:23:29] However, if he did decide to reapply,
[1:23:31] I would gladly take him back.
[1:23:32] I de-missed the guy.
[1:23:35] So counting the officer who did leave
[1:23:38] and the officer went to spate leaving
[1:23:39] and two lateral officers we expect to receive fairly soon,
[1:23:44] we will be at 38 positions filled out of 42
[1:23:49] allotted, which is to say a 90% staffing rate.
[1:23:55] And one other positive thing that happened for us in the first half of this year is we became a 10-year,
[1:24:03] we celebrated a decade of being a police department.
[1:24:06] We opened our doors with 32, I'm sorry, 28 total officers from chief down to the most junior person,
[1:24:16] yeah, on May 6th of 2016.
[1:24:19] And now, because of all the efforts that we're making,
[1:24:21] We're talking about trying to fill a department of 42, so we have certainly grown.
[1:24:28] And with that, my presentation is complete, but I am open for any kind of questions or feedback.
[1:24:36] Questions for the Chief?
[1:24:40] Council Member Williams.
[1:24:42] It might not just be for the Chief, it might be just a general, because I know you've been trying to make that domestic violence stat go down.
[1:24:51] Um, maybe we could invite one of those organizations to come down for.
[1:25:00] You know, the audience isn't always packed with people, but hopefully through all of our channels, we could get people to pay attention. So, I don't know if we just have them come give a presentation to us at a council meeting or maybe we can, you know, talk about doing something like what we did for the fentanyl awareness, but just something to get a little bit more information. I think just from going to some of the stand events and things, a lot of times it's hard to get the information out because people just don't think
[1:25:29] that doesn't happen here and so they may not be getting the resources no matter what it is that we're doing so I don't know if we can consider that.
[1:25:38] I think any amount of awareness is good so I would support that and our detectives and we have good contacts at each of these advocacy groups so that's a very good idea.
[1:25:51] And you said something which made me think of something as you're talking, you know, we
[1:25:56] find that people, they don't really want to come.
[1:25:59] They don't really want to accept the help or whatever might be going on.
[1:26:02] It's because domestic violence is closely tied to co-dependency with the people that are
[1:26:06] involved.
[1:26:08] And unfortunately, so many of these things do occur behind these closed doors that I talk
[1:26:13] about that even the next door neighbors always don't always know what's going on to actually
[1:26:17] kind of step in and help them out as well.
[1:26:19] So any amount of awareness would be, would be good.
[1:26:22] Thank you for that idea.
[1:26:23] Vice-Hermettos.
[1:26:26] You kind of mentioned it in the presentation about it,
[1:26:28] but I mean, pushing information out through our social media.
[1:26:34] Yeah, I know that he did that.
[1:26:36] They did a lot of that last year
[1:26:38] because we were getting a lot of questions to about it.
[1:26:40] So yeah, I mean, I think all the things we can do,
[1:26:42] for sure, just like how you're saying,
[1:26:44] you're all gonna step up like the DUI enforcement, right?
[1:26:47] I think when it's presented to people, maybe they can see and know that there's some options out there.
[1:26:55] So I would just ask, and I don't need an answer, but how many people felt impacted by now knowing the fact that 33 people are killed every day on our roadways and 943 people are injured on our roadways because of DUI, that to me that's impactful, that makes me think about my personal travel routes.
[1:27:14] you know so to that point if we did push our information on domestic violence it may resonate
[1:27:19] with people that it wasn't resonating with the forum. And you know you said we did last
[1:27:24] year but I think it's something that just needs to be on a rotational basis every so many months and
[1:27:34] not that I run the social media said.
[1:27:39] Thank you Chief. Thank you.
[1:27:46] We'll now hear from Lieutenant
[1:27:54] Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council, tonight I will be doing a recap of our July Fireworks
[1:28:00] operation figured
[1:28:10] it out all right so our July Fireworks operation we did have a
[1:28:14] three-night operation we had it July 2 through July 4 and this year July 4 fell
[1:28:19] on a Saturday so to prepare for that we did the the two days leading up to it
[1:28:24] what we ended up doing for this operations where we had a layer deployment of
[1:28:28] managers, sergeants, uniform personnel, unmarked units,
[1:28:33] and our drone teams.
[1:28:35] And this was spearheaded by our special services sergeant,
[1:28:39] Sergeant Sores, and his team as well.
[1:28:42] So we all get into it just a little bit,
[1:28:43] but we did embed code enforcement personnel
[1:28:46] with our drone teams, which had a significant impact.
[1:28:51] So our goals this year were to deploy these drone teams,
[1:28:55] and then these uniformed and plain closed personnel
[1:28:57] during a designated time period.
[1:28:58] generally it was later in the evening when fireworks are more prominent. Their objective
[1:29:03] was to locate, observe, record, and document the illegal fireworks violations, and then
[1:29:09] through recordings preserve the evidence so we can issue administrative citations. And
[1:29:15] then also when we have these number of officers, they need to maintain readiness to respond
[1:29:20] to any fireworks related events such as fires or large gatherings that just inherently come
[1:29:26] with a holiday type environment.
[1:29:31] So our enforcement strategy was kind of touching on a little bit, but it was to document the
[1:29:34] violations at the time that they were occurring rather than going and making immediate contact
[1:29:39] and trying to issue a citation right there in the field.
[1:29:43] Sub-schooling, we would issue an administrative citation after the facts once we collected
[1:29:47] all the evidence and reports that were needed.
[1:29:50] And for us, this really does limit the contact with law enforcement personnel with people that
[1:29:55] better in a holiday type setting.
[1:30:00] So it's actually dangerous interactions that can sometimes present themselves in that type of environment.
[1:30:07] So some of the prevent mitigation efforts that we did was signage was posted throughout the city. Social media was utilized to educate the public about the dangers and our enforcement approach here in the city of Oakley. We communicated with our partners throughout our area to include the contra cost of fire protection district. And then we specifically had our drone team training
[1:30:31] for firework related events prior to this operation.
[1:30:35] And I would like to, a special thank you to Sergeant Foreman.
[1:30:39] Over the last few years, he's really spearheaded our drone team.
[1:30:42] And then he will specifically look at what events are coming up and
[1:30:46] then guide his training to get his team ready for that type of specific environment.
[1:30:51] Whether it's gonna be daytime, nighttime or
[1:30:53] all the special features that the drones might have, such as thermal imaging and stuff like that.
[1:30:58] So he's done a really good job putting our team together.
[1:31:00] So
[1:31:04] a significant change this year is we partnered with our co-enforcement team.
[1:31:09] So by bringing them in, they're able to provide us some guidance and feedback on administrative
[1:31:13] citations, which we commonly don't interact with.
[1:31:17] And they're an experience with those administrative citations and the ordinance violations.
[1:31:21] They're really to streamline the process from when we observed a violation to how quick
[1:31:25] we get a citation out to the violators.
[1:31:28] And then this obviously allowed our officers to stay active within the streets, focus on the calls for service that were out there, and it really just made for a more clear precise objectives for each one of the elements that we included in the operation.
[1:31:46] So just a little way to present that to you guys is we essentially had two direct routes to issue a citation.
[1:31:53] One was our drone teams, which can observe a violation through the drone, and the way
[1:31:59] that's set up is we had our drone operator and our code enforcement officer, and the
[1:32:04] drone operator was able to have a video live video footage feed to a monitor in front
[1:32:10] of the code enforcement officer so they can watch along to what they're observing.
[1:32:14] So, when it was observed, code enforcement officer could immediately find the location.
[1:32:19] We could provide them the drone footage when we completed it, and then they can go and
[1:32:25] issue the citation immediately to that violator.
[1:32:28] Now, on the other side of things, we can have officers in the field, which we did.
[1:32:31] Those officers trying to go to the locations, but they would have to observe the violation.
[1:32:36] They would then have to try to get a recording with their body camera footage.
[1:32:40] After that, they'd have to go back, write a report, upload the video footage, and
[1:32:44] And then, we'd have to collectively get all that together, then provide it to the
[1:32:47] co-enforcement officers, the issue to citations.
[1:32:49] So, just a little bit more cumbersome, and it wasn't as smooth or efficient.
[1:32:56] So, and just speaking on top of that, I do want to say thank you to Ashley and Ralph,
[1:33:02] who really did help us with that.
[1:33:04] They educated me a lot through this, and hopefully, if we continue this partnership
[1:33:07] in the future, which I believe we will, it will just make the operation even better next
[1:33:11] year.
[1:33:13] So, as I said, our operation went from July 2nd through July 4th.
[1:33:16] I was here every night with our teams.
[1:33:19] July 2nd, we started off with like a little pilot program.
[1:33:21] It was a smaller staff team, but we went up to the summer lake community.
[1:33:25] It gave us a real good opportunity to fly the drone, try it in different lighting settings,
[1:33:30] see how far it can go, how far we can observe a violator.
[1:33:33] But in all honesty, the city remained very quiet that night from our perspective.
[1:33:38] Very little fireworks, but it did just provide a great training opportunity for us to really
[1:33:42] practice with the code enforcement team.
[1:33:45] July 3rd we decided to deploy the drone from the top of City Hall. There's a really good
[1:33:52] location for us to get to different areas throughout the central area of Oakley but
[1:33:57] once again very few fireworks so commend our community for doing that they're following
[1:34:03] what we request that they do but we did practice a lot more and still got ready for the
[1:34:08] lead up to July 4th.
[1:34:09] And also on July 4th, we once again launched from City Hall
[1:34:14] because it seemed like a really good central location.
[1:34:17] And as you guys know, we did have a lot of fireworks
[1:34:19] throughout the city.
[1:34:20] It was an active night in our city and the surrounding cities,
[1:34:24] which we can observe from up top here.
[1:34:26] But from the drone team in the ground units,
[1:34:28] so we were effective.
[1:34:30] We did take action throughout the night.
[1:34:33] So because the first two nights were quiet,
[1:34:35] no citation issued.
[1:34:36] But on July 4th, we did issue 21 citations.
[1:34:40] Twelve of those citations came from our drone base teams
[1:34:44] and nine came from the officers who were actively in the street.
[1:34:49] And just speak a little bit more on that from the drones.
[1:34:53] All we had to do was capture video.
[1:34:55] We can jot down the address.
[1:35:00] We can use that as evidence. From the officers, they did have a couple methods of deployment, but it's so difficult in the middle of a party environment for officers to drive down the street without being noticed, or without being crowds on the road for us to isolate individuals to a property.
[1:35:18] In this to expand on a little bit, we did have 21 citations, 75 fireworks calls, which is increased from 71 of last year. 4 reported fire calls, no damage to, made the damage any property, anything.
[1:35:31] Our officers did respond, but the fires were put out quickly.
[1:35:34] No injuries, and we did have one arrest for the operation.
[1:35:38] That was July 4th, the very beginning of the operation, where we had officers out being visible in the community.
[1:35:46] And during a traffic stop, we made a arrest for somebody for possessing a firearm.
[1:35:54] So we get the personnel cost, 160 total hours.
[1:35:58] That included the managers, sergeants, officers,
[1:36:04] and
[1:36:04] six of them were overtime, but we didn't mitigate some of it because like a special service
[1:36:09] system, we're able to absorb some of it through their regular shifts and their regular hours.
[1:36:15] And then before I move on to our recommendations, I did want to provide you guys with a visual of
[1:36:20] how effective these drones were for us. So since the management or city managers gonna pull it up
[1:36:27] for me here.
[1:36:31] So I just want to see you guys, you guys see how effective it is. So this is our large
[1:36:34] drone. This is what we had up above City Hall. So this drone has multiple lenses and
[1:36:41] it records from each one of those cameras. So this is just an overall camera. But we
[1:36:46] don't know is when we go to some of the other videos. You'll see that in real time how
[1:36:52] well this drone can zoom in and assist us in finding violators of fireworks.
[1:37:08] Here you're
[1:37:10] From the same time frame, just a different lens.
[1:37:14] For us, a few seconds, you can see we can tell when fireworks go up
[1:37:19] because they're a white hot.
[1:37:21] There are different images that can be, it can be changed to.
[1:37:26] So we could also see like a hot red image
[1:37:30] for when the fireworks go up.
[1:37:32] But we also utilize it if we're trying to locate somebody.
[1:37:43] So it just, it just stands out when we're sitting there watching it.
[1:37:46] And so, from the same feed as our next video,
[1:37:56] so this is the same occurrence, same court,
[1:37:59] same drone, but it gives us this capability with these different lenses to monitor and
[1:38:06] capture individuals that are setting off fireworks.
[1:38:37] So that was our main drone, the last few videos you saw, and it just shows the effectiveness
[1:38:41] because from a good distance, we can zoom in and we can see that violation and we can move
[1:38:48] on to the next without having to fly directly overhead. This flight time does take a little
[1:38:52] bit to catch individuals setting off the fireworks. We'll go to the next video.
[1:39:02] So this next
[1:39:02] thing just kind of rounds out some of our capabilities with our smaller drones. This one was deployed
[1:39:06] from a troll vehicle who is responding to the report of fireworks. These drones are really
[1:39:14] good in the field because officers can be driving around immediately to deploy them. They don't
[1:39:18] have the range, they don't have the battery time or flight time, but still for us when
[1:39:22] we're trying to issue citations and gather evidence, it's really nice for them to have
[1:39:26] access to them inside their vehicles.
[1:39:32] And if we go to the next video, please.
[1:39:36] In this final video here, I'm just going to show you this is a deployment from the vehicle
[1:39:41] and how fast they can get over and try to find where the fireworks are being set off.
[1:40:35] So I just wanted you guys to see that to see how effective these drones have been for us, especially when it comes to these type of operations. It's really benefited us, so we don't have to try to get troll officers directly in the area at first. We can try to capture evidence on video and eliminate some of those confrontations that might happen in the field.
[1:40:56] So some of my recommendations after performing this operation will be to expand our enforcement capabilities with a drone. One of our more enhanced versions, which has extended
[1:41:06] a battery greater range and obviously the video is crucially important for us when we're
[1:41:12] doing this. I would like to recommend evaluating an escalating fine structure for repeat
[1:41:18] violations for the locations or the violators. And then without question, I would ask that
[1:41:25] our co-enforcement partnership continues because they really did streamline the process
[1:41:29] and made it much more efficient for us. And then as always, we should review the future
[1:41:34] understaffing needs and location based deployments.
[1:41:37] So with that, thank you guys, any questions?
[1:41:42] Any questions?
[1:41:45] Thank you very much, great report.
[1:41:47] Thank you.
[1:41:51] We'll move to 7.2, city council,
[1:41:56] or city council acting and successor agent reports.
[1:42:04] Council member Shaw.
[1:42:06] Since our last meeting, I attended a Cal City's East Bay Division
[1:42:10] board legislative day in Sacramento, where we got to meet with senators and assembly members to talk about
[1:42:18] local control and things that are affecting the cities and then I had a Josh Hartter day
[1:42:25] We did the staff appreciation lunch at freedom hosted by Rotary
[1:42:28] But always great to partner with all of the organizations that serve the same
[1:42:33] Residents that we do on the 19th. I went to hot August nights at Studio 55 and
[1:42:38] And later that afternoon, Oakley Optometry Ribbon Cutting.
[1:42:41] I have my new glasses on today.
[1:42:45] And then on the 20th of Cal City's East Bay Board Zoom,
[1:42:50] attended the special meeting for the Oakley City Council
[1:42:52] on the 20th, the 25th virtually attended
[1:42:55] the Contra Costa Fire District meeting
[1:42:58] regarding fire stations out here in East County.
[1:43:01] So I would advise all residents to pay attention
[1:43:03] to what's going on with that.
[1:43:05] The 26th tried out a transit board meeting.
[1:43:07] Council Member Williams will have some wonderful notes.
[1:43:10] The 27th Delta Association of Relators elected reception and then ran over here to be a
[1:43:16] part of the Freedom Homecoming Parade in Rally.
[1:43:18] And let me tell you if you guys missed it.
[1:43:20] It was huge and amazing and I hope we can continue that partnership on the 28th, the elected
[1:43:25] women's luncheon.
[1:43:27] And then that night Freedom Homecoming game where we volunteered at the concession stand
[1:43:30] again with rotary.
[1:43:31] The first, the library subcommittee meeting, all things library are moving forward.
[1:43:37] So, very excited to finally get that going.
[1:43:41] And then on the fourth, the favelora wine tasting room ribbon cutting.
[1:43:45] And this afternoon, a swear in for our newest officer.
[1:43:49] I did receive a call that I have been nominated to serve another year on the East Bay Division Board for California League of Cities.
[1:43:56] And I also received a call last week from the incoming president of California League of Cities.
[1:44:01] And I've been selected to serve as vice chair of this year's Public Safety Policy Committee.
[1:44:07] And that is all.
[1:44:10] I also remember Williams.
[1:44:16] All right.
[1:44:16] Aaron wants me to take up some time.
[1:44:19] I attended coffee with the principal of Freedom.
[1:44:22] He did provide really interesting data regarding fights on campus, GPA goals, enrollment numbers,
[1:44:29] state testing, outcomes, and goals.
[1:44:31] And he was also highlighting the partnership and what a good partnership he has with the
[1:44:37] So I don't think he was just saying that because I was there, but maybe he was.
[1:44:41] I went to Studio 55, Paul August Nights, the ribbon cutting for Oakley Optometry.
[1:44:48] All right, try Delta Transit. So we had a discussion of SB 63 as always
[1:44:53] and a review of the expenditure plan. Try Delta will receive if that passes.
[1:45:00] That are returned to source funds, which will be distributed through CCTA. The funds will be spent 60% going towards fast reliable service, 40% going towards safer, easier, and more convenient travel. So basically not just status quo. So that was interesting. We also talked about youth ride free. And what the outcome of that was, that's the program for youth ages 60-18. There was fair about
[1:45:29] box tracking only to see how many people were using it.
[1:45:33] This past year or summer, it was 31,614 rides, which is up 61% from even the previous year.
[1:45:40] So obviously that's a very important prop.
[1:45:43] Program we run, Measure J Renewal Info, 97% of the project's programs that were
[1:45:50] decided in 2004 when Measure J was approved have been completed.
[1:45:54] there will likely be a ballot measure for the renewal in 2028.
[1:46:00] We did have a presentation on SB 707 as it pertains to our board,
[1:46:05] but not quite as lengthy as here.
[1:46:09] So I also attended a webinar for Prop 4, Parks Funding
[1:46:13] to see how we could get a competitive grant.
[1:46:17] I was originally intending it for the 55-acre park.
[1:46:20] There is some opportunities for our second phase of the REC Center, potentially the Community Center portion of the library.
[1:46:29] But new parks do get higher scoring, so that's something to keep in mind.
[1:46:34] And they also said that agencies can submit multiple parks for grants, but each grant application can only focus on one park.
[1:46:42] It did seem like a heavy lift, but still an interesting presentation.
[1:46:45] and Freedom's Homecoming Parade, amazing.
[1:46:48] The participation and peer joy from the students
[1:46:51] and the community was amazing.
[1:46:53] I also attended the mayor's conference in Maraga
[1:46:56] as the chair.
[1:46:57] We had a presentation from St. Mary's College.
[1:47:00] Enrollment is up 18% over last year,
[1:47:03] and international students are up three times
[1:47:06] what it has been.
[1:47:07] They did start a new nursing program,
[1:47:09] which is very important for California
[1:47:11] and particularly out here is we have a lot of students
[1:47:14] who would like to become nurses and we currently have a nursing shortage of 40,000 nurses.
[1:47:20] St. Mary's does have internships and policemen's included. They just added an entire swim program,
[1:47:27] water pool, and swim to their athletics program. And he wanted to point out that the
[1:47:33] Stanford study noted that the new economic development corridor will be from the East Beta Sacramento
[1:47:38] and St. Mary's would happily partner with all of our cities to create economic development opportunities.
[1:47:44] and that's it.
[1:47:47] Nice for a minute.
[1:47:49] I also attended the mayor's conference,
[1:47:51] and that was a great presentation by,
[1:47:56] no, by the president of college I want to.
[1:48:05] I was at the lunch, the rotary lunch at Freedom for a while.
[1:48:10] Since the last meeting, I've also attended
[1:48:12] the planning committee meeting, CCTA,
[1:48:15] I had a transplant meeting, I had an MCE meeting.
[1:48:19] I was at swearing in today for our newest officer.
[1:48:24] Is it the ribbon cutting for Fablora wine tasting, which looks great, and
[1:48:30] Julie Delbarber did a great job of remodeling the Women's Club.
[1:48:38] I attended a CCTA TEP meeting, discussing the future transportation expenditure plan.
[1:48:47] Today, I met with Rashidi Barnes from Tried Delta Transit and Bill Churchill from County Connection
[1:48:55] Really talking about transportation and and then
[1:48:59] Starting to get into the expenditure plan that councilmember Williams mentioned potentially being on that
[1:49:07] 28-ballet I
[1:49:10] Attended Delta Association real-ter's
[1:49:12] local government, that working event, whatever we call it.
[1:49:22] And then attended the Freedom Homecoming Parade,
[1:49:25] which was a great event.
[1:49:31] Since our last meeting, attended our now sanitation district,
[1:49:37] studio 55s, hot August nights, Friday night bites,
[1:49:41] the homecoming parade, and like everybody said,
[1:49:44] that was a home run and mayor's conference.
[1:49:47] We'll move to the 7.2 point B, request for future agenda items,
[1:49:55] council member.
[1:50:00] And that we just got, I don't know if this needs to be a future agenda item, but can we discuss some of the recommendations from our police department?
[1:50:12] I think I need a second. Yeah, for what recommendations for fireworks or something? Yeah, sorry, the recommendations that Lieutenant Morris gave us for fireworks follow-up stuff. If we need to bring it back, I'll second it.
[1:50:29] With that item eight work sessions, we have an item nine closed session. We have one closed session item 9.1, conference with legal counsel and
[1:50:41] participate in litigation, initiate litigation,
[1:50:45] pursuant to paragraph four, subsection D, section 54, 95, 56.9, one potential case.
[1:50:54] We will adjourn the meeting and after close session.
[1:50:59] So thank you, everybody.