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[1:22] Good
[1:28] evening, I'm going to like to call the City Council meeting for October 1, 2024, to order, and Madam Clerk, roll call, and post it in the agenda.
[1:39] Council member Porello. Council member Taran. Here. Council member Venezuela. Not here. Mayor, pertinent, McDonald. Mayor Saragosak. Here. We have a quorum. Posting of the agenda, the agenda for this meeting was posted in the City Hall, bulletin board.
[1:58] on September 19th, 2024. We also have an announcement.
[2:03] Pursuant to government code section 54952.3, each member of the House and Board of Commissioners
[2:10] present will receive $50 pay for convening this meeting. Thank you.
[2:16] Thank you. Item B as public comments and close sign-up.
[2:19] A close agenda items.
[2:22] Mayor, we do not have any speakers for close session in person or virtually. Thank you.
[2:27] Thank you, so our next item is item seek a close session items and we'll go to our city
[2:32] chair.
[2:33] And we do have a council member, my judge.
[2:36] Further record, council member, my degree, that has joined the meeting at 502 p.m.
[2:42] Thank you.
[2:43] Okay, with close session, we'll go to city attorney.
[2:46] Thank you, Mayor.
[2:48] The city council will recess to close session, pursuant to government code section 54956.9
[2:55] subdivision D1 to confer with its attorneys. The matter being discussed is
[3:00] Ticert, Energy and Utility Group Incorporated versus City of Oxnard.
[3:06] Okay, thank you then. We're going to close session. We'll be back at 530 for
[3:10] appointment items.
[33:12] Okay. Thank you. We're back from close session. Mr. City Attorney, any reports out of close session?
[33:20] No mayor. There are no actions to report out of close session this evening.
[33:24] Thank you, Mr. City Attorney. Your next item is item D and item D is an appointment item.
[33:28] Excuse me, Mayor.
[33:30] Yes, ma'am.
[33:30] I'd like to announce for the record. Council Member Basura has joined the council meeting at 508 p.m.
[33:37] Council Member Madrigal has previously mentioned during the meeting at 502 p.m.
[33:43] And Council Member Valenzuela has joined the meeting as a 527 p.m.
[33:48] Thank you.
[33:49] Thank you.
[33:51] Okay.
[33:51] The next item is an appointment item.
[33:53] This is a City Mayor's Department, subject committee relations commission and report.
[33:58] Recommendation the City Council won receive and verbal and report from the committee
[34:04] commission, and to present a proclamation, this igniting the month of October 224 as multi-cultural
[34:11] festival month in the city of Okshard. We have Martha Giank who is going to introduce our speakers.
[34:22] Good evening, Mayor. Mayor Protan, members of the City Council, Mr. City Manager, City Attorney
[34:29] and Ashley R. Assistant, City Manager as well as our City Clerk, Rosa Poro.
[34:36] So, I am Martha Gian, staff support of the Community Relations Commission.
[34:43] They are here tonight to present a council,
[34:48] their annual report, so they have a few slides
[34:50] that they're going to be sharing with you tonight.
[34:54] And the purpose of the annual report is to give you an idea of the activities and communication
[35:03] that the community relations has interacted with the community.
[35:09] So before we start, I'm going to introduce Chair Stallion,
[35:14] who's going to be introducing the community relations committee.
[35:17] And Martha, before we leave after the presentation,
[35:19] the coming up for a proclamation.
[35:21] The proclamation, that's correct.
[35:22] All the commissioners.
[35:25] Chair Stallion, come on, excuse me.
[35:29] Welcome.
[35:29] Good evening.
[35:30] Thank you so much.
[35:34] Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tim, and City Council members, City Attorney, City Manager,
[35:42] City Clerk, did I miss anybody?
[35:45] I hope not, a sister city manager.
[35:49] I want to recognize everyone.
[35:51] Thank you so much.
[35:53] I am Helene Stallion.
[35:55] I am the chair of the Community Relations Commission.
[35:58] At this time, I would like to ask the commissioners to come up and just say hello and introduce themselves.
[36:10] Hello, Honorable Mayor and City Council.
[36:13] Thank you for having us along the long-term,
[36:16] a long time, Community Relations Commissioner,
[36:18] Tiffany Lopez.
[36:20] Thank you for having us tonight.
[36:22] I just personally wanted to thank Mayor Jon Saragosa
[36:26] for your, if you go over 40 or 50 years of service
[36:28] to the City of Boxner and I heard you retiring
[36:32] and you've been very supportive of this commission
[36:35] in the entire time.
[36:37] I've been a commissioner, and you've always attended
[36:39] our multi-cultural festival and support our commission.
[36:42] So thank you very, very much for your years of service.
[36:46] Very appreciate it.
[36:47] And it was 200 years, not 50 years.
[36:49] Thank you.
[36:52] Good evening, everyone.
[36:53] I just wanted to introduce myself.
[36:55] My name is Megan Sawless.
[36:56] I'm fairly new to the commission.
[36:58] So I have another pleasure of working directly with everyone,
[37:02] but I do look forward to the service that we'll do together.
[37:05] And just thank you everyone for your time.
[37:07] Thank you.
[37:10] Good evening, everyone. Mr. Mayor, council, city manager, assistant, city attorney, and city attorney, and our clerk, say, okay, there you go. All right, and police officers and everyone in the world. Hello.
[37:30] Promoted, actually, to a city attorney.
[37:31] Thank you.
[37:37] I don't know, I'm a private attorney, so I need help right now.
[37:44] My name is Cynthia Gonzalez, and I am a commissioner on the Community Relations Commission,
[37:49] and I've been on the commission for a couple of years now, and it is my pleasure to
[37:56] help our community and to work with all of you to make sure that, you know, things
[38:03] are running the way they're supposed to. So thank you for having us tonight. I appreciate
[38:06] you. Thank you and welcome. Thank you, commissioners. And I would like to
[38:17] commissioner the riot has arrived. Oh, welcome.
[38:22] Good evening, Mayor, city council. I
[38:24] Please clear it around and the Vice Chair of the Key of Community Relations Commission and I'm proud to serve.
[38:32] Welcome.
[38:34] And not able to be with us this evening is Commissioner Adam Lopez and he sends his regards.
[38:41] Thank you.
[38:42] There we go.
[38:44] Okay.
[38:45] At this time, I would like to present to you our Community Relations Commission and your report.
[38:55] As you can see, we've already introduced ourselves, those are the commissioners.
[39:02] Did I say anything about me?
[39:04] I did not.
[39:06] My apologies.
[39:08] I am, as you know, Elaine Staging the chair and I've been on the commission for a very long time,
[39:12] since like 2016.
[39:14] And I love this commission.
[39:16] I love to win the service.
[39:19] Thank you.
[39:21] About the Community Relations Commission, the powers and the duties of the CRC are included
[39:26] in the Osnois City Code and define the focus area of the CRC, including analyze the fine
[39:35] and investigate community relations issues and these in the city and advise the City Council
[39:41] on matters involving group prejudices, racial tension, intolerance or differences in the treatment
[39:48] of favoritism of person, favoritism of persons, on a basis, other than individual merit.
[39:56] Deceminate information and educational materials in report that will assist in the elimination
[40:02] of practices involving group prejudices, racial tension and tolerance or differences in treatment
[40:09] or favoritism of persons, on a bias, other than individual merit.
[40:14] and endorse community events that improve community relations in the city and are consistent with the duties of the community relations commission.
[40:26] The CRC currently has six appointed commissioners with one vacancy and district four.
[40:35] The CRC regularly invites local organizations, city staff and other groups to showcase the work they do to further admission of the CRC.
[40:43] In 2024, the CRC has received the following presentations,
[40:51] special population programs in the city,
[40:53] recreation, fatherhood summit, presentation on programs to employ persons with mental disabilities,
[41:00] in the human resources, in the city, in that human resources, apologies.
[41:05] EMS course program and woman in fire initiative, the fire department, 2024 Cesar Chavez Memorial March.
[41:16] The county clerk recorder came to discuss the voting rights in underserved communities
[41:21] and develop a drone as first responders DFR plan for the city of Oxnard by the police department.
[41:29] And I must say that we were able to talk to each individual and ask questions and they were able to give us great information on each of these topics.
[41:45] The 26 annual multi-cultural festival October 7, 2023, the CRC has hosted an organized multi-cultural festival festival for the past 26 years at Plaza Park.
[41:58] The debt celebrates and recognizes and acknowledges all ethnicities, cultures and traditions around the world.
[42:06] It's a great opportunity to enjoy and embrace music, dance, food, arts, and more and more from different parts of the world.
[42:14] In 2023, the event was well supported by the community.
[42:19] And we're looking forward to this year's.
[42:22] The CRC invites all community members to attend the 27th and event on Saturday, October 5th at 10am at Plaza Park.
[42:36] The Community Recognition Awards.
[42:38] This is another great opportunity that the Community Relations Commission does.
[42:48] We recognize deserving individuals and groups that support the mission of the CRC.
[42:52] In 2024, the CRC selected the following individuals for these categories.
[42:59] Arnold, Young Quicks, Torres, Community Volunteer, Marvin Booz, Senior Volunteer,
[43:06] and Revolso Festival for the nonprofit organization community group.
[43:13] The 2024 award recipients will be recognized on October 5th
[43:18] during the multicultural festival opening ceremonies.
[43:23] to both of the missions of the CRC,
[43:27] commissioners attend various community events throughout the year.
[43:32] We collaborate, this collaboration from the education
[43:35] of CRC members on community interest and concerns.
[43:40] Some of these events is Dia Delino,
[43:44] the Insect Festival, Juneteenth,
[43:47] Martin Luther King Jr. today,
[43:49] immigration forms, community affairs,
[43:51] the sauce, the sauce festival, and the I-A-C-P banquet.
[43:59] That concludes the presentation.
[44:01] Thank you. Excellent presentation. You guys have done quite a bit of work, you know, for the community.
[44:06] We really commend you for that. This is so chair.
[44:10] Salient, if you want to bring your commissioners up here, have a proclamation.
[44:14] I'd like to share with you.
[44:15] Yes, sir. Thank you.
[45:08] Okay, we have a proclamation, October 2024, multicultural month, where the month of October is designated
[45:14] multicultural month in the city of auction, as part of the United Nations, a celebration to
[45:19] vote the world, where the representation of many cultures from around the world, with 20 languages
[45:25] being spoken in the city of auction, it's truly a diverse community. And where is the committee
[45:30] Commission will celebrate the 27th Annual Multicultural Festival to be held at Plaza
[45:36] Park, to embrace and celebrate the city's cultural diversity, who are said mission and
[45:41] the celebration of the celebration is free and will feature live entertainment, crafts,
[45:46] exhibits, international booths, kiss activities, and foods from a vast variety of cultures.
[45:52] The Multicultural provides an opportunity for the community to come together to learn more
[45:57] but cultures and appreciate the richness each culture and so
[46:01] community and to recognize a common humanity that links each
[46:05] culture to each other. Now, therefore, I, John C. Zagos,
[46:08] Mayor of City of Oxford, hereby proclaim October 24th,
[46:11] Multicultural Month. In the city of Oxford,
[46:14] encouraged all residents to come and discover and share
[46:16] celebrated diversity in the environment where education and
[46:20] fun and intertwined. In the 27th and Multicultural
[46:24] festival and Plaza Park in Austria student, Plaza Park October 5th, 2020 for this
[46:30] sign by the mayor today. And young dating, here we go.
[46:36] Well,
[46:40] thank you. Thank you to the community and on behalf of the community
[46:46] Relations Commission, what you can expect this year is an array of food
[46:52] And this is at the Multiculture Festival, right?
[46:56] Kids activities.
[46:58] We got song and dance.
[47:00] We got international booths.
[47:03] We have a fun family event
[47:07] that showcases the great diversity of this wonderful city
[47:11] of Oxnard, California.
[47:14] Thank you.
[47:16] Thank you.
[47:17] Thank you.
[47:18] Anybody else wants to share anything?
[47:20] No, yes.
[47:22] Put your hands together for this.
[47:23] Really?
[47:25] Really? Thank you so much for the...
[47:28] Thank you.
[47:28] And tell Mr. Adam Lopez that we miss him.
[47:32] And thank you again for all the good work that you do.
[47:35] Thank you so much.
[47:37] Thank you.
[47:38] Thank you.
[47:39] Thank you.
[47:40] What more hand and will it go?
[47:42] And Martha, you know what the most important thing in Martha works for me.
[47:47] Thank you, Martha. Thank you for the good work. Thank you.
[47:56] Thank you.
[47:57] Thank you. Thank you.
[47:59] Thank you.
[47:59] We'll see you then.
[48:17] What's part of the ceremony?
[48:21] Yep.
[48:24] Six o'clock.
[48:30] Thank you.
[48:31] Okay, we'll be back at six o'clock for the opening ceremonies.
[48:35] Thank you.
[1:01:54] We welcome ladies and gentlemen to item e on the agenda, we're back from the moment of recess, and this is the ceremony item, so we please help us insolent our flag of the United States of America.
[1:02:28] Excuse me, Mayor Saragosa?
[1:02:30] If I may please announce that Housing Authority Commissioner Jose Andrade is present in joining the meeting at 6pm.
[1:02:38] Thank you.
[1:02:39] And men and men also the Oscar mother,
[1:02:43] don't's going to be out for maybe an hour or so, he'll be back.
[1:02:47] Yes, he'll be taking you a break as a 545 p.m.
[1:02:50] Thank you.
[1:02:51] Thank you.
[1:02:52] So right now, we have a ceremony.
[1:02:54] Item, the next item is a presentation,
[1:02:56] proclamation.
[1:02:57] This is needed a month of October as first cancer month,
[1:03:00] and we have a Denise.
[1:03:03] More homes are assisted police chief come up
[1:03:08] with with a discord.
[1:03:18] Okay, let me put this over to one side.
[1:03:22] Chief,
[1:03:27] let me see,
[1:03:31] we have proclamation,
[1:03:32] breast cancer, we're in this month, October 2024.
[1:03:35] Of course, October is a national breast cancer, we're in this month.
[1:03:38] And we stand with a courage, courageous women, and men who are
[1:03:41] currently fighting this disease.
[1:03:44] And we honor those who have lost their lives or the battle
[1:03:47] to this terrible disease. And for us, we recognize that each year alone, an estimated
[1:03:52] two hundred and eighty-one thousand Americans across the nation will be diagnosed with
[1:03:57] breast cancer, and more than 43,000 will die from this terrible disease. The American Cancer Society
[1:04:03] is the major to be three thousand and seventy-three new breast cancers cases in California this year
[1:04:09] and estimated 4,730 will die. And also we encourage all residents to be proactive
[1:04:16] in the crusade against the deadly disease, including sick and advice, of healthcare providers
[1:04:22] in understanding the risk factors and importance of getting appropriate cancer screening tests
[1:04:27] and making life found changes that may reduce the possibility of breast cancer.
[1:04:33] For each detection followed by timely treatment upon diagnosis can significantly improve
[1:04:39] the pace and chance of survival. We find consolidation in understanding that survival rates
[1:04:45] drastically improve in recent years due to recent awareness and innovative
[1:04:49] advancements in early detection and treatment.
[1:04:53] First Yorkshire Police Department worked to help raise public awareness of the importance
[1:04:57] of early detection and also to raise funds for the fight against cancer by wearing and selling
[1:05:02] collective paint police.
[1:05:05] Where's it?
[1:05:06] Here we go.
[1:05:07] And fire patches.
[1:05:09] And nonprofit is dedicated to making positive differences in our lives, so those struggling with
[1:05:13] impact of implication of breast cancer in mid-tura County.
[1:05:17] Now, therefore, I John C. Zaragoza, Mayor of City of Oxford, proclaimed the month of October
[1:05:21] 2020 for the breast cancer of Wednesdays month.
[1:05:24] In the city of Oxford, I encourage all residents to think pink, think prevention, and think
[1:05:29] early detectives at this side by the mayor of the city of Oxford, and I had the pleasure
[1:05:34] going over to a Starbucks this morning too to help you guys, you know, and but a little
[1:05:38] pledge, you know, for awareness of, so, gee.
[1:05:45] Does that come from the words, women?
[1:05:46] Thank you, Mayor, Mayor, pretend members of council.
[1:05:49] As you mentioned, we do sell every year, patches,
[1:05:52] and especially design t-shirts.
[1:05:55] All the proceeds go to an organization
[1:05:56] that keeps the money in here in Ventura County
[1:05:59] supporting those who are survivors
[1:06:02] and are who are battling breast cancer
[1:06:04] and their families.
[1:06:05] And this organization is ribbons of life.
[1:06:08] Again, that money stays here in Ventura County since 2018, the police department has raised over $82,000 in this effort to support this cause, and we thank you very much for recognizing this month as breast cancer awareness month.
[1:06:22] Thank you, Chief.
[1:06:26] Okay.
[1:06:27] He's only the buddy garden.
[1:06:28] He's here with us today.
[1:06:29] But put your hands together again for the police chief.
[1:06:31] And everybody that today.
[1:06:33] Thank you, Chief.
[1:06:35] Thank you.
[1:06:36] Thank you.
[1:06:40] actually donate for cancer is really, really important.
[1:06:43] Thanks so much, Chief.
[1:06:44] Thank you.
[1:06:47] And thank you, it's a police department for the good work.
[1:07:04] Thank you, and now we go with a foreign department.
[1:07:07] We need the chief, Alex Hamilton, come right up.
[1:07:11] Do you have any other foreign fighters with you or, okay?
[1:07:18] You don't have a bodyguard?
[1:07:24] Thank you, Chief.
[1:07:25] Thank you so much.
[1:07:27] Okay, this is proclamation for our prevention week.
[1:07:30] October 6, 12, 2024, where the city of Oksharnas committed to ensuring the safety and security of those living and visiting in Oksharnas, where the fire is the service, service public safety concern, both locally and nationally, homes are located, where homes are located, where people are the greatest risk in the home from fire, from the sunfire, where home fires killed 2,000, so many people in the United States in 2022, according to the National Fire Protection.
[1:08:00] Association NMPA and Fire Department at the United States responded to 3,360,000 home fires and a lot of fires.
[1:08:10] Fire prevention we can establish a commemorate with a great Chicago fire, a tragic fire event that happened October
[1:08:17] Dr. Albert 9th in 1871 that killed and estimated 300 people, left 100,000 people homeless.
[1:08:25] They destroyed more than 17,000 for understructures and burned more than 2,000 acres.
[1:08:31] Which is a 24-fire prevention week theme.
[1:08:34] Smoke alarms make them work for you effectively.
[1:08:38] Services are a reminder of the importance of having working smoke detectors in your home.
[1:08:44] Whereas roughly three out of five deaths happen in the home with either no small detector or detectors not working.
[1:08:52] Whereas working alarms cut the risk of dying in the reported home fires almost in half.
[1:08:59] That's really significant.
[1:09:02] Who are spoke detector alarms alert to the danger and the event of fire in which you may have a load or a little less two minutes to escape to safety.
[1:09:11] For its residential, make sure that there's multi-tectors meet the needs of all of the family members,
[1:09:17] including those with sensory or fiscal disabilities, and test-boke detectors at least once a month.
[1:09:23] Therefore, I, John C. Zerroza, Mayor of City of Yorkshire, proclaim October 5, 2012 as fire prevention week in the City of Yorkshire,
[1:09:30] and it's all residents to install and test-boke detectors.
[1:09:34] Practice their home, fire escape plan, and support the many public safety activities efforts
[1:09:40] when the onshore and the forwarding permanent in British and service doing for our prevention week.
[1:09:45] Chief,
[1:09:47] Mayor, thank you, City Council members, thank you so much for this recognition and
[1:09:51] members of the public. In the last 12 months, fiscal year 2324, we had nearly 570
[1:10:02] structurifiers of which 110 of those were residential structurifiers. I'm very grateful to report that we
[1:10:08] We didn't lose any of our residents to a structure by death this year, but we did still
[1:10:12] had six significant injuries from those fires, and so as their proclamation says having
[1:10:22] a working smoke detector in your home reduces your risk of death by half, and so we recently
[1:10:28] received another grant to install smoke alarms in homes, so if you're not sure, or if you
[1:10:35] So you need a new smoke alarm, please reach out to the fire department, and we're looking
[1:10:40] forward to partnering again with the Red Cross on their sound alarm campaign.
[1:10:45] So more information to follow very shortly on that.
[1:10:48] We'll have our prevention folks out in force at a variety of community events through
[1:10:54] the month of October.
[1:10:55] Thank you again.
[1:10:57] Thank you.
[1:10:57] One of the things that I'm going to see here is that some of the smoke detectors don't
[1:11:02] have COVID-19.
[1:11:03] and covered mugsite is extremely important because of silent killing.
[1:11:08] Yes, so we will be the detectives, we will be storming, combination detectives, the battery
[1:11:14] actually lasts for 10 years, so it will protect you against boats, moke, and carbon monoxide.
[1:11:21] Thank you, she put your hands together again for the party appointment for other people.
[1:11:24] Thank you.
[1:11:37] And we call in this proclamation month.
[1:11:40] I think I have another proclamation.
[1:11:42] Domestic violence awareness, this is the me called
[1:11:45] Sergeant Dale McPain from the for-elect
[1:11:50] Shard Police Department.
[1:12:02] No, you.
[1:12:09] Thank you.
[1:12:11] Thank you.
[1:12:13] But, good for the message.
[1:12:17] Okay, the proclamation, Domestic Violence Awareness Month,
[1:12:19] October 2024.
[1:12:22] We're October, essentially, the Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
[1:12:25] And Domestic Violence is a crime, which affects all
[1:12:27] crisis, cultures, social and demographics in the hands of a profound impact on the families
[1:12:32] in the community, whereas children that grew up in a violent home are believed to be abused
[1:12:37] and neglected at a rate higher than the national average.
[1:12:41] We're only a coordinated community effort to put a stop to this atrocious crime.
[1:12:46] We're domestic violence awareness month provides an excellent opportunity for residents who learn more about
[1:12:50] preventing domestic violence and to show support for numerous organizations and individuals
[1:12:55] who provide critical advocacy services and assistance to the victims.
[1:13:01] We're the city of Augshire Police Department and community-based organizations are in
[1:13:05] position to provide education, information and services to assist victims in believing
[1:13:10] that they have the right to feel safe and to leave free from violence at home and at the
[1:13:15] workplace.
[1:13:16] Whereas we recognize the survivors and victims of abuse whose courage inspires all.
[1:13:21] We recommit to offering and helping hand to those most in need and to remind them that are not alone.
[1:13:29] That's really important that are not alone, which I think is really great.
[1:13:32] We always must continue to stand alongside advocates, victim service providers,
[1:13:36] law enforcement, and other criminal justice systems to hold offenders accountable
[1:13:41] to provide care and support to survivors during the darkest moments of their life.
[1:13:46] Of course, the City of Oxford Police Department urges all residents to take a stand against
[1:13:50] monthly violence by raising a wellness about the issue and the resources available to see
[1:13:56] for victims of sick escape to abuse.
[1:13:59] Whereas, we continue our efforts to end the violence in and homes in schools and communities.
[1:14:06] Now, therefore, agencies are going to go to the Mayor of the City of Markshire,
[1:14:09] do by proclaim October 2024's Domestic Violence Month in the City of Markshire
[1:14:14] and encourage all residents to participate in programs and not reach
[1:14:18] efforts towards educating supporting those victims of domestic violence.
[1:14:23] So who's, or, thank you.
[1:14:26] Thank you, Mayor.
[1:14:27] Members of the City Council.
[1:14:29] It's a mess of violence.
[1:14:29] It is an important awareness topic.
[1:14:32] I invite members of the public this year to wear a purple ribbon on their clothing or put
[1:14:37] a magnet on the side of their vehicle to bring awareness towards some of the mess of violence.
[1:14:42] Domestic violence is one of those crimes that not only affects the victim of the abuse, but
[1:14:46] also affects their family, their friends, the members of the community.
[1:14:50] I'm proud of the Oxford Police Department.
[1:14:51] We partner.
[1:14:52] I have brought a few of my detectives up here to help investigate those cases.
[1:14:56] We partner with community-based organizations like community, family harm.
[1:15:00] The Family Justice Center, the Bender County District Attorney's Office, and countless others.
[1:15:06] On Monday, October 21st, we'll be having our annual spectacular event. And at that event, we're going to have a domestic violence awareness booth.
[1:15:14] I invite everybody to come out with their family and seek information that we will be providing out at that booth. Thank you, Mayor.
[1:15:21] Thank you.
[1:15:22] Thank you.
[1:15:24] Anybody else?
[1:15:24] Sure.
[1:15:25] No.
[1:15:26] Thank you again.
[1:15:28] Here we go.
[1:15:32] Detective Danny Casio.
[1:15:36] Detective Juan Maravis.
[1:15:39] Sergeant Scatter.
[1:15:42] Thank you again.
[1:15:42] And please support a police department in domestic violence.
[1:15:45] It's really, really important.
[1:15:46] It happens.
[1:15:46] Believe it or not.
[1:15:48] Even in your own home from your own relative.
[1:15:50] So please.
[1:15:50] Please be careful.
[1:15:51] And thank you again for the good work.
[1:15:53] Thank you again.
[1:15:53] If you happen to put your hands together, thank you.
[1:15:57] Thank you.
[1:15:59] Thank you so much.
[1:16:13] We will pay our next proclamation as Indigenous people.
[1:16:17] We have Paura, who is a young lady, Paura.
[1:16:24] Mary, we want to bring your people up here.
[1:16:48] Before I read this proclamation, Mary wants to have a
[1:16:57] abused, etc., etc., moment of silence.
[1:17:15] Much.
[1:17:16] This is a proclamation.
[1:17:18] The Indigenous People Day October 14, 2024.
[1:17:21] With the City of Oxford recognizes Indigenous people have lived in this land for thousands
[1:17:26] of years and values of progress of our society as a complete through the contributed
[1:17:31] of Indigenous people and culture.
[1:17:33] Where the City of Oxford located into additional lands of the Shoeman's people,
[1:17:37] who have been stores of this land for over 13,000 years.
[1:17:41] And we're in the city of Oxford continues to be the home of both
[1:17:43] shoemets, communities, and indigenous migrants, community.
[1:17:49] And for us, we saw them recognize the brutal impacts
[1:17:52] and racial injustice that the indigenous people from the
[1:17:55] colonelism, assimilation, and genocide against indigenous people
[1:18:00] over 500 years ago. The city of Oxford recognizes the
[1:18:05] application to uplift and invest the future of indigenous people.
[1:18:09] Whereas the ideal, the idea of indigenous people day was first proposed in 1977, but the
[1:18:16] delegated and data nations in the United States, nation-excuse me, sponsored international
[1:18:21] conferences and discrimination gets indigenous populations in the Americas.
[1:18:25] Whereas the city of Arctic Ocean, which is to celebrate and honor indigenous people in a way
[1:18:30] the better reflects experience in the indigenous people, and whole in the steam, the root, history, and contributions.
[1:18:38] The city of action wishes to preserve and promote the history and culture of indigenous people.
[1:18:43] Now, therefore, agencies that are going to go to the middle of the city of Oxford do a good mind-complain.
[1:18:49] Proclaims, excuse me, October 14, 2024 is the indigenous people they, and encourage all to continue recognizing and appreciation and celebration
[1:18:57] of her goodwill, in friendship with the local indigenous people in her community, and this is
[1:19:02] a sign by their merit today.
[1:19:04] And Mary?
[1:19:06] Hakuas, koke ati kakti, maryan, alab kashwa, no no kaki, nalyu, I just want to say thank you
[1:19:12] to everybody.
[1:19:13] And we really wanted to take a moment of silence for the woman from the Marango tribe.
[1:19:19] About a week ago, who, feather alert was issued, and she's won't be returning home to her family.
[1:19:24] Also there is a current feather alert for another woman young woman and also yesterday orange t-shirt
[1:19:31] They also better known as National Day of Truth and Reconciliation for all the children from boarding schools under the mission system
[1:19:38] who never made it home
[1:19:50] I think it's really important to always remember the past and what's happened so that we don't report it
[1:19:57] repeated in the future. In part of that, I recently helped my parents move. I just thought this
[1:20:04] was really important, something that happened in our history. We were going through boxes and we kept
[1:20:08] finding boxes in different cards and notes and letters. And I said, who is this person? Why do we
[1:20:14] have these pictures of this man and his family? And it was actually Mayor Lopez. And my mom said,
[1:20:22] Now, before Niagara was a lot, he really helped us.
[1:20:26] He really helped us.
[1:20:27] He really helped us protect Oxnard in these areas,
[1:20:31] forsaken sites were, and it really warned my heart.
[1:20:34] It gives me the chills to know that people have been standing up
[1:20:38] and helping us before it was popular before it was a thing.
[1:20:42] So I have roots in Oxnard.
[1:20:51] Here's...
[1:20:51] Testine went to it.
[1:20:53] That's my girlfriend doesn't like me.
[1:20:54] Anyways, I just want to say thank you.
[1:20:56] And I am very touched and honored by some of the council members here that have spoke up about
[1:21:02] MMIW and other issues in our communities far and wide and everything that happens to indigenous people and other countries does affect us.
[1:21:10] And I really want to accept this on remembering their behalf as we move forward that this is a very trying time for everybody.
[1:21:17] Very stressful moving in with new elections. We don't know what's going to happen.
[1:21:21] And all we can do is really pray for our brothers and sisters, and hope that we can maintain our sovereignty, and maintain our mental health, so everybody wishing prayers for good health and happiness. Thank you.
[1:21:34] You wanted to do certain.
[1:21:36] Oh, thank you.
[1:21:38] Thank you.
[1:21:40] Okay, I'm the Gakti Shokwa Tassino.
[1:21:43] Hello, hello, my name is Robin Redwater.
[1:21:45] And I'm Marianne Parasardo.
[1:21:47] Daughter, and I'm grateful to be here for the third time in a row.
[1:21:53] Um, I'm telling.
[1:21:55] I'm her daughter.
[1:22:01] So what did you say?
[1:22:04] So he would say Haku Haku, Gakti, talent.
[1:22:10] So in interpretations, if we love our mayor in the city of Okshay.
[1:22:14] Put your hands together again for the business.
[1:22:16] Thank you so much.
[1:22:18] Thank you.
[1:22:19] Thank you.
[1:22:20] Thank you so much.
[1:23:12] Okay, well thank you so much. I was really great with this proclamation. Thank you for all the folks that came over today. And Mary, thank you so much for your words today too.
[1:23:22] Our next item is item G. This is item set in the agenda and I have a couple of speakers and I'd like to speak on this item.
[1:23:29] And we have three minutes we have a first on person that we signed up as Rano Rahu. He's our chair of the commission, Rano.
[1:23:38] You three minutes.
[1:23:41] Good evening.
[1:23:42] Mayor City Council members and the public.
[1:23:45] My name is Ronald Rwaho and I'm chair of the East Village neighborhood.
[1:23:49] I'm here on behalf of INCOs Oxnard 2024 Elections Candidate Forum to further publicize the remaining candidates for them to be held on October 2 tomorrow and next Wednesday on October 9.
[1:24:02] The next forum tomorrow on October 2 will be for Oxnard City Council District 3 and 4 and the following Wednesday on October 9 for District 6 and Mayer.
[1:24:13] We have three great forums yesterday evening for City Clerk, United Water Conservation District and Treasurer, and we look forward to more questions submitted by the public prior to the forums.
[1:24:24] we invite all to view the foreign slide in person via Zoom or after at your
[1:24:30] leisure on YouTube. Thank you all. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our next
[1:24:35] speaker is David Goodman. David, it's three minutes.
[1:24:43] Thank you. Good evening.
[1:24:43] My name is David Goodman. I am a resident of Oxford, I've lived here for over 60
[1:24:50] years. I'm also a retired police officer and that was going back 40 plus years serving in
[1:25:03] Ventura and in Port-Waynemi and in the county. The other day I was driving the El Ventura
[1:25:10] road and I saw something that was really troubling to me. So I'm here to lodge a very, very
[1:25:17] respectful and friendly complaint and I'm going to follow it up with a solution. I'm going to be
[1:25:22] I think it's important to complain but also have solutions. As driving down the road and I saw
[1:25:29] this guy, this guy here with not one, not two, not three, but seven shopping carts full of garbage.
[1:25:37] Well, one man's trash is another man's treasure. And it was he he was parked there for the majority of the
[1:25:44] And it really troubled me. I'm in a position in life now. My kids are gone. I have nothing
[1:25:50] holding me back. I could live anywhere in the world that I want to live. And I choose Oxnard.
[1:25:57] This can't stand. We don't want to be like Los Angeles. So I thought about this. I went back
[1:26:03] in the cobwebs in the back of my head and back to my young police officer days.
[1:26:08] I said, you know, we dealt with this in Portland, EME, they had us deal with this
[1:26:15] rather aggressively.
[1:26:16] And I went back and I found the sections of codes that we dealt with.
[1:26:22] In California Business and Professions Code 22435 makes it a misdemeanor to simply be in possession
[1:26:29] of a shopping cart while that cart is not located on the premises of the retail establishment.
[1:26:36] It's a misdemeanor.
[1:26:39] For the life of me, I don't know why our officers are not siding these guys.
[1:26:47] It's a good misdemeanor citation.
[1:26:50] It doesn't require a theft report or a prosecution by the business owner.
[1:26:56] I don't know why they're not siding them.
[1:26:58] Obviously the people, you know, are going to not show up in court on a large percentage of them.
[1:27:03] But then that turns into a warrant and gives the officers a tool to make life as a homeless person.
[1:27:09] And I'm talking about not about the widow with three kids that her husband left her with an empty checkbook.
[1:27:15] I'm talking about the people that want to live in a parallel society with no rules.
[1:27:22] And that's the group I'm talking about.
[1:27:25] It gives the police officers the opportunity to deal with it.
[1:27:28] Now what do we do with the shopping cart?
[1:27:29] Well, Oxford City Ordinance provides that the owner of shopping cart will be responsible for the cost of removal and storage of an abandoned shopping cart that's section 7-167.
[1:27:44] Mr. Governor, thank you so much. I know that our police chief of police and our code compliance people listen to your recommendation.
[1:27:53] Thank you. Thank you for listening to me.
[1:27:56] We have the tools. I hope we have the courage to deal with this.
[1:27:58] Thank you.
[1:27:59] Thank you.
[1:28:00] The next speaker is Steve Nash.
[1:28:11] Good evening.
[1:28:13] Council members.
[1:28:14] Mayor Protem.
[1:28:16] City manager and staff.
[1:28:18] I'm Steve Nash and I am running for the division for seat on the United
[1:28:23] Water Conservation District.
[1:28:26] And I want to tell you the neighborhoods that are within the boundaries of my division.
[1:28:34] That would be River Park, Del Rio West, Wagon Wheel, South Bank, Windsor North, Sierra
[1:28:43] Linda, Orchard Park, Rio Linda, East Village, West Village, Carriage Square,
[1:28:51] Fremont North, Fremont South, Wilson, La Colonia, Rose Park, and Five Points North East.
[1:29:00] So, last night we had a candidate for him.
[1:29:05] Inco put it on on one of the thank the executive committee and Ron Arrejo and Mr. Tim Ellison
[1:29:15] for moderating our section.
[1:29:18] I had a blast.
[1:29:20] I wish we could do that every night.
[1:29:22] Unfortunately, that is literally our last forum, the League of Women voters doesn't want anything
[1:29:28] to do with this for some reason. But to the neighbor who's I mentioned, if you want me to show
[1:29:34] up, I'm more than happy I'll probably show up uninvited anyway. Lots of things to talk about.
[1:29:41] So the thing that I want to talk about tonight is a board that is out of control. They have,
[1:29:49] if you saw the paper in the last few days, they gave their general manager a pay-pat, pay-and-benefit
[1:29:56] package worth $585,000.
[1:30:00] I've called that insane. I think it's insane. This is an agency that has about 6% of the staff of the city of
[1:30:09] Oxnard and about 7% of its budget. So it doesn't make any sense at all. I think that we have to find a way to get the city and united on the same page. We need to get a cost of service provided to us.
[1:30:29] that shows worth paying a reasonable rate
[1:30:33] and that we're not subsidizing agriculture.
[1:30:37] Now, I love agriculture, that's what makes Venture County great.
[1:30:42] But if the residents of Austin are wanting
[1:30:45] to subsidize agriculture, then that's to put it to a vote.
[1:30:51] There's also some things such as the Ed Project
[1:30:54] at Naval Base Venture County,
[1:30:56] a $500 million project, very limited benefits
[1:30:59] to the City of Boxnard. There's other things. So visit my website www.nashforWater.com and I
[1:31:08] respectfully ask for your vote. This is November. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Clerk, any
[1:31:14] other speakers on this item? Madam Senator, the agenda. Mayor, is there a close up? There's
[1:31:18] no additional speakers virtually or in person for this item. Okay, thank you. And then our next
[1:31:24] item is, item A, this is a report of the city manager, Mr. Alex Newlin.
[1:31:30] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
[1:31:30] I just have a few quick announcements so we can get on with the meeting.
[1:31:34] As Diego puts up the, here we go, this slide's okay.
[1:31:38] So first is some pretty amazing event that actually started today,
[1:31:44] and it is, as you can see here on the screen,
[1:31:47] the Oxstard Police Activity's League, popularly known as Pal,
[1:31:51] is hosting an international pal-boxing championship tournament, which is today through Saturday
[1:32:00] October 5th, at the Oxnard pal gym, which is located at 350 South K Street. We have invited
[1:32:10] and are having over 750 amateur boxers ranging from ages 9 to 40 in both male and female divisions.
[1:32:25] And they have traveled not only from across these United States, but from eight other countries,
[1:32:31] including England, Italy, Ukraine, Malta, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, India, and people from
[1:32:44] the Romani people of Europe.
[1:32:47] So they're here, I suppose, duking it out.
[1:32:52] The schedule and the links to the live stream, it's being live stream, so you can go in
[1:32:57] person or check it out online or available online at
[1:33:04] oxenardpalboxing.com. Now we are charging so tickets are available for
[1:33:09] churches for purchase at the door. It's $10 for adults. $5 for children ages
[1:33:17] 16 and 17 and kids under five are
[1:33:22] Get admission for free. The boxing tournament is presented by again the city of Oxford the Oxford police activity's league
[1:33:31] The National Association of Police Athletics slash activities leagues and the United States Amateur Boxing
[1:33:42] So there you have it if you're a fan of amateur boxing or if you're curious, or if you want to meet people from the Romani people of your contingent, you can attend this amazing boxing amateur boxing tournament.
[1:33:59] Alright, next, as we heard earlier,
[1:34:04] from our commission, the Multicultural Festival is occurring
[1:34:09] for the 27th time, this Saturday, October 5th, here in the heart of Oxnard at Plaza
[1:34:17] Park, begins at 10 a.m. and we'll run through to 4 p.m. Plaza Park is that if you need it
[1:34:26] your GPS, it's five hundredth self-c Street. And as they mentioned earlier there will be
[1:34:34] live music, performances, food, educational booths, arts and crafts. At the festival and now
[1:34:43] I have to go and find out if there's going to be a booth from the Romani people of Europe,
[1:34:49] because I'm now interested in curious, so in this event, of course, is free to the public. All ages.
[1:34:59] Finally, this has been a long time in coming. We have a terrific, or I should say, a terrific,
[1:35:10] important presentation that will be presented to the City Council a week from tonight, Tuesday,
[1:35:16] October 8th. So we hope that members of the public will join us whether live in person here
[1:35:24] at the Council chambers or the ATV or online. We will have the Director of the Chicano Studies
[1:35:31] Research Center at UCLA, Professor Veronica Turekaz. We'll present the findings of a year-long
[1:35:39] survey, Citywide Survey of Oxnards Youth, looking at the challenges and barriers that they face
[1:35:47] as young adults, looking at the economic and health disparities among Oxnards young adults,
[1:35:53] as well as their career preparation and educational gaps facing our students today.
[1:35:59] So that will be a special City Council meeting a week from tonight, Tuesday, October 8th,
[1:36:05] schedule from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thank you very much.
[1:36:10] Thank you, Madam Clerk, can you speak to us on this item?
[1:36:14] Mayor Sarah, there's no speakers for this item.
[1:36:18] Thank you, Mr. City Manager.
[1:36:19] Our next item is item. I think this is city console.
[1:36:26] If you have any brief analysis, I'd like to share with us.
[1:36:30] and also any items you'd like to place in future agendas.
[1:36:34] And we have three minutes on this item.
[1:36:39] We'll start with the conference room.
[1:36:43] Thank you, Mayor.
[1:36:45] I want to first thank all of the folks
[1:36:48] that came out tonight to speak.
[1:36:50] Thank you to our public safety folks
[1:36:54] who received proclamations tonight for a couple of items
[1:36:58] and all super important with breast cancer awareness and domestic violence awareness and
[1:37:06] prevention, as well as fire prevention. And for Indigenous peoples day, thank you to Miss
[1:37:13] Paura and her family for coming out and accepting that. Again, and thank you for the request
[1:37:20] for a moment of silence, I think it's important to remember that there are Indigenous people
[1:37:25] who, to this day, are still marginalized and still victimized.
[1:37:30] In a number of ways, and that should go beyond just a single day of the year, but it needs to be remembered every single day in the calendar year.
[1:37:39] And then, just real quickly, for the fire chief, thank you for the information there. I was going to ask, but you mentioned it again about the smoke detectors and how that cuts in half the risk of death when someone is in a structure fire, or a residential fire, and it was mentioned about carbon monoxide as well.
[1:37:59] And I believe that's a colorless, odorless gas that can be in a room in person wouldn't know until they lost consciousness.
[1:38:08] They might start feeling the effects, but by then it might be too late, and so carbon dioxide alarms absolutely important.
[1:38:18] I went to the Sierra Linda neighborhood council meeting, which was co-meeting with Orchard Park, and I see that Orchard Park chair is here as well.
[1:38:25] and our ANCO chair, Ms. Velzie, and I am ever impressed by the turnout for those meetings.
[1:38:33] They were in the cafeteria, Sierra Leenda School. It was a packed house, and so I just want to
[1:38:39] thank all of the residents who come out and the chairs who dedicate their time to provide those
[1:38:45] avenues and those venues for their residents. And the last thing I have is it is an election year,
[1:38:52] And this is, I think, probably Mr.
[1:38:55] Our WeHo and I are probably two of the most excited people around
[1:38:58] election time because we get to dig into data and share that with the public.
[1:39:02] And so I just want to remind folks as voters that, and even if you are not eligible to
[1:39:08] now know who is on the ballot and who is running to represent your community.
[1:39:15] On Thursday, night at 6 p.m. in person, the League of Women
[1:39:20] voters will be holding their in-person candidates for them at Pacific High School on Gonzalez
[1:39:25] Road.
[1:39:26] Again, that's 6 p.m. on Thursday and at 6 p.m. there will be the candidates for District
[1:39:31] 3, 4, and 6, and then at 8 p.m. projected is going to be the mayoral candidates.
[1:39:38] And so if you're here in this now, please, please, please be involved, do your due diligence
[1:39:47] as a voter or someone who can inform a voter on who you'd like to represent your community.
[1:39:53] All right, and those are my comments.
[1:39:54] Thank you.
[1:39:54] Thank you.
[1:39:55] Commissioner Andrade.
[1:39:56] You have any questions?
[1:40:01] Thank you.
[1:40:02] Thank you.
[1:40:03] Thank you.
[1:40:03] I was honored to attend the opening ceremonies for the Palo Boxing Competition today.
[1:40:09] I'm blessed to have been able to watch some excellent, Spartan contest going on.
[1:40:14] Nice turnout.
[1:40:15] I think it's going to be a wonderful event for the rest of the weeks.
[1:40:18] I would encourage anyone.
[1:40:20] If you have the opportunity to go, take a look and see what it's like.
[1:40:25] You have to talk to several people from the England.
[1:40:28] The other side of the pond is they call it.
[1:40:31] And really, I think it's going to be a phenomenal event.
[1:40:33] Talking with staff, this is one of the biggest box in advance for Pal and the only that it states.
[1:40:40] This is going to be pretty good.
[1:40:42] Tomorrow would ordinarily be my go-kos transit district day,
[1:40:45] but we're going to be dark for the meeting.
[1:40:48] And then Friday is Ventura County Transportation Commission.
[1:40:51] So I look forward to representing the needs of the people
[1:40:55] in the community of Oxford.
[1:40:56] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
[1:40:57] Thank you, President Prillam.
[1:41:00] Thank you, Mayor.
[1:41:02] Last evening, I watched the very well done
[1:41:05] Internet-earned Council Organization
[1:41:07] Canada Forum for City Clerk, United Water Conservation
[1:41:11] districts, three different districts, and the City Treasurer. I'm speaking for myself as one council member.
[1:41:19] I'm not speaking for any other council member. The chair of the United Water Conservation Board,
[1:41:25] the chair, made a statement of false facts. Mr. Sheldon Berger said in his closing statement,
[1:41:32] the City of Oxenard City Council would not meet with the United Water Conservation District Board
[1:41:37] members are general manager, that's a false statement, and there's a lot of ways to say
[1:41:42] a false statement, but we'll be polite and say a false statement.
[1:41:47] I personally have
[1:41:48] met with Mr. Moldhardt, a board member, Mr. Hassan, a board member, past board members,
[1:41:54] Dandy, past board member, Naman. I did not attend them one meeting, I'm a big part. I did
[1:42:01] attend one meeting with both Mr. Moldhardt and Mr. Hassan, and Mayor Zaragoza was with me.
[1:42:10] I have asked our city manager, Mr. Noon, have you ever met with the United Water Conservation District Management, or Board members, inform me that yes he has.
[1:42:22] The reason I bring this to your attention, facts matter. When we have a chair, 42 years of service of a board, who deals in unfact statements, it matters.
[1:42:34] That's my comment as a councilman on this matter.
[1:42:39] I hope that the public will take advantage of this boxing deal.
[1:42:42] As Torel has, as Torel Harrison is very bluntly said,
[1:42:46] This is amateur. This is not the side show of professional boxing.
[1:42:51] This is something really to see.
[1:42:54] The other thing I did have the opportunity to attend with councilman Torel,
[1:42:57] the joint council meeting, and it was very well attended.
[1:43:01] I appreciate it the events tonight, and I hope that the people do take advantage and go to these events where you have an opportunity to see the people that you'll be voting on
[1:43:09] My hats off to the INCO for the job they did. Thank you very much.
[1:43:13] Thank you, because you've finished well.
[1:43:16] Yes, thank you. On Saturday, September 21st, I was able to join the Coastal Cleanup Day.
[1:43:23] or on my speech with Assemblymember Bennet, the Me YouTube Foundation and Plenty of our
[1:43:29] Oxford City staff out there, educating folks on our channels and waterways systems.
[1:43:36] Last Monday, I was able to join the Eventura College political science club to kick off
[1:43:40] their alumni series of individuals who currently serve in government and hoping to connect
[1:43:45] them with other Ventura College alumni who serve in other positions throughout Ventura County.
[1:43:50] This past Saturday, I joined SCIE 721's Latino Heritage Event in downtown LA, where I saw
[1:43:57] I believe Supervisor Lopez, who's in the audience with us tonight, meant her there to
[1:44:03] join them for Latino Heritage Month.
[1:44:06] And then this upcoming Thursday, or say, next Thursday, October 10th, right-wood neighborhood
[1:44:12] council will be having their meeting at 6 p.m. at the Lutheran Church.
[1:44:17] Thank you.
[1:44:18] Thank you. Okay, and I'd like to start by saying that I wouldn't really want to thank the E.R. Department,
[1:44:25] a set of relative reference department for the warm welcome.
[1:44:28] That's Thursday that they invited me over to the transfer station.
[1:44:32] And I just want to thank all the E.R. staff and the managers for putting,
[1:44:36] we had a low-sweet bread and a milk coffee that they gave me,
[1:44:39] but I just want to thank Michael, you know, our public or director,
[1:44:43] and Brian assistant, and also Eric, you know, the manager there at the Murf.
[1:44:49] As you know, many of you know that I work for the Majesty's Department for over 200 years.
[1:44:55] I'm building the alinks for many, many years.
[1:44:59] But it really...
[1:45:00] But it's great to see that they continue to run that well, well-service, providing services to, to the city
[1:45:09] voucher, or safety, and healthy issues. Also, less Saturday, I attended to you the banana festival in
[1:45:16] Wayne-Eme, Port-Wayne-Eme. I'm going to thank the Port-Wayne-Eme for the very successful event. It was
[1:45:21] attended by hundreds of people, and my understanding was thousands of people that attended. The Port-Wayne-Eme
[1:45:27] has a great place to work, and my understanding that 80% of their staff are auction residents.
[1:45:35] They pay very well, and I know that are a council member of Honourable, as well as a member
[1:45:42] of the port out there where they provide a lot of good services for the community and so forth.
[1:45:50] And also, you know, I had a great honor to the other day to attend the auction police department
[1:45:54] 2024 employee recognition ceremony and I would thank the chief for all the employees
[1:46:00] that were promoted and also the the oath of office that was given to a lot of
[1:46:05] the the officers were there today and normally at every other Monday I welcome
[1:46:10] a lot of the new employees in the city of Oxford that the HR room and that one
[1:46:15] individual chief from the city of LA was there and he says he really loved the city
[1:46:21] So I want to thank you for that cheap and easiest and assistant, cheap more house for inviting us, you know, to there.
[1:46:28] I know that consumer, a parallel and a mayor for a town, McDonald and, and to run were there to, to welcome those individuals.
[1:46:37] I also want to think was mentioned by our city manager and our council members to run Harrison, the Director of Cultural and Community Service.
[1:46:45] For putting the 46th Annual Pell Boxing Program, the program that they've expanded from the national level to the international level.
[1:46:55] And I know that the city manager mentioned the countries, but I'd like to mention that again.
[1:47:02] Of course, partially nice states, England, Malta, Mexico, Italy, Saudi Arabia, India, Ukraine, and the remaining people of Europe.
[1:47:13] Thank you to Terrell, for the extra work that he does for the community, and I've mentioned
[1:47:21] to you that those kids are really, really provided a good, a boxing lesson to all of
[1:47:27] us.
[1:47:27] And also one thing, Ashley, and Katie for being there today too, you know, from the city manager's
[1:47:33] office.
[1:47:34] Well, attend it, and I know that the city of Oxford has produced many, many boxers,
[1:47:40] the world champion boxers, you know, so forth, but to realm and your staff, thank you so much for an exciting job.
[1:47:47] Okay.
[1:47:49] So I don't think we have any speakers on the side of them.
[1:47:54] All right.
[1:47:55] And something mayor.
[1:47:56] Go ahead.
[1:47:57] If the city manager, the police, you could address how many new officers were squirming at a recent event.
[1:48:02] That's a big deal.
[1:48:04] And I apologize for missing that.
[1:48:05] No, thank you.
[1:48:06] Good evening, Mayor.
[1:48:07] Council. Last week we had the pleasure to swear in six academy graduates as well as one lateral
[1:48:15] lateral officer that transferred in from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
[1:48:20] So total of seven seven new officers.
[1:48:24] Thank you Chief. Okay our next item is this is a city department
[1:48:29] city attorney department and the subject is resolution in support of Proposition 36.
[1:48:38] The
[1:48:39] Communities in the City Council adopt the resolution to support the Proposition 36, and for the Homeless Drug Addiction and Thef Reduction Act.
[1:48:49] And this is a pretty recorded item per measure M, and I think Mayor Patent, you want to share something here.
[1:48:57] Sure, thank you, Mr. Mayor.
[1:48:59] I asked that this come forward because I've been reading and hearing a lot of information about Prop 36 and what intended to do.
[1:49:08] And I thought that we might be at a position where we could take a stance or a position on
[1:49:13] what we endorse this, this proposition or not, or support it.
[1:49:18] And in the last few days, there's been so much new information that has come out in terms
[1:49:23] and in fact, that's what we start.
[1:49:25] The public policy institute came out of the pretty lengthy report two days ago, I believe
[1:49:30] it was.
[1:49:31] And they raised some issues that I had not considered.
[1:49:34] and I'm like everyone else that I have concerns about the takeovers of shopping facilities
[1:49:43] K-Mart, not K-Mart, cervical K and things like that, street takeovers and I think we need to
[1:49:50] look at our system overall and see if we're doing the right thing and initially I thought
[1:49:57] that perhaps Prop 36 would do that but reading the Public Policy Institute report, it made reference
[1:50:04] to the COVID pandemic and brings up the idea that potentially some of the societal
[1:50:10] liles that we're suffering now may be related to the COVID pandemic as opposed to other
[1:50:16] clauses.
[1:50:17] I don't know.
[1:50:18] I don't have the answer.
[1:50:19] There's a lot of information out there and I would still like to proceed with this and
[1:50:24] hear the comments that people have to make but I'm not quite convinced that we may be
[1:50:31] we get to a part where we take a position tonight, but I would still like to hold the public
[1:50:35] hearing and I don't miss for no one to have an additional data to that.
[1:50:40] And not at this time.
[1:50:42] So, so I know here I put a few speakers, Mayor Protem and this item and one of the things
[1:50:47] that you mentioned too that I really do not believe in this match and Kurab added to this
[1:50:52] happening here, but there's a lot of things that need to be taking care of in this prop
[1:50:56] So tonight what we're going to do is listen to some of the testimony that we have in the
[1:51:01] potentially we can maybe look at it in the future. Is that correct?
[1:51:08] And staff, we do have any, we want to share any disill information.
[1:51:12] Good. Good evening, Mayor. Mayor.
[1:51:14] Proton Council members. We did put together a presentation.
[1:51:19] I'm happy to take questions. We also have a Chief Benitez here.
[1:51:23] If there are any additional questions specifically directed to
[1:51:26] to the police department, was your question for us to go over that PowerPoint as two questions
[1:51:33] now?
[1:51:35] Now, we can probably take, you like, testimony first, and then the presentation first.
[1:51:42] Presentation first.
[1:51:43] Let's go ahead and have the, how long is the presentation chief?
[1:51:49] When would listen to then, we have some testimony from the public?
[1:51:53] Come on, chief.
[1:51:54] Thank you.
[1:51:55] Thank you.
[1:51:57] Good evening, Mary, Council, for those many M.J. and Benetis, anybody watching in this evening, I'm actually out of uniform in this evening, so sometimes they don't recognize me.
[1:52:07] Diego, if you wouldn't mind please go into the slide presentation too, right there.
[1:52:13] So as a police chief, I feel I believe I have a duty to speak to significant items related to crime and our public safety.
[1:52:22] This evening, I am actually speaking to you as not just Dave as a Ventura County resident, but also as a...
[1:52:30] Member of the Ventura County Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee, which is consists of the district attorney, the sheriffs, the all the municipal police chiefs in the county and some other law enforcement agency heads, as well as a member board member from the California Police Chiefs Association, which I've been serving.
[1:52:52] I do want to acknowledge my colleagues that are also here to speak, or who will speak, on this item, regardless of whatever side of the issue they are on.
[1:53:03] Though some positions on this are going to be philosophically opposed, my great respect for my colleagues that are here this evening.
[1:53:10] included behind me is also I saw our public defender Claudia Batista had come in as well.
[1:53:17] So the staff report listed five basic premises of what Prop 36 is intended to do.
[1:53:27] I am going to for the sake of time.
[1:53:30] I'm going to skip past those five items and go directly to slide eight.
[1:53:35] Diego, if you would mind,
[1:53:41] and so we can circle back to any of the questions about Prop 36, should we have them.
[1:53:47] So I wanted to talk a little bit about the this ballot initiative and present as much neutral information as I can on this as far as where it's coming from where it's going.
[1:53:59] The first actually talks about the organizations that are behind Proposition 36 and amongst
[1:54:05] them are the League of Cities.
[1:54:07] We have the California District Attorney's Association, who's the member of that is
[1:54:13] the author of this bill.
[1:54:15] California Police Chiefs, Oregon's Association, as well as the Ventura County Law Enforcement
[1:54:20] Coordinator Committee that I just mentioned.
[1:54:22] So, these are some of the agencies that are behind them.
[1:54:28] Support those governing bodies and elected officials that are supporting this measure are actually listed up here as well.
[1:54:36] The Ventura County Board of Supervisors actually proved this resolution and support of this measure last Tuesday.
[1:54:43] As it stands today, about 150 elected officials across the state have actually expressed support for this bill,
[1:54:51] including the mayors from San Diego, from San Jose, from Fresno, Santa Monica, and San Francisco.
[1:55:02] In fairness to those that are opposing the bill, these are some of the
[1:55:09] organizations that have taken up to a positive, including our governor, the California Democratic Party,
[1:55:16] the ACLU of Northern California, and the other groups that you see here as well. The California
[1:55:21] attorneys for criminal justice, which is a consists of large defense attorneys.
[1:55:28] Also, as the information on the slide that you see was taken directly from the California
[1:55:34] Legislative Analyst Office, and this actually, the points that you see on this slide are those
[1:55:39] that are points that are brought up as points of concern for proposition 36.
[1:55:44] And these are the three big ones that the Legislative Analyst Office states.
[1:55:48] It talks about an increase in criminal justice costs, likely ranging from several tens of millions of dollars to the low hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
[1:55:58] Primarily due to an increase in the prison population. Increased criminal justice costs, likely in tens of millions of dollars annually because of county jail,
[1:56:08] community supervision and court-and-aided mental health and drug treatment workload, as well as
[1:56:15] increase in the state case, the state case workload, because felonies usually do take more
[1:56:19] time to process as they wind their way through the system.
[1:56:23] As of September 19th, the Public Policy Institute of California announced a couple of weeks
[1:56:29] ago that Proposition 36 was pulling at about 71% in favor.
[1:56:33] The PPIC indicated that Prop 36 is favored by majorities across both sides of the aisle.
[1:56:41] So, with those things said, in shifting gears, I'd like to provide the council with some background in context
[1:56:48] why those in public safety leadership positions believe that Prop 36 is the way to go.
[1:56:56] Prop 36 is viewed in this profession as making a revision, or we just call a course correction
[1:57:04] to earlier legislation, who has been viewed largely in the circle as hindering policing
[1:57:11] for the past decade.
[1:57:13] Proponents of Prop 36 maintain that its course correction does not take us back to the days
[1:57:18] of mass incarceration, but instead the proponents will say that it promotes mass mandated treatment
[1:57:24] for drug offenders, as well as whole property crime offenders accountable.
[1:57:29] And they do point out that the court still, if Prop 36 is to pass,
[1:57:34] does have discretion how they handle these cases.
[1:57:38] So, as a public safety leader, I will speak about the policing's perspective of Prop 47,
[1:57:45] as well as some other measures from the same time period.
[1:57:49] Prop 36 essentially revises parts of 47.
[1:57:52] it does not completely dismantle it and I will try to relate this also to the local experience
[1:57:58] from what we see here in Oxnard. In the past 13 years, the number of bills were past legislation
[1:58:05] passed that significantly curtailed changes to laws. In 2011 we saw we had the discussion about AB 109
[1:58:14] which had to do with reducing the state's prison population. 2014 Proposition 47 also passed
[1:58:21] and then in 2016 Proposition 57,
[1:58:24] which dealt with supervised a parole,
[1:58:28] released early release for good behavior, 2016.
[1:58:31] And to put it very simply that these measures
[1:58:33] actually saved the state and a lot of money
[1:58:36] and resulted in fewer people in our jails,
[1:58:39] and more people living on our streets consequently.
[1:58:42] These changes largely involve persons
[1:58:44] that are referred to commonly as non-serious
[1:58:48] or low-level offenders.
[1:58:51] Unfortunately, without any type of,
[1:58:53] without criminal consequences,
[1:58:56] without a means to obligate them to receive
[1:58:58] rehabilitative treatment
[1:59:00] and without adequate social safety net,
[1:59:04] many of these non-serious offenders
[1:59:05] turned into what we refer to as
[1:59:08] habitual repeat offenders.
[1:59:11] And I'll say that during my 30-plus years
[1:59:13] at the police department,
[1:59:15] it was around 2015 that we began to see
[1:59:17] noticeable change in our city. We began to see homelessness as well as open drug use proliferate
[1:59:26] in the city. It was here to an extent before that, but it really began to take off in those years.
[1:59:32] Part of it was uncommon. It was not common to see addicts smoking methamphetamine or shooting heroin
[1:59:38] in the public's view on our sidewalks in our parks or sometimes in your schools. It was not common to
[1:59:47] piles of paraphernalia such as needles, strewn about on the sidewalks to the extent that we have today.
[1:59:53] Unfortunately today it's not far out of the ordinary and I hate to say that.
[1:59:57] Fast forward a few years and now fin.
[2:00:00] It was part of the equation in its killing people. So as a board member of the California Police Chiefs Association,
[2:00:07] I can tell you that these non-serious yet very prolific offenders post challenges across California.
[2:00:14] So this is not just an optional problem. We hear about how property crimes offenders are not
[2:00:19] held to account under the current system, how it bears a negative impact on our communities. The conversation
[2:00:25] has been along the lines of having small family-owned businesses suffer, businesses as well as
[2:00:31] crime victims, choose to stop reporting theft after being victimized so many times. Some businesses
[2:00:38] eventually decide to close their doors in some cities in Goelsworth because of the crime to the
[2:00:43] detriment of the community. So what I wanted to show you on this slide here is kind of what our
[2:00:49] experience has been in Oxnark.
[2:00:53] Now, nearly five years ago, then Chief of Police
[2:00:56] Scott Whitney shared a list of our top 10 most
[2:00:59] offenders over a five-year period.
[2:01:02] This is on one of our straight to you episodes,
[2:01:04] at this episode, two or three from 2019.
[2:01:08] At the top of the list, you see is that there's
[2:01:11] someone who was arrested 116 times in five years.
[2:01:17] This person was arrested 26 times in 2019 alone.
[2:01:22] Most of these arrests involve drug offenses,
[2:01:26] or theft or alcohol or other property crimes.
[2:01:29] Most of the individuals are experiencing homelessness
[2:01:32] and all of these ones that you see in the top 10 prolific offenders
[2:01:36] had substance abuse issues.
[2:01:41] Going to the next slide, I decided to take a look at the next five years
[2:01:44] and looking at 2020 to present, we can see that not much has really changed here, our top
[2:01:51] offender, 102 arrests in five years. But I'd like to drill this down a little bit and just
[2:01:57] give you a couple of examples of what we are dealing with in terms of the prolific offenders.
[2:02:04] The first one here, I'd like to say that with Prop 36 in its treatment mandated felony provision
[2:02:12] had these existed, their outcomes may have been a little bit different.
[2:02:17] The first person, I'll just refer to him as Omar,
[2:02:20] and since 2019, he's had 11 theft related arrests
[2:02:23] and is suspected of many more.
[2:02:26] He's a frequent shop lifter.
[2:02:28] He goes to stores, they know, and by name, when they see him coming.
[2:02:31] They know he's coming into steal something
[2:02:32] and he'll walk out with merchandise.
[2:02:35] Since 2019, he's at eight drug possession charges
[2:02:38] and he's overdosed at eight times.
[2:02:40] In a three-day period he had three overdoses, all of which were administered by Narcan, which I've spoken to about the council in the past.
[2:02:51] Then there's Gilbert.
[2:02:53] Tendra possession-related arrests since 2019.
[2:02:57] Three overdoses.
[2:02:59] Two were reversed with Narcan, and on January 15th of this year it was a fatal overdose.
[2:03:09] It's also very important to point out overdose responses by public safety and overdose deaths
[2:03:16] have steadily increased since the year 2014 when Prop 47 first passed.
[2:03:22] I spoken about this and a number of venues I spoke into the council each year and given
[2:03:27] an update about our situation that we're facing with overdoses and its dramatic increase along
[2:03:34] the dramatic increase of Narcan applications by police personnel. In 2014, 30 people died of
[2:03:41] overdoses in our city. Last year that number went up to 77. This is 3.3 times more than the
[2:03:49] combined number of homicide victims and traffic fatalities in our city. Countywide, last year,
[2:03:57] 234 people died due to accidental overdoses, 206 of them died from opioids and 178 of
[2:04:06] those were from specifically from Fantanelle. It only causes us in the public safety
[2:04:12] round to wonder if people like Gilbert would be alive had there been some type of incentive
[2:04:17] or some type of intervention that could be applied, something that would obligate them
[2:04:22] to receive treatment.
[2:04:24] And unfortunately, there are many more people out there
[2:04:28] like these two.
[2:04:30] And have to pause and recognize that these individuals
[2:04:33] are all somebody's father.
[2:04:35] They're somebody's child.
[2:04:36] They're somebody's parent.
[2:04:37] They're somebody's sibling.
[2:04:39] Somebody's relative.
[2:04:41] Many of these are people of color.
[2:04:43] Many of these people are unhaused.
[2:04:45] These are members of our community
[2:04:47] and they continue to die.
[2:04:50] As a result of officers having to repeatedly respond to these arrests, to respond to arrests and just to process these prolific offenders for booking, this is a huge, huge drain on public safety resources and polling other chiefs across the state. This is a very significant issue, not only just the overdoses, but the drain on staffing that comes to already distressed staffing levels.
[2:05:17] As we know, as I mentioned last year, at my September 5th update, when we go to an overdose
[2:05:23] that are a minimum of two officers, a supervisor, fire crew, and an EMS crew are all responding
[2:05:29] to these every time.
[2:05:31] And picture of this several times, the numbers are staggering, they're growing tremendously
[2:05:36] last year.
[2:05:37] Oxnard, police department responded to 618 overdoses, and when you look at the resources
[2:05:43] is that are going into this, we are spinning our wheels.
[2:05:46] So, some takeaways, I'll try to wrap this up, under our current legal construct in which
[2:05:55] there is diminished accountability and mandate or mandated addiction intervention.
[2:06:00] Officers are spinning their wheels with calls for service related to these persons,
[2:06:04] and repeatedly investigating the crimes that they are committing.
[2:06:08] So, as well as the vast amount of time spent processing and when they actually are
[2:06:11] taken into custody. The average intake for a non-complicated booking at county jail is at least
[2:06:17] three hours. And that's assuming that there's no medical and medical clearance necessary.
[2:06:23] So essentially, what a rest is essentially, you can take an officer out of their shift for
[2:06:28] quite some time. Many of the cases end up just, they are often released shortly after they're
[2:06:34] back in the community like the ones I described defending. And at the end of the day, they may
[2:06:40] received judicial diversion with no further action.
[2:06:45] This detracts from a multitude of other productive efforts that our officers and public safety
[2:06:50] personnel could be engaging in, things like engaging our community and doing more productive
[2:06:55] things.
[2:06:56] In addition, there is a huge fiscal impact on dealing with these prolific offenders, not just
[2:07:02] the time spent, but the fact that it takes public safety personnel away from their ability
[2:07:07] do these other things. The officers being tied up with these numbers of low-level offenders
[2:07:12] as a number, another impact in that there are availability to respond for other calls of service
[2:07:17] is diminished so that in other words response times go up.
[2:07:22] Closing this up, I just want to say that it is our preference in the law enforcement realm and
[2:07:27] policing realm to focus on violent crimes.
[2:07:30] I'm serious crime and other proactive ways to police our community, but we're getting distracted
[2:07:35] and using too much of our resources on the property and drug offenders. We are currently in an
[2:07:41] adnazium, lather, rinsed, repeat, scenario that produces almost no result. Without treatment,
[2:07:48] and without time and custody, we would expect this problem to get progressively worse with continuing
[2:07:53] property crime victims continue, increases it, and overdoses, including fatal ones.
[2:07:59] We recognize that with Prop 36 passing, the courts would still have discretion to as
[2:08:04] to how they approach these cases that goes before them.
[2:08:07] For example, the courts may handle someone who stole a loaf of bread or a court of milk from
[2:08:12] a store, much differently than a person who repeatedly steals liquor or electronic goods
[2:08:17] from stores to sell them.
[2:08:20] The vast majority of us in California would prefer treatment over incarceration for people like those that I mentioned earlier.
[2:08:28] It is also important to point out that we do not want to go back to the days of mass incarceration.
[2:08:33] Simply arresting people and placing them into a into custody without anything else does not solve any long-term problems.
[2:08:42] We want to make a course correction to a more effective strategy and we need to do something different from what we are doing now.
[2:08:49] Sorry, thank you chief a council members any questions to the chief before we go to public testimony
[2:08:58] Okay, so then we have
[2:09:01] on my list I have
[2:09:03] Mr. Rays
[2:09:07] M. E. T. Z.
[2:09:09] Rays is the virtual
[2:09:13] Mayor Sarah goes on Leslie Rays is currently online virtually
[2:09:20] Lastly, please start six to unmute and you have three minutes.
[2:09:43] Hello.
[2:09:44] Could you hear me?
[2:09:45] Yes.
[2:09:47] Okay, perfect.
[2:09:48] Hello.
[2:09:48] Good evening, Board of Members.
[2:09:51] My name is Metzley.
[2:09:52] I am the health equity policy associate for future leaders in America and a community member.
[2:09:57] And I am here today to express my opposition to passing Prop 36.
[2:10:01] And I urge the Board to reconsider moving forward with this measure.
[2:10:04] While supporters of Prop 36 claimed that it will make California safer, it actually risk
[2:10:09] making it less safe.
[2:10:10] As programs funded by Prop 47 have reduced recidivism without increasing violent crime.
[2:10:16] So Prop 36 would strip approximately 100 million of annual funding for drug treatment,
[2:10:23] housing and school-based programs, which are the very things that are proven to prevent
[2:10:27] crime in the first place, as well as services for survivors of crime.
[2:10:31] And because more Californians would lean more Californians would language in jail and prisons on low-level fences,
[2:10:40] prop 36 would also cause taxpayers an additional $5 billion a year on top of the already $27 billion spent annually for
[2:10:50] jail's prisons courts across the state. So I asked a board to vote against prop 36 and prop 36 is not
[2:10:59] for real solutions for the complex challenges that we face. No one says that we do not
[2:11:03] want to see for communities, but Prop 306 is not the way to bring these changes. I urge you
[2:11:08] to explore more equitable and sustainable solutions for our state. Thank you for your consideration.
[2:11:14] Okay, thank you. Our next average of speakers, Tom Katie, followed by Barbara McEartys,
[2:11:18] Tom Katie, Madamford. Tom, please pass our six on mute and you have three minutes.
[2:11:26] Hello, can you help me? Yes. Okay. Thank you, Mayor.
[2:11:31] This is Tom Cady, and I'm a retired police officer,
[2:11:38] and also speaking to you tonight as a board member from the Oxford and our chamber of commerce.
[2:11:43] The chamber recently took a position in support of property six because of the revolving door around left.
[2:11:52] And I wanted to share that information with the council. I realized you're not voting on this major tonight.
[2:11:58] But in addition to being retired police officer, I taught in Cuomo Justice said a local university for 20 years now.
[2:12:07] And we've seen kind of the back and forth that's occurred with the in our state regarding how we handle offenders.
[2:12:17] I think I heard Claudia was there and she was certainly
[2:12:20] can reflect on when Prop 109 passed and we talked about low level
[2:12:26] drug offenders on the low level.
[2:12:28] The drug offender was their cart violation.
[2:12:30] I didn't really look at their pass record,
[2:12:33] which could be as long as you are.
[2:12:36] I remember when Prop 109 passed,
[2:12:40] it did not include as drug testing.
[2:12:45] And the treatment professionals, so basically if there was a consequence, held over the heads of folks who were referred to the program for cream and services, they would just largely participate and drop out.
[2:13:04] And so eventually you had to go back to legislature and put in requirements for drug testing and for some kind of consequence and ultimately we entered up the drug court.
[2:13:17] I mean, I would suggest that property six is something that has to, some type of, where there's property six or some other element, has to come in and provide consequences for folks who are repeat offenders and are not doing what they need to do get out of the system now property six does provide an opportunity for people.
[2:13:46] to participate in mandatory training or testing,
[2:13:51] I'm sorry, treatment, which would then eliminate that violation.
[2:13:54] So it's not like they necessarily have to go on a free
[2:13:58] strikes in your app kind of thing.
[2:14:00] There is an opportunity.
[2:14:01] 30 seconds.
[2:14:03] There is the opportunity for the offender to, you know,
[2:14:08] take responsibility and do something to eliminate that violation.
[2:14:14] So, again, I would stress the strong consideration of doing something to address this repeat
[2:14:23] of problem.
[2:14:26] Thank you.
[2:14:27] The next speaker, virtually is Barbara McKirty's.
[2:14:33] Barbara, please have starts six to unmute and you have three minutes, please.
[2:14:39] Thank you.
[2:14:40] Barbara McKirty's here.
[2:14:43] Good evening, Mayor and council members.
[2:14:45] I'm speaking to a pose this resolution, I'm very concerned with Prop 36, I kind of feel like it's sort of a bait and switch because they're trying to play on the smashing grab and I agree.
[2:15:00] Those kinds of crimes need to be addressed. And maybe we do need to carve out something for folks who participate in that particular kind of offense.
[2:15:15] But this just kind of takes us all back.
[2:15:19] We're going to be spending a lot more money to keep people in jail, warehousing them.
[2:15:24] You know, after this now, we don't have enough resources for drug rehabilitation.
[2:15:31] So I mean, that's always attention.
[2:15:34] One thing to say, you know, we want everybody to go through it.
[2:15:37] It's another thing to provide the resources so that they can.
[2:15:40] I don't think we've done a as good a job at that as we can and you know you can't
[2:15:47] Yeah, there's a big problem with homelessness. There are so many reasons for that
[2:15:52] Then aren't related to
[2:15:56] To crime
[2:15:57] Although if you're homeless you might end up doing some crimes that you wouldn't normally do
[2:16:03] I'm very concerned with the changing the definition of what is a felony in terms of dropping the amount
[2:16:09] that is required in terms of monetary amount.
[2:16:13] I don't think that's healthy, particularly.
[2:16:15] I mean, everything's so darn expensive now.
[2:16:19] You can still candy bar and depending on your circumstances,
[2:16:24] you could be charged with a felony for that.
[2:16:28] You know, there are problems.
[2:16:30] We need to address the problems,
[2:16:32] but I kind of feel like they ran with this fashion
[2:16:36] grab to get everybody saying yeah this is great this is great and then they just
[2:16:40] stuck everything else in it that is going to set us back years and years they should
[2:16:48] not change the definition of a felony. I think there is a real tension in terms of
[2:16:55] trying to find a way to obligate people to receive treatment. I don't know if that
[2:17:02] works with human nature because if you're not committed to do it, I don't care, you can put
[2:17:07] somebody in a program, but if they're not committed or they're not going to come out
[2:17:10] the other side. 30 seconds.
[2:17:13] And I just want to comment on those graphs or the statistics that Chief Benito's put in,
[2:17:22] you know, overall crime has really been dropping. And it's saying, okay, we have nine people
[2:17:28] that are driving us crazy. I get it, but you don't make a law because of that. And the money
[2:17:34] you're going to save here, we're just going to spend it on prisons, which doesn't make sense.
[2:17:40] You know, I have a ton of...
[2:17:42] Thank you, Barbara. Thank you. Okay, our next speaker, any virtual speakers other than people
[2:17:50] here in the audience?
[2:17:52] Mayors, I go said there's no additional virtual speakers.
[2:17:54] Okay, so we have Ivan Vega, Ivan, and it will be followed by Jacob Gundiff.
[2:18:03] Ivan.
[2:18:04] Good evening, board members.
[2:18:06] My name is Ivan Vega.
[2:18:07] I am the instrument advocacy and organizing director with future leaders of America.
[2:18:11] And I'm also a committee member of the City of Oxnard.
[2:18:13] I'm here today to express my position to the Oxford City Council to adopt
[2:18:18] resolution and support of Proposition 36 and I urge the Board to reconsider moving forward with
[2:18:25] this measure.
[2:18:26] Prop36 for recent, Prop 47 that was passed in 2014 and since then has a proven track
[2:18:32] record of allowing resources to programs that have reached reduced recidivism and reduced non-violent
[2:18:39] crimes.
[2:18:40] Prop36 was strip approximately 100 million annually in funding for drug treatment, housing
[2:18:44] and school-based programs.
[2:18:45] The very things that have been proven to prevent crimes in the first place, as well as services for survivors of crimes.
[2:18:53] Prop 47 has moved us forward past the mass incarceration era of BIPOC communities from the war on drugs.
[2:18:59] And since 2014, thanks to Prop 47, California's prison population has dropped 28%, which reduced racial disparities.
[2:19:08] Those supporters describe Prop. 36 as the homelessness drug addiction and theft reduction act.
[2:19:17] None of it provides one of its provisions directly address homelessness.
[2:19:21] And instead seeks to address substance use and petty theft through longer sentences and enhance punishment
[2:19:27] that evidence shows will only worsen the problems.
[2:19:31] I ask the support to vote against Prop. 36 as it does not offer real solution to the complex issues that we face.
[2:19:37] I urge you to explore more equitable and sustainable solutions for our communities.
[2:19:42] The solutions to nonviolent crimes, homelessness and drug addiction is not prisons.
[2:19:49] Thank you. Okay, Jacob, agenda followed by Vanessa Turan.
[2:19:55] Jacob.
[2:20:03] Good evening, Mayor, Councilmember Seastaff, and chamber guests. My name is Jacob,
[2:20:07] agenda find the president of the Oxford Peace Author's Association
[2:20:10] and representing the hundreds of many women
[2:20:12] who protect the city 24.7.
[2:20:14] A decade ago, Prop 47 known as the Safe Neighborhood
[2:20:17] and Schools Act removed any leverage
[2:20:19] that justice system had to encourage drug treatment
[2:20:22] and hold criminals accountable.
[2:20:23] What was sold to voters to make our community safer
[2:20:26] has done the exact opposite.
[2:20:27] The studies and the crimes that do not lie.
[2:20:30] What does this lack of accountability look like?
[2:20:33] I'll provide you an example, which, unfortunately, is not uncommon.
[2:20:36] An officer is called for a theft investigation.
[2:20:38] location, locate the suspect, and makes an arrest. Transports the suspect to jail, completes the necessary paperwork, and then returns to the city to handle more calls for service.
[2:20:48] A few hours past while patrolling the assigned area, that same suspect who is just arrested hours earlier, is back out on the street.
[2:20:55] Prop 36 will bring back mandatory treatment and provide more discretion to the legal system to address habitual offenders, and hold them accountable, unlike what is happening right outside those doors right now.
[2:21:05] Our members are repeatedly dealing with persons who commit deaf crimes, drug crimes with
[2:21:10] impunity and without any consequence.
[2:21:13] There is no incentive to encourage treatment for drug offenders.
[2:21:17] This is not a conservative or liberal issue.
[2:21:19] Everyone in this room can do their own research and see that at overwhelming majority of
[2:21:23] Californians, the majority of oxenard citizens are tired and fed up in what real consequence
[2:21:29] to those committing crimes.
[2:21:30] The number is staggering at more than 70% approval rating at this moment.
[2:21:37] We need a system that will steer towards treatment and consequence.
[2:21:41] I urge you to support this resolution and show the citizens of Oxford that you deeply
[2:21:44] care about their safety and holding those who commit crimes to Campbell.
[2:21:48] Thank you for your time.
[2:21:49] Thank you.
[2:21:50] Consumant should be Vanessa Turan followed by Claudia Batista.
[2:22:02] Good evening, Mayor and members of the Council of Anissa Thedon Director of Policy with
[2:22:06] and a community organizing project.
[2:22:09] It has come to our attention that long force men back
[2:22:11] by corporate retailers have placed a ballot initiative
[2:22:14] initiative before California voters this November,
[2:22:18] Proposition 36.
[2:22:19] This Proposition seeks to renew policies
[2:22:21] reminiscent of the discredited war on drugs
[2:22:24] and impose harsher penalties for low-level defences.
[2:22:29] Proposition 37.
[2:22:30] Six is an attempt to undo the successful reforms California supported a decade ago through Proposition 47, which reduced
[2:22:37] prison populations of help formally incarcerated individuals reintegrate into their communities. And my
[2:22:43] cop, we firmly oppose Proposition 36. We believe it is a dangerous and misleading measure that will
[2:22:50] disproportionately harm black indigenous communities of color already marginalized by our society. The
[2:22:56] families we serve, many of whom work in the lowest paid sectors of the agricultural industry
[2:23:01] often rely on discount markets to afford essential such as food, baby formula and diapers.
[2:23:08] This proposition rather than protecting vulnerable communities would effectively become
[2:23:13] a punitive measure against poverty. As you have heard tonight, California Governor Newsom
[2:23:19] opposes Proposition 36 and the legislative analyst office official analysis found that Proposition 36
[2:23:25] would actually cut funding for mental health and drug treatment programs by millions.
[2:23:31] In Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Polcounis, Indigenous Families,
[2:23:35] already facing significant social barriers to systemic racism and discrimination due to a
[2:23:41] long history of anti-Indigenous prejudice. Proposition 36 would only exacerbate these issues,
[2:23:47] further criminalizing poverty and hardship.
[2:23:50] We respectfully urge you not to support any resolution
[2:23:53] in favor of 36.
[2:23:55] Thank you.
[2:23:57] Okay, we have Claudia Batista, followed by
[2:23:59] Dominique Velasquez, Claudia Batista.
[2:24:05] And she's our public defender.
[2:24:08] Yes.
[2:24:09] So good evening, Mayor Saragosa, city manager,
[2:24:12] and I'm new-end and council members.
[2:24:13] My name is Claudia Batista.
[2:24:14] And I am the public defender, the appointed public defender for Ventura County.
[2:24:20] That means that I'm the public defender for not only those community members in Oxnard,
[2:24:24] but all over the county.
[2:24:26] I've been a public defender for 23 years.
[2:24:28] I've been the appointed public defender for four years.
[2:24:31] Our office represents 80% of those charged with crimes in Ventura County.
[2:24:37] That means that for every 10 cases, the district attorney files we represent,
[2:24:41] eight, if not nine of those individuals.
[2:24:45] I wish I was before you today to tell you
[2:24:48] that this county had direct treatment available
[2:24:52] for all of those individuals that are going to be charged
[2:24:56] with this felony mandated treatment program.
[2:25:00] Because this proposition mandates not only drug treatment,
[2:25:04] but also mental illness treatment.
[2:25:06] And I'm here to tell you that I wish we had that the panacea
[2:25:09] existed, where every single one of my clients were going to be mandated to felony treatment,
[2:25:14] there was going to be a place for them.
[2:25:16] But there isn't.
[2:25:17] In this county, in this city or in any city in this county, currently today, our clients spend
[2:25:26] at least 30 days.
[2:25:27] We have to continue cases for them to receive the treatment that we have tried to locate
[2:25:32] for them in Ventura County, but oftentimes find that treatment in Los Angeles County.
[2:25:37] And so to accept the proposition that we need to put persons in jails and in prisons means
[2:25:45] that we are going to go back to looking at our jails, our county jails, as places of treatment
[2:25:52] of warehousing those who are suffering from substance use disorder and suffering from mental
[2:25:59] illness.
[2:25:59] Do we want to go back to that system?
[2:26:02] And I propose that we all think about, I'm very impressed by Mayor Protem's comments of wanting to take a deeper look at this and look at what the California policy center says about Prop 36 and the impacts of Prop 47.
[2:26:19] And what has been most significant for me is that Prop 47 allowed us to break through the school to prison pipeline.
[2:26:27] That's who we should be focusing on and Prop 47 allowed us to finally break through that
[2:26:32] prison to school pipeline.
[2:26:35] So there are kids weren't going into the jails and the prisons.
[2:26:39] I appreciate the City Council's taking the time to deliberate over this very serious consequence
[2:26:45] that it's going to have financially to not only the city but to the county and certainly to
[2:26:50] my office as we are the mandated constitutionally mandated office that will represent
[2:26:56] 80 to 90 percent of those charged with these kinds of crimes.
[2:27:01] We don't have the treatment for them and that's unfortunate and that should really have
[2:27:06] forces to think about where we want to put our resources.
[2:27:10] Thank you.
[2:27:11] Thank you.
[2:27:12] Thank you.
[2:27:13] Okay, Dominique Velasca is followed by Greg Ruanian, Reverend Greg Ruanian.
[2:27:21] Dominique, good evening board members.
[2:27:23] My name is Dominique Velasquez and I am an intern for future leaders in America and as a community member
[2:27:29] I'm here today to express my opposition to the passing of Proposition 36 and to urge the board to reconsider and moving forward with this measure
[2:27:38] Now property six
[2:27:40] Has a goal to address homelessness and drug abuse by expanding prison sentences and making it easier to convict someone
[2:27:48] with not a misdemeanor, but with a felony because of small drug possession and small theft.
[2:27:56] This proposition will actually make California less safe by stripping approximately $100 million
[2:28:02] annually in funding for a drug treatment, housing, and even school-based programs. The very things
[2:28:13] that prevent crime in the first place is to unpack many communities around the state that
[2:28:17] down local treatments and services. It will also cause over-policing and mass incarceration
[2:28:24] that I have seen firsthand effect communities leaving many people with absent brothers,
[2:28:30] sisters, and even parents.
[2:28:33] Prophecy six, we even go further at BODS. It will get rid of Prophecy seven. Prophecy seven,
[2:28:39] succeeded in accomplishing its goals by saving the state $100 million and reduce recidivism.
[2:28:46] also reduce the prison population and racial disparities with first-year research showing that it
[2:28:51] not increased filing crime, robbery and burglarys. Properties 6 will end up causing taxpayers
[2:28:58] in actual $5 billion a year. On top of the 27 billion there are annually spent for
[2:29:02] jealous prisons and courts across the state already. That's why I asked the board to vote against
[2:29:08] property 6 because it does not address the root causes of the problems it's trying to solve.
[2:29:16] Thank you for your time and consideration and have a good evening.
[2:29:19] Thank you, Reverend Greg Runion.
[2:29:30] Good evening, Council and all of you.
[2:29:35] This is a weighty topic, and I was at home.
[2:29:38] I wasn't going to speak for then.
[2:29:39] I just felt like it needed some things needed to be said.
[2:29:43] I don't know if I supported or not, but I tell you what.
[2:29:47] I don't support is continuing to do the same thing.
[2:29:50] And I'm going to give you some weird explanations,
[2:29:52] But I think we all need to just hear him.
[2:29:56] I guarantee you we're going to say this isn't a partisan issue and it will be.
[2:29:59] Thank you.
[2:30:00] Guarantee, we're going to say it's not a community, it will be. It's all the young people, they want what they've had, older people, all we had.
[2:30:12] But here's the thing, if some things broke, why do we keep doing it? That's what everybody keeps saying. And really what's happening, what I hear is we're talking about a lot about the rights of the offender.
[2:30:24] Instead of the rights of the offended, we're talking about those people that have been
[2:30:30] harmed, those people that are dealing with crime has gone down because we eliminated
[2:30:35] crime.
[2:30:36] Like, if you don't understand that, you're being naive.
[2:30:39] When you eliminate crime, crime data goes down.
[2:30:43] When we say what was a felony is now a misdemeanor, there are less felonies.
[2:30:47] When we say what was a violent crime is no longer a violent crime, violent crime goes down.
[2:30:52] But violent crime isn't the only crime, folks.
[2:30:56] So if I pull the gun on you and take 50 bucks, that's a violent crime.
[2:31:00] If I break into your house and take your diamond ring, what is that?
[2:31:05] If I steal your car, when you're not in it, if I write checks,
[2:31:13] with by the way, I used to do all the time.
[2:31:15] If I write checks and cash them in your bank for my drug addiction,
[2:31:19] that's not a violent crime, but you're offended.
[2:31:21] and you're affected, there is no perfect answer, there isn't other than people take accountability
[2:31:31] for their own actions. The public defender who stood up here and said, look, there's
[2:31:35] not enough treatment. That is a fact. And I can tell you all the times I went to jail.
[2:31:52] I was
[2:31:53] just encounter. But in jail I had an encounter that changed my life. When we say to people
[2:32:01] well incarceration doesn't work, is what's happening now working either? There has to be a
[2:32:06] compromise. I don't know what is best. But if all of you kind of just say, well what we did
[2:32:14] didn't work, what we're doing is now working, you're taking into account the offender and not the
[2:32:19] You're job is to be for both, and I'm telling you, if you do nothing, Officer King
[2:32:27] Club, and you used to say, if you do what you've always done, you're going to get what
[2:32:30] you've always got.
[2:32:32] And I hope that's not where we end.
[2:32:33] Thank you, Reverend.
[2:32:35] I'm prepared for any additional speakers that virtually are in person.
[2:32:38] Mayors, I hope so.
[2:32:39] There's no additional speakers virtually or in person for this item.
[2:32:43] Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.
[2:32:49] Any comments from I don't see any from our consumer members?
[2:32:55] Or why don't you see the consumer tour on?
[2:33:01] Thank you, Mayor.
[2:33:04] Thank you to all the speakers. Thank you, Mr. Gonzalez, for the very straightforward presentation that was provided for this.
[2:33:13] I'll just keep my comments fairly simple.
[2:33:15] I think we've heard a lot of really important information from speakers, from the police chief,
[2:33:20] from our public defender.
[2:33:24] I have to say that I'm the type of person that when it comes to these legislative items,
[2:33:34] when it comes to things that affect our social well-being and affect our social challenges,
[2:33:39] is I really try to look at it through an objective lens
[2:33:45] to see what's gonna do the most good for the most people.
[2:33:49] And I have no problem as an objective person,
[2:33:54] saying when I disagree with what our governor does or doesn't do,
[2:33:58] even though maybe I belong to the same political party
[2:34:01] as him and we're supposed to back him and whatever, right?
[2:34:05] I have no problem with that.
[2:34:06] Criticizing what's happening at that level.
[2:34:07] I have no problem speaking out when I disagree with
[2:34:11] it's happening within policy or something that's going
[2:34:14] to affect what I believe our community in a negative way,
[2:34:18] or in a way that does not affect or that does not serve
[2:34:21] everybody in a way that's the most positive.
[2:34:25] And because of that objectivity that try to have,
[2:34:28] maybe that's not always the best thing,
[2:34:31] maybe it's two pragmatic sometimes,
[2:34:33] and maybe that's why people don't come to my birthday parties.
[2:34:35] But that's all right.
[2:34:36] But, that being said, I can certainly stand or sit here as an individual and say that
[2:34:45] Prop 47 made some important changes, but it also had some incredible unintended consequences.
[2:34:54] Consequences that have negatively affected marginalized communities.
[2:35:00] It's had some positive things, including positive ways that it's affected folks in my own
[2:35:05] family.
[2:35:05] And my own circle who have had these challenges, but I'm not afraid and I'm not unwilling to admit that there are some negative things that affected communities at large, including this community within comes to Prop 47.
[2:35:20] Looking at Prop 36 though, I also can't say that this is the way to quote unquote fix the issues that are brought up against Prop 47.
[2:35:31] And I appreciate Reverend Ranian every time he speaks because he, I think he has a similar
[2:35:37] mindset in how he evaluates some of these things. And he said there's no perfect answer
[2:35:42] and I agree absolutely there's no perfect answer. But I believe when we look at Prop 36 there
[2:35:48] has to be a better one. My biggest thing as a person who's worked in the realm of education
[2:35:55] and in human services for all of my career when it's stated that there's not enough
[2:36:02] treatment for folks who work going to be sent this way as a treatment mandated
[2:36:09] felon or felony arrest. The issue we have here is where are they going to go? The
[2:36:16] authors of this, where is the funding to increase the programming to be high
[2:36:22] quality, effective programming, and high level training for the treatment professionals
[2:36:26] you're going to provide it.
[2:36:28] Whereas that, where is the increase in treatment professionals themselves?
[2:36:31] We have just like many other sectors when we look at our treatment system for substance use
[2:36:37] services in the County Ventura and statewide, a historic shortage in treatment professionals.
[2:36:44] There's just not enough physical bodies to do this work in this sort of past and to serve
[2:36:49] people well who need these types of services. And so I really feel that the proposition is missed
[2:36:56] the mark on that. And from an objective standpoint, just as I look at all of our local ballot
[2:37:00] measures, I have said every single election that if they were to do objective good for the community,
[2:37:06] I vote for them. I don't feel that every single part of Prop 36 does that. I could certainly point
[2:37:14] Today, a number of ballot initiatives that happen locally in the city of Oxford are that
[2:37:18] do some interesting things, and maybe some good things, but because it comes as a package
[2:37:22] deal, you got to take the bad with the good too.
[2:37:25] And with Prop 36, this ain't it, that's, um...
[2:37:30] My view on that, and so I just wanted to share that piece, and Senator willing to hear what my colleagues
[2:37:38] think as well.
[2:37:38] So thank you.
[2:37:39] Thank you.
[2:37:39] Thank you,
[2:37:45] Mayor Zergaza.
[2:37:46] So I just wanted to share some public comments that we all received the email from
[2:37:51] a Miss Regina Crawford, who represents the Ventura County NWACP on all paraphrased
[2:37:57] of rewards. Prop 36 was written to address the frustrations of smashing
[2:38:02] grab crimes, not to address the deeper causes of it, and it does not address the other
[2:38:08] adverse issues written in the previous bill Prop 47. Prop 36 is not the answer. We strongly
[2:38:14] believe Prop 36 will be like Prop 184. California through strikes and your outlaw that supports
[2:38:20] criminalizing some that may be innocent to a life sentence. It is safer and better for the
[2:38:27] to rewrite a bill that will not serve not just the interest of prosecutors, but a bill that will be fair and equal for not just to some people, but for all people.
[2:38:38] So I guess the past couple of months I've been following a Cal Matters.
[2:38:42] It's a non-partisan, non-profit, news organization that covers like Sacramento politics.
[2:38:48] And I was a little disappointed when I read that the legislature was unable to come up with an alternative proposition for Prop 36.
[2:38:55] I think they just had a busy year with several items from the climate bond to several items
[2:39:02] that are on the ballot this November.
[2:39:05] So, I personally don't believe Prop 36 will solve the roots of any of the mental health
[2:39:09] or addiction that feel these death or homelessness crimes that we are seeing.
[2:39:15] There, however, there are going to be other laws that will be going to affect in the near future,
[2:39:20] such as the Prop 1 funding that will be coming down, that will be applying that little agencies
[2:39:25] will be applying for which pass this previous March and I believe and please correct me up on
[2:39:30] wrong. I believe in January of 2020-26 will be the county of Interimplementing SB 43 which changes
[2:39:39] the definition of grave releaseable for those with mental health or substance misuse
[2:39:44] addictions as well. So I'm just saying that there are laws that are going to be going in the
[2:39:49] soon, but I feel like Prop 36 is just not going to. It's an
[2:39:54] opportunistic time to solve an issue that is being very
[2:39:57] publicizer now, but thank you. Thank you, Cousup Braula.
[2:40:03] Thank you. I appreciate all the comments. I want to second would
[2:40:10] Councilmember Taran said, specifically about Pastor Greg Runion.
[2:40:13] Whenever Greg Runion, Pastor Greg Runion comes up here. He makes
[2:40:16] common sense. He speaks straight to the common person, common sense.
[2:40:20] you don't have to think twice what did he say. I also want to think by
[2:40:24] Romac or Ortiz, attorney who spoke. Two things that bother me on this, we
[2:40:30] recently have heard that there's something called the California Policy Center,
[2:40:34] something new information has come out. It's an easy for me to kick the can down the
[2:40:38] road, say I gotta look at the new information. Straight from the seat of a pants, I
[2:40:42] don't like what I see we have right now. I don't like that when I see in areas that
[2:40:48] I represent people continually complain about the same person coming back.
[2:40:53] He's arrested.
[2:40:53] He comes back.
[2:40:54] He's arrested.
[2:40:54] He comes back.
[2:40:56] I don't want to go to Devil's Island.
[2:40:58] I don't want something like that.
[2:41:00] But I do think that there's a limit what the public can do with the funds that the public has.
[2:41:05] And when Barbara McReworthy's attorney, Barbara McReworthy's made the comment, the drug
[2:41:11] rehab, there has to be an incentive for the person to want to do something like that.
[2:41:15] If there's not, as soon as they get back,
[2:41:17] I do put store in the police department's charts.
[2:41:21] When we have an individual that creates the repetitive,
[2:41:27] the repeats, the same situation.
[2:41:29] And he ends up unfortunately with the drug situation,
[2:41:33] and we have to save their life.
[2:41:37] This is not a popular thing for me to say, or anyone else to say,
[2:41:40] or here, that will come a time when it's like,
[2:41:42] do we really want to save this person's life?
[2:41:45] We're spending a lot of money.
[2:41:46] We heard how much and what the office of calls are.
[2:41:49] God forbid any of you or any of your members have a situation like that.
[2:41:53] But we all know people that have been in put in situations like that.
[2:41:58] We can't keep doing what we're doing.
[2:42:01] The fact that there are people that get away with taking things
[2:42:03] and now because it's under a certain amount of money.
[2:42:07] I go to the neighborhood council meetings, the police get grilled.
[2:42:10] Why don't you do something? There's a threshold.
[2:42:12] There's a repetitive, you arrest them, you take them to the jail.
[2:42:16] The person comes back.
[2:42:18] What do they do for them in jail?
[2:42:22] I count my blessings that I'm not in that spot.
[2:42:25] But I'm here with six other people, supposed to make a decision.
[2:42:29] I decide in my mind right now as I sit here.
[2:42:32] I cannot support the way this is.
[2:42:35] But I have no better idea of what to do.
[2:42:38] But this has got to change.
[2:42:39] The public has got to change.
[2:42:40] I do appreciate the comment that was made.
[2:42:44] Some flash in the pan thing.
[2:42:47] The takeover robberies, the whatever and certain groups
[2:42:51] come together and they figure that that will be the solution.
[2:42:54] There's no bandage that fix every problem.
[2:42:59] And when people start adding when they get that momentum
[2:43:01] and it looks like something's going to work,
[2:43:03] let's stick everything under the sun under that
[2:43:06] to help us out.
[2:43:07] There's got to be a better solution.
[2:43:08] It's got to be something with sympathy, but there has to be consequences.
[2:43:15] All of us were raised from being an infant with dirty diapers to getting to where we are
[2:43:20] right now.
[2:43:21] And we all had to learn, the word consequences for certain actions we took, society has to
[2:43:26] deal with consequences, whether it's paying for it or living with the situation.
[2:43:32] I appreciate this item as on the agenda, I appreciate the situation, I'm unhappy with the current
[2:43:38] state of affairs, but I do not, in my mind, have enough information to say a year
[2:43:43] nay on something better. And as an earlier person, I believe, brought up, maybe it was
[2:43:49] last night. A lot of people bitch, but very few people come up with a solution. I don't have
[2:43:55] a solution, but I know something's got to change. We employ people that are smart. They
[2:43:59] must come up with something. And in my personal gut, drugs is a big part of this. And until
[2:44:06] the drug situation is taking over and straightened out. And I do not see that happening.
[2:44:12] I don't believe this is going to change, no matter what we do. I'm not throwing it in
[2:44:15] the town. That's my opinion. Thank you, Mayor.
[2:44:18] Thank you, Mayor Proto.
[2:44:20] Thank you, Mayor. I have watched the TV like a lot of people doing. I see these store
[2:44:26] takeovers in the area where literally 50 to 100 young people on bicycles go into a store
[2:44:34] like a 7-11 or whatever, and virtually just devastate the place, and I'm presuming
[2:44:40] to young people, I'm presuming they aren't even old enough to drive.
[2:44:43] That's why they're all writing bicycles.
[2:44:46] And the first question comes to my mind is, where are their parents?
[2:44:50] And where are their parents saying about this?
[2:44:52] And I remember growing up in Santa Barbara, in a friend of mine's dad who had to be a police
[2:44:57] officer in Santa Barbara, saw me walk at the door.
[2:45:00] Well, from elementary school, one day, and he says, hey, I'll give you a ride.
[2:45:04] And he says, okay, and he says, jump in the back seat, I got too much stuff in the front seat.
[2:45:08] Okay, and about a block from my house, I told him, let me out here.
[2:45:13] I go, it's not taking you to your house, I just know, please let me out here.
[2:45:16] And he goes, why?
[2:45:17] It's because if my dad finds out that I came home in a police car, I won't have enough time to explain what happened before I get looked.
[2:45:25] and it will be a warping because in my parents both work full-time job but there's still
[2:45:31] actively involved in my growing up and set parameters for me and I think maybe we've lost
[2:45:38] some of that in our society. I'm hoping that parents will get more involved in their children's
[2:45:43] lives again but you know and something has to be done when you see the street takeovers and
[2:45:49] the store takeovers and everything else something has to change because I call us all of
[2:45:53] All the stuff he has lost from the stores, you and I pay for that.
[2:45:57] When we go into the store to get something, the prices are elevated so they can cover
[2:46:02] their losses.
[2:46:04] I understand that.
[2:46:05] I don't like it.
[2:46:06] And I hate the parents, you know, really should be more involved with their kids, but I can't
[2:46:12] control that.
[2:46:13] When I first looked at Prop 36, on First Blush, I was kind of excited about it, because
[2:46:19] I'm frustrated like everyone else is.
[2:46:21] And I hear the complaints from a lot of people
[2:46:23] that please don't do anything.
[2:46:25] Well, I wouldn't blame it, please.
[2:46:27] The police are doing what they're legally allowed to do.
[2:46:31] And the initiative process, be it Prop 47 or other initiatives,
[2:46:35] have taken away some of those tools that they're able
[2:46:38] to utilize or were able to utilize.
[2:46:41] As like dealing with the homeless issue,
[2:46:43] we had to deal with court cases that told us
[2:46:46] what we can do with the homeless community,
[2:46:48] what we couldn't do.
[2:46:49] And so it's a learning experience.
[2:46:51] So I started looking at Prop 36 from, I liked the concept of fixing what's going wrong, or has gone wrong,
[2:47:00] but does this proposition really do that, or does it create more problems than what we're experiencing now?
[2:47:06] I don't know.
[2:47:07] I'm going to really sit down with Prop 47 and Prop 36 and do a side-by-side analysis.
[2:47:13] I haven't seen anybody do that, and I think that's one good way to look at this.
[2:47:17] I'm not saying I'm not going to vote for Prop 36, but at this point I don't know, and I don't think it's fair for us as a body to take a position when members like me have to say I don't know.
[2:47:31] So, we need to do something I'm just not quite convinced as to what it is yet.
[2:47:36] So I'm hoping something else comes up.
[2:47:40] But, you know, I'm in a corner.
[2:47:42] Those are my comments. Thank you Mr. Mayor.
[2:47:44] Thank you. I also like to thank all the speakers, you know, the positive and people that want
[2:47:50] to people that don't want to do it. I want to thank our police chief, you know, for the next
[2:47:54] presentation. You know, I've always supported our police department and support them in many,
[2:48:02] many issues. But this brought by 36, I've mentioned I'm not going to repeat a lot of things
[2:48:08] were said, but I believe that I do not believe a smashing grab.
[2:48:13] I really do not believe in that.
[2:48:14] I think this horrible and it's really affecting our businesses.
[2:48:18] In fact, a lot of businesses are closing because of them in many cities because that's
[2:48:21] a smashing grab.
[2:48:22] So we need to really work on that and we don't also need to work on the mental illnesses,
[2:48:27] we need to work on homelessness.
[2:48:29] But I believe that the way perhaps 36 is written now is kind of negatively affect a lot
[2:48:36] groups, a lot of our groups in the community, you know, by imprisonment, by what's a felony,
[2:48:42] what's, you know, what it's not, you know, and so forth. But I, at this time, believe this was mentioned
[2:48:48] by our consummampers and some of the speakers that we need to improve that 36 or 47 for that matter
[2:48:57] in order to, to legally, not affect a lot of the negatively affect a lot of the, our residents in
[2:49:05] in the city of Oxford or in the conduventorial or in the state of California, so I'm right
[2:49:10] now I believe that 36 and east of that help, you know, and thank you for that.
[2:49:17] Consumable switch or do you want to share anything else?
[2:49:20] No, nothing further.
[2:49:21] I was just...
[2:49:21] Anything else?
[2:49:22] No question.
[2:49:22] Consumant to run.
[2:49:24] I mean, excuse me, to run out.
[2:49:27] What?
[2:49:27] Mudder bal.
[2:49:30] That's who it?
[2:49:31] Yeah.
[2:49:32] I do want to make it.
[2:49:33] I mean, see, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're.
[2:49:34] I did not press the button, so I apologize.
[2:49:39] This is actually a good conversation.
[2:49:43] I think we all can agree that we do have a problem,
[2:49:46] whether it's with drugs, the thefts,
[2:49:51] and there's definitely something that needs to be done.
[2:49:57] Is it this? I don't think it's the right thing.
[2:50:01] On the human side, if I had a child that was a drug addict, and he was out on the street,
[2:50:13] I put myself in those parent shoes, and I'm not too positive that this is the solution.
[2:50:23] On the human side, I would like to see a little bit of more compassion, but then on the other
[2:50:30] side of being a resident in the city that has to, sometimes go around individuals are blocking
[2:50:36] our way, just not to have a confrontation. It's really, really tough because we want
[2:50:42] our police department to have all the tools necessary in order to keep us safe. And we've
[2:50:47] all seen those cases where we have an unhoused individual that might be under the influence,
[2:50:55] might have mental issues, and we look at these propositions that are coming up, and we think
[2:51:03] could we have saved a life if this would have passed? And that is always something that
[2:51:09] goes through my head, and maybe the answer is yes. Maybe we could have saved somebody's life.
[2:51:15] We've seen those cases where a homeless individual just goes and attacks somebody randomly.
[2:51:20] What happens if that's my family? What happens if that's one of us?
[2:51:25] would we change our mind with this and I don't know the answer. I don't know but what
[2:51:31] do I I do know is that I want to live in a safe community. I want to give
[2:51:38] resources to our police officers to be able for them to do their job but also be
[2:51:43] safe. I think this needs a lot of work and I think that when it comes to
[2:51:49] and mental illness, we, as a state, maybe even as a nation, we have a lot of work to do in order
[2:51:56] to put the human side into what we want to accomplish. And I just don't think incarceration
[2:52:06] is the key. Now, on the burner side, by all means, I don't think this, at least I'm not sure
[2:52:12] and maybe Chief Venetas and correct me, but when I see it in the news, these individuals look like
[2:52:19] in their senses like they know what they're doing and that's bad and I'd like to see that even
[2:52:24] more criminalized but I think these two areas really just need to be separated.
[2:52:30] Thank you. So what's the pleasure of the board?
[2:52:42] No action on the side of it. So we will receive and file this item.
[2:52:48] Thank you, everybody, for being here today. Thank you so much.
[2:52:54] Okay. Our next item is, this is the review of the information consent items.
[2:53:01] And there's items one to five, before we go into a
[2:53:05] Democrat, do we have any speakers on the consent agenda item?
[2:53:09] Mayor Sankos, there's no public speakers for this item.
[2:53:14] Okay, council members, the council of Perelum.
[2:53:20] One question.
[2:53:21] One question.
[2:53:22] With respect to the approval of the minutes.
[2:53:25] When we have the minutes here,
[2:53:28] and we list them as the council minutes.
[2:53:30] Do we need to correct and add the term housing authority, finance committee, the various things that we have on the agenda when we start this council meeting?
[2:53:42] Because there was a question brought up last night and I think it needs to be addressed and sooner or the better.
[2:53:50] We printed a agenda and the agenda for this meeting tonight says the Oxnard City Council, Oxnard Community Development Commission, successor agency, Oxnard financing authority, Oxnard Housing Authority.
[2:54:00] But we're approving the minutes for September 3rd, and it says simply, Oxenard City Council.
[2:54:06] But I do see that we had a member of the Oxenard Housing Authority sitting on the meeting,
[2:54:12] but it doesn't say that we're approving the minutes for the Oxenard Housing Authority.
[2:54:16] I don't know who's going to give me an answer on that.
[2:54:18] So I have to say the question.
[2:54:19] Mr. City Attorney, or Madam Clerk, can you share some light into this item?
[2:54:27] So, from what I've seen of the minutes that are prepared and the city attorney's office doesn't
[2:54:34] get involved in producing the minutes unless questions are raised to us.
[2:54:43] So, they do reflect actions of the different bodies that it's not just the housing authority
[2:54:48] sometimes you get the parking authority or the financing authority.
[2:54:52] Those actions are reflected in the minutes.
[2:54:56] It is, they are minutes for a meeting where multiple bodies
[2:55:01] are convened.
[2:55:04] It is not a situation where as soon as council businesses
[2:55:08] done, the gavel is sounded and a different hat gets put on
[2:55:16] and then you go on to a different meeting.
[2:55:18] These are actions that are occurring simultaneously
[2:55:21] and those actions are reflected in the minutes that are put before the Council.
[2:55:25] Now they could be clarified as to, in the format of the minutes, as to what is happening.
[2:55:35] And the approvals can be adjusted accordingly as well.
[2:55:39] The medical committee can respond to that.
[2:55:40] But my understanding was that in the past, they were given minutes for separate agencies like housing authority and the financing authority.
[2:55:49] So, Madam Clerk, what is your position in the Senate?
[2:55:53] The minutes have not been separate for the housing authority.
[2:55:58] The housing authority meetings agenda items are combined as our City Attorney Fisher has
[2:56:06] stated.
[2:56:07] They are combined in the agenda with the City Council.
[2:56:10] The minutes do state what bodies have met in doing that meeting.
[2:56:17] it is stated in each of the body of a council meeting minutes. However, if the council wishes
[2:56:24] to, for me to clarify or identify because it's already identified in the body and if you look
[2:56:32] at the attendance in the listing where it says, what bodies met during that meeting within the
[2:56:37] minutes, at the beginning of the minutes it does include the housing authority. However, at the very
[2:56:44] On top of the minutes it does say City Council minutes, I can also include just like I do in the agendas and list all of the bodies that the council represents when they're meeting during Council agendas.
[2:56:58] If that is helpful, I'm more than happy to include them at the top, but it is stated within the meeting minutes.
[2:57:06] I think probably because of Priscilla that probably clarifies more so if that was, I would
[2:57:15] think so also I would defer, I appreciate the city clerk and I asked this because it came
[2:57:20] up last night in the discussion and listening to the city attorney, is there a yes or
[2:57:27] or no, do we need to include all of them or don't we need to do it all?
[2:57:30] I know it's a little bit more printing but is there something?
[2:57:34] I'm hanging my butt out here.
[2:57:36] I'm asking for a question and answer it.
[2:57:39] They could be clear.
[2:57:40] It could be clear.
[2:57:41] So we should include them all.
[2:57:43] So that would be clear.
[2:57:44] So moving forward, I will list all of the bodies at the top just like they're listed
[2:57:48] at the agenda.
[2:57:50] In the matter of programs, they can't help us soon in the future.
[2:57:52] If somebody wants to go back and look at those such end items, then it's more clarity
[2:57:56] there.
[2:57:57] Absolutely.
[2:57:58] Thank you very much.
[2:57:58] Thank you.
[2:57:59] Thank you.
[2:57:59] We do welcome, but just to be clear, we have minutes for all housing authority items.
[2:58:06] They are included in our minutes, if we're meeting.
[2:58:09] Thank you.
[2:58:10] And Mayor and in this clerk, if it hadn't come up last night, I wouldn't be asking it today.
[2:58:14] I thought it was a good point last night, and I figured as a council member, who was
[2:58:19] watching the thing last night, I'd asked the question.
[2:58:21] So I did, and I appreciate your efforts, and I appreciate the city attorney.
[2:58:24] And I appreciate the mayor coming together.
[2:58:27] And I think if it can be a little clearer.
[2:58:29] I think the recommendation that we're making would help.
[2:58:33] Maybe just me, but I think it would help the general.
[2:58:36] No problem.
[2:58:37] That is an easy fix.
[2:58:39] Thank you, Council Member Parallel.
[2:58:41] Thank you, Mayor.
[2:58:42] And thank you, City Attorney Fisher.
[2:58:44] Okay.
[2:58:45] Thank you, so we'll take that into consideration.
[2:58:47] Thank you so much.
[2:58:48] Okay.
[2:58:48] So we have a items window five.
[2:58:50] Do we need a motion?
[2:58:53] Any speakers on that?
[2:58:54] No one knows speakers right?
[2:58:55] We.
[2:58:56] May your circle said, there's no speakers for this item.
[2:59:01] I'll give you a full consent.
[2:59:02] So we move Mary-Protem.
[2:59:06] Second by.
[2:59:08] Council Member
[2:59:16] Pissue.
[2:59:18] Council Member Maligan.
[2:59:20] Council Member Perrello.
[2:59:23] Council Member Perrello.
[2:59:23] Council Member Perrello.
[2:59:24] Yes.
[2:59:25] Council Member Valenzuela.
[2:59:27] May your project make Donald.
[2:59:29] Mayors that I will set.
[2:59:31] Thank you.
[2:59:32] Motion carries seven to zero.
[2:59:34] Thank you.
[2:59:34] Our next item is reports.
[2:59:37] And this is from the Housing Department's subject.
[2:59:40] Acceptance of a $500,000 United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
[2:59:45] HUD.
[2:59:46] Choice neighborhoods planning grant.
[2:59:48] Recommendation and city council number one.
[2:59:51] Adopt the resolution, authorizing the city manager.
[2:59:53] or designate two, A, execute the fiscal year 2024 choice neighborhood planning and grant agree.
[3:00:00] Amendment for an amount of $500,000 as a co-grantee on behalf of the City of Oxnard. And be executed all documents necessary
[3:00:10] for the acceptance of fiscal year 2024 choice neighborhood planning grant. Two authorized fiscal year 2024, 25 budget appropriation,
[3:00:20] the amount of $250,000 from the general fund, 101, available fund balance, and transfer to the city.
[3:00:29] housing authority and authorize the city manager or designate to take all access necessary
[3:00:36] to evaluate the transfer. Also that the Board of Commissioners won adopt the resolution
[3:00:42] authorizing the executive director or designate to execute fiscal year 2024 choice. They have
[3:00:48] put planning grant agreement in the amount of $500,000 is that elite grantee and behalf
[3:00:54] of the housing authority, of the city of Oxford, and to execute the HUD,
[3:00:59] dash 140404 form, and all of the documents necessary for the acceptance of the fiscal year
[3:01:06] 2024 choice neighborhood planning grant. This item did not originate in committee,
[3:01:11] because it is a continuation of an item previously approved by the city council,
[3:01:16] and this is a pretty important item to measure M and we do have Mr. Ramirez for any additional
[3:01:22] questions. Any additional questions or 25 virtual message you want to share with us?
[3:01:29] That means 24 words. Thank you Mayor Emelo and I meet this house and director.
[3:01:37] I'm happy to answer any questions but I do want to say is that the department and me myself
[3:01:42] personally are very happy and proud of this opportunity and thankful for your leadership and
[3:01:47] of the city manager's office, but a special thanks to the Housing Department team,
[3:01:55] Albert Ramirez, who led the effort and get into this application completed and
[3:02:01] Brendan Lopez, who also was intriguely involved in the application and the balance
[3:02:07] of the team that supported and the completion of this application. It was really a
[3:02:12] and very, very proud of it. Thank you.
[3:02:15] And thank you, Chair Staff, you know, Brenda and everybody's up.
[3:02:18] Because of my parallel.
[3:02:20] Yes, number one. I'm not familiar with employees.
[3:02:22] Are the employees here tonight?
[3:02:24] Can they raise their hand if they are?
[3:02:25] I'm not familiar.
[3:02:26] Oh, they're all, thank you.
[3:02:27] Thank you very much for your work and involvement.
[3:02:29] Thank you. I appreciate everything that the City of Oxnard
[3:02:33] and the staff and the taxpayers, supporters of the city,
[3:02:37] do to help residents in the city.
[3:02:39] And I'm going to just read the first sentence of the background information.
[3:02:45] It states the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD mission is rooted
[3:02:49] in expanding housing and economic opportunities for low-income housing, addressing homelessness
[3:02:54] and building great neighborhoods.
[3:02:57] If we find at any time that there is some abuse of any of these funds or actions by anybody
[3:03:03] involved does the federal government get involved and following up, potentially consequences
[3:03:10] for something wrong doing?
[3:03:13] I would think so, yes, if we somehow misuse funds.
[3:03:18] In some way, the grant is federal grant, and it'd be oversight by the Department of House
[3:03:24] and Urban Development.
[3:03:26] I think for that matter, locally as well, the council, the city manager's office, everybody
[3:03:31] would be involved in making sure that we don't do anything at the legal.
[3:03:37] Thank you, that's my only question.
[3:03:39] Thank you very much.
[3:03:39] Thanks for that matter.
[3:03:42] Any funds that come from the feds or anything.
[3:03:45] Any misuse, of course, is inappropriate.
[3:03:48] I would say anything that's a nithical or a moral funding or otherwise,
[3:03:52] would be a wrong thing to do and I should be fired.
[3:03:56] Mayor Pro Tem.
[3:03:56] And I appreciate the housing director saying that because that speaks for, I believe, every
[3:04:03] member of here, and I believe, every member in the city of Oxenard.
[3:04:09] May I have a minute.
[3:04:10] I just wanted to make a comment.
[3:04:12] Last time we looked at this and looked at the map and I didn't do until the last minute
[3:04:17] before the meeting.
[3:04:18] My house was within the shaded area that would be affected by this grant.
[3:04:23] I believe Oscar Monterey comes from Monterey's house,
[3:04:26] was in the map area too.
[3:04:29] And the city attorney's response at that time was,
[3:04:32] it's just a request to put together a program or an application.
[3:04:39] It's not any specific project that would have an impact
[3:04:42] on the property value of your house either positive or negatively.
[3:04:47] And so I followed up with him today,
[3:04:49] just to make sure that was still the same comment
[3:04:51] And it was what we're doing here is simply applying this money or accepting this money to put
[3:04:58] together a grant application and then where it would really be an issue is once that application
[3:05:05] is approved and project areas are within the distance of my house that might have affected
[3:05:10] or Councilwoman Monogales House that might have affected, then we would have a conflict.
[3:05:14] But at this point in time, we don't have any conflict and we're free to approve this or
[3:05:20] prove it as which we feel that would be pretty accurate Mr. Fisher.
[3:05:25] Correct. There are no specific projects yet that we can examine in relation to where your
[3:05:33] property interests are. So with my with your permission one correction if you don't mind.
[3:05:39] Go ahead. This is not an application for a grant. This this grant has been awarded. This is a
[3:05:45] an agreement to receive the grant award and then complete a plan. So from the perspective that the
[3:05:51] plan has not been completed, we don't yet know whether your property would be impacted,
[3:05:57] benefit or otherwise, but it is to receive the grant and then complete the plan over it to your
[3:06:03] period. So it was awarded, Mr. City Manager? Right, but I want to be clear on the semantics here.
[3:06:12] This is a grant we applied for in order to put together a plan, which isn't that plan in a
[3:06:18] but self a master grant application to HUD.
[3:06:22] Thank you.
[3:06:22] Yes.
[3:06:23] Thanks for your clarification.
[3:06:25] So once we complete the plan, we then become eligible to submit for the implementation
[3:06:29] grant, which is $50 million, which would then build a thing that the plan would plan for.
[3:06:36] Good.
[3:06:36] next minutes. Any additional information from if not we need a motion. Excuse me, may I say a
[3:06:44] question? Any speakers? There are no speakers virtually or I'm a person for this item.
[3:06:49] Mayor said I also we will need two separate votes. One for City Council and one for the
[3:06:54] House in authority. Okay, for City Council. Would you recommend action? Second.
[3:06:59] Okay.
[3:06:59] But I'm swell now.
[3:07:02] Second by, by, by, by, Rol, and Rol.
[3:07:08] Council member Bessua.
[3:07:10] Council member Madrigal.
[3:07:12] Council member Porello.
[3:07:14] Council member Turan.
[3:07:16] Yes.
[3:07:17] Council member Valice Welen.
[3:07:18] Aye.
[3:07:19] Mayor Pritim McDonald.
[3:07:21] Mayor Serego Serego.
[3:07:22] Aye.
[3:07:23] Thank you motion carries seven to see where.
[3:07:25] Okay.
[3:07:26] For the Board of Commissioners to eat a motion.
[3:07:29] Home for the house.
[3:07:30] So move like Commissioner Perrello,
[3:07:35] second, second Baptist Administration, roll call.
[3:07:44] Commissioner Perrello, Commissioner Perrello, Commissioner Tuan.
[3:07:52] Commissioner Valenzuela, Commissioner McDonald, Commissioner Saragosa, Commissioner Andrade.
[3:08:03] Thank you. Motion carries A2Zwell.
[3:08:06] Thank you. Okay, our last item here is the Public Mercy Department, subject agreement 32500 with Sen.
[3:08:17] I'll go west LLC for biosolid hauling services.
[3:08:22] Recommendations in the city council approve and authorize a mayor to execute and agreement with
[3:08:27] Senegal, west LLC in the amount of $10 million.
[3:08:32] For initial term of one year from November 1, 2024, October 31, 2025.
[3:08:39] With the options of four consecutive one year period extension,
[3:08:42] that shall not exceed the total of five years for a final term ending, October 31, 2029,
[3:08:51] the Biles Solets Hall and Services for the wastewater division.
[3:08:56] As of this day, the City Council agenda has been posted, and there's not yet an outcome
[3:09:01] from the September 24 public works in transfer testing committee staff.
[3:09:06] Staff is available to answer any questions, and of course this will send a prerecord
[3:09:11] by an impermeasure M, and we have Michael.
[3:09:16] If I'm a misremeritist, I want to make a point.
[3:09:20] The committee did approve this item 3-0
[3:09:22] at the committee meeting, so this, it was exempted.
[3:09:27] Okay, that's correct.
[3:09:27] So when we wrote the staff report, obviously,
[3:09:29] we have the notification requirements
[3:09:32] in the timeline requirements.
[3:09:33] So the staff report was written before the committee meeting,
[3:09:36] committee meeting occurred,
[3:09:37] committee recommended this item go to council,
[3:09:39] approved for a program three zero okay thank you thank you for the
[3:09:43] correction on consumprello I just like to speak as the chair of that
[3:09:47] committee it was a very robust discussion back and forth a lot of information
[3:09:51] came out exactly what it is that they're hauling where it's going how they're
[3:09:55] doing it I hope that other council members I chance to see it or if they have
[3:09:59] questions they ask but it was unanimous support of the item that's right and we're
[3:10:04] I'm calling to up to the Kern County, correct?
[3:10:08] Yes, good evening, Mayor, council members.
[3:10:12] My name is Tim Beeman, Assistant Director of Public Works
[3:10:14] overseen water and wastewater.
[3:10:15] And yes, the facility is near the nearest town
[3:10:19] as lost hills, which is right along the pipe and Kern County.
[3:10:24] In my understanding, some of the material really
[3:10:27] for their planet, the grass is so green
[3:10:29] and some believe it will.
[3:10:34] In the additional questions on the side of the book, just because of my umbrella.
[3:10:38] Just, it's going to be slammed by a whammy, so we take solid waste from our sewer plant.
[3:10:44] We squeeze it, get as much liquid as we can out.
[3:10:47] We take the solid waste somewhere else, where they are legally allowed to treat it, or it
[3:10:52] doesn't impact the groundwater that we know of, and they do what with it and after they
[3:10:59] do what what happens to it then just for the general public who may wonder where they
[3:11:04] when they flush what happens that's so you do have a correct we we run our solids through
[3:11:09] what we call belt filter presses that pushes out as much liquid as possible so we're not
[3:11:13] just heavy or hauling a heavier load and then it is tracked up to the facility the Cine
[3:11:19] group facility which our staff do go and inspect our staff point about two weeks ago and just
[3:11:23] looked at the whole facility and we have class B solids currently but at this new facility
[3:11:28] to actually go through a composting process, which makes it into a class A, which can be used
[3:11:32] for agriculture and other purposes.
[3:11:35] And what do they do with the compost?
[3:11:37] It's actually sold on the market.
[3:11:39] So it's commercial product.
[3:11:41] That's correct.
[3:11:42] Thank you.
[3:11:43] Thank you.
[3:11:46] Any speakers on this item?
[3:11:48] Mayor, sir, go ahead.
[3:11:49] There's no speakers virtually or in person for this item.
[3:11:53] Okay.
[3:11:53] So when you're in motion, I'll move the recommended action.
[3:11:55] Move the consummate run on.
[3:11:58] I mean, the Borello and second by Mayor Protein, Rolkong.
[3:12:06] Council member Bessouil, Council member Madrigan, Council member Borello.
[3:12:12] Yes. Council member Troran.
[3:12:14] Yes. Council member Valenswala.
[3:12:16] Aye. Mayor Protein McDonald, Mayor Seregoset.
[3:12:20] Aye. Thank you. Motion carries 7-2-0.
[3:12:24] Thank you. That's the last item.
[3:12:25] Me, you are adjourned. Thank you.