It pulls through this year, again.
Okay.
It's...
Also, what is it that we look at?
So, what are we going to click on?
There's 10D.
10D is okay. Is it Larry?
I don't know.
The jazz is the new part.
I mean, I know, but not for a public release.
So, yeah.
Okay, sorry. I just released it. Okay. Okay, it is now six o'clock and I want to call them
pleading to order. Normally I'd say Samantha is willing to stay for all of us, but...
She can do that. She's here to survive, but she can do that.
Sorry, Chair Bell's here. Eric, first vice-president, you're here.
Thank you very much. Okay, approval of minutes. So will everybody take a moment to review the
July 1st, 2026 minutes and my
motion to approve or alter?
I'll move to accept those written.
Do I have a second?
I'll second.
Okay, we have a motion to approve as written by Isaac and seconded by Lisa.
And we're all in favor.
PCI.
Aye.
So the motion has passed to approve the minutes as written July 1st,
2026, which is the percent first.
Okay.
Okay, so let's move on to Public Comments.
At this time, a person may address the executive board on matters within the subject matter
jurisdiction of the executive board.
The executive board cannot enter detailed discussions or take any action on any items
presented during public comments at this time.
time, such items may only be referred to the executive secretary for administrative action
or scheduled and subsequent agenda for discussion.
Public comments on items on agenda will be considered at the time of consideration of
the agenda item.
The presiding officer shall limit public comments to three minutes and hand somebody
for public comments.
No, actually, we had an attendee, but they did not have to hand up, and now they're not here.
However, Samantha would like to make a public comment.
So, as you three know, my last name of the city will be tomorrow. It's been lovely working with all of you.
Temporarily, we'll pass some baton to this man over here who you all know.
I'm filling in for her.
I'm okay with their spreading out for the duties everybody wanted this gig
So I pulled rank I said now it's mine, baby. So you have me
Probably until the end of the year. Okay, but she wants to see a bite. Sorry about you
So
I'm not supposed to make comments, but I'm going to, anyways, my public comments to you
are, you're the third person I've lost within the last few days, and it's bringing tears
to my eye.
It's been a pleasure working with you.
You brought us up to snuff, and I appreciate all that you've done to make us, bring
under where we need to be as far as the movement of our meetings and everything else in policy and all that good stuff.
You're here.
Yes, she's going to be—no, no. You're going to work with Martha in our office on a neighborhood council of flyers and everything for the time being.
And then they all appear to be hands. Everyone up there is free.
Great.
So it'll take me a while to get up to speed, but I'll figure it out.
Thank you.
Quick, quick, quick, she was.
You guys got deep shoes to fill, right?
Just so you know, I start classes.
I'm not going to lie.
So what?
Don't see any attendees, so I think you should message us.
Yes.
Okay.
There are no other public comments in here.
Okay.
Without objection, I'm moving on to item D, business, subject,
ankle goals, and action items that the Inco Executive Board
receive an update on the 2026 goals and action items
followed by discussion.
I don't have my list today because of circumstances,
but do you guys have any comments?
I'm afraid I'm a little underprepared for this one as well.
I don't have anything updated.
I'm keeping the map up to date on the cadence
of the general membership meetings,
but nothing new. Otherwise. Well, I do have one comment though. We were able to
get another chair for Fremont South and the chair's name is Tom McGee. I was McGee.
I think it's MC Capital GEE and he had actually was on the board previously as
member-at-large, but he decided to step it up and take action. And they were able to keep their
secretary and I think their treasurer. And then they got a strong arm to the vice chair, right?
Join again. Do I remember correctly that he's strong arm their vice chair, but it's been doing
it for a long time to do. She was doing a long time. She was going to step down,
but she finally decided to step up. She was the vice chair. She didn't want the treasurer
But she did step up, and so they got a full board, which I always like to start out that
way if I can get it, because life happens and people drop out right after they volunteer.
So to me, I always strive to get that seven, so if they go down two or three, they still
have a full board.
Fantastic. So I was glad about that, but I don't have any other comments right now.
I'll have a better list next week as to the names. I'm going through all my old stuff right now.
Of course, I had to drop it for the last two weeks, so to get more names, to find names of old contacts
that may be able to follow up with if they're still in the city.
Okay, so item two, subject, fall candidate forum that the Ingo executive board discussed
the fall of 2026 candidate forum events and with that, you're up.
I'm the executive board, my name is Ron Lover, Vice Chair of East Village Neighborhood.
Hey, Ronald?
Yeah.
Just sit here.
In case anyone...
Just right here.
If anybody comes on, they...
I was on my back.
to the forums today, just that's what I was supposed to do.
Please, back on them.
Go to the forums on them.
Okay.
Poor guy.
Hi.
Good evening, everyone.
I'm Oliver Wehout, East Village Neighborhood Vice Chair,
former moderator of the INCL Candidate Forums.
As previously presented to the general membership
at the July meeting, we had considered doing Candidate Forums
for all of these positions, Oxnard City Council,
Ventura County Superintendent,
Ventura County Community College District,
Ventura County Board of Education,
Oxnard Harbor District,
Piaigua City Municipal Water District,
Oxnard Union High School District,
Rio Elementary, Oxnard School,
Ocean View, and Windy Mead.
Can I?
Yeah, just to make note to the user,
is there any, you're not doing?
I'm not doing this.
So that made it easier.
You considered all of them.
So we consider, is this all?
We consider all the nonpartisan seats that have at least some precincts in Hobsonite.
Yeah, but we are voting, or at least deciding today, what positions we actually want to go forward with,
of all of those.
Correct.
All right.
You mentioned the schools.
Yeah.
So break it down.
Hold on.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Is there any that's on the ballot in November that is not under this?
Yes.
That's all the partisan races.
Okay, correct.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
What is school?
You had schools, of course, city council.
Water, you have been before, but...
I know, but again, I...
Yeah, but if we can just generally talk about that.
Obviously, I recommend and advise
that we have the Oxnard City Council Districts, no matter what.
That's what we've never done then.
The next one that I would advise is Ventura County Superintendent.
We only had Karen Scherr.
This time there's only two candidates instead of three to invite.
It was Maggie
Marshner who wasn't able to come.
The next one that I would advise is all the ones that serve on a county level, which would
be the County Board of Education, the Community College District, and then the special districts
are the Harbor District and the Cayega's Municipal Water District.
And then we might want to consider then, I would only consider zero or all five
school districts, not just picking ones, because they looked a little bit, they were just to pick
a couple. There was the option. We have done, we have thought previously before, as you may or may
not know, League of Women Voters, if there's only one candidate there or one candidate who responds,
they don't have any, we've decided to always invite anyone for the position, regardless
list if there's only one candidate.
And so there's an option brought up to do a mid, early, sometime in September because
usually their candidate forms happen in late September or October.
It also needs to do all the uncontested seats in mid or early September.
I'd recommend substituting our executive board in September for September 9 as an easy
So that would at least give us a plan in terms of that Oxnard is able to do this for the residents.
And it's not as high drama in terms of all the contested races.
Okay. Can I ask the non-contested?
Yeah.
Which ones are the non-contested again?
Yes. And this one now I'll do slowly.
Ventura County Board of Education.
You can do that, VCPOE,
Area 1.
And is that real?
Area 1?
No, no, no.
You can try County Board of Education.
That's County White.
Area 1.
Okay, gotcha.
And then for Taiyaguas, both District 4 or both Division 4 and Division 5 are uncontested.
Our
Oxnard Union High School District, OUHSD, all three states are uncontested.
And then for one of the Oxnard School District, Area 5 is uncontested.
Is that consistent, though, with your prior comments about deciding whether to do all
school districts or not, including the contested ones?
Yeah, I mean, we're just doing the contested ones.
We would do the uncontested in mid-September.
The possibility, we're not.
It's just that when you named the ones you wanted to do,
you hadn't decided yet what the correct end school was for this.
Correct.
That's all I heard you say was either all or nothing.
Which, it seems fair.
That's correct.
And everything that you said is correct, yeah.
Let's see, Ocean School District. There are three seats open. There's only three, so basically uncontested.
And then Waini School District, areas three and five are uncontested. So there's these six.
There are 10 seats with uncontested positions.
Obviously we should still decide whether we want to do the school districts and like that.
All the other seats are contested.
This is as of yesterday, they're still finalizing as of today, they'll probably have the actual
final by tomorrow or Friday.
But I'm pretty sure.
There's nobody else who could report.
And so if I can today.
They are closed for those seats in which the non-enforced in the final get.
So that was all the uncontested currently, and I know that it could be more as of tomorrow, right?
So unlikely, but unlikely, right? Okay.
But so that list kind of knocks out a lot of people, right?
Yes.
And how many do we have left after we knocked those uncontested out?
Yeah. So we'll have 12.
12?
Yes.
And out of those 12,
and probably is the part of the water district,
some of the water districts?
No.
So for those that have contested all the Oxnard City Councils,
superintendent.
Wait, hold on, I've got to write this down.
Superintendent.
To me, college districts,
Oxnard-Harbour district, all the real school districts areas, and two
of the three Oxnard school districts, obviously, I'll send these out to everyone today and
then an update again on Friday.
And then, now, out of these 12, and I know that we've kipped out more than that in three meetings,
but how many meetings do you think we need for kicking out?
Let's say we choose all of these.
How many meetings do you think we can do it in?
Because, yeah, so all of them contested, we could do it one night, because I wouldn't do more than 15 minutes per position, and that's only if everyone even answers back, which usually a third of them don't.
This is how much we try for the contestant if we had if we do all of them at
least three nights
so I honestly don't think we have the capacity to four nights and I would recommend
I couldn't do it either I'm sure you wouldn't want to do it either you signed up for it
I think that what's reasonable of us is all the non-school districts, but also including
County Sprint and it's technically education still so.
So just to clarify, yeah, when you say three nights, you're including the non-contested?
No.
Okay, so these why non-contested and three contested nights. Yeah, we've never done more than three nights and that said that backwards
I think no why non-contested and oh, yeah, why non-contested and three contested nights?
We've never done more than three nights
And that was really intense. I think it was before you did it. Yeah, so never done more than three nights
Right.
That's true.
So having the table so far is for next.
Yes.
I definitely would not recommend that.
I don't.
There's no way that.
That's tough.
Yeah.
I mean, it's tough because we've never done school distance.
But it'd be really nice to know who we are putting in to take care of our kids
and teach them.
So I know that legal women voters is
coordinated with Lulee to schedule
chambers for their debates. Therefore,
I perhaps you can coordinate with them.
Well, I necessarily to do it together
but to make sure everything's
covered. No, actually what we did, what I
did, I actually talked to David, David
and David, I asked David, you know,
So maybe one of these we could, you know, kind of coordinate with them on it if we want to
do that.
We've never – we did it years and years ago, I guess, before my time, but maybe not that
long ago, but when we – because we haven't been doing it that long, but we did it before
I was on ever – thought of as a chair, but so – but we could coordinate, you
But you, like you said, they're doing the teacher's thing, they don't do the uncontested
and we would want to be fair to everybody, right?
Of course, uncontested, they're going to get voted in anyways, right?
I think it's not bad for the public to hear what they have to say.
You're going to have to, whoever you are, ask very specific, fair questions.
Right, no, I, I can't, so that's what I would say, process-wise.
Yeah, if we really wanted to do all of them, we could always consider dropping our contested
ones that the League of Women was already going to do, and they can just do it.
but actually help out because unfortunately again,
if we're involved with the city,
now I have conflict of interest
with probably at least two of the three council
and at least two of the other districts.
So it would actually help with those things too.
It might just be better,
but that's a different side.
If we want to just give it up and give it to Lee
or have David do double duty with different roles,
which, you know, I think the other guy's name escapes me. David and the other guy that we had last year.
His face is also with the leak. No, he's actually with the college. He was actually pretty good.
The unfortunate thing is he never responded to me. Who's forms that you do yours or the leaks?
He didn't find out hours for where you can get a contract for UWC.
I would say process-wise, you need to negotiate with the legal both.
I mean, say, we really, we want all this covered.
These are the ones we want to do.
Are you comfortable doing these?
I mean, did I?
Well, I don't think you could yield to them.
I think you can go to them because they can't do all of them.
No.
And they can't, this ain't got the whole counting.
And that's what David said.
He said, you should do what you're saying.
But if there's a conflict, let's work that.
He said, once you get your dates, let's talk,
so we can try to avoid stepping on each other's toes.
And on top of it, he said, he'd be willing to help
if there is any conflicts with you.
And so did, what's his name?
I mean, the guy from, because he's actually a good moderator, but I think we could also
coordinate with the legal immigrants voters, maybe on one of these, maybe we can co-host
or maybe we can hope, maybe we can host them here, you know, I mean.
They're doing it here.
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying because David and I did talk about that because we talked
about all kinds of alternatives and that was one of them and maybe the one that
We don't really want to spend a, you know, I think I don't think it's easy just coordinating
with them on who does which and what so that they all at least get one session.
Yeah.
Professor Tim Allison, Tim Allison, I knew it was simple is like, oh, my gosh, besides
the uncontested.
Is there anything else that the League of Women Devoters does not think you don't
do the measure?
So there's a couple of measures from different, obviously the city.
So they would do the measure if the opposition wanted to do it.
Okay. Well, I would advise we leave it to them because there's too much conflict of interest with us being in it.
Yeah, I agree with that.
So there's always that option too.
Pardon?
That's countywide.
I think WCD.
They're doing a property assessment vote.
So, union of water, United Water District, I left a word out of there, but I know, I know it, it's just that, you know, besides the uncontested, the only things that they're not doing are the measures or, yeah, they're not doing same oppositions.
I'm not willing to give up our city council.
I think that they should do it and we should do it because people should be able to see
it twice because our city council debates or forum because they do more of a debate.
I think don't they know they don't know what that's something that we always thought
of doing a debate, but I don't think we're going to do it this way.
No, but I do think that when it comes to our city council sitting on there, sometimes you'll need to hear more than one time somebody talking because you could have a bad night as a, you know, and it's fair to them to the more, the more they're exposed, the better.
You know, so I think that we can't say no to our city council.
I mean, I don't.
negative my priorities yeah um and then we'll see where that shows no we have two we have a lot
of different variables up for perhaps depending on what we do with what we do with with stuff right
yeah so these are the things I want to see okay cool I want to see we would you'd like to see if
we all agree right no I'm speaking for myself okay all right all right if you agree then we'll
vote. I don't disagree. Like, that's what we're having. So the city council, all three races, the
Harbor District. Wait, what was the first one? All cities out there. The city council seats, all three
of those races. The Harbor District is my second priority. Venture County Community College is my
third. The uncontested spot. I got it. It's good. And then you see Super Intended and then the
school districts are my last priority. Got it.
You have a hard time. You said the last two were what?
The VC superintendent of education. Super, yeah.
And then the school district races is my last option. Can I ask you,
of your priorities, can you dissect one level
down and determine which ones you want? INCO to host
versus... Right, so I would be willing to look for synergies with
with what the League of Women Voters is doing and move my priorities around as long as things
are covered.
So, you don't have ownership about who's –
This is not – you know, it's not exactly the fact that we want the forms.
These are the things I'm most interested in personally speaking.
Yeah.
I actually agree with your ranking.
Ranking.
Thank you.
Because I know a lot of people are having issues with the harbor district right
now.
I'm not sure exactly why, because, you know, whatever, but I'll find out, won't I?
Yeah, I don't have a problem with those rankings at all.
Yeah, and with that, the only one that the league would do would be city council and the VCE superintendent,
all the others, they don't do, so.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Yes.
They can't do them all because the reason why they can't do them all is like, like you said,
they don't do the non-contestant either. And they have intensity so right and then they still do
the partisan assembly Senate and yeah they do yeah Senate just Senate and I'm surprised they wouldn't
do the hard work given how they're showing why that is yeah they don't usually do that special
district I've never seen it since COVID they might have done it before I'm saying but they
two can grow. That's true. So that's something. All right, yeah. So I don't know. So of course,
how many would you be responsible for? I'm sorry, that's what I was going to ask.
If we did those top three priorities, the City Council one, two, and three,
races, the Harvard District and the Venture County Community College, how many nights are we
in? I'm guessing for nights two. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Do you have a head
count for yeah over all of them right yeah uh city council three for d1 two for the others
harbour district four for three states and vccd um three for one and two for one that's a lot of
time yeah not many people getting a chance to speak that's a lot of time well yeah they're not doing
it on the night so no i don't think yeah he's already figured out what you want to bet
We generally do a 45 to an hour for three, 30 to 45 for two people.
The Harvard district will be a little bit weird, but we'll probably set that at an hour.
So what about your, one of your opening questions, should we do the school districts at all?
Are you guys decided on that, or do you want to have that conversation?
It is my lowest priority.
It's a shame. I mean, I wish we could do absolutely everything.
I don't think it should be our lowest priority because our schools suck.
I'm sorry to say, but it is.
How many of them are contested?
Do you know yet?
Yes. Well, as of right now, of the three, six, nine,
ten of the 12 school district elementary and high school seats,
seven are uncontested.
So there's seven of 12, is that what you said?
Correct.
So you still have five contestant races, okay.
So it's odd, again, on the process,
if you're going to do an uncontested night
and you include the school district,
you're uncontested, you have to do.
I know, that's right.
You have to be contestant as well, yeah.
Couldn't we do the schools all on one night
and maybe squeeze the city council
and the harbor district?
How many is on the harbor district?
Just two people, right?
Four for three seats.
You
Okay.
So you have some uncontested then? That's not how they do it. It's for people running for
three hours large. Yeah. They're large. So it's contested. Oh, God, I check that check. Okay. Oh, so we only do that. Was that the way it was last year, too?
It's been that way since day 44.
Well, maybe this, oh, the Harbor District, I don't know.
Okay, I'm thinking about the water district.
I don't know why, thank you.
I think our biggest thing is regardless,
adding if we did disclose,
no matter what option we would do,
it'd be a lot more or a lot easier.
And so I think that's the biggest one to decide
because if we decide to do the school,
Then for sure, we're going to have an uncontested and then we can set that for September 9th.
If we don't have the schools, then we can consider just doing everything, but we wouldn't
do it as early as mid-September.
That's just too early to coordinate with the candidates and in our own chambers.
So.
And what we do is when we set one of these things on a night of the executive board or
something, we usually do the executive board meeting before the INCO meeting.
We take it back.
So I didn't know if you knew that.
Samantha did warn me.
Oh, she warned you.
She warned you.
I think your decision about whether you do schools, I think it's a big decision.
Yeah, I think we need to think on it, don't we?
I think if you don't have time and you need to do it today, you should just you should just grind it out
It's a bit. It's a big decision
No matter what I say that whatever we have we'll have a
We'll have a forum on October 14 because that's executive board meetings
October 14. Yeah
But we can always consider also doing it October 7 with the items general meeting because it
looks like no matter what we're doing, we're going to have at least two nights of something.
So I say, let's remove, let's say our dates of October 7, 14 when it's done, or like for
sure.
And 7, I hate to pull up my calendar.
They're both Wednesdays.
Good.
Oh, well, 14, I thought you said executive board.
Yeah.
which is the second of Wednesdays.
October 14th is the second week.
I know.
Oh, my God.
Where am I?
Who am I?
It's a nice season.
You can do different dates.
Let me ask you this.
What do you want to ask the
lead one voters to cover for us?
I think we could actually piggyback with them
and co-host or something like that on one of them.
I don't know. I mean I think we could do that with the Harvard district. We could
host it here and just I don't know. There's so many different ways that we
had discussed it that we could do it. But they could run it and we could
to host it or maybe have two moderators if they're willing to do that or, you know, there's
multiple ways we could do it if we did it.
Okay.
Well, how are we failing with the school?
See, I think that's important too because we do need to know who's running our schools.
When you said earlier that you think our community can handle three nights, but not four
I'm sorry. I meant just me that
No, no, I can handle it. Um, the three nights was my attention span. I don't know either.
But were you counting in those three or four nights, one of the nights being the League
of One voters?
No, I was, yeah, everything ourselves. Yeah. We've done everything. And at least with the league, we wouldn't, if we say like, hey, table bird DC, it's like, maybe the Ventura County one and the super intelligence, it's already expensive.
And he said, they don't do the school visits.
It's not sense because it's kind of white.
Yeah, push them.
It is county-wide.
Or at least it's extra.
It's more than Oxnard white.
So it would be more apt for them to do that.
If they would just take on, and we would co-wit them,
Harvard District, Bintrack County Community College,
And the VC superintendent, they were always already going to do.
But I think our thing was that we wanted to have it regardless.
So I think that's the only weird thing with them.
I think we should just be able to co-sponsor everything with them that has to do with Oxide,
whether they're doing it or you're doing it.
That's just brand new. Good for everybody.
much. Well, technically, I mean, all of them are Oxner, but you mean like all of them, all
the non-school districts, is that what you mean? Okay. If they're willing to do them.
So it sounds like you still have to decide on your own here about seven years. Yeah.
And then you have to actually pick up the phone and call Dave. Yeah.
Can we make it a three-way conversation?
I mean, we're going to talk and I'll
The problem is we need to make a decision about the school because if we say yes to
the school, then I'll definitely say let's do the un-sintested on September 9th.
So if we don't do the school, then September 9th is out and we have another month.
So I think regardless, we should decide.
But if you do do the school, you know, may decide which of these you really want
to try to convince the lead to.
to open up your space for the schools.
So VCC would be considered the school zone, right?
Yeah, but it is countywide.
Okay, so that's something that we could ask the league to do.
It seems like the countywide things are easier for them to say yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Okay, so with that framework, what I have written down,
and let me know if this is right. So we would do our own for the city council,
the uncontested, and the school districts. That's what I asked. We would we would try and convince
for a collaboration on the harbor, the community college, and the superintendent.
It's the only superintendent, yeah. I actually like that. So wait, is the city council?
The logical split, yeah. Because we co- with those three and we do our own thing with
everything else. And they can call with you. They won't do anything. Yeah. This is too nice
of our own thing. So the harbor district is going to close the nights of our own thing. Yeah. So
you still have three nights. Which is fine because one of the nights will be uncontested.
And that's so much easier because half of them will probably not even do it. So that's why I'm
not... But you're not even... Yes. I'm not even worried about it. Uncontested is not really
even a night for me. So it's like happens. So are you suggesting you just form it in?
Okay.
We think and we collab and collab. Okay. Everything is club.
But it doesn't sound like what you just said. Yeah, what I understood. But I don't know. I think
it's fun. Again, this is just about the branding and letting people know that
This could go on to both of us, who's actually running it.
Yeah, that's what I was going to ask.
So on the night of posting or or helping, right?
Yeah, what would be the division of labor for a collaboration?
Yeah, I think anything simple.
If they're running it is their thing and we're the co-host.
If we're running it's our thing and they're the co-host.
Right, exactly.
So I think it's like we it's almost like a win-win because we promote each other.
Right. This is a good democracy.
I think, and we talked about that too, so I like that.
So which is the three that we're focusing, or two?
City Council, uncontested school districts.
Uncontested, because they don't do uncontested.
So that just takes us down to two, and then the co-host is the rest of them.
Parber, BCC, and County Supertip.
But nobody's doing the water district?
They're uncontested.
The water district.
Okay.
It's uncontested.
Gotcha.
Never mind.
So I got it.
I got it down.
I already had it down.
I just didn't think I got it down.
Hey, I had a crazy freeway.
Two freeway.
Is that something that sounds good?
So it seems like September 9th is going to be uncontested.
Why would you do it a little bit later in September?
September 9th already covers a date that we're already meeting.
We could do it later, but it bunches up
into all the other candidate forums
that might be happening in late September and October.
So this is easy because it kind of gives us, like, breathing room.
And then we'll have a quorum, too, right?
Wait, September 9th is the second Wednesday or the first Wednesday?
Second Wednesday is the second Wednesday.
Because I have some executive boards, so we won't have a quorum.
I mean, we just called an executive board meeting.
Yeah, people need a quorum.
So it's a candidate's form.
Remember, we don't need a quorum.
I think what I was told was, like, oh.
Who told you?
I thought that we'll go into it later.
There were times when we didn't need a quorum.
Most of the time, I don't remember.
We never had to have a quorum for any of our quorums.
But I think it's because it's set under a special meaning,
but I don't know if it applies anymore,
or if there's a recent change in the law.
I just think the science field is sponsoring the form.
It's just a form.
It's not necessarily, it doesn't have to be a formal INCO meeting.
We'll go back and…
Well, you do have to do an agenda on that stuff.
That's easy.
Hey, I'll help you sort that out.
Yeah, I think it's wrong because there is a code that they put on top of this.
You call it a special meeting is what they call it, so it's not…
Okay, let's deal with the logistics later.
Well, let's deal with that the braces and the date. So September 9th just because it's relatively easy
that's gonna be a gap for all the uncontestants.
And then then for sure October 7th that replaces one of our regular meetings. So we know
we should at least be easier to get torn because it's already scheduled.
I was suggesting October 14, but it looks like we might have to negotiate with the league
or just not negotiate, just to make sure, but you can always do it on a Monday.
That's always been our other option, because we never do it Tuesdays or Thursdays.
So it makes it easier in that way.
We can do it on a different day, but because we've got a lot of stuff that we want to
talk about it are regular meetings and so if we set up a special meeting at her
because we had to cancel this last one too so I'm not I normally would say yeah
let's just do that you know but I'm I know that we're cramming a lot stuff in
right now I get that but you just got a prize this routine and this schedule was
not in your hands. I mean the election schedule is not in your hands. So if you
want to do it September 30 because that would be the only other day that that's
the way to you know let's just do it it like let's just I shouldn't say what
do you guys ever think oh yeah no September 30 the week before what what
do you guys think about just doing it on a regular October 7th meeting I think
I think it's important enough that it.
Yeah, okay.
And that's what we've always had to make it.
So you guys are all cool with that?
Yes.
Okay, now, because we're also doing one on the new nine,
it was my luck.
So the dates I have so far is September nine
for uncontested, October seven for the first session,
and then October 14 for your second session.
Well, I don't know if we are,
did we want to do it October 14 or October five?
Those are basically early choice for September I thought we only whittled it down to two. So I'm not sure what you were saying
Well, you have so many another protested date three nights told. Yeah
For the contested dates, right?
That's just the seven and last over bit there October 14
Yeah, I think the ones that if you think October 14 is too late because that would be the second week of the ballot draw
October 5, as it started the ballot drop at September 30, it just happened to be
before. So, those are the other three dates that we could do, probably, most likely,
because October 12 is full of visits. So, we don't have any strong preferences, and I don't need
it. All right. So, you want it on the same week, so that's a killer weight, or give us
time to breathe on September 30th or October 14th.
Wait a minute. I'm trying to get my head around. I thought we were just doing two forums based on what you said.
You should do the uncontested one early in September and two days of contested. Yeah.
Two contests are contested. Well, I thought City Council, one, two, three races, but I know
the city council, I thought that's what we whittled it down to was then we've got a bunch of the
school district contests to district seats. Okay. That's what you want. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I can't
remember what I said. It's too many. It's too many human beings to do in one night. Okay. No,
I get that. That I thought, you know, like I said, so that made people all being straight
So, for that contestant, there's going to be seven positions on those two nights.
Well, maybe the school district, we do on the 14th, we said, and the City Council on the 7th.
There's something like that.
What do you think?
I think those are good choices.
I think you should be open to the 5th, because, again, you're going to negotiate with the
leaders of voters.
You don't know what dates they were.
Right.
The 5th actually would be good, too.
I would rather do it earlier because it gets more people's time for people to vote, too, appropriately.
Most people enjoy it until the end.
Yeah, I'm glad.
It sounds to me like you have your preferences, but you still have to have a formal conversation with the lead just to find out where they're coming from.
If they're willing to do it the county-wide, and then if they're willing to split the dates up in terms of using this space.
Yeah.
Are we good to, like, that September 9th uncontested, October 7th contested, October 5th contested,
October 14th as well, just back up, and October 14th as a backup, just approve all those.
And then with the goal that IAMCO leads city council,
I'm contested in school district
and the lead will take the lead on Harvard district,
community college district and superintendent.
But we will also co-host passively.
We're both, no matter what, it's just who's leading.
Right, no, yeah, gotcha.
That seems reasonable, at least on our end, I just wanted to make sure that it was on
record the way it is, so that way, because there's a lot of back-and-forth here, so I
know that that's why I just rescheduled it.
So I think as long as you guys are all okay with it, then let's just go with it.
I don't think we need to vote on it, so I think I'm good, yeah.
So I'll send what we have. It's been a nice table that I have here. So that's all.
I'll start contacting candidates. I'll put the three.
I don't usually what I've done is I copied some amount of bits of water be most of it.
So then I give it but you should contact the legal force before you contact the candidates, right?
Oh, this is just for the uncontested that I'm in that contact.
Yeah, that's why is there someone that I can copy instead of you so you don't deal with a mirror more teams
Okay, I'll have to get her email. It's I'm having it. Okay. I'm here. Okay. I think that Samantha put it in the
Oh, I don't have that you know remember. It's not sure. So I'll just get later. Yeah
No, but I thought she says it's everybody didn't you or she's just a city executive. Oh, yeah, that's right
and all up. How could I forget? It's not for us. Okay, so when you call David,
we're not, yeah. That will be this weekend. No, no, no. I know. But when you call David,
did you loop me in on the phone call? We're definitely doing that. Yeah. Okay. We might even
do it soon. Yeah, we can't wait to the weekend because he's coordinating fluly about space
and schedule. So you got to do it sometime or even if you just start with an email. Oh,
email tonight. I can do all of that.
I can also call him too, because he...
Okay, okay.
I'll give you the email.
My brain is not working right now, obviously, so I think it's...
I think if you send him the email with your proposal, then he's got something to chew
on before you talk to him.
Sounds good.
I will blind copy the two of you, copy Amira, copy.
And I'll make it clear that the INCO gets preference on the council chamber dates.
Okay, thank you.
So we'll just...
Well, you should.
Yeah, because what's another usually does she blocks off the five dates that sometimes we ask for and then like removes it
So I'll send the email see them just to make sure but but I have four dates. Yes
All right
Yes
All right. This was good. Yeah
That was messy and we made something good out of it. No job
Yeah, that was a good
Oh, are we done with this item?
That's my brain thing, so anyhow.
Number three.
Am I even, oh yeah, that's it.
I can even, I can even remember what it's about.
Looks like you have two courses before you.
Yes.
I mean, recommendations that the Inco Executive Board discuss, the Third Vice Chair vacancy
and approve one of the following options.
One, conduct a special elections for the Inco Third Vice Chair position at the September
Inco General Membership meeting to fill a term through December 2026 or two, keep the
Third Vice Chair positions vacant for the remainder of the term ending in December 2026.
If they go with choice one, would you, you may have to host the forum.
I don't think so.
We're, we're, we're Daniel step down.
Yeah.
So, so really, we really don't need a forum for that.
So what are you, what do you guys like to see?
Ten weeks were an option number one, but really because point and I I'm okay with
either one however option one is making a filling the seats it's almost the end of
the year anyways and not going to have very many
INCO meetings in between them then because most of them are going to be as
So it's only like two months, truly.
Forms, so, I mean...
Temper.
Right, so that's only two months.
It's just the process of doing that.
You do it at a regular meeting, right?
We do it at a regular, set it on the agenda
for an election for the fifth chair
and somebody would have to step up,
but they'd only be in it for two months, technically.
If I give somebody a taste and then they run for next year,
I think it's worth doing.
But part of the process is you have to put the information
out ahead of time so people have time to think about it,
right? You don't just bring it out of meeting. Oh, on the street you could call people to
see if they're interested, but I'll
do, I'll do whatever you two want to do. I'm not, I'm
not, I really don't think it's necessary. I've got my honest opinion. I think it's kind
of a waste of our time in our meetings where we're going to be spending more time with
the stuff that we can't get on the agenda right now. We've already canceled last
month's meeting and it's all been, I think it's going to be rescheduled for next
months meeting. If I'm not mistaken, I could be mistaken. I'll have to go back and look at our notes.
What do you think that would bump? I don't know. One position shouldn't be very long, right?
One position. Can you explain it to it? I will say yes. Let's do it. I mean, I-
The only thing I would say is you've got to do it, but you have to have a fair way to let every
member know that it's open. We'll be agendized so we can have our executive secretaries send
an email like hey. This is what we can do three ways we can split up the list and
we can call them the active people on the list to see if they're interested in
stepping up for two months and and then put them on the list and then at the
meeting what will happen is that we'll open up the floor to everybody that
if you know if they weren't reached or if they don't remember doing it we
We open up the floor to them and say, if anybody wants to step up to fill this position.
Yeah, but you can't do it with phone calls because someone's going to say, I never got
a call.
No, no, no.
We make the call first.
We make our call list first.
We always, this is the way we've done it for you.
We make the call list first.
And then once we're at the meeting, we say, look, you know, because it's already
on the agenda.
Daniel stepped down.
We're going to fill this position.
is there anybody out there that didn't receive a phone call or their email and you know that it's
interested running for the position. So we open it up to everybody. It's kind of, it is a fair
process. I think a phone call and email for me and agendize or agendize item should be plenty of.
Yeah, that's the way we do it every year. So for as far as, I mean, if there might be a better
But sometimes I do ask, you know, our secretary to send out an email on my behalf saying,
you know, that a position has opened on the executive board.
Is anybody interested kind of thing?
Is there anybody else besides David Sandwich?
Huh?
Is there anybody else besides David that was in there?
David?
Daniel?
Yes, there was, but...
There were other people on the board.
I don't think there was, there was only one other person.
And it, they were the people that were already on the board.
Alfonso and, Alfonso and who was else?
And Chris, this and that would probably like to be back on.
Yeah, I don't suspect we'll have trouble filling the spot.
Okay, no, but.
So you guys need to vote on one or two.
And then I'll send out, if you vote on one,
I'll send out the emails.
Okay, I'll move that we,
try and elect somebody else for the third position.
Okay. All in favor, say aye.
Aye. Okay. All in favor to set this on the agenda.
Now, everyone.
And if some of the members that night decide they want a spontaneous debate,
Ronald, you step in.
I'm going to be at that meeting.
Thank you.
Okay.
You know, I'm not sure that I like that guy.
Okay.
Number four.
Yeah.
You don't worry, Matt.
Okay.
Hold on.
Four.
Right now I do, anyways.
Subject, INCO, is something that is recommendation that the INCO Executive Board receive an
update followed by discussion.
We have none right now.
Okay.
So let's move on.
Oh.
General Membership Meeting.
One, five.
INCO General Membership Meeting, recommendations that the INCO Executive Board discuss in
set the agenda for the next in-vote general membership meetings. Is there anything from
the city that maybe we should be considering that you would like to discuss?
Well, I thought before all this news about Samantha, I thought it was time for me to
come just give a general update. But I have some other things with regard to our parks
and our public bathrooms and our alleyways about illegal dumping that I'd like to
introduce as a concept.
But apart from your updated city manager? Yeah. Okay. But I'm hearing
your discussion tonight. I want to be sensitive about all the business that you need to get
done in this election. These forums are picking up a lot of your time. So I can do that at
any time. So what else do you have? I guess. Well, I think we should put you on the
list because sometimes things fall through so we need backups so you'd be
a good backup. Right exactly. And actually it could also fall under the
item on the agenda of executive secretary.
So what, going to Samantha's role here is
I'm not the city mayor but I'm trying my best just to be a good secretary.
I don't remember what was supposed to be on last month's agenda, but we were trying to
they had everybody had to cancel and I was going to bring it with me but I can't my my
computer's been compromised so okay so that you had some things for on your list remember
remember our last meeting had to be canceled because all are the people that
was supposed to be there canceled so I don't remember who was on the agenda.
That exists somewhere. It's probably on the internet here.
Okay I can get it out but do you all have anything new
or different? Well we might. This is specific to
September 2nd. Hang on.
Let me see. What am I looking for?
We had a list.
There's only a couple of things in the minutes from last time, though.
Candidate form and county program highlight, too.
I can't remember what that was.
Let's talk about it.
I don't know.
I don't have access.
I was looking up the prior agenda.
You don't have your computer with you.
I asked Samantha tomorrow if I see anything on it, I'll just email it to you.
Yeah, and that stuff I think was not as important as some of the other stuff we were talking about, but most importantly it's a forum.
That's a big, I mean, I'm happy that you're doing it, it's a big responsibility.
I know that there's a big thing going on with the seawalls stuff,
but I don't know enough about it.
I know it's not city stuff, right?
That falls on the town.
It's kind of either sea walls or levees.
The sea walls, right?
Yeah.
You guys made some input on that.
Oh, that's true.
But it's also the California, what is it?
You're a higher authority. Right, yeah. But you guys kind of work with them, right?
No, we apply to them. They make their regular rules.
Right, yeah. So any decisions made on the seawalls would be based on whatever they say, right?
Partially, not entirely, because we do have some input, right?
But for certain things, they have this final say.
So I don't know, and I'm sure they're in the midst, I mean, this has been going on for some
time.
So I don't know if that's something we want to consider, and to be honest with you,
I don't know enough about it.
It's a good reason to have it.
It's not even the same boat.
But it's also something based on what all you have going on.
Because right now, so you have your meeting on September 2.
But you're already planning for your first form on September 9.
And then the first two weeks in October, you're going to have these two forms.
So you have a lot already.
Yeah, so this probably won't be set until November for all we know.
So, but it's a consideration.
And then another, these are just ideas anyways.
They're just back up so in case anything does come up.
We could possibly ask the county of Ventura if they want to come in and do another safety
type of thing.
Which safety?
Well, they do a lot of things.
The last one they did for us was the Narcan thing, but then they handed out all kinds
of Narcan stuff.
Right.
stabilization something we cannot. Stabilization, that would be state or
city. It's working now on cratum. It's another, they mentioned that when they
were here for the, for the Narcissus. For the Narcissus? Yeah.
Same meeting, they
things. I don't know the details yet. We had asked them earlier in the year just to give you a
little input. We had asked the county to, you know, one of the things that we wanted to do as part
of our goals is to have the involved in some of the, you know, festivals that are coming up,
you know, which we do regularly. But we were going to do individual neighborhood stuff with
the county and we're only on the neighborhoods that didn't have make it
like a little festival kind of thing not really a festival but you know what I
mean like a safety thing so to introduce INCO and to get them involved in their
neighborhood councils but just spread it around to the individual so participating
On safety, they have behavioral health, they have public health, they have animal shelter,
they have vector control, which is actually very important, because mosquitoes can kill
a lot of people.
So they have full range in terms of the public safety area.
We could – I think we already had vector control, didn't we?
Yes, we did.
I'm sure we did.
it was at the beginning of the year, or was it in the last year?
It's running together in the last year.
I think it was in the last year.
So for September 9th, though, you don't have anything?
No, we don't.
We don't need you to have no agenda systems.
We come up with them definitely before that.
But let me see what was on the last agenda.
I just think I'm here.
I don't want weekly agenda. Come on, Diana.
That's a few weeks from now. And did your agenda publish a week before?
Yes, based on the state, the city's rules. So is it seven days or 11 days?
For the council, it's 12 days. Let me find out.
So it's the same.
I'm pretty sure it's the same.
Okay, eco, no, eco, eco-executive, eco-executive, they put, like, Monday.
Do you think we're multi-culture?
Did you say multi-culture?
They have their own commission.
Yeah, but we're already invited.
So they always let us come in.
There's nothing we need to be concerned about.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm sorry, I'm just trying to find the agenda.
to the eco exchange and not the executive port agenda.
And it should be right here.
Could you have a vision?
What about having the neighborhood councils report out on how their natural night out?
Well, they will do that under their neighborhood reports.
Everybody brings on their neighborhood, you know, I hope so.
Yeah.
Yeah, so.
I think they're scumbering on that.
And we can maybe put some language in there to please discuss your event during your neighborhood reports.
We can probably add that language, just a temporary language.
I mean, I'm not sure that, you know, agenda, A-G-E-N-D-A.
Look at packets.
Huh?
Set packets.
See, I don't know if my phone's been – I don't know if my phone's – I have to go in and have everything.
In fact, I don't – my phone was – I hacked either because the day that my account was hacked,
I got tons of stuff on my phone and my regular computer.
So let me see.
I know I can do this.
I can do this.
I'm going to – this was which agenda you were on.
None of you have your agendas.
I'm looking right here.
Which agenda?
Oh, was it posted?
Yes, it was posted, but then we had to cancel the tent.
The last one was safe.
Thank you.
Okay.
Now I can't read it.
Okay.
Who was on the, this isn't August
10th.
Okay.
That was it.
Wait, that's today?
No.
Wait.
Yeah.
That was going to be the next one.
Yeah.
Why was it set for Monday?
I can't remember, because Doug
will call.
So opening ceremonies, are you sure this is a city council?
This is a city council, how in the city?
Sorry.
That's why it's two days ago.
It's going to say, why was it Monday?
We're kind of bleeding into items for future consideration.
Yes.
And we'll get them to you.
I think in this meeting, that is items for future consideration for the eboard meeting.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, it is confusing.
So the next eboard meeting is?
The second Wednesday of the month, which is, so we're going to have to piggyback that.
So that's, wait, your next eboard meeting isn't until September 9.
And September 9.
Right, you can't wait that long,
because you have to make final decisions on these forums.
Yes, you do.
So on this September.
Okay, so let's back it up maybe a week or two.
So we have to decide?
Well, there's going to be the things that we're going to have to decide.
I'm sure, because we've always had to do that.
So I agree that we're going to have some discussion because Ronald's going to want to meet with us to go over the details.
And you're going to find out whether the legal promoters agreed and all that stuff.
And split you hope for it, because then you may have to change your mind about something.
Right, exactly. I agree. And we have always done that because it's always been necessary.
So let me pull, I can at least pull up my calendar.
then on September 9th, so we could go September 2nd piggyback or we could go
September August 26th? I'd be happy to meet a week from
tonight. I mean, it doesn't have to be a long meeting but it's just a meeting
that finalized, finalized, we can even do a Zoom meeting if you want if it's
easier. It doesn't matter to me. I'm going to find out what the rules are. I think we
can't do Zoom. I think we follow just like this. Yeah, because then we would, yeah,
then you can do something like this and it would be like this. It's different for the
executive board. I'm thinking INCO. We can't do the meetings for INCO unless it's a special
meeting or a special circumstance. But for executive boards we might be able to. We can.
So let me find out, I'll ask the city attorney tomorrow, but are you all good with August 19th?
Are we from tonight? Yes. It should not be a long speech.
No, it shouldn't. It won't be. It's going to be very focused. You're going to have to have
answer by then from the leave anyway, so that you can decide if you want to change your priorities or not.
Right.
Sure.
And by then, maybe we'll have an answer as to what we want.
I mean, I know you have the agenda, there was stuff on it.
Now that stuff was kind of like we were spraying at the bottom at that time, but...
Even then, if you need it.
Not really.
I should say that.
Everything that we do is important.
So we still have no attendees, so I think we're good.
Yeah, no, well.
Okay, executive board reports.
We're going to move on to item E. Executive board reports.
The executive board may individually report on items of interest or concern.
The INCO executive board cannot enter into a detailed discussion
or take action on any item presented during these reports.
Does anybody have a second board to report?
Yeah, real quick.
I've been asked to come to the August 26th Parks and Rec Commission meeting and give an update presentation on my neighborhood's experience with the Bikbindi project.
So I'll have to be doing that.
Well, I'll be there watching.
They're watching what's on TV or not.
I hope it's been sedentary.
Overall, it has been.
Nice.
I wish.
My experience was totally different because we have lot less money.
I mean, come on.
Same as a process.
No, it actually was good. It was different because of what that is.
When you're going?
The 26th. I'll guess 26th.
Okay.
Yeah, okay, that's it.
Wish we could use them 20 years ago, but that's all.
Hey, you know what?
It is what it is that we're using it now.
Exactly.
None of us will hear 20 years ago.
They set up a process to give them for the bigger dollars and cents.
The littler ones, they're doing slightly different.
But that's okay. I mean, ours was just as good.
This was just...
It was in like the terms for the fortune.
What is that?
It's really, it's fun.
Yeah, but here you are.
Yeah, so just find out.
That's cool. I like that, so it's very cool.
Okay. Do you have any?
I do not, but I'll see you at that meeting.
I was always talking about the canal today.
Oh, nice. There you go.
So with that, I'd like to go on to item F.
Items for future considerations.
Members may request that items be placed on future agenda for extended discussion.
Generally, the executive board is the same,
but we will need to keep the discussion on the forums.
So pretty much the same.
The only – is there anything new on here that might need to go off?
The chair of vacancy would not be necessary.
Do you guys have any recommendations?
Oh, excuse me.
So that's all for the chair.
That was well, yeah.
I could handle that one.
Are you adjourning?
You guys have any objections for me?
For us to come?
Okay.
I hear by adjourned the meeting at 7.14.16.
Good evening.
Very long time since I've done a set to say thank you for bearing with me.
Tell me when that goes up.