[0:22] Council Member Espinoza, Council Member Beckmeyer is here, Vice Mayor Wright, Mayor Bulls here.

[0:36] Thank you all for being here today. I'd love to say a full room.

[0:42] I just want to start by reminding everyone that you need to put a parking pass on your car if you're parked out here in the lot, and those are little slips that are found right downstairs.

[0:52] And then I'm going to start with just a general announcement about public comments at the meeting.

[1:00] So public meetings are a limited public forum, meaning that there are rules for commenting of these meetings.

[1:05] Comments on non-agendized items must address matters within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city

[1:11] and comments on non-agendized items must relate to that specific item.

[1:15] If comments do not fall into one of these categories, the city will provide you with an initial warning

[1:20] to stay within the subject manager's section of the city or on topic.

[1:24] If the warning is not followed, I will direct the city clerk to cut off the microphone.

[1:29] And throughout this morning's system, I'll seek the assistance of the city attorney and

[1:32] identifying comments not related to the agenda item or not within the subject manager's

[1:37] section of the city.

[1:41] So I'll start with taking a breath and reading our land acknowledgement.

[1:47] The city of Pacifica acknowledges that we occupy the unseated ancestral homeland of the

[1:53] Ramotish alony peoples, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula.

[1:59] We honor the Ramotish alony peoples for their enduring commitment to Mother Earth.

[2:04] As the indigenous protectors of this land, an importance with their traditions, the Ramotish

[2:08] alony have never seated, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers

[2:14] of this place, as well as for all the peoples who reside in their traditional territory.

[2:19] We refer them their sovereign rights as first peoples, and wish to pay our respects to

[2:24] the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Romantic and Shalomese peoples.

[2:30] Councillor Mbrees, may I ask myself, may I ask myself, may I ask myself, may I ask

[2:37] and to be part of it for which stands one nation on the guard in the digital with liberty and justice for all.

[2:55] So we are starting our council meeting with a couple of proclamations.

[3:01] The first is about suicide prevention month, and I want to invite Bernard Buriantos from the San Mateo County suicide prevention committee to join us.

[3:14] So I'll read the proper question first.

[3:22] We're asked the City of Pacifica and San Mateo County will join the country and state in honoring

[3:28] Suicide Prevention Month in September National Suicide Prevention Week September 6, 12 and

[3:35] World Suicide Prevention Days September 10 to spread the message that Suicide

[3:40] can be prevented.

[3:42] And whereas in 2025, 65 people died by suicide in San Mateo County, and 9,212

[3:50] calls, 173 chats, and 1,735 text messages were received by the 988 suicide and crisis

[4:01] lifeline that is operated by Felton Institute's Peninsula suicide prevention.

[4:06] And whereas residents of the city Pacifica are urged to play a role in supporting each other and preventing suicide by knowing the signs of suicidal thoughts,

[4:17] finding the words of support, and sharing connections to local resources, including the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline.

[4:26] Alternatives to suicide peer support group by heart and soul, suicide loss support group by mission

[4:33] hospice and home care, and be sensitive, be brave, and mental health first aid trainings.

[4:39] And whereas the San Mateo County Public Health, policy and planning, behavioral health and recovery

[4:45] services, suicide prevention committee and partners are collectively organizing activities

[4:50] that our community can participate in throughout September suicide prevention month, including

[4:56] free and person and virtual events, advocacy days and communication campaign with ongoing

[5:03] updates posted at SMChealth.org slash suicide prevention month. And whereas the 2016,

[5:11] the Weight Week carry recognises that many people, particularly LGBTQ plus individuals, racial

[5:19] and ethnic minorities, veterans, men and boys, and people with severe psychiatric diagnoses,

[5:26] carry heavy, often silent emotional burdens, trauma, and mental health struggles. It is a reminder

[5:32] that no one has to bear that hardship alone, and asking for help as an act of deep courage.

[5:39] And whereas the governor's executive order in dash 31-25 focuses attention on men and boys

[5:45] with disproportionately high rates of suicide that are often overlooked.

[5:51] Yet, carry invisible burdens such as emotional pain,

[5:54] stress, grief, isolation, and expectations.

[5:58] And whereas the 2024 San Mateo County Board of Supervisors

[6:01] Resolution declaring loneliness, a public health crisis,

[6:05] calls on our community to reduce stigma,

[6:08] strengthen social connection and belonging,

[6:11] and ensure that no one has to carry these burdens alone.

[6:14] And whereas beyond September you can join the San Mateo County Suicide Prevention Committee,

[6:20] which provides oversight and direction to suicide prevention efforts in the county,

[6:25] and advances the submission by focusing on strategies and activities in the Suicide Prevention

[6:30] roadmap, 2021 to 2026.

[6:34] The roadmap recommends activities that span across the continuum of care,

[6:38] including stable housing, education and trainings, and risk appropriate treatment.

[6:44] Now, therefore, I, Christine Bols, on behalf of the City Council of the City of Pacifica

[6:49] and all its citizens, do hereby designate September 2026 as suicide prevention month in

[6:56] the City of Pacifica and call upon everyone in the City of Pacifica to find their role in

[7:01] suicide prevention.

[7:05] What do you like to say somewhere outside that I don't think, so thank you and good evening.

[7:12] So my name is Bernabarian Toes.

[7:14] I issue her pronouns, and I'm a licensed clinical social worker, and a member of the San Mateo

[7:19] County Suicide Prevention Committee.

[7:23] So I just wanted to let folks know that the Suicide Prevention Committee meetings are open

[7:27] to the public.

[7:28] Everyone's welcome.

[7:35] I would like to thank the City of Pacifica, Marables and the Pacifica City Council members for recognizing September 2026 as suicide prevention month.

[7:47] I know the topic of suicide as well as mental challenges are difficult to discuss.

[7:52] And the best way to support those of us living with mental challenges and suicidal ideation is by talking openly and honestly about these topics.

[8:04] Suicide prevention is near and dear to my heart. In October 2023 my steps in Joshua Marsland completed suicide.

[8:13] Not a day goes by that I don't think about him, what his life could have been, and just

[8:19] that I mismderely.

[8:24] As a suicide law survivor, I feel it is important to talk about suicide prevention so

[8:29] that hopefully others do not go through the pain and anguish that myself and my family

[8:33] has been through.

[8:36] Suicide affects a lot of people.

[8:38] Researchers have found that up to 135 people are affected to some degree by every person

[8:44] lost to suicide, 135 people.

[8:49] That is a lot of grief in the world.

[8:52] While talking about suicide can be uncomfortable,

[8:55] I assure you, living through a suicide attempt

[8:58] or completion feels a lot worse.

[9:03] A few ways all of us in this room

[9:05] can make these conversations easier,

[9:09] include getting comfortable with some of the following.

[9:13] For example, ask the question,

[9:15] Are you thinking of killing yourself?

[9:18] This opens a dialogue and lets the person and distress know you are someone they can talk to.

[9:25] And no, you will not put the ideas instead if you ask this question.

[9:29] In fact, the opposite is true. You just might have to save a life.

[9:35] After asking someone if they are thinking of suicide, you can direct them to call or text 988, the suicide crisis lifeline.

[9:43] 980 is available nationwide and is opened 24, 7, 365 days a year.

[9:50] You can also offer to sit with the person while they make this potentially life-saving

[9:56] call.

[9:57] It heads up, 980 is not just for those going through a mental health crisis.

[10:02] 980 also offers emotional support as well.

[10:06] This is a great resource for family members and friends of those who may be having mental

[10:10] challenges and want someone to talk to themselves.

[10:15] So I ask you, please help to spread the word about 988.

[10:19] Again, this could save a life.

[10:23] For more information about Suicide Prevention, I recommend checking out 988lifeline.org

[10:29] and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention at AFSP.org.

[10:36] So thank you again to Pacifica for this buckleation and for standing with San Mateo County

[10:41] community, and preventing suicide, promoting connection, and reminding everyone that help

[10:47] is available. Together, we can help ensure that we practice our own self-care and support

[10:54] each other. Thank you. Thank you so much for that.

[10:59] What any council members like to?

[11:02] I'll go ahead.

[11:04] Hi, it evening. Thank you so much for being here tonight. I really appreciate it.

[11:12] The most

[11:12] important thing is to prevent suicide, right?

[11:17] And by having taken the be sensitive,

[11:19] be brave training a couple times,

[11:23] I think it's just such a worthy training for our communities.

[11:26] And we were able to bring the training here

[11:28] through the libraries at one point.

[11:29] And I think we need to do it again.

[11:32] We should probably do it on an annual basis.

[11:34] Just so folks can experience what it feels like

[11:38] to learn how to talk to each other, right?

[11:41] because it's such a taboo topic.

[11:44] There was two suicides in my family.

[11:47] And I don't think we ever really talked about it.

[11:52] It was like pushed under the word.

[11:53] Well, he did this, but, and I think the beauty

[11:58] of having these coalitions and commissions

[12:02] and trainings is that we learn that it's OK to talk about it.

[12:07] And that there's resources out there to support family members

[12:10] to our grieving, right, but first and foremost,

[12:14] is to support the folks that are suffering

[12:16] and thinking of ending their own lives.

[12:18] And so I really appreciate you being here,

[12:21] spreading awareness, and we'll work to get that training here again.

[12:26] Thank you.

[12:32] Not an easy topic for anyone, and it is a true tragedy

[12:36] that we've lost 65 people in our county.

[12:40] At the same time, no, it's through the work of people like you that take those 9-D-212 calls.

[12:51] And those are small victories in comparison to the tragedy,

[12:55] but they are small victories together.

[12:59] We can demonstrate that there's hope and be there for each other

[13:03] and listen to each other and help each other.

[13:05] And I want to thank you for trying to turn a tragedy

[13:09] into something that potentially could prevent some in the future.

[13:14] Thank you.

[13:19] I would like to echo what Councilmember Beer said about bringing the training back.

[13:24] I was able to do it myself.

[13:27] And I would like to add to that outreach to Pacifica School District and to Jefferson Union High School District.

[13:36] Just at the top of my head that are local to see about staff training in the same vein.

[13:45] And thank you so much for sharing your story and for being here.

[13:50] I will say, if you know, well, I grew up with 14 siblings.

[13:59] And we were usually paying attention to each other when you each other and I think it's important to pay attention to see like what we do is that if we see someone depressed we will ask them to let's do go to something let's do some activities to take them out of you know where they are.

[14:26] And I believe that we have to pay a little more attention to our friends and relatives and they don't have to suffer along which would be there to help them and get resources.

[14:42] If we don't, there are resources available also to make sure that we pay attention.

[14:50] Thank you.

[14:55] I appreciate that you say it's okay to ask the question, or are you thinking about that?

[15:00] I would never think about asking that. You see someone who's maybe a little aloof or sad and I don't know. And our society would say, oh, how are you? And you just expect a happy answer or I'm okay and nobody ever follows up, right? But you're sensing something, taking another little minute to try to find out how they're really doing and maybe spend a little time with them and maybe maybe get to asking that question.

[15:27] When my daughter was in her first year of college at MIT, there were three suicides among

[15:33] her class, that first year.

[15:36] Like you don't know, like there's so much pressure.

[15:39] I mean, we talk about all the different parts of society that have so much pressure for

[15:43] kids or under so much pressure, and to think of these smart kids who did all that work

[15:47] to get there, and yet it was too much right to take their lives this one and what they were

[15:53] starting with promise, they design their school rings with a star for each one of those kids,

[15:59] which is really beautiful, but it's a life that didn't need to be lost.

[16:04] So, yes, let's do what we can to help get the word out, help get more training, so we can

[16:10] protect our people that have full lives ahead of them, yeah, thank you so much.

[16:16] So, I have a proclamation here, I don't know if we have a lot on our, we can take a picture,

[16:22] or just give it to you as you would love?

[16:25] Okay, okay.

[17:22] And then we have one more proclamation for National Preparedness month.

[17:30] And so I want to invite Clyde Preston from the North County Fire Tower of 30, 60 inspectors.

[17:36] Thanks for being here with us tonight.

[17:39] Okay, Proclamation of the City Pacific and Reclamation of National Preparedness Month September

[17:44] 2026.

[17:45] I'm sorry any might or glass.

[17:50] Whereas during September the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, and the National

[17:55] Preparedness Month Coalition, urge all Americans to better prepare their families for emergencies

[18:00] by acknowledging this year's theme, Americans stand ready, and whereas National Preparedness

[18:07] month encourages individuals and families to take an active role in their own preparedness,

[18:12] including creating emergency plans and building kits, which include three days of non-perishable

[18:17] food and water, a battery-powered or crank radio, a flashlight first aid kit, whistle, dust

[18:25] mass, cell phone with charger, noise-tellets, medications, duct tape, and other supplies.

[18:31] And whereas national preparedness months from promotes the use of technology resources, including

[18:38] SMC Alert, the Genesis Protect App, and websites like NorthcountyFire.gov, Protect.genesis.com,

[18:46] and Ready.gov, which provide educational resources, as well as update information about critical

[18:52] emergencies, weather, and evacuations.

[18:56] And whereas it is highly recommended that our citizens become better educated by participating

[19:00] in local and regional classes, such as tsunami and earthquake preparedness classes, and fire

[19:06] prevention and medication provided by Pacific Police and North County Fire and others.

[19:13] And whereas, in the event of a major city or regional disaster, emergency responders may

[19:17] be overwhelmed with large-scale issues, and we regularly encourage residents to participate

[19:23] and Community Emergency Response Team or SERT training.

[19:28] SERT provides education for residents about disaster preparedness and trains in basic disaster

[19:34] response skills such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization and disaster

[19:41] medical operations so that SERT members can assist others in their neighborhood or workplace

[19:46] following an event when professional responders are not immediately available to help.

[19:51] Now, therefore, I, Christine Bulls, on behalf of the City Council of the City of Pacifica

[19:56] and all of the citizens, do hereby proclaim September 2026 as National Preparedness Month

[20:02] in the City of Pacifica and encourage all Pacifica residents to increase their knowledge of proper safety measures

[20:09] to follow the four during and after disaster and to prepare now to ensure the best protection of their families and neighbors in the event of the disaster.

[20:22] Thank you so much for declaring September National Prepared Dispunt here in the City of Pacific.

[20:29] And the timing is perfect as I just want to let everyone know here in the audience tonight and watching at home.

[20:35] There will be a certain series of classes starting next week as a matter of fact next Thursday night.

[20:41] It's hosted by our own Pacifica Police Department.

[20:45] It'll be at the police station, and it'll be for the seven Thursday nights in one Saturday,

[20:51] and they still have openings.

[20:52] So if anybody who's watching tonight would like to get involved with the Sir, the Community

[20:57] Emergency Response Team Training, it is free, open to all Pacifica residents.

[21:02] You can go online to the Pacifica website, type in Sir, as all the information you can sign

[21:08] up.

[21:08] It's actually training. It is a somewhat of a time commitment for those seven-thirds days and that one Saturday,

[21:15] but it is information that you can use to protect your home, your family, your co-workers before

[21:22] during and after-northquake. So it's time, well spent and we encourage all residents to take advantage of that.

[21:28] If not this series, there's going to be other series as we have done in the past. So thank you so much for

[21:35] raising that awareness for the community here tonight and for this month.

[21:38] Thank you.

[21:42] They wouldn't like to say anything, we don't all have to say anything.

[21:50] Well, I would definitely like to start up by saying thank you, you guys are out there

[21:55] looking out for us 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

[22:03] I think going through something like the served program we're talking about, seven days plus

[22:08] one Saturday, it's not that big and asking that the very least to just have us consider thinking

[22:16] about it and doing a little bit to prepare, to take care of our own selves, isn't a big

[22:22] ass, you're a big left, but the first part is getting a communication out there, you're out there

[22:27] do in that representing us, trying to...

[22:30] I hope us all help ourselves and help our neighbors. I truly thank you for that. I want Pacifica to be a safer place. We do have tsunamis. We do have earthquakes. We do have threat of forest fires. And thanks for being there and taking care of us all. Thank you.

[22:50] Thank you so much for keeping us safe.

[22:56] All of us live here on the coast.

[22:59] Preparinance is not an option.

[23:01] We have to do that.

[23:04] I encourage everyone watching,

[23:06] every family watching to just take a small step to prepare a bag.

[23:13] Just in case.

[23:15] You never know when something's going to happen.

[23:19] Thank you.

[23:20] I'm going to encourage people to check their bag, I used to keep one all the time and I opened it and the baby clothes were in there, the kids were ten and I said, yeah, that's not going to work.

[23:35] Need to make sure that you have that crank radio that flashlight I mean, right, and pet food.

[23:43] That's what I was just going to say and that, you know, those were just things that I hadn't

[23:48] really thought of and because kids grow fast, having those extra clothes or whatever you might

[23:54] have in there, you might need to update that. Even though you know you have the bag ready.

[24:00] Thank you so much for all you do. And I just want to make another plug for the search training.

[24:06] I did it with my husband and my kids, one in middle school and one in high school at the time,

[24:12] And let me tell you, they weren't really studying that book.

[24:14] I mean, I can still tell you what kind of fire extinguisher you need and how to use it.

[24:20] But, you know, it's really about you not being a victim first, helping your own family.

[24:24] And then you might have seniors or others in your neighborhood so you look out for each other.

[24:28] So you're there because it may take a few days before our firefighters and police can arrive,

[24:34] you know, in the event of a major disaster like an earthquake.

[24:39] I was October 17th coming up on its anniversary, my gobag hasn't been checked in a little while.

[24:49] And then we might have a super al Nino coming this winter.

[24:54] So have your sandbags ready ahead of time.

[24:56] Look at those hills that might have some erosion and landslides.

[25:00] And really just be careful and mindful every day and report things.

[25:04] Make sure storm drains are cleaned around you.

[25:06] It's about us all being prepared individually and then together as a community.

[25:11] So, yeah, thank you so much.

[25:14] And I'll just thank all the first responders for everything that you do for us every single day.

[25:19] Thank you so much.

[25:21] Thank you.

[25:22] Thank you.

[25:23] And would you like a picture?

[25:24] Would you like a

[26:16] picture?

[26:32] So, a couple of things before we move on to consent.

[26:34] If anyone would like to make a public comment about the two proclamations,

[26:38] You can come up now and fill out a card later, and do we have anyone online?

[26:45] We have one raise now, okay.

[26:47] Please go ahead.

[26:49] It is for Lila Reniro.

[26:53] Go ahead Lila.

[26:54] Hi, can you hear me?

[26:56] Yep.

[26:57] Hi, this is Lila Reniro.

[26:59] I have done the search training and it is so informative and awesome.

[27:03] Just one clarification though, the upcoming search training program with the Pacific

[27:07] Police Department is currently full with a wait list. I know this because I just try

[27:12] helping my young adult daughter to sign up today. It is full and my daughter's number one

[27:18] on the wait list. Okay, thank you for letting us know. I'd like to thank you for letting us know.

[27:24] Does anyone else on? There are no other raised hands. Okay, and then Kimberly Finalee?

[27:30] I could have been council members and community members, city staff from Kimberly Finalee Pacific

[27:36] a resident. I wanted to just have expressed my sincere appreciation for both the proclamation

[27:44] and the presenters of them, the awareness on both topics is really, really important for

[27:51] all of our community members. And I have personal experience with the cert training. I was in

[28:00] first graduating class after COVID after the pause from COVID and it was just an

[28:07] invaluable experience. I did it with my dad and his wife and we just had a

[28:11] really nice time but the seven weeks goes by really quickly. The training is

[28:18] excellent. The training is free. They just do an amazing job so I want to give

[28:25] my heartfelt thank you and urge any community members who are interested in community emergency

[28:34] response to take advantage of this free program because anyone can learn it and you

[28:40] will feel like a superhero when you graduate.

[28:43] Thank you.

[28:44] Thank you so much.

[28:45] Can really.

[28:46] Okay, with that, I'll close public comment and then one of the things I forgot to do was to ask

[28:50] if there was a close session or a program or a program that you're meeting.

[28:54] Yes.

[28:54] I do want to note for the record that there is no reportable action from either of the

[28:58] closed sessions tonight.

[28:59] Thank you so much.

[29:01] All right.

[29:01] So that moves us to our consent calendar.

[29:05] So are there any council members who'd like to pull an item off consent?

[29:21] Item 5.

[29:23] And I'm going to ask the city manager to do a presentation first.

[29:26] So if you can just hold your question on that.

[29:30] I have a question on item 9.

[29:32] Okay.

[29:38] should we allow you to do the presentation first and then maybe take questions on the other

[29:45] before public comment.

[29:47] Thank you.

[29:51] So this is about the peer.

[29:54] Good evening, Shunch up into your city manager.

[29:57] To provide a quick update on item number five.

[30:00] Just a little bit of background on June 4th, a large crack was identified in the abutment that the Pacific

[30:06] Unisable Peer. The Peer was promptly closed. The city declared a state of emergency, the county declared

[30:13] a state of emergency for us. We submitted to CaloES for the governor's declared a state of emergency

[30:21] and for emergency technical and financial assistance from the state. We are still in the emergency

[30:29] stabilization mode, and the action before you tonight is an important milestone in that

[30:35] process. It is to ratify my execution of a contract with power engineering construction

[30:44] to do investigation, design, and construction of the emergency stabilization work at the municipal

[30:52] here. The good news is that we will be moving forward with hopefully construction,

[31:00] designing construction projects that will stabilize, provide the emergency stabilization

[31:04] necessary to prevent the peer situation from getting worse. One note is that this

[31:12] work will not do the construction, designer construction work necessary to bring the peer

[31:19] back to it's original use, and that is next phase, but before we can get to that phase,

[31:25] we have to ensure that the peer is stabilized and deterioration slows or stops altogether.

[31:34] And that is what this contract does. There are several phases. It is an iterative contract.

[31:41] The first one is investigation. They will be preparing their own investigation of the existing

[31:48] conditions, and then they'll move into the design of the phase that would stabilize the first

[31:55] span of the pier, and right now they're proposing to do that with pylons and a bracing,

[32:01] and that would help to prevent the abutment from sinking further and also take tension off

[32:07] the other spans of the pier.

[32:10] Then they will move into the design and construction of efforts to protect beach boulevard,

[32:16] And there are two aspects that we're looking at.

[32:19] One is a sort of sheet piles, along the edge of beach boulevard.

[32:24] And then one is a sort of protective sheet piles around the abutment.

[32:29] And both of those would serve to help to stabilize

[32:32] beach boulevard from future damage.

[32:39] It is set up as a design progressive design contract.

[32:43] So it'll be working with the designers of the contractor.

[32:46] and the work will be authorized in phases, and for the fiscal impact, as mentioned, we have

[32:53] submitted to Kahlo AS for financial reimbursement and we're also working with our insurance

[32:58] company, and it's our intent to complete this work in advance or to the best of our ability

[33:07] in advance of the winter storms,

[33:13] and that concludes my presentation or my summary and we're

[33:17] available if there are any questions.

[33:19] Okay, did you have some questions?

[33:23] Some of them.

[33:24] But what is the total cost ceiling on this agreement or there is no cap at all?

[33:36] There is a process, if you look at section 3.5 and the contract, it allows us to

[33:41] authorize work in phases.

[33:45] The contractor did provide some rough order and magnitude construction estimates, but they are very preliminary, and those are in the contract as well.

[33:55] So the work will be authorized as we accomplish each stage and as available funding from, as mentioned, either CaloES or the insurance company is available.

[34:06] I understand that we only got one bid on this job. Is that right?

[34:14] That's correct. We submitted to under our emergency authorization. We submitted the proposal to three maritime construction firms.

[34:22] And it's really the known universe of qualified maritime construction firms in Northern California and much of California.

[34:33] And we were in close contact with all of them and we did receive one bid. That's correct.

[34:39] Yeah, it's kind of difficult to find out that's the fair price because we only had.

[34:45] So it's kind of like, but what can we do?

[34:48] So the other one is that share of the total cost,

[34:55] the stuff, expect, insurance, you already talk about the insurance,

[35:00] I understand that.

[35:01] So what is the exposure, if reimbursement is not,

[35:09] it's fall short, and you don't have, right?

[35:13] We would limit that exposure by not authorizing that work until we had funds.

[35:19] That is the goal.

[35:22] The risk of doing nothing is great.

[35:25] Given the need to stabilize it and now is the time to be doing construction before the winter storms occur.

[35:33] So that explains why that's the rationale for moving forward quickly and under my executive authority

[35:40] and asking the council to ratify that.

[35:46] It's kind of a couple of questions too, so you say we'll be getting prices for the different

[35:52] phases as we go to those end up coming back to us when there's a little bit more information

[35:57] or do you have full emergency emergency manager to approve those?

[36:05] I think it depends on the order of magnitude.

[36:07] We know the amount that we've a reasonably likely to receive from CaloIS or insurance, so as long as it's within that, and also if there's timing, we come back to Council, but we are in a situation in emergency situation where we don't want to miss a week.

[36:24] And if we're not spending the money if it's coming from others, it's probably not something that we need to necessarily apply not, especially in this emergency.

[36:32] Like when we go to the next stage of what are we doing with the peer that's a different conversation.

[36:37] And we can work with the Council to give regular updates as Council sees appropriate on what works been authorized and what funding has been committed.

[36:49] Okay, and then I know some of the boulders were taken from the C-wall south of the peer to be able to shore up the abutment, you know, from, yeah, deteriorating further.

[37:03] I understand, that's a whole separate project and contract that will also be working on simultaneously here before the winter. Maybe you could talk about that a little bit.

[37:12] It is our intent to, so we did mine boulders from south of the pier to shore up the abutment.

[37:19] And that was one of the reasons why we think the sinking of the abutment has slowed so dramatically.

[37:24] We did this in the early days of the emergency, and it is our goal and intent.

[37:30] To replace those boulders before the rainy season, and we're looking at a variety of ways to do that

[37:35] through either this contractor or other emergency contracts, but we're fully aware of that concern

[37:43] and plan to remedy that before the rainy season.

[37:47] Thank you so much.

[37:50] Okay, and then item 9, you had a question?

[37:53] Just a quick question on this particular study that we're being

[37:59] ask to approve who is paying for the cost for that?

[38:05] The applicant property owner will be paying the cost for that, and the city will not proceed

[38:10] with any work until funded by the property owner.

[38:15] Thank you.

[38:17] Okay, and with that we'll move on to public comments on the consent calendar, and a few people

[38:27] didn't say they were on consent.

[38:28] So, again, these are only comments related to items 1, 2, 11 on the consent calendar.

[38:35] There'll be a time right after this for comments on anything not on the agenda.

[38:41] So, catagalms you wrote to make tech number 1, but I don't think number 1 is on the consent calendar.

[38:47] Is that for general?

[38:49] Public comment?

[38:52] Oh, the peer.

[38:53] All right.

[38:53] where you can come up now, and then Michael Women and then Sam Kaseyas.

[39:06] Good evening, City Council, staff, and community members.

[39:10] My name is Cata Gomes, Rami Tush, descendant from the village of Timic Talk, along Clare Creek.

[39:17] You know, it takes a very special person to be able to have the vision of taking a negative

[39:24] situation and turning it into a positive.

[39:28] And I want to thank the former speakers and representatives who make that their life's work.

[39:35] I think the situation with the peer is an opportunity for us to have a more long-term vision

[39:44] of what could happen here, to take a negative, and take this peer that's crumbling and falling

[39:52] apart and to use it in the future as a possibility of having an offshore reef and normally

[40:02] I'm opposed to any armoring or sea walls. It's a very short term vision, a bandaid,

[40:11] on a situation that's much larger. So I would like it that the pilings that are being installed

[40:22] in the future could also be part of that offshore reef and I hope that our city leaders here

[40:33] can have the vision to look beyond the immediate emotional attachment to this structure

[40:41] and to think about how it could benefit the whole community not only to stabilize and to diminish

[40:50] the impact of erosion along the coast from the offshore reef. But also to create habitat.

[40:58] So that's always a priority for me is creating habitat. So I thank you all and I hope you

[41:06] keep a broad vision on what can be as we move forward into the future. Thank you.

[41:15] Thank you so much,

[41:20] questions, draws over again. I'm not sure if you're on general public comment or on the

[41:25] consent agenda. So come up with that's for a break.

[41:29] I like mayor of the vice mayor. You don't, my turn? Okay, great. I'm like

[41:34] woman. Is that good, D2? Thank you mayor, vice mayor, city council staff and members of

[41:41] the public. Speaking today about the consent calendar item one, general budget, approval of

[41:49] And looking through the list, and it's not really super clear to a general member of the public as to what each of these expenses are.

[41:57] I don't know if it's even necessarily clear to City Council or to this staff.

[42:03] But it'd be extremely helpful to be able to drill into these and see, hey, this expense is related to this contract.

[42:09] This is milestone six. This is what's left in that budget item.

[42:12] Because I see items in here of the $5 million, we're like $2.5 million dollars.

[42:18] I could answer to what this was, plan JPA.

[42:21] Apparently this is a joint insurance program for multiple city minospobies.

[42:26] Great, awesome.

[42:27] Well, what does that provide us for coverage?

[42:30] Well, what percentage of that is that of one-time fee?

[42:33] Is that monthly quarterly?

[42:35] It's semi-annually, no way to tell that from here.

[42:38] Other things, I mean, I see law enforcement tools.

[42:40] I see money to an RV park, it's just not at all clear what the expenses, what the frequency

[42:49] of that expenses, what the ceiling of that expense will be.

[42:53] And without that kind of information, how can people understand what is it we're spending?

[42:59] So I know we have a budget crisis here, we need to raise more income, but we also need

[43:05] to track our expenditures.

[43:06] So please provide the public and city staff, a method by which we can actually look into these items.

[43:14] My preference would be perhaps an online tool that you can just search, maybe see an Excel spreadsheet, click into and say,

[43:21] ah, this is how much we paid, you know, the sign guy this year.

[43:25] Thank you.

[43:30] Sam?

[43:31] Can you see us?

[43:32] Please go ahead.

[43:34] Good evening, City Council.

[43:35] Tonight I would like to address consent item number nine,

[43:39] the approval of the consulting services agreement

[43:41] with Recon consultants for the Hillside Meadows Project.

[43:47] I am providing comments on it because there is a serious issue

[43:51] with the contract and the full scope of the project.

[43:55] I'm a lifelong advocate for our affordable safe housing

[43:58] and this project just isn't it.

[44:01] The whole community is a poses project

[44:02] because it is an ecological hazard zone that most likely should not be built on contains protected species

[44:09] and should be considered in the larger scope of the full true development that includes a

[44:13] linamar development application, which sits on a fire hazard zone. The applicant needs to include

[44:20] both parts of the development application as one development, but so to appropriately address all EIR issues.

[44:27] and task 4.1, the updated biological resource assessment.

[44:31] There's several issues with it.

[44:34] First, the total impact traffic mitigation,

[44:36] including emergency egress,

[44:38] can not be adequately addressed without including

[44:40] the full potential build-out of the parcels

[44:42] that need to include SB9, SB10,

[44:46] and other recent density bonus considerations

[44:48] in the impact of the larger Dlinomar Woods project.

[44:52] The project also sits on a natural depression

[44:55] since it sits in the watershed of the Lindemar Valley and also includes.

[45:00] Use the watershed runoff coming from Shamrock Ranch. This site will naturally have a shallow water table and underground springs causing any development on it to result in significant flood water runoff to the adjacent homes down below in Linda Marr, which we know we have to protect.

[45:17] This runoff impacts impact needs to be addressed in the EIR.

[45:22] The proposal also states that Rinkong will assess the existence of protected species, including

[45:27] crutches, bumblebee, and the Western ponderonal.

[45:31] But it does not address the assessment of the California Red League frog, which has a

[45:35] high likelihood of habitat at this site due to the wetland characteristics and they identified

[45:41] habitats upstream at Chevrolet Ranch in the area below San Pedro Habitat, San Pedro

[45:48] Creek Habitat. For all these concerns outlined above, the site requires a much more

[45:53] expanded scope for the EIR to address all the practical environmental impacts and is necessary

[46:00] for the component to be compliant with SIGWA. Thank you very much.

[46:06] Thank you, Sam.

[46:09] And Sebastian, I'm guessing I'm going to save your car for general public comment.

[46:16] So that's all I have on the Consequent Courser Anyone online?

[46:19] Your no-reasons.

[46:20] With that, I'll close public comment.

[46:24] If I could just ask just a couple of follow-up questions to some of the public questions.

[46:32] So, yeah, agenda item one has all the checks and disbursements where I'm used to seeing more detailed information about what is spent and how it's allocated goes on the quarterly financial reports.

[46:46] Is that correct or is there some other process of sharing more information?

[46:53] That is correct, the quarterly disbursements, the quarterly report has much more detail about the items than the annual checks, it's sort of a disbursement registry, and we are working on an online portal that would offer more details on budget that would give people the ability to lifetime, which is always risky because a lot of what we do is lumpy, as was mentioned by one of the other speakers with our insurance plan payment.

[47:23] but it gives you, it will give the public an opportunity to see where we are in actual year-to-date

[47:30] as of that day and hopefully we'll be able to roll that out in the next couple of months.

[47:36] Okay, thank you.

[47:37] And then on the EIR for Healthside Meadows, I know generally the first step in any EIR is a notice

[47:46] of preparation where the public can be involved and bring out these kind of issues to make sure

[47:50] things are covered, is that still they're appropriate way to do that, and then if we're

[47:56] approving a contract for a certain amount, but then more work needs to be done, you would

[48:01] just come back to us, I assume, with a greater fee, right? I mean, all this is reimbursable

[48:06] to the developer. That is correct. We would follow that process, and the notice of preparation

[48:11] is the stage in which issues in the EIR can also be raised. Thank you. Any other questions?

[48:20] comments from Council?

[48:22] Have a quick question for the city attorney. Is it necessary to acknowledge any expertise in regards to any of the items on the consent calendar?

[48:33] Yes, if there are expertise, it would be appropriate to reference them.

[48:37] Then I've had at least four conversations with David,

[48:42] to make their President of Powers and Associates trying to understand and get a better understanding

[48:47] of what's going on out there.

[48:51] So I am familiar with him, Ms. Engineering.

[48:59] Does that set up a complication for voting to have a calendar?

[49:03] No, conversations are fine, that doesn't represent a conflict, okay, all right, great.

[49:09] Thank you.

[49:09] All right, with that, I'll take a motion.

[49:11] Mm-hmm.

[49:13] Move the approval of the consent agenda.

[49:18] Second.

[49:19] Okay, please vote.

[49:27] The motion to approve the consent agenda made by Councilmember Beckmire, seconded by Vice Mayor Wright, the vote passes unanimously.

[49:36] Thank you.

[49:37] Okay, and that moves us to comments, public comments on items not on the agenda, and I have a bunch of cards.

[49:45] I'm not counted.

[49:46] But we'll have a shorter agenda today, so I want to make sure everyone has their three minutes.

[49:53] So we'll start with Sebastian Strasser, followed by Max, followed by Pete Schumacher.

[50:00] And if you don't mind lining up so that we don't lose too much time in between that would be really great.

[50:13] Oh, should I start now?

[50:14] Yes, yes, please.

[50:15] Thank you.

[50:16] We have all of these commissions dedicated to supporting the city and climate resilience, economic development, zoning, and so on.

[50:24] It's straightforward that the city council can't do every business on every matter on its own.

[50:31] We get stakeholders to do the tough job of asking hard questions and doing the harder work of governing for us all.

[50:41] At least I would hope that with this we can do better than the cities that would force AI data centers down the throats and in other cities where local governments are giving up their neighbor's ties.

[50:52] And with that, I see no reason why automatic license plate readers should be any different.

[51:00] Policy 435 is specific a PD's guidance on capturing storing and using all the data from ALPRs.

[51:11] It says quote that a reasonable suspicion or probable cause is not required before using an ALPR in quote.

[51:18] That is a gross, blatant violation of warrants,

[51:23] probable cause, and individualized particularized

[51:26] suspicions of wrongdoing.

[51:28] That the Fourth Amendment requires to use to search us.

[51:32] In your time, where a Texas sheriff can use

[51:35] flock to access thousands of camera databases

[51:38] to target a woman who got an abortion,

[51:41] and others who have stalked their partners.

[51:43] Pacific can rise up and do better.

[51:46] It is, in my personal opinion, as someone who has lived in this town for nearly 20 years,

[51:52] that flock safety outright just should not be welcome in our town.

[51:56] But as far as all of our shared collective governance is concerned, let's get some serious

[52:01] oversight.

[52:03] Let's support our friends in the city council.

[52:06] There should be an advising body to the city council with some real power in its hands

[52:09] to conduct public hearings and ask serious questions.

[52:13] We need watchdogs that are wholly outside the Pacific APD command structure that go through the very same public appointments process as the aforementioned commissions I said earlier.

[52:26] Every day, Pacificans, Workers, Activists.

[52:30] Parents, students, a lawyer or two perhaps should deliberate on pauses, bans and other reforms.

[52:37] Please city council, get to work on getting all of our rights, the reverence that they deserve.

[52:43] Because if civic a PD has nothing to fear on this issue then they should have nothing to hide.

[52:48] Thank you.

[52:49] Thank you.

[52:51] Next.

[52:52] Follow-up.

[52:53] I'm going to interrupt you.

[52:54] Yeah, we try not to clap because it interrupts and slows down the meeting.

[52:57] so your hands are better if you agree and we can see you better that way too so I really

[53:02] appreciate that. So Max Pete and then Ren Murphy. Hello my name is Max Marino. I am a Mexican

[53:11] American citizen and I feel like we should take off lock not in Pacifica because I have to have

[53:18] been doing data and I realize that I use this lock and I don't think any kid or any teen should

[53:25] be afraid for their parents and or having nightmares of their parents getting deported or getting

[53:31] shot by ICE agents because they don't want to leave a stolen land.

[53:37] And I don't think no one wants to see their own parents in a car getting dragged out of

[53:43] a car because they want to have aliens out of a stolen land.

[53:48] And I don't think any kids should be thinking about it or I don't think any adult should

[53:52] be having to worry about, oh, am I going to get the point at the next day?

[53:56] Oh, I'm scared to go to work because what if they call ice on me?

[53:59] I don't think no one should think of that.

[54:00] And I think we should take, we should be having flawed cameras anywhere in the San Mateo

[54:06] County or anywhere in the United States, honestly.

[54:10] So thank you for your time.

[54:11] Thank you so much.

[54:16] Peace.

[54:16] Thank you, Mr. Murphy, and then Adam, to, to, to Ralph's.

[54:22] All right, peachy maker, Valemar.

[54:24] I'm speaking on a measure that's going to be on the upcoming ballot.

[54:27] No, no, no, November 3rd.

[54:29] This is measure B, B. This is the one cent tax on non-essential items that is going to Pacifica.

[54:35] Only 100% goes to Pacifica, and it's desperately needed to maintain our,

[54:41] our essential services and keep the city financially stable.

[54:45] Brief background on Macy, you can judge and see if my opinion on this is credible or not.

[54:49] On my wife and I came here 37 years ago raised to our kids here, working on the grandchildren.

[54:54] We've been involved, I've been involved in the city stuff from the beginning from the tunnel to coaching soccer

[54:59] to being on all kinds of committees when the general plan was up for review.

[55:03] I read every page of the 400 page of the plan on most of the 1000 page.

[55:07] Environmental impact report, unfortunately, and also I was about a dozen years ago.

[55:11] I was at a city financing committee with a lot of other citizens.

[55:15] We literally went over every line item of the city budget.

[55:19] So in all of that time and continued to do so, I've seen that Pacific has been managed very

[55:24] regionally and responsibly, certainly on par with other cities in the region.

[55:29] Any city can look back and look on decisions that they should have made better.

[55:32] And we have that of course, but no more than other cities in the region.

[55:35] We have, right now, we have the New City Manager, staff, the current council, upcoming council

[55:41] and all the wash dogs that are here.

[55:43] I feel like we've got a lot of people watching to make sure that this money is spent

[55:48] responsibly.

[55:49] So, I'm looking over the city line item of the city budget.

[55:52] I was impressed not with the waste fraud and corruption that a lot of people alleged, with

[55:57] unfounded from out front of my eyes, but I was impressed with the efficiency in the, and

[56:05] into my head that I think, oh, the city ought to do this and say money, either they had

[56:09] already thought of it, done it, or were about to do it, and if they didn't do it, it was

[56:13] probably not a good idea. So I'm very confident that we really, really need this measure,

[56:19] measure BB, and I urge you all to vote, yes, on the upcoming BB on November 3rd. Thank

[56:25] you.

[56:25] Thank you, Pete.

[56:27] Uh, Seren Adam and then Elias Navanzo.

[56:33] Welcome, man.

[56:35] Hello everyone.

[56:37] It's nice to see something familiar faces tonight.

[56:39] For those who do not know me, my name is Dr. Ren Murphy.

[56:42] I have a doctorate in organizational psychology

[56:44] and experience working as a researcher in statistician for the last 10 years.

[56:49] Now the first thing that they taught me in stats 101

[56:51] is that correlation does not equal causation.

[56:55] That basically means that just because two things happen around the same time,

[56:59] it doesn't mean that one cause the other.

[57:01] For example, it would be silly to say that I get a somber in every time I eat ice cream.

[57:07] We'd be missing the context that the sun plays.

[57:10] So, I suggest in this case, that we can't forget about context,

[57:14] when we talk about flock cameras and lowering crime rate.

[57:17] I did do my own research to educate myself on how we can increase public safety for the people of Pacifica.

[57:24] I used years of publicly available Pacifica crime data and GPS coordinates of those cameras.

[57:30] I also reviewed published academic studies to see what folks in criminology, sociology, and public health had to say.

[57:37] In my findings, we're clear.

[57:39] There is no statistically significant difference in crime near the cameras before after they were installed.

[57:46] And this is pretty on par with what decades of research on ALPR's effectiveness of lowering

[57:51] crime tests.

[57:53] Crime rates typically follow regional trends or economic shifts.

[57:57] Correlation does not equal causation.

[58:00] So I asked the council here tonight to consider this.

[58:04] Instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars on reactionary, surveillance, subscriptions

[58:08] that have not proven to make us safer, we should invest in true prevention.

[58:14] I'm talking about prevention that is rooted in community care and not fear.

[58:19] I do have three examples.

[58:21] One is that we could put money towards upgrading our street lighting,

[58:24] which has been found to reduce outdoor crime at night.

[58:28] Two, we could create community-engaged public spaces

[58:31] as they have been found to significantly deter violent and property crime

[58:35] by fostering natural community-driven social control.

[58:39] And finally, we could expand peer-sease emergency financial assistance

[58:43] Because one time financial assistance has been proven to drop overall crime, especially violent offenses.

[58:50] I would be very, very happy to meet with any of you and all of you to talk about these interventions and review my research, one-on-one.

[58:57] Thank you for your time.

[58:58] Thank you so much for your

[59:03] time.

[59:03] So Adam, Eliza and then Kim Kale,

[59:12] hello, welcome.

[59:14] Good evening Pacifica City Council members and fellow Pacifica residents.

[59:18] My name is Adam Dubber Volski, I've been a Pacifica resident for over six years, and I work in the commercial construction industry.

[59:26] I'm here tonight to talk about not only the renewal of the flawed contract potentially in Pacifica, but just general usage of flawed technology as a whole.

[59:36] When government asks the surrender privacy and exchange for safety, history tells us that we should be extremely skeptical.

[59:42] We have been here before.

[59:45] After September 11th, Congress passed the Patriot Act.

[59:48] Section 215 was ultimately used to justify the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' telephone metadata.

[59:55] Collecting records on millions of people, not because they were suspected of crimes, but because of the government.

[1:00:00] Government argued that collecting information and bulk could help find the people who were. In ACLU vs. Clapper, the

[1:00:07] second circuit court of appeals ruled that this bulk telephone records program was not authorized by the Patriot Act.

[1:00:13] Think about that lesson. An extraordinary surveillance power was created in the name of public safety.

[1:00:19] The government interpreted that authority expansively, a massive database was built.

[1:00:23] And only years later, after the program became public that our federal appeals court

[1:00:27] conclude that the statute would be relied upon to not authorize the bulk collection.

[1:00:33] This is why exactly, this is exactly why we should be cautious about building surveillance

[1:00:37] infrastructure first and promising safeguards later.

[1:00:41] The Supreme Court is repeatedly recognized that technology changes the constitutional equation.

[1:00:46] In the United States versus Jones, the government tracked a vehicle by GPS for 28 days.

[1:00:50] The Supreme Court held that the government's conduct constituted a Fourth Amendment

[1:00:54] search.

[1:00:56] Five justice is separately recognized as a profound private concede concerns created by

[1:01:00] prolonged tracking of someone's movements.

[1:01:03] Then, in Carpenter of the United States, the Supreme Court confronted historical location

[1:01:07] information from cell phones, the court recognized that aggregating location data

[1:01:11] can create a detailed chronicle of a person's movements and held without obtaining

[1:01:16] the records that issue constituted a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warring.

[1:01:19] Floor cameras raise the same fundamental, fundamental concern.

[1:01:24] One camera seen one license plate is one thing, a network of cameras recording where thousands

[1:01:28] of innocent people travel, storing those observations, making them searchable, and potentially

[1:01:33] connecting them across to jurisdictions is something fundamentally differing.

[1:01:37] There is no longer simply observing a car on a public street.

[1:01:41] It creates the infrastructure to reconstruct a person's life,

[1:01:46] and the overwhelming majority

[1:01:48] of people being recorded are not suspected of committing any crimes.

[1:01:51] The ACLU reports a less than 1% of vehicle skin by LPR systems are associated with

[1:01:56] suspected wrongdoing.

[1:01:58] That means we are not merely surveilling suspects.

[1:02:01] We are surveilling the public in order to find suspects.

[1:02:04] Those are very different principles.

[1:02:06] And surveillance infrastructure does not remain confined to the jurisdiction of, it's originally

[1:02:11] given to, if it was creating it, California has already seen litigation involving law,

[1:02:16] enforcement sharing billions of license plate and location records with

[1:02:19] public federal and out of state agency.

[1:02:22] Sorry, your time is up.

[1:02:24] Would you mind, if you have more to share, would you mind putting in an email to us

[1:02:28] City Council at Pacifica.gov.

[1:02:31] Thank you so very much.

[1:02:32] Thank you.

[1:02:32] Thanks for being here.

[1:02:36] So, Elizna followed by Kim and then caught to go.

[1:02:42] Good evening City Council and fellow neighbors.

[1:02:46] My name is Elisna Vensile, or Liz is what I go by, and I've been a pacific a resident

[1:02:52] that was my husband there for the last several years.

[1:02:58] I work as an emergency department pharmacist in the South Bay.

[1:03:01] Through my work as a healthcare professional, I've come to appreciate the way that individuals

[1:03:05] privacy should be guarded and respected.

[1:03:08] Our privacy is tightly linked to our ability to authentically and freely move about in the world.

[1:03:14] Express ourselves and to feel safe doing so.

[1:03:17] I'm reaching out to you because of the pacific of

[1:03:20] flawed contract that will renew if the council does not vote to cancel it.

[1:03:24] Because of ALPR's every single one of our neighbors, even persons with nothing to hide

[1:03:30] are being surveilled indiscriminately.

[1:03:37] We are being exposed to mass data harvesting and vulnerable to the

[1:03:40] technological weaknesses of these cameras.

[1:03:43] The cameras are like an AI-enabled drag net that captures the movement patterns in digital

[1:03:47] fingerprints of innocent and guilty alike, and the rapid expansion of ALPRs such as

[1:03:52] flock and axon and their exponentially expanding capabilities, worry me a great deal.

[1:03:58] At the time of the initial flock pilot program, there was not a lot of information about

[1:04:02] the security weaknesses that these cameras pose.

[1:04:04] With the information that the council had at the time, I understand why it obtained

[1:04:08] and trial-based technology.

[1:04:10] However, as many folks in cities across the U.S. are discovering,

[1:04:13] there are irreducible privacy issues

[1:04:15] with the indiscriminate surveillance program.

[1:04:18] Multiple cities, 55 contracts in the last 21 days,

[1:04:22] have terminated their contracts with flock

[1:04:24] as a result of the serious violation of the public's trust

[1:04:28] and Fourth Amendment rights.

[1:04:30] I rely on you to keep my family and my neighbors safe

[1:04:33] from surveillance, data theft and abduction.

[1:04:37] I humbly ask to protect us from warrantless surveillance by not only the police, but by government agencies like ICE and DHS who have unrestricted back door access to flock and their agglomerated data.

[1:04:51] If you'd like to meet or speak with me in person, I would be very appreciative of your time.

[1:04:56] Thank you for your time and your service to Pacifica and have a good night.

[1:05:05] So Kim, Katta, and then Laura Obergon.

[1:05:10] Do I get a warning buzz or is it just-

[1:05:13] Yeah, there's a one-minute warning, so it'll turn over.

[1:05:15] Oh, and then you have one more minute after that.

[1:05:22] Good evening.

[1:05:23] Thanks for having me.

[1:05:25] My name is Kim, and I've lived in Pacifica for 30 years,

[1:05:29] Brace 2 daughters here and I'm also a member of the local and divisible group. I want

[1:05:35] to express my concern with the Float Cameras in Pacifica and ask that you cancel the contract

[1:05:41] and remove the cameras. I urge you to take some time to learn about Clock Safety. It is a

[1:05:47] flawed organization. Their network is not secure. It is easily hackable and they are driven

[1:05:53] by profit, not by safety.

[1:05:55] Float cameras and mass surveillance is dangerous.

[1:05:59] Citizens are presumed innocent until proven guilty of a crime.

[1:06:03] Mass surveillance removes the presumption of innocence

[1:06:05] in assumes that we are permanently suspicious of a crime.

[1:06:10] It's an assault on what it means to be an American.

[1:06:13] There are many instances of errors made by their cameras.

[1:06:17] It will only take one error for someone to file a lawsuit

[1:06:21] against our city. We say that we're a sanctuary city, it is not difficult for a bad actor

[1:06:27] or corrupt federal agency to tap into the flock network and data collected a pacifica

[1:06:33] and use it to terrorize women, immigrants, and marginalized communities.

[1:06:39] Your position with these cameras is that if we give our personal liberty and freedom,

[1:06:46] you will keep us safe. By implementing mass surveillance in Pacifica, we weren't asked if we

[1:06:53] wanted to give up our freedom or personal liberties in our privacy. You guys just took it with

[1:06:59] all due respect. Trading our liberty in freedom for safety is fundamentally a bad bargain.

[1:07:05] When citizens hand over their freedoms for safety, we assume the government's benevolent.

[1:07:15] However,

[1:07:15] concentration of power that creates room for severe abuses of power.

[1:07:20] The ACLU has found agencies routinely violating laws, policies, and

[1:07:26] guardrails that protect our privacy.

[1:07:29] I don't...

[1:07:30] What have an issue with the police? This is not a problem with the police. This is a problem of giving any agency for person so much power and hoping that they will have the will to not abuse that power.

[1:07:44] I believe it would be difficult for anyone including myself to hold so much power and not be corrupted by it. I understand the allure of wanting safety, wanting to ensure that we are all safe.

[1:07:57] Unfortunately, there is no world in which we are all safe.

[1:08:01] It does not exist.

[1:08:03] Our best chance for safe community is for the community to work together and support each other.

[1:08:09] Flot cameras will only create more divisions and make us less safe.

[1:08:13] Thanks again for hearing me out.

[1:08:15] Thank you Kim.

[1:08:18] Okay.

[1:08:19] Katata, Laura, and then Rubbing Reneels.

[1:08:26] Katakums.

[1:08:26] I'm here to bring attention to the city of an environmental lead contamination that exists at the former

[1:08:36] rifle range at Sharp Park.

[1:08:38] I recently attended a meeting at Lake Merced, where the San Francisco Utilities Commission

[1:08:47] just completed an environmental cleanup of a former rifle range there at Lake Merced, where

[1:08:56] The contaminated lead soil was removed from the site.

[1:09:02] This is not the case that is happening right now in our community.

[1:09:09] The city of San Francisco who has the responsibility for this cleanup has merely put

[1:09:15] a cement cap on the contaminated area.

[1:09:19] I spoke with Christopher Campbell, the Natural Resource Manager of Sharp Park, and asked

[1:09:29] him specific questions about the testing.

[1:09:33] He informed me that there has been testing done on the soil, but that no testing of the nearby

[1:09:40] stream that wraps around two sides of this cap-to-contaminated area has taken place.

[1:09:49] This is the primary watershed for the San Francisco Garder Snake and the Red League of

[1:09:57] Frog and the multitude of other wildlife that reside in that valley.

[1:10:03] This is a huge concern to me, and this, the price of cleaning this up and the responsibility falls on the city of San Francisco.

[1:10:16] It would cost the city of Pacific a nothing to pressure San Francisco to clean up the site.

[1:10:25] They just did it like Merced. I would like to see this happen here as well. Thank you.

[1:10:30] Thank you, Katta.

[1:10:34] Okay Laura, Rubin, and then Margot Mike.

[1:10:43] Good evening.

[1:10:44] I'm Laura Obergon, and I'm a city of citizen of Pacifica,

[1:10:49] and I'm here to talk about the plot cameras as well.

[1:10:53] Recently was invited by my neighbor

[1:10:55] to a rotary club meeting, which I'd never been to,

[1:10:59] and our new city manager, you were there talking about the budget.

[1:11:06] And I was quite frankly horrified.

[1:11:09] about our budget. I've not really been involved in politics or the city that much to this

[1:11:15] extent and it was pretty scary. I am a member of Coastside United and divisible and we recently

[1:11:22] were taught about the flop cameras and it seemed like a pretty easy connection get rid of the

[1:11:29] flop cameras that are costing us money to help with our budget issue. The more that I've learned

[1:11:35] about these cameras that seems like such a violation on our Fourth Amendment, right, and how

[1:11:42] it's going to divide the community instead of make us safer.

[1:11:48] Pacific is such a special place to live, and we have so many things going for us.

[1:11:55] We are supposed to be a sanctuary city here where we are looking out for our community and

[1:12:03] the citizens here.

[1:12:05] and these flat cameras are doing the exact opposite.

[1:12:10] They also, one of the things is there's California SB 34 is a state law that explicitly

[1:12:17] bans sharing ALPR data without a state federal agencies.

[1:12:23] So many audits have been done that show that out of federal agencies and ice are able to

[1:12:31] backdoor ways and to get this data and that it's extremely concerning to me.

[1:12:41] I think one

[1:12:42] of the ways that the city should look at this money issue is and making us safer is take

[1:12:51] this money that we're using for flock and build up our communities, make our communities safer

[1:12:57] with making sure every citizen here is supported in whatever they need. So I'm asking that you

[1:13:05] please cancel the contract. Thank you. Thank you, Leia.

[1:13:12] So we're being Margot and then Tukuno, Hirana.

[1:13:23] Good evening, Council members. Madam Mayor, thank you. My name is Robin Reneels,

[1:13:28] a 50-year resident of West Sharp Park. It's hard to say.

[1:13:34] Makes me think of my age, but that's even worse. But anyway, I'm here as a member of the Board

[1:13:39] of the Pacific Coast Fog Fest and I'm here on my,

[1:13:43] it seems like it's an annual thing

[1:13:45] I've been doing for years, which is the public sector

[1:13:48] arousing of registrations for the parade.

[1:13:52] And first I'd like to say council members,

[1:13:54] thank you for your registration.

[1:13:55] It's done, you're all set for the fire truck

[1:13:57] with the fire department.

[1:14:00] I'm gonna go through the departments.

[1:14:01] I'd like to first invite our new city manager,

[1:14:04] Mr. Carpenter, we would love to honor you in the parade this year

[1:14:08] And we'd love the, I think joining us in registering for the parade will get you a car or PD can provide you a vehicle and if it gets a wonderful way for you to meet fog fest for the very first time is to go down the middle of Palmetto Avenue and meet the locals.

[1:14:23] So please register.

[1:14:24] Registration closes one week from today on the 31st.

[1:14:28] So that's a very important thing.

[1:14:30] So please come to the website, PacifichostFogFest.com and just go you'll see a button for the

[1:14:38] parade and registration and since you are city officials and city businesses and elected

[1:14:43] officials, registration is free for you.

[1:14:47] I'd also like to invite the PD to catch up on the registration of your two vehicles.

[1:14:52] She's not listening.

[1:14:54] and then public public works, public works, also needs to catch up and get there.

[1:15:00] Registration in for the myriad of giant vehicles that go down the street every year. And part speeches in wreck. We would like part speeches wrecked to come back. They were honored as Grand Marshall's last year. Speaking of Grand Marshall's this year, we'll be honoring the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. So for after 250 years, we will be honoring as Grand Marshall's in the parade, our local veterans, our veterans of foreign wars,

[1:15:29] and we will have some interesting vehicles that will honor them and they can write in.

[1:15:35] We will also be honoring equally the very first inhabitants of this land, which is the

[1:15:40] Ramitutia Looney, and we have families representing that group that will be in the parade also.

[1:15:46] So everyone come on down and please register one week left for registration and tomorrow

[1:15:51] I go after recology and North Coast County Water District.

[1:15:55] Thank you for your time.

[1:15:56] Thank you so much, friends.

[1:16:01] Welcome, Margot, to Cucco, and then Sofia, in Toronto.

[1:16:11] I'm going to use the box.

[1:16:13] Hi there.

[1:16:15] I have two things to discuss Margot Myman representing first of all the Pacific Beach Coalition.

[1:16:23] The community to know and city council to know about Coastal Cleanup Day on September 19th.

[1:16:31] It's the statewide event here in Pacifica happening

[1:16:34] between 9 and 11 AM to note all of our events

[1:16:40] are happening on September 19th.

[1:16:43] Instead of this, the rotational schedule

[1:16:46] that we normally have are only event that is happening

[1:16:49] on its normal rotation is the Lindemar Habitat

[1:16:52] Restoration, but all the rest are happening

[1:16:54] on Saturday, September 19th.

[1:16:57] It's notable that this is the event where

[1:17:00] account every single piece of trash that we pick up, every single

[1:17:04] bottle cap, food, wrapper, cigarette, but we keep track of all of that.

[1:17:10] And we send that data to the California Coastal Commission.

[1:17:13] And it's this kind of data that can impact state legislations.

[1:17:18] So for example, it was Coastal Cleanup Data that helped to enact our

[1:17:23] The state's 2014 ban on single-use plastic bags and also helps to inform the more recent

[1:17:33] update of that ban in 2020's deck.

[1:17:36] So we would like to invite the community to join us for that event.

[1:17:40] And also there's going to be an informal celebration afterwards at Humble C and everybody

[1:17:45] is welcome to that as well.

[1:17:47] So now, switching gears representing myself as a resident of District 5 and also giving voice

[1:17:55] to people who couldn't be here tonight in the community, I debated about whether to talk

[1:18:02] about this now or in the consent calendar, having to do with the Hillside Meadows project.

[1:18:10] I just want to reiterate there is a lot of community opposition to that project.

[1:18:16] because of the environmental impacts, traffic implications, infrastructure demands, all of the

[1:18:24] above.

[1:18:25] I do want to say that I'm glad to see that Rincon consultant is on the job to do the EIR,

[1:18:32] the environmental impact report.

[1:18:35] Rincon was the company that did the greenhouse gas emissions analysis for the climate action

[1:18:40] plan.

[1:18:41] Rinkon Consultants is engaged with the San Mateo County and individuals cities throughout the county on their sustainability efforts.

[1:18:52] I have faith that when Rinkon does their environmental impact report, they are going to find all number of issues that will prevent the project from going forward.

[1:19:04] But I do want to reiterate that transparency is really, really important, keeping the community up to date on what the steps are happening and when the community can be involved.

[1:19:19] Thank you.

[1:19:19] Thank you, my girl.

[1:19:21] So to Skukko, Sophia and then Latte Robas.

[1:19:30] And I'm not seeing Tukuko come up.

[1:19:33] So Sophia and Toronto.

[1:19:35] Oh, she's there.

[1:19:36] I see you.

[1:19:38] So if the other two people could line up, too, please.

[1:19:41] So Sophia and Latte.

[1:19:44] Yes, I did.

[1:19:45] Sorry, I'm not loud enough, apparently.

[1:19:48] And yeah, please do use the little stuff there.

[1:19:51] So we can see you.

[1:19:53] Thank you.

[1:19:55] Kind of scary.

[1:20:02] All right.

[1:20:03] Good afternoon.

[1:20:05] Yeah, please put your mouth close to the mic.

[1:20:07] So we can hear you properly.

[1:20:09] Hello.

[1:20:10] Thank you.

[1:20:12] I think that public art should inspire love, peace,

[1:20:19] warmth, kindness, compassion, and generosity.

[1:20:24] Furthermore, that environment should bring feeding of safety

[1:20:31] and humanity, humanity.

[1:20:34] This building you are in right now is one of the best-looking Spanish

[1:20:39] style building in Pacifica.

[1:20:41] When someone painted the black on the outside wall of the building, I immediately felt uncomfortable.

[1:20:52] You do not paint the black on Spanish-style building.

[1:20:57] Spanish-style architecture does not use black paint on wall surfaces.

[1:21:05] I call the planning department to find out more about the public artwork.

[1:21:10] She said, you'd love a red lobster, not a red octopus.

[1:21:21] And then she said, if you don't like the artwork, you can use a different street.

[1:21:30] So am I supposed to detour my everyday drive course?

[1:21:34] And waste my gas and time to avoid public art, let octopus in that world as a public artwork appears in other cities too.

[1:21:47] However, the most octopus, which we have now, is very scary to me.

[1:21:56] Why don't you walk along next to the octopus wall after dark?

[1:22:02] Why don't you bring me your children,

[1:22:06] grant your children to octopus wall at night?

[1:22:11] One shiny eye, on the wall,

[1:22:15] look at you, and let long leg

[1:22:17] will love around your body.

[1:22:20] There is enough scary things going on in the world.

[1:22:24] Why don't we, why don't you have another scary things in peaceful?

[1:22:30] Peace for Pacifica. City of Pacifica does not have to, does not have to copy artwork from another city.

[1:22:39] I strongly suggest you replace a scary monster red octopus with a new artwork which conveys love, peace, worms, kindness, generosity.

[1:22:52] I hope city future public artwork always promote safety and humanity.

[1:23:00] Finally, I want to tell you that a combination of red and black is color of the red,

[1:23:07] color of the red and black.

[1:23:10] So do not use red and black for your house.

[1:23:13] Each color has a meaning.

[1:23:16] Thank you very much.

[1:23:17] Thank you so much.

[1:23:18] Thank you.

[1:23:20] So Sophia, latte, and then I need a read.

[1:23:23] So good

[1:23:27] evening, council members.

[1:23:29] My name is Sophia and Trona and I'm a resident of Pacifica.

[1:23:32] I live on Esplanade Ave.

[1:23:35] I'm here tonight because I want to speak about an issue that has become increasingly

[1:23:39] frustrating for residents who live along Esplanade, the ongoing presidents of large.

[1:23:45] Are these parks along our street for extended periods of time?

[1:23:49] I want to be clear that I understand the complexity of homelessness and I understand that

[1:23:56] people living in vehicles need compassion and access to services.

[1:24:01] This is not about wanting to criminalize people for being unhoused.

[1:24:05] The truth is, the RV issue at the present moment is actually being largely caused by individuals

[1:24:12] who park their RVs and aren't specific or residents.

[1:24:15] They're parking their RVs, playing a weekly Tetris game, and they're renting their RVs for people to live in them with my knowledge is illegal.

[1:24:28] I think that this is something the city of Pacifica should investigate, and these reports deserve to be looked into.

[1:24:34] Pacifica already has a 72-hour parking roll under the current ordinance, a vehicle that remains in the same location for 72 hours consecutive hours must be moved and at least a thousand feet and cannot return within a thousand feet for another 24 hours.

[1:24:53] The city also has an abandoned vehicle hotline, which I think is a great resource.

[1:24:58] The problem is that from the perspective of residents on S on S grenade,

[1:25:03] Inforts enforcement have not been consistent.

[1:25:06] Residents can make the calls.

[1:25:08] We can document the vehicles.

[1:25:10] We provide licensed plates and addresses,

[1:25:13] but when the same RVs continue to occupy the same area,

[1:25:17] sometimes for weeks or months,

[1:25:19] residents understandably begin to feel like the ordinance is actually

[1:25:23] isn't actually being enforced.

[1:25:25] And this isn't just about parking.

[1:25:28] There are sanitation concerns associated with long-term RV habitation.

[1:25:33] When people are living in vehicles without access to regular sanitation facilities, there

[1:25:39] are inevitable concerns about trash, human waste, wastewater, and the cleanliness of the

[1:25:46] surrounding public space.

[1:25:48] This is a very practical safety issue.

[1:25:51] Last year, the bike lane markings were put in a long aspirin aid in effort and in part

[1:25:57] to create a clear separation between traffic, parking and cyclists, but the RVs continue

[1:26:03] to park over the line when these oversized vehicles extend to the bike lane or roadway

[1:26:08] to create an obstruction and undermine the safety purpose of the infrastructure we've already

[1:26:14] invested in.

[1:26:16] And I think we should be willing to look at what other cities are doing.

[1:26:20] San Francisco implemented a two-hour parking restriction for large vehicles,

[1:26:25] including RVs, and I think we can do that.

[1:26:29] I believe they, and I'm out of time.

[1:26:31] Well, I'll come back and talk about this.

[1:26:35] So, thank you so much.

[1:26:36] Thank you, Cynthia.

[1:26:37] You have my email.

[1:26:42] Latte, and then Anita, and then Kimberly Finale.

[1:26:44] Hello, my name is Ladi and I'm a Sophia Stabila.

[1:26:50] I also like to add to Sophia's comment.

[1:26:59] During my daily walk this morning,

[1:27:02] I found soiled paper tissue on the beach.

[1:27:07] Also soiled sweater.

[1:27:10] Of course, regular coffee cups, soda, cans, beer cans, beer bottles, and it's just getting

[1:27:18] out of control.

[1:27:20] It's like I've been talking there every single day and now it's like before I could carry

[1:27:25] the trash with my two hands, but now I feel like I have to carry a trash bag just to keep

[1:27:30] up with the trash.

[1:27:32] So, but, oh, we also have the whales this morning so, thank you.

[1:27:39] Thank you.

[1:27:42] So, Anita, Kimberly, and then Cindy Abbott.

[1:27:49] I probably should stand up, but I'm not going to.

[1:27:52] You're tall enough, I see you, yeah.

[1:27:55] My name is Anita Reece, I'm the Executive Director of the Pacific Air Resource Center,

[1:27:58] and I want to give you all some updates.

[1:28:01] We continue to be open Monday Tuesday Thursday 9 to 5 Wednesday is 9 to 7 and Friday is 9 to 1.

[1:28:08] And one Saturday a month, 9 to 1.

[1:28:11] We are close for lunch Monday through Thursday 12.30 to 1.30.

[1:28:14] Our next Saturday open hours is actually going to be in October because we have POMO PLUSA this month.

[1:28:20] It means in September as well as Fogfest.

[1:28:25] We are continuing to provide groceries weekly at our pantry and our next grocery distribution is

[1:28:30] this Wednesday at the American Legion Hall, which is at 555 fuel, if you haven't already signed up

[1:28:37] in the groceries, please arrive to the American Legion Hall around 4 o'clock and we'll be sure to

[1:28:42] serve you and sign you up for next time. Our unhoused on the coast outreach team will respond for

[1:28:48] a request for outreach to unhoused folks in Pacifica through Pascadero every Monday through Friday,

[1:28:53] 9am to 10pm Saturday, Sunday and holiday is 9 to 5. So if you see someone living outside in vehicles,

[1:29:00] or another place not meant for habitation, please email us at ucoutreachatpackresourcecenter.org or call us at 6504526279.

[1:29:13] As of today, there are nine encampments in Pacifica, including two that are for the safe parking program.

[1:29:20] This includes 84 individuals who are in those nine encampments and 48 that are not in encampments, but in Pacifica.

[1:29:29] That means that there are 132 folks who are unhoused in Pacifica as of today, including

[1:29:35] 21 that are in the Safe Temporary Safe Parking Program.

[1:29:39] I will say that that has increased slightly since the last time I came to Council, and

[1:29:45] we have seen a decline in the number of people in encampments most likely because of some

[1:29:50] closures and cleanups that have happened across the city.

[1:29:54] As part of our work with partnership for the Bayes Future, we are having

[1:30:00] The second of three workshops on Wednesday, the 26th at 6 o'clock at the Peter Point Firehouse, the topic is understanding Pacifica's housing element.

[1:30:09] The third workshop will be on the 9th of September, and it will be on learning effective ways to influence policies, so hopefully folks can attend that.

[1:30:18] I also wanted to let you know that this year we provided 170 Pacifica Youth so far from 100 families with gift cards for backpacks and school supplies there are back to school program and even though school has already started, please reach out if you need help.

[1:30:35] I'm running out of time so please call us at 6,000, 7, 3, 8, 7, 4, 7, 0, go to our website, packresourcecenter.org or email us at info at packresourcecenter.org if you need help.

[1:30:47] Thank you. Thank you any of that.

[1:30:51] So Kimberly is Cindy and then my last card is Michael Wellen.

[1:31:01] Good evening council members and staff.

[1:31:04] I just want to begin by acknowledging the city clerks Sarah Ed Emily.

[1:31:09] Elections are before us and I know this adds a layer of work to the heavy load.

[1:31:13] They're already carry with such grace and professionalism.

[1:31:17] Thank you.

[1:31:18] My name is Kimberly Finale, I'm a resident of Pacifica, grateful to be here.

[1:31:23] On Wednesday, August 5th, I made an intentional decision not to leave work early in

[1:31:29] order to attend the special council meeting held here as a procedural matter to place

[1:31:34] a new sales tax measure BB on the upcoming November 3rd ballot.

[1:31:39] I rarely believe this, but I knew my two cents would make no difference as this body had

[1:31:45] already made up its mind.

[1:31:46] By all appearances, our citizens, local taxpayer dollars, have been mismanaged for years,

[1:31:53] which would be why it seems we are headed towards bankruptcy.

[1:31:57] Now a decision has been made to continue us on the same old irresponsible path as has

[1:32:02] gotten us here, more status quo, the definition of insanity, repeating the same actions

[1:32:08] over and over again, expecting a different result.

[1:32:12] For some reason, the city of Pacifica and this council refuses to take a look at the top line items on our budget.

[1:32:19] The result is to continue to nickel and dime residents on the lower end of the income spectrum,

[1:32:24] already struggling to put gas in the car and food in the fridge,

[1:32:28] enabling the city to continue mismanaging our funds.

[1:32:33] All by telling us, day in and day out, we need more affordable housing.

[1:32:38] Remember, the last time an attack was added to the ballot for schools, folks voted to pass

[1:32:45] that because they want quality education for their children only to have ocean shore school

[1:32:50] closed shortly after. That one over like a lead balloon and so will this new sales tax measure

[1:32:56] disguised as a stream of income to secure public safety when in actuality it will be directed

[1:33:02] to the general fund. Could this have anything to do with the mail that I received a few months

[1:33:07] back suggesting that results to the city's recent survey with leading questions, creating response

[1:33:13] bias and skewed data regarding public safety, then mailing this to residents, the stated

[1:33:20] responses to the polling which, coincidentally, resulted in a pre-determined outcome. I find

[1:33:29] this scheme to be manipulating and a total misrepresentation. The city in Council has failed

[1:33:35] request or look at alternatives regarding police and fire.

[1:33:40] Only to suggest it, I hire tax on the people.

[1:33:43] I will vote no on the sales tax measure, and so will my fellow community members and

[1:33:47] neighbors who are struggling to make ends meet as we sit here tonight.

[1:33:52] Thank you.

[1:33:53] Okay, Kimberly.

[1:33:56] Cindy and then Michael's my last card.

[1:34:03] Good evening, Cindy Abbott, I'm happy to share with you that on August

[1:34:09] In 2011, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an e-bike ordinance for the unincorporated areas of San Mateo County.

[1:34:20] The hope is that this will be rolled out to additional jurisdictions using their work as a model, of course, making adjustments as applicable to the other cities, but to create an equal playing field across the county.

[1:34:35] Because Bikers really don't necessarily have to pay attention to city lines.

[1:34:42] Additionally, AB 2595, Pappin, was approved on August 17th in the Senate by 36 to 1.

[1:34:52] On August 19th, California Assembly approved it 75 to 0.

[1:34:58] This is another great way.

[1:35:01] It's on its way to the governor's desk.

[1:35:04] It's a pilot program through the 2030 that establishes a program in San Mateo County, authorizing local jurisdictions to restrict the use of class 1 and 2 electric bikes to children, 2012 years and older.

[1:35:21] The measure gives local communities tools to address young riders operating powerful e-bikes on neighborhood streets by past and school campuses.

[1:35:31] It's focused on youth, but accountability is shared with parents, guardians, held, jointly responsible for problems.

[1:35:41] And it resolves things with a small fine structure, but ultimately the goal is to educate the community.

[1:35:48] Fines can be removed if an educational program takes place.

[1:35:53] I really hope that in the months to come, we can have the e-bike conversation that's on the

[1:35:59] work plan, and to know that these are some tools that we have available to us, well-vetted

[1:36:05] programs that Pacifica can take part in.

[1:36:08] Thank you.

[1:36:09] Thank you, Cindy.

[1:36:13] Okay.

[1:36:13] Michael?

[1:36:15] Mm-hm.

[1:36:17] I quite well, but I'm indeed too good to see you again.

[1:36:22] So regarding flock, I've heard a lot of people mention that today, and there's reasonable

[1:36:29] concerns about public rights, Fourth Amendment, et cetera.

[1:36:36] However, I'm hearing the concern about finances, and we know that our police department

[1:36:42] is understaffed.

[1:36:43] We know that we have a budget crisis, and I think it will be important for the police when

[1:36:49] they give the presentation about automated license plate readers, both fixed and mobile, that

[1:36:55] we also hear about the benefits, how many crimes have been solved by the use of ALPRs.

[1:37:01] I don't know, I don't think anybody else in here either does either.

[1:37:05] What would be the cost to increase our law enforcement as far as additional officers, more

[1:37:12] cars, additional gas, additional maintenance?

[1:37:15] What is the cost of that versus the cost of the ALPR system?

[1:37:20] We need to come into this conversation fully understanding what the impact will be if we remove these systems and how we will address that gap.

[1:37:31] It's going to be a tough conversation and that conversation comes up. Obviously, there's a lot of people both in Pacifica and around the US that are concerned about this technology. However, we do need to be mindful of how understaffed our police department is and the use of that tool, perhaps bridging some of that gap. So let's make sure there's a full cost benefit analysis of that tool and how we will address anything that's lost if it's removed. Thank you.

[1:37:57] Thank you, Michael.

[1:37:59] Do you have anyone online, Emily?

[1:38:01] There are two raised hands that first is for Sarah Matlin.

[1:38:05] Go ahead, Sarah.

[1:38:09] Good evening.

[1:38:10] I don't even know what I know, but I'm often interested to get because my best friend lives there.

[1:38:14] While she and I search for whales using Pacifica Whales' body, I see these searching

[1:38:19] for our neighbors using Pacifica's flock of animals.

[1:38:23] Pacifica leaders are trying really hard to protect our community in a place of immense pressure.

[1:38:26] But over the last year, ICE took 140 of our San Mateo County neighbors from our community

[1:38:32] and then they had them were driving or getting out of their cars when ICE took them.

[1:38:36] To protect our community members from being kidnapped and to decrease the chances of a number of costly lawsuit,

[1:38:42] City Council should not remove the flunk contract.

[1:38:45] But as you're going to insist on renewing the contract, I urge you to pass an ordinance with the best practices included

[1:38:50] to avoid some of the problems that have gotten other cities in trouble and even suit for violations.

[1:38:55] I'm one of a few local volunteers that are dropping a model ordinance to the city

[1:39:00] put adopt and I look forward to being in contact with you about that in the future.

[1:39:04] So as an example, Pacifica's surveillance camera policy promises to implement

[1:39:08] guard-real processes to decrease in proper data sharing.

[1:39:12] But according to the Civil Branch, your report, Pacifica's search logs reflect that

[1:39:16] data we shared with other agencies without using those processes, violating the city's own

[1:39:25] who has studied the grand jury report and address problems in the FLOC contract in your

[1:39:30] surveillance camera policy, my best friend, a significant holder resident and volunteer,

[1:39:37] is an employee department, is a naturalized citizen, and she's worried for her own safety

[1:39:43] in Pacifica that because she speaks with an absent. So please don't assume Pacifica's FLOC

[1:39:49] contract should be renewed. So they always cameras may seem like a cost-saving measure,

[1:39:54] But there's a huge hidden cost to claim pain, flaw, to feed information into a violent deportation machine that is tearing our community apart.

[1:40:04] Please allow the contract to expire and instead use those funds to better protect our community.

[1:40:10] Thank you.

[1:40:11] Thank you.

[1:40:11] Thank you Sarah.

[1:40:12] The next raise hands for Lila Reniro.

[1:40:15] Thank you.

[1:40:16] Go ahead Lila.

[1:40:18] Hello.

[1:40:20] Hi.

[1:40:20] Can you hear me?

[1:40:21] Yep.

[1:40:21] Okay, good evening, Mayor and Council members and everyone, given the city's current budget concerns,

[1:40:28] I think we need to look seriously at enforcement, collecting fines, and making sure we aren't leaving money on the table.

[1:40:35] When SDR operators are allowed to operate without a required permit, the city is losing not only the permit revenue,

[1:40:42] but also so many other revenues and fines associated with non-compliance.

[1:40:47] Without budget is under pressure, we simply cannot afford to overlook that.

[1:40:50] It also doesn't make sense to spend limited staff and tax pay or resources investigating violations.

[1:40:57] If chronic violators can continue operating without meaningful consequences.

[1:41:02] We also need transparency.

[1:41:04] The public should have a clear, easily accessible place to see where an SDR stands with respect to compliance.

[1:41:10] Whether it's permitted, whether violations have been identified, whether enforcement is underway, and whether outstanding fines have been paid.

[1:41:18] If we're serious about addressing our budget challenges, we need to make sure that we are collecting revenue that is owed to the city.

[1:41:25] Enforcing our ordinances and not allowing noncompliance to be the cost of doing business.

[1:41:31] Thank you.

[1:41:32] Thank you, Lila.

[1:41:34] There are no other reasons.

[1:41:36] With that, I will close public comment.

[1:41:40] City manager, can I just ask, I know when we're doing agenda planning, sometimes we have things that are

[1:41:46] tentatively on the agenda and flock is tentatively on the agenda for October 12th, when

[1:41:54] when will we know for sure when that is coming to us.

[1:42:00] So there is a civil grand jury report on automated license readers in the county and we are

[1:42:08] named recipient, statutory required to provide answers.

[1:42:13] This is all public information.

[1:42:14] I don't want to stray too far on things

[1:42:15] that are not in the agenda.

[1:42:17] And we have a statutory deadline

[1:42:19] to provide comments to respond to that by the end of October.

[1:42:25] So within that time frame, we'll make it.

[1:42:28] OK, so sometime before the end of October.

[1:42:31] Yes.

[1:42:31] OK, great.

[1:42:32] Thank you.

[1:42:34] All right.

[1:42:37] Thanks Mary.

[1:42:37] just a little follow-up on that. What is the best way for people to get information about

[1:42:44] the Flock Program in Pacifica? I think I'd reserve that answer until we come back with those responses

[1:42:55] and additional information on the contract.

[1:43:01] This item's not on the agenda. I do want to be

[1:43:03] The cognizant and careful, may have someone who may want to help you with that answer.

[1:43:10] I don't want to go too deep into this topic tonight.

[1:43:14] No, I think I know it's not appropriate.

[1:43:17] Thank you.

[1:43:18] But if people have questions, is it appropriate to email the police department with questions?

[1:43:23] They can email me, they can email the police department.

[1:43:25] Okay.

[1:43:28] Yes, I'm going to hear at Pacifica.gov and is it Pacifica police?

[1:43:34] Pacifica.gov, I'm not sure what the general email is.

[1:43:42] We'll hear that from our chief.

[1:43:43] Thank you so much for being at the Pacifica.

[1:43:45] Democrats talking about this very issue just a couple weeks ago.

[1:43:48] You're very welcome.

[1:43:50] Good evening.

[1:43:50] Madam Mayor and council members, Maria Sarah Sue.

[1:43:53] I proudly serve as your police chief.

[1:43:55] So any questions related to the Float Camera System

[1:43:58] can be directed to our email address at police, at PacificaPolice.org or our transparency portal,

[1:44:08] which is on our department website.

[1:44:10] Thank you.

[1:44:11] Thank you so much.

[1:44:15] Okay.

[1:44:19] Sorry.

[1:44:23] That brings us to item 12.

[1:44:24] I'm wondering if we need a little 10 minute break.

[1:44:27] Okay.

[1:44:28] So we'll take a break until 9 o'clock.

[1:44:30] Recording stopped.

[1:45:00] We need everyone else start to quiet down, please, including Mara, Spinoza, in the back.

[1:45:13] Okay, so our next item is item 10, which is a continuation of a public hearing text amendment

[1:45:22] about the density bonus program, and I'm sorry, I'm 12, and the zoning

[1:45:31] regent regulations.

[1:45:35] So, city manager, Sharpen, Tina?

[1:45:37] Yes.

[1:45:39] So, public hearing on the proposed amendment to the density bonus and BMR inclusionary housing

[1:45:46] program was scheduled for this meeting and staff required more time.

[1:45:51] to pull together the documents and the complete staff report.

[1:45:56] So we are requesting that the Council take action to continue the item to the next regularly scheduled meeting on September 14th.

[1:46:09] And if there are people who would like to provide public comment on this item, because they are here, we would recommend that we take that public comment.

[1:46:18] Okay, are there any council questions first before public comment?

[1:46:23] No.

[1:46:24] Okay, I'm opening public comment on item 12.

[1:46:26] I don't have any cards.

[1:46:29] Can come up to the microphone if you want to see.

[1:46:31] Is there anyone online, Emily?

[1:46:33] There are no raise hands.

[1:46:35] Okay, closing public comment.

[1:46:38] I move that we postpone the item two, September 14th.

[1:46:42] I'll second.

[1:46:43] Okay, please vote.

[1:46:49] The motion to get near the public hearing to September 14th meet by councilmember Beckmire seconded by

[1:46:56] Councilmember beer the motion passes unanimously

[1:46:59] Okay, that brings us to item 13 the designation of a voting delegate for the League of California cities annual conference

[1:47:08] That's to you again for the manager Sharpen 10 so California cities is the statewide organization

[1:47:13] that is devoted to representing the interest of cities throughout the state of California.

[1:47:18] Their annual conference is mid-September in Anaheim starting on September 22, 23rd.

[1:47:27] And the action before you, for this item, is to add that meeting.

[1:47:33] They have an action item among their general members, with one delegate from each city.

[1:47:39] I believe voting on that action item and there was a request before you tonight is to appoint a member of the Pacific City Council to be the delegate and an alternate.

[1:47:52] Okay.

[1:47:54] Any council questions?

[1:47:57] How many members are attending?

[1:48:00] The following are registered to attend Vice Mayor Wright, Council Member Beckmeyer and Council

[1:48:07] Member Espinoza.

[1:48:10] You're waving your hand like you're not sure.

[1:48:15] You are.

[1:48:17] Okay.

[1:48:17] So it'll be between the three of you.

[1:48:22] Well, why don't we open up public comment first?

[1:48:25] Again, don't have any cards.

[1:48:27] Don't see anybody getting up.

[1:48:28] Is there anyone online?

[1:48:29] There are no resins.

[1:48:30] All right.

[1:48:31] I'm going to close public comment,

[1:48:35] would any of the three of you like to do it?

[1:48:41] I've done it before.

[1:48:45] You did it last year, right?

[1:48:47] Thank you.

[1:48:50] Sorry, I don't remember.

[1:48:52] I think I might have been the devotee.

[1:48:54] Thank you for that.

[1:48:54] I think I did it for your before.

[1:48:59] Thank you for the bottom.

[1:49:01] I know I'm a nightmare.

[1:49:03] Second.

[1:49:05] Do we need to vote?

[1:49:06] Yes.

[1:49:07] Tell some members.

[1:49:08] Also, it requests an appointing an alternate or two alternate.

[1:49:13] So if you'd like to amend the motion.

[1:49:16] I propose, Greg, as the alternate.

[1:49:20] Yes.

[1:49:20] I agree.

[1:49:22] Do we need to vote?

[1:49:27] Okay.

[1:49:27] So the motion is myra as the representative and Greg as the alternate.

[1:49:35] I'm going to repeat the motion.

[1:49:36] just like J.P.

[1:49:40] And with the motion made by council member, back in my ear to a point, council member Espinosa

[1:49:45] as the delegate and vice mayor bright as the alternate.

[1:49:52] The motion was seconded by council member beer and passes unanimously.

[1:49:57] Perfect.

[1:50:00] Okay, and then this is missing something.

[1:50:05] So we have a discussion also about the resolution that's going to CalCities, sorry, I don't

[1:50:15] see that in I am 14,

[1:50:19] oh, that is I'm 14, okay, moving on to I'm 14, thank you.

[1:50:25] So this is direction to the voting delegate regarding the conference resolution packet and

[1:50:35] So I understand this is about a potential committee working group to look at some of the housing

[1:50:44] laws and perhaps finding a way to push back a little bit on the state and all that they're

[1:50:52] taking away an authority from us.

[1:50:55] But I should probably let City Manager say all this instead of me that might be saying it

[1:50:59] around.

[1:50:59] That was a better summary than the dry summary I'll give you.

[1:51:05] So the next action is related to the Council providing direction to their delegate for

[1:51:09] that vote in the General Assembly.

[1:51:11] CalCities has accepts resolutions from its memor agencies for the membership to vote on.

[1:51:18] This one was prepared by the city of Maria.

[1:51:22] And specifically it is to direct the CalCities, the League of California cities, to support

[1:51:28] the development and advancement of a state constitutional amendment or other legislative policy

[1:51:34] or ballot-based initiatives that restore and strengthen local authority over housing

[1:51:39] and land use matters within municipal boundaries, including general plans, housing

[1:51:44] elements, zoning, design, and development standards, project-siding, and the approval

[1:51:50] or denial of housing development applications, and as was noted in the resolution from

[1:51:56] Marietta, the state, and the last 10 years has passed over 500 bills controlling or limiting

[1:52:03] what cities can and can't do.

[1:52:07] And my recommendation is to support this effort and be part of it as it proceeds through

[1:52:14] the Cal City's process.

[1:52:15] It does not commit the city to ultimately supporting any particular outcome, but I think Pacific

[1:52:23] as a unique voice in these questions given its role as a coastal community.

[1:52:30] And also one who is a housing provider.

[1:52:36] And this committee, if I read correctly, would be if they're looking at a ballot measure that would be something in four years.

[1:52:46] So it's potentially a longer study.

[1:52:52] I don't know what the timing would be or it could be legislation or it could be both.

[1:52:58] legislation is please do this or we're going to return to the ballot. I just don't know.

[1:53:04] But it is to try to have the cities have a unified voice on recognizing that there is a need

[1:53:10] for housing but what is the appropriate way for the state and the appropriate balance of

[1:53:15] power between the state and the cities to best move that housing agenda forward.

[1:53:26] Yeah, take public comment. Again, I have no cards.

[1:53:32] There are no reshands.

[1:53:33] No reshands.

[1:53:34] The closing public comment.

[1:53:38] So, I have a, I just have a...

[1:53:40] In the future, is, may I?

[1:53:42] Yeah, yeah.

[1:53:43] It's a bit of process.

[1:53:44] Assuming it is legislation or a ballot measure, it would come back to the council for support.

[1:53:51] So, this does not denote support, sort of, a blanket support for anything.

[1:53:57] Mayor Balls.

[1:53:58] We called for public comment, rather quickly.

[1:54:00] And I did see a hand.

[1:54:02] No, I'm happy to re-open public home insurance.

[1:54:07] The raise hand is where Lila Reniro.

[1:54:09] Okay, go ahead, Lila.

[1:54:10] Sorry to cut you off too quick.

[1:54:13] No worries.

[1:54:13] I'm just going to say I'm all for the DAPA action.

[1:54:17] I don't know all the details, but what I do know about it,

[1:54:20] it sounds like a great way to move forward and be united,

[1:54:25] especially for the multiple issues that we have.

[1:54:28] The STR issue and also potentially to the reading numbers.

[1:54:32] That's it. Thank you. Okay, thank you so much, Simon.

[1:54:36] You're in northern Rizans.

[1:54:40] I haven't studied the exact resolution.

[1:54:43] And I'm not sure what typically happens in these meetings.

[1:54:46] Like, would the delegate be voting on the exact wording in the resolution?

[1:54:50] Well, I can give you a little overview.

[1:54:53] If you look at packet pay.

[1:54:56] Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh.

[1:55:01] Oh, shit. Where is it? I was just looking at it.

[1:55:09] Oh, there's some policy committees that it goes through.

[1:55:14] And one of those is going to be before the conference on September 17.

[1:55:23] Which looks like it's a Zoom opportunity.

[1:55:26] I don't have to go down there.

[1:55:28] housing community. Yeah, that's on by.

[1:55:30] It's three. It's the 17th.

[1:55:33] And then there's 61.

[1:55:37] There's a couple of meetings during the conference itself.

[1:55:44] So page 361.

[1:55:47] So the general consideration of the general assembly at 830 in the morning on Friday,

[1:55:54] the 25th and oh no, there's the Resolutions Committee on Thursday, the 24th at 1 p.m.

[1:56:03] at the conference.

[1:56:04] So if you want to learn more about the actual debate or discussion, I've found going to

[1:56:13] that session on Thursday, the 24th is supplements reading the material that we have in

[1:56:22] packet.

[1:56:25] And then the actual voting, the time that the delegate does the actual voting is

[1:56:30] on Friday the 25th. But sometimes at that committee meeting, like the resolutions committee

[1:56:37] could amend it so much or do something that negates even having the vote on Friday morning.

[1:56:44] I've seen that happen. So be prepared. The vote is happening, but you'll be notified if it's

[1:56:53] Now, so that's the process, as I understand it, then the issue is we're supposed to on this item give you direction of our feedback kind of of what we think about this resolution.

[1:57:09] And the resolution itself, it starts on page 366, it's just a page and a half long.

[1:57:14] And I don't know if a state, I mean, I think it'll come out of committee as to whether the correct decision is to do a state constitutional amendment.

[1:57:28] It seems like that's one of the possibilities that they're all that's exactly what they're calling for.

[1:57:34] They want a working group to consider a state constitutional amendment,

[1:57:38] or other form of initiative to ensure final local authority over housing and land use decisions.

[1:57:46] So I support that and I think, you know, like all things, the details are what matter.

[1:57:54] I did take a quick glance at the cities that had signed on and had letters of support.

[1:58:01] and two of them, Norco and torrents are charter cities.

[1:58:10] So that's one thing, charter cities are different than general law cities, and we're general law city.

[1:58:17] So basically, as it states in the packet in the analysis, we as a general law city must conform to state laws.

[1:58:27] Charter cities have more leeway in ability to modify them, but we have to do what the state

[1:58:36] law says. And so that's what I think the frustration level with these cities that have put

[1:58:40] this forward is they want to bring back some of that control through the possibility of doing

[1:58:49] this working group at least to start and then decide if there should be a measure, a state wide

[1:58:55] measure or constitutional amendment.

[1:59:00] So, I don't, I think at this point, find out, right?

[1:59:05] I mean, we've certainly had a lot of impacts.

[1:59:09] I think for us, the biggest one I would carry forward is,

[1:59:13] we are subject to the Coastal Commission,

[1:59:17] and we are subject like everyone to housing and community development.

[1:59:21] And there's a lot of tension between those two,

[1:59:23] And it's often not clear which one we answer to, well, they both say me and sometimes there are conflicts there.

[1:59:33] That's just one thing to bring forward from our point of view.

[1:59:37] And they don't mention that here, so that's something that I think is really important to bring up to make sure that that's something that they include in their study.

[1:59:47] Yeah, because I don't, I mean honestly, I'm really bad with geography, but it doesn't look to me like any of these are

[1:59:54] Coastal cities. The ones that are that submitted letters. That doesn't mean there might not be code

[2:00:00] Social Cities attending that session on the 24th.

[2:00:05] They're not, they're mostly in the NMPAR.

[2:00:08] Yeah, yeah, torrents is close, but maybe not right on the coast.

[2:00:13] They're one of the charter cities.

[2:00:16] So one of the paragraphs in the resolution that I thought really explained this very well

[2:00:21] says, whereas increasingly prescriptive statewide housing mandates and development approval requirements

[2:00:28] can override locally adopted plans, zoning standards, and public review procedures without

[2:00:34] adequately accounting for differences that exist in each unit jurisdiction, and infrastructure

[2:00:40] capacity, water availability, wildlife, wildfire, and evacuation risks, environmental

[2:00:46] constraints, fiscal impacts, public surface needs, and community priorities.

[2:00:51] So, this is where, like all the state laws are taking away our ability to even review

[2:00:55] these projects and consider these things, and it is becoming more and more problematic.

[2:01:05] So, that'd be great, and then the first meeting is of the housing subcommittee, sorry,

[2:01:17] what were they called again, the policy committee, yeah, so that's the housing community and

[2:01:23] economic development committee, and I don't know if you know Rebecca Flynn, she's on the council

[2:01:29] in Pertola Valley, but she sits on that committee, so she'd be a good person to talk to,

[2:01:36] I can introduce you my email or something, I had a time when I feel like,

[2:01:42] yeah, not just

[2:01:44] I will discuss it, but I'm prepared to make a motion.

[2:01:48] Okay.

[2:01:49] I guess I'll be sure to be a motion.

[2:01:50] Any other concerns?

[2:01:52] Questions and put?

[2:01:55] All right.

[2:01:55] Then go for it.

[2:01:57] I'm prepared to move that we follow Sean's recommendation to move this forward.

[2:02:07] Second.

[2:02:11] So we vote?

[2:02:11] Is that a nozzaboting item?

[2:02:13] Yes.

[2:02:14] Yes.

[2:02:15] Move forward.

[2:02:17] Yes.

[2:02:21] And the motion to support a position of approval, providing that to the delegate to the

[2:02:29] CalCities, made by Vice Mayor Wright, seconded by Council Member Beer, the motion passes

[2:02:35] unanimously.

[2:02:39] So we have two more things on our agenda, Council Communications, which we haven't done

[2:02:44] in a while, and then staff communication.

[2:02:47] So any council members like to divide an update or two?

[2:02:51] I

[2:02:59] can start if nobody gets ready.

[2:03:01] Please do you want a little minute?

[2:03:04] So formally, I still feel like I have to say this.

[2:03:07] I'm necessarily clean energy now, Westlight Energy.

[2:03:11] We met in July.

[2:03:14] And one exciting thing, we've just approved the first microgrid

[2:03:18] project for the county, which will be in Pasquadero.

[2:03:23] So that's a community that gets really isolated.

[2:03:27] Their power goes out a lot and with their power goes their water supply, which is also

[2:03:33] well-based.

[2:03:34] And so they've just been awarded a PGD grant to do that work.

[2:03:39] Plus 10 million from West Light Energy and 3 million from the county.

[2:03:43] So that's quite exciting.

[2:03:46] And then, we've been talking about the GOV PV programs and that's how we've gotten the

[2:03:54] solar carport at the Civic Center and the solar on our community center and batteries

[2:04:01] are still optional for both of those projects, but so they want to continue investing in helping

[2:04:11] and greenhouse gas emissions,

[2:04:15] but are deciding not to find all of this themselves because it takes away from their investments and other projects so they were looking at eye bank financing and unfortunately the rates are too high to make sense for cities to take that up.

[2:04:32] So we're regrouping about that, but that program is still a commitment that West Light Energy

[2:04:40] wants to work on.

[2:04:47] So just a few things that I want to highlight, the county VLF meeting on the 13th was really

[2:04:56] powerful and Jackie Spear ended up taking my recording and my testimony up there for the

[2:05:03] at the state level, but unfortunately, they didn't really get any sympathy. The hope was that

[2:05:12] the state might put something on a trailer bill that would fix this problem more long

[2:05:18] turn. So I think the county is still working on an action plan, but it's really going to need

[2:05:25] to focus now on Bistera, and then continued pressure on other assembly members and senators.

[2:05:32] There's a lot of them in the rest of the state have this impression that we're a wealthy

[2:05:36] county and we don't really need this money and that's just not true.

[2:05:40] This is part of our fair share that all the other cities and counties get.

[2:05:46] We happen to be a donor county, giving back more to the state and taxes than they return

[2:05:51] to us just like the state is to the federal government, but that doesn't mean we don't

[2:05:57] needs to take care of our staffing and community services and so forth. So this

[2:06:04] four and a half million that's at rest for Pacific and next year would just

[2:06:07] be devastating on top of our budget issues.

[2:06:13] I'm sure most of us were at the Charter Medal hearing and person or remotely

[2:06:19] thank you all for being there. I just want to make sure people know there's a

[2:06:24] council and planning commission meeting tomorrow night starting at six right here to talk about next steps.

[2:06:33] And then why are I went to an urban land institute training last Friday?

[2:06:39] Was a joint program with partnership for the Bayes teacher that the city has an intern working with too.

[2:06:46] So this was officially like urban planning for elected officials.

[2:06:49] so we had like a fake city with multiple blocks that they had a fire and we had to figure

[2:06:56] out the combination of housing and commercial parks and other services and not just like

[2:07:04] design the layout but also like run the financials and my team had a very beautiful one but

[2:07:11] we lost because we would make as much money as we had it.

[2:07:14] We've had a lot of open space over a couple of parts, don't you?

[2:07:19] And not only that, the city had to pay 50% of that open space, plus they didn't have enough houses.

[2:07:27] So, Rado return was very good.

[2:07:30] Mayors seem to better. All right, mayors seem. What did your project do? Same thing all the time. Well, one of the things that we have some open space to, but it's not like we're seeing, but the people who did win, they were not like, I didn't like the project. They didn't have any, any, only one park. And the other thing is like the, the council were investors. How could you be sent out to them? They would, they liked that part.

[2:08:00] because it made a lot of houses, but anyhow, it was a lot of fun to do that.

[2:08:05] It's a good day, isn't it?

[2:08:08] And the other thing I learned, I think community development director,

[2:08:13] up to grave news about this too,

[2:08:15] but there have been land institute has this,

[2:08:18] like call it a top program technical assistance panel,

[2:08:22] where the cities can invite them to look at an issue,

[2:08:26] could be related ordinances, it could be related to urban planning.

[2:08:30] And I was thinking that would be a super cool thing to do for

[2:08:34] manner, you know, between all the housing and redevelopment of manner,

[2:08:38] plaza, the freeway going in and then the issues with coastal erosion.

[2:08:43] You know, it's quite complex.

[2:08:45] So anyway, we'll have to talk about a little bit more next year for

[2:08:48] if we have capacity to bring that on.

[2:08:52] Through the mayor, we are in discussion with them about a top.

[2:08:55] Awesome. Nice. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Okay. Anybody else too?

[2:09:04] I have a couple notes from North County Water District meeting on the 19th.

[2:09:13] And I keep listening carefully whenever they talk about recycled water

[2:09:18] because I know that there's a lot of folks that are anxious to be able to go to the new North County Water District

[2:09:25] facility and collect their recycled water. There are people, very near to us sitting on this day as

[2:09:33] who are also part of those desiring that. There's some bio-assay testing that has to happen.

[2:09:41] In our wastewater area, and also at North County Water District, and that work is supposedly happening

[2:09:48] next week. So, I'm fingers crossed that they're going to pass with flying colors and very soon

[2:09:55] we'll be getting notice of when we'll be able to get water. The other thing that I mentioned

[2:10:01] to the city manager, that I wasn't aware of is implementation of Assembly Bill 1572 which is the

[2:10:10] of potable water on non-functional turf, and there are three deadlines. Jan 1 of 27, 28, and

[2:10:21] 29, depending on who you are, as what entity you are and cities and school districts are in

[2:10:28] the first batch. And so there's definitions of what is functional turf, obviously playing fields,

[2:10:36] things like that, but I was interested to hear in the presentation that even if it doesn't

[2:10:41] seem like functional turf, but there are trees present, then it's considered functional turf,

[2:10:48] helping to hold water, I guess, for the trees or whatever. But so I know city staff will be on

[2:10:56] this in terms of assessing what is our, you know, potentially non-functional turf. I think the

[2:11:03] issue is we may have what we consider to be turf. It's all about are you irrigating it or not.

[2:11:11] So, we were thinking about the area next to Sanchez library. I don't think that's irrigated.

[2:11:19] I mean, grass grows there sometimes, but it's also really kind of, you know, where the frisbee golf thing is.

[2:11:26] So, anyway, that was interesting and useful,

[2:11:31] and the next tank that they're going to work on is the fastler tank.

[2:11:38] They've completely signed off, I'm pretty sure on the Sheila tank.

[2:11:45] Yeah, so, and then we heard that there may be an increase in the height of the existing cell tower that they have there.

[2:11:56] In fact, I think there is going to be increased, which, you know, good news bad news people

[2:12:01] don't like seeing those, but on the other hand, it might help really not good coverage

[2:12:07] in that area of challenge.

[2:12:11] So that's all I have there, and the other thing I wanted to report that I don't have the

[2:12:15] specifics on, I can share ones I get that the slides and look for the real information.

[2:12:20] And I understand that the funding source in the, in the, in the, I don't know, probably

[2:12:28] hundreds, Sean Eucatales, hundreds of thousands at least, maybe more from PG&E that supported

[2:12:36] all kinds of things like rye caps and, you know, which we use to help our client action plan,

[2:12:45] all of that, it comes, the source of his funds, one big source is PG&E.

[2:12:50] under some kind of grant program to the county, that is not going to be renewed. That funding

[2:12:57] source is going in a year. I think it's not like immediately, but there was at the resource management

[2:13:05] and climate protection committee meeting a whole host of things that we just, I just sort of take

[2:13:12] granted as existing and now they're in jeopardy because, and certainly with the LF, it's

[2:13:19] not like, oh, the county will just pick it up. Do you have any other information on that?

[2:13:23] The county that flows through CCAG, the PG&E provides 800,000 to a million a year and it does

[2:13:32] expire. They've indicated that they were ending the program, I think, in December of 27, I think,

[2:13:39] And it does fund a lot of the climate action protection activities, a lot of the technical support for all of our climate action plans.

[2:13:49] It is a huge risk.

[2:13:53] So that was in good news.

[2:13:57] That's what I have.

[2:14:01] I'll go ahead.

[2:14:03] Yeah.

[2:14:03] So the Coastal Commission.

[2:14:05] Oh, yeah.

[2:14:06] Meeting was interesting.

[2:14:08] Thank you for those of you out in the audience who were there.

[2:14:11] We got made a huge difference having us be there.

[2:14:16] I think it made a difference to our community seeing us there.

[2:14:19] I wasn't able to stay for the whole thing, but I certainly listened the whole way home.

[2:14:23] And then when I got into the classroom,

[2:14:26] listened with the students that I worked with my leadership program.

[2:14:30] So yeah, there were some learning moments there,

[2:14:33] as I was screaming my head off in the classroom.

[2:14:38] But yeah, so I just felt good to represent our community for this whole entire time, right?

[2:14:46] This whole time we've been talking about SDR, so I look forward to our conversation tomorrow night with planning.

[2:14:55] Um, you know, I was just want to say a couple little things about Oz Pack.

[2:15:00] Our open space and parkland advisory committee. For one, I want to thank Aaron who is the chair. He is doing a fantastic job.

[2:15:13] You know, you put someone with a lot of energy in a leadership position and you just let him go and he's doing great. So, way to go, Aaron.

[2:15:21] And I just want to thank them, they're doing some really great work, you know, they have

[2:15:26] trail days, once a month, and they're doing a lot of youth involvement, which is wonderful.

[2:15:33] They're going to do a program with the library, with stickers, and all kinds of things.

[2:15:37] So they're doing some really innovative things in Auspax.

[2:15:40] So it's fun to be there.

[2:15:43] So, way to go.

[2:15:45] And then I just want to remind everybody that we are a board member for Hope, which is healing overdose prevention education.

[2:15:54] And we are having our memorial walk, our third memorial walk this weekend, Saturday at Valley Mars School from 10 o'clock to 3 o'clock.

[2:16:05] It's a long event, but there's really great speakers and some educational components and resources.

[2:16:10] and then they'll be a memorial walk-in down to the memorial gardens.

[2:16:16] And back, so please join us.

[2:16:20] It's really also empowering to do work with people who are grieving.

[2:16:28] And I know from the experiences that my family had when we were grieving,

[2:16:33] and we started doing work in prevention, so it's really good for me to be a part of that,

[2:16:38] and kind of help them through that,

[2:16:42] those pieces cause they can get very personal.

[2:16:46] And so, come out and join us.

[2:16:48] It's going to be great.

[2:16:51] And thanks, Greg, for being there.

[2:16:53] I'm happy to do it.

[2:16:56] I've been doing a few things.

[2:16:58] I've been working a little bit on the VLF thing,

[2:17:00] both at the meeting we went to and quite a bit of work

[2:17:03] behind the scenes.

[2:17:04] I've done a little bit of reaching out to a lot of our state

[2:17:08] representatives to work on some things I've been trying to work on a bunch of stuff with

[2:17:13] PRC. I'm very much hoping that we get to make their dream come true at some point and through

[2:17:22] a bunch of advocacy work in collaboration with some people at the county similar to what

[2:17:28] some other sitting up here are doing. I hope that we see we can make a wish come true. That

[2:17:34] would just be a very wonderful and inspirational thing, and that my number of other committees

[2:17:42] and commissions as well doing that in advocacy, love the work that we've been doing

[2:17:50] on BPank that that was fun in having some successes and to bring some stuff home. I was

[2:17:58] very disappointed with the Coastal Commission hearing both from a process perspective and a

[2:18:04] It was all its perspective, but I was really glad that we were there and that my were you

[2:18:11] were online there supporting us behind the scenes I greatly appreciate that and it is a refreshing

[2:18:18] change to get emails complimenting our extremely hard working staff when they do extremely

[2:18:26] good work and it makes me very proud of our city and proud of our staff and proud to be

[2:18:36] a pacific and we're lucky to have. That's about it. And I just want to thank

[2:18:43] Sarah Coffee. Sarah is such an important person on council like I will say if we don't

[2:18:53] need anybody. I think we need Sarah coffee. So you'll be the hero. And you are the hero

[2:19:00] for all of us, Sarah. And I do appreciate you. I just want to say thank you to you.

[2:19:06] Thank you.

[2:19:10] I'm just going to make one other story Emily, you too.

[2:19:23] It's hard not to just then start listing out everybody else's scene.

[2:19:27] It's here in the room, what do you see you?

[2:19:31] Just one other event that's coming up on August 30th,

[2:19:35] the historical society is having a presentation, Pacificist peer,

[2:19:40] history and celebration.

[2:19:43] There's going to be food in the courtyard from between the church and the city buildings

[2:19:50] from noon to 1.30, the chat is providing the food that you can purchase, and then from

[2:19:57] 2 to 3.30, there are displays and a program inside, the little brown church. I've met

[2:20:05] this writer, who lives near Gopier, and who has a book of these beautiful stories. The name

[2:20:15] is spell heaven, and a lot of them about the peer book. More than the structure, the

[2:20:20] people that are there in the community that are there and she'll be doing a reading from her

[2:20:24] beautiful book. And they'll also be paintings of the peer from different community members.

[2:20:33] And I'm honored that the one I did as a goodbye present for Kevin will be hanging there too.

[2:20:39] So I can't be there. I'm really sad to miss it, but it's the 30th.

[2:20:49] I want to mention that I think not 100% sure, but a fair moon homeowner association is going

[2:20:58] to donate some money for purification around the Child Care Center at Fairmoon.

[2:21:11] It is kind

[2:21:12] if they have extra income so they could help us to purify that area and they're considering

[2:21:19] that. So hopefully we will have a nice little garden around that child care center.

[2:21:25] And we're on the new bathroom. Yes, I'm excited to see that.

[2:21:30] All right. City managers are open here.

[2:21:35] Good evening. A couple of things Councilmember Espinoza's right. The two most important people in the

[2:21:41] city structure are the clerk and the person who sends out the paychecks,

[2:21:47] just as a friendly reminder,

[2:21:50] the council and the Planning Commission have a joint study session tomorrow, at six, and

[2:21:54] then the Planning Commission has a study session immediately, I'm sorry, a special meeting

[2:22:00] with action items, immediately following that on the STR topic, and then we are also recruiting

[2:22:11] for our committees and I just want to make sure I use this opportunity to let folks know

[2:22:15] that we have two vacancies on the Climate Action and Resilience Committee, two positions

[2:22:21] on the Economic Development Committee, two positions on the Emergency Preparedness and Safety

[2:22:27] Commission and three positions.

[2:22:30] Questions on the Library Advisory Committee and the application time frame is noon on September 4th, Friday, September 4th.

[2:22:39] I need a short, do fine people. Is that September 4th?

[2:22:47] the number four.

[2:22:48] That's for the applications for people to put in their papers.

[2:22:51] Oh, I.

[2:22:52] And it's been posted.

[2:22:53] The meeting hasn't been set yet.

[2:22:56] No, right.

[2:22:57] Sarah.

[2:22:58] No, it depends on the number of applications that come in.

[2:23:02] Sometimes if we don't have enough applications,

[2:23:04] we'll extend by a week or two,

[2:23:06] and that may be the case with the number of positions.

[2:23:11] We are recruiting for a few youth positions,

[2:23:14] particularly on the climate action

[2:23:16] and resilience committee and also on the Library Advisory Committee.

[2:23:21] I was asking about that.

[2:23:22] Can you clarify our, like those,

[2:23:24] because we have two youth on the Climate Advisory Committee now,

[2:23:27] and those are yearly positions.

[2:23:29] So it was the two positions.

[2:23:30] The two positions on the Climate Action and Resilience Committee are for the,

[2:23:34] the one year youth positions that are,

[2:23:38] that are inspiring terms.

[2:23:41] So for the Climate Action and Resilience Committee,

[2:23:44] youth position is defined as youth ages between 14 and 25, so covering kind of college age

[2:23:56] providing that one-year position so that they don't need to commit to a full four-year position.

[2:24:03] And then one of the two on the library is a youth delivery advisory committee. There are two youth positions

[2:24:09] on that one as well, and those are for one year terms that expire annually in October.

[2:24:17] Okay, okay, great.

[2:24:19] And for the Library Advisory Committee, the youth positions are defined as under the age of 18.

[2:24:28] We're narrowly, it's not best practices, my understanding,

[2:24:32] but since we're having a joint study session,

[2:24:34] or should we leave after the study session or is it okay to stay and watch the planning

[2:24:42] commission meeting?

[2:24:44] The safest harbor would be to not be in the same room, with each other given that the

[2:24:51] planning commission action may come before the city council for action, and if council members

[2:25:00] So desire to stay in the room and listen, which would not be the safest harbor than to sit

[2:25:07] as far apart as possible.

[2:25:08] But there is no difference because it was a study session.

[2:25:11] That was the distinction prior to it that I was looking for, but I hear you, I will follow

[2:25:19] the best practice.

[2:25:23] Okay.

[2:25:24] With that, I'll adjourn our meeting at 9.46 PM.

[2:25:28] Thank you, everybody.

[2:25:29] Thank you.

[2:25:31] I got to go find...

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