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Recording in progress. Okay, welcome everyone. I now called to

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order the regular meeting. Of the palm Desert City Council

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and successor agency to the Palm Desert Redevelopment Agency, the

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Palm Desert Housing Authority and the Palm Desert Board of

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Library Trustees for Thursday, June 25, 2026 City Clerk. May

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we please have the roll calls. That's a member Harding.

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Here. Council Member Moreno. Present. And may we ask the

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nature of the need to remote participant. Yes, I'm participating

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remotely from my office in City Hall due to illness.

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There is no one present in the room with me.

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Thank you. Council Member Nathan. Here. Mayor Pro Timpredetto? Here.

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And Mayor Tree. Here. All Council's Present. Okay, I want

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to ask Mayor Pro Tempereddo to lead us in the

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pledge of allegeance. Please rise.

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I will now cancel member Harnick to provide us with

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some words of inspiration. Thank you, Mayor. How you do

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anything is how you do everything. Portray is how the

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whole picture of our life is composed of the sum

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of small moments. The way we do every little task,

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how we handle every minute. It's how we approach our

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life, job, friends, and how we use our time. A

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great philosopher, Hera Cletus, is quoted day by day what

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you do is who you become. Excellent. Thank you very

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much. And if we could now have a report from

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closed session from our city attorney. Thank you, Aaron. A

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reportable actions were taken in close session this afternoon. Very

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good. Moving on to item nine, awards presentations and appointments.

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We will ask for our item 9A, a Palm Springs

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Airport Commission Update. And Commissioner Kevin Wiseman to present.

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What do you think. He said he's parking. Yeah, oh,

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okay. Yeah. Well. Okay, City Manager comments. We'll jump leapfrog

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over to item 10 City Manager. Thank you, Mayor. I'll

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invite up Lieutenant Porras for a quick update.

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Hello. Everyone. We're going to wait up and wait till

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we get a little flyer up here. Maybe it's not

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ready. There we go. So next, in two weeks, we've

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been invited by Semal Mayor Greg Wallace to participate in

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a senior scam awareness seminar. That's going to be here

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at Palm District Community Center. Unfortunately, these scams are still

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happening. Criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated using fear. Emergency, deception,

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to convince victims to withdraw cash purchase gift cards and

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send money order under false pretenses. While this is still

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concerning, there is some encouraged news. We are a scene

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war members of the public stepping forward and helping us

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identify scams before victims lose their money. Retail clerks are

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calling law enforcement when they notice someone is purchasing large

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amounts of gift cards under suspicious circumstances. They were asking

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questions, recognizing warning signs and helping protect vulnerable residents. We're

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also seeing ride share drivers become an unexpected but important

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line of defense. And many scams, criminals instruct victims to

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withdraw cash. Or package money and then use ride share

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drivers to transport it. The driver often has no idea

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they're being part of it being used as part of

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a criminal inner scheme. However, an awareness as awareness grows,

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more drivers are recognizing unusual circumstances such as elderly passengers

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making urgent trips to the bank or request to transport

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suspicious packages. And they are contact in law enforcement when

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something doesn't seem right. And of course, bank employees continue

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to play a critical role for years. They've been trained

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to identify fraud financial and financial exploitation. Their vigilance has

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prevented countless victims from losing their life savings. And we're

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grateful for their partnerships. The common threat is simple, community

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involvement works, law enforcement can't be everywhere. But when residents

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businesses, financial institutions and transportation providers work together, we create

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a stronger safety net for those who most at risk.

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We encourage everyone to join us in this effort. Talk

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with your family members, especially your seniors, also about common

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scams. Be willing to ask questions when something doesn't seem

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right. And if you suspect someone is being targeted, don't

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hesitate to contact law enforcement. Appreciate it. Thank you very

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much. Thank you Lieutenant Poros. I see that Mr. Wiseman

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has arrived may jump back to number nine. And we'll

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have a report from the Palm Springs Airport Commission. Ur.

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So exciting things going on at the airports. All, uh,

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I've been asked to keep the two about three minutes.

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So I'll do a painting broad strokes and leave a

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little time for you guys to ask more detail questions.

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Um, the biggest major developments at the airport in recent,

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uh, since my last visit, uh, the executive director and

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the director of marketing have left to gringer pastures. And

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we have an interim executive director serving, Ms. Victoria Carpenter.

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She's doing an excellent job. Um, they're actively searching for

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a new executive director and for a new deputy director

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of marketing air service and commercial development. Um. We'll talk

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more broadly about the positive developments and then going to

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just some information that I think the public should be

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aware of in the next couple of months. So broadly,

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uh, the airport is growing its passenger figures, uh, still

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at a steady clip. They're making lots of, um, excellent

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changes to the customer experience and making investments, uh, and

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all sorts of areas one recent example. There was, uh,

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recently an unveiling of an art at Pulp Springs. Art

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at PSP. How should we call it. Initiative. And the

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first launch they had was some new art in the

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baggage claim area. So that's just a small taste of

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the various items that the port is working on to

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enhance our customer experience. Sure, sure, sure. All right. Uh,

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as well, they're putting in some new EV charging stations

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quite soon. So you'll look forward to seeing that. Um,

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this summer, something to be aware of is that they

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will be taking the escalators out of service for a

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couple of months in order to get them ready for

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season in October. So I think, uh, and I have

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Jake here from the airport. So you can check for

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some details. Is it from September to October. The escalators

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about two months. And so we hope to have this

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they're back in service ahead of season. And then the

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interim will have staff at the bottom of the escalators

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to help carry luggage. Our elevators are still working as

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well. So people can use the stairs or take the

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elevator. Uh, the goal here is to close them both

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down, replace them. They are dated and they are outside

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100 percent of the time. They need desperately, uh, some

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work. And so we're going to close them down at

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the same time with the goal of minimizing disruption, getting

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it done as quickly as we can at the end

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of the summer. It's, uh, it's been a long running

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topic and escalators, if you're not familiar, it is, uh,

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just nationwide, even international, just a nightmare across the board.

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Getting parts for them. It's just crazy. Um. I think

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one of the things just to be aware of is,

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you know, you've heard a lot in the news about,

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uh, the master plan and the plans for expansion. And

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so right now, uh, the fees that were in is

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the airport is examining the financial feasibility of all these

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projects and how to make them happen. So that's the

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sort of phase where we've progressed from figuring out what

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we want to build to how we're going to build

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it. And then after that comes designing what we're building

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and then building what we're building. So it's going to

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be a long time coming. And I think, uh, if

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anyone's expecting big giant buildings to be coming up overnight

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at the airport, it's not going to happen. It doesn't

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work. That way. So. Uh, lastly, I think I'll throw

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it to you guys. If you have any questions counselors,

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any questions for my colleagues. I have one question. Airport

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traffic year over year increase. Yes. A slight increase. Um,

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it's a decrease. Canadian travel is a headwind for sure.

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a guaranteed aspect the way that airlines are reacting to

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these jet fuel prices by price increases by cutting routes

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or frequencies. So that could definitely impact the sort of

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near term growth trajectory. But I think probably in the

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longer term, it'll continue to be a pretty steady clip

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of growth. Very good. Council member Hornik. On that note,

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I was reading something today about the Canadian traffic going

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right back up. I think they remembered how cold it

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was. And that we absolutely do welcome them here. That's

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good news. I want to comment just how great it

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is to fly in and out of PSP. Everyone goes

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out of their way to extend themselves to be friendly,

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to make your experience as seamless as possible. And to

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me, there's no other, the reason to go anywhere else.

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If we can get in and out of Palm Springs,

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it's the way to go. And I thank you for

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all the effort that's been put into really make it

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a friendly accommodating airport. And thank you for representing us

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on the commission. Absolutely. Good. Councilmember Moreno. Any questions or

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comments? Um, yes. Um, I concur that it is an

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excellent place to depart. And then you get an extra

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feeling of coming home. And you don't have to go

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very far. Um, I'm wondering if you have any updates

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on any direct flights that are coming up over the

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summer so we can tell folks the good news and

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not just have them focus on, um, having to endure

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the lack of escalators. Making new routes. Yes. We don't

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have any Jake by the way. Thank you so much.

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It's great to be with you here in the City

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of Palm Desert as well. Um, no new roots coming

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up over the summer, although we are continuing to pursue

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air service opportunities with airlines always. Those conversations are ongoing

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throughout. Um, that said, you know, you can't, you don't

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have to go to Ontario LX this summer. We've got

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12 nonstop destinations to, uh, to major hubs across the

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U S. And so, um, the opportunities are there for

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a one - stop connection to over 300 global cities.

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You can reach anywhere in the world from Palm Springs

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International Airport this summer. And so we just ask the

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public to keep that in mind when you're booking your

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summer travel, Europe, Asia, Mexico, Hawaii, right here from here

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in Palm Springs. I always tell folks that you may

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think it's a little less expensive to fly out of

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somewhere else, but the time that it takes you, the

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gas that it's going to take you to fly out

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of LAX, the parking is going to be more expensive

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there. So I concur that you can go a lot

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of places right from here. Thank you again. All right.

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Thank you everybody good. Okay. So thank you so much.

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Commissioner Wiseman, anything else? No, that's all. Thank you again.

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All right. Thank you, Kevin. And thank you, Jake. Appreciate

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it. All right. And we'll skip on over to item

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10B update about the Palm Desert Aquatic Center from Miss

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Sharmure. Good afternoon Mayor, members of the City Council. I'm

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Sean Muir, the community services manager. Um, and I'm bringing

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to you today just a quick update on the Palm

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Desert Aquatic Center. Um, we wanted to take this opportunity

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to just recognize the City Council's investment in this facility.

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show you some of the improvements as we pull up

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the presentation.

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Okay. Starting off with the, uh, recap of our memorial

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day event. So we had a big reopening or welcoming

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back to the community on Memorial Day after a six

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month renovation closure. And that was a one dollar admission

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event. We had a fantastic community turnout. We had it

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open for a lap swim. First thing in the morning

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with some breakfast pastries and coffee and treats, um, commemorative

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swim caps were given away during that morning hour. And

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then moved into recreational swim. So opened at 10 o'clock

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for people to bring their families in and enjoy the

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pools altogether. We had a DJ there. Um, the Palm

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Desert Library was involved and did a book giveaway. And

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was signing up people for library cards. So that was

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fantastic. And then we did a t - shirt giveaway

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as well. And I could tell you when I arrived

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with my family at 11 o'clock, those t - shirts

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were long gone. Um, so in looking back, we had

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744 admissions that day. And so that was a 30

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percent increase. And we're glad that the facility is reopen.

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But just showing you how we got to this place,

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um, with the pump room improvements was kind of the

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impetus for these, uh, these larger renovations that occurred. Um,

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the filtration systems needed to be replaced the heaters and

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five pumps as well as the smart controllers that control

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the pumps were replaced. And that was kind of the

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core of this project. Inside, you can see the before

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and after of the pump room. And the filtration tank

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that's on the left there is for the lat pool.

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but that thing is about six and a half feet

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in diameter, about 10 feet tall. Um, so replacing it

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with a new filtration system. It's a lot more energy

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efficient. And it's also smaller and more compact. So that

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the new one is only about four feet in diameter.

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Saved a lot of space in the pump room. Here

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are the new heaters going in. We had five and

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replaced them with four just because they're that much more

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efficient and we're anticipating a 12 percent reduction in gas

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usage for heating the pools in the wintertime. This is

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the, we call it the pit. And this is where

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all of the pumps live that pump the water throughout

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the facility. So all of this plumbing was redone and

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new pumps installed. These are the smart controllers that control

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the pumps. Um, and help them to operate efficiently. A

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new generator was installed for backup power. Um, when those

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smart controllers are operating and controlling the pumps, we want

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to make sure that we don't have any energy outages

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or power outages that affect the smart controllers in a

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negative way and potentially can, you know, render them useless

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after, um, power surges. So that will protect those. Um,

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and then we took the opportunity to make additional facility

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improvements while the pool had to be closed for the

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pump and renovations. The locker room flooring was resurfaced. There

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was new cabinetry and blinds installed in the multipurpose room,

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which is often used for birthday parties and other events.

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We did some renovations to the concessions area and repainted

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the lifeguard room. Um, there was also new, new doors,

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new pieces to the splash playground area, new concrete and

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then resurfacing the entire parking lot. So the whole facility

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got a nice facelift. And it led us to the

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beautiful crystal clear blue water that we see today. We've

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got some rubber decky floaties out there and some new

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recreational features for kids and adults alike to enjoy. Um,

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looking at the total capital investment for this fiscal year.

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It was a little over 2. 8 million dollars. We

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had estimated initially that this project could cost upwards of

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3. 5. So this came in under budget. And, um,

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we're happy that we were able to complete it at

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that rate. Um, and then I pulled this slide from

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the budget presentation directly. So it probably looks familiar. However,

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you can see our operational costs for this fiscal year

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are lower because of the closure. And we expect to

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get back to normal operations this coming fiscal year. We

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do have 1. 75 set aside for Capitol improvements, but

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they're really focused on landscaping improvements, some fencing that needs

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to happen. So they are more maintenance in nature than,

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and it won't cause any facility closures. So we're not

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looking ahead to do any major work like that this

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fiscal year. Um, and then for the general fund transfer,

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we're looking at 2. 3 million, 3. 4 is probably

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the, um, expenditures that we will see. However, we're anticipating

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1. 1 in revenue. So that will offset that to

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the 2. 3 in general fund transfer. And so what

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our next steps? Well, we're going to have some fun

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this summer. The pool is back open. We invite everyone

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to come back and enjoy it. We've got dive -

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in movies, hot summer nights are on Tuesdays and Fridays.

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And they stay open until 10. 30 at night. So

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it's perfect for after the sun goes down. If you

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don't want to be in the sun. We have great

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attractions and great food going on. Um, we'll also be

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looking to build back that attendance and look for off

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season ways to improve the attendance. So take advantage of

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opportunities that we're not taking advantage of now and identifying

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those new programs that we can add. Um, and then

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other facility upgrades and maintenance for the future. We want

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to keep our fingers on the pulse of that so

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we don't have any, um, big expenses that come up.

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The maintenance is the key so that we can have

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longevity of this asset. Um, and I will also mention

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that for 4th of July, there is a 10 dollar

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admission flat rate for anyone who wants to come down

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and watch the fireworks from the pool. Um, and they'll

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have the concessions open and all of the recreational features

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going. So, uh, come on down and enjoy the aquatic

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center and I'm open for any questions that you may

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have. Any questions. Council member Moreno. I didn't even raise

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my hand, but somehow you knew I had a question.

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I just don't want to leave you left down, man.

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Cost of admission, um, for the 4th of July. For

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that day only. They open at noon and they'll be

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open until after the fireworks have been completed. And if

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I remember last year you had the concessions open even

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to the park side. Like in other words, people were

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just coming in from the park and able to use

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the concessions. And that's the plan again this year. That

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window will not be open this year. We've added more

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features in the concession stand to offer more food variety.

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So unfortunately that window can't be open. But the aquatic

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center will be open and serving food. Okay. Perfect. Thank

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you. You're welcome. Good. Just one more quick update. I'll

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have assistant city manager Richard Cannone update on a new

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program as well as reutilizing video more to highlight City

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programs. Good evening Mayor and City Council. So tonight our

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communication team would like to introduce what we're calling Palm

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Desert Stories, which is a new video series to further

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expand our digital communication and community outreach efforts. And so

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our intent is really using storytelling to help provide a

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better understanding of the programs and services that we're offering

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every day. Um, as well as strengthening both our transparency

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and engagement kind of giving up behind the scenes look

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at what we do at times. Um, and so our

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goal right now is to release new episodes at least

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monthly, uh, with the intent of, uh, increasing that frequency

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as time, as time goes. And so with that, uh,

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let, let the premiere of our, um, Palm Desert Stories

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run.

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A palm Desert Packets adopted. It helps with overcrowding the

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city saves money. And most importantly, the PEC gets a

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better life. Homeward pause helps make that happen. The homework

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POS program is a PET adoption incentive program designed to

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help Palm Desert Residence Adopt Palm Desert animals through the

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Riverside County Animal Services at the Coachella Valley Animal campus.

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Through the program, Palm Desert Residents who adopt a Palm

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Desert Cat or Dog may be eligible to receive a

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125 dollar gift card wherever you want to go. These

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gift cards are to help offset the expenses of bringing

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home a pet and help them feel settled in.

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So. Anyone that's interested in adopting a Palm Desert Pat

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can just stop into our shelter and ask a staff

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member we can direct you to those spreads. Or we

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also play stickers on their kennels, um, so that way

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you know which ones are part of the program. One

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of the great things about this program. It has the

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potential to be self funding. So right now the City

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currently pays approximately 35 dollars a day per pet to

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stay in the shelter. So by adopting one of these

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animals, you're reducing the number of days saving the city

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money. And we're able to reinvest that funding into the

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program such as this. We definitely understand that adopting a

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pet is a big commitment and a big decision that

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you are taking. So we're here to make the process

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as easy as possible. Um, so just come in, ask

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a simple question. We'd love to introduce you to some

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of our pets. And if you do decide to proceed

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with the adoption, all of our adoptions are, uh, including

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microchipping, spayo neuter, age appropriate vaccines and a cute little

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name tag as well. Yeah.

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I think. This program is important because it's going to

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benefit the pets, the adopters and the shelter system. It's

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going to benefit the pads because they're able to come

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home to a loving family. It's going to benefit the

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adopters because they're going to gain a new companion and

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a loving member of the family. And it's going to

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benefit the shelter system because it's going to reduce overcrowding

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and open up the space for animals that are really

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in need. If someone has had adoption on their mind

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and aren't ready to make the full commitment yet, just

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stop another shelter. We're here to help you. We're here

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to make the process for you simple and easy. If

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you have any questions, we'd love to help you with

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that. We'd love to introduce you to some of our

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pets. Um, we know adoption can be a little intimidating.

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So if you're not really ready to fully adopt, we

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also have our dog day out program where you can

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take a dog out for the day. We're also looking

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for fosters and volunteers. Um, if you want to help

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contribute to the shelter. So if you want more information

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or if you want to take the first step to

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adopting these palm desert animals, visit palmdesert. gov forward slash

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pets. When an adopter does come in and they find

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the perfect pet for their family. It's so rewarding. I

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feel like, I mean, that's what I'm here for. I'm

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here to help people find the perfect match. So seeing

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that when someone finds the pet that they want to

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welcome to their home and that connection that they make

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with the pet, I think it's probably my favorite.

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That was our first one. Right. Any questions for my

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colleagues. Good. Um, I couldn't hear any of that at

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second portion, but, uh, thanks to, um, ADA requirements I

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was able to read the captions, um, but I couldn't

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see or, or, um, got a little blurry. Do we

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know if those stickers, um, that were on there is

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that the official sticker that will be taken, um, to

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the library or was that something else. Yes. That is

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the official sticker. We had provided those to, to the

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shelter. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Very good. Good work. Uh,

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we will now move on. That's it for C manager

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comments, correct? Correct. All right. Very good. Thank you. You'll

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now move on to item number 11 mayor and Council

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Member Reports and request for action. We will start with,

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Councillor, I'm going to stand here. No comments to share.

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Thank you Mayor. All right. Councilmember Moreno. Let me get

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to my notes here. Um, I'll leave the jazz events

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for my colleagues. On June 17th. I was part of

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the government advisory panel for Southern California Edison. And the

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discussion topic was on the public safety power shutoffs and

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the new process that's going in, um, as required by

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the California Public Utilities Commission. And what's being rolled out

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for 2027, um, includes more awareness of the, um, exchange

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that they have on their website and residential customers are

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eligible for, uh, portable power stations, uh, portable generators There

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was a, um, a battery incentive. They said they're funding

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for that is on the wait list and that is

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the self generation incentive. Um, I know as we talk

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about sustainability and how to have people keep the energy

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that they, um, produce in their homes to keep some

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of that in case of emergencies, they are implementing a

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program called, um, AFN, which is a for customers with

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access and functional needs. And that's a little bit of

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a step beyond what they've done before. And it's not

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just having the medical baseline saying here's, um, a way

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to keep your, your medically, um, essentially the devices that

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are there for life support. It's not just going to

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be my asthma compressor, your nebulizer. And they, I love

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that the discussions are also including individuals with intellectual disabilities.

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And that could create such a devastating disorientation for some

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of the customers. And I really appreciated that that hadn't

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been something that was ever brought up before. They highlighted

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the partnerships that cities can have by letting residents know

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about projects, um, programs like 211 and connecting them to

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food banks. And of course, this is when they can

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anticipate any major, um, storm event and increase collaborations with

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the cities. I know that they sent out a survey

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to all of the city managers and public works directors.

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And they happened to mention that they know that we're

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ahead of that with our city. Let's see if you

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are interested in getting those. They are through the SCE

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marketplace. And I mentioned that they're in apartments or mobile

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home communities. If you're getting your utilities from that HOA

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or that central office, you don't have your own SE

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account to qualify to purchase them. And they said that

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is one of the topics that they're going to be

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bringing up to the next day. Just, but I think

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all of this should be ruled out, um, by the

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middle of next year. Speaking of utilities, um, right now

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there is an opportunity or a webinar to help people

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understand what the decision - making process is for the

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California public utilities commission. I think a lot of people

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know my, my bills are going up. The rates are

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increasing, but not the process to get involved and be

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part of those public hearings and not exist in an

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isolation as just letters that some folks know. Um, so

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I think that one is going on Tuesday, June 30th,

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uh, 10 a. m. to 11 a. m. I saw

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the living desert is hosting your hometown zoo days. Kids

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and adults in the Coachella Valley, you can save up

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to 15 dollars per ticket. And that is available to

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Coachella Valley residents. And you just have to show ID.

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Um, so that's some fun stuff there. Speaking of animals,

475
00:31:21,049 --> 00:31:24,729
um, it is national adopted cat month. I know some

476
00:31:24,769 --> 00:31:29,529
folks from City Hall have adopted their, their female, their

477
00:31:29,630 --> 00:31:34,489
feline companions. And I'm happy to see that the program

478
00:31:34,529 --> 00:31:37,769
that was highlighted, um, brought up to speed that that

479
00:31:37,790 --> 00:31:42,329
program for adoptions has launched. And something that has been

480
00:31:42,329 --> 00:31:46,089
going on for, for quite some time, um, is presenting

481
00:31:46,270 --> 00:31:48,729
the idea that we finally do need to have a

482
00:31:48,769 --> 00:31:53,049
budget committee with animal services, um, proposed it at the

483
00:31:53,089 --> 00:31:56,009
last meeting and now those conversations are going on as

484
00:31:56,030 --> 00:31:59,289
far as the objectives for the committee, what that would

485
00:31:59,289 --> 00:32:02,569
look like in moving it forward as another step of,

486
00:32:02,609 --> 00:32:05,829
of transparency. And I think that will really help, um,

487
00:32:06,110 --> 00:32:10,009
reduce some of the frustration when people don't understand all

488
00:32:10,009 --> 00:32:13,609
of the limitations. And as I mentioned to the director,

489
00:32:13,630 --> 00:32:17,529
it's been a, we've gotten through some uncomfortable situations to

490
00:32:17,529 --> 00:32:19,929
get to where we are, but it's made the process

491
00:32:20,190 --> 00:32:23,209
better. And identified problems. And I know that's going to

492
00:32:24,030 --> 00:32:28,809
continue, um, I appreciate the library is doing as the

493
00:32:28,809 --> 00:32:32,883
cooling center. It's a highly functional cooling center. I know

494
00:32:32,923 --> 00:32:37,043
that we previously mentioned the Pokemon activities that may happen

495
00:32:37,083 --> 00:32:40,623
with Desert Reck. They're not happening with Desert Reck, but

496
00:32:40,664 --> 00:32:43,763
the Pokemon groups that reached out, they said thank you

497
00:32:43,864 --> 00:32:47,043
to Max and Rachel for helping with the Poki Party

498
00:32:47,144 --> 00:32:51,652
on July 8. And that was, um, uh, I also

499
00:32:51,753 --> 00:32:55,572
saw that right now on Libby, the online app. There

500
00:32:55,572 --> 00:33:00,452
are 2, 000 books and 1000 audio books available, which

501
00:33:00,452 --> 00:33:03,332
includes 53 read along. So here we go for all

502
00:33:03,372 --> 00:33:05,732
of the parents with kids trying to learn to read

503
00:33:05,753 --> 00:33:08,292
and you don't want them on the iPads. Well, if

504
00:33:08,292 --> 00:33:13,972
you can't compromise here something beneficial on the iPad, let's

505
00:33:13,972 --> 00:33:17,652
see, 4th of July, um, thanks to the staff and

506
00:33:17,652 --> 00:33:19,812
their family members that are going to be voluntold to

507
00:33:19,852 --> 00:33:23,092
be there. Uh, and thank you for staff for continuing

508
00:33:23,353 --> 00:33:26,852
the efforts to have the sensory space available at the

509
00:33:27,273 --> 00:33:32,752
Portola community center. And, uh, the social media team, you

510
00:33:32,752 --> 00:33:34,372
guys have been knocking it out of the park, man.

511
00:33:34,372 --> 00:33:36,772
You guys are doing such a great job with having

512
00:33:36,953 --> 00:33:42,372
something, excuse me, dynamic engaging and fun. And really highlights

513
00:33:42,953 --> 00:33:46,272
the way that team pump desert does things. And, um,

514
00:33:46,793 --> 00:33:53,012
I saw that, um, June is National PTSD Awareness Month.

515
00:33:54,603 --> 00:33:56,422
And it goes hand in hand with what we were

516
00:33:56,462 --> 00:34:02,682
talking about, the fireworks. Some other fun, um, June recognition,

517
00:34:02,682 --> 00:34:08,162
um, let's see. What did I have my notes, sorry.

518
00:34:08,162 --> 00:34:11,362
But oh, we can't forget that, um, June is LGBTQ

519
00:34:11,623 --> 00:34:14,642
Pride Month. And we know some of our residents when

520
00:34:14,642 --> 00:34:17,442
we had a special meeting mentioned that they were present

521
00:34:17,482 --> 00:34:20,162
at Stonewall and they know what happened. And I know

522
00:34:20,202 --> 00:34:25,202
that, um, thankful again to see the city recognizing that.

523
00:34:25,202 --> 00:34:27,762
And amongst the, I don't even know how many there

524
00:34:27,762 --> 00:34:32,162
were could be, I don't know, 160, 168 of these

525
00:34:32,503 --> 00:34:35,762
recognitions. There were some interesting ones that I learned like

526
00:34:35,863 --> 00:34:38,957
the ninth was Donald Duck Day. For all of the

527
00:34:38,997 --> 00:34:43,357
Disney babies out there. And today is National Beatles Day,

528
00:34:43,357 --> 00:34:48,290
the band, not the bug. National catfish day, global belly

529
00:34:48,290 --> 00:34:51,090
button day and handshake day. So I hope you guys

530
00:34:51,351 --> 00:34:54,050
get a chance to do any of those. And the

531
00:34:54,311 --> 00:34:57,330
23rd was National where pink day, and I'm surprised it

532
00:34:57,330 --> 00:35:01,150
wasn't on October 4th. If you know, you know. And

533
00:35:01,431 --> 00:35:04,982
that's it for what I've got. Very good. Thank you.

534
00:35:05,723 --> 00:35:12,803
Council Member Hornick. Well, we all had the opportunity to

535
00:35:12,843 --> 00:35:15,923
go to Desert Willow yesterday. We were all, was it

536
00:35:15,963 --> 00:35:21,500
yesterday? This week. Uh, we were all there to celebrate

537
00:35:21,601 --> 00:35:26,220
our fire and our sheriff professionals and thank them for

538
00:35:26,241 --> 00:35:29,500
what they do for our communities and I'll let the

539
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:35,260
mayor did a great job leading that, uh, entire celebration.

540
00:35:35,260 --> 00:35:36,620
And I'll leave it to you to share some more.

541
00:35:37,984 --> 00:35:42,043
I did want to mention that on July 7th, it

542
00:35:42,144 --> 00:35:48,141
is, uh, outdoor worker day. And that is something we

543
00:35:48,402 --> 00:35:51,901
commemorate every year. And it was started here in Palm

544
00:35:51,901 --> 00:35:55,983
Desert. And fortunately, assembly member Wallace, Greg Wallace has taken

545
00:35:55,983 --> 00:35:59,983
it and really, uh, made it his own and make

546
00:35:59,983 --> 00:36:04,063
sure that we do something every year. The first year

547
00:36:04,964 --> 00:36:10,816
Burtek was involved and they, they made it special. So,

548
00:36:10,816 --> 00:36:12,976
you know, think about the people who keep our signals

549
00:36:13,317 --> 00:36:18,256
running. Our public works who make sure that the parks

550
00:36:18,296 --> 00:36:22,256
are in good shape or if a tree goes down,

551
00:36:22,256 --> 00:36:25,056
all our open spaces are still maintained at those who

552
00:36:25,077 --> 00:36:31,039
work at desert willow outside. Our sheriffs and Cal Fire.

553
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:35,836
They're all outdoors. Uh, and our and Burtech. So I

554
00:36:35,937 --> 00:36:38,636
encourage everyone to say thank you. These are people who

555
00:36:38,817 --> 00:36:44,716
are out in 110 or whatever the degrees might be

556
00:36:44,897 --> 00:36:47,596
during the summer. And they carry this on to make

557
00:36:47,596 --> 00:36:50,036
sure that we have a great place to live. So

558
00:36:50,337 --> 00:36:53,196
please make sure to say thank you to them on

559
00:36:53,236 --> 00:36:55,676
July 7th, but wouldn't hurt to say thank you every

560
00:36:55,676 --> 00:36:58,472
day this summer. And that's all I have. Thank you.

561
00:36:59,453 --> 00:37:02,862
Very good. Thank you. Mayor Pro Tem. I want to

562
00:37:02,883 --> 00:37:07,422
recognize our economic development, uh, team that put on brokers

563
00:37:07,462 --> 00:37:11,102
breakfast last week. It was the first one we've done

564
00:37:11,603 --> 00:37:14,462
and they collaborated with cities. And it was a really

565
00:37:14,462 --> 00:37:17,742
great opportunity to get in front of the commercial brokers

566
00:37:17,742 --> 00:37:21,022
that are oftentimes selling the best places to do business.

567
00:37:21,022 --> 00:37:24,622
So getting upstream, getting them educated onto what our city's

568
00:37:24,622 --> 00:37:27,102
doing to be business friendly and get those folks coming

569
00:37:27,203 --> 00:37:29,662
to Palm Desert and staying ahead of what the market

570
00:37:29,843 --> 00:37:32,942
demands are for products in terms of real estate and

571
00:37:32,963 --> 00:37:34,942
zoning that we can stay on top of. So thank

572
00:37:34,942 --> 00:37:39,622
you for that. Last week CVAG homelessness committee met and

573
00:37:39,662 --> 00:37:43,462
we made a recommendation to the Executive Committee to give

574
00:37:43,563 --> 00:37:46,902
the Executive Director of CVAG the ability to negotiate non

575
00:37:47,163 --> 00:37:52,022
- cash contributions for our participation in the housing first

576
00:37:52,062 --> 00:37:54,742
program, which is good for Palm Desert because we use

577
00:37:55,163 --> 00:37:59,382
the, um, PLHA funding. And that will go away, we'll

578
00:37:59,382 --> 00:38:02,422
exhaust those soon. So that gives our team flexibility to

579
00:38:02,462 --> 00:38:06,342
negotiate with CVAG in ways to preserve our general fund.

580
00:38:08,409 --> 00:38:12,468
Lastly, I would like to bring a request for action.

581
00:38:12,468 --> 00:38:16,068
We've had business owners come and testify to us about

582
00:38:16,489 --> 00:38:20,788
the unfair business practices created by the illegal placements of

583
00:38:20,969 --> 00:38:24,708
signs. I've heard from residents as well. So I'd like

584
00:38:24,708 --> 00:38:28,868
to, um, ask for support to direct staff to look

585
00:38:28,868 --> 00:38:31,588
at our signed ordinance and just research if it's giving

586
00:38:31,609 --> 00:38:36,548
them the tools they need to properly enforce sign placement

587
00:38:36,969 --> 00:38:40,808
to our expectation. And it also aligns with our zero

588
00:38:40,989 --> 00:38:49,988
blight challenge. A support. Okay. Uh, as Council Member Moreno

589
00:38:50,329 --> 00:38:54,628
mentioned, we did have our first annual jazz event up

590
00:38:54,668 --> 00:38:56,628
in the County Theater Saturday, June 13th, the City partner

591
00:38:56,649 --> 00:38:58,708
with McCown Theater. And it was sort of a three

592
00:38:59,369 --> 00:39:01,988
part day where at 9 a. m. at the library.

593
00:39:02,626 --> 00:39:04,605
And again, this is a great, in my opinion, great

594
00:39:04,645 --> 00:39:05,865
use of library. I know. I'm so glad to see

595
00:39:05,865 --> 00:39:07,725
this. It was more, um, a little bit of hands

596
00:39:07,746 --> 00:39:09,165
- on. If I didn't attend it, but I think

597
00:39:09,346 --> 00:39:10,605
it was a little bit more of an interactive thing

598
00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:14,445
at the library where people could get to hear the

599
00:39:14,466 --> 00:39:17,805
jazz and play jazz, I believe. And then at one

600
00:39:17,845 --> 00:39:20,765
o'clock, we started the performances proper at McCallum Theater. There

601
00:39:20,765 --> 00:39:22,925
was an all afternoon event. A lot of local talent

602
00:39:23,106 --> 00:39:27,245
was showcased. And, uh, then at the evening program brought

603
00:39:27,245 --> 00:39:30,125
in, I know Mayor Protem and Council Member Moreno and

604
00:39:30,146 --> 00:39:33,565
I all attended and the talent there was just incredible.

605
00:39:33,565 --> 00:39:35,325
It was worthwhile. It was wonderful. And it's a great

606
00:39:35,365 --> 00:39:38,205
way from a column to extend their season. Whereas in

607
00:39:38,205 --> 00:39:39,945
years past, they'd close at the end of April. Now

608
00:39:39,945 --> 00:39:42,845
we're going into midsummer. And there was well attended and

609
00:39:42,845 --> 00:39:44,285
a great event. So I look forward to hopefully that

610
00:39:44,285 --> 00:39:45,965
won't be the one and only. Hopefully it'll be an

611
00:39:46,005 --> 00:39:50,365
annual event moving forward. As Council Member Harnick mentioned the

612
00:39:50,405 --> 00:39:53,085
COVID commission, um, held our annual awards lunch in this

613
00:39:53,085 --> 00:39:56,525
week at Deser Willow where if those are not familiar,

614
00:39:56,525 --> 00:39:58,685
it's Ranch Mirage Indian Wells Palm Desert all make up

615
00:39:58,725 --> 00:40:03,756
the Cove Commission. We talk about common issues. And did

616
00:40:03,756 --> 00:40:08,556
awards program there. And, um, the one thing really struck

617
00:40:08,556 --> 00:40:10,556
me. And it's always struck me since my time on

618
00:40:10,657 --> 00:40:15,036
counsel is just how good our public safety personnel are.

619
00:40:15,036 --> 00:40:17,116
And, um, I'll give you one example. I actually was

620
00:40:17,297 --> 00:40:19,676
fortunate enough to take a vacation last week and I

621
00:40:19,716 --> 00:40:22,132
flew in and out of LA. And had some long

622
00:40:22,233 --> 00:40:23,892
- term parking there, but I thought was a safe

623
00:40:23,892 --> 00:40:26,372
place came back after the trip on a, on a

624
00:40:26,372 --> 00:40:29,412
Sunday evening, Monday evening, uh, car had been broken into

625
00:40:30,153 --> 00:40:32,692
out of this underground garage with hundreds of other cars.

626
00:40:32,692 --> 00:40:36,112
They picked ours to break into. God knows why. Um,

627
00:40:36,112 --> 00:40:38,052
and a filed report with security there, did the whole

628
00:40:38,092 --> 00:40:40,692
rigmarole insurance, blah, blah, blah. And talking to the security

629
00:40:40,873 --> 00:40:43,012
at the parking garage. He said, well, do you want

630
00:40:43,052 --> 00:40:45,332
to file a report with the LAPD? And I said,

631
00:40:45,673 --> 00:40:51,252
probably a waste of time. I said, yeah, online probably

632
00:40:51,252 --> 00:40:53,812
won't amount to much. You contrast that with the stories

633
00:40:53,913 --> 00:40:58,132
we're heard at the public safety luncheon of deputies just

634
00:40:58,132 --> 00:41:02,292
doggedly pursuing these, what in many other cities we'd be

635
00:41:02,292 --> 00:41:06,292
considered like a minor property crime, say identity theft or

636
00:41:06,473 --> 00:41:08,932
misuse of a, somebody's credit card. And they don't stop

637
00:41:09,033 --> 00:41:10,852
until the case is closed. And it was just a

638
00:41:10,852 --> 00:41:12,352
great reminder. Sometimes you got to get out of the

639
00:41:12,352 --> 00:41:15,012
city to remind yourself how good we have it here.

640
00:41:15,012 --> 00:41:17,732
It is really remarkable. And I've just really grateful for

641
00:41:17,913 --> 00:41:21,172
both fire and, uh, and sheriffs for the services they

642
00:41:21,172 --> 00:41:23,712
provide in our city very, very grateful for that. And

643
00:41:23,712 --> 00:41:25,652
on one last note, again, like I said, I was

644
00:41:26,553 --> 00:41:28,132
fortunate enough to take a vacation last week. So I

645
00:41:28,132 --> 00:41:29,412
don't have a whole lot of business to talk about.

646
00:41:30,129 --> 00:41:32,188
But it did give me a chance to catch up

647
00:41:32,228 --> 00:41:35,868
on my pleasure reading. I did read our poetic anthology,

648
00:41:35,868 --> 00:41:38,188
which I think is the first ever we've ever done.

649
00:41:38,188 --> 00:41:40,668
And it's Marigold's dip to marmalade. It's free. It's available

650
00:41:40,769 --> 00:41:43,788
at, um, thereibrary. I picked this one up actually here

651
00:41:43,788 --> 00:41:45,788
at City Hall. And it was outstanding. And I wasn't

652
00:41:45,828 --> 00:41:48,828
really certain how I was going to take to the

653
00:41:48,929 --> 00:41:51,308
poet Laureate program. It's a relatively new program for us.

654
00:41:51,308 --> 00:41:52,908
I wasn't sure if it was really something the city

655
00:41:52,948 --> 00:41:54,828
ought to be involved in. And even if this is

656
00:41:54,828 --> 00:41:57,148
the only thing the poet Laureate does is conduct these

657
00:41:57,329 --> 00:42:00,748
biweekly programs for local residents and non - residents who

658
00:42:01,089 --> 00:42:04,588
want to learn more about poetry, bring out their sense

659
00:42:04,609 --> 00:42:08,308
of expression and articulation. That's all well worth it. So

660
00:42:08,609 --> 00:42:11,228
excellent program and thanks again to the library and the

661
00:42:11,268 --> 00:42:14,428
city for moving forward with that, that project. So that's

662
00:42:14,468 --> 00:42:19,012
all I have. And thank you very much. Next up,

663
00:42:19,012 --> 00:42:21,732
we are going to move on to an item number

664
00:42:21,993 --> 00:42:25,492
12 non - agenda public comments. This time has been

665
00:42:25,673 --> 00:42:27,972
set aside for the public to address the city council

666
00:42:28,073 --> 00:42:30,452
and issues that are not on the agenda for up

667
00:42:30,452 --> 00:42:32,852
to three minutes because the Brown Act does not allow

668
00:42:32,953 --> 00:42:35,412
the City Council to act on items not listed on

669
00:42:35,412 --> 00:42:38,852
the agenda. Council members may briefly respond or refer to

670
00:42:38,892 --> 00:42:41,812
the matter to staff for report and recommendation at a

671
00:42:41,812 --> 00:42:44,772
future meeting. And I guess City Clerk, if you could

672
00:42:44,772 --> 00:42:46,492
have a few remarks, please. For those on Zoom, if

673
00:42:46,492 --> 00:42:48,532
you want to participate in public comment, please click the

674
00:42:48,633 --> 00:42:51,252
raise hand button on your computer or smartphone. And if

675
00:42:51,273 --> 00:42:53,572
you're joining in by calling on your phone, please dial

676
00:42:53,593 --> 00:42:56,132
star nine to raise your hand. And when called upon,

677
00:42:56,132 --> 00:42:58,929
press star six to unmute yourself. Okay. Very good. I'm

678
00:42:58,929 --> 00:43:01,289
going to start off with our in - person. We

679
00:43:01,289 --> 00:43:04,529
have one blue card here, uh, from Sensei Tamara.

680
00:43:13,330 --> 00:43:17,309
Hello. Good day. My name is Sensei Tamara Canado and

681
00:43:17,309 --> 00:43:20,589
I am CEO of Satan Joku and owner of Satan

682
00:43:20,610 --> 00:43:26,584
Kai. Weird names. But I am a Karanian structure and

683
00:43:26,685 --> 00:43:31,064
I specialize in teaching pericarati and I teach individuals with

684
00:43:31,064 --> 00:43:37,224
Disabilities Autism Down syndrome cerebral palsy epilepsy blind and wheelchair.

685
00:43:37,224 --> 00:43:39,944
And as of last year, I got appointed para karate

686
00:43:39,984 --> 00:43:44,344
coach for Team USA. I'm super excited. Thank you, Mayor,

687
00:43:44,344 --> 00:43:46,344
for attending my tournament this year. It was a very

688
00:43:46,365 --> 00:43:52,504
big impact. Uh, we had over 160 para competitors. And,

689
00:43:52,504 --> 00:43:54,424
um, something that I'm very proud. I am a new

690
00:43:55,005 --> 00:43:58,984
palm desert resident. And I officially have the largest pair

691
00:43:58,984 --> 00:44:01,903
of karate team in the country. So as a woman

692
00:44:02,244 --> 00:44:06,303
in a male dominated industry, it is an honor. But,

693
00:44:06,303 --> 00:44:08,463
um, the reason for the, for me coming in today

694
00:44:08,644 --> 00:44:12,623
is one, I'm very grateful for the opportunity for having

695
00:44:12,964 --> 00:44:18,063
presented my first grant to the city of Palm Desert.

696
00:44:18,063 --> 00:44:22,063
I am also a nonprofit. And, um, we are looking

697
00:44:22,404 --> 00:44:26,463
towards relocating from the quinta to also moving into the

698
00:44:26,503 --> 00:44:29,903
city of Palm Desert. Um, I just got some inland

699
00:44:29,943 --> 00:44:34,383
regional center approval for vendorization. And we'll be expanding our

700
00:44:34,484 --> 00:44:37,343
services. As of a couple of months ago, I brought

701
00:44:37,364 --> 00:44:41,483
in a therapist from Barbara Sonatra Center because a lot

702
00:44:41,483 --> 00:44:44,703
of the individuals that I work with are foster kids

703
00:44:45,364 --> 00:44:47,903
sexually abuse children. And believe it or not, a lot

704
00:44:47,943 --> 00:44:52,463
of my children and adults with Disabilities also happen abused.

705
00:44:52,724 --> 00:44:55,823
So bringing in a therapist and the mental health compartment

706
00:44:55,863 --> 00:45:00,063
has been huge for us. But as of officially today,

707
00:45:00,063 --> 00:45:03,103
I have an ER doctor that is joining us for

708
00:45:03,524 --> 00:45:07,618
nutrition and personal training. And the reason is, as you

709
00:45:07,618 --> 00:45:12,258
may know, there are dietary sensitivities and sensories that individuals

710
00:45:12,359 --> 00:45:15,518
with Disabilities have which have let them to diabetes, um,

711
00:45:15,879 --> 00:45:20,958
cardiac issues, kidney and liver failure every scenario you can

712
00:45:20,958 --> 00:45:23,698
imagine. I am dealing with, within my team. So I'm

713
00:45:23,698 --> 00:45:27,698
not just teaching para karate. We're teaching life skills. Respect

714
00:45:27,799 --> 00:45:32,818
focus diet exercise. And so much. So, um, God willing

715
00:45:32,999 --> 00:45:34,898
in the next couple of months, we will be officially

716
00:45:34,919 --> 00:45:37,378
here in the City of Palm Desert, but I did

717
00:45:37,418 --> 00:45:39,538
want to just present today and talk about a little

718
00:45:39,538 --> 00:45:42,617
bit of my program. Thank you. Very good. Thank you

719
00:45:42,657 --> 00:45:47,477
so much. All right. And any online comments? Yes. Uh,

720
00:45:47,678 --> 00:45:54,341
one speaker, Todd Spitzer. Very good. Mr. Spitzer.

721
00:46:02,467 --> 00:46:04,348
Your mic is on mute. There you go.

722
00:46:17,277 --> 00:46:21,351
Mr. Spitzer, we're not able to hear you. How. About

723
00:46:21,391 --> 00:46:24,464
now? Yes, we can hear you now. Okay. All right.

724
00:46:24,504 --> 00:46:26,624
Sorry about that. Mr. Mayor and members of the City

725
00:46:26,664 --> 00:46:29,344
Council, thank you so much for the opportunity to speak

726
00:46:29,365 --> 00:46:32,781
today. Uh, my name's Todd Spitzer. I'm a resident of

727
00:46:32,821 --> 00:46:36,141
the City of Palm Springs. I reside in the Monterey

728
00:46:36,162 --> 00:46:40,730
Country Club. Uh, I've had correspondence on an issue I'm

729
00:46:40,831 --> 00:46:43,370
going to talk about in a moment with your assistant

730
00:46:43,471 --> 00:46:46,730
city manager and your staff member, Ms. Castro. And they've

731
00:46:46,730 --> 00:46:50,414
been very attentive, very professional. And super responsible. So I

732
00:46:50,414 --> 00:46:52,537
want to thank your staff for that. But I do

733
00:46:52,638 --> 00:46:55,177
want to inform you on May 21st of this year.

734
00:46:56,136 --> 00:46:59,875
Mayor Taylor, the mayor of Indian Wells laid down the

735
00:46:59,896 --> 00:47:03,394
gauntlet against the City of Palm Desert. Regarding the expansion

736
00:47:03,495 --> 00:47:06,549
of the Palm Springs airport. Many of you know that

737
00:47:06,570 --> 00:47:10,051
the FAA has changed the flight pattern. Into the approach

738
00:47:10,472 --> 00:47:14,912
corridor for landing into Palm Springs airport. The airport, as

739
00:47:14,912 --> 00:47:19,352
you well know, serves about 3 million annual passengers today.

740
00:47:19,352 --> 00:47:22,712
And while Mr. Wiseman didn't mention it in his presentation,

741
00:47:22,712 --> 00:47:25,352
they plan to expand in the next decade or so.

742
00:47:26,061 --> 00:47:29,954
To 6 million annual passengers. The City of Indian Wells

743
00:47:30,135 --> 00:47:33,963
is hired an outside law firm called DLA Piper. And

744
00:47:34,064 --> 00:47:37,223
they are chief counsel or one of their chief, one

745
00:47:37,223 --> 00:47:40,243
of their lawyers, a partner at that Washington, D. C.

746
00:47:40,243 --> 00:47:43,563
law firm. Is the former chief counsel for the FAA.

747
00:47:44,216 --> 00:47:48,275
And what Mayor Taylor said on May 21st is that

748
00:47:48,315 --> 00:47:52,035
the airport approach corridor and the noise associated with the

749
00:47:52,136 --> 00:47:56,995
flight pattern into Palm Springs is certainly not acceptable to

750
00:47:57,096 --> 00:48:01,599
the City of Indian Wells. They've hired an outside firm.

751
00:48:01,599 --> 00:48:05,919
They are asking the FAA through their counsel to push

752
00:48:06,020 --> 00:48:09,679
the flight corridor out of the City of Indian Wells

753
00:48:10,100 --> 00:48:14,937
and into the city of Palm Desert. This conversation about

754
00:48:15,278 --> 00:48:20,377
airports, um, I think we all can agree. Airport noise

755
00:48:20,558 --> 00:48:25,019
can really hurt a community in a drastic way. And

756
00:48:25,059 --> 00:48:29,019
what I'm asking the City Council to agendize for full

757
00:48:29,059 --> 00:48:34,144
discussion. Is a presentation on the airport master plan and

758
00:48:34,144 --> 00:48:38,455
the expansion. The FAA flight patterns and the changes that

759
00:48:38,476 --> 00:48:42,615
the FAA is implementing in terms of the airport expansion.

760
00:48:44,115 --> 00:48:48,334
If the flight pattern capacity is going to double at

761
00:48:48,334 --> 00:48:52,190
Palm Springs Airport. And Indian Wells is officially on the

762
00:48:52,291 --> 00:48:56,830
record lobbying to push the flight pattern north from their

763
00:48:56,870 --> 00:49:00,446
city into the City of Palm Desert. I really believe

764
00:49:00,867 --> 00:49:04,446
this is a very important discussion that the cities should

765
00:49:04,446 --> 00:49:10,533
be having publicly. Palm Desert, excuse me, Indian Wells Mayor

766
00:49:10,573 --> 00:49:14,533
Taylor is not only a pining publicly that a problem

767
00:49:15,034 --> 00:49:17,813
that is in the City of Indian Wells should be

768
00:49:17,813 --> 00:49:20,533
pushed into the city of Palm Desert, but he recently

769
00:49:20,634 --> 00:49:24,133
took on the city of Coachella criticizing them for not

770
00:49:24,314 --> 00:49:29,253
approving a project in their city. He has no Spitzer.

771
00:49:29,253 --> 00:49:33,173
We have the three minute limit and you've reached that.

772
00:49:33,173 --> 00:49:35,653
However, you're welcome to submit comments via email as well.

773
00:49:35,653 --> 00:49:39,019
If you have more, you'd like to add. Thank you.

774
00:49:39,910 --> 00:49:44,649
Any more online comments. No, they're cons. Okay. Very good.

775
00:49:44,649 --> 00:49:47,904
That brings us to them 13. Our consent calendar. All

776
00:49:47,904 --> 00:49:50,704
matters list on the consent calendar are considered routine and

777
00:49:50,744 --> 00:49:53,584
maybe approved by one motion. The public may comment on

778
00:49:53,765 --> 00:49:56,144
any item on the consent calendar for up to three

779
00:49:56,165 --> 00:49:59,584
minutes. I have no blue speaker cards here. Are there

780
00:49:59,624 --> 00:50:04,012
any online comments? No online comments. Very good. Would any

781
00:50:04,012 --> 00:50:06,092
of my colleagues like to pull an item from the

782
00:50:06,273 --> 00:50:09,293
consent calendar for separate discussion. I would like to pull

783
00:50:09,554 --> 00:50:12,739
L as in Larry. Okay. And I would like to

784
00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:21,187
pull C as in CAT. I'll make the motion to

785
00:50:21,208 --> 00:50:25,803
approve the remainder. Second. Council Member Harnick. Yes. Council Member

786
00:50:25,904 --> 00:50:31,887
Marino. Yes. Council Member Nathan. Yes. Mayor Pro Tim Perdetto.

787
00:50:31,887 --> 00:50:35,247
Yes. Mayor Trooper. Yes. Motion passes five to zero. All

788
00:50:35,247 --> 00:50:37,807
right. So should we address these in alphabetical order? Okay.

789
00:50:37,847 --> 00:50:43,729
So we'll start with item 13 C. This is. Actually

790
00:50:43,729 --> 00:50:47,515
just one very specific component of it. Page 95. Under

791
00:50:47,555 --> 00:50:52,475
competitive opportunities solicitations released rather. It was the one in

792
00:50:52,515 --> 00:50:59,835
the middle May 18th construction of the pilot median for

793
00:50:59,856 --> 00:51:02,395
landscape master plan. I just like a little more detail

794
00:51:02,395 --> 00:51:05,355
on that. I heard some rumblings around the community people

795
00:51:05,395 --> 00:51:07,515
I know had talked about the process. And I don't

796
00:51:07,515 --> 00:51:09,827
know who from staff. Uh, would like to talk about

797
00:51:09,827 --> 00:51:12,867
it. But, um, to me, this is important because it's

798
00:51:12,888 --> 00:51:15,027
a sort of a portends, what may be coming down

799
00:51:15,027 --> 00:51:17,747
the pike for the entire city. And I don't know.

800
00:51:17,747 --> 00:51:19,827
Just taking you through the process on this pilot while

801
00:51:20,248 --> 00:51:23,273
I'd love to hear more. Thank you. Thank you. Good

802
00:51:23,294 --> 00:51:26,713
afternoon again. Um, on the pilot median project, the project

803
00:51:26,734 --> 00:51:31,433
was bid out. And the vids came back nearly 50

804
00:51:31,473 --> 00:51:34,553
percent or in some cases above 50 percent of the

805
00:51:34,734 --> 00:51:37,833
engineers estimate So what we'll be doing staff will be

806
00:51:37,833 --> 00:51:40,793
going back looking at the landscape plans that were developed

807
00:51:41,374 --> 00:51:45,993
for those pilot medians and then proposing changes to reduce

808
00:51:46,033 --> 00:51:49,033
the overall cost of the pilot mediants and thus the

809
00:51:49,534 --> 00:51:54,119
median revitalization throughout the city in the long run. From

810
00:51:54,119 --> 00:51:56,439
what I understand, when you look at these medium projects,

811
00:51:56,439 --> 00:51:58,599
sometimes they're sort of assessed in a per square foot.

812
00:52:00,418 --> 00:52:03,037
As sort of a common measuring stick used. And that

813
00:52:03,077 --> 00:52:07,277
can range from what eight to 10 dollars of square

814
00:52:07,317 --> 00:52:11,677
foot. Yes. I'd have to get you the exact numbers.

815
00:52:11,677 --> 00:52:12,877
I don't have them off the top of my head,

816
00:52:12,877 --> 00:52:15,997
but yes, they are. Um, assessed by a square footage.

817
00:52:15,997 --> 00:52:17,517
And so what we'll be looking to do is to

818
00:52:17,538 --> 00:52:20,057
reduce that, um, what we saw in some of the

819
00:52:20,178 --> 00:52:23,277
causes that some of the electrical components came in higher

820
00:52:23,317 --> 00:52:26,477
than what was anticipated. And also the cost of traffic

821
00:52:26,517 --> 00:52:29,897
control. Okay. Very good. Well, I'm satisfied with that. And

822
00:52:29,897 --> 00:52:31,437
I'm just glad you guys are keeping an eye on

823
00:52:31,458 --> 00:52:32,957
that and cost get out of control. So thank you.

824
00:52:35,192 --> 00:52:41,331
And next we have item 13L, which is, sorry.

825
00:52:48,016 --> 00:52:52,155
Solutions LLC for the traffic signal modifications and hardware upgrades

826
00:52:52,896 --> 00:53:00,346
phase three. Take it away, Chris. Mayor Pro Tem. Uh,

827
00:53:00,387 --> 00:53:02,686
you have the staff report as part of your agenda

828
00:53:02,787 --> 00:53:06,766
package. And if the particular questions from Councilmember, uh, Moreno,

829
00:53:06,766 --> 00:53:10,953
I'd be happy to answer them. Not a specific question.

830
00:53:10,953 --> 00:53:13,833
Just an overall thank you for, um, working with a

831
00:53:13,873 --> 00:53:16,873
team that is very proactive to be sure that we

832
00:53:16,974 --> 00:53:19,353
catch things in time and not have them be more

833
00:53:19,374 --> 00:53:22,793
costly in the long run. Um, I loved how diligent

834
00:53:22,814 --> 00:53:27,193
you are by the life cycle of the equipment and

835
00:53:27,374 --> 00:53:29,593
just wanted again to say thank you and your team

836
00:53:29,694 --> 00:53:34,867
for ensuring that we have reliable and safe streets. Thank

837
00:53:34,867 --> 00:53:39,287
you. Okay. Very good. Anybody cared to make a motion

838
00:53:39,628 --> 00:53:44,564
to, uh, move those two items. Both items. All right.

839
00:53:46,492 --> 00:53:51,073
Council member Harnick. Council Member Moreno. Yes. Council member in

840
00:53:51,073 --> 00:53:54,993
a standing. Yes. Mayor Pro Timbredetto. Yes. Mayor Troopy. Yes.

841
00:53:55,254 --> 00:53:59,083
Motion passes. Five to zero to pass items 13 C

842
00:53:59,104 --> 00:54:02,495
and L. Perfect. Thank you. Uh, next up we have

843
00:54:02,676 --> 00:54:06,975
item 14 action calendar. We begin with item 14 A,

844
00:54:06,975 --> 00:54:10,015
approve the management district plan and engineer's report and order

845
00:54:10,036 --> 00:54:13,775
the levy and collection of assessments for the president's plaza

846
00:54:14,196 --> 00:54:17,935
one property and business improvement district for fiscal year, 26,

847
00:54:17,935 --> 00:54:25,220
27 staff report. Good afternoon. Mayor and Council members. My

848
00:54:25,220 --> 00:54:27,740
name is Amalia Muriel with public works. Uh, I also

849
00:54:27,761 --> 00:54:33,931
have our consultant will denial here. Um, this. Report is

850
00:54:33,952 --> 00:54:37,131
an annual approval for president's Plaza one for fiscal year

851
00:54:37,312 --> 00:54:43,131
2627. The proposed levy funds maintenance and of the shared

852
00:54:43,312 --> 00:54:47,771
parking areas and reflects the authorized three percent annual adjustment

853
00:54:48,432 --> 00:54:51,531
and staff recommends approval of the resolutions. And I'm available

854
00:54:51,552 --> 00:54:55,606
for any questions if you haven't. Right. Well, before I

855
00:54:55,646 --> 00:54:57,686
bring it back to Council, I want to open this

856
00:54:57,686 --> 00:55:01,926
up for public comment. Um, I have no speaker cards.

857
00:55:01,926 --> 00:55:05,766
Are there any online comments? No online comments. Terrific. Okay.

858
00:55:05,867 --> 00:55:10,509
Any questions for my colleagues. Okay. Any discussion from my

859
00:55:10,509 --> 00:55:19,401
colleagues. Move approval second. Councilmember Harnick. Yes. Council Member Mono.

860
00:55:20,146 --> 00:55:24,285
Yes. Council Member Nasty. Yes. Mayor Purtum Proretto. Yes. Mayor

861
00:55:24,325 --> 00:55:27,565
Troopery. Yes. Motion Passos five to zero. Terrific. Thank you.

862
00:55:27,826 --> 00:55:32,445
Okay. On item 14B ordinances amending Title 8 and Title

863
00:55:32,445 --> 00:55:36,365
11 of the Palm Desert Municipal Code to update Skate

864
00:55:36,405 --> 00:55:39,965
Park Regulations and Regulations Governing the Distribution and posting of

865
00:55:40,066 --> 00:55:45,826
hand bills in City Parks. Mayor City Council, you have

866
00:55:45,826 --> 00:55:49,026
before U. S. staff report amending two of the Ordinances

867
00:55:49,127 --> 00:55:52,786
related to Parks. The first updating the skate park ordinance,

868
00:55:52,786 --> 00:55:55,346
uh, to be consistent with state law and in preparation

869
00:55:55,386 --> 00:55:58,466
for the implementation of an open skate park without an

870
00:55:58,506 --> 00:56:02,626
attendant present. And the second being the Distribution of Handbills

871
00:56:02,666 --> 00:56:05,666
in City Parks and clarifying language to protect the First

872
00:56:05,666 --> 00:56:07,826
Amendment. I'm here to answer any questions that you may

873
00:56:07,866 --> 00:56:11,840
have. Okay. Before I bring it back to my colleagues

874
00:56:12,421 --> 00:56:14,400
for questions and discussion. We're going to open up for

875
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:16,640
public comment. I have no blue cards. Are there any

876
00:56:16,741 --> 00:56:20,640
online comments? No online comments. Terrific. Okay. Anybody have any

877
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:25,592
questions. From the dice. You selected 25 as the threshold

878
00:56:25,773 --> 00:56:31,379
for an organized distribution. Is the number of distributors is

879
00:56:31,419 --> 00:56:34,377
when it becomes organized and needing a permit. How'd you

880
00:56:34,377 --> 00:56:37,657
come up with that number and did you evaluate other

881
00:56:37,838 --> 00:56:43,115
numbers. That number was recommended by BBNK who developed the

882
00:56:43,136 --> 00:56:47,195
Ordinance Updates. And I can't speak directly to that. Perhaps

883
00:56:47,195 --> 00:56:54,980
the City Attorney can weigh in. Mayor Protem. I am

884
00:56:55,020 --> 00:56:57,780
not sure if we evaluated other numbers specifically for Palm

885
00:56:57,780 --> 00:57:05,497
Desert, but it is going with the herd strategy. Okay.

886
00:57:05,598 --> 00:57:11,022
Any other questions. I have a question. Absolutely. In regards

887
00:57:11,062 --> 00:57:15,742
to the skate park, um, win issue, when fines are

888
00:57:15,742 --> 00:57:18,942
issued to minors, um, who does the bill get sent

889
00:57:18,942 --> 00:57:23,640
to. The bill will be addressed to the parent of

890
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:29,444
the minor or guardian. And is there a threshold of

891
00:57:29,484 --> 00:57:33,044
fines at which point they'll say you're not following our

892
00:57:33,044 --> 00:57:37,344
safety guidelines and you've incurred them, I think it's set

893
00:57:37,344 --> 00:57:41,244
up to if there are three per year. I think

894
00:57:41,244 --> 00:57:43,604
it bumps up, but is there any place in which

895
00:57:43,604 --> 00:57:49,604
we'd say your privileges of the skate park are revoked

896
00:57:50,265 --> 00:57:53,044
or until you pay X amount? Or what's the overall

897
00:57:53,945 --> 00:57:57,926
enforcement, um, for safety. So the structure of that is

898
00:57:58,027 --> 00:58:01,206
that it does reset each year. So there is an

899
00:58:01,206 --> 00:58:04,486
escalating fine. So if you have a second violation in

900
00:58:04,526 --> 00:58:07,286
the same year, then there's an increased fine. And then

901
00:58:07,286 --> 00:58:11,126
a third violation, um, after that, it would be exclusion.

902
00:58:11,126 --> 00:58:15,046
However, um, without an attendant, it is difficult to enforce.

903
00:58:15,046 --> 00:58:18,046
And then, um, the following year, that would reset. So

904
00:58:18,046 --> 00:58:20,726
the, the finds and the escalation of those fines reset

905
00:58:21,067 --> 00:58:27,666
each year. So if, if, uh, without understandably, it's a

906
00:58:27,706 --> 00:58:30,946
costly to have an attendant there. So how do people

907
00:58:31,927 --> 00:58:35,826
notify, um, to get those fines is that just if

908
00:58:35,847 --> 00:58:38,546
code happens to be passing or if somebody makes a

909
00:58:38,546 --> 00:58:41,826
report, um, I have no idea what the process is.

910
00:58:43,532 --> 00:58:45,591
Yes. Thank you for that question. Um, we will have

911
00:58:45,852 --> 00:58:49,591
QR codes posted at the skate park. So anytime for

912
00:58:49,631 --> 00:58:52,631
any issue in any, in the parks, um, we have

913
00:58:52,812 --> 00:58:55,191
QGAR codes where you can report an issue, whether it

914
00:58:55,191 --> 00:58:59,031
be with, um, folks not complying with park rules or

915
00:58:59,292 --> 00:59:02,271
broken sprinkler, um, dogs off leash, what have you. So

916
00:59:02,572 --> 00:59:05,591
those QR codes will be available for those reports and

917
00:59:05,591 --> 00:59:08,711
then code enforcement and RSO, of course, will be present

918
00:59:08,732 --> 00:59:10,791
in the parks as they normally are to enforce the

919
00:59:10,812 --> 00:59:17,577
rules. Thank you. I appreciate that. You're welcome. Anybody care

920
00:59:18,078 --> 00:59:21,177
for discussion or direction or anything else? I was just

921
00:59:21,177 --> 00:59:24,457
going to say, we did discuss this issue in depth

922
00:59:24,718 --> 00:59:28,777
in case the public is wondering why we're basically ready

923
00:59:28,798 --> 00:59:32,697
to approve this. So it's, I believe we have fully

924
00:59:32,718 --> 00:59:34,777
vetted it. And we're going to give it a chance.

925
00:59:36,698 --> 00:59:38,917
All right. We'll see no further discussion. I'll entertain a

926
00:59:38,917 --> 00:59:47,548
motion. Move. Second. Council member Harnick. Yes. Council member Moreno.

927
00:59:48,340 --> 00:59:52,159
Yes. Council member in a standing. Yes. Mayor Propertimprededo. Yes.

928
00:59:52,260 --> 00:59:55,759
Mayor Tribune. Yes. Motion passes five to zero. Terrific. Thank

929
00:59:55,759 --> 01:00:00,658
you. Thank you, Sean. On to item 15 public hearings,

930
01:00:00,658 --> 01:00:03,378
the public may comment on individual public hearing items within

931
01:00:03,418 --> 01:00:06,578
the three minute time limit. The applicant and appellant will

932
01:00:06,599 --> 01:00:08,898
be provided with up to 10 minutes to make their

933
01:00:09,079 --> 01:00:13,938
presentations following public testimony. The appellant and applicant will be

934
01:00:13,978 --> 01:00:16,338
given an opportunity to offer a buddle comments for up

935
01:00:16,378 --> 01:00:19,698
to three additional minutes. And we're going to start with

936
01:00:21,239 --> 01:00:26,498
item 15A. Introduce an ordinance amending Title 25 of the

937
01:00:26,538 --> 01:00:29,698
Palm Desert Municipal Code to reestablish golf cart and neighborhood

938
01:00:29,879 --> 01:00:35,521
electric vehicle sales as a distinct land use. Classification. And

939
01:00:35,521 --> 01:00:40,221
we'll have a staff report. Good evening Mayor and members

940
01:00:40,221 --> 01:00:43,021
of the City Council, C. E. Fernandez, senior planner with

941
01:00:43,122 --> 01:00:45,821
development services here to present on this item.

942
01:01:14,765 --> 01:01:17,624
So this is for our golf cart sales and neighborhood

943
01:01:17,645 --> 01:01:25,503
electrical vehicle sales. This is a reintroduction. Uh, so this

944
01:01:25,543 --> 01:01:29,583
is a city initiated zoning ordinance amendment. Uh, this impacts

945
01:01:29,623 --> 01:01:34,063
our commercial industrial and downtown districts. Uh, this is in

946
01:01:34,063 --> 01:01:40,201
order to reestablish a use that was previously established. Uh,

947
01:01:40,201 --> 01:01:42,681
so just a little bit of background. This was previously

948
01:01:43,102 --> 01:01:48,521
approved back in 2023, uh, which created development standards for

949
01:01:48,542 --> 01:01:52,253
this type of use. And provided provisions as far as

950
01:01:52,274 --> 01:01:56,408
how this use was going to be regulated. Uh, inadvertently,

951
01:01:56,408 --> 01:01:59,448
uh, it was removed to in 2024. Um, it was

952
01:01:59,488 --> 01:02:03,488
later identified by staff. Um, that there was an inconsistency

953
01:02:03,509 --> 01:02:08,306
within the code. Uh, so now that we're bringing it

954
01:02:08,306 --> 01:02:13,726
back, uh, we're looking at introducing golf cart sales. And

955
01:02:13,847 --> 01:02:17,666
as an indoor use, through a staff level decision in

956
01:02:17,666 --> 01:02:20,626
our plan commercial areas and in our service industrial areas.

957
01:02:21,139 --> 01:02:25,518
Uh, we're also looking at, um, bring back the outdoor,

958
01:02:25,518 --> 01:02:28,558
um, triggering a conditional use within our surface industrial zone.

959
01:02:32,526 --> 01:02:35,945
So as part of this, um, staff identified some items

960
01:02:36,286 --> 01:02:40,345
that were, um, they could be seen as barriers as

961
01:02:40,366 --> 01:02:44,425
far as not allowing this use within certain zones or

962
01:02:44,425 --> 01:02:50,265
within certain criteria since the development standards that were originally

963
01:02:50,526 --> 01:02:54,265
introduced, provided some challenges and some barriers. So in order

964
01:02:54,265 --> 01:02:57,385
to be more business friendly, we're also proposing removing some

965
01:02:57,385 --> 01:03:01,145
of the requirements. And these photos are just some examples

966
01:03:01,246 --> 01:03:06,105
of some businesses that are no longer there. And that

967
01:03:06,105 --> 01:03:10,505
could potentially utilize this type of use. The only thing

968
01:03:10,545 --> 01:03:13,877
is if the code. Is the way that it's currently

969
01:03:14,058 --> 01:03:18,597
written, it would be prohibitive and costly in order to

970
01:03:18,597 --> 01:03:22,876
be able to establish the use at these locations. Um,

971
01:03:23,377 --> 01:03:27,036
primarily the two provisions that we're moving is that it

972
01:03:27,076 --> 01:03:32,313
needs to be on a primary frontage. Also, uh, to

973
01:03:32,414 --> 01:03:35,993
the requirement for a glazing. So it requires a significant

974
01:03:36,014 --> 01:03:40,633
amount of glazing, which are good planning principles. But it's

975
01:03:40,673 --> 01:03:46,939
prohibitive to establishing a business. Also too, we're looking at

976
01:03:46,939 --> 01:03:49,179
the parking standard. I know as far as some of

977
01:03:49,179 --> 01:03:52,859
the conversations that staff has had with applicants, I Council

978
01:03:52,859 --> 01:03:55,179
Member Hornets. I'm already interrupt. When you talk about glazing,

979
01:03:55,179 --> 01:04:00,458
can you be more specific, please? Sure. You're the Pro,

980
01:04:00,458 --> 01:04:01,578
I'm just trying to keep up with.

981
01:04:26,314 --> 01:04:28,773
So as of right now, um, one of the requirements

982
01:04:28,954 --> 01:04:33,613
is that streets facing facades shall have transparent glazing. So

983
01:04:33,613 --> 01:04:38,853
glass. Um, for the display areas, um, the transparent windows

984
01:04:38,954 --> 01:04:41,333
or doors shall be provided for at least 75 percent

985
01:04:41,333 --> 01:04:45,586
of the building wall area. So as an example, um,

986
01:04:46,567 --> 01:04:50,204
big five no longer there. In order for them to

987
01:04:51,585 --> 01:04:53,804
occupy the space, they would have to add a significant

988
01:04:53,844 --> 01:04:58,632
amount of glass. Um, which obviously would enhance the building.

989
01:04:58,632 --> 01:05:01,732
But at the same time could be cost prohibitive. And

990
01:05:02,093 --> 01:05:05,032
it just, they would need to change the orientation of

991
01:05:05,072 --> 01:05:07,672
the entire building. So it would be a pretty significant

992
01:05:07,773 --> 01:05:10,632
lift in order to be able to establish the use

993
01:05:10,813 --> 01:05:15,672
there. Similar to sex with avenue, um, they do have

994
01:05:16,013 --> 01:05:19,192
glazing along the frontage. It's just, it still doesn't meet

995
01:05:19,533 --> 01:05:22,552
that standard and requirement as the way that the code

996
01:05:22,573 --> 01:05:25,992
is written. So then similar to big five, they would

997
01:05:25,992 --> 01:05:28,952
have to make a significant amount of modifications to the

998
01:05:28,952 --> 01:05:31,112
building in order to be able to establish the use.

999
01:05:34,257 --> 01:05:38,241
No problem. Um, also too, we were looking at parking.

1000
01:05:38,241 --> 01:05:40,481
I know typically for this type of use, we've been

1001
01:05:40,481 --> 01:05:43,361
seeing a lot of demand in our service industrial areas.

1002
01:05:43,894 --> 01:05:47,273
Um, currently the way that the parking standards stands, it

1003
01:05:47,273 --> 01:05:53,953
requires a three per 1000 parking count, which it can

1004
01:05:53,953 --> 01:05:57,633
be challenging within our service industrial areas where parking is

1005
01:05:57,654 --> 01:06:02,193
established that typically around two per 1000. So what we're

1006
01:06:02,193 --> 01:06:05,793
looking at doing is establishing an individual parking standard for

1007
01:06:05,814 --> 01:06:10,433
this use to be able to allow for these uses.

1008
01:06:10,433 --> 01:06:12,513
And as part of that, we still review it through

1009
01:06:12,553 --> 01:06:15,873
the administrative use permit, which is a staff level decision.

1010
01:06:15,873 --> 01:06:18,353
So we can still evaluate parking on a case by

1011
01:06:18,393 --> 01:06:23,810
case basis. As far as public notification, this went out

1012
01:06:23,810 --> 01:06:27,570
to the desert sun 20 days as required by state

1013
01:06:27,610 --> 01:06:32,210
law. Um, we haven't received any opposition to the zoning

1014
01:06:32,231 --> 01:06:35,330
ordinance amendment. I know we have had some discussions with

1015
01:06:35,351 --> 01:06:38,930
some business owners who are interested in potentially moving to

1016
01:06:38,970 --> 01:06:41,650
the City of Palm Desert. And as far as what

1017
01:06:41,690 --> 01:06:44,050
we've heard so far is that they are in support

1018
01:06:44,090 --> 01:06:47,650
of the change. Also too, this went to planning commission.

1019
01:06:47,650 --> 01:06:54,679
Um, and they also recommended, uh, unanimous approval. So SAP's

1020
01:06:54,719 --> 01:06:59,079
recommendation is that city council approved inordinance establishing and amending

1021
01:06:59,100 --> 01:07:04,039
the applicable, municipal code sections and reestablishing golf cart NEV

1022
01:07:04,060 --> 01:07:07,639
sales and determined that the action is not subject to

1023
01:07:07,740 --> 01:07:13,542
CEQA or alternatively is exempt. Persons to state guidelines. That

1024
01:07:13,582 --> 01:07:17,503
concludes staff's presentation. Perfect. Thank you, Mr. Fernandez. At this

1025
01:07:17,503 --> 01:07:21,343
time, I will open the public hearing. I don't have

1026
01:07:21,383 --> 01:07:27,696
any blue spirit cards. Are there any online comments. No

1027
01:07:27,717 --> 01:07:31,136
online comments. Okay. Then I will close the public hearing

1028
01:07:31,176 --> 01:07:33,941
and open up four questions for my colleagues. Any questions.

1029
01:07:36,390 --> 01:07:41,360
All right. Any discussion. Ari, I do have a question

1030
01:07:41,701 --> 01:07:47,760
I needed to click and make notes. Um, for the

1031
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:50,800
image of big five and saying that it would require

1032
01:07:50,981 --> 01:07:53,360
more windows and a lot of, um, a lot of

1033
01:07:53,381 --> 01:07:56,320
change. Is there a guideline of, of how much of

1034
01:07:56,341 --> 01:07:59,680
that glazing ass to be put in place, um, is

1035
01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:03,920
that part of objective standards or what's the determination as

1036
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:07,360
far as how much changes would need to happen at,

1037
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:14,687
um, building, we're encouraging someone to occupy. So for in

1038
01:08:14,687 --> 01:08:18,207
order for a use with our current standards to establish

1039
01:08:18,388 --> 01:08:20,927
at the big five location, they would have to change

1040
01:08:20,948 --> 01:08:25,782
the orientation of the building facing highway 111. Um, as

1041
01:08:25,782 --> 01:08:29,853
far as a glazing, it's that 75 percent requirement. From

1042
01:08:29,853 --> 01:08:32,573
that two and a half feet to the eight feet.

1043
01:08:32,573 --> 01:08:35,693
So, and you can't have more than 20 feet of

1044
01:08:35,874 --> 01:08:40,573
expanse area that is devoid of, of glazing. So it

1045
01:08:40,613 --> 01:08:43,693
would be a pretty significant lift in order to be

1046
01:08:43,693 --> 01:08:46,980
able to establish that you stare. Okay. Thank you. I

1047
01:08:46,980 --> 01:08:55,578
appreciate that. So more questions. Yeah. So on the heels

1048
01:08:55,618 --> 01:09:01,578
of what Councilmember Mono just said. So we're suggesting, help

1049
01:09:01,578 --> 01:09:06,618
me out here because I am struggling. Sure. Um, so

1050
01:09:07,199 --> 01:09:10,218
you're suggesting we won't ask them to have that glazing.

1051
01:09:12,554 --> 01:09:15,013
The way that the code is being proposed is that

1052
01:09:15,434 --> 01:09:18,613
it wouldn't be a requirement in the event that the

1053
01:09:19,034 --> 01:09:21,573
business owner wanted to come in and make modifications to

1054
01:09:21,573 --> 01:09:24,693
the building. That would go through our design review process.

1055
01:09:24,693 --> 01:09:28,133
It's just as far as it being a strict requirement

1056
01:09:28,314 --> 01:09:32,213
that they have to provide that amount of glazing. That's

1057
01:09:32,213 --> 01:09:36,705
what we're proposing. Okay. And so often the amount of

1058
01:09:36,726 --> 01:09:40,397
glazing has to do with public safety. And have we

1059
01:09:40,818 --> 01:09:45,197
talked to, you know, any of our business teams at

1060
01:09:45,197 --> 01:09:47,357
the sheriff's business teams and things like that. Because so

1061
01:09:47,357 --> 01:09:52,456
often it's what can they see in there. Okay. Yeah.

1062
01:09:52,456 --> 01:10:00,025
Um, not to my knowledge. Okay. You know, I'm hesitant

1063
01:10:00,025 --> 01:10:04,858
with this because. We're saying now we had this standard

1064
01:10:05,039 --> 01:10:07,898
in place. Yeah. It would be a significant lift. There's

1065
01:10:07,919 --> 01:10:11,830
no question. And I, and I get that. But is

1066
01:10:12,011 --> 01:10:16,950
it an important lift for the integrity of the shopping

1067
01:10:17,051 --> 01:10:22,358
center and the character. Of what we're trying to convey.

1068
01:10:23,569 --> 01:10:27,577
And safety. So those are my questions. And I know

1069
01:10:27,617 --> 01:10:31,657
that that's no easy answer, but it's, it's my hesitancy

1070
01:10:32,078 --> 01:10:41,753
and my question. Sure. So

1071
01:10:42,334 --> 01:10:46,873
what we're being asked to do with this action item

1072
01:10:47,454 --> 01:10:52,553
is that this amendment is to establish a tailored parking

1073
01:10:52,593 --> 01:10:57,654
standard for golf cart and NEV sales. And also staff

1074
01:10:57,915 --> 01:11:01,094
is asking us to remove references and requirements that these

1075
01:11:01,134 --> 01:11:05,014
uses be oriented and fronting major public streets and removing

1076
01:11:05,054 --> 01:11:10,364
the requirement that street facing facades have transparent glazing. And

1077
01:11:10,545 --> 01:11:15,423
it went to the planning commission and they approved. Staff's

1078
01:11:15,463 --> 01:11:19,983
recommendation unanimously. And so we're, we're really being asked to

1079
01:11:20,084 --> 01:11:25,782
just clarify this ordinance as well. It's more of a

1080
01:11:25,822 --> 01:11:33,340
technical clerical. Discussion. So I'm ready to approve staff's recommendation.

1081
01:11:34,567 --> 01:11:39,022
Okay. More questions from Councilmember Hornick. I'm trying to understand

1082
01:11:39,283 --> 01:11:46,619
the great advantage. Of taking away. The requirements we've had

1083
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:51,758
in past, has there been requests for it. So typically

1084
01:11:51,859 --> 01:11:54,958
the way that when we receive inquiries, we send them

1085
01:11:55,139 --> 01:11:58,318
the section of the code and identify what the requirements

1086
01:11:58,419 --> 01:12:01,918
would be in order for them to establish the use.

1087
01:12:01,918 --> 01:12:04,318
And typically for this type of use, when we send

1088
01:12:04,358 --> 01:12:10,603
them the requirements, then they typically don't come back. Let's

1089
01:12:10,603 --> 01:12:14,829
see. I can't help but think that we need to

1090
01:12:15,250 --> 01:12:19,954
run this by our public safety. I mean, there's part

1091
01:12:19,954 --> 01:12:23,874
of the reason we have the glass that's exposed to

1092
01:12:24,055 --> 01:12:27,554
the street is for safety reasons. You know, when it's

1093
01:12:27,655 --> 01:12:31,154
concealed from the street, all sorts of shenanigans can happen.

1094
01:12:31,666 --> 01:12:35,805
So I'm just hesitant about that. I think there was

1095
01:12:35,805 --> 01:12:40,205
a good reason for it. And I don't know, have

1096
01:12:40,205 --> 01:12:43,065
we looked at that? Should we look at that? And

1097
01:12:43,065 --> 01:12:47,900
these are authentic questions. Let me interject. We can certainly

1098
01:12:48,641 --> 01:12:51,827
continue the item. We can get some clearance and then

1099
01:12:51,827 --> 01:12:53,667
we can come back with it. If it's, if it's

1100
01:12:53,707 --> 01:12:56,067
the wish of the Council. And that way we can

1101
01:12:56,107 --> 01:12:59,507
be clear on any of the requirements from sheriff. Okay.

1102
01:12:59,928 --> 01:13:02,867
Is there any sense of urgency on this particular item

1103
01:13:03,208 --> 01:13:07,720
at this time. For this, it would just be to

1104
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:11,160
clarify and provide guidance. But the one who's saying right

1105
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:13,240
now, but I want that building if I didn't have

1106
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:16,737
to comply with your standards. We have received interests, but

1107
01:13:17,178 --> 01:13:20,597
nothing, um, no, no type of application has come in.

1108
01:13:21,385 --> 01:13:24,244
Thank you. Could I follow up on that? I thought

1109
01:13:24,244 --> 01:13:27,844
we had a golf cart operator that whose lease is

1110
01:13:27,844 --> 01:13:33,713
up wanting to relocate. And time was of the essence.

1111
01:13:33,814 --> 01:13:36,273
So I know we have received inquiries, but as far

1112
01:13:36,313 --> 01:13:39,793
as an application, we haven't received an application. So any

1113
01:13:39,833 --> 01:13:42,433
type of formal application hasn't come in. So this item

1114
01:13:42,774 --> 01:13:45,233
is for you because there was a request for action

1115
01:13:45,273 --> 01:13:48,033
to review our ordinance a few months ago. And so

1116
01:13:48,073 --> 01:13:51,633
staff has gone through the process to clarify and understand,

1117
01:13:51,633 --> 01:13:56,113
um, the items that were inadvertently removed before. And so

1118
01:13:56,113 --> 01:14:00,849
this is why it's before you today. Could the question

1119
01:14:00,889 --> 01:14:04,449
be answered that Council Member Harnick has about safety right

1120
01:14:04,489 --> 01:14:13,553
now. I'll defer to Rosie. If I can add one

1121
01:14:13,593 --> 01:14:19,793
more additional context since I was here during the 2023

1122
01:14:20,454 --> 01:14:23,873
original Ordinance and why that actually why the requirement came

1123
01:14:23,913 --> 01:14:28,593
about, um, about the glass window, when staff was developing

1124
01:14:29,574 --> 01:14:31,873
the that original ordinance and standard, it was more about

1125
01:14:31,894 --> 01:14:37,553
the visibility into the store for, um, marketing purposes per

1126
01:14:37,574 --> 01:14:41,834
se. And making and trying to make or trying to

1127
01:14:41,874 --> 01:14:44,234
orient these businesses. Cause at the time it was mostly

1128
01:14:44,335 --> 01:14:48,474
off in front of you. And it was, as we

1129
01:14:48,474 --> 01:14:50,954
looked at it, it was more restrictive in nature and

1130
01:14:50,954 --> 01:14:53,014
what it was doing. We didn't look at it. Um,

1131
01:14:53,014 --> 01:14:55,594
we didn't get comments or look at it from the

1132
01:14:55,634 --> 01:14:59,354
safety angle. It was really from, you know, the visibility

1133
01:14:59,455 --> 01:15:03,514
angle. Because we were not, because we were saying we

1134
01:15:03,535 --> 01:15:06,474
aren't going to allow golf cart sales, um, in some

1135
01:15:06,474 --> 01:15:08,954
of these plan commercial areas to be outdoors. It's only

1136
01:15:08,994 --> 01:15:11,434
going to be indoor ones. And so the way to

1137
01:15:11,455 --> 01:15:15,354
maybe, um, still create a abysmal nature is to add

1138
01:15:15,535 --> 01:15:21,878
more window, more glazing. Now as we. Looked at it

1139
01:15:21,918 --> 01:15:24,918
in practicality, I see he mentioned a lot of applicants

1140
01:15:25,099 --> 01:15:28,471
weren't able to do that. Um, additionally a lot of

1141
01:15:28,732 --> 01:15:33,351
our, when buildings are originally built or any revisions, go

1142
01:15:33,372 --> 01:15:37,111
through our design review process where our ARC is huge

1143
01:15:37,292 --> 01:15:40,631
on glazing for many different reasons and trying to see

1144
01:15:40,812 --> 01:15:43,751
the visibility from it. So it's kind of a long

1145
01:15:43,791 --> 01:15:46,791
way of saying that the original intent of that requirement

1146
01:15:47,212 --> 01:15:50,311
was more about the visibility from a little more of

1147
01:15:50,311 --> 01:15:53,191
a marketing purposes, I guess, to see the golf carts.

1148
01:15:53,191 --> 01:15:55,431
And because a lot of these businesses, we thought at

1149
01:15:55,431 --> 01:15:58,051
the time would want a lot more of that. And

1150
01:15:58,051 --> 01:16:01,372
then as we got more feedback. Um, you know, it

1151
01:16:01,372 --> 01:16:08,616
became prohibitive to repurpose some of these buildings. Okay. And

1152
01:16:08,616 --> 01:16:11,416
I know you're waiting. I just have an additional comment.

1153
01:16:13,067 --> 01:16:15,666
And I, I know we're looking at it marketing, but

1154
01:16:15,666 --> 01:16:19,766
that's doesn't mean we shouldn't have also been looking at

1155
01:16:19,787 --> 01:16:26,852
it from a safety. Aspect. And if we can continue

1156
01:16:27,113 --> 01:16:31,332
it, it gets a full and robust feedback on this

1157
01:16:32,953 --> 01:16:37,332
policy. I think it's important. And if one person is

1158
01:16:37,372 --> 01:16:40,532
moving, one person is moving and that's important, but should

1159
01:16:40,553 --> 01:16:45,506
not drive policy that comes up. It should be well

1160
01:16:45,546 --> 01:16:50,336
thought out that it serves the entire community well. And

1161
01:16:50,357 --> 01:16:53,696
I think it's worth, I believe it's worth. Just let's

1162
01:16:53,696 --> 01:16:57,136
look at it completely from every angle. Let's do a

1163
01:16:57,317 --> 01:17:00,496
360 on this and make sure we're doing the right

1164
01:17:00,677 --> 01:17:04,877
thing. Maybe the planning commission didn't think about that. And

1165
01:17:04,978 --> 01:17:08,747
that's why it comes to us. Well, my only other

1166
01:17:08,928 --> 01:17:12,327
comment is that we've had this issue for a few

1167
01:17:12,368 --> 01:17:17,508
months. Already. And it would have been wonderful to have

1168
01:17:17,769 --> 01:17:22,441
had this looked into by now. It most certainly would

1169
01:17:22,481 --> 01:17:24,341
have, but we haven't. We've had it for a few

1170
01:17:24,341 --> 01:17:26,841
months. So let's continue it. And let's do it right.

1171
01:17:27,742 --> 01:17:35,023
We are community deserves that. Mayor Pro Tem. Staff. For

1172
01:17:35,063 --> 01:17:41,332
instance, the big five building is a retail use. Any

1173
01:17:41,332 --> 01:17:45,172
other retailer moves in, they would not have to change

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01:17:45,353 --> 01:17:53,556
the glazing, correct? That is correct. This was a specific,

1175
01:17:53,556 --> 01:17:57,116
um, development standard for this particular type of use. So

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01:17:57,497 --> 01:18:01,876
any other operator retail, they wouldn't be subject to these

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01:18:01,916 --> 01:18:05,876
standards. And so the discussion we're having is essentially treating

1178
01:18:06,617 --> 01:18:12,669
golf cart sales as a normal retail use. So it's

1179
01:18:12,669 --> 01:18:15,789
still, it's not just general retail because it would, it

1180
01:18:15,810 --> 01:18:19,069
wouldn't require an administrative use permit, which is our staff

1181
01:18:19,109 --> 01:18:22,309
level decision. So it's a little bit more distinct. So

1182
01:18:22,309 --> 01:18:24,109
that way we were able to come up with conditions

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01:18:24,290 --> 01:18:27,389
of approval. So that way we can try to regulate

1184
01:18:27,650 --> 01:18:30,669
and prevent any potential issues that we may see with

1185
01:18:30,850 --> 01:18:36,509
the proposed use. Cannabis gun sales. Neither one of them

1186
01:18:36,530 --> 01:18:43,116
have to comply with glazing for safety reasons. No. Councilwoman

1187
01:18:43,156 --> 01:18:46,956
Harnick, is there anything that is particular to the golf

1188
01:18:46,956 --> 01:18:50,556
cart sales that triggers your concern for safety above some

1189
01:18:50,556 --> 01:18:53,356
other uses that we don't require that it's not only

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01:18:53,396 --> 01:18:56,556
the golf cart, it is in general. We've asked for

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01:18:56,737 --> 01:19:01,996
glazing. We've asked for certain things and now we're saying,

1192
01:19:01,996 --> 01:19:04,945
but maybe not. And I think we need to look

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01:19:04,985 --> 01:19:08,587
at it. I would appreciate a more comprehensive review. Of

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01:19:08,688 --> 01:19:13,227
this policy before we bite the ones you know what

1195
01:19:13,227 --> 01:19:18,710
it takes to reverse a policy. Staff, what other retail

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01:19:18,891 --> 01:19:24,692
or similar uses to golf carts require the glazing. To

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01:19:24,692 --> 01:19:29,819
the same standard as the golf carts. So the golf

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01:19:29,819 --> 01:19:36,951
cart standard is unique. It stands on its own. Okay.

1199
01:19:36,951 --> 01:19:42,225
Thank you. May or may I. Absolutely. Council member Moreno.

1200
01:19:42,839 --> 01:19:46,378
I agree with, uh, Councilmember Harnick that we need to

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01:19:46,378 --> 01:19:49,458
take our time and do it right. And that the

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01:19:50,119 --> 01:19:53,618
difference in looking at this from the marketing perspective, from

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01:19:53,639 --> 01:19:57,618
the public safety, um, elements. And we do want to

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01:19:58,039 --> 01:20:00,818
accommodate new business. But I think that we need to

1205
01:20:00,839 --> 01:20:04,898
do this carefully. And if we're changing an entire segment

1206
01:20:05,159 --> 01:20:10,178
to treat one, um, category as very, um, in a

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01:20:10,178 --> 01:20:12,898
whole different way, I don't think that we are doing

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01:20:13,319 --> 01:20:15,458
our due diligence to make sure that we make the

1209
01:20:15,458 --> 01:20:21,278
best decisions. If we're making this change for one, and

1210
01:20:21,278 --> 01:20:27,378
I'm thinking if this were to create any safety issues

1211
01:20:27,559 --> 01:20:32,295
that are even unintended, not just theft. For example, of

1212
01:20:32,295 --> 01:20:34,775
my understanding is there would need to be more windows

1213
01:20:34,796 --> 01:20:38,755
facing, um, the street. Did I understand that correctly? And

1214
01:20:38,755 --> 01:20:41,495
if that's the case, doesn't that mean that there's potential

1215
01:20:41,516 --> 01:20:44,935
for somebody to end up running through their window? I

1216
01:20:44,935 --> 01:20:49,335
mean, if we're looking at all of the businesses that

1217
01:20:49,375 --> 01:20:52,455
are there on 111 where you've got the, um, olive

1218
01:20:52,455 --> 01:20:56,455
garden and bread lobster and the cosmetology school, the windows

1219
01:20:56,495 --> 01:21:00,855
there. And where it may be something people want windows.

1220
01:21:00,855 --> 01:21:03,335
I think we're looking at it as the additional public

1221
01:21:03,356 --> 01:21:08,375
safety element, not just from, from theft. But I do

1222
01:21:08,556 --> 01:21:11,735
concur that there's nothing that's holding us to make that

1223
01:21:11,916 --> 01:21:17,155
decision today. Um, good data equals good decision making. And

1224
01:21:17,276 --> 01:21:21,335
I would, um, support tabling this or if that's my,

1225
01:21:21,375 --> 01:21:23,175
if I can make the motion to table this for

1226
01:21:23,196 --> 01:21:28,959
a later date with better information. All right. Council member

1227
01:21:28,980 --> 01:21:33,957
Harnik. Thank you Mayor. I have some more questions. By

1228
01:21:33,997 --> 01:21:35,877
the way, we have a motion just, if anybody wants

1229
01:21:35,978 --> 01:21:37,557
a second, just so we know, but of course after

1230
01:21:37,578 --> 01:21:42,797
questions. So are we helped me out here. Are we

1231
01:21:42,837 --> 01:21:46,957
say now our golf, we can have electric vehicle and

1232
01:21:46,957 --> 01:21:53,095
golf car sales. Are we lifting it so we can

1233
01:21:53,095 --> 01:21:55,975
have them? And I'm, and I apologize. I'm looking through

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01:21:55,996 --> 01:21:58,941
here and I'm a little lost. Anywhere in the city.

1235
01:22:01,467 --> 01:22:05,369
Are we lifting that so that. I mean, I got

1236
01:22:05,470 --> 01:22:09,449
thrown off by the off fifth photo. Are we saying

1237
01:22:09,489 --> 01:22:12,169
we would have them there? So is that just an

1238
01:22:12,169 --> 01:22:15,329
example of glazing. No. So as far as the way

1239
01:22:15,329 --> 01:22:18,129
that the code has established right now, it is a

1240
01:22:18,129 --> 01:22:22,689
provision within our downtown district. So in the sax fifth

1241
01:22:22,689 --> 01:22:25,489
avenue example, not saying that we have anyone that's interested

1242
01:22:25,590 --> 01:22:29,969
in that location. But, um, as an example, that's not

1243
01:22:30,550 --> 01:22:37,009
facing the primary frontage, the primary frontage is 111 versus

1244
01:22:37,350 --> 01:22:40,929
San Pablo, the building faces San Pablo. So it wouldn't

1245
01:22:41,030 --> 01:22:44,609
meet that provision. Also too, as far as the glazing,

1246
01:22:44,609 --> 01:22:46,369
it does have a good amount of glazing in front

1247
01:22:46,369 --> 01:22:47,969
of it. On the left side, but on the right

1248
01:22:48,070 --> 01:22:52,449
side, it doesn't meet that provision. So it also wouldn't

1249
01:22:52,489 --> 01:22:55,569
meet that standard. So we, if someone was interested in

1250
01:22:55,569 --> 01:23:00,369
that location, currently it would be an administrative staff level

1251
01:23:00,390 --> 01:23:04,579
decision, but we wouldn't be able to approve it. So

1252
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:08,103
they could though, if they went to you. And that

1253
01:23:08,204 --> 01:23:14,722
location would be acceptable for golf car sales. With a

1254
01:23:14,722 --> 01:23:18,162
correct use permit, yes. As it stands today, the answer

1255
01:23:18,183 --> 01:23:28,060
would be no. Any

1256
01:23:28,081 --> 01:23:34,860
other questions or anybody cared to second Council Member Reina's

1257
01:23:34,900 --> 01:23:38,940
motion to table with, uh, further, sounds like further research

1258
01:23:38,980 --> 01:23:47,352
into the safety provisions or the glazing requirements. If I

1259
01:23:47,392 --> 01:23:50,343
would add. Well, I'm not going to add a friendly

1260
01:23:50,383 --> 01:23:53,863
amendment. What I am going to do is offer another,

1261
01:23:53,863 --> 01:23:58,845
uh, I am satisfied. And I would offer another motion

1262
01:23:58,885 --> 01:24:04,782
that we move as presented. I will second that motion.

1263
01:24:04,782 --> 01:24:10,691
Move as presented. Okay. So, uh, for the record, the

1264
01:24:10,872 --> 01:24:13,491
motion from, uh, Council Member Moreno dies for lack of

1265
01:24:13,512 --> 01:24:17,571
second. And on the motion to move forward, um, ASSTAP

1266
01:24:17,571 --> 01:24:25,771
presented Council Member Harnick. Yes. Councilmember Moreno. May.

1267
01:24:27,238 --> 01:24:31,167
Council Member Ness Dante? Yes. Mayor Purton Perdetto? Yes. Mayor

1268
01:24:31,167 --> 01:24:34,446
Truby. Yes. Motion passes four to one. We have one

1269
01:24:34,467 --> 01:24:37,166
quick second. Thank you very much for answering all my

1270
01:24:37,166 --> 01:24:39,938
questions and helping me. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Fernandez. Appreciate

1271
01:24:39,938 --> 01:24:45,618
that. Okay. On to item 15B resolutions related to the

1272
01:24:45,658 --> 01:24:50,178
adoption of the fiscal year 26, 2026, 27 financial plan

1273
01:24:51,239 --> 01:24:56,591
and Capitol Improvement Program, looking for staff report. Mayor, can

1274
01:24:56,591 --> 01:24:58,291
we take a quick break since I know the budget

1275
01:24:59,032 --> 01:25:01,411
usually takes a little bit more time? Would that be

1276
01:25:01,451 --> 01:25:04,369
okay? I am okay with that. Joe is ready to

1277
01:25:04,409 --> 01:25:12,724
stand up and stretch it up. C might be actually

1278
01:25:12,745 --> 01:25:18,042
nice and quick. Okay. Let's take a break. Yeah. Thank

1279
01:25:18,042 --> 01:25:20,682
you. We'll say 10 minutes if that's okay. Come back

1280
01:25:21,103 --> 01:25:23,162
535. That's perfect. Thank you. Thank you.

1281
01:36:19,121 --> 01:36:25,052
Okay, welcome back everybody. 10 minute break. All ready to

1282
01:36:25,073 --> 01:36:30,894
resume business. And actually everybody could indulge me here. I'm

1283
01:36:30,934 --> 01:36:34,374
going to flip B and C. I know B, we

1284
01:36:34,374 --> 01:36:38,414
anticipate taking quite a bit of time. The budget and

1285
01:36:38,515 --> 01:36:41,690
C, of course, generally, it's a little bit quicker. So

1286
01:36:41,690 --> 01:36:45,130
we're going to go on to 15, item 15 C.

1287
01:36:46,402 --> 01:36:51,501
Approval of fiscal year 2026, 2027 solid waste recycling and

1288
01:36:51,522 --> 01:36:55,532
organic service rates. Authorization of annual rate adjustments through July

1289
01:36:55,633 --> 01:36:59,612
1st, 2030, and approval of residential solid waste service charges

1290
01:36:59,713 --> 01:37:02,932
on the Riverside County Property Tax Bill. We have a

1291
01:37:02,932 --> 01:37:06,841
staff report. Good evening, Mayor and members of the City

1292
01:37:06,862 --> 01:37:10,281
Council. My name is Louise Moctezuma, management analyst with the

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01:37:10,382 --> 01:37:14,546
economic development department. The item before you this evening contains

1294
01:37:14,807 --> 01:37:18,786
two related actions regarding the city's solid waste recycling and

1295
01:37:18,826 --> 01:37:22,146
organics collection services provided by Birthtech Waste and Recycling Services.

1296
01:37:23,369 --> 01:37:27,028
First, staff is requesting approval of the updated solid waste

1297
01:37:27,028 --> 01:37:31,686
recycling and organic service rates for fiscal year 2627. The

1298
01:37:31,787 --> 01:37:35,926
proposed adjustments reflect an increase of 4. 81 percent for

1299
01:37:35,947 --> 01:37:41,752
residential customers and 4. 76 percent for commercial customers. This

1300
01:37:41,752 --> 01:37:46,392
adjustments are necessary to support continued collection, recycling, organic diversion,

1301
01:37:46,653 --> 01:37:51,192
disposal services, and state mandate SB1383 compliance requirement under the

1302
01:37:51,213 --> 01:37:55,975
Cities franchise agreement. Staff is also requesting authorization for annual

1303
01:37:56,076 --> 01:38:02,004
rate adjustments through July 1st, 2030. Would be based on

1304
01:38:02,105 --> 01:38:05,604
changes in the garbage and trash collection index, capped up

1305
01:38:05,644 --> 01:38:09,524
5 percent annually along with applicable disposable fees adjustments as

1306
01:38:09,524 --> 01:38:13,254
provided in the franchise agreement. Second staff is requesting approval

1307
01:38:13,254 --> 01:38:17,494
of the annual resolution authorizing eligible residential solid waste service

1308
01:38:17,534 --> 01:38:21,494
charges to be collected through the Riverside County Property tax

1309
01:38:21,494 --> 01:38:26,192
role for fiscal year 2627. The City has utilized the

1310
01:38:26,232 --> 01:38:30,656
tax rule process since 2015. And it remains an efficient

1311
01:38:30,677 --> 01:38:33,936
and cost - effective method for collecting residential service charges.

1312
01:38:34,437 --> 01:38:37,056
With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. We also

1313
01:38:37,096 --> 01:38:40,096
have Frank Orlett, Vice President with Vertek Waste and Recycling

1314
01:38:40,117 --> 01:38:43,801
Services available should you have any questions for him. Very

1315
01:38:43,801 --> 01:38:46,201
good. So at this time, I will open the public

1316
01:38:46,241 --> 01:38:49,721
hearing. I have no blue common cards. Are there any

1317
01:38:49,742 --> 01:38:53,241
online comments? No online comments. Then I will close the

1318
01:38:53,422 --> 01:38:56,835
public hearing. And ask my colleagues if we have any

1319
01:38:56,875 --> 01:39:03,362
questions for staff or representative from Bertek. All good? All

1320
01:39:03,362 --> 01:39:05,842
right. Then I guess I will entertain a motion. Mr.

1321
01:39:06,103 --> 01:39:07,442
Mayor, if I get a problem, if I need to

1322
01:39:07,482 --> 01:39:10,474
conduct the protest hearing. Oh, I thank your pardon. I'm

1323
01:39:11,315 --> 01:39:14,174
the city has received 24 protest letters, which does not

1324
01:39:14,275 --> 01:39:16,974
constitute a majority protest in the City Council may proceed

1325
01:39:17,014 --> 01:39:20,370
with consideration of the rate adjustment. Perfect. Thank you so

1326
01:39:20,370 --> 01:39:25,417
much. Appreciate that. Okay. Open it up for my colleagues.

1327
01:39:27,490 --> 01:39:34,274
Questions first of staff, if there are any. No, questions,

1328
01:39:34,274 --> 01:39:37,503
any comments from my colleagues. Thank you. I do have

1329
01:39:37,604 --> 01:39:41,903
a comment. I realize the increase and I don't know

1330
01:39:42,084 --> 01:39:46,119
where in our lives there isn't an increase. And this

1331
01:39:46,159 --> 01:39:50,986
is very reasonable. And especially considering the service that Burtech

1332
01:39:50,986 --> 01:39:56,203
gives us all. We're still lowest in the valley. We're

1333
01:39:56,304 --> 01:40:01,224
always lower than everyone else. And that's partly because of

1334
01:40:01,264 --> 01:40:03,384
what Palm Desert does. And it's a whole lot because

1335
01:40:03,405 --> 01:40:10,115
of what Burtech does. Their services exemplary. And, you know,

1336
01:40:10,115 --> 01:40:12,295
as we all know when we have large pieces of

1337
01:40:12,316 --> 01:40:14,215
furniture, we have to do is call them and they

1338
01:40:14,215 --> 01:40:17,335
tell them what day they're picking them up. And they

1339
01:40:17,375 --> 01:40:20,331
pick it up. And we don't, you know, we don't

1340
01:40:20,331 --> 01:40:24,669
have to sort out. Everything. We have different bins for

1341
01:40:24,709 --> 01:40:29,669
each item. And, uh, the service is worth it. It

1342
01:40:29,669 --> 01:40:34,189
is one of those great deals we get. And I

1343
01:40:34,229 --> 01:40:41,861
support this without question. Council Member Standy. Was that a

1344
01:40:41,861 --> 01:40:44,821
motion? Actually, I have one comment. I will say I

1345
01:40:44,861 --> 01:40:47,541
use them Bertek for commercial and residential. And in both

1346
01:40:47,541 --> 01:40:52,061
cases, they're outstanding, terrific. I second Mayor Harnick's common. In

1347
01:40:52,061 --> 01:40:54,434
fact, I know the driver buddy. That he, I mean,

1348
01:40:54,434 --> 01:40:56,434
take something as simple as trash service and makes it

1349
01:40:56,455 --> 01:41:00,994
a customer service experience. It's incredible. So I, uh, definitely

1350
01:41:00,994 --> 01:41:05,730
make a motion to approve. If I may. Oh, bigger

1351
01:41:05,730 --> 01:41:09,930
pardon, Councilmember Reno. I'm sorry. No worries. I concur. I

1352
01:41:09,930 --> 01:41:15,010
concur that, um, everything is, um, the costs are, are

1353
01:41:15,050 --> 01:41:19,170
increasing. Our demands of the planet are increasing. Our demand

1354
01:41:19,210 --> 01:41:22,530
of, um, the landfill as much as we're, we're trying

1355
01:41:22,530 --> 01:41:27,170
to work on the 1383 landfill reduction. We are generating

1356
01:41:27,271 --> 01:41:30,530
more waste. And it does take a responsive partner that

1357
01:41:30,711 --> 01:41:34,610
is a that creates that community trust in that community

1358
01:41:34,871 --> 01:41:38,850
impact. And for example, like know that my nieces and

1359
01:41:38,890 --> 01:41:42,290
nephew, their favorite day of the week, um, it my

1360
01:41:42,330 --> 01:41:44,050
niece and nephew's favorite day of the week is the

1361
01:41:44,090 --> 01:41:46,770
day that Bortech rolls through and they wait outside and

1362
01:41:46,770 --> 01:41:48,930
they wait for the honk. And that's what makes their

1363
01:41:49,111 --> 01:41:53,010
week, their littles. They're little people out there and they

1364
01:41:53,111 --> 01:41:56,610
appreciate that when anybody else could just drive by and

1365
01:41:56,631 --> 01:42:00,690
keep doing their business. So I appreciate knowing that on

1366
01:42:00,791 --> 01:42:04,930
a personal level, they're not just providing a service that

1367
01:42:04,930 --> 01:42:07,170
they're being paid for that do it with the smile

1368
01:42:07,351 --> 01:42:11,890
and engage the community. So I, I concur, um, we're

1369
01:42:11,890 --> 01:42:19,018
receiving great services. I'll move the item. I will second.

1370
01:42:21,590 --> 01:42:25,593
Councilmember Harney. Yes. Council Member Mono. Yes. Council Member and

1371
01:42:25,593 --> 01:42:28,553
a standee. Yes. Mayor Proper Tim Perdedo. Yes. Mayor Trippie.

1372
01:42:28,553 --> 01:42:31,857
Yes. Motion passes five to zero. Terrific. Thank you. Okay.

1373
01:42:32,198 --> 01:42:36,897
On to item 15B resolutions related to the adoption of

1374
01:42:36,937 --> 01:42:41,617
the fiscal year 26, 2026, 2027 financial plan with Capitol

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01:42:41,718 --> 01:42:47,829
Improvement Program, staff report. Good afternoon, honorable mayor. Members of

1376
01:42:47,829 --> 01:42:50,529
the City Council, Veronica Chavez, your director of finance. And

1377
01:42:50,529 --> 01:42:54,413
I'm here with Sky Wolkovitz, your budget analyst. As you

1378
01:42:54,413 --> 01:42:58,973
will call this year, um, our theme was about balance.

1379
01:42:58,973 --> 01:43:01,773
And, um, that's not that we don't balance another years,

1380
01:43:01,773 --> 01:43:03,773
but it is that this year, it took a little

1381
01:43:03,773 --> 01:43:07,453
more effort. And much of that was at the hands

1382
01:43:07,453 --> 01:43:11,293
of Ms. Volkovitz who played a huge part and taken

1383
01:43:11,314 --> 01:43:13,053
on some of the heavy lifting this year. And so

1384
01:43:13,093 --> 01:43:16,313
she will be presenting the budget for you today. Um,

1385
01:43:16,313 --> 01:43:18,573
but what I did want to, um, share with you

1386
01:43:18,674 --> 01:43:22,813
was the, um, efforts we made in community engagement. Each

1387
01:43:22,813 --> 01:43:25,133
year with budget, we like to approve it just a

1388
01:43:25,133 --> 01:43:28,253
little bit more than we did, um, the prayer year.

1389
01:43:28,253 --> 01:43:31,133
And so, um, while we always meet our community engagement

1390
01:43:31,234 --> 01:43:34,493
requirements, um, this year we kicked it up a step

1391
01:43:34,834 --> 01:43:38,893
and we used the Civic Academy as an opportunity to

1392
01:43:38,933 --> 01:43:41,870
do a budget challenge. And what we did was we

1393
01:43:41,891 --> 01:43:46,590
gave them a budget and had, um, had limited resources

1394
01:43:47,411 --> 01:43:52,270
and asked them to take the different, um, uh, budget

1395
01:43:52,291 --> 01:43:56,190
categories and fund them according to the limited resources they

1396
01:43:56,211 --> 01:43:58,750
had and make, you know, very, um, very difficult decisions

1397
01:43:58,931 --> 01:44:03,310
with that. Um, it was very engaging. They enjoyed themselves.

1398
01:44:03,310 --> 01:44:06,430
They had a difficult time. They recognized the difficulty in

1399
01:44:06,470 --> 01:44:09,230
making decisions and cuts. And the trade - offs that

1400
01:44:09,270 --> 01:44:11,710
comes with that. And so it was a really great

1401
01:44:12,291 --> 01:44:15,550
exercise. And we enjoyed it. We intended you it again.

1402
01:44:15,550 --> 01:44:19,470
Um, and create, um, create budget savvy residents. And I

1403
01:44:19,470 --> 01:44:22,670
just want to thank, um, my favorite critique, Anthony for

1404
01:44:22,710 --> 01:44:24,710
helping me up the anti - on it. Cause I

1405
01:44:24,710 --> 01:44:26,270
was going to make it really easy. And he said,

1406
01:44:26,310 --> 01:44:27,770
no, we can, we can challenge them a little bit

1407
01:44:27,770 --> 01:44:30,270
more. And so it came out to be a really,

1408
01:44:30,270 --> 01:44:34,165
um, great. Um, great exercise. And so with that, I'll

1409
01:44:34,205 --> 01:44:41,039
hand it over to Sky. Good afternoon Mayor members of

1410
01:44:41,039 --> 01:44:43,519
the city council. Sky Wolcow excited analysts in the finance

1411
01:44:43,519 --> 01:44:46,014
department. Uh, before we get into numbers, I want to

1412
01:44:46,014 --> 01:44:49,574
start with the priorities that guided the budget each year.

1413
01:44:49,574 --> 01:44:51,814
Council establishes a set of goals and those goals serve

1414
01:44:51,835 --> 01:44:55,414
as the policy framework for the budget. This year's goals

1415
01:44:55,515 --> 01:45:00,294
include mall redevelopment and family - friendly activation. Citywide economic

1416
01:45:00,395 --> 01:45:06,774
activation and events, North Palm Desert and University Area Development.

1417
01:45:06,774 --> 01:45:11,209
Community Resilience and Climate Strategy. Clean, safe and attractive city

1418
01:45:11,230 --> 01:45:18,227
standards and community engagement city identity. With those goals and

1419
01:45:18,227 --> 01:45:22,147
mind, staff developed the fiscal year 2627 Financial Plan to

1420
01:45:22,168 --> 01:45:29,091
align available resources with those priorities. The proposed budget and

1421
01:45:29,131 --> 01:45:33,091
tenure CIP were reviewed in detail at the May 14th

1422
01:45:33,112 --> 01:45:36,851
study session. This budget continues. The City's commitment to public

1423
01:45:36,891 --> 01:45:41,011
safety, economic development, infrastructure and long - term financial stability.

1424
01:45:44,853 --> 01:45:46,912
Now I'll provide a high - level overview of the

1425
01:45:47,013 --> 01:45:50,992
general fund which supports the city's core operations and services.

1426
01:45:50,992 --> 01:45:53,872
The general fund budget is balanced with estimated revenue of

1427
01:45:53,973 --> 01:45:59,712
about 112. 6 million and projected expenditures of about 112.

1428
01:45:59,813 --> 01:46:03,712
6 million. The budget projects a modest surplus of 69,

1429
01:46:03,973 --> 01:46:07,806
000 with no use of reserves for operations. Next, we're

1430
01:46:07,827 --> 01:46:10,686
going to look at general fund revenue and is coming

1431
01:46:10,787 --> 01:46:14,869
in what's coming in. What's, sorry. We're in the revenue

1432
01:46:14,909 --> 01:46:16,949
is coming from and what is driving the change from

1433
01:46:17,130 --> 01:46:23,256
prior year. General fund revenue is estimated to increase by

1434
01:46:23,296 --> 01:46:26,296
about three percent over prior year. The increase is mainly

1435
01:46:26,397 --> 01:46:29,496
driven by a modest growth in measure G sales tax

1436
01:46:29,597 --> 01:46:33,016
and transit occupancy tax. The city continues to rely on

1437
01:46:33,117 --> 01:46:36,856
a diverse mix of revenue sources, including sales tax, district

1438
01:46:36,896 --> 01:46:41,016
tax, TUT, also known as treasant occupancy tax, short -

1439
01:46:41,016 --> 01:46:45,016
term rentals, property tax, franchise fees, permits, and other revenues.

1440
01:46:45,677 --> 01:46:48,776
Now that we covered projected revenues, the next slide shows

1441
01:46:48,816 --> 01:46:54,718
how those dollars are allocated across city services. General Fund

1442
01:46:54,718 --> 01:46:58,398
Expenditures are also increasing by about three percent primary cost

1443
01:46:58,438 --> 01:47:01,678
drivers include public safety, personnel services, and the implementation of

1444
01:47:01,939 --> 01:47:06,158
measure G funded priorities. The budget maintains current service levels

1445
01:47:06,419 --> 01:47:10,558
while supporting growth - related demands and council directive initiatives.

1446
01:47:13,294 --> 01:47:15,633
A major part of this budget is measure G. So

1447
01:47:15,633 --> 01:47:19,033
the next slide highlights how those funds are being implemented.

1448
01:47:20,425 --> 01:47:24,004
Fiscal year 2627 is the third year measure G sales

1449
01:47:24,004 --> 01:47:27,204
tax revenue. Funds are allocated according to the adopted five

1450
01:47:27,305 --> 01:47:31,737
- year spending plan. Measure G supports public safety, facility

1451
01:47:31,918 --> 01:47:36,457
improvements, north Palm Desert Infrastructure, parks, and public work staffing.

1452
01:47:36,457 --> 01:47:39,657
The allocation reflects both immediate service needs and long -

1453
01:47:39,657 --> 01:47:45,135
term infrastructure priorities. Measure G is only one component, one

1454
01:47:45,135 --> 01:47:48,755
important funding source for capital needs. The next slide brought

1455
01:47:48,755 --> 01:47:55,783
in the view to the full capital improvement plan. The

1456
01:47:55,964 --> 01:48:01,763
proposed fiscal year 2627 CIP totals 76. 4 million. Key

1457
01:48:01,763 --> 01:48:05,943
projects include fire station improvements. The palm desert library construction.

1458
01:48:05,943 --> 01:48:10,183
They were when park, public facility upgrades and infrastructure that

1459
01:48:10,223 --> 01:48:14,014
supports city council priorities. Public safety is one of the

1460
01:48:14,014 --> 01:48:16,734
largest investment areas. So the next slide breaks down those

1461
01:48:16,835 --> 01:48:25,824
costs. Total public safety costs are 60. 61

1462
01:48:26,085 --> 01:48:30,464
million. The general fund share is 36. 65 million, which

1463
01:48:30,464 --> 01:48:33,744
represents about 30 percent of the general fund budget The

1464
01:48:33,744 --> 01:48:38,464
budget supports police services, committee safety, county, MS fire service

1465
01:48:38,504 --> 01:48:43,340
operations and related capital and equipment needs. In addition to

1466
01:48:43,601 --> 01:48:47,980
general fund, the city manages several restricted or restricted or

1467
01:48:48,081 --> 01:48:55,437
special purpose funds, which are summarized next. Other funds are

1468
01:48:55,698 --> 01:48:59,197
generally restricted restricted or satisfied for specific purposes. The total

1469
01:48:59,218 --> 01:49:03,437
budget across these funds is 151. 9 million. Using restricted

1470
01:49:03,458 --> 01:49:07,837
funds appropriately helps protect the general fund and ensures compliance

1471
01:49:07,858 --> 01:49:12,397
with funding requirements. The next slide addresses the state appropriations

1472
01:49:12,498 --> 01:49:19,208
limit, which is a legal requirement calculation. The appropriations limit

1473
01:49:19,229 --> 01:49:23,608
is the state imposed spending cap for 2627. The calculator

1474
01:49:23,629 --> 01:49:29,528
limit is 201. 76 million budgeted appropriations are at 112.

1475
01:49:29,568 --> 01:49:35,728
6, which is well within the legal limit. In addition

1476
01:49:35,749 --> 01:49:38,448
to the budget resolutions, Council is also being asked to

1477
01:49:38,469 --> 01:49:40,688
consider the staffing resolution and out - of - state

1478
01:49:40,688 --> 01:49:45,328
travel memo. The staffing resolution identifies the fiscal year 2627

1479
01:49:45,669 --> 01:49:51,879
salary schedule classification groups and all allocated positions. The out

1480
01:49:51,879 --> 01:49:54,599
- of - state travel memo included in your packets,

1481
01:49:54,599 --> 01:49:57,159
lists intended travel for fiscal year. That must be approved

1482
01:49:57,199 --> 01:50:02,685
by Council and a public meeting. Taken together these components

1483
01:50:02,866 --> 01:50:07,405
support the overall fiscal year 2627 budget summary. Overall, the

1484
01:50:07,426 --> 01:50:10,845
budget is balanced, includes a small projected surplus, does not

1485
01:50:11,186 --> 01:50:16,765
use reserves for operations and allies with council 2026 goals.

1486
01:50:17,365 --> 01:50:20,944
The estimated year in fund balance is about 120 million

1487
01:50:21,125 --> 01:50:25,584
with required reserve of about 70. 1 million. Measure G

1488
01:50:25,685 --> 01:50:28,144
is fully allocated per plan and will continue to be

1489
01:50:28,184 --> 01:50:34,889
reviewed quarterly by the Finance Committee. With that summary in

1490
01:50:34,910 --> 01:50:38,329
mind, staff is bringing forward the following recommendations for Council's

1491
01:50:38,369 --> 01:50:41,969
consideration. Staff recommends opening the public hearing and improving the

1492
01:50:42,009 --> 01:50:44,929
resolutions presented to you today, as well as the out

1493
01:50:44,969 --> 01:50:47,892
- of - state travel memo. Staff will return at

1494
01:50:47,892 --> 01:50:50,052
a later date with a study session item on potential

1495
01:50:50,793 --> 01:50:55,332
financing options for major projects maintain while maintaining operations and

1496
01:50:55,372 --> 01:50:59,972
managing reserve impacts. Um, and that concludes the budget presentation.

1497
01:50:59,972 --> 01:51:04,289
And I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you very

1498
01:51:04,289 --> 01:51:09,329
much. I will now open the public hearing. I see

1499
01:51:09,350 --> 01:51:14,657
no blue speaker cards. Are there any online comments. No

1500
01:51:14,678 --> 01:51:17,627
online comments. Very good. Thank you. I will now close

1501
01:51:17,728 --> 01:51:20,347
the public hearing in that case and turn it over

1502
01:51:20,387 --> 01:51:23,147
to my colleagues if they have any questions of staff.

1503
01:51:27,903 --> 01:51:33,956
Council member Moreno. Wow. I appreciate that you know I

1504
01:51:33,956 --> 01:51:39,396
do have questions. My first question is presenting at the

1505
01:51:39,436 --> 01:51:45,296
Civic Academy is that considered an official outreach session. Um,

1506
01:51:45,417 --> 01:51:47,876
I'm wondering in terms of I thought that our public

1507
01:51:48,057 --> 01:51:52,256
information sessions are to be open to the public. Um,

1508
01:51:52,517 --> 01:51:55,376
I'm wondering if having this presented through the Civic Academy

1509
01:51:55,877 --> 01:51:59,376
would make people feel like they couldn't participate or they

1510
01:51:59,416 --> 01:52:04,496
notified. I'm just wanting to be sure how to interpret

1511
01:52:05,877 --> 01:52:10,009
using the Civic Academy. So as far as the public,

1512
01:52:10,009 --> 01:52:13,129
um, outreach, that is what we use the study session

1513
01:52:13,150 --> 01:52:18,329
for. And typically that's how we address that requirement. The

1514
01:52:18,369 --> 01:52:22,489
Civic Academy was an opportunity to use that format for

1515
01:52:22,529 --> 01:52:27,209
the first time. And we can certainly send that out

1516
01:52:27,230 --> 01:52:29,529
further in future years, but we wanted to test it

1517
01:52:29,529 --> 01:52:33,816
out and see how effective it could be. In terms

1518
01:52:33,816 --> 01:52:37,816
of how many public, um, sessions are we required to

1519
01:52:37,856 --> 01:52:42,433
have. We're just required to have, um, were just required

1520
01:52:42,433 --> 01:52:46,353
to have public outreach. So the number designated. And so

1521
01:52:46,393 --> 01:52:49,873
we do use the study session. We use the advertisement

1522
01:52:50,134 --> 01:52:54,273
in the, um, the notice in the paper that covers

1523
01:52:54,313 --> 01:53:00,061
the requirement. And was this, could anybody just, um, learn

1524
01:53:00,101 --> 01:53:02,621
that that's what was going on with the Civic Academy

1525
01:53:02,661 --> 01:53:06,621
that day. Could they pop in and participate or are

1526
01:53:06,621 --> 01:53:11,021
events or the Civic Academy limited to participants in the

1527
01:53:11,042 --> 01:53:15,486
Civic Academy. I am not as familiar with how the

1528
01:53:15,486 --> 01:53:19,486
Civic Academy program works. Um, this was what we typically

1529
01:53:19,507 --> 01:53:23,066
do is we give them a budget 101 session. And

1530
01:53:23,066 --> 01:53:25,646
so we added this as a component to the budget

1531
01:53:25,827 --> 01:53:34,938
101. Got it. Um, I do have a few more

1532
01:53:35,199 --> 01:53:39,051
questions, but I'll let my, my colleagues. Get their questions

1533
01:53:39,232 --> 01:53:42,971
while I merge questions. Actually, I want to piggyback on

1534
01:53:43,952 --> 01:53:46,971
Council Member Moreno. The exercise you did at the Civic

1535
01:53:47,011 --> 01:53:49,691
Academy was like, uh, theoretical. It wasn't real numbers that

1536
01:53:49,691 --> 01:53:51,611
we actually have in our budget. Not at all. They

1537
01:53:51,651 --> 01:53:54,251
were points. So we gave them 100 points and we

1538
01:53:54,832 --> 01:53:58,011
assigned each category a number of points. It really was

1539
01:53:58,672 --> 01:54:02,091
an exercise. It wasn't real money or anything like that.

1540
01:54:02,091 --> 01:54:04,011
Okay. Cool. Thank you. Any other questions for my colleagues

1541
01:54:04,352 --> 01:54:07,971
Mayor Pro Tem when we had the study session, we

1542
01:54:07,971 --> 01:54:11,851
were presented with similar top line numbers. And since then,

1543
01:54:11,851 --> 01:54:17,771
we gave direction to support potentially the Paralympic surf event.

1544
01:54:19,718 --> 01:54:25,217
Palm Springs Life. Yet the top line numbers didn't change.

1545
01:54:25,257 --> 01:54:27,377
Is do you guys find money for those in there?

1546
01:54:27,377 --> 01:54:30,417
Maybe I missed it. Are those in this budget? No,

1547
01:54:30,598 --> 01:54:33,377
they are being currently funded by fiscal year 25, 26

1548
01:54:33,638 --> 01:54:40,253
funds. So this fiscal year, even though their future events

1549
01:54:40,674 --> 01:54:45,701
for increases, so the. Surf event would be funded out

1550
01:54:45,741 --> 01:54:49,381
of this fiscal year that we're currently in. The Paralympic,

1551
01:54:49,381 --> 01:54:52,021
um, the way it was brought was to use funds

1552
01:54:52,021 --> 01:54:54,821
that were available from 25, 26 budget and what we

1553
01:54:54,821 --> 01:55:00,021
will do is carry them over to 2627. The money

1554
01:55:00,122 --> 01:55:04,421
for, what was the other, the food and wine. That

1555
01:55:04,421 --> 01:55:13,164
was included in the budget. And kind of a question.

1556
01:55:15,599 --> 01:55:18,298
In the last item, I could find out what every

1557
01:55:18,338 --> 01:55:23,123
one of my neighbors trash role looks like. Last year

1558
01:55:23,224 --> 01:55:27,283
we had a lot more. We had a more robust

1559
01:55:27,864 --> 01:55:34,376
budget to review. Uh, I believe. Am I missing something?

1560
01:55:34,416 --> 01:55:37,576
Is this your different in the presentation? This is the

1561
01:55:37,576 --> 01:55:40,856
typical packet we're bearing for the final approval. The robust

1562
01:55:40,896 --> 01:55:43,316
packet you get is during the budget study session. And

1563
01:55:43,316 --> 01:55:45,976
so all of the detailed numbers were in that packet.

1564
01:55:52,469 --> 01:55:55,448
Any other questions for my colleagues? All right. Open up

1565
01:55:55,448 --> 01:55:58,368
for discussion. I'll get ahead. Sorry. I do have all

1566
01:55:58,408 --> 01:56:00,208
you mentioned that to begin with. Yes. You do. Yeah.

1567
01:56:00,208 --> 01:56:04,048
I just wanted to be sure. Um, I want to,

1568
01:56:04,048 --> 01:56:07,408
to follow up on what mayor Pro Tem mentioned that

1569
01:56:07,429 --> 01:56:11,968
in the past, we do get comprehensive document where we

1570
01:56:11,989 --> 01:56:15,568
can look at what we're looking at. And for example,

1571
01:56:15,749 --> 01:56:19,649
this is the one for last year. I could not

1572
01:56:19,750 --> 01:56:25,315
find anything similar to this. Um, I spent, I don't

1573
01:56:25,315 --> 01:56:29,315
know how much time last night in looking for a

1574
01:56:29,576 --> 01:56:33,835
comprehensive document where I could look year over year. I

1575
01:56:33,835 --> 01:56:36,595
am a note taker. I like physical media to consume

1576
01:56:36,856 --> 01:56:40,035
when I'm looking for this. And, um, I couldn't find

1577
01:56:40,075 --> 01:56:43,290
it. And when I asked our city clerk, he sent

1578
01:56:43,290 --> 01:56:47,210
me the link, but it's frustrating to think how much

1579
01:56:47,791 --> 01:56:51,016
work it took to find it. In previous years, it

1580
01:56:51,056 --> 01:56:53,496
was excellent that it could be found with one single

1581
01:56:53,757 --> 01:56:58,042
click. And this time it took a lot more. And

1582
01:56:58,042 --> 01:57:01,822
I understand that when we update our webpages, things move,

1583
01:57:01,822 --> 01:57:05,702
things change when you're on the finance, um, page, if

1584
01:57:05,702 --> 01:57:07,742
you scroll all the way to the bottom, it says

1585
01:57:08,083 --> 01:57:10,222
the link for the city budget. It takes us to

1586
01:57:10,403 --> 01:57:14,358
page not found. And again, we, it's possible to get

1587
01:57:14,459 --> 01:57:20,851
circular links and things get moved. But this was. This

1588
01:57:20,891 --> 01:57:23,870
was very frustrating. And I had residents that reached out

1589
01:57:24,451 --> 01:57:27,310
and said, I'm trying to find out, for example, um,

1590
01:57:27,571 --> 01:57:30,750
on public safety. And they sent me the screenshot that

1591
01:57:30,790 --> 01:57:34,102
it didn't work on their mobile phone. And we know

1592
01:57:34,102 --> 01:57:37,222
that it's important to get things optimized for mobile, even

1593
01:57:37,222 --> 01:57:40,822
to be able to download a PDF or print from

1594
01:57:40,862 --> 01:57:44,102
their phone onto their device. But I couldn't even print

1595
01:57:44,283 --> 01:57:48,502
the document here and doing my typical control P because

1596
01:57:48,502 --> 01:57:50,502
that's the way that I print. It would only let

1597
01:57:50,502 --> 01:57:54,002
me print one page at a time and a few

1598
01:57:54,002 --> 01:57:58,262
of the categories and not even to not even one

1599
01:57:58,302 --> 01:58:02,220
quarter of the categories that were there. And as we

1600
01:58:02,401 --> 01:58:06,860
strive for transparency, it was frustrating that once Anthony gave

1601
01:58:06,900 --> 01:58:15,936
me the link, it's required 16 steps. 16 steps to

1602
01:58:15,936 --> 01:58:19,358
get to that. And as we've mentioned, when it, when

1603
01:58:19,398 --> 01:58:23,198
we are asking someone to do more than three, four,

1604
01:58:23,238 --> 01:58:25,889
five clicks, they're going to give up. And it was

1605
01:58:26,150 --> 01:58:31,489
very inconvenient to have to look for the clerk website,

1606
01:58:31,489 --> 01:58:34,449
then a dropdown menu for online records. Click the public

1607
01:58:34,630 --> 01:58:38,129
reports portal. Find the new page for public records. Click

1608
01:58:38,470 --> 01:58:41,889
browse. Find City Clerk. Click the budget. Scroll to find

1609
01:58:41,889 --> 01:58:45,586
the gear. But then we can't link as before. Before

1610
01:58:45,586 --> 01:58:47,986
we could go to the table of contents, we could

1611
01:58:48,026 --> 01:58:49,746
click the item and it would take you to that

1612
01:58:49,767 --> 01:58:53,643
page. And here you had to scroll. For example, um,

1613
01:58:53,984 --> 01:58:57,323
I was asked to look at animal services. It list

1614
01:58:57,363 --> 01:58:59,883
page 77, but I still had to keep scrolling till

1615
01:59:00,064 --> 01:59:03,563
page 90 out of 146 to get to that area.

1616
01:59:06,379 --> 01:59:11,502
Um, the. Challenges of trying to get what was presented

1617
01:59:11,763 --> 01:59:14,702
in May, even in May, it's a series of, of

1618
01:59:14,803 --> 01:59:20,179
attachments. The May 14th study session was 14 separate attachments

1619
01:59:20,280 --> 01:59:23,539
when in previous years, we've had everything in one place.

1620
01:59:24,084 --> 01:59:29,343
And that's very unfortunate to ask our residents. I'm sorry

1621
01:59:29,844 --> 01:59:33,183
you had such a hard time finding it. But when

1622
01:59:33,183 --> 01:59:36,943
even we as council members are looking to be able

1623
01:59:36,943 --> 01:59:41,253
to make the best decisions, it's very frustrating. It's very

1624
01:59:41,354 --> 01:59:45,253
frustrating. And it's hard to bring this up when I

1625
01:59:45,434 --> 01:59:48,373
always tell folks we've got such great staff. Our staff

1626
01:59:48,394 --> 01:59:52,613
is very diligent, but this is difficult to find. It's

1627
01:59:52,613 --> 01:59:57,013
not mobile friendly. It's certainly not ADA compliant. And when

1628
01:59:57,034 --> 02:00:00,773
we tell people that transparency is one of those benchmarks

1629
02:00:00,794 --> 02:00:03,413
of what we ask for, this doesn't feel that way.

1630
02:00:04,366 --> 02:00:07,982
This doesn't feel that way at all. And we need

1631
02:00:07,982 --> 02:00:12,362
to do better to provide consistency in the services. Um,

1632
02:00:13,443 --> 02:00:19,022
it's, I'm just wondering what led to going from a

1633
02:00:19,062 --> 02:00:22,462
system that made things very easy to understand with everything

1634
02:00:22,963 --> 02:00:25,902
in one clear place to find it to now a

1635
02:00:25,902 --> 02:00:28,942
bunch of attachments and summaries that don't allow us to

1636
02:00:28,963 --> 02:00:35,049
extrapolate to truly be able to ask the questions. Okay.

1637
02:00:35,049 --> 02:00:38,809
So I don't know if that's a question for Veronica

1638
02:00:38,849 --> 02:00:42,754
or. Somebody from IT. I can speak to a portion

1639
02:00:42,754 --> 02:00:48,514
of it. I did appreciate, um, uh, Councilmember Moreno bringing

1640
02:00:48,554 --> 02:00:51,234
that to my attention today. As far as the cleanup

1641
02:00:51,895 --> 02:00:56,194
and what, um, how that was done. I have no,

1642
02:00:56,194 --> 02:00:58,514
you know, understanding of that piece. Cause I know it's

1643
02:00:58,535 --> 02:01:02,114
ADA related up until her pointing that out. I did

1644
02:01:02,114 --> 02:01:05,154
not know that all of our budgets had been scrubbed.

1645
02:01:05,154 --> 02:01:07,474
And so staff has been directed to add the last

1646
02:01:07,474 --> 02:01:09,794
three years back up there so that they are easily

1647
02:01:09,975 --> 02:01:13,154
accessed. Um, but I do understand that it's part of

1648
02:01:13,415 --> 02:01:18,751
the ADA requirements with regards to those. Yeah. Just quickly,

1649
02:01:18,751 --> 02:01:20,591
you know, and not to make excuses, we can certainly

1650
02:01:20,631 --> 02:01:25,231
do better. But, um, prior budgets were removed from the

1651
02:01:25,271 --> 02:01:28,111
website when the city was redoing the website to comply

1652
02:01:28,151 --> 02:01:32,991
with WCAG requirements, which has a website content accessibility guidelines.

1653
02:01:34,729 --> 02:01:38,308
Uh, which were established by the federal government. And that

1654
02:01:38,348 --> 02:01:42,208
requires PDFs to be fully accessible for screen readers, um,

1655
02:01:42,329 --> 02:01:46,230
and. Because these budget documents are so large, they were

1656
02:01:46,230 --> 02:01:50,262
removed from the website in order to comply. Um, and,

1657
02:01:50,262 --> 02:01:53,862
and moved into the city's permanent repository, which is the

1658
02:01:54,283 --> 02:01:58,430
laserfish web portal. And so through that web portal, yes,

1659
02:01:58,430 --> 02:02:02,270
if you are hitting print on a page by page,

1660
02:02:02,270 --> 02:02:04,750
it does that. But if you download the document, then

1661
02:02:04,750 --> 02:02:06,410
it will come out as a PDF and you can

1662
02:02:06,410 --> 02:02:09,482
print it in full. But we acknowledge the fact that

1663
02:02:09,583 --> 02:02:13,323
we can always do better and we will. Can I

1664
02:02:13,424 --> 02:02:18,521
request that we have both. Can I request what we

1665
02:02:18,561 --> 02:02:21,961
are used to to have that ability to click and

1666
02:02:22,001 --> 02:02:25,561
find and direct folks? Because again, that makes it easier

1667
02:02:25,982 --> 02:02:28,761
for us to get that for our residents to access

1668
02:02:29,582 --> 02:02:33,561
and have the separate link for the ADA compliant version.

1669
02:02:33,561 --> 02:02:35,721
So anybody that needs to access it in that direction

1670
02:02:35,822 --> 02:02:38,521
is able to, um, I think that we can continue

1671
02:02:38,561 --> 02:02:41,961
to provide the level of service and quality that we

1672
02:02:42,001 --> 02:02:45,081
have done in the past, um, and just have them

1673
02:02:45,342 --> 02:02:47,961
side by side. So that was one of the big

1674
02:02:48,142 --> 02:02:51,881
frustrations, um, issues that I had. And in terms of

1675
02:02:52,702 --> 02:02:57,241
specific questions, um, one of the residents brought it to

1676
02:02:57,281 --> 02:03:02,201
my attention that we're showing, um, a 1. 56 million

1677
02:03:02,382 --> 02:03:11,463
contingency fund. Whereas 2526, the allocation was zero and 2425.

1678
02:03:11,463 --> 02:03:14,903
It was 85, 000. Is there any, any context of,

1679
02:03:14,943 --> 02:03:17,383
of what that is? And I wish I could tell

1680
02:03:17,383 --> 02:03:19,783
you it's on page X so we could all be

1681
02:03:19,783 --> 02:03:22,103
on the same page, but I don't know where I

1682
02:03:22,143 --> 02:03:31,730
found that before. It's just. The account. For that. You

1683
02:03:31,770 --> 02:03:36,459
can answer it. So the 1. 5, um, if you're

1684
02:03:36,459 --> 02:03:38,819
speaking on the public safety budget, the police budget, is

1685
02:03:38,819 --> 02:03:41,579
that correct? Um, so that was established because when we

1686
02:03:42,480 --> 02:03:47,579
originally got, um, the request from the pleat department from

1687
02:03:47,619 --> 02:03:50,539
RSO, we noticed that they weren't in line with actuals,

1688
02:03:50,539 --> 02:03:53,579
but we still wanted to leave that capability. So if

1689
02:03:53,579 --> 02:03:55,659
they did come in a little bit higher, we have

1690
02:03:55,699 --> 02:04:01,179
the flexibility to address those needs. So that was established

1691
02:04:01,920 --> 02:04:04,379
just as a safety point to make sure we, we

1692
02:04:04,419 --> 02:04:10,936
can address that. So the 85K from 2425 were those

1693
02:04:11,117 --> 02:04:15,176
the actuals. Those were actual contingency funds. Um, and then

1694
02:04:15,517 --> 02:04:18,536
this year there was no request. So, but we did

1695
02:04:18,717 --> 02:04:21,456
establish that we should have some sort of contingency. So

1696
02:04:21,456 --> 02:04:24,456
that was, um, the reason for that 1. 5. Okay.

1697
02:04:25,197 --> 02:04:28,536
My question that I'm still trying to figure out is

1698
02:04:28,557 --> 02:04:32,616
how if we have an 85, 000 contingency that wasn't

1699
02:04:32,797 --> 02:04:35,416
used. And of course, we're glad that there wasn't a

1700
02:04:35,456 --> 02:04:37,816
need for it, that nothing happened in the city that

1701
02:04:37,917 --> 02:04:43,896
required that. But if, if, um, our public service of

1702
02:04:43,896 --> 02:04:47,816
our public safety partners didn't request that. How did 1.

1703
02:04:47,917 --> 02:04:52,776
56 become the figure to go from 85, 000 to

1704
02:04:53,037 --> 02:04:58,906
1. 56 million. So the original request from RSO was,

1705
02:04:58,906 --> 02:04:59,946
I don't want to say this wrong. I believe it

1706
02:04:59,946 --> 02:05:04,746
was 32. 4 million, 4 million. And when we started

1707
02:05:04,847 --> 02:05:07,546
to evaluate all of the actuals that they were spending

1708
02:05:07,647 --> 02:05:10,906
over the course of five years, um, we brought that

1709
02:05:10,946 --> 02:05:14,679
number down to a more realistic. Like an average number

1710
02:05:15,340 --> 02:05:18,919
to the 30 million. But city manager, you decided that

1711
02:05:18,919 --> 02:05:22,359
we should have a contingency in place, um, to ensure

1712
02:05:22,460 --> 02:05:25,959
if those costs did hit the request that they made,

1713
02:05:25,959 --> 02:05:28,759
we were able to, um, to have the funds available

1714
02:05:28,799 --> 02:05:30,999
for them. And just to add on that, we did

1715
02:05:30,999 --> 02:05:34,439
not want to bring it to the actual, actual given

1716
02:05:34,460 --> 02:05:37,559
our priority of public safety, but that contingency allows us

1717
02:05:37,599 --> 02:05:40,599
to use it across the entire police budget as either

1718
02:05:40,620 --> 02:05:44,519
demands change or police department requests more or costs coming

1719
02:05:44,559 --> 02:05:48,119
higher. And just to add to that in prayer years,

1720
02:05:48,119 --> 02:05:53,399
we budgeted police differently, completely differently. Since then, um, staff

1721
02:05:53,399 --> 02:05:57,799
has requested that items are, um, itemized more versus everything

1722
02:05:57,980 --> 02:06:00,039
being dropped into one budget so that they can really

1723
02:06:00,060 --> 02:06:06,527
keep track of the cost as they come through. So

1724
02:06:06,527 --> 02:06:10,447
if we have any additional insight on that, um, that

1725
02:06:10,487 --> 02:06:13,727
would be helpful. Like I said, right now I, I

1726
02:06:13,908 --> 02:06:18,767
was approached on, um, animal services and, uh, public safety.

1727
02:06:18,767 --> 02:06:23,247
And that's where I honed in on getting more info.

1728
02:06:23,247 --> 02:06:27,357
Other than that, that's the extent of my questions. Very

1729
02:06:27,397 --> 02:06:35,025
good. Any other colleagues have questions. Okay. Just clarify. We

1730
02:06:35,025 --> 02:06:39,305
have the technical issues, acknowledged staff is on it. We're

1731
02:06:39,305 --> 02:06:42,025
going to address it for next year. Perfect. Okay. Very

1732
02:06:42,065 --> 02:06:47,318
good. Any other, uh, comments from my colleagues. All right.

1733
02:06:47,339 --> 02:06:51,962
Well, then I will entertain a motion. I will thank

1734
02:06:51,983 --> 02:06:56,763
staff for their hard efforts and approve the motion. Second.

1735
02:06:59,027 --> 02:07:03,707
Council member Harnick. Yes. Council Member Mono. Yes. Council Member

1736
02:07:03,968 --> 02:07:08,267
Standy. Yes. Mayor Proper Tempereddo. Yes. Mayor Trubie. Yes. Motion

1737
02:07:08,307 --> 02:07:11,627
passes five to zero. All right. Honda item 16, which

1738
02:07:11,627 --> 02:07:16,673
is no further business. We are hereby officially adjourned. Thank

1739
02:07:16,694 --> 02:07:20,536
you everyone. Have a happy safe 4th of July hydrate.

1740
02:07:28,933 --> 02:07:29,152
Stop.