[0:08] I want to
[0:09] say thank you to everyone for their
[0:11] patience. City council has been
[0:13] meeting in closed session. I will
[0:14] turn into our city
[0:17] attorney for report out.
[0:20] » thank you . City council met in
[0:23] closed session to talk with labor
[0:24] negotiators
[0:26] with regard to specified
[0:28] bargaining units. The city council
[0:29] provided direction
[0:31] to the negotiators and otherwise,
[0:32] there is no
[0:35] reportable action .
[0:36] » 
[0:37] thank you. Madame claire, can you
[0:38] please call the role?
[0:39] » [ roll being
[0:41] called ]
[0:44] » 
[0:52] can everyone please stand and join
[0:53] us in the pledge of
[0:56] allegiance?
[0:57] » 
[0:59] I pledge allegiance
[1:00] to the flag of the united states of america
[1:01] and to the republic for which it stands
[1:02] one nation under god indivisible
[1:03] with liberty and justice for all.
[1:08] » 
[1:17] at this time, we're
[1:18] going to move onto proclamations.
[1:22] our city organizer will make a just
[1:23] a brief
[1:31] comment about the proclamations.
[1:32] » 
[1:33] thank you the proclamations were
[1:34] published as part of the agenda. Proclamations will
[1:35] be posted on the city's website and
[1:36] social media count is appropriate.
[1:38] thank you.
[1:39] » thank you but at this
[1:40] time, we will continue with proclamations
[1:41] and this will be
[1:47] inspire
[1:49] pittsburg. I'm excited to see so many
[1:50] here in the council chambers this
[1:51] event but
[1:52] I'm sure you're here for this proclamation
[1:53] but I definitely want to
[1:55] invite any representatives from the
[1:56] lions den boxing gym that want
[1:59] to come forward to the podium to receive
[2:00] the proclamations that I will go ahead
[2:02] and read it could recognizing
[2:04] and allowing any representatives to
[2:05] make some comments
[2:08] to the council and the public
[2:11] this evening.
[2:14] » 
[2:22] good evening. Tonight's proclamation
[2:23] is to recognize
[2:26] the lions den boxing gym as an
[2:29] honoree for inspire pittsburg
[2:32] . Whereas lions den boxing gym
[2:34] is demonstrated unwavering dedication
[2:35] to
[2:36] the betterment of our community through
[2:38] exceptional programs
[2:43] that are still discipline, resilience,
[2:44] and respect among our youth. Whereas,
[2:45] the gym's
[2:47] gloves not
[2:50] guns is a deterrent I guess you can,
[2:51] I bring
[2:52] young individuals at constructive
[2:53] and empowering alternative that emphasizes
[2:54] personal growth
[2:57] and community engagement. Whereas,
[2:59] lions den boxing gym has earned a
[3:00] stellar reputation
[3:01] for nurturing amateur boxes and guiding them
[3:02] toward successful
[3:05] professional careers, simplified
[3:08] by professional athletes
[3:11] . Whereas,
[3:13] the gym's training staff is comprised
[3:17] of those serving as mentors
[3:19] and role letters, including walter with
[3:22] --both are a champion --who is dedicated
[3:23] to preparing
[3:29] young fighters for their futures whereas,
[3:31] the lions den boxing gym stanzas only
[3:32] the boxing gym in pittsburg operating
[3:33] as
[3:34] a non-rapid orientation that continually
[3:35] gives back to the community initiatives such
[3:36] as toy
[3:38] drives and turkey giveaways , fostering
[3:39] the spirit
[3:42] of generosity and unity.
[3:43] whereas, the tractor recognizes the
[3:44] everyday contributions of organizations
[3:48] such as the lions den boxing gym
[3:55] that make us all proud to call pittsburg
[3:56] home, it demonstrates that together,
[3:57] we are
[3:58] capable of achieving great things
[4:00] that make pittsburg the best
[4:01] city to live, work and play. There
[4:03] for, I, mayor killings,
[4:06] on behalf of the city council,
[4:13] recommend and commend lions den boxing gym
[4:14] for its outstanding contributions to
[4:15] the
[4:16] trident community, and unwavering
[4:17] commitment to youth development, and
[4:18] exemplary efforts of promoting
[4:19] a safer and more prosperous environment
[4:21] for all
[4:23] . I encourage all to join us in saying
[4:25] thank you to lions den boxing gym
[4:26] for their contributions to inspire
[4:30] this work.
[4:42] » 
[4:51] [ applause ]
[5:06] personal,
[5:09] I want to get james to come
[5:12] on up here. James?
[5:21] james , come
[5:24] on up here.
[5:30] go ahead.
[5:36] these are the coaches
[5:38] from the gym. We all work together
[5:41] . They have done a lot for the gym
[5:42] and for
[5:44] the community. I would like to say
[5:45] thank you to all
[5:48] of them. It is not a lot to me. We
[5:49] do
[5:50] this as a community inside the gym.
[5:54] [ inaudible -low volume
[5:57] ].
[5:58] we'll do this together so I think
[6:00] we all should be, you
[6:03] know, recognized. And
[6:06] --
[6:09] basically, do want to take over?
[6:10] » 
[6:12] --I would
[6:15] like to read a few things.
[6:17] we are to stand before you to accept
[6:18] the recognition
[6:27] as in
[6:28] the thracian our community, the sentiment
[6:30] you inspires us that this is a huge
[6:31] privilege
[6:32] and great responsibility as we stand
[6:33] here we are reminded of the many people
[6:34] who
[6:35] have inspired and supported us along
[6:36] the way. This recognition is just
[6:37] not about us,
[6:38] but about 20 working together to create
[6:39] something meaningful. What I think
[6:40] about the journey
[6:41] that is led to this moment, I realize
[6:42] what truly makes the committee strong
[6:43] is not any one individual effort,
[6:45] but the collective strength of its people.
[6:46] obviously, he brought them up, we
[6:48] have coach sam
[6:51] back there. Coach was a.
[6:54] always believe in the power of connection
[7:00] . The idea that when we come together,
[7:01] we can
[7:02] achieve more than we ever could alone.
[7:03] whether it is helping a neighbor,
[7:04] entering the
[7:06] next generation,
[7:09] simply lending a listening ear to
[7:10] those in need, it is the smallest
[7:11] american act that laid the foundation
[7:12] for
[7:15] lasting change . Is on his
[7:16] moments of support and unity that
[7:18] we find the true essence of community.
[7:19] for
[7:20] kids living in neighborhoods where
[7:21] violence or criminal activity might
[7:22] be common,
[7:23] boxing provides a safe outlet, with
[7:24] training being competing and taking
[7:25] up time
[7:27] and energy, keeping them away from
[7:28] street life and harmful behavior.
[7:30] it combines physical and mental --
[7:39] boxing can steer
[7:40] kids away from violence and offer
[7:42] them a positive path forward. We have
[7:43] kids who
[7:44] show great promise and dedication
[7:45] in the sport of boxing
[7:47] , but some cannot afford to continue
[7:48] training. We believe every child,
[7:49] regardless
[7:50] of financial background, to have the
[7:51] opportunity to develop the discipline,
[7:52] fitness, and self-confidence to
[7:53] the sport. Our program currently serves
[7:57] over 15 kids
[8:02] that we personally, as coaches and
[8:03] parents, sponsor. When they cannot
[8:04] afford it,
[8:05] we dip into our pockets to make sure
[8:08] that our bills are paid and the doors
[8:09] stay open but we
[8:11] know how important it is, not for
[8:12] us, but for the kids and
[8:15] the youth and everybody who is
[8:17] part of argentum able to call someplace
[8:18] home. We brought
[8:20] today, as you see, our amateur fighters.
[8:21] amateurs, stand up
[8:24] real quick. [ applause ]
[8:30] some of these fighters
[8:33] have an
[8:39] international level and international
[8:40] level. We
[8:41] have been 11 the country competing
[8:42] and making noise. Not only for the
[8:43] lions
[8:44] den boxing gym, but every time , 100%,
[8:45] they shout out pittsburg,
[8:48] california. Pittsburg,
[8:49] california. We have professional boxers
[8:51] care profession or
[8:54] boxers often become mentors.
[8:59] they often become mentors after competitive
[9:00] careers for a variety
[9:03] of reasons. They're valuable is the
[9:04] knowledge of
[9:05] the sport, both in and out of the
[9:06] ring. They can guide
[9:12] younger or
[9:13] less experienced fighters beyond just
[9:14] teaching techniques and strategy.
[9:15] mentors can also provide emotional
[9:16] support, help with discipline, and
[9:17] offer career advice guiding mentees
[9:18] through the ups and downs
[9:21] of boxing. James , big uncle
[9:24] I call him.
[9:30] a former world champion definitely
[9:31] did that. What we
[9:32] got is kind of a --because we got
[9:33] a bunch of
[9:36] pro is that our gym webb flipped
[9:37] the script. They are active fighters
[9:39] on the journey to the top. All undefeated
[9:40] fighters would have
[9:41] amari jones, 13 and over --gabriel
[9:42] garcia,
[9:45] six knockouts. --
[9:49] two knockouts. Steve johnson,
[9:52] 5-0 with five knockouts they'll
[9:53] take the time to get back to the youth.
[9:55] they are all in the gym
[9:57] day in, day out. Unless there are
[9:58] or
[10:01] else, they are in the gym
[10:05] . They are giving rides, buying dinner,
[10:07] they do whatever they
[10:08] can. They mentor the kids as much
[10:09] as they could. Can we get the process
[10:13] stand up real quick? Please? [
[10:16] applause ]
[10:22] dave garcia
[10:28] --
[10:30] he just took us on a hike and I do
[10:31] not know what he had
[10:32] planned right at 40 years old, you
[10:33] know what he was thinking. So with
[10:34] that
[10:35] said, we just wanted to say thank
[10:37] you to all, and especially
[10:40] mayor killings. We appreciate the
[10:41] recognition, giving us the opportunity
[10:42] and platform table to shape an already
[10:43] great
[10:46] community. Thank you. [
[10:49] applause ]
[10:55] » 
[10:56] I want to say thank you to everyone
[10:58] for coming out
[10:59] and thank you words ensuring about
[11:01] the impact you all are making
[11:02] the lives of our youth and here in
[11:04] the community. If you do not
[11:07] mind, if my counselors are not
[11:08] mind indulging, if we could go down
[11:10] and take a picture?
[11:16] if we
[11:17] could come up front. At the council,
[11:19] we can take a picture with all of
[11:22] them real quick.
[11:28] clear back
[12:34] --.
[12:43] » 
[13:07] if I could say one more thing? I probably
[13:08] should've said this first would recently,
[13:10] we lost a pillar --
[13:16] [ inaudible
[13:19] -low volume ]. I just wanted
[13:22] to accept on behalf of --[ applause ]
[13:28] » 
[13:37] thank you, everybody, once again for
[13:40] coming out and supporting this
[13:41] amazing organization. At this time,
[13:43] we will move on rest the rest of the
[13:46] agenda items
[13:52] for tonight's meeting. We welcome
[13:54] everybody to stay. You do not have
[13:55] to, but we will go ahead and
[13:56] move forward with the rest of the
[13:58] business meeting. At this time, we
[13:59] will have
[14:00] a presentation by the contra costa
[14:01] fire protection district for their
[14:02] quarterly update. I
[14:03] will turn it over to the city manager.
[14:04] » thank you
[14:05] very much, mayor killings. Looking
[14:07] around for our district chief .
[14:19] here we go. Thank
[14:22] you so much .
[14:25] your presentation ?
[14:28] » my
[14:31] name is --and I am an
[14:33] assistant chief with contra costa.
[14:37] I am happy to be here but I want to
[14:40] give you an update on
[14:43] contra costa county and where the
[14:45] fire district has been and where it
[14:46] is going.
[14:52] the joke I keep saying is that we are
[14:54] like the universe. We just keep expanding.
[14:55] we will talk a little bit about that.
[14:57] we have over 600 employees. Civilian
[14:58] and staff folks. We have
[15:04] 35 fire stations throughout the county,
[15:05] 39 companies
[15:07] can really be adding two or stations
[15:08] here
[15:09] pretty soon. We'll talk about that
[15:10] but our fleet continues to grow. Have
[15:11] seen
[15:12] the big monday trucks out there with
[15:13] the guy driving in
[15:16] the back
[15:19] . That
[15:21] is a coveted job and everybody seems
[15:22] to love that. They are not
[15:23] just cool pieces of apparatus out
[15:25] there. They have a purpose. A lot
[15:28] of equipment
[15:30] . They are able to make turns other
[15:31] apparatus cannot make. When you
[15:34] see them in operation , they are doing
[15:37] an efficient and really good job.
[15:42] we have our administration, our training
[15:44] division. They are in
[15:46] concorde, off of tree boulevard. There
[15:47] is
[15:50] 12 markers
[15:52] of fun to be had there if anybody
[15:53] ever wants to come out
[15:54] and have what we have going on. We
[15:56] have our engines, boats
[15:58] , rescue. There is a dedicated rescue
[15:59] company
[16:02] just up the road at the point
[16:04] that it is stocked with four personnel.
[16:06] and as all of the cool toys to do
[16:08] anything. Collapsed buildings
[16:09] to vehicles that are crushed and someone
[16:11] needs to get out.
[16:14] they are the professionals .
[16:15] there are two of those in the county.
[16:17] one is in concorde
[16:19] staffed with three and one right here
[16:20] at
[16:23] -- point. We also have our hazmat
[16:25] division. They work with the state
[16:30] oh yes. They can travel anywhere up
[16:32] and down the states.
[16:35] they are
[16:37] the biggest nerds we have in the fire district.
[16:41] they know chemical compositions,
[16:43] what is happening, why it is happening,
[16:45] what it is going to do. It is kind
[16:47] of a bigger addition
[16:49] to what the district has done. They
[16:50] have been out
[16:53] here in pittsburg
[16:56] and industry . Railroads
[16:59] with railcars leaking
[17:02] , mysterious gases
[17:08] , a very slow
[17:09] painful process. They are very much
[17:10] professionals. We also have our prevention
[17:11] bureau.
[17:13] we have a staff of five law enforcement
[17:17] , fire investigators
[17:22] . We continue to grow. We have paramedics
[17:23] on every piece of
[17:26] apparatus which is great.
[17:29] we have our
[17:30] fema urban search and rescue folks
[17:31] read one of our assistant chiefs was
[17:32] just
[17:33] a ploy to kentucky for the tornadoes
[17:40] and weather events happening out there.
[17:41] a lot of good
[17:42] stuff. In our regional fire and ems
[17:44] communications center
[17:47] is continuing to grow. If
[17:48] you're in the area, pleasant hill
[17:49] off of tree boulevard, which turns
[17:50] into dairy. You
[17:52] will see it down to the studs . They
[17:53] are rebuilding
[17:55] it to make it state of the art so
[17:56] it will not just be
[17:58] the bones it will be all of the computer
[17:59] equipment. A lot of
[18:01] good stuff. 2024 we graduated an academy
[18:02] of
[18:05] 60 folks . Excuse me. 13 folks.
[18:10] class 60. They just got a probation
[18:11] actually this
[18:14] last week. We have two
[18:17] new ladder trucks
[18:18] we talked about. Six new engines coming.
[18:19] the byron boys ranch. If remember
[18:21] that area, it was acquired by the
[18:23] fire district. So wildland fire
[18:26] center. During
[18:31] the summer months, you will see a
[18:32] helicopter that we
[18:33] contract out there. You will see them
[18:35] drop waterbed are handful of folks
[18:36] are
[18:37] out there. We have water tenders out there.
[18:38] a lot of good
[18:40] things are happening with that. We
[18:41] just finished
[18:44] our organizational
[18:47] dei training this last year.
[18:50] and we launched a k-9
[18:52] peer support k-9 program. If you need
[18:53] to love and
[18:56] a god
[19:01] --love on a dog, we have four. Two
[19:02] our support dogs. We have
[19:04] an arson dog and then we have a human
[19:06] live search and rescue dog. That is
[19:08] a lot of good
[19:11] stuff happening.
[19:14] looking ahead to 2025. Next
[19:15] month, we're going to graduate academy
[19:17] 61. That will be 23 folks coming out
[19:18] of that. Rodeo hercules you may have
[19:20] seen in the news. If you
[19:22] paid attention all to what we are doing
[19:23] , we are going
[19:26] to annex
[19:28] rodeo hercules fire department. There
[19:29] are two stations out there.
[19:32] what
[19:34] is really mean to the city of pittsburg?
[19:35] it means more capacity. More
[19:37] engines coming your way. Or firefighters
[19:38] on
[19:41] the streets.
[19:44] it is a good thing for us. We talked about
[19:47] the communications
[19:48] center. We have got new stations happening
[19:50] out further east in brentwood.
[19:55] and in our marine program continues
[19:56] to expand and where in
[19:58] the process of the ambulance rfp.
[19:59] we are working together
[20:01] with a public/private partnership
[20:02] with amr
[20:05] to provide really good
[20:08] service with our emr folks.
[20:11] if you look up
[20:12] and down the state of california,
[20:14] we are all having a problem
[20:17] . Every fire department is
[20:19] hiring paramedics. If you are a paramedic
[20:25] and you want to become a firefighter,
[20:26] you're going to get a
[20:28] job anywhere you want to go. We are
[20:29] having a hard time hiring
[20:30] paramedics specifically. We got creative
[20:32] these last couple years.
[20:35] we will take our newer
[20:36] firefighters are interested in going
[20:37] through the paramedic program. They
[20:38] work out of the san
[20:39] pablo community college out there.
[20:44] we just graduated 12.
[20:47] we graduated 12 previous to that.
[20:48] we are finding creative
[20:49] ways to deal with problems we are facing.
[20:53] for the
[20:55] city of pittsburg, you can see the
[20:56] calls for 2024.
[20:59] over 10,000 calls. A lot of fires.
[21:02] a lot of ems calls for that
[21:04] is the majority of what we have been
[21:05] running on.
[21:08] you can see the rescues, vehicle
[21:11] accidents.
[21:14] highway 4, you see it all the time
[21:15] on the news.
[21:16] the most dangerous place we are going
[21:17] to work . That
[21:20] is on the freeway. I have been doing
[21:23] this job for 22 years now.
[21:26] I have had plenty of experiences
[21:29] in
[21:31] the freeways. That is what scares
[21:32] me the most. Having my personal on
[21:33] the
[21:35] free we
[21:38] --freeways scares me even more. If
[21:40] the public needs to hear one thing,
[21:41] it is slow down. Put your phone
[21:43] away. Get home safely. We have crashed
[21:44] a lot of fire engines
[21:47] that are
[21:49] stopped on the side of the road because
[21:50] people are not paying attention or
[21:52] they have been prepared. A lot of accidents
[21:56] and highway 4 seems to be a hot spot
[21:59] for it. Since the beginning
[22:01] of the year, you have had three significant
[22:02] structure fires on biking, clear
[22:05] wood, and alvarado. If you want
[22:08] more details on that,
[22:11] I can get the ipo
[22:13] and send you some of that. Some of
[22:15] that info. And
[22:16] since the beginning of the year, you
[22:17] can see we are trending towards the
[22:21] same amount of calls and
[22:23] we get a little bit more during the year.
[22:24] I want to
[22:26] talk a little bit about wildland fire
[22:27] preparedness. We were just
[22:30] talking about
[22:33] how the greens or the
[22:34] hills are really green. It is going
[22:35] to change in a matter of minutes.
[22:36] I mean,
[22:38] it is literally minutes it is going
[22:39] to change. We want
[22:42] you to know your cws alerts
[22:45] , the
[22:48] sony 11 . I will give you some qr
[22:50] codes for that. You can grab it and
[22:52] get out. Learning the difference between
[22:54] a warning
[22:56] and an order. We are going to give
[23:00] a warning
[23:03] ,
[23:04] law enforcement is going to say, it
[23:06] is an order and we have to go.
[23:07] we work well with our partners in
[23:08] law enforcement. Some key things about
[23:09] just
[23:10] the initial beginnings of an incident.
[23:12] there is not
[23:15] a lot of information you are going
[23:16] to get right away. For us, it is a
[23:18] life think we are
[23:19] worried about. We just want you out
[23:21] of the danger zone
[23:24] as quickly as possible. As the
[23:25] incident begins to expand, we start
[23:27] talking about routes
[23:29] , evacuation, where you need to go
[23:33] , where red cross is
[23:34] going to be put all of that stuff.
[23:36] in the very beginning of an incident,
[23:38] you should already have preplanned
[23:39] how
[23:41] my going to get out of my neighborhood?
[23:44] and where my going to go? That information
[23:45] is not going
[23:47] to be given to you in the first 15-30
[23:48] minutes of the incident.
[23:51] it takes
[23:53] time to develop and figure all of
[23:54] those things out. The
[23:56] cws alerts sign up, if you use this
[23:57] qr code
[23:58] on the left ear, you can register
[24:03] to get alerts in your area.
[24:06] when we communicate through the
[24:08] sheriff's office, for a community warning,
[24:12] they run
[24:15] the program.
[24:17] they tell what zone it's in and that
[24:18] is the
[24:19] one on the right here. This will show
[24:21] you where you live
[24:24] and what evacuation zone you actually
[24:27] live in. Two kind of
[24:30] important things. Cal fire has changed
[24:36] the hazard severity
[24:37] zones. If you want information on
[24:39] that, there is a qr code for that
[24:41] as well. It does have impact on insurance
[24:42] and all other kinds
[24:45] of things. We propose a lot
[24:47] of the changes but at the end of the day,
[24:54] we are keeping it as is. With
[24:55] that, if there are questions, I will
[24:57] take them. I will not
[25:02] get a picture with the mayor like
[25:03] the other group did.
[25:05] » [ laughter ] >> thank you for the
[25:06] presentation. Definitely heroes on
[25:07] the trinity. Definitely appreciate
[25:08] all the work you in the department
[25:09] are doing and
[25:11] appreciate you coming to give the update.
[25:12] I left my
[25:14] colleagues, does anybody have any questions?
[25:21] vice mayor adams?
[25:22] » thank you to
[25:23] the mayor. I had a question about the
[25:24] significant calls you mentioned? Are
[25:25] those the
[25:26] theories of incidents that happened
[25:27] at this location? Or was this a single
[25:28] incident
[25:30] when you reference
[25:33] biking, theater,
[25:35] or alvarado?
[25:36] » yeah, those are three different
[25:38] working structure files that we call
[25:39] a working structure fire is that we
[25:42] are going to be engaged in a
[25:45] fire for a period of
[25:47] time. It is not just a trash can on
[25:48] the side of
[25:51] the house
[25:53] where structure is involved. These
[25:54] are three separate, on three
[25:56] separate dates as well.
[25:57] » yes, okay. I
[25:58] was curious, as you're describing
[25:59] it,
[26:00] is wondering if it was something reoccurring
[26:03] in a particular location? And then
[26:06] I had a separate question around
[26:09] fireworks safety. And incidents
[26:12] around that?
[26:14] I talked to residents in certain neighborhoods
[26:17] and they get concerned about fireworks.
[26:20] things like that. You do prevention education?
[26:24] how many incidents have you seen
[26:30] in our region related to that? Just
[26:31] for awareness?
[26:33] » quite a bit, actually. In our
[26:36] --our fire investigators will look
[26:37] with
[26:38] law enforcement as we get closer to
[26:39] the fourth of july to
[26:41] do, I don't know what you call them?
[26:42] fireworks bus.
[26:45] we have a lot of that every
[26:48] year. We
[26:51] of staff on the fourth of july, meaning
[26:52] we
[26:54] put more units into service for more
[26:55] personal in the
[26:56] service because it gets crazy. The
[26:57] best fireworks I've ever seen
[27:00] is in the middle of a field in martinez.
[27:01] standing there
[27:03] watching the public
[27:09] light off a barrage of fireworks but
[27:10] it was
[27:11] something that we cannot control alone.
[27:12] it takes a lot of education. It seems
[27:13] like
[27:15] every year
[27:20] , in the county, fireworks are illegal,
[27:21] but somehow, they still get here
[27:23] did you feel the dry tender areas
[27:24] around the neighborhood . That stuff
[27:25] lights off very quickly. So
[27:27] from about dusk when it is starting to
[27:30] get dark until
[27:32] about 11:30 at night, it is pandemonium
[27:33] for us
[27:35] we are running a lot of calls and
[27:36] a lot of them
[27:38] are small fires and some build into
[27:45] your, 20-50 acre fires. We do education.
[27:46] we will start
[27:47] to see that as we get closer to the
[27:48] fourth of july. Your social media
[27:49] and
[27:51] through other media programs
[27:53] when we get closer. Yeah.
[27:54] » okay.
[27:55] thank you. The other season
[27:57] , we do see works
[28:00] around the lunar new year. So
[28:03] maybe considering used activity, adding that
[28:08] to the education canopy period?
[28:09] » 
[28:10] absolutely.
[28:11] » thank you for this
[28:12] great presentation. Fire is very important
[28:13] in making
[28:15] sure we are doing our part as we have
[28:16] climate
[28:19] change happening.
[28:23] » councilmember kobata. >> I was
[28:25] wondering,
[28:28] what are you using
[28:30] for water when there is a fire and
[28:32] you have a helicopter? What places
[28:39] do you get the water to put out the
[28:40] fires?
[28:41] » the helicopters will
[28:42] dip into the delta quite a bit, especially
[28:43] if it is closer to hear.
[28:44] on the other side of the county, if
[28:46] we are further east, there is
[28:48] a spot where we can get that from
[28:49] , as
[28:52] well as the delta.
[28:55] they will get
[28:56] stuff out of pools if they have to.
[28:58] we are in the process
[28:59] of purchasing the helipad's. They
[29:01] will be strategically located
[29:04] further west . So
[29:07] the concord million is
[29:10] a spot. East bay is a spot.
[29:13] the marsh creek detention center
[29:16] is a spot. There
[29:18] are these giant water tanks that are
[29:19] close to
[29:22] a water source. They can fill up
[29:24] . Some people out there to kind of
[29:28] manage those.
[29:29] » sometimes
[29:30] do you use, the water treatment plant
[29:31] in pittsburg, correct?
[29:32] » no.
[29:34] they will dip
[29:35] right out of the delta because it
[29:37] is right there.
[29:38] » okay. I
[29:39] have seen helicopters scoop up water
[29:40] there in the past and I
[29:42] was wondering if that was something
[29:43] that
[29:45] was a regular thing? Or if it was
[29:46] just because
[29:57] it was closer to the fire?
[29:58] » it is
[29:59] going to be incident
[30:00] dependent. Where the incident is can
[30:01] we are newer to the aviation game
[30:02] could we
[30:03] just started contracting last year.
[30:04] we put the pilot is from up north
[30:05] in washington.
[30:06] we put a captain on the helicopter
[30:07] as well to help
[30:11] communication and other things that
[30:13] we are going to get most of the helicopters
[30:15] that are going to come from cal fire.
[30:20] the black up helicopters and they
[30:22] drop a lot of water into a
[30:23] lot of this stuff. The other aircraft
[30:25] that are coming is the
[30:26] fixed wing aircraft you will see one
[30:28] flying one way and another
[30:29] couple of flying another way. The
[30:31] one flying by itself this way is
[30:32] kind of the air traffic controller.
[30:34] the other ones like the
[30:37] other way are doing the
[30:38] water retardant traps. They're coming
[30:40] out of hollister and
[30:42] is somewhere else that I'm not aware of.
[30:46] » okay, yeah I was going to
[30:48] ask you approximately how much water
[30:49] you are allowed to
[30:52] use from there. Okay.
[30:55] » no. >> thank you. >>
[30:58] and other questions,
[31:00] thank you for coming out and making
[31:01] the presentation.
[31:04] [ applause ]
[31:10] we are going to move on to item
[31:13] number seven.
[31:16] I will turn it over to the
[31:17] city manager.
[31:18] » thank you very much,
[31:19] mr. Mayor. The ever exciting future
[31:20] budget look,
[31:21] fiscal year 2025-26. Paul, I don't
[31:22] know if you've
[31:25] ever --many people in the
[31:27] audience. And , you know, let's go ahead
[31:34] and see where we are looking forward.
[31:35] » thank you,
[31:36] mr. City manager. Good evening here
[31:37] in city council.
[31:39] fiscal year 2025-26 budget workshop
[31:40] will provide a broad
[31:43] overview of expenditures focusing
[31:44] on the city of pittsburg's general
[31:46] fund.
[31:49] these are some of the assumptions
[31:52] with regard to the 20 year
[31:55] projection tool that we will be presenting
[31:58] over the next several slides.
[32:01] as the
[32:02] budget process continues, staff will
[32:03] be performing further analysis on both
[32:04] revenues and expenditures.
[32:05] they have been conservatively estimated
[32:07] for this presentation.
[32:12] --for example, right now, budgeted
[32:13] at a 1% increase.
[32:19] they may very
[32:21] well come in higher than that 1%.
[32:22] staff will continue to present updated
[32:23] projections
[32:24] as the budget process continues. As
[32:25] staff completes their expenditure
[32:26] estimates, the goal
[32:28] has been to keep expenditures
[32:31] at fiscal year 2024 levels.
[32:33] costs, however, to rise, and the model
[32:34] does reflect increases.
[32:40] scenario one.
[32:42] this shows a 1% increase in salaries
[32:43] and benefits while
[32:45] all other assumptions remain the same.
[32:49] this projection estimates an
[32:52] operating deficit
[32:55] for 2025-26 at $911,550.
[32:58] that grows to
[33:01] track $22 million in
[33:07] 2026-27. Stop at anytime if you have questions.
[33:10] I would like as a kind of go
[33:11] through the next several slides to
[33:13] take a look
[33:15] at the light green or aqua bars. Those are
[33:16] , they
[33:19] shrink as expenditures go up.
[33:22] it will become clear as we
[33:25] go through these flights here.
[33:27] keeping all of the assumptions the
[33:28] same with the assumption of keeping
[33:31] salaries to
[33:34] 1.5 increases. The
[33:36] incoming deficit increases two --
[33:37] as of
[33:40] 6/30/26
[33:43] but that the rigor grows to
[33:46] 10 $22 million .
[33:48] the half increase in salaries and
[33:49] benefits increased general fund
[33:52] salary and benefit by about
[33:55] $130,000. Each
[33:58] have percent . About
[34:01] $130,000 increase.
[34:07] a 2% increase in salaries and benefits
[34:08] increases
[34:10] the deficit of $1,169,641
[34:13] for 2025-26.
[34:16] in 2026-27,
[34:19] that increases to one $.9 million
[34:22] --
[34:25] 1.9 million
[34:29] dollars. And
[34:32] --this increases the deficit to
[34:35] 1.3 million
[34:38] dollars in 2025-26 but
[34:41] in increases to .2
[34:44] million four 2026-27. As you
[34:46] can see, those aqua bars are shrinking.
[34:53] okay.
[34:58] finally, 3% increase in salaries and
[34:59] benefits
[35:02] will increase the deficit to
[35:05] 1.4, and
[35:11] 2.4
[35:12] in 2026-27. As we scroll through the
[35:14] slides, you can see the
[35:17] bars represent
[35:18] the reserve balances and how they
[35:19] are affected. If you scroll all the
[35:20] way back
[35:21] a little bit to the first, these reserves
[35:23] are quite a bit higher
[35:26] as
[35:28] expenditures are increased. You can
[35:29] see kind
[35:31] of a dramatic drop in our reserves.
[35:41] finance staff has
[35:42] also projected an analysis based upon
[35:43] historical actuals, as well as the
[35:44] 2024-25 midyear budget.
[35:46] staff has presented three scenarios.
[35:47] pessimistic,
[35:48] realistic, and optimistic. For fiscal
[35:50] 2022 actuals
[35:55] report --negative far make an adjustment
[35:56] to the . While
[35:58] the 2024 actual revenue is reflect a
[36:05] 2.6 percent market value adjustment.
[36:06] these are on paper only as required
[36:07] by the governmental standards board
[36:08] in either the
[36:11] loss or gain
[36:13] have been or will be realized in other words
[36:16] , they do not impact the budget. However,
[36:17] they do
[36:18] inflate the revenues with the actuals
[36:23] as we break it down. The fiscal year
[36:26] 2024 revenues reflect one-time project
[36:27] returned
[36:28] to source revenues of 2.1 dollars.
[36:31] excuse me. The comparable 2024 revenue
[36:36] , when adjusting for the fair market
[36:38] value adjustment, as well as the return
[36:39] to source one-time revenue, is about
[36:41] $64.8 million.
[36:44] with that said, businesslike projects a
[36:47] 1% increase
[36:50] to salaries and benefits.
[36:56] the three scenarios project
[36:58] in the working capital reserves of 32%
[37:02] for pessimistic.
[37:08] 35% for realistic, and 37%
[37:09] respectively. These reserve percentages
[37:11] are being presented and rounded to
[37:12] the
[37:14] nearest whole dollar.
[37:17] this slide represents
[37:23] a 1.5 percent leaving
[37:24] reserve balances for the three scenarios
[37:26] at
[37:29] the two, 35, and 36%. The
[37:34] 2% increase in salaries and benefits
[37:35] projects a new working capital
[37:38] reserve percentages at
[37:41] 6/30, 26, at 32, 34, and 36%.
[37:44] in a 2.5% increase to salaries and
[37:45] benefits projects
[37:47] and a reserve balances of 31 , 34,
[37:50] and 35%.
[37:53] oregon, pessimistic ,
[37:56] realistic, and optimistic
[37:59] projections. I should stop for a moment and
[38:02] show you
[38:05] . The pessimistic takes the midyear
[38:07] revenue is and presents no increase
[38:08] to the revenues.
[38:14] a realistic is across the board of a
[38:17] 2% increase revenues. Optimistic
[38:18] projects a straight-line 3% increase
[38:20] to a revenues but again, staff will
[38:23] be diving further into
[38:26] the general fund revenues as the budget
[38:27] process progresses.
[38:29] and then for operating expenditures
[38:32] other than personal costs
[38:35] , the pessimistic shows
[38:38] up 3% increase
[38:41] in our
[38:42] expenditures. The realistic, 2% increase
[38:44] to managers. And optimistic, 1% increase
[38:47] to expenditures , with again, stepping directed
[38:50] to try to live
[38:52] within our fiscal year 2024 budget.
[38:53] each
[38:59] have
[39:00] percent increase to personnel costs
[39:01] reduces the operating reserve percentage
[39:02] by about
[39:05] a quarter to a half percent to 3%
[39:06] increase in salaries and benefits
[39:07] projects ending worker capital reserve
[39:08] balances of 31%
[39:13] , 34%, and 35% for the three projected scenarios.
[39:17] if the council chooses,
[39:20] their potential project funny dollars
[39:22] that could be returned to source ,
[39:23] increasing the general
[39:26] been reserves. The not
[39:28] yet returned to staff has received direction
[39:38] at the fiscal year
[39:40] 2025 budget to return to source the
[39:41] items identified in the midyear budget.
[39:42] that will
[39:43] positively impact the 2024-25 deficit,
[39:44] reducing that deficit to around $40,000.
[39:47] for 2025-26, it is
[39:50] estimated there will be about $100
[39:51] million of
[39:52] general fund reserves the were previously
[39:53] transferred out to project funds
[39:56] to fund the
[39:58] fema winter storm project but will
[39:59] now be
[40:01] available to be returned back to the
[40:02] general fund reserves.
[40:05] this slide
[40:08] down here at the bottom, as you
[40:10] can see , this takes both of those.
[40:11] it takes
[40:17] the $651,000 of
[40:18] potential 2024-25 midyear adjustments,
[40:20] and the
[40:23] 1.2 million
[40:25] dollars for the slideshows if you
[40:26] take the ending balance of 38.1%,
[40:30] the blue shaded at the
[40:33] bottom include those returned
[40:36] to source on
[40:39] the expenditures
[40:47] or revenues back into the general fund
[40:48] and
[40:49] with that, I will turn it over to
[40:50] the city manager.
[40:51] » we have seen
[40:52] a lot
[40:53] of numbers your pet a lot of different
[40:54] scenarios. And I want to maybe
[40:55] summarize a bit of the narrative here.
[40:56] bottom line, and as you know from
[40:57] the last
[40:59] meeting, with the midyear, this current
[41:00] fiscal
[41:01] year, 2024-25, we do not have a structural
[41:03] deficit. A lot of that is a
[41:06] credit to
[41:07] this council in previous councils
[41:08] establishing a fiscal sustainability
[41:11] ordinance. Living within our means.
[41:18] or expenditures. We have lost
[41:19] a couple of different revenue generators.
[41:24] target. We have
[41:25] had some closures. U.s. Steel. Things
[41:26] that have taken away some revenues
[41:27] that we
[41:28] have a new revenue source. It does
[41:30] not fill in all the gap there.
[41:33] but overall,
[41:35] there are certain one-time expenditures
[41:36] that this
[41:39] council is
[41:40] directed such as infrastructure for
[41:42] roads.
[41:43] for certain types of maintenance.
[41:45] trying to
[41:47] address needs. Whenever you have seen
[41:54] a deficit in the last couple of years,
[41:55] after he built up a nine plus million
[41:57] dollars surplus in one year,
[42:00] that is
[42:02] the council carefully spending that down.
[42:03] we
[42:04] are at the point now where we spent
[42:06] that down and we are doing
[42:07] various projects. Now is the time
[42:09] where we have to be
[42:10] careful because, you know, expenditures, whether
[42:11] that is through salaries or ongoing
[42:12] increase in
[42:14] operational costs , are going up. So
[42:18] it will be a
[42:21] fine balance to make sure we do
[42:22] not cross over the one-time expenditures
[42:24] into an ongoing
[42:27] structural deficit.
[42:33] hopefully, people do not read as
[42:35] many articles on city as I do, I guess
[42:36] that you see a lot of
[42:37] cities going through structural issues.
[42:39] that is when you really see a
[42:41] constriction of activities in a government.
[43:07] we are around a million dollars
[43:10] right now oh. Over the next two
[43:13] months we work with the budget
[43:14] subcommittee to own those numbers
[43:16] and get that
[43:19] back within that 1% we
[43:22] shoot for and really look
[43:25] forward to hearing this
[43:26] through. Again, there is some silver
[43:28] linings in here. You have
[43:29] all these numbers and scenarios in
[43:31] front of you
[43:34] but we have
[43:37] to be vigilant. I
[43:40] #y50e8d it back.
[43:41] » thank you.
[43:43] I know it will be a lot more
[43:46] discussions we will have. At least
[43:48] one more workshop and then as well
[43:49] finance
[43:50] subcommittee will be meeting as well
[43:52] taking a deeper dive into what
[43:54] is being me sented by staff. Definitely
[43:55] want to open
[43:57] up this opportunity as we are getting
[43:58] this
[43:59] initial presentation. There is a new
[44:01] thank council members want to
[44:03] flag. Is there anything they want
[44:04] to raise
[44:07] a question about as
[44:10] we
[44:11] enter into this budget process? All
[44:13] right. Seeing none
[44:16] then we will continue to move forward with
[44:17] updates from staff and I will turn
[44:19] it back over to the city
[44:22] manager to go to the next
[44:25] item.
[44:26] » thank
[44:28] you very much. City manager reports.
[44:29] » thank
[44:31] you. I would like
[44:32] to invite the community to please
[44:34] join the club and
[44:36] the city's recreation department for
[44:37] the
[44:38] annual pancake breakfast and easter
[44:40] egg hunt. It is scheduled for
[44:42] saturday april 12th at small world
[44:48] park. So the pancake breakfast starts
[44:49] at 8:00
[44:50] a.m. They will be serving pancakes
[44:52] for a small
[44:54] donation of $5. Civic pride day is scheduled
[44:55] for
[44:57] saturday april 19th. Please be at
[44:58] the pittsburg letters on
[45:01] railroad avenue if you
[45:04] are
[45:06] interested. Please be there by 8:45
[45:07] a.m. Also
[45:10] on the same day we
[45:11] have our somebody codes updates workshop. The first
[45:13] someone from 10:00 a.m.
[45:14] to noon at the pittsburg library community
[45:16] room and then the second one is
[45:19] from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. At
[45:23] the pittsburg senior center.
[45:24] » at
[45:25] this time we will
[45:26] move ton public comments. This is
[45:28] an opportunity for members
[45:29] of the public that wish to address
[45:31] the city council
[45:33] on issues that are not scheduled on tonight's
[45:34] agenda
[45:36] to come up to the podium. You will
[45:37] have up to
[45:38] three minutes to address the city
[45:40] council. We are
[45:42] not able to have a dialogue on the
[45:43] comments that
[45:45] are made. It is an opportunity for
[45:46] you address the
[45:48] council directly for up to three minutes and
[45:49] so with that
[45:51] I will turn to madame clerk. Do we
[45:52] have
[45:55] any public comments
[45:58] this evening?
[45:59] » yes, we do. Cameron. >>
[46:10] good evening
[46:12] everyone.my name is cameron. I serve
[46:13] as
[46:14] the field representative for assemblywoman. Thank
[46:16] you for the opportunity
[46:19] to provide an
[46:21] update tonight. The assembly member
[46:22] is covering --carrying
[46:24] 25 bills this session many on which
[46:25] are aligned
[46:28] to priorities of cities across
[46:31] the
[46:34] region. They
[46:37] also serves on five committees
[46:40] . She chose the contra costa
[46:42] boys and girls club as her non-profit
[46:43] of the
[46:46] year. In the coming months the assemblywoman
[46:49] is looking to schedule city
[46:51] tours accompanied by her staff and
[46:52] district office. Last week we
[46:55] did a full tour for the city of concord. These visits were
[46:58] intended to learn more about the
[46:59] city's legislative needs and discuss
[47:01] ways her office can
[47:03] support and advocate for your local
[47:04] priorities. If your city
[47:06] would like to schedule a tour or connect with
[47:07] our office please don't
[47:10] hesitate to reach out to
[47:13] me directly. The office number is
[47:16] 925-521-1511 as well
[47:18] as the community. The number is 925-521-1511. We
[47:19] look forward
[47:21] to hemming and working with you. Thank
[47:22] you again
[47:23] for your time. I also left some cards
[47:25] with the
[47:31] clerk for you all. Thank you.
[47:32] » 
[47:34] kyle.
[47:35] » 
[47:40] good evening mayor,
[47:43] vice
[47:45] mayor, council members. I am dish
[47:46] come here as a member of
[47:48] the community. I am a teacher at pittsburg
[47:49] high school
[47:52] and I'm also the head cross country
[47:54] coach. It is kind of relevant we had
[47:55] the fire
[47:58] thing but two years ago our home
[48:00] course was burned down. In the year
[48:01] since a major
[48:03] way we fund raise is hosting invitationals. So
[48:04] that is
[48:07] where
[48:10] invite other schools. It funds most
[48:13] of the program outside of parent and
[48:14] community donations. One
[48:15] thing that has affected our program
[48:16] has been no course for
[48:19] us to host the invitational. I'm asking
[48:21] that with the stuff that is being
[48:25] built near the old golf course maybe
[48:26] we
[48:27] could provide or help the city with
[48:28] cause not only
[48:30] as coach this would help my program
[48:31] but you will hear from some
[48:33] of the athletes and families there
[48:34] is some safety
[48:35] stuff going nonpittsburg. It is tough
[48:37] for our team to
[48:39] run at night because of traffic. There
[48:40] is
[48:43] not really much
[48:45] of the infrastructure notous trainer
[48:46] so you
[48:49] will hear more from
[48:51] them. As a coach a course would help
[48:52] us raise
[48:55] funds
[48:58] and build our program. Thank you chlt
[49:07] .
[49:08] » christopher. >>
[49:11] good evening. I
[49:13] am going to say good evening to the
[49:14] council
[49:16] men and women, everybody here. I'm
[49:18] a parent with the cross country program. My
[49:20] daughter has been
[49:22] there for three years now. It is a
[49:23] good
[49:24] experience. I know everybody is hell
[49:26] bent
[49:29] on football
[49:32] in pittsburg and basketball but
[49:34] cross country is a big thing. It has
[49:37] brought her out of her shell. With her
[49:40] being with fellow students and running,
[49:41] it
[49:42] is a good program. Like coach said
[49:44] I am there
[49:46] like other parents here. We don't
[49:47] have a course. We
[49:48] don't need no major course, we just
[49:51] need something because we go to brentwood,
[49:53] oakley and I know that
[49:55] is different. I grew up in this community. My
[49:56] dad 40
[49:58] something years ran for mayor. Like,
[49:59] it
[50:01] is crazy to see that little things
[50:02] have gotten better
[50:04] but it could be so much better. What
[50:05] he was saying about
[50:06] the safety thing, that is my biggest concern. I'm
[50:08] sure
[50:11] a lot
[50:12] of us live in pittsburg. This running
[50:14] red light stuff, they have to
[50:16] stop at the lights. People just running lights. I
[50:17] know that is
[50:20] on them but if we could
[50:23] have a course directly for
[50:25] them to practice and for community to
[50:26] use
[50:27] that would be a good thing. Obviously
[50:29] y'all will come out and support us
[50:32] and see what we are
[50:35] talking about. I'm just
[50:36] here to push that idea. Thank you.
[50:37] » 
[50:44] [ applause ] thomas.
[50:45] » 
[50:53] good evening.
[50:56] I've been a president
[50:59] deponent about 15
[51:02] years. Whether
[51:05] I talk about their topic. Aside from
[51:08] the kids pittsburg is
[51:14] not nope known as a run
[51:20] arunning town.
[51:26] there is not a
[51:29] lot of facilities here. I come
[51:32] from a family
[51:33] of weight issues, alcoholism. Cross
[51:35] country at pitt high did a
[51:38] lot for me. I know that
[51:39] if you take these family member's
[51:41] opinions into mind you
[51:44] can do
[51:47] a lot for their kids. Thank you.
[51:48] » 
[52:02] hello esteemed council. I
[52:05] am a member of the pitt
[52:07] high cross country team. I just want
[52:08] to come
[52:11] here and say we
[52:14] are looking for some help in regards
[52:17] to something for us to do in regardings to
[52:20] running. I think I can speak for a
[52:23] lot of my youth, my
[52:26] peers when I say that
[52:29] outside of many sports or
[52:32] including many sports running is very
[52:33] important
[52:35] for us as young people
[52:38] and seeing
[52:39] that joining cross country and trying
[52:41] to get
[52:44] more active
[52:47] and being met
[52:50] with the terrible or less than
[52:53] I guess perfect infrastructure
[52:56] that we have in regards to people
[52:58] running red lights or the crosswalks
[52:59] being
[53:01] less than favorable, we would be greatly
[53:02] appreciative if we
[53:04] could get something to look forward
[53:05] to
[53:07] regards to better or more workable roads.
[53:10] being a kid and being able to run
[53:11] around
[53:14] is something that is very important. It gets
[53:15] us out
[53:17] of our shells and to play around with
[53:18] our peers
[53:20] and go outside. It getstous be a
[53:23] more active community. I
[53:26] think this would really help. Thank you.
[53:27] » 
[53:32] dominic matthews.
[53:33] » 
[53:38] this is
[53:41] my first time going
[53:43] up here. Hi everyone. My name is dominic matthews. I'm
[53:44] a junior
[53:47] at pittsburg high school and
[53:50] also a member
[53:52] of the cross country. I have been
[53:53] doing cross
[53:56] country since
[53:59] I was in 8th grade and they are
[54:02] having some
[54:03] issues with running and then like
[54:05] with what coach said
[54:08] with a new coach --when
[54:10] home course originally burned down
[54:11] we haven't
[54:13] gotten a home course to ourselves. We
[54:14] tried doing
[54:17] it but that
[54:18] hasn't gone so well. No offense, coat.
[54:23] all I'm saying
[54:25] is it would be really appreciate if
[54:26] you guys could
[54:28] let us having our own home course
[54:29] and
[54:32] so that way we can like learn and
[54:35] just like have fun. And
[54:38] that is it. And I'm hoping this
[54:41] year --next season we can do
[54:44] what we got to do to
[54:46] keep doing. That is what we do. We
[54:47] got
[54:49] everything done and that is it. So
[54:50] we would
[54:53] really appreciate it if you guys can
[54:56] give
[54:59] us this home course. Thank you.
[55:00] » 
[55:05] veronica
[55:08] maya.
[55:09] » 
[55:11] good evening, nay your,
[55:14] vice mayor, council members.
[55:20] I mobilize the community to
[55:23] reduce --
[55:26] we are holding our
[55:28] first ever pittsburg opioids awareness
[55:29] forum here in pittsburg
[55:31] in this chamber april 16th. I'm here
[55:32] to invite you guys all
[55:35] to our
[55:37] forum. We feel it is very important
[55:38] forum to have. We will be doing
[55:41] training for everybody. We think it
[55:44] is important because we over in mount
[55:45] diablo
[55:47] we already had
[55:49] ten overdoses of youth of fentanyl
[55:50] mount diablo. It is
[55:53] growing. We have to make sure we educate
[55:54] our
[55:56] people here and make sure pitt
[55:58] high stays good. Like right now at
[55:59] heights elementary they
[56:02] have a forum because they
[56:06] caught
[56:07] 3rd graders vaping cannabis. So school
[56:09] district
[56:11] -- another organizations are there
[56:12] educating
[56:13] families and parents. We know it is in
[56:15] our backyard and we want
[56:17] to make sure we are all educated and informed
[56:18] and
[56:21] get these kids off
[56:24] this stuff. Thank you so much.
[56:25] » joan
[56:27] na
[56:33] hernandez.
[56:34] » hello
[56:36] everyone.
[56:38] I own a one barbershop. I'm also homeowner
[56:40] here in pittsburg. I'm here because our plaza
[56:42] has gotten a lot better due
[56:45] to the pressure of fixing up
[56:46] the plaza. It is also overwhelming
[56:48] with everything going
[56:49] on. I'm glad that someone spoke about
[56:51] the drug usage that is
[56:53] happening. I sent an e-mail like three
[56:54] weeks
[56:56] ago to this commission with no response. I
[56:57] am asking you please spend some
[56:59] time with your merchants, with your
[57:00] business
[57:03] owners so you can see firsthand what
[57:04] we see. I have done some research
[57:06] and I've been to a couple
[57:08] of meetings in pittsburg that as of
[57:09] most recent data
[57:12] our police department
[57:15] has
[57:18] only 81 sworn staff. 81. That
[57:19] is approximately eight officers per
[57:20] 1,000 residents. Our police department
[57:24] shouldn't be who we call when
[57:25] we have someone having a mental health
[57:27] break down or on
[57:28] drugs. Our businesses are being pushed
[57:29] away because of the pressure we are
[57:30] seeing and
[57:32] having to result to call the police
[57:34] department. I'm asking you not only
[57:36] as homeowner but as a business owner
[57:38] that you please come spend some time.come
[57:39] out of here and come spend some
[57:42] time with the business owners at
[57:44] different times so you can see firsthand
[57:45] what we
[57:46] are experiencing as business owners. I
[57:48] was ready to open up my
[57:51] second business but I was scared because
[57:52] it wasn't that much support. There
[57:54] is about six of us
[57:55] getting together. We will rally more
[57:57] business owners here in pittsburg
[58:00] to ask that you please
[58:02] figure out a plan. We need maybe on
[58:03] demand services for
[58:06] people who are
[58:07] suffering from this illness. More education. I'm
[58:09] happy to hear
[58:10] there will be some education around
[58:12] fentanyl and maybe that could
[58:15] be offered to the
[58:16] businesses here in pittsburg. Our
[58:18] police department is under served. They
[58:20] need more support in order to protect our
[58:21] community but
[58:22] we need on demand services. I'm asking
[58:24] you the please come so now
[58:26] I'm here physically giving you the
[58:27] invitation to come
[58:29] spend the day where my son works at
[58:30] everyday
[58:33] and his safety is my concern. As a
[58:34] barber
[58:35] trying to help people feel good because
[58:36] when people
[58:39] feel good
[58:42] they do good. My invitation stands. Thank you.
[58:43] » 
[58:51] gloria.
[58:52] » 
[58:54] good
[58:56] afternoon everybody. I'm here on behalf
[58:57] of
[59:00] cross country. I wanted to give
[59:03] a couple of
[59:06] personal antidotes about my safety
[59:07] concerns. There
[59:08] was a couple of times I've been running
[59:09] and cars
[59:10] don't really see me. There was a time down
[59:12] the street over
[59:15] here where the lights were flashing
[59:18] and a truck just like went by
[59:21] without slowing down. There was one
[59:24] time on a bridge near
[59:25] pittsburg high school where I had
[59:27] my foot slipped and
[59:30] I fell into the road,
[59:31] into the street where thankfully there
[59:33] wasn't any cars passing but
[59:36] I was able to get up
[59:39] and go to
[59:42] back
[59:44] to school. I think that is it. I think
[59:45] it would help
[59:48] if we had a trail
[59:51] built for our safety so
[59:55] that everybody could be safe. Thank you.
[59:56] » 
[1:00:03] no more speakers, mayor.
[1:00:04] » 
[1:00:05] all right. Thank you. Thank you everybody
[1:00:06] for coming out and sharing
[1:00:07] your public comments. It is definitely
[1:00:09] noted. I know we can't deliberate
[1:00:10] or
[1:00:11] discuss tonight but I want to acknowledge
[1:00:12] and thank you
[1:00:15] all for voice your concerns and your
[1:00:17] advocacy here tonight. At this time
[1:00:18] we will move
[1:00:21] on to our committee
[1:00:22] reports. Do any council members have
[1:00:24] any
[1:00:30] reports for any
[1:00:32] of their subcommittees?
[1:00:33] » views mayor
[1:00:34] adams.
[1:00:35] » thank you
[1:00:36] through the mayor. On march
[1:00:42] 19th the
[1:00:45] life enrichment subcommittee
[1:00:48] met. During the subcommittee meeting
[1:00:51] we reviewed cdbg block grants and
[1:00:53] organizations that have submitted to
[1:00:54] be
[1:00:57] allocated
[1:00:58] funds to support their programs. So
[1:01:00] we made some selections and they
[1:01:03] will be coming to the
[1:01:09] council at a future date.
[1:01:10] » I will
[1:01:12] just report out on march 24th the
[1:01:15] two by two sub committee
[1:01:16] met which is subcommittee comprised
[1:01:17] of representatives from the city of
[1:01:18] pittsburg as
[1:01:21] well as the pittsburg unified school
[1:01:23] district. Items that were discussed
[1:01:24] was
[1:01:25] our joint facility use agreement. We
[1:01:27] also heard about a
[1:01:29] proposal for pittsburg plays which
[1:01:30] is
[1:01:33] an opportunity to secure
[1:01:36] funding from the health advisory
[1:01:39] committee to support access to local
[1:01:42] facilities for youth sports programs. We
[1:01:45] also got an update on the
[1:01:47] sister city delegation that is being
[1:01:48] planned
[1:01:51] for later this year. The school
[1:01:54] district presented on sb937 which
[1:01:55] is
[1:01:57] essentially a state bill that will
[1:01:58] impact
[1:01:59] how they collect developer's fees. They
[1:02:00] just wanted to provide us an
[1:02:03] update about how that will
[1:02:05] impact the district. We also received
[1:02:06] some project updates
[1:02:09] in terms of projects that are
[1:02:11] happening throughout the city as well
[1:02:12] as an
[1:02:15] update regarding school resource officers
[1:02:16] and campus safety
[1:02:17] and also just heard from the district about
[1:02:18] some of the
[1:02:20] instances that have been happening on
[1:02:21] campus and how
[1:02:23] there has been great coordination
[1:02:24] with the police department
[1:02:27] and as well as communication with the
[1:02:28] community which
[1:02:31] was a good it foam discussion
[1:02:33] and just overall how the district
[1:02:35] communicates with the community and parents
[1:02:37] and so we also
[1:02:40] got an update on
[1:02:43] pedestrian
[1:02:44] safety and traffic and so that was
[1:02:46] all
[1:02:47] for this two by two subcommittee. We
[1:02:49] also
[1:02:51] had a meeting for the pittsburg arts
[1:02:53] and community foundation subcommittee
[1:02:55] on march 26th
[1:02:58] which is myself
[1:03:01] and council member lopez. Items
[1:03:02] of discussion really were around pacf. It
[1:03:04] is
[1:03:05] budget as well as future activities. We
[1:03:07] also had
[1:03:10] a discussion about the railroad
[1:03:11] book depot as well as assets. Discussion
[1:03:13] about the
[1:03:16] future of the railroad book depot. This
[1:03:17] has been an ongoing conversation for
[1:03:19] at least a couple
[1:03:20] of years now. The subcommittee was
[1:03:22] really looking forward
[1:03:25] to being able to bring some type
[1:03:28] of resolution to the item and a
[1:03:29] future recommendation for the council. I
[1:03:31] know staff is
[1:03:32] working through the item. We look
[1:03:34] forward at a future
[1:03:36] date to bring at least a recommendation
[1:03:37] to the council as
[1:03:40] it relates to the pittsburg
[1:03:41] arts and community foundation. So
[1:03:43] with that
[1:03:45] that will conclude my subcommittee
[1:03:46] reports. If there are
[1:03:49] no other reports at this time we
[1:03:52] will
[1:03:55] move on to the next
[1:03:56] item.
[1:03:57] » thank you very much. Tonight's
[1:03:58] first consideration item is
[1:04:01] a minute order to approve the city
[1:04:04] council
[1:04:06] strategic plan for fiscal year 2025-26.
[1:04:13] I to want to highlight
[1:04:16] and thank the council for all
[1:04:17] their participation and direction
[1:04:19] as we have got to
[1:04:22] there point. I also want to thank
[1:04:23] sarah
[1:04:24] and jennifer and staff for all their
[1:04:25] work
[1:04:28] in pulling this together. Sarah
[1:04:29] » good evening. As mr.
[1:04:31] city manager said I will
[1:04:33] be presenting the 25-26 city council
[1:04:34] strategic plan for your hopeful
[1:04:37] adoption. So here you will
[1:04:40] see the
[1:04:42] fruits of a collaborative effort.
[1:04:46] I wanted to go over each of these
[1:04:49] with some emphasis because we
[1:04:52] haven't yet in any of our presentations. Trust
[1:04:55] and accountability. A strong
[1:04:58] city is built on trust. Transparency,
[1:05:01] integrity and accountability
[1:05:04] are essential in ensuring
[1:05:06] they remain. Collaboration and community. Leadership
[1:05:07] is strengthed
[1:05:09] by inclusivity, team work and listening
[1:05:10] to diverse
[1:05:11] perspectives. Engaging with the community
[1:05:12] and working together ensures decisions are
[1:05:16] made with the needs of all
[1:05:18] residents in mind. Innovation and
[1:05:19] problem solving. Forward thinking
[1:05:21] leadership means approaching challenges
[1:05:22] with creativity,
[1:05:24] courage and a solution oriented mind
[1:05:25] set. By seeking to understand
[1:05:28] issues at the root the council
[1:05:30] strives to develop strategies that strengthen
[1:05:31] pittsburg
[1:05:34] today and
[1:05:37] for the future. Finally stewardship and sustainability.
[1:05:46] -- so with these
[1:05:48] guiding principles in mind the council
[1:05:49] set out to
[1:05:51] order the five agreed upon priority
[1:05:52] areas with
[1:05:54] economic development and public infrastructure
[1:05:55] as areas to
[1:05:56] improve dedicate available additional resources
[1:05:58] and use as a main means
[1:06:00] of improving local quality of life
[1:06:01] and aid vancing
[1:06:03] pittsburg. The areas of youth development,
[1:06:04] public safety and
[1:06:05] effective service delivery are to remain
[1:06:07] stable with the
[1:06:10] same level of commitment as
[1:06:12] last year. In the area of economic
[1:06:16] development the council focused on
[1:06:19] creating
[1:06:20] local jobs, filling housing, bringing
[1:06:21] non-profits, and continuing to make
[1:06:22] pittsburg a
[1:06:25] place people want to live and visit
[1:06:27] with signature events and elevated
[1:06:28] retail
[1:06:31] centers. In the area of public infrastructure
[1:06:32] the proposed council goals developed
[1:06:34] responses to community out cry for better
[1:06:35] community
[1:06:37] roads and shorter drives in town. While
[1:06:38] underfunded
[1:06:39] by about $8 million each year staff
[1:06:40] is developing means to
[1:06:41] carry out it's new pavement management
[1:06:43] plan that aims to address about a
[1:06:44] tenth
[1:06:46] of the city's local roads
[1:06:47] per year. Through grants, reallocation
[1:06:49] of existing
[1:06:51] revenues like the city's half cent
[1:06:52] tax measure
[1:06:53] or introduction of a new revenue source
[1:06:55] the city aims to fill the
[1:06:58] funding gap to improve all our roads
[1:06:59] by
[1:07:01] 2035 and keep them from reaching
[1:07:04] failure
[1:07:06] in the future. Regarding youth development --
[1:07:07] means we will
[1:07:09] work to connect our residents with
[1:07:10] on going
[1:07:11] efforts happening under the county's
[1:07:13] measure x. Main whether I programs
[1:07:14] and
[1:07:15] resources for children and youth,
[1:07:16] equity and social justice, health
[1:07:19] and mental health. This will be an effort
[1:07:21] in partnership and communication as
[1:07:22] it aims to inform
[1:07:24] our residents of the excellent resources
[1:07:25] already available and
[1:07:28] fill our local community centers with
[1:07:30] providers of these services where
[1:07:33] ab olympicable. In order to continue
[1:07:34] pittsburgh's down ward
[1:07:36] trend crime frequency the pittsburg
[1:07:37] police department proposes
[1:07:39] to review response times and better
[1:07:40] understand how crimes in
[1:07:42] neighboring jurisdictions may be related
[1:07:43] to those in
[1:07:45] ours. Ppd will also leverage it's
[1:07:46] nationally recognized work
[1:07:48] in evading human trafficking by launching
[1:07:49] a human trafficking
[1:07:52] educational efforts for kids and
[1:07:55] parents in pittsburg is
[1:08:00] developing it's continuing education
[1:08:01] plan. Council would like to focus
[1:08:02] on
[1:08:04] um me menation of these plans with
[1:08:05] training, identification
[1:08:06] of resources and funding to better
[1:08:07] support the plans and a campaign
[1:08:10] or program to help the
[1:08:13] community prepare for large scale
[1:08:14] emergencies. Lastly the
[1:08:16] city council
[1:08:19] really cares
[1:08:22] about the public's
[1:08:23] experience. Through upgrades to our
[1:08:25] public facing permits
[1:08:28] and payment software the city's website,
[1:08:29] our public reporting
[1:08:31] app and more we aim to remove pinpoints and improve
[1:08:32] efish
[1:08:35] yen su in the come few's
[1:08:36] day today interactions with their
[1:08:37] local government. Now we are pittsburg
[1:08:38] through and through
[1:08:41] so staff will be doing
[1:08:44] this as thriftily as
[1:08:46] possible ensuring waste elimination
[1:08:47] where appropriate. Thriftily is a
[1:08:49] word, I looked it up. With that I
[1:08:50] invite
[1:08:51] the council to adopt the minute order
[1:08:53] aproofing the city
[1:08:55] council's plan for fiscal year 25-26.
[1:08:56] » 
[1:09:02] thank you for that
[1:09:04] presentation. I will open it up. Are there
[1:09:08] any comments, any questions
[1:09:11] from
[1:09:12] my colleagues on our strategic goals?
[1:09:17] yes, vice mayor?
[1:09:18] » thank you,
[1:09:20] through the mayor. Just a
[1:09:22] comment. I really want to compliment
[1:09:24] staff, mr. City manager started talking
[1:09:26] about how
[1:09:28] this came to be. This has been what
[1:09:29] we have before
[1:09:31] us really is something that is inclusive. Like
[1:09:32] all of our
[1:09:35] finger prints are on it as we
[1:09:36] are moving forward. I wanted to commend
[1:09:38] you
[1:09:41] as staff and
[1:09:44] also as a council. I am excited
[1:09:47] to
[1:09:50] get to this place together.
[1:09:51] » 
[1:09:55] all right. I feel the same sentiment. Thank
[1:09:56] you, sarah for
[1:09:58] all your work on this and to the rest
[1:09:59] of staff. The feedback
[1:10:01] that has been happening over the past
[1:10:02] several months but even as we
[1:10:03] continue as I share with the city
[1:10:05] manager we
[1:10:06] have been going through these iterations of
[1:10:08] our goal setting over the
[1:10:10] past I would say four years or so
[1:10:11] and to see
[1:10:13] where it is coming to even as vice
[1:10:14] major shared
[1:10:16] really all of our finger prints. That
[1:10:17] was
[1:10:19] something that when we first were looking
[1:10:20] down
[1:10:23] a number of goals we had it
[1:10:24] was something the council took ownership of
[1:10:26] in terms of something we were
[1:10:27] communicating to the community as
[1:10:29] large but
[1:10:30] also having that shared vision and
[1:10:32] priorities as we are looking at
[1:10:33] strategic planning in terms of our
[1:10:35] investments as well and
[1:10:37] how it ties in with the budget. Great
[1:10:38] job. Thank you to
[1:10:39] all of the city staff that helped
[1:10:41] us get to this document. I know
[1:10:43] there is a lot of work ahead. Even
[1:10:44] for the
[1:10:46] community even as we heard some of
[1:10:47] the concerns tonight we know
[1:10:50] that we have to be flexible as a city. Just
[1:10:51] because we don't see something called
[1:10:53] out in the document
[1:10:55] we know we want to be responsive which
[1:10:56] is apart
[1:10:57] of our effective service delivery. I
[1:10:58] think just even going back to what we
[1:11:01] hear a little bit in the public comment
[1:11:02] tonight about some of what
[1:11:04] is going on in our shopping corridors
[1:11:05] with the businesses. We touched
[1:11:08] on that when it came to effective
[1:11:10] service delivery with trying to understand
[1:11:11] the experience that
[1:11:13] people are having within the community
[1:11:14] and so looking forward to
[1:11:17] how even as we have the embedded goals
[1:11:19] how we don't flush that out in term of
[1:11:20] that experience that
[1:11:22] people are having here in the community. With
[1:11:23] that I want to
[1:11:26] say thank you to my colleagues. Thank
[1:11:27] you to
[1:11:28] staff. I will entertain a motion on
[1:11:29] this item
[1:11:34] if there is no further discussion.
[1:11:35] » 
[1:11:40] council member.
[1:11:41] » through the mayor
[1:11:42] I will move
[1:11:43] adoption of a city council minute
[1:11:44] order to approve
[1:11:46] the city council's strategic plan
[1:11:47] for fiscal
[1:11:48] year 25-26.
[1:11:49] » all right. We have
[1:11:50] a motion
[1:11:52] by council member banales.
[1:11:53] » I will second. >>
[1:11:54] all right. We have
[1:11:56] a motion and a
[1:11:59] second. Go ahead and cast your votes.
[1:12:00] » 
[1:12:17] that motion passes unanimously.
[1:12:18] all right. Moving on to the next consideration
[1:12:20] item. I will turn it back over
[1:12:23] to the city
[1:12:25] manager.
[1:12:26] » thank you very much. Tonight's
[1:12:27] second
[1:12:29] consideration item is
[1:12:31] an ordinance amending section 1.28.015
[1:12:32] of
[1:12:35] the pittsburg code
[1:12:36] and by minute order accepting standards. As
[1:12:40] you will see in the upcoming slides
[1:12:41] this is a process is
[1:12:44] that started
[1:12:47] in
[1:12:49] 2022. It has involved plenty of the
[1:12:50] meetings. A
[1:12:53] whole lot of participation so
[1:12:56] tonight
[1:12:58] we have jordan davis. We have denae
[1:12:59] romero
[1:13:01] and we have our excellent consultant
[1:13:02] who
[1:13:05] has helped us through
[1:13:07] this whole process with a presentation.
[1:13:08] » 
[1:13:09] thank
[1:13:10] you very much. As the city manager
[1:13:11] mentioned this is
[1:13:13] a process that has taken several years
[1:13:14] to come
[1:13:15] to fruition. I also want to note this
[1:13:17] is one of the first
[1:13:20] items that was included in our
[1:13:21] economic development strategic plan
[1:13:23] when that
[1:13:25] was adopted in early 2022. So we are
[1:13:26] excited to bring this
[1:13:28] before you tonight. We are going to tag
[1:13:29] team this presentation. I will
[1:13:30] talk a little bit about background,
[1:13:32] hand it over to sam preston with
[1:13:35] north star to talk about the process
[1:13:37] in developing what is before you tonight
[1:13:38] and
[1:13:40] then pass it over to denae to talk
[1:13:41] about
[1:13:43] what the next steps are in implementation. This is
[1:13:44] only the first step in what
[1:13:46] is going to be a multi-year process
[1:13:47] to help market the
[1:13:50] city and
[1:13:51] bring new businesses to pittsburg.
[1:13:52] » 
[1:13:53] so starting with a little bit of background
[1:13:56] this was something that
[1:13:59] began in 2022. We did issue an rfp
[1:14:00] and contracted with
[1:14:02] north star. They did a lot of background
[1:14:03] research
[1:14:05] that sam will
[1:14:08] dye a little
[1:14:11] more into. I want to talk
[1:14:14] about the reaction we got as
[1:14:17] we under took
[1:14:19] this effort. Really trying to bring
[1:14:20] new businesses to
[1:14:23] the city on pittsburg and focus the
[1:14:26] image of the city to be attractive
[1:14:27] to
[1:14:28] some of these businesses, especially the
[1:14:29] business we were hoping to
[1:14:31] attract in that strategic plan which are
[1:14:32] businesses that bring
[1:14:35] jobs to the community but are modern
[1:14:36] forward thinking,
[1:14:38] looking at the changing face
[1:14:40] of industry going forward and we wanted
[1:14:41] to meet them and put our
[1:14:46] best foot forward and be attractive.
[1:14:52] one of the challenges we have that
[1:14:53] we don't have
[1:14:56] a lot of standardization in our logo. So here
[1:14:59] we have take an
[1:15:01] few screen shots doing a quickal. On
[1:15:02] the left suicide you will
[1:15:05] see what is in our municipal code
[1:15:06] we
[1:15:07] are proposing to change tonight. These
[1:15:08] two logos in
[1:15:11] fact don't even really
[1:15:14] match. You
[1:15:16] see different line weights, different
[1:15:17] perspectives and
[1:15:20] then the logos we use on our
[1:15:23] letter heads and our websites and
[1:15:26] even our flag don't always match. And
[1:15:27] this can
[1:15:29] be really difficult when a
[1:15:32] business is going through
[1:15:34] the entitlement process and are file
[1:15:36] an application and
[1:15:37] see one logo. Then they get a planning
[1:15:39] letter and see a
[1:15:40] different letter. Then they get their
[1:15:41] building permit and there is a different
[1:15:42] logo. There we
[1:15:44] want to make sure we can standardize
[1:15:48] this so that way we have a
[1:15:53] cohesive image to any business coming
[1:15:54] forward. One
[1:15:57] of the big goals was
[1:15:58] economic development. When we talked
[1:16:00] to the
[1:16:06] submit committee we recognized this
[1:16:09] is a
[1:16:12] city wide effort. It is
[1:16:13] the whole city working together to
[1:16:15] try to bring businesses
[1:16:16] here. We really wanted to do something
[1:16:18] with the idea that we
[1:16:20] were going to drive economic development
[1:16:21] but
[1:16:23] use something that was going to be
[1:16:27] utilized by the entire city. We wanted
[1:16:28] to find our place in contra costa
[1:16:30] county and what makes
[1:16:32] us special. I will leave it to sam
[1:16:36] to talk more about
[1:16:37] that. And the professionalism in our
[1:16:39] municipal services. I said on february
[1:16:40] 8@city
[1:16:41] of pittsburg is not a business but
[1:16:42] we are dealing with a lot
[1:16:43] of businesses. We will continue to
[1:16:45] deal with businesses
[1:16:47] and we want to match businesses in
[1:16:48] the
[1:16:50] image and what we are conveying to
[1:16:51] them in order
[1:16:53] to bring them here. We want them to
[1:16:54] see us as professional and caring
[1:16:57] about what we
[1:16:59] look like and what we present. So
[1:17:03] with that I will hand it
[1:17:04] over to sam. He will talk more about
[1:17:06] how
[1:17:09] we
[1:17:11] uncovered the brand for pittsburg. Sam.
[1:17:12] » 
[1:17:15] all right. How did
[1:17:18] we uncover the brand here
[1:17:20] in pittsburg? This has been a very good
[1:17:22] project for us because we rarely come
[1:17:24] into a community where there
[1:17:27] is already such a strong
[1:17:28] recognizable and adopted brand throughout
[1:17:30] the community. We
[1:17:32] are very impressed. When we came here
[1:17:36] in november of 2023 for
[1:17:38] our visit just to hear the passion
[1:17:39] and the pride the
[1:17:42] people had for living
[1:17:44] here in pittsburg. Going back several
[1:17:45] generations. This --it
[1:17:47] runs deal. So it is very good, very
[1:17:48] refreshing for us to
[1:17:49] hear that. We didn't want to come
[1:17:51] in and change
[1:17:52] anything about pittsburg. We really
[1:17:54] wanted to hear what it is that makes
[1:17:57] it as great as it is. So we
[1:17:59] started we are search and then we
[1:18:00] went into strategy and
[1:18:02] then into creativity and then finally
[1:18:03] into action. The
[1:18:06] way this kind of looks is
[1:18:08] here on this image. The top half of
[1:18:09] that image is
[1:18:12] doing a lot of stake holder and
[1:18:13] community education, a lot of focus
[1:18:15] groups and
[1:18:17] one on one interviews and that gathering and research
[1:18:19] phase. Then we take all of the information
[1:18:21] we have and boil it
[1:18:24] down into a
[1:18:26] dna statement that says this is who
[1:18:27] and what pittsburg
[1:18:29] is. Then that is when we started working
[1:18:30] on
[1:18:32] some of the creative elements. We
[1:18:33] didn't want to
[1:18:35] completely overhaul the logo because
[1:18:36] there
[1:18:39] is such a brand equity in that. I mean
[1:18:41] people were showing up to the focus
[1:18:42] groups and interviews
[1:18:45] and they had the tattoo anchored on them. So
[1:18:48] it just really is cool
[1:18:50] to see it runs deep. Then last thing
[1:18:51] we have
[1:18:53] here is some brand action ideas. So
[1:18:54] when we delivered the final report
[1:18:57] it had a whole lot of ways of how
[1:18:58] to
[1:18:59] actually enact the brand, how to implement
[1:19:00] it into the community
[1:19:03] but also there is a strategic marketing
[1:19:06] plan that we are working with so
[1:19:09] as this is adopted we can start promoting pittsburg and
[1:19:10] letting people know all the great
[1:19:12] things that are here and
[1:19:15] making it an
[1:19:16] easy choice for people to come here.
[1:19:18] so just to recap
[1:19:21] the research, we did a lot. It
[1:19:23] was the better part of three, almost
[1:19:24] four months of research
[1:19:27] both inside and outside of the community. I
[1:19:30] mentioned we were here in november
[1:19:31] 23 doing
[1:19:33] focus groups, one on
[1:19:36] one interviews. We received several
[1:19:42] hundred responses on
[1:19:44] surveys. We also surveyed people outside pittsburg.
[1:19:48] then we also talked with some
[1:19:51] of your peers
[1:19:54] and neighboring cities, county wide,
[1:19:56] elected officials, economic development
[1:19:57] groups, chamber of
[1:20:00] commerce just to figure out from individuals what
[1:20:01] are you
[1:20:02] doing well where we are not doing
[1:20:03] well, what
[1:20:06] do we need to improve on. I want to
[1:20:09] recap a couple of bits of research
[1:20:10] though.
[1:20:12] from our time when we were here
[1:20:14] doing focus groups and interviews
[1:20:15] we ask people some
[1:20:18] of
[1:20:21] the best of pittsburg.
[1:20:24] some of
[1:20:27] the things that came up, togetherness. There's
[1:20:30] a great culture
[1:20:33] here. We are
[1:20:34] very prideful. We are headed towards
[1:20:36] progress. We have a lot of
[1:20:38] heart. It is rough but we are dedicated
[1:20:39] to making this the
[1:20:42] best place possible. Some of the greatest
[1:20:43] assets
[1:20:45] that exist here in the community,
[1:20:46] a lot
[1:20:47] of housing variety. Bart runs right
[1:20:48] through here. The
[1:20:49] marina we heard that mentioned time and
[1:20:51] time again just how
[1:20:53] much that adds to the community. The high
[1:20:54] school being a
[1:20:57] one high school town really says
[1:20:59] a lot. Seafood festival, the events
[1:21:00] that you put on are
[1:21:02] fantastic and of course the senior
[1:21:03] center
[1:21:05] what is being done there. In the community
[1:21:06] survey
[1:21:09] we asked what are the
[1:21:11] best december crypters for pittsburg. The
[1:21:12] top things were our diversity, our
[1:21:15] hometown pride and it is relative
[1:21:16] affordability. We understand prices
[1:21:18] all across the u.s.
[1:21:21] are going up. It is still
[1:21:23] more affordable than other areas. And
[1:21:24] what is --
[1:21:27] what are some of the pittsburg's
[1:21:29] greatest assets? We are well connected. Our location,
[1:21:30] the old town pittsburg
[1:21:33] and then also our high school sports,
[1:21:35] our arts and music programs. People
[1:21:36] really resonate with
[1:21:39] all of those. What do people not know
[1:21:41] about this city they should? Old town pittsburg. You
[1:21:42] guys
[1:21:44] have been making a lot of great efforts to
[1:21:45] improve
[1:21:48] that area and make that a
[1:21:49] destination. The marina and our local
[1:21:51] restaurants. I will say when we
[1:21:54] were here in november we ate really
[1:21:55] good
[1:21:57] everywhere we went here in pittsburg. You
[1:22:02] guys got a great local scene. We also
[1:22:04] asked what is missing. What
[1:22:05] do you wish is here? What do you have
[1:22:07] to leave the
[1:22:08] city for? Some additional shopping
[1:22:10] and dining. I wish there were
[1:22:11] more things for kids and teens to
[1:22:13] do and also
[1:22:14] some high paying jobs. And if we were
[1:22:16] to run survey again
[1:22:18] today we might see we are missing
[1:22:21] a high school cross country track. We will
[1:22:25] make that note here,
[1:22:27] too. We also in our survey for outsiders
[1:22:28] we wanted to
[1:22:30] ask some very similar questions just
[1:22:32] to understand what are outsiders thinking
[1:22:34] about us. We asked
[1:22:36] how would you best describe pittsburg? Those
[1:22:37] that don't life
[1:22:39] here say it is a pass through. I travel there
[1:22:41] or travel through it to get somewhere
[1:22:43] else. There is not
[1:22:44] much to do. It is changing and growing
[1:22:46] but it
[1:22:49] is also well connected. Again
[1:22:50] with the transportation. What is the
[1:22:52] primary purpose or
[1:22:53] main reason you visited the city? Family
[1:22:55] members and
[1:22:56] friends pass through to get elsewhere
[1:22:58] and then
[1:23:00] I ate at a restaurant. While our residents
[1:23:04] feel
[1:23:06] we need more shopping and diningings
[1:23:10] , the
[1:23:13] number one
[1:23:16] reason
[1:23:19] is for our dining. So
[1:23:22] we took all of thatand then boiled
[1:23:24] it down that dna statement that said
[1:23:25] this is who
[1:23:27] and what we are and then worked with
[1:23:30] the committee to really put together
[1:23:31] this
[1:23:34] new brand and
[1:23:36] just want to share how that did come
[1:23:37] together. We have
[1:23:38] three different looks that show how
[1:23:40] that
[1:23:43] does come together with the modified
[1:23:46] logo, with really strong
[1:23:48] photography and some of the language
[1:23:49] leaning on
[1:23:51] that anchored phrase. We are anchored in
[1:23:52] your
[1:23:54] fufrngs anchored in innovation and anchored
[1:23:55] in fun. And
[1:23:58] then just want to share
[1:24:00] quickly the logo. We have got this
[1:24:01] modified or
[1:24:03] the new font we have here makes --
[1:24:05] we brought back this classic kind
[1:24:10] of timeless
[1:24:12] font. We gave it more weight. Then
[1:24:13] simplified some of
[1:24:14] the line weights, the things that
[1:24:16] jordan was mentioning
[1:24:19] so we have that here
[1:24:21] and this new logo. Then also the -- one
[1:24:24] of the biggest purposes of this project
[1:24:27] was to get that unified brand standards
[1:24:28] guide, to have a
[1:24:31] real set of rules of what to do or
[1:24:33] what not to do. We put together a
[1:24:34] brand standards
[1:24:35] guide. Part of that is a color palette. You
[1:24:37] have got
[1:24:39] a lot of great options but we pembroke that
[1:24:40] up with some primary
[1:24:43] colors and then also some secondary
[1:24:44] colors. That is
[1:24:45] not to say that these are the only
[1:24:46] ones that
[1:24:48] can be used but this is really what
[1:24:49] you should
[1:24:52] be leaning on. Then you can
[1:24:55] find that in more expanded brand
[1:24:57] standards guide along with fonts,
[1:25:03] incorrect usages november. -- you
[1:25:04] can share them
[1:25:06] with them so they can all play within the rule book.
[1:25:16] .
[1:25:17] » good evening. I am an analyst here at
[1:25:18] the
[1:25:19] city. I just want to thank you, sam, and
[1:25:20] the north star team
[1:25:22] for your efforts on the
[1:25:24] city's marketing and branding initiatives. I
[1:25:25] will
[1:25:28] now share some brand
[1:25:30] executions with the creative logo. Firstly we
[1:25:31] have stationary using
[1:25:34] some of the primary colors and
[1:25:37] the color
[1:25:40] palette. We have pens, letter
[1:25:43] heads, post-its, business cards, envelopes. We
[1:25:44] have
[1:25:45] some digital advertisements that can
[1:25:49] be used
[1:25:52] on billboards, media and general.
[1:25:55] we have
[1:25:58] promotional items
[1:26:00] including water bottles and stickers. And
[1:26:01] we have our public works vehicle
[1:26:04] if you didn't see it on your
[1:26:07] way in demonstrating how we can
[1:26:10] use our
[1:26:13] branding with our public service
[1:26:16] vehicles. We have full banners
[1:26:19] using the anchored
[1:26:22] in tag line,
[1:26:24] some economic development brochures,
[1:26:25] a
[1:26:28] billboard using also the anchored
[1:26:31] in fun tag line advertising dining,
[1:26:34] shopping
[1:26:37] entertainment here in
[1:26:40] the city. Some gate
[1:26:42] way signage. So what is next? The
[1:26:43] city is
[1:26:46] going to work on or the
[1:26:49] marketing and strategy working with
[1:26:50] the departments and collateral materials
[1:26:52] that will in the
[1:26:55] order in which those changes
[1:26:58] -- some include printed material, online
[1:26:59] systems, the city website, social
[1:27:01] media, vehicles to name a
[1:27:04] few and how we
[1:27:07] will promote those moving forward. Education and
[1:27:09] training guide others on how to effectively
[1:27:10] implement
[1:27:13] the new branding and
[1:27:16] start collaborating with those who
[1:27:17] utilize
[1:27:19] the logo. We will create a
[1:27:21] quick reference guide for all
[1:27:22] staff on
[1:27:25] how to use the
[1:27:28] new logo. And finally integrate the
[1:27:29] new
[1:27:31] logo. With that staff recommends the
[1:27:32] city council introduce and waive
[1:27:34] the further reading
[1:27:37] of an ordinance amending section
[1:27:40] 1.28.015, city logo, of the pittsburg
[1:27:41] municipal
[1:27:43] code, and accept
[1:27:44] the attached brand standards. Thank you.
[1:27:45] » 
[1:27:46] with that we would
[1:27:49] be happy to answer any questions you have.
[1:27:50] » 
[1:27:52] thank you for that
[1:27:54] presentation. I will turn my colleagues for
[1:27:55] questions and we
[1:27:58] have council member kobata in
[1:28:00] the cue.
[1:28:01] » yes. Hi. Thank you for
[1:28:02] the
[1:28:04] presentation and all your hard work. I
[1:28:07] was wondering --I have
[1:28:09] gotten a few inquiries from residents
[1:28:10] regarding
[1:28:13] this
[1:28:16] and some of the concerns were cost implement all
[1:28:19] of this, to change all the los
[1:28:22] -- logos, to
[1:28:25] put them on the cars. That is one
[1:28:26] thing that
[1:28:28] was of concern
[1:28:31] as well as the colors. They
[1:28:34] were saying that maybe reverse colors. Put
[1:28:35] the anchor red
[1:28:37] since we have a red anchor in front
[1:28:39] and then sun red and then blue. Kind
[1:28:40] of reverse
[1:28:43] the colors a little bit. That is something
[1:28:44] because
[1:28:47] again the red
[1:28:52] anchor and the red sun. Also they
[1:28:53] were concerned about
[1:28:56] they have had the same logo
[1:28:58] all these years and people grew up
[1:29:02] with this logo or they have had
[1:29:05] it for several years. It seems
[1:29:08] that the old logo
[1:29:11] with these colors
[1:29:12] were very impactful. I called it like
[1:29:14] a wow factor. It hits
[1:29:17] you and it is like whoa, this
[1:29:20] is a really
[1:29:22] neat logo. This logo here people were
[1:29:23] asking
[1:29:26] how does
[1:29:27] this provide that wow factor? And
[1:29:29] also my question also
[1:29:31] was how many surveys that you took
[1:29:32] were from pittsburg? Cause
[1:29:34] you said it was also from outside
[1:29:36] areas. So what is the percentage or if
[1:29:38] not if you can
[1:29:40] provide a number that would be appreciated.
[1:29:41] » 
[1:29:42] so I will start to answer
[1:29:43] some of though and then hand it over
[1:29:47] to sam to talk about the
[1:29:49] number of surveys that were done. The
[1:29:51] cost is really going to be dependent
[1:29:53] on the type of budget we have. So
[1:29:54] much of the branding and marketing
[1:29:56] that we have out
[1:29:58] there is digital. There is really
[1:29:59] no cost other
[1:30:01] than perhaps staff time need to implement
[1:30:04] that. When the city council did approve
[1:30:05] this project, they
[1:30:08] allocate add certain amount of money,
[1:30:09] about $200,000. Not all of which was
[1:30:11] spent on
[1:30:14] this part of the process. The remainder
[1:30:15] is meant for secondary phases and
[1:30:17] I will mention
[1:30:19] this is intended to be an ongoing
[1:30:20] effort and economic
[1:30:21] development does have a marketing
[1:30:23] budget as do
[1:30:25] some other departments. We will continue
[1:30:27] to utilize that to market as best as
[1:30:29] we can. But there is
[1:30:32] some money that has been set
[1:30:34] aside for change out of different
[1:30:35] logos say
[1:30:38] on vehicles and that type of thing. There
[1:30:39] is
[1:30:40] no way with the number of signs and
[1:30:41] other infrastructure we
[1:30:43] have throughout the city that we can change
[1:30:44] every
[1:30:47] logo everywhere. That is not our
[1:30:48] intent. So there will be some carry
[1:30:50] overs. As far as the actual
[1:30:53] design of the logo and
[1:30:55] the history, we purposely at the direction
[1:30:56] of the
[1:30:58] council and the community economic
[1:30:59] development subcommittee
[1:31:02] made as minor changes as
[1:31:05] possible in order to keep it consistent
[1:31:06] and with that
[1:31:08] her thank folks have come
[1:31:10] to know. I would venture to guess
[1:31:11] had
[1:31:13] we made these changes and not bread
[1:31:14] cast
[1:31:17] them they may not have even
[1:31:19] been noticed because we do have such
[1:31:20] differentiation between the
[1:31:23] different types of logos we
[1:31:25] have. We had floated an idea where
[1:31:29] we actually
[1:31:35] broke that circle. We wanted
[1:31:38] to keep as much of that tradition
[1:31:39] as
[1:31:40] possible. Even so far as to not break
[1:31:41] that
[1:31:42] up. The majority of the opportunities
[1:31:44] we implement this
[1:31:46] logo, it is actually a single color. So
[1:31:47] we are showing a
[1:31:49] two color design which is not something
[1:31:50] that is widely used. Part of
[1:31:52] the reason we are doing this is because we do
[1:31:53] want to add
[1:31:55] a little bit of excitement and your recommendations
[1:31:56] on color we
[1:31:58] will take a look at those. This is
[1:31:59] intended to
[1:32:02] be something that can be a
[1:32:03] multitude of colors. It can be green
[1:32:05] for civic pride day. It
[1:32:08] can be blue for the marina. It can
[1:32:09] be multi-colored. We show add version
[1:32:11] of that with the sticker. We
[1:32:14] can continue to use it in those different
[1:32:17] forms but again
[1:32:20] I go back to wanting toly say follow
[1:32:21] trends and
[1:32:23] I know that can be a
[1:32:25] little concerning because trends often die
[1:32:26] but over the past couple
[1:32:29] of decades you have seen
[1:32:30] a transition into more simple logos
[1:32:32] that get the point
[1:32:33] across that are easily repeatable
[1:32:35] on shirts
[1:32:37] and stickers and other types of things. So
[1:32:38] while we can use the
[1:32:41] full color and we will when appropriate
[1:32:43] we wanted to base the logo in that
[1:32:44] one color and two
[1:32:47] color design to make it as repeatable as
[1:32:48] possible and we
[1:32:50] think with the two color design and
[1:32:52] by designate a two color design we
[1:32:53] will have
[1:32:54] more opportunities to sort of meet
[1:32:56] in the middle if you will where we
[1:32:58] can't do the full color but the single
[1:32:59] color may
[1:33:02] be a little bit boring. We can add
[1:33:03] a
[1:33:04] little bit of pop by having that second
[1:33:05] color there. That is something
[1:33:08] that is more doable than a full color logo
[1:33:09] when
[1:33:11] you
[1:33:14] look at things as pens,
[1:33:16] shirted printed and that type of thing. I
[1:33:17] will pass it over
[1:33:20] to sam now.
[1:33:21] » this has never
[1:33:23] happened before. We the
[1:33:25] exact same number of community responses,
[1:33:26] community survey
[1:33:29] responses which is 380 and we
[1:33:32] also surveyed exactly 380 people from
[1:33:35] outside of pittsburg. So we targeted
[1:33:36] 100
[1:33:37] people from alameda county, 100 from
[1:33:38] sacramento county, 100
[1:33:41] from san francisco county and then
[1:33:44] also from san joaquin county.
[1:33:45] » thank
[1:33:46] you very
[1:33:47] much. I promised people I would inquire
[1:33:50] about
[1:33:53] these for them. Appreciate
[1:33:56] that. Thank you.
[1:33:57] » sure. >> any
[1:33:58] other questions or thoughts? Vice
[1:33:59] mayor adams?
[1:34:00] » thank you. Through
[1:34:01] the mayor
[1:34:02] wanted to ask you
[1:34:05] to talk a little bit
[1:34:09] about how you --what are some
[1:34:11] standard things you do when you are
[1:34:12] doing these types
[1:34:15] of projects where
[1:34:16] you are working with clients? How
[1:34:18] did
[1:34:20] you --how do you benchmark to propose
[1:34:21] what
[1:34:23] you have created for us?
[1:34:24] » I guess
[1:34:26] so how do you measure that success?
[1:34:27] » 
[1:34:28] not
[1:34:29] necessarily how you measure the success
[1:34:30] but I
[1:34:32] think as this is a different look
[1:34:36] and feel for how we shared or
[1:34:38] shown our logo and so I think helping
[1:34:39] people understand like
[1:34:41] where we are --where we are wanting to
[1:34:42] go
[1:34:44] as a city, maybe the things you put
[1:34:47] into the methodology as you were doing
[1:34:48] the research
[1:34:51] to provide what we have here
[1:34:52] because I think what I hear when I
[1:34:54] am in the
[1:34:55] community and then having a background
[1:34:57] in this space so
[1:34:58] there is things happening in the market
[1:34:59] lace and sort of trends but then you
[1:35:03] want to be true to the identity
[1:35:06] of the client
[1:35:09] and what they are trying to
[1:35:10] keep as you are creating something
[1:35:12] that is more forward
[1:35:15] looking. So if you could share a little
[1:35:16] bit
[1:35:17] maybe the thought leadership or the
[1:35:18] things you thought about to
[1:35:21] get us to this place that
[1:35:24] may help folks as they are seeing
[1:35:27] this and it is new
[1:35:29] and different.
[1:35:30] » yes. So the biggest something
[1:35:31] really
[1:35:32] engagement and involvement from the
[1:35:33] community all along
[1:35:36] so that is why we had residents were
[1:35:37] invited to come and participate in
[1:35:39] those
[1:35:41] focus groups, one on one interviews. Residents
[1:35:42] were
[1:35:44] encourage to do the community survey. We
[1:35:45] had a
[1:35:47] website where people could come in
[1:35:48] and check in on progress
[1:35:51] and sign
[1:35:53] up to be a ambassador. Then now we
[1:35:54] are
[1:35:56] here at the end we never recommend
[1:35:57] doing
[1:36:00] just a brand or a huge
[1:36:02] unveiling of the logo as people see
[1:36:03] just an image. They don't know
[1:36:05] everything they run into and don't
[1:36:06] know the full context. They don't
[1:36:08] really know as jordan has done a great
[1:36:09] job of explaining the whole
[1:36:12] purpose of this and what we are trying
[1:36:14] to accomplish. Dedication is still
[1:36:15] on going now. So we
[1:36:18] are rolling out the brand. That
[1:36:21] is why there is no unveiling of this
[1:36:23] but rather we are slowly doing this
[1:36:24] also
[1:36:25] in cost effect measures. The messaging
[1:36:27] that goes out to the community
[1:36:28] really helping them understand what
[1:36:30] went it into, what the purpose
[1:36:32] is, what we are hoping to accomplish
[1:36:33] and do
[1:36:36] is really how you
[1:36:37] gain favor from the community.
[1:36:38] » 
[1:36:42] all
[1:36:45] right. Any other
[1:36:47] questions on this item? So the only
[1:36:48] commentsly make I appreciate
[1:36:51] the work that has
[1:36:54] been done on this. I appreciate
[1:36:57] staffs as well as
[1:37:00] our consultant. As we started
[1:37:02] this process it was just as far as
[1:37:03] economic development but
[1:37:05] we really took it as an opportunity
[1:37:06] as it has been
[1:37:09] shared a number of times through the
[1:37:10] presentation
[1:37:12] about really just the consistency
[1:37:13] and
[1:37:15] really a uniformed approach to
[1:37:17] how the city is portrayed. So with that
[1:37:18] you know I
[1:37:21] think that we really held true
[1:37:24] in terms of the logo itself. We
[1:37:27] didn't go create a brand
[1:37:29] new icon for the city for that very kind
[1:37:30] of sense
[1:37:33] we are talking about now, right? There is
[1:37:35] so much nostalgia, people with the anchor and
[1:37:36] so I think
[1:37:39] we entered into this process
[1:37:41] with that understanding but just knowing
[1:37:42] that there was
[1:37:44] a refresh that was needed as well
[1:37:45] as I think it
[1:37:48] was really more important as we are
[1:37:49] looking
[1:37:51] at even just this process is
[1:37:52] the brand standards that were created. I
[1:37:54] think for me as
[1:37:57] we are looking at the adoption of
[1:37:58] this,
[1:37:59] these standards and then also how
[1:38:00] we are communicating to
[1:38:02] the public and making sure that whether
[1:38:03] it is
[1:38:05] materials being put out digitally
[1:38:06] as
[1:38:07] it was shared about, folks doing business
[1:38:09] with the city that everything is
[1:38:11] consistent and that there is really
[1:38:12] that level
[1:38:15] of professionalism we are depicting
[1:38:16] as a city. I
[1:38:18] think that even as we are looking
[1:38:19] at the
[1:38:20] colors, you know, we have had discussions
[1:38:21] about
[1:38:24] the colors even as
[1:38:27] we had the our goals workshop
[1:38:30] we had back in february as well as
[1:38:31] even going through iterations and
[1:38:33] looking at even just over
[1:38:35] years about how it has morphed. I
[1:38:36] believe you will continue
[1:38:39] to see I'm sure
[1:38:42] people that will use the multi-colored
[1:38:45] logo. It is one thing I shared with
[1:38:48] staff in
[1:38:51] times past. This logo has really --
[1:38:52] take
[1:38:53] on this life of it's own. We have
[1:38:54] businesses,
[1:38:57] people do their own t-shirt companies. People
[1:38:58] have
[1:39:01] all type of stuff with this
[1:39:02] logo, the iconic nature of it. I don't
[1:39:04] think that
[1:39:05] will ever be lost. That is why I'm
[1:39:07] sharing as far as and I really
[1:39:09] take to the comments that were shared
[1:39:10] I
[1:39:13] think that even if we had just
[1:39:14] outside of an action being done right
[1:39:16] now and
[1:39:18] people just saw this logo out there
[1:39:20] online nobody would have thought that
[1:39:22] necessarily we changed
[1:39:23] it or something different happened. It
[1:39:25] is essentially
[1:39:26] the same logo, we are just using some
[1:39:28] different things that
[1:39:31] will make it stand out and just to
[1:39:32] unify it. With that I don't want to
[1:39:34] -- I know we took some
[1:39:37] time to get through this process and
[1:39:39] you know our consultants took that
[1:39:40] feedback. I'm
[1:39:42] sure they would have loved to let their
[1:39:43] creative juices
[1:39:45] go and come back with a whole new
[1:39:46] brand
[1:39:47] identity for the city but we through
[1:39:49] community feedback and
[1:39:50] one more thing that is important to
[1:39:53] me as we are really trying to hint
[1:39:55] at you
[1:39:57] know what we are trying to accomplish
[1:39:58] with the brand
[1:39:59] standards I thought it was important
[1:40:01] when we saw what people thought
[1:40:03] about outside of the community as
[1:40:04] well as even
[1:40:05] what people think our strengths and
[1:40:07] assets are here in
[1:40:08] the community. And for me that is
[1:40:10] the larger thing I think
[1:40:13] we are trying to
[1:40:16] address as a council. This will be
[1:40:17] put
[1:40:18] on materials. It is pretty standardized
[1:40:19] but I think the things that we are
[1:40:20] gaining in terms of who brings people
[1:40:22] to our city, what
[1:40:23] their thoughts are about our city and
[1:40:25] about public comments in
[1:40:26] terms of our business sector, I think
[1:40:28] those are a lot
[1:40:30] of the things that really make the
[1:40:31] brand
[1:40:34] stand out even more. So
[1:40:36] with that I don't have any reservations
[1:40:37] in terms
[1:40:40] of what we have here. I'm excited
[1:40:41] to
[1:40:42] see the brand standard implemented
[1:40:43] and looking forward
[1:40:44] to the marketing strategy that will
[1:40:46] accompany it as we
[1:40:48] tell our story. I think that is also
[1:40:49] the larger and
[1:40:51] next step of this process. Now we
[1:40:52] have a
[1:40:53] standard, what are the communications
[1:40:55] we are putting
[1:40:57] out? What are the stories being told? Who
[1:40:58] are those
[1:41:01] agents that will utilize to help
[1:41:03] tell the story of pittsburg? I think
[1:41:04] it will
[1:41:06] be really exciting. Looking forward
[1:41:07] to more
[1:41:09] progress on this and unless -- we
[1:41:10] already have some
[1:41:12] folks had the cue. I will yield back
[1:41:13] for
[1:41:16] a motion
[1:41:18] on the floor.
[1:41:19] » thank you. Through
[1:41:20] the
[1:41:22] mayor, I will make a
[1:41:23] motion that we adopt the introduction
[1:41:25] and waiving of the first
[1:41:28] reading
[1:41:30] of the ordinance amending section 1.28.015
[1:41:31] of
[1:41:34] our municipal code and a minute order by
[1:41:35] accepting these brand standards.
[1:41:36] » 
[1:41:37] we have a motion
[1:41:38] by vice mayor adams. Council member banales.
[1:41:39] » 
[1:41:40] through the mayor I
[1:41:41] will sect that motion.
[1:41:42] » all right. We
[1:41:43] have a motion and a
[1:41:44] second. Go ahead and cast your votes.
[1:42:01] » > that motion passes
[1:42:04] unanimously.
[1:42:06] thank you for your work on this and
[1:42:07] looking forward
[1:42:08] to the strategy implemented. With that
[1:42:12] moving on to the conflict of interest
[1:42:16] statement.
[1:42:19] any conflict of interest declarations
[1:42:20] pertaining to the consent calendar
[1:42:22] this evening?
[1:42:25] seeing none I will entertain a motion
[1:42:27] for approval of the consent calendar.
[1:42:28] councilmember
[1:42:31] banales.
[1:42:32] 0 >> I will move approval
[1:42:34] of the consent calendar.
[1:42:35] » motion by councilmember banales,
[1:42:37] councilmember
[1:42:40] kobata.
[1:42:41] » I second that, thank you. >> we
[1:42:43] have a motion
[1:42:46] and a second.
[1:42:50] please cast your votes. All right
[1:42:51] then motion passes unanimously. At
[1:42:52] this time
[1:42:54] moving on to council request for future
[1:42:57] agenda items. Any items councilmembers
[1:43:01] would like to request for a
[1:43:04] future agenda? Moving on to councilmember remarks.
[1:43:07] any councilmember remarks
[1:43:10] this evening?
[1:43:13] seeing none we will go ahead and
[1:43:15] adjourn tonight's meeting to april 21.
[1:43:19] good night everyone.