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[1:38] We'll open the percentage of council, city council meeting of September 8th, 2026. Mr. Clerk, would you please call? Council member board member Hummer. Here, council member board member Kerwin. Here. Council member board member Smith. Here. There are pro-10 board vice chair Yamaguchi. Here. Mayor board chair Ivanka. Here. Quorum exists. At this time, the public may address the city council board directors concerning any items on the closest and agenda only. Seeing no members of the public and having received no electronic communications relative to that subject. We'll close oral communications.
[2:08] at this time the city council will adjourn into closed session where there are three items on the agenda which are as follows number one a conference with legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation.
[2:19] Under section five nine five four nine five six point nine D to three cases number two conference with legal counsel regarding the existing litigation.
[2:28] under five nine four five six point nine D1 two cases in three a conference with
[2:34] real property negotiators under section five four nine five six point eight
[2:38] regarding the right away of two oh seven west crowd there this time city council
[2:44] returning to closed session and returned for open session at six p.m.
[12:06] Okay, the two-way telephonic or audiovisual access to this meeting has now been restored and I shall reconvene the regular meeting of the city council at 632. Mr. Clerk, will you please call the roll again? This is the roll call for the reconvening of the meeting. Councilmember board member Hummer. Here. Councilmember board member Kerwin. Yeah. Councilmember board member Smith. Here.
[12:29] Here.
[12:30] Here.
[12:31] Here.
[12:32] Well, that makes this.
[12:34] Okay.
[12:35] Do we need to do the prayer and
[12:36] you like to do it again?
[12:37] You can pick it up where you live.
[12:41] Okay.
[12:41] We'll move on to public comment.
[12:45] Is there a closed session report?
[12:47] Well, Christian, closed session report.
[12:50] Yes.
[12:51] Thank you, Mayor and Council.
[12:53] We had we've discussed the first five issues on closed
[12:57] session and there was a discussion and there's direction given and there's nothing to report further on that we still have two more
[13:04] items which will be discussed after the Council meeting ends. Thank you. City Administrator report. Nothing Mr.
[13:09] Williams. Right thank you. Or communications. At this time the public may address the City Council and
[13:16] Board of Directors concerning any agenda item which is not a public hearing item or matters within the
[13:21] jurisdiction of the City Council and Board of Directors. Are there any men? Oh I have one member.
[13:50] I think you probably guys don't know me, but I'm santo-sabness. I'm a resident in Kevin's
[13:58] district and I'm running for city council in district two. So in tonight's my question
[14:05] and tonight's agenda, I saw Rosanna Ramirez has been acting as a city
[14:12] administrator, so thanks for stepping up. But I also saw on the website that the
[14:18] city administration position is vacant, right. So I wouldn't know in the
[14:25] purpose of district and otherwise when and why this change happened and when and
[14:32] how this will be communicated to the public.
[14:35] And I understand that some of these matters,
[14:37] are personal matters and cannot be disclosed publicly,
[14:42] but whatever legally can be explained or communicated
[14:47] to the public, I would really appreciate that.
[14:50] Thank you.
[14:53] Are there any other members of the public
[14:54] wishing to address the council?
[14:57] Seeing none and having no members.
[15:00] Participating via Zoom will now proceed to electronic communications that have been submitted to the city clerk. At this point, I will summarize those electronic communications. Alex Brown submitted two written comments expressing concerns about the reported management and data issues at the Orange County Animal Care and asked that the city council to at city council review its contract with the shelter. Michael Maverick denied us submitted a written comment regarding questions about the OC Animal Care Director's
[15:29] residents, he said, and requested the City Council review that information.
[15:34] Jane Doe submitted two written comments requesting guidance from the City Attorney on Potential
[15:39] Conflict of Interest Questions, involving Mayor Proto-Miyama-Gucci, including the July 21st,
[15:46] 2026 Landscaping Agreement and his Interactions with Mr. Ganesh.
[15:51] Finally, a Concerned OC citizen submitted a written comment regarding the due diligence
[15:56] that was conductive regarding the City of Acting City and Administrator's appointment.
[16:01] That closes the oral communications.
[16:04] All right, thank you. We'll move on to City Council Member comments. Mayor Perten, would you like to start tonight?
[16:10] Sure, just a couple of things. I was able to attend the Symphony in the park over at the Bradford House.
[16:16] And I want to thank the Pacific Symphony and the Community Services Department collaboration
[16:21] to bring that opportunity to the neighborhood is a great opportunity and is really not much representation from a live public classical music.
[16:32] So I'm glad placenta was chosen as part of the partnership and hope we continue that moving forward.
[16:37] I also want to share there's another opportunity for symphony at the park coming up on September 12th, this time at Parkie Del Royal Verde.
[16:45] That's Saturday, September 12th, from 430 to 8. That's all I have to share. Thank you.
[16:49] Thank you. Council member Kerwin.
[16:52] None for me tonight.
[16:54] Council member Hummer.
[16:56] None for me.
[16:58] Council member Smith.
[17:00] No comments at this time.
[17:01] All right.
[17:03] I just want to thank everybody for your patience tonight.
[17:06] We appreciate it. There's a new protocol that we've got to follow
[17:09] that it involves online access so when there's no
[17:13] ability for people to hear us or communicate even though you may hear us here in the audience.
[17:17] people online can't hear us when the microphones aren't working, so it'll take
[17:21] us a while to get things figured out. This is kind of the first time with the
[17:24] protocol. So we appreciate your patience. We'll move on to the consent calendar.
[17:31] All items on the consent calendar are considered routine and are enacted by one
[17:34] motion approving the recommended action listed on the agenda. Any member of the
[17:38] council, board of directors or city administrative administrator may request an
[17:42] item be removed from the consent calendar for discussion. Anybody like to pull
[17:46] I would like to pull items 1F and 1G, they both have to do with uniform allowance and due to the need to report out, I'd like to wait till the director of human resources is here to she's not in today, so okay, so we'll continue those to the next agenda, correct, right?
[18:04] Christian, do we need a motion to continue those?
[18:06] Yes, motion to move to the next.
[18:08] All right, Mr. Clerk, the motion to continue items 1FM1G Council Member Hummer.
[18:14] Yes, Council Member Kerwin. Yes, Council Member Smith. Yes, Mayor Protein Yamaguchi. Yes, Mayor Vanka. Yes,
[18:22] items continued by a vote of five yes. Okay, do we have a motion on the remainder? Motion to approve the
[18:27] balance. Second, Mr. Clerk. Council Member Hummer. Yes, Council Member Kerwin. Yes, Council Member Smith.
[18:35] Yes. Mayor Protein Yamaguchi. Yes. Mayor Ivanka. Yes.
[18:40] consent calendar less than two items pulled as approved by a vote of five yes.
[18:44] All right. Thank you. We'll move on to anybody have any requests? Any council members?
[18:50] I'd like to agenda as a conversation to review our contract with flock security camera systems.
[18:56] Okay. Put that on a forthcoming agenda. We are going to recess back into closed session.
[19:04] So, y'all are welcome to wait. I don't have any idea how long it'll take us, but we'll
[19:09] come back and do another report out of closed session at that time. Otherwise, thank you
[19:13] for being here.
[46:45] agenda, closed session, report, Mr. Sien, city attorney.
[46:52] Yes, thank you there. We completed the closed session. The remaining items and there's nothing to report on those items. I did have one item to report, which is that there is a there's been a vacancy in the city administrator position and pursuant to the city rules, the acting, or deputy city administrator steps into that position as acting while that occur while there's a vacancy. Nothing further to report. Thank you. We will
[47:17] So, close to the residential city council meeting, tell our next council meeting which
[47:24] will be September 15th, 22nd, 22nd, 26th.
[47:30] Thank you.